Another point on this, much of the money invested in the stock market has already been earned and subject to income taxes (save 401ks, etc.). Yes, that lower CG rate extends to new money made. Where we're really getting screwed is on small business taxes (think personally owned LLCs for companies under $10m). You get *screwed.* If you'd like me to go into why I'd be glad to.
Just replying in general. I've had to deal with the media and our PR folks quite a bit this year for a security issue that made international news that the company I work at was involved with helping in. Anyway, I've learned, albeit anecdotally and from PR people that were former reporters, that many of the reporters just picked pieces of sentences and facts and reported on them.
They have deadlines to meet and to get their stories read they need to be more sensationalist than the next guy. It is more about getting their story out on the wire first than trying to get the facts straight. Throw in political agendas and things get even more crazy.
Think about when you see a story about something that you're an expert in on the news, for example something in our field of computing. Many times I find myself shaking my head thinking that they got the facts wrong, sometimes really, really wrong and are way more alarmist than needed. If they're doing it with technology they're probably doing it in other areas.
I've seen news clips where the reporter is saying one thing and the picture behind them shows something way less sensational.
Anyway, I stopped watching the news about two years ago because it was just stressing me out. People are surprised sometimes when they ask me if I heard about some terrorist attack, or what happened with Hillary, or whatever. Frankly, there's not much I can personally do about it. I just educate myself and do my civic duty of voting. I've been much happier focusing my energies on my career and family and not stressing over something that some politician said 2,000 miles away so that some company would give them more money.
Lol:) point was that there are more costs and infrastructure involved than the folks above were pointing out. Also, I heard that MS is having trouble building out/getting data centers up fast enough to keep up with O365 demand. I have no idea how accurate that is and in my old age can't remember who told me. Sounds legit right:) ?
Yea, because a thumb drive automatically syncs to your various PCs, tablets, and phones. And replicates itself to different geographical areas and keeps previous versions and backups. Yep, it's clearly the same as a DVD or a thumb drive.
I tend to agree in theory BUT the big corps will just take the H1B and a bunch of other jobs and move them elsewhere. They don't give a crap.
Well-intentioned things like this and (some) tariffs sound like a good idea but have a tendency to not work out as intended. I wish there was an easy solution to this erosion of jobs/income.
True, but I've done something that works for me. For work we use Outlook/Exchange. I set up the Windows 10 email client and the calendar app *and* Outlook. It give you the best of both worlds. For example, you get calendar reminders/alerts at the login screen and Start menu. Sort of like it is on my Mac, except that you aren't forced to click Close to get rid of the reminders which can be quite annoying when you keep a very busy schedule. Emails appear on the Start menu too if you like. It's really useful, especially on the go.
If they're outside the US then they wouldn't be subject to US law. It may even adversely affect the US. Just like the US and certain US companies won't buy certain things from China because of similar concerns, other countries will do the same to the US.
It's really concerning that we're seeing this trend all over the world. Even though most of these dinosaur-age politicians barely have a clue about encryption and technology in general they are now in a position to cause a lot of harm. Some of it may be unwittingly, perhaps the NSA folks are saying that they can't stop the terrorists without this.
Consider that so many businesses and people have centralized their information into "the cloud" and more are moving everyday. Centralizing puts us all in a much weaker position since the cloud providers (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Rackspace, etc.) will have to follow these potential laws.
In contrast, before this cloud centralization millions of servers would have to be updated all over the country and at a minimum it would take much longer to implement something like this. People and companies would also have more options and control over their data.
In any case, it's disappointing to me that this is happening in the United States. It reminds me of why my father risked his life fleeing from the communist country I was born in.
Lastly, it's not going to matter anyway. The criminals will still break the law and probably move to even more encrypted/secured services.
I don't disagree and don't want to get in the middle of the back and forth, but just wanted to point that DirectTV's DVR does this. It starts streaming the a Video on Demand and at the same time downloads it. So maybe 15 minutes into a movie I have the whole things downloaded to its local drive. You can also add an external USB drive to it to increase your capacity. It was really nice (I cut the cord though). It's something I miss, although sometimes it would use too much of my limited bandwidth.
