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Of course you do. Would you say it's hard to install firefox? No. Yet there are millions of people who have problems doing that. And when I say millions I mean hundreds of millions.
The reality is that there are many people out there who would pay you to do what you think is absolutely brain-dead. The key is letting them know you are available and reliable. Meaning you have to develop a brand.
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Sure they will buy it. They will buy it because they fucking can't get it running on their system and you're gonna charge them $750 to install it for them. Then in a few month you'll charge them another $250 to plug in the postgresql add-on, and a few month later you'll charge them another $300 to hook it to their ldap server... You get the idea.
If they can get it running, and can maintain it, and not ask you anything, then you're really not out much, are you?
But there's plenty of people out there in business willing to pay for installation and monitoring.
Heck, just last week I made $120 installing trac on a windows machine. I don't even contribute to trac (except for spreading the word).
True nerds learn embedded system languages so they can program their train set at home.
And sometimes, sometimes, help the rest of society with some of their pesky data problems.
As long as it doesn't cut into model train time much.
Substitute train set for 1/72 or 1/35 plastic-soldier painting and massive battles reenactments with a dog-eared battle rule book and battle tournament stats programs written in exotic languages.
Plus if you queue up (ala netflix) and you get 20 movies downloaded in a 30 days period, during off hours (night, worktime) onto you 1TB HD set-top box, and as you watch films and remove them it downloads the next ones, you will have an essentially unlimited supply of HD content. Unless you sit and watch 8 hours of TV per day, the typical high-end residential cable or dsl connection can bring in more content than you can reasonably watch.
Now, if you had: All the TV shows ever made in every country, along with all the movies ever made in every country, in a fast, maintained and closed network, and they charged you, say, $45/month, in addition to your $45/month high speed download, most people would just get that.
Then: no more trips to the store, no more burning DVDs and shipping them to stores (in diesel-burning trucks), no need to maintain air-conditioned, lit and maintained retail space...
Who is fighting this? The established US players (blockbuster, netflix even, the studios)
But if the really big players in the world, (BBC, NHK, Bollywood, etc) start a deal doing that, then the US players are going to suffer big time. But not to worry, they realize this. I bet they are massaging the excel spreadsheets right now to see if they can generate 20% ROI annually out of this.
> but it is important to not let it be the only tool in your belt
Well, that's the real problem. The world of Java is so complex that by the time you've invested the 3-4 years learning how to be a corporate java developer, your other skills will have atrophied to the point where you can barely get a job using them...
I work at a fortune 500 and we have java developers who don't understand the difference between an apache mod and cgi, who can't understand that python is interpreted and that the amazing functionality of mediawiki is programmed in php.
In order for you to become a specialist in Enterprise Java, you are going to have to forego any other specialization. If that's what you want to do, fine. But that makes you much more vulnerable to economic instability. Better to make less money per hour but be guaranteed work for the foreseeable future.
What do you think would happen to java if Sun Microsystems went bankrupt? Who can tell what the future holds? Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
That's because they don't have tasers. In the US, out police tasers repeatedly and people die of "natural causes" from non-lethal weapons, not 9mm "brain hemmorages".
The US may not be a fascist state, but it plays one on TV.
With the price of gas these days, and the fact that the device must weigh something, are they not costing you a little money in gas for you to haul that thing around?
They can argue it's minimal, but then again... If you say it cost you $3 in a week to transport this around, how are they going to dispute that?
And wait, since you are now transporting police property, are you not entitled to be reimbursed at the current mileage reimbursement rate?
Which, by the way, is 50.5 cents per mile, according to the IRS
Snce you are carrying public property, does this affect your insurance? What if device causes damage (for example coming detached and damaging another vehicle's windshield)? Is that covered by your insurance? Does it make your insurance rate go up? Can you invoice the police department for that?
What if the device is used by a third party against you?
What is the device battery fails and leaks battery fluid and damages your vehicle's paint?
Nuclear winter. No food for dozens of years. Existing food supplies contaminated by radiation. Massive changes in the atmosphere (as we all know, of global reach). Disease, pestilence, war.
I work at a company that uses lotus notes, and all you say is true. We unfortunately don't maintain IMAP server, so there is unending grief. Ubuntu with Notes is like using a Ferrari to haul fertilizer.
Who says the images would remain exactly the same? The government could easily apply a destructive filter to the image that would degrade the image somewhat, effectively neutralizing steganography, but leaving the image still good enough for common browsing.
Maybe they'll come up with an image processing server that all ISPs must install on premises. This would not be hard. They could do the same with video. Heck I would not be surprised if current monitoring equipment didn't have that capability already, waiting for the activate command.
Maybe the government would "reprocess" images so that any steganography would be scrambled? They wouldn't actually read the messages, but they could neutralize the vector.
Would it be massively expensive? You bet. That's never stopped the government, though.
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Of course you do. Would you say it's hard to install firefox? No. Yet there are millions of people who have problems doing that. And when I say millions I mean hundreds of millions.
The reality is that there are many people out there who would pay you to do what you think is absolutely brain-dead. The key is letting them know you are available and reliable. Meaning you have to develop a brand.
Sure they will buy it. They will buy it because they fucking can't get it running on their system and you're gonna charge them $750 to install it for them. Then in a few month you'll charge them another $250 to plug in the postgresql add-on, and a few month later you'll charge them another $300 to hook it to their ldap server... You get the idea.
If they can get it running, and can maintain it, and not ask you anything, then you're really not out much, are you?
But there's plenty of people out there in business willing to pay for installation and monitoring.
