Ignorance of the law is no excuse, but in 18 years of public and private education, I was not every told about any laws, except in passing, unless you want to count reading the constitution in the 12th grade.
It used to be that governments had secret laws that you could be guilty of without even knowing it was illegal. We've done something better. Most laws are public but there are so many of them no on can possibly know them all -- ask any lawyer.
Agreed. If you want backup, you have to pony up. You have to either buy twice the disks, an expensive tape drive (or a cheaper tape drive a lot of tapes) or pay for bandwidth and off-site storage.
You're right. While there's no legal expectation of privacy, there's social expectation of privacy in a bar. At least one expects that they aren't going to be filmed without consent.
You seem to forget that many academics and people in industry are also amateur operators or got their start as amateur operators. The current innovations are in SDR (software defined radio), DSP (digital signal processing) and mesh networks. Did you know that hams can operate 802.11 wireless gear at higher power and different frequencies under the FCC part 97 rules, versus the regular part 15 unlicensed operation?
Also, much of the spectrum allocation is governed by international treaty, so we can't always act unilaterally on spectrum. We need to keep these narrow slices of spectrum open for future innovation.
No, they have small slices across the spectrum. We need to keep those slices open to experimentation because of the need to be able to experiment and test a concept at different frequencies. Closing this off to experimentation stifles innovation.
Those frequencies are used all of the time but you may not be able to pick them up because of the lack of sensitivity of you receiver/antenna or they aren't being used in your area when you're listening.
On top of that, they're used for emergency communication. In my state (Montana) ham radio operators stepped up and help to save millions of dollars in property damage and quite possibly lives by allowing fire fighters to coordinate their efforts when the county's repeaters got burnt down. This was recognized by state government and hams were exempted from distracted driving laws so they could continue to operate mobile.
The problem is many employers expect someone do be productive from day one, but school can't teach them anything that is specific to a given company. That has to be learned at that company.
I also think companies need to be much more willing to train in general. They used to be better about this. Now you're just supposed to "pick up" everything along the way. How much sense does it really make for a prospective employee to get trained in a vendor-specific technology on the off-hand chance that the place they get hired at will use that specific product? Learn network theory at school and learn Cisco or Juniper or Sonicwall at the company that deploys that technology.
A good chunk of those on entitlement programs are there because employers like Walmart won't pay a living wage and another large chunk are there because, if you haven't noticed, unemployment is very high.
We have a lower percent of GDP devoted to welfare that most other industrialized countries.
We could easily balance the budget and get out of debt if corporations would pay their fair share.
The Social Security slice is represented as spending but fails to mention that it's 99% a wash as it's funded by payroll taxes, whereas defense spending is mostly money out the door, minus what services members, etc, pay in taxes. I'd include what the military-industrial complex pays in taxes but it's not clear that they pay any net taxes.
What do you think video games are? You're being trained and socialized/desensitized to virtual killing as a next generation soldier. And they got you to buy the equipment and train on your own time!
It's not now well it works, especially under ideal conditions, its now gracefully it fails and everything eventually fails.
Remember the Navy ship that ran Windows and was stuck for days at sea? That's an example of not failing gracefully.
If it's purely infotainment, what's it really matter? It's not different then having a laptop with convenient mounting. But if it controls essential vehicle functions it needs to be very secure and reliable. Maybe infotainment and vehicle control should be completely separate systems.
What I've noticed about this whole "corporate evil" thing is that many companies are alright before they go public, but once that happens the only thing everyone in the room can agree about is greed. It certainly was the turning point for Google.
I'm sure a more nuanced version of this argument exists, but for a./ post, the above should suffice.
This would all be much more interesting if Backblaze would configure their storage with drives from different manufactures. e.g., RAID10 with one each Seagate, Western Digital, Hitachi, Samsung. Then we would have a a level playing field.
Not to mention the viruses and malware that have been served up by some advertising networks, which has appeared on major sites. I noticed that TFA didn't mention that adblockers can protect users from malware.
Yep, most people used their PC's for content consumption, not creation. They're finding that consumption works just find on Android. What little creation they do works find from a browser on Android.
You're absolutely correct that Windows presents the Desktop before the system is actually ready to do anything. It gives the illusion of faster booting.
Personally, I think GUI mistakes are WAY harder to undo, sometimes impossible. 1. For one thing, there's no history of what was done so you can't see the exact mistake. 2. Windows that pop up, steal focus and take the next keystroke as response. 3. Accidentally hitting some sequence that's interpreted as a special command in a GUI. Sometime doing something like rearranging said GUI and having no idea what happened. 4. Many GUI interfaces have no way to export the settings in a human-readable form so you can see what the differences are from default. Makes migrating those setting very difficult. With text-based configuration files and diff, it's trivial.
