It solves one of the worst and most persistent security issues with the Internet.
With the introduction of IE 10 on Windows 8, Microsoft relieves users from the threat of browser-based attacks, by making the system unusable for web-browsing.
LOL...well put!!
Someone mod this one +1 Insightful too to back up those "Funny:"s.....
The political elite don't care as long as the lazy, poor and retired continue to the vote them back into power.
And I guess....we saw exactly that in this last election.
I forgot who said it, but it went something like...a democracy dies as soon as more than half of the population can vote themselves money from the public coffers...
Go tell that to the motivated and educated IBM employees that had their jobs outsourced to India.
While I don't like that move....I do have to ask, when exactly did people get the idea that they were hired on for a job for life, at the same company, or even doing the same exact job/function for their life? The world moves and it changes...you have to be prepared to move and change too as you go through life.
I don't like the outsourcing, and I'm pissed at our government for not doing a fucking thing to discourage this behavior and encourage companies to stay in the US, and work IN the US with US workers....
Why aren't they doing everything possible to make the US a place where it is profitable for companies to come open, work and employ on US soil? We have some of the highest corporate taxes in the world...cutting that would help a great deal. I mean, it isn't like a company 'really' pays tax anyway, they just add that on to the consumer in the end for the most part.
Cut corp taxes to almost nothing, and give what's left as incentives to hire US (citizen) workers in the US....and lets see how fast they rush back with jobs here.
The union realized the company was being run into the ground and dug in.
So...it was better to 'dig in the heels', and have the company fail and ALL jobs now gone..rather than keep working on hope that the company could resurrect and the jobs there could be saved? That's the noble thing the unions did?
So the end result of no company and no jobs at all is the best the union could do for their members that worked for what was left of Hostess?
Those laws can be changed.
Well, I suppose any law can be changed...? If it is changed, then, bring back the unions, but until then, we don't need them around, taking up money and causing more trouble than help to their members and the companies their members need to have exist so they can work....because the laws might could possibly be changed.
Wages will equalize across the developed nations. That $17k salary in India will be $30k in a few years. The average salary in the USA will go down. Eventually, the disparate extremes between nations will normalize into a much smaller range.
So, WTF isn't our US government doing it best to try to fight this trend.
They are there, after all.....supposedly...to fight for our interests above all other countries.
Why don't we fight anymore to try to fucking win??
Yeah, FSM forbid people want to be paid a reasonable wage and be able to survive not only now, but retire sometime in the future and even have healthcare. The gall of some folks to be expected to be treated like humans. Everyone knows only C level executives should get those sort of benefits.
Well, pretty much anyone that values education, pursues it, works hard and gets a 'real' job....can attain a living wage and benefits easily. If you're a bit more industrious, you can form your own business and work a bit harder but gain even more.
I'm not talking flipping burgers either...those jobs were and should still be for highschool and college kids needing extra money to work their way through school, those aren't MEANT for grown adults to work in....
If you are a slug and a drag on society...sorry, I don't have much pity for you...you get what you deserve. If you don't strive to succeed in today's society, then, you don't deserve things you can't afford...and family, kids, car, home all cost money. You have the opportunity, but there is no guarantee out there you will get all you wish if you don't put forth the required effort.
I have never really understood why many Americans are so hostile to unionization. There appears to be decades of brainwashing in action and mythos regarding correlation between hardwork and financial success.
Because, unions, while useful about 100 years ago....outlasted their need and expanded and became corrupt and ingrained into a system that choked the life out of companies.
One only has to look at GM for a prime example. The unreasonable pensions, and benefits for fucking manual labor...drove them almost out of business.
Look at the govt. employee unions in CA..that had grown the pensions up to where the state is now about to go bankrupt, but cannot get out from under those old contracts.
Look at Hostess...the company was forced to close its doors and go bankrupt. The unions would NOT negotiate or budge enough on their demands to allow the company to continue. Rather than the unions negotiate...they stood their ground, forced the company into bankruptcy, and ALL jobs with them are now gone forever.
