Whether google owns Doublecklick or not, there's a special place in my adblock configuration for that company which they can disable only after they extract my computer from my cold dead hands.
I really wish they'd bought the company and then nuked it from orbit, like they did with a few other noxious evil outfits over the years.
Depends what you're using it for. I suspect that it or something like it will be ubiquitous within a decade.
The huffing and puffing about it at the moment has a lot of the same sound I used to hear about mobile phones in the 80s when I used to have to carry one for work reasonjs (They were heavy bag ones and weighed a ton).
It will become VERY interesting if google offers Glass on prescription lenses because demanding the removal of prescription glasses IS a civil liberties thing and has gotten business owners in extremely seriou trouble in the past.
Therte are a number of exceptions to that. You'd never be sued for refusing to pay if the meal was lousy. There are a number of laws covering this kind of thing but it's almost all based around what's offered being what shows up.
The only time I've seen someone asked to leave a restaurant, there wa sno question of asking him to pay up, they just wanted him out.
I suspect that it would be extremely difficult under contract law to expect payment if the meal wasn't allowed to be finished.
You can be as skeptocal as you like of "retraining", but the guy with 40 years VMS experience isn't a heck of a ot of use in a Unix shop until he has.
As for Flexibility: Remote working is simply another tool (and one which usually results in people working stupidly long hours), but if you're not close enough to actually put boots on the ground if needed, then you've thrown out a large chunk of necessary flexibility.
I say that as someone who HAS worked remotely. There have been a number of times in my experience where being able to be onsite for even an hour has saved WEEKS of dealing with problems remotely. That might not be the case in an ideal world but the race to pay as little as possible often results in situation where the people onsite are NOT COMPETENT to perform basic maintenance or be aware of the ramifications of such things as incoming power cleanliness, hardware specifications, need to maintain UPS batteries, etc etc (And will happily lie when queried).
Even such things as network wiring security and standards will, if not maintained to a high standard, trip you up remotely - I've encountered issues which turned out to be badly plugged RJ45s and cabling so badly waterfalled that peple were unplugging cables with no idea what was o nthe other end. Tha's not going into the issues of non-documented switches failing and being replaced with noone being aware of the VLAN structure on the old one - stuff that perhaps a contract programmer might not see, but which can end up being critical to his reputation (It's easiest to blame the guy who's not there, etc)
That is exactly the point I was trying to make - the only conspiracy involved is that of covering up the staggerig levels of incompetence beforehand.
Heads should have rolled. They won't because the people involved are "too powerful"
Those documents will remain secret at least until the culpable parties are safely dead and buried.
Lest anyone think this is only of "historical interest", one only has to look at more recent history to see that the process of covering up and making anything which would expose [incompetence OR non/malfeasance in office] "classified" has become even more entrenched in beureaucratic mindsets than it was 50 years ago.
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And the DNS is via Godaddy's cloaking service.
Is anyone in a good position to ask awkaward questions of either company?
How many scopes do you know that stay zeroed after being banged around - and bear in mind Oswald WAS a trained sharpshooter with a pretty good marksmanship record.
The ironic hting was, Kennedy wouldn't have been an overly remarkable president if he'd stayed alive. He's a modern example of the old adage that killing people makes them into martyrs.
"When there is incompetence at certain places along the line, you can chalk it up to incompetence. When there is incompetence at every step in the line, and in regard to the assassination of a President, it really starts to stretch credulity."
Really? Have you seen how many cockups it takes to cause a nuclear meltdown?
"You need to defend against every assassination threat. The assassins only need to succeed once"
Even if most people are competent, the pressure to cover for the incompetent one when the event is over, is overwhelming.
The _real_ JFK conspiracy is the one to cover up the catalog of incompetence which allowed the event to happen.
Far easier to alow stories about a second gunman to proliferate than to admit how many things they cocked up in a short period of time.
Think I'm kidding? The stock in trade of any government is "denial, diversion, delay and closing ranks" and we all seen it happen on multiple occasions.
if your network is used in an attack agianst me which costs money to defend against, I should have the ability to reclainm those costs - along with some penalties to make sure you don't just trreat it as a cost of doing business.
The single biggest problem on the Internet at the moment is that the large ISPs have vritually zero acountability to anyone about how they run their network when it's causing damage to those who aren't their own customers.
Spamhaus has managed to get some large networks disconnected for allowing sustained abuse, but there needs to be a much better way of applying bricks to the sides of the skulls of those who need it.
"The Basic Income guarantee is something getting more discussion in German-speaking Europe. Because it makes increasing sense in the 21st century in developed countries. "
It's also unsustainable political hot air emitted by people whose only purpose in life is to be re-elected. Take a good hard look at the economics of such plans and you'll realise they're impossible.
Europe and the USA have rapidly aging population and it doesn' thave the safety barriers that Japan had 20 years ago when it started to be in the same position.
