The issue I think with crowdsourcing where the contributors were investors is that it complicates everything. It isn't easy to legally sell investments in privately held companies to those who aren't "accredited investors". http://www.sec.gov/answers/acc...
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I don't really buy it as a current concern. We have structural unemployment problems now, but but robots are far from the issue. Robots do many jobs, but so do people. In the U.S. we may have too much work taking place overseas. I worry what happens when a countries chief export becomes iPhone apps. Much of our economic output is built on fluff. The whole idea that there is validity to the proposed high tech welfare state is maddening. If a person doesn't contribute and do meaningful productive work, then why on earth would those who are producing feed and house masses of freeloaders? We need a better plan.
When millions of minimally engineered consumer devices meet big data you get the internet of things. This is all just a marketing wet dream. When your fridge knows your out of milk and your thermostat knows when you are coming home and your TV knows what you like to watch then something really important happens, which is that those devices can tell the marketing people. Never mind that these devices have no business communicating on the internet or leaking data to third parties. There is a strong and valid case for many devices to be IP enabled in a secure way with controlled access, but the haphazard insecure marketing driven approach to the internet of things is garbage. It's internet pollution.
No IT union. Please for the love of god don't let unions fuck up IT. Unions create a bad working relationship between labor and management and they introduce inefficiency. The best thing we have going in Silicon Valley is keeping the unions out. We could do things like organize politically to make our voices heard on matters of policy, but unions will kill the industry.
The results depend more on the kid than the other circumstances. I gave a desktop and monitor to a friend's son along with some books (Norton's Inside the PC, Python for Kids, Linux, etc..). It dual boots Ubuntu and Centos. If the kid chooses to make something of it he has the tools, with or without the internet. In the developed world almost anyone can go to a library and get internet access. Adults think kids need to know how to "use" computers, but it's the kids that know how computers work and how to piece the logic together that will have a different future.
The post sounds to me like it is asking about host based firewall on the server. If you have a firewall on the internet connection then not running firewalls on the hosts themselves is exceedingly common. Historically the hard crunchy outside and soft chewy center model is all anyone ever expected. Now it is considered more important to have additional security in the interior. If all it takes to completely compromise internal security is for one user to wander in with an infected laptop, that isn't good. The need for, benefits of and headaches attached to host based firewalls on servers vary depending on the environment. It isn't something I insist upon.
While I'm happy to push companies to prefer local talent over H-1Bs, there is no civil rights issue in high tech. Tech companies are happy to hire any candidate with the skills appropriate for the job. The public education system is certainly failing our youth and junior colleges need to expand and modernize tech programs, those are places to focus on expanding access not just for minorities, but for everyone. Considering the bad PR they get if diversity percentages are a little off, believe me companies are not avoiding minority hires.
As per the wisdom of SouthPark, "Jesse Jackson is not the emperor of black people" - Token Black
I'll believe they are even remotely serious when some of the other garbage legislation gets repealed. We can go back to the days before 9/11 when we actually had some respect for rights freedoms and American values.
Repeal these and pass the USA Freedom act:
FISA Amendments Act of 2008
USA Patriot Act
They can hide all the reports they want. Obviously drones used improperly can completely destroy privacy. It's going to be very hard to draw the line. I just hope our country has enough sense to steadfastly oppose any use of drones for surveillance of people on U.S. soil.
To me it seems strange to focus on search providers. Search indexes content and metadata. If the content doesn't exist it isn't indexed. Shouldn't the site offing the content be the one responsible not the search provider pointing to it?
We certainly don't know how to approach a crisis that isn't immediate and dramatic. I wish that instead of messaging like asking for voluntary %20 reduction they could have said that is a serious problem and everyone should use as little as possible. There's no need for fear and emotional overreaction, but there isn't much harm in being overly cautious on consumption.
This case aside, it's probably bad form to post info about airport operations in real time. Leaking crew names and current locations could compromise security.
California Gov Brown Urges a %20 voluntary reduction in usage.
The media coverage has been moderate. In a world where something as mundane as a celebrity tweet is news I have to wonder if this is being downplayed to avoid panic? Is there some broad based assumption that somehow next year or the year after is going to be different? I'm concerned that if the next three years are like this one it could be a serious problem to say the least.
+1 Brawndo has electrolytes.
Published on Monday, December 09, 2013 www.comcast6.net
"Comcast's IPv6 deployment continues to expand, over 25% of our customers are actively provisioned with native dual stack broadband! The following areas of the Comcast broadband footprint are now fully IPv6 enabled - Colorado, New Mexico, Minnesota, Kansas, Missouri, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Houston."
