Nothing to do with Brexit. The London mayor, Sadiq Khan (a Muslim and son of a Pakistani bus driver) backs the language test. It is part of a campaign to improve quality and reduce the number of rogue mini-cabs on the road.
How about making people feel comfortable by being able to get a cab with a driver that speaks the language of their choice? Then we could have multiple language tests.
Honestly, I'm not convinced, especially not until Brexit is complete and all those damn funny-sounding furriners from the rest of the Union can be kept out of the country.
I DO think that Uber ought to assess language proficiency themselves, then hook French-speaking riders up with French-speaking drivers and so on.
And also if you are going to live in the UK you should wear normal English clothes!!!!!!1111
In fact normal garments should be handed to foreigners at the ports of entry.
Some English people feel terribly distressed when they see foreigners wearing their foreign clothing in the street.
This is a LOCAL country for LOCAL people. Theres nothing for foreigners here!
It must be really fun going through life with such constant paranoia. Taking such drastic and inconvenient measures means they (the terr'rists or the gov'mint, take your pick) have already won.
I don't travel that often. When I do travel this is really not an inconvenience, you are totally exaggerating.
Because Travel Mode is an indicator that you've got something to hide, and thus, must be using social media to send encoded terrorist messages.
Sometimes I think terrorists are just nature's way of weeding out the violent and stupid- especially suicide bombers.
For one thing, there has to be something for them to see, so they don't see a blank slate and, on that basis, assume you have something to hide and probe you ever more deeply.
Clearly if there were going to be a 'Travel Mode' it would have to be very very well hidden.
When I'm travelling I wipe the phone, factory reset it, and then set it up with my work account instead of personal. That way there are contacts and emails etc but its only work related. My work isn't sensitive so I don't care. But it looks like it has stuff on it so it gives the security guys a nice satisfying experience.
I'm a Canadian who I used to travel to the USA for vacations/tourism at least once a year for the past 10 years. But I turned down a trip with friends to Pittsburgh last weekend, and plan on avoiding all future travel to the USA until I know my rights will be respected. If I'm being honest, I don't really anticipate that happening, so i doubt I'll be returning to USA ever again. I'll just take my vacations in Canada or the Caribbean instead. I'm boycotting, and I'm white..... I imagine there are many non-white tourists who are rethinking their plans too.
Can you get from Canada to the Caribbean without traversing US airspace?
I cannot stomach such a policy, but I'll turn over my recently wiped phone and my password "4thamendment" to them.
When I leave the airport, I'll have Google Play reload everything and plug-in my uSD card, and I'll be good to go.
Yes, it's an inconvenience, but I protect my privacy and the US Security Theater can continue it's performances.
When they discover that your phone 'has been wiped for the border' you can expect them to become much more interested in you. Because 'obviously you are hiding something'.
All four of us are planning to spend 10 days in Nevada.
I'm coming with real money to spend on frivilous crap because I can.
Why make it difficult?
I'm white, of British and Scottish descent, with no religious affiliation. I dont really expect too many problems, but the idea that it might makes me reconsider this trip.
Not only do we have equal (or more) free speech in New Zealand (resident or visitor) we have far less corruption, far more financial freedom and far less regulation. We also don't have an onerous courts system.
Go look it up some time, check out the freedom indexes. The US population is positively oppressed by comparison.
The ACC system all by itself makes NZ trump the USA (no pun intended). NZers are far less risk averse than Americans and many services in NZ are far cheaper because theres less risk of litigation (being sued).
Healthcare can cost less in NZ because the health care providers in North America (Canada included) have to take out very very expensive malpractice insurance because they can get sued. This, in turn, pushes up the price of health insurance and at the end of the day there are two main profit making businesses; lawyers and insurers.
Where in the article does it suggest that Apple is making a power play here to position Metal like the headline says? This really doesn't have a whole lot to do with Metal specifically, and is instead about leveraging the entire class of APIs that have been coming out that are closer to the (lowercase) metal. In fact, they specifically said so in the summary:
No way is Apple making this power play.
