The maps and street-view are understandable because they are for the most part static and do not change, but people move in and out of buildings and change things all the time. It's not rocket science to determine that corporations and branches of Starbuck's will have their wireless networks, so why the unecessary invasion of privacy like sniffing MAC addresses? There are other ways to get the location of public access points and the like without having to sniff private residential networks.
You obviously want your customers to do the same as much as possible, Steve. I didn't know a man of such importance posted on Slashdot, even anonymously. Perhaps you should establish check-in/checkout procedures in your sekrit laboratory so this won't happen again.
Under that theory, gun manufacturers would be liable for murder caused by their guns.
Not really. This case is more like Smith and Wesson's "deal with the devil" when they implicitly acknowledged that their products were enabling illegal activity, so they put more strict controls on their dealers. That led to a boycott and a lot of pissed-off gun-nuts. In that case, S&W were the only manufacturer to cave, but even one acknowledgement looks bad for the whole industry.
Which is the most disturbing, for obvious reasons.
The reality is that corporations own America's legislature. Given Google's relative lack of evil compared to other corporations and corporate ownership of congress, wouldn't you rather see Google throw their money and resources at a congressmen in favor of net neutrality and other stuff we like? Lesser of two evils and all.
The silver lining of the American government's corporate ownership is that at least one will be on our side. Thankfully, it's a damn big one.
Who said that I was going to use it against them later? Sure, it helps me understand what's going on, but if I leverage the information outright then I become a loudmouth and lose their trust.
Perhaps I wasn't very clear - All I'm interested in is getting the job done and helping others get the job done. I do them favors, they do me favors, and never at the expense of a third party. Period. As paranoid as my original post seemed to all of you, your projections of me are doubly paranoid. I'm not a scheming career climber looking for recognition. I'm about getting the job done right, not about schmoozing and bullshit. How hard is that to understand?
Quickest way to alienate yourself and become first on the chopping block...in my experience...their work ethic seems to be the same (they are the people that ignore meetings, ignore policies, etc).
Performance talks. Helping people talks. It's very possible to be friendly and polite without being stuck on small-talk. Every company and culture is different. I was one of the last to go, after multiple extensions, when the my last employer's service department was outsourced. Being schmoozy with the bosses didn't help ol' clown boy, who had seniority, when he was laid off before I was. Meeting attendance was mandatory, and a lot of the meetings were held because of the mistakes and policy ignorance of not me. I knew how the technical and administrative systems worked because was concerned with them, not with schmoozing. As my boss told me, "It's all a numbers game."
A few insecure people feeling butthurt because I don't eat with them is a small price to pay for being good. Besides, it's not like I didn't personalize my desk or listen to music I knew they liked.
I'm an electronics tech and not a programmer, but generally people adapt to the subtleties of their employers' corporate culture. First, read Dilbert and The Art of War if you haven't already.
Second, most importantly, do not participate in gossip and compartmentalize your work and play behavior. If somebody says, "man, person x is a dumbass," just respond with a disinterested neurtral "hmm." and keep an element of mystery to yourself. It will have a snowball effect -- people will see that you aren't a loudmouth, and so they share increasingly damning information about your coworkers and the company in general. They will respect you because you know how to keep your mouth shut, and you will know more than anybody else because you are the only neutral person on the floor. Bosses will also see that you are at work to work, not jabber, and they like that. Eat lunch by yourself so that you won't be obligated to reveal personal information.
To quote the Grand Nagus from DS9, "You don't grab power, you accumulate it." Inevitably, you'll run across a player-hater. Wait for them to make a mistake and then show the boss what you did to fix their mistake. An example(I've described before) from my last job was a fellow turd of a technician who tried to boss the rest of us around while talking on the phone and doing little work himself. After he sent 2 units out the door with the same serial number, I wrote a program to throw a warning if duplicate serial numbers were entered(easy reading keystrokes using the Java robot and since all serial numbers followed a certain format). I don't like passive-aggressiveness in my personal life, but that tact is a necessity at work.
One more thing - it's helpful to mention during the interview that you're there to work, not talk. It looks good and your boss won't think you're a dick. Being unsociable may cause others to think you're a dick, so offset that by helping anybody who asks -- just watch out for the malingerers - they'll feign ignorance and ask your for help as a way to weasel you into doing their work for them.
One more thing that I like radio for is sports. For some reason, probably dating back to my childhood, I'd rather listen to a White Sox game on the radio than watch it on TV.
