Present your own thoughts then rather just being "troubled", I've seen no anecdotes of your own, no shared experience or citations. Hiding behind anonymity and attacking me without actually giving some solid reasoning of your own makes one suspicious of you being a Union troll.
Oh how wrong are you? I grew up in the south east of Glasgow during some of it's worst economic periods. Steel Mill closures and mass unemployment. A Glasgow, working class, Scot apologising for Thatcher? That's like asking a Jew to apologise for Hitler. Some socialist ideals work really well. I was educated to Masters level for free. The economy and population does benefit in the long term from that.
The problem with the traditional socialist ideas of communism, unionism etc are that they don't deal well with the human lust for power. They are built on the wrong assumption that all are together and equally minded, that no one is better than anyone else, or ambitious (for power). Just look at China, communist but far worse worker exploitation, which we in the capitalist West have enjoyed the labours of. A very large and very rich elite has appeared in China. What happened to it's communist ideals?
As I said in my original post, I'm very distrustful of Unions, especially ones that make a lot of noise in places where no one is crying out for them.
As I said, my industry has no unions. No comment ?
Taking a long term view of it I predict that Tesla's factories, and many more, will eventually end up fully automated. Remaining competitive will be the driving factor. Unions have had their day. Right now a more important safe guard, to my thinking, is a basic universal income in response to the AI threat to the human labour work force. I believe Musk has taken a stance in favour of this, no?
I've been a professional software engineer for 27 years and I've never been in, or needed, the protection of a union. That's a reflection of my industry. In a stagnant industry where there's no growth or innovation there's a very real risk of workers being exploited in cost cutting as executives try to show profit gains. I don't believe Tesla in this category (yet) as they are doing something new, which is getting massive investment in anticipation of massive growth and returns. Bring in the unions when they've matured and the risk of cost cutting impacting works is real but not right now. Don't stifle growth.
If you old enough to remember the 1970's in Britain (I was at primary school) you'll remember the mess the UK was un due to Unions flexing muscle. It was like a 3rd world country. The worst year was the infamous "winter of discontent". I was off school either because the teachers were striking, the miners were striking (no coal, no heating, freezing school) or the school janitor was striking. The rubbish (trash) was piling up on the streets as the refuse collectors were striking. I would sit at home with my parents in the dark with a gas lamp because the power station had gone out on strike. I have no love for Thatcher, her politics, policies or legacy. This union driven madness was really what brought her to power and she crushed them without mercy. It was effectively the end of socialist Britain, the cold war had made communism a dirty world and socialism was getting a bad name thanks to the power drunk unions. The pendulum has swung a bit too far right since then (NHS dismantlement) and, I personally, blame the unions for it. They abused their power and we all paid for it. Reading between the lines on this Tesla spat with unions makes me think it's a grab for power. We're not hearing any stories of awful working conditions. Oppressed, underpaid workers or anything that would make us think 'they need help, they need a union". I'd like to think there was protection and worker representation in place but I also don't want to see Tesla hindered in their championing of a clean automotive future due to aa union's (unnecessary) interference.
As lophophore correctly points out this only applies to Scottish Whisky, but I'd go further by adding that it only applies to cask strength Whisky not your off-the-shelf bottle strength (~40%) which has already been watered to taste.
I got my education in Whisky in the early 90's living in Edinburgh where there was a private club in Leith called the Scotch Malt Whisky Society. 4 times a years the owners would tour the distilleries sampling casks and purchasing the ones they liked best which they then bottled and sold in the club rooms directly from the cask (hence cask strength). The distilleries allowed them to do this on the condition they numbered the bottles protecting the anonymity of each distillery which has it's own unique (blended) flavour. They'd organised guided tastings which I went to a number of. You'd get 3 Whisky's and be told to taste a tiny amount un-watered and then slowly add water to taste until you felt the flavours had come out. The results are dramatic and the taste of that Whisky is unlike anything you've ever tried or known about Whisky. They've since been bought out by a large company and are now a global franchise. If you can find one near you then I recommend trying them out.