If they did then they'd take 3d graphics hardware more seriously. As it is Apples graphics offerings are a joke, both literally and figuratively.
Then why do you sound so nervous?
Because I know that my non-adoring comments on Apple products are going to be modded into oblivion.
Where in the article does it suggest that Apple is making a power play here to position Metal like the headline says? This really doesn't have a whole lot to do with Metal specifically, and is instead about leveraging the entire class of APIs that have been coming out that are closer to the (lowercase) metal. In fact, they specifically said so in the summary:
No way is Apple making this power play.
If they did then they'd take 3d graphics hardware more seriously. As it is Apples graphics offerings are a joke, both literally and figuratively.
Go to court specifically for each site and rule specifically for each site. Proof required of infringement. That is how it should be handled instead of blanket shutdowns upon simple requests.
Then the plaintiff should pay all legal costs of the ISP as well as execution costs.
I was thinking the ISP should reason like this "Obviously the MPA think these movies are worth a lot of money. So they should be willing to PAY A LOT OF MONEY for us to block access to them. Ca-ching! $$$$$$$"
and then charge them the same amount the MPA claim to be losing to piracy.
So, if you look at the foreign language requirement for what it is (an "expand your mind" requirement), then it is plainly obvious that coding achieves the same objective.
For the most part I agree. But foreign languages open up way more entertainment opportunities. Theres a strong cultural issue with this in the English speaking world.
One thing that I've noticed, being a primarily English speaker who has lived immersively in many, many non-English cultures; Monolingual English speakers tend to avoid music of other cultures with other languages far more than monolingual speakers of other languages who will very often happily listen to and appreciate music with vocals they don't understand.
Theres a snobbishness to native English speakers that you don't often find in other language groups.
Teaching, or at the very least, exposing native English speakers to other languages opens their minds in ways that programming does not.
I'll grant you that programming opens their minds in ways that foreign languages do not but at the end of the day, on balance, I'd say that getting people to be more social and more aware of other people and cultures has more overall net benefit to individuals and to society.
Do companies and billionerds really think this "teach everyone to code" is going to produce a more capable workforce? What's their angle - drive wages down?
It's doubly confusing since all they want to do is outsource them once they've learned to code. It's fucking ridiculous.
If Disney cared so fucking much why did they outsource an entire department of competent IT workers to India? It's not like Disney is hurting for cash.
Maybe Disney want to make school even more boring so kids will crave more Disney produced entertainment at home?
Heres a clue for the programmers on/. honestly although you might not believe it nor understand it, programming is boring for most people.
Foreign languages open up a LOT more entertainment possibilities than programming; listening to music with vocals in other languages, literature and movies in other languages, being able to engage with other human beings in other languages. Even foreign language classrooms are more entertaining than in programming classrooms because its about HUMAN CONTACT. Social interaction drives almost all actual fun and entertainment for the majority of human beings ie people who are more or less heteronormative and not on the autism spectrum.
So yeah, Disney is being sneaky as fuck yet again and trying to make school even more boring to drive up their own revenues. I could believe it.
If they weren't teaching "reading, writing, and rithmetic" in the 1950s, what did they teach? Or are you talking about the 1850s?
The 'rithmetic' they taught in the 1950s hardly counts as mathematics, better described as numeracy; being numerically literate, being able to do long division and memorise multiplication tables ie skills that were often useful in everyday life.
The plugins were totally unsecurable already. Just use that browser for accessing those devices only, without internet access.
'Without internet access' isn't going to work when you are accessing KVM consoles on servers on the other side of the world which are at a hosting company where you don't have the option of a VPN. There are many thousands such sites perhaps millions. I deal with about a hundred personally.
Out in the real world people do need java, and often flash as well, in a browser, to be able to do their jobs. You can't just say "Well I'm not going to do my job if you don't upgrade the systems so I don't need java" because they'll just fire you and hire someone who will. Obviously.
And they should have moved to javascript a long time ago, requiring people to install modern browsers instead of continuing to use internet explorer 6 and microsoft XP without any service packs.
Still, you can just back up Firefox 51 and put it to a live linux cd of some sort, then making it access the hardware you need via a VM.
