First of all, ICANN has been motivated by profit for some time. If you don't agree, then try to come up with an alternate explanation for why they decided - in spite of significant protest against - to start selling gTLDs to the highest bidders.
Second, the US government is owned by corporate America regardless. The crowning achievement of this was likely the 2010 "health care" bill, which is a solid contender for the tile of the largest corporate handout in the history of government.
yes, no one owes you a job for 30 years at a company and a fat pension with 100% job security which was only true for a short short time in American history.
To be verbose, I was making no claim that anyone is owed that. However, our country has swung so far from that ideal of decades ago now that even professionals are quickly displaced. One can only stay ahead of the curve for so long, after which the employer finds someone else who is either ahead of the curve or is willing to be on the curve for less money.
The notion of pension - and retirement in general - is tragically even more obsolete now in the modern case. Employers have been able to continuously reduce their contributions to employees' retirements, to their point where now it often averages out to a very trivial investment for the company. Even worse, traditional pension plans are all but extinct, forcing employees to select from various market-based investments which are seldom beating inflation. Just as the health care law passed in 2010 made almost every citizen of the US an obligate consumer of for-profit health insurance, the various restructuring efforts in corporate America has made most Americans obligate investors on the stock market as they are punished severely for not doing that.
Do something
I'm doing plenty, thank you much. I have a PhD and I currently work 3 jobs simultaneously to make ends meet. I would look in to what this is doing to my physical health, but I don't make enough money to afford to use my health insurance.
And a career will come just from belief that one is out there?
The simple fact is that companies seldom hire for career positions any more. The very notion of career is quickly becoming obsolete. Companies expect to be able to treat employees as a disposable commodity, because we have allowed them to do so for some time now. When most of the workers are barely scraping by, their ability to save money for retirement is plummeting as well.
Few people in any industry have career paths any more, and the further time marches on the more that becomes the case. In the US we have convinced ourselves that putting power in the hands of the employers is the right thing to do, and we keep making that choice every time we get a chance. If it means most people born after 1960 won't ever get to retire the way their parents did, so be it.
Does this mean that if you are fixing someone's computer and they have an encrypted volume full of this that you never had any reason to look at, you are still liable later? What if someone brings you their PC and they just want an upgrade (say second HDD or new video card), are you liable for what they have in their personal directories at that point?
I can't view the whole article (paywalled) so I'm curious to know the meaning of the summary quote:
regressive political income redistribution in support of a putatively progressive cause.
In Americans politics, "progressive" and "regressive" are usually taken as antonyms, hence the quote would suggest that the supposed income redistribution was going to the wealthy. However, progressive taxation is understood to mean a (purely hypothetical state in this country) taxation system where the effective rate on the wealthiest people is highest and the rate on the poorest is lowest. These seem to be opposing ideas - so which was is the article claiming the income redistribution was going? There are endless examples of the government sponsoring redistribution of money towards the wealthy in the form of various government tax cuts and subsidies, so it would seem that is the most likely case here.
I would think that concentrating their datacenters in a part of the country where you need air conditioning 8+ months of the year would make it a wise investment. Even the most efficient data centers produce a fair bit of waste heat.
Of course the spammers will find ways to get around the filters, they make money by doing exactly that. The companies behind the filters are patting themselves on the back right now because the volume of read spam is down, but they aren't bothering to tell you that the false positive rate keeps creeping up over time. The critical measurement lies there, in the signal to noise ratio.
Any time the spammers can push down the signal to noise ratio, they win. It means a few more messages get through, and a few more sales are made. Alternatively, it means a few more non-spam emails are caught in filters, which causes people to adjust their filters to let more borderline messages through. The whole time, everyone on the internet is paying to be on the losing side of this arms race.
At the end of the day, as I have said many many times here, spam is an economic problem. No technical, legal, or spiritual solution will stop it. As long as people can make money as spammers, they will keep sending out spam, with no concern for where or to whom it goes. There is only one way to stop spam, and that is by making sure the spammers don't get paid. As soon as the money stops coming in, the spam stops going out.
I know that pot and tobacco don't really compare in many important ways, but from a scientific standpoint tobacco use is vastly easier to study. I point this out because it is actually difficult to quantify how much pot - or more critically in general, THC - a user really takes in over a unit of time. By comparison if someone says they smoke a pack of cigarettes a day we have really a pretty good idea how much nicotine, tar, etc is being taken in.
It's nice to see a more statistically rigorous study, but the difference in amount of pot usage that people do is very significant, as is the quantity of THC per gram of pot.
