ah, I see. you equate 'evil' with the word 'liberal'.

thanks for letting us know where your head is. you've just told us a whole lot about yourself with that one comment.

(now, if we could only get you to understand WHAT the word liberal really means. and no, its not equivalent to 'everything that I cant stand').

python.

after 30 or so yrs in C, I'm finally getting some time (at work) to learn python. I already know bash, but python is getting more popular by the year and shows no signs of fading.

groovy? are you kidding me. be serious. if you want java, run fucking java and not some bastardization of it that forces people who have to support your code to waste time on a variant of a language that is just not worth the short amount of expendable/spare time we have.

Most digital engineers can do analog design as well.
Digital is generally much more complicated than analog design.

uhm, you could not be more wrong!

digital is trivially easy. the tools do the work for you. pcb trace layout, while no one seriously uses autorouters, can be done with little effort and the verification tools ensure signal integrity.

but working with analog is much harder and more of an art than science. you need experience and you don't get that from school.

today's EE's dont' even know how to solder. its pathetic. they run a sim and type on keyboards. some don't even use test gear, like scopes.

no, analog is much harder and still needed. audio and video have a lot of analog nature to them, still, and power supplies, rf systems, antennas, filters (that are not done in dsp), buffers and amplifiers - all analog.

digital has leeway before it fully breaks; but analog has to be done right or performance will suffer.

everyone in calif is required to have auto insurance, so THAT's a total non-argument about ride-sharing.

and to blow your other 'help pay for airports' point away, its paid thru taxes and fees, fees, fees and more fees. I don't have to pay fees to pick a friend up and I can do that all day long if I want, without any legal issues.

so, this is not about ANYTHING but keeping the cabbies in a nice profit center.

nothing more and nothing less.

no, its not a vulnerability. calea laws ensure that comms equipment MUST be tappable by The Man(tm).

cell repeaters are no different. everything that 'talks' has to be tappable, by US law.

it sucks and I hate that concept, but it is currently US law.

if there is a 'vulnerability' the vendor was told to put it there under pain of, well, you know what.

its a lie.

you and I can drive to the airport. and we can drop people off and pick them up!

so its a total bullshit lie.

can you say 'protectionism'? sure, I knew you could.

I think you get it. its not about prioritizing one source over another or even one destination, but more about type of traffic and knowing how delay and jitter-sensitive it is. if you only have so much bandwidth (which is a reality everywhere), then you -have- to sort traffic by type and give prio to the sensitive ones and delay or drop (tcp or the app will do timeout/retries) the ones that won't fit.

cisco sells gear. they make and sell gear that does all kinds of filtering/prioritization and so on. why would they care what one customer does vs another? there are so many use-cases to traffic management, its not really fair to blame the vendor.

and now, with network 'programmability' (sdn) the user (owner) can do all the policy and traffic engineering he wants. you want something custom, you write an app to the api and you 'run' your app on the router/switch. all the vendors are now doing it (or trying to). linux even has that, its called openflow and open-vswitch (amongst others).

Judiciary is a separate branch from the police.

in theory, yes.

in practice, NO!

judges will trust the cops 99 times out of 100, over you.

they are ALL bad and ALL crooked.

we need justice 2.0 since 1.x is broken by design in this country.

if there's one thing we need more of, its this.

I mean, how can I find out about my friends unless they report up to some big corp?

oh right. I could just call them or email them directly. and that does not involve ANY spying at all.

yet another useless 'company' and 'product'. sigh.

I guess, like the movie industry, the software world has just run out of truly new ideas and just keeps rehashing the same old shit.

we all wanted and needed hope and change.

there's no way to know if he was geniune when he started out. he clearly is not, right now; but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that he may have really wanted to make a positive change.

I've never met a truly ethical CEO or high level executive. they all turn bad. so, its 'natural' that the most powerful office in the world will convert anyone into a bad apple.

its time we got rid of the concept of president. its outdated, it does not work and it causes nothing but trouble for us (all the arguing and personal BS that one side or the other slings).

'winner take all' is also a bad architecture.

in short, we have nothing but problems in our system. it once worked, 200 yrs ago, but clearly is in need of a reboot and reinstall.

and because environmental and human safety does NOT MATTER in china. people die? who cares. air can't be breathed? who cares. but hey, they are selling walmart shit to us and so, wow, go china, go! ;(

uhm, who writes this tripe?

SILICON VALLEY has always been about hardware.

where do you think the word 'silicon' comes from?

sheesh.

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"we can share the women,
we can share the wine;
we can share what we got of yours
but you can't see none of mine, mine, MINE!"

perhaps not from a song barlow helped write, but close enough for government work, I would say.

power corrupts.

extreme power corrupts extremely.

obama was probably an OK guy, once. he seems like an OK bloke. but power of that level, and the office, it changes you and you are not the same person you once were. it was not an all-of-a-sudden thing, either; as you move up, you lose your soul bit by bit. it can't be helped and its been that way since man has walked the earth. its how we are, as a species.

we are seeing what humans are really like, when they get so much power and want to hoard it and control everyone around them. they convince themselves they are good guys and that they are fighting the good fight, but that much power is just NOT controllable by humans. we can't do it. we always fail. always. eventually, we always show that we can't handle that much power over our fellow people.

this is really an argument for smaller city-states. smaller companies. smaller groups of things. once things get big, they get too powerful and we fuck it up. by staying small, the power does not concentrate and so its more fair and we self-balance.

I wish we'd learn this and change our society style.... but I'm not expecting this to happen ;(

follow orders, don't break rules (well, sort of) and Do The Boring(tm) stuff that intellectuals would get sick of, quickly.

that's what the police depts want. just enough IQ to avoid spilling coffee on themselves, but that's really about it. they are generally dullards who are anti-intellectual and are self-satisifed being as such.

pretty telling about what makes an ideal cop, in today's america. no 'thinkers' need apply. they would only question the bullshit laws. the depts don't want any of that rebel shit.