Hell yeah. Back in the day we used to crowd around the muted TV, watching the game while we listened to it on the radio.
Well, he certainly didn't like the NSA and the American police state opportunistically created in the wake of 9/11, where the Pentagon was hit by a cruise missile.
Now he's mysteriously retracting his words at gunpoint, under threats of being jailed for national security reasons. He sure pissed them off when he suggested that Windows is mandated for businesses because of its built-in NSA backdoor that Chinese hackers learned to exploit. I can almost see the red dot from the laser sight on the back of his head as his quavering voice pretends to endorse this safe new America.
Besides your annoying drunken all-caps, you raise a good point:
Wikipedia and Google are implicitly dependent on each other. Google something you don't know about and the wikipedia article is always in the top 3. Become engorged in the Wikipedia article, drift, and your trail of links represents your stream of consciousness -- your thought processes, which are a lot easier to quantifiy(and exploit) when you stay in the Wikipedia instead of jumping from site-to-site.
Putting on the tinfoil hat, that's probably the reason why Wikipedia dosen't charge for the "free" PDFs as passes off the printed versions as an Ubuntu-style charity.
although using it to navigate a TV interface would be kinda cool.
And as a remote control for an automated home. Use multitouch to navigate through a 3-d interior of your house, selecting the icon corresponding to the camera and microphone hidden in the bathroom or bedroom ceiling fans, and then view windowed or maximized camera output. Options for Wi-fi and/or 3G can allow for remote login.
Pardon my ignorance, but as somebody who hasn't watched cable TV since '06 and never leased a box, how would that prevent somebody from tapping off of the one line that still needs to go to the TV from the cable box? Or would it?
The CIA has opened a center on climate change and national security, the issue du jour.
Its charter is not the science of climate change, but the national security impact of phenomena such as desertification, rising sea levels, population shifts, and heightened competition for natural resources.
and therefore unless there's a *major* advantage to offset this cost BD is quite clearly the way forward for any new game system.
That's what I thought until I rented MGS4 to play on a friend's PS3. If I wanted to wait 10 hours while a game "installed", then I'd buy a real PC and at least be able to run Linux on that.
My dell laptop, a 6 year-old Latitude D600 with 1.6 gHz processor, 512 MB Ram, and integrated low-end ATI runs Ubuntu Studio 9.10, most compiz effects enabled(the only thing that really slows it down is a background skydome image, so I don't run that) with multiple desktops and multiple browsers(including instances of YouTube) or Jack/Ardour/Hydrogen running without slowing.
The only speed problems I have are the time it takes to fire up certain applications like OpenOffice and Gimp, but they run OK once open.
My next desktop will have a core2 duo or AMD equivalent and a more modern graphics card, making it WAY more than good enough, and the tower with monitor's still gonna cost less than an iPad!
Case-in-point: A thief smashed out my car window(old model with a window gap so big that the lock could be jimmied open with a piece of rebar) to get my tool bag(worth $25 including tools) because he thought it was a purse.
Yes, they should have at least positional servos, and the fancier stuff like accelerometers can come later. The robot should halt immediately if the positional data is bogus(due to failure or miscalibration) and would ideally have a second set of boundary failsafe sensors that would halt the arm for excess travel.
As I pointed out above, some big, big robots are capable of colliding with themselves. An elite haxxor could(in theory) cause lots of damage or injury if they could get their own program into the machine and cause trouble. They could code something like:
if runNumber.substring(4, 2) == "42"; xPosition += 100;
Where the arm would collide with another part of the robot if it didn't move right before it moved up, for example.
Robots don't need to be armed with weapons to be dangerous. I worked at a printing press which featured a huge bundling robot with a big grabber that would move at high speed. We had to get close to the thing while it was running to make sure it was operating correctly, and it was designed such that it could collide with itself or its puny human overlords if the motion algorithm was fauly or the readings from the positional servos were miscalibrated.
In short, imagine the robot arm in TFA swinging too far to the side, cutting a passerby, because it "thinks" that it's more centered than it really is. Collision detection would be likely disabled if the robot's job was to cut stuff!
Everybody I know keeps their keys and trinkets around their neck on a lanyard along with their badges.
I prefer to use two keyrings: one with the bare essentials(1 key for car, 2 keys for house) and a big one for the more obscure keys that I could go pick up from home if I had to do something special. I also make backup duplicates of all my keys.
Hollow rocks and magnetic key holders are also good places to store backup keys in case you lock yourself out of the car or house.
