The point is we don't get much for our tax dollars, at least at the federal level. No health care, no say in the election process I'd pay more federal taxes if I received tangible benefits for my contribution. What our federal taxes do go for is personal protection for the petrochemical industries overseas interests, travel benefits for national reps and senators. My state/local taxes get me part of my health care benefits, pays for the roads in my area./rant
Actually I just used hoodie from the person I responded to. I wear a plush warm microfiber pull over. No zipper to lay on, and as a bonus I slide across the raised tiles like a curling stone on ice. The lab is a normal 68F(20C) regardless of outside temp so in the summer in California you run the real risk of getting sick from the drastic temperature change. I could wear a hoodie if I wanted to, but security would make me pull the hood down at the lobby, upon access to the equipment floor where the lab is located and at the lab access door, for some reason they object to letting the Unabomber in the secured areas:)
What if there is no dealer in the area ? How the hell are you supposed to buy a particular brand if there is no dealer in the area. This isn't for the consumer benefit, but to preserve the manufacturer monopoly via exclusive dealership arrangements. I should be able to buy a car at Sam's/Walmart just like I buy any other product.
I am more a hardware and network support tech than a programmer or developer, but I wear a hoodie ALL the time at work because my lab is Fsck'n freezing. The temp is set for the equipment not me which is fine, and as a bonus it keeps most everyone else out. I keep a couple extra micro fiber pull overs for the CE's and other hardware folks that come and visit occasionally. I feel sorry for the female techs that have to endure the arctic support lab as folks commonly refer to it. Despite the stereotype I deal with quite a few female techs from RH and M$ to IBM and EMC.
Just don't adopt or support the new web standards. It won't prevent large companies from doing what they want, the only thing it does provide is a guideline to interoperability. If no one enacts web sites to the new standard it has no effect, but having a published standard guides companies towards smooth interoperability and helps prevent wholesale fracturing of the web. If everyone's DRM follows a standard, when that is cracked, and it will be, the whole market will fall apart. If every entity arrives at its' own method you will need a hodgepodge of solutions to just navigate and use resources, which leads to a huge effort to maintain and secure from the user side.
I can't argue the multitude of reasons to hate M$, but the fact that a free service they are offering doesn't play well with their competitors products, and that they did not spend enough money to ensure that it did seems a bit over the top. That they bothered to even ensure/provide that it functioned at all seems sort of a good thing, let alone tuned it to run well. Do you think Chrome(google) or Apple is less invasive on the privacy side ? As for "could not afford to buy a Linux computer", I've never seen one myself either. Plenty of intel/amd hardware running Linux, lots of Solaris, Tandem, DEC, IBM, CRAY, and even some RedHat branded hardware, but never a Linux computer.
You are not a user, you are a developer. Users at the place I work for don't require Administrator to do anything, don't install anything, they just login answer email and use the programs that are installed and fully supported by the IT dept. Their machines reboot at night when it is scheduled by IT just like they always have. I've found that they don't even know what version of OS they are on as long as the stuff they need for day to day work functions, e.g. email, and the apps that are put there as part of the software push. Most of them are very happy with Windows 10 because they got shiny new hardware with it and it is faster than their old stuff was. The small slice of developers and QA folks that do require additional access have been less than happy in many cases, some even valid, though some of the grief is just M$ haters, who are gonna hate no matter what...
A standard is only as good as it is implemented in the wild. W3C can recommend all it wants but if web masters refuse to implement it or adopt it, it is just so much wasted documentation. This will likely result in a huge fragmentation of the web not seen since the AOL, Prodigy days of the past.
That is my experience as well. As a sysadmin I had root access to my devices while the programmers who actually knew what to do with them and how the code worked had to seek access from info security. Check and balance. When I worked at a bank the security modules made by tandem had 3 keys, one in Ops hands, one in a locked double access key cabinet and one in info security possession. It often took longer to get access to the devices than it did to update or repair them.
The idea of having a shop was to house all the proper tools. Hard to bring a car lift to my driveway, or a tire balancer or any number of other bulky and expensive tools a shop has to expedite repairs, and I sure as heck aren't paying more for them to then have to haul my car back to the shop to continue repairs...
