this is corruption, pure and simple, and can happen even in the smallest of governments.
please explain why you think 'size matters' (ahem..) in this kind of situation.
human psychology kicks in, here. humans love to control and manipulate each other. stanford prisoner experiment and all that. this is what happens when you give unlimited power to ANY kind of authority figure; large, small, doesn't matter.
this is why checks and balances are so important.
sadly, we threw out the balance and we only have the check left....
who's been showing downright public support for Bernie Sanders, while being extremely busy at bashing Trump, Cruz, and more recently issuing video threats against Clinton
not sure I see a problem, here.
but, video threats; what is that? is there audio, too? in 5.1?
a flaw in your argument. custody of evidence, sort of.
lets say he has an encrypted hard drive. isn't that session-based; you unlock it, you do stuff and you have to actively lock it again. is it POSSIBLE that a person who wants to see another person falsely accused, could plant files on his system while the drive was unlocked.
"hey, mr so and so is on the phone for you downstairs. sounds important."
he goes to the phone in another room. she plants files.
who is to say?
so much is at stake. mere presence of files should not be enough to end a person's life. and that's really the end result of such a witchhunt.
his sister said so and so. yeah, well, people say things. is that enough to force someone to unlock their drive?
again, this can look a lot like swatting. someone may be pissed off at you, make wild claims and if you happen to have an encrypted filesystem, is it justice to make you share your files when there is only a person's say-so? to me that does not seem strong enough.
so, people are supposed to do anything the state says, even when it comes to incriminating themselves? isn't there supposed to be a right to NOT incriminate yourself, directly?
the state can do all it wants to get its data; but they never have the right to FORCE the defendant to provide data that will hang himself.
I don't understand this, I guess.
but I do understand the state being LIKE a child in that it WANTS and knows it WANTS and will cry cry cry until it gets what it WANTS.
does not matter if it runs roughshod over laws; it has needs and it WANTS. just like a baby.
they are meant for each other. he has the world's most punchable face (look it up, its a fact) and she, well, she's not all that far behind in that area, either.
the only time I could excuse such traitorous behavior is if you had NO other choice but to go work for the enemy.
I've been in life situations where I could not find a job (almost at that point, now, sad to say) and if I was on my last month's savings and faced homelessness, I'd do whatever I had to, to keep a roof over my head. I'm over 50 and in the software field, its now 20x as hard to get a job as it was when I was just 20 years younger. I could see myself having to take just ANYTHING to keep income flowing.
but this guy - is he like that? is he on the 'do not hire because he's too old and expensive' list? is he of the 'wrong' race for the area of country he lives in?
I kind of doubt that he's in my situation, having to think long and hard about taking ANY job offered, just to stay alive.
I think of people who choose to work for evil corps as traitors (google is a shining example; google steals your info and no one knows where, exactly, it ends up). anyone working for google is helping the enemy in more ways than one. and I doubt there is a single 'hard luck case' at google who HAD to take the google job just to keep a roof over his/her head. its laughable, when you think of this example.
but I do see people my age and of my race who simply will take any job offered since the job offers come only a handful of times a year, if even that, and the 'contract to perm' promise that is all the rage for my age group never pans out and we're always back on the job search in just a few month's time.
my heart goes out to people like this who have no choice.
and I dispise, deeply, those who had a choice and still chose to work for the bad guys.
until IoT runs its course, it will sustain a bunch of businesses that make connected (and spying) toys.
after enough bad things happen, the fad will die down and remote access and remote control will still be here (which is good) but hopefully the spying and datamining will stop.
that's my hope.
I like iot, but I don't like the spying and phone-homing. I DIY it so I know my own stuff isn't doing anything I didn't tell it to. most people don't DIY it, though.
future workforce is exactly the same as today's tech workforce. 90% from india, 8% from misc asia, the rest from western countries, including US born.
training US kids is just going to wast their time and money and set them up for eventual upset.
you want to fix this economy: start enforcing h1b quotas or get rid of it entirely until our OWN unemployement sinks to proper and normal levels.
until you stop the h1b abuse, everything you say about 'tech shortage' is KNOWN BULLSHIT. we don't want to hear your cries for ever cheaper indentured servants. we're so totally sick of your shit, we're ready to revolt. and unless something changes in the next cycle, there will be non-peaceful periods of time. when people are pushed to homelessness, this WILL happen.
fix it now or pay the piper later.
but don't cry to us about fake shortages, mr. rich asshole ceo!
whatsamatter? email, all of a sudden, stopped working?
sheesh!
every app is a security question: and since you almost never get source and even when you do, it may not be the actual source. why install apps that are not truly necessary?
