Not to disagree with most of your points, but managing a hostile media is exactly the skill that is needed by any government.
As a contrasting example, the Libs did not fight criticism from the ABC by coddling them. They viciously attacked and undermined their reputation. They actively complained about every story on the ABC networks (TV/Radio) that didn't support their spin, as if it was wildly biased. They spun the idea of the "unfair, far left, biased" ABC as if it were a scientific fact. They did the same thing to Fairfax. Hell, even The Oz at one point.
Labor MPs believe as you do (and I do) about the Murdock press and yet they believe they could somehow win them over, play nice. It is stupid and naive.
Similarly, it was obvious that Rudd screwed the party with his behaviour during the leadership challenge, creating a bad smell for Gillard, and gifting Libs/Murdock with a year of free kicks. It should also be obvious (it was to me anyway) that when Gillard didn't get a "honeymoon" bounce in the polls, that Rudd would white-ant her from the back bench (as Beazley did with his rivals, Howard with his.) The obvious thing to do is run a long term smear campaign against Rudd, chip away at his affable "nice guy" public persona (and there is, apparently, plenty of material which could be used) before he recovered enough party-room support to go along with his public support. Instead, nothing.
I despise people who say "They're both the same". The only time they are the same is when people are watching, when parliament is divided. As soon as people stop watching, you see their true colours. (Such as when Howard's government got control of both houses. And the same thing will happen with Abbott after the next election.)
Abbott is what Santorum (who comes from the same Catholic faction) would look like if he had to run in a country like Australia.
However, I meant "US-style neo-con" and "religious nutter". Not "US-style religious nutter". For the latter, you need Steve Fielding's party.
[Hey, secular Americans, our ultraconservative evangelical movement had to create a third party, which got about 2% in the last election. (7% in even the most conservative state.) Livin' the dream baby.]
Parent AC didn't mean "...because of this"; the current government is pulling record low numbers in the polls. They are hated and are going to be destroyed in the next election.
And it sucks, because the leader of the next government is a US-style neo-conservative religious nutter. And his party is dominated by True Believers in US-style trickle-down economics. The current government's incompetence is going to allow something much worse to take over, not only to control the lower House (and hence the executive) but likely the Senate, giving them basically a rubber stamp on anything they want to shove through.
It might examine only a few thousand by hand, but it is all being recorded.
Data mining isn't "examining a few thousand by hand". It's the analysis on the mass data that matters. You may drill down to specific emails/calls/transfers/etc, but to know which ones, you need to be able to map entire networks of associations.
This is not like the cameras on an ATM that stores unwatched images unless a specific event prompts someone to look at a specific time. Your personal data is not being blindly stored on these systems, unwatched since you've done nothing anyone cares about, it is being analysed along with everyone else's.
the original Do-Not-Track effort only failed when Microsoft made the boneheaded, unilateral decision to make it the default.
Please stop regurgitating this propaganda from Apache that MS did anything wrong. Microsoft did not make DNT1 the default, they recommended it to their users by default, during the first-use setup. The user still chose whether to accept the recommendations, decline (which left DNT null), or customise the settings.
The ad industry (and hence Apache) were never going to honour DNT once enough people knew about it. The IE10 episode merely demonstrated that. It didn't make any difference how MS presented it to users, advertisers were going to cry fowl.
I really hope MS follows Mozilla's lead and adds a Ghostery-like tracking-blocker to IE, and I hope they do turn that on by default. (Just as every browser eventually did with pop-ups windows. Abuse the privilege and it will be taken away from you.)
I suspect that one day, loading any content from third party servers will end up being blocked by default by all browsers. The trend is heading that way, little by little. Advertisers have abused every system they have touched.
No, as opposed to just "radical". "Terrorist" is the modifier. "These radicals who've become terrorists" and not, "These terrorists who've become radical".
I wonder what he would have thought of this, and how many other useful representations / arrangements there are of the periodic table.
His Martian table of elements wasn't exactly Mendeleevian. Two columns, forty six elements in each. So I don't think Piper'd be shocked. The characters already knew they were in the chem department because of a Bohr representation of a Uranium atom. I suspect, given their knowledge of page numbers and number-names (ie, 9 and nine), chemists would have eventually figured out any "table" of elements, even if it was a spiral or some other form. It may not have happened on Mars, though.
(The moral of the story was that studying extinct alien civilisations needs physicists and chemists, not just traditional archaeologists and linguists, since the only possible Rosetta Stone is nature.)
Every trade show uses professional models as Booth Babes. They merely dress them a little less trashy than the public-facing cars-shows or races, or games & electronics.
"gorgeous models that entice attendees to share some time at particular booths."... "Assertive, eye-catching and well-spoken, trade show models know how to advance brand allegiance and catch the attention of new customers. People don't just pass by a booth with models from PPG!"
