I got the nexus 4. The lack of the miniSD slot has really been a bummer on this phone. I know google's answer is "Everything in the cloud!" but in real life (meaning, not in Mountain View) the lack of an SD slot is irritating.
16gb can get used up really fast. Even with the best carriers you're going to lose coverage AND bust that cap on your monthly data usage.
Dude, they reverted your posts because what you posted was flat-out wrong, not because they are shills. You stated that Dan Pulcrano owns backpage.com, but he doesn't own it, operate it, or have any direct control over what goes on it. His newspaper does business with it, but that is a far cry from what you actually posted.
I don't think a local DA would make the claim that Pulcrano owns it unless it was true.
it might be sleazy, but prostituion is a legal service
Not sure where you live, but where I live it's totally illegal.
Personally, I'd rather we make it legal. I fall under the category of, "Whatever consenting adults want to do behind closed doors" but in its current, illegal state, most of the time we just have people being exploited for someone else gain (usually the pimps gain)
A local newspaper owner runs ads for prostitutes in his magazine. He also has a site (backpage.com) that has been accused by a local DA of being a conduit for child prostitution. An edit was made last week talking about this.
There's been a lot of discussion after his death that it might have been a hit. He told close friends that he was under watch. A few days after his death, there was a video posted showing how a hacker could control a toyota prius.
Your comment echo's my sentiments exactly. When I was in high school they had a "typing class" that I didn't do well in. Later when I started getting into online chat my typing speed increased ALOT.
All of their computers are in the same room as mine. They're never unsupervised for any extended periods of time. All of their accounts are controlled by mom and dad.
My kids are 4 and 7. They've been exposed to computers as early as possible. We play a lot of minecraft. The 7 year old has graduated to looking at odd things on youtube and "Movie Star Planet" She loves to tell me, "If you search Justin Beiber on google, it says, "Justin Beiber eats poop"
I think it's good.
Just last week I'm building a PC and the older one wants to help. It wasn't a full build, just plugging in cables. I was in shock though, she pretty much knew where everything was supposed to go. She just lacked the hand/eye to wiggle things in correctly.
In school they're both far ahead of their peers in terms of reading and typing.
Forget vanity, we need to stop aging for one simple reason...
Space Travel
We still haven't created engines that can go 1/10th light speed. So even at best, a 40 light year trip to Alpha Centari will take 400 years even at that speed. OK forget other solar systems, just colonizing mars is going to require us to get the most out of the humans lifetimes we send there.
Make 3 partitions on an OSX drive. Install OSX into all 3. Now on/sda install Parallels./sdb leave vanilla. Boot into/sdc and mount/dev/sda/mnt/A. mount/dev/sdb/mnt/b. Diff a and b.
Granted your average user won't do this, but anyone wanting to play hero should be able to do it easily.
I heard Gates/Ballmer can turn into screaming fountains of epitaphs and profanities the likes of which could curdle milk. Also have heard the same about the (now dead) Steve Jobs. So Linus does the same thing and it's news?
Nothing motivates you better to go back to the grind of corporate work than 7 years of shitty diapers. I love my kids, but 7 years of diapers was enough. Much happier with a regular paycheck and a nanny.
Yeah, I see a white guy standing in a crowd of filth which probably means now you stink as bad they do. Congrats on being a traitor to your country. It was good of you to post that photo so we know exactly what you look like. After the day the people decide wipe the shit stains off our land, we'll turn their attention to those like you who betrayed their race, for special treatment.
What the fuck? I thought this was a site of thinkers, geeks, not of xenophobic extremists.
Rather than waste time on a lengthy post (I am at work) let me just make one simple point...
100% of H1-B workers that I know wish they could live, work, and pay taxes here. The only issue I take with H1-b is the treatment of said workers. This is a country that once prided itself on harboring the best and brightest from around the world, giving them shelter and refuge in exchange for their knowledge and experience. Now we give them nothing for that.
Just scrolling through the +5 comments, I see a ton of xenophobia...
