good luck with that. the R's are now in power and any kind of 'government agency' that does work for The People will get axed and/or have their budgets cut to where they are castrated and can't get anything useful done.
regulation is a bad word for the R guys. they fail to see that it PROTECTS us. but nooooo. they want to keep selling us fake protection from boggeymen in semi-dark skins who live thousands of miles away and generally are harmless to us.
yeah right. trump, THE corporate whore is going to fight against his own kind.
and pigs will fly, soon, too.
I'd expect clinton to fight business greed more than a REPUBLICAN who is ONLY a rich fucker and has no skills other than inheriting a lot and failing, constantly.
4) create a secret shopper program where well-qualified 'testers' apply for jobs and if they are turned down, an OFFICIAL (and expensive, if the company is found to be fraudulently rejecting locals) investigation would occur. one that has PUBLIC RESULTS POSTED for anyone to see. public shaming, big-time, for violators.
without a secret shopper program, there's no good way to keep the fucking companies honest. they'll continue to pay lawyers to find loopholes. but if they are publicly shamed, they'll stop. guaranteed!
I worked at sun for about 5 years and was let go when oracle bought sun.
I worked at the menlo park main campus. I am older than 50 and I'm white. during my 5 years there, I got good reviews and was the main guy for one of the products (software) that ships on sun servers.
all you have to do is walk around the outside of any major silicon valley campus and you'll see the same thing over and over. yes, its mostly indian and we all know this, even though the media does not want to outright say it.
and I'm 90% certain that I was let go because all the rest of my group was indian and I was making a good salary there.
it happens to me at almost every place I'm at, these days. the inevitable firing when the numbers from the company go downward and they need a quick 'profit boost' by letting go of the senior and well-paid engineers. this rarely happens to the indians, though.
why do you think the D's want to keep the poor in their place?
I'm not sure I see that. the rich want to stay rich, no matter what letter they have, but there is no central principle in the D belief system that the poor should always stay poor. that just isn't true at all.
the D's have many problems, but hatred of the poor is NOT one of them. they could do a lot more to help the social situation, but at least they're not fundamentally opposed to it like the R's are.
what is a speaker and a mic? I leave both turned off on my pc. when I want to listen to music, I run a linux box that does not have a browser or normal network access enabled. and there is never a mic on a music playback system that I build or use.
I block ads and each time I read things like this article, it increases my belief that blocking ads is the right thing to do. I block incoming network connections at the firewall and nearly everyone does, too; but I find it odd that not everyone wants to fight ads as much. 'we' do, but the regular net-using populace doesn't usually care. I rarely see adblockers and noScript installed at co-workers workstations.
and because the raw web is nasty and dangerous - and because blocking is much harder on 'phones', I avoid using phone browsers. its rarely a good experience (mobile web) anyway.
there really are 2 classes of internet users. those like me (and probably you) who aggressively block this crap and those who could not care less. such a shame that people don't univerally fight back.
ads are malware. plain and simple. people really need to get hip to that fact.
republicans are kept under the illusion that 'everyone can achieve the 'american dream' of being ultra rich, but its a fallacy and there are guards (literal and figurative) in place to stop you and I from getting there.
the authoritarian belief system is very powerful and is backed by Big Religion(tm), which also basically owns the R party. funny how that works, huh?
as long as the R's keep thinking that 'its ok that people make 400x of what others make' then nothing will change. they don't believe in the ultra rich paying their fair share of the infrastructure; again, they put themselves in the place of the CEO, in their mind, and they think that if they were CEO, they'd also not want to give up any of their riches to the 'poor commoners'. its a brain disease of sorts, really. the walking retarded. the VOTING retarded!;(
no, its absurd that we allow people to get so powerful AT THE EXPENSE OF US ALL. but again, we convince our own people (or about half of them) to consistently vote against their own best interests.
REALLY bad idea. the company is fucked up. or, their leadership is, at least. I'll never touch another ftdi chip by choice, again. just search for 'ftdi gate' and you'll see the back story.
I have an L440 and its not bad, but it did come with that nutty touchpad. for $40 more, I could (and did) buy a direct replacement that had 3 real buttons. problem is, drivers for it are 'strange' and I can only access mine in a dumber mode. I never found the right win7 driver for that replaced pad. so it was actually a step backwards and while it kind of works and does look better (grin), its still not as good as if it came that way.
