What a horrible tragedy, and one that changes the political climate considerably. Obama will face much less resistance from Europe if Russia turns out to be responsible. It also gives the Ukraine a reason to call in US "specialists" for help with the investigation.
The majority of those on board were Chinese... Basically Russia's only ally in this whole mess. Things are about to get very interesting. My heart goes out to all those whos family was on board, but keep in mind, more people than that are dieing daily under where that plane was flying.
Occam's Razor doesn't apply here. They are not trying to explain something. They are showing that something is possible. Just because negative mass is possible, doesn't mean it really exists.
come on guys.. There's lots of reasons to hate on SOE. Hell, I haven't bought an SOE product in 10yrs because of the Foglok fiasco... I was actually banned from their forums for a few months back in the day for suggesting they didnt exist, only later find out I was right. The title of the freek'n thread to announce the disappointment was "CharlieMopps was right, not a troll, there are no frogloks!!!" (paraphrased, the threads been deleted for some time now) If you don't know what thats about you've no reason to hate on SOE. Ok ok, I'm just tryning to point out I have no love for them...
Anyways... Managing a domain is a pain in the ass. I've worked in a few places with large website, I'm sure a few of you have. Maintaining that domain registration is deceptively difficult. Think about it as if you were the one in charge of it.
You tell your staff "Register out domain!" They go off and come back "well, it appears we can register it for anywhere from 1yr to 5yrs, which you would like?" You say "5yrs of course!" They tell you "how would you like it billed? We can pay it one time now... or put it on the company credit card?" You say "The company card of course! It will renew!" ***5yrs later your site goes down*** How could this happen?!?! An in-depth review shows that the entire team you assigned to take care of that task has either moved on or transfered elsewhere in the company. Doh! Even worse, credit cards only last for 5yrs before they are canceled and reissued, you were doomed from the start. All the phone numbers you gave them were moved, the people gone, and those that answered barely knew what a domain was in the first place. You're biggest fault was apparently setting the renewal so far out. If you'd set it for 1yr at least you could have a repeating process for people to get use to as newhires rolled in and out.
But wait! There's a "contracts" department that should have cought this! Well "contracts" kind of sorts things in order of importance by cost and that domain registration cost what? $20? So that out it between free Twinkie Friday and the new coffee pot... not really on their radar.
As many times as I've seen this happens it still baffles me to this day why there isn't a service that went something like "$10k per year and you'll never have to worry about any of your domains... ever... pay us, we take care of it"
anyways, whatever... point is, it's not as simple as it appears on the surface.
This means no public internet, it will forever now be a private enterprise. Not sure I like that possibility in the long run given how the ISP monopolies behave.
So you're saying you'd like the NSA to have direct access to your internet activity? Nice.
Best way I can explain it as I understand it: There are 1000 theories that explain mass. (I'm making up these numbers for demonstration purposes) Given the data they released 900 can no longer be possible. Of the remaining 100 theories, 90 require the higgs to provide that mass. In the 10 that don't include the higgs as the provider of mass, there are large data sets that mostly rule them out. For any of those 10 to work, there would have to be some pretty large coincidences. Again, made up the numbers... but you get the idea.
It'd be like if someone stole your phone, and you found a guy with the same model phone and it's even got the same lock screen on it... and your password works on that phone. Are you 100% sure that's your phone? No... but you're pretty damned sure it is. Probably enough to punch him in the nose.:-) Particle physics will now and forever be a game of probabilities. We'll never know 100%, but we'll know 99.99999999999999999999999999999% for sure.
My car's airbag has an interlock that causes it to shut off when my 6yr old son is in the passangers seat. A similar interlock can be put on the drivers seat. If there's not a living breathing human in the car, it can't "go"
No longer an issue.
Next inane concern the government will try and use to put tracking devices in my car please?
That is just so stupid. Use a password-keeper and use strong passwords everywhere. Then you only need (1) physical access to your password keeper and (2) to remember one strong passphrase.
