Of course, it doesn't work at $15, or any other price. Sure, it helps those who manage to keep their jobs, but everyone else... well... http://reason.com/blog/2014/05...
Thank you, gullible tool, for helping us propagate the message that earning a living wage is bad for workers.
Your friends,
The One Percent
with congress. In fact, it's practically a red herring.
The voters are. Do you think if no money was in congress then voters would magically pay attention and vote on rationality?
Educate the voters.
Rubbish. Money and other forms of manipulation have been used to get voters to elect representatives who have clearly not acted in the interests of their electorate. It's going on right now here in TX. Big money is making major races all about guns, abortion, and illegal aliens. None of those issues truly have any appreciable effect on the electorate, and yet they have been made to believe that those are the central issues of the campaign. Nothing, not a single damned thing, of actual substance is discussed in any of the "paid for by..." campaign spots being paid for by those large monied interests. The result, cynical Congressmen/women who don't give a shit about those "central issues" and are free to vote however those who paid to get them elected tell them to.
but still, it is difficult to take at "face value" when some random "security researcher" claims to have altruistic aimes when caught hacking your network...
Why bother? The script kiddies are rattling the doors all day, every day. That noise is always there. One more visitor, or ten, isn't going to make a difference in our threat posture. And if one of those visits results in a discovery that we all benefit from, so much the better.
The whole security model is broken. How many CAs does your browser come with these days? Do you even know? How do you know they haven't already turned over their CA signing keys to 7 different governments?
There's no way to "fix" openssl. The entire thing is predicated on a false premise.
OK, Moxie. We get the message. You aren't fooling anyone with the AC post, dude.
...constructing the infrastructure to support all that streaming? Not saying we shouldn't build it, but let's not suggest that it's any more "green" to go that way.
...when every medical student and intern carried around a copy of "The Merck Manual" http://www.amazon.com/The-Merc... They even have an on-line version now. Dear gawd why would an MD/DO, or even a wannabe, use the wiki for such things?
Lets be real here: Iran has its problems, especially with extremists However, the country itself isn't evil, and Iranians in general see through the political BS more than Americans see through the CNN/Fox News/MSNBC charade.
No shit! Mod parent up, please. Most insightful observation I've seen today.
I realize that it's all marketing hooey, but I wish that the director of network engineering for google wouldn't mish mash terminology like that. Keep that for the marketing droids.
Well, we could get all wrapped up in semantics, but let's not, m'kay? The real message is that Google gets it when it comes to making networks run efficiently. They aren't deliberately introducing an artificial scarcity in order to squeeze more revenue out of their "investement". They're selling a service using a 21st century business model, unlike the LEC's who still long for the days when a T1 would fetch $1,200 per month.
The industry I hate the most is the fossil fuels industry
Not just because of global warming, but mostly because they control the politicians and stop anything being done about it.
The telecom industry spends, proportionately, far more on it's purchases of lawmakers than any other group. For that reason, I hate them the most.
Actually you can, Cisco can start hiring contractor security firms and get more guns than the NSA. an NSA agent that has a M16 rifle pushed in his face by contractors and being told to "please leave the premises..... SIR!" has two options, he can leave or he can be killed in self defense.
A large very rich corperation can get away with a hired army to protect themselves from the government.
Yeah, but lately it has proven cheaper to just rent... erm, "arrange for" the services of the government's own military to the corporation's bidding.
Where is the line and why is it Amazon's responsibility to report all potential bomb makers?
The line is just the other side of "probable cause", and that is not something that can be codified into rules that Amazon et al must follow. Probable cause is something that must be evaluated, by those we have empaneled to do so, on a case by case basis. Furthermore, there must be a system of review/redress for when those judgements are in error. We don't have these things anymore. We have allowed the government (more precisely, a collusion between the executive and legislative branches, and the corporate interests who pull their strings) to wrest that power away from the judiciary. I can not overstate the dire consequences this has given rise to. We may never regain that precious balance of power.
But every NoSQL use I have seen has been a case of people moving database work to software code instead, mostly because programmers are plenty and cheap, while experienced database experts are not.
This, in spades. And my life ( a large part of which is seeing to the performance of our applications) is hell because of it. If I had a dollar...
Even conspiracy theory morons can figure them out and this is the result. There should be a mandatory IQ test before anyone is allowed to use any technology or access the internet.
Eh... maybe before they're allowed to post anything. I'm for free speech and all, but at some point, it's just noise. Bring me reasoned dissent all day long but spare me the videos of enclosed rail cars designed for hauling new automobiles that speculate on some dark government conspiracy and "FEMA prison trains".
