" I am not going to uproot my family, sell my house, have my kids change schools, and spend thousands of dollars to move every time I change jobs just so I can live within a car-free commuting distance of my work place."
Some companies realize this and will move work around within the company in order to bleed off employees without officially calling it a " layoff ".
Every few years they'll move a group from one State to another. You have the choice of following the work, or finding a different job.:|
I'm right there with you. I'm not about to up and move everything anytime my company cracks the whip.
A vehicle is not just a status symbol, it's a means of dictating your own schedule and maintaining your sanity.
As a vehicle owner I don't have to wait to go somewhere based on the frequency of bus or train travel to and from any given destination. I don't have to stand outside in the ( insert bad weather here ) with the rest of the herd that is waiting for the bus / train. As a vehicle owner I don't have to sit next to the guy / gal who hasn't bathed in the past three months nor breathe in the cloud of perfume / cologne or the lovely smell of cigarette smoke residue. I don't have to put up with the screaming child or the schizophrenic arguing with their imaginary friends that are onboard the bus / train. Getting stuck late at the office doesn't have dire consequences if you miss the last bus / train.
This list can really go on and on, but I decided long ago that I would never partake in public transportation again unless I had absolutely no other choice. ( And I will stay home before I go anywhere via bus )
Or Houston that is not only sitting on clay, but is also only about ~50 feet above sea level. Those underground systems do not work well when completely flooded with water. Yup, we have pumps for that and they don't work well without fuel. Hurricanes tend to knock out power to everything for extended periods of time, including the pumps ( and the fuel pumps for that matter ).
If I recall correctly, during one of our recent Tropical Storms ( not a hurricane mind you ) one of our major thoroughfares ( Hwy 59 near downtown ) was under 20+ feet of water. Entire semi-trucks were completely submerged.
A couple of miles *might quality as " walking distance ". My thirty mile one way commute, would not.
Note my thirty mile commute is a vast improvement over the fifty mile commute I did for fifteen years:|
Could I move closer to work ? Not really considering the cost of housing / taxes within a few miles of where I work vastly exceeds my level of pay. ( I can't afford million dollar condos, nor Texas property taxes + mortgage payments on half million + dollar homes )
*Emphasis on might here depending on what neighborhoods and / or unpleasant areas you might have to traverse on foot in order to get to work.
The Federal Government needs to get involved because it has been shown the Major ISP's are not interested in providing a quality network unless they make insane profits from doing so. Were it not for regulation, the POTS system would have been the same way. Telco's would have expanded the networks only to those areas where high profits were guaranteed and left the rest of the nation in the dark.
Considering the Internet and Voip are pretty much replacing the old telephone network as standard means of communication between folks, we need SOME regulation in place to make sure the Telcos / ISP's aren't just acting in their own be$t intere$t$.
If you prefer no regulation, then you must be ok with the whole " Paid Prioritization " thing. The throttling of specific types of data ( Bit-torrent ), and the degradation of other traffic because it's a competitive service to what the ISP offers. ( Netflix, Voip, Hulu, etc )
The major players have had more than ample opportunity to get their acts together. This is pretty much the end result when you let large Monopolies / Duopolies run things. They get away with it for a while but, in the end, they get to face the music.
"People are getting confused because it appears to be a win for net neutrality on the surface. Really now, do you think a former telecoms lobbyist would put that on the table if service providers didn't have something to gain from it?"
I'm pretty sure, unless this is some ultra-elaborate ruse, that the major Telecoms are not going to waste money trying to fight this in the courts if they ultimately ended up benefiting from it. One of the things the telecoms hated about Title II regulations when it came to the telephone system is that they were REQUIRED to provide telephone service equally without cherry-picking the high profit areas of the nation.
I promise you they do not want to be forced to deliver high speed broadband to these same rural areas because it will absolutely kill their profits.
Many places that handle this type of data will encrypt it and direct you to a https link to download it. When you hit the site, you'll be asked for a password that was given to you by the folks on the phone. It will then decrypt the contents and allow you to download it right to your machine.
