What I find most troubling is that the vast majority of gun owners are being penalized in a failed effort to control the violence problem in the urban cesspools of America....those very same concentration camps of poverty and violence that have been controlled by the kleptocrats for generations. They take zero accountability for this complete and utter failure and continue to blame the tools used by the criminals bred in their failed political petri dish. The whole "national security" issue is simply a bunch of hand waving to take the attention away from the stark reality of their failure in their own back yard.
And now you expect me to trust that that same incompetent and power hungry lot to not spread this disease to my little corner of the country? No thank you. I'll be hanging on to my firearm and my Constitutionally guaranteed rights, thank you.
Do we require folks buying automobiles to pass a psychiatric test to see if they "should be allowed" to own a car or drive a truck? Those are big and dangerous tools that can be used to kill and maim large numbers of people with the press of a pedal.
What about a psych test to buy gasoline? Lord knows what kind of damage one could do with a few liters of gas.
Apple hasn't been at the forefront of phone development for a while. If their target market is willing to go along with "I prefer to be seen with my idevice + my beats accessory" they'll do well. If not, people will buy something else. I'll use my current iphone with headphone jack until it doesn't suit my needs anymore and then I'll just buy a product that does.
How useful is a watch that you have to charge on a daily basis? I just find that to be a pretty high barrier to entry in terms of investing my dollars in a "hey look at me" gadget.
I currently have an iPhone 6S Plus for everyone in my family (5 devices). I bought them because my company offered an attractive subsidy for them and I get a discount on the company sponsored wireless plan. However, this is a bridge too far. I'm not buying all new headphones "just because" and I won't be beholden to Apple for something so simple and ubiquitous as ear buds and headphones. If they remove the headphone jack, these will definitely be my last iPhones. I won't run out and sell them, but when they outlive their usefulness I'll choose another more sensible vendor.
I'm assuming the person thinks the data is important enough to spend a bit of $$$ to make sure it doesn't go .
I'd get one of those USB 3.0 to SATA dongles, connect a 2TB SSD to it and copy the data onto the SSD. Then I'd do a quick checksum to make sure the source and destination copies were the same. Then I'd put that SSD on a shelf somewhere other than where I keep the computer where the data is stored.
Today, that SSD+dongle would likely run you about $700. It's about $500 if you break the backup into a pair of 1TB devices.
A year from now the cost will likely be half that (or less).
Anyhow, that's what I do today, though I only back up about 1TB of pics and important docs. Total cost for me is about $250.
Welcome to the third world. I suspect this will give some pause to even those corrupt Olympic committee members who accepted the bribes to give the nod to Rio.
People will look fondly back to where the major inconvenience was to put the toilet paper in a trash bin rather than flush it down in Sochi. Brasil has consistently snatched defeat from the jaws of victory at every turn.
I'm all for spreading around the wealth, but there should be some basic litmus test of "you can or cannot achieve even the most rudimentary accommodations for both athletes and visitors. It was pretty clear that Brasil wasn't in a position to pull this off, yet here we are.
How can anyone be this obtuse? I'm referring to the clown, MightyMartian, not Trump (a high bar for clownhood, indeed). I saw the video of what Trump said. What he clearly is referring to is the complete and utter softball Clinton's carelessness tossed to the Russians/Chinese/skritptkiddies for an espionage target. He's not telling the Russians to hack us. He's basically saying, Clinton made it easy and I'm sure you've got the info. Spare us the theater and just give the folks that want to hold Hillary to account a copy of what she was dangling out there for anyone to take.
I find it even more remarkable that Team Clinton took this bait and now her shenanigans are all over the news again. A more clever approach would have been to ignore Trump. Now he's got the front page again while the Democrats whitewash their nomination process that was clearly rigged to disenfranchise the Sanders crowd from the beginning.
Trump might be an asshole and a windbag, but Clinton is clearly a corrupt politician and a criminal, regardless of how you dance around the facts.
IT sure smells like a government mandated "feature" rather than a bug since the Chinese government can easily accomplish MitM attacks on Chinese networks.
If Cisco was even remotely price competitive, I'd still be a customer. They haven't been remotely close to the best value for ages and that got me looking at alternatives. Adding insult to injury is the rather poor quality of service you get when you place a call to the TAC to have a problem resolved. F that. We probably spend mid-9 figures a year on switch and routing gear. Cisco bids on everything and will show up with an army of sales weens for any meeting, offer to take anyone with a pulse out to dinner/drinks/ and "gentlemen's clubs", but they just don't offer the service or value proposition for anyone who takes the time to make an apples to apples comparison with Arista.
