Apparently you have never worked in a job where you are on call 24/7 even when you only work in the office 9-5. I am a Sr. Systems Engineer, but when things go really bad somewhere, I am supposed to be reachable at all times except when I specifically am "on vacation". Fortunately, I get to use my own phone with no obnoxious company software on it.
We get a "phone bonus" every month, to help cover a phone that we own. It's not enough, but then the phone isn't just for work, and is ours to keep, so hey. We can get any phone we want, from anywhere that we want, as long as it has, you know, a number.
The same kind of people who were not nerdy enough to have gadgets when I was a kid all have gadgets now. That makes them users, not expert users, I assure you from painful experience.
Or maybe draw up a list of Islamic militants and post it. Oh, they won't? Why is that then? A bit scared of what might happen? Boo hoo.
Yes, you're right.
Islamic militants post their resume on LinkedIn in perfect American English with all the right keywords to make sure ISIS's clueless Human Resources minions don't throw their resumes in the trash by mistake.
It also helps that when they decapitate someone in an online video, they hire someone to close caption the video, translate it, and make sure all the names of the participants, from the executioner, down to the make up artists, and the fashion consultants, get clearly written into the credits (because like they say in Hollywood, if my name is not in the credits, I will f___g kill you).
Right. Just like US intelligence personnel post their "code words" on LInkedIn, oblivious of the mad skillz of the lefties..
More religious whackjobs blocking progress. If they own the land, or represent the majority in a democracy, so be it; otherwise a does of "separation of church and state" would be welcome here. No one should get a free pass on being a religious whackjob simply because they aren't a Christian whackjob.
Ah, but the only church that anybody wants to separate the state from is the Christian one.
Maybe if they'd spent the 11 years using these resources to rein in police racism and brutality, there wouldn't be a need for protests.
Bad cops and systemic police racism are what's terrorizing the populace in cities like Baltimore - that's your terrorist threat right there. But law enforcement are also the ones running these centers. It's the old problem of who's watching the watchers.
The city is run by Democrats and African Americans, and has been for a very long time. The police are run by the city.
They are messed up alright. but it isn't "racism".
I know virtual is cheaper, but since a little social revolution in the 1970s, how exactly is everything going to be virtual? You'll still need buildings and someone to supervise the kids.
Ah, OK, finally read the fine article. That is what he's saying.
So let me see if I understand the current beliefs of the trendoids. Homeschooling is evil, but $15/hr techs can supervise 50+ kids they have no personal stake in, and facilitate all learning from YouTube. Got it.
Their people are locked behind their firewall and don't get to see any criticism the government doesn't want them to see.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. It's effectively no different in China than it is in the west. Yes there are people who are locked behind technology, just like there are Americans who only ever watch Fox News. Maybe it's representative of where in China I was staying, or the class of people who I worked with, but all of them had some form of service to get around the great firewall. Even if they don't at home or on their phone (I realised this when people constantly showed me stuff on Google Maps which is blocked) then if these people work for an international corporation they nearly always have some form of corporate VPN too.
The people are well and truly clued in on what their government is doing.
Riiight... China doesn't have noteworthy censorship, because Fox News.
And you actually think that it is the Fox News viewers who are sealed in the ideological bubble, instead of yourself. Amazing.
... if this research is so obviously critical, it's not like only the government benefits from or cares about network security. Let those who think it is so critical pay for some.
It's not really just about annoying the neighbours. If you stick all the poor people in the same neighbourhood, then all the poor kids will go to schools with poor kids, and all the rich kids will go to school with rich kids. Since schools are funded by property taxes, the poor kid schools always end up having less money. If you mix poor and rich kids in the same areas, and they attend the same schools, and benefit from the same property taxes, then things end up much more even. Instead of one school having everything, and another having nothing, you'd have all the schools with similar amounts of resources.
Some states (like Michigan) have addressed this by changing things up, and funding schools on a statewide basis rather than from property taxes.
