agreed that google is a selfish prick of a company and anything they offer to 'users' has strings attached. no doubts at all, they can't be trusted, they employ mostly young people, lacking in real world experience and google, overall, has the attention span of a teenager.
android is total shit, from a tech POV. its not about users or user freedom, never was and never will be. the only thing android does well is deliver eyes and clicks to google's real customers, the corporations.
given that they ruined their linux os and the update 'story' is worse than MS (and that says a lot, right there), I have zero faith in anything they do, other than to optimize their own money making machine. they do that very well. they collect and sell a lot of info about us. but makers of a trustable ANYTHING? no. not in a million years.
the talented ones can work just as well from india.
the ones are are ordinary and have no special talents are not needed here.
india and china are showing true colors, as time goes on. I hope we start to reduce reliance on foreign labor and imports.
the h1b program was never about 'best and brightest', so stop right there. if we halted 100% of labor imports from the far east, we'd be fine. the ceo's would worry since they would have to pay real american wages to locals, but they'd get used to it. they were used to it, once.
indian culture is VERY authoritarian. do NOT break rules, FOLLOW orders and fall into place, citizen.
I predict nothing good will come from this. *maybe* the US will pull back from all the h1b bullshit, but I doubt it since the h1b crap is all about profit and profit always comes before privacy and even long-term security.
every indian I've met in the bay area, over the last 25 or so years, has been more republican oriented than democrat. they will certainly do what they're told, not step out of line and hoping they also get some of that top-down power.
the US could cut it to 1% of what it is, and its STILL TOO FUCKING MUCH.
ma has a damned good point. we enrichen the already-rich and we push the middle class into poverty. the poors get pushed down even more.
kids have a phrase about this: "I got mine, fuck you". ie, "as long as I have the good stuff, the hell with the rest of you". and it really does capture the spirit of the american ruling class. they no longer even try to act like they care about regular people. they are bold and they get bolder as time moves on.
so, where is the money? in the top top of our elite class, that's where. (china has the same damned problem, too, perhaps even worse).
the mil industrial complex keeps that top top elite in riches. its a sacred cow, you don't DARE run for election on decreasing the mil budget. all reasonable people understand how unbalanced our spending is, but some subjects are untouchable and this seems to be one.
so, yes, Ma is correct that we're mismanaging our wealth. and wasting so much on military IS a true waste. our infra is suffering, our people need help and yet we continue to look to make trouble in the rest of the world, since it will make someone some money and that's ALL that matters, now. its ALL that matters. its sickening.
it just shows me, continually, that the pirate bay is the only way I'm going to consume media, from now on.
the so-called proper sources want to annoy you, to NO END. literally, no end; the war on your sanity has no end. marketing and sales people have no souls.
and so, I've given up even trying to 'play by the rules'.
you'll get no money from me. enjoy your advertising-filled world. I want no part of it and I'll use all the tech I can to filter your bullshit from my view.
it was not magstripe, it was outright forgery. I don't believe they ever had my card, but I suspect the equifax (etc) break-ins were the cause of most of this.
there is 'skimming' and 'shimming' but in my case, I don't think it was a copy of the card; I think they frauded the system some other way.
one thing the bank told me: if these were magstripe transactions, we would have voided them out as soon as you reported them to us, but since they used MAGIC CHIPS, of course, those are trustable so we are rejecting your claim.
long story short, I got a text from wells saying they thought something was 'up' with some purchases. I never check sms (I use email and ignore sms) but I later found that text and called wells to check if it was real. it was real and there were thousands of dollars of charges I didn't make. I never lost my card and it was never out of my posession.
I called wells and we went thru the charges. I told them which were mine and which were unknown to me. I thought that was it and waited to hear back. weeks later, I get a letter in the mail from them saying that they 'investigated' it and since the card was never lost and it was a CHIP BASED CARD, it could NOT BE THEIR FAULT and I was told I had to pay the thousands of dollars of charges!
I was shocked. I was a member of that bank for over 20 years (yeah, I know, I should have left years ago when wells first had issues reported against them).
the weeks that they let it sit were weeks that evidence was starting to fade away (video 'tapes' being recycled at stores, etc). I think that was also part of wells' plan, to delay me and make me miss some deadlines.
