Clearly, it's because slashdot can't resist an opportunity for a nice flame war. See also: any thread regarding Homeland Security, or Climate Change, or President Obama. Simply mention one of these subjects, and regardless of the nerd/tech angle, you will have a 1,000 comment story by the end of the day. And so it goes, that the subjects that get huge responses (and huge traffic) get posted often. You need to ask, "why do/.ers read and reply to this with great fervor?"
Find something with a US or other predominantly English-speaking company that allows 100% telecommute work. Most development jobs can be done remotely, but it's up to the company whether or not they are comfortable with that.
To that point, the real opportunity in this sort of situation would be to get a job at a firm that was US based (or at least anglo-centric and accepted English as standard) but also had a branch in Beijing for outsourcing (although Beijing isnt really an outsourcing hotspot anymore). If he could score that, he could probably manage a team of coders who had little/no english (with the help of a dedicated translator or bilingual coder.) But, it doesn't seem like there is a section for that kind of work on Monster.com.
Have you considered working as a coder-for-hire at either an established firm, or on a do it yourself basis from one of the many websites available (Google can show you the way)? The pay might even be better, unless you were particularly interested in exploiting your language talents in the local labor market (which it sounds like you may not be).
isn't that a sign of lack of focus? the same that afflicts google now?
Not at all, the focus will be great, see they laid that out right here: "support HTML5 and include a large touchscreen and high-quality camera (for Instagram).". The whole no focus on Android phones thing was a temporary glitch, we swear. Won't happen again.
Although you might consider it a design flaw that they are trying to improve the quality of instagram photos...
This is nothing more than a little fun by this woman and her attorney friends, who think that taking 5 minutes to string together some legal babble that it took them 3 years of intensive studying to memorize should entitle them to get away with whatever they want.
Suppose I should finish my own thought. Damned tempting submit button...
"Go ahead and sue me." The infringing person would likely never follow through, or if he did, lose the case and a lot of money. ----- Just like that Oregon Newspaper editor who tried to steal an article from an online reporter. He too threatened to sue but backed down (and paid $500 to the reporter), because he knew he was guilty-guilty-guilty. Downloading something for personal enjoyment is one thing; earning wealth off the back of a worker's labor w/o paying them is entirely different (and evil).
Jay Lee sure as shit should have done exactly that. Look at the offender, an "elite attorney marketing boutique;" in other words, a cadre of arrogant assholes out to pretty up another cadre of arrogant assholes. This is nothing more than a little fun by this woman and her attorney friends, who think that taking 5 minutes to string together some legal babble that it took them 3 years of intensive studying to memorize. If he stood up for himself he would have pummeled her in court, but all too often bluffs like this never get called out because people have some sort of ingrained intimidating reflex around attorneys.
So I don't know the material makeup of Los Angeles class submarines but there are plenty of metals that can burn once you get them hot enough. Aluminum and magnesium are popular candidates since they're very light weight for their strength -- I wouldn't be surprised if there was a lot of that in the boat. Also, since this was in retrofit, there's a good chance there was welding going on, which would easily be able to get the ignition temperatures necessary to start it up, especially if they were using any oxyacetylene torches for the welding or cutting.
However, if there were Halon suppression systems installed and active they should have fired them off because Halon isn't actually that dangerous, all things considered.
What the hell was burning? The subs are nuclear powered so it wasn't fuel. What are we talking about here? Bedding? I just don't understand.
As other people pointed out, why weren't the hatches just closed? A fire won't last long if the hatches are closed.
Finally, there has to be some kind of fire suppression system on these subs. Don't tell me all they've got are some hand held fire extinguishers.
Anyway, this is of course very sad. But I find it more weird then anything else.
1) You would be shocked what burns once you get past about 500 degrees (hint: plastic, rubber, vinyl, paint) but I suppose you think a sub is nothing but metal on metal with some metal to insulate the electrical wires? 2) Hatches don't close themselves, especially in the right order to make sure that the nuclear fuel in the sub doesn't get licked by flames (pretty bad scenario). 3) Fires don't fight themselves in an enclosed space. Do you think they have sprinklers in there or what? Maybe a little Halon to put the fires out and kill any crewmen in that section of the ship?
Learn the difference between figurative language and literal language.
The British empire handed over the duties of ocean exploration to private companies, who were more interested in making a buck (pound/guinea) than in serving the public interest. That they did serve the public interest was a secondary effect, but not the intended effect.
