SF and Airbnb are working on a framework which might make Airbnb rentals legal, an effort helped by Airbnb's decision last week to start collecting the city's 14% hotel tax by summer.
This is what we used to call corruption. Or, before that, "tribute to the king."
don't go tecky on someone who's doesn't understand what the word computer means. Ask them some basic questions on their knowledge on the subject and go from there. Adapt to their knowledge and understanding. If they learn slow, you need to teach them slow. If they learn like sponges...teach them fast and strong.
Also - don't take advice from Bennett Haselton. He comes across as quite a douchebag.
Considering Dyn bought several promised "free for life" DNS services then promptly killed them you need to realize they'll probably do it again. They've apparently decided the best business model is buy out their free competitors and put them out business.
I'm one of those that got an account when they bought out EveryDNS. They committed to keeping it free for life (but charged $5 for the "transition").
I'm actually a little confused by this announcement. I got an email from them this morning about it, but very little information. They included this in mine:
However, because you believed in us and supported this company through your donations, we are continuing to fulfill our promise to you: your service is still free for life.
Not sure what this means for me. I do have what I think they are referring to, a free hostname in the "from-va.com" domain. I don't really use it much, so I don't care if it goes away. But I've also got 2 of my own domains that I use their DNS services for. I'm assuming that will continue to work, and for no new fees. I better be right, or I'll be raising some hell.
Nice in theory, but companies have a well-established playbook for getting around anti-monopoly rules. Vertical integration, so that any new business that isn't vertically integrated is immediately at a huge competitive disadvantage. Various forms of vendor lock-in making it inconvenient for people to switch to another provider. Multiple "competing" companies owned by the same parent company.
Wrong. They don't need all that, it's just for show. All they really need is the one tried-and-true technique known as "Campaign Contributions." Microsoft learned that lesson when they paid no attention to Washington politics at all. Now they spend more on lobbying than pretty much any other company, and the Washington bureaucrats let them do whatever they want.
Come to think of it, that is a pretty apt analogy. The Government is the father, the corporations the son (for obvious reasons), and the Fed is the unholy ghost, because hardly anyone knows what it is or what it does.
So that makes Apple Corporation the Anti-Christ. I like it!
The part I agree with is that I personally am not concerned whatsoever with the metadata. At all. And the only reason you see most of the media coverage is because folks don't understand what metadata is. If you polled the public right now you would largely find them believing the government is secretly recording and archiving all of our actual phone calls. They aren't.
It sure helped to get some telcos off their bait and switch practice where they lured you in with incredible rates only to jack the price up once they got you tied down to that 2 years contract.
Not really. They no longer try to jack up your rates, instead they tack on a new "service fee". So your bill still goes up, but by calling it a "surcharge", it's within the existing contract scope and does not invalidate the contract terms. AT&T did this recently.
Instead of all this creation of new Frankenplants, why not just use termites. They seem to have no problem breaking down lignin at lower temperatures, and it doesn't required monkeying around with plant genes.
Your nationalistic outrage is as predictable as it is steeped in false premise. Saying that the quality of work out of Asia is generally poor is a complete myth.
1 - Bangalore is not in Asia.
2 - Saying US workers are lazy goes far beyond myth into the realm of demonstrably blatant falsehood.
3 - "nationalistic outrage" has nothing to do with it. But dealing with cheap labor sold as talented but demonstrating below acceptable levels of competence, spending time fixing all this crap because management won't pay what actual skilled developers demand, while depressing my salary to the point that I'm taking on side jobs and working 12 hours a day to keep up with increasing costs and then being told I'm lazy - yea, that generates a bit of outrage.
I donate a LOT of money to FWD.us to try to get the H1-B limits increased. Why? Because while my company does do business in the US, I despise US workers - who are generally a bunch of self-important, entitled brats who think they are God's gift to development. The worst part? They are simply lazy. My God are Americans lazy. Show up at 8:45... leave at 4:15... hour and half lunch.. sitting around surfing the Internet all day while finding a few minutes here and there to do some work in between facebook posts.
