The article points out "advantages" of linux over windows, but doesn't cover the reasons not to switch to Linux:
1. Compatibility - apps, documents, fonts, plugins, etc. The same reason some find it hard to move to mac or from mac to another OS. OS are different. I can't run apps made for windows (not talking about emulators). When there is an equivalent app, not all features and functions carry over. If I am used to windows, another OS can look strange and have a learning curve. SO at the end of the day, there is no compelling reason to make me switch in this area. Libre Office is nice, but even on windows is not the same as MS Office.
2. Cost - we have to see what happens, but Win 10 was free for most users, and MS keeps adding features and not charging. Much like Mac. So the upgrade cost may have gone away. Time will tell. How many years has Win 10 been doing feature upgrades for free now?
3. "More secure" - attacked less, is not more secure. Although it is targeted less at a consumer level, the number of Linux attacks and exploits is not anywhere close to zero. Although most users may not be running Apache, the libraries that make up much of linux are on desktops and servers and need to be patched just like windows needs patching. Safe browsing and download hygiene apply regardless of OS. Oh and many attacks are social engineering and there are plenty of remote control apps for linux.
4. User capabilities. Mom and Pop that get a PC with Windows, usually don't have the tech abilities to create a bootable installer. If a machine shipped with Linux someone would use it, but are they going to install Linux when Windows works? And again, why would they want to? Compelling reason to switch?
So maybe if you have win7, and your coming up on EOS, you have a reason. But if you still have win7 you are either waiting for a new PC, or you don't like change. If someone was switching to Linux, they would have done it already.
I have used Linux on desktop. I have used Mac as well, and own a mac. I prefer windows.
Is Slashdot so in need of stories that anything gets published? There are such things as dumb questions, no matter what the nice smiling teacher may have said.
Nothing illegal about watching and recording where someone goes. I can watch my neighbors house and make extensive notes about all that goes on. And yes, I can follow you around and document what you do. You may be able to convince a court of a restraining order if I push things to far, but surveillance is not illegal.
This is really no different then when EMV rolled out elsewhere, except hackers have more access to the interconnectedness off things.
EMV in EU also rolled out with loose rules to start - merchants want cards to work - so fall back to mag stripe was allowed, and the bad guys figured out they could smash the chip on a stolen or cloned card. When fallback was removed, fraud went away.
The USA is also a different beast. Besides having to upgrade older infrastructure, the problem of customers with multiple cards having to remember multiple pins has to be solved. But keep in mind, if mag stripe fall back is removed, most of the fraud goes away. No one has yet to clone the chip, and if the EMV data is protected properly, there should not be enough information to use online (card not present).
PIN protects against card theft. Removing Mag stripe function protects against cloned cards - where most of the fraud is. It took EU time to get everything right, it will take USA time too.
If the Author has never had a request from a recruiter, then SURPRISE; their profile sucks.
Instead of blaming the tool, get someone to read your profile and help you fix it. And as others have said, don't accept every request. If I don't the person, or they have no connection of interest, i say no. Just because they know someone I know, doesn't mean I want to be connected to them. I have turned down a dozen in the last month because they were a connection of an old college friend - they have nothing to offer me other then that.
The other possibility besides a poor profile, is that this user has a good profile in a field that has no job openings - spinning wheel operator or typewriter repair maybe?
It sounds to me like your environment is the problem, not the meeting method.
If the calls are worthless then you have a culture at work that has decided that worthless is tolerated. If you are only a participant and the call is worthless, don't go. If someone tells you that you are needed, then get an agenda and find out why you are needed before accepting the call.
You are in charge of your day, so let others know if they are wasting your time. Don't blame the conference call as the culprit, it is the people and the culture.
Chip and signature in the USA was designed to combat card skimming and cloning of mag stripes - it can't stop other kinds of fraud. Yes, it can help prevent fraud of stored data as chip data is different then mag stripe data - but the root of the fraud is cloned mag stripe data - often from skimmers.
If no terminals accept mag stripe, then cloned cards won't work. Someone can still copy the data off the front and back of card visually, and they can still clone the mag stripe. But then the fraud is reduced to Card not present (that won't change with internet and phone orders) and mag strip fraud will go away if all terminals require chip.
