I dont know what are you forbidding in reality. Do you forbid them to buy multiple drinks? Go to the next coffee shop down the corner? Give them ration cards? The whole point of discussion and the spirit of the law does not make any sense.
I wonder what practical effects have the regulation. What prevents someone to buy 2, 5 or 10 drinks? What prevents starbucks to give a discount based on "n number" of drinks bought? Are you limiting them also to a drink per day? What prevents the client from hoping shop to shop? Ration tokens?
Only in the US? Canadians seems to also not get the message. I once changed to an English school next door to their department on another town just because of a darn loud-mouthed canadian lady. She was lousy as a person, and as a teacher.
And why should certain people need to meet people from "regular" people? Well, for me, and luckily over different periods of my life, I found people like me, talking about cars, the football, religion or TV/fucking idols does not cut it out.
If you are refusing projects to keep your day job, you are losing money on the long run. Even better you are able to command 100-400 per hour. I have seen "freelance" jobs in elance for sysadmin as "high" as you earn per hour in MacDonalds, and that is quite a joke.
Exactly. Most [incompetent] people are betting that the competitiveness of a country is based on having low salaries, call it modern slavery, to attract foreign investors. Or put it bluntly, the war in the middle class is raging on. Coincidentally or not, I have seen this week the first news China is starting to outsource USA employees...
Over the years I had like around 10 housekeepers/servents, and I would only trust again one lady of all of them. She was not the best worker, and not the brightest, but was reliable. Two of the servants I even let go in the first week. Either you are very lucky and found an exception, or you cannot leave them alone.
It depends in the culture, and how much people you have around. For instance, off the wee hours of the morning, where we have outsourced crews cleaning your office, I dont trust you, but during the rest of the day, I can pretty much forget my smartphone in my desk, that I am pretty sure it wont "walk away". We also can and are very at ease to put our phones and wallets on the table pretty anywhere we are having a meal, restaurants and coffee shops. I also worked 5 years in Africa, and there it is better to keep your wallet and phone on you, EVERYWHERE. And that includes home too, if you have servants. However there are some subtleties, for instance, everything on sight normally is not prone to disappear, but expect things that you havent used for a while (a nice jacket normally) or in your office drawers to walk away. Alas, the standard procedure to rob something on sight is to hide it first, and if you dont ask for it in a couple of weeks, it will be gone.
Well, they can hire you and you will work overtime for free. Between the work, coffee and donuts, they barely have time to file the reports, have day? You are assuming they just handle that case and nothing else.
And why nobody would notice, because you are one, and the comments would not change?;) I cant get tough I people think SSL is enough. I am using google two factor authentication, and even then who knows. Pity slashdot does not support it yet.
There are a lot of avenues to get your password. Your mother could be watching you type it, or that babe in Starbucks. Your Windows can be hijacked by a malware capturing passwords. The NSA can use their standard backdoor in Windows and probably OSX and get in. Your keyboard maybe compromised. They can film you while you type your password. Your employeer can be running a SSL middle in the man attack with their firewall just for the sake of security. You can answer to that fine emails about lost passwords, that really arent coming to the place that would be the proper one (dont laugh, some of our executive secretaries already fell for it...more than once). Your network can be compromised, for instance by a disgruntled employee or an hacked machine. Your DNS is poisoned... people always forget SSL is just a leaf on the forest.
Actually Debian forced restarts after the 3rd or 4th upgrade cycle due to update corrections due to SSL. Maybe a week or two after the original problem. Probably for a good reason...
Users problems or more probably passive-agressive resistance. People are not as dumb as they pretend to be. They quickly figure out if there are "problems", that maybe they will fall back to the older, simpler methods quickly. Or bluntly put, we will follow the new orders from above exactly as we were told.
Interesting choice of nick...I am (was?) an expert in Z80 and my final year project in Uni was writing the first Windows emulation for a 8-bit computer in 1995...
If you were paying the minimum attention to news you would know they licensed the instruction set, but developed a clean room implementation of all the hardware and microcode. Nevertheless, people always fixate on this stupid technical details, and not in debating the big picture, that is the idiocy we are used to in slashdot. And it is rather tiring.
Are they? 99.9999% of governments do not understand their infrastructure security model revolving about using foreign hardware and processors is not a very bright idea.
Why not pick up the Loongson project from the chinese? Although I agree the ARM codeset seems very viable in the near future, MIPS is quite well known and the project seems to be stalling...
The web? You surely jest. I used to buy 3 or 4 magazines per month back in the late 80s, until around 1993-1995 the quality and novelty had a substancial drop in quality and a quite substancial price increase. Forward more two or three years, and most of the lower tier magazines where recycled Internet news with more than a couple of months. If you want to sell something, you have to provide actual content and pay well to have bright people.
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I dont know what are you forbidding in reality. Do you forbid them to buy multiple drinks? Go to the next coffee shop down the corner? Give them ration cards? The whole point of discussion and the spirit of the law does not make any sense.
