Say hello to the new boss... same as the old boss. We're back where we were when it comes to monarchy, friends. It's just a different type.
Except one minor difference, if you're smart enough and work hard enough you can become king.
Most of the wealthiest people in the world right now are entrepreneurs. Sure our system isn't perfect but it's the most productive and socially mobile system in human history. Carlos Slim Helu, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet all self made. Here in Australia where this story is from, a our local rich list is littered with self made people. So let's not too excited by a couple of bad stories in the press.
I don't know anything about this, but if Victor's photon is travelling via a 150million km length of fibre optic cable then wouldn't that buy some time for Alice and Bob to communicate with him?
I may be ruining the joke here, but the Mensa test is actually a two part test. Most people with half a brain get past the first part, but by actually joining Mensa you fail the second. Mensa is the group that failed. Smart enough to know, but not smart enough to know better.
Yet "body hostility" also exists in numerous other cultures, such as many of those in Asia, that weren't influenced by the Christian Right.
So, instead of repeating tired tropes about scapegoat groups, how about we place the blame where it really belongs: different people are different.
He said "Why are we in America so terrified...."
Different cultures have different reasons, but the primary reason for nudephobia in America is the Christian Right.
Most other western countries, ie the same countries that Americans originally came from, don't have the same inhibitions, so it is clearly an attitude that evolved in modern America (evolved - see what I did there?).
Everyone has a bum and nipples, it is nothing to be afraid of.
The real problem in business is in fact CEOs, other executive managers, and the methods that are being used to select them. CEOs have devolved into grossly overpaid playboys with no responsibilities towards shareholders, customers, or indeed the company itself.
Not sure how many CEOs you've met, I only met a handful in my time. A couple were monkeys, but the majority were really quite clever, and most importantly politically saavy which is the key skill at that level.
Also, most CEOs are actually successful, just go check the Forbes 1000. For every CEO with a huge bonus and negative profit sheet, there's 10 that are actually making good profits. Don't be fooled by the stories in the paper.
I just built a 8mx4m (~25ftx13ft) covered deck on the front of my house and used a 30m string of white 300 LED christmas lights threaded through the roof beams as lighting. It works very well, it's dimmer that a regular lit room with regular bulbs, but that's the level of lighting I'm after as it's a space for relaxing and drinking:)
If I was building a new room/house, I'd be looking to do something similar. Use multi-colour LEDs and connect them back to a controller for some great effects.
Because of smartphones and tablets. Or, more specifically, the miniaturization and commercialization of the components. It is the same reason you are seeing things like the Ecobee thermostat. The price of POS equipment is really high, but super-cheap commodity tablets could be used to replace almost all of that. You still need the cash drawer and some other accessories, but IBM has wisely seen that POS is being threatened by software replacements on tablets.
Cash drawer, receipt printer, pinpad, barcode scanner, we also used fingerprint readers for time and attendance and label printers for reprinting labels. Tablets aren't there yet but desktops are. We could buy commodity PC hardware for almost half the price of an IBM or HP POS kit.
As an example, there is a hot dog stand that I go eat at once or twice a week and the guy takes credit cards via his iPhone and a Square CC reader. He has no POS gear. That's today. In ten years, those POS equipment vendors could be very disrupted by newcomers to that industry.
Yeah but hotdog guy doesn't have real time sales reporting and replenishment, nor time and attendance, timesheets and staff management or collaboration or stocktaking, transfer, or any of the other myriad or features required by a competitive retail chain. Sure ma and pa kettle can getaway with a calculator and 3G pinpad, but a retail business that employs more than a couple of people will need a bit more technology than that.
We have probably quad-9 uptime reliability with the IBM, while our Microsoft boxes constantly have downtime.
Lol
1. Microsoft don't makes 'boxes'
2. You 'probably' have quad 9 uptime? You either did or you didn't. 'Probably' is not acceptable. Neither is 'constantly' an officially metric for uptime.
