It happened to me, actually, on a street that basically only serves to reach a dozen houses, has too small a pedestrian zone and therefore it's much more comfortable to walk in the middle. I turned back to see a Prius two meters from me, unheard until that moment.
So yeah, I see their point (marketing crap aside), but still, I don't think we need noise imposed by law. Just letting people getting used to it should be enough, as it was when cars first appeared on the street, for example.
What I can't fathom is that there is still people out there believing that a firewall is all the protection they need. Or that it is a protection they need, even.
No sane company terminates "right the hell now" a paying customer, even if it is unprofitable. Unprofitable customers usually are shown the bill or the door hoping to either convert them to profitable customers, or to take their business elsewhere without causing too much fuss.
My gut feeling agrees with the AC that over-use of bandwidth may be the case. However, sane business practice demands to try and straighten the situation before starting using the scissors. I don't see any of that in the only side of the story commented thus far - unsurprisingly, since TFA comes from that one side.
Probably easier said than done, though. I believe these don't alter their structures but merely support a larger or smaller buzz of electrons. Any +5 insightful candidate to comment on that?
I guess you're right, it's the lesser evil. Still, I find it scaring and can't understand what makes a human being work day after day to design and manufacture such an evil device. Clumsy and random, as Obi-Wan would put it.
Presumably it is a modified mixture of technology developped by Kawasaki, Siemens, Bombardier etc..
The train in the photo of TFA looks like a Siemens (with the usual mix of specialist providers, of course) to me, like those in service in Germany and Spain, and probably a couple other places. The caption doesn't say that the record breaker was that one, though.
Industry, at least power generation and big factories, is a fairy conservative place. They aren't used to the idea of being "connected" and their way of thinking is still along the lines of physical security.
They are moving fast, though. The company mentioned in the summary is targetted because of their large installed base, not because they are careless - far from it, they are pretty good, but they are up against a large momentum of inertia.
It is the same with aviation accidents. Sometimes it's just an individual screwing up, but that's the exception.
No, it's the norm if not always the reason
I agree a bit with that. But I also think that while NTSB investigation and reports are top notch, they suffer from being (unavoidably) within the same environment.
I'll give you an example. You can easily support, NTSB reports in hand, that flying by eye in meteorological conditions that are too hard for that (visual into IMC for you pilots out there) is one of the leading causes of accidents in light airplanes. That is too bad. Anybody can get some additional training and learn instrument flying. Well, if it's that easy why isn't it done in the first place? Why does not everybody get at least basic instrument training so that they can keep their act together when the shit hits the propeller? From there you can easily jump to a politics debate but keep with me for a moment. I'll give another example.
Another leading cause of light aviation accidents is loss of engine power. Now loss of power can be due to a number of reasons: You can run out of gas, for example. Or you can forget to adjust the mixture as you go up or down. Or your carburetor can get ice. There exists technology enough to eliminate or greatly reduce the danger in most of these causes. Why isn't it done? Well, firstly because a fully computerized control system for an aviation engine costs as much as a new car. Now you can argue that the pilot is putting his/her life to risk because of economical considerations, or you can look at the reasons why everything is so damned expensive in aviation. I'll leave it to you, but yes, it's as easy as it seems.
My point is that it's worth the effort to dig a bit more. You can't expect everybody to be fully proficient at everything they get into. Instead, however, helping environments become safer by promoting safe ideas, technologies, training and norms pays much more than blaming the individual and leaving it there.
It is the same with aviation accidents. Sometimes it's just an individual screwing up, but that's the exception. Usually there are multiple causes as well as contributing factors. Unfortunately that doesn't mix well with the mainstream media, which wants a three-word expanation so that they can print in big letters on page one. I have learnt that if I want to know something about a mishap in a complex environment, either I read the whole 196-page document, or it's better if I don't learn anything at all.
Alright, I'll call your bluff on that. What are some historical examples of democracy finding its way when the people are fed, healthy, and working and why would it have been different if the people were not fed, healthy, and working?
