My company has bi-annual training against phishing attacks, as well as regular fake phishing emails we are supposed to ignore, but far more frequently from co-workers I've had little contact with email or call me, raise all the red flags I am supposed to be alert for, but instead of congratulations, security gets grumpy about all the paper work I stirred up for them. So, of course, never break any explicit rules (like never hand out your password), but otherwise, in the grey areas it's not so easy to decide to do the right thing, and possibly impede your co-workers or frequently your own project for a week and waste security's time.
One particular occasion shows this well: I got an email from an outside company, which I had never heard of, requesting, not just sensitive information, but US secret meta-data. The email was in bold red letters, had a few misspellings and told me how important it was that I go to their website immediately and enter all the information requested or I could lose my clearance and possibly my job. Clearly another fishing email, and far more obvious than any they had sent me before, I ignored it. A week later my boss comes storming in wondering why I didn't respond to the email; with all the bold red font pointing out how urgent it was.
The stiff parts of gargantuan or viscous animals have always been a target for those who want to gain raging, gargantuan stiff parts themselves, since you are what you eat. The placebo effect is not so strong when you tell a guy, "this small, inert floppy goop-sack will do the trick!"
Or think of yourself as a 30-year old kid who has a fascination with computers and stuff, the way I was last month, in the middle of owning my 4th or 5th gaming laptop. I did not even realize I could get a GPIO adapter to get me into hardware hacking. It took me about 30 minutes or so to screw with currents large enough to conceivably damage my $1700 laptop that I do not want to deal with getting fixed or replaced. I blew away a $35 Rasberry Pi, and the worst part was having to wait 2days for the new one to arrive.
Google is a less restrained than government. Google can limit your life a lot more than the NSA can.
I suppose, hypothetically, if Google execs really wanted to make me disappear, they have enough money to hire people to make it happen, but you have to be pretty far out there to think that Google founders have it in for you personally. If Google isn't making a profit from me, they could terminate all my accounts and sell all my data, but to do anything more would dig into their profits, so they won't.
On the other hand, The US Gov has put away several people I know for drugs, frequently after investigating them on totally bogus, unrelated charges. So I've seen people's data abused by the government for more than the targeted adds Google would have sent them. And this is not even mentioning all the time and money non-convict people I know have had to sink in defending themselves from damning scraps of data.
The NSA, by law, can't even enforce laws in the US
1) I accidentally made the horribly unpatriotic blunder of meeting and making friends with some of the six and a half billion people who live outside the US. Some in a public high-school no less!
2) Unfortunately for the good patriots, who did a better job of shunning the dirty foreigners, the internet is pretty fuzzy on borders and as the summary points out, data is often sent to information centers outside the US even if it is just returned unaltered, back inside.
3) I have never paid attention to the geographic location of my web-surfing before and I suspect neither have you. Are we sure even Slashdot has all it's data centers in the US? Many of the liked articles aren't, so I'm sure they got some good meta data on the two of us accessing leaked documents published by foreign agencies.
Really, in the side of Government vs. Corporation, the only side that represents YOU is Government.
Depends what the conflict was. Normally, yes, in healthcare, employment rights, unconscionable EULAs, etc, these are situations where the government needs to kick corporate ass on my behalf. This situation on the other hand, the government is not protecting me from the corporations; the government is coming after me. Even if the corporations only want to protect me to ensure their profits, I don't care. Right now they are on my side.
Now, if Google was caught tapping the NSA to get my personal info, then I'd be pissed at Google, not the NSA.
Without government, Corporations would, literally, have you as slaves.
This is true, but from here on out, you really left the situation at hand to talk about political movements I'm not familiar enough with to comment on but I'm thinking 30% chance you are going to reply to my post with "Sarcasm, moron: learn to detect it!"
I wasn't. Maybe you could explain how only those with big guns survived that disaster?
I've been through minor hurricanes and earthquakes, but they seem to have been experienced completely differently by my neighbors. I remember relying on my own water caches and canned food though I didn't refuse supplemental aid from the red cross and salvation army. My neighbors on the other hand seem to recall something like a zombie-tornado since they keep stockpiling sniper rifles and big game guns and ammunition that they think is going to help them through the next one. I guess it encourages me to ensure their prepared enough not to come after my stuff.
