And this is honestly the point, isn't it? The folks that you have hired on H-1B's were willing to relocate (for whatever reason) and here they are, well-qualified, doing the jobs that they were hired to do.
So, you're one of the developers of a search engine with a shitty UI and you are now trolling/.
What made you think that was a good idea? Everyone here are paranoid skeptics (disclosure: myself included). Welcome to the most asinine advertising decision you've ever made. If you wanted this to be successful here, you would have left it alone and let the discussion go unhindered by your trolling. I can't imagine what your other advertising avenues are. Did you start a Facebook group yet?
cruxlux = out of business. Bye. Now get the fuck off my lawn!
Agreed. I regularly fly back and forth to Egypt from the United States and vice-versa. Initially, when I began traveling this route a lot I freaked out about having laptops seized, etc. But in 5 years of doing this, the worst security things that have happened to me is that I always get the "SSS" stamp on my boarding passes stateside and they ask me to take off my shoes and walk through the slow line while they poke around in my bag for a minute.
This isn't to say that my laptop isn't disk-encrypted or that I don't have multiple backups, including an web-based backup of really important stuff, but this is because I have my research data on the laptop and I am more concerned about losing my writing than I am with anyone finding it. The encryption is just in case I have left anything in a file that gives away passwords, financial data, or anything like that.
Just don't freak out and you'll be fine. Things are getting scary, 1984-style, but if you aren't doing anything wrong, then don't make it look like you are doing anything wrong by being afraid that they will think you are. Keep backups, though, it's always a good policy. I'm always astonished by how many people don't have some kind of backup.
When we are living in a time and a place in which those who execute the laws of our nation, states, cities and so forth have relatively limitless discretion with regard to the enforcement of laws; when the only way to overturn an unconstitutional law is to appeal it (rather than trusting that the legislators whom we elected have enough understand of/deference toward constitutional law to formulate reasonable, constitutional laws at the federal and state level); when we have to be worried when coming into and out of the country because there is a spot in every airport now where we have no rights whatsoever: the no, the "Oops, we fucked up, but look, we caught the bad guy" defense is bullshit.
This guy should be off the hook. There is no room for error anymore, of any kind.
Someone above posted that these things should be a matter of legality and interpreting laws, not a matter of popular appeal, but that is all we have anymore. The system of laws and lawmaking that we have is broken. If we don't say 'no' when there is something wrong, then we will all eventually get what we deserve. Unfortunately, those of us who say 'no' will get it a hell of a lot faster, it seems.
It does count as irony, even dramatic irony, because deep down this audience always new what was going to happen, even while the players did not.
I agree with you fully. This has served as well to make an even dumber new set of Mac users who switch because it's easy and "just works." I've noticed this amongst other grads in the humanities. They use MSOffice on their Macs, don't know what to do when they lose their internet connection, and can never, ever, ever get their printer configured.
It's not a problem of Mac users being stupid. It is a problem of basic computer literacy. Computer literacy courses at University in the United States now consist of a several-months-long, very expensive howto for Microsoft Office and using Outlook to answer your e-mail.
When you change the look or feel of anything these days, people freak, or become frustrated and give up. The inability to reason and sort things out has been lost because of that Start button. Without it, how will you know where to start?
Money || Integrity
That's not very fair. If you need the cash do it, just don't complain later when you can't do anything about it. If you love the project and want to continue to love it, don't.
And never, ever sign a non-compete, for any reason. It should be a deal breaker.
Agreed. Then, once your tinfoil hat is secured in place, you can begin the tedious process of upgrading to covering your ceiling and walls with tinfoil.
Don't forget the floor and to duct-tape the doors and windows.
Agreed, these are off my list until either the price goes down or I find more information to justify the cost. For now, I will be reading ebooks and pdfs on the ol laptop and (gasp) occasionally flipping real pages printed on paper, borrowed from the library.
Ditto. It's the same in Egypt right now. Organizations and institutions here spend billions to keep up with the neighbors as far as just having shiny, good-looking new things, but its all for show. One university here just moved its whole campus, which is now filled with students, faculty and nothing works. It looks pretty, but there are no science labs, no public computing spaces, student services are a joke, the phones don't work half the time, the internet is dodgy at best, half of the buildings are vacant/incomplete. But it's new! It's pretty! And we've got it.
Why aren't more people interested in this gem if they are interested in an open handset/smartphone? I realize that it is a little buggy still and has no camera, but every time someone buys one of these and starts tinkering, a closed phone gets its wings. This this is a fantastic alternative to Apple/Google. Plus for 100 extra clams, you can get a debug board and tinker with the hardware too.
I forgot to mention that it often happens that when you sign up for this service, you will receive a huge bill for the first month for overage, which you may or may not have actually used. This has been a kind of common gripe from users here.
