in the future, it will be done by 'cheap world labor'. ie, NOT YOU. I see every day in the bay area; there are so few americans doing software work in silicon valley, that you only have to connect the dots to see that this field is QUICKLY DRYING UP and won't be viable for US based folks (who want to be above poverty level) in the future.
maybe 5 yrs, maybe 10 yrs. 20 yrs tops. it shows all signs of going to 3rd world countries who can 'think and work remotely'.
thinking jobs (or IP jobs) just don't make sense locally anymore. companies don't want to pay (in their minds, 'overpay') and I don't see this trend reversing (how could it? we are greedy capitalists and don't care for our fellow locals; and so since cost is ALL that matters, it WON'T be done in the US anymore).
so, putting your kids thru college for software? what a waste of time, money and disservice to THEM!
I hate this. I spent my whole friggin life being good at software and gaining tons of (what I thought was) valuable experience. but its not valued! only 'time to market, speed and low cost' matters. quality is a has-been.
sure, there are some counter examples, but being a bay area resident for over quarter of a century, I've seen this trend and its a very obvious clear trend to anyone who's been here long enough. there USED to be a good software job market here. now, its drying up and all you see in companies are h1b's! and soon, even those won't be viable anymore.
please, see the writing on the wall. save your kids the upset and expense of going into a field that has, by the time they are ready for it, dried up.
very sad. depressing. but lets be honest, here. we all see this, don't we?
and they wonder why there is a 'war on content owners/providers' by torrent/usenet fans.
they wont' play by the rules, they keep changing them and they do everything they can to swindle cheat and lie to us.
and so, we have 100% lost all respect for them.
horse has already left the barn. I stopped paying for content years ago after I decided that what's good for the goose is good for the gander. they wont' honor rules and so neithe will I.
look, content guys, this is a war you'll never win. you really want to 'bring it'? the young generation knows about vpns, torrents and how to get around DRM. most of the young friends I have cut the cord and no longer pay for cable or satellite, no longer rent movies and no longer buy them.
so, you still want to have a war with us?
as morgan freeman said in the batman/dark knight movie, "well, good luck with that".
perhaps a proxy (outside the phone) would help? yes, its another box and its not going to work for cell data; you'd have to wifi thru that proxy box and that would connect to cellular or some other net connection.
I would like to know how apple people deal with the 'locked browser' stuff and if anyone has figured out a way to get the same level of adblocking as, say, a rooted android with the right apps installed.
(almost funny to think about it: but a cheap old used android that is rooted could be the REAL cellular-to-wifi gateway, it can proxy and block ads and then your phone would only run wifi, at least for browsing. yes, you'd carry 2 phones but you'd USE the iphone and the other android phone would just be in your pocket, hidden).
the 'raw internet' is unusable (for me) unless there are good blockers, so if there is really no good way to do this natively on an iphone, I guess any hopes I had of someday buying an iphone will have disappeared. I refuse to be FORCED into the raw internet. its not worth using if that's the case.
if there is a 10+ track record of this working and NOT being a walking privacy violation, maybe I'll consider it then.
right now, network and system security is quite bad, across the board on ALL computer platforms. mobile is a 'sell the users' info' clusterfuck and so no players are to be trusted. its too sleazy of a market and all the bad players were attracted to it.
are informed people (yeah, there are so few of those around) really willing to give this a try? boggle!
yup. sucks to be a website owner, these days, I guess.
but also sucks to be LOTS of people. I have my problems and don't expect anyone to care about my income issues. I could give a rats ass about their problems, as well.
the internet started out right, then got ruined by ad-men. so, they get what they get. they fucked it all up and this is what we are left with.
I could care less about website operators. if one goes away, 10 more will pop up. like other things, its a race to the bottom.
until we get micropayments and stop the advertising bullshit, I simply will not care. I don't owe them any living, just like they owe me nothing.
its a control technique. the power class keeps the country in check by keeping us in a constant state of war or 'terror'. and there's an extra dose of fear dished out to parents by the power class; they want them to be in fear, locally (since global terror may not be enough to scare you into submission).
The next fuckstick who mentions "why I live in fear" can get a nice kick in the ass if they like or a kick in the nutsack, your choice.
