The only solution to have privacy is to do nothing on the internet or transact business of any sort.
That's impossible now. In order to get a job you have to apply on the internet - many times with third party companies that have their own multi-page legalese filled "Terms of Service" that has the "we reserve the right to change these terms at anytime" bullshit clause.
My credit union uses a third party for many of their back office and web services.
Many companies spread your personal information all over the World without your consent - the credit bureaus, insurance companies, banks, and just about any firm that handles your most private data. They share data with credit bureaus, other companies that collect data, Governments, etc...
Aside from living under a rock, living "off the grid" and doing business with no one, there's no way for the consumer to control their personal information - none.
I have been doing my best and yet, just googling myself, it sickens me how much personal information is out there - current information.
Visual Studio is a big disappointment when you been working in NetBeans or Eclipse.
Having used all three myself, I disagree. Visual Studio was the best out of all 3, although, NetBeans is really coming along but still has performance issues: its UI isn't as snappy as VS. Eclipse I found to be horribly slow coming up, unresponsive half the time, the UI is unintuitive, plugins are flaky as all hell, and making file changes in projects are just a nightmare - their handling of projects is not flexible at all.
The only thing I thought the whole time I watched this is US defense spending is way to over bloated to have this kind of useless spending.
I agree up to a point. OTH, if this leads to an "Iron Man" type of suit, then I'm all for it. Wars are now going to be urban fights mixed in with civilians - aircraft, missiles, and even drones are too blunt of an instrument for handling these types of battles.
What I'm saying is more money should be spent on things like this instead of Cold War era type of weapons - i.e. F-22.
We have limited resources and we need to be smart about our spending.
Because if he puts Linux and OSX in the environment, he now has paid experience deploying those OSes and he can then put that on his resume thereby improving his job prospects. Because employers want those ridiculously long laundry list of skills these days.
He also needs to get some Java, C#, C++, SQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Perl, VBA,.NET, Visual Studio, and iPhone coding under his belt too or otherwise he'll be unemployable.
Kids - be ruthless in building your skills laundry list because employers want you to have it all and you're competing with people from all over the World who'll work for much less than you will. Also, make sure you're in management by 35 or you'll be working at Starbucks - if you're lucky.
All he asked was a rhetorical question. Many times, I've asked if it were possible to have someone flogged like in the old British Navy and no one takes it seriously. Has asked if she could be stoned - NOT shot; not beaten to death with a cricket bat; but stoned, as in an old fashioned fantasy sort of way.
The real morons here are the folks who are taking this seriously.
The Art of Power by Thich Nhat Hanh. Anyway, Hanh talks about a billionaire (no name given) that came to Plumb Village and how he has a body guard because he's always afraid of being attacked or kidnapped, thinks everyone who's nice to him just wants to know him for his money, he has to work constantly and little time for loved ones, he has a huge amount of pressure, and there's some other things that I don't remember. You start thinking twice about being a billionaire and I didn't get the impression that this guy was a narcissist - I'm not saying that the folks you mentioned are not, but all billionaires are not and I think many would prefer to be anonymous if they could. I know I would but it's impossible with that much money. There was a billionaire by the name of Danial K. Ludwig (shipping) that was a recluse but folks knew who he was.
Ellison? I don't know him and never met him. But it has been published that he's a womanizer, likes his jet fighters, race cars, yachts, etc... which seems to support your premise.
Am I the only one thinking of the latest South Park episodes?
I was thinking of being "Captain Chaos" or "Anal Anarchist" and fucking with those guys with some of my own "Evil Criminal" gadgets. For example, capture the "Super Hero" tie him to a bench and have a very slowly advancing machine with a butt plug on the end of it approach his asshole and when they ask, "Do you expect me to talk?"
I'll respond, "No Mr. Superhero, I expect you to get buttfucked."
Right, because this is clearly a security flaw you'll only find in Apple products.
The GP means is that Apple implied that their platform was more secure and the fanboys loved to point out that they were secure whenever a vulnerability was found in Windows - granted that was more MS hatred than anything.
The GP was only shoving it in everyone's faces that Apple products are not as secure as everyone believes. Of course, us old timers remember all the viruses that were spread disk to disk back in the 80s on the original Macs - so we've never believed the hype about the "safety" of Apple products.
less people flying makes it much more pleasant to fly...
indeed, it does go on and on.
What?!? All the airlines do is mothball more planes and pack more of us on. Since they hit the skids, flying has gotten worse: older, smaller and noisier planes; hardly ever any empty seats; more padding in the schedule; less flights; etc..
Yes. Occasionally, you still see folks parroting that old line of "just live normally and the terrorists won't win."
Uh, excuse me, but having to take my shoes off and be strip searched by a radioactive machine (there is NO safe dosage of x-rays!) or have my dick grabbed by a TSA grunt is NOT living normally. After checking current procedures on the TSA's website only to have some TSA grunt pull a new rule out of his ass and lie to me that "it's a new procedure" (it never appears on the TSA's website) just shows me that they are just doing all of this for show.
Every time I hear someone say that they feel safer with all this security I just want to puke. They can't seem to understand that searching them or any of us who are not a threat is a waste of time.
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That's impossible now. In order to get a job you have to apply on the internet - many times with third party companies that have their own multi-page legalese filled "Terms of Service" that has the "we reserve the right to change these terms at anytime" bullshit clause.
My credit union uses a third party for many of their back office and web services.
Many companies spread your personal information all over the World without your consent - the credit bureaus, insurance companies, banks, and just about any firm that handles your most private data. They share data with credit bureaus, other companies that collect data, Governments, etc...
