Unless you're trying to avoid the problem noted in the articles linked from the summary which was clearly involving a complete cloud infrastructure provider, not a cloud storage provider.
Exactly. I am wondering how many months the planes that have this problem have been in service. Why didn't this overheating problem happened in the earlier months? Testing a new battery will not get you anywhere. Testing an aged one maybe.
You guys should work for Boeing, I bet they never thought about testing used batteries from a different aircraft, or testing other, non-failed, batteries from the problem aircraft.
When they said they ruled out the batteries, they probably just rang up the battery manufacturer and said "Hey, we need to test your batteries, send us a couple new ones. But make sure they are ordinary batteries off the production line, don't spend all night cherry picking the best ones".
The 787 is a revolutionary aircraft on many levels, from features to construction technology to production methods. I would expect there to be unforseen issues resulting from interaction between different systems. What I'm curious about is whether Boeing will get them all sorted out quickly enough...in which case they will be superbly positioned to compete, having mastered the many challenges around making the 787 what it is. If they don't, then they will be in terrible trouble. I feel like I'm watching aeronautical history playing out before my eyes.
I hope they get it all fixed in time, personally. The 787 is a hell of a plane. Check it out here: http://www.newairplane.com/787/
I'm not surprised by unforseen issues from the new technology and design (like the fuel leaks that have been reported), I'm quite surprised to see battery problems since they must have already run the batteries and charging system through many thousands of simulated takeoff/landing cycles both in bench tests and while installed in a test airframe.
The solution which is always repeated is to encrypt any sensitive data.
If you need to actually use your data at some point, the cloud provider could snoop the data from your virtual machine's RAM. And they could probably find the decryption key to your data somewhere in memory too if they looked hard enough.
I still think there is a market for large e-ink displays.
For instance, there is a large LCD screen outside every lecture hall at my university. Each screen displays a blue-on-white list of scheduled lectures and events for that hall, which is updated every second hour or so. Replacing those screens with e-ink displays would presumably save a lot of power, without any loss of functionality.
There may be a market for large e-ink displays (thousands? tens of thousands?), but it's a tiny fraction of the market for 50 inch LCD/Plasma screens (millions), so the economies of scale mean that it would be prohibitively expensive.
The black-and-white nature of the displays and limited refresh rate mean they aren't a drop-in replacement for every large format display, which limits their usefulness.
But the money is already removed from your account. Reporting it does not cause the money to reappear in your account. (Some banks will do that, depending on the nature of the fraud, but it's up to the bank) The dispute process takes 6 months to a year, and in the meantime, you're out the money. And in the event of disagreement, you're screwed by default.
Even if they do replace the money within a few days, who's going to pay the returned check surcharges from all of the merchants that I unknowingly wrote bad checks to?
This is why I don't use a debit card (the kind that acts just like a credit card except that it's debited from your bank account). I used to think that my PIN protected ATM card was safe, until some merchants near me got hit with skimmers that stole card numbers and PIN's from their POS terminals. I'd known about gas station skimmers, but didn't think that a grocery store that's open 24x7 could get hit.
Now I use only credit cards for purchases and only use my ATM card at ATM machines owned by my bank (which still aren't immune to skimmers).
Knowing C, IMO, is a litmus test for someone who knows how computers work. Pointers, memory, file I/O, etc, aren't directly useful in higher level languages these days. But knowing they exist would help someone write smarter code.
I did an algorithms course a few years ago. The course was about how to write highly optimised searching/sorting/graph-traversin algorithms. Basically the kind of computation jobs that take a long time to complete and where optimisation that yields even a few percent increase in speed get you significant monetary savings. On day some students asked the teacher whether they could write assignments in Python rather than C/C++. The teacher just stood there without knowing what to say, then overcame the urge to humiliate the student and an long and awkward silence just said, NO. Scripting languages are nice but you can't solve everything with scripts.
That's funny, when I took an algorithms class, my instructor said we could use whatever language we are most comfortable with (of course, at the time, that was pretty much just C, Pascal, or FORTRAN). He wasn't looking for a production-release ready algorithm, he was just looking to see if we understood how to write the algorithm.
If you want to do website development thats different.
But real computer programming tends to use C or C++ or obj C
I haven't hired a C/C++ programmer for nearly 10 years, and have managed some large business application development projects (one project is deployed to around 800 locations with about 20,000 users). What is your definition of "real" programming?
