managers complain to their C-Levels about lack of talent, C-Levels respond by creating a "school" to "teach" programming to students, which im sure is basically structured conveniently and entirely around their versions of SAP implementations or Oracle middleware mainframe glue. Once you emerge from this 'school' you're kind of worthless to anyone but, surprise, the corporations funneling cash into this education system. And because you couldnt get into a college with your limited expertise in brain-damaging shit like ABAP and PL/B youre likely going to rock a cubefarm wageslave position where you make about as much as a TSA screener.
in reality you dont need a programming highschool unless you intend to spend your life doing menial labour for the code mines of some archane division of a megacorp the rest of your life. Either go to college and learn CS, go to a trade school and learn CIS, or pick this stuff up as you go and work your way along from tech support to admin or dev.
Fuel Cell-Powered Data Centers Could Cut Costs and Carbon, belch candy and caviar, increase ROI, MTTF, MTBF, LMNOP, and even brew a cuppa tea!
but just listen to Microsoft, dont take it from me!
P.S.: dear god someone please use Azure. I know its not the datacenter its the cloud, but we've pissed cash into it like a shit-faced geriatric at a slot machine and so far it generates more heat than revenue...
P.P.S: also try Bing, Windows Phone, Windows Tablet, and windows 8.1 app store moneytrain edition for workgroups. god christ i cant take another quarterly 'why arent we relevant anymore' meeting.
i know this starts rather offtopic but bear with me. Glen Reynolds is a self described "libertarian transhumanist." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Reynolds#Political_views
libertarian transhumanists are unwittingly appropriating the theoretical legacy of Stalinist communism by substituting, among other concepts, the âoevanguard partyâ with the âoedigeratiâ, and the âoenew Soviet manâ with the âoeposthuman.â getting a brow-beating on healthcare reform from a man who loathes the human body as a 'meat puppet.' is like getting oracle support from a guy who thinks relational databases are a fad.
Name a website, any site, that was anticipated to have 50k simultaneous views at its inception that later managed to stand up to 250k hits (an obvious 5 fold increase.) without a performance impact. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/05/health-care-website-repairs/2927597/
"These bugs were functions of volume,'' Park said. "Take away the volume and it works.'' so essentially we've identified the common problem of most web-based services which is scalability. we're fixing it, and thats part of the software development lifecycle.
what no ones talking about is conservatives propensity to blow issues, be they real or imagined, entirely out of proportion when it comes to healthcare reform. saying the entire healthcare reform act is broken because the website is slow and unresponsive, is like saying the entire fucking iphone is broken because facetime is slow and unresponsive. Granted with the absolutely academic grasp of technology weilded by most conservative republicans its not hard to see where they might have problems drawing this distinction.
to break this down: email/web/webmail/domain/:dreamhost.com does all this, as do most hosting providers, already. shared, VPS and dedicated hosting packages have existed for a decade or more.
VOIP: is available as an asterisk appliance or a product you can buy and have serviced locally. why? because 75% of VoIP is the network. where to place PBX's, gateways, and how they interface with things like fax and voicemail are all critical things that cant just be boxed up and sold off a website like wordpress. public-key: ssh-keygen i guess? do you mean SSL certificates? because thats covered by every major hosting provider. GoDaddy runs an authority, the rest just outsource it as part of their panel offerings. XMPP: Dreamhost. VPN: slashdot resurrects VPN as a feature of cryptography on the regular, and if you check some of the articles we're all greatly in favour of creating our own keys for this, salting them appropriately, and generally keeping pretty strict control over them. that having been said, if the idea of running your own open source router is a bit too much to handle there are probably 50 companies that will sell you a product like fortigate or juniper which are more than capable of VPN tunnels. outsource your 2-factor auth to yubikey.
full disclosure: I was a dreamhost admin for a while. they offer great service and products, and generally resist any request for information without a warrant. they fought back against SOPA, continue to fight against PIPA and generally run a pretty tight ship.
the idea that somehow by murdering prisoners we make society a better place is as ridiculous as having a doctor whos taken the hippocratic oath commit the execution. To kill a prisoner is to at best wash the states hands of their responsibility to do anything more constructructive, like engage in corrective efforts that beget the name "correctional institution" in the first place. At worst, its incredibly condescending to assume intelligent americans would be comforted with this pittance of "biblical retribution" we call execution.
