Internet may be the goose that lays the golden egg, to 99% of the people, but to the *ELITES* the same Internet has become a threat to their exclusivity
Before the Internet the masses had no way to know what the *ELITES* were doing - yeah, we may have the trash rags with occasional pics of the *ELTES* doing _something_, but all in all the *ELITES* were well protected, even their scandals could be covered up easily
With the advent of Internet, more and more of the scandals of the *ELITES* have been pried open and leaked into the wild. As more and more of the internal dealings are being known to the masses the status of the *ELITES* has started to crumble
That is why for the *ELITES* the Internet is no necessarily the goose that lays the golden eggs. It is a big threat to them, and is becoming more and more threatening
If and when the human race learns to code software that is very hard or impossible to compromise, SDN may have a place, but before that, it is an exceptionally bad idea. It is also not a new bad idea, but an old one that has been renamed. For example, "Active Networking" did try this thing before.
No system or network is perfectly secure and a SDN can be protected just like any other sensitive and imperfect infra can be protected.
Just what the backroads need something that makes it own. Look out fish spawning in creeks and shallow ponds, ground squirrels, ground nesting avian life, insect colonies here comes another bunch of idiots to tear up your home. ZOOM ZOOM their goes the neighbourhood! Well that is if Mazda brings one out before anyone else like Honda, Polaris and Skidoo/whoever the heck does not corner first. Oh and I am sure that they will be available in two stroke oil injected hot rod models that can tear the shit out tree roots as well.
Just out of curiosity, do you walk everywhere you go? Make your own clothes? Vegan and raise your own crops?
Are you powering that computer you're using by solar panels that you made without disrupting anything in the environment perhaps?
How about parents taking some responsibility here.
There's been porn on the Internet as long as there's been an Internet and I doubt that will ever stop.
Educate your kids to these risks the same as you would educate them for any other risks and they'll police themselves better than any end site will be able to.
Shutting down all online porn-sites in the UK? Yeah, go ahead, see how long the public is willing to play along; I predict quite an uproar. Besides, it wouldn't stop porn-sites from outside the UK anyways, so it would both upset a lot of people and yet be wholly ineffective.
Right...because such sites couldn't possibly be blocked regardless of where they're based...
This is just the beginning of another five years of the Tories and their rural mafia shoving their crappy conservative values down the throats of the 63.9 percent of the UK population that did not vote for them and now that the Scottish national party has split the Labour vote it looks like this is how things will stay this way for the foreseeable future. It is an utter travesty that a political party can achieve a parliamentary majority with 36.1 percent of the population behind it and that a party that gained 12.9% of the popular vote (UKIP) gets one parliamentarian. I'm no fan of UKIP by any means but they should have gotten more seats.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone who lives outside the UK actually understand British politics?
I've got more than twenty years of experience in my field. I am an independent consultant and I have more work than I can handle - including working directly for manufacturers doing professional services for their customers.
It's simply amazing to me that you wouldn't even interview me because I have technical certifications.
On the other hand there's no shortage of managers that shoot themselves in the foot all the time so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised after all.
2 resumes, both have equal work time in IT, one has several certs one doesn't. Which would you hire?
The one that interviews better most likely.
When you get 200 (or whatever) applications for the job the question becomes 'which one do you choose to interview'
I've had the CCIE and JNCIE both for quite a long time. It used to be that I'd get work even without interviewing, just based on having the certs - and at that time having the certs was without a doubt very much worth the time and effort to get them.
Now you get a lot of people going through the bootcamps that don't have much experience and the certs themselves no longer hold the value they used to. So the work required to get a cert is much lower than it used to be but the value of the certs is also undeniably less than it used to be.
The thing everyone always ignores is that no matter what, eventually your brain dies. Whether in you or after you've been uploaded to a computer or another brain or what have you. And when that happens *THAT* you is dead. *YOU* still experience the pain of death. YOU still cease to exist. There is something out there with your memories and thoughts, but they are not you any more than a photo album or journal is you.
