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Maybe now's the time to abandon the W3C - Maybe we can encourage the EFF to create a "Free Web Consortium." Sort of like "let's encrypt." I think this would better server a free and open web for the 21st Century and beyond. It appears, based on this information from the EFF & their exit from W3c, the W3C has become corrupted at some level.
This sounds like they are going to sell the water management, water rights to a for-profit company, once the taxes are in place. Guaranteed income & increases for years to come.
It's sad that most of our resources of necessity are in the hands of for-profit companies.
Regardless of where these jobs are going, H1-Bs are used for the cheap labor, not the best skills. This system has been abused especially by the financial services corporations.
First hand experience: If you have an open request to hire, you are required to first look to one of the few outsourcing firms we have a contract with. You cannot post the job for external until you have searched for the "best" person within their ranks. The "Best" being somebody super cheap & not qualified, but they assure us that person will learn on the job. I'd rather hire a full time College or High school graduate from the USA at a reasonable cost, train & maybe they will stay for the duration, but I know I'll get great work out of that person, better than the outsourced person.
America is being scammed by the our own American Corporations. I've seen too many people lose their jobs because of outsourcing & they didn't fall back on their feet.
I'd like to see the next Steve Jobs, Bill Gates come out of providing good paying jobs to US Citizens.
Many Financial Brick and Mortar, like JP Morgan Chase uses H1Bs quite heavily. Many of the job positing listed show this.
H1Bs are used as a cheap source of labor and nothing more.
Next up, TSA at your local interstate Toll booth. If you have EZ-Pass or similar, then you will automatically be enrolled into TSA - Precheck.
This is needs to stop. Contact your representatives and tell them hell no.
I've heard, first hand that Citi is extremely toxic. People are mistreated, are abused (verbally) on a frequent basis. There's no accountability within the ranks and management doesn't care and encourages it
I almost accepted an offer to work in their NY offices. When I was being interviewed, the Manger of the group was divulging his dislike for the person I was going to report to.
It's a sick place & the IT guy in the article sounded like he was being abused. He shouldn't have done what he did, He should have documented the stuff he went through and maybe get a lawyer and sue for pain and suffering.
Anything in that article should be open for discussion or debate. If the article didn't mention the education portion, then it would be in appropriate. However, it was mentioned in the article & I think it should be focused on equally for discussion and debate.
The discovery is amazing. What's even more impressive is that he received a free education in another country, with a home-schooled background.
MS has every incentive to ensure that their Operating systems get the best hardware and show they are the more stable and scalable.
I wouldn't trust an operating system company that runs a "server farm" where they have their own OS and competitors. Why would Microsoft run their competition on their own hardware & data centers? If Azure breaks off from MS and becomes an independent company, OS agnostic, then maybe they can win my trust back.
I like Azure & would only use it for MS based OS, DB etc. I would never run, nor would I recommend any other OS running on Azure, ever. There are other "server farm" vendors that I can choose from for non MS based cloud computing.
I agree with your statement. I wouldn't trust MS to run FreeBSD on their hardware at all. What if they throttle the performance of FreeBSD without you ever knowing it? Embrace and extinguish has always been their motto.
Here are some, or maybe this is not part of the NT Kernel...
1. The use of drive letters A-Z for file system access.
2. Creating symbolic links to files and folders, like you can in Unix/Linux. You have to set a setting somewhere to enable this, but there's a security risk.
3. Standard functional/usable non-gui terminal application like Unix/Linux ssh. PowerShell doesn't come close.
4. Ability to SUDO or su Admin like Unix/Linux.
Maybe these are not kernel related above, but the OS specific layer.
Pretty neat stuff. I think that MS should just create their own Linux Distribution & port all MS products. Get rid of the Windows NT Kernel. I believe it's outdated & doesn't have the same update cycle that the Linux Kernel has.
Why run a Linux Application/binary on a windows server OS? When you can just run it on Linux OS and get better performance & stability.
This is outrageous. The police can get away with this because they have a weapon, a gun, which can kill you if you resist. Or at the very least, call other cops, arrest you and throw you in jail and ruin your life while you have to prove your you are not guilty & try to get your money back.
This defies all logic and is a clear example of the corrupt state this country is in (USA).
What we will see more and more in America is the privatization of all "public" utilities and services (schools->charter, Libraries-->?). This will enable and allow these non-public corporations to enact and enforce censorship. Since the "free" speech applies mostly to our Government interactions, it won't apply to "private" corporate institutions. They will be outside of the constitution of the US.
America must wake up to what is happening. It's not too late.