I have a t420is that is great. last of the real keyboards, had good port assortment and a useable 3button touchpad. since it was a current model, thru today, I only had to replace the dud fan/heatsink, and that was a $20 part from ebay and about 2 hours of time to get the tech ref manual and undo about 100 screws to get to it (sigh). after that, its good as new and good for another few years.
when I was buying tv's a few years ago, the only models in the size I wanted were 'smart'.
ok, no big deal. just don't give it a wifi access and don't ever let it on the net.
simple. mine is still using factory firmware (which has bugs but the cure is worse, I'm told) and it won't ever be upgraded.
it just runs hdmi from my htpc and that's that. I don't have cable/etc - I download what I want and watch it on the pc. bonus that the vizio sets would support 1080p@120hz and my intel skylake chip also supports native 120hz out of hdmi (you MUST have a tv that is 1.4b hdmi or better or it won't see all the 'lanes' on the hdmi cable, essentially, and you will be limited to 60hz).
but back to the smart tv stuff: the more this happens, the smarter WE (the consumers) will eventually get. right now, too many people trust their vendor and that's a big mistake. eventually we'll all learn NOT to enable 'teh shiney!' and just use the basic features without letting it go online.
they not could care less if this works, if its possible or what.
the purpose: to show 'the flock' that they are doing something. and that they are 'righteous'.
its pandering. that's ALL it is. some (most?) of the lawmakers are not truly THAT stupid to think this idea will work; but its the notion that 'we want this to be a puritanical xtian nation' that they want to impress upon their conservatives. and lets face it, most of the deep south is deeply conservative and will do anything to 'stigginit' to the libs. that's how they see life. a point system, where, when you attack your enemy, each blow gets you 'points' somehow.
twisted, fucked up thinking, to be sure. but it IS how their minds are wired. from early age, they develop a brain damage that takes a lot of effort to overcome. those that overcome it, MOVE OUT OF THE SOUTH. those that stay, are saying they approve of this kind of thinking.
so, again, it does not matter if this plan works as-stated. its never been about what its stated, its the unspoken hint-hint, nudge-nudge, we're stigginit to the libs and showing them who's boss. that's pretty much the long and short of it.
I hate the south. I hate everything they stand for. I'd never live there even if you paid me 10x my current decent bay area salary. the derpitude would be intolerable to me.
the difference between them and me: I'm fine with them being their own way, stuck in the past, unable to think for themselves. fine. they can be any way they want. but what they want is that EVERYONE follows their path. and that's just plain anti-american and anti-freedom. its why I hate the south so much. I don't want them to be hurt or attacked, but I simply want no part of their thinking or lifestyle. wish they could give the same back, but they simply are not able.
republicans will TRY. they hate it when people enjoy themselves in ways that they dont, personally, condone. "stop liking what I don't like!" is their theme.
otoh, republicans LOVE money. and no one can argue about how well colorado and washington are doing, tax-wise, from all the money coming in from 'sales taxes++'.
its almost entertaining to watch. their heads must be asploding.
you are right, of course. the real agenda WAS by the rich elites to depress wages and crush the middle class just enough so that they don't totally disappear, but that they don't act as 'uppity' as they used to. put them back in their 'place'. hey, that IS their (the boss) mentality, thru and thru, and they are bold as hell now.
you can look at what is written and say the law was about that; but as you indicate, dig deeper and you see the real unwritten intention and since the ones would could punish the companies that go against the letter of this law - they are letting them get away with it, fully - it shows that it was never intended to be a literal law, anyway. it was a 'hint hint, nudge nudge' law. implied understanding of what the real purpose was.
since the regular person no longer has any meaningful say in how things are run, we sit back and are dealt one powerful blow after another, against us. the courts don't defend or care about us, the enforcers don't care and the rule-makers are in the pockets of those that want to remain rich - even get richer than they would ever need to be.
we hear talk of a need for a revolution. and we truly need it. but we won't get it. we are stripped of our power in all real ways. they know it and many of us know it, too.
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near me in san jose, there is an avaya stadium.
pure wasted money. pure ego.
and now, they want to go bankrupt and leave their creditors high and dry?
sounds so republican. given today's climate, I bet they'll be just fine once they dump their debt, fuck over everyone and continue on.
sigh...
But, my wife can't stand typing a 98-character curl line in order to shut off the alarm clock.
lynx works, too.
good luck with that. the R's are now in power and any kind of 'government agency' that does work for The People will get axed and/or have their budgets cut to where they are castrated and can't get anything useful done.
regulation is a bad word for the R guys. they fail to see that it PROTECTS us. but nooooo. they want to keep selling us fake protection from boggeymen in semi-dark skins who live thousands of miles away and generally are harmless to us.
yeah right. trump, THE corporate whore is going to fight against his own kind.
and pigs will fly, soon, too.
