First I tried all-caps. Then all lc; rejected, but the lameness filter basically told me how to "fix" (ie. spoof the lameness filter) it, so I put in some spaces.
I'm taking a class in perl, so I'm learning all about trial-and-error methods of getting stuff to work:)
Taking the recent congressional election as an example both Montana and Virginia were won with margins of less than 10,000 votes each.
Yes. And isn't it funny that these were the only two states in this election that differed significantly from Exit Polls? Odd, isn't it? Because in 2004, the Exit Polls were significantly off all over the country.
I think he wanted to convey that it wasn't taken by a half-fish-hybrid from Innsmouth. (where we might suspect a conflict of interest, and therefore, fraud.)
Voting machines are big business. BIG business. These are not shoestring operations, which means there's plenty of money to go around to attract the best and the brightest.
CEO's don't get rich by hiring the best and brightest. They get rich by scamming the board into giving them that money instead, and running the operation lean, and wining and dining government officials to standardize on their machines.
Why hire competent programmers when you can spend that money on a marble fountain for the garden in your front yard?
I think they did a shitty job of explaining how this hack worked in the movie. I don't know if they did that on purpose (out of fear of prosecution), or if they, themselves didn't really understand.
I think they ought to re-do this on Myth Busters, personally.
But the point is - I think how the guy did this was he hacked the USB Driver on the memory card device. From the standpoint of, even a technical person, who looks at the memory-card's file-system, what the Diebold representatives said (under oath) was true; there is no executable code on that card. But it's not true, as their 'hacker' proved in their test. If he can modify the data from the memory card during IO operations - then he can totally pwn the election. It's really kind of scary - but compared to all the other known vulnerabilities on various Diebold systems (most of which are fairly trivial), this hack is very technical, and might even require some special equipment.
From the audits the team did in TFM, the problems they found did not show this hack in action (certified tape differed from official totals) - and in order for THAT hack to work, you're relying on compliant election officials turning a blind eye to the fraud (which was readily apparent in the case they showed in the movie).
We allow two Corporatist parties (Democratic and Republican). We spice it up by tossing in a little corporate feudalism (certain industries support one party, other industries support the other), and a "culture war" sideshow to sell newsmedia advertisements.
But our politics are just as static here as they were in the old Soviet Union.
Yeah, they'll keep a windows client as "just a web browser" -
You're forgetting the MS Office draw. No "doctor, lawyer, and other guys" is going to standardize on Linux desktops, because there are no apps that run on Linux that help these guys do their business. The Open alternatives simply lack the integration and features of MS Office/Outlook.
At home - I don't need those applications - so I use a Unix based desktop. I think this is probably an adequate solution for most "developer-types" (as long as they aren't trying to develop dotNet or other win-specific apps).
At work, I need to coordinate my calendar with my co-workers for meetings, etc. I need to be able to authenticate to a Windows Domain, in order to get that data. And, we have a couple of special Windows-only apps, but I see the market trending away from that, and towards browser-based application services that are platform agnostic on the client-side. But Windows still has the Office apps all sewn up. And none of the open vendors has anything that comes close. I admit, they were making a lot of progress a couple of years ago in catching up, but my view is that they've pretty much sat still in the past two years or so.
I disagree that Linux has the server segment locked up.
Linux is an attractive solution for database servers, and web servers - But Linux can't server Windows apps (Citrix) - admittedly, that's a small segment. But Linux is not as convenient for hosting LDAP (or Authentication Services) as is a Windows Domain Controller running ActiveDirectory. If the majority of Desktops on a LAN are Windows, the only real cost-effective choice for authentication is Active Directory - which triggers a whole series of other choices like Windows for File Servers, Windows for their integrated Application Servers (.NET, MS SQL, IIS, etc.)
Expertise at setting up Linux to do authentication is vanishingly rare, and the solutions are very costly, and aren't as well integrated and pre-packaged as Active Directory. (as much as I'd like to see Active Directory get trounced in the market, and become utterly irrelevant).
I don't have any links to show you - but the notion that solar panels "age" is not actually true. (maybe google will find it for you, it was a site on "how to repair solar panels" or something like that).
It *IS* true, that a certain class of panels, manufactured a certain way, had a plastic substrate that turned brown over the years, and the panels lost a certain percent of efficiency. But for the most part, that manufacturing process is no longer used - and most panels will last long beyond their stated lifespan. There is breakage, yes, and connections break, and a very small percentage of capacity is lost over time. But not significantly in 10 years, or even 15 or 20.
....use just barely enough resources to get the job done and use up your people....
Exactly. Yet Another Scumbag Cheap-Labor-Conservative.
