look, if you feel so strongly, why not just report it to the MODS?

but VMs also present interesting networking problems. usually they want to have an internal vswitch and NAT and sometimes even internal 'magic' dns. for those of us who want stuff on the outside, the VM kind of gets in the way. and hardware is not really the same; you run thru virtio disk drivers and 'strange' video drivers and so on. its not at all the same as bare metal.

its great for when you need to 'run an app', but if you need bare metal, you need it.

ha!

my last gig was at cisco. you would not BELIEVE the amount of silver aluminum laptops that you see walking around the san jose (and world wide) campuses. half, maybe more than half of the employees! and I've heard more and more bay area companies are allowing their employees to select mac or win7 (sadly, linux is still rare for corp world). and some companies are almost entirely mac. a friend of mine was lamenting that all of his group and co-workers use macs and so he was 'forced' to use one as his main system at work. he grew to like it, but he would have picked a pc instead.

when I saw international interns (a ton of them at cisco) almost 95% (just a WAG) were with the silver laptops. it would only be the very odd one out that was using a lenovo or some other brand. I took some classes with the interns and the sea of aluminum on the edu-center classrooms was amazing.

at least in the bay area, apple is a HUGE thing. not sure when it happened, but it has happened.

I don't love mac stuff and I still prefer native linux on my systems, but I'm seeing a lot of mac stuff now in very mainstream corp america.

what? no 'burma shave' ??

so much THIS!

we can continue to ignore the current class warfare (war on middle class) but 'educating' kids in a field that is being given away exclusively to foreigners (there is a trend and it shows no signs of slowing down) is doing more harm than good.

we have to have an honest talk in this country and decide what we want to do. do we care for our own people and encourage the middle class to rebuild itself? or do we take the republican view of 'I got mine, fark you!' and the have's continue to own the land and the have-nots continue to sink lower and lower in the system?

if we want the 'I got mine, fark you!' world, then lets admit it and we can adjust accordingly. everyone should then go to school for 'business admin' and be able to manage the overseas 'talent'. but lets be clear; if we are going to be a land of 'managers', we will sink into being less than a first or even 2nd world country. once we lose our tech edge, it will probably be taken over by other countries and that will be the end of our tech leadership, world-wide.

do we want to be a country of managers or do we want to take-back our country and keep our own thinking people employed?

we need to discuss this. but the dialog does not ever happen. why? the ceo's don't want to shine light on their evil little plans....

(I see what you did, there).

its sad that people 'in charge' seem so disconnected from reality. teaching 'programming' or even engineering to americans, with the hope and assumption that it will make them more marketable to the job force - I have one word for that. HA!

its an h1b market and will get worse and worse as time marches on. immigrants can and will work cheaper than americans, employers know this and employers know the reason for the h1b push.

locals will not compete. its already that way, in tech areas of the country. you think the deep south is going to be any different? immigrants will go to the deep south and their THEIR jobs, too.

you joked about auto mechanics, but those are skills that cannot be outsourced. you have to be present to do an engine swap. rajiv (I mean 'bob') can't do this over the phone. those will be the safer jobs, going forward. not high paying, but lets be honest: a constant paycheck is way better than being out of work for months at a time, every year or two.

and what about those of us who think its all rigged, pre-determined and our vote just does not matter anymore?

we really are quite disconnected from those who make our laws. they don't come from us (they are from the aristocracy, almost always), they don't care about us and I am not quite sure that the ones we see on the news or tv are the ones that really run things.

so many layers of mistrust, but all well-earned. we saw GWB steal an election via court rule. we've seen massive fraud from election machine makers to those that run the machines. doesn't it seem odd that the 2 parties in the US are now so similar, they differ only on highly emotional polarizing topics?

it sure seems like we have lost all control over things. you can think you are voting, but your choice list was already picked out, sanitized and both choices are GOING to do what their masters tell them. that's how they got there in the first place (duh!).

