Except... putting a tariff on Chinese metals creates a price floor which may raise the price across the market. After all- Chinese metals are no longer and option...
Ok... this is a mostly IT audience which should have noticed the red herring when this happened.
They claimed it was a "hack". No one hacks a web site to skew comments... they script the submissions. Bots. Or humans employed to manually add scripted comments.
So think about it- the FCC leadership is either so incompetent, or so evil, that they blamed the "truth" on hackers in order to avoid the appearance of unpopularity.
I point this out resigned to the fact that not many people care. An exercise in futility. Move along. Nothing to see here.
From my standpoint, this is an earmark of of the end of IT as a professional specialty.
At this point technicians are treated as hourly workers- if they exist at all. The word "engineer" is being banished from the IT profession. Support is by phone script. The network is built on appliances. Configurations done by subcontractors. Job qualifications require education over experience. Certifications are required- but are generally useless without a degree.
Programmers are shuffled in and out on contract....code is undocumented. Competence is un-rewarded.
And management doesn't understand the technology with a mentality that says: "Do the minimum possible to get a short term result".
The net result is lots of titles like "Network Manager"... "Network Architect"... "Vice President of Information Systems".... ETC.
And yet none of these people have functional knowledge of real practical networking or server administration. They function as gateways to subcontractors, some of which follow the executive from job to job, and the officer level of the company is so ignorant of the issues involved that it continues.
Then there's the "Cloud".
It's the biggest ripoff any company can be subjected to. A multi-layer IT staff that only administrates the actions of sub-contractors. And yet while this management structure can be three layers deep- it does nothing, presents no skill set, and is useless without the added expense of subcontractors which provide "IT Expertise" as a service. And the company... isn't even in control of it's own data. It's security and availability is now preserved by a third party company whose interest is singularly profit.
So when "CIO Magazine" writes an article saying that CS majors are not needed all I can do is chuckle.
I've never been a fan of Cisco, Microsoft, or "corporate tech giants".
Most of the systems engineering people in my generation (the old guys) can build routers. Give them a PC or a chassis, Linux or BSD, and in an hour it will be a router with security features that can be used to keep data safe.
But corporate America seems to like appliances. I can understand it for multiport bridges (that's a switch for you young people). But for routing and security an appliance seems a bad idea because of planned obsolescence and closed nature of the architectures..
Plus... when you buy a security or routing appliance... you only know what the manufacturer tells you about it- and "certified" people only know how to configure it while sometimes having an alarming lack of understanding TCP/IP.
In my view trading knowledge for cost savings is a big issue. Sure there's a balance sheet advantage to buying appliances and perhaps using certified contractors to run them. But the cost comes up when a failure comes up requiring real know-how.
Heck- I know of one company that is on their third revision of warehouse WIFI because none of the people they brought in understand microwave radio in an environment with a great deal of RF reflective metal. They know to use LMR600 cabling because Cisco specs it. But they do not know why. And they do not analyze how the tech will actually be used. So every revision of the network design performs badly.
That's just one example. But it's rife in the industry. So much so that I moved into industrial programming because so few people are doing it and there's a high demand in my area. And they still care about "knowledge"... especially when it comes to programming old industrial systems with new safety controls.
So when I hear about back doors in commercial products, I ask the same question: does trading knowledge for appliances actually make a business work better?
Shouldn't the people running the network actually know how it works and what's on the network?
I have hosted popular podcasts and have had videos into the high 100,000s of views. Been thinking it might be time to do a new one after a couple of years off.
The EU has to regulate their markets in a way that suits their needs. There's no universal principle which dictates how to regulate a capitalist economy. There's no "one size fits all" solution.
Most US Presidents can hardly manage their own economy. I hardly think they are qualified (or have sufficient information) to make a call for a foreign economy.
If Google was found in violation in the EU- it's their call. Google can negotiate.
Trump, might be considered to be defending one of our companies. Though the action is only impressive if the observer is totally clueless.
It doesn't help that Netflix has been dumping content as well. Time magazine noted a reduction in titles of about one third in 2016.
Pickings are pretty thin. And they've cancelled some good originals. Seems to me that quality of programming is king in that market. Dumping popular content is a mistake.
The reality is that the FCC is an underfunded and incompetent extension of the RF industry. They will attempt to protect broadcast spectrum, and fail. While leaving the rest of the spectrum to rot on the tree.
They rarely enforce and have been reduced, through ongoing budget reductions, to in some cases turning the enforcement over to the actual users of licensed spectrum. They've closed there local offices, fired their engineers, all while giving lip service to the job they should be doing. Heck- I'm pretty sure they do not even have the ability to triangulate to find a pirate station.
They don't even stop illegal radio equipment from being imported- then sold everywhere from big box stores to truck stops.
Good luck... They cannot even clean up problem frequencies where *everyone* knows who the offenders are.
The only way North Korea will rejoin with the south is if Kim Jong-un is allowed to rule it. Will you consider that a victory? I certainly would not. South Korea is a thriving regulated capitalist economy with it's own advanced industry and government. Would you turn the south over to a deranged socialist dictator?
