the exploits that the US SPOOKS want to keep, they keep and they tell the antivir companies NOT to report on.
that makes all of them - 100% of them - completely untrustworthy. afterall, if their virus check lets to so-called good guys' malware thru, what if you don't think the good guys ARE good guys? and today, a lot of us don't think our own good guys are all that, well, 'good'.
how much could the russians fuck me over? personally - me? not very much. chinese? not very much. US? a whole fucking lot!
I have more to fear from my own so-called good guys than I ever will have to worry about from the foreign 'bad guys'.
this black and white view has to stop. people need to learn that there are many grey levels and giving 100% trust to anyone is a mistake, in today's world.
since the whole antivir space is highly political, I choose not to buy any of their products. if my system gets fucked, I'll reinstall. but then again, I rarely use windows anymore and almost never do I do anything on a public network with windows.
its sad that the US vendors are buying this BS story about one antivir company being 'good' and the other being 'bad'. then again, I bet the decision is made for them, if you get my drift. yet another reason our good guys aren't quite so good anymore.
I don't think I'd like working for you. Your question demonstrates unfocused requirement specifications and unclear goals.
I'm not so sure. maybe I see where he's coming from.
I could probably talk for 4 hours about everything that goes on, as he asks. but, see, I've been 'doing computers' since I was in my teens and I'm mid 50's now. I have designed hardware, networking code (on production routers, switches), I have enough background in the os, the network stack, even the circuits and cabling and can talk to some physical layer stuff. I could fill 4 hours with lots of 'this talks to that, this then will trigger that' and so on.
if I was asking that and I saw only surface level answers, I'd know that there was not a lot of depth, OR curiosity. someone who does their job so they can pay the bills, rather than being in the profession due to passion.
I work in networking and I was interviewing candidates for our open jobs and asked something along those lines. you ping this host, tell me as much as you can about what goes on, and where.
and usually, they run out of things to say in 2 minutes, if even that.
before ACA, my insurance was always going up. always. never once did it level off or go down.
ACA happened. they can no longer deny people because of 'pre-conditions' (whatever the hell that really means).
but the prices are still going up.
guess what, rent goes up. cost of food goes up. my salary? well, not so much. the rich want to keep paying us as little as possible, of course.
but to blame ACA for health insurance costs is beyond stupid. no matter WHAT happens, the rich will seize any chance to rob us all blind.
but again, at least they can't cancel us because of pre-conditions. what was a huge win. if you don't understand, maybe you will once you get to a certain age and have lost your 100% perfect health, as we ALL do, over time!
oh, quit it. we all know what censorship DOES and what its INTENT is.
fuck what the 'dictionary definition' is.
the gist is: the powerful have the ability to silence those that they don't agree with.
in modern amerika, there is no difference (or damned little) between the KIND and AMOUNT of power held by government and big corps.
as long as its a big guy using his strength to silence a little guy, its censorship. the 'old' def is no longer accurate and to quote it is a misguided way to deflect what's going on.
corps are proxies for government. anytime a government does not want to get caught doing something it is not 'supposed' to be doing, it hires a corp. they do their dirty work.
this is why your def is no longer valid. corps are gov, by proxy. and the corps own all the power (first they get the sugar, then they get the power, THEN they get the women!)
when people feel that they are constantly cheated and lied to, well, they start to lose faith in the system. when they are fucked repeatedly, they just say 'the hell with it' and do whatever they feel like.
the companies have had control for WAY too long and there is no balance. we still have DRM and all that goes with it.
I don't weep one bit for media companies. they are all thieves and so if we are 'thieves', we have at least created our own form of balance.
I sleep well at night. and I pirate. if you don't, that's you; but I'm going to do what I want, when the power brokers all seem to tilt the rules their way.
treat me fair, I'll treat you fair. treat me like shit and you'll get the same back at you.
and its not about entitlement. unless, of course, you mean the mega corps who think they have a RIGHT to keep charging rent over and over again for the right to view or hear things.
fuck them. I weep not one tear for the rich.1% who own everything and keep it all to themselves.
yes, its gotton to this. and it will get worse, too.
'do the right thing' went out the window decades ago.
the new game is: screw unto other before others can screw unto you.
or, restated, do whatever you can, ethics or not, as long as you make money. customer rights? not relevant. fair use? not relevant. DRM? yup, still there and still a PITA.
