If our federal government were cut back to the 18 enumerated powers in the constitution the FCC would not have the authority to tell states and municipalities how to build broadband networks.
Many on this site advocate for a continually expanding federal government and then complain about government agencies sticking their nose where it doesn't belong.
The federal government should only have the authority to regulate EM spectrum and the states could grant that authority to the federal government with a constitutional amendment.
I don't really know if the Bloomberg article is true, but if you believe that guys like Jeff Bezos or Tim Cook will EVER see the inside of a jail cell, I have a bridge to see you.
I've switched as many services I can to companies that, at a minimum, care about individual privacy.
I used to use Google's cloud products exclusively - no more. It's Protonmail and Duck Duck Go for me - for now. Apple, under Tim Cook, seems to be taking privacy seriously as well.
I am willing to pay for services that advertise privacy as a feature.
When I took my first computer science class in high school Java had not yet been invented and IPv6 was becoming a formalized standard. Powershell didn't exist for many many years in my career and dynamically routed networks weren't really common when I got started - clusterfucks of static routing everywhere.
Was I a fraud then? Am I a fraud now? - Yes and Yes.
No one in tech knows everything - it's a dynamic field that is constantly changing. "Experts" I've found have very deep and narrow knowledge of one particular part of the field. Many are not experts, but have wide and shallow knowledge and experience.
Are we all frauds? Probably. Do we have the ability to constantly learn and apply our knowledge? - hell yes. The ones that don't wash out very quickly in this business.
I'm a fraud - you are too - and there is nothing wrong with that.
I have a computer science degree - obtained circa 2001.
None of my exams during the pursuit of my degree used a computer - all exams were done on paper. Demonstrating understanding of data structures, algorithms, complexity analysis and other CS topics is not coding.
Coding is the implementation work of computer science, much like construction is the implementation work of Civil Engineering.
Would you test a Civil Engineering student by asking him/her to build you a bridge?
If you can stomach it, read the Washington Post article. It's filled with page after page of "he said she said".
Not one shred of evidence. I'm sure Russia, and every other country, has a preferred outcome in mind with regard to all foreign elections, but I haven't seen any evidence to suggest that ANY country manipulated our vote count in any way.
Up to this point it still appears that Russia bought some ads to try to sway the vote. There is no evidence that they hacked any voting machines. There appears to be no evidence of the Russians hacking anyone's email either.
We have two schools, both with special-ed populations. One is taxpayer funded, the other is not.
Administration has things to do besides spend money - take attendance, communicate with child study groups and parents, complete IEP documentation, deal with medical issues and records...etc. All of these tasks require technology - practically nothing is done with paper anymore.
How do schools run in your area? With magic and free volunteers?
We were impacted by this glitch. We are a small school, so manually connecting 40 or so chromebooks was not a huge deal.
However, this is not the first time we have been impacted by a Google screwup. We've had outages where Google's authentication service failed and no one could login to their chromebooks.
We've since decided that we are walking back Chromebooks for staff members and putting them back on Windows laptops. Between the functional limitations of a chromebook, and the centralized parts we can't control, we've decided that an entirely cloud strategy for students and teachers is too risky.
Admin and teachers will be provisioned on on-prem systems. Students will be cloud provisioned. At least this way when Google's infrastructure shits the bed, the business side of the school can keep going.
I'm not sure I'd call the world's current state "stable", but I suppose the current state of affairs is better than nations declaring war and shooting at each other.
If that is your yardstick, then you could just as easily claim that the advent and proliferation of nuclear weapons is exactly what has kept WWIII from occurring.
Bitcoin is a medium of exchange - nothing more. The entire purpose of a medium of exchange is to facilitate the exchange of goods and services. That is the very foundation of civilization.
What more "socially useful" function exists?
Statists like this nobel idiot dislike anything that takes away power and control from the state. By that measure, crypto-currencies perform the most socially useful function there is - limiting the power of government over free people.
Nothing changed. I support laws that excercise the constitutional authority granted to government.
