"I watch people sitting at work posting on Facebook and the realization is that their employer is literally paying them to generate content for Facebook."
Since those people is most probably using company-provided devices and bandwith, if it's really such a big nuisance for the company, they could easily block facebook access, couldn't they?
So, those companies are either moronic -therefore deserving what they get, or don't mind that kind of usage -therefore, why should you bother?
"He won because he spoke up on behalf of the workers who lost their jobs to outsourcing, due to free trade deals and H1-B1 programs and illegal immigration that favor big business at the expense of the middle class."
Still, that very people that voted Trump *love* living in a capitalist country and wouldn't live anywhere else but in a capitalist country. What's the surprise than in a capitalist country, those with the biggest capital set the rules?
So, despite of wanting to live in a capitalist country they vote for someone that allegedly will sit down with big business to control their behaviour and set them on a plan for the higher end of population well-being. Which is political system that already has a name: fascism.
"Your proposal should require a constitutional amendment, for it fundamentally changes our nation, in a way that was conceived and intentional at its founding."
Maybe it's time, then.
For all practical purposes, USA is no more a union of states, but a single nation. And it has worked well for them: a single 300 million-plus unity of language, will and market, which, along with being geographically quite isolated, is the basis of USA success. And you'll need all your size and push to resist China.
What your founding fathers were thinking about, you can see in the real world: it is the European Union and you can see is not working out that well.
"I believe it's a Canadian hospital, so its executives might have a different sort of accountability. I hope."
They most probably don't. And even if they do, that won't be the case for long. The nice thing about globalization is that it is a race to the bottom. In this case it translates to -how we Canadians can be competitive if our executives have higher accountability than their USA counterparts?
"I was just reading a Facebook comment from a friend about a hospital basically shutting down... presumably they had a dependency on something "in the cloud".
Now, I'll certainly grant that said hospital fucked up beyond belief by having that dependency, and I'd hope that heads will roll over it, but the impact seems to go beyond mere entertainment."
Wont' happen. Executives *love* "the cloud" because, among other things, it can very effectively deflect blame. It was not me, it's been DynDNS, a reputable actor in the industry, who would have expected it! (by "who" being other executives, of course, not somebody with actual technical acumen). So the most that will happen is that they'll go from this sole provider for that service to another one with even higher "corporate image".
"The proper way to thwart these kinds of attacks is to have a method of detecting them and then cutting off people who are making an inordinate amount of those kinds of packets"
Unless there're no inordinate amount of those kinds of packets but an inordinate amount of clients requesting usual amounts of packets each. That's the first D on DDoS, after all. How can you distinguish a malicious DDoS from the Slashdot-effect of yold?
On the other hand, this was not a DDoS attack targeted against the servers themselves but against the DNS that allow clients to find them.
"The solution to a coordinated attack is a coordinated response."
It really depends on the nature of the attack. History shows that against a coordinate attack just entrenching may very well be the proper counter.
"I abhor any form of collectivism, socialism, fascism, communism or government in general."
Yes we know.
Still, it was "government oppression to steal from anybody" what took fascism away last time it seriously rose in the forties as it was "government oppression to steal from anybody" what sustained the cold war which avoided you from being oppressed by communism, and it was "government oppression to steal from anybody" what founded the basis of the Internet you use to air your rants.
"If it's not implemented that way, then the inevitable result of UBI is simply inflation."
Exactly that. Money, when working properly is equivalent to some sum of goods and services. Money without that backing of good and services is just inflation.
But USA is so afraid of anything resembling "communism" even in the slightest that something as obvious as that simply can't go through their skulls. You can tell that quite a lot of countries are half way there, as they already have socialized education and healthcare, with the result of lower social and economic inequalities and a healthier population with longer live expectancies (on top of all that which is already socialized everywhere so they don't even notice like defense, social peace, justice, etc.), so it's "only" a matter of adding food and shelter to the equation -they still will say something like that is utterly impossible.
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
"The only way this will get fixed is when internet providers get serious about IPv6 security and migration"
So, the problem is stated as being no motivation for the IoT producer to spend on securing their devices and then your proposed solution is for a third party to do something it is even less motivated to do?