If there weren't a shortage of developers, then programmers wouldn't commonly be making triple the median income.
Where are programmers routinely making more than triple the median income? The median income in San Francisco is $40K, but most programmers are not making $120K. There are certainly exceptions for experienced developers, but based on some recent hires I made, there are plenty of programmers in SF making in the $85 - $100K range.
Are most people in SF homeless? A 1 bedroom there is like $3k/month, right?
As halltk1983 said, there are plenty of ways to live and work in SF despite the high rents - if you're not too choosy about where you live, you can find a studio apartment for less than $1000, but you're probably better off living with roomates to have a nicer apartment in a nicer area. If you're really low budget, you can literally rent a closet in some apartments - I know someone who paid $200/month to sleep in a large closet in a shared house to save money during college. She spent almost 2 years there and when she moved out someone else moved in.
Living outside of SF is also an option, but if you really want to be in SF, you probably don't want to have to commute in every day. But some people are willing to do a 90 minute commute from Tracy to SF where they can afford a nicer house... some do longer commutes.
At the other extreme, others are happy to pay $5K/month for a 1 bedroom.
Except that you can't really "in-shore cheaper help" very easily using H-1Bs--you're required to pay at least the "prevailing wage". Perhaps foreigners artificially keep the prevailing wage from rising, but it can't go down due to immigrants under the current system. Also, you're supposed to show that no American wants the job at hand, which is rather difficult to show.
It's in how you define the prevailing wage and how you define the job requirements.
If a company can hire a senior DBA for $90K even though the local employee with equivalent experience would have be paid $110K, they can pay back their legal fees for the H1-B application in less than a year. It's easy to fudge job descriptions and pay scales to say whatever you want them to say. For example, it's usually something like "Employee must have experience with XYZ application that no one outside of the hiring company uses, then they can point to the off-shore contractor that's been working for them remotely for a year and say "Only he has that experience!" -- oh, and we're going to pay him what we'd pay an entry-level DBA because he only has 1 year of verifiable DBA experience".
If there weren't a shortage of developers, then programmers wouldn't commonly be making triple the median income.
Where are programmers routinely making more than triple the median income? The median income in San Francisco is $40K, but most programmers are not making $120K. There are certainly exceptions for experienced developers, but based on some recent hires I made, there are plenty of programmers in SF making in the $85 - $100K range.
I'm still mad at the makers of Silence of the Lambs for portraying Hannibal Lecter as a Caucasian male. I am a Caucasian male and it's clear that the whole movie the smacks of racial prejudice and vulgar insinuations against Caucasians as people with deceitful and criminal personalities. Movies should stop having bad guys because it always paints some race or culture as having deceitful and criminal personalities and that upsets me.
I know I'll get modded into oblivion, but this actually makes sense somewhat. You get on a contract and buy a subsidized phone for $50 and pay 1 month of your bill. Then you cancel your contract, don't return the phone etc etc. You'll owe the carrier a lot of money, but they'll have to go through the debt-collection stuff to get it back. So, assuming you don't pay the collectors, you might have a $600 phone that you effectively paid $100 for
If someone is willing to break the law by committing fraud to get a subsidized phone, they probably aren't going to have a problem with breaking the DMCA by following online instructions to unlock the phone.
How is this a problem for any carrier? All of the subsidized phones I've seen all come with a minimum contract term (2 years?) and a high penalty fee to break the contract (Verizon is $350, lowered by $10/month, $175 for non-smartphone lowered by $5/month).
Does any carrier let you buy a subsidized phone without a contract, or let you break the contract with no penalty?
Here's US Berkeley's CompSci overview... what part of this makes you think that CompSci is preparing graduates to be application developers?
UC Berkeley construes computer science broadly to include the theory of computation, the design and analysis of algorithms, the architecture and logic design of computers, programming languages, compilers, operating systems, scientific computation, computer graphics, databases, artificial intelligence and natural lan- guage processing. The Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department’s goal is to prepare students for both a possible research career and long-term technical leadership in industry.
That's not to say that a CompSci student can't become a developer, but the curriculum is not designed to teach that - there are far easier ways to learn application development if that's all you're interested in.
Well yeah, 'Computer Science is taught in this idealized world separate from reality' has always been the case. Just like Math is taught in an idealized world separate from reality. If you want to learn to be a coder in the real world, don't waste your time with a CompSci degree, get a 2 year programming certificate at a vocational training school. I never really thought of computer science as preparing anyone for a real job as a coder.
