I am all for increasing safety of the Uber drivers and holding them to more professional driver standards. I used to work in IT and now I drive a big rig for a living. There is a camera in my truck cab that monitors what I do. The company is going to know if I am texting or using my phone while driving but they do let use Bluetooth. I am all for this! I want to know that my loved ones are as safe as possible when using Uber.
This re-affirms my decision to leave corporate America. I drive a truck now and thank the lord because shit like this pisses me off. I don't like our corporate overlords.
Apple sets its price points based on flash storage amount. If people can easily add more storage, that will be a win for the consumer. Yay, competition!
The win is purely empirical because you still need to use SanDisk's App to move files between your iPhone and the SanDisk unit. It does not completely integrate with the iOS platform. It would be a real win if you could actively use the SanDisk unit for storage. Really, the iPhone is a very consumer unfriendly device. I drink the Apple Kool Aid as far as my MacBook Pro is concerned. For my choice of smartphone, I am Android all of the way. I don't believe in spending more than 150.00 for a smartphone. At the prices of the flagship phones, I'd rather have a better tablet or spend my money elsewhere.
I used to host my own web/email server but since the cost of protected virtual servers has come down significantly, I decided to move my hosting to the cloud. I actually save on my electric bill too. LOL
IMHO, Gary Johnson is not going far enough. While we are at it, we can eliminate the utterly worthless Homeland Security altogether. Let's also get rid of the DEA, move the ATF mission to the FBI and scrap enforcement of tobacco and alcohol. Just cutting those bloated agencies alone would pay for social programs to make life in America better and easier for everyday Americans. I would council caution with eliminating Housing and Urban Development but restructuring it strictly as an advocacy unit for the poor. The Department of Education, could have some value if completely scrapped and built from the ground up with professional educators instead of bureaucrats and politicians. As for the Department of Commerce and the IRS.... let them go bye bye.
The internet does need to be forked! It's become corporatized and monetized. I want to see an internetwork back in the hands of the people, not the government.
The internet and it's associated technologies were developed in the United States so DNS should be under the sole purview of the US Government. If I had my druthers, IP addresses would also be controlled by the US. As much as I hate that little bitch Ted Cruz, I support him on this one.
Technology, i.e. mechanics and electronics, is failure prone. Since major failures don't occur often, we become psychologically conditioned to believe that technology should never fail. I used to battle this all of the time when people would complain about emails not being delivered. It is (and always has been) a best effort service. The SMTP protocol makes allowances for delivery of an email to take 7 days but because most of the time delivery is instantaneous, people have expectations that this will always be. I loved some of the end-users complain that it worked yesterday. Well, yesterday is gone and today is today. I had a PHB once complain about email so I cited the very white paper written on the protocol. I was out of hot water but clearly he did not like the answer.
It could not have happened to a nicer (sic) company. The so-called gig economy takes people's real and valuable skills and reduces it to sweatshop compensation. Fiverr and Amazon Mechanical Turk represent all of what is despicable about capitalism. I smiled when I read Fiverr got DDoS'd. Hopefully that cost them a bundle.
Facebook is a big data corporation aimed at monetizing your personal information.. Of course it's going to be a dictatorship. Since when are corporations not dictatorships? They want to tell people how to think, feel, and believe.
The incompetence of the federal government is absolutely staggering! It's time to get rid of Homeland Security. The Department of Homeland Security is the asshole of the executive branch of government.
Would it surprise you that I am hourly and don't get paid overtime? Some loophole in the Fair Labor Standards Act let's my employer get away with this. I routinely work 50 hours a week, all at straight time.
Elon Musk claims he had no idea that this was happening and that he would get to the bottom of it. That is a lie - how could you not know if you are basically the head of a Fortune 500 company. He had a hand in this. He was just caught red handed.
Today's smartphones have outputs of less than one watt. That's relatively little power. Plus, the radiation from radio frequencies is non-ionizing: it's heat only.
She shouldn't get jack shit! Tossed out on her ass. She upended many people's lives by discontinuing the work from home option. She only cares about Marissa Mayer.
The reason is not so complicated. Money, wealth, and resources are being redistributed upward to the 1%. The middle class dwindles and people watch their savings and investments become worthless so it is no wonder that we are seeing an increase in suicide. The US has a real mental health crisis on its hands.
I kind of hope political leadership never catches up and that these autonomous vehicles fail because I run my own hauling business now. I'm a one man show. I left an IT job in Corporate America to get my CDL and to begin a new career. Now I do time sensitive, less-than-truckload work and the money and freedom is wonderful. But, it's gonna suck getting replaced by a robot.
This might be a good time for Windows users to discover an open source operating system. I use OpenBSD on all of my systems and I am not vulnerable to shit like this.
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I am all for increasing safety of the Uber drivers and holding them to more professional driver standards. I used to work in IT and now I drive a big rig for a living. There is a camera in my truck cab that monitors what I do. The company is going to know if I am texting or using my phone while driving but they do let use Bluetooth. I am all for this! I want to know that my loved ones are as safe as possible when using Uber.