Back to the original article, which unfortunately seems to have the nerdy-part completely ignored by other commenters. I still need to find a data backup solution. My company has finally gotten away from, I kid you not, the thumb drive of project critical data that had to be picked up by the nearest employee. We now have our primary svn repository at a different site location on the other side of the US. Personally, I'll certainly throw a zip locked hard drive (cellphone too obviously) when I grab my bug out bag for evacuation, but otherwise I'm thinking true-crypt + amazon deep freeze, but that is pretty hard to update. Any other nerds figured this out?
Clearly, I'd save as much computer equipment as possible, but usually the short notice that you learn your particular area needs to be evacuated, racks and even desktops are usually too cumbersome to deal with and probably not as useful/valuable as the other items you might take, like extra gas, a generator, and other stuff that would be more likely to get looted in a really badly hit area.
I'm having trouble figuring out their interface and what all is available in their double tabbed page layout. My degree in CompSci doesn't seem to be helping, but that makes sense, because before I got lost, I think it said something about credentials and experience being irrelevant.
I think what they are trying to do is design a standard for web competency and then let you "learn anywhere," e.i. let someone else figure out how to teach you these things and then you can come back and use their page creation apps appropriately.
Unfortunately not the information, only the people. So my friend who is politically aligned with me but spams my feed with stuff that doesn't affect me (even though it always confirms my world views) gets hidden, but the "wifi is NSA's mind control, UFOs confirm it" friend that also posts about activities I might want to get in on is still on my news feed.
I would use Facebook quite a bit more often if I could actually fine-tune what information came through.
Are you going to refuse them? Your plane departs in 30minutes; in that time, you really think you can successfully argue your rights to a drone who is completely set on repeating the scripts he memorized this morning no matter what you have to say?
But you're not. This argument (which I hear in many forms) really boils down to "If I was crazy," but you can't accurately predict what you would do once you lost whatever key part of your brain that tells you that killing massive amounts of strangers and yourself is not a worthwhile activity. You really might not be thinking clearly enough or be intelligent enough to judge the odds and come up with the optimal strategy to kill people.
The TSA check in line has been pointed out loudly as a vulnerability for some time and it certainly isn't nearly the place that could reek the most destruction (considering stadiums etc). The terrorists just don't seem to care. They are obsessed with airplanes for some reason.
Really, these guys are so bad at calculating casualties: you could stab more people to death for far less money and effort than these guys put into getting on a plane. In fact a year ago, a guy in my neighborhood killed 4 people before the police showed up and shot him; this would probably be about the combined casualties of the underwear and shoe bombers had they been successful. Though it also might say something that you know of Sweaty-Foot-Wannabe-Bomber, but not the crazy guy in my neighborhood, who never even got a dread inspiring moniker like "Underwear Bomber."
For every guy in the rocket, there has got to be a dozen support people on the ground, who all remain to go to jail for homicide of the astronaut and the destruction of whatever property the debris lands on. And they don't get to be God-damned famous either:(
Oh, I guess also Denmark might slap them on the wrist for not not getting permission first.
"but sadly the greatest minds and resources where focused on conquering hair loss and prolonging erections."
So, by your example, they should instead be commenting on news stories that don't interest them?
Research that improves peoples' lives is great. Sometimes that means curing diseases and saving lives, exploring space and inspiring awe, but other other times that means letting old people get it on and making people happy.
These days in the US, more females graduate college than males, I forget the statistics on minorities, but I think we can admit that they are different than they were 50 years ago without being racist.
On the other hand, GP, I don't see why educated old white men would be more predominate in the tea party than in general right wing circles, or any circles for that matter so I don't see any reason to control for that. It would probably skew the results against some minorities and especially youth, since college education is more frequent these days than it was whenever these "old" white guys were around.
Yeah. I had a boss that after watching Independence Day couldn't figure out why we couldn't just wirelessly connect to anything without any setup or passwords like they do on the movie. And when we told him it was impossible, he thought we were just being difficult. I hate that movie.
Oh, but it is very possible, but security doesn't permit it for one obvious reason: so our primitive enemies can't connect to our space age equipment and turn off whatever vital systems keep them from blowing up our space ships or other valuable infrastructure.
But if he ignore the lessons that could have been learned from the villain's mistakes, then you can still use it to your advantage. Explain that what they did in the movie is commonly termed "infiltration and hacking," and if he wants me to fly into our rival competitor's headquarters and install viruses on their computers; well, that's not my specialty and is illegal, but I'm pretty sure I could do that faster and derive more excitement from it than converting the tabbed based interface we have to whatever interface paradigm was in vogue this morning that you'll change your mind about this afternoon.
You're just jealous because i can spend more time having sex and accumulating wealth.
