Just because I choose to prevent your abusive use of e-binoculars to watch me by putting up an e-fence, doesn't mean I'm a pedophile, child pornographer, or terrorist. It means I value my privacy and that I don't trust you.
To be fair, there are some advantages to smarter switches - adjusting light levels automatically based on current demand, keypads for controlling multiple lights to set (potentially different) levels at a time (ex: turn everything off, put lights to a comfortable TV viewing level), and for some setups allowing you to trigger your lights based on time or occupancy (though occupancy/vacancy is built in to switches now too).
For example, I have a switch that does vacancy sensing in my bathroom - now I can leave my fan on to air out the shower when I leave for work in the morning. A friend of mine has an occupancy sensor in his stairwell that turns on (and off) his entryway lights so he doesn't need to walk down and turn them off from their only switch (bad design, but something that happens).
Full disclosure: I work for a company that makes light switches and their control systems.
Is that 30,000 devices before being replaced, or 30,000 kinds of devices? The latter would seem to make more financial sense, though I'm not sure if it's actually feasible.
1. What is the most unusual location you have written a program from?
In the customer's basement. Their house, not their place of work.
2. What is the most unusual circumstance under which you have written a program?
Pretty much the above, but with the added amusement of two other techs standing around while you sit on some heating equipment, wondering why you can't finish this faster.
3. What is the most unusual computing platform that you wrote a program from?
A headless server box? Nothing too exciting here.
4. What is the most unusual application program that you wrote?
I only write usual boring stuff:(
If you're taking an extremely narrow understanding of essential, then yes. However, there are other reasons things might be essential - take Reverse 911 for emergency awareness (requires a phone). More generally, in this case essential infrastructure is actually being used like the term critical infrastructure. Some examples (cribbed without shame):
electricity generation, transmission and distribution
public health (hospitals, ambulances)
water supply (drinking water, waste water/sewage, stemming of surface water (e.g. dikes and sluices))
telecommunication
So the question becomes, "is the Internet critical infrastructure", not "is the Internet essential for survival". Personally, I think it falls quite nicely under telecommunications.
I do, and it doesn't seem to have impacted my battery life much at all.
I leave it on because it works with my car radio, and I use that (plus an app) to trigger various things, like turning off my WiFi when I leave in the morning. It also lets me play music on long trips and I can do bluetooth calls (in my car, not a headset).
But to me, mine are kept in a safe that is secured to the floor in my house
Wait a second. You oppose guns that require the user to be wearing something, because you might not have it on at the time when you have to use a gun to protect yourself in a rush. But at the same time, you store your guns in a safe, which presumably takes the same (if not more) time to open as putting on the device that enables a smart gun.
If you properly maintain your guns to keep them out of reach of unintended users, then you are not going to be able to use them instantly in a crisis situation. That is how it has always been. Smart guns don't change anything.
I think the point he is trying to get at is if he's out and about with his gun, this adds the possibility of "Oh, I forgot my . Now the bear shall eat me."
In other words, there's the crisis this won't influence (gun is stored) and the one it will (gun is on him).
I rated it 4 stars because I legitimately enjoy the game, and I think other people can too. It's not a singleplayer city builder, and that seems to be what a lot of people expected when the preordered the game. If you go in there thinking of it as a primarily multiplayer experience (like Natural Selection 2 or Team Fortress 2), the always on aspect isn't as bad.
Yes, it sucks that they decided an offline mode wasn't important (given I can still play when I lose connection and it resyncs later it doesn't seem a stretch...).
Yes, the servers shitting themselves constantly sucks (lines occasionally, losing connection about every 1 to 2 hours, waiting to authenticate or getting stuck checking for updates).
Yes, the standard deluge of day one issues that QA missed sucks (getting stuck in a mini-tutorial because it paused and I just used the last of my coal so I can't gift? WTF?).
But they're working on the servers, they're working on the bugs, and Maxis is being completely open about what's going on. Oh, and the game itself is enjoyable, I can play it with my friends, and it hasn't lost any progress even when I lose my connection and keep playing. So hey, maybe some of us are rating it based on if we enjoy it, not if it's Sim City 4.5.
Honestly, I'm not surprised. We had a customer complain about having to buy an app on Android and iOS - said complaint somehow went straight to a VP. It trickled down through a couple layers of management before they came to us (the mobile app team) where we could explain that no, there's nothing we can do, it's no different from buying Office on a Mac and a PC.
The point being, these VPs are very knowledgeable, but their knowledge is a different domain (business, hardware, etc, not software). It's likely the same here - the people who decided on the brand name don't actually have much domain knowledge of software.
There's actually a novel that touches on this (I think one of the the Familias Regnant series by Elizabeth Moon?) - a character mentions having been crew on a ship where the captain changed the default audio so every weapons battery sounded like a different instrument.
The critical point in all of this is that Velvin Hogan's personal feelings were legally allowed to be part of the decision making process at that point. There is no misconduct.
Lying to the court is still misconduct, so whether or not his personal feelings were allowed at that point they shouldn't have reached that point.
Slashdot Mirror
"Cells are bad. My uncle lives in a cell. It's ten foot by twelve and he has to read the same boring, old magazine everyday. The end."
Dear FBI,
Just because I choose to prevent your abusive use of e-binoculars to watch me by putting up an e-fence, doesn't mean I'm a pedophile, child pornographer, or terrorist. It means I value my privacy and that I don't trust you.
Please stop abusing your powers.
Thanks,
Me
I don't know why this is so hard for people to understand.
