Well they are not getting all good PR. There are a lot of people want to think they are safe. They want the government to spy on the bad guys and their neighbors, to make sure nothing bad can happen. (They just forget if their neighbors are being spied on, so are you)
While the tech industry is with Apple. This isn't necessarily popular with average Joe.
Not to sound like a sexist male. However I don't think this pay gap problem is due to the man keeping the woman down for most of these cases, but more due to differences in what the woman may due compared to what a man may due. Perhaps on eBay a woman may have started with a smaller minimum, or a smaller buy it now price, then a man would give. Perhaps they may put less effort in promoting the product then men may do...
The male aggression is more than just being physically strong, but posturing to look bigger than the others. This is an instinctive action, so even if you are physically anonymous you will perform such actions, that will make you seem more dominate. The female of our species, doesn't have this particular instinct so in terms of male generated economic systems they are at a disadvantage.
Now by no means I am saying all woman can't be aggressive, I have met a good share of successful woman who knows how to play the game and do it much better than other men. But this is about overall averages.
However the idea of the Bully Female Boss isn't so far fetched. It is because the woman is trying to mimic male aggressive behavior while missing many of the subtle nuances. Normally the more successful woman I have worked with learned to not try to mimic male aggression but leverage the female instinctual traits to their advantage. While man posture to be alpha, where people want to follow the alpha as an evolutionary trait to stand behind the winning side where your group has a better chance of winning. Woman tend to create more of a nurturing environment where better teamwork can take place, thus the power of the group is much stronger.
Apple is actually doing something very odd. It is trying to protect its customers!
Any backdoor made into the system will be abused. Apple tried to make the system so they can't access the data. Apple may not be able to do such changes. Because how will they get past the security to even load the update to the phone? Which should require human interaction which would mean they will need to login.
What I really don't get... If the FBI really needs this data they should take a different approach.
Take the Flash Chip out of the device. Plug it into a separate computer, copy the encrypted data. Send it to the NSA or an other Super computer and break the encryption the old fashion way. iOS is a Unix based OS. There isn't any Magic about it, just good security design.
From the look of it. it seems you can imprint visible text on it and pictures. So you may make a rosetta stone of instructions on how to make a reader in as many languages you can think of. As well as pictures. I am not so much worried about a billion years but 10,000 years is a good run, where memory of our society would normally be close to gone. Finding such material on how to make a reader and to make one and get all our crazy data would be an major archaeological find. Perhaps after seeing it, they will realize that we share many of the same problems that our future has, while they may chuckle at some of the issues that we have now, which are so obviously wrong and stupid, but no one at our time realizes it.
I am curious about many mythological creatures were based off of prehistoric encounters with creatures and subspecies.
Neanderthals seem to have many aspects we would point out to Trolls and Ogres. We have had a bunch of species that were around when we were too, many of them having divergent evolutionary traits. As humans had expanded we were in competition. And humans had the ability to win. But with such challenges, I would expect word of mouth tales about the evil monsters who once inhabited the land.
The problem as I see it. Apple made their products so they cannot hack into their own devices. Making a back door, even for the government, means there is a spot for the non-government and other government which can get in.
When I do my job right, the products I make is made so without access I cannot get in unless I am setup as a user.
Also we have made a habit of taking the warnings of science fiction too far. We fail to realize in order to make the plot interesting we need conflict. So in terms of a story is makes good reading for what if we see a new science trending now, and figure out the worse case scenario. That will make an interesting story, but the crazy thing about worse case scenario, is that it rarely if ever happens. I would say the worse thing that science has produced is the Nuclear Bomb. And guess what after seeing how bad it is, we restrained ourselves, making sure those who have them are responsible enough not to use them and those who are not, we put a heck of a lot of pressure to make sure they don't get them.
After 70 years with such risky science, We are not in a nuclear holocaust world.
Give Science Fiction credit for playing with the problems of the science. but don't use it as foreshadowing what will happen.
25% isn't so bad. We have the Very young, and the very old. People who never got "edumacated"
I think the point is, when you talk about human evolution, your probably put people on a spot where they are afraid to speak their minds, or think about it, unless they risk being removed from their main support group.
That could explain the higher population of Women working there. As they had a monopoly on the telephone systems, they had staff of telephone operators who were slowly becoming obsolete and need new jobs for them.
However Woman in Computer Science based jobs were much higher back in the old'n days. If you go to any place that still has mainframes as its core technology you have a much higher woman (most of them are at or near retirement age) % then newer organizations.
I remember my father had brought home some point of sale computers that had a scsi or some other type of module on the top of the case where you can stack upgrades. That was around the early 1990s and they were already too out of date for me to use.
