Which isn't a bad thing. We are overcrowded here. The infrastructure can't keep up with the load, including electricity roads and especially water. Especially with the internet many of these people could work from elsewhere if they don't need access to local materials or resources. Remote shared offices would be a good idea for those who don't like to work at home.
I am biased though, I was born here. Of course, we have families who have been here for three centuries who would say I was the interloper. So I can see both sides of it.
Ironic since most Texans are extremely up front and forward about how their state is the best, even when you don't ask. I don't consider Texas a flyover state though. And there's still the huge gap between city and rural, just the same as in California.
I may not leave, but because the weather is nice. I've lived in California my entire life, it's home. I have never met anyone outside of San Francisco who had the sort of attitude you describe. There are those who prefer the city to the rural, and some who seem to despise suburbia (which I think means silicon valley). But I don't see many classists in tech down in the valley.
Sure, I don't want to live in someplace small minded, that's where I grow up (rural California). Diversity is nice.
My guess is that like anywhere, you've got 10 percent with strongly held views, 10 percent with the opposite strongly held views, and 80 percent just want to live their lives and make ends meet and try to not cause problems.
What keeps people where they are would friends, family, a good job, and so forth. It isn't politics, restaurants, the opera, etc. But I might have to retire to an inland state, lots of people do move after retirement.
This is mostly just IT support stuff. Shoving more applications onto a server than normal, load balancing, migrating servers, etc. it makes IT's life easier, but maybe not the life of the users. The benefits beyond that are not immediately obvious and they're not necessarily game changing except for the niche of sysadmins.
It's still not new though, despite people forgetting about it. Has there been anything NEW in software rather than just re-discovered by those unaware of computer history? I know there are lots of old ideas that are now more viable than they were in the past now that everyone has a supercomputer on their desk and carried in their pockets.
On the other hand, there are so many signs that today's culture to be preserved is grounded in bigotry, distrust of people who aren't like us, and war. If we send out a legacy of accomplishments in the arts, it would be lying to claim that was our culture.
"Told" to hate him? You think there are marching orders for that? All the Republicans I know either hate him or dislike him while grudgingly accepting him. But of course, I've heard a lot on the forums complain that they're all RINOs, including the vast majority of past Republican leadership (even Reagan would be called a RINO these days if he dared to snub Trump).
If they stuck to the 2nd amendment, or stuck to guns, they'd have more credibility. Instead they've branched out and now they are a general purpose extreme conservative group telling its members what their correct political stance should be on all issues. This isn't new, this has been growing since the current nutjob became NRA president.
My phone used to call 911 at least once a month. The problem was that the it would turn on by pushing the home button, which was very easy to do when you put your phone in your pocket. Then just by sliding up on the screen it will open up a dialer and it will only dial emergency numbers without being unlocked. And apparently 911 is easy to dial. I didn't have a phone case, but most of them did not cover up the home key in any way. My older Android phone allowed a configuration to allow/disallow using home button to power on the phone, but the new phone disabled that option and it could only be disabled by rooting it. Some online searching showed that several people also had the same problem. Eventually I noticed a case that covered the front of the phone and I got that.
So after driving home and getting out of the car, carrying groceries or what not, the phone would ring and I'd fumble to get the phone out only to find that yet again, it was the police asking if I was ok. While thoughtful of them, I was worried that they'd get annoyed with me or not respond in a real emergency. But the person on the other end was always polite.
The Democrats (not the left) is very inept. Most political parties are. They played the electoral college game badly, even though they won the majority of the vote, and they didn't campaign in the "sure thing" states (they did fundraise there), etc. The big advantage of Republicans is that they tend to be a bit more organized when it's time for compaigning and they're very effective at getting out the vote. But both are complete screwups at times that regularly shoot themselves in the foot. All of the parties, major or minor, are totally beholden to the most extremist elements who provide most of the fund raising. Don't trust any of them.
Also remember that this is not a sporting event, it should never be about cheering on your team versus another, so don't take the outcome of an election to prove anything about the quality or righteousness of the candidates. The most any outcome tells you is the quality of the voters.
