The first part of this bill will ensure full employment for lawyers quibbling over the definitions of "reasonable" and "appropriate" for any given device. There's nothing of substance there, just vague subjective guidelines.
The second part requires a device's factory-default password to be unique, or that it require a password change before use. This is actually not a bad idea. It's debatable whether or not it should be the subject of legislation, but the market has shown that there is insufficient incentive for manufacturers to do it on their own.
The rest of the bill is definitions and such that boil down to, "If it has an IP address, this law applies." It also applies to Bluetooth devices. They should have worded that a little more broadly. I predict a sudden market for "Greytooth" devices that are not Bluetooth per se but are interoperable with Bluetooth.
Human workforce: One human screws up writing the procedure, all cars have to be trashed because the human workers followed the procedure.
Human burger flipper: One human screws up writing the procedure, hundreds die because the human fast-food workers followed the procedure.
There's a procedure for everything. Programming human workers is not unlike programming robots. Seriously. An ambiguous assembly procedure leads to inconsistent product because Alice on first shift does it one way and Bob on second shift does it another. Not a lot is left up to worker discretion on a human-run assembly line, or in a fast-food kitchen.
I was hearing these same arguments when I started in computing in the mid 80s. And I'm pretty sure they were old and tired then. Just another variation on the same "Back in *my* day..." complaint that's been happening since the invention of language.
They also closed the local post office. So there must have been evidence of something being shipped to the observatory.
The entire "town" of Sunspot is half a mile in diameter and consists of the observatory, the post office, and a few dozen houses. Probably has nothing to do with the post office. The FBI probably just evacuated the whole place and the local postmaster was a convenient point of contact for the media to interview.
Pretty much. Tech companies are this year's focus of "everybody look busy for the camera". They'll move on to something else in time for the 2020 election cycle.
No, it's a tessellation artifact, the kind you see on early 3D video games. The Cosmic Level Designer thought it'd be okay to reduce the polygon count because Saturn is so far away. It's like those mountains you see in the background of games. Who'd waste their time *walking* all the way there? I'm not sure what's worse, that the universe is a computer simulation or that it's a lo-res computer simulation.
Tabs are fine IF AND ONLY IF you use them exclusively for indentation, and you use exactly one tab per indentation level. You CANNOT use tabs anywhere beyond the first non-tab character in the line, though. Doing so screws up all the presumed benefit of tabs as indentation. Having never met a programmer who was successful at meeting these constraints, I have to throw my hat onto the "spaces" side of the debate.
Whether or not alignment is a good thing is orthogonal to the use of tabs. You can use tabs to indent and use spaces to align. The complaint about unnecessary churn is well taken, though. That's a real problem. Personally I think alignment gives enough of an improvement to readability to make the churn worthwhile but I can see where others may disagree.
I just hack my way into the company's server and advertise myself as postmaster@companyname.com. That way they know I'm capable and I've even saved them the bother of setting up an account for me.
If you're going to peddle water as phony medicine, you should at least have the decency to sterilize the water and the container before you push it on your marks.
Are you kidding me? Try my new homeopathic cure for cooties... Now made with 100% raw water for that extra burst of natural healing power! Sure, it's three times more expensive than those generic homeopathic products made with distilled water stripped of all its vital life energy. But after all... Isn't your body worth it?
"Good riddance." That's literally the conclusion in the article.
Basically, a newsletter produced by a company which makes statistical analysis software published a fluff piece laying some history on the kids and musing, "Aren't you glad we have software now?" The article is mildly nostalgic for the pre-calculator crowd and mildly interesting for the post-calculator crowd. It's not meant to be a controversial think-piece.
The headline could have stopped with "Science Confirms That Women's Pockets Suck".
Every woman I know complains about the lack of pockets in women's clothes. You'd think someone out there would design a line of women's clothing that had pockets. From the sounds of it they'd make a gajillion dollars.
If men's clothing were truly about function and not form them in hot weather men world wear dresses made of burlap and covered in pockets. Somehow you never see this.
