I don't have that much problems with Cylance and Microsoft Defender does not detect a variety of issues in the real world. Obviously you don't need an AV if you're somewhat careful, but AV is to protect us from the dumbass clicking on every forward regardless of what you say. We've had "malware education" for about a decade at every turn and it just doesn't work.
The problem with NYC and Seattle is that they keep supporting and electing the SAME leftist cronies. All of NY is ran the same way (DeBlasio, Cuomo) because NYC and Albany keeps electing Blue even though practically the entire rest of the state is Red and they're running the highest taxes, the highest cronyism; Cuomo and DeBlasio both have had lawsuits in regards benefitting particular contractors they either own or have family that owns with high value contracts.
GLONASS is (slightly) better defended against jamming. It's not impossible but the signal frequency for each GLONASS satellite is not fixed like GPS. So you have to jam a broader band and since the satellites are built for this, they can switch frequencies at a dime.
Even GPS jamming isn't that effective for military installations unless you do it from space. Various anti-jamming techniques for military purposes involve having multiple receivers, some that would shield signals that come laterally (from the ground). Although that may prevent you from acquiring satellites nearer the horizon, it's a tradeoff.
The average life expectancy was 20-30 because so many died very young but people, once they got into puberty would happily survive till 40-50 or even 60-70 if they were rich.
In modern times? Even in olden times, sex with a 9 year old was a capital offense, the Church at one point set minimum age limits for sex and marriage, never at 9. Even in the most primitive culture, sex with what we now consider children is reserved only for those children that can procreate (girls have to have a menstruation) and even then, even Greek philosophers commented that young age had problems with "consent".
Exactly, since the EU Supreme Court just decided that the historic facts Islam is based on is "hate speech" there is no need for anyone to sign this agreement.
Tipping is the capitalist way of doing it - a good waiter doing 10 turnovers an hour (which is relatively common) can make $50-150/h - work 30h a week, you make $1000-3000/week - $4000-12,000/month - untaxed on top of your minimum wage.
Sure it's hard work and nobody actually wants to do it but it's a decent wage.
Chip+PIN is not invincible either. In the Netherlands there are gangs operating right now that can skim the information from Chip+PIN and the banks aren't willing or at least giving a really hard time to reimburse the fraud because "fraud is impossible". Moreover chip implementations in the EU are rampantly being abused especially across public transportation where people are cloning chips to get onto trains and busses.
The truth about EMV (and I've seen and implemented EMV systems across both US and EU) is that it was an 'old' standard by the time it came out. There were no less than 2 papers that discussed exploits in the EMV system prior to the chip implementations in the EU (and the EU went all out implementing chips for health care, public transportation, drivers licenses, passports and ID cards).
You can, right now, read plain text all the 'important' information from a chip (card number etc) simply by querying it's offline capabilities which is one of the primary ways fraud is happening - thieves implement a skimmer and do an offline authorization against the chip (basically: Hey, our Internet broke, here's a transaction for you to sign) and then a few days or even weeks later (some banks allow up to 6 weeks) they "finish" the transaction elsewhere.
It's not like the US wasn't violating the pact the day of signing. This was merely virtue signaling by an inept administration, nobody expects those to be upheld.
Perhaps you remember why people should be funding their retirement accounts - because people are bad at managing money that doesn't "do" anything and then you get situations where a company (or a bank in case of GWB) fails and the retirement funds get raided along the way.
Even commercial retirement accounts are supposed to have the entire expected value available at all times. Sure there are ways to doctor the numbers and invest, but the investments have to be non-risky, something the USPS and many others fail to do during the early 2000's causing the economy to eventually spiral out of control.
And $5.5B is not pre-funding, it's funding sufficiently so that existing employees that retire can get their promised money out, money that the USPS and others pre-LOST during the banking crisis.
They're all fine and well until you need to do some repairs or insulate. I have one of those, it's a pain in the neck to re-run electric which is necessary because the original was aluminum wiring as cheap as possible. You have to drill through 3 2x4's because the top of the house and the bottom of the house are separate parts. The whole house is 2x4 even though 2x6 has always been the standard in cold climates and even necessary for the length that they run as.
The Sears houses were cheaply built in the factory, they're not great by any standards, even 1970's.
If you need some kind of certification or piece of paper that says you know something, there are plenty of institutions that will let you take an exam, do those. In the end nobody cares where you got the rag, just that you have one if you're just starting out (and often we don't even care about that).
If you have 15 years of experience, why still pound on about your education, just demonstrate that you have kept up with certifications and/or on-the-job education.
Unless you want to break into upper management and need an MBA, there is not much reason to go into full-time school with 15y of experience, in some cases it may even demonstrate the reverse - that you needed an entry level class to get up to speed with current events, that's not a good signal.
