So, when can we expect this system to be applied to rate the mass surveillance activities of the NSA, CIA, FBI, and others against law-abiding US citizens? Sounds like a good way for the EFF to rank the severity of abuses.
Long ago we signed away our rights to contest being fired or laid off.
You can thank people like the Millennial I fired for sleeping on the job. Or the other one I fired for (repeatedly) feeling like he didn't need to show up for his shift. Why should an employer have to waste time and money going through some bullshit appeals process for dead weight like these two clowns?
You are assuming these people won't get better jobs. Every time I was fired / let go in tech, I always found a better gig. In this industry especially, such an event is likely to be a blessing in disguise for the worker. By knocking them out of their comfort zone they may very possibly end up in a situation they otherwise never would have.
Spinning rust had a great run . . . but we're already well into the era of storage on chips. A lot of these folks will upgrade their skill sets by making a move, even if it's not their choice to do so.
When you fly out of Israel's Ben Gurion Airport (at least when I did 10 years ago), you first have to stop at a Godfather-style tollbooth about a mile from the terminal. There, about four soldiers with automatic surround your car while a fifth sticks a mirror on a big pole underneath, looking for bombs. I think they looked inside the trunk too. Once you get to the main terminal, before you can enter the doors, you're stopped by another armed soldier who asks you what you're doing there, where you are headed, etc. All the while, they're looking at you to see if you appear suspicious in any way. Once inside, you go through more traditional security, except you have to open your bags and show them everything you have. They're specifically interested in asking you about anything you bought in Israel, who you got it from, where, etc. All the while, the security folks are comparing notes. If there's something wacky or suspicious about you or your story, then that triggers additional "interrogations."
Since the Lod massacre in 1972, Israel has not suffered another terrorist attack against their airports or planes because they decided to take real precautions to prevent them. The rest of the world (for now) chooses not to follow their model.
Wouldn't many pirates' actual country of origin be hidden by the VPN they are using? So their findings are skewed, and there's no way to tell by how much. But I'm guessing the folks who commissioned this "study" don't want to be showing that VPN is a viable pirate attack vector anyway.
. . . it's the magnitude of her lies. Having your own email server for the purpose of evading transparency laws and "reclassifying" classified documents is shady as fuck. These are things that would land any of us in PMITA Federal prison for many years. Add in the other scandals from Benghazi all the way back to Whitewater and it's easy to see why she's perceived as such a liar.
I can generally get an Uber driver within 10 minutes during the day, but sometimes I take the first flight out, and no drivers are available in my area before 6 AM it seems. So those days I'm stuck waiting 45 minutes for a foul-smelling, expensive cab ride. This is a huge value-add for business travelers if it helps cover more of the clock -- but perhaps we have to wait for the self-driving cars for that.
Suicides also make up about 1/3 of gun deaths annually too. I find it interesting that you would blame one and not the other when that facts clearly show last year was a record year for gun homicides, but no similar annual increase in suicide by firearms has been reported anywhere (if you have them, please provide links -- I can't find any).
While a few companies are re-writing code to multi-thread, many are not. Intel's single-thread champ is still the venerable two year-old i7-4790K, which will smoke any "enthusiast" chip out there for most things that enthusiasts care about, like gaming, rendering, etc.
He wants to deprive gays of the right to marry, and wants to make abortion illegal. These two items are massive infringements on civil liberties and about as far from libertarian ideals as one can get. People like Cruz and Santorum cater to the religious crazy wing of the Republican party and are one of the main reasons the GOP is in such disarray.
I generally like Musk, but this is bullshit. As someone said years before on Slashdot, "carbon credits" or any sort of carbon tax is nothing more than a scam by the ultra rich to make you and me live like bugs.
Why not just end the fossil fuel subsidies? Why must the answer *always* be to further tax the consumers?
And there are no restrictions -- music, Blu-Ray rips, software, you name it -- all are available. Cripple your stuff enough and people (especially the Millennials) will simply vote with their dollars and choose that option.
Instead of creating new content and apps, the legacy desktop software vendors of the world -- Microsoft, Adobe, Intuit, etc. -- continue to subscription-wall their suites in order to try to move users into constantly paying for stuff, forever, rather than forcing them to upgrade every few years. Unfortunately (for them), the younger, more tech-savvy Facebook generation isn't going to buy into their rent-seeking model -- they'll just find another "free" option and use that until it's gone or crapified to the point of being useless (heck, a lot of Adobe's products are mostly there already). The desktop software world will probably look a lot different in another decade, for the first time since the birth of the Internet.
Talk about brutal . . . I saw one screen capture of the "minion mic drop" GIF pasted into a funeral home director's email to the deceased's family. Not sure if that one was fake or not, but with 900M users, how could Google possibly think this was a good idea?