Exactly how is that in the best favor of the worker or the US economy?
Much of what the union rightly worked for in the early days...working conditions, hours..etc...were long ago accomplished and codified into employment laws. Their usefulness is over.
The way the US economy has been going...and seems to be heading (especially with Social Justice taking precedence over sound fiscal policy and traditional US values for self sufficiency) I'm guessing the US will soon have people clamoring even more than they are now for $17K/yr jobs.
Not that different from needing a supermajority to override a presidential veto really, except it works even if the president is of the 51%
Just one more check.
Yeah, but these days...Presidents are just using Executive Orders and bypassing Congress completely......getting unelected agencies to do their bidding over the citizenry...
Well, it worked quite well for the first half or more of the US history....we had more rights than we do now for the main thing...
But, for example...we see that recently CO and Washington (state) both voted to make pot legal for recreational use. However, today, that is still a Federal crime...and if the Feds decide they want to come down on this...they can will full military type enforcement and bust people with Felonies and long prison terms, for what the people in the state have voted as legal. Federal law trumps state law.
The basis for this law in the first place, should be wrong...it is due to the overreaching of the Feds using the interstate commerce clause...but that's a long argument there.
But for this example...things like pot usage, should be done by the states.
Also, and I'll try to be brief....the US is such a large country, that many states have very different needs and interests. Things that interest MN...are very different than those in LA. Let's take oil drilling. After the oil spill, which was horrible...the Feds have virtually shut off new oil leases on the Gulf coast, and this really impacts business here in this area. It is our Gulf coast...we should be more in charge of it...AND...we should get more revenue out of it...the Feds take way too much a cut, and for what? They certainly haven't used that money to rebuild the coast like the Gulf states would do? No...we have to fight for that money....that gets sucked into project that might go to MN...which have no interest in our coastal regions....etc.
Why? Well, shopping online has showed me time and time again I can't just buy and item. No, first I have to register for an account. Then, they want to store my credit card information (including full card number and CVV). Plus there are added shipping costs. Then the additional delay from the time the order has been placed to the time it is actually shipped and received. Then there is the subsequent e-mail spam to review the seller or buy something else. Then there is the long-term risk that the online vendor may be hacked and full account information including stored credit card information may be obtained by the hacker.
Normal stores, I go to the store, I pay cash or use a credit or debit card, I got item(s) I just paid for without having to wait for shipping, and that shopping is done. All I paid for was sales tax on the item, no added shipping costs. The time spent and amount of gas spent is nominal. If I use public transit--for example during peak shopping times where there may be lots of traffic--then I don't even use the gas since the transit district is using the gas of their vehicles.
Wow...you really do not know how to shop onlinie.
I do most all of my shopping online...the prices are usually cheaper (or at least the same) as local, shipping is FREE, and I don't get charged sales tax on online purchases.
For gifts, it is the best, since shipping is free and taken care of by the online merchant, I don't have to bother finding boxes, and hauling them down (very inconveniently) to the post office and stand in line and have to deal with govt workers at the counters....
Online shopping is much quicker, easier,, and cheaper.
About the only things I buy locally are cars (no way to get out of those taxes), FOOD....and emergency needs. For everything else, the store is just a place for me to go to touch, feel and evaluate the product before I go home and buy it online.
No...but I'd opt readily for SMALLER government, especially on the Federal level.
I'd rather we go back more to what the Constitution spelled out, to have a smaller, weaker Federal Govt. with specific duties and powers as enumerated by the Constitution (additions or subtractions to said powers by the Amendment process)....and to have most of the powers reside in the States and the people as the Constitution states.
My local govt is more answerable to me and my needs...I'd rather most power reside here...that way, if I don't like the way things are run in my city or state, I can easily move to live with more like minded people.