No doubt you've discovered that loyalty is no longer the currency of the realm...
Like drilling for oil, more efficient extraction techniques can efficiently harvest the (many) remaining IPv4 blocks.
And let's face it: IPv6 is not favored by the man on the Clapham omnibus. He understands the clean format of IPv4, but IPv6 is just annoying! What's the deal anyway with 2^64 devices on your personal network? This is way over-specified.
Some practical geeks need to come up with a clean extension to IPv4 (48 bits should be plenty) that uses the current dot formatting.
Yep, already thought of that. If 128 bits isnt to your liking, certain arrangements of 0s in series effectively shortens the printable address while still maintaining integrity of the address space across all 128 bits. 192:168:0:0:0:0:0:1 becomes 192:168:1. It's even easier than IPv4! No need to remember which you set your private nat up to be; 192.168.0.0/24 or 192.168.1.0/24...
Also, no Copbot would ever sample an unknown IP4 address like that, it might link him to malware or compromise his location.
I'm not aware of anyone being able to exploit the ping command in such a way today -- perhaps so in this future universe that will never exist...
The fact that you pinged and got a response means the host on the other end knows you did it too, kind of like hearing a sonar ping in the ocean... But then his "errors" post was a joke too soo....
My quartz LCD watch from 1985 was accurate to within 1 second per year. That would WAY outlast the usefulness of the medical device. There should be no way in the world that device was off by 24 minutes.
Its doubtful that drift accounted for the entire 24 minutes, the problem is that the initial set was probably horribly done in the first place ("oh its 9 oclock [clock actually says 9:13]".) Add to that the tendency for makers of connected devices to basically take for granted that you have some means of clock checking, and they really don't care about how accurate the onboard method is (its probably not even a dedicated crystal on an isolated voltage controlled circuit, like you would need to keep time accurately.)
hint: you don't need/want GPS in every fucking device, you need ONE GPS somewhere far away from your MRI (say, on the roof) since you have ethernet everywhere else in the entire building.
Few people realize this, but Android phones don't keep time correctly. They use GPS satellites for timekeeping, which was last updated in 1982, and since then there have been 15 leap seconds added. As a result, nearly all Android devices are 15 seconds too fast. Note that iOS compensates for this and shows the correct time.
Hmm. [looks at NIST synced PC clock] Hmm. [looks at android phone]
Nope, the two match exactly to 1 second. Unless for some reason my ordinary Android phone (of which over 15 million of this exact variety were sold) qualifies as outside "nearly all" android phones, you are spouting pure nonsense.
At least then all data logged will have a correct relation and timing of events can be managed if necessary.
If every computer has it's own time then it's impossible to get things straight about when did who do what. And that's critical if something happens and you need to figure out how to correct it so it won't happen again. Of course - it can also be used in the blame game.
And it's not a big problem for a hospital to use NTP if the source used is trustworthy. GPS receiver and/or a trusted NTP server on the net.
Don't bother, this guy clearly works in a private healthcare environment, given his complete disregard for *actually* improving the quality of care and instead his direct instinct to preserve his job and/or revenue stream. Anyone who takes more than a casual look at private healthcare can see that there are so so SO many ways to do things better that get completely ignored in favor of doing things the current way, or doing things in a way that makes it easy to dodge a lawsuit.
The easy solution that devices could have used since 1985? NTP.
Holy hell, what about no? There's a huge reason why hospitals try to keep off networks, especially public ones. Do you really want to connect all the timing devices in a hospital to an outside public server? Because running it yourself does no good, it can just fuck up all the devices in the hospital.
Sometimes the ideas non-thinking geeks come up truly scare me.
So the GPS synced clocks used to generate microsecond-accurate timing distributed via NTP for utility billing, high speed trading, and a million other mission critical (read: *beyond* life critical) things aren't good enough for your EMR tablet to update on once a day? Sure thing. Keep hiding under that table.
Even the article's link is to a preorder info page that tells you nothing useful about this theoretical device.
Somebody spank the editors!
What sort of information do you need? It runs a fork of Android (known as "Linux") with this KDE stuff as the GUI. It's basically a clone of the million different kind of Android tablets that have come out in the past 2 years.
(not sure who is going to modsmack me worse, the Apple lovers or the GNU lovers...)
The first run is *spoken for*... That does NOT mean they are shipped and in the wild. Unless of course you have some evidence to the contrary, so please share.
