The domestication into dogs was the result of introducing wolfs into society from when they where puppies and active breeding. Just having wolfs living closer to humans won't domesticate them, just like birds and other animals that practically like on top of us aren't domesticated.
They are talking about the genetic isolation part of evolution. You are correct about the final steps of becoming domesticated dogs.
If I know people, and I do, there will likely be a wolf rescue, and in some number of generations, we'll have fully domesticated wolfdogs. We do have semi-domesticated wolves already, a few in my neighborhood, just not ones from dumpster diver variety. Gorgeous critters.
>Why is UHD useless? do they just not have any offering?
Because at any normal distance on any TV, almost nobody can realize any difference with 4K.
A lot of people must have really bad eyes. Of course, many people are still much butthurt that we abandoned NTSC.
My guess is that it is human inertia, or "it was good enough".
As an example, my wife has the non-HD channels memorized for our locale. I've pointed out how much sharper the HD version is, have demonstrated on the same shows, and she agrees HD is better.
But she has the channels for non-HD memorized, and doesn't want to push the button to switch to the HD channel.
For me at least, I find the differences startling. And I feel badly for anyone who doesn't.
while God fearing, patriotic Republicans have wrested the illegal and immoral blocking of this appointment of a true patriot, a fineman who will set America back on the right track........
The nuclear option will come back to haunt them.
You would think that the party of the filibuster as a basic tactic would have figured this out, because as that "commie bitch" on the Supreme court noted, the situation is a pendulum, and if you do a little math and dating, the Democrats are poised for ramming some supreme court nominees who are not going to be appreciated by the Republicans.
That's so obvious that it qualifies not as the law of nintended consequences, but more like plain old unfixable stupid.
One place I worked I personally took 130% of the 'department raise budget' my first year there.
Useless weasel told the rest of the department at their reviews that they weren't getting anything because I had taken 100% of the 'raise budget'...
I had a similar thing back in the mid 80's. The boss in our department had a group meeting, and explained how he figured out the raises.
Like you, we had a budget total for raises, and X number of people in the department. Two other guys in our department and myself were young whippersnappers, and not making a tremendous amount of money. So the boss took a small amount of the raise form the older folks, and distributed it among us. Turned out to be something like 25 dollars a year for them.
You would have thought we were trying to cut off their peckers. One of they guys, a fellow who thought you had to have a retirement income double your monthly take-home, was vicious about it. Guess he figured out he was going to get his 25 dollars worth of abuse on me Being a whippersnaper at the time I allowed him to be an asshole until I could do something about it. Revenge is best served cold, anyhow.
Never expected employers to train me. Never been disappointed. You train as you learn/break new systems. Things not directly useful to current employer, on your own time. Who's going to teach the brand new stuff anyhow? Before the internet it was a bitch...swapping bootleg knowledgebase CDs.
Well, it wasn't an expectation on my part - I had to do it. I had a choice in what I was training on, but no real choice in getting it. As long as they were paying for it, I was cool with it. Some folks took gut stuff. I predicted what was going to happen and got actual worth.
It was only later, after the bean counters wrecked overhead, that we were left on our own, and it had to be free.
What puzzles me is why anyone would issue an ultimatum.
Darned if I know. I do know a fair number of people do.
david:thornley: I'd like to take off these two weeks in July.
Ol Olsoc: Sure.
david_thornley: How dare you? I insist on those two weeks, and I'll resign.
Hah! Never had that happen, although it isn't all that unlikely with some folk's listening skills.
But listening skills aren't in big supply - or sometimes people just don't care.
Regardless, I've seen plenty of people who won't let anyone take advantage of them come and go over the years. Seems to be a connection with the "going" part and their attitude.
It's simple really. A lot of "reasonable people" don't like it when people with "attitude problems" go on the offensive. Because once they get the impression it will work, they will use it over and over and over again. Better to just finish it immediately if possible.
At least, that's why I always force them to pull the trigger anyway.
Exactly. Acquiescing to an ultimatum puts the other person in the position of boss. Homie don't play that game.
When ever I have had a manager suggest that they could cancel my vacation I also remind them that I can easily go and find a different job likely with one of their competitors or even in a different industry doing the same thing as there aren't many people with my knowledge, skill set, and experience. If I wanted I could start tomorrow at a new job.
