>No, but structuring the legal immigration process so that it's darned near impossible to immigrate unless you're highly-educated is.
Err, thats the point of immigration. If we cant fill certain jobs, we'll bring people in. I dont need someone else to compete for my job, we have enough of people like me already, thanks. Prove we need you. We want more highly-educated specialists for that reason.
>The Mexicans who do enter illegally aren't exactly "stealing" great jobs from American citizens. They're picking crops, cleaning houses, flipping burgers, etc.
How does this get modded up? A lot of Americans, many of whom are legal immigrants, take these jobs. We dont need illegals to fill them, especially when we're at 10% unemployment. Unlike a lot of the loud-mouth commentators here, I've actually hired legal immigrants to do house cleaning and in the restaurant business. They're eager and hard workers generally, and dont like to be categorized with the illegals who sneak in here and live a lawless lifestyle (fake SSNs, fake names in the ER, etc). We dont need illegals for that, thanks.
Not to mention, when these illegals get here and these jobs have dried up or dont pay enough, then we see a rise in crime. We also see a rise in social services spending to help them pay for their kids.
Is it xenophobic and racist now to want legal immigration? Incredible how low the pro-illegal immigration people are willing to go. I can't say Im surprised, after all they are advocating illegal and immoral behavior.
>Just like how TLC is no longer a learning channel, but gets more viewers
How dare you, sir! I have learned lots from TLC and the History channel. Specifically:
1. The Paranormal powers of Hitler and the eventual return of his ghost. 2. How Jesus and Bigfoot are flying to Alpha Centauri to establish a new religion. 3. That Nazi gold is buried in the Andes and only an expert dowser and his sidekick spirtual medium can find it. 4. How prophecies from hundreds of years ago apply in my everyday life! 5. That Stalin's mustache was the seat of his paranormal power! 6. That Nessie was the dinosaur Noah rode after the flood! 7. That special codes in the Bible reveal winning lotto numbers!
Yeah, working meters, credit card payment, not out begging for quarters or getting a 100 dollar ticket because you dont have an antiquated little disk on you? What a fiasco!
Heck, I pulled into one that was broken recently. I called the number. It was answered within a couple of rings and I talked to someone who actually spoke english and had customer service skills!
Im not some "privatize everything" loon but the Chicago parking meters are much better than the union no-work pension-sucking fatcat gangster system run by the city previously. All politics are local. In some towns public parking meters works out, in others, it doesnt. It happens that in Chicago, the city had parking meters on a very low priority. Instead of the city providing hundreds of no-work overpaid jobs, a private company is doing it. If they screw up we can go back to public. I dont mind paying extra for working machines and using a credit card.
>access to 1.3B Internet users will be a big deal down the road.
What does that mean, exactly? Only a small part of China is modernized. According to online sources there are 137 million internet users, not 1.3 billion. Most live very poorly and have no access to a computer in China.
>It's funny to me that the often pro-choice Slashdot crowd sees these features as a bad thing.
I'm all for restricting of interfaces. When usability and readability are important, non-designers shouldnt have access to things that allow garish colors, screaming music at load up, blinking, crazy fonts, animated gifs, etc. Myspace is just a geocities rehash. Notice I cant do these things in the comments section of slashdot, and we are all better off this way.
I also refuse to participate in forums that allow giant signature gifs, blinking tags, colored text, etc. I stick to slashdot, reddit, sdmb, and metafilter for the most part. The level of discourse is also higher there. Once morons realize that they cant upload their animated gifs of someone getting punched in the face or taking a shit they slither off back to godknowswhere.
When a system is broken, like this ultra-politicized textbook process, its justifiable to give up on it. Some people take principled stands in life. Sometimes you just need to walk away from a game that's impossible to win.
Id also walk out if a room full of fundies told me that the best compromise is "making sure to list evolution as an untested theory full of flaws and we'll consider mentioning that man and dinosaurs didnt live together, but we're not budging on Christian values forming America."
Its these bullshit compromises that have lead to the US being mocked by other western governments for its pitiful education system.
Oh well, a small percentage of them will go away to college away from their right-wing monoculture and be exposed to different ideas. Lets just ignore this headline then: Texas graduation rate worst in nation, again. Theyre up to 69.2 percent now, err, I guess thats progress.
