Really? Neon signs aren't above you? The car should stop for all red lights above 6ft tall? What about that radio tower 2 miles away whose 50million candle power light has about the same luminosity at your location as a stoplight?
A better solution would be for google to start making the stoplight bulbs themselves, and have then pulse and a predetermined and invisible rate. It would be a cheap and easy solution.
Yes, I had him in my feed for a while and removed him promptly. Not a fun person to have in your feed. https://plus.google.com/+Felic... is probably the most entertaining person they have on there.
I'd say, get over yourselves. I just don't understand when the government decided it was part of its job to protect people from the real world. It's not like you're forced to join any particular online community. If I were harassed on slashdot to the point that I didn't like it, I could leave. If enough people left, the mods would have to police the site differently if they didn't want to lose all their users. It's up to each site to police itself. Some communities have basically no moderation. And that's fine, you need a thick skin to join them. Others are heavily moderated. My kid hangs out a lot on cartoon networks site. To chat in that system you can't actually type! You have to select words from drop down lists to for your phrase. It's impossible to bother someone with that system.
The problem is, people head over to reddit or something, and expect everyone there to act like they're in a public restaurant. The rude person in that situation is not the troll. Yes, I'm blaming the victim.
Oh... and if the "troll" is hacking their way around the sites content controls... sure... nail them for the hacking bit. But if you're within the sites guidelines? No way.
Describe for me, programmatically, the difference between a stoplight and a taillight. and a police light and a neon sign and every other red light on earth...
and also, please include all the many shapes and sizes of the various stoplights all over the country.
Stop signs have a very specific shape, and text printed on them. They do not very from place to place. They're piratically a damned bar code as far software is concerned. It's almost like they were designed for the task.
Are we going to keep saying this forever? When are these things going to fall to the floor and become wrenches? (A wrench is a universally used device with no encumbrances, a true tool.)
We want tools of computing to be as useful and flexible and free (in design) as cement, steel girders, wrenches and sockets, pencils and paper.
I have about $10k worth of patented tools out in my garage. Your continuous wrench examples are hilariously ironic considering Cement, Steel girders, wenches and sock, pencils and paper all have patents
You seem to think that the collective idea of a "Wrench" is the same as going to home depot to buy "Crescent Wrench" And I'll admit, those of us that use real tools tend to refer to them by their brand name. I call all my adjustable wrenches "Crescent Wrenches" because they made the first one I ever owned.
They have all of their wrenches patented. And if you Gave the device we're talking about here the same patent treatment you did a Crescent wrench and tried to copy it like you want to, you'd get sued even more hardcore you dolt.
You are free to design your own Wrench, or development computer. You are not free to copy Crescent or Raspberries designs without their permission. I find it idiotic that I'm defending patents, as I don't like them much... but you're so far off the mark you're making the rest of us that support FSSOS look like idiots.
You know... I was downtown, selling some fine imported watches to passers by, and a police officer did not find my excuse of "Puffery" nearly as understandable as this judge seems to. Apparently Puffery isn't not allowed at $100, but is at $100million. Interesting indeed. I need to raise my price point!
The memo only talks about executives and product managers. Engineers (at ANY level) are explicitly excluded from the agreement (that is, they can be recruited at will), as well as any product "contributors".
So you think the existence of this agreement makes the existence of other, similar agreements, less likely? If you caught a burglar and he confessed to steeling your TV, would you assume he left the rest of your stuff alone?
But lets assume it does... you think that a no-poach agreement on executives and product managers would have no affect on the salary of Engineers? You don't think a lower salary for executives doesn't have an effect on the rest of the organization as a whole?
No they're not. Stop going to those websites. Everything on there is nonsense. Pulsars are a fairly well understood fenomena. Astronomers have found 1 observation out of billions of stars that contradicts their math, and they already have a plausible explanation for it.
My hypothesis is how black holes often work like a gravitational lens for light, they could be located in the right spot that in essence focuses the xray energy right onto our location.
Actually, something like that is in the story if you read it. It's a pulsar and the magnetic fields of which can lens the light just as you describe. No blackhole required.