"Yeah. OK. We'll ensure this 'net neutrality' thing is protected, except when we don't. You know, like when lots of money changes hands between entities that actually matter to us."
True enough - the world has survived such things, but countries whose dominance is closely tied to such things often fare poorly during and after such transitions. Unless the U.S. starts, pretty damned soon, to find an alternative to fossil fuels, it's economy is in for a beating, the likes of which few have scarcely imagined.
You seem to have a certain idea of how affirmative action works that is different than mine...
Clearly. The point is that lowering the bar for minority students, while usually a noble notion, just doesn't solve the real problem - that there are too many minority students who can't compete on a truly level playing field. _That_ problem starts well before college and we're doing a shitty job of dealing with it. In all-too many minority communities, the deck is heavily stacked against the kids there. There's plenty of blame to go around - schools, teachers, and parents all contribute to the fail, but until these communities, as a whole, recognize the value of education and do what it takes to see that their kids get it, nothing will change. BTW, "what it takes" includes a lot more than a good school.
Mod parent down, please, for setting up such an obvious straw-man argument. Enigma was a crypto technology employed by declared enemies with whom Great Britian was involved in a shooting war. Comparing that threat to some nebulous thing like "teh terrorists" is absurd on it's face.
In the U.S.A., it died quite some time ago. The U.S. is more accurately called an oligarchy now. The will of "the people", not to mention their interests, is (distant) secondary consideration. That much is obvious to anyone willing to actually look. Alas, most are not. Instead they allow themselves to be satisfied with the bread and circuses that are so freely handed to them.
Has there ever been a single documented case in the whole of history where the shareholders have ever successfully (or even unsuccessfully, for that matter) sued a company because the company wasn't doing enougl illegal stuff to bolster profits?
Interesting question. My guess would be no, for who would pursue expensive litigation on a premise so outrageous. On the other hand, I'll bet that more than one corporate officer has been quietly dismissed for exactly that reason.
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If it works at $15 why wouldn't it work at $100?
Of course, it doesn't work at $15, or any other price. Sure, it helps those who manage to keep their jobs, but everyone else... well... http://reason.com/blog/2014/05...
Thank you, gullible tool, for helping us propagate the message that earning a living wage is bad for workers.
Your friends,
The One Percent
with congress. In fact, it's practically a red herring. The voters are. Do you think if no money was in congress then voters would magically pay attention and vote on rationality?
Educate the voters.
Rubbish. Money and other forms of manipulation have been used to get voters to elect representatives who have clearly not acted in the interests of their electorate. It's going on right now here in TX. Big money is making major races all about guns, abortion, and illegal aliens. None of those issues truly have any appreciable effect on the electorate, and yet they have been made to believe that those are the central issues of the campaign. Nothing, not a single damned thing, of actual substance is discussed in any of the "paid for by..." campaign spots being paid for by those large monied interests. The result, cynical Congressmen/women who don't give a shit about those "central issues" and are free to vote however those who paid to get them elected tell them to.
but still, it is difficult to take at "face value" when some random "security researcher" claims to have altruistic aimes when caught hacking your network...
Why bother? The script kiddies are rattling the doors all day, every day. That noise is always there. One more visitor, or ten, isn't going to make a difference in our threat posture. And if one of those visits results in a discovery that we all benefit from, so much the better.
The whole security model is broken. How many CAs does your browser come with these days? Do you even know? How do you know they haven't already turned over their CA signing keys to 7 different governments?
There's no way to "fix" openssl. The entire thing is predicated on a false premise.
OK, Moxie. We get the message. You aren't fooling anyone with the AC post, dude.
...constructing the infrastructure to support all that streaming? Not saying we shouldn't build it, but let's not suggest that it's any more "green" to go that way.
And they want their newspaper headlines back.
...when every medical student and intern carried around a copy of "The Merck Manual" http://www.amazon.com/The-Merc...
They even have an on-line version now. Dear gawd why would an MD/DO, or even a wannabe, use the wiki for such things?
Lets be real here: Iran has its problems, especially with extremists However, the country itself isn't evil, and Iranians in general see through the political BS more than Americans see through the CNN/Fox News/MSNBC charade.
No shit! Mod parent up, please. Most insightful observation I've seen today.
As long as it's "far away", it's safe. Right? And you got put in charge of seeing to my safety how, exactly?
Fiber server? huh?
I realize that it's all marketing hooey, but I wish that the director of network engineering for google wouldn't mish mash terminology like that. Keep that for the marketing droids.
