PURE GENIUS! Everything related to Politics, Sociology, and Economics is purely true/false! And for thousands of years the most brilliant minds society produced has had to debate each of those because we were under the impression that there was no "true/false" dialogue with issues this complex and far reaching. My goodness, if only people like Socrates, Plato, Aquinas, Franklin, Newton, etc.. had met a genius like you.
And then there is reality, which is why I have studied these subjects for 40 years and still see no true/false answers.
Bad form to troll after being called out for idiocy, so just take your lumps.
Perhaps I misunderstand, or you responded to the wrong person but exactly what laws here are unjust?
McAfee is an admitted drug abuser, potential murderer, and admitted to sexually abusing young teenage girls (sorry, he admitted to screwing a 15 year old but legally it's abuse). The drug use for himself is fine, but there are also hints that he was trafficking and selling. Not quite so fine when we go there. He was also feeding drugs and alcohol to those same teenage girls so that he could bang them.
Trump abused his wealth to steal people's property on numerous occasions using cronyism to get the Government to abuse eminent domain. He flaunted US bankruptcy laws for personal gain. Anecdotally we have reports that he used illegal immigrants as indentured servants in hotels and on construction sites. Okay, he's not out giving drugs to 15 year old girls to get them into bed, but using wealth to strong arm rob people of private property is how much better?
Like I said, maybe your comment was addressed toward someone else, or maybe you were just ignorant to what I was referring to. Sure, unjust laws should be ignored. That is not what happened here, and not what I was referring to at all.
When demand increases, prices usually increase in response.
NO! This is only true with scarcity. Monopolies create false scarcity so that they can increase the prices with the demand, but the free market should do the exact opposite (shows you where the US economy sits).
The US has a government forced monopoly on Banking (Student loans) and the Education system.
Milton Friedman spent a lot of time on this subject and it's economic impact. Start at Capitalism and Freedom + Price Theory, then work your way outward.
I don't agree with every position he has, but he sits squarely in the "Mostly Libertarian" camp. The exception I believe is his stance on abortion, which like most progressives fails to recognize that two people are required to make a baby. Too many exceptions and way too much to just answer as he did. He also seems to have the NSA and Cyber Security as conflicting ideas. In theory, regulation should make the NSA the protectors of US border Cyber Space, instead of being the gestapo hunting down the anti-establishment people.
I'd still not vote for him though, for the same reason I would not vote Trump. As much as I agree with their current rhetoric they both have a past full of abusing the law and people for personal gain. We all make mistakes, but if you don't come clean and apologize I doubt that you have magically become a better person all of a sudden. Possible, sure.. Probable? Hardly.
You can live in a bubble if you wish.. Make sure you stop breathing any non purified air if you are that paranoid too. Eat a pure vegan diet and for pity sake the only exercise you should do is swim in a shallow chlorinated pool so you can't drown and sweat can't pool anywhere. Even then, if you are in a community you are at risk so live like a hermit and let your family line die out if that's what you want to do.
As long as you don't try to force that world view on others or make others pay for your paranoia I'm fine with you living your life how you wish.
Alternatively, you can live life and minimize the risks you wish to minimize. Life is going to be much more exciting that way.
I get that _you_ may feel safer if something else does things for you but lets be realistic about the numbers and risk. Fear mongering is not how you go about advocating change, but that is what you are attempting to do. The appeal to emotion is way too obvious.
To start, we are moving the numbers to more recent 2013, in which you had a.0088% chance of a fatal car crash.
By comparison, you had a.17% chance of dying do to heart disease, a.02% chance of dying from diabetes. You had a higher chance of death by suicide and influenza than you did from a car wreck. (math done using a sample size of 350,000,000 and numbers from the CDC and here (easier to find than numbers hidden in the bowels of the CDC PDF).
The point is there are lots of risks in life. Breathing in a lung full of air could cause you to catch influenza, or pneumonia. You are way more likely to DIE from those things than by driving a car, even with shitty drivers on the road. Eating poorly, not exercising, and ingesting the wrong substances (carcinogens) are exponentially more deadly than cars.