I'd never heard of this controversy... but after looking it up, there's no proof rPI had anything to do with that... and even if they did, they kind of had a point. rPI is Not an open hardware project and never claimed to be. All the hacking people are using it for is welcome, but wasn't what they were going after in the beginning. You can't just copy other peoples closed source hardware.
have your local police and fire phone numbers in your cell phone and posted next to your land line.
That is a great idea. But, I used to handle 911 outages. Most 911 outages are due to cable cuts, which would often leave those facilities unreachable as well.
I'd say that if your phone works, and you can't call 911 or the local hospital, you should assume the trunk leading to those services (foolishly all usually located next to each other) is cut or damaged. So your next best bet would be to call a NON-LOCAL ER. i.e. Call the next town over. Just because downtown is broken doesn't mean the trunk leading to the next exchange is as well. We'd often route that way ourselves until it was fixed. So if you can call there, then they can radio to your local EMTs.
Also, a lot of times the local network is made up of all of these trunks, but your internet connection heads strait out of town. You might have better luck making a voip call or sending an email. A relative may be able to reach someone when you can't, etc... Text messages might be a good route as well, they are handled entirely different (though I've never dealt with that tech myself so take that with a grain of salt.)
I used to work in the NOC for a large Telco and we'd handle 911 outages. Usually 911 goes down because the entire networks down. Like the switch failed, or the trunk from one area that leads to the area the 911 center is in would get cut. Most of this stuff is in a ring so there's usually an alternate route, but in some areas that's not physically possible. For example a remote mountain town with a single road in, would likely have its only trunk running along that same road and it'd get cut all the time as the road constantly needed repair. Chose where you live wisely.
We'd handle this in different ways depending on the situation. For example, if we had 4 trunks that could handle 4X number of calls, and 3 got cut so it could only handle 1X, we could actually prioritize certain numbers so 911 and emergency services would get priority. If the trunk leading to the 911 center failed, we could do something like re-route the calls to the local police dispatcher who literally had no warning and would suddenly have their phone ringing off the hook. You may say "you should warn them!" but our policy was "Get it done" because who's dieing while you're arguing with the dispatcher about how her days going to suck?
The most important skill you can have in any NOC is your ability to triage problems. That term comes from the medical world but it's just networking equipment... until you get into the situation I was in. And you're making triage decisions that could actually result in death. These were real engineers that really cared and did what they could. But when you have an area ravaged by hurricane and you tell the tech to put gas in generator 1 instead of 2, because you've been up for 30hrs strait... and a remote goes down so they can't call 911? I just couldn't detach myself from that. I took a pay cut to leave. A lot of people floated through that job, it wasn't just me. It takes a special kind of person that can detach themselves from the consequences of their decisions.
Oh wow... it's like you spend your whole life understanding your childhood.
When I saw that image of the Sol-20, it immediately took me back to being 6yrs old. I'd go with my father to work in a manufacturing plant. He ran "The lab" and up until the late 70s, they'd program their machines with an infrared laser onto a chip... and it was a nightmare because it took hours and if anyone turned on a light it would ruin the etch. Then these computers started showing up with floppy drives and the first one I remember seeing looked exactly like that Sol-20. I'm assuming that's what it was. I got to type on it for fun a couple of times. Later they swapped to Commador's, apple IIs, IBM clones, etc... whatever was cheap.
This was probably the first computer I ever touched. Wow!
For what is almost certainly a few cosmetic touches to an existing app (that is likely only a couple hundred lines of code to start with) that would take probably 15 minutes to do, you'd charge $150k without any warranty of working, and then basically charge enough to nearly dedicate one reasonable (entry level) full time employee to an app that probably isn't used at all about 11 months out of the year?
Yes... and I'd like to point out a few key phrases in your statement that prove why I'd do this...
that would take probably 15 minutes to do
Booting up my computer and logging into all my various apps would take longer than that so...
charge enough to nearly dedicate one reasonable (entry level) full time employee
Entry level people can't debug code. They make bugs, they don't fix them. You want someone to create new accounts for you? That's what this person can do. Debug a production website while the president of the company is on the phone screaming in your ear that they'll eat your children for breakfast if this isn't up NOW I charge a lot for that.
without any warranty of working
It would meet their needs at the time of release. that would be in the contract. In 6 months, when they install their new single signon app that wasn't in the original design specs and it breaks... I should fix that for free? You have to keep in mind, I have to be available now to fix it. They aren't going to be ok with calling me, saying its broken in the middle of their peak signup time, and have me say "Well, I'm at my real job... you know the one that pays the bills, I'll get to this next Saturday" No, they wont. So if I'm going to drop my life to fix this, I need money to cover that.
isn't used at all about 11 months out of the year
and the amount a webpage is used is relevant how? and how do you know it's used that much? I'd be willing to charge for support per month. $10k/month. How's that?
