Comment: Re:Great... (Score 1) 113
IP addresses, perhaps?
Comment: Re:Until you can prove them wrong (Score 1) 1136
Uh... so basically, you're willing to think the universe always existed because that makes sense; however, it's nonsensical to assume that there is a God that has always existed, because He would have needed to be created? ...
Comment: Re:The reason Christianity has this problem. (Score 2) 1136
Exclude the Jews from Salvation? What? Neither Romans, Hebrews, nor Paul's epistles back this up. I realize, of course, that the Roman church, for quite a while, held that Jews were pretty much abandoned. This was very bad, but not very scriptural.
Comment: Re:~79%? (Score 1) 1136
Apparently, so did the authors. Unless you have evidence that they wanted to do the same "sanitizing." :)
Comment: Re:~79%? (Score 1) 1136
Ah, yes. Democracy ... except, of course, if the vast majority is wrong (according to me). Then, no more democracy. :)
The Shortage of Women In IT 678
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from the equal-opportunity dept.
from the equal-opportunity dept.
CIStud writes "The IT industry is hurting for women. Currently only 11% of IT companies are owned by women. The Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Federal Contract program requires 5% of all IT jobs to go to female-owned integration companies, but there must be at least 2 female bidders. There are so few female bidders that women-owned IT firms are ineligible for the contracts. From the article: 'Wendy Frank, founder of Accell Security Inc. in Birdsboro, Pa., wishes she had more competitors.
It's not often you hear any integrator say that, but in Frank's case, she has good reason.
The current Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Federal Contract program authorizes five percent of Federal prime and subcontracts to be set aside for WOSBs. While that might sound fair on the surface, in order to invoke the money set aside for this program, the contracting officer at an agency has to have a reasonable expectation that two or more WOSBs will submit offers for the job.
“We could not participate in the government’s Women-Owned Small Business program unless there was another female competitor,” says Frank. “Procurement officers required that at least two women-owned small businesses compete for the contracts, even in the IT field, where women-owned businesses are underrepresented.”'"
Comment: Re:Really? (Score 1) 268
So, realizing that your competitors aren't going to lower their prices == collusion? Somehow, that doesn't seem fair to me. If it's purposeful, where they actually get together to do it ... fine, that's price fixing. But if everyone is just happy with the current price and realizes they don't have anything to gain by cutting the price down below their competitor's ... I don't see how that's illegal.
Comment: Re:Really? (Score 5, Insightful) 268
How is it illegal for a company to take what customers are willing to pay?
How is it illegal for companies to simply not lower prices... without colluding with each other?
Since when are profit margins required to be low?
Comment: Re:Self-Serving? (Score 4, Informative) 115
How is it self-serving? Keeping your employees from using non-internal storage services for confidential data... I guess that's self-serving in the "protect your assets/intellectual property" way, but forbidding your employees from using external companies for storage of confidential data is hardly self-serving. It's right up there with making your employees password and/or encrypt their work laptops... :)
Comment: Re:Not surprising (Score 1) 371
They got to a safe mode command prompt. They should be able to (maybe?) run msconfig from the command prompt and re-enable everything. This would, admittedly, look pretty funny, after having just disabled it due to "malware."