The idea is not so much giving them an income, but replacing the bloated and inefficient welfare systems with a basic income - hint: basic.
It means you get enough to survive without much luxury, and if you want more (as everyone does) then you go out and earn some more. Any job paying anything is a net benefit to you.
right now, crap jobs are not taken up because it pays more to sit on welfare. UBI fixes that.
It also gives another factor in that some things do not pay much at all, eg if you're trying to start something, or be an artist, then this enables those things to occur. Society can be improved by this. And, as almost everyone gets it, it means we are more productive as a society as a whole.
UBI might sound a bit left-wing loony stuff, but it actually makes a lot of sense. Of course, if it ever gets implemented the lefties won't know which way their heads should spin, as it does have to replace welfare.
The only problem with it is that it costs a lot of money to implement, but considering welfare programmes already have reached massive levels of expenditure anyway, its become a possibility now
It certainly hurts the next gen of ransomware if they know they won't be able to get their cash.
I thought though that they haven't actually paid the ransom until it was collected?
As for shadow copies - get a backup solution, Mozy, Crashplan, etc all have free options that will backup your "My Documents" folder and they all keep histories of files backed up.
probably all of them, sooner or later. The IoT software built into nearly everything will be done as a marketing gimmick more than anything, with both cost and ease-of-usage kept down as low as possible meaning security will be non-existent, or if it is present will be so dumbed down to make it work out-of-the-box without any configuration.
Mr Richards has previously taught classes using another British low-cost computer - the Raspberry Pi - but says he believes the Micro Bit is better suited for younger age groups.
"It's been designed at a lower level that allows children to understand more quickly the concepts that you are trying to get across," he explained.
"With the Raspberry Pi there are a lot of things that don't make immediate sense. So, I think the Micro Bit will make a great stepping stone that engages younger children before they want to do more serious projects that would require something like the Pi."
That's what a teacher who's been using both devices thinks. Sounds fair to me. Micro:Bit as a gateway drug to the harder stuff, leading the kids of today into doing hardcore Linux in the future.
and probably not even £145 richer - when you think that Google makes $70bn in advertising revenue per year, and that the advertisers have to find the money to hand over to Google to show their adverts, you'll be paying far more than than in increased costs for products. And have to watch the damn adverts too.
The BBC has its faults, typically left-wing liberals trying to set the agenda, but that doesn't mean all of it is rubbish or needs to be thrown away.
If Trump fails too, who knows who they'll vote for next time.
probably independence, or at least some states might start to consider that route. it only takes a couple of politicians to think "I could be king" and a heap of disaffected citizens to think "can't get any worse" to kick the ball rolling,
indeed. Nowadays I read the Guardian (in the UK, its a paper who will happily tell us how many migrants we need to be compassionate over and bend over backwards to accommodate because they're fleeing war and horror and they're all so desperate and good for the economy) and Breitbart (who tell us of gang rapes by said migrants who we accommodated) in order to get some semblance of the truth - hopefully balancing the left and right to get something in the middle.
You should vote though - do not be one of the lazy "who cares" non-voters. Go down there and put "none of these fuckwits" on the ballot paper, just to show you care enough to take the effort. Bonus marks for drawing a picture of a Hillary taking Trump's cock on the ballot too (or vice versa!)
absolutely,Google wants you to pay for all the infrastructure society provides without paying their share in tax, and now they want you to pay for the development of better seek HDDs for their datacentres too.
Global corporatism mate, its not for your benefit.
to be fair black people have more privilege, everyone bends over backwards to be more inclusive of the poor dears.
In reality, white people make up about 75% of the population of the USA (even more in places like the UK), so there's a bigger pool of talent to choose from.
The idea that white people are privileged is a bit of identity politics from the black and identity-politics brigade that seeks to denigrate white people and promote blacks (same applies to women, for example, this isn't a racist thing) saying things like "only white people can be racist because they're privileged", meaning any excuse to promote inequality in favour of a particular group is acceptable because they are not white males.
True, nowadays only politicians can get away with having an assistant for fun.
But the real reason is that work just doesn't pay enough for most of us to afford a 2nd "secretary" and those that do earn so much they can have 3 or 4 think they're too important to do anything but flounce about thinking they're working.
Besides, why would it be creepy? She gets paid, regular hours, and doesn't have to worry about her pimp beating her up and taking the cash!
Never underestimate the potential for the developer community to change their minds (or the hosting company to 'add extra value' at any time).
Github may be the current darling, but I recall when it was Google Code and Freshmeat. I even remember Codeplex for all the Microsoft stuff and even that now seems to be migrating to github.
