The "improved" boot time is lost to me on every reboot, as it takes up to several minutes, once at a login: prompt, to, you know, login. Like it just sits there waiting a random amount of time before completing and giving me a shell prompt.
How would you rate "Rust? Heard of it. Has some interesting concepts, but I haven't had the time to really look into it myself yet"? Because, that's where I'm coming from. I want to look at both Rust and Go, but between work and real life, it's probably not going to happen until I manufacture a real reason to do so...
Honestly, I think I'm going to land on my feet. I'm white, male, heterosexual, no accent (38 of 42 years here), and most friends and coworkers literally had *no* idea I wasn't born here until I started bitching about this. If anything, spend your efforts on all the *other* naturalized citizens who have to overcome things like skin color, accents, etc. They're just as much citizens as me. We're *all* citizens, and should stand together. The fact my parents came from a primarily white country (with no accents), shouldn't factor into it. I'm personally pissed off that me and everyone else in my "graduating class" 20 years ago aren't seen as "real citizens", despite the fact that all of us took the time to a) learn English (ok, the only language I've ever been fluent in), b) learn current civics (I scored highest in HS on that exam, which was amusing), c) took the time and effort to actually take the test and commit to being a citizen instead of just being born into it like so many jack-holes.
I'll be fine. I'm currently disenfranchised, but I'll be fine. Your local bodega owner, taxi driver, or whatever, they'll need your support more than I ever will. But I appreciate your support nonetheless.
By the DHS definition,/. *is* social media. So is any site you log in to, like Reddit, HN, Digg (does anyone still use that?!), G+, or any web forum (Ford Explorer Owners, Ridgeline Owners, Tropical Fish Keepers, Dog Owners, etc).
Aside from the "Demolition Man" Schwarzenegger Amendment, I've never given a single flying fsck about being President or VP. This monitoring is... I don't even have the words for it. Especially considering where I currently work.
This is probably the most ignorant post I've managed to read yet. My mother was from Maine, my father from Montreal. I was born in Canada, moved in 1979, became a permanent resident at age 4. Became a naturalized citizen at age 22. "Illegal" doesn't even enter into the conversation, you ignorant fuck. Learn actual immigration laws before passing judgement.
Yeah, welcome to the new reality. Those of us who did this decades ago are at *least* as disgusted. The American Dream is effectively dead. I'm just dreading having to report myself and every naturalized citizen employee in my organization as now being a potential "insider threat", because I believe (any of us who are paying attention) we're now all dis-enfranchised and likely susceptible to outside influences. This saddens my heart greatly, since I've spent most of my life in and supporting the country, only to now realize that I'm seen as a threat due to short-sighted policies that place me and people like me on a threat list. People who've *chosen* to become citizens.
(Not) Oddly, I can see that some of Heinlein's writings were prophetic.
I like how they add that innocent little phrase. "...as well as some citizens".
If you're a naturalized citizen, you're as much of a citizen as the Founding Fathers. Don't let anyone tell you different. Unlike citizens that were born here, you've proven that you can actually pass a civics test. You belong here. You have all the rights of any American.
I'd like to think that, I really would. The wording, however, indicates otherwise. I hope that at least that part dies quickly under a flurry of lawsuits over Constitutional grounds.
The most disturbing part of this is that permanent residents and naturalized citizens are subject to these changes too. I can almost see how permanent residents should be subject to this. What I can't see is how naturalized citizens are. They've had to renounce their former citizenship and swear an oath to the United States...
How do I know? I spent 18 years as a permanent resident in the US. I've spent the last 19 years and 11 months as a naturalized citizen. To my understanding, the only limit on naturalized vs natural born citizenship is that a naturalized citizen can't be President. (I'm OK with that, until the "Demolition Man"'s predicted Schwarzenegger Amendment happens.) Since becoming a "citizen" (I can no longer not quote it), I've voted in every election, I've gladly served jury duty, I've done everything expected of me. (Just living here, even before, I paid taxes and had an SSN... go figure)
This change makes naturalized citizens a de facto second class of citizen. The ironic part is that most of those nearly-20 years of being a "citizen", I've been a contractor to multiple US government agencies, including the DoD, NASA, and NIH. I've had Public Trust clearances, access to information most wouldn't, etc.