The me that got up this morning is not exactly the same me that went to bed last night either, and yet I am still me.
At the point where something is simulated with 100% accuracy it is no different than the original.
As a result Thunderbolt will also support USB 3.1 (which is currently spec'd at 10Gbps) and can optionally provide up to 100W of power (in compliance with the USB Power Delivery spec) to charge devices via USB-C (like the recently introduced 12-inch Apple MacBook).
I read 100W an I felt the hair singe off my legs.
I think the key word is "optionally". I doubt very many laptops will be able supply that much power for charging.
Apple will probably still supply next to nothing for non-Apple approved products, regardless of what the spec allows for. Plug a Samsung into an Apple USB 3 port and see what you get.
(for those of you looking for a solution to this problem check out portapow)
the target of wiretaps does not have to be linked to a foreign power or terrorism.
I thought the point of the NSA was that they were meant to protect domestic communications from external threats. If the target is not linked to external threats, how can it be justified?
Spin it any way you want, the fact stands that an evil, bad bill failed Republican support 23-30 and won Democrat support 43-1. Period. Live with it.
There are plenty of people, Republicans and others, who want to stamp out islamists carrying on war against the US and all civilized parts of the world, but we don't want to trample the rights and protections of innocents to do it.
I'm sorry, who was it that signed the original Patriot Act again?
A lot of good his little song and dance did... Eh, easy to speak up when nobody is listening.
He single-handedly blocked continuation of authorization of mass metadata collection. That's what he did. A whole hell of a lot more than any of those other pukes did. You don't see mass metadata collection being re-authorized by this new act, do you? That's right. It's not.
Yeah, this new act sucks. And guess what? It passed on the strength of democrats being in the tank by an absurd 43-1 margin. Republicans opposed it by 30-23.
Sure it is - it's just being done by the ISPs instead of the NSA directly. End result = same.
As far as D vs R...I seriously doubt that matters anymore.
Actually, it's classic doublespeak, designed to shut down any debate or dissension. To oppose The USA Freedom act is to publicly come out against the USA and Freedom. Just like opposition to the PATRIOT act branded you an unpatriotic apple-pie-hating flag-burning radical.
It also speaks volumes about how brazen our so-called representatives have become. They don't even try hide it - It's right there in your face, and if you don't like it, too bad. There's nothing you can do about it.
I am curious about what words they will use when patriot and freedom (etc) have been played out.
I imagine it will become like the naming of movies...'Patriot Act IV' and Freedom Act IX
When it's especially cold it would be a pain to undo the bundling just so the ATM can see your face. There's a fine art in layering your clothes (balaclava tucks inside the coat collar, scarf on the outside, etc) to keep the wind out on those -30C days.
No problem, just wrap your head in a scarf when they take the ID picture to start with...
A much "simpler" change (in terms of concept, not ease of execution) would be to go re-learn the concept of Federalism and take a bunch of power away from the Federal government and give it to state and local ones. The less the Federal government has responsibility over, the less harm unaccountable Congresscritters can do.
Because Congresscritters don't come from states?
What is needed is accountability at all levels. Of course as it's the people in power that make the rules..well, it just isn't going to happen is it.
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Internet may be the goose that lays the golden egg, to 99% of the people, but to the *ELITES* the same Internet has become a threat to their exclusivity
Before the Internet the masses had no way to know what the *ELITES* were doing - yeah, we may have the trash rags with occasional pics of the *ELTES* doing _something_, but all in all the *ELITES* were well protected, even their scandals could be covered up easily
With the advent of Internet, more and more of the scandals of the *ELITES* have been pried open and leaked into the wild. As more and more of the internal dealings are being known to the masses the status of the *ELITES* has started to crumble
That is why for the *ELITES* the Internet is no necessarily the goose that lays the golden eggs. It is a big threat to them, and is becoming more and more threatening
You mean like...the printing press?
