This is not a new concept. We used to have that in America. It was called the press, but now the people that are running the press are in bed with the politicians.
I propose an open-source decentralized big-data platform for tracking all politicians, their movements, who they talk to, where they've been, they're locations, their correspondence (that's public), their donations, criminal backgrounds, known associations, and everything about them in an easily searchable, index-able manner.
Who wants to work on this with me! Seriously people we could do this in a legal way and that would be something that COULD make a difference. Probably not but worth a try...
I'm a big fan of throwing together a DB when I want to store things categorically like that and want fast searches. If you are up to the task, hunt down some tools/roll your own so that you have a nice relational database and some stored procedures for getting what you want when you need it.
You could export your emails to some parsable format, write an importer to extract the basics that you want to keep (from/to/subject/body,attachments/entire binary blob/etc) and then bulk insert that mess into on a mysql/sql server tucked away somewhere locally or "in the cloud" (EC2, Azure). Just another option as I'm sure you'll see here many here. At least with this route you are in full control of how you index, what you can search, encryption, performance, level of backups, etc. Maybe not the best way for some but I know if I had over 100000 emails that I wanted searchable very very quickly with advanced SQL like searching, this would be a cool way to do it (time permitting). Good luck!
And to the pedantry to ensue...Yes. Good day.
You don't have that option in the test they did. They took a gay and a straight, and you (the mathematical model) had to determine which one was gay and which was straight. You can't apply your method to this test.
Yes you can. Define f(p1,p2,p3,p4,....p_n) = 1. For all properties of person p1 to p_n, if f = 1, then they are straight. Pretty accurate model. Doesn't tell you anything about the underlying phenomena though....or is this a tautology:)....perhaps.....
> This is the same DOJ that...spends thousands going after... illegal 'copycap' handbags and sports paraphernalia, etc.
So what the heck is wrong with going after this sort of stuff? Trademark infringement is seriously bad news. Ask anyone who has gotten fake merchandise thinking it was genuine.
My sarcasm meter is off but.... seriously? People who buy a 10 dollar Iphone or a 4 euro gucci purse know what they are getting....point me the the pool of angry people getting fake merchandise unintentionally and I'll point you to a DOJ that prosecutes serious issues of criminal action where actual victims lost life/liberty/pursuit of happiness. Currently they seem to be prosecuting to take those same things away away from whoever their super pac funded blame-thrower is aimed at...making them the wanton aggressor....not the guy pushing handbags or the site taking bets on a football game.
This is the same DOJ that denied knowledge of gunwalker. This is the same DOJ that that is in cahorts with ICE to take-down websites without due process. This is the same DOJ that...spends thousands going after gambling sites, illegal 'copycap' handbags and sports paraphernalia, etc.
For being the entity known as the United States Department of Justice, going after torrent sites, going after guys scraping and trying to release academic journals, proprietors of gambling sites, people making gucci wannabe purses, and allowing the sale of guns to cartels....talk about wrong priorities.
Well granted, I scaled this down to my own usage when I posted this, but is it not the backbone providers claiming they are being saturated? I assume I can see where one localized wide area wireless network with +1 gigabit speeds might be useful, but how much extra are we really going to eek out of it over what we have now?
Up to 700+ Mbps more? You're still restricting your vision to the WAN pipe. If I am a corporate user who moves large whatevers around between shares, the speeds 11ac offers are much welcomed. Yes of course your home internet downstream/upstream will see no substantive difference, but that isn't the point. The point is more and more devices on the WLAN in the home are needing more and more bandwidth availability (think streaming media servers and the like). Plus with more tablets, laptops, phones, toasters, whatever, the more bandwidth you have to your local L2 the better.
One side comment... if the switchport on 11ac bridges is still 1G, unless you've got multi-port bridges that can port-channel/LACP to an upstream aggregation switch, your total pool of bandwidth available to associated stations is still 1G shared to all devices on the bridge/AP.