Notice how some of those posts you referenced refer to powers that the Federal government has assumed - yet are not enumerated in the constitution.
1st post: Government providing services it has no authority to provide. I am opposed to unconstitutional laws empowering congress to provide services it has no authority to provide.
2nd post: Making your own guns - perfectly legal and I cited an ATF regulation source confirming as much. Here the ATF is actually protecting a constitutionally protected right. I support these laws/regulations since they are constitutional. I am opposed to any laws that violate the protections afforded by the 2nd amendment.
3rd post: Zoning - this one I'll give you. Zoning and planning is the right of local governments. We didn't agree with the ruling, but we also didn't bitch about it to the rest of the world. We took our lumps and moved to another space. We didn't oppose the ruling after the decision was made since it was a constitutional use of authority.
Immigration is clearly within the constitutional authority of the Federal Government:
"The Congress shall have Power To...establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization" ARTICLE I, SECTION 8, CLAUSE 4
In The Immigration and Naturalization Act congress gave broad authority to the president to regulate immigration:
"(f) Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate."
So I'm not sure what you are arguing. My posts clearly show I support the enforcement of constitutional law. President Trump's enforcement of immigration law is clearly constitutional and clearly within the scope and authority of his office.
Immigration law is just that - law. Enforcing the law is the job of the executive branch. I see nothing wrong with enforcing the laws on the books. If you don't like the law - work with your congresscritter to change the law.
For businesses claiming a "shortage of talent" - I want to ask one question: How many internships and apprenticeships have you sponsored? I'm not talking about running-for-coffee internships. I'm talking about partnering with one or two local engineering colleges, taking a couple of prospective grads and training them to do the highly skilled work that you want done.
Too many businesses complain about a talent shortage, do nothing to solve the problem, and then ask for Government to solve the problem for them.
You may like (or not like) German immigration policy - but you can not also ignore the fact that Germany integrates training for their skilled workforce into the education of that workforce - and the on-the-job training is done by the industries that need the talent.
If you aren't doing anything to try and fix the problem, you have no right to complain about it.
If a "key" is necessary to access something and that key does not exist within Apple's domain, can a court order Apple to produce something which does not exist?
Rationally, I would say no - but I'm neither a lawyer nor a judge.
I qualified my post by saying that in other industries demand encourages more efficient producers to enter a market.
Education is probably the least "mass produced" thing in our country. It's very labor intensive and highly specialized. Pretty much the opposite of mass production.
Higher demand for Education drives up cost. Just look at the last 30 or so years. Demand for higher education soared and so did the costs.
"Education is too expensive, but would be even more expensive if it wasn't for foreign students"
Since when does high demand for anything result in lower prices? I guess you could argue that high demand causes more efficient competitors to enter the field and thereby reducing costs - that happens pretty much everywhere except education.
Education is a labor-intensive thing - largely immune to automation and other cost-cutting techniques used in other industries. More demand for education will raise the price - Econ 101.
Reduced demand for college/university education might actually help make the cost of these programs more affordable for the middle-class.
Every year at CES Samsung shows a bunch of "smart" appliances. One year they showed a smart washer and dryer and one onlooker asked "why does my clothes washer need Twitter"?
Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
I ended up buying a Speed Queen washer and dryer - made out of steel inside and out with mechanical controls - similar to the ones my mother used for 30 years without issue.
But you trust government to "competently" control guns and healthcare?
If government can't trust the public with a mathematical algorithm what makes you think the government will not trample all over the rights of a disarmed populace? The most recent Texas church shooting might have been prevented if the government followed its own damn rules.
Is this the same government you want running healthcare?
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If our federal government were cut back to the 18 enumerated powers in the constitution the FCC would not have the authority to tell states and municipalities how to build broadband networks.
Many on this site advocate for a continually expanding federal government and then complain about government agencies sticking their nose where it doesn't belong.
The federal government should only have the authority to regulate EM spectrum and the states could grant that authority to the federal government with a constitutional amendment.
I don't really know if the Bloomberg article is true, but if you believe that guys like Jeff Bezos or Tim Cook will EVER see the inside of a jail cell, I have a bridge to see you.