And yet their output is still just as high in quantity and orders of magnitude higher in quality than anything that comes out of your 14-hour-day Bangalore sweatshop. I have to use 5 of those guys to do the work of 1 American developer, and it's still not a deal, because it has to be sent back 5 or 6 times for fixes just to reach the level of "barely acceptable".
You're still doing business in the US because there are still idiots that thing they're getting a deal. Boeing sure learned their lesson after their Dreamliner got grounded when the steaming pile of crap that HCL delivered was so bad they had to hire a whole new set of American developers to fix it. And yet, incredibly, after multiple failed projects like that which required total re-write to fix, HCL is somehow still getting work.
According to the site - "h1bwage.com is the online wage library for h1b prevailing wage determinations, and the disclosure databases for other programs."
So it's referencing the standard salaries for positions, and/or the H1B application statements of companies applying for the visas. It in no way reflects what the hired workers actually earn, and is not intended to. Salaries are always "negotiable".
I suspect that some of those figures are what the consulting firm is charging to place one of those working in another company - so the company is paying that amount for the person, but the consulting firm is taking a good portion of it off the top before they actually pay the worker.
As software continues to devour the world, every industry becomes dependent on tech workers to continue to operate. Allowing the active participation of software outsourcing firms in the US labour market via H1B's helps manage wage inflation within the sector.
Riiiight. Because wage inflation is such a huge problem in the US. Oh, wait, actually, the US has exactly the opposite problem.
How do H1B visas drive down wages when it's vastly more expensive to hire an H1B than to hire a local?
It's not - how on earth did you get that idea? The rules say it's supposed to cost the same, but in practice the H1B worker is much cheaper for the vast majority of companies that use them.
More than that, if Congress wants people to stop lieing to them, they have to have some consiquenses for it. Start jailing a whole bunch of people for purgery. Nothing major... Just what Martha Stewart did... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
The only evidence that vaccines cause autism is one study [wikipedia.org] done in 1998 that was so horribly flawed that not only did The Lancet issue a full retraction in 2010, the doctor who led the group that authored the paper lost his medical license.... the paper itself never claimed a link between autism and the MMR vaccine, yet that's how the media/idiots took it.
Interesting - you seem to be saying that the doctor lost his medical license (a pretty egregious penalty for a flawed study) because the media misinterpreted it. That seems pretty odd, but I don't really know the story, and far be it from me to be thrown in with the lizard people like you have done to the GP.
But you never addressed his basis, which is that every possibility from vaccines to food supplies to public policies and clearly old or flawed science being used to promote nutritional advice are being dismissed out-of-hand as simply not possible. That perhaps the drug-company paid-for FDA and the Monsanto-controlled Department of Agriculture really are not going to allow anyone to shed any suspicion upon the corporations that they work for, and an anomalous rise in autism has nothing to do with the lifestyle they promote.
We know that the standard bureaucratic processes often fail the public from stories like Lorenzo's oil, the Dallas Buyer's Club, and we are just starting to recognize that the people warning about wheat gluten may not be crackpots after all.
So if you were targeted by the "law enforcement" and you Honeypoted their hacking attempt would they then come at you for interfering with their investigation?
Naturally. In fact, you don't even need to be a target. Maybe their target attempted to hack one of your computers, that puts you into the pool of computers being swept up in one of these broad warrants. So your honeypot now gets you an obstruction of justice charge, and you were never even suspected of a crime.
The problem isn't needing a microsoft account (i.e live account to sync settings), the problem is that the program won't install if you are using a non-microsoft account in windows 8, which practically means you can't use this on business machines.
Yes it will - I've done so (on Windows 8.1, anyway). You don't need a Microsoft account to use it at all, only if you want a "cloud-stored" notebook. You can store notebooks on local storage or network shares, too.