Whats dumb is giving the same advice over and over, building your security policy around those people following that advice all despite 30yrs of evidence that proves they wont follow the advice
Security is as much about psycology as procedure. I worked at AT&T a little over 10yrs ago and one day they announced that the password requirements to one of their systems would be changed to now require a 29 letter phrase, including at least 3 spaces, capitals, lower case, numbers and special characters. The end result? A utopia of highly secure, un-crackable system to be proud of? No... the whole company had their passwords written on post-it notes stuck to their monitor within a week.
Perhaps it's time for companies to realise that they cannot keep data secure. That they will never be able to build, much less be willing to pay for, the security required to keep this information under any kind of seal.
Perhaps it's time for companies to ask themselves: "Do we really need to store this?".
It's beyond that... as you said, data is unsecurable even if they don't store it. So why is it possible for someone from eastern Europe that doesn't even speak English to charge something in my name and have it shipped overseas with nothing more than the info on my Visa card?
This is entirely the fault of Visa/Mastercard and other credit agencies. They should be eating the costs of this fraud wholesale. They could end it tomorrow but in the name of getting us as far in debt to them as possible, they've thrown out pretty much every security measure you can think of and now they've found a way to get your credit card to wirelessly broadcast your number to anyone that happens to be walking by. If someone charges something fraudulently to your card, the CC company should have to pay an inconvience fee to the store and the customer. If your credit gets ruined by someone, Equifax and the others should have to pay a fine to you. This would get cleared up overnight if that happened.
He's both. Libertarians have views supported by both Republicans and Democrats. Not only that, there's a wide breadth of views held within the Libertarian party. Rand Paul is probably the most "libertarian" candidate that has a chance at office right now. Is he the poster child for the movement? By no means, but he can't get into office otherwise. My hope is that he's pretending to be more republican so he can turncoat when he gets into office, rather than the other way around.
And that nonsense on birth control? Come on...
The day they stop calling Libertarians lunatics is the day I leave the party. What we need is a lunatic. Look where sanity has gotten us.
This is terrible advice. Credit cards are the easiest way to build credit. The advice should actually be: Pay off your credit card in full every month.
You're a victim of marketing by the credit card companies. This is not true, there are plenty of ways to get far better loans at far cheaper rates that will increase your credit rating at a far faster rate.
This is how I improved my credit without a credit card. It sounds complicated but it only took me about an hour at the bank to set this up: Go to the bank, ask for an unsecured loan. I told them I just wanted to build up my credit and they thought it was a great idea. Put that money from the loan into a bank account. We'll call this "Savings" Have your paycheck direct deposited into the "Savings" account. Have the payment for this loan sent via electronic transfer from the "Savings" account every month. Setup a second account called "BILLS" and a third called "SPENDING" All bills that are at a fixed rate (like you car loan) come out of "Bills"... a bills that are variable come out of "Spending" Transfer the part of your paycheck that will cover the "bills" to "bills" automatically... Take the remainder of your paycheck minus the interest from the unsecured loan to spending... (unless you want to save some)
TARE UP the debit card attached to this "Savings" account. Give the password and any other information you need to access it to someone you know will give you a hard time if you ask for it... i.e. your mom
You now spend your money with your "Spending" card. You cannot access that loan, it will get paid on time, every month, no matter what. You have no revolving credit. You will never miss payment on a bill. You will never spend money that you cannot. Your credit score will sky rocket. Mines currently over 830.
If you think about it, you can probably come up with your own plan along those same lines. It's not hard. Now look at credit cards and the risks involved. I personally know dozens of people that are bankrupt due to credit card debt. For absolutely no reason at all...
Sorry, you're incorrect in both accounts. You're going to cite advice from a site who's sole goal is to sell you more credit cards? Credit cards are always, and forever will be a scam. If you have the cash, use the cash. If you don't, you shouldn't be buying it. For some real info... follow this link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/... What should be most interesting to you is that "Credit Cards" weren't even a "Thing" until the Supreme Court struck down predatory lending laws in the 1970s... Let me restate that... Preditory lending laws prevented credit cards from being legal.