I know quite a few who aren't. Ie, Mensa preisdnets and such. Sure, some are assholes, but I don't see it as a higher proportion than those wth more average inteligences. Now I'm really smart (and hopefully not an asshole) and I've run across a few people who suprised me by how amazingly smarter they were from me, and all of them were very nice people.
Being an asshole is a dumb thing to be. It hurts job prospects, promotions, social interaction, relationships, and so forth.
Private contractors for prisons in California are a major failure. But they're entrenched and they have much more powerful unions than the government unions. Private contractors in the Iraq war were also a failure. All paid for out of taxpayer dollars, given to "for profit" companies, and we did not save money or get a better outcomes as a result.
Even the most die hard anti-government tea party follower still agrees that government has a vital role in national security, and there are loud cries about beefing up the border security. We don't want private contractors doing the one job that almost everyone agrees the government should do. We can have private contractors coming up with methods and procedures and devices of course.
Let's say you have an army of clones intent on overthrowing the Empire, you could give them all duplicated passports that verifies their names and the photo matches their faces. Oh no! But as soon as one of them slips up all of those passports can be revoked at once.
Assuming of course a competent Empire. In real life, as we see here, governments are full of bumbling oafs.
The digital signing is to prove that the printed data (and photo?) has not been modified. You can clone the chip that says "Anne Onny Mouse" from your passport and put it onto thousands of passports. However those chips will say "this passport is for Anne Onny Mouse", and the border official will then note the name does not match "Robert J Hacker" which is printed on the passport.
Of course, if you're forging passports, you can easily clone the chip but it's not useful unless the printed data also has the same data as the chip. Ie, you can duplicate a passport so that there are thousands of "Anne Onny Mouse" passports. That's not a good thing but you still need a very good forger and lots of people with very similar faces. And once discovered all the passports can be revoked.
Assuming of course, that the border security actually checks the authentication.
There aren't "passwords" here. This is a signed data. There is a public and a private key, the private key must be kept secret but the public key is intended to be shared and available. By using the public key anyone can verify that the data was properly signed by the holder of the secret private key. Ie, encrypt using the private key, but decrypt using the public key.
The data itself need not necessarily be encrypted, because it merely shows what is visible on the passport. But the signing process uses cryptography as a means of tamper protection (change one byte and the signature fails to validate), and that authentication must be done because otherwise it is a very simple matter to rewrite or replace that chip.
The general public should be able to do the same thing, ie, verify that the data on your passport is correct and properly signed.
I like it since it's like using Linux but with the standard required office applications. So a real development environment, a real command line to do real work with, shell scripts, your standard Unix utilities, and no we-hate-customers Windows 10. I also like the UI.
There are some nits of course, it's a bit of a pain to get a sane development environment which gets worse with each release, the standard command line dev tools that used to be built in now require you to get Xcode first (and it's getting harder to get that without an Apple Id), it has a fake gcc, and setting up macports first time is getting difficult. I think this stems from it slowly turning in an iOS only development environment rather than a iOS+Mac+Others dev environment.
Hmm, 4 USB-C ports? I don't have the latest, it had that stupid OLED softkey stuff, and I have to wait to get a replacement one for work. My current one does not have 4 ports of standard USB 3, only 2 ports, Apple has consistently been removing more and more ports in order to shrink and overheat the thing. And USB-C would SUCK, that's like an extra $30 per port for an adapter to something sane.
There is a weird supply of streaming movies, it's hit or miss about what's available or not. My Roku lets me search by title and it will show what supported streaming service has it. So, no streaming service apparently has Age of Ultron except for a very high "rental" price, whereas you can get the relatively new Guardians of the Galaxy 2 on Netflix. Other movies I want to see are a premium service on Amazon (ie, first buy the expensive subscription, then add an extra few dollars for the movie).
So movies are declining on any subscription service. Hollywood hates streaming services unless they own them.
I would like to see the movies though. I will never pay Disney directly though. And it's not just a Netflix problem, other streaming services feel the pinch. They do have DVD/bluray movie content though, just like any rental store.
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Which isn't a bad thing. We are overcrowded here. The infrastructure can't keep up with the load, including electricity roads and especially water. Especially with the internet many of these people could work from elsewhere if they don't need access to local materials or resources. Remote shared offices would be a good idea for those who don't like to work at home.