So keeping Sourceforge going, and preparing it with some much nicer navigation and website functionality would go a long way towards being ready for when github stops being cool and starts to look pretty crappy. If SF could provide the kind of fancy management portal for a product with wikis and decent bug trackers, and possibly the return of their old compile farm, it'd compete favourably with github and we'd be free of a dangerous monoculture.
So I welcome our new source control and discussion overlords, lets hope they return to their glory days.
I think it depends on the job and the intention - the nurse didn't accidentally open explorer and see the documents, she had to search for them and it stopped being the kind of case you're talking of, and became an invasion of privacy (and/or professional ethics) at that point.
If you take your laptop to the store for fixing, you are asking them to look at your laptop, it'd be like that nurse being assigned to look after the celeb.
I take your point though, even though the IT guys are looking at your stuff, you should still have a reasonable expectation of privacy from them, so if they tell all, you should be able to sue. (not sure if that's the case if they tell the cops of your kiddie porn stash however)
Possibly its just that you don't have any contractual terms with the IT store that they will not look at your stuff, and its probably written in that they will look because they have to in order to fix it (eg we didn't clean the viruses off your computer because it was in file 'big jugs.mov' in your personal folder which we were unable to look at due to privacy concerns - if you get what I mean)
I guess the reason the nurse got fined was because there is a lot of auditing in sensitive systems, so the admins knew who had looked.
This'll be for UK universities where religion isn't much of a factor.
Here our nutjobs are feminists and other liberal extremists who insist on "safe spaces" for anyone who might be offended or upset by.. well, anything (particularly "trigger words" whatever they are). These are same feminists who "no platformed" Germaine Greer (that well known feminist who pretty much started the feminist movement) because she didn't say things they agreed with. (Poor girls, all those jokes we used to tell about them not being trusted with too much heavy thinking turn out to be true!)
Also, its liberal left wingers seeking to rewrite history who are the problem (aka the chap who received money from the Rhodes scholarship and then joined the campaign to have Rhodes declared an evil capitalist racism imperialist and have his statue taken down from an Oxford college)
and so on. The biggest problem is that the authorities seem eager to assist this woolly nonsense. Even when an idiot (with faked CV) wildly exaggerated a speech a noted scientist gave, the university colluded with her by sacking him. Poor "sexist pig" Tim Hunt had to quit the UK and go elsewhere to help cure cancer because of his university's knee-jerk reaction to the tweets.
I suppose some religion could be considered to be at fault because of all the "white men are racist" stuff going on at these same universities (which is not racism itself, obviously, because accusing white men cannot be racist because of their privilege and patrimony, or some similar excuse for racist behaviour on the part of the accusers)
The authorities should deal with all this by telling the students that its up to them to behave like children and nothing to do with the university, its policies or work.
I'll tell you why those didn't succeed where javascript did - proprietaryness.
Java wanted to be "pure java" where you only wrote Java. Flash and Silverlight were the same, in all cases you had to drink the kool-aid and become one of "them". Javascript was just so boring and crap that the major players ignored it, but as it was there, developers knocked out little bits of code using it until eventually everyone could program javascript but only a third could do Java, a third could do Flash and a third do Silverlight (you get my point, hopefully - nobody became a developer for all three of those competing proprietary platforms)
And so the impetus for each of the big platforms waned while javascript kept growing.
To replace it would have to be a standards thing, and get implemented in every browser and be recognised as better. Not Dart or Typescript or whatever, which are all failing too.
I always found the most interesting decision taken by the BBC was to get a room full of nerds who obviously spent a lot of time by themselves in their sheds and have them interviewed by Philippa Forrester, in very tight leather.
Whilst I'm not sure anyone has been the victim of unfounded allegations by the "womens rights" lot in the IT industry, it has happened elsewhere in science - remember Professor Tim Hunt who spoke at a women's science conference, 3 sentences of his speech were tweeted by a SJW-type and next thing you know, he's out of a job (curing cancer no less) and widely criticised for being a misogynistic white male ba****d.
Turns out the truth is nothing like how its all been blown up to be, but that hasn't got him his job back. I think this is the real issue ESR is talking about, even if he's doing a poor job of highlighting it.
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The idea is not so much giving them an income, but replacing the bloated and inefficient welfare systems with a basic income - hint: basic.
It means you get enough to survive without much luxury, and if you want more (as everyone does) then you go out and earn some more. Any job paying anything is a net benefit to you.
right now, crap jobs are not taken up because it pays more to sit on welfare. UBI fixes that.
It also gives another factor in that some things do not pay much at all, eg if you're trying to start something, or be an artist, then this enables those things to occur. Society can be improved by this. And, as almost everyone gets it, it means we are more productive as a society as a whole.
