“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
“You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
“Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
“You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.”
— banksy
Where I live (San Diego, CA), base electricity rates start at $0.15 per kWh.
The iPhone 6 (4.7" screen) has a 1,810 mAh 3.7 V battery in it.
Assuming the man got a full charge from a completely dead battery...
Wh = mAh × V / 1000
1810 X 3.7 / 1000 = 6.697 Wh
6.697 Wh / 1000 =.006697 kWh
Let's assume the transformer is only 70% efficient,.006697 kWh / 0.7 =.009567 kWh
And now lets convert this power to cash money at San Diego rates....009567 kWh X 0.15 $/kWh = $0.0014
Well that came out even lower than I anticipated! $0.10 seemed high, and I was thinking it was closer to a penny, but not such a small fraction of a penny.
So assuming my math is right (big assumption!), it cost the train operator a fraction (7/50) of a penny.
Bullshit. I work with a few women developers/testers (5 our of the 40 software engineers on our floor) and they is no "boys only club" mentality. Sure their might be the occaisional off color joke that appeals to men more than women, but over all they are well respected and treated as equals. It's like when my fiancee and her friends are hanging out and they make a joke that appeals to women more than men. Do I get offended and call them sexist because they made joke from the female perspective that doesn't apppeal to me as much as them? No, because that would be abrasive and lame.
If anything I'd say the women I work with are given more slack and more respect than the male developers. I have never seen anyone jump on any of the female engineers here (or anywhere I've worked) for making a mistake. Yet I have seen that happen to male engineers quite a bit, where a colleague or manager forces them to admit to a technical transgression, which sucks because now that female engineer might not learn as much from her mistake. In my experience, male engineers avoid confrontation with women in the workplace, even when it would be constructive.
I agree with OP, most women just don't want to work on the technical side of software development, and the majority of women that I have seen come into software engineering as interns or associate devs have ended up in project maangement. Hell, most men don't want to be software engineers, but there is a minority of men and even smaller minority of women that just have the knack for it. Forcing women who aren't interested into the feild and will make poor engineers is not the answer. If anything that will cause the men to discount minority of talented women (and treat them even more differently than they do now) that deserve to be in the feild.
Sorry dude, Neil Tyson DeGrasse has poopoo'd GMO "activists" several times (rightfully so). So now if you are "anti-GMO" you have to turn in your nerd card and abandon your/. account..
Ha yeah it went up $10-30/month 4 months in a row as our various discounts ran out and our 2 year contracts came up. After seeing how high the bill was I got fed up and started bitching/cancelling/waiting on hold. This time all the discounts are supposed ot run out at the same time (12 months) so hopefully I can do the cancel/retention deal rodeo again and it won't take as long as it did this year.
I spent 3 horus on the phone last month with Directv and AT&T Uverse to get bundling setup (they now bundle together). In the end we have everything we had before with a one year contract for 1/2 the price (went from $180/month (out of contract) to $90/month).
It was really degrading to have to go through so many hoops to save some $$ but when I look at my kids and think about what $1200 can buy them, I guess it was worth it.
Why would the NSA and CIA be spying on Congress? Is it someone's goal to set up the apparatus of a police state?
I'd guess they have also spied on Obama and they have dirt on him (like most of congress). Maybe it's where he was born, maybe it's somethign from his past in Illinois, or something from his time with ACORN. Who knows... It is a relatively simple thing for the NSA/CIA to leak information to the press and get a President impeached. I think this is the simplest explanation for the reversal of Obama's positon regarding the Patriot Act and wiretapping. The CIA has been known to use these types of tactics in the past to maintain power.
Honestly if we lived in a neighborhood that was 80-90% people of different color than us, I'd pay a couple thousand a year to put my kids in a school where most of the other kids looked like them. Otherwise you are inviting a world of pain into your children's life. In my experience 12-16 year olds revel in uniquely cruel forms of racism and bullying. If I can could keep my kids out of that situation for 5% of my income, I'd do it every time.
This guy is most likely a fraud. Why else would he refuse the opportunity to work with Boeing to fix a problem that he claims to be able to exploit but has never actually been done before.
Looking at his twitter profile and his "resume" on the company website... He has never done an-y-thing but gather credentials and bitch. There is nothing the least bit interesting that he has actually done. Certainly nothing to warrant all the attention he gets himself. Just a loudmouth with no skillz.
