I work a mile from the site border, and connect remotely to the government network there for my job, and have worked on site.
There was no radiological release; no contamination was spread.
Employees were instructed to shut off HVAC and to avoid eating and drinking for several hours; these moratoriums have been lifted.
The site has essentially been evacuated. All non-essential employees have been released for the day. Swing shift cancelled (again, except non-essential personnel).
Can we please stop with the scaremongering? The worst thing about Hanford is that no work ever gets done out there because safety is quite literally job number 1: they've extraordinarily happy that you don't get any work done as long as you're safe not doing it. Hanford's just a huge money sink.
Hell, I didn't even hear about it until my mother in law halfway across the state texted me.
How many people did horses 'automate'? If you look at the cumulative improvements at a single task how many people with sticks can a single tractor replace? Think of how many 'jobs' we could bring back if we outlawed tractors?
And how many "new" jobs have been created by the construction of the tractors and all the support they require? Many people discuss automation and lost jobs, but don't see the gained jobs in other sectors. The jobs aren't lost or new, they are just changed and moved. Retraining usually will be required.
I used to tweak the MenuShowDelay entry in the registry in WinXP machines. Default was something like 400 (ms), which is about half a second; I'd "adjust" some performance things, then just set that to something like 5 or 1...now their Start menu "feels snappier" and they get that notion of a speed increase. Now the computer's faster, and they think I did a wonderful job when there was nothing to be done to begin with because their HDD is just slow and they only have 512MB RAM.
I'm colorblind and I'm going to sue all of the movie studios and TV stations for presenting their product in color. If I can't see the shows in full color them they should all be forced to present the shows in only black and white so we can all be equal. Screw you, you non-colorblind elitists.
Haha! Joke's on you, they've always been black and white!
Last Friday [Oct 28, 2016], a new exemption to the decades-old law known as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act quietly kicked in, carving out protections for Americans to hack their own devices without fear that the DMCA’s ban on circumventing protections on copyrighted systems would allow manufacturers to sue them. One exemption, crucially, will allow new forms of security research on those consumer devices. Another allows for the digital repair of vehicles.
My uncle told me about a Boeing interview process one time. They would put candidates in a room together and give them an engineering task/problem to solve. At this point, they'd already vetted them for knowledge/competence.
At first, the candidates would talk and do the chit-chat thing, who's who, background, blah blah blah. But at some point, one would push back his chair or pick up the notebook with the assignment or get up to the whiteboard and say something like "Well, let's get on with this thing."
That was typically the end of the interview. Of course they'd still observe the candidates as they worked on the project, but that bit of leadership was primarily what they were looking for.
Because of this, and stories like it (such as TFS), I intentionally go to interviews unprepared. My intention is to present them with the "real" me that they are more than likely to get. I don't want to present the best of me, because they won't get that all the time. If asked why I am not more prepared, I will answer with exactly this. One could argue that this IS being prepared...
I have had only one interview out of my last 7 (spanning the same number of years) that didn't return a job offer.
My concern is that they aren't just saying that they don't have anything to hand over because nothing exists. Since they're not saying this, I'll assume that they do have something that could be handed over. Alexa? No thanks, I'll pass.
From TFA:
The heart of Amazon’s claim is that Alexa devices could provide insights into a person’s entire life, and having two days worth of audio would be an unreasonable invasion of that privacy. Knowing that law enforcement has the ability to request data from these devices and peruse them at will would have a chilling effect on people using the services—which clearly would be bad news for Amazon’s business.
I'm seriously considering writing a "PKI for non-dummies" series of blog posts or something because the amount of misinformation out there is scary!
Please do. I'm going to have to start learning about this pretty soon for a project I'm working on. I've avoided it up to this point by Googling and clicking boxes and trying and knowing JUST ENOUGH to scrape by and expand existing infrastructure...
...the _expectation_ that everyone has a cell phone with then and can be contacted at any moment.
Let's say you live in a large city and you tell your boss "I will check with you when I get to a public phone".
Will your boss tell you "OK, check with me when you get to a public phone", or "Get a cell phone" ?
Anecdotal, but I find that I actually garner _more_ respect when I tell people that I won't likely answer their call later, because I don't keep my phone with me. I get home, take my phone out of my pocket, and put it on my desk in my den. Often, I even forget to turn the ringer back on. I'm not easy to get hold of but I will always return a call. I just don't know when.
I do like your point, though, and understand your reasoning. I've never had huge issues with manufacturer-supplied drivers (actually, I probably HAVE...) and typically default to them over MS/Windows drivers.
One instance, I installed Server 2012 on my old desktop, and Windows Server didn't have any good drivers for the video card (GeForce 560) so I had to install NVidia's...
But now you've got me wondering...how often have those quirky problems I've lived with been the result of third-party drivers that could be fixed by a rollback to MS drivers...?
Slashdot Mirror
That WinXP was reliable by crashing?
We've been joking for years, saying BSOD was a feature and not a bug.
I guess the joke's on us.
I share your irrational happiness, but it is together with sadness, as I wanted to post it.
We take it for granted that we can type any word with a keyboard, but really, you should check your anglophone privilege.
Never mind the inconsistent voice and poor writing overall...
I work a mile from the site border, and connect remotely to the government network there for my job, and have worked on site.
There was no radiological release; no contamination was spread.
Employees were instructed to shut off HVAC and to avoid eating and drinking for several hours; these moratoriums have been lifted.
The site has essentially been evacuated. All non-essential employees have been released for the day. Swing shift cancelled (again, except non-essential personnel).
