Put quotations around "Free-Market Capitalism" and it might start making sense. I wasn't saying Capitalism and Corporatism is the same thing. I was responding to Roman Mir who is actually a Corporatist who likes to fancy himself as a Libertarian.
Asides from the point that Marxists ideals have been adopted in other forms (i.e. Libertarianism), your first sentence is completely off-mark. I don't think you are doing this intentionally but are simply unaware.
- Libertarians have no use for Marxism, not even the abolishment of the state itself is on the Libertarian agenda, so you are the one off the mark.
You are quite wrong on that. Many currents of Libertarianism borrows from the anti-authoritarian attributes of Marxism.
The real narrative today is this: Left-leaning policies overstate the importance of human freedom while free-market capitalism undermines it.
- 180 degree wrong. Modern idea of a 'left-leaning' is the exact opposite of human freedom, it is based on discrimination and theft of private property and growth of government power based on that discrimination and theft.
Free market capitalism is reliance on private property ownership and rule of law, this requires individual freedoms by definition.
Wrong and wrong. "Libertarian socialists believe in converting present-day private productive property into common or public goods, while retaining respect for personal property." You can summarize it by, "If you don't use it, you don't own it." By many, Free-Market Capitalism (i.e. "Right-Liberterianism") is not considered a facet of Libertarianism because it creates an owning class and economic elite which erects another power source to be abused. Since the adoption of Free-Market Capitalism in the U.S.A., corporations have become more powerful than the state; trumping all human rights and freedoms.
As Noam Chomsky put it, a consistent libertarian "must oppose private ownership of the means of production and wage slavery, which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer." By this definition, Free-Market Capitalism is not Libertarianism.
Ask any scientist working for a subsidiary for a major corp. Employees and directors are the only ones who create productivity. Even if the investors and owners have made the initial investment, they are not the ones who are "improving" or continue to improve productivity. All they do is fund.
- clearly you don't understand that those people who fund are the ones ultimately responsible for increase in overall productivity of the company.
If the company is not being productive, it should be liquidated, otherwise the capital is not used efficiently, it's not making a return on the investment and it should be dismantled, pieces should be sold to people who know how to use them in a more efficient manner.
Employees are cogs in the machine, the machine itself is the labour saving device that makes the investor productive.
So what you are favoring is an economic elite that controls (i.e. "steals") all production at the expense of human freedoms and individual labors?
The solution proposed is a direct democracy that restores an individual's freedom and right to chose, participate, and create in community-driven enterprise. Incidentally, it is the only successful model of government.
- direct democracy restores freedom? No it does not, it subjugates some minority to the wishes of a majority, it destroys capitalism as a principle, we can observe this in action in places where it is in fact practised, like California. I would not call that a 'successful model of government'.
California is not an example of left-libertarianism and direct democracy.
Whenever Marxists talk about economy they like to overstate the importance of labour and understate the importance of capital. They are of-course completely wrong, there is always a cost associated with labour and a cost associated with capital, the more labour costs the more it makes sense to use capital to decrease cost of labour and that's why we get labour saving devices.
Asides from the point that Marxists ideals have been adopted in other forms (i.e. Libertarianism), your first sentence is completely off-mark. I don't think you are doing this intentionally but are simply unaware.
The real narrative today is this: Left-leaning policies overstate the importance of human freedom while free-market capitalism undermines it.
It's interesting to hear people talk about "productivity of the economy going up while employees who grow the productivity aren't ripping the reward, instead the owners do". Well excuse me, the owners created the productivity, not the employees.
Employees are not adding to productivity, it is the owners, the investors, the capitalists that are improving their productivity. In case of the noodle restaurants the productivity of the owner (investors) of the restaurant is going up, he can serve more noodles with fewer labourers doing manual work, but it costs him the original investment into the labour saving device - the robot.