And it is. Capital punishment is derived from, and entirely indistinguishable in the 21st century from, biblical retribution. The idea that killing the killer will somehow make everything OK is nothing more than a laughably exotic attempt by the state to appease constituents clammouring for a reduction in violent crime.
so we gin up the voters with "suburban warzone" rhetoric and the voters insist on ever more stringent "tough on crime" criminal charges. We shuffle ever closer to a police state because we're told to. in turn our elected officials in contestable elections are morally reprehensible when facing a pink slip, so they fuel these flames for their own professional gain. our religious leaders sit idly by, as the notion of murdering the guilty is business as usual to them.
killing prisoners detracts from the big problem. low employment for unskilled labour combined with a gutted public education system and a criminal code designed to ensure everyone can be convicted if necessary is packing prisons to bursting. the 'wars' on drugs and the 3 strikes laws are nothing more than throwing sawdust on vomit. that if somehow we can contrive a repository for anyone not willing to live the life of a subservient peasant working 3 minimum wage part time jobs and living in squalor, then american is OK, freedom is preserved, and that pepperidge farm dream of the olden times punctuated by dean martin and bing crosby can go on unabated in the suburbs. the real problem is as a society, we have not accepted the fact that we cannot just ignore poor people. to do so created a culture, and class of individual that inevitably becomes determined with absolutely nothing to lose, and that person when they emerge will be as remorseless and callous as the hand of the free market under which they toiled.
if we didnt have FISA courts with their 2% rate of warrant rejection, im sure this ruling would have serious repercussions for law enforcement agencies across the nation.
I guess this means we'd better order more ink for next year. lord knows we cant have a lack of well lubricated rubber stamps in the court leading to 'liberty' and 'freedom' again.
SOHO needs a printer like the titanic needs an iceburg. consider what you're doing: electricity: even the most energy efficient lasers use more than 600 watts of power while printing, and even more in warmup phase. small colour laser requires a motor to turn a cartridge drum in most cases, much like a tiny carousel. media: this cant be stressed enough. the price of paper might not seem backbreaking but printers beget printing. for laser printers you may get more prints per cartridge but those cartridges run about $80 at their cheapest, cant be thrown in a landfill and if they fail mechanically, have to be recycled regardless of prints remaining. the ink for an inkjet printer routinely rivals the price of heroin.
for SOHO consider picking up a cheap external modem and running a hylafax server to pick up correspondance from the dinosaurs still using fax machines. if its too technical, try using any of the fax-to-email services hat exist online. Buy a used scanner on ebay and sign your name, then scan it. whenever you get a fax simply overlay the signature or initial as necessary into the document. I did this for 4 years and no one who used a fax machine ever noticed or cared. send documents in PDF or better through email, and discourage snail mail correspondance whenever possible (trust me, your paper recycling bin will thank you.) its your SOHO, so shun partners and service providers that cant step into the 21st century with you.
if you need shipping labels printed then consider USPS kiosks or various shipping stores. theyre much more well equipped to deal with your shipping needs than you are anyhow. this goes for any label or signage. I cant count the number of small businesses I've had to deal with that laser print their own stock and somehow think it breaks even. Eventually companies will want your labels to include RFID tags or 2d barcodes, both of which your laser will cost a fortune to do in software licensing and burned up RFID tags.
you cant premise american society on a steady diet of sensationalized tabloid journalism and pop culture television without conceding the traditional and correct definition of the word 'hacker' will have been distorted to perversion. Because the word is used so frequently as to have become ubiquitous, and its meaning has been so broadened in order to sell movies and television programs, its only natural to assume a judge concluding, 'of course i know what a hacker is' would fail to realize she was taught by Hollywood, the writer of fiction, what the definition was.
this should be ridiculously easy to contest. its time to find an attorney and for lack of a better description, expose the hack used by the litigious corporation to warrant a cease and desist order against this young man. perhaps they'll teach the meaning of FUD along the way.
stop endorsing and contributing to this state, and its legislature, which clearly hasnt represented its citizens for quite some time. that is unless you consider outlawing abortion and praying for rain to be central priorities of the majority of proud texans.
i know, most texans cant do this. for those of us who can, the ones without a kid or a wife or a house, and free purchase to roam america, maybe its time you did. Spend a few years in the parts outside the panhandle state like colorado, or arizona or even god forbid california and see that its not so bad. No ones saying you cant fly in and visit every once and a while, but dont sit patiently and wait for things like the future of automotive purchase to arrive when the senate can barely acclimate itself to gay marriage and evolution. California and Denver have public transit systems that might make you consider an even greener alternative alltogether: getting rid of your automobile.
consumer choice, the active and willful decision to use or not to use a specific product or service, or even none at all, is what its called. To brand it as 'pushback' is condescending and offensive as it implies im somehow inappropriately stubborn, or creating an inconvenience or disservice to others in the pursuit of things like consumer capitalism.
