They are mentioning StuxNet and the like as a threat example? So, the US is in danger of malware created by the US... perhaps loosing viral code on the world wasn't a good idea.
"We're finding espionage, advanced persistent threats (APTs), and other malware sitting in networks, often for more than a year before it's ever detected," Martinez says.
Now, to "protect" ourselves from our government we need to do what... turn over more information and control to the people that created the problem? Why would I want to give more power to people that have already proven they can't be trusted with it?
This sounds like nothing more than multi-faceted spin control and manipulation.
What I hear being said: Look, we need a larger budget to monitor this situation. And more power to get the information we need without the red tape of actually getting warrants. For your protection against what we've done, you should just give us all your info, all the time.
Very true. Many, many people in Kansas City, which sits on the border of Kansas and Missouri, buy their gasoline in Missouri and the busiest stations are the ones just on the Missouri side of State Line Road, because the difference in gasoline taxes amounts to about seven cents per gallon. At current prices in the area, that's about 2%. So it is a fair comparison and a good predictor that people would likely do the same thing for credit card purchases. I would guess most people, though, could switch from credit purchases to debit card purchases for routine shopping.
Instead of completing his/her final year at a traditional high school (as would be typical in the US), the student starts attending a 2-year degree and/or vo-tech school. Completion of the two-year program serves the same function as high school diploma in the US and (depending on the school and program completed) may also serve as an Associates degree.
Usually people complete a program like this before turning 20, but there are many reasons why that isn't necessarily the case.
Most fonts appear to have smoother edges and more consistent curves when rendered as black-text-on-white background, which is why that is the default...
In the US: The test is administered in US public schools. Many of the wealthier people in the US send their kids to private schools, where the test is NOT administered. Those with lower income backgrounds are almost universally in public schools, where the test could be administered. So, people from lower income backgrounds are more heavily represented.
Some countries (although usually not "1st World"): Wealthier people send their kids to school, where the test may be administered. Those with lower income backgrounds may not even attend school, so the test would not be administered. So, people from higher income backgrounds are more heavily represented.
Things are changing, but a lot of it is probably what you remember.
Tourist is skateboarding across two provinces right now... big highway used almost exclusively by construction trucks extending the highway... then a rocky trail to get over to another highway, also used almost exclusively by construction trucks building THAT highway... and that was the BEST option for getting from point A to point B.
Given that it is a major pain in the butt to get an assault rifle already... you do realize this requires an expensive federal permit to even own one? They are effectively already banned.
The current bans being discussed are trying to go further and ban things that are not assault rifles, but merely "look scary".
And when he does climax, Adrian thinks about the power he protects. He thinks about raping and murdering a prisoner and then helping cover it up without having to answer to any semblance of a court. He heaves his entire body into rapture as he pictures an innocent man being electrocuted to death by someone from the Agency while Bradley Manning is forced to watch from a prison cell, crying for mercy, as part of his "non-torture" permanent solitary confinement that Adrian bravely initiated because... why?
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I really, really hope the parent poster is some type of forum robot (pseudo-AI) whose algorithm/database has run amok...
How about whoever damages the roads more pays more for the road usage.
Do you know where to send Jack Frost's tax bill? I understand that for any state at a latitude north of Oklahoma he does more damage than all other driver's combined...
Are these "tech" jobs though? "Excecutive compenstation analyst" doesn't sound technical (or a full time position to be honest).
Not particularly technical, but vaguely geeky in their own right.
The company I work for has an entire division devoted to executive compensation analysis. It largely consists of surveying executives to discover trends in various industries' compensation packages. We do the bulk of the work as a "disinterested third party" so companies can obtain an unbiased analysis of executive compensation trends (for a fee - which is one of my company's revenue streams).
Organizations then purchase the analyses of these trends to aid them in determining how they should set up compensation plans for their executives. Organizations with thousands of employees, dozens of executives, and hundreds of managers will usually have at least one FTE (and often several FTEs) of their own dedicated to participating in compensation surveys, analyzing results, and investigating whether the organization should be altering the executive compensation packages by going more heavy in, say, deferred compensation programs versus direct compensation, etc.
