I am a VPN user at work. I work remotely and use a VPN tunnel to get on the "local" network. I understand that browsing from work, through the tunnel, would tell the remote websites that my work NAT IP is the originator. But what if the government wants records of who, exactly is connecting to a site. They know the originator is the VPN provider, in my case work, wouldn't it be a simple operation to subpoena their connection records to know that my tunnel (and internal IP) initiated the connection to XYZ.com?
I know that a VPN tunnel encrypts my communications as does a website that encrypts via HTTP. That protects me from someone sniffing what I am doing. What I don't understand is how people feel using a VPN service makes them anonymous when I don't believe the actual connection records that tie you to a site are as private as they may think. Please feel free to enlighten me if I am confused. Thanks
As someone who lived in Florida and rode out Hurricane Andrew in West Palm Beach, I can tell you with 100% certainty that the 170 miles between Homestead and West Palm was the difference between just wind and rain versus winds powerful enough to break slash pine trees like toothpicks. I had the privilege/horror to drive to South Miami the following week to estimate work and the damage was unfathomable. So while the clouds, wind and rain may appear to cover the state, there is a huge difference in destructive force from the eye wall out to the fringes.
While I applaud the efforts of all those involved in improving forecasts, when it comes to evacuations, this still isn't enough. Remember the last hurricane that hit Florida? If you do, you will also remember the gridlock on the highways heading north. The problem was the hurricane was predicted to hit south Florida but it veered north, and rolled over all the people that evacuated or were trying to evacuate. Luckily the storm had weakened. My point is that 155 miles could mean the difference between some living and some dying because the potential affected area is so large our infrastructure can't handle the millions that are trying to get away from the storm. Additionally, if folks in a major metropolitan area like Miami or Jacksonville are motivated to leave, but the hurricane hits north or south, the folks that really need to leave can't. I'm not sure what the solution is but we can't kid ourselves into thinking "yay, we are masters of the weather" because we aren't. Not even close.
That's it, there is no other news. Exploit found, manufacturer fixed in a timely manner. I would say that whatever ad-hoc system that is in place for identifying software vulnerabilities, whether it's a reward or just the coolness factor of having one's name in an article, seems to be working. I did like the picture of the Nuke plant in the article though. I am making a wild guess that any software running internally in a nuclear plant is not accessible from outside, not even through a firewall. But I could be wrong. Think Homer Simpson.
Ken, based on your second post, we do agree. As someone closer to the classroom, you have a good point about current events. Constant bombardment from a polarized political system and the stress kids may feel when trying to reconcile some of that could be problematic. I left NJ when I was 10. We were closer to NYC in a bedroom community. Those schools were good. We moved to Florida where the teachers were fine but overcrowding was the norm which wasn't so good. It seems there is never one issue at the heart of learning. All kids and families are different and the worst performers, as you stated, are the ones in generational poverty. I'm not sure how to help them.
Ken, you had me until you stated that "...the education teachers are offering is declining...". I wholeheartedly disagree with that. What is declining, in my opinion is parental support of their own children and their schools. Take any failing school and pick out one kid who is doing well and I'll show you a kid who's parents are involved and active in that kid's educational career. Too often do I see kids who are failing and his/her parents are blaming the school instead of looking at home. Kids under stress of hunger, drugs, incarcerated parents, etc. can't learn effectively. We forget, they are just kids and yet some of them are taking care of their parents at 10 years old. Until we take on that elephant, we won't improve our test scores.
While my state - Missouri - has been consistently lowering it's K-12 funding, local support in my community remains strong. Despite local support, however, is the staggering number of unfunded mandates both State and Federal governments foist upon our schools. A recent example is a new law our state crafted that requires all students be tested for dyslexia. That sounds amazing, right? However, nowhere in the legislation is any funding method spelled out. That means $2M, in our case, must be diverted from teacher raises, school books, etc. and used for this. There are literally hundreds of these unfunded mandates and some of them are simply ridiculous.
As a school board member, I continue to be frustrated and angered in some cases over the ridiculousness that is our public schools. It's the greatest idea ever but politics will ruin it. There is no other way to say it.
And yet, the US has Hooters. Hooters gets away with only hiring women as servers because of BFOQ. That's Bona Fide Occupational Qualifications. While they were sued many years ago, they only agreed to put men in other positions but they never agreed to hire men for server roles. How is this different?