Expecting a computer science graduate to know how to be an application developer is like expecting an architect to have carpentry skills -- the architect may know all of the basic theory and design concepts behind how to build a stairway, but it's going to take him 5 times longer than an experienced carpenter to get it right, and he might have to do it more than once.
Your reading comprehension is a little lax. Your confirmation bias is a little strong.
"News" from MSNBC as citation? Please. You can do better.
I picked a well publicised quote from a representative of the Hawaii Attorney General's office, Surely if Mr Wisch was misquoted on such an important issue, you can find the story where he explains that he was misrepresented?
Here's a letter published by the State of Hawaii outlining their policy of no longer providing copies of original birth certificates (since 2001), would you trust the State of Hawaii as as valid source?
Look, I'm not a birther or Hillary Clinton supporter. The claims that Obama is being transparent are false. He could have made the call, period, full stop. The person who can call in drone strikes on US citizens abroad can make a call for a piece of paper.
RIght, "I'm not a birther, I just call into question any evidence you present that shows that Obama released a valid birth certificate that shows that he's a natural born citizen. But I'm not a birther, I just want to see *real* evidence, not news articles from mainstrem news sources and quotes from Hawaii officials. Unless King Kamehameha himself is reincarnated and proclaims that Obama was born in Hawaii, it didn't happen".
But back to your point, he did use his status to request the long form even though it was against Hawaii records policy - finally in April 2011 he got tired of being harassed for not providing the long form so he asked the state of hawaii for special consideration and they complied. But that doesn't mean that the original official birth certificate released in 2008 was invalid.
but you haven't said what releasing school records would do I don't need to state what they would do, but since you asked, I want to see how brilliant he was. Or wasn't. I'm looking for the moment when people paused for a moment from saying Bush was so stupid because his grades were better than Al Gore's.
Oh sorry, I thought you thought releasing his school records would somehow legitimize his citizenship or his fitness to be president, but you don't even pretend that it has some relevancy, you just want to satisfy your own curiosity. Which is fine, but not really a reason to criticize him for not releasing something that has no relevance to his ability to do his job.
If that means that developers are more free to break with conventional UI's and come up with their own "innovative" controls and other UI interfaces, I don't want that - that sounds like when Flash designers started going wild on the web and each Flash web site had its own UI elements and the users had to figure out that flipping a virtual switch on one website was implemented as shooting an arrow into a target on another website and on another website you had to click the virtual LED light that was actually a button (but you don't know it's an active UI element until you discover that it's clickable).
Yes, I'm aware of that solution. 3-5 meters isn't that much more fine grained than 15-20ft.
Right, but my point is that this technology is available off-the-shelf, no need to hire a PhD to do it, for $25K in equipment, a single-floor store can track their customers.
The difference being, I was talking about only using signal strength, and more importantly, using an unmanaged network.
How would you track customer smart phones without some sort of overall network management? How else would you get the nodes signal strength and other metrics in real time so you can locate the device? If you're talking about geolocation on the client side, that's completely different than what this article is talking about.
Cisco's solution requires a managed network, and it uses more than just signal strength. It also does time-of-flight. I've used those solutions too, but those also require special drivers on the client side. In the end, it still doesn't gain you much for the extra effort. 3-5 meters is still about 10-15ft
No drivers on the client side are necessary - we were seeing 2 - 3 meter positioning for normal cell phones in a large open area with 4 Wifi nodes available, with 3 - 5m in a more typical office environment with 4 - 5 nodes.
End the end we went with ceiling mounted people-counter cameras since it gave us more useful data at a lower cost.
Well no, he tried to *not* be special by not circumventing Hawaiian law to obtain a record that a normal citizen would not have access to.
You are rewriting history. I hear there are job openings in part 2 of the Obama administration for people like you. From your source, Hawaii does not give it out to "persons who do not have a tangible interest in the vital record." He has interests. He could have made the call.
Your reading comprehension is a little lax.
Read what I quoted again:
oshua Wisch, a spokesman for the Hawaii Attorney General's office, stated in 2011 that the original "long form" birth certificate — described by Hawaiian officials as a "record of live birth" kept in the archives of the Hawaii Department of Health is "... a Department of Health record and it can't be released to anybody", including President Obama. Wisch added that state law does not authorize photocopying such records
The short-form was already released by Obama in 2008 and was rejected by the birthers, despite it being the only valid birth record that normal Hawaiians are allowed to receive..
