As someone who lives in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, I can tell you firsthand that nitrogen runoff is a major problem. Why? Chicken shit.
The Eastern Shore of MD- both East and West sides of the Bay- is poultry central. What do poultry farmers do with chicken shit? They throw it on the ground. Well, their crops, if they happen to do any crop farming, but even in that case much ultimately winds up in the Bay.
The poultry lobby is very strong here (Perdue, Tyson, etc. etc.) so despite removing phosphorus from detergents and other nonsense, nothing has really changed in the last 40 years despite everyone knowing what the real cause is. I, personally, find it disgusting that the Bay has dead zones as the result of something preventable. After all, I want to eat more crabs and oysters and rockfish.:)
I bought a replacement battery and pentalobe screwdriver for my 5 off Ebay (yes, from China, whatever) for $6. Life was good.
I don't think it would cost them $29 to offer replacements. They're money-sucking assholes, and their phones are pretty but suck. I'm about to get a new one, but it's going to be a Samsung or Motorola.
My primary interface to the world is ssh. (I'm generally a Cisco/Palo jockey, and I find CLIs to be more efficient than GUIs).
Recently, our desktop team rolled out Office 2016. My, and most people's primary use for the suite is email. Besides the fact that it's a complete piece of shit, I CAN'T READ THE DAMN THING. I'm not *that* old, but my vision is poor to start with, and age isn't helping. Light Blue on white? Are you out of your fucking mind? I don't know if our rollout was poorly done, but neither of the two themes (OS X) available to me address this.
And, on a related note, why??? It's a goddamn email client. It's been doing pretty much the same thing for 20 years, why move everything around? This is actually what drove me to Linux as a primary leisure OS (always Linux for real work)- because MS seemed to feel the need to keep rearranging shit. Yeah, yeah, whizbang up your OS, but keep the network config and important shit where I can find it. Idiots.
I've read a lot of comments dissing managers for not being more... "managerial", I suppose. Reading this story, this manager was obviously top-notch, perceptive, and concerned about the health of his staff. (I hope he was good at the task-related responsibilities, too, and paid a LOT for his skillset. People like that are rare.)
I don't want to sound like a crusty old fart, but... until you've been there, there's a lot you don't understand. Of course, everything I'm about to say applies to people who actually give a shit, as I endeavored to. The frat-boy types (see also: Wall St.) don't give a shit, never will, and you're on your own. That said:
How do you get to be a manager? At places like IBM, you're chosen carefully, put through a lot of training, and monitored closely. At startups, SV, Wall St.- frat boy crap- you're the person who can keep headaches away from your boss. That's about it. At a startup about 17 years ago, I was cast into a managerial role over 8 people with no preparation whatsoever. I read a lot of books because I wanted to make an honest go of it, but it wasn't really enough. Training? Hah. Sure, I cared, but I didn't have the skillset, and I was too busy trying to get things done to be as attentive as I should have been.
Fortunately, I didn't lose anyone, and I like to think that I was good enough that I got some things done and remain on good terms with most of my staff long after my/our departure.
I'll leave you with the following thoughts: 1. The best thing you can do for a manager is police the BS. This doesn't mean compromise yourself, rather, try to work through your issues before invoking the system. 2. Managers aren't gods. I once made one of my staff (VERY highly rated and regarded) listen in on a call I placed to the CEO where I got in his face about why the employee's raise hadn't been approved. The CEO blew me off (unsurprisingly, it was that kind of place) but remember: it's a lot easier to get computers to bend to your will than other people with their own agenda. 3. I will never manage again. I'll PM from time to time, but I don't need the MITM crap. Line managers are woefully underpaid. Unfortunately, the salaries don't really start to change until you're the step above line, and then you're surrounded by asskissers that present their own set of problems.
While this particular situation was vile.... and had nothing to do with overbooking-
This is incorrect. Yes, overbooking allows the carrier to maximize profit, but the flier *does* benefit. Lower prices are a side effect of seat use efficiency. Furthermore, consider the alternative: you buy a ticket, and that's the end of it. If you miss your flight, you forfeit the cost.
I recently missed a flight on Delta due to traffic and the dumbass TSA. Delta shrugged and plunked me on the next flight, no fees, no worries. I have no way of knowing, but given how long it's been since I've flown on a non-capacity flight, I'm sure my seat didn't go unused. If they didn't overbook, I doubt the outcome would have been as favorable.
As an aside: I *always* build slop into my travel plans (after all, there are uncertainties in air travel, like weather) and I always volunteer to be bumped. Ticket refund AND $800? Sheeeet, that's this flight free and 2.5 round trips to Vegas for me! I'm in!