The standard practice for the people that do this is to send out both the data collection surveys and the results in spreadsheets, typically in Excel (a few decades ago it would been Lotus 1-2-3).
Analysis of the data is usually performed in SAS or SPSS.
How did real estate in Florida ever get so overpriced in the run up to 2008, if anyone out there is taking rising sea levels seriously?
Because people are stupid. Why else would they build where there are tornados regularly. Hey, this place gets plenty of earth quakes, what a great place to put a city...
One day San Francisco is going to bobbing about in the Pacific and everyone will be surprised it happened
Keep in mind... there are NO places in the USA where tornadoes occur regularly. Take Kansas (where I grew up), it is in "Tornado Alley". Ooh, dangerous! Not really. There's dozens of tornadoes per year in the state, but tornadoes have a pretty small damage path, usually only a few square miles. Let's say it is an absolutely horrible year, though, and there are 100 tornadoes with an average damage path of 20 square miles, that would be 2000 square miles of damage. Kansas is ~82,000 square miles in size, though. So even in a year far worse than has happened in recorded history, as a Kansas resident for a worst case year you are 40 times more likely to be unaffected by a tornado than you are to be affected.
The downside is, damage from a tornado if you are directly in the damage path tends to be absolute. Grass and foundations tend to be the only items left intact.
The rebranding necessary for this to sound appealing will be a joy to watch.
I agree, but it didn't seem to be that difficult for silk garments:
"Fabric made from worm spit!"*
*Okay, not quite spit, not quite worms, but it would be the layperson's interpretation if they were to see the process of a silkworm spinning its cocoon.
My concern over the smaller screen is that I can touch-type on an iPad on-screen keyboard (when in landscape orientation). I wouldn't be able to do that on a 7" display. I'd prefer to have one more inch of keyboard on the iPad for more comfort in touch-typing, but the current size is barely adequate.
I agree, my speed of typing is lower on a tablet than on a real keyboard. The level of noise from typing on a tablet is much less though. Instead of needing to taking notes on pen & paper during conference calls (because a real keyboard would be too noisy) and having somebody do data entry from my notes, now I can take my notes during the call directly on a tablet (that can run throughout a workday on its internal battery easily) and they are ready to be sent directly from the tablet as the call concludes. Faster notes to the developers and project manager, better accuracy (because nobody has to do data entry from my handwriting).
It may be a limited use case, but that use case is half of my work week.
Yes, I'm in too many meetings. I take most of the pain so our other developers with fewer social graces don't have to (it keeps us all employed).
You are wrong on numerous levels. I'm guessing that you forgot that Pi is not a real number, it's an estimation. You seem to have forgotten what a "Theorem" is as well and hell, you used the word!. Wtf? There are numerous types of "Math" that we simply can not prove true or untrue. We still use them, because to the best of our knowledge things work in a specific way.
Since the above is true, Math "is" science. Your second statement in bold is a fallacy so just plain old wrong. No wonder you posted anonymously.
I don't think you understand math...
"Pi is not a real number" -
Wrong, Pi is a real number, it is an irrational number, but it is a real number. It is not an estimation, but there are many different approximations for Pi that are used for the sake of convenience.
"There are numerous types of 'Math' that we simply can not prove true or untrue. We still use them, because to the best of our knowledge things work in a specific way."
I'm not sure what you are talking about here. There are many mathematical statements that we know are proven, others that we know are provable (but have no known documented proofs) and likewise many that we know are false, many that we have shown to be unprovable, and many that we do not yet know if they are provable or not. But pretty much any mathematical statement that is used in any mundane fashion (typical engineering or simpler discipline) is rooted in proven theorems (meaning proofs exist - the fact that the word "theorem" is used does not mean "unproven").
Maybe the iPad Mini should be the iPod Maxi instead...... I'm waiting for the iPad with a 15" screen to be announced so I can tell people how much I need to go get a Maxi-Pad!