Speaking as a member of the 'pushback' community, If you'd like to use facebook, gmail, google plus, and twitter, by all means do so. If the only way you can start your day is with a fresh stream of "news" from the blogosphere, or an instagram of your cat, then I've nothing for which to lambast you. The internet is an open technology and as such everyones entitled to use it differently as they see fit, or not use part or all of it at all. Extend to me a likewise courtesy though, and dont bitch piss and moan when I cant be found on linkedin or your favourite social spheres. Give me a call, or a text, or an email, or come right over some time and hang out. if its too grand an inconvenience to leave the laptop though, we need to reconsider our relationship.
Why as a "pushback" troglodite am i refusing your utopia? Because its offered at the price of my freedom, which isnt for sale. Its alabaster wall is a prison in which the inmates scrawl their wishes and dreams, announce their likes and disklikes, and pass the time with games and witty reparte while a recumbent warden looks on intently. Constant connectivity is its chain gang. misery is the road it paves alongside the convicted who shall be Sentenced to a lifetime of free trials, free updates, introductory offers, limited events, and great deals.
while many people will neither know nor care about the effort to smooth out traffic, Vancouver may be mistaken in their zeal. While my old 2001 crown victoria does not include bluetooth, the wireless laptop inside is programmed to dump millions of MAC's per second once a bluetooth connection is solicited, many of them malformed with negative integers, spaces and special characters...
Sometimes I collect the macs of vehicles in around me, and much like the towers of hanoi spoof them as i pass the readers on the highway to reduce traffic automagically shift the speed of traffic..
other times I collect the mac addresses of the scanners, and feed them to other scanners in a circular fashion.
If convicted in an american court those 15 counts amount to:
10 years in prison, appealed to 7
parole after 4
and experian leaving the room without ever having admitted any wrongdoing. Visa and Mastercard dont care, because the amount of credit as a balance reflected on a card is imaginary anyhow and doesnt correlate to any real value. They simply issue chargebacks against the vendors affected by fraudulent purchases.
the vendors in turn get a strike against them for accepting fraudulent transactions. cardholders get a new card, and the game resets. Consumer capitalism cannot be permitted to short-circuit at the expense of the consumer.
The cards are commonly used to purchase web hosting or secure free trials to distribute malware as a means of garnering more legitimate cards and absolving their dependence on lucky ducks like the Experian guy. The wheel is still turning.
Maybe if Zuckerberg had one of those famous lock-in sessions we could fix the problem. you know. the act of doing everything legally possible to prohibit employees from egress at the end of a normal business day.
according to 500 people, facebook is a nice company to work for and they all approve of zuckerberg. Thats not a lot considering facebook employs far more people than just those 500 reviewers. Facebookers: feel free to update information accordingly to we can at least attempt an objective view of this mans policies and actions as glorious leader.
you kids have it easy. back in my day we used to have exploding bags of hot gas that fired out of the door panels to protect you. and they STILL spilled your mocha latte everywhere! now you kids with your new fangled battery cars just get a warm splash of lithium.
at no time should we have any expectation of privacy in a SaaS or PaaS environment that is controlled by an american company. the government has numerous laws that require corporations to preserve data for investigation both with and without a warrant provided, which in turn guarantees corporations will engineer systems to ensure they are compliant. Corporations do not exist to pick fights with the government or question legislation until it begins to impact their quarterly earnings, and as most people arent concerned about their privacy its only natural corporations in turn arent either. if snapchat users, gmail users, facebook users and paypal users en-masse boycotted their respective service providers, im certain the message would be clearly sent that spying on customers kills business.
but as customers are clearly powerless to do anything about the spying, and corporations are well aware of this, nothing will change. we need our gmail and our facebook if only because we're without alternative or uncomfortable with the idea of learning something new. You'll eventually need an app that resists snooping, which is hard when apple controls the platform and can simply engineer access to your messages through numerous means such as keylogging.
use LXC (Linux containers) or KVM or OpenVZ instead. Remember, this is the same company that killed solaris, pissed on RHEL, and shit all over the idea of open source recently. Now its trying to turn a buck on an open source product?
