mabhatter · HackerTrans

The barn door is about to be wide open in this one. When private App Stores hit on iPhone because of the recent-pending legislation, you're going to have no control at all over what developers do with your data because you'll have 12 different App Store EULAs on your devices.

mabhatter

3년 전discuss

This is about letting you use a biometric token like YubiKey to authenticate your account.

mabhatter

12년 전discuss

You comment hits the core of the "problem". Traditionally What "China" wants has been 100% decided by its rulers.. While the people were TOLD what they wanted. Even now China's rulers think about what's useful for their minions to manufacture for outsiders with near contempt that their own people may want something.

A good microcosm of this is iPhone. It took four years for the government to bless iPhone for Chinese people to use... Even though it is nearly 100% made by Chinese people in China. That rigid disparity between what people of a country WANT and what they MAKE doesn't exist like it does in China anywhere else. That's what makes China such a tough nut to crack.. The near absolute control of what the people are "allowed" to like and buy.

mabhatter

12년 전discuss

My town is on an aggressive knock-down strategy as well. One problem they ran into was people trying to "save" houses on the chopping block after the tax sale. Since then they are clearly tagging the houses where the PROPERTY is for sale but the HOUSE is condemned.

In certain neighborhoods, the city wants the excess houses GONE. They don't want them fixed up and barely hanging on.. The city wants to collect enough empty lots that NEW BUILDING is worth while... And just sit on empty lots until then.

The problem for somebody like this owner.. When is he city happy to take your tax sale money but leave the block on their "knock-down" list.. And why isn't the list more public.. Who's getting benefits of knocking Dow YOUR HOUSE but not others?

mabhatter

12년 전discuss

The B-2 bomber pilots are closer to computer hackers... Hacking is long hours spent quietly trolling for marks and acquiring programs and contacts for your "bag of tricks".. With a few hours of frantic planting the hooks and grabbing what you can before the connection is cut. Ideally, you're like the bomber pilots.. The first time you get noticed is when the bombs are going off and you're already got the data.

mabhatter

12년 전discuss

How about Polos and Kakis?

mabhatter

12년 전discuss

It begs the question "where the hell is my tuition going?"

I was taking at a private "degree mill" part time classes at $180 per credit hour. The school required 7 students to teach a 4 credit class during normal hours. So at the minimum number of students the school was just making enough money for overhead... Most clases were 10-15 students. It was a private school, so tuition covered almost all their bills, no state funding.

Now ask where sutdents in State Funded Colleges money is going when there are 50 students (and more!) in a class? Where the hell is the undergrad tuition money going if the school only pays "minimum wage" for adjunct or grad school staff?? Where is State and Federal dinging going if Undergrads are paying more than their share of the university bills? It's not gping to TEACHING... And it's not going to "student contact" professors either, and its not "healthcare" or "retirement"... There's a giant money hole in the system.

mabhatter

12년 전discuss

Lets take alcohol away from everybody that claims Social Security!!!

mabhatter

12년 전discuss

I cannot wait til we can sin-tax old people because they are on Social Security!!!

mabhatter

12년 전discuss

You still write the council and get permission.. You just have yo "buy your place in line" from somebody that already has one.

mabhatter

12년 전discuss

They trashed Mach and Rapsody and bought out NEXT to get Steve back full time. OSX is mostly updated NEXT, right down to Objective C and API names.

mabhatter

12년 전discuss

Earth isn't entirely self sufficient and needs light from an external source....

It's working in the same constraints the origins ed evolved for... Just smaller

mabhatter

12년 전discuss

Bingo. Airlines have most of the commercial piloting jobs. The BIGGEST provider of employees is the US Military. A civilian pilot just doesn't stand a chance in that market versus kids that come out of service with 8+ years of high quality military training and thousands if hours of heavy duty piloting experience. (And the military wasn't paying them much over $16k anyway) There are FAR MORE entry level pilots (which takes $50k of civilian school and practice) than there are jobs to go around.

mabhatter

12년 전discuss

This article is painfully wrong.

The motivating factor for airline wages is experience, and availability of airplanes to fly. Experienced pilots come primarily from the US military. For a civilian trying to get into that market you are essentially a liability the first five years of flying. Military guys come out with 8-20 years experience... And thousands of hours, And Uncle Sam paid all their practice time. As a civilian you are only worth $16k per year because that's what the military pays junior flyers. (Which sucks because jet instruction is hundreds of dollars per practice hour to fly the smallest little Lear, easily $20k out of pocket) There are are only a fixed number of jets in commercial service.. There are far more entry level pilots than available jobs, several times over.

