...my take on "Free Trade" is that it should really be "Fair Trade" - i.e. a "level playing field". To that, I submit, are 3 aspects: 1) Democracy. A Democratic country should have a built-in bias of preferential treatment as opposed to, say, Communist dictatorships. 2) Wage equivalence. If you can offer workers at $10/day - and who have left those pesky kids who need time and so are left behind in villages - vs $10/hour, that is hardly a level playing field. 3) Environmental and Labor standards. Sure as God made little green apples, companies who can avoid the cost of dumping their effluent enjoy lower costs vs those civilized places that kinda place an importance on clean water enjoy a competitive advantage that we - as consumers - ignore because it's happening "over there". When Japan was flooding America with Toyotas in the 80s and 90s, I - as a proud American - bought them because 1) Japan is a democracy. 2) Their auto workers were (and still are!) making equivalent or better wages than American workers at their plants. 3) They have maintained very strict standards at all of their plants in Japan. China? Just the opposite.
With all of the "Cloud Rules All!" mentality prevalent, it's interesting to note this quote from TFS: "...located physically far away from us." OK, got it! Cloud rules!
Here's the operative sentence from TFS: "That could have worrying implications for America's long-term economic prospects." which is completely wrong! "Public" companies are vampires for "shareholders", which is great if you're one of them. Otherwise, you're at the shitty end of Piketty's r>g equation.
Fuck all of you haters jerking off over Meltdown and how that shows how evil Intel is...Without Intel, our entire industry would not exist as it is. Yes, Microsoft also played their huge part, but let us never forget the tech revolution that they spawned, leading us from 4.77MHz processors to 4.7GHz processors in a super-short timeframe at a reduced price-performance ratio that is unmatched in history. Credit where it's due, mofos!!
Seriously: our health care "system" (in quotes for a damned good reason!) is a complete and total clusterfuck. Yeah, if you have squillions of dollars and/or the most super-ultimate health insurance (at the moment...), you can get pretty damned decent care. Fall off of THAT island, though, and you land in a swamp of uniaginable, Rube Goldberg-like complexity that is designed to do one thing and one thing only: separate you from as much of your money as possible. Period. End of fucking story! I once spent 9 years working for a company that provided IT systems to hospitals for billing. We had the most technology in the hospital....for billing. The scope of change needed is vast and while I'm a tad skeptical, Warren Buffett's involvement gives me more hope. He's a Good Capitalist.
I agree! This nonsense of selling spectrum to the deepest pocketed existing carrier should end. Let the government build out the network and lease - at RAND pricing - capacity to those carriers ready, willing and able to do so in any given area. I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Capitalist Pig(TM) and proud of it, but - you know - pigs get fat and hogs (existing carriers) get slaughtered. As they deserve to be...
Actually, if you'll notice - outside your Fox bubble - it's "The Left(TM)" that has pushed hardest for NN and "The Right(TM)" that has been sucking on the "Free Market Uber-Alles(TM)" schlong. Where THF did you EVER get the idea that The Left opposes NN?? Damn, that's not just stupid, but downright delusional, dude. Wake up!!
PS - Reminds of my days at Intel when they were pushing "VIVE" which promised to unify all of your media devices at home into a single, unified, glorious interface.....Yeah.
....I am not (yet) buying into this IoT hype. Certainly between smart TVs and thermostats, etc. the use of IP-enabled devices is expanding, but...there's no cohesive vision/standard tying everything together, thereby limiting its ultimate usefulness beyond today's "Let me check my refrigerator app on my iPhone..." nonsense. Secondly, why use "physics-based attacks" when very, very basic methods remain as open as a whorehouse without a roof! Perspective remains absent...
...with an AVM back in the late 1980s, I asked my neurologist what would happen to me if it popped and no one could access the great MRI pictures he'd taken of it. Basically, "too bad". All of you government haters can tune the fuck out right now when I say that ALL of our medical records SHOULD be on-line and available to ALL medical personnel when needed. Before you "privacy-uber-alles" types start getting *your* panties in a wad, there can easily be audit trails and other mechanisms (including SEVERE penalties for inappropriate access to same) to prevent abuse, and you ignore the "greater good". For me, I'd MUCH rather have the EMS personnel responding to my twitching, unconscious body know about my AVM and be able to respond with real, accurate info than worry that someone will find out I got the clap back in 1979. Fuck y'all! You don't want to participate? Fine, have an opt-out option. Me, sign me da fuck up!