Can't find an entry level IT job? Where are you? Arkansas? Here in silicon valley, we're experiencing another surge in hiring. I'm pretty low on the skillset, so whenever I get myself back into IT, I consider the economy to be doing well. Case in point... Company I work for. We've been losing a ton of local talent to google who's been on a hiring binge. When a small shop like ours (120 or so employees) can afford to pay great salaries, but we lose out to name brands like google, we have to turn to H1B.
And for the H1B worker, life isn't all cherries and apple pie. Case in point, this big ass march from immigration voice. http://imgur.com/YKxR6NG
See the white guy with pelican case in tow? That's me.
Let's say you're here from India on H1B and you have a family emergency. You have to go home. So many H1B's are scared to go home, because when they try to return more often than not, they're denied re-entry into the country. I haven't met a single H1B that wouldn't LOVE to be a US citizen, but instead we give them a non-citizen status as an H1B that gives them basically no rights as a US citizen.
I think we should just trash H1B altogether, and allow anyone of decent education (BA or BS) come live here, become a citizen, and pay taxes.
As slashdotters, we shouldn't hate on the H1B people. They are not the problem. It's our policy, the very creation of H1B to sidestep proper citizenship that is.
I have MY PC.. Always locked, and nobody gets to use it. Wife, kids, etc.. Doesn't matter. That being said...
I have several core2duo's setup for the wife and kids for minecraft/office/internet. After setting them up, I resized the partition space so I could keep a clean image on the hard drive (in a separate, non-accessible partition by windows formatted ext3) Whenever their PC's get so nasty with malware that it's barely usable, I boot off a USB stick with clonezilla on it, then restore the base OS/Apps image.
Takes less than 15 minutes to do a restore.
On another note... Watch out for chrome's "Logged in user" I left my daughter logged in with one of my accounts on her PC. She visited the app store and installed a bunch of junk, which when I log into another PC guess what? It's on there, even the nasty stuff.
In the district 8 race there was about a million spent by both sides. Even if I had undercut the robocall competitors by 1/2, I still would have had enough headroom to make a quick 20k for myself for just importing a CSV of numbers into openvbx and doing a few mouse clicks. One flat website against my candidate (flat as in, no CMS,etc) cost that side $5000. 3 pages, straight html, something I could have easily whipped together in less than an afternoon.Politicians in general are not techies.
They have a lot of money thrown at them during campaign season, which if they like you, will throw it at you.
After a 12 year Hiatus (I got laid off in 2001) I'm finally getting back to IT, I start a new job monday, it pays a bundle, wife is happy, kids will have benefits..So what did I do in those 12 years?
I worked at a karaoke bar in San Jose. My friends and I made a karaoke jukebox, tried to market it to karaoke companies (failed miserably, they're like the music companies battling technology in the 90's) It was great, it was fun for a while but no benefits, low pay, and an abusive owner finally made me start taking the steps to get out of it.
2010 I tried running for city council. Lost but it got my foot in the door with local politicians. Last campaign season, I helped one candidate win by using a combination of twilio/openvbx for robocalls (at cost.. $0.02) 40,000 robocalls. Most candidates pay between $0.79 to $0.83 a call, so I consider it to be a pretty huge contribution.
During my interview I was totally open and honest about my last 12 years. Why didn't I W2 for the last 12 years? Why are these gaps here in my employment? Lucky for me my hiring manager had been in a similar situation... The entire company was really impressed with all my political work in the last year. (In my new role, I'll be doing IT stuff in a board room, so knowing how to mind your political p's and q's to make a good initial impression was super important) When I was first laid off in 2001, I never dreamed of doing any kind of volunteer work or activism. I was in my late 20's, and too self centered to give a shit. I thought my salary was my worth, and working for free/volunteer was beneath me. Took a few years of eating humble pie in a karaoke bar to adjust that attitude.
So my advice, find some local volunteer things to work on that appeal to you. See how you can wrangle your tech knowledge in there. Me? I just happened to love all the skullduggery and drama involved with politics. YMMV.
If I wasn't on rbtl status (I think that's the status they give when they take away mod powers) I'd give a +1 Insightful for you.