I've seen quotes from a very good development company that has always delivered come in at about $10k for work significantly harder than this subject.
Congratulations. Just so you know how that works, that place already has the site built. They change a few things here and there... likely have widgets or whatever depending on what they use. Great. So your $10k quote was to modify an existing codebase that they already have a team of people intimately familiar with. But this clients already flat out rejected that. They want volunteers to write a webapp from the ground up that they own and maintain. That's an entirely different ballgame. That's a Major, enterprise level effort. The sort of thing companies like Google, IBM, Apple pull off over periods of months or years. A team of 4 volunteers in a basement? Good luck.
I'm sorry, but you clearly have no idea how enterprise projects work. I once saw a company pay $22,000 for a single line of code. This included 1yr of support and it was considered a steal. This was years ago, my managers and said "I cold write that in 10min!!!" My boss laughed at me and asked me the following: 1. In 6 months from now, will you still be here? You can't leave for a year... period, and have to sign a contract stating as such. Even if we fire you, you still have to fix it. 2. Are you insured? You need a minimum of a $1million liability policy in case we need to sue you. 3. Do you have a track record of completed work? We need this done, and should you fail and I have to go to shareholders to tell them we took this key project to "some guy" to save $22k, and he screwed up so we lost $100k in sales... what do you think is going to happen to me? In other words, we're not paying $20k for the code, we're paying $20k for peace of mind. We wont have to worry about this. We would have to worry about you.
The entire field had the same bump. It wasn't just women. The percentage of women in the field has never risen above about 35% I'd argue that's when the field was new and exciting. Then it tapered off and remained stable until the internet bubble... and tapered off again.
I think that, if anything, this shows women are savvy. They saw a new tech, took advantage of it. After the industry became less flashy, and the best jobs were harder to get they moved on. Then when the realities of the industry started to sink in and the industry collapsed they again left.
I don't think that was ever promised. Embryonic stem cells were seen as very promising for research and possibly treatment. There's been one notable success: http://healthland.time.com/201...
Other therapies have been significantly hampered by Government policy, but despite this some researchers went ahead. They found unforeseen obstacles like tumor formation, and unstable gene expression.
The problem with the Embryonic stem cell debate hasn't been the ethical concerns. Those are real, and should be address. But you need to know that there are those out there that used the debate not to fight Embryonic stem cell research, but to fight science itself. You don't want your tax dollars to go towards stem cell research? Fine, that's a reasonable request. But what happened was they not only pulled funding for Embryonic stem cell research, they also said that researcher couldn't receive ANY federal funding at all. For any other project. You were basically blacklisted if you even touched the topic. That had nothing to do with moral concerns, that was an attempt to use the governments muscle to kill the research entirely.
Embryonic Stem Cells had, and still have great medical promise. If your kid died from some disease, then a few years later research into stem cells lead them to some new drug that would have cured him, how would you have felt about the way this had been handled? Does it matter that they didn't find the cure? What's the next research they'll try to kill? Will it be the one that could have cured you?
They are adding to their bottom line. They have stated that their next Android will be encrypted by default. They are likely doing this new two factor thing in order to say, "See? We aren't sharing things with the gov like the Snowden docs say we are." They are also likely doing this to say, "See? We are more secure than that other email service that you are using."
...and they've also likely consulted with their lawyers and know what the inevitable SCOTUS decision will be. They have a very limited amount of time to demonstrate that they are not complicit in all of this and try to squeak out from under what could be potentially ruinous for their business model. If SCOTUS is overly broad in their ruling it could destroy Google/Facebook overnight.
How would you convince them to abandon their plan to dive into project management and use an existing solution?
Easy, give them a quote. Then let them know that doesn't include support. I think any developers on slashdot could likewise quote them... I'm going to say, if I like the charity and am willing to do them a favor: $100k up front, and another $50k on completion if it's relatively simple. Then another $50k per year for support. I can pass background checks and all that stuff.