In reference to your backbone providers comment, this issue has nothing to do with that. Backbone providers live in fiberland. Their last-mile connections to you will not see more traffic with 11ac deployed because the last-mile is already most consumer's bottleneck to the internet. If your WAN pipe was bigger than your wireless NICs negotiated pipe, and your wireless capabilities subsequently increased, then telcos would see increased link utilization, but this is not the case.
My router at home does N speeds of 300 megs and is attached to 16 meg cable, Do I really NEED to connect to my router at over 1 gig speeds if the cable modem it's connected to is still linked to the same half arsed, capped cable?
Enterprise wireless users transferring large files over the network? Large campus deployments serving wide areas? Not everybody uses the network just for the WAN pipe...though I get the feeling most people these days just take everything layer 7 and below for granted (i.e. "What, isn't the network just my cable plugged in?").
I've seen this a few places. Though I where I live it seems like there really is a serious shortage of C#/SQL/ASP.Net developers. Look at the job boards of any major city and those are some of the most proliferated spots that recruiters just cannot seem to fill fast enough (or at all) these days.
So you have probably a few things at play here; the younger generation in the USA not learning the languages/skills/whatever that the market is currently demanding, then you have the older US workers with more experience requesting competitive salaries, as they should be mind you, for qualified top level engineering talent can be scarce, but the bean counters looking at the balance sheets have realized that every time they raise the H1-B cap that is more foreign talent they can hire at a minimum for reasons the summary mentioned. (it's not really a fucking cap if they keep raising it)
Is anybody surprised by this? Dickhole politicians pass laws that benefit their dickhole benefactors.
So that explains the subtle grammatical and spelling errors your mom kept yelling, such as: "your doin grate dont stop dont stop keap go-ing, o ya i luv it more then n e thing"
Hopefully you have a QA team...if your project is large enough and you do not have a QA team, consider proposing the concept to management. Proper controls and planning on unit test, functional test, system test, solutions test, things like that are all really required to help keep large, multi-developer projects in check, especially in this day and age of migrant coders, on-and-off contractors, and out-sourced-then-imported coding jobs.
Having strict thresholds as to allowable defects per release, enforced feature regression guidelines, expected/projected pass/fail rates per test case, etc. can all be very useful if used PROPERLY to improve code quality. I highlight properly because some managers misuse metrics as the final yardstick of worth of employees, when at the end of the day it is much more complex than developer a fixed X defects or tester Y passed Z test cases this week. Implement proper code reviews, have a consistent and formal process for testing, finding defects, defect resolution, targeted releases. Have your QA devise up with your strategies, test plans, test cases, have them cross-reviewed, and start testing cycles based on release cycles.
If you aren't doing any of the above, imposing some of what I mentioned is sure to have a positive impact on subsequent quality. If your code sucks, it will reflect your team, your company, your management, and your bottom line in the long haul (IMHO, YMMV, IANAManager).
...you should know when you've had enough by your own standards. If you do not know when you've had enough, then smart ice cubes will not help you any more than my smart rock.
YES! I need one of these for work to rotate 90 degrees so I can maintain these 10K+ line functions without scrolling for an hour, functions written by our offshore friends who only definition of refactoring is trying to un-FOIL a binomial a second time.
Full disk encryption with BIOS level password? Nah.
Keep it locked in a steel tamper-proof suitcase? Nah.
Physical locks on laptop exterior? Nah.
Log on email notifications and alerts? Nah.
Cover it with hello kitty stickers and used condoms? ***dons shades***...OPPAS GANGNAM STYLE HURR DURR
How far do we have to go to ensure we are diverse?"
Instead of having race quotas to treat the symptom, explore the cause by investigating various demographic breakdowns of those in STEM fields. Note I said explore the cause, not impose an ad-hoc solution to treat the symptoms. If certain socio-economic groups are not present (note I said not-present, and that I did not say excluded) in what society deems as positions that should be diversified, then look at the upward mobility of those demographics and the barriers to entry into a particular career vertical. Which is things like place of birth, education, parenting, finances, etc. Forcing quotas solves nothing and only creates more social stigmas relegating certain classes of people as being special or protected. The sooner we stop treating the symptoms of lack of diversity, the sooner focusing on the causes can be examined (which we already know generally what they are). But most folks don't want to look at and try solving the hard part.