At the Top end, the number of qualified pilots thins out dramatically... It takes thousands of flight hours and hundreds of instruction hours. So those pilots are worth $300k... Probably more except a fair number of them would be living off Military retirements.. Which forces wages below the actual cost of acquiring the skills.

Commercial piloting is an MLM scheme... Lots of people are willing to work for crap wages just to get wings and a shot at the bigger planes you can ONLY get from airlines. There is zero leverage for new employees.

Also, if airline are only paying pilots 5% of operating expenses, then pilot wages were NEVER the problem... They're just easy to blame. If you are running a business so close to the red you cannot have 5% wiggle room your business model has far bigger problems than Unions wanting slightly better wages. Blaming the employees because you cannot pay a fair wage is just being a pussy of a business owner.

mabhatter

12년 전discuss

The performance is in the SYSTEM architecture. Even a mid sized POWER box can address Hundreds of gigs of RAM, Petabytes of direct attached disk and rooms full of tape stored data. You can make an x86 box do that, but it's not really supported at the "plug bits and go" level. You put POWER boxes in place and don't reboot them for years. (Unless you are smart and do your HA/DR tests like a good kid)

For example a Google plays around with racks of disposable X86 boards like candy. When their app becomes "fixed" rather than growing exponentially, they'll want to move to something like POWER because it's DESIGNED to work with dozens of CPUs sharing Petabytes of attached disk easily. Not the silly kludges like Blades, SANS or iSCSI or virtual machines people play with now to hide x86 OS vendor scaling limitations.

mabhatter

12년 전discuss

This sucks.

It means IBM doesn't want to do HARD engineering anymore. They just want to do sales and handling of stuff for high markup. This is the last really cool thing to go before the finish dismantling that former technical giant.

POWER was never about flops/watt it was about the IBM ecosystem. It's calling in for support on your hardware/software and getting elevated to somebody in the same department that will actually write the fix. It's having actual field engineers that went to the factory and learned how the stuff is put together. It was never cheap... But it was good.

ibm's POWER hardware is the last of the "old iron" lines. X86 stuff just doesn't hold a candle in the "well built" category. My company went from an "open platform" IBM solution back to old fashioned POWER hardware because it was just better built and the "open" platform just resulted in finger pointing between BLADE, SAN, LAN, and OS people... And that was IBM support with their name on the box.. When it's truly mixed support it's going to be very terrible.

It's not like AIX or System i will ever get ported to non-IBM machines for better value. It's not like Apple is gonna dust off OSX and let me build racks of POWER servers either. Betting on "Linux" is a cop out. People use Linux on POWER when they have investments in POWER iron for their mainline business apps.. ROG, COBOL, etc.. And they don't want to pay AIX/enterprise licensing for web/email servers.

This is just the "last call" to show they tried to let the world love them more... And nobody will come. Then they close it down.

mabhatter

12년 전discuss

Intel was almost dumb enough to put those on the used manufacturing line from x86 chips... Almost. Then Intel "knifed the baby" by moving those designers to Atom and selling off their ARM stake... At one point StrongARM was the top of the hobbiest Boards available, long before Raspberry got their idea.

mabhatter

12년 전discuss

there's a fundamental problem here if the "CTO" can talk down to an owner like that. Obviously YOU didn't hire the CTO, because he doesn't see YOU as his boss. There's already another conversation with this guy that you weren't part of. for sanity sake, get a lawyer to claw back what you can, and cut anchor at the next funding round. If you're straight forward that you want out then that might even make the new funders feel better. Just be sure to drop hints that this CTO needs to be cut out of ownership....

mabhatter

12년 전discuss

but the CTO wouldn't be saying that unless there was another "conversation" out there. Why is this guy CTO anyway while a Co-owner is left at coder? You don't bring somebody in as "CTO" without a promise of a cut of the pie... and that cut is going to come from you obviously.

mabhatter

12년 전discuss

That's the way OSX is RIGHT NOW. As a User I can run any program I want and mucky-muck my crap up. But Apps from the Mac App Store live in neat little bundles and are forbidden to do the mucking around in OS bits. So the OS is an "appliance" that I can just replace at a whim. If I go off the tracks to load apps that NEED to overwrite OS space, then I know who did it.

Personally, I but App Store versions whenever possible and I have next to zero problems with my Macs an order of magnitude less than my locked down PC at work even. VERY few apps need to color outside the lines and I like the push for them to explain themselves or get blasted by the next OS update.

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