Ask any scientist working for a subsidiary for a major corp. Employees and directors are the only ones who create productivity. Even if the investors and owners have made the initial investment, they are not the ones who are "improving" or continue to improve productivity. All they do is fund.
You also paint the narrative as if it's Free-Market Capitalism vs. Government Intervention/Regulation. Maybe for you it is, but that's not what modern left-leaning policies advocate. Those are both sources of power to be abused. The solution proposed is a direct democracy that restores an individual's freedom and right to chose, participate, and create in community-driven enterprise. Incidentally, it is the only successful model of government.
Sure, they'll bring jobs. They KILL far more jobs by killing off local infrastructure.
I certainly don't want to settle in a township dependent upon foreign imports. Not simply for the lack of culture, but lack of local infrastructure. As a township, you've already dug your grave.
To correct and expound on GP's post, traditional Left and Right can both be Anarchy or Authoritarian. All political parties in the U.S. swing towards being authoritarian by being far right in terms of Economics trumping Individualistic Freedoms.
The Libertarian movement in the U.S. is also far right and is a bastardization of Libertarian philosophies, so much so that they are not even considered Libertarian as their policies on free enterprise is counter to the core belief of Individual Freedom. "True" Libertarianism, what is now referred to as Left-Libertarianism, Libertarian Socialism, etc. is anti-corporatism because it is against Individualistic Anarchy. Left-Libertarianist are ignorantly seen as socialists, however, like their Right counterparts, they also believe in limited government (hence, they are not socialists).
Left-Libertarianism is also the only successful form of government.
"do you really trust sending legal documents and contracts via email?"
Better than snail mail.
How is email better? Unless you're encrypting, your sensitive documents can and eventually will be intercepted. It's also a great way of opening yourself up to identity theft.
Certified mail is your best bet and is often mandatory for legal documents. I certainly wouldn't do business with a company who sent or requested sensitive information via unencrypted email; it means they have no security policy in place. Even as a consumer, I receive requests for sensitive information (i.e. passport, bank accounts) to verify my identity via email. I kindly deny for said reasons and then report them.
"Can you send checks via email?"
Yes. Oh, I don't live in the US though. You guys still can't do this?
No, we can't do that. How does that work exactly? Or are you talking about initiating bank transfers online?
On a side note, after the budget cuts to USPS, it now takes me three days just to receive local inner-city mail. USPS was one of Uncle Sam's greatest accomplishments. It's sad to see many take it for granted. Having a system that reliably delivers a package to the remotest of regions is nothing short of a miracle.
That... is really not true. A pretty decent chunk of business matters get handled via snail mail (not all or even most by any means, but enough to make it non-negligible). And also, people do still send personal mail (letters and such), as not everyone has internet nor wants to. Call them foolish if you want, but they are still using the service for non-spam reasons.
It's entirely untrue. Email is the only negligible form of communication here; do you really trust sending legal documents and contracts via email? Can you send checks via email? The list goes on. All sensitive information is sent via snail mail. Further USPS cutbacks will only continue to stifle the economy.
Yes, because it's a false generalization. It's not like we are all C&Ping from hotscripts.com. People who do so aren't developers.
PHP is a flexible and powerful language. Not to mention it's by far the most popular scripting language. It's also easy to learn, hence it can easily be abused and/or misused. Something I also see a lot of in JavaScript.
Then used that breach to hack everything else. Since I could not determine what had been hacked/changed on the church blog, (user accounts wee created that I did not create!) I wiped it, deleted all the databases and started from scratch. So it isn't just crappy blogs - although if you happen to be a godless nerd you may think my church blog is crappy anyway....
Exactly. Sounds like a 14-year-old on a power trip. No worries, there will be a few companies that may hire him as a white hat. That is, if he's smart enough to evade the law long enough.
Someone more informed can correct me, but that to me sounds like you having said to never use root. To not use admin as a general rule sounds like cutting off the nose to spite the face. Not to mention that it's impractical.
