I have read the news, and clearly I pay closer attention than you. I repeat: there is no grand conspiracy out to get you. The US government is run by TENS OF THOUSANDS of people, who are often fighting against each other. You think that's all an act? You think that many people, working over so many decades, could pull something like that off without leaks? No. It's not possible.
True, the TSA expansion is mostly a money grab by the contractors supplying the over priced equipment and the under paid agents, but don't believe for a minute that the powers that be don't recognize the other benefits of an easy to control society. Hell, people are voting against their own health care benefits. Maybe it's just an experiment to see how many flaming hoops they can be made to jump through?
It would also discriminate against pilots who are pacifists, and would refuse to operate a weapon.
Not to mention the risk of a pilot going postal with a gun. And there have been several instances of pilots flipping. They have a high stress job, abnormal sleep patterns, and it's expected that they have a higher risk.
Quit making sense. The "more guns equal more safety" fallacy is too entrenched to make a dent. At least most of the civilized world gets it.
I bet it's distributed to every single VM server and network device that they have. You know, just a little agent to capture all data from all customers at the source.
All they are doing now is stepping up their tap dancing in the hopes that people will fail to see the obvious about their bundled downloads.
Ads are targeted at the gullible, i.e. idiots. It's just another form of spam. Their statements are written by the sales/marketing/MBAs who have taken over SourceForge. They are targeted at the idiots who may believe it. Their previous customers are less susceptible to advertising and BS. Therefore, we are no longer their customers. I too got virused on my last visit to them. SourceForge is dead to me. Hopefully Slashdot gets a new overlord soon, lest the same shit happen here.
If this were Microsoft, then they would wait until they had a critical mass of users, and then start forgetting to fix bugs for anything other than Chrome. But this isn't Microsoft, so that would NEVER happen. Right?
the number of motorists who access the internet (e.g. check email, surf websites, etc.) has nearly doubled over the past four years
This statement implies these people access the internet regularly. However, that's not the question they asked.
Actually, it's one in four people ANSWERED that they used the internet, not actually used the internet. Right after 9/11 the majority of Americans said they supported our government's actions, because they felt they had to say that. Japan has so few rapes because women do not report them. Kids only admit to smoking weed if the climate is non-hostile to them admitting it, or it makes them seem cooler. Polls prove nothing except how people feel they should respond. If you want data, go watch people. It's called science.
I think it's only justified to call something an "invisibility cloak" when it does what people actually expect an invisibility cloak to do, that is, make things actually not visible. How about calling it a "stealth cloak" because that's what I imagine most people would associate with being invisible to a radar, as opposed to the naked eye.
How about flying cars? Or cure for cancer? Or pioneer probe in interstellar space? The list goes on.
So this ran for 18 hours, or about $1800/hour. That gives you just under $44,000 per day, or $16 million for a year.
Give me $16 million a year and I can build you a very kick-butt cluster - the one I'm just finishing up is 5000 cores at about $3 million.
EC2 is great if your needs are small and intermittent. But if you're part of a larger organization that has continual HPC needs, you're going to be better off building it yourself for a while.
People need to stop thinking of "cloud" as some kind of magic fairy land. It's just a bunch of servers and software that cost the same to purchase as anywhere else. Plus they have to make a profit. So of course you can build it cheaper yourself, if all you are comparing is bare hardware.
Pick a random left turn light in the Bay Area, and look at the driver waiting third or fourth in line. Some of them are very slow to move off when the light goes green, because they are reading or even typing on their smartphone. Then they play catch-up after a cursory look at the road ahead. They rate their entertainment above the safety of pedestrians, cyclists and other drivers. It's unbelievably selfish.
American arrogance plus Californian sense of entitlement leads to some of the worst drivers I've ever seen out here in the Bay Area. They simply do not even recognize that there are other people in the world.
Why are European politicians involved in "negotiations" at all? They could save their time and just sign a document written by the U.S. government. Same result with less effort.
It's for show, the illusion of representative democracy. The decisions were already decided on a golf course in the Bahamas by the multinational industrialists who really wrote it.
It's a misconception to believe that a successful business under a particular name is in the best interest of the owners of any company. Often when a company is approaching its twilight, it makes more sense to run it into the ground and sell off the assets. Remember, the actual workers and benefits to society do not matter the least bit in American business. All that matters is maximizing the profits to the owners or share holders.