Chip and PIN is used to combat card theft, but that is only a tiny part of fraud. The credit card companies are going after what makes the most sense. And in the USA most people have multiple cards, so they have to figure out how to give all those cards PINs - not an easy problem to solve.
In the old days, we would put a friends phone number and or address in the cardboard box for free cruise or gym membership. Today if some guy spams a forum with dumb questions and makes his email public, he gets signed up for tinder and grindr. So maybe someone or somewhere that has your email os trolling you.
Or you just have a simple name like jones, and it is a fast way for someone to make up an email address to sign up for things.
When it comes to the Apple products as a whole there is a misconception that they are better. More stable is what i hear a lot. It simply isn't true. Relatives with iPhones are seeing them just shut off as of late. 5s and 6s in my family - I assume related to the recent file system changes. Requires holding home and power for 20 seconds to get it to boot. Brother took his to apple store and they reinstalled the OS... no word yet if it fixed it.
My wife can crash a mac sure as she can crash a windows machine. I have an MBA - bought it for weight. Battery life is excellent, but Finder is a wreck. And yes, it gives me the spinning beach ball of death too.
So there is a misconception that Macs "just work", but in reality they have problems too. This is the denial syndrome... my Mac can't be like windows.
But if we focus deeper - phones and ipads are the same no matter how they are customized. User's can't change icons. they can't create widgets. There are limited ways to send an SMS or open the settings page. The lack of choice makes it easy to use. The same is true for the Mac, although it is more customizable. Compare to an Android phone - no icons on the launcher screen, widgets galore, alternate launchers. Choices are endless. And it can be confusing.
I have Moto phones - I can't always tell a Samsung user how to do something. But if my mom has an iPhone issue, I can open up my iPad and walk her through problem solving.
I prefer Windows and Android. Apple products do work, but you have to be willing to limit your choices, and don't have unrealistic expectations. they have bugs too.
I think apple users prefer to overlook the issues (denial) and they like the sameness of it all (conformity)
Sorry, this guy should quit and find another job. Assembling a car is unskilled labor. Unionization just drives the cost of production up. If the work is to hard, then quit.
Is framing a house, pouring/finishing concrete or laying brick/tile ergonomic? People do it every day in bad weather.
Unions served a purpose when workers were exploited. There was a large pool of unskilled workers, and if one got hurt, you just got another one because the job required little skill. But the unions also artificially inflated wages for many of these jobs. OSHA and many local and federal laws now exist to protect workers that didn't exist many years ago.
All this guy is doing is highlighting why a company will eventually get rid of his job an use a robot to do the same repetitive task.
This came about in response to the huge IT growth around 2000 before the bubble burst on the dot com world. People were getting offers for huge salary increases because there was a skills shortage. HR groups added this as a way to stop the madness. They use your salary history to validate career progression to some extent, but they also use it as a way to guage a reasonable offer - say a 10% increase over your current may be considered the company rule.
Most large companies do this. If they offer you a job, they may even ask for W2 to compare to what you put on application.
If Zuck thinks it has no effect, then he is not reading posts. I have idiot friends repost these fake stories as fact. Then other idiot friends say "Wow! I didn't know that" - no one checks any fact check site. They usually don't even read the fake article, just the headline. And if you point out it is fake, they are convinced that all the fact check sites are run by the liberal media.
Is Zuck naive, or just protecting his baby from being called ugly?
People are sheep. Feed them enough BS often enough, and believe it regardless of facts. Global warming is myth. Freeing all the carbon sequestered for millions of years, can't be bad.
The larger problem is fake news by users. "Friends" of mine repost stories from sites that are pure fabrication. The headlines are salacious and always have the affect of painting someone in a negative light. For example, search on "Fake snopes" and you will find a facebook page with a long diatribe on why snopes.com is fake. Many people agree, but it isn't until much further down in the comments where people post counter posts (with many links) that debunk the story about "Snopes being fake"
I am sorry, but most people consume their facts in 2 sentence sound bites. If it comes from a friend it must be true. That is how Trump won the election - not news posts that Facebook itself posted, but the posts from everyone's friends that have them convinced that "Chelsea Clinton's wedding was paid for by the Clinton Foundation". Since the conservative hatred of liberals is much stronger then the opposite, everyone forgot about The Trump Foundation contribution to Florida AG who was investigating Trump University.
