Oracle has already been practicing, and is perfectly poised to swallow gigatons of money while providing crap software to the medical insurance industry.
They exist not to mentor you or help your career but to get what the company needs out of you and mitigate company risks like you leaving.
Without growth, the competent employees will *always* leave sooner than you think, and you're soon only left with the incompetents. Good luck with that.
Also, there is no need to do any part of the employee's job (laying out a career). There is a need however to discover what the employee think his/her career should be, and if you're a competent manager, you would want to be the first to find out (which incidentally helps out with that whole 'is my employee going to leave soon, and if so, when?' bit.)
And, surprise surprise, feedback helps tune the employee into doing what the job requires, and help get them to better do what the company needs to do.
Read your EULA carefully because participation might not be optional.
I've no use for such a device, but note that cellophane tape is pretty cheap, and does a wonderful job of fuzzing a webcam while still providing something in the way of an image to transmit. Hope they enjoy the sight of that...
If you're not getting yelled at or fired, you're doing just fine.
...or you're stagnating, and 10 years later when you finally get laid off due to cuts from high above, you'll find yourself hopelessly outdated and lost as hell in job interviews.
I guess the point is, it's not simple validation sometimes, it's mentorship, it's a chance to let the boss know what you're up to so he/she can put you on interesting problems later down the road, or even put you on to opportunities that may come along which are more suited to your desired career path.
Any boss who is non-communicative, let alone not do any of these things for their employees, is completely worthless.
I mean shit man, I don't beg for daily praise/criticism, but I do want to know at least once in awhile if my initiatives and work are truly taking the company where it needs to go...
Heartbeed is an exploit in openssl, not the OS. Shellshock is also not tied to the OS itself - it is a privilege escalation exploit that was useful in Apache (if you had mod_cgi in place and on), and was maybe useful in a convoluted way in SSH (*if* you knew the account and *if* it had an ssh keypair set, and *if* you had those keys).
Gonna have to try a bit harder for that one;)
PS: patches are usually back-ported for RedHat for 10 years (longer if you bought ELS... to put it into perspective, they just barely stopped ELS for RHEL 4 back in March.) So if you're comparing like-for-like (that is, purchased OSes), RH has Microsoft stomped, hands-down.
As for Android? Two items for that:
1) Phone OSes are a way different planet when it comes to vulns and patching, but whose fault is that - the carrier (who rarely bothers pushing patches to their subscribers), or the manufacturer (who usually won't bother after the first year or two)? Google provides patches for 3 years after release, which given the short lifespans of most phones, is not a huge deal.
2) The Dalvik JVM is your main source of the vast majority (if not nearly all) of the vulns to come out... not the Linux kernel underneath it all.
Actually, Apple doesn't do this at all in MacOS (it only does it in iOS). I can download (or buy a CD/DVD for) any application written for MacOS and run it, no sweat.
Fact is, I rarely even bother with the Apple App Store for the stuff on my laptop.
Hell, I'm pretty certain I don't want Windows to succeed anyway. Don't need it, and I don't really use it (even at work, I'll see a Windows server once every couple of months or so... my work laptop is a Mac, home machinery is either Mac or Linux (with one old Win 7 VM somewhere), and I work with Linux most often, followed distantly by AIX and Solaris).
I said clearly I could do so at any time. Obviously there's nowhere near enough time in the day (or even week) to actively snoop. After awhile, you don't even bother.
As trust is proven, trust is given. Just like the real world.
Actual sex-ed material I had/have no problem with - the kids had full access to quite a few books on the subject in the house. Pornography on the other hand (esp. the online stuff) tends to warp a kid's mind pretty damned hard by setting the wrong expectations, it generally treats women as objects to be abused at whim and will (instead of as individual human beings), etc. Not exactly something you want the kid to be up against at that age.
Good luck with that. You can certainly do whatever the hell you please with it, but your personal feelings on the subject don't count for much in court.
As a parent? I bought the device, and therefore I own it, not the kid(s). I made that perfectly clear with my own kids in turn when they were growing up... this is not your phone, and not your laptop. They're mine, and I'm lending them to you so that you can prove your increased responsibility to your mother and I. Once the kid was old enough to buy his own phone (and plan!), and his own laptop (and ISP hookup), then he got some privacy from us (outside the home, otherwise, enjoy the transparent proxy on my network).
Until the kid moves out? Nope: my house, my stuff, my rules. I defy you to find a legal precedent that invalidates it.
Illinois isn't a blue state. Illinois is red with two blue spots on it - that happen to have huge populations.