How do you [Slashdot users] see IPv6 transition actually happening?
Will each internet user have dual stack?
IPv6 is much more complex, how will companies support users who barely understand IP addressing when IPv6 is going to seem like a long string of meaningless characters?
Do you see something like a dynamic IPv6 to IPv4 DNS/NAT translator to hide IPv6 complexity from the user a viable solution?
I'm neither surprised, nor disappointed by the response from Dropbox. It's frightening how much blind trust I'm seeing businesses place in these cloud storage platforms.
I worked for a client that had us posting customer configuration files with clear text passwords on these services. I can only imagine the level of risk others are taking on.
This is all uncharted territory and with services being so cheap and easy, it's guaranteed that users, even business users who should know better will take huge risks they don't bother to evaluate.
You can outsource the activity of file storage, but when you delegate responsibility you are still accountable for any related failure, ethically if not legally.
I use I.E. for one reason these days. Every company I end up working for has some internal business application that only gets tested and supported on I.E. and this is particularly the case after I lock down Firefox for actual web browsing. These kind of internal business applications often fail with even minimal security restrictions.
I hold out little hope that apps designed to be run in controlled environments will ever work with a decently locked down browser. The issue is that the most vulnerable business users will take their corporate issued laptop with I.E. and default settings and use that as if it's sane to use that configuration on the internet.
Unfortunately, parents and educators think pointing a clicking around an iPad is the same as giving students a foundation in technology. I'd like to see a vast world of resources available to teachers to stream educational content. Kids having access to the internet in the classroom is not going to provide the benefits that are assumed.
Agreed impossible to determine. MS is certainly bloated some for good reason like having defined processes. The question of staffing can only be approached after figuring out projects and business segments where they have no business even being involved should be eliminated completely.
It's OK to dramatically shrink a business to focus on proven profit driven priorities and realistic strategic growth segments. They can't chase mobile/cloud initiatives to compete at any cost. MS doesn't have fans so making assumptions about adoption of services is foolish.
When Google started, we trusted the company because they didn't have adds on the main search page. We supported them because they were the underdog and Yahoo was too commercialized. I believe Larry Page had good intentions. Then the inevitable need to drive revenue comes to the forefront and targeted advertising takes center stage. The goldmine of user information is harvested. Larry Page, I believe does not see the evil. The power that comes from from mass information collection will always be misused. Larry Page, maybe you actually want to save lives by mining health data, but truly those with a pure profit motive will misuse the information to the detriment of us all. In Google you helped create a monster. Now do the right thing and keep the monster out of our personal lives.
Criminalizing the collection of the data isn't going to happen. It should happen, but the political will isn't even close to being there. The supreme court ruling in the Smith case set a precedent about protection of information shared with a third party. (Your bank transactions, your credit card transactions, your Facebook account, your phone calls metadata) Many states have their own more restrictive laws, but at the federal level you have almost no protection of anything shared with a third party. We need to redefine these relationships, redefine what we consider a reasonable expectation of privacy, redefine who can share, sell and collect personal information. We would need to define a persons accounts and activities as being private as extension of ones self. We say "my bank account", "my credit card", "my email", we as Americans do not think of these accounts or our lawful activities in those accounts to be public.
It should be a crime to purposefully disclose information about customers when the information disclosure is not a functional requirement of the service provided.
I hope all you Big Data marketing fucks die of ass-cancer.
I've been working in high tech for 15 years and from what I see there is virtually no discrimination.
Nobody cares about race or gender. Sure there are some jobs naturally draw more men due the physical demands, which sometimes discourages women from the entry level jobs (cabling, rack-and-stack, desktop support) that can lead to more advanced IT work. That aside when I look around I see plenty of women in engineering.
As for racial minorities, it's certainly about participation rates and not hiring practices. Schools are generally bad at exposing students to technical skills and opportunities. If anyone wants to be an engineer, the best thing is you don't need anyone's permission. If you develop the skills and seek the education the opportunity is there. The hard part is that no one is going to tell you how to get there. You have to self-motivate, you have to figure it out for yourself. You have to try things and find the specific skill set that you are suited to master among the skill sets that are in demand in the market.
There are complex social issues that go into the participation rates only some of which society is likely to change. We must also accept that free will is always going to create statistical anomalies. The big name high tech firms are like the finish line of starting a tech career, they are not the gatekeepers of who starts or finishes the race.
