Your opening example is not very good. They supersize you because soda and french fries are nearly free to them, huge marginal profit to throw twice as much soda in there for 25 cents more.
Computer margins are small, even smaller for bulk orders.
The whole point of a contact arrangement is that you are working under the terms of the contract and only the contract. You are not an employee, you are a vendor. They have no obligation to continue purchasing labor from you, unless the contract says so. In this case it obviously didn't.
It's also why you should get at least triple your normal rate for contract work compared to employment. Besides having to pay more in taxes, you give up a lot of other benefits and protections too.
They don't need the contractors. They are just the lowest cost option right now. If someone changes that equation by fucking everyone over with a union, they'll just hire less contractors (at least ones from the US) and that'll be that.
If you wanna make India and Packistan look like even better choices, go ahead and sign that union card.
What kind of ancient routers are you using that force you to specify the IP address of everything?
A router has no use for DNS.
Linksys router my ISP gave me has built-in DNS resolving (it needs to know it for DHCP anyway), but I can give it a hostname for the NTP server and it resolves
That's because it's running a full OS in there. That's hardly a router... more of a self-contained NAT/Firewall box that happens to also do routing.
I've actually got an idea for effective reform without throwing the whole system out... I'm going to write it up soon. If you've got a friend slot to spare, add me and I'll post a journal entry about it when I get it put up. Or just check my journal in a couple days.
stuff like routers, fileservers, fancy coffee makers, everything
I don't know of any of those things that support DNS. Pretty much every embedded system I've seen just uses IPs. You can give them DNS names, but that's external to them.
Of course you need to create some sort of backwards compatability with DNS
That wouldn't be too hard.
remember to clear any legal (patent) hurdles early, or your rollout could be stopped dead by one jerk with a submarine patent
Who cares? If everyone operated with that attitude, no software would get written, period. With the way IP is today, you've just gotta write whatever you want, and if you get a C+D letter, deal with it at that point. If you even do a patent search you run the risk of having to pay triple damages later on, it's better to be ignorant of any patents you may or may not infringe, because it's impossible to know what the patent actually meant until after the lawsuit is over.
While governments might try to take over TLDs, as geeks we have our own nuclear option.
In the end, no politician knows how to edit a zone file. It's up to some geek somewhere to do it. We hold all the cards, and if we want to redirect.us to goatse, we can.
You can't prove a rootkit doesn't exist on your system, unless you have a checksum database on read only media, and some sort of hardware (not firmware) method of computing those checksums.
You can't even be reasonably sure of it without at least some checksumming system like tripwire.
All you are doing is scanning for certain known rootkits. That's a weak strategy that's reactive and guaranteed to fail some of the time.
Cut the writer some slack, this article is a huge improvement over most security reporting.
For example: A previously unknown flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows
This alone is better than most stories that refer to generic "security problems" without saying they only apply to windows.
Mac and Linux computer users are not at risk with this attack, even if their computers run Microsoft programs [like IE] and [Windows users of] Firefox and Opera, can still get their PCs infected if they agree to download a file.
This is good reporting too, it shows that it's not an application vuln alone but something system level that is made worse by flaws in applications.
I'd say this guy is pretty clueful and overall it's about the best computer security reporting we can hope for from mainstream newspapers.
So a free program has been able to do what a program costing thousands in upgrades and purchases since 1999 but it is still not making solid inroads into the graphics business. Why is this?
Lack of CMYK and Pantone support?
It's not the name. Your claims of feature parity are just wrong.
Economists might have trouble with your terms then.
An absolute competitive advantage doesn't always mean that the lesser has no place in the ecosystem, if there is symbiosis of some sort (or free trade in economic theory) then both can benefit from the other's continued existance, since the lesser may have a comparative advantage which allows for mutually beneficial trades.
You are correct... QM is one of the areas of "science" that helps damage science's reputation. I'd say the other major thing is much of cosmology.