This is NOT what power companies want. Your local power company, who you send your bill to, probably has zero say in the actual generation of power. They buy power from the grid (think of the guys in NY mining bitcoin) and the quantity of watts they purchase has been agreed upon far in advance. Otherwise how would the large plants know how to schedule for demand? And vice versa; when home users decide willy-nilly to "sell back" and there is too much power available, what happens then? You don't just spin down your house sized steam turbines when home users with a car or batteries or solar start pushing back. Home users do not get the same treatment as a large industrial users either. That means your home power is never cheaper at 2:00AM like it might be for a big Aluminum smelter. This whole premise is crap.
So you don't want to give up your fingerprint willingly? No worries, I have a knife or scissors or I'll just kill you and drag your body to the scanner. Much easier than trying to beat a password/phrase/answer out of you.
I thought that most (not all) college classes had options for scheduling. I know there are night school classes so is this about educating kids that they can change their schedule for the better or simply to provide another excuse for those who are under-performing?
In both places you mention, firearms ownership is curbed or heavily regulated by the government. Your government is not "by the people, for the people" because you have no way to enforce your will. In the case of Sri Lanka, folks have no choice but to accept this assault on their basic human right of free speech because they are helpless to do anything. I fear the same will happen in the US as we head down the slippery slope of firearm "regulation"
It seems I am a polar opposite to those who are in love with the expensive living on the coasts. I live and work in the Midwest and will certainly retire here. By living in the middle of the country, I can easily visit both coasts, and the lower cost of living is going to allow me to retire early. Despite the claims that there is no culture or a diverse community, I would say that most Midwest college towns defy that notion. I have everything but an ocean and a large local lake can take care of that need. I grew up in Florida and survived the drug-addled rat race for many years before venturing west. It was the best decision I made in my life. I almost didn't write this because frankly, I would rather the coasties not know how good us "blue collar" IT folks have it.
I think you mean to say that the Senator should thank Apple for not letting it's customers down by capitulating to government pressure to provide a back door. A door that hackers would certainly find and exploit in order to steal our personal data. A door that could be used by law enforcement without a warrant. I applaud Apple for standing up for personal liberties, even if it makes it tougher on law enforcement.
I read the first paragraph of the article - right up to where it berated our President and then I stopped. If this is about real science, and I don't deny climate change, keep the politics out of it and just state the facts. We have plenty of time to do politics here or at the bar or wherever. Also, are these temperatures really record breaking or is that just more hype?
The real punchline here is that nobody has a clue of what climate change will really bring. In fact, it may make areas that are currently deserts into lush, tropical paradises. And where the people are flocking to now could become deserts.
Moore was tried in the court of public opinion with the media as his prosecutor. There was no proof of anything nefarious save for the words of someone about something that happened decades ago. Moore's only real transgression is that he is a Republican and that makes him a target. We are going to have to stop listening to sensationalist media if we want our country to survive.
How can AI help the government? Well, if the government tries to regulate it then it won't help. However, if we replaced government with AI, with a system that actually learns, doesn't mistreat women, has restraint and doesn't bow to every lobbyist that shows up with a cart full of money, there may be hope for humans. But someone would have to program a system like that....nope, we're fucked.
I wouldn't put the two gentlemen in the same group. While they are both older, they are two different people who have just worked together. They may each want to learn/do different things but based on their workload, family, etc., may not have had the opportunity for additional training. This is something I understand well. Life has a way of making one irrelevant and I am sort of experiencing that now. I work on legacy systems that are in production. My day is filled with stress of keeping old shit working while also adding new features. The younger guys work on new projects that aren't yet in production so they have the luxury of low stress and have time to learn. Give these guys the time to learn. Carve out times where they can be isolated or trained without interruptions. However, you have to make a list - together - of technology that they need training on. In other words it has to be something relevant to the business. Encourage both to become resident experts on different things too. Don't discount them. Make the relevant again and they will most likely perform above expectations.
With all the cord cutting, myself included, I don't understand why more content providers aren't breaking with tradition (or contracts) and offering their programming via streaming. For example, I want my national news via my Roku box. I checked with Fox News (don't judge me) and the only way I can stream their content is with an account like DirecTV or one of the cable providers. It's a dying industry and content providers really need to either offer themselves al-a-cart or figure out a way to group together on their own. I won't be paying for 100 channels of infomercials or crap I don't watch anymore just to have news and weather. I am guessing most others commenting here feel the same.
So let me get this straight. Content providers want to sue TickBox for creating a device that roots out contraband. Seems to me that content providers would be buying a TickBox themselves so they could more easily find the infringing content and then issue take-down orders.
I get this is proof of concept but what was the cabon footprint to build the plant. In other words, at what point will the plant negate all the carbon released in order to build it? Can it ever recover enough before the mechanical bits wear out?
