here's why: corporate america and windows or mac pre-installs by corp IT.
yes, they install their own fake certs. did you know that?
and did you know that when you get a lock icon on your browser, that you are authenticating with the firewall at your company and NOT the end IP ??
companies have been doing this for about 10 yrs. I interviewed at a company (yes, bluecoat..) a long time ago and they told me straight out that their software does (did) that and that they were proud of how they could pull the wool over corp citizens' eyes!;( (no I did not take that job. it depressed me to think they took glee in such things).
almost every networking company is into data interception (calea or whatever). but you have to be more careful about what you do with corp built laptops! that's the #1 offender.
forget the gov. there's much corp america whores who will do whatever their big bosses say, and if that means preinstalling fake certs, they'll do it. anyone who says no loses their job.
welcome to america. your right to privacy is zero while at work, and we're all working to make sure it stays zero, even when you leave work. sigh;(;(;(
plus, once you run https, bad fuckers like comcast and verizon won't be able to INSERT ADS into your web stream!
so, its not just about privacy. its also wanting to know that no data is modified en-route and that what you see IS what you got, and not some ISP modified stream that they THINK you wanted, instead.
if you don't want the privacy argument, at least you (in general) should agree that https keeps your data stream from being modified on-the-fly by isps!
I spent MANY posts trying to convince one of the big electronics (diy style) forums to convert over to https and the admins there either dont get it or simply don't care. its very sad;(
eevblog - we're WAITING for you to join the rest of the modern world by turning on https. many of us ask for it but you don't seem to care. I hope you care sooner rather than later.
those who think the true power browers will ALLOW a 3rd party candidate - you assholes are so out of touch with reality, you are helping to ruin things by giving people false hope.
the only way to fix this is to totally break it and reinvent it.
the current US system WILL NOT ALLOW FOR 3RD PARTY CANDIDATES. how long will it take you numbskulls to get this into your heads? america is NOT a free nation and those who run things alternate parties to keep us thinking we have a choice.
the last few decades have been mostly the same, only with some minor details as differences, to give us the impression that we have a choice.
we have NO CHOICE. we have not had a choice for decades; maybe not ever.
"but I voted independant!" you say. yeah, how much good did that do? seriously? what did it accomplish?
I wish you guys were right, but you are simply out of touch. the big guys control things and its a grand distraction to think that voting A or B (or C!) will have any meaningful impact.
the sooner we all admit voting and 2party system is fully broken, the sooner we can get real change. until then, your cute 'vote for indie' does nothing at all but make you think you are superior, all the while, still playing the game set out for you by the real power brokers.
and btw, you will never know the names of the real power brokers. the figureheads are just that; there to give you a reason to rally and fight 'the othe guy' over. but the real purse strings are held by those who are not elected and who are plutocrats, ultra rich who truly control how things go.
I wish I was wrong! but experience shows that 'voting' has not done a damned thing to restore rights to the people and over time, things continue to get worse for us, not better, no matter WHO we 'vote' for.
sigh - wish people would see this and stop believing in the fairy tale.
I knew he would be essentially like a republican, just less 'christ-y' (at least in public). the war on non-christians and women and minorities did take a bit of a back seat the last 2 terms. it would have been much worse under R guidance, I'm quite sure of that.
but as for the hope and change, I didn't believe that. its impossible since the system is broken and cannot be fixed without a total re-do (which no one seems to want in their lifetimes).
you can be sure that the medical MJ movement would have been totally stalled if an R was in office, 'leading' the country. obama has not helped much, but he has not actively done too much to stand in the way of progress, on this front, at least.
so, we have a mostly useless guy in office, but I'm quite sure it would have been worse the other way.
I have an evil-genius 2-step plan on how to fight this.
first, you need to have a small a/v player. hey, smart phones can play audio and video! now, we need a reducer so that we can 'pipe' the video into the camera, optically, to create the illusion that the car is empty (or in any state we want). easy to pipe in audio, simply by putting the phone spkr near the mic.
