I meant if you were using one on their system for something else as it would be breaking the law. The net result is that VPN use without a license will become a federal offense, like everything else.
No, they'll simply get exemptions, or otherwise fire those employees. The state and the corporation signed a nonaggression pact years ago. Sure, they'll play-fight in the media or sacrifice each other occasionally over petty squabbles, but that's not the status quo.
Bloated: I largely answered this already. HTML browsers were never intended to have full scale virtual machines (javascript). I'd say this is the gravest sin right there, but other things like flash and other bolt-ons are also part of the problem.
Want to put video on the 'web'? Fine, link to a video stream/container url pointing to your video back end and the browser will open the system (or the user's favorite) video player. This makes presentation more flexible on a per device basis, as well as focusing each task on software designed for it and the user's system/UI/hardware. Hacks to shoehorn video into the browser window are the only reasons flash persists to this day (and why they bolted video on to hyperTEXT markup too). CSS is probably the only somewhat sensible extension to the browser concept, but it also encourages ugly, overdesigned interfaces that sacrifice readability for 'design' (slashdot beta?) at the expense of the browser's flexibility to format content for the device and user's preferences.
As far as games and other 'interactivity' go, serious gaming in a browser is a joke rife with performance and interface problems (even with more bolt ons like quakelive) compared with standalone clients, and flashturbation sites are the most useless for those actually looking for useful information. The whole concept of 'mobile' sites is another symptom. There should only be one site with the textual content which the browser formats for the device, leaving any other content to the system (or user installed) software assigned to the URL types.
Security: On the server side, the whole scripted and 'virtualized' stack is the problem. It was claimed it would be more secure, but all it has done is increased the complexity, increasing the chance for bugs/exploits (eg: php/python etc), and decreased performance. Don't get me wrong, scripting has its place but these 'super scripting' language runtimes have gotten too big, and their system shims too hackish.
Speed: No, they are a lot slower. Try running recent browsers on older hardware and you'll see my point rather quickly. There's no reason a browser should need hundreds of MB or more just to render a few pages or take more than half a second to start up.
Well as the big players have taught us, SaaS cannot be relied upon for any critical work. Features (or even the whole 'application') are here today, gone tomorrow. Same with user data. These providers have made it clear they'll belly up at the slightest government or marketing pressure, so privacy and security are out too. That coupled with metered network connections and the above mentioned architectural abomination leave little to be desired.
To a point, however, it seems most industrialized countries are moving towards top heavy states. Most equipment is manufactured in china, which is not known for its respect of individual rights. However, overall, I agree with your statement.
No, it's the hipsters who keep shoehorning features into the old 'web' model that has caused this bloated, slow, insecure mess. The 'web' wasn't meant to be 'interactive' nor a turing complete development environment for software as a 'service' control-freaks. It was meant to be an information repository. If you want interactive, you don't want html or a 'browser', you want software designed for interactivity.
Lowering the minimum performance standards just to make the warrior population more diverse doesn't seem like a good idea. Same thing with police and firefighters. These people are the ones who defend our nation and come when someone dials 911 for help. Who do you want to come save your family? The one who had to pass the higher standards test or the lower?
This is because men and women tend towards different temperaments. Some industries approach parity, but they are likely ones that don't appeal to the strengths of either sex. Nursing is extremely people/feelings oriented, which attracts women a lot more than men. IT is machine focused, which appeals to men a lot more than women. Men love to know how something works. Women are happy that it does work. There are exceptions and those exceptions are fine, but they are not norms. Forcing homogeneity at the expense of merit just creates distrust in the ones who didn't get the fast track, and a blown out sense of entitlement/ability in those that have. These days, schools, companies, and other institutions are forced by law to roll out the carpet for women at the expense of better qualified men under the guise of 'affirmative action'. This does NOT encourage bilateral cooperation or trust between the sexes regarding skill and competence.
Feminists quote uncited anecdotes and cherry picked 'studies' all the time. The only difference is we're supposed to accept them as truth ("if a woman says she was raped..").
slashdot has activists who pretend to be moderators just like the media has activists who pretend to be journalists. They ignore objectivity in favor of 'making a difference' about 'problematic' expression.
For now.. Eventually the state will be lobbied by greens into taking advantage of such control. The power company will start lowering (or if AC, raising) the thermostat to fatten profits.. Who'd know?
For the record, that is exactly what happens when you load a site that uses javascript. Also, DRM'd software..
I've seen several departments that made reactive approaches a policy. Proactive employees were criticized and repeat offenders let go. I don't get it at all. It costs more money and makes more work and stress. Who wants to keep patching the same problem over and over?
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Obviously, you've never dealt with building complex vfs/directshow graphs..
Does bennett haselton use systemd?
All her fellow warriors will also need new gfx cards so they can find those garbage files.
Yeah, that's what they said about the shit in the patriot act.
I meant if you were using one on their system for something else as it would be breaking the law. The net result is that VPN use without a license will become a federal offense, like everything else.
That doesn't excuse the current trends towards heavy handed abuse of liberty.
More wannabe tyrants cheering on the big tyrant..