Alvin Toffler postulated 40 years ago that in "the future" there would be technocrats who work a lot and get paid, along with others who don't work and get money anyway. He missed the point that when the people working get the shit taxed out of them to pay for those who don't work, they'll mostly decide it's easier to take their ball and go play somewhere else.
As a Gen-Xer, I take issue with that. GenY types have good reason to be resentful. I am because I realised back in the 1980s that i'd be lucky to be able to retire before age 75. They'll have it even worse than me.
The babyboomers (1946-1960) had everything handed to them on a plate, oncluding law changes which made the previous minimum retirement age, mandatory in a lot of cases, in order to create employment for younger people;
They squandered what they were given, on the impossible promise of retirement benefits any fool could see by the mid 1970s weere NOT economically feasible, and now they're seeking to pull up the ladder behind them so that younger people can't compete.
I've got news for you. When income tax for basic wage/salary burger flippers hits 60% simply to fund retirees, (it will, and soon), there will be a trainwreck.
Back to the subject at hand:
If you're 50 and you want to work, fine. I'd hire you if you're capable, same as I'd hire you if you're 20 and you're capable, but if you want to do remote stuff you're cutting down your horizons dramatically. It was hard enough a decade ago when I was doing it and despite all the hype, telecommuting is not a particularly productive work method except in a few linmited cases.
Go where the work is. Don't expect the work to come to you. If you can do some remote stuff that's nice but it's not a viable business model unless you're a well organised, well motivated hotshot who can handle the stress - and don't expect to get preferential pay rates when you're competing with 25year olds who are quite happy to put in long hours at shitty pay in the hope of getting decent experience for later on. Play to your strengths. Remote working is not one of them unless you happen to be Yoda.
As one guy said, there are a bunch of people who have decades for experience in "something" - but that doesn't make them flexible or employable unless they're willing to retrain - and these days that's "On your own dime"
A lot of the smaller ISPs contract via the larger suppliers wholseale divisions and those are being blocked too. Choose _very_ carefully and make sure you ask the right questions (eg, All ISPs using Atlantic Telecoms as their supplier go through Opal Telecom in the end (TalkTalk) and everything that's blocked for TalkTalk users is blocked for them too.
To add insult to injury, the same throttling mechanisms used against large ISP customers are applied to customers of the 3rd party ISPs _despite_ those ISps claiming they apply no filters or throttling (They don't - their suppliers do and often lie about doing it. I've measured the impact in a few cases)
Before you make that statement, you need to asses the manufacturing impact of the solar panels. Whilst they may not generate any CO2 after installation, there's a lot of nasty stuff involved before they get to your rooftop.
A number of supposedly "green" solutions are worse than the things they replace, so it's worth approaching them with a degree of cynicism (Eg, bio-ethanol often uses more fossil fuel in its production than the energy derived from the fuel as sold - and that's on top of the issue of damaging the "food pool")
Ditto "hybrid cars" - a lot of them involve so much extra manufacturing cost/CO2 generation that they're a net negative over their lifespan over a standard vehicle. (Bear in mind that for most cars around 50% of their lifetime CO2 generation occurs before the engine is switched on for the first time.)
I'm in no way associated with the crazy ideaological shit that happens stateside, but the issues aren't black and white. Much of the high tech is cool as hell. but not practical for mass production until the backend issues are properly sorted out. In the meantime the best way of reducing CO2 impact is to drive less, use less power, eat less luxury stuff (The CO2 associated with food transport and production is mind-boggling) and most importantly of all: Have fewer children.
"However, a war, where non-nuclear weapons are used, would create jobs, and eliminate overpopulation"
Statistically whenever any event has caused a significant reduction in human population. that population has recovered - and then some - within a couple of generations.
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Whether google owns Doublecklick or not, there's a special place in my adblock configuration for that company which they can disable only after they extract my computer from my cold dead hands.
I really wish they'd bought the company and then nuked it from orbit, like they did with a few other noxious evil outfits over the years.
"Google is good at scaling, and yes, many of the acquired products had to be rewritten to scale up."
That's not why google buys the companies. What's important is the IDEAS not the IMPLEMENTATION of the ideas.
Depends what you're using it for. I suspect that it or something like it will be ubiquitous within a decade.
The huffing and puffing about it at the moment has a lot of the same sound I used to hear about mobile phones in the 80s when I used to have to carry one for work reasonjs (They were heavy bag ones and weighed a ton).
It will become VERY interesting if google offers Glass on prescription lenses because demanding the removal of prescription glasses IS a civil liberties thing and has gotten business owners in extremely seriou trouble in the past.
Therte are a number of exceptions to that. You'd never be sued for refusing to pay if the meal was lousy. There are a number of laws covering this kind of thing but it's almost all based around what's offered being what shows up.