Notice that most of these note-taking and file-synchronization apps all come with their own proprietary built-in solution for storing the data on a server they control. And notice that none of them have an option to enter a SFTP URL to keep the files. This tells you that they aren't in the business of providing a note taking software. They are in the business of data mining your notes.
Most, true. OneNote, however, allows you to store on a local drive, a network share, or your own web site (although I believe the web site option only works with Sharepoint - but then Microsoft tries to sell Sharepoint with EVERYTHING.
If anyone else has practical experience with why you would use OneNote over Evernote, I'd love to hear it...
I have actually used it, although only on my corporate computer that has the required Microsoft office suite anyway. It really is pretty handy, my use is limited because of the way it stores data (all one big data blob). Evernote stores everything the same way, though, so that's not different. Now that OneNote is free for lots of platforms I'll probably start using it a lot more.
I tried Evernote a while back when looking for a note-taking app for my tablet, and didn't like it. I don't know if things have changed, but at the time the features I really wanted the note app for were only available for Evernote's Premium version. $5 every month, forever, was just too much commitment to ask of me (didn't they once require premium for the PC version?)
OneNote, IMHO, does a better job organizing things. You can have multiple notebooks, each with multiple sections, and each section can have multiple pages. Navigating through these is simple and intuitive. Storage options for each notebook can be configured separately, which is handy for sharing a notebook - you just store it on a network file share (I guess you could do it with a shared cloud storage, too, but I haven't tried).
If I want to use cloud storage, I can use a Microsoft account, which has 7 GB of storage for free.
If you're already using Evernote and like it, I can't think of any reason to switch.
It's also required for every other comparable note app, too. Evernote pricing may have changed, but when I first tried it most of the features I wanted required the "premium" edition - which requires $5 every month as long as you want access to your data. That's for 1GB of storage. That microsoft account will give you 7GB for free.
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"Illegal activity" in this case, being that the little people aren't allowed to engage in free enterprise without greasing some palms.
SF and Airbnb are working on a framework which might make Airbnb rentals legal, an effort helped by Airbnb's decision last week to start collecting the city's 14% hotel tax by summer.
This is what we used to call corruption. Or, before that, "tribute to the king."
don't go tecky on someone who's doesn't understand what the word computer means. Ask them some basic questions on their knowledge on the subject and go from there. Adapt to their knowledge and understanding. If they learn slow, you need to teach them slow. If they learn like sponges...teach them fast and strong.
Also - don't take advice from Bennett Haselton. He comes across as quite a douchebag.
Nobody uses Zonomi?
Considering Dyn bought several promised "free for life" DNS services then promptly killed them you need to realize they'll probably do it again. They've apparently decided the best business model is buy out their free competitors and put them out business.
I'm one of those that got an account when they bought out EveryDNS. They committed to keeping it free for life (but charged $5 for the "transition").
I'm actually a little confused by this announcement. I got an email from them this morning about it, but very little information. They included this in mine:
Not sure what this means for me. I do have what I think they are referring to, a free hostname in the "from-va.com" domain. I don't really use it much, so I don't care if it goes away. But I've also got 2 of my own domains that I use their DNS services for. I'm assuming that will continue to work, and for no new fees. I better be right, or I'll be raising some hell.
Nice in theory, but companies have a well-established playbook for getting around anti-monopoly rules. Vertical integration, so that any new business that isn't vertically integrated is immediately at a huge competitive disadvantage. Various forms of vendor lock-in making it inconvenient for people to switch to another provider. Multiple "competing" companies owned by the same parent company.
Wrong. They don't need all that, it's just for show. All they really need is the one tried-and-true technique known as "Campaign Contributions." Microsoft learned that lesson when they paid no attention to Washington politics at all. Now they spend more on lobbying than pretty much any other company, and the Washington bureaucrats let them do whatever they want.
Come to think of it, that is a pretty apt analogy. The Government is the father, the corporations the son (for obvious reasons), and the Fed is the unholy ghost, because hardly anyone knows what it is or what it does.
So that makes Apple Corporation the Anti-Christ. I like it!