Billionaires and multimillionaires, of course, have total freedom to fund whatever they wantâ"and that could be a good thing for publications with a mission and a serious need for cash.
in the late 19th century and into the beginnings of the 20th century america and england had epidemic problems with the 'well to do' financing newspapers. it took investigative journalists that didnt care about the advertisers or the backers to correct this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muckraker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_American_newspapers#The_press_in_the_Party_System:_1820.E2.80.931890
the difference being todays muckrakers have the internet. its much harder, although not impossible, to silence a glen greenwald or a julian assange if they so choose to expose your corruption. plutocratically controlled news is an important thing to have when voters are striking for fair minimum wage, protesting your banks in occupy camps, and largely backing healthcare and prison reforms that would undermine your system of creating intentional strife within parties or groups of people to further advance your cause.
As an Oakland native, i think its only fair to clarify what the police department means by these technologies in their pursuit of law enforcement:
911 calls: those troubling interruptions from sleeping, fast food or harassing the homeless that require you do actually respond to something in an hour or so.
port and traffic cameras often seen on the morning news, and cited frequently throughout the day, it sure would be neat if we used them as frequently as motorists and media personalities did, but that would require us to repair the 400 or so that still dont work.
license plate readers the closest thing we've got to a thoughtcrime detector. if you havent made quota, this little go-getter is like a golden goose for finding people with parking tickets, expired registrations, and the ever guilty smudgy plate that cant be read.
gunshot sensors Residents, mostly. Try not to obsess over the ones in low-income neighborhoods, they're constantly going off and its becoming a nuisance.
social media posts and commuters' electronic toll payments. Ford has a new police car this year, Bushmaster has a new rifle this year, my cruiser laptop is getting too slow to play minecraft, blaze yellow stop sticks are the new black this year, oh, and uh, protect 'n' serve or something.
As the cost of technologies like this comes down i can only see several outcomes in the future.
1. robotics show restrooms closed due to denial of service attack by 4chan. robots screaming lady gaga cannot be evicted from the loo.
2. first presentation ruined by six wiseguys who refuse to stop racing their telepresence robots up and down the aisles
3. while everyone else has mastered the robots for some time, the recent uptick in management attendance is now correlated with the recent number of nearly suicidal robots that attempt to go down stairs and into pools.
4. ending the yearly conference means everyone has to return to the rental station, as every good engineer knows. C-level attendees have however been spotted trying to hail cabs and merge onto freeways.
5. although considered polite to use a business-friendly avatar, most attendies have adhered to an unspoken rule of using cats.
SaaS and PaaS are utterly useless for private citizens and will continue to be so long as their providers are willing to fellate even the most casual government agencies upon request for your personal data. To think this company has a solution that wipes data off their servers and off the client once the data is viewed, yet gladly withholds it until $agency can get its shit together and convince a judge to rubberstamp a warrant, is pretty damning as a business model.
in the face of Everything as a Service, the constitution ends when you pick up your device. fifth amendment? thats certainly gone. first and second? only so far as theyre employed to ensure the rope is long enough to hang you. dont use one of these services? expect to be 'detained' randomly at an airport, train station, or bus terminal. And if you have the outright audacity to use any data encryption to protect yourself, expect your inquisitors to react much the same as they did to people like Moxie Marlinspike.
ITER Fusion Reactor On Track To Generating Power By Generating Power By 2028? i for one am certainly am certainly excited by this news. The potential to potential to solve humanities ever growing ever growing energy needs is certainly is certainly something we can all can all agree is important is important.
consumer capitalism basically dictates incompatibility must be built into every successive iteration of a product, to ensure customers continue buying. planned obsolescence is built into everything we own, and why for example cellphone ram is no longer expandable and the USB connector for Android phones is particularly flimsy. The Turtle Beach headset is an excellent, well made product as are many other bluetooth devices for the PS3. making something thats expensive and must regularly be replaced because it becomes incompatible, broken, obsolete or socially shunned is the secret to some of the most lucrative products and wealthy corporations in the world. Apple arguably makes very little changes to each iteration of its iPhone, but people actually reserve precious time in their lives to stand in lines for the privilege of purchasing the next one.
if you dont like planned obsolescence, please step away from the hedonic treadmill and re-evaluate the product from a more fundamental level. What does it do, how well does it do it, and how does it make me feel? it may seem offtopic but its more pertanent than ever during the holidays, an old New England saw: "Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without."
