Now that people can easily get their news from just about anywhere
That right there is the exact problem. Since that's the case, I'm going to want to pay the least amount I can for the same news--and that amount is often "free".
How about, I dunno, providing value to a story? If you're just repeating what everyone else is reporting, you're just an echo chamber and the lowest value should carry the day. On the other hand, if I find the analysis and value add of a particular news outlet to be unique and insightful, dare I say valuable then I will be much more likely to pay for the privilege of reading that content.
Google News is a good example of this. Any single story topic is repeated several hundred times by several hundred different outlets, often with very very little variation. The system here is correctly identifying those needless inefficient redundancies and weeding them out.
Yes, it's hard to provide unique insight and analysis. Welcome to having to work for a paycheck, again.
so I found that he created the background images, only to almost totally obscure them by foreground images, pretty interesting. You can clearly see pedestrians and three cabs about mid-way through; but by the time of the final image you can barely see the light of one of the cabs. Interesting, to me at least.
Can an Artist comment on if that's a typical of the process of iterating on the image, or is it done to give depth of field etc that wouldn't be possible to layer in later? I suppose if I were to go about it, I would draw the front images first, and then put in the background for depth--which would be pretty hard, but I wouldn't be obscuring first layers of work either.
they don;t want to support your junk kit, and they don;t want to get the blame for OS X having stability issues.
I've bought those arguments previously, but frankly neither one hurt microsoft. How many (consumers) look at a kitchen table built PC and blame stability on Windows? I think most would blame the hardware. Also, does Microsoft do support for their OS on any given system? I thought the hardware vendor was responsible for support of those systems.
Apple is in the position of selling you a Mac with an OS that almost always works, and letting you buy the OS and your own kit elsewhere. And when it doesn't work, maybe you want to try it on a Mac next time?
why would some high schooler join this program vs the alternatives?
Good question. I would expect a DoD (read: NSA) backed program would give you access to compute resources beyond the imaginings of a kid-in-a-basement, like encryption cracking compute nodes with 1000 cores, direct connection to internet peers, etc. Not to mention a paycheck. Also, a badge: while you might like to work off the grid, there's something to be said for having a get-out-of-jail free card too.
Also, the DoD could point you at targets, and challenges, that you might not otherwise be able to get into. I wonder if every basement dwelling hacker is able to bust into the Chinese Military defense network, but I suspect that the NSA could get you past the first hurdles and into the tier 3 or 4. Just a guess.
It was a few years ago, but the DoD was advertising that they'd pay for your CS degree if you obligated yourself to working for them for 4 years after school. That read to me like it was a guaranteed job after school, and if they didn't take you it was on their option and you still got a free degree. How many college graduates have the guarantee of a job after college anymore? And then a resume that would have 4 years of DoD infosec on it, and probably clearance to boot? If I was 25 or younger, I would have seriously considered it.
I don't want my house, garden, neighborhood and face plastered all over the web for everyone to gawk at. You don't want it. Nobody wants it.
You're quite wrong, and your arrogance betrays your argument. Just as you believe that an individual's rights shouldn't scale up, similarly you shouldn't believe that your perspective is held by everyone.
I don't care if Google takes pictures of my house and puts them on the internet for all to see. In fact, they have already. All that enables is convenience of access. Anyone who can see those pictures could also walk down the street and looked at my house--they just haven't chosen to due to logistical reasons. Their ability to look at my house in meatspace or in cyberspace has no bearing on me, and I think I am pretty imaginative as to what one could do with that information. Could criminals use those pictures to case the property? Yes. But they could have also driven down the street to accomplish the same thing. Do criminals from China have the ability to case my house, but not the ability to drive down my street to do the same? Yes, they do, but so what?
Don't extrapolate your opinions onto me. I think you're off base, and you have made the same mistake that you accuse Google of making. Which is pretty ironic.