"The shifting addresses could only apply to internal systems. Externally available systems (like, say, web servers) have to have known addresses for access"
Internally available systems have to have known addresses for access too: "a specific IP address may be a Windows box one moment, a Linux box another, a mainframe another." funny if you try to get a CIFS mount point out of your mainframe instead of your Windows server.
"You can't trademark sound or lyric because they belong to copyright category."
Of course you can trade mark a song or lyric. All the requirement is for them being part of your Trade Mark. See how easy is it?
On the other hand, what I don't understand is the justification of this rule -unless it has been misrepresented in the summary: the problem for the ring-ring sound to be trademarked by this company cannot be that it is "too boring" (or even commonplace) but that it -by being both common place and previous *related* art, can't in any way or form be related to the trade mark requestor. I.e.: you see the Nike "smiling" logo and you think "Nike", even "just do it", despite being a common phrase, was context-less before Nike trademarked it but the standard ring tone is both common *and* bound to a known specific circumstance (a phone call) and, to add insult to injury, this company tried to tie it to its own corporate branding *in that very same realm*.
The question is, who's the stupid executive officer that even tried it? -and who's the brilliant (but sociopathically cynic) attorney that found the way to get apart said executive from his company's money that easy?
"So how to "ordinary" employees (even ones from a recruitment company) know what qualities to look for in a C-level? Do they understand the legal obligations that C-levelship brings."
Probably not. But looking at the aftermath of last economical crash, it seems neither do the judicial system up to the supreme court.
"The main job of the CEO isn't the administrative details [...] The CEO's main job is leadership."
And that's the basis for the abhorrent situation of most business. No, sir, it's not all about "leadership" (a word so vacuous that takes any real responsibility out). The E in CEO stands for Executive.
"Clearly not all CxOs are utter mongs or there'd be no companies left."
Think for a moment about what you said.
Get it?
Not yet?
Ok, I'll write down for you: If all (or a vast majority) CxOs were utter mongs, there would be exactly the same companies that there are now. It is if only a reduced percentage of CxOs were utter mongs that they would be crushed away by their rivals but then, we see evidence that there're at least a reduced percentage of CxOs being utter mongs. See now what does that mean?
"There is evidence that psychopaths actually make better leaders"
Maybe you are right, but that's part of the problem. Hitler was surely a great leader. The problem "merely" was where he was leading to.
"They will dispassionately make the hard decisions for the good of the organization"
For the good... !? Wait, wait, wait... have you read what you yourself wrote down? Why the damn hell in hell would a psychopath (you probably were thinking about sociopaths, but anyway) think at all on the good of any organization? If he were, he'd be neither psychopath nor sociopath to start with!
"You're missing it. In history, if someone had "$1mil" it was in gold or silver or something actually worth something."
Because gold holds any intrinsic value but the one that people exchanging it want to consider, yes.
"someone with $1mil "in the bank" just means someone that has the number 1,000,000 strored in a database somewhere or possibly a bunch of worthless pieces of paper with $100 printed on them.."
As long as someone wants to give value to those pieces of paper, or those registries in a database, they hold as much real value as it has any amount of gold. Did you read my previous message, like the part of there being 700 million people wanting to give value to them?
You think that because money is a fiat currency it also happened by fiat. You'd better open a Economic History book -heck, even The Wealth of Nations would be good enough to start with, to try to understand what money is or isn't or why money looks the way it looks and -specifically, why there's no big difference using gold, paper or ones are zeroes in a database to that respect.
Slashdot Mirror
"We did a homeopathic wart treatment for my son. It worked great, but the $200 'tincture' was basically just alcohol with some herbs and shit in it."
If it was really an homeopathic scam, then no, you didn't get "some herbs and shit in it", just pure alcohol.
"I watch people sitting at work posting on Facebook and the realization is that their employer is literally paying them to generate content for Facebook."
Since those people is most probably using company-provided devices and bandwith, if it's really such a big nuisance for the company, they could easily block facebook access, couldn't they?
So, those companies are either moronic -therefore deserving what they get, or don't mind that kind of usage -therefore, why should you bother?
"Maybe if you learn Russian language and culture you would realize that Russian people are disinterested completely in conquering Europe."
That's not the danger.
The real danger is that you now have a nutter controlling Russian nuclear arsenal and another nutter controlling USA nuclear arsenal.