Because they don't read anything other than the sensationalized articles.
Hint: not all Jews are Israelis, nor are all Israelis Jews. 75% of Israelis are Jews, and (doing math) only ~44.6% of Jews live in Israel.
Please don't confuse the two.
To be fair, there are some advantages to smarter switches - adjusting light levels automatically based on current demand, keypads for controlling multiple lights to set (potentially different) levels at a time (ex: turn everything off, put lights to a comfortable TV viewing level), and for some setups allowing you to trigger your lights based on time or occupancy (though occupancy/vacancy is built in to switches now too).
For example, I have a switch that does vacancy sensing in my bathroom - now I can leave my fan on to air out the shower when I leave for work in the morning. A friend of mine has an occupancy sensor in his stairwell that turns on (and off) his entryway lights so he doesn't need to walk down and turn them off from their only switch (bad design, but something that happens).
Full disclosure: I work for a company that makes light switches and their control systems.
Is that 30,000 devices before being replaced, or 30,000 kinds of devices? The latter would seem to make more financial sense, though I'm not sure if it's actually feasible.
I could almost wish. She'd probably be less demanding :(
And I'd get more cookies.
1. What is the most unusual location you have written a program from?
:(
In the customer's basement. Their house, not their place of work.
2. What is the most unusual circumstance under which you have written a program?
Pretty much the above, but with the added amusement of two other techs standing around while you sit on some heating equipment, wondering why you can't finish this faster.
3. What is the most unusual computing platform that you wrote a program from?
A headless server box? Nothing too exciting here.
4. What is the most unusual application program that you wrote?
I only write usual boring stuff
The good old permanent temporary solution.
So the question becomes, "is the Internet critical infrastructure", not "is the Internet essential for survival". Personally, I think it falls quite nicely under telecommunications.
It's every filter ever, all over again!
Think about it this way: you can retire when you close your first ticket!
The issue is applying a new patch to an out of date version.
If this is not the definition of updating I don't know what is...
I think the AC means "applying a patch to a version older than it was meant to patch." Like those game patches that have to be applied in order.
I do, and it doesn't seem to have impacted my battery life much at all.
I leave it on because it works with my car radio, and I use that (plus an app) to trigger various things, like turning off my WiFi when I leave in the morning. It also lets me play music on long trips and I can do bluetooth calls (in my car, not a headset).
Wait a second. You oppose guns that require the user to be wearing something, because you might not have it on at the time when you have to use a gun to protect yourself in a rush. But at the same time, you store your guns in a safe, which presumably takes the same (if not more) time to open as putting on the device that enables a smart gun.
If you properly maintain your guns to keep them out of reach of unintended users, then you are not going to be able to use them instantly in a crisis situation. That is how it has always been. Smart guns don't change anything.
I think the point he is trying to get at is if he's out and about with his gun, this adds the possibility of "Oh, I forgot my . Now the bear shall eat me."
In other words, there's the crisis this won't influence (gun is stored) and the one it will (gun is on him).
> Did all of these countries he sold them to fail to do any testing on whether they worked?
They passed the bribe test successfully. What more do we need?
I rated it 4 stars because I legitimately enjoy the game, and I think other people can too. It's not a singleplayer city builder, and that seems to be what a lot of people expected when the preordered the game. If you go in there thinking of it as a primarily multiplayer experience (like Natural Selection 2 or Team Fortress 2), the always on aspect isn't as bad.
Yes, it sucks that they decided an offline mode wasn't important (given I can still play when I lose connection and it resyncs later it doesn't seem a stretch...). Yes, the servers shitting themselves constantly sucks (lines occasionally, losing connection about every 1 to 2 hours, waiting to authenticate or getting stuck checking for updates). Yes, the standard deluge of day one issues that QA missed sucks (getting stuck in a mini-tutorial because it paused and I just used the last of my coal so I can't gift? WTF?).
But they're working on the servers, they're working on the bugs, and Maxis is being completely open about what's going on. Oh, and the game itself is enjoyable, I can play it with my friends, and it hasn't lost any progress even when I lose my connection and keep playing. So hey, maybe some of us are rating it based on if we enjoy it, not if it's Sim City 4.5.
Not the first, just the first to get super popular. Check your own wiki link - Aeon of Strife was the first, and they used to be called AOSs.
Honestly, I'm not surprised. We had a customer complain about having to buy an app on Android and iOS - said complaint somehow went straight to a VP. It trickled down through a couple layers of management before they came to us (the mobile app team) where we could explain that no, there's nothing we can do, it's no different from buying Office on a Mac and a PC.
The point being, these VPs are very knowledgeable, but their knowledge is a different domain (business, hardware, etc, not software). It's likely the same here - the people who decided on the brand name don't actually have much domain knowledge of software.
Probably because most people won't know how to fix it.
If we're going to do that, make sure it has the A for Autonomous (or Automatic?). ARRR!
And cut the cord. The streaming services out there are good enough for me.
I wonder what the CPU and memory load graphs would look like for a probe versus some standard desktop applications. Might explain a lot.
There's actually a novel that touches on this (I think one of the the Familias Regnant series by Elizabeth Moon?) - a character mentions having been crew on a ship where the captain changed the default audio so every weapons battery sounded like a different instrument.
The critical point in all of this is that Velvin Hogan's personal feelings were legally allowed to be part of the decision making process at that point. There is no misconduct.
Lying to the court is still misconduct, so whether or not his personal feelings were allowed at that point they shouldn't have reached that point.