Godless liberal countries with universal healthcare like Canada and Finland have the best graduation rates in the world. Sorry Texas conservsatives, youre on the losing side of history.
Hasnt anyone considered that those "fakes" are actually highly advanced technology from the future that the International Time Police Force wasnt able to stop from leaking into the past?
Think of it this way. If an 18th century intellectual found a microchip, he'd think it a just a weird little black rock. We just think those fakes are a weird little bit of plastic. Now we wait for the futuristic motherboard that will run them. I'll be going through the dumpster behind work in about an hour looking for them, feel free to join me.
>That's what makes "spear-phishing" so ridiculously dangerous - if the attacker is spending his entire day on you specifically, you're going to need a little more than an off-the-shelf unmonitored solution.
Not to mention AV programs simply scan for yesterday's threats. I think we bank too much on them as proactive protection. Locking down your desktops, adhering to the principle of least user access, and not using software that is full of exploits is a much smarter way to go.
>I just don't believe Windows is a suitable OS for embedded devices.
Err, "Windows" is a trademark. The code on your Win7 machine is not the code on your mobile phone.
>The rest "just work",
As someone who has spent years using palm, then danger/hiptop, then winmo, and now iphone, I can tell you that none of these "just work." You just have a double standard because youre biased.
While Im certainly not one to defend WinMo, my previous phone was a Treo with WinMo that did a lot of the things 5 years ago that people rave about with iphone/android. WinMo didnt have an app store, but apps were easily found on the internet. Many free and without the blessing of any censorship board. Not to mention, Outlook/Activesync integration.
Right. A pallet of these things is a couple million dollars. Produce enough to replace a pallet and sell the real ones on the black market. All you need to do is convince on warehouse worker to do the dirty work for you. Even if they get 1/4 or 1/8th the value its still a nice chunk of change.
I wouldnt be surprised if this was connected to organized crime.
>They didn't even bother to use a real Lamborghini picture! Even that was a fake!
Its like a movie where the killer is always giving the police hints on his next crime. The fraudster gave your friend at least two hints, but he still bought it. Even fraudsters have the occasional attack of conscience.
>Why should anyone care what he has to say about people who did what he couldn't?
Because people need to see how horribly broken the patent system is and he has an insider's view of how they are actually used (protecting big business and pushing out small competitors) compared to how people tend to think they are used (protecting the small competitor).
>Yes yes, I know, a generalization...but in my experience, it's the truth.
Err, its still a generalization with nothing to back it up. I'm not one typically to defend TV, but I can imagine a credible opposite to your argument.
When I watch TV, I'm either watching comedies or watching something that is teaching me something. With comedies, I'm often laughing or commenting on the show to the person next to me. During the other shows I would feel intellectually stimulated, pause it, maybe do a related web search, etc. TV is very social. I can watch it with others.
When I use a computer, I tend to read discussion sites or play games. Both involve snacking. When I was foolish enough to play MUDs and MMOs this involved meals at the PC, and lots of dumb grinding. Other games involve dumb puzzle solving. This is usually a solo activity. Im slumped in a chair and clicking a mouse.
Anyway, my point is all of this depends on the way you use television or the computer and your dietary habits. Not to mention cause vs correlation. Ive read other studies about the light from the TV causing insomnia. Insomnia is also linked to obesity, mood disturbances, and mental illness. Perhaps the smaller screen from a laptop or PC minimizes this effect. Who knows. Without some real proof we're just projecting our biases.
Thank you for this post. This guy's been making the rounds again, and everytime he's been shown to be a borderline nut and a chronic patent applyer. Getting a patent is simply a matter of money, not ability, talent, or creativity. Apple has patents on sliding your finger across a touch screen and Amazon has its infamous one-click patent. Companies like Tivo find it more profitable to sue over patents than to actually sell a product.
This guy represents nothing but the lax process of getting a patent mixed in with some medical quackery.
>Oddly enough, I played World of Warcraft and Fallout 3 quite a bit since upgrading to these drivers, and my performance has been much better than the previous win7 64x driver.
