I've got an 11 year old router still plugging away just fine.
A 15 year old HP printer.
A 10 year old feature phone. And a 15 year old cordless phone for the landline.
The keyboard I'm typing this on is also about 15 years old.
My parents' television is a Sony Trinitron vintage 1999 or so.
The dumb thermostat in my living room looks like it dates back to the 1960s. It's just a piece of coiled copper and a plastic cam-follower...nothing to break.
Shit that lasts is good. Shit that breaks is bad. Shit that stops working because some some genius MBA fuck found a new way to make you pay for what you've already got...just plain nope. Not gonna buy it.
It was, but culture is its own enforcement mechanism. In America, the culture (as a rule) is to work. That is to say, many salaried people don't mind working overtime. If everyone in the office is pulling 60 hour weeks on a regular basis, and they're your friends, and you get the thrill of working with people doing something hard...it's magic. You don't want to be seen as the lazy one agitating for vacations. For a workplace filled with kids fresh out of school who can go 48 hours on coffee and cigarettes...it works. Until you age out of it and look for better work.
I'm in a pretty chill workplace. Like I said I get a lot of vacation and holidays. But I like my work, and just let the vacation pile on until it runs up to the expiration limit. Holidays are more-or-less mandatory but discretionary vacation time...I can go for two years without taking a day. Because I want to.
Again...you'd have to have more information to determine one way or the other. And that brings us to the next point: this was a secret warrant. If all of this were playing out in open court...it'll fix itself with disinfecting sunshine. A lot of the concern here comes from the fact that all of this stuff is secret and being secret in a justice system meant to be skewed in favor of the accused, it is controversial and subject to extra scrutiny and concern over improper behavior. You might well be right, but surely you appreciate the concerns at play here.
The appearance of impropriety comes from the fact that the DOJ was under the direction of a political appointee from one party, the wiretap warrant was against the candidate of the opposing party motivated in part by the political operation of the party in power, all within the context of the very same political appointee appearing to downgrade a concurrent investigation into wrongdoing by the candidate from her own party running for the same office.
It all depends on the employer. Some janitors make a comfortable middle-class salary, doubly so if their spouses also work.
No one forces anyone to take any job they don't want. We have low unemployment and even in the bad old days of the great recession, millions of middle-skill and high-skill job openings went unfilled. People of all walks have had the option to pursue better working conditions but it would have required them to relocate to go after them. Many did, to their benefit. Others felt content to collect unemployment benefits.
And in America if your boss doesn't let you take vacation that's in your employment agreement...you get to give notice and find a better job. No laws to cover up the ouch of bad management. If a company hires idiots who makes them bleed talent, that fixes itself. From what you're telling me, you can hire all the martinets you want and their stupidity is masked by the laws. That's not an improvement over what we've got here. Incidently, I get 25 days a year between vacations and fixed holidays, a pension 401k, and reasonable and cheap health insurance through my employer. Don't believe the propaganda. If it were true, no one would want to come here.
Your link is about Mueller. I said nothing about Mueller. I said the scandal is DOJ surveillance Page in the first place. Page could very well argue that evidence collected against him from the wiretapping is inadmissible without running afoul of what your link says.
IANAL but a denial delivered to the press in general and to the FBI in particular would indicate that you're not going to get what you need volunteered to you, so you need a warrant. If you're the one who's forced the denial to happen, and then use it to back up the need for the warrant, then that might not be kosher.
So like I said...that part's not as bad as Nunes pumped it up to be, but the Dems aren't exactly knocking it out of the park in the other direction from what I see. The next point is noted somewhere down below which is McCabe's testimony that the dossier is what sealed the deal for the DOJ to ask for the warrant to start with.
Is any subsequent investigation of Page fruit from a poison tree? I'd say no.
If I were playing devil's advocate, I might press against that point. If Page's letter is dated Sept 25 in reply to a published news article dated Sept 23, then you could make the case the letter and the article are one and the same. Meaning Steele leaked, and Page denied once in public and once in the letter. We'd need the full FISA filing to understanding the reasoning for seeking the warrant and the extent to which public denials triggered by the leak that wasn't known to originate from the dossier was an argument in favor of the warrant.
And I could also argue that until the FBI discovered Steele was the leeker and cut him loose, their implicit trust of him made him leaking tantamount to the FBI leaking. That's a stretch but not a huge stretch. Would need more information to put it in context.