This is typical nonsense we get from IBM types where I work.
FFS RTFA!
Now look at the actual sequence of events:
Everything is going well (seat belt light has been on for 40 minutes)
Even a red traffic light is enforceable if you drive through it but it's hard to blame the driver when you're randomly flicking the switch.
It wasn't being switched. It was on solid for 40 minutes prior to the event. If you RTFA you would know that. Hell had you even just read the summary you would know that.
However, unlike the poster you're responding to I don't feel that having a child is irresponsible because of the public school system. I believe it's immoral because there are so many millions of orphans in the world, that if you want to raise a child selecting from that pool is the only moral option.
When I decided to have children, it wasn't simply to "raise children". I believe my genes are superior than most other people's and to improve the world it will need more people like me, and less people that breed orphans.
If you truly want to make the world a better place, and you think you offer above average genetics, then it is you responsibility to breed to balance out all the fucking retards that are increasingly out-numbering us.
That problem is quite easily remediable. Quite simply take schools from local government budgets and shift them to state budgets.
Here in Australia schools are run by the states, and people are talking about shifting control to the Federal level as 6 states worth of administration is considered 6 times too many.
Bully and buy the result, in Australia? Seriously? If they thought that then they don't know Australian's, their politicians...
Well the Mining companies did a pretty good job of fucking us over. Perhaps Big Tobacco just wasn't as clever at it...
BTW the plural of a word doesn't require an apostrophe before the s.
Gold is as close as anything gets to real value because every human of every culture, religion and political persuasion values it, and has done for thousands of years. Doesn't matter what govt of day says or does, or what it tries to use as a substitute, everyone knows knows that if the shit hits the fan, anyone anywhere will still accept gold as having value. And it will do so when this govt is long gone and the next one after it.
I can't think of anything that comes close in comparison.
As I like to ask all the gold freaks, "What happens when we can make gold ourselves? How does your system work then?" And I ask because it's going to happen.
Bit of a silly question. What happens when we can print our own money? This is possible now, but the economy still works (just)
Actually, at least in Australia every time there is an election both side scramble to say how tough on law and order they are going to be. But it is still almost impossible to get police to be interested in minor crime.
That's because talking about being tough on crime is all they do. I've been around long enough to see both side regurgitate the old 'tough on crime' lies, I've never seen or heard anyone say we ever have too many police.
Also in my experience cops here tend to be pretty hopeless. The few experiences I've had with them from both sides makes me wonder how any crime ever gets solved. We don't only need more quantity, we need a lot more quality too.
I used to be one of those guys that used to create and deploy SOEs. Every company I worked for I've had to trash their current images and start fresh because no-one ever got it right. Bloat, bloat, bloat. I don't know which part of my education is responsible for respecting efficiency, but it's the one skill I value most, and rarely see in others in the same field.
I agree with the silliness part, but if we're arguing for the sake of mental exercise, then the fact remains that a farm *can* continue to exist without a city, but not the other way around, therefore farm wins IMO.
Having said that I won't be leaving the convenience of the city anytime soon:)
And what's funnier (by funny I mean sad), is that in 2001 we already had the systems in place to effectively catch terrorists. All known terrorist activity was known about using existing systems and procedures, it was just that there were a lot of people not doing their job properly that allowed 9/11 to execute successfully.
The simple fact most girls have no interest in being programmers. Just like most heterosexual men have no interest in fashion design, hair and make-up or painting nails for a living. And guess what, it's not because of hordes of sexist females keeping them out of the occupation.
Why is it any surprise that most women have no interest at being stuck behind a keyboard all day (and night) for a career?
It's the preeminent world class sporting event that is only held every 4 years for which most of the entire world tunes in. And for which you'd be lucky to get a job at for only once in your lifetime. Wouldn't you expect people to go that little extra distance - If not for the money, but for the pride of saying you contributed?