This is exactly what happens when your culture: denigrates "experts"; relies on "faith" vs "facts" when choosing political leaders; worships reality-TV (an oxymoron if there ever was one), sports and porn above knowledge about relevant topics (quick test: name the top 3 ports players on your ${LOCAL_SPORTS_TEAM}, then name the 3 people who represent you in the US Congress. Start Jeopardy theme....), whip in a spicy sauce of economic decline and inequality destroying people's faith in capitalism and politics to fix these issues while we fixate on who kneels at afootball game and who can use which bathroom, all cheered on by plainly propaganda "news" sources (yeah, I'm looking at you Fox. Your Bret Baier fig leaf ain't big enough to hide the huge propaganda schlong that you are) and you have the Perfect Storm for a civilizational decline. One time it's really good to be an Old Fart(TM) is right about now....
...(not knowing a helluva lot, but enough) that this does seem like a pretty innovative thing. Anytime you can shift the perspective of thinking, whether it ends up working or not, is always a Good Thing(TM).
I, for one, am glad to see that someone is taking a more measured, thoroughly tested approach rather than the usual "OMG! Quick - flash new BIOSes, gimme new CPUs, install the latest kernel patches regardless of testing...." approach that has characterized the approach from "the technical community" so far.
...that, by the Constitution, international treaties DO supersede Federal law, though not the Constitution itself. Witness WTO lawsuits against Federal and/or State laws. A very bizarre situation, indeed, but you'd think that government lawyers would know this.
And your stupid post indicates how little you know. VMWare has already issued patches to isolate any infection, protecting virtualized environments. Beyond which, I challenge you (or anyone) to show me a real working infiltration outside a very carefully crafted environment where you can A) gather enough memory data in this abtruse fashion to be useful and then B) make any sense out of this data. But go ahead, crash the delicately balanced ecosystem encompassing everything evolved over the last 40 years or so so that you can be "secure" (while phishers, etc wreak havoc through regular, working methods). Go ahead.
...and I'll say it again: there has been WAY too much hype and hysteria (Hhhhmmm: Hype and Hysteria would be a GREAT band name!) around these issues. A) The vulnerabilities are far too esoteric to be really useful when there are a gazillion very easy, well-worn paths to get at your systems. B) Yes, ultimately, these vulnerabilities need to be addressed, but in a much more reasoned, thoroughly tested fashion as opposed to the current "OMG! I must flash my BIOS, install the latest microcode and update the kernel AT ONCE or all my base are belong to them!!" mindset. Perspective, please.
Growing up, being a bit smarter than the average bear, I used to hear "you think you're better than me?!?" a lot. One time, after I made a wisecrack to a guy, he said: "What are you? Some kind of smart-ass?" Couldn't help, but to blurt: "Yeah, but it's sure better than being a dumbass like you!". Sure, he beat me up, but I've never once been afraid of being smart - even today in R/TrumpLand, where Dumb is Double-PlusGood as long it praises our Glorious Leader!!
... IIRC Tesla started, has grown and continues to do quite well as an Electric Vehicle maker, NOT an AV maker. While Tesla, like pretty much every other high-end automaker today, has assisted-driving capability, I defy anyone to prove that Tesla has ever positioned themselves as even mainly a AV maker. Pure 100% organic, dolphin-free Bullshit(TM)!!
... do not apply any of the "patches" or new firmware! A little perspective can go a long way here and unless you have a hosted data center where you MUST be current for legal liability reasons, anyone applying these fixes deserve what they get. The chances of this vulnerability (as opposed to the 94 quadrillion viruses, etc already out there) affecting you are so small as to be ridiculous for you to do anything to mitigate. Much less tampering with the entire, delicately balanced ecosystem of mobos, OSes, etc.
I've been assured repeatedly that NASA and other orgs are tracking potentially dangerous asteroids, etc., so - How DaFuck did this appear without warning? Had the trajectory and/or speed been ever-so-slightly off, the impact would have been far more, well, impactful. Anyone who follows this more closely know?