Heck, just last week I made $120 installing trac on a windows machine. I don't even contribute to trac (except for spreading the word).
Wait, aren't we the remains of dead stars too?
In this case I agree, there's been plenty of desecration...
Well in that case I'm really glad the suits didn't take all the money.
True nerds don't build billion-dollar companies.
True nerds learn embedded system languages so they can program their train set at home.
And sometimes, sometimes, help the rest of society with some of their pesky data problems.
As long as it doesn't cut into model train time much.
Substitute train set for 1/72 or 1/35 plastic-soldier painting and massive battles reenactments with a dog-eared battle rule book and battle tournament stats programs written in exotic languages.
Because the topic is Django 1.0 release, not python frameworks in general.
Let's stay on topic shall we?
I speak French (native, lived there (France, not Canada) for 17 years.
I came to the US in 1985, and learned the computer stuff here. I am a programmer for a fortune 200.
I know nothing of french computer terminology. I don't even know how to say modem in French.
So, not only does the person need to know how to speak french, they also need to know the French technical terms.
(how do you say: "install a device driver"?)
Plus if you queue up (ala netflix) and you get 20 movies downloaded in a 30 days period, during off hours (night, worktime) onto you 1TB HD set-top box, and as you watch films and remove them it downloads the next ones, you will have an essentially unlimited supply of HD content. Unless you sit and watch 8 hours of TV per day, the typical high-end residential cable or dsl connection can bring in more content than you can reasonably watch.
Now, if you had: All the TV shows ever made in every country, along with all the movies ever made in every country, in a fast, maintained and closed network, and they charged you, say, $45/month, in addition to your $45/month high speed download, most people would just get that.
Then: no more trips to the store, no more burning DVDs and shipping them to stores (in diesel-burning trucks), no need to maintain air-conditioned, lit and maintained retail space...
Who is fighting this? The established US players (blockbuster, netflix even, the studios)
But if the really big players in the world, (BBC, NHK, Bollywood, etc) start a deal doing that, then the US players are going to suffer big time. But not to worry, they realize this. I bet they are massaging the excel spreadsheets right now to see if they can generate 20% ROI annually out of this.
... and in the darknet BIND them?
It's just a case of US versus us.
> but it is important to not let it be the only tool in your belt
Well, that's the real problem. The world of Java is so complex that by the time you've invested the 3-4 years learning how to be a corporate java developer, your other skills will have atrophied to the point where you can barely get a job using them...
I work at a fortune 500 and we have java developers who don't understand the difference between an apache mod and cgi, who can't understand that python is interpreted and that the amazing functionality of mediawiki is programmed in php.
In order for you to become a specialist in Enterprise Java, you are going to have to forego any other specialization. If that's what you want to do, fine. But that makes you much more vulnerable to economic instability. Better to make less money per hour but be guaranteed work for the foreseeable future.
What do you think would happen to java if Sun Microsystems went bankrupt? Who can tell what the future holds? Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
That's because they don't have tasers. In the US, out police tasers repeatedly and people die of "natural causes" from non-lethal weapons, not 9mm "brain hemmorages".
The US may not be a fascist state, but it plays one on TV.
Maybe the man who can afford two wives can afford better health care?
Or maybe, just maybe, having a more, hum, "lively" household keeps you mind sharper and your feet fleeter.
Oh, and to address the chicken and egg thingy, they make a home energy station that converts natural gas to hydrogen.
Can we lay off the car analogy now?
You mean, like the Honda FCX Clarity?
With the price of gas these days, and the fact that the device must weigh something, are they not costing you a little money in gas for you to haul that thing around?
They can argue it's minimal, but then again... If you say it cost you $3 in a week to transport this around, how are they going to dispute that?
And wait, since you are now transporting police property, are you not entitled to be reimbursed at the current mileage reimbursement rate?
Which, by the way, is 50.5 cents per mile, according to the IRS
Snce you are carrying public property, does this affect your insurance? What if device causes damage (for example coming detached and damaging another vehicle's windshield)? Is that covered by your insurance? Does it make your insurance rate go up? Can you invoice the police department for that?
What if the device is used by a third party against you?
What is the device battery fails and leaks battery fluid and damages your vehicle's paint?
I could go on...
I humbly propose a new term for hackers who engage in warfare: "steel hat".
Let's change "copyright" to "copywrong" to reflect the current situation.
They said "reward".
Nuclear winter. No food for dozens of years. Existing food supplies contaminated by radiation. Massive changes in the atmosphere (as we all know, of global reach). Disease, pestilence, war.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter
I work at a company that uses lotus notes, and all you say is true. We unfortunately don't maintain IMAP server, so there is unending grief. Ubuntu with Notes is like using a Ferrari to haul fertilizer.
Who says the images would remain exactly the same? The government could easily apply a destructive filter to the image that would degrade the image somewhat, effectively neutralizing steganography, but leaving the image still good enough for common browsing.
Maybe they'll come up with an image processing server that all ISPs must install on premises. This would not be hard. They could do the same with video. Heck I would not be surprised if current monitoring equipment didn't have that capability already, waiting for the activate command.
A couple weeks later in 2015: China flexes military muscle and knocks down 8 US satellites.
January 2016, World population: zero.
4081: World completely back to normal, sans man.
Yeah, and maybe the getting a cert would involve a Department of Homeland Security approval process.
Maybe the government would "reprocess" images so that any steganography would be scrambled? They wouldn't actually read the messages, but they could neutralize the vector.
Would it be massively expensive? You bet. That's never stopped the government, though.