My career has landed me in the security industry for the last 5 years and I've noticed it is chock full of gas bags like this dude. They grab some encryption packages that someone else wrote, get some certifications, and sudfdenly they are an expert. And they get paid very well to bullshit their way around the country. Meanwhile the real experts keept heir mouths shut, find problems, and hopefully help fix them.
In my experience, millenials take a lot of things for granted in computing and are not interested in understanding the guts of the systems they are working on. IN GENERAL, they tend to avoid anything below the application layer. Memory management, databases, operating systems, hardware, etc are not well understood. And when issues pop up in those layers, they are considered as something to quickly throw money/resources at (vs understanding the problem) until things are working again (but likely still not scalable). Then the underlying issue is disregarded until it pops up again in 6 months.
That is just my experience with the majority of younger software engineers I have worked with over the last 5 years. And it's not to say they can't learn, many of them listened to us old guys over a beer (I'm 34 haha), study up and adjust their approach. It's just kinda sad that they didn't have any interest in that stuff until they were forced to learn about it on the job. To me, hardware is the most interesting part of computing.
But most electricians don't have agreements with the power company to allow them to connect their devices to feed power into the lines. Most solar companies do.
Huh? In San Diego (and I think all of CA is this way), once the hardware is installed, you call the power company to come out and do a free inspection before connecting to the grid: And thats it. I have never heard of special agreements and as far as I know companies like solar city still rely on the power company to inspect their work before they can connect it to the grid.. http://www.sdge.com/clean-ener...
Now if you want total grid independence that shouldn't matter to you. So in that case what matters is that Solar City supplies long term financing that most electricians won't give you. If you don't want it, fine. Some people do.
In the end, Solar city was unwilling to give me a quote for an installation without running my credit, and the sales guy that came to our house said they don't do off grid. They also don't really finance you, they put a lein against your house for the length of the contract to buy power from them. It's more like signing up for a cell phone contract where you get locked into buying from them instead of the power company for a set period of time and the hardware is just an afterthought.
A bank can help you finance a solar installation. Just like how an electrician can wire up a solar array. I maintain that companies like SolarCity are just middlemen muddying up the waters and are not necessary.
I tried to get a quote on a solar system from SolarCity for our home. They were rude, pushy, and kept insisting that I "think of SolarCity as a utility company, not an installer."
I contacted them because of Musk's association with the company. I have since decided to go DIY, and now I don't really see why "solar companies" are even necessary. Any electrician worth his salt should be able to wire and setup a solar system. The panel, inverter, and battery manufacturers are what matter.
tl;dr GoPro is a shady company that screwed me and a bunch of other customer over witt poor QA
After working with GoPro support, engineering, and getting an email from their CEO blaming the issue on everything from my computer, to SanDisk cards, to a firmware problem; I finally gave up on that company. They wasted over 40 hours of my life on that stupid camera. And while I eventually got a store credit for it (after 3 exchanges, tHank you Best Buy!) I'm still stuck with $100 in accessories and I have sworn never to do business with GoPro again.
As a parent, I think this story is lackin a lot of critical context before I can pass judgement on anything. The route the kids followed is critical to understanding if this was responsible parenting or not. 1 mile is pretty far for a six year old, especially if it's in a high traffic area. Seems more prudent for the parents to tail the kids from a disttance, at least the first time (and it sounds like this was the first time), when they do something like this.
"horrifying steeplechase [by] careless and non-people-oriented technologists"
Amazon is an internet logistics company, not a health spa. They solve difficult problems that require sharp thinking and logic. Kissing asses and holding hands isn't part of their business model.
If you want to be surrounded by people orientated luddites, go work in the service industry
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“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. “You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. “Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. “You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.” — banksy
Where I live (San Diego, CA), base electricity rates start at $0.15 per kWh.
.006697 kWh
.006697 kWh / 0.7 = .009567 kWh
.009567 kWh X 0.15 $/kWh = $0.0014
The iPhone 6 (4.7" screen) has a 1,810 mAh 3.7 V battery in it.
Assuming the man got a full charge from a completely dead battery...