I felt this way too, and for years I "fought the system" by going thru the regular line and forcing them to pat me down in front of everyone. In the end, no one cared but me -- not the TSA and not my fellow travelers. I realized that my time is worth a lot more than having to cough up $85 every five years. Getting PreCheck is indeed like a time machine back to pre-9/11 airport security, and anyone who travels more than a few times a year should have it IMHO.
Every 777th snapshot (or so the rumor says), Solid State Logic's G series audio consoles would put up the coveted "Begbroke" Easter Egg. The legend said that if that happened when you were mixing, you'd come up with a gold record . . . I can personally attest that that was NOT the case.;-) https://www.reddit.com/r/audio...
. . . I don't see a whole lot of white role models. When I look at hospital staff, I don't see a lot of male nurses. Where's the outrage there? Oh right, I'm a straight white male . . . the entirety of the world's problems are my fault. Fuck me.
They know that petro stocks will be depressed for some time and are using their need to dump them as an opportunity for a feel-good, look-how-green-we-are presser. Just rich Wall Streeters doing what they do . . . nothing to see here, folks.
It's pretty telling when the CPU single-thread desktop performance leader, the i7-4790K, is almost two years old. That used to be an eternity in silicon fab. Intel is busy on the server side cramming ever-more cores into their Xeons for high-density server rooms and reducing power consumption on the mobile side. The market (and Intel, who in part sets the market) has decided the Devil's Canyon is apparently fast enough for any single-threaded work you'll ever do. That doesn't help those of us who count on software whose vendors haven't yet implemented / optimized multi-core support in their apps.
Wow . . . I guess Wikipedia is dead fucking wrong then, as well as all of the career religious academics cited in the link below. Better get started updating:
"The vast majority of scholars who write on the subject accept that Jesus existed,[5][6][7][8] although scholars differ about the beliefs and teachings of Jesus as well as the accuracy of the accounts of his life, and the only two events subject to "almost universal assent" are that Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist and was crucified by the order of the Roman Prefect Pontius Pilate.[9][10][11][12]"
From an agnostic . . . some of you atheists are as bad as the religious fundamentalists. Your above statements are absolute bullshit and contradicted by well-cited and accepted historical FACTS.
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So, when can we expect this system to be applied to rate the mass surveillance activities of the NSA, CIA, FBI, and others against law-abiding US citizens? Sounds like a good way for the EFF to rank the severity of abuses.
Long ago we signed away our rights to contest being fired or laid off.
You can thank people like the Millennial I fired for sleeping on the job. Or the other one I fired for (repeatedly) feeling like he didn't need to show up for his shift. Why should an employer have to waste time and money going through some bullshit appeals process for dead weight like these two clowns?
You are assuming these people won't get better jobs. Every time I was fired / let go in tech, I always found a better gig. In this industry especially, such an event is likely to be a blessing in disguise for the worker. By knocking them out of their comfort zone they may very possibly end up in a situation they otherwise never would have.
Spinning rust had a great run . . . but we're already well into the era of storage on chips. A lot of these folks will upgrade their skill sets by making a move, even if it's not their choice to do so.
When you fly out of Israel's Ben Gurion Airport (at least when I did 10 years ago), you first have to stop at a Godfather-style tollbooth about a mile from the terminal. There, about four soldiers with automatic surround your car while a fifth sticks a mirror on a big pole underneath, looking for bombs. I think they looked inside the trunk too. Once you get to the main terminal, before you can enter the doors, you're stopped by another armed soldier who asks you what you're doing there, where you are headed, etc. All the while, they're looking at you to see if you appear suspicious in any way. Once inside, you go through more traditional security, except you have to open your bags and show them everything you have. They're specifically interested in asking you about anything you bought in Israel, who you got it from, where, etc. All the while, the security folks are comparing notes. If there's something wacky or suspicious about you or your story, then that triggers additional "interrogations."
Since the Lod massacre in 1972, Israel has not suffered another terrorist attack against their airports or planes because they decided to take real precautions to prevent them. The rest of the world (for now) chooses not to follow their model.
Wouldn't many pirates' actual country of origin be hidden by the VPN they are using? So their findings are skewed, and there's no way to tell by how much. But I'm guessing the folks who commissioned this "study" don't want to be showing that VPN is a viable pirate attack vector anyway.
. . . it's the magnitude of her lies. Having your own email server for the purpose of evading transparency laws and "reclassifying" classified documents is shady as fuck. These are things that would land any of us in PMITA Federal prison for many years. Add in the other scandals from Benghazi all the way back to Whitewater and it's easy to see why she's perceived as such a liar.
I can generally get an Uber driver within 10 minutes during the day, but sometimes I take the first flight out, and no drivers are available in my area before 6 AM it seems. So those days I'm stuck waiting 45 minutes for a foul-smelling, expensive cab ride. This is a huge value-add for business travelers if it helps cover more of the clock -- but perhaps we have to wait for the self-driving cars for that.
