It's the schedule. You have your thermostat set to turn the air on at 6am and go off at 8pm. The power company knows what you had it set to yesterday, but they do not know what it's set to today. Did you just press the hold button? Turn it off? All of this could give power companies great insight into what their electrical load will be like ahead of time.
and when your entire site goes down on a Monday morning because one of your vendors applied an update to some connecting hardware? And their response when asked for the reason for the outage is "Your hardware was 3yrs out of date. Your Sys Admin said it wasn't broke so he didn't fix it" What's your boss going to say after he gets done telling how many years of your salary the outage cost the company?
I delay updates, but I get that shit approved by executive officers first. I always make sure I have a very good reason to delay it as well.
...I don't use Facebook. I'd keep away from it all if I could, but it's hard to be in the tech industry these days and have no/minimal online presence.
It doesn't matter. Everything you do online is tracked and logged by a handful of large marketing software firms. Googles probably the biggest. They log key data points about you as you do this. Lots of things you probably don't even think about like which fonts you have installed, your preferred OS, monitor resolution. All of this data on it's own seems harmless but combined it creates a very unique fingerprint for you.
The marketing software has plugins that websites can install, then the data about you is collected and stored in a centralized database. It's shared between all of the marketing companies clients. The end result is almost all of your data ends up in the same place regardless of what you do. You may have separate logins for Slashdot and that porns site, but that doesn't matter. They know your 2 separate accounts are for the same person. They might not know exactly who you are, but they don't need to. They just need to know you're shopping for tube socks, and display lots of adds for that. Oh, and by the way, once you finally buy the tube socks? Now all your accounts really are linked to your name.
If we judge by all the posters during BP's Gulf of Mexico spill, apparently puking vast quantities of oil into the sea is not only not bad, but is in fact very good.
Hey, I wanted to nuke the oil spill. All you mother earth hating bastards wouldn't get behind me. I even started a facebook group and only 3 people joined.
Actually, I think you are somewhat correct. It will get very thick, and probably not harm the area all that much. But what happens when it floats south?
First, it assumes that advances species would still be using radio waves. A silly assumption give that we see the crest of technologies that would make it obsolete on the horizon. I've always found the idea that other species would still be using radio waves in the far future ridiculous given that we've only been using them for less than 100 years.
Second, he's arguing that either there's lots and lots of other species or none. What if less than 1% of them develop intelligent life that survives long enough to travel into space? You'd have 100 planets to colonize before you started bumping into your neighbors.
Why would they bother with "Habitable" planets? The technology required to travel interstellar distances would require the species to already have incredibly powerful propulsion technology, some sort of fusion technology or better, advanced medicine, agricultural expertise, and on and on. If we had all of that, why go to other star systems when we could teraform planets right here? How many planets could we make ourselves by drawing on the resources of our own Ort cloud? Why even live around a star?!?! Why can't these other civilizations be living in the safety of the vacuum of interstellar space? Avoiding the attention of other more powerful species and the chaotic asteroid filled space that surrounds stars?
We are not nearly advanced enough to be claiming any knowledge of how star faring races may behave.
I would like to be enrolled in the falling Google services: Gmail Google+ Youtube Google Drive Google Docs
Etc. The problem with being universally logged into Google+ is that it introduces a LOT of other spying crap on other websites. Most people log in to Google+ so rarely that they don't even realize all that Midget porn they'd been thumbs upping is plastered all over a google website with their full name, email and phone number on it.
Knowing what they are legally obliged to do is very important to the ISPs. Knowing what the requirement is, frees them from collecting even more info because of ambiguity. It sounds a lot better than whats going on in the rest of the world at least.
when they leave the place they work for, move to companies in a similar field?
wow
people with a knowledge of telecom/rf going on to work at telco's unpossible
No, its far more sinister than that. It isn't even really a job, it is basically just a cushy retirement package. They get paid for doing nothing. They offer this AFTER the person has already plaid ball for years. Everyone in government knows this, and knows if policy offends too many in the industry, their retirement is screwed. Why do you think presidents because millionaires after they leave office? They get hundreds of thousands of dollars for what amounts to giving 30min inspirational speeches. Bill Clinton is a great example and G.W. Bush is quickly catching him. Obama will do the same. You think those speeches are really worth that kind of money to industry execs?
ALL computers in the 80s were built like that. To this day, I still have an IBM keyboard from the early 80s that I'm pretty sure I could hammer nails with.
That should work... but the fact that the court can order you to disclose your password, and put you in jail if claim you don't remember it, kind of makes me think they'll just say "fuck it" and you'll be sitting in prison indefinitely.
I'll save you all the trouble. Their "music" sounds like one of those sleep CDs you hear them playing at incense shops that sell quartz "power crystals" and/or the soundtrack to Myst.