Can we please stop with the scaremongering? The worst thing about Hanford is that no work ever gets done out there because safety is quite literally job number 1: they've extraordinarily happy that you don't get any work done as long as you're safe not doing it. Hanford's just a huge money sink.
Hell, I didn't even hear about it until my mother in law halfway across the state texted me.
How many people did horses 'automate'? If you look at the cumulative improvements at a single task how many people with sticks can a single tractor replace? Think of how many 'jobs' we could bring back if we outlawed tractors?
And how many "new" jobs have been created by the construction of the tractors and all the support they require? Many people discuss automation and lost jobs, but don't see the gained jobs in other sectors. The jobs aren't lost or new, they are just changed and moved. Retraining usually will be required.
Same here. I loved iGoogle. Netvibes dashboard is my homepage; I found this article via RSS.
I also use Postbox for my E-mail and have XKCD and Penny Arcade subscriptions via RSS.
Well thanks for pointing that out. Now I feel ill and like I don't belong on Slashdot anymore.
I used to tweak the MenuShowDelay entry in the registry in WinXP machines. Default was something like 400 (ms), which is about half a second; I'd "adjust" some performance things, then just set that to something like 5 or 1...now their Start menu "feels snappier" and they get that notion of a speed increase. Now the computer's faster, and they think I did a wonderful job when there was nothing to be done to begin with because their HDD is just slow and they only have 512MB RAM.
Or maybe all those references to Skype were to simply say "Don't use Skype." or "Using Skype will get you caught."
Now, to throw off researches pointed at Slashdot: AIM, AIM, AIM, AIM AOL Instant Messenger, AIM AOL Instant Massanger, MSN Messenger, AIMI!!LOL!!11
https://xkcd.com/927/
I'm colorblind and I'm going to sue all of the movie studios and TV stations for presenting their product in color. If I can't see the shows in full color them they should all be forced to present the shows in only black and white so we can all be equal. Screw you, you non-colorblind elitists.
Haha! Joke's on you, they've always been black and white!
Yelling at your phone DOES work!
Another recent example of a democratic election gone horribly wrong.
This is exactly why we can't have nice things.
Though I HATE Wired, they have this to say:
Last Friday [Oct 28, 2016], a new exemption to the decades-old law known as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act quietly kicked in, carving out protections for Americans to hack their own devices without fear that the DMCA’s ban on circumventing protections on copyrighted systems would allow manufacturers to sue them. One exemption, crucially, will allow new forms of security research on those consumer devices. Another allows for the digital repair of vehicles.
TFA
The offline installer process has worked fine for me for the RC.
It actually seems to be working better with the officially released version.
If you have to ask, the changes probably don't matter to you.
Standards
...are some parents unprepared...?).
Yes.
My uncle told me about a Boeing interview process one time. They would put candidates in a room together and give them an engineering task/problem to solve. At this point, they'd already vetted them for knowledge/competence.
At first, the candidates would talk and do the chit-chat thing, who's who, background, blah blah blah. But at some point, one would push back his chair or pick up the notebook with the assignment or get up to the whiteboard and say something like "Well, let's get on with this thing."
That was typically the end of the interview. Of course they'd still observe the candidates as they worked on the project, but that bit of leadership was primarily what they were looking for.
Because of this, and stories like it (such as TFS), I intentionally go to interviews unprepared. My intention is to present them with the "real" me that they are more than likely to get. I don't want to present the best of me, because they won't get that all the time. If asked why I am not more prepared, I will answer with exactly this. One could argue that this IS being prepared...
I have had only one interview out of my last 7 (spanning the same number of years) that didn't return a job offer.
My concern is that they aren't just saying that they don't have anything to hand over because nothing exists. Since they're not saying this, I'll assume that they do have something that could be handed over. Alexa? No thanks, I'll pass.
From TFA:
The heart of Amazon’s claim is that Alexa devices could provide insights into a person’s entire life, and having two days worth of audio would be an unreasonable invasion of that privacy. Knowing that law enforcement has the ability to request data from these devices and peruse them at will would have a chilling effect on people using the services—which clearly would be bad news for Amazon’s business.
...using a washing machine to clean your clothes?
You've piqued my interest. Tell me more!
I'm seriously considering writing a "PKI for non-dummies" series of blog posts or something because the amount of misinformation out there is scary!
Please do. I'm going to have to start learning about this pretty soon for a project I'm working on. I've avoided it up to this point by Googling and clicking boxes and trying and knowing JUST ENOUGH to scrape by and expand existing infrastructure...
...the _expectation_ that everyone has a cell phone with then and can be contacted at any moment.
Let's say you live in a large city and you tell your boss "I will check with you when I get to a public phone". Will your boss tell you "OK, check with me when you get to a public phone", or "Get a cell phone" ?
Anecdotal, but I find that I actually garner _more_ respect when I tell people that I won't likely answer their call later, because I don't keep my phone with me. I get home, take my phone out of my pocket, and put it on my desk in my den. Often, I even forget to turn the ringer back on. I'm not easy to get hold of but I will always return a call. I just don't know when.
This already happened with their twitter bot.
Simple: user option.
I do like your point, though, and understand your reasoning. I've never had huge issues with manufacturer-supplied drivers (actually, I probably HAVE...) and typically default to them over MS/Windows drivers.
One instance, I installed Server 2012 on my old desktop, and Windows Server didn't have any good drivers for the video card (GeForce 560) so I had to install NVidia's...
But now you've got me wondering...how often have those quirky problems I've lived with been the result of third-party drivers that could be fixed by a rollback to MS drivers...?