Motorola used to design and manufacture kick ass microprocessors. The 68040 was my favorite, but the line went until the 68060 (or 68080 if your a Vampire fan with an FPGA, but that's different). They were CISC processors and I always felt they were similar in a lot of ways to the VAX (which was in some ways the ultimate CISC processor). You heard lots of hype about RISC, yes? Let me kick some street knowledge to those who don't do ASM: RISC sucks donkey balls for ASM coders on the metal. RISC's play was based on the fact that compilers generally aren't sophisticated enough to properly utilize the instruction set architecture (ISA) of a CISC CPU. So, the theory goes that if you pare down the CPU to only the instructions that a compiler is going to generate, then you can save money on the CPU by reducing the size and complexity you needed on silicon. That actually worked in the 1990's pretty well. Okay sure, one had some RISC CPUs that did not completely suck to code on due to SIMD instructions for multimedia activities like color space transformations and FFT (MIPS and ARM come to mind as most respectable) and a few of the best CISC instructions made it, too. The trouble is that RISC is great if you happen to be a compiler, but it's no fun for a human. You write want to write code on the metal in assembler? Then, you probably want CISC. The 68040 was a beautiful thing, especially for the time. It was fully pipelined, had respectable cache, strong FPU performance, and clock for clock would stomp the 486 (Intel's closest rival) pretty easily. Plus, you didn't have to deal with all the memory management quirks of the x86 or it's sub-par performance. Motorola sold off their semiconductor units and IP long ago. It's owned by NXT/Freescale now and they mostly forgot it exists. Every time I see a Motorola phone article on Slashdot it makes me feel like I'm seeing a zombie of a good old pal wandering around in the park and getting picked on by pigeons.
I was hoping some leftist would come out swinging for the Chinese. I wanted to see what kind of crazy shit they'd use to justify their self-destructive crush on China. I know they aren't going to come out full-Mao and just say "I'm far left and I love communism". Which seems to be the actual truth under the sheets. Here I'll throw some of your tropes out there to get you started. "Chinese imports help poor people who shop at Wal Mart." or "It's impossible for jobs to come back. Globalism makes them disappear into Asia forever. Impossible I say!" or how about "Free trading is the only way. Everything else will result in instant starvation. You have to let China rape you blind or we'll all starve." or "Americans don't want those jobs anyway." or "but but What will the poor private equity leeches use as a labor arbitrage if we don't have China?"
Seems like you're just annoyed because he's 100% correct and additionally your broadly general links don't really prove shit about his specific scenario (in fact both are unhelpful to your argument if you actually were to bother to read them). Furthermore you sound like a partisan shill, looking to blow smoke and create distractions when the truth is pretty clear to any non-partisan with a smidge of common sense.
Neither truth nor opinion must cleave cleanly along partisan lines. Sometimes one needs to parse what is there and quit trying to peg someone as right or left so as to use the standard tropes as reflexive responses. Thinking > Partisanship. He didn't have to "beef" with anyone to make some statements of opinion. Free thought doesn't always read like a partisan stump speech.
Yep. I don't think Google counted on that happening (people feeling "filmed"). Of course, one of the biggest issues is that there is basically this obvious camera right next to your eye (where many folks are looking) as you walk & talk to everyone. I honestly think that, even though people will hate it and it'll be illegal in some places, the future will involve hiding the cameras so that the user gets more mileage out of their AR viewing. The whole point of a glasshole is that they violate your rights (or at least that's the claim) to make life easier for them. So, whoever succeeds at the wearable computing + AR bit will probably need to go stealth to fully succeed. Just a thought, anyhow.
I am a photographer. I'm often surprised at how camera shy people are, considering that they are being photographed and under video surveillance nearly constantly when in public. Nevertheless, I still ask permission most of the time when taking candid shots of people and I can tell you that they fully expect you to do so or they will get pissed very fast. There are good reasons people act like this, though. So, I imagine the same is true about "Glass" since it's a real live person there videotaping you.
Fair enough. Perhaps our different scales and/or server types has some kind of bearing. In either case, if the Chinese decide to self-censor themselves off the net, that's a lot less to put up with. It doesn't eliminate the need for security, but it'd be a lot less annoying.