Merchant silicon + decent software stack + stellar customer service works for me.
There was a Norwegian bloke who did a pretty effective job of shooting up a bunch of innocent folks without being a Muslim or coming from the land where it's relatively easy to buy a military style assault rifle.
He managed to get more kills, though I think he wasn't as prolific on the wounding.
Hard to fathom what drives folks like this. Mental illness seems to be the catch all. Of course, the left will use this as another bullet point in their constant march to create a docile and helpless populace by removing legal access to firearms.
I'm sure a lot of individuals who peruse this site every day are in a position to recommend and recommend AGAINST vendors. If enough of us at the Fortune X companies blackballed Bluecoat/Symantec/others of that ilk, one would think that would make a difference. After all, NOT buying that $20-50M satchell of poo in favor of another vendor with more transparency times 100's of the largest corporations might make a difference.\
Frankly, if I said "no Bluecoat" tomorrow, I doubt it would even be questioned. Do the needful.:)
The cable companies are already moving to a model where the cable boxes in your home have almost no real smarts of their own. There's just enough there to boot linux+busybox, display video content, and render the menus. The heavy lifting, and ALL of the brains (if you can call it that) of the system are handled on the back end by the cable company. Even if you are able to purchase your own box, I suspect you'll be forced to license their software anyway and still get a monthly fee jammed down your throat.
Looking forward to the day where I can just get a pipe to the internet from whatever company and then buy over-the-top TV from the single digit number of stations that I actually watch. That's really what terrifies the cable companies and why they're trying to buy up content providers.
I think the North Koreans are going to push the envelope until there is an actual military conflict (whether by intention or by accident due to miscalculation). Either way, the risk of the Korean peninsula winding up as a nuclear battleground strikes me as being rather high. I don't see negotiation as being a successful strategy with them as all previous agreements have been treated more as "temporary guidelines" by the regime. Hopefully, a way is found to bounce the crazies before the folks who are already suffering from pretty dreadful hardship in North Korea pay the ultimate price.
Actually no. They are a content AND service provider. You forget that Comcast owns NBC Universal as well.
Personally, I would drop Comcast tomorrow if an alternative broadband provider was available in my area. The instant that happens, I'll be a former customer of their internet service. I don't recall the last time I watched any of their TV or movie content. It's been years. Perhaps someday they'll release something worth watching. Hope springs eternal.
There are plenty of knowledge workers available. They're just not available at the wage slave mirage prices that corporate bean counters think they're getting.
If you cut off the supply of low cost imported labor, the market will adjust. Sure, some firms will just move offshore. That's cool. Some firms will pay more to fill spots from the legally available pool. That's cool too. And other firms will look for loopholes to fit somewhere in between. Those loopholes will vary in size between a needle and the Lincoln Tunnel depending on how aggressive the graft money flows into Congress.
Cut off the supply and let the chips fall where they may. The end result may be a boom in tech businesses that choose to do business where these cheap labor pools are available. Who knows....
In other words, they simply increased the depth and breadth of bribe money thrown around the beltway and the deal got done.
There isn't any incentive for them to "modernize the power grid" so I can only wonder what that's a code word for. I suspect it means something like "make the necessary upgrades in their corner of the grid so they can move power around between their own generation sources to reduce their own costs."
If I thought for a second that those funds would be used wisely, I wouldn't care so much. But we all know it will wind up in a general slush fund to be doled out to political cronies or used to buy votes of the perpetual underclass to keep themselves in power. No thanks.
I'm sure the instant someone can make more selling electrons generated from orbit than it costs to produce them (without siphoning tax dollars off of the rest of us clods), you'll see such a business materialize, the world will be a better place, oceans will stop rising, etc.
Until then, let's continue with the research but utilize what's the most cost effective now.
Fer God's sake, fusion energy is just around the corner...:)
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What I find most troubling is that the vast majority of gun owners are being penalized in a failed effort to control the violence problem in the urban cesspools of America....those very same concentration camps of poverty and violence that have been controlled by the kleptocrats for generations. They take zero accountability for this complete and utter failure and continue to blame the tools used by the criminals bred in their failed political petri dish. The whole "national security" issue is simply a bunch of hand waving to take the attention away from the stark reality of their failure in their own back yard.