Perhaps the problem isn't the field but it's you. You should've promoted yourself to manager several times over or grow in another company. If after 30 years you're still doing first level help desk, you've cemented yourself in.
I find that IT is getting simpler with my age, more and more packaged solutions to complex problems. You used to have to build and maintain a small network (Bind, dhcpd, sendmail, cyrus) with large data storage (eg. OpenSolaris, staged tape) with various layers of software (Samba, NFS, LDAP, Kerberos...) down from the kernel (tuning sysctl) to the user interface, now you just buy a box or download some software that does it all for you and then some or simply go out and buy whatever you don't have the time for doing yourself.
Sure back then you could buy a shrink-wrapped product too, but it was very expensive and then you were locked in (eg. NT or Novell), sometimes even tied to hardware (Sun, IBM) and trying to migrate out of it was weeks of headaches. Nowadays, you just point and click or buy a cheap service contract and you can migrate between Linux vendors, between hardware (or cloud) platforms and sometimes even between Windows and Linux vendors.
I can, I've worked in IT with people like that, the general fact is that those are people that have been left behind by just about everyone else but somehow kept under the radar of continuously turning inept management, because their growing inertia it's hard to get rid of them so a lot of inept managers don't even bother in the 6-24m they're in charge.
Kerberos with SSH is also bolted on. Often it's easier to use an existing library or migrate existing infrastructure by simply checking a "secure" box. Windows until 2017 did not have native SSH support, many systems still rely on (virtualized) mainframes with complex programs in COBOL where you certainly won't find SSH. Anonymous SSH doesn't exist either.
FTP is also more robust than SSH when it comes to establishing and maintaining connections and allows for point-to-point (eg external connections) TLS while internally backends continue to talk old-style FTP.
The security issues with FTP have over time resulted in standard practices like chrooting the daemon while SSH still runs standard as root.
The prank apps still exist on new platforms. Us old people had to get work done and lost interest to maintain these things on "our" platforms. The OS nowaday is a commodity the same as a Z80 and BIOS was to us is Windows and Mac to the new generation, it isn't interesting there, but go to Slack or Gab or whatever teenagers are using today and you'll see the same.
BtrFS is a steaming pile and hasn't gotten better over the years. Copying ZFS and making it GPL was a nice idea but the implementation was bad from the beginning.
Where ZFS was initially only a few hundred lines (and the core is still very clean and small), BtrFS came out of the gates at thousands of lines and tried to "fix" what COW and self-healing/aware filesystems inherently lack, a way of re-mapping data previously committed to disk while atomically maintaining the log.
In the end BtrFS has been superseded by either ZFS-on-Linux or XFS/EXT4 on SSD as part of a distributed file system that handles consistency at a higher level.
The states with the highest homelessness already give money, food stamps, housing etc to everyone under a certain income level. They also have massive amounts of government funded social programs to help people with housing and work.
Many European countries are going broke providing these social nets to just about anyone in their country (including illegal immigrants) and yet many live on the street, many have no housing etc. These are governments that historically have literally built and rented out for virtually nothing entire neighborhoods of houses through social programs - I grew up in one of those neighborhoods - yet beggars and homeless are lining the streets.
But who is going to generate the risky investments that are required to power an economy that can sustain a UBI? An economy without investment and risk is dead - look at the USSR for one. If you give everybody a guaranteed x, then you take the incentive away to do y to get x.
Millenials do expect compensation for nothing. These are the same people that say "I can't generate income from my degree in lesbian dance theory, I need my parents to get me free health care and we need UBI".
You get what you put in it. If you contribute to open source, you do it because it fixes your problems you have right now and you believe that sharing it will benefit you in some way (others will share with you, you get some recognition etc). You are free to start up an open source company and take the million dollar risk that it will fail. You are also free to simply do a day job for a company and guarantee that you get paid. That's the difference between entrepreneurs and employees - one is sure to get paid at the end of the day, the other one not.
You don't even need to do that, you just need to buy futures in helium if you think the price is going up. GazProm thinks the helium use crisis may emerge in 2030, so you'll be waiting for a while for your profits to come in. Right now, Helium is cheap and the market has reacted appropriately by raising the prices slightly in response to the looming crisis 20 years down the road but it's nowhere near the levels to start capping and storing Helium today.
And yes, the tech is responding, new MRI's are completely closed loop systems and can quench without losing (all) their helium.
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I don't have that much problems with Cylance and Microsoft Defender does not detect a variety of issues in the real world. Obviously you don't need an AV if you're somewhat careful, but AV is to protect us from the dumbass clicking on every forward regardless of what you say. We've had "malware education" for about a decade at every turn and it just doesn't work.
