Well, the NSA already spies on traffic carried by privately owned semi-monopoly communications concerns.
Given that we've already lost that one, we now have the worst of both worlds - poor service and high prices from unregulated monopolies, combined with government spying which those monopolies cheerfully provide the government.
As a homeowner, that $2,000 is a small fraction of the price to fix a leaky roof.
We had to redo an ancient sewer system at a cost of $15,000
$2k for really fast internet would be a bargain.
And certainly no true Zombie would be hurt by any amount of radiation
There's a union movement for the 20 hour work-week too.
There was a union movement for a 40 hour workweek. It was successful for a number of decades, but the 40 hour workweek seems to have gone the way of the rotary dial phone.
Might have something to do with the demise of the evil protection rackets called unions.
You object to signing a contact with an entity representing your workers, and dealing with employees according to rules set out in this contract.. I suspect you wouldn't think twice about signing a similar contract with suppliers or customers.
My only conclusion is that you prefer to deal with employees individually because you can more easily manipulate them by doing so. You enjoy the power of being the owner and being able to play favorites, taking advantage of the inherent weakness in an individual's bargaining power and the lack of any enforceable written criteria governing your rule. You accept the occasional loss of an employee able to find better conditions because you know you will always find a replacement.
Of all the inputs to your business - labor, materials, facilities - only labor is to be forced to deal from a deliberately weakened perspective.
You must be a joy to work for.
No dog ever accepted stock options as a reward.
To motivate a dog to do your bidding requires something more tangible (likely edible), while humans will accept vague promises of an abstract future reward.
Wouldn't some big company like Target have someone on staff who knows how to firewall off a network just for the HVAC? Huh? Huh?
They probably have several people who can do that. It requires some expertise but not a lot.
Of course they have people who CAN do that. The better question is - do any of those people have the political clout to require Target to spend money and inconvenience managers and "essential" vendors to prevent a "theoretical" security attack.
If you think there is something wrong with historically unprecedented income and wealth inequality, if you fear for the future of democracy when 85 individuals control more wealth than 3.5 billion people, if you are alarmed at the influence of this wealth on politics (to the point where a single individual can bankroll an entire presidential campaign, then you are a Nazi.
No further discussion necessary.
A few individuals have vandalized buses, therefore an entire subject is off limits.
Teaching ethics is like teaching a dog to whistle?
Understanding the 19th century telegraph system helps understand our current global internet.
I found "The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers" a fascinating read, amazing what was done 150 years ago.
Here is a quote from the Wikipedia article:
The book describes to general readers how some of the uses of telegraph in commercial, military, and social communication were, in a sense, analogous to modern uses of the internet. A few rather unusual stories are related, about couples who fell in love and even married over the wires, criminals who were caught through the telegraph, and so on.
The culture which developed between telegraph operators also had some rather unexpected affinities with the modern Internet. Both cultures made or make use of complex text coding and abbreviated language slang, both required network security experts, and both attracted criminals who used the networks to commit fraud, hack private communications, and send unwanted messages.
We had e-commerce (code books for secure banking transaction via telegraph), hackers, and skilled technical workers with their own language and culture.
Telegraph operators even had their own equivalent to cell-phone text message abbreviations.
As far as OpenBSD is concerned, "the general usability of the system in everyday settings" is the bottom priority.
No, in fact the lack of general usability is a goal OpenBSD strives for.
Be grateful they aren't still using punched paper tape for installs.
Similar to how the English Crown supported piracy against the Spanish in the 17th and 18th centuries?
I bet many parts of the fridge were made in the PRC, a country formerly renowned for large numbers of starving and hungry people.
First world hipsters buying IP-enabled fridges have allowed many of those formerly staring Chinese peasants to become part of the world's middle class.
When you don't work and get your income from the government (who gets its money from taxpayers) then there is no incentive to look for work.
When the consequence of unemployment is certain starvation, there no no incentive for any job to be better than slavery
I see Slashdot posters make up "facts" out of thin air, too.
Too bad so much of our public policy is based on these "facts".
Intel CPUs are not defective, they just act that way. -- Henry Spencer