They know most folks are incapable of implementing or even understanding encryption, thus the simplified method above.
Banks ( and any institution that handles SPI data ) will get their ass handed to them for exposing that data. ( and they know it ) SPI data is the primary reason all laptops for my company are full disk encryption. Losing a laptop isn't news. Losing one with 100k Social Security numbers, bank accounts, or Customer names, passwords, addresses DOES make the news.
They're paranoid about it ( and rightfully so ) and will fire you on the spot if your actions expose SPI data of any kind.
Say something the government doesn't like: Watch List Participate in a protest the government doesn't like: Watch List Buy too many guns or ammo in X period of time: Watch List Visit some country our government doesn't like: Watch List Donate to a charity or organization our government doesn't like: Watch List Use VPN's or TOR or tech to try to keep some privacy: Probably on a Watch List
I'm sure I could expand this list quite a bit were I to put some effort into it. But you get the point.
If your company exists and relies solely on advertising to fund operational costs, you're doing it wrong.
Ads are annoying at best, and downright dangerous at their worst. It's the latter reason folks block them. Too many times advertisements have been used as an attack vector to deliver some trojan / virus / malware. For that reason alone I block all ads. Adblock, Ghostery and I'm working on a proxy solution to remove them from the data stream all-together before they even clear my router.
If you don't take a stand against unlimited advertising now, the internet will look a lot like Cable TV does eventually.
If the district has clear policies in place concerning imaginative magical items, I would certainly love to read through them.
Can you imagine the sheer TERROR that would happen if the kid brought in some crazy artifact ? Dragon Orb or Phoenix Egg ? They would probably end up calling in a SWAT Team. ( Or at least some high level mage to deal with it:D )
"There has been a big push to get more men into primary education in the UK, but it's been kinda hampered by the paedophile hysteria that's been going round."
Had I not posted in this thread already, I would have given you a Mod point for this:D
It's the same here in the States. Anymore all it takes is the accusation ( truthful or not is irrelevant ) and your career as a teacher is over. There is no way on this Earth I would put all the years of education and certifications required to be an educator on the line when it merely takes one child who isn't getting their way to make a claim and instantly end my career.
You want more Males in this profession ? Start building in some protections to counter the Witch Hunts.
"We will, in all likelihood, mishandle the translation of females into technical positions, drawing in students with no real interest in the topic but with starry-eyed expectations from the fancy posters and sweet words. Then we will learn not that we have approached the effort improperly, but that women are simply not suited for--perhaps not intelligent enough for--science and technology work. This stigma will not just affect education; instead, people will learn that women are directly inferior as engineers, by nature, and so will not hire competent female engineers any more. "
Chuckle.
I think the female gender is more intelligent than you give them credit for. Computer Sciences, Programming, Network Engineering, are all decent paying jobs I suppose, but far from the most interesting. ( Some are downright boring, monotonous, and mind numbing after a while. )
If the truth about many of these jobs became widely known, ( long hours, cubicle environments, you're a number to a company - not a human being, hunched over a keyboard staring at a monitor 10-12 hours a day ) you might even have a difficult time getting ANYONE to show interest in the field, gender notwithstanding.
Perhaps the female gender sees that all of the negatives far outweigh the positives and really don't want anything to do with it. Unless you walk, talk, eat, sleep, breathe and DREAM this stuff, it really is rather boring. Important work ? Absolutely. Just not very exciting.
You're braver than I am:D ( Assuming your Wan faces the internet )
In a corporate environment, sure. In the wild ? hahahahahaha No.
Better to be on site when doing any configuration tweaking anyway. A typo is the only thing standing in the way of locking yourself out of it and / or knocking if offline completely.
I personally don't allow anything other than very specific hosts which are members of the wired Lan access to router / switch management. No remote sites, no wireless or VPN connections. ( Of course, talking about a home network. Corporate is different story. )
Perhaps the mosquitoes are merely part of a natural equation to keep the human population in check. If we had a longer lifespan it's possible we would be in trouble as a species.
