Your mistake is in assuming that wired homes will serve their occupants. They're meant to serve government and civil authorities at the occupant's expense. Note: I avoided using the term 'owner' on purpose.
Doxing is releasing private information to the public. Names and addresses are not private information. Drama queens have tried to redefine this in vain attempts to control who gets to use the information they've already provided online.
Eg: John Doe posts a blog entry loaded with clickbait fallacy under his real name, looking for a reaction to boost his lack of self esteem and gain e-prestige, but wasn't ready for criticism. When his post doesn't quite get the attention he was looking for, some type his name into a search engine and find his address and telephone and post this already public information on some forum. If he gains a lot of notoriety, some will go further, armed with the already public info to pick away at what else may be public, but not published like his name and address. Rather than address his shoddy argument, he claims he was 'doxed' instead, ignoring the fact it was his fault for associating his real name with his post in the first place.
A fringe case is exactly the case where the law may not apply, or need a different application (or even a redefinition). Just handling things a certain way because that's how it's been done for X amount of time is what's insane. It's bad enough we have so much 'activism' in legal circles now. I realize precedent has the potential to limit said capriciousness, but with enough activism, the precedents may actually change, reenforcing the stupidity because no amount of logic or reason from a few dissenters can override it. If the defendant thinks the case was handled badly by the judge or jury, he should appeal. The real problem is that the modern media taints the jury pool before the court has a chance to set a date, leading to capricious behavior. Voir Dire is supposed to limit this, but it really can't, especially for high profile cases.
If the law is so complex that even lawyers need cliff notes, we have a bigger problem to solve. How can anyone be expected to follow law that is incomprehensible?
True, I haven't, because I know what I'm doing, and, more importantly, I know when I don't, and look up the information I need, or have someone else do it.
That's true, but the NSA is still involved in illegal wiretapping. They compromise systems and give the info to the state. We put regular people in jail for 99 years for the same offense. Compare this to 5 years for murder. I don't see how this is any different. The abuse of the information comes from other agencies too used to having unchecked power.
1. yes they are supposed to spy outside the nation's borders, not on citizens. By doing so, we do what the terrorists want to do: destroy our liberties. Who was snowden supposed to tell? The only leverage over the washington crowd is public shame. Snowden was a response to their deplorable behavior. They created snowden.
2. If al quada is a threat, congress should declare war on the nations supporting it, and we hurl cruise missiles at them until they stop attacking us. If they are not threats, then we shouldn't be there. We don't win freedom by compromising citizens rights at home.
1. Most of those rules and pitfalls are put there by bureaucrats who want to bilk you out of money for certifications and licenses the laws they passed require. If are you are well versed in the knowledge needed, yet don't know these extra rules, then the rules themselves are bullshit traps to force people into buying these licenses for legal protection. It really is a pile of theoretical constructs that has no basis on whether you know how to correctly wire up a breaker box.
2. Precedent is a broken concept that should be abolished. Cases should be weighed on their own circumstances. Considering the outrageous fees lawyers get for 'interpreting' the law other lawyers have written, it's the least they could do.
True, they leave the arresting, torture, and illegal imprisonment to others, but the NSA does monitor and collect private communications of US citizens without warrants. All of this behavior IS illegal, or was, originally. If it's not now, then those who passed the new laws circumventing constitutional protections are the traitors who should be shot. This puts snowden into patriot territory.
You don't like it when others with stricter interpretations of the constitution express themselves (nevermind pass law), yet grant yourself an exemption and try to pass it off as patriotism? Fuck off, hypocrite. If you like heavy handed state tyranny, why not move to north korea?