Yes, I am. Especially, because you can, but instead you are calling me at 4:00am to brag about how you only need a few hours of sleep and complain that everyone is being so boring right now.
I've seen code that was designed to use genetic algorithms. I've yet to see such code generate itself.
Well, first build a ridiculously large number of quantum computers about the size of planets provided with continuous inputs of energy. Start some random oscillations on all of them and check back on them after about 4billion years. I think one in several trillion might work out, but if it doesn't cool your universe a little more, multiply the number of computers by a trillion and try again.
I don't have the resources to replicate the experiment myself, but I know a guy that did, and he got some genetic algorithms to show up.
nobody uses UML. The idea of UML as code is completely dead
Nobody in your office. We use UML quite a bit around my office, though only recently did we begin to use Model Driven Development with auto-generated code and yes, it is still usually faster to let the developers implement anything that is slightly difficult to express in UML (or whatever modeling language a particular tool might use, which is SysML for my current project).
Model Driven Development is the buzzword used around my company and it is becoming more and more feasible to allow it to replace larger portions of projects than before. Since our contractors can, to some extent, understand the diagrams, and the designers actually wrote the diagrams, the closer we can get the code to follow the models, even in cases that seem undesirable, the better we are able to satisfy requirements and deliver what was requested (I've gotten in trouble for fixing bugs that turned out to be required to occur based on customer requirements). Designers and customers are famous for demanding that one inconsequential line be moved somewhere else, which results in half a system to be rewritten as a result. If most of the code was automatically generated, then this can save weeks of really tedious development work.
The only thing that's left of it is class diagrams, which people were doing 20 years before UML existed (if not longer).
You are correct, class diagrams are the most useful part, but it is important that diagrams of any sort are done under UML or some other specification. If you are contracting me and hand me a model from some custom, in-house design language, then the first half of the work is going to be teaching me how to understand it, and the second half of the work is going to be arguing about what you clearly meant it to say even though your custom modeling language specification says to do the opposite.
And if you are competing for a contract with a bidder that has a model in UML with state charts and half their code already written by some tool, while all you have a custom class diagram, good luck.
I suspect we work at opposite ends of the industry. UML may be dead on your end, but over here, in my area of mostly US defense contracting, it is flourishing.
The AC, should not have started this thread with "Fuck you." I don't think this is so much either passenger's fault as it is the airlines fault for not accounting for the fact that not all people are 5'6" and 160lbs (which I'm told is who the seats are designed for), despite the clearly different sizes of people that come through there.
Anyway, I thought I might try to contribute a sane pro-leaner position into this thread: as a guy with specific difficulty with my back, need to lean that seat back. I paid for a seat that I understood I could recline, so I would be rather grumpy to hear, "Not on this flight, there's tall guy behind you." Again, I think this is the airlines fault, to put us in a space where we clearly can't both fit.
There are no rights that cover people either way, and clearly courtesy could be argued about all day, but I was told I could recline the seat back and honestly did not take note of the size of the guy behind me, because being around the 5'6" 160lbs guy, never thought about whether it would make the person behind me uncomfortable. Really, I'm sorry if I crushed your knees on some flight.
There are many opinions on what constitutes a "good diet" but very few people advocate a diet of sleeves of Oreos for breakfast lunch, dinner, mid-morning snack and afternoon snack, between snack snacks...You don't need a perfect diet, but cutting out some junk food, eating some veggies and not obscenely overeating would do wonders for the vast majority of the populace.
Being active
Again, fitness 'experts' will argue all day about what the perfect routine is, but I'm not sure it matters here either; I don't see anyone denying the evidence that just "being active" is good for just about everything for everybody, including Alzheimer's (though not a magic bullet weightless).
We don't know the answers to these questions perfectly, and probably never will, but there's no need to give up. Studies continue to shine light into specific change->benefit relationships that will only be improved by better of genetic predispositions should only improve our ability to figure out the optimal changes we need to avoid / take advantage of our unique predispositions.
I used a quite similar method that has worked great for letting me know how long I'll take rather accurately, but then you forgot the tail end of it:
Once you get your accurate measurement, realize that neither management nor the rest of your team will tolerate that much time being taken, so first half the known time yourself. Give this number to management and the team, who will subtract a bit from your estimate and then assume you can work on your next task in parallel therefore halving your remaining time again. Then you realize that half your time is going to be taken up with meetings you forgot, therefore halving your available time once again. This estimate gets locked into the schedule and immediately afterward the scope is tripled.