Slashdot Mirror
They will succeed in reducing California emissions. It's easy to do when you drive and real industry out. :)
The issue I think with crowdsourcing where the contributors were investors is that it complicates everything. It isn't easy to legally sell investments in privately held companies to those who aren't "accredited investors". http://www.sec.gov/answers/acc... I
I don't really buy it as a current concern. We have structural unemployment problems now, but but robots are far from the issue. Robots do many jobs, but so do people. In the U.S. we may have too much work taking place overseas. I worry what happens when a countries chief export becomes iPhone apps. Much of our economic output is built on fluff. The whole idea that there is validity to the proposed high tech welfare state is maddening. If a person doesn't contribute and do meaningful productive work, then why on earth would those who are producing feed and house masses of freeloaders? We need a better plan.
When millions of minimally engineered consumer devices meet big data you get the internet of things. This is all just a marketing wet dream. When your fridge knows your out of milk and your thermostat knows when you are coming home and your TV knows what you like to watch then something really important happens, which is that those devices can tell the marketing people. Never mind that these devices have no business communicating on the internet or leaking data to third parties. There is a strong and valid case for many devices to be IP enabled in a secure way with controlled access, but the haphazard insecure marketing driven approach to the internet of things is garbage. It's internet pollution.
No IT union. Please for the love of god don't let unions fuck up IT. Unions create a bad working relationship between labor and management and they introduce inefficiency. The best thing we have going in Silicon Valley is keeping the unions out. We could do things like organize politically to make our voices heard on matters of policy, but unions will kill the industry.
The results depend more on the kid than the other circumstances. I gave a desktop and monitor to a friend's son along with some books (Norton's Inside the PC, Python for Kids, Linux, etc..). It dual boots Ubuntu and Centos. If the kid chooses to make something of it he has the tools, with or without the internet. In the developed world almost anyone can go to a library and get internet access. Adults think kids need to know how to "use" computers, but it's the kids that know how computers work and how to piece the logic together that will have a different future.
The post sounds to me like it is asking about host based firewall on the server. If you have a firewall on the internet connection then not running firewalls on the hosts themselves is exceedingly common. Historically the hard crunchy outside and soft chewy center model is all anyone ever expected. Now it is considered more important to have additional security in the interior. If all it takes to completely compromise internal security is for one user to wander in with an infected laptop, that isn't good. The need for, benefits of and headaches attached to host based firewalls on servers vary depending on the environment. It isn't something I insist upon.
While I'm happy to push companies to prefer local talent over H-1Bs, there is no civil rights issue in high tech. Tech companies are happy to hire any candidate with the skills appropriate for the job. The public education system is certainly failing our youth and junior colleges need to expand and modernize tech programs, those are places to focus on expanding access not just for minorities, but for everyone. Considering the bad PR they get if diversity percentages are a little off, believe me companies are not avoiding minority hires. As per the wisdom of SouthPark, "Jesse Jackson is not the emperor of black people" - Token Black
EFF initial analysis : https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...
I'll believe they are even remotely serious when some of the other garbage legislation gets repealed. We can go back to the days before 9/11 when we actually had some respect for rights freedoms and American values. Repeal these and pass the USA Freedom act: FISA Amendments Act of 2008 USA Patriot Act
They can hide all the reports they want. Obviously drones used improperly can completely destroy privacy. It's going to be very hard to draw the line. I just hope our country has enough sense to steadfastly oppose any use of drones for surveillance of people on U.S. soil.
To me it seems strange to focus on search providers. Search indexes content and metadata. If the content doesn't exist it isn't indexed. Shouldn't the site offing the content be the one responsible not the search provider pointing to it?
We certainly don't know how to approach a crisis that isn't immediate and dramatic. I wish that instead of messaging like asking for voluntary %20 reduction they could have said that is a serious problem and everyone should use as little as possible. There's no need for fear and emotional overreaction, but there isn't much harm in being overly cautious on consumption.
This case aside, it's probably bad form to post info about airport operations in real time. Leaking crew names and current locations could compromise security.
Conversation in golf dimple-car:
G1: Hey Bob, weren't you supposed to turn left?
G2: Yeah, but this car has a wicked slice.
California Gov Brown Urges a %20 voluntary reduction in usage. The media coverage has been moderate. In a world where something as mundane as a celebrity tweet is news I have to wonder if this is being downplayed to avoid panic? Is there some broad based assumption that somehow next year or the year after is going to be different? I'm concerned that if the next three years are like this one it could be a serious problem to say the least. +1 Brawndo has electrolytes.
