There's a slightly fuzzy line between cutting edge science and "hard" science fiction. Do you find this generates noise which distracts from the science, or would you support increased collaboration between science and science fiction?
Ha, forgotten asterisk. I know, I know, of such things are segfaults made.
* Web programmer: I'm not a "web designer", that seems to be people who can use photoshop and wordpress these days. My main tool is customised gedit, plus GIMP and Blender locally, working on LAMP stacks. Web programmer is the simple way to put what I do to a non-geek, I realise I'm probably offending a bunch of real web programmers here.
Thanks for coming back with something constructive and thoughtful on top of the snarky comment I thought the previous one might be. I'll give you a little context:
I'm mid 30s and have been self employed as a web programmer* for a year now. My main client (a pub/bar sompany) is a previous enployer from over a decade ago, and they've never, ever been into the idea of the internet and having a presence. I'm self-taught from the age of 8.
So now your alarm bells are ringing and you're wondering what the hell I'm doing as a sys-admin (I use the term loosely). Don't Panic. My whole point is that I'm well aware of my abilities - or more importantly the lack of. No, I can't set up a brilliant webserver from scratch, that's why I pay a modest amount every month to an excellent hosting company. So now I just have to worry about my coding ability. I know that it may fail me at some point, so I look very carefully at when I'm "hacking" and when I'm out of my depth - I've done some creative stuff that I'm very proud of, but when it comes to the security of my host's hardware and the privacy of my client's customers there's no messing about. If I'm not up to the job then I look for the best free managed option, or the best commercial option within the budget of the client, and if I can't then it doesn't happen.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no means an expert by a very long way (the closest I've been is shaking Knuth's hand), but I've got the important bit: realise your own limitations and the importance of what you're doing.
I wouldn't apply for a job with you anyway. I'd apply for work experience. My original point counts though, "make the right amount of effort".
I do work for a client who doesn't have the budget for large commercial level systems. If they ask for something that would require something "shoddy" then I explain that it's not practical at their budget. Example: they wanted to take online payment for tickets. I could have written a custom system to deal with it all but I'm well aware that it would be outside their budget and at the limit of my capabilities, so I pass the problem on to PayPal. On the other hand, if they need due diligence records for the 18+ aspect of the website then I can do that in an afternoon without risking exposing any personally identifying information. There's shoddy and there's efficient, the important thing is knowing the difference.
The doctor analogy is an interesting one - a doctor won't go through a full surgical scrub and use a sterile theatre for giving an innoculation because the risks of introducing a little bacteria into the skin aren't huge, a sterile needle and an alcohol wipe-down are sufficient. In the same way, if you have properly salted hashes using a strong algorithm, and you're not storing personally identifying information (names, CC details etc) then your DB doesn't have to be massively secure. Start storing card details or the like, and yes it does. It's all about going to the right level of effort - I store IP/DOB/TIMESTAMP data for a alcohol related site to prove due diligence, there's nothing particularly sensitive so I don't use lots of encryption and so on. If it gets leaked then the attackers don't get any particularly useful info. When people register an account, however, we store names, email addresses and DOBs together, so that DB has significantly more protection.
It's a reaction to the current/. trend of headlining articles with a question to which the answer is clearly "no". "Is Linux Dead?", "Have Microsoft Beaten Viruses?", "Is Product X The Greatest Thing Ever?", that kind of nonsense.
I'll happily be the atheist who agrees with you. Religion isn't science. Science isn't religion. They don't overlap and claiming either can prove the other wrong is absurd.
You'd be surprised, there are many businesses built around a model of selling at a loss for the first year or two just to pressure the competition and build a reputation as the cheapest, then they ramp the price up once they have a sufficient chunk of the market. Businesses will also sell old stock at a loss simply to free up capital that's trapped in stockholding.
Exactly, if you buy this and add it to a complete collection of mint Xbox and PS series then you'll probably find someone who will pay $3m for it in a decade. It's not about games, it's about future interest. Think spending half a million (today's money) on a tulip is outrageous? Not if somebody will pay $600,000 a year later...
It's actually far more simple. Corporations have legal obligations to ensure equal treatment for all genders, Google are simply choosing to include "in general, not just in the workplace" in their interpretation of the law. Other large companies may feel the need to follow suit and avoid potential lawsuits from employee's private lives. It's a case of capitalist pressure doing something right.
We have exactly the same problem in the UK if it's any consolation, the three main parties are essentially the same group of people organised into three "different parties". In reality, they're not different, they're one party who's job it is to get any of the three elected and ensure the wages, expenses and party donations, plus the highly lucrative "consultancy work".
There are two things required to change this:
1: A concerted campaign to replace the parties with independent candidates at the next election. Doesn't matter whether your views are left, center or right, vote independent. I think we can all happily agree that you don't need a majority party for a stable government if you have independents voting free of any partisan line.
2: A contract for MPs (Reps for those in the US) that forbids collusion on voting. If it works for game shows it'll work for democracy. MPs should do the job they're elected for, which is thinking carefully about things and voting on our behalf. I'll re-emphasise that, our behalf. Not that of their party boss, ours. All MPs will have personal recording equipment, and can report other MPs if they are approached to collude on a vote, a successful prosecution leads to a £1 million taxpayer funded donation to the charity of the MP who reported it. Totally worth it.