Now try and finish the project according to schedual, assuming that is x=1 day, while knowing it will take 2(3x*2*2+4)=32 working days (2 months once you factor in weekends, holidays, company events vacations and meetings about why you are so far behind). Then give up on estimating and improve your excuses.
Nope, if you read the articles, it is trickery. To change your whole body temperature, you need an prolonged contact with a cold object to those veins. This thing is not warming or cooling you, it just fluctuates its temperature in such a way as to make you think you are warmer or colder than you really are.
This sounds dangerous to me.
From the articles linked it looks like they give you a quick pulse in the direction that you want to perceive and then gradually return the plate to normal so they can give you the next pulse, which they name "thermal waveforms."
If someone showed up at a bowling alley, entered in a tournament, and just ran down the lane and kicked over the pins, a bowling alley operator would be similarly justified in throwing them out.
This person would be going over the fowl line. That analogy is more comparable to someone adding a god-mode mod.
I would say that this is more like the guy showing up at the tournament, realizing that bowlers have to take time out to get snacks to be ready for their next session (gold, herbs, levels, armor) and do less of actual bowling (raids, quests) so he starts a service that goes to the snack bar for you.
Then the bowling alley kicks him out and sues him for the service, because going to the snack bar is part of the bowling experience.
I'm sure the bowlers that got their own snacks were annoyed by his snack delivery service clogging the walkways and making long lines at the snack bar, but I still think this is a bit of an over reaction on blizzard's part.
I've never worried that Google might prevent me from boarding a plane, lock me up for having meta-data connected to people that I didn't know were child pornographers, or otherwise harass me for suspicious internet habits, confiscate my computing resources, etc.
I really don't care if Google decides my penis is too small and wants to show me enzyte ads or whatever other problems them knowing my search habits might cause.
I suspect the divide between those that get freaked out by government surveillance and those that express the opinion you just worded (yours or not, it is a frequent, real opinion) is that the greater public is worried about having there privacy invaded because someone might discovering their penis size, rather than realizing the real danger (well in my well endowed opinion) is that we are indistinguishable form the people "who want to hurt us" and are probably within 1-2 degrees, through meta-data, of real drug mafia, child pornographers and suspected terrorists and because of that, they are a couple email jokes away from watch lists and forfeiting other rights they thought they did not have to worry about.
You aren't the only one. Back in college, IT recommended a certain free firewall program (I don't remember what it was anymore), that popped up alerts every time it detected something: being a resident computer geek I got to hear of all sorts of reports of blocked 'pings' 'network-share requests' and other normal non-hacker related activity that commonly goes on in any network. Students weren't frightened since they had their firewalls up, but they wanted to find and stop these hackers trying to break into their machines.
Later the computer lab was shut down when a 'hacker' sent 14 packets (the number became legend) that a jumpy teacher flagged as an attack, but was actually a student doing routine maintenance on his own server.
Classification doesn't need to be successful: there are people whose job it is to classify things and to show how hard they are working, they have to classify a lot of things. If your work is for a military use, sometimes things as unclassifiable as printouts from Wikipedia that you have used may have to be locked up in classified storage with big red "CLASSIFIED" stamps on them. Then any work that used that information has to be classified as well.
I don't know about any jobs that involve the suppression of sources of classified information, but then the existence of those jobs would probably be classified and have to be classified, so, wow, clearly they are pretty good at it, so they'll probably be successful. So prepare for undetectable remote knowledge deletion in 3...2...
1) No, you have to appear to be looking for a job. I've known many unemployed people and appearing to be looking for a job is pretty easy. For example I recall the requirement in my state being something like, apply for 3 jobs a week, which is easy, apply for the same four that rejected you last week, the extra job is in case one of those wants to move forward toward offering you a job in which case you don't report it and find another place that wont hire you next week. These were of course my more educated friends who wanted all their paperwork to be truthful and verifiable; they reportedly heard from other unemployed folks that you could just make everything up.
Of course, that's talking about unemployment benefits, there are other programs you can continue to take advantage, but in different ways and I suspect that GPP's sister is not applying for jobs and therefore correctly not counted as you pointed out.
2) Regardless of the ratios, as long as we offer aid, some people undeserving people will take advantage of it. Even if there are more moochers than deservers, we either have to accept the fact of moochers or obliterate the system, because moochers are far craftier than the costs to keep them out of the system.