Clear eyed logic, but there is more. Imagine this scenario: we just flat-ass don't do shit. Zero. Nothing. Okay... thought experiment. If we didn't do shit there is some non-zero chance that the world absolutely becomes uninhabitable. That's the extreme side of the rhetoric. Now, alternatively maybe little or nothing happens due to either overestimation of current projections or that we find a way to mitigate so that CO2 comes way down. So, I'm just trying to follow your logic a little further.... wouldn't another option would be to simply let technology take as long as it wants to solve the problem (or run out of fuel to burn Mad Max style) ? The reason being that if the only alternative is certain genocide, then damn near anything is better (or perhaps they are simply the same option with two names?) Damn fatalistic, thinking, but logical... very logical. We'll survive... or not.
I roll with one of these three or so combos depending on the need: framebuffer-console + zsh + color prompt + DOS ANSI Codepage font. Rock BBSes via ssh and telnet and use elinks & mc & irssi like a boss flipping through 7-8 virtual consoles playin fbcon games when bored: no mouse other than 'gpm'. Next up we have: Fluxbox + X using my own custom themes & keyfile & menu i've developed over about 18 years via my CVS homedir usually on a BSD or another (doing that now, in fact). Last would be the ones I use only a couple of times a week: my maxed out Tezro running IRIX 6.5.30 with Indigo Magic User GUI (IRIX Interactive Desktop) with virtual desktops and occasionally an old MacOS 8.1 68k Quadra 700 or a souped up Amiga 3000 on OS 3.9. Not trashing your style, but those are the GUIs (and more primitive console environments) that I've found most useful. They almost all can easily be keyboard driven and I favor that style, but I ain't gonna use Photoshop in IRIX or MacOS without the mouse. Right tool for the job. Usually for my jobs that the keyboard and close to the metal as possible.
If Oracle comes over and uses the corpse of Sun to sue your balls off, that's just fine in this case, because fuck Java. Java is the most misused and abused abortion of a language since BASIC. Besides being the favorite of H1Bs, it's also a shit OO implementation (though that might be an oxymoron). The base types are NOT objects. You want OO? Look at Ruby or Smalltalk. They got it right. Java is for fucking retards and Indians.
The school was A&M. I love computer science in general and I've done pretty well for myself in the field, but I would not credit my education one shred for it. I also had no financial support. So, I was working till 9PM then coming home and doing diffeq homework for 4-6 hours at times. My total tuition was around $65k. I agree that you need to be driven, I agree that it *can* even be cool/fun at times if you get the right gig. I haven't personally been hit with offshoring but that's mainly because my skills are in high demand most of the time and I just leave the minute I hear "H1B" before anyone can even react. I have bailed on three shops that offshored and then cut all my old friends and co-workers. Saw a lot of pain and heard a lot of firsthand painful stories. I've also been in management at two places that forced people to train their H1B replacements. That's one of the reasons I got out of management and back on the metal. I would definitely echo your "don't do it for the money" imperative, but I can't say I have anything but vitriol and remorse for my college days and I can't say I *ever* hired someone because of their degree or lack thereof (and I've hired/fired @ 170 people in my 20 year career so far). Technical interview is literally *everything*. Pass that, and you're golden. Fail it and you have zero chance. So, you'd better love this stuff more than the H1Bs or there will be no discernible difference in quality and they will pick the cheaper option. Also, if you are a super-genius but your personality is shit, you are going to have a problem getting work despite your brilliance. Few people will tell you that, but I *know* it to be true from my own hiring decisions. I've passed over many a smart jerk for a less talented person I could work with smoothly.
Wow, the idea you mention (tax and rebate) sounds like the most fair and clever approach I've heard of. Personally, I'd be happy if we just put more energy into R&D for technical solutions, but that's just because I don't trust the government to run a kool-aid stand. I wonder why, with such a good idea out there (tax & rebate), that I only hear about the really stupid sounding ones like carbon-trading. Maybe I have shitty news sources, hehe, I'm already a Slashdot reader! However, it feeds my internal instinct that almost *nobody* is being truthful about climate change (right or left, green or brown).