I know this site leans to the right with the selection of front-page articles and the majority of user comments as well, but why are we giving more free PR to Trump? He gets it from every news network you can think of in this country and plenty abroad as well. If this statement came from anyone else it would have been ignored as the ramblings of a deranged person. Instead since they came from Trump we take them seriously.
You have a lot of good points there, it is too bad you posted AC - which leads to fewer people reading your post.
One thing you didn't mention that I have observed though is that some brands are guilty of making several lines of tools under their names and selling them differently accordingly. Milwaukee is a great example of this, you can get low-end Milwaukee power tools at Home Depot / Lowe's for not a lot of money, and they perform only marginally better than HF tools. Or you can go to high end tool stores and get Milwaukee tools that produce 3-4 times as much performance, weigh less, and live longer; but they cost a lot more. It is somewhat like the old "Craftsman" vs "Craftsman Professional" that we used to see at Sears (before SearsMart shipped all their production to China).
Park Tool is a fascinating case that you mention as well. Indeed they sent a lot of their production to China but I was in a local bike store a couple months ago and saw plenty of Park Tools items on the shelf that were still Made in USA, so they do still seem to do some production here (or their sales volume is just so low currently that they haven't sold all their American-made tools out yet).
They were one of the most significant holdouts over the past decade or so, but they won't learn from their mistake. They could have learned from vise-grip, who could have learned from dremel, who could have learned from Stanley. Sears (Craftsman) could have learned from any or all of them, as could Husky and Kobalt.
They'll all just go the same way, only to lose the race to the bottom to Harbor Freight.
A mac user would accept that as a long time, but my ThinkPads are barely approaching the middle of their life expectancy when they're a decade old. I was lugging a ThinkPad R32 (from their value line, no less) for a decade - including most of grad school - and finally sold it only because I needed a more powerful video card for my thesis defense presentation. I managed to stuff 4GB of RAM and a 250GB HD in that R32 to keep it going through my research, it never really needed anything else.
I have never seen an OS on x86 that could match the uptime of Netware. 25 years sounds about right if the rest of the hardware was able to hang on that long; I know I had first-gen pentiums run Netware for 10+ years when I was running them, and they were still running when I left that job 10+ years ago.
Can you name a single smartphone that is made in the US? No, neither can anyone else.
What's that got to do with anything? Why care where it's manufactured?
It has a lot to do with it, actually. The summary said that the smartphone manufacturers will be required to make these features available. How would the bill be able to force them to do that? The state of NY has no jurisdiction on any smartphone manufacturers.
As you said:
shall be capable of being decrypted and unlocked by its manufacturer
But the state of NY has no way to force the manufacturers to do this.
If it goes after the manufacturers of the phones, then this bill will have absolutely no clout. Can you name a single smartphone that is made in the US? No, neither can anyone else. They'll never be able to enforce this bill on the Chinese and Korean manufacturers, it could just as well demand that the CEOs all release the phone numbers of their mistresses in their next press releases.
Some of us do actual work on laptops. A lot of people are connected via laptop and wireless internet to the office on a nearly 24x7 time frame now. Even when we aren't within range of an internet connection, we still have documents to update; presentations and spreadsheets are still largely a disaster to update on anything smaller than an actual laptop with a physical keyboard.
It would seem that having the entire battery shut down quickly in response to heat could be a bad thing if you are running only on battery power at that time. Would it be possible to set it up to only shut down some of the battery so that the system could power down safely?
right or wrong, people got tired of it (especially the "union" part) and left.
Left what, exactly? The union never fully formed. The summary plainly states that, and goes on to say that the union is giving up on organizing for IBM workers.
I probably shouldn't feed this troll, but I am indeed older than any 1541 I have ever seen. As best I can tell the first 1541 was made in 1983, I am certainly older than that.
I mentioned floppies from the 90s only because they are the ones I have most recently used extensively. I have almost zero floppy disks that I have written to since 2000.
From my experience the 5.25" floppy disks in general were slightly more reliable, but the drives went out of style early enough that it didn't matter. You couldn't really convince people - mac users especially but plenty of other PC users as well - to retrofit 5.25" floppy drives into their computers. Even worse, to the best of my knowledge nobody ever made a USB 5.25 floppy drive which was arguably the final nail in the coffin for that format.
I had floppies in the 90s and beyond that were terrible for longevity. More than once I had a carefully handled 3.5" DSHD floppy eat shit while being carried from one computer to another in the same room.
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First of all, ICANN has been motivated by profit for some time. If you don't agree, then try to come up with an alternate explanation for why they decided - in spite of significant protest against - to start selling gTLDs to the highest bidders.