That's why they don't use it, they shave Brin's head, tattoo the data into his scalp, and then when they need to retrieve it they shave him again and read it off. This way not even Brin can read it, because he'd need a mirror and it would all be reversed.
Exactly. My Orange Android phone comes with a pre-installed Facebook app which eats resources and stores/transmits data even though I have no Facebook account. I called Orange to ask how to remove this and was told I can't, and they seemed mystified as to why anyone would want to. I cited privacy concerns and they told me they thought everybody wanted a Facebook app.
As far as I'm aware national copyright laws don't apply when you're at sea, and a warship under sail is hardly a "public place"! OK, the political/media fallout could get awkward, but that's why none of my forces mates ever pass ripped films around when they're on active service. I'm with the anti-piracy brigade, but as far as I'm concerned the military covenant outweighs that one.
Unless, of course, the OP has been pestering for this for a while and this is the CO's way of saying "I'm not explaining this again, go and find out 'why not' for yourself..."
If it wasn't for "laziness" we'd all be building our own computers, starting with copper ore and coal (I've always wondered how far one person could get...). "Laziness" is generally a good thing, it stops you expending energy and time on less productive things. I recently had to deal with a lot of JSON data (Facebook's gallery API), and while I could have sat down and mapped it all out I found it easier to use an online tool somebody has been good enough to provide for free. The tenth time I found myself using it I donated $5, totally worth it and I hope he enjoys the beer. It's hardly an unusual business model, take a look at the commercial level Linux distros for proof of that. My main client is "lazy" because he can't be bothered learning HTML and a bit of PHP/MySQL - I win because he pays me to do it, he wins because he can get on with running his business, playing golf, or whatever else he fancies.
Agreed. Now a shipwide LAN allowing everyone to share their media, that's a good idea. Set up a Diaspora instance or similar and you've got a shipwide social network too. Doing it without jacking into the existing CAT5 (presumably?) might be tricky, a series of repeating wireless routers throughout perhaps?
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There's a slightly fuzzy line between cutting edge science and "hard" science fiction. Do you find this generates noise which distracts from the science, or would you support increased collaboration between science and science fiction?
Sobriety as a gateway to every known drug shows a 100% correlation in all humans. See also milk.
I'm taking that as the central message here.
Ha, forgotten asterisk. I know, I know, of such things are segfaults made.
* Web programmer: I'm not a "web designer", that seems to be people who can use photoshop and wordpress these days. My main tool is customised gedit, plus GIMP and Blender locally, working on LAMP stacks. Web programmer is the simple way to put what I do to a non-geek, I realise I'm probably offending a bunch of real web programmers here.
I pretty much agree with everything above.
Thanks for coming back with something constructive and thoughtful on top of the snarky comment I thought the previous one might be. I'll give you a little context:
I'm mid 30s and have been self employed as a web programmer* for a year now. My main client (a pub/bar sompany) is a previous enployer from over a decade ago, and they've never, ever been into the idea of the internet and having a presence. I'm self-taught from the age of 8.
So now your alarm bells are ringing and you're wondering what the hell I'm doing as a sys-admin (I use the term loosely). Don't Panic. My whole point is that I'm well aware of my abilities - or more importantly the lack of. No, I can't set up a brilliant webserver from scratch, that's why I pay a modest amount every month to an excellent hosting company. So now I just have to worry about my coding ability. I know that it may fail me at some point, so I look very carefully at when I'm "hacking" and when I'm out of my depth - I've done some creative stuff that I'm very proud of, but when it comes to the security of my host's hardware and the privacy of my client's customers there's no messing about. If I'm not up to the job then I look for the best free managed option, or the best commercial option within the budget of the client, and if I can't then it doesn't happen.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no means an expert by a very long way (the closest I've been is shaking Knuth's hand), but I've got the important bit: realise your own limitations and the importance of what you're doing.
I wouldn't apply for a job with you anyway. I'd apply for work experience. My original point counts though, "make the right amount of effort".
I do work for a client who doesn't have the budget for large commercial level systems. If they ask for something that would require something "shoddy" then I explain that it's not practical at their budget. Example: they wanted to take online payment for tickets. I could have written a custom system to deal with it all but I'm well aware that it would be outside their budget and at the limit of my capabilities, so I pass the problem on to PayPal. On the other hand, if they need due diligence records for the 18+ aspect of the website then I can do that in an afternoon without risking exposing any personally identifying information. There's shoddy and there's efficient, the important thing is knowing the difference.
The doctor analogy is an interesting one - a doctor won't go through a full surgical scrub and use a sterile theatre for giving an innoculation because the risks of introducing a little bacteria into the skin aren't huge, a sterile needle and an alcohol wipe-down are sufficient. In the same way, if you have properly salted hashes using a strong algorithm, and you're not storing personally identifying information (names, CC details etc) then your DB doesn't have to be massively secure. Start storing card details or the like, and yes it does. It's all about going to the right level of effort - I store IP/DOB/TIMESTAMP data for a alcohol related site to prove due diligence, there's nothing particularly sensitive so I don't use lots of encryption and so on. If it gets leaked then the attackers don't get any particularly useful info. When people register an account, however, we store names, email addresses and DOBs together, so that DB has significantly more protection.