I've had a lot of vacations cancelled. Never cancelled anyone else's, but seriously, if you issued an ultimatum or threat to me you would have to take it. I'm certain you are the only irreplaceable person on the planet, but I can get people with attitudes anywhere.
Since you claim to never have canceled anybody else's vacation I don't understand why the ego issue here... "How DARE he tell me he's going to walk! Just for that, I'll make him walk!" What's with the pissing contest here?
Because I understand how most people are. I know really quickly who will be all pissy. The two issues of what I do and what he mentioned are not completely connected. I just do not put up with ultimatums. Sort of a reflex action. Whenever someone offers me an ultimatum, I automatically do the exact thing they don't want me to do. A sure fire way of getting the opposite of what you want. And you'd be surprised at how quickly people learn about that little quirk.
I actively avoid updates because my carrier uses them to install new, uninstallable crap that I don't want.
And yes, I understand exactly what I'm doing when I don't accept them. I don't bank on my phone, so the worst an attacker could do is get into my social media accounts.
My carrier is a bigger threat to me than this attack.
I implied a race, which more or less means that I know I will be replaced...it's a question of relative costs and risks. Some employers like to act like they have _all_ the power. Clients are better than employers in that respect.
I just knew I should have put a smiley face on that. I say the same thing about myself. My bad.
Talk to the big boss about his business' 'truck number'. If they won't pay for any redundancy, _extort_ them for more pay. They will pay, one way or another.
Oh hell yeah - I was paid three times as much as the next closest in my department. Some of them didn't like it, but the boss asked if they wanted to do the extra stuff I did.
Besides: If you don't have someone learning your tasks, how will your boss promote you to his job when he moves up?
It was pretty complicated, and we had the problem often found in places where the bean counters raid all the overhead to hire more bean counters. Training goes out the window.
An illustration is that back in the 80's and mid 90's, I was required
Then after around 1997, the bean counters took over, and slowly, then accelerating in pace, trying to go to anything not required expressly by the contracts was just about impossible. My continuing education and everyone else's was sucked up by the bean counters plus. "We have to get control of overhead" was the mantra. But for every 10 dollars saved on overhead, they added 20 dollars of new bean counting.
So after the educational activities went, the next thing to go was training. So we ended up like the government affiliated places did after budget cutbacks affected them. No one in the promotional pipeline. No training. So people would retire, then be called back since there was no one qualified to replace them. Same thing happened to me. Then I decided to hell with this and left for good.
p.s. I saw the handwriting on the wall, years before the clusterfuck occured, and planned for an early retirement. If you can retire at 55 at all, do it. Beats the living shit out of working.
At least no one's life is dependent on these devices..yet. If we started adopting these things carelessly in situations that could endanger lives, we'd be in serious trouble. Perhaps this is the wake up call we've desperately needed.
We already have life critical devices compromised. Remember that the early adopters of the IoT was hospitals, which have been compromised already. http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-...
While this case was not the result of a hacker, but software error, todays radiation dispenser is about 100 percent likely to be attached to the internet. http://ccnr.org/fatal_dose.htm....
And it wouldn't be too surprising if people have been killed already. We just wouldn't hear abou tit, or the operators might not even know.
When ever I have had a manager suggest that they could cancel my vacation I also remind them that I can easily go and find a different job likely with one of their competitors or even in a different industry doing the same thing as there aren't many people with my knowledge, skill set, and experience. If I wanted I could start tomorrow at a new job.
I've had a lot of vacations cancelled. Never cancelled anyone else's, but seriously, if you issued an ultimatum or threat to me you would have to take it. I'm certain you are the only irreplaceable person on the planet, but I can get people with attitudes anywhere.
It lets them see what gets done invisibly the rest of the year.
Most people afraid to take vacation are afraid the boss will learn just how _little_ they actually do. Even worse, that the boss will see the office work much better without them, as they are 'net negative' anti-workers.
Well maybe. Problem is, it isn't always fear of taking vacation. I had as much vacation canceled as I took. And those I could take, I spent a lot of time sitting someplace nice on the phone troubleshooting, while the family played in the surf. Almost had to fly back to fix a problem once until a suit caught wind of it and told them they would not do that to me.