THIS is why (well, one major reason) why I decided, conciously, to not have kids. parents seem, well, a bit looney. having kids seems to drive sane adults insane.
and in this guy's case, to threats of violence.
sheesh. take a chill pill. or borrow one of your son's/daughter's.
being a parent makes you think you and your offspring are the center of the universe. you want 100% safety for your family. and the fact that it cannot be achieved simply drives you insane.
also, look at voyage linux for ideas on how to mount things RO. you can turn power off on voyage and it won't matter. its a bit of a hassle to add pkgs to and to keep it inline with voyage's ideas, but for an embedded player, its not a bad starting point.
voyage just announced they plan to work with the pi (arm), too.
and voyage does not use systemd!!!! (at least I don't think they do; it would make no sense for them, either, as they truly are embedded and not a multiuser host)
I have always joked about perl being a 'write-only language'. and it many cases, when I look at perl code, I have zero idea what the hell is going on. reminds me of APL (which is not a good thing).
I recently 'converted' over to python and while the indentation was a bad idea (I've seen posted code be ruined simply due to posting procedures ruining the indenting on web forms) and the v2 vs v3 stuff is really broken and a bad idea, the language at least is headed in the right direction and the v2/v3 stuff will fade away over time.
at this point, given how much demand there is for python devs, I would not spend even a single minute learning perl (unless there is an existing project codebase that cannot be converted). all new development would be in python, for any project that needs scripting. the richness of the rtl libs are about the same; both have full libraries that can do anything you'd want to do.
perl's syntax is just weird and its time to let that language finally die...
Credible threats have consequences. Threatening to magically make someone magically vanish lacks credibility.
hang on, this is TEXAS. bible thumpers live in (and control) that state. they make their whole world view on 'invisible sky wizards'. and they fully believe that gods and demons and angels and shit like that actually do exist!
again, we have to start with religion, if we are to blame anything, here. and, as usual, texas is 'full of it'...
remove religion and you won't have weak minds thinking about magic being actually real and fearing it.
oh right, those are NOT illegal and NOT 'against society'.
we should just let texas leave the US and be their own country. florida, too. in fact, take most of the Old South with them. good riddance, too.
this stuff would almost be funny if it wasn't actually being taken seriously by the zero-tol automatons.
its been said many times before: what WILL we end up with, in this coming generation, when this is what teachers are allowed to do to the minds of students? it looks like we are seeing the movie 'idiocracy' actually come to be!;(
I use virtualbox over vmware player for one main reason: nested VMs. one of the companies I worked for used nested vms (sigh) and vmware player would not work. kvm/qemu would, but its mgmt interface is 'difficult' to say the least.
btw, virtualbox is broken with 3.17 kernels and beyond. still no fix in sight that I've been able to find;(
average user wont be able to, but many hobbiest users will.
once the code is done and an example circuit is created, its just copy and paste. hell, I'd do a sample just for grins. I find the whole idea WRONG to put limits in the code like this, so I'd be happy to write some sample code that will remap gps data on a serial line. but seriously, its not at all hard.
gps modules almost always use low speed serial (ttl) comms.
it would be trivial (50 lines of C code, maybe much much less) to have a cpu (even attiny) in the middle between the gps module and the rest of the brain. when the x,y values come back and its inside a 'nfz' it could easily be remapped (in simple ascii) to NOT be in nfz. perhaps if you are near a nfz, it would go into auto-offset mode and add a fixed x,y value so that it thinks its miles away. then you compensate for it at the ground level when you program its course.
would not be hard at all.
waste of time to try to disallow x,y values for things like this. anyone here who spent a few weeks on even a simple arduino could do this remapping in an afternoon.
*secure* is my big issue, these days. without security being well thought out, iot stuff can be a disaster. and I'm not seeing a lot of thought (not really) being put into the whole iot stuff, which worries me a lot.
snmp is a red herring. it won't ever be used for iot and doesn't make sense there, other than to manage the systems that hold the sensors. (speaking as a seasoned snmp guy who spent 25+ yrs doing snmp for lots of big co's).
one data point for you: in the Eiot stuff that I worked on (e = enterprise) we used 'usb sensors' (analog and digital sensors that went to an a/d dongle, then into usb, then into a usb-ip bridge of sorts). this feed power (poe) to the sensors using existing poe infra at big companies and you only have to have cat5 cables to get power and ip connectivity to your sensors.
iot is a superset and includes low-end stuff (for us consumers) and high-end stuff for industry; and when its for industry, its 'eiot'.
