Here is a simple comment I always make on this subject.
Corporations and government refer to outsourcing as being competitive. After all, if an American can do the job just as well or better than someone outside of the country and can do it cheaper, then they can get it. After all, that's capitalism, right?
However, while the corporation can pull from a global pool of employees and pay for those in the cheapest nations where my hourly income covers their entire paycheck and their regulations may be less restrictive, I as a consumer and an employee do not have the same pleasure in my own country. I have to live in the place the employer has built their headquarters which has $1,500/mo crappy apartments, $4/gal fuel and $4.25/gal milk and the guy who pumps gas at the local station earns twice the average tech income in a lot of other outsourced countries.
I've never heard an outsourcing CEO attempt to reconcile this difference in any way.
I used cooplabs.net for quite awhile in San Jose and would probably use them again. I paid a little under $100/mo for a 1U rack with 1mbps. They even went out of their way to drive into the colo facilities and check my server when my hardware was toasted (both of my N+1 hot swappable PSUs died at the same damn time!). And when I shipped them a pair of replacements, they had no problem replacing them for me. In fact, I don't think they even charged me for the time and trouble.
The things I require of a colo are that they don't limit my bandwidth. I want to pay for dedicated bandwidth and no transfer limit. Period. I'm not interest in their hardware or their servers or their operating systems. Just slide my chassis into your rack, plug it in and leave it alone.
Sadly, finding such services -- and reliable ones at that -- are very difficult. Everyone wants you to use their servers in their configurations and pay through the nose to do it. Then they want you to share bandwidth with everyone else and pay per gig transferred. Hell, they even charge for how much storage space you use. As if hard drives are at a premium these days or something.
And if you go it alone. Well. You can't. Usually the smallest unit you can rent from HE.net or similar is a half standing locker apartment. That's usually 16U. Sometimes they require a full 32U or more. That's fine if you have $1,000 or more to spend a month just on the space (not counting the bandwidth), but not so much if you just need place for one or two servers.
It's one thing to use "hey, it's in public" as an excuse for a lot of things, but it's another thing entirely to use it to justify eavesdropping from a remote location, videotaping people and even remotely telling them how to behave and not to be anti-social.
You might as well justify people getting upskirt material in public. What's the difference? How is it different if you use high tech equipment to listen in on people from eighty feet away and recording everything they do in public versus some crazy perv with mirrors on his shoes and a small video camera?
Why not stick video camers and audio capturing devices and loudspeakers on every lightpole and aim them directly into everyone's homes. After all, the cameras are in public places and if Joe Public could potentially see and listen to something from the road, what's the big deal about a video camera with 14x optical zoom and high quality devices that pick up audio from far away doing the same thing?
I for one love the idea of being monitored, watched and told how to behave by some minimum wage monkey in a remote location every second I am outside of my home. Yay!
Is Slashdot seriously your only source of actual news? The original was regarding CCTV getting loudspeakers in some areas. The current news as of this week is regarding them spreading the project further to another twenty regions.
People who brush off slipper-slope arguments can read this and eat a dick. Oh, but I'm sure big brother would never do anything that wasn't for our own good, right?
I guarantee that every plane that takes off has at least one forbidden device turned on during take off and landing. Period. People forget they have their phones turned on. They forget to power off their laptop or ipod or whatever else. It happens. And there is not one single documented case of a plane crashing because of interference by items someone was using that are listed above. And if that were the case, they would be banned THE ENTIRE TIME. And the thoughtless "logic" behind banning these devices makes about as much sense as the idiots who piss their pants over an arab guy being on the airplane, until they kick him off for flying while.. not whitey.
It's very simple to test this stuff. Find out what frequencies the airplane uses and for what purposes and then ban devices that will (if any are found) interfere with that frequency.
I mean, really, I don't have to prove to you that my game of solitaire on my laptop isn't going to crash the plane. You have to show me even a remotely reasonable explanation of how having somethign turned on that uses an LCD screen and a battery is somehow going to cause the engines to die or the radar services to fail. What, are we all flying the airplanes with radioactive Dells? Or are we all secretly concealing Apple Powerbooks with some sort of radar jamming devices in them?
Are you really going to just roll over and accept a lack of justification for banning these things by the same people who say that a four ounce bottle of liquid is forbidden, but a three ounce bottle of liquid is a risk to the safety of the crew and passengers? Come on... There are so many flying sheep that just suck down the rules without giving any consideration as to the logic behind them.
Why would I talk on my phone on an airplane? In fact, who even said a fucking thing about talking on a cell phone? I just leave it turned on as a personal little secret "fuck you" to the man. People with lousy public cell phone etiquette should be shot, just as people who bring their lousy fucking snotrag children on airplanes should be.