Here's a longer quote from the Hawaiia Attorney General's office (with highlighting added to help your comprehension)
But Wisch, the spokesman for the attorney general's office, said state law does not in fact permit the release of "vital records," including an original "record of live birth" — even to the individual whose birth it records. "It's a Department of Health record and it can't be released to anybody," he said. Nor do state laws have any provision that authorizes such records to be photocopied, Wisch said. If Obama wanted to personally visit the state health department, he would be permitted to inspect his birth record, Wisch said. But if he or anybody else wanted a copy of their birth records, they would be told to fill out the appropriate state form and receive back the same computer generated "certification of live birth" form that everybody else gets — which is exactly what Obama did four years ago.
He was born in Hawaii. I get it and always have. The issue is dicking around with not releasing the birth certificate. I don't hold on to Hillary Clinton conspiracy theories.
But he *did* release the only birth certificate that Hawaii was willing to provide to him (until the public records office was harassed so much that they waived their normal policy to release a copy of the original birth record).
On your original offer of "what else could he do" he could release some school records. The original point about the Obama election group not releasing source code would fall in line with the lack of transparency in this administration. It's not surprising.
But you haven't said what releasing school records would do -- if an official state record of birth is rejected as adequate proof, what good is is releasing school records?
It's not as easy as you think. I spent a long time researching this, and I had a Mathematics PHd on staff helping me. I was able to get granularity down to about 15-20ft, when I saw about 20 access points. But 15-20 ft is still pretty big if you are trying to get spatial orientation between people...
And even then, even when I saw 20+ AP, I was still able to find points inside our building where I got matching signal-strength profiles from the APs as another location pretty far away. Remember, proximity detections is not the same as location tracking. I can get unique profiles from contiguous location blocks, but I can't guarantee the same for non-contiguous blocks.
A Cisco MSE will get your location down to around 3 - 5 meters, with 4 or 5 nearby AP's
Not me. I can't wait to hack the o/s to absolutely fuck with this as hard as I can. I hope the phone's drivers support messing with signal and power level.
I've done it with wardriving, I've done it with my laptop before connecting to any type of wireless point. I've even done it with wireless on my desktop, spoofing a specific authorized mac address of a piece of hardware I no longer own so I didn't have to log in to my access point and add it to the authorized list.
I'll sniff for MAC addresses, I'll fake them, spoof them, build in a list of different hardware vendors. You'll see the same person in two different isles. You'll see 5000 people enter the store as I cycle through and sequential addresses as fast as I can for five minutes.
The analytics person is going to have so much fun. 0xdeadbeefbabe all over the place.
Sure, they'll filter me out. Or notice me as one oddball. But soonr or later those stats are going to get mass corrupted because it's my radio and I can broadcast anything I want as long as it's in FCC regs.
To whoever it is that'll be debugging that... i'm 20% sorry in advance, and 80% amused at the thought of the hair pulling this is going to cause.
Uhh...filtering noise like from the data is trivial. The software must already do filtering to filter out devices picked up from users out on the sidewalk passing by the door... when they see a MAC address with a very short track through the store, or a MAC that's moving faster than walking speed, they delete it.
But soonr or later those stats are going to get mass corrupted because it's my radio and I can broadcast anything I want as long as it's in FCC regs
You can broadcast anything you want as long as it's withing FCC regs, but if you broadcast something that's not 802.11, you'll automatically be ignored. And the store is most interested in aggregating traffic over a period of time, so unless you're planning on living at the store, you're probably not going to upset their stats too much. You could try hiding a Wifi transmitter somewhere, but since their software will detect the rogue device as soon as you enter the store, it will be trivial to spot on you security cameras.
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So only decrypt the file locally. Crisis averted.
Unless you're trying to avoid the problem noted in the articles linked from the summary which was clearly involving a complete cloud infrastructure provider, not a cloud storage provider.
Am I missing something? I don't see VM mentioned in the article at all, just cloud, which to me just means storage.
It's because you skipped over the words you didn't understand... from the first article:
Assuming that your business is using infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), the cloud knows: where, when and how often your users connect;
...