If you read the release notes you'll see big performance gains on a lot of games from this driver. This is something I've never seen from Nvidia. Anyone have the details on what happened? Maybe they found some new way to be efficient or found some long standing bug.
>Easy to use as it is, Handbrake is still a 'geek market' product.
Well, its like VLC. Its non-commercial and hosted all over the world. RealDVD is a commercial product created by an American company. I think eventually all OSS projects that deal with video will be hosted in France.
>YES, most exploits are written to take advantage of IE (or, rather, its various bloat that accumulates).NO, the corporate management tools for Firefox are in no way comparable to what is commercially available to IE.
Exactly true. At my old job I had everything mostly locked down and everyone used IE. At my current place, because of policies and politics, the users have slightly more freedom and in exchange they get to use Firefox. We've had 3 or 4 drive by fakeAV installs in the past two weeks. Firefox doesnt magically protect slightly out of date flash players or stupid users being fooled by DHMTL pages that look like AV warnings. The idea that FF is this magical panacea is overstating the fact.
Id much rather have an IE only shop where the users are running as 'users' instead of a Firefox only shop where they are 'power users' (with lots of rights taken away) or *gasp* local admins. What you can do easily in group policy with IE is worth it. Not to mention, IE7 and IE8 are pretty decent browsers considering. I think the IE strawman is built from the old IE6 days.
That said, obviously a compltely locked down environment is the best way to go, but I want to challenge the idea that FF is suddenly going to perform this holistic change and protect users from themselves. It wont.
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Kid: "Well, I'm a level 8 Human designer. I'm mostly int and charisma."
Interviewer: "Err, okay... here, roll this 20 sided die. 10 or higher gets you a second interview"
*rolls*
"Sorry, I hope you are able to find better opportunities elsewhere."
*long pause*
"Fireball! Fireball! Fireball! Fireball!"
"Please leave my office."
>No, but structuring the legal immigration process so that it's darned near impossible to immigrate unless you're highly-educated is.
Err, thats the point of immigration. If we cant fill certain jobs, we'll bring people in. I dont need someone else to compete for my job, we have enough of people like me already, thanks. Prove we need you. We want more highly-educated specialists for that reason.
>The Mexicans who do enter illegally aren't exactly "stealing" great jobs from American citizens. They're picking crops, cleaning houses, flipping burgers, etc.
How does this get modded up? A lot of Americans, many of whom are legal immigrants, take these jobs. We dont need illegals to fill them, especially when we're at 10% unemployment. Unlike a lot of the loud-mouth commentators here, I've actually hired legal immigrants to do house cleaning and in the restaurant business. They're eager and hard workers generally, and dont like to be categorized with the illegals who sneak in here and live a lawless lifestyle (fake SSNs, fake names in the ER, etc). We dont need illegals for that, thanks.
Not to mention, when these illegals get here and these jobs have dried up or dont pay enough, then we see a rise in crime. We also see a rise in social services spending to help them pay for their kids.
Is it xenophobic and racist now to want legal immigration? Incredible how low the pro-illegal immigration people are willing to go. I can't say Im surprised, after all they are advocating illegal and immoral behavior.
>Just like how TLC is no longer a learning channel, but gets more viewers
How dare you, sir! I have learned lots from TLC and the History channel. Specifically:
1. The Paranormal powers of Hitler and the eventual return of his ghost.
2. How Jesus and Bigfoot are flying to Alpha Centauri to establish a new religion.
3. That Nazi gold is buried in the Andes and only an expert dowser and his sidekick spirtual medium can find it.
4. How prophecies from hundreds of years ago apply in my everyday life!
5. That Stalin's mustache was the seat of his paranormal power!
6. That Nessie was the dinosaur Noah rode after the flood!
7. That special codes in the Bible reveal winning lotto numbers!
Thats stuff they wont teach you in school.
Yeah, working meters, credit card payment, not out begging for quarters or getting a 100 dollar ticket because you dont have an antiquated little disk on you? What a fiasco!
Heck, I pulled into one that was broken recently. I called the number. It was answered within a couple of rings and I talked to someone who actually spoke english and had customer service skills!