...I do try to buy local, but mostly in terms of FOOD. I'm really trying to eat more from local farmers (trying to eat much more produce), and even local ranchers for my beef, pork, lamb and yard bird needs.
But for Xmas things...I just point, click and ship. That makes it SO much easier for me to get my Xmas gifts bought and sent, especially since about 90% of the people I buy for are out of state.
I also appreciate not having to pay the outrageous sales tax locally...almost 10% here.
I buy most all of my large ticket items online...something that is about $2K...I save nearly $200 buying it locally due to no sales tax.
Of course, I will "surely" claim this on my EOY tax forms and pay my use tax....[rolls eyes]
If there was a government requirement that safety related problems that are detected must shut down the car and immobilize it in no more than 5 minutes, then the problem goes away.
Really?
Another (and this time pretty involved) Federal Govt. intrusion into my life and my possessions??
No thanks. And if the automated driving cars have to have this type mandate, I very much hope this does not occur in my lifetime.
And I don't need a machine deciding which is more important...MY life, or 2-3 other people's lives if that situation comes up.
I want to decide, and of course, "I" will always be the one I want to save at the expense of others if it comes down to it...especially if they were strangers.
There is no need to be "glasses compatible". Any vision problems that require glasses can be corrected in software.
Or...a simple set of contacts will do the trick too!!
That also has the side benefit of being able to go out in public, especially around women..and not look overly geeky/nerdish with thick glasses on.....
If you want an inexact analogy, if a shop gave ma a "free" washing machine then said I had to pay an engineer to come out every time I wanted to use it, I would get pissed off at their describing it as free.
If you changed this to be more like the software situation: "If you want an inexact analogy, if a shop gave ma a "free" washing machine then said I had to pay an engineer to come out every time I wanted to REPAIR it........ "
I think this is more representational of the open source question on this thread....and if so, then sure, I'd say it was a free washer. I don't know anyone that would expect when it broke down, that they'd get it repaired for free....regardless if the washer was 'free' or paid for, eh?
I was in a restaurant the other day, and two young kids (like 8 or 9) were singing along and head bobbing with the AC/DC which was playing -- my guess is that Iron Man 2 is partly to credit, though, maybe they got it from their parents.
I think a lot if it has to do with the dearth of good music coming out today...actually since the 90's I'd say.
There is "some" good coming out, but what you see out for the mass public, which by definition most people see/hear, the landscape is pretty pathetic.
I see a lot of teens and so, wearing AC/DC shirts, and often listening to the music "I" grew up with...it kinds shocks me whenever I see this going on. It is surprisingly prevalent too.
I could see this for bands like Pink Floyd too...I mean, their albums, especially from their heyday (DSOTM, Animals, WYWH, and The Wall)...I still to this day, can rarely play one song from those, if I want to listed to any of the songs on one of those albums, I'll listen to the whole thing as a singular work, with different chapters.
I like AC/DC, but I don't think of their music in the same album singularity of work thing.
LOL..in the vein of "no one will ever need more than 640K".
I think the Young brothers say something like "No one will ever need more than 3 chords!!"
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LOL...well put!!
Someone mod this one +1 Insightful too to back up those "Funny:"s.....
I have been thinking of setting up a server, and vacillating between Wordpress and Drupal.
I was leaning towards Wordpress as that it looked a bit more turnkey.
What are the security implications (weaknesses?) of Wordpress vs Drupal?
And I guess....we saw exactly that in this last election.
I forgot who said it, but it went something like...a democracy dies as soon as more than half of the population can vote themselves money from the public coffers...
While I don't like that move....I do have to ask, when exactly did people get the idea that they were hired on for a job for life, at the same company, or even doing the same exact job/function for their life? The world moves and it changes...you have to be prepared to move and change too as you go through life.
I don't like the outsourcing, and I'm pissed at our government for not doing a fucking thing to discourage this behavior and encourage companies to stay in the US, and work IN the US with US workers....