If you’re using platform-as-a-service (PaaS), your cloud provider could know: the number of payments that you process
You can look up IaaS and PaaS here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
Exactly. I am wondering how many months the planes that have this problem have been in service. Why didn't this overheating problem happened in the earlier months? Testing a new battery will not get you anywhere. Testing an aged one maybe.
You guys should work for Boeing, I bet they never thought about testing used batteries from a different aircraft, or testing other, non-failed, batteries from the problem aircraft.
When they said they ruled out the batteries, they probably just rang up the battery manufacturer and said "Hey, we need to test your batteries, send us a couple new ones. But make sure they are ordinary batteries off the production line, don't spend all night cherry picking the best ones".
The 787 is a revolutionary aircraft on many levels, from features to construction technology to production methods. I would expect there to be unforseen issues resulting from interaction between different systems. What I'm curious about is whether Boeing will get them all sorted out quickly enough...in which case they will be superbly positioned to compete, having mastered the many challenges around making the 787 what it is. If they don't, then they will be in terrible trouble. I feel like I'm watching aeronautical history playing out before my eyes.
I hope they get it all fixed in time, personally. The 787 is a hell of a plane. Check it out here: http://www.newairplane.com/787/
I'm not surprised by unforseen issues from the new technology and design (like the fuel leaks that have been reported), I'm quite surprised to see battery problems since they must have already run the batteries and charging system through many thousands of simulated takeoff/landing cycles both in bench tests and while installed in a test airframe.
The solution which is always repeated is to encrypt any sensitive data.
If you need to actually use your data at some point, the cloud provider could snoop the data from your virtual machine's RAM. And they could probably find the decryption key to your data somewhere in memory too if they looked hard enough.
Didn't a beverage company just send a monkey to space and back?
I still think there is a market for large e-ink displays.
For instance, there is a large LCD screen outside every lecture hall at my university. Each screen displays a blue-on-white list of scheduled lectures and events for that hall, which is updated every second hour or so. Replacing those screens with e-ink displays would presumably save a lot of power, without any loss of functionality.
There may be a market for large e-ink displays (thousands? tens of thousands?), but it's a tiny fraction of the market for 50 inch LCD/Plasma screens (millions), so the economies of scale mean that it would be prohibitively expensive.
The black-and-white nature of the displays and limited refresh rate mean they aren't a drop-in replacement for every large format display, which limits their usefulness.
But the money is already removed from your account. Reporting it does not cause the money to reappear in your account. (Some banks will do that, depending on the nature of the fraud, but it's up to the bank) The dispute process takes 6 months to a year, and in the meantime, you're out the money. And in the event of disagreement, you're screwed by default.
Even if they do replace the money within a few days, who's going to pay the returned check surcharges from all of the merchants that I unknowingly wrote bad checks to?
This is why I don't use a debit card (the kind that acts just like a credit card except that it's debited from your bank account). I used to think that my PIN protected ATM card was safe, until some merchants near me got hit with skimmers that stole card numbers and PIN's from their POS terminals. I'd known about gas station skimmers, but didn't think that a grocery store that's open 24x7 could get hit.
Now I use only credit cards for purchases and only use my ATM card at ATM machines owned by my bank (which still aren't immune to skimmers).
Knowing C, IMO, is a litmus test for someone who knows how computers work. Pointers, memory, file I/O, etc, aren't directly useful in higher level languages these days. But knowing they exist would help someone write smarter code.
I did an algorithms course a few years ago. The course was about how to write highly optimised searching/sorting/graph-traversin algorithms. Basically the kind of computation jobs that take a long time to complete and where optimisation that yields even a few percent increase in speed get you significant monetary savings. On day some students asked the teacher whether they could write assignments in Python rather than C/C++. The teacher just stood there without knowing what to say, then overcame the urge to humiliate the student and an long and awkward silence just said, NO. Scripting languages are nice but you can't solve everything with scripts.
That's funny, when I took an algorithms class, my instructor said we could use whatever language we are most comfortable with (of course, at the time, that was pretty much just C, Pascal, or FORTRAN). He wasn't looking for a production-release ready algorithm, he was just looking to see if we understood how to write the algorithm.
C or C++
How many years of C or C++ do you have?
What projects have you completed?
If you want to do website development thats different.
But real computer programming tends to use C or C++ or obj C
I haven't hired a C/C++ programmer for nearly 10 years, and have managed some large business application development projects (one project is deployed to around 800 locations with about 20,000 users). What is your definition of "real" programming?