And now you expect me to trust that that same incompetent and power hungry lot to not spread this disease to my little corner of the country? No thank you. I'll be hanging on to my firearm and my Constitutionally guaranteed rights, thank you.
Do we require folks buying automobiles to pass a psychiatric test to see if they "should be allowed" to own a car or drive a truck? Those are big and dangerous tools that can be used to kill and maim large numbers of people with the press of a pedal.
What about a psych test to buy gasoline? Lord knows what kind of damage one could do with a few liters of gas.
Where does it end?
Apple hasn't been at the forefront of phone development for a while. If their target market is willing to go along with "I prefer to be seen with my idevice + my beats accessory" they'll do well. If not, people will buy something else. I'll use my current iphone with headphone jack until it doesn't suit my needs anymore and then I'll just buy a product that does.
**shrug**
How useful is a watch that you have to charge on a daily basis? I just find that to be a pretty high barrier to entry in terms of investing my dollars in a "hey look at me" gadget.
I currently have an iPhone 6S Plus for everyone in my family (5 devices). I bought them because my company offered an attractive subsidy for them and I get a discount on the company sponsored wireless plan. However, this is a bridge too far. I'm not buying all new headphones "just because" and I won't be beholden to Apple for something so simple and ubiquitous as ear buds and headphones. If they remove the headphone jack, these will definitely be my last iPhones. I won't run out and sell them, but when they outlive their usefulness I'll choose another more sensible vendor.
Best,
I'm assuming the person thinks the data is important enough to spend a bit of $$$ to make sure it doesn't go .
I'd get one of those USB 3.0 to SATA dongles, connect a 2TB SSD to it and copy the data onto the SSD. Then I'd do a quick checksum to make sure the source and destination copies were the same. Then I'd put that SSD on a shelf somewhere other than where I keep the computer where the data is stored.
Today, that SSD+dongle would likely run you about $700. It's about $500 if you break the backup into a pair of 1TB devices.
A year from now the cost will likely be half that (or less).
Anyhow, that's what I do today, though I only back up about 1TB of pics and important docs. Total cost for me is about $250.
Best,
Welcome to the third world. I suspect this will give some pause to even those corrupt Olympic committee members who accepted the bribes to give the nod to Rio.
People will look fondly back to where the major inconvenience was to put the toilet paper in a trash bin rather than flush it down in Sochi. Brasil has consistently snatched defeat from the jaws of victory at every turn.
I'm all for spreading around the wealth, but there should be some basic litmus test of "you can or cannot achieve even the most rudimentary accommodations for both athletes and visitors. It was pretty clear that Brasil wasn't in a position to pull this off, yet here we are.
You mean like blatant criminality by Clinton that the media just can't bury fast enough....got it.
How can anyone be this obtuse? I'm referring to the clown, MightyMartian, not Trump (a high bar for clownhood, indeed). I saw the video of what Trump said. What he clearly is referring to is the complete and utter softball Clinton's carelessness tossed to the Russians/Chinese/skritptkiddies for an espionage target. He's not telling the Russians to hack us. He's basically saying, Clinton made it easy and I'm sure you've got the info. Spare us the theater and just give the folks that want to hold Hillary to account a copy of what she was dangling out there for anyone to take.
I find it even more remarkable that Team Clinton took this bait and now her shenanigans are all over the news again. A more clever approach would have been to ignore Trump. Now he's got the front page again while the Democrats whitewash their nomination process that was clearly rigged to disenfranchise the Sanders crowd from the beginning.
Trump might be an asshole and a windbag, but Clinton is clearly a corrupt politician and a criminal, regardless of how you dance around the facts.
IT sure smells like a government mandated "feature" rather than a bug since the Chinese government can easily accomplish MitM attacks on Chinese networks.
About what I'd expect from an AC troll. My point is that you don't know what you're talking about.
Toodles...
That's pocket change at that level. I doubt those are even the correct numbers. They strike me as being extremely low.
