The most obnoxious certs are ones that test based on such an odd collection of details rather than any real understanding that people only pass be using brain dumps to cheat. Then the company keeps ratcheting up the difficultly of obtuse and poorly written questions, people continue to pass by cheating and the vendor never realizes what a bunch of crap their program is for anyone who attempts to do them honestly. That is my definition of a worthless cert. I suspect this comes from vendors allowing non-technical marketing types to become involved in creating test material. They write fucked off questions and have no idea they are fucked off questions.
Now filing patent on process of using evil software to collect any information from victims generally referred to as customers to be used for the purpose of monetizing supposedly free services or for extracting additional revenue from existing paying victims AKA customers.
License fee for tech companies, ten dollars per user.
Diversity obsession needs to stop. As a white worker in a 70% Indian team where my coworkers speak Hindi to each other 60% of the time even when discussing projects. I can just say I've had enough talk of this supposed lack of diversity. I've also had black peers, managers, VPs and CEOs. I've had female peers, VPs and CTOs. I've served with technically brilliant people of all kinds and useless incompetents of all kinds. Nobody cares about anything but ability and attitude. The biggest thing slowing any shift in staffing numbers is that we draw mostly from the existing pool because everyone hires people with experience, but that pool is getting thin. Industry will bring in newer people out of necessity and if that pool of qualified candidates is diverse, they will have every chance of being hired if they know how to get in front of hiring managers.
Jim Webb may not have a ton of current support, but he's the only one I'm willing to support. People aren't really aware of the available choices yet. We don't have to be stuck with Hillary if voters are willing to actually consider all available candidates rather than just going for the least objectionable celebrity politician. I would count on him to be rather unsympathetic to H1B interests when they effect American workers.
I really hope Lync screen sharing, WebEx and the like provide a way for those sharing their screens to know when the peer enables recording. I know there are still holes in that, but it scares me to think of the potential leaks that could be created in tech support scenarios.
The Cloud is great. It allows regular people to describe a service without ever having to understand it and without ever being expected to define it. Managers love it, it's less expensive and you certainly couldn't be expected to be accountable for what happens in the Cloud. That's what in the Cloud means right? It's a service over which you need no knowledge or control.
Then again you can be obtuse and call Cloud a Measured service with On-demand self-service, Broad network access, Resource pooling and Rapid elasticity, but who wants to think about all that.
When they did this on Discovery's "Sons of Guns", it was clear this was going to be attempted by someone at home. They mounted a large 9mm semi-auto handgun on a drone for mine and IED removal. It worked quite well. A drone is just a platform, people are going to use them for all sorts of things whether for good or evil and there is almost nothing that can be done to stop that. At this point I still don't view it as a serious threat.
I'm not really sure how GMO labeling helps. Non-GMO labeling may help, but that happens mostly voluntary. It to me it isn't a safety issue, unless you are going to say, this corn or wheat isn't as nutritious as a natural product, or this product only appears to resemble a tomato, it may not smell, taste or provide nutrients found in natural tomatoes. It isn't all that clear to me what path forward we can take to give more people access to better food. Sure I prefer to buy organic, non-GMO, free range, hormone free, etc.., but I'm not sure that can scale at a cost that is workable for everyone. We've created such a glut of false abundance. We have tons of cheap food that isn't very good or very good for you, but it's cheap so we can feed the millions of people who can't afford better alternatives.
I will go to any extent necessary, to never allow this on my vehicle. I consider it my God given right as an American to break traffic laws when police are not present. No one needs any data from my vehicle. God knows what they will do to rental cars, but I'm sure they will not share my views on privacy.
I certainly regard the bills sponsor Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) as traitor to our nation, which isn't any better than a terrorist. When you take an oath of office that involves supporting and defending the Constitution and then dedicate half your life to undermining the 2nd Amendment, that marks you a traitor in my book. She also has supported the intelligence driven abuses of our civil liberties for many years now as chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Very interesting. It doesn't leave you in much better shape than the US two party strangle hold. They all place so much value on predictability and control. If there were no parties and each man or woman had to stand on their own with no party line talking points and an empty canvas on which to hang their own ideas it would just be too complex for the rich and powerful to exert their rightful level of control. It would be much too dangerous to let the people choose anyone they like to represent them, easier to let them choose from the acceptable few and present the illusion of free will.