Yeah the vendors should have released firmware patches or hardware modules to deal with the changes to browsers. Never going to happen. People with very sensitive jobs are going to keep using crappy unsecurable browsers because they no longer have any choice.
With Firefox and Chrome having over 2/3 of the browser market between them, your bank will have not much of a choice. Sooner or later nothing supports Java anymore and their plugin is simply obsolete.
There is still a lot of hardware out there and embedded systems that depend on Java for management eg KVM consoles. I know people who keep an XP virtual machine around just so they can manage certain pieces of hardware.
The life of a Jew in Nazi Germany was not all roses until 1939, of course. The anti-Semitism started pretty much immediately and got worse.
The Nazis presumably wanted to encourage them to take advantage of the transfer program, which wasn't instituted because Hitler liked Jews and wanted them to recover their historical homeland...
I'm not saying the Nazis were ever nice to Jews just that the Nazis were instrumental in the formation of the modern state of Israel in so many ways and more deeply than any modern Israeli would ever like to admit. When you look at how Israel treats Palestinians I have to wonder...
And of course, to do that, you would have to trust the windows firewall, which doesn't show everything.
If you run "Windows Firewall with Advanced Security" it shows absolutely everything. I have yet to find anything that bypasses the firewall. Even Windows 10's agressive updates don't work if you block by default, although I have no evidence of the telemetry one way or the other.
That said, if you have an application that runs with elevated security then it can add its own firewall rules. The way around that is to create a special user that just for editing the firewall entries, grant it access to the registry setting and revoke administrator rights. That's only required if you are paranoid though, or if you have a specific requirement. I did this to stop Steam from constantly creating firewall entries for itself and all games. I needed to lock it down to only work over my local connection to prevent it from downloading via my work when I set up a VPN to access the servers.
In Linux its fairly trivial to set up the firewall to block all egress except via a VPN; you configure so that only the VPN can egress via the physical network adaptor (eg eth0) restricting port and destination IP address. Then allow traffic via the tun device used by OpenVPN. In this way you can't accidentally leak anything outside the VPN.
How do you do that in Windows? I never saw any ability to do firewalling by network adaptor.
In fact in 1933 Nazi Germany started sponsoring Jews to emigrate to Palestine. This went on until 1939 when the war made it logistically impossible. It was called 'The Transfer Program' and made the formation of the modern state of Israel possible.
Which explains how Breitbart can be both anti-Semitic and extremely pro-Israel at the same time. Bannon and the alt-right founder Spenser are white nationalists. They don't hate Black people and Jews like the KKK or the Nazis, but they do think each race should have their own lands, and should stick to their own lands. So they love the notion of Jews leaving for Israel, and of Israel as an entirely Jewish state.
And many Israelis. I've heard more than once"
"There is no such thing as a Palestinian. They are just Arabs and should be happy to live anywhere in the Arab world. Israel is not part of the Arab world so they shouldn't be living there."
Hitler didn't start day 1 exterminating the Jews, Homosexuals, and Gypsies. That's the sort of things you build up to with steps like touting one religion over another, otherising a group(s) who "don't hold our values," that are taking our jobs, that are human filth, that must be tracked, that are subhuman, that must be removed so we can be great again.
In fact in 1933 Nazi Germany started sponsoring Jews to emigrate to Palestine. This went on until 1939 when the war made it logistically impossible. It was called 'The Transfer Program' and made the formation of the modern state of Israel possible.
So no, he didn't start exterminating Jews from day 1.
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How is that racist? IATA requires all air traffic controllers around the world to be able to respond to aircraft that request service in English.
Oh wow. Then how will they understand "Mayday!" (which comes from the French m'aider). Chaos should surely ensue.
Also, race is massively misunderstood. The 'races' of humanity are nothing more than gigantic extended families.
Nothing to do with Brexit. The London mayor, Sadiq Khan (a Muslim and son of a Pakistani bus driver) backs the language test. It is part of a campaign to improve quality and reduce the number of rogue mini-cabs on the road.
