When opposed to the NSA's NarusInsight devices simply sniffing all traffic, and if you try to obfuscate via VPN tunnels or Tor etc, doing traffic correlation attacks with known sites you're using to find out your identity. Mere use of Tor or a VPN should be able to stop this elementary scheme by the Bahraini police.
But then, it's always an arms to see which side keeps ahead of whom....
That is absolutely true -- there is no way to be sure. However, it seems as though the Swiss have a penchant for privacy, especially from the Americans, which has only been rarely and recently broken. Switzerland isn't unfriendly so much as perpetually neutral, which is why it is used for private banking services, so it seems less likely a Swiss CA is compromised than an American one. Unless anyone has any information that might point otherwise...
Many have assumed for a long time that root SSL certificates have been provided by American CA's (GoDaddy, VeriSign, Network Solutions etc), but what about foreign ones? StartSSL is Israel-based, so it can be assumed the Israeli government has the root key. What about SwissSign, based in Switzerland and run by the Swiss Post?:)
Makes it harder to troubleshoot by using telnet to send basic HTTP commands, and speedily develop applications with nuts and bolts tools over plaintext -- but the tradeoff is it can transfer a ton of data over one TCP socket, greatly simplifying the network layer of HTTP, and most certainly adding a lot of performance. For webserver admins, this will make life a lot easier.
The problem you describe about the election cycle is actually inherent not just in regards to unions -- but in democracies in general. It is difficult in a democratic system to make long term economic changes (such as ten-year plans, or raising taxes/lowering entitlements) that are unpopular or perceived as a step backwards. During an election cycle, politicians are decried for any budgetary cutbacks and blamed personally for their effects (e.g. Police department funding was cut, all the new crime is X politician's fault). Thus, democracies in general act in terms of short-term interest when it comes to economic policy. There is incredible pressure on politicians to overspend and borrow in order to increase their popularity and their chances at re-election and a higher office. Lobbyists, unions, etc are well-aware of and exploit this pressure to their advantage during election times.
Thus, in a democracy, it becomes very difficult to do things like tighten the belt for a few years during a poor economy. Instead, it is preferred to go into debt. And this has been the undoing of quite a number of democracies.
First, let me say I don't take BART (I drive, living and working within San Francisco) and am not really affected by the strike. However, I do believe in unions and their ability, in certain industries, to force employers to maintain standards of living wages and decent working conditions. We'd all hate to return to the days of the Robber Barons and the photos of Jacob Riis -- an era that unions helped bring an end to.
However, in California tech jobs are not regulated very well by the state. Since salaries are so high, most tech workers are exempt from overtime -- and companies like Google, Zynga, Netflix etc are well-known to demand long hours from their employees without paying overtime (albeit paying decent salaries instead). One of the main reasons California and Silicon Valley is appealing to them is this, and also, at-will employment. Meaning, if an employee doesn't work out, it is very easy to fire them and replace them with someone else.
The talent you have at a start-up is critical -- when your core team is ten people, having one or two free-riders or non-stellar characters in the mix can be a big drain on productivity. So, California makes it relatively easy for these companies to replace their staff, and both hire and fire new workers.
If this wasn't the case, very likely the startup I work for wouldn't exist here, and would be located somewhere else. Dealing with union workers is the last thing a busy CEO wants for his start-up, they're busy drumming up business, promoting the product, getting funding, etc etc. My company rarely fires anyone -- but the talent is very good and stays motivated with little management. But if we do hire someone who needs to be managed all day, we do want to get rid of them without having to go through a union and a few HR lawyers. Startups simply don't have the resources for that, nor to spend money on someone's salary who is not ideal.
In conclusion, there's a reason why things are the way they are.
Now that the Obama administration's previous talking points about the spying being very limited, tightly controlled and focused on finding terrorists and those bent on harming the US and its allies -- we found that part of the program is in fact, to spy on our allies? To spy on the EU -- which is essentially an NGO -- is certainly more in line with spying for economic and political interests rather than defensive purposes.
I wonder what poor sap at the White House press room will have to figure out a way to try to smooth over this one, or manufacture a distraction...
It isn't. Puppet Labs' product is great, imho, actually. However, putting in advertisements for free-mium software masquerading as a "Book Review" is less than savory.