2nd part of the plan is to edit the contract (adding a section) that says you may, at your option, provide 'performance art' inside the car. something to that effect.
now that you've set it up, have some fun! what could you record that would be great for playback, for them to see? fake a murder? fake a corporate take-over? fake a plot of some kind? some other kind of intentional mis-direction?
you already covered yourself by the performance-art clause. you can laugh it off when you sign their contract and just make a joke about the camera. if done properly, they won't know what you have in mind.
the rest, as they say: 'hillarity will ensue'.
and unless its illegal (its not) to pipe in any video stream you want in front of a spycam, you can do this and mess with their data collection while having some well-earned laughs at their expense.
isn't that enough wiggle room to create NEW plans, later?
what this will mean is that the 'field test' shows we are not passive enough to accept this surveillance. they'll try again in n+1 units of time and see if we've become more passive and are willing to tolerate it.
if that fails, there's always hiding mics and cameras inside the dash. I'm sure they have spent some time in boardrooms discussing exactly that, too.
cops are stupid. they'll just double-down on the derp (using the parlance of our times..)
they don't care anymore if they have our respect. they now have our FEAR and they love that even more.
look, you have to have a thug mentality to be an american cop. its not about justice, its about beating people up and getting away with it. there's a famous 'cartoon' where this phrase is used and its very commonly brought out each time a cop goes out of control and it reaches the news.
it reminds me of the clockwork orange movie. alex's 'droogs' end up being cops when they grow up. thugs as teens become thugs as cops; they just get 'permission' to knock heads and they get their victims from car radio calls.
I wonder if all countries are having the problems with local cops that the US now has? is this an US phenom or is this a problem that is being seen world-wide? the violence in the US social system (we glorify it, sadly) seems to encourage cops to be brutal and violent. is this culture the same in other countries? I suspect its worse here, at least in terms of 1st and 2nd world countries.
yes! publish their IP net space and show the logs of them editing their own pages to create a spin of bullshit propaganda. then lock that fucking page!
enough is enough. its time they learn that they are not the ultimate masters of us all.
the thugs are great at physical violence; but they are not thinkers; and they will not win this kind of war against the people. as dumb as people generally are, they are - on average - smarter than the average cop.
and yes, you have to fail an IQ test (so to speak) to be a cop. search on the CT guy who tried to apply to the police academy and was turned down because he scored too high on the test:
here, we see how truly STUPID cops are. they didn't even know about hiding behind 7 proxies...
seriously, though; way to stand for justice, guys.
your day is over, cops. no one under 40 trusts you. we are all afraid of you - you are out of control - and only fellow authoriarians like you and associate with you. you are not part of the people, anymore and you have lost all our trust.
the war on citizenry has no winners. sadly, they don't understand enough to even SEE this, much less care.
"lets grab some of his dna and plant it various places"
yeah, this is an akbar. ie, a trap.
meet with her behind sealed glass, if you must. don't shake hands, don't go near her or any of her party.
and, in fact, I see no reason why this can't be done REMOTELY. if all they want to do is 'talk', we could have handled this years ago with wires. if no wires, then wet string and 2 paper cups.
you also need more than 'cheap' gps. most cheap ones don't include hardware PPS line outputs.
I have a stratum1 ntp server running (on a rasp pi, of all things) but it took some special versions of gpsd, ntpd and kernel mods for kernel PPS support. and on the pi, some hardware mods to intercept the pps led and drive a logic line for that signal.
this isn't rocket science but its NOT trivial, either.
I would not be surprised if they defined 'botnet' as any automated network job or task. which means anything we do that has any automation to it would be 'against the law'.
way too much power, here!
botnets suck but legal means is NOT the way to stop them!
each time we give the government more legal means to punish, its almost always the wrong 'bad guys' that get punished, like aaron.
