None of these tech company leaders are "nice guys." Most of them exaggerate for effect and press. Most of them treat employees as "replaceable cogs." Many lie about what their company's have to ship and only fix it later (if ever) with an update.... of course such "misrepresentation" will get them the customers money now, rather than later or never.
Except Russia is not the source of the leaks, the DNC is. Russia is only a suspected, but not proven, conduit, but the sources of the info have so far not said that the information is not accurate.
The source of the information is Hillary's campaign and the DNC. The deliverer or messenger *might* be Russia. And that makes a great narrative, but that really does not matter and is an attempt by Hillary and the DNC to discredit content that they already acknowledge as accurate.
Roger Ebert, popular movie critic, lost his voice to when his jaw was removed to fight the cancer that eventually killed him.
Like Majel he had 25+ years of recorded material from TV shows like At the Movies. He even hired a firm to create a voice from that material. As it turned out, that 25+ years of recording was inadequate to create a working synthetic voice.
I suspect Roger had more material than Majel as he was doing 22 minute review shows for some many years compared to Majel's occasional appearances and scripted "computer voice" work.
Russia would have no negative information if the US system was run honestly and transparently. It is not and I thank *ALL* disclosures that wake up the US citizenry. The info source does not matter.
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The current 2 party duopoly is a corrupt manipulative mess as the US presidential candidate choices.
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Both Hillary and Trump are AWFUL candidates. So a huge number of voters are stuck voting against who they think is worse. There is NO positive choice.
> When was the last time you put an ad blocker on an app?
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I do that now for everything. I've got an ad filter running through a local VPN that filters content from advertising sites. It takes out almost everything except in apps that use their own ads rather than the ad networks.
Works on Android Apps and Linux and Macs and PCs can use it as a proxy.
Quality is not an issue when you have a monopoly. That monopoly may be via Intellectual Property or due to control of service. In either case you can get the cheapest dumbest workers and still make more than you would with better qualified workers.
Being the member of an Oligopoly can work similarly. Just match the competence of your limited competitors usually via standardization of service or product and again only a very few workers need to be competent.
If you want to know why IT looks the way it does just start thinking like an MBA.
If old age becomes obsolete you can expect government sponsored retirement benefits will too. In fact, I would expect a regulation that requires you forfeit SS and medicare at age X if you accept effective anti-aging therapies.
With appropriate regulation this just one more path to make both SS and Medicare solvent because less people are using either.
If old age becomes obsolete you can expect government sponsored retirement benefits will too. In fact, I would expect a regulation that requires you forfeit SS and medicare at age X if you accept effective anti-aging therapies.
This is just one more path to make both SS and Medicare solvent.
Why do so many of the "new" languages remind of good ol' fashioned UCSD Pascal p-code or even original Microsoft BASIC where everything is compiled to a tokenized intermediate platform independent pseudo assembly language that is interpreted or JIT compiled to the native CPU on the fly.
In the 70s and 80s and 90s the stuff designed this way ran slow slow slow. And all the new similar designs still do compared to code compiled or assembled to run on the target processor.
Give me a safer C like what Rust appears to be. Something that produces fast native code, but prevents programmers from doing stupid stuff.
Let's not even get into the disaster that Javascript is in the browser: Download a tarball of Javascript and execute: What browser am I running in? If this is browser of version X run this pile of code instead of all these other special piles for other browsers with multiple versions.
C hasn't gone away because it continues to be the best tool we have for producing fast code.
Don't believe me? Write almost any program in both C and ??? (except assembler) then run them on the same platform. Compare.
The "warning label will be too big" argument is completely bogus. Food manufacturers must be mandated to provide complete component lists and ingredient sources via a barcode and public database on the Internet.
Then consumers can optionally at any time of their choosing use smart phones/barcode readers to choose what they want to buy prior to or after purchase.
Will consumers share their "opinions" of both good and bad food components with others? Hell, yes! And like open source software everyone sharing info about and consuming or choosing not to consume "open source food" products will be better for it.
The fact that this hasn't occurred puts the "big lie" to all myths about "rational consumers" who can make their own choices about their food purchases. You cannot make rational choices if you don't have the ability to obtain the necessary information.
Large food manufacturers may be causing their own continued decline by attempting to hide GMO etc. As rational consumers are left only with the option to not buy foods from the "big food conglomerates" if they want to avoid what they fear.
This is already happening. I recently visited father's MD with my father for his checkup. In the doctor's reception area was a warning about GMO foods and all the brands and corporations to not buy unlabeled GMO food from.
Oracle products are specifically designed to make it very difficult and costly to leave the platform given all their proprietary extensions to SQL and supported programming language and development tools.
If your application was designed with Oracle development tools you are likely completely S**t Outta Luck. But if all you did was use Oracle as an RDMBS and avoided all their lock-in traps you should be able to port to PostgreSQL.
