This is like the 4th or 5th time they've been hacked this year, they've admitted it every time. How is this news other than that it's surprising people still use AOL mail?
If you want me to become emotionally invested in your story, you can't just suddenly say "Ignore everything I've been telling you for the past 30 years"
Again, you have NO IDEA what you are talking about. Every single ISP on that list is a cable company. Who are almost completely unregulated. They briefly mention AT&T and Verizon but have no data. I can't speak for the cable industry, I'm sure there are very good reasons for what their rates are set to or they'd be destroying telcos even faster than they already are.
I've worked for 3 major Telcos in my life including AT&T, they all lose money on DSL. Where they make their money is in services... IP phones, installs, managed software etc... residential broadband loses money every time. The only reason they invest in it at all is because it leads customers to use the ISPs other services. AT&T wants to divest themselves of all their rural customers. I wouldn't be surprised if they dumped their consumer services at some point and moved towards only supplying Wireless and trunking services. If you think your bill is high now, wait until the only service you can get is through a cellular hotspot. That's what's coming if better technology doesn't come along soon.
This is a complex, tough issue that hundreds of thousands of engineers have been working on for more than a decade. It will get solved by smart techs and good management, not by you spouting conspiracy theories regarding technologies you have no experience with. If there actually was a simple solution to this, any one of AT&Ts competitors would have opened up shop and put them out of business years ago. Oh wait, that's right, you keep going on and on about their monopoly. They have no monopoly. They have an agreement with the local city government that they will maintain the local loop for them. In the past it meant they were the only phone company, now it means they're required to maintain a 60 year old network of failing copper wires that no-one wants to use. There is no real monopoly any longer and those agreements are seen as a nose by everyone in the industry.
My rule of thumb has always been "What will happen if I get hit by a bus tomorrow?" and so I'm already pretty much set. I could walk out tomorrow and everything would be fine. The new guy might be slower and not get things fixed as fast, but he'd be able to do it. I think you need to take the same approach. The whole "Well, he can just call me if he has trouble" isn't going to work if you're on vacation or something. As a manager you should be prepared for anyone in your company to leave, including yourself.
If you have processes that require personal knowledge to complete, then you need new processes. I think this change will be very good for your company. All the things you're worried about now are things you should have been worried about all along, they're just out in front now. Are you going to hand over super user passwords to the new guy? What if he gets hit by that bus? What if your buildings flooded? You need to think long and hard about these sorts of things.
I read an article years ago while I was in college working at McDonalds part time that said McDonalds had been so successful was because their processes were made in such a way that they could take anyone that was ambulatory and had an IQ above 60, put them behind the grill and they'd be able to do the job. I thought about it while at work and sure enough... how to make the burgers was graphical... you dont even have to be able to read! Now that's a well planned process. This wont work for IT obviously, but that's kind of the way you need to approach it. Also, the easier the process, the cheaper you can hire. Make everything super easy, then hire a smart guy and he'll have lots of time to use his smarts for things other than finding super user passwords.
You have no idea what you're talking about. I get tired of having to correct people on this subject.
The cost to support your internet connection is directly related to the population density in the area you live in. Live in NYC? It's a lot cheaper to provide you service. Live in Rural Montana? The federal government just subsidized many telcos to provide internet to customers like this and it averaged $350,000 PER PERSON to get them internet. No, I'm not kidding either.
We live in a rich country where people can afford to not live packed together like sardines. There's a downside to this, and its that people that live outside city limits are expensive to provide public services to. By rural I mean, where your cable television footprint ends... this is a good measure because cable companies are not required to provide service to everyone like telcos are.
Go to Europe and Asia and you have 2 major factors that make internet a lot cheaper to provide. First, the population density is a lot higher. It's pretty rare to find areas where you only have 100 people running off 1 remote, mostly because their rural population is too poor for internet or telephone. Second, most of those countries do not require their telcos to provide you with access. If its too expensive to provide service, they just don't do it. In the US it is very rare for a customer to be refused service. There are situations, for example a lot of telcos wont provide service in certain parts of the mexican border because it's considered too dangerous to send technicians there. Or if providing access would require taring up a major road, etc... but again, it's very rare.
