Agreed. Nit-picking code efficiency is great for code reviews, but not a productive technique to improve performance. ROI says its better to find and fix the one stupid bug that profiling identifies as 70% of your latency instead of dozens with no perceivable impact.
I've worked in Austin, and the traffic wasn't terrible for me. Waze made a huge difference. YMMV. IMHO, it's worth living in this city solely for the ATX hackerspace and the fantastically well equipped TechShop.
I live in Nashville and I love it here. IT is in strong demand and the cost of living is low. No state income tax on wages is fantastic. I wish our airport was still a hub though. Always having to make connections sucks.
The problem with the Ribbon is that unless you use it for hours a day, the menu is faster, because you can find the items much more easily.
Office user here: I feel the pain on this. For that random thing you use once in a blue moon it can be a PITA to find it on the Ribbon or Menus. Office 2016 has a "tell me what you want to do" box above the ribbon now. I use it a lot instead of trying to find the button to insert data from an ODBC source or convert text to columns.
Full disclosure: I work for Microsoft helping Enterprises fix and deploy Windows. The above is my own opinion and not paid shilling.
"Every movie you've ever searched for" is unavailable to stream. This title is available on Netflix DVD. -and- You can stream this, but we have non-skippable commercials poorly cut in and if you pause or seek it the episode will restart. Also, we use dumb buffering, so that every commercial causes the buffer to flush and you'll end up watching most of the video at 180p, not 1080p, quality.
If we're going to title the article "How wiretaps actually work", then you have to make at least a small head nod to the Snowden disclosures.
"Wiretaps" actually work by asking an NSA employee or contractor to take a coffee break, sit down at their station, and type in the phone number. You'll have metadata immediately, and if you tag the phone number as interesting you'll have real time intercepts from that point forward.
Assuming that Mr. Trump had contacted Russians or those suspected of being Russians then his network would already be flagged as interesting and you'd already have transcripts.
The question is "Will someone risk their career to explain this to the President in idiomatic pictographs or take the safe route and shift-delete it?"
Or, show up five minutes early for a meeting, and get kvetched at for spending time in the conference room that you could have been working. You can't win.
This is worse for many H1-B workers here in the US from major consultancies.
They sign on to 12 or 18 month commitments with penalties of thousands of dollars per month for early termination. They also can't begin work until they've provided a bond to cover this penalty. Their contracts also include provisions for binding arbitration, no class action lawsuits, a requirement to notify the employer before any legal action, and a gag clause so they can't talk about it.
Combine this with consultancy blacklisting and "Indentured Servitude" is absolutely correct.
Realistic medium term plans for space mining call for mining supplies for further space exploration and eventual manufacturing in space.
I apologize for clouding my point. Asteroid mining is the simplest case. You land on an asteroid and start mining "stuff". You want that stuff to be in a convenient orbit for rendevouz and pickup. The equipment you use to put your "stuff" into a circular orbit can also be used to put it on a collision orbit. The farther you are from Earth, the smaller the delta-v difference between LEO and an impact trajectory.
The moon is a little different. You have to escape the Moon's gravity well to drop things on Earth. You could (politically) limit the maximum power of mass drivers to less than the Moon's escape velocity, but then you have to go into the Moon's Hill sphere to pick up your supplies instead of shooting them into LEO.
She's not entirely wrong. Space mining companies will have the physical means to transport and decelerate large chunks of material into Earth's gravity well. That is their raison d'etre after all.
Do I fear this? No.
Earthbound companies today manufacture and transport explosives, flammables, corrosives, and a plethora of unpleasantries in trucks, planes, trains, and pipelines. We don't generally fear incidents from them because a large scale attack requires the cooperation of many individuals. Why should space be different?
I feel your pain. I live in a technology wasteland too. If I need a 1/4 Watt resistor, it's 25 miles for me to one of the few remaining _Radio Shacks_.