From the article: "These are extremely difficult experiments that confirm elementary features of quantum mechanics." It would be more spectacular news, he said, if they had come out wrong.
A theory is something supposedly supported by extensive experimental evidence. Here they are fishing for the "correct results" to support something they call a theory, which isn't a theory at all, since they are just now producing a couple isolated experiments that support it, all the while working under certain assumptions of the correct results.
Hardly real science.
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PC Power and Cooling is THE best power supply you can get. No matter what wattage you get from them, it's not going to suck.
They've been around since the 80s, and have always been the king. People just ignored them in the tweaking market for a long time because their power supplies cost 10 times more than the discount ones like Enermax and Antec.
You'd be surprised. UL logo fraud is pretty common. I remember a report where it turned out like 5 out of 10 popular power supplies were using the UL logo in violation of the UL trademark terms (no UL listings).
Another thing is that the UL doesn't really certify individual components. I.e. you can build a computer out of all UL parts and the whole is not considered to be UL approved.
So, I don't care if Russia or China thumbs their nose at our copyrights. Let them.
The reason the RIAA has a problem with this is that it's completely legal for US users to import music from russia for personal use for a small fraction of the price.
I hope Russia tells them to fuck off. This copyright cartel shit has gone far enough.
About stuffit linux... Unless something's changed, they talk a lot about it being a time limited trial version, but it never expires. At least the copies I used a few years ago didn't.
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Your opening example is not very good. They supersize you because soda and french fries are nearly free to them, huge marginal profit to throw twice as much soda in there for 25 cents more.
Computer margins are small, even smaller for bulk orders.
They alternate male and female names now to be more PC.
Them's the breaks.
The whole point of a contact arrangement is that you are working under the terms of the contract and only the contract. You are not an employee, you are a vendor. They have no obligation to continue purchasing labor from you, unless the contract says so. In this case it obviously didn't.
It's also why you should get at least triple your normal rate for contract work compared to employment. Besides having to pay more in taxes, you give up a lot of other benefits and protections too.
They don't need the contractors. They are just the lowest cost option right now. If someone changes that equation by fucking everyone over with a union, they'll just hire less contractors (at least ones from the US) and that'll be that.
If you wanna make India and Packistan look like even better choices, go ahead and sign that union card.
There's a difference between might fail sometimes, and guaranteed to fail under conditions that the attacker can design and test for.
If I were writing rootkits, I know I'd get all these scanners and make sure my new kit wasn't detectable by any of them.
What kind of ancient routers are you using that force you to specify the IP address of everything?
A router has no use for DNS.
Linksys router my ISP gave me has built-in DNS resolving (it needs to know it for DHCP anyway), but I can give it a hostname for the NTP server and it resolves
That's because it's running a full OS in there. That's hardly a router... more of a self-contained NAT/Firewall box that happens to also do routing.
It's still scanning for known techniques.
/proc process list not matching up with what ps returns.
chkrootkit is the same way, it has some generic heuristics like the
A new rootkit that doesn't rely on any old techniques wouldn't show up.
I've actually got an idea for effective reform without throwing the whole system out... I'm going to write it up soon. If you've got a friend slot to spare, add me and I'll post a journal entry about it when I get it put up. Or just check my journal in a couple days.
stuff like routers, fileservers, fancy coffee makers, everything
I don't know of any of those things that support DNS. Pretty much every embedded system I've seen just uses IPs. You can give them DNS names, but that's external to them.
Of course you need to create some sort of backwards compatability with DNS
That wouldn't be too hard.
remember to clear any legal (patent) hurdles early, or your rollout could be stopped dead by one jerk with a submarine patent
Who cares? If everyone operated with that attitude, no software would get written, period. With the way IP is today, you've just gotta write whatever you want, and if you get a C+D letter, deal with it at that point. If you even do a patent search you run the risk of having to pay triple damages later on, it's better to be ignorant of any patents you may or may not infringe, because it's impossible to know what the patent actually meant until after the lawsuit is over.
