Re: Sure..
And we do what our corporate masters tell us to do. IPv6 will entail some cost (significant in some areas) and the masters love their profits so tech loses.
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I can't see the "Land of the Free" taking that sitting down.
I can see that happening. Politics and complacency. Most Americans problably don't really care and thus space is at the bottom of the list of things important to them. Taxes, crime, infrastructure are probably higher priority.
The "best" way I've seen it done is once a year, a survey of "which shift would you prefer?" and then priority on some benchmark like "time of employment" where senior people get their pick first except for manglement duties and those with specialized skill sets/job duties that required a fixed schedule.. Those types usually rotated schedules among themselves. Generally, very few problems as almost everyone got what they wanted or could live with.
This system would definitely have a problem with a Headbanger's Ball then. The idea of drones might work for outdoor events but indoor events would require a multitude of cameras. I'm just a tad skeptical about the whole thing and living in a world of constantly being watched. Then again, the 5-eyes and everyone else has ramped up that bit of paranoia. The question is: will the average person care that they're being watched? If Facebook, etc. are any indication, the answer is "no".
It would have been impressive to sit on the beach and see that huge moon hovering over the ocean, until you saw that huge wave coming at you like a tsunami and you had to run for your life!
Cowabunga!!!! Surf's up!!!! But the downside is all the volcanic activity from the Earth's crust being pulled.
What is it about elected officials that they don't understand the term "secure communications" and why they are used? Seems every country wants a way to bypass encryption that anyone with half a brain would understand that it can't be done and still be secure. There's no magic bean that will let only law enforcement take a peek. Are these clowns really that stupid?
There's clueless and then there's political clueless which is a whole new level.
Maybe that's what ICANN wants so they can go have their junket meetings on someone else's dollar? They really don't want to kill off Whois or cripple it because access to that is money in their bank account according to the reports.
Maybe just kill off ICANN completely. Burn it the ground and start over with "new" people, tech types, running it.
Even worse, our planes are the wretched F-35B, sacrificing over a third of fuel capacity to the Heath-Robinson lift fan, so you have a lot of refuelling for a plane whose operational range was already pitiful
I don't think these are the "jump jets" for what has been called "carriers", but the land based version. No blowhard fans, a tad lighter and more maneuverable with a bit more range. And lot fewer maintenance headaches*.
*Not saying the non-jump version doesn't have maintenance headaches... just a comparison.
I suspect that some of this is flag-waving and PR for the aircraft company. There's been a bit </sarc> of bad press about this airplane and it's problems. If one goes down, the bad press gets a bit worse. If they all make it, win-win. For the pilot's sake, I hope they all make it across and land safely.
They might get worse, possibly to the point of permanent harm that can no longer be helped by Real Medicine. Look no farther than Steve Jobs, who let an easily cured (when it was found) cancer grow while he tried new-age quackery. He finally turned to Real Medicine after a year or two, but it had spread too far and was incurable.
Reminds of a certain religious group... if you die you didn't pray/believe hard enough. (I'm looking at you Christian Science).
So, they're no different than any other smartphones, then. I don't see why Chinese companies should be singled out when everyone else's hands are just as dirty.
Well.. the difference is that with a Chinese company phone, your data all goes to China instead of American companies. Then when the data is sold to advertisers, China gets the money instead of American companies.
I do note that it's a thin murky line as to which is worse and since American companies just rebrand the Chinese stuff, data still flows.
As much as anything, it's the negative feeling that it engenders. Unless they do something really stupid like making private repos accessible to M$ 'for usage statistics' etc then there's not much they can do.
Well, they can force ads for starters and insist on "user tracking" perhaps. Possibly even wanting a % of any code ownership. This is MS we're talking about and they WILL find a way to monetize it to their benefit at a cost to everyone else, A benevolent despot they are not. I'd very much be afraid.. very afraid.
Same here (USMC though) except for the wire-rim glasses. They required the elastic straps. Also, no neckties, and for some things (high voltage equipment like radio transmitters) no belt buckles.
When I started work in engineering, my job required lab and field testing. So same rules which irritated manglement as they were insistent on ties, etc. Until one of them nearly died when his necktie got caught. Rules changed quickly within days of that happening.
She argued that getting people off Facebook isn't a terribly good idea because not being able to volunteer a social media profile can make someone the subject of suspicion in countries such as the US.
This says quite a lot about the mentality of people and governments in general. FB isn't a form of ID or character reference that I'm aware of (or at least is shouldn't be). If someone regards my not having nor ever visiting FB as suspicious than who has the real problem? I'm suspecting that certain agencies have staff are getting lazy as FB is just such easy pickings. I'm still awaiting the 1984 type of "5 minute hate" sessions that are mandatory.
Sadly, no OS maker (be it desktops, phones, etc.) has much interest in getting rid of the old dead stuff, etc. inside the OS. So for them, or any other maker, to yell about quality and how they're improving it, leaves me thinking that marketing is running amok and engineering is buried.
If you'd like facebook to remove your shadow profile, yes.
There's a Catch-22 in this. You have to open a Facebook account to kill off the data slurpage or at least the data have on you up to that point. But, that might be changing.... doubtful though. Numbers of "users" (active or not) are their stock in trade.
Exactly how will walking away from FB hurt a user? If the users walk, FB dies a slow and lingering death. Last I heard, MySpace is still alive.... barely, but still alive. Has this caused anyone great harm other than the shareholders/owner?
There's too much self-importance attached to FB and the next "big thing" is probably in the not too distant future.
This whole thing with ZTE just smells bad... on both sides. They steal and if DownUndaRob is right, then they're getting hit by a patent troll.
As a solution, maybe ZTE needs to "close up it's doors", declare themselves bankrupt and in a week or two start again under a new name. Seems to be the way it's done here in the States.