I am not going to get into the self-signed vs authority-signed argument. In my experience, most certificate issues I have encountered have been because the administrators of the website had simply not kept the certificate up to date. The certificate expires, and the viewing public is bombarded with the error messages. Maybe (yawn) the administrator gets to the problem in a reasonable time, maybe not.
I don't credit this situation necessarily to admin incompetence, but rather to their organization not having proper procedures in place to deal with the fact that certificates are acquired with expiration dates and that they will need to be renewed proactively.
Years ago, it was very common for marketers to decree that the first version had to be released as Version 2, as "everyone knows that Version 1 of anything is always full of bugs." I encountered this notion several times in my career.
Oh, yes, so long as you are a US citizen, you have to pay US taxes. I was surprised to learn from friends, though, that the UK is different. Once you move away, no taxes have to be paid to UK.
The US $85K exemption applies to earned income only, so does not apply to me.
But, it turns out that if you have no earned income, US Social Security payments become pretty much tax-free, and that is nice. (Social Security is taxed on a sliding scale, and having earned income pushes it up the scale.)
I am no expert on the matter, but I can say how it affects my situation. I am retired, and earn NO income in NZ other than bank interest which is taxed at source by NZ. Most of my income now is from US Social Security and from gains on investments which are still lodged in the US. When tax time comes around in NZ, I don't even have to mention that income to the NZ Inland Revenue. When the 4 year exemption is up, then I will have to report that income, and be taxed on it in accord with NZ tax laws and any double-taxation agreement between the US and NZ. I have not reached that point yet, and am waiting to see how it all plays out.
I did not say that I did NOT have fewer rights as am immigrant, I said that such considerations were small, and in no way impinge on my everyday life. The odds that I would be deported for a criminal act are vanishingly small. Criminality is not what I do.
I have not made a study of it, but I suspect immigrants just about everywhere have similar constraints.
I cannot speak about most countries, however this issue is a very tiny one in New Zealand. Once you have jumped the hurdles in place to gain residence permission, there is very little distinction between you as a resident and citizens. After living in NZ as a permanent resident for 1 year, you can register to vote and vote in local and national elections. The only area I know of that a non-citizen permanent resident gets treated differently is with respect to the New Zealand universal pension. And in that regard, a non-citizen permanent resident can get the pension after being here for 10 years. (and to be honest, a NZ citizen who happened to spend most of their life elsewhere also has to wait until they have spent 10 years since age 20 living in NZ).
I think those policies are quite enlightened, and I was very happy last November to be able to vote in both the US and NZ national elections!
I retired to NZ 2.5 years ago. The 4-year tax exemption on foreign income does not apply to income that you earn from foreign sources while you are living in NZ! Also, housing is cheaper than it was a couple of years ago, but saying it is "cheap" is probably stretching the truth a bit. NZ housing has declined maybe 8-10%, not the 20-40% that is seen in some other countries.
On the other hand, I know many recent migrants from the UK who find NZ to be absolutely wonderful! They like the climate, the housing, and the political atmosphere.
I have to admit that after moving here from the US, I shuddered a bit to learn that the freedom of speech guarantees that are prized so highly here are statutory and can be changed or eliminated by act of parliament. Having a written constitution is comforting.
Thank you for that reply. You informed me of things I did not know. I have lived in NZ for only 2.5 years, and not yet had occasion to do much wiring. Seems every time I did need something done, I was advised to hire an electrician. Last time, my wife's cousin was visiting and he IS a registered electrician. I persuaded him to go up to the attic and fix a bad transformer on a halogen lamp fixture.
Although I had not read anything one way or the other about phones or data cabling, there is an entire array of such things for sale in the electronics stores, so I figured it must be mostly alright to do oneself.
I have not been interested in running network cabling in my house in New Zealand, so I don't know what the rules are about do it yourself. I do know that homeowners are NOT allowed to do electrical wiring changes in their homes. That requires a licenced electrician, who must issue a certificate of compliance for the work when he is done. Likely DIY would be no problem unless there was some kind of adverse result, and it could cause difficulty in a resale of the house if the proper certificates were not available. But I have not tried to sell my house, either.
And there are probably thousands of older folks who built/bought their house back in the ATT-owned-the-phone era and no longer remember the fact. Back when the monopoly was broken, current phone account users had the option to continue the rental or switch over to full responsibility themselves. I have no doubt many stayed with the old plan. My folks did, as I discovered after they passed away in the '90s.
I can only wonder what has happened to those accounts through all the upheavals of phone company ownership in the past 20 years or so.
Yes, I know that. And I was just trying to offer some perspective to them. There is a lot of life after 35, and people should keep that in mind when referring to themselves as "old" at 35. Of course, when I was 35 I had no way to envision what life would be like for me 30 years in the future. For that matter, 5 years ago the idea of life at 66 was very murky. It only gets better for me, for which I am grateful!