Don't forget, though, that while he's cutting his labor costs by sending less troops, he's also spending orders of magnitude MORE on boondoggle contracts (Halliburton) - which gets funnelled to corrupt execs - who support future Republican election campaigns.
Also - don't forget the PREDICTABLE result of the war in Iraq: bombings of oil pipelines and delivery infrastructure, taking oil off the market, spiking prices. What do commodities traders do when they can PREDICT a supply shortage (because they're planning on starting a war in Iraq)? - - recall: Woodward's account of maps of Iraq marked NOFRN shown to Saudi royals on the eve of the Iraq invasion; before Powell was even given a chance to look at them. . .
The Christian fundamentalists do not have enough numbers that you need only focus on them to win,
Their numbers are not their strength. It's the money. Churches are tax-exempt enterprises. For the amount of money they raise, they have very few costs. And as a bonus, by their very nature, they tend to attract a very gullible subset of people. (I'm not saying that all religious people are gullible, or that one must be gullible to be religious. I'm saying that there's a high proportion of religious people who are "religious" because they are gullible).
That combination is political dynamite - and precisely why Rove has been so successful with them.
I would like nothing more than a national discussion about the difference between "Goldwater Republicanism" and the current dishonest Republican religious appeal - especially their fake "Culture War".
I would also like an honest national discussion about war-profiteering. I work for a large defense contractor - and I believe in a strong national defense. But this current situation of corporate welfare and smarmy backroom deals is not healthy for this industry, and it is devastating to this nation, and in the long run, will make us far less secure.
He abandoned his party before the Democratic voters rejected him. There were very clear reasons why he was rejected, going all the way back to 98 when he was a pivotal vote in the Clinton Impeachment, and he not only came out against Clinton, but he issued a scathing statement. Lieberman may vote liberal - but he is a conservative - (and worse, a neocon) when it matters.
While I'm very disappointed that he managed to pull off a victory - I don't think this is going to help his political career in the long run. Yes, in the short term, he will continue to be a spoiler for any meaningful or positive change. But in the long run, it will cost him. Kissing Bush has consequences.
a handful of people cashed out filthy rich, a handful froze or starved to death, and most people came home exhausted and empty handed.
I came out fairly well, but I worked my ass off for it, and I earned every penny - even the stock options (which is what I miss the most). It put me in a position where I can almost pretend I'm middle-class. I do remember there were a lot of morons who earned unholy amounts of money by basically being buzzword-compliant sycophants.
Frankly - if IT hiring is coming back, the harbinger of that was clearly my Boss' insistence last month that everyone on his team read and discuss the "7-Habits of Highly Effective People" - (oh no, not another fucking "mission statement"! argh!).
My question is: can we recycle "synergy" and "paradigm"? Or do we have to make up new words?
Actually - HR stupidity played in my favor about 6 months back.
My employer posted an ad for a job, skillsets were kind of insane, but worse because they were asking for some very specific experience in products that are not very widely used - very specialized stuff. But since I have 14 years of experience, (3 here) I can say that it fit me fairly well. Had I been an external candidate, I would have been perfect.
I applied for the job, and they tried to turn me down. I had to write a 10-page letter with charts illustrating exactly what my experience was. They didn't even know what they had under their own roof. The manager wanted a new external applicant in addition to me. But I'd be dammned if I'd see a new hire come in at a higher level. When corporate HR got ahold of the letter, they relented, and I picked up my first significant raise in about 4 years. They opened a new position for an additional external candidate - and ended up having to settle for someone who didn't have even half of what they were asking for. No sweat; I ended up training him. Then another department snatched him away. Love it. It's almost like back in 1996.
My story isn't as bad as yours - but I took a hit in 2002 as well. I'll choose to validate your experience, rather than what is the typical slashdot response: "you didn't deserve that $35/hr job in the first place. . . (because the market wouldn't bear it)" - fuck that shit.
I'll gladly take a Mumbai salary. Just as soon as I have a Mumbai cost of living.
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heh - preview is your friend.
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First I tried all-caps.
Then all lc; rejected, but the lameness filter basically told me how to "fix" (ie. spoof the lameness filter) it, so I put in some spaces.
I'm taking a class in perl, so I'm learning all about trial-and-error methods of getting stuff to work
Taking the recent congressional election as an example both Montana and Virginia were won with margins of less than 10,000 votes each.
Yes. And isn't it funny that these were the only two states in this election that differed significantly from Exit Polls? Odd, isn't it? Because in 2004, the Exit Polls were significantly off all over the country.
I think he wanted to convey that it wasn't taken by a half-fish-hybrid from Innsmouth.
(where we might suspect a conflict of interest, and therefore, fraud.)
Couldn't be worse than what we have now.