The problem with NYC and Seattle is that they keep supporting and electing the SAME leftist cronies. All of NY is ran the same way (DeBlasio, Cuomo) because NYC and Albany keeps electing Blue even though practically the entire rest of the state is Red and they're running the highest taxes, the highest cronyism; Cuomo and DeBlasio both have had lawsuits in regards benefitting particular contractors they either own or have family that owns with high value contracts.
No they don't. Leftists have issues with facts and cognitive dissonance.
GLONASS is (slightly) better defended against jamming. It's not impossible but the signal frequency for each GLONASS satellite is not fixed like GPS. So you have to jam a broader band and since the satellites are built for this, they can switch frequencies at a dime.
Even GPS jamming isn't that effective for military installations unless you do it from space. Various anti-jamming techniques for military purposes involve having multiple receivers, some that would shield signals that come laterally (from the ground). Although that may prevent you from acquiring satellites nearer the horizon, it's a tradeoff.
The average life expectancy was 20-30 because so many died very young but people, once they got into puberty would happily survive till 40-50 or even 60-70 if they were rich.
Wow, leftists are now defending pedophiles.
In modern times? Even in olden times, sex with a 9 year old was a capital offense, the Church at one point set minimum age limits for sex and marriage, never at 9. Even in the most primitive culture, sex with what we now consider children is reserved only for those children that can procreate (girls have to have a menstruation) and even then, even Greek philosophers commented that young age had problems with "consent".
Exactly, since the EU Supreme Court just decided that the historic facts Islam is based on is "hate speech" there is no need for anyone to sign this agreement.
Yet across the world credit card fraud has been increasing, not decreasing, pretty much at the same rate.
Tipping is the capitalist way of doing it - a good waiter doing 10 turnovers an hour (which is relatively common) can make $50-150/h - work 30h a week, you make $1000-3000/week - $4000-12,000/month - untaxed on top of your minimum wage.
Sure it's hard work and nobody actually wants to do it but it's a decent wage.
Chip+PIN is not invincible either. In the Netherlands there are gangs operating right now that can skim the information from Chip+PIN and the banks aren't willing or at least giving a really hard time to reimburse the fraud because "fraud is impossible". Moreover chip implementations in the EU are rampantly being abused especially across public transportation where people are cloning chips to get onto trains and busses.
The truth about EMV (and I've seen and implemented EMV systems across both US and EU) is that it was an 'old' standard by the time it came out. There were no less than 2 papers that discussed exploits in the EMV system prior to the chip implementations in the EU (and the EU went all out implementing chips for health care, public transportation, drivers licenses, passports and ID cards).
You can, right now, read plain text all the 'important' information from a chip (card number etc) simply by querying it's offline capabilities which is one of the primary ways fraud is happening - thieves implement a skimmer and do an offline authorization against the chip (basically: Hey, our Internet broke, here's a transaction for you to sign) and then a few days or even weeks later (some banks allow up to 6 weeks) they "finish" the transaction elsewhere.
It's not like the US wasn't violating the pact the day of signing. This was merely virtue signaling by an inept administration, nobody expects those to be upheld.
Perhaps you remember why people should be funding their retirement accounts - because people are bad at managing money that doesn't "do" anything and then you get situations where a company (or a bank in case of GWB) fails and the retirement funds get raided along the way.
Even commercial retirement accounts are supposed to have the entire expected value available at all times. Sure there are ways to doctor the numbers and invest, but the investments have to be non-risky, something the USPS and many others fail to do during the early 2000's causing the economy to eventually spiral out of control.
And $5.5B is not pre-funding, it's funding sufficiently so that existing employees that retire can get their promised money out, money that the USPS and others pre-LOST during the banking crisis.
They're all fine and well until you need to do some repairs or insulate. I have one of those, it's a pain in the neck to re-run electric which is necessary because the original was aluminum wiring as cheap as possible. You have to drill through 3 2x4's because the top of the house and the bottom of the house are separate parts. The whole house is 2x4 even though 2x6 has always been the standard in cold climates and even necessary for the length that they run as.
The Sears houses were cheaply built in the factory, they're not great by any standards, even 1970's.
If you need some kind of certification or piece of paper that says you know something, there are plenty of institutions that will let you take an exam, do those. In the end nobody cares where you got the rag, just that you have one if you're just starting out (and often we don't even care about that).
If you have 15 years of experience, why still pound on about your education, just demonstrate that you have kept up with certifications and/or on-the-job education.
Unless you want to break into upper management and need an MBA, there is not much reason to go into full-time school with 15y of experience, in some cases it may even demonstrate the reverse - that you needed an entry level class to get up to speed with current events, that's not a good signal.
