I could argue that the system probably was setup to save lost bitcoins into a wallet. The CEO may not have known about it, as the programmers, probably felt that such an error could happen, so there was a mechanism to deal with it.
Sysadmins are also usually the easiest target to get in. standard password: 1amgod Being that they are required to fix problems 24/7 that means they have a "secret" back door on their network so they can get in. Once they are in they have a lot of access to the companies systems.
We can go, well those guys are just dumb, however I am willing to bet most of you who are sysadmins have some little back door just in case.
There is still the Free Software Stigma. Especially for desktop software. For the most part their arguments against it are rather irrational however, they are persistent.
Argument 1: Free Software comes with no one to sue if things go bad. Now granted MS,Google and the others have a rather iron clad ULA. But it is like the lottery if something happens that there is a gap in the ULA then bang they can sue for damages.
Argument 2: No official support. Now granted there are a lot of online resources, and companies willing to support the products. However there isn't that nice and comfy feeling that you can get the guys from the main source to come in and get things going for you.
Argument 3: Compatibility/Not widely used. Now many open source tools are more widely used then people think, and many tools are very compatible, often more compatible then the upgraded version of the commercial product. However there is that fear that I am the one who is using the next BetaMax in software. For education in technology they incorrectly think teaching people to use office will train the kids to work in business... However it is often the case the products themselves will be so out of date when they graduate that the office only features would be so different that they need to relearn them.
To expand on argument 3. When I was a kid my school felt it was important to avoid Mac's and focus more on PCs with MS DOS. For the fact that MS DOS based systems were the market leader. However, by the time I graduated Windows has taken over So all the skills learned on using a Mac would have transitioned better then using DOS (Especially the dos training was, read the label and run the.EXE,.BAT, or.COM file). While the Mac training had you using more OS features such as copying files, windows management.
Flash was one of the few holdouts of the Plugins era of the Netscape vs. IE Browser War. It came out because There wasn't a standard between the two for vector based graphics. Flash worked in different browsers and across many different OS's so it got well accepted. Then Adobe for the most part didn't let go easily and created more and more stuff to it, to make it rather full featured, killing off Active X and Java Applets for standard web pages.
That said. HTML 5 is not perfect, however it does give us a lot of features that we think we should use flash for, and we really should follow the standards that comes part of the browser then rely on plugins.
Brazil has a problem of being overly controlling of its economy. The kind of stuff the conservatives will hop on and try to discredit any government controls on the economy.
I think the main thing they are trying to stop is reselling on the black market. Chances are you are not going to resell your clothing if you are on a trip. But you may sell your phone if you need a quick buck... Or you may come in with say 20 of them to sell. Brazil has a heavy sales tax on stuff, so I expect black market sales of goods is probably much higher then the government wants to admit. So it is a crackdown on what they can crackdown on.
It sounds like they want to slow down progress. Increasing the visa cap, will now slow down the progress, it will just push the money out of the US, and pay people less for the work.
Unless they are emplying these workers are inferior to American workers, and wouldn't be able to automate buisness processes.
The real issue is this software automation is replacing the work of what we usually called smart people. People who can remember a lot of facts, do calculations quickly in their head. Or can do their jobs consistently. Those jobs are going to computers. What will be needed now are people who are more creative, who can think outside the box, try and experiment on new ways to do things. Those are the future for jobs. Our schools and colleges (in and outside the United States) are not doing enough to get people ready for this economy 2.2 (the latest patch to the buggy economy 2.0).
All sounds good, until you need to lug around either a heavy bulky laptop or spend a lot of money for a light one, with the enough battery so you can go around with a full work station for real work. When you are web browsing and running simple apps most of the time. You are better of getting a cheap tablet or chromebook with a Data Plan and have your Linux running on a server where you can access for nearly anywhere.
So if you are going to access your server from a low end thin client. What should your core OS be?
Most phones except for the American Company Apple uses a Micro USB.
Now the question is are these just chargers or do they do more. Would whatever standard they come up with have limitations. So say in the future it could take days to charge your phone, or force the ability for invention of a more convent, safer, or better technology from coming up due to regulation to supposedly save on garbage. Which is rather laughable. Because almost every phone maker will give you a means to charge your phone, if give you a phone without a charger they will put themselves in the path of complaints about giving the customer a product that isn't fully functional and having to go buy something else just to keep it running.