If you want to push self driving cars I'm fine with that. You can buy one and do as you wish. Current technology does not make them that much better than humans. Come to Mountain View and drive around near one. They can't differentiate between a speed limit sign and a "during school speed limit" sign so we end up having big backups on some main roads because of those cars. They don't accelerate any faster than my grandma, and don't break any better or worse than a person either.
One day I'm sure they will be great, but that day is not today. I would still rather have the option of manual versus no control of the car. Think about tyranny and extortion for a minute, and that can be corporate as well as government.
Windows IS spying on people and IS feeding them ads. This is not the potential we are discussing, but the processes actively running on people's computers.
In Windows7 I am seeing regularly "Get Windows 10 FREE" messages. Oh I know, I could have avoided that if I had done what everyone tells you not to do and ignore patching but that's not the point. Nowhere does it tell me that the "FREE" really means WE SPY AND GIVE YOU ADS! Go ahead and watch what GSX.exe tells you, except of course for how to download it.
The EULA gives a few hints buried in the legalese language, but until you do a custom install it's really not clear to people how much they are being monitored by Windows 10. Most people lack the expertise to block TCP/IP connections they don't recognize, and lack the hardware capable of doing this.
Back to your but another operating system COULD do the same as I was once wisely told as a young shit. "Wish in one hand, and shit in the other. Which gets full first?" The thing that "could" is obviously the wish, and the shit is MS. Just in case the metaphor was not obvious enough.. and based on the post I responded to you could be pretty slow.
Not easy for a novice, but run Linux with VirtualBox and run a Windows 10 VM on top. Or VMWare. This is currently how I'm testing Windows 10, and works pretty well. Just be aware that without VMWare Tools and VirtualBox client software, windows 10 locked up all the time for no visible reason and had to be hard reset.
There was no claim that the hardware ran faster, the clam was that the compute ran faster. Light weight processes, improved memory management, and less dependency on hard drive cache and paging memory and more use of real memory all make Linux run faster than Windows on the same hardware.
Even with the bloatware that is Gnome Linux is faster, and does more.
This has been a consistent benchmark for at least 15 years when common applications for CAE started running in Linux. CAD was pushed into directx so lost market there, but originally under OpenGL CAD ran better in Linux too. Would you care to guess which OS is faster for Database work, web services, etc.. etc.. on identical hardware? Be careful with what you are given in some places, because people are paid to skew the benchmarks in someone's favor. I do my own testing on my own hardware.
I was picturing the other kind of "Drone" in "Drone industry" It parallels what they are attempting to do by flooding the market with high school grads capable of coding.
Ahh, so you ignore my comments _and_ claim that my comments mean the opposite of what I said. How about asking for clarity if you are confused about someone's opinion (which was pretty damn clear) instead of inventing your own to suite your bias?
My point is, and was, that women are being pushed into a workplace by society. Parenthood and marriage are not just ignored, but treated with disdain. Show me one of these types of articles that mentions the positives of parenting as opposed to touting how great it is for people to work.
You can't show me any such article because they do not exist.
So you keep on lying to yourself and others if you wish, but just know you are a liar. You have to grossly distort my statement to have a leg to stand on, and even then you are practically falling down. I never said women should be pushed into parenthood, I said that they have the toughest job in parenting and are biologically required for at least 9 months of it. They are required for feeding the baby the most healthy food available, which means that for at least 3 years mom must be a parent if the child is to grow up as healthy as possible.
You want her to work in addition to her duties in bearing a kid? Do you want the state raising kids instead of parents so that mom can race back into a workforce after a minimum year hiatus for having a kid? How is stating that women being parents is at least as important work as being a corporate drone bad? That's what you just portrayed.
The woman from Nepal certainly had it the worst, by the sounds of it.
So the woman must go find a career and work her ass off to be something, and raising a family has no value, right? It's really sad that so many people buy into this corporate bullshit.
Yes, there is certainly some discrimination and its bad when it happens. What the person from Nepal describes I don't see as discrimination, I see it as society normal. *read it all before hyperventilating in anger* Twenty one years old is the middle of a woman's prime health and the best time for her to have kids. Most societies know this, and it's why and how the norms came about. Back when people were dead by 35-40 the normal was 13-16 depending on where you were.