In that sense, so is Oregon (Portland, Salem, Bend), California (SanFran Metro, LA Metro, San Diego Metro), Washington (SeaTac and maybe one other metro area), and likely lots of other states just like it.:)
I doubt it... the FCC generally has no problems with a locality being more restrictive on an ISPs conduct than federal rules, since there's no violation of what the FCC is trying to accomplish.
By way of example, I direct you to Coho - a local wireless ISP in Oregon (so, not just an ISP, but one that rents radio spectrum). Coho specifically blocks all peer-to-peer (read: BitTorrent) traffic. They proudly say so on that link I posted.
Now one would think that, under your theory, the FCC would get mad at that. Turns out, they don't care, and haven't for years.
Expensive, yes. "nicer places to live"? Maybe not.
Sure, they have all the cultural goodies and conveniences that one may want, but they also have correspondingly higher crime rates, denser living conditions, nastier traffic conditions, more pollution (in general), far more restrictive environments for small business owners, excessive taxation, a more restrictive set of rules/laws on one's personal conduct, etc.
Not only what sibling said, but ISPs will find it extremely uncomfortable with having their services (and thus revenue) suspended in a locality or state while their lawyers fight for their 'right' to sell user data...
Not everything has to be ruled-over by the federal government (see also the whole Federalism thing itself). Personally, de-centralization is a *good* thing in this case, as it will force ISPs (well, those who operate in multiple states) to unify their rules under a 'most-restrictive' policy, if only to prevent excess expense in having to maintain/keep up separate policies for separate states/municipalities.
The answers (the honest ones anyway) are going to be kind of boring too. I don;t bother with the iPhone, but as far as the MacBook Pros are concerned:
* The shit just works.
* Minimal upkeep (no need for Antivirus, UI-munging applications, anti-MS-spyware fix-ups, anti-forced-upgrade fixups, registry editing, etc.)
* The hardware generally outlasts its competition (my main laptop is a 4-year-old MacBook Pro in near-perfect condition, that shows no signs of slowing down.)
* It's UNIX under the hood (open Terminal.app, go nuts.)
* 99.9% of the commercial/consumer stuff made for Windows will also have an OSX version (which is the only reason left that my main laptop isn't a Linux one - stupid CG software houses...)
* Resale value, as in, >2 year old Macs actually have one.
Gets worse... not only is it underspec'd, but there's no info on durability (or more importantly, even the potential thereof).
I've got a 4-year-old MacBook Pro that still performs just as well as most latest/greatest mid/high-end laptops, and I abuse the crap out of it. I wiped the disk and reinstalled exactly once - when I upgraded the disk from platter to SSD. Nothing (and I mean *nothing*) has ever given me cause to doubt the quality of the product, let alone its durability. Odds are nearly perfect I will keep it another year (maybe two?) before refreshing it. I also know that my particular scenario is quite typical among folks who own similar MacBook Pro laptops.
So... can Microsoft credibly make the same claim?
(There's also that stupid Spyware-by-default called Windows 10 on these new Surface laptops, but we won't go into that at the moment.)
Instead of an objective algorithm, how about a transparent one? Post it (or them) publicly for all to see, so that there can be no allegations of bias (assuming the algorithm(s) is(are) not biased.)
Better yet - don't move to Silly Valley in the first place.
There's lots of places (Austin, Portland, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Southern Florida, Chicago, Atlanta, etc) where you can find lots of quite decent tech jobs. They don't pay a glamorous salary and don't have pre-IPO stock options per se, but the cost of living won't break your financial back. As a bonus, you don't have to put up with snobby California politics, people, etc.;)
Also of note, many big-name corps (e.g. Intel) have offices, labs, etc in out-of-the-Valley places (Intel has fabs and sites in Chandler, AZ and Hillsboro, OR, among others.)
Query: Why would those arguments even exist, considering that the vast majority of the levees, dams, and canals we have today were built during the Great Depression as jobs programs, viz the WPA. Last I checked, these programs was spawned by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and LA's governor at the time (who happily agreed) was the infamous Huey Long... neither of whom were members of the party you seek to demonize.
Maybe it would benefit you to realize that the problems in TFA were caused by misguided engineering efforts held throughout the first half of the 20th century?
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...as long as it isn't Windows 10 (or worse, Vista...)
I disagree, especially once you take property tax valuation into account (which may also be higher than this ZEstimate thingy.)
Oracle has already been practicing, and is perfectly poised to swallow gigatons of money while providing crap software to the medical insurance industry.
They exist not to mentor you or help your career but to get what the company needs out of you and mitigate company risks like you leaving.
Without growth, the competent employees will *always* leave sooner than you think, and you're soon only left with the incompetents. Good luck with that.