I lived (still do) in Sydney during the 2000 Olympics. There were heaps of jobs going for all the various side projects, all paying above market rates because no-one wants it to fail. I imagine this will be the same deal. There's a lot of reputations on the line, so everyone will be scrambling for talent to ensure each and every little bit goes as smoothly as possible
Personally I have no interest in what I see as one huge marketing gimmick. I left the country and went on holidays overseas while it was on.
That's what I loved about my Japanese boss back when working for a Japanese company. He was there as long as I was. His rule was that he's the first in the office and the last one to go home.
You experience differs from mine. I did a quick 2 week stint in Japan a few years ago. I came back to the office late one night to pick up my bag (about 10pm) after dinner and a few drinks only to find everyone still there working (I had bailed at 5pm). When I asked what was going on I was told that it is considered rude to leave the office before your manager. So the worker-bees would stay there every day until the boss leaves, even if they have nothing to do.
Of course it had nothing to do with the release of the USB2 standard which overtook every other interface on the market at the time for both speed and compatibility. It also just so happened that the other major OS supplier, you know the one with 2000% the market share that Apple has in the PC space, released a new converged OS that had full native USB support.
Dream on Apple Fanboys...
These stories seem to pop up every week about how we have a new system that is better than a regular password. You can't get better than a regular password because the weakest link in the whole password process is the human. Make the authentication process any more complex and the human becomes an even weaker link.
The other big miss that none of these stories never seem to cover (esp biometrics) is that the great strength of a password is its portability. If I need someone to do something on my behalf I can tell them the password and they can do it, and it gets done. This may sound like a weakness on the surface, but the alternative non-portable method would mean all those things wouldn't otherwise have been done, and ultimately systems are designed to do things. Therefore, too strong an authentication makes the overall system less effective.
Security is about balance. You can't build a house without doors and windows, and I think the regular old password is the best balance you'll ever get to authentication. Why waste energy trying to build a better mousetrap?
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Say hello to the new boss... same as the old boss. We're back where we were when it comes to monarchy, friends. It's just a different type.
Except one minor difference, if you're smart enough and work hard enough you can become king. Most of the wealthiest people in the world right now are entrepreneurs. Sure our system isn't perfect but it's the most productive and socially mobile system in human history. Carlos Slim Helu, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet all self made. Here in Australia where this story is from, a our local rich list is littered with self made people. So let's not too excited by a couple of bad stories in the press.
I don't know anything about this, but if Victor's photon is travelling via a 150million km length of fibre optic cable then wouldn't that buy some time for Alice and Bob to communicate with him?
I may be ruining the joke here, but the Mensa test is actually a two part test. Most people with half a brain get past the first part, but by actually joining Mensa you fail the second. Mensa is the group that failed. Smart enough to know, but not smart enough to know better.
Yet "body hostility" also exists in numerous other cultures, such as many of those in Asia, that weren't influenced by the Christian Right.
So, instead of repeating tired tropes about scapegoat groups, how about we place the blame where it really belongs: different people are different.
He said "Why are we in America so terrified...."
Different cultures have different reasons, but the primary reason for nudephobia in America is the Christian Right. Most other western countries, ie the same countries that Americans originally came from, don't have the same inhibitions, so it is clearly an attitude that evolved in modern America (evolved - see what I did there?).
Everyone has a bum and nipples, it is nothing to be afraid of.
The real problem in business is in fact CEOs, other executive managers, and the methods that are being used to select them. CEOs have devolved into grossly overpaid playboys with no responsibilities towards shareholders, customers, or indeed the company itself.
Not sure how many CEOs you've met, I only met a handful in my time. A couple were monkeys, but the majority were really quite clever, and most importantly politically saavy which is the key skill at that level. Also, most CEOs are actually successful, just go check the Forbes 1000. For every CEO with a huge bonus and negative profit sheet, there's 10 that are actually making good profits. Don't be fooled by the stories in the paper.
Or the importance of knowing apostrophes/spelling as in:
Understanding the difference between knowing your shit, and knowing you're shit.