Until men can carry kids to full term and breast feed, there will be an expectation that the woman handles all of the difficult parts of having children. Pregnancy and childbirth are extremely demanding, and parenting is extremely difficult to do well. Instead of celebrating parenting and trumpeting how critical it is for society, we push "go make money and spend money" as the high road. That, is really really sad.
Finally, as I said above there is certainly discrimination. The US has more laws on the books than it needs to prosecute people for discrimination. The example from the US is a compliment on the woman's appearance. Really now, being "hot" and "good looking" can somehow make a person "helpless"? Don't tell that to models who make an exceptional living off of _just_ their looks (and make 100 times more than a man for the same job).
DevOps is a specialization which used to be part of standard system administration. Developing custom tools to do custom tasks, in this case related to "Ops" (another specialty that used to be standard sysadmin territory). The term is a great dummy term, but really does not distinguish someone's ability to manage servers and infrastructure.
You seem to be the 'new guy' who preaches that everything should be run in a generic docker container, complaining about the 'old guy' who wants none. Meanwhile, most of the people worth their salt understand that sometimes generic works and sometimes it doesn't. If there was some magic perfect layout everyone would be using it. Instead, we have a huge array of both hardware and software being used in the market. Knowing a dictionary of buzz words does not make you good, and usually indicates just the opposite.
But not for that reason. Profits for some, fuck everyone else. That is the current mindset with too many people holding power. Nepotism, cronyism, and quid pro quot is the overwhelming number of rich people today. Oh I know, there has always been some of that but we used to teach morality. Morality is one of those things omitted in current schools, and you'll have to give less than that to try and expedite programmers. Here is the test: Ask a person today "If you are rich, how much money is too much money?" 30 years ago most would put the number in the couple million mark. Today, most people will laugh and tell you know such thing. So we have gone very far backwards in morality as a society, in a very short amount of time.
Could a school turn out "programmers" in 2 years? Sure, they will know enough to do some "programming" but not how to solve problems, and won't be able to communicate with people. Further, they will be ignorant to history so not know what to look out for in actions by the powerful which makes a large group of people fodder.
I heard something similar the other day, where 100 years ago people from Universities were well versed in every subject. They studied Math, Music, Chemistry, Languages, Art, Philosophy, and History. A person with a degree was very high valued. That was supposed to be the goal of Public Education and Government funding and control in Universities. And look where we have gone. Specialized degrees like "Sports Marketing" with little to no other knowledge to fall back on.
Your assertion requires ignoring a blatant fact. If even one station had a different viewpoint, it would gain _all_ of the people who didn't agree with the status quot. It's kind of like the people that claim politicians are just stupid. If that was true, there would be occasion where something positive happened instead of a constant and steady stream of "bad luck".
Yes we can, and do. In fact we have operated just this way for centuries at least.
We developed a framework of laws WITH the agreement and acceptance of the society as a whole.
I don't think you thought that one out fully. What measure does society use to determine justice and establish laws? Morals.
Tyranny within a society appears when the laws everyone agrees with, suddenly become laws that they, by and large, do not agree with
You seem to have tyranny confused with something else.
Make no mistake - the TTP and TTIP treaties are tyrannical. They are kept secret from the citizens and passed without citizen input. The citizens are even ignored when they complain about the laws
No again, or at least not without a great stretch. Fascist or oligarchical? One or both of those, but not necessarily tyrannical. Some people know about it, negotiated the deal, and some people will benefit. It's not necessarily cruel to the majority, but there is no benefit to the majority either.
The last two parts are mostly correct, but I would not put too much faith in Russia arming rebels within the US. Russia has a lot to lose if our Republic behaves like it was designed and serves as a model to others. If the US is weaker, they are much stronger.
First, Carson's comment is about as loony as calling the police and expecting them to save you.
No need to defend Carson to me, I fully understand context and how it's being ignored for the "story". Read those comments again as snark.
Next, there is no or little media coverage because until recently there was nothing to cover outside of speculation. It's all been drafts leaked to the public via questionable sources and as we found out, a lot is different. I suspect we will end up continuing with little coverage because the IP provisions benefit the news corporations greatly.
You may be arguing with me (hard to tell), but are demonstrating the point I made. I have seen more information and investigation by Wikileaks, RT, and the Guardian than any of the 7 top "news" stations in the US. Just the rumors should have been enough to put real journalists in action. And no, it's not about ratings because imagine the ratings one station would be receiving if they had bothered to cover the story.