No thanks. The last thing we need is yet another layer of government on top of what our countries already have. The UN is bad enough, the USSR was worse. Being ruled over by machine is just more efficient slavery by the people who programmed it.
one or more apply to some degree: 1. most people are distracted by background noise/visuals/social cues 2. it is impairing your productivity to some degree. you are working harder than you need to 3. it depends on the type of work. 4. ignoring distraction is part of the trade. ignoring a cacophony of noise created by mundane officework done in huge open rooms by lots of people is not. 5. your superiority complex doesn't justify bigotry
'Real human beings'? You mean the insufferable status-driven snobs who think they're more intelligent because they buy overpriced technology instead of clothing accessories to create meaningless social differentiation? Hipsters are as bad as the kids who insist you have the cool whatever to sit at their table, or the management types who think the same about shirts and ties. The only difference with hipsters is that they think they're 'alternative' or 'radical' for it, especially when it comes to politics.
I've seen decent programmers fired over coding style differences like using// instead of/**/ for comments in C code, followed by the hiring of a half dozen indian H1-Bs who couldn't do squat. They would ask IT (ie me) how to do remedial things. When I refused to do their jobs for them, I was almost fired. This dysfunction has existed everywhere I've worked to some extent.
There are plenty. Employers need to offer more money, sane hours/goalposts, and not bitch so much about qualified applicants who don't/can't/won't conform to today's passive-aggressive 'corporate culture', with its ever expanding social minefields and fragile-ego-defending rulesets. Managers like this create clashes with employees over nonessential issues that really belong in highschool (omg, he's not wearing the 'right' shirt or pants, that's like so totally 'unprofessional!' ugh!) just to find excuses to fire the target and hire an H1-B for a third the wage. Meanwhile, money is lost on half-assed foreigners whose cultures have already conditioned them to accept the shitty wages, wear the silly clothing, and obey the rules defending all those fragile egoes, but whose cultures also let them buy/lie their way through their education, making them primo at making spaghetti out of the project. Then the smart native they should have kept is hired back, now at crazy consultant wages, to clean up the mess! The ignorance western countries have about some of these third world cultures astounds me.
However, if lowballed salaries and behavioral conformity is all that matters, these shitty companies should move to india, china, or some other hellhole, and not import their software back here. I don't want the grief of having to support yet another shitty piece of middleware produced this way. Americans (and probably most europeans) don't want to live the sardine can/'dormitory' lifestyle the market increasingly encourages either. If the employer doesn't want to pay the salary required to pay down that overinflated $50k education from some state college, the overtaxed car ("applicant must have reliable transportation"), and his hyperinflated studio apt, all with an ever inflating currency, then all I can suggest is to vote and, if large enough, lobby, accordingly.
Mr. Graham cannot expect to retain 'genius' programmers on the salary paid to 'competent' programmers, nevermind the peanuts paid to 'dormitory' slaves. Once those foreign geniuses come here, they will quickly learn to command the same salaries as their native peers, driving wages down for everyone. If he wants to make america interesting to investors, he should work on fixing the fundamental problems with our currency and political policy.
I've seen many a hiring manager lubing up applicants with yammering about employee 'loyalty' and 'perseverance', and then lowballing the offer. You'll just have to pay more than minimum wage for decent skillsets if you want to sell your product in a healthy market. If all you care about is paying the lowest wage possible, move your business to china.
When every decently skilled US programmer has a job, and there is still demand, let some foreigners in. This should apply to any industry. When there is a glut of labor, like there is now, close the borders.
No. Like real life, the internet should be a place where people can speak their minds without a bunch of pantywaists shutting down their free speech rights out of insecurity. Of course, in the west, we have a growing problem where these people are gaining political power and using it to censor speech they don't like. No one should be arrested for a fucking internet post...at least not in a free country.
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Your mistake is in assuming that wired homes will serve their occupants. They're meant to serve government and civil authorities at the occupant's expense. Note: I avoided using the term 'owner' on purpose.
I am sure this comment will be modded down by butthurt leftists because of the obama communist statement, but most of this is right on target.
Doxing is releasing private information to the public. Names and addresses are not private information. Drama queens have tried to redefine this in vain attempts to control who gets to use the information they've already provided online.