I gave up trying to care, anymore. the rich guys pay no taxes, have offshore accounts, make their own laws and we little people have OUR laws (which are enforced, unlike laws for rich folks and corps).
I look at all this and say: why is it that THEY get to bend/break rules and get away with it, and yet we're expected to just keep following the ones set down FOR US?
after I thought about it, I stopped wanting to be their fool and their sucker.
I torrent and could not care less about their profits or business model. they do whatever they want and they get away with it, and so I'll fight fire with fire and do whatever the fuck I want.
countless interviews over the last 10 years have been filled with entirely indian employees and I'm the only american there in the group (applying). once I had a job where I was working in redwood city for a US corp, at their corp HQ and I was the only american engineer there (out of about 50 or 100, depending on how you count 'engineering'). I fully believe I was kept as the token white guy, but I sure felt out of place.
pet peeve of mine: you know a company culture is broken when the h1b's avoid english whenever possible and in the hallways, you hear mandarin and hindi and various other asian dialects.
are they talking about something work-related? maybe its a bug I could help with or some feature I know about? maybe its something useful I could benefit from by hearing that conversation. but no - its in hindi and I am made to feel like an outsider in my own country.
sadly, this is the rule rather than the exception in most bay area companies.
this is a sure indication that our culture is no longer respected or desired. no attempt to mix with locals and certainly no desire to HIRE them. again, unless the 'diversity officer' says that we need at least one white guy for show. oh, and for meetings; you can't have an all indian meeting when a vendor comes in. I can't tell you how many times I was asked to attend a meeting I had nothing to do with, just to show 'a white face' so that the customer might think there is some balance in hiring and development.
silicon valley is broken. it really is broken and running on fumes, at this point.
there are a lot of signs in the bay area that are not in english. some store or bar or something - and I have no idea what the hell that place is - but for some reason, its allowed to be that way and it actually offends me as its exclusionary to those who don't happen to speak that foreign language. dual language signs are fine, but when the sign is ONLY in some non-english script, I have a big problem with that.
it sends the message that its ok to NOT integrate with the american culture. this is a problem and it separates us.
I understand that those coming from another country will have to spend time and effort learning english. but if they NEED english to get by here and don't have the crutch to fall back on their own language, they'll be a lot more motivated to mix and and learn what america is about.
agreed; the ability to make them here, entirely from scratch silicon EXISTS. its BEYOND STUPID to send money to china for drones for the military! unbelievably stupid.
not only would it be good for our economy, but given the sensitive nature of military gear, NO parts from unfriendly nations (ie, almost all of them, at this point; lets be honest) should be put into such gear.
and since the military is not cost sensitive (like a consumer would be) there's zero reason to not make them here. they'll cost more, but they'll have an audit trail you can trust.
75ohm coax is the perfect thing for running spdif digital audio over.
if you ever want to have high-fi sound send to remote room, spdif over coax is the way.
don't go thru amps, though; the catv amps are not useful and could mess up the audio signal.
and coax is better than toslink fiber; the fiber is not fddi or aqua OM grade glass fiber and the toslink plastic is junk. it won't pass more than 96k samplerate where coax can go 192k and beyond.
the 'right' has had a grudge ever since 'that black guy' got into office. their whole mission in life has been, is, and will be - STIGGINIT. meaning, sticking it to 'the lefties'.
getting even.
getting their view of revenge.
against what?
against the NERVE of having a black man be president.
its just that simple. and yes, its just that bad! but I don't expect any righty to admit this to anyone but his dearest righty friends. afterall, you can't really SAY this in mixed company. unless 'company' is just big old bubba, who you know feels the same way you do.
flyovers ruin things for the rest of us. imagine that! the brainless can't think and deal at the level of 'I'm getting even with those liburals!'
you guys have set us all back decades. and yet, you'll always be too stupid to realize that you ruined your own future, too. some of you will need healthcare and some of you will NOT get it, if the R's get their way. and still, you'll keep beating the drum that the left is 'evil' and needs to be stopped at every turn.