That is an outright lie.
I don't believe you understand cynicism and sarcasm. Go back and read it again with that in mind. You did the same thing with Carson, pretending that I attacked him. Half of your statement seems to agree, but then you argue about points that really were never made. I believe we are on the same page, you just didn't realize it.
You don't see it happening because very few people know about it. Do you think that the lack of media coverage is accidental? Oh I know, Ben Carson the Republican candidate said something loony about having to attack a gunman on a spree just to kill, so that has to take all 7 "News" stations days to investigate and discuss. TPPIP? Not a word could be heard on any of those stations about that one. Amazingly, the candidates are not discussing it or being quoted on that one either.
Oh but Donal Trump this and that, and of course everyone is just mean to Hillary because in all the time she served as Secretary of State she never ever sent or received even 1 classified email.
The game is rigged pretty heavily today. People would probably shit themselves if they really know how much they are being manipulated. But hell, Facebook does not show anything too important in their feeds, and Facebook taking over control of that was accidental too.
That rant is not really directed at you. It is directed at those who are now wearing that same tin-foil hat they accused others of wearing. I hope it fits them well.
I am telling you what the Windows 10 installer, from Microsoft, states in plain English. I have no idea how many hells of denial you are in to claim "Nuh Uh" when their own installation tells you what it does. Good grief, run a CUSTOM INSTALL. Or don't, but troll elsewhere.
I think what Microsoft may not be understanding, or may be trying to ignore, is that people aren't buying new hardware because their old hardware meets their needs.
Their old hardware meets their needs for now but wait till everyone and their brother wants portable augmented reality in their pocket and fully interactive VR rooms in their homes. I was hoping to see Linux become the dominant platform for this emerging scene but politics prevailed (Linux support from Oculus/Facebook has obviously taken a back seat to DirectX); there'll come a day in the not-so-distant future when families will be getting second mortgages to finance upgrades of their Microsoft Home Worldservers or whatnot...
Too much Science Fiction in your statement. VR has been out for quite a while in TVs. Sales of these never spiked, and people don't run out and buy 3d movies. Soldiers use some of the augmentation technology, but that is a very special case market. Joe Coder, Chef Jane, and Pat the Welder don't want or need VR and/or augmented information. Well, Joe the coder might want a nice eyeball display, but that is only for the pr0n and not because of work.
You, an anonymous person on Slashdot, are a higher authority than the people who make and market the software? Really? The installer has an option defaulted to "ON" which states very plainly "Send your keystrokes and typed information to Microsoft and third parties".
I don't need a 3rd party to interpret English, I speak it and read it just fine.
Note that this "option" gives no method of tuning or controlling what gets sent or to who it gets sent to, at least during the install.
No, I refuse to do the work for you. I gave you the method of proving my statement true. I have installed Windows 10 on 3 separate VMs so far (no physical machines) and each time used the custom option to disable that 'feature' (and several more).
It is not a fringe minority on Slashdot by any stretch of the imagination. The Snowden leaks have had legal ramifications world wide and changed how US companies have to do business across the globe. Even the nanny State of California just had to sign a No SPY-ON-US bill because even the far left is afraid of the behavior demonstrated by the NSA. (And of course the turds holding office that are allowing and pushing this behavior.)
Because people were not out burning buildings and killing people you believe there was no impact? I'll give you that the legal process is not fast, but there has been some ground made. Not a lot, and not enough.. but some. Further, I'd almost consider what we see in politics as a mass riot. The entrenched are having a really hard time and I don't see it getting any easier for them (even though the media is pandering it's ass off)
What Google did and does is not the same as MS having a build in keylogger sending your Keystrokes to MS. I'll give you partial credit for that, but have to point out that you are completely ignoring how bad Windows 10 is. Why are they getting away with it so far? Well it's a few months in and it's a "free" OS. People have figured out how to turn things off already, and I'm sure this will get better over time.. That "better" has nothing to do with MS however, it's intelligent consumers circumventing MS.
