You're obviously not a twitch gamer. Sometimes it's about being 1 ms faster than the other guy. Obviously there are other factors that come into play (like your connection latency) but it all adds up.
Get a job in another western country for a few years to get experience and then you'll have the experience you need to get into the tighter market in England. It sucks doing an international search but you're young and it will be a good experience for you in the long run. One thing people need to get used to in today's world is that the job you want may not exist in the place you currently live. Move like water and your life will flow a lot easier.
They aren't doing this for America. They are doing it to get around their own laws that prevent them from spying on their own citizens. Of course, America has no law preventing it from spying on Australians so they do. Then when Australia want's to know what's going on with one of their own, they ask America for the information, effectively circumventing their privacy laws. This is a reciprocal arrangement with most western allies. They all do it. America does the same thing and asks for info from allies about Americans. It's one big circle-jerk of privacy violation. Welcome to the modern world.
You've also got your business logic spread all over the place. It sucks. I'm a contractor and I've yet to work at a company where having your business logic split between code and PL/SQL worked well. The ONLY benefit is performance, but in every other way, it completely sucks balls.
No, the military had been running its own drone strikes all along. The CIA lost its drone strike power because they developed a bad rep with the locals.
The NSA is organizationally under the DoD but it is an independent organization that's almost entirely civilian. To say they are a military organization is really stretching the truth.
The CIA has had their own drones that were completely independent of the military. That said, they are now turning over their drones to the military and will no longer have their own fleet. The will need to coordinate with the military for future drone strikes.
Playing a little devil's advocate here but I really don't see what the big scandal is. Countries have been spying on each other forever (including allies). The only thing that's changed is the technology. Did everyone actually expect that governments wouldn't expand their surveillance to new technologies like cell phones and the internet? How naive can you possibly be?
I would be severely disappointed if they hadn't upgraded to do these things. A country cannot have an effective intelligence program without it. People on/. talk all big and bad about how freedom is more important than security but that's easy to do when it doesn't effect you. If your mom or wife is killed in a terrorist attack, you'd be screaming about how the government isn't doing enough to protect its citizens.
In short, people need to be realistic. Yeah, eventually the government is going to upgrade their tech. duh. Eventually, every country will do the same thing. duh. The focus should be on whether the spying on your own citizens is appropriate and properly monitored and logged. That's it. Everything else is a bunch of naive nonsense.
500€/hr? Bullshit. Also, self taught programmers can have CS degrees. Nobody really learns programming in school. In short, your whole post is bullshit.
Apparently, you have no idea what "totalitarian state" actually means. But lets play your game. This means that all the ECHELON countries, plus France, are totalitarian as well since they're playing the same game.
lol...lists compiled and sold to corporations? You're kidding right? News flash: corporations sell information about you all the time without your knowledge. It's a huge industry worth billions of dollars. And they don't need to buy anything from the government because they already have it (and that includes medical information). You assert that the USA has crossed the line and you back it up with hypotheticals like selling data to corps. but there's no evidence of any of this. As far as I can see, you have not proven your case that the line has been crossed at all.
What's funny is if the government shut all of this down tomorrow and we started suffering from terrorist attacks, there you'd be outraged about how the government didn't do enough to stop them. The Republicans would scream that the Democrats are incapable of securing the country from its enemies and that would be the end of that. In short, there's no way for the government to win here. It's either a Big Brother state where fascism is just around the corner or it's incompetent and cannot defend its citizens. Pick which hatred you prefer but, in the end, you won't be happy regardless.
The US just upgraded their technology to spy on things that are transmitted over the internet and cell phones. I don't see how this is somehow crossing the line. After all, if terrorists know that the US and allies don't spy on those sources, then guess what? You have a huge whole in your intelligence for them to exploit. Sorry but it's incredibly naive to expect otherwise.
What a bunch of horseshit. The UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are all a part of ECHELON which is a giant (and old) spy system that can do a lot more than spy on foreign signals information. Every country that can spy, will do so. It's nothing new. The only new thing is that there's a lot more info out there to steal thanks to the Internet. The only thing shocking here is that people are shocked at all.
What you're describing is actually pretty rare. Keep in mind that in places like India, if you're still coding after 5 years, you're a loser. Your goal is to get promoted into management. Conversely, programmers in the US make life-long careers of writing code. As long as India has this cultural bias, they will never be able to come close to American programmers. I can tell you that I literally have zero concerns about Indians (in India) taking my job. It should be noted that Indians that have made a home for themselves in American usually don't share this fear of not going into management and can become excellent programmers. Of course, they make the same money so I really don't care.
You mean like Qualcomm, which has a net profit over 30%? Their profit margins are higher than Apple's. If they're really squeezing their suppliers, they're doing a shitty job of it.
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You're obviously not a twitch gamer. Sometimes it's about being 1 ms faster than the other guy. Obviously there are other factors that come into play (like your connection latency) but it all adds up.
I just figured he was another dipshit AC. You know... like you.