I don't know how to fix it, but the future of politics is fake mud slinging on Facebook.
I have a daughter that graduated high school. In her class, most of the top 10 students were female (she was one of them). They all excelled at Math and Science - Calc, AP Physics, AP Chem, etc. She is the only one pursuing a tech degree.
The point is that part of the reason there are less candidates is interest. And if you are hiring a position, and 90% of your candidate pool is white male, it is not racism, if the best person for the job is a white male.
Should a less qualified candidate be hired for a job just to check a diversity box? I enjoy working with a diverse bunch, i believe it adds value - I am against H1B as it has lowered salaries, but I am all for more women and minorities in tech. I think the way problems are viewed, and needs identified are different for others from different backgrounds. But I don't think racism/discrimination is the main reason we don't have diversity in technology fields.
The last sentence sums up what Elon Musk has been saying about AutoPilot:
"even though Autopilot is quite capable, there's still no substitute for an attentive human driver, ready to take control at a moment's notice."
The technology is not called "self driving" - it is called autopilot. Similar to plane where course and speed are maintained. Tesla reminds users to keep hands on the wheel and remain attentive.
No news here. Couple that with the cost of the hack, and there is not much to report. I could fool a real driver with mirrors and some Acme landscape canvas.
The author makes this statement: " This is why people buy from Apple. It designs everything from the trackpad to the box the computer comes in, which unfolds neatly to reveal everything you need. Apple reduces friction to the point where even my mom could upgrade the RAM on her iMac, and it can do this because it controls everything that goes in that box."
The problem with this statement are many:
1. Only the small iMac today allows the RAM to be upgraded. The larger iMac has a glued in screen and nothing is accessible anymore without cutting it loose 2. Apple constantly changes the rules on what a user can upgrade - so if you want to avoid some OS headache in the future (remember TRIM support) - you have to spend a fortune on Apple branded parts 3. Doesn't Dell, HP, and other manufacturers do the same? Many also have gaming PCs. 4. How do you game on a Mac? Steam, some things yes. But otherwise bootcamp - not the same as an equivalent windows machine 5. And where is the power video card you wanted? Show me any Mac that lets you order that or upgrade an existing Video Card.
The entire article is dumb. It is no different then someone talking about building an Electric car. You can do it, it is not for everyone, or you can buy one from Kia, Nissan, Tesla, and others.
If you have sausage fingers and little mechanical aptitude, then don't embark on a project like this. It is like saying building a wooden table is still way to hard. It is if you don't know what you are doing, and so you can buy a table from 10 different stores. Same with a gaming rig.
So what good is $0.40/GB if the thing fails in less then year. OCZ has been a price leader for years, also one of the biggest reliability failures. I would not use their stuff if it were free. If you want an SSD with reliability buy a top tier brand like Samsung or Intel. Sandisk is probably decent, but I haven't used theirs.
All HDD and SSD will fail eventually, but OCZ had the worst reputation of all SSD makers. If your data is lost or system crashes do you really care how cheap the drive was?
I raised my desk and worked standing only for about 1 year. It worked well, but I started getting knee pain. So last year, I bought the uplift desk. I only bought the motorized frame, and added a section of butcherblock as my desktop, and a keyboard tray - so maybe I have $700 total invested and well worth it.
With memory locations on the controls, it is trivial to switch between sitting and standing.
A good desk is going to cost decent money anyway, and since i work from home, it is my primary tool.
So the author should buy a car and default and then buy a house and default. He has no one to blame but himself, and we don't even know if he has a degree, they could take away - which they should do. But there is no guarantee that debt = degree. You pay for each class as you take it. In the end, he got what he paid for - the classes - one credit at a time.
There never was a guarantee of a degree or a job. Just another dead beat writer in my opinion.
I have no sympathy for the others that get degrees with limited shelf life. the person that wants to be a museum curator or archeologist - both great professions, but there are only so many jobs in the field. You can't blame the education system if you get a degree and have zero prospects for employment. You are paying for classes, not a job.
