Posts by bombastic bob 10944 publicly visible posts • joined 1 May 2015
"For job descriptions"
Why can't we all just accept the fact that a Mailman can be a woman, as could a Fireman, Policeman, Congressman, or Maintenance Man. If a lady shows up, nobody's surprised.
The way it's been in the Navy, unless it got changed for some STUPID reason, is that all officers are referred to as 'Sir' or 'Mister' within the right context. Havingt to know what sex-term to use is against good order and discipline. "Mr Fielding is officer of the deck" - well Lt Fielding happens to be a lady, let's say, but nobody's going to care about that, as they're trying to drive a ship, stay on course, and not run into things.
And that's how it SHOULD be.
OK - you have a good idea.
Let's INVENT SOME PRONOUNS!
I suppose El Reg commenters might have some really good suggestions.
In the mean time we could just use 'semprini' for all non-sex-specific cases...
(most o the things I'm thinking of are profane and have more than one syllable, with a profane term followed by 'face' 'head' 'brain' or has 'ass in it somewhere')
"referring to a person by their profession"
plurality mismatch detected.
'a person' 'their profession' - correct grammar would be 'people' 'their profession' or 'a person' 'his profession', regardless of it triggering some overly-sensitive-ready-to-be-triggered-snowflake-type that INSISTS there's something wrong with the lingo AND! WE! MUST! ALL! CHANGE! to bend to his whim...
grammar nazi icon, because. it's relevant, really. "singular they". EW.
(heh)
"For a language which doesn't really use genders, it's amusing that they're causing so much hot air."
A language without 'genders' yeah ('gender' being a linguistics term, having NOTHING to do with chromosomes or sex). And that's probably why there are way too many attempts to INSERT such things into the language...
No, this is all about FEELINGS. It's about adult-children raised with safe spaces, participation trophies, being driven to/from school every day [read: chauffer parents], and then told "it's ok" if they say 1+1=3 because you don't want to HURT THEIR FEELINGS for BEING WRONG.
I'll now make reference to the "when I was their age" tirade and not do it.
Point is, these *WHINERS* need a *CLUE* *BAT* instead of society CODDLING THEM and ENABLING THEM to be ASSHATS about PRONOUNS.
Feelings are IRRELEVANT. They need to SUCK IT UP and realize that the world really does *NOT* revolve around their SELF ESTEEM. If they get triggered: *TOO* *BAD*.
"None of this will be corrected until the WH administration is gone and Pai is fired."
*FACEPALM*
You mean, none of this will be corrected until we have CONSERVATIVE MAJORITIES in BOTH houses and Trump is in his 2nd term...
Truly there are more important things than THIS. "Net Neutrality" isn't what it claims to be, in the same way Socialism isn't "fairness" or "social justice" nor does it lift up the status of those on the bottom [it actually LOWERS the standards of everyone ABOVE the bottom].
But until November of 2020, and possibly beyond, the Demo[n,c][R,r]ats will be busy playing the "Impeach" shell game, and getting absolutely NOTHING done... well, that's not always BAD, if nothing gets done, but it certainly wont clarify the FCCs authority and issues regarding states and communications and internet and stuff like that.
In a way it's like a weird compromise, what the judge did. Con-Grab needs to finish the job and do it RIGHT this time.
NOT hiring people over "an age", or laying them off because (primarily) of their age, is strictly illegal. Of course we knew that already.
(any other "age-related" "experience-related" wage arguments probably already made; Capt. Obvious things so)
But with THAT being said, perhaps it would be better for older employees (who typically earn more for 'being there' longer) to consider voluntary pay cuts in lieu of being laid off? At least it gives you some time to look for new work without having to be UNEMPLOYED...
Personally (on the management side) I'd rather tie wages directly to PRODUCTIVITY, whenever that's possible. If that is the case, just be honest with people who's wage-to-productivity ratio isn't so hot... (and THAT becomes the criteria for layoffs).
Then you're not AGE discriminating at all, as the wage-to-producttivity ratio it becomes a truly fair measurement of your worth at the company.
/me is an old guy, and I try to be THE most productive employee on site (or off site, same idea), whenever possible, as a contractor. It's a matter of PRIDE, if nothing else.
well, it's hard to get qualified people working at minimum wage. it used to be easier, when min wage was LOWER, because you could hire high school students and AFFORD TO TAKE A RISK. Nowadays, a bad hire might cost WAY too much, and entry level wages are basically TOO HIGH.
kinda sucks for retailers...