Eg: John Doe posts a blog entry loaded with clickbait fallacy under his real name, looking for a reaction to boost his lack of self esteem and gain e-prestige, but wasn't ready for criticism. When his post doesn't quite get the attention he was looking for, some type his name into a search engine and find his address and telephone and post this already public information on some forum. If he gains a lot of notoriety, some will go further, armed with the already public info to pick away at what else may be public, but not published like his name and address. Rather than address his shoddy argument, he claims he was 'doxed' instead, ignoring the fact it was his fault for associating his real name with his post in the first place.
I admire your preternatural knowledge of me. How did you get it? I never claimed that knowledge = ability.
If the law was sane to begin with, and cases were weighted on their own merits, lawyers wouldn't need precedent to do the thinking for them.
A fringe case is exactly the case where the law may not apply, or need a different application (or even a redefinition). Just handling things a certain way because that's how it's been done for X amount of time is what's insane. It's bad enough we have so much 'activism' in legal circles now. I realize precedent has the potential to limit said capriciousness, but with enough activism, the precedents may actually change, reenforcing the stupidity because no amount of logic or reason from a few dissenters can override it. If the defendant thinks the case was handled badly by the judge or jury, he should appeal. The real problem is that the modern media taints the jury pool before the court has a chance to set a date, leading to capricious behavior. Voir Dire is supposed to limit this, but it really can't, especially for high profile cases.
If the law is so complex that even lawyers need cliff notes, we have a bigger problem to solve. How can anyone be expected to follow law that is incomprehensible?
True, I haven't, because I know what I'm doing, and, more importantly, I know when I don't, and look up the information I need, or have someone else do it.
That's true, but the NSA is still involved in illegal wiretapping. They compromise systems and give the info to the state. We put regular people in jail for 99 years for the same offense. Compare this to 5 years for murder. I don't see how this is any different. The abuse of the information comes from other agencies too used to having unchecked power.
1. yes they are supposed to spy outside the nation's borders, not on citizens. By doing so, we do what the terrorists want to do: destroy our liberties. Who was snowden supposed to tell? The only leverage over the washington crowd is public shame. Snowden was a response to their deplorable behavior. They created snowden.
2. If al quada is a threat, congress should declare war on the nations supporting it, and we hurl cruise missiles at them until they stop attacking us. If they are not threats, then we shouldn't be there. We don't win freedom by compromising citizens rights at home.
1. Most of those rules and pitfalls are put there by bureaucrats who want to bilk you out of money for certifications and licenses the laws they passed require. If are you are well versed in the knowledge needed, yet don't know these extra rules, then the rules themselves are bullshit traps to force people into buying these licenses for legal protection. It really is a pile of theoretical constructs that has no basis on whether you know how to correctly wire up a breaker box.
2. Precedent is a broken concept that should be abolished. Cases should be weighed on their own circumstances. Considering the outrageous fees lawyers get for 'interpreting' the law other lawyers have written, it's the least they could do.
True, they leave the arresting, torture, and illegal imprisonment to others, but the NSA does monitor and collect private communications of US citizens without warrants. All of this behavior IS illegal, or was, originally. If it's not now, then those who passed the new laws circumventing constitutional protections are the traitors who should be shot. This puts snowden into patriot territory.
You don't like it when others with stricter interpretations of the constitution express themselves (nevermind pass law), yet grant yourself an exemption and try to pass it off as patriotism? Fuck off, hypocrite. If you like heavy handed state tyranny, why not move to north korea?
No thanks. The last thing we need is yet another layer of government on top of what our countries already have. The UN is bad enough, the USSR was worse. Being ruled over by machine is just more efficient slavery by the people who programmed it.
Individuals need some control over what works for them. Communal micromanagement is hell.
one or more apply to some degree:
1. most people are distracted by background noise/visuals/social cues
2. it is impairing your productivity to some degree. you are working harder than you need to
3. it depends on the type of work.
