Except the linked article specifically notes that the 75 year old's company is a group of 20 or so "code cowboys" who parachute in to fix systems they have no prior knowledge of and get paid $100/hr for the pleasure. So it would seem deep understanding of the language and the ability to troubleshoot bad code in said language is indeed the crux of the issue.
I'm not sure where you live, but where I live office managers and administrative assistants are generally on salary and have benefits, paid vacation etc.
And even the retail clerks and baristas bank vacation pay by law. They may not get dental and vision care, etc but they get paid for taking their time off.
> The 'gig economy' is here as the last attempt of the free market to address the collapsing actual economy
Dude, not even close. The 'gig' economy is a new generation of hucksters trying to figure out how to pay people even less to perform services on their behalf without having to bow to things like "regulation" and "laws", or have "employees" who do the actual service delivery to their "customers". The last two are in quotes because the Gig Economy actors pretend they are only facilitating a transaction between two external parties - 'Really !!! We have no skin in the game, we're just taking a modest commission hooking up these two people who want to exchange money for a service! We have no employees, there's no regulation that applies to us!'
> you are just further reinforcing socialist's/communist's opinions that all companies are greedy, immoral, and care about nothing more than the bottom line
Really, you think 1) that's just an opinion instead of a nearly universal fact and 2) that only socialists and communists think that way?
"White House lawyers last month learned that the former national security adviser Susan Rice requested the identities of U.S. persons in raw intelligence reports on dozens of occasions that connect to the Donald Trump transition and campaign, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter."
Do you even understand what a "raw intelligence dump" is? It's a raw dump of intelligence traffic without names attached to it. The traffic was suspicious, *which is why* the identities of the persons involved was requested to be unmasked. She didn't go "hey gimme all the Trump traffic plz thks!"
Firing a potential customer is way different than bricking a purchased and delivered device over a customer service dispute.
Not saying Musk was in the right there either, but these two situations are not even remotely similar.
If you're going to have a go at Telsa, then also have a go at Ferrari for blacklisting Chris Harris from purchasing Ferraris after his negative reviews. Which of course now that Harris is on Top Gear with all the attendant visibility, Ferrari insists that it was all a misunderstanding!
Already being done, but demand vastly outstrips supply. Also, bigger problem is most of the land that you would use for said taller buildings is on or next to land owned by wealthy NIMBYs who have pull with city council and shut that type of planning down hard.
- Replace low-density buildings with high-density buildings (a la Hong Kong)
See previous point. Also, many low density buildings have "nail" strata owners who won't sell to a developer to knock down the building despite the other 59 in the building wanting to, so nothing happens.
- Build high-speed transit to shorten commutes of the people living out east
Oh, where to begin with this one... Everyone hates LRT, Skytrain costs 10x what LRT will and takes 15 years from planning to opening and then has cost overruns, the highway from the east Fraser valley has been expanded 3 times and is still a shit show, highway has to cross a bridge crossing that has problems, new bridge tolls cost more than people's monthly car insurance for ONE bridge as a result, so that forces traffic through other neighborhoods to other bridges.
Rail isn't an option as CN and CP rail own the rails and the one commuter rail service can only get 5 narrow windows a day to use the track in between freight shipments, and only got that because Transport Canada practically held a gun to CP Rail's head, and CP Rail was in a 125 million dollar slap fight with Vancouver over a disused railway last year, CN Rail now wants to charge North Vancouver 3 million a year to let citizens cross its tracks that ARE ON PUBLIC LAND to get access to a beach, so don't expect any cooperation from either corp for more passenger rail.
That just scratches the surface off the top of my head. You're not the first person to come up with these ideas, and within the context of current public sentiment, political will and budget, none of them will work.
> Only on slashdot are we presented with an example of a startup giving complete control of rental housing pricing to the renters, and then told that this is evil.
Because apparently you don't live in a market with a 1% vacancy rate. In a market like Vancouver where I live, a site like this will guarantee that renters will bid each other high enough that the already unaffordable gets even less affordable. There's a little breathing room in pricing because the landlords aren't sure where the line is between their greed and the rental market's desperation. This tool will show that line off in dayglo orange.
The writers Guild of Great Britain doesn't go on strike in lockstep with the US one, and British seasons (one of the main bones of contention) have always been much shorter, so what "coordination" are you talking about here?
Not sure if you're being sarcastic with your "good idea" or not.
In some areas this will be fine, additional units will be easily built. In other markets where demand vastly outstrips supply - like in Vancouver where I live - all this will do is spur pricing arms races. "Just build more inventory" Really? WHERE? We've got mountains to the north, the US to the south, and the ocean to the west. And the out East building is already so far in swing you have people doing 2-3 hour commutes already to get to work.