If you can find a genuine use of scientific method in creationism, or a faith based axiom in evolution, then yes, they overlap.
Yes, of course science and religion both have social aspects which overlap, but as logical systems they're separate.
It's a reaction to the current /. trend of headlining articles with a question to which the answer is clearly "no". "Is Linux Dead?", "Have Microsoft Beaten Viruses?", "Is Product X The Greatest Thing Ever?", that kind of nonsense.
I'll happily be the atheist who agrees with you. Religion isn't science. Science isn't religion. They don't overlap and claiming either can prove the other wrong is absurd.
You'd be surprised, there are many businesses built around a model of selling at a loss for the first year or two just to pressure the competition and build a reputation as the cheapest, then they ramp the price up once they have a sufficient chunk of the market. Businesses will also sell old stock at a loss simply to free up capital that's trapped in stockholding.
His ability to turn it off is a weapon, are you trying to say he's not allowed it?
Exactly, if you buy this and add it to a complete collection of mint Xbox and PS series then you'll probably find someone who will pay $3m for it in a decade. It's not about games, it's about future interest. Think spending half a million (today's money) on a tulip is outrageous? Not if somebody will pay $600,000 a year later...
Not even close. Read this and get back to us:
It's actually far more simple. Corporations have legal obligations to ensure equal treatment for all genders, Google are simply choosing to include "in general, not just in the workplace" in their interpretation of the law. Other large companies may feel the need to follow suit and avoid potential lawsuits from employee's private lives. It's a case of capitalist pressure doing something right.
We have exactly the same problem in the UK if it's any consolation, the three main parties are essentially the same group of people organised into three "different parties". In reality, they're not different, they're one party who's job it is to get any of the three elected and ensure the wages, expenses and party donations, plus the highly lucrative "consultancy work".
There are two things required to change this:
1: A concerted campaign to replace the parties with independent candidates at the next election. Doesn't matter whether your views are left, center or right, vote independent. I think we can all happily agree that you don't need a majority party for a stable government if you have independents voting free of any partisan line.
2: A contract for MPs (Reps for those in the US) that forbids collusion on voting. If it works for game shows it'll work for democracy. MPs should do the job they're elected for, which is thinking carefully about things and voting on our behalf. I'll re-emphasise that, our behalf. Not that of their party boss, ours. All MPs will have personal recording equipment, and can report other MPs if they are approached to collude on a vote, a successful prosecution leads to a £1 million taxpayer funded donation to the charity of the MP who reported it. Totally worth it.
Bluetooth is short range, so you'll be within reach of the real keyboard and mouse 99% of the time.
That's why they don't use it, they shave Brin's head, tattoo the data into his scalp, and then when they need to retrieve it they shave him again and read it off. This way not even Brin can read it, because he'd need a mirror and it would all be reversed.
Exactly. My Orange Android phone comes with a pre-installed Facebook app which eats resources and stores/transmits data even though I have no Facebook account. I called Orange to ask how to remove this and was told I can't, and they seemed mystified as to why anyone would want to. I cited privacy concerns and they told me they thought everybody wanted a Facebook app.
In fact, we should be doing this more - all the rivers and rain are diluting the sea and soon there won't be enough salt left! (I jest, I jest...)
A full and reasoned argument, and well made. I salute you! (The other stuff made sense too)
As far as I'm aware national copyright laws don't apply when you're at sea, and a warship under sail is hardly a "public place"! OK, the political/media fallout could get awkward, but that's why none of my forces mates ever pass ripped films around when they're on active service. I'm with the anti-piracy brigade, but as far as I'm concerned the military covenant outweighs that one.
Unless, of course, the OP has been pestering for this for a while and this is the CO's way of saying "I'm not explaining this again, go and find out 'why not' for yourself..."
If it wasn't for "laziness" we'd all be building our own computers, starting with copper ore and coal (I've always wondered how far one person could get...). "Laziness" is generally a good thing, it stops you expending energy and time on less productive things. I recently had to deal with a lot of JSON data (Facebook's gallery API), and while I could have sat down and mapped it all out I found it easier to use an online tool somebody has been good enough to provide for free. The tenth time I found myself using it I donated $5, totally worth it and I hope he enjoys the beer. It's hardly an unusual business model, take a look at the commercial level Linux distros for proof of that. My main client is "lazy" because he can't be bothered learning HTML and a bit of PHP/MySQL - I win because he pays me to do it, he wins because he can get on with running his business, playing golf, or whatever else he fancies.
Agreed. Now a shipwide LAN allowing everyone to share their media, that's a good idea. Set up a Diaspora instance or similar and you've got a shipwide social network too. Doing it without jacking into the existing CAT5 (presumably?) might be tricky, a series of repeating wireless routers throughout perhaps?