San Francisco rarely conjures images of creaky, decades-old technology, but
but BART.
And their trams on the F line look pretty outdated, too. (and I didn't even had to go back to the obviously historic cable cars for that joke, but seriously, BART should go to a museum)
No. This went like SMTP. "Only other telephone companies who are allowed to tweak settings and know what they are doing can connect to the signaling network anyway, so we don't need any security here" (Signaling protocols are around since the firts phone call wasn't routed by an operator on a switchboard but routed digitally)
But then at one point every country was switching to digital call routing and now every small Lampukistanian telco is allowed to send routing commands that have world wide effects.
But even that wasn't THAT bad....
The shit really hit the fan when said Lampukistatian phone operator connected their internal (office) network to the Internet.
Ah that infamous spy chip that no one has ever see so far....
Well, curently this is about theability of a gouvernment getting sensitive information (if they have it) from a company. This is possible in lots of countries.
China may have the power to also force a company to weaken security, but that is not supported by (at least) this article. So yes, we need to be carefull, but it could happen with vendors based anywhere. FBI and NSA are working on make it happening in the US and not every company dares to fight them.
Well that's at least a number, but probably not comparable. If you're getting a green card or citizenship you usually already have made up your mind that you want to stay in the US permanently.
Yes, for a good job I may be inclined to even move to the US, but it's not the other way round as I think people often think: That I would endure any H1B wage slavery and abuse just to get a chance to live in the US. (But then, I'm from an overall politically and economically stable and prospering country, so it's easy for me to make that joke. But that doesn't make much of a difference if the CBP guy has no clue that something like this exists outside America.)
That's probably because at least in Germany, before the Bologna reform, the "Diplom" was the default when going to university.
At about High-School level school system branched into three and you had to finish the most difficult branch (or get 1-3 additional years at school if you finished the lower branches) to get access to university. And at university, you did your 8 or 10 semester to get a university degree. ("Diplom")
Enter the Bologna reforms. To become internationally (both within and outside the EU) universities were urged to switch to Bachelor/Master degrees from the "Diplom" degrees.
So a combined Bachelor+Master program would be nothing more than what would be compared to the old university degree.
I consider myself to be lucky to have finished university before that switch and got one of the old academic titles... People with a Bachelor still get asked why they haven't finished university...
tl;dr:
A joke told by some of my university professors: "He has a Bachelor Degree? You mean he's a certified university dropout?"
That seems to be a part of the same misconception I see with the CBP-guys at the airport every time I visit. They just seem unable to grasp the idea that people want to go home again after their vacation... Like "going on holiday" was a completely novel concept to them. By now, I usually explain it to them extra slowly.....
The immigrant door needs to be shut until the rest of the world gets their curriencies and standards of living up to or past the US'
You probably meant "living up to the past of the US"...
US has peaked and you're now worried about shutting the "immigration door" cause you're afraid that people now immigrating to US jobs already have "lived up or past" US standards. That is for work visas. But as long as you keep it open for investors visas....
Believe it or not, labor costs are rarely the biggest factor. The issue is with a global supply chain is there are some things that some countries can just do better then what others can for a wide range of reasons.
But if those reasons include not caring for labour rights or labor safety, environmental standards or democracy at large (which usually means that your cheap prices may also be based on corruption or other criminal activities) then you might consider that "cheaper" does not equal "better at".
Yep. Sounds more like some nerdy cousin of the "Vanity Fair" made a home story about the oldest nobel prize laureate during which he mentioned that he is still working on something useful and NOT like someone came forward claiming the next cold fusion breakthrough (revealed to be a scam later)
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San Francisco rarely conjures images of creaky, decades-old technology, but
but BART.
And their trams on the F line look pretty outdated, too. (and I didn't even had to go back to the obviously historic cable cars for that joke, but seriously, BART should go to a museum)
Didn't we already have something like that in the late 90s? With the "page" running in n iframe or something similar....
Why aren't millions of white people moving to Africa, India and China every year, if we want to live as a minority in a non-white country?
Hmmm.. could be because white people never were hauled there against there will on huge ships...
They aren't going to get your name right without earbuds either....
With THAT argument you can discredit any improvement.
Like, if Coke hadn't that much sugar it wouldn't be Coke.
And still, people buy Coke zero because they think it's better without sugar!
If only Bill Clinton had had twitter.....
or remove arbitrary size limits and give people enough room to actually explain in depth what they wanted to say.