If you can't find them near by the I'd recommend by favourite Whisky Lagavulin. It comes as a standard 16 year old which is regular strength and also as a 12 year old cask strength. I always go for the cask strength one. Whisky's don't improve much after 12 years.
Final tip. Try to use distilled water to dilute. As clean and neutral as you can get.
I've been doing Website's and Apps for a decade now and a hard lesson I learned early on was that people don't value what they get for free or cheaply. As soon as you put a decent price tag on it their perception of it's value changes. You get less complaints and support problems too. Give stuff away for free and you are just asking to serve your heart up on a plate to vultures. I even have to kick myself sometimes when I find myself griping over a $1.99 app that it isn't free. It's small change. Beggars and buskers stuff. The whole sub $10 market is just toxic.
I interviewed with Amazon a few years ago and, coming from Cisco, their engineers were very keen to pick my brains on how to identify individuals using network trickery. It was very obvious during the interview that this was their holy grail, the identification of individuals for targeted marketing particularly in the EU/UK where stiff laws on cookie usage had recently come into effect. One wonders if this too is another political swipe at Amazon? It's certainly not in the public interest what with the UK Gov's repeated statement of war on person encryption.
Apple could modify and update the Air Pods, removing the need even for a any device to stream from. A couple of taps to control. Just like the shuffle with a reasonable memory for shuffling a favourite play list. If the shuffle was that great...
That was my first thought and the summary has " These include missile approach warning detectors ". Seattle supposedly came within range as of NK's previous missile test. The most recent one is thought to cover the whole of N.America. Then there was also the news headline last week of "We're not your enemy," by Rex Tillerson
The original "great firewall" was built by Cisco for the Chinese government who then rewarded Cisco by setting up Huawei to compete directly against them. It's all down to money, if you want to sell in that country you have to abide by their laws. The Five Eyes are putting visible pressure on their governments to crack open encryption and provide back doors. That'll be the real test for Apple, will they stand up to FVEY & it's governments or will they buckle?
I'm not one for advocating laws but looking at this and seeing the obvious effect it's going to have on white hat security vigilantes (saying nothing or being turned grey/black hat by corporate, egotistical, twats covering their own arse) the only solution seems to be to create laws to protect the white hats. Laws like those which protect freedom of press and speech. If you haven't benefited from your discovery and research then you can't be prosecuted. Instead of reporting to the corporation report to a government watch dog who covers for you. Better still fine the corporations to fund the watch dog and pay out a bug bounty.
Back in '97 I registered a personal domain [firstname][lastname].com and I have a very common Anglo name. Email address is [firstname]@[firstname][lastname].com
There's a real estate agent in Florida who's been happily giving out my email address to clients, lawyers, banks etc for a decade now. I've had very personal information emailed to me, bank loan applications etc. I even had one person start an email fight with me, refusing to believe I wasn't who they thought I was, which I ended by point them at the "whois" ownership record of my domain.
There's nothing I can do about it, nor can you. Just delete the emails that come in and filter. Or create a new email account.
The year before I registered my email address I had been using [lastname].freeserve.co.uk which was the UK's first large scale ISP. I had some idiot email me a plan to rob their local supermarket which I passed on to the authorities...
As a young engineer in my first job I was the point man for a new technology in our company called ISDN. Back in the early 90's each country had it's own flavour of ISDN for market protectionism or just to be different. Our product started offering an ISDN interface as well as the other older comms interfaces (X25 etc). I was at the "bored" stage with the dev work when a nice little bug started breaking things among our European customers. I could have simply stuck a 3.5" floppy in the post (this is pre-internet) but since I'd never been to Switzerland, Munch (in Sept), Paris, etc, etc I was eager to travel. What made this ruse even sweeter was that when I got on site I'd pretend to debug for a 1/2 hour, then switch floppy discs, and -hey presto- it all worked perfectly. Each time I the toast of the office I was visiting, as well as our company sales team golden boy, rewarded by being taken out for a nice meal and drinks as a thank you. If I'd just stuck the floppy in the post it just wouldn't have had the same effect nor would I have seen some nice parts of Europe or tasted their fine cuisine.