But in most situations, Oracle is the Hotel California of platforms: "you can check in anytime you want, but you can never leave.." at least not without significant costs in porting which will be more painful and risky than to simply keep paying.....
Because of this the best option is usually to specify and enforce that Oracle *NOT* be used on any new or replacement projects while the organization just keeps paying and paying and paying on the systems that require Oracle.
There are a number of very good reasons that few Internet startups run out and buy Oracle for infrastructure use.
and should also be mandated to label their GMO food in the US, so that consumers can choose.
The truth is that GMO foods have already so penetrated our foods and particularly processed foods that the food makers expect to lose customers if they are required to label.
Monsanto, ADM, etc are not trustworthy nor are the US food agencies that are suffering from regulatory capture. Label GMOs and let the consumer choose.
If the plant was not created by nature hybridization via crossbreeding and instead has genes that could not naturally occur in the plant genome. Label it as GMO.
After all the platform with the largest rich soft underbelly of easily exploitable code is Microsoft Windows. So do not hold your breath waiting for Flash to disappear. Like Windows there is way too much code built on top of it for it simply die a quick death and disappear.
Well, then let's just give the credit for making the FOIA request. And the journalist and/or organization that makes the most useful FOIA requests per year as voted on by their peers, wins all their costs times 100.
Otherwise, this a brilliant way to slow FOIA requests by profit making enterprises.
So vaccines approved by boards and other parties inside the US Food and Drug Administration with undisclosed economic interests in the vaccine companies bottom-line doesn't bother you?
Allowing individual lawsuits where the prevailing party pays will not bankrupt the vaccine makers UNLESS they've done something proveably wrong. And it will filter out the "nutters" who will end up paying the companies for bogus lawsuits. Only those parties who can prove harm with good science should prevail.
If the vaccine makers are doing their jobs right they have nothing to fear with reasonable legal protection. They only need to smash down a few suits and collect from those that could not prove their case.
This is not specifically about Autism and whether it is caused by vaccinations. It is about holding companies accountable for products that EVERYONE must use by government mandate.
The vaccine companies always talk about the "nutters." That's to keep any sensible discussion about holding the vaccine makers accountable from gaining any traction. But like the "nutters" were right about mass government surveillance and they are also likely somewhat right about government mandated injections. Those who profit from mandatory injections and vaccine manufacture and control need to held to a very high standard. Since the mid-80s vaccine companies have successfully avoided that responsibility. That must end.
The federal laws passed in the mid-80s that insulate the responsibility of vaccine creating companies to flaws in their products needs to rescinded or heavily revised.
It is the fact that the companies creating these vaccines are largely not culpable for their products that has driven the anti-VAX movement. FIX THAT or this law will be ignored.
As it is California legislators basically gave a free pass to all current parents whose children have already aged passed the ages they were supposed to get vaccinated. Those children do not have to be vaccinated.
The legislators did that to defuse the daily protests by parents.
if you cannot completely turn that intrusive privacy robbing feature OFF permanently. Devices that phone home to their real corporate master are not owned or controlled by YOU.
It is really that simple. That means don't buy Dropcam or a Nest or any of the other "easy to use" everything is stored "in the cloud" IOT devices that are out there and are the most heavily promoted.
There are nwtwork security cameras you can secure easily and control the recordings of. There are also "home automation" devices that only talk to each other within a defined area using reasonable encryption. You just have to be very careful and research what you are buying.
I note that in my last visit to BestBuy every IOT and home automation device promoted was more useful to the company who manufactured it that was collecting all the customers data than to the customer.
You can program your home router to block all outgoing traffic except from devices you select and you will find that many IOT devices will no longer work if you block their ability to "phone home."
Why? Because with climate change deemed as "real" there will be a public demand that all externalities be paid for by the parties that created the harmful externalities. Global Free market capitalism cannot survive such a change as it never pays the true costs of the damage it creates. It's purpose is to socialize externalities costs while privatizing profit. So the reality of 'climate change' will be fought via virtually all means.
Here is what monied capitalists most fear: If climate change is real, either free market capitalism dies or a sizable of chunk of humanity does.
With a 97% consensus of scientists global free market capitalism must be altered significantly so that 100 years from now the Earth is at least as livable as it is for us.
Available at Amazon, eBay, etc. starting around $70. These IP cameras will email or ftp still images at 640x480 or you can "pull ftp" motion sensed videos at 720p. Dericam cameras are Linux based and "hackable" because the administrator password let you overwrite flash memory. They are also easy to unbrick *if* you mess up.
They do have some bugs, like all these Asian made IP Cameras seem to regardless of price, but unlike almost all the others you can work or hack around them.
that does not exist is hidden within the system somewhere.