Similar to letting deer overpopulate a region. There will be plenty of deer right up to the point where they run out of food and starve to death en masse:D Apply that globally to a planet overpopulated with the human animal, and you end up with the same results.
From my experience, subscription services are merely the carrot they try to entice you with to get out from under the deluge of ads you would otherwise see.
Yes, the typical/.er will kill ads using a variety of methods ( hosts file, any number of addons or dropping them at the firewall / proxy ), the majority of those on the net will not.
Besides, it's only a matter of time before the subscription users start seeing ads again. They'll start off small but will be right back to full on annoying soon enough. Too much money left on the table otherwise. Cable TV comes to mind here. Sometimes I think there are more commercials than actual content depending on the channel.
The 2014 versions of Creative Cloud removed Flash export from Premiere, After Effects and Media Converter. If you wanted to retain that functionality, you needed to install a previous version that supported it.
They're concentrating on the other web formats it seems. Someone even created a.webm plugin for Premiere and Media Converter. I doubt Adobe is worried about Flash, they have plenty of other applications that are heavily used.
Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere, After Effects and Audition being the ones I am most familiar with.
At this point they're not really buying the laws, they're effectively WRITING them. They're just buying the congress-critters signature to put at the bottom:D
This will be difficult because while the government has unlimited funds / budgets to bribe / coerce the vendors with, the rest of us do not.
" We would like you to use THIS protocol as the new standard in your product. " " That would weaken the entire system. " " How does a a few million sound in exchange for your cooperation / silence / immunity ? " " It sounds insulting actually. " " Ok, how about a few HUNDRED million ? " ":| . . . . . Done. "
That's pretty much how it works. Everyone has a price. Once the numbers get large enough, nearly everyone will fold.
Was the uncivilized method of keeping tabs on you.
In the new millennium, we need not resort to such obvious oppressive methods. We feed you the bullsh*t about how free you are while, at the same time, track every aspect of your life that is possible via technology without your knowledge and / or consent.
If they bother to stop you to ask questions, they're just giving you enough rope to hang yourself with.
Never, if he's smart. ( And we know he's rather intelligent )
Were I in his shoes, the most damning evidence I had would be held back as leverage to ensure no one in the US Government did anything stupid. A digital dead mans switch if you will. Easy enough to bundle with the original encrypted files, just encrypt the crazy stuff with a secondary key. If you end up in an "accident" or going missing, the key gets distributed and the fun really starts.
Boils down to how badly the Government wants to get their hands on Snowden really. Is it really worth having your most intimate secrets dragged into the spotlight for the world to see ?
Atmospheric conditions being the predominant one. Size of scope and quality of optics are another. Light pollution within your viewing area another fun one. North Korea would kick ass for sky observation:D
For the most part, he's right. Most viewing through a telescope is simply ' bigger dots ' or realizing what you thought was a big bright dot is actually half a dozen small ones. If the planets are visible and the conditions are right, then you can make out some detail. Mars Ice Caps, Saturn Rings, Jupiter and a moon or few. For the other " oooooh ahhhhh " stuff such as galaxies and nebulae, you're gonna have to get into astrophotography. This will require a bit more elaborate setup and a lot more $$$$ in gear.
Silly above variables still apply though. If I lived in a dark area, I would definitely setup a mini-observatory. Alas, I can damn near read a book if I go outside the light pollution is so bad where I live.
"saying the information is putting officer's lives at risk"
I'm pretty sure the recent increase in behavior trends in Law Enforcement are what's putting officers lives at risk. ( Pro Tip: Keep killing unarmed folks and the masses eventually will break out the pitchforks and torches )
Hell, to be fun, they should remove the COP logo from Waze and replace it with a Pistol instead to reflect the increased likelihood of being shot.
Slashdot Mirror
" I am not going to uproot my family, sell my house, have my kids change schools, and spend thousands of dollars to move every time I change jobs just so I can live within a car-free commuting distance of my work place."
:|
Some companies realize this and will move work around within the company in order to bleed off employees without officially calling it a " layoff ".
Every few years they'll move a group from one State to another. You have the choice of following the work, or finding a different job.