I traveled to Atlanta for work recently and found stacks of the Pi Zero for $5 at the Marietta GA Micro-Center. They had the camera cable in stock too. Unfortunately they didn't have any USB-on-the-go-to-real-USB adapters. Considering how much stuff I bought there, maybe it's a good thing there isn't one in Nashville.
Then you have to launch out of this gravity well again and do an extremely expensive plane change maneuver to line up with Mars.
I want to see colonies of thousands or millions living and working off-world within my lifetime and am excited about revisiting the moon. That said, I fear the moon is a distracting diversion from the long term goal of colonizing space. It is logistically impossible to build a self-sustaining colony on a body that does not contain significant quantities of carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, and oxygen. We shouldn't try to live there until we locate and prove those resources exist.
I want body cameras to fix the right-now-today-real-world-conjoined-twin problems of police brutality and illegitimate complaints against police. I'm willing to address the small risk of mass surveillance separately from this.
I understand fully:"Those who sacrifice freedom for security receive neither." I do not see widespread decentralized use of bodycams as a threat to the former. That can be controlled trivially with judicial oversight.
That leaves a question of extrajudicial acquisition of the footage. That might be a problem if we were considering a nationwide program where all of the recordings were dumping into the same datacenter, but we aren't. The implementations we see today have recordings stored separately by each department, most of them in offline storage. That's nearly ten thousand discrete systems that would have to be penetrated and harvested by the NSA. The risk of this appears quite low... I seem to have misplaced my tin-foil hat.
Consider this in light of Mr. Musk's long term goal: Permanent human colonization of Mars.
The high cosmic radiation on Mars means that Habitats are very likely to be underground. Today, no-one makes a tunnel boring machine that will fit on a rocket: Boring Inc.
The lack of fossil fuels means you need a big power source: SolarCity and the battery Gigafactory
Last but not least, you need a way to get there: SpaceX
He's building the infrastructure to make his goal a reality.
This is different from a submarine in some important ways. On a Submarine, you have many dozens of people to interact with. You are physically confined, but you have some social variety. Your mission is dangerous, but you have the comfort of knowing that it's been done before. Tours are, IIRC, 6 months long.
A Mars expedition is different. You're going to train with these people continuously for at least 5 years. During that time you'll constantly be on your best going-to-church-with-grandma behavior and never speak up about grievances because your actions are being monitored ad nauseum by a legion of shrinks. Then you finally get the mission go and you spend (optimistically) 3 months in a space the size of a minivan. Remember your last trip in a minivan? Imagine being trapped in it for 3 months with 5 other people while NASA is scheduling your day down to 15 minute increments.
If a thousand things you can't control happen to go right then you land on Mars. EVA suits on, and you finally escape that (obscenity laden) capsule. You see a horizon for the first time in what feels like forever. Then you work your ass off for a month and have to climb back in that (expletive) minivan for a risk-laden trip back home that takes even longer than the trip to get there.... and during the entire trip you don't have a single shower.
It's not "exactly" like life on a submarine, is it?
The few Finns I've talked to seem rattled by Russia's annexation of Ukraine.
My understanding is that the residents of Crimea voted overwhelmingly (not hillary-trump overwhelmingly but like actual landslide) to join Russia. Am I being Naive about the quality of that election?
Security bulletins aren't a great way to track how secure or insecure software is. The best way to do that is with the CVE system. Microsoft (and most other vendors) log publicly and privately reported vulnerabilities as CVEs and link to the CVE when describing vulnerabilities.
My hope is that this change will eliminate some of the pain of running down security bulletin data. Right now if someone asks you if you are patched against MS16-040 you have to go look that up, look up each individual KB inside that, see which ones have been superseded by other updates and check that against your CMDB. Making that simpler would be a win-win.
Full disclosure, I work for Microsoft as a dedicated PFE. The above is my opinion and hope, not paid shilling.
That is, respectfully and in no insult to you, a bullshit policy. Following that logic a Police department could hire contract security and then disclaim any liability for brutality they inflict.
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Agreed. Nit-picking code efficiency is great for code reviews, but not a productive technique to improve performance. ROI says its better to find and fix the one stupid bug that profiling identifies as 70% of your latency instead of dozens with no perceivable impact.
