Why stop at China's borders with 'Social Credit'.. they can take it global.. we're not thinking big enough..
To buy from Aliexpress, your account will come with 'social credit'. Say something bad about China, your prices will go up.
Your company wants to buy (or sell) something with China as the counterparty.. how is the social credit of your staff rate? (they will slurp your staff list from linked in, facebook, or your company's poorly secured India outsourced mail server).
Then your HR will instruct you to never say anything bad about China on the web as it is 'bad for business'.
Oh, your Xiaomi or Huewai phone tells the Chinese govt that you went to China, or were at a democracy rally in your country... minus social credit for you..
The more powerful China's economy becomes in the world, the more this will impact you, even if you don't live in China or never intend to go there..
Step 1 - Exclaim shortage of some IT skill in the media (and of course don't raise compensation to the market clearing rate or train anyone) Step 2 - Send to same media various disaster stories and threats to civilization due to said 'shortage' Step 3 - Lobby congress for Visas from some third world country (probably India, but could be elsewhere) Step 4 - Get rid of all your Americans currently in the roles (hey, they were useless anyways!) and replace with cheaper said visa workers Step 5 - PROFIT!
Though I did not vote for Trump, I have to say he is certainly right about all the fake news (on this topic at least)..
The "spin" regarding H1B in news articles spewing out since this was announced this morning is amazing...
Everyone (on this site at least), knows that H1B is all about getting rid of Americans in IT jobs in the USA to replace them with cheaper Indians onshore for roles that companies were not able to offshore to India for whatever reason..
On major sites as of this morning..:
On Google News / CNN: http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/0... "Large firms say they need the visas to bring in engineers and other high-skilled workers they can't find in the U.S. "...the article has the above, plus a whole bunch of unrelated sob stories about people who cannot find doctors (an H1B edge case).
again, the fake "skills shortage"..while in reality our IT grads are working in $30K annual salary jobs, Best-Buy and Starbucks because they cannot find good IT work. I know plenty of smart folks in situations like this..
On Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article... "The H-1B non-immigrant visa allows U.S. companies to employ graduate-level workers in several specialized fields, including information technology, medicine, engineering and mathematics."..slightly better, but the article again fails to mention the actual issue anywhere in the piece..that virtually all the of the H1B visas issued are used by outsourcing or IT companies to replace Americans in IT roles in the USA with cheaper onshore Indians flown in from India.
I have to hand it to him, Trump may be rather nuts overall, but he is actually doing what he said he would do, and he is the first person in office to actually address this issue (or even mention it).., which is more than you can say for either the R's or D's that have been president up to now. (I don't really consider Trump to be an 'R', either, for what its worth..he is following his own agenda mostly unrelated to the R party from what I can see..)
Kudos to him, maybe I was wrong about him after all..
I go to Nashua, NH, around the Oracle and other labs residential areas, and there are basically nothing but H1B Indians all over. Go to Herndon, VA (another tech hub), same thing, go up and down the office parking garages, streets, and basically nothing but H1B Indians all over again. Americans are virtually nowhere to be seen..
I talk to my university placement officer of a top 25 US business and tech school, and he says that he cannot place half of his new grads..
Tech salaries are falling year by year, even though there is this 'supposed' shortage..! It is a fraud, there is no shortage. The recession for the middle class tech people would have ended 5 years ago if it wasn't for H1B. We'd all have permanent good jobs, with high salaries, strong benefits and good vacation, with respect from management..if it wasn't for H1B. Apparently 1 out of 2 new tech jobs in this country now goes to an H1B, while there are millions of high educated Americans out of work or underemployed in 'junk-jobs' and tempwork.
Campaign money by large employers are corrupting the law and steal money from regular middle class educated Americans as long as this continues.
It is NOT racism to say that this is wrong.. !
There probably is not much that can be done about offshoring, but 'fake shortage' H1B is happening right here in this country. We are being rubbed out, and being replaced.. in our own country! It *CAN* and *SHOULD* be stopped...now!, if we rise up..
Why don't we take action?. Maybe not a union like the Teamsters, but Lawyers have a union (the American Bar Association), Doctors do (you need to be 'licensed' to practice..that is just like a union..). How about we all wear our Guy Fawks masks(so we can still keep our jobs the next day..those of us that have jobs anyways..) and have a day of protest in tech parks across the country this summer, in front of senate and representatives district offices all over the country.