Why aren't they doing everything possible to make the US a place where it is profitable for companies to come open, work and employ on US soil? We have some of the highest corporate taxes in the world...cutting that would help a great deal. I mean, it isn't like a company 'really' pays tax anyway, they just add that on to the consumer in the end for the most part.
Cut corp taxes to almost nothing, and give what's left as incentives to hire US (citizen) workers in the US....and lets see how fast they rush back with jobs here.
So...it was better to 'dig in the heels', and have the company fail and ALL jobs now gone..rather than keep working on hope that the company could resurrect and the jobs there could be saved? That's the noble thing the unions did?
So the end result of no company and no jobs at all is the best the union could do for their members that worked for what was left of Hostess?
Well, I suppose any law can be changed...? If it is changed, then, bring back the unions, but until then, we don't need them around, taking up money and causing more trouble than help to their members and the companies their members need to have exist so they can work....because the laws might could possibly be changed.
You know, the rest of the world would be so much better if Syria and most of that part of the world, just would drop completely off the planet....
So, WTF isn't our US government doing it best to try to fight this trend.
They are there, after all.....supposedly...to fight for our interests above all other countries.
Why don't we fight anymore to try to fucking win??
Well, pretty much anyone that values education, pursues it, works hard and gets a 'real' job....can attain a living wage and benefits easily. If you're a bit more industrious, you can form your own business and work a bit harder but gain even more.
I'm not talking flipping burgers either...those jobs were and should still be for highschool and college kids needing extra money to work their way through school, those aren't MEANT for grown adults to work in....
If you are a slug and a drag on society...sorry, I don't have much pity for you...you get what you deserve. If you don't strive to succeed in today's society, then, you don't deserve things you can't afford...and family, kids, car, home all cost money. You have the opportunity, but there is no guarantee out there you will get all you wish if you don't put forth the required effort.
Some people, by necessity, have to lose.
Because, unions, while useful about 100 years ago....outlasted their need and expanded and became corrupt and ingrained into a system that choked the life out of companies.
One only has to look at GM for a prime example. The unreasonable pensions, and benefits for fucking manual labor...drove them almost out of business.
Look at the govt. employee unions in CA..that had grown the pensions up to where the state is now about to go bankrupt, but cannot get out from under those old contracts.
Look at Hostess...the company was forced to close its doors and go bankrupt. The unions would NOT negotiate or budge enough on their demands to allow the company to continue. Rather than the unions negotiate...they stood their ground, forced the company into bankruptcy, and ALL jobs with them are now gone forever.
Exactly how is that in the best favor of the worker or the US economy?
Much of what the union rightly worked for in the early days...working conditions, hours..etc...were long ago accomplished and codified into employment laws. Their usefulness is over.
The way the US economy has been going...and seems to be heading (especially with Social Justice taking precedence over sound fiscal policy and traditional US values for self sufficiency) I'm guessing the US will soon have people clamoring even more than they are now for $17K/yr jobs.
Let's first see if this 'expert' is getting US tax dollars from the endowment for the Arts...and cut her funding immediately, and retroactively....
Yeah, but these days...Presidents are just using Executive Orders and bypassing Congress completely......getting unelected agencies to do their bidding over the citizenry...
But, for example...we see that recently CO and Washington (state) both voted to make pot legal for recreational use. However, today, that is still a Federal crime...and if the Feds decide they want to come down on this...they can will full military type enforcement and bust people with Felonies and long prison terms, for what the people in the state have voted as legal. Federal law trumps state law.
The basis for this law in the first place, should be wrong...it is due to the overreaching of the Feds using the interstate commerce clause...but that's a long argument there.
But for this example...things like pot usage, should be done by the states.