Not all new tech is as good as it sounds - what I would do and why:
1. Hot water - forget the instant gas fired tankless - why? You have no hot water if power is out. Also, they are poor if you need a volume of water. A high efficiency tank is great. Add to that a hot water circulating loop - you can't do this with a tankless system. Adding the loop with a tank system gives you hot water in one second instead of waiting for all the cooled water between tank and faucet to be expelled. Add a timer-circulating pump, and you are not circulating hot water at night when you don't need it. All old tech that works better then new tech. If you want to go tankless, then spend the money to put one near each cluster of bathrooms, or you will waste water waiting on hot water.
2. Natural gas heat - if you live in a colder climate. Heat pumps just pump out luke warm air. But if you can go dual fuel, and use a heat pump sometimes and natural gas others, you have best of both world.As others mentioned, radiant heat is a great choice, but you then have to install forced air for AC.
3. Some kind of air-exchanger that uses the exhaust air to pre-condition the incoming air - i have not found anything for residential I like in this area. But, if you have a tight house, and you have various exhaust fans or central vacuum, then you should have a way to supply fresh air.
4. Bath fans - I like fantech brand - the motors are remote mounted, and they are super quiet
5. Central Vac - I can't live without it, but I have a pile of dogs and cats and no carpet. Check out something "newer" called "Hide-a-hose" - i have not tried it yet, but plan to in next house. No more hose to store and get out. It stores in the pipes in the wall.
6. Shower Pan and walls - check out Kerdi - I will never do a bathroom without it again.
7. Quad electric receptacles at the night stands in bedrooms and kitchen counters.
8. Cat X (whatever is the Ethernet standard at the time)
9. Network rack and patch panel - I have it in the basement - all home runs of Cat 5e and coax to this location.
10. AC outlet in closet/pantry - you want your wireless router in the center of the house - why not in a closet. Also, you never know where you may want to plug in a flashlight or something.
None of my credit cards are RFID. The only cards I have ever had that are RFID/NFC are hotel keys, and conference cards. My passport cover itself blocks RFID scanning - US passports only work if open.
And of course the sensationalism of the quote "more than 10 million identities digitally pick pocketed every year [and] 70% of all credit cards vulnerable to such attacks by 2015" - really? There are many problems with statements like this - but I am sure the Marketing group came up with them:
- stealing a credit number and maybe name is not an identity - 10 million is a big number - every year since when? So 20% of the US has been compromised in the last few years? - credit cards are being issued with chip and pin - RFID credit cards will become obsolete
The same people that buy these pants should buy shirts and hats that protect them from Unicorns and other fictional creatures.
The idea for mobile data is mobility. If she has trouble getting around, then a mobile phone should not be her internet connection. If she is not mobile why a mobile phone? Does she also have a home phone? You are already paying $50 per month for her cell phone - does she have cable tv too? I can't believe you can't get her internet for less then $80/month.
Drop the cell phone, get internet for her, and some other texting method. You could even get her an Obi110 and google voice number for free phone calls (after the cost of the Obi) . She can even port her cell number to GV and use that for texting. She doesn't need a cell phone if she doesn't go out.
No one can argue that Fusion-io started the PCIe SSD market - many laughed and now many are competing. I won't say they are the best for the price, but Tom's hardware is misleading people when they compare OCZ against 5 year old hardware. The 160gb iodrive is the original product that FIO launched with. Still a good product, but that is like comparing the top of the line pentium with today's CPUs.
I have been working on a large data project for another state - this state has outsourced everything to 3 or 4 large companies. That itself is not so bad, but the state doesn't have anyone left to make decisions. Instead it is all left up to the vendors. It is difficult for vendors, even when trying to do the right thing, to know what the business (state) needs or wants for some things.
Trying to implement proper security controls and create separation of duties when everything is outsourced is hard to do. Especially when all vendors bid their part without expectations of having to handle new requirements.
I am sure Oracle shares some of the blame, but I bet the state is responsible for a lot too.
