I suspect every slash dotter worth their salt has a few canned responses here they can pull out to stories like this.
The main point of the H1B visa waiver program is to enable US employers to hire skilled foreign workers. Period. The reason for hiring them, at least in Silicon Valley, is not to pay a bargain basement wage, but to enable US companies to hire the best and brightest in the world. It's got nothing to do with a shortage of US workers. Indeed, most hiring managers have no idea if the applicant has a visa, a green card, or is a citizen. They just want the best person for the job. Does that mean that us US folks are at a disadvantage when hiring? You betcha! You are going up against every super-smart wannabe Steve Jobs from India, China, Israel, Russia and the rest of the world. If the hiring manager finds her man, HR will work out how to get the visa. If it isn't an H1B, it'll be an EB-2 or 1099 contracting and business trips until all that stuff is sorted out. Now, if US employers were forced to hire based on immigration status - citizens first, then green card holders, then it would be a distinct advantage to be a citizen. It'd also probably result in US employers not having the smartest people in the world working for them.
Yup. I'm lucky that my employer pays for biz class for intl flights over 9 hours, so I see a few of them. IMO, the red carpet club is the worst, usually packed with sweaty folks trying to shovel as many of the trail mix snacks and coffee they can into their gobs. The "bar" is useless and sternly managed by a crone in a vest. Don't forget the obligatory USD 1 tip or she'll get grumpy. Tokyo and SFO are the worst. If you're smart, you'll find another airline's Gold lounge where they let you pour your own and eat real food. ANA is okay and has the magic beer pouring machine, EVA is good and generous with the booze. The best are the first-class lounges though, which I've only been in rarely as a guest of a super-miler. EVA's in Taipei was really good. The best overall lounge so far was Virgin's biz lounge in Hong Kong. I ate everything they had on the menu and their martinis were great.
I had been using a blog to record my pond over a period of a year. I specifically wanted to have a timeline record of pictures and notes. I knew no one would be reading it for a while until I completed the year and used it essentially as a notebook that I could easily upload to using my phone. I got about 10 months in and Wordpress deleted it all. Greeeeat. I still have the photos on my phone, but not the notes I took.
This game is pretty good and much more fun than Ingress. It also has serious incentive to buy stuff in-game, like the incubator. To hatch an egg you have to walk 5K and with only one free incubator, I'm inclined to buy a couple - they're only $1.50 each. Niantic, the company behind the game is a spin out from Google, who in turn were a spin out of the Google Earth team, who were acquired by Google way back when. The Ingress SiFi game has been running for years and you can still spot the mid-20's to 30's crowd every so often in a park trying to take down or protect a portal. That said, Ingress's business model was based on putting portals at places like Jamba Juice to try and attract customers to go there. As far as I know, it didn't really work out. Pokemon GO's approach seems much more likely to pay off. Right now, the biggest problem is that the servers keep crapping out. We'll have to change the phrase "Slashdotted" to "PK'd" or "Go'ed" or something because they are hammered. If you don't think this is a big thing, go to a park and look for teens hanging out looking at phones. Then tell them you haven't reached level 5 yet and they'll nod knowingly.
For comparison, while data protection and privacy are fundamental rights in the EU, there is no equivalent protection in the US.
EU data protection consists of several principles, which include, rules on data quality standards, on sensitive data, independent supervision, the purpose limitation principle, rules on inter-agency exchange or transfer of data to third states, time limits for the retention of data, effective judicial review and access possibilities, independent oversight, proportionality elements, notification requirements after surveillance or data breaches, access, correction and deletion rights as well as rules on automated decisions, data security as well as technical protection. These rights and principles are subject to restrictions, but these restrictions are limited by proportionality elements and are continually subject to judicial review. Some of these EU rights, such as notification, supervision or judicial review can also be found in certain US Acts, for instance in the ECPA, however, they only exist in a mitigated form.
Most of the EU data protection guarantees simply do not exist in US law. Good for businesses, bad for humans.