We'll see. Zune hardware was better than iPod, it was just too late. The Zune service / software is still better than iTunes but dedicated mp3 players were a hard sell once smartphones started taking off. Surface is very different. Tablets are going to be around a long time. There is plenty of room (particularly in the enterprise space) for MS to come in and gain share.
Can't tell if this is a troll, shill, or rabid fanboi...... whatever, it can't be serious.:-)
Given that the system knows where in the building students are and were, I imagine the parents will likely change their minds and praise the system if a student goes missing. They'll know when and where the student was the last time they were on campus, and I would assume through which door the student left.
Keeping tabs of 1200 students you are responsible for is a daunting task, as an adult, I wouldn't want to be tracked in this way, but I don't have a problem with my kids school ID cards being tracked while on the school's campus.
There are regulations covering that situation (fraud, etc).
As far as greed goes, how is anyone (consumer or body-shop purchaser) to know? You might say that the overly-low price is a clue, but again, how is one to know? The low price could be due to a legitimate production-line over-run.
If you were to purchase (for example) a tire for your car, normally about a $100 item, and you were told the price was $10, wouldn't you be wondering "Why is this only 1/10 the normal price?"
Being 90% below the expected price is not the norm for an overstock situation, even on low-volume items.
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They are mentioning StuxNet and the like as a threat example? So, the US is in danger of malware created by the US ... perhaps loosing viral code on the world wasn't a good idea.
Now, to "protect" ourselves from our government we need to do what ... turn over more information and control to the people that created the problem? Why would I want to give more power to people that have already proven they can't be trusted with it?
This sounds like nothing more than multi-faceted spin control and manipulation.
What I hear being said:
Look, we need a larger budget to monitor this situation.
And more power to get the information we need without the red tape of actually getting warrants.
For your protection against what we've done, you should just give us all your info, all the time.
Turbo Pascal, the early versions before version 4, rocked the do a lot with a little.
Less than 40K of floppy disk space got you a text editor and a compiler/linker.
I still keep a copy around, although it doesn't see use but about once a year just for kicks.
Very true.
Many, many people in Kansas City, which sits on the border of Kansas and Missouri, buy their gasoline in Missouri and the busiest stations are the ones just on the Missouri side of State Line Road, because the difference in gasoline taxes amounts to about seven cents per gallon.
At current prices in the area, that's about 2%. So it is a fair comparison and a good predictor that people would likely do the same thing for credit card purchases.
I would guess most people, though, could switch from credit purchases to debit card purchases for routine shopping.
CEGEP:
Instead of completing his/her final year at a traditional high school (as would be typical in the US), the student starts attending a 2-year degree and/or vo-tech school. Completion of the two-year program serves the same function as high school diploma in the US and (depending on the school and program completed) may also serve as an Associates degree.
Usually people complete a program like this before turning 20, but there are many reasons why that isn't necessarily the case.
Religion exists because lights in the sky go boom and it doesn't rain when you want it to and things happen you can't understand.
Guess what, today we can understand those things and so religion is quite literally at odds with modern life.
Will you marry me? No? Probably for the best ... but I'm going to quote you, at least.
Most fonts appear to have smoother edges and more consistent curves when rendered as black-text-on-white background, which is why that is the default ...
In the US:
The test is administered in US public schools.
Many of the wealthier people in the US send their kids to private schools, where the test is NOT administered.
Those with lower income backgrounds are almost universally in public schools, where the test could be administered.
So, people from lower income backgrounds are more heavily represented.
Some countries (although usually not "1st World"):
Wealthier people send their kids to school, where the test may be administered.
Those with lower income backgrounds may not even attend school, so the test would not be administered.
So, people from higher income backgrounds are more heavily represented.
Things are changing, but a lot of it is probably what you remember.
Tourist is skateboarding across two provinces right now ... big highway used almost exclusively by construction trucks extending the highway ... then a rocky trail to get over to another highway, also used almost exclusively by construction trucks building THAT highway ... and that was the BEST option for getting from point A to point B.
