Holden: You look down and see a tortoise, Leon. It's crawling toward you... Leon: Tortoise? What's that? Holden:[irritated by Leon's interruptions] You know what a turtle is? Leon: Of course! Holden: Same thing. Leon: I've never seen a turtle... But I understand what you mean. Holden: You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back, Leon. Leon: Do you make up these questions, Mr. Holden? Or do they write 'em down for you? Holden: The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Leon: [angry at the suggestion] What do you mean, I'm not helping? Holden: I mean: you're not helping! Why is that, Leon? [Leon has become visibly shaken] Holden: They're just questions, Leon. In answer to your query, they're written down for me. It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response... Shall we continue?
I have an open Wifi setup. My attitude is that connectivity has become basic infrastructure, and all "lock it down" freaks have just bought into the agenda of ISPs who don't want us to share bandwidth to boost their own profits.
If you're a guest in my home, you're welcome to use the bandwidth, along with the lights and water. Can you imagine visitig a friend only to be told, "Look, here's the PIN code to unlock the lights, and here's the key in case you want to wash your hands." Ridiculous. I accept that there's a risk of someone lurking in their car outside the property boundary to leech off my internet connection, but there's a risk of someone stealing water from my outside, unprotected taps, too. OTOH, if bandwidth were shared freely everywhere there'd be no need to sneak around "stealing" it, would there?
It's been at least 6 or 8 years now since I tossed the last one. Every time I bought a new cartridge for it I ended up printing maybe a page or three, and then discovering that the ink had all dried up on the next occasion I felt a need for hard-copy, usually 8 or 12 months later. I concluded that - given the ridiculous per-page cost of owning a printer - I'm better-off driving down to a local copy shop with the content on a flash stick any time I need to print stuff. My print costs now run to pennies a year, and any Yellow Dots that might or might not get printed on the page can get traced... all the way to Southcape Copies.
Wrong. You missed the corollary to that: "Those who can't teach consult."
Spend a year or so building up industry contats, helping people out, speaking at industry events, conferences, etc. then make the jump to a consulting career. It helps (emotionally, if nothing else) if he can cement a contract that pays a monthly retainer for a year or so before quitting the coding job.
I wonder how they intend to apply this to blogs that are listed under their own domain... Since my Blogger-hosted blog is generally known via my own (blog.mikro2nd.net) subdomain, are Google now going to mess with my "branding" when I make snotty comments about China or the USA?
Because the US hasn't nuked anyone in over half a century
I guess you've forgotten about all that depleted uranium lying around Kuwait and Iraq, then. I appreciate that it doesn't make a nice, big mushroom cloud, but its still pretty nasty stuff.
How is this any different than the malls (and airports and train stations and generally anywhere else) tracking you via the hundreds and thousands of "security" cameras they have plastered all over their premises? They can do all the aggregate tracking they want that way. Add a little bit of face recognition software and they can easily mass-track individuals, too. No chance of "opting out", even.
Sure, you can just take your business elsewhere. To the next mall that doesn't do this tracking shit. Where you'll be able to buy stuff from... uhhhhh... exactly the same chains as the other mall.
we have apparently abandoned the idea that government can assure a free and fair market through regulation.
Well, yes, because they have so clearly and repeatedly shown that they're up for sale to the highest bidder and completely incapable of doing what they're supposed to - acting as neutral and impartial adjudicator.
I don't understand why Apache are being so undiscriminating about accepting projects. It looks to me like Apache has just become a dumping ground for dead software, and ASF seem quite happy to go with that. There are now so many top-level projects that it's become pretty-much like Sourceforge - any rubbish is acceptable, and the poor sucker looking for a solution to a specific problem has to spend ages "evaluating" a bunch of ego-riddled crapware. Used to be that Apache was a mark of quality and some level of engineering and design. Not lately.
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Holden: You look down and see a tortoise, Leon. It's crawling toward you...
Leon: Tortoise? What's that?
Holden: [irritated by Leon's interruptions] You know what a turtle is?
Leon: Of course!
Holden: Same thing.
Leon: I've never seen a turtle... But I understand what you mean.
Holden: You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back, Leon.
Leon: Do you make up these questions, Mr. Holden? Or do they write 'em down for you?