But, the CEO is the person who decides what products the company makes, is responsible for making sure those products are built on time, and sell when they hit the market.
That describes no CEO I've ever met. They manipulate board meetings, decide how far they can go outside of the law without getting caught, make insider deals that serve their own interests at the expense of the workers, manipulate financial data to increase their bonuses, make big business deals of buying and selling subsidiaries in order to make the greatest profit for their buddies, and generally leave the running of the actual company to underlings.
Only in academia would faculty feel entitled to freely criticize their employer while expecting their employer to turn a blind eye. In any other field you would be canned on the spot for doing something like this. Possibly government employees in some departments would have similar attitudes?
Now you can argue that academia has it right and the rest of society has it wrong or you could call the faculty self entitled tenured representations of antiquity. Having worked in the private industry as well as some years in a very large University one could argue this either way.
Typical anti-intellectualism idiocracy, and one major reason that this country is heading into the toilet. At one time academics were respected for this wisdom. If they had an issue, they were trusted to be on the side of right. Now it's attack scientists and professors at every opportunity.
"I'm not painfully introverted or socially inept, but I get lost in my work and only contact people if I need something from them or they ask me a question."
The people that get the best reviews are not the ones who work the hardest. They are the ones who impress their bosses and colleagues the most. That may sound a bit cynical, but it is the painful truth. Stop working so hard. Take a breath, look around, and relax a bit. If you are feeling swamped, then you need to set expectations better. Let everyone know that you are really busy, even if you are not. Try simple small talk, like "good morning," and "going to get some coffee, you want some." Treat your boss and people in authority with casual respect, that is, not stiff, but with deference. Take more breaks and run into more people. I learned a long time ago that in IT, perception is more important than results.
That's because you're letting your ego get in the way. This isn't about you. This is about one or more specific targets that they believed or suspected were slashdot users.
We're probably not talking about people with their fingers on the detonators of bombs. More likely people who criticize certain people in power, you know, common slashdot conversations. Maybe it's MY ego getting in the way, but slashdot more and more is becoming the modern Federalist Papers, and that has to be of concern to the powers at be.
How about we accept that Twitter and Facebook and Linkedin don't really matter and just ignore them? Nah, marketing people need their meaningless metrics to justify their salaries and spending.
This is one more step in the breakdown of our society. When the average person sees that powerful people are not subject to the law, they start to wonder why they themselves should be subject to the law.
These are the same people who have been convinced that universal health care is a "communist" plot. "Better dead than Red." Wish granted. There is no hope when the citizens vote for their own slavery, hell, they insist on it.
According to the chart on this page (direct link to chart), we (UK) are in third place behind the USA and Mexico. It is a big jump up to US levels though, but we're working on it.
OT, but Japan was also top in the international intelligence poll. A couple more years of language study and this American and his wife are moving west.
And of course these are all statistics 30 years out of date, where the murder rate of US citizens has steadily declined to less than half of what it was in 1986. (despite what the media portrays)
As it has in countries with strict gun laws, so there's your correlation. I guess America is just so much more full of crazy people than UK or Japan that we all need guns for protection. Wait, who are those crazy people? Can they buy guns?
What is hard is launching a person into space safely 100% of the time. If your passenger is willing to risk their life on a 10% failure rate of the rocket, and iffy engineering on the capsule, anyone can do it a year with enough money. I hate to say it, but until we are willing to accept that kind of level of risk, like the first biplane pilots, or the first sailors going out of sight of the coast, then this space thing will take a long long time. There's no end of adrenaline junkies looking for new ways to risk their lives. It's society's extreme reactions to any failure that is slowing us down. One craft crashes and we shut down the entire manned space program for five years until we figure out who to blame. Way to go America. I hope India and China and Denmark can jump start that next wave.
Undoubtedly an overreaction due to some hoverparent threatening to sue the school. I think this is a case where they should tell the parent to take their child to another school or to homeschool.
Homeschooling by idiotic parents is tantamount to child abuse. OK, that describes most home schooling.
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I have read the news, and clearly I pay closer attention than you. I repeat: there is no grand conspiracy out to get you. The US government is run by TENS OF THOUSANDS of people, who are often fighting against each other. You think that's all an act? You think that many people, working over so many decades, could pull something like that off without leaks? No. It's not possible.