"He won because he spoke up on behalf of the workers who lost their jobs to outsourcing, due to free trade deals and H1-B1 programs and illegal immigration that favor big business at the expense of the middle class."
Still, that very people that voted Trump *love* living in a capitalist country and wouldn't live anywhere else but in a capitalist country. What's the surprise than in a capitalist country, those with the biggest capital set the rules?
So, despite of wanting to live in a capitalist country they vote for someone that allegedly will sit down with big business to control their behaviour and set them on a plan for the higher end of population well-being. Which is political system that already has a name: fascism.
"Your proposal should require a constitutional amendment, for it fundamentally changes our nation, in a way that was conceived and intentional at its founding."
Maybe it's time, then.
For all practical purposes, USA is no more a union of states, but a single nation. And it has worked well for them: a single 300 million-plus unity of language, will and market, which, along with being geographically quite isolated, is the basis of USA success. And you'll need all your size and push to resist China.
What your founding fathers were thinking about, you can see in the real world: it is the European Union and you can see is not working out that well.
"THe Romans said something like that 5 centuries before the Vikings"
And Spartans, as Plutarch recalls, another five centuries before Romans.
"I believe it's a Canadian hospital, so its executives might have a different sort of accountability. I hope."
They most probably don't. And even if they do, that won't be the case for long. The nice thing about globalization is that it is a race to the bottom. In this case it translates to -how we Canadians can be competitive if our executives have higher accountability than their USA counterparts?
"I was just reading a Facebook comment from a friend about a hospital basically shutting down... presumably they had a dependency on something "in the cloud".
Now, I'll certainly grant that said hospital fucked up beyond belief by having that dependency, and I'd hope that heads will roll over it, but the impact seems to go beyond mere entertainment."
Wont' happen. Executives *love* "the cloud" because, among other things, it can very effectively deflect blame. It was not me, it's been DynDNS, a reputable actor in the industry, who would have expected it! (by "who" being other executives, of course, not somebody with actual technical acumen). So the most that will happen is that they'll go from this sole provider for that service to another one with even higher "corporate image".
"The proper way to thwart these kinds of attacks is to have a method of detecting them and then cutting off people who are making an inordinate amount of those kinds of packets"
Unless there're no inordinate amount of those kinds of packets but an inordinate amount of clients requesting usual amounts of packets each. That's the first D on DDoS, after all. How can you distinguish a malicious DDoS from the Slashdot-effect of yold?
On the other hand, this was not a DDoS attack targeted against the servers themselves but against the DNS that allow clients to find them.
"The solution to a coordinated attack is a coordinated response."
It really depends on the nature of the attack. History shows that against a coordinate attack just entrenching may very well be the proper counter.
When the wise man points to the moon...
"I'm not really sure you can legitimately classify providing the necessities of life (which is the goal of a UBI) as a "reward"."
No. The goal of UBI is to provide INCOME. That is, money.
If they wanted to provide for the necessities of life (namely education, healthcare, food and shelter) they would be proposing so.
Except they don't. Think deeply about why.
"I abhor any form of collectivism, socialism, fascism, communism or government in general."
Yes we know.
Still, it was "government oppression to steal from anybody" what took fascism away last time it seriously rose in the forties as it was "government oppression to steal from anybody" what sustained the cold war which avoided you from being oppressed by communism, and it was "government oppression to steal from anybody" what founded the basis of the Internet you use to air your rants.
"If it's not implemented that way, then the inevitable result of UBI is simply inflation."
Exactly that. Money, when working properly is equivalent to some sum of goods and services. Money without that backing of good and services is just inflation.
But USA is so afraid of anything resembling "communism" even in the slightest that something as obvious as that simply can't go through their skulls. You can tell that quite a lot of countries are half way there, as they already have socialized education and healthcare, with the result of lower social and economic inequalities and a healthier population with longer live expectancies (on top of all that which is already socialized everywhere so they don't even notice like defense, social peace, justice, etc.), so it's "only" a matter of adding food and shelter to the equation -they still will say something like that is utterly impossible.
In other words:
"Do We Need To Plan For a Future Without Jobs"
Maybe yes.
"And Should We Resort To Universal Basic Income?"
Surely not.
ADDERALL
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
"You host your own as in you have a physical machine in your house"
I host it at home.
