why do musicians and actors think they deserve CONTINUAL PAYMENTS after WORK HAS STOPPED??
I write software but I get paid a salary, as do most of us. I don't get a cut of the action. why are some people more special than others?
this is one of the reasons why I stopped caring about many 'laws'. they are null and void since they are bought and paid for by SIGs. they don't represent overall justice or fairness; and since the legal system stopped caring about me, I stopped caring about IT!
and finally, rich guys feel they can get away with anything, even murder. and so, since there are so many classes of privilege, this also shows me that the laws are null and void and its a free-for-all out there. it really is, sad to say. if you don't take, someone else will. I hate that, but its how it is.
there is surely some way that GREAT set of laws could be applied, here.
oblig: fuck the NSA. traitors to the american public. creating software bombs, knowing full well that 'the other bad guys' will soon have those same software bombs. the NSA has enough smart people that they should have KNOWN BETTER. they still act against the people they claim they are here to protect.
abolish the cia, nsa and all other spy agencies. they don't help us, and in fact, actually cost us money and perhaps more;(
no, it should NOT be on a per-state basis. why do you think some states 'deserve' privacy and others do not?
no PERSON would want to give away their privacy. any fails on net-neutrality or privacy is solely due to politicians collecing kickbacks when they sell us all out. they stopped representing us a long time ago.
no, basic human rights (of which privacy IS one) should not be sold out based on which state (and more so, which color your state is) you are in.
if you think states should decide this, maybe you also think states should allow slavery again? or that child labor is 'ok' in some states.
some things should be national. human rights and quality of life issues are NOT state-specific!
oh, and fuck trump and his GOP 'screw everyone but the rich' agenda. impeachment can't come soon enough for that orange idiot.
what I suggest is a way to enforce the current rules, which are 100% ignored.
how can we do this? start a 'secret shopper' program. you know, stores have fake customers that work for management and they check on the employees to see if they are following rules and treating customers correctly.
do the same for the h1b farce. the US government should hire a bunch of out-of-work americans who have decent resumes, decent experience and SHOULD be hirable, but they - for 'some reason' - are not. give them jobs checking up on the companies who are abusing h1b rules!
you'd have definite proof of them breaking the rules; if enough of your skilled secret interviewers are turned away, likely there is something there to be checked on and maybe some nice juicy fines or even jail time for the execs!
oh, how I'd love to be part of that! I've been on the 'train your replacement' side more than once and so I'd love to get some revenge and teach those SOB companies a lesson they won't soon forget.
if you don't have a program like this, you won't catch the offenders.
the fact that we don't have this means we were never serious about stopping this abuse. its just that simple.
I was out of work for long stretches of time, during my recent past. I have felt the pain of the rich assholes who want a 2nd yacht and refuse to hire locals for available jobs. I would work that secret shopper job knowing that I'm directly helping restore some sanity and balance to the tech employment world.
(maybe someone with some power to get things done will read this and think a little bit about it.)
they tried the Curie chip but it was a flop. arduino101 has no sales, no projects and the intel 'stack' is very nonstandard and has no traction with devels.
their expensive boards were a yawn. good technically but WAY overpriced and, given intel's history, not trustable to be around for very long.
I DEMAND AN 'UPDATE STORY' and also SHELF SPARES to be kept around at the vendor side for years. if not, then I have no faith in your 'platform'.
intel needs to be broken up, like the old phone company. companies -can- be too big and intel is now one of them.
fwiw, the 'blue pill' is the next big thing and intel lost out, entirely. you can pay well over $100 or you can pay $2. I know what I would do;)
no fucking way! I forget the specifics but it wanted WAY too much privs for just a stupid chat app. we use slack at work and I'd like to be tied in (its a startup and it would be helpful to have a fast way to hear the broadcasts and multicasts that happen on the 'channels'); but I just won't give in to apps that demand stupidly excessive privs.