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PURE GENIUS! Everything related to Politics, Sociology, and Economics is purely true/false! And for thousands of years the most brilliant minds society produced has had to debate each of those because we were under the impression that there was no "true/false" dialogue with issues this complex and far reaching. My goodness, if only people like Socrates, Plato, Aquinas, Franklin, Newton, etc.. had met a genius like you.
And then there is reality, which is why I have studied these subjects for 40 years and still see no true/false answers.
Bad form to troll after being called out for idiocy, so just take your lumps.
Perhaps I misunderstand, or you responded to the wrong person but exactly what laws here are unjust?
McAfee is an admitted drug abuser, potential murderer, and admitted to sexually abusing young teenage girls (sorry, he admitted to screwing a 15 year old but legally it's abuse). The drug use for himself is fine, but there are also hints that he was trafficking and selling. Not quite so fine when we go there. He was also feeding drugs and alcohol to those same teenage girls so that he could bang them.
Trump abused his wealth to steal people's property on numerous occasions using cronyism to get the Government to abuse eminent domain. He flaunted US bankruptcy laws for personal gain. Anecdotally we have reports that he used illegal immigrants as indentured servants in hotels and on construction sites. Okay, he's not out giving drugs to 15 year old girls to get them into bed, but using wealth to strong arm rob people of private property is how much better?
Like I said, maybe your comment was addressed toward someone else, or maybe you were just ignorant to what I was referring to. Sure, unjust laws should be ignored. That is not what happened here, and not what I was referring to at all.
When demand increases, prices usually increase in response.
NO! This is only true with scarcity. Monopolies create false scarcity so that they can increase the prices with the demand, but the free market should do the exact opposite (shows you where the US economy sits).
The US has a government forced monopoly on Banking (Student loans) and the Education system.
Milton Friedman spent a lot of time on this subject and it's economic impact. Start at Capitalism and Freedom + Price Theory, then work your way outward.
I don't agree with every position he has, but he sits squarely in the "Mostly Libertarian" camp. The exception I believe is his stance on abortion, which like most progressives fails to recognize that two people are required to make a baby. Too many exceptions and way too much to just answer as he did. He also seems to have the NSA and Cyber Security as conflicting ideas. In theory, regulation should make the NSA the protectors of US border Cyber Space, instead of being the gestapo hunting down the anti-establishment people.
I'd still not vote for him though, for the same reason I would not vote Trump. As much as I agree with their current rhetoric they both have a past full of abusing the law and people for personal gain. We all make mistakes, but if you don't come clean and apologize I doubt that you have magically become a better person all of a sudden. Possible, sure.. Probable? Hardly.
You can live in a bubble if you wish.. Make sure you stop breathing any non purified air if you are that paranoid too. Eat a pure vegan diet and for pity sake the only exercise you should do is swim in a shallow chlorinated pool so you can't drown and sweat can't pool anywhere. Even then, if you are in a community you are at risk so live like a hermit and let your family line die out if that's what you want to do.
As long as you don't try to force that world view on others or make others pay for your paranoia I'm fine with you living your life how you wish.
Alternatively, you can live life and minimize the risks you wish to minimize. Life is going to be much more exciting that way.
I get that _you_ may feel safer if something else does things for you but lets be realistic about the numbers and risk. Fear mongering is not how you go about advocating change, but that is what you are attempting to do. The appeal to emotion is way too obvious.
To start, we are moving the numbers to more recent 2013, in which you had a .0088% chance of a fatal car crash.
By comparison, you had a .17% chance of dying do to heart disease, a .02% chance of dying from diabetes. You had a higher chance of death by suicide and influenza than you did from a car wreck. (math done using a sample size of 350,000,000 and numbers from the CDC and here (easier to find than numbers hidden in the bowels of the CDC PDF).
The point is there are lots of risks in life. Breathing in a lung full of air could cause you to catch influenza, or pneumonia. You are way more likely to DIE from those things than by driving a car, even with shitty drivers on the road. Eating poorly, not exercising, and ingesting the wrong substances (carcinogens) are exponentially more deadly than cars.
If you want to push self driving cars I'm fine with that. You can buy one and do as you wish. Current technology does not make them that much better than humans. Come to Mountain View and drive around near one. They can't differentiate between a speed limit sign and a "during school speed limit" sign so we end up having big backups on some main roads because of those cars. They don't accelerate any faster than my grandma, and don't break any better or worse than a person either.