Be loud, be vocal, like those French unions do. Be disruptive to company bottom lines. Protest in front of their clients when they contract out to firms that use H1B, like those Anti-Abortionist and NRA people do, make the companies feel pain so this changes!.
We don't have to do nothing... If we unite and make disruption enough that it costs more to companies to not listen to us...then they will listen to us, and stop doing things like 'fake shortage' H1B that destroy the middle class.
I often think about this, and the result is more questions, which if answered experimentally, might tell us a lot more about how 'consciousness works in the brain'
ie:
1)How long is 'now'. When you say the word 'hello', as you utter out 'o', is 'he' already a memory like the sentence uttered just before? (it seems to me not.. that 'now' is about 1/2 a second, and other things are in the past, and no longer consciously connected'. Similarly, a series of clicks (ie. via a computer) produced on a speaker, as they become more rapid, appears to become a 'tone' around 1/2 a second or quarter of a second or so...entering 'now'. It is as if, consciousness, has a 4th dimension (time) aspect to it, and to have consciousness, you need to span time a bit (in addition to the 3 physical dimensions of your brain).
Same goes for seeing a 'running man' on the road. It looks like movement, because what you saw a moment before, still seems like now, so a leg has a direction (forwards, backwards), as you see it move, remembering just the frame before.
2)What is red? What would need to be changed in your brain for anything in your field of view seen as red to appear as blue? Researching this, would tell us again, how the physical connects to the conscious. Then, what needs to be altered in brain memory (ie. physically), for a red box, to be recalled as a blue box. once we knew how to do this, we would be a long way to again understanding the connection to consciousness.
3)quantum mechanics (which is a principle widely believed that our brains operate under), talk about spooky action at a distance, and other interesting effects. Is it possible that quantum effects could also allow our brains to span processing across time? (even if it is just a second). Ie, again, when you hear the word hello, as you are hearing 'o', you are still aware of the letter h, not by recalling into memory, but your brain when it hears 'o', is still connected to the brain that heard 'h', a moment before (so processing is in 4D, not 3d). If brains could do this, it would be immensely powerful processingwise, and 'consciousness' may be just a side effect of that 4d processing.
My feeling is that consciousness is somehow related to being able to span time. We know brains are 3D. But maybe they are 'wide' in the 4th diminsion as well, which is why 'now' seems to take a large dicrete amount of time.
Just my thoughts, but trying to answer the above questions experimentally, I think would lead us a lot closer to what 'consciousness' is and how it connects to the physical brain.
The brain is not an electrical based computing system, it is a quantum based computing system. That is how the 'connect' between the physical world and the 'thought/mind' world is made.
So any artificial silicon 'brain' will have have to behave appropriately (ie. quantumly) for such a 'simulation' (or any 'thought' based computation) to work or at least yield any meaningful results..
>I don't think that the average American would feel that our country has lost any respect at all if we
Yep thats right. Actually, arab people aren't generally different than we are (exception of various nutcases wako's around, but the USA has its plenty share too)
>tried to figure out what is pissing those people off so much, and figured out how to address that >problem to remove their reason to fight. It's the only way any lasting peace will be achieved.
Its very simple, and not unreasonable actually..
1)The Palestinians want (at least some of) their land back, and they want their country back (it was where Israel is now). The Israelis don't want to give (any of) it back.
2)Arabs want the USA to stop funding Israel's army and govt, as they are going around the middle east bombing and terrorizing the palestians as well as their neighbors, and the arabs are absolutely sick of it. 9/11 and such was (a rather extreme) case of 'what goes around, comes around'.. see www.aljazeera.net for a daily rundown of what the Israelis do daily over there, all paid for with US free money, free bombs & free support.
3)If the Israeli's (and the USA) want 'terrorism' to stop, see point #1 (and #2) above.
>I don't think that the average American would feel that our country has lost any respect at all if we
Yep thats right. Actually, arab people aren't generally different than we are (exception of various nutcases wako's around, but the USA has its plenty share too)
>tried to figure out what is pissing those people off so much, and figured out how to address that >problem to remove their reason to fight. It's the only way any lasting peace will be achieved.
Its very simple, and not unreasonable actually..
1)The Palestinians want (at least some of) their land back, and they want their country back (it was where Israel is now). The Israelis don't want to give (any of) it back.
