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I suppose some of you were well aware of what El Capitan was changing around security. However, it was not clear to me until I kept getting asked to enter my password to apple applciations usually icloud, then itunes, then another one. Also, some apps are not integrated properly with iCloud so each API call generates a failed login so you end up having to reset your password. I am on my 5th or 6th this month. And since they are enforcing no reuse of password for 12 months, whatever else rules they have that are not spelled out you have to use a password manager. If you have problems syncing that, you end up screwed on your other devices. Additionally, it takes time to open the app, remember its password, look up the app and copy and then paste. However, on ios 10, you can’t switch to the password manager and then switch back to icloud or something apple. You have to get a copy first then try the apple app and paste the password. A 10% reduction in productivity and 100% disatisfaction with Apple. They could have done this without involving the user so much. Last night they tried to lock me out for 24 hours because my security answer didn’t have a captial first letter.

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http://ift.tt/2caqQkd from the Technology PhilosophyI suppose some of you were well aware of what El Capitan was changing around security. However, it was not clear to me until I kept getting asked to enter my password to apple applciations usually icloud, then itunes, then another one. Also, some apps are …

Show me one country that has no taxes that you think is great. I have menitoned this before but when I was working in International Executive Compensation we would go around the world and design tax-effective compensation plans for the country managers of large multinationals. Sweden’s top rate was 95%! And Hong Kong’s was 15% flat. It was the lowest in the world. Still Hong Kong managers complained about paying too much taxes. Hong Kong was a wild east whereas Sweden was calm beauty. So what is tax effective comp? Non-cash items that are appreciated by someone so they are incentives, that cost less that cash to give. Spouse travel on business trips, Directorships, cars of course… I think Companies in the US could provide cars to employees with better tax consequences but they don’t because senior management in the US wants to feel superior to the unwashed masses. For a while, secretaries got cars in the UK. This cut taxes or swearing to God that they won’t raise taxes has had terrible results by any measure but from the billionaires and Corporations point of view. The two major disrupters of the economy, computer automation and globalization and the rise of India and China has benefited the owners and none has gone to employees.. And some of the blame is on the employees. They sit back and take the annual cuts in benefits that almost always offset any tiny increase in salary. Oh well…..I used to think I was put in IT to get them to organize. But they hated unions. So they get along until a big illness or divorce or housing bust exposes how fragile their lives are and homelessness is just a few bad turns on the road to happiness. So now, all these people are scared. They want what use to be, loyal employers, increases in income and benefits, stock, profit sharing and American #1 in everything.Trump promises that even though he might deliver it as a Dictator. And yes, a president can do a lot of things like declare martial law, put anybody in jail. Put all these wackos to work on the Trump Wall. Reduce staffing at agencies like IRS, EPA. What he can’t do is change physical laws that drive technology nor stop India, China and others from making things cheaper. So there is no going back; only forward. And only one party believes that. Wall Street is not a free open market that efficiently distributes investments in the best way for the greater good. Not any more. I find most conservatives still think of economics working the way they were taught in school. There was a little example of this with the housing bust. Wall Street wasn’t investing in business, creating long-term jobs. They were gambling on any borrower, a home owner or a local city, going bust. It was just like people buying fire insurance on someone else’s house or life. There are laws against that, yet we did nothing to change wall street from doing it again. The End.

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http://ift.tt/2caqQkd from the Technology PhilosophyShow me one country that has no taxes that you think is great. I have menitoned this before but when I was working in International Executive Compensation we would go around the world and design tax-effective compensation plans for the country managers of large multinationals. Sweden’s …

Dave Compton This election should be a massive sweep of Democrats given how badly republicans have managed over the last 8 years. It is black and white. Republicans got us into Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, bailed out the banks, blocked most wall street reform and stopped the democrats from helping for 8 years. Time after time they blocked votes, appointments to the extreme of not allowing an empty seat on the Supreme Court to be filled. They took the country to the brink of being downgraded by financial rating agencies because Republicans wanted a balanced budget in a time of recovery after a massive depression. Yet, a lot of people think putting a reality show actor and real estate gambler who has psychological problems leaning towards a Hitler-type personality will make their lives better or make America Great again. What ignorance and desperation combined with arrogance does is not good.

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http://ift.tt/2caqQkd from the Technology PhilosophyDave Compton This election should be a massive sweep of Democrats given how badly republicans have managed over the last 8 years. It is black and white. Republicans got us into Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, bailed out the banks, blocked most wall street reform and stopped the …

Here is my favorite part from Carr’s essay: “Late in his life, the economist John Kenneth Galbraith coined the term ‘innocent fraud’. He used it to describe a lie or a half-truth that, because it suits the needs or views of those in power, is presented as fact. After much repetition, the fiction becomes common wisdom. ‘It is innocent because most who employ it are without conscious guilt,’ Galbraith wrote in 1999. ‘It is fraud because it is quietly in the service of special interest.’ The idea of the computer network as an engine of liberation is an innocent fraud.”

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The hardest thing to accept is that we could have done many things a long time ago. Instead, about half of voters have continued to think we need to let companies control more, monopolize, pollute, keep the EPA toothless, oppress new technologies. And while Johnsons great society has been dismantled and the liberal press became conservative, all you hear are 30 year old myths repeated by conservatives that have no basis in reality. And it is my generation. The one that came of age with peace and love. Maybe we thought technology would solve the problems. I would argue that it takes a huge effort to counter the daily messages we hear by advertisers. I don’t understand people that say advertising doesn’t work. It is very effective at getting us to consume and create waste. That model must change but people go by electric cars that require coal generated power. Instead of going to Mars, we need to get to the point of generating all of our power from solar and wind. And to do that, we need a government that can tell the vested interests that their days are over. FU coal, oil, poison chemicals. You can go back to school and learn a new trade.

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