Re-reading what I posted, I suppose it does sound like I meant just using stored procedures in an RDMS makes things right. SPs don't do much by themselves.
What I meant was that stored procedures can help keep strings of SQL out of your application code. Yet, you still need to be smart and use them as you would a parametrized query. That is, send the SP strongly typed parameters.
OWASP has this section about SQL injects and what bad vs. good code look like. They list the following as the top three "Defense Options" in order: 1) Parameterized Queries, 2) Stored Procedures, and 3) "Escaping All User Supplied Input."
Personally, I am starting to use ORM. LINQ to SQL at the moment as most of my work these days is in C#. ASP.NET has this cool feature where it freaks out if there is anything that remotely looks like SQL in user-supplied data.
It's irresponsible to continue to do this. With stored procedures, ORMs (there are some good ones out there, I use Linq a lot), and parameterized queries available in all the major languages I can't help but wonder if people are just incompetent.
Also, validate and sanitize your input data man. If you're writing code for the web you *have* to do this, no excuses. Albeit, most "web developers" I've seen don't have a clue. Now, get off my lawn!
I hope this doesn't affect my Tree Style Tabs Plugin. It's the only reason I stay on FireFox and it's awesome. You can have the tabs on the side and have subtabs which keep everything organized and nice to use.
Chrome doesn't have anything comparable. Chrome's extension is ugly and the tabs are in a separate, weird window. I can't go back to tabs at the top.
Perhaps Apple is trying to make connecting your iDevices to a computer to use iTunes a think of the past. I don't much like iTunes. I've moved my Apple music (and personal collection) to iTunes match and have backup on my phone enabled and iCloud. That way I can get to just about all my stuff without having to ever hook my devices up to my PC or Mac.
Agreed on the remote. I thought I would like it, but it's hard to use and I do often find myself fast-forwarding unintentionally.
The Google TVs that I had (I still have one) are both standalone boxes made by Sony. You can run them by themselves or hook your cable TV or whatever into them. One of them even had an IR dongle thing so that you could remote control other devices that needed infrared. A quick Google search shows that the ones I have were discountined. http://www.amazon.com/Sony-NSZ... There are some new ones: https://www.google.com/tv/get....
That makes more sense than my tin-foil hat theories, although it's not as cool.
On a more serious note, it's interesting to see how religion seemingly defines and divides cultures to the point where they start killing each other. Taking a deeper look though, the wars, fighting and hatred, usually start from the top. Some cleric or leader that uses religion, "values," or other bullshit to incite the masses and further their own agendas. Usually said agendas are financial and less commonly megalomaniac insanity.
I don't want to be talking to my phone or iPod at the gym so everyone can hear that I want to listen to. I've gotten used to the UI, but having to scroll all the way back up to switch from Song to Artist view, etc. is a PITA. I'm no Apple fanboi, but I'll say, my 9 year old daughter really likes it.
One thing that I think Apple got mostly right is AppleTV. I'm not crazy about the remote, but the interface is nice for a 10-foot one (except for Netflix, but I can't put that on Apple). My kids have found new uses for it like playing single-player games (word guessing, geography, and all sorts of stuff) with others. It's a use that I didn't even consider when I bought it.
I have also had two Google TVs, two FireTVs, and two "smart TVs" (LG and now Samsung). Apple is easier to use them, except maybe Google TV, in my eyes. Google TV was awesome because it would search everything, not just the stuff they were selling like Apple TV does. Now, iTunes... that's another story. I've pretty much stopped using it because it just sucks.
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Another point on this, much of the money invested in the stock market has already been earned and subject to income taxes (save 401ks, etc.). Yes, that lower CG rate extends to new money made. Where we're really getting screwed is on small business taxes (think personally owned LLCs for companies under $10m). You get *screwed.* If you'd like me to go into why I'd be glad to.
I skimmed TFAs and searched them for Cisco and don't see that they have anything to do with this . How does Cisco come into play?