Car manufacturers are the worst for software updates. Some worse than others. There's a couple of stupid little bugs in the audio system of my 3 year old car, that make it too painful to use, that could be fixed easily enough with a software update but probably will never get one. The dealer and manufacturer are aware of the problems. The dealer just gives me a blank look when I ask when a fix is coming. It's that lack of appreciation of software's importance that sank the likes of Nokia et al in the mobile phone market. I fully expect the same to happen to the traditional big car manufacturers, they deserve it.
That's part of my point. How do you distinguish between what's just nonsense, test data and what's encrypted? As I said at the start of my post - how do you enforce it effectively and fairly?
If this goes ahead then how do you enforce it effectively and fairly? Say a group gets together and, for the sake of art, to test bandwidth speeds, packet routes, fragmentation, whatever your excuse, you arrange to open up some TCP ports between your group members and, down these pipes, stuff random bytes of no value which go straight to/dev/null on the receiving end. Mr Spook is going to sniff that and flag it as encrypted. Then they are going to round up the group and demand keys, which is when you hand them the terminal and let them see they've been watching nothing but white noise generated by a random byte generator. Repeat. Be a pest. Disrupt. Since this legislative lunacy is driven by paranoia (and if anything proves we have a ruling elite this does) then they'll need to tighten the laws to prevent "network noise" online and make it illegal too. Because how do they know that somewhere in the noise you aren't sending secret messages to one and other? Paranoia has no end and this nonsense is just the beginning. Look at Kim Yong Un
4 sons, 2 daughters. My eldest daughter, who I had when I was 29, is autistic. My youngest daughter, who I had when I was 43, is 3-4 years ahead for her age at school. She's 5, can read, write (beautiful flowing, joined up writing) and taught me a word about grammar I didn't know yesterday. The "old sperm" stats don't stand up well with my offspring. My boys are all geeks, just like their father. The eldest is 21 and the youngest is 1. I caught the one year old brushing his teeth out of the toilet while his brother was peeing in it last week. Last night, while mother was putting the other 3 in bed, he was playing under my desk chair while I was composing an email. I became aware of a nasty smell in the room coming from below my chair and I could hear him smacking his lips. He was eating his own shit out of his nappy (diaper). I think he'll be the smartest of the 6, he not afraid to try anything....:-/
Since they introduced the API for prompting for ratings my own apps have done very well from it. Prompting people to leave the app, go open the app store app and try to find the rating tab was useless. I updated with this prompt a few months ago and I've collected as many ratings in 2 months as I'd normally get in 2 years. It's raised the Apps ranking in keyword search and increased revenue. I'm hoping that something similar happens on with Android and Google Play.
The other good bit of news last week was that your current version rating doesn't need to be lost. That was stopping a lot of App developers doing regular updates. If you released too often your App suffered in rankings and installs because it's current rating was either non-existant or small. This is one aspect in which Play is better. It's single, global, rating system. Why Apple is keeping the current version rating, I'm not entirely sure, but it should be scrapped.
I write and publish Apps. A good chunk of the money I make on iOS & iTunes doesn't come from Apple but from advertisers like Google AdMob, Facebook Audience Network etc. I'd love to know what chunk of the big app revenue pie is advertising revenue and not just in-app purchases? Apple is missing from this market since it pulled out, and killed off iAds, a year ago. It's important to remember, if you are thinking of getting into writing and publishing apps, that asking for app payments isn't the only, or main, means of monetising your work.
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Present your own thoughts then rather just being "troubled", I've seen no anecdotes of your own, no shared experience or citations.
Hiding behind anonymity and attacking me without actually giving some solid reasoning of your own makes one suspicious of you being a Union troll.
Oh how wrong are you? I grew up in the south east of Glasgow during some of it's worst economic periods. Steel Mill closures and mass unemployment.