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managers complain to their C-Levels about lack of talent, C-Levels respond by creating a "school" to "teach" programming to students, which im sure is basically structured conveniently and entirely around their versions of SAP implementations or Oracle middleware mainframe glue. Once you emerge from this 'school' you're kind of worthless to anyone but, surprise, the corporations funneling cash into this education system. And because you couldnt get into a college with your limited expertise in brain-damaging shit like ABAP and PL/B youre likely going to rock a cubefarm wageslave position where you make about as much as a TSA screener.
in reality you dont need a programming highschool unless you intend to spend your life doing menial labour for the code mines of some archane division of a megacorp the rest of your life. Either go to college and learn CS, go to a trade school and learn CIS, or pick this stuff up as you go and work your way along from tech support to admin or dev.
Fuel Cell-Powered Data Centers Could Cut Costs and Carbon,
belch candy and caviar,
increase ROI, MTTF, MTBF, LMNOP,
and even brew a cuppa tea!
but just listen to Microsoft, dont take it from me!
P.S.: dear god someone please use Azure. I know its not the datacenter its the cloud, but we've pissed cash into it like a shit-faced geriatric at a slot machine and so far it generates more heat than revenue...
P.P.S: also try Bing, Windows Phone, Windows Tablet, and windows 8.1 app store moneytrain edition for workgroups. god christ i cant take another quarterly 'why arent we relevant anymore' meeting.
--Gil in sales.
i know this starts rather offtopic but bear with me. Glen Reynolds is a self described "libertarian transhumanist."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Reynolds#Political_views
libertarian transhumanists are unwittingly appropriating the theoretical legacy of Stalinist communism by substituting, among other concepts, the âoevanguard partyâ with the âoedigeratiâ, and the âoenew Soviet manâ with the âoeposthuman.â getting a brow-beating on healthcare reform from a man who loathes the human body as a 'meat puppet.' is like getting oracle support from a guy who thinks relational databases are a fad.
Name a website, any site, that was anticipated to have 50k simultaneous views at its inception that later managed to stand up to 250k hits (an obvious 5 fold increase.) without a performance impact.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/05/health-care-website-repairs/2927597/
"These bugs were functions of volume,'' Park said. "Take away the volume and it works.'' so essentially we've identified the common problem of most web-based services which is scalability. we're fixing it, and thats part of the software development lifecycle.
what no ones talking about is conservatives propensity to blow issues, be they real or imagined, entirely out of proportion when it comes to healthcare reform. saying the entire healthcare reform act is broken because the website is slow and unresponsive, is like saying the entire fucking iphone is broken because facetime is slow and unresponsive. Granted with the absolutely academic grasp of technology weilded by most conservative republicans its not hard to see where they might have problems drawing this distinction.
to break this down:
email/web/webmail/domain/:dreamhost.com does all this, as do most hosting providers, already. shared, VPS and dedicated hosting packages have existed for a decade or more.
VOIP: is available as an asterisk appliance or a product you can buy and have serviced locally. why? because 75% of VoIP is the network. where to place PBX's, gateways, and how they interface with things like fax and voicemail are all critical things that cant just be boxed up and sold off a website like wordpress.
public-key: ssh-keygen i guess? do you mean SSL certificates? because thats covered by every major hosting provider. GoDaddy runs an authority, the rest just outsource it as part of their panel offerings.
XMPP: Dreamhost.
VPN: slashdot resurrects VPN as a feature of cryptography on the regular, and if you check some of the articles we're all greatly in favour of creating our own keys for this, salting them appropriately, and generally keeping pretty strict control over them. that having been said, if the idea of running your own open source router is a bit too much to handle there are probably 50 companies that will sell you a product like fortigate or juniper which are more than capable of VPN tunnels. outsource your 2-factor auth to yubikey.
full disclosure: I was a dreamhost admin for a while. they offer great service and products, and generally resist any request for information without a warrant. they fought back against SOPA, continue to fight against PIPA and generally run a pretty tight ship.
the idea that somehow by murdering prisoners we make society a better place is as ridiculous as having a doctor whos taken the hippocratic oath commit the execution. To kill a prisoner is to at best wash the states hands of their responsibility to do anything more constructructive, like engage in corrective efforts that beget the name "correctional institution" in the first place. At worst, its incredibly condescending to assume intelligent americans would be comforted with this pittance of "biblical retribution" we call execution.