I never understood the urge to install everything in sight. I guess I'm just old, I guess. that, or I have a reasonable understanding of security. ("why not both?")
you hit on a key issue; the fact that employment is judging you based on your 'social media' posts - that sure puts a kibosh on any desire to truly express yourself in anything that is not vanilla-tame.
we all realize that HR are bastards and will use anything they find against you. we all need jobs and most of us are not going to be company owners, so we WILL end up working for someone else, mostly the rest of our lives.
who wants to worry about being out of work due to some social media post?
the more the 'authorities' want to track us, the less we are interested in feeding their voyeurism.
I hope this fad does fade. its really boring and I'm tired of everyone always assuming you have a fb account.
I was talking to a recruiter and she mentioned an opening at fb. I told her I don't have a fb account - would that be a showstopper for working there (I assume it would be, even if not explicitly stated). she was shocked to hear this and actually asked me WHY I didn't have a fb account.
the fact that someone thought it was unusual to NOT have one, this is why I hope it dies soon. I have zero need for such things and the sooner it runs its course, the sooner we can get back to normal things again;)
schools are looking for mention of themselves, their teachers and admins.
just like UC Davis and the infamous "sergent pepper-spray" event (https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/04/15/042217/uc-davis-spent-175000-to-bury-search-results-after-cops-pepper-sprayed-protestors), the school ONLY CARES ABOUT ITSELF.
mod parent up. it IS the republicans that scream the loudest when it comes to asking them to pay their fair share of SOCIETY.
republicans are the famous "I got mine, fark you!" people. greedy, no sense of community or give-back concepts. MINE MINE MINE is all they really care about.
that and controlling what you do in your own bedroom.
and yes, I expect the paid R shills to mod me down to -1. fully expected. go R team! bury the opposition's views.
I can't support that. not ever. given what we see of the GREED of corps, the concept of a union makes so much sense, that, without it, you become SLAVES to the industry.
ask me, I know. I'm in software. we have no unions. and I've been out of work for months and months (in the past, even years at a time). there is no one to speak for me; and unions would have helped at least balance the power that the megacorps have.
no, its never a good idea to get rid of unions. corps are selfish pricks and you need to match them in-kind if you want any chance at fair working conditions.
but go ahead and blame unions. I bet you think reagan was some kind of saint, too??
yup, python 2 and 3 are a nightmare, having to worry about 2 systems that are close enough and yet not really compatible. AT THE SAME TIME! has there ever been another language that had 2 variants present at the same time, were both kept up and used? I've seen languages transition (and i know perl will be listed as an example with perl 4 and 5 being 'out there' at the same time and also incompatible for the most part). I never liked perl, btw, so I never counted it as a serious language; and yes, I realize that in days of old, perl was *the* sysadmin tool of its day, but its syntax still made me sick to my stomach)
so, the 2 versions of python is a huge problem.
and the fact that spaces are what they are in python, also a huge problem. just wait for the marketing guy to post 'helpful source' of python examples to his webserver and see the spaces get messed up; and the users will have no idea what the TRUE intenting is supposed to be! you can take every single space out of a C program (outside of quotes, of course) and reindent with no loss. pure wisdom! can't even think of doing that with python.
guido, you are a smart man, to be sure; but you are not perfect. why didn't you listen to 'us' and fix the spaces thing? would it really have caused you physical pain?
huge problem with the language. I do like python (much of it) but I'll never say the idea of spaces-being-significant was ever anything but a STOOPID idea. guido's ego would not let him ever admit it and that's his one main flaw. he will not ever admit that, on this one issue, he was 100% dead wrong.
and yes, at least twice I've had to fish python code from a text box that a marketing puke posted and yes, it was never possible to know what the blocks were supposed to be indented under. it 'compiled and ran' no matter what we did, but there was no hint as to what the real indentation should have been and its quite wrong to have the user 'figure it out' from posted source that should Just Plain Work(tm).
that's one of the key points; and you seem to have learned it first-hand.
being able to underpay is half of it; but the other half is that young and fresh on the job market means you are going to drink THEIR koolaid and its the first one you'll ever have, so you'll think their way is the right way and the only way.
companies LOVE THIS. I fully get that and understand that.
but its still wrong.
they get away with it, because they can. that's why. they know its wrong, but they have no morals. companies are like babies; they have needs, they know they want something and they cry until they get it. they are simply like babies in so many aspects.