JUST SAY NO to more US laws. we have too many laws already. why they think that adding MORE laws is a good idea, I'll never undertstand. (well, I do understand, but I'll never LIKE it)
this law, like PATRIOT would be misused eventually. better to not have any law than one that will obviously be misused and probably won't take very long to misuse it, either.
I'm at the point now where "if you want it, I want you to NOT have it" - meaning, laws that politicians want. if you wanted that, that's enough to show me you don't really deserve it.
it IS about latency. try seeking to a random point and watching the 'rebuild blocks' happen. it takes a while since it has to seek randomly and with some codecs, it 'asks a lot of small questions' and those are time critical, which wifi is bad about (too much delay and jitter, esp. on a busy network).
wifi is 'good enough' for low speed bitrate 'youtube videos' but not for hd video watching.
I wish you were right. I hate having to run wires at home. but the wifi I'm getting is pretty bad compared to wired. my system is respectable: i7, 16gb, local ssd-based, win7, no extra bloatware installed, just running vlc across my lan to a dedicated nas box.
dvd video is a lot better but it was always designed for smooth playback with minimal seeks (old spinng media could not seek fast, decades ago) but modern video containers rarely are setup for playback efficiency to the level that old dvd was.
I worked at cisco (just left them, fwiw) and for the first MONTH, I had no company laptop. for the 2nd month, there was a problem with it and I was not able to use it. (yes, it takes cisco (modern cisco) that long to respond. their IT is 99% in india and 100% worthless, I have to say).
I was told 'just bring your personal laptop in'. and I did. I didn't like it, but I had no other system I could work on.
my boss didn't have a problem with it and neither did my supervisor. finally, 2 months later I got the work lappie and switched over to it.
here's the #1 networking company IN THE WORLD and yet, their IT is up their asses, they pretty much let any hardware into and out of the company (security? what security?) and I used my self-built pc for 2 months while on their hire.
let the one without sin cast the first vote.
big bad old cisco can't even follow corp IT proceedures properly, and they practically invented the internet (cisco, wellfleet and proteon; those were the big 3 back in my day).
my point is that its rampant in the industry. I'm not a sec of state, of course, but the problem is there in the industry and many people blur the personal and work line, all the time. I had to use my personal phone for work calendaring and some emails. I did not install a corp email client on my phone (I am not going to risk the phone being wiped remotely by Exchange!) but after hours, to be 'a good sport' I would use my phone to respond to emails that were addressed to my home addy. I asked for a company phone but my boss would not buy them for our group.
I don't see this as a big sin. bad behavior that is easily correctable, yes. but 'string them up and fire them?' no.
as usual, the extreme right looks for any dirt that they can throw on the opposition.
as for 'getting info from or about the government', yeah right, forget about it. the amount of redaction you see from FOIA replies shows you that mostly its not fruitful to even ask for info. the gov hides what it wants to hide.
she wanted the same privs. you and I would also like the same privs. if some 'bad guy' is asking for info that I know he'll misuse or try to put a spin on, I would certainly do what I can to defend against that. I'm sure that's how she and others would see this, and did see it.
ask for republican emails and while they may not be stored on private servers, you STILL won't get juicy info from anything you ask. so, I'm not sure why its such a big deal. the whole poltiical system is broken and corrupt and we're just watching a contest of one slinging mud against the other, with sides changing names every few years but that's about it.
each political attack I hear about, I have to ask if this is a real issue or a tempest in a teapot, meant just to retaliate or first-strike against an opponent in a race. mostly its not real and I ignore it (like this).
timing critical old things have problems with that. usb/serial also does not really put out true rs232 levels. many don't have full modem control or handshaking in hardware. many have buffering issues (almost all except ftdi; but those of us who were awake during' ftdi-gate' won't be using ftdi anymore if we can help it)
for hd video, wifi is NO SUBSTITUTE for wired enet.
try an mkv file; oftentimes it takes 2 or even 3 minutes before vlc (on win7 ultimate) begins to play, and that is with the very latest media bridge of ac to ac wireless (2 asus routers). this is as good as wireless gets for consumers and yet I have a several minute wait time.
why? I think the protocol sucks and there is a lot of seeking or indexing on some mkv's and with wifi latency, small packets take forever (when there are lots of them needed). plug into wired enet and the video plays almost instantly.
do a backup over the net? not likely! yes, I can. but its painful.
wireless also is quite insecure. a lot of people think its ok. many of us don't trust it.
so, anyone saying 'wired is dead for end stations' knows nothing about the vast number of use-cases where wifi falls flat on its arse.