At least Cthulhu would demand some sacrifice, instead of just pushing a bunch of Bond Issues.
The "perfect system" we designed here sucks.
It lacks one vital component.
A salesman who is golfing buddies with a US Senator.
Voting machines are big business. BIG business. These are not shoestring operations, which means there's plenty of money to go around to attract the best and the brightest.
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CEO's don't get rich by hiring the best and brightest. They get rich by scamming the board into giving them that money instead, and running the operation lean, and wining and dining government officials to standardize on their machines.
Why hire competent programmers when you can spend that money on a marble fountain for the garden in your front yard?
It is too funny.
Just not funny-ha-ha.
Yes -
WTFM!
I think they did a shitty job of explaining how this hack worked in the movie. I don't know if they did that on purpose (out of fear of prosecution), or if they, themselves didn't really understand.
I think they ought to re-do this on Myth Busters, personally.
But the point is - I think how the guy did this was he hacked the USB Driver on the memory card device. From the standpoint of, even a technical person, who looks at the memory-card's file-system, what the Diebold representatives said (under oath) was true; there is no executable code on that card. But it's not true, as their 'hacker' proved in their test. If he can modify the data from the memory card during IO operations - then he can totally pwn the election. It's really kind of scary - but compared to all the other known vulnerabilities on various Diebold systems (most of which are fairly trivial), this hack is very technical, and might even require some special equipment.
From the audits the team did in TFM, the problems they found did not show this hack in action (certified tape differed from official totals) - and in order for THAT hack to work, you're relying on compliant election officials turning a blind eye to the fraud (which was readily apparent in the case they showed in the movie).
Same damn thing here in the US.
We allow two Corporatist parties (Democratic and Republican).
We spice it up by tossing in a little corporate feudalism (certain industries support one party, other industries support the other), and a "culture war" sideshow to sell newsmedia advertisements.
But our politics are just as static here as they were in the old Soviet Union.
Yeah, they'll keep a windows client as "just a web browser" -
You're forgetting the MS Office draw. No "doctor, lawyer, and other guys" is going to standardize on Linux desktops, because there are no apps that run on Linux that help these guys do their business. The Open alternatives simply lack the integration and features of MS Office/Outlook.
At home - I don't need those applications - so I use a Unix based desktop.
I think this is probably an adequate solution for most "developer-types" (as long as they aren't trying to develop dotNet or other win-specific apps).
At work, I need to coordinate my calendar with my co-workers for meetings, etc. I need to be able to authenticate to a Windows Domain, in order to get that data. And, we have a couple of special Windows-only apps, but I see the market trending away from that, and towards browser-based application services that are platform agnostic on the client-side. But Windows still has the Office apps all sewn up. And none of the open vendors has anything that comes close. I admit, they were making a lot of progress a couple of years ago in catching up, but my view is that they've pretty much sat still in the past two years or so.
I disagree that Linux has the server segment locked up.
Linux is an attractive solution for database servers, and web servers -
But Linux can't server Windows apps (Citrix) - admittedly, that's a small segment.
But Linux is not as convenient for hosting LDAP (or Authentication Services) as is a Windows Domain Controller running ActiveDirectory. If the majority of Desktops on a LAN are Windows, the only real cost-effective choice for authentication is Active Directory - which triggers a whole series of other choices like Windows for File Servers, Windows for their integrated Application Servers (.NET, MS SQL, IIS, etc.)
Expertise at setting up Linux to do authentication is vanishingly rare, and the solutions are very costly, and aren't as well integrated and pre-packaged as Active Directory. (as much as I'd like to see Active Directory get trounced in the market, and become utterly irrelevant).
I don't have any links to show you - but the notion that solar panels "age" is not actually true.
(maybe google will find it for you, it was a site on "how to repair solar panels" or something like that).
It *IS* true, that a certain class of panels, manufactured a certain way, had a plastic substrate that turned brown over the years, and the panels lost a certain percent of efficiency. But for the most part, that manufacturing process is no longer used - and most panels will last long beyond their stated lifespan. There is breakage, yes, and connections break, and a very small percentage of capacity is lost over time. But not significantly in 10 years, or even 15 or 20.
....use just barely enough resources to get the job done and use up your people. ...
Exactly. Yet Another Scumbag Cheap-Labor-Conservative.
Don't forget, though, that while he's cutting his labor costs by sending less troops, he's also spending orders of magnitude MORE on boondoggle contracts (Halliburton) - which gets funnelled to corrupt execs - who support future Republican election campaigns.
Also - don't forget the PREDICTABLE result of the war in Iraq: bombings of oil pipelines and delivery infrastructure, taking oil off the market, spiking prices. What do commodities traders do when they can PREDICT a supply shortage (because they're planning on starting a war in Iraq)? - - recall: Woodward's account of maps of Iraq marked NOFRN shown to Saudi royals on the eve of the Iraq invasion; before Powell was even given a chance to look at them. . .