A lot of the worst offenders don't call themselves "news", but "entertainment". Oh, it doesn't matter that I said something biased or inaccurate, this isn't *news*, it's *entertainment*. Maybe it'd be enough to have the news outlets self-identify each show. They kind of do it now, but they want it both ways -- they want to show what looks like news but carries a tiny little asterisk that reads "For entertainment purposes only." We'd need to have outlets that identify as news display a banner that says, "WE'RE SERIOUS ABOUT THIS!". Those outlets would be held to journalistic standards. Any outlet which doesn't display the banner can be ignored as biased garbage.
No kidding? You mean the comments site which actually has an API for bulk submissions wasn't attacked by 1337 h4x0r5, just someone using the API exactly how it was intended? Who'da thunk it?
I left $JOB_1 because I found an absolutely fabulous position at $JOB_2 doing exactly what I wanted to do.
$JOB_2 left me because the bottom fell out of the market and they went out of business along with pretty much the entire industry. (But dammit, we made the *BEST* buggy whips available!)
Left $JOB_3 because it was a soul-sucking company where everything was on a need to know basis, and if you weren't Japanese you didn't need to know.
$JOB_4 left me when I accidentally crossed an HR zero-tolerance policy. No warnings, no chance to apologize or make amends, just out on my rear.
$JOB_5 left me when they went out of business. They tried to prematurely optimize the manufacturing process before actually having a product to manufacture. That, and the sales person was only interested in the multi-million dollar customers and actively shunned anyone smaller.
Still at $JOB_6 and I have been for a long while. I'm getting a little bored with the work but it's a good company and I have some sweet perqs I'd be unlikely to find elsewhere.
I might actually like a haptic-based keyboard. I've been amazed at how good the haptics on my 2015 MacBook Pro are when it comes to the trackpad. The big hurdle to solve is how to find the keys by touch. If they do that, a no-moving-parts haptic keyboard might be kind of nice. (*MIGHT* be. All I'm saying is that I'd reserve judgement until after I actually tried it.)
For my money, the real flaw with the current keyboard is the lack of a dedicated ESC key. That's unforgivable. It's like a car without a steering wheel. I don't care if there's a virtual wheel on the infotainment system. I don't care if you can steer by remapping the gearshift lever to act as a joystick. Those are just stupid hacks that don't even begin to make up for the boneheaded decision to remove a vital control.
If the tablet is the problem, shouldn't it be "hurting" all waiters in a restaurant equally? The article says that waiters are getting bad shifts because of less-than-perfect scores. If the tablets and the survey were the problems, all waiters would have equally depressed results. So it must be that some are consistently getting worse results than others, so maybe some are actually worse than others. Just a theory.
Yes, I agree that management is using the surveys wrong. Many of the example questions have very little to do with the quality of the server, and the idea that any score less than perfect is "bad" is ludicrous. Those are management issues, not technology issues. Leave the poor little tablet out of this. But still, it seems that the entire waitstaff under any given management is going to be affected equally by these external factors. The absolute scores may be meaningless, but a server's score relative to other servers should be a fairly accurate indication of which serves are preferred by customers.
You'd think if you're going to spend 50k or more on security cameras that people would bother to secure them?
Why? From the installer's point of view actually securing the cameras is a lot more work and raises the cost. Cost is the driving factor in the consumer's mind, and most consumers have no way to evaluate the security. So an installation that's actually secure costs much more than an installation that merely claims to be secure. A secure system also generates a lot more service calls. "Help! I lost my password! What do you mean, you can't tell me what it was? What the hell am I paying you for?!" Convenience trumps security almost every time.
Yeah, the only way Universal Basic Income works is if it's, you know... Universal. Everyone gets it regardless of income level. You don't lose it when you find a job. You don't lose it when you go above the poverty line. You don't lose it when you fail to meet some arbitrary measure. Nothing you make above and beyond the UBI is going to reduce the amount of money you receive.
Paradoxically, this lets us move labor to more of a free market. Employers no longer need to pay a minimum wage, UBI takes care of that. Employers and workers can negotiate a mutually agreeable wage without anyone holding a gun to their heads. Employers can offer a penny an hour if they can find someone willing to work for that amount. Workers can walk away from a job with less than desirable pay or working conditions without fear of starvation.
I hate experiments with UBI that forget the whole "U" aspect. They fail, then people say, "See? UBI doesn't work!"
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The first part of this bill will ensure full employment for lawyers quibbling over the definitions of "reasonable" and "appropriate" for any given device. There's nothing of substance there, just vague subjective guidelines.
