I wonder if Carly outsourced voters not knowing they end up voting for the other guy (yes a silly reference). But now that Cruz has to lay off his staff damn it's repeat of what Fiorina did 20 years ago.
If such is possible in Silicon Valley (i.e. complaints about lack of diversity in many SV companies if not counting janitorial staff). I haven't RTFA but appears this group will go nowhere with the techies based on the comments here.
Perhaps there is an unwritten code among pirate stations but reading in Gordon West's GROL book has an interesting mention. In the early days of radio (1920s or 30s) the Supreme Court ruled Commerce Dept does not have enforcement powers over radio stations (those pre-FCC laws had a lot of holes I guess). Radio stations had a field day, they used whatever power they wanted, operated whenever they wanted, changed frequencies on the whim. Result was chaos and interference that caused many listeners to put away their receivers and sales tanked (typical tragedy of the commons). When FCC was created, a lot more thought was put into its implementation.
However, as BigU+03C0mpin said, breakup the Clear Channel monopoly. There was a time when FCC required AM and FM broadcast band have a balance of station types. Rock, country, classical, news, jazz, etc. I'm thinking it has been years since I've listened to broadcast radio, it just doesn't do anything for me. But all these pirate stations sound interesting and they have an audience. I assume many of these stations are willing to be legit but the entry barriers are simply too high. Maybe KFAT will make a comeback. They were a marginal country station in Gilroy in 1970s, they scrounged flea markets and garage sales for obscure country records. Their bumpsticker, "I found it! And it's hard to find too." (they were relatively low power).
also note if you post something critical of SpaceX, they will flame your butt. One person who continually posted critical remarks (or negative as some saw it) about the New Space crowd in many space forums and was banned from all of them except one (comments in Spudis lunar blog). He had reasons, whether people agreed or not but he did raise some interesting points such as if going beyond earth orbit need LH2/LOX and also raised caution of Ayd Rand policies for space programs.
maybe they gave those guys a favor or a gift so when those pilots file their periodic officer evaluation reports they can include, "Flew 326 hours since last OER, buzzed a US ship," Hey, that's a promotion and good boost in payment that can be used for down payment for a 500 sq foot apartment.
The Army uses enlisted men/women to fly drones, while the Air Force uses officers.
come to think of it does Army still use NCOs or warrant officers (if they still exist) to fly helicopters? about AF, I remember in 1980s talking with a non-pilot USAF captain when he expects to become a general. He said no, "to get stars here [pointing to shoulder], you need wings here [pointing to chest]." This guy also wore glasses so zero chance to be a pilot. I wonder with less flying officers in AF will we see more non-pilot generals in this age of drones?
as the Common Affordable Lightweight Fighter. I sometimes wonder about back in the days when fighter jets were being cranked out from the factories like Toyota cranking out Corollas. There was a time of where it took multiple flights to take out a target (most attacks on bridges fail along with a lot of friendly fire incidents), a time of Aces, test pilots that can list zillions of different aircraft to their resume, etc. These days just a few drones are needed. There was an article about new grads from USAF basic pilot school and waiting list for positions like F16 squadrons were lengthly. Some signed up immediately for drone piloting, one said though they don't get to fly the "real thing" but you don't want to be in the horse calvary when the tank comes along.
You may be on to something here. Taking notes with a computer or taking notes on pen and paper use different parts of the brain. I'm thinking typing notes is transcribing (info goes in the ear and out the fingers but brain is simply a conduit) but maybe when using your hand and arm with looking down seeing the notes form the brain gets more feedback interaction like doing art.
a rather famous one in Palo Alto that the corporate owners had no clue what to do with.
Ah yes, that place. Where some people developed a computer that sat on a desk. It had this doohickey called a mouse. But don't let Steve Jobs and his cohorts in or they will steal all the secrets of this desktop computer design.
what gets me is these Bigfoot hunters have lots of drama in their videos but ***none*** of those guys have what I would say definite video (all those shows are high drama and like reality shows they are a total turnoff for me). I'd only be convinced if they have the discipline to spend months (years) out in wilderness to get wild animal shots. i.e. the Snow Leopard, Empire Penguin, and that camel like animal in middle Gobi desert where camera crew lugged all kinds of equipment in addition to food and water, at great expense including detrimental physical health. The miracle of the latter is they get fantastic Natl Geographic quality footage (probably a lot more footage but maybe lighting, framing, and focusing were not that great). But then maybe there has but they found lots of other animals but no Bigfoot.