I've switched as many services I can to companies that, at a minimum, care about individual privacy.
I used to use Google's cloud products exclusively - no more. It's Protonmail and Duck Duck Go for me - for now. Apple, under Tim Cook, seems to be taking privacy seriously as well.
I am willing to pay for services that advertise privacy as a feature.
When I took my first computer science class in high school Java had not yet been invented and IPv6 was becoming a formalized standard. Powershell didn't exist for many many years in my career and dynamically routed networks weren't really common when I got started - clusterfucks of static routing everywhere.
Was I a fraud then? Am I a fraud now? - Yes and Yes.
No one in tech knows everything - it's a dynamic field that is constantly changing. "Experts" I've found have very deep and narrow knowledge of one particular part of the field. Many are not experts, but have wide and shallow knowledge and experience.
Are we all frauds? Probably. Do we have the ability to constantly learn and apply our knowledge? - hell yes. The ones that don't wash out very quickly in this business.
I'm a fraud - you are too - and there is nothing wrong with that.
I have a computer science degree - obtained circa 2001.
None of my exams during the pursuit of my degree used a computer - all exams were done on paper. Demonstrating understanding of data structures, algorithms, complexity analysis and other CS topics is not coding.
Coding is the implementation work of computer science, much like construction is the implementation work of Civil Engineering.
Would you test a Civil Engineering student by asking him/her to build you a bridge?
So a "news" agency makes an outlandish claim and produces no evidence to support that claim and we are expected to simply believe it.
My how Slashdot has fallen - this used to be a place for evidence based discussion. Now it's a sewing circle.
If you can stomach it, read the Washington Post article. It's filled with page after page of "he said she said".
Not one shred of evidence. I'm sure Russia, and every other country, has a preferred outcome in mind with regard to all foreign elections, but I haven't seen any evidence to suggest that ANY country manipulated our vote count in any way.
Up to this point it still appears that Russia bought some ads to try to sway the vote. There is no evidence that they hacked any voting machines. There appears to be no evidence of the Russians hacking anyone's email either.
Ha! - yeah a bit.
Think of it this way - out of a frying pan over which we have no control into a fire that we can at least somewhat control.
We have two schools, both with special-ed populations. One is taxpayer funded, the other is not.
Administration has things to do besides spend money - take attendance, communicate with child study groups and parents, complete IEP documentation, deal with medical issues and records...etc. All of these tasks require technology - practically nothing is done with paper anymore.
How do schools run in your area? With magic and free volunteers?
40 units were the only ones affected. We have about 175 devices total.
We were impacted by this glitch. We are a small school, so manually connecting 40 or so chromebooks was not a huge deal.
However, this is not the first time we have been impacted by a Google screwup. We've had outages where Google's authentication service failed and no one could login to their chromebooks.
We've since decided that we are walking back Chromebooks for staff members and putting them back on Windows laptops. Between the functional limitations of a chromebook, and the centralized parts we can't control, we've decided that an entirely cloud strategy for students and teachers is too risky.
Admin and teachers will be provisioned on on-prem systems. Students will be cloud provisioned. At least this way when Google's infrastructure shits the bed, the business side of the school can keep going.
"unprecedented state of stability"
I'm not sure I'd call the world's current state "stable", but I suppose the current state of affairs is better than nations declaring war and shooting at each other.
If that is your yardstick, then you could just as easily claim that the advent and proliferation of nuclear weapons is exactly what has kept WWIII from occurring.
"doesn't serve any socially useful function"
Bitcoin is a medium of exchange - nothing more. The entire purpose of a medium of exchange is to facilitate the exchange of goods and services. That is the very foundation of civilization.
What more "socially useful" function exists?
Statists like this nobel idiot dislike anything that takes away power and control from the state. By that measure, crypto-currencies perform the most socially useful function there is - limiting the power of government over free people.
It's 2017 - is there anyone alive that doesn't yet know that tobacco is terrible for your health?
The difference is adherence to the constitution.