/me points out that high school students don't need a "living wage" - they need employers WILLING TO TAKE A RISK ON HIRING THEM.
"So you agree with someone refusing to make a cake for a LGBT marriage because of his or her beliefs and they deem it wrong? "
*sigh* - you played THAT emotional hand-grenade. Nice. Job. *NOT*
I say "go elsewhere" and get the cake done by a bakery and decoration artist who's not an idiot, and let the idiot do what he wants.
if you're careful you can set up pip to fix versions in stone for everything. This does not always build well on different platforms, though. I did this a bit with an older DJango setup I had been maintaining [not writing, more like re-writing to use LESS PYTHON and C language utilities to improve performance by a factor of 10 or more, but I digress] but I agree, languages like Python and apparently Ruby have this kind of "dependency Hell" built into them, and the trend would be to have 'bleeding edge' enough that you can't easily just go back to what it was before... and when a single developer decides to play SJW and deny you access to his source, you're FSCK'd. Unless you do snapshots and archives, which apparently the 'Chef' guy did.
"To be clear, we don't care if anyone else uses it, we care that we can use it."
eh, ok I'll give ya THAT in a scenario that I've had from time to time...
a) you wrote something cool, REALLY cool, and you want to be ABLE to use it again
b) you copypasta that thing into $customer project and give them a written license to use it without GPL etc. even though you posted it online as GPL code beforehand [even 5 minutes beforehand]
c) you can THEN use it again and again not having to re-write the 'cool thing' and everybody wins and you don't EVAR get sued for using "their code" in "that customer's project" (even though it was yours, proving it in court is EXPENSIVE and a PAIN IN THE ASS).
So yeah, in a way, you're right. On THAT point.
But I always see it as showing off my work, too. "Want an example of my work? Go to my public git rep site". That sort of thing. And it's also convenient off-site backup to use github, gitlab, sourceforge, whatever.
that aside from the other obvious benefits of open source, contributing code to public projects that help your own customers use your products/services as well as you and everyone else, and so everyone benefits to some extent and YOU make money.
"Sneaking into the country and not applying for admission would be illegal. That is not what is happening though."
actually, it IS happening.
Legit asylum claims require a hearing, and with Trump's new rules, they stay IN MEXICO waiting for it, maybe even for a couple of years. Otherwise, "just letting them in" lets them DISAPPEAR into the USA. Most do NOT show up for their hearings and something like 90% of them are denied asylum claims when they do.
"Asylum" is just one of those "key words and tricky phrases" these people are taught to say when they arrive (or are caught). Trump's rule changes are attempting to close this loophole, such as requiring asylum seekers to a) go to a port of entry, and b) remain in Mexico until their hearing. That and "the wall" should keep the sneak-ins out, but that's why we NEED the wall, because they ARE "sneaking in". And liberal interpretations allow them to SCAM the United States by saying those "key words and tricky phrases" so they can DISAPPEAR into the country, never to be seen again by law enforcement.
And that bit about "mistreating and abusing" these criminals is JUST a bunch of LIBERAL NONSENSE. I happen to live close enough to the border to see mountains in Mexico on a clear day (it's about a half hour drive to the border). So yeah, what goes on at the border is LOCAL news around here.
Liberal overly tolerant policies are qute literally acting like a MAGNET for caravans of illegals from Central America to cross Mexico just to sneak into the USA. Along the way they get RAPED, ROBBED, BEATEN, SCAMMED, EXPLOITED, and so on, even KILLED, and the caravans are run by MEMBERS OF THE DRUG CARTELS. Liberal policies are CAUSING these people to be ABUSED by giving them FALSE HOPES.
THAT should be considered too, ya know...
"People in desperation trying to escape persecution and poverty are still people."
Criminals breaking the law are still criminals, even if putting them in prison would "separate them from their children". My heart bleeds for NO one.
"feelies" - ugh. I *FEEL* with my FINGERS, and THINK with my BRAIN.
Feelings don't belong in business, nor in open source, nor in ANYTHING that people "not you" rely on for their success. Serious developers WILL realize this at some point. Otherwise, the entire system can be HELD HOSTAGE by some SJW, or even a TERRORIST, just like now.
It's time to re-think this whole dependency tree deployment thing.
"the modern way"
So are a _LOT_ of things. Not necessarily "the BETTER way", particularly obvious right NOW.