Thanks for sticking up for me Jeremy.
I didn't exactly get bailed out. My principle is the same. Only our interest rate was adjusted (and fixed) So we're still paying the same for our house. Basically, we spent 10 years paying interest on our loan. So the ones that REALLY made out here was the bank.
I gotta disagree with not pointing the finger at wall street though.
I got really giddy the other day when congress told the banks, "NO MORE USING OUR BAILOUT MONEY FOR BONUSES" Remember all the outrageous bonus's those guys got? Bernie Madoff anyone?
I'm not upset for myself, I'm upset for others. I'm pretty happy where I am in life now.
If you're doing good, great, but the majority of folks I know have had to get back to the end of the line. I know some of the guys that used to run the ISP arm of Earthlink here in the bay area. They're worth every penny. (I'm not half bad myself as a network admin that knows my way around routers,bgrp, some light coding) Even these guys though got the axe in 2001. I met a few of them when I did a stint of phone support last year (now I remember why I hated it)
Nobody has outdated skills either. Most of my references died out as 90% of the companies I worked for imploded. Notable examples of places I worked at, Metricom (Ricochet Wireless Modem) and Commerce one. Most of us don't look at the tech as something to make money with either (at least I don't) I learn on my own because it interests the hell out of me. I love building things.
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Thanks for taking the time to answer Esther. I'll definitely take your pointers next time I try and submit something.
What is your secret Esther?
And expanding on this comment..
Since google is a big user of the FUSE project, they could probably write a userspace driver for windows to read EXT-2/3/4.
I got the nexus 4. The lack of the miniSD slot has really been a bummer on this phone. I know google's answer is "Everything in the cloud!" but in real life (meaning, not in Mountain View) the lack of an SD slot is irritating.
16gb can get used up really fast. Even with the best carriers you're going to lose coverage AND bust that cap on your monthly data usage.
Dude, they reverted your posts because what you posted was flat-out wrong, not because they are shills. You stated that Dan Pulcrano owns backpage.com, but he doesn't own it, operate it, or have any direct control over what goes on it. His newspaper does business with it, but that is a far cry from what you actually posted.
I don't think a local DA would make the claim that Pulcrano owns it unless it was true.
http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-providing-the-means-to-sell-girls-and-boys-for-sex
Not sure where you live, but where I live it's totally illegal.
Personally, I'd rather we make it legal. I fall under the category of, "Whatever consenting adults want to do behind closed doors" but in its current, illegal state, most of the time we just have people being exploited for someone else gain (usually the pimps gain)
I'm linking your post as a reliable source.
A local newspaper owner runs ads for prostitutes in his magazine. He also has a site (backpage.com) that has been accused by a local DA of being a conduit for child prostitution. An edit was made last week talking about this.
Page in question.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan_Pulcrano&action=history
Talk page with links to articles backing up the edit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dan_Pulcrano
Reliable sources
Change.org petition http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-providing-the-means-to-sell-girls-and-boys-for-sex
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/05/22/san-jose-weekly-paper-pressured-to-remove-escort-service-ads
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Weekly-Paper-Under-Fire-Over-Adult-Ads.html
http://meyerweed.blogspot.com/2013/08/san-jose-inside-vs-integrity.html
http://www.protectsanjose.com/content/sjpoa-presdient-unland-responds-metro-editor
Skeezy.
There's been a lot of discussion after his death that it might have been a hit. He told close friends that he was under watch. A few days after his death, there was a video posted showing how a hacker could control a toyota prius.
Your comment echo's my sentiments exactly. When I was in high school they had a "typing class" that I didn't do well in. Later when I started getting into online chat my typing speed increased ALOT.
All of their computers are in the same room as mine. They're never unsupervised for any extended periods of time. All of their accounts are controlled by mom and dad.
My kids are 4 and 7. They've been exposed to computers as early as possible. We play a lot of minecraft. The 7 year old has graduated to looking at odd things on youtube and "Movie Star Planet" She loves to tell me, "If you search Justin Beiber on google, it says, "Justin Beiber eats poop"
I think it's good.
