My web and email server is hit by >15,000 attempts per minute. Fail2Ban, iptables recipes, a variety of DNS hardening, and a pile of other tools make this livable. And mail scanning helps also. Reverse DNS etc. also help.
And this has been going on for more than decade. My logs from 1998 show steady attempts, and sometime around 2001 attacks picked up.
So far as I can tell my servers haven't been compromised since 1998, and I still harbor a grudge against the the kids from Atlanta. I would punch every one of then in the face. Right now. Twice. Each.
There are other examples of exemplary American manufacturing, competitive and even superior in the global market. As a foreigner you're permitted a parochial view of the world, but you've fallen into the 'ugly foreigner' genre. Ugly Americans should have put you off that by now.
Perhaps the local community could invest i n their infrastructure, build bicycle paths, and become attractive to people with more income and able to pay more taxes with less sacrifice.
Then, of course, the community's government could face other residents, in open meetings, asking why *they* had to pay more taxes to attract even more taxation.
At least it would be substantially more accountable than what happened in Salem, in this example. Some communities may well decide they just don't need to do this.
Accountability. The further away from you it is, the less you have..
"nearly 1/3 of black men have been put into prison for crimes white people get a slap on the wrist for,"
Your numbers are fictional, but your point is actually valid. Sadly, how many of these black men are felons because they live in communities that cannot deal with crime, poverty, and social collapse? Don't ask the Federal government to solve this. Hold the local authorities to account.
But that is a lot to ask of people who go to sleep fearful their children will be shot dead merely by accident the next day, or even that night. They are focused on survival. They are entitled to better.
No. You are merely incorrect. And I do not rely on media reports and bloggers of dubious reputation, but on direct observation of faculty and in classrooms from Maine to Arizona.
Colleges and universities are demonstrably dominated by Leftist thought. It's just so, and has been for a generation or more. They just are.
And this would not be a serious threat to our nation if it were 'merely' leftist thought. But it's a truly dangerous Leftist agenda at work, expressed by deep enduring hatred for wealth and accomplishment, an intention to subvert our nation's government to their singular goals, and a remaking of society at all levels in a way that, if expressed honestly and fully in advance, would leave the vast majority of us recoil in shock and horror, and end up invalidating their efforts.
The Left resorts to violence to implement their agenda because no other method will suffice. When you realize the depth and breadth of their plans, you will reject them also. Even if you thought the moment before you were one with them. Unless, of course, you are part of the leadership, which leaves you one of the few benefiting.
This is why I have the dubious honor of graduating from the University of Vermont but failing to pay my library and 'matriculation' fees. Easy solution, I just asked them to assure me, in writing, that they would indeed deliver my diploma upon payment of the $200-something fees.
Crickets.
At that time, in the 70s, I had never actually set foot in Vermont. But being a doctor was appealing.
They gave up some time in the late 90s. Now I just get random cell calls for both similarly named deadbeats and someone who gave my number out. And agencies troll dialing similar numbers to catch those who either typoed it or just changed a digit. Do they suppose these scum will actually admit to being who they are when called? Really? Whatever happened to using Guido the Leg-Breaker for collections?
What's the BS? That it was a mistake? Plainly it was, despite the knee-jerk responses of the butthurt hordes. The BS is that it was let out without a decent check by HTC - the app is apparently a TouchPal app, which is where the mistake probably occurred. Blame HTC for not testing prior to release, or TouchPal(?) for similarly not debranding properly.
And Android users, those free apps aren't 'free'. Ads are the price you pay. Even paid apps monetize further with ads, I know, so choose between the truly minimal greed of independent devs hoping to score big, or the corporations able to nail you. Choose wisely.
Gee, sounds like Windows devs requiring admin privilege to install/maintain apps when they could handle privileges correctly, though that would mean knowing more than they do...
"you should realize that as a company gets larger - it gets more average"
Not where I work. After 160+ years it is bigger and better by every measure. No surprise, it is also virtually devoid of sexist practices, covert corruption, and for the past 16 years devoid of overtly defrauding customers. Yeah, that happened. Not any more.
Without integrated circuits, cell phones would be virtually impossible. Without miniaturized microwave tech they would not be practical. Without DTMF they would be unusable. Without improved batteries they would be undesirable.
Claiming you invented cell phones is a lot like claiming 'you won' the Super Bowl. Your team did, built on the successes and failures of prior team mates, your coaches' experiences elsewhere and previously, and a generous dose of serendipity.