I can use the website version.
oh and that reminds me, their web programmers are brain-dead, too. I use an old version of firefox (before they lost their way; and yes, its old but it WORKS and my plugins and the browser are locked in 'apt-mark hold' mode so they won't update on me) and about a month ago, I got a reject message from them saying my browser was 'too old' and would not work; asking me to upgrade. I will not upgrade for such a stupid reason! I installed a user-agent selector so I can fake-out any website that asks for my 'version'. guess what - yes, its back to working again. no issues, no problems, and my browser is still the good old version I've configured and love. their 'demands' for a new browser was stupid and bogus.
that's 2 strikes against them. I don't really love this company from what I've personally seen from their work-products. shame that we are stuck using their crap at work. I can't convince the powers that be to switch to an open source irc/usenet/etc system. sigh...;(
can someone (ideally someone over 40 who actually remembers text-based usenet, and not the binary stuff, but real people using it for real communication) explain WHY slack is a 'thing'?
we have it at work. we refuse to pay for it and history scrolls away, held hostage, essentially. we discuss things that should be saved for later (why did this feature get added? why was that bug such a big problem and what was the fix? company stuff that is useful to have for future searches by newhires). and yet, we allow it to scroll off the end of our free version, I've recommended we dump this crap and go with good old NNTP and people can use any choice of newsreader they want. nothing goes outside our network, no one yanks history away and no one says 'no!' to us when we run our own nntp server.
so what's the push-back? you millennials - can you, perhaps, explain why there has to be 'chat apps' when we've had standards based ones (including IRC) for decades, now?
a republican concept; deny regular people any rights, keep them in fear of big corps and slowly erode what little rights they have left.
BIG BUSINESS is all that matters to them.
and they forget that the other half of the population is NOT in the business ownership 'club' and does not benefit from the 'give the ruling class everything they ask for, and more shit.
did you notice only D's were fighting this?
no, both sides are not equally bad. not by a long shot.
no DA is upstanding. the power of the office ruins them all. can't be avoided. its a problem.
but he probably felt that if HE got found out, later on, it would go worse for him.
ie, he did it out of fear for his own safety/job. nothing else. I assure you, that's all that motivates this kind of person. doing the right thing is not even in their vocabulary. they, just like sociopathic ceo's, JUST WANT TO WIN. at. any. cost.
I have a vzn phone (lg g2, vzn special version) but I use it on tmobile, its rooted and the vzn version is better since it has qi charging and the non-vzn version does not!
csb time: I used to work at cisco in the US and a friend who worked at cisco in.de told me that they disclose to their german employees the kinds of wiretapping they do (mgmt) to their employees. mgmt can turn on the webcam and mic at any time, do screen captures, enable keylogging, lots of things. all cisco laptops from corp IT come baked-in with corp spyware. not to worry, ALL big corps do this, now, and they bake-in fake certs so that you authenticate with the corp firewall even when you get a 'lock icon' on your ssl browser.
the only diff is: the US managers are not allowed to say all this and the german mgrs have to disclose it. the only way I, a US employee, knew about this is that I was friends with someone who did get told this, who lives in.de.
they most certainly log and do bad things; just like the US does. but their people, at least, are TOLD about this.
we need to make them really work, to the point of being overloaded.
imagine if 10,000 people showed up and were 'violent enough' (not that I even believe this crap) to get their phones stolen. yes, stolen, not 'seized'. and they put nothing but encrypted random bytes on it.
the so-called authorities would spend man-years trying to get nothing.
imagine if it was 100k or 1M people.
the ultimate DOS of the feds that no longer work for us, but seem to be a rogue arm of the government.
it would bring a big smile to my face to imagine them trying to decrypt pure randomness.
basically, we have to make it too expensive for them to keep doing this shit to the population.
problem is: the US has lost its ability to really rebel against its own illegal government. we don't really do much in the way of protesting, and the gov guys do all they can to scare us into NOT doing this. and most people are easily controlled by fear (understandably so). so this would not really happen in the current climate. we are not hungry enough to really rebel as a whole, yet. maybe it will get to that point, though. trend surely shows that direction.
Slashdot Mirror
maybe its worth looking into..
my thought exactly.
why do musicians and actors think they deserve CONTINUAL PAYMENTS after WORK HAS STOPPED??
I write software but I get paid a salary, as do most of us. I don't get a cut of the action. why are some people more special than others?
this is one of the reasons why I stopped caring about many 'laws'. they are null and void since they are bought and paid for by SIGs. they don't represent overall justice or fairness; and since the legal system stopped caring about me, I stopped caring about IT!
and finally, rich guys feel they can get away with anything, even murder. and so, since there are so many classes of privilege, this also shows me that the laws are null and void and its a free-for-all out there. it really is, sad to say. if you don't take, someone else will. I hate that, but its how it is.
intel tried iot with the curie chip, too.
http://www.mouser.com/ProductD...
$20 for a failure of a chip. no one uses it. it has bugs and its internal features are not really competitive (or even functional, in some cases!)
they made a tv show from it, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... but since it was not a success, they canceled season2 and there won't be any more.
intel does not have the right people for this area. and they let go anyone who DID have a clue ;(
oh, intel. sigh..
a power button was too much to ask for, though, it seems ;(
and usb/ethernet is still broken-by-design.
after all these years, still no sata, either.
feh.
can you selectively deny some updates?
anything with forced updates is not something I would want to own or buy, especially a car!
