Disagree entirely. I've solved many a problem just by explaining it out loud to someone else. Sometimes the act of verbalizing engages a different part of your brain in problem solving and can lead to a solution.
I spent the first four decades of my life there, and I'm glad to no longer be a resident. I don't care for visiting there, but it's where my family and friends mostly are. Life is very different these days than 15-20 years ago.
At least I'm no longer constantly exposed to Sheriff Joe's idiocy.
A friend of mine applied to be a tech writer on a nationally syndicated tech radio show. Late in the process after several very successful interviews they searched for his email address and found his side job as a photographer, which included work of attractive, naked women nicely lit up under black light and fluorescent body paints. Oh, no! Boobies! It was not sexually explicit, there were no penises, he didn't get the job because of boobies.
Myself, when I apply for a job, I have a Gmail account not linked to this handle or my LJ or my FB. It links to a web site where I used to post things in my specific field and is rather positive on my professional abilities. Searching for my name is very difficult as there is a municipality in the Eastern US with the same name. (yes, my real name is Hammond Massachusetts).
And no, my experience is that overall no one sends out rejection letters anymore, you just get silence. I did hear from one recruiter who said one employer thought I was overqualified for the position and that they were afraid I'd jump as soon as something better came along, even though I'd spent 9 years at my previous employer and 3 1/2 at the one before that and 3 at the one before that.
I played in a Champions superhero RPG where a friend of mine said "our base's computer is unhackable! Instead of working in binary, I programmed it to work in octal." I didn't have the heart to discuss it with him.
I agree that it's an issue, ignoring a forensic angle. I wrote about this on my blog last night and talked about the problem for innocent data recovery: accidental file deletion or major server crash. If you had several of these in a RAID 5 or 10 config and one failed without you noticing, then a second failed, how tough of a job would it be for a data recovery company to rebuild this? I think you'd be SOL. We had a server crash that had been built by the previous and no longer present IT group, they'd somehow done RAID at the Windows Server level plus had a RAID drive controller, and when it crashed hard, it totally bollixed the data, I don't think we got anything valuable back from the recovery company, and my boss had been lax on his tape backups. I consider backups like voting in Chicago: backup early and often.
A different file system or OS wouldn't make much of a difference for forensic analysis, the software they use to copy a drive makes a bit-by-bit image, and a bit is a bit is a bit. The higher level encoding might need add'l translation, but once they have the copy, it's not too difficult to get additional hardware and a copy of Operating System XYZ to read the write-protected image copy. It might cause reliability problems to someone trying to implement a different file system on a SSD, but if it were easy, anyone could do the stuff we do.
I'll take UPS over FedEx any day. FedEx will not deliver to my house if there is any snow on the ground (I live on a hill in a national forest), UPS will chain their trucks so their deliveries get through. In fact, during the '09/'10 winter, a UPS driver BACKED his truck down our street to deliver my critical monthly meds because he didn't think he could make the downhill grade continuing down the street going forward. FedEx's inability to work in snow delayed the delivery of my repaired laptop by 3 days, for which I had paid for overnight delivery, I finally had to drive over 200 miles (round trip) to pick it up at their depot as they couldn't be bothered to help me rendezvous with them in the nearest town which was unaffected by snow. No refund of the additional fees that I paid was offered.
My money will be going with UPS in the future whenever I have a choice. I'm sure people have equal horror stories reversing my two protagonists, but in my area, UPS is by far the superior delivery service.
I do not have a cite, but there was a network engineer on the jury for Terry Childs' case. I think that would almost have had to be a requirement, otherwise the jurors would have been totally lost on the technical aspects of the charges.
She has a PhD in astronomy/astrophysics. She couldn't get out of a summons to Federal court, so she was working all night at the observatory, sometimes two or three nights in a row, then driving over two hours to Las Cruces, just to sit around and never be selected. They have no conception of hardship exclusions where having to make this drive after working like that actually jeopardized her life. Then again, New Mexico has such a small areal population that they might only be able to dismiss people under the most severe of circumstances.