They're a company that wants to stay in business. TV's about as locked in as can be and even they're draining audiences in one form or another. The internet is an amazing levelling field, and even if terrestrial TV packed up and quit tomorrow, there'd be no firm reason NetFlix alone would dominate the internet markets. They're playing the same game by locking up good content behuind their platform so that if/when the sh hits the fan, they'll have something to keep loyal customers paying well for their services.
Er, so?
Yes, on a broad scale to get quality TV, it will still be made by people who make money off of it. It should be a relief that someone can still do that, not a bad thing.
At first I thought that the 'Acre-Foot' sounded like a joke unit, but obviously it is the amount of water that one hundred and twelve horses need to drink if they are each to plough eight hundred furlongs of furrow in a fortnight!!
Honestly, you Americans just crack me up with your wacky units. So much more fun than being stuck with boring old litres!
Oh sure, privilege the number ten just because humans have ten fingers.
I thought you were supposed to be more progressive than us backwater colonies?:) Tsk, tsk; so human-centric...
(Aside: what, no woman-in-CS tie-in? What with women being more social, and all that? Just wondering.)
Pair programming is one of those ideas so awful that it could only come from a university.
Sure, if I want to bounce ideas off of someone for something specific, that's great; they're likely to see something that I don't. But I can hardly imagine anything worse than someone else having to have their fingers in the whole pie, all the time, just because we are supposed to be a "pair".
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For the 5000th time, Slashdot porn and video game addicts conclude that porn and video games "are too good for you, meanies!"
World reels in shock!
Apparently you have never worked in a job where you are on call 24/7 even when you only work in the office 9-5. I am a Sr. Systems Engineer, but when things go really bad somewhere, I am supposed to be reachable at all times except when I specifically am "on vacation". Fortunately, I get to use my own phone with no obnoxious company software on it.
We get a "phone bonus" every month, to help cover a phone that we own. It's not enough, but then the phone isn't just for work, and is ours to keep, so hey. We can get any phone we want, from anywhere that we want, as long as it has, you know, a number.
... John Brennan serves at the pleasure of one Barack Obama, and has in some capacity or other for the last six years.
Any chance we could hold him accountable too? Or did he read about this in the papers like everything else?
To give them 4 floor plans they choose from? 8? Five outward shapes they can pick? Does the city pick the colors? The plants?
Welcome to New England, where as Dave Berry pointed out if you unzip your fly, you must put green shutters on either side.
Millennials are also expert users,
Brutha, please ...
They are users, sure. They have gadgets.
The same kind of people who were not nerdy enough to have gadgets when I was a kid all have gadgets now. That makes them users, not expert users, I assure you from painful experience.
Or maybe draw up a list of Islamic militants and post it. Oh, they won't? Why is that then? A bit scared of what might happen? Boo hoo.
Yes, you're right.
Islamic militants post their resume on LinkedIn in perfect American English with all the right keywords to make sure ISIS's clueless Human Resources minions don't throw their resumes in the trash by mistake.
It also helps that when they decapitate someone in an online video, they hire someone to close caption the video, translate it, and make sure all the names of the participants, from the executioner, down to the make up artists, and the fashion consultants, get clearly written into the credits (because like they say in Hollywood, if my name is not in the credits, I will f___g kill you).
Right. Just like US intelligence personnel post their "code words" on LInkedIn, oblivious of the mad skillz of the lefties..
Le sigh. "Flamebait".
My point is that you are soliciting files. "Send me files", you say.
They just now figured out that files might be infected?
More religious whackjobs blocking progress. If they own the land, or represent the majority in a democracy, so be it; otherwise a does of "separation of church and state" would be welcome here. No one should get a free pass on being a religious whackjob simply because they aren't a Christian whackjob.
Ah, but the only church that anybody wants to separate the state from is the Christian one.
Maybe if they'd spent the 11 years using these resources to rein in police racism and brutality, there wouldn't be a need for protests.
Bad cops and systemic police racism are what's terrorizing the populace in cities like Baltimore - that's your terrorist threat right there. But law enforcement are also the ones running these centers. It's the old problem of who's watching the watchers.
The city is run by Democrats and African Americans, and has been for a very long time. The police are run by the city.
They are messed up alright. but it isn't "racism".