I've worked in Austin, and the traffic wasn't terrible for me. Waze made a huge difference. YMMV.
IMHO, it's worth living in this city solely for the ATX hackerspace and the fantastically well equipped TechShop.
I live in Nashville and I love it here. IT is in strong demand and the cost of living is low. No state income tax on wages is fantastic. I wish our airport was still a hub though. Always having to make connections sucks.
Office user here: I feel the pain on this. For that random thing you use once in a blue moon it can be a PITA to find it on the Ribbon or Menus. Office 2016 has a "tell me what you want to do" box above the ribbon now. I use it a lot instead of trying to find the button to insert data from an ODBC source or convert text to columns.
Full disclosure: I work for Microsoft helping Enterprises fix and deploy Windows. The above is my own opinion and not paid shilling.
Here is why people choose pirated content:
"Every movie you've ever searched for" is unavailable to stream. This title is available on Netflix DVD.
-and-
You can stream this, but we have non-skippable commercials poorly cut in and if you pause or seek it the episode will restart. Also, we use dumb buffering, so that every commercial causes the buffer to flush and you'll end up watching most of the video at 180p, not 1080p, quality.
If we're going to title the article "How wiretaps actually work", then you have to make at least a small head nod to the Snowden disclosures.
"Wiretaps" actually work by asking an NSA employee or contractor to take a coffee break, sit down at their station, and type in the phone number. You'll have metadata immediately, and if you tag the phone number as interesting you'll have real time intercepts from that point forward.
Assuming that Mr. Trump had contacted Russians or those suspected of being Russians then his network would already be flagged as interesting and you'd already have transcripts.
The question is "Will someone risk their career to explain this to the President in idiomatic pictographs or take the safe route and shift-delete it?"
L1 is an unstable Lagrange point though, so this contraption would need constant tweaking to stay in the right spot.
It would be nifty if we could figure out a way to tack into the Solar wind so this didn't require continuous resupply of propellant.
Has anyone made a mirror/torrent of the content yet? If so, reply with a link and I'll seed it.
Quit that job. Fin.
This is worse for many H1-B workers here in the US from major consultancies.
They sign on to 12 or 18 month commitments with penalties of thousands of dollars per month for early termination. They also can't begin work until they've provided a bond to cover this penalty. Their contracts also include provisions for binding arbitration, no class action lawsuits, a requirement to notify the employer before any legal action, and a gag clause so they can't talk about it.
Combine this with consultancy blacklisting and "Indentured Servitude" is absolutely correct.
I apologize for clouding my point. Asteroid mining is the simplest case. You land on an asteroid and start mining "stuff". You want that stuff to be in a convenient orbit for rendevouz and pickup. The equipment you use to put your "stuff" into a circular orbit can also be used to put it on a collision orbit. The farther you are from Earth, the smaller the delta-v difference between LEO and an impact trajectory.
The moon is a little different. You have to escape the Moon's gravity well to drop things on Earth. You could (politically) limit the maximum power of mass drivers to less than the Moon's escape velocity, but then you have to go into the Moon's Hill sphere to pick up your supplies instead of shooting them into LEO.
She's not entirely wrong. Space mining companies will have the physical means to transport and decelerate large chunks of material into Earth's gravity well. That is their raison d'etre after all.
Do I fear this? No.
Earthbound companies today manufacture and transport explosives, flammables, corrosives, and a plethora of unpleasantries in trucks, planes, trains, and pipelines. We don't generally fear incidents from them because a large scale attack requires the cooperation of many individuals. Why should space be different?
I doubt I'm the only one that's ever needed a resistor on a Saturday afternoon and no desire to wait until Tuesday to get it. :D
I feel your pain. I live in a technology wasteland too. If I need a 1/4 Watt resistor, it's 25 miles for me to one of the few remaining _Radio Shacks_.