We've had something like this in Egypt for a while now, probably in response to the limited availability of broadband internet through DSL at one time. Vodafone Egypt does a 3G service for mobile devices and you can buy both USB and PC card adapters. The problem is similar though, the hardware is prohibitively expensive--equivalent to 500USD--and the service isn't really intended to be used regularly. It costs 1LE per MB tranfser (about 0.20USD) or you can buy a plan which includes up to 5 GB transfer per month for about 500LE (100USD). Kind of on the expensive side in the end. There are several other providers here now doing similar things, but their prices are almost exactly the same across the board.
I think that this might be a sign of increasing maturity in the process for making decisions about the space program. It seems, at least a little, a bit more reasonable to prepare a rescue option for missions like this rather than simply strapping on the cowboy boots and riding some crazy contraption out of the atmosphere with no viable hope of coming back, should something go wrong. Even if it is the same type of craft as the one that it would be rescuing, this decision shows some initiative to make the space program into a less willy-nilly operation than it might have been in the past. It is, as has been mentioned above, really the only option for some sort of fall-back plan, should something go wrong on the way up.
Has anyone been through customs or border control or airport security recently? It is a total joke. They used to ask you questions and pat you down and take all the stuff out of your bags. Now they just ask you to go through a thing which puffs air at you to see if you are carrying a bomb in your pocket and then if you get the extra special service, you sit down while they bomb-wand through your bag. Nothing else.
Has anyone on Slashdot actually had their laptop even opened recently?
It is scary that these laws are being made, but moreover it is scary that these laws are being made tne not enforce except in circumstances where there is no better justification for certain types of search and seizure (ie - racial profiling).
"Ford has a vehicle that gets 65MPG (imperial) and will not be released in the US. Why? Because they can't afford not to but they would rather stand around with their dicks in their hands instead of doing something different!
Man oh man! This is a great idea! If I had a nickel for every time I did something that worked and then didn't know what it was, well I would have hundreds of nickels.
Notebook log = brilliant!
Slashdot Mirror
Wait, what is wrong with buying a ficus plant or a cactus again? Oh right, ficus can't be modded to run Linux.
Yet.
Hear hear! I want https as well. It goes great with my tinfoil hat.
Thank god you got rid of her now.
And this is honestly the point, isn't it? The folks that you have hired on H-1B's were willing to relocate (for whatever reason) and here they are, well-qualified, doing the jobs that they were hired to do.
It's like a car with the gearshift where the turn signal should be. The HUD has tunnel-vision. And also the radio only plays political debates.
/.
Oh yah, and one of the developers is in the trunk to answer any questions or concerns you might have by trolling
Mod parent "out of business."
/.
So, you're one of the developers of a search engine with a shitty UI and you are now trolling
What made you think that was a good idea? Everyone here are paranoid skeptics (disclosure: myself included). Welcome to the most asinine advertising decision you've ever made. If you wanted this to be successful here, you would have left it alone and let the discussion go unhindered by your trolling. I can't imagine what your other advertising avenues are. Did you start a Facebook group yet?
cruxlux = out of business. Bye. Now get the fuck off my lawn!
Don't forget your tinfoil hat either. You won't be able to wear it through the metal detector though...
Agreed. I regularly fly back and forth to Egypt from the United States and vice-versa. Initially, when I began traveling this route a lot I freaked out about having laptops seized, etc. But in 5 years of doing this, the worst security things that have happened to me is that I always get the "SSS" stamp on my boarding passes stateside and they ask me to take off my shoes and walk through the slow line while they poke around in my bag for a minute.
This isn't to say that my laptop isn't disk-encrypted or that I don't have multiple backups, including an web-based backup of really important stuff, but this is because I have my research data on the laptop and I am more concerned about losing my writing than I am with anyone finding it. The encryption is just in case I have left anything in a file that gives away passwords, financial data, or anything like that.
Just don't freak out and you'll be fine. Things are getting scary, 1984-style, but if you aren't doing anything wrong, then don't make it look like you are doing anything wrong by being afraid that they will think you are. Keep backups, though, it's always a good policy. I'm always astonished by how many people don't have some kind of backup.
Well, I am!
Wait, no I'm not. We all knew this was coming.
Et tu, Wikipedia, et tu?
Ppffft.
Mod Parent Up
When we are living in a time and a place in which those who execute the laws of our nation, states, cities and so forth have relatively limitless discretion with regard to the enforcement of laws; when the only way to overturn an unconstitutional law is to appeal it (rather than trusting that the legislators whom we elected have enough understand of/deference toward constitutional law to formulate reasonable, constitutional laws at the federal and state level); when we have to be worried when coming into and out of the country because there is a spot in every airport now where we have no rights whatsoever: the no, the "Oops, we fucked up, but look, we caught the bad guy" defense is bullshit.
