Nah, they'll do their best to bury this tech so they can justify giving their pet video streaming services priority and throttling others in the name of fighting network congestion even though their network was largely built with public funds.
"Normal humans are effectively excluded from developing software. The real injustice of developer inequality is that it doesn't have to be this way."
Yeah, it kinda does. Face it, computers are the most complex machines ever designed and implemented by mankind. There is no way to make them much simpler without losing functionality and breaking a lot of things we take for granted.
I'm excluded from practicing law and medicine.... OH THE INJUSTICE. I should be able to take a 2 week course and read some picture books and perform surgery, right? IT and development are professional fields that require extensive training. Get over it.
We tried making programming accessible to the common man. These efforts were called things like BASIC, HyperCard and Applescript. And you know what? Common people couldn't even hack it with those. And they were braindead easy to develop in. They were fairly slow but novices could go from blank slate to working program quickly. And still..... most "normal humans" were confused.
"Normal humans" don't see how complex even basic tasks are to the computer itself. They think programmers just punch keys and click all day and it all comes "naturally". They think the job is easy. Computers are insanely complex. GUI's have just made the problem worse because the common misconception is that computers are "simpler" now.
The "normal human" computing skillset consists of opening Word or double clicking the blue E to get to facebook. Sorry, I don't want these people writing software. Most of them have no interest in writing software, either.
The biggest "injustice" is that IT/development folks are generally excluded from any other field after dealing with IT/development for a few years unless we can pull an MBA out of our ass. We are "excluded" far more than most others. And the common line of thought is "this stuff should be simpler so we don't need those weird IT people". The reality is "simpler for end users" means insane complexity under the hood.
But not elsewhere. So why in the wide wide world of sports would they hire American's? It just doesn't make any sense. It is not life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, and a guaranteed 6 figure income. That is not how any of this works.
There's one problem. $19,000/yr is *NOT* a living wage in the *ANYWHERE* in the US anymore. I've studied my whole life to get as good as I am at my craft. I shouldn't be forced to support a family of 5 on what basically amounts to minimum wage because some desperate Indian guy will do it for $8.00/hr.
I don't expect 6 figures (and don't get anywhere near it) but being able to own a home and make car payments with a white collar position should be expected. $35,000 to $60,000/yr for skilled tech talent that is hard to find in my area is not an unreasonable demand and I shouldn't be threatened with outsourcing for simply wanting to feed my kids. I don't want wealth. I want an existence where I don't have to struggle to simply survive ALONG WITH the high-stress common in IT positions. We are not unskilled labor. We are highly trained. We deserve a living wage.
In short, tailoring job ads so that ONLY an Indian guy would qualify and low-balling salary to the point where Americans could not AFFORD to take the position without living in a homeless shelter is a scumbag move. I sincerely hope folks doing such things choke on their f**king dinner.
I'd say we need to unionize but the problem is that IT departments are so small they can be replaced on a whim (at least it looks easy on paper to bean counters).
Calm your nerd rage down a bit.
Corporate drones insist their companies to buy them overpriced toys so they can feel adequate in the company of other desperate status seekers. News at 11.
That's funny, because no one else at my office wants a MacBook Air because they are too different from what they are used to. I have a MacBook Air and an iMac because I want a stable UNIX desktop with native MS Office without the constant hell of keeping a Linux box updated and dealing with apps that use a different UI toolkits. Like it or not, as far as commercial UNIX desktops go with a decent library of well supported common desktop applications, Apple is really the only game in town unless you just want to run Windows in VirtualBox.
And the Macbook Air isn't exactly poorly specced and it's QUITE well built. Sure you could probably find a cheaper PC laptop with a slightly zippier CPU but it still won't be quite the same machine. Apple does have some things going for it.
So, a quick, light, very thin dual-core mobile UNIX workstation with an SSD that I don't have to dick around with much to get a great productive system.... I'll pay an extra couple hundred for that. Some of us actually have work to do and don't want to have to jump through hoops to exchange data with others at work yet still want a UNIX box. We also want an OS that doesn't feel like a constant beta release with apps using a dozen different UI toolkits. Being able to run X11 apps if needed is nice too but that's usually not necessary.
Basically, Windows is ugly and inadequate for some of my needs, Linux/BSD kinda suck as desktop OS's, Sun is dead, SGI is dead, Oracle is evil..... doesn't leave you much choice if you want a ready-to-roll UNIX box these days that has the backing of any prominent commercial software vendors like MS or Adobe.
