You wouldn't give your personal email to somebody that was trying to hire you?
There's a difference between giving your personal e-mail address to somebody that's trying to hire you, and posting your e-mail address on a public job board.
you should be able to have open access..AND WPA2 at the same time.
But what would be the point? You need encryption at the application layer, since after the router it's all cleartext otherwise, so if WPA2 isn't being used for access control, what would it gain?
I can collect rainwater for free! I have a yard where I can dig a hole and shit! I must be a moron to be paying these guys who put the plumbing in every month.
So dig a well and put in a septic tank. If you do so, no one will expect you to keep paying the installers a monthly fee.
Except for the monthly fee you pay for the electricity to run the well pump, of course. And the fee for the service contracts, where they come and do the maintenance that keeps your well water treated and chemically balanced, and your septic tank from backing up and flooding you with shit.
That's what you're paying your municipal water and sewer bureau for. Not a royalty on the pipe they laid down years ago, but for ongoing service and maintenance work.
Personally, I think we should get rid of the notion that everyone is qualified to vote.
Absolutely. How do I know that not everyone is qualified to vote? Why, some people vote differently than me. Since I am always correct[*], this demonstrates their inadequacy to hold the franchise. So you can just go ahead and give me the authority to purge the voter roles.
I mean, if you can't trust me to set the standards as to who is qualified to vote, whom can you trust?
([*] My opinions are definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.)
people without jobs don't want to commute 4 hours a day for it
People who've been without jobs for a while can't afford the gas, insurance, and maintenance on a vehicle to allow them to commute four hours a day. I'd guess that for many, finding childcare for those extra hours is also difficult.
Looking just at the basic cost of commuting: Some back-of-the-envelope figures: at 50 mph, four hours is 200 miles; at 25 mpg, that's 8 gallons of gas; at $2.60 a gallon, that's $20.80 in gas to get to and from work each day. So on a ten hour shift at $10, more than 20% of your gross pay is going for gas. Take the $79.20 that's left after you pay for gas, divide by the fourteen hours of work+commute, and after accounting just for gas and the commute time, you're left with $5.66 an hour.
Take an minimum wage, $7.25/hour job with a one hour roundtrip commute, run the same calculation, and the effective pay is ($72.50-$5.20)/11 = $6.12 an hour. Commuting 4 hours a day for a $10 an hour job doesn't make sense unless you believe there are absolutely no other jobs available or going to become available reasonably soon.
I looked up Kansas minimum wage laws. It's $2.65 an hour, going up to $7.25 next year. Amazon is paying 4x minimum wage.
Perhaps you're from outside the U.S. and so don't realize it, but such a low minimum wage in state law is superseded by the federal minimum, currently $7.25. (The federal minimum has been more that $2.65 an hour since 1979.) Amazon is most definitely not paying four times the minimum wage.
As do other countries. The HufPost article refers to conditions ar "Some of the Amazon warehouses in the UK." I don't know what labor laws there are like, of course. But regardless of whether it's legal, Amazon's crappy working conditions are yet another reason while I'll keep shopping elsewhere.
(minimum wage = minimum productivity for obvious reasons) will cause staggering numbers of layoffs. Raising minimum productivity by 5% would certainly kill over 20%-30% of jobs, nationwide.
As for access, all my personal mail (and also the mail from my current job) includes is in MH folders on my home box. I can ssh in from anywhere -- even from my phone -- and have access to e-mail archives going back more than a decade from MH, alpine, or standard command-line tools.
I promise to reply to emails quickly wherever I am if you promise never to ask me to remember what we talked about.
Ah. Well, if you never discuss anything worthwhile by e-mail, I suppose your needs are different.
But, code is a product, and expected to be created. The value is obvious when it's completed, but still worthless to the bean counters until someone in sales sells it to a customer.
But most code is never sold to a customer. The majority of development is in-house, bespoke software. With no sales price, that makes it even harder to see the the value.
Yes, he was a geeky kid who got into the new small-computer stuff, and he even learned a bit of programming. But his real background was business management, and he was born with the proverbial silver spoon in his mouth. He cultivated the computer-geek image, while developing his insider-to-upper-management-levels reality.
Exactly! Gads, it's bad enough that the dominance of MS has retarded progress in computing for decades, but to have people buy into the myth that MS got to the top based on Gate's 'leet coding skills -- feh!
You can harvest energy from a temperature gradient, but once the headband is at ambient temperature, there's no more gradient.
Unless the ambient temperature is equal to your skin temperature, there's a gradient.
Or are you confused by the idea that something at ambient temperature can feel uncomfortably cold? A surface at 19 C (66 F) right against your forehead, actively conducting away heat, is a different sensation than air at the same temperature. It's not just the temperature, but the thermal conductivity For example, air at that temperature is fairly comfortable (little chilly for my taste), but water at the same temperature can (with long exposure) cause mild hypothermia.