The question is who were the rioters among the protesters.
likely, false flaggers. folks who wanted this to 'look bad' and make the protesters sorry they voiced their opinions.
very likely, it was all setup and staged to create the image the 'Right' (god, I hate how those misguides idiots stole the word 'right' for themselves; they are anything BUT right!) wanted.
we have given up being a nation of laws. power is all that matters. and THAT is one of the reasons people were protesting!
many of us have typed 'ifconfig' for decades. its sad to see a perfectly good command go away. yes, I know I can re-add it back, but taking it away because its not 100% perfect was just stupid.
if the POTUS offers 'the citizens' in general a back-channel to reach the POTUS (ie, a reply button) - but then denies it selectively based on personal whim, THAT is the problem that we are discussing.
if he made it broadcast-only, like classic old-school one-way media, then no one has a reply button. that's how things were up until we had this 'series of tubes' appear and, well, change everything.
small-hands wants to silence his critics and make his 'channel' appear to be nothing but good feelings and support from 'all' the people. and by deleting the ones you don't agree with, you censor the public. no other way to put it, you censor the public's replies based on arbitrary political criteria.
do you really think that's a good thing? is this the kind of country and society we want?
if he's allowing any comments, he must allow them all.
back in the ww2 days, the rich were heavily taxed and they were ok with it! back then, they realized that a tall wave lifts us all up.
now, they have given up caring, the old rich are near death and they want to hold onto their money, thinking they can take it with them (??). they don't generally give back (there are exceptions) and they fight tooth and nail to reject ANY responsibility to support the common infrastructure and all that. MINE MINE MINE - that's their motto. selfish pricks that deserve to suffer in pain and die, to be quite blunt about it.
since reagan, the rich have decided to stop contributing to the whole and just be stingy bastards. keep it all in their family and do all you can to avoid spreading it around.
like I said, I hope the rich all suffer in pain, come the next revolution. but that won't be for many years. in the meantime, we all suffer because of their extreme selfishness.
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or, rather, a full blown scam.
the exploits that the US SPOOKS want to keep, they keep and they tell the antivir companies NOT to report on.
that makes all of them - 100% of them - completely untrustworthy. afterall, if their virus check lets to so-called good guys' malware thru, what if you don't think the good guys ARE good guys? and today, a lot of us don't think our own good guys are all that, well, 'good'.
how much could the russians fuck me over? personally - me? not very much. chinese? not very much. US? a whole fucking lot!
I have more to fear from my own so-called good guys than I ever will have to worry about from the foreign 'bad guys'.
this black and white view has to stop. people need to learn that there are many grey levels and giving 100% trust to anyone is a mistake, in today's world.
since the whole antivir space is highly political, I choose not to buy any of their products. if my system gets fucked, I'll reinstall. but then again, I rarely use windows anymore and almost never do I do anything on a public network with windows.
its sad that the US vendors are buying this BS story about one antivir company being 'good' and the other being 'bad'. then again, I bet the decision is made for them, if you get my drift. yet another reason our good guys aren't quite so good anymore.
old joke, heard from the three stooges but probably pre-dates even them.
scene is a person reading a letter. last line of letter is:
"PS: if you didn't get this letter, let me know and I'll send it again"
lol
I don't think I'd like working for you. Your question demonstrates unfocused requirement specifications and unclear goals.
I'm not so sure. maybe I see where he's coming from.
I could probably talk for 4 hours about everything that goes on, as he asks. but, see, I've been 'doing computers' since I was in my teens and I'm mid 50's now. I have designed hardware, networking code (on production routers, switches), I have enough background in the os, the network stack, even the circuits and cabling and can talk to some physical layer stuff. I could fill 4 hours with lots of 'this talks to that, this then will trigger that' and so on.
if I was asking that and I saw only surface level answers, I'd know that there was not a lot of depth, OR curiosity. someone who does their job so they can pay the bills, rather than being in the profession due to passion.
I work in networking and I was interviewing candidates for our open jobs and asked something along those lines. you ping this host, tell me as much as you can about what goes on, and where.
and usually, they run out of things to say in 2 minutes, if even that.
this is in silicon valley, no less.
we'll, uhm, "do the read-ful" for you!
I have servers at home. and so, they are probably spying on my 8x as much.
before ACA, my insurance was always going up. always. never once did it level off or go down.