A few recent (twentieth century) ones: Spain, Chile, Argentina, Greece. Actually, the definition fits even Russia, the old Soviet republics around, and the old Eastern Europe block. You can argue that these people were not exactly as happy as they could be, but they received a pretty decent education (as it tends to happen in dictatorships) and for the most part enough supply of food and shelter (again, you can't compare with Western standards, but from what I've read hunger and homelessness were not top problems there) Just off the top of my head; there are many more.
I can quote examples of the opposite, too, places where life is miserable and democracy doesn't find its way. Many African nations, unfortunately, fit that one.
By the way (although we're digressing a bit), regarding GP post about the Big Brother form of keeping things calm. I happen to have daily contact with people from Romania. I can say many good things about them, but what strikes me is that they never say a word if it is not necessary. And when yes or no is enough, they will stop there and never add further explanations. Talk about efficient education on the ways of Big Brother.
I can tell you what did not work for us here in Spain. I'm not old enough to have lived through it, but I sure am to remember how things began to change in the yeas following the death of our dictator and our transition to democracy. Isolation does not work for anybody except, perhaps, for extraordinarily clever (and, more often than not, iron-fisted) dictators.
You can contend that trading with an undemocratic country can strengthen the dictator. I agree with that. However, the basic needs of the people of the country are more important than the dictator, or lack thereof. First thing is food, health, education, a future; once you have all that, you can go with lesser important details like democracy. Democracy and dictatorship are equally as good if people is starving, or just have no future. However, when people is fed, healthy and working, democracy will eventually find its way. Look at history for a number of examples. It will be slow, but sure.
A main problem with North Korea is their isolation. Whatever reduces isolation reduces the problem. So good for them and good for the rest of the world. Under this assumption, I'd be eager to buy stuff from them, rather than the opposite.
I have managed a Blackberry Enterprise Server. I don't want to manage another one. It's weird and, as you say, you can't get control of everything without nontrivial hacking. That was the first thing I deeply disliked about it (there are more, but not relevant to this discussion).
If that architecture works for them, then good for them. However, I can understand that governments get pissed about it. Heck, even the (rest of the) US government was quite pissed when Obama stated he wouldn't give up on his Blackberry
It also has the beauty of helping answer the question on whether losses due to piracy quoted by content producers are grossly inflated, or the content providers are objective, reasonable, thoughtful and scientific about the matter. Anybody wants to bet?
With so much core OS work going to Linux and most of the remainder going to *BSD, which also has already ZFS well underway... What do theyhave to attract devs?
Perhaps she may want to leave something written, her memories. I have been talking to my dad about doing precisely that for years, not pressing but not stopping mentioning it from time to time. I don't want his life and that of his ancestors to vanish in background noise. I think it's fair to want a record of what the passage of those people through life was like, even if neither of them won a Nobel prize or became president of the country.
On the other hand, perhaps what remains for you to do is to live the time she has with her and your children. In other words, it's good to preserve things as you are already doing, but don't let that take away time or attention from the life that still has to be lived. Find an equilibrium.
That fits with my experince. 13 GB overall, all IMAP.
I moved over to Mac OS Mail for now and will think about going back to Thunderbird if and when it improves. Mail has some collateral advantages, so it'll not be a clear cut decision.
Anyway, IMAP is great for switching painlessly between mail clients. Heck, I haven't even "switched" as in "move everything over to this other program"; I just click on the Mail icon instead of the Thunderbird icon, but I still have both and can even run them concurrently if I feel like my box is in need of exercise.
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It happened to me, actually, on a street that basically only serves to reach a dozen houses, has too small a pedestrian zone and therefore it's much more comfortable to walk in the middle. I turned back to see a Prius two meters from me, unheard until that moment.
So yeah, I see their point (marketing crap aside), but still, I don't think we need noise imposed by law. Just letting people getting used to it should be enough, as it was when cars first appeared on the street, for example.
I like to see people who no longer needs to demonstrate things to put their money where their mouth is.
Do we get a bad car analogy down the line?