"Toyota is good for jihad," my driver said.
Lost it on this one. Great find.
Ditto! Between ABP, NoScript, TreeStyle Tabs and Sync I can't give up FF just yet.
Just replying in general. I've had to deal with the media and our PR folks quite a bit this year for a security issue that made international news that the company I work at was involved with helping in. Anyway, I've learned, albeit anecdotally and from PR people that were former reporters, that many of the reporters just picked pieces of sentences and facts and reported on them.
They have deadlines to meet and to get their stories read they need to be more sensationalist than the next guy. It is more about getting their story out on the wire first than trying to get the facts straight. Throw in political agendas and things get even more crazy.
Think about when you see a story about something that you're an expert in on the news, for example something in our field of computing. Many times I find myself shaking my head thinking that they got the facts wrong, sometimes really, really wrong and are way more alarmist than needed. If they're doing it with technology they're probably doing it in other areas.
I've seen news clips where the reporter is saying one thing and the picture behind them shows something way less sensational.
Anyway, I stopped watching the news about two years ago because it was just stressing me out. People are surprised sometimes when they ask me if I heard about some terrorist attack, or what happened with Hillary, or whatever. Frankly, there's not much I can personally do about it. I just educate myself and do my civic duty of voting. I've been much happier focusing my energies on my career and family and not stressing over something that some politician said 2,000 miles away so that some company would give them more money.
Lol :) point was that there are more costs and infrastructure involved than the folks above were pointing out. Also, I heard that MS is having trouble building out/getting data centers up fast enough to keep up with O365 demand. I have no idea how accurate that is and in my old age can't remember who told me. Sounds legit right :) ?
Yea, because a thumb drive automatically syncs to your various PCs, tablets, and phones. And replicates itself to different geographical areas and keeps previous versions and backups. Yep, it's clearly the same as a DVD or a thumb drive.
I tend to agree in theory BUT the big corps will just take the H1B and a bunch of other jobs and move them elsewhere. They don't give a crap.
Well-intentioned things like this and (some) tariffs sound like a good idea but have a tendency to not work out as intended. I wish there was an easy solution to this erosion of jobs/income.
True, but I've done something that works for me. For work we use Outlook/Exchange. I set up the Windows 10 email client and the calendar app *and* Outlook. It give you the best of both worlds. For example, you get calendar reminders/alerts at the login screen and Start menu. Sort of like it is on my Mac, except that you aren't forced to click Close to get rid of the reminders which can be quite annoying when you keep a very busy schedule. Emails appear on the Start menu too if you like. It's really useful, especially on the go.
Pics or it didn't happen.
If they're outside the US then they wouldn't be subject to US law. It may even adversely affect the US. Just like the US and certain US companies won't buy certain things from China because of similar concerns, other countries will do the same to the US.
It's really concerning that we're seeing this trend all over the world. Even though most of these dinosaur-age politicians barely have a clue about encryption and technology in general they are now in a position to cause a lot of harm. Some of it may be unwittingly, perhaps the NSA folks are saying that they can't stop the terrorists without this.
Consider that so many businesses and people have centralized their information into "the cloud" and more are moving everyday. Centralizing puts us all in a much weaker position since the cloud providers (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Rackspace, etc.) will have to follow these potential laws.
In contrast, before this cloud centralization millions of servers would have to be updated all over the country and at a minimum it would take much longer to implement something like this. People and companies would also have more options and control over their data.
In any case, it's disappointing to me that this is happening in the United States. It reminds me of why my father risked his life fleeing from the communist country I was born in.
Lastly, it's not going to matter anyway. The criminals will still break the law and probably move to even more encrypted/secured services.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/ap...
I don't disagree and don't want to get in the middle of the back and forth, but just wanted to point that DirectTV's DVR does this. It starts streaming the a Video on Demand and at the same time downloads it. So maybe 15 minutes into a movie I have the whole things downloaded to its local drive. You can also add an external USB drive to it to increase your capacity. It was really nice (I cut the cord though). It's something I miss, although sometimes it would use too much of my limited bandwidth.