True, the TSA expansion is mostly a money grab by the contractors supplying the over priced equipment and the under paid agents, but don't believe for a minute that the powers that be don't recognize the other benefits of an easy to control society. Hell, people are voting against their own health care benefits. Maybe it's just an experiment to see how many flaming hoops they can be made to jump through?
It would also discriminate against pilots who are pacifists, and would refuse to operate a weapon.
Not to mention the risk of a pilot going postal with a gun. And there have been several instances of pilots flipping. They have a high stress job, abnormal sleep patterns, and it's expected that they have a higher risk.
Quit making sense. The "more guns equal more safety" fallacy is too entrenched to make a dent. At least most of the civilized world gets it.
I bet it's distributed to every single VM server and network device that they have. You know, just a little agent to capture all data from all customers at the source.
All they are doing now is stepping up their tap dancing in the hopes that people will fail to see the obvious about their bundled downloads.
Ads are targeted at the gullible, i.e. idiots. It's just another form of spam. Their statements are written by the sales/marketing/MBAs who have taken over SourceForge. They are targeted at the idiots who may believe it. Their previous customers are less susceptible to advertising and BS. Therefore, we are no longer their customers. I too got virused on my last visit to them. SourceForge is dead to me. Hopefully Slashdot gets a new overlord soon, lest the same shit happen here.
If this were Microsoft, then they would wait until they had a critical mass of users, and then start forgetting to fix bugs for anything other than Chrome. But this isn't Microsoft, so that would NEVER happen. Right?
the number of motorists who access the internet (e.g. check email, surf websites, etc.) has nearly doubled over the past four years
This statement implies these people access the internet regularly. However, that's not the question they asked.
Actually, it's one in four people ANSWERED that they used the internet, not actually used the internet. Right after 9/11 the majority of Americans said they supported our government's actions, because they felt they had to say that. Japan has so few rapes because women do not report them. Kids only admit to smoking weed if the climate is non-hostile to them admitting it, or it makes them seem cooler. Polls prove nothing except how people feel they should respond. If you want data, go watch people. It's called science.
I think it's only justified to call something an "invisibility cloak" when it does what people actually expect an invisibility cloak to do, that is, make things actually not visible. How about calling it a "stealth cloak" because that's what I imagine most people would associate with being invisible to a radar, as opposed to the naked eye.
How about flying cars? Or cure for cancer? Or pioneer probe in interstellar space? The list goes on.
So this ran for 18 hours, or about $1800/hour. That gives you just under $44,000 per day, or $16 million for a year.
Give me $16 million a year and I can build you a very kick-butt cluster - the one I'm just finishing up is 5000 cores at about $3 million.
EC2 is great if your needs are small and intermittent. But if you're part of a larger organization that has continual HPC needs, you're going to be better off building it yourself for a while.
People need to stop thinking of "cloud" as some kind of magic fairy land. It's just a bunch of servers and software that cost the same to purchase as anywhere else. Plus they have to make a profit. So of course you can build it cheaper yourself, if all you are comparing is bare hardware.
Pick a random left turn light in the Bay Area, and look at the driver waiting third or fourth in line. Some of them are very slow to move off when the light goes green, because they are reading or even typing on their smartphone. Then they play catch-up after a cursory look at the road ahead. They rate their entertainment above the safety of pedestrians, cyclists and other drivers. It's unbelievably selfish.
American arrogance plus Californian sense of entitlement leads to some of the worst drivers I've ever seen out here in the Bay Area. They simply do not even recognize that there are other people in the world.
Why are European politicians involved in "negotiations" at all? They could save their time and just sign a document written by the U.S. government. Same result with less effort.
It's for show, the illusion of representative democracy. The decisions were already decided on a golf course in the Bahamas by the multinational industrialists who really wrote it.
It's a misconception to believe that a successful business under a particular name is in the best interest of the owners of any company. Often when a company is approaching its twilight, it makes more sense to run it into the ground and sell off the assets. Remember, the actual workers and benefits to society do not matter the least bit in American business. All that matters is maximizing the profits to the owners or share holders.
But, the CEO is the person who decides what products the company makes, is responsible for making sure those products are built on time, and sell when they hit the market.