But inventions do in fact occur, and some merely show the way to the better thing. It's OK to be part of someone else's dream.
Have them shepherd a change to the web site through diagnosis, analysis, funding, development, testing, redevelopment, release, fast follower fixing, user pushback, redesign, repeat.
They will be sitting in the bathroom in a puddle of tears. I'll gladly clean brushes twice a day and sell a tenth of what I make for the equivalent of $3.30/hr in wages, except my work in that would be worth $0.02.
Just like their work in my area without 40 years experience.
HAD you read the book you would recognize three things:
0) The story is a stylized depiction of government run amok. Exmphasis on stylized. It shows a somewhat unrealistically extreme result.
1) Galt Gulch is similarly overstated. How much is in the opinion of the reader.
2) Rand has some interesting infatuations, such as absolute individual freedom, thin fit and successful people, and their personal pursuits. Skipping over that and a 60+ page soliloquy that makes Shakespeare read like a kindergarten primer, and you miss significant insights into her and her character. But that book is worth a read unless you're mired in the Left's soft core socialism promise, in which case you will simply not get it.
3) Objectivism is, like most philosophies, flawed. So are we. Take what you like and leave the rest, or adopt something else fully knowing you will have to compromise or live in a log shack in mid east Labrador. Arctic Manitoba is not inhospitable enough to escape the difficulties of others.
4) The premise of the book, overreach of government, argues that the Great Man Theory would succeed only in the nation so governed when the tide turned. No exploration in the book of emigration, nor secession,but that would just cloud the plot.
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Great to meet another Android user. Welcome my friend.
The FTC could shut down virtually the entire retail furniture market. Instantly.
And that's not the only industry to examine in this manner. C'mon, man.
My web and email server is hit by >15,000 attempts per minute. Fail2Ban, iptables recipes, a variety of DNS hardening, and a pile of other tools make this livable. And mail scanning helps also. Reverse DNS etc. also help.
And this has been going on for more than decade. My logs from 1998 show steady attempts, and sometime around 2001 attacks picked up.
So far as I can tell my servers haven't been compromised since 1998, and I still harbor a grudge against the the kids from Atlanta. I would punch every one of then in the face. Right now. Twice. Each.
Two phones ago mine would occasionally reboot calling *any* number. And the dialer was slower than molasses in January.
Software. Cell phones today mostly are pretty terrible phones.
Leatherman makes superior multitools. In the USA.
There are other examples of exemplary American manufacturing, competitive and even superior in the global market. As a foreigner you're permitted a parochial view of the world, but you've fallen into the 'ugly foreigner' genre. Ugly Americans should have put you off that by now.
Perhaps the local community could invest i n their infrastructure, build bicycle paths, and become attractive to people with more income and able to pay more taxes with less sacrifice.
Then, of course, the community's government could face other residents, in open meetings, asking why *they* had to pay more taxes to attract even more taxation.
At least it would be substantially more accountable than what happened in Salem, in this example. Some communities may well decide they just don't need to do this.
Accountability. The further away from you it is, the less you have..
There is this.
And of course There is this. And this.
"nearly 1/3 of black men have been put into prison for crimes white people get a slap on the wrist for,"
Your numbers are fictional, but your point is actually valid. Sadly, how many of these black men are felons because they live in communities that cannot deal with crime, poverty, and social collapse? Don't ask the Federal government to solve this. Hold the local authorities to account.
But that is a lot to ask of people who go to sleep fearful their children will be shot dead merely by accident the next day, or even that night. They are focused on survival. They are entitled to better.
Only if the people actually hold them to account.
This is our problem today. Our government has been screwing us over for some time. We've gone along with this until recently.
No. You are merely incorrect. And I do not rely on media reports and bloggers of dubious reputation, but on direct observation of faculty and in classrooms from Maine to Arizona.
Colleges and universities are demonstrably dominated by Leftist thought. It's just so, and has been for a generation or more. They just are.
And this would not be a serious threat to our nation if it were 'merely' leftist thought. But it's a truly dangerous Leftist agenda at work, expressed by deep enduring hatred for wealth and accomplishment, an intention to subvert our nation's government to their singular goals, and a remaking of society at all levels in a way that, if expressed honestly and fully in advance, would leave the vast majority of us recoil in shock and horror, and end up invalidating their efforts.
The Left resorts to violence to implement their agenda because no other method will suffice. When you realize the depth and breadth of their plans, you will reject them also. Even if you thought the moment before you were one with them. Unless, of course, you are part of the leadership, which leaves you one of the few benefiting.