Eventually, I "forgot" the company phone and my own to preserve family peace. The upside was when I retired, I had max vacation and sick accumulated, and it made a nice extra check. 30 plus years of accumulated sick leave with only 14 days taken was a fine going away present.
No one is irreplaceable. Some folks are handy to have around though.
Usually a week in the spring, two weeks in summer and a week in the fall.
But hey, at least on your deathbed you'll be able to say that you didn't let that feature slip!
My only regret is that I didn't spend more time at the office.
Google does offer a patch. Android is open source.
Users need to vote with their wallets, refusing to buy from manufacturers who customize Android, usually to the customer's detriment, then fail to commit to monthly security updates.
Because the Android fan base is more worried about cheap than security. Most don't believe that the phone has any security issues anyhow, so are happy to tout their KungPao 7 Android phone as something superior to the phones those asshole Apple hipsters use.
How do we know we're not here because some other race should have been more careful with their probes?
We don't. Hella unlikely though. Given the interconnected biology of life on esrth, it would have had to happen very early on.
Besides, as far as they know there's nothing there anyway and then we can study how these things do on which ever moon.
A colonization experiment would need to be more well thought out than "let's crash this doodad into this possibly life supporting place and see what happens!"
The biggest impediment to that idea is that it is no where near as interesting as finding that there is life on an another body in the universe.
We already know that the little critters named in the article - the tardigrades - are little champions of survival in ridiculous conditions, such as in space http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...
Now, imagine if a properly sterilized probe were to find tardigrades on a non terran body that we could prove did not come from earth.
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Unsafe to own. All should be wiped out
http://q13fox.com/2017/04/03/3...
Oh gee, a dog bit someone! Using your logic, there wouldn't be many animals left on earth.
The domestication into dogs was the result of introducing wolfs into society from when they where puppies and active breeding. Just having wolfs living closer to humans won't domesticate them, just like birds and other animals that practically like on top of us aren't domesticated.
They are talking about the genetic isolation part of evolution. You are correct about the final steps of becoming domesticated dogs.
If I know people, and I do, there will likely be a wolf rescue, and in some number of generations, we'll have fully domesticated wolfdogs. We do have semi-domesticated wolves already, a few in my neighborhood, just not ones from dumpster diver variety. Gorgeous critters.
It happened thousands of years ago, and it may be happening again
So bark we all!
Especially the cheeky dingos!
>Why is UHD useless? do they just not have any offering?
Because at any normal distance on any TV, almost nobody can realize any difference with 4K.
A lot of people must have really bad eyes. Of course, many people are still much butthurt that we abandoned NTSC.
My guess is that it is human inertia, or "it was good enough".
As an example, my wife has the non-HD channels memorized for our locale. I've pointed out how much sharper the HD version is, have demonstrated on the same shows, and she agrees HD is better.
But she has the channels for non-HD memorized, and doesn't want to push the button to switch to the HD channel.
For me at least, I find the differences startling. And I feel badly for anyone who doesn't.
Isn't that really cool guys?!?!
Actually, yes. Yes it is. Very cool.
As for the rest of your post, maybe you should go back and re-parse at least the summary.
The nuclear option will come back to haunt them.
You would think that the party of the filibuster as a basic tactic would have figured this out, because as that "commie bitch" on the Supreme court noted, the situation is a pendulum, and if you do a little math and dating, the Democrats are poised for ramming some supreme court nominees who are not going to be appreciated by the Republicans.
That's so obvious that it qualifies not as the law of nintended consequences, but more like plain old unfixable stupid.
One place I worked I personally took 130% of the 'department raise budget' my first year there.
Useless weasel told the rest of the department at their reviews that they weren't getting anything because I had taken 100% of the 'raise budget'...
I had a similar thing back in the mid 80's. The boss in our department had a group meeting, and explained how he figured out the raises.
Like you, we had a budget total for raises, and X number of people in the department. Two other guys in our department and myself were young whippersnappers, and not making a tremendous amount of money. So the boss took a small amount of the raise form the older folks, and distributed it among us. Turned out to be something like 25 dollars a year for them.
You would have thought we were trying to cut off their peckers. One of they guys, a fellow who thought you had to have a retirement income double your monthly take-home, was vicious about it. Guess he figured out he was going to get his 25 dollars worth of abuse on me Being a whippersnaper at the time I allowed him to be an asshole until I could do something about it. Revenge is best served cold, anyhow.
