I mean, I've been seeing a lot of columns/op-eds/blogs lately about how California and/or SF & Silicon Valley sucks. This article is tame, but it hits on every single political talking point -- much like a back-handed compliment. When you have to bring up employer-sponsored shuttle buses (remember vanpools?) and a hypothetical future earthquake, you've got nothing.
California just raised $18 billion surplus in tax revenue from a booming economy and from raising taxes -- and they're arguing about how much debt to pay off. OTOH Kansas cut taxes and is getting close to $500 million in the hole with high unemployment -- and they're arguing about how much more taxes to cut. Missouri's governor just vetoed a plan similar to Kansas' basically saying KS is crazy -- now the legislature wants to impeach him.
Unemployment is down nationwide and 288,000 jobs were gained this month. If your state is still in a recession, it's your own state's leaders.
I guess there's a narrative that people have to tell themselves while watching success from the viewpoint of the bottom of the pit they dug themselves.
Programmers are hired straight out of college and can be outsourced and located anywhere on the planet. You can never compete with the 22 year-old who was taught with the latest programming language fad, and will work for peanuts. You, on the other hand, will have to learn the language du jour and have demonstrable experience with said language. Without a degree or certification your resume will be thrown into the trash without even a glance to your job history. In fact, your job history aside from your lack of degree, is the biggest thing holding you back. QA is not respected anywhere.
For Linux and VMware you can get certifications. Become a sysadmin and you'll have better luck at getting a job, keeping a job, and getting another job when that time comes. Maybe being a cable-monkey and setting up networks isn't as glamorous, but when the chips are down you can't outsource the need to have a human near the racks. And in the datacenters, you're always getting to work on the latest, and you're not stagnating. If anything, having 20 years deploying networks is more marketable than 20 years of writing C -- anyone can "write" C, not anyone can get the network or storage array back online.
Even the author of my linked article has doubts. If I wasn't making money, I'd try to limit my expenditures (bandwidth costs, etc.) too. It's not surprising to me.
Exactly. I get mod points the night before this article hits, and I'm not wasting them here. But, hey, it's a great mod trap for everyone else. I'll go mod where the amount of BS from both sides doesn't remind me of a Dirty Jobs episode.
While we're having wild fantasies, I wish I had a time machine to go slap the idealistic hippies who originally designed the fledgeling network with practically no verification or security ON PURPOSE.
Speaking of wild fantasies about idealist notions... Ever wanted to be paid for work that wasn't asked for or justified at the time?
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Whose attack are we defending from here? And who's being attacked? When you say there's no commercial value and only a few technophiles will use it, do you also include well-funded adversaries and governments in the commercial category -- or are they the technophiles?
I'm sure we all can think of many applications where it's a lot easier to attempt interception than go after the endpoints which would be heavily guarded and/or have highly trained personnel who would die rather than divulge information.
Obviously Quantum Cryptography isn't for individuals. I don't believe it was ever touted as such. But there are many technologies that are in use today that are very expensive and not meant for individuals. Probably the biggest example, literally, I can think of, is an aircraft carrier -- are you going to tell me it isn't worthy just because it's somewhat easier to sneak onto it a small boarding party than torpedo/bomb and sink without early detection?
I simply think you're mistaken in your dismissal. Although, I'm surprised you didn't think about the other scenarios besides a stake. Anyone using QC isn't going to use the equivalent of a stake for security. QC is more like an aircraft carrier and not a better deadbolt.
I'd have to say that a lot of the media has turned toward the more violent aspect, as that is somehow more acceptable to the TV and movie censors than sex. Women have breasts... OMG! But cut her head off and watch the blood spray... meh.
Damn, when I look back to my childhood, my father took me to a lot of Rated-R movies which were merely sexual and hardly violent at all. Of course, I was also riding public transit or walking (by myself) by 10 to get to and from school.
As a seller, you do get $2000 of protection if you only accept Paypal and you only ship via UPS tracking using what's called a confirmed Paypal address. Basically you have to prove that you are at that address via a major credit card, or by snail mail.
So what?
Unless your box is transparent, or the UPS driver sticks around as a witness, the buyer can just claim that you shipped him something else. How do you prove that you didn't? Unless again, UPS watches you pack the box and acts as a witness for what went into the box. Even then, the item may look the same but not be exactly what was ordered.
And is the $2000 protection unconditional? I doubt that PayPal will just take your word every single time.
I'm not saying you personally have done anything wrong.
If anything, programming needs to be easier, so more people would do it then we could have more solutions to choose from. A parallel brute force approach with selection can produce better solutions for everybody.
We already have that in a wide range -- VB, shell, etc., on up to C.
If you want easy, it's there. But then you just shift the bugs and "features" out of your code into someone else's. I'm not saying one is necessarily better, since requirements differ. But I don't think the number of bugs has been reduced. You just can't get any easier than some of the "languages" that are offered, so that's not the problem.
Slashdot Mirror
Reason, Guardian, Washington Post...
Cite a source that doesn't just make stuff up.
I read the letter that the senators wrote, and it doesn't mention anything even close to what this submitter is claiming.
Why is slashdot approving tinfoil-hatter submissions now? That's the bigger story.
I mean, I've been seeing a lot of columns/op-eds/blogs lately about how California and/or SF & Silicon Valley sucks. This article is tame, but it hits on every single political talking point -- much like a back-handed compliment. When you have to bring up employer-sponsored shuttle buses (remember vanpools?) and a hypothetical future earthquake, you've got nothing.
California just raised $18 billion surplus in tax revenue from a booming economy and from raising taxes -- and they're arguing about how much debt to pay off. OTOH Kansas cut taxes and is getting close to $500 million in the hole with high unemployment -- and they're arguing about how much more taxes to cut. Missouri's governor just vetoed a plan similar to Kansas' basically saying KS is crazy -- now the legislature wants to impeach him.
