Orwell presented a situation where the populace knew they were being monitored. Snowden showed that we were being monitored, but without our knowledge or consent. There is a massive gap between the two, represented by the population's awareness (and possibly acceptance, unfortunately).
Having been bitten by a brown recluse as a child, I find your link to be utterly terrifying.
I can handle bees and wasps, I've been teaching my kids to be still when they are around. But spiders is where I draw the line and declare war. And I win.
The structures are fine, it's just that turnover at the higher level is low.
There are usually as many manager as lead level developers in IT (at least there should be, where lead is the technical equivalent of director). The leads manage specific development activities (and should not be micro-managed). And if the manager/director and the lead(s) are competent (or in with upper management, or good at manipulation, I've seen it all), no one else can move up.
So, the senior developers will probably leave, after a few years, to seek increased salary or a lead position elsewhere.
In order to retain knowledge (this is very, very important), the leads should be carefully selected and compensated well. Then, turnover at the junior and senior level isn't that painful. Promote internal staff to leads, they will have the institutional knowledge that needs to be retained.
Since all that was lost was supplies (while critical, there are future shipments and I'm sure they have emergency procedures to send up supplies if needed), it's not crass to say "Go Space-X".
There are multiple players in the game of space, and Space-X is the one I root for, they get me excited and are very ambitious.
I watched a few space shuttle launches live while telecommuting, and watching Space-X attempt a rocket recovery is just as exciting. Maybe even more so since it is something that has never been tried. They didn't fail by much last time, and there were explosions!!!
Anyway, I wish the crew of the ISS health and no need for good luck (planning, prep, and execution, but please no need for luck).
We're on our third Nexus 5 (all off Swappa used, they are $200 now...) after my wife took her's out of the case and cracked the screen real good (it's the backup phone now, just did the transfer yesterday).
Mine has a good case and has survived falls where I expected destruction (5 foot drop onto concrete, with direct corner impact). Get a good case.
Very solid with Kitkat and Lolipop. Still very powerful regarding performance.
For the record I did like my iPhone 4 (it was rock solid, but never updated and new games required the updates), but wanted a more open development environment for my phone platform.
Almost all of the best music ever is about 50 years old (The Who, Rolling Stones early stuff, Led Zeppelin, Beatles, etc.). I would even include the Beach Boys (Good Vibrations, 1964, 51 years old, I've listened to it twice in the last week, God Only Knows was 1966, 49 years old)...
Everything done in the mid-1960's and prior is 50 or older. The best time for music ever to me was 1965-1975. And 1965 was 50 years ago.
There is a metric shit-ton of money being made off this stuff.
T-Mobile offers music streaming without it impacting your data usage, "from your favorite music services like Pandora, iHeartRadio, iTunes Radio, Rhapsody, and more."
So the profit incentive is not based on data usage, but in using music services (I'm assuming there's a kick back at some point from the service providers, otherwise the business model makes no sense).
I was wondering about this also. I think the people targeted participate in the social features of Steam. I have 300 or so games (Corporate Lifestyle Simulator is my current burn time game) and have used Steam for many years. I have two "friends" on Steam.
Not one piece of spam or scammer contact, ever.
There are obviously sublevels of interaction I was not aware of. Until now.
With regards to flying in the US, everything changed in late 2001.
Flying in America was awesome back in the 1990s. In 1998, I flew to my honeymoon without ID (left it in the car) and we were able to catch an earlier flight at the overlay point. I was even allowed to go back on the first plane to find my ticket voucher which had dropped between the seats. And they asked two basic questions (Did you pack your bags? Did you accept items from strangers?).
I hate flying now. I imagine it's a lot like being processed jail, but more intrusive.
The first 15 minutes of that movie were solid Gold (I loved the belt).
I don't think the concept was flexible or deep enough for anything over short skits, certainly not a full length movie (A Night at the Roxbury is also in this category).
I thought Zoolander would also fall into this category and avoided it for a couple of years. But once I saw it and realized the comic genius that it is, it became one of my favorite movies.
Thanks for the info. I understand and can appreciate the implications of the OFAC lists (basically a simple form of economic warfare against specific individuals and parties, preventing them from using certain global financial companies).
But, OFAC checks are supposed to be performed before any funds are transferred (prior to contract entry in my experience). So they generally can't be seized or impounded by the US financial system, because letting them in at all is illegal (I'm sure they are at least frozen if a company, such as Paypal, performs transactions for a restricted party).
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So let's punish the NSA first, because we know they have it all. And they are watching.
Decent human beings... Insightful.
Off topic, but I love your current sig.
Orwell presented a situation where the populace knew they were being monitored. Snowden showed that we were being monitored, but without our knowledge or consent. There is a massive gap between the two, represented by the population's awareness (and possibly acceptance, unfortunately).
Anyway, very insightful.
Having been bitten by a brown recluse as a child, I find your link to be utterly terrifying.
I can handle bees and wasps, I've been teaching my kids to be still when they are around. But spiders is where I draw the line and declare war. And I win.
The structures are fine, it's just that turnover at the higher level is low.
There are usually as many manager as lead level developers in IT (at least there should be, where lead is the technical equivalent of director). The leads manage specific development activities (and should not be micro-managed). And if the manager/director and the lead(s) are competent (or in with upper management, or good at manipulation, I've seen it all), no one else can move up.
So, the senior developers will probably leave, after a few years, to seek increased salary or a lead position elsewhere.