(ob disc: I spent some 25+ yrs in the SNMP field; now working in IoT, at least I was until my last gig finished)
snmp has absolutely zero to do with IoT. snmp is a good (...) netmgt protocol that is very lightweight, standard (well...) and has been around for a few decades. as you know, its poller-based, mostly, with traps there as accelerants to help pollers zoom in, faster, to any events worth knowing about. snmp sucks for streaming loads of data upwards and really has no mechanism for that. has no mechanism for filtering at its source or data compression for transport.
what you want for IoT is to have, essentially, endless streams of source data going thru 'smart filters' along the way (last place I was at, we used 'hacked routers' to do our smart filtering) and then getting to some analysis node. the node may just collect data or it may run some rules and decide if a 'talk back' is needed or some control/feedback loop to change something in the real world.
the 2 cases are really different. snmp is 'slow' and never EVER realtime (not even traps, technically) and is mostly poller based (req/response). IoT is 'transmit continuously' based and MUST have low latency and a reliable (tcp) transport for all its crucial data points.
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in the future, it will be done by 'cheap world labor'. ie, NOT YOU. I see every day in the bay area; there are so few americans doing software work in silicon valley, that you only have to connect the dots to see that this field is QUICKLY DRYING UP and won't be viable for US based folks (who want to be above poverty level) in the future.
maybe 5 yrs, maybe 10 yrs. 20 yrs tops. it shows all signs of going to 3rd world countries who can 'think and work remotely'.
thinking jobs (or IP jobs) just don't make sense locally anymore. companies don't want to pay (in their minds, 'overpay') and I don't see this trend reversing (how could it? we are greedy capitalists and don't care for our fellow locals; and so since cost is ALL that matters, it WON'T be done in the US anymore).
so, putting your kids thru college for software? what a waste of time, money and disservice to THEM!
I hate this. I spent my whole friggin life being good at software and gaining tons of (what I thought was) valuable experience. but its not valued! only 'time to market, speed and low cost' matters. quality is a has-been.
sure, there are some counter examples, but being a bay area resident for over quarter of a century, I've seen this trend and its a very obvious clear trend to anyone who's been here long enough. there USED to be a good software job market here. now, its drying up and all you see in companies are h1b's! and soon, even those won't be viable anymore.
please, see the writing on the wall. save your kids the upset and expense of going into a field that has, by the time they are ready for it, dried up.
very sad. depressing. but lets be honest, here. we all see this, don't we?
and they wonder why there is a 'war on content owners/providers' by torrent/usenet fans.
they wont' play by the rules, they keep changing them and they do everything they can to swindle cheat and lie to us.
and so, we have 100% lost all respect for them.
horse has already left the barn. I stopped paying for content years ago after I decided that what's good for the goose is good for the gander. they wont' honor rules and so neithe will I.
look, content guys, this is a war you'll never win. you really want to 'bring it'? the young generation knows about vpns, torrents and how to get around DRM. most of the young friends I have cut the cord and no longer pay for cable or satellite, no longer rent movies and no longer buy them.
so, you still want to have a war with us?
as morgan freeman said in the batman/dark knight movie, "well, good luck with that".
perhaps a proxy (outside the phone) would help? yes, its another box and its not going to work for cell data; you'd have to wifi thru that proxy box and that would connect to cellular or some other net connection.
I would like to know how apple people deal with the 'locked browser' stuff and if anyone has figured out a way to get the same level of adblocking as, say, a rooted android with the right apps installed.
(almost funny to think about it: but a cheap old used android that is rooted could be the REAL cellular-to-wifi gateway, it can proxy and block ads and then your phone would only run wifi, at least for browsing. yes, you'd carry 2 phones but you'd USE the iphone and the other android phone would just be in your pocket, hidden).
the 'raw internet' is unusable (for me) unless there are good blockers, so if there is really no good way to do this natively on an iphone, I guess any hopes I had of someday buying an iphone will have disappeared. I refuse to be FORCED into the raw internet. its not worth using if that's the case.
oh, how cute. a guy who thinks that the system can work for him. a little guy. yeah, really, how cute is that!
the system will not work for you. by design.