At the end of the day, if you have no idea what you're doing you want the hand holding of a GUI to direct you into the most likely choices. But if there's no button, you can't do it. With a command line you can do about anything, but you might have to read up on it. The next time it's easy.
I agree with an earlier poster that the ideal GUI would generate a list of commands that it ran so you could see exactly what it was doing. It would also have ^z for all operations.
"A private company has no such luxury. It must be efficient to survive and profit. So its greed forces it to be efficient."
In a nearly ideal situation where consumers have perfect knowledge and competition functions properly.
Utilities are seldom this situation, mostly because it requires duplicate infrastructure. There's very little in the way of utility competition to bring about the good delivered through competition. You generally wouldn't want the capitalist mechanism to play out and correct the problem anyway because that would require allowing a private water systems to fail so that consumers can be educated about the importance of a well ran utility. This is why most utilities are heavily regulated state-sponsored monopolies. It's easier to flirt with private education because the infrastructure is less of a problem and it's fairly easy to send kids to a different school if one fails. Private schools' largest failing is that they do not address the overall problem from a public-policy point-of-view. It's an opt-out versus fixing the system. It's a fix for the rich, screw the poor solution. I should note that American public schools vary greatly. I grew up in the West where private elementary education is fairly rare, outside of a few Catholic schools. I hear that in cities where government corruption is notorious, the public schools are pretty bad, but that's hardly surprising.
The feature of Net Equalizer that lets you limit the number of active connections per client works well in limiting P2P traffic. But in other situations, just getting more bandwidth ends up making people happier and costs about the same as trying to limit it, if you include manpower. In an educational situation, Net Equalizer worked well for us. In a business setting, you should be able to mandate that users not do certain things, if management will back you up.
Another way to do this is to have more than one Internet connection and either route some protocols, users or servers over different connections. For example, it can work well to route ports 80 and 443 traffic over one connection and everything else over a second connection.
I used to use Squid for caching Windows Updates and it sped things up about 1000% percent.
I would recommend using something like Ntop to figure out where your bandwidth is actually being consumed and target that for caching.
Much like freeing up space on disks, you can waste time trying to figure out every little thing, or you can target the biggest files and get the most results.
The only down-side of Squid caching is that it can't work with https:
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Ignorance of the law is no excuse, but in 18 years of public and private education, I was not every told about any laws, except in passing, unless you want to count reading the constitution in the 12th grade.
It used to be that governments had secret laws that you could be guilty of without even knowing it was illegal. We've done something better. Most laws are public but there are so many of them no on can possibly know them all -- ask any lawyer.
That slippery slope is making them accelerate downhill at a faster rate.
-- Yet I can't seem to ditch my Gmail account....
Nietzsche said that a lie is something most often told to one's self, about one's self.
Agreed. If you want backup, you have to pony up. You have to either buy twice the disks, an expensive tape drive (or a cheaper tape drive a lot of tapes) or pay for bandwidth and off-site storage.
Now if Firefox could just scale images properly when viewing them.....
You're right. While there's no legal expectation of privacy, there's social expectation of privacy in a bar. At least one expects that they aren't going to be filmed without consent.
I'd like to point out that Rosie quit after a couple of weeks because she thought the job was too dangerous.
You seem to forget that many academics and people in industry are also amateur operators or got their start as amateur operators. The current innovations are in SDR (software defined radio), DSP (digital signal processing) and mesh networks. Did you know that hams can operate 802.11 wireless gear at higher power and different frequencies under the FCC part 97 rules, versus the regular part 15 unlicensed operation?
Also, much of the spectrum allocation is governed by international treaty, so we can't always act unilaterally on spectrum. We need to keep these narrow slices of spectrum open for future innovation.
No, they have small slices across the spectrum. We need to keep those slices open to experimentation because of the need to be able to experiment and test a concept at different frequencies. Closing this off to experimentation stifles innovation.
Those frequencies are used all of the time but you may not be able to pick them up because of the lack of sensitivity of you receiver/antenna or they aren't being used in your area when you're listening.
On top of that, they're used for emergency communication. In my state (Montana) ham radio operators stepped up and help to save millions of dollars in property damage and quite possibly lives by allowing fire fighters to coordinate their efforts when the county's repeaters got burnt down. This was recognized by state government and hams were exempted from distracted driving laws so they could continue to operate mobile.
The problem is many employers expect someone do be productive from day one, but school can't teach them anything that is specific to a given company. That has to be learned at that company.
I also think companies need to be much more willing to train in general. They used to be better about this. Now you're just supposed to "pick up" everything along the way. How much sense does it really make for a prospective employee to get trained in a vendor-specific technology on the off-hand chance that the place they get hired at will use that specific product? Learn network theory at school and learn Cisco or Juniper or Sonicwall at the company that deploys that technology.
Nice hyperbole, but grossly inaccurate.
A good chunk of those on entitlement programs are there because employers like Walmart won't pay a living wage and another large chunk are there because, if you haven't noticed, unemployment is very high.