ACA happened. they can no longer deny people because of 'pre-conditions' (whatever the hell that really means).
but the prices are still going up.
guess what, rent goes up. cost of food goes up. my salary? well, not so much. the rich want to keep paying us as little as possible, of course.
but to blame ACA for health insurance costs is beyond stupid. no matter WHAT happens, the rich will seize any chance to rob us all blind.
but again, at least they can't cancel us because of pre-conditions. what was a huge win. if you don't understand, maybe you will once you get to a certain age and have lost your 100% perfect health, as we ALL do, over time!
cows give milk and meat.
what has jesus done for any of us, lately?
personally, I pray to joe pesci. that baseball bat is amazingly effective.
oh, quit it. we all know what censorship DOES and what its INTENT is.
fuck what the 'dictionary definition' is.
the gist is: the powerful have the ability to silence those that they don't agree with.
in modern amerika, there is no difference (or damned little) between the KIND and AMOUNT of power held by government and big corps.
as long as its a big guy using his strength to silence a little guy, its censorship. the 'old' def is no longer accurate and to quote it is a misguided way to deflect what's going on.
corps are proxies for government. anytime a government does not want to get caught doing something it is not 'supposed' to be doing, it hires a corp. they do their dirty work.
this is why your def is no longer valid. corps are gov, by proxy. and the corps own all the power (first they get the sugar, then they get the power, THEN they get the women!)
when people feel that they are constantly cheated and lied to, well, they start to lose faith in the system. when they are fucked repeatedly, they just say 'the hell with it' and do whatever they feel like.
the companies have had control for WAY too long and there is no balance. we still have DRM and all that goes with it.
I don't weep one bit for media companies. they are all thieves and so if we are 'thieves', we have at least created our own form of balance.
I sleep well at night. and I pirate. if you don't, that's you; but I'm going to do what I want, when the power brokers all seem to tilt the rules their way.
treat me fair, I'll treat you fair. treat me like shit and you'll get the same back at you.
and its not about entitlement. unless, of course, you mean the mega corps who think they have a RIGHT to keep charging rent over and over again for the right to view or hear things.
fuck them. I weep not one tear for the rich .1% who own everything and keep it all to themselves.
yes, its gotton to this. and it will get worse, too.
'do the right thing' went out the window decades ago.
the new game is: screw unto other before others can screw unto you.
or, restated, do whatever you can, ethics or not, as long as you make money. customer rights? not relevant. fair use? not relevant. DRM? yup, still there and still a PITA.
I gave up trying to care, anymore. the rich guys pay no taxes, have offshore accounts, make their own laws and we little people have OUR laws (which are enforced, unlike laws for rich folks and corps).
I look at all this and say: why is it that THEY get to bend/break rules and get away with it, and yet we're expected to just keep following the ones set down FOR US?
after I thought about it, I stopped wanting to be their fool and their sucker.
I torrent and could not care less about their profits or business model. they do whatever they want and they get away with it, and so I'll fight fire with fire and do whatever the fuck I want.
yes, its gotton to that.
age is not a protected class (is it? I doubt it).
I see this, too.
countless interviews over the last 10 years have been filled with entirely indian employees and I'm the only american there in the group (applying). once I had a job where I was working in redwood city for a US corp, at their corp HQ and I was the only american engineer there (out of about 50 or 100, depending on how you count 'engineering'). I fully believe I was kept as the token white guy, but I sure felt out of place.
pet peeve of mine: you know a company culture is broken when the h1b's avoid english whenever possible and in the hallways, you hear mandarin and hindi and various other asian dialects.
are they talking about something work-related? maybe its a bug I could help with or some feature I know about? maybe its something useful I could benefit from by hearing that conversation. but no - its in hindi and I am made to feel like an outsider in my own country.
sadly, this is the rule rather than the exception in most bay area companies.
this is a sure indication that our culture is no longer respected or desired. no attempt to mix with locals and certainly no desire to HIRE them. again, unless the 'diversity officer' says that we need at least one white guy for show. oh, and for meetings; you can't have an all indian meeting when a vendor comes in. I can't tell you how many times I was asked to attend a meeting I had nothing to do with, just to show 'a white face' so that the customer might think there is some balance in hiring and development.
silicon valley is broken. it really is broken and running on fumes, at this point.
there are a lot of signs in the bay area that are not in english. some store or bar or something - and I have no idea what the hell that place is - but for some reason, its allowed to be that way and it actually offends me as its exclusionary to those who don't happen to speak that foreign language. dual language signs are fine, but when the sign is ONLY in some non-english script, I have a big problem with that.
it sends the message that its ok to NOT integrate with the american culture. this is a problem and it separates us.