2)Arabs want the USA to stop funding Israel's army and govt, as they are going around the middle east bombing and terrorizing the palestians as well as their neighbors, and the arabs are absolutely sick of it. 9/11 and such was (a rather extreme) case of 'what goes around, comes around'.. see www.aljazeera.net for a daily rundown of what the Israelis do daily over there, all paid for with US free money, free bombs & free support.
3)If the Israeli's (and the USA) want 'terrorism' to stop, see point #1 above.
Lets see.. -we got a secret worldwide network of gulags holding afghan fruit stall vendors and other assorted "threats". -spying on Americans without court orders -people dissapearing indefinately in git'mo -Homeland security going after Americans for inocuous "suspicious behavior" -A fanatic in the whitehouse going on about a "religious war" -And complacents (both Dem & Rep) letting it happen..
Welcome to the New Dark Ages... Welcome to the new Amerika..
in 6 short years..how so much has changed....this is how democracy dies if we let it...
I can see stories in the future going "mommie mommie..can tell me again what it was like.. was it true you didn't need to show your license papers everytime you went out? tell me about the free America when you grew up? Aren't we free now mommy?... Son...I am sorry I cannot dear, or else they will.."
In other words, people who have bought legitimate DVDs now cannot play them (BTW, buying DVDs from a different region is still legimate and not illegal, even if the DVD marketeers don't really like it).
So now I guess everyone in the 'wrong region' will then have to get their movies from bittorrent instead.. yet another instance where big media and big software companies push their legimate customers to "piracy". That's brilliant...
1)shut out legitimate DVD purchases 2)push them to bitorrent 3)???? 4)more profit?!?
Hate your government (especially the current one)..but love your country.
I am generally republican leaning, but the current group of guys in charge aren't even Republican, they are just psychos holding the banner..
Perhaps those pieces of the Supreme court facade crashing down to the steps last month was an omen..our forfathers talking to us about what is happening & what they see going on in our country today..
Time will tell if the constitution that the Framers created for us will pull us out of this mess. But it is all our responsibility to do our part.
Open source politics..that is what we need... the current political model is all money based...like the cathedral...we need the bazaar...accountable, open, free... how to do it though.
NTT already sells 1gigabit/sec (thats not a typo!) fiber to the home service in Japan. It is available all over Tokyo, and most other major cities in Japan as well I think..
It costs around $50/month, unlimited usage. You can even stream stereo video/tv on it from home servers to friends places and it works just beautifully.
I am starting to wonder if these PC fires might be due to the "exploding capacitor" problem from that era (where the Taiwan company that stole (and miscopied) the recipe for making capacitors, which then, after 5 years or so, pop, spilling eletrolyte all over a running PC motherboard).
I have read around the net recently several cases of fires happening (but someone was near the PC and shut it off right away, then saw where the smoke came from (around the board where the eletrolyte had spilled out of the pop'd capacitor) after opening it.
Urban legend or is this going to be more of a problem as PCs from this era start exhibiting this problem more as their capacitors 'expire'?
but it not working, see.......Because the people who write the checks to those congresscritters now aren't getting what they paid their money for... that is why they are now wanting to change it..
They didn't ban the phones, but came up with a uniquely Japanese compromise.
They got together with the phone maker association and got them to agree that when phones take a picture, they *must* (all phones do it now BTW) make LOUD camera clicking sounds, or play LOUD music that you can hear across the store...
This way the store keeper can hear the sound, come and throw you out...
Why there is a privacy issue..
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>Linux has those capabilities but we have to assure >our more senior executives that these boxes have >the same level of security and protection as the >commercial products""
This deal is dead. it would be impossible for linux to have the same (ghastly terrible) level of security and (lack of) protection as the commercial products (ie. Windows) provide.
No way it could be done.. Linux is just not engineered for easy application entry to kernel level worm attacks, and hack and virus suceptibility like Windows is. The linux kernel would have to be rewritten from the ground up to support 'security' (hole) features like that.
The article only explains half the story. This is actually worse, and I had been expecting it for somtimes.
This is how Canada is a backdoor to the US: You'd think that because Canadians are cheaper (slightly) that they are using Canadians to do Americans jobs.
Having lived there, I can say that nope, this isn't how it works at all, its worse than that!
Here is what they are doing: (basically, they are moving the Indians to Canada, to outsource them on US projects, because it is easier to get an Indian to Canada than it is to the US. So Canadians aren't even getting the jobs either, because even Canadians are too expensive!)
