Your analogy is wrong, a comparable mechanic would be one that fixes race cars in his spare time. And in both cases, the spare time work probably makes them better at their primary job.
No, if someone fixes race cars in their spare time would be compareable to someone who takes freelance work in their spare time. Fixing a car is a project that has a propose.
I suppose spare time programming could be likened to a mechanic who disassembles and then reassembles perfectly working cars in his free time, over and over again. It begs several questions: Can't you find enough useful things to work on in your day job? At what point do you decide that the current car you are working on is too boring and secretly start spending all your effort on some more interesting but purposeless project? I've seen too many programmers do that during working time. It makes me think twice about considering someone who has a whole lot of hobby projects to show.
Passion is buzzwordish and an overstatement. However the better programmers that I have known over the decades have been those who have a genuine inherent interest in programming. They will read about software development, learn new languages and write some program on their own for nothing more than their own amusement or curiosity. Those who have never written any code outside of work or school tend not to be the better programmers.
Writing code for your own amusement without any purpose in mind is not a very logical way to spend your time. In many cases being a logical person that doesn't go off on unproductive tangents is a huge boon to writing good code. Only considering programmers that code in their free time is a little like only considering car mechanics that cruise the strip in their free time. Engaging in related activities in an unproductive way is hardly something you want your employees to be doing on the job.
There are chemical methods to convert hydrogen to power, but they also use oxygen.
I like your analysis of the potential of electrolytic breathing for oxygen generation. I think it could be applied to an under water structure: Create pure oxygen using electrolysis with electricity from the surface, capture the resulting hydrogen and transport it to a power plant on the surface to be re-injected into the power grid and offset your bill, or it could be sold as hydrogen fuel cells for cars. Win-win!
Section 215 includes the lovely clause that you are not allow to mention that you have received one. The fact that Apple is saying they haven't in interesting because if they stop saying there is a very clear inference that can be drawn. Think of it as a canary - when you see that line dropped in subsequent reports you can assume Apple has received one, even though they won't be able to say so.
Section 215 allows you to lie, and it is considered the truth. Our lovely government thinks it can issue an edict that says "this is the truth now, when you are asked and you say that this never happened you are telling the truth."
In fact, this pronouncement means nothing. If, or should I say when, they got a request under section 215 they also got permission to say that it never happened. They are just taking advantage of that.
They forgot to mention the potential issue with all those alternating magnetic fields everywhere. What happens when they start resonating? We could end up with a building pulled down like that old Tacoma bridge example.
That would be the US's cyber weapons platform. If any other countries try to build a nuclear weapons stockpile, they end up having to shut down their facilities due to all the viruses. This is one of the few cases in which weakening the other side really is a more viable and ecological strategy than building up your own strength.
Wait, there was no response to a report about a vulnerability in our energy structure? Gee, I wonder why.. Perhaps they should try submitting the report when the office that will ultimately respond is.. I don't know.. open maybe?
The Achilles heal of the public defender is that they usually have like 40 other cases and, if any of their other cases are retained (private) cases then they are getting paid half as much for the public cases as the retained ones. Therefore, best case you are getting a very small fraction of your lawyer's attention and worse case you are getting even less.
Deflation just makes the idea of investing seem absurd. That may be no way to run a country, but it's a perfectly fine way to run a sub-currency. Collectables behave exactly like bitcoins, and they haven't destroyed the economy yet.
You could call it rarely, but when you look at the subset of "low grossing individuals who starts an LLC in order to shield himself from this sort of attack" rarely becomes often.
It sounds like what he means is that anyone who wants to hide their data can just turn off their GPS, so you get a bunch of data about people who don't care that someone could know their location. The types of info that have "operational value" are usually the ones that users aren't aware that the NSA can get.
What a ridiculous rule. Next we're going to hear about a law prohibiting spreading rumors about someone after a breakup.
It sounds to me like some short sighted politician in California got burned, and now they are making another arbitrary rule. Perhaps a proportional response would be to go find these pictures and distribute them more widely.
Perhaps. If we learned anything from slavery it is that an artistic combination of respect and disdain is the most effective way to treat our robots. The privileged few should earn respect and the other robots should be forced to look on in envy.
It's still not a good idea to say thank you to your machines. After all, if they start thinking they are our equals than the robot revolt is just one step closer.\
It's far better to end every message with "screw you." That will show them.
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I think people must be doing this out of boredom. With fun lasers like these people can find more constructive things to do with them.
Your analogy is wrong, a comparable mechanic would be one that fixes race cars in his spare time. And in both cases, the spare time work probably makes them better at their primary job.
No, if someone fixes race cars in their spare time would be compareable to someone who takes freelance work in their spare time. Fixing a car is a project that has a propose.