A gang-banging thug from Detroit could be white/black/purple. Said gang-banging thug will probably not go into STEM not because he is anything but white, but instead because he is a gang-banging thug. Solve the gang-banging thug problem and BAM, you've got another person who may rise to the top of a given field other than slanging blow.
And if all your gang-banging thugs are of one color, fixing the numbers at the top as far as who gets to participate in what event based on color breakdown will not solve your gang banging thug problem. Now instead you have quotas at the top but still no solution for the bottom.
Why can't people understand this? Or am I by default a racists for not giving special treatment to non-white classes of people (a distinction sooner forgotten and ignored the better). People are freaking people.
I'm guessing this works to solve temporary channel congestion issues, and not over-subscription (to which the only real solution on my opinion is to get a bigger pipe at the over-subscription point). My guess is that they keep buffers for each of the host associated with the AP, and when one of the buffers begins to get to some relative threshold they ignore the RTS frames from the other stations and allow said buffer to clear to some min point before sending a CTS to the other stations.
If all of your associated host are simultaneously trying to send data in a full-mesh (all hosts talking to all hosts), I don't see how this would alleviate spectrum congestion (and you would think in this scenario latency would go up if they are round-robin'ing the queue clearing).
Implementation details would be sweet. To me this sounds like ETS queuing/COS as seen on enterprise wired L2/L3 switches. Have to wonder if there is any RED/WRED when queues reach max size? Speculation....
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This is not a new concept. We used to have that in America. It was called the press, but now the people that are running the press are in bed with the politicians.
Then let's track those fuckers too!
I propose an open-source decentralized big-data platform for tracking all politicians, their movements, who they talk to, where they've been, they're locations, their correspondence (that's public), their donations, criminal backgrounds, known associations, and everything about them in an easily searchable, index-able manner.
Who wants to work on this with me! Seriously people we could do this in a legal way and that would be something that COULD make a difference. Probably not but worth a try...
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I'm a big fan of throwing together a DB when I want to store things categorically like that and want fast searches. If you are up to the task, hunt down some tools/roll your own so that you have a nice relational database and some stored procedures for getting what you want when you need it.
You could export your emails to some parsable format, write an importer to extract the basics that you want to keep (from/to/subject/body,attachments/entire binary blob/etc) and then bulk insert that mess into on a mysql/sql server tucked away somewhere locally or "in the cloud" (EC2, Azure). Just another option as I'm sure you'll see here many here. At least with this route you are in full control of how you index, what you can search, encryption, performance, level of backups, etc. Maybe not the best way for some but I know if I had over 100000 emails that I wanted searchable very very quickly with advanced SQL like searching, this would be a cool way to do it (time permitting). Good luck! And to the pedantry to ensue...Yes. Good day.
You don't have that option in the test they did. They took a gay and a straight, and you (the mathematical model) had to determine which one was gay and which was straight. You can't apply your method to this test.
Yes you can. Define f(p1,p2,p3,p4,....p_n) = 1. For all properties of person p1 to p_n, if f = 1, then they are straight. Pretty accurate model. Doesn't tell you anything about the underlying phenomena though....or is this a tautology :) ....perhaps.....
We went to iraq on a much looser pretext.
Come on, man. Don't you think it's a little weird that in some cities we are required to use Gatorade to "water" our lawns?
I always thought it was because it has what plants need!?!?!
> This is the same DOJ that...spends thousands going after ... illegal 'copycap' handbags and sports paraphernalia, etc.
So what the heck is wrong with going after this sort of stuff? Trademark infringement is seriously bad news. Ask anyone who has gotten fake merchandise thinking it was genuine.