If you have to come to the decision in excluding admin, then you probably have more issues and security policies that you need to focus on.
I saw this same question asked further up the comment line, and I think it's the key. They aren't targeting wordpress blogs.
What I think you are referring to is the unique authentication keys and salts. I have had to (reluctantly) fix a client's hacked site because they had set it up without them.
If there's any newbies here, make sure you replace (WP provides a random generator) the definitions below in wp-config.php:
/**#@+
* Authentication Unique Keys and Salts.
*
* Change these to different unique phrases!
* You can generate these using the {@link https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/ WordPress.org secret-key service}
* You can change these at any point in time to invalidate all existing cookies. This will force all users to have to log in again.
*
* @since 2.6.0
*/
define('AUTH_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('NONCE_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('AUTH_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('LOGGED_IN_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('NONCE_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here');
I know! We'll write everything in-house instead! Once I've got my custom language compiling, I'll start work on the relational database engine. We should have the site finished some time in 2030.
You do realize we are talking about a Wordpress widget?
It's like those idiots who think vinyl is better than CD.
Why'd you have to go and troll? Vinyl is better, especially if it hasn't been transferred to digital. Go and listen to the original vinyl of Little Walter's Blue and Lonesome, Leonard Cohen's Songs of Love and Hate, or Elvis Presley's The Brightest Star on Sunset Boulevard. Get back to us.
Every musician will tell you vinyl sounds better. They must all be idiots. Think what you want, but realize you're seen as the arrogant prick who is listening to shit.
"We trusted the wrong people with our plugin code and take full responsibility. We are a marketing company at heart and are not actually developers, so in order to provide major updates and improvements, we had to seek outside help."
The first headline on their website states, "Blink Web Effects creates innovative web applications and tools - totally free and open source." If they're not developers, why are they a company to begin with? It is really tiresome to see fucking marketing hacks thinking they are enlightened and entitled while they pay some 3rd world country developer to build their company.
And I prefer to hire people who are objective, efficient, and value their work. See, I can troll too.
No, Macs are not 3x the money. This claim has always been unsupported. I was shopping for a DELL recently. The only one I could find that compared to my MacBook Air's performance and price point, weighed twice as much, had less battery life, slower video card, and was a bulky plastic piece of shit.
I don't know what line of work you're in what software you require. As a web developer, there is very little software for Windows or Linux that helps me streamline my work. Hell, there's not even a single decent editor available for Windows.
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Sorry, wrong thread.
This is sort of "damned if you do, damned if you don't."
Are not some young, single, childless males being responsible by planning their careers and family life?
Put quotations around "Free-Market Capitalism" and it might start making sense. I wasn't saying Capitalism and Corporatism is the same thing. I was responding to Roman Mir who is actually a Corporatist who likes to fancy himself as a Libertarian.
Asides from the point that Marxists ideals have been adopted in other forms (i.e. Libertarianism), your first sentence is completely off-mark. I don't think you are doing this intentionally but are simply unaware.
- Libertarians have no use for Marxism, not even the abolishment of the state itself is on the Libertarian agenda, so you are the one off the mark.
You are quite wrong on that. Many currents of Libertarianism borrows from the anti-authoritarian attributes of Marxism.
The real narrative today is this: Left-leaning policies overstate the importance of human freedom while free-market capitalism undermines it.
- 180 degree wrong. Modern idea of a 'left-leaning' is the exact opposite of human freedom, it is based on discrimination and theft of private property and growth of government power based on that discrimination and theft.
Free market capitalism is reliance on private property ownership and rule of law, this requires individual freedoms by definition.
Wrong and wrong. "Libertarian socialists believe in converting present-day private productive property into common or public goods, while retaining respect for personal property." You can summarize it by, "If you don't use it, you don't own it." By many, Free-Market Capitalism (i.e. "Right-Liberterianism") is not considered a facet of Libertarianism because it creates an owning class and economic elite which erects another power source to be abused. Since the adoption of Free-Market Capitalism in the U.S.A., corporations have become more powerful than the state; trumping all human rights and freedoms.