The part I agree with is that I personally am not concerned whatsoever with the metadata. At all. And the only reason you see most of the media coverage is because folks don't understand what metadata is. If you polled the public right now you would largely find them believing the government is secretly recording and archiving all of our actual phone calls. They aren't.
Sorry, but metadata is all that is needed to invade privacy, and they're collecting it on everyone. It's not okay, okay?
It sure helped to get some telcos off their bait and switch practice where they lured you in with incredible rates only to jack the price up once they got you tied down to that 2 years contract.
Not really. They no longer try to jack up your rates, instead they tack on a new "service fee". So your bill still goes up, but by calling it a "surcharge", it's within the existing contract scope and does not invalidate the contract terms. AT&T did this recently.
Instead of all this creation of new Frankenplants, why not just use termites. They seem to have no problem breaking down lignin at lower temperatures, and it doesn't required monkeying around with plant genes.
And you spelled atrocious wrong...
Your nationalistic outrage is as predictable as it is steeped in false premise. Saying that the quality of work out of Asia is generally poor is a complete myth.
1 - Bangalore is not in Asia.
2 - Saying US workers are lazy goes far beyond myth into the realm of demonstrably blatant falsehood.
3 - "nationalistic outrage" has nothing to do with it. But dealing with cheap labor sold as talented but demonstrating below acceptable levels of competence, spending time fixing all this crap because management won't pay what actual skilled developers demand, while depressing my salary to the point that I'm taking on side jobs and working 12 hours a day to keep up with increasing costs and then being told I'm lazy - yea, that generates a bit of outrage.
I donate a LOT of money to FWD.us to try to get the H1-B limits increased. Why? Because while my company does do business in the US, I despise US workers - who are generally a bunch of self-important, entitled brats who think they are God's gift to development. The worst part? They are simply lazy. My God are Americans lazy. Show up at 8:45... leave at 4:15... hour and half lunch.. sitting around surfing the Internet all day while finding a few minutes here and there to do some work in between facebook posts.
And yet their output is still just as high in quantity and orders of magnitude higher in quality than anything that comes out of your 14-hour-day Bangalore sweatshop. I have to use 5 of those guys to do the work of 1 American developer, and it's still not a deal, because it has to be sent back 5 or 6 times for fixes just to reach the level of "barely acceptable".
You're still doing business in the US because there are still idiots that thing they're getting a deal. Boeing sure learned their lesson after their Dreamliner got grounded when the steaming pile of crap that HCL delivered was so bad they had to hire a whole new set of American developers to fix it. And yet, incredibly, after multiple failed projects like that which required total re-write to fix, HCL is somehow still getting work.
Have you seen http://www.h1bwage.com/ ?
According to the site - "h1bwage.com is the online wage library for h1b prevailing wage determinations, and the disclosure databases for other programs."
So it's referencing the standard salaries for positions, and/or the H1B application statements of companies applying for the visas. It in no way reflects what the hired workers actually earn, and is not intended to. Salaries are always "negotiable".
I suspect that some of those figures are what the consulting firm is charging to place one of those working in another company - so the company is paying that amount for the person, but the consulting firm is taking a good portion of it off the top before they actually pay the worker.
As software continues to devour the world, every industry becomes dependent on tech workers to continue to operate. Allowing the active participation of software outsourcing firms in the US labour market via H1B's helps manage wage inflation within the sector.
Riiiight. Because wage inflation is such a huge problem in the US. Oh, wait, actually, the US has exactly the opposite problem.
How do H1B visas drive down wages when it's vastly more expensive to hire an H1B than to hire a local?
It's not - how on earth did you get that idea? The rules say it's supposed to cost the same, but in practice the H1B worker is much cheaper for the vast majority of companies that use them.
More than that, if Congress wants people to stop lieing to them, they have to have some consiquenses for it. Start jailing a whole bunch of people for purgery. Nothing major... Just what Martha Stewart did... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
Your spelling is atroscious.