Also, and I'll try to be brief....the US is such a large country, that many states have very different needs and interests. Things that interest MN...are very different than those in LA. Let's take oil drilling. After the oil spill, which was horrible...the Feds have virtually shut off new oil leases on the Gulf coast, and this really impacts business here in this area. It is our Gulf coast...we should be more in charge of it...AND...we should get more revenue out of it...the Feds take way too much a cut, and for what? They certainly haven't used that money to rebuild the coast like the Gulf states would do? No...we have to fight for that money....that gets sucked into project that might go to MN...which have no interest in our coastal regions....etc.
I think those are a couple of examples.
It does help.
I look much better without thick glasses...I just wear those around the house, but when out and about, contacts.....
Wow...you really do not know how to shop onlinie.
I do most all of my shopping online...the prices are usually cheaper (or at least the same) as local, shipping is FREE, and I don't get charged sales tax on online purchases.
For gifts, it is the best, since shipping is free and taken care of by the online merchant, I don't have to bother finding boxes, and hauling them down (very inconveniently) to the post office and stand in line and have to deal with govt workers at the counters....
Online shopping is much quicker, easier,, and cheaper.
About the only things I buy locally are cars (no way to get out of those taxes), FOOD....and emergency needs. For everything else, the store is just a place for me to go to touch, feel and evaluate the product before I go home and buy it online.
No...but I'd opt readily for SMALLER government, especially on the Federal level.
I'd rather we go back more to what the Constitution spelled out, to have a smaller, weaker Federal Govt. with specific duties and powers as enumerated by the Constitution (additions or subtractions to said powers by the Amendment process)....and to have most of the powers reside in the States and the people as the Constitution states.
My local govt is more answerable to me and my needs...I'd rather most power reside here...that way, if I don't like the way things are run in my city or state, I can easily move to live with more like minded people.
But for Xmas things...I just point, click and ship. That makes it SO much easier for me to get my Xmas gifts bought and sent, especially since about 90% of the people I buy for are out of state.
I also appreciate not having to pay the outrageous sales tax locally...almost 10% here.
I buy most all of my large ticket items online...something that is about $2K...I save nearly $200 buying it locally due to no sales tax.
Of course, I will "surely" claim this on my EOY tax forms and pay my use tax....[rolls eyes]
Really?
Another (and this time pretty involved) Federal Govt. intrusion into my life and my possessions??
No thanks. And if the automated driving cars have to have this type mandate, I very much hope this does not occur in my lifetime.
And I don't need a machine deciding which is more important...MY life, or 2-3 other people's lives if that situation comes up.
I want to decide, and of course, "I" will always be the one I want to save at the expense of others if it comes down to it...especially if they were strangers.
Or...a simple set of contacts will do the trick too!!
That also has the side benefit of being able to go out in public, especially around women..and not look overly geeky/nerdish with thick glasses on.....
If you changed this to be more like the software situation: "If you want an inexact analogy, if a shop gave ma a "free" washing machine then said I had to pay an engineer to come out every time I wanted to REPAIR it........ "
I think this is more representational of the open source question on this thread....and if so, then sure, I'd say it was a free washer. I don't know anyone that would expect when it broke down, that they'd get it repaired for free....regardless if the washer was 'free' or paid for, eh?
I just keep the old, classic interface...seems to work for me (so far).
Thank God that Obama and his administration have worked so diligently to repeal this too in the past 4 years....and...err....wait a minute.
I have no concept of speed in metric....
I think a lot if it has to do with the dearth of good music coming out today...actually since the 90's I'd say.
There is "some" good coming out, but what you see out for the mass public, which by definition most people see/hear, the landscape is pretty pathetic.
I see a lot of teens and so, wearing AC/DC shirts, and often listening to the music "I" grew up with...it kinds shocks me whenever I see this going on. It is surprisingly prevalent too.
I like AC/DC, but I don't think of their music in the same album singularity of work thing.
LOL..in the vein of "no one will ever need more than 640K".
I think the Young brothers say something like "No one will ever need more than 3 chords!!"