UBI might sound a bit left-wing loony stuff, but it actually makes a lot of sense. Of course, if it ever gets implemented the lefties won't know which way their heads should spin, as it does have to replace welfare.
The only problem with it is that it costs a lot of money to implement, but considering welfare programmes already have reached massive levels of expenditure anyway, its become a possibility now
It certainly hurts the next gen of ransomware if they know they won't be able to get their cash.
I thought though that they haven't actually paid the ransom until it was collected?
As for shadow copies - get a backup solution, Mozy, Crashplan, etc all have free options that will backup your "My Documents" folder and they all keep histories of files backed up.
Nothing is hackproof but running your own email server is a sensible option if you're half way competent. Just remember to make backups.
Arstechnica had a series on how to do it and why they chose the options they did. Quite informative:
https://arstechnica.com/inform...
Use Protonmail, quite like Gmail in the main but private and no ads.
probably all of them, sooner or later. The IoT software built into nearly everything will be done as a marketing gimmick more than anything, with both cost and ease-of-usage kept down as low as possible meaning security will be non-existent, or if it is present will be so dumbed down to make it work out-of-the-box without any configuration.
So the bot that inserts chat messages like "I am a horny teen, wanna watch me on my cam", those are available on their store too, right?
Why not RPi?
This BBC report says why:
Mr Richards has previously taught classes using another British low-cost computer - the Raspberry Pi - but says he believes the Micro Bit is better suited for younger age groups.
"It's been designed at a lower level that allows children to understand more quickly the concepts that you are trying to get across," he explained.
"With the Raspberry Pi there are a lot of things that don't make immediate sense. So, I think the Micro Bit will make a great stepping stone that engages younger children before they want to do more serious projects that would require something like the Pi."
That's what a teacher who's been using both devices thinks. Sounds fair to me. Micro:Bit as a gateway drug to the harder stuff, leading the kids of today into doing hardcore Linux in the future.
and probably not even £145 richer - when you think that Google makes $70bn in advertising revenue per year, and that the advertisers have to find the money to hand over to Google to show their adverts, you'll be paying far more than than in increased costs for products. And have to watch the damn adverts too.
The BBC has its faults, typically left-wing liberals trying to set the agenda, but that doesn't mean all of it is rubbish or needs to be thrown away.
If Trump fails too, who knows who they'll vote for next time.
probably independence, or at least some states might start to consider that route. it only takes a couple of politicians to think "I could be king" and a heap of disaffected citizens to think "can't get any worse" to kick the ball rolling,
indeed. Nowadays I read the Guardian (in the UK, its a paper who will happily tell us how many migrants we need to be compassionate over and bend over backwards to accommodate because they're fleeing war and horror and they're all so desperate and good for the economy) and Breitbart (who tell us of gang rapes by said migrants who we accommodated) in order to get some semblance of the truth - hopefully balancing the left and right to get something in the middle.
You should vote though - do not be one of the lazy "who cares" non-voters. Go down there and put "none of these fuckwits" on the ballot paper, just to show you care enough to take the effort. Bonus marks for drawing a picture of a Hillary taking Trump's cock on the ballot too (or vice versa!)
I can't help thinking this has nothing to do with gaming but is another attempt to make Universal Windows Apps popular with developers.
They'll keep on trying but will never succeed until all users have finally had Win 7 prised away from them.
absolutely,Google wants you to pay for all the infrastructure society provides without paying their share in tax, and now they want you to pay for the development of better seek HDDs for their datacentres too.
Global corporatism mate, its not for your benefit.
to be fair black people have more privilege, everyone bends over backwards to be more inclusive of the poor dears.
In reality, white people make up about 75% of the population of the USA (even more in places like the UK), so there's a bigger pool of talent to choose from.
The idea that white people are privileged is a bit of identity politics from the black and identity-politics brigade that seeks to denigrate white people and promote blacks (same applies to women, for example, this isn't a racist thing) saying things like "only white people can be racist because they're privileged", meaning any excuse to promote inequality in favour of a particular group is acceptable because they are not white males.
True, nowadays only politicians can get away with having an assistant for fun.
But the real reason is that work just doesn't pay enough for most of us to afford a 2nd "secretary" and those that do earn so much they can have 3 or 4 think they're too important to do anything but flounce about thinking they're working.
Besides, why would it be creepy? She gets paid, regular hours, and doesn't have to worry about her pimp beating her up and taking the cash!
They had cardigans in the 60s. Brown ones.
Never underestimate the potential for the developer community to change their minds (or the hosting company to 'add extra value' at any time).
Github may be the current darling, but I recall when it was Google Code and Freshmeat. I even remember Codeplex for all the Microsoft stuff and even that now seems to be migrating to github.
