This raises an interesting question: is there a suitable replacement for blackberry for the enterprise yet? None of the phones systems/solution I've seen have anything resembling the BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server) and encryption for email, etc. What will be the successor to BB in the enterprise?
BES was always a half-assed and expensive solution to the regulatory problems US corporations have with email.
End-users send HIPAA/HITECH/SOX/GLB/FDA-regulated material with their phones (for legitimate reasons or just because they are end users) so having the mail transit a server at RIM headquarters was a regulatory non-starter (stupid enterprises did it anyway, and most did not get caught so how stupid were they really?). So the big boys bought BES servers and we hacked their existing email systems up to support the extra mail hub.
But BES, while it kept your sensitive email on a system you controlled, also usually exposed a Microsoft host to the Internet on at least one port. That's something one generally wants to avoid, and while Microsoft's SUS automagic updating makes it a lot less risky than it used to be, and you can put some transparent firewally stuff in between, why would you want all that complexity? (answer: because the CEO has a bloated ego and wanted a blackberry just like his rivals. But now he has an iPhone).
Today you just use iPhones and Androids. It's no harder to secure them than it was to keep a BES server up to regulatory requirements in a US zaibatsu. And the whole process has always been driven by the egos of corporate officers anyway, and now those same officers are measuring their relative penis length with iWhatsits and Androids, not Blackberries.
I've had a "highly treatable" cancer, and I've lost all my property. I recovered from both conditions, thanks, doing OK now.
FYI, cancer is worse.
You might want to cut your losses and shut up now, rather than digging the hole any deeper. Because trivializing avoidable cancer in children is unlikely to win you any friends you'll want to keep.
I think the other poster was looking for designs that actually work in practice, not theories that haven't panned out yet or tests that were shut down due to failure to perform.
There are a LOT of better designs out there now that in a really severe earthquake or storm, would self-compartmentalize.
Perhaps someday one of them will be economically feasible. At the moment, it would have to be cheaper than coal, since we idiot humans seem to be unable to stop burning the stuff.
The rest of the world could have working LENR reactors [...] A real libertarian, though [...]
Unsuprisingly, someone who believes in crackpot science also believes in crackpot politics.
Since my post endorsed neither LENR nor libertarianism, I must assume you have crackpot reading skills. Very sleazy Breitbarting of my post, by the way; did you take a shower afterwards?
But if you're looking for someone to endorse LENR, you could try NASA Langley.
Oh, snap!
The current situation is that we now have over two decades of hundreds of experiments worldwide indicating heat and transmutations with minimal radiation and low energy input. By any rational measure, this evidence indicates something real is occurring. So, is LENR "Real?" Evidently, from the now long standing and diverse experimental evidence. And, yes - with effects occurring from using diverse materials, methods of energy addition etc. This is far from a "Narrow Band" set of physical phenomena. -- Dennis Bushnell, Chief Scientist, NASA Langley Research Center
However, it looks like unless action is taken the nuclear renaissance is already dead due to the inherent short-sightedness of the "free market."
Reality check: the inherent robustness of the free market would prevent any "nuclear renaissance" in the absence of government interference, because nuke plants aren't economically viable in a free and fair market.
The rest of the world could have working LENR reactors or sustainable biofuels and Internet nuke shills would still be calling for massive government intervention and sponsorship to build their beloved fission plants. Somehow the tax-funded market distortion required, and the militarization of power production that results, just doesn't bother a die-hard nuke shill, even though they almost always claim to be free market libertarians. A real libertarian, though, would understand that the market has ruled against fission and that argument's been over for decades, instead of crying for more Bush/Cheney style, taxpayer funded market distortions.
Yeah, because we'd totally just try unproven experiments on ourselves without testing to see if it works and is safe. We may be that stupid, but the scientists aren't.
Testing on yourself is a time-honored tradition in both science and medicine.
Well, you're right about 9th grade being way too late.
All the kids at Newark Center for Creative Learning are taught to code. NCCL has been teaching basic programming to every student since the mid-1980s. They ran Macintoshes back when those were uncommon and these days they run Windows in the older grades, and linux in the earlier grades.
It seems fairly obvious that you have to expose lots of kids to lots of deep topics if you expect any significant number of them to dive into anything wholeheartedly. Sure, a few will learn on their own - I taught myself programming in the early 1970s when I had to break into University computer labs at night to do it - but you can't expect every child with untapped potential to somehow magically know that programming exists, and seek out his or her own education.