Second, the US government is owned by corporate America regardless. The crowning achievement of this was likely the 2010 "health care" bill, which is a solid contender for the tile of the largest corporate handout in the history of government.
yes, no one owes you a job for 30 years at a company and a fat pension with 100% job security which was only true for a short short time in American history.
To be verbose, I was making no claim that anyone is owed that. However, our country has swung so far from that ideal of decades ago now that even professionals are quickly displaced. One can only stay ahead of the curve for so long, after which the employer finds someone else who is either ahead of the curve or is willing to be on the curve for less money.
The notion of pension - and retirement in general - is tragically even more obsolete now in the modern case. Employers have been able to continuously reduce their contributions to employees' retirements, to their point where now it often averages out to a very trivial investment for the company. Even worse, traditional pension plans are all but extinct, forcing employees to select from various market-based investments which are seldom beating inflation. Just as the health care law passed in 2010 made almost every citizen of the US an obligate consumer of for-profit health insurance, the various restructuring efforts in corporate America has made most Americans obligate investors on the stock market as they are punished severely for not doing that.
Do something
I'm doing plenty, thank you much. I have a PhD and I currently work 3 jobs simultaneously to make ends meet. I would look in to what this is doing to my physical health, but I don't make enough money to afford to use my health insurance.
And a career will come just from belief that one is out there?
The simple fact is that companies seldom hire for career positions any more. The very notion of career is quickly becoming obsolete. Companies expect to be able to treat employees as a disposable commodity, because we have allowed them to do so for some time now. When most of the workers are barely scraping by, their ability to save money for retirement is plummeting as well.
Few people in any industry have career paths any more, and the further time marches on the more that becomes the case. In the US we have convinced ourselves that putting power in the hands of the employers is the right thing to do, and we keep making that choice every time we get a chance. If it means most people born after 1960 won't ever get to retire the way their parents did, so be it.
Does this mean that if you are fixing someone's computer and they have an encrypted volume full of this that you never had any reason to look at, you are still liable later? What if someone brings you their PC and they just want an upgrade (say second HDD or new video card), are you liable for what they have in their personal directories at that point?
regressive political income redistribution in support of a putatively progressive cause.
In Americans politics, "progressive" and "regressive" are usually taken as antonyms, hence the quote would suggest that the supposed income redistribution was going to the wealthy. However, progressive taxation is understood to mean a (purely hypothetical state in this country) taxation system where the effective rate on the wealthiest people is highest and the rate on the poorest is lowest. These seem to be opposing ideas - so which was is the article claiming the income redistribution was going? There are endless examples of the government sponsoring redistribution of money towards the wealthy in the form of various government tax cuts and subsidies, so it would seem that is the most likely case here.
I would think that concentrating their datacenters in a part of the country where you need air conditioning 8+ months of the year would make it a wise investment. Even the most efficient data centers produce a fair bit of waste heat.
Of course the spammers will find ways to get around the filters, they make money by doing exactly that. The companies behind the filters are patting themselves on the back right now because the volume of read spam is down, but they aren't bothering to tell you that the false positive rate keeps creeping up over time. The critical measurement lies there, in the signal to noise ratio.
Any time the spammers can push down the signal to noise ratio, they win. It means a few more messages get through, and a few more sales are made. Alternatively, it means a few more non-spam emails are caught in filters, which causes people to adjust their filters to let more borderline messages through. The whole time, everyone on the internet is paying to be on the losing side of this arms race.
At the end of the day, as I have said many many times here, spam is an economic problem. No technical, legal, or spiritual solution will stop it. As long as people can make money as spammers, they will keep sending out spam, with no concern for where or to whom it goes. There is only one way to stop spam, and that is by making sure the spammers don't get paid. As soon as the money stops coming in, the spam stops going out.
Build Your Own Datacenter?
Bring Your Own Device?
Build Your Own Dessert?
Bury Your Own Dead?
I think we could have had an expansion of this acronym in the summary, just for clarity...
I know that pot and tobacco don't really compare in many important ways, but from a scientific standpoint tobacco use is vastly easier to study. I point this out because it is actually difficult to quantify how much pot - or more critically in general, THC - a user really takes in over a unit of time. By comparison if someone says they smoke a pack of cigarettes a day we have really a pretty good idea how much nicotine, tar, etc is being taken in.
It's nice to see a more statistically rigorous study, but the difference in amount of pot usage that people do is very significant, as is the quantity of THC per gram of pot.
I know this site leans to the right with the selection of front-page articles and the majority of user comments as well, but why are we giving more free PR to Trump? He gets it from every news network you can think of in this country and plenty abroad as well. If this statement came from anyone else it would have been ignored as the ramblings of a deranged person. Instead since they came from Trump we take them seriously.
