Well I had never heard of the Fizz Buzz program but have been asked in every interview to write some sort of code or pseudo code to do something. Some were to see if you had the most basic understanding of programming while others were to see if you could thing through a problem.
I would argue that while there isn't an expectation of privacy while on the roads there could be a good argument for anonymity on on the roads which is what you loose with mass 24x7 government surveillance of your movements.
It has already been done, mostly at the retail level. Stupid people will have a gold plated lead bar while the smarter ones will cast gold around tungsten. There was a story last about one turning up in New York city and I think there had been a number of other instances of it happening in Europe previously.
Engines that are low on oil tend to run hot, and they tend to run hard. They don't accelerate, they feel like they're losing power, and dear god do they make noise as they die. All that overheating metal is going rat-a-tak-tak and war-warrrrr-waaaaahhhhhrrrrr.... as it dies, smoking and belching steam.
Sadly you have just described all of the vehicles my mother and step father have owned over the last 25 years. Far too many people treat things like they are disposable, even big ticket things like vehicles, so not taking care of relatively inexpensive things like a computer doesn't surprise me much at all.
I had similar thoughts and seem to remember a similar story from a few years back about a voltage attack that could be performed against some sun microsystem (I think it was sun) hardware that would cause it to cough up the crypto keys that were being used. I don't remember the details so I don't know how similar it was and can't seem to find the slashdot article on it but for some reason this seemed to strike me as an audio version of that same attack (thus more difficult).
Those other candidates are not more looney than the ones in the mainstream parties it is just they tell you all the stupid shit they want to do instead of blow smoke up your ass. At least with the 3rd parties you can make an informed vote based off of what they say.
Looks like the NSA is trying to get out ahead of their appeal:
But in his a 68-page, heavily footnoted opinion, Leon concluded that the government didn't cite a single instance in which the program 'actually stopped an imminent terrorist attack.
Indeed, the hygiene hypothesis has been getting a lot of attention lately.
Sadly not enough. I still get dirty looks (pun partially intended) from parents who see my kids playing in the dirt patch that becomes the garden. Kids love dirt and muck and as long as they aren't trampling the plants I don't care if they play in there.
I have wondered why nickel-iron batteries aren't used for stationary applications given how tolerant of abuse they are. Since they are stationary the lower energy density isn't really a problem.
1 US Corporations
2 Foreign Corporations
3 People in my country
4 People in other countries
5 People in other countries who look like they have nothing
6 Cute animals
7 Monkeys that aren't so cute
8 People in countries the US government doesn't like
9 non-cute things that can't harm me
10 scary things
What you are missing here is that what is happening is turning crap no one really wants into something that is useful which has a much higher EROEI than turning raw materials into that same end product. The same could be said about early efforts in refining aluminum (there is a reason that the Washington Monument is capped with an aluminum point) but I still toss all my aluminum cans into the recycling bin.
That is seriously fucked up. At the same time those are probably people who would come after because I had to finish off a baby rabbit that my mom accidentally tore wide open with the weed whacker but didn't killed.
Mine does that as well. You get to hear a chime and something is flashing on the dash and when you look it it telling you that it is cold and thus there might be ice on the road . On my car it happens any time it is at or below 37F so at this point it has become something I completely ignore. My thought with that stupid warning is of course it is cold out I just got in my car from being in that same weather. Had they been smart about it they could have had the parameters such that if after 10 minutes of driving the temp falls below some threshold (not starts there or falls there immediately after leaving the garage) then give a little warning but now is the 6 months of the year when every time I start my car it will chime and flash the temp at me. I know it is cold and that there might be ice on the road, I can see the ice on the road and just froze my ass off brushing the snow off of you.