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I am a VPN user at work. I work remotely and use a VPN tunnel to get on the "local" network. I understand that browsing from work, through the tunnel, would tell the remote websites that my work NAT IP is the originator. But what if the government wants records of who, exactly is connecting to a site. They know the originator is the VPN provider, in my case work, wouldn't it be a simple operation to subpoena their connection records to know that my tunnel (and internal IP) initiated the connection to XYZ.com?
I know that a VPN tunnel encrypts my communications as does a website that encrypts via HTTP. That protects me from someone sniffing what I am doing. What I don't understand is how people feel using a VPN service makes them anonymous when I don't believe the actual connection records that tie you to a site are as private as they may think.
Please feel free to enlighten me if I am confused.
Thanks
As someone who lived in Florida and rode out Hurricane Andrew in West Palm Beach, I can tell you with 100% certainty that the 170 miles between Homestead and West Palm was the difference between just wind and rain versus winds powerful enough to break slash pine trees like toothpicks. I had the privilege/horror to drive to South Miami the following week to estimate work and the damage was unfathomable. So while the clouds, wind and rain may appear to cover the state, there is a huge difference in destructive force from the eye wall out to the fringes.
While I applaud the efforts of all those involved in improving forecasts, when it comes to evacuations, this still isn't enough. Remember the last hurricane that hit Florida? If you do, you will also remember the gridlock on the highways heading north. The problem was the hurricane was predicted to hit south Florida but it veered north, and rolled over all the people that evacuated or were trying to evacuate. Luckily the storm had weakened.
My point is that 155 miles could mean the difference between some living and some dying because the potential affected area is so large our infrastructure can't handle the millions that are trying to get away from the storm. Additionally, if folks in a major metropolitan area like Miami or Jacksonville are motivated to leave, but the hurricane hits north or south, the folks that really need to leave can't.
I'm not sure what the solution is but we can't kid ourselves into thinking "yay, we are masters of the weather" because we aren't. Not even close.
That's it, there is no other news. Exploit found, manufacturer fixed in a timely manner. I would say that whatever ad-hoc system that is in place for identifying software vulnerabilities, whether it's a reward or just the coolness factor of having one's name in an article, seems to be working. I did like the picture of the Nuke plant in the article though. I am making a wild guess that any software running internally in a nuclear plant is not accessible from outside, not even through a firewall. But I could be wrong. Think Homer Simpson.
Ken, based on your second post, we do agree. As someone closer to the classroom, you have a good point about current events. Constant bombardment from a polarized political system and the stress kids may feel when trying to reconcile some of that could be problematic. I left NJ when I was 10. We were closer to NYC in a bedroom community. Those schools were good. We moved to Florida where the teachers were fine but overcrowding was the norm which wasn't so good. It seems there is never one issue at the heart of learning. All kids and families are different and the worst performers, as you stated, are the ones in generational poverty. I'm not sure how to help them.
Ken, you had me until you stated that "...the education teachers are offering is declining...". I wholeheartedly disagree with that. What is declining, in my opinion is parental support of their own children and their schools. Take any failing school and pick out one kid who is doing well and I'll show you a kid who's parents are involved and active in that kid's educational career. Too often do I see kids who are failing and his/her parents are blaming the school instead of looking at home. Kids under stress of hunger, drugs, incarcerated parents, etc. can't learn effectively. We forget, they are just kids and yet some of them are taking care of their parents at 10 years old. Until we take on that elephant, we won't improve our test scores.
While my state - Missouri - has been consistently lowering it's K-12 funding, local support in my community remains strong. Despite local support, however, is the staggering number of unfunded mandates both State and Federal governments foist upon our schools. A recent example is a new law our state crafted that requires all students be tested for dyslexia. That sounds amazing, right? However, nowhere in the legislation is any funding method spelled out. That means $2M, in our case, must be diverted from teacher raises, school books, etc. and used for this. There are literally hundreds of these unfunded mandates and some of them are simply ridiculous.
As a school board member, I continue to be frustrated and angered in some cases over the ridiculousness that is our public schools. It's the greatest idea ever but politics will ruin it. There is no other way to say it.
And yet, the US has Hooters. Hooters gets away with only hiring women as servers because of BFOQ. That's Bona Fide Occupational Qualifications. While they were sued many years ago, they only agreed to put men in other positions but they never agreed to hire men for server roles. How is this different?
This is NOT what power companies want. Your local power company, who you send your bill to, probably has zero say in the actual generation of power. They buy power from the grid (think of the guys in NY mining bitcoin) and the quantity of watts they purchase has been agreed upon far in advance. Otherwise how would the large plants know how to schedule for demand? And vice versa; when home users decide willy-nilly to "sell back" and there is too much power available, what happens then? You don't just spin down your house sized steam turbines when home users with a car or batteries or solar start pushing back. Home users do not get the same treatment as a large industrial users either. That means your home power is never cheaper at 2:00AM like it might be for a big Aluminum smelter. This whole premise is crap.