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But why are they collecting that data at all?
The maps and street-view are understandable because they are for the most part static and do not change, but people move in and out of buildings and change things all the time. It's not rocket science to determine that corporations and branches of Starbuck's will have their wireless networks, so why the unecessary invasion of privacy like sniffing MAC addresses? There are other ways to get the location of public access points and the like without having to sniff private residential networks.
You obviously want your customers to do the same as much as possible, Steve. I didn't know a man of such importance posted on Slashdot, even anonymously. Perhaps you should establish check-in/checkout procedures in your sekrit laboratory so this won't happen again.
It sure was win-win for Napster! Wait, who are they again?
Not really. This case is more like Smith and Wesson's "deal with the devil" when they implicitly acknowledged that their products were enabling illegal activity, so they put more strict controls on their dealers. That led to a boycott and a lot of pissed-off gun-nuts. In that case, S&W were the only manufacturer to cave, but even one acknowledgement looks bad for the whole industry.
Which is the most disturbing, for obvious reasons.
The reality is that corporations own America's legislature. Given Google's relative lack of evil compared to other corporations and corporate ownership of congress, wouldn't you rather see Google throw their money and resources at a congressmen in favor of net neutrality and other stuff we like? Lesser of two evils and all.
The silver lining of the American government's corporate ownership is that at least one will be on our side. Thankfully, it's a damn big one.
Who said that I was going to use it against them later? Sure, it helps me understand what's going on, but if I leverage the information outright then I become a loudmouth and lose their trust.
Perhaps I wasn't very clear - All I'm interested in is getting the job done and helping others get the job done. I do them favors, they do me favors, and never at the expense of a third party. Period. As paranoid as my original post seemed to all of you, your projections of me are doubly paranoid. I'm not a scheming career climber looking for recognition. I'm about getting the job done right, not about schmoozing and bullshit. How hard is that to understand?
Thank. You.
Thankyouthankyouthankyou. Please Mod parent to +5.
I should have clarified - the mistake was already discovered by the boss. The boss also knew I tinkered with programming beforehand.
My fix was perceived as being a toy of an afterthought rather than scheming, malicious opportunism. Still, that dude never fucked with me again!
Performance talks. Helping people talks. It's very possible to be friendly and polite without being stuck on small-talk. Every company and culture is different. I was one of the last to go, after multiple extensions, when the my last employer's service department was outsourced. Being schmoozy with the bosses didn't help ol' clown boy, who had seniority, when he was laid off before I was. Meeting attendance was mandatory, and a lot of the meetings were held because of the mistakes and policy ignorance of not me. I knew how the technical and administrative systems worked because was concerned with them, not with schmoozing. As my boss told me, "It's all a numbers game."
A few insecure people feeling butthurt because I don't eat with them is a small price to pay for being good. Besides, it's not like I didn't personalize my desk or listen to music I knew they liked.
disclaimer: the following is common sense
I'm an electronics tech and not a programmer, but generally people adapt to the subtleties of their employers' corporate culture. First, read Dilbert and The Art of War if you haven't already.
Second, most importantly, do not participate in gossip and compartmentalize your work and play behavior. If somebody says, "man, person x is a dumbass," just respond with a disinterested neurtral "hmm." and keep an element of mystery to yourself. It will have a snowball effect -- people will see that you aren't a loudmouth, and so they share increasingly damning information about your coworkers and the company in general. They will respect you because you know how to keep your mouth shut, and you will know more than anybody else because you are the only neutral person on the floor. Bosses will also see that you are at work to work, not jabber, and they like that. Eat lunch by yourself so that you won't be obligated to reveal personal information.
To quote the Grand Nagus from DS9, "You don't grab power, you accumulate it." Inevitably, you'll run across a player-hater. Wait for them to make a mistake and then show the boss what you did to fix their mistake. An example(I've described before) from my last job was a fellow turd of a technician who tried to boss the rest of us around while talking on the phone and doing little work himself. After he sent 2 units out the door with the same serial number, I wrote a program to throw a warning if duplicate serial numbers were entered(easy reading keystrokes using the Java robot and since all serial numbers followed a certain format). I don't like passive-aggressiveness in my personal life, but that tact is a necessity at work.
One more thing - it's helpful to mention during the interview that you're there to work, not talk. It looks good and your boss won't think you're a dick. Being unsociable may cause others to think you're a dick, so offset that by helping anybody who asks -- just watch out for the malingerers - they'll feign ignorance and ask your for help as a way to weasel you into doing their work for them.