I know that the planet has oscillated a lot in terms of CO2 levels and climate shift and that plenty of catastrophes have been had along the way, and your point about the slow migration of immobile life is well taken. What I do really wonder despite all the doom-saying is if: A. Would more people suffer or benefit? Because I know the media is biased toward only telling me it's the literal end of the world.... and I'm killing brown-people, etc.. but what about all the newly arable land and trade routes at sea? and B). Would the changes impact severely in a single generation before the next generations came up with a technical fix. So far, I'm not convinced anyone can answer those questions conclusively because we just don't know enough about *this* situation despite being similar to ancient periods.
Totally true. So, hey kids, how does this sound? You work 4x as hard as the asshole frat-boy taking a PolySci major who, if you are really lucky, will be your boss if you manage to pry a job away he hasn't in/outsourced. Your friends will all be out drinking and getting laid while you do mountains of 400-level math problems taking half your fucking night. You'll be VERY lucky to not come out chronically sleep deprived and sick as CS major. Cool? I often wonder who the fuck would go into "STEM" despite the MSM constantly claiming the only big problem is the rampant sexism keeping out the hordes of women trying to get into IT (not). They completely ignore the fact that some greasy Indian is going to take your job (probably before you even get one) and that the world population of suit-weasels is very focused on how to drive down your wages so they can run off with the savings. The also tend to ignore the fact that most science R&D jobs pay absolute shit. I should have got a business lobotomy uhh, I mean, "degree" and skipped CS altogether. I'd be fucking retired by now.
I did CS. It sucked. I regret it. Ended in 1995. Big waste of valuable 20's time. They couldn't decide WTF to teach us, then 2 out of 3 professors couldn't teach it (Pascal one day, Oberon the next, Smalltalk the day after that, and one flavor of that fucking horrible parenthesis-hell LISP dialect after another). Hell one out of three profs can't even fucking speak clear English (and no that's not racism it's wanting to *understand* what they say in lectures for *my* GPA sake). Then there is the HUGE bias toward categorically experimental or worthless languages that are some pet of the professor of the moment. There is a huge emphasis on math, too, which is fine, but of the 30-40 math profs and TAs I had, perhaps maybe 1-2 can teach or can even be understood. Plus, I have to admit, I have never used Calculus in any IT job (though I know some do, but c'mon that's pretty rare), yet I needed 400-level math (that was hard/sucked)? That seems like someone got a little too excited about the math side and forgot WTF we came for. I remember interviewing about 10 grads from the local state university and none could remember much ASM on any ISA even though they put it on their CV / resume (this was in 2014). Same with C. Most couldn't get past hello world. I thought what they taught us in the 1990's was lame, but from interviewing recent grads, they appear to know nearly nothing useful and FUCK that bullshit about "college teaches you how to think." If it did the grads might be able to solve the logic problems we ask, but they rarely do. The ones that do well, just seem to have talent, not some super-education they got at the University. College teaches you how to jump through hoops for an unaccountable asshole who thinks you are an idiot with nothing but time for their whims and no other classes (sooo, if you want a job like that, go for it). No, the students from India and China are NOT better. In their interviews, they mostly just simply give you the wrong answer with a strong accent and show little social or cultural awareness so you can see they'd likely be a trainwreck if you hired them. American kids are starting to wise up about the College scam, though. Young people are starting to realize they'd be better off training up in a program without far-left indoctrination elective requirements or just doing OJT to get somewhere. For example, you can get your CCIE in about 3-4 months of study. Most of those jobs start around 140k even in Podunkville. A degree in CS does very little for you (coming from someone who's screened hundreds of resumes at Oracle, IBM, and other big companies). It only impresses the bitches in HR. When it gets to me, I'll still throw the fucking thing in the trash when you misspell Linux LUNIX and other college foibles. Some jackass with no degree is probably still much better at the job versus your average CS grad applies for for because they have more experience && talent, degree or not. It's going to come out in the technical interview and the only ones who will give 4/5ths of 5/8ths of fuck-all about your degree is some other lucky fuckwit with a degree who managed to get in. Basically, only people above 50 really give a fuck because they don't know what college has become and are too emotionally invested in their own college degree to see the truth staring back at them.