(unless you're very rich or well connected. but posting on slash? nah, you're not rich or connected, just disconnected from actual reality.)
best of luck when the government comes after you. the constitution stopped being our rule book a decade or so, ago.
read the faq on the canarywatch site.
according to them (fwiw) they say they have never heard of any court forcing 'false truths' to be made via nsl's.
so, they can force you to shut up, but they can't 'compel speech' and especially not false speech (lies).
(only the cops, judges, politicians and various TLAs can lie. they can't force *us* to lie. ... )
if there is a 10+ track record of this working and NOT being a walking privacy violation, maybe I'll consider it then.
right now, network and system security is quite bad, across the board on ALL computer platforms. mobile is a 'sell the users' info' clusterfuck and so no players are to be trusted. its too sleazy of a market and all the bad players were attracted to it.
are informed people (yeah, there are so few of those around) really willing to give this a try? boggle!
palemoon had problems (I gave up, maybe they fixed it) with flash and/or youtube.
for some reason, they are not compatible with many plugins and this was a dealbreaker for me.
i tried it for months but had to abandon it. sadly.
yup. sucks to be a website owner, these days, I guess.
but also sucks to be LOTS of people. I have my problems and don't expect anyone to care about my income issues. I could give a rats ass about their problems, as well.
the internet started out right, then got ruined by ad-men. so, they get what they get. they fucked it all up and this is what we are left with.
I could care less about website operators. if one goes away, 10 more will pop up. like other things, its a race to the bottom.
until we get micropayments and stop the advertising bullshit, I simply will not care. I don't owe them any living, just like they owe me nothing.
They are all looking for IP pirates.
"you are under arrest. give back that dotted-quad you stole, you scumbag!"
"(he says he only has 24 bits on him.)"
"shake him down, we'll find where the rest of those bits are!"
its a control technique. the power class keeps the country in check by keeping us in a constant state of war or 'terror'. and there's an extra dose of fear dished out to parents by the power class; they want them to be in fear, locally (since global terror may not be enough to scare you into submission).
once you think about this, its pretty obvious.
The next fuckstick who mentions "why I live in fear" can get a nice kick in the ass if they like or a kick in the nutsack, your choice.
THIS is why (well, one major reason) why I decided, conciously, to not have kids. parents seem, well, a bit looney. having kids seems to drive sane adults insane.
and in this guy's case, to threats of violence.
sheesh. take a chill pill. or borrow one of your son's/daughter's.
being a parent makes you think you and your offspring are the center of the universe. you want 100% safety for your family. and the fact that it cannot be achieved simply drives you insane.
But the teacher learned the popular children's encyclopedia had a section on pregnancy, depicting a pregnant woman in an illustration, he explained.
hang on, don't teachers usually already know about pregnancy and all that adult type stuff? this teacher just learned about it NOW?
maybe the kids should be teaching class...
also, look at voyage linux for ideas on how to mount things RO. you can turn power off on voyage and it won't matter. its a bit of a hassle to add pkgs to and to keep it inline with voyage's ideas, but for an embedded player, its not a bad starting point.
voyage just announced they plan to work with the pi (arm), too.
and voyage does not use systemd!!!! (at least I don't think they do; it would make no sense for them, either, as they truly are embedded and not a multiuser host)
'violence problems' are a red herring.
all indications are that crime has GONE DOWN over the decades, not up!
and if you're worried about your little snowflake, chances are that its someone you know that may abduct him or her, not some 'stranger danger' guy.
stop being afraid of goddamned shadows. living in fear is no way to live. man up, dammit.
fuck that 'its not nice to threaten' bullshit.
this is clearly the ongoing pussification of america.
this generation must be so fragile, they are made of glass. I fear for the US when these kids become voting and controlling adults, years from now ;(
I have always joked about perl being a 'write-only language'. and it many cases, when I look at perl code, I have zero idea what the hell is going on. reminds me of APL (which is not a good thing).
I recently 'converted' over to python and while the indentation was a bad idea (I've seen posted code be ruined simply due to posting procedures ruining the indenting on web forms) and the v2 vs v3 stuff is really broken and a bad idea, the language at least is headed in the right direction and the v2/v3 stuff will fade away over time.
at this point, given how much demand there is for python devs, I would not spend even a single minute learning perl (unless there is an existing project codebase that cannot be converted). all new development would be in python, for any project that needs scripting. the richness of the rtl libs are about the same; both have full libraries that can do anything you'd want to do.
perl's syntax is just weird and its time to let that language finally die...