The only evidence that vaccines cause autism is one study [wikipedia.org] done in 1998 that was so horribly flawed that not only did The Lancet issue a full retraction in 2010, the doctor who led the group that authored the paper lost his medical license. ... the paper itself never claimed a link between autism and the MMR vaccine, yet that's how the media/idiots took it.
Interesting - you seem to be saying that the doctor lost his medical license (a pretty egregious penalty for a flawed study) because the media misinterpreted it. That seems pretty odd, but I don't really know the story, and far be it from me to be thrown in with the lizard people like you have done to the GP.
But you never addressed his basis, which is that every possibility from vaccines to food supplies to public policies and clearly old or flawed science being used to promote nutritional advice are being dismissed out-of-hand as simply not possible. That perhaps the drug-company paid-for FDA and the Monsanto-controlled Department of Agriculture really are not going to allow anyone to shed any suspicion upon the corporations that they work for, and an anomalous rise in autism has nothing to do with the lifestyle they promote.
We know that the standard bureaucratic processes often fail the public from stories like Lorenzo's oil, the Dallas Buyer's Club, and we are just starting to recognize that the people warning about wheat gluten may not be crackpots after all.
So if you were targeted by the "law enforcement" and you Honeypoted their hacking attempt would they then come at you for interfering with their investigation?
Naturally. In fact, you don't even need to be a target. Maybe their target attempted to hack one of your computers, that puts you into the pool of computers being swept up in one of these broad warrants. So your honeypot now gets you an obstruction of justice charge, and you were never even suspected of a crime.
Microsoft account comes with NSA backdoor to your data
That's not a Microsoft account problem, though, that's a "you put some data on the Internet" problem.
The problem isn't needing a microsoft account (i.e live account to sync settings), the problem is that the program won't install if you are using a non-microsoft account in windows 8, which practically means you can't use this on business machines.
Yes it will - I've done so (on Windows 8.1, anyway). You don't need a Microsoft account to use it at all, only if you want a "cloud-stored" notebook. You can store notebooks on local storage or network shares, too.
Notice that most of these note-taking and file-synchronization apps all come with their own proprietary built-in solution for storing the data on a server they control. And notice that none of them have an option to enter a SFTP URL to keep the files. This tells you that they aren't in the business of providing a note taking software. They are in the business of data mining your notes.
Most, true. OneNote, however, allows you to store on a local drive, a network share, or your own web site (although I believe the web site option only works with Sharepoint - but then Microsoft tries to sell Sharepoint with EVERYTHING.
Gee, thanks, Mr. Nadella.
If anyone else has practical experience with why you would use OneNote over Evernote, I'd love to hear it...
I have actually used it, although only on my corporate computer that has the required Microsoft office suite anyway. It really is pretty handy, my use is limited because of the way it stores data (all one big data blob). Evernote stores everything the same way, though, so that's not different. Now that OneNote is free for lots of platforms I'll probably start using it a lot more.
I tried Evernote a while back when looking for a note-taking app for my tablet, and didn't like it. I don't know if things have changed, but at the time the features I really wanted the note app for were only available for Evernote's Premium version. $5 every month, forever, was just too much commitment to ask of me (didn't they once require premium for the PC version?)
OneNote, IMHO, does a better job organizing things. You can have multiple notebooks, each with multiple sections, and each section can have multiple pages. Navigating through these is simple and intuitive. Storage options for each notebook can be configured separately, which is handy for sharing a notebook - you just store it on a network file share (I guess you could do it with a shared cloud storage, too, but I haven't tried).
If I want to use cloud storage, I can use a Microsoft account, which has 7 GB of storage for free.
If you're already using Evernote and like it, I can't think of any reason to switch.
[microsoft account] is required...
It's also required for every other comparable note app, too. Evernote pricing may have changed, but when I first tried it most of the features I wanted required the "premium" edition - which requires $5 every month as long as you want access to your data. That's for 1GB of storage. That microsoft account will give you 7GB for free.