I track scans and NIDS exploit attempts myself on about 70 servers. That percentage is laughable in my experience it's around 90% from China. Maybe others have different data, but I get about 1% from the USA. So, it'd be well worth having them fuck off. That and it'd be extremely satisfying because of their actions. China is the enemy of the West. Anyone who thinks otherwise is probably Asian or has some other bias explaining their blindness.
Of course, they act in their own interests. So should the others. However, wouldn't it then be rational for the other states which are victimized by them to gut them outta the root DNS servers root and branch? Why should we kowtow while they are vandalizing our shit? That seems like a bitch-move to me.
Interesting. Some folks claimed a human would die at 1100PPM. That claim appears quite ridiculous when you do the arithmetic. So, it sounds like you think that the transition between 400PPM and 3000PPM would be catastrophically rough. Okay, but I would point out that the transition won't take millions of years at this rate. It'll happen much more quickly in a few hundred or maybe a thousand or so (just looking at the trendline to 3000PPM). Since there is no precedent, isn't any speculation that we'd suffer a catastrophe really just that, speculation? I'm not a climate denier. I believe the data. I just doubt the prognostications people make using the data, especially unprecedented ones. I'm not saying there wouldn't be some horrible fate, either. I'm just pointing out that this is new territory. Maybe pursuing consistently-failed globalist CO2 trading strategies for tackling climate change isn't as smart or effective as "think global act local" and we should be thinking more about climate change as a data-driven technical and engineering challenge rather than a political how-can-I-coerce-the-poor-into-driving-less left wing finger wagging exercise for a bunch of suit-wearing political weasels. Stopping any and all speculation and hyperbole would be a great place to start. The "Deniers vs Crazies" dynamic is sucking wind and isn't effective.
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Motorola used to design and manufacture kick ass microprocessors. The 68040 was my favorite, but the line went until the 68060 (or 68080 if your a Vampire fan with an FPGA, but that's different). They were CISC processors and I always felt they were similar in a lot of ways to the VAX (which was in some ways the ultimate CISC processor). You heard lots of hype about RISC, yes? Let me kick some street knowledge to those who don't do ASM: RISC sucks donkey balls for ASM coders on the metal. RISC's play was based on the fact that compilers generally aren't sophisticated enough to properly utilize the instruction set architecture (ISA) of a CISC CPU. So, the theory goes that if you pare down the CPU to only the instructions that a compiler is going to generate, then you can save money on the CPU by reducing the size and complexity you needed on silicon. That actually worked in the 1990's pretty well. Okay sure, one had some RISC CPUs that did not completely suck to code on due to SIMD instructions for multimedia activities like color space transformations and FFT (MIPS and ARM come to mind as most respectable) and a few of the best CISC instructions made it, too. The trouble is that RISC is great if you happen to be a compiler, but it's no fun for a human. You write want to write code on the metal in assembler? Then, you probably want CISC. The 68040 was a beautiful thing, especially for the time. It was fully pipelined, had respectable cache, strong FPU performance, and clock for clock would stomp the 486 (Intel's closest rival) pretty easily. Plus, you didn't have to deal with all the memory management quirks of the x86 or it's sub-par performance. Motorola sold off their semiconductor units and IP long ago. It's owned by NXT/Freescale now and they mostly forgot it exists. Every time I see a Motorola phone article on Slashdot it makes me feel like I'm seeing a zombie of a good old pal wandering around in the park and getting picked on by pigeons.
Found the Java coder.
I'll vote for anyone who will cruise-missile those fucking container ships.
I was hoping some leftist would come out swinging for the Chinese. I wanted to see what kind of crazy shit they'd use to justify their self-destructive crush on China. I know they aren't going to come out full-Mao and just say "I'm far left and I love communism". Which seems to be the actual truth under the sheets. Here I'll throw some of your tropes out there to get you started. "Chinese imports help poor people who shop at Wal Mart." or "It's impossible for jobs to come back. Globalism makes them disappear into Asia forever. Impossible I say!" or how about "Free trading is the only way. Everything else will result in instant starvation. You have to let China rape you blind or we'll all starve." or "Americans don't want those jobs anyway." or "but but What will the poor private equity leeches use as a labor arbitrage if we don't have China?"