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The article points out "advantages" of linux over windows, but doesn't cover the reasons not to switch to Linux:
1. Compatibility - apps, documents, fonts, plugins, etc. The same reason some find it hard to move to mac or from mac to another OS. OS are different. I can't run apps made for windows (not talking about emulators). When there is an equivalent app, not all features and functions carry over. If I am used to windows, another OS can look strange and have a learning curve. SO at the end of the day, there is no compelling reason to make me switch in this area. Libre Office is nice, but even on windows is not the same as MS Office.
2. Cost - we have to see what happens, but Win 10 was free for most users, and MS keeps adding features and not charging. Much like Mac. So the upgrade cost may have gone away. Time will tell. How many years has Win 10 been doing feature upgrades for free now?
3. "More secure" - attacked less, is not more secure. Although it is targeted less at a consumer level, the number of Linux attacks and exploits is not anywhere close to zero. Although most users may not be running Apache, the libraries that make up much of linux are on desktops and servers and need to be patched just like windows needs patching. Safe browsing and download hygiene apply regardless of OS. Oh and many attacks are social engineering and there are plenty of remote control apps for linux.
4. User capabilities. Mom and Pop that get a PC with Windows, usually don't have the tech abilities to create a bootable installer. If a machine shipped with Linux someone would use it, but are they going to install Linux when Windows works? And again, why would they want to? Compelling reason to switch?
So maybe if you have win7, and your coming up on EOS, you have a reason. But if you still have win7 you are either waiting for a new PC, or you don't like change. If someone was switching to Linux, they would have done it already.
I have used Linux on desktop. I have used Mac as well, and own a mac. I prefer windows.
Is Slashdot so in need of stories that anything gets published? There are such things as dumb questions, no matter what the nice smiling teacher may have said.
Nothing illegal about watching and recording where someone goes. I can watch my neighbors house and make extensive notes about all that goes on. And yes, I can follow you around and document what you do. You may be able to convince a court of a restraining order if I push things to far, but surveillance is not illegal.
It is not illegal in person or on line.
This is really no different then when EMV rolled out elsewhere, except hackers have more access to the interconnectedness off things.
EMV in EU also rolled out with loose rules to start - merchants want cards to work - so fall back to mag stripe was allowed, and the bad guys figured out they could smash the chip on a stolen or cloned card. When fallback was removed, fraud went away.
The USA is also a different beast. Besides having to upgrade older infrastructure, the problem of customers with multiple cards having to remember multiple pins has to be solved. But keep in mind, if mag stripe fall back is removed, most of the fraud goes away. No one has yet to clone the chip, and if the EMV data is protected properly, there should not be enough information to use online (card not present).
PIN protects against card theft. Removing Mag stripe function protects against cloned cards - where most of the fraud is. It took EU time to get everything right, it will take USA time too.
If the Author has never had a request from a recruiter, then SURPRISE; their profile sucks.
Instead of blaming the tool, get someone to read your profile and help you fix it. And as others have said, don't accept every request. If I don't the person, or they have no connection of interest, i say no. Just because they know someone I know, doesn't mean I want to be connected to them. I have turned down a dozen in the last month because they were a connection of an old college friend - they have nothing to offer me other then that.
The other possibility besides a poor profile, is that this user has a good profile in a field that has no job openings - spinning wheel operator or typewriter repair maybe?
It sounds to me like your environment is the problem, not the meeting method.
If the calls are worthless then you have a culture at work that has decided that worthless is tolerated. If you are only a participant and the call is worthless, don't go. If someone tells you that you are needed, then get an agenda and find out why you are needed before accepting the call.
You are in charge of your day, so let others know if they are wasting your time. Don't blame the conference call as the culprit, it is the people and the culture.
Chip and signature in the USA was designed to combat card skimming and cloning of mag stripes - it can't stop other kinds of fraud. Yes, it can help prevent fraud of stored data as chip data is different then mag stripe data - but the root of the fraud is cloned mag stripe data - often from skimmers.
If no terminals accept mag stripe, then cloned cards won't work. Someone can still copy the data off the front and back of card visually, and they can still clone the mag stripe. But then the fraud is reduced to Card not present (that won't change with internet and phone orders) and mag strip fraud will go away if all terminals require chip.
Chip and PIN is used to combat card theft, but that is only a tiny part of fraud. The credit card companies are going after what makes the most sense. And in the USA most people have multiple cards, so they have to figure out how to give all those cards PINs - not an easy problem to solve.
