One thing to keep in mind though is that so far, Google is going wherever the regulatory hurdles are the smallest and cheapest. That means it is possible that if we lowered these burdens, we could see better broadband deployments.
Verizon apparently stopped expanding mainly because the local regulations were too burdensome to make it profitable, so they changed their focus to other ventures.
Of course there's a solution. What about that $50 an hour plumbing job he mentioned? Yes, many of those exist. You'll find that if you do the jobs nobody else wants to do, you'll make more.
It's a simple matter of supply and demand. So many people out there think that being a plumber is below them, so they all go to being programmers. The programmers think they are so much smarter so being paid less is a "great injustice", except they have yet to figure out supply and demand.
Here's something that should wake you up: 90% of all businesses out there aren't in the business of writing code. A chain of plumbing businesses will only need to have somebody write their payroll software once. If they want to save money and get equally good results, they'll hire a software firm out of Thailand to write it.
You know who in the tech sector will have a well paying job at said plumbing chain? The IT guys who specialize in implementation and not programming.
The budget will never be balanced until after an economic collapse happens. I didn't really believe this myself until after the sequester happened.
Have you ever seen one of those mock newscasts where the news anchors and reporters are reporting an alien invasion? They do a pretty good job of making it surreal in many cases. Arne Duncan put on a show like a disaster was already in progress with regard to teachers being fired as he spoke. Just like the mock newscasts, was all bullshit, but it created a media shitstorm anyways.
Now you have the republicans trying to go ahead and approve the budget increases anyways (it's currently stalled in the senate.) They did a good thing by not allowing it to happen, but then they did a 180 and now we're screwed.
I mean if reducing the deficit increase is this hard, it's basically impossible to create a surplus without another dot-com bubble to at least give us a temporary budget surplus.
Government bankruptcy with a resulting crash of the dollar is going to lead to an inevitable economic collapse. And because we're in a global economy, it won't just be limited to the US either, several Eurozone countries as well as Japan (who is doing worse than anybody in terms of debt) will all fall with it as many of them have even worse debt problems than we do.
A lot of chicano (no, that's not slang, look it up) groups idolize Caesar Chavez. Most don't know though that he hated illegal immigrants, badly. I don't know if this is because he didn't like how they worked, or if it was because they competed with his labor model.
Also, unrelated but interesting, the more activist chicanos idolize Che Guevara, who very vocally hated Mexicans in general.
I often wonder why the hell they rant about what a CEO earns at all. Usually they make that much because they did something pretty damn original that sets them apart. Take Larry Page for example.
I think if people spent more time thinking about what they could do to increase their pay rather than worry about what somebody else makes, they'd probably earn more.
Well if apple ever held a gun at you, you could invoke your second amendment right and fire at will, and the law would be on your side. It's only if the government did it that the law wouldn't be on your side. Again, government censors, not private individuals.
Sony at no point ever had any arrest powers. Could they petition the government to do so? Yeah, but they themselves can not. That is why it is ultimately the government who censors.
Only governments can sensor. Sure you can do e.g. dmca takedowns, but it is up to the government to enforce that at gunpoint.
You can refuse to pay the lawyers, and you can refuse to go to court, but if you refuse to go to jail for contempt of court the police will drag you there at gunpoint.
I'm no fan of apple by any stretch, but the app store is their property, and their private domain that they are free to remove you from if they don't like you. If you don't like it, go to a more open platform like android.
Well Google's searches obviously provide a benefit to us as users and we pay nothing for them, therefore we are getting income, which by the same argument should be taxed. Does that mean we owe the IRS every time we do a google search?
With the way we're spending right now, economic collapse is a sure thing. Not an "oh maybe" but an absolute guarantee. We can't just borrow forever. The budget is a bunch of small numbers, like this one, that add up to big ones. No reasonable person would ever just keep buying things without question. A reasonable person would make choices, depending on their priorities. The government ideally would do the same thing, yet it doesn't.