What I've learned in the past couple days is this...
Natural born citizens good, Naturalized citizens bad...
(apparently/. doesn't respect any type of overstrike... Imagine an overstrike on "Four legs" and "Two legs" on the above)
At one place I was at, a strategy that seemed to work for at least one manager was to keep a spreadsheet, listing each developer. He'd record their estimates, the time it actually took for each task, figure out a multiplier, and apply it to the estimate for the next task. After a while, he had fairly accurate estimates of what each of his developers would take for each task, moreso than most other managers. Granted, it takes time and will be highly variable at first, but *does* seem to zero in after a few different tasks.
This isn't the first instance of this. Look at any OWA instance or ASP(.net) site. Limited functionality when being honest about the browser, enhanced (working) functionality when you claim to be a Microsoft browser. So they reused old code...
I suppose it's *possible*, but since it's neither rooted nor unlocked, it seems pretty unlikely. The only "unusual" thing I did was enable the device encryption. May as well see if I can enroll in the beta program to get the update pushed.
Though what I really wish was my N7 2013 LTE tablet would get updates, still.
I'm still on 6.0.1 on my Google Fi Nexus 6. I've been getting the monthly security updates, but have seen neither hide nor hair of 7.anything for my phone. Keep in mind the Nexus 6 was supposed to get 7.0 in October, and it's now December...
Hell, I'm still waiting for 7.0 on my Nexus 6. My wife's Nexus 5X has already gotten a Nougat update (past the initial 7.0). My Nexus 7 2013 LTE last got the August security update to Marshmallow. I suspect that I'm going to have to start looking into alternative ROMs, especially because the Pixel line, which I was hoping to upgrade to, will cost me about $900 to get the storage and resolution I want at middling specs. I'd rather go 3rd party and use my N6 until it dies (hopefully not the way my N4 did, with a smashed screen).
The speed bubble is ~35 mph, with a 30 minute timeout. That being said, I've been on flights with wifi, locked into the departing airport, and it's taken an hour or more to get out of the sandbox. Sucked transferring at DIA to BWI and driving home. Jitter really shouldn't play into it for more than a couple of minutes with close portals. Cell tower drift, on the other hand, while helping with Trekker, can screw you on a desk portal for a while (I've drifted 10s of km away sometimes).
Yeah, some people where I work really want to have PvP, but they don't play Ingress, so haven't seen the, um, drama associated with COMM, interactions, Intel maps, etc. I keep telling them that it's a Really Bad Idea, because even though they're adults and want to battle coworkers, there are so many bad, bad things that'll happen.
Yeah, Niantic may need to implement the speedlock/sandbox they have with Ingress, especially since several interactions require even more attention than "tap, hack". I can confidently hack portals in Ingress while driving (under 35 mph) with no fear of losing control. Needing to spin a pic at a Pokestop is slightly more involved. Needing to toss Pokeballs or battle at a gym is *way* too involved to do while driving...
Unlike Ingress, this is *not* a game I'd attempt while driving, at least capturing Pokemon or attacking gyms. Getting gear from the Pokestops is easy enough to do, but the rest requires way more concentration which isn't conducive to vehicular play...
Nope, I don't have a Pokemon Trainer account, logging in only through a Google account, and until about 19:30 or so EDT, I literally cannot login to the game without getting a server error.
Whenever I can, a completely randomly-generated password. At work, where, for reasons I can't go into, I need to change it every 3 days currently, a semi-random component and a date-based component, which ironically beats out the "last X similar passwords" check. If they're gonna make my life hell, I'll return it in spades... Also, I have to write down the date-based part, just to remember it for the next 3 days... #imahorribleperson
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The "improved" boot time is lost to me on every reboot, as it takes up to several minutes, once at a login: prompt, to, you know, login. Like it just sits there waiting a random amount of time before completing and giving me a shell prompt.