Netflix was completely irresponsible in the way they designed and maintained their service. They were approached by every major ISP in the country with plans to help alleviate the problems they were causing in the ISPs last mile. The could have allowed people to cache movies. They could have made peering agreements. They could have done hundreds of things, but netflix flat out refused to work with the carriers. Yes, the carriers need to find ways to improve their networks. But carriers are damned near bankrupt in this country because they are under heavy regulation by the feds. Their competition is not. AT&T has spent the last 15 years selling off nearly every rural customer they have. Do you think they'd do that if it was such a profitable business and all those government subsides were just free money?
If you live in a metropolitan area, you're basically subsidizing the customers that live in rural areas. Also, you get a huge discount on your bill to accept the fact that 100% of your bandwidth will not be available 100% of the time. The kind of service you're expecting is called a T3. Get a T3 and viola, your internet will work exactly how you're expecting your DSL/Cable to work. Now look up the price. That's what it'll cost you. It's a very competitive market, so those prices aren't inflated for profit, the carrier likes only makes a few dollars a month at those rates. Good luck.
And if we find 3 planets with the signature in the same system? Or we find 100 systems with the signature? How likely is the planet/moon signature? It seems that, it may be proof enough if we find it in the right way.
Apparently they've never read any of his books. If they had, they'd know that irrelevant of any good he's done in his life, some things you just can't redeem.
They made their water pipes out of lead. I seriously doubt the impact of concrete was anything nearly as devistating as large portions of their population losing double digit points off their IQs and/or going insane. Pure lead is pretty stable and not that dangerous (as compared to other forms of lead like we use to put in gasoline) but using it in your water pipes is just crazy
It will be a long time, granted, but in the next decade or two solar will get so cheap that the impact on traditional centralized generation will be quite severe.
No, the future will be fusion reactors. I suspect the coal industry is likely behind the lack of federal investment in that industry as well.
Solar power people are as deluded as the religious zealots they hate so much. Ever looked up what it takes to produce a solar cell? The amount of silver? The mining of the silver is so destructive that solar power is one of the worst forms of energy for the environment. Coals worst of course. Nuclear is almost totally nurtral. The few accidents we've had with it have been on 40yr old 1st generation reactors, all of them. Modern reactors can't fail. We, unfortunately, don't build any of them however. Because people like you drag your misinformed hippy mother earth religion into the frey. I'm sick of it, if solar worked my roof would be covered with solar cells and I'd be getting rich of selling it to all my neighbors. What do I get instead? A $30,000, very ugly roof so I can save $30 a month on my electric bill. It's THAT GOD DAMNED OBVIOUS.
So now that the FCC drops net neutrality, Netflix is going to play ball with the ISPs? They've basically been DOSing the ISPs local loops for nearly a decade, blaming the ISPs and now they have the brilliant idea that maybe they should address the insane amount of bandwidth they're eating up? How much do you want to bet they stop being such assholes about peering agreements now as well? Maybe a client that caches data to? Who came up with these brilliant cost saving ideas?!?!
I fully support net neutrality but Netflix is the primary reason the FCC dropped it. I would have much preferred that they passed regulations requiring content providers to work in good faith with ISPs to ensure they were using data in the most efficient way possible (which is how almost everyone else behaves naturally) but instead we had this profit hungry company back the FCC into a corner until they took the easy way out. Instead of sharing the sandbox, it's now whomever has the most moneys sandbox. Thanks netflix.
Again, these are generalizations. The bad part about generalizations is that they are only generally true, but humans tend to take things that are generally true and apply them to everyone that meets the criteria. Women are generally less aggressive than men, but I still bow to my sons female Tai Kwon Do instructor when we enter the building. I don't want her to kick my ass.
Perhaps not enough opportunities for tie-in marketing in existing plot material?
Because a lot more goes into movies then just finding a good plot. They do focus groups on what will sell this year. Which words and titles are most popular. This is about making money, not art. Ever wonder why we get 3 movies released at nearly the same time with very similar plots? How many asteroid destroys the earth movies can we squeeze into one year? This year the hot topic seems to be Artificial Intelligence. A few years ago it was the earth getting back at us for polluting. Then there was the alien invasion summer.
How can they use existing plots when those books were written decades before anyone would do a focus group to know what the public was currently panicking about? Without targeting the publics flighty paranoia, how are you ever supposed to make money?