Kim Jong-un isn't going to give up control of the North. Reunification would require bringing the north under control of the south.
Trump might, however, create some kind of deal. The only leverage he has is lifting economic sanctions or war. There's no guarantee that the North would either negotiate in good faith or adhere to the "new rules". They have never honored their agreements before.
The problem isn't the intelligence, prior attempts, or the people who worked on the problem before...
The problem is the North Korean regime. Sadly, Trump is over his head. Claiming otherwise is to ignore the character of the man.
All politicians are sociopaths. That doesn't guarantee intelligence or good decision making.
Wouldn't crashing that many systems make the IT department turn everything off?
If I was the head of that department I'd close down for a week or two to see what damage had been done beyond what was immediately detected. Then put together a comprehensive report for the board- just in time to be walked out.
Seems to be to only be a diversion if the whole department was asleep.
It's corporate moves and compromises like this which have made me leave the IT business to focus on Industrial programming.
IT cannot remain relevant if it becomes a monolith. Open source, as a corporate walled garden, is not going to provide the platform for people to be at liberty with their own computing and data.
That's why the next disruptors will be entirely distributed. Google, FB, Amazon and Co. are todays AOL and CompuServe, plain and simple. They bascially own the web. Cracking that stronghold will likely only happen with fully distributed services. I expect something like this to show up with the next 5 years or so.
In a way I'm looking forward to that.
You... are not the only person who is thinking like this.
To think I went through Archie, Veronica, Gopher... even before PPP through SLIP. The days of completely open mail relays, anonymous FTP, and all the UNIX. That's all there was really... it was a big blank chalkboard. Techies were racing to write on it.
Yea it makes me feel old. But I'm glad I got to see it.
Slashdot Mirror
The president can suck my bung hole....
Thanks... the Hacker
Except... putting a tariff on Chinese metals creates a price floor which may raise the price across the market. After all- Chinese metals are no longer and option...
Get it?
Ok... this is a mostly IT audience which should have noticed the red herring when this happened.
They claimed it was a "hack". No one hacks a web site to skew comments... they script the submissions. Bots. Or humans employed to manually add scripted comments.
So think about it- the FCC leadership is either so incompetent, or so evil, that they blamed the "truth" on hackers in order to avoid the appearance of unpopularity.
I point this out resigned to the fact that not many people care. An exercise in futility. Move along. Nothing to see here.
From my standpoint, this is an earmark of of the end of IT as a professional specialty.
At this point technicians are treated as hourly workers- if they exist at all. The word "engineer" is being banished from the IT profession. Support is by phone script. The network is built on appliances. Configurations done by subcontractors. Job qualifications require education over experience. Certifications are required- but are generally useless without a degree.
Programmers are shuffled in and out on contract....code is undocumented. Competence is un-rewarded.
And management doesn't understand the technology with a mentality that says: "Do the minimum possible to get a short term result".
The net result is lots of titles like "Network Manager"... "Network Architect"... "Vice President of Information Systems".... ETC.
And yet none of these people have functional knowledge of real practical networking or server administration. They function as gateways to subcontractors, some of which follow the executive from job to job, and the officer level of the company is so ignorant of the issues involved that it continues.
Then there's the "Cloud".
It's the biggest ripoff any company can be subjected to. A multi-layer IT staff that only administrates the actions of sub-contractors. And yet while this management structure can be three layers deep- it does nothing, presents no skill set, and is useless without the added expense of subcontractors which provide "IT Expertise" as a service. And the company... isn't even in control of it's own data. It's security and availability is now preserved by a third party company whose interest is singularly profit.
So when "CIO Magazine" writes an article saying that CS majors are not needed all I can do is chuckle.
An RHCE is worth more than those certs combined :)
Someone needed to research this?
Make me wonder what the consensus is on the wet nature of water or being punched in the nose by a biker.
I've never been a fan of Cisco, Microsoft, or "corporate tech giants".
Most of the systems engineering people in my generation (the old guys) can build routers. Give them a PC or a chassis, Linux or BSD, and in an hour it will be a router with security features that can be used to keep data safe.
But corporate America seems to like appliances. I can understand it for multiport bridges (that's a switch for you young people). But for routing and security an appliance seems a bad idea because of planned obsolescence and closed nature of the architectures..
Plus... when you buy a security or routing appliance... you only know what the manufacturer tells you about it- and "certified" people only know how to configure it while sometimes having an alarming lack of understanding TCP/IP.
In my view trading knowledge for cost savings is a big issue. Sure there's a balance sheet advantage to buying appliances and perhaps using certified contractors to run them. But the cost comes up when a failure comes up requiring real know-how.
Heck- I know of one company that is on their third revision of warehouse WIFI because none of the people they brought in understand microwave radio in an environment with a great deal of RF reflective metal. They know to use LMR600 cabling because Cisco specs it. But they do not know why. And they do not analyze how the tech will actually be used. So every revision of the network design performs badly.
That's just one example. But it's rife in the industry. So much so that I moved into industrial programming because so few people are doing it and there's a high demand in my area. And they still care about "knowledge"... especially when it comes to programming old industrial systems with new safety controls.
