Muslims are not an ethnic group. There are Chinese, Filipino, Indonesian, Persian, Arab, various African as well as African American Muslims.
[1] Persians and Arabs hate each other, which is a bigger factor in their behavior than a mutually shared religion.
[2] How the hell African Americans ever got sold on Islam I'll never figure. It was the Muslim Arabs that rounded them up and sold them to the slave traders in the first place.
Someone has to write all the original code that gets uploaded to StackOverflow so the younger programmers can pull it down and use for their job assignments. Since that appears to be all that CS classes are teaching.
doesn't actually connect to wifi until a program needs network access
Hard-wired Ethernet.
And how would a PC on the LAN know when it needed to fire up networking (WiFi) if it was the SMB server? Hence the hard-wire connection, which has worked for many years and many versions of Windows. Until Chrome came along.
Fine. So long as I don't also have to pay someone to clean up the damage that they do. And actually I'm not paying them so much as the public at large is having a slice taken out of their paychecks and a surcharge added to their purchase prices to support them. If that's what you want, great.
I suspect that I may have seen this behavior elsewhere.
A friend of mine has a SOHO LAN. One day, she was complaining that she couldn't reach any shared folders on one of her employees PCs (who was off on vacation). So, I looked at it for her. Logged onto the suspect system and it couldn't see the office network either. Poked around for a few seconds and then said to myself, "Try the universal Windows repair procedure. Reboot." Still nothing. The "Network" browser was empty. Next, test the actual networking. Open a URL out in the world somewhere to see if this system could actually connect to anything. "What browser do you use?" "Chrome", she replied. So I fired that up to enter a URL and within a second or so the network window populated with the local systems and shares.
I tried it again. Reboot the system, local network is gone. Fire up Chrome and it appears. So Chrome appears to be inserting something between the networking drivers and user space that, when it hasn't been started up yet, interferes with SMB. IMO, if it is spyware, it is pretty crappy. Good spyware shouldn't reveal itself by interfering with normal operations when it isn't running. Just like alligator clips on my phone line shouldn't make popping noises when I make a call.
To be more precise, both SMB and NFS are protocols that support networked file systems. When you open a file on a remote system, you don't necessarily move a copy of the whole thing to your local system an once. Likewise, when you complete your task and close the file, the only remaining copy is on the remote (server) system.
If your task consists of opening a remote share and explicitly copying the file to a location on your system, then yes, you 'downloaded' the file.
Perhaps there's some file caching scheme to speed up the file replacement. So your target doesn't get suspicious about a delay. The flip side is that this requires memory. Use too much of that and someone will notice the resource use.
They opened a new post office in my town. The parking lot immediately in front of the door is very narrow. A few diagonal spaces with a VERY narrow driving lane behind them. So they put a couple of handicapped spots at the corner of the building. Very wide, van accessible. Lots of room to back up, or drop a ramp at the rear of an accessible van. But some slob with a handicapped permit bitched because they were an extra 50 feet from the door. "Nope. My handicapped spot HAS to be the closest to the door." So they took them out and converted several diagonal spaces for handicapped use. You can't really park a long vehicle there. And you sure can't drop a ramp off the back of a van or unload a mobility scooter from a trunk. But now, fatso has the closest space. Never mind that, once inside the building, its a lot more than 50 feet to walk. So someone with serious cardiac or COPD problems would have to use a scooter anyway.
The problem with accessibility regs is that there aren't always good standards. You have to make an effort. But if someone doesn't think it's good enough for them, you get your ass sued off.
Another anecdote, similar to the one above:
A restaurant had a sidewalk/curb in front of their door. The curb rams were at the corner of the building, so that's where the handicapped spots went. Someone bitched "Not the closest spaces!" So the restaurant had the parking lot repainted to move general parking away from the front door. The handicapped spots stayed where they were (not going to jackhamer all that sidewalk out). Fatso still has to waddle exactly as many steps. But now at least, its the closest spot. So no lawsuits.
And some are investment properties, rented out through Airbnb as sources of income. Should they be made to comply with ADA regs the same way all other small businesses are?
The overarching problem is quantifying the value of the functions being performed. You can compare the costs of a clerical staff versus that of an e-mail/calendaring system. But it's difficult to figure out in a business setting what these functions are worth.
My boss would wail and cry over the inability to peruse the individual schedules of all of his minions for the purpose of calling yet another self-aggrandizing staff meeting. And he would assign a very high value to this function. But back in the 'old days', we just didn't have as many. And we got more work done.
We'll pay some Amazonian tribe $X per tree that they promise to save. But we get nothing if ADM develops a fast growing tree and we plant a bunch of those.
And those tribes are nomadic. In a couple of years, we'll have to pay the next one that moves in all over again for the privilege.
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It's both a religious and ethnic group
Muslims are not an ethnic group. There are Chinese, Filipino, Indonesian, Persian, Arab, various African as well as African American Muslims.
[1] Persians and Arabs hate each other, which is a bigger factor in their behavior than a mutually shared religion.
[2] How the hell African Americans ever got sold on Islam I'll never figure. It was the Muslim Arabs that rounded them up and sold them to the slave traders in the first place.
Please let it be the CDC.
Someone has to write all the original code that gets uploaded to StackOverflow so the younger programmers can pull it down and use for their job assignments. Since that appears to be all that CS classes are teaching.
doesn't actually connect to wifi until a program needs network access
Hard-wired Ethernet.