Come to think of it, I remember reading about a system a while ago- far in advance, book tickets to/from big college towns around Thanksgiving, head to the airport, and wait for the offers to fly. Worst case, you might have to spend Thanksgiving in Miami. Wouldn't that suck.
LMGTFY! Why, yes, I can point you to a supplier of Faraday cages for buildings. Several of them. Love that Google machine.
You can also use conductive paint or Aluminum foil. Having worked inside Faraday cage buildings, I can tell you that the mesh shielding is only really used for windows so some daylight can get through and complex joints where it's easier than the other methods.
And now you've got to shell out for an SDN infrastructure, too.
That's a cute idea, but he's obviously never had to operate or troubleshoot issues on a production enterprise network. What happens when an machine changes IPs in mid-tcp conversation? I have stuff that maintains ssh sessions for days, the client isn't doing constant nslookups to see where the server has gone. Not to mention the fact that sshd is going to interpret the client IP changing as a session-hijacking attack.
That's just one example, the more I think about it leads me to downgrade my opinion to "dumbass".
Sheeeeeit. You want to get a bomb on a plane? Just fly out of Maccarran after DefCon is over. I stay until the end; by the time I fly the out (with all my exposed-wire-paraphenalia) TSA's collective mind is more completely blown than usual. They don't even look twice.
There's always some lovely stories at the talks about attendees' experiences at their origin airports, though. I can't imagine what those guys must think.
And, to all you naysayers: Forrest M. Mims is indeed the man, and quite famous. Just because "kids today" aren't forced to learn analog basics before doing hardware hacking stuff and *you* haven't heard of him doesn't mean squat. (See also: Steve Ciarcia).
I have noticed, through the years, an interesting thing about the mass media: *every* time I read something about a topic in which I'm very knowledgeable, it's inevitably wrong. And I don't mean geeked-out minutae wrong, but fundamentally flawed in some way.
Journalism is a very non-technical (non-scientific, non-statistics) degree program. Furthermore, it yields a very low paying job. It's *highly* competitive- so the salaries suck, especially with the move to news that's more entertainment than not, and all the Homecoming kings and queens types want to be on the TeeVee. Why on Earth would any geek want to put up with that crap? And be paid poorly to boot? I also have a theory that the idiots that pay a bunch of money for a degree with crappy salary prospects are being funded by their parents, who apparently don't know any better either- or have enough money that they don't care. So we wind up with a bunch of people that haven't struggled financially, or worked hard to attain a tough science degree- is it any wonder that we have a generally Leftist media?
I'm sure there's some out there that really care and want to be the next Woodward or Bernstein, but unless you're talking about JAMA or or a trade rag, forget quality science reporting.
"But we felt that we could try to do something about the situation where computers had become so expensive and arcane that programming experimentation on them had to be forbidden by parents; and to find a platform that, like those old home computers, could boot into a programming environment. "
The point of the thing is to be a cheap platform for learning programming and principles of Computer Science. They go on to say that the multimedia capabilities were added to make it interesting to kids that weren't interested in a purely programming oriented device. I have to think the GPIO capability is basically for the same reason, although they don't mention it explicitly. I believe the charter was expanded at some point to include third-world students.
*ALL* the RPis require a power supply, SD card, cables, mouse, keyboard, etc. The only thing the Zero really lacks compared to (some of) the other versions is Ethernet and multiple USB ports. AND ITS $5.
The fact that the Pis have become attractive to hackers doesn't make your needs paramount. If you're using them for embedded system development and it's such a pain in the ass to move cables around, you have enough money- if you don't already have most of the crap in your closet- to buy two complete setups. (I do, with 2-3 each of the various versions of Pi). It's not that expensive.
RPis absolutely fulfill their intended purpose, even if the single core models are a little pokey. While pushing things beyond their envelope is admirable and What We Do, you can't really complain if things get a little sketchy outside of expected operational modes.
...that noone has considered (or at least, I haven't read a comment reflecting this) the fact that engineers and their like-minded ilk *know how to get shit done*. It's not that terrorism selects for Engineers, but rather that the people that can, do.
And I don't think anyone who knows anything about drones, consumer grade or otherwise, doesn't immediately grasp their potential for surveillance and munition delivery.
Hee hee hee... I've noticed this phenomenon myself. An idea occurs to me that I may start doing:
1. Put "hybrid" or similar sticker on car 2. Purchase standard orange extension cord 3. Park in green spot 3. Plug one end in charger, stick other end under hood / up through bottom of car, whatever
Free close parking!
Bonus if you carry rechargeable gadgets with you (laptop, etc) that you hook up to charge off the free juice.