London, San Fran, and others will have similar problems.
Writers in the UK and other markets deal with shorter or nearly nonexistent "seasons" - Sherlock is a prime example. Not sure 3 episodes qualifies as a season but that's how they roll...
So you'd prefer the status quo to make your salary rise instead? Not really sure what you're looking for here, the government's never going to pass an "Oswald McWeany makes $250K act" or anything like that. Surely restricting foreign H1Bs will at least help the domestic market price rise a bit?
> The Writers Guild of America represents writers for all of TV / Film / Streaming / you name it - if it plays on a screen and it's not a video game, these are the people who write it
Really? Including things like the BBC's Sherlock, or Doctor Who, or Downton Abbey or a dozen other shows that have gotten quite popular from "across the pond"?
Very unlikely that there aren't enough tech jobs here in Vancouver. Tech sector is large. I think what your friends meant was there weren't enough jobs that paid what they were willing to take, which is a definite problem. So it's even more puzzling that Vancouver was left off this list.
They're only banning electronics on flights from certain destinations. Surely the bad people would *never* think to just fly from a non-banned airport, right?
At this point, it looks like buying the Switch as your only game console means missing out on everything from Mass Effect and Call of Duty to The Witcher and Assassin's Creed to Tomb Raider and Destiny. That list can go on and on. Maybe those major franchises will eventually be forced to pay attention to a Switch that absolutely flies off the shelves. For now, though, relying on the Switch for all of your gaming means risking that you'll miss out on a huge array of the most popular and well-received current franchises. That's a big price to pay for access to fully portable Zelda and Mario games.
Even as a secondary system, though, it's hard for me to recommend you go out and buy the Switch immediately unless you have a burning desire to play the latest Zelda literally anywhere. The system as it exists now feels a little like it was rushed to make it to store shelves before the end of Nintendo's fiscal year. After all, at launch there are some lingering hardware issues and extremely limited initial software support."
Not really seeing how that's a review saying how great the Switch is. It is written by Kyle Orland though, so that tone was expected.
TLS is not yet required for traffic and while it's made great strides in adoption, that is a very recent development. As of two years ago, Google themselves claimed half of received SMTP traffic was in plaintext, and only in January of this year did traffic cross the 80% threshold. When Gmail was created almost all of it was plaintext.
Now https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/saferemail/
>Second, snooping on Internet backbones is actually pretty hard to do.
Unless you work for an alphabet agency. Or one of their contractors. Or one of the people who has the jewels of the backdoors the alphabet agencies put into backbone equipment surreptitiously:
> Third, the target ISP is harvesting _their_ messages without ever getting _their_ consent, and that happens to be illegal.
The target 'ISP' can also easily be corporations when you send mail to them - as many run their own IT operations - and they can and will do whatever they like with them. Plus, do link to the law that makes this illegal, I'd be very interested to see such transnational legislation.
Oh, you mean the message they transmitted across a public network in plaintext that might cross multiple countries' boundaries before arriving at the Gmail MX server farm? I can see how security minded they are.
When you send an email you have no control over what the recipient will do with it, arguing that you didn't accept the TOS of the recipient's mail system is asinine. What about sending mail to people at corporations, do you "accept" their mail retention and scanning policies before sending as well?
"With features like Priority Inbox, we automatically process your messages to help you sort through the unimportant messages that get in your way. We use a similar approach with ads. For example, if you’ve recently received a lot of messages about photography or cameras, a deal from a local camera store might be interesting. On the other hand, if you’ve reported these messages as spam, you probably don’t want to see such a deal.... The process by which ads are shown in Gmail is fully automated. Nobody reads your emails in order to show you ads."
Seems pretty clear to me.
> emails sent by non-Gmail users
So, people sign up for Gmail and never expect to get email from anyone outside of other Gmail accounts? What exactly do they think an email account is for?
This is a horseshit waste of money and legal resources to enrich lawyers. Even before I signed up for GMail in beta (yes that long ago) it was well known that GMail was using the contents of mail to display targeted ads. That's why it was being offered as a service. It's in the TOS.
Sorry to hear "consumers" who got a service for free are too damn stupid to realize how it's being paid for. Just wait till someone tells them how Facebook pays for itself...
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Except the linked article specifically notes that the 75 year old's company is a group of 20 or so "code cowboys" who parachute in to fix systems they have no prior knowledge of and get paid $100/hr for the pleasure. So it would seem deep understanding of the language and the ability to troubleshoot bad code in said language is indeed the crux of the issue.
I'm not sure where you live, but where I live office managers and administrative assistants are generally on salary and have benefits, paid vacation etc.