That is a massive straw man and I'm not sure where you got that from.
My comment was pointing out the fact that Slashdot used to have earnest, "Book Reviews", about books on topics like..HTML5, C#, etc...which actually reviewed the book.
Here, we get basically an advertisement for Puppet's functionality. This is going along with all the changes Dice has made to slashdot since its acquisition -- posting a lot of "news" and "book reviews" that's really "marketing." The site already has ads -- they're just trying to further monetize it, by driving down quality of content and mixing content with ads.
That's my gripe. Not any of the things you said. Also, I don't need to use elementary school-esque personal insults to illustrate my opinions.
This is a slashvertisement..first tells you why you want to learn Puppet and what it's used for, and then gets you to read a book to time invest in learning Puppet which will become your "goto" for all DevOps stuff going forward.
The hope being that -- some point, you end up looking into Puppet Enterprise and get out of open source..or you get to the level where you need enterprise and not the open source version, yadda yadda, more people on puppet, the better for their business model, as eventually some will have to go with enterprise for some type of requirement (additional functionality and/or enterprisey support)
I owned a bike in college and biked an average of 5mi a day. The nearest city was about 30mi, and major city about 150 miles, so that didn't help in opening up the job market. Local jobs (even menial ones) were FILLED with college students because of the surplus of labor in the college town. Train or bus transport to said major city was around $20 each way -- or about four hours of minimum wage work pay per day towards the commute. A bike could help you get a job at the supermarket, but that would barely be enough to pay expenses if you spent all your free time working. It would not open up desirable internships usually located in a city however.
Also, landlords in this town usually stipulated you needed a one-year (rather than per semester) lease, so if you moved to do an internship, you'd be paying double rent. So, it's not always quite so easy.
Without losing anything? Not true -- you've lost all the time you spent on that internship. What's the point of an internship if you don't get a reference for not completing the term, because you left since you weren't learning/doing anything non-menial?
If you stay in an unpaid internship voluntarily, it might just be because you are young and naive and are getting exploited. If that's the "lesson" to be learned, se la vie, but this shouldn't be a "coming-of-age" lesson to all interns -- it stifles legitimate business interests.
It's the case already that young adult job applicants are competing with still-in-school interns -- heck, some "internships" require you to have graduated college, and are intended for the summer after graduation. I have friends out of college for a couple years, who haven't gotten on a career path, who are happy to take an unpaid internship at this point to move in a career direction -- and they have a hard time finding that.
Having been in this same situation quite a few years ago -- I can tell you that there's plenty of additional costs. Notably, if you don't own a car and go to school in a rural area like I did -- you have to get yourself some transportation -- which can be more costly than a whole semseter of tuition/rent.
Then there's the issue -- you could work a menial job at a retail store or something for minimum wage, or get no pay and even spend money to work "in your field." If you're paying for your own college, unpaid internships simply aren't an option -- that summer money pays for Fall Tuition.
I paid for my own school and was unable to do an internship because I was busy working for money, to pay tuition.
I find the summary to be quite myopic in terms of security -- it thinks that there's a technological solution for every security problem. In reality, as long as humans have access to data -- they can be deceived, tricked or otherwise made to inadvertently disclose said information to a third party. I doubt there will ever be a technological solution to address this 100% -- you can make walls and try to idiot-proof your network, but then you will discover that someone has invented a better idiot.
Consumer networked security cameras all tend to be 640x480..
Not anymore..maybe 5 years ago, but now the cheapest surveillance cameras you can get are at least a megapixel (1280x960), which is 3X better than this. The sound is usually pretty good and the image/video quality not bad. Can definitely be used to spot faces etc. I supervised a project recently to put in some cameras, we went with vivotek cameras that were around $100/each and were shocked at how good the quality was. So, if they're old maybe, but the cheapest IP camera for business/surveillance use you can buy now is typically better.
I don't think computer industry fits, at all, the definition of deflationary. New technology replaces old technology, and consumers continue to pay top dollar for the newest models while the old ones are worthless. Take a look at the price difference for an iPhone 3 vs an iPhone 5 for example. The base price of a new iPhone doesn't really change (if anything, it goes up), but it's a very quickly depreciating asset. Just because an industry produces assets whose usage is time-sensitive and depreciate quickly doesn't associate it with deflation -- prices aren't actually coming down, it's just that products are obsoleted.