Mortgage rates have nothing to do with why you shouldn't pay off your home loan. Your home loan is your single biggest tax deduction, and unless congress changes things, will remain so for the rest of your life. The higher the interest rate on the loan, the larger the deduction so the as long as the interest rate is competitive with the market it's still a good thing. If you can get a better rate from another bank you should, and if rates country wide are terrible, you should probobly pay it down quite a bit... bot not totally pay it off.
And I want to be clear here, I'm talking about a first home... if you own 2nd and 3rd homes that's different... The deduction you get from that loan in enormous. More importantly, when you retire and start collecting on your 401k, that 401k is going to get taxed! And now that you're retired and paid off your loan, you'll have no deduction at all! While you're drawing on your 401k you need to be using your home loan deduction to reduce that tax burden. You should plan to have that loan paid off around the time the 401k runs out... then you switch to your Roth IRA which you've already payed the taxes on. If you plan correctly, you shouldn't be paying taxes after your homes paid off.
But yes, perhaps I should have been more detailed... That's why I said you should go take a class. Don't listen to me, don't listen to anyone on slashdot or even your friends. Get educated, figure it out for yourself. There is so much mis-information on these topics you can only really trust someone that you're paying (a true fiduciary under contract or a professor.) For more info on other reasons you should wait to pay off your home-loan, see this: http://www.aarp.org/money/inve...
Ok, I'm sure dude here was trying to troll and all... but...
Any kid strait out of highschool needs, desperately, to have true home economics down. And I don't mean cooking.
Never own a credit card. They are all scams and are far more likely to ruin your credit than help it. The basics of double entry bookkeeping. The basics of Auto loans and home loans The difference between Mutual Funds and Index funds and why you should always go with an index if you can. What a fiduciary is, and why you should never take investment advice from someone that you don't have a contract with. The difference between a 401k and a Roth IRA, and why you need both and why paying off your house before retirement is bad. You should be investing at least 10% of your income into retirement. Really, 10%. In the vast majority of cases you will get paid the same if you get your degree from a tech school, where your tuition will total under $10k as you would from a state or private college where you're going to pay that much per semester! (i.e. go to a tech school unless you want to be a doctor)
I came from a very poor family. My parents pulled themselves up through hard work. They didn't know a lot of that stuff, I had to go out in the world and learn it on my own. But I see a LOT of kids come out of school and just have no clue. They get financially ruined by scam artists as soon as they walk off the stage at HS graduation. They go to a state university to get a nursing degree when hospitals are so desperate for nurses they're actually paying dental assistants to go to school in my local area!
It doesn't have to be that way. Educate your kids on this stuff. If you don't get it all yet, go with them. My life completely turned around when I took some pretty simple 1 week courses at the local community college.
And when Facebook is saying that only 1.48% of their bandwidth is going towards images. That puts said reduction 5% reduction at a new percent of 1.41% at the expense of increased CPU time to transcode all existing images, which is itself not free. It is a marginal savings, even for an organization the size of Facebook. It certainly adds up over time, which is great, but when there is really great low hanging fruit like cutting the 37% of their bandwidth used on videos by 20-30% by getting HEVC or VP9 really working well (would then be 26% total), then that is a way to save significant money not just in Bandwidth but in Disk Space for retention as well.
I deal with this sort of thing all day at work... you're not appreciating the scale of small adjustments. For example: I recently got asked to approve an upgrade to internet explorer on an enterprise network. I tested, and replied back that In one application, there was a 3 second delay in opening records. I declined approval and said this issue would have to get fixed before I could sign off on it.
Lots of managers had your attitude... it's only a 3 second delay!
So I had to present my reasoning in a meeting to explain: We have approximately 1000 users that will be affected. They each open, on average, 100 records per day. They get paid an average of $15/hr 1000 users times 100 records = 100,000 records per day Times 3 seconds = 300,000 seconds Divided by 60 = 5000 minutes Divided by 60 again = 83.33hrs Times $15/hr = $1250
Not fixing that issue would cost the company roughly $1250 per day! It's nearly a half a million dollar per year problem! The fix is an increase in memory that would cost the company a 1 time charge of less than $20k.
The differernce with Google has be, for the most part: They aren't stupid.
