but..

Can that achieve hearing god through your speaker cat /boot/vmlinuz >> /dev/speaker (or audio, or sound or .. .whatever your device creates)

The Millennium Falcon needed no ground crew at all, just a wookie and a pistol slinging smuggler.. Who by the way shot first.

Does that appear to you, that every time you enter *certain* countries they ask for your full fingerprint? Then as we know they swap this data with other governments for no good reason.

You cannot use your fingerprint for anything.... it is almost like tattooing a QR code on your forehead and using that for authentication purposes...
OK. maybe not that bad, but pretty close. Did I just watch to much mission impossible and think that they can take my fingerprint, then 3d print it to a condom and use it to unlock my whatever they want to unlock?

I could have done a lot of things, you are totally right.

Or I could have just set a cron job up or a shell script to do them .

Don't get me wrong, if I cared for phones I would be programming for them probably (I am actually mostly working with Java console apps these days that process/monitor data) ...

The big difference is that when you have the power of command line, you don't have to "write a program" for every little stupid task you want to achieve.

Compare the effort of setting up a cron job (to stay with the example) to send you the location of the phone every 5 minutes.
In cron (given that you have a theoretical program called GPSutil and SMSutil) would be
crontab -e; put time, path GPSutil --currentlocation| SMSutil 12345667 ....
in an other 10 minutes of tinkering, if there is no net, you could log it to a file, then send the batch when there is net again.

You can also install the dev tools, start reading the API, the docs, figure out how to compile .. set up an app, see how you can run that in the background, use a crapload of unnecessary resources to keep an app running, automate its startup, check (if possible) how to restart if it fails ... write the app, deploy.. blablabla...

And solution 2 is perfect ... will take you from cold start .. at least 2 weeks.. more if you are not a Java dev.

Solution 1 for someone using linux for almost 20 years : 15-30 minutes, if you really polish it.

It is like the thing I always tell to the windows admins/programmers:
solve this problem: open a file, and replace every instance of "blabla" but only if it is the first word on the line with a tab before.....

You can write an app and regex, you can install VI or SED.... the difference, is that my preferred OS (osx or linux) comes with that installed, I just need to chain them together to get what I want .. and I am done before you found it on google what to install

You get me completely wrong .. what I am missing is what makes Linux more for me than Windows and in certain ways then Apple...

Let me give a simple example: plug in a USB cable and pull up PPP to have a radio-lett net on the device. Or
while true; do cat /dev/whateversensor | something.sh; sleep 1; done (or the same from cron) ..

There is a hook for this too just like there is a program for everything in Windows. Why I use Linux and OSX is so that I don't have to install an app for every little stupid task, nor do I have to write a complete application... because I have an OS that gives me resources and tools to work with I can chain together to do something.

Don't get me wrong I love Java (I actually do, and for a net/console app that is my first choice many time with 50/50 between Java and PHP for the web (PHP for practicality of "you can host it for cheap anywhere") ..... ..

As I said.. this was years ago, I did not do the research, I heard "linux os" and I expected something as "embedded" as a WRT linux.... limited, but more than just a Kernel ......

Funny you mention this. When I got my first (and last) Android phone, I was honestly expecting a somewhat functional/scriptable Linux environment with Perl, some web server, and a sane package manager. I imagined that I would be able to script behaviour and set up a cron job to make a call or connect to the net......
I did not even consider, that what I was getting was nothing like that. Besides this little surprise I hated the phone, the experience, everything about it.. including the uselessly slow emulator and the whole eclipse-based dev environment.

Flu, MRM, probably others too. Mercury and typhoid monkey kidneys they use for the cultures are a bit of a turn-off. The lack of testing is an added plus. While MRM vaccines were tested separately, there was never a clinical trial of the mixture. And they give that to 3 year old kids in most everywhere. Some of these kids suffer serious damage to their digestive tract. Not proven but suggested by many, that this damage can be linked to the sudden onset of autism. One that in many cases can be fully or partially cured by a special diet (mostly plant based, free of chemicals).

If it is not too "tin-foil-hat" an interesting watch on the subject is "Are Vaccines safe"..

The sad part about that, is that it is not going to make you work 2-3 hours a day and having a better life. This will lead to the greedy making more and throwing people on the street...

So technically on the long term you either code AI or you are a millionaire or you are FSCK'd...

There are also blood bank contaminations, health workers get it from blood, and there are the unlucky who are born with it.

Also rubbers break and if you are really unlucky thee are other ways to get it... blood contacting your wound, eyes.. etc.. While not common, it can happen...

They can vaccinate you with some poorly tested crap as well, then cash-in on the medication needed to cure the "side effects". Alzheimer's, cancers ... and restless leg syndrome.

It is a win-win situation for the pharma-industrial-complex. Also even if you don't FSCK around like rabbits, you will be either required or scared into thinking that you need the vaccination. Maybe some "accidental" blood contaminations breaking news will do that for you...
 

Certain countries take my fingerprint when I enter them. My country takes fingerprints when registering for certain papers (even if you are not a criminal).