4. ignoring distraction is part of the trade. ignoring a cacophony of noise created by mundane officework done in huge open rooms by lots of people is not.
5. your superiority complex doesn't justify bigotry
'Real human beings'? You mean the insufferable status-driven snobs who think they're more intelligent because they buy overpriced technology instead of clothing accessories to create meaningless social differentiation? Hipsters are as bad as the kids who insist you have the cool whatever to sit at their table, or the management types who think the same about shirts and ties. The only difference with hipsters is that they think they're 'alternative' or 'radical' for it, especially when it comes to politics.
Intelligence has little correlation to your subjective opinion on the word 'hipster.'
perhaps, as an H1-B, you should take your own advice?
I've seen decent programmers fired over coding style differences like using // instead of /**/ for comments in C code, followed by the hiring of a half dozen indian H1-Bs who couldn't do squat. They would ask IT (ie me) how to do remedial things. When I refused to do their jobs for them, I was almost fired. This dysfunction has existed everywhere I've worked to some extent.
There are plenty. Employers need to offer more money, sane hours/goalposts, and not bitch so much about qualified applicants who don't/can't/won't conform to today's passive-aggressive 'corporate culture', with its ever expanding social minefields and fragile-ego-defending rulesets. Managers like this create clashes with employees over nonessential issues that really belong in highschool (omg, he's not wearing the 'right' shirt or pants, that's like so totally 'unprofessional!' ugh!) just to find excuses to fire the target and hire an H1-B for a third the wage. Meanwhile, money is lost on half-assed foreigners whose cultures have already conditioned them to accept the shitty wages, wear the silly clothing, and obey the rules defending all those fragile egoes, but whose cultures also let them buy/lie their way through their education, making them primo at making spaghetti out of the project. Then the smart native they should have kept is hired back, now at crazy consultant wages, to clean up the mess! The ignorance western countries have about some of these third world cultures astounds me.
However, if lowballed salaries and behavioral conformity is all that matters, these shitty companies should move to india, china, or some other hellhole, and not import their software back here. I don't want the grief of having to support yet another shitty piece of middleware produced this way. Americans (and probably most europeans) don't want to live the sardine can/'dormitory' lifestyle the market increasingly encourages either. If the employer doesn't want to pay the salary required to pay down that overinflated $50k education from some state college, the overtaxed car ("applicant must have reliable transportation"), and his hyperinflated studio apt, all with an ever inflating currency, then all I can suggest is to vote and, if large enough, lobby, accordingly.
Mr. Graham cannot expect to retain 'genius' programmers on the salary paid to 'competent' programmers, nevermind the peanuts paid to 'dormitory' slaves. Once those foreign geniuses come here, they will quickly learn to command the same salaries as their native peers, driving wages down for everyone. If he wants to make america interesting to investors, he should work on fixing the fundamental problems with our currency and political policy.
I've seen many a hiring manager lubing up applicants with yammering about employee 'loyalty' and 'perseverance', and then lowballing the offer. You'll just have to pay more than minimum wage for decent skillsets if you want to sell your product in a healthy market. If all you care about is paying the lowest wage possible, move your business to china.
When every decently skilled US programmer has a job, and there is still demand, let some foreigners in. This should apply to any industry. When there is a glut of labor, like there is now, close the borders.
No. Like real life, the internet should be a place where people can speak their minds without a bunch of pantywaists shutting down their free speech rights out of insecurity. Of course, in the west, we have a growing problem where these people are gaining political power and using it to censor speech they don't like. No one should be arrested for a fucking internet post...at least not in a free country.
Dogs come with all kinds of other issues though. That cat turd will just end up back out on your rug, or stuck between the treads of your lawn mower..
wow.. you didn't just say that word.. I think it's time we had a conversation.
It's only natural to equate the extreme with the moderate. After all, all libertarians are anarcho capitalists and all liberals are communists!!
Belief is irrelevant.