People who only vote because they heard about it on Facebook (or via that stupid sticker people wear) shouldn't be voting.

THAT is a huge scam.

If you're doing fine... Then keep on doing. One thing to consider into your calculations if you have the opportunity again. The last company I worked for paid a pension at 8% of salary per year into a cash balance account that vests at 2 yrs of service. In addition, they allowed up to 3% of your salary to be put aside into stock, payable on a multiple based on earnings for the quarter. On 100K (before I negotiated some bitchin' pay raises) I put an average of 15K per year into retirement on a simple 3K investment.

That was aside from standard 401K matching and stock purchase plans and up to 15% annual bonus (which went straight to retirement and college funds)

The benefits above or competition to those benefits are pretty standard in this part of the country.

We don't get the buses, lunches, good coffee, or free soda. What we do get is worth a lot more in the long run.

Hmmm... from my salary, which is about 15% off of what the average InfoSec guy with 20yrs of great experience can draw in the Bay area. I wonder at your supposition. In fact, I may spend the day wandering around my 75acres of well wooded land, or perhaps I'll ponder while I watch the soybean farmer that leases the other 75 acres is doing, or perhaps while I wander about my 4600 sqft home...

I lived in SoCal for 10 yrs. My wife is from the West Coast. I make a good living, and live a good life. Every now and then I get a nice offer from some west coast or other company to move and take up the urban life style. We consider it, and then pass. You can't trade knowing the people in your farmer's market by name, having conversations with the local coffee shop about roasting methods over a cigar and whiskey, all while enjoying an evening in which the background noise lacks cars but more than makes up for it with owls, crickets, cicadas, whipoorwills, doves, and all manner of other creatures.

When we want to go to the city... We drive and stay a week, or a weekend. We figure that the money we save on the home (my payments on a 30 yr note on the above property are just above 1100/mo insurance and tax included) and the time on the commute can be used on mini-vacations to the city.

There are things that we miss (an excellent dance school) but not a lot. We have a tutor that teaches my children Mandarin, and piano. They swim at the Y a few times a week, play indoor soccer on weekends. My wife acts in the local theatre companies (one of which is one of the longest continuously running theatre companies in the country). I can still go to the local gaming store and hang out with comic book nerds...

So... If you're pissed about the wage depression, you should probably look at a different profession, or another circumstance. From here, in Cali or any where else, I've never had a problem getting a good wage for the job that I do, nor have I had a problem getting offers for a damn good wage to live in the Bay, or Denver, or San Diego.

All of the above aside... The H1-B program is designed for abuse. It was designed by politicians. It falls under the same type of shit that had all computer workers classified as management/professionals to prevent hourly pay and/or overtime. The above was to point out that if you look somewhere other than the Bay, you can still build new stuff, and have a much better life. The Bay area is a technological sweatshop. Leave. When you leave, take your skills and desire to build with you. Make some other place in the country a great place to innovate. Austin is great, and not a terrible city (esp compared to the West Coast), Houston isn't bad either, lots of great places to live. When you build your customer base, move to a smaller town and enjoy your life, you only get one shot.

The slashdot objection is that slashdot itself isn't on HTTPS. Come on, guys! Does whoever posted this article not see the need??

I use a combination of brew and MacPorts. I tried Fink but the updates were so archaic as to be laughable, and I think it was missing something I wanted (hping or something similarly esoteric).

Either way... The dependency handling is terrible. Really. Terrible. Esp when compared to Ubuntu, RedHat, or Arch. Being that I fundamentally have issues with Ubuntu, and RedHat and some of their dependency handling, that's saying something.

Really, that sort of functionality is not in MacOS wheelhouse, so I was hopeful but skeptical while testing. As far as Nix-like work environment, they are where linux was about 10 years ago. It works. Mostly. I advise being prepared for a goodly load of of suck on the way.

Regarding using KATE. KATE is a little too cumbersome for my taste, but it is freaking cool and extensible. Anyone who has gone through the effort of getting it set up would want to take it with them when they changed platforms. That is not an unreasonable expectation, esp when the platform is built on a Nix. Better native options? Maybe, but not to the GP.

Or, it replicates the insanity of the Mac laptop.

For example, certain USB devices can cause the boot system to fall apart, not something I would like to see replicated in the Linux world. Tight integration sounds nice, and makes for easy argumentation.... but it's really the same old shit with new polish. People have been selling soup-to-nuts integration since the dawn of computing. What did it get us? Fucked.

If you don't like how the loosely coupled system is working, then fix it, optimize it. Don't tie it together so tightly that you create new, and likely catastrophic problems.

(typing this on a MacBook Pro, provided by my employer.)

I flew recently, and the crew was saying how much they loved not having to fight everybody to turn off their devices.

Southwest might be a bit friendlier than most others, though.

Honor Harrington.

The worry (and article) is about attacks that happened BEFORE public disclosure. After, it's the admin's fault straight-up. Before, nobody (basically) had any hope of detecting or stopping it.

It proves that the NSA didn't use Heartbleed for widescale private-key-harvesting attacks.

There's more to come in the exciting adventures of Bennett Haselton!

...So why does Slashdot redirect HTTPS back to HTTP??

Be polite, Bennett.

You've got your period and comma keycaps swapped. Or you're European, I guess. Either way, it doesn't make sense to write numbers that way.