It has an easy fix, we need a capital punishment and forfeiture of all assets for any politician who swears to and then fails to uphold the constitution. Not just does something illegal or unconstitutional, but fails to actively act to prevent anyone acting against it. So some 5-10 thousand executions later, and significant replenishment of the US treasury I should add, we elect new leaders who would be a little more careful about what they do after they get sworn in. Simple, really.
Any eastern european communist country in the 80's had uniformly for every citizen:
1) Higher standard of living 2) Lower unemployment 3) Better healthcare 4) Better education 5) More personal freedom 6) Less surveilance and government spying 7) Better infrastructure 8) Lower incarceration rates 9) Less oppressive laws
than 75-80% of americans have today. That is a third of century ago.
Just because you happen to be fortunate enough, doesn't mean that the whole country is or even most of it is. The US is good enough country for the top 10-20%, it is great country for the top 1%. The rest can go fuck themselves.
The 700 member team worked hard as well. The amount of work you put in is absolutely meaningless under some level of talent. Do you want to tell me that the 3 people hard work for half year equalled the 700 people's work for 10 times as long? That is 1.5 man-years compared to 3500 man-years. Hard work had absolutely nothing to do with this.
Oracle was trying in 2-3 projects over the span of 10 years to create a certain NDA covered technology. One of those tries involved a team of 700 people over 5 years. All those attempts failed and have been scraped, in some cases whole teams of people layed off. The attempt that eventually succeeded was one talented architect with 2 developers working for 6 months.
Actually, that beard is an uptime indicator. It is little known that sysadmins have to shave when their server goes down. That is also why unix admins have them and windows admins don't.
No, in this case, punishment absolutely has to be a concern. The next time another pompous asshole considers to perjure himself in front of Congress, I want him to remember this guy serving 5-10 years and then reconsider the real consequences of his actions. And we might not have those secret programs in the first place.
I'm much more worried about the 3rd amendment. If the military controls the computers in our homes, shouldn't we call them soldiers and demand a just compensation for quartering them in our homes?
- Stalinism pales in face of the only ever committed continent wide genocide of native americans. - Nobody cares for your justification. Everyone else in the world agrees that using Nuclear weapons is unjustifiable for any reason. - Nobody really cares about fake trials. But if you want to talk about miscarriage of justice, lets compare incarceration rates for Stalin and Obama.
Those three are enough to rebut all your major points.
I lived half my life under communism and second half in america and I can tell you outright, that the level of propaganda and the extent to which it is believed by the population in US is 5 times as bad as I ever experienced it with the communists. The level of surveillance of people by government was much much lower, and the number of people as percent of population being incarcerated for made up crimes was 2 orders of magnitude lower than now in US and we didn't get rape tolerated in prisons. Yes, we had an iron curtain, but so will US, once the fence in south gets finished. I don't know anyone who lived under both regimes and would strongly disagree with me on this.
The general rule is the same in both. Don't stick your head up high or your neck might get cut. You are always guilty of something and they can throw you in jail if they like, unless you are really rich and then... they can still throw you in jail if they like. Just keep your head low. Fuck it, even Russia is now more free than US and they got 13% flat tax.
The guy running NSA should in the first place go to jail for perjuring himself at a congress hearing, when he denied the NSA is doing any of that couple months back. We are way past the, dumb and right into the territory of criminal. Despite the program potentially even being legal (really? are you kidding me?), he still lied to congress under oath. It's just like with Martha Stewart... to the jail he goes.
Wouldn't it be much more lucrative to blackmail said congressman?:) Or force him to reveal some secrets on his fellow congressmen to save his ass. In modern day and age, everyone is guilty of something. The only difference between a law abiding citizen and a felon is the 4th amendment. You know the police is regularly using drug possession as a tool to put behind bars people they "judged guilty", but cannot get the evidence to prove whatever crime they think was committed? There is a video of former NYC police commissioner advocating this as a useful police procedure in a debate about legalizing marihuana. What happens if such disgustingly corrupt cops have access to those systems.
This is a total disaster for our HR. How can we now filter out the "one trick pony" types when "Just don't even show me resume anyone with Java or Visual Basic on it" is no longer gonna work? We simply need a language like Java to sort out the men from the boys. Come on. Let it go.