Lets ignore that fact this is is 14/03/2014. oblig XKCD I just love it when we try to find meaning in something, after we choose to ignore aspects of it.
Vocational Schooling or we call them apprenticeships. In general training to do particular work that doesn't require a college degree to do such work.
A lot of this stuff our college system as absorbed into its structure (Usually in a 2 year degree) but it really shouldn't be. Jobs such as: Electricians, Plumbers, Mechanics, Barbers, Truck Drivers, Welders... would quality. However other job professions which are covered in colleges could be done too. Like: Nursing, Day Care, even Programming, and other IT jobs. Sure you need training, the jobs may pay well, however you really don't need the full robust education of a college degree.
American Schools are made to push kids into college. Colleges are made to push people into Grad School Grad school is designed to get PHD students, PHD students are prepped to be Professors. Now this isn't bad and there is a lot of good work as a side effect that is going on, however people want job skills to get a job. Right now our culture is saying you need a college education, so they get one. Because a college education is needed for a basic quality of life, that means the standards to get there have been lowered.
It is more like, People like his ideas, They read 1/2 of the recommendation, then they propose it to the government who only gets 1/2 of that proposal, who then under pressure implements it using 1/2 of the proposal. This may go down a few levels only leaving the Title "Common Core" as remaining.
Because there is this impression of the Failing Schools and we expect someone else to fix it. However there are a few issues with that. 1. Many of the most successful countries with test results, have a school system where only the best continue on to more schooling the rest go to vocational schools. Meaning our system were we expect our kids to go school no matter how much they suck.
2. The issues of kids learning ability isn't as much as the schools as everyone else things. We got factors such as Parents, Culture, Environment, and the Child's own self interest to learn which are more major factors. If the Parents don't care how well their children do then they won't push temselfs to learn even in the best of schools. If the culture doesn't value education then the kid won't either If the environment is in a way (such as gang activity/domestic abuse/starvation etc...) where education is much lower on a child's priorities then they will not focus much.
3. A lot of these other factors are part of a catch 22 problem where education can help fix the above problems, however those problems prevent education from improving.
We have records, with good speakers. That is the best we got. However if you play the records over an over again their sound will degrade and they require a lot of Work to keep in good condition.
Then we had Magnetic Tape, Quality had dropped a bit, however they lasted longer and worked on portable devices.
Then we had CD's quality is better then tape, but not quite up to the record. However with a little bit of drop in portability it was still useful. But the CDs were more fragile and needed more care.
Then we went to Digital Music. To gain portability we lowered the quality below CD but above Magnetic Tape. Easier to maintain, and extremely portable.
Now all that said, most Audiophiles in a blind listen wouldn't tell the difference between a CD and most modern Digital Music formats. They may be able to tell the difference between a good record and a Cassette tape. Now most people are not audiophiles, and really do not care that much. and are going to plug in Dollar store earbuds to their devices and be rather happy, just as long as they don't get buzzing.
Good old economics kicks in. If you offer a class at too low of a price, failure or just quitting is an option when there is little to loose. So you take a few classes, it isn't your cup of tea you quit.
If you drop a few grand down for a class, and it isn't your cup of tea, you will still stick threw it and get those credits, as you have already paid for it.
70% of its budget going to individuals... May be a good thing.
Because that means only 30% of its budget it going to the corporations. So the government is more likely to work in house to meet needs then outsource.
Because these payments to individuals includes... All the Government Employees, and Military Employees.
Yea it is not like our computer is filled with a bunch of tiny little things that are rated in nano-meters. It is not like engineers worry about how heat affects particular devices.
The idea of overclocking your PC to get faster speed is quite true. That said, it heats up your CPU more so if you don't find a way to regulate the heat you get more problems. For some reason those engineers who made those chips created them to run within a particular temperature variance.
Well there is a difference between glorifying people who somewhat try to do positive things with their life, and achieved something from it.
But Hackers, drug smugglers and much of the other black market activity really shouldn't be glorified. Because for every 1 person who does this for some noble deed there are a thousand stupid kids who do this because they think it is easy money.
There are some major differences in the water. Animals can move towards water, including many naturally occurring locations. Plants grow where they are planted, and they are dependent on nature giving them water.