I'm pretty sure there is a tunnel between the White House and the National Naval Medical Center. The Red Line of the DC Metro system neatly connects the two--it runs pretty close to the White House, and has a public exit at the NIH across the street from the Medical Center. Also, it's a military hospital, so it has medical facilities and a military presence for security and protection.
Also, note that the NSA isn't saying that they used the full force of their power and creativity. This is probably for several reasons:
-it's not worthwhile to simply crater all of the teams. You want to see who's the best graduates and the most receptive to a couple of years of schooling, even if they need 25 years worth of real world experience to stand up to a real world exercise.
-You don't want to reveal your whole strategy just for a graduation exam.
-Even if you do reveal your whole strategy, you don't want your opposition to know that you did.
I would be tempted to use something pretty rare, and mask the id strings--I would think that it would take so long to understand what OS I was really using to serve, and to research and characterize it's failures, that I would win. Like use BeOS and make it look like OS X as much as possible.
Why can't somebody do for Linux what Apple does for OSX?
Cause there's no money in it. This kind of work requires focus, dedication, testing. All of which are facilitated by money. Without money interest it's hard to get those things done--name me one usability study done by someone for gratis.
How do you fend of the netbook challenge, which Apple doesn't have a product in? Make sure that CPU heavy games and other applications run on your platform, but not on a netbook. Then your choice is between a netbook, or spending another $500 on a MacBook that also runs $GAME.
And even if they had a netbook product, the margins would be low and perhaps cannibalize other higher end products. I'm not sure that they want one.
I think Apple has a small problem. Now that they have finally switched over to a performance delivering CPU architecture, the market is starting to discover it doesn't really need that much CPU and is looking at tinier and tinier platforms. They came a little late to the performance party, when it's starting to lose it's relevance and portability (and price) are starting to dominate as the deciding factors. So Apple needs to make sure that you still want performance-demanding applications, games included, so people continue to have a reason to buy desktops and even laptops.
Seriously, I work in front of a computer all day, and the only application I ever open is my browser--it has my email, my calendar, my documents, and my chat client. Also, my workflow manager. I also sometimes use a terminal window. I could seriously work all day in the computer business on a smartphone--except for the screen and less, the keyboard--both of which could be fixed by a smart docking solution.
Once in a great while I open a PDF reader, and about once a month I need to open Word or Excel--and only cause my collaborators are behind the curve and not using an online document system.
But if all I need is a browser, then really all I need is a smartphone or a netbook, and for convenience a dock to a monitor and a full size keyboard. I don't need a Mac to do that, which has got to be keeping Apple up at night.
And that's why Macs and Sun servers rule the world.
Oh no, they don't. Macs haven't dominated for a long time, and the Sun kit was so bad that they have lost Billions of dollars every quarter, and were rescued from ultimate insolvency by a buyout.
n/k. I talked to a guy in the dog herding community once. He spoke of a guy who teaches during the year, but every summer runs 300 goats (or sheep) along power lines in E. Ore and E. Washington to prevent fire damage. He'll be off the grid for 6 weeks at a time, and getting paid to raise sheep on free grass. Sounds like a hell of a deal--I wouldn't mind living under the stars for weeks at a time under the stars, raising a herd, and getting paid for it all at the same time
1) "First World backed" coup. We'll back who ever will cut us a deal in step 3.
4) Local labor is cheap because they are political prisoners acquired during steps 1 and 2. Furthermore, if they're prisoners instead of laborers no one cares if they die since they can't quit.
And wow, does step 8 ever happen? Where? Venezuela, maybe?
Based on what information, exactly? Death rates from Mexico? Rates vs. what: infected? Seriously ill? Compared against what? You don't have any data, because no one does. I'm glad your parents work in the NHS and not you.
we will experience media hype for a month or two, the swine flu will be forgotten, then it might suddenly resurge like crazy in october.