But yeah, I'm a fucking asshole for not reaching into my pocket and powering my cell phone off when the highly educated stewardess monkeys back what the training manual told her to thoughtlessly repeat to us for absolutely no justifiable reason other than to fat-pocket the companies that provide the on-board $5/min phones.
Why the ban? So they can get $5/minute out of you and your credit card using the ridiculous AT&T phones installed in the back of the seat in front of you.
Technical information to say they interfere with systems? They most absolutely certainly do not. I bring my cell phone on every trip. I intentionally leave my phone on. I NEVER turn it off. And when I have it out, I turn my laptop screen off and intentionally leave the laptop itself on. Just to be a contrarian dickhead. And guess what? My planes have never crashed. Never veered off course. Never lost power. Nothing. It's fine.
I can't understand the excitement over these games either. If you're going to put hours and hours and hours into pretending to play an instrument, why not put those hours into actually learning to play the instrument?
On the other hand, pretending to play an instrument and "is this the new MTV" really are a couple sentiments that belong together.
Man, the only Sega Saturn games I can recall off the top of my head is the one where you are in a ship shooting stuff in a sewer, the one where you shoot a bunch of guys in black pajamas invading a slumber party and that Kriss Kross game.
What I've been trying to figure out is why anyone would use a Windows operating system in the first year of release to begin with? Yes, sometimes you have no choice but to use Windows. Especially if you're a gamer. But that doesn't mean you need to use the newest release. There have been fourteen or fifteen major Microsoft Windows releases and we haven't learned by now that it's unwise to step into the newest version within the first year - or even two years sometimes?
It takes time for software to catch up and for the operating system itself to have some of the crapification sucked out of it. I can't think of a single release since 3.11 that wasn't plagued with significant problems at release. So if you feel like running the latest bloated Microsoft stuff somehow makes you 31337, then go for it and enjoy your misguided self-perceptions. Otherwise, give it a couple years and perhaps your existing software and games will work on it, new games and software will be specifically developed for it and the general stability and security will be much improved over where it is today.
And for fuck's sake, if you move to a brand new OS that was just released and you lose your precious data on it - who's really the idiot there?
No kidding. What about me spending the afternoon in a dark room with my back to the world, staring at a monitor with my stereo playing says "let's play tea party with our friends!" to anyone?! Not to mention, if I did want to do any "social networking", why the hell would I want to do it while browsing?
This is as stupid as that thing we saw yesterday about "iminlikewithyou" where it's some sort of flirting competition with a bunch of other losers. On the internet. Social networking. Flirting... ON THE INTERNET. How fucking retarded is that!?
I love technology, but let's clarify something - flirting and dating involves physical presence and interaction. Social networking involves more than going on the intarwebs and clicking "friend" on myspace.
If you like being anti-social or just like being left alone, then great. But don't spend every waking second locked in your office while simultaneously pretending that you're a popular, social, networking creature... just because you screw around with online social networking sites.
Yeah, but who cares? It's not like we're talking about voting fraud in something that Americans care about - like American Idol or which Elvis to stick on the postage stamp.
Also, as the example clearly shows - only college educated persons can speak foreign languages! Everyone else is retarded!
Let's do away with the academic level and focus on proven expertise and skill. Otherwise about 60% of our top CEOs and inventors would be off digging ditches somewhere.
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I say they move it to China or Iran. After all, if they're good enough to sit on UN security councils and human right's councils, why not run the intarwebs, too?
I'm confused as to where the sci-fi was in the movie? I mean, there wasn't any sci-fi in Star Wars either. Fantasy based in the future, sure. But sci-fi? Why, because there's space ships?
And while I thought the movie was okay, I didn't care nearly as much for the television series. In fact, I would say that if the television series had tried a little less to be Brisco County Junior and had been a little more like the movie, it would have at least made it a full season or two.
No, by my reasoning we shouldn't enact legislation when it's just for show and has no actual benefit. Perhaps I will change my tune when there is some challenge made and all of these paper receipts somehow prove useful in changing an unfair outcome.
I'm all for auditable voting, but what kind of naive idealist would expect this to make any difference whatsoever? And even if it did, there is a worse problem than which of two assholes wins the vote. Such as - you know - which assholes are accepted enough by the corporations, religious nuts and lobbiest groups in the first place to even become viable candidates.
This would be a good move (though a little late), but it's little more than picking one kernel of corn out of a large, steaming pile of political shit.
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Here is a simple comment I always make on this subject.
Corporations and government refer to outsourcing as being competitive. After all, if an American can do the job just as well or better than someone outside of the country and can do it cheaper, then they can get it. After all, that's capitalism, right?