I can't really make it any clearer than that.
I never said I would leave. Why would I leave?
Nothing changed. I support laws that excercise the constitutional authority granted to government.
Notice how some of those posts you referenced refer to powers that the Federal government has assumed - yet are not enumerated in the constitution.
1st post: Government providing services it has no authority to provide. I am opposed to unconstitutional laws empowering congress to provide services it has no authority to provide.
2nd post: Making your own guns - perfectly legal and I cited an ATF regulation source confirming as much. Here the ATF is actually protecting a constitutionally protected right. I support these laws/regulations since they are constitutional. I am opposed to any laws that violate the protections afforded by the 2nd amendment.
3rd post: Zoning - this one I'll give you. Zoning and planning is the right of local governments. We didn't agree with the ruling, but we also didn't bitch about it to the rest of the world. We took our lumps and moved to another space. We didn't oppose the ruling after the decision was made since it was a constitutional use of authority.
Immigration is clearly within the constitutional authority of the Federal Government:
"The Congress shall have Power To...establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization" ARTICLE I, SECTION 8, CLAUSE 4
In The Immigration and Naturalization Act congress gave broad authority to the president to regulate immigration:
"(f) Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate."
So I'm not sure what you are arguing. My posts clearly show I support the enforcement of constitutional law. President Trump's enforcement of immigration law is clearly constitutional and clearly within the scope and authority of his office.
Immigration law is just that - law. Enforcing the law is the job of the executive branch. I see nothing wrong with enforcing the laws on the books. If you don't like the law - work with your congresscritter to change the law.
For businesses claiming a "shortage of talent" - I want to ask one question: How many internships and apprenticeships have you sponsored? I'm not talking about running-for-coffee internships. I'm talking about partnering with one or two local engineering colleges, taking a couple of prospective grads and training them to do the highly skilled work that you want done.
Too many businesses complain about a talent shortage, do nothing to solve the problem, and then ask for Government to solve the problem for them.
You may like (or not like) German immigration policy - but you can not also ignore the fact that Germany integrates training for their skilled workforce into the education of that workforce - and the on-the-job training is done by the industries that need the talent.
If you aren't doing anything to try and fix the problem, you have no right to complain about it.
If a "key" is necessary to access something and that key does not exist within Apple's domain, can a court order Apple to produce something which does not exist?
Rationally, I would say no - but I'm neither a lawyer nor a judge.
It's called the sun and we waste most of the energy it generates.
Solar, wind, and storage seem to be much easier to deploy now and far more cost effective than fusion will ever be.
And China hasn't even ramped up most of their battery factories yet.
I qualified my post by saying that in other industries demand encourages more efficient producers to enter a market.
Education is probably the least "mass produced" thing in our country. It's very labor intensive and highly specialized. Pretty much the opposite of mass production.
Higher demand for Education drives up cost. Just look at the last 30 or so years. Demand for higher education soared and so did the costs.
"Education is too expensive, but would be even more expensive if it wasn't for foreign students"
Since when does high demand for anything result in lower prices? I guess you could argue that high demand causes more efficient competitors to enter the field and thereby reducing costs - that happens pretty much everywhere except education.
Education is a labor-intensive thing - largely immune to automation and other cost-cutting techniques used in other industries. More demand for education will raise the price - Econ 101.
Reduced demand for college/university education might actually help make the cost of these programs more affordable for the middle-class.
Every year at CES Samsung shows a bunch of "smart" appliances. One year they showed a smart washer and dryer and one onlooker asked "why does my clothes washer need Twitter"?
Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
I ended up buying a Speed Queen washer and dryer - made out of steel inside and out with mechanical controls - similar to the ones my mother used for 30 years without issue.
But you trust government to "competently" control guns and healthcare?
If government can't trust the public with a mathematical algorithm what makes you think the government will not trample all over the rights of a disarmed populace? The most recent Texas church shooting might have been prevented if the government followed its own damn rules.
Is this the same government you want running healthcare?
Since they are planning to build 700 new coal fired power plants.