Industry trade shows are notoriously sexist. (The women are used as eye-bait. But the primary sales staff will always be male. The booth babe gives you the PR spiel, but when you want to "talk business", you ask for the man.)
I politely call your attention to the 30 astronauts and cosmonauts who lost their lives in spaceflight and training,
That's less than one per year. And globally, not just the US. That's incredibly low, particularly for the early years. And if you limit it to actual spaceflights, it's just 18, roughly one every three years. Going from being a test pilot to joining the space program was about the safest thing some of these guys could do short of becoming accountants.
By comparison, thirty test pilots died in the UK's jet research just between the end WWII and 1950, that's about ten times the rate of the entire global space effort. In the US in the early fifties, the death rate for test pilots was about one per week.
The asteroid isn't in orbit around the Earth, so periapsis doesn't work.
But my point was just that at 65,000 miles, referring to the exact surface intersection point of closest approach in a popsci article is about as silly as referring to the RA/dec or constellation. "The car crash occurred 500km north of a point just west of Federal Street, Hobart."
(More visually useful might have been a pic of the Earth/moon/sun alignment and the asteroid path.)
I don't care about unicode. I was referring to the html markup for degree "°".
It's html, it should display on a web page without any assistance. The comment-clenser allows many others to pass through (like &, which is how I wrote the above.) But for some reason it blocks so many harmless character codes.
And at 65000 miles, Earth subtends a 14 angle (an apple at arms length). So it's hardly "over" a single point off Tasmania, as opposed to "over" the whole hemisphere.
Slashdot doesn't do the markup for degrees? Jerks.
And at 65000 miles, Earth subtends a 14 angle (an apple at arms length). So it's hardly "over" a single point off Tasmania, as opposed to "over" the whole hemisphere.
Suffice it to say that these people will not make such mistakes again. [...] So when a vendor demands remote access to your substation or large asset, the answer should be [...] "I'm taking my business elsewhere."
And that's what I find odd about the OP's request. Why is it an issue requiring a technical equivalent of hiding the car keys from the children? Surely the person in the company who allowed RA on the production line is sacked, and the supplier who pushed the updates has been replaced? Those were the actual problems. What else needs to be done? Maybe explain to the replacements why they are the replacements.
The guy, Joseph Nacchio, was convicted of insider trading. (He sold his own shares before telling shareholders the bad news.) He appealed, the conviction was overturned. The government appealed, and the overturn was overturned. He appealed to the Supreme Court, who refused to hear his case. He then sued his lawyers. He got five years plus and is now out on some kind of community release thing.
The Judge who quashed the conviction was not a Bush appointee. The Judge who upheld the conviction was a recent Bush appointee. The Supreme Court was, of course, controlled of Bush supporting conservatives.
From there it's into conspiracy sites and tin foil prisms I mean hats.
The NCIS stuff is largely because that's how it looks to non-technical people. And because it endears techs to the old people who actually watch those shows if they are weird and awkward.
The rest (such as the alcohol fuelled app creation) comes from screen-writers projecting their own experience onto the software development. "I have deadlines, they have deadlines. I'm creative, they're... apparently... creative, I guess. So we're like the same. I totally know this stuff."
(Hell, how much alcohol (or "alcohol") was consumed in the last weekend before this script was due?)
Or one about a dedicated FedEx executive who is the only survivor of a plane crash and must survive on a desert island for five years using only the things he finds in the FedEx shipment. Now that motherfucker is Oscar material.
In general it isn't for critical things, apparently the crew occasionally break small parts which are too low priority to be fitted into the next few flights. Things like switch covers and panel corners. Or expose a sharp edge on something after an equipment reshuffle. So they tend to bodge up parts out of scrap and tape. It's thought that a 3d printer would allow these unexpected minor needs to be met.
(The rest is experimentation, and probably crew amusement.)
But I'd be surprised if, before the ISS gets splashed, a critical repair will depend on some widget made on the printer. Like the toothbrush-on-a-stick they used during an EVA to clean metal filings out of bolt-holes that prevented the MBSU-1 installation last September.
ISS has isolation containers called "glove boxes" for anything that might fume, or release small parts or dust. And in fact the 3d printer is built into its own glove-box, as is visible in every PR picture of the device on the most routine google search.
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Not to disagree with most of your points, but managing a hostile media is exactly the skill that is needed by any government.
As a contrasting example, the Libs did not fight criticism from the ABC by coddling them. They viciously attacked and undermined their reputation. They actively complained about every story on the ABC networks (TV/Radio) that didn't support their spin, as if it was wildly biased. They spun the idea of the "unfair, far left, biased" ABC as if it were a scientific fact. They did the same thing to Fairfax. Hell, even The Oz at one point.