I wonder what practical effects have the regulation. What prevents someone to buy 2, 5 or 10 drinks? What prevents starbucks to give a discount based on "n number" of drinks bought? Are you limiting them also to a drink per day? What prevents the client from hoping shop to shop? Ration tokens?
My encryption key is "I wont say it".
Only in the US? Canadians seems to also not get the message. I once changed to an English school next door to their department on another town just because of a darn loud-mouthed canadian lady. She was lousy as a person, and as a teacher.
And why should certain people need to meet people from "regular" people? Well, for me, and luckily over different periods of my life, I found people like me, talking about cars, the football, religion or TV/fucking idols does not cut it out.
Indeed, indeed, nothing is black & white. There are too many variables at stake, and quality of life is not easy to come by.
If you are refusing projects to keep your day job, you are losing money on the long run. Even better you are able to command 100-400 per hour. I have seen "freelance" jobs in elance for sysadmin as "high" as you earn per hour in MacDonalds, and that is quite a joke.
Here we have the government in a twenty or more year program mandanting wages down quite overtly.
Exactly. Most [incompetent] people are betting that the competitiveness of a country is based on having low salaries, call it modern slavery, to attract foreign investors. Or put it bluntly, the war in the middle class is raging on. Coincidentally or not, I have seen this week the first news China is starting to outsource USA employees...
I am only reinforcing the majority of servants have to be properly supervised or things tend to "walk away". No need to get defensive.
Over the years I had like around 10 housekeepers/servents, and I would only trust again one lady of all of them. She was not the best worker, and not the brightest, but was reliable. Two of the servants I even let go in the first week. Either you are very lucky and found an exception, or you cannot leave them alone.
It depends in the culture, and how much people you have around. For instance, off the wee hours of the morning, where we have outsourced crews cleaning your office, I dont trust you, but during the rest of the day, I can pretty much forget my smartphone in my desk, that I am pretty sure it wont "walk away". We also can and are very at ease to put our phones and wallets on the table pretty anywhere we are having a meal, restaurants and coffee shops. I also worked 5 years in Africa, and there it is better to keep your wallet and phone on you, EVERYWHERE. And that includes home too, if you have servants. However there are some subtleties, for instance, everything on sight normally is not prone to disappear, but expect things that you havent used for a while (a nice jacket normally) or in your office drawers to walk away. Alas, the standard procedure to rob something on sight is to hide it first, and if you dont ask for it in a couple of weeks, it will be gone.
Hey, you only do the work of TWO people? Lucky you. I would keep quiet about that though...
damn automatic dictionary corrections...
Well, they can hire you and you will work overtime for free. Between the work, coffee and donuts, they barely have time to file the reports, have day? You are assuming they just handle that case and nothing else.
And why nobody would notice, because you are one, and the comments would not change? ;) I cant get tough I people think SSL is enough. I am using google two factor authentication, and even then who knows. Pity slashdot does not support it yet.
There are a lot of avenues to get your password. Your mother could be watching you type it, or that babe in Starbucks. Your Windows can be hijacked by a malware capturing passwords. The NSA can use their standard backdoor in Windows and probably OSX and get in. Your keyboard maybe compromised. They can film you while you type your password. Your employeer can be running a SSL middle in the man attack with their firewall just for the sake of security. You can answer to that fine emails about lost passwords, that really arent coming to the place that would be the proper one (dont laugh, some of our executive secretaries already fell for it...more than once). Your network can be compromised, for instance by a disgruntled employee or an hacked machine. Your DNS is poisoned... people always forget SSL is just a leaf on the forest.
Actually Debian forced restarts after the 3rd or 4th upgrade cycle due to update corrections due to SSL. Maybe a week or two after the original problem. Probably for a good reason...
Users problems or more probably passive-agressive resistance. People are not as dumb as they pretend to be. They quickly figure out if there are "problems", that maybe they will fall back to the older, simpler methods quickly. Or bluntly put, we will follow the new orders from above exactly as we were told.
Yep, for sure, google was founded in bangalore and linus is from New Delhi.
Interesting choice of nick...I am (was?) an expert in Z80 and my final year project in Uni was writing the first Windows emulation for a 8-bit computer in 1995...
If you were paying the minimum attention to news you would know they licensed the instruction set, but developed a clean room implementation of all the hardware and microcode. Nevertheless, people always fixate on this stupid technical details, and not in debating the big picture, that is the idiocy we are used to in slashdot. And it is rather tiring.
Are they? 99.9999% of governments do not understand their infrastructure security model revolving about using foreign hardware and processors is not a very bright idea.
Why not pick up the Loongson project from the chinese? Although I agree the ARM codeset seems very viable in the near future, MIPS is quite well known and the project seems to be stalling...
Thanks for the link. I will have a look at it, and also to the technical aspects. Have a nice weekend.
The web? You surely jest. I used to buy 3 or 4 magazines per month back in the late 80s, until around 1993-1995 the quality and novelty had a substancial drop in quality and a quite substancial price increase. Forward more two or three years, and most of the lower tier magazines where recycled Internet news with more than a couple of months. If you want to sell something, you have to provide actual content and pay well to have bright people.