The problem with public key encrypted email is that your keys only work for encrypting email you receive, not the email you send. In order for an email to be private, the receiver has to set up encryption.
While I'm sure I could set up encryption for my email quite easily, I can assure you most of my friends and family have no interest in going to the effort.
In addition to that, encryption only encrypts the body of the message. The to/from addresses, header line, and other tags are sent in plain text, regardless of whether you "encrypt" your email. And the NSA, et. al. claim they're only interested in that header information in the first place to identify who your contacts are, not what you're saying to them.
So encrypt away -- they're still getting the info they want from your email headers.
Oops. Sorry. It's not the personal income tax that gets matched, it's the unemployment insurance premiums.
Still, when push comes to shove, an employee's "cost" is roughly double their salary here. And that's not allowing for corporate overhead like accounting, management, receptionists, facilities, etc.
Here in Canada, corporations match the personal income tax paid by an employee. Health coverage is not included, and the fees are increasing every year. But the biggest part of the pie by far is the liability insurance for a contract company.
Good luck finding contracts as an individual if you don't pony up for liability insurance.
Perched on a rickety kitchen chair in front of a monitor that was sitting on top of the computer tower with the keyboard in my lap and the mouse on a card table to the side.
We were just starting a contract and the furniture hadn't arrived yet.:)
I know people who own both types of device who are so unhappy with them that they're swearing to never buy another one, and try the other with their next purchase.
It's like someone who buys a Ford, hates the Ford, so they buy a GM, hate the GM, so they buy a Chrysler, hate the Chrysler... they're just never going to find a "perfect" device for their needs.
I just look forward to the organization behind the SWIFT protocols suing Apple into the ground for trying to appropriate a name that already has a well-established meaning in computing. They've certainly got the budget to do it...:)
They could have chosen a name other than that of the international banking protocols. Asking for SWIFT programmers is going to get them a bevy of COBOL coders who know the protocol.
Most of the newer UI models do not have anywhere near the amount of research backing them that the CUA did. Often the newer models are "neat ideas" coded by someone with virtually no user testing (I'm looking at you, Gnome 3 team.)
Motif, CDE, Windows right up through 7 -- they all supported the IBM Common User Access styleguides from way, way back. I had a printed copy of the guide in '89. A lot of research went into the CUA, and IBM made it publicly available.
Windows 8 breaks that model. So does the Mac, and every tablet device out there.
I realize the CUA isn't suitable for tablets or phones. But nor are tablet and phone metaphors suitable for the desktop.
I've worked on teams with a variety of skillsets over the years ranging from fresh-out-of-college new grads to seasoned "dinosaurs" with 50 years experience. Everyone had something they were good at and could contribute to the project, though many times what they could contribute wasn't technically the role they were hired for.
There was only one exception: a fellow way back in the early '90s who got a job on the project I was on because he'd supposedly done programming for AT&T after graduating from Bowling Green.
The first time we reviewed his code, we realized it was bullshit. Before every single stdio function call, there was a "#include <stdio.h>" statement. Every single call!
Further investigation proved that his degree was a fraud -- Bowling Green had no record of any student by his name.
Despite that, he was stuffed in a corner and allowed to "work" the remainder of his six month contract by "reviewing" documentation and marking spelling and grammar corrections with a red pen.
He couldn't even do that -- his English sucked.
But firing him would have put the company at risk of a lawsuit, so they had him make the documentation binders.
So even the worst team idiot can do something "useful" if you've got no choice but to keep them busy with something.:P
You never know where your career will take you. My cousin trained for IT, got a job doing programming for the IT accounting department of a rather large bakery firm here in Canada, and in 2-3 years was managing projects. From there he shifted to managing the department, which mean he now had both accounting and IT people reporting to him. Fast forward another 20 years and he's the director of the finance department, and hasn't touched a keyboard in over 15 years for anything other than email.
What's sad is that you don't see the disaster that has come for the societies of the world with the behaviour of the American goveernment and it's agencies.
What's sad is that you think I'm "paranoid" when the evidence has already been laid out before you.
What's sad is that you have to resort to name calling, insults, and slams rather than making any pointed arguments without them.
Personally I think you're a chat bot whose script goes something like this:
Even in the 90's it was so bad that a friend of mine in Florida used to set up a new corporation for each contract so that if/when he was sued, they could only seize the assets of the corporation the contract was with. And those corporations never owned a damned thing, because they leased their hardware from another one of his corporations that owned all the servers, software, and to which all the profits of the individual contracts were funnelled.