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My company has bi-annual training against phishing attacks, as well as regular fake phishing emails we are supposed to ignore, but far more frequently from co-workers I've had little contact with email or call me, raise all the red flags I am supposed to be alert for, but instead of congratulations, security gets grumpy about all the paper work I stirred up for them. So, of course, never break any explicit rules (like never hand out your password), but otherwise, in the grey areas it's not so easy to decide to do the right thing, and possibly impede your co-workers or frequently your own project for a week and waste security's time.
One particular occasion shows this well: I got an email from an outside company, which I had never heard of, requesting, not just sensitive information, but US secret meta-data. The email was in bold red letters, had a few misspellings and told me how important it was that I go to their website immediately and enter all the information requested or I could lose my clearance and possibly my job. Clearly another fishing email, and far more obvious than any they had sent me before, I ignored it. A week later my boss comes storming in wondering why I didn't respond to the email; with all the bold red font pointing out how urgent it was.
The stiff parts of gargantuan or viscous animals have always been a target for those who want to gain raging, gargantuan stiff parts themselves, since you are what you eat. The placebo effect is not so strong when you tell a guy, "this small, inert floppy goop-sack will do the trick!"
I wish your marketing campaign luck anyway.
Or think of yourself as a 30-year old kid who has a fascination with computers and stuff, the way I was last month, in the middle of owning my 4th or 5th gaming laptop. I did not even realize I could get a GPIO adapter to get me into hardware hacking. It took me about 30 minutes or so to screw with currents large enough to conceivably damage my $1700 laptop that I do not want to deal with getting fixed or replaced. I blew away a $35 Rasberry Pi, and the worst part was having to wait 2days for the new one to arrive.
Google is a less restrained than government. Google can limit your life a lot more than the NSA can.
I suppose, hypothetically, if Google execs really wanted to make me disappear, they have enough money to hire people to make it happen, but you have to be pretty far out there to think that Google founders have it in for you personally. If Google isn't making a profit from me, they could terminate all my accounts and sell all my data, but to do anything more would dig into their profits, so they won't.
On the other hand, The US Gov has put away several people I know for drugs, frequently after investigating them on totally bogus, unrelated charges. So I've seen people's data abused by the government for more than the targeted adds Google would have sent them. And this is not even mentioning all the time and money non-convict people I know have had to sink in defending themselves from damning scraps of data.
The NSA, by law, can't even enforce laws in the US
Yeah, they wouldn't enforce anything, they can just turn over their data to agencies that could enforce within the US borders. E.g.: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/05/the-nsa-is-giving-your-phone-records-to-the-dea-and-the-dea-is-covering-it-up/
the NSA could only tap foreign data centers
1) I accidentally made the horribly unpatriotic blunder of meeting and making friends with some of the six and a half billion people who live outside the US. Some in a public high-school no less!
2) Unfortunately for the good patriots, who did a better job of shunning the dirty foreigners, the internet is pretty fuzzy on borders and as the summary points out, data is often sent to information centers outside the US even if it is just returned unaltered, back inside.
3) I have never paid attention to the geographic location of my web-surfing before and I suspect neither have you. Are we sure even Slashdot has all it's data centers in the US? Many of the liked articles aren't, so I'm sure they got some good meta data on the two of us accessing leaked documents published by foreign agencies.
Really, in the side of Government vs. Corporation, the only side that represents YOU is Government.
Depends what the conflict was. Normally, yes, in healthcare, employment rights, unconscionable EULAs, etc, these are situations where the government needs to kick corporate ass on my behalf. This situation on the other hand, the government is not protecting me from the corporations; the government is coming after me. Even if the corporations only want to protect me to ensure their profits, I don't care. Right now they are on my side.
Now, if Google was caught tapping the NSA to get my personal info, then I'd be pissed at Google, not the NSA.
Without government, Corporations would, literally, have you as slaves.
This is true, but from here on out, you really left the situation at hand to talk about political movements I'm not familiar enough with to comment on but I'm thinking 30% chance you are going to reply to my post with "Sarcasm, moron: learn to detect it!"
I wasn't. Maybe you could explain how only those with big guns survived that disaster?
I've been through minor hurricanes and earthquakes, but they seem to have been experienced completely differently by my neighbors. I remember relying on my own water caches and canned food though I didn't refuse supplemental aid from the red cross and salvation army. My neighbors on the other hand seem to recall something like a zombie-tornado since they keep stockpiling sniper rifles and big game guns and ammunition that they think is going to help them through the next one. I guess it encourages me to ensure their prepared enough not to come after my stuff.