I forced them to re-open the 'closed' case and I filed a police report. I was not asked to at first, but when I went to the bank in person and made an issue of this, they asked that I make a formal police report, which I then did.
get this: one week later, I get letters in the mail from the local court system. they caught 2 people and I was informed that sentencing was going to happen in 1 week and I was allowed to attend, if I wanted. (I suspect that the forged card had my name on it or receipts from stores had my name on it).
here's the kicker: it took ALL OF THIS in order to convince my bank that it was not me. their line, all along was 'it was a chip card and it never left your possesion, in your own words, and chip cards are PERFECT, so pay up, it was you!'. that was their line and until I showed them court papers, they would not give in.
tell everyone you know about this. the chip cards are less than useless in the US and banks are still putting their fingers in their ears and saying 'I cant hear you, its still your fault, pay up!'.
their security system is at fault and yet they blame us.
it took me MONTHS to get this all cleared out. did I get anything for my time? no. of course not.
wells fargo can eat shit and die. anyone still with them should leave immediately. I was a 20+ year member and they threw me under the bus for a few thousand dollars. they don't deserve to have a single customer. please leave if you are with them.
and be very careful with your 'chip' card. there's nothing secure about it. the thieves have it all worked out already;(
case in point: I was dealing with a guy in my company (at a remote office) who was doing network testing of our embedded hardware and he was running a windows box with linux on top of it in a VM.
FOR NETWORK PERFORMANCE TESTING.
fuck! he was serious and had no idea that this was not the proper way to test for networking thruput, latency, jitter, etc. the vm layer will invalidate ALL tests you do. its not a pass thru layer at all, not when I'm trying to quanify jitter and latency thru a network router.
the ONLY valid way is to boot bare metal linux (using windows is beyond stupid for networking, even today) and run the rfc tests that way.
VMs are great for some things, but they are NOT the only way to get things done, and for many tasks, its entirely the WRONG tool.
chump - LOL. wonder if mr. chumpmaster learned anything from this post. (nah, unlikely.)
I don't understand WHY calif gave in. did they have to? why play ball with a group of people who actively seek to send this country to 3rd world internet status?
You could go into a Gucci store in Italy, buy 10 bags and ship it to yourself, CBP will stop that shipment and claim itâ(TM)s counterfeit even if you show the original receipt.
I call BS on this one.
it would seem that it MATTERS if you mail to yourself for personal use or to yourself as a business, with intent for resale.
personal use is what seems to be the thing that breaks your assertion. can you cite that even personal use would mean the good you mailed to yourself are considered counterfeit?
similarly, your link talked about greymarket and many of us regularly buy (or bought) cameras that were greymarket and they most certainly did make it to BH, adorama, etc - and are not stopped at the border.
so, I call BS on this. personal use is OK and greymarket is NOT automatically illegal. Nikon would like to think so (and that's why I stopped supporting nikon) but its not ILLEGAL to import or sell greymarket goods, as long as its marked as such (ie, no US warranty or local post-sales support from the US support org)
"hmm, it seems that california won't just take what was tell them to. maybe we didn't think this coup thru well enough. shit, what do we do now? this is getting more attention and we want to BURY this, not call MORE attention to it"
yeah, good luck putting the genie back in the bottle. you angered some people and miscalculated how much you can get away with.
now, if there is a most hated industry, the telecom is surely one of them.
the fact that they are all 'angry' is a GOOD THING. when we piss off bad guys, they throw hissy fits, but its good to keep them in check. they need to be bitchslapped every now and then.
ajit can EABOD. most punchable person in recent history (so they say).
a year ago, I was contacted by a recruiter in NZ, asking if I wanted to move there for a job. I was a little tempted, having gone thru a nasty dry period in employment here in the US.
at this point, I'm so glad I didn't move to NZ. this article is very telling about the legal culture there. I want no part of it. we have that same crap here and I don't like it. in fact, it sounds worse in the british-oriented lands; UK, oz and NZ all seem like they're racing toward fascism even faster than the US is!
glad I dodged a bullet there. that would have been an expensive move and would be even harder to back out and move back once I found out how NZ really is.
I'm sure the people and land is great, but I don't want any part of a goverment that thinks its ok to do this.
btw, I have a skill set that is in demand in nz (I checked). nz, its your loss. hope you think it was worth it, for the.0001% of 'bad guys' you think you'll catch.
the R's are at their worst time in history, with the worst president ever known to mankind; they are desparate to deflect and to try to keep their base happy.
there is no other reason. none. grandstanding is a fucking waste of time when real shit has to be dealt with. but like I said, they don't want to have light shine on their bad shit, so they change the subject whenever they can.
basically, this specific thing is 'waaah! you are hurting our base's feelings!'. yeah, well, grow a pair of balls, you fuckwads. time to reap what you have been sowing the past few years.
chinese culture, as little as I understand it, admittedly, is a 'follow orders, don't stand out, be like everyone else, don't be an exception'.
the leaders know this and keep this going.
the leaders and their rule is safe. the people there won't revolt because of how it IS there.
hell, a lot of shit went down in the US over the last 50 or so years and we've done nothing - NOTHING - to take back control of our country. if the US can't, chinese people certainly won't be able to.
europe, they're a bit wider and have more understanding of history. the US is kept ignorant and so we are too easily controlled. same with china.
the solution is to break up the USA and make it into more state-like entities. skinner had the right idea; smaller city-states, not bigger ones. big ones mean that too many different subsections will NEVER agree. so, give each what they want; those that don't agree should move (we can do that today; we couldn't quite do that 200+ years ago, not quite as well).