Notice how the servers you access and basically all the non-mobile portions or the internet are not IPv6? You have NAT 64 or dual stack shielding you from the lack of resources available directly from IPv6. Nothing wrong with that in and of itself, but consider how much is left to convert to roll over to IPv6 as the predominate protocol. Also consider how many of the infrastructure components and devices in use today are not currently capable of decent IPv6 native support. It's great that we are starting to see some movement in the right direction, but the day when you step into a typical office or jump on public WiFi and use your IPv6 address to access resources that are also on IPv6 and just rarely have to involve IPv4 for some legacy beastie left over from the dark ages, are still far off. There should never be any reason for this to become a crisis, we only need to make steady progress in the right direction until we reach the inflection point where businesses will find it compelling to put resources behind embracing the transition. Mobile has fortunately led the way which is a very good thing considering the growth in mobile devices. The rest of the world may just need a little push to get us past some of the pain that is inevitable when IPv6 conversion isn't yet a line item on very many budgets.
Do the Brits just not want any rights? Why do you tolerate this? At least American politicians still have to pretend to give a damn about basic civil rights while they try to scare us into forgoing them. Communication in the modern world is an unstoppable force. Even prison gangs that live in a tightly controlled environment where they are forbidden from free communications and have little or no technology, find ways to communicate without authorities knowing the contents of their communications. Spying on all communications all the time may sound good in theory strictly from a security standpoint, but the moment the actual bad guys know that is the environment in which they operate, they will find ways to evade that scrutiny. Everyone else should not have to tolerate being constantly observed just so the government can pretend that it offers reasonable assurance that they will get the intelligence they seek from the small number of actual persons of interest.
We shouldn't have to design things to prevent this kind of act. We've gone a long time without having idiots perpetrate this level of jackassery. Fiber being installed fairly recently compared to other utilities it just isn't practical to completely protect every inch of every run. We can do our best to protect it from backhoe cuts, but trying to make every inch physically inaccessible to a determined moron is not going to be feasible reality in may areas.
I'm afraid the selection process was at fault. Although on the surface there was much debate it was actually decided by presenting a series of scale models to unnamed members of the legislature. They took the models and spun around in circles making airplane noises, "neeer, neeer, pop, pop, pop, vrrneeer". The one that felt the most like something a superhero and GI-Joe would fly was clearly the right choice at any price.
Bricklayer is a bad analogy. If they wanted to give an example of a skilled trade, a stonemason would make more sense. A bricklayer is the guy you hire to build a patio, BBQ, fireplace, or facade of a house which does require skill, but it lacks the depth required. A stonemason can have skills in a broad range from building a small monument or mausoleum to an entire cathedral depending on skill. We need people who can turn architectural design plans into reality and do so with accuracy and technical mastery at least within the scope of the tasks they are assigned and are capable of completing. We need them to be able to see when there is problem and be capable of adapting. If the wall as designed will not stand, you wouldn't build it, you take the needed steps to ensure it will stand now and also stand the test of time. A stonemason better suggests the need to execute with integrity in every detail. Masonry also much like programing can be learned through study and apprenticeship despite the depth of skill required to be a master of the craft.
Google is free, but that doesn't negate all problems. I've always taken issue with the media and journalists on the matter of Google's rise to domination. Long ago to Google something became a verb and almost immediately the media latched on to that being the cool way to do things. Then instead of ever saying "search" or "use a search engine" the phase was always Google it, as if there was no longer any other logical choice. Google did not need free publicity and the media or journalists in particular should not pick winners. We do have to be careful in ensuring fairness in Google search results as its dominance basically means that any business or entity that depends on being found, has no alternative but to be visible through Google. It's a precarious position ethically anytime one organization public or private holds such power in being a gatekeeper of information. I wonder sometimes if it could be necessary to offer the consumer a blended search capability, where searches are parsed from multiple sources and blended in an agnostic fashion without concern for any provider's business interest.
