Nonsense, you've got all kinds of choice: Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, Darrell Castle, write in somebody else, or just leave that space on the ballot blank.
People who insist on holding their nose and voting for whichever of the two major party candidates they dislike least because they don't want to "waste their vote" are part of the problem -- and are wasting their votes.
Under normal circumstances I would have agreed (and I have had voted for 3rd party candidates in the past.) But not now.
See, I'm a naturalized US citizen that looks Mexican and who has had to face racism in more than one occasion, married to a permanent resident of Japanese origin, with a Muslim brother-in-law and many friends who are either Muslim or Muslim-looking as per the logic of angry wretches.
And I'm staring at a vulgarian reincarnation of George Wallace promising religious tests, who claims an entire ethnic group is majoritarily composed of rapists and murders, who claims a US born judge is unable to perform his duties because of his ethnic background, and who was the king of birthers, going against the first African-American president of the US by attacking his very birth right.
That political position you are making? Good for you. But because of who am I, and because of who people I care for are, it is something I cannot afford.
No matter what, this is a crap-shot, an election of detestables. One way or another, the United States, by virtue (or lack thereof) of its constituency, it will get the leader it deserves. And that is a very sad statement of fact.
Obama really had virtually no history. He never really did anything special in the Senate. It seems that more and more having actually worked in Washington is not a good thing to brag about on the campaign trail.
He had charisma and ran on a platform of hope. McCain, who I think is a good man (and I voted for him in 2008) sadly was forced to run on a doom and gloom campaign propelled from the ground up by people who were hell bent in believing Obama was a crypto-muslim homosexual anti-crist funded by illegal mexicans from China.
Obama's win in 2012 was also based on his charisma, and the GOP constituency, rather than learning its lessons, harked back into more doom and gloom that ended up turning off a whole bunch of people. For an example of the idiotic doom and gloom pandered by the GOP during Obama's first presidency, I refer to you to Chuck Norri's 1000 years of darkness warning (seriously, I can't make this shit up):
I'm not having a hard-on on Obama. He has committed some serious blunders. And yet, the combination of his charisma and message are/were more palatable than the ZOMG ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE monkey-flinging shitshow that the GOP constituency has embarrassed the country with for the last 8 years.
Obama could have had as much more political baggage as Clinton and chances are he would have still won the 2008 and 2012 elections simply by not being what his opposition was: a horde of shit-flinging monkeys pandering doom-and-gloom piss kool-aid and Orwellian 2 Minute Hate Sessions to the wretches who must find an external enemy to blame for their personal and social shortcomings.
But here we are now, having to select two detestables: Hillary or Trump. One way or another this country, and the imbecilic proles in it, will get the leader it deserves.
The polls disagree with you. Since the incident where she was dragged away into her getaway van, her numbers dropped and Trump's went up.
Guess it's time for Reuters to "tweak" their polling algorithms again so that Hillary appears ahead. Wouldn't want voters to get the wrong idea now, would we?
No they do not. The OP is suggesting that, should Hillary were to become incapacitated, Trump's chances will likely dive even more as more people would be willing to vote for Kaine than for Hillary (or Trump.)
What we are witnessing is a competition between detestable candidates. Should one were to replace one of the detestables for one that is not, guess what would happen.
This is not just specifically against Trump, but also against Hillary. If Trump were to pull out his little hand (pun clearly intended) off the race pie and gets replaced by, say, Kasich, I'd expect it to be over for Hillary.
A lot of people are voting for Hillary because they detest Trump more (and viceversa). Replace one with a much less detestable (or even better, a favorable) person, and the equation changes.
Disclaimer: I do have a preference or rather less revulsion in favor of Hillary. But I'm simply making a prediction of realities on the ground as well as hypothetical replacement of detestables.
