Bullshit. I've worked at union shops before and I would have loved to be able to say no to joining or paying for the union. It should be a choice. Just like when the auto plant in the south said no to the union because they didn't want one either.
Forcing workers to join an organization that they don't want to be part of is anti-worker.
How is it hacking? They compare the page the Google-bot received to one pulled by a non Google-bot. If they're different, they know there's funny business going on. That's like saying "diff" is a hacking tool, it's a bit of a stretch.
True, but it's complicated. Our road and bridge infrastructure is in horrible shape throughout the US. The fact that they're maintained by the government doesn't offer a good quality of service to the people using them. At the same time, it's possibly impracticable to privatize them. ISPs are already privatized, the reason they suck is because there's little to no competition. Having ISPs compete on top of a muni-fiber roll-out is one idea. I'd worry that the fiber deployment would be maintained as poorly as other physical infrastructure, but it's something. But then, what are we paying ISPs for? Uplinks from the fiber? Tech support? Advertising? I don't think anyone has come up with a winning model yet.
People don't tend to yell at each other when they're sitting side-by-side, but a lot of people feel the need to speak at max-volume when they're on a phone.
Bogus claim. Did you see the multiple stories here about California outsourcing their IT workers? That's a state run system. Here in New England, we have people like Liz Warren making several hundred grand to teach one college course. She's no republican, not a native American either but that's a different rant. UMass for some time had one of the Bulger brothers in charge, it's ripe with patronage and back room dealing. IMO, the government shouldn't be competing with industry, and if private schools can be successful on their own, the government shouldn't get in their way.
Part of the problem with education is that loans have traditionally been easy to come by to the point where no one considers the overall cost. People pick their favorite location and party school and other considerations are secondary. You may not like what the republicans are up to, but people need to be aware of the costs of what they're doing. It's not something you should ignore. People complain they're in dire financial shape after college but still curse at republicans for trying to do something about it.
This is somewhat like the mortgage debacle we had where people would sign for mortgages they could never possibly pay, but because of government backing with Frannie and Freddie, the banks had no reason not to offer impossible loans because they had no risk. Readily available loans lead colleges to do something similar, they can charge anything because students aren't thinking about cost. Well, that's changing. Once people become cost aware, the market should drive colleges to be more affordable, so that they're more marketable. The ivys will likely stay expensive because there's a scarcity problem there. Nothing is going to change that.
Yep. Ignorant. Couldn't have valid, differing opinions.. no. The youth are the new fascists, agree or be punched in the face and have your shit lit on fire. Ahh, progress.
Security teams are generally a roadblock that is nearly impossible to get around. Good luck getting an exception if it has to run through multiple levels of executive management. That's why people implement work-arounds. No one is getting fired for enabling revenue. People will be terminated for failing, whether or not it was blocked by IT/security. You want to hold developers responsible? Hold security responsible first. Stop them from being a roadblock. Remind them of their complete mission, not just the one about saying no.
I hate the idea of armed drones, however.. cops in TX did use a bomb robot to take out an armed, barricaded subject that had already killed a number of cops and wanted to kill more. Considering the risk to the police if they were to try to take him directly by force, I can't fault them for using the robot. That is the only case I've heard where this seemed appropriate.
The US is a chronically obese nation. People could do with less food.
Show me skinny underweight poor people in the US. BTW, food stamps weren't meant to be an entitlement, they were to ensure that we'd have men physically fit enough to serve the military if the need arose.
People buy expensive items like baby formula at a supermarket with EBT then sell it to the local quickie mart for cash. There's a whole hidden economy involved in this type of scam.
They fight the policies because the policies are forced on them by IT people that have no clue what engineers need. Every request to deviate from "the policy" is met with people like you proclaiming they're "fighting" the corporate IT policies. They just want to get their jobs done, which is what IT traditionally was there for, to help people get work done.