And it is. Capital punishment is derived from, and entirely indistinguishable in the 21st century from, biblical retribution. The idea that killing the killer will somehow make everything OK is nothing more than a laughably exotic attempt by the state to appease constituents clammouring for a reduction in violent crime.
and there has been a reduction in violent crime in america since the 1970's. its not lauded however. Peace and low crime rates dont win elections. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States
so we gin up the voters with "suburban warzone" rhetoric and the voters insist on ever more stringent "tough on crime" criminal charges. We shuffle ever closer to a police state because we're told to. in turn our elected officials in contestable elections are morally reprehensible when facing a pink slip, so they fuel these flames for their own professional gain. our religious leaders sit idly by, as the notion of murdering the guilty is business as usual to them.
killing prisoners detracts from the big problem. low employment for unskilled labour combined with a gutted public education system and a criminal code designed to ensure everyone can be convicted if necessary is packing prisons to bursting. the 'wars' on drugs and the 3 strikes laws are nothing more than throwing sawdust on vomit. that if somehow we can contrive a repository for anyone not willing to live the life of a subservient peasant working 3 minimum wage part time jobs and living in squalor, then american is OK, freedom is preserved, and that pepperidge farm dream of the olden times punctuated by dean martin and bing crosby can go on unabated in the suburbs. the real problem is as a society, we have not accepted the fact that we cannot just ignore poor people. to do so created a culture, and class of individual that inevitably becomes determined with absolutely nothing to lose, and that person when they emerge will be as remorseless and callous as the hand of the free market under which they toiled.
Back in my day we'd track down and SHOOT the bastard ourselves.
-D Cheney
if we didnt have FISA courts with their 2% rate of warrant rejection, im sure this ruling would have serious repercussions for law enforcement agencies across the nation.
I guess this means we'd better order more ink for next year. lord knows we cant have a lack of well lubricated rubber stamps in the court leading to 'liberty' and 'freedom' again.
SOHO needs a printer like the titanic needs an iceburg. consider what you're doing:
electricity: even the most energy efficient lasers use more than 600 watts of power while printing, and even more in warmup phase. small colour laser requires a motor to turn a cartridge drum in most cases, much like a tiny carousel.
media: this cant be stressed enough. the price of paper might not seem backbreaking but printers beget printing. for laser printers you may get more prints per cartridge but those cartridges run about $80 at their cheapest, cant be thrown in a landfill and if they fail mechanically, have to be recycled regardless of prints remaining. the ink for an inkjet printer routinely rivals the price of heroin.
for SOHO consider picking up a cheap external modem and running a hylafax server to pick up correspondance from the dinosaurs still using fax machines. if its too technical, try using any of the fax-to-email services hat exist online. Buy a used scanner on ebay and sign your name, then scan it. whenever you get a fax simply overlay the signature or initial as necessary into the document. I did this for 4 years and no one who used a fax machine ever noticed or cared. send documents in PDF or better through email, and discourage snail mail correspondance whenever possible (trust me, your paper recycling bin will thank you.) its your SOHO, so shun partners and service providers that cant step into the 21st century with you.
if you need shipping labels printed then consider USPS kiosks or various shipping stores. theyre much more well equipped to deal with your shipping needs than you are anyhow. this goes for any label or signage. I cant count the number of small businesses I've had to deal with that laser print their own stock and somehow think it breaks even. Eventually companies will want your labels to include RFID tags or 2d barcodes, both of which your laser will cost a fortune to do in software licensing and burned up RFID tags.
you cant premise american society on a steady diet of sensationalized tabloid journalism and pop culture television without conceding the traditional and correct definition of the word 'hacker' will have been distorted to perversion. Because the word is used so frequently as to have become ubiquitous, and its meaning has been so broadened in order to sell movies and television programs, its only natural to assume a judge concluding, 'of course i know what a hacker is' would fail to realize she was taught by Hollywood, the writer of fiction, what the definition was.
this should be ridiculously easy to contest. its time to find an attorney and for lack of a better description, expose the hack used by the litigious corporation to warrant a cease and desist order against this young man. perhaps they'll teach the meaning of FUD along the way.
stop endorsing and contributing to this state, and its legislature, which clearly hasnt represented its citizens for quite some time. that is unless you consider outlawing abortion and praying for rain to be central priorities of the majority of proud texans.
i know, most texans cant do this. for those of us who can, the ones without a kid or a wife or a house, and free purchase to roam america, maybe its time you did. Spend a few years in the parts outside the panhandle state like colorado, or arizona or even god forbid california and see that its not so bad. No ones saying you cant fly in and visit every once and a while, but dont sit patiently and wait for things like the future of automotive purchase to arrive when the senate can barely acclimate itself to gay marriage and evolution. California and Denver have public transit systems that might make you consider an even greener alternative alltogether: getting rid of your automobile.
consumer choice, the active and willful decision to use or not to use a specific product or service, or even none at all, is what its called. To brand it as 'pushback' is condescending and offensive as it implies im somehow inappropriately stubborn, or creating an inconvenience or disservice to others in the pursuit of things like consumer capitalism.