Canada has a very lax foreigner friendly and immigration policy. Especially if companies go waving around money about 'investing in Canada', the Canadian govt. will buy into it, because they (think) that this will create Canadian jobs rather than destroy them.
Satyam opens his company (I wonder how many of his 120 employees in company in Canada are not Indian). Then bring in Indians/foreigners to do the work less than Canadians will.. (but the office wouldn't have been opened anyways if you couldnt do this, so the Cdn govt doesnt mind that much really).
Then outsource the Indians in Canada, to US projects. Voila! Timezone and connectivity problems all go away because the cheap Indians are now in Canada and not India!
Then it gets even better! Unlike the USA, Canada has a very quick and easy naturalization process (takes only a few years), and then the Indians become 'Canadian' and get Canadian passports.
Then, because of the NAFTA agreement, those Indians can come to America, and take Americans jobs as that is now a T1 Free trade visa, and not an H1B. T1s have no limit, anyone who wants one who is Canadian with a college education in IT can get one and move to the US.
T1s hadn't been a problem since Canadian and American standard of living were almost the same anyways, but with this scam, the whole safeguard goes out the window.
So no one in North America really benefits from this, not the Americans, nor Canadian IT people either..its a purely Indian play.
Its a great plan really, surprised they didn't think of it earlier. Hard to fix it though, if Canada stops the practice, then they can just use Mexico the same way I suppose.
He says: >There are four things you can do in the United >States to be competitive, and none of them is >easy. The education system is first and foremost. >You need to fix
Uh.. The Indians and Chinese are sending their best and brightest university students here all the time to be in our "inferior" school system.
Yet, we are still deep to our eyeballs in unemployed software engineers from coast to coast of the USA, including many who are top class, work(ed) hard, and graduated with top grades from very good universities.
There are lots of problems with the effectiveness of doing software engineering in the USA today, but the education system isn't one of them.
(the real issue is cost differences with the third world, something which isn't likely to sort itself out at all within the career lifespans of any of today's newgrads..)
The company where I work now outsources almost all software work to Asia, India..etc, thousands of jobs that US new grads would have gotten before..
and those projects are succeeding.. which means that those jobs are never coming back.. (and we aren't hiring newgrad software people anymore either..)
Software engineering has absolutely no future in the USA, better to find something else to study in school or do when you graduate..)
Yes it sucks... welcome to the new world order..yeaay globalization..
Just you need to look at it the right way (this is serious)!
What is important is NOT the financial health of the company, which will go bankrupt in 5 years (even the management knows this... but thats not what's important).
Rather, they now have 80M in cash...
Guess what that means!
Massive exec salary and bonus time! (until you go through the 80M).
Put a big hunk of the money in management salary trusts (happens all the time..that way the stockholders/creditors cannot get it when the company goes bust), and management gets rich.
In 5 years, company goes bust, fire all the employees.
Management takes $30M or $40M of it in 'exec compensation' over the 5 years... Retire in the Caymen Islands.
Fuck the company... fuck the employees... who cares..we got rich!
Happens all the time these days.. the new american way.
(I kid you not..in 5 years, when we read the story on Roxio/Napster this is exactly how it will have played out...)
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Why stop at China's borders with 'Social Credit'.. they can take it global.. we're not thinking big enough..
To buy from Aliexpress, your account will come with 'social credit'. Say something bad about China, your prices will go up.
Your company wants to buy (or sell) something with China as the counterparty.. how is the social credit of your staff rate? (they will slurp your staff list from linked in, facebook, or your company's poorly secured India outsourced mail server).
Then your HR will instruct you to never say anything bad about China on the web as it is 'bad for business'.
Oh, your Xiaomi or Huewai phone tells the Chinese govt that you went to China, or were at a democracy rally in your country... minus social credit for you..
The more powerful China's economy becomes in the world, the more this will impact you, even if you don't live in China or never intend to go there..
If Apple is so concerned about slave labor, rather than having this keep coming up year after year..
they could you know..just make the watches here in America..
like they used to with Macs and Apples years ago..
Just saying..
here we go again..