I can see you are young. you think its about SPECIFIC SKILLS.
lol
its not. a good guy in C can get any job done, really. c++ guy, java guy, whatever. this insistance on specific domain knowledge IS THE PROBLEM!
we used to have people who knew how to code and would learn the specifics on the job. that worked and it can still work, but companies are spoiled fucking rotten and they have had too much specific selection for too long. they now only want narrow skills and you can't keep chasing that and stay employed. there are too many things that come and go for you to retrain on specifics like that and still be effective.
your view is part of the problem! you really do seem to think that its 'old skills' that is the problem. I guarantee you that even if I had the latest 'skilz' that the grads leave school with, today, that will still not be enough. I demand a salary that is higher than theirs and companies refuse to pay unless they absolutely have to. they generally talk themselves into paying younger kids, for all the reasons mentioned in all the threads, here.
its not about skills. that argument does not hold water if you have been in the industry long enough.
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this isn't 'big government'.
this is corruption, pure and simple, and can happen even in the smallest of governments.
please explain why you think 'size matters' (ahem..) in this kind of situation.
human psychology kicks in, here. humans love to control and manipulate each other. stanford prisoner experiment and all that. this is what happens when you give unlimited power to ANY kind of authority figure; large, small, doesn't matter.
this is why checks and balances are so important.
sadly, we threw out the balance and we only have the check left....
simplest answer:
they are all owned by the spymasters.
think about it. the spymasters are the ONLY ones to truly benefit from our lack of privacy and encryption.
the TLA's have all the dirt on everyone, and that includes our 'leaders'.
the government you think you have? its all for show.
good nite.
I think you're right.
in fact, it was the judean people's front all along!
who's been showing downright public support for Bernie Sanders, while being extremely busy at bashing Trump, Cruz, and more recently issuing video threats against Clinton
not sure I see a problem, here.
but, video threats; what is that? is there audio, too? in 5.1?
a flaw in your argument. custody of evidence, sort of.
lets say he has an encrypted hard drive. isn't that session-based; you unlock it, you do stuff and you have to actively lock it again. is it POSSIBLE that a person who wants to see another person falsely accused, could plant files on his system while the drive was unlocked.
"hey, mr so and so is on the phone for you downstairs. sounds important."
he goes to the phone in another room. she plants files.
who is to say?
so much is at stake. mere presence of files should not be enough to end a person's life. and that's really the end result of such a witchhunt.
his sister said so and so. yeah, well, people say things. is that enough to force someone to unlock their drive?
again, this can look a lot like swatting. someone may be pissed off at you, make wild claims and if you happen to have an encrypted filesystem, is it justice to make you share your files when there is only a person's say-so? to me that does not seem strong enough.
saw an insightful sigfile that is related to your comment.
goes something like:
"we once had a bill of rights. now, the rights are almost all gone and all that we have left is the bill."
sad to say, this pretty much nails the US 'justice' system's motives over the last few decades.
so, people are supposed to do anything the state says, even when it comes to incriminating themselves? isn't there supposed to be a right to NOT incriminate yourself, directly?
the state can do all it wants to get its data; but they never have the right to FORCE the defendant to provide data that will hang himself.
I don't understand this, I guess.
but I do understand the state being LIKE a child in that it WANTS and knows it WANTS and will cry cry cry until it gets what it WANTS.
does not matter if it runs roughshod over laws; it has needs and it WANTS. just like a baby.
they are meant for each other. he has the world's most punchable face (look it up, its a fact) and she, well, she's not all that far behind in that area, either.
the only time I could excuse such traitorous behavior is if you had NO other choice but to go work for the enemy.
I've been in life situations where I could not find a job (almost at that point, now, sad to say) and if I was on my last month's savings and faced homelessness, I'd do whatever I had to, to keep a roof over my head. I'm over 50 and in the software field, its now 20x as hard to get a job as it was when I was just 20 years younger. I could see myself having to take just ANYTHING to keep income flowing.
but this guy - is he like that? is he on the 'do not hire because he's too old and expensive' list? is he of the 'wrong' race for the area of country he lives in?