Never expected employers to train me. Never been disappointed. You train as you learn/break new systems. Things not directly useful to current employer, on your own time. Who's going to teach the brand new stuff anyhow? Before the internet it was a bitch...swapping bootleg knowledgebase CDs.
Well, it wasn't an expectation on my part - I had to do it. I had a choice in what I was training on, but no real choice in getting it. As long as they were paying for it, I was cool with it. Some folks took gut stuff. I predicted what was going to happen and got actual worth.
It was only later, after the bean counters wrecked overhead, that we were left on our own, and it had to be free.
What puzzles me is why anyone would issue an ultimatum.
Darned if I know. I do know a fair number of people do.
david:thornley: I'd like to take off these two weeks in July.
Ol Olsoc: Sure.
david_thornley: How dare you? I insist on those two weeks, and I'll resign.
Hah! Never had that happen, although it isn't all that unlikely with some folk's listening skills.
But listening skills aren't in big supply - or sometimes people just don't care.
Regardless, I've seen plenty of people who won't let anyone take advantage of them come and go over the years. Seems to be a connection with the "going" part and their attitude.
It's simple really. A lot of "reasonable people" don't like it when people with "attitude problems" go on the offensive. Because once they get the impression it will work, they will use it over and over and over again. Better to just finish it immediately if possible.
At least, that's why I always force them to pull the trigger anyway.
Exactly. Acquiescing to an ultimatum puts the other person in the position of boss. Homie don't play that game.
When ever I have had a manager suggest that they could cancel my vacation I also remind them that I can easily go and find a different job likely with one of their competitors or even in a different industry doing the same thing as there aren't many people with my knowledge, skill set, and experience. If I wanted I could start tomorrow at a new job.
I've had a lot of vacations cancelled. Never cancelled anyone else's, but seriously, if you issued an ultimatum or threat to me you would have to take it. I'm certain you are the only irreplaceable person on the planet, but I can get people with attitudes anywhere.
Since you claim to never have canceled anybody else's vacation I don't understand why the ego issue here... "How DARE he tell me he's going to walk! Just for that, I'll make him walk!" What's with the pissing contest here?
Because I understand how most people are. I know really quickly who will be all pissy. The two issues of what I do and what he mentioned are not completely connected. I just do not put up with ultimatums. Sort of a reflex action. Whenever someone offers me an ultimatum, I automatically do the exact thing they don't want me to do. A sure fire way of getting the opposite of what you want. And you'd be surprised at how quickly people learn about that little quirk.
systemd... Thanks Obama.
That was how he bugged Trump Towers..... 8^)
It's worse than that.
I actively avoid updates because my carrier uses them to install new, uninstallable crap that I don't want.
And yes, I understand exactly what I'm doing when I don't accept them. I don't bank on my phone, so the worst an attacker could do is get into my social media accounts.
My carrier is a bigger threat to me than this attack.
Good points, and good move re the banking info.
I implied a race, which more or less means that I know I will be replaced...it's a question of relative costs and risks. Some employers like to act like they have _all_ the power. Clients are better than employers in that respect.
I just knew I should have put a smiley face on that. I say the same thing about myself. My bad.
Talk to the big boss about his business' 'truck number'. If they won't pay for any redundancy, _extort_ them for more pay. They will pay, one way or another.
Oh hell yeah - I was paid three times as much as the next closest in my department. Some of them didn't like it, but the boss asked if they wanted to do the extra stuff I did.
Besides: If you don't have someone learning your tasks, how will your boss promote you to his job when he moves up?
It was pretty complicated, and we had the problem often found in places where the bean counters raid all the overhead to hire more bean counters. Training goes out the window.
An illustration is that back in the 80's and mid 90's, I was required Then after around 1997, the bean counters took over, and slowly, then accelerating in pace, trying to go to anything not required expressly by the contracts was just about impossible. My continuing education and everyone else's was sucked up by the bean counters plus. "We have to get control of overhead" was the mantra. But for every 10 dollars saved on overhead, they added 20 dollars of new bean counting.