Is it really the developed worlds fault that the less-developed nations have the problems they do? I've yet to see a convincing argument of that.
May I suggest you read some gorram history, then, and learn about the imperialism? When nation A comes into nation B and steals land and resources, exploits and outright murders people, and destroys cultural and political institutions that have ordered the people's lives for centuries, yes, it is nation A's fault when nation B continues to have problems for some time after it has been, effectively, raped and beaten.
Somehow, the premise assumes that every culture deserves to flourish on its own and should not be interfered with or eliminated by superior culture (superior being defined in the Darwinian sense of, "the winner is superior"). Why is this taken for granted?
Are you seriously arguing that war, theft, and violence are acceptable behavior? That might makes right? If that's your belief, then further argument is pointless; I'd could only prove to you that I'm "right" by proving to be "stronger", i.e. beating the crap out of you. Do you really that that (hypothetically!) jumping out from a dark alley and beaning you with a baseball bat and stealing your wallet would make me "superior"? After all, clearly I'd be the "winner" in such a situation.
Apart from giving the laptop the same name as the MS search engine (surely designed to attract controversy and hence publicity)
If you're going with a "cherry" theme, you're going to use the name "bing" at some point.. Cherrypal's site says they launched July 21, 2008, and Google shows hits on "cherrypal bing" that date to January 2009, well before MS rebranded its search engine. So if anything, it's MS who stole the name.
The fact that free software is generally of higher quality is a bonus, one that the "open source" movement focused on. The guy who created the "Open Source Definition" has said it's important to focus on freedom, but unfortunately many still think that talking about people's freedom to use, share, and modify software is just too radical.
We do? My use of computers wouldn't be significantly impacted if every proprietary program disappeared tomorrow, and many other folks get by fine with little or no proprietary software. What do we need proprietary software for?
You want insurers to all buy into a single backer, so that they'll fail en masse instead of individually?
Put all your eggs in one basket and *watch* *that* *basket*.
If things got so bad that the U.S. government -- which can literally print money to meet its financial obligations -- failed, private backers would have evaporated by that point anyway.
but why the FTC? What can they do about it? What control or influence do they have over what a private business does with their member's website?
What do you mean, "what control or influence do they have"? They're an arm of the federal government, which has lots of guns. They even have a Constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce, so it's nice and legal for them to point their guns around.
This is exactly what the Federal Trade Commission exists for: consumer protection.
If the CRU letters are any indication, I guess this is how "science" is done these days, now, anyway.
Contrary to right-wing spin, the CRU letters do not indicate falsification or fabrication of data. The only thing they reveal is that scientists can get pissy about shills and wackos who try to disrupt their work. I suspect that's no more the case "these days" than is was in days gone by.
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There's a difference between giving your personal e-mail address to somebody that's trying to hire you, and posting your e-mail address on a public job board.
But what would be the point? You need encryption at the application layer, since after the router it's all cleartext otherwise, so if WPA2 isn't being used for access control, what would it gain?
So dig a well and put in a septic tank. If you do so, no one will expect you to keep paying the installers a monthly fee.
Except for the monthly fee you pay for the electricity to run the well pump, of course. And the fee for the service contracts, where they come and do the maintenance that keeps your well water treated and chemically balanced, and your septic tank from backing up and flooding you with shit.
That's what you're paying your municipal water and sewer bureau for. Not a royalty on the pipe they laid down years ago, but for ongoing service and maintenance work.
And non-British definitions of Asia put Afghanistan on which continent? Africa?
Dmitry Sklyarov might disagree.
The government is, effectively, the enforcement arm for corporate power (and all other sorts of private power).
Absolutely. How do I know that not everyone is qualified to vote? Why, some people vote differently than me. Since I am always correct[*], this demonstrates their inadequacy to hold the franchise. So you can just go ahead and give me the authority to purge the voter roles.
I mean, if you can't trust me to set the standards as to who is qualified to vote, whom can you trust?
([*] My opinions are definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.)
Not in the presence of DRM. Access to all unauthorized or inconvenient data can be revoked by the central authority.
Until the Tycho Uprising, at least. (Can't believe no one has linked to "The Right to Read" yet. RMS, ahead of the curve as always.)
People who've been without jobs for a while can't afford the gas, insurance, and maintenance on a vehicle to allow them to commute four hours a day. I'd guess that for many, finding childcare for those extra hours is also difficult.