I'd expect clinton to fight business greed more than a REPUBLICAN who is ONLY a rich fucker and has no skills other than inheriting a lot and failing, constantly.
4) create a secret shopper program where well-qualified 'testers' apply for jobs and if they are turned down, an OFFICIAL (and expensive, if the company is found to be fraudulently rejecting locals) investigation would occur. one that has PUBLIC RESULTS POSTED for anyone to see. public shaming, big-time, for violators.
without a secret shopper program, there's no good way to keep the fucking companies honest. they'll continue to pay lawyers to find loopholes. but if they are publicly shamed, they'll stop. guaranteed!
and after seeing the shithole that is most of india, the extreme corruption (that makes the US look like saints) they'll be back in a flash.
bring it on! the sooner they experience this, the better.
I worked at sun for about 5 years and was let go when oracle bought sun.
I worked at the menlo park main campus. I am older than 50 and I'm white. during my 5 years there, I got good reviews and was the main guy for one of the products (software) that ships on sun servers.
all you have to do is walk around the outside of any major silicon valley campus and you'll see the same thing over and over. yes, its mostly indian and we all know this, even though the media does not want to outright say it.
and I'm 90% certain that I was let go because all the rest of my group was indian and I was making a good salary there.
it happens to me at almost every place I'm at, these days. the inevitable firing when the numbers from the company go downward and they need a quick 'profit boost' by letting go of the senior and well-paid engineers. this rarely happens to the indians, though.
and then, in the era of Ian, ubuntu turned against The Lord and Mint was created. and there was much rejoicing (yay...)
there was a time, more than 20 years ago, when slash was very liberal.
now, we're invaded by the conservatives and any post that tried to further the progressive belief system gets modded down.
what a shame that we have been infiltrated like this. as a technology-based and focused site, we historically were open minded THINKERS, here.
shame that we got invaded by the faux news crowd. ;(
why do you think the D's want to keep the poor in their place?
I'm not sure I see that. the rich want to stay rich, no matter what letter they have, but there is no central principle in the D belief system that the poor should always stay poor. that just isn't true at all.
the D's have many problems, but hatred of the poor is NOT one of them. they could do a lot more to help the social situation, but at least they're not fundamentally opposed to it like the R's are.
what is a speaker and a mic? I leave both turned off on my pc. when I want to listen to music, I run a linux box that does not have a browser or normal network access enabled. and there is never a mic on a music playback system that I build or use.
I block ads and each time I read things like this article, it increases my belief that blocking ads is the right thing to do. I block incoming network connections at the firewall and nearly everyone does, too; but I find it odd that not everyone wants to fight ads as much. 'we' do, but the regular net-using populace doesn't usually care. I rarely see adblockers and noScript installed at co-workers workstations.
and because the raw web is nasty and dangerous - and because blocking is much harder on 'phones', I avoid using phone browsers. its rarely a good experience (mobile web) anyway.
there really are 2 classes of internet users. those like me (and probably you) who aggressively block this crap and those who could not care less. such a shame that people don't univerally fight back.
ads are malware. plain and simple. people really need to get hip to that fact.
republicans are kept under the illusion that 'everyone can achieve the 'american dream' of being ultra rich, but its a fallacy and there are guards (literal and figurative) in place to stop you and I from getting there.
the authoritarian belief system is very powerful and is backed by Big Religion(tm), which also basically owns the R party. funny how that works, huh?
as long as the R's keep thinking that 'its ok that people make 400x of what others make' then nothing will change. they don't believe in the ultra rich paying their fair share of the infrastructure; again, they put themselves in the place of the CEO, in their mind, and they think that if they were CEO, they'd also not want to give up any of their riches to the 'poor commoners'. its a brain disease of sorts, really. the walking retarded. the VOTING retarded! ;(
no, its absurd that we allow people to get so powerful AT THE EXPENSE OF US ALL. but again, we convince our own people (or about half of them) to consistently vote against their own best interests.
REALLY bad idea. the company is fucked up. or, their leadership is, at least. I'll never touch another ftdi chip by choice, again. just search for 'ftdi gate' and you'll see the back story.
probably a western digital circle, too, with variable rpm!
modern intel cpus are very low power. its amazing, my last gen i7 is a 35w fanless mini-itx box.
his backers just wanted something to change.
they will probably get their wish. sort of.
"These are simple people -- the salt of the earth -- you know, morons."
gonna be an interesting 4 years (sigh).