This is why I have the dubious honor of graduating from the University of Vermont but failing to pay my library and 'matriculation' fees. Easy solution, I just asked them to assure me, in writing, that they would indeed deliver my diploma upon payment of the $200-something fees.
Crickets.
At that time, in the 70s, I had never actually set foot in Vermont. But being a doctor was appealing.
They gave up some time in the late 90s. Now I just get random cell calls for both similarly named deadbeats and someone who gave my number out. And agencies troll dialing similar numbers to catch those who either typoed it or just changed a digit. Do they suppose these scum will actually admit to being who they are when called? Really? Whatever happened to using Guido the Leg-Breaker for collections?
Oh yeah -- It's Judge Guido now.
And that is that.
Of course, Tax Court isn't court...
What's the BS? That it was a mistake? Plainly it was, despite the knee-jerk responses of the butthurt hordes. The BS is that it was let out without a decent check by HTC - the app is apparently a TouchPal app, which is where the mistake probably occurred. Blame HTC for not testing prior to release, or TouchPal(?) for similarly not debranding properly.
And Android users, those free apps aren't 'free'. Ads are the price you pay. Even paid apps monetize further with ads, I know, so choose between the truly minimal greed of independent devs hoping to score big, or the corporations able to nail you. Choose wisely.
Gee, sounds like Windows devs requiring admin privilege to install/maintain apps when they could handle privileges correctly, though that would mean knowing more than they do...
"you should realize that as a company gets larger - it gets more average"
Not where I work. After 160+ years it is bigger and better by every measure. No surprise, it is also virtually devoid of sexist practices, covert corruption, and for the past 16 years devoid of overtly defrauding customers. Yeah, that happened. Not any more.
Without integrated circuits, cell phones would be virtually impossible. Without miniaturized microwave tech they would not be practical. Without DTMF they would be unusable. Without improved batteries they would be undesirable.
Claiming you invented cell phones is a lot like claiming 'you won' the Super Bowl. Your team did, built on the successes and failures of prior team mates, your coaches' experiences elsewhere and previously, and a generous dose of serendipity.
But inventions do in fact occur, and some merely show the way to the better thing. It's OK to be part of someone else's dream.
"she wrote a "30-minute" speech that can't even be read in 30 minutes"
I can read as fast as I can talk.
Think it through.
Or, as one writer told me, 'restating reality'.
I was thinking more like 'restating failure', but that's only true 33% of the time around here, if you ignore sprints 20 through 86.
Substitute 'art' with 'blogging'.
Works, doesn't it?
Have them shepherd a change to the web site through diagnosis, analysis, funding, development, testing, redevelopment, release, fast follower fixing, user pushback, redesign, repeat.
They will be sitting in the bathroom in a puddle of tears. I'll gladly clean brushes twice a day and sell a tenth of what I make for the equivalent of $3.30/hr in wages, except my work in that would be worth $0.02.
Just like their work in my area without 40 years experience.
HAD you read the book you would recognize three things:
0) The story is a stylized depiction of government run amok. Exmphasis on stylized. It shows a somewhat unrealistically extreme result.
1) Galt Gulch is similarly overstated. How much is in the opinion of the reader.
2) Rand has some interesting infatuations, such as absolute individual freedom, thin fit and successful people, and their personal pursuits. Skipping over that and a 60+ page soliloquy that makes Shakespeare read like a kindergarten primer, and you miss significant insights into her and her character. But that book is worth a read unless you're mired in the Left's soft core socialism promise, in which case you will simply not get it.
3) Objectivism is, like most philosophies, flawed. So are we. Take what you like and leave the rest, or adopt something else fully knowing you will have to compromise or live in a log shack in mid east Labrador. Arctic Manitoba is not inhospitable enough to escape the difficulties of others.
4) The premise of the book, overreach of government, argues that the Great Man Theory would succeed only in the nation so governed when the tide turned. No exploration in the book of emigration, nor secession,but that would just cloud the plot.
"What id like is a way to run something like pixel or even just program them like an arduino"
For that you need to pay more than $25. A Mega or RasPi, touchscreen, and battery will cost more, case optional.
Sorry, what I meant to say was 'you're comparing different fruit.'
Every one involved wants the same thing. Now or later, it will be the same.
This was ALWAYS good advice. ALWAYS.
Watch. These always become rent-seeking, after they go through the attempt to out muscle. The media will attempt to form a sanctioned monopoly...