Non-IT News Thread
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America’s Retailers Have a New Target Customer: The 26-Year-Old Millennial
This age bracket, bigger than any other, is pushing companies to revamp marketing and products, including a lot of remedial education
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More than a dozen companies, including Google, Apple and IBM, are no longer requiring applicants to have college degrees
https://www.axios.com/google-apple-college-degree-hiring-a290bca8-65a7-4de2-8fa9-d93b4c30457a.html
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@obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:
More than a dozen companies, including Google, Apple and IBM, are no longer requiring applicants to have college degrees
https://www.axios.com/google-apple-college-degree-hiring-a290bca8-65a7-4de2-8fa9-d93b4c30457a.html
They didn't before. I was a senior manager at IBM without one. Apple has gone after me hard in the past and never needed one. Google, I would never consider so I have no experience.
Shows how much those companies say that they need them publicly, but never really did internally.
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This story doesn't make any sense.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-mexico-observatory-closure-stemmed-from-fbi-child-porn-probe-documents/ar-BBNzOMQ?ocid=spartanntp
11 day closure of a science lab because a janitor was using their wifi for cp.
Seriously makes no sense, and just fuels thoughts of some sort of coverup. -
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
This story doesn't make any sense.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-mexico-observatory-closure-stemmed-from-fbi-child-porn-probe-documents/ar-BBNzOMQ?ocid=spartanntp
11 day closure of a science lab because a janitor was using their wifi for cp.
Seriously makes no sense, and just fuels thoughts of some sort of coverup.The janitor saw a UFO.
Edit: And NASA has to make sure it wasn't the Russians.
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@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
This story doesn't make any sense.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-mexico-observatory-closure-stemmed-from-fbi-child-porn-probe-documents/ar-BBNzOMQ?ocid=spartanntp
11 day closure of a science lab because a janitor was using their wifi for cp.
Seriously makes no sense, and just fuels thoughts of some sort of coverup.Or, at least, justifies the distrust of the FBI. Catching people getting CP is good, but using that as an excuse to punish an unrelated entity? Clearly either abject incompetence, or competence in nefarious activities.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:
This story doesn't make any sense.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-mexico-observatory-closure-stemmed-from-fbi-child-porn-probe-documents/ar-BBNzOMQ?ocid=spartanntp
11 day closure of a science lab because a janitor was using their wifi for cp.
Seriously makes no sense, and just fuels thoughts of some sort of coverup.Or, at least, justifies the distrust of the FBI. Catching people getting CP is good, but using that as an excuse to punish an unrelated entity? Clearly either abject incompetence, or competence in nefarious activities.
Totally agree.
First off, if the janitor was watching cp on a government computer, why did they have creds to the network? Doesn't make sense why the janitor would need computer resources. Second, arrest the janitor (no matter what, because cp is illegal whether it was at work or at home) and clean the computer. Supposedly the janitor was on the wifi, and could have been on their personal computer or phone. Some IT person need to be fired because they didn't properly secure the network and the janitor still needs to be arrested. No need in shutting down the observatory.
I've heard all kinds of "theories" from Chinese espionage to the telescope got a glimpse of "the death star" because the death star eclipsed the sun and the earth.
My theory? White sands is an active missile testing range for the military. They were probably testing an experimental rocket and, somehow, the observatory caught a glimpse of the top secret rocket and just it down. This is just a REALLY bad cover up. (In a past life, I once lived in Carlsbad, NM and heard people talk about the missile range while I worked for another government agency.)
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@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:
First off, if the janitor was watching cp on a government computer, why did they have creds to the network? Doesn't make sense why the janitor would need computer resources.
If you ran a company larger than five or six people, how would you communicate with said janitors? How would they check on work requests, checklists, have staff contact them when there is a spill or a waste basket full, how do they get HR updates, company news, etc. Might sound silly, but computers today in most organizations aren't for "doing office work", they are simply the mechanism for all communications. Payroll, HR, legal, healthcare, hours tracking, internal communications... all computer.
If I hired a janitor for NTG, we'd definitely need them to have a computer. We'd not want to have to have paper or some other legacy process for communicating with just that one person. If we had notifications that we needed to get out to everyone, or a calendar to share, or whatever, a Chromebook would cost us $180 for something that would do the job well. Going to paper would cost us far more for that one person.
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@scottalanmiller and I'm sure that the way NTG is run perfectly mirrors the way government offices are run, right?
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@rojoloco said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller and I'm sure that the way NTG is run perfectly mirrors the way government offices are crawling, right?
FTFY
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@rojoloco said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller and I'm sure that the way NTG is run perfectly mirrors the way government offices are run, right?
Government would definitely use computers for janitors. They need to get notifications from the feds that aren't in the building.
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https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-deliberate-awfulness-of-social-media
Like most things in social media, this seems to work the opposite for me. I've never gotten upset and walked away from social media. But platforms like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn I just find insanely boring and don't draw me in at all. I keep them all for when I need them for something, but I never look at them and feel like "looking at them more."
The same with the ads, I find that none of these manage to show me ads of the slightest interest to me. It's as if their algorithms can't even begin to figure me out and just do totally random things.
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@dbeato said in Non-IT News Thread:
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-sets-traps-for-drivers-2018-9
Good!
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@dbeato said in Non-IT News Thread:
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-sets-traps-for-drivers-2018-9
That's a first step, but it's the post office they really need to crack down on. Bunch of incompetent thieves at the USPS. I've had WAY fewer issues with UPS or FedEx.
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@obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dbeato said in Non-IT News Thread:
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-sets-traps-for-drivers-2018-9
Good!
yeah, I'm not seeing an issue here. Seems like a good thing. Less shrinkage means better pricing.
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@rojoloco said in Non-IT News Thread:
@dbeato said in Non-IT News Thread:
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-sets-traps-for-drivers-2018-9
I've had WAY fewer issues with UPS or FedEx.
Yup, same.
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