Should the FBI have the ability to not prosecute in a child porn case ? In California there are several types of cases that failure to pursue result in criminal liabilities for the prosecutor's, among them spousal abuse, child abuse, child porn. It is one thing to lack the evidence or documentation to pursue, or to continue to investigate but to dismiss with jeopardy attached should be a crime in itself.
Unless the notification came registered mail, I'd totally ignore it and go on about my business. I certainly would not post it on the Web and provide proof that I'd received such a thing.
I was told by a lawyer, that it was not the intention, but the listener or viewers interpretation. Thus the difference between urinating in public, and indecent exposure lies in who if any views it. I and my coworker thought the jokes were all in good fun, but the women who overheard them felt they were sexually discriminating and insulting. I was told by the boss that had she not complained there would have been no issue. Of course if the woman had not overheard no one else would have ever have known the event even took place...
I was working in a print shop many years ago, and as far as I was aware there were only 2 of us in the area, both guys, and we were telling blond jokes. An hour or so later my companion and I were summoned to the department directors office and told that we had been the subject of a sexual harassment complaint for telling inappropriate joke at work. A women had let herself in the back door and was literally stealing special forms paper and had overheard us telling the jokes and complained to management. We, both guys were forced to take a sexual harassment education class and issue a formal apology to a woman who was then fired for stealing supplies. The bottom line is it is not how you intend the joke or to whom you are directing it to, but how anyone who hears it interprets it, whether you intended them to hear it or not.
Does a single payer system require a single line of delivery ? Redundancy should be a requirement in any system that is deemed a critical delivery. Be it health care or physical networking.
I know that providing false information to the feds is a crime but does that apply to your ISP. Just make up a SSN and remember it. Where do they have the authority or source to check or verify your provided info ?
I want my comics with a digital subscription, otherwise I'll stick with the local rag in print, with syndicated comics, and get my digital news from the reposting sites, e.g. here.
The NY times is in the profession of making money. If it requires they tell a modicum of truth and fact check then they will. If they can get by making stories up and going on 4 martini lunches then that will work as well.
Yeah, a long time ago in a galaxy far away when their hardware was actually different and performed graphic design rendering functions better and more efficiently than competing hardware. It is now the same, both chip and screen, making Apple just a style and price point difference.
A truer measure of freedom of speech and democracy would be harder to find than the ability to criticize publicly the policies and actions of a government. I may not agree with your point of view but I will defend your right to voice it.
I was responding to Mir's sig file specifically but your comments are spot on.
No I was actually thinking it was decent solution to the problem of having everything you ever said even in jest held against you. I personally think that you have a right to an opinion, and the right to express it unless you are speaking for your employer or as a representative of someone else, say like a politician, then you should be held accountable. I am a firm believer in the right to privacy and the right to anonymous publication. I have been accused of being not PC before but really don't give a rats ass what most people think of me beyond my immediate family and loved ones. You've a right to express your opinion, even if it just reinforces the idea that you are a moron.
If you just can't be upright and legal and not message stuff you can't talk about or don't want to admit in public it seems like a 'decent' solution. God forbid they just say what they mean and stand behind it like regular human beings.
Do you honestly think there were gold old days ? I can always recall seeing a huge number of unhelpful, or worse downright incorrect responses given. The problem lies with the population growth, there were always a larger portion of a$$hats than helpful people it was just easier to filter them out with a smaller number of responses. The noob flaming is just as bad as it has always been as well. You just need to be careful who you trust. I generally find that good info comes in clusters, someone will post some decent suggestions and it will generate some corrections and refinements from others', while llama threads flame out quickly. The problem is that many of the very technical folks have gotten tired of the boards and either retired from the industry, or declined to participate often. Gone are the days when you find driver authors or system code writers browsing the tech forums for fun and entertainment. This place used to overflow with highly qualified sysadmins and engineers, not so many these days. Don't despair though there are still people out there that will help you if you are patient enough. What IS better these days is documentation availability, look around for a eBook or a manual on what you need, everyone has needed help at some point and they have sources they found that help at/from.