So when I hear about back doors in commercial products, I ask the same question: does trading knowledge for appliances actually make a business work better?
Shouldn't the people running the network actually know how it works and what's on the network?
The MBAs say no.
I don't remember reading anything like this before.
I have hosted popular podcasts and have had videos into the high 100,000s of views. Been thinking it might be time to do a new one after a couple of years off.
I'm in! Registering now....
The EU has to regulate their markets in a way that suits their needs. There's no universal principle which dictates how to regulate a capitalist economy. There's no "one size fits all" solution.
Most US Presidents can hardly manage their own economy. I hardly think they are qualified (or have sufficient information) to make a call for a foreign economy.
If Google was found in violation in the EU- it's their call. Google can negotiate.
Trump, might be considered to be defending one of our companies. Though the action is only impressive if the observer is totally clueless.
I'm not much of a China fan..
Anything which doesn't put "boots or bots on the ground" is superfluous unless absolutely needed for transit.
It doesn't help that Netflix has been dumping content as well. Time magazine noted a reduction in titles of about one third in 2016.
Pickings are pretty thin. And they've cancelled some good originals. Seems to me that quality of programming is king in that market. Dumping popular content is a mistake.
The reality is that the FCC is an underfunded and incompetent extension of the RF industry. They will attempt to protect broadcast spectrum, and fail. While leaving the rest of the spectrum to rot on the tree.
They rarely enforce and have been reduced, through ongoing budget reductions, to in some cases turning the enforcement over to the actual users of licensed spectrum. They've closed there local offices, fired their engineers, all while giving lip service to the job they should be doing. Heck- I'm pretty sure they do not even have the ability to triangulate to find a pirate station.
They don't even stop illegal radio equipment from being imported- then sold everywhere from big box stores to truck stops.
Good luck... They cannot even clean up problem frequencies where *everyone* knows who the offenders are.
First world problems are cute :)
What's Discovery even like; I completely lost interest in the whole franchise after the "re-imagined' of Wrath of Khan.
It's as if fungus was the core of the Standard Model. And tartigrades were the conduit of the universe.
I know... it doesn't make sense. Apparently a can of Lotrimin spray will collapse the entire universe... theoretically of course.
".@AMDRyzen, if you wanted an Intel Core i7-8086K processor too, you could have just asked us. :) Thanks for helping us celebrate the 8086!"
Boy talk about missing the point....
That's like taking a wooden baseball bat to the head- then exclaiming "Thank god you were nice and didn't use aluminium".
Since I use GPUs a lot for non gaming applications this is interesting.
Normally I'd not be interested because it's Intel who will have to play catch up. But with Raja involved this might actually have life.
Wait and see....
I was just thinking that same thought.
The only way North Korea will rejoin with the south is if Kim Jong-un is allowed to rule it. Will you consider that a victory? I certainly would not. South Korea is a thriving regulated capitalist economy with it's own advanced industry and government. Would you turn the south over to a deranged socialist dictator?
Kim Jong-un isn't going to give up control of the North. Reunification would require bringing the north under control of the south.
Trump might, however, create some kind of deal. The only leverage he has is lifting economic sanctions or war. There's no guarantee that the North would either negotiate in good faith or adhere to the "new rules". They have never honored their agreements before.
The problem isn't the intelligence, prior attempts, or the people who worked on the problem before...
The problem is the North Korean regime. Sadly, Trump is over his head. Claiming otherwise is to ignore the character of the man.
All politicians are sociopaths. That doesn't guarantee intelligence or good decision making.
Wouldn't crashing that many systems make the IT department turn everything off?
If I was the head of that department I'd close down for a week or two to see what damage had been done beyond what was immediately detected. Then put together a comprehensive report for the board- just in time to be walked out.
Seems to be to only be a diversion if the whole department was asleep.
Gosh....
It's corporate moves and compromises like this which have made me leave the IT business to focus on Industrial programming.
IT cannot remain relevant if it becomes a monolith. Open source, as a corporate walled garden, is not going to provide the platform for people to be at liberty with their own computing and data.
It's over folks. There are no more garages.
The only hope of having any form of net neutrality is a change in American politics.
It's dead Jim....
That's why the next disruptors will be entirely distributed. Google, FB, Amazon and Co. are todays AOL and CompuServe, plain and simple. They bascially own the web. Cracking that stronghold will likely only happen with fully distributed services. I expect something like this to show up with the next 5 years or so.
In a way I'm looking forward to that.
You... are not the only person who is thinking like this.
That's where my code won't be.
No way.
I've been kicked in the face, in a business damaging way, by Microsoft acquisitions. In fact a couple of times.
There's no way that my intellectual property, open source or not, will be under Microsoft control.
What a weird feeling.
To think I went through Archie, Veronica, Gopher... even before PPP through SLIP. The days of completely open mail relays, anonymous FTP, and all the UNIX. That's all there was really... it was a big blank chalkboard. Techies were racing to write on it.
Yea it makes me feel old. But I'm glad I got to see it.