You make several good points, and I was only focused on #1. I think most people the risk of theft due to who they know - especially someone who may not steal from you, but may rabbit on to his friends about all the nice stuff you have, or friends who are in turn friends with gang members.
I've heard the preferred size for stolen items is "fits in a pillow case", but I hadn't heard the piled-on-a-blanket approach before.
No, but to find a similar optimization. Definitely leave a gift for the criminal - alarms don't do shit. Don't keep stuff you care about, by which I mean files, only on anything portable. And if your life would go to shit if someone took your easily-replaceable consumer electronics, you have deeper life issues my friend.
Suspected terrorists have in fact been killed (is "drone-struck" a word yet?) due to metadata. Not inside the US yet, but give it time.
If you think the government won't be interested in you just because you're minding your own business, read some history. That's what "totalitarian" means! You don't have to be special, when the government can afford to bother everyone. Am I to believe that a government that regulates how much water I use when I flush my toilet won't come after me for something I once posted? It's become socially acceptable to hound someone out of a job for some political cause they supported 5+ years ago - how long until it's legally acceptable?
Understand how thieves work and think. I've live in bad neighborhoods (bullt holes in the walls bad) before without worrying about my place getting burgled thanks to leveling on the second floor. Seriously. A staircase to climb is sufficient deterrent for a sufficient % of criminals looking for a quick score.
Plus, a thief looking for a quick boost doesn't want to spend much time in your place. The electronics I care about are kept awkwardly large and heavy, while a couple of valuable-seeming small items are left scattered about.
I don't have jewelry, and some robbers will ransack the place until they find the goods, so I leave about $200 in cash in a drawer where it's easy to find. According to the experts I've read, that's an ironclad defense. The thief will take that wad of cash as his victory and leave promptly, as long as the place doesn't seem nice enough that he keeps looking for more.
BS. Access is a terrible database to use as a back-end for real software doing something complex, but it's great as a single-user tool with its own UI.
While a spreadsheet might be more accessible to non-geeks, Access tries pretty hard to give a low-learning-curve to making simple queries and simple GUIs to show the results of queries, or make simple table edits.
I suspect the OP could make a spreadsheet work, however.
Adobe hasn't done anything demonstrating even basic competence in over 10 years. Plus there's Flash to lay at their feet. Can IQ be negative, when applied to a group?
Well, if you like open source for some reason beyond tribal identification, you could always write up something that disables that module load. But no possible choice Mozilla could make would change the contract between Netflix and the IP owners, so it's DRM-or-nothing for streams like that. And of course by "the vast majority of people who do not use DRM" you mean four of the five guys who rant about it on Slashdot, right? I mean, Windows Phone has a bigger market share here.
If you really care, go write a Firefox plugin that detects the load of the DRM module and instead of doing that, starts torrenting and playing the same title through the browser. Seriously - hit the Netflix site to start the torrent, and watch heads explode. If you actually care, that is.
Meanwhile, I'm with TBL: this DRM will be as successful as the TPM - it will fill the narrow commercial need it was pushed for, and everyone else will cringe and fail to adopt.
No one is forcing you to consume the DRM'd content, if it offends you.
I think this will end up with the ideal solution: DRM good enough to make the content providers happy, but constrained enough that, well, the impossibility of the underlying task will be revealed in certain circles.
Remember, Netflix doesn't actually care whether anyone pirates their streams. They care that they have fulfilled their contractual obligations to protect their streams. The way I see this playing out, everyone wins except perhaps the IP owners. Utility maximized.
But people really do operate RSVs this way, without much of a problem. The boat is very much heavier than the cable+minisub, and the cable will break long before it could capsize the ship. I've seen pictures of ships used for this purpose that were broad twin-hull designs with plenty of open space in the middle, but I know the Navy also does similar operations with conventional ship hulls.
It's pulling down either way (I'd expect the tether to be much heavier than the sub, but maybe I'm wrong - the sub would have to be quite stout to nearly resist crushing at that depth).
*shrug* Worked for me. If you think the task impossible, you've already failed. But I guess each of us must find our own path to happiness, and if grousing about The Man keeping you down is what you find fulfilling, more power to you. A bit of wealth is remarkably empowering though - you might try it one day.
Wages have little to do with wealth. That's a fundamental lesson in becoming wealthy. The deck has always been stacked against us - so what? Just win anyways. Live below your means, accumulate wealth, and it's just a matter of "when".
It's entirely about taking control of your own life. Just stop. I did, and I don't have willpower for shit. Stop letting the meat control the mind: humans are supposed to work the other way round.
Culture either evolves or becomes a disaster. Maintain too long and you end up being the guy decreeing death by stoning for homosexuality. America historically has been great at integrating the parts that work best from many cultures - but it's a multigenerational task. The Hispanic culture will no more replace ours than the Irish, or Italian, or Scandi, or etc etc did.