The only time I've seen someone asked to leave a restaurant, there wa sno question of asking him to pay up, they just wanted him out.
I suspect that it would be extremely difficult under contract law to expect payment if the meal wasn't allowed to be finished.
If he's ordered to leave before finishing then the restauranty would have a hard time forcing him to pay.
It'd be fun to have a flashmob of glassholes pull this one, but it might put some restaurants out of business.
"the liquidity is pathetic compared to the $15 billion capitalization"
This is terrible if you're a speculator and great for everyone else.
You can be as skeptocal as you like of "retraining", but the guy with 40 years VMS experience isn't a heck of a ot of use in a Unix shop until he has.
As for Flexibility: Remote working is simply another tool (and one which usually results in people working stupidly long hours), but if you're not close enough to actually put boots on the ground if needed, then you've thrown out a large chunk of necessary flexibility.
I say that as someone who HAS worked remotely. There have been a number of times in my experience where being able to be onsite for even an hour has saved WEEKS of dealing with problems remotely. That might not be the case in an ideal world but the race to pay as little as possible often results in situation where the people onsite are NOT COMPETENT to perform basic maintenance or be aware of the ramifications of such things as incoming power cleanliness, hardware specifications, need to maintain UPS batteries, etc etc (And will happily lie when queried).
Even such things as network wiring security and standards will, if not maintained to a high standard, trip you up remotely - I've encountered issues which turned out to be badly plugged RJ45s and cabling so badly waterfalled that peple were unplugging cables with no idea what was o nthe other end. Tha's not going into the issues of non-documented switches failing and being replaced with noone being aware of the VLAN structure on the old one - stuff that perhaps a contract programmer might not see, but which can end up being critical to his reputation (It's easiest to blame the guy who's not there, etc)
That is exactly the point I was trying to make - the only conspiracy involved is that of covering up the staggerig levels of incompetence beforehand.
Heads should have rolled. They won't because the people involved are "too powerful"
Those documents will remain secret at least until the culpable parties are safely dead and buried.
Lest anyone think this is only of "historical interest", one only has to look at more recent history to see that the process of covering up and making anything which would expose [incompetence OR non/malfeasance in office] "classified" has become even more entrenched in beureaucratic mindsets than it was 50 years ago.
$ host www.kleargear.com
wswww.kleargear.com is an alias for stores.yahoo.net.
stores.yahoo.net is an alias for html.store.yahoodns.net.
html.store.yahoodns.net has address 66.218.72.112
And the DNS is via Godaddy's cloaking service.
Is anyone in a good position to ask awkaward questions of either company?
It's entirely possible to use a custom connector which is a superset of micro/mini usb, or add one as well as the usb.
The only requirement is that such a plug can be used to provide power - and several low end makers take this quite literally.
"scope was not well zeroed in the first place"
How many scopes do you know that stay zeroed after being banged around - and bear in mind Oswald WAS a trained sharpshooter with a pretty good marksmanship record.
The ironic hting was, Kennedy wouldn't have been an overly remarkable president if he'd stayed alive. He's a modern example of the old adage that killing people makes them into martyrs.
"When there is incompetence at certain places along the line, you can chalk it up to incompetence. When there is incompetence at every step in the line, and in regard to the assassination of a President, it really starts to stretch credulity."
Really? Have you seen how many cockups it takes to cause a nuclear meltdown?
"You need to defend against every assassination threat. The assassins only need to succeed once"
Even if most people are competent, the pressure to cover for the incompetent one when the event is over, is overwhelming.
The _real_ JFK conspiracy is the one to cover up the catalog of incompetence which allowed the event to happen.
Far easier to alow stories about a second gunman to proliferate than to admit how many things they cocked up in a short period of time.
Think I'm kidding? The stock in trade of any government is "denial, diversion, delay and closing ranks" and we all seen it happen on multiple occasions.
if your network is used in an attack agianst me which costs money to defend against, I should have the ability to reclainm those costs - along with some penalties to make sure you don't just trreat it as a cost of doing business.
The single biggest problem on the Internet at the moment is that the large ISPs have vritually zero acountability to anyone about how they run their network when it's causing damage to those who aren't their own customers.
Spamhaus has managed to get some large networks disconnected for allowing sustained abuse, but there needs to be a much better way of applying bricks to the sides of the skulls of those who need it.
"The Basic Income guarantee is something getting more discussion in German-speaking Europe. Because it makes increasing sense in the 21st century in developed countries. "
It's also unsustainable political hot air emitted by people whose only purpose in life is to be re-elected. Take a good hard look at the economics of such plans and you'll realise they're impossible.
Europe and the USA have rapidly aging population and it doesn' thave the safety barriers that Japan had 20 years ago when it started to be in the same position.