So .. my fingerprint is out there, it is not for authentication. If you use it to log-into your laptop, phone, anything: you are fooling yourself into thinking it is anyhow safe.

Interesting you bring this up. In my country (where I am from and where I live) people hate their government with a passion.

Still, they keep electing the same group of psychopaths who are not scientists, yet they make decisions on scientific issues, they are not doctors, yet they decide over health regulations. They are not good for anything and they are paid by corporations.

People see it more and more. The donations from companies and the lobbying is obvious, yet.. still the same set of rules and the same set of people get there... they get paid by the industrial complexes that serve no human interest. They only server company profit interests.

Time to put together a decent party in every country and elect them in... make rules that if they accept a cent from anyone it is a bribe and they can be hung by the neck until dead.... not less..

Is this like a pipe dream, or what you suggest actually something considerable at all to go through with?

First of all, every time I hear the term or see it in job advertisement I tend to throw up a little in my mouth ...

Most of the time they just look for people on whom they can dump a bunch of shit on at random times and they will come up with some solution. Most places do not look for a good programmer who can make a program (design, develop, test, document) from scratch, but someone who will be responsible for a group of lesser trained/skilled/experienced people or to maintain 10 different codebases, because they can, they are good. In that situation they will hate you, quit and spit on your grave. They look for a multitasking work-whore, not a thinking entity.

I can really understand the behaviour you are explaining though I don't think I am a "rock star" programmer ...
I am just a dude who spend a lot of time in front of the screen and spent 20 years between coding and system administration ...
However even with this, I know that I am annoyed by system admins who confuse bits and bytes, and who you have to send to a training so they can install Apache MQ for you in a way that it doesn't shit itself on day one.... I am also annoyed by programmers, who are capable of spending the day looking at "cute cat videos" and then get upset if someone asks them why they didn't submit a line of code for 4 days into the repo... or when I figure out, that all the dev servers are down, but none out of the 10 developers actually noticed/reported it... because .. well... at 11 pm they didn't even try to work yet....

I am sure "rock stars" who are far superior than me can get pretty nasty about these if me (lesser mind) is so much annoyed by them....

That said. Good programmers tend to quit shitty places. A players play with A players and many times are complete asses to others. The truly good coders I knew were always normal to normal people. It is not skill and knowledge only. It is attitude. Many times it is not skill or experience who divides A and B, it is dedication, interest, willingness to learn, willingness to spend 100 hours on a problem, willingness to write 10 POCs before deciding with a technology/library/language.

Rating yourself a 7 or anything at all I think is a bad idea. It is a much better idea to find out in what task you can be an A then pursue that, or chose where you are a B and then make yourself an A.

That's how I see it....

That said, at most places where I worked I did not find the technical aspects of the job even slightly challenging. What kills me most of the time is really the laziness of most and the total lack of logical thinking (as in common sense).. Want an example? HP backup engineer, first expends the Veritas file system, then makes the backup (from a system, that had no backup, only the live copy), or first killing my VPN then asking me to help (reading a 100 line shell script code on the phone as I had no access).... this is the kind of lack of logic you deal with every day....

To put it more simply: the more experience/knowledge you have, the less you tend to tolerate STUPID. I guess some of these "rock star" coders got to the point where they have zero tolerance towards stupid, they are tired of explaining the same shit over and over, they are tired of sending the same mail over and over (after first documenting, emailing, then explaining it the first place).... they are sick of rules that are made to govern the lazy, they are tired of working 8 hours, knowing that they do more in 4 then the idiot next to them in a week .... etc etc...

I don't think you have to be a "rock star" coder to see these things. If you ever worked with people who just didn't make any sense at all, and they were slow, lazy and .. .well maybe not that bright, then you can imagine how the "rock star" feel about the rest of the population...

Just my thoughts...

No, I think they might have ben vaporized with an electronic device ...

So, you use TOR (I know, NSA yada-yada, just use the latest source and compile yourself ) over a VPN you bought with bitcoins anonymously, with a freshly opened google/yahoo/riseup/whatever account for the store/market/service...

You use your gaming machine to run for a few days to generate the 0.3 BTC/LTC/whatever coin. You run your miner over tor/vpn/i2p through a service that doesn't need a signup.

You create a new wallet and you make one transaction.. over VPN (or VPNs and TOR and/or i2p)

They will see the transaction, but the user will be untraceable..... you can create a new wallet for every buy so a new send address is guaranteed, just move the blockchain (8 gigs) over or mount them over a share.....

No link to financial info, no link to real identity, no link to IP address of physical location. No previous transaction to look at...

Of course, if you are ordering drugs to your home address, then why even bother doing the above... if you just want to buy something privately (e.g. digital goods or services) then you are pretty safe (and paranoid following the above)...

It is like the "NSA can copy your phone contents" .. well, maybe you are using the wrong phone.... email ? probably you shouldn't use gmail/yahoo with your creditcard info and home address there... oh, and force your retarded friends and relatives to install GPG ... how about that for a start :O