As Noam Chomsky put it, a consistent libertarian "must oppose private ownership of the means of production and wage slavery, which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer." By this definition, Free-Market Capitalism is not Libertarianism.
Ask any scientist working for a subsidiary for a major corp. Employees and directors are the only ones who create productivity. Even if the investors and owners have made the initial investment, they are not the ones who are "improving" or continue to improve productivity. All they do is fund.
- clearly you don't understand that those people who fund are the ones ultimately responsible for increase in overall productivity of the company.
If the company is not being productive, it should be liquidated, otherwise the capital is not used efficiently, it's not making a return on the investment and it should be dismantled, pieces should be sold to people who know how to use them in a more efficient manner.
Employees are cogs in the machine, the machine itself is the labour saving device that makes the investor productive.
So what you are favoring is an economic elite that controls (i.e. "steals") all production at the expense of human freedoms and individual labors?
The solution proposed is a direct democracy that restores an individual's freedom and right to chose, participate, and create in community-driven enterprise. Incidentally, it is the only successful model of government.
- direct democracy restores freedom? No it does not, it subjugates some minority to the wishes of a majority, it destroys capitalism as a principle, we can observe this in action in places where it is in fact practised, like California. I would not call that a 'successful model of government'.
California is not an example of left-libertarianism and direct democracy.
Asides from the point that Marxists ideals have been adopted in other forms (i.e. Libertarianism), your first sentence is completely off-mark. I don't think you are doing this intentionally but are simply unaware.
The real narrative today is this: Left-leaning policies overstate the importance of human freedom while free-market capitalism undermines it.
Ask any scientist working for a subsidiary for a major corp. Employees and directors are the only ones who create productivity. Even if the investors and owners have made the initial investment, they are not the ones who are "improving" or continue to improve productivity. All they do is fund.
You also paint the narrative as if it's Free-Market Capitalism vs. Government Intervention/Regulation. Maybe for you it is, but that's not what modern left-leaning policies advocate. Those are both sources of power to be abused. The solution proposed is a direct democracy that restores an individual's freedom and right to chose, participate, and create in community-driven enterprise. Incidentally, it is the only successful model of government.
Sure, they'll bring jobs. They KILL far more jobs by killing off local infrastructure.
I certainly don't want to settle in a township dependent upon foreign imports. Not simply for the lack of culture, but lack of local infrastructure. As a township, you've already dug your grave.
To correct and expound on GP's post, traditional Left and Right can both be Anarchy or Authoritarian. All political parties in the U.S. swing towards being authoritarian by being far right in terms of Economics trumping Individualistic Freedoms.
The Libertarian movement in the U.S. is also far right and is a bastardization of Libertarian philosophies, so much so that they are not even considered Libertarian as their policies on free enterprise is counter to the core belief of Individual Freedom. "True" Libertarianism, what is now referred to as Left-Libertarianism, Libertarian Socialism, etc. is anti-corporatism because it is against Individualistic Anarchy. Left-Libertarianist are ignorantly seen as socialists, however, like their Right counterparts, they also believe in limited government (hence, they are not socialists).
Left-Libertarianism is also the only successful form of government.
Sounds like something a 14-year-old would say.
"do you really trust sending legal documents and contracts via email?"
Better than snail mail.
How is email better? Unless you're encrypting, your sensitive documents can and eventually will be intercepted. It's also a great way of opening yourself up to identity theft.
Certified mail is your best bet and is often mandatory for legal documents. I certainly wouldn't do business with a company who sent or requested sensitive information via unencrypted email; it means they have no security policy in place. Even as a consumer, I receive requests for sensitive information (i.e. passport, bank accounts) to verify my identity via email. I kindly deny for said reasons and then report them.
"Can you send checks via email?"