The department where I did my undergraduate study had a deliberate policy of not accepting its own graduates for graduate degree study, precisely because of the "inbreeding" effect. So, if one intended to stay in the same field, one had to move on to a different university. It was a good thing to do.
You should notch up your perspective. The older generation is not 35 or 37 -- those ages are not old. The generation that did not grow up with computers are 50+ and older. I was active as developer and project lead/manager in Silicon Valley until I was almost 64. Got laid off in 2003 and had to fight for a job in a very gloomy market. Starting in 2004 I worked for 2 years with a startup company where my colleagues were younger than my children, typically. I loved it!
What gets to me occasionally is colleagues telling tales about how technically inept their parents are, and painting that generation with a broad brush of ridicule. I have to agree that I am a bit unusual at my age with such technical skills, and I like it.
One place I worked installed seven identical server machines, so named them happy, dopey, sneezy, doc, etc.
Later, another set of servers was installed, and the sysadmin chose to name them after mountains in the California coastal range. All was well until he named one of the servers "umunhum", a well-known peak. Trouble was, no one could ever remember how to spell it, so using it was a real pain and often not successful. That one got renamed soon enough.
IIRC, the money collected from FICA goes right into the government general fund to be spent on whatever. Supposedly, there is NO Social Security surplus pot of money sitting around, except perhaps as a number on paper somewhere. Social Security is paid out of current tax revenue. And that is OK with me so long as I continue to get mine.
65C is 149F, which is too warm for a bath, I think. 110C is 230F, which is cooking temperature. As is pointed out in other postings, sauna exposure is not the same as water immersion, nor direct radiant exposure, but still very hot. I will keep my meltable skin away from both temps.
This comment is right on the money. So much of what makes a successful outcome in the software industry has to do with process and how the work is carried out. In my 38-year career I learned a lot about many things, much of it not following "the book". (When I started, there were not many books to be found.) For instance successful computer design is perhaps more influenced by the packaging and cooling of the components than by speed or circuit density. Those things are *important*. What language one programs in is ho-hum. Use one that will let *you* get the job done. And I spent at least one sleepless night monitoring and helping a production system brought to its knees when the data volume got big enough to expose a bad algorithm that had O(N**2) behavior. And that got in there because the working group had no review processes to catch it in the design.
Edmund is a great source. When I was a teenager (>50 years ago) I bought quite a few interesting scientific gadgets from them. They were a treasure trove of goodies, and many enjoyable hours spent poring over the listings. Back then, they had a lot of war surplus stuff, like tank prisms, which made it extra cool. They used to specialize more in optics. Now they seem to have a separate optics division.
And when I saw the headline I wondered what was special about Harry Truman's cameras, and why would slashdot be interested?
I guess HST is a generationally-biased acronym.
I know this is Slashdot, and penetrating, pithy, to-the-point comment cannot be expected. But I really have to ask, just what does that comment mean? And how is it relevant to anything in the thread?
I can remember when the big desire of weather simulation supercomputers was to take less than 24 hours to do a 24-hour forecast. IIRC back in the second half of the '70s there was a big government-funded effort to build special fluid-dynamics oriented new machines to break that barrier.
44 years ago 1-5 megaflops was hot! What excitement we felt when the CDC6600 was installed at my university!
Back in '85 I was part of a startup building a mini-Cray, reimplementing the Cray instruction set in a smaller, cheaper box. I remember we focused on the Whetstone benchmark a lot, and it turned out that the Whetstone code really was bound up by moving characters around while formatting output strings, etc. We paid very careful attention to efficiently coding the C library string handling routines, and that got us more performance payback than anything we could do to optimize the arithmetic. One needs to understand the benchmark being used.
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In the parent post, all the mb/s notations should be replaced with kb/s.
Yes!!
I don't credit this situation necessarily to admin incompetence, but rather to their organization not having proper procedures in place to deal with the fact that certificates are acquired with expiration dates and that they will need to be renewed proactively.
Years ago, it was very common for marketers to decree that the first version had to be released as Version 2, as "everyone knows that Version 1 of anything is always full of bugs." I encountered this notion several times in my career.
And that leads me to think the answer to which language should he know would be English.
The US $85K exemption applies to earned income only, so does not apply to me.
But, it turns out that if you have no earned income, US Social Security payments become pretty much tax-free, and that is nice. (Social Security is taxed on a sliding scale, and having earned income pushes it up the scale.)
I am no expert on the matter, but I can say how it affects my situation. I am retired, and earn NO income in NZ other than bank interest which is taxed at source by NZ. Most of my income now is from US Social Security and from gains on investments which are still lodged in the US. When tax time comes around in NZ, I don't even have to mention that income to the NZ Inland Revenue. When the 4 year exemption is up, then I will have to report that income, and be taxed on it in accord with NZ tax laws and any double-taxation agreement between the US and NZ. I have not reached that point yet, and am waiting to see how it all plays out.
I have not made a study of it, but I suspect immigrants just about everywhere have similar constraints.