I can relate to that, though if interest rates were higher I suspect the prices would be lower yet we would all still spend every available cent on housing after a brief period where all the current owners struggled to regain their lost wealth. It's going to be very interesting to see if they are able to unwind this cheap credit trap we've wandered into. These million dollar homes are going to be a bit hard to manage when interest rates sit at 6% or more. Reducing credit doesn't solve everything either, we had a lot of cash buyers to compete with in the Bay Area when the 2008-2009 crash wiped out credit availability and that hasn't really left the market.
Yep, subsidy or not, nobody wants a shanty town in their backyard. I'm not even sure it's a good idea. Packing the poor into high density housing doesn't have the greatest track record, but of course it sort depends on if the goal is to have people live in basic dignity or if it's just to move the poor/blacks "somewhere else" and then drop all support for the project once they are, "somewhere else". As fucked up as the free market is, I have little faith in government's ability to improve on it.
That's hippie socialist "market rent". These are the people that believe "market" is what a typical person can afford, not what the most capable available buyer is willing to pay. It's the same mindset that creates this idea that real estate developers in large cities should voluntarily make less so there will be affordable housing. The market is what the market is, so if the government wants to influence it, it has to actually own up to it and create some socialist policy. I honestly don't know how the hell we are supposed to create any kind of fairness in housing or what the hell public policy out to be, but what we have in free market economics with some occasional hand wringing about the poor is not getting us where we need to be. If they want to actually help the poor then maybe small units like 300 sqft is what we ought to subsidize. We may have to setup something more for the middle class to encourage construction in the 800-1200sqft range. In many areas the large single family home may not be the reality for the middle class in coming decades.
Slashdot Mirror
The most obnoxious certs are ones that test based on such an odd collection of details rather than any real understanding that people only pass be using brain dumps to cheat. Then the company keeps ratcheting up the difficultly of obtuse and poorly written questions, people continue to pass by cheating and the vendor never realizes what a bunch of crap their program is for anyone who attempts to do them honestly. That is my definition of a worthless cert. I suspect this comes from vendors allowing non-technical marketing types to become involved in creating test material. They write fucked off questions and have no idea they are fucked off questions.
Now filing patent on process of using evil software to collect any information from victims generally referred to as customers to be used for the purpose of monetizing supposedly free services or for extracting additional revenue from existing paying victims AKA customers.
License fee for tech companies, ten dollars per user.
Diversity obsession needs to stop. As a white worker in a 70% Indian team where my coworkers speak Hindi to each other 60% of the time even when discussing projects. I can just say I've had enough talk of this supposed lack of diversity. I've also had black peers, managers, VPs and CEOs. I've had female peers, VPs and CTOs. I've served with technically brilliant people of all kinds and useless incompetents of all kinds. Nobody cares about anything but ability and attitude. The biggest thing slowing any shift in staffing numbers is that we draw mostly from the existing pool because everyone hires people with experience, but that pool is getting thin. Industry will bring in newer people out of necessity and if that pool of qualified candidates is diverse, they will have every chance of being hired if they know how to get in front of hiring managers.
Jim Webb may not have a ton of current support, but he's the only one I'm willing to support. People aren't really aware of the available choices yet. We don't have to be stuck with Hillary if voters are willing to actually consider all available candidates rather than just going for the least objectionable celebrity politician. I would count on him to be rather unsympathetic to H1B interests when they effect American workers.
Clinton taking Tata and Infosys money, another good reason to support Jim Webb over Hillary.
I really hope Lync screen sharing, WebEx and the like provide a way for those sharing their screens to know when the peer enables recording. I know there are still holes in that, but it scares me to think of the potential leaks that could be created in tech support scenarios.
The Cloud is great. It allows regular people to describe a service without ever having to understand it and without ever being expected to define it. Managers love it, it's less expensive and you certainly couldn't be expected to be accountable for what happens in the Cloud. That's what in the Cloud means right? It's a service over which you need no knowledge or control.