It sucks because you can't retrain. Or rather, you can (and it's expensive and time-consuming) but ultimately pointless because at this point you'll be too old to re-enter the workforce. It simply cannot be done. Suppose you've been a truck driver for 10 years starting at 18. You're 28 now. You'll need two years minimum to re-qualify (if you can afford it which is doubtful because the jobs about to be automated don't provide you with wages that support you beyond paycheck-to-paycheck existence) and at this point you're simply too old. Finished. Over. Back when the Industrial Revolution happened you could retrain people cheaply enough (they may not have been able to read and write but to operate simple machinery it was unnecessary. You could build a horse cart, you could work on a car. Simple mechanical skills. And nobody cared how old you were. Now? After 30 if you're looking for a job you might as well give up. After 35? Pointless. Unemployed at 40 = suicide. So this inevitable revolution is going to leave many, many people broken.
As a 47 year old programmer who have not just gone through 3 unemployment rodeos in the last 22 years (and continuously increase my base salary), I'll say that your words are the mark of incompetence.
Things go south. The economy goes sinusoidal every 5-10 years. Shit happens. You adapt. Doesn't matter (at least not substantially) if you are 20 or 50. Sure, an older geezer will have to compete with fresh workers who aren't saddle with familiar obligations. But young bucks also have to compete with more experience for jobs that are worth a damn and which pay better.
So no matter the pigeonhole you choose to put yourself in, you'll have your pros and your cons.
It's all about having the mindset, the clear presence that shit will happen, that you need to constantly plan for it, and to be adaptable.
Regardless of education or field of work, people worth a damn will adapt. Adaptability in the face of challenges is the key. Otherwise, we should be content working a 9-5 gig folding pants at The GAP.
but how to you feel if that info was passed to the FBI / CIA / NSA / ETC?
For one, this has been going on for a long time, so it's not news.
Secondly, I don't really care. What are they going to find? Pictures of LOLCATS? My bookmarks for political articles? What's realistically going to happen?
Now, if I were in Russia or China, were I could be suspect to *disappear*, then I would care.
I don't go out and about without my wallet, so my credit card is always on me. Using an app isn't any more convenient, its less so.
It's not about convenience. It's about security. The apps are far superior from a security perspective. Leave your card locked up at home so no one gets it when they steal your wallet.
With a sentence like this, I can safely conclude you don't know squat about security. And I'm sure I can make the same assumption about the whole lot of slashdot users given how your post has been rated as insightful.
I mean, how the fuck is a mobile app more secure than a CC. Sure you can steal my CC, but I can hack your phone without stealing it. This is no hyperbole. Phones bleed info like mofos. Which is why I don't use any banking or transaction apps on them.
And with the new EVM cards (the chip-and-pin kind), fraud is even harder, leaving no option but to steal, to physically acquire your card (which is still a hard proposition to use fraudulently without a PIN.)
None of those airgaps exist with phone apps. There is no physical barrier, no air gap to speak of. Bleeding readable signals like crazy. And you call these the more secure options?
FTA: "The acquisition of Samsung's printer business allows us to deliver print innovation and create entirely new business opportunities with far better efficiency, security, and economics for customers," said HP president and CEO Dion Weisler in a statement.
Huh? Can a Professor of English please parse that gobbeldey-gook sentence for me? Is it even a sentence?
Syntactically, it is a sentence, just like 'Sarah fluxes the pineapple with the clitoral differential monkey which decorates entropic synergies up to the donkey.":)
In other words, it is meaningless bs that has been beautifully constructed.
There is some credibility to the claims. Microsoft's Lumia lineup has shrunk to just four models, and there's nothing to indicate it's working on a successor.
This is a shame. At a previous job, the company provided me with a Lumia. Very nice interface, and it's seamless integration with corporate e-mail and calendar was nice. I was also doing development for that platform, and it was nice to work with. Not perfect, but really, really good, if I look at things objectively.
This is yet another case of a company killing a promising platform and/or not making it work in the market. Lack of penetration on the market wasn't so much a problem with the product, but marketing and timing.
And for a company with such deep pockets as Microsoft, it makes no sense NOT to undersell it and be on the red in order to penetrate the market. Sometimes to make a win you have to go really low margin for a while (a-la Amazon.)
If the entire goal of every single business cycle is to increase your margins or minimize your risks, you are going lose, specially in something so challenging as tech.
Or you run a scout camp. Or you are an Olympic target shooter. Or you hunt small game.