Now the real issue is about how we farm. These farms in the dessert, because the weather stays warmer all year, comes at a cost of heavy water usage. Farms up in the north east are smaller, however they take advantage of many of the natural resources around them, ponds, adequate rainfall. At the expense of a shorter growing season.
A rare scientific law means it is settled. For most of them their are theories. the strength of the theory is based on the amount and quality of evidence for it, and lack of evidence that disproves it.
The issues we are having isn't a problem with the science per-say. But people who religion/political stance is hindered by this science. So they will blame the people who came up with this conclusions as manipulating all their data to come to the conclusion.
While they are situations where scientists manipulate their data to make their conclusion, however if the peer review is thorough it is usually disproved, or at least found to be not-reproducible.
The biggest problem is the media posting confusing a hypothesis with a theory. So average joe who doesn't know the difference, see those scientists getting it wrong again!
Education is a funny thing. It has all the trappings of a big business, however there is utter dislike of the idea that they run like a business.
Because getting a Professorship job is so hard in Academia and a pressure to obtain tenure is so high, that they will be more willing to skip steps in order to get the next big thing out. If someone dies in the process, that means there is now a job opening.
It isn't free to make these games, especially if the games are of any particular quality. So if they are going to offer them to users for free, they will need to find an alternative method of getting compensated for their work. They will have adds in their games, they will put product placements in their games, they will have paid add ins, they will partner with an other company to make their product a promotional item... It isn't free gaming, it comes at a cost. And I don't care for the idea that Gaming should be free either, unlike Operating Systems, and web servers and web browsers, where they are an important part of an IT Infrastructure, games are for personal enjoyment, and they should have a cost to them.
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I could argue that the system probably was setup to save lost bitcoins into a wallet.
The CEO may not have known about it, as the programmers, probably felt that such an error could happen, so there was a mechanism to deal with it.
Sysadmins are also usually the easiest target to get in.
standard password: 1amgod
Being that they are required to fix problems 24/7 that means they have a "secret" back door on their network so they can get in.
Once they are in they have a lot of access to the companies systems.
We can go, well those guys are just dumb, however I am willing to bet most of you who are sysadmins have some little back door just in case.
Even if you could just do what firefly did and make a movie to close the loop.
There is still the Free Software Stigma. Especially for desktop software.
For the most part their arguments against it are rather irrational however, they are persistent.
Argument 1: Free Software comes with no one to sue if things go bad. Now granted MS,Google and the others have a rather iron clad ULA. But it is like the lottery if something happens that there is a gap in the ULA then bang they can sue for damages.
Argument 2: No official support. Now granted there are a lot of online resources, and companies willing to support the products. However there isn't that nice and comfy feeling that you can get the guys from the main source to come in and get things going for you.
Argument 3: Compatibility/Not widely used. Now many open source tools are more widely used then people think, and many tools are very compatible, often more compatible then the upgraded version of the commercial product. However there is that fear that I am the one who is using the next BetaMax in software. For education in technology they incorrectly think teaching people to use office will train the kids to work in business... However it is often the case the products themselves will be so out of date when they graduate that the office only features would be so different that they need to relearn them.
To expand on argument 3. When I was a kid my school felt it was important to avoid Mac's and focus more on PCs with MS DOS. For the fact that MS DOS based systems were the market leader. However, by the time I graduated Windows has taken over So all the skills learned on using a Mac would have transitioned better then using DOS (Especially the dos training was, read the label and run the .EXE, .BAT, or .COM file). While the Mac training had you using more OS features such as copying files, windows management.
Flash was one of the few holdouts of the Plugins era of the Netscape vs. IE Browser War. It came out because There wasn't a standard between the two for vector based graphics.
Flash worked in different browsers and across many different OS's so it got well accepted. Then Adobe for the most part didn't let go easily and created more and more stuff to it, to make it rather full featured, killing off Active X and Java Applets for standard web pages.
That said. HTML 5 is not perfect, however it does give us a lot of features that we think we should use flash for, and we really should follow the standards that comes part of the browser then rely on plugins.
Brazil has a problem of being overly controlling of its economy. The kind of stuff the conservatives will hop on and try to discredit any government controls on the economy.
I think the main thing they are trying to stop is reselling on the black market.