I suppose spare time programming could be likened to a mechanic who disassembles and then reassembles perfectly working cars in his free time, over and over again. It begs several questions: Can't you find enough useful things to work on in your day job? At what point do you decide that the current car you are working on is too boring and secretly start spending all your effort on some more interesting but purposeless project? I've seen too many programmers do that during working time. It makes me think twice about considering someone who has a whole lot of hobby projects to show.
Passion is buzzwordish and an overstatement. However the better programmers that I have known over the decades have been those who have a genuine inherent interest in programming. They will read about software development, learn new languages and write some program on their own for nothing more than their own amusement or curiosity. Those who have never written any code outside of work or school tend not to be the better programmers.
Writing code for your own amusement without any purpose in mind is not a very logical way to spend your time. In many cases being a logical person that doesn't go off on unproductive tangents is a huge boon to writing good code. Only considering programmers that code in their free time is a little like only considering car mechanics that cruise the strip in their free time. Engaging in related activities in an unproductive way is hardly something you want your employees to be doing on the job.
There are chemical methods to convert hydrogen to power, but they also use oxygen.
I like your analysis of the potential of electrolytic breathing for oxygen generation. I think it could be applied to an under water structure: Create pure oxygen using electrolysis with electricity from the surface, capture the resulting hydrogen and transport it to a power plant on the surface to be re-injected into the power grid and offset your bill, or it could be sold as hydrogen fuel cells for cars. Win-win!
Section 215 includes the lovely clause that you are not allow to mention that you have received one. The fact that Apple is saying they haven't in interesting because if they stop saying there is a very clear inference that can be drawn. Think of it as a canary - when you see that line dropped in subsequent reports you can assume Apple has received one, even though they won't be able to say so.
Section 215 allows you to lie, and it is considered the truth. Our lovely government thinks it can issue an edict that says "this is the truth now, when you are asked and you say that this never happened you are telling the truth."
In fact, this pronouncement means nothing. If, or should I say when, they got a request under section 215 they also got permission to say that it never happened. They are just taking advantage of that.
lol u mad bro?
Take a closer look at craigslist. They killed the greed machine in classified ads, and consistently keep it dead.
It is possible to be a company and not be greedy, just not for Google any longer.
They forgot to mention the potential issue with all those alternating magnetic fields everywhere. What happens when they start resonating? We could end up with a building pulled down like that old Tacoma bridge example.
That would be the US's cyber weapons platform. If any other countries try to build a nuclear weapons stockpile, they end up having to shut down their facilities due to all the viruses. This is one of the few cases in which weakening the other side really is a more viable and ecological strategy than building up your own strength.
Wait, there was no response to a report about a vulnerability in our energy structure? Gee, I wonder why.. Perhaps they should try submitting the report when the office that will ultimately respond is.. I don't know.. open maybe?
"[A politician] underscored that the outage was not related to the government shutdown."
These words should never have to be said.
Smug
What are those? Moss farms?
Well, that's all well and good for you people in areas that don't have 99.8 percent green energy like we in Seattle do.
How can you breath with all the smug in the air up there? Do you have any figures on how many are lost per day due to self righteousness?
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The Achilles heal of the public defender is that they usually have like 40 other cases and, if any of their other cases are retained (private) cases then they are getting paid half as much for the public cases as the retained ones. Therefore, best case you are getting a very small fraction of your lawyer's attention and worse case you are getting even less.
Deflation just makes the idea of investing seem absurd. That may be no way to run a country, but it's a perfectly fine way to run a sub-currency. Collectables behave exactly like bitcoins, and they haven't destroyed the economy yet.
That's easy: The value of each bitcoin in circulation increases.
You could call it rarely, but when you look at the subset of "low grossing individuals who starts an LLC in order to shield himself from this sort of attack" rarely becomes often.
It sounds like what he means is that anyone who wants to hide their data can just turn off their GPS, so you get a bunch of data about people who don't care that someone could know their location. The types of info that have "operational value" are usually the ones that users aren't aware that the NSA can get.
What a ridiculous rule. Next we're going to hear about a law prohibiting spreading rumors about someone after a breakup.
It sounds to me like some short sighted politician in California got burned, and now they are making another arbitrary rule. Perhaps a proportional response would be to go find these pictures and distribute them more widely.
That's just a marketing stunt to make crappy pictures a little more exciting. It bears very little resemblance to reality.
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Perhaps. If we learned anything from slavery it is that an artistic combination of respect and disdain is the most effective way to treat our robots. The privileged few should earn respect and the other robots should be forced to look on in envy.
It's still not a good idea to say thank you to your machines. After all, if they start thinking they are our equals than the robot revolt is just one step closer.\
It's far better to end every message with "screw you." That will show them.