I'm not so sure. Some companies are loathe to hire people when they know it will be a cut in pay for the job candidate they are considering. I've had this happen to me. The potential employer assumed that I would be uninterested and not motivated when all they had to do is ask. Then, some employers have opined that new employees that have taken a pay cut from a previous job will only stay a short while. This is also flawed thinking because most people change jobs every 3-4 years nowadays anyway. In fact, I've found diminishing returns to stay with a company longer than four years because they hire new people in at higher salaries than they are willing to pay to promote within. For just one second, get off of your moral high horse and consider what it must be like to have worked hard to obtain a good salary only to get laid off. It's understandable that someone earning 45.00 per hour for a skilled position is not immediately willing to go to 20.00 per hour. I'm sure if you were in that position, you might have an ounce of understanding but, alas, I make an assumption.
I have to sit back and laugh very hard because software patents are almost mutually assured destruction. I find it fun to point out the hypocrisy of companies that rail against software patents while applying for them at the same time. Google does this... we all know. Software patents, toughened copyright laws, and other related legal maneuvering has really just created a new legal industry of sue for profit. I thought the original intention of patents was really to protect and enhance manufacturing. Instead, it is being applied in a service industry. Patents were not meant to protect services but manufacturing ideas. No wonder our economy is in the toilet. We squabble over patented services while decimating manufacturing. Hell, we are even outsourcing our services now. What will be left?
One way to stop the proliferation of malware in these so-called app stores is to not allow the submission of binaries. Force the author to submit source code instead so it can be audited and then have Apple build the binaries. Apple could then put the binary through its paces to see how it behaves. I'm not necessarily advocating this method because there are multiple points for abuse but it is one way to thwart the problem. It would force the would-be malware writers to innovate and adapt and that would not be easily done.
This statement is coming from a company with a net worth in the billions and a vested interest in remaining profitable. Of course, they are going to downplay global warming fears. Hopefully more people see through this very thinly veiled reassurance.
I guess the GOP is afraid of people able to critically think! They are afraid it would be detrimental to their mission! Heaven forefend should someone be able to use rational thinking to defeat idiocy.
I'm impressed with Bill Gates' statement with regards to tablets. He is actually correct - a tablet will neither magically make a struggling student excel nor make a poor teacher miraculously stellar. A tablet is simply a tool and when utilized by a teacher skilled in teaching to various learning styles helps augment said teacher. A tablet can help a motivated, organized student succeed at an even higher level. Our educational system needs to do a better job at motivating students and teaching teachers how to teach. Teacher education is critical yet the colleges and universities are churning out poor teachers. Furthermore, funding has been cut to schools and teacher's salaries making the career much less attractive resulting in a downward spiral.
Or for the benefit of the corporations that stand to make beaucoup bucks supplying, deploying, and mantaining the infrastructure. It isn't about the greater good at all. Its about money.
"Congress was criticized for not being tech savvy, but from a lot of the comments we got it became clear that the people who were calling us did not understand the bill any better than we did."
So you were passing legislation that you did not understand. That is not why you were elected. You were not elected to be a rubber stamp. If we wanted one of those we could probably have bought on at Staples and it would have been been way cheaper than your salary.
Very well said! Furthermore, politicians have a duty to their voters to understand what laws they are passing. Although corporations are now considered people, a politician is supposed to represent the will of the actual people, not the the will of corporations. This was one empiric victory for the individual.
That was old news. A code audit of the IPSEC sub-system was performed by Theo de Raadt and no backdoors were found. Instead, a few bugs were fixed. It isn't a good idea to keep FUD that has been disproven alive.
This is what happens when we look to our governments to make us feel safe and secure because we fear the boogeyman or we have an irrational fear of crime and the dark. If we thought for ourselves and didn't have knee jerk reactions to the news, we might actually protect what little freedoms from government incursion that we still cherish.
I thought it was interesting to note that the article never mentioned anything about OpenBSD. While this does not necessarily mean that OpenBSD is not vulnerable to the Intel 64-bit bug, I still find it interesting. If OpenBSD had been tested, I wouldn't be surprised if researchers found privilege escalation by exploiting said bug impossible. The OpenBSD team has spent an inordinate amount of time working to make their OS highly secure.