Step 1 - Exclaim shortage of some IT skill in the media (and of course don't raise compensation to the market clearing rate or train anyone)
Step 2 - Send to same media various disaster stories and threats to civilization due to said 'shortage'
Step 3 - Lobby congress for Visas from some third world country (probably India, but could be elsewhere)
Step 4 - Get rid of all your Americans currently in the roles (hey, they were useless anyways!) and replace with cheaper said visa workers
Step 5 - PROFIT!
Though I did not vote for Trump, I have to say he is certainly right about all the fake news (on this topic at least)..
The "spin" regarding H1B in news articles spewing out since this was announced this morning is amazing...
Everyone (on this site at least), knows that H1B is all about getting rid of Americans in IT jobs in the USA to replace them with cheaper Indians onshore for roles that companies were not able to offshore to India for whatever reason..
On major sites as of this morning..:
On Google News / CNN: ...the article has the above, plus a whole bunch of unrelated sob stories about people who cannot find doctors (an H1B edge case).
http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/0...
"Large firms say they need the visas to bring in engineers and other high-skilled workers they can't find in the U.S. "
again, the fake "skills shortage"..while in reality our IT grads are working in $30K annual salary jobs, Best-Buy and Starbucks because they cannot find good IT work. I know plenty of smart folks in situations like this..
On Reuters: ..slightly better, but the article again fails to mention the actual issue anywhere in the piece..that virtually all the of the H1B visas issued are used by outsourcing or IT companies to replace Americans in IT roles in the USA with cheaper onshore Indians flown in from India.
http://www.reuters.com/article...
"The H-1B non-immigrant visa allows U.S. companies to employ graduate-level workers in several specialized fields, including information technology, medicine, engineering and mathematics."
I have to hand it to him, Trump may be rather nuts overall, but he is actually doing what he said he would do, and he is the first person in office to actually address this issue (or even mention it).., which is more than you can say for either the R's or D's that have been president up to now. (I don't really consider Trump to be an 'R', either, for what its worth..he is following his own agenda mostly unrelated to the R party from what I can see..)
Kudos to him, maybe I was wrong about him after all..
There is a problem in this country..
I go to Nashua, NH, around the Oracle and other labs residential areas, and there are basically nothing but H1B Indians all over. Go to Herndon, VA (another tech hub), same thing, go up and down the office parking garages, streets, and basically nothing but H1B Indians all over again. Americans are virtually nowhere to be seen..
I talk to my university placement officer of a top 25 US business and tech school, and he says that he cannot place half of his new grads..
Tech salaries are falling year by year, even though there is this 'supposed' shortage..!
It is a fraud, there is no shortage. The recession for the middle class tech people would have ended 5 years ago if it wasn't for H1B. We'd all have permanent good jobs, with high salaries, strong benefits and good vacation, with respect from management..if it wasn't for H1B. Apparently 1 out of 2 new tech jobs in this country now goes to an H1B, while there are millions of high educated Americans out of work or underemployed in 'junk-jobs' and tempwork.
Campaign money by large employers are corrupting the law and steal money from regular middle class educated Americans as long as this continues.
It is NOT racism to say that this is wrong.. !
There probably is not much that can be done about offshoring, but 'fake shortage' H1B is happening right here in this country. We are being rubbed out, and being replaced.. in our own country! It *CAN* and *SHOULD* be stopped...now!, if we rise up..
Why don't we take action?. Maybe not a union like the Teamsters, but Lawyers have a union (the American Bar Association), Doctors do (you need to be 'licensed' to practice..that is just like a union..). How about we all wear our Guy Fawks masks(so we can still keep our jobs the next day..those of us that have jobs anyways..) and have a day of protest in tech parks across the country this summer, in front of senate and representatives district offices all over the country.
Be loud, be vocal, like those French unions do. Be disruptive to company bottom lines. Protest in front of their clients when they contract out to firms that use H1B, like those Anti-Abortionist and NRA people do, make the companies feel pain so this changes!.
We don't have to do nothing... If we unite and make disruption enough that it costs more to companies to not listen to us...then they will listen to us, and stop doing things like 'fake shortage' H1B that destroy the middle class.
-interesting article..