I'll just say it out loud for everyone. Most women are not that aggressive. Most men are. Often it's a detriment in the modern world. Where it's not is in leading business. Why are most HR departments filled with women? Because women and men are in fact different and our gender does affect how well we perform and enjoy certain tasks. We have equal opportunity laws because most is not all. There are women that make great executives and they should have the chance to show it. But to expect very specific roles in a single company to be gender equal numerically is just stupid. Are we going to accuse Etsy of sexism because the majority of their customers/stores are run by females?
It calls this functional circuitry. They laid down 1/4" wide conductive paths. Basically is just 5 wire pathways. How do you connect components like resistors? You can't solder them. This is basically worthless.
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If you're in the U.S. you'll need to disable your anonymizer to access videos on Hulu.
I suspect, it is the anonymity, that they wish to defeat — to be able to track users and sell the information.
Hulu may make Hollywood happy by temporarily locking out foreign users
That may be only a secondary concern.
No. Hulu is owned by Hollywood. This is entirely about them controlling content. Hulus biggest problem from the start has been all the disparate interests of all the media companies involved in its ownership and operation. It benefits from sweet deals with those companies, but suffers from their idiotically uncreative ideas about how video on the Internet should work.
More like 10 years ago the company that designed and built the rocket, at great expense, did so because of a no-compete contract they signed with the government. Everyone likes to rail on these agreements but they are rarely signed just for shits and giggles.
My boss will be screaming at the vendor, they are not allowed to push any updates until we approve them.
Allowed? hahahaha... Your vendor has a contractual obligation to... well... follow the contract. The contract does what the contract says... if they screw up, you get money off the bill. It doesn't stop their lead tech from going on a drunken binge after his wife leaves him and taking a golf club to the equipment.
If I'm in a hospital or doctors office and the quality of my care is dependent on the stability of their network, there's definitely something very wrong.
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This is like the 4th or 5th time they've been hacked this year, they've admitted it every time. How is this news other than that it's surprising people still use AOL mail?
The narrative is the entire point. It's a movie.
If you want me to become emotionally invested in your story, you can't just suddenly say "Ignore everything I've been telling you for the past 30 years"
Again, you have NO IDEA what you are talking about. Every single ISP on that list is a cable company. Who are almost completely unregulated. They briefly mention AT&T and Verizon but have no data. I can't speak for the cable industry, I'm sure there are very good reasons for what their rates are set to or they'd be destroying telcos even faster than they already are.
I've worked for 3 major Telcos in my life including AT&T, they all lose money on DSL. Where they make their money is in services... IP phones, installs, managed software etc... residential broadband loses money every time. The only reason they invest in it at all is because it leads customers to use the ISPs other services. AT&T wants to divest themselves of all their rural customers. I wouldn't be surprised if they dumped their consumer services at some point and moved towards only supplying Wireless and trunking services. If you think your bill is high now, wait until the only service you can get is through a cellular hotspot. That's what's coming if better technology doesn't come along soon.
This is a complex, tough issue that hundreds of thousands of engineers have been working on for more than a decade. It will get solved by smart techs and good management, not by you spouting conspiracy theories regarding technologies you have no experience with. If there actually was a simple solution to this, any one of AT&Ts competitors would have opened up shop and put them out of business years ago. Oh wait, that's right, you keep going on and on about their monopoly. They have no monopoly. They have an agreement with the local city government that they will maintain the local loop for them. In the past it meant they were the only phone company, now it means they're required to maintain a 60 year old network of failing copper wires that no-one wants to use. There is no real monopoly any longer and those agreements are seen as a nose by everyone in the industry.
My rule of thumb has always been "What will happen if I get hit by a bus tomorrow?" and so I'm already pretty much set. I could walk out tomorrow and everything would be fine. The new guy might be slower and not get things fixed as fast, but he'd be able to do it. I think you need to take the same approach. The whole "Well, he can just call me if he has trouble" isn't going to work if you're on vacation or something. As a manager you should be prepared for anyone in your company to leave, including yourself.
If you have processes that require personal knowledge to complete, then you need new processes. I think this change will be very good for your company. All the things you're worried about now are things you should have been worried about all along, they're just out in front now. Are you going to hand over super user passwords to the new guy? What if he gets hit by that bus? What if your buildings flooded? You need to think long and hard about these sorts of things.