When you do something you love for a living, sometimes you don't love it anymore. Plus, unless you are a software engineer, a typical IT career can be for the birds. Infrastructure guys are generally worked to the bone and only noticed when something breaks or fails. Management rarely complements an infrastructure team when things go smoothly. Also, to management, IT is an anathema at best and at worst, seen as a liability (read that, necessary evil.) I don't know that I would encourage my son or daughter to go into a career in technology unless they wanted to become programmers. That said, if my children absolutely desired a career in IT infrastructure, I would steer them to the networking side versus the systems side.
Agreed, that would be a good step. You would have one of the largest processed food manufacturers, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) screaming bloody murder, but that is okay since they fabricated research to paint Stevia as an unsafe alternative. Stevia is a much safer alternative that does not ellicit the same inflamatory response in the body as sugar does.
Taxing obesity would be a bad thing and quickly lead to a slippery slope of diminishing freedoms. When you advocate suggestions like these, you advocate eventual autocracy. No thank you! I don't see the harm in taxing these sugary beverages because they aren't a necessity for life. Water is! Taxing these beverages is better than increasing my property and income taxes.
If they want networking hardware, linux *ISN'T* the way to go.
Juniper, Cisco, others.... (I dunno anymore but there is I'm sure).
As you said yourself, you get what you pay for. If you buy crap, you'll get crap throughput.
Actually, that isn't true at all. Linux can compete toe to toe with Cisco, Juniper, Big Iron, and others. This is specifically why Vyatta has so much invested in it. Vyatta has come up with a Linux distro that is designed to replace this proprietary hardware. To boot, Vyatta has scored several major Fortune 500 players. Additionally, OpenBSD has routing facilities that are a force to be reckoned with. Several of my clients use Lenovo M71e's with OpenBSD as routers that I built. I replaced the traditional HD with an SSD and bought high-end intel networking boards. Contrary to "conventional" wisdom, these have been near perfectly reliable. They use BGP and IPSEC to interface with my Amazon VPC.
We would have a problem of underemployment of physics Ph.Ds, scientists flipping burgers, and a different "straw man", as the summary puts it. The issue is, sadly, race baiting. America has always been able to hire the scientists it needs from the best and brightest in other places (India, Iran, China). The panic over how many "Americans" had those jobs is only important to the people who want to keep immigrants out and deny the Ph.Ds visas. It was fine when it was ok for an American to be a car mechanic or a carpenter and have a scientist or doctor come from a country where someone really, really, really wanted to be that. The people alarmed by the low percentage of "native born" scientists are the same racists who want to deny naturalization to the foreign-born scientists.
Uh, no it is not. It has nothing to do with racism. I think American citizens should have the first crack at jobs in America. The same goes for other countries and their respective citizens. As a country, America has never asked itself honestly why science is on the decline. Or, more perfectly put, America is not ready to hear the answer. Science and engineering are not in demand because America is rapidly becoming a service economy thanks to the financial industry. The financial industry has closed manufacturing and engineering down and shipped these jobs overseas in the name of profit, profit, profit. Instead, finance courts engineers and mathematicians to design creative models for making even more money. If there isn't much incentive to go into an engineering career, why do it? A country that own the means of production has strong control over its destiny. Service economies are mostly third world and tend to stagnate.
While Yano's intelligence is simply amazing, there is a sad side to this story. Yano was virtually robbed of his youth and part of being young is playing with toys and exercising one's imagination. Youth is something you don't get back and he was jet propelled into becomming an adult. This is learning to run before you learn to walk. I hope that Yano doesn't regret not really having a youth.
I'm sure government wants to squeeze its agenda through with minimal "interference" from the public. The more the public is in the dark about what government does, the more power the government has over its citizens. This country is headed down tyranny lane because its citizens are apathetic, frightened, and look to its elected officials as a security blanket. In fact, Americans would sooner government think for them as evidenced in the whole creationism vs. evolution vs. intelligent design. I, for one, am sickened.
I don't really see the problem here because market forces will open an opportunity for a hardware manufacturer to specialize in creating solutions for operating systems other than Windows. Besides, I'll bet you might still be able to turn UEFI Secureboot off and just use the regular BIOS. It means you won't be able to run Windows, but who cares.