How would you rate "Rust? Heard of it. Has some interesting concepts, but I haven't had the time to really look into it myself yet"? Because, that's where I'm coming from. I want to look at both Rust and Go, but between work and real life, it's probably not going to happen until I manufacture a real reason to do so...
Honestly, I think I'm going to land on my feet. I'm white, male, heterosexual, no accent (38 of 42 years here), and most friends and coworkers literally had *no* idea I wasn't born here until I started bitching about this. If anything, spend your efforts on all the *other* naturalized citizens who have to overcome things like skin color, accents, etc. They're just as much citizens as me. We're *all* citizens, and should stand together. The fact my parents came from a primarily white country (with no accents), shouldn't factor into it. I'm personally pissed off that me and everyone else in my "graduating class" 20 years ago aren't seen as "real citizens", despite the fact that all of us took the time to a) learn English (ok, the only language I've ever been fluent in), b) learn current civics (I scored highest in HS on that exam, which was amusing), c) took the time and effort to actually take the test and commit to being a citizen instead of just being born into it like so many jack-holes.
I'll be fine. I'm currently disenfranchised, but I'll be fine. Your local bodega owner, taxi driver, or whatever, they'll need your support more than I ever will. But I appreciate your support nonetheless.
By the DHS definition, /. *is* social media. So is any site you log in to, like Reddit, HN, Digg (does anyone still use that?!), G+, or any web forum (Ford Explorer Owners, Ridgeline Owners, Tropical Fish Keepers, Dog Owners, etc).
Aside from the "Demolition Man" Schwarzenegger Amendment, I've never given a single flying fsck about being President or VP. This monitoring is... I don't even have the words for it. Especially considering where I currently work.
This is probably the most ignorant post I've managed to read yet. My mother was from Maine, my father from Montreal. I was born in Canada, moved in 1979, became a permanent resident at age 4. Became a naturalized citizen at age 22. "Illegal" doesn't even enter into the conversation, you ignorant fuck. Learn actual immigration laws before passing judgement.
No, you're reading it incorrectly. It very clearly calls out naturalized citizens as still being subject to these guidelines.
Yeah, welcome to the new reality. Those of us who did this decades ago are at *least* as disgusted. The American Dream is effectively dead. I'm just dreading having to report myself and every naturalized citizen employee in my organization as now being a potential "insider threat", because I believe (any of us who are paying attention) we're now all dis-enfranchised and likely susceptible to outside influences. This saddens my heart greatly, since I've spent most of my life in and supporting the country, only to now realize that I'm seen as a threat due to short-sighted policies that place me and people like me on a threat list. People who've *chosen* to become citizens. (Not) Oddly, I can see that some of Heinlein's writings were prophetic.
I like how they add that innocent little phrase. "...as well as some citizens".
If you're a naturalized citizen, you're as much of a citizen as the Founding Fathers. Don't let anyone tell you different. Unlike citizens that were born here, you've proven that you can actually pass a civics test. You belong here. You have all the rights of any American.
I'd like to think that, I really would. The wording, however, indicates otherwise. I hope that at least that part dies quickly under a flurry of lawsuits over Constitutional grounds.
That didn't apply to naturalized citizens. This new one does. Naturalized citizens are now second class citizens.
The most disturbing part of this is that permanent residents and naturalized citizens are subject to these changes too. I can almost see how permanent residents should be subject to this. What I can't see is how naturalized citizens are. They've had to renounce their former citizenship and swear an oath to the United States...
How do I know? I spent 18 years as a permanent resident in the US. I've spent the last 19 years and 11 months as a naturalized citizen. To my understanding, the only limit on naturalized vs natural born citizenship is that a naturalized citizen can't be President. (I'm OK with that, until the "Demolition Man"'s predicted Schwarzenegger Amendment happens.) Since becoming a "citizen" (I can no longer not quote it), I've voted in every election, I've gladly served jury duty, I've done everything expected of me. (Just living here, even before, I paid taxes and had an SSN... go figure)
This change makes naturalized citizens a de facto second class of citizen. The ironic part is that most of those nearly-20 years of being a "citizen", I've been a contractor to multiple US government agencies, including the DoD, NASA, and NIH. I've had Public Trust clearances, access to information most wouldn't, etc.