If I was in Washington, I think a smart thing to do would be to take an item like this, and ask what other program we can sacrifice to make way for it. My first choice would be a far more expensive and useless one, like the national endowment of the arts, or title ix. Ask yourself, would you rather have artwork that so few people are interested in that almost nobody would ever pay for it, or would you rather have medical research that even costs less? Then we get two benefits: both a smaller budget and a more useful program.
It's called being a script kiddie. Anonymous is just a gang of them. Script kiddies can be dangerous, even though they aren't as smart as they'd like you to believe.
Allow me to rephrase that: conservative or libertarian voters. I'm sure you'll find maybe one of them out of a hundred. Keep in mind the difference between the politicians and the voters. Politicians frequently do things that the voters never intended.
There might actually be a ring of truth, though for the opposite cause and not on slashdot specifically.
The coal industry has a very powerful lobby. The coal union itself is very powerful, far more powerful than the corporate interests. Combine the two though and you have a great combination for retarding nuclear research and development.
No, we don't outlaw anything. We allow people to make their choice, even if it is a poor one. That is what freedom is all about. What we shouldn't allow is government to give unconditional loan guarantees to career paths that are almost guaranteed to go nowhere. That isn't limited to CS, that also applies to e.g. philosophy, music theory, or other liberal arts/humanities degrees, and even law degrees since there are upwards of six times as many lawyers graduating each year than there are an actual need for them.
That isn't to say that you can't do well in these fields by the way. I'm sure if you are good enough at CS, you'll do quite well. But the reality is that most people aren't that good at what they claim to be passionate about.
Personally I can subnet in my head. Give me the number of networks you want and how many devices on each network, what you might plan on expanding to, and other figures like that, and I'll have you a full network diagram in under a minute (depending of course on the scale.) Further than that, give me security rules, VLAN requirements, and other specifics and I'll type you out a full configuration set within a few minutes. Said configuration could be pasted straight away into a RS232 terminal to a cisco device. With a few tweaks, it can also be pasted into an HP, brocade, or juniper device. (Yep, they made their OS syntax very similar to cisco for that very reason.) Probably more vendors as well, though these are the only ones I'm familiar with.
I can also implement high availability through e.g. virtualization, standby routing, etc.
This is what employers want. They don't want to hire a CS major only to have to pay him for a few months while he reads books and catches up, meanwhile he doubtless has no actual experience with real equipment. CS majors understand theory, but not applying it. IT majors understand applying it and they know just enough theory to do the job - they can pick up the extras on the job with no negative impact to their employer. By going to trade schools, IT majors actually have experience with real equipment, even if no actual job experience, which makes them more desirable.
No, it's not. There's no data anywhere that indicates that H-1B visa workers earn less than local talent. There's also no data that suggests that companies like to hire them because they are trapped to one company. They hire them because they either can't afford a CS degree, or don't want to. Rather they understand infrastructure, and have hands on experience with actually implementing infrastructure. CS majors do no such thing. They understand the theory of infrastructure, but they can't actually implement it.
This is why I mention IT specifically. IT is in by far higher demand than CS. IT being information technology. The word information being the key. The most important part of managing information is a network. How are you supposed to understand networks if you can't subnet?
Wasn't Tesla one of about 6 or so companies that were part of this stimulus, and all of the rest of them went kaput? That's not very smart investing at all.
Notice something here though - Tesla actually has the backing of known venture capitalists already, including its founder. You can't justify the government being a good venture capitalist when almost everything it touches falls apart.
And ffs, I don't know why people always throw around that the government already subsidizes oil, banks, and . I don't think any libertarian or conservative (the ones who would be opposed to all of the above) approve of that either, so stop throwing that around as if it justifies other bad investments that the government makes.
If it did, wouldn't that have given them better leverage over twitter?
Recall the french government sued twitter after they refused to hand over the names/IP addresses of some people who committed the horrible crime against humanity of trolling somebody else.
Instead of complying, twitter basically told them to GFY. I'd imagine that if there were any french people working for twitter, they would have been snagged by that.
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Wow how does somebody get modded troll for suggesting that there probably isn't a conspiracy?
One thing to keep in mind though is that so far, Google is going wherever the regulatory hurdles are the smallest and cheapest. That means it is possible that if we lowered these burdens, we could see better broadband deployments.