I traveled to Atlanta for work recently and found stacks of the Pi Zero for $5 at the Marietta GA Micro-Center. They had the camera cable in stock too. Unfortunately they didn't have any USB-on-the-go-to-real-USB adapters. Considering how much stuff I bought there, maybe it's a good thing there isn't one in Nashville.
I want to see colonies of thousands or millions living and working off-world within my lifetime and am excited about revisiting the moon. That said, I fear the moon is a distracting diversion from the long term goal of colonizing space. It is logistically impossible to build a self-sustaining colony on a body that does not contain significant quantities of carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, and oxygen. We shouldn't try to live there until we locate and prove those resources exist.
Damnit. Slash dot ate my less than sign. That should read "Less than Rs100,000"
It certainly doesn't "feel" right. The per capita income for Kerala is Rs100,000.
I respectfully disagree.
I want body cameras to fix the right-now-today-real-world-conjoined-twin problems of police brutality and illegitimate complaints against police. I'm willing to address the small risk of mass surveillance separately from this.
I understand fully:"Those who sacrifice freedom for security receive neither." I do not see widespread decentralized use of bodycams as a threat to the former. That can be controlled trivially with judicial oversight.
That leaves a question of extrajudicial acquisition of the footage. That might be a problem if we were considering a nationwide program where all of the recordings were dumping into the same datacenter, but we aren't. The implementations we see today have recordings stored separately by each department, most of them in offline storage. That's nearly ten thousand discrete systems that would have to be penetrated and harvested by the NSA. The risk of this appears quite low. .. I seem to have misplaced my tin-foil hat.
Consider this in light of Mr. Musk's long term goal: Permanent human colonization of Mars.
The high cosmic radiation on Mars means that Habitats are very likely to be underground. Today, no-one makes a tunnel boring machine that will fit on a rocket: Boring Inc.
The lack of fossil fuels means you need a big power source: SolarCity and the battery Gigafactory
Last but not least, you need a way to get there: SpaceX
He's building the infrastructure to make his goal a reality.
This is different from a submarine in some important ways. On a Submarine, you have many dozens of people to interact with. You are physically confined, but you have some social variety. Your mission is dangerous, but you have the comfort of knowing that it's been done before. Tours are, IIRC, 6 months long.
A Mars expedition is different. You're going to train with these people continuously for at least 5 years. During that time you'll constantly be on your best going-to-church-with-grandma behavior and never speak up about grievances because your actions are being monitored ad nauseum by a legion of shrinks. Then you finally get the mission go and you spend (optimistically) 3 months in a space the size of a minivan. Remember your last trip in a minivan? Imagine being trapped in it for 3 months with 5 other people while NASA is scheduling your day down to 15 minute increments.
If a thousand things you can't control happen to go right then you land on Mars. EVA suits on, and you finally escape that (obscenity laden) capsule. You see a horizon for the first time in what feels like forever. Then you work your ass off for a month and have to climb back in that (expletive) minivan for a risk-laden trip back home that takes even longer than the trip to get there. ... and during the entire trip you don't have a single shower.
It's not "exactly" like life on a submarine, is it?
My understanding is that the residents of Crimea voted overwhelmingly (not hillary-trump overwhelmingly but like actual landslide) to join Russia. Am I being Naive about the quality of that election?
I play a mobile game called summoners war. In that game, a critical hit causes the image on the screen move/shrink in a way that I hear as a "thump".
My hope is that this change will eliminate some of the pain of running down security bulletin data. Right now if someone asks you if you are patched against MS16-040 you have to go look that up, look up each individual KB inside that, see which ones have been superseded by other updates and check that against your CMDB. Making that simpler would be a win-win.
Full disclosure, I work for Microsoft as a dedicated PFE. The above is my opinion and hope, not paid shilling.
AC, I think you've identified the real problem here.
What you are saying is that I should curtail my speech about political opinions out of fear of retribution from my government.
What you are describing is the antithesis of freedom.
Sometimes my country sucks.
This bill brought to you by Cox, Verizon, and Comcast.
Any insinuation that these parties have a commercial interest in it is "preposterous".