The guy on the left clearly did the kernel bit. The dude in the middle has a cello and tattoo so he's clearly getting laid and therefor has never heard of Linux. The guy on the right... well look at his hat and shoes... he's way too busy putting imitation carbon fiber parts on his Mitsubishi Lancer to have time for programming.
Your welcome for the 10min of your life I saved you.
I understand that the police can go too far, but protesters and rioters certainly can and do go too far as well.
We hold the police to a higher standard for a very good reason. If the occupy people did that crap to me, I'd probably stop so I could kick the guys ass. But I'm not a cop, I'm not on duty, and it's not my job to put up with that kind of crap. Annoyed with protesters? Don't get a job as a cop dead center in the protest capital of the country.
The rich are going to get just as screwed by this as everyone else. The FCC could have done a LOT over other things to remedy this situation. This is the easy way out, and very damaging.
I was a licensed welder for 10 years. It doesn't pay that well.
It's kind of like getting your CCNA. It doesn't pay well unless you get into one of the specialties. That $300k per year is what you get if you're welding under water or on a sky scraper. You really have to know what you're doing. Know what materials you're welding, use the exact right gas mix, have $50k worth of equipment, have all your welds Xrayed and inspected. I'm really good at welding and the few times I'm had my welds Xrayed has been pretty shaming. Those $300k dudes are earning their keep.
I actually think this article is demeaning to those in the trade fields. It would be like comparing your local ISP's helpdesk guy to one of Googles top developers. Just because it involves "welding" doesn't mean it's even remotely the same job.
Wow! I could have sword Street view was a part of that. But I have now checked and you are correct sir! I apologize for the mus-information. I have used the historical satellite view in the past it seems. I must be getting old...
Do you think it was needed in the past when racism was stronger and had a strong grip on the whole system?
Well now, there's a difference between "Having an all white school" / "Having an equal opportunity school" / "Having a school that gives preferential treatment to anyone that's not white" The first is moral repugnant. The second is how, at least I, think things should work. The third, again in my opinion, is just as repugnant and discriminatory as the first. How are we supposed to get past racism if our way of dealing with it is just as discriminatory as the racism it's designed to remedy? I don't think any form, for any government or business should ever have a "Race" box on it.
Do you know why I adopted a black kid from another country? When we decided to adopt, we went to the adoption agency... they asked us if we wanted to Adopt "Domestically" (the US) or Internationally. We of course said "Domestically" because it was going to be a lot easier. You meet the birth mother, she accepts you, you tell your insurance company whats going on, they reimburse her for her medical expenses, you get a kid! What could be easier?
They gave me the forms to fill out... all of our personal and financial info, etc.. etc.. How healthy of a child would you accept? Disabled? Major medical problems? Minor problem? No health problems?
That made me a bit uncomfortable. We're not rich so I put down minor problems.
Would you accept a child that's been the victim of abuse? Yes, but I still didn't like the question.
What race would you accept White? Other?
that's it. White or other. I refused to fill it out. I took it back to them. That's when they informed me that when you adopt from the United states of America there are 2 programs. They had fancy names for them but what it came down to was there was a "white" program and there was a minority program. I absolutely refused to adopt from the US because of that. I could have picked a the "Other" program but I found the entire thing repugnant to say the least.
Now, I knew when I adopted from Africa that I was probably going to get a black kid. But no other country on earth let you specify the race of the child. You got the next kid that was up for adoption that met your age and health requirements. Other than that, you didn't get to make a distinction. I was morally ok with that, though the health thing I'm not too sure about. But I also didn't want to get bankrupted by medical bills.
So I'm not just full of shit. Adopting from the US would have cost me out of pocket about $5k. Adopting from Africa cost me over $40k, my kid was Mal-nourished, riddled with Parasites (took 2 years to finally get him healthy) and I don't want to even tell you how horrible the trip was. All so I didn't have to check that box. I'm glad I didn't. I have the best kid ever.
(side note: I've been called out on my adoption details before. So I just want to state ahead of time, the laws and rules of adoption change from country to country, and from year to year, even weekly. So if you or someone you know had a different experience, that's entirely possible. Adoption law is constantly in flux because it's obviously a very sensitive issue for everyone involved. The statements I made above were true at the time I went through the process)
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It's the schedule. You have your thermostat set to turn the air on at 6am and go off at 8pm. The power company knows what you had it set to yesterday, but they do not know what it's set to today. Did you just press the hold button? Turn it off? All of this could give power companies great insight into what their electrical load will be like ahead of time.
and when your entire site goes down on a Monday morning because one of your vendors applied an update to some connecting hardware? And their response when asked for the reason for the outage is "Your hardware was 3yrs out of date. Your Sys Admin said it wasn't broke so he didn't fix it" What's your boss going to say after he gets done telling how many years of your salary the outage cost the company?