Being the good guys is profitable in the long term. Take net neutrality for example... codifying that in law would be good for everyone in the long term. The ISPs, the customers, Netflix... everyone. But, some people are stupid and only think in the near term. I'd argue that Googles greed is simply greater than most corporations and that's a good thing. They want it all and short term profits that ruin some other part of the economy just aren't good enough for them. They eventually plan to own that part of the economy to!
Climatologists need to stop with this nonsense. I believe in Climate change, but at the same time, I can completely understand the confusion on the part of the general public. Climate change has no direct evidence and there never will be. What we do have is an accumulation of statistics that make it virtually impossible for there to be any doubt that the climate is changing due to our activity.
Stop presenting easily refuted direct evidence. How long will it be before they have to make some minor adjustment to these numbers and that will be all over the news?
Produce the statistics as a whole, explain them and let the opponents try to fight THAT.
Once again the employees pay for managements mistakes. Everyone could see, clear as day, what Microsoft was doing wrong. Hell, it's still obvious, and anyone with an ounce of common sense could turn that company around. Instead they just keep firing off moonshot after moonshot hoping to rediscover the next product that will be as successful as Windows was. How many more billions are you going going to waste before you realize people aren't willing to pay for an OS anymore?!?! You still have a dominate position in the desktop OS market, use that to make "Reasonable" profits and be ok with that! If you continue with the belief that anything less than double digit growth is failure you'll be bankrupt before the end of the decade. Ever read that Tortoise and the hair story? Oh... nevermind.
I'm actually happy about fox doing this, as it creates hatred for DRM and such.
False hope... 99.999% of people have no idea what DRM is and don't care. Fox's goal is to squeeze more franchise fees out of Dish. "The Hopper" isn't even all that interesting of a gadget and will likely be dead and gone before this case is even settled. Once the case is settled it'll just be a matter of who's paying whom and will have virtually no impact on consumers other than the legal precedent affecting future products.
Most EULAs have been found to be non-binding in court... and that wouldn't event count as one given that the user wouldn't have a way to accept or decline it. About the only way EULA's are helpful is in "Breach of contract" situations. If fox were providing the stream to you instead of Dish, and you violated the EULA they could use that to find you in breach of contract and end your service.
Agreed, I've no idea what this article is about. It's like a word jumble and I can pick out the words "Home automation" and "Nest" so I think it has to do with thermostats... but it could just as likely be about Barbeque sauce... I've no idea.
I'm simply happy someone out there is giving Netflix some fucking competition already.
I was getting rather sick and tired of the Internet slowly being divided into two forms of traffic: Netflix and everything else. Hell, even porn was getting jealous.
They're not. Hulus just a conglomerate owned by all the networks. Don't expect any innovation to come out of there... the sole purpose of Hulu is to try and prevent anything better from coming along.
I hope this makes people think twice before filing a forget-me request. It ensures they'll be remembered.
Perhaps you'll be the victim of slander and lose your career over a lie that is interesting enough to go viral where your vindication isn't and doesn't.
In other news, life sucks for the rest of us to. Can we make it illegal for ice cream to make me fat while we're at it?
I missed this question. Sorry! No! But I do work for a large(ish) ISP. Never for Verizon, but I did apply once. They offered me a job, but their HR department was so incredibly inept I turned them down. I interviewed with 100 other people in some kind of crazy game show style test interview thing. Most insane noensense I've ever been through in an interview... that was a LONG Time ago though.
I'll not reveal my current employer but I doubt you'd have heard of them. I did work for AT&T about 10yrs ago. That's a crazy place to work. It's like working for the government. No one works, everyones union, you spend more time dealing with union nonsense than you do working. At least... thats what it was like back then.
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What a horrible tragedy, and one that changes the political climate considerably. Obama will face much less resistance from Europe if Russia turns out to be responsible. It also gives the Ukraine a reason to call in US "specialists" for help with the investigation.
The majority of those on board were Chinese... Basically Russia's only ally in this whole mess. Things are about to get very interesting. My heart goes out to all those whos family was on board, but keep in mind, more people than that are dieing daily under where that plane was flying.