A Glasgow, working class, Scot apologising for Thatcher? That's like asking a Jew to apologise for Hitler.
Some socialist ideals work really well. I was educated to Masters level for free. The economy and population does benefit in the long term from that.
The problem with the traditional socialist ideas of communism, unionism etc are that they don't deal well with the human lust for power.
They are built on the wrong assumption that all are together and equally minded, that no one is better than anyone else, or ambitious (for power).
Just look at China, communist but far worse worker exploitation, which we in the capitalist West have enjoyed the labours of.
A very large and very rich elite has appeared in China. What happened to it's communist ideals?
As I said in my original post, I'm very distrustful of Unions, especially ones that make a lot of noise in places where no one is crying out for them.
As I said, my industry has no unions. No comment ?
Taking a long term view of it I predict that Tesla's factories, and many more, will eventually end up fully automated.
Remaining competitive will be the driving factor.
Unions have had their day.
Right now a more important safe guard, to my thinking, is a basic universal income in response to the AI threat to the human labour work force.
I believe Musk has taken a stance in favour of this, no?
No, Anonymous Coward, I'm happy with my thinking.
I've been a professional software engineer for 27 years and I've never been in, or needed, the protection of a union. That's a reflection of my industry.
In a stagnant industry where there's no growth or innovation there's a very real risk of workers being exploited in cost cutting as executives try to show profit gains.
I don't believe Tesla in this category (yet) as they are doing something new, which is getting massive investment in anticipation of massive growth and returns.
Bring in the unions when they've matured and the risk of cost cutting impacting works is real but not right now. Don't stifle growth.
If you old enough to remember the 1970's in Britain (I was at primary school) you'll remember the mess the UK was un due to Unions flexing muscle.
It was like a 3rd world country. The worst year was the infamous "winter of discontent".
I was off school either because the teachers were striking, the miners were striking (no coal, no heating, freezing school) or the school janitor was striking.
The rubbish (trash) was piling up on the streets as the refuse collectors were striking.
I would sit at home with my parents in the dark with a gas lamp because the power station had gone out on strike.
I have no love for Thatcher, her politics, policies or legacy. This union driven madness was really what brought her to power and she crushed them without mercy.
It was effectively the end of socialist Britain, the cold war had made communism a dirty world and socialism was getting a bad name thanks to the power drunk unions.
The pendulum has swung a bit too far right since then (NHS dismantlement) and, I personally, blame the unions for it.
They abused their power and we all paid for it.
Reading between the lines on this Tesla spat with unions makes me think it's a grab for power.
We're not hearing any stories of awful working conditions. Oppressed, underpaid workers or anything that would make us think 'they need help, they need a union".
I'd like to think there was protection and worker representation in place but I also don't want to see Tesla hindered in their championing of a clean automotive future due to aa union's (unnecessary) interference.
As lophophore correctly points out this only applies to Scottish Whisky, but I'd go further by adding that it only applies to cask strength Whisky not your off-the-shelf bottle strength (~40%) which has already been watered to taste.
I got my education in Whisky in the early 90's living in Edinburgh where there was a private club in Leith called the Scotch Malt Whisky Society. 4 times a years the owners would tour the distilleries sampling casks and purchasing the ones they liked best which they then bottled and sold in the club rooms directly from the cask (hence cask strength). The distilleries allowed them to do this on the condition they numbered the bottles protecting the anonymity of each distillery which has it's own unique (blended) flavour.
They'd organised guided tastings which I went to a number of. You'd get 3 Whisky's and be told to taste a tiny amount un-watered and then slowly add water to taste until you felt the flavours had come out. The results are dramatic and the taste of that Whisky is unlike anything you've ever tried or known about Whisky.
They've since been bought out by a large company and are now a global franchise. If you can find one near you then I recommend trying them out.
If you can't find them near by the I'd recommend by favourite Whisky Lagavulin.
It comes as a standard 16 year old which is regular strength and also as a 12 year old cask strength. I always go for the cask strength one.
