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posted by CoolHand on Monday April 27 2015, @05:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the show-me-the-money dept.

How does your salary compare with this survey ?

http://www.computerworld.com/category/salarysurvey2015

Also, here is a Dice 2015 salary survey also showing nice upward trends for the tech field.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by ikanreed on Monday April 27 2015, @07:07PM

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 27 2015, @07:07PM (#175820) Journal

    I will personally admit to being antagonistic on multiple occasions.

    I believed it was necessary as a response particularly facile comments, but I need to tone it back, and I'm going to try to do so.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Tork on Monday April 27 2015, @07:23PM

    by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 27 2015, @07:23PM (#175824)
    I'll admit to being a full-on asshole at times. (I've also made an ass of myself quite a few times in the process, I'm developing a taste for humble pie.) Some of that comes from years of Slashdot lurking. This site's much more calm, I'm slowly learning to be a nicer guy. I don't express my appreciation to the people here for that enough.
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    • (Score: 2) by rts008 on Monday April 27 2015, @07:41PM

      by rts008 (3001) on Monday April 27 2015, @07:41PM (#175832)

      Very well stated good sir/madam. All I can say in reply is you must be a mind reader! :-)

      I decided when I came here and stopped going to /., that I was going to try and mature a little.

      But not too much... ;-)

  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday April 27 2015, @07:43PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Monday April 27 2015, @07:43PM (#175835) Journal

    I too confess I have been caustic when people excuse the behavior of the NSA, CIA, Wall Street, and such criminals. Freedom and justice are bedrock values for me (as I would hope they would be for everyone). I have never had the opportunity to defend those values with strength of arms, but I can at least speak as loudly and clearly as I can. Others here hold equally passionate views on systemd and other issues. Those are the breaks, and what it means to be part of a diverse community.

    Sure, we should try to maintain comity, but on occasion idiocy and obstinacy compel fierce reply.

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    • (Score: 2) by ikanreed on Monday April 27 2015, @07:47PM

      by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 27 2015, @07:47PM (#175837) Journal

      Oh but my anger triggers are conspiracy theories and genetic-determinism pseudoscience.

      Which means I'm likely to dump on you when your NSA concerns tread too far. Welp.

      • (Score: 2) by TK on Monday April 27 2015, @07:57PM

        by TK (2760) on Monday April 27 2015, @07:57PM (#175841)

        Don't you mean "whelp".

        C'mon, let's see some more antagonizing!

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      • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday April 28 2015, @11:00AM

        by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday April 28 2015, @11:00AM (#176009) Journal

        If you still dismiss news about the NSA as "conspiracy theories," then you haven't been paying attention to the Snowden documents.

        In fact, given the facts that have come to light about what the CIA has done, what Wall Street banks have done, and what many other agencies of the government have done (DEA sex parties, anyone?), we must really all now switch our defaults from "conspiracy theory" to "full investigation and prosecution required, justice to be rendered."

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        • (Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday April 28 2015, @01:09PM

          by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 28 2015, @01:09PM (#176044) Journal

          Not news, but a lot of people think the NSA extends into some broader corporate control network.

          It's an overextention of "foreign spying" in a manner that heavily and unreasonably affects domestic privacy. That's not a conspiracy theory. Saying "They're planning on converting that to military dictatorship by means of universal surveillance" reflects a poor understanding of what, for example, Snowden documented.

          • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday April 28 2015, @05:36PM

            by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday April 28 2015, @05:36PM (#176171) Journal

            So...the part where the NSA and GCHQ run teams to subvert consensus formation in social media was what exactly? How about the part where NSA employees were spying on intimate conversations deployed soldiers were having with their spouses in the US? Or that the NSA was spying on trade talks for the advantage of US corporations? Thanks to Snowden we know those to be facts, which, BTW, were previously dismissed as "conspiracy theories" by people in the Whitehouse and Congress. Eric Clapper even lied about it to Congress and was not thrown in jail, as others have been for doing likewise; in fact, they did nothing to him. If the NSA's confirmed spying for corporate advantage is not the corporations calling the shots, then what is?