If there weren't a shortage of developers, then programmers wouldn't commonly be making triple the median income.
Where are programmers routinely making more than triple the median income? The median income in San Francisco is $40K, but most programmers are not making $120K. There are certainly exceptions for experienced developers, but based on some recent hires I made, there are plenty of programmers in SF making in the $85 - $100K range.
Are most people in SF homeless? A 1 bedroom there is like $3k/month, right?
As halltk1983 said, there are plenty of ways to live and work in SF despite the high rents - if you're not too choosy about where you live, you can find a studio apartment for less than $1000, but you're probably better off living with roomates to have a nicer apartment in a nicer area. If you're really low budget, you can literally rent a closet in some apartments - I know someone who paid $200/month to sleep in a large closet in a shared house to save money during college. She spent almost 2 years there and when she moved out someone else moved in.
Living outside of SF is also an option, but if you really want to be in SF, you probably don't want to have to commute in every day. But some people are willing to do a 90 minute commute from Tracy to SF where they can afford a nicer house... some do longer commutes.
At the other extreme, others are happy to pay $5K/month for a 1 bedroom.
Except that you can't really "in-shore cheaper help" very easily using H-1Bs--you're required to pay at least the "prevailing wage". Perhaps foreigners artificially keep the prevailing wage from rising, but it can't go down due to immigrants under the current system. Also, you're supposed to show that no American wants the job at hand, which is rather difficult to show.
It's in how you define the prevailing wage and how you define the job requirements.
If a company can hire a senior DBA for $90K even though the local employee with equivalent experience would have be paid $110K, they can pay back their legal fees for the H1-B application in less than a year. It's easy to fudge job descriptions and pay scales to say whatever you want them to say. For example, it's usually something like "Employee must have experience with XYZ application that no one outside of the hiring company uses, then they can point to the off-shore contractor that's been working for them remotely for a year and say "Only he has that experience!" -- oh, and we're going to pay him what we'd pay an entry-level DBA because he only has 1 year of verifiable DBA experience".
If there weren't a shortage of developers, then programmers wouldn't commonly be making triple the median income.
Where are programmers routinely making more than triple the median income? The median income in San Francisco is $40K, but most programmers are not making $120K. There are certainly exceptions for experienced developers, but based on some recent hires I made, there are plenty of programmers in SF making in the $85 - $100K range.
I'm still mad at the makers of Silence of the Lambs for portraying Hannibal Lecter as a Caucasian male. I am a Caucasian male and it's clear that the whole movie the smacks of racial prejudice and vulgar insinuations against Caucasians as people with deceitful and criminal personalities. Movies should stop having bad guys because it always paints some race or culture as having deceitful and criminal personalities and that upsets me.
I know I'll get modded into oblivion, but this actually makes sense somewhat. You get on a contract and buy a subsidized phone for $50 and pay 1 month of your bill. Then you cancel your contract, don't return the phone etc etc. You'll owe the carrier a lot of money, but they'll have to go through the debt-collection stuff to get it back. So, assuming you don't pay the collectors, you might have a $600 phone that you effectively paid $100 for
If someone is willing to break the law by committing fraud to get a subsidized phone, they probably aren't going to have a problem with breaking the DMCA by following online instructions to unlock the phone.
How is this a problem for any carrier? All of the subsidized phones I've seen all come with a minimum contract term (2 years?) and a high penalty fee to break the contract (Verizon is $350, lowered by $10/month, $175 for non-smartphone lowered by $5/month).
Does any carrier let you buy a subsidized phone without a contract, or let you break the contract with no penalty?
Whoa, sorry I seem to have hit a nerve there.
Here's US Berkeley's CompSci overview... what part of this makes you think that CompSci is preparing graduates to be application developers?
UC Berkeley construes computer science broadly to include the theory of computation, the design and
analysis of algorithms, the architecture and logic design of computers, programming languages, compilers,
operating systems, scientific computation, computer graphics, databases, artificial intelligence and natural lan-
guage processing. The Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department’s goal is to prepare students
for both a possible research career and long-term technical leadership in industry.
That's not to say that a CompSci student can't become a developer, but the curriculum is not designed to teach that - there are far easier ways to learn application development if that's all you're interested in.