This is par for the course in trademark land. Trademark rights might be lost when a trademark owner fails to police its mark against eroded distinctiveness. In this case, Citigroup think that AT&T's use could lessen the distinctiveness of their THANKYOU. On the face of it, it probably does. As a result, their trademark will become weaker, and may lose its distinctiveness entirely. If it does, they could actually lose the mark. To help avoid this, the trademark owner it pretty much obliged to police its mark through legal means, up to and including going to court. This is pretty much mandatory - you need to do this, it's not really an option. Some courts have determined you don't have to prosecute every infringing third-party use, but if you have the money and the mark is worth it to you, then it's a no brainer.
If you aren't using it yet, you should. Indeed, I'd like all sites to enable 2-factor by default. It's not like most folks don't have phones or email accounts.
Follow the money: After a phone is sold, only carriers and the app store owners make any from the subscriber. Manufacturers get nothing. If the carriers were smart, they would structure their purchasing contracts to include a service contract with the manufacturers, e.g., 10% of the sale price for X years of support. Then the OEM could justify keeping a sustaining engineering team going, assuming the opportunity cost isn't too high.
I remember having to set up the sound driver IRQ's and other junk before playing. It was common back in the DOS days to have to configure your sound card before playing a game.
I'm genuinely interested. Do Chinese start-ups give stock to employees? Or is it all cash and bonuses? I've worked for multiple US companies and stock is one of the big drivers to pay over and above the base salary. Sure, there's employees at start-ups all over the world who work night and day, but they're doing it because they have a stake in the company usually.
I was going to comment on this too. They are roaming around the Stanford shopping center doing mall-cop duties. They're very polite and usually get attacked by little kids jumping in front of them to make them stop. From what I could tell they don't do much except video everything (they have 4 or more cameras).
I just came back via SFO and they had a stack of automated passport machines. Just slapped my passport in it, looked and the camera, tapped a few obvious questions and got a print out with my picture on it. Showed it to an officer and went through. No need for customs form either. Seems like a free Global Entry and about time too. I've enjoyed the EU automatic gates for years (I'm a dual citizen) and always wondered why the US took so long and imposed a fee.
I always thought there would be a mine of information based on a company's searches too. Engineer is reading a spec and googles an acronym, finance google a company they are planning to merge with, HR google potential candidates, R&D google research terms, etc. Not too much of an issue if you have no other interaction with google, but if your company competes with google or otherwise has a business relationship with them, then it may be a good idea not to google anything!
Hmm, the obvious solution is to filter out finger movements due to bumps by shifting the screen in the opposite direction. Accelerometer sensors would provide the inputs, along with "anticpational imaging", i.e., a camera that tracks generalized finger movement and plots out the likely tradgectory. It'd be like a steady-cam, but for the touchscreen. Alternatively, you could be boring and have a knob or button.
What firmware are you talking about? The chips that provide WiFi are pretty well known and established. I'd like to know which ones you are referring to. Are they on this list? https://downloads.openwrt.org/...
I hope someone mods you up because I've been asked by high-schooler's "what's the difference between Computer Science and Computer Engineering?" and I've answered in pretty much the same way, except your answer is better. I'd like to add that on top of what you've written, there are a lot of other tasks/skills/jobs that go into getting successful software products out the door. E.g., Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Build Team, Test Team, Customer Engineering, etc.
I'm not a professional programmer - OMG, if I was, I'd shudder to think what would happen - but I did programming back as school in the 80's and 90's and have kept it up as a hobby ever since. I'm one of those engineers who went into product management and I've found coding terrifically helpful as a tool at work, just like presentation skills, personal skills, negortation skills etc. I've used it to create demo content for conferences (ActionScript) (got an award for that one), analyze customer requests via simulating their proposed algorithms and showing they were ineffective (Java), deduce requirements for lifetime UV exposure of a product (Matlab, Excel), model product uptake, etc. etc. When I get stuck, I work with engineering, but I like to keep them focused on their real job. Having a mindset that knows you can apply code to data and get answers is super important. Even knowing that this is possible would be one step up from nothing.
Read the court documents on Toyota's ECU software sometime, to see what 'researchers' found when they were allowed to look at it.