Whisky's don't improve much after 12 years.
Final tip. Try to use distilled water to dilute. As clean and neutral as you can get.
I've been doing Website's and Apps for a decade now and a hard lesson I learned early on was that people don't value what they get for free or cheaply.
As soon as you put a decent price tag on it their perception of it's value changes.
You get less complaints and support problems too.
Give stuff away for free and you are just asking to serve your heart up on a plate to vultures.
I even have to kick myself sometimes when I find myself griping over a $1.99 app that it isn't free. It's small change. Beggars and buskers stuff.
The whole sub $10 market is just toxic.
Seeing ICBM in a web page header, giving the geolocation of the website/server, always made me chuckle.
I interviewed with Amazon a few years ago and, coming from Cisco, their engineers were very keen to pick my brains on how to identify individuals using network trickery.
It was very obvious during the interview that this was their holy grail, the identification of individuals for targeted marketing particularly in the EU/UK where stiff laws on cookie usage had recently come into effect.
One wonders if this too is another political swipe at Amazon?
It's certainly not in the public interest what with the UK Gov's repeated statement of war on person encryption.
Apple could modify and update the Air Pods, removing the need even for a any device to stream from.
A couple of taps to control. Just like the shuffle with a reasonable memory for shuffling a favourite play list.
If the shuffle was that great...
That was my first thought and the summary has " These include missile approach warning detectors ".
Seattle supposedly came within range as of NK's previous missile test. The most recent one is thought to cover the whole of N.America.
Then there was also the news headline last week of "We're not your enemy," by Rex Tillerson
The original "great firewall" was built by Cisco for the Chinese government who then rewarded Cisco by setting up Huawei to compete directly against them.
It's all down to money, if you want to sell in that country you have to abide by their laws.
The Five Eyes are putting visible pressure on their governments to crack open encryption and provide back doors.
That'll be the real test for Apple, will they stand up to FVEY & it's governments or will they buckle?
I'm not one for advocating laws but looking at this and seeing the obvious effect it's going to have on white hat security vigilantes (saying nothing or being turned grey/black hat by corporate, egotistical, twats covering their own arse) the only solution seems to be to create laws to protect the white hats.
Laws like those which protect freedom of press and speech.
If you haven't benefited from your discovery and research then you can't be prosecuted.
Instead of reporting to the corporation report to a government watch dog who covers for you.
Better still fine the corporations to fund the watch dog and pay out a bug bounty.
Back in '97 I registered a personal domain [firstname][lastname].com and I have a very common Anglo name.
Email address is [firstname]@[firstname][lastname].com
There's a real estate agent in Florida who's been happily giving out my email address to clients, lawyers, banks etc for a decade now.
I've had very personal information emailed to me, bank loan applications etc.
I even had one person start an email fight with me, refusing to believe I wasn't who they thought I was, which I ended by point them at the "whois" ownership record of my domain.
There's nothing I can do about it, nor can you. Just delete the emails that come in and filter. Or create a new email account.
The year before I registered my email address I had been using [lastname].freeserve.co.uk which was the UK's first large scale ISP.
I had some idiot email me a plan to rob their local supermarket which I passed on to the authorities...
As a young engineer in my first job I was the point man for a new technology in our company called ISDN.
Back in the early 90's each country had it's own flavour of ISDN for market protectionism or just to be different.
Our product started offering an ISDN interface as well as the other older comms interfaces (X25 etc).
I was at the "bored" stage with the dev work when a nice little bug started breaking things among our European customers.
I could have simply stuck a 3.5" floppy in the post (this is pre-internet) but since I'd never been to Switzerland, Munch (in Sept), Paris, etc, etc I was eager to travel.
What made this ruse even sweeter was that when I got on site I'd pretend to debug for a 1/2 hour, then switch floppy discs, and -hey presto- it all worked perfectly.
Each time I the toast of the office I was visiting, as well as our company sales team golden boy, rewarded by being taken out for a nice meal and drinks as a thank you.