(and try running nfs over wifi. good luck with that!)
posts to an informal forum like this do not get the polish that a resume would. it huts to hit upper case and so if I don't have to, I don't.
sue me. but don't hire me since you judge on stupid minutae and that's as telling about you as my 'issues' are about me, I guess.
(and the typo/dropped final char was a stuck key on my keyboard. again, sue me for being very casual in slashdot posts. you understood my meaning and there's no points-for-style here.)
my background is mixed: I have 25+ years in software (started with C), I do embedded systems, I design and build hardware (some analog, some digital), I have over 20 years in networking (ip, other protocols, switch/router stuff too). techie to the core, have my own hardware lab at home. yes, I do sysadmin as well; started doing linux stuff back in the 1.1 kernel days.
but I'm in the bay area and they really hate 'old guys' like me. I've been on the east coast (moved from boston about 20 years ago) and not really interested in going back there, but at some point, I may have to give up on the bay area. the agism here is really a big hurdle. things were great up until I was mid 30's, and then all went to hell quickly after that. I'm now in my early 50's and the only companies that even call me are only offering contracts, and usually its a fake ploy when they say its 'temp to perm'. rarely do temps go to perm at my age, from what I've heard.
membership is about $125/mo, fixed price (less if you buy a special, sometimes around holidays).
housing in the bay area is $500k for a broken down POS. not kidding. rent is $2000 for a one bedroom apartment. $2500 for 2 br in many places. insane, huh?
and techshop is probably the most equipped hackerspace in the country. its amazing what they have.
but my point is still this: why are the wages at such a place so low? you can make more changing oil at a gas station!
the bay area is filled with software weenies, totally useless when it comes to anything physical that needs building or fixing or designing. so, its not like there are tons of people who even COULD effectively work there.
the ones there generally are cool, friendly and all - but I do wonder if they have another job or maybe lots of room mates. its not even close to a living wage, though, and that kind of annoys me. wonder how much the exec staff makes (sigh).
there's a local techshop near me (bay area). I have a membership there and its quite a cool hackerspace.
they have openings. guess how much they are willing to pay to be a DC (stupid term, 'dream consultant')? its a staff position where you have some mechanical skills (laser cutters, drills, lathes, CNCs, you name it) and yet you can make more money deliverying pizzas or probably just sitting on unemployment;(
they are willing to pay less than $15/hour! for someone who has DIY and/or industrial machine skills. if that's not an abuse of the labor market, then what is? even the 'teaching jobs' there pay less than a living wage. I have no idea how the people who 'work' there get by, I really don't.
I'm out of work right now, and I'm not in the a-d catagory.
you forgot others, such as:
E. born and raise here, therefore not abusable. F. experienced (ie, 'older person'). IT hates us, for some reason. G. willing to take jobs I'm overqualified for, but automatically passed over.
I highly resent the notion that those of us out of work are 'worthless and lazy'.
I hope you get a taste of this. and you will, in a few years from now (bwahahaha....). see how YOU like it when its YOUR turn.