I often think about this, and the result is more questions, which if answered experimentally, might tell us a lot more about how 'consciousness works in the brain'
ie:
1)How long is 'now'. When you say the word 'hello', as you utter out 'o', is 'he' already a memory like the sentence uttered just before? (it seems to me not.. that 'now' is about 1/2 a second, and other things are in the past, and no longer consciously connected'. Similarly, a series of clicks (ie. via a computer) produced on a speaker, as they become more rapid, appears to become a 'tone' around 1/2 a second or quarter of a second or so...entering 'now'. It is as if, consciousness, has a 4th dimension (time) aspect to it, and to have consciousness, you need to span time a bit (in addition to the 3 physical dimensions of your brain).
Same goes for seeing a 'running man' on the road. It looks like movement, because what you saw a moment before, still seems like now, so a leg has a direction (forwards, backwards), as you see it move, remembering just the frame before.
2)What is red? What would need to be changed in your brain for anything in your field of view seen as red to appear as blue? Researching this, would tell us again, how the physical connects to the conscious. Then, what needs to be altered in brain memory (ie. physically), for a red box, to be recalled as a blue box. once we knew how to do this, we would be a long way to again understanding the connection to consciousness.
3)quantum mechanics (which is a principle widely believed that our brains operate under), talk about spooky action at a distance, and other interesting effects. Is it possible that quantum effects could also allow our brains to span processing across time? (even if it is just a second). Ie, again, when you hear the word hello, as you are hearing 'o', you are still aware of the letter h, not by recalling into memory, but your brain when it hears 'o', is still connected to the brain that heard 'h', a moment before (so processing is in 4D, not 3d). If brains could do this, it would be immensely powerful processingwise, and 'consciousness' may be just a side effect of that 4d processing.
My feeling is that consciousness is somehow related to being able to span time. We know brains are 3D. But maybe they are 'wide' in the 4th diminsion as well, which is why 'now' seems to take a large dicrete amount of time.
Just my thoughts, but trying to answer the above questions experimentally, I think would lead us a lot closer to what 'consciousness' is and how it connects to the physical brain.
The brain is not an electrical based computing system, it is a quantum based computing system. That is how the 'connect' between the physical world and the 'thought/mind' world is made.
So any artificial silicon 'brain' will have have to behave appropriately (ie. quantumly) for such a 'simulation' (or any 'thought' based computation) to work or at least yield any meaningful results..
>I don't think that the average American would feel that our country has lost any respect at all if we
Yep thats right. Actually, arab people aren't generally different than we are (exception of various nutcases wako's around, but the USA has its plenty share too)
>tried to figure out what is pissing those people off so much, and figured out how to address that
>problem to remove their reason to fight. It's the only way any lasting peace will be achieved.
Its very simple, and not unreasonable actually..
1)The Palestinians want (at least some of) their land back, and they want their country back (it was where Israel is now). The Israelis don't want to give (any of) it back.
2)Arabs want the USA to stop funding Israel's army and govt, as they are going around the middle east bombing and terrorizing the palestians as well as their neighbors, and the arabs are absolutely sick of it. 9/11 and such was (a rather extreme) case of 'what goes around, comes around'.. see www.aljazeera.net for a daily rundown of what the Israelis do daily over there, all paid for with US free money, free bombs & free support.
3)If the Israeli's (and the USA) want 'terrorism' to stop, see point #1 (and #2) above.
Basically thats it.. its very simple really.
>I don't think that the average American would feel that our country has lost any respect at all if we
Yep thats right. Actually, arab people aren't generally different than we are (exception of various nutcases wako's around, but the USA has its plenty share too)
>tried to figure out what is pissing those people off so much, and figured out how to address that
>problem to remove their reason to fight. It's the only way any lasting peace will be achieved.
Its very simple, and not unreasonable actually..
1)The Palestinians want (at least some of) their land back, and they want their country back (it was where Israel is now). The Israelis don't want to give (any of) it back.
2)Arabs want the USA to stop funding Israel's army and govt, as they are going around the middle east bombing and terrorizing the palestians as well as their neighbors, and the arabs are absolutely sick of it. 9/11 and such was (a rather extreme) case of 'what goes around, comes around'.. see www.aljazeera.net for a daily rundown of what the Israelis do daily over there, all paid for with US free money, free bombs & free support.
3)If the Israeli's (and the USA) want 'terrorism' to stop, see point #1 above.
Basically thats it.. its very simple really.
>Why won't anyone stand up in Congress and say, "but Mr. Verizon,
> Mr. AT&T, aren't you just trying to charge twice for the same
> service?"
Because Verizon and AT&T's lobbyists pay the people in congress to not stand up and ask the question, thats why...