I delay updates, but I get that shit approved by executive officers first. I always make sure I have a very good reason to delay it as well.
...I don't use Facebook. I'd keep away from it all if I could, but it's hard to be in the tech industry these days and have no/minimal online presence.
It doesn't matter. Everything you do online is tracked and logged by a handful of large marketing software firms. Googles probably the biggest. They log key data points about you as you do this. Lots of things you probably don't even think about like which fonts you have installed, your preferred OS, monitor resolution. All of this data on it's own seems harmless but combined it creates a very unique fingerprint for you.
The marketing software has plugins that websites can install, then the data about you is collected and stored in a centralized database. It's shared between all of the marketing companies clients. The end result is almost all of your data ends up in the same place regardless of what you do. You may have separate logins for Slashdot and that porns site, but that doesn't matter. They know your 2 separate accounts are for the same person. They might not know exactly who you are, but they don't need to. They just need to know you're shopping for tube socks, and display lots of adds for that. Oh, and by the way, once you finally buy the tube socks? Now all your accounts really are linked to your name.
Exactly. Why the hell are people modding down again? This is a great idea. If you people only understood science!
If ten people can sit around a table and decide what to pay me, I should be able to have 10 people sit around a table and decide what I will work for.
You know corporations rig the game. Do you still see unions in a bad light now?
I'm not sure. I live in Detroit and they look pretty bad when the when the power company turns the lights on, but luckily that's pretty rare.
If we judge by all the posters during BP's Gulf of Mexico spill, apparently puking vast quantities of oil into the sea is not only not bad, but is in fact very good.
Hey, I wanted to nuke the oil spill. All you mother earth hating bastards wouldn't get behind me. I even started a facebook group and only 3 people joined.
Actually, I think you are somewhat correct. It will get very thick, and probably not harm the area all that much. But what happens when it floats south?
This argument is silly.
First, it assumes that advances species would still be using radio waves. A silly assumption give that we see the crest of technologies that would make it obsolete on the horizon. I've always found the idea that other species would still be using radio waves in the far future ridiculous given that we've only been using them for less than 100 years.
Second, he's arguing that either there's lots and lots of other species or none. What if less than 1% of them develop intelligent life that survives long enough to travel into space? You'd have 100 planets to colonize before you started bumping into your neighbors.
Why would they bother with "Habitable" planets? The technology required to travel interstellar distances would require the species to already have incredibly powerful propulsion technology, some sort of fusion technology or better, advanced medicine, agricultural expertise, and on and on. If we had all of that, why go to other star systems when we could teraform planets right here? How many planets could we make ourselves by drawing on the resources of our own Ort cloud? Why even live around a star?!?! Why can't these other civilizations be living in the safety of the vacuum of interstellar space? Avoiding the attention of other more powerful species and the chaotic asteroid filled space that surrounds stars?
We are not nearly advanced enough to be claiming any knowledge of how star faring races may behave.
How about a settings page?
I would like to be enrolled in the falling Google services:
Gmail
Google+
Youtube
Google Drive
Google Docs
Etc.
The problem with being universally logged into Google+ is that it introduces a LOT of other spying crap on other websites. Most people log in to Google+ so rarely that they don't even realize all that Midget porn they'd been thumbs upping is plastered all over a google website with their full name, email and phone number on it.
How could you be any more private than by being the only user of Google+ ?
Knowing what they are legally obliged to do is very important to the ISPs. Knowing what the requirement is, frees them from collecting even more info because of ambiguity. It sounds a lot better than whats going on in the rest of the world at least.
when they leave the place they work for, move to companies in a similar field?
wow
people with a knowledge of telecom/rf going on to work at telco's unpossible
No, its far more sinister than that. It isn't even really a job, it is basically just a cushy retirement package. They get paid for doing nothing. They offer this AFTER the person has already plaid ball for years. Everyone in government knows this, and knows if policy offends too many in the industry, their retirement is screwed. Why do you think presidents because millionaires after they leave office? They get hundreds of thousands of dollars for what amounts to giving 30min inspirational speeches. Bill Clinton is a great example and G.W. Bush is quickly catching him. Obama will do the same. You think those speeches are really worth that kind of money to industry execs?
He had me until he said "It's easy to get Pi in your eye with..." and I just turned the video off.
Anonymous, the amorphous group best known for attacking high profile targets like Sony and the CIA in recent years
I thought they were best known for making grandiose claims that never came to fruition? Remember how they were going to destroy facebook?
ALL computers in the 80s were built like that. To this day, I still have an IBM keyboard from the early 80s that I'm pretty sure I could hammer nails with.
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Think about this: If you deliberately provoke a reaction, do you think it's possible that you just might succeed in getting one?
That's exactly what the protesters are aiming for. So they can get photos like this. So who won again?
lol, that's not a biased source at all. Apple people crack me up.