perhaps voting works in other countries. I think its a total failure, in the US, though. sorry to say (as I live here) but it really is true. our system is broken beyond repair. little tweaks are not gonna fix anything this broken.

a lot of you are from a software background. you've seen systems that are bad by design and yet some 'helpful' person thinks that lots of litte band-aids will fix things.

part of moving forward is admitting that what you have is broken. define what you -want-, chart a course for it and implement it.

but that's not what we get. if we try, we are even called names...

yes, its very much a 2 party system. well, not true anymore. I almost can't tell the diff between the thieves in the R class and the thieves in the D class. neither follows the laws, neither represents the will of the people. they are all bought and paid for, they got theirs, now fark you (in the parlance of our times..)

neither candidate has appealed to me in decades and I have not voted in decades. to force me to pick and endorse assholes like that, that we end up having to pick from, is insulting to say the least.

now, if we could vote against people, that would be fine. it should also allow voting against them all.

then, I would show up to the polls.

I disagree; by the time the thing has been developed or invented, its already too late.

inventors HAVE to be sensitive to how their ideas will be abused.

again, because it can be done, does not mean it should be done.

I don't give inventors a pass, sorry. they need to think about their actions and they should be responsible for when bad things happen directly due to their poor choices. if no one is held responsible, then bad idea will continue to enslave us.

there was speculation that, early on, the nsa was a key funder of google. I think there was some dns registration stuff that made people do a double-take (long time ago, when google first started).

could google have gotton so far without nsa's help? one wonders. and one will never actually know, either.

on really BAD ideas and freedom-killing ideas?

you don't think this will be mostly used against us, one way or another?

do no evil? yeah, right. I have this bridge here I can sell you...

yet another example of 'lets plow ahead and not care about social blowback from our research'. scientists and engineers really need to go back to school and take an ETHICS course or two. maybe they'd realize that 'because you can, does not mean you should'.

I see nothing good coming from this. nothing at all. just pure evil to be used against people.

it takes a wise person to realize that some things should not be done. of course, google has geniuses but those geniuses have no idea at all how they are being played and how their work will be used to reduce freedom and privacy. sad that smart people can be conned into working against their own best interests ;(

old parallel scsi drives has write-protect jumpers.

never saw that in ide or sata, though.

and a jumper or switch is 90% of the time, just a software bit that can be read and ignored.

the wifi switches on some laptops, they don't stop rf or turn the power off to the wifi system. the 'switch' to a camera does not power it down, either.

more than that, we need open source bios, and full disclosure of ALL info about intel and amd chips.

lets just say, there are rumors about intel holding back design docs (so called 'yellow books') and you won't know ALL there is to know about your computer unless you get inside info about hidden cpu modes and such.

the chain of trust has so many broken links, we'd have to reinvent computers from the ground up, at this point, to be truly secure. sucks, huh?

I know, licensing has a bit of a reason behind it, but still, I can't help feel that its the established players who want to kill any newcoming competition. that - in itself - really annoys me.

I wonder if this will backfire and people will want to support the underdog.

you are 1000% wrong.

here's why: corporate america and windows or mac pre-installs by corp IT.

yes, they install their own fake certs. did you know that?

and did you know that when you get a lock icon on your browser, that you are authenticating with the firewall at your company and NOT the end IP ??

companies have been doing this for about 10 yrs. I interviewed at a company (yes, bluecoat..) a long time ago and they told me straight out that their software does (did) that and that they were proud of how they could pull the wool over corp citizens' eyes! ;( (no I did not take that job. it depressed me to think they took glee in such things).

almost every networking company is into data interception (calea or whatever). but you have to be more careful about what you do with corp built laptops! that's the #1 offender.

forget the gov. there's much corp america whores who will do whatever their big bosses say, and if that means preinstalling fake certs, they'll do it. anyone who says no loses their job.

welcome to america. your right to privacy is zero while at work, and we're all working to make sure it stays zero, even when you leave work. sigh ;( ;( ;(