Then again you can be obtuse and call Cloud a Measured service with On-demand self-service, Broad network access, Resource pooling and Rapid elasticity, but who wants to think about all that.
It's better to have your choice of voice interactive overloads with which to share every aspect of your life.
When they did this on Discovery's "Sons of Guns", it was clear this was going to be attempted by someone at home. They mounted a large 9mm semi-auto handgun on a drone for mine and IED removal. It worked quite well. A drone is just a platform, people are going to use them for all sorts of things whether for good or evil and there is almost nothing that can be done to stop that. At this point I still don't view it as a serious threat.
You mean I can finally stop putting on pants for room service? Now that's luxury.
Microsoft has never failed to offer a compelling reason not to use "Home" versions.
I'm not really sure how GMO labeling helps. Non-GMO labeling may help, but that happens mostly voluntary. It to me it isn't a safety issue, unless you are going to say, this corn or wheat isn't as nutritious as a natural product, or this product only appears to resemble a tomato, it may not smell, taste or provide nutrients found in natural tomatoes. It isn't all that clear to me what path forward we can take to give more people access to better food. Sure I prefer to buy organic, non-GMO, free range, hormone free, etc.., but I'm not sure that can scale at a cost that is workable for everyone. We've created such a glut of false abundance. We have tons of cheap food that isn't very good or very good for you, but it's cheap so we can feed the millions of people who can't afford better alternatives.
I will go to any extent necessary, to never allow this on my vehicle. I consider it my God given right as an American to break traffic laws when police are not present. No one needs any data from my vehicle. God knows what they will do to rental cars, but I'm sure they will not share my views on privacy.
I certainly regard the bills sponsor Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) as traitor to our nation, which isn't any better than a terrorist. When you take an oath of office that involves supporting and defending the Constitution and then dedicate half your life to undermining the 2nd Amendment, that marks you a traitor in my book. She also has supported the intelligence driven abuses of our civil liberties for many years now as chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Very interesting. It doesn't leave you in much better shape than the US two party strangle hold. They all place so much value on predictability and control. If there were no parties and each man or woman had to stand on their own with no party line talking points and an empty canvas on which to hang their own ideas it would just be too complex for the rich and powerful to exert their rightful level of control. It would be much too dangerous to let the people choose anyone they like to represent them, easier to let them choose from the acceptable few and present the illusion of free will.
Notice how the servers you access and basically all the non-mobile portions or the internet are not IPv6? You have NAT 64 or dual stack shielding you from the lack of resources available directly from IPv6. Nothing wrong with that in and of itself, but consider how much is left to convert to roll over to IPv6 as the predominate protocol. Also consider how many of the infrastructure components and devices in use today are not currently capable of decent IPv6 native support. It's great that we are starting to see some movement in the right direction, but the day when you step into a typical office or jump on public WiFi and use your IPv6 address to access resources that are also on IPv6 and just rarely have to involve IPv4 for some legacy beastie left over from the dark ages, are still far off. There should never be any reason for this to become a crisis, we only need to make steady progress in the right direction until we reach the inflection point where businesses will find it compelling to put resources behind embracing the transition. Mobile has fortunately led the way which is a very good thing considering the growth in mobile devices. The rest of the world may just need a little push to get us past some of the pain that is inevitable when IPv6 conversion isn't yet a line item on very many budgets.
Do the Brits just not want any rights? Why do you tolerate this? At least American politicians still have to pretend to give a damn about basic civil rights while they try to scare us into forgoing them. Communication in the modern world is an unstoppable force. Even prison gangs that live in a tightly controlled environment where they are forbidden from free communications and have little or no technology, find ways to communicate without authorities knowing the contents of their communications. Spying on all communications all the time may sound good in theory strictly from a security standpoint, but the moment the actual bad guys know that is the environment in which they operate, they will find ways to evade that scrutiny. Everyone else should not have to tolerate being constantly observed just so the government can pretend that it offers reasonable assurance that they will get the intelligence they seek from the small number of actual persons of interest.