What I can't fathom is that there is still people out there believing that a firewall is all the protection they need. Or that it is a protection they need, even.
That carries a huge delay penalty, which lowers the quality of a conversation significantly.
Ok, you have a point there, but Wikileaks is a very special case. I meant to describe the usual business practice.
To be more specific yet, I mean the usual business practice in the hosting industry.
No sane company terminates "right the hell now" a paying customer, even if it is unprofitable. Unprofitable customers usually are shown the bill or the door hoping to either convert them to profitable customers, or to take their business elsewhere without causing too much fuss. My gut feeling agrees with the AC that over-use of bandwidth may be the case. However, sane business practice demands to try and straighten the situation before starting using the scissors. I don't see any of that in the only side of the story commented thus far - unsurprisingly, since TFA comes from that one side.
Probably easier said than done, though. I believe these don't alter their structures but merely support a larger or smaller buzz of electrons. Any +5 insightful candidate to comment on that?
I guess you're right, it's the lesser evil. Still, I find it scaring and can't understand what makes a human being work day after day to design and manufacture such an evil device. Clumsy and random, as Obi-Wan would put it.
I brought some pie today! What... Headache? Oh, nevermind.
Presumably it is a modified mixture of technology developped by Kawasaki, Siemens, Bombardier etc. .
The train in the photo of TFA looks like a Siemens (with the usual mix of specialist providers, of course) to me, like those in service in Germany and Spain, and probably a couple other places. The caption doesn't say that the record breaker was that one, though.
Industry`s security is still so crappy.
Industry, at least power generation and big factories, is a fairy conservative place. They aren't used to the idea of being "connected" and their way of thinking is still along the lines of physical security.
They are moving fast, though. The company mentioned in the summary is targetted because of their large installed base, not because they are careless - far from it, they are pretty good, but they are up against a large momentum of inertia.
Like it happens with paper media, each consumer buying the paper that tunes with his ideas.
I agree with what you wrote except:
was going to be made obsolete by law
Law in this case simply accelerated a proccess which was almost guaranteed to happen anyway due to the higher efficiencies of CFLs and LEDs.
I am usually no fan of governments regulating too much, but in this case I'm happy with it (we have similar laws on this side of the pond, too).
It is the same with aviation accidents. Sometimes it's just an individual screwing up, but that's the exception.
No, it's the norm if not always the reason
I agree a bit with that. But I also think that while NTSB investigation and reports are top notch, they suffer from being (unavoidably) within the same environment.
I'll give you an example. You can easily support, NTSB reports in hand, that flying by eye in meteorological conditions that are too hard for that (visual into IMC for you pilots out there) is one of the leading causes of accidents in light airplanes. That is too bad. Anybody can get some additional training and learn instrument flying. Well, if it's that easy why isn't it done in the first place? Why does not everybody get at least basic instrument training so that they can keep their act together when the shit hits the propeller? From there you can easily jump to a politics debate but keep with me for a moment. I'll give another example.
Another leading cause of light aviation accidents is loss of engine power. Now loss of power can be due to a number of reasons: You can run out of gas, for example. Or you can forget to adjust the mixture as you go up or down. Or your carburetor can get ice. There exists technology enough to eliminate or greatly reduce the danger in most of these causes. Why isn't it done? Well, firstly because a fully computerized control system for an aviation engine costs as much as a new car. Now you can argue that the pilot is putting his/her life to risk because of economical considerations, or you can look at the reasons why everything is so damned expensive in aviation. I'll leave it to you, but yes, it's as easy as it seems.
My point is that it's worth the effort to dig a bit more. You can't expect everybody to be fully proficient at everything they get into. Instead, however, helping environments become safer by promoting safe ideas, technologies, training and norms pays much more than blaming the individual and leaving it there.
It is the same with aviation accidents. Sometimes it's just an individual screwing up, but that's the exception. Usually there are multiple causes as well as contributing factors. Unfortunately that doesn't mix well with the mainstream media, which wants a three-word expanation so that they can print in big letters on page one. I have learnt that if I want to know something about a mishap in a complex environment, either I read the whole 196-page document, or it's better if I don't learn anything at all.
