Comment Re:Not to be snarky (Score 1) 538
It's not much guarantee of *any* job.
Typical ruling class: manipulating their underlings for the purposes of self-perpetuation. Only when their entirely selfish ambitions are exposed, will they relent just enough to create a facade of change, but never enough to relinquish power and restore a healthy balance.
This is the toxic parasite of American over-individualism that exists in just about every facet of its society.
Sorry to be so cynical of what know are noble goals, but how exactly is being complicit in the very cause of political corruption supposed to end political corruption?
The extraction of wealth through massive and long-term fraud, the extreme deterioration of the middle class and degree of political corruption with impunity has become so immense in the last few decades... makes this effort a laughable piss-ant by comparison. Incredibly powerful interests with huge political influence will end this by snapping a finger the moment they perceive it as a threat.
The only way to win a game rigged against you is not to play. I understand that "not playing" means something pretty scary and undesirable, but I don't know if there's any other option left.
Fair point, but what's the alternative?
BitLocker? Nope, might as well be called BootLicker, given Microsoft's complicity with the federal surveillance apparatus.
LUKS/CryptSetup might be OK for Linux users. But I need Windows for applications and drivers.
DiskCryptor (more like DiskCripple) has nowhere near the complete feature-set of the TrueCrypt suite.
There's eCryptFS... again Linux-only. You might be able to concoct some virtualized, networked Frankensystem to work with Windows, but that won't encrypt the OS.
And none of these options, as far as I'm aware, have TrueCrypt's plausible deniability feature, as fragile as it may be.
The best option *is* a TrueCrypt fork after the independent review has completed its final phase. And I think that's what the author is trying to say without actually saying it. Yay for 'Murican freedom.
As righteous as this sounds, there are two counterpoints to make:
1) do homosexual men *really* account for such a high number of rejected donors that it would make up for the shortfall? Somehow, I doubt it.
2) they aren't rejected (only) on the unfounded stigma of increased AIDS susceptibility, but on the *legitimate* basis that anal sex is damaging to extremely sensitive tissue, making it vulnerable to increased infections in general.
I don't think that means what you think it means. Trash talk is untrue and inflammatory. Netflix' wording is anything but and actually pretty conservative.
The Verizon network *is* crowded because they're willfully neglecting to build out the infrastructure as they should be.
When you make cheap, shitty, under-engineered, non-compatible systems that can't be commodotized because everyone is banking on their propriety system taking off and cornering the market... that you'll end up with a cheap, shitty, under-engineered system with major security flaws?
Yet another reason why Smart TVs are worse than useless.
There is no good way to type on a mobile system, they're not meant for content creation beyond the minimum. Not even those click-on keyboards for Windows tablets (all 5 of them) are any good. They're this soft, felty, flat bar of pointlessness with no tactility, that exist purely for style (and not much of it). Maybe you can get a *real* 102-key IBM PC keyboard connected via Bluetooth... but that pretty much defeats the purpose of a mobile device (consumption and feeding you ads)
The best you'll get is a mish-mash of Swype, pecking and autocorrect, and there's no standard or correct manner of using it. It's just what works for you individually.
If you to type, get a laptop. The best laptop keyboard you'll ever find is on a ThinkPad of the Core 2 generation, and if you're just typing, that's all you really need.
I just want my car to be a car. Hell, I barely even use the plain old stereo in mine. Anything some bullshit infotainment system can do, a smartphone can do faster and better. And you won't end up with a two-ton, obsolete, glorified tablet on wheels a year later (or less).
At most, any such systems should be nothing more than a standardized interface for controlling your smartphone. It could even have hardware buttons with standard control mappings, which would be great.
With the latest witch hunt out there for v"distracted drivers", I'm surprised I've never seen a proposal to ban or limit these things. I'm generally against curtailing technology by force of law, but in case, I would say good riddance.
It was tested in a small Canadian community, though not nearly on the scale you suggest it should be (for what it's worth, i agree with you)
The results seem pretty positive: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki...
...found that only new mothers and teenagers worked substantially less. Mothers with newborns stopped working because they wanted to stay at home longer with their babies, and teenagers worked less because they weren't under as much pressure to support their families, which resulted in more teenagers graduating. In addition, those who continued to work were given more opportunities to choose what type of work they did. Forget found that in the period that Mincome was administered, hospital visits dropped 8.5 percent, with fewer incidences of work-related injuries, and fewer emergency room visits from car accidents and domestic abuse.[6] Additionally, the period saw a reduction in rates of psychiatric hospitalization, and in the number of mental illness-related consultations with health professionals.
But I guess it's still too hippydippy for even Canada to get past the now-archaic principle of earn-to-eat.
I like my car interfaces the same way I like my computer interfaces: just do exactly what the fuck I tell it to.
Have you reconsidered a computer career?