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...my take on "Free Trade" is that it should really be "Fair Trade" - i.e. a "level playing field". To that, I submit, are 3 aspects: 1) Democracy. A Democratic country should have a built-in bias of preferential treatment as opposed to, say, Communist dictatorships. 2) Wage equivalence. If you can offer workers at $10/day - and who have left those pesky kids who need time and so are left behind in villages - vs $10/hour, that is hardly a level playing field. 3) Environmental and Labor standards. Sure as God made little green apples, companies who can avoid the cost of dumping their effluent enjoy lower costs vs those civilized places that kinda place an importance on clean water enjoy a competitive advantage that we - as consumers - ignore because it's happening "over there". When Japan was flooding America with Toyotas in the 80s and 90s, I - as a proud American - bought them because 1) Japan is a democracy. 2) Their auto workers were (and still are!) making equivalent or better wages than American workers at their plants. 3) They have maintained very strict standards at all of their plants in Japan. China? Just the opposite.
With all of the "Cloud Rules All!" mentality prevalent, it's interesting to note this quote from TFS: "...located physically far away from us." OK, got it! Cloud rules!
...dog bites man. Wake me when there's really NEWS.
Here's the operative sentence from TFS: "That could have worrying implications for America's long-term economic prospects." which is completely wrong! "Public" companies are vampires for "shareholders", which is great if you're one of them. Otherwise, you're at the shitty end of Piketty's r>g equation.
Fuck all of you haters jerking off over Meltdown and how that shows how evil Intel is...Without Intel, our entire industry would not exist as it is. Yes, Microsoft also played their huge part, but let us never forget the tech revolution that they spawned, leading us from 4.77MHz processors to 4.7GHz processors in a super-short timeframe at a reduced price-performance ratio that is unmatched in history. Credit where it's due, mofos!!
Seriously: our health care "system" (in quotes for a damned good reason!) is a complete and total clusterfuck. Yeah, if you have squillions of dollars and/or the most super-ultimate health insurance (at the moment...), you can get pretty damned decent care. Fall off of THAT island, though, and you land in a swamp of uniaginable, Rube Goldberg-like complexity that is designed to do one thing and one thing only: separate you from as much of your money as possible. Period. End of fucking story! I once spent 9 years working for a company that provided IT systems to hospitals for billing. We had the most technology in the hospital....for billing. The scope of change needed is vast and while I'm a tad skeptical, Warren Buffett's involvement gives me more hope. He's a Good Capitalist.
I agree! This nonsense of selling spectrum to the deepest pocketed existing carrier should end. Let the government build out the network and lease - at RAND pricing - capacity to those carriers ready, willing and able to do so in any given area. I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Capitalist Pig(TM) and proud of it, but - you know - pigs get fat and hogs (existing carriers) get slaughtered. As they deserve to be...
Not that I've been able to find. Would you care to share exactly how you think I am wrong?
Actually, if you'll notice - outside your Fox bubble - it's "The Left(TM)" that has pushed hardest for NN and "The Right(TM)" that has been sucking on the "Free Market Uber-Alles(TM)" schlong. Where THF did you EVER get the idea that The Left opposes NN?? Damn, that's not just stupid, but downright delusional, dude. Wake up!!
PS - Reminds of my days at Intel when they were pushing "VIVE" which promised to unify all of your media devices at home into a single, unified, glorious interface.....Yeah.
....I am not (yet) buying into this IoT hype. Certainly between smart TVs and thermostats, etc. the use of IP-enabled devices is expanding, but...there's no cohesive vision/standard tying everything together, thereby limiting its ultimate usefulness beyond today's "Let me check my refrigerator app on my iPhone..." nonsense. Secondly, why use "physics-based attacks" when very, very basic methods remain as open as a whorehouse without a roof! Perspective remains absent...
...with an AVM back in the late 1980s, I asked my neurologist what would happen to me if it popped and no one could access the great MRI pictures he'd taken of it. Basically, "too bad". All of you government haters can tune the fuck out right now when I say that ALL of our medical records SHOULD be on-line and available to ALL medical personnel when needed. Before you "privacy-uber-alles" types start getting *your* panties in a wad, there can easily be audit trails and other mechanisms (including SEVERE penalties for inappropriate access to same) to prevent abuse, and you ignore the "greater good". For me, I'd MUCH rather have the EMS personnel responding to my twitching, unconscious body know about my AVM and be able to respond with real, accurate info than worry that someone will find out I got the clap back in 1979. Fuck y'all! You don't want to participate? Fine, have an opt-out option. Me, sign me da fuck up!