I am biased though, I was born here. Of course, we have families who have been here for three centuries who would say I was the interloper. So I can see both sides of it.
Ironic since most Texans are extremely up front and forward about how their state is the best, even when you don't ask. I don't consider Texas a flyover state though. And there's still the huge gap between city and rural, just the same as in California.
I may not leave, but because the weather is nice. I've lived in California my entire life, it's home. I have never met anyone outside of San Francisco who had the sort of attitude you describe. There are those who prefer the city to the rural, and some who seem to despise suburbia (which I think means silicon valley). But I don't see many classists in tech down in the valley.
Sure, I don't want to live in someplace small minded, that's where I grow up (rural California). Diversity is nice.
My guess is that like anywhere, you've got 10 percent with strongly held views, 10 percent with the opposite strongly held views, and 80 percent just want to live their lives and make ends meet and try to not cause problems.
What keeps people where they are would friends, family, a good job, and so forth. It isn't politics, restaurants, the opera, etc. But I might have to retire to an inland state, lots of people do move after retirement.
This is mostly just IT support stuff. Shoving more applications onto a server than normal, load balancing, migrating servers, etc. it makes IT's life easier, but maybe not the life of the users. The benefits beyond that are not immediately obvious and they're not necessarily game changing except for the niche of sysadmins.
It's still not new though, despite people forgetting about it. Has there been anything NEW in software rather than just re-discovered by those unaware of computer history? I know there are lots of old ideas that are now more viable than they were in the past now that everyone has a supercomputer on their desk and carried in their pockets.
On the other hand, there are so many signs that today's culture to be preserved is grounded in bigotry, distrust of people who aren't like us, and war. If we send out a legacy of accomplishments in the arts, it would be lying to claim that was our culture.
"Told" to hate him? You think there are marching orders for that? All the Republicans I know either hate him or dislike him while grudgingly accepting him. But of course, I've heard a lot on the forums complain that they're all RINOs, including the vast majority of past Republican leadership (even Reagan would be called a RINO these days if he dared to snub Trump).
If they stuck to the 2nd amendment, or stuck to guns, they'd have more credibility. Instead they've branched out and now they are a general purpose extreme conservative group telling its members what their correct political stance should be on all issues. This isn't new, this has been growing since the current nutjob became NRA president.
There's a problem in that non-emergency numbers aren't widely known. A lot of people think 911 means the phone line of the local police or fire.
My phone used to call 911 at least once a month. The problem was that the it would turn on by pushing the home button, which was very easy to do when you put your phone in your pocket. Then just by sliding up on the screen it will open up a dialer and it will only dial emergency numbers without being unlocked. And apparently 911 is easy to dial. I didn't have a phone case, but most of them did not cover up the home key in any way. My older Android phone allowed a configuration to allow/disallow using home button to power on the phone, but the new phone disabled that option and it could only be disabled by rooting it. Some online searching showed that several people also had the same problem. Eventually I noticed a case that covered the front of the phone and I got that.
So after driving home and getting out of the car, carrying groceries or what not, the phone would ring and I'd fumble to get the phone out only to find that yet again, it was the police asking if I was ok. While thoughtful of them, I was worried that they'd get annoyed with me or not respond in a real emergency. But the person on the other end was always polite.
Calories?
50 Fahrenheit inside is cold, that means you have to put on a sweater to walk around the house. The common recommendation for thermostats is 68F.
The Democrats (not the left) is very inept. Most political parties are. They played the electoral college game badly, even though they won the majority of the vote, and they didn't campaign in the "sure thing" states (they did fundraise there), etc. The big advantage of Republicans is that they tend to be a bit more organized when it's time for compaigning and they're very effective at getting out the vote. But both are complete screwups at times that regularly shoot themselves in the foot. All of the parties, major or minor, are totally beholden to the most extremist elements who provide most of the fund raising. Don't trust any of them.
Also remember that this is not a sporting event, it should never be about cheering on your team versus another, so don't take the outcome of an election to prove anything about the quality or righteousness of the candidates. The most any outcome tells you is the quality of the voters.