Labor MPs believe as you do (and I do) about the Murdock press and yet they believe they could somehow win them over, play nice. It is stupid and naive.
Similarly, it was obvious that Rudd screwed the party with his behaviour during the leadership challenge, creating a bad smell for Gillard, and gifting Libs/Murdock with a year of free kicks. It should also be obvious (it was to me anyway) that when Gillard didn't get a "honeymoon" bounce in the polls, that Rudd would white-ant her from the back bench (as Beazley did with his rivals, Howard with his.) The obvious thing to do is run a long term smear campaign against Rudd, chip away at his affable "nice guy" public persona (and there is, apparently, plenty of material which could be used) before he recovered enough party-room support to go along with his public support. Instead, nothing.
This. A thousand times this.
I despise people who say "They're both the same". The only time they are the same is when people are watching, when parliament is divided. As soon as people stop watching, you see their true colours. (Such as when Howard's government got control of both houses. And the same thing will happen with Abbott after the next election.)
However numerous polls also show that the majority of voters would have preferred to be choosing from Rudd vs Turner.
Assuming you meant Turnbull, then no. He was about as popular a Gillard. [I do not understand the popularity of Rudd.]
Abbott is what Santorum (who comes from the same Catholic faction) would look like if he had to run in a country like Australia.
However, I meant "US-style neo-con" and "religious nutter". Not "US-style religious nutter". For the latter, you need Steve Fielding's party.
[Hey, secular Americans, our ultraconservative evangelical movement had to create a third party, which got about 2% in the last election. (7% in even the most conservative state.) Livin' the dream baby.]
It's a $50 fine. Plus you only have to get your name crossed off.
(And it's apparently easier to get out of than jury duty. "I had to work all day", "my youngest had a stomach bug and couldn't leave the house", etc.)
Parent AC didn't mean "...because of this"; the current government is pulling record low numbers in the polls. They are hated and are going to be destroyed in the next election.
And it sucks, because the leader of the next government is a US-style neo-conservative religious nutter. And his party is dominated by True Believers in US-style trickle-down economics. The current government's incompetence is going to allow something much worse to take over, not only to control the lower House (and hence the executive) but likely the Senate, giving them basically a rubber stamp on anything they want to shove through.
It might examine only a few thousand by hand, but it is all being recorded.
Data mining isn't "examining a few thousand by hand". It's the analysis on the mass data that matters. You may drill down to specific emails/calls/transfers/etc, but to know which ones, you need to be able to map entire networks of associations.
This is not like the cameras on an ATM that stores unwatched images unless a specific event prompts someone to look at a specific time. Your personal data is not being blindly stored on these systems, unwatched since you've done nothing anyone cares about, it is being analysed along with everyone else's.
"Submission != "Comment""
He's talking about a different type of mod.
the original Do-Not-Track effort only failed when Microsoft made the boneheaded, unilateral decision to make it the default.
Please stop regurgitating this propaganda from Apache that MS did anything wrong. Microsoft did not make DNT1 the default, they recommended it to their users by default, during the first-use setup. The user still chose whether to accept the recommendations, decline (which left DNT null), or customise the settings.
The ad industry (and hence Apache) were never going to honour DNT once enough people knew about it. The IE10 episode merely demonstrated that. It didn't make any difference how MS presented it to users, advertisers were going to cry fowl.
I really hope MS follows Mozilla's lead and adds a Ghostery-like tracking-blocker to IE, and I hope they do turn that on by default. (Just as every browser eventually did with pop-ups windows. Abuse the privilege and it will be taken away from you.)
I suspect that one day, loading any content from third party servers will end up being blocked by default by all browsers. The trend is heading that way, little by little. Advertisers have abused every system they have touched.
No, as opposed to just "radical". "Terrorist" is the modifier. "These radicals who've become terrorists" and not, "These terrorists who've become radical".
In case you haven't noticed, not every terrorist and terrorist-wannabe is a genius.
Bitch, please. Muslim terrorists build bombs out of pressure cookers. These Jewish terrorists wanted to build a fucking death ray.
I wonder what he would have thought of this, and how many other useful representations / arrangements there are of the periodic table.
His Martian table of elements wasn't exactly Mendeleevian. Two columns, forty six elements in each. So I don't think Piper'd be shocked. The characters already knew they were in the chem department because of a Bohr representation of a Uranium atom. I suspect, given their knowledge of page numbers and number-names (ie, 9 and nine), chemists would have eventually figured out any "table" of elements, even if it was a spiral or some other form. It may not have happened on Mars, though.
(The moral of the story was that studying extinct alien civilisations needs physicists and chemists, not just traditional archaeologists and linguists, since the only possible Rosetta Stone is nature.)