I think those policies are quite enlightened, and I was very happy last November to be able to vote in both the US and NZ national elections!
On the other hand, I know many recent migrants from the UK who find NZ to be absolutely wonderful! They like the climate, the housing, and the political atmosphere.
I have to admit that after moving here from the US, I shuddered a bit to learn that the freedom of speech guarantees that are prized so highly here are statutory and can be changed or eliminated by act of parliament. Having a written constitution is comforting.
Although I had not read anything one way or the other about phones or data cabling, there is an entire array of such things for sale in the electronics stores, so I figured it must be mostly alright to do oneself.
I have not been interested in running network cabling in my house in New Zealand, so I don't know what the rules are about do it yourself. I do know that homeowners are NOT allowed to do electrical wiring changes in their homes. That requires a licenced electrician, who must issue a certificate of compliance for the work when he is done. Likely DIY would be no problem unless there was some kind of adverse result, and it could cause difficulty in a resale of the house if the proper certificates were not available. But I have not tried to sell my house, either.
I can only wonder what has happened to those accounts through all the upheavals of phone company ownership in the past 20 years or so.
Yes, I know that. And I was just trying to offer some perspective to them. There is a lot of life after 35, and people should keep that in mind when referring to themselves as "old" at 35. Of course, when I was 35 I had no way to envision what life would be like for me 30 years in the future. For that matter, 5 years ago the idea of life at 66 was very murky. It only gets better for me, for which I am grateful!
The department where I did my undergraduate study had a deliberate policy of not accepting its own graduates for graduate degree study, precisely because of the "inbreeding" effect. So, if one intended to stay in the same field, one had to move on to a different university. It was a good thing to do.
You should notch up your perspective. The older generation is not 35 or 37 -- those ages are not old. The generation that did not grow up with computers are 50+ and older. I was active as developer and project lead/manager in Silicon Valley until I was almost 64. Got laid off in 2003 and had to fight for a job in a very gloomy market. Starting in 2004 I worked for 2 years with a startup company where my colleagues were younger than my children, typically. I loved it! What gets to me occasionally is colleagues telling tales about how technically inept their parents are, and painting that generation with a broad brush of ridicule. I have to agree that I am a bit unusual at my age with such technical skills, and I like it.
One place I worked installed seven identical server machines, so named them happy, dopey, sneezy, doc, etc.
Later, another set of servers was installed, and the sysadmin chose to name them after mountains in the California coastal range. All was well until he named one of the servers "umunhum", a well-known peak. Trouble was, no one could ever remember how to spell it, so using it was a real pain and often not successful. That one got renamed soon enough.
The issue in this thread is not learning about computers, but rather how to best use computers to augment learning everything else.
IIRC, the money collected from FICA goes right into the government general fund to be spent on whatever. Supposedly, there is NO Social Security surplus pot of money sitting around, except perhaps as a number on paper somewhere. Social Security is paid out of current tax revenue. And that is OK with me so long as I continue to get mine.
65C is 149F, which is too warm for a bath, I think. 110C is 230F, which is cooking temperature. As is pointed out in other postings, sauna exposure is not the same as water immersion, nor direct radiant exposure, but still very hot. I will keep my meltable skin away from both temps.
This comment is right on the money. So much of what makes a successful outcome in the software industry has to do with process and how the work is carried out. In my 38-year career I learned a lot about many things, much of it not following "the book". (When I started, there were not many books to be found.) For instance successful computer design is perhaps more influenced by the packaging and cooling of the components than by speed or circuit density. Those things are *important*. What language one programs in is ho-hum. Use one that will let *you* get the job done. And I spent at least one sleepless night monitoring and helping a production system brought to its knees when the data volume got big enough to expose a bad algorithm that had O(N**2) behavior. And that got in there because the working group had no review processes to catch it in the design.
Edmund is a great source. When I was a teenager (>50 years ago) I bought quite a few interesting scientific gadgets from them. They were a treasure trove of goodies, and many enjoyable hours spent poring over the listings. Back then, they had a lot of war surplus stuff, like tank prisms, which made it extra cool. They used to specialize more in optics. Now they seem to have a separate optics division.
And when I saw the headline I wondered what was special about Harry Truman's cameras, and why would slashdot be interested?
I guess HST is a generationally-biased acronym.
I know this is Slashdot, and penetrating, pithy, to-the-point comment cannot be expected. But I really have to ask, just what does that comment mean? And how is it relevant to anything in the thread?
44 years ago 1-5 megaflops was hot! What excitement we felt when the CDC6600 was installed at my university!
Back in '85 I was part of a startup building a mini-Cray, reimplementing the Cray instruction set in a smaller, cheaper box. I remember we focused on the Whetstone benchmark a lot, and it turned out that the Whetstone code really was bound up by moving characters around while formatting output strings, etc. We paid very careful attention to efficiently coding the C library string handling routines, and that got us more performance payback than anything we could do to optimize the arithmetic. One needs to understand the benchmark being used.