And it's a damned good thing he did, because in the space of three years two of his ever so kindly customers sued the shit out of him for crap that was either out of anyone's control or which they'd caused through their own incompetent specifications.
Because at the end of the day, the sole reason for hiring a contractor instead of an individual is so you can sue the contracting company instead of taking responsibility for your own screwups.
I had a love of video games in the late '70s right around when the TRS-80 Model I Level I was released and the opportunity to sit with one for hours at the local Radio Shack once a month. To be honest, I was hoping to get into dentistry or pharmacy, but my grades weren't good enough, but they were good enough by half a percent to get me into the University of Saskatchewan's Computer Science program through the College of Arts and Science.
And thus my career was born as much by chance as by intention.
Nowadays I'm on disability, but I still sling code for the fun of it -- I just don't have to put up with bullshit meetings or any body else's artificial schedules, so it's as much fun as it was when I was 14 and just learning to PEEK and POKE Z-80 machine code.
From what I've seen, people on a tight budget get a smart phone with a data plan and use that to get online, not a landline cable or DSL connection. That way they hit two birds with one device: phone service and internet.
Sure it's not as "good" as a landline internet connection with a good computer. But it is far cheaper -- at least at first.
I'd rather code COBOL or FORTRAN
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I've had the misery of suffering with maintaining a few PHP applications over the years. It is, bar none, THE WORST LANGUAGE I have ever used. Even COBOL does a better job of handling the humungous amount of copy-paste code that PHP requires. Even FORTRAN does a better job of error checking before run-time.
Maybe if we weren't trying to tunnel every god damned protocol and transport known to mankind through HTTP it wouldn't be such a massive problem to re-engineer and fix.
Seriously: The idea of TCP was to have multiple protocol ports, not to tunnel everything over:80.
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The problem with public key encrypted email is that your keys only work for encrypting email you receive, not the email you send. In order for an email to be private, the receiver has to set up encryption.
While I'm sure I could set up encryption for my email quite easily, I can assure you most of my friends and family have no interest in going to the effort.
In addition to that, encryption only encrypts the body of the message. The to/from addresses, header line, and other tags are sent in plain text, regardless of whether you "encrypt" your email. And the NSA, et. al. claim they're only interested in that header information in the first place to identify who your contacts are, not what you're saying to them.
So encrypt away -- they're still getting the info they want from your email headers.
Oops. Sorry. It's not the personal income tax that gets matched, it's the unemployment insurance premiums.
Still, when push comes to shove, an employee's "cost" is roughly double their salary here. And that's not allowing for corporate overhead like accounting, management, receptionists, facilities, etc.
This.
Here in Canada, corporations match the personal income tax paid by an employee. Health coverage is not included, and the fees are increasing every year. But the biggest part of the pie by far is the liability insurance for a contract company.
Good luck finding contracts as an individual if you don't pony up for liability insurance.
I was lucky to have the card table -- one of the guys had a mouse pad on a couple of milk crates. :P
Perched on a rickety kitchen chair in front of a monitor that was sitting on top of the computer tower with the keyboard in my lap and the mouse on a card table to the side.
We were just starting a contract and the furniture hadn't arrived yet. :)
I know people who own both types of device who are so unhappy with them that they're swearing to never buy another one, and try the other with their next purchase.
It's like someone who buys a Ford, hates the Ford, so they buy a GM, hate the GM, so they buy a Chrysler, hate the Chrysler... they're just never going to find a "perfect" device for their needs.
I just look forward to the organization behind the SWIFT protocols suing Apple into the ground for trying to appropriate a name that already has a well-established meaning in computing. They've certainly got the budget to do it... :)
They could have chosen a name other than that of the international banking protocols. Asking for SWIFT programmers is going to get them a bevy of COBOL coders who know the protocol.
Yep. Lawsuits cost money, even if you win. It's not like they'd have been able to recover expenses from this guy.
Most of the newer UI models do not have anywhere near the amount of research backing them that the CUA did. Often the newer models are "neat ideas" coded by someone with virtually no user testing (I'm looking at you, Gnome 3 team.)
Motif, CDE, Windows right up through 7 -- they all supported the IBM Common User Access styleguides from way, way back. I had a printed copy of the guide in '89. A lot of research went into the CUA, and IBM made it publicly available.
Windows 8 breaks that model. So does the Mac, and every tablet device out there.
I realize the CUA isn't suitable for tablets or phones. But nor are tablet and phone metaphors suitable for the desktop.
I've worked on teams with a variety of skillsets over the years ranging from fresh-out-of-college new grads to seasoned "dinosaurs" with 50 years experience. Everyone had something they were good at and could contribute to the project, though many times what they could contribute wasn't technically the role they were hired for.