Getting back to Nessie (which I don't think exists), there is the Open ROV underwater drones http://www.openrov.com/ that don't cost that much so maybe we can get lots more "eyeballs" looking what really is down in that water.
Incidently, I heard Big Foot a few times before (no not the big scary monster). This is NORAD's callword for directing Air Guard aircraft in the Western Defense Sector on 271.000 MHz.
I see this post was modded up as "Funny" but I think it should be "Insightful." Really, should treat cell networks as unsecured just treating all guns as loaded. There's some stuff you should never never put on a phone. Just like some stuff never never put on a computer that is connected to the internet. Yes, PITA. Usabilty vs. Security.
The elephant in the room that many people choose to ignore is the fact that we've all collectively gotten so much benefit from the energy produced by the fossil fuels that are so despised. I don't know that it's remotely fair to make the oil, coal or gas company the "bad guy" who must pay for all the environmental damage the use of their fuels caused, when it was all of us willingly buying them or the energy produced by them, the whole time.
that pretty much sums it up right there. I believe there is a climate change (global warming or whatever term) simply put that certain places are changing (less ice in Greenland, Seattle has seasonal weather instead of rain all the time, Calif lakes are much lower than before). Now there's all kinds of people arguing over sematics or finding faults in scientist's reporting (I'm like every other field there's some mischief). Unfortunately this country is becoming more scientifically illiterate and more religious zealots. I think the oil companies should come "clean" and be objective. Hey, they are not going to go broke as we all need their gas (sorry but not all of us can go electric). Too bad we can't discuss this objectively. My concern is if certain regions go bone dry in a generation like what happened to the Sahara or if arctic ice shrinks up and the Atlantic current cycles stop leaving England and much of western Europe have severe winters like Canada (London is about same latitude as Calgary).
proposes that more of the country should be privatised, because "businesses can do it much more efficiently".
there was a time when airport security was privatized, and as the years went by businesses made more "efficient" eventually those doing the screening were earning minimum wage (hey, they reduced operating costs to maximize profits).
Not sure why this was labeled as "troll." Recently San Jose (or some other SF bay area city) relabeled prostitutes as human trafficking and this changed perception of how law enforcement deals with this. Instead of treating many prostitutes as criminals, they were then seen victims of human trafficking and the pimps as the criminals. This group (homeless, desperate, and getting taken advantage of) not to be confused with call girls and escorts (that's a whole different category).
Few years ago talking with someone that retired, took vacation in Vancouver and loved the city, "I'm selling my home in Silicon Valley for lotsa bux and moving to Canada!" Whup, not so fast. Canada just doesn't let anyone move in, she was doing ping pong back and forth (live a few months in Vancouver but had to leave and live a few months more down here). I don't know all the details (and I didn't read article here) but Canada is pretty restrictive on who moves in. I heard there are exceptions like just before Hong Kong handed over to China, they allowed lots of people to move to Canada (though smooth transition as they were UK citizens). I also heard Canada has an unwritten policy prohibiting blacks moving into Canada.
I was thinking this big priority on accessing phones, surveillance, etc. but generally police no longer respond to burgarlies. I'm old enough to remember police would investigate burgarlies but these days not really. Will it free up resources to concentrate on crimes that effect us commoners?
I get home and frequenty hear messages like this left on machine, "IRS has filed a claim and you need to call this number with 20 hours to avoid an arrest warrant."
This is what the feds should place priority instead of spying on everyone's phone line. Oh wait, if they are doing that then how come they can't rope in these crooks?
You can run code, even compiled code, using nothing but humans and 3x5 cards.
And it used to be done just like that. Back in the 1950s (or maybe before) some women were called computers because they did computations, they probably used other paper besides 3x5 cards. I heard there were large rooms that had rows of these gals with mechanical adding machines or pencil and paper that did a lot of mundane calculations. This was also when knowing shorthand was a useful skill.
Thanks for taking time to explain the deeper into the details.
I've seen no attempts at self-programming computers yet,
I was thinking other day whenever I see someone doing ***real*** programming, they are writing text just like was done in 1980s. The difference is they are using a keyboard that is lower profile and the screen is flat. Other than that it's straight text. Last week I talked with this guy banging out code in text on his linux laptop, it must have been because it had a penguin sticker (also an EFF sticker), I asked why is coding still done in text (I kind knew this already). He said GUIs are dynamic, when writing code using GUIs will be constantly changing and will never be able to keep it steady.