"Most ISPs here block tcp25"
That means a minority doesn't.
Vote with your wallet.
"The only way this will get fixed is when internet providers get serious about IPv6 security and migration"
So, the problem is stated as being no motivation for the IoT producer to spend on securing their devices and then your proposed solution is for a third party to do something it is even less motivated to do?
Brilliant.
"The shifting addresses could only apply to internal systems. Externally available systems (like, say, web servers) have to have known addresses for access"
Internally available systems have to have known addresses for access too: "a specific IP address may be a Windows box one moment, a Linux box another, a mainframe another." funny if you try to get a CIFS mount point out of your mainframe instead of your Windows server.
"they are not only disconnected from the outside world, it doesn't exist to them. I mean, they know it is there, but they know nothing about it."
Well, that also fits your standard American fellow, doesn't it?
"You can't trademark sound or lyric because they belong to copyright category."
Of course you can trade mark a song or lyric. All the requirement is for them being part of your Trade Mark. See how easy is it?
On the other hand, what I don't understand is the justification of this rule -unless it has been misrepresented in the summary: the problem for the ring-ring sound to be trademarked by this company cannot be that it is "too boring" (or even commonplace) but that it -by being both common place and previous *related* art, can't in any way or form be related to the trade mark requestor. I.e.: you see the Nike "smiling" logo and you think "Nike", even "just do it", despite being a common phrase, was context-less before Nike trademarked it but the standard ring tone is both common *and* bound to a known specific circumstance (a phone call) and, to add insult to injury, this company tried to tie it to its own corporate branding *in that very same realm*.
The question is, who's the stupid executive officer that even tried it? -and who's the brilliant (but sociopathically cynic) attorney that found the way to get apart said executive from his company's money that easy?
"So how to "ordinary" employees (even ones from a recruitment company) know what qualities to look for in a C-level? Do they understand the legal obligations that C-levelship brings."
Probably not. But looking at the aftermath of last economical crash, it seems neither do the judicial system up to the supreme court.
"The main job of the CEO isn't the administrative details [...] The CEO's main job is leadership."
And that's the basis for the abhorrent situation of most business. No, sir, it's not all about "leadership" (a word so vacuous that takes any real responsibility out). The E in CEO stands for Executive.
"Clearly not all CxOs are utter mongs or there'd be no companies left."
Think for a moment about what you said.
Get it?
Not yet?
Ok, I'll write down for you: If all (or a vast majority) CxOs were utter mongs, there would be exactly the same companies that there are now. It is if only a reduced percentage of CxOs were utter mongs that they would be crushed away by their rivals but then, we see evidence that there're at least a reduced percentage of CxOs being utter mongs. See now what does that mean?
"Why is that a bad thing"
Because of your own text.
"There is evidence that psychopaths actually make better leaders"
Maybe you are right, but that's part of the problem. Hitler was surely a great leader. The problem "merely" was where he was leading to.
"They will dispassionately make the hard decisions for the good of the organization"
For the good... !? Wait, wait, wait... have you read what you yourself wrote down? Why the damn hell in hell would a psychopath (you probably were thinking about sociopaths, but anyway) think at all on the good of any organization? If he were, he'd be neither psychopath nor sociopath to start with!
"shouldn't it be more appropriate to rename london (you know the city in terminal decadence) after freddy."
Why stop at a city? And why the big bohoo about an asteroid being named after Freddy? He already has a planet named after him, forchristshake!
"You're missing it. In history, if someone had "$1mil" it was in gold or silver or something actually worth something."
Because gold holds any intrinsic value but the one that people exchanging it want to consider, yes.
"someone with $1mil "in the bank" just means someone that has the number 1,000,000 strored in a database somewhere or possibly a bunch of worthless pieces of paper with $100 printed on them.."
As long as someone wants to give value to those pieces of paper, or those registries in a database, they hold as much real value as it has any amount of gold. Did you read my previous message, like the part of there being 700 million people wanting to give value to them?
You think that because money is a fiat currency it also happened by fiat. You'd better open a Economic History book -heck, even The Wealth of Nations would be good enough to start with, to try to understand what money is or isn't or why money looks the way it looks and -specifically, why there's no big difference using gold, paper or ones are zeroes in a database to that respect.