XBox One? So that makes the last one XBox 0.360? It did feel like alpha version. Anytime I came to my friends house and he proposed to play Xbox game, the console would not load it, it would crash or some other problem occured. I have not played a single XBox game to date for this reason...
None of what that guy said is true. Oracle has three reasons to buy Sun: 1) HW/OS - Traditionally Oracle was developed with Solaris as primary platform with period of switch to Linux around 2002. Oracle wanted to have the full stack HW/OS/AS/DB/Apps
2) Java - Oracle has shitload of stuff written in Java and Sun was dying. They could not risk for someone like Google snatching it and then making life miserable for Oracle by driving the Java development in direction that would make it harder for Oracle.
3) MySQL - To combat the MS SQL threat. Oracle was already supporting MySQL long before. They bought InnoDB and improved it to quality. Chiefly to eat MS's lunch in the DB market, position MySQL into the segment that MS SQL was targeting and preventing MS to become a major player in Databases.
FUD is always legitimate when it propagates the bias of the slashdot community. While Microsoft FUD is always illegitimate because it just is. I like how there is a double standard for everything here.
You are missing the point. Transfering to another employer on H1B is easy. The problem is with getting a green card. If you want one of those, you are tied to the employer who files for you. During the 2000-2008 years, this process took about 5-6 years, recently it is much faster, I was waiting 7 years for a GC. So you are pretty much stuck with the current employer unless you are willing to restart the process. Some of them even make you repay all the legal and other costs associated with GC, if you quit before 2 years from them incurring it.
... US will be deprived of all hackers, nobody will dare to probe systems for security for fear of exorbitant punishment, the country's infrastructure will be vulnerable and in serious danger. Further, the curiosity of young people is turned away from computer systems at a time when we are suffering under a crucial shortage of computer nerds. If there ever is a next war, it will have a strong cyber component and the US will be so painfully inadequate it will feel like slaughter by the Russians and/or Chinese. Those prosecutors should be shot for treason as a matter of national cybersecurity.
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It has an easy fix, we need a capital punishment and forfeiture of all assets for any politician who swears to and then fails to uphold the constitution. Not just does something illegal or unconstitutional, but fails to actively act to prevent anyone acting against it. So some 5-10 thousand executions later, and significant replenishment of the US treasury I should add, we elect new leaders who would be a little more careful about what they do after they get sworn in. Simple, really.
Also, subtract California and New York and the rest of USA is at the bottom for most of those measures.
Any eastern european communist country in the 80's had uniformly for every citizen:
1) Higher standard of living
2) Lower unemployment
3) Better healthcare
4) Better education
5) More personal freedom
6) Less surveilance and government spying
7) Better infrastructure
8) Lower incarceration rates
9) Less oppressive laws
than 75-80% of americans have today. That is a third of century ago.
Just because you happen to be fortunate enough, doesn't mean that the whole country is or even most of it is. The US is good enough country for the top 10-20%, it is great country for the top 1%. The rest can go fuck themselves.
The 700 member team worked hard as well. The amount of work you put in is absolutely meaningless under some level of talent. Do you want to tell me that the 3 people hard work for half year equalled the 700 people's work for 10 times as long? That is 1.5 man-years compared to 3500 man-years. Hard work had absolutely nothing to do with this.
Oracle was trying in 2-3 projects over the span of 10 years to create a certain NDA covered technology. One of those tries involved a team of 700 people over 5 years. All those attempts failed and have been scraped, in some cases whole teams of people layed off. The attempt that eventually succeeded was one talented architect with 2 developers working for 6 months.
Hard work my ass.
Actually, he is a troll and that is his signature.
Reminds me of when local police introduced a shape sorter as interview screening tool,100% of the applicants passed, 50% with brains, 50% with force.
Actually, that beard is an uptime indicator. It is little known that sysadmins have to shave when their server goes down. That is also why unix admins have them and windows admins don't.
No, in this case, punishment absolutely has to be a concern. The next time another pompous asshole considers to perjure himself in front of Congress, I want him to remember this guy serving 5-10 years and then reconsider the real consequences of his actions. And we might not have those secret programs in the first place.
Hyperbole. Humor. Wikipedia.
I'm much more worried about the 3rd amendment. If the military controls the computers in our homes, shouldn't we call them soldiers and demand a just compensation for quartering them in our homes?
- Stalinism pales in face of the only ever committed continent wide genocide of native americans.