To get nitpicky, his typings will have to be compiled (so not really direct writing of code). I guess to write code directly need to get one of those computers with all the toggle switches. One set is the address, the other is the code. Once have the all set to ON/OFF sequence, then press DEPOSIT.
I get it -- since the bulk -- practically all -- of these devices are beyond "end of life" in-so-far as they already serve the needs of any reasonable users, the manufacturers are faced with the unthinkable. They won't have bloated profits to bank off-shore to give dividends to their stockholders. That's *ALL* that matters. Solution? Easy -- make the products a trendy fashion accessory. The users are already dumbed down so giving them the appearance of new trinkets they can understand is child's play. Apple are the masters of this, but their market share (but not revenue) is shrinking.
"The Problem", or rather the consequence is that the revenue stream is going to tap-out really soon. Not because people become too smart to buy the latest gizmo, but because pervasive technology renders people virtually irrelevant.
The proof is all around us; cars that drive themselves to TV remotes that you can voice control. After all, having to remember how to press a button is just so, so inconvenient.
The dumbing down of the population is well under way and the most terrifying part is that these same people will be voting and... breeding.
Don't worry, hopefully we'll be dead before it all collapses under the weight of its own stupidity.
Maybe it's me but I don't understand when people rush out to get the latest phone, laptop, or car because they all look the same to me. Well, maybe if these items are all beat up and dirty then a new thing will get rid of bum appearance. Let's look at the phone, these days ***all*** phones look the same, all are flat touch screen. There was a time when if you had a phone in the car you were The Man. Or having a portable phone or a portable computer was really something. Then you can show off that your portable phone is small enough to fit into your pocket and your laptop was like carrying a book instead of a suitcase. These days? What's to show off? A new irritating sound when the phone rings? I don't get it.
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I wonder if Carly outsourced voters not knowing they end up voting for the other guy (yes a silly reference). But now that Cruz has to lay off his staff damn it's repeat of what Fiorina did 20 years ago.
If such is possible in Silicon Valley (i.e. complaints about lack of diversity in many SV companies if not counting janitorial staff). I haven't RTFA but appears this group will go nowhere with the techies based on the comments here.
Perhaps there is an unwritten code among pirate stations but reading in Gordon West's GROL book has an interesting mention. In the early days of radio (1920s or 30s) the Supreme Court ruled Commerce Dept does not have enforcement powers over radio stations (those pre-FCC laws had a lot of holes I guess). Radio stations had a field day, they used whatever power they wanted, operated whenever they wanted, changed frequencies on the whim. Result was chaos and interference that caused many listeners to put away their receivers and sales tanked (typical tragedy of the commons). When FCC was created, a lot more thought was put into its implementation.
However, as BigU+03C0mpin said, breakup the Clear Channel monopoly. There was a time when FCC required AM and FM broadcast band have a balance of station types. Rock, country, classical, news, jazz, etc. I'm thinking it has been years since I've listened to broadcast radio, it just doesn't do anything for me. But all these pirate stations sound interesting and they have an audience. I assume many of these stations are willing to be legit but the entry barriers are simply too high. Maybe KFAT will make a comeback. They were a marginal country station in Gilroy in 1970s, they scrounged flea markets and garage sales for obscure country records. Their bumpsticker, "I found it! And it's hard to find too." (they were relatively low power).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It all happened since Day One. "Do not take and eat that apple." It's been downhill ever since.
and fanboys will take that for the real thing.
also note if you post something critical of SpaceX, they will flame your butt. One person who continually posted critical remarks (or negative as some saw it) about the New Space crowd in many space forums and was banned from all of them except one (comments in Spudis lunar blog). He had reasons, whether people agreed or not but he did raise some interesting points such as if going beyond earth orbit need LH2/LOX and also raised caution of Ayd Rand policies for space programs.
The closest to being owned is the Russian fly-bys
maybe they gave those guys a favor or a gift so when those pilots file their periodic officer evaluation reports they can include, "Flew 326 hours since last OER, buzzed a US ship," Hey, that's a promotion and good boost in payment that can be used for down payment for a 500 sq foot apartment.