Chances are you are not going to resell your clothing if you are on a trip. But you may sell your phone if you need a quick buck... Or you may come in with say 20 of them to sell. Brazil has a heavy sales tax on stuff, so I expect black market sales of goods is probably much higher then the government wants to admit. So it is a crackdown on what they can crackdown on.
It sounds like they want to slow down progress. Increasing the visa cap, will now slow down the progress, it will just push the money out of the US, and pay people less for the work.
Unless they are emplying these workers are inferior to American workers, and wouldn't be able to automate buisness processes.
The real issue is this software automation is replacing the work of what we usually called smart people. People who can remember a lot of facts, do calculations quickly in their head. Or can do their jobs consistently. Those jobs are going to computers. What will be needed now are people who are more creative, who can think outside the box, try and experiment on new ways to do things. Those are the future for jobs.
Our schools and colleges (in and outside the United States) are not doing enough to get people ready for this economy 2.2 (the latest patch to the buggy economy 2.0).
All sounds good, until you need to lug around either a heavy bulky laptop or spend a lot of money for a light one, with the enough battery so you can go around with a full work station for real work. When you are web browsing and running simple apps most of the time. You are better of getting a cheap tablet or chromebook with a Data Plan and have your Linux running on a server where you can access for nearly anywhere.
So if you are going to access your server from a low end thin client. What should your core OS be?
Most phones except for the American Company Apple uses a Micro USB.
Now the question is are these just chargers or do they do more. Would whatever standard they come up with have limitations. So say in the future it could take days to charge your phone, or force the ability for invention of a more convent, safer, or better technology from coming up due to regulation to supposedly save on garbage.
Which is rather laughable. Because almost every phone maker will give you a means to charge your phone, if give you a phone without a charger they will put themselves in the path of complaints about giving the customer a product that isn't fully functional and having to go buy something else just to keep it running.
Lets ignore that fact this is is 14/03/2014. oblig XKCD
I just love it when we try to find meaning in something, after we choose to ignore aspects of it.
Vocational Schooling or we call them apprenticeships.
In general training to do particular work that doesn't require a college degree to do such work.
A lot of this stuff our college system as absorbed into its structure (Usually in a 2 year degree) but it really shouldn't be.
Jobs such as:
Electricians, Plumbers, Mechanics, Barbers, Truck Drivers, Welders... would quality.
However other job professions which are covered in colleges could be done too. Like: Nursing, Day Care, even Programming, and other IT jobs.
Sure you need training, the jobs may pay well, however you really don't need the full robust education of a college degree.
American Schools are made to push kids into college. Colleges are made to push people into Grad School Grad school is designed to get PHD students, PHD students are prepped to be Professors. Now this isn't bad and there is a lot of good work as a side effect that is going on, however people want job skills to get a job. Right now our culture is saying you need a college education, so they get one. Because a college education is needed for a basic quality of life, that means the standards to get there have been lowered.
It is more like,
People like his ideas, They read 1/2 of the recommendation, then they propose it to the government who only gets 1/2 of that proposal, who then under pressure implements it using 1/2 of the proposal. This may go down a few levels only leaving the Title "Common Core" as remaining.
Because there is this impression of the Failing Schools and we expect someone else to fix it.
However there are a few issues with that.
1. Many of the most successful countries with test results, have a school system where only the best continue on to more schooling the rest go to vocational schools. Meaning our system were we expect our kids to go school no matter how much they suck.
2. The issues of kids learning ability isn't as much as the schools as everyone else things. We got factors such as Parents, Culture, Environment, and the Child's own self interest to learn which are more major factors.
If the Parents don't care how well their children do then they won't push temselfs to learn even in the best of schools.
If the culture doesn't value education then the kid won't either
If the environment is in a way (such as gang activity/domestic abuse/starvation etc...) where education is much lower on a child's priorities then they will not focus much.
3. A lot of these other factors are part of a catch 22 problem where education can help fix the above problems, however those problems prevent education from improving.
The Audiophiles never really had a good market.
We have records, with good speakers. That is the best we got. However if you play the records over an over again their sound will degrade and they require a lot of Work to keep in good condition.
Then we had Magnetic Tape, Quality had dropped a bit, however they lasted longer and worked on portable devices.