Every trade show uses professional models as Booth Babes. They merely dress them a little less trashy than the public-facing cars-shows or races, or games & electronics.
Here's one of the modelling companies justifying its existence... Preferred Promotional Model Talent Group
"gorgeous models that entice attendees to share some time at particular booths." ... "Assertive, eye-catching and well-spoken, trade show models know how to advance brand allegiance and catch the attention of new customers. People don't just pass by a booth with models from PPG!"
Industry trade shows are notoriously sexist. (The women are used as eye-bait. But the primary sales staff will always be male. The booth babe gives you the PR spiel, but when you want to "talk business", you ask for the man.)
That's less than one per year. And globally, not just the US. That's incredibly low, particularly for the early years. And if you limit it to actual spaceflights, it's just 18, roughly one every three years. Going from being a test pilot to joining the space program was about the safest thing some of these guys could do short of becoming accountants.
By comparison, thirty test pilots died in the UK's jet research just between the end WWII and 1950, that's about ten times the rate of the entire global space effort. In the US in the early fifties, the death rate for test pilots was about one per week.
The asteroid isn't in orbit around the Earth, so periapsis doesn't work.
But my point was just that at 65,000 miles, referring to the exact surface intersection point of closest approach in a popsci article is about as silly as referring to the RA/dec or constellation. "The car crash occurred 500km north of a point just west of Federal Street, Hobart."
(More visually useful might have been a pic of the Earth/moon/sun alignment and the asteroid path.)
I don't care about unicode. I was referring to the html markup for degree "°".
It's html, it should display on a web page without any assistance. The comment-clenser allows many others to pass through (like &, which is how I wrote the above.) But for some reason it blocks so many harmless character codes.
And at 65000 miles, Earth subtends a 14 angle (an apple at arms length). So it's hardly "over" a single point off Tasmania, as opposed to "over" the whole hemisphere.
Slashdot doesn't do the markup for degrees? Jerks.
And at 65000 miles, Earth subtends a 14 angle (an apple at arms length). So it's hardly "over" a single point off Tasmania, as opposed to "over" the whole hemisphere.
And that's what I find odd about the OP's request. Why is it an issue requiring a technical equivalent of hiding the car keys from the children? Surely the person in the company who allowed RA on the production line is sacked, and the supplier who pushed the updates has been replaced? Those were the actual problems. What else needs to be done? Maybe explain to the replacements why they are the replacements.
Further to Qzukk:
The guy, Joseph Nacchio, was convicted of insider trading. (He sold his own shares before telling shareholders the bad news.) He appealed, the conviction was overturned. The government appealed, and the overturn was overturned. He appealed to the Supreme Court, who refused to hear his case. He then sued his lawyers. He got five years plus and is now out on some kind of community release thing.
The Judge who quashed the conviction was not a Bush appointee. The Judge who upheld the conviction was a recent Bush appointee. The Supreme Court was, of course, controlled of Bush supporting conservatives.
From there it's into conspiracy sites and tin foil prisms I mean hats.
The NCIS stuff is largely because that's how it looks to non-technical people. And because it endears techs to the old people who actually watch those shows if they are weird and awkward.
The rest (such as the alcohol fuelled app creation) comes from screen-writers projecting their own experience onto the software development. "I have deadlines, they have deadlines. I'm creative, they're... apparently... creative, I guess. So we're like the same. I totally know this stuff."
(Hell, how much alcohol (or "alcohol") was consumed in the last weekend before this script was due?)
Or one about a dedicated FedEx executive who is the only survivor of a plane crash and must survive on a desert island for five years using only the things he finds in the FedEx shipment. Now that motherfucker is Oscar material.
Also, FedEx.
All the Soyuz capsules are equipped with a 9mm Makarov pistol, including the ones docked with the ISS.
(Before 2007 the Russians also flew a triple-barrel combination rifle/shotgun, the TP-82.)
In general it isn't for critical things, apparently the crew occasionally break small parts which are too low priority to be fitted into the next few flights. Things like switch covers and panel corners. Or expose a sharp edge on something after an equipment reshuffle. So they tend to bodge up parts out of scrap and tape. It's thought that a 3d printer would allow these unexpected minor needs to be met.
(The rest is experimentation, and probably crew amusement.)
But I'd be surprised if, before the ISS gets splashed, a critical repair will depend on some widget made on the printer. Like the toothbrush-on-a-stick they used during an EVA to clean metal filings out of bolt-holes that prevented the MBSU-1 installation last September.
ISS has isolation containers called "glove boxes" for anything that might fume, or release small parts or dust. And in fact the 3d printer is built into its own glove-box, as is visible in every PR picture of the device on the most routine google search.