My sarcasm meter is off but.... seriously? People who buy a 10 dollar Iphone or a 4 euro gucci purse know what they are getting....point me the the pool of angry people getting fake merchandise unintentionally and I'll point you to a DOJ that prosecutes serious issues of criminal action where actual victims lost life/liberty/pursuit of happiness. Currently they seem to be prosecuting to take those same things away away from whoever their super pac funded blame-thrower is aimed at...making them the wanton aggressor....not the guy pushing handbags or the site taking bets on a football game.
This is the same DOJ that denied knowledge of gunwalker. This is the same DOJ that that is in cahorts with ICE to take-down websites without due process. This is the same DOJ that...spends thousands going after gambling sites, illegal 'copycap' handbags and sports paraphernalia, etc.
For being the entity known as the United States Department of Justice, going after torrent sites, going after guys scraping and trying to release academic journals, proprietors of gambling sites, people making gucci wannabe purses, and allowing the sale of guns to cartels....talk about wrong priorities.
Fuck you people.
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Well granted, I scaled this down to my own usage when I posted this, but is it not the backbone providers claiming they are being saturated? I assume I can see where one localized wide area wireless network with +1 gigabit speeds might be useful, but how much extra are we really going to eek out of it over what we have now?
Up to 700+ Mbps more? You're still restricting your vision to the WAN pipe. If I am a corporate user who moves large whatevers around between shares, the speeds 11ac offers are much welcomed. Yes of course your home internet downstream/upstream will see no substantive difference, but that isn't the point. The point is more and more devices on the WLAN in the home are needing more and more bandwidth availability (think streaming media servers and the like). Plus with more tablets, laptops, phones, toasters, whatever, the more bandwidth you have to your local L2 the better.
One side comment... if the switchport on 11ac bridges is still 1G, unless you've got multi-port bridges that can port-channel/LACP to an upstream aggregation switch, your total pool of bandwidth available to associated stations is still 1G shared to all devices on the bridge/AP.
In reference to your backbone providers comment, this issue has nothing to do with that. Backbone providers live in fiberland. Their last-mile connections to you will not see more traffic with 11ac deployed because the last-mile is already most consumer's bottleneck to the internet. If your WAN pipe was bigger than your wireless NICs negotiated pipe, and your wireless capabilities subsequently increased, then telcos would see increased link utilization, but this is not the case.
My router at home does N speeds of 300 megs and is attached to 16 meg cable, Do I really NEED to connect to my router at over 1 gig speeds if the cable modem it's connected to is still linked to the same half arsed, capped cable?
Enterprise wireless users transferring large files over the network? Large campus deployments serving wide areas? Not everybody uses the network just for the WAN pipe...though I get the feeling most people these days just take everything layer 7 and below for granted (i.e. "What, isn't the network just my cable plugged in?").
I've seen this a few places. Though I where I live it seems like there really is a serious shortage of C#/SQL/ASP.Net developers. Look at the job boards of any major city and those are some of the most proliferated spots that recruiters just cannot seem to fill fast enough (or at all) these days.
So you have probably a few things at play here; the younger generation in the USA not learning the languages/skills/whatever that the market is currently demanding, then you have the older US workers with more experience requesting competitive salaries, as they should be mind you, for qualified top level engineering talent can be scarce, but the bean counters looking at the balance sheets have realized that every time they raise the H1-B cap that is more foreign talent they can hire at a minimum for reasons the summary mentioned. (it's not really a fucking cap if they keep raising it)
Is anybody surprised by this? Dickhole politicians pass laws that benefit their dickhole benefactors.
This would go over swimmingly with my cube farm cohabitants.
So that explains the subtle grammatical and spelling errors your mom kept yelling, such as: "your doin grate dont stop dont stop keap go-ing, o ya i luv it more then n e thing"
Hopefully you have a QA team...if your project is large enough and you do not have a QA team, consider proposing the concept to management. Proper controls and planning on unit test, functional test, system test, solutions test, things like that are all really required to help keep large, multi-developer projects in check, especially in this day and age of migrant coders, on-and-off contractors, and out-sourced-then-imported coding jobs.