I kind of doubt that he's in my situation, having to think long and hard about taking ANY job offered, just to stay alive.
I think of people who choose to work for evil corps as traitors (google is a shining example; google steals your info and no one knows where, exactly, it ends up). anyone working for google is helping the enemy in more ways than one. and I doubt there is a single 'hard luck case' at google who HAD to take the google job just to keep a roof over his/her head. its laughable, when you think of this example.
but I do see people my age and of my race who simply will take any job offered since the job offers come only a handful of times a year, if even that, and the 'contract to perm' promise that is all the rage for my age group never pans out and we're always back on the job search in just a few month's time.
my heart goes out to people like this who have no choice.
and I dispise, deeply, those who had a choice and still chose to work for the bad guys.
until IoT runs its course, it will sustain a bunch of businesses that make connected (and spying) toys.
after enough bad things happen, the fad will die down and remote access and remote control will still be here (which is good) but hopefully the spying and datamining will stop.
that's my hope.
I like iot, but I don't like the spying and phone-homing. I DIY it so I know my own stuff isn't doing anything I didn't tell it to. most people don't DIY it, though.
WHO are you kidding??
future workforce is exactly the same as today's tech workforce. 90% from india, 8% from misc asia, the rest from western countries, including US born.
training US kids is just going to wast their time and money and set them up for eventual upset.
you want to fix this economy: start enforcing h1b quotas or get rid of it entirely until our OWN unemployement sinks to proper and normal levels.
until you stop the h1b abuse, everything you say about 'tech shortage' is KNOWN BULLSHIT. we don't want to hear your cries for ever cheaper indentured servants. we're so totally sick of your shit, we're ready to revolt. and unless something changes in the next cycle, there will be non-peaceful periods of time. when people are pushed to homelessness, this WILL happen.
fix it now or pay the piper later.
but don't cry to us about fake shortages, mr. rich asshole ceo!
yeah, some of us caught that, too.
pretty sly approach, and I bet they have pulled the wool over many eyes with this.
whatsamatter? email, all of a sudden, stopped working?
sheesh!
every app is a security question: and since you almost never get source and even when you do, it may not be the actual source. why install apps that are not truly necessary?
I never understood the urge to install everything in sight. I guess I'm just old, I guess. that, or I have a reasonable understanding of security. ("why not both?")
have you not heard? there are at least 2 benefits to marrying an ugly girl:
1) no one would steal her
and
2) if they do, WHO CARES!
you hit on a key issue; the fact that employment is judging you based on your 'social media' posts - that sure puts a kibosh on any desire to truly express yourself in anything that is not vanilla-tame.
we all realize that HR are bastards and will use anything they find against you. we all need jobs and most of us are not going to be company owners, so we WILL end up working for someone else, mostly the rest of our lives.
who wants to worry about being out of work due to some social media post?
the more the 'authorities' want to track us, the less we are interested in feeding their voyeurism.
I hope this fad does fade. its really boring and I'm tired of everyone always assuming you have a fb account.
I was talking to a recruiter and she mentioned an opening at fb. I told her I don't have a fb account - would that be a showstopper for working there (I assume it would be, even if not explicitly stated). she was shocked to hear this and actually asked me WHY I didn't have a fb account.
the fact that someone thought it was unusual to NOT have one, this is why I hope it dies soon. I have zero need for such things and the sooner it runs its course, the sooner we can get back to normal things again ;)
bay area prices, its deeply into poverty. you could not live on that, on a single income, in the bay area.
of course, like most things, numbers are meaningless without geography and multipliers or comp factors.
admirable that some figure was picked, but it should be scaled by the locale you live in.
this is the laugh of the day! your post, that is.
you are a conservative republican and yet you DARE to say that the other guys claim to be for the little guy and you make fun of them?
like, YOUR GUYS are for the little guy?
oh HAHAHAHAHA!
good one, mate.
ie, why keep giving CLAPPER more air time and press time?
he's a traitor (by many definitions of the term) and he's definitely anti-freedom and I dare say, anti-american. he's a pox upon us.
why keep giving this idiot more and more air-time?