Looting and smashing things is not "protest".
It's a Word doc. This has always been a "vulnerability". You are soliciting Word docs, for heaven's sake.
"Please send me files, which like all files, might be infected" is not a "cyber-attack".
I know virtual is cheaper, but since a little social revolution in the 1970s, how exactly is everything going to be virtual? You'll still need buildings and someone to supervise the kids.
Ah, OK, finally read the fine article. That is what he's saying.
So let me see if I understand the current beliefs of the trendoids. Homeschooling is evil, but $15/hr techs can supervise 50+ kids they have no personal stake in, and facilitate all learning from YouTube. Got it.
The agenda? To blame it on Bush, not the ruling party of the last six years. Or did you miss that little almost subliminal bit?
Their people are locked behind their firewall and don't get to see any criticism the government doesn't want them to see.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. It's effectively no different in China than it is in the west. Yes there are people who are locked behind technology, just like there are Americans who only ever watch Fox News. Maybe it's representative of where in China I was staying, or the class of people who I worked with, but all of them had some form of service to get around the great firewall. Even if they don't at home or on their phone (I realised this when people constantly showed me stuff on Google Maps which is blocked) then if these people work for an international corporation they nearly always have some form of corporate VPN too.
The people are well and truly clued in on what their government is doing.
Riiight ... China doesn't have noteworthy censorship, because Fox News.
And you actually think that it is the Fox News viewers who are sealed in the ideological bubble, instead of yourself. Amazing.
... stored it all on his own server in the first place, he could run for President.
... if this research is so obviously critical, it's not like only the government benefits from or cares about network security. Let those who think it is so critical pay for some.
It's not really just about annoying the neighbours. If you stick all the poor people in the same neighbourhood, then all the poor kids will go to schools with poor kids, and all the rich kids will go to school with rich kids. Since schools are funded by property taxes, the poor kid schools always end up having less money. If you mix poor and rich kids in the same areas, and they attend the same schools, and benefit from the same property taxes, then things end up much more even. Instead of one school having everything, and another having nothing, you'd have all the schools with similar amounts of resources.
Some states (like Michigan) have addressed this by changing things up, and funding schools on a statewide basis rather than from property taxes.
Hint to cable : Deliver more for $8 than Netflix instead of charging hundreds per month.
Like US car companies, it is very hard to admit when the fat years are over. Give them time; I suspect they will come around a bit.
They're a company that wants to stay in business. TV's about as locked in as can be and even they're draining audiences in one form or another. The internet is an amazing levelling field, and even if terrestrial TV packed up and quit tomorrow, there'd be no firm reason NetFlix alone would dominate the internet markets. They're playing the same game by locking up good content behuind their platform so that if/when the sh hits the fan, they'll have something to keep loyal customers paying well for their services.
Er, so?
Yes, on a broad scale to get quality TV, it will still be made by people who make money off of it. It should be a relief that someone can still do that, not a bad thing.
Government can impose prices, but it can't force people to do business.
Unless you bake cakes ...
At first I thought that the 'Acre-Foot' sounded like a joke unit, but obviously it is the amount of water that one hundred and twelve horses need to drink if they are each to plough eight hundred furlongs of furrow in a fortnight!! Honestly, you Americans just crack me up with your wacky units. So much more fun than being stuck with boring old litres!
Oh sure, privilege the number ten just because humans have ten fingers.
I thought you were supposed to be more progressive than us backwater colonies? :) Tsk, tsk; so human-centric ...
And that's why Venezuela is the paradise it is today.
... "progressive" means "other people pay".
If you fly, ride the bus, train or cruise ship, other people control where you go.
Hmm, I wonder if that has anything to do with why so many people have cars?
(Aside: what, no woman-in-CS tie-in? What with women being more social, and all that? Just wondering.)
Pair programming is one of those ideas so awful that it could only come from a university.
Sure, if I want to bounce ideas off of someone for something specific, that's great; they're likely to see something that I don't. But I can hardly imagine anything worse than someone else having to have their fingers in the whole pie, all the time, just because we are supposed to be a "pair".