Wh = mAh × V / 1000
1810 X 3.7 / 1000 = 6.697 Wh
6.697 Wh / 1000 =
Let's assume the transformer is only 70% efficient,
And now lets convert this power to cash money at San Diego rates...
Well that came out even lower than I anticipated! $0.10 seemed high, and I was thinking it was closer to a penny, but not such a small fraction of a penny.
So assuming my math is right (big assumption!), it cost the train operator a fraction (7/50) of a penny.
Many citations needed.
If Software developers made $250-500k a year, I guarantee there would be no shortage of CS graduates.
Bullshit. I work with a few women developers/testers (5 our of the 40 software engineers on our floor) and they is no "boys only club" mentality. Sure their might be the occaisional off color joke that appeals to men more than women, but over all they are well respected and treated as equals. It's like when my fiancee and her friends are hanging out and they make a joke that appeals to women more than men. Do I get offended and call them sexist because they made joke from the female perspective that doesn't apppeal to me as much as them? No, because that would be abrasive and lame.
If anything I'd say the women I work with are given more slack and more respect than the male developers. I have never seen anyone jump on any of the female engineers here (or anywhere I've worked) for making a mistake. Yet I have seen that happen to male engineers quite a bit, where a colleague or manager forces them to admit to a technical transgression, which sucks because now that female engineer might not learn as much from her mistake. In my experience, male engineers avoid confrontation with women in the workplace, even when it would be constructive.
I agree with OP, most women just don't want to work on the technical side of software development, and the majority of women that I have seen come into software engineering as interns or associate devs have ended up in project maangement. Hell, most men don't want to be software engineers, but there is a minority of men and even smaller minority of women that just have the knack for it. Forcing women who aren't interested into the feild and will make poor engineers is not the answer. If anything that will cause the men to discount minority of talented women (and treat them even more differently than they do now) that deserve to be in the feild.
Sorry dude, Neil Tyson DeGrasse has poopoo'd GMO "activists" several times (rightfully so). So now if you are "anti-GMO" you have to turn in your nerd card and abandon your /. account..
Ha yeah it went up $10-30/month 4 months in a row as our various discounts ran out and our 2 year contracts came up. After seeing how high the bill was I got fed up and started bitching/cancelling/waiting on hold. This time all the discounts are supposed ot run out at the same time (12 months) so hopefully I can do the cancel/retention deal rodeo again and it won't take as long as it did this year.
I spent 3 horus on the phone last month with Directv and AT&T Uverse to get bundling setup (they now bundle together). In the end we have everything we had before with a one year contract for 1/2 the price (went from $180/month (out of contract) to $90/month).
It was really degrading to have to go through so many hoops to save some $$ but when I look at my kids and think about what $1200 can buy them, I guess it was worth it.
There is a crane and a new building going up on one of the peaks. Anyone know what that is?
Why would the NSA and CIA be spying on Congress? Is it someone's goal to set up the apparatus of a police state?
I'd guess they have also spied on Obama and they have dirt on him (like most of congress). Maybe it's where he was born, maybe it's somethign from his past in Illinois, or something from his time with ACORN. Who knows... It is a relatively simple thing for the NSA/CIA to leak information to the press and get a President impeached. I think this is the simplest explanation for the reversal of Obama's positon regarding the Patriot Act and wiretapping. The CIA has been known to use these types of tactics in the past to maintain power.
You'd need a configurable switch, which can run a couple hundred dollars. THen you can put each port of a switch on a seperate VLAN. Should work.
This makes no sense to me. Shouldn't we be able to measure them from much closer up with much greater accuracy than 1 cm?
How do they have money to buy an iwatch? Tattoos on hands and wrists seems like a great way to make yourself unemployable and eternally poor.
I thirst to be FIRST!
Honestly if we lived in a neighborhood that was 80-90% people of different color than us, I'd pay a couple thousand a year to put my kids in a school where most of the other kids looked like them. Otherwise you are inviting a world of pain into your children's life. In my experience 12-16 year olds revel in uniquely cruel forms of racism and bullying. If I can could keep my kids out of that situation for 5% of my income, I'd do it every time.
This guy is most likely a fraud. Why else would he refuse the opportunity to work with Boeing to fix a problem that he claims to be able to exploit but has never actually been done before.