Are you going to barter with those things?
Wouldn't see why not. I've done, though I always require the person to have a carry license from the state I am (FL) and we sign a document stating the transfer is for the people signing the document (and not for a straw sale.) It happens all the time at gun shows. Hell, I want to barter my ATI Titan 45ACP for a 9mm (under the same conditions obviously, no FL CCL, no barter.)
Sure there are people who are either careless or shady and who would not go through these hoops. But personally, I've never met one.
I don't think you should be handing out ammunition to kids
Absolutely. I don't think any sports shooter worth his marbles would barter with a minor. He/she could barter with an adult who supervise young shooters, though.
, the target shooter would probably want some but I don't see what need small game would have for bullets of any caliber.
Well, if you do archery, shooting a cottontail with an arrow would not require any bullets. But if you are going to use one, a 22LR is the way to go for small animals. Anything bigger requires larger caliber (otherwise, you are not killing the animal, but poking a painful hole for it to bleed and die a slow death.)
If you are going to kill an animal, kill it quick, or don't even touch it at all.
Please tell me that you are aware that the AR platform is available in at least half a dozen different calibers, of which.22LR is one. Please tell me you knew that.
A lot of folks (even gun owners who limit themselves to handguns for home defense) equate the AR platform with the 5.56×45mm Armalite AR-15 and comparable variants/clones.
I think the problem is not that its on the internet, but that it accepts commands from the internet, if they just sent data everything would be fine.
IoT can be made secure, because encryption exists, so long as master key is not stolen, or backup master key, but these problems exist for all security things not just IoT.
The way I see it, even when things are "read" or "display" only, no appliances should be connected over the internet without 2-way SSL, pairing the appliance with a set of devices (say smart phones or tablets), or some other robust, fail-safe pairing mechanism.
A smart fridge (assuming that shit made sense) shouldn't be available for read, let alone write, by default on the internet. It shouldn't even be easily discoverable.
You forgot checksumming and verification after transfer.....You have something on the other drive after the transfer, you wont know what until you verify it.
By the tits of Baal, rsync or xcopy/v or robocopy in combination with fciv.
New services in the 2nd largest economy, an economy that is increasing its technical sophistication and know-how? Tech news are not limited to gadgets and virtual pr0n, just so you know.
Not to mention that Didi's reservation service via mobile apps, though not necessarily revolutionary in technical terms, it is quite so in its end-to-end service Reserving a car rental to be delivered at home, no one does that. This poses logistic challenges - repairs, insurance, delivery, recovery, maintenance, claims - those which will be met with technological means, and, if lucky, would provide case studies applicable to other areas in any sufficiently industrialized country.
If that's not tech, I question the technical nature of these \. posters.
New services in the 2nd largest economy, an economy that is increasing its technical sophistication and know-how? Tech news are not limited to gadgets and virtual pr0n, just so you know.
I trust Wikileaks a whole lot more than the average Associated Press news story full of random bullshit attributed to "sources speaking anonymously because they were not authorized." We're not dumb, we don't want a filter and "think of the children" is how dictators often climb to power.
I fail to see how this justifies releasing the name of someone accused of being gay in a country where homosexuality is punishable by death.
It is very easy to be a fucking asshole that spouts dogmatic slogans (and putting inocent people at risk) when they have nothing to lose. That's not love of freedom or speech or transparency. That's just good old fucking moral hazard.
They do. you just dont buy them direct from samsung. you can always buy refurbs from carriers. And any warranty return for a new phone is always replaced with a used refurb.
My favorite part of buying a $600 phone is getting a used one that is all scratched up
Spot on. People miss such such an obvious thing, I have to wonder about their reading comprehension skills.
"It worked... never mind that the company needed to run like, I don't remember, a dozen web servers to make that shit run when all that was truly required (if the system had been built properly) was one server for the application and one for the database."
"It runs - badly" is not the same as "it works"
Anyway if you understand the calls, etc you should be able to get a nice 6-figure lumpsum payout for making the system run well. Pitch yourself as a contractor.