Perhaps the problem isn't the field but it's you. You should've promoted yourself to manager several times over or grow in another company. If after 30 years you're still doing first level help desk, you've cemented yourself in.
I find that IT is getting simpler with my age, more and more packaged solutions to complex problems. You used to have to build and maintain a small network (Bind, dhcpd, sendmail, cyrus) with large data storage (eg. OpenSolaris, staged tape) with various layers of software (Samba, NFS, LDAP, Kerberos ...) down from the kernel (tuning sysctl) to the user interface, now you just buy a box or download some software that does it all for you and then some or simply go out and buy whatever you don't have the time for doing yourself.
Sure back then you could buy a shrink-wrapped product too, but it was very expensive and then you were locked in (eg. NT or Novell), sometimes even tied to hardware (Sun, IBM) and trying to migrate out of it was weeks of headaches. Nowadays, you just point and click or buy a cheap service contract and you can migrate between Linux vendors, between hardware (or cloud) platforms and sometimes even between Windows and Linux vendors.
I can, I've worked in IT with people like that, the general fact is that those are people that have been left behind by just about everyone else but somehow kept under the radar of continuously turning inept management, because their growing inertia it's hard to get rid of them so a lot of inept managers don't even bother in the 6-24m they're in charge.
Kerberos with SSH is also bolted on. Often it's easier to use an existing library or migrate existing infrastructure by simply checking a "secure" box. Windows until 2017 did not have native SSH support, many systems still rely on (virtualized) mainframes with complex programs in COBOL where you certainly won't find SSH. Anonymous SSH doesn't exist either.
FTP is also more robust than SSH when it comes to establishing and maintaining connections and allows for point-to-point (eg external connections) TLS while internally backends continue to talk old-style FTP.
The security issues with FTP have over time resulted in standard practices like chrooting the daemon while SSH still runs standard as root.
Or FTPS, you can create TLS channels over "modern" FTP.
He's still a prick about it. This most definitely will hurt someone's feelings. But it's okay since he bowed to the SJW idol a few weeks ago.
The prank apps still exist on new platforms. Us old people had to get work done and lost interest to maintain these things on "our" platforms. The OS nowaday is a commodity the same as a Z80 and BIOS was to us is Windows and Mac to the new generation, it isn't interesting there, but go to Slack or Gab or whatever teenagers are using today and you'll see the same.
BtrFS is a steaming pile and hasn't gotten better over the years. Copying ZFS and making it GPL was a nice idea but the implementation was bad from the beginning.
Where ZFS was initially only a few hundred lines (and the core is still very clean and small), BtrFS came out of the gates at thousands of lines and tried to "fix" what COW and self-healing/aware filesystems inherently lack, a way of re-mapping data previously committed to disk while atomically maintaining the log.
In the end BtrFS has been superseded by either ZFS-on-Linux or XFS/EXT4 on SSD as part of a distributed file system that handles consistency at a higher level.
The states with the highest homelessness already give money, food stamps, housing etc to everyone under a certain income level. They also have massive amounts of government funded social programs to help people with housing and work.
Many European countries are going broke providing these social nets to just about anyone in their country (including illegal immigrants) and yet many live on the street, many have no housing etc. These are governments that historically have literally built and rented out for virtually nothing entire neighborhoods of houses through social programs - I grew up in one of those neighborhoods - yet beggars and homeless are lining the streets.
But who is going to generate the risky investments that are required to power an economy that can sustain a UBI? An economy without investment and risk is dead - look at the USSR for one. If you give everybody a guaranteed x, then you take the incentive away to do y to get x.
Millenials do expect compensation for nothing. These are the same people that say "I can't generate income from my degree in lesbian dance theory, I need my parents to get me free health care and we need UBI".
You get what you put in it. If you contribute to open source, you do it because it fixes your problems you have right now and you believe that sharing it will benefit you in some way (others will share with you, you get some recognition etc). You are free to start up an open source company and take the million dollar risk that it will fail. You are also free to simply do a day job for a company and guarantee that you get paid. That's the difference between entrepreneurs and employees - one is sure to get paid at the end of the day, the other one not.
You don't even need to do that, you just need to buy futures in helium if you think the price is going up. GazProm thinks the helium use crisis may emerge in 2030, so you'll be waiting for a while for your profits to come in. Right now, Helium is cheap and the market has reacted appropriately by raising the prices slightly in response to the looming crisis 20 years down the road but it's nowhere near the levels to start capping and storing Helium today.
And yes, the tech is responding, new MRI's are completely closed loop systems and can quench without losing (all) their helium.