How about making people feel comfortable by being able to get a cab with a driver that speaks the language of their choice? Then we could have multiple language tests.
Honestly, I'm not convinced, especially not until Brexit is complete and all those damn funny-sounding furriners from the rest of the Union can be kept out of the country.
I DO think that Uber ought to assess language proficiency themselves, then hook French-speaking riders up with French-speaking drivers and so on.
And also if you are going to live in the UK you should wear normal English clothes!!!!!!1111
In fact normal garments should be handed to foreigners at the ports of entry.
Some English people feel terribly distressed when they see foreigners wearing their foreign clothing in the street.
This is a LOCAL country for LOCAL people. Theres nothing for foreigners here!
It must be really fun going through life with such constant paranoia. Taking such drastic and inconvenient measures means they (the terr'rists or the gov'mint, take your pick) have already won.
I don't travel that often. When I do travel this is really not an inconvenience, you are totally exaggerating.
Because Travel Mode is an indicator that you've got something to hide, and thus, must be using social media to send encoded terrorist messages.
Sometimes I think terrorists are just nature's way of weeding out the violent and stupid- especially suicide bombers.
For one thing, there has to be something for them to see, so they don't see a blank slate and, on that basis, assume you have something to hide and probe you ever more deeply.
Clearly if there were going to be a 'Travel Mode' it would have to be very very well hidden.
When I'm travelling I wipe the phone, factory reset it, and then set it up with my work account instead of personal. That way there are contacts and emails etc but its only work related. My work isn't sensitive so I don't care. But it looks like it has stuff on it so it gives the security guys a nice satisfying experience.
I'm a Canadian who I used to travel to the USA for vacations/tourism at least once a year for the past 10 years.
But I turned down a trip with friends to Pittsburgh last weekend, and plan on avoiding all future travel to the USA until I know my rights will be respected.
If I'm being honest, I don't really anticipate that happening, so i doubt I'll be returning to USA ever again.
I'll just take my vacations in Canada or the Caribbean instead.
I'm boycotting, and I'm white..... I imagine there are many non-white tourists who are rethinking their plans too.
Can you get from Canada to the Caribbean without traversing US airspace?
I cannot stomach such a policy, but I'll turn over my recently wiped phone and my password "4thamendment" to them.
When I leave the airport, I'll have Google Play reload everything and plug-in my uSD card, and I'll be good to go.
Yes, it's an inconvenience, but I protect my privacy and the US Security Theater can continue it's performances.
When they discover that your phone 'has been wiped for the border' you can expect them to become much more interested in you. Because 'obviously you are hiding something'.
(Stupid touch screen)
All four of us are planning to spend 10 days in Nevada.
I'm coming with real money to spend on frivilous crap because I can.
Why make it difficult?
I'm white, of British and Scottish descent, with no religious affiliation. I dont really expect too many problems, but the idea that it might makes me reconsider this trip.
Don't take cash. The cops will steal it.
Bullshit.
Not only do we have equal (or more) free speech in New Zealand (resident or visitor) we have far less corruption, far more financial freedom and far less regulation. We also don't have an onerous courts system.
Go look it up some time, check out the freedom indexes. The US population is positively oppressed by comparison.
The ACC system all by itself makes NZ trump the USA (no pun intended). NZers are far less risk averse than Americans and many services in NZ are far cheaper because theres less risk of litigation (being sued).
Healthcare can cost less in NZ because the health care providers in North America (Canada included) have to take out very very expensive malpractice insurance because they can get sued. This, in turn, pushes up the price of health insurance and at the end of the day there are two main profit making businesses; lawyers and insurers.
And Apple has been a great influencer itself.
Which is good, because there can't be any heretical truefacts about Apple. To believe so is a thoughtcrime and criminally unsocial.
Any facts about Apple which are in unpraiseful of Apple cannot be truefacts and must be properly edited as they are doubleplus ungood.
Because I know that my idiotic comments on Apple products are going to be rightfully modded into oblivion.
Fixed that for you.
Thanks because as a fanboi you are totally in your right to correct my erroneous and heretical comments.