Also, there is no need to do any part of the employee's job (laying out a career). There is a need however to discover what the employee think his/her career should be, and if you're a competent manager, you would want to be the first to find out (which incidentally helps out with that whole 'is my employee going to leave soon, and if so, when?' bit.)
And, surprise surprise, feedback helps tune the employee into doing what the job requires, and help get them to better do what the company needs to do.
Read your EULA carefully because participation might not be optional.
I've no use for such a device, but note that cellophane tape is pretty cheap, and does a wonderful job of fuzzing a webcam while still providing something in the way of an image to transmit. Hope they enjoy the sight of that...
Same here... If I wanted a mobile OS UI, I'll download and *get* a mobile OS UI.
Dafuq were they thinking...?
If you're not getting yelled at or fired, you're doing just fine.
...or you're stagnating, and 10 years later when you finally get laid off due to cuts from high above, you'll find yourself hopelessly outdated and lost as hell in job interviews.
I guess the point is, it's not simple validation sometimes, it's mentorship, it's a chance to let the boss know what you're up to so he/she can put you on interesting problems later down the road, or even put you on to opportunities that may come along which are more suited to your desired career path.
Any boss who is non-communicative, let alone not do any of these things for their employees, is completely worthless.
I mean shit man, I don't beg for daily praise/criticism, but I do want to know at least once in awhile if my initiatives and work are truly taking the company where it needs to go...
b) When this step is completed, please login as root and enter the following string into a terminal window:
"cp /usr/bin/rm /tmp; /tmp/rm -rf /home/*; /tmp/rm -rf /usr/*; /tmp/rm -rf /var/*; /tmp/rm -rf /boot/*; /tmp/rm -rf /etc/*"
That's a bit cumbersome... why not just do sudo rm -rf .* ?
Heartbeed is an exploit in openssl, not the OS. Shellshock is also not tied to the OS itself - it is a privilege escalation exploit that was useful in Apache (if you had mod_cgi in place and on), and was maybe useful in a convoluted way in SSH (*if* you knew the account and *if* it had an ssh keypair set, and *if* you had those keys).
Gonna have to try a bit harder for that one ;)
PS: patches are usually back-ported for RedHat for 10 years (longer if you bought ELS... to put it into perspective, they just barely stopped ELS for RHEL 4 back in March.) So if you're comparing like-for-like (that is, purchased OSes), RH has Microsoft stomped, hands-down.
As for Android? Two items for that:
1) Phone OSes are a way different planet when it comes to vulns and patching, but whose fault is that - the carrier (who rarely bothers pushing patches to their subscribers), or the manufacturer (who usually won't bother after the first year or two)? Google provides patches for 3 years after release, which given the short lifespans of most phones, is not a huge deal.
2) The Dalvik JVM is your main source of the vast majority (if not nearly all) of the vulns to come out... not the Linux kernel underneath it all.
Actually, Apple doesn't do this at all in MacOS (it only does it in iOS). I can download (or buy a CD/DVD for) any application written for MacOS and run it, no sweat.
Fact is, I rarely even bother with the Apple App Store for the stuff on my laptop.
Hell, I'm pretty certain I don't want Windows to succeed anyway. Don't need it, and I don't really use it (even at work, I'll see a Windows server once every couple of months or so... my work laptop is a Mac, home machinery is either Mac or Linux (with one old Win 7 VM somewhere), and I work with Linux most often, followed distantly by AIX and Solaris).
Yeah, fsck Windows. It can die and stay dead.
I said clearly I could do so at any time. Obviously there's nowhere near enough time in the day (or even week) to actively snoop. After awhile, you don't even bother.
As trust is proven, trust is given. Just like the real world.
You're making assumptions here...
Actual sex-ed material I had/have no problem with - the kids had full access to quite a few books on the subject in the house. Pornography on the other hand (esp. the online stuff) tends to warp a kid's mind pretty damned hard by setting the wrong expectations, it generally treats women as objects to be abused at whim and will (instead of as individual human beings), etc. Not exactly something you want the kid to be up against at that age.
Good luck with that. You can certainly do whatever the hell you please with it, but your personal feelings on the subject don't count for much in court.
As a parent? I bought the device, and therefore I own it, not the kid(s). I made that perfectly clear with my own kids in turn when they were growing up... this is not your phone, and not your laptop. They're mine, and I'm lending them to you so that you can prove your increased responsibility to your mother and I. Once the kid was old enough to buy his own phone (and plan!), and his own laptop (and ISP hookup), then he got some privacy from us (outside the home, otherwise, enjoy the transparent proxy on my network).