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you are 1000% wrong.
here's why: corporate america and windows or mac pre-installs by corp IT.
yes, they install their own fake certs. did you know that?
and did you know that when you get a lock icon on your browser, that you are authenticating with the firewall at your company and NOT the end IP ??
companies have been doing this for about 10 yrs. I interviewed at a company (yes, bluecoat..) a long time ago and they told me straight out that their software does (did) that and that they were proud of how they could pull the wool over corp citizens' eyes! ;( (no I did not take that job. it depressed me to think they took glee in such things).
almost every networking company is into data interception (calea or whatever). but you have to be more careful about what you do with corp built laptops! that's the #1 offender.
forget the gov. there's much corp america whores who will do whatever their big bosses say, and if that means preinstalling fake certs, they'll do it. anyone who says no loses their job.
welcome to america. your right to privacy is zero while at work, and we're all working to make sure it stays zero, even when you leave work. sigh ;( ;( ;(
plus, once you run https, bad fuckers like comcast and verizon won't be able to INSERT ADS into your web stream!
so, its not just about privacy. its also wanting to know that no data is modified en-route and that what you see IS what you got, and not some ISP modified stream that they THINK you wanted, instead.
if you don't want the privacy argument, at least you (in general) should agree that https keeps your data stream from being modified on-the-fly by isps!
I spent MANY posts trying to convince one of the big electronics (diy style) forums to convert over to https and the admins there either dont get it or simply don't care. its very sad ;(
eevblog - we're WAITING for you to join the rest of the modern world by turning on https. many of us ask for it but you don't seem to care. I hope you care sooner rather than later.
those who think the true power browers will ALLOW a 3rd party candidate - you assholes are so out of touch with reality, you are helping to ruin things by giving people false hope.
the only way to fix this is to totally break it and reinvent it.
the current US system WILL NOT ALLOW FOR 3RD PARTY CANDIDATES. how long will it take you numbskulls to get this into your heads? america is NOT a free nation and those who run things alternate parties to keep us thinking we have a choice.
the last few decades have been mostly the same, only with some minor details as differences, to give us the impression that we have a choice.
we have NO CHOICE. we have not had a choice for decades; maybe not ever.
"but I voted independant!" you say. yeah, how much good did that do? seriously? what did it accomplish?
I wish you guys were right, but you are simply out of touch. the big guys control things and its a grand distraction to think that voting A or B (or C!) will have any meaningful impact.
the sooner we all admit voting and 2party system is fully broken, the sooner we can get real change. until then, your cute 'vote for indie' does nothing at all but make you think you are superior, all the while, still playing the game set out for you by the real power brokers.
and btw, you will never know the names of the real power brokers. the figureheads are just that; there to give you a reason to rally and fight 'the othe guy' over. but the real purse strings are held by those who are not elected and who are plutocrats, ultra rich who truly control how things go.
I wish I was wrong! but experience shows that 'voting' has not done a damned thing to restore rights to the people and over time, things continue to get worse for us, not better, no matter WHO we 'vote' for.
sigh - wish people would see this and stop believing in the fairy tale.
I didn't believe a single thing he said.
I knew he would be essentially like a republican, just less 'christ-y' (at least in public). the war on non-christians and women and minorities did take a bit of a back seat the last 2 terms. it would have been much worse under R guidance, I'm quite sure of that.
but as for the hope and change, I didn't believe that. its impossible since the system is broken and cannot be fixed without a total re-do (which no one seems to want in their lifetimes).
you can be sure that the medical MJ movement would have been totally stalled if an R was in office, 'leading' the country. obama has not helped much, but he has not actively done too much to stand in the way of progress, on this front, at least.
so, we have a mostly useless guy in office, but I'm quite sure it would have been worse the other way.
I have an evil-genius 2-step plan on how to fight this.
first, you need to have a small a/v player. hey, smart phones can play audio and video! now, we need a reducer so that we can 'pipe' the video into the camera, optically, to create the illusion that the car is empty (or in any state we want). easy to pipe in audio, simply by putting the phone spkr near the mic.