I honestly think Rumsfeld thought the Iraqi people would support him. . .
BS. The whole point of this war was to take oil off the market to game futures for $$$.
Money that will fund future Republican election campaigns. For more oil wars.
And by ironic coincidence, Daniel Ortega was just elected president of Nicaragua.
Interesting.
There is no illegal immigration problem.
We have an illegal employment problem.
Go after the employers, and they'll stop coming to this country for illegal jobs.
It's easier to go after hundreds of illegal employers than it is to go after MILLIONS of illegal immigrants.
Enforcement of employment regulations dropped 95% under Bush. There HAS to be a better answer than Cheap-Labor Conservativism.
I don't know what country you think this is, but dignity went out the window in 1994. (Frankly, 1980).
Who pays the price? Nearly 3000 American soldiers died, and 50,000 soldiers are wounded.
. . . not to mention 650,000 Iraqi civilians.
. . . not to mention nearly half a trillion US dollars from the treasury - er, I mean, from Chinese bankers.
We don't know this.
This was Bush's claim.
Bush claims a lot of things.
The Christian fundamentalists do not have enough numbers that you need only focus on them to win,
Their numbers are not their strength. It's the money. Churches are tax-exempt enterprises. For the amount of money they raise, they have very few costs. And as a bonus, by their very nature, they tend to attract a very gullible subset of people. (I'm not saying that all religious people are gullible, or that one must be gullible to be religious. I'm saying that there's a high proportion of religious people who are "religious" because they are gullible).
That combination is political dynamite - and precisely why Rove has been so successful with them.
I would like nothing more than a national discussion about the difference between "Goldwater Republicanism" and the current dishonest Republican religious appeal - especially their fake "Culture War".
I would also like an honest national discussion about war-profiteering. I work for a large defense contractor - and I believe in a strong national defense. But this current situation of corporate welfare and smarmy backroom deals is not healthy for this industry, and it is devastating to this nation, and in the long run, will make us far less secure.
He abandoned his party before the Democratic voters rejected him. There were very clear reasons why he was rejected, going all the way back to 98 when he was a pivotal vote in the Clinton Impeachment, and he not only came out against Clinton, but he issued a scathing statement. Lieberman may vote liberal - but he is a conservative - (and worse, a neocon) when it matters.
While I'm very disappointed that he managed to pull off a victory - I don't think this is going to help his political career in the long run. Yes, in the short term, he will continue to be a spoiler for any meaningful or positive change. But in the long run, it will cost him. Kissing Bush has consequences.
heh - I didn't teach him *everything*.
(actually, I tried, but he just didn't "get" some of it.)
a handful of people cashed out filthy rich, a handful froze or starved to death, and most people came home exhausted and empty handed.
I came out fairly well, but I worked my ass off for it, and I earned every penny - even the stock options (which is what I miss the most). It put me in a position where I can almost pretend I'm middle-class. I do remember there were a lot of morons who earned unholy amounts of money by basically being buzzword-compliant sycophants.
Frankly - if IT hiring is coming back, the harbinger of that was clearly my Boss' insistence last month that everyone on his team read and discuss the "7-Habits of Highly Effective People" - (oh no, not another fucking "mission statement"! argh!).
My question is: can we recycle "synergy" and "paradigm"? Or do we have to make up new words?
Actually - HR stupidity played in my favor about 6 months back.
My employer posted an ad for a job, skillsets were kind of insane, but worse because they were asking for some very specific experience in products that are not very widely used - very specialized stuff. But since I have 14 years of experience, (3 here) I can say that it fit me fairly well. Had I been an external candidate, I would have been perfect.
I applied for the job, and they tried to turn me down. I had to write a 10-page letter with charts illustrating exactly what my experience was. They didn't even know what they had under their own roof. The manager wanted a new external applicant in addition to me. But I'd be dammned if I'd see a new hire come in at a higher level. When corporate HR got ahold of the letter, they relented, and I picked up my first significant raise in about 4 years. They opened a new position for an additional external candidate - and ended up having to settle for someone who didn't have even half of what they were asking for. No sweat; I ended up training him. Then another department snatched him away. Love it. It's almost like back in 1996.
Without the insane pay though.
My story isn't as bad as yours - but I took a hit in 2002 as well.
I'll choose to validate your experience, rather than what is the typical slashdot response: "you didn't deserve that $35/hr job in the first place. . . (because the market wouldn't bear it)" - fuck that shit.
I'll gladly take a Mumbai salary. Just as soon as I have a Mumbai cost of living.