However, while the corporation can pull from a global pool of employees and pay for those in the cheapest nations where my hourly income covers their entire paycheck and their regulations may be less restrictive, I as a consumer and an employee do not have the same pleasure in my own country. I have to live in the place the employer has built their headquarters which has $1,500/mo crappy apartments, $4/gal fuel and $4.25/gal milk and the guy who pumps gas at the local station earns twice the average tech income in a lot of other outsourced countries.
I've never heard an outsourcing CEO attempt to reconcile this difference in any way.
I used cooplabs.net for quite awhile in San Jose and would probably use them again. I paid a little under $100/mo for a 1U rack with 1mbps. They even went out of their way to drive into the colo facilities and check my server when my hardware was toasted (both of my N+1 hot swappable PSUs died at the same damn time!). And when I shipped them a pair of replacements, they had no problem replacing them for me. In fact, I don't think they even charged me for the time and trouble.
The things I require of a colo are that they don't limit my bandwidth. I want to pay for dedicated bandwidth and no transfer limit. Period. I'm not interest in their hardware or their servers or their operating systems. Just slide my chassis into your rack, plug it in and leave it alone.
Sadly, finding such services -- and reliable ones at that -- are very difficult. Everyone wants you to use their servers in their configurations and pay through the nose to do it. Then they want you to share bandwidth with everyone else and pay per gig transferred. Hell, they even charge for how much storage space you use. As if hard drives are at a premium these days or something.
And if you go it alone. Well. You can't. Usually the smallest unit you can rent from HE.net or similar is a half standing locker apartment. That's usually 16U. Sometimes they require a full 32U or more. That's fine if you have $1,000 or more to spend a month just on the space (not counting the bandwidth), but not so much if you just need place for one or two servers.
Wow. You frighten me.
It's one thing to use "hey, it's in public" as an excuse for a lot of things, but it's another thing entirely to use it to justify eavesdropping from a remote location, videotaping people and even remotely telling them how to behave and not to be anti-social.
You might as well justify people getting upskirt material in public. What's the difference? How is it different if you use high tech equipment to listen in on people from eighty feet away and recording everything they do in public versus some crazy perv with mirrors on his shoes and a small video camera?
Why not stick video camers and audio capturing devices and loudspeakers on every lightpole and aim them directly into everyone's homes. After all, the cameras are in public places and if Joe Public could potentially see and listen to something from the road, what's the big deal about a video camera with 14x optical zoom and high quality devices that pick up audio from far away doing the same thing?
I for one love the idea of being monitored, watched and told how to behave by some minimum wage monkey in a remote location every second I am outside of my home. Yay!
All you'd have to do in America to make this tolerable is connect it to preventing terrorists, child molesters or promoting baby jebus.
Is Slashdot seriously your only source of actual news? The original was regarding CCTV getting loudspeakers in some areas. The current news as of this week is regarding them spreading the project further to another twenty regions.
People who brush off slipper-slope arguments can read this and eat a dick. Oh, but I'm sure big brother would never do anything that wasn't for our own good, right?
I guarantee that every plane that takes off has at least one forbidden device turned on during take off and landing. Period. People forget they have their phones turned on. They forget to power off their laptop or ipod or whatever else. It happens. And there is not one single documented case of a plane crashing because of interference by items someone was using that are listed above. And if that were the case, they would be banned THE ENTIRE TIME. And the thoughtless "logic" behind banning these devices makes about as much sense as the idiots who piss their pants over an arab guy being on the airplane, until they kick him off for flying while.. not whitey.
It's very simple to test this stuff. Find out what frequencies the airplane uses and for what purposes and then ban devices that will (if any are found) interfere with that frequency.
I mean, really, I don't have to prove to you that my game of solitaire on my laptop isn't going to crash the plane. You have to show me even a remotely reasonable explanation of how having somethign turned on that uses an LCD screen and a battery is somehow going to cause the engines to die or the radar services to fail. What, are we all flying the airplanes with radioactive Dells? Or are we all secretly concealing Apple Powerbooks with some sort of radar jamming devices in them?
Are you really going to just roll over and accept a lack of justification for banning these things by the same people who say that a four ounce bottle of liquid is forbidden, but a three ounce bottle of liquid is a risk to the safety of the crew and passengers? Come on... There are so many flying sheep that just suck down the rules without giving any consideration as to the logic behind them.
Why would I talk on my phone on an airplane? In fact, who even said a fucking thing about talking on a cell phone? I just leave it turned on as a personal little secret "fuck you" to the man. People with lousy public cell phone etiquette should be shot, just as people who bring their lousy fucking snotrag children on airplanes should be.
But yeah, I'm a fucking asshole for not reaching into my pocket and powering my cell phone off when the highly educated stewardess monkeys back what the training manual told her to thoughtlessly repeat to us for absolutely no justifiable reason other than to fat-pocket the companies that provide the on-board $5/min phones.