One day I'm sure they will be great, but that day is not today. I would still rather have the option of manual versus no control of the car. Think about tyranny and extortion for a minute, and that can be corporate as well as government.
Windows IS spying on people and IS feeding them ads. This is not the potential we are discussing, but the processes actively running on people's computers.
In Windows7 I am seeing regularly "Get Windows 10 FREE" messages. Oh I know, I could have avoided that if I had done what everyone tells you not to do and ignore patching but that's not the point. Nowhere does it tell me that the "FREE" really means WE SPY AND GIVE YOU ADS! Go ahead and watch what GSX.exe tells you, except of course for how to download it.
The EULA gives a few hints buried in the legalese language, but until you do a custom install it's really not clear to people how much they are being monitored by Windows 10. Most people lack the expertise to block TCP/IP connections they don't recognize, and lack the hardware capable of doing this.
Back to your but another operating system COULD do the same as I was once wisely told as a young shit. "Wish in one hand, and shit in the other. Which gets full first?" The thing that "could" is obviously the wish, and the shit is MS. Just in case the metaphor was not obvious enough.. and based on the post I responded to you could be pretty slow.
Not easy for a novice, but run Linux with VirtualBox and run a Windows 10 VM on top. Or VMWare. This is currently how I'm testing Windows 10, and works pretty well. Just be aware that without VMWare Tools and VirtualBox client software, windows 10 locked up all the time for no visible reason and had to be hard reset.
There was no claim that the hardware ran faster, the clam was that the compute ran faster. Light weight processes, improved memory management, and less dependency on hard drive cache and paging memory and more use of real memory all make Linux run faster than Windows on the same hardware.
Even with the bloatware that is Gnome Linux is faster, and does more.
This has been a consistent benchmark for at least 15 years when common applications for CAE started running in Linux. CAD was pushed into directx so lost market there, but originally under OpenGL CAD ran better in Linux too. Would you care to guess which OS is faster for Database work, web services, etc.. etc.. on identical hardware? Be careful with what you are given in some places, because people are paid to skew the benchmarks in someone's favor. I do my own testing on my own hardware.
I was picturing the other kind of "Drone" in "Drone industry" It parallels what they are attempting to do by flooding the market with high school grads capable of coding.
Ahh, so you ignore my comments _and_ claim that my comments mean the opposite of what I said. How about asking for clarity if you are confused about someone's opinion (which was pretty damn clear) instead of inventing your own to suite your bias?
My point is, and was, that women are being pushed into a workplace by society. Parenthood and marriage are not just ignored, but treated with disdain. Show me one of these types of articles that mentions the positives of parenting as opposed to touting how great it is for people to work.
You can't show me any such article because they do not exist.
So you keep on lying to yourself and others if you wish, but just know you are a liar. You have to grossly distort my statement to have a leg to stand on, and even then you are practically falling down. I never said women should be pushed into parenthood, I said that they have the toughest job in parenting and are biologically required for at least 9 months of it. They are required for feeding the baby the most healthy food available, which means that for at least 3 years mom must be a parent if the child is to grow up as healthy as possible.
You want her to work in addition to her duties in bearing a kid? Do you want the state raising kids instead of parents so that mom can race back into a workforce after a minimum year hiatus for having a kid? How is stating that women being parents is at least as important work as being a corporate drone bad? That's what you just portrayed.
The woman from Nepal certainly had it the worst, by the sounds of it.
So the woman must go find a career and work her ass off to be something, and raising a family has no value, right? It's really sad that so many people buy into this corporate bullshit.
Yes, there is certainly some discrimination and its bad when it happens. What the person from Nepal describes I don't see as discrimination, I see it as society normal. *read it all before hyperventilating in anger* Twenty one years old is the middle of a woman's prime health and the best time for her to have kids. Most societies know this, and it's why and how the norms came about. Back when people were dead by 35-40 the normal was 13-16 depending on where you were.
Until men can carry kids to full term and breast feed, there will be an expectation that the woman handles all of the difficult parts of having children. Pregnancy and childbirth are extremely demanding, and parenting is extremely difficult to do well. Instead of celebrating parenting and trumpeting how critical it is for society, we push "go make money and spend money" as the high road. That, is really really sad.