I know quite a few who aren't. Ie, Mensa preisdnets and such. Sure, some are assholes, but I don't see it as a higher proportion than those wth more average inteligences. Now I'm really smart (and hopefully not an asshole) and I've run across a few people who suprised me by how amazingly smarter they were from me, and all of them were very nice people.
Being an asshole is a dumb thing to be. It hurts job prospects, promotions, social interaction, relationships, and so forth.
The new line from the remake of Airplane: "We need somebody who can not only fly this plane, but who didn’t have the cocktail wieners!"
Private contractors for prisons in California are a major failure. But they're entrenched and they have much more powerful unions than the government unions. Private contractors in the Iraq war were also a failure. All paid for out of taxpayer dollars, given to "for profit" companies, and we did not save money or get a better outcomes as a result.
Even the most die hard anti-government tea party follower still agrees that government has a vital role in national security, and there are loud cries about beefing up the border security. We don't want private contractors doing the one job that almost everyone agrees the government should do. We can have private contractors coming up with methods and procedures and devices of course.
Let's say you have an army of clones intent on overthrowing the Empire, you could give them all duplicated passports that verifies their names and the photo matches their faces. Oh no! But as soon as one of them slips up all of those passports can be revoked at once.
Assuming of course a competent Empire. In real life, as we see here, governments are full of bumbling oafs.
The digital signing is to prove that the printed data (and photo?) has not been modified. You can clone the chip that says "Anne Onny Mouse" from your passport and put it onto thousands of passports. However those chips will say "this passport is for Anne Onny Mouse", and the border official will then note the name does not match "Robert J Hacker" which is printed on the passport.
Of course, if you're forging passports, you can easily clone the chip but it's not useful unless the printed data also has the same data as the chip. Ie, you can duplicate a passport so that there are thousands of "Anne Onny Mouse" passports. That's not a good thing but you still need a very good forger and lots of people with very similar faces. And once discovered all the passports can be revoked.
Assuming of course, that the border security actually checks the authentication.
There aren't "passwords" here. This is a signed data. There is a public and a private key, the private key must be kept secret but the public key is intended to be shared and available. By using the public key anyone can verify that the data was properly signed by the holder of the secret private key. Ie, encrypt using the private key, but decrypt using the public key.
The data itself need not necessarily be encrypted, because it merely shows what is visible on the passport. But the signing process uses cryptography as a means of tamper protection (change one byte and the signature fails to validate), and that authentication must be done because otherwise it is a very simple matter to rewrite or replace that chip.
The general public should be able to do the same thing, ie, verify that the data on your passport is correct and properly signed.
Well, Microsoft's reputation can't get much worse.
What were the official numbers compared to previous elections. Certainly the inauguration was not well attended.
I like it since it's like using Linux but with the standard required office applications. So a real development environment, a real command line to do real work with, shell scripts, your standard Unix utilities, and no we-hate-customers Windows 10. I also like the UI.
There are some nits of course, it's a bit of a pain to get a sane development environment which gets worse with each release, the standard command line dev tools that used to be built in now require you to get Xcode first (and it's getting harder to get that without an Apple Id), it has a fake gcc, and setting up macports first time is getting difficult. I think this stems from it slowly turning in an iOS only development environment rather than a iOS+Mac+Others dev environment.
Hmm, 4 USB-C ports? I don't have the latest, it had that stupid OLED softkey stuff, and I have to wait to get a replacement one for work. My current one does not have 4 ports of standard USB 3, only 2 ports, Apple has consistently been removing more and more ports in order to shrink and overheat the thing. And USB-C would SUCK, that's like an extra $30 per port for an adapter to something sane.
There is a weird supply of streaming movies, it's hit or miss about what's available or not. My Roku lets me search by title and it will show what supported streaming service has it. So, no streaming service apparently has Age of Ultron except for a very high "rental" price, whereas you can get the relatively new Guardians of the Galaxy 2 on Netflix. Other movies I want to see are a premium service on Amazon (ie, first buy the expensive subscription, then add an extra few dollars for the movie).
So movies are declining on any subscription service. Hollywood hates streaming services unless they own them.
I would like to see the movies though. I will never pay Disney directly though. And it's not just a Netflix problem, other streaming services feel the pinch. They do have DVD/bluray movie content though, just like any rental store.
Noscript will deal with it.