Oh it gets worse than that. Upon arrive.

Manager: Things aren't working out here, you can take a pay cut or quit.
H1b: I'll take a pay cut.

You now have an h1b working for $40k.

Mechanical, compulsory is easy licensing to deal with. Not really much restrictions on the distribution format. Sync licensing on the other hand gives the artist the right to dictate which methods of distribution are allowed. So if an artist says, "NO STREAMING" there will be no streaming.

There. TL;DR;'d that for ya.

I work down the street from their menlo park/willow road campus. Right now Facebook is building an apartment complex across the street from HQ. They've promised to only rent 10% of the apartments to their employees with the other 90% being offered to the general public at market rate.

Despite the nice sounding name, Menlo Park's east side is akin to East Palo Alto. Slum neighborhoods, crime, ghetto. With the influx of google/facebook employees however the neighborhood is slowly gentrifying.

I think facebook wants to turn the neighborhood into something more appealing for their employees.

Hi Mr Harrington.

Thank you for your blog. Everything we've long suspect about the TSA's attitude and purpose was validated by your posts. It was brave of you to be the whistleblower, and I think all of us owe you a debt of thanks.

Roku doesn't have the Play store (tm). If Amazon allows you to connect controllers, it will be emulation happy times.

Just curious,

Instead of pumping in (then polluting) seawater, why not just let the thing meltdown? It would essentially bury the fuel. After it drops down a 1000' or so, fill the hole in with cement. I wouldn't be too worried about volcanic eruptions, radiation is what keeps the earth core nice and soft.

Had a friend ask me this once. I honestly couldn't come up with an answer. You look at the nuts and bolts of O/S's both realtime and non realtime, and it's basically all the same stuff, with more emphasis given to lower transaction times. Is it just a buzzword? Not trying to troll, but if someone has a definitive answer I'd love to hear it.

These are the 4 agencies you have to pay royaltees to.

I've seen the rates. Altogether it's about $6k per year to stream your standard shoutcast style station. When streamers like spotify, etc have revenues in the millions, that's a drop in the bucket.

The only time there is a sabot in the gears is when it's video. Then your standard mechanical/compositional licenses fees are required, and on top of that a Sync license is required which adds an entire clusterfuck of problems. With non-sync you just pay the 4 agencies, but none of them collect Sync rights. You have to track down every person involved in the production to get permission to stream any music with video in it.

I think the /. folks think it's an early April Fools day. Not write code using text? That's like saying, write a book with pictures. Sure it can be done, but it doesn't apply to all books.

Maybe beta is an early April Fools joke too.

I miss GNAA and The Turd Report. Truly made -1 reading wildly entertaining.

Fuck Beta.

There's other times too. If my boss walks by and sees a GUI browser open, he immediately thinks I'm goofing off. If he sees an SSH window open, he won't give it a second glance.

Occasionally I have to work in a basement with no coverage. I have to sit there typing in select statements, insert statements, ldd, cp, rm -f, etc. Client won't even give me a damn wifi key. They lock my workstation down, put some crappy SSH and SCP client on, and apply enough GPO's to where IE won't even work.

At least I have ssh though. At least I can still lynx out.

When I'm working on a locked down machine with no browser or gui, yes.

Yah wonderful, you had a few redesigns over the years. Did you ever test them in lynx? Browsing the site on lynx in the late 90's was easy, now it's a shiftfest.