This guy should be off the hook. There is no room for error anymore, of any kind.
Someone above posted that these things should be a matter of legality and interpreting laws, not a matter of popular appeal, but that is all we have anymore. The system of laws and lawmaking that we have is broken. If we don't say 'no' when there is something wrong, then we will all eventually get what we deserve. Unfortunately, those of us who say 'no' will get it a hell of a lot faster, it seems.
It does count as irony, even dramatic irony, because deep down this audience always new what was going to happen, even while the players did not.
I agree with you fully. This has served as well to make an even dumber new set of Mac users who switch because it's easy and "just works." I've noticed this amongst other grads in the humanities. They use MSOffice on their Macs, don't know what to do when they lose their internet connection, and can never, ever, ever get their printer configured.
It's not a problem of Mac users being stupid. It is a problem of basic computer literacy. Computer literacy courses at University in the United States now consist of a several-months-long, very expensive howto for Microsoft Office and using Outlook to answer your e-mail.
When you change the look or feel of anything these days, people freak, or become frustrated and give up. The inability to reason and sort things out has been lost because of that Start button. Without it, how will you know where to start?
More for the rest of us then, I suppose.
Money || Integrity That's not very fair. If you need the cash do it, just don't complain later when you can't do anything about it. If you love the project and want to continue to love it, don't. And never, ever sign a non-compete, for any reason. It should be a deal breaker.
Agreed. Then, once your tinfoil hat is secured in place, you can begin the tedious process of upgrading to covering your ceiling and walls with tinfoil.
Don't forget the floor and to duct-tape the doors and windows.
Agreed, these are off my list until either the price goes down or I find more information to justify the cost. For now, I will be reading ebooks and pdfs on the ol laptop and (gasp) occasionally flipping real pages printed on paper, borrowed from the library.
Ditto. It's the same in Egypt right now. Organizations and institutions here spend billions to keep up with the neighbors as far as just having shiny, good-looking new things, but its all for show. One university here just moved its whole campus, which is now filled with students, faculty and nothing works. It looks pretty, but there are no science labs, no public computing spaces, student services are a joke, the phones don't work half the time, the internet is dodgy at best, half of the buildings are vacant/incomplete. But it's new! It's pretty! And we've got it.
Why aren't more people interested in this gem if they are interested in an open handset/smartphone? I realize that it is a little buggy still and has no camera, but every time someone buys one of these and starts tinkering, a closed phone gets its wings. This this is a fantastic alternative to Apple/Google. Plus for 100 extra clams, you can get a debug board and tinker with the hardware too.
I forgot to mention that it often happens that when you sign up for this service, you will receive a huge bill for the first month for overage, which you may or may not have actually used. This has been a kind of common gripe from users here.
We've had something like this in Egypt for a while now, probably in response to the limited availability of broadband internet through DSL at one time. Vodafone Egypt does a 3G service for mobile devices and you can buy both USB and PC card adapters. The problem is similar though, the hardware is prohibitively expensive--equivalent to 500USD--and the service isn't really intended to be used regularly. It costs 1LE per MB tranfser (about 0.20USD) or you can buy a plan which includes up to 5 GB transfer per month for about 500LE (100USD). Kind of on the expensive side in the end. There are several other providers here now doing similar things, but their prices are almost exactly the same across the board.
Someone finally came up with a use for the iPhone!
Agreed. Between this and post-its, I'm doing pretty good these days. The boot-time for post-it is even less than for the notepad.
I think that this might be a sign of increasing maturity in the process for making decisions about the space program. It seems, at least a little, a bit more reasonable to prepare a rescue option for missions like this rather than simply strapping on the cowboy boots and riding some crazy contraption out of the atmosphere with no viable hope of coming back, should something go wrong. Even if it is the same type of craft as the one that it would be rescuing, this decision shows some initiative to make the space program into a less willy-nilly operation than it might have been in the past. It is, as has been mentioned above, really the only option for some sort of fall-back plan, should something go wrong on the way up.
Good job NASA.
Has anyone been through customs or border control or airport security recently? It is a total joke. They used to ask you questions and pat you down and take all the stuff out of your bags. Now they just ask you to go through a thing which puffs air at you to see if you are carrying a bomb in your pocket and then if you get the extra special service, you sit down while they bomb-wand through your bag. Nothing else.
Has anyone on Slashdot actually had their laptop even opened recently?
It is scary that these laws are being made, but moreover it is scary that these laws are being made tne not enforce except in circumstances where there is no better justification for certain types of search and seizure (ie - racial profiling).
There, fixed it.
Man oh man! This is a great idea! If I had a nickel for every time I did something that worked and then didn't know what it was, well I would have hundreds of nickels. Notebook log = brilliant!