The Army uses enlisted men/women to fly drones, while the Air Force uses officers.
come to think of it does Army still use NCOs or warrant officers (if they still exist) to fly helicopters? about AF, I remember in 1980s talking with a non-pilot USAF captain when he expects to become a general. He said no, "to get stars here [pointing to shoulder], you need wings here [pointing to chest]." This guy also wore glasses so zero chance to be a pilot. I wonder with less flying officers in AF will we see more non-pilot generals in this age of drones?
as the Common Affordable Lightweight Fighter. I sometimes wonder about back in the days when fighter jets were being cranked out from the factories like Toyota cranking out Corollas. There was a time of where it took multiple flights to take out a target (most attacks on bridges fail along with a lot of friendly fire incidents), a time of Aces, test pilots that can list zillions of different aircraft to their resume, etc. These days just a few drones are needed. There was an article about new grads from USAF basic pilot school and waiting list for positions like F16 squadrons were lengthly. Some signed up immediately for drone piloting, one said though they don't get to fly the "real thing" but you don't want to be in the horse calvary when the tank comes along.
Not really, NASA does employ foreign nationals. They're just like US citizens, only have different color on ID badge.
You may be on to something here. Taking notes with a computer or taking notes on pen and paper use different parts of the brain. I'm thinking typing notes is transcribing (info goes in the ear and out the fingers but brain is simply a conduit) but maybe when using your hand and arm with looking down seeing the notes form the brain gets more feedback interaction like doing art.
a rather famous one in Palo Alto that the corporate owners had no clue what to do with.
Ah yes, that place. Where some people developed a computer that sat on a desk. It had this doohickey called a mouse. But don't let Steve Jobs and his cohorts in or they will steal all the secrets of this desktop computer design.
This same logic applies to Big Foot,
what gets me is these Bigfoot hunters have lots of drama in their videos but ***none*** of those guys have what I would say definite video (all those shows are high drama and like reality shows they are a total turnoff for me). I'd only be convinced if they have the discipline to spend months (years) out in wilderness to get wild animal shots. i.e. the Snow Leopard, Empire Penguin, and that camel like animal in middle Gobi desert where camera crew lugged all kinds of equipment in addition to food and water, at great expense including detrimental physical health. The miracle of the latter is they get fantastic Natl Geographic quality footage (probably a lot more footage but maybe lighting, framing, and focusing were not that great). But then maybe there has but they found lots of other animals but no Bigfoot.
Getting back to Nessie (which I don't think exists), there is the Open ROV underwater drones http://www.openrov.com/ that don't cost that much so maybe we can get lots more "eyeballs" looking what really is down in that water.
Incidently, I heard Big Foot a few times before (no not the big scary monster). This is NORAD's callword for directing Air Guard aircraft in the Western Defense Sector on 271.000 MHz.
I see this post was modded up as "Funny" but I think it should be "Insightful." Really, should treat cell networks as unsecured just treating all guns as loaded. There's some stuff you should never never put on a phone. Just like some stuff never never put on a computer that is connected to the internet. Yes, PITA. Usabilty vs. Security.
The elephant in the room that many people choose to ignore is the fact that we've all collectively gotten so much benefit from the energy produced by the fossil fuels that are so despised. I don't know that it's remotely fair to make the oil, coal or gas company the "bad guy" who must pay for all the environmental damage the use of their fuels caused, when it was all of us willingly buying them or the energy produced by them, the whole time.
that pretty much sums it up right there. I believe there is a climate change (global warming or whatever term) simply put that certain places are changing (less ice in Greenland, Seattle has seasonal weather instead of rain all the time, Calif lakes are much lower than before). Now there's all kinds of people arguing over sematics or finding faults in scientist's reporting (I'm like every other field there's some mischief). Unfortunately this country is becoming more scientifically illiterate and more religious zealots. I think the oil companies should come "clean" and be objective. Hey, they are not going to go broke as we all need their gas (sorry but not all of us can go electric). Too bad we can't discuss this objectively. My concern is if certain regions go bone dry in a generation like what happened to the Sahara or if arctic ice shrinks up and the Atlantic current cycles stop leaving England and much of western Europe have severe winters like Canada (London is about same latitude as Calgary).
proposes that more of the country should be privatised, because "businesses can do it much more efficiently".
there was a time when airport security was privatized, and as the years went by businesses made more "efficient" eventually those doing the screening were earning minimum wage (hey, they reduced operating costs to maximize profits).