The key problem we have is the upgradable PC has its limits.
There come a point where you need to swap out the entire thing because components become a bottleneck to everything else.
Back in the early 2000 the hay day of custom PC they tended to last only 4-5 years. Because there will be a component that is critical that get out of date.
Praytell, when is the last time Apple admitted a security flaw? January 2016 http://lists.apple.com/archive... Windows is plagued by bad design decisions. Such as? Taking granted that Windows foundation was based on running on a 16bit PC. Open source flaws usually tend to be dealt with fairly rapidly once discovered. However what is the fallout for a quick patch update? I think you're going a little overboard calling people zealots there Chuck. Zealots are not just fans of open source, but ignore the problems that do exist and point to the problems in others select cases to make your point.
There are a set of Large Open source project, but a lot of small ones where there is a few people who care about the source.
Because if cheating is done right, it is hard to proove. Most competitions allow a degree of "Failure" in the game. So if you are running a race, while you are not suppose to come in contact with the person you are racing with. However most judges will not be hardass enough to discredit an accidental hit. However if you are going to cheat, you may "Accidentally" hit your biggest threat just to get him off his stride.
Now this is cheating, however it is hard to prove. That and sportsmanship lesson one, was to publically not be a sore loser. So saying he cheated is often the call of a sore loser.
Winners tend to win because they take more chances. Playing it safe, means you are going to be in the middle of the pack. But if you take your chances you can win big or lose big, People who have this attitude can see cheating as taking one of those risks.
It is true, but you are expecting a rational train of thought from a person. Being that their self identity is being challenged, they will have more of an instinctual instinct then a well planned thought and consequence.
Besides if you can rationalize it away such as everyone else is doing it ("they cheating too") so by cheating they are keeping the environment equal.
But even in less game method, when our self identity is threatened we will lash out and fight for it. Say you are a programmer and one of those "Rock Star" Programmers always the one being called when things get tough and you have an answer. Then a new guy comes who knows some newer technology, which can solve your problems that you fix better. How quick will you discredit the technology, pointing out any flaw in the system as the key reason why it is obviously inferior. Vs. the more rational thing, of actually taking time to learn and embrace the technology and adding it to your tool box of tools, that can enhance your ability.
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The question is who would they vote of instead now? If they go towards a more moderate candidate or a crazy nut? Fox News has done an excellent job at radicalizing the base, making sure Democrats are hated as godless communist who wants to control every aspect of your life.
I would like to know what the Total Carbon footprint is. How much carbon does it take to make a solar panel, ship it, set it up. How many trees will need to be knocked down to build the solar farm. Does the energy produced from the solar panel over its expected life actually offset the cost of implementing it, and long term maintenance.
I am not saying it is bad for the envrionment on the whole. But I would like to see the true costs.
Offering a local environment of cleaner Air, and possible cheaper reliable energy, may attract additional people in the area. As well these people may be healthier thus have a better reproduction rate.
While we shouldn't dismiss problems ranging from rape to unprofessional behavior as just being prude. Academia is very hierarchical in structure, so there is a pecking order in power there. So having men who are in a higher power position hitting on women in lower power positions puts them in a disadvantage. While they can go forward, it will still mark them as being "Miss. Woman's Lib" and isolate them from working up the power command of academia.
As with all technology. Just because it exists doesn't always mean that it needs to be implemented. For example the eject button on the remote control for your VCR/DVD/Blueray player. Sure it is technically possible, but what is the point. After from your chair you eject the disk, you will still need to get off your butt, to take the media out, and replace it with something else.
Some devices don't need internet connectivity. Just because when they are soo far away from you they are no longer useful.
So you are stating in a story that a free internet meant to be given to the poor, from a For Profit Company, however being blocked by the government because it has interests in keeping the underclass out of power, and probably have ties with other telecom companies, to block competition because they are offer lower price as a key competitive advantage. Is showing the evils of capitalism. Where in this case free market is motivated to provide free infrastructure in order to increase revenue from services offered.
Stop over simplifying things. Unregulated capitalism is bad, Over regulated capitalism is just as bad too. The details is important, not the political stance.
No they are stuck in the 1990s Their rant about Linux is the same argument that was true back in the mid 1990s however Linux has matured sense then. Some of the biggest business problems they face can be far easier fixed with a partial adoption of Linux.
I am not an open source zealot. But in terms of control, and configurability Linux is superior to Windows. That comment was to try to silence a flood of just to switch to Linux posts.
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Well they are not getting all good PR. There are a lot of people want to think they are safe. They want the government to spy on the bad guys and their neighbors, to make sure nothing bad can happen. (They just forget if their neighbors are being spied on, so are you)
While the tech industry is with Apple. This isn't necessarily popular with average Joe.
