Recent content by techtate

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    French Court Says Apple Store Staff Can't Work Late Nights

    Employers don't force you to do anything ,they pay you to do it. You are there so that your employer can make a profit by combining your labor with their capital. French labor laws are a barrier to efficient use of human capital, hence why they are now being overhauled because they are doing...
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    United Nations Denied Control Over the Internet

    The more distributed the control over a system is, the more open and free the system will be.
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    Server hardware- ram data width 4x vs 8x(is there a significant differ

    So I'm figuring out hardware for a new virtual host and I noticed that in all the dell servers now I can pick 4x or 8x data width memory. Another place I find this popping up is when shopping ram on crucial. Crucial labels it as "x4 based" or "x8 based" in their module details. DDR3...
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    Foxconn Robots Could Replace Up To 1 Million Workers

    http://www.tomwoods.com/blog/beware-the-free-market-exploitation-child-labor-poverty/techtateTrue, and for someone who doesn't understand how capital in an economy raises everyone's living standards here is a good explanation of why displacing labor intensive tasks with machines is good for...
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    Foxconn Robots Could Replace Up To 1 Million Workers

    BrianAAAI agree that if a robot can do a task the human should be doing something better. A human being reduced to mindless, repetitive tasks is a waste of potential.That being said it is probably being used as a threat to keep their employes in line. It almost like they have a labor union...
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    London 2012 Has WiFi Police to Shut Down WiFi Hotspots

    It would be hilarious to mess with this him by using a high gain directional antenna handy to bounce signals off of other objects intermittently.
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    Mozilla Proposes Firefox ESR Versions for Businesses

    Mozilla is being ridiculous with their rapid release idea. As an IT manager their recent choices have made it impossible for me to support current Firefox versions as our standard browser. I'm glad they are at least coming part way with this move, but still, only supporting something for 42...