Perhaps you misunderstood. My post provides a possibly useful definition intended for "normal people", so they will have heard of the label. Do you have a beef against helpful labeling?
Incidentally, I don't think I've ever even seen tumblr, although I've been on the Internet since Jon Postel's beard was a pup. So whatever that last bit was, I'm afraid it didn't even part my hair.
It's a (somewhat stupid and contrived, but at this point accepted) label that you can apply to anything that may cause post-traumatic stress symptoms in people who have been raped. It's like marking something "NotSafeForWork" in a sense - it's something that reasonable and polite people often do out of a sense of kindness and social responsibility.
Since a very large number of people have been raped, from all genders, races, religions, ages, etc. and most of them don't go around wearing big signs that say "I HAVE BEEN RAPED AND I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A DAY GO BY WITHOUT BEING REMINDED OF THE DETAILS" it's courteous to note when you're going to present or link something that you think might bother rape victims. That way they can avoid it and nobody has to be censored or antagonized.
High tech is rife with trolls and misogynists, and there's also some feminists who are equally out of hand on another axis. But for normal people "rape trigger" means "don't go there if you don't want to be reminded of the realities of rape right now" - it's a labeling method.
Here in the 20th century, we have the ability to track your car from a distance without your knowledge.
I understand that in the 21st century you monkeymen no longer have satellites, planes, surveillance drones, or cameras, though. You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
You can build a wok-tenna, but I just use one of those little steel TV dishes. There's one in the Cherry Island recycling bin right now, they're easy to find in trash bins. I have two in my shed; you just replace the original transceiver with a cheap USB wifi stick connected by cable to a laptop or PC running kismet or whatever and voila! you've got a directional antenna.
Find his point source, and as long as it's not incredibly close to your house you can just shield your AP with a cookie sheet or something. If he's coming in from multiple directions, though, you might consider calling los federales.
Mr.Volk, what a pleasure to hear from you directly! I wonder, did you know John Huff when you both worked at Avalon Hill?
I've been following the science connecting tetraethyl lead exposure to crime rates; I've found the papers written on the subject in the last ten years have presented extremely compelling data. Like you, I'm a believer.
Lead paint's just as harmful, but it's harder to track, and lead paint poisoning tends to be more concentrated among the poor because the paint isn't maintained in poorer quarters. My house is a converted 19th century factory, so I have plenty of lead paint, but I can afford to deal with it - and I do, at considerable expense. When the lead paint flakes start coming off the ceiling like drifting snow, you generally have to painstakingly scrape it and trap the debris, or screw up drywall to encapsulate it. If you paint over it, it just comes down in sheets instead of flakes.
There are very few avian carriers that can safely transport snakes. The only one I'm aware of is the sea eagle.
Packet loss from hungry eagles is unacceptable for long links. Screech owls perform notably better due to their symbiotic relationship with blind snakes, but the screech owl's low carrying capacity and nocturnal habit make them unsuitable for general purpose avian carriers, and severely restrict their application in general.
Having lead paint around is not an issue. The problem occurs when the paint is not maintained and chips off where it is easily ingested by children.
Yep. And crime already correlates incredibly strongly with poverty (go figure!) so it's hard to separate the effects of poverty from the effects of the heavily polluted, badly maintained environments the poor often inhabit. It's probably even harder to sort out when the poor live in close proximity to crime targets; poverty-stricken inner-city youth live near stores and wealthier people, whereas subsistence farmers in less polluted environments usually live prohibitively far from any large number of easy crime targets.
What is so extreme about San Francisco then? I ask out of ignorance, not challenging you.
San Francisco has an openly gay community so the Westboro types and the various Republican leaders that are deeply closeted, self-hating homosexuals are completely completely freaked out about that. They fear that if they visit they'll be unable to resist the lure of the anonymous gay sex they constantly obsess about, and they'll end up with AIDS.
Myself, I found it to be an interesting, vibrant city with a refreshing climate and friendly people. But then, I actually visited, with an open mind and open eyes, rather than just basing my opinions on what homophobic religions and right-wing political parties wanted me to think. Also, I am happily hetero so teh gay is not frightening to me.
Visa and the other credit companies don't have to do business with any particular merchant. They are free to chose who to do business with and who not to.
Visa could choose to not do business with blacks if they choose to?
If you say no, where is the line drawn?
At fat people and badly dressed people.