I read an article years ago while I was in college working at McDonalds part time that said McDonalds had been so successful was because their processes were made in such a way that they could take anyone that was ambulatory and had an IQ above 60, put them behind the grill and they'd be able to do the job. I thought about it while at work and sure enough... how to make the burgers was graphical... you dont even have to be able to read! Now that's a well planned process. This wont work for IT obviously, but that's kind of the way you need to approach it. Also, the easier the process, the cheaper you can hire. Make everything super easy, then hire a smart guy and he'll have lots of time to use his smarts for things other than finding super user passwords.
You have no idea what you're talking about. I get tired of having to correct people on this subject.
The cost to support your internet connection is directly related to the population density in the area you live in. Live in NYC? It's a lot cheaper to provide you service. Live in Rural Montana? The federal government just subsidized many telcos to provide internet to customers like this and it averaged $350,000 PER PERSON to get them internet. No, I'm not kidding either.
We live in a rich country where people can afford to not live packed together like sardines. There's a downside to this, and its that people that live outside city limits are expensive to provide public services to. By rural I mean, where your cable television footprint ends... this is a good measure because cable companies are not required to provide service to everyone like telcos are.
Go to Europe and Asia and you have 2 major factors that make internet a lot cheaper to provide. First, the population density is a lot higher. It's pretty rare to find areas where you only have 100 people running off 1 remote, mostly because their rural population is too poor for internet or telephone. Second, most of those countries do not require their telcos to provide you with access. If its too expensive to provide service, they just don't do it. In the US it is very rare for a customer to be refused service. There are situations, for example a lot of telcos wont provide service in certain parts of the mexican border because it's considered too dangerous to send technicians there. Or if providing access would require taring up a major road, etc... but again, it's very rare.
Netflix was completely irresponsible in the way they designed and maintained their service. They were approached by every major ISP in the country with plans to help alleviate the problems they were causing in the ISPs last mile. The could have allowed people to cache movies. They could have made peering agreements. They could have done hundreds of things, but netflix flat out refused to work with the carriers. Yes, the carriers need to find ways to improve their networks. But carriers are damned near bankrupt in this country because they are under heavy regulation by the feds. Their competition is not. AT&T has spent the last 15 years selling off nearly every rural customer they have. Do you think they'd do that if it was such a profitable business and all those government subsides were just free money?
If you live in a metropolitan area, you're basically subsidizing the customers that live in rural areas. Also, you get a huge discount on your bill to accept the fact that 100% of your bandwidth will not be available 100% of the time. The kind of service you're expecting is called a T3. Get a T3 and viola, your internet will work exactly how you're expecting your DSL/Cable to work. Now look up the price. That's what it'll cost you. It's a very competitive market, so those prices aren't inflated for profit, the carrier likes only makes a few dollars a month at those rates. Good luck.
Processed foods, fat and carbs are bad for me? What a revelation!
And if we find 3 planets with the signature in the same system? Or we find 100 systems with the signature? How likely is the planet/moon signature? It seems that, it may be proof enough if we find it in the right way.
"Is About More Than Just Drugs"
But really...it's about drugs. You don't need to sell Beanie Babies anonymously.
Oh yea?
http://www.deseretnews.com/art...
Have faith, eventually everything ends up illegal.
Apparently they've never read any of his books. If they had, they'd know that irrelevant of any good he's done in his life, some things you just can't redeem.
Wow... and here I though both litigants were multibillion dollar businesses.
I know a lot of us waste large portions of our workday posting to Slashdot... but aren't you folks on kind of a time crunch?
They made their water pipes out of lead. I seriously doubt the impact of concrete was anything nearly as devistating as large portions of their population losing double digit points off their IQs and/or going insane. Pure lead is pretty stable and not that dangerous (as compared to other forms of lead like we use to put in gasoline) but using it in your water pipes is just crazy
Yes there is, it just delays having to deal with that waste by a few hours.
It will be a long time, granted, but in the next decade or two solar will get so cheap that the impact on traditional centralized generation will be quite severe.
No, the future will be fusion reactors. I suspect the coal industry is likely behind the lack of federal investment in that industry as well.