Back to the original article, which unfortunately seems to have the nerdy-part completely ignored by other commenters. I still need to find a data backup solution. My company has finally gotten away from, I kid you not, the thumb drive of project critical data that had to be picked up by the nearest employee. We now have our primary svn repository at a different site location on the other side of the US. Personally, I'll certainly throw a zip locked hard drive (cellphone too obviously) when I grab my bug out bag for evacuation, but otherwise I'm thinking true-crypt + amazon deep freeze, but that is pretty hard to update. Any other nerds figured this out?
Clearly, I'd save as much computer equipment as possible, but usually the short notice that you learn your particular area needs to be evacuated, racks and even desktops are usually too cumbersome to deal with and probably not as useful/valuable as the other items you might take, like extra gas, a generator, and other stuff that would be more likely to get looted in a really badly hit area.
I'm having trouble figuring out their interface and what all is available in their double tabbed page layout. My degree in CompSci doesn't seem to be helping, but that makes sense, because before I got lost, I think it said something about credentials and experience being irrelevant.
I think what they are trying to do is design a standard for web competency and then let you "learn anywhere," e.i. let someone else figure out how to teach you these things and then you can come back and use their page creation apps appropriately.
Unfortunately not the information, only the people. So my friend who is politically aligned with me but spams my feed with stuff that doesn't affect me (even though it always confirms my world views) gets hidden, but the "wifi is NSA's mind control, UFOs confirm it" friend that also posts about activities I might want to get in on is still on my news feed.
I would use Facebook quite a bit more often if I could actually fine-tune what information came through.
TSA can't ask you to give them entry.
Are you going to refuse them? Your plane departs in 30minutes; in that time, you really think you can successfully argue your rights to a drone who is completely set on repeating the scripts he memorized this morning no matter what you have to say?
If I was a suicide bomber
But you're not. This argument (which I hear in many forms) really boils down to "If I was crazy," but you can't accurately predict what you would do once you lost whatever key part of your brain that tells you that killing massive amounts of strangers and yourself is not a worthwhile activity. You really might not be thinking clearly enough or be intelligent enough to judge the odds and come up with the optimal strategy to kill people.
The TSA check in line has been pointed out loudly as a vulnerability for some time and it certainly isn't nearly the place that could reek the most destruction (considering stadiums etc). The terrorists just don't seem to care. They are obsessed with airplanes for some reason.
Really, these guys are so bad at calculating casualties: you could stab more people to death for far less money and effort than these guys put into getting on a plane. In fact a year ago, a guy in my neighborhood killed 4 people before the police showed up and shot him; this would probably be about the combined casualties of the underwear and shoe bombers had they been successful. Though it also might say something that you know of Sweaty-Foot-Wannabe-Bomber, but not the crazy guy in my neighborhood, who never even got a dread inspiring moniker like "Underwear Bomber."
For every guy in the rocket, there has got to be a dozen support people on the ground, who all remain to go to jail for homicide of the astronaut and the destruction of whatever property the debris lands on. And they don't get to be God-damned famous either :(
Oh, I guess also Denmark might slap them on the wrist for not not getting permission first.
"but sadly the greatest minds and resources where focused on conquering hair loss and prolonging erections."
So, by your example, they should instead be commenting on news stories that don't interest them?
Research that improves peoples' lives is great. Sometimes that means curing diseases and saving lives, exploring space and inspiring awe, but other other times that means letting old people get it on and making people happy.
These days in the US, more females graduate college than males, I forget the statistics on minorities, but I think we can admit that they are different than they were 50 years ago without being racist.
On the other hand, GP, I don't see why educated old white men would be more predominate in the tea party than in general right wing circles, or any circles for that matter so I don't see any reason to control for that. It would probably skew the results against some minorities and especially youth, since college education is more frequent these days than it was whenever these "old" white guys were around.
Yeah. I had a boss that after watching Independence Day couldn't figure out why we couldn't just wirelessly connect to anything without any setup or passwords like they do on the movie. And when we told him it was impossible, he thought we were just being difficult. I hate that movie.
Oh, but it is very possible, but security doesn't permit it for one obvious reason: so our primitive enemies can't connect to our space age equipment and turn off whatever vital systems keep them from blowing up our space ships or other valuable infrastructure.
But if he ignore the lessons that could have been learned from the villain's mistakes, then you can still use it to your advantage. Explain that what they did in the movie is commonly termed "infiltration and hacking," and if he wants me to fly into our rival competitor's headquarters and install viruses on their computers; well, that's not my specialty and is illegal, but I'm pretty sure I could do that faster and derive more excitement from it than converting the tabbed based interface we have to whatever interface paradigm was in vogue this morning that you'll change your mind about this afternoon.