Oh... so they want, for free, something that would cost at least $200k? And they think their free versions going to be even remotely be equivalent? It's like saying "Well, we could take the buss, but ferrari's are more comfortable. We can't afford a real ferrari so go get us some volunteers and have them custom build a Ferrari from the ground up so we can save money."
It's silly on its face... and if they can't figure that out, I think it's a clear sign how they'll handle the rest of the money they get. Run, don't walk away from that place. This is an important lesson for you not them.
I don't think it works that way. The dongle has a key. The site has a key. depending on how this authentication is setup (I can't be bothered to check): Both sides send each other a challenge, which combined with the time is calculated and sent. (i.e. try it at 5pm and you'll get a different answer than 10am)
Both results have to match as well as the users username and password. So, for an attack to be successful, they'd have to breach the Dongle, the website and the user. At that point it's kind of irrelevant what security measures you took. I suspect that, if you had the opportunity to steal the users USB dongle, you could have took their cellphone as well.
Security that's so painful no-one uses it, is worthless. Security that makes small sacrifices technically to achieve broad adoption is a good thing. Google could make you drive out to California and sign a document stating you really are you in front of a notary. But no one would do that, and it would still be vulnerable to the same groups that could break this Dongle scheme.
All 3 of those were beaten with MATH as in, irrefutable proof that the camera was wrong and setup to intentionally give tickets to people that did not break the law. (unless the software itself is hopelessly flawed) biatch
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Really? Neon signs aren't above you? The car should stop for all red lights above 6ft tall?
What about that radio tower 2 miles away whose 50million candle power light has about the same luminosity at your location as a stoplight?
A better solution would be for google to start making the stoplight bulbs themselves, and have then pulse and a predetermined and invisible rate. It would be a cheap and easy solution.
Yes, I had him in my feed for a while and removed him promptly. Not a fun person to have in your feed.
https://plus.google.com/+Felic...
is probably the most entertaining person they have on there.
I'd say, get over yourselves. I just don't understand when the government decided it was part of its job to protect people from the real world. It's not like you're forced to join any particular online community. If I were harassed on slashdot to the point that I didn't like it, I could leave. If enough people left, the mods would have to police the site differently if they didn't want to lose all their users. It's up to each site to police itself. Some communities have basically no moderation. And that's fine, you need a thick skin to join them. Others are heavily moderated. My kid hangs out a lot on cartoon networks site. To chat in that system you can't actually type! You have to select words from drop down lists to for your phrase. It's impossible to bother someone with that system.
The problem is, people head over to reddit or something, and expect everyone there to act like they're in a public restaurant. The rude person in that situation is not the troll. Yes, I'm blaming the victim.
Oh... and if the "troll" is hacking their way around the sites content controls... sure... nail them for the hacking bit. But if you're within the sites guidelines? No way.
Will the Google Car Turn Out To Be the Apple Newton of Automobiles?
seriously?
First PDA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
Are we going to, yet again, perpetuate the myth that Apple has ever invented anything on their own?
First Personal computer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
First MP3 Player: http://www.ideo.com/work/mobil...
First SmartPhone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
Describe for me, programmatically, the difference between a stoplight and a taillight.
and a police light
and a neon sign
and every other red light on earth...
and also, please include all the many shapes and sizes of the various stoplights all over the country.
Stop signs have a very specific shape, and text printed on them. They do not very from place to place. They're piratically a damned bar code as far software is concerned. It's almost like they were designed for the task.
Are we going to keep saying this forever? When are these things going to fall to the floor and become wrenches? (A wrench is a universally used device with no encumbrances, a true tool.)
We want tools of computing to be as useful and flexible and free (in design) as cement, steel girders, wrenches and sockets, pencils and paper.
I have about $10k worth of patented tools out in my garage. Your continuous wrench examples are hilariously ironic considering Cement, Steel girders, wenches and sock, pencils and paper all have patents
You seem to think that the collective idea of a "Wrench" is the same as going to home depot to buy "Crescent Wrench" And I'll admit, those of us that use real tools tend to refer to them by their brand name. I call all my adjustable wrenches "Crescent Wrenches" because they made the first one I ever owned.