What I've learned in the past couple days is this...
Natural born citizens good, Naturalized citizens bad...
(apparently /. doesn't respect any type of overstrike... Imagine an overstrike on "Four legs" and "Two legs" on the above)
At one place I was at, a strategy that seemed to work for at least one manager was to keep a spreadsheet, listing each developer. He'd record their estimates, the time it actually took for each task, figure out a multiplier, and apply it to the estimate for the next task. After a while, he had fairly accurate estimates of what each of his developers would take for each task, moreso than most other managers. Granted, it takes time and will be highly variable at first, but *does* seem to zero in after a few different tasks.
This isn't the first instance of this. Look at any OWA instance or ASP(.net) site. Limited functionality when being honest about the browser, enhanced (working) functionality when you claim to be a Microsoft browser. So they reused old code...
I suppose it's *possible*, but since it's neither rooted nor unlocked, it seems pretty unlikely. The only "unusual" thing I did was enable the device encryption. May as well see if I can enroll in the beta program to get the update pushed.
Though what I really wish was my N7 2013 LTE tablet would get updates, still.
I'm still on 6.0.1 on my Google Fi Nexus 6. I've been getting the monthly security updates, but have seen neither hide nor hair of 7.anything for my phone. Keep in mind the Nexus 6 was supposed to get 7.0 in October, and it's now December...
Hell, I'm still waiting for 7.0 on my Nexus 6. My wife's Nexus 5X has already gotten a Nougat update (past the initial 7.0). My Nexus 7 2013 LTE last got the August security update to Marshmallow. I suspect that I'm going to have to start looking into alternative ROMs, especially because the Pixel line, which I was hoping to upgrade to, will cost me about $900 to get the storage and resolution I want at middling specs. I'd rather go 3rd party and use my N6 until it dies (hopefully not the way my N4 did, with a smashed screen).
I fondly remember Gopher from 1993. Used it, loved it. Actually used it a *lot*.
The speed bubble is ~35 mph, with a 30 minute timeout. That being said, I've been on flights with wifi, locked into the departing airport, and it's taken an hour or more to get out of the sandbox. Sucked transferring at DIA to BWI and driving home. Jitter really shouldn't play into it for more than a couple of minutes with close portals. Cell tower drift, on the other hand, while helping with Trekker, can screw you on a desk portal for a while (I've drifted 10s of km away sometimes).
Yeah, some people where I work really want to have PvP, but they don't play Ingress, so haven't seen the, um, drama associated with COMM, interactions, Intel maps, etc. I keep telling them that it's a Really Bad Idea, because even though they're adults and want to battle coworkers, there are so many bad, bad things that'll happen.
Yeah, Niantic may need to implement the speedlock/sandbox they have with Ingress, especially since several interactions require even more attention than "tap, hack". I can confidently hack portals in Ingress while driving (under 35 mph) with no fear of losing control. Needing to spin a pic at a Pokestop is slightly more involved. Needing to toss Pokeballs or battle at a gym is *way* too involved to do while driving...
Unlike Ingress, this is *not* a game I'd attempt while driving, at least capturing Pokemon or attacking gyms. Getting gear from the Pokestops is easy enough to do, but the rest requires way more concentration which isn't conducive to vehicular play...
Nope, I don't have a Pokemon Trainer account, logging in only through a Google account, and until about 19:30 or so EDT, I literally cannot login to the game without getting a server error.
Whenever I can, a completely randomly-generated password. At work, where, for reasons I can't go into, I need to change it every 3 days currently, a semi-random component and a date-based component, which ironically beats out the "last X similar passwords" check. If they're gonna make my life hell, I'll return it in spades... Also, I have to write down the date-based part, just to remember it for the next 3 days... #imahorribleperson
I can't wait to let all my friends on Orkut know about this...
Ah, the old "four horsemen of the infocalypse" argument. The 1990s called, they want their fallacies back...