You're just jealous because i can spend more time having sex and accumulating wealth.
Yes, I am. Especially, because you can, but instead you are calling me at 4:00am to brag about how you only need a few hours of sleep and complain that everyone is being so boring right now.
I've seen code that was designed to use genetic algorithms. I've yet to see such code generate itself.
Well, first build a ridiculously large number of quantum computers about the size of planets provided with continuous inputs of energy. Start some random oscillations on all of them and check back on them after about 4billion years. I think one in several trillion might work out, but if it doesn't cool your universe a little more, multiply the number of computers by a trillion and try again.
I don't have the resources to replicate the experiment myself, but I know a guy that did, and he got some genetic algorithms to show up.
nobody uses UML. The idea of UML as code is completely dead
Nobody in your office. We use UML quite a bit around my office, though only recently did we begin to use Model Driven Development with auto-generated code and yes, it is still usually faster to let the developers implement anything that is slightly difficult to express in UML (or whatever modeling language a particular tool might use, which is SysML for my current project).
Model Driven Development is the buzzword used around my company and it is becoming more and more feasible to allow it to replace larger portions of projects than before. Since our contractors can, to some extent, understand the diagrams, and the designers actually wrote the diagrams, the closer we can get the code to follow the models, even in cases that seem undesirable, the better we are able to satisfy requirements and deliver what was requested (I've gotten in trouble for fixing bugs that turned out to be required to occur based on customer requirements). Designers and customers are famous for demanding that one inconsequential line be moved somewhere else, which results in half a system to be rewritten as a result. If most of the code was automatically generated, then this can save weeks of really tedious development work.
The only thing that's left of it is class diagrams, which people were doing 20 years before UML existed (if not longer).
You are correct, class diagrams are the most useful part, but it is important that diagrams of any sort are done under UML or some other specification. If you are contracting me and hand me a model from some custom, in-house design language, then the first half of the work is going to be teaching me how to understand it, and the second half of the work is going to be arguing about what you clearly meant it to say even though your custom modeling language specification says to do the opposite.
And if you are competing for a contract with a bidder that has a model in UML with state charts and half their code already written by some tool, while all you have a custom class diagram, good luck.
I suspect we work at opposite ends of the industry. UML may be dead on your end, but over here, in my area of mostly US defense contracting, it is flourishing.
The AC, should not have started this thread with "Fuck you." I don't think this is so much either passenger's fault as it is the airlines fault for not accounting for the fact that not all people are 5'6" and 160lbs (which I'm told is who the seats are designed for), despite the clearly different sizes of people that come through there.
Anyway, I thought I might try to contribute a sane pro-leaner position into this thread: as a guy with specific difficulty with my back, need to lean that seat back. I paid for a seat that I understood I could recline, so I would be rather grumpy to hear, "Not on this flight, there's tall guy behind you." Again, I think this is the airlines fault, to put us in a space where we clearly can't both fit.
There are no rights that cover people either way, and clearly courtesy could be argued about all day, but I was told I could recline the seat back and honestly did not take note of the size of the guy behind me, because being around the 5'6" 160lbs guy, never thought about whether it would make the person behind me uncomfortable. Really, I'm sorry if I crushed your knees on some flight.
good diet
There are many opinions on what constitutes a "good diet" but very few people advocate a diet of sleeves of Oreos for breakfast lunch, dinner, mid-morning snack and afternoon snack, between snack snacks...You don't need a perfect diet, but cutting out some junk food, eating some veggies and not obscenely overeating would do wonders for the vast majority of the populace.
Being active
Again, fitness 'experts' will argue all day about what the perfect routine is, but I'm not sure it matters here either; I don't see anyone denying the evidence that just "being active" is good for just about everything for everybody, including Alzheimer's (though not a magic bullet weightless).
We don't know the answers to these questions perfectly, and probably never will, but there's no need to give up. Studies continue to shine light into specific change->benefit relationships that will only be improved by better of genetic predispositions should only improve our ability to figure out the optimal changes we need to avoid / take advantage of our unique predispositions.
I used a quite similar method that has worked great for letting me know how long I'll take rather accurately, but then you forgot the tail end of it:
Once you get your accurate measurement, realize that neither management nor the rest of your team will tolerate that much time being taken, so first half the known time yourself. Give this number to management and the team, who will subtract a bit from your estimate and then assume you can work on your next task in parallel therefore halving your remaining time again. Then you realize that half your time is going to be taken up with meetings you forgot, therefore halving your available time once again. This estimate gets locked into the schedule and immediately afterward the scope is tripled.