But the fact of the matter is, Crescent is a brand: http://www.crescenttool.com/wr...
They have all of their wrenches patented. And if you Gave the device we're talking about here the same patent treatment you did a Crescent wrench and tried to copy it like you want to, you'd get sued even more hardcore you dolt.
You are free to design your own Wrench, or development computer. You are not free to copy Crescent or Raspberries designs without their permission. I find it idiotic that I'm defending patents, as I don't like them much... but you're so far off the mark you're making the rest of us that support FSSOS look like idiots.
You know... I was downtown, selling some fine imported watches to passers by, and a police officer did not find my excuse of "Puffery" nearly as understandable as this judge seems to. Apparently Puffery isn't not allowed at $100, but is at $100million. Interesting indeed. I need to raise my price point!
The memo only talks about executives and product managers. Engineers (at ANY level) are explicitly excluded from the agreement (that is, they can be recruited at will), as well as any product "contributors".
So you think the existence of this agreement makes the existence of other, similar agreements, less likely? If you caught a burglar and he confessed to steeling your TV, would you assume he left the rest of your stuff alone?
But lets assume it does... you think that a no-poach agreement on executives and product managers would have no affect on the salary of Engineers? You don't think a lower salary for executives doesn't have an effect on the rest of the organization as a whole?
This is one of the areas I think the electric universe guys are correct about.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/t...
No they're not. Stop going to those websites. Everything on there is nonsense. Pulsars are a fairly well understood fenomena. Astronomers have found 1 observation out of billions of stars that contradicts their math, and they already have a plausible explanation for it.
My hypothesis is how black holes often work like a gravitational lens for light, they could be located in the right spot that in essence focuses the xray energy right onto our location.
Actually, something like that is in the story if you read it. It's a pulsar and the magnetic fields of which can lens the light just as you describe. No blackhole required.
Over a certain size, pretty much everything becomes some kind of star. Technically, even a blackhole is a star.
I'd never heard of this controversy... but after looking it up, there's no proof rPI had anything to do with that... and even if they did, they kind of had a point. rPI is Not an open hardware project and never claimed to be. All the hacking people are using it for is welcome, but wasn't what they were going after in the beginning. You can't just copy other peoples closed source hardware.
have your local police and fire phone numbers in your cell phone and posted next to your land line.
That is a great idea.
But, I used to handle 911 outages. Most 911 outages are due to cable cuts, which would often leave those facilities unreachable as well.
I'd say that if your phone works, and you can't call 911 or the local hospital, you should assume the trunk leading to those services (foolishly all usually located next to each other) is cut or damaged. So your next best bet would be to call a NON-LOCAL ER. i.e. Call the next town over. Just because downtown is broken doesn't mean the trunk leading to the next exchange is as well. We'd often route that way ourselves until it was fixed. So if you can call there, then they can radio to your local EMTs.
Also, a lot of times the local network is made up of all of these trunks, but your internet connection heads strait out of town. You might have better luck making a voip call or sending an email. A relative may be able to reach someone when you can't, etc... Text messages might be a good route as well, they are handled entirely different (though I've never dealt with that tech myself so take that with a grain of salt.)
I used to work in the NOC for a large Telco and we'd handle 911 outages. Usually 911 goes down because the entire networks down. Like the switch failed, or the trunk from one area that leads to the area the 911 center is in would get cut. Most of this stuff is in a ring so there's usually an alternate route, but in some areas that's not physically possible. For example a remote mountain town with a single road in, would likely have its only trunk running along that same road and it'd get cut all the time as the road constantly needed repair. Chose where you live wisely.
We'd handle this in different ways depending on the situation. For example, if we had 4 trunks that could handle 4X number of calls, and 3 got cut so it could only handle 1X, we could actually prioritize certain numbers so 911 and emergency services would get priority. If the trunk leading to the 911 center failed, we could do something like re-route the calls to the local police dispatcher who literally had no warning and would suddenly have their phone ringing off the hook. You may say "you should warn them!" but our policy was "Get it done" because who's dieing while you're arguing with the dispatcher about how her days going to suck?