I'm right there with you. I'm not about to up and move everything anytime my company cracks the whip.
A vehicle is not just a status symbol, it's a means of dictating your own schedule and maintaining your sanity.
As a vehicle owner I don't have to wait to go somewhere based on the frequency of bus or train travel to and from any given destination.
I don't have to stand outside in the ( insert bad weather here ) with the rest of the herd that is waiting for the bus / train.
As a vehicle owner I don't have to sit next to the guy / gal who hasn't bathed in the past three months nor breathe in the cloud of perfume / cologne or the lovely smell of cigarette smoke residue.
I don't have to put up with the screaming child or the schizophrenic arguing with their imaginary friends that are onboard the bus / train.
Getting stuck late at the office doesn't have dire consequences if you miss the last bus / train.
This list can really go on and on, but I decided long ago that I would never partake in public transportation again unless I had absolutely no other choice. ( And I will stay home before I go anywhere via bus )
Or Houston that is not only sitting on clay, but is also only about ~50 feet above sea level. Those underground systems do not work well when completely flooded with water. Yup, we have pumps for that and they don't work well without fuel. Hurricanes tend to knock out power to everything for extended periods of time, including the pumps ( and the fuel pumps for that matter ).
If I recall correctly, during one of our recent Tropical Storms ( not a hurricane mind you ) one of our major thoroughfares ( Hwy 59 near downtown ) was under 20+ feet of water. Entire semi-trucks were completely submerged.
A couple of miles *might quality as " walking distance ". My thirty mile one way commute, would not.
:|
Note my thirty mile commute is a vast improvement over the fifty mile commute I did for fifteen years
Could I move closer to work ? Not really considering the cost of housing / taxes within a few miles of where I work vastly exceeds my level of pay. ( I can't afford million dollar condos, nor Texas property taxes + mortgage payments on half million + dollar homes )
*Emphasis on might here depending on what neighborhoods and / or unpleasant areas you might have to traverse on foot in order to get to work.
The Federal Government needs to get involved because it has been shown the Major ISP's are not interested in providing a quality network unless they make insane profits from doing so. Were it not for regulation, the POTS system would have been the same way. Telco's would have expanded the networks only to those areas where high profits were guaranteed and left the rest of the nation in the dark.
Considering the Internet and Voip are pretty much replacing the old telephone network as standard means of communication between folks, we need SOME regulation in place to make sure the Telcos / ISP's aren't just acting in their own be$t intere$t$.
If you prefer no regulation, then you must be ok with the whole " Paid Prioritization " thing. The throttling of specific types of data ( Bit-torrent ), and the degradation of other traffic because it's a competitive service to what the ISP offers. ( Netflix, Voip, Hulu, etc )
The major players have had more than ample opportunity to get their acts together. This is pretty much the end result when you let large Monopolies / Duopolies run things. They get away with it for a while but, in the end, they get to face the music.
"People are getting confused because it appears to be a win for net neutrality on the surface. Really now, do you think a former telecoms lobbyist would put that on the table if service providers didn't have something to gain from it?"
I'm pretty sure, unless this is some ultra-elaborate ruse, that the major Telecoms are not going to waste money trying to fight this in the courts if they ultimately ended up benefiting from it. One of the things the telecoms hated about Title II regulations when it came to the telephone system is that they were REQUIRED to provide telephone service equally without cherry-picking the high profit areas of the nation.
I promise you they do not want to be forced to deliver high speed broadband to these same rural areas because it will absolutely kill their profits.
True statement, however the FCC also has some big money and gorilla-sized heavyweights behind it in the form of Google.
This should be an entertaining event at the very least.
Many places that handle this type of data will encrypt it and direct you to a https link to download it. When you hit the site, you'll be asked for a password that was given to you by the folks on the phone. It will then decrypt the contents and allow you to download it right to your machine.
They know most folks are incapable of implementing or even understanding encryption, thus the simplified method above.