Not to sound like a sexist male. However I don't think this pay gap problem is due to the man keeping the woman down for most of these cases, but more due to differences in what the woman may due compared to what a man may due.
Perhaps on eBay a woman may have started with a smaller minimum, or a smaller buy it now price, then a man would give. Perhaps they may put less effort in promoting the product then men may do...
The male aggression is more than just being physically strong, but posturing to look bigger than the others. This is an instinctive action, so even if you are physically anonymous you will perform such actions, that will make you seem more dominate. The female of our species, doesn't have this particular instinct so in terms of male generated economic systems they are at a disadvantage.
Now by no means I am saying all woman can't be aggressive, I have met a good share of successful woman who knows how to play the game and do it much better than other men. But this is about overall averages.
However the idea of the Bully Female Boss isn't so far fetched. It is because the woman is trying to mimic male aggressive behavior while missing many of the subtle nuances. Normally the more successful woman I have worked with learned to not try to mimic male aggression but leverage the female instinctual traits to their advantage. While man posture to be alpha, where people want to follow the alpha as an evolutionary trait to stand behind the winning side where your group has a better chance of winning. Woman tend to create more of a nurturing environment where better teamwork can take place, thus the power of the group is much stronger.
Apple is actually doing something very odd. It is trying to protect its customers!
Any backdoor made into the system will be abused. Apple tried to make the system so they can't access the data. Apple may not be able to do such changes. Because how will they get past the security to even load the update to the phone? Which should require human interaction which would mean they will need to login.
What I really don't get... If the FBI really needs this data they should take a different approach.
Take the Flash Chip out of the device. Plug it into a separate computer, copy the encrypted data. Send it to the NSA or an other Super computer and break the encryption the old fashion way.
iOS is a Unix based OS. There isn't any Magic about it, just good security design.
From the look of it. it seems you can imprint visible text on it and pictures.
So you may make a rosetta stone of instructions on how to make a reader in as many languages you can think of. As well as pictures. I am not so much worried about a billion years but 10,000 years is a good run, where memory of our society would normally be close to gone. Finding such material on how to make a reader and to make one and get all our crazy data would be an major archaeological find. Perhaps after seeing it, they will realize that we share many of the same problems that our future has, while they may chuckle at some of the issues that we have now, which are so obviously wrong and stupid, but no one at our time realizes it.
I am curious about many mythological creatures were based off of prehistoric encounters with creatures and subspecies.
Neanderthals seem to have many aspects we would point out to Trolls and Ogres.
We have had a bunch of species that were around when we were too, many of them having divergent evolutionary traits. As humans had expanded we were in competition. And humans had the ability to win. But with such challenges, I would expect word of mouth tales about the evil monsters who once inhabited the land.
He said he was a Government Contractor. Right in the title.
Interception of data in transit.
The problem as I see it. Apple made their products so they cannot hack into their own devices. Making a back door, even for the government, means there is a spot for the non-government and other government which can get in.
When I do my job right, the products I make is made so without access I cannot get in unless I am setup as a user.
Also we have made a habit of taking the warnings of science fiction too far. We fail to realize in order to make the plot interesting we need conflict. So in terms of a story is makes good reading for what if we see a new science trending now, and figure out the worse case scenario. That will make an interesting story, but the crazy thing about worse case scenario, is that it rarely if ever happens. I would say the worse thing that science has produced is the Nuclear Bomb. And guess what after seeing how bad it is, we restrained ourselves, making sure those who have them are responsible enough not to use them and those who are not, we put a heck of a lot of pressure to make sure they don't get them.
After 70 years with such risky science, We are not in a nuclear holocaust world.
Give Science Fiction credit for playing with the problems of the science. but don't use it as foreshadowing what will happen.
I never got why we never bothered making additional DC sockets for our homes, Where we wouldn't need these power bricks for every "Low Power" device.
I guess you could in theory have a power socket that allows USB too.
25% isn't so bad.
We have the Very young, and the very old. People who never got "edumacated"
I think the point is, when you talk about human evolution, your probably put people on a spot where they are afraid to speak their minds, or think about it, unless they risk being removed from their main support group.
That could explain the higher population of Women working there. As they had a monopoly on the telephone systems, they had staff of telephone operators who were slowly becoming obsolete and need new jobs for them.
However Woman in Computer Science based jobs were much higher back in the old'n days. If you go to any place that still has mainframes as its core technology you have a much higher woman (most of them are at or near retirement age) % then newer organizations.