And even the retail clerks and baristas bank vacation pay by law. They may not get dental and vision care, etc but they get paid for taking their time off.
> The 'gig economy' is here as the last attempt of the free market to address the collapsing actual economy
Dude, not even close. The 'gig' economy is a new generation of hucksters trying to figure out how to pay people even less to perform services on their behalf without having to bow to things like "regulation" and "laws", or have "employees" who do the actual service delivery to their "customers". The last two are in quotes because the Gig Economy actors pretend they are only facilitating a transaction between two external parties - 'Really !!! We have no skin in the game, we're just taking a modest commission hooking up these two people who want to exchange money for a service! We have no employees, there's no regulation that applies to us!'
> you are just further reinforcing socialist's/communist's opinions that all companies are greedy, immoral, and care about nothing more than the bottom line
Really, you think 1) that's just an opinion instead of a nearly universal fact and 2) that only socialists and communists think that way?
Oh please. From your own link:
"White House lawyers last month learned that the former national security adviser Susan Rice requested the identities of U.S. persons in raw intelligence reports on dozens of occasions that connect to the Donald Trump transition and campaign, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter."
Do you even understand what a "raw intelligence dump" is? It's a raw dump of intelligence traffic without names attached to it. The traffic was suspicious, *which is why* the identities of the persons involved was requested to be unmasked. She didn't go "hey gimme all the Trump traffic plz thks!"
Firing a potential customer is way different than bricking a purchased and delivered device over a customer service dispute.
Not saying Musk was in the right there either, but these two situations are not even remotely similar.
If you're going to have a go at Telsa, then also have a go at Ferrari for blacklisting Chris Harris from purchasing Ferraris after his negative reviews. Which of course now that Harris is on Top Gear with all the attendant visibility, Ferrari insists that it was all a misunderstanding!
And plenty of reason to think he would. Plus, this illustrates that if his company goes under, your shiny garage door opener is now useless.
So, just no.
Proof please?
Link? Would be interested to see the news on that and what fallout there was from him remotely killing a car...
You really don't live in Vancouver...
- Build vertically (taller buildings)
Already being done, but demand vastly outstrips supply. Also, bigger problem is most of the land that you would use for said taller buildings is on or next to land owned by wealthy NIMBYs who have pull with city council and shut that type of planning down hard.
- Replace low-density buildings with high-density buildings (a la Hong Kong)
See previous point. Also, many low density buildings have "nail" strata owners who won't sell to a developer to knock down the building despite the other 59 in the building wanting to, so nothing happens.
- Build high-speed transit to shorten commutes of the people living out east
Oh, where to begin with this one... Everyone hates LRT, Skytrain costs 10x what LRT will and takes 15 years from planning to opening and then has cost overruns, the highway from the east Fraser valley has been expanded 3 times and is still a shit show, highway has to cross a bridge crossing that has problems, new bridge tolls cost more than people's monthly car insurance for ONE bridge as a result, so that forces traffic through other neighborhoods to other bridges.
Rail isn't an option as CN and CP rail own the rails and the one commuter rail service can only get 5 narrow windows a day to use the track in between freight shipments, and only got that because Transport Canada practically held a gun to CP Rail's head, and CP Rail was in a 125 million dollar slap fight with Vancouver over a disused railway last year, CN Rail now wants to charge North Vancouver 3 million a year to let citizens cross its tracks that ARE ON PUBLIC LAND to get access to a beach, so don't expect any cooperation from either corp for more passenger rail.
That just scratches the surface off the top of my head. You're not the first person to come up with these ideas, and within the context of current public sentiment, political will and budget, none of them will work.
> Only on slashdot are we presented with an example of a startup giving complete control of rental housing pricing to the renters, and then told that this is evil.
Because apparently you don't live in a market with a 1% vacancy rate. In a market like Vancouver where I live, a site like this will guarantee that renters will bid each other high enough that the already unaffordable gets even less affordable. There's a little breathing room in pricing because the landlords aren't sure where the line is between their greed and the rental market's desperation. This tool will show that line off in dayglo orange.
The writers Guild of Great Britain doesn't go on strike in lockstep with the US one, and British seasons (one of the main bones of contention) have always been much shorter, so what "coordination" are you talking about here?
Not sure if you're being sarcastic with your "good idea" or not.
In some areas this will be fine, additional units will be easily built. In other markets where demand vastly outstrips supply - like in Vancouver where I live - all this will do is spur pricing arms races. "Just build more inventory" Really? WHERE? We've got mountains to the north, the US to the south, and the ocean to the west. And the out East building is already so far in swing you have people doing 2-3 hour commutes already to get to work.
London, San Fran, and others will have similar problems.