Anyone else sick of these fantasies?
What ever happened to Occam's Razor?
Occam's Razor doesn't apply here. They are not trying to explain something. They are showing that something is possible. Just because negative mass is possible, doesn't mean it really exists.
Keep in mind, the majority of the negatives you're attributing to malice weren't even a concern to the majority of scientists at the time.
One's annoying. The other could lead to my kids getting gassed for being enemies of the state. Guess which one I'm more concerned about.
And no, I'm not exaggerating or kidding. If you think your phone bills more important, fuck you.
come on guys.. There's lots of reasons to hate on SOE. Hell, I haven't bought an SOE product in 10yrs because of the Foglok fiasco... I was actually banned from their forums for a few months back in the day for suggesting they didnt exist, only later find out I was right. The title of the freek'n thread to announce the disappointment was "CharlieMopps was right, not a troll, there are no frogloks!!!" (paraphrased, the threads been deleted for some time now) If you don't know what thats about you've no reason to hate on SOE. Ok ok, I'm just tryning to point out I have no love for them...
Anyways... Managing a domain is a pain in the ass. I've worked in a few places with large website, I'm sure a few of you have. Maintaining that domain registration is deceptively difficult. Think about it as if you were the one in charge of it.
You tell your staff "Register out domain!"
They go off and come back "well, it appears we can register it for anywhere from 1yr to 5yrs, which you would like?"
You say "5yrs of course!"
They tell you "how would you like it billed? We can pay it one time now... or put it on the company credit card?"
You say "The company card of course! It will renew!"
***5yrs later your site goes down***
How could this happen?!?! An in-depth review shows that the entire team you assigned to take care of that task has either moved on or transfered elsewhere in the company. Doh! Even worse, credit cards only last for 5yrs before they are canceled and reissued, you were doomed from the start. All the phone numbers you gave them were moved, the people gone, and those that answered barely knew what a domain was in the first place. You're biggest fault was apparently setting the renewal so far out. If you'd set it for 1yr at least you could have a repeating process for people to get use to as newhires rolled in and out.
But wait! There's a "contracts" department that should have cought this!
Well "contracts" kind of sorts things in order of importance by cost and that domain registration cost what? $20? So that out it between free Twinkie Friday and the new coffee pot... not really on their radar.
As many times as I've seen this happens it still baffles me to this day why there isn't a service that went something like "$10k per year and you'll never have to worry about any of your domains... ever... pay us, we take care of it"
anyways, whatever... point is, it's not as simple as it appears on the surface.
This means no public internet, it will forever now be a private enterprise. Not sure I like that possibility in the long run given how the ISP monopolies behave.
So you're saying you'd like the NSA to have direct access to your internet activity? Nice.
Best way I can explain it as I understand it:
There are 1000 theories that explain mass. (I'm making up these numbers for demonstration purposes)
Given the data they released 900 can no longer be possible.
Of the remaining 100 theories, 90 require the higgs to provide that mass.
In the 10 that don't include the higgs as the provider of mass, there are large data sets that mostly rule them out.
For any of those 10 to work, there would have to be some pretty large coincidences.
Again, made up the numbers... but you get the idea.
It'd be like if someone stole your phone, and you found a guy with the same model phone and it's even got the same lock screen on it... and your password works on that phone. Are you 100% sure that's your phone? No... but you're pretty damned sure it is. Probably enough to punch him in the nose. :-)
Particle physics will now and forever be a game of probabilities. We'll never know 100%, but we'll know 99.99999999999999999999999999999% for sure.
Easy problem to solve.
My car's airbag has an interlock that causes it to shut off when my 6yr old son is in the passangers seat. A similar interlock can be put on the drivers seat. If there's not a living breathing human in the car, it can't "go"
No longer an issue.
Next inane concern the government will try and use to put tracking devices in my car please?
That is just so stupid. Use a password-keeper and use strong passwords everywhere. Then you only need (1) physical access to your password keeper and (2) to remember one strong passphrase.