That should work... but the fact that the court can order you to disclose your password, and put you in jail if claim you don't remember it, kind of makes me think they'll just say "fuck it" and you'll be sitting in prison indefinitely.
I'll save you all the trouble. Their "music" sounds like one of those sleep CDs you hear them playing at incense shops that sell quartz "power crystals" and/or the soundtrack to Myst.
Here's their picture:
http://www.networkworld.com/gr...
The guy on the left clearly did the kernel bit.
The dude in the middle has a cello and tattoo so he's clearly getting laid and therefor has never heard of Linux.
The guy on the right... well look at his hat and shoes... he's way too busy putting imitation carbon fiber parts on his Mitsubishi Lancer to have time for programming.
Your welcome for the 10min of your life I saved you.
I understand that the police can go too far, but protesters and rioters certainly can and do go too far as well.
We hold the police to a higher standard for a very good reason. If the occupy people did that crap to me, I'd probably stop so I could kick the guys ass. But I'm not a cop, I'm not on duty, and it's not my job to put up with that kind of crap. Annoyed with protesters? Don't get a job as a cop dead center in the protest capital of the country.
The rich are going to get just as screwed by this as everyone else. The FCC could have done a LOT over other things to remedy this situation. This is the easy way out, and very damaging.
I was a licensed welder for 10 years. It doesn't pay that well.
It's kind of like getting your CCNA. It doesn't pay well unless you get into one of the specialties. That $300k per year is what you get if you're welding under water or on a sky scraper. You really have to know what you're doing. Know what materials you're welding, use the exact right gas mix, have $50k worth of equipment, have all your welds Xrayed and inspected. I'm really good at welding and the few times I'm had my welds Xrayed has been pretty shaming. Those $300k dudes are earning their keep.
I actually think this article is demeaning to those in the trade fields. It would be like comparing your local ISP's helpdesk guy to one of Googles top developers. Just because it involves "welding" doesn't mean it's even remotely the same job.
Wow! I could have sword Street view was a part of that. But I have now checked and you are correct sir! I apologize for the mus-information. I have used the historical satellite view in the past it seems. I must be getting old...
Do you think it was needed in the past when racism was stronger and had a strong grip on the whole system?
Well now, there's a difference between "Having an all white school" / "Having an equal opportunity school" / "Having a school that gives preferential treatment to anyone that's not white" The first is moral repugnant. The second is how, at least I, think things should work. The third, again in my opinion, is just as repugnant and discriminatory as the first. How are we supposed to get past racism if our way of dealing with it is just as discriminatory as the racism it's designed to remedy? I don't think any form, for any government or business should ever have a "Race" box on it.
Do you know why I adopted a black kid from another country? When we decided to adopt, we went to the adoption agency... they asked us if we wanted to Adopt "Domestically" (the US) or Internationally. We of course said "Domestically" because it was going to be a lot easier. You meet the birth mother, she accepts you, you tell your insurance company whats going on, they reimburse her for her medical expenses, you get a kid! What could be easier?
They gave me the forms to fill out... all of our personal and financial info, etc.. etc..
How healthy of a child would you accept?
Disabled?
Major medical problems?
Minor problem?
No health problems?
That made me a bit uncomfortable. We're not rich so I put down minor problems.
Would you accept a child that's been the victim of abuse?
Yes, but I still didn't like the question.
What race would you accept
White?
Other?
that's it. White or other.
I refused to fill it out. I took it back to them. That's when they informed me that when you adopt from the United states of America there are 2 programs. They had fancy names for them but what it came down to was there was a "white" program and there was a minority program. I absolutely refused to adopt from the US because of that. I could have picked a the "Other" program but I found the entire thing repugnant to say the least.
Now, I knew when I adopted from Africa that I was probably going to get a black kid. But no other country on earth let you specify the race of the child. You got the next kid that was up for adoption that met your age and health requirements. Other than that, you didn't get to make a distinction. I was morally ok with that, though the health thing I'm not too sure about. But I also didn't want to get bankrupted by medical bills.
So I'm not just full of shit. Adopting from the US would have cost me out of pocket about $5k. Adopting from Africa cost me over $40k, my kid was Mal-nourished, riddled with Parasites (took 2 years to finally get him healthy) and I don't want to even tell you how horrible the trip was. All so I didn't have to check that box. I'm glad I didn't. I have the best kid ever.
(side note: I've been called out on my adoption details before. So I just want to state ahead of time, the laws and rules of adoption change from country to country, and from year to year, even weekly. So if you or someone you know had a different experience, that's entirely possible. Adoption law is constantly in flux because it's obviously a very sensitive issue for everyone involved. The statements I made above were true at the time I went through the process)
I would have read this submission, but I'm already half way through a 3000 page Novel at home and I don't need another one.