I have an L440 and its not bad, but it did come with that nutty touchpad. for $40 more, I could (and did) buy a direct replacement that had 3 real buttons. problem is, drivers for it are 'strange' and I can only access mine in a dumber mode. I never found the right win7 driver for that replaced pad. so it was actually a step backwards and while it kind of works and does look better (grin), its still not as good as if it came that way.
I have a t420is that is great. last of the real keyboards, had good port assortment and a useable 3button touchpad. since it was a current model, thru today, I only had to replace the dud fan/heatsink, and that was a $20 part from ebay and about 2 hours of time to get the tech ref manual and undo about 100 screws to get to it (sigh). after that, its good as new and good for another few years.
spearfish?
do you mean superfish?
(silly names, both)
when I was buying tv's a few years ago, the only models in the size I wanted were 'smart'.
ok, no big deal. just don't give it a wifi access and don't ever let it on the net.
simple. mine is still using factory firmware (which has bugs but the cure is worse, I'm told) and it won't ever be upgraded.
it just runs hdmi from my htpc and that's that. I don't have cable/etc - I download what I want and watch it on the pc. bonus that the vizio sets would support 1080p@120hz and my intel skylake chip also supports native 120hz out of hdmi (you MUST have a tv that is 1.4b hdmi or better or it won't see all the 'lanes' on the hdmi cable, essentially, and you will be limited to 60hz).
but back to the smart tv stuff: the more this happens, the smarter WE (the consumers) will eventually get. right now, too many people trust their vendor and that's a big mistake. eventually we'll all learn NOT to enable 'teh shiney!' and just use the basic features without letting it go online.
you miss the point.
they not could care less if this works, if its possible or what.
the purpose: to show 'the flock' that they are doing something. and that they are 'righteous'.
its pandering. that's ALL it is. some (most?) of the lawmakers are not truly THAT stupid to think this idea will work; but its the notion that 'we want this to be a puritanical xtian nation' that they want to impress upon their conservatives. and lets face it, most of the deep south is deeply conservative and will do anything to 'stigginit' to the libs. that's how they see life. a point system, where, when you attack your enemy, each blow gets you 'points' somehow.
twisted, fucked up thinking, to be sure. but it IS how their minds are wired. from early age, they develop a brain damage that takes a lot of effort to overcome. those that overcome it, MOVE OUT OF THE SOUTH. those that stay, are saying they approve of this kind of thinking.
so, again, it does not matter if this plan works as-stated. its never been about what its stated, its the unspoken hint-hint, nudge-nudge, we're stigginit to the libs and showing them who's boss. that's pretty much the long and short of it.
I hate the south. I hate everything they stand for. I'd never live there even if you paid me 10x my current decent bay area salary. the derpitude would be intolerable to me.
the difference between them and me: I'm fine with them being their own way, stuck in the past, unable to think for themselves. fine. they can be any way they want. but what they want is that EVERYONE follows their path. and that's just plain anti-american and anti-freedom. its why I hate the south so much. I don't want them to be hurt or attacked, but I simply want no part of their thinking or lifestyle. wish they could give the same back, but they simply are not able.
maybe they should take a course in network and system security?
(oh right. doh!)
search on mcdebian for linksys wifi router.
its real debian, with apt-get update and all that. to me, its far better than openwrt.
you use a usb thumbdrive as the root fs and you flash the os bootloader to system flash.
its not well known, but maybe it should be.
republicans will TRY. they hate it when people enjoy themselves in ways that they dont, personally, condone. "stop liking what I don't like!" is their theme.
otoh, republicans LOVE money. and no one can argue about how well colorado and washington are doing, tax-wise, from all the money coming in from 'sales taxes++'.
its almost entertaining to watch. their heads must be asploding.
sigh.
you are right, of course. the real agenda WAS by the rich elites to depress wages and crush the middle class just enough so that they don't totally disappear, but that they don't act as 'uppity' as they used to. put them back in their 'place'. hey, that IS their (the boss) mentality, thru and thru, and they are bold as hell now.
you can look at what is written and say the law was about that; but as you indicate, dig deeper and you see the real unwritten intention and since the ones would could punish the companies that go against the letter of this law - they are letting them get away with it, fully - it shows that it was never intended to be a literal law, anyway. it was a 'hint hint, nudge nudge' law. implied understanding of what the real purpose was.
since the regular person no longer has any meaningful say in how things are run, we sit back and are dealt one powerful blow after another, against us. the courts don't defend or care about us, the enforcers don't care and the rule-makers are in the pockets of those that want to remain rich - even get richer than they would ever need to be.
we hear talk of a need for a revolution. and we truly need it. but we won't get it. we are stripped of our power in all real ways. they know it and many of us know it, too.