They don't need to be security experts to know that they shouldn't run unencrypted drives on portable systems, the importance of good passwords, not running executables sent via email, etc. What do you think is going on with their dev environments that's so critical you need to have a security team to manage it? What you propose leads to a nightmare of locked down IT approved setups that are practically useless for getting development work done, and then you have a separate set of systems and network for doing the real work that is not IT encumbered. It doesn't achieve anything. IT generally refuses to acknowledge the needs of engineering and does nothing put but roadblocks in their way. That's not the role of that organization. You'll end up with very secure systems that will be sold for cheap at auction after the company is bankrupt and out of business.
I'm using nvidia's nView right now, dividing the screen into quadrants that windows can snap to, but also lets me use it as one giant display if I don't let the window snap. Works nicely. I keep the upper two quads a little smaller vertically, notes on one side and reference material on the other, then I usually stretch the IDE across the bottom quads with two or three source windows side-by-side. It's great.
What you call a nightmare, I call an effective R&D organization. IT is a barrier to engineers being successful. Forced compliance with no input from engineering means that engineers will spend a lot of their time trying to find work-arounds for things they need to do but have had roadblocks put in place. Any decent developer knows the value of strong passwords and encryption. If you have numb-nuts that don't understand that, they shouldn't be in your codebase. They're incompetent. Yes, developers tend to postpone updates. I'm an offender there. Why? Context switching costs time which costs money. Once the system resets there's a cost associated with getting back to the previous point, looking at whatever code, docs, tests, remote systems, etc. It's a balancing act. The wrong solution is forcing updates and rebooting systems in the middle of presentations or some tricky debugging. Again, there's a cost there. IT has no place in engineering unless they're specifically requested.
Hardly. You can get self-encrypting drives (SEDs) if you're that concerned, or let the CPU cores that normally go underutilized do something useful. Even my Android phone has encryption. If a phone can do it without killing the user experience or the battery, there's no reason a PC can't.
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Right. That was why the stock market hit a record high after he was elected. The market isn't confident.
Bullshit. I've worked at union shops before and I would have loved to be able to say no to joining or paying for the union. It should be a choice. Just like when the auto plant in the south said no to the union because they didn't want one either.
Forcing workers to join an organization that they don't want to be part of is anti-worker.
Google is plainly using data from his site, that is copyright infringement plain and simple.
That's the definition of a search engine.
How is it hacking? They compare the page the Google-bot received to one pulled by a non Google-bot. If they're different, they know there's funny business going on. That's like saying "diff" is a hacking tool, it's a bit of a stretch.
Work from home long haul trucker.
Ethics and advertising have never coexisted.
True, but it's complicated. Our road and bridge infrastructure is in horrible shape throughout the US. The fact that they're maintained by the government doesn't offer a good quality of service to the people using them. At the same time, it's possibly impracticable to privatize them. ISPs are already privatized, the reason they suck is because there's little to no competition. Having ISPs compete on top of a muni-fiber roll-out is one idea. I'd worry that the fiber deployment would be maintained as poorly as other physical infrastructure, but it's something. But then, what are we paying ISPs for? Uplinks from the fiber? Tech support? Advertising? I don't think anyone has come up with a winning model yet.
Which is supposed to be temporary, not a replacement for people being responsible for themselves.
There's a societal value in having food to eat, but it's not the municipality's role to provide it.
People don't tend to yell at each other when they're sitting side-by-side, but a lot of people feel the need to speak at max-volume when they're on a phone.
My employer has given us multiple hoodies over the years complete with company and/or product logos.
Bogus claim. Did you see the multiple stories here about California outsourcing their IT workers? That's a state run system. Here in New England, we have people like Liz Warren making several hundred grand to teach one college course. She's no republican, not a native American either but that's a different rant. UMass for some time had one of the Bulger brothers in charge, it's ripe with patronage and back room dealing. IMO, the government shouldn't be competing with industry, and if private schools can be successful on their own, the government shouldn't get in their way.
Part of the problem with education is that loans have traditionally been easy to come by to the point where no one considers the overall cost. People pick their favorite location and party school and other considerations are secondary. You may not like what the republicans are up to, but people need to be aware of the costs of what they're doing. It's not something you should ignore. People complain they're in dire financial shape after college but still curse at republicans for trying to do something about it.