So you don't want to give up your fingerprint willingly? No worries, I have a knife or scissors or I'll just kill you and drag your body to the scanner. Much easier than trying to beat a password/phrase/answer out of you.
I thought that most (not all) college classes had options for scheduling. I know there are night school classes so is this about educating kids that they can change their schedule for the better or simply to provide another excuse for those who are under-performing?
You have been fined one credit for the violation of the verbal moralaity act......
In both places you mention, firearms ownership is curbed or heavily regulated by the government. Your government is not "by the people, for the people" because you have no way to enforce your will. In the case of Sri Lanka, folks have no choice but to accept this assault on their basic human right of free speech because they are helpless to do anything. I fear the same will happen in the US as we head down the slippery slope of firearm "regulation"
So the cookie is dying. The article says nothing about how we will be tracked in the future. Or how we are being tracked now when I reject cookies.
It seems I am a polar opposite to those who are in love with the expensive living on the coasts. I live and work in the Midwest and will certainly retire here. By living in the middle of the country, I can easily visit both coasts, and the lower cost of living is going to allow me to retire early. Despite the claims that there is no culture or a diverse community, I would say that most Midwest college towns defy that notion. I have everything but an ocean and a large local lake can take care of that need. I grew up in Florida and survived the drug-addled rat race for many years before venturing west. It was the best decision I made in my life. I almost didn't write this because frankly, I would rather the coasties not know how good us "blue collar" IT folks have it.
I think you mean to say that the Senator should thank Apple for not letting it's customers down by capitulating to government pressure to provide a back door. A door that hackers would certainly find and exploit in order to steal our personal data. A door that could be used by law enforcement without a warrant. I applaud Apple for standing up for personal liberties, even if it makes it tougher on law enforcement.
I read the first paragraph of the article - right up to where it berated our President and then I stopped. If this is about real science, and I don't deny climate change, keep the politics out of it and just state the facts. We have plenty of time to do politics here or at the bar or wherever. Also, are these temperatures really record breaking or is that just more hype?
I did it but you shouldn't.
The real punchline here is that nobody has a clue of what climate change will really bring. In fact, it may make areas that are currently deserts into lush, tropical paradises. And where the people are flocking to now could become deserts.
Moore was tried in the court of public opinion with the media as his prosecutor. There was no proof of anything nefarious save for the words of someone about something that happened decades ago. Moore's only real transgression is that he is a Republican and that makes him a target. We are going to have to stop listening to sensationalist media if we want our country to survive.
How can AI help the government? Well, if the government tries to regulate it then it won't help. However, if we replaced government with AI, with a system that actually learns, doesn't mistreat women, has restraint and doesn't bow to every lobbyist that shows up with a cart full of money, there may be hope for humans. But someone would have to program a system like that....nope, we're fucked.
I wouldn't put the two gentlemen in the same group. While they are both older, they are two different people who have just worked together. They may each want to learn/do different things but based on their workload, family, etc., may not have had the opportunity for additional training. This is something I understand well. Life has a way of making one irrelevant and I am sort of experiencing that now. I work on legacy systems that are in production. My day is filled with stress of keeping old shit working while also adding new features. The younger guys work on new projects that aren't yet in production so they have the luxury of low stress and have time to learn.
Give these guys the time to learn. Carve out times where they can be isolated or trained without interruptions. However, you have to make a list - together - of technology that they need training on. In other words it has to be something relevant to the business. Encourage both to become resident experts on different things too.
Don't discount them. Make the relevant again and they will most likely perform above expectations.
With all the cord cutting, myself included, I don't understand why more content providers aren't breaking with tradition (or contracts) and offering their programming via streaming. For example, I want my national news via my Roku box. I checked with Fox News (don't judge me) and the only way I can stream their content is with an account like DirecTV or one of the cable providers. It's a dying industry and content providers really need to either offer themselves al-a-cart or figure out a way to group together on their own. I won't be paying for 100 channels of infomercials or crap I don't watch anymore just to have news and weather. I am guessing most others commenting here feel the same.
So let me get this straight. Content providers want to sue TickBox for creating a device that roots out contraband. Seems to me that content providers would be buying a TickBox themselves so they could more easily find the infringing content and then issue take-down orders.
I get this is proof of concept but what was the cabon footprint to build the plant. In other words, at what point will the plant negate all the carbon released in order to build it? Can it ever recover enough before the mechanical bits wear out?