Speaking as a member of the 'pushback' community, If you'd like to use facebook, gmail, google plus, and twitter, by all means do so. If the only way you can start your day is with a fresh stream of "news" from the blogosphere, or an instagram of your cat, then I've nothing for which to lambast you. The internet is an open technology and as such everyones entitled to use it differently as they see fit, or not use part or all of it at all. Extend to me a likewise courtesy though, and dont bitch piss and moan when I cant be found on linkedin or your favourite social spheres. Give me a call, or a text, or an email, or come right over some time and hang out. if its too grand an inconvenience to leave the laptop though, we need to reconsider our relationship.
Why as a "pushback" troglodite am i refusing your utopia? Because its offered at the price of my freedom, which isnt for sale. Its alabaster wall is a prison in which the inmates scrawl their wishes and dreams, announce their likes and disklikes, and pass the time with games and witty reparte while a recumbent warden looks on intently. Constant connectivity is its chain gang. misery is the road it paves alongside the convicted who shall be Sentenced to a lifetime of free trials, free updates, introductory offers, limited events, and great deals.
while many people will neither know nor care about the effort to smooth out traffic, Vancouver may be mistaken in their zeal. While my old 2001 crown victoria does not include bluetooth, the wireless laptop inside is programmed to dump millions of MAC's per second once a bluetooth connection is solicited, many of them malformed with negative integers, spaces and special characters...
Sometimes I collect the macs of vehicles in around me, and much like the towers of hanoi spoof them as i pass the readers on the highway to reduce traffic automagically shift the speed of traffic..
other times I collect the mac addresses of the scanners, and feed them to other scanners in a circular fashion.
If convicted in an american court those 15 counts amount to:
10 years in prison, appealed to 7
parole after 4
and experian leaving the room without ever having admitted any wrongdoing. Visa and Mastercard dont care, because the amount of credit as a balance reflected on a card is imaginary anyhow and doesnt correlate to any real value. They simply issue chargebacks against the vendors affected by fraudulent purchases.
the vendors in turn get a strike against them for accepting fraudulent transactions. cardholders get a new card, and the game resets. Consumer capitalism cannot be permitted to short-circuit at the expense of the consumer.
The cards are commonly used to purchase web hosting or secure free trials to distribute malware as a means of garnering more legitimate cards and absolving their dependence on lucky ducks like the Experian guy. The wheel is still turning.
Maybe if Zuckerberg had one of those famous lock-in sessions we could fix the problem. you know. the act of doing everything legally possible to prohibit employees from egress at the end of a normal business day.
http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Facebook-Reviews-E40772.htm
according to 500 people, facebook is a nice company to work for and they all approve of zuckerberg. Thats not a lot considering facebook employs far more people than just those 500 reviewers. Facebookers: feel free to update information accordingly to we can at least attempt an objective view of this mans policies and actions as glorious leader.
you kids have it easy. back in my day we used to have exploding bags of hot gas that fired out of the door panels to protect you. and they STILL spilled your mocha latte everywhere! now you kids with your new fangled battery cars just get a warm splash of lithium.
at no time should we have any expectation of privacy in a SaaS or PaaS environment that is controlled by an american company. the government has numerous laws that require corporations to preserve data for investigation both with and without a warrant provided, which in turn guarantees corporations will engineer systems to ensure they are compliant. Corporations do not exist to pick fights with the government or question legislation until it begins to impact their quarterly earnings, and as most people arent concerned about their privacy its only natural corporations in turn arent either. if snapchat users, gmail users, facebook users and paypal users en-masse boycotted their respective service providers, im certain the message would be clearly sent that spying on customers kills business.
but as customers are clearly powerless to do anything about the spying, and corporations are well aware of this, nothing will change. we need our gmail and our facebook if only because we're without alternative or uncomfortable with the idea of learning something new. You'll eventually need an app that resists snooping, which is hard when apple controls the platform and can simply engineer access to your messages through numerous means such as keylogging.
use LXC (Linux containers) or KVM or OpenVZ instead. Remember, this is the same company that killed solaris, pissed on RHEL, and shit all over the idea of open source recently. Now its trying to turn a buck on an open source product?
