I anticipated the flood of programmers back when I was in school - it was such a 'cool field' I knew the market would be flooded. So I decided to go into the comparatively boring area of networking instead.
But this then met with my total lack of ambition an fear of risk-taking, so now I work a crappy-pay job as a low level IT technician, which I keep because it is conveniently local and very stable.
They also have a higher ratio of glial cells to neurons. This is probably an adaptation to maintain homoeostasis in an organism which can face very sudden transitions in environmental temperature and pressure.
American politics largely runs on that left-right axis because the effectively two party system forces everyone to either pick a side or be excluded from politics altogether.
Windows 10 cannot do link teaming. No LDAP. Even if you have drivers that support it. It's a limitation built into the kernel.
Windows Server 2012 has no problem, even though it's almost exactly the same kernel. The limitation is artificial: A little thing that Microsoft threw in to discourage people from using a Windows 10 computer as a server, and so avoiding the need to purchase the more expensive Windows Server licence.
There is an exception to most non-discrimination laws though: If the disability impairs someone's ability to do the job. It's allowable to refuse to hire a blind person to handle quality inspection at a print shop.
This is a rare case of the opposite: A situation where the disability is an advantage. The only other one I can think of in recent history was a company mentioned on slashdot years ago using sociopaths to process abusive content reports, as they could spend months looking at pictures of abuse and violence, classifying them all objectively according to the rules given and not being emotionally affected.
I have a suspicion the main role of the social media screen is to eliminate people who might reflect badly on the company image or get caught up in scandals. If the employee appears to have very strong religious views, or uncomfortably fixated on some cartoon fandom, or posts about their discovery that the chemtrails are made of vaccines, then they can be passed over in favor of a nice, safe, boring candidate.
Smoking the seatback might work. The damage to the plane wouldn't be significant, but the smoke would be - the plane can't take off with a potential fire on board. The plane would have to be grounded until the engineers have checked it over, confirmed that the smoke was from a non-critical system, and signed off that the plane is safe to fly. That should be enough to cancel a flight. Greatly annoying all the passengers, who would just be delayed and booked into a later flight instead.
I'd go for Russia. Right now they are one of the very few countries with heavy lift capability, and I'm sure they would like to stay that way. A private space launch industry is a threat to that position, and the strategic power that it brings. They also have more experience than the Palestinians in covert ops, and experts in rocket engineering who can pinpoint the 'shoot here for massive damage' spot.
The Space Nutters do make a valid point, though. The Rock is coming. It might be next year, it might be in ten million years. But it is coming. Mankind must leave this planet eventually, or go extinct. The question is not if we should be investing in space exploration technology. The question is if we should invest now, or wait until a better time.
It may have been caused by an object hitting the rocket? Well, then the internet shall commence groundless speculation as to who may have launched the object.
Facebook has their reputation to think about. If the trending list shows things that are obviously wrong, that's going to reflect badly on them. Worse, if the trending list shows things that are highly offensive, that's going to reflect really badly on them. They got off fairly lightly with a 911 conspiracy theory, people will just dismiss that out of hand. There are far worse possibilities.
The IRIS problem also comes to mind. A third-party Siri competitor - it was supposed to be a virtual agent similar in function, but not so tied to apple, and was fed with a knowledge base gathered by natural language processing whatever a web crawler could drag in. Unfortunately the web crawler stumbled upon a few religious sites, and assimilated all the information it found within - which resulted in people asking it for information about contraception and getting back a rambling rant about sin and natural law.
Yes, all VLSI chips have diodes on every single output pin. Except the really, really high-frequency pins. But these diodes are tiny and delicate things. They provide only a moderate level of protection.
If you can plug it into the right place though, you can still cause serious disruption. Blow power to check in, no-one boards that flight for a few hours. Blow power to security screening and the TSA will cancel all departures until they can get it back.