This is somewhat like the mortgage debacle we had where people would sign for mortgages they could never possibly pay, but because of government backing with Frannie and Freddie, the banks had no reason not to offer impossible loans because they had no risk. Readily available loans lead colleges to do something similar, they can charge anything because students aren't thinking about cost. Well, that's changing. Once people become cost aware, the market should drive colleges to be more affordable, so that they're more marketable. The ivys will likely stay expensive because there's a scarcity problem there. Nothing is going to change that.
Yep. Ignorant. Couldn't have valid, differing opinions.. no. The youth are the new fascists, agree or be punched in the face and have your shit lit on fire. Ahh, progress.
Security teams are generally a roadblock that is nearly impossible to get around. Good luck getting an exception if it has to run through multiple levels of executive management. That's why people implement work-arounds. No one is getting fired for enabling revenue. People will be terminated for failing, whether or not it was blocked by IT/security. You want to hold developers responsible? Hold security responsible first. Stop them from being a roadblock. Remind them of their complete mission, not just the one about saying no.
Any idiot can propose legislation. It's up to we the people to say no. This is part of our process.
I hate the idea of armed drones, however.. cops in TX did use a bomb robot to take out an armed, barricaded subject that had already killed a number of cops and wanted to kill more. Considering the risk to the police if they were to try to take him directly by force, I can't fault them for using the robot. That is the only case I've heard where this seemed appropriate.
No broad brush there. Nope. Not at all.
The US is a chronically obese nation. People could do with less food.
Show me skinny underweight poor people in the US. BTW, food stamps weren't meant to be an entitlement, they were to ensure that we'd have men physically fit enough to serve the military if the need arose.
People buy expensive items like baby formula at a supermarket with EBT then sell it to the local quickie mart for cash. There's a whole hidden economy involved in this type of scam.
They fight the policies because the policies are forced on them by IT people that have no clue what engineers need. Every request to deviate from "the policy" is met with people like you proclaiming they're "fighting" the corporate IT policies. They just want to get their jobs done, which is what IT traditionally was there for, to help people get work done.
They don't need to be security experts to know that they shouldn't run unencrypted drives on portable systems, the importance of good passwords, not running executables sent via email, etc. What do you think is going on with their dev environments that's so critical you need to have a security team to manage it? What you propose leads to a nightmare of locked down IT approved setups that are practically useless for getting development work done, and then you have a separate set of systems and network for doing the real work that is not IT encumbered. It doesn't achieve anything. IT generally refuses to acknowledge the needs of engineering and does nothing put but roadblocks in their way. That's not the role of that organization. You'll end up with very secure systems that will be sold for cheap at auction after the company is bankrupt and out of business.
I'm using nvidia's nView right now, dividing the screen into quadrants that windows can snap to, but also lets me use it as one giant display if I don't let the window snap. Works nicely. I keep the upper two quads a little smaller vertically, notes on one side and reference material on the other, then I usually stretch the IDE across the bottom quads with two or three source windows side-by-side. It's great.
What you call a nightmare, I call an effective R&D organization. IT is a barrier to engineers being successful. Forced compliance with no input from engineering means that engineers will spend a lot of their time trying to find work-arounds for things they need to do but have had roadblocks put in place. Any decent developer knows the value of strong passwords and encryption. If you have numb-nuts that don't understand that, they shouldn't be in your codebase. They're incompetent. Yes, developers tend to postpone updates. I'm an offender there. Why? Context switching costs time which costs money. Once the system resets there's a cost associated with getting back to the previous point, looking at whatever code, docs, tests, remote systems, etc. It's a balancing act. The wrong solution is forcing updates and rebooting systems in the middle of presentations or some tricky debugging. Again, there's a cost there. IT has no place in engineering unless they're specifically requested.
Hardly. You can get self-encrypting drives (SEDs) if you're that concerned, or let the CPU cores that normally go underutilized do something useful. Even my Android phone has encryption. If a phone can do it without killing the user experience or the battery, there's no reason a PC can't.
Multi-head is lame. Get a nice ~40" 4k display. It's nice. You'll never want to go back to multiple mini-monitors.