That describes no CEO I've ever met. They manipulate board meetings, decide how far they can go outside of the law without getting caught, make insider deals that serve their own interests at the expense of the workers, manipulate financial data to increase their bonuses, make big business deals of buying and selling subsidiaries in order to make the greatest profit for their buddies, and generally leave the running of the actual company to underlings.
Only in academia would faculty feel entitled to freely criticize their employer while expecting their employer to turn a blind eye. In any other field you would be canned on the spot for doing something like this. Possibly government employees in some departments would have similar attitudes?
Now you can argue that academia has it right and the rest of society has it wrong or you could call the faculty self entitled tenured representations of antiquity. Having worked in the private industry as well as some years in a very large University one could argue this either way.
Typical anti-intellectualism idiocracy, and one major reason that this country is heading into the toilet. At one time academics were respected for this wisdom. If they had an issue, they were trusted to be on the side of right. Now it's attack scientists and professors at every opportunity.
"I'm not painfully introverted or socially inept, but I get lost in my work and only contact people if I need something from them or they ask me a question."
The people that get the best reviews are not the ones who work the hardest. They are the ones who impress their bosses and colleagues the most. That may sound a bit cynical, but it is the painful truth. Stop working so hard. Take a breath, look around, and relax a bit. If you are feeling swamped, then you need to set expectations better. Let everyone know that you are really busy, even if you are not. Try simple small talk, like "good morning," and "going to get some coffee, you want some." Treat your boss and people in authority with casual respect, that is, not stiff, but with deference. Take more breaks and run into more people. I learned a long time ago that in IT, perception is more important than results.
That's because you're letting your ego get in the way. This isn't about you. This is about one or more specific targets that they believed or suspected were slashdot users.
We're probably not talking about people with their fingers on the detonators of bombs. More likely people who criticize certain people in power, you know, common slashdot conversations. Maybe it's MY ego getting in the way, but slashdot more and more is becoming the modern Federalist Papers, and that has to be of concern to the powers at be.
How about we accept that Twitter and Facebook and Linkedin don't really matter and just ignore them? Nah, marketing people need their meaningless metrics to justify their salaries and spending.
From our American taxes to the military to Haliburton to Dubai to diamond encrusted cars. Fuck this country.
Free energy from the ether! Not.
This is one more step in the breakdown of our society. When the average person sees that powerful people are not subject to the law, they start to wonder why they themselves should be subject to the law.
These are the same people who have been convinced that universal health care is a "communist" plot. "Better dead than Red." Wish granted. There is no hope when the citizens vote for their own slavery, hell, they insist on it.
According to the chart on this page (direct link to chart), we (UK) are in third place behind the USA and Mexico. It is a big jump up to US levels though, but we're working on it.
OT, but Japan was also top in the international intelligence poll. A couple more years of language study and this American and his wife are moving west.
And of course these are all statistics 30 years out of date, where the murder rate of US citizens has steadily declined to less than half of what it was in 1986. (despite what the media portrays)
As it has in countries with strict gun laws, so there's your correlation. I guess America is just so much more full of crazy people than UK or Japan that we all need guns for protection. Wait, who are those crazy people? Can they buy guns?
What is hard is launching a person into space safely 100% of the time. If your passenger is willing to risk their life on a 10% failure rate of the rocket, and iffy engineering on the capsule, anyone can do it a year with enough money. I hate to say it, but until we are willing to accept that kind of level of risk, like the first biplane pilots, or the first sailors going out of sight of the coast, then this space thing will take a long long time. There's no end of adrenaline junkies looking for new ways to risk their lives. It's society's extreme reactions to any failure that is slowing us down. One craft crashes and we shut down the entire manned space program for five years until we figure out who to blame. Way to go America. I hope India and China and Denmark can jump start that next wave.
Typos in both headline and submission. Well done slashdot, well done.
Why not targeting high fructose corn syrup instead?
It is far more harmful and sugar is a better (albeit pricier) replacement.
The reason is right in the name. Corn is a major part of the US agriculture industry. Do you know how much lobbying power they have?
It's the same reason we are still at "war" with Cuba.
Undoubtedly an overreaction due to some hoverparent threatening to sue the school. I think this is a case where they should tell the parent to take their child to another school or to homeschool.
Homeschooling by idiotic parents is tantamount to child abuse. OK, that describes most home schooling.