Seems like a good idea to me since a reasonable sound plan (you know the ones that are boring and not pushed since they are so simple and don't generate huge revenue for agents and brokers) gets pretty good returns and rebalanced a few times a year with a consistent addition of new funds. I speak as someone who is still fairly early in their career and is seeing the growth of my retirement plan each year start to approach my take home pay. If the marked takes a big dump again that is fine with me since that just means I will be buying more units per time period and can experience greater gains. The secrete is as you start getting towards retirement you move to more stable assets like bonds and the blue chip stock funds and away from international, growth, and small/medium cap funds. By doing that the blood letting in the market wasn't so bad for me I only ended up loosing about 8% in the worst year (08) and which was the only down year but all the rest have had fairly good returns with next lowest being just under a 5% gain and the best year was just over 32% gain. Then again I don't buy the hot stock of the day day trade, or even buy individual stocks* but invest for the long term and at this point don't even worry about the day to day or year to year variations. I do have a financial planner who researches the better funds and advises on what type of accounts should be setup for various things as well as works to ensure that there isn't an over abundance of some type across the various accounts since that is a bitch to figure out unless you have the tools. I have the roll over 401k from a couple of previous jobs, the current work 401k, the employee stock program, an external ROTH IRA, a couple of 529 plans for the kids, the wife's ROTH IRA, and her 403b. If I actually wanted to gamble I would go to an actual casino where there are buxom women in short skirts who will bring me drinks while I play a game with some money I can waste on a few hours of entertainment.
I do get company stock at a discount through my company so there is one but it is a large blue chip company that is stable and pays dividends but it would take a massive blood letting for the stock to drop more than the discount is.
Yes a mig welder could be miniaturized further but you wouldn't want it. For the best quality work you will want to be running gas shielded not flux core wire and thus need rather large tanks since this will probably take a while. Now add in that you need a good transformer for the welder as well as good tensioners and drive motors and it isn't going to be getting much smaller. There are already some cheap crappy ones available and while they may work out of the box the question is if they will work for any length of time. Good welders are rather large and heavy, the one I have is about as small and light as one can be made and not be trash and I have the add on gas kit.
The problem is that while a finer wire can produce a smaller weld bead it is still rather substantial compared to the wire that was used. Go with too fine of wire and the resistance will get to high and you will just vaporize the wire and foul tips. For example really fine wire (what I use for automotive sheet metal work) is.024" in diameter and there is still a fair amount of work to clean it up so you would never know the weld was there.
That sounds like the annual cultural sensitivity training we receive at work, I had forgotten about the Carlin bit it has been a while. Once you strip out the garbage that only applies to managers and HR people you can get that 3 hour course down to one simple statement: Don't be a dick.
I have and the company even got a sale because the ad words the bought from Google did a better job of matching my search than Google's search engine. Granted I was looking for a company to do titanium nitride coating on a project I was working on so not something that most people search for.
I find the following seems to work to varying degrees:
1. Write, e-mail, and call them, let them know what you think and what you want them to do. Do this even when you agree with their stance on an issue, they need the pat on the head just like a dog. When writing to them don't be a partisan hack and name call (I have responded to a rather patronizing letter from one of my senators like that but never with the initial contact on an issue)
2. Show up at one of their town hall meetings (my stupid rep to the US House like to have phone ones) and ask hard questions on the topics you care about framed to make them look bad if they don't answer in the way you want.
3. When their supporters or they themselves are out door knocking during the campaign season have a list of issues you think they screwed up on and why and thus will not be voting for them. Also mention that you have informed you neighbors about it and actually do so ensuring that they hear the same issues several times.
4. Write letters to the editor in you local paper calling out their action or lack of action.
5. Become active in their campaign (or that of their opponent) and in the local political machine so you can help direct the platform and their thinking.
Granted all of that does require putting in some effort instead of being a simple voter, but does seem to garner reasonable results.
Personally I would go with Amishnet, high latency but never underestimate the bandwidth of a horse drawn carriage loaded with microSD cards. As an added bonus you know they lack that ability to do deep packet inspection.
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But what am I if I spend a couple hours a week mowing my lawn and planting my garden?
Someone who cares about their lawn more than I do. I try to minimize lawn work as I would rather do other things.