This is exactly what happens when your culture: denigrates "experts"; relies on "faith" vs "facts" when choosing political leaders; worships reality-TV (an oxymoron if there ever was one), sports and porn above knowledge about relevant topics (quick test: name the top 3 ports players on your ${LOCAL_SPORTS_TEAM}, then name the 3 people who represent you in the US Congress. Start Jeopardy theme....), whip in a spicy sauce of economic decline and inequality destroying people's faith in capitalism and politics to fix these issues while we fixate on who kneels at afootball game and who can use which bathroom, all cheered on by plainly propaganda "news" sources (yeah, I'm looking at you Fox. Your Bret Baier fig leaf ain't big enough to hide the huge propaganda schlong that you are) and you have the Perfect Storm for a civilizational decline. One time it's really good to be an Old Fart(TM) is right about now....
...(not knowing a helluva lot, but enough) that this does seem like a pretty innovative thing. Anytime you can shift the perspective of thinking, whether it ends up working or not, is always a Good Thing(TM).
Seriously, that is some 100% Pure, Organic, Dolphin-Free QUALITY Bullshit he peddles. You gotta hand him that.
I, for one, am glad to see that someone is taking a more measured, thoroughly tested approach rather than the usual "OMG! Quick - flash new BIOSes, gimme new CPUs, install the latest kernel patches regardless of testing...." approach that has characterized the approach from "the technical community" so far.
...that, by the Constitution, international treaties DO supersede Federal law, though not the Constitution itself. Witness WTO lawsuits against Federal and/or State laws. A very bizarre situation, indeed, but you'd think that government lawyers would know this.
Then you should apply even MORE patches! Hurry!! Doom is imminent!!!
And your stupid post indicates how little you know. VMWare has already issued patches to isolate any infection, protecting virtualized environments. Beyond which, I challenge you (or anyone) to show me a real working infiltration outside a very carefully crafted environment where you can A) gather enough memory data in this abtruse fashion to be useful and then B) make any sense out of this data. But go ahead, crash the delicately balanced ecosystem encompassing everything evolved over the last 40 years or so so that you can be "secure" (while phishers, etc wreak havoc through regular, working methods). Go ahead.
...and I'll say it again: there has been WAY too much hype and hysteria (Hhhhmmm: Hype and Hysteria would be a GREAT band name!) around these issues. A) The vulnerabilities are far too esoteric to be really useful when there are a gazillion very easy, well-worn paths to get at your systems. B) Yes, ultimately, these vulnerabilities need to be addressed, but in a much more reasoned, thoroughly tested fashion as opposed to the current "OMG! I must flash my BIOS, install the latest microcode and update the kernel AT ONCE or all my base are belong to them!!" mindset. Perspective, please.
Where do I apply? I haven't treated like shit in a long time, so this sounds like the perfect place to satisfy my quota for quite some time!
Growing up, being a bit smarter than the average bear, I used to hear "you think you're better than me?!?" a lot. One time, after I made a wisecrack to a guy, he said: "What are you? Some kind of smart-ass?" Couldn't help, but to blurt: "Yeah, but it's sure better than being a dumbass like you!". Sure, he beat me up, but I've never once been afraid of being smart - even today in R/TrumpLand, where Dumb is Double-PlusGood as long it praises our Glorious Leader!!
... IIRC Tesla started, has grown and continues to do quite well as an Electric Vehicle maker, NOT an AV maker. While Tesla, like pretty much every other high-end automaker today, has assisted-driving capability, I defy anyone to prove that Tesla has ever positioned themselves as even mainly a AV maker. Pure 100% organic, dolphin-free Bullshit(TM)!!
... do not apply any of the "patches" or new firmware! A little perspective can go a long way here and unless you have a hosted data center where you MUST be current for legal liability reasons, anyone applying these fixes deserve what they get. The chances of this vulnerability (as opposed to the 94 quadrillion viruses, etc already out there) affecting you are so small as to be ridiculous for you to do anything to mitigate. Much less tampering with the entire, delicately balanced ecosystem of mobos, OSes, etc.
I've been assured repeatedly that NASA and other orgs are tracking potentially dangerous asteroids, etc., so - How DaFuck did this appear without warning? Had the trajectory and/or speed been ever-so-slightly off, the impact would have been far more, well, impactful. Anyone who follows this more closely know?