"Everything is GPL, most of our systems can't run 90% of the apps you have on your list, now go screw yourself".
And the other 364 days of the year when you AREN'T getting audited but you ARE trying to get something productive done, you can tell your boss the same thing!
Actually, if that thing gets traction, the interesting thing would be to replace android with a regular Linux, and use it as a home server, a media station... I've got a couple of PCs that could easily replaced by this.
Really? There are a million products or builds that do this for under $100 and with much better specs than this board... You are waiting for this to "get traction"? Come on.
You could be even more ambitious at the Self Serve check-outs! (especially here in Australia)
Actually the self serve checkouts (they don't use them at Target, btw, which might have made a difference in this scheme) would have served to CATCH him. The checkouts use highly accurate product weight data, combined with a scale, to tell if you are sneaking things past the scanner. In the case of this scheme, he would have been putting the barcode for a 10 oz. box of Lego onto a 3 lb box of Lego. The self serve checkout would have a fit as soon as it saw that a 3 lb box appeared when a 10oz on was supposed to.
On the part of the submitter. "the vice president of SAP" is not true. He was *A* vice president *AT* SAP. SAP, like most large companies, has many many people holding the VP title, some of which make a lot of money and some of which don't. He was probably well paid but not excessively so, but that doesn't mean anything if he had some sort of addiction or was just plain bored. 30 grand tax free, for a side job, is no small haul.
An 800MHz cpu and 512MB of ram? Why these days, I have more processing power than that in my phone... Oh, wait.
This sounds nice for a subcompact PC but with the advent of apps on Blu Ray players and embedded in TVs and everywhere else (including phones) with the same or better features, what is the real application for this? I doubt many of the existing Android apps will be a whole lot of fun on this thing. Is there a real market to have for $49 what you could build for $149 and have 3-5x the cpu? The only unique thing is the OS, but even that is hard to make a lot out of unless there are desktop Android apps out there. Are you going to sit and code apps for a $49 widget?
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What does this have to do with /.?
Clearly, it's because slashdot can't resist an opportunity for a nice flame war. See also: any thread regarding Homeland Security, or Climate Change, or President Obama. Simply mention one of these subjects, and regardless of the nerd/tech angle, you will have a 1,000 comment story by the end of the day. And so it goes, that the subjects that get huge responses (and huge traffic) get posted often. You need to ask, "why do /.ers read and reply to this with great fervor?"
Find something with a US or other predominantly English-speaking company that allows 100% telecommute work.
Most development jobs can be done remotely, but it's up to the company whether or not they are comfortable with that.
To that point, the real opportunity in this sort of situation would be to get a job at a firm that was US based (or at least anglo-centric and accepted English as standard) but also had a branch in Beijing for outsourcing (although Beijing isnt really an outsourcing hotspot anymore). If he could score that, he could probably manage a team of coders who had little/no english (with the help of a dedicated translator or bilingual coder.) But, it doesn't seem like there is a section for that kind of work on Monster.com.
Have you considered working as a coder-for-hire at either an established firm, or on a do it yourself basis from one of the many websites available (Google can show you the way)? The pay might even be better, unless you were particularly interested in exploiting your language talents in the local labor market (which it sounds like you may not be).
isn't that a sign of lack of focus? the same that afflicts google now?
Not at all, the focus will be great, see they laid that out right here: "support HTML5 and include a large touchscreen and high-quality camera (for Instagram).". The whole no focus on Android phones thing was a temporary glitch, we swear. Won't happen again.
Although you might consider it a design flaw that they are trying to improve the quality of instagram photos...
Sounds like a quote from "The Road To Wellville" to me...
This is nothing more than a little fun by this woman and her attorney friends, who think that taking 5 minutes to string together some legal babble that it took them 3 years of intensive studying to memorize should entitle them to get away with whatever they want.
Suppose I should finish my own thought. Damned tempting submit button...
"Go ahead and sue me." The infringing person would likely never follow through, or if he did, lose the case and a lot of money. ----- Just like that Oregon Newspaper editor who tried to steal an article from an online reporter. He too threatened to sue but backed down (and paid $500 to the reporter), because he knew he was guilty-guilty-guilty. Downloading something for personal enjoyment is one thing; earning wealth off the back of a worker's labor w/o paying them is entirely different (and evil).