2nd part of the plan is to edit the contract (adding a section) that says you may, at your option, provide 'performance art' inside the car. something to that effect.
now that you've set it up, have some fun! what could you record that would be great for playback, for them to see? fake a murder? fake a corporate take-over? fake a plot of some kind? some other kind of intentional mis-direction?
you already covered yourself by the performance-art clause. you can laugh it off when you sign their contract and just make a joke about the camera. if done properly, they won't know what you have in mind.
the rest, as they say: 'hillarity will ensue'.
and unless its illegal (its not) to pipe in any video stream you want in front of a spycam, you can do this and mess with their data collection while having some well-earned laughs at their expense.
they said 'no CURRENT plans'.
isn't that enough wiggle room to create NEW plans, later?
what this will mean is that the 'field test' shows we are not passive enough to accept this surveillance. they'll try again in n+1 units of time and see if we've become more passive and are willing to tolerate it.
if that fails, there's always hiding mics and cameras inside the dash. I'm sure they have spent some time in boardrooms discussing exactly that, too.
cops are stupid. they'll just double-down on the derp (using the parlance of our times..)
they don't care anymore if they have our respect. they now have our FEAR and they love that even more.
look, you have to have a thug mentality to be an american cop. its not about justice, its about beating people up and getting away with it. there's a famous 'cartoon' where this phrase is used and its very commonly brought out each time a cop goes out of control and it reaches the news.
it reminds me of the clockwork orange movie. alex's 'droogs' end up being cops when they grow up. thugs as teens become thugs as cops; they just get 'permission' to knock heads and they get their victims from car radio calls.
I wonder if all countries are having the problems with local cops that the US now has? is this an US phenom or is this a problem that is being seen world-wide? the violence in the US social system (we glorify it, sadly) seems to encourage cops to be brutal and violent. is this culture the same in other countries? I suspect its worse here, at least in terms of 1st and 2nd world countries.
yes! publish their IP net space and show the logs of them editing their own pages to create a spin of bullshit propaganda. then lock that fucking page!
enough is enough. its time they learn that they are not the ultimate masters of us all.
the thugs are great at physical violence; but they are not thinkers; and they will not win this kind of war against the people. as dumb as people generally are, they are - on average - smarter than the average cop.
and yes, you have to fail an IQ test (so to speak) to be a cop. search on the CT guy who tried to apply to the police academy and was turned down because he scored too high on the test:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/court...
here, we see how truly STUPID cops are. they didn't even know about hiding behind 7 proxies...
seriously, though; way to stand for justice, guys.
your day is over, cops. no one under 40 trusts you. we are all afraid of you - you are out of control - and only fellow authoriarians like you and associate with you. you are not part of the people, anymore and you have lost all our trust.
the war on citizenry has no winners. sadly, they don't understand enough to even SEE this, much less care.
I hear they want snowmen back to apologize
the snowmen are now melted; its spring time.
can we send in rudolph the red nosed reindeer, in place of the snowmen?
"lets grab some of his dna and plant it various places"
yeah, this is an akbar. ie, a trap.
meet with her behind sealed glass, if you must. don't shake hands, don't go near her or any of her party.
and, in fact, I see no reason why this can't be done REMOTELY. if all they want to do is 'talk', we could have handled this years ago with wires. if no wires, then wet string and 2 paper cups.
you also need more than 'cheap' gps. most cheap ones don't include hardware PPS line outputs.
I have a stratum1 ntp server running (on a rasp pi, of all things) but it took some special versions of gpsd, ntpd and kernel mods for kernel PPS support. and on the pi, some hardware mods to intercept the pps led and drive a logic line for that signal.
this isn't rocket science but its NOT trivial, either.
do not give them this power!
they can then 'schwartz you' if they want.
I would not be surprised if they defined 'botnet' as any automated network job or task. which means anything we do that has any automation to it would be 'against the law'.
way too much power, here!
botnets suck but legal means is NOT the way to stop them!
each time we give the government more legal means to punish, its almost always the wrong 'bad guys' that get punished, like aaron.