Others have stated similarly, but as someone who has been responsible for classifying material, *you* are responsible for classifying it appropriately- and you always err on the side of caution. You have to classify each paragraph, and if necessary, each sentence. This is a big deal. And , as someone else mentioned, this does taint the entire server. Google "classified spill" for lovely details.
Well, security controls sure as fuck should be placed in the hands of the individual consumer- because our esteemed Government has shown themselves to be woefully incompetent at protecting our data. My SF-86 is now floating around out there somewhere.
The idiocy of the average individual is at least roughly the same as our government. I've had it with these clowns.
If there's some Great White Conspiracy to keep the black man down, neither I nor anyone I know are part of it. Indeed, all my cohorts (including the black ones) say the same thing- something along the lines of, "Shut up, raise your kids well, buy your beer, and don't annoy your neighbors". I don't know what's so groundbreaking about that.
I also notice that you've focussed on my second point, while ignoring the first. Care to comment? I have intimate experience, as well as reading about it all over the place- it's not a melanin thing. Black people come to the US from all over the world and do well. It's US black culture that is to blame.
Furthermore, you whipped out the "racist" card, so here we go: shut up and behave. This may take a while to result in change... but isn't this what everyone should be doing anyway?
Look: I graduated from high school in 1985- far before the intarwebs were cool. I was a geek because I *wanted* to be, societal pressures notwithstanding.
I was bullied on a daily basis. The source of the majority of this bullying was blacks. An Asian friend of mine, years later- in college- mused about his similar experience.
I guess this can go two ways: 1. Black culture can finally start to view academic accomplishment as "cool". Or: 2. Black culture can realize that the smart kids are in charge, and they'd better adapt or learn to enjoy life in the hip-hop ghetto they've made.
Sorry. Not my monkeys, not my circus, not my problem.
Slashdot Mirror
Zippo.
There is no substitute.
You're remarkably uninformed.
As someone who lives in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, I can tell you firsthand that nitrogen runoff is a major problem. Why? Chicken shit.
The Eastern Shore of MD- both East and West sides of the Bay- is poultry central. What do poultry farmers do with chicken shit? They throw it on the ground. Well, their crops, if they happen to do any crop farming, but even in that case much ultimately winds up in the Bay.
The poultry lobby is very strong here (Perdue, Tyson, etc. etc.) so despite removing phosphorus from detergents and other nonsense, nothing has really changed in the last 40 years despite everyone knowing what the real cause is. I, personally, find it disgusting that the Bay has dead zones as the result of something preventable. After all, I want to eat more crabs and oysters and rockfish. :)
https://modernfarmer.com/2015/04/solving-one-of-marylands-biggest-problems-chicken-poop/
While I agree that they should have paid from an ethical standpoint, anyone who's ever been in a casino knows "Malfunction voids all pays or plays".
Is a programming error a malfunction? No. But do you really think the casinos are going to lose? Or, worse yet, in state lotteries, THE STATE?
Be fully justified in your pissed-offedness, but that doesn't mean you'll get anywhere.
I bought a replacement battery and pentalobe screwdriver for my 5 off Ebay (yes, from China, whatever) for $6. Life was good.
I don't think it would cost them $29 to offer replacements. They're money-sucking assholes, and their phones are pretty but suck. I'm about to get a new one, but it's going to be a Samsung or Motorola.
My primary interface to the world is ssh. (I'm generally a Cisco/Palo jockey, and I find CLIs to be more efficient than GUIs).
Recently, our desktop team rolled out Office 2016. My, and most people's primary use for the suite is email. Besides the fact that it's a complete piece of shit, I CAN'T READ THE DAMN THING. I'm not *that* old, but my vision is poor to start with, and age isn't helping. Light Blue on white? Are you out of your fucking mind? I don't know if our rollout was poorly done, but neither of the two themes (OS X) available to me address this.
And, on a related note, why??? It's a goddamn email client. It's been doing pretty much the same thing for 20 years, why move everything around? This is actually what drove me to Linux as a primary leisure OS (always Linux for real work)- because MS seemed to feel the need to keep rearranging shit. Yeah, yeah, whizbang up your OS, but keep the network config and important shit where I can find it. Idiots.
I've read a lot of comments dissing managers for not being more... "managerial", I suppose. Reading this story, this manager was obviously top-notch, perceptive, and concerned about the health of his staff. (I hope he was good at the task-related responsibilities, too, and paid a LOT for his skillset. People like that are rare.)