And how would a PC on the LAN know when it needed to fire up networking (WiFi) if it was the SMB server? Hence the hard-wire connection, which has worked for many years and many versions of Windows. Until Chrome came along.
You're paying them either way.
Fine. So long as I don't also have to pay someone to clean up the damage that they do. And actually I'm not paying them so much as the public at large is having a slice taken out of their paychecks and a surcharge added to their purchase prices to support them. If that's what you want, great.
In an industry that favors cheap over good
I suspect that I may have seen this behavior elsewhere.
A friend of mine has a SOHO LAN. One day, she was complaining that she couldn't reach any shared folders on one of her employees PCs (who was off on vacation). So, I looked at it for her. Logged onto the suspect system and it couldn't see the office network either. Poked around for a few seconds and then said to myself, "Try the universal Windows repair procedure. Reboot." Still nothing. The "Network" browser was empty. Next, test the actual networking. Open a URL out in the world somewhere to see if this system could actually connect to anything. "What browser do you use?" "Chrome", she replied. So I fired that up to enter a URL and within a second or so the network window populated with the local systems and shares.
I tried it again. Reboot the system, local network is gone. Fire up Chrome and it appears. So Chrome appears to be inserting something between the networking drivers and user space that, when it hasn't been started up yet, interferes with SMB. IMO, if it is spyware, it is pretty crappy. Good spyware shouldn't reveal itself by interfering with normal operations when it isn't running. Just like alligator clips on my phone line shouldn't make popping noises when I make a call.
To be more precise, both SMB and NFS are protocols that support networked file systems. When you open a file on a remote system, you don't necessarily move a copy of the whole thing to your local system an once. Likewise, when you complete your task and close the file, the only remaining copy is on the remote (server) system.
If your task consists of opening a remote share and explicitly copying the file to a location on your system, then yes, you 'downloaded' the file.
Perhaps there's some file caching scheme to speed up the file replacement. So your target doesn't get suspicious about a delay. The flip side is that this requires memory. Use too much of that and someone will notice the resource use.
let alone making everyone bend to their issues.
But that's not how the law works. Anecdote:
They opened a new post office in my town. The parking lot immediately in front of the door is very narrow. A few diagonal spaces with a VERY narrow driving lane behind them. So they put a couple of handicapped spots at the corner of the building. Very wide, van accessible. Lots of room to back up, or drop a ramp at the rear of an accessible van. But some slob with a handicapped permit bitched because they were an extra 50 feet from the door. "Nope. My handicapped spot HAS to be the closest to the door." So they took them out and converted several diagonal spaces for handicapped use. You can't really park a long vehicle there. And you sure can't drop a ramp off the back of a van or unload a mobility scooter from a trunk. But now, fatso has the closest space. Never mind that, once inside the building, its a lot more than 50 feet to walk. So someone with serious cardiac or COPD problems would have to use a scooter anyway.
The problem with accessibility regs is that there aren't always good standards. You have to make an effort. But if someone doesn't think it's good enough for them, you get your ass sued off.
Another anecdote, similar to the one above:
A restaurant had a sidewalk/curb in front of their door. The curb rams were at the corner of the building, so that's where the handicapped spots went. Someone bitched "Not the closest spaces!" So the restaurant had the parking lot repainted to move general parking away from the front door. The handicapped spots stayed where they were (not going to jackhamer all that sidewalk out). Fatso still has to waddle exactly as many steps. But now at least, its the closest spot. So no lawsuits.
None of this shit makes any sense.
Libertarians might argue that we shouldn't do business with people who are treating others unfairly.
Who is 'we'? Do you have a mouse in your pocket?
Libertarians support the right for each individual to do business (or not) with anyone they choose.
Silicone Valley
Ah yes. A lovely place, situated between two magnificent mountains. I've visited there many times.
I'll play the devils advocate here:
These are private residences
And some are investment properties, rented out through Airbnb as sources of income. Should they be made to comply with ADA regs the same way all other small businesses are?
All three of them?
Like we really care.
Switch to a flat tax (a lower rate than is charged now) with one deduction allowed: Wages paid to US resident workers.
The overarching problem is quantifying the value of the functions being performed. You can compare the costs of a clerical staff versus that of an e-mail/calendaring system. But it's difficult to figure out in a business setting what these functions are worth.
My boss would wail and cry over the inability to peruse the individual schedules of all of his minions for the purpose of calling yet another self-aggrandizing staff meeting. And he would assign a very high value to this function. But back in the 'old days', we just didn't have as many. And we got more work done.
They do after they shiv you and take your credit cards.
Time to repeal the states' industrial exemptions for engineering licensing.
Right. But Trump's move takes it off the table should a change in majority occur in the next election cycle.
This.
We'll pay some Amazonian tribe $X per tree that they promise to save. But we get nothing if ADM develops a fast growing tree and we plant a bunch of those.
And those tribes are nomadic. In a couple of years, we'll have to pay the next one that moves in all over again for the privilege.
Seattle is already over it's annual carbon limit with the fire started by the hobos under the West Seattle freeway bridge.
Where are they going to find the billions of dollars to pay to foreign governments
Simple. They can't count. The number of mayors goes from 61 to 68 and then 83 depending on how far you drill down through the related articles.
obligating them to hire and retain more citizens.
Because I don't want some of these people inside my company.
M&A fees charged by Goldman Sachs.