JUST SAY NO to more US laws. we have too many laws already. why they think that adding MORE laws is a good idea, I'll never undertstand. (well, I do understand, but I'll never LIKE it)
this law, like PATRIOT would be misused eventually. better to not have any law than one that will obviously be misused and probably won't take very long to misuse it, either.
I'm at the point now where "if you want it, I want you to NOT have it" - meaning, laws that politicians want. if you wanted that, that's enough to show me you don't really deserve it.
it IS about latency. try seeking to a random point and watching the 'rebuild blocks' happen. it takes a while since it has to seek randomly and with some codecs, it 'asks a lot of small questions' and those are time critical, which wifi is bad about (too much delay and jitter, esp. on a busy network).
wifi is 'good enough' for low speed bitrate 'youtube videos' but not for hd video watching.
I wish you were right. I hate having to run wires at home. but the wifi I'm getting is pretty bad compared to wired. my system is respectable: i7, 16gb, local ssd-based, win7, no extra bloatware installed, just running vlc across my lan to a dedicated nas box.
dvd video is a lot better but it was always designed for smooth playback with minimal seeks (old spinng media could not seek fast, decades ago) but modern video containers rarely are setup for playback efficiency to the level that old dvd was.
I worked at cisco (just left them, fwiw) and for the first MONTH, I had no company laptop. for the 2nd month, there was a problem with it and I was not able to use it. (yes, it takes cisco (modern cisco) that long to respond. their IT is 99% in india and 100% worthless, I have to say).
I was told 'just bring your personal laptop in'. and I did. I didn't like it, but I had no other system I could work on.
my boss didn't have a problem with it and neither did my supervisor. finally, 2 months later I got the work lappie and switched over to it.
here's the #1 networking company IN THE WORLD and yet, their IT is up their asses, they pretty much let any hardware into and out of the company (security? what security?) and I used my self-built pc for 2 months while on their hire.
let the one without sin cast the first vote.
big bad old cisco can't even follow corp IT proceedures properly, and they practically invented the internet (cisco, wellfleet and proteon; those were the big 3 back in my day).
my point is that its rampant in the industry. I'm not a sec of state, of course, but the problem is there in the industry and many people blur the personal and work line, all the time. I had to use my personal phone for work calendaring and some emails. I did not install a corp email client on my phone (I am not going to risk the phone being wiped remotely by Exchange!) but after hours, to be 'a good sport' I would use my phone to respond to emails that were addressed to my home addy. I asked for a company phone but my boss would not buy them for our group.
I don't see this as a big sin. bad behavior that is easily correctable, yes. but 'string them up and fire them?' no.
as usual, the extreme right looks for any dirt that they can throw on the opposition.
as for 'getting info from or about the government', yeah right, forget about it. the amount of redaction you see from FOIA replies shows you that mostly its not fruitful to even ask for info. the gov hides what it wants to hide.
she wanted the same privs. you and I would also like the same privs. if some 'bad guy' is asking for info that I know he'll misuse or try to put a spin on, I would certainly do what I can to defend against that. I'm sure that's how she and others would see this, and did see it.
ask for republican emails and while they may not be stored on private servers, you STILL won't get juicy info from anything you ask. so, I'm not sure why its such a big deal. the whole poltiical system is broken and corrupt and we're just watching a contest of one slinging mud against the other, with sides changing names every few years but that's about it.
each political attack I hear about, I have to ask if this is a real issue or a tempest in a teapot, meant just to retaliate or first-strike against an opponent in a race. mostly its not real and I ignore it (like this).
and some devices do NOT work with usb/serial.
timing critical old things have problems with that. usb/serial also does not really put out true rs232 levels. many don't have full modem control or handshaking in hardware. many have buffering issues (almost all except ftdi; but those of us who were awake during' ftdi-gate' won't be using ftdi anymore if we can help it)
for hd video, wifi is NO SUBSTITUTE for wired enet.
try an mkv file; oftentimes it takes 2 or even 3 minutes before vlc (on win7 ultimate) begins to play, and that is with the very latest media bridge of ac to ac wireless (2 asus routers). this is as good as wireless gets for consumers and yet I have a several minute wait time.
why? I think the protocol sucks and there is a lot of seeking or indexing on some mkv's and with wifi latency, small packets take forever (when there are lots of them needed). plug into wired enet and the video plays almost instantly.
do a backup over the net? not likely! yes, I can. but its painful.
wireless also is quite insecure. a lot of people think its ok. many of us don't trust it.
so, anyone saying 'wired is dead for end stations' knows nothing about the vast number of use-cases where wifi falls flat on its arse.