I'm especially NOT happy with the idea that someone upstream can change something that immediately has an effect on something I'm supposed to support. If I don't push the button and approve EVERY change that goes into the update, I won't do it. Simple.
And the "one ASSHAT" case, which has happend a couple of times now, seems to be a VERY good reason to NEVER rely on this kind of deployment, EVAR.
fail icon for the "modern" deployment method, not the quote nor the comment from where it came.
(I can think of several OTHER 'modern' things, from the 2D FLATTY to ADS in Windows OS to UWP and ".Not" in general. WOW, how "modern" they are!)
"what's the point of pulling it from a repository?"
because he's a FLAMING MORON?
"Oh look, LAW ENFORCEMENT is using somethign I wrote, and I am a FLAMING IDIOT and SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIOR so I am going to ACT LIKE AN ASSHAT and remove something that's probably been COPIED A BOZILLIAN TIMES and could EASILY BE RETRIEVED BY VIEWING THE HISTORY IN THE REPO..."
Number 1: It's a LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATION at the border. You know, THE COPS. if you don't like the laws, BLAME THE PEOPLE WHO WROTE THEM (Congress, over the last 20 years or so).
(I bet if I illegally tried to enter the EU, or the UK, I'd be treated to a JAIL CELL. When MOBS of foreigners show up at our doorstep, we can't just "let them in", ya know, and then THEY EXPECT TO BE FED AND CLOTHED AND HOUSED AND TREATED FOR WHATEVER FORNICATING DISEASES THEY HAVE, and OH LOOK I JUST HAD A BABY and now he's A CITIZEN OF YOUR COUNTRY and NOW I CAN STAY AND GET WELFARE MONEY - 3 card monty and shell game, and we're a bunch of PATSIES)
Number 2: If you put it out there as OPEN SOURCE, you're GIVING IT AWAY. when you GIVE something, and you try to CONTROL HOW IT IS USED, it's NOT A GIFT ANY MORE. You are CHARGING RENT.
Number 3: I am _SO_ _SICK_ of FLAMING ASSHATS doing things like this.
Number 4: Don't rely on other people's repos for your appliation's distribution. HOST IT YOURSELF.
We've seen this happen before, with some pointless trivial utility in NodeJS, a year or so ago...
"I hope his jail cell has a phone that only takes incoming calls."
And *ALWAYS* at an INCONVENIENT time!
Oh, you're on the CRAPPER? *ring* *ring* "Your mi-cro-soft com-pu-tor has a vi-rus and needs our help. Please press 1 now to speak with a tech-ni-cian"
the biggest cost is in the SWITCHING. Some time ago didn't a German government institution switch BACK TO MICROSHAFT _FROM_ Linux??
now it's BACK AGAIN. AGAIN.
And THAT is where the "uncontrollable costs" will be - re-re-training, re-re-procurement, hiring new consultants, kicking upstairs or laying off old ones, yotta yotta.
I hope they stick with a good commercial LInux solution, maybe a GERMAN company?
I'm thinking Suse Linux.
"Why does every company who makes stuff think that it is just perfectly fine to snoop on us 24/7?"
ARROGANCE, mostly. And CLUELESSNESS.
years ago "they" used to do whatever they *FELT* to autoexec.bat, config.sys, windows.ini, etc. and a LOT of people complained. HARD. Did not stop "them". Eventually when windows '9x released it became possible to do that stuff with the registry and it sorta stopped.
NOW everyone is on the "big data" bandwagon, because everyone ELSE appears to be on it. Predictable results, anger, and frustration.
" just leave the default gateway blank or set to 127.0.0.1..."
this might work if you only route on the same subnet as the printer, but in some cases [read: large network with multiple subnets and/or VPNs] you still need a gateway to route 'other than the subnet' packets to.
But then my suggestion was to use a gateway and subnet that are "special" to the printer, in effect isolating it from the rest of the network, and firewalling everything through the gateway you gave it
If you know the printer's IP address, and you can control your subnets, you can set up a firewalled gateway for the printer that prevents it from routing to ANY destination address outside of the subnet.
Example: your network is 192.168.0.0/24 with a gateway of 192.168.0.1
The gateway also knows how to route to 192.168.129.0/24 where the printers are
The printers all get a gateway of 192.168.129.1 which is an alias for 192.168.1
You THEN add a firewall rule for 192.168.129.1 that rejects ANY packet that's not being sent to 192.168.0.0/24. You ALSO block all multi-cast traffic attempting to leave the LAN.