Hmm.. A slashdot story that would interest a total of maybe 250 people in the entire world.
Way to be relevant there.
It is system that works well and it is understood by every app out there
Change one or two resolver libs and everything works with the new system.
It's not like many apps have their own resolver code built in.
While governments might try to take over TLDs, as geeks we have our own nuclear option.
.us to goatse, we can.
In the end, no politician knows how to edit a zone file. It's up to some geek somewhere to do it. We hold all the cards, and if we want to redirect
You can't prove a rootkit doesn't exist on your system, unless you have a checksum database on read only media, and some sort of hardware (not firmware) method of computing those checksums.
You can't even be reasonably sure of it without at least some checksumming system like tripwire.
All you are doing is scanning for certain known rootkits. That's a weak strategy that's reactive and guaranteed to fail some of the time.
Cut the writer some slack, this article is a huge improvement over most security reporting.
For example:
A previously unknown flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows
This alone is better than most stories that refer to generic "security problems" without saying they only apply to windows.
Mac and Linux computer users are not at risk with this attack, even if their computers run Microsoft programs [like IE] and [Windows users of] Firefox and Opera, can still get their PCs infected if they agree to download a file.
This is good reporting too, it shows that it's not an application vuln alone but something system level that is made worse by flaws in applications.
I'd say this guy is pretty clueful and overall it's about the best computer security reporting we can hope for from mainstream newspapers.
So a free program has been able to do what a program costing thousands in upgrades and purchases since 1999 but it is still not making solid inroads into the graphics business. Why is this?
Lack of CMYK and Pantone support?
It's not the name. Your claims of feature parity are just wrong.
It clearly starts at 0. The dial is actully reading 9.
You better be glad you live in the day and age you do... You'd probably get someone killed if you lived back when gauges like that were common.
The same could be said of someone running a pryamid scheme.
You are correct, for minor misdemeanors they usually don't arrest you, though they often do serve the papers in person for non-traffic misdemeanors.
Economists might have trouble with your terms then.
An absolute competitive advantage doesn't always mean that the lesser has no place in the ecosystem, if there is symbiosis of some sort (or free trade in economic theory) then both can benefit from the other's continued existance, since the lesser may have a comparative advantage which allows for mutually beneficial trades.
You are correct... QM is one of the areas of "science" that helps damage science's reputation. I'd say the other major thing is much of cosmology.
From the article: "These are extremely difficult experiments that confirm elementary features of quantum mechanics." It would be more spectacular news, he said, if they had come out wrong.
A theory is something supposedly supported by extensive experimental evidence. Here they are fishing for the "correct results" to support something they call a theory, which isn't a theory at all, since they are just now producing a couple isolated experiments that support it, all the while working under certain assumptions of the correct results.
Hardly real science.
PC Power and Cooling is THE best power supply you can get. No matter what wattage you get from them, it's not going to suck.
They've been around since the 80s, and have always been the king. People just ignored them in the tweaking market for a long time because their power supplies cost 10 times more than the discount ones like Enermax and Antec.
You'd be surprised. UL logo fraud is pretty common. I remember a report where it turned out like 5 out of 10 popular power supplies were using the UL logo in violation of the UL trademark terms (no UL listings).
Another thing is that the UL doesn't really certify individual components. I.e. you can build a computer out of all UL parts and the whole is not considered to be UL approved.
So, I don't care if Russia or China thumbs their nose at our copyrights. Let them.
The reason the RIAA has a problem with this is that it's completely legal for US users to import music from russia for personal use for a small fraction of the price.
I hope Russia tells them to fuck off. This copyright cartel shit has gone far enough.
They don't want to legislate away theft.
They want to legislate away the totally legal russian music services where americans can buy music for a fraction of the inflated US prices.
It's a loophole the RIAA is itching to close, because there's no one they can sue. Their only option is to somehow try to change Russian law.
About stuffit linux... Unless something's changed, they talk a lot about it being a time limited trial version, but it never expires. At least the copies I used a few years ago didn't.