Fixed that for you. Unless you can see the future, please don't make future announcements of doom, death and despair based off of AP wire stories and wkipedia. The fact is: right now this virus is poorly characterized. Why it killed up to 100 people (only 20 confirmed last I saw) is still unknown, and it might be entirely unrelated to conditions found anywhere else.
It is pretty hard to get a Computer Science degree online. It seems like this particular degree would be the best suited for distance learning (via a computer), but so far I haven't found a lot of good choices. If we can't yet get Computer Science right, I doubt they can get much else working.
I have looked, extensively. There are some programs out there, but most are for-profit education classes. Many of the others require some bricknmortar component.
If anyone here has a recommendation for a good, regionally accredited, 100% online Computer Science (undergrad or grad) degree that has some respect with recruiters/employers, I'm all ears.
Here in Seattle, the public transportation is *terrible*.
That's too bad to hear. In the 90s, the Seattle bus system was lauded as one of the best in the country, and I took it all the time. What happened, did Seattle grow faster than the system could keep up with? Or is your situation just an outlier?
Wow, NYC owns all of those cabs? Oh, no, they don't?
Well, fuck off then.
Srsly, why does some regulatory agency treat this property like it's their personal plaything? They should regulate for safety and against fraud. And that's about it.
A device which you can build in 10 minutes! With just a soldering iron and some basic asics!
If our country ever gets to a point where a single individual can build a device, in 10 minutes, using essentially spare parts, that is able to grant remote control to all of our critical infrastructure to anyone that has that device--we deserve to be owned by the Chinese.
Slashdot Mirror
Here's one response:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQoSCEMzJYE&NR=1
Starring Morena Baccarin. As a bad guy. Man, is that genius. I'd probably do whatever she told me to do.
Now that people can easily get their news from just about anywhere
That right there is the exact problem. Since that's the case, I'm going to want to pay the least amount I can for the same news--and that amount is often "free".
How about, I dunno, providing value to a story? If you're just repeating what everyone else is reporting, you're just an echo chamber and the lowest value should carry the day. On the other hand, if I find the analysis and value add of a particular news outlet to be unique and insightful, dare I say valuable then I will be much more likely to pay for the privilege of reading that content.
Google News is a good example of this. Any single story topic is repeated several hundred times by several hundred different outlets, often with very very little variation. The system here is correctly identifying those needless inefficient redundancies and weeding them out.
Yes, it's hard to provide unique insight and analysis. Welcome to having to work for a paycheck, again.
so I found that he created the background images, only to almost totally obscure them by foreground images, pretty interesting. You can clearly see pedestrians and three cabs about mid-way through; but by the time of the final image you can barely see the light of one of the cabs. Interesting, to me at least.
Can an Artist comment on if that's a typical of the process of iterating on the image, or is it done to give depth of field etc that wouldn't be possible to layer in later? I suppose if I were to go about it, I would draw the front images first, and then put in the background for depth--which would be pretty hard, but I wouldn't be obscuring first layers of work either.
they don;t want to support your junk kit, and they don;t want to get the blame for OS X having stability issues.
I've bought those arguments previously, but frankly neither one hurt microsoft. How many (consumers) look at a kitchen table built PC and blame stability on Windows? I think most would blame the hardware. Also, does Microsoft do support for their OS on any given system? I thought the hardware vendor was responsible for support of those systems.
Apple is in the position of selling you a Mac with an OS that almost always works, and letting you buy the OS and your own kit elsewhere. And when it doesn't work, maybe you want to try it on a Mac next time?
why would some high schooler join this program vs the alternatives?
Good question. I would expect a DoD (read: NSA) backed program would give you access to compute resources beyond the imaginings of a kid-in-a-basement, like encryption cracking compute nodes with 1000 cores, direct connection to internet peers, etc. Not to mention a paycheck. Also, a badge: while you might like to work off the grid, there's something to be said for having a get-out-of-jail free card too.