They also don't want people who are too smart or analytical. Myself, I worked for a police department for nine years doing database, that's also pretty much an automatic disqualification.
Here's what to expect: those who do not patch their servers are going to have time anomalies. Electronic thermostats are not going to recognize the switch, so heating/cooing systems may start up or shut down at odd hours, i.e. not in sync with office/operations hours. Electronic time clocks are also likely to be screwed up. And why do I know this? Because these are problems we encountered in my office when Dubya changed the dates DST changes in the USA to allegedly save energy.
My advice? DON'T DO IT! There are too many industrial controllers that have pre-programmed DST switchover offsets, and they either can't be or aren't upgraded. I'm not a fan of DST in any way, shape, or form. Of course, I'm originally from a place that does not do DST, so I might be slightly biased.
(and what the frack is up with this double-spacing? That ain't the way I entered it!)
If the facility is not a point of sale, then does Amazon have any points of sale? They have a web site, and as far as I know no brick and mortar, so all they have is a virtual presence. Do they pay any tax anywhere?
This "owned by a subsidiary" is a ludicrous argument.
I sold Sony products 30 years ago just out of high school. I liked the engineering, wasn't too impressed with the reliability. I became enamored with Matsushita at that point and Panasonic/Technics became my go-to tech. To the best of my knowledge, with the exception of perhaps a cheap FM Walkman, you wouldn't find any Sony products in my house.
But what I'd love to do is download this guy's code because I'll never own a PS/3. I'd like to get a Wii, but never a PS/3.
I've been making this argument for ages, but you state it much better. Most recently we've been receiving offers from our prescription drug plan to switch to meds by mail, and I use the same argument, that you're taking money out of the local tax base. And boy, our local tax base needs it! We only have four pharmacies, and one has already seriously reduced hours.
You deserve to be modded up and nominated for Post of the Year.
We have the same problem living in New Mexico. My wife has tried to order things over the phone and has been told 'we don't ship outside of the country.' Guess what, sweetie -- we're stuck between Texas and Arizona, look at a map!
But arguing with stupidity is like just another form of banging your head against the wall.
Personally, I think all Congresscritters should go through both the full body scanner and the enhanced patdowns every time they fly. It's probably going to be the only way we see that change.
Not related to DHS domain seizure, but still a pleasant thought.
My wife is an astronomer and did some grad work at an observatory in Chile (IIRC). Her current observatory, in the US, prohibits alcohol on-site. In Chile, they gave you a bottle of wine with your shift.
It was amusingly mildly scandalous when a BBC TV crew were on-site drinking beer with their dinner. I remember a Christmas dinner years ago when some visiting Japanese scientists brought some sake, sadly some pretty bad sake, that I chilled by taking it out and putting it in the snow. (Some sakes can be chilled, they aren't all heated)
The problem, in addition to volume, is bandwidth. At my wife's observatory, Apache Point, one of the telescopes is the Sloan Digital Sky Survey 2.5 meter. When it's operating in certain modes, it's streaming data to seven or eight DAT drives in parallel (don't ask me what model, but it's a whomping volume of data). They complete a night, then ship the tapes off to another site for analysis.
Considering how rural most observatories are, I don't see how they could have enough bandwidth to stream that amount of data real-time to wherever the analysis takes place.
...any random stranger can send you spam which you have to pay for.
Which is why all text messages, incoming and outgoing, are explicitly blocked on my phone. I got a new phone, new provider, new number in November and immediately started receiving text messages from people whom I did not know and did not want to know. I finally had the carrier totally block them, it rather annoyed me that I had to call them when I thought I was sufficiently clear when we signed up that I did not want any text messages.
Reminds me of processing your own color photographs. The chemistry oxidizes quickly, and has a fixed number of prints that it can process, so if you don't max out the number of prints before the chemistry expires, you're wasting money.
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Disagree entirely. I've solved many a problem just by explaining it out loud to someone else. Sometimes the act of verbalizing engages a different part of your brain in problem solving and can lead to a solution.
Oooh! Double Rot-13 encryption! Clever, these hackers.
Downloads++
I'm looking forward to reading it.