Given that it is a major pain in the butt to get an assault rifle already ... you do realize this requires an expensive federal permit to even own one? They are effectively already banned.
The current bans being discussed are trying to go further and ban things that are not assault rifles, but merely "look scary".
...
And when he does climax, Adrian thinks about the power he protects. He thinks about raping and murdering a prisoner and then helping cover it up without having to answer to any semblance of a court. He heaves his entire body into rapture as he pictures an innocent man being electrocuted to death by someone from the Agency while Bradley Manning is forced to watch from a prison cell, crying for mercy, as part of his "non-torture" permanent solitary confinement that Adrian bravely initiated because... why?
I really, really hope the parent poster is some type of forum robot (pseudo-AI) whose algorithm/database has run amok ...
How about whoever damages the roads more pays more for the road usage.
Do you know where to send Jack Frost's tax bill? I understand that for any state at a latitude north of Oklahoma he does more damage than all other driver's combined ...
Ahh to be killed in the defense of freedom and liberty or to die huddled and scared under the boot of ternary.
Gun please.
A ? B : C
o__/
Ooh, dude got crushed by ternary!
[...] has as much legal status as you and I deciding that ginger chicks have to flop their norks out if we whistle the first line of "Dixie".
Finally, legislation I can agree with!
Are these "tech" jobs though? "Excecutive compenstation analyst" doesn't sound technical (or a full time position to be honest).
Not particularly technical, but vaguely geeky in their own right.
The company I work for has an entire division devoted to executive compensation analysis. It largely consists of surveying executives to discover trends in various industries' compensation packages. We do the bulk of the work as a "disinterested third party" so companies can obtain an unbiased analysis of executive compensation trends (for a fee - which is one of my company's revenue streams).
Organizations then purchase the analyses of these trends to aid them in determining how they should set up compensation plans for their executives. Organizations with thousands of employees, dozens of executives, and hundreds of managers will usually have at least one FTE (and often several FTEs) of their own dedicated to participating in compensation surveys, analyzing results, and investigating whether the organization should be altering the executive compensation packages by going more heavy in, say, deferred compensation programs versus direct compensation, etc.
The standard practice for the people that do this is to send out both the data collection surveys and the results in spreadsheets, typically in Excel (a few decades ago it would been Lotus 1-2-3).
Analysis of the data is usually performed in SAS or SPSS.
How did real estate in Florida ever get so overpriced in the run up to 2008, if anyone out there is taking rising sea levels seriously?
Because people are stupid. Why else would they build where there are tornados regularly. Hey, this place gets plenty of earth quakes, what a great place to put a city...
One day San Francisco is going to bobbing about in the Pacific and everyone will be surprised it happened
Keep in mind ... there are NO places in the USA where tornadoes occur regularly. Take Kansas (where I grew up), it is in "Tornado Alley". Ooh, dangerous! Not really. There's dozens of tornadoes per year in the state, but tornadoes have a pretty small damage path, usually only a few square miles. Let's say it is an absolutely horrible year, though, and there are 100 tornadoes with an average damage path of 20 square miles, that would be 2000 square miles of damage. Kansas is ~82,000 square miles in size, though. So even in a year far worse than has happened in recorded history, as a Kansas resident for a worst case year you are 40 times more likely to be unaffected by a tornado than you are to be affected.
The downside is, damage from a tornado if you are directly in the damage path tends to be absolute. Grass and foundations tend to be the only items left intact.
The rebranding necessary for this to sound appealing will be a joy to watch.
I agree, but it didn't seem to be that difficult for silk garments:
"Fabric made from worm spit!"*
*Okay, not quite spit, not quite worms, but it would be the layperson's interpretation if they were to see the process of a silkworm spinning its cocoon.
My concern over the smaller screen is that I can touch-type on an iPad on-screen keyboard (when in landscape orientation). I wouldn't be able to do that on a 7" display. I'd prefer to have one more inch of keyboard on the iPad for more comfort in touch-typing, but the current size is barely adequate.