Well yeah, 'Computer Science is taught in this idealized world separate from reality' has always been the case. Just like Math is taught in an idealized world separate from reality. If you want to learn to be a coder in the real world, don't waste your time with a CompSci degree, get a 2 year programming certificate at a vocational training school. I never really thought of computer science as preparing anyone for a real job as a coder.
Expecting a computer science graduate to know how to be an application developer is like expecting an architect to have carpentry skills -- the architect may know all of the basic theory and design concepts behind how to build a stairway, but it's going to take him 5 times longer than an experienced carpenter to get it right, and he might have to do it more than once.
What does "more organic user interfaces" mean?
Fewer pesticides.
Now that's a UI I can support - I had to stop using Windows because their pesticide laden UI was giving me a rash.
Your reading comprehension is a little lax.
Your confirmation bias is a little strong.
"News" from MSNBC as citation? Please. You can do better.
I picked a well publicised quote from a representative of the Hawaii Attorney General's office, Surely if Mr Wisch was misquoted on such an important issue, you can find the story where he explains that he was misrepresented?
Here's a letter published by the State of Hawaii outlining their policy of no longer providing copies of original birth certificates (since 2001), would you trust the State of Hawaii as as valid source?
http://hawaii.gov/health/vital-records/Policy_Memo_5_15_2001.PDF
Look, I'm not a birther or Hillary Clinton supporter. The claims that Obama is being transparent are false. He could have made the call, period, full stop. The person who can call in drone strikes on US citizens abroad can make a call for a piece of paper.
RIght, "I'm not a birther, I just call into question any evidence you present that shows that Obama released a valid birth certificate that shows that he's a natural born citizen. But I'm not a birther, I just want to see *real* evidence, not news articles from mainstrem news sources and quotes from Hawaii officials. Unless King Kamehameha himself is reincarnated and proclaims that Obama was born in Hawaii, it didn't happen".
But back to your point, he did use his status to request the long form even though it was against Hawaii records policy - finally in April 2011 he got tired of being harassed for not providing the long form so he asked the state of hawaii for special consideration and they complied. But that doesn't mean that the original official birth certificate released in 2008 was invalid.
but you haven't said what releasing school records would do
I don't need to state what they would do, but since you asked, I want to see how brilliant he was. Or wasn't. I'm looking for the moment when people paused for a moment from saying Bush was so stupid because his grades were better than Al Gore's.
Oh sorry, I thought you thought releasing his school records would somehow legitimize his citizenship or his fitness to be president, but you don't even pretend that it has some relevancy, you just want to satisfy your own curiosity. Which is fine, but not really a reason to criticize him for not releasing something that has no relevance to his ability to do his job.
What does "more organic user interfaces" mean?
If that means that developers are more free to break with conventional UI's and come up with their own "innovative" controls and other UI interfaces, I don't want that - that sounds like when Flash designers started going wild on the web and each Flash web site had its own UI elements and the users had to figure out that flipping a virtual switch on one website was implemented as shooting an arrow into a target on another website and on another website you had to click the virtual LED light that was actually a button (but you don't know it's an active UI element until you discover that it's clickable).
Yes, I'm aware of that solution. 3-5 meters isn't that much more fine grained than 15-20ft.
Right, but my point is that this technology is available off-the-shelf, no need to hire a PhD to do it, for $25K in equipment, a single-floor store can track their customers.
The difference being, I was talking about only using signal strength, and more importantly, using an unmanaged network.
How would you track customer smart phones without some sort of overall network management? How else would you get the nodes signal strength and other metrics in real time so you can locate the device? If you're talking about geolocation on the client side, that's completely different than what this article is talking about.
Cisco's solution requires a managed network, and it uses more than just signal strength. It also does time-of-flight. I've used those solutions too, but those also require special drivers on the client side. In the end, it still doesn't gain you much for the extra effort. 3-5 meters is still about 10-15ft
No drivers on the client side are necessary - we were seeing 2 - 3 meter positioning for normal cell phones in a large open area with 4 Wifi nodes available, with 3 - 5m in a more typical office environment with 4 - 5 nodes.
End the end we went with ceiling mounted people-counter cameras since it gave us more useful data at a lower cost.
Well no, he tried to *not* be special by not circumventing Hawaiian law to obtain a record that a normal citizen would not have access to.
You are rewriting history. I hear there are job openings in part 2 of the Obama administration for people like you.
From your source, Hawaii does not give it out to "persons who do not have a tangible interest in the vital record." He has interests. He could have made the call.