Holden: The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.
Leon: [angry at the suggestion] What do you mean, I'm not helping?
Holden: I mean: you're not helping! Why is that, Leon?
[Leon has become visibly shaken]
Holden: They're just questions, Leon. In answer to your query, they're written down for me. It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response... Shall we continue?
I have an open Wifi setup. My attitude is that connectivity has become basic infrastructure, and all "lock it down" freaks have just bought into the agenda of ISPs who don't want us to share bandwidth to boost their own profits.
If you're a guest in my home, you're welcome to use the bandwidth, along with the lights and water. Can you imagine visitig a friend only to be told, "Look, here's the PIN code to unlock the lights, and here's the key in case you want to wash your hands." Ridiculous. I accept that there's a risk of someone lurking in their car outside the property boundary to leech off my internet connection, but there's a risk of someone stealing water from my outside, unprotected taps, too. OTOH, if bandwidth were shared freely everywhere there'd be no need to sneak around "stealing" it, would there?
It's the 21st Century, man. Get over it!
A better term is "Kakistocracy" imho.
It's been at least 6 or 8 years now since I tossed the last one. Every time I bought a new cartridge for it I ended up printing maybe a page or three, and then discovering that the ink had all dried up on the next occasion I felt a need for hard-copy, usually 8 or 12 months later. I concluded that - given the ridiculous per-page cost of owning a printer - I'm better-off driving down to a local copy shop with the content on a flash stick any time I need to print stuff. My print costs now run to pennies a year, and any Yellow Dots that might or might not get printed on the page can get traced... all the way to Southcape Copies.
Spend a year or so building up industry contats, helping people out, speaking at industry events, conferences, etc. then make the jump to a consulting career. It helps (emotionally, if nothing else) if he can cement a contract that pays a monthly retainer for a year or so before quitting the coding job.
Uuuhhh... don't have one.
Windows?
I wonder how they intend to apply this to blogs that are listed under their own domain... Since my Blogger-hosted blog is generally known via my own (blog.mikro2nd.net) subdomain, are Google now going to mess with my "branding" when I make snotty comments about China or the USA?
...news that really does matter!
Add similar photos of Spike Milligan (with talk balloons) and we could be onto something, no...?
no data will be hosted in the USA, it's protectorates, or in extremely US-friendly countries (England, Canada)
You also need to add, "or countries that might easily be coerced by the US through threats of violence, embargo, trade sanction, asset-freezing, etc."
I guess that leaves Elbonia.
Because the US hasn't nuked anyone in over half a century
I guess you've forgotten about all that depleted uranium lying around Kuwait and Iraq, then. I appreciate that it doesn't make a nice, big mushroom cloud, but its still pretty nasty stuff.
No need to worry about warrants or detention... just send in a team of Seals to shoot the fucker and dump the body in the ocean.
...and our decendants will be using stone tools to prosecute said unrest.
MacWho?
10c Zimbabwean.
OP: Brian, is that you?
Translated into units that most of can understand: " The tablet weighs 590g and measures 26.4 by 18 cm, but it's very slim at 7.6mm.
How is this any different than the malls (and airports and train stations and generally anywhere else) tracking you via the hundreds and thousands of "security" cameras they have plastered all over their premises? They can do all the aggregate tracking they want that way. Add a little bit of face recognition software and they can easily mass-track individuals, too. No chance of "opting out", even.
Not sure they'll get the message...
we have apparently abandoned the idea that government can assure a free and fair market through regulation.
Well, yes, because they have so clearly and repeatedly shown that they're up for sale to the highest bidder and completely incapable of doing what they're supposed to - acting as neutral and impartial adjudicator.
Please.
There ya go...
I don't understand why Apache are being so undiscriminating about accepting projects. It looks to me like Apache has just become a dumping ground for dead software, and ASF seem quite happy to go with that. There are now so many top-level projects that it's become pretty-much like Sourceforge - any rubbish is acceptable, and the poor sucker looking for a solution to a specific problem has to spend ages "evaluating" a bunch of ego-riddled crapware. Used to be that Apache was a mark of quality and some level of engineering and design. Not lately.
How are low-flying aircraft (always likely in emergency situations) warned away from the tether?