I agree, my speed of typing is lower on a tablet than on a real keyboard. The level of noise from typing on a tablet is much less though. Instead of needing to taking notes on pen & paper during conference calls (because a real keyboard would be too noisy) and having somebody do data entry from my notes, now I can take my notes during the call directly on a tablet (that can run throughout a workday on its internal battery easily) and they are ready to be sent directly from the tablet as the call concludes. Faster notes to the developers and project manager, better accuracy (because nobody has to do data entry from my handwriting).
It may be a limited use case, but that use case is half of my work week.
Yes, I'm in too many meetings. I take most of the pain so our other developers with fewer social graces don't have to (it keeps us all employed).
You are wrong on numerous levels. I'm guessing that you forgot that Pi is not a real number, it's an estimation. You seem to have forgotten what a "Theorem" is as well and hell, you used the word!. Wtf? There are numerous types of "Math" that we simply can not prove true or untrue. We still use them, because to the best of our knowledge things work in a specific way.
Since the above is true, Math "is" science. Your second statement in bold is a fallacy so just plain old wrong. No wonder you posted anonymously.
I don't think you understand math ...
"Pi is not a real number" -
Wrong, Pi is a real number, it is an irrational number, but it is a real number. It is not an estimation, but there are many different approximations for Pi that are used for the sake of convenience.
"There are numerous types of 'Math' that we simply can not prove true or untrue. We still use them, because to the best of our knowledge things work in a specific way."
I'm not sure what you are talking about here. There are many mathematical statements that we know are proven, others that we know are provable (but have no known documented proofs) and likewise many that we know are false, many that we have shown to be unprovable, and many that we do not yet know if they are provable or not. But pretty much any mathematical statement that is used in any mundane fashion (typical engineering or simpler discipline) is rooted in proven theorems (meaning proofs exist - the fact that the word "theorem" is used does not mean "unproven").
Maybe the iPad Mini should be the iPod Maxi instead ... ... I'm waiting for the iPad with a 15" screen to be announced so I can tell people how much I need to go get a Maxi-Pad!
Wait. No!
We'll see. Zune hardware was better than iPod, it was just too late. The Zune service / software is still better than iTunes but dedicated mp3 players were a hard sell once smartphones started taking off. Surface is very different. Tablets are going to be around a long time. There is plenty of room (particularly in the enterprise space) for MS to come in and gain share.
Can't tell if this is a troll, shill, or rabid fanboi ... ... whatever, it can't be serious. :-)
Given that the system knows where in the building students are and were, I imagine the parents will likely change their minds and praise the system if a student goes missing. They'll know when and where the student was the last time they were on campus, and I would assume through which door the student left.
Keeping tabs of 1200 students you are responsible for is a daunting task, as an adult, I wouldn't want to be tracked in this way, but I don't have a problem with my kids school ID cards being tracked while on the school's campus.
I think you are attending the wrong dance clubs ...
There are regulations covering that situation (fraud, etc).
As far as greed goes, how is anyone (consumer or body-shop purchaser) to know? You might say that the overly-low price is a clue, but again, how is one to know? The low price could be due to a legitimate production-line over-run.
If you were to purchase (for example) a tire for your car, normally about a $100 item, and you were told the price was $10, wouldn't you be wondering "Why is this only 1/10 the normal price?"
Being 90% below the expected price is not the norm for an overstock situation, even on low-volume items.
When I first read title, I was thinking that I bet they don't get too many retuns of defective products... :)
But I guess they aren't actually fake, they are just not the Brand they say they are, and don't work as well.
counterfeit bags had "consistent malfunctioning," ranging from not deploying on impact to throwing metal shards.
"don't work as well." != "not deploying ... throwing metal shards."
The last thing a person needs while in the process of a vehicular collision is to have their steering wheel explode like a fragmentation grenade.
While "don't work as well" is true, it so much of an understatement as to be NOT TRUE.