Your reading comprehension is a little lax.
Read what I quoted again:
oshua Wisch, a spokesman for the Hawaii Attorney General's office, stated in 2011 that the original "long form" birth certificate — described by Hawaiian officials as a "record of live birth" kept in the archives of the Hawaii Department of Health is "... a Department of Health record and it can't be released to anybody", including President Obama. Wisch added that state law does not authorize photocopying such records
The short-form was already released by Obama in 2008 and was rejected by the birthers, despite it being the only valid birth record that normal Hawaiians are allowed to receive..
Here's a longer quote from the Hawaiia Attorney General's office (with highlighting added to help your comprehension)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42519951/ns/politics-more_politics/#.UP9yiGJQAUQ
But Wisch, the spokesman for the attorney general's office, said state law does not in fact permit the release of "vital records," including an original "record of live birth" — even to the individual whose birth it records.
"It's a Department of Health record and it can't be released to anybody," he said. Nor do state laws have any provision that authorizes such records to be photocopied, Wisch said. If Obama wanted to personally visit the state health department, he would be permitted to inspect his birth record, Wisch said.
But if he or anybody else wanted a copy of their birth records, they would be told to fill out the appropriate state form and receive back the same computer generated "certification of live birth" form that everybody else gets — which is exactly what Obama did four years ago.
He was born in Hawaii. I get it and always have. The issue is dicking around with not releasing the birth certificate. I don't hold on to Hillary Clinton conspiracy theories.
But he *did* release the only birth certificate that Hawaii was willing to provide to him (until the public records office was harassed so much that they waived their normal policy to release a copy of the original birth record).
On your original offer of "what else could he do" he could release some school records. The original point about the Obama election group not releasing source code would fall in line with the lack of transparency in this administration. It's not surprising.
But you haven't said what releasing school records would do -- if an official state record of birth is rejected as adequate proof, what good is is releasing school records?
It's not as easy as you think. I spent a long time researching this, and I had a Mathematics PHd on staff helping me. I was able to get granularity down to about 15-20ft, when I saw about 20 access points. But 15-20 ft is still pretty big if you are trying to get spatial orientation between people...
And even then, even when I saw 20+ AP, I was still able to find points inside our building where I got matching signal-strength profiles from the APs as another location pretty far away. Remember, proximity detections is not the same as location tracking. I can get unique profiles from contiguous location blocks, but I can't guarantee the same for non-contiguous blocks.
A Cisco MSE will get your location down to around 3 - 5 meters, with 4 or 5 nearby AP's
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9742/products_tech_note09186a00809d1529.shtml
Some people say it's time to turn off wifi.
Not me. I can't wait to hack the o/s to absolutely fuck with this as hard as I can. I hope the phone's drivers support messing with signal and power level.
I've done it with wardriving, I've done it with my laptop before connecting to any type of wireless point. I've even done it with wireless on my desktop, spoofing a specific authorized mac address of a piece of hardware I no longer own so I didn't have to log in to my access point and add it to the authorized list.
I'll sniff for MAC addresses, I'll fake them, spoof them, build in a list of different hardware vendors. You'll see the same person in two different isles. You'll see 5000 people enter the store as I cycle through and sequential addresses as fast as I can for five minutes.
The analytics person is going to have so much fun. 0xdeadbeefbabe all over the place.
Sure, they'll filter me out. Or notice me as one oddball. But soonr or later those stats are going to get mass corrupted because it's my radio and I can broadcast anything I want as long as it's in FCC regs.
To whoever it is that'll be debugging that... i'm 20% sorry in advance, and 80% amused at the thought of the hair pulling this is going to cause.
Uhh...filtering noise like from the data is trivial. The software must already do filtering to filter out devices picked up from users out on the sidewalk passing by the door... when they see a MAC address with a very short track through the store, or a MAC that's moving faster than walking speed, they delete it.
But soonr or later those stats are going to get mass corrupted because it's my radio and I can broadcast anything I want as long as it's in FCC regs
You can broadcast anything you want as long as it's withing FCC regs, but if you broadcast something that's not 802.11, you'll automatically be ignored. And the store is most interested in aggregating traffic over a period of time, so unless you're planning on living at the store, you're probably not going to upset their stats too much. You could try hiding a Wifi transmitter somewhere, but since their software will detect the rogue device as soon as you enter the store, it will be trivial to spot on you security cameras.