Plus, ten years ago, who paid $800 for a phone? Cellphones were $200 maximum. So prices have climbed if the technology is there people are willing to buy.
True, however, if you read the comment I was replying to, there was mention of (R) and (D), thus making me mention that I'm not associated with them.
That said, I've had a very hard time coming up with a label for my political leanings that fits neatly into the box of anything, even "tending to side with x." The best bias label I can give you is progressive with libertarian leanings and a significant conservative streak. Hope that makes sense.
Sigh. I think you vastly misinterpreted my post -- I'm not attacking doctors. I'm just saying that the present system is stacked in favor of doctors who know how to work the system -- and you give the example of being selective and risk averse as to what patients they take. But I also get to look at (confidential) healthcare data -- and I see that there are definitely a few "bad apples" out there with inexplicably bad patient outcomes etc.
What I'm attacking is the faulty logic of the comment I responded to, which seems to a libertarian-minded tirade stating we need to eliminate the Affordable Care Act, condescendingly referred to as "ObamaCare."
You can see that in another post (reply) on this I have identified the demographic transition of older people, among other reasons, as being the chief factor for health care costs increases. Not the behavior of doctors..
The example I gave about the cardiologist is an oversimplification -- there's a lot more factors that go into a real risk score (like Johns Hopkins ACG). And these measures are not perfect and we know they cannot be trusted alone, but can give us information about broad trends etc that can be responded to at the managerial level.
And yes, I work every day in finding a better solution to health care costs. I work in health care technology, and I am unwilling to give information that could be used to identify me on this forum, but I work on the cutting edge of reducing costs and leveraging technology to better patient outcomes. The solutions I work with have been proven to work not just in the US but other countries.
Where do you get this information from? I'm sorry but this is patently, incorrect.
The major sources of healthcare expenditures spiraling are, in objective reality:
1) Baby boomers retiring, causing a demographic shift toward an older population with less of a younger population to support it.
2) Cost of care in a clinical setting -- hospitalizations, etc rather than care being delivered at the home. The home has become the preferred venue for care under cost reduction models.
3) Uninsured individuals don't receive inexpensive preventative care and end up being hospitalizations when symptoms become critical -- and those end up being paid by Medicaid, medicare, or by YOU when you go to the hospital if the bill is unpaid and collections cannot recover the money owed.
To respond to the links you sent -- yes, health costs will increase in the short-term, but under the shared savings model, all entities have an incentive to bring them down and the plan is to lower the expense.
Everything isn't perfect with the Affordable Care Act, and I'm not trying to pretend it is. But I think in order to fit your political leanings, you misinterpret the reality of the situation and go with judgments that fit your predetermined conclusion. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion -- but not their own facts.
Working in healthcare-related technology, I can tell you that ObamaCare has NOT caused doctors to quit, etc. What it's done is make doctors more accountable through the creation of ACOs and rating the patient outcomes and risks. Some of the worst-performing doctors end up moving to different practices, but generally, they remain practicing medicine. The exception is if they are retiring -- in which case, it makes more sense to go into an earlyish retirement than have to shape up your game. We didn't want those doctors anyway -- would you want a cardiologist who's track record says 2x more of their patients die than other doctors with similar cases?
Please study the Affordable Care Act before making such bold declarations. Spending on medicare and medicaid is the largest portion of the federal government and savings need to be accomplished somehow. Some doctors might kick and scream, but their profession has been profiting handsomely from the existing system, and they know how to work it to maximize their income. For an older doctor, with a new system in place, it may not be worth re-learning how to 'game the system' if that's really what they've been doing.
I really think the medicare/medicaid "shared savings model" is helpful in the long term for healthcare expenditures, which are spiraling out of control with no end in sight.
I have never been, nor ever will be associated with either the Democratic or Republican parties if you're wondering.
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no moderator points. Shaka. When the walls fell.
Kind moderator mod up. Temba, his arms open.