Whats dumb is giving the same advice over and over, building your security policy around those people following that advice all despite 30yrs of evidence that proves they wont follow the advice
Security is as much about psycology as procedure. I worked at AT&T a little over 10yrs ago and one day they announced that the password requirements to one of their systems would be changed to now require a 29 letter phrase, including at least 3 spaces, capitals, lower case, numbers and special characters. The end result? A utopia of highly secure, un-crackable system to be proud of? No... the whole company had their passwords written on post-it notes stuck to their monitor within a week.
Perhaps it's time for companies to realise that they cannot keep data secure. That they will never be able to build, much less be willing to pay for, the security required to keep this information under any kind of seal.
Perhaps it's time for companies to ask themselves: "Do we really need to store this?".
It's beyond that... as you said, data is unsecurable even if they don't store it. So why is it possible for someone from eastern Europe that doesn't even speak English to charge something in my name and have it shipped overseas with nothing more than the info on my Visa card?
This is entirely the fault of Visa/Mastercard and other credit agencies. They should be eating the costs of this fraud wholesale. They could end it tomorrow but in the name of getting us as far in debt to them as possible, they've thrown out pretty much every security measure you can think of and now they've found a way to get your credit card to wirelessly broadcast your number to anyone that happens to be walking by. If someone charges something fraudulently to your card, the CC company should have to pay an inconvience fee to the store and the customer. If your credit gets ruined by someone, Equifax and the others should have to pay a fine to you. This would get cleared up overnight if that happened.
He's both.
Libertarians have views supported by both Republicans and Democrats. Not only that, there's a wide breadth of views held within the Libertarian party. Rand Paul is probably the most "libertarian" candidate that has a chance at office right now. Is he the poster child for the movement? By no means, but he can't get into office otherwise. My hope is that he's pretending to be more republican so he can turncoat when he gets into office, rather than the other way around.
And that nonsense on birth control? Come on...
The day they stop calling Libertarians lunatics is the day I leave the party. What we need is a lunatic. Look where sanity has gotten us.
But as a down side you do get to eat in American "Restaurants"
Which have... french fries so I don't see what your problem is.
This is terrible advice. Credit cards are the easiest way to build credit. The advice should actually be: Pay off your credit card in full every month.
You're a victim of marketing by the credit card companies. This is not true, there are plenty of ways to get far better loans at far cheaper rates that will increase your credit rating at a far faster rate.
This is how I improved my credit without a credit card. It sounds complicated but it only took me about an hour at the bank to set this up:
Go to the bank, ask for an unsecured loan. I told them I just wanted to build up my credit and they thought it was a great idea.
Put that money from the loan into a bank account. We'll call this "Savings"
Have your paycheck direct deposited into the "Savings" account.
Have the payment for this loan sent via electronic transfer from the "Savings" account every month.
Setup a second account called "BILLS" and a third called "SPENDING"
All bills that are at a fixed rate (like you car loan) come out of "Bills"... a bills that are variable come out of "Spending"
Transfer the part of your paycheck that will cover the "bills" to "bills" automatically...
Take the remainder of your paycheck minus the interest from the unsecured loan to spending... (unless you want to save some)
TARE UP the debit card attached to this "Savings" account. Give the password and any other information you need to access it to someone you know will give you a hard time if you ask for it... i.e. your mom
You now spend your money with your "Spending" card. You cannot access that loan, it will get paid on time, every month, no matter what. You have no revolving credit. You will never miss payment on a bill. You will never spend money that you cannot. Your credit score will sky rocket. Mines currently over 830.
If you think about it, you can probably come up with your own plan along those same lines. It's not hard. Now look at credit cards and the risks involved. I personally know dozens of people that are bankrupt due to credit card debt. For absolutely no reason at all...
Sorry, you're incorrect in both accounts.
You're going to cite advice from a site who's sole goal is to sell you more credit cards?
Credit cards are always, and forever will be a scam. If you have the cash, use the cash. If you don't, you shouldn't be buying it.
For some real info... follow this link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
What should be most interesting to you is that "Credit Cards" weren't even a "Thing" until the Supreme Court struck down predatory lending laws in the 1970s... Let me restate that... Preditory lending laws prevented credit cards from being legal.
