In all fairness, the car is probably very safe as it leaves the assembly line. It's the irresponsible prick who puts gasoline in it that makes it dangerous.
I'm sure it does meet all of the basic safety standards. The legal requirements are the bare minimum - things like traction control are not legally required. The reason traction control exists on many sports cars is to prevent the investment banker or dentist buying the Corvette or Ferrari from dying and not being able to purchase another car from them in the future. But that doesn't mean there isn't a market for cars that allow this to be disabled or don't even have it in the first place.
This is no different than people who get a 1000+cc sport bike as their first motorcycle. It's not uncommon that they crash in the dealers parking lot or soon after. People who grossly overestimate their skills make poor decisions that can be fatal. I'm sure that well over 50% of licensed motorcycle riders would be in over their head if they got on my bike. 0-60 in 2.5 seconds makes it easy to get into trouble faster than some people can react.
There's only one use of linked in that I care about from a hiring perspective - are you known by or worked with someone whose judgement I trust? Direct work experience is far more valuable than any interview.
You can control what information people get from your linked in profile by limiting job history, not posting a pic or one that doesn't make your age obvious, etc. I suspect the older you are, the harder that is to disguise, but employers worth working for aren't going to expect senior level experience and fresh out of college to go hand in hand.
Agreed, the tags seem subject to interpretation since it's basically a behavior instituted to inform others that a warrant has been served.
Other solutions, such as a digitally signed message saying that they have not been served any warrants that would provide the government with their customer data is a different case since it's a positive affirmation. The court would have to officially come out and say that a business is required to provide falsified information to its customers, potentially in direct violation of their contracts with those customers, leaving the business open to substantial financial damages. I don't think the court is going to say the government will be responsible for unlimited financial impact in order to make the business comply.
In reality though, those companies that have the resources to fight these kangaroo court orders seem to be leaving a lot of precedents behind in their wake that the orders themselves are fundamentally illegal. Now if only we had a way to prosecute the people who commit crimes under the color of law.
It's not "brave" in the dictionary or traditional sense of the word. The guys in the bunkers are more of a "Facebook brave", like the people who have the balls to post private messages critical of the current administration or any of its criminal policies.
After hearing of the guy who was left alone because he wasn't working for the TSA, it seemed like this guy wasn't just out for a killing spree or some anti-government nut job, but had a very specific reason to hate the TSA.
I can't help but wonder if he was molested as a child and the TSA's enhanced screening procedures set him off. The TSA's official training materials specifically give tips on how to handle young children. It's interesting to contrast it with the training given to parents who participate in cub/boy scout events, so they know how to recognize inappropriate behavior and potential risks from pervs. Having done the scout training first and seen some of the TSA materials after, it really stands out as a how-to program for pedophiles.
Each senator and congress vermin takes the oath of office (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_office#United_States):
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter.
This must fall under the category of ceremonies with no legal consequences for overt violation.
Yes, the choice is easy. Don't trust anything the NSA says. They can lie to congress with impunity, what does that tell you?
If Bruce thinks elliptic curve encryption is suspect due to the NSA's statements, I'll defer to his experience and expertise.
There are plenty of encryption algorithms that are considered secure by the security community and non-NSA affiliated cryptographers. Those are all perfectly good choices based on their own merits.
Vote for a third party. Takes very little time, has no risk, but if enough people did it, we could have an alternative to the national socialist party (red or blue hats, they're all the same).
I've heard that there are many prominent parties in India, none of which can get enough votes on their own, so they have to work together to get anything done. That's a much more realistic solution to our problem than hoping that one party will match all or even most of your views.
Our federal-government-heavy system can't cope with the idea that people in California may have different views and want different laws than people in the bible belt. That's the whole idea with states rights - everyone doesn't have to agree or live with one set of standards.
And if that doesn't work, vote for me for supreme emperor. I promise to prosecute everyone who violated their oath to defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. =)
Sorry, I forgot one other possible, obvious reason - the person licked a 9V battery instead of handing over their wallet during a mugging, and was shot. Cause of death is the gunshot wound, but how negligent would the coroner be if they did not conclude that licking the 9V battery was the proximate cause of death?
We're not talking rocket surgeons here. It's simple, these people had alligator clips, swallowed one end, had it tear through the esophagus, got wedged near the heart, then the battery contacted the tongue on one side and the other alligator clip on the other side, making the heart part of the path of least resistance. It's Occam's razor here - the simplest, most obvious answer is probably correct.
Probably gross stupidity. Could be people tried to swallow the 9V battery because it was tingly and it got lodged in their throat, or maybe they didn't understand the concept of a 9V battery and instead tested a 9mm handgun with their tongue. All things that have 9 in the name are the same, right? =)
Gun nuts can be scientists too. Or scientists are so myopic that they didn't know that was already a word. Could go either way, but it's cool to see new things like this still being discovered.