So it's not quite as bad as Nunes played it up to be, but it's not clear from this rebuttal that the DOJ is completely in the clear either.
Russia stands to gain when Americans are bickering amongst themselves. I'd say it's in their interest for us to keep tearing eachother a new one over it as it is in the Dems letting up. Winski-Winski, comrades!
It might have also made a difference if we had any new information in there. The fact that the FBI included paid-for oppo research for a FISA warrant is the potential scandal, not the and level of overtness in the filing.
Further: Even if they included Page's response to Steele's leaks published by Yahoo instead of using the Yahoo to corroborate Steele ( someone RTFM for me...is that part of the GOP claim rebutted?) that's still smells like fruit of the forbidden tree to me. If the cops are investigating you for something and leak to the press that you've done all sorts of crazy shit, then use your public denials as grounds for a warrant to search your house...that wouldn't hold water at trial, would it?
And just to be clear: Manafort and the rest of them are a sleezes who deserve what's coming to them, but it doesn't excuse the FBI operating outside the law to get at them.
Maybe all parties are lying or maybe none of them are.
It's entirely possible for the place to be a complete frat house all around: men grabbing at women, SJWs pissing on normal people, HR treating all complaints as grounds for terminating the complainer, and upper management adrift in the clouds making high-minded paeans to whatever gods they believe themselves to be the Earthly manifestations of.
I had a friend who used to work at an East Coast Google office a while back. He quit after a few years because his direct supervisor wouldn't let him take any vacation. He also loved his coworkers and the camaraderie of his peers.
They're what poorly designed communication infrastructures use to communicates with aircrafts, watercrafts, spacecrafts, and on the winter solstices, with wirchcrafts.
Is it something you introduce to small children as a prelude to teaching them to read and write? Seems like a waste of megabytes in/usr/share/fonts to have all those glyphs on your system when you can just give them paper and purple crayon.
Math isn't for everyone, which is why the math requirement stops at rudimentary algebra and geometry. No state in the union requires differential or integral calculus or complex analysis for graduation.
English isn't for everyone, which is why the English requirements stop at a few classic authors and the rudiments of a five paragraph essay. I went to a pretty good school and took AP English Lit and English Comp and the longest essay I ever had to write in high school was ten pages, 12 point font, 1 inch margins, double-spaced.
Government isn't for everyone either, which is why we stop at basic civics and don't make kids delve into the arcana of Constitutional case law in their federal court district as distinct from the 9th circuit as opposed to nationwide.
Biology isn't for everyone which is why we only make people take a single class instead of writing a doctoral dissertation to graduate. Ditto for chemistry, physics, and just about everything else.
Good schools are distinguished from bad schools by their optional higher-level offerings and by the percentage of students who avail themselves of it. Nowhere but in one-percenter private school land are those numbers anywhere near 100%.
Computer programming as taught at the AP CS level is roughly equivalent to a 100-level CS course at any reputable university. Most math classes at the 100 level are differential calculus, calculus-based physics....you get the idea. It's past the point of general education and in the regime of specialized training.
Hard to say without numbers, but I will make the observation that most of the European population is concentrated in cities to a level the US population is not.
Fact 1: Roughly half the US murder rate is attributable to big cities comprising about 20% of the total population. The rest of the country is about as safe as Europe in terms of murder rate per capita. Sources:
That violent population is one problem, and it's probably got more to do with economics and culture than it does with violent movies and video games. Maybe.
What's going on with the rest of the country...well like you say it's the fragile people who get pushed over the edge one way or another. Same as it is in every other country since we're talking about comparable rates of crime. So instead of piling on Trump and Pence because they've got 'R' next to their name, maybe we think about whether there is something to this thing that violent imagery sets of inherently violent people. And it potentially screws up nonviolent people too if they aren't careful.
I'll give you an innocuous example.
I'm an only child and many of my friends when I was a child were also only children. And I watched a lot of television as a child, way more than I watch as an adult. It took me until about college to realize that siblings look like eachother and like their parents. I knew it intellectually, but having watched so much TV with artificially-constructed TV families, I didn't understand it viscerally until I saw it in real life and it clicked that TV isn't reality, and norms you see on the TV aren't reality.