Experience matters too. That's why internships are so important, and why your "apprenticeship" in the field is so important. But for any real software development job it's not experience with the tools that matter, but experience with the problem domain. What kind of problems have you solved? What kind of solutions have you shipped and supported?
It's easy to pick up a new language, but it's something else entirely to become expert in a field, from financials to storage to DB internals to so many others, each is its own world and it's hard to switch. I'm hoping to switch to the 4th problem domain in my career (20+ years), and each switch has been non-trivial.
an increasing base of poor people slaving away to support an upper class who get richer beyond imagination.
How can any sober, sane, rational person see all the automation around us and think that "people slaving away" has anything to do with supporting a few rich? It doesn't make any sort of sense. The "rich" simply don't consume very much more than anyone else these days. Even with the wealth of Gates, you can only eat so much, drink so much, have so many surgeries, drive so many cars, etc. No one has non-trivially less stuff available because of all the stuff Gates and Buffett etc consume. It's just not relevant.
Sure, and in the course of centuries that might be relevant, One hopes that by then we won't be so planet bound - but there's that technology thing again.
WTC7 burned uncontrolled for hours, as the surviving first responders had higher priorities. It eventually failed as any building would (but few do in peacetime, as the fire department can generally put them out within the considerable time the thermal insulation sprayed on the steel beams usually provides).
WTC7 had a cantilevered design IIRC, with the weight of the front half of the building mostly supported by beams the length of the building above the lobby (to give the lobby a large open space with no pillars). Once that steel became soft, half the building was nearly unsupported, so down it went.
For most, retirement will never be more than a dream.
True, but largely self-inflicted. The only thing stopping people in the US from reaching financial independence after 30 or so years or work and investment is a lack of understanding/education about how money works. It's a profound failure of our culture, that such a tiny percentage of people succeed at a task that requires only understanding, willpower, and patience (exactly the sort of things a functional culture is supposed to instill in each generation).
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You make several good points, and I was only focused on #1. I think most people the risk of theft due to who they know - especially someone who may not steal from you, but may rabbit on to his friends about all the nice stuff you have, or friends who are in turn friends with gang members.
I've heard the preferred size for stolen items is "fits in a pillow case", but I hadn't heard the piled-on-a-blanket approach before.
No, but to find a similar optimization. Definitely leave a gift for the criminal - alarms don't do shit. Don't keep stuff you care about, by which I mean files, only on anything portable. And if your life would go to shit if someone took your easily-replaceable consumer electronics, you have deeper life issues my friend.
Suspected terrorists have in fact been killed (is "drone-struck" a word yet?) due to metadata. Not inside the US yet, but give it time.
If you think the government won't be interested in you just because you're minding your own business, read some history. That's what "totalitarian" means! You don't have to be special, when the government can afford to bother everyone. Am I to believe that a government that regulates how much water I use when I flush my toilet won't come after me for something I once posted? It's become socially acceptable to hound someone out of a job for some political cause they supported 5+ years ago - how long until it's legally acceptable?
Wow, 50% spelling failure, a new record! C'mon /., fuck Beta and give us the ability to edit posts instead!
Understand how thieves work and think. I've live in bad neighborhoods (bullt holes in the walls bad) before without worrying about my place getting burgled thanks to leveling on the second floor. Seriously. A staircase to climb is sufficient deterrent for a sufficient % of criminals looking for a quick score.
Plus, a thief looking for a quick boost doesn't want to spend much time in your place. The electronics I care about are kept awkwardly large and heavy, while a couple of valuable-seeming small items are left scattered about.
I don't have jewelry, and some robbers will ransack the place until they find the goods, so I leave about $200 in cash in a drawer where it's easy to find. According to the experts I've read, that's an ironclad defense. The thief will take that wad of cash as his victory and leave promptly, as long as the place doesn't seem nice enough that he keeps looking for more.
Sure, which is why Adobe can be described without Godwinning the thread.
BS. Access is a terrible database to use as a back-end for real software doing something complex, but it's great as a single-user tool with its own UI.
While a spreadsheet might be more accessible to non-geeks, Access tries pretty hard to give a low-learning-curve to making simple queries and simple GUIs to show the results of queries, or make simple table edits.
I suspect the OP could make a spreadsheet work, however.
Adobe hasn't done anything demonstrating even basic competence in over 10 years. Plus there's Flash to lay at their feet. Can IQ be negative, when applied to a group?