No, they'll simply get exemptions, or otherwise fire those employees. The state and the corporation signed a nonaggression pact years ago. Sure, they'll play-fight in the media or sacrifice each other occasionally over petty squabbles, but that's not the status quo.
Bloated: I largely answered this already. HTML browsers were never intended to have full scale virtual machines (javascript). I'd say this is the gravest sin right there, but other things like flash and other bolt-ons are also part of the problem.
Want to put video on the 'web'? Fine, link to a video stream/container url pointing to your video back end and the browser will open the system (or the user's favorite) video player. This makes presentation more flexible on a per device basis, as well as focusing each task on software designed for it and the user's system/UI/hardware. Hacks to shoehorn video into the browser window are the only reasons flash persists to this day (and why they bolted video on to hyperTEXT markup too). CSS is probably the only somewhat sensible extension to the browser concept, but it also encourages ugly, overdesigned interfaces that sacrifice readability for 'design' (slashdot beta?) at the expense of the browser's flexibility to format content for the device and user's preferences.
As far as games and other 'interactivity' go, serious gaming in a browser is a joke rife with performance and interface problems (even with more bolt ons like quakelive) compared with standalone clients, and flashturbation sites are the most useless for those actually looking for useful information. The whole concept of 'mobile' sites is another symptom. There should only be one site with the textual content which the browser formats for the device, leaving any other content to the system (or user installed) software assigned to the URL types.
Security: On the server side, the whole scripted and 'virtualized' stack is the problem. It was claimed it would be more secure, but all it has done is increased the complexity, increasing the chance for bugs/exploits (eg: php/python etc), and decreased performance. Don't get me wrong, scripting has its place but these 'super scripting' language runtimes have gotten too big, and their system shims too hackish.
Speed: No, they are a lot slower. Try running recent browsers on older hardware and you'll see my point rather quickly. There's no reason a browser should need hundreds of MB or more just to render a few pages or take more than half a second to start up.
Well as the big players have taught us, SaaS cannot be relied upon for any critical work. Features (or even the whole 'application') are here today, gone tomorrow. Same with user data. These providers have made it clear they'll belly up at the slightest government or marketing pressure, so privacy and security are out too. That coupled with metered network connections and the above mentioned architectural abomination leave little to be desired.
Nuclear fallout does not respect political boundaries. Any significant nuclear exchange would be to everyone's detriment.
To a point, however, it seems most industrialized countries are moving towards top heavy states. Most equipment is manufactured in china, which is not known for its respect of individual rights. However, overall, I agree with your statement.
No, it's the hipsters who keep shoehorning features into the old 'web' model that has caused this bloated, slow, insecure mess. The 'web' wasn't meant to be 'interactive' nor a turing complete development environment for software as a 'service' control-freaks. It was meant to be an information repository. If you want interactive, you don't want html or a 'browser', you want software designed for interactivity.
savings which will evaporate when the spying is mandated by insurance companies and the law. Insurance is the new slavery.
Not if all brands of computers are compromised... NSLs are powerful and chilling legal devices.
Lowering the minimum performance standards just to make the warrior population more diverse doesn't seem like a good idea. Same thing with police and firefighters. These people are the ones who defend our nation and come when someone dials 911 for help. Who do you want to come save your family? The one who had to pass the higher standards test or the lower?
This is because men and women tend towards different temperaments. Some industries approach parity, but they are likely ones that don't appeal to the strengths of either sex. Nursing is extremely people/feelings oriented, which attracts women a lot more than men. IT is machine focused, which appeals to men a lot more than women. Men love to know how something works. Women are happy that it does work. There are exceptions and those exceptions are fine, but they are not norms. Forcing homogeneity at the expense of merit just creates distrust in the ones who didn't get the fast track, and a blown out sense of entitlement/ability in those that have. These days, schools, companies, and other institutions are forced by law to roll out the carpet for women at the expense of better qualified men under the guise of 'affirmative action'. This does NOT encourage bilateral cooperation or trust between the sexes regarding skill and competence.
Questioning someone's line of reasoning is not oppression.
Feminists quote uncited anecdotes and cherry picked 'studies' all the time. The only difference is we're supposed to accept them as truth ("if a woman says she was raped..").
and this is good for the armed forces and the country how?
Yet it's still ok, and celebrated by feminists, to have female-only run businesses and institutions? short lists and seminars? schools and colleges?
slashdot has activists who pretend to be moderators just like the media has activists who pretend to be journalists. They ignore objectivity in favor of 'making a difference' about 'problematic' expression.
For now.. Eventually the state will be lobbied by greens into taking advantage of such control. The power company will start lowering (or if AC, raising) the thermostat to fatten profits.. Who'd know?
For the record, that is exactly what happens when you load a site that uses javascript. Also, DRM'd software..
Nah, the middle would have the frankfurt school crew. obama would be a relatively distant orbit.
Well, one of the places I'm thinking of was bought out years ago. It doesn't exist anymore.
I've seen several departments that made reactive approaches a policy. Proactive employees were criticized and repeat offenders let go. I don't get it at all. It costs more money and makes more work and stress. Who wants to keep patching the same problem over and over?