Why haven't we heard about this from the Department of Homeland Security? What are they hiding?
It's just a matter of time before al queda gets its hand on this methane bomb. $60 trillion is just the kind of impact they'd like to unleash on us heathens and infidels.
Companies that hire Infosys do it for empire building. What better way to increase costs and headcount, while reducing productivity and effectiveness? Why have 5 people making $80-120k when you can have 50 making $30-40k (with a substantial overhead paid to Infosys), doing 10-25% of the work?
Failing to deliver justifies increased budgets next year. It's retarded and expensive, but empire building is very common in large organizations.
There are several hundred components and solder connections on any piece of hardware, any one of which could cause intermittent problems. The testing can be done as part of the assembly process, but that doesn't mean there are people in the factory who have the background and time to troubleshoot problems with any particular product.
Most things today are designed to be field replaceable units - the whole thing gets replaced if it's not working. A $10k product may have hardware that costs $50, so it's easy to replace the faulty unit and not worry about diagnosis or repair.
Yet less-technical-admins are the inevitable result of outsourcing, so there's a lot of them out there.
Version control for system configuration is a great tool for figuring out what has changed over time. Teaching less technical people how to use basic svn commands is easy. 10-20 minutes of training and a one page doc of the 4 commands they'll ever use is all it takes.
Anything that I didn't document on the cheat sheet is my responsibility. Matching the skill set to the task has provided a lot of benefits over the years, yet I've never had to deal with a corrupted or messy repository.
Even easier - instead of washing hands or using alcohol based sanitizers constantly, causing the skin to dry out, crack and make the doctor/nurse more susceptible, make sure they wear new gloves with each patient. Switching gloves takes no more time than washing hands, and if there's enough different colors all over the place, it would be pretty obvious if one doctor saw 5 patients wearing blue, blue, blue blue and blue gloves. This also has the benefit that it's really easy to tie proximity card tracking with image recognition for color.
Being a good programmer is a matter of being a good fit for the role you're performing. If you have expertise in other areas and can use programming to apply that knowledge in a way that the computer can do the work that people do now, you'll never run out of automation work. Look around you at things people do by passing around spreadsheets or pieces of paper. Can you write tools to make that data flow easier?
I'm don't like telemarketing, spam, junk mail, etc. However, several years ago I got a job where I helped develop a team to implement a data warehouse for direct mail marketing. Knowing some of the traits of these scum up front helped me understand the business needs of the marketing people. I also learned a few things on how to get suppressed from such marketing as well as ways to poison data collected for such a purpose. The people I was working for saw the business value in not marketing to people who don't want the product - a viewpoint I could completely agree with. Just because you don't like something, doesn't mean you can't help someone do that thing in a more responsible and less annoying manner.
When I interview programmers, how they analyze and solve problems is far more likely to get them hired than what tools they have experience in. If they can solve a problem in their favorite language easily, I don't mind if they don't have as much experience as I'd like in the language we're using for a particular project.
It generates noise that could be interpreted as a radio signal. The whole text of that and the following entry (both related to jamming):
5 – Jamming of and confusing of electronic communication using the ordinary water-lifting dynamo fitted with a 30-meter copper pole.
6 – Jamming of and confusing of electronic communication using old equipment and keeping them 24-hour running because of their strong frequencies and it is possible using simple ideas of deception of equipment to attract the electronic waves devices similar to that used by the Yugoslav army when they used the microwave (oven) in attracting and confusing the NATO missiles fitted with electromagnetic searching devices.
This seems like a technical solution to a non-technical problem. Why not just pay people to hunt these guys down? Set high fines for illegal logging and use some of that money to pay rewards. That would provide small rewards to people who turn in the sustenance level loggers, and big rewards for large operations. A few reports of people getting $50k for reporting a big logging operation would create a lot of interest in stopping these people. Statistically, which approach is more likely to generate useful reports of illegal logging?
When I'm hiring for positions that are paying high salaries, I want to know the person is just as good (or better) in front of a computer as they are at interviewing and sounding smart. A simple programming exercise can confirm that the person is good with computers, not just as BS'ing their way through interviews.
It's disappointing how many applicants will fail such a simple demonstration of their claimed skills. Likewise, if someone thinks a short demonstration is beneath them, I don't want to work with them. Every job has some crap that just needs to be done, even if its a waste of everyone's time. If they haven't learned the "do it and move on" philosophy, they're going to be hard to work with. I've worked with people who will spend days arguing against doing 20 minutes of work - I'm definitely not going to hire people like that.
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In all fairness, the car is probably very safe as it leaves the assembly line. It's the irresponsible prick who puts gasoline in it that makes it dangerous.