Don't get me wrong. I'm a mercenary and I'll do COBOL while wearing leather and gagged if it pays well. The thing is that places that have such monstrosities do so because they are organizationally dysfunctional. I can handle hard work with ugly systems. But working with ugly personalities, it eventually wears you out... and if you are not careful, you become like them.
You want to work with challenges that make you grow technically and professionally every once in a way. Not all grunt work is worth doing, even when the moolah is good.
In my experience, "if it's stupid but works it isn't stupid" usually has an implicit assumption that nothing else is working.
That's true.
But that can, of course, change with time. And that has happened in a lot of these old systems, where there are now other ways to do things.
The example above sounds like a system that had to be it's own database server and driver, before that sort of thing was available. When it was later updated, they divided the code in the wrong place. And left in operations that should have been rebuilt to use the standard database operations. Lazy is not always good...
Sadly, that's not the case. The system was built well into the 2000's in Java. They just didn't know WTF they were doing.
Japan has like half the population of the US and half the GDP. China has like 4x the population of the US.
Don't waste your words. People in this country still think things will go back to the glory economic days of the 50's and 60's... all by prayers alone. The people who get it are getting ready for it through education and versatility. The ones who do not, we'll, I guess they are going to find out the hard way.
People used to talk in the 80's about how the Japanese with their superior technology and management theories were going to displace the US as the number 1 economic power in the world, too. Didn't and won't happen. For China it remains to be seen but is not a sure thing by any stretch.
For the reasons I've mentioned in other places - a real estate crash followed by population decline, not because of an inherent American strength. As it stands Japan can still guarantee a high standard of life for its citizenship until the 2050s. We cannot make the same claim the US. Hell, 1/3 of our schools are dysfunctional and we cannot even guarantee lead-free water to our people.
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Nonsense, you've got all kinds of choice: Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, Darrell Castle, write in somebody else, or just leave that space on the ballot blank.
People who insist on holding their nose and voting for whichever of the two major party candidates they dislike least because they don't want to "waste their vote" are part of the problem -- and are wasting their votes.
Under normal circumstances I would have agreed (and I have had voted for 3rd party candidates in the past.) But not now.
See, I'm a naturalized US citizen that looks Mexican and who has had to face racism in more than one occasion, married to a permanent resident of Japanese origin, with a Muslim brother-in-law and many friends who are either Muslim or Muslim-looking as per the logic of angry wretches.
And I'm staring at a vulgarian reincarnation of George Wallace promising religious tests, who claims an entire ethnic group is majoritarily composed of rapists and murders, who claims a US born judge is unable to perform his duties because of his ethnic background, and who was the king of birthers, going against the first African-American president of the US by attacking his very birth right.
That political position you are making? Good for you. But because of who am I, and because of who people I care for are, it is something I cannot afford.
No matter what, this is a crap-shot, an election of detestables. One way or another, the United States, by virtue (or lack thereof) of its constituency, it will get the leader it deserves. And that is a very sad statement of fact.
Obama really had virtually no history. He never really did anything special in the Senate. It seems that more and more having actually worked in Washington is not a good thing to brag about on the campaign trail.
He had charisma and ran on a platform of hope. McCain, who I think is a good man (and I voted for him in 2008) sadly was forced to run on a doom and gloom campaign propelled from the ground up by people who were hell bent in believing Obama was a crypto-muslim homosexual anti-crist funded by illegal mexicans from China.
Obama's win in 2012 was also based on his charisma, and the GOP constituency, rather than learning its lessons, harked back into more doom and gloom that ended up turning off a whole bunch of people. For an example of the idiotic doom and gloom pandered by the GOP during Obama's first presidency, I refer to you to Chuck Norri's 1000 years of darkness warning (seriously, I can't make this shit up):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ud3pK5Wa90
I'm not having a hard-on on Obama. He has committed some serious blunders. And yet, the combination of his charisma and message are/were more palatable than the ZOMG ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE monkey-flinging shitshow that the GOP constituency has embarrassed the country with for the last 8 years.