Be more evil: Glue sand to the disk. Then it ruins the drive but leaves no obvious sign of the cause, so it can ruin many drives before someone realises.
If you fry the swipe card machine that opens the doors, the owners will have no choice but to force all the doors open until the door company engineer arrives.
This is a high-voltage spike that fries semiconductor junctions. A fuse isn't going to do a thing. If you want to give the port a fighting chance of surviving, what you want is a clipper. I don't know what voltage and frequency you're looking at for USB2. It wouldn't cost a great deal, it's just that there's never been a call for it.
When the story broke about the political bias scandal, I posted here a prediction of what a purely algorithmic news feed would look like. This is pretty close to one of my predictions.
Here's the problem: The internet is full of *lies*. It is very hard for an algorithm to tell what is true and what is not. Often the not-true stories are the most popular, because they can play into what people wish to believe. That's why you need human editors.
Now all we need is some nice clickbait. Something like "This housewife makes $120,000 a year from home, see how she does it!"
I've done that too. I posted a picture on my own server and linked to it in a post on Digg (Back when Digg was actually respectable and had a community). Then someone used that link in their Gaia Online profile. I wouldn't have minded if the profile was actually any good, but it was some hideous wall of jumbled images with background midi, like some throwback to the 90s.
So I made a quick script to check the referrer. Everyone else still got the original image, but anyone with Gaia as their referrer got... well, I'll leave the details to your imagination. Suffice to say it was a piece of furry art, adult in nature, and involved a bird.
Almost to the beginning. The CMB dates to something like 370,000 years after the start. Prior to that the universe was opaque - too many free electrons. Super-hot electron soup blocks radiation across all wavelengths.
I think the biggest error in 1984 was failing to recognise the role of the private sector. Government and business interests can easily work together to mutual advantage, and that is not always to the advantage of the people.
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Or once the balance of power has shifted a bit, he will just be prosecuted anyway for some different crime.
I anticipated the flood of programmers back when I was in school - it was such a 'cool field' I knew the market would be flooded. So I decided to go into the comparatively boring area of networking instead.
But this then met with my total lack of ambition an fear of risk-taking, so now I work a crappy-pay job as a low level IT technician, which I keep because it is conveniently local and very stable.
If you are comparing wages between countries, you need to adjust for cost of living too.
They also have a higher ratio of glial cells to neurons. This is probably an adaptation to maintain homoeostasis in an organism which can face very sudden transitions in environmental temperature and pressure.
American politics largely runs on that left-right axis because the effectively two party system forces everyone to either pick a side or be excluded from politics altogether.
You think that's bad?
Windows 10 cannot do link teaming. No LDAP. Even if you have drivers that support it. It's a limitation built into the kernel.
Windows Server 2012 has no problem, even though it's almost exactly the same kernel. The limitation is artificial: A little thing that Microsoft threw in to discourage people from using a Windows 10 computer as a server, and so avoiding the need to purchase the more expensive Windows Server licence.
There is an exception to most non-discrimination laws though: If the disability impairs someone's ability to do the job. It's allowable to refuse to hire a blind person to handle quality inspection at a print shop.
This is a rare case of the opposite: A situation where the disability is an advantage. The only other one I can think of in recent history was a company mentioned on slashdot years ago using sociopaths to process abusive content reports, as they could spend months looking at pictures of abuse and violence, classifying them all objectively according to the rules given and not being emotionally affected.
It's more of a mixed bag. It grants greater-than-average ability in some areas, but crippling impairment in others.
I have a suspicion the main role of the social media screen is to eliminate people who might reflect badly on the company image or get caught up in scandals. If the employee appears to have very strong religious views, or uncomfortably fixated on some cartoon fandom, or posts about their discovery that the chemtrails are made of vaccines, then they can be passed over in favor of a nice, safe, boring candidate.