Bans like these rapidly turn towards freedom restrictions because Americans are looking to their government to do their thinking for them. Healthy eating is a choice and an easy one to make; we neither need nor want our government officials getting involved that granularly in our lives, especially as it is okay to eat unhealthy on occasion. We want our government involved in our lives in as few ways as possible. Most of us know soda (expecially diet soda) isn't healthy. All you need to do is turn the bottle around and look at the ingredients that non-chemists have difficulty pronouncing. If Americans made the right choices, i.e. whole grains without enrichment or chemicals, then food companies would have to adapt.
We make up an entire story around why we eat the worst foods for us when the choice is simple, very simple: there is neither ease nor difficulty surrounding this choice. You just have to make it! I told myself I was eating them to make myself feel better and I actually only felt better for a VERY short period of time and felt worse afterwards. I literally woke up one day and said to myself, that's enough. I'm morbidly obese and just sick of it so I made a choice to start eating good foods and I'm starting to drop some weight while feeling better almost immediately. It also takes patience because I know it took years to gain this weight but I want to lose it right away. Another typical American gotcha.... the quick fix pill. The best fix is patience and letting the body heal itself and return to homeostasis naturally.
I noticed the same sort of trend with people that are driving cars that barely run, yet have the latest and greatest smart phone from one of the big carriers. I wonder if it is just because the poor might wrongfully think that respect is earned through how much one owns, sports, and shows off. Some of it is the bling factor, some of it is just buying the toys out of cynicism and resignation. They might be resigned to never leaving their current socio-economic status so they buy gadgets to make life a little more fun and less unbearable.
At long last, we have a candidate that isn't a doctor, lawyer, MBA, or poly sci major. It is amazingly refreshing to have someone with a computer science background running. Perhaps technology will leapfrog in Vermont because technology decisions could be made by someone that - perish the thought - actually knows what they are talking about.
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I'm not so sure. Some companies are loathe to hire people when they know it will be a cut in pay for the job candidate they are considering. I've had this happen to me. The potential employer assumed that I would be uninterested and not motivated when all they had to do is ask. Then, some employers have opined that new employees that have taken a pay cut from a previous job will only stay a short while. This is also flawed thinking because most people change jobs every 3-4 years nowadays anyway. In fact, I've found diminishing returns to stay with a company longer than four years because they hire new people in at higher salaries than they are willing to pay to promote within. For just one second, get off of your moral high horse and consider what it must be like to have worked hard to obtain a good salary only to get laid off. It's understandable that someone earning 45.00 per hour for a skilled position is not immediately willing to go to 20.00 per hour. I'm sure if you were in that position, you might have an ounce of understanding but, alas, I make an assumption.
Google needs the money, otherwise Larry might be forced to switch one of the campus sushi bars over to fried chicken.
LMFAO! That one's good! Fried Chicken is about what our economy is worth anyways.
I have to sit back and laugh very hard because software patents are almost mutually assured destruction. I find it fun to point out the hypocrisy of companies that rail against software patents while applying for them at the same time. Google does this ... we all know. Software patents, toughened copyright laws, and other related legal maneuvering has really just created a new legal industry of sue for profit. I thought the original intention of patents was really to protect and enhance manufacturing. Instead, it is being applied in a service industry. Patents were not meant to protect services but manufacturing ideas. No wonder our economy is in the toilet. We squabble over patented services while decimating manufacturing. Hell, we are even outsourcing our services now. What will be left?
One way to stop the proliferation of malware in these so-called app stores is to not allow the submission of binaries. Force the author to submit source code instead so it can be audited and then have Apple build the binaries. Apple could then put the binary through its paces to see how it behaves. I'm not necessarily advocating this method because there are multiple points for abuse but it is one way to thwart the problem. It would force the would-be malware writers to innovate and adapt and that would not be easily done.
This statement is coming from a company with a net worth in the billions and a vested interest in remaining profitable. Of course, they are going to downplay global warming fears. Hopefully more people see through this very thinly veiled reassurance.
I guess the GOP is afraid of people able to critically think! They are afraid it would be detrimental to their mission! Heaven forefend should someone be able to use rational thinking to defeat idiocy.