Im not some "privatize everything" loon but the Chicago parking meters are much better than the union no-work pension-sucking fatcat gangster system run by the city previously. All politics are local. In some towns public parking meters works out, in others, it doesnt. It happens that in Chicago, the city had parking meters on a very low priority. Instead of the city providing hundreds of no-work overpaid jobs, a private company is doing it. If they screw up we can go back to public. I dont mind paying extra for working machines and using a credit card.
Its not healthcare, its just meters.
>access to 1.3B Internet users will be a big deal down the road.
What does that mean, exactly? Only a small part of China is modernized. According to online sources there are 137 million internet users, not 1.3 billion. Most live very poorly and have no access to a computer in China.
>It's funny to me that the often pro-choice Slashdot crowd sees these features as a bad thing.
I'm all for restricting of interfaces. When usability and readability are important, non-designers shouldnt have access to things that allow garish colors, screaming music at load up, blinking, crazy fonts, animated gifs, etc. Myspace is just a geocities rehash. Notice I cant do these things in the comments section of slashdot, and we are all better off this way.
I also refuse to participate in forums that allow giant signature gifs, blinking tags, colored text, etc. I stick to slashdot, reddit, sdmb, and metafilter for the most part. The level of discourse is also higher there. Once morons realize that they cant upload their animated gifs of someone getting punched in the face or taking a shit they slither off back to godknowswhere.
>And more examples of how wrong things can get can be found here: http://thedailywtf.com/
Or in my sig.
When a system is broken, like this ultra-politicized textbook process, its justifiable to give up on it. Some people take principled stands in life. Sometimes you just need to walk away from a game that's impossible to win.
Id also walk out if a room full of fundies told me that the best compromise is "making sure to list evolution as an untested theory full of flaws and we'll consider mentioning that man and dinosaurs didnt live together, but we're not budging on Christian values forming America."
Its these bullshit compromises that have lead to the US being mocked by other western governments for its pitiful education system.
Oh well, a small percentage of them will go away to college away from their right-wing monoculture and be exposed to different ideas. Lets just ignore this headline then: Texas graduation rate worst in nation, again. Theyre up to 69.2 percent now, err, I guess thats progress.
Godless liberal countries with universal healthcare like Canada and Finland have the best graduation rates in the world. Sorry Texas conservsatives, youre on the losing side of history.
Hasnt anyone considered that those "fakes" are actually highly advanced technology from the future that the International Time Police Force wasnt able to stop from leaking into the past?
Think of it this way. If an 18th century intellectual found a microchip, he'd think it a just a weird little black rock. We just think those fakes are a weird little bit of plastic. Now we wait for the futuristic motherboard that will run them. I'll be going through the dumpster behind work in about an hour looking for them, feel free to join me.
>That's what makes "spear-phishing" so ridiculously dangerous - if the attacker is spending his entire day on you specifically, you're going to need a little more than an off-the-shelf unmonitored solution.
Not to mention AV programs simply scan for yesterday's threats. I think we bank too much on them as proactive protection. Locking down your desktops, adhering to the principle of least user access, and not using software that is full of exploits is a much smarter way to go.
>I just don't believe Windows is a suitable OS for embedded devices.
Err, "Windows" is a trademark. The code on your Win7 machine is not the code on your mobile phone.
>The rest "just work",
As someone who has spent years using palm, then danger/hiptop, then winmo, and now iphone, I can tell you that none of these "just work." You just have a double standard because youre biased.
While Im certainly not one to defend WinMo, my previous phone was a Treo with WinMo that did a lot of the things 5 years ago that people rave about with iphone/android. WinMo didnt have an app store, but apps were easily found on the internet. Many free and without the blessing of any censorship board. Not to mention, Outlook/Activesync integration.
Carlos 'not so' Slim.
>Perhaps the Seabees really have been standing around considering the the dome's true meaning and searching for inconsistencies in its design.
No, no. Its not the design, man, its like the "idea" that "man" can "own" property and "things" in the south pole.
*hits bong*
Yeah.... its like the penguins are the indians and we are General Custer.
*hits bong*
Err...what were we talking about? Custard? Yeah, I'd like some custard.