The most important skill you can have in any NOC is your ability to triage problems. That term comes from the medical world but it's just networking equipment... until you get into the situation I was in. And you're making triage decisions that could actually result in death. These were real engineers that really cared and did what they could. But when you have an area ravaged by hurricane and you tell the tech to put gas in generator 1 instead of 2, because you've been up for 30hrs strait... and a remote goes down so they can't call 911? I just couldn't detach myself from that. I took a pay cut to leave. A lot of people floated through that job, it wasn't just me. It takes a special kind of person that can detach themselves from the consequences of their decisions.
Oh wow... it's like you spend your whole life understanding your childhood.
When I saw that image of the Sol-20, it immediately took me back to being 6yrs old. I'd go with my father to work in a manufacturing plant. He ran "The lab" and up until the late 70s, they'd program their machines with an infrared laser onto a chip... and it was a nightmare because it took hours and if anyone turned on a light it would ruin the etch. Then these computers started showing up with floppy drives and the first one I remember seeing looked exactly like that Sol-20. I'm assuming that's what it was. I got to type on it for fun a couple of times. Later they swapped to Commador's, apple IIs, IBM clones, etc... whatever was cheap.
This was probably the first computer I ever touched. Wow!
yes, this is a solution in search of a problem.
For what is almost certainly a few cosmetic touches to an existing app (that is likely only a couple hundred lines of code to start with) that would take probably 15 minutes to do, you'd charge $150k without any warranty of working, and then basically charge enough to nearly dedicate one reasonable (entry level) full time employee to an app that probably isn't used at all about 11 months out of the year?
Yes ... and I'd like to point out a few key phrases in your statement that prove why I'd do this...
that would take probably 15 minutes to do
Booting up my computer and logging into all my various apps would take longer than that so...
charge enough to nearly dedicate one reasonable (entry level) full time employee
Entry level people can't debug code. They make bugs, they don't fix them. You want someone to create new accounts for you? That's what this person can do. Debug a production website while the president of the company is on the phone screaming in your ear that they'll eat your children for breakfast if this isn't up NOW I charge a lot for that.
without any warranty of working
It would meet their needs at the time of release. that would be in the contract. In 6 months, when they install their new single signon app that wasn't in the original design specs and it breaks... I should fix that for free? You have to keep in mind, I have to be available now to fix it. They aren't going to be ok with calling me, saying its broken in the middle of their peak signup time, and have me say "Well, I'm at my real job... you know the one that pays the bills, I'll get to this next Saturday" No, they wont. So if I'm going to drop my life to fix this, I need money to cover that.
isn't used at all about 11 months out of the year
and the amount a webpage is used is relevant how? and how do you know it's used that much? I'd be willing to charge for support per month. $10k/month. How's that?
I've seen quotes from a very good development company that has always delivered come in at about $10k for work significantly harder than this subject.
Congratulations. Just so you know how that works, that place already has the site built. They change a few things here and there... likely have widgets or whatever depending on what they use. Great. So your $10k quote was to modify an existing codebase that they already have a team of people intimately familiar with. But this clients already flat out rejected that. They want volunteers to write a webapp from the ground up that they own and maintain. That's an entirely different ballgame. That's a Major, enterprise level effort. The sort of thing companies like Google, IBM, Apple pull off over periods of months or years. A team of 4 volunteers in a basement? Good luck.
I'm sorry, but you clearly have no idea how enterprise projects work. I once saw a company pay $22,000 for a single line of code. This included 1yr of support and it was considered a steal. This was years ago, my managers and said "I cold write that in 10min!!!" My boss laughed at me and asked me the following:
1. In 6 months from now, will you still be here? You can't leave for a year... period, and have to sign a contract stating as such. Even if we fire you, you still have to fix it.
2. Are you insured? You need a minimum of a $1million liability policy in case we need to sue you.
3. Do you have a track record of completed work? We need this done, and should you fail and I have to go to shareholders to tell them we took this key project to "some guy" to save $22k, and he screwed up so we lost $100k in sales... what do you think is going to happen to me? In other words, we're not paying $20k for the code, we're paying $20k for peace of mind. We wont have to worry about this. We would have to worry about you.
Now, I know your arguments
Or, it could be, that this is complete nonsense:
http://www.computerworld.com/a...
The entire field had the same bump. It wasn't just women. The percentage of women in the field has never risen above about 35%
I'd argue that's when the field was new and exciting. Then it tapered off and remained stable until the internet bubble... and tapered off again.