Also, the DoD could point you at targets, and challenges, that you might not otherwise be able to get into. I wonder if every basement dwelling hacker is able to bust into the Chinese Military defense network, but I suspect that the NSA could get you past the first hurdles and into the tier 3 or 4. Just a guess.
It was a few years ago, but the DoD was advertising that they'd pay for your CS degree if you obligated yourself to working for them for 4 years after school. That read to me like it was a guaranteed job after school, and if they didn't take you it was on their option and you still got a free degree. How many college graduates have the guarantee of a job after college anymore? And then a resume that would have 4 years of DoD infosec on it, and probably clearance to boot? If I was 25 or younger, I would have seriously considered it.
I don't want my house, garden, neighborhood and face plastered all over the web for everyone to gawk at. You don't want it. Nobody wants it.
You're quite wrong, and your arrogance betrays your argument. Just as you believe that an individual's rights shouldn't scale up, similarly you shouldn't believe that your perspective is held by everyone.
I don't care if Google takes pictures of my house and puts them on the internet for all to see. In fact, they have already. All that enables is convenience of access. Anyone who can see those pictures could also walk down the street and looked at my house--they just haven't chosen to due to logistical reasons. Their ability to look at my house in meatspace or in cyberspace has no bearing on me, and I think I am pretty imaginative as to what one could do with that information. Could criminals use those pictures to case the property? Yes. But they could have also driven down the street to accomplish the same thing. Do criminals from China have the ability to case my house, but not the ability to drive down my street to do the same? Yes, they do, but so what?
Don't extrapolate your opinions onto me. I think you're off base, and you have made the same mistake that you accuse Google of making. Which is pretty ironic.
I'm pretty sure there is a tunnel between the White House and the National Naval Medical Center. The Red Line of the DC Metro system neatly connects the two--it runs pretty close to the White House, and has a public exit at the NIH across the street from the Medical Center. Also, it's a military hospital, so it has medical facilities and a military presence for security and protection.
I think there's a strong likelihood that Microsoft agreed to backdoor Win2K for the NSA if the US anti-trust lawsuit was neutered by the DOJ.
Also, note that the NSA isn't saying that they used the full force of their power and creativity. This is probably for several reasons:
-it's not worthwhile to simply crater all of the teams. You want to see who's the best graduates and the most receptive to a couple of years of schooling, even if they need 25 years worth of real world experience to stand up to a real world exercise.
-You don't want to reveal your whole strategy just for a graduation exam.
-Even if you do reveal your whole strategy, you don't want your opposition to know that you did.
I would be tempted to use something pretty rare, and mask the id strings--I would think that it would take so long to understand what OS I was really using to serve, and to research and characterize it's failures, that I would win. Like use BeOS and make it look like OS X as much as possible.
Why can't somebody do for Linux what Apple does for OSX?
Cause there's no money in it. This kind of work requires focus, dedication, testing. All of which are facilitated by money. Without money interest it's hard to get those things done--name me one usability study done by someone for gratis.
(or are we using code words like "baby monitor" and "urban" to mean something racist?)
Are you insane? Reading personal attack into regular language is textbook paranoia. btw: white people live in the city too.
How do you fend of the netbook challenge, which Apple doesn't have a product in? Make sure that CPU heavy games and other applications run on your platform, but not on a netbook. Then your choice is between a netbook, or spending another $500 on a MacBook that also runs $GAME.
And even if they had a netbook product, the margins would be low and perhaps cannibalize other higher end products. I'm not sure that they want one.
I think Apple has a small problem. Now that they have finally switched over to a performance delivering CPU architecture, the market is starting to discover it doesn't really need that much CPU and is looking at tinier and tinier platforms. They came a little late to the performance party, when it's starting to lose it's relevance and portability (and price) are starting to dominate as the deciding factors. So Apple needs to make sure that you still want performance-demanding applications, games included, so people continue to have a reason to buy desktops and even laptops.