I guess it could be a backhaul for slow low priority internet traffic, but no customer in the 1st world would put up with the latency and lag given the current "centralized service" architecture of all internet services from Google, Facebook, WebMail, YouTube, "The Cloud" etc.
It could be great for bandwidth expansion with a more distributed network model than what we have now for Internet services. Email and file transfers that don't need instantaneous speed compared to interactive web pages would be natural uses for such a high latency service that would also need to be cheaper than faster terrestrial options.
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None of these tech company leaders are "nice guys." Most of them exaggerate for effect and press. Most of them treat employees as "replaceable cogs." Many lie about what their company's have to ship and only fix it later (if ever) with an update.... of course such "misrepresentation" will get them the customers money now, rather than later or never.
The source of the information is Hillary's campaign and the DNC. The deliverer or messenger *might* be Russia. And that makes a great narrative, but that really does not matter and is an attempt by Hillary and the DNC to discredit content that they already acknowledge as accurate.
Like Majel he had 25+ years of recorded material from TV shows like At the Movies. He even hired a firm to create a voice from that material. As it turned out, that 25+ years of recording was inadequate to create a working synthetic voice.
I suspect Roger had more material than Majel as he was doing 22 minute review shows for some many years compared to Majel's occasional appearances and scripted "computer voice" work.
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The current 2 party duopoly is a corrupt manipulative mess as the US presidential candidate choices.
.
Both Hillary and Trump are AWFUL candidates. So a huge number of voters are stuck voting against who they think is worse. There is NO positive choice.
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I do that now for everything. I've got an ad filter running through a local VPN that filters content from advertising sites. It takes out almost everything except in apps that use their own ads rather than the ad networks.
Works on Android Apps and Linux and Macs and PCs can use it as a proxy.
Quality is not an issue when you have a monopoly. That monopoly may be via Intellectual Property or due to control of service. In either case you can get the cheapest dumbest workers and still make more than you would with better qualified workers. Being the member of an Oligopoly can work similarly. Just match the competence of your limited competitors usually via standardization of service or product and again only a very few workers need to be competent. If you want to know why IT looks the way it does just start thinking like an MBA.
http://marshallbrain.com/manna... Might as well add this to the viewing list also. It at least hints at a new economic model....
That would make ad blocking really hard since there'd be no way to identify the Ad via URL or Javascript.
So here's to a much less cached Internet to make sure we all see Ads. WooHoo! Soon no connection will be fast!
With appropriate regulation this just one more path to make both SS and Medicare solvent because less people are using either.
If old age becomes obsolete you can expect government sponsored retirement benefits will too. In fact, I would expect a regulation that requires you forfeit SS and medicare at age X if you accept effective anti-aging therapies. This is just one more path to make both SS and Medicare solvent.
In the 70s and 80s and 90s the stuff designed this way ran slow slow slow. And all the new similar designs still do compared to code compiled or assembled to run on the target processor.
Give me a safer C like what Rust appears to be. Something that produces fast native code, but prevents programmers from doing stupid stuff.
Let's not even get into the disaster that Javascript is in the browser: Download a tarball of Javascript and execute: What browser am I running in? If this is browser of version X run this pile of code instead of all these other special piles for other browsers with multiple versions.
C hasn't gone away because it continues to be the best tool we have for producing fast code.
Don't believe me? Write almost any program in both C and ??? (except assembler) then run them on the same platform. Compare.
The "warning label will be too big" argument is completely bogus. Food manufacturers must be mandated to provide complete component lists and ingredient sources via a barcode and public database on the Internet. Then consumers can optionally at any time of their choosing use smart phones/barcode readers to choose what they want to buy prior to or after purchase. Will consumers share their "opinions" of both good and bad food components with others? Hell, yes! And like open source software everyone sharing info about and consuming or choosing not to consume "open source food" products will be better for it. The fact that this hasn't occurred puts the "big lie" to all myths about "rational consumers" who can make their own choices about their food purchases. You cannot make rational choices if you don't have the ability to obtain the necessary information. Large food manufacturers may be causing their own continued decline by attempting to hide GMO etc. As rational consumers are left only with the option to not buy foods from the "big food conglomerates" if they want to avoid what they fear. This is already happening. I recently visited father's MD with my father for his checkup. In the doctor's reception area was a warning about GMO foods and all the brands and corporations to not buy unlabeled GMO food from.
just like Microsoft Windows!?
You do realize that Oracle owns MySQL, right?
Oracle products are specifically designed to make it very difficult and costly to leave the platform given all their proprietary extensions to SQL and supported programming language and development tools.
If your application was designed with Oracle development tools you are likely completely S**t Outta Luck. But if all you did was use Oracle as an RDMBS and avoided all their lock-in traps you should be able to port to PostgreSQL.