Verizon apparently stopped expanding mainly because the local regulations were too burdensome to make it profitable, so they changed their focus to other ventures.
Of course there's a solution. What about that $50 an hour plumbing job he mentioned? Yes, many of those exist. You'll find that if you do the jobs nobody else wants to do, you'll make more.
It's a simple matter of supply and demand. So many people out there think that being a plumber is below them, so they all go to being programmers. The programmers think they are so much smarter so being paid less is a "great injustice", except they have yet to figure out supply and demand.
Here's something that should wake you up: 90% of all businesses out there aren't in the business of writing code. A chain of plumbing businesses will only need to have somebody write their payroll software once. If they want to save money and get equally good results, they'll hire a software firm out of Thailand to write it.
You know who in the tech sector will have a well paying job at said plumbing chain? The IT guys who specialize in implementation and not programming.
The budget will never be balanced until after an economic collapse happens. I didn't really believe this myself until after the sequester happened.
Have you ever seen one of those mock newscasts where the news anchors and reporters are reporting an alien invasion? They do a pretty good job of making it surreal in many cases. Arne Duncan put on a show like a disaster was already in progress with regard to teachers being fired as he spoke. Just like the mock newscasts, was all bullshit, but it created a media shitstorm anyways.
Now you have the republicans trying to go ahead and approve the budget increases anyways (it's currently stalled in the senate.) They did a good thing by not allowing it to happen, but then they did a 180 and now we're screwed.
I mean if reducing the deficit increase is this hard, it's basically impossible to create a surplus without another dot-com bubble to at least give us a temporary budget surplus.
Government bankruptcy with a resulting crash of the dollar is going to lead to an inevitable economic collapse. And because we're in a global economy, it won't just be limited to the US either, several Eurozone countries as well as Japan (who is doing worse than anybody in terms of debt) will all fall with it as many of them have even worse debt problems than we do.
A lot of chicano (no, that's not slang, look it up) groups idolize Caesar Chavez. Most don't know though that he hated illegal immigrants, badly. I don't know if this is because he didn't like how they worked, or if it was because they competed with his labor model.
Also, unrelated but interesting, the more activist chicanos idolize Che Guevara, who very vocally hated Mexicans in general.
I often wonder why the hell they rant about what a CEO earns at all. Usually they make that much because they did something pretty damn original that sets them apart. Take Larry Page for example.
I think if people spent more time thinking about what they could do to increase their pay rather than worry about what somebody else makes, they'd probably earn more.
Well if apple ever held a gun at you, you could invoke your second amendment right and fire at will, and the law would be on your side. It's only if the government did it that the law wouldn't be on your side. Again, government censors, not private individuals.
Sony at no point ever had any arrest powers. Could they petition the government to do so? Yeah, but they themselves can not. That is why it is ultimately the government who censors.
Since when does any private entity have the power to shut you up at gunpoint or cuff you and put you in jail?
Apple isn't doing that, they're just saying "not in my app store"
If the government chose not to censor, then who is going to censor? Apple doesn't have the power to send anybody to jail.
Only governments can sensor. Sure you can do e.g. dmca takedowns, but it is up to the government to enforce that at gunpoint.
You can refuse to pay the lawyers, and you can refuse to go to court, but if you refuse to go to jail for contempt of court the police will drag you there at gunpoint.
I'm no fan of apple by any stretch, but the app store is their property, and their private domain that they are free to remove you from if they don't like you. If you don't like it, go to a more open platform like android.
Well for what it's worth, the anti-nuclear coalition themselves claim responsibility for making nuclear power unaffordable.
Well Google's searches obviously provide a benefit to us as users and we pay nothing for them, therefore we are getting income, which by the same argument should be taxed. Does that mean we owe the IRS every time we do a google search?
With the way we're spending right now, economic collapse is a sure thing. Not an "oh maybe" but an absolute guarantee. We can't just borrow forever. The budget is a bunch of small numbers, like this one, that add up to big ones. No reasonable person would ever just keep buying things without question. A reasonable person would make choices, depending on their priorities. The government ideally would do the same thing, yet it doesn't.