- Nobody cares for your justification. Everyone else in the world agrees that using Nuclear weapons is unjustifiable for any reason.
- Nobody really cares about fake trials. But if you want to talk about miscarriage of justice, lets compare incarceration rates for Stalin and Obama.
Those three are enough to rebut all your major points.
I lived half my life under communism and second half in america and I can tell you outright, that the level of propaganda and the extent to which it is believed by the population in US is 5 times as bad as I ever experienced it with the communists. The level of surveillance of people by government was much much lower, and the number of people as percent of population being incarcerated for made up crimes was 2 orders of magnitude lower than now in US and we didn't get rape tolerated in prisons. Yes, we had an iron curtain, but so will US, once the fence in south gets finished. I don't know anyone who lived under both regimes and would strongly disagree with me on this.
The general rule is the same in both. Don't stick your head up high or your neck might get cut. You are always guilty of something and they can throw you in jail if they like, unless you are really rich and then... they can still throw you in jail if they like. Just keep your head low. Fuck it, even Russia is now more free than US and they got 13% flat tax.
The guy running NSA should in the first place go to jail for perjuring himself at a congress hearing, when he denied the NSA is doing any of that couple months back. We are way past the, dumb and right into the territory of criminal. Despite the program potentially even being legal (really? are you kidding me?), he still lied to congress under oath. It's just like with Martha Stewart... to the jail he goes.
Austin is a little like West Berlin before the fall of Berlin Wall :)
Wouldn't it be much more lucrative to blackmail said congressman? :) Or force him to reveal some secrets on his fellow congressmen to save his ass. In modern day and age, everyone is guilty of something. The only difference between a law abiding citizen and a felon is the 4th amendment. You know the police is regularly using drug possession as a tool to put behind bars people they "judged guilty", but cannot get the evidence to prove whatever crime they think was committed? There is a video of former NYC police commissioner advocating this as a useful police procedure in a debate about legalizing marihuana. What happens if such disgustingly corrupt cops have access to those systems.
This is a total disaster for our HR. How can we now filter out the "one trick pony" types when "Just don't even show me resume anyone with Java or Visual Basic on it" is no longer gonna work? We simply need a language like Java to sort out the men from the boys. Come on. Let it go.
XBox One? So that makes the last one XBox 0.360? It did feel like alpha version. Anytime I came to my friends house and he proposed to play Xbox game, the console would not load it, it would crash or some other problem occured. I have not played a single XBox game to date for this reason...
None of what that guy said is true. Oracle has three reasons to buy Sun:
1) HW/OS - Traditionally Oracle was developed with Solaris as primary platform with period of switch to Linux around 2002. Oracle wanted to have the full stack HW/OS/AS/DB/Apps
2) Java - Oracle has shitload of stuff written in Java and Sun was dying. They could not risk for someone like Google snatching it and then making life miserable for Oracle by driving the Java development in direction that would make it harder for Oracle.
3) MySQL - To combat the MS SQL threat. Oracle was already supporting MySQL long before. They bought InnoDB and improved it to quality. Chiefly to eat MS's lunch in the DB market, position MySQL into the segment that MS SQL was targeting and preventing MS to become a major player in Databases.
FUD is always legitimate when it propagates the bias of the slashdot community. While Microsoft FUD is always illegitimate because it just is. I like how there is a double standard for everything here.
... right?
You are missing the point. Transfering to another employer on H1B is easy. The problem is with getting a green card. If you want one of those, you are tied to the employer who files for you. During the 2000-2008 years, this process took about 5-6 years, recently it is much faster, I was waiting 7 years for a GC. So you are pretty much stuck with the current employer unless you are willing to restart the process. Some of them even make you repay all the legal and other costs associated with GC, if you quit before 2 years from them incurring it.
Not available in iOS. In related news, the smartphone share of iOS in US rose by 4% while Andriod dropped by 2%.
... US will be deprived of all hackers, nobody will dare to probe systems for security for fear of exorbitant punishment, the country's infrastructure will be vulnerable and in serious danger. Further, the curiosity of young people is turned away from computer systems at a time when we are suffering under a crucial shortage of computer nerds. If there ever is a next war, it will have a strong cyber component and the US will be so painfully inadequate it will feel like slaughter by the Russians and/or Chinese. Those prosecutors should be shot for treason as a matter of national cybersecurity.
Well, at least we finally know why the Chinese kids are so good in school.