But in most situations, Oracle is the Hotel California of platforms: "you can check in anytime you want, but you can never leave.." at least not without significant costs in porting which will be more painful and risky than to simply keep paying.....
Because of this the best option is usually to specify and enforce that Oracle *NOT* be used on any new or replacement projects while the organization just keeps paying and paying and paying on the systems that require Oracle.
There are a number of very good reasons that few Internet startups run out and buy Oracle for infrastructure use.
and should also be mandated to label their GMO food in the US, so that consumers can choose.
The truth is that GMO foods have already so penetrated our foods and particularly processed foods that the food makers expect to lose customers if they are required to label.
Monsanto, ADM, etc are not trustworthy nor are the US food agencies that are suffering from regulatory capture. Label GMOs and let the consumer choose.
If the plant was not created by nature hybridization via crossbreeding and instead has genes that could not naturally occur in the plant genome. Label it as GMO.
After all the platform with the largest rich soft underbelly of easily exploitable code is Microsoft Windows. So do not hold your breath waiting for Flash to disappear. Like Windows there is way too much code built on top of it for it simply die a quick death and disappear.
Otherwise, this a brilliant way to slow FOIA requests by profit making enterprises.
It doesn't work that way. And the IRS would like to have an expensive discussion with you about that.
Allowing individual lawsuits where the prevailing party pays will not bankrupt the vaccine makers UNLESS they've done something proveably wrong. And it will filter out the "nutters" who will end up paying the companies for bogus lawsuits. Only those parties who can prove harm with good science should prevail.
If the vaccine makers are doing their jobs right they have nothing to fear with reasonable legal protection. They only need to smash down a few suits and collect from those that could not prove their case.
This is not specifically about Autism and whether it is caused by vaccinations. It is about holding companies accountable for products that EVERYONE must use by government mandate.
The vaccine companies always talk about the "nutters." That's to keep any sensible discussion about holding the vaccine makers accountable from gaining any traction. But like the "nutters" were right about mass government surveillance and they are also likely somewhat right about government mandated injections. Those who profit from mandatory injections and vaccine manufacture and control need to held to a very high standard. Since the mid-80s vaccine companies have successfully avoided that responsibility. That must end.
It is the fact that the companies creating these vaccines are largely not culpable for their products that has driven the anti-VAX movement. FIX THAT or this law will be ignored.
As it is California legislators basically gave a free pass to all current parents whose children have already aged passed the ages they were supposed to get vaccinated. Those children do not have to be vaccinated.
The legislators did that to defuse the daily protests by parents.
It is really that simple. That means don't buy Dropcam or a Nest or any of the other "easy to use" everything is stored "in the cloud" IOT devices that are out there and are the most heavily promoted.
There are nwtwork security cameras you can secure easily and control the recordings of. There are also "home automation" devices that only talk to each other within a defined area using reasonable encryption. You just have to be very careful and research what you are buying.
I note that in my last visit to BestBuy every IOT and home automation device promoted was more useful to the company who manufactured it that was collecting all the customers data than to the customer.
You can program your home router to block all outgoing traffic except from devices you select and you will find that many IOT devices will no longer work if you block their ability to "phone home."
they now want to discredit the messenger: Science and Scientists. With 97% of scientists seeing climate change as real. It's really the only way to keep the current system going as is.
Why? Because with climate change deemed as "real" there will be a public demand that all externalities be paid for by the parties that created the harmful externalities. Global Free market capitalism cannot survive such a change as it never pays the true costs of the damage it creates. It's purpose is to socialize externalities costs while privatizing profit. So the reality of 'climate change' will be fought via virtually all means.
Here is what monied capitalists most fear: If climate change is real, either free market capitalism dies or a sizable of chunk of humanity does.
With a 97% consensus of scientists global free market capitalism must be altered significantly so that 100 years from now the Earth is at least as livable as it is for us.
Available at Amazon, eBay, etc. starting around $70. These IP cameras will email or ftp still images at 640x480 or you can "pull ftp" motion sensed videos at 720p. Dericam cameras are Linux based and "hackable" because the administrator password let you overwrite flash memory. They are also easy to unbrick *if* you mess up.
This example is a indoor Pan-Tilt camera: http://www.amazon.com/Dericam-...
They do have some bugs, like all these Asian made IP Cameras seem to regardless of price, but unlike almost all the others you can work or hack around them.
that does not exist is hidden within the system somewhere.
I guess it could be a backhaul for slow low priority internet traffic, but no customer in the 1st world would put up with the latency and lag given the current "centralized service" architecture of all internet services from Google, Facebook, WebMail, YouTube, "The Cloud" etc.
It could be great for bandwidth expansion with a more distributed network model than what we have now for Internet services. Email and file transfers that don't need instantaneous speed compared to interactive web pages would be natural uses for such a high latency service that would also need to be cheaper than faster terrestrial options.