Banks ( and any institution that handles SPI data ) will get their ass handed to them for exposing that data. ( and they know it ) SPI data is the primary reason all laptops for my company are full disk encryption. Losing a laptop isn't news. Losing one with 100k Social Security numbers, bank accounts, or Customer names, passwords, addresses DOES make the news.
They're paranoid about it ( and rightfully so ) and will fire you on the spot if your actions expose SPI data of any kind.
*SPI = Sensitive Personal Information
Say something the government doesn't like: Watch List
Participate in a protest the government doesn't like: Watch List
Buy too many guns or ammo in X period of time: Watch List
Visit some country our government doesn't like: Watch List
Donate to a charity or organization our government doesn't like: Watch List
Use VPN's or TOR or tech to try to keep some privacy: Probably on a Watch List
I'm sure I could expand this list quite a bit were I to put some effort into it. But you get the point.
If your company exists and relies solely on advertising to fund operational costs, you're doing it wrong.
Ads are annoying at best, and downright dangerous at their worst. It's the latter reason folks block them. Too many times advertisements have been used as an attack vector to deliver some trojan / virus / malware. For that reason alone I block all ads. Adblock, Ghostery and I'm working on a proxy solution to remove them from the data stream all-together before they even clear my router.
If you don't take a stand against unlimited advertising now, the internet will look a lot like Cable TV does eventually.
If the district has clear policies in place concerning imaginative magical items, I would certainly love to read through them.
:D )
Can you imagine the sheer TERROR that would happen if the kid brought in some crazy artifact ? Dragon Orb or Phoenix Egg ?
They would probably end up calling in a SWAT Team. ( Or at least some high level mage to deal with it
walk into a Texas classroom and wield magical rings !
( or Pop-Tart firearms )
or exhibit any level of intelligence at the administration level . . . .
Apparently.
"There has been a big push to get more men into primary education in the UK, but it's been kinda hampered by the paedophile hysteria that's been going round."
:D
Had I not posted in this thread already, I would have given you a Mod point for this
It's the same here in the States. Anymore all it takes is the accusation ( truthful or not is irrelevant ) and your career as a teacher is over. There is no way on this Earth I would put all the years of education and certifications required to be an educator on the line when it merely takes one child who isn't getting their way to make a claim and instantly end my career.
You want more Males in this profession ? Start building in some protections to counter the Witch Hunts.
"We will, in all likelihood, mishandle the translation of females into technical positions, drawing in students with no real interest in the topic but with starry-eyed expectations from the fancy posters and sweet words. Then we will learn not that we have approached the effort improperly, but that women are simply not suited for--perhaps not intelligent enough for--science and technology work. This stigma will not just affect education; instead, people will learn that women are directly inferior as engineers, by nature, and so will not hire competent female engineers any more. "
Chuckle.
I think the female gender is more intelligent than you give them credit for. Computer Sciences, Programming, Network Engineering, are all decent paying jobs I suppose, but far from the most interesting. ( Some are downright boring, monotonous, and mind numbing after a while. )
If the truth about many of these jobs became widely known, ( long hours, cubicle environments, you're a number to a company - not a human being, hunched over a keyboard staring at a monitor 10-12 hours a day ) you might even have a difficult time getting ANYONE to show interest in the field, gender notwithstanding.
Perhaps the female gender sees that all of the negatives far outweigh the positives and really don't want anything to do with it. Unless you walk, talk, eat, sleep, breathe and DREAM this stuff, it really is rather boring. Important work ? Absolutely. Just not very exciting.
You're braver than I am :D
( Assuming your Wan faces the internet )
In a corporate environment, sure.
In the wild ? hahahahahaha No.
Better to be on site when doing any configuration tweaking anyway. A typo is the
only thing standing in the way of locking yourself out of it and / or knocking if offline
completely.
I personally don't allow anything other than very specific hosts which are members of the
wired Lan access to router / switch management. No remote sites, no wireless or VPN
connections. ( Of course, talking about a home network. Corporate is different story. )
Chuckle.
:D
Perhaps the mosquitoes are merely part of a natural equation to keep the human population in check.
If we had a longer lifespan it's possible we would be in trouble as a species.