I don't want to sound like a crusty old fart, but... until you've been there, there's a lot you don't understand. Of course, everything I'm about to say applies to people who actually give a shit, as I endeavored to. The frat-boy types (see also: Wall St.) don't give a shit, never will, and you're on your own. That said:
How do you get to be a manager? At places like IBM, you're chosen carefully, put through a lot of training, and monitored closely. At startups, SV, Wall St.- frat boy crap- you're the person who can keep headaches away from your boss. That's about it. At a startup about 17 years ago, I was cast into a managerial role over 8 people with no preparation whatsoever. I read a lot of books because I wanted to make an honest go of it, but it wasn't really enough. Training? Hah. Sure, I cared, but I didn't have the skillset, and I was too busy trying to get things done to be as attentive as I should have been.
Fortunately, I didn't lose anyone, and I like to think that I was good enough that I got some things done and remain on good terms with most of my staff long after my/our departure.
I'll leave you with the following thoughts:
1. The best thing you can do for a manager is police the BS. This doesn't mean compromise yourself, rather, try to work through your issues before invoking the system.
2. Managers aren't gods. I once made one of my staff (VERY highly rated and regarded) listen in on a call I placed to the CEO where I got in his face about why the employee's raise hadn't been approved. The CEO blew me off (unsurprisingly, it was that kind of place) but remember: it's a lot easier to get computers to bend to your will than other people with their own agenda.
3. I will never manage again. I'll PM from time to time, but I don't need the MITM crap. Line managers are woefully underpaid. Unfortunately, the salaries don't really start to change until you're the step above line, and then you're surrounded by asskissers that present their own set of problems.
While this particular situation was vile.... and had nothing to do with overbooking-
This is incorrect. Yes, overbooking allows the carrier to maximize profit, but the flier *does* benefit. Lower prices are a side effect of seat use efficiency. Furthermore, consider the alternative: you buy a ticket, and that's the end of it. If you miss your flight, you forfeit the cost.
I recently missed a flight on Delta due to traffic and the dumbass TSA. Delta shrugged and plunked me on the next flight, no fees, no worries. I have no way of knowing, but given how long it's been since I've flown on a non-capacity flight, I'm sure my seat didn't go unused. If they didn't overbook, I doubt the outcome would have been as favorable.
As an aside: I *always* build slop into my travel plans (after all, there are uncertainties in air travel, like weather) and I always volunteer to be bumped. Ticket refund AND $800? Sheeeet, that's this flight free and 2.5 round trips to Vegas for me! I'm in!
Come to think of it, I remember reading about a system a while ago- far in advance, book tickets to/from big college towns around Thanksgiving, head to the airport, and wait for the offers to fly. Worst case, you might have to spend Thanksgiving in Miami. Wouldn't that suck.
We can use this facility for police bodycams, right? You know, the ones that seem to consistently "lose" footage at convenient (critical) times?
LMGTFY! Why, yes, I can point you to a supplier of Faraday cages for buildings. Several of them. Love that Google machine.
You can also use conductive paint or Aluminum foil. Having worked inside Faraday cage buildings, I can tell you that the mesh shielding is only really used for windows so some daylight can get through and complex joints where it's easier than the other methods.
J-.
And now you've got to shell out for an SDN infrastructure, too.
That's a cute idea, but he's obviously never had to operate or troubleshoot issues on a production enterprise network. What happens when an machine changes IPs in mid-tcp conversation? I have stuff that maintains ssh sessions for days, the client isn't doing constant nslookups to see where the server has gone. Not to mention the fact that sshd is going to interpret the client IP changing as a session-hijacking attack.
That's just one example, the more I think about it leads me to downgrade my opinion to "dumbass".
J-.
Allahu Akbar!
This has been discussed on Slashdot before. Just don't configure the WiFi.
Someone got arrested in Baltimore?
(I live here, so I can joke about it.)
I suspect the successful detection rate may be a bit lower.
Sheeeeeit. You want to get a bomb on a plane? Just fly out of Maccarran after DefCon is over. I stay until the end; by the time I fly the out (with all my exposed-wire-paraphenalia) TSA's collective mind is more completely blown than usual. They don't even look twice.
There's always some lovely stories at the talks about attendees' experiences at their origin airports, though. I can't imagine what those guys must think.
And, to all you naysayers: Forrest M. Mims is indeed the man, and quite famous. Just because "kids today" aren't forced to learn analog basics before doing hardware hacking stuff and *you* haven't heard of him doesn't mean squat. (See also: Steve Ciarcia).
I have noticed, through the years, an interesting thing about the mass media: *every* time I read something about a topic in which I'm very knowledgeable, it's inevitably wrong. And I don't mean geeked-out minutae wrong, but fundamentally flawed in some way.