Just last week I'm building a PC and the older one wants to help. It wasn't a full build, just plugging in cables. I was in shock though, she pretty much knew where everything was supposed to go. She just lacked the hand/eye to wiggle things in correctly.
In school they're both far ahead of their peers in terms of reading and typing.
Forget vanity, we need to stop aging for one simple reason...
Space Travel
We still haven't created engines that can go 1/10th light speed. So even at best, a 40 light year trip to Alpha Centari will take 400 years even at that speed. OK forget other solar systems, just colonizing mars is going to require us to get the most out of the humans lifetimes we send there.
or am I missing something?
Make 3 partitions on an OSX drive. Install OSX into all 3. Now on /sda install Parallels. /sdb leave vanilla. Boot into /sdc and mount /dev/sda /mnt/A. mount /dev/sdb /mnt/b. Diff a and b.
Granted your average user won't do this, but anyone wanting to play hero should be able to do it easily.
Why don't they make the parts out of tungsten? Prohibitively expensive?
I heard Gates/Ballmer can turn into screaming fountains of epitaphs and profanities the likes of which could curdle milk. Also have heard the same about the (now dead) Steve Jobs. So Linus does the same thing and it's news?
Company Spokesman: Especially if it's going to cost us money, and don't call me Shirley.
Nothing motivates you better to go back to the grind of corporate work than 7 years of shitty diapers. I love my kids, but 7 years of diapers was enough. Much happier with a regular paycheck and a nanny.
I remember years ago on /., there was an article where a guy claimed he had done this, but the slashdot pitchforks were raised while chanting fraud.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/02/09/05/1814203/ripping-vinyl-via-your-scanner
There it is.
Nice to know the guy's technology actually worked.
Last time we had this talk, I made this comment
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3620197&cid=43374569
One AC response to my comment was sort of scary...
Yeah, I see a white guy standing in a crowd of filth which probably means now you stink as bad they do. Congrats on being a traitor to your country. It was good of you to post that photo so we know exactly what you look like. After the day the people decide wipe the shit stains off our land, we'll turn their attention to those like you who betrayed their race, for special treatment.
What the fuck? I thought this was a site of thinkers, geeks, not of xenophobic extremists.
Rather than waste time on a lengthy post (I am at work) let me just make one simple point...
100% of H1-B workers that I know wish they could live, work, and pay taxes here. The only issue I take with H1-b is the treatment of said workers. This is a country that once prided itself on harboring the best and brightest from around the world, giving them shelter and refuge in exchange for their knowledge and experience. Now we give them nothing for that.
Just scrolling through the +5 comments, I see a ton of xenophobia...
Can't find an entry level IT job? Where are you? Arkansas? Here in silicon valley, we're experiencing another surge in hiring. I'm pretty low on the skillset, so whenever I get myself back into IT, I consider the economy to be doing well. Case in point... Company I work for. We've been losing a ton of local talent to google who's been on a hiring binge. When a small shop like ours (120 or so employees) can afford to pay great salaries, but we lose out to name brands like google, we have to turn to H1B.
And for the H1B worker, life isn't all cherries and apple pie. Case in point, this big ass march from immigration voice.
http://imgur.com/YKxR6NG
See the white guy with pelican case in tow? That's me.
Let's say you're here from India on H1B and you have a family emergency. You have to go home. So many H1B's are scared to go home, because when they try to return more often than not, they're denied re-entry into the country. I haven't met a single H1B that wouldn't LOVE to be a US citizen, but instead we give them a non-citizen status as an H1B that gives them basically no rights as a US citizen.
I think we should just trash H1B altogether, and allow anyone of decent education (BA or BS) come live here, become a citizen, and pay taxes.
As slashdotters, we shouldn't hate on the H1B people. They are not the problem. It's our policy, the very creation of H1B to sidestep proper citizenship that is.
I have MY PC.. Always locked, and nobody gets to use it. Wife, kids, etc.. Doesn't matter. That being said...