Credible threats have consequences. Threatening to magically make someone magically vanish lacks credibility.
hang on, this is TEXAS. bible thumpers live in (and control) that state. they make their whole world view on 'invisible sky wizards'. and they fully believe that gods and demons and angels and shit like that actually do exist!
again, we have to start with religion, if we are to blame anything, here. and, as usual, texas is 'full of it'...
remove religion and you won't have weak minds thinking about magic being actually real and fearing it.
right, threats should be outlawed.
like the last few that my boss gave me.
oh right, those are NOT illegal and NOT 'against society'.
we should just let texas leave the US and be their own country. florida, too. in fact, take most of the Old South with them. good riddance, too.
this stuff would almost be funny if it wasn't actually being taken seriously by the zero-tol automatons.
its been said many times before: what WILL we end up with, in this coming generation, when this is what teachers are allowed to do to the minds of students? it looks like we are seeing the movie 'idiocracy' actually come to be! ;(
I use virtualbox over vmware player for one main reason: nested VMs. one of the companies I worked for used nested vms (sigh) and vmware player would not work. kvm/qemu would, but its mgmt interface is 'difficult' to say the least.
btw, virtualbox is broken with 3.17 kernels and beyond. still no fix in sight that I've been able to find ;(
average user wont be able to, but many hobbiest users will.
once the code is done and an example circuit is created, its just copy and paste. hell, I'd do a sample just for grins. I find the whole idea WRONG to put limits in the code like this, so I'd be happy to write some sample code that will remap gps data on a serial line. but seriously, its not at all hard.
gps modules almost always use low speed serial (ttl) comms.
it would be trivial (50 lines of C code, maybe much much less) to have a cpu (even attiny) in the middle between the gps module and the rest of the brain. when the x,y values come back and its inside a 'nfz' it could easily be remapped (in simple ascii) to NOT be in nfz. perhaps if you are near a nfz, it would go into auto-offset mode and add a fixed x,y value so that it thinks its miles away. then you compensate for it at the ground level when you program its course.
would not be hard at all.
waste of time to try to disallow x,y values for things like this. anyone here who spent a few weeks on even a simple arduino could do this remapping in an afternoon.
*secure* is my big issue, these days. without security being well thought out, iot stuff can be a disaster. and I'm not seeing a lot of thought (not really) being put into the whole iot stuff, which worries me a lot.
snmp is a red herring. it won't ever be used for iot and doesn't make sense there, other than to manage the systems that hold the sensors. (speaking as a seasoned snmp guy who spent 25+ yrs doing snmp for lots of big co's).
one data point for you: in the Eiot stuff that I worked on (e = enterprise) we used 'usb sensors' (analog and digital sensors that went to an a/d dongle, then into usb, then into a usb-ip bridge of sorts). this feed power (poe) to the sensors using existing poe infra at big companies and you only have to have cat5 cables to get power and ip connectivity to your sensors.
iot is a superset and includes low-end stuff (for us consumers) and high-end stuff for industry; and when its for industry, its 'eiot'.
(ob disc: I spent some 25+ yrs in the SNMP field; now working in IoT, at least I was until my last gig finished)
snmp has absolutely zero to do with IoT. snmp is a good (...) netmgt protocol that is very lightweight, standard (well...) and has been around for a few decades. as you know, its poller-based, mostly, with traps there as accelerants to help pollers zoom in, faster, to any events worth knowing about. snmp sucks for streaming loads of data upwards and really has no mechanism for that. has no mechanism for filtering at its source or data compression for transport.
what you want for IoT is to have, essentially, endless streams of source data going thru 'smart filters' along the way (last place I was at, we used 'hacked routers' to do our smart filtering) and then getting to some analysis node. the node may just collect data or it may run some rules and decide if a 'talk back' is needed or some control/feedback loop to change something in the real world.
the 2 cases are really different. snmp is 'slow' and never EVER realtime (not even traps, technically) and is mostly poller based (req/response). IoT is 'transmit continuously' based and MUST have low latency and a reliable (tcp) transport for all its crucial data points.
sorry, but IoT is nothing - NOTHING - about cellphones or mobile data. those come from USERS. this is not about USER data. its about DEVICE data.
think 'sensors' and you will be headed in the right direction.