Obama could have had as much more political baggage as Clinton and chances are he would have still won the 2008 and 2012 elections simply by not being what his opposition was: a horde of shit-flinging monkeys pandering doom-and-gloom piss kool-aid and Orwellian 2 Minute Hate Sessions to the wretches who must find an external enemy to blame for their personal and social shortcomings.
But here we are now, having to select two detestables: Hillary or Trump. One way or another this country, and the imbecilic proles in it, will get the leader it deserves.
The polls disagree with you. Since the incident where she was dragged away into her getaway van, her numbers dropped and Trump's went up.
Guess it's time for Reuters to "tweak" their polling algorithms again so that Hillary appears ahead. Wouldn't want voters to get the wrong idea now, would we?
No they do not. The OP is suggesting that, should Hillary were to become incapacitated, Trump's chances will likely dive even more as more people would be willing to vote for Kaine than for Hillary (or Trump.)
What we are witnessing is a competition between detestable candidates. Should one were to replace one of the detestables for one that is not, guess what would happen.
This is not just specifically against Trump, but also against Hillary. If Trump were to pull out his little hand (pun clearly intended) off the race pie and gets replaced by, say, Kasich, I'd expect it to be over for Hillary.
A lot of people are voting for Hillary because they detest Trump more (and viceversa). Replace one with a much less detestable (or even better, a favorable) person, and the equation changes.
Disclaimer: I do have a preference or rather less revulsion in favor of Hillary. But I'm simply making a prediction of realities on the ground as well as hypothetical replacement of detestables.
It sucks because you can't retrain. Or rather, you can (and it's expensive and time-consuming) but ultimately pointless because at this point you'll be too old to re-enter the workforce. It simply cannot be done. Suppose you've been a truck driver for 10 years starting at 18. You're 28 now. You'll need two years minimum to re-qualify (if you can afford it which is doubtful because the jobs about to be automated don't provide you with wages that support you beyond paycheck-to-paycheck existence) and at this point you're simply too old. Finished. Over. Back when the Industrial Revolution happened you could retrain people cheaply enough (they may not have been able to read and write but to operate simple machinery it was unnecessary. You could build a horse cart, you could work on a car. Simple mechanical skills. And nobody cared how old you were. Now? After 30 if you're looking for a job you might as well give up. After 35? Pointless. Unemployed at 40 = suicide. So this inevitable revolution is going to leave many, many people broken.
As a 47 year old programmer who have not just gone through 3 unemployment rodeos in the last 22 years (and continuously increase my base salary), I'll say that your words are the mark of incompetence.
Things go south. The economy goes sinusoidal every 5-10 years. Shit happens. You adapt. Doesn't matter (at least not substantially) if you are 20 or 50. Sure, an older geezer will have to compete with fresh workers who aren't saddle with familiar obligations. But young bucks also have to compete with more experience for jobs that are worth a damn and which pay better.
So no matter the pigeonhole you choose to put yourself in, you'll have your pros and your cons.
It's all about having the mindset, the clear presence that shit will happen, that you need to constantly plan for it, and to be adaptable.
Regardless of education or field of work, people worth a damn will adapt. Adaptability in the face of challenges is the key. Otherwise, we should be content working a 9-5 gig folding pants at The GAP.
but how to you feel if that info was passed to the FBI / CIA / NSA / ETC?
For one, this has been going on for a long time, so it's not news.
Secondly, I don't really care. What are they going to find? Pictures of LOLCATS? My bookmarks for political articles? What's realistically going to happen?
Now, if I were in Russia or China, were I could be suspect to *disappear*, then I would care.
I don't go out and about without my wallet, so my credit card is always on me. Using an app isn't any more convenient, its less so.
It's not about convenience. It's about security. The apps are far superior from a security perspective. Leave your card locked up at home so no one gets it when they steal your wallet.
With a sentence like this, I can safely conclude you don't know squat about security. And I'm sure I can make the same assumption about the whole lot of slashdot users given how your post has been rated as insightful.
I mean, how the fuck is a mobile app more secure than a CC. Sure you can steal my CC, but I can hack your phone without stealing it. This is no hyperbole. Phones bleed info like mofos. Which is why I don't use any banking or transaction apps on them.