Aren't they the same thing? ie you have to know your shit to know you're shit
I just built a 8mx4m (~25ftx13ft) covered deck on the front of my house and used a 30m string of white 300 LED christmas lights threaded through the roof beams as lighting. It works very well, it's dimmer that a regular lit room with regular bulbs, but that's the level of lighting I'm after as it's a space for relaxing and drinking :)
If I was building a new room/house, I'd be looking to do something similar. Use multi-colour LEDs and connect them back to a controller for some great effects.
Because of smartphones and tablets. Or, more specifically, the miniaturization and commercialization of the components. It is the same reason you are seeing things like the Ecobee thermostat. The price of POS equipment is really high, but super-cheap commodity tablets could be used to replace almost all of that. You still need the cash drawer and some other accessories, but IBM has wisely seen that POS is being threatened by software replacements on tablets.
Cash drawer, receipt printer, pinpad, barcode scanner, we also used fingerprint readers for time and attendance and label printers for reprinting labels. Tablets aren't there yet but desktops are. We could buy commodity PC hardware for almost half the price of an IBM or HP POS kit.
As an example, there is a hot dog stand that I go eat at once or twice a week and the guy takes credit cards via his iPhone and a Square CC reader. He has no POS gear. That's today. In ten years, those POS equipment vendors could be very disrupted by newcomers to that industry.
Yeah but hotdog guy doesn't have real time sales reporting and replenishment, nor time and attendance, timesheets and staff management or collaboration or stocktaking, transfer, or any of the other myriad or features required by a competitive retail chain. Sure ma and pa kettle can getaway with a calculator and 3G pinpad, but a retail business that employs more than a couple of people will need a bit more technology than that.
We have probably quad-9 uptime reliability with the IBM, while our Microsoft boxes constantly have downtime.
Lol
1. Microsoft don't makes 'boxes'
2. You 'probably' have quad 9 uptime? You either did or you didn't. 'Probably' is not acceptable. Neither is 'constantly' an officially metric for uptime.
This is typical nonsense we get from IBM types where I work.
True but look at the sequence of events.
FFS RTFA!
Now look at the actual sequence of events:
Even a red traffic light is enforceable if you drive through it but it's hard to blame the driver when you're randomly flicking the switch.
It wasn't being switched. It was on solid for 40 minutes prior to the event. If you RTFA you would know that. Hell had you even just read the summary you would know that.
However, unlike the poster you're responding to I don't feel that having a child is irresponsible because of the public school system. I believe it's immoral because there are so many millions of orphans in the world, that if you want to raise a child selecting from that pool is the only moral option.
When I decided to have children, it wasn't simply to "raise children". I believe my genes are superior than most other people's and to improve the world it will need more people like me, and less people that breed orphans. If you truly want to make the world a better place, and you think you offer above average genetics, then it is you responsibility to breed to balance out all the fucking retards that are increasingly out-numbering us.
That problem is quite easily remediable. Quite simply take schools from local government budgets and shift them to state budgets.
Here in Australia schools are run by the states, and people are talking about shifting control to the Federal level as 6 states worth of administration is considered 6 times too many.
Bully and buy the result, in Australia? Seriously? If they thought that then they don't know Australian's, their politicians...
Well the Mining companies did a pretty good job of fucking us over. Perhaps Big Tobacco just wasn't as clever at it... BTW the plural of a word doesn't require an apostrophe before the s.
As I like to ask all the gold freaks, "What happens when we can make gold ourselves? How does your system work then?" And I ask because it's going to happen.
Bit of a silly question. What happens when we can print our own money? This is possible now, but the economy still works (just)
Actually, at least in Australia every time there is an election both side scramble to say how tough on law and order they are going to be. But it is still almost impossible to get police to be interested in minor crime.