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The point is we don't get much for our tax dollars, at least at the federal level. No health care, no say in the election process /rant
I'd pay more federal taxes if I received tangible benefits for my contribution. What our federal taxes do go for is personal protection for the petrochemical industries overseas interests, travel benefits for national reps and senators.
My state/local taxes get me part of my health care benefits, pays for the roads in my area.
Actually I just used hoodie from the person I responded to. I wear a plush warm microfiber pull over. No zipper to lay on, and as a bonus I slide across the raised tiles like a curling stone on ice. The lab is a normal 68F(20C) regardless of outside temp so in the summer in California you run the real risk of getting sick from the drastic temperature change. I could wear a hoodie if I wanted to, but security would make me pull the hood down at the lobby, upon access to the equipment floor where the lab is located and at the lab access door, for some reason they object to letting the Unabomber in the secured areas :)
What if there is no dealer in the area ? How the hell are you supposed to buy a particular brand if there is no dealer in the area. This isn't for the consumer benefit, but to preserve the manufacturer monopoly via exclusive dealership arrangements. I should be able to buy a car at Sam's/Walmart just like I buy any other product.
I am more a hardware and network support tech than a programmer or developer, but I wear a hoodie ALL the time at work because my lab is Fsck'n freezing. The temp is set for the equipment not me which is fine, and as a bonus it keeps most everyone else out. I keep a couple extra micro fiber pull overs for the CE's and other hardware folks that come and visit occasionally. I feel sorry for the female techs that have to endure the arctic support lab as folks commonly refer to it. Despite the stereotype I deal with quite a few female techs from RH and M$ to IBM and EMC.
Just don't adopt or support the new web standards. It won't prevent large companies from doing what they want, the only thing it does provide is a guideline to interoperability. If no one enacts web sites to the new standard it has no effect, but having a published standard guides companies towards smooth interoperability and helps prevent wholesale fracturing of the web.
If everyone's DRM follows a standard, when that is cracked, and it will be, the whole market will fall apart. If every entity arrives at its' own method you will need a hodgepodge of solutions to just navigate and use resources, which leads to a huge effort to maintain and secure from the user side.
I can't argue the multitude of reasons to hate M$, but the fact that a free service they are offering doesn't play well with their competitors products, and that they did not spend enough money to ensure that it did seems a bit over the top. That they bothered to even ensure/provide that it functioned at all seems sort of a good thing, let alone tuned it to run well. Do you think Chrome(google) or Apple is less invasive on the privacy side ?
As for "could not afford to buy a Linux computer", I've never seen one myself either. Plenty of intel/amd hardware running Linux, lots of Solaris, Tandem, DEC, IBM, CRAY, and even some RedHat branded hardware, but never a Linux computer.
You are not a user, you are a developer. Users at the place I work for don't require Administrator to do anything, don't install anything, they just login answer email and use the programs that are installed and fully supported by the IT dept. Their machines reboot at night when it is scheduled by IT just like they always have. I've found that they don't even know what version of OS they are on as long as the stuff they need for day to day work functions, e.g. email, and the apps that are put there as part of the software push. Most of them are very happy with Windows 10 because they got shiny new hardware with it and it is faster than their old stuff was. The small slice of developers and QA folks that do require additional access have been less than happy in many cases, some even valid, though some of the grief is just M$ haters, who are gonna hate no matter what...
A standard is only as good as it is implemented in the wild. W3C can recommend all it wants but if web masters refuse to implement it or adopt it, it is just so much wasted documentation. This will likely result in a huge fragmentation of the web not seen since the AOL, Prodigy days of the past.
What if you just let a 13 year old do the plowing for you ?
That is my experience as well. As a sysadmin I had root access to my devices while the programmers who actually knew what to do with them and how the code worked had to seek access from info security. Check and balance. When I worked at a bank the security modules made by tandem had 3 keys, one in Ops hands, one in a locked double access key cabinet and one in info security possession. It often took longer to get access to the devices than it did to update or repair them.
The idea of having a shop was to house all the proper tools. Hard to bring a car lift to my driveway, or a tire balancer or any number of other bulky and expensive tools a shop has to expedite repairs, and I sure as heck aren't paying more for them to then have to haul my car back to the shop to continue repairs...