And with the new EVM cards (the chip-and-pin kind), fraud is even harder, leaving no option but to steal, to physically acquire your card (which is still a hard proposition to use fraudulently without a PIN.)
None of those airgaps exist with phone apps. There is no physical barrier, no air gap to speak of. Bleeding readable signals like crazy. And you call these the more secure options?
Truly, WTF?
Since when are phone apps secure?
Exactly. Without 2-way authentication (and a scrambler to make sure no one scans and hacks the phone), that shit bleeds info like a mofo.
FTA: "The acquisition of Samsung's printer business allows us to deliver print innovation and create entirely new business opportunities with far better efficiency, security, and economics for customers," said HP president and CEO Dion Weisler in a statement.
Huh? Can a Professor of English please parse that gobbeldey-gook sentence for me? Is it even a sentence?
Syntactically, it is a sentence, just like 'Sarah fluxes the pineapple with the clitoral differential monkey which decorates entropic synergies up to the donkey." :)
In other words, it is meaningless bs that has been beautifully constructed.
TRIGGERS!!! TRIGGERS!!!
TRIGGERS!!! TRIGGERS!!!!
There is some credibility to the claims. Microsoft's Lumia lineup has shrunk to just four models, and there's nothing to indicate it's working on a successor.
This is a shame. At a previous job, the company provided me with a Lumia. Very nice interface, and it's seamless integration with corporate e-mail and calendar was nice. I was also doing development for that platform, and it was nice to work with. Not perfect, but really, really good, if I look at things objectively.
This is yet another case of a company killing a promising platform and/or not making it work in the market. Lack of penetration on the market wasn't so much a problem with the product, but marketing and timing.
And for a company with such deep pockets as Microsoft, it makes no sense NOT to undersell it and be on the red in order to penetrate the market. Sometimes to make a win you have to go really low margin for a while (a-la Amazon.)
If the entire goal of every single business cycle is to increase your margins or minimize your risks, you are going lose, specially in something so challenging as tech.
Or you run a scout camp. Or you are an Olympic target shooter. Or you hunt small game.
Are you going to barter with those things?
Wouldn't see why not. I've done, though I always require the person to have a carry license from the state I am (FL) and we sign a document stating the transfer is for the people signing the document (and not for a straw sale.) It happens all the time at gun shows. Hell, I want to barter my ATI Titan 45ACP for a 9mm (under the same conditions obviously, no FL CCL, no barter.)
Sure there are people who are either careless or shady and who would not go through these hoops. But personally, I've never met one.
I don't think you should be handing out ammunition to kids
Absolutely. I don't think any sports shooter worth his marbles would barter with a minor. He/she could barter with an adult who supervise young shooters, though.
, the target shooter would probably want some but I don't see what need small game would have for bullets of any caliber.
Well, if you do archery, shooting a cottontail with an arrow would not require any bullets. But if you are going to use one, a 22LR is the way to go for small animals. Anything bigger requires larger caliber (otherwise, you are not killing the animal, but poking a painful hole for it to bleed and die a slow death.)
If you are going to kill an animal, kill it quick, or don't even touch it at all.
Please tell me that you are aware that the AR platform is available in at least half a dozen different calibers, of which .22LR is one. Please tell me you knew that.
A lot of folks (even gun owners who limit themselves to handguns for home defense) equate the AR platform with the 5.56×45mm Armalite AR-15 and comparable variants/clones.
I think the problem is not that its on the internet, but that it accepts commands from the internet, if they just sent data everything would be fine.
IoT can be made secure, because encryption exists, so long as master key is not stolen, or backup master key, but these problems exist for all security things not just IoT.
The way I see it, even when things are "read" or "display" only, no appliances should be connected over the internet without 2-way SSL, pairing the appliance with a set of devices (say smart phones or tablets), or some other robust, fail-safe pairing mechanism.
A smart fridge (assuming that shit made sense) shouldn't be available for read, let alone write, by default on the internet. It shouldn't even be easily discoverable.
You forgot checksumming and verification after transfer.....You have something on the other drive after the transfer, you wont know what until you verify it.