Seems like you're just annoyed because he's 100% correct and additionally your broadly general links don't really prove shit about his specific scenario (in fact both are unhelpful to your argument if you actually were to bother to read them). Furthermore you sound like a partisan shill, looking to blow smoke and create distractions when the truth is pretty clear to any non-partisan with a smidge of common sense.
Oh, I guess that's why there were no indie games before Steam. We didn't have that just-worky-ness that we needed. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Neither truth nor opinion must cleave cleanly along partisan lines. Sometimes one needs to parse what is there and quit trying to peg someone as right or left so as to use the standard tropes as reflexive responses. Thinking > Partisanship. He didn't have to "beef" with anyone to make some statements of opinion. Free thought doesn't always read like a partisan stump speech.
Yep. I don't think Google counted on that happening (people feeling "filmed"). Of course, one of the biggest issues is that there is basically this obvious camera right next to your eye (where many folks are looking) as you walk & talk to everyone. I honestly think that, even though people will hate it and it'll be illegal in some places, the future will involve hiding the cameras so that the user gets more mileage out of their AR viewing. The whole point of a glasshole is that they violate your rights (or at least that's the claim) to make life easier for them. So, whoever succeeds at the wearable computing + AR bit will probably need to go stealth to fully succeed. Just a thought, anyhow.
I am a photographer. I'm often surprised at how camera shy people are, considering that they are being photographed and under video surveillance nearly constantly when in public. Nevertheless, I still ask permission most of the time when taking candid shots of people and I can tell you that they fully expect you to do so or they will get pissed very fast. There are good reasons people act like this, though. So, I imagine the same is true about "Glass" since it's a real live person there videotaping you.
Fair enough. Perhaps our different scales and/or server types has some kind of bearing. In either case, if the Chinese decide to self-censor themselves off the net, that's a lot less to put up with. It doesn't eliminate the need for security, but it'd be a lot less annoying.
Clear eyed logic, but there is more. Imagine this scenario: we just flat-ass don't do shit. Zero. Nothing. Okay... thought experiment. If we didn't do shit there is some non-zero chance that the world absolutely becomes uninhabitable. That's the extreme side of the rhetoric. Now, alternatively maybe little or nothing happens due to either overestimation of current projections or that we find a way to mitigate so that CO2 comes way down. So, I'm just trying to follow your logic a little further.... wouldn't another option would be to simply let technology take as long as it wants to solve the problem (or run out of fuel to burn Mad Max style) ? The reason being that if the only alternative is certain genocide, then damn near anything is better (or perhaps they are simply the same option with two names?) Damn fatalistic, thinking, but logical... very logical. We'll survive ... or not.
I roll with one of these three or so combos depending on the need: framebuffer-console + zsh + color prompt + DOS ANSI Codepage font. Rock BBSes via ssh and telnet and use elinks & mc & irssi like a boss flipping through 7-8 virtual consoles playin fbcon games when bored: no mouse other than 'gpm'. Next up we have: Fluxbox + X using my own custom themes & keyfile & menu i've developed over about 18 years via my CVS homedir usually on a BSD or another (doing that now, in fact). Last would be the ones I use only a couple of times a week: my maxed out Tezro running IRIX 6.5.30 with Indigo Magic User GUI (IRIX Interactive Desktop) with virtual desktops and occasionally an old MacOS 8.1 68k Quadra 700 or a souped up Amiga 3000 on OS 3.9. Not trashing your style, but those are the GUIs (and more primitive console environments) that I've found most useful. They almost all can easily be keyboard driven and I favor that style, but I ain't gonna use Photoshop in IRIX or MacOS without the mouse. Right tool for the job. Usually for my jobs that the keyboard and close to the metal as possible.
OK. I take it back. Only because BASIC stomps the dogshit out of Java.
Cogent points all. You've actually given me a lot of things to think about without being a dick. That's pretty amazing these days; so thanks.