So what's the point here? The point is that 1. It's a parenting thing. First and foremost. Parents shouldn't let their children bake in front of screens as a substitute for imparting social and civic values or as a substitute for education. 2. It's also a commercial thing. We do have laws about marketing at and entering into contracts with children on the grounds that children aren't fully-formed adults capable of making their own decisions. Laws at all levels of government treat that sort of commercial activity as predatory in many cases and no one bats an eye on 1A grounds because even though it doesn't say it in the Constitution, we all have a notion that children aren't fully capable of being rational actors. Actually it comes close to saying it because we have a Constitutional upper limit (but no lower limit) on federal voting age.
So what's it all add up to? Maybe there is a role for government in helping parents rein in potentially harmful influences on children. What role exactly? I don't know off the top of my head. As you say...there's a need for objective information to make an informed decision, but like all research, it'll be motivated by an anecdotal observation...namely that children are impressionable.
Maybe. But the point is it's not acceptable to fuck up users' machines and make them go through all that work to fix it.
More precisely, I don't know exactly what should be readable by all vs readable by certain groups vs readable by root only in/usr and especially in/etc. I could very well leave my machine's private keys readable by all by mistake. That's a lot of work to track down. So I'd need to reinstall to ensure that it's all correct and I'm not leaving any holes.
I say again: It's not acceptable to make your users go through that work. And I also say again: automatically and implicitly trusting package maintainers to do the right thing is awful security policy and awful from a reliability standpoint. All updates should be tested before they are deployed. For home users this isn't practical and we have to rely on the distros to do this for us. Trust breaks down severely when fuckups like this go through and it lends credence to people who don't update their software automatically on the grounds mentioned above. This is bad when actual security fixes need to be deployed out, and it's all the more crucial for ALL software maintainers in OSS to make sure their shit works. Trust is the currency of OSS, and unlike dollars, you can't get some more by going to the bank, you have to earn it.
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I've got an 11 year old router still plugging away just fine.
A 15 year old HP printer.
A 10 year old feature phone. And a 15 year old cordless phone for the landline.
The keyboard I'm typing this on is also about 15 years old.
My parents' television is a Sony Trinitron vintage 1999 or so.
The dumb thermostat in my living room looks like it dates back to the 1960s. It's just a piece of coiled copper and a plastic cam-follower...nothing to break.
Shit that lasts is good. Shit that breaks is bad. Shit that stops working because some some genius MBA fuck found a new way to make you pay for what you've already got...just plain nope. Not gonna buy it.
It was, but culture is its own enforcement mechanism. In America, the culture (as a rule) is to work. That is to say, many salaried people don't mind working overtime. If everyone in the office is pulling 60 hour weeks on a regular basis, and they're your friends, and you get the thrill of working with people doing something hard...it's magic. You don't want to be seen as the lazy one agitating for vacations. For a workplace filled with kids fresh out of school who can go 48 hours on coffee and cigarettes...it works. Until you age out of it and look for better work.
I'm in a pretty chill workplace. Like I said I get a lot of vacation and holidays. But I like my work, and just let the vacation pile on until it runs up to the expiration limit. Holidays are more-or-less mandatory but discretionary vacation time...I can go for two years without taking a day. Because I want to.
Again...you'd have to have more information to determine one way or the other. And that brings us to the next point: this was a secret warrant. If all of this were playing out in open court...it'll fix itself with disinfecting sunshine. A lot of the concern here comes from the fact that all of this stuff is secret and being secret in a justice system meant to be skewed in favor of the accused, it is controversial and subject to extra scrutiny and concern over improper behavior. You might well be right, but surely you appreciate the concerns at play here.
The appearance of impropriety comes from the fact that the DOJ was under the direction of a political appointee from one party, the wiretap warrant was against the candidate of the opposing party motivated in part by the political operation of the party in power, all within the context of the very same political appointee appearing to downgrade a concurrent investigation into wrongdoing by the candidate from her own party running for the same office.
It all depends on the employer. Some janitors make a comfortable middle-class salary, doubly so if their spouses also work.
No one forces anyone to take any job they don't want. We have low unemployment and even in the bad old days of the great recession, millions of middle-skill and high-skill job openings went unfilled. People of all walks have had the option to pursue better working conditions but it would have required them to relocate to go after them. Many did, to their benefit. Others felt content to collect unemployment benefits.