Journalism is a very non-technical (non-scientific, non-statistics) degree program. Furthermore, it yields a very low paying job. It's *highly* competitive- so the salaries suck, especially with the move to news that's more entertainment than not, and all the Homecoming kings and queens types want to be on the TeeVee. Why on Earth would any geek want to put up with that crap? And be paid poorly to boot? I also have a theory that the idiots that pay a bunch of money for a degree with crappy salary prospects are being funded by their parents, who apparently don't know any better either- or have enough money that they don't care. So we wind up with a bunch of people that haven't struggled financially, or worked hard to attain a tough science degree- is it any wonder that we have a generally Leftist media?
I'm sure there's some out there that really care and want to be the next Woodward or Bernstein, but unless you're talking about JAMA or or a trade rag, forget quality science reporting.
From the RPi foundation's mission statement:
"But we felt that we could try to do something about the situation where computers had become so expensive and arcane that programming experimentation on them had to be forbidden by parents; and to find a platform that, like those old home computers, could boot into a programming environment. "
The point of the thing is to be a cheap platform for learning programming and principles of Computer Science. They go on to say that the multimedia capabilities were added to make it interesting to kids that weren't interested in a purely programming oriented device. I have to think the GPIO capability is basically for the same reason, although they don't mention it explicitly. I believe the charter was expanded at some point to include third-world students.
*ALL* the RPis require a power supply, SD card, cables, mouse, keyboard, etc. The only thing the Zero really lacks compared to (some of) the other versions is Ethernet and multiple USB ports. AND ITS $5.
The fact that the Pis have become attractive to hackers doesn't make your needs paramount. If you're using them for embedded system development and it's such a pain in the ass to move cables around, you have enough money- if you don't already have most of the crap in your closet- to buy two complete setups. (I do, with 2-3 each of the various versions of Pi). It's not that expensive.
RPis absolutely fulfill their intended purpose, even if the single core models are a little pokey. While pushing things beyond their envelope is admirable and What We Do, you can't really complain if things get a little sketchy outside of expected operational modes.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/drones/news/a17371/record-breaking-drone-swarm/
And I don't think anyone who knows anything about drones, consumer grade or otherwise, doesn't immediately grasp their potential for surveillance and munition delivery.
Hee hee hee... I've noticed this phenomenon myself. An idea occurs to me that I may start doing:
1. Put "hybrid" or similar sticker on car
2. Purchase standard orange extension cord
3. Park in green spot
3. Plug one end in charger, stick other end under hood / up through bottom of car, whatever
Free close parking!
Bonus if you carry rechargeable gadgets with you (laptop, etc) that you hook up to charge off the free juice.
I attended this talk at DefCon a few years ago- very interesting.
https://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-17/dc-17-presentations/Datagram/defcon-17-datagram-lockpicking_forensics-wp.pdf
Others have stated similarly, but as someone who has been responsible for classifying material, *you* are responsible for classifying it appropriately- and you always err on the side of caution. You have to classify each paragraph, and if necessary, each sentence. This is a big deal. And , as someone else mentioned, this does taint the entire server. Google "classified spill" for lovely details.
Well, security controls sure as fuck should be placed in the hands of the individual consumer- because our esteemed Government has shown themselves to be woefully incompetent at protecting our data. My SF-86 is now floating around out there somewhere.
The idiocy of the average individual is at least roughly the same as our government. I've had it with these clowns.
If there's some Great White Conspiracy to keep the black man down, neither I nor anyone I know are part of it. Indeed, all my cohorts (including the black ones) say the same thing- something along the lines of, "Shut up, raise your kids well, buy your beer, and don't annoy your neighbors". I don't know what's so groundbreaking about that.
I also notice that you've focussed on my second point, while ignoring the first. Care to comment? I have intimate experience, as well as reading about it all over the place- it's not a melanin thing. Black people come to the US from all over the world and do well. It's US black culture that is to blame.
Furthermore, you whipped out the "racist" card, so here we go: shut up and behave. This may take a while to result in change... but isn't this what everyone should be doing anyway?
Look: I graduated from high school in 1985- far before the intarwebs were cool. I was a geek because I *wanted* to be, societal pressures notwithstanding.
I was bullied on a daily basis. The source of the majority of this bullying was blacks. An Asian friend of mine, years later- in college- mused about his similar experience.
I guess this can go two ways:
1. Black culture can finally start to view academic accomplishment as "cool".
Or:
2. Black culture can realize that the smart kids are in charge, and they'd better adapt or learn to enjoy life in the hip-hop ghetto they've made.
Sorry. Not my monkeys, not my circus, not my problem.