If Oracle comes over and uses the corpse of Sun to sue your balls off, that's just fine in this case, because fuck Java. Java is the most misused and abused abortion of a language since BASIC. Besides being the favorite of H1Bs, it's also a shit OO implementation (though that might be an oxymoron). The base types are NOT objects. You want OO? Look at Ruby or Smalltalk. They got it right. Java is for fucking retards and Indians.
The school was A&M. I love computer science in general and I've done pretty well for myself in the field, but I would not credit my education one shred for it. I also had no financial support. So, I was working till 9PM then coming home and doing diffeq homework for 4-6 hours at times. My total tuition was around $65k. I agree that you need to be driven, I agree that it *can* even be cool/fun at times if you get the right gig. I haven't personally been hit with offshoring but that's mainly because my skills are in high demand most of the time and I just leave the minute I hear "H1B" before anyone can even react. I have bailed on three shops that offshored and then cut all my old friends and co-workers. Saw a lot of pain and heard a lot of firsthand painful stories. I've also been in management at two places that forced people to train their H1B replacements. That's one of the reasons I got out of management and back on the metal. I would definitely echo your "don't do it for the money" imperative, but I can't say I have anything but vitriol and remorse for my college days and I can't say I *ever* hired someone because of their degree or lack thereof (and I've hired/fired @ 170 people in my 20 year career so far). Technical interview is literally *everything*. Pass that, and you're golden. Fail it and you have zero chance. So, you'd better love this stuff more than the H1Bs or there will be no discernible difference in quality and they will pick the cheaper option. Also, if you are a super-genius but your personality is shit, you are going to have a problem getting work despite your brilliance. Few people will tell you that, but I *know* it to be true from my own hiring decisions. I've passed over many a smart jerk for a less talented person I could work with smoothly.
It's easy in China!
Wow, the idea you mention (tax and rebate) sounds like the most fair and clever approach I've heard of. Personally, I'd be happy if we just put more energy into R&D for technical solutions, but that's just because I don't trust the government to run a kool-aid stand. I wonder why, with such a good idea out there (tax & rebate), that I only hear about the really stupid sounding ones like carbon-trading. Maybe I have shitty news sources, hehe, I'm already a Slashdot reader! However, it feeds my internal instinct that almost *nobody* is being truthful about climate change (right or left, green or brown). I know that the planet has oscillated a lot in terms of CO2 levels and climate shift and that plenty of catastrophes have been had along the way, and your point about the slow migration of immobile life is well taken. What I do really wonder despite all the doom-saying is if: A. Would more people suffer or benefit? Because I know the media is biased toward only telling me it's the literal end of the world.... and I'm killing brown-people, etc.. but what about all the newly arable land and trade routes at sea? and B). Would the changes impact severely in a single generation before the next generations came up with a technical fix. So far, I'm not convinced anyone can answer those questions conclusively because we just don't know enough about *this* situation despite being similar to ancient periods.
No, I'm not under any impression at all about them other than "That would then be their own fucking problem."
Totally true. So, hey kids, how does this sound? You work 4x as hard as the asshole frat-boy taking a PolySci major who, if you are really lucky, will be your boss if you manage to pry a job away he hasn't in/outsourced. Your friends will all be out drinking and getting laid while you do mountains of 400-level math problems taking half your fucking night. You'll be VERY lucky to not come out chronically sleep deprived and sick as CS major. Cool? I often wonder who the fuck would go into "STEM" despite the MSM constantly claiming the only big problem is the rampant sexism keeping out the hordes of women trying to get into IT (not). They completely ignore the fact that some greasy Indian is going to take your job (probably before you even get one) and that the world population of suit-weasels is very focused on how to drive down your wages so they can run off with the savings. The also tend to ignore the fact that most science R&D jobs pay absolute shit. I should have got a business lobotomy uhh, I mean, "degree" and skipped CS altogether. I'd be fucking retired by now.