If I'd just stuck the floppy in the post it just wouldn't have had the same effect nor would I have seen some nice parts of Europe or tasted their fine cuisine.
Car manufacturers are the worst for software updates. Some worse than others. There's a couple of stupid little bugs in the audio system of my 3 year old car, that make it too painful to use, that could be fixed easily enough with a software update but probably will never get one.
The dealer and manufacturer are aware of the problems. The dealer just gives me a blank look when I ask when a fix is coming.
It's that lack of appreciation of software's importance that sank the likes of Nokia et al in the mobile phone market.
I fully expect the same to happen to the traditional big car manufacturers, they deserve it.
Sounds great until you realise what a device like this could do in the wrong hands.
It's got a nice ring to it, no?
At least the police will have to leave your face alone to be able to unlock your phone ;)
That's part of my point.
How do you distinguish between what's just nonsense, test data and what's encrypted?
As I said at the start of my post - how do you enforce it effectively and fairly?
If this goes ahead then how do you enforce it effectively and fairly? /dev/null on the receiving end.
Say a group gets together and, for the sake of art, to test bandwidth speeds, packet routes, fragmentation, whatever your excuse, you arrange to open up some TCP ports between your group members and, down these pipes, stuff random bytes of no value which go straight to
Mr Spook is going to sniff that and flag it as encrypted.
Then they are going to round up the group and demand keys, which is when you hand them the terminal and let them see they've been watching nothing but white noise generated by a random byte generator.
Repeat. Be a pest. Disrupt.
Since this legislative lunacy is driven by paranoia (and if anything proves we have a ruling elite this does) then they'll need to tighten the laws to prevent "network noise" online and make it illegal too.
Because how do they know that somewhere in the noise you aren't sending secret messages to one and other?
Paranoia has no end and this nonsense is just the beginning. Look at Kim Yong Un
4 sons, 2 daughters. My eldest daughter, who I had when I was 29, is autistic. My youngest daughter, who I had when I was 43, is 3-4 years ahead for her age at school. She's 5, can read, write (beautiful flowing, joined up writing) and taught me a word about grammar I didn't know yesterday. :-/
The "old sperm" stats don't stand up well with my offspring.
My boys are all geeks, just like their father. The eldest is 21 and the youngest is 1.
I caught the one year old brushing his teeth out of the toilet while his brother was peeing in it last week.
Last night, while mother was putting the other 3 in bed, he was playing under my desk chair while I was composing an email.
I became aware of a nasty smell in the room coming from below my chair and I could hear him smacking his lips.
He was eating his own shit out of his nappy (diaper).
I think he'll be the smartest of the 6, he not afraid to try anything....
Since they introduced the API for prompting for ratings my own apps have done very well from it.
Prompting people to leave the app, go open the app store app and try to find the rating tab was useless.
I updated with this prompt a few months ago and I've collected as many ratings in 2 months as I'd normally get in 2 years.
It's raised the Apps ranking in keyword search and increased revenue.
I'm hoping that something similar happens on with Android and Google Play.
The other good bit of news last week was that your current version rating doesn't need to be lost.
That was stopping a lot of App developers doing regular updates.
If you released too often your App suffered in rankings and installs because it's current rating was either non-existant or small.
This is one aspect in which Play is better. It's single, global, rating system.
Why Apple is keeping the current version rating, I'm not entirely sure, but it should be scrapped.
I write and publish Apps. A good chunk of the money I make on iOS & iTunes doesn't come from Apple but from advertisers like Google AdMob, Facebook Audience Network etc.
I'd love to know what chunk of the big app revenue pie is advertising revenue and not just in-app purchases?
Apple is missing from this market since it pulled out, and killed off iAds, a year ago.
It's important to remember, if you are thinking of getting into writing and publishing apps, that asking for app payments isn't the only, or main, means of monetising your work.
Oh! I missed out another word I know in German. ;) :D
"schöne".
I had a German girlfriend who said it so much that makes it, almost, unforgettable...