The second part requires a device's factory-default password to be unique, or that it require a password change before use. This is actually not a bad idea. It's debatable whether or not it should be the subject of legislation, but the market has shown that there is insufficient incentive for manufacturers to do it on their own.
The rest of the bill is definitions and such that boil down to, "If it has an IP address, this law applies." It also applies to Bluetooth devices. They should have worded that a little more broadly. I predict a sudden market for "Greytooth" devices that are not Bluetooth per se but are interoperable with Bluetooth.
"Dark" is the new "flat". Can't wait for green text to become all the rage, too.
More to the point,
Human workforce: One human screws up writing the procedure, all cars have to be trashed because the human workers followed the procedure.
Human burger flipper: One human screws up writing the procedure, hundreds die because the human fast-food workers followed the procedure.
There's a procedure for everything. Programming human workers is not unlike programming robots. Seriously. An ambiguous assembly procedure leads to inconsistent product because Alice on first shift does it one way and Bob on second shift does it another. Not a lot is left up to worker discretion on a human-run assembly line, or in a fast-food kitchen.
I was hearing these same arguments when I started in computing in the mid 80s. And I'm pretty sure they were old and tired then. Just another variation on the same "Back in *my* day..." complaint that's been happening since the invention of language.
The entire "town" of Sunspot is half a mile in diameter and consists of the observatory, the post office, and a few dozen houses. Probably has nothing to do with the post office. The FBI probably just evacuated the whole place and the local postmaster was a convenient point of contact for the media to interview.
Pretty much. Tech companies are this year's focus of "everybody look busy for the camera". They'll move on to something else in time for the 2020 election cycle.
No, it's a tessellation artifact, the kind you see on early 3D video games. The Cosmic Level Designer thought it'd be okay to reduce the polygon count because Saturn is so far away. It's like those mountains you see in the background of games. Who'd waste their time *walking* all the way there? I'm not sure what's worse, that the universe is a computer simulation or that it's a lo-res computer simulation.
Tabs are fine IF AND ONLY IF you use them exclusively for indentation, and you use exactly one tab per indentation level. You CANNOT use tabs anywhere beyond the first non-tab character in the line, though. Doing so screws up all the presumed benefit of tabs as indentation. Having never met a programmer who was successful at meeting these constraints, I have to throw my hat onto the "spaces" side of the debate.
Whether or not alignment is a good thing is orthogonal to the use of tabs. You can use tabs to indent and use spaces to align. The complaint about unnecessary churn is well taken, though. That's a real problem. Personally I think alignment gives enough of an improvement to readability to make the churn worthwhile but I can see where others may disagree.
I just hack my way into the company's server and advertise myself as postmaster@companyname.com. That way they know I'm capable and I've even saved them the bother of setting up an account for me.
Rights groups demand it? Good luck with that.
"We don't demand solid facts! What we demand is a total absence of solid facts. I demand that I may or may not be Vroomfondel!"
Are you kidding me? Try my new homeopathic cure for cooties... Now made with 100% raw water for that extra burst of natural healing power! Sure, it's three times more expensive than those generic homeopathic products made with distilled water stripped of all its vital life energy. But after all... Isn't your body worth it?
"Good riddance." That's literally the conclusion in the article.
Basically, a newsletter produced by a company which makes statistical analysis software published a fluff piece laying some history on the kids and musing, "Aren't you glad we have software now?" The article is mildly nostalgic for the pre-calculator crowd and mildly interesting for the post-calculator crowd. It's not meant to be a controversial think-piece.
The headline could have stopped with "Science Confirms That Women's Pockets Suck".
Every woman I know complains about the lack of pockets in women's clothes. You'd think someone out there would design a line of women's clothing that had pockets. From the sounds of it they'd make a gajillion dollars.
I see it quite frequently.
A lot of the worst offenders don't call themselves "news", but "entertainment". Oh, it doesn't matter that I said something biased or inaccurate, this isn't *news*, it's *entertainment*. Maybe it'd be enough to have the news outlets self-identify each show. They kind of do it now, but they want it both ways -- they want to show what looks like news but carries a tiny little asterisk that reads "For entertainment purposes only." We'd need to have outlets that identify as news display a banner that says, "WE'RE SERIOUS ABOUT THIS!". Those outlets would be held to journalistic standards. Any outlet which doesn't display the banner can be ignored as biased garbage.