What law did they break?
interstate commerce.
there is surely some way that GREAT set of laws could be applied, here.
oblig: fuck the NSA. traitors to the american public. creating software bombs, knowing full well that 'the other bad guys' will soon have those same software bombs. the NSA has enough smart people that they should have KNOWN BETTER. they still act against the people they claim they are here to protect.
abolish the cia, nsa and all other spy agencies. they don't help us, and in fact, actually cost us money and perhaps more ;(
no, it should NOT be on a per-state basis. why do you think some states 'deserve' privacy and others do not?
no PERSON would want to give away their privacy. any fails on net-neutrality or privacy is solely due to politicians collecing kickbacks when they sell us all out. they stopped representing us a long time ago.
no, basic human rights (of which privacy IS one) should not be sold out based on which state (and more so, which color your state is) you are in.
if you think states should decide this, maybe you also think states should allow slavery again? or that child labor is 'ok' in some states.
some things should be national. human rights and quality of life issues are NOT state-specific!
oh, and fuck trump and his GOP 'screw everyone but the rich' agenda. impeachment can't come soon enough for that orange idiot.
what I suggest is a way to enforce the current rules, which are 100% ignored.
how can we do this? start a 'secret shopper' program. you know, stores have fake customers that work for management and they check on the employees to see if they are following rules and treating customers correctly.
do the same for the h1b farce. the US government should hire a bunch of out-of-work americans who have decent resumes, decent experience and SHOULD be hirable, but they - for 'some reason' - are not. give them jobs checking up on the companies who are abusing h1b rules!
you'd have definite proof of them breaking the rules; if enough of your skilled secret interviewers are turned away, likely there is something there to be checked on and maybe some nice juicy fines or even jail time for the execs!
oh, how I'd love to be part of that! I've been on the 'train your replacement' side more than once and so I'd love to get some revenge and teach those SOB companies a lesson they won't soon forget.
if you don't have a program like this, you won't catch the offenders.
the fact that we don't have this means we were never serious about stopping this abuse. its just that simple.
I was out of work for long stretches of time, during my recent past. I have felt the pain of the rich assholes who want a 2nd yacht and refuse to hire locals for available jobs. I would work that secret shopper job knowing that I'm directly helping restore some sanity and balance to the tech employment world.
(maybe someone with some power to get things done will read this and think a little bit about it.)
they tried the Curie chip but it was a flop. arduino101 has no sales, no projects and the intel 'stack' is very nonstandard and has no traction with devels.
their expensive boards were a yawn. good technically but WAY overpriced and, given intel's history, not trustable to be around for very long.
I DEMAND AN 'UPDATE STORY' and also SHELF SPARES to be kept around at the vendor side for years. if not, then I have no faith in your 'platform'.
intel needs to be broken up, like the old phone company. companies -can- be too big and intel is now one of them.
fwiw, the 'blue pill' is the next big thing and intel lost out, entirely. you can pay well over $100 or you can pay $2. I know what I would do ;)
the kinds of privs the app demands.
no fucking way! I forget the specifics but it wanted WAY too much privs for just a stupid chat app. we use slack at work and I'd like to be tied in (its a startup and it would be helpful to have a fast way to hear the broadcasts and multicasts that happen on the 'channels'); but I just won't give in to apps that demand stupidly excessive privs.
I can use the website version.
oh and that reminds me, their web programmers are brain-dead, too. I use an old version of firefox (before they lost their way; and yes, its old but it WORKS and my plugins and the browser are locked in 'apt-mark hold' mode so they won't update on me) and about a month ago, I got a reject message from them saying my browser was 'too old' and would not work; asking me to upgrade. I will not upgrade for such a stupid reason! I installed a user-agent selector so I can fake-out any website that asks for my 'version'. guess what - yes, its back to working again. no issues, no problems, and my browser is still the good old version I've configured and love. their 'demands' for a new browser was stupid and bogus.
that's 2 strikes against them. I don't really love this company from what I've personally seen from their work-products. shame that we are stuck using their crap at work. I can't convince the powers that be to switch to an open source irc/usenet/etc system. sigh... ;(
can someone (ideally someone over 40 who actually remembers text-based usenet, and not the binary stuff, but real people using it for real communication) explain WHY slack is a 'thing'?
we have it at work. we refuse to pay for it and history scrolls away, held hostage, essentially. we discuss things that should be saved for later (why did this feature get added? why was that bug such a big problem and what was the fix? company stuff that is useful to have for future searches by newhires). and yet, we allow it to scroll off the end of our free version, I've recommended we dump this crap and go with good old NNTP and people can use any choice of newsreader they want. nothing goes outside our network, no one yanks history away and no one says 'no!' to us when we run our own nntp server.
so what's the push-back? you millennials - can you, perhaps, explain why there has to be 'chat apps' when we've had standards based ones (including IRC) for decades, now?
a republican concept; deny regular people any rights, keep them in fear of big corps and slowly erode what little rights they have left.