Now try and finish the project according to schedual, assuming that is x=1 day, while knowing it will take 2(3x*2*2+4)=32 working days (2 months once you factor in weekends, holidays, company events vacations and meetings about why you are so far behind). Then give up on estimating and improve your excuses.
Nope, if you read the articles, it is trickery. To change your whole body temperature, you need an prolonged contact with a cold object to those veins. This thing is not warming or cooling you, it just fluctuates its temperature in such a way as to make you think you are warmer or colder than you really are.
This sounds dangerous to me.
From the articles linked it looks like they give you a quick pulse in the direction that you want to perceive and then gradually return the plate to normal so they can give you the next pulse, which they name "thermal waveforms."
If someone showed up at a bowling alley, entered in a tournament, and just ran down the lane and kicked over the pins, a bowling alley operator would be similarly justified in throwing them out.
This person would be going over the fowl line. That analogy is more comparable to someone adding a god-mode mod.
I would say that this is more like the guy showing up at the tournament, realizing that bowlers have to take time out to get snacks to be ready for their next session (gold, herbs, levels, armor) and do less of actual bowling (raids, quests) so he starts a service that goes to the snack bar for you.
Then the bowling alley kicks him out and sues him for the service, because going to the snack bar is part of the bowling experience.
I'm sure the bowlers that got their own snacks were annoyed by his snack delivery service clogging the walkways and making long lines at the snack bar, but I still think this is a bit of an over reaction on blizzard's part.
I've never worried that Google might prevent me from boarding a plane, lock me up for having meta-data connected to people that I didn't know were child pornographers, or otherwise harass me for suspicious internet habits, confiscate my computing resources, etc.
I really don't care if Google decides my penis is too small and wants to show me enzyte ads or whatever other problems them knowing my search habits might cause.
I suspect the divide between those that get freaked out by government surveillance and those that express the opinion you just worded (yours or not, it is a frequent, real opinion) is that the greater public is worried about having there privacy invaded because someone might discovering their penis size, rather than realizing the real danger (well in my well endowed opinion) is that we are indistinguishable form the people "who want to hurt us" and are probably within 1-2 degrees, through meta-data, of real drug mafia, child pornographers and suspected terrorists and because of that, they are a couple email jokes away from watch lists and forfeiting other rights they thought they did not have to worry about.
You aren't the only one. Back in college, IT recommended a certain free firewall program (I don't remember what it was anymore), that popped up alerts every time it detected something: being a resident computer geek I got to hear of all sorts of reports of blocked 'pings' 'network-share requests' and other normal non-hacker related activity that commonly goes on in any network. Students weren't frightened since they had their firewalls up, but they wanted to find and stop these hackers trying to break into their machines.
Later the computer lab was shut down when a 'hacker' sent 14 packets (the number became legend) that a jumpy teacher flagged as an attack, but was actually a student doing routine maintenance on his own server.
Classification doesn't need to be successful: there are people whose job it is to classify things and to show how hard they are working, they have to classify a lot of things. If your work is for a military use, sometimes things as unclassifiable as printouts from Wikipedia that you have used may have to be locked up in classified storage with big red "CLASSIFIED" stamps on them. Then any work that used that information has to be classified as well.
I don't know about any jobs that involve the suppression of sources of classified information, but then the existence of those jobs would probably be classified and have to be classified, so, wow, clearly they are pretty good at it, so they'll probably be successful. So prepare for undetectable remote knowledge deletion in 3...2...
1) No, you have to appear to be looking for a job. I've known many unemployed people and appearing to be looking for a job is pretty easy. For example I recall the requirement in my state being something like, apply for 3 jobs a week, which is easy, apply for the same four that rejected you last week, the extra job is in case one of those wants to move forward toward offering you a job in which case you don't report it and find another place that wont hire you next week. These were of course my more educated friends who wanted all their paperwork to be truthful and verifiable; they reportedly heard from other unemployed folks that you could just make everything up.
Of course, that's talking about unemployment benefits, there are other programs you can continue to take advantage, but in different ways and I suspect that GPP's sister is not applying for jobs and therefore correctly not counted as you pointed out.
2) Regardless of the ratios, as long as we offer aid, some people undeserving people will take advantage of it. Even if there are more moochers than deservers, we either have to accept the fact of moochers or obliterate the system, because moochers are far craftier than the costs to keep them out of the system.