I remember my father had brought home some point of sale computers that had a scsi or some other type of module on the top of the case where you can stack upgrades. That was around the early 1990s and they were already too out of date for me to use.
The key problem we have is the upgradable PC has its limits.
There come a point where you need to swap out the entire thing because components become a bottleneck to everything else.
Back in the early 2000 the hay day of custom PC they tended to last only 4-5 years. Because there will be a component that is critical that get out of date.
Praytell, when is the last time Apple admitted a security flaw? January 2016 http://lists.apple.com/archive...
Windows is plagued by bad design decisions. Such as? Taking granted that Windows foundation was based on running on a 16bit PC.
Open source flaws usually tend to be dealt with fairly rapidly once discovered. However what is the fallout for a quick patch update?
I think you're going a little overboard calling people zealots there Chuck. Zealots are not just fans of open source, but ignore the problems that do exist and point to the problems in others select cases to make your point.
There are a set of Large Open source project, but a lot of small ones where there is a few people who care about the source.
Why would the distribution license affect quality and security of the software?
Because if cheating is done right, it is hard to proove. Most competitions allow a degree of "Failure" in the game. So if you are running a race, while you are not suppose to come in contact with the person you are racing with. However most judges will not be hardass enough to discredit an accidental hit. However if you are going to cheat, you may "Accidentally" hit your biggest threat just to get him off his stride.
Now this is cheating, however it is hard to prove.
That and sportsmanship lesson one, was to publically not be a sore loser. So saying he cheated is often the call of a sore loser.
Winners tend to win because they take more chances. Playing it safe, means you are going to be in the middle of the pack. But if you take your chances you can win big or lose big, People who have this attitude can see cheating as taking one of those risks.
It is true, but you are expecting a rational train of thought from a person. Being that their self identity is being challenged, they will have more of an instinctual instinct then a well planned thought and consequence.
Besides if you can rationalize it away such as everyone else is doing it ("they cheating too") so by cheating they are keeping the environment equal.
But even in less game method, when our self identity is threatened we will lash out and fight for it. Say you are a programmer and one of those "Rock Star" Programmers always the one being called when things get tough and you have an answer. Then a new guy comes who knows some newer technology, which can solve your problems that you fix better. How quick will you discredit the technology, pointing out any flaw in the system as the key reason why it is obviously inferior. Vs. the more rational thing, of actually taking time to learn and embrace the technology and adding it to your tool box of tools, that can enhance your ability.
The question is who would they vote of instead now?
If they go towards a more moderate candidate or a crazy nut?
Fox News has done an excellent job at radicalizing the base, making sure Democrats are hated as godless communist who wants to control every aspect of your life.
I would like to know what the Total Carbon footprint is.
How much carbon does it take to make a solar panel, ship it, set it up.
How many trees will need to be knocked down to build the solar farm. Does the energy produced from the solar panel over its expected life actually offset the cost of implementing it, and long term maintenance.
I am not saying it is bad for the envrionment on the whole. But I would like to see the true costs.
Offering a local environment of cleaner Air, and possible cheaper reliable energy, may attract additional people in the area. As well these people may be healthier thus have a better reproduction rate.
While we shouldn't dismiss problems ranging from rape to unprofessional behavior as just being prude.
Academia is very hierarchical in structure, so there is a pecking order in power there. So having men who are in a higher power position hitting on women in lower power positions puts them in a disadvantage. While they can go forward, it will still mark them as being "Miss. Woman's Lib" and isolate them from working up the power command of academia.
As with all technology. Just because it exists doesn't always mean that it needs to be implemented.
For example the eject button on the remote control for your VCR/DVD/Blueray player. Sure it is technically possible, but what is the point. After from your chair you eject the disk, you will still need to get off your butt, to take the media out, and replace it with something else.
Some devices don't need internet connectivity. Just because when they are soo far away from you they are no longer useful.
So you are stating in a story that a free internet meant to be given to the poor, from a For Profit Company, however being blocked by the government because it has interests in keeping the underclass out of power, and probably have ties with other telecom companies, to block competition because they are offer lower price as a key competitive advantage. Is showing the evils of capitalism. Where in this case free market is motivated to provide free infrastructure in order to increase revenue from services offered.
Stop over simplifying things. Unregulated capitalism is bad, Over regulated capitalism is just as bad too. The details is important, not the political stance.
No they are stuck in the 1990s
Their rant about Linux is the same argument that was true back in the mid 1990s however Linux has matured sense then.
Some of the biggest business problems they face can be far easier fixed with a partial adoption of Linux.
I am not an open source zealot. But in terms of control, and configurability Linux is superior to Windows. That comment was to try to silence a flood of just to switch to Linux posts.