Mortgage rates have nothing to do with why you shouldn't pay off your home loan. Your home loan is your single biggest tax deduction, and unless congress changes things, will remain so for the rest of your life. The higher the interest rate on the loan, the larger the deduction so the as long as the interest rate is competitive with the market it's still a good thing. If you can get a better rate from another bank you should, and if rates country wide are terrible, you should probobly pay it down quite a bit... bot not totally pay it off.
And I want to be clear here, I'm talking about a first home... if you own 2nd and 3rd homes that's different... The deduction you get from that loan in enormous. More importantly, when you retire and start collecting on your 401k, that 401k is going to get taxed! And now that you're retired and paid off your loan, you'll have no deduction at all! While you're drawing on your 401k you need to be using your home loan deduction to reduce that tax burden. You should plan to have that loan paid off around the time the 401k runs out... then you switch to your Roth IRA which you've already payed the taxes on. If you plan correctly, you shouldn't be paying taxes after your homes paid off.
But yes, perhaps I should have been more detailed... That's why I said you should go take a class. Don't listen to me, don't listen to anyone on slashdot or even your friends. Get educated, figure it out for yourself. There is so much mis-information on these topics you can only really trust someone that you're paying (a true fiduciary under contract or a professor.)
For more info on other reasons you should wait to pay off your home-loan, see this: http://www.aarp.org/money/inve...
Tell her to study home economics.
Ok, I'm sure dude here was trying to troll and all... but...
Any kid strait out of highschool needs, desperately, to have true home economics down. And I don't mean cooking.
Never own a credit card. They are all scams and are far more likely to ruin your credit than help it.
The basics of double entry bookkeeping.
The basics of Auto loans and home loans
The difference between Mutual Funds and Index funds and why you should always go with an index if you can.
What a fiduciary is, and why you should never take investment advice from someone that you don't have a contract with.
The difference between a 401k and a Roth IRA, and why you need both and why paying off your house before retirement is bad.
You should be investing at least 10% of your income into retirement. Really, 10%.
In the vast majority of cases you will get paid the same if you get your degree from a tech school, where your tuition will total under $10k as you would from a state or private college where you're going to pay that much per semester! (i.e. go to a tech school unless you want to be a doctor)
I came from a very poor family. My parents pulled themselves up through hard work. They didn't know a lot of that stuff, I had to go out in the world and learn it on my own. But I see a LOT of kids come out of school and just have no clue. They get financially ruined by scam artists as soon as they walk off the stage at HS graduation. They go to a state university to get a nursing degree when hospitals are so desperate for nurses they're actually paying dental assistants to go to school in my local area!
It doesn't have to be that way. Educate your kids on this stuff. If you don't get it all yet, go with them. My life completely turned around when I took some pretty simple 1 week courses at the local community college.
And when Facebook is saying that only 1.48% of their bandwidth is going towards images. That puts said reduction 5% reduction at a new percent of 1.41% at the expense of increased CPU time to transcode all existing images, which is itself not free. It is a marginal savings, even for an organization the size of Facebook. It certainly adds up over time, which is great, but when there is really great low hanging fruit like cutting the 37% of their bandwidth used on videos by 20-30% by getting HEVC or VP9 really working well (would then be 26% total), then that is a way to save significant money not just in Bandwidth but in Disk Space for retention as well.
I deal with this sort of thing all day at work... you're not appreciating the scale of small adjustments.
For example: I recently got asked to approve an upgrade to internet explorer on an enterprise network.
I tested, and replied back that In one application, there was a 3 second delay in opening records. I declined approval and said this issue would have to get fixed before I could sign off on it.
Lots of managers had your attitude... it's only a 3 second delay!
So I had to present my reasoning in a meeting to explain:
We have approximately 1000 users that will be affected.
They each open, on average, 100 records per day.
They get paid an average of $15/hr
1000 users times 100 records = 100,000 records per day
Times 3 seconds = 300,000 seconds
Divided by 60 = 5000 minutes
Divided by 60 again = 83.33hrs
Times $15/hr = $1250
Not fixing that issue would cost the company roughly $1250 per day!