Seriously, I work in front of a computer all day, and the only application I ever open is my browser--it has my email, my calendar, my documents, and my chat client. Also, my workflow manager. I also sometimes use a terminal window. I could seriously work all day in the computer business on a smartphone--except for the screen and less, the keyboard--both of which could be fixed by a smart docking solution.
Once in a great while I open a PDF reader, and about once a month I need to open Word or Excel--and only cause my collaborators are behind the curve and not using an online document system.
But if all I need is a browser, then really all I need is a smartphone or a netbook, and for convenience a dock to a monitor and a full size keyboard. I don't need a Mac to do that, which has got to be keeping Apple up at night.
And that's why Macs and Sun servers rule the world.
Oh no, they don't. Macs haven't dominated for a long time, and the Sun kit was so bad that they have lost Billions of dollars every quarter, and were rescued from ultimate insolvency by a buyout.
While it should be true, it apparently isn't.
n/k. I talked to a guy in the dog herding community once. He spoke of a guy who teaches during the year, but every summer runs 300 goats (or sheep) along power lines in E. Ore and E. Washington to prevent fire damage. He'll be off the grid for 6 weeks at a time, and getting paid to raise sheep on free grass. Sounds like a hell of a deal--I wouldn't mind living under the stars for weeks at a time under the stars, raising a herd, and getting paid for it all at the same time
I wonder if the Dr. was fired for making a poor medical decision that had a life threatening consequence.
No wait, I don't really.
Why not just put the "tamperproof" sticker over the lens itself, no case entry required? Too obvious?
You forgot:
1) "First World backed" coup. We'll back who ever will cut us a deal in step 3.
4) Local labor is cheap because they are political prisoners acquired during steps 1 and 2. Furthermore, if they're prisoners instead of laborers no one cares if they die since they can't quit.
And wow, does step 8 ever happen? Where? Venezuela, maybe?
I think this one is the real deal.
Based on what information, exactly? Death rates from Mexico? Rates vs. what: infected? Seriously ill? Compared against what? You don't have any data, because no one does. I'm glad your parents work in the NHS and not you.
we will experience media hype for a month or two, the swine flu will be forgotten, then it might suddenly resurge like crazy in october.
Fixed that for you. Unless you can see the future, please don't make future announcements of doom, death and despair based off of AP wire stories and wkipedia. The fact is: right now this virus is poorly characterized. Why it killed up to 100 people (only 20 confirmed last I saw) is still unknown, and it might be entirely unrelated to conditions found anywhere else.
"Should I make work for myself on a complicated, invasive, lengthy, and hard to stop project so I can continue to justify my job in a recession?"
No.
If you're going to do anything, upgrade to fiber.
It is pretty hard to get a Computer Science degree online. It seems like this particular degree would be the best suited for distance learning (via a computer), but so far I haven't found a lot of good choices. If we can't yet get Computer Science right, I doubt they can get much else working.
I have looked, extensively. There are some programs out there, but most are for-profit education classes. Many of the others require some bricknmortar component.
If anyone here has a recommendation for a good, regionally accredited, 100% online Computer Science (undergrad or grad) degree that has some respect with recruiters/employers, I'm all ears.
Here in Seattle, the public transportation is *terrible*.
That's too bad to hear. In the 90s, the Seattle bus system was lauded as one of the best in the country, and I took it all the time. What happened, did Seattle grow faster than the system could keep up with? Or is your situation just an outlier?
Wow, NYC owns all of those cabs? Oh, no, they don't?
Well, fuck off then.
Srsly, why does some regulatory agency treat this property like it's their personal plaything? They should regulate for safety and against fraud. And that's about it.
A device which you can build in 10 minutes! With just a soldering iron and some basic asics!
If our country ever gets to a point where a single individual can build a device, in 10 minutes, using essentially spare parts, that is able to grant remote control to all of our critical infrastructure to anyone that has that device--we deserve to be owned by the Chinese.
You forgot: "Or Seagate gave them a spiff to write this paper."