Unemployment is down nationwide and 288,000 jobs were gained this month. If your state is still in a recession, it's your own state's leaders.
I guess there's a narrative that people have to tell themselves while watching success from the viewpoint of the bottom of the pit they dug themselves.
It's also campaign season.
You're forgetting that you will still need a network to reach your "outsourced" network.
Take a look at the job postings for the latest word salad.
However, if you want the du jour of the du jour, I drive by a billboard every week that advertises something to do with Hadoop.
Programmers are hired straight out of college and can be outsourced and located anywhere on the planet. You can never compete with the 22 year-old who was taught with the latest programming language fad, and will work for peanuts. You, on the other hand, will have to learn the language du jour and have demonstrable experience with said language. Without a degree or certification your resume will be thrown into the trash without even a glance to your job history. In fact, your job history aside from your lack of degree, is the biggest thing holding you back. QA is not respected anywhere.
For Linux and VMware you can get certifications. Become a sysadmin and you'll have better luck at getting a job, keeping a job, and getting another job when that time comes. Maybe being a cable-monkey and setting up networks isn't as glamorous, but when the chips are down you can't outsource the need to have a human near the racks. And in the datacenters, you're always getting to work on the latest, and you're not stagnating. If anything, having 20 years deploying networks is more marketable than 20 years of writing C -- anyone can "write" C, not anyone can get the network or storage array back online.
Try that first. It's cheaper than moving.
Does Twitter make money? I'm not trolling, I'm serious. A quick search yields this article:
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/200635/twitter_to_promote_marketers_special_offers.html
Even the author of my linked article has doubts. If I wasn't making money, I'd try to limit my expenditures (bandwidth costs, etc.) too. It's not surprising to me.
So how do they make money?
Are any of your friends ones that you don't see regularly? Maybe they just simply want to keep up with you.
That's amusing, considering that your argument is a correlation vs. causation argument in itself.
Then how about completely understanding women?
What's this Admin For A Day achievement?
Yes. Pictures. Videos. "All day" is your hyperbole to make an operation you are ignorant of seem less important.
Exactly. I get mod points the night before this article hits, and I'm not wasting them here. But, hey, it's a great mod trap for everyone else. I'll go mod where the amount of BS from both sides doesn't remind me of a Dirty Jobs episode.
Posted "nymously" so you know I mean it.
Oh wow. Moderators new here?
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:P At least NYCL will get it.
+5 for the opposite puppet joke last year.
You finally heeded my advice and used a puppet to post your story instead of shameless self-promotion.
But seriously, thanks! ;)
1) You were moderated as troll because of the strawman argument.
2) Missile defense is for shooting down missiles -- anyone's missiles.
[citation needed]
This entire discussion, even baited with the category, goes by with 600+ comments, and not *one* reference to Hardware?
Speaking of wild fantasies about idealist notions... Ever wanted to be paid for work that wasn't asked for or justified at the time?
Timecube.
Unique and a waste of time.
Bruce,
Whose attack are we defending from here? And who's being attacked? When you say there's no commercial value and only a few technophiles will use it, do you also include well-funded adversaries and governments in the commercial category -- or are they the technophiles?
I'm sure we all can think of many applications where it's a lot easier to attempt interception than go after the endpoints which would be heavily guarded and/or have highly trained personnel who would die rather than divulge information.
Obviously Quantum Cryptography isn't for individuals. I don't believe it was ever touted as such. But there are many technologies that are in use today that are very expensive and not meant for individuals. Probably the biggest example, literally, I can think of, is an aircraft carrier -- are you going to tell me it isn't worthy just because it's somewhat easier to sneak onto it a small boarding party than torpedo/bomb and sink without early detection?
I simply think you're mistaken in your dismissal. Although, I'm surprised you didn't think about the other scenarios besides a stake. Anyone using QC isn't going to use the equivalent of a stake for security. QC is more like an aircraft carrier and not a better deadbolt.
I'd have to say that a lot of the media has turned toward the more violent aspect, as that is somehow more acceptable to the TV and movie censors than sex. Women have breasts... OMG! But cut her head off and watch the blood spray... meh.
Damn, when I look back to my childhood, my father took me to a lot of Rated-R movies which were merely sexual and hardly violent at all. Of course, I was also riding public transit or walking (by myself) by 10 to get to and from school.
...using Earth as the counterweight. Brilliant!
As a seller, you do get $2000 of protection if you only accept Paypal and you only ship via UPS tracking using what's called a confirmed Paypal address. Basically you have to prove that you are at that address via a major credit card, or by snail mail.
So what?
Unless your box is transparent, or the UPS driver sticks around as a witness, the buyer can just claim that you shipped him something else. How do you prove that you didn't? Unless again, UPS watches you pack the box and acts as a witness for what went into the box. Even then, the item may look the same but not be exactly what was ordered.
And is the $2000 protection unconditional? I doubt that PayPal will just take your word every single time.
I'm not saying you personally have done anything wrong.
EBay/PayPal holding the money doesn't solve where the buyer gets the item but claims he didn't, or where the seller ships something else.
It's still he said, she said. People on both sides will still get ripped off. The only thing different is the extra fees by using PayPal.
If anything, programming needs to be easier, so more people would do it then we could have more solutions to choose from. A parallel brute force approach with selection can produce better solutions for everybody.
We already have that in a wide range -- VB, shell, etc., on up to C.
If you want easy, it's there. But then you just shift the bugs and "features" out of your code into someone else's. I'm not saying one is necessarily better, since requirements differ. But I don't think the number of bugs has been reduced. You just can't get any easier than some of the "languages" that are offered, so that's not the problem.
People being prone to error is the problem.