Finally, as I said above there is certainly discrimination. The US has more laws on the books than it needs to prosecute people for discrimination. The example from the US is a compliment on the woman's appearance. Really now, being "hot" and "good looking" can somehow make a person "helpless"? Don't tell that to models who make an exceptional living off of _just_ their looks (and make 100 times more than a man for the same job).
We all know "that puppet coder" right? Come on now, you know who I'm talking about!
DevOps is a specialization which used to be part of standard system administration. Developing custom tools to do custom tasks, in this case related to "Ops" (another specialty that used to be standard sysadmin territory). The term is a great dummy term, but really does not distinguish someone's ability to manage servers and infrastructure.
You seem to be the 'new guy' who preaches that everything should be run in a generic docker container, complaining about the 'old guy' who wants none. Meanwhile, most of the people worth their salt understand that sometimes generic works and sometimes it doesn't. If there was some magic perfect layout everyone would be using it. Instead, we have a huge array of both hardware and software being used in the market. Knowing a dictionary of buzz words does not make you good, and usually indicates just the opposite.
But not for that reason. Profits for some, fuck everyone else. That is the current mindset with too many people holding power. Nepotism, cronyism, and quid pro quot is the overwhelming number of rich people today. Oh I know, there has always been some of that but we used to teach morality. Morality is one of those things omitted in current schools, and you'll have to give less than that to try and expedite programmers. Here is the test: Ask a person today "If you are rich, how much money is too much money?" 30 years ago most would put the number in the couple million mark. Today, most people will laugh and tell you know such thing. So we have gone very far backwards in morality as a society, in a very short amount of time.
Could a school turn out "programmers" in 2 years? Sure, they will know enough to do some "programming" but not how to solve problems, and won't be able to communicate with people. Further, they will be ignorant to history so not know what to look out for in actions by the powerful which makes a large group of people fodder.
I heard something similar the other day, where 100 years ago people from Universities were well versed in every subject. They studied Math, Music, Chemistry, Languages, Art, Philosophy, and History. A person with a degree was very high valued. That was supposed to be the goal of Public Education and Government funding and control in Universities. And look where we have gone. Specialized degrees like "Sports Marketing" with little to no other knowledge to fall back on.
The officer ending the briefing said "and I was with my wife, Morgan Fairchild, whom I have seen naked".
Sorry, but it really was to a normal English speaker who can read at about an 8th grade reading level.
Your assertion requires ignoring a blatant fact. If even one station had a different viewpoint, it would gain _all_ of the people who didn't agree with the status quot. It's kind of like the people that claim politicians are just stupid. If that was true, there would be occasion where something positive happened instead of a constant and steady stream of "bad luck".
We can't have a society based on just morality,
Yes we can, and do. In fact we have operated just this way for centuries at least.
We developed a framework of laws WITH the agreement and acceptance of the society as a whole.
I don't think you thought that one out fully. What measure does society use to determine justice and establish laws? Morals.
Tyranny within a society appears when the laws everyone agrees with, suddenly become laws that they, by and large, do not agree with
You seem to have tyranny confused with something else.
Make no mistake - the TTP and TTIP treaties are tyrannical. They are kept secret from the citizens and passed without citizen input. The citizens are even ignored when they complain about the laws
No again, or at least not without a great stretch. Fascist or oligarchical? One or both of those, but not necessarily tyrannical. Some people know about it, negotiated the deal, and some people will benefit. It's not necessarily cruel to the majority, but there is no benefit to the majority either.
The last two parts are mostly correct, but I would not put too much faith in Russia arming rebels within the US. Russia has a lot to lose if our Republic behaves like it was designed and serves as a model to others. If the US is weaker, they are much stronger.
First, Carson's comment is about as loony as calling the police and expecting them to save you.
No need to defend Carson to me, I fully understand context and how it's being ignored for the "story". Read those comments again as snark.
Next, there is no or little media coverage because until recently there was nothing to cover outside of speculation. It's all been drafts leaked to the public via questionable sources and as we found out, a lot is different. I suspect we will end up continuing with little coverage because the IP provisions benefit the news corporations greatly.