Alright, I'll call your bluff on that. What are some historical examples of democracy finding its way when the people are fed, healthy, and working and why would it have been different if the people were not fed, healthy, and working?
A few recent (twentieth century) ones: Spain, Chile, Argentina, Greece. Actually, the definition fits even Russia, the old Soviet republics around, and the old Eastern Europe block. You can argue that these people were not exactly as happy as they could be, but they received a pretty decent education (as it tends to happen in dictatorships) and for the most part enough supply of food and shelter (again, you can't compare with Western standards, but from what I've read hunger and homelessness were not top problems there) Just off the top of my head; there are many more.
I can quote examples of the opposite, too, places where life is miserable and democracy doesn't find its way. Many African nations, unfortunately, fit that one.
By the way (although we're digressing a bit), regarding GP post about the Big Brother form of keeping things calm. I happen to have daily contact with people from Romania. I can say many good things about them, but what strikes me is that they never say a word if it is not necessary. And when yes or no is enough, they will stop there and never add further explanations. Talk about efficient education on the ways of Big Brother.
I can tell you what did not work for us here in Spain. I'm not old enough to have lived through it, but I sure am to remember how things began to change in the yeas following the death of our dictator and our transition to democracy. Isolation does not work for anybody except, perhaps, for extraordinarily clever (and, more often than not, iron-fisted) dictators.
You can contend that trading with an undemocratic country can strengthen the dictator. I agree with that. However, the basic needs of the people of the country are more important than the dictator, or lack thereof. First thing is food, health, education, a future; once you have all that, you can go with lesser important details like democracy. Democracy and dictatorship are equally as good if people is starving, or just have no future. However, when people is fed, healthy and working, democracy will eventually find its way. Look at history for a number of examples. It will be slow, but sure.
A main problem with North Korea is their isolation. Whatever reduces isolation reduces the problem. So good for them and good for the rest of the world. Under this assumption, I'd be eager to buy stuff from them, rather than the opposite.
I have managed a Blackberry Enterprise Server. I don't want to manage another one. It's weird and, as you say, you can't get control of everything without nontrivial hacking. That was the first thing I deeply disliked about it (there are more, but not relevant to this discussion).
If that architecture works for them, then good for them. However, I can understand that governments get pissed about it. Heck, even the (rest of the) US government was quite pissed when Obama stated he wouldn't give up on his Blackberry
It also has the beauty of helping answer the question on whether losses due to piracy quoted by content producers are grossly inflated, or the content providers are objective, reasonable, thoughtful and scientific about the matter. Anybody wants to bet?
With so much core OS work going to Linux and most of the remainder going to *BSD, which also has already ZFS well underway... What do theyhave to attract devs?
It's a moot point. Without the country people, the city slickers would last about a week.
I don't see why. Instead of buying your fresh food from the supermarket, we would buy canned food! Ha!
Perhaps she may want to leave something written, her memories. I have been talking to my dad about doing precisely that for years, not pressing but not stopping mentioning it from time to time. I don't want his life and that of his ancestors to vanish in background noise. I think it's fair to want a record of what the passage of those people through life was like, even if neither of them won a Nobel prize or became president of the country.
On the other hand, perhaps what remains for you to do is to live the time she has with her and your children. In other words, it's good to preserve things as you are already doing, but don't let that take away time or attention from the life that still has to be lived. Find an equilibrium.
Finally, I salute your courage and attitude.
That fits with my experince. 13 GB overall, all IMAP.
I moved over to Mac OS Mail for now and will think about going back to Thunderbird if and when it improves. Mail has some collateral advantages, so it'll not be a clear cut decision.
Anyway, IMAP is great for switching painlessly between mail clients. Heck, I haven't even "switched" as in "move everything over to this other program"; I just click on the Mail icon instead of the Thunderbird icon, but I still have both and can even run them concurrently if I feel like my box is in need of exercise.