Looking at his twitter profile and his "resume" on the company website... He has never done an-y-thing but gather credentials and bitch. There is nothing the least bit interesting that he has actually done. Certainly nothing to warrant all the attention he gets himself. Just a loudmouth with no skillz.
My career has landed me in the security industry for the last 5 years and I've noticed it is chock full of gas bags like this dude. They grab some encryption packages that someone else wrote, get some certifications, and sudfdenly they are an expert. And they get paid very well to bullshit their way around the country. Meanwhile the real experts keept heir mouths shut, find problems, and hopefully help fix them.
Employers ask for your facebook info? Seriously? Thats a thing?
In my experience, millenials take a lot of things for granted in computing and are not interested in understanding the guts of the systems they are working on. IN GENERAL, they tend to avoid anything below the application layer. Memory management, databases, operating systems, hardware, etc are not well understood. And when issues pop up in those layers, they are considered as something to quickly throw money/resources at (vs understanding the problem) until things are working again (but likely still not scalable). Then the underlying issue is disregarded until it pops up again in 6 months.
That is just my experience with the majority of younger software engineers I have worked with over the last 5 years. And it's not to say they can't learn, many of them listened to us old guys over a beer (I'm 34 haha), study up and adjust their approach. It's just kinda sad that they didn't have any interest in that stuff until they were forced to learn about it on the job. To me, hardware is the most interesting part of computing.
But most electricians don't have agreements with the power company to allow them to connect their devices to feed power into the lines. Most solar companies do.
Huh? In San Diego (and I think all of CA is this way), once the hardware is installed, you call the power company to come out and do a free inspection before connecting to the grid: And thats it. I have never heard of special agreements and as far as I know companies like solar city still rely on the power company to inspect their work before they can connect it to the grid..
http://www.sdge.com/clean-ener...
Now if you want total grid independence that shouldn't matter to you. So in that case what matters is that Solar City supplies long term financing that most electricians won't give you. If you don't want it, fine. Some people do.
In the end, Solar city was unwilling to give me a quote for an installation without running my credit, and the sales guy that came to our house said they don't do off grid. They also don't really finance you, they put a lein against your house for the length of the contract to buy power from them. It's more like signing up for a cell phone contract where you get locked into buying from them instead of the power company for a set period of time and the hardware is just an afterthought.
A bank can help you finance a solar installation. Just like how an electrician can wire up a solar array. I maintain that companies like SolarCity are just middlemen muddying up the waters and are not necessary.
I tried to get a quote on a solar system from SolarCity for our home. They were rude, pushy, and kept insisting that I "think of SolarCity as a utility company, not an installer."
I contacted them because of Musk's association with the company. I have since decided to go DIY, and now I don't really see why "solar companies" are even necessary. Any electrician worth his salt should be able to wire and setup a solar system. The panel, inverter, and battery manufacturers are what matter.
FUUUUCK YOOOOUUUUUU!
tl;dr GoPro is a shady company that screwed me and a bunch of other customer over witt poor QA
After working with GoPro support, engineering, and getting an email from their CEO blaming the issue on everything from my computer, to SanDisk cards, to a firmware problem; I finally gave up on that company. They wasted over 40 hours of my life on that stupid camera. And while I eventually got a store credit for it (after 3 exchanges, tHank you Best Buy!) I'm still stuck with $100 in accessories and I have sworn never to do business with GoPro again.
As a parent, I think this story is lackin a lot of critical context before I can pass judgement on anything. The route the kids followed is critical to understanding if this was responsible parenting or not. 1 mile is pretty far for a six year old, especially if it's in a high traffic area. Seems more prudent for the parents to tail the kids from a disttance, at least the first time (and it sounds like this was the first time), when they do something like this.
"horrifying steeplechase [by] careless and non-people-oriented technologists"
Amazon is an internet logistics company, not a health spa. They solve difficult problems that require sharp thinking and logic. Kissing asses and holding hands isn't part of their business model.
If you want to be surrounded by people orientated luddites, go work in the service industry
Yes, quite certain WIFI was disabled on all devices tested. I also tested the android phones in two different geographical locations in San Diego.
Only the iphone/safari that I tested showed header insertion.
I found this on reddit, some people reporting that same thign I'm seeing...
https://www.reddit.com/r/priva...