I'm sure it does meet all of the basic safety standards. The legal requirements are the bare minimum - things like traction control are not legally required. The reason traction control exists on many sports cars is to prevent the investment banker or dentist buying the Corvette or Ferrari from dying and not being able to purchase another car from them in the future. But that doesn't mean there isn't a market for cars that allow this to be disabled or don't even have it in the first place.
This is no different than people who get a 1000+cc sport bike as their first motorcycle. It's not uncommon that they crash in the dealers parking lot or soon after. People who grossly overestimate their skills make poor decisions that can be fatal. I'm sure that well over 50% of licensed motorcycle riders would be in over their head if they got on my bike. 0-60 in 2.5 seconds makes it easy to get into trouble faster than some people can react.
Stupid hurts.
There's only one use of linked in that I care about from a hiring perspective - are you known by or worked with someone whose judgement I trust? Direct work experience is far more valuable than any interview.
You can control what information people get from your linked in profile by limiting job history, not posting a pic or one that doesn't make your age obvious, etc. I suspect the older you are, the harder that is to disguise, but employers worth working for aren't going to expect senior level experience and fresh out of college to go hand in hand.
Agreed, the tags seem subject to interpretation since it's basically a behavior instituted to inform others that a warrant has been served.
Other solutions, such as a digitally signed message saying that they have not been served any warrants that would provide the government with their customer data is a different case since it's a positive affirmation. The court would have to officially come out and say that a business is required to provide falsified information to its customers, potentially in direct violation of their contracts with those customers, leaving the business open to substantial financial damages. I don't think the court is going to say the government will be responsible for unlimited financial impact in order to make the business comply.
In reality though, those companies that have the resources to fight these kangaroo court orders seem to be leaving a lot of precedents behind in their wake that the orders themselves are fundamentally illegal. Now if only we had a way to prosecute the people who commit crimes under the color of law.
It's not "brave" in the dictionary or traditional sense of the word. The guys in the bunkers are more of a "Facebook brave", like the people who have the balls to post private messages critical of the current administration or any of its criminal policies.
After hearing of the guy who was left alone because he wasn't working for the TSA, it seemed like this guy wasn't just out for a killing spree or some anti-government nut job, but had a very specific reason to hate the TSA.
I can't help but wonder if he was molested as a child and the TSA's enhanced screening procedures set him off. The TSA's official training materials specifically give tips on how to handle young children. It's interesting to contrast it with the training given to parents who participate in cub/boy scout events, so they know how to recognize inappropriate behavior and potential risks from pervs. Having done the scout training first and seen some of the TSA materials after, it really stands out as a how-to program for pedophiles.
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter.
This must fall under the category of ceremonies with no legal consequences for overt violation.
Yes, the choice is easy. Don't trust anything the NSA says. They can lie to congress with impunity, what does that tell you?
If Bruce thinks elliptic curve encryption is suspect due to the NSA's statements, I'll defer to his experience and expertise.
There are plenty of encryption algorithms that are considered secure by the security community and non-NSA affiliated cryptographers. Those are all perfectly good choices based on their own merits.
Vote for a third party. Takes very little time, has no risk, but if enough people did it, we could have an alternative to the national socialist party (red or blue hats, they're all the same).
I've heard that there are many prominent parties in India, none of which can get enough votes on their own, so they have to work together to get anything done. That's a much more realistic solution to our problem than hoping that one party will match all or even most of your views.
Our federal-government-heavy system can't cope with the idea that people in California may have different views and want different laws than people in the bible belt. That's the whole idea with states rights - everyone doesn't have to agree or live with one set of standards.
And if that doesn't work, vote for me for supreme emperor. I promise to prosecute everyone who violated their oath to defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. =)
Sorry, I forgot one other possible, obvious reason - the person licked a 9V battery instead of handing over their wallet during a mugging, and was shot. Cause of death is the gunshot wound, but how negligent would the coroner be if they did not conclude that licking the 9V battery was the proximate cause of death?
We're not talking rocket surgeons here. It's simple, these people had alligator clips, swallowed one end, had it tear through the esophagus, got wedged near the heart, then the battery contacted the tongue on one side and the other alligator clip on the other side, making the heart part of the path of least resistance. It's Occam's razor here - the simplest, most obvious answer is probably correct.
Probably gross stupidity. Could be people tried to swallow the 9V battery because it was tingly and it got lodged in their throat, or maybe they didn't understand the concept of a 9V battery and instead tested a 9mm handgun with their tongue. All things that have 9 in the name are the same, right? =)
Gun nuts can be scientists too. Or scientists are so myopic that they didn't know that was already a word. Could go either way, but it's cool to see new things like this still being discovered.
Why haven't we heard about this from the Department of Homeland Security? What are they hiding?