Not sure why this was labeled as "troll." Recently San Jose (or some other SF bay area city) relabeled prostitutes as human trafficking and this changed perception of how law enforcement deals with this. Instead of treating many prostitutes as criminals, they were then seen victims of human trafficking and the pimps as the criminals. This group (homeless, desperate, and getting taken advantage of) not to be confused with call girls and escorts (that's a whole different category).
Few years ago talking with someone that retired, took vacation in Vancouver and loved the city, "I'm selling my home in Silicon Valley for lotsa bux and moving to Canada!" Whup, not so fast. Canada just doesn't let anyone move in, she was doing ping pong back and forth (live a few months in Vancouver but had to leave and live a few months more down here). I don't know all the details (and I didn't read article here) but Canada is pretty restrictive on who moves in. I heard there are exceptions like just before Hong Kong handed over to China, they allowed lots of people to move to Canada (though smooth transition as they were UK citizens). I also heard Canada has an unwritten policy prohibiting blacks moving into Canada.
like the old lady who went on a rampage due to terrible customer service.
I was thinking this big priority on accessing phones, surveillance, etc. but generally police no longer respond to burgarlies. I'm old enough to remember police would investigate burgarlies but these days not really. Will it free up resources to concentrate on crimes that effect us commoners?
I get home and frequenty hear messages like this left on machine, "IRS has filed a claim and you need to call this number with 20 hours to avoid an arrest warrant."
This is what the feds should place priority instead of spying on everyone's phone line. Oh wait, if they are doing that then how come they can't rope in these crooks?
You can run code, even compiled code, using nothing but humans and 3x5 cards.
And it used to be done just like that. Back in the 1950s (or maybe before) some women were called computers because they did computations, they probably used other paper besides 3x5 cards. I heard there were large rooms that had rows of these gals with mechanical adding machines or pencil and paper that did a lot of mundane calculations. This was also when knowing shorthand was a useful skill.
Thanks for taking time to explain the deeper into the details.
I've seen no attempts at self-programming computers yet,
I was thinking other day whenever I see someone doing ***real*** programming, they are writing text just like was done in 1980s. The difference is they are using a keyboard that is lower profile and the screen is flat. Other than that it's straight text. Last week I talked with this guy banging out code in text on his linux laptop, it must have been because it had a penguin sticker (also an EFF sticker), I asked why is coding still done in text (I kind knew this already). He said GUIs are dynamic, when writing code using GUIs will be constantly changing and will never be able to keep it steady.
To get nitpicky, his typings will have to be compiled (so not really direct writing of code). I guess to write code directly need to get one of those computers with all the toggle switches. One set is the address, the other is the code. Once have the all set to ON/OFF sequence, then press DEPOSIT.
A friend wrote this reply on another forum:
I get it -- since the bulk -- practically all -- of these devices are beyond "end of life" in-so-far as they already serve the needs of any reasonable users, the manufacturers are faced with the unthinkable. They won't have bloated profits to bank off-shore to give dividends to their stockholders. That's *ALL* that matters. Solution? Easy -- make the products a trendy fashion accessory. The users are already dumbed down so giving them the appearance of new trinkets they can understand is child's play. Apple are the masters of this, but their market share (but not revenue) is shrinking. "The Problem", or rather the consequence is that the revenue stream is going to tap-out really soon. Not because people become too smart to buy the latest gizmo, but because pervasive technology renders people virtually irrelevant. The proof is all around us; cars that drive themselves to TV remotes that you can voice control. After all, having to remember how to press a button is just so, so inconvenient. The dumbing down of the population is well under way and the most terrifying part is that these same people will be voting and ... breeding.
Don't worry, hopefully we'll be dead before it all collapses under the weight of its own stupidity.
who want to feel smug about the latest shiny?
Maybe it's me but I don't understand when people rush out to get the latest phone, laptop, or car because they all look the same to me. Well, maybe if these items are all beat up and dirty then a new thing will get rid of bum appearance. Let's look at the phone, these days ***all*** phones look the same, all are flat touch screen. There was a time when if you had a phone in the car you were The Man. Or having a portable phone or a portable computer was really something. Then you can show off that your portable phone is small enough to fit into your pocket and your laptop was like carrying a book instead of a suitcase. These days? What's to show off? A new irritating sound when the phone rings? I don't get it.