Well I had never heard of the Fizz Buzz program but have been asked in every interview to write some sort of code or pseudo code to do something. Some were to see if you had the most basic understanding of programming while others were to see if you could thing through a problem.
And here I thought only we here in the US had people like you.
I would argue that while there isn't an expectation of privacy while on the roads there could be a good argument for anonymity on on the roads which is what you loose with mass 24x7 government surveillance of your movements.
It has already been done, mostly at the retail level. Stupid people will have a gold plated lead bar while the smarter ones will cast gold around tungsten. There was a story last about one turning up in New York city and I think there had been a number of other instances of it happening in Europe previously.
Engines that are low on oil tend to run hot, and they tend to run hard. They don't accelerate, they feel like they're losing power, and dear god do they make noise as they die. All that overheating metal is going rat-a-tak-tak and war-warrrrr-waaaaahhhhhrrrrr.... as it dies, smoking and belching steam.
Sadly you have just described all of the vehicles my mother and step father have owned over the last 25 years. Far too many people treat things like they are disposable, even big ticket things like vehicles, so not taking care of relatively inexpensive things like a computer doesn't surprise me much at all.
I had similar thoughts and seem to remember a similar story from a few years back about a voltage attack that could be performed against some sun microsystem (I think it was sun) hardware that would cause it to cough up the crypto keys that were being used. I don't remember the details so I don't know how similar it was and can't seem to find the slashdot article on it but for some reason this seemed to strike me as an audio version of that same attack (thus more difficult).
Those other candidates are not more looney than the ones in the mainstream parties it is just they tell you all the stupid shit they want to do instead of blow smoke up your ass. At least with the 3rd parties you can make an informed vote based off of what they say.
No one wants to know about your ability to resist anal probes.
I’ve abandoned free market principles to save the free market system
so this is nothing new
But in his a 68-page, heavily footnoted opinion, Leon concluded that the government didn't cite a single instance in which the program 'actually stopped an imminent terrorist attack.
Indeed, the hygiene hypothesis has been getting a lot of attention lately.
Sadly not enough. I still get dirty looks (pun partially intended) from parents who see my kids playing in the dirt patch that becomes the garden. Kids love dirt and muck and as long as they aren't trampling the plants I don't care if they play in there.
I have wondered why nickel-iron batteries aren't used for stationary applications given how tolerant of abuse they are. Since they are stationary the lower energy density isn't really a problem.
1 US Corporations
2 Foreign Corporations
3 People in my country
4 People in other countries
5 People in other countries who look like they have nothing
6 Cute animals
7 Monkeys that aren't so cute
8 People in countries the US government doesn't like
9 non-cute things that can't harm me
10 scary things
FTFY
What you are missing here is that what is happening is turning crap no one really wants into something that is useful which has a much higher EROEI than turning raw materials into that same end product. The same could be said about early efforts in refining aluminum (there is a reason that the Washington Monument is capped with an aluminum point) but I still toss all my aluminum cans into the recycling bin.
That is seriously fucked up. At the same time those are probably people who would come after because I had to finish off a baby rabbit that my mom accidentally tore wide open with the weed whacker but didn't killed.
Mine does that as well. You get to hear a chime and something is flashing on the dash and when you look it it telling you that it is cold and thus there might be ice on the road . On my car it happens any time it is at or below 37F so at this point it has become something I completely ignore. My thought with that stupid warning is of course it is cold out I just got in my car from being in that same weather. Had they been smart about it they could have had the parameters such that if after 10 minutes of driving the temp falls below some threshold (not starts there or falls there immediately after leaving the garage) then give a little warning but now is the 6 months of the year when every time I start my car it will chime and flash the temp at me. I know it is cold and that there might be ice on the road, I can see the ice on the road and just froze my ass off brushing the snow off of you.