Similar to letting deer overpopulate a region. There will be plenty of deer right up to the point where they run out of food and starve to death en masse
Apply that globally to a planet overpopulated with the human animal, and you end up with the same results.
From my experience, subscription services are merely the carrot they try to entice you with to get out from under the deluge of ads you would otherwise see.
/.er will kill ads using a variety of methods ( hosts file, any number of addons or dropping them at the firewall / proxy ), the majority of those on the net will not.
Yes, the typical
Besides, it's only a matter of time before the subscription users start seeing ads again. They'll start off small but will be right back to full on annoying soon enough. Too much money left on the table otherwise. Cable TV comes to mind here. Sometimes I think there are more commercials than actual content depending on the channel.
The 2014 versions of Creative Cloud removed Flash export from Premiere, After Effects and Media Converter. If you wanted to retain that functionality, you needed to install a previous version that supported it.
.webm plugin for Premiere and Media Converter. I doubt Adobe is worried about Flash, they have plenty of other applications that are heavily used.
They're concentrating on the other web formats it seems. Someone even created a
Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere, After Effects and Audition being the ones I am most familiar with.
Chuckle.
:D
At this point they're not really buying the laws, they're effectively WRITING them.
They're just buying the congress-critters signature to put at the bottom
This will be difficult because while the government has unlimited funds / budgets to bribe / coerce the vendors with, the rest of us do not.
:| . . . . . Done. "
" We would like you to use THIS protocol as the new standard in your product. "
" That would weaken the entire system. "
" How does a a few million sound in exchange for your cooperation / silence / immunity ? "
" It sounds insulting actually. "
" Ok, how about a few HUNDRED million ? "
"
That's pretty much how it works. Everyone has a price. Once the numbers get large enough, nearly everyone will fold.
While AC posting might obscure your username, the IP address that's likely logged will not.
( Unless you're coming in via proxy )
Long time users can be matched up by the style in which they write. How well they phrase things, sentence styles, etc.
Was the uncivilized method of keeping tabs on you.
In the new millennium, we need not resort to such obvious oppressive methods. We feed you the bullsh*t about how free you are while, at the same time, track every aspect of your life that is possible via technology without your knowledge and / or consent.
If they bother to stop you to ask questions, they're just giving you enough rope to hang yourself with.
They already know the answers.
Never, if he's smart. ( And we know he's rather intelligent )
Were I in his shoes, the most damning evidence I had would be held back as leverage to ensure no one in the US Government did anything stupid. A digital dead mans switch if you will. Easy enough to bundle with the original encrypted files, just encrypt the crazy stuff with a secondary key. If you end up in an "accident" or going missing, the key gets distributed and the fun really starts.
Boils down to how badly the Government wants to get their hands on Snowden really. Is it really worth having your most intimate secrets dragged into the spotlight for the world to see ?
Meh. YMMV depending on a lot of variables.
:D
Atmospheric conditions being the predominant one. Size of scope and quality of optics are another. Light pollution within your viewing area another fun one. North Korea would kick ass for sky observation
For the most part, he's right. Most viewing through a telescope is simply ' bigger dots ' or realizing what you thought was a big bright dot is actually half a dozen small ones. If the planets are visible and the conditions are right, then you can make out some detail. Mars Ice Caps, Saturn Rings, Jupiter and a moon or few. For the other " oooooh ahhhhh " stuff such as galaxies and nebulae, you're gonna have to get into astrophotography. This will require a bit more elaborate setup and a lot more $$$$ in gear.
Silly above variables still apply though. If I lived in a dark area, I would definitely setup a mini-observatory. Alas, I can damn near read a book if I go outside the light pollution is so bad where I live.
"saying the information is putting officer's lives at risk"
I'm pretty sure the recent increase in behavior trends in Law Enforcement are what's putting officers lives at risk.
( Pro Tip: Keep killing unarmed folks and the masses eventually will break out the pitchforks and torches )
Hell, to be fun, they should remove the COP logo from Waze and replace it with a Pistol instead to reflect the increased likelihood of being shot.