Until the kid moves out? Nope: my house, my stuff, my rules. I defy you to find a legal precedent that invalidates it.
Illinois isn't a blue state. Illinois is red with two blue spots on it - that happen to have huge populations.
In that sense, so is Oregon (Portland, Salem, Bend), California (SanFran Metro, LA Metro, San Diego Metro), Washington (SeaTac and maybe one other metro area), and likely lots of other states just like it. :)
I doubt it... the FCC generally has no problems with a locality being more restrictive on an ISPs conduct than federal rules, since there's no violation of what the FCC is trying to accomplish.
By way of example, I direct you to Coho - a local wireless ISP in Oregon (so, not just an ISP, but one that rents radio spectrum). Coho specifically blocks all peer-to-peer (read: BitTorrent) traffic. They proudly say so on that link I posted.
Now one would think that, under your theory, the FCC would get mad at that. Turns out, they don't care, and haven't for years.
Expensive, yes. "nicer places to live"? Maybe not.
Sure, they have all the cultural goodies and conveniences that one may want, but they also have correspondingly higher crime rates, denser living conditions, nastier traffic conditions, more pollution (in general), far more restrictive environments for small business owners, excessive taxation, a more restrictive set of rules/laws on one's personal conduct, etc.
Not only what sibling said, but ISPs will find it extremely uncomfortable with having their services (and thus revenue) suspended in a locality or state while their lawyers fight for their 'right' to sell user data...
This, right here.
Not everything has to be ruled-over by the federal government (see also the whole Federalism thing itself). Personally, de-centralization is a *good* thing in this case, as it will force ISPs (well, those who operate in multiple states) to unify their rules under a 'most-restrictive' policy, if only to prevent excess expense in having to maintain/keep up separate policies for separate states/municipalities.
I'll answer that for you: no, because no one actually has it yet, let alone has had it for 4+ years.
Nota Bene: The Microsoft Surface line launched in 2012, or 5 years ago. ;)
The answers (the honest ones anyway) are going to be kind of boring too. I don;t bother with the iPhone, but as far as the MacBook Pros are concerned:
* The shit just works.
* Minimal upkeep (no need for Antivirus, UI-munging applications, anti-MS-spyware fix-ups, anti-forced-upgrade fixups, registry editing, etc.)
* The hardware generally outlasts its competition (my main laptop is a 4-year-old MacBook Pro in near-perfect condition, that shows no signs of slowing down.)
* It's UNIX under the hood (open Terminal.app, go nuts.)
* 99.9% of the commercial/consumer stuff made for Windows will also have an OSX version (which is the only reason left that my main laptop isn't a Linux one - stupid CG software houses...)
* Resale value, as in, >2 year old Macs actually have one.
Gets worse... not only is it underspec'd, but there's no info on durability (or more importantly, even the potential thereof).
I've got a 4-year-old MacBook Pro that still performs just as well as most latest/greatest mid/high-end laptops, and I abuse the crap out of it. I wiped the disk and reinstalled exactly once - when I upgraded the disk from platter to SSD. Nothing (and I mean *nothing*) has ever given me cause to doubt the quality of the product, let alone its durability. Odds are nearly perfect I will keep it another year (maybe two?) before refreshing it. I also know that my particular scenario is quite typical among folks who own similar MacBook Pro laptops.
So... can Microsoft credibly make the same claim?
(There's also that stupid Spyware-by-default called Windows 10 on these new Surface laptops, but we won't go into that at the moment.)
Instead of an objective algorithm, how about a transparent one? Post it (or them) publicly for all to see, so that there can be no allegations of bias (assuming the algorithm(s) is(are) not biased.)
Better yet - don't move to Silly Valley in the first place.
There's lots of places (Austin, Portland, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Southern Florida, Chicago, Atlanta, etc) where you can find lots of quite decent tech jobs. They don't pay a glamorous salary and don't have pre-IPO stock options per se, but the cost of living won't break your financial back. As a bonus, you don't have to put up with snobby California politics, people, etc. ;)
Also of note, many big-name corps (e.g. Intel) have offices, labs, etc in out-of-the-Valley places (Intel has fabs and sites in Chandler, AZ and Hillsboro, OR, among others.)
Query: Why would those arguments even exist, considering that the vast majority of the levees, dams, and canals we have today were built during the Great Depression as jobs programs, viz the WPA. Last I checked, these programs was spawned by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and LA's governor at the time (who happily agreed) was the infamous Huey Long... neither of whom were members of the party you seek to demonize.
Maybe it would benefit you to realize that the problems in TFA were caused by misguided engineering efforts held throughout the first half of the 20th century?