Aside from living under a rock, living "off the grid" and doing business with no one, there's no way for the consumer to control their personal information - none.
I have been doing my best and yet, just googling myself, it sickens me how much personal information is out there - current information.
Visual Studio is a big disappointment when you been working in NetBeans or Eclipse.
Having used all three myself, I disagree. Visual Studio was the best out of all 3, although, NetBeans is really coming along but still has performance issues: its UI isn't as snappy as VS. Eclipse I found to be horribly slow coming up, unresponsive half the time, the UI is unintuitive, plugins are flaky as all hell, and making file changes in projects are just a nightmare - their handling of projects is not flexible at all.
I wish that C# had the same Linux kernel support as Java does.
The only thing I thought the whole time I watched this is US defense spending is way to over bloated to have this kind of useless spending.
I agree up to a point. OTH, if this leads to an "Iron Man" type of suit, then I'm all for it. Wars are now going to be urban fights mixed in with civilians - aircraft, missiles, and even drones are too blunt of an instrument for handling these types of battles.
What I'm saying is more money should be spent on things like this instead of Cold War era type of weapons - i.e. F-22.
We have limited resources and we need to be smart about our spending.
...as well as political connections out the ass.
Political connections are usually up the ass.
Java, C#, C++, SQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Perl, VBA, .NET, Visual Studio,....Linux and Windows
I got that from a job posting that my father-in-law sent me.
And at 35, you're oooooolllllldddd in corporate IT.
Oh, phfew! For a second there, I thought Google hired SCO's legal team - you know the whole part about 3rd parties being liable and whatnot.
Quite frankly, I'm surprised this made it to the front page of Slashdot given the majority of liberals that make up this community.
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
Wait a sec.....wrong administration.......
Never mind.
It's Clinton's fault! God! Some people are just so clueless.
He also needs to get some Java, C#, C++, SQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Perl, VBA, .NET, Visual Studio, and iPhone coding under his belt too or otherwise he'll be unemployable.
Kids - be ruthless in building your skills laundry list because employers want you to have it all and you're competing with people from all over the World who'll work for much less than you will. Also, make sure you're in management by 35 or you'll be working at Starbucks - if you're lucky.
All he asked was a rhetorical question. Many times, I've asked if it were possible to have someone flogged like in the old British Navy and no one takes it seriously. Has asked if she could be stoned - NOT shot; not beaten to death with a cricket bat; but stoned, as in an old fashioned fantasy sort of way.
The real morons here are the folks who are taking this seriously.
The fact that he was arrested is just ridiculous.
I don't need Google to tell me to not like Facebook.
Let me see Should I hate Facebook
The answer looks like a "Yes."
Sex and Drugs and Texting ... wasn't that a Zappa song?
Ellison? I don't know him and never met him. But it has been published that he's a womanizer, likes his jet fighters, race cars, yachts, etc... which seems to support your premise.
Am I the only one thinking of the latest South Park episodes?
I was thinking of being "Captain Chaos" or "Anal Anarchist" and fucking with those guys with some of my own "Evil Criminal" gadgets. For example, capture the "Super Hero" tie him to a bench and have a very slowly advancing machine with a butt plug on the end of it approach his asshole and when they ask, "Do you expect me to talk?"
I'll respond, "No Mr. Superhero, I expect you to get buttfucked."
However, after reading this and looking at the gear, all that comes to mind is..."What a bunch of douchebags. Ugh."
FTFA:
“Iron Rad is a bid to function in reality as a full time superhero, actually rescuing people, disrupting violent crimes, ...
Some dork is gonna get a .357 up his ass one day or scare the shit out of a lawful person and get a clip of 9mm in his chest.
3) New Navy seamen ordered to get the Captain his mid-day meal and presses the "Lunch" button.
STD? Standard what?
Anyone who needed ZDNet to tell them this clearly hasn't been on Slashdot very long.
Yeah, just look at many of the moderations in the previous two articles on Linux and Apple.
Right, because this is clearly a security flaw you'll only find in Apple products.
The GP means is that Apple implied that their platform was more secure and the fanboys loved to point out that they were secure whenever a vulnerability was found in Windows - granted that was more MS hatred than anything.
The GP was only shoving it in everyone's faces that Apple products are not as secure as everyone believes. Of course, us old timers remember all the viruses that were spread disk to disk back in the 80s on the original Macs - so we've never believed the hype about the "safety" of Apple products.
Version control isn't rocket science: add, checkout, check-in, compare files, ... BFD.
If someone has to have their hand held on how to use a version control system, they have no business being in the profession.
less people flying makes it much more pleasant to fly...
indeed, it does go on and on.
What?!? All the airlines do is mothball more planes and pack more of us on. Since they hit the skids, flying has gotten worse: older, smaller and noisier planes; hardly ever any empty seats; more padding in the schedule; less flights; etc..
The terrorists really did win...
Yes. Occasionally, you still see folks parroting that old line of "just live normally and the terrorists won't win."
Uh, excuse me, but having to take my shoes off and be strip searched by a radioactive machine (there is NO safe dosage of x-rays!) or have my dick grabbed by a TSA grunt is NOT living normally. After checking current procedures on the TSA's website only to have some TSA grunt pull a new rule out of his ass and lie to me that "it's a new procedure" (it never appears on the TSA's website) just shows me that they are just doing all of this for show.
Every time I hear someone say that they feel safer with all this security I just want to puke. They can't seem to understand that searching them or any of us who are not a threat is a waste of time.