Suicides also make up about 1/3 of gun deaths annually too. I find it interesting that you would blame one and not the other when that facts clearly show last year was a record year for gun homicides, but no similar annual increase in suicide by firearms has been reported anywhere (if you have them, please provide links -- I can't find any).
gun deaths (probably because of suicides)
I'm sure it didn't have anything to do with record levels of gun violence in the inner cities, right?
While a few companies are re-writing code to multi-thread, many are not. Intel's single-thread champ is still the venerable two year-old i7-4790K, which will smoke any "enthusiast" chip out there for most things that enthusiasts care about, like gaming, rendering, etc.
He wants to deprive gays of the right to marry, and wants to make abortion illegal. These two items are massive infringements on civil liberties and about as far from libertarian ideals as one can get. People like Cruz and Santorum cater to the religious crazy wing of the Republican party and are one of the main reasons the GOP is in such disarray.
bacon cures cancer!
Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
I generally like Musk, but this is bullshit. As someone said years before on Slashdot, "carbon credits" or any sort of carbon tax is nothing more than a scam by the ultra rich to make you and me live like bugs.
Why not just end the fossil fuel subsidies? Why must the answer *always* be to further tax the consumers?
Sounds like Apple Music is functioning exactly as Apple designed it.
And there are no restrictions -- music, Blu-Ray rips, software, you name it -- all are available. Cripple your stuff enough and people (especially the Millennials) will simply vote with their dollars and choose that option.
Instead of creating new content and apps, the legacy desktop software vendors of the world -- Microsoft, Adobe, Intuit, etc. -- continue to subscription-wall their suites in order to try to move users into constantly paying for stuff, forever, rather than forcing them to upgrade every few years. Unfortunately (for them), the younger, more tech-savvy Facebook generation isn't going to buy into their rent-seeking model -- they'll just find another "free" option and use that until it's gone or crapified to the point of being useless (heck, a lot of Adobe's products are mostly there already). The desktop software world will probably look a lot different in another decade, for the first time since the birth of the Internet.
Funny how Canadians always leave out the part out about refusing single males entry when trumpeting this noble act.
Talk about brutal . . . I saw one screen capture of the "minion mic drop" GIF pasted into a funeral home director's email to the deceased's family. Not sure if that one was fake or not, but with 900M users, how could Google possibly think this was a good idea?
I felt this way too, and for years I "fought the system" by going thru the regular line and forcing them to pat me down in front of everyone. In the end, no one cared but me -- not the TSA and not my fellow travelers. I realized that my time is worth a lot more than having to cough up $85 every five years. Getting PreCheck is indeed like a time machine back to pre-9/11 airport security, and anyone who travels more than a few times a year should have it IMHO.
Every 777th snapshot (or so the rumor says), Solid State Logic's G series audio consoles would put up the coveted "Begbroke" Easter Egg. The legend said that if that happened when you were mixing, you'd come up with a gold record . . . I can personally attest that that was NOT the case. ;-) https://www.reddit.com/r/audio...
If you hit F1, then Ctrl-3, the C64 would start belting out "Pomp and Circumstance" in all its SID (Sound Interface Device) glory!
. . . I don't see a whole lot of white role models. When I look at hospital staff, I don't see a lot of male nurses. Where's the outrage there? Oh right, I'm a straight white male . . . the entirety of the world's problems are my fault. Fuck me.
They know that petro stocks will be depressed for some time and are using their need to dump them as an opportunity for a feel-good, look-how-green-we-are presser. Just rich Wall Streeters doing what they do . . . nothing to see here, folks.
It's pretty telling when the CPU single-thread desktop performance leader, the i7-4790K, is almost two years old. That used to be an eternity in silicon fab. Intel is busy on the server side cramming ever-more cores into their Xeons for high-density server rooms and reducing power consumption on the mobile side. The market (and Intel, who in part sets the market) has decided the Devil's Canyon is apparently fast enough for any single-threaded work you'll ever do. That doesn't help those of us who count on software whose vendors haven't yet implemented / optimized multi-core support in their apps.
Wow . . . I guess Wikipedia is dead fucking wrong then, as well as all of the career religious academics cited in the link below. Better get started updating:
"The vast majority of scholars who write on the subject accept that Jesus existed,[5][6][7][8] although scholars differ about the beliefs and teachings of Jesus as well as the accuracy of the accounts of his life, and the only two events subject to "almost universal assent" are that Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist and was crucified by the order of the Roman Prefect Pontius Pilate.[9][10][11][12]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Jesus
From an agnostic . . . some of you atheists are as bad as the religious fundamentalists. Your above statements are absolute bullshit and contradicted by well-cited and accepted historical FACTS.