Published on Monday, December 09, 2013 www.comcast6.net
"Comcast's IPv6 deployment continues to expand, over 25% of our customers are actively provisioned with native dual stack broadband! The following areas of the Comcast broadband footprint are now fully IPv6 enabled - Colorado, New Mexico, Minnesota, Kansas, Missouri, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Houston."
How do you [Slashdot users] see IPv6 transition actually happening?
Will each internet user have dual stack?
IPv6 is much more complex, how will companies support users who barely understand IP addressing when IPv6 is going to seem like a long string of meaningless characters?
Do you see something like a dynamic IPv6 to IPv4 DNS/NAT translator to hide IPv6 complexity from the user a viable solution?
I'm neither surprised, nor disappointed by the response from Dropbox. It's frightening how much blind trust I'm seeing businesses place in these cloud storage platforms. I worked for a client that had us posting customer configuration files with clear text passwords on these services. I can only imagine the level of risk others are taking on. This is all uncharted territory and with services being so cheap and easy, it's guaranteed that users, even business users who should know better will take huge risks they don't bother to evaluate. You can outsource the activity of file storage, but when you delegate responsibility you are still accountable for any related failure, ethically if not legally.
I use I.E. for one reason these days. Every company I end up working for has some internal business application that only gets tested and supported on I.E. and this is particularly the case after I lock down Firefox for actual web browsing. These kind of internal business applications often fail with even minimal security restrictions.
I hold out little hope that apps designed to be run in controlled environments will ever work with a decently locked down browser. The issue is that the most vulnerable business users will take their corporate issued laptop with I.E. and default settings and use that as if it's sane to use that configuration on the internet.
Unfortunately, parents and educators think pointing a clicking around an iPad is the same as giving students a foundation in technology. I'd like to see a vast world of resources available to teachers to stream educational content. Kids having access to the internet in the classroom is not going to provide the benefits that are assumed.
Agreed impossible to determine. MS is certainly bloated some for good reason like having defined processes. The question of staffing can only be approached after figuring out projects and business segments where they have no business even being involved should be eliminated completely. It's OK to dramatically shrink a business to focus on proven profit driven priorities and realistic strategic growth segments. They can't chase mobile/cloud initiatives to compete at any cost. MS doesn't have fans so making assumptions about adoption of services is foolish.
When Google started, we trusted the company because they didn't have adds on the main search page. We supported them because they were the underdog and Yahoo was too commercialized. I believe Larry Page had good intentions. Then the inevitable need to drive revenue comes to the forefront and targeted advertising takes center stage. The goldmine of user information is harvested. Larry Page, I believe does not see the evil. The power that comes from from mass information collection will always be misused. Larry Page, maybe you actually want to save lives by mining health data, but truly those with a pure profit motive will misuse the information to the detriment of us all. In Google you helped create a monster. Now do the right thing and keep the monster out of our personal lives.
Criminalizing the collection of the data isn't going to happen. It should happen, but the political will isn't even close to being there. The supreme court ruling in the Smith case set a precedent about protection of information shared with a third party. (Your bank transactions, your credit card transactions, your Facebook account, your phone calls metadata) Many states have their own more restrictive laws, but at the federal level you have almost no protection of anything shared with a third party. We need to redefine these relationships, redefine what we consider a reasonable expectation of privacy, redefine who can share, sell and collect personal information. We would need to define a persons accounts and activities as being private as extension of ones self. We say "my bank account", "my credit card", "my email", we as Americans do not think of these accounts or our lawful activities in those accounts to be public. It should be a crime to purposefully disclose information about customers when the information disclosure is not a functional requirement of the service provided. I hope all you Big Data marketing fucks die of ass-cancer.
I've been working in high tech for 15 years and from what I see there is virtually no discrimination. Nobody cares about race or gender. Sure there are some jobs naturally draw more men due the physical demands, which sometimes discourages women from the entry level jobs (cabling, rack-and-stack, desktop support) that can lead to more advanced IT work. That aside when I look around I see plenty of women in engineering. As for racial minorities, it's certainly about participation rates and not hiring practices. Schools are generally bad at exposing students to technical skills and opportunities. If anyone wants to be an engineer, the best thing is you don't need anyone's permission. If you develop the skills and seek the education the opportunity is there. The hard part is that no one is going to tell you how to get there. You have to self-motivate, you have to figure it out for yourself. You have to try things and find the specific skill set that you are suited to master among the skill sets that are in demand in the market. There are complex social issues that go into the participation rates only some of which society is likely to change. We must also accept that free will is always going to create statistical anomalies. The big name high tech firms are like the finish line of starting a tech career, they are not the gatekeepers of who starts or finishes the race.