So to answer your question...no I'm not worried.
And in America if your boss doesn't let you take vacation that's in your employment agreement...you get to give notice and find a better job. No laws to cover up the ouch of bad management. If a company hires idiots who makes them bleed talent, that fixes itself. From what you're telling me, you can hire all the martinets you want and their stupidity is masked by the laws. That's not an improvement over what we've got here. Incidently, I get 25 days a year between vacations and fixed holidays, a pension 401k, and reasonable and cheap health insurance through my employer. Don't believe the propaganda. If it were true, no one would want to come here.
Your link is about Mueller. I said nothing about Mueller. I said the scandal is DOJ surveillance Page in the first place. Page could very well argue that evidence collected against him from the wiretapping is inadmissible without running afoul of what your link says.
RightwingNutjob has been posting for over a decade. If he's a foreign shill, he must be one of them "deep cover" spooks you read about, comrade.
No come on...go the distance and make all of these an open auction. Probably requires legislative changes for that though...
IANAL but a denial delivered to the press in general and to the FBI in particular would indicate that you're not going to get what you need volunteered to you, so you need a warrant. If you're the one who's forced the denial to happen, and then use it to back up the need for the warrant, then that might not be kosher.
So like I said...that part's not as bad as Nunes pumped it up to be, but the Dems aren't exactly knocking it out of the park in the other direction from what I see. The next point is noted somewhere down below which is McCabe's testimony that the dossier is what sealed the deal for the DOJ to ask for the warrant to start with.
Is any subsequent investigation of Page fruit from a poison tree? I'd say no.
If I were playing devil's advocate, I might press against that point. If Page's letter is dated Sept 25 in reply to a published news article dated Sept 23, then you could make the case the letter and the article are one and the same. Meaning Steele leaked, and Page denied once in public and once in the letter. We'd need the full FISA filing to understanding the reasoning for seeking the warrant and the extent to which public denials triggered by the leak that wasn't known to originate from the dossier was an argument in favor of the warrant.
And I could also argue that until the FBI discovered Steele was the leeker and cut him loose, their implicit trust of him made him leaking tantamount to the FBI leaking. That's a stretch but not a huge stretch. Would need more information to put it in context.
So it's not quite as bad as Nunes played it up to be, but it's not clear from this rebuttal that the DOJ is completely in the clear either.
Russia stands to gain when Americans are bickering amongst themselves. I'd say it's in their interest for us to keep tearing eachother a new one over it as it is in the Dems letting up. Winski-Winski, comrades!
That's cute. How was he obstructing anything if he released it after one round of mutually-agreed-upon redactions?
It might have also made a difference if we had any new information in there. The fact that the FBI included paid-for oppo research for a FISA warrant is the potential scandal, not the and level of overtness in the filing.
Further: Even if they included Page's response to Steele's leaks published by Yahoo instead of using the Yahoo to corroborate Steele ( someone RTFM for me...is that part of the GOP claim rebutted?) that's still smells like fruit of the forbidden tree to me. If the cops are investigating you for something and leak to the press that you've done all sorts of crazy shit, then use your public denials as grounds for a warrant to search your house...that wouldn't hold water at trial, would it?
And just to be clear: Manafort and the rest of them are a sleezes who deserve what's coming to them, but it doesn't excuse the FBI operating outside the law to get at them.
Only one information? Why not two informations?
Maybe all parties are lying or maybe none of them are.
It's entirely possible for the place to be a complete frat house all around: men grabbing at women, SJWs pissing on normal people, HR treating all complaints as grounds for terminating the complainer, and upper management adrift in the clouds making high-minded paeans to whatever gods they believe themselves to be the Earthly manifestations of.
I had a friend who used to work at an East Coast Google office a while back. He quit after a few years because his direct supervisor wouldn't let him take any vacation. He also loved his coworkers and the camaraderie of his peers.
They're what poorly designed communication infrastructures use to communicates with aircrafts, watercrafts, spacecrafts, and on the winter solstices, with wirchcrafts.
Is it something you introduce to small children as a prelude to teaching them to read and write? Seems like a waste of megabytes in /usr/share/fonts to have all those glyphs on your system when you can just give them paper and purple crayon.
Math isn't for everyone, which is why the math requirement stops at rudimentary algebra and geometry. No state in the union requires differential or integral calculus or complex analysis for graduation.