I spent the first four decades of my life there, and I'm glad to no longer be a resident. I don't care for visiting there, but it's where my family and friends mostly are. Life is very different these days than 15-20 years ago.
At least I'm no longer constantly exposed to Sheriff Joe's idiocy.
A friend of mine applied to be a tech writer on a nationally syndicated tech radio show. Late in the process after several very successful interviews they searched for his email address and found his side job as a photographer, which included work of attractive, naked women nicely lit up under black light and fluorescent body paints. Oh, no! Boobies! It was not sexually explicit, there were no penises, he didn't get the job because of boobies.
Myself, when I apply for a job, I have a Gmail account not linked to this handle or my LJ or my FB. It links to a web site where I used to post things in my specific field and is rather positive on my professional abilities. Searching for my name is very difficult as there is a municipality in the Eastern US with the same name. (yes, my real name is Hammond Massachusetts).
And no, my experience is that overall no one sends out rejection letters anymore, you just get silence. I did hear from one recruiter who said one employer thought I was overqualified for the position and that they were afraid I'd jump as soon as something better came along, even though I'd spent 9 years at my previous employer and 3 1/2 at the one before that and 3 at the one before that.
I played in a Champions superhero RPG where a friend of mine said "our base's computer is unhackable! Instead of working in binary, I programmed it to work in octal." I didn't have the heart to discuss it with him.
I agree that it's an issue, ignoring a forensic angle. I wrote about this on my blog last night and talked about the problem for innocent data recovery: accidental file deletion or major server crash. If you had several of these in a RAID 5 or 10 config and one failed without you noticing, then a second failed, how tough of a job would it be for a data recovery company to rebuild this? I think you'd be SOL. We had a server crash that had been built by the previous and no longer present IT group, they'd somehow done RAID at the Windows Server level plus had a RAID drive controller, and when it crashed hard, it totally bollixed the data, I don't think we got anything valuable back from the recovery company, and my boss had been lax on his tape backups. I consider backups like voting in Chicago: backup early and often.
A different file system or OS wouldn't make much of a difference for forensic analysis, the software they use to copy a drive makes a bit-by-bit image, and a bit is a bit is a bit. The higher level encoding might need add'l translation, but once they have the copy, it's not too difficult to get additional hardware and a copy of Operating System XYZ to read the write-protected image copy. It might cause reliability problems to someone trying to implement a different file system on a SSD, but if it were easy, anyone could do the stuff we do.
I'll take UPS over FedEx any day. FedEx will not deliver to my house if there is any snow on the ground (I live on a hill in a national forest), UPS will chain their trucks so their deliveries get through. In fact, during the '09/'10 winter, a UPS driver BACKED his truck down our street to deliver my critical monthly meds because he didn't think he could make the downhill grade continuing down the street going forward. FedEx's inability to work in snow delayed the delivery of my repaired laptop by 3 days, for which I had paid for overnight delivery, I finally had to drive over 200 miles (round trip) to pick it up at their depot as they couldn't be bothered to help me rendezvous with them in the nearest town which was unaffected by snow. No refund of the additional fees that I paid was offered.
My money will be going with UPS in the future whenever I have a choice. I'm sure people have equal horror stories reversing my two protagonists, but in my area, UPS is by far the superior delivery service.
I do not have a cite, but there was a network engineer on the jury for Terry Childs' case. I think that would almost have had to be a requirement, otherwise the jurors would have been totally lost on the technical aspects of the charges.
She has a PhD in astronomy/astrophysics. She couldn't get out of a summons to Federal court, so she was working all night at the observatory, sometimes two or three nights in a row, then driving over two hours to Las Cruces, just to sit around and never be selected. They have no conception of hardship exclusions where having to make this drive after working like that actually jeopardized her life. Then again, New Mexico has such a small areal population that they might only be able to dismiss people under the most severe of circumstances.
They also don't want people who are too smart or analytical. Myself, I worked for a police department for nine years doing database, that's also pretty much an automatic disqualification.