But then, it's always an arms to see which side keeps ahead of whom....
build a hackintosh. for $1k-$3k you can have 4 monitor support and OS X :)
That is absolutely true -- there is no way to be sure. However, it seems as though the Swiss have a penchant for privacy, especially from the Americans, which has only been rarely and recently broken. Switzerland isn't unfriendly so much as perpetually neutral, which is why it is used for private banking services, so it seems less likely a Swiss CA is compromised than an American one. Unless anyone has any information that might point otherwise...
Many have assumed for a long time that root SSL certificates have been provided by American CA's (GoDaddy, VeriSign, Network Solutions etc), but what about foreign ones? StartSSL is Israel-based, so it can be assumed the Israeli government has the root key. What about SwissSign, based in Switzerland and run by the Swiss Post? :)
Makes it harder to troubleshoot by using telnet to send basic HTTP commands, and speedily develop applications with nuts and bolts tools over plaintext -- but the tradeoff is it can transfer a ton of data over one TCP socket, greatly simplifying the network layer of HTTP, and most certainly adding a lot of performance. For webserver admins, this will make life a lot easier.
Thus, in a democracy, it becomes very difficult to do things like tighten the belt for a few years during a poor economy. Instead, it is preferred to go into debt. And this has been the undoing of quite a number of democracies.
However, in California tech jobs are not regulated very well by the state. Since salaries are so high, most tech workers are exempt from overtime -- and companies like Google, Zynga, Netflix etc are well-known to demand long hours from their employees without paying overtime (albeit paying decent salaries instead). One of the main reasons California and Silicon Valley is appealing to them is this, and also, at-will employment. Meaning, if an employee doesn't work out, it is very easy to fire them and replace them with someone else.
The talent you have at a start-up is critical -- when your core team is ten people, having one or two free-riders or non-stellar characters in the mix can be a big drain on productivity. So, California makes it relatively easy for these companies to replace their staff, and both hire and fire new workers.
If this wasn't the case, very likely the startup I work for wouldn't exist here, and would be located somewhere else. Dealing with union workers is the last thing a busy CEO wants for his start-up, they're busy drumming up business, promoting the product, getting funding, etc etc. My company rarely fires anyone -- but the talent is very good and stays motivated with little management. But if we do hire someone who needs to be managed all day, we do want to get rid of them without having to go through a union and a few HR lawyers. Startups simply don't have the resources for that, nor to spend money on someone's salary who is not ideal.
In conclusion, there's a reason why things are the way they are.
I wonder what poor sap at the White House press room will have to figure out a way to try to smooth over this one, or manufacture a distraction...
It isn't. Puppet Labs' product is great, imho, actually. However, putting in advertisements for free-mium software masquerading as a "Book Review" is less than savory.
My comment was pointing out the fact that Slashdot used to have earnest, "Book Reviews", about books on topics like..HTML5, C#, etc...which actually reviewed the book.
Here, we get basically an advertisement for Puppet's functionality. This is going along with all the changes Dice has made to slashdot since its acquisition -- posting a lot of "news" and "book reviews" that's really "marketing." The site already has ads -- they're just trying to further monetize it, by driving down quality of content and mixing content with ads.
That's my gripe. Not any of the things you said. Also, I don't need to use elementary school-esque personal insults to illustrate my opinions.
This is a slashvertisement..first tells you why you want to learn Puppet and what it's used for, and then gets you to read a book to time invest in learning Puppet which will become your "goto" for all DevOps stuff going forward. The hope being that -- some point, you end up looking into Puppet Enterprise and get out of open source..or you get to the level where you need enterprise and not the open source version, yadda yadda, more people on puppet, the better for their business model, as eventually some will have to go with enterprise for some type of requirement (additional functionality and/or enterprisey support)
Also, landlords in this town usually stipulated you needed a one-year (rather than per semester) lease, so if you moved to do an internship, you'd be paying double rent. So, it's not always quite so easy.
If you stay in an unpaid internship voluntarily, it might just be because you are young and naive and are getting exploited. If that's the "lesson" to be learned, se la vie, but this shouldn't be a "coming-of-age" lesson to all interns -- it stifles legitimate business interests.
It's the case already that young adult job applicants are competing with still-in-school interns -- heck, some "internships" require you to have graduated college, and are intended for the summer after graduation. I have friends out of college for a couple years, who haven't gotten on a career path, who are happy to take an unpaid internship at this point to move in a career direction -- and they have a hard time finding that.