No. This went like SMTP. "Only other telephone companies who are allowed to tweak settings and know what they are doing can connect to the signaling network anyway, so we don't need any security here" (Signaling protocols are around since the firts phone call wasn't routed by an operator on a switchboard but routed digitally)
But then at one point every country was switching to digital call routing and now every small Lampukistanian telco is allowed to send routing commands that have world wide effects.
But even that wasn't THAT bad....
The shit really hit the fan when said Lampukistatian phone operator connected their internal (office) network to the Internet.
Ah that infamous spy chip that no one has ever see so far....
Well, curently this is about theability of a gouvernment getting sensitive information (if they have it) from a company. This is possible in lots of countries.
China may have the power to also force a company to weaken security, but that is not supported by (at least) this article. So yes, we need to be carefull, but it could happen with vendors based anywhere. FBI and NSA are working on make it happening in the US and not every company dares to fight them.
Or the US with the National Security Letters.
And the UK has never had any problems either of locking people up to coerce them into compliance with their "security laws"
The joke is on whoever thought that this was Chinese humor.
Follow the Wikipedia link about "Speedball" several postings up from here for details about that combo.
Well that's at least a number, but probably not comparable. If you're getting a green card or citizenship you usually already have made up your mind that you want to stay in the US permanently.
Yes, for a good job I may be inclined to even move to the US, but it's not the other way round as I think people often think: That I would endure any H1B wage slavery and abuse just to get a chance to live in the US. (But then, I'm from an overall politically and economically stable and prospering country, so it's easy for me to make that joke. But that doesn't make much of a difference if the CBP guy has no clue that something like this exists outside America.)
What's the difference?
We have two choices, we can follow the 19th century pattern, any poor wretched souls who yearn to breath free wash up on our shores we will take
Wasn't that the approach that like "made America great to begin with"? What happend to the famous melting pot and the American dream?
In contrast to many other countries, getting into a US university is not that hard
Basically, it's a matter of money. Which may be part of the whole problem.
That's probably because at least in Germany, before the Bologna reform, the "Diplom" was the default when going to university.
At about High-School level school system branched into three and you had to finish the most difficult branch (or get 1-3 additional years at school if you finished the lower branches) to get access to university. And at university, you did your 8 or 10 semester to get a university degree. ("Diplom")
Enter the Bologna reforms. To become internationally (both within and outside the EU) universities were urged to switch to Bachelor/Master degrees from the "Diplom" degrees.
So a combined Bachelor+Master program would be nothing more than what would be compared to the old university degree.
I consider myself to be lucky to have finished university before that switch and got one of the old academic titles... People with a Bachelor still get asked why they haven't finished university...
tl;dr:
A joke told by some of my university professors: "He has a Bachelor Degree? You mean he's a certified university dropout?"
Any citation for that?
That seems to be a part of the same misconception I see with the CBP-guys at the airport every time I visit. They just seem unable to grasp the idea that people want to go home again after their vacation... Like "going on holiday" was a completely novel concept to them. By now, I usually explain it to them extra slowly.....
With the best degree that money can buy.
The immigrant door needs to be shut until the rest of the world gets their curriencies and standards of living up to or past the US'
You probably meant "living up to the past of the US"...
US has peaked and you're now worried about shutting the "immigration door" cause you're afraid that people now immigrating to US jobs already have "lived up or past" US standards. That is for work visas. But as long as you keep it open for investors visas....
And getting stuck in customs for how long?
To my knowledge, that is explicitly forbidden in the US since its misuse was part of what became known as "Truck System".
Google already tried to build housing for their employees to help the housing crisis in the bay area.
Believe it or not, labor costs are rarely the biggest factor.
The issue is with a global supply chain is there are some things that some countries can just do better then what others can for a wide range of reasons.
But if those reasons include not caring for labour rights or labor safety, environmental standards or democracy at large (which usually means that your cheap prices may also be based on corruption or other criminal activities) then you might consider that "cheaper" does not equal "better at".
And how many per day can you produce in that shop?
How long would you take to ramp up production to that level starting from receiveing blueprints?
They were screwed.
Yep. Sounds more like some nerdy cousin of the "Vanity Fair" made a home story about the oldest nobel prize laureate during which he mentioned that he is still working on something useful and NOT like someone came forward claiming the next cold fusion breakthrough (revealed to be a scam later)