Should the FBI have the ability to not prosecute in a child porn case ? In California there are several types of cases that failure to pursue result in criminal liabilities for the prosecutor's, among them spousal abuse, child abuse, child porn. It is one thing to lack the evidence or documentation to pursue, or to continue to investigate but to dismiss with jeopardy attached should be a crime in itself.
Unless the notification came registered mail, I'd totally ignore it and go on about my business. I certainly would not post it on the Web and provide proof that I'd received such a thing.
I was told by a lawyer, that it was not the intention, but the listener or viewers interpretation. Thus the difference between urinating in public, and indecent exposure lies in who if any views it. I and my coworker thought the jokes were all in good fun, but the women who overheard them felt they were sexually discriminating and insulting. I was told by the boss that had she not complained there would have been no issue. Of course if the woman had not overheard no one else would have ever have known the event even took place...
I was working in a print shop many years ago, and as far as I was aware there were only 2 of us in the area, both guys, and we were telling blond jokes. An hour or so later my companion and I were summoned to the department directors office and told that we had been the subject of a sexual harassment complaint for telling inappropriate joke at work. A women had let herself in the back door and was literally stealing special forms paper and had overheard us telling the jokes and complained to management. We, both guys were forced to take a sexual harassment education class and issue a formal apology to a woman who was then fired for stealing supplies. The bottom line is it is not how you intend the joke or to whom you are directing it to, but how anyone who hears it interprets it, whether you intended them to hear it or not.
Does a single payer system require a single line of delivery ? Redundancy should be a requirement in any system that is deemed a critical delivery. Be it health care or physical networking.
I know that providing false information to the feds is a crime but does that apply to your ISP. Just make up a SSN and remember it. Where do they have the authority or source to check or verify your provided info ?
I want my comics with a digital subscription, otherwise I'll stick with the local rag in print, with syndicated comics, and get my digital news from the reposting sites, e.g. here.
The NY times is in the profession of making money. If it requires they tell a modicum of truth and fact check then they will. If they can get by making stories up and going on 4 martini lunches then that will work as well.
Yeah, a long time ago in a galaxy far away when their hardware was actually different and performed graphic design rendering functions better and more efficiently than competing hardware. It is now the same, both chip and screen, making Apple just a style and price point difference.
A truer measure of freedom of speech and democracy would be harder to find than the ability to criticize publicly the policies and actions of a government. I may not agree with your point of view but I will defend your right to voice it.
I was responding to Mir's sig file specifically but your comments are spot on.
"...After eight years of being racist, dissent is patriotic once again..."
Dissent was never patriotic, it was just accepted as a by product of freedom. Now however PC hypocrisy seems to override all things.
No I was actually thinking it was decent solution to the problem of having everything you ever said even in jest held against you. I personally think that you have a right to an opinion, and the right to express it unless you are speaking for your employer or as a representative of someone else, say like a politician, then you should be held accountable. I am a firm believer in the right to privacy and the right to anonymous publication.
I have been accused of being not PC before but really don't give a rats ass what most people think of me beyond my immediate family and loved ones. You've a right to express your opinion, even if it just reinforces the idea that you are a moron.
If you just can't be upright and legal and not message stuff you can't talk about or don't want to admit in public it seems like a 'decent' solution.
God forbid they just say what they mean and stand behind it like regular human beings.
Do you honestly think there were gold old days ? I can always recall seeing a huge number of unhelpful, or worse downright incorrect responses given. The problem lies with the population growth, there were always a larger portion of a$$hats than helpful people it was just easier to filter them out with a smaller number of responses. The noob flaming is just as bad as it has always been as well. You just need to be careful who you trust. I generally find that good info comes in clusters, someone will post some decent suggestions and it will generate some corrections and refinements from others', while llama threads flame out quickly. The problem is that many of the very technical folks have gotten tired of the boards and either retired from the industry, or declined to participate often. Gone are the days when you find driver authors or system code writers browsing the tech forums for fun and entertainment. This place used to overflow with highly qualified sysadmins and engineers, not so many these days. Don't despair though there are still people out there that will help you if you are patient enough. What IS better these days is documentation availability, look around for a eBook or a manual on what you need, everyone has needed help at some point and they have sources they found that help at/from.