Right, and a technophobe who wants a more modern radio system would go the XM route anyway.
Hell yeah. Back in the day we used to crowd around the muted TV, watching the game while we listened to it on the radio.
Well, he certainly didn't like the NSA and the American police state opportunistically created in the wake of 9/11, where the Pentagon was hit by a cruise missile.
Now he's mysteriously retracting his words at gunpoint, under threats of being jailed for national security reasons. He sure pissed them off when he suggested that Windows is mandated for businesses because of its built-in NSA backdoor that Chinese hackers learned to exploit. I can almost see the red dot from the laser sight on the back of his head as his quavering voice pretends to endorse this safe new America.
Besides your annoying drunken all-caps, you raise a good point:
Wikipedia and Google are implicitly dependent on each other. Google something you don't know about and the wikipedia article is always in the top 3. Become engorged in the Wikipedia article, drift, and your trail of links represents your stream of consciousness -- your thought processes, which are a lot easier to quantifiy(and exploit) when you stay in the Wikipedia instead of jumping from site-to-site.
Putting on the tinfoil hat, that's probably the reason why Wikipedia dosen't charge for the "free" PDFs as passes off the printed versions as an Ubuntu-style charity.
And as a remote control for an automated home. Use multitouch to navigate through a 3-d interior of your house, selecting the icon corresponding to the camera and microphone hidden in the bathroom or bedroom ceiling fans, and then view windowed or maximized camera output. Options for Wi-fi and/or 3G can allow for remote login.
Also, use it for turning on lights 'n' shit.
Pardon my ignorance, but as somebody who hasn't watched cable TV since '06 and never leased a box, how would that prevent somebody from tapping off of the one line that still needs to go to the TV from the cable box? Or would it?
And so it goes.
PC: "I've got a date with a hot chick tonight! We're going clubbing, what about you, Steve?"
Mac: "I've got a date with a hot guy tonight. We're going to see Rent."
PC: "Steve, you ol' tiger, you! What about you, Poindexter?"
Linux: "Aww..."
He's in shell 2 core, unreachable by radio waves. Use the nikita to take out the electric control panel.
intro disclaimer: "This is a work of fiction - any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental".
PURELY COINCIDENTAL!
That's what I thought until I rented MGS4 to play on a friend's PS3. If I wanted to wait 10 hours while a game "installed", then I'd buy a real PC and at least be able to run Linux on that.
My dell laptop, a 6 year-old Latitude D600 with 1.6 gHz processor, 512 MB Ram, and integrated low-end ATI runs Ubuntu Studio 9.10, most compiz effects enabled(the only thing that really slows it down is a background skydome image, so I don't run that) with multiple desktops and multiple browsers(including instances of YouTube) or Jack/Ardour/Hydrogen running without slowing.
The only speed problems I have are the time it takes to fire up certain applications like OpenOffice and Gimp, but they run OK once open.
My next desktop will have a core2 duo or AMD equivalent and a more modern graphics card, making it WAY more than good enough, and the tower with monitor's still gonna cost less than an iPad!
Case-in-point: A thief smashed out my car window(old model with a window gap so big that the lock could be jimmied open with a piece of rebar) to get my tool bag(worth $25 including tools) because he thought it was a purse.
As I pointed out above, some big, big robots are capable of colliding with themselves. An elite haxxor could(in theory) cause lots of damage or injury if they could get their own program into the machine and cause trouble. They could code something like:
Where the arm would collide with another part of the robot if it didn't move right before it moved up, for example.
Robots don't need to be armed with weapons to be dangerous. I worked at a printing press which featured a huge bundling robot with a big grabber that would move at high speed. We had to get close to the thing while it was running to make sure it was operating correctly, and it was designed such that it could collide with itself or its puny human overlords if the motion algorithm was fauly or the readings from the positional servos were miscalibrated.
In short, imagine the robot arm in TFA swinging too far to the side, cutting a passerby, because it "thinks" that it's more centered than it really is. Collision detection would be likely disabled if the robot's job was to cut stuff!
Everybody I know keeps their keys and trinkets around their neck on a lanyard along with their badges.
I prefer to use two keyrings: one with the bare essentials(1 key for car, 2 keys for house) and a big one for the more obscure keys that I could go pick up from home if I had to do something special. I also make backup duplicates of all my keys.
Hollow rocks and magnetic key holders are also good places to store backup keys in case you lock yourself out of the car or house.