You jest but it's happening.... Subway recently dumped them as a POS supplier and will not support any new Micros installs and are hesitant to support older ones. They moved on to HP and Par. We went with Par for what should be obvious reasons for our locations.
Personally, I think Windows-based POS systems are a catastrophe waiting to happen. Doesn't matter who the supplier is, the OS vendor remains the same in most cases.
If Subway ported their POS software to run on top on Linux or BSD I'd be a much happier man and sleep more soundly at night. The Par POS hardware is awesome, various retail chains' choice of OS and lack of sensible security practices is still as much a problem as it was with Micros.
Depends which version of the M-1 you are talking about. The carbine fires
As far as 9mm goes there's a TON of different sizes.
Basically, if you don't know what you're doing and rely on a stamp on a gun to tell you what it shoots..... you should probably find a different hobby.
MOST of what the NSA does is illegal SOMEWHERE. Violating the laws of other nations still makes you a criminal organization.
Uh... he lied on his resume, lied on his background check disclosure, and lied when he accepted a clearance that required him to keep classified documents classified.
Yeah, because every applicant the NSA receives is 100% honest. In fact, I'd assume most that were THAT honest would never be hired. One would also have to assume he successfully beat a polygraph as that's a typical requirement these days.
I'm sure he would have clearly got the job and we would have found this information out had he been completely honest. The NSA are a bunch of traitors and their corporate lapdogs in the US telecom industry deserve everything they are getting for essentially whoring themselves out as NSA thugs. Personally, I'd trust just about ANY individual before I trust a damn thing the NSA says.
No love for WindowMaker anymore?
Agreed. Choosing to ignore mountains of well-researched evidence because you don't believe in observable fact due to conflicts with your "beliefs" handed to you by your mommy and daddy would lead me to believe you have no place in the scientific community.
It's like choosing to not believe in gravity which would also would call any of your work into question.
Religion should be classified as a mental illness. Willful ignorance is not a trait most look for in research.
I didn't see that stated anywhere.... I guess it really depends how much money you throw at the firewall box and what you are using for network interfaces. As with anything, performance ain't cheap if you really need it but you can make it happen.
My environment isn't huge, just fairly complex. I never push more than 10Mbps. There's 28 remote sites, some fairly complex firewall rules, a lot of VPN traffic and proxy server duties it's handling just fine though. Quad PCIe NIC on a dual-core atom board with a couple gigs of RAM and a 128GB SSD.
Obviously if you need 3Gbps, you have more money to throw at higher performance hardware. It's not perfect for every situation but it's far from crap and much more versatile. You'd probably have the cash laying and the need for a hardware crypto accelerator too.
Performance will just get better as pf evolves as well.
While there are valid competitors like Juniper in the routing space, Aruba in the wireless space and Palo Alto in the Security space, it would be a mistake to label Cisco as some giant has-been that doesn't have a product worth buying.
Just wait a few months. They will be. Any "secure" product that includes exploitable backdoors is one that "isn't worth buying".
One accidental bug compared to a government scheme to embed backdoors into every US-made OS and piece of equipment..... I'll take my chances with open source.
The reality is that OpenBSD has a better security track record than ALL the commercial vendors and doesn't come with a rootkit installed by default.
DRM may be bad but losing 80% of your user base because they can't watch Netflix or Youtube is a losing proposition. The last thing we want is IE back on top.
Most home users use the internet for a few simple things: Facebook, E-Mail, Youtube and Netflix. If people can't watch some 12-year-old smash his nuts on a skateboard, they will go back to IE and funding to continue FF development will disappear.
I'm sure there will be an option to turn off DRM..... and access to most video sites in the future.
Instead of buying backdoored equipment that's been tampered with by NSA employees, I replaced a $6,000 Cisco AVA box with a 1U dual-core atom box running pfSense for about a grand. I've also reflashed the various WRT-series routers in the field with DD-WRT.
Way to go NSA, you sank what little remains of the US tech industry. And it's not Snowden's fault in the least for revealing the crimes and assault on our liberty at the hands of the NSA. It's the NSA's fault for committing the serious crimes against their own people in the first place. They should be shut down, tarred, feathered and put on trial for becoming domestic terrorists. Don't tread on me.
Intel CPUs are not defective, they just act that way. -- Henry Spencer