I'm impressed with Bill Gates' statement with regards to tablets. He is actually correct - a tablet will neither magically make a struggling student excel nor make a poor teacher miraculously stellar. A tablet is simply a tool and when utilized by a teacher skilled in teaching to various learning styles helps augment said teacher. A tablet can help a motivated, organized student succeed at an even higher level. Our educational system needs to do a better job at motivating students and teaching teachers how to teach. Teacher education is critical yet the colleges and universities are churning out poor teachers. Furthermore, funding has been cut to schools and teacher's salaries making the career much less attractive resulting in a downward spiral.
Or for the benefit of the corporations that stand to make beaucoup bucks supplying, deploying, and mantaining the infrastructure. It isn't about the greater good at all. Its about money.
"Congress was criticized for not being tech savvy, but from a lot of the comments we got it became clear that the people who were calling us did not understand the bill any better than we did."
So you were passing legislation that you did not understand. That is not why you were elected. You were not elected to be a rubber stamp. If we wanted one of those we could probably have bought on at Staples and it would have been been way cheaper than your salary.
Very well said! Furthermore, politicians have a duty to their voters to understand what laws they are passing. Although corporations are now considered people, a politician is supposed to represent the will of the actual people, not the the will of corporations. This was one empiric victory for the individual.
It is a nice idea but the name makes me want to roll my eyes. Why not something cool like TornadoBSD or something along those lines? :D
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/allegations-openbsd-backdoors-may-be-true
That was old news. A code audit of the IPSEC sub-system was performed by Theo de Raadt and no backdoors were found. Instead, a few bugs were fixed. It isn't a good idea to keep FUD that has been disproven alive.
This is what happens when we look to our governments to make us feel safe and secure because we fear the boogeyman or we have an irrational fear of crime and the dark. If we thought for ourselves and didn't have knee jerk reactions to the news, we might actually protect what little freedoms from government incursion that we still cherish.
I thought it was interesting to note that the article never mentioned anything about OpenBSD. While this does not necessarily mean that OpenBSD is not vulnerable to the Intel 64-bit bug, I still find it interesting. If OpenBSD had been tested, I wouldn't be surprised if researchers found privilege escalation by exploiting said bug impossible. The OpenBSD team has spent an inordinate amount of time working to make their OS highly secure.
When you do something you love for a living, sometimes you don't love it anymore. Plus, unless you are a software engineer, a typical IT career can be for the birds. Infrastructure guys are generally worked to the bone and only noticed when something breaks or fails. Management rarely complements an infrastructure team when things go smoothly. Also, to management, IT is an anathema at best and at worst, seen as a liability (read that, necessary evil.) I don't know that I would encourage my son or daughter to go into a career in technology unless they wanted to become programmers. That said, if my children absolutely desired a career in IT infrastructure, I would steer them to the networking side versus the systems side.
Agreed, that would be a good step. You would have one of the largest processed food manufacturers, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) screaming bloody murder, but that is okay since they fabricated research to paint Stevia as an unsafe alternative. Stevia is a much safer alternative that does not ellicit the same inflamatory response in the body as sugar does.
Taxing obesity would be a bad thing and quickly lead to a slippery slope of diminishing freedoms. When you advocate suggestions like these, you advocate eventual autocracy. No thank you! I don't see the harm in taxing these sugary beverages because they aren't a necessity for life. Water is! Taxing these beverages is better than increasing my property and income taxes.
If they want networking hardware, linux *ISN'T* the way to go.
Juniper, Cisco, others.... (I dunno anymore but there is I'm sure).
As you said yourself, you get what you pay for. If you buy crap, you'll get crap throughput.
Actually, that isn't true at all. Linux can compete toe to toe with Cisco, Juniper, Big Iron, and others. This is specifically why Vyatta has so much invested in it. Vyatta has come up with a Linux distro that is designed to replace this proprietary hardware. To boot, Vyatta has scored several major Fortune 500 players. Additionally, OpenBSD has routing facilities that are a force to be reckoned with. Several of my clients use Lenovo M71e's with OpenBSD as routers that I built. I replaced the traditional HD with an SSD and bought high-end intel networking boards. Contrary to "conventional" wisdom, these have been near perfectly reliable. They use BGP and IPSEC to interface with my Amazon VPC.