Where in the article does it suggest that Apple is making a power play here to position Metal like the headline says? This really doesn't have a whole lot to do with Metal specifically, and is instead about leveraging the entire class of APIs that have been coming out that are closer to the (lowercase) metal. In fact, they specifically said so in the summary:
No way is Apple making this power play.
If they did then they'd take 3d graphics hardware more seriously. As it is Apples graphics offerings are a joke, both literally and figuratively.
Then why do you sound so nervous?
Because I know that my non-adoring comments on Apple products are going to be modded into oblivion.
Where in the article does it suggest that Apple is making a power play here to position Metal like the headline says? This really doesn't have a whole lot to do with Metal specifically, and is instead about leveraging the entire class of APIs that have been coming out that are closer to the (lowercase) metal. In fact, they specifically said so in the summary:
No way is Apple making this power play.
If they did then they'd take 3d graphics hardware more seriously. As it is Apples graphics offerings are a joke, both literally and figuratively.
Go to court specifically for each site and rule specifically for each site. Proof required of infringement. That is how it should be handled instead of blanket shutdowns upon simple requests.
Then the plaintiff should pay all legal costs of the ISP as well as execution costs.
I was thinking the ISP should reason like this
"Obviously the MPA think these movies are worth a lot of money. So they should be willing to PAY A LOT OF MONEY for us to block access to them. Ca-ching! $$$$$$$"
and then charge them the same amount the MPA claim to be losing to piracy.
So, if you look at the foreign language requirement for what it is (an "expand your mind" requirement), then it is plainly obvious that coding achieves the same objective.
For the most part I agree. But foreign languages open up way more entertainment opportunities. Theres a strong cultural issue with this in the English speaking world.
One thing that I've noticed, being a primarily English speaker who has lived immersively in many, many non-English cultures; Monolingual English speakers tend to avoid music of other cultures with other languages far more than monolingual speakers of other languages who will very often happily listen to and appreciate music with vocals they don't understand.
Theres a snobbishness to native English speakers that you don't often find in other language groups.
Teaching, or at the very least, exposing native English speakers to other languages opens their minds in ways that programming does not.
I'll grant you that programming opens their minds in ways that foreign languages do not but at the end of the day, on balance, I'd say that getting people to be more social and more aware of other people and cultures has more overall net benefit to individuals and to society.
Do companies and billionerds really think this "teach everyone to code" is going to produce a more capable workforce? What's their angle - drive wages down?
It's doubly confusing since all they want to do is outsource them once they've learned to code. It's fucking ridiculous.
If Disney cared so fucking much why did they outsource an entire department of competent IT workers to India? It's not like Disney is hurting for cash.
Maybe Disney want to make school even more boring so kids will crave more Disney produced entertainment at home?
Heres a clue for the programmers on /. honestly although you might not believe it nor understand it, programming is boring for most people.
Foreign languages open up a LOT more entertainment possibilities than programming; listening to music with vocals in other languages, literature and movies in other languages, being able to engage with other human beings in other languages. Even foreign language classrooms are more entertaining than in programming classrooms because its about HUMAN CONTACT. Social interaction drives almost all actual fun and entertainment for the majority of human beings ie people who are more or less heteronormative and not on the autism spectrum.
So yeah, Disney is being sneaky as fuck yet again and trying to make school even more boring to drive up their own revenues. I could believe it.
If they weren't teaching "reading, writing, and rithmetic" in the 1950s, what did they teach? Or are you talking about the 1850s?
The 'rithmetic' they taught in the 1950s hardly counts as mathematics, better described as numeracy; being numerically literate, being able to do long division and memorise multiplication tables ie skills that were often useful in everyday life.
The plugins were totally unsecurable already. Just use that browser for accessing those devices only, without internet access.
'Without internet access' isn't going to work when you are accessing KVM consoles on servers on the other side of the world which are at a hosting company where you don't have the option of a VPN. There are many thousands such sites perhaps millions. I deal with about a hundred personally.