(and try running nfs over wifi. good luck with that!)
dammit, I really do need a new keyboard. probably another typo he'll crucify me over: 'huts' == 'hurts'.
see, letters get dropped all the time. I'm sure your keyboard is brand new and all keys respond perfectly as you hit them... (rolls eyes).
my resume has none of these problems.
posts to an informal forum like this do not get the polish that a resume would. it huts to hit upper case and so if I don't have to, I don't.
sue me. but don't hire me since you judge on stupid minutae and that's as telling about you as my 'issues' are about me, I guess.
(and the typo/dropped final char was a stuck key on my keyboard. again, sue me for being very casual in slashdot posts. you understood my meaning and there's no points-for-style here.)
my background is mixed: I have 25+ years in software (started with C), I do embedded systems, I design and build hardware (some analog, some digital), I have over 20 years in networking (ip, other protocols, switch/router stuff too). techie to the core, have my own hardware lab at home. yes, I do sysadmin as well; started doing linux stuff back in the 1.1 kernel days.
but I'm in the bay area and they really hate 'old guys' like me. I've been on the east coast (moved from boston about 20 years ago) and not really interested in going back there, but at some point, I may have to give up on the bay area. the agism here is really a big hurdle. things were great up until I was mid 30's, and then all went to hell quickly after that. I'm now in my early 50's and the only companies that even call me are only offering contracts, and usually its a fake ploy when they say its 'temp to perm'. rarely do temps go to perm at my age, from what I've heard.
membership is about $125/mo, fixed price (less if you buy a special, sometimes around holidays).
housing in the bay area is $500k for a broken down POS. not kidding. rent is $2000 for a one bedroom apartment. $2500 for 2 br in many places. insane, huh?
and techshop is probably the most equipped hackerspace in the country. its amazing what they have.
but my point is still this: why are the wages at such a place so low? you can make more changing oil at a gas station!
the bay area is filled with software weenies, totally useless when it comes to anything physical that needs building or fixing or designing. so, its not like there are tons of people who even COULD effectively work there.
the ones there generally are cool, friendly and all - but I do wonder if they have another job or maybe lots of room mates. its not even close to a living wage, though, and that kind of annoys me. wonder how much the exec staff makes (sigh).
there's a local techshop near me (bay area). I have a membership there and its quite a cool hackerspace.
they have openings. guess how much they are willing to pay to be a DC (stupid term, 'dream consultant')? its a staff position where you have some mechanical skills (laser cutters, drills, lathes, CNCs, you name it) and yet you can make more money deliverying pizzas or probably just sitting on unemployment ;(
they are willing to pay less than $15/hour! for someone who has DIY and/or industrial machine skills. if that's not an abuse of the labor market, then what is? even the 'teaching jobs' there pay less than a living wage. I have no idea how the people who 'work' there get by, I really don't.
I'm out of work right now, and I'm not in the a-d catagory.
you forgot others, such as:
E. born and raise here, therefore not abusable.
F. experienced (ie, 'older person'). IT hates us, for some reason.
G. willing to take jobs I'm overqualified for, but automatically passed over.
I highly resent the notion that those of us out of work are 'worthless and lazy'.
I hope you get a taste of this. and you will, in a few years from now (bwahahaha....). see how YOU like it when its YOUR turn.
would you go so far as to say it whips the llama's ass? or not quite that far?