            No adult can be so dewy-eyed as to excuse or pooh-pooh or gloss over the "trillions" of crimes the NSA has committed (those are William Binney's words), and continues to commit. Americans have fought wars hot and cold to prevent that very sort of tyranny. We watched it for decades in the form of the Gestapo, Stasi, KGB, and others. How can we fail to see it for what it is here, now?

            It is especially inexcusable because we have simultaneous revelations about the DEA subverting the Constitution with "parallel construction," local police departments violating our rights with stingray devices, the CIA torturing people to death (that one is against American law and international law that we have executed other nations' citizens for committing), the Whitehouse ordering crimes against humanity with no repercussions, entire swaths of Missouri running courthouses and police departments as institutional extortion schemes, and on and on.

            You cannot gloss all that over with, "It's an overextention of "foreign spying" in a manner that heavily and unreasonably affects domestic privacy." None of it was accidental. All of it was intended, designed, planned, funded, and executed as a matter of policy. To minimize that defies credulity.

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            • (Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday April 28 2015, @06:32PM

              by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 28 2015, @06:32PM (#176192) Journal

              Yes, what you just did here.

              That's classic conspiratorial delusion. You mix random facts that you imagine support a larger umbrella of ambiguous nefarious intent into a horrifying near-future conclusion then declare it to be undeniable logic.

              You should know full well that if you examine the actual deductions you're making they range from tenuous to absurd.

              • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday April 29 2015, @04:58AM

                by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday April 29 2015, @04:58AM (#176476) Journal

                No, you're the one knitting them together into a Dr. Evil scheme. That is your strawman argument. That's a correct usage of the term, "strawman argument," BTW, which you have not yet effected. You have been putting words in my mouth, I have not done likewise.

                What I have done is cite empirical evidence gained through observation, and formed conclusions based on that; that's logically sound. I said, for example, that there is evidence that the government has come to do the bidding of corporations. Snowden's documents have revealed the NSA spied on European Commission officials [propublica.org] who were taking actions against American companies. That's reported by the NY Times, BTW. Former SEC regulator Carmen Segarra [propublica.org] released audio tapes she made while at the NY Fed proving that Wall Street banks have achieved "regulatory capture," meaning they control the regulators meant to regulate them.

                Those are facts, programs and policies and actions that have been very deliberately imagined, designed, funded, and implemented. Do you mean to say I have invented all these things? You do know they've been reported on by the most reputable publications, and occasionally by the government itself, right? Are they making it up? Do you mean to deny that the DEA has used parallel construction, or that the CIA tortured people to death, or that the Vice President of the United States admitted he ordered the CIA to torture people, or that the NSA has violated our Constitution, and on and on...? Each of these displays a deep institutional contempt for our laws. Each of them proves we are quite beyond the Rule of Law in America anymore, because there are none in the Executive or Legislative branches who have prosecuted anyone in any of those crimes. (For example, none of the executives at HSBC who laundered billions for the Mexican drug cartels [forbes.com] went to jail or were even charged.)

                Watergate was a watershed moment for the Baby Boomers and that was merely one scandal. Each one of the crimes I have ticked off here is more shatteringly vast than that was. And, what's more, nearly all of those have come to light in the last *four* years. So, one Watergate-size event in 30 years, versus, what, 12+ in less than 4 years? If you can look at all those and maintain, with a straight face, that they don't indicate something is seriously broken in the United States, then it begs the question, why is that? Do you mean to say that it is no big deal that the Vice President of the United States admitted on national television that he ordered war crimes? Do you mean to say that it's not an even bigger deal that that guy is not sitting in a prison cell awaiting trial in the Hague? Do you mean to say it's not a big deal that across swathes of Missouri that courts and police departments were running institutionalized extortion schemes (that's per the US DOJ report on the subject)? Do you mean to say it's not an even bigger deal that the Feds haven't descended on those places to arrest the conspirators and charge them under RICO?

                Against all that, it doesn't matter how rapidly you wave your hand or how many times you incorrectly employ common rhetorical put-downs against me or others like me who point out these matters and won't content themselves to, "focus on the future, not dwell on the past"; they still won't go away and they won't come to have anything less than an existential impact on freedom and democracy in the United States and perhaps the world. It's a pity you don't seem to be as concerned as we are, but I'm sure you have your reasons. Pray tell.

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