It's just a matter of time before al queda gets its hand on this methane bomb. $60 trillion is just the kind of impact they'd like to unleash on us heathens and infidels.
Companies that hire Infosys do it for empire building. What better way to increase costs and headcount, while reducing productivity and effectiveness? Why have 5 people making $80-120k when you can have 50 making $30-40k (with a substantial overhead paid to Infosys), doing 10-25% of the work?
Failing to deliver justifies increased budgets next year. It's retarded and expensive, but empire building is very common in large organizations.
There are several hundred components and solder connections on any piece of hardware, any one of which could cause intermittent problems. The testing can be done as part of the assembly process, but that doesn't mean there are people in the factory who have the background and time to troubleshoot problems with any particular product.
Most things today are designed to be field replaceable units - the whole thing gets replaced if it's not working. A $10k product may have hardware that costs $50, so it's easy to replace the faulty unit and not worry about diagnosis or repair.
Replying to undo errant mod.
Anyone know of cases where this happens?
If the nail is made of copper, insulated, run through the wall and connected to the external antenna port on the wireless device?
Yet less-technical-admins are the inevitable result of outsourcing, so there's a lot of them out there.
Version control for system configuration is a great tool for figuring out what has changed over time. Teaching less technical people how to use basic svn commands is easy. 10-20 minutes of training and a one page doc of the 4 commands they'll ever use is all it takes.
Anything that I didn't document on the cheat sheet is my responsibility. Matching the skill set to the task has provided a lot of benefits over the years, yet I've never had to deal with a corrupted or messy repository.
Even easier - instead of washing hands or using alcohol based sanitizers constantly, causing the skin to dry out, crack and make the doctor/nurse more susceptible, make sure they wear new gloves with each patient. Switching gloves takes no more time than washing hands, and if there's enough different colors all over the place, it would be pretty obvious if one doctor saw 5 patients wearing blue, blue, blue blue and blue gloves. This also has the benefit that it's really easy to tie proximity card tracking with image recognition for color.
Being a good programmer is a matter of being a good fit for the role you're performing. If you have expertise in other areas and can use programming to apply that knowledge in a way that the computer can do the work that people do now, you'll never run out of automation work. Look around you at things people do by passing around spreadsheets or pieces of paper. Can you write tools to make that data flow easier?
I'm don't like telemarketing, spam, junk mail, etc. However, several years ago I got a job where I helped develop a team to implement a data warehouse for direct mail marketing. Knowing some of the traits of these scum up front helped me understand the business needs of the marketing people. I also learned a few things on how to get suppressed from such marketing as well as ways to poison data collected for such a purpose. The people I was working for saw the business value in not marketing to people who don't want the product - a viewpoint I could completely agree with. Just because you don't like something, doesn't mean you can't help someone do that thing in a more responsible and less annoying manner.
When I interview programmers, how they analyze and solve problems is far more likely to get them hired than what tools they have experience in. If they can solve a problem in their favorite language easily, I don't mind if they don't have as much experience as I'd like in the language we're using for a particular project.
It generates noise that could be interpreted as a radio signal. The whole text of that and the following entry (both related to jamming):
5 – Jamming of and confusing of electronic communication using the ordinary water-lifting
dynamo fitted with a 30-meter copper pole.
6 – Jamming of and confusing of electronic communication using old equipment and
keeping them 24-hour running because of their strong frequencies and it is possible using
simple ideas of deception of equipment to attract the electronic waves devices similar to
that used by the Yugoslav army when they used the microwave (oven) in attracting and
confusing the NATO missiles fitted with electromagnetic searching devices.
This seems like a technical solution to a non-technical problem. Why not just pay people to hunt these guys down? Set high fines for illegal logging and use some of that money to pay rewards. That would provide small rewards to people who turn in the sustenance level loggers, and big rewards for large operations. A few reports of people getting $50k for reporting a big logging operation would create a lot of interest in stopping these people. Statistically, which approach is more likely to generate useful reports of illegal logging?
Looks Asian? That's a tan, which is what you get when you do nothing but lay in the sun.
Look at the with rolls of fat - he's clearly an American. KFC missed an obvious product placement opportunity when that movie was made.
When I'm hiring for positions that are paying high salaries, I want to know the person is just as good (or better) in front of a computer as they are at interviewing and sounding smart. A simple programming exercise can confirm that the person is good with computers, not just as BS'ing their way through interviews.
It's disappointing how many applicants will fail such a simple demonstration of their claimed skills. Likewise, if someone thinks a short demonstration is beneath them, I don't want to work with them. Every job has some crap that just needs to be done, even if its a waste of everyone's time. If they haven't learned the "do it and move on" philosophy, they're going to be hard to work with. I've worked with people who will spend days arguing against doing 20 minutes of work - I'm definitely not going to hire people like that.