So after the educational activities went, the next thing to go was training. So we ended up like the government affiliated places did after budget cutbacks affected them. No one in the promotional pipeline. No training. So people would retire, then be called back since there was no one qualified to replace them. Same thing happened to me. Then I decided to hell with this and left for good.
p.s. I saw the handwriting on the wall, years before the clusterfuck occured, and planned for an early retirement. If you can retire at 55 at all, do it. Beats the living shit out of working.
And that pretty much wipes out all the stress reduction from the vacation which means I may as well not take a long vaction.
Agreed, there is no feeling so flat and disappointing than the first day back form vacation.
At least no one's life is dependent on these devices..yet. If we started adopting these things carelessly in situations that could endanger lives, we'd be in serious trouble. Perhaps this is the wake up call we've desperately needed.
We already have life critical devices compromised. Remember that the early adopters of the IoT was hospitals, which have been compromised already. http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-...
While this case was not the result of a hacker, but software error, todays radiation dispenser is about 100 percent likely to be attached to the internet. http://ccnr.org/fatal_dose.htm....
And it wouldn't be too surprising if people have been killed already. We just wouldn't hear abou tit, or the operators might not even know.
Not how it worked out.
Irreplaceable people like you are hard to come by though.
When ever I have had a manager suggest that they could cancel my vacation I also remind them that I can easily go and find a different job likely with one of their competitors or even in a different industry doing the same thing as there aren't many people with my knowledge, skill set, and experience. If I wanted I could start tomorrow at a new job.
I've had a lot of vacations cancelled. Never cancelled anyone else's, but seriously, if you issued an ultimatum or threat to me you would have to take it. I'm certain you are the only irreplaceable person on the planet, but I can get people with attitudes anywhere.
It lets them see what gets done invisibly the rest of the year.
Most people afraid to take vacation are afraid the boss will learn just how _little_ they actually do. Even worse, that the boss will see the office work much better without them, as they are 'net negative' anti-workers.
Well maybe. Problem is, it isn't always fear of taking vacation. I had as much vacation canceled as I took. And those I could take, I spent a lot of time sitting someplace nice on the phone troubleshooting, while the family played in the surf. Almost had to fly back to fix a problem once until a suit caught wind of it and told them they would not do that to me.
Eventually, I "forgot" the company phone and my own to preserve family peace. The upside was when I retired, I had max vacation and sick accumulated, and it made a nice extra check. 30 plus years of accumulated sick leave with only 14 days taken was a fine going away present.
No one is irreplaceable. Some folks are handy to have around though.
Usually a week in the spring, two weeks in summer and a week in the fall. But hey, at least on your deathbed you'll be able to say that you didn't let that feature slip!
My only regret is that I didn't spend more time at the office.
Google does offer a patch. Android is open source.
Users need to vote with their wallets, refusing to buy from manufacturers who customize Android, usually to the customer's detriment, then fail to commit to monthly security updates.
Because the Android fan base is more worried about cheap than security. Most don't believe that the phone has any security issues anyhow, so are happy to tout their KungPao 7 Android phone as something superior to the phones those asshole Apple hipsters use.
You're still connected to a cell network.
It's vulnerability, but let's be honest here, as much as Apple fans love to tout that it's safer for viruses, that's certainly not the case.
So If I'm getting you straight, this is an Apple problem, not an Android problem.
Apple patched, it, Most Android devices won't/can't. It takes a special level of denial to try to do what you tried to do.Do go on though.
Now all you have to do is connect to wifi and these pricks can screw you. Thanks, Broadcom!
Slashdotters don't care as long as their hacked phone has a headphone jack.
How do we know we're not here because some other race should have been more careful with their probes?
We don't. Hella unlikely though. Given the interconnected biology of life on esrth, it would have had to happen very early on.
Besides, as far as they know there's nothing there anyway and then we can study how these things do on which ever moon.
A colonization experiment would need to be more well thought out than "let's crash this doodad into this possibly life supporting place and see what happens!"
The biggest impediment to that idea is that it is no where near as interesting as finding that there is life on an another body in the universe.
We already know that the little critters named in the article - the tardigrades - are little champions of survival in ridiculous conditions, such as in space http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...
Now, imagine if a properly sterilized probe were to find tardigrades on a non terran body that we could prove did not come from earth.
Never had any problem with systemd preventing bootup. Are you sure its systemd?
Of course he's sure. All linux problems are directly caused by systemd now.
Thanks, systemd!