Billionaires and multimillionaires, of course, have total freedom to fund whatever they wantâ"and that could be a good thing for publications with a mission and a serious need for cash.
in the late 19th century and into the beginnings of the 20th century america and england had epidemic problems with the 'well to do' financing newspapers. it took investigative journalists that didnt care about the advertisers or the backers to correct this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muckraker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_American_newspapers#The_press_in_the_Party_System:_1820.E2.80.931890
the difference being todays muckrakers have the internet. its much harder, although not impossible, to silence a glen greenwald or a julian assange if they so choose to expose your corruption. plutocratically controlled news is an important thing to have when voters are striking for fair minimum wage, protesting your banks in occupy camps, and largely backing healthcare and prison reforms that would undermine your system of creating intentional strife within parties or groups of people to further advance your cause.
As an Oakland native, i think its only fair to clarify what the police department means by these technologies in their pursuit of law enforcement:
911 calls: those troubling interruptions from sleeping, fast food or harassing the homeless that require you do actually respond to something in an hour or so.
port and traffic cameras often seen on the morning news, and cited frequently throughout the day, it sure would be neat if we used them as frequently as motorists and media personalities did, but that would require us to repair the 400 or so that still dont work.
license plate readers the closest thing we've got to a thoughtcrime detector. if you havent made quota, this little go-getter is like a golden goose for finding people with parking tickets, expired registrations, and the ever guilty smudgy plate that cant be read.
gunshot sensors Residents, mostly. Try not to obsess over the ones in low-income neighborhoods, they're constantly going off and its becoming a nuisance.
social media posts and commuters' electronic toll payments. Ford has a new police car this year, Bushmaster has a new rifle this year, my cruiser laptop is getting too slow to play minecraft, blaze yellow stop sticks are the new black this year, oh, and uh, protect 'n' serve or something.
As the cost of technologies like this comes down i can only see several outcomes in the future.
1. robotics show restrooms closed due to denial of service attack by 4chan. robots screaming lady gaga cannot be evicted from the loo.
2. first presentation ruined by six wiseguys who refuse to stop racing their telepresence robots up and down the aisles
3. while everyone else has mastered the robots for some time, the recent uptick in management attendance is now correlated with the recent number of nearly suicidal robots that attempt to go down stairs and into pools.
4. ending the yearly conference means everyone has to return to the rental station, as every good engineer knows. C-level attendees have however been spotted trying to hail cabs and merge onto freeways.
5. although considered polite to use a business-friendly avatar, most attendies have adhered to an unspoken rule of using cats.
SaaS and PaaS are utterly useless for private citizens and will continue to be so long as their providers are willing to fellate even the most casual government agencies upon request for your personal data. To think this company has a solution that wipes data off their servers and off the client once the data is viewed, yet gladly withholds it until $agency can get its shit together and convince a judge to rubberstamp a warrant, is pretty damning as a business model.
in the face of Everything as a Service, the constitution ends when you pick up your device. fifth amendment? thats certainly gone. first and second? only so far as theyre employed to ensure the rope is long enough to hang you. dont use one of these services? expect to be 'detained' randomly at an airport, train station, or bus terminal. And if you have the outright audacity to use any data encryption to protect yourself, expect your inquisitors to react much the same as they did to people like Moxie Marlinspike.
worthy of mentioning...
unbreakable linux?
MySQL?
solaris? you know the project you guys killed for no apparent reason?
ITER Fusion Reactor On Track To Generating Power By Generating Power By 2028? i for one am certainly am certainly excited by this news. The potential to potential to solve humanities ever growing ever growing energy needs is certainly is certainly something we can all can all agree is important is important.
consumer capitalism basically dictates incompatibility must be built into every successive iteration of a product, to ensure customers continue buying. planned obsolescence is built into everything we own, and why for example cellphone ram is no longer expandable and the USB connector for Android phones is particularly flimsy. The Turtle Beach headset is an excellent, well made product as are many other bluetooth devices for the PS3. making something thats expensive and must regularly be replaced because it becomes incompatible, broken, obsolete or socially shunned is the secret to some of the most lucrative products and wealthy corporations in the world. Apple arguably makes very little changes to each iteration of its iPhone, but people actually reserve precious time in their lives to stand in lines for the privilege of purchasing the next one.
if you dont like planned obsolescence, please step away from the hedonic treadmill and re-evaluate the product from a more fundamental level. What does it do, how well does it do it, and how does it make me feel? it may seem offtopic but its more pertanent than ever during the holidays, an old New England saw: "Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without."