Jay Lee sure as shit should have done exactly that. Look at the offender, an "elite attorney marketing boutique;" in other words, a cadre of arrogant assholes out to pretty up another cadre of arrogant assholes. This is nothing more than a little fun by this woman and her attorney friends, who think that taking 5 minutes to string together some legal babble that it took them 3 years of intensive studying to memorize. If he stood up for himself he would have pummeled her in court, but all too often bluffs like this never get called out because people have some sort of ingrained intimidating reflex around attorneys.
So I don't know the material makeup of Los Angeles class submarines but there are plenty of metals that can burn once you get them hot enough. Aluminum and magnesium are popular candidates since they're very light weight for their strength -- I wouldn't be surprised if there was a lot of that in the boat. Also, since this was in retrofit, there's a good chance there was welding going on, which would easily be able to get the ignition temperatures necessary to start it up, especially if they were using any oxyacetylene torches for the welding or cutting.
However, if there were Halon suppression systems installed and active they should have fired them off because Halon isn't actually that dangerous, all things considered.
Aside from being an asphyxiation hazard...
What the hell was burning? The subs are nuclear powered so it wasn't fuel. What are we talking about here? Bedding? I just don't understand.
As other people pointed out, why weren't the hatches just closed? A fire won't last long if the hatches are closed.
Finally, there has to be some kind of fire suppression system on these subs. Don't tell me all they've got are some hand held fire extinguishers.
Anyway, this is of course very sad. But I find it more weird then anything else.
1) You would be shocked what burns once you get past about 500 degrees (hint: plastic, rubber, vinyl, paint) but I suppose you think a sub is nothing but metal on metal with some metal to insulate the electrical wires? 2) Hatches don't close themselves, especially in the right order to make sure that the nuclear fuel in the sub doesn't get licked by flames (pretty bad scenario). 3) Fires don't fight themselves in an enclosed space. Do you think they have sprinklers in there or what? Maybe a little Halon to put the fires out and kill any crewmen in that section of the ship?
Learn the difference between figurative language and literal language.
The British empire handed over the duties of ocean exploration to private companies, who were more interested in making a buck (pound/guinea) than in serving the public interest. That they did serve the public interest was a secondary effect, but not the intended effect.
No doubt you've discovered that loyalty is no longer the currency of the realm...
Like drilling for oil, more efficient extraction techniques can efficiently harvest the (many) remaining IPv4 blocks.
And let's face it: IPv6 is not favored by the man on the Clapham omnibus. He understands the clean format of IPv4, but IPv6 is just annoying! What's the deal anyway with 2^64 devices on your personal network? This is way over-specified.
Some practical geeks need to come up with a clean extension to IPv4 (48 bits should be plenty) that uses the current dot formatting.
Yep, already thought of that. If 128 bits isnt to your liking, certain arrangements of 0s in series effectively shortens the printable address while still maintaining integrity of the address space across all 128 bits. 192:168:0:0:0:0:0:1 becomes 192:168:1. It's even easier than IPv4! No need to remember which you set your private nat up to be; 192.168.0.0/24 or 192.168.1.0/24...
Also, no Copbot would ever sample an unknown IP4 address like that, it might link him to malware or compromise his location.
I'm not aware of anyone being able to exploit the ping command in such a way today -- perhaps so in this future universe that will never exist ...
The fact that you pinged and got a response means the host on the other end knows you did it too, kind of like hearing a sonar ping in the ocean... But then his "errors" post was a joke too soo....
My quartz LCD watch from 1985 was accurate to within 1 second per year. That would WAY outlast the usefulness of the medical device. There should be no way in the world that device was off by 24 minutes.
Its doubtful that drift accounted for the entire 24 minutes, the problem is that the initial set was probably horribly done in the first place ("oh its 9 oclock [clock actually says 9:13]".) Add to that the tendency for makers of connected devices to basically take for granted that you have some means of clock checking, and they really don't care about how accurate the onboard method is (its probably not even a dedicated crystal on an isolated voltage controlled circuit, like you would need to keep time accurately.)
Given that their web site is still a beta (http://scn.sap.com/community/icc) maybe his salary is in beta too?
Good luck with that in an MRI-rated room...
hint: Faraday
hint: you don't need/want GPS in every fucking device, you need ONE GPS somewhere far away from your MRI (say, on the roof) since you have ethernet everywhere else in the entire building.