Why the ban? So they can get $5/minute out of you and your credit card using the ridiculous AT&T phones installed in the back of the seat in front of you.
Technical information to say they interfere with systems? They most absolutely certainly do not. I bring my cell phone on every trip. I intentionally leave my phone on. I NEVER turn it off. And when I have it out, I turn my laptop screen off and intentionally leave the laptop itself on. Just to be a contrarian dickhead. And guess what? My planes have never crashed. Never veered off course. Never lost power. Nothing. It's fine.
I can't understand the excitement over these games either. If you're going to put hours and hours and hours into pretending to play an instrument, why not put those hours into actually learning to play the instrument?
On the other hand, pretending to play an instrument and "is this the new MTV" really are a couple sentiments that belong together.
Man, the only Sega Saturn games I can recall off the top of my head is the one where you are in a ship shooting stuff in a sewer, the one where you shoot a bunch of guys in black pajamas invading a slumber party and that Kriss Kross game.
Fuck, the 90s were retarded... *sigh*
But I sure like the potential prospect of playing with my wii in the rain!
See, that was funny right there because I used 'wii' in a context that suggested I might be talking about my wiener.
It doesn't. Prove that a "soul" exists. Then we can consider discussing similarities between said non-existent thing between species.
What I've been trying to figure out is why anyone would use a Windows operating system in the first year of release to begin with? Yes, sometimes you have no choice but to use Windows. Especially if you're a gamer. But that doesn't mean you need to use the newest release. There have been fourteen or fifteen major Microsoft Windows releases and we haven't learned by now that it's unwise to step into the newest version within the first year - or even two years sometimes?
It takes time for software to catch up and for the operating system itself to have some of the crapification sucked out of it. I can't think of a single release since 3.11 that wasn't plagued with significant problems at release. So if you feel like running the latest bloated Microsoft stuff somehow makes you 31337, then go for it and enjoy your misguided self-perceptions. Otherwise, give it a couple years and perhaps your existing software and games will work on it, new games and software will be specifically developed for it and the general stability and security will be much improved over where it is today.
And for fuck's sake, if you move to a brand new OS that was just released and you lose your precious data on it - who's really the idiot there?
No kidding. What about me spending the afternoon in a dark room with my back to the world, staring at a monitor with my stereo playing says "let's play tea party with our friends!" to anyone?! Not to mention, if I did want to do any "social networking", why the hell would I want to do it while browsing?
This is as stupid as that thing we saw yesterday about "iminlikewithyou" where it's some sort of flirting competition with a bunch of other losers. On the internet. Social networking. Flirting... ON THE INTERNET. How fucking retarded is that!?
I love technology, but let's clarify something - flirting and dating involves physical presence and interaction. Social networking involves more than going on the intarwebs and clicking "friend" on myspace.
If you like being anti-social or just like being left alone, then great. But don't spend every waking second locked in your office while simultaneously pretending that you're a popular, social, networking creature... just because you screw around with online social networking sites.
Uh. Obviously the employer wishing to displace the American worker with an H1-B would be paying for it. Not the H1-B.
We'd be missing an hour of time for the rest of human existence.
Yeah, but who cares? It's not like we're talking about voting fraud in something that Americans care about - like American Idol or which Elvis to stick on the postage stamp.
Slashdot editors suck at grammar. Obviously, the words they were looking for was supposed to be more brokener.
Also, as the example clearly shows - only college educated persons can speak foreign languages! Everyone else is retarded!
Let's do away with the academic level and focus on proven expertise and skill. Otherwise about 60% of our top CEOs and inventors would be off digging ditches somewhere.
I say they move it to China or Iran. After all, if they're good enough to sit on UN security councils and human right's councils, why not run the intarwebs, too?
No, but it can only reach these record setting speeds when it is running away from another, more threatening, train.
I'm confused as to where the sci-fi was in the movie? I mean, there wasn't any sci-fi in Star Wars either. Fantasy based in the future, sure. But sci-fi? Why, because there's space ships?
And while I thought the movie was okay, I didn't care nearly as much for the television series. In fact, I would say that if the television series had tried a little less to be Brisco County Junior and had been a little more like the movie, it would have at least made it a full season or two.
No, by my reasoning we shouldn't enact legislation when it's just for show and has no actual benefit. Perhaps I will change my tune when there is some challenge made and all of these paper receipts somehow prove useful in changing an unfair outcome.
I'm all for auditable voting, but what kind of naive idealist would expect this to make any difference whatsoever? And even if it did, there is a worse problem than which of two assholes wins the vote. Such as - you know - which assholes are accepted enough by the corporations, religious nuts and lobbiest groups in the first place to even become viable candidates.
This would be a good move (though a little late), but it's little more than picking one kernel of corn out of a large, steaming pile of political shit.