Well, we could get all wrapped up in semantics, but let's not, m'kay? The real message is that Google gets it when it comes to making networks run efficiently. They aren't deliberately introducing an artificial scarcity in order to squeeze more revenue out of their "investement". They're selling a service using a 21st century business model, unlike the LEC's who still long for the days when a T1 would fetch $1,200 per month.
The industry I hate the most is the fossil fuels industry Not just because of global warming, but mostly because they control the politicians and stop anything being done about it.
The telecom industry spends, proportionately, far more on it's purchases of lawmakers than any other group. For that reason, I hate them the most.
Maybe something got lost in the translation. Something like, you know, reason.
Let's be clear. "Power" and "legal authority" are often two very different things. Laws are for the little people to obey.
Actually you can, Cisco can start hiring contractor security firms and get more guns than the NSA. an NSA agent that has a M16 rifle pushed in his face by contractors and being told to "please leave the premises..... SIR!" has two options, he can leave or he can be killed in self defense.
A large very rich corperation can get away with a hired army to protect themselves from the government.
Yeah, but lately it has proven cheaper to just rent... erm, "arrange for" the services of the government's own military to the corporation's bidding.
Where is the line and why is it Amazon's responsibility to report all potential bomb makers?
The line is just the other side of "probable cause", and that is not something that can be codified into rules that Amazon et al must follow. Probable cause is something that must be evaluated, by those we have empaneled to do so, on a case by case basis. Furthermore, there must be a system of review/redress for when those judgements are in error. We don't have these things anymore. We have allowed the government (more precisely, a collusion between the executive and legislative branches, and the corporate interests who pull their strings) to wrest that power away from the judiciary. I can not overstate the dire consequences this has given rise to. We may never regain that precious balance of power.
But every NoSQL use I have seen has been a case of people moving database work to software code instead, mostly because programmers are plenty and cheap, while experienced database experts are not.
This, in spades. And my life ( a large part of which is seeing to the performance of our applications) is hell because of it. If I had a dollar...
Even conspiracy theory morons can figure them out and this is the result. There should be a mandatory IQ test before anyone is allowed to use any technology or access the internet.
Eh... maybe before they're allowed to post anything. I'm for free speech and all, but at some point, it's just noise. Bring me reasoned dissent all day long but spare me the videos of enclosed rail cars designed for hauling new automobiles that speculate on some dark government conspiracy and "FEMA prison trains".
"Yeah. OK. We'll ensure this 'net neutrality' thing is protected, except when we don't. You know, like when lots of money changes hands between entities that actually matter to us."
That this will create a generation of lawyers and judges who have a fundamental hatred of DRM.
This assumes that lawyers (and the judges some of them often become) will be driven by something other than money. Sucker bet, that one.
True enough - the world has survived such things, but countries whose dominance is closely tied to such things often fare poorly during and after such transitions. Unless the U.S. starts, pretty damned soon, to find an alternative to fossil fuels, it's economy is in for a beating, the likes of which few have scarcely imagined.
You seem to have a certain idea of how affirmative action works that is different than mine...
Clearly. The point is that lowering the bar for minority students, while usually a noble notion, just doesn't solve the real problem - that there are too many minority students who can't compete on a truly level playing field. _That_ problem starts well before college and we're doing a shitty job of dealing with it. In all-too many minority communities, the deck is heavily stacked against the kids there. There's plenty of blame to go around - schools, teachers, and parents all contribute to the fail, but until these communities, as a whole, recognize the value of education and do what it takes to see that their kids get it, nothing will change. BTW, "what it takes" includes a lot more than a good school.
Mod parent down, please, for setting up such an obvious straw-man argument. Enigma was a crypto technology employed by declared enemies with whom Great Britian was involved in a shooting war. Comparing that threat to some nebulous thing like "teh terrorists" is absurd on it's face.
Oh, bullshit. Do not confuse laborious with learning to think rigorously. Do not confuse sophistry with rigor.
I don't. Neither do you, apparently, but in a much different way.
Sometimes I wonder if democracy is dead.
In the U.S.A., it died quite some time ago. The U.S. is more accurately called an oligarchy now. The will of "the people", not to mention their interests, is (distant) secondary consideration. That much is obvious to anyone willing to actually look. Alas, most are not. Instead they allow themselves to be satisfied with the bread and circuses that are so freely handed to them.
Really.
Has there ever been a single documented case in the whole of history where the shareholders have ever successfully (or even unsuccessfully, for that matter) sued a company because the company wasn't doing enougl illegal stuff to bolster profits?
Interesting question. My guess would be no, for who would pursue expensive litigation on a premise so outrageous. On the other hand, I'll bet that more than one corporate officer has been quietly dismissed for exactly that reason.