Then there's the issue -- you could work a menial job at a retail store or something for minimum wage, or get no pay and even spend money to work "in your field." If you're paying for your own college, unpaid internships simply aren't an option -- that summer money pays for Fall Tuition.
I paid for my own school and was unable to do an internship because I was busy working for money, to pay tuition.
I find the summary to be quite myopic in terms of security -- it thinks that there's a technological solution for every security problem. In reality, as long as humans have access to data -- they can be deceived, tricked or otherwise made to inadvertently disclose said information to a third party. I doubt there will ever be a technological solution to address this 100% -- you can make walls and try to idiot-proof your network, but then you will discover that someone has invented a better idiot.
Consumer networked security cameras all tend to be 640x480..
Not anymore..maybe 5 years ago, but now the cheapest surveillance cameras you can get are at least a megapixel (1280x960), which is 3X better than this. The sound is usually pretty good and the image/video quality not bad. Can definitely be used to spot faces etc. I supervised a project recently to put in some cameras, we went with vivotek cameras that were around $100/each and were shocked at how good the quality was. So, if they're old maybe, but the cheapest IP camera for business/surveillance use you can buy now is typically better.
Plus, ten years ago, who paid $800 for a phone? Cellphones were $200 maximum. So prices have climbed if the technology is there people are willing to buy.
The value of one bitcoin is exactly one bitcoin. The value doesn't change, but how much you can buy with it (including USD), however, does change.
lol..someone please mod this up, it's hillarious
That said, I've had a very hard time coming up with a label for my political leanings that fits neatly into the box of anything, even "tending to side with x." The best bias label I can give you is progressive with libertarian leanings and a significant conservative streak. Hope that makes sense.
What I'm attacking is the faulty logic of the comment I responded to, which seems to a libertarian-minded tirade stating we need to eliminate the Affordable Care Act, condescendingly referred to as "ObamaCare."
You can see that in another post (reply) on this I have identified the demographic transition of older people, among other reasons, as being the chief factor for health care costs increases. Not the behavior of doctors..
The example I gave about the cardiologist is an oversimplification -- there's a lot more factors that go into a real risk score (like Johns Hopkins ACG). And these measures are not perfect and we know they cannot be trusted alone, but can give us information about broad trends etc that can be responded to at the managerial level.
And yes, I work every day in finding a better solution to health care costs. I work in health care technology, and I am unwilling to give information that could be used to identify me on this forum, but I work on the cutting edge of reducing costs and leveraging technology to better patient outcomes. The solutions I work with have been proven to work not just in the US but other countries.
And I talk to doctors every single day.
The major sources of healthcare expenditures spiraling are, in objective reality:
1) Baby boomers retiring, causing a demographic shift toward an older population with less of a younger population to support it.
2) Cost of care in a clinical setting -- hospitalizations, etc rather than care being delivered at the home. The home has become the preferred venue for care under cost reduction models.
3) Uninsured individuals don't receive inexpensive preventative care and end up being hospitalizations when symptoms become critical -- and those end up being paid by Medicaid, medicare, or by YOU when you go to the hospital if the bill is unpaid and collections cannot recover the money owed.
To respond to the links you sent -- yes, health costs will increase in the short-term, but under the shared savings model, all entities have an incentive to bring them down and the plan is to lower the expense.
Everything isn't perfect with the Affordable Care Act, and I'm not trying to pretend it is. But I think in order to fit your political leanings, you misinterpret the reality of the situation and go with judgments that fit your predetermined conclusion. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion -- but not their own facts.
Please study the Affordable Care Act before making such bold declarations. Spending on medicare and medicaid is the largest portion of the federal government and savings need to be accomplished somehow. Some doctors might kick and scream, but their profession has been profiting handsomely from the existing system, and they know how to work it to maximize their income. For an older doctor, with a new system in place, it may not be worth re-learning how to 'game the system' if that's really what they've been doing.
I really think the medicare/medicaid "shared savings model" is helpful in the long term for healthcare expenditures, which are spiraling out of control with no end in sight.
I have never been, nor ever will be associated with either the Democratic or Republican parties if you're wondering.