Few people realize this, but Android phones don't keep time correctly. They use GPS satellites for timekeeping, which was last updated in 1982, and since then there have been 15 leap seconds added. As a result, nearly all Android devices are 15 seconds too fast. Note that iOS compensates for this and shows the correct time.
Hmm. [looks at NIST synced PC clock] Hmm. [looks at android phone]
Nope, the two match exactly to 1 second. Unless for some reason my ordinary Android phone (of which over 15 million of this exact variety were sold) qualifies as outside "nearly all" android phones, you are spouting pure nonsense.
At least then all data logged will have a correct relation and timing of events can be managed if necessary.
If every computer has it's own time then it's impossible to get things straight about when did who do what. And that's critical if something happens and you need to figure out how to correct it so it won't happen again. Of course - it can also be used in the blame game.
And it's not a big problem for a hospital to use NTP if the source used is trustworthy. GPS receiver and/or a trusted NTP server on the net.
Don't bother, this guy clearly works in a private healthcare environment, given his complete disregard for *actually* improving the quality of care and instead his direct instinct to preserve his job and/or revenue stream. Anyone who takes more than a casual look at private healthcare can see that there are so so SO many ways to do things better that get completely ignored in favor of doing things the current way, or doing things in a way that makes it easy to dodge a lawsuit.
did I say that?
The easy solution that devices could have used since 1985? NTP.
Holy hell, what about no? There's a huge reason why hospitals try to keep off networks, especially public ones. Do you really want to connect all the timing devices in a hospital to an outside public server? Because running it yourself does no good, it can just fuck up all the devices in the hospital.
Sometimes the ideas non-thinking geeks come up truly scare me.
So the GPS synced clocks used to generate microsecond-accurate timing distributed via NTP for utility billing, high speed trading, and a million other mission critical (read: *beyond* life critical) things aren't good enough for your EMR tablet to update on once a day? Sure thing. Keep hiding under that table.
Why am I not surprised it's vapourware?
Even the article's link is to a preorder info page that tells you nothing useful about this theoretical device.
Somebody spank the editors!
What sort of information do you need? It runs a fork of Android (known as "Linux") with this KDE stuff as the GUI. It's basically a clone of the million different kind of Android tablets that have come out in the past 2 years.
(not sure who is going to modsmack me worse, the Apple lovers or the GNU lovers...)
The first run is *spoken for*... That does NOT mean they are shipped and in the wild. Unless of course you have some evidence to the contrary, so please share.
"Everything is GPL, most of our systems can't run 90% of the apps you have on your list, now go screw yourself".
And the other 364 days of the year when you AREN'T getting audited but you ARE trying to get something productive done, you can tell your boss the same thing!
Actually, if that thing gets traction, the interesting thing would be to replace android with a regular Linux, and use it as a home server, a media station... I've got a couple of PCs that could easily replaced by this.
Really? There are a million products or builds that do this for under $100 and with much better specs than this board... You are waiting for this to "get traction"? Come on.
You could be even more ambitious at the Self Serve check-outs! (especially here in Australia)
Actually the self serve checkouts (they don't use them at Target, btw, which might have made a difference in this scheme) would have served to CATCH him. The checkouts use highly accurate product weight data, combined with a scale, to tell if you are sneaking things past the scanner. In the case of this scheme, he would have been putting the barcode for a 10 oz. box of Lego onto a 3 lb box of Lego. The self serve checkout would have a fit as soon as it saw that a 3 lb box appeared when a 10oz on was supposed to.
Some sort of mental illness of thrill-seeking?
On the part of the submitter. "the vice president of SAP" is not true. He was *A* vice president *AT* SAP. SAP, like most large companies, has many many people holding the VP title, some of which make a lot of money and some of which don't. He was probably well paid but not excessively so, but that doesn't mean anything if he had some sort of addiction or was just plain bored. 30 grand tax free, for a side job, is no small haul.
An 800MHz cpu and 512MB of ram? Why these days, I have more processing power than that in my phone... Oh, wait.
This sounds nice for a subcompact PC but with the advent of apps on Blu Ray players and embedded in TVs and everywhere else (including phones) with the same or better features, what is the real application for this? I doubt many of the existing Android apps will be a whole lot of fun on this thing. Is there a real market to have for $49 what you could build for $149 and have 3-5x the cpu? The only unique thing is the OS, but even that is hard to make a lot out of unless there are desktop Android apps out there. Are you going to sit and code apps for a $49 widget?