WE SHOULD BE IGNORING HIS BULLSHIT.
you nailed it.
schools are looking for mention of themselves, their teachers and admins.
just like UC Davis and the infamous "sergent pepper-spray" event (https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/04/15/042217/uc-davis-spent-175000-to-bury-search-results-after-cops-pepper-sprayed-protestors), the school ONLY CARES ABOUT ITSELF.
mod parent up. it IS the republicans that scream the loudest when it comes to asking them to pay their fair share of SOCIETY.
republicans are the famous "I got mine, fark you!" people. greedy, no sense of community or give-back concepts. MINE MINE MINE is all they really care about.
that and controlling what you do in your own bedroom.
and yes, I expect the paid R shills to mod me down to -1. fully expected. go R team! bury the opposition's views.
union busting?
I can't support that. not ever. given what we see of the GREED of corps, the concept of a union makes so much sense, that, without it, you become SLAVES to the industry.
ask me, I know. I'm in software. we have no unions. and I've been out of work for months and months (in the past, even years at a time). there is no one to speak for me; and unions would have helped at least balance the power that the megacorps have.
no, its never a good idea to get rid of unions. corps are selfish pricks and you need to match them in-kind if you want any chance at fair working conditions.
but go ahead and blame unions. I bet you think reagan was some kind of saint, too??
yup, python 2 and 3 are a nightmare, having to worry about 2 systems that are close enough and yet not really compatible. AT THE SAME TIME! has there ever been another language that had 2 variants present at the same time, were both kept up and used? I've seen languages transition (and i know perl will be listed as an example with perl 4 and 5 being 'out there' at the same time and also incompatible for the most part). I never liked perl, btw, so I never counted it as a serious language; and yes, I realize that in days of old, perl was *the* sysadmin tool of its day, but its syntax still made me sick to my stomach)
so, the 2 versions of python is a huge problem.
and the fact that spaces are what they are in python, also a huge problem. just wait for the marketing guy to post 'helpful source' of python examples to his webserver and see the spaces get messed up; and the users will have no idea what the TRUE intenting is supposed to be! you can take every single space out of a C program (outside of quotes, of course) and reindent with no loss. pure wisdom! can't even think of doing that with python.
guido, you are a smart man, to be sure; but you are not perfect. why didn't you listen to 'us' and fix the spaces thing? would it really have caused you physical pain?
huge problem with the language. I do like python (much of it) but I'll never say the idea of spaces-being-significant was ever anything but a STOOPID idea. guido's ego would not let him ever admit it and that's his one main flaw. he will not ever admit that, on this one issue, he was 100% dead wrong.
and yes, at least twice I've had to fish python code from a text box that a marketing puke posted and yes, it was never possible to know what the blocks were supposed to be indented under. it 'compiled and ran' no matter what we did, but there was no hint as to what the real indentation should have been and its quite wrong to have the user 'figure it out' from posted source that should Just Plain Work(tm).
that's one of the key points; and you seem to have learned it first-hand.
being able to underpay is half of it; but the other half is that young and fresh on the job market means you are going to drink THEIR koolaid and its the first one you'll ever have, so you'll think their way is the right way and the only way.
companies LOVE THIS. I fully get that and understand that.
but its still wrong.
they get away with it, because they can. that's why. they know its wrong, but they have no morals. companies are like babies; they have needs, they know they want something and they cry until they get it. they are simply like babies in so many aspects.
I can see you are young. you think its about SPECIFIC SKILLS.
lol
its not. a good guy in C can get any job done, really. c++ guy, java guy, whatever. this insistance on specific domain knowledge IS THE PROBLEM!
we used to have people who knew how to code and would learn the specifics on the job. that worked and it can still work, but companies are spoiled fucking rotten and they have had too much specific selection for too long. they now only want narrow skills and you can't keep chasing that and stay employed. there are too many things that come and go for you to retrain on specifics like that and still be effective.
your view is part of the problem! you really do seem to think that its 'old skills' that is the problem. I guarantee you that even if I had the latest 'skilz' that the grads leave school with, today, that will still not be enough. I demand a salary that is higher than theirs and companies refuse to pay unless they absolutely have to. they generally talk themselves into paying younger kids, for all the reasons mentioned in all the threads, here.
its not about skills. that argument does not hold water if you have been in the industry long enough.