In order to retain knowledge (this is very, very important), the leads should be carefully selected and compensated well. Then, turnover at the junior and senior level isn't that painful. Promote internal staff to leads, they will have the institutional knowledge that needs to be retained.
I thought you were referring to the companies themselves, and not public action persuading the government to create/enforce certain labor laws.
Sorry for any confusion.
No. That would be "vote with your wallet".
But, in the case of public companies, the shareholders could do this. But it would hurt the share prices.
And for private companies "vote with your wallet" is the only viable approach (and by viable I mean there is no approach actually).
Since all that was lost was supplies (while critical, there are future shipments and I'm sure they have emergency procedures to send up supplies if needed), it's not crass to say "Go Space-X".
There are multiple players in the game of space, and Space-X is the one I root for, they get me excited and are very ambitious.
I watched a few space shuttle launches live while telecommuting, and watching Space-X attempt a rocket recovery is just as exciting. Maybe even more so since it is something that has never been tried. They didn't fail by much last time, and there were explosions!!!
Anyway, I wish the crew of the ISS health and no need for good luck (planning, prep, and execution, but please no need for luck).
You win!
You made a horse analogy on Slashdot about a car named after a horse. That is a many layer onion.
Fantastic.
Seconded (no karma available).
We're on our third Nexus 5 (all off Swappa used, they are $200 now...) after my wife took her's out of the case and cracked the screen real good (it's the backup phone now, just did the transfer yesterday).
Mine has a good case and has survived falls where I expected destruction (5 foot drop onto concrete, with direct corner impact). Get a good case.
Very solid with Kitkat and Lolipop. Still very powerful regarding performance.
For the record I did like my iPhone 4 (it was rock solid, but never updated and new games required the updates), but wanted a more open development environment for my phone platform.
Damnit. I tried. I've never tried first post, thought I could pull of an XKCD reference.
Damn you! (your post wasn't there when I typed a longer version of yours...)
https://xkcd.com/538/
Bam! My first obligatory post on Slashdot.
Someone has probably posted it while I typed this though...
The summary appears incorrect. The linked article says that MS has annualized revenue of $6.3 billion from "cloud" business.
Google's $1.57 billion translates to an annual number of $6.28 billion from Amazon Web Services.
I'm not sure how either company defines what is included in those numbers.
Does anyone have better information or metrics?
I am 41 and would want to work for Google to ruin everyone's (I'm talking the entire Earth here) mapping experience...
Almost all of the best music ever is about 50 years old (The Who, Rolling Stones early stuff, Led Zeppelin, Beatles, etc.). I would even include the Beach Boys (Good Vibrations, 1964, 51 years old, I've listened to it twice in the last week, God Only Knows was 1966, 49 years old)...
Everything done in the mid-1960's and prior is 50 or older. The best time for music ever to me was 1965-1975. And 1965 was 50 years ago.
There is a metric shit-ton of money being made off this stuff.
One of the coolest movie experiences I've ever had was watching Hot Water (1924) starring Harold Lloyd in a church with live organ accompaniment.
The link I provided was to the current Music Freedom offering.
I don't use it but was aware of it when I signed up with T-Mobile last year.
T-Mobile offers music streaming without it impacting your data usage, "from your favorite music services like Pandora, iHeartRadio, iTunes Radio, Rhapsody, and more."
https://t-mobile.com/offer/fre...
So the profit incentive is not based on data usage, but in using music services (I'm assuming there's a kick back at some point from the service providers, otherwise the business model makes no sense).
I was wondering about this also. I think the people targeted participate in the social features of Steam. I have 300 or so games (Corporate Lifestyle Simulator is my current burn time game) and have used Steam for many years. I have two "friends" on Steam.
Not one piece of spam or scammer contact, ever.
There are obviously sublevels of interaction I was not aware of. Until now.
Slightly interesting actually.
With regards to flying in the US, everything changed in late 2001.
Flying in America was awesome back in the 1990s. In 1998, I flew to my honeymoon without ID (left it in the car) and we were able to catch an earlier flight at the overlay point. I was even allowed to go back on the first plane to find my ticket voucher which had dropped between the seats. And they asked two basic questions (Did you pack your bags? Did you accept items from strangers?).
I hate flying now. I imagine it's a lot like being processed jail, but more intrusive.
The first 15 minutes of that movie were solid Gold (I loved the belt).
I don't think the concept was flexible or deep enough for anything over short skits, certainly not a full length movie (A Night at the Roxbury is also in this category).
I thought Zoolander would also fall into this category and avoided it for a couple of years. But once I saw it and realized the comic genius that it is, it became one of my favorite movies.
This sounds quiet dangerous:
truck oil change/chassis lube/tire rotation rope climbing courses
But also quite exciting.
Actually we'll go camping a lot, the kids are only five.
This is way off topic, but I have reset things and tried others. Slashdot can be difficult to navigate at times.
I attempted to but I can't figure it out, and I'm sick and tired of the pure HTML posting and moderating interface (it sucks wiffle balls).
I have enabled Slashdot.org in NoScript.
Thanks for the info. I understand and can appreciate the implications of the OFAC lists (basically a simple form of economic warfare against specific individuals and parties, preventing them from using certain global financial companies).
But, OFAC checks are supposed to be performed before any funds are transferred (prior to contract entry in my experience). So they generally can't be seized or impounded by the US financial system, because letting them in at all is illegal (I'm sure they are at least frozen if a company, such as Paypal, performs transactions for a restricted party).