Then we had CD's quality is better then tape, but not quite up to the record. However with a little bit of drop in portability it was still useful. But the CDs were more fragile and needed more care.
Then we went to Digital Music. To gain portability we lowered the quality below CD but above Magnetic Tape. Easier to maintain, and extremely portable.
Now all that said, most Audiophiles in a blind listen wouldn't tell the difference between a CD and most modern Digital Music formats. They may be able to tell the difference between a good record and a Cassette tape. Now most people are not audiophiles, and really do not care that much. and are going to plug in Dollar store earbuds to their devices and be rather happy, just as long as they don't get buzzing.
Good old economics kicks in.
If you offer a class at too low of a price, failure or just quitting is an option when there is little to loose. So you take a few classes, it isn't your cup of tea you quit.
If you drop a few grand down for a class, and it isn't your cup of tea, you will still stick threw it and get those credits, as you have already paid for it.
Actually this is an other case of Bad Math.
70% of its budget going to individuals... May be a good thing.
Because that means only 30% of its budget it going to the corporations. So the government is more likely to work in house to meet needs then outsource.
Because these payments to individuals includes... All the Government Employees, and Military Employees.
If I only had mod points today.
My thought was a second RAID Device, however my out dated experience with tapes had a 2gb limit.
sneaking a free refill at 7-11 is not "robbing".
You say that. Not realizing all the people who are hurt from you "free refill".
The issue is not as much on what you do but the effect that you do it.
If you guess someones password to peak someones Facebook account, vs guessing their password to access their bank account.
Or you can try to rob a store at gun point, or with breaking and entering, or you can do shop lifting, or you can just abuse a privilege.
It isn't the action but the scope.
Yea it is not like our computer is filled with a bunch of tiny little things that are rated in nano-meters. It is not like engineers worry about how heat affects particular devices.
The idea of overclocking your PC to get faster speed is quite true. That said, it heats up your CPU more so if you don't find a way to regulate the heat you get more problems. For some reason those engineers who made those chips created them to run within a particular temperature variance.
Well there is a difference between glorifying people who somewhat try to do positive things with their life, and achieved something from it.
But Hackers, drug smugglers and much of the other black market activity really shouldn't be glorified. Because for every 1 person who does this for some noble deed there are a thousand stupid kids who do this because they think it is easy money.
There are some major differences in the water.
Animals can move towards water, including many naturally occurring locations. Plants grow where they are planted, and they are dependent on nature giving them water.
Now the real issue is about how we farm. These farms in the dessert, because the weather stays warmer all year, comes at a cost of heavy water usage.
Farms up in the north east are smaller, however they take advantage of many of the natural resources around them, ponds, adequate rainfall. At the expense of a shorter growing season.
A rare scientific law means it is settled.
For most of them their are theories. the strength of the theory is based on the amount and quality of evidence for it, and lack of evidence that disproves it.
The issues we are having isn't a problem with the science per-say. But people who religion/political stance is hindered by this science. So they will blame the people who came up with this conclusions as manipulating all their data to come to the conclusion.
While they are situations where scientists manipulate their data to make their conclusion, however if the peer review is thorough it is usually disproved, or at least found to be not-reproducible.
The biggest problem is the media posting confusing a hypothesis with a theory. So average joe who doesn't know the difference, see those scientists getting it wrong again!
Education is a funny thing.
It has all the trappings of a big business, however there is utter dislike of the idea that they run like a business.
Because getting a Professorship job is so hard in Academia and a pressure to obtain tenure is so high, that they will be more willing to skip steps in order to get the next big thing out. If someone dies in the process, that means there is now a job opening.
"All These Worlds Are Yours Except Europa. Attempt No Landing There. Use Them Together. Use Them in Peace."
1 in 10 Americans will give a sarcastic response to a question.
It isn't free to make these games, especially if the games are of any particular quality.
So if they are going to offer them to users for free, they will need to find an alternative method of getting compensated for their work.
They will have adds in their games, they will put product placements in their games, they will have paid add ins, they will partner with an other company to make their product a promotional item...
It isn't free gaming, it comes at a cost. And I don't care for the idea that Gaming should be free either, unlike Operating Systems, and web servers and web browsers, where they are an important part of an IT Infrastructure, games are for personal enjoyment, and they should have a cost to them.