In the old days, we would put a friends phone number and or address in the cardboard box for free cruise or gym membership. Today if some guy spams a forum with dumb questions and makes his email public, he gets signed up for tinder and grindr. So maybe someone or somewhere that has your email os trolling you.
Or you just have a simple name like jones, and it is a fast way for someone to make up an email address to sign up for things.
When it comes to the Apple products as a whole there is a misconception that they are better. More stable is what i hear a lot. It simply isn't true. Relatives with iPhones are seeing them just shut off as of late. 5s and 6s in my family - I assume related to the recent file system changes. Requires holding home and power for 20 seconds to get it to boot. Brother took his to apple store and they reinstalled the OS... no word yet if it fixed it.
My wife can crash a mac sure as she can crash a windows machine. I have an MBA - bought it for weight. Battery life is excellent, but Finder is a wreck. And yes, it gives me the spinning beach ball of death too.
So there is a misconception that Macs "just work", but in reality they have problems too. This is the denial syndrome... my Mac can't be like windows.
But if we focus deeper - phones and ipads are the same no matter how they are customized. User's can't change icons. they can't create widgets. There are limited ways to send an SMS or open the settings page. The lack of choice makes it easy to use. The same is true for the Mac, although it is more customizable. Compare to an Android phone - no icons on the launcher screen, widgets galore, alternate launchers. Choices are endless. And it can be confusing.
I have Moto phones - I can't always tell a Samsung user how to do something. But if my mom has an iPhone issue, I can open up my iPad and walk her through problem solving.
I prefer Windows and Android. Apple products do work, but you have to be willing to limit your choices, and don't have unrealistic expectations. they have bugs too.
I think apple users prefer to overlook the issues (denial) and they like the sameness of it all (conformity)
Sorry, this guy should quit and find another job.
Assembling a car is unskilled labor. Unionization just drives the cost of production up. If the work is to hard, then quit.
Is framing a house, pouring/finishing concrete or laying brick/tile ergonomic? People do it every day in bad weather.
Unions served a purpose when workers were exploited. There was a large pool of unskilled workers, and if one got hurt, you just got another one because the job required little skill. But the unions also artificially inflated wages for many of these jobs. OSHA and many local and federal laws now exist to protect workers that didn't exist many years ago.
All this guy is doing is highlighting why a company will eventually get rid of his job an use a robot to do the same repetitive task.
This came about in response to the huge IT growth around 2000 before the bubble burst on the dot com world. People were getting offers for huge salary increases because there was a skills shortage. HR groups added this as a way to stop the madness. They use your salary history to validate career progression to some extent, but they also use it as a way to guage a reasonable offer - say a 10% increase over your current may be considered the company rule.
Most large companies do this. If they offer you a job, they may even ask for W2 to compare to what you put on application.
Furnishing a work from home office, and securing a remote office seem very different to me.
Or is your a house a target for thieves and meth heads already? Is your house a barn that it needs carpet and double strength walls?
Working from home implies the comforts of home. The OP wants to build an office in an industrial building...
so this post really is "how do i build and secure a remote office"
If Zuck thinks it has no effect, then he is not reading posts. I have idiot friends repost these fake stories as fact. Then other idiot friends say "Wow! I didn't know that" - no one checks any fact check site. They usually don't even read the fake article, just the headline. And if you point out it is fake, they are convinced that all the fact check sites are run by the liberal media.
Is Zuck naive, or just protecting his baby from being called ugly?
People are sheep. Feed them enough BS often enough, and believe it regardless of facts. Global warming is myth. Freeing all the carbon sequestered for millions of years, can't be bad.
The larger problem is fake news by users. "Friends" of mine repost stories from sites that are pure fabrication. The headlines are salacious and always have the affect of painting someone in a negative light. For example, search on "Fake snopes" and you will find a facebook page with a long diatribe on why snopes.com is fake. Many people agree, but it isn't until much further down in the comments where people post counter posts (with many links) that debunk the story about "Snopes being fake"
I am sorry, but most people consume their facts in 2 sentence sound bites. If it comes from a friend it must be true. That is how Trump won the election - not news posts that Facebook itself posted, but the posts from everyone's friends that have them convinced that "Chelsea Clinton's wedding was paid for by the Clinton Foundation". Since the conservative hatred of liberals is much stronger then the opposite, everyone forgot about The Trump Foundation contribution to Florida AG who was investigating Trump University.