I understand that those coming from another country will have to spend time and effort learning english. but if they NEED english to get by here and don't have the crutch to fall back on their own language, they'll be a lot more motivated to mix and and learn what america is about.
agreed; the ability to make them here, entirely from scratch silicon EXISTS. its BEYOND STUPID to send money to china for drones for the military! unbelievably stupid.
not only would it be good for our economy, but given the sensitive nature of military gear, NO parts from unfriendly nations (ie, almost all of them, at this point; lets be honest) should be put into such gear.
and since the military is not cost sensitive (like a consumer would be) there's zero reason to not make them here. they'll cost more, but they'll have an audit trail you can trust.
75ohm coax is the perfect thing for running spdif digital audio over.
if you ever want to have high-fi sound send to remote room, spdif over coax is the way.
don't go thru amps, though; the catv amps are not useful and could mess up the audio signal.
and coax is better than toslink fiber; the fiber is not fddi or aqua OM grade glass fiber and the toslink plastic is junk. it won't pass more than 96k samplerate where coax can go 192k and beyond.
you are thinking about this too much.
the answer is blindingly simple.
the 'right' has had a grudge ever since 'that black guy' got into office. their whole mission in life has been, is, and will be - STIGGINIT. meaning, sticking it to 'the lefties'.
getting even.
getting their view of revenge.
against what?
against the NERVE of having a black man be president.
its just that simple. and yes, its just that bad! but I don't expect any righty to admit this to anyone but his dearest righty friends. afterall, you can't really SAY this in mixed company. unless 'company' is just big old bubba, who you know feels the same way you do.
flyovers ruin things for the rest of us. imagine that! the brainless can't think and deal at the level of 'I'm getting even with those liburals!'
you guys have set us all back decades. and yet, you'll always be too stupid to realize that you ruined your own future, too. some of you will need healthcare and some of you will NOT get it, if the R's get their way. and still, you'll keep beating the drum that the left is 'evil' and needs to be stopped at every turn.
sigh.......
The question is who were the rioters among the protesters.
likely, false flaggers. folks who wanted this to 'look bad' and make the protesters sorry they voiced their opinions.
very likely, it was all setup and staged to create the image the 'Right' (god, I hate how those misguides idiots stole the word 'right' for themselves; they are anything BUT right!) wanted.
we have given up being a nation of laws. power is all that matters. and THAT is one of the reasons people were protesting!
dammit.
...and less than $5 for a blue pill that runs rings around the curie chip.
no one on the 'americas greatest makers' tv show got their custom board to work, even WITH intel's 'expert' help.
that says it all.
curie is dead. its not coming back. and its a good thing, too.
it had silicon bugs that simply cannot be fixed in software.
it needs to die.
(I worked on curie, but I cant' say more than that for various reasons)
you don't want brasero; you want cdrskin.
it has a better back-end engine. the other burner apps seem to have gone way backwards since they first worked, some 5+ yrs ago.
many of us have typed 'ifconfig' for decades. its sad to see a perfectly good command go away. yes, I know I can re-add it back, but taking it away because its not 100% perfect was just stupid.
how about stigginit to init with sigint?
(head asplodes)
so many things, I would have done; but clouds got in my way...
if the POTUS offers 'the citizens' in general a back-channel to reach the POTUS (ie, a reply button) - but then denies it selectively based on personal whim, THAT is the problem that we are discussing.
if he made it broadcast-only, like classic old-school one-way media, then no one has a reply button. that's how things were up until we had this 'series of tubes' appear and, well, change everything.
small-hands wants to silence his critics and make his 'channel' appear to be nothing but good feelings and support from 'all' the people. and by deleting the ones you don't agree with, you censor the public. no other way to put it, you censor the public's replies based on arbitrary political criteria.
do you really think that's a good thing? is this the kind of country and society we want?
if he's allowing any comments, he must allow them all.
stay classy, donald. (sigh)
back in the ww2 days, the rich were heavily taxed and they were ok with it! back then, they realized that a tall wave lifts us all up.
now, they have given up caring, the old rich are near death and they want to hold onto their money, thinking they can take it with them (??). they don't generally give back (there are exceptions) and they fight tooth and nail to reject ANY responsibility to support the common infrastructure and all that. MINE MINE MINE - that's their motto. selfish pricks that deserve to suffer in pain and die, to be quite blunt about it.
since reagan, the rich have decided to stop contributing to the whole and just be stingy bastards. keep it all in their family and do all you can to avoid spreading it around.
like I said, I hope the rich all suffer in pain, come the next revolution. but that won't be for many years. in the meantime, we all suffer because of their extreme selfishness.