Maybe its time for open source/open moderated politics as well..the current system seems rather too...proprietary...
Hint... the terrorists are in the white house.
..this is how democracy dies if we let it...
Lets see..
-we got a secret worldwide network of gulags holding afghan fruit stall vendors and other assorted "threats".
-spying on Americans without court orders
-people dissapearing indefinately in git'mo
-Homeland security going after Americans for inocuous "suspicious behavior"
-A fanatic in the whitehouse going on about a "religious war"
-And complacents (both Dem & Rep) letting it happen..
Welcome to the New Dark Ages... Welcome to the new Amerika..
in 6 short years..how so much has changed..
I can see stories in the future going "mommie mommie..can tell me again what it was like.. was it true you didn't need to show your license papers everytime you went out? tell me about the free America when you grew up? Aren't we free now mommy?... Son...I am sorry I cannot dear, or else they will.."
In other words, people who have bought legitimate DVDs now cannot play them (BTW, buying DVDs from a different region is still legimate and not illegal, even if the DVD marketeers don't really like it).
So now I guess everyone in the 'wrong region' will then have to get their movies from bittorrent instead.. yet another instance where big media and big software companies push their legimate customers to "piracy". That's brilliant...
1)shut out legitimate DVD purchases
2)push them to bitorrent
3)????
4)more profit?!?
Gotta wonder about some of these companies...
Hate your government (especially the current one)..but love your country.
I am generally republican leaning, but the current group of guys in charge aren't even Republican, they are just psychos holding the banner..
Perhaps those pieces of the Supreme court facade crashing down to the steps last month was an omen..our forfathers talking to us about what is happening & what they see going on in our country today..
Time will tell if the constitution that the Framers created for us will pull us out of this mess. But it is all our responsibility to do our part.
Open source politics..that is what we need... the current political model is all money based...like the cathedral...we need the bazaar...accountable, open, free... how to do it though.
The future is already here..
NTT already sells 1gigabit/sec (thats not a typo!) fiber to the home
service in Japan. It is available all over Tokyo, and most other major cities in Japan as well I think..
It costs around $50/month, unlimited usage. You can even stream stereo video/tv on it from home servers to friends places and it works just beautifully.
They'' just put the RFID'ish technology in your license plate.
And of course if you don't have one of those when you are driving around, guess what happens..... uh, yes officer..
I am starting to wonder if these PC fires might be due to the "exploding capacitor" problem from that era (where the Taiwan company that stole (and miscopied) the recipe for making capacitors, which then, after 5 years or so, pop, spilling eletrolyte all over a running PC motherboard).
I have read around the net recently several cases of fires happening (but someone was near the PC and shut it off right away, then saw where the smoke came from (around the board where the eletrolyte had spilled out of the pop'd capacitor) after opening it.
Urban legend or is this going to be more of a problem as PCs from this era start exhibiting this problem more as their capacitors 'expire'?
Once we understand the physics behind it...we'll understand consciousness..etc, and then it will become an issue.
We don't yet know enough physics to explain how the brain works. (its not just 'conventional computing' like a PC, even a big one).
Just because a conventional computer is big, does not mean that it is alive..
but it not working, see.... ...Because the people who write the checks to those congresscritters now aren't getting what they paid their money for... that is why they are now wanting to change it..
I live in Japan.
They didn't ban the phones, but came up with a uniquely Japanese compromise.
They got together with the phone maker association and got them to agree that when phones take a picture, they *must* (all phones do it now BTW) make LOUD camera clicking sounds, or play LOUD music that you can hear across the store...
This way the store keeper can hear the sound, come and throw you out...
"Dear Google, We are from the US Dept of Homeland Security. We see that you are able to scan all users mail for keywords."
.....
You are ordered by the PATRIOT act under penalty of perjury to send all mail user accounts that contain results of the scan program that match the words below, to the Dept of Home Security. Holders of those addresses will be investigated for acts considered to be against the interest of the Government of the United States of America.
You are forbidden by the PATRIOT act to discuss this action with your shareholders, the public, or anyone else or face federal prosecution. Thank you for your co-operation"
bomb
terror
Osama
Democrat
Abortion
Immoral
porn
voting machines
rigged
Bush
protest
WTO
peaceful
US DEPT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
>Linux has those capabilities but we have to assure
>our more senior executives that these boxes have
>the same level of security and protection as the
>commercial products""
This deal is dead. it would be impossible for linux to have the same (ghastly terrible) level of security and (lack of) protection as the commercial products (ie. Windows) provide.