I will never agree with the self-labeled conservatives. nothing they view is important to me and nothing I see as important means a thing to them. we are as different as night and day. I don't want to live under their rules; and they, mine.
so, lets break up. its the only sensible solution. countries eventually find this out when they try to merge too many different internal cultures.
in the US, its the 2 coasts vs the middle shit. and yes, I'm extremely biased as the middle shit continues to drag us down and backwards. I don't share their values and they don't share mine. its cruel to force each to live by the other standard. and there is NO compromise; they want no right to choice, ever; and we want lots of choie. they don't believe in ganja, but love alcohol and guns; I'm the opposite. on and on it goes; there is no room for compromise. how do you compromise on things that are either one way or another? it can't be done and we're suffering for even trying.
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agreed that google is a selfish prick of a company and anything they offer to 'users' has strings attached. no doubts at all, they can't be trusted, they employ mostly young people, lacking in real world experience and google, overall, has the attention span of a teenager.
android is total shit, from a tech POV. its not about users or user freedom, never was and never will be. the only thing android does well is deliver eyes and clicks to google's real customers, the corporations.
given that they ruined their linux os and the update 'story' is worse than MS (and that says a lot, right there), I have zero faith in anything they do, other than to optimize their own money making machine. they do that very well. they collect and sell a lot of info about us. but makers of a trustable ANYTHING? no. not in a million years.
the talented ones can work just as well from india.
the ones are are ordinary and have no special talents are not needed here.
india and china are showing true colors, as time goes on. I hope we start to reduce reliance on foreign labor and imports.
the h1b program was never about 'best and brightest', so stop right there. if we halted 100% of labor imports from the far east, we'd be fine. the ceo's would worry since they would have to pay real american wages to locals, but they'd get used to it. they were used to it, once.
indian culture is VERY authoritarian. do NOT break rules, FOLLOW orders and fall into place, citizen.
I predict nothing good will come from this. *maybe* the US will pull back from all the h1b bullshit, but I doubt it since the h1b crap is all about profit and profit always comes before privacy and even long-term security.
every indian I've met in the bay area, over the last 25 or so years, has been more republican oriented than democrat. they will certainly do what they're told, not step out of line and hoping they also get some of that top-down power.
no, I don't think this will end well at all.
I suggest we Musk it.
amateurs.
I have netbsd running on my 'meba cluster.
(systemd-free, too, mind you)
another reason to hate on them: they adopted systemd and ruined linux since so many ride on debian, as the foundation for their distro.
pure bullshit.
grow a pair, guys.
(*reported*) ;)
the US could cut it to 1% of what it is, and its STILL TOO FUCKING MUCH.
ma has a damned good point. we enrichen the already-rich and we push the middle class into poverty. the poors get pushed down even more.
kids have a phrase about this: "I got mine, fuck you". ie, "as long as I have the good stuff, the hell with the rest of you". and it really does capture the spirit of the american ruling class. they no longer even try to act like they care about regular people. they are bold and they get bolder as time moves on.
so, where is the money? in the top top of our elite class, that's where. (china has the same damned problem, too, perhaps even worse).
the mil industrial complex keeps that top top elite in riches. its a sacred cow, you don't DARE run for election on decreasing the mil budget. all reasonable people understand how unbalanced our spending is, but some subjects are untouchable and this seems to be one.
so, yes, Ma is correct that we're mismanaging our wealth. and wasting so much on military IS a true waste. our infra is suffering, our people need help and yet we continue to look to make trouble in the rest of the world, since it will make someone some money and that's ALL that matters, now. its ALL that matters. its sickening.
well, surprise surprise!
when are you guys going to FINALLY make good on your promise to delete this crap from your lives?
you can email anyone who is on FB; you wont lose contact.
just leave that godforsaken place, already!
the longer you stay, the more rope you give them. why empower those bastards? they could not care less about you. and you don't need them, either.
grow a pair. leave FB.
that's called an access router.
what he's using is more like a CORE router.
to get rid of Puritanical thinking, you have to reduce the power of the current Puritan party. that's the one that starts with an R.
the Puritans were uptight, religious nutjobs that even overly religious europe said 'good riddance!' to. the R's match that the closest.
they gave in on liquor but they are still fighting the pot battle (and losing, really badly, country-wide).
if you are single, we can also discuss the important thing in life.
you mean, like, emacs versus vi?
didn't know she was a fellow geek.