Out in the real world people do need java, and often flash as well, in a browser, to be able to do their jobs. You can't just say "Well I'm not going to do my job if you don't upgrade the systems so I don't need java" because they'll just fire you and hire someone who will. Obviously.
And they should have moved to javascript a long time ago, requiring people to install modern browsers instead of continuing to use internet explorer 6 and microsoft XP without any service packs.
Still, you can just back up Firefox 51 and put it to a live linux cd of some sort, then making it access the hardware you need via a VM.
Yeah the vendors should have released firmware patches or hardware modules to deal with the changes to browsers. Never going to happen. People with very sensitive jobs are going to keep using crappy unsecurable browsers because they no longer have any choice.
With Firefox and Chrome having over 2/3 of the browser market between them, your bank will have not much of a choice. Sooner or later nothing supports Java anymore and their plugin is simply obsolete.
There is still a lot of hardware out there and embedded systems that depend on Java for management eg KVM consoles. I know people who keep an XP virtual machine around just so they can manage certain pieces of hardware.
The life of a Jew in Nazi Germany was not all roses until 1939, of course. The anti-Semitism started pretty much immediately and got worse.
The Nazis presumably wanted to encourage them to take advantage of the transfer program, which wasn't instituted because Hitler liked Jews and wanted them to recover their historical homeland...
I'm not saying the Nazis were ever nice to Jews just that the Nazis were instrumental in the formation of the modern state of Israel in so many ways and more deeply than any modern Israeli would ever like to admit. When you look at how Israel treats Palestinians I have to wonder...
"Or with countless pieces of software out there?"
Exactly! That's why one should use a VPN on top of TOR. (or under in this case:-)
VPN into Tor then VPN through Tor. Then use 7 proxies.
And of course, to do that, you would have to trust the windows firewall, which doesn't show everything.
If you run "Windows Firewall with Advanced Security" it shows absolutely everything. I have yet to find anything that bypasses the firewall. Even Windows 10's agressive updates don't work if you block by default, although I have no evidence of the telemetry one way or the other.
That said, if you have an application that runs with elevated security then it can add its own firewall rules. The way around that is to create a special user that just for editing the firewall entries, grant it access to the registry setting and revoke administrator rights. That's only required if you are paranoid though, or if you have a specific requirement. I did this to stop Steam from constantly creating firewall entries for itself and all games. I needed to lock it down to only work over my local connection to prevent it from downloading via my work when I set up a VPN to access the servers.
In Linux its fairly trivial to set up the firewall to block all egress except via a VPN; you configure so that only the VPN can egress via the physical network adaptor (eg eth0) restricting port and destination IP address. Then allow traffic via the tun device used by OpenVPN. In this way you can't accidentally leak anything outside the VPN.
How do you do that in Windows? I never saw any ability to do firewalling by network adaptor.
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In fact in 1933 Nazi Germany started sponsoring Jews to emigrate to Palestine. This went on until 1939 when the war made it logistically impossible. It was called 'The Transfer Program' and made the formation of the modern state of Israel possible.
Which explains how Breitbart can be both anti-Semitic and extremely pro-Israel at the same time. Bannon and the alt-right founder Spenser are white nationalists. They don't hate Black people and Jews like the KKK or the Nazis, but they do think each race should have their own lands, and should stick to their own lands. So they love the notion of Jews leaving for Israel, and of Israel as an entirely Jewish state.
And many Israelis. I've heard more than once"
"There is no such thing as a Palestinian. They are just Arabs and should be happy to live anywhere in the Arab world. Israel is not part of the Arab world so they shouldn't be living there."
Hitler didn't start day 1 exterminating the Jews, Homosexuals, and Gypsies. That's the sort of things you build up to with steps like touting one religion over another, otherising a group(s) who "don't hold our values," that are taking our jobs, that are human filth, that must be tracked, that are subhuman, that must be removed so we can be great again.
In fact in 1933 Nazi Germany started sponsoring Jews to emigrate to Palestine. This went on until 1939 when the war made it logistically impossible. It was called 'The Transfer Program' and made the formation of the modern state of Israel possible.
So no, he didn't start exterminating Jews from day 1.