Get a job in another western country for a few years to get experience and then you'll have the experience you need to get into the tighter market in England. It sucks doing an international search but you're young and it will be a good experience for you in the long run. One thing people need to get used to in today's world is that the job you want may not exist in the place you currently live. Move like water and your life will flow a lot easier.
They aren't doing this for America. They are doing it to get around their own laws that prevent them from spying on their own citizens. Of course, America has no law preventing it from spying on Australians so they do. Then when Australia want's to know what's going on with one of their own, they ask America for the information, effectively circumventing their privacy laws. This is a reciprocal arrangement with most western allies. They all do it. America does the same thing and asks for info from allies about Americans. It's one big circle-jerk of privacy violation. Welcome to the modern world.
Care to back that statement up?
Odd...I'm writing this on a Chromebook Pixel and I've yet to experience of this ad bombardment that you refer to.
Hibernate is a piece of shit. A leaky abstraction that's more leak than abstraction. I don't get the fascination with this technology.
You've also got your business logic spread all over the place. It sucks. I'm a contractor and I've yet to work at a company where having your business logic split between code and PL/SQL worked well. The ONLY benefit is performance, but in every other way, it completely sucks balls.
You're an idiot and clearly have never been in the military.
No, the military had been running its own drone strikes all along. The CIA lost its drone strike power because they developed a bad rep with the locals.
The NSA is organizationally under the DoD but it is an independent organization that's almost entirely civilian. To say they are a military organization is really stretching the truth.
The CIA has had their own drones that were completely independent of the military. That said, they are now turning over their drones to the military and will no longer have their own fleet. The will need to coordinate with the military for future drone strikes.
Your AC status lends tons of credibility to your statement.
Playing a little devil's advocate here but I really don't see what the big scandal is. Countries have been spying on each other forever (including allies). The only thing that's changed is the technology. Did everyone actually expect that governments wouldn't expand their surveillance to new technologies like cell phones and the internet? How naive can you possibly be?
I would be severely disappointed if they hadn't upgraded to do these things. A country cannot have an effective intelligence program without it. People on /. talk all big and bad about how freedom is more important than security but that's easy to do when it doesn't effect you. If your mom or wife is killed in a terrorist attack, you'd be screaming about how the government isn't doing enough to protect its citizens.
In short, people need to be realistic. Yeah, eventually the government is going to upgrade their tech. duh. Eventually, every country will do the same thing. duh. The focus should be on whether the spying on your own citizens is appropriate and properly monitored and logged. That's it. Everything else is a bunch of naive nonsense.
+1 for the Traveller reference. Brings back memories.
500€/hr? Bullshit. Also, self taught programmers can have CS degrees. Nobody really learns programming in school. In short, your whole post is bullshit.
Apparently, you have no idea what "totalitarian state" actually means. But lets play your game. This means that all the ECHELON countries, plus France, are totalitarian as well since they're playing the same game.
Yeah, the EUs mock outrage at something they already knew about is a fantastic response.
lol...lists compiled and sold to corporations? You're kidding right? News flash: corporations sell information about you all the time without your knowledge. It's a huge industry worth billions of dollars. And they don't need to buy anything from the government because they already have it (and that includes medical information). You assert that the USA has crossed the line and you back it up with hypotheticals like selling data to corps. but there's no evidence of any of this. As far as I can see, you have not proven your case that the line has been crossed at all.
What's funny is if the government shut all of this down tomorrow and we started suffering from terrorist attacks, there you'd be outraged about how the government didn't do enough to stop them. The Republicans would scream that the Democrats are incapable of securing the country from its enemies and that would be the end of that. In short, there's no way for the government to win here. It's either a Big Brother state where fascism is just around the corner or it's incompetent and cannot defend its citizens. Pick which hatred you prefer but, in the end, you won't be happy regardless.
The US just upgraded their technology to spy on things that are transmitted over the internet and cell phones. I don't see how this is somehow crossing the line. After all, if terrorists know that the US and allies don't spy on those sources, then guess what? You have a huge whole in your intelligence for them to exploit. Sorry but it's incredibly naive to expect otherwise.
What a bunch of horseshit. The UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are all a part of ECHELON which is a giant (and old) spy system that can do a lot more than spy on foreign signals information. Every country that can spy, will do so. It's nothing new. The only new thing is that there's a lot more info out there to steal thanks to the Internet. The only thing shocking here is that people are shocked at all.
Don't worry...this code is only temporary!
What you're describing is actually pretty rare. Keep in mind that in places like India, if you're still coding after 5 years, you're a loser. Your goal is to get promoted into management. Conversely, programmers in the US make life-long careers of writing code. As long as India has this cultural bias, they will never be able to come close to American programmers. I can tell you that I literally have zero concerns about Indians (in India) taking my job. It should be noted that Indians that have made a home for themselves in American usually don't share this fear of not going into management and can become excellent programmers. Of course, they make the same money so I really don't care.
You mean like Qualcomm, which has a net profit over 30%? Their profit margins are higher than Apple's. If they're really squeezing their suppliers, they're doing a shitty job of it.
It's actually pretty easy to address with dogs that can smell gun powder. This report has more shock value than anything else.