So keeping Sourceforge going, and preparing it with some much nicer navigation and website functionality would go a long way towards being ready for when github stops being cool and starts to look pretty crappy. If SF could provide the kind of fancy management portal for a product with wikis and decent bug trackers, and possibly the return of their old compile farm, it'd compete favourably with github and we'd be free of a dangerous monoculture.
So I welcome our new source control and discussion overlords, lets hope they return to their glory days.
I think it depends on the job and the intention - the nurse didn't accidentally open explorer and see the documents, she had to search for them and it stopped being the kind of case you're talking of, and became an invasion of privacy (and/or professional ethics) at that point.
If you take your laptop to the store for fixing, you are asking them to look at your laptop, it'd be like that nurse being assigned to look after the celeb.
I take your point though, even though the IT guys are looking at your stuff, you should still have a reasonable expectation of privacy from them, so if they tell all, you should be able to sue. (not sure if that's the case if they tell the cops of your kiddie porn stash however)
Possibly its just that you don't have any contractual terms with the IT store that they will not look at your stuff, and its probably written in that they will look because they have to in order to fix it (eg we didn't clean the viruses off your computer because it was in file 'big jugs.mov' in your personal folder which we were unable to look at due to privacy concerns - if you get what I mean)
I guess the reason the nurse got fined was because there is a lot of auditing in sensitive systems, so the admins knew who had looked.
That is one awesome quote. I may use it in my future dealings with this kind of comment threads.
This'll be for UK universities where religion isn't much of a factor.
Here our nutjobs are feminists and other liberal extremists who insist on "safe spaces" for anyone who might be offended or upset by .. well, anything (particularly "trigger words" whatever they are). These are same feminists who "no platformed" Germaine Greer (that well known feminist who pretty much started the feminist movement) because she didn't say things they agreed with. (Poor girls, all those jokes we used to tell about them not being trusted with too much heavy thinking turn out to be true!)
Also, its liberal left wingers seeking to rewrite history who are the problem (aka the chap who received money from the Rhodes scholarship and then joined the campaign to have Rhodes declared an evil capitalist racism imperialist and have his statue taken down from an Oxford college)
and so on. The biggest problem is that the authorities seem eager to assist this woolly nonsense. Even when an idiot (with faked CV) wildly exaggerated a speech a noted scientist gave, the university colluded with her by sacking him. Poor "sexist pig" Tim Hunt had to quit the UK and go elsewhere to help cure cancer because of his university's knee-jerk reaction to the tweets.
I suppose some religion could be considered to be at fault because of all the "white men are racist" stuff going on at these same universities (which is not racism itself, obviously, because accusing white men cannot be racist because of their privilege and patrimony, or some similar excuse for racist behaviour on the part of the accusers)
The authorities should deal with all this by telling the students that its up to them to behave like children and nothing to do with the university, its policies or work.
I'll tell you why those didn't succeed where javascript did - proprietaryness.
Java wanted to be "pure java" where you only wrote Java. Flash and Silverlight were the same, in all cases you had to drink the kool-aid and become one of "them". Javascript was just so boring and crap that the major players ignored it, but as it was there, developers knocked out little bits of code using it until eventually everyone could program javascript but only a third could do Java, a third could do Flash and a third do Silverlight (you get my point, hopefully - nobody became a developer for all three of those competing proprietary platforms)
And so the impetus for each of the big platforms waned while javascript kept growing.
To replace it would have to be a standards thing, and get implemented in every browser and be recognised as better. Not Dart or Typescript or whatever, which are all failing too.
I always found the most interesting decision taken by the BBC was to get a room full of nerds who obviously spent a lot of time by themselves in their sheds and have them interviewed by Philippa Forrester, in very tight leather.
you forget there's an industry around designed to make things harder, that';s how they get paid.
If you can;t be part of the solution, there's good money to be made being part of the problem. Hence Scrum.
There's little shortage of tech talent... there's a huge shortage of tech talent ready (or legally enabled) to work for peanuts.
Whilst I'm not sure anyone has been the victim of unfounded allegations by the "womens rights" lot in the IT industry, it has happened elsewhere in science - remember Professor Tim Hunt who spoke at a women's science conference, 3 sentences of his speech were tweeted by a SJW-type and next thing you know, he's out of a job (curing cancer no less) and widely criticised for being a misogynistic white male ba****d.
Turns out the truth is nothing like how its all been blown up to be, but that hasn't got him his job back. I think this is the real issue ESR is talking about, even if he's doing a poor job of highlighting it.
nothing says "stable" more than an OS that has no significantly changed since 1999.
If it ain't broke... don't break it.