This re-affirms my decision to leave corporate America. I drive a truck now and thank the lord because shit like this pisses me off. I don't like our corporate overlords.
Apple sets its price points based on flash storage amount. If people can easily add more storage, that will be a win for the consumer. Yay, competition!
The win is purely empirical because you still need to use SanDisk's App to move files between your iPhone and the SanDisk unit. It does not completely integrate with the iOS platform. It would be a real win if you could actively use the SanDisk unit for storage. Really, the iPhone is a very consumer unfriendly device. I drink the Apple Kool Aid as far as my MacBook Pro is concerned. For my choice of smartphone, I am Android all of the way. I don't believe in spending more than 150.00 for a smartphone. At the prices of the flagship phones, I'd rather have a better tablet or spend my money elsewhere.
I used to host my own web/email server but since the cost of protected virtual servers has come down significantly, I decided to move my hosting to the cloud. I actually save on my electric bill too. LOL
This is why self-driving vehicles are a bad idea! One good penetration could turn a 80,000 lb semi into a lethal weapon.
IMHO, Gary Johnson is not going far enough. While we are at it, we can eliminate the utterly worthless Homeland Security altogether. Let's also get rid of the DEA, move the ATF mission to the FBI and scrap enforcement of tobacco and alcohol. Just cutting those bloated agencies alone would pay for social programs to make life in America better and easier for everyday Americans. I would council caution with eliminating Housing and Urban Development but restructuring it strictly as an advocacy unit for the poor. The Department of Education, could have some value if completely scrapped and built from the ground up with professional educators instead of bureaucrats and politicians. As for the Department of Commerce and the IRS .... let them go bye bye.
Why not just put pictures of bacon on the twitter accounts of ISIS! :-D
Heh! I remember FIDOnet. It was pretty cool.
The internet does need to be forked! It's become corporatized and monetized. I want to see an internetwork back in the hands of the people, not the government.
The internet and it's associated technologies were developed in the United States so DNS should be under the sole purview of the US Government. If I had my druthers, IP addresses would also be controlled by the US. As much as I hate that little bitch Ted Cruz, I support him on this one.
The most secure way is to use certificates and smartcards.
Technology, i.e. mechanics and electronics, is failure prone. Since major failures don't occur often, we become psychologically conditioned to believe that technology should never fail. I used to battle this all of the time when people would complain about emails not being delivered. It is (and always has been) a best effort service. The SMTP protocol makes allowances for delivery of an email to take 7 days but because most of the time delivery is instantaneous, people have expectations that this will always be. I loved some of the end-users complain that it worked yesterday. Well, yesterday is gone and today is today. I had a PHB once complain about email so I cited the very white paper written on the protocol. I was out of hot water but clearly he did not like the answer.
It could not have happened to a nicer (sic) company. The so-called gig economy takes people's real and valuable skills and reduces it to sweatshop compensation. Fiverr and Amazon Mechanical Turk represent all of what is despicable about capitalism. I smiled when I read Fiverr got DDoS'd. Hopefully that cost them a bundle.
Facebook is a big data corporation aimed at monetizing your personal information.. Of course it's going to be a dictatorship. Since when are corporations not dictatorships? They want to tell people how to think, feel, and believe.
The incompetence of the federal government is absolutely staggering! It's time to get rid of Homeland Security. The Department of Homeland Security is the asshole of the executive branch of government.
Anonymous is finally hitting corporations where it hurts: in the wallet.
Would it surprise you that I am hourly and don't get paid overtime? Some loophole in the Fair Labor Standards Act let's my employer get away with this. I routinely work 50 hours a week, all at straight time.
Elon Musk claims he had no idea that this was happening and that he would get to the bottom of it. That is a lie - how could you not know if you are basically the head of a Fortune 500 company. He had a hand in this. He was just caught red handed.
The Orwellian Society draws ever near.
Today's smartphones have outputs of less than one watt. That's relatively little power. Plus, the radiation from radio frequencies is non-ionizing: it's heat only.
She shouldn't get jack shit! Tossed out on her ass. She upended many people's lives by discontinuing the work from home option. She only cares about Marissa Mayer.
The reason is not so complicated. Money, wealth, and resources are being redistributed upward to the 1%. The middle class dwindles and people watch their savings and investments become worthless so it is no wonder that we are seeing an increase in suicide. The US has a real mental health crisis on its hands.
I kind of hope political leadership never catches up and that these autonomous vehicles fail because I run my own hauling business now. I'm a one man show. I left an IT job in Corporate America to get my CDL and to begin a new career. Now I do time sensitive, less-than-truckload work and the money and freedom is wonderful. But, it's gonna suck getting replaced by a robot.
This might be a good time for Windows users to discover an open source operating system. I use OpenBSD on all of my systems and I am not vulnerable to shit like this.
Fine, I use OpenBSD. There is no way the project members would weaken encryption or build in backdoors. Fuck the US Government.