Writers in the UK and other markets deal with shorter or nearly nonexistent "seasons" - Sherlock is a prime example. Not sure 3 episodes qualifies as a season but that's how they roll...
So you'd prefer the status quo to make your salary rise instead? Not really sure what you're looking for here, the government's never going to pass an "Oswald McWeany makes $250K act" or anything like that. Surely restricting foreign H1Bs will at least help the domestic market price rise a bit?
> The Writers Guild of America represents writers for all of TV / Film / Streaming / you name it - if it plays on a screen and it's not a video game, these are the people who write it
Really? Including things like the BBC's Sherlock, or Doctor Who, or Downton Abbey or a dozen other shows that have gotten quite popular from "across the pond"?
Do tell..
Very unlikely that there aren't enough tech jobs here in Vancouver. Tech sector is large. I think what your friends meant was there weren't enough jobs that paid what they were willing to take, which is a definite problem. So it's even more puzzling that Vancouver was left off this list.
They're only banning electronics on flights from certain destinations. Surely the bad people would *never* think to just fly from a non-banned airport, right?
You mean this review?
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/03/nintendo-switch-review/
Check the closing words:
"Time to make the Switch?
At this point, it looks like buying the Switch as your only game console means missing out on everything from Mass Effect and Call of Duty to The Witcher and Assassin's Creed to Tomb Raider and Destiny. That list can go on and on. Maybe those major franchises will eventually be forced to pay attention to a Switch that absolutely flies off the shelves. For now, though, relying on the Switch for all of your gaming means risking that you'll miss out on a huge array of the most popular and well-received current franchises. That's a big price to pay for access to fully portable Zelda and Mario games.
Even as a secondary system, though, it's hard for me to recommend you go out and buy the Switch immediately unless you have a burning desire to play the latest Zelda literally anywhere. The system as it exists now feels a little like it was rushed to make it to store shelves before the end of Nintendo's fiscal year. After all, at launch there are some lingering hardware issues and extremely limited initial software support."
Not really seeing how that's a review saying how great the Switch is. It is written by Kyle Orland though, so that tone was expected.
TLS is not yet required for traffic and while it's made great strides in adoption, that is a very recent development. As of two years ago, Google themselves claimed half of received SMTP traffic was in plaintext, and only in January of this year did traffic cross the 80% threshold. When Gmail was created almost all of it was plaintext.
2014
https://googleblog.blogspot.ca/2014/06/transparency-report-protecting-emails.html
Now
https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/saferemail/
>Second, snooping on Internet backbones is actually pretty hard to do.
Unless you work for an alphabet agency. Or one of their contractors. Or one of the people who has the jewels of the backdoors the alphabet agencies put into backbone equipment surreptitiously:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/12/glenn-greenwald-nsa-tampers-us-internet-routers-snowden
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa-upgrade-factory-show-cisco-router-getting-implant/
> Third, the target ISP is harvesting _their_ messages without ever getting _their_ consent, and that happens to be illegal.
The target 'ISP' can also easily be corporations when you send mail to them - as many run their own IT operations - and they can and will do whatever they like with them. Plus, do link to the law that makes this illegal, I'd be very interested to see such transnational legislation.
Oh, you mean the message they transmitted across a public network in plaintext that might cross multiple countries' boundaries before arriving at the Gmail MX server farm? I can see how security minded they are.
When you send an email you have no control over what the recipient will do with it, arguing that you didn't accept the TOS of the recipient's mail system is asinine. What about sending mail to people at corporations, do you "accept" their mail retention and scanning policies before sending as well?
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a person or organization that buys goods or services from a store or business.
You paid how much for that Gmail account again? $0?
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603?hl=en
"With features like Priority Inbox, we automatically process your messages to help you sort through the unimportant messages that get in your way. We use a similar approach with ads. For example, if you’ve recently received a lot of messages about photography or cameras, a deal from a local camera store might be interesting. On the other hand, if you’ve reported these messages as spam, you probably don’t want to see such a deal.... The process by which ads are shown in Gmail is fully automated. Nobody reads your emails in order to show you ads."
Seems pretty clear to me.
> emails sent by non-Gmail users
So, people sign up for Gmail and never expect to get email from anyone outside of other Gmail accounts? What exactly do they think an email account is for?
Oh, GMail is free? Hmmm...
This is a horseshit waste of money and legal resources to enrich lawyers. Even before I signed up for GMail in beta (yes that long ago) it was well known that GMail was using the contents of mail to display targeted ads. That's why it was being offered as a service. It's in the TOS.
Sorry to hear "consumers" who got a service for free are too damn stupid to realize how it's being paid for. Just wait till someone tells them how Facebook pays for itself...
It's Ars Technica. They make a hobby of bashing Nintendo any way they can.