I did CS. It sucked. I regret it. Ended in 1995. Big waste of valuable 20's time. They couldn't decide WTF to teach us, then 2 out of 3 professors couldn't teach it (Pascal one day, Oberon the next, Smalltalk the day after that, and one flavor of that fucking horrible parenthesis-hell LISP dialect after another). Hell one out of three profs can't even fucking speak clear English (and no that's not racism it's wanting to *understand* what they say in lectures for *my* GPA sake). Then there is the HUGE bias toward categorically experimental or worthless languages that are some pet of the professor of the moment. There is a huge emphasis on math, too, which is fine, but of the 30-40 math profs and TAs I had, perhaps maybe 1-2 can teach or can even be understood. Plus, I have to admit, I have never used Calculus in any IT job (though I know some do, but c'mon that's pretty rare), yet I needed 400-level math (that was hard/sucked)? That seems like someone got a little too excited about the math side and forgot WTF we came for. I remember interviewing about 10 grads from the local state university and none could remember much ASM on any ISA even though they put it on their CV / resume (this was in 2014). Same with C. Most couldn't get past hello world. I thought what they taught us in the 1990's was lame, but from interviewing recent grads, they appear to know nearly nothing useful and FUCK that bullshit about "college teaches you how to think." If it did the grads might be able to solve the logic problems we ask, but they rarely do. The ones that do well, just seem to have talent, not some super-education they got at the University. College teaches you how to jump through hoops for an unaccountable asshole who thinks you are an idiot with nothing but time for their whims and no other classes (sooo, if you want a job like that, go for it). No, the students from India and China are NOT better. In their interviews, they mostly just simply give you the wrong answer with a strong accent and show little social or cultural awareness so you can see they'd likely be a trainwreck if you hired them. American kids are starting to wise up about the College scam, though. Young people are starting to realize they'd be better off training up in a program without far-left indoctrination elective requirements or just doing OJT to get somewhere. For example, you can get your CCIE in about 3-4 months of study. Most of those jobs start around 140k even in Podunkville. A degree in CS does very little for you (coming from someone who's screened hundreds of resumes at Oracle, IBM, and other big companies). It only impresses the bitches in HR. When it gets to me, I'll still throw the fucking thing in the trash when you misspell Linux LUNIX and other college foibles. Some jackass with no degree is probably still much better at the job versus your average CS grad applies for for because they have more experience && talent, degree or not. It's going to come out in the technical interview and the only ones who will give 4/5ths of 5/8ths of fuck-all about your degree is some other lucky fuckwit with a degree who managed to get in. Basically, only people above 50 really give a fuck because they don't know what college has become and are too emotionally invested in their own college degree to see the truth staring back at them.
I track scans and NIDS exploit attempts myself on about 70 servers. That percentage is laughable in my experience it's around 90% from China. Maybe others have different data, but I get about 1% from the USA. So, it'd be well worth having them fuck off. That and it'd be extremely satisfying because of their actions. China is the enemy of the West. Anyone who thinks otherwise is probably Asian or has some other bias explaining their blindness.
Of course, they act in their own interests. So should the others. However, wouldn't it then be rational for the other states which are victimized by them to gut them outta the root DNS servers root and branch? Why should we kowtow while they are vandalizing our shit? That seems like a bitch-move to me.
Interesting. Some folks claimed a human would die at 1100PPM. That claim appears quite ridiculous when you do the arithmetic. So, it sounds like you think that the transition between 400PPM and 3000PPM would be catastrophically rough. Okay, but I would point out that the transition won't take millions of years at this rate. It'll happen much more quickly in a few hundred or maybe a thousand or so (just looking at the trendline to 3000PPM). Since there is no precedent, isn't any speculation that we'd suffer a catastrophe really just that, speculation? I'm not a climate denier. I believe the data. I just doubt the prognostications people make using the data, especially unprecedented ones. I'm not saying there wouldn't be some horrible fate, either. I'm just pointing out that this is new territory. Maybe pursuing consistently-failed globalist CO2 trading strategies for tackling climate change isn't as smart or effective as "think global act local" and we should be thinking more about climate change as a data-driven technical and engineering challenge rather than a political how-can-I-coerce-the-poor-into-driving-less left wing finger wagging exercise for a bunch of suit-wearing political weasels. Stopping any and all speculation and hyperbole would be a great place to start. The "Deniers vs Crazies" dynamic is sucking wind and isn't effective.
I realize that and agree completely. So, why should they endlessly hack and scam on servers outside China that they "don't need" ?