I think that, if anything, this shows women are savvy. They saw a new tech, took advantage of it. After the industry became less flashy, and the best jobs were harder to get they moved on. Then when the realities of the industry started to sink in and the industry collapsed they again left.
I don't think that was ever promised. Embryonic stem cells were seen as very promising for research and possibly treatment.
There's been one notable success:
http://healthland.time.com/201...
Other therapies have been significantly hampered by Government policy, but despite this some researchers went ahead. They found unforeseen obstacles like tumor formation, and unstable gene expression.
The problem with the Embryonic stem cell debate hasn't been the ethical concerns. Those are real, and should be address. But you need to know that there are those out there that used the debate not to fight Embryonic stem cell research, but to fight science itself. You don't want your tax dollars to go towards stem cell research? Fine, that's a reasonable request. But what happened was they not only pulled funding for Embryonic stem cell research, they also said that researcher couldn't receive ANY federal funding at all. For any other project. You were basically blacklisted if you even touched the topic. That had nothing to do with moral concerns, that was an attempt to use the governments muscle to kill the research entirely.
Embryonic Stem Cells had, and still have great medical promise. If your kid died from some disease, then a few years later research into stem cells lead them to some new drug that would have cured him, how would you have felt about the way this had been handled? Does it matter that they didn't find the cure? What's the next research they'll try to kill? Will it be the one that could have cured you?
They are adding to their bottom line.
They have stated that their next Android will be encrypted by default.
They are likely doing this new two factor thing in order to say, "See? We aren't sharing things with the gov like the Snowden docs say we are."
They are also likely doing this to say, "See? We are more secure than that other email service that you are using."
...and they've also likely consulted with their lawyers and know what the inevitable SCOTUS decision will be. They have a very limited amount of time to demonstrate that they are not complicit in all of this and try to squeak out from under what could be potentially ruinous for their business model. If SCOTUS is overly broad in their ruling it could destroy Google/Facebook overnight.
How would you convince them to abandon their plan to dive into project management and use an existing solution?
Easy, give them a quote. Then let them know that doesn't include support.
I think any developers on slashdot could likewise quote them...
I'm going to say, if I like the charity and am willing to do them a favor: $100k up front, and another $50k on completion if it's relatively simple. Then another $50k per year for support. I can pass background checks and all that stuff.
Oh... so they want, for free, something that would cost at least $200k? And they think their free versions going to be even remotely be equivalent? It's like saying "Well, we could take the buss, but ferrari's are more comfortable. We can't afford a real ferrari so go get us some volunteers and have them custom build a Ferrari from the ground up so we can save money."
It's silly on its face... and if they can't figure that out, I think it's a clear sign how they'll handle the rest of the money they get. Run, don't walk away from that place. This is an important lesson for you not them.
I don't think it works that way.
The dongle has a key.
The site has a key.
depending on how this authentication is setup (I can't be bothered to check):
Both sides send each other a challenge, which combined with the time is calculated and sent. (i.e. try it at 5pm and you'll get a different answer than 10am)
Both results have to match as well as the users username and password.
So, for an attack to be successful, they'd have to breach the Dongle, the website and the user. At that point it's kind of irrelevant what security measures you took. I suspect that, if you had the opportunity to steal the users USB dongle, you could have took their cellphone as well.
Security that's so painful no-one uses it, is worthless. Security that makes small sacrifices technically to achieve broad adoption is a good thing. Google could make you drive out to California and sign a document stating you really are you in front of a notary. But no one would do that, and it would still be vulnerable to the same groups that could break this Dongle scheme.
Not many PCs have 9-pin joystick ports.
You mean a serial port? I bet yours does and you didn't even know it.
And if it doesn't? http://www.amazon.com/USB-9-pi...
Yes:
http://www.realclearscience.co...
http://www.nbc-2.com/story/122...
http://www.youngcons.com/texas...
All 3 of those were beaten with MATH as in, irrefutable proof that the camera was wrong and setup to intentionally give tickets to people that did not break the law. (unless the software itself is hopelessly flawed)
biatch
Australian Physicists Build Reversible Tractor Beam
No they didn't. Not even remotely.
the ANU tractor beam relies on the energy of the laser heating up the particles and the air around them