(what was the guard's account number again?)
keep it up, guys.
it just shows me, continually, that the pirate bay is the only way I'm going to consume media, from now on.
the so-called proper sources want to annoy you, to NO END. literally, no end; the war on your sanity has no end. marketing and sales people have no souls.
and so, I've given up even trying to 'play by the rules'.
you'll get no money from me. enjoy your advertising-filled world. I want no part of it and I'll use all the tech I can to filter your bullshit from my view.
correct spelling is actually vodak
(obscure?)
read my long post.
I disputed them, I had proof and my bank STILL threw me under the bus.
go read my post. its long but it explains it all.
no. read my (long) post.
it was not magstripe, it was outright forgery. I don't believe they ever had my card, but I suspect the equifax (etc) break-ins were the cause of most of this.
there is 'skimming' and 'shimming' but in my case, I don't think it was a copy of the card; I think they frauded the system some other way.
one thing the bank told me: if these were magstripe transactions, we would have voided them out as soon as you reported them to us, but since they used MAGIC CHIPS, of course, those are trustable so we are rejecting your claim.
(not kidding)
sigh. I'd like to type in pages but I won't.
long story short, I got a text from wells saying they thought something was 'up' with some purchases. I never check sms (I use email and ignore sms) but I later found that text and called wells to check if it was real. it was real and there were thousands of dollars of charges I didn't make. I never lost my card and it was never out of my posession.
I called wells and we went thru the charges. I told them which were mine and which were unknown to me. I thought that was it and waited to hear back. weeks later, I get a letter in the mail from them saying that they 'investigated' it and since the card was never lost and it was a CHIP BASED CARD, it could NOT BE THEIR FAULT and I was told I had to pay the thousands of dollars of charges!
I was shocked. I was a member of that bank for over 20 years (yeah, I know, I should have left years ago when wells first had issues reported against them).
the weeks that they let it sit were weeks that evidence was starting to fade away (video 'tapes' being recycled at stores, etc). I think that was also part of wells' plan, to delay me and make me miss some deadlines.
I forced them to re-open the 'closed' case and I filed a police report. I was not asked to at first, but when I went to the bank in person and made an issue of this, they asked that I make a formal police report, which I then did.
get this: one week later, I get letters in the mail from the local court system. they caught 2 people and I was informed that sentencing was going to happen in 1 week and I was allowed to attend, if I wanted. (I suspect that the forged card had my name on it or receipts from stores had my name on it).
here's the kicker: it took ALL OF THIS in order to convince my bank that it was not me. their line, all along was 'it was a chip card and it never left your possesion, in your own words, and chip cards are PERFECT, so pay up, it was you!'. that was their line and until I showed them court papers, they would not give in.
tell everyone you know about this. the chip cards are less than useless in the US and banks are still putting their fingers in their ears and saying 'I cant hear you, its still your fault, pay up!'.
their security system is at fault and yet they blame us.
it took me MONTHS to get this all cleared out. did I get anything for my time? no. of course not.
wells fargo can eat shit and die. anyone still with them should leave immediately. I was a 20+ year member and they threw me under the bus for a few thousand dollars. they don't deserve to have a single customer. please leave if you are with them.
and be very careful with your 'chip' card. there's nothing secure about it. the thieves have it all worked out already ;(
dual booting is NOT for chumps.
case in point: I was dealing with a guy in my company (at a remote office) who was doing network testing of our embedded hardware and he was running a windows box with linux on top of it in a VM.
FOR NETWORK PERFORMANCE TESTING.
fuck! he was serious and had no idea that this was not the proper way to test for networking thruput, latency, jitter, etc. the vm layer will invalidate ALL tests you do. its not a pass thru layer at all, not when I'm trying to quanify jitter and latency thru a network router.
the ONLY valid way is to boot bare metal linux (using windows is beyond stupid for networking, even today) and run the rfc tests that way.
VMs are great for some things, but they are NOT the only way to get things done, and for many tasks, its entirely the WRONG tool.
chump - LOL. wonder if mr. chumpmaster learned anything from this post. (nah, unlikely.)