There was only one exception: a fellow way back in the early '90s who got a job on the project I was on because he'd supposedly done programming for AT&T after graduating from Bowling Green.
The first time we reviewed his code, we realized it was bullshit. Before every single stdio function call, there was a "#include <stdio.h>" statement. Every single call!
Further investigation proved that his degree was a fraud -- Bowling Green had no record of any student by his name.
Despite that, he was stuffed in a corner and allowed to "work" the remainder of his six month contract by "reviewing" documentation and marking spelling and grammar corrections with a red pen.
He couldn't even do that -- his English sucked.
But firing him would have put the company at risk of a lawsuit, so they had him make the documentation binders.
So even the worst team idiot can do something "useful" if you've got no choice but to keep them busy with something. :P
You never know where your career will take you. My cousin trained for IT, got a job doing programming for the IT accounting department of a rather large bakery firm here in Canada, and in 2-3 years was managing projects. From there he shifted to managing the department, which mean he now had both accounting and IT people reporting to him. Fast forward another 20 years and he's the director of the finance department, and hasn't touched a keyboard in over 15 years for anything other than email.
What's sad is that you don't see the disaster that has come for the societies of the world with the behaviour of the American goveernment and it's agencies.
What's sad is that you think I'm "paranoid" when the evidence has already been laid out before you.
What's sad is that you have to resort to name calling, insults, and slams rather than making any pointed arguments without them.
Personally I think you're a chat bot whose script goes something like this:
$RandomInsult$
$HolierThanThoughSmugRetort$
$InsightlufCommentary$
Unfortunately that typo in the last expansion rule leaves you being a pretty useless chat bot. :P
A fifty year old eigth grader?
Bwahahahhahahaha!
And you didn't even come up with a cliche, so you're one to talk! :P :P :P
The bottom line is that TrueCrypt was too good for "the man" to tolerate.
You will be spied upon.
You will be surveilled.
You will be monitored.
Refusing to let the government rape your data is going to be called "terrorism", and leave you locked up.
Sickening, isn't it? George Orwell was only wrong about the year...
It's all a liability shell game.
This.
Even in the 90's it was so bad that a friend of mine in Florida used to set up a new corporation for each contract so that if/when he was sued, they could only seize the assets of the corporation the contract was with. And those corporations never owned a damned thing, because they leased their hardware from another one of his corporations that owned all the servers, software, and to which all the profits of the individual contracts were funnelled.
And it's a damned good thing he did, because in the space of three years two of his ever so kindly customers sued the shit out of him for crap that was either out of anyone's control or which they'd caused through their own incompetent specifications.
Because at the end of the day, the sole reason for hiring a contractor instead of an individual is so you can sue the contracting company instead of taking responsibility for your own screwups.
Sprout a sense of humour.
I use medical cannabis for my migraines.
That doesn't make me humourless about weed jokes.
I had a love of video games in the late '70s right around when the TRS-80 Model I Level I was released and the opportunity to sit with one for hours at the local Radio Shack once a month. To be honest, I was hoping to get into dentistry or pharmacy, but my grades weren't good enough, but they were good enough by half a percent to get me into the University of Saskatchewan's Computer Science program through the College of Arts and Science.
And thus my career was born as much by chance as by intention.
Nowadays I'm on disability, but I still sling code for the fun of it -- I just don't have to put up with bullshit meetings or any body else's artificial schedules, so it's as much fun as it was when I was 14 and just learning to PEEK and POKE Z-80 machine code.
From what I've seen, people on a tight budget get a smart phone with a data plan and use that to get online, not a landline cable or DSL connection. That way they hit two birds with one device: phone service and internet.
Sure it's not as "good" as a landline internet connection with a good computer. But it is far cheaper -- at least at first.
I've had the misery of suffering with maintaining a few PHP applications over the years. It is, bar none, THE WORST LANGUAGE I have ever used. Even COBOL does a better job of handling the humungous amount of copy-paste code that PHP requires. Even FORTRAN does a better job of error checking before run-time.
Sure, it's popular.
So is McDonald's.
That doesn't mean it's good or good for you.
Apparently you've never heard of "patch".
The Nouveau driver crashed and burned on my system whenever I tried to set a resolution greater than 1280x1024.
Absolute junk.
Maybe if we weren't trying to tunnel every god damned protocol and transport known to mankind through HTTP it wouldn't be such a massive problem to re-engineer and fix.
Seriously: The idea of TCP was to have multiple protocol ports, not to tunnel everything over :80.