Oops, link to said section: https://www.owasp.org/index.ph...
Re-reading what I posted, I suppose it does sound like I meant just using stored procedures in an RDMS makes things right. SPs don't do much by themselves.
What I meant was that stored procedures can help keep strings of SQL out of your application code. Yet, you still need to be smart and use them as you would a parametrized query. That is, send the SP strongly typed parameters.
OWASP has this section about SQL injects and what bad vs. good code look like. They list the following as the top three "Defense Options" in order: 1) Parameterized Queries, 2) Stored Procedures, and 3) "Escaping All User Supplied Input."
Personally, I am starting to use ORM. LINQ to SQL at the moment as most of my work these days is in C#. ASP.NET has this cool feature where it freaks out if there is anything that remotely looks like SQL in user-supplied data.
It's irresponsible to continue to do this. With stored procedures, ORMs (there are some good ones out there, I use Linq a lot), and parameterized queries available in all the major languages I can't help but wonder if people are just incompetent.
Also, validate and sanitize your input data man. If you're writing code for the web you *have* to do this, no excuses. Albeit, most "web developers" I've seen don't have a clue. Now, get off my lawn!
Palemoon looks promising.
Good to know about Opera. Once you use them you can't go back! If they do get rid of them we'll have to band together and fork it!
I hope this doesn't affect my Tree Style Tabs Plugin. It's the only reason I stay on FireFox and it's awesome. You can have the tabs on the side and have subtabs which keep everything organized and nice to use.
Chrome doesn't have anything comparable. Chrome's extension is ugly and the tabs are in a separate, weird window. I can't go back to tabs at the top.
Perhaps Apple is trying to make connecting your iDevices to a computer to use iTunes a think of the past. I don't much like iTunes. I've moved my Apple music (and personal collection) to iTunes match and have backup on my phone enabled and iCloud. That way I can get to just about all my stuff without having to ever hook my devices up to my PC or Mac.
Agreed on the remote. I thought I would like it, but it's hard to use and I do often find myself fast-forwarding unintentionally.
The Google TVs that I had (I still have one) are both standalone boxes made by Sony. You can run them by themselves or hook your cable TV or whatever into them. One of them even had an IR dongle thing so that you could remote control other devices that needed infrared. A quick Google search shows that the ones I have were discountined. http://www.amazon.com/Sony-NSZ... There are some new ones: https://www.google.com/tv/get....
I'd buy another one though, I really liked it.
That makes more sense than my tin-foil hat theories, although it's not as cool.
On a more serious note, it's interesting to see how religion seemingly defines and divides cultures to the point where they start killing each other. Taking a deeper look though, the wars, fighting and hatred, usually start from the top. Some cleric or leader that uses religion, "values," or other bullshit to incite the masses and further their own agendas. Usually said agendas are financial and less commonly megalomaniac insanity.
I don't want to be talking to my phone or iPod at the gym so everyone can hear that I want to listen to. I've gotten used to the UI, but having to scroll all the way back up to switch from Song to Artist view, etc. is a PITA. I'm no Apple fanboi, but I'll say, my 9 year old daughter really likes it.
One thing that I think Apple got mostly right is AppleTV. I'm not crazy about the remote, but the interface is nice for a 10-foot one (except for Netflix, but I can't put that on Apple). My kids have found new uses for it like playing single-player games (word guessing, geography, and all sorts of stuff) with others. It's a use that I didn't even consider when I bought it.
I have also had two Google TVs, two FireTVs, and two "smart TVs" (LG and now Samsung). Apple is easier to use them, except maybe Google TV, in my eyes. Google TV was awesome because it would search everything, not just the stuff they were selling like Apple TV does. Now, iTunes... that's another story. I've pretty much stopped using it because it just sucks.
You bring up some great points. This almost sounds like something out of the X-Files.
Please were fine one day and the next they're brainwashed almost to the point of mind control. It just makes me wonder what in the hell is going on.