And in most places you can refuse to do business on the grounds that you're a complete jerk and you just don't feel like doing anything helpful right now.
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Botnets controlled by criminals, of course. It's a growth industry!
BES was always a half-assed and expensive solution to the regulatory problems US corporations have with email.
End-users send HIPAA/HITECH/SOX/GLB/FDA-regulated material with their phones (for legitimate reasons or just because they are end users) so having the mail transit a server at RIM headquarters was a regulatory non-starter (stupid enterprises did it anyway, and most did not get caught so how stupid were they really?). So the big boys bought BES servers and we hacked their existing email systems up to support the extra mail hub.
But BES, while it kept your sensitive email on a system you controlled, also usually exposed a Microsoft host to the Internet on at least one port. That's something one generally wants to avoid, and while Microsoft's SUS automagic updating makes it a lot less risky than it used to be, and you can put some transparent firewally stuff in between, why would you want all that complexity? (answer: because the CEO has a bloated ego and wanted a blackberry just like his rivals. But now he has an iPhone).
Today you just use iPhones and Androids. It's no harder to secure them than it was to keep a BES server up to regulatory requirements in a US zaibatsu. And the whole process has always been driven by the egos of corporate officers anyway, and now those same officers are measuring their relative penis length with iWhatsits and Androids, not Blackberries.
I've had a "highly treatable" cancer, and I've lost all my property. I recovered from both conditions, thanks, doing OK now.
FYI, cancer is worse.
You might want to cut your losses and shut up now, rather than digging the hole any deeper. Because trivializing avoidable cancer in children is unlikely to win you any friends you'll want to keep.
"Which drone shall we send to prison for this one, Sir?"
"Hmmm.... who is that simian at the console there in Sector 7G?"
Hmm, like in the mythical man-month, where each time you add a developer you reduce quality, introduce stress, and increase delay?
OK, I'm squinching my eyes... imagining... AAAAAHHHH! AGGGHGGHHH!!!!!!! Make it stop!!!!
I think the other poster was looking for designs that actually work in practice, not theories that haven't panned out yet or tests that were shut down due to failure to perform.
Perhaps someday one of them will be economically feasible. At the moment, it would have to be cheaper than coal, since we idiot humans seem to be unable to stop burning the stuff.
I, on the other hand, am not in the data.
That's how I stopped those RUMOKO terrorists, you know.
It's the telephone company that's behind all the polack jokes.
They're always driving Poles into the ground.
Since my post endorsed neither LENR nor libertarianism, I must assume you have crackpot reading skills. Very sleazy Breitbarting of my post, by the way; did you take a shower afterwards?
But if you're looking for someone to endorse LENR, you could try NASA Langley.
Oh, snap!
The current situation is that we now have over two decades of hundreds of experiments worldwide indicating heat and transmutations with minimal radiation and low energy input. By any rational measure, this evidence indicates something real is occurring. So, is LENR "Real?" Evidently, from the now long standing and diverse experimental evidence. And, yes - with effects occurring from using diverse materials, methods of energy addition etc. This is far from a "Narrow Band" set of physical phenomena. -- Dennis Bushnell, Chief Scientist, NASA Langley Research Center
The original article was a total troll anyway:
Reality check: the inherent robustness of the free market would prevent any "nuclear renaissance" in the absence of government interference, because nuke plants aren't economically viable in a free and fair market.
The rest of the world could have working LENR reactors or sustainable biofuels and Internet nuke shills would still be calling for massive government intervention and sponsorship to build their beloved fission plants. Somehow the tax-funded market distortion required, and the militarization of power production that results, just doesn't bother a die-hard nuke shill, even though they almost always claim to be free market libertarians. A real libertarian, though, would understand that the market has ruled against fission and that argument's been over for decades, instead of crying for more Bush/Cheney style, taxpayer funded market distortions.
Testing on yourself is a time-honored tradition in both science and medicine.
Something like the stegosaurus from the movie "The Squeeze".
Well, you're right about 9th grade being way too late.
All the kids at Newark Center for Creative Learning are taught to code. NCCL has been teaching basic programming to every student since the mid-1980s. They ran Macintoshes back when those were uncommon and these days they run Windows in the older grades, and linux in the earlier grades.
It seems fairly obvious that you have to expose lots of kids to lots of deep topics if you expect any significant number of them to dive into anything wholeheartedly. Sure, a few will learn on their own - I taught myself programming in the early 1970s when I had to break into University computer labs at night to do it - but you can't expect every child with untapped potential to somehow magically know that programming exists, and seek out his or her own education.