Seems like a good idea to me since a reasonable sound plan (you know the ones that are boring and not pushed since they are so simple and don't generate huge revenue for agents and brokers) gets pretty good returns and rebalanced a few times a year with a consistent addition of new funds. I speak as someone who is still fairly early in their career and is seeing the growth of my retirement plan each year start to approach my take home pay. If the marked takes a big dump again that is fine with me since that just means I will be buying more units per time period and can experience greater gains. The secrete is as you start getting towards retirement you move to more stable assets like bonds and the blue chip stock funds and away from international, growth, and small /medium cap funds. By doing that the blood letting in the market wasn't so bad for me I only ended up loosing about 8% in the worst year (08) and which was the only down year but all the rest have had fairly good returns with next lowest being just under a 5% gain and the best year was just over 32% gain. Then again I don't buy the hot stock of the day day trade, or even buy individual stocks* but invest for the long term and at this point don't even worry about the day to day or year to year variations. I do have a financial planner who researches the better funds and advises on what type of accounts should be setup for various things as well as works to ensure that there isn't an over abundance of some type across the various accounts since that is a bitch to figure out unless you have the tools. I have the roll over 401k from a couple of previous jobs, the current work 401k, the employee stock program, an external ROTH IRA, a couple of 529 plans for the kids, the wife's ROTH IRA, and her 403b. If I actually wanted to gamble I would go to an actual casino where there are buxom women in short skirts who will bring me drinks while I play a game with some money I can waste on a few hours of entertainment.
I do get company stock at a discount through my company so there is one but it is a large blue chip company that is stable and pays dividends but it would take a massive blood letting for the stock to drop more than the discount is.
Yes a mig welder could be miniaturized further but you wouldn't want it. For the best quality work you will want to be running gas shielded not flux core wire and thus need rather large tanks since this will probably take a while. Now add in that you need a good transformer for the welder as well as good tensioners and drive motors and it isn't going to be getting much smaller. There are already some cheap crappy ones available and while they may work out of the box the question is if they will work for any length of time. Good welders are rather large and heavy, the one I have is about as small and light as one can be made and not be trash and I have the add on gas kit.
The problem is that while a finer wire can produce a smaller weld bead it is still rather substantial compared to the wire that was used. Go with too fine of wire and the resistance will get to high and you will just vaporize the wire and foul tips. For example really fine wire (what I use for automotive sheet metal work) is .024" in diameter and there is still a fair amount of work to clean it up so you would never know the weld was there.
That sounds like the annual cultural sensitivity training we receive at work, I had forgotten about the Carlin bit it has been a while. Once you strip out the garbage that only applies to managers and HR people you can get that 3 hour course down to one simple statement:
Don't be a dick.
I would prefer that Brahma sit in for Vishnu, he has a much better poker face.
I have and the company even got a sale because the ad words the bought from Google did a better job of matching my search than Google's search engine. Granted I was looking for a company to do titanium nitride coating on a project I was working on so not something that most people search for.
I find the following seems to work to varying degrees:
1. Write, e-mail, and call them, let them know what you think and what you want them to do. Do this even when you agree with their stance on an issue, they need the pat on the head just like a dog. When writing to them don't be a partisan hack and name call (I have responded to a rather patronizing letter from one of my senators like that but never with the initial contact on an issue)
2. Show up at one of their town hall meetings (my stupid rep to the US House like to have phone ones) and ask hard questions on the topics you care about framed to make them look bad if they don't answer in the way you want.
3. When their supporters or they themselves are out door knocking during the campaign season have a list of issues you think they screwed up on and why and thus will not be voting for them. Also mention that you have informed you neighbors about it and actually do so ensuring that they hear the same issues several times.
4. Write letters to the editor in you local paper calling out their action or lack of action.
5. Become active in their campaign (or that of their opponent) and in the local political machine so you can help direct the platform and their thinking.
Granted all of that does require putting in some effort instead of being a simple voter, but does seem to garner reasonable results.
Personally I would go with Amishnet, high latency but never underestimate the bandwidth of a horse drawn carriage loaded with microSD cards. As an added bonus you know they lack that ability to do deep packet inspection.