You may be arguing with me (hard to tell), but are demonstrating the point I made. I have seen more information and investigation by Wikileaks, RT, and the Guardian than any of the 7 top "news" stations in the US. Just the rumors should have been enough to put real journalists in action. And no, it's not about ratings because imagine the ratings one station would be receiving if they had bothered to cover the story.
That is an outright lie.
I don't believe you understand cynicism and sarcasm. Go back and read it again with that in mind. You did the same thing with Carson, pretending that I attacked him. Half of your statement seems to agree, but then you argue about points that really were never made. I believe we are on the same page, you just didn't realize it.
You don't see it happening because very few people know about it. Do you think that the lack of media coverage is accidental? Oh I know, Ben Carson the Republican candidate said something loony about having to attack a gunman on a spree just to kill, so that has to take all 7 "News" stations days to investigate and discuss. TPPIP? Not a word could be heard on any of those stations about that one. Amazingly, the candidates are not discussing it or being quoted on that one either.
Oh but Donal Trump this and that, and of course everyone is just mean to Hillary because in all the time she served as Secretary of State she never ever sent or received even 1 classified email.
The game is rigged pretty heavily today. People would probably shit themselves if they really know how much they are being manipulated. But hell, Facebook does not show anything too important in their feeds, and Facebook taking over control of that was accidental too.
That rant is not really directed at you. It is directed at those who are now wearing that same tin-foil hat they accused others of wearing. I hope it fits them well.
I am telling you what the Windows 10 installer, from Microsoft, states in plain English. I have no idea how many hells of denial you are in to claim "Nuh Uh" when their own installation tells you what it does. Good grief, run a CUSTOM INSTALL. Or don't, but troll elsewhere.
I think what Microsoft may not be understanding, or may be trying to ignore, is that people aren't buying new hardware because their old hardware meets their needs.
Their old hardware meets their needs for now but wait till everyone and their brother wants portable augmented reality in their pocket and fully interactive VR rooms in their homes. I was hoping to see Linux become the dominant platform for this emerging scene but politics prevailed (Linux support from Oculus/Facebook has obviously taken a back seat to DirectX); there'll come a day in the not-so-distant future when families will be getting second mortgages to finance upgrades of their Microsoft Home Worldservers or whatnot...
Too much Science Fiction in your statement. VR has been out for quite a while in TVs. Sales of these never spiked, and people don't run out and buy 3d movies. Soldiers use some of the augmentation technology, but that is a very special case market. Joe Coder, Chef Jane, and Pat the Welder don't want or need VR and/or augmented information. Well, Joe the coder might want a nice eyeball display, but that is only for the pr0n and not because of work.
You, an anonymous person on Slashdot, are a higher authority than the people who make and market the software? Really? The installer has an option defaulted to "ON" which states very plainly "Send your keystrokes and typed information to Microsoft and third parties".
I don't need a 3rd party to interpret English, I speak it and read it just fine.
Note that this "option" gives no method of tuning or controlling what gets sent or to who it gets sent to, at least during the install.
No, I refuse to do the work for you. I gave you the method of proving my statement true. I have installed Windows 10 on 3 separate VMs so far (no physical machines) and each time used the custom option to disable that 'feature' (and several more) .
It is not a fringe minority on Slashdot by any stretch of the imagination. The Snowden leaks have had legal ramifications world wide and changed how US companies have to do business across the globe. Even the nanny State of California just had to sign a No SPY-ON-US bill because even the far left is afraid of the behavior demonstrated by the NSA. (And of course the turds holding office that are allowing and pushing this behavior.)
Because people were not out burning buildings and killing people you believe there was no impact? I'll give you that the legal process is not fast, but there has been some ground made. Not a lot, and not enough.. but some. Further, I'd almost consider what we see in politics as a mass riot. The entrenched are having a really hard time and I don't see it getting any easier for them (even though the media is pandering it's ass off)
What Google did and does is not the same as MS having a build in keylogger sending your Keystrokes to MS. I'll give you partial credit for that, but have to point out that you are completely ignoring how bad Windows 10 is. Why are they getting away with it so far? Well it's a few months in and it's a "free" OS. People have figured out how to turn things off already, and I'm sure this will get better over time.. That "better" has nothing to do with MS however, it's intelligent consumers circumventing MS.