Best post on slashdot in years.
If you don't load Adobe software, how will you read the early episodes of Platinum Grit?
I'll admit there's no other valid use case for any Adobe software, though.
Perhaps you misunderstood. My post provides a possibly useful definition intended for "normal people", so they will have heard of the label. Do you have a beef against helpful labeling?
Incidentally, I don't think I've ever even seen tumblr, although I've been on the Internet since Jon Postel's beard was a pup. So whatever that last bit was, I'm afraid it didn't even part my hair.
It's a (somewhat stupid and contrived, but at this point accepted) label that you can apply to anything that may cause post-traumatic stress symptoms in people who have been raped. It's like marking something "NotSafeForWork" in a sense - it's something that reasonable and polite people often do out of a sense of kindness and social responsibility.
Since a very large number of people have been raped, from all genders, races, religions, ages, etc. and most of them don't go around wearing big signs that say "I HAVE BEEN RAPED AND I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A DAY GO BY WITHOUT BEING REMINDED OF THE DETAILS" it's courteous to note when you're going to present or link something that you think might bother rape victims. That way they can avoid it and nobody has to be censored or antagonized.
High tech is rife with trolls and misogynists, and there's also some feminists who are equally out of hand on another axis. But for normal people "rape trigger" means "don't go there if you don't want to be reminded of the realities of rape right now" - it's a labeling method.
If he could take time out from drunkenly abusing monkeys, yes.
Here in the 20th century, we have the ability to track your car from a distance without your knowledge.
I understand that in the 21st century you monkeymen no longer have satellites, planes, surveillance drones, or cameras, though. You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
You can build a wok-tenna, but I just use one of those little steel TV dishes. There's one in the Cherry Island recycling bin right now, they're easy to find in trash bins. I have two in my shed; you just replace the original transceiver with a cheap USB wifi stick connected by cable to a laptop or PC running kismet or whatever and voila! you've got a directional antenna.
Find his point source, and as long as it's not incredibly close to your house you can just shield your AP with a cookie sheet or something. If he's coming in from multiple directions, though, you might consider calling los federales.
Mr.Volk, what a pleasure to hear from you directly! I wonder, did you know John Huff when you both worked at Avalon Hill?
I've been following the science connecting tetraethyl lead exposure to crime rates; I've found the papers written on the subject in the last ten years have presented extremely compelling data. Like you, I'm a believer.
Lead paint's just as harmful, but it's harder to track, and lead paint poisoning tends to be more concentrated among the poor because the paint isn't maintained in poorer quarters. My house is a converted 19th century factory, so I have plenty of lead paint, but I can afford to deal with it - and I do, at considerable expense. When the lead paint flakes start coming off the ceiling like drifting snow, you generally have to painstakingly scrape it and trap the debris, or screw up drywall to encapsulate it. If you paint over it, it just comes down in sheets instead of flakes.
Packet loss from hungry eagles is unacceptable for long links. Screech owls perform notably better due to their symbiotic relationship with blind snakes, but the screech owl's low carrying capacity and nocturnal habit make them unsuitable for general purpose avian carriers, and severely restrict their application in general.
Yep. And crime already correlates incredibly strongly with poverty (go figure!) so it's hard to separate the effects of poverty from the effects of the heavily polluted, badly maintained environments the poor often inhabit. It's probably even harder to sort out when the poor live in close proximity to crime targets; poverty-stricken inner-city youth live near stores and wealthier people, whereas subsistence farmers in less polluted environments usually live prohibitively far from any large number of easy crime targets.
San Francisco has an openly gay community so the Westboro types and the various Republican leaders that are deeply closeted, self-hating homosexuals are completely completely freaked out about that. They fear that if they visit they'll be unable to resist the lure of the anonymous gay sex they constantly obsess about, and they'll end up with AIDS.
Myself, I found it to be an interesting, vibrant city with a refreshing climate and friendly people. But then, I actually visited, with an open mind and open eyes, rather than just basing my opinions on what homophobic religions and right-wing political parties wanted me to think. Also, I am happily hetero so teh gay is not frightening to me.
At fat people and badly dressed people.
And in most places you can refuse to do business on the grounds that you're a complete jerk and you just don't feel like doing anything helpful right now.
I'm totally not kidding.