Smoking the seatback might work. The damage to the plane wouldn't be significant, but the smoke would be - the plane can't take off with a potential fire on board. The plane would have to be grounded until the engineers have checked it over, confirmed that the smoke was from a non-critical system, and signed off that the plane is safe to fly. That should be enough to cancel a flight. Greatly annoying all the passengers, who would just be delayed and booked into a later flight instead.
I'd go for Russia. Right now they are one of the very few countries with heavy lift capability, and I'm sure they would like to stay that way. A private space launch industry is a threat to that position, and the strategic power that it brings. They also have more experience than the Palestinians in covert ops, and experts in rocket engineering who can pinpoint the 'shoot here for massive damage' spot.
The Space Nutters do make a valid point, though. The Rock is coming. It might be next year, it might be in ten million years. But it is coming. Mankind must leave this planet eventually, or go extinct. The question is not if we should be investing in space exploration technology. The question is if we should invest now, or wait until a better time.
It may have been caused by an object hitting the rocket? Well, then the internet shall commence groundless speculation as to who may have launched the object.
Facebook has their reputation to think about. If the trending list shows things that are obviously wrong, that's going to reflect badly on them. Worse, if the trending list shows things that are highly offensive, that's going to reflect really badly on them. They got off fairly lightly with a 911 conspiracy theory, people will just dismiss that out of hand. There are far worse possibilities.
The IRIS problem also comes to mind. A third-party Siri competitor - it was supposed to be a virtual agent similar in function, but not so tied to apple, and was fed with a knowledge base gathered by natural language processing whatever a web crawler could drag in. Unfortunately the web crawler stumbled upon a few religious sites, and assimilated all the information it found within - which resulted in people asking it for information about contraception and getting back a rambling rant about sin and natural law.
Yes, all VLSI chips have diodes on every single output pin. Except the really, really high-frequency pins. But these diodes are tiny and delicate things. They provide only a moderate level of protection.
If you can plug it into the right place though, you can still cause serious disruption. Blow power to check in, no-one boards that flight for a few hours. Blow power to security screening and the TSA will cancel all departures until they can get it back.
Be more evil: Glue sand to the disk. Then it ruins the drive but leaves no obvious sign of the cause, so it can ruin many drives before someone realises.
Degrade security too.
If you fry the swipe card machine that opens the doors, the owners will have no choice but to force all the doors open until the door company engineer arrives.
This is a high-voltage spike that fries semiconductor junctions. A fuse isn't going to do a thing. If you want to give the port a fighting chance of surviving, what you want is a clipper. I don't know what voltage and frequency you're looking at for USB2. It wouldn't cost a great deal, it's just that there's never been a call for it.
When the story broke about the political bias scandal, I posted here a prediction of what a purely algorithmic news feed would look like. This is pretty close to one of my predictions.
Here's the problem: The internet is full of *lies*. It is very hard for an algorithm to tell what is true and what is not. Often the not-true stories are the most popular, because they can play into what people wish to believe. That's why you need human editors.
Now all we need is some nice clickbait. Something like "This housewife makes $120,000 a year from home, see how she does it!"
I've done that too. I posted a picture on my own server and linked to it in a post on Digg (Back when Digg was actually respectable and had a community). Then someone used that link in their Gaia Online profile. I wouldn't have minded if the profile was actually any good, but it was some hideous wall of jumbled images with background midi, like some throwback to the 90s.
So I made a quick script to check the referrer. Everyone else still got the original image, but anyone with Gaia as their referrer got... well, I'll leave the details to your imagination. Suffice to say it was a piece of furry art, adult in nature, and involved a bird.
Almost to the beginning. The CMB dates to something like 370,000 years after the start. Prior to that the universe was opaque - too many free electrons. Super-hot electron soup blocks radiation across all wavelengths.
Quite possible. The handler might be glancing at places that look good for hiding devices.
I think the biggest error in 1984 was failing to recognise the role of the private sector. Government and business interests can easily work together to mutual advantage, and that is not always to the advantage of the people.