(All of the other multicast traffic should remain within the LAN anyway, but just in case, put a rule in there)
This should LOCK DOWN any printer hardware attempting to phone home. As for the printer drivers themselves, you COULD host them as shares on a Linux machine and print via HTTP to the Linux box...
(that way windows and phone users could still print, would NOT need a "special app", and would NOT be phoning things home on behalf of the printer)
If PPD "gets removed" then I will PERSONALLY drive a FORK into it...
ALL of my printers have required PPD files. And I *REFUSE* to use *ANYTHING* resembling UPnP including that apple 'IPP' thing on FreeBSD or Linux.
Fortunately, open source can be FORKED, even if I have to do it MYSELF.
If the WINDOWS and PHONE software+drivers is where the slurpage is happening, then I think those of us using CUPS and the HPLIP drivers are in the clear... for now.
HOWEVER...
I suppose I'll eventually need to put the printer on a firewalled subnet then. I would set its primary gateway to something that can't route to anything outside of the LAN.
And if THAT doesn't work, I'll be looking for something that's equally well support for Linux and FreeBSD as HP has been, because IF I HAVE TO WRITE THE PRINTER DRIVERS MYSELF AND PUBLISH THEM, then I'll do JUST THAT, and they can TAKE THEIR SLURP and CRAM IT UP THEIR INKWELLS.
The HP printer I have is an older 'all in one' which never really worked properly out of the box, but I can "get it to work" by talking nice to it and offering it flowers on occasion. Their quality had obviously gone downhill and not just a little downhill. The top paper feeder for the scanner/fax stopped working shortly after I bought it, but as I didn't do multi-page FAXs I ignored it. However it fails to feed paper a LOT, unless I "bend it a certain way" and things of that nature. If the paper stack is too tall, or too small, feed errors are common...
Couple that with DATA SLURPAGE and "brand loyalty" just circled the drain and wend *slurp* - back at ya!
"this is a step too far "
* W H Y * ???
Because he's NOT supporting SANDERS, or Elizabeth 'Pocahontas' Warren, or Joe 'BITE-ME' Biden?
<snark>I guess there must be something *WRONG* with him!!!</snark>
I should start a movement to DEMAND PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS for *ANYONE* who votes Demo[n,c]rat... and you know, there's EVIDENCE [the lies, the manipulation, the mob behavior, the "shaming", the intolerance, the racism in the form of demographics, ...] to SUPPORT that this kind of behavior is SOCIOPATHIC... a TRUE psychological disorder, and NOT the made-up "-phobia" emotion bombs so often coined by the left [and thrown about like hand grenades, everywhere].
icon, because, facepalm
"Trump is hatred, ego, fear, lies, reckless waste, and pride in stupidity."
It's like you just had a wardrobe malfunction. Your IGNORANCE is showing!
Pandering to the perception and echoing the *FEELIES* and *FAKE* *NEWS*. *yawn*. And a big THUMBS DOWN for the lack of intelligence.
(read: there is no evidence for any of what you just said. It's just a bunch of *FEEL*).
OK, lemme git this straight: You just said that McNealy needs to be *SINGLED* *OUT* because "He's hosting a secret fund raising event for Trump.".
What if Republicans *SINGLED* *OUT* people who did a Biden fundraiser, or a Mrs. Clinton fundraiser, or an OBAMA FUNDRAISER [back in the day] ???
Do you REALIZE what it is you are SUGGESTING? That a MOB RULE *LOUD* *CROWD* gets to BULLY and "SHAME" *ANYONE* *THEY* *DISAGREE* *WITH* __SIMPLY__ FOR *DISAGREEING*?
(you're making me run out of punctuation on this one)
That's a form of THOUGHT POLICE, you know. Except the "police" are an *UNELECTED* *MOB*!!! (That implies 'mob rule', hint hint hint)
"He seems typical of his class. They get there billions and workers who built their business get stuffed"
'Class Envy' much?
Those who are CREATIVE and/or WORK HARD and/or TAKE THE RISKS necessary to MAKE IT BIG **DESERVE** to keep their wealth! Because, THEY! EARNED! IT!!!