Looking just at the basic cost of commuting: Some back-of-the-envelope figures: at 50 mph, four hours is 200 miles; at 25 mpg, that's 8 gallons of gas; at $2.60 a gallon, that's $20.80 in gas to get to and from work each day. So on a ten hour shift at $10, more than 20% of your gross pay is going for gas. Take the $79.20 that's left after you pay for gas, divide by the fourteen hours of work+commute, and after accounting just for gas and the commute time, you're left with $5.66 an hour.
Take an minimum wage, $7.25/hour job with a one hour roundtrip commute, run the same calculation, and the effective pay is ($72.50-$5.20)/11 = $6.12 an hour. Commuting 4 hours a day for a $10 an hour job doesn't make sense unless you believe there are absolutely no other jobs available or going to become available reasonably soon.
Perhaps you're from outside the U.S. and so don't realize it, but such a low minimum wage in state law is superseded by the federal minimum, currently $7.25. (The federal minimum has been more that $2.65 an hour since 1979.) Amazon is most definitely not paying four times the minimum wage.
As do other countries. The HufPost article refers to conditions ar "Some of the Amazon warehouses in the UK." I don't know what labor laws there are like, of course. But regardless of whether it's legal, Amazon's crappy working conditions are yet another reason while I'll keep shopping elsewhere.
Bullshit. The minimum wage has been raised many times, and such massive job losses never occured. The impact on employment is small and diminishes to insignificance over time.
In fact, our taxes are near historically low levels, and are low compared to other industrialized nations.
So. Any other ahistorical claims you'd like to make?
I am, frankly, dumbfounded to hear someone say this. I find myself grepping old mail at least several times a month.
Gmail does not win the data loss battle every time.
As for access, all my personal mail (and also the mail from my current job) includes is in MH folders on my home box. I can ssh in from anywhere -- even from my phone -- and have access to e-mail archives going back more than a decade from MH, alpine, or standard command-line tools.
Ah. Well, if you never discuss anything worthwhile by e-mail, I suppose your needs are different.
Have you tried mozex?
But most code is never sold to a customer. The majority of development is in-house, bespoke software. With no sales price, that makes it even harder to see the the value.
Exactly! Gads, it's bad enough that the dominance of MS has retarded progress in computing for decades, but to have people buy into the myth that MS got to the top based on Gate's 'leet coding skills -- feh!
Unless the ambient temperature is equal to your skin temperature, there's a gradient.
Or are you confused by the idea that something at ambient temperature can feel uncomfortably cold? A surface at 19 C (66 F) right against your forehead, actively conducting away heat, is a different sensation than air at the same temperature. It's not just the temperature, but the thermal conductivity For example, air at that temperature is fairly comfortable (little chilly for my taste), but water at the same temperature can (with long exposure) cause mild hypothermia.
May I suggest you read some gorram history, then, and learn about the imperialism? When nation A comes into nation B and steals land and resources, exploits and outright murders people, and destroys cultural and political institutions that have ordered the people's lives for centuries, yes, it is nation A's fault when nation B continues to have problems for some time after it has been, effectively, raped and beaten.
Are you seriously arguing that war, theft, and violence are acceptable behavior? That might makes right? If that's your belief, then further argument is pointless; I'd could only prove to you that I'm "right" by proving to be "stronger", i.e. beating the crap out of you. Do you really that that (hypothetically!) jumping out from a dark alley and beaning you with a baseball bat and stealing your wallet would make me "superior"? After all, clearly I'd be the "winner" in such a situation.
If you're going with a "cherry" theme, you're going to use the name "bing" at some point.. Cherrypal's site says they launched July 21, 2008, and Google shows hits on "cherrypal bing" that date to January 2009, well before MS rebranded its search engine. So if anything, it's MS who stole the name.
The point of free software is freedom.
The fact that free software is generally of higher quality is a bonus, one that the "open source" movement focused on. The guy who created the "Open Source Definition" has said it's important to focus on freedom, but unfortunately many still think that talking about people's freedom to use, share, and modify software is just too radical.
We do? My use of computers wouldn't be significantly impacted if every proprietary program disappeared tomorrow, and many other folks get by fine with little or no proprietary software. What do we need proprietary software for?
You do realize that it's perfectly ok for free (as in freedom) software to cost money, yes?
Put all your eggs in one basket and *watch* *that* *basket*.
If things got so bad that the U.S. government -- which can literally print money to meet its financial obligations -- failed, private backers would have evaporated by that point anyway.
What do you mean, "what control or influence do they have"? They're an arm of the federal government, which has lots of guns. They even have a Constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce, so it's nice and legal for them to point their guns around.
This is exactly what the Federal Trade Commission exists for: consumer protection.
Contrary to right-wing spin, the CRU letters do not indicate falsification or fabrication of data. The only thing they reveal is that scientists can get pissy about shills and wackos who try to disrupt their work. I suspect that's no more the case "these days" than is was in days gone by.