If I was in Washington, I think a smart thing to do would be to take an item like this, and ask what other program we can sacrifice to make way for it. My first choice would be a far more expensive and useless one, like the national endowment of the arts, or title ix. Ask yourself, would you rather have artwork that so few people are interested in that almost nobody would ever pay for it, or would you rather have medical research that even costs less? Then we get two benefits: both a smaller budget and a more useful program.
It's called being a script kiddie. Anonymous is just a gang of them. Script kiddies can be dangerous, even though they aren't as smart as they'd like you to believe.
Allow me to rephrase that: conservative or libertarian voters. I'm sure you'll find maybe one of them out of a hundred. Keep in mind the difference between the politicians and the voters. Politicians frequently do things that the voters never intended.
There might actually be a ring of truth, though for the opposite cause and not on slashdot specifically.
The coal industry has a very powerful lobby. The coal union itself is very powerful, far more powerful than the corporate interests. Combine the two though and you have a great combination for retarding nuclear research and development.
No, we don't outlaw anything. We allow people to make their choice, even if it is a poor one. That is what freedom is all about. What we shouldn't allow is government to give unconditional loan guarantees to career paths that are almost guaranteed to go nowhere. That isn't limited to CS, that also applies to e.g. philosophy, music theory, or other liberal arts/humanities degrees, and even law degrees since there are upwards of six times as many lawyers graduating each year than there are an actual need for them.
That isn't to say that you can't do well in these fields by the way. I'm sure if you are good enough at CS, you'll do quite well. But the reality is that most people aren't that good at what they claim to be passionate about.
Personally I can subnet in my head. Give me the number of networks you want and how many devices on each network, what you might plan on expanding to, and other figures like that, and I'll have you a full network diagram in under a minute (depending of course on the scale.) Further than that, give me security rules, VLAN requirements, and other specifics and I'll type you out a full configuration set within a few minutes. Said configuration could be pasted straight away into a RS232 terminal to a cisco device. With a few tweaks, it can also be pasted into an HP, brocade, or juniper device. (Yep, they made their OS syntax very similar to cisco for that very reason.) Probably more vendors as well, though these are the only ones I'm familiar with.
I can also implement high availability through e.g. virtualization, standby routing, etc.
This is what employers want. They don't want to hire a CS major only to have to pay him for a few months while he reads books and catches up, meanwhile he doubtless has no actual experience with real equipment. CS majors understand theory, but not applying it. IT majors understand applying it and they know just enough theory to do the job - they can pick up the extras on the job with no negative impact to their employer. By going to trade schools, IT majors actually have experience with real equipment, even if no actual job experience, which makes them more desirable.
No, it's not. There's no data anywhere that indicates that H-1B visa workers earn less than local talent. There's also no data that suggests that companies like to hire them because they are trapped to one company. They hire them because they either can't afford a CS degree, or don't want to. Rather they understand infrastructure, and have hands on experience with actually implementing infrastructure. CS majors do no such thing. They understand the theory of infrastructure, but they can't actually implement it.
This is why I mention IT specifically. IT is in by far higher demand than CS. IT being information technology. The word information being the key. The most important part of managing information is a network. How are you supposed to understand networks if you can't subnet?
I watch Amazon prime in XBMC. Doesn't have the usual flash annoyances.
Wasn't Tesla one of about 6 or so companies that were part of this stimulus, and all of the rest of them went kaput? That's not very smart investing at all.
Notice something here though - Tesla actually has the backing of known venture capitalists already, including its founder. You can't justify the government being a good venture capitalist when almost everything it touches falls apart.
And ffs, I don't know why people always throw around that the government already subsidizes oil, banks, and . I don't think any libertarian or conservative (the ones who would be opposed to all of the above) approve of that either, so stop throwing that around as if it justifies other bad investments that the government makes.
If it did, wouldn't that have given them better leverage over twitter?
Recall the french government sued twitter after they refused to hand over the names/IP addresses of some people who committed the horrible crime against humanity of trolling somebody else.
Instead of complying, twitter basically told them to GFY. I'd imagine that if there were any french people working for twitter, they would have been snagged by that.