That's because talking about being tough on crime is all they do. I've been around long enough to see both side regurgitate the old 'tough on crime' lies, I've never seen or heard anyone say we ever have too many police. Also in my experience cops here tend to be pretty hopeless. The few experiences I've had with them from both sides makes me wonder how any crime ever gets solved. We don't only need more quantity, we need a lot more quality too.
I used to be one of those guys that used to create and deploy SOEs. Every company I worked for I've had to trash their current images and start fresh because no-one ever got it right. Bloat, bloat, bloat. I don't know which part of my education is responsible for respecting efficiency, but it's the one skill I value most, and rarely see in others in the same field.
I agree with the silliness part, but if we're arguing for the sake of mental exercise, then the fact remains that a farm *can* continue to exist without a city, but not the other way around, therefore farm wins IMO. Having said that I won't be leaving the convenience of the city anytime soon :)
And what's funnier (by funny I mean sad), is that in 2001 we already had the systems in place to effectively catch terrorists. All known terrorist activity was known about using existing systems and procedures, it was just that there were a lot of people not doing their job properly that allowed 9/11 to execute successfully.
Yeah the article is ignoring the real problem..
The simple fact most girls have no interest in being programmers. Just like most heterosexual men have no interest in fashion design, hair and make-up or painting nails for a living. And guess what, it's not because of hordes of sexist females keeping them out of the occupation. Why is it any surprise that most women have no interest at being stuck behind a keyboard all day (and night) for a career?
It's the preeminent world class sporting event that is only held every 4 years for which most of the entire world tunes in. And for which you'd be lucky to get a job at for only once in your lifetime. Wouldn't you expect people to go that little extra distance - If not for the money, but for the pride of saying you contributed?
I lived (still do) in Sydney during the 2000 Olympics. There were heaps of jobs going for all the various side projects, all paying above market rates because no-one wants it to fail. I imagine this will be the same deal. There's a lot of reputations on the line, so everyone will be scrambling for talent to ensure each and every little bit goes as smoothly as possible Personally I have no interest in what I see as one huge marketing gimmick. I left the country and went on holidays overseas while it was on.
That's what I loved about my Japanese boss back when working for a Japanese company. He was there as long as I was. His rule was that he's the first in the office and the last one to go home.
You experience differs from mine. I did a quick 2 week stint in Japan a few years ago. I came back to the office late one night to pick up my bag (about 10pm) after dinner and a few drinks only to find everyone still there working (I had bailed at 5pm). When I asked what was going on I was told that it is considered rude to leave the office before your manager. So the worker-bees would stay there every day until the boss leaves, even if they have nothing to do.
Of course it had nothing to do with the release of the USB2 standard which overtook every other interface on the market at the time for both speed and compatibility. It also just so happened that the other major OS supplier, you know the one with 2000% the market share that Apple has in the PC space, released a new converged OS that had full native USB support. Dream on Apple Fanboys...
I don't have any mod points, and you're already modded +5, but that was fucking funny!
These stories seem to pop up every week about how we have a new system that is better than a regular password. You can't get better than a regular password because the weakest link in the whole password process is the human. Make the authentication process any more complex and the human becomes an even weaker link. The other big miss that none of these stories never seem to cover (esp biometrics) is that the great strength of a password is its portability. If I need someone to do something on my behalf I can tell them the password and they can do it, and it gets done. This may sound like a weakness on the surface, but the alternative non-portable method would mean all those things wouldn't otherwise have been done, and ultimately systems are designed to do things. Therefore, too strong an authentication makes the overall system less effective. Security is about balance. You can't build a house without doors and windows, and I think the regular old password is the best balance you'll ever get to authentication. Why waste energy trying to build a better mousetrap?
here are the paintings he claims are up to $60,000 a piece (what a joke) http://www.kooriweb.org/bell/art.html http://www.milanigallery.com.au/artwork/her-thous-shalt-not I've had way better pieces custom made (oil on canvas portraits) for a fraction of the price
Since when has art been valued with any sort of logic? I can take you to any gallery in any country and show plenty of art that "isn't worth it".