Socialists and their "justice" and the "warriors" who want to FORCE THE REST OF US into their COMMUNISM need to GET A CLUE. Socialism DEPRESSES economies, DISCOURAGES hard work [because it will NOT pay off, everyone ELSE gets "the benefits", not YOU], and ENCOURAGES MEDIOCRITY.
Because, if there's NO REMAINING PATH to success except "brown nose someone in power", then there will be NO SUCCESS ANY MORE. And society will GREY OUT into MEDIOCRITY. Right, Venezuela?
"But a market cannot exist without regulation"
* W R O N G * !!!
Markets can EASILY exist without regulation. The only reason regulations exist is that SOME participants might be engaging in unfair and/or predatory practices (read: China) and so the regulations are there to simply STOP the abuse. But when there is NO abuse, you need no regulations.
Except when Liberals run things, in which case the regulations are there so that *THEY* can pick "the winners" and CONTROL EVERYONE. it's what "they" do, yeah.
"in California, common sense has left along with Elvis."
Good one.
From the article: "Trump is unpopular in California"
Trump is unpopular with the *LOUD* *CROWD* who attempt to look like "everyone" by being as *LOUD* as possible. [I can't even accomplish that by going 'all caps', ha ha ha]. In fact, the *LOUD* *CROWD* is busy trying to "OUT" people who SHOW UP at the Trump rallies and/or give money to his campaign.
Remember that guy who was CEO of Mozilla? He was "outed" for donating to a campaign for a proposition in California that was POPULAR AMONG VOTERS (it passed), but was "politically incorrect" so it was NUKED in the courts. And HE LOST HIS JOB.
What kind of world does *LOUD* *CROWD* *SHAMING* to get their way? A society of BULLIES?
Trump's VERY popuilar among MANY in California. You may not see it on the news, or read about it anywhere, but SOME outlets (like Fox News, talk radio) will reveal this little *secret* to the world... and if your media isn't being FILTERED, you'll hear about it.
And 'Silly Valley' needs an enema. Drain it right into the bay. Alviso used to be a swamp. Not sure what it is these days. That'd be a great place to build the 'enema drain' for Silly Valley... and then we just WASH ALL THAT LIBERAL CRAP AWAY!
"Not much love for people with Asperger's, I see"
You mean 'Geniuses', right?
Stallman should be criticized MORE for his *politics*, primarily his desire to (literally) *CRAM* his version of "free software" down EVERYONE ELSE's throat... a sort of 'digital commune' the way he has presented it.
Whereas, 'Open Source' _is_ a much friendlier term than Stallman's version of 'free', which isn't freedom at all. TRUE freedom would be an MIT or BSD type license, or a 'creatie commons' license, where you CAN ship binaries if you want to, or link it into your proprietary code, and if the license requires it, acknowledge the original authors with due credit.
I still want a T shirt that aborbs 99.x% of light...
I'm currently wearing one that says "I'm only wearing black until they make something darker"
yeah awesome coincidence, too. It was simply the next one in my T shirt rotation.
Gold writing on whatever black this one will be called (MIT black?). that'd be AWESOME for sure!
I expect it's "fake good news". This will serve to sate the majority of people that want some level of control over data about them, who will THEN forget about it for a while as it moves to the back page of the news, until it's silently eaten by the bureaucracy to the point that there's nothing left of it but the name and an appearance of good intentions.
Never underestimate the ability of a corrupt government [Kali-fornicate-you's] to speak out both sides of its mouth, and engage in deep corruption anyway, while *APPEARING* to "do the right thing" [for once].
[don't get me wrong I think the principal is WONDERFUL - I just expect the political class to completely RUIN it before it truly takes effect, while simultaneously announcing how FOR it they are...]
I always figured that Linus has a TRUE PASSION for *QUALITY*, and NO tolerance for [expletive deleted]
(it could only get better if it were a Marine D.I. dressing down an incompetent recruit - and when you consider what it is the D.I. is attempting to do, it makes a LOT of sense to do it 'that way')
and now I'm wondering _exactly_ what that was...
I know there are some issues that cause 'priority inversion', such as when creating the locate database. So I have to wonder if it's something like that, where a 'nice'd process still causes everything ELSE to respond poorly (stuttering, delays, swapping, etc.) while it's running, even though it's basically going at the highest (aka lowest scheduling priority) possible 'renice' level...
and I'd have to wonder WHAT kind of thing actually RELIES on such a bug.... if it's that, anyway.
maybe a kernel option to 'fix' it?