I don't understand WHY calif gave in. did they have to? why play ball with a group of people who actively seek to send this country to 3rd world internet status?
You could go into a Gucci store in Italy, buy 10 bags and ship it to yourself, CBP will stop that shipment and claim itâ(TM)s counterfeit even if you show the original receipt.
I call BS on this one.
it would seem that it MATTERS if you mail to yourself for personal use or to yourself as a business, with intent for resale.
personal use is what seems to be the thing that breaks your assertion. can you cite that even personal use would mean the good you mailed to yourself are considered counterfeit?
similarly, your link talked about greymarket and many of us regularly buy (or bought) cameras that were greymarket and they most certainly did make it to BH, adorama, etc - and are not stopped at the border.
so, I call BS on this. personal use is OK and greymarket is NOT automatically illegal. Nikon would like to think so (and that's why I stopped supporting nikon) but its not ILLEGAL to import or sell greymarket goods, as long as its marked as such (ie, no US warranty or local post-sales support from the US support org)
"hmm, it seems that california won't just take what was tell them to. maybe we didn't think this coup thru well enough. shit, what do we do now? this is getting more attention and we want to BURY this, not call MORE attention to it"
yeah, good luck putting the genie back in the bottle. you angered some people and miscalculated how much you can get away with.
now, if there is a most hated industry, the telecom is surely one of them.
the fact that they are all 'angry' is a GOOD THING. when we piss off bad guys, they throw hissy fits, but its good to keep them in check. they need to be bitchslapped every now and then.
ajit can EABOD. most punchable person in recent history (so they say).
a year ago, I was contacted by a recruiter in NZ, asking if I wanted to move there for a job. I was a little tempted, having gone thru a nasty dry period in employment here in the US.
at this point, I'm so glad I didn't move to NZ. this article is very telling about the legal culture there. I want no part of it. we have that same crap here and I don't like it. in fact, it sounds worse in the british-oriented lands; UK, oz and NZ all seem like they're racing toward fascism even faster than the US is!
glad I dodged a bullet there. that would have been an expensive move and would be even harder to back out and move back once I found out how NZ really is.
I'm sure the people and land is great, but I don't want any part of a goverment that thinks its ok to do this.
btw, I have a skill set that is in demand in nz (I checked). nz, its your loss. hope you think it was worth it, for the .0001% of 'bad guys' you think you'll catch.
the R's are at their worst time in history, with the worst president ever known to mankind; they are desparate to deflect and to try to keep their base happy.
there is no other reason. none. grandstanding is a fucking waste of time when real shit has to be dealt with. but like I said, they don't want to have light shine on their bad shit, so they change the subject whenever they can.
basically, this specific thing is 'waaah! you are hurting our base's feelings!'. yeah, well, grow a pair of balls, you fuckwads. time to reap what you have been sowing the past few years.
no he won't.
chinese culture, as little as I understand it, admittedly, is a 'follow orders, don't stand out, be like everyone else, don't be an exception'.
the leaders know this and keep this going.
the leaders and their rule is safe. the people there won't revolt because of how it IS there.
hell, a lot of shit went down in the US over the last 50 or so years and we've done nothing - NOTHING - to take back control of our country. if the US can't, chinese people certainly won't be able to.
europe, they're a bit wider and have more understanding of history. the US is kept ignorant and so we are too easily controlled. same with china.
the solution is to break up the USA and make it into more state-like entities. skinner had the right idea; smaller city-states, not bigger ones. big ones mean that too many different subsections will NEVER agree. so, give each what they want; those that don't agree should move (we can do that today; we couldn't quite do that 200+ years ago, not quite as well).
I will never agree with the self-labeled conservatives. nothing they view is important to me and nothing I see as important means a thing to them. we are as different as night and day. I don't want to live under their rules; and they, mine.
so, lets break up. its the only sensible solution. countries eventually find this out when they try to merge too many different internal cultures.
in the US, its the 2 coasts vs the middle shit. and yes, I'm extremely biased as the middle shit continues to drag us down and backwards. I don't share their values and they don't share mine. its cruel to force each to live by the other standard. and there is NO compromise; they want no right to choice, ever; and we want lots of choie. they don't believe in ganja, but love alcohol and guns; I'm the opposite. on and on it goes; there is no room for compromise. how do you compromise on things that are either one way or another? it can't be done and we're suffering for even trying.
so? leave FB then.
the more people do that, the better.
you are annoyed that a SOLELY OWNED private website does what it want? oh, the shock and horror.
bring back usenet and distributed social networking. then I might give a damn. but websites? who, that has tech understanding of this, even cares?