We have a lower percent of GDP devoted to welfare that most other industrialized countries.
We could easily balance the budget and get out of debt if corporations would pay their fair share.
Those are some pretty misleading infographics.
The Social Security slice is represented as spending but fails to mention that it's 99% a wash as it's funded by payroll taxes, whereas defense spending is mostly money out the door, minus what services members, etc, pay in taxes. I'd include what the military-industrial complex pays in taxes but it's not clear that they pay any net taxes.
What do you think video games are? You're being trained and socialized/desensitized to virtual killing as a next generation soldier. And they got you to buy the equipment and train on your own time!
Brilliant!
It's not now well it works, especially under ideal conditions, its now gracefully it fails and everything eventually fails.
Remember the Navy ship that ran Windows and was stuck for days at sea? That's an example of not failing gracefully.
If it's purely infotainment, what's it really matter? It's not different then having a laptop with convenient mounting. But if it controls essential vehicle functions it needs to be very secure and reliable.
Maybe infotainment and vehicle control should be completely separate systems.
What I've noticed about this whole "corporate evil" thing is that many companies are alright before they go public, but once that happens the only thing everyone in the room can agree about is greed. It certainly was the turning point for Google.
I'm sure a more nuanced version of this argument exists, but for a ./ post, the above should suffice.
This would all be much more interesting if Backblaze would configure their storage with drives from different manufactures. e.g., RAID10 with one each Seagate, Western Digital, Hitachi, Samsung. Then we would have a a level playing field.
Not to mention the viruses and malware that have been served up by some advertising networks, which has appeared on major sites. I noticed that TFA didn't mention that adblockers can protect users from malware.
I want to find a way to have something, perhaps Squid, download the ads on sites I like but not actually display them.
Yep, most people used their PC's for content consumption, not creation. They're finding that consumption works just find on Android. What little creation they do works find from a browser on Android.
You're absolutely correct that Windows presents the Desktop before the system is actually ready to do anything. It gives the illusion of faster booting.
Personally, I think GUI mistakes are WAY harder to undo, sometimes impossible.
1. For one thing, there's no history of what was done so you can't see the exact mistake.
2. Windows that pop up, steal focus and take the next keystroke as response.
3. Accidentally hitting some sequence that's interpreted as a special command in a GUI. Sometime doing something like rearranging said GUI and having no idea what happened.
4. Many GUI interfaces have no way to export the settings in a human-readable form so you can see what the differences are from default. Makes migrating those setting very difficult. With text-based configuration files and diff, it's trivial.
At the end of the day, if you have no idea what you're doing you want the hand holding of a GUI to direct you into the most likely choices. But if there's no button, you can't do it. With a command line you can do about anything, but you might have to read up on it. The next time it's easy.
I agree with an earlier poster that the ideal GUI would generate a list of commands that it ran so you could see exactly what it was doing. It would also have ^z for all operations.
"A private company has no such luxury. It must be efficient to survive and profit. So its greed forces it to be efficient."
In a nearly ideal situation where consumers have perfect knowledge and competition functions properly.
Utilities are seldom this situation, mostly because it requires duplicate infrastructure. There's very little in the way of utility competition to bring about the good delivered through competition. You generally wouldn't want the capitalist mechanism to play out and correct the problem anyway because that would require allowing a private water systems to fail so that consumers can be educated about the importance of a well ran utility. This is why most utilities are heavily regulated state-sponsored monopolies.
It's easier to flirt with private education because the infrastructure is less of a problem and it's fairly easy to send kids to a different school if one fails. Private schools' largest failing is that they do not address the overall problem from a public-policy point-of-view. It's an opt-out versus fixing the system. It's a fix for the rich, screw the poor solution.
I should note that American public schools vary greatly. I grew up in the West where private elementary education is fairly rare, outside of a few Catholic schools. I hear that in cities where government corruption is notorious, the public schools are pretty bad, but that's hardly surprising.
The feature of Net Equalizer that lets you limit the number of active connections per client works well in limiting P2P traffic. But in other situations, just getting more bandwidth ends up making people happier and costs about the same as trying to limit it, if you include manpower. In an educational situation, Net Equalizer worked well for us. In a business setting, you should be able to mandate that users not do certain things, if management will back you up.
Another way to do this is to have more than one Internet connection and either route some protocols, users or servers over different connections. For example, it can work well to route ports 80 and 443 traffic over one connection and everything else over a second connection.
I used to use Squid for caching Windows Updates and it sped things up about 1000% percent.
I would recommend using something like Ntop to figure out where your bandwidth is actually being consumed and target that for caching.
Much like freeing up space on disks, you can waste time trying to figure out every little thing, or you can target the biggest files and get the most results.
The only down-side of Squid caching is that it can't work with https:
I think a lot of the stolen handsets end up overseas.