We would have a problem of underemployment of physics Ph.Ds, scientists flipping burgers, and a different "straw man", as the summary puts it. The issue is, sadly, race baiting. America has always been able to hire the scientists it needs from the best and brightest in other places (India, Iran, China). The panic over how many "Americans" had those jobs is only important to the people who want to keep immigrants out and deny the Ph.Ds visas. It was fine when it was ok for an American to be a car mechanic or a carpenter and have a scientist or doctor come from a country where someone really, really, really wanted to be that. The people alarmed by the low percentage of "native born" scientists are the same racists who want to deny naturalization to the foreign-born scientists.
Uh, no it is not. It has nothing to do with racism. I think American citizens should have the first crack at jobs in America. The same goes for other countries and their respective citizens. As a country, America has never asked itself honestly why science is on the decline. Or, more perfectly put, America is not ready to hear the answer. Science and engineering are not in demand because America is rapidly becoming a service economy thanks to the financial industry. The financial industry has closed manufacturing and engineering down and shipped these jobs overseas in the name of profit, profit, profit. Instead, finance courts engineers and mathematicians to design creative models for making even more money. If there isn't much incentive to go into an engineering career, why do it? A country that own the means of production has strong control over its destiny. Service economies are mostly third world and tend to stagnate.
While Yano's intelligence is simply amazing, there is a sad side to this story. Yano was virtually robbed of his youth and part of being young is playing with toys and exercising one's imagination. Youth is something you don't get back and he was jet propelled into becomming an adult. This is learning to run before you learn to walk. I hope that Yano doesn't regret not really having a youth.
I'm sure government wants to squeeze its agenda through with minimal "interference" from the public. The more the public is in the dark about what government does, the more power the government has over its citizens. This country is headed down tyranny lane because its citizens are apathetic, frightened, and look to its elected officials as a security blanket. In fact, Americans would sooner government think for them as evidenced in the whole creationism vs. evolution vs. intelligent design. I, for one, am sickened.
I don't really see the problem here because market forces will open an opportunity for a hardware manufacturer to specialize in creating solutions for operating systems other than Windows. Besides, I'll bet you might still be able to turn UEFI Secureboot off and just use the regular BIOS. It means you won't be able to run Windows, but who cares.
Whole grains, in moderation, that are made without enriched flour and other chemicals are nutritious. I used a poor example, I admit.
Bans like these rapidly turn towards freedom restrictions because Americans are looking to their government to do their thinking for them. Healthy eating is a choice and an easy one to make; we neither need nor want our government officials getting involved that granularly in our lives, especially as it is okay to eat unhealthy on occasion. We want our government involved in our lives in as few ways as possible. Most of us know soda (expecially diet soda) isn't healthy. All you need to do is turn the bottle around and look at the ingredients that non-chemists have difficulty pronouncing. If Americans made the right choices, i.e. whole grains without enrichment or chemicals, then food companies would have to adapt. We make up an entire story around why we eat the worst foods for us when the choice is simple, very simple: there is neither ease nor difficulty surrounding this choice. You just have to make it! I told myself I was eating them to make myself feel better and I actually only felt better for a VERY short period of time and felt worse afterwards. I literally woke up one day and said to myself, that's enough. I'm morbidly obese and just sick of it so I made a choice to start eating good foods and I'm starting to drop some weight while feeling better almost immediately. It also takes patience because I know it took years to gain this weight but I want to lose it right away. Another typical American gotcha .... the quick fix pill. The best fix is patience and letting the body heal itself and return to homeostasis naturally.
I noticed the same sort of trend with people that are driving cars that barely run, yet have the latest and greatest smart phone from one of the big carriers. I wonder if it is just because the poor might wrongfully think that respect is earned through how much one owns, sports, and shows off. Some of it is the bling factor, some of it is just buying the toys out of cynicism and resignation. They might be resigned to never leaving their current socio-economic status so they buy gadgets to make life a little more fun and less unbearable.
At long last, we have a candidate that isn't a doctor, lawyer, MBA, or poly sci major. It is amazingly refreshing to have someone with a computer science background running. Perhaps technology will leapfrog in Vermont because technology decisions could be made by someone that - perish the thought - actually knows what they are talking about.