BIG BUSINESS is all that matters to them.
and they forget that the other half of the population is NOT in the business ownership 'club' and does not benefit from the 'give the ruling class everything they ask for, and more shit.
did you notice only D's were fighting this?
no, both sides are not equally bad. not by a long shot.
every R will call this 'socialism'.
the dog whistle will blow, count on it.
trump hates lithium batteries.
"make alkalines great again"!
"I like the smell of milpitas in the morning. smells like ... cisco!"
no DA is upstanding. the power of the office ruins them all. can't be avoided. its a problem.
but he probably felt that if HE got found out, later on, it would go worse for him.
ie, he did it out of fear for his own safety/job. nothing else. I assure you, that's all that motivates this kind of person. doing the right thing is not even in their vocabulary. they, just like sociopathic ceo's, JUST WANT TO WIN. at. any. cost.
Does it really matter to you whether you get ripped off by a foreigner or a domestic leech?
it doesn't matter where he grips it; its a matter of weight ratios.
(oh, wait...)
in fact, the BK commercial helps find idiots.
you know, those dumb enough to allow an always-listening spy device in your house.
its good that these people get identified, actually.
not BK. google is being trolled and they don't like it.
its hurting big G's widdle feelings.
HAHAHA
too fucking bad, big G. you want to keep adding to the block list? you want to fight that war? really?
just too funny!
there's a limited amount of pain that a foreign entity or a US corp entity could do to me.
otoh, the US gov can do a LOT of damage to its own people.
I worry more about our own spying and malware delivery (btw, what would our founding fathers think about THAT?) than from sources outside the US.
the terrorists to worry the most about: our own government
and not the elected ones. its the ones that we don't elect that are above the law, those are what I would be the most concerned about.
they continue to be untouchable and you can't sue them or stop them.
damn.
the very definition of 'southern hospitality'. you have no right to know the laws we can use AGAINST you if you anger us.
oblig: bless their hearts.
I have a vzn phone (lg g2, vzn special version) but I use it on tmobile, its rooted and the vzn version is better since it has qi charging and the non-vzn version does not!
germans ARE allowed to monitor.
csb time: I used to work at cisco in the US and a friend who worked at cisco in .de told me that they disclose to their german employees the kinds of wiretapping they do (mgmt) to their employees. mgmt can turn on the webcam and mic at any time, do screen captures, enable keylogging, lots of things. all cisco laptops from corp IT come baked-in with corp spyware. not to worry, ALL big corps do this, now, and they bake-in fake certs so that you authenticate with the corp firewall even when you get a 'lock icon' on your ssl browser.
the only diff is: the US managers are not allowed to say all this and the german mgrs have to disclose it. the only way I, a US employee, knew about this is that I was friends with someone who did get told this, who lives in .de.
they most certainly log and do bad things; just like the US does. but their people, at least, are TOLD about this.
at the very least, a mate or cinnamon desktop.
those fucking stoopid ubuntu term window scrollbars. dammit. after all these years, they still continue to force that on users. damn.
we need to make them really work, to the point of being overloaded.
imagine if 10,000 people showed up and were 'violent enough' (not that I even believe this crap) to get their phones stolen. yes, stolen, not 'seized'. and they put nothing but encrypted random bytes on it.
the so-called authorities would spend man-years trying to get nothing.
imagine if it was 100k or 1M people.
the ultimate DOS of the feds that no longer work for us, but seem to be a rogue arm of the government.
it would bring a big smile to my face to imagine them trying to decrypt pure randomness.
basically, we have to make it too expensive for them to keep doing this shit to the population.
problem is: the US has lost its ability to really rebel against its own illegal government. we don't really do much in the way of protesting, and the gov guys do all they can to scare us into NOT doing this. and most people are easily controlled by fear (understandably so). so this would not really happen in the current climate. we are not hungry enough to really rebel as a whole, yet. maybe it will get to that point, though. trend surely shows that direction.