Well, if you like open source for some reason beyond tribal identification, you could always write up something that disables that module load. But no possible choice Mozilla could make would change the contract between Netflix and the IP owners, so it's DRM-or-nothing for streams like that. And of course by "the vast majority of people who do not use DRM" you mean four of the five guys who rant about it on Slashdot, right? I mean, Windows Phone has a bigger market share here.
If you really care, go write a Firefox plugin that detects the load of the DRM module and instead of doing that, starts torrenting and playing the same title through the browser. Seriously - hit the Netflix site to start the torrent, and watch heads explode. If you actually care, that is.
Meanwhile, I'm with TBL: this DRM will be as successful as the TPM - it will fill the narrow commercial need it was pushed for, and everyone else will cringe and fail to adopt.
No one is forcing you to consume the DRM'd content, if it offends you.
I think this will end up with the ideal solution: DRM good enough to make the content providers happy, but constrained enough that, well, the impossibility of the underlying task will be revealed in certain circles.
Remember, Netflix doesn't actually care whether anyone pirates their streams. They care that they have fulfilled their contractual obligations to protect their streams. The way I see this playing out, everyone wins except perhaps the IP owners. Utility maximized.
But people really do operate RSVs this way, without much of a problem. The boat is very much heavier than the cable+minisub, and the cable will break long before it could capsize the ship. I've seen pictures of ships used for this purpose that were broad twin-hull designs with plenty of open space in the middle, but I know the Navy also does similar operations with conventional ship hulls.
... meet it is I set it down
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain
Flash is always a villain. You may use it's power intending to do good, but in the end you will do only evil.
It's pulling down either way (I'd expect the tether to be much heavier than the sub, but maybe I'm wrong - the sub would have to be quite stout to nearly resist crushing at that depth).
*shrug* Worked for me. If you think the task impossible, you've already failed. But I guess each of us must find our own path to happiness, and if grousing about The Man keeping you down is what you find fulfilling, more power to you. A bit of wealth is remarkably empowering though - you might try it one day.
We should get equipment from Canada. If they start to put such measures in their hardware, it would come with an apology sticker on the box.
Which is really quite effective, since you'd never see it amongst all the other apology stickers.
The tether weighs the same on the spool or in the sea.
Wages have little to do with wealth. That's a fundamental lesson in becoming wealthy. The deck has always been stacked against us - so what? Just win anyways. Live below your means, accumulate wealth, and it's just a matter of "when".
It's entirely about taking control of your own life. Just stop. I did, and I don't have willpower for shit. Stop letting the meat control the mind: humans are supposed to work the other way round.
I trust them the most of the big players, mostly because they don't have a "social" product to tie everything too.
Culture either evolves or becomes a disaster. Maintain too long and you end up being the guy decreeing death by stoning for homosexuality. America historically has been great at integrating the parts that work best from many cultures - but it's a multigenerational task. The Hispanic culture will no more replace ours than the Irish, or Italian, or Scandi, or etc etc did.
Experience matters too. That's why internships are so important, and why your "apprenticeship" in the field is so important. But for any real software development job it's not experience with the tools that matter, but experience with the problem domain. What kind of problems have you solved? What kind of solutions have you shipped and supported?
It's easy to pick up a new language, but it's something else entirely to become expert in a field, from financials to storage to DB internals to so many others, each is its own world and it's hard to switch. I'm hoping to switch to the 4th problem domain in my career (20+ years), and each switch has been non-trivial.
an increasing base of poor people slaving away to support an upper class who get richer beyond imagination.
How can any sober, sane, rational person see all the automation around us and think that "people slaving away" has anything to do with supporting a few rich? It doesn't make any sort of sense. The "rich" simply don't consume very much more than anyone else these days. Even with the wealth of Gates, you can only eat so much, drink so much, have so many surgeries, drive so many cars, etc. No one has non-trivially less stuff available because of all the stuff Gates and Buffett etc consume. It's just not relevant.
Sure, and in the course of centuries that might be relevant, One hopes that by then we won't be so planet bound - but there's that technology thing again.
WTC7 burned uncontrolled for hours, as the surviving first responders had higher priorities. It eventually failed as any building would (but few do in peacetime, as the fire department can generally put them out within the considerable time the thermal insulation sprayed on the steel beams usually provides).
WTC7 had a cantilevered design IIRC, with the weight of the front half of the building mostly supported by beams the length of the building above the lobby (to give the lobby a large open space with no pillars). Once that steel became soft, half the building was nearly unsupported, so down it went.
For most, retirement will never be more than a dream.
True, but largely self-inflicted. The only thing stopping people in the US from reaching financial independence after 30 or so years or work and investment is a lack of understanding/education about how money works. It's a profound failure of our culture, that such a tiny percentage of people succeed at a task that requires only understanding, willpower, and patience (exactly the sort of things a functional culture is supposed to instill in each generation).