I don't know how to fix it, but the future of politics is fake mud slinging on Facebook.
I have a daughter that graduated high school. In her class, most of the top 10 students were female (she was one of them). They all excelled at Math and Science - Calc, AP Physics, AP Chem, etc. She is the only one pursuing a tech degree.
The point is that part of the reason there are less candidates is interest. And if you are hiring a position, and 90% of your candidate pool is white male, it is not racism, if the best person for the job is a white male.
Should a less qualified candidate be hired for a job just to check a diversity box? I enjoy working with a diverse bunch, i believe it adds value - I am against H1B as it has lowered salaries, but I am all for more women and minorities in tech. I think the way problems are viewed, and needs identified are different for others from different backgrounds. But I don't think racism/discrimination is the main reason we don't have diversity in technology fields.
The last sentence sums up what Elon Musk has been saying about AutoPilot:
"even though Autopilot is quite capable, there's still no substitute for an attentive human driver, ready to take control at a moment's notice."
The technology is not called "self driving" - it is called autopilot. Similar to plane where course and speed are maintained. Tesla reminds users to keep hands on the wheel and remain attentive.
No news here. Couple that with the cost of the hack, and there is not much to report. I could fool a real driver with mirrors and some Acme landscape canvas.
The author makes this statement: " This is why people buy from Apple. It designs everything from the trackpad to the box the computer comes in, which unfolds neatly to reveal everything you need. Apple reduces friction to the point where even my mom could upgrade the RAM on her iMac, and it can do this because it controls everything that goes in that box."
The problem with this statement are many:
1. Only the small iMac today allows the RAM to be upgraded. The larger iMac has a glued in screen and nothing is accessible anymore without cutting it loose
2. Apple constantly changes the rules on what a user can upgrade - so if you want to avoid some OS headache in the future (remember TRIM support) - you have to spend a fortune on Apple branded parts
3. Doesn't Dell, HP, and other manufacturers do the same? Many also have gaming PCs.
4. How do you game on a Mac? Steam, some things yes. But otherwise bootcamp - not the same as an equivalent windows machine
5. And where is the power video card you wanted? Show me any Mac that lets you order that or upgrade an existing Video Card.
The entire article is dumb. It is no different then someone talking about building an Electric car. You can do it, it is not for everyone, or you can buy one from Kia, Nissan, Tesla, and others.
If you have sausage fingers and little mechanical aptitude, then don't embark on a project like this. It is like saying building a wooden table is still way to hard. It is if you don't know what you are doing, and so you can buy a table from 10 different stores. Same with a gaming rig.
So what good is $0.40/GB if the thing fails in less then year. OCZ has been a price leader for years, also one of the biggest reliability failures. I would not use their stuff if it were free. If you want an SSD with reliability buy a top tier brand like Samsung or Intel. Sandisk is probably decent, but I haven't used theirs.
All HDD and SSD will fail eventually, but OCZ had the worst reputation of all SSD makers. If your data is lost or system crashes do you really care how cheap the drive was?
I raised my desk and worked standing only for about 1 year. It worked well, but I started getting knee pain. So last year, I bought the uplift desk. I only bought the motorized frame, and added a section of butcherblock as my desktop, and a keyboard tray - so maybe I have $700 total invested and well worth it.
With memory locations on the controls, it is trivial to switch between sitting and standing.
A good desk is going to cost decent money anyway, and since i work from home, it is my primary tool.
So the author should buy a car and default and then buy a house and default. He has no one to blame but himself, and we don't even know if he has a degree, they could take away - which they should do. But there is no guarantee that debt = degree. You pay for each class as you take it. In the end, he got what he paid for - the classes - one credit at a time.
There never was a guarantee of a degree or a job. Just another dead beat writer in my opinion.
I have no sympathy for the others that get degrees with limited shelf life. the person that wants to be a museum curator or archeologist - both great professions, but there are only so many jobs in the field. You can't blame the education system if you get a degree and have zero prospects for employment. You are paying for classes, not a job.