English isn't for everyone, which is why the English requirements stop at a few classic authors and the rudiments of a five paragraph essay. I went to a pretty good school and took AP English Lit and English Comp and the longest essay I ever had to write in high school was ten pages, 12 point font, 1 inch margins, double-spaced.
Government isn't for everyone either, which is why we stop at basic civics and don't make kids delve into the arcana of Constitutional case law in their federal court district as distinct from the 9th circuit as opposed to nationwide.
Biology isn't for everyone which is why we only make people take a single class instead of writing a doctoral dissertation to graduate. Ditto for chemistry, physics, and just about everything else.
Good schools are distinguished from bad schools by their optional higher-level offerings and by the percentage of students who avail themselves of it. Nowhere but in one-percenter private school land are those numbers anywhere near 100%.
Computer programming as taught at the AP CS level is roughly equivalent to a 100-level CS course at any reputable university. Most math classes at the 100 level are differential calculus, calculus-based physics....you get the idea. It's past the point of general education and in the regime of specialized training.
Hard to say without numbers, but I will make the observation that most of the European population is concentrated in cities to a level the US population is not.
That's comedy gold.
Fact 1: Roughly half the US murder rate is attributable to big cities comprising about 20% of the total population. The rest of the country is about as safe as Europe in terms of murder rate per capita. Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate#By_country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate
That violent population is one problem, and it's probably got more to do with economics and culture than it does with violent movies and video games. Maybe.
What's going on with the rest of the country...well like you say it's the fragile people who get pushed over the edge one way or another. Same as it is in every other country since we're talking about comparable rates of crime. So instead of piling on Trump and Pence because they've got 'R' next to their name, maybe we think about whether there is something to this thing that violent imagery sets of inherently violent people. And it potentially screws up nonviolent people too if they aren't careful.
I'll give you an innocuous example.
I'm an only child and many of my friends when I was a child were also only children. And I watched a lot of television as a child, way more than I watch as an adult. It took me until about college to realize that siblings look like eachother and like their parents. I knew it intellectually, but having watched so much TV with artificially-constructed TV families, I didn't understand it viscerally until I saw it in real life and it clicked that TV isn't reality, and norms you see on the TV aren't reality.
So what's the point here? The point is that
1. It's a parenting thing. First and foremost. Parents shouldn't let their children bake in front of screens as a substitute for imparting social and civic values or as a substitute for education.
2. It's also a commercial thing. We do have laws about marketing at and entering into contracts with children on the grounds that children aren't fully-formed adults capable of making their own decisions. Laws at all levels of government treat that sort of commercial activity as predatory in many cases and no one bats an eye on 1A grounds because even though it doesn't say it in the Constitution, we all have a notion that children aren't fully capable of being rational actors. Actually it comes close to saying it because we have a Constitutional upper limit (but no lower limit) on federal voting age.
So what's it all add up to? Maybe there is a role for government in helping parents rein in potentially harmful influences on children. What role exactly? I don't know off the top of my head. As you say...there's a need for objective information to make an informed decision, but like all research, it'll be motivated by an anecdotal observation...namely that children are impressionable.
Maybe. But the point is it's not acceptable to fuck up users' machines and make them go through all that work to fix it.
/usr and especially in /etc. I could very well leave my machine's private keys readable by all by mistake. That's a lot of work to track down. So I'd need to reinstall to ensure that it's all correct and I'm not leaving any holes.
More precisely, I don't know exactly what should be readable by all vs readable by certain groups vs readable by root only in
I say again: It's not acceptable to make your users go through that work. And I also say again: automatically and implicitly trusting package maintainers to do the right thing is awful security policy and awful from a reliability standpoint. All updates should be tested before they are deployed. For home users this isn't practical and we have to rely on the distros to do this for us. Trust breaks down severely when fuckups like this go through and it lends credence to people who don't update their software automatically on the grounds mentioned above. This is bad when actual security fixes need to be deployed out, and it's all the more crucial for ALL software maintainers in OSS to make sure their shit works. Trust is the currency of OSS, and unlike dollars, you can't get some more by going to the bank, you have to earn it.
I'm guessing 'ownership' is too racist, capitalist, and phalocentric to be a valid concept in filesystem design form much longer.
Quite so. That's why email will always be king for workplace communication.