You have a lot of good points there, it is too bad you posted AC - which leads to fewer people reading your post.
One thing you didn't mention that I have observed though is that some brands are guilty of making several lines of tools under their names and selling them differently accordingly. Milwaukee is a great example of this, you can get low-end Milwaukee power tools at Home Depot / Lowe's for not a lot of money, and they perform only marginally better than HF tools. Or you can go to high end tool stores and get Milwaukee tools that produce 3-4 times as much performance, weigh less, and live longer; but they cost a lot more. It is somewhat like the old "Craftsman" vs "Craftsman Professional" that we used to see at Sears (before SearsMart shipped all their production to China).
Park Tool is a fascinating case that you mention as well. Indeed they sent a lot of their production to China but I was in a local bike store a couple months ago and saw plenty of Park Tools items on the shelf that were still Made in USA, so they do still seem to do some production here (or their sales volume is just so low currently that they haven't sold all their American-made tools out yet).
They were one of the most significant holdouts over the past decade or so, but they won't learn from their mistake. They could have learned from vise-grip, who could have learned from dremel, who could have learned from Stanley. Sears (Craftsman) could have learned from any or all of them, as could Husky and Kobalt.
They'll all just go the same way, only to lose the race to the bottom to Harbor Freight.
A mac user would accept that as a long time, but my ThinkPads are barely approaching the middle of their life expectancy when they're a decade old. I was lugging a ThinkPad R32 (from their value line, no less) for a decade - including most of grad school - and finally sold it only because I needed a more powerful video card for my thesis defense presentation. I managed to stuff 4GB of RAM and a 250GB HD in that R32 to keep it going through my research, it never really needed anything else.
I have never seen an OS on x86 that could match the uptime of Netware. 25 years sounds about right if the rest of the hardware was able to hang on that long; I know I had first-gen pentiums run Netware for 10+ years when I was running them, and they were still running when I left that job 10+ years ago.
Can you name a single smartphone that is made in the US? No, neither can anyone else.
What's that got to do with anything? Why care where it's manufactured?
It has a lot to do with it, actually. The summary said that the smartphone manufacturers will be required to make these features available. How would the bill be able to force them to do that? The state of NY has no jurisdiction on any smartphone manufacturers.
As you said:
shall be capable of being decrypted and unlocked by its manufacturer
But the state of NY has no way to force the manufacturers to do this.
If it goes after the manufacturers of the phones, then this bill will have absolutely no clout. Can you name a single smartphone that is made in the US? No, neither can anyone else. They'll never be able to enforce this bill on the Chinese and Korean manufacturers, it could just as well demand that the CEOs all release the phone numbers of their mistresses in their next press releases.
to you, (-1, snarky).
Some of us do actual work on laptops. A lot of people are connected via laptop and wireless internet to the office on a nearly 24x7 time frame now. Even when we aren't within range of an internet connection, we still have documents to update; presentations and spreadsheets are still largely a disaster to update on anything smaller than an actual laptop with a physical keyboard.
i would hope that your device has some sort of temp monitor to give you some warning
That is a really good point. I can't say I routinely check to see what my battery temperature is at:
>acpi -t
Thermal 0: ok, 58.0 degrees C
It would seem that having the entire battery shut down quickly in response to heat could be a bad thing if you are running only on battery power at that time. Would it be possible to set it up to only shut down some of the battery so that the system could power down safely?
right or wrong, people got tired of it (especially the "union" part) and left.
Left what, exactly? The union never fully formed. The summary plainly states that, and goes on to say that the union is giving up on organizing for IBM workers.
I bet you my 1541s are older than you are.
I probably shouldn't feed this troll, but I am indeed older than any 1541 I have ever seen. As best I can tell the first 1541 was made in 1983, I am certainly older than that.
I mentioned floppies from the 90s only because they are the ones I have most recently used extensively. I have almost zero floppy disks that I have written to since 2000.
(that should say physical form, not format. my error)
From my experience the 5.25" floppy disks in general were slightly more reliable, but the drives went out of style early enough that it didn't matter. You couldn't really convince people - mac users especially but plenty of other PC users as well - to retrofit 5.25" floppy drives into their computers. Even worse, to the best of my knowledge nobody ever made a USB 5.25 floppy drive which was arguably the final nail in the coffin for that format.
I had floppies in the 90s and beyond that were terrible for longevity. More than once I had a carefully handled 3.5" DSHD floppy eat shit while being carried from one computer to another in the same room.