Not all new tech is as good as it sounds - what I would do and why:
1. Hot water - forget the instant gas fired tankless - why? You have no hot water if power is out. Also, they are poor if you need a volume of water. A high efficiency tank is great. Add to that a hot water circulating loop - you can't do this with a tankless system. Adding the loop with a tank system gives you hot water in one second instead of waiting for all the cooled water between tank and faucet to be expelled. Add a timer-circulating pump, and you are not circulating hot water at night when you don't need it. All old tech that works better then new tech. If you want to go tankless, then spend the money to put one near each cluster of bathrooms, or you will waste water waiting on hot water.
2. Natural gas heat - if you live in a colder climate. Heat pumps just pump out luke warm air. But if you can go dual fuel, and use a heat pump sometimes and natural gas others, you have best of both world.As others mentioned, radiant heat is a great choice, but you then have to install forced air for AC.
3. Some kind of air-exchanger that uses the exhaust air to pre-condition the incoming air - i have not found anything for residential I like in this area. But, if you have a tight house, and you have various exhaust fans or central vacuum, then you should have a way to supply fresh air.
4. Bath fans - I like fantech brand - the motors are remote mounted, and they are super quiet
5. Central Vac - I can't live without it, but I have a pile of dogs and cats and no carpet. Check out something "newer" called "Hide-a-hose" - i have not tried it yet, but plan to in next house. No more hose to store and get out. It stores in the pipes in the wall.
6. Shower Pan and walls - check out Kerdi - I will never do a bathroom without it again.
7. Quad electric receptacles at the night stands in bedrooms and kitchen counters.
8. Cat X (whatever is the Ethernet standard at the time)
9. Network rack and patch panel - I have it in the basement - all home runs of Cat 5e and coax to this location.
10. AC outlet in closet/pantry - you want your wireless router in the center of the house - why not in a closet. Also, you never know where you may want to plug in a flashlight or something.
As others have postulated, why the requirement for a laptop?
with all the slots, and requirements for cleaning, and fans, get a desktop.
None of my credit cards are RFID. The only cards I have ever had that are RFID/NFC are hotel keys, and conference cards. My passport cover itself blocks RFID scanning - US passports only work if open.
And of course the sensationalism of the quote "more than 10 million identities digitally pick pocketed every year [and] 70% of all credit cards vulnerable to such attacks by 2015" - really? There are many problems with statements like this - but I am sure the Marketing group came up with them:
- stealing a credit number and maybe name is not an identity
- 10 million is a big number - every year since when? So 20% of the US has been compromised in the last few years?
- credit cards are being issued with chip and pin - RFID credit cards will become obsolete
The same people that buy these pants should buy shirts and hats that protect them from Unicorns and other fictional creatures.
I think you are misguided.
The idea for mobile data is mobility. If she has trouble getting around, then a mobile phone should not be her internet connection. If she is not mobile why a mobile phone? Does she also have a home phone? You are already paying $50 per month for her cell phone - does she have cable tv too? I can't believe you can't get her internet for less then $80/month.
Drop the cell phone, get internet for her, and some other texting method. You could even get her an Obi110 and google voice number for free phone calls (after the cost of the Obi) . She can even port her cell number to GV and use that for texting. She doesn't need a cell phone if she doesn't go out.
No one can argue that Fusion-io started the PCIe SSD market - many laughed and now many are competing. I won't say they are the best for the price, but Tom's hardware is misleading people when they compare OCZ against 5 year old hardware. The 160gb iodrive is the original product that FIO launched with. Still a good product, but that is like comparing the top of the line pentium with today's CPUs.
I have been working on a large data project for another state - this state has outsourced everything to 3 or 4 large companies. That itself is not so bad, but the state doesn't have anyone left to make decisions. Instead it is all left up to the vendors. It is difficult for vendors, even when trying to do the right thing, to know what the business (state) needs or wants for some things.
Trying to implement proper security controls and create separation of duties when everything is outsourced is hard to do. Especially when all vendors bid their part without expectations of having to handle new requirements.
I am sure Oracle shares some of the blame, but I bet the state is responsible for a lot too.