Solar power people are as deluded as the religious zealots they hate so much. Ever looked up what it takes to produce a solar cell? The amount of silver? The mining of the silver is so destructive that solar power is one of the worst forms of energy for the environment. Coals worst of course. Nuclear is almost totally nurtral. The few accidents we've had with it have been on 40yr old 1st generation reactors, all of them. Modern reactors can't fail. We, unfortunately, don't build any of them however. Because people like you drag your misinformed hippy mother earth religion into the frey. I'm sick of it, if solar worked my roof would be covered with solar cells and I'd be getting rich of selling it to all my neighbors. What do I get instead? A $30,000, very ugly roof so I can save $30 a month on my electric bill. It's THAT GOD DAMNED OBVIOUS.
So now that the FCC drops net neutrality, Netflix is going to play ball with the ISPs? They've basically been DOSing the ISPs local loops for nearly a decade, blaming the ISPs and now they have the brilliant idea that maybe they should address the insane amount of bandwidth they're eating up? How much do you want to bet they stop being such assholes about peering agreements now as well? Maybe a client that caches data to? Who came up with these brilliant cost saving ideas?!?!
I fully support net neutrality but Netflix is the primary reason the FCC dropped it. I would have much preferred that they passed regulations requiring content providers to work in good faith with ISPs to ensure they were using data in the most efficient way possible (which is how almost everyone else behaves naturally) but instead we had this profit hungry company back the FCC into a corner until they took the easy way out. Instead of sharing the sandbox, it's now whomever has the most moneys sandbox. Thanks netflix.
Most women are not that aggressive. Most men are.
You can't pretend that is some kind of biological difference though.
It is. It's a proven fact. It's not true for all animal species, but for ours it is.
http://www.webmd.com/balance/f...
Again, these are generalizations. The bad part about generalizations is that they are only generally true, but humans tend to take things that are generally true and apply them to everyone that meets the criteria. Women are generally less aggressive than men, but I still bow to my sons female Tai Kwon Do instructor when we enter the building. I don't want her to kick my ass.
Perhaps not enough opportunities for tie-in marketing in existing plot material?
Because a lot more goes into movies then just finding a good plot. They do focus groups on what will sell this year. Which words and titles are most popular. This is about making money, not art. Ever wonder why we get 3 movies released at nearly the same time with very similar plots? How many asteroid destroys the earth movies can we squeeze into one year? This year the hot topic seems to be Artificial Intelligence. A few years ago it was the earth getting back at us for polluting. Then there was the alien invasion summer.
How can they use existing plots when those books were written decades before anyone would do a focus group to know what the public was currently panicking about? Without targeting the publics flighty paranoia, how are you ever supposed to make money?
I'll just say it out loud for everyone. Most women are not that aggressive. Most men are. Often it's a detriment in the modern world. Where it's not is in leading business. Why are most HR departments filled with women? Because women and men are in fact different and our gender does affect how well we perform and enjoy certain tasks. We have equal opportunity laws because most is not all. There are women that make great executives and they should have the chance to show it. But to expect very specific roles in a single company to be gender equal numerically is just stupid. Are we going to accuse Etsy of sexism because the majority of their customers/stores are run by females?
It calls this functional circuitry. They laid down 1/4" wide conductive paths. Basically is just 5 wire pathways. How do you connect components like resistors? You can't solder them. This is basically worthless.
I suspect, it is the anonymity, that they wish to defeat — to be able to track users and sell the information.
That may be only a secondary concern.
No. Hulu is owned by Hollywood. This is entirely about them controlling content. Hulus biggest problem from the start has been all the disparate interests of all the media companies involved in its ownership and operation. It benefits from sweet deals with those companies, but suffers from their idiotically uncreative ideas about how video on the Internet should work.
More like 10 years ago the company that designed and built the rocket, at great expense, did so because of a no-compete contract they signed with the government. Everyone likes to rail on these agreements but they are rarely signed just for shits and giggles.
My boss will be screaming at the vendor, they are not allowed to push any updates until we approve them.
Allowed? hahahaha...
Your vendor has a contractual obligation to... well... follow the contract. The contract does what the contract says... if they screw up, you get money off the bill. It doesn't stop their lead tech from going on a drunken binge after his wife leaves him and taking a golf club to the equipment.
If I'm in a hospital or doctors office and the quality of my care is dependent on the stability of their network, there's definitely something very wrong.
If you were growing pot in your barn, you might have a different opinion.