Agreed though
If and when the human race learns to code software that is very hard or impossible to compromise, SDN may have a place, but before that, it is an exceptionally bad idea. It is also not a new bad idea, but an old one that has been renamed. For example, "Active Networking" did try this thing before.
No system or network is perfectly secure and a SDN can be protected just like any other sensitive and imperfect infra can be protected.
Just what the backroads need something that makes it own. Look out fish spawning in creeks and shallow ponds, ground squirrels, ground nesting avian life, insect colonies here comes another bunch of idiots to tear up your home. ZOOM ZOOM their goes the neighbourhood! Well that is if Mazda brings one out before anyone else like Honda, Polaris and Skidoo/whoever the heck does not corner first. Oh and I am sure that they will be available in two stroke oil injected hot rod models that can tear the shit out tree roots as well.
Just out of curiosity, do you walk everywhere you go? Make your own clothes? Vegan and raise your own crops?
Are you powering that computer you're using by solar panels that you made without disrupting anything in the environment perhaps?
It couldn't be that Google would like (future) access to coders that would be willing to work for less than what rich kids would expect to make?
Yes well that was my point wasn't it
How about parents taking some responsibility here.
There's been porn on the Internet as long as there's been an Internet and I doubt that will ever stop.
Educate your kids to these risks the same as you would educate them for any other risks and they'll police themselves better than any end site will be able to.
Shutting down all online porn-sites in the UK? Yeah, go ahead, see how long the public is willing to play along; I predict quite an uproar. Besides, it wouldn't stop porn-sites from outside the UK anyways, so it would both upset a lot of people and yet be wholly ineffective.
Right...because such sites couldn't possibly be blocked regardless of where they're based...
This is just the beginning of another five years of the Tories and their rural mafia shoving their crappy conservative values down the throats of the 63.9 percent of the UK population that did not vote for them and now that the Scottish national party has split the Labour vote it looks like this is how things will stay this way for the foreseeable future. It is an utter travesty that a political party can achieve a parliamentary majority with 36.1 percent of the population behind it and that a party that gained 12.9% of the popular vote (UKIP) gets one parliamentarian. I'm no fan of UKIP by any means but they should have gotten more seats.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone who lives outside the UK actually understand British politics?
I've got more than twenty years of experience in my field. I am an independent consultant and I have more work than I can handle - including working directly for manufacturers doing professional services for their customers.
It's simply amazing to me that you wouldn't even interview me because I have technical certifications.
On the other hand there's no shortage of managers that shoot themselves in the foot all the time so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised after all.
2 resumes, both have equal work time in IT, one has several certs one doesn't.
Which would you hire?
The one that interviews better most likely.
When you get 200 (or whatever) applications for the job the question becomes 'which one do you choose to interview'
I've had the CCIE and JNCIE both for quite a long time. It used to be that I'd get work even without interviewing, just based on having the certs - and at that time having the certs was without a doubt very much worth the time and effort to get them.
Now you get a lot of people going through the bootcamps that don't have much experience and the certs themselves no longer hold the value they used to. So the work required to get a cert is much lower than it used to be but the value of the certs is also undeniably less than it used to be.
The thing everyone always ignores is that no matter what, eventually your brain dies. Whether in you or after you've been uploaded to a computer or another brain or what have you. And when that happens *THAT* you is dead. *YOU* still experience the pain of death. YOU still cease to exist. There is something out there with your memories and thoughts, but they are not you any more than a photo album or journal is you.
The me that got up this morning is not exactly the same me that went to bed last night either, and yet I am still me.
At the point where something is simulated with 100% accuracy it is no different than the original.
Mostly split...a little bit pregnant...hey shit happens :-)
Finally. Someone as Intel figured that pushing both types of connector that they invented is not such a smart thing.
One port to rule them all. One place to find them
One cable to bring them in and in Thunderbolt bind them
Now let those who bought those $50 Thunderbolt cable cry about bloody murder.
They will, just as soon as Thunderbolt 2 comes out.