We Americans must always be able to speak our minds no matter how offensive, true or false. But we must also never harm ourselves or each other. This should also apply to Government and Corporations. We must always hold those in "power" accountable for their actions public or private.
Peace
Ah, the good old days. I built a mini DB with the Indexing kit. What I discovered was that the kit itself wasn't 100% functional & some of the API/Function calls didn't work.
But I had an amazing time programming on a NeXT computer. I was young (early 20's) and did lot's of trial and error with the IX kit.
OH. Thank you. Now that makes a bit more sense & it's looks like an impressive feat for data compression.
I agree. I was wondering why this is such a big deal. When a "neural networking" computer has a flash of inspiration and creates a screen play for a movie, and creates a virtual world based on that screen play. Then we'll have a something to talk about.
Sounds like the distraction was on purpose so that the theft of the laptop could occur. Perhaps TSA agent was in on the issue & the reason they're saying it's not a crime.
tremon - When a government has all of the weapons and the means to use them against the population, you no longer have an accountable government. This is how it is today in America and it appears to be getting worse. I don't condone violence, but the current system encourages it.
Our current US government wields powerful weapons called: Justice, Democracy and Law. The government is controlled by a few, who are making decisions behind closed doors that only benefit themselves. They have the mechanisms in place to enforce the will of the state against any human being for any reason.
You can be accused of anything by the government. You can be locked up without due process. Just because you don't see it everyday, doesn't mean that it's not happening. It's here in the USA.
Remove the weapons from the state. Forbid the use of force and violence against any citizen that resides in the USA. We should be focused on Peace, Truth, and Justice. Do no harm to yourself or to others.
Peace can never be delivered at the end of a a weapon or a writ of law. it must come from within.
peace
Why would anybody give up their password & allow the police to work on your computer? Let them take the systems and accept the risk that running a TOR node in this day and age will get you a visit from the police or similar.
This guy gave up the password & now doesn't trust what they did to his systems. He has to get rid of them now? This is no different if they took his computers away without knowing his passwords.
What if this guys was working with the police all along. Now some guy decides to give away his password to the police so they can check his computer? Sounds fucking suspicious to me. I guess they are testing the waters to see if other TOR node exit maintainers are going to do the same.
Listen up! Never give your password out. Encrypt your systems & keep them separated if you are running a TOR node. Let them take your systems, because you will have to trash them anyway if you grant them access.
Do they initiate the reboot with CTRL-ALT-DEL sequence?
Those people that are responsible for this activity should be brought before a court and tried for treason.
OMG - They'll probably cripple the implementation of this. I wouldn't trust MS on this. It sounds nice, but I wouldn't set this up if it meant we could have world peace...
MS SQL relies heavily on Windows OS API. How are they going to pull this off? With some kind of VM layer running under linux with a stripped down Window OS which will run MS SQL?
MS Should announce that they are going to fork a version of Linux with their brand MS-Linux. Hell - If they port every piece of software over to Linux, they would rule the world & back-end server market.
Any way. Good luck!
Say goodbye to this product in a few years.
Resistance is futile
LOL - It's only secure until they hand over the back door keys to one or more of the US 3 letter agencies...
It's also a great way to keep the back-door open too!
Apple's encryption appears to be done in such a way that government entities can safely use them as well as "consumers." But what may happen, is that Apple will be force to produce 2 kinds of iPhones. One for consumers, with strong encryption, but a "backdoor" for warrant "cough" based access. 2nd type of iPhones for government use (string encryption, no backdoors)
They may already have this in place now, but what we are seeing now is a show. They are testing how people/consumers are going to react to this situation. Out government probably figures that nobody will care in the end.
In the USA, we have lost our liberty. It's time to wake up and see what is happening. It's getting worse & the people within our government are working hard to enslave us even more.
It's super risky. Amazon could decide to slow things down for Netflix, or introduce some infrastructure issues that they can't track down.
Maybe amazon should be broken up. Break out their online video offerings into a separate company. This would prevent any conflict of interest or blackmail
This is incorrect: "Corporations are meant to serve the public good by encouraging investment and limiting liability of investors not involved in decision making"
Corporations are meant to do one thing, make money for the share holders at any cost, by not breaking laws or not being caught breaking laws (or rewrite them). Corporate behavior today reflects this.
The key to improving investment is to prevent corporations from moving their wealth to offshore hideaways. The government must ensure that corporations better serve the public good, because many corporations receive multiple benefits from government: reduced taxes (too many), human resources & infrastructure (to name a few)
Higher Management @juniper are well aware of these back doors. They will deny it, which is what they have been told to do by our government.
There are many more devices that have this type of back door.