Here's what to expect: those who do not patch their servers are going to have time anomalies. Electronic thermostats are not going to recognize the switch, so heating/cooing systems may start up or shut down at odd hours, i.e. not in sync with office/operations hours. Electronic time clocks are also likely to be screwed up. And why do I know this? Because these are problems we encountered in my office when Dubya changed the dates DST changes in the USA to allegedly save energy.
My advice? DON'T DO IT! There are too many industrial controllers that have pre-programmed DST switchover offsets, and they either can't be or aren't upgraded. I'm not a fan of DST in any way, shape, or form. Of course, I'm originally from a place that does not do DST, so I might be slightly biased.
(and what the frack is up with this double-spacing? That ain't the way I entered it!)
Did you mean Unitarian Universalists when you typed UCC? I'm used to it being abbreviated UU or UUC.
If the facility is not a point of sale, then does Amazon have any points of sale? They have a web site, and as far as I know no brick and mortar, so all they have is a virtual presence. Do they pay any tax anywhere?
This "owned by a subsidiary" is a ludicrous argument.
I sold Sony products 30 years ago just out of high school. I liked the engineering, wasn't too impressed with the reliability. I became enamored with Matsushita at that point and Panasonic/Technics became my go-to tech. To the best of my knowledge, with the exception of perhaps a cheap FM Walkman, you wouldn't find any Sony products in my house.
But what I'd love to do is download this guy's code because I'll never own a PS/3. I'd like to get a Wii, but never a PS/3.
I knew there had to be a lot more going on than the Wired article stated. NPR via AP has much better details as to the goings on at http://www.npr.org/2011/02/09/133607089/house-rejects-extensions-of-patriot-act-provisions?sc=17&f=1001
Yay! Another lover of South Park! That episode was fantastic.
I've been making this argument for ages, but you state it much better. Most recently we've been receiving offers from our prescription drug plan to switch to meds by mail, and I use the same argument, that you're taking money out of the local tax base. And boy, our local tax base needs it! We only have four pharmacies, and one has already seriously reduced hours.
You deserve to be modded up and nominated for Post of the Year.
We have the same problem living in New Mexico. My wife has tried to order things over the phone and has been told 'we don't ship outside of the country.' Guess what, sweetie -- we're stuck between Texas and Arizona, look at a map!
But arguing with stupidity is like just another form of banging your head against the wall.
Personally, I think all Congresscritters should go through both the full body scanner and the enhanced patdowns every time they fly. It's probably going to be the only way we see that change.
Not related to DHS domain seizure, but still a pleasant thought.
Why do I see a massive DDoS against Capcom's IP addresses on release date?
My wife is an astronomer and did some grad work at an observatory in Chile (IIRC). Her current observatory, in the US, prohibits alcohol on-site. In Chile, they gave you a bottle of wine with your shift.
It was amusingly mildly scandalous when a BBC TV crew were on-site drinking beer with their dinner. I remember a Christmas dinner years ago when some visiting Japanese scientists brought some sake, sadly some pretty bad sake, that I chilled by taking it out and putting it in the snow. (Some sakes can be chilled, they aren't all heated)
The problem, in addition to volume, is bandwidth. At my wife's observatory, Apache Point, one of the telescopes is the Sloan Digital Sky Survey 2.5 meter. When it's operating in certain modes, it's streaming data to seven or eight DAT drives in parallel (don't ask me what model, but it's a whomping volume of data). They complete a night, then ship the tapes off to another site for analysis.
Considering how rural most observatories are, I don't see how they could have enough bandwidth to stream that amount of data real-time to wherever the analysis takes place.
...any random stranger can send you spam which you have to pay for.
Which is why all text messages, incoming and outgoing, are explicitly blocked on my phone. I got a new phone, new provider, new number in November and immediately started receiving text messages from people whom I did not know and did not want to know. I finally had the carrier totally block them, it rather annoyed me that I had to call them when I thought I was sufficiently clear when we signed up that I did not want any text messages.
Reminds me of processing your own color photographs. The chemistry oxidizes quickly, and has a fixed number of prints that it can process, so if you don't max out the number of prints before the chemistry expires, you're wasting money.