As a result Thunderbolt will also support USB 3.1 (which is currently spec'd at 10Gbps) and can optionally provide up to 100W of power (in compliance with the USB Power Delivery spec) to charge devices via USB-C (like the recently introduced 12-inch Apple MacBook).
I read 100W an I felt the hair singe off my legs.
I think the key word is "optionally". I doubt very many laptops will be able supply that much power for charging.
Apple will probably still supply next to nothing for non-Apple approved products, regardless of what the spec allows for. Plug a Samsung into an Apple USB 3 port and see what you get.
(for those of you looking for a solution to this problem check out portapow)
"Spying on Americans in America has proved very worthless...in the fight against terrorism"
FTFY
No doubt such information has other uses.
I thought the point of the NSA was that they were meant to protect domestic communications from external threats. If the target is not linked to external threats, how can it be justified?
Because it 'might' be linked to external threats.
Spin it any way you want, the fact stands that an evil, bad bill failed Republican support 23-30 and won Democrat support 43-1. Period. Live with it.
There are plenty of people, Republicans and others, who want to stamp out islamists carrying on war against the US and all civilized parts of the world, but we don't want to trample the rights and protections of innocents to do it.
I'm sorry, who was it that signed the original Patriot Act again?
Oh that's right - a republican.
It really doesn't matter.
He single-handedly blocked continuation of authorization of mass metadata collection. That's what he did. A whole hell of a lot more than any of those other pukes did. You don't see mass metadata collection being re-authorized by this new act, do you? That's right. It's not.
Yeah, this new act sucks. And guess what? It passed on the strength of democrats being in the tank by an absurd 43-1 margin. Republicans opposed it by 30-23.
Sure it is - it's just being done by the ISPs instead of the NSA directly. End result = same.
As far as D vs R...I seriously doubt that matters anymore.
I am totally, completely in favor of building up a third party to rival these two.
Speaking of parties, here is the count:
YEAs: 67 (D = 43, R = 23, I = 1)
NAYs: 32 (D = 1, R = 30, I = 1)
Not voting: 1 (R)
Republicans were slightly more against the bill, Democrats were overwhelmingly in favor of it, and the two Independents were mostly split.
Just out of sheer curiosity, how can 2 independents be 'mostly' split?
Actually, it's classic doublespeak, designed to shut down any debate or dissension. To oppose The USA Freedom act is to publicly come out against the USA and Freedom. Just like opposition to the PATRIOT act branded you an unpatriotic apple-pie-hating flag-burning radical.
It also speaks volumes about how brazen our so-called representatives have become. They don't even try hide it - It's right there in your face, and if you don't like it, too bad. There's nothing you can do about it.
I am curious about what words they will use when patriot and freedom (etc) have been played out.
I imagine it will become like the naming of movies...'Patriot Act IV' and Freedom Act IX
I have but one question to ask:
Where is the *FREEDOM* in that 'usa freedom act'?
You expected perhaps the "Less Rights for Americans Act" ?
Makes you wonder how it will cope with women wearing a full face veil.
You're assuming they're allowed to use ATMs
When it's especially cold it would be a pain to undo the bundling just so the ATM can see your face. There's a fine art in layering your clothes (balaclava tucks inside the coat collar, scarf on the outside, etc) to keep the wind out on those -30C days.
No problem, just wrap your head in a scarf when they take the ID picture to start with...
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"
Not that it matters who I quote, or what anyone says. This and things much like it will likely get renewed, or they'll happen in secret.
I don't have any good solutions, but it doesn't have to mean I like the idiots in government or their idiotic decisions.
It matters that you give credit, just the same.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"
- Benjamin Franklin.
A much "simpler" change (in terms of concept, not ease of execution) would be to go re-learn the concept of Federalism and take a bunch of power away from the Federal government and give it to state and local ones. The less the Federal government has responsibility over, the less harm unaccountable Congresscritters can do.
Because Congresscritters don't come from states?
What is needed is accountability at all levels. Of course as it's the people in power that make the rules..well, it just isn't going to happen is it.