We shouldn't have to design things to prevent this kind of act. We've gone a long time without having idiots perpetrate this level of jackassery. Fiber being installed fairly recently compared to other utilities it just isn't practical to completely protect every inch of every run. We can do our best to protect it from backhoe cuts, but trying to make every inch physically inaccessible to a determined moron is not going to be feasible reality in may areas.
I'm afraid the selection process was at fault. Although on the surface there was much debate it was actually decided by presenting a series of scale models to unnamed members of the legislature. They took the models and spun around in circles making airplane noises, "neeer, neeer, pop, pop, pop, vrrneeer". The one that felt the most like something a superhero and GI-Joe would fly was clearly the right choice at any price.
Bricklayer is a bad analogy. If they wanted to give an example of a skilled trade, a stonemason would make more sense. A bricklayer is the guy you hire to build a patio, BBQ, fireplace, or facade of a house which does require skill, but it lacks the depth required. A stonemason can have skills in a broad range from building a small monument or mausoleum to an entire cathedral depending on skill. We need people who can turn architectural design plans into reality and do so with accuracy and technical mastery at least within the scope of the tasks they are assigned and are capable of completing. We need them to be able to see when there is problem and be capable of adapting. If the wall as designed will not stand, you wouldn't build it, you take the needed steps to ensure it will stand now and also stand the test of time. A stonemason better suggests the need to execute with integrity in every detail. Masonry also much like programing can be learned through study and apprenticeship despite the depth of skill required to be a master of the craft.
Google is free, but that doesn't negate all problems. I've always taken issue with the media and journalists on the matter of Google's rise to domination. Long ago to Google something became a verb and almost immediately the media latched on to that being the cool way to do things. Then instead of ever saying "search" or "use a search engine" the phase was always Google it, as if there was no longer any other logical choice. Google did not need free publicity and the media or journalists in particular should not pick winners. We do have to be careful in ensuring fairness in Google search results as its dominance basically means that any business or entity that depends on being found, has no alternative but to be visible through Google. It's a precarious position ethically anytime one organization public or private holds such power in being a gatekeeper of information. I wonder sometimes if it could be necessary to offer the consumer a blended search capability, where searches are parsed from multiple sources and blended in an agnostic fashion without concern for any provider's business interest.
I can relate to that, though if interest rates were higher I suspect the prices would be lower yet we would all still spend every available cent on housing after a brief period where all the current owners struggled to regain their lost wealth. It's going to be very interesting to see if they are able to unwind this cheap credit trap we've wandered into. These million dollar homes are going to be a bit hard to manage when interest rates sit at 6% or more. Reducing credit doesn't solve everything either, we had a lot of cash buyers to compete with in the Bay Area when the 2008-2009 crash wiped out credit availability and that hasn't really left the market.
So... we should try something that actually makes sense?
Yep, subsidy or not, nobody wants a shanty town in their backyard. I'm not even sure it's a good idea. Packing the poor into high density housing doesn't have the greatest track record, but of course it sort depends on if the goal is to have people live in basic dignity or if it's just to move the poor/blacks "somewhere else" and then drop all support for the project once they are, "somewhere else". As fucked up as the free market is, I have little faith in government's ability to improve on it.
That's hippie socialist "market rent". These are the people that believe "market" is what a typical person can afford, not what the most capable available buyer is willing to pay. It's the same mindset that creates this idea that real estate developers in large cities should voluntarily make less so there will be affordable housing. The market is what the market is, so if the government wants to influence it, it has to actually own up to it and create some socialist policy. I honestly don't know how the hell we are supposed to create any kind of fairness in housing or what the hell public policy out to be, but what we have in free market economics with some occasional hand wringing about the poor is not getting us where we need to be. If they want to actually help the poor then maybe small units like 300 sqft is what we ought to subsidize. We may have to setup something more for the middle class to encourage construction in the 800-1200sqft range. In many areas the large single family home may not be the reality for the middle class in coming decades.