No kidding? You mean the comments site which actually has an API for bulk submissions wasn't attacked by 1337 h4x0r5, just someone using the API exactly how it was intended? Who'da thunk it?
-1, Redundant. The summary *already* says it was CIO magazine.
Looks like they have Sciences well covered, but where are the suits for Engineering and Command?
I left $JOB_1 because I found an absolutely fabulous position at $JOB_2 doing exactly what I wanted to do.
$JOB_2 left me because the bottom fell out of the market and they went out of business along with pretty much the entire industry. (But dammit, we made the *BEST* buggy whips available!)
Left $JOB_3 because it was a soul-sucking company where everything was on a need to know basis, and if you weren't Japanese you didn't need to know.
$JOB_4 left me when I accidentally crossed an HR zero-tolerance policy. No warnings, no chance to apologize or make amends, just out on my rear.
$JOB_5 left me when they went out of business. They tried to prematurely optimize the manufacturing process before actually having a product to manufacture. That, and the sales person was only interested in the multi-million dollar customers and actively shunned anyone smaller.
Still at $JOB_6 and I have been for a long while. I'm getting a little bored with the work but it's a good company and I have some sweet perqs I'd be unlikely to find elsewhere.
I might actually like a haptic-based keyboard. I've been amazed at how good the haptics on my 2015 MacBook Pro are when it comes to the trackpad. The big hurdle to solve is how to find the keys by touch. If they do that, a no-moving-parts haptic keyboard might be kind of nice. (*MIGHT* be. All I'm saying is that I'd reserve judgement until after I actually tried it.)
For my money, the real flaw with the current keyboard is the lack of a dedicated ESC key. That's unforgivable. It's like a car without a steering wheel. I don't care if there's a virtual wheel on the infotainment system. I don't care if you can steer by remapping the gearshift lever to act as a joystick. Those are just stupid hacks that don't even begin to make up for the boneheaded decision to remove a vital control.
Wait a minute... Slack was offline this morning too. Does this mean Google Home is using Slack as its transport layer?
Frankly, I'm not sure if I'm joking here.
If the tablet is the problem, shouldn't it be "hurting" all waiters in a restaurant equally? The article says that waiters are getting bad shifts because of less-than-perfect scores. If the tablets and the survey were the problems, all waiters would have equally depressed results. So it must be that some are consistently getting worse results than others, so maybe some are actually worse than others. Just a theory.
Yes, I agree that management is using the surveys wrong. Many of the example questions have very little to do with the quality of the server, and the idea that any score less than perfect is "bad" is ludicrous. Those are management issues, not technology issues. Leave the poor little tablet out of this. But still, it seems that the entire waitstaff under any given management is going to be affected equally by these external factors. The absolute scores may be meaningless, but a server's score relative to other servers should be a fairly accurate indication of which serves are preferred by customers.
Why? From the installer's point of view actually securing the cameras is a lot more work and raises the cost. Cost is the driving factor in the consumer's mind, and most consumers have no way to evaluate the security. So an installation that's actually secure costs much more than an installation that merely claims to be secure. A secure system also generates a lot more service calls. "Help! I lost my password! What do you mean, you can't tell me what it was? What the hell am I paying you for?!" Convenience trumps security almost every time.
Yeah, the only way Universal Basic Income works is if it's, you know... Universal. Everyone gets it regardless of income level. You don't lose it when you find a job. You don't lose it when you go above the poverty line. You don't lose it when you fail to meet some arbitrary measure. Nothing you make above and beyond the UBI is going to reduce the amount of money you receive.
Paradoxically, this lets us move labor to more of a free market. Employers no longer need to pay a minimum wage, UBI takes care of that. Employers and workers can negotiate a mutually agreeable wage without anyone holding a gun to their heads. Employers can offer a penny an hour if they can find someone willing to work for that amount. Workers can walk away from a job with less than desirable pay or working conditions without fear of starvation.
I hate experiments with UBI that forget the whole "U" aspect. They fail, then people say, "See? UBI doesn't work!"
Holy cats, guys! I've found that this same security hole exists in 'mv'!
How many programs are affected by this?!!?
P.S. Anyone know how to undelete a file? Plz let me know before Friday!