No way it could be done.. Linux is just not engineered for easy application entry to kernel level worm attacks, and hack and virus suceptibility like Windows is. The linux kernel would have to be rewritten from the ground up to support 'security' (hole) features like that.
The article only explains half the story. This is actually worse, and I had been expecting it for somtimes.
This is how Canada is a backdoor to the US:
You'd think that because Canadians are cheaper (slightly) that they are using Canadians to do Americans jobs.
Having lived there, I can say that nope, this isn't how it works at all, its worse than that!
Here is what they are doing: (basically, they are moving the Indians to Canada, to outsource them on US projects, because it is easier to get an Indian to Canada than it is to the US. So Canadians aren't even getting the jobs either, because even Canadians are too expensive!)
Canada has a very lax foreigner friendly and immigration policy. Especially if companies go waving around money about 'investing in Canada', the Canadian govt. will buy into it, because they (think) that this will create Canadian jobs rather than destroy them.
Satyam opens his company (I wonder how many of his 120 employees in company in Canada are not Indian). Then bring in Indians/foreigners to do the work less than Canadians will.. (but the office wouldn't have been opened anyways if you couldnt do this, so the Cdn govt doesnt mind that much really).
Then outsource the Indians in Canada, to US projects. Voila! Timezone and connectivity problems all go away because the cheap Indians are now in Canada and not India!
Then it gets even better! Unlike the USA, Canada has a very quick and easy naturalization process (takes only a few years), and then the Indians become 'Canadian' and get Canadian passports.
Then, because of the NAFTA agreement, those Indians can come to America, and take Americans jobs as that is now a T1 Free trade visa, and not an H1B. T1s have no limit, anyone who wants one who is Canadian with a college education in IT can get one and move to the US.
T1s hadn't been a problem since Canadian and American standard of living were almost the same anyways, but with this scam, the whole safeguard goes out the window.
So no one in North America really benefits from this, not the Americans, nor Canadian IT people either..its a purely Indian play.
Its a great plan really, surprised they didn't think of it earlier. Hard to fix it though, if Canada stops the practice, then they can just use Mexico the same way I suppose.
I've been there, and I know you can buy bootleg music on street stalls all over the place in Seoul, and its been that way for years.
P2P is really the least of their worries I think.
Their article sounds like FUD to me..
Re: outsourcing
He says:
>There are four things you can do in the United
>States to be competitive, and none of them is
>easy. The education system is first and foremost.
>You need to fix
Uh.. The Indians and Chinese are sending their best and brightest university students here all the time to be in our "inferior" school system.
Yet, we are still deep to our eyeballs in unemployed software engineers from coast to coast of the USA, including many who are top class, work(ed) hard, and graduated with top grades from very good universities.
There are lots of problems with the effectiveness of doing software engineering in the USA today, but the education system isn't one of them.
(the real issue is cost differences with the third world, something which isn't likely to sort itself out at all within the career lifespans of any of today's newgrads..)
The company where I work now outsources almost all software work to Asia, India..etc, thousands of jobs that US new grads would have gotten before..
and those projects are succeeding.. which means that those jobs are never coming back.. (and we aren't hiring newgrad software people anymore either..)
Software engineering has absolutely no future in the USA, better to find something else to study in school or do when you graduate..)
Yes it sucks... welcome to the new world order..yeaay globalization..
This one's easy... MBA 101..
Here is how you make profit from this:
Just you need to look at it the right way (this is serious)!
What is important is NOT the financial health of the company, which will go bankrupt in 5 years (even the management knows this... but thats not what's important).
Rather, they now have 80M in cash...
Guess what that means!
Massive exec salary and bonus time! (until you go through the 80M).
Put a big hunk of the money in management salary trusts (happens all the time..that way the stockholders/creditors cannot get it when the company goes bust), and management gets rich.
In 5 years, company goes bust, fire all the employees.
Management takes $30M or $40M of it in 'exec compensation' over the 5 years... Retire in the Caymen Islands.
Fuck the company... fuck the employees... who cares..we got rich!
Happens all the time these days.. the new american way.
(I kid you not..in 5 years, when we read the story on Roxio/Napster this is exactly how it will have played out...)