Yes. Oh, I don't live in the US though. You guys still can't do this?
No, we can't do that. How does that work exactly? Or are you talking about initiating bank transfers online?
On a side note, after the budget cuts to USPS, it now takes me three days just to receive local inner-city mail. USPS was one of Uncle Sam's greatest accomplishments. It's sad to see many take it for granted. Having a system that reliably delivers a package to the remotest of regions is nothing short of a miracle.
It's entirely untrue. Email is the only negligible form of communication here; do you really trust sending legal documents and contracts via email? Can you send checks via email? The list goes on. All sensitive information is sent via snail mail. Further USPS cutbacks will only continue to stifle the economy.
here, here!
Yes, because it's a false generalization. It's not like we are all C&Ping from hotscripts.com. People who do so aren't developers.
PHP is a flexible and powerful language. Not to mention it's by far the most popular scripting language. It's also easy to learn, hence it can easily be abused and/or misused. Something I also see a lot of in JavaScript.
So, yes, GP is a troll.
Exactly. Sounds like a 14-year-old on a power trip. No worries, there will be a few companies that may hire him as a white hat. That is, if he's smart enough to evade the law long enough.
Someone more informed can correct me, but that to me sounds like you having said to never use root. To not use admin as a general rule sounds like cutting off the nose to spite the face. Not to mention that it's impractical.
If you have to come to the decision in excluding admin, then you probably have more issues and security policies that you need to focus on.
What I think you are referring to is the unique authentication keys and salts. I have had to (reluctantly) fix a client's hacked site because they had set it up without them.
If there's any newbies here, make sure you replace (WP provides a random generator) the definitions below in wp-config.php:
*
* Change these to different unique phrases!
* You can generate these using the {@link https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/ WordPress.org secret-key service}
* You can change these at any point in time to invalidate all existing cookies. This will force all users to have to log in again.
*
* @since 2.6.0
*/
define('AUTH_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('NONCE_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('AUTH_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('LOGGED_IN_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('NONCE_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here');
It can easily be an arbitrary number under 50 and it would still prevent a brute force attack.
This. 100x this. It's the easiest way to block a brute force attack.
.NET, of course.
On a serious note, I would recommend looking into heroku. Not excluding all the great input already posted in this thread.
Cool. Sorry I missed that. I shouldn't've presumed his comment was in direct response to TFS.
And there's much more interesting things you can do with a vacuum. Hm.
and in the off chance they do respond, i always have to tell them it will take me a week to decode their email in pine.
You do realize we are talking about a Wordpress widget?
Why'd you have to go and troll? Vinyl is better, especially if it hasn't been transferred to digital. Go and listen to the original vinyl of Little Walter's Blue and Lonesome, Leonard Cohen's Songs of Love and Hate, or Elvis Presley's The Brightest Star on Sunset Boulevard. Get back to us.
Every musician will tell you vinyl sounds better. They must all be idiots. Think what you want, but realize you're seen as the arrogant prick who is listening to shit.
"We trusted the wrong people with our plugin code and take full responsibility. We are a marketing company at heart and are not actually developers, so in order to provide major updates and improvements, we had to seek outside help."
The first headline on their website states, "Blink Web Effects creates innovative web applications and tools - totally free and open source." If they're not developers, why are they a company to begin with? It is really tiresome to see fucking marketing hacks thinking they are enlightened and entitled while they pay some 3rd world country developer to build their company.
This is what they deserve. Good riddance.
And I prefer to hire people who are objective, efficient, and value their work. See, I can troll too.
No, Macs are not 3x the money. This claim has always been unsupported. I was shopping for a DELL recently. The only one I could find that compared to my MacBook Air's performance and price point, weighed twice as much, had less battery life, slower video card, and was a bulky plastic piece of shit.
I don't know what line of work you're in what software you require. As a web developer, there is very little software for Windows or Linux that helps me streamline my work. Hell, there's not even a single decent editor available for Windows.