I have several core2duo's setup for the wife and kids for minecraft/office/internet. After setting them up, I resized the partition space so I could keep a clean image on the hard drive (in a separate, non-accessible partition by windows formatted ext3) Whenever their PC's get so nasty with malware that it's barely usable, I boot off a USB stick with clonezilla on it, then restore the base OS/Apps image.
Takes less than 15 minutes to do a restore.
On another note... Watch out for chrome's "Logged in user" I left my daughter logged in with one of my accounts on her PC. She visited the app store and installed a bunch of junk, which when I log into another PC guess what? It's on there, even the nasty stuff.
Oh hell ya there is.
In the district 8 race there was about a million spent by both sides. Even if I had undercut the robocall competitors by 1/2, I still would have had enough headroom to make a quick 20k for myself for just importing a CSV of numbers into openvbx and doing a few mouse clicks. One flat website against my candidate (flat as in, no CMS,etc) cost that side $5000. 3 pages, straight html, something I could have easily whipped together in less than an afternoon.Politicians in general are not techies.
They have a lot of money thrown at them during campaign season, which if they like you, will throw it at you.
After a 12 year Hiatus (I got laid off in 2001) I'm finally getting back to IT, I start a new job monday, it pays a bundle, wife is happy, kids will have benefits..So what did I do in those 12 years?
I worked at a karaoke bar in San Jose. My friends and I made a karaoke jukebox, tried to market it to karaoke companies (failed miserably, they're like the music companies battling technology in the 90's) It was great, it was fun for a while but no benefits, low pay, and an abusive owner finally made me start taking the steps to get out of it.
2010 I tried running for city council. Lost but it got my foot in the door with local politicians. Last campaign season, I helped one candidate win by using a combination of twilio/openvbx for robocalls (at cost.. $0.02) 40,000 robocalls. Most candidates pay between $0.79 to $0.83 a call, so I consider it to be a pretty huge contribution.
During my interview I was totally open and honest about my last 12 years. Why didn't I W2 for the last 12 years? Why are these gaps here in my employment? Lucky for me my hiring manager had been in a similar situation... The entire company was really impressed with all my political work in the last year. (In my new role, I'll be doing IT stuff in a board room, so knowing how to mind your political p's and q's to make a good initial impression was super important)
When I was first laid off in 2001, I never dreamed of doing any kind of volunteer work or activism. I was in my late 20's, and too self centered to give a shit. I thought my salary was my worth, and working for free/volunteer was beneath me. Took a few years of eating humble pie in a karaoke bar to adjust that attitude.
So my advice, find some local volunteer things to work on that appeal to you. See how you can wrangle your tech knowledge in there. Me? I just happened to love all the skullduggery and drama involved with politics. YMMV.
If I wasn't on rbtl status (I think that's the status they give when they take away mod powers) I'd give a +1 Insightful for you.
Thanks for sticking up for me Jeremy.
I didn't exactly get bailed out. My principle is the same. Only our interest rate was adjusted (and fixed) So we're still paying the same for our house. Basically, we spent 10 years paying interest on our loan. So the ones that REALLY made out here was the bank.
I gotta disagree with not pointing the finger at wall street though.
I got really giddy the other day when congress told the banks, "NO MORE USING OUR BAILOUT MONEY FOR BONUSES" Remember all the outrageous bonus's those guys got? Bernie Madoff anyone?
I'm not upset for myself, I'm upset for others. I'm pretty happy where I am in life now.
If you're doing good, great, but the majority of folks I know have had to get back to the end of the line. I know some of the guys that used to run the ISP arm of Earthlink here in the bay area. They're worth every penny. (I'm not half bad myself as a network admin that knows my way around routers,bgrp, some light coding) Even these guys though got the axe in 2001. I met a few of them when I did a stint of phone support last year (now I remember why I hated it)
Nobody has outdated skills either. Most of my references died out as 90% of the companies I worked for imploded. Notable examples of places I worked at, Metricom (Ricochet Wireless Modem) and Commerce one. Most of us don't look at the tech as something to make money with either (at least I don't) I learn on my own because it interests the hell out of me. I love building things.