Right. A pallet of these things is a couple million dollars. Produce enough to replace a pallet and sell the real ones on the black market. All you need to do is convince on warehouse worker to do the dirty work for you. Even if they get 1/4 or 1/8th the value its still a nice chunk of change.
I wouldnt be surprised if this was connected to organized crime.
>They didn't even bother to use a real Lamborghini picture! Even that was a fake!
Its like a movie where the killer is always giving the police hints on his next crime. The fraudster gave your friend at least two hints, but he still bought it. Even fraudsters have the occasional attack of conscience.
>Why should anyone care what he has to say about people who did what he couldn't?
Because people need to see how horribly broken the patent system is and he has an insider's view of how they are actually used (protecting big business and pushing out small competitors) compared to how people tend to think they are used (protecting the small competitor).
>Yes yes, I know, a generalization...but in my experience, it's the truth.
Err, its still a generalization with nothing to back it up. I'm not one typically to defend TV, but I can imagine a credible opposite to your argument.
When I watch TV, I'm either watching comedies or watching something that is teaching me something. With comedies, I'm often laughing or commenting on the show to the person next to me. During the other shows I would feel intellectually stimulated, pause it, maybe do a related web search, etc. TV is very social. I can watch it with others.
When I use a computer, I tend to read discussion sites or play games. Both involve snacking. When I was foolish enough to play MUDs and MMOs this involved meals at the PC, and lots of dumb grinding. Other games involve dumb puzzle solving. This is usually a solo activity. Im slumped in a chair and clicking a mouse.
Anyway, my point is all of this depends on the way you use television or the computer and your dietary habits. Not to mention cause vs correlation. Ive read other studies about the light from the TV causing insomnia. Insomnia is also linked to obesity, mood disturbances, and mental illness. Perhaps the smaller screen from a laptop or PC minimizes this effect. Who knows. Without some real proof we're just projecting our biases.
they also had Ballmer doing crazy commercials at that time. It was destined to do badly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk
I often fantasize about Jobs and his cult of Apple piloting the blue robot.
Thank you for this post. This guy's been making the rounds again, and everytime he's been shown to be a borderline nut and a chronic patent applyer. Getting a patent is simply a matter of money, not ability, talent, or creativity. Apple has patents on sliding your finger across a touch screen and Amazon has its infamous one-click patent. Companies like Tivo find it more profitable to sue over patents than to actually sell a product.
This guy represents nothing but the lax process of getting a patent mixed in with some medical quackery.
>Oddly enough, I played World of Warcraft and Fallout 3 quite a bit since upgrading to these drivers, and my performance has been much better than the previous win7 64x driver.
If you read the release notes you'll see big performance gains on a lot of games from this driver. This is something I've never seen from Nvidia. Anyone have the details on what happened? Maybe they found some new way to be efficient or found some long standing bug.
>Easy to use as it is, Handbrake is still a 'geek market' product.
Well, its like VLC. Its non-commercial and hosted all over the world. RealDVD is a commercial product created by an American company. I think eventually all OSS projects that deal with video will be hosted in France.
that Skid Row has done something since "Youth Gone Wild."
>YES, most exploits are written to take advantage of IE (or, rather, its various bloat that accumulates).NO, the corporate management tools for Firefox are in no way comparable to what is commercially available to IE.
Exactly true. At my old job I had everything mostly locked down and everyone used IE. At my current place, because of policies and politics, the users have slightly more freedom and in exchange they get to use Firefox. We've had 3 or 4 drive by fakeAV installs in the past two weeks. Firefox doesnt magically protect slightly out of date flash players or stupid users being fooled by DHMTL pages that look like AV warnings. The idea that FF is this magical panacea is overstating the fact.
Id much rather have an IE only shop where the users are running as 'users' instead of a Firefox only shop where they are 'power users' (with lots of rights taken away) or *gasp* local admins. What you can do easily in group policy with IE is worth it. Not to mention, IE7 and IE8 are pretty decent browsers considering. I think the IE strawman is built from the old IE6 days.
That said, obviously a compltely locked down environment is the best way to go, but I want to challenge the idea that FF is suddenly going to perform this holistic change and protect users from themselves. It wont.