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That unemployment pay is more attractive than working says a lot about prevailing wages. If unemployment covers rent and working does not, why in the hell would any rational person…

In the U.S., a very short step since the courts have already held that e-mail service providers' copies of messages don't get the same protection as personal copies. I don't see ho…

>> And the 20-year-old systems are slowly dissapearing There's still COBOL code out there running core business systems that's older than I am, and I'm closer to 60 than I am to 50…

One of my tasks for Y2K prep was to modify an in-house-developed record-based "database" to accommodate a the century change. Originally developed in the '60s the year had original…

When 5MB disk storage system is the size of a small car and costs $50k, you fight for bytes. Or if your data is stored on magnetic tapes and reading in a dataset can be costed by t…

We've been forced to deal with the TLS issue by our software product's customers. Some of our technically-minded folks have been raising the issue for a while but new features are …

I've seen these precluding secondary employment with competitive entities, but it seems there'd be little competition between Fred's and Alice's businesses (based on name alone).

Your definition of "wretched existence" might be very different from the folks seeking union representation.

The details will always have to be looked at by the inheritors - it's more important to not say something wrong or contradictory IMO. When I've had to do something like this in the…

Because sometimes he "wrong" action is the right thing to do. No automated system can anticipate everything. Think the NASCAR "drive at the wreck in front of you" - by the time you…

We offer escrow of our source as an option for our customers who have concerns or policies about mission-critical software. The escrow includes instructions about tooling needed & …

If he did decide at some point to buy a subscription, the simplest way to enable it is to send a signal to the sleeping-but-live tracker. Else he'd have to go to a dealer for some …

At a certain point, it is incumbent on the buyer to do some research and understand something about what they're buying. The availability of these systems is not a secret. We just …

We've agreed on a system of law . Actual justice is frequently only an accidental byproduct.

> There are intersections here where 3 or 4 cars will continue to turn on a red signal - it's insane. Sounds like targeted enforcement at those intersections is called for.

I think they're referring to the reported costs of social programs used by WalMart and Amazon workers because they average pay is so low. https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/…

Arthur C Clarke's Third Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." My in-laws are firmly in the "computers are magic" camp. Say what you like abou…

Firefighting risk is a general environmental risk - fighting a fire puts you in an area with fire byproducts. (not to mention the PPE firefighters usually wear) Vaping cuts out the…

So... in the U.S. we have 0.5/3?

Reading the comments in this thread and others, it seems to me that a lot of people want to argue about how many canaries have to die before the threat to the miners is taken serio…

When I interview candidates for the company I work for I describe a key part of our system in general terms (20 possible elements, at least one active but any combination, items ar…

>> save a local river bait fish A few or more of those and we have real loss in biodiversity. Maybe your "local river" can sustain that for a bit - but overall they are all importa…

I worked at the state courts in California for a while. The "Penalty Assessment" fee amused/enraged me; at the time IIRC it was $17.50 per $10 of statutory fine. So the effective c…

They're currently admitting to losing passport #s, but what else - like credit card info which they aren't supposed to keep in any case - might have been compromised?