Having strict thresholds as to allowable defects per release, enforced feature regression guidelines, expected/projected pass/fail rates per test case, etc. can all be very useful if used PROPERLY to improve code quality. I highlight properly because some managers misuse metrics as the final yardstick of worth of employees, when at the end of the day it is much more complex than developer a fixed X defects or tester Y passed Z test cases this week. Implement proper code reviews, have a consistent and formal process for testing, finding defects, defect resolution, targeted releases. Have your QA devise up with your strategies, test plans, test cases, have them cross-reviewed, and start testing cycles based on release cycles.
If you aren't doing any of the above, imposing some of what I mentioned is sure to have a positive impact on subsequent quality. If your code sucks, it will reflect your team, your company, your management, and your bottom line in the long haul (IMHO, YMMV, IANAManager).
Signed,
Your Friendly Neighborhood QA Tester
Gasoline substitute....5 to 10 years out.....***puts on shades***...sounds like vaporware.
Signing those petitions is pissing in the wind.
...you should know when you've had enough by your own standards. If you do not know when you've had enough, then smart ice cubes will not help you any more than my smart rock.
YES! I need one of these for work to rotate 90 degrees so I can maintain these 10K+ line functions without scrolling for an hour, functions written by our offshore friends who only definition of refactoring is trying to un-FOIL a binomial a second time.
Full disk encryption with BIOS level password? Nah.
Keep it locked in a steel tamper-proof suitcase? Nah.
Physical locks on laptop exterior? Nah.
Log on email notifications and alerts? Nah.
Cover it with hello kitty stickers and used condoms? ***dons shades***...OPPAS GANGNAM STYLE HURR DURR
A communication disruption can only mean one thing.
It must be IT's fault.
How far do we have to go to ensure we are diverse?"
Instead of having race quotas to treat the symptom, explore the cause by investigating various demographic breakdowns of those in STEM fields. Note I said explore the cause, not impose an ad-hoc solution to treat the symptoms. If certain socio-economic groups are not present (note I said not-present, and that I did not say excluded) in what society deems as positions that should be diversified, then look at the upward mobility of those demographics and the barriers to entry into a particular career vertical. Which is things like place of birth, education, parenting, finances, etc. Forcing quotas solves nothing and only creates more social stigmas relegating certain classes of people as being special or protected. The sooner we stop treating the symptoms of lack of diversity, the sooner focusing on the causes can be examined (which we already know generally what they are). But most folks don't want to look at and try solving the hard part.
A gang-banging thug from Detroit could be white/black/purple. Said gang-banging thug will probably not go into STEM not because he is anything but white, but instead because he is a gang-banging thug. Solve the gang-banging thug problem and BAM, you've got another person who may rise to the top of a given field other than slanging blow.
And if all your gang-banging thugs are of one color, fixing the numbers at the top as far as who gets to participate in what event based on color breakdown will not solve your gang banging thug problem. Now instead you have quotas at the top but still no solution for the bottom.
Why can't people understand this? Or am I by default a racists for not giving special treatment to non-white classes of people (a distinction sooner forgotten and ignored the better). People are freaking people.
I'm guessing this works to solve temporary channel congestion issues, and not over-subscription (to which the only real solution on my opinion is to get a bigger pipe at the over-subscription point). My guess is that they keep buffers for each of the host associated with the AP, and when one of the buffers begins to get to some relative threshold they ignore the RTS frames from the other stations and allow said buffer to clear to some min point before sending a CTS to the other stations.
If all of your associated host are simultaneously trying to send data in a full-mesh (all hosts talking to all hosts), I don't see how this would alleviate spectrum congestion (and you would think in this scenario latency would go up if they are round-robin'ing the queue clearing).
Implementation details would be sweet. To me this sounds like ETS queuing/COS as seen on enterprise wired L2/L3 switches. Have to wonder if there is any RED/WRED when queues reach max size? Speculation....