If Cisco was even remotely price competitive, I'd still be a customer. They haven't been remotely close to the best value for ages and that got me looking at alternatives. Adding insult to injury is the rather poor quality of service you get when you place a call to the TAC to have a problem resolved. F that. We probably spend mid-9 figures a year on switch and routing gear. Cisco bids on everything and will show up with an army of sales weens for any meeting, offer to take anyone with a pulse out to dinner/drinks/ and "gentlemen's clubs", but they just don't offer the service or value proposition for anyone who takes the time to make an apples to apples comparison with Arista.
Merchant silicon + decent software stack + stellar customer service works for me.
There was a Norwegian bloke who did a pretty effective job of shooting up a bunch of innocent folks without being a Muslim or coming from the land where it's relatively easy to buy a military style assault rifle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
He managed to get more kills, though I think he wasn't as prolific on the wounding.
Hard to fathom what drives folks like this. Mental illness seems to be the catch all. Of course, the left will use this as another bullet point in their constant march to create a docile and helpless populace by removing legal access to firearms.
I'm sure a lot of individuals who peruse this site every day are in a position to recommend and recommend AGAINST vendors. If enough of us at the Fortune X companies blackballed Bluecoat/Symantec/others of that ilk, one would think that would make a difference. After all, NOT buying that $20-50M satchell of poo in favor of another vendor with more transparency times 100's of the largest corporations might make a difference.\
Frankly, if I said "no Bluecoat" tomorrow, I doubt it would even be questioned. Do the needful. :)
Best,
I concur.
The cable companies are already moving to a model where the cable boxes in your home have almost no real smarts of their own. There's just enough there to boot linux+busybox, display video content, and render the menus. The heavy lifting, and ALL of the brains (if you can call it that) of the system are handled on the back end by the cable company. Even if you are able to purchase your own box, I suspect you'll be forced to license their software anyway and still get a monthly fee jammed down your throat.
Looking forward to the day where I can just get a pipe to the internet from whatever company and then buy over-the-top TV from the single digit number of stations that I actually watch. That's really what terrifies the cable companies and why they're trying to buy up content providers.
I think the North Koreans are going to push the envelope until there is an actual military conflict (whether by intention or by accident due to miscalculation). Either way, the risk of the Korean peninsula winding up as a nuclear battleground strikes me as being rather high. I don't see negotiation as being a successful strategy with them as all previous agreements have been treated more as "temporary guidelines" by the regime. Hopefully, a way is found to bounce the crazies before the folks who are already suffering from pretty dreadful hardship in North Korea pay the ultimate price.
Sad state of affairs.
Actually no. They are a content AND service provider. You forget that Comcast owns NBC Universal as well.
Personally, I would drop Comcast tomorrow if an alternative broadband provider was available in my area. The instant that happens, I'll be a former customer of their internet service. I don't recall the last time I watched any of their TV or movie content. It's been years. Perhaps someday they'll release something worth watching. Hope springs eternal.
There are plenty of knowledge workers available. They're just not available at the wage slave mirage prices that corporate bean counters think they're getting.
If you cut off the supply of low cost imported labor, the market will adjust. Sure, some firms will just move offshore. That's cool. Some firms will pay more to fill spots from the legally available pool. That's cool too. And other firms will look for loopholes to fit somewhere in between. Those loopholes will vary in size between a needle and the Lincoln Tunnel depending on how aggressive the graft money flows into Congress.
Cut off the supply and let the chips fall where they may. The end result may be a boom in tech businesses that choose to do business where these cheap labor pools are available. Who knows....
In other words, they simply increased the depth and breadth of bribe money thrown around the beltway and the deal got done.
There isn't any incentive for them to "modernize the power grid" so I can only wonder what that's a code word for. I suspect it means something like "make the necessary upgrades in their corner of the grid so they can move power around between their own generation sources to reduce their own costs."
If I thought for a second that those funds would be used wisely, I wouldn't care so much. But we all know it will wind up in a general slush fund to be doled out to political cronies or used to buy votes of the perpetual underclass to keep themselves in power. No thanks.
I'm sure the instant someone can make more selling electrons generated from orbit than it costs to produce them (without siphoning tax dollars off of the rest of us clods), you'll see such a business materialize, the world will be a better place, oceans will stop rising, etc.
Until then, let's continue with the research but utilize what's the most cost effective now.
Fer God's sake, fusion energy is just around the corner... :)
Ha...someone modded this a troll. Gawker fan, I suppose.
*yawn*
It's hard to decide who to root for here....one dirtbag filing suit against another.