Alvin Toffler postulated 40 years ago that in "the future" there would be technocrats who work a lot and get paid, along with others who don't work and get money anyway. He missed the point that when the people working get the shit taxed out of them to pay for those who don't work, they'll mostly decide it's easier to take their ball and go play somewhere else.
http://redpillreport.net/2012/07/24/the-little-red-hen-socialism-even-a-child-or-liberal-can-understand/
As a Gen-Xer, I take issue with that. GenY types have good reason to be resentful. I am because I realised back in the 1980s that i'd be lucky to be able to retire before age 75. They'll have it even worse than me.
The babyboomers (1946-1960) had everything handed to them on a plate, oncluding law changes which made the previous minimum retirement age, mandatory in a lot of cases, in order to create employment for younger people;
They squandered what they were given, on the impossible promise of retirement benefits any fool could see by the mid 1970s weere NOT economically feasible, and now they're seeking to pull up the ladder behind them so that younger people can't compete.
I've got news for you. When income tax for basic wage/salary burger flippers hits 60% simply to fund retirees, (it will, and soon), there will be a trainwreck.
Back to the subject at hand:
If you're 50 and you want to work, fine. I'd hire you if you're capable, same as I'd hire you if you're 20 and you're capable, but if you want to do remote stuff you're cutting down your horizons dramatically. It was hard enough a decade ago when I was doing it and despite all the hype, telecommuting is not a particularly productive work method except in a few linmited cases.
Go where the work is. Don't expect the work to come to you. If you can do some remote stuff that's nice but it's not a viable business model unless you're a well organised, well motivated hotshot who can handle the stress - and don't expect to get preferential pay rates when you're competing with 25year olds who are quite happy to put in long hours at shitty pay in the hope of getting decent experience for later on. Play to your strengths. Remote working is not one of them unless you happen to be Yoda.
As one guy said, there are a bunch of people who have decades for experience in "something" - but that doesn't make them flexible or employable unless they're willing to retrain - and these days that's "On your own dime"
Intrastructure is the real killer.
The largest market (urban dwellers) are either well-served by public transport or have no way of charging the things overnight.
This is especially true in european cities and I doubt that a network of curbside charging posts is practical due to vandalism issues.
"Plenty of really, really big acts got NOTHING. Not one cent."
99% of all acts end their careers in hock to the record company - and the bigger the act, the bigger the debt as a rule.
Michael Jackson being a case in point. He was in the hole to the tune of several hundred million.
His dying was the _only_ way for his estate to turn a profit, which some conspiracy theorists might like to latch on as the real reason he got ODed.
That's an interesting claim, given "plusnet" is a trading identity of BT - who are definitely hit.
A lot of the smaller ISPs contract via the larger suppliers wholseale divisions and those are being blocked too. Choose _very_ carefully and make sure you ask the right questions (eg, All ISPs using Atlantic Telecoms as their supplier go through Opal Telecom in the end (TalkTalk) and everything that's blocked for TalkTalk users is blocked for them too.
To add insult to injury, the same throttling mechanisms used against large ISP customers are applied to customers of the 3rd party ISPs _despite_ those ISps claiming they apply no filters or throttling (They don't - their suppliers do and often lie about doing it. I've measured the impact in a few cases)
Before you make that statement, you need to asses the manufacturing impact of the solar panels. Whilst they may not generate any CO2 after installation, there's a lot of nasty stuff involved before they get to your rooftop.
A number of supposedly "green" solutions are worse than the things they replace, so it's worth approaching them with a degree of cynicism (Eg, bio-ethanol often uses more fossil fuel in its production than the energy derived from the fuel as sold - and that's on top of the issue of damaging the "food pool")
Ditto "hybrid cars" - a lot of them involve so much extra manufacturing cost/CO2 generation that they're a net negative over their lifespan over a standard vehicle. (Bear in mind that for most cars around 50% of their lifetime CO2 generation occurs before the engine is switched on for the first time.)
I'm in no way associated with the crazy ideaological shit that happens stateside, but the issues aren't black and white. Much of the high tech is cool as hell. but not practical for mass production until the backend issues are properly sorted out. In the meantime the best way of reducing CO2 impact is to drive less, use less power, eat less luxury stuff (The CO2 associated with food transport and production is mind-boggling) and most importantly of all: Have fewer children.
There's an established precedent for all this - Compuserve vs Cyberpromo. Tresspass to Chattels. Wikimedia has the upper hand.
"However, a war, where non-nuclear weapons are used, would create jobs, and eliminate overpopulation"
Statistically whenever any event has caused a significant reduction in human population. that population has recovered - and then some - within a couple of generations.
Why would it be any different next time round?
"There's a ton of effective ways to keep cats out of your yard,"
If all you want to do is stop 'em crapping in your plants, chili flakes work wonders.
GSM and CDMA phones won't work if you're travelling over 200mph relative to the base station. AMPS didn't have that issue,