It's nearly a half a million dollar per year problem!
The fix is an increase in memory that would cost the company a 1 time charge of less than $20k.
Scale matters.
The differernce with Google has be, for the most part: They aren't stupid.
Being the good guys is profitable in the long term. Take net neutrality for example... codifying that in law would be good for everyone in the long term. The ISPs, the customers, Netflix... everyone. But, some people are stupid and only think in the near term. I'd argue that Googles greed is simply greater than most corporations and that's a good thing. They want it all and short term profits that ruin some other part of the economy just aren't good enough for them. They eventually plan to own that part of the economy to!
Climatologists need to stop with this nonsense. I believe in Climate change, but at the same time, I can completely understand the confusion on the part of the general public. Climate change has no direct evidence and there never will be. What we do have is an accumulation of statistics that make it virtually impossible for there to be any doubt that the climate is changing due to our activity.
Stop presenting easily refuted direct evidence. How long will it be before they have to make some minor adjustment to these numbers and that will be all over the news?
Produce the statistics as a whole, explain them and let the opponents try to fight THAT.
Once again the employees pay for managements mistakes. Everyone could see, clear as day, what Microsoft was doing wrong. Hell, it's still obvious, and anyone with an ounce of common sense could turn that company around. Instead they just keep firing off moonshot after moonshot hoping to rediscover the next product that will be as successful as Windows was. How many more billions are you going going to waste before you realize people aren't willing to pay for an OS anymore?!?! You still have a dominate position in the desktop OS market, use that to make "Reasonable" profits and be ok with that! If you continue with the belief that anything less than double digit growth is failure you'll be bankrupt before the end of the decade. Ever read that Tortoise and the hair story? Oh... nevermind.
I'm actually happy about fox doing this, as it creates hatred for DRM and such.
False hope... 99.999% of people have no idea what DRM is and don't care. Fox's goal is to squeeze more franchise fees out of Dish. "The Hopper" isn't even all that interesting of a gadget and will likely be dead and gone before this case is even settled. Once the case is settled it'll just be a matter of who's paying whom and will have virtually no impact on consumers other than the legal precedent affecting future products.
Most EULAs have been found to be non-binding in court... and that wouldn't event count as one given that the user wouldn't have a way to accept or decline it. About the only way EULA's are helpful is in "Breach of contract" situations. If fox were providing the stream to you instead of Dish, and you violated the EULA they could use that to find you in breach of contract and end your service.
Agreed, I've no idea what this article is about. It's like a word jumble and I can pick out the words "Home automation" and "Nest" so I think it has to do with thermostats... but it could just as likely be about Barbeque sauce... I've no idea.
What about Canada, you uncle fuckers?
I'm simply happy someone out there is giving Netflix some fucking competition already.
I was getting rather sick and tired of the Internet slowly being divided into two forms of traffic: Netflix and everything else. Hell, even porn was getting jealous.
They're not. Hulus just a conglomerate owned by all the networks. Don't expect any innovation to come out of there... the sole purpose of Hulu is to try and prevent anything better from coming along.
I hope this makes people think twice before filing a forget-me request. It ensures they'll be remembered.
Perhaps you'll be the victim of slander and lose your career over a lie that is interesting enough to go viral where your vindication isn't and doesn't.
In other news, life sucks for the rest of us to.
Can we make it illegal for ice cream to make me fat while we're at it?
Wait, do you work for Verizon?
I missed this question. Sorry!
No!
But I do work for a large(ish) ISP.
Never for Verizon, but I did apply once. They offered me a job, but their HR department was so incredibly inept I turned them down. I interviewed with 100 other people in some kind of crazy game show style test interview thing. Most insane noensense I've ever been through in an interview... that was a LONG Time ago though.
I'll not reveal my current employer but I doubt you'd have heard of them. I did work for AT&T about 10yrs ago. That's a crazy place to work. It's like working for the government. No one works, everyones union, you spend more time dealing with union nonsense than you do working. At least... thats what it was like back then.