By the tits of Baal, rsync or xcopy /v or robocopy in combination with fciv.
Seriously. Slashdot news?
New services in the 2nd largest economy, an economy that is increasing its technical sophistication and know-how? Tech news are not limited to gadgets and virtual pr0n, just so you know.
Not to mention that Didi's reservation service via mobile apps, though not necessarily revolutionary in technical terms, it is quite so in its end-to-end service Reserving a car rental to be delivered at home, no one does that. This poses logistic challenges - repairs, insurance, delivery, recovery, maintenance, claims - those which will be met with technological means, and, if lucky, would provide case studies applicable to other areas in any sufficiently industrialized country.
If that's not tech, I question the technical nature of these \. posters.
Seriously. Slashdot news?
New services in the 2nd largest economy, an economy that is increasing its technical sophistication and know-how? Tech news are not limited to gadgets and virtual pr0n, just so you know.
I trust Wikileaks a whole lot more than the average Associated Press news story full of random bullshit attributed to "sources speaking anonymously because they were not authorized." We're not dumb, we don't want a filter and "think of the children" is how dictators often climb to power.
I fail to see how this justifies releasing the name of someone accused of being gay in a country where homosexuality is punishable by death.
It is very easy to be a fucking asshole that spouts dogmatic slogans (and putting inocent people at risk) when they have nothing to lose. That's not love of freedom or speech or transparency. That's just good old fucking moral hazard.
They do. you just dont buy them direct from samsung. you can always buy refurbs from carriers. And any warranty return for a new phone is always replaced with a used refurb.
My favorite part of buying a $600 phone is getting a used one that is all scratched up
Spot on. People miss such such an obvious thing, I have to wonder about their reading comprehension skills.
"Man Bang and the Pearly Necklace" starring Kim Jong Un!
"It worked... never mind that the company needed to run like, I don't remember, a dozen web servers to make that shit run when all that was truly required (if the system had been built properly) was one server for the application and one for the database."
"It runs - badly" is not the same as "it works"
Anyway if you understand the calls, etc you should be able to get a nice 6-figure lumpsum payout for making the system run well. Pitch yourself as a contractor.
Don't get me wrong. I'm a mercenary and I'll do COBOL while wearing leather and gagged if it pays well. The thing is that places that have such monstrosities do so because they are organizationally dysfunctional. I can handle hard work with ugly systems. But working with ugly personalities, it eventually wears you out... and if you are not careful, you become like them.
You want to work with challenges that make you grow technically and professionally every once in a way. Not all grunt work is worth doing, even when the moolah is good.
In my experience, "if it's stupid but works it isn't stupid" usually has an implicit assumption that nothing else is working.
That's true.
But that can, of course, change with time. And that has happened in a lot of these old systems, where there are now other ways to do things.
The example above sounds like a system that had to be it's own database server and driver, before that sort of thing was available. When it was later updated, they divided the code in the wrong place. And left in operations that should have been rebuilt to use the standard database operations. Lazy is not always good...
Sadly, that's not the case. The system was built well into the 2000's in Java. They just didn't know WTF they were doing.
They are going to screw you and I if Trump does not win, they will feel emboldened for the final strike. The one which will prove deadly.
Tin foil alert! Tin foil alert!
Japan has like half the population of the US and half the GDP. China has like 4x the population of the US.
Don't waste your words. People in this country still think things will go back to the glory economic days of the 50's and 60's... all by prayers alone. The people who get it are getting ready for it through education and versatility. The ones who do not, we'll, I guess they are going to find out the hard way.
People used to talk in the 80's about how the Japanese with their superior technology and management theories were going to displace the US as the number 1 economic power in the world, too. Didn't and won't happen. For China it remains to be seen but is not a sure thing by any stretch.
For the reasons I've mentioned in other places - a real estate crash followed by population decline, not because of an inherent American strength. As it stands Japan can still guarantee a high standard of life for its citizenship until the 2050s. We cannot make the same claim the US. Hell, 1/3 of our schools are dysfunctional and we cannot even guarantee lead-free water to our people.