Summary: Mirroring (where key data is written to redundant variables) was not always done. This gains extra significance in light of Stack overflow. Toyota claimed only 41% of the allocated stack space was being used. Barr's investigation showed that 94% was closer to the truth. On top of that, stack-killing, MISRA-C rule-violating recursion was found in the code, and the CPU doesn't incorporate memory protection to guard against stack overflow. Two key items were not mirrored: The RTOS' critical internal data structures; and—the most important bytes of all, the final result of all this firmware—the TargetThrottleAngle global variable. Although Toyota had performed a stack analysis, Barr concluded the automaker had completely botched it. Toyota missed some of the calls made via pointer, missed stack usage by library and assembly functions (about 350 in total), and missed RTOS use during task switching. They also failed to perform run-time stack monitoring. Toyota's ETCS used a version of OSEK, which is an automotive standard RTOS API. For some reason, though, the CPU vendor-supplied version was not certified compliant. Unintentional RTOS task shutdown was heavily investigated as a potential source of the UA. As single bits in memory control each task, corruption due to HW or SW faults will suspend needed tasks or start unwanted ones. Vehicle tests confirmed that one particular dead task would result in loss of throttle control, and that the driver might have to fully remove their foot from the brake during an unintended acceleration event before being able to end the unwanted acceleration. A litany of other faults were found in the code, including buffer overflow, unsafe casting, and race conditions between tasks.
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I suspect every slash dotter worth their salt has a few canned responses here they can pull out to stories like this.
The main point of the H1B visa waiver program is to enable US employers to hire skilled foreign workers. Period. The reason for hiring them, at least in Silicon Valley, is not to pay a bargain basement wage, but to enable US companies to hire the best and brightest in the world. It's got nothing to do with a shortage of US workers. Indeed, most hiring managers have no idea if the applicant has a visa, a green card, or is a citizen. They just want the best person for the job. Does that mean that us US folks are at a disadvantage when hiring? You betcha! You are going up against every super-smart wannabe Steve Jobs from India, China, Israel, Russia and the rest of the world. If the hiring manager finds her man, HR will work out how to get the visa. If it isn't an H1B, it'll be an EB-2 or 1099 contracting and business trips until all that stuff is sorted out. Now, if US employers were forced to hire based on immigration status - citizens first, then green card holders, then it would be a distinct advantage to be a citizen. It'd also probably result in US employers not having the smartest people in the world working for them.
Yup. I'm lucky that my employer pays for biz class for intl flights over 9 hours, so I see a few of them. IMO, the red carpet club is the worst, usually packed with sweaty folks trying to shovel as many of the trail mix snacks and coffee they can into their gobs. The "bar" is useless and sternly managed by a crone in a vest. Don't forget the obligatory USD 1 tip or she'll get grumpy. Tokyo and SFO are the worst. If you're smart, you'll find another airline's Gold lounge where they let you pour your own and eat real food. ANA is okay and has the magic beer pouring machine, EVA is good and generous with the booze. The best are the first-class lounges though, which I've only been in rarely as a guest of a super-miler. EVA's in Taipei was really good. The best overall lounge so far was Virgin's biz lounge in Hong Kong. I ate everything they had on the menu and their martinis were great.
I had been using a blog to record my pond over a period of a year. I specifically wanted to have a timeline record of pictures and notes. I knew no one would be reading it for a while until I completed the year and used it essentially as a notebook that I could easily upload to using my phone. I got about 10 months in and Wordpress deleted it all. Greeeeat. I still have the photos on my phone, but not the notes I took.
This game is pretty good and much more fun than Ingress. It also has serious incentive to buy stuff in-game, like the incubator. To hatch an egg you have to walk 5K and with only one free incubator, I'm inclined to buy a couple - they're only $1.50 each. Niantic, the company behind the game is a spin out from Google, who in turn were a spin out of the Google Earth team, who were acquired by Google way back when. The Ingress SiFi game has been running for years and you can still spot the mid-20's to 30's crowd every so often in a park trying to take down or protect a portal. That said, Ingress's business model was based on putting portals at places like Jamba Juice to try and attract customers to go there. As far as I know, it didn't really work out. Pokemon GO's approach seems much more likely to pay off.
Right now, the biggest problem is that the servers keep crapping out. We'll have to change the phrase "Slashdotted" to "PK'd" or "Go'ed" or something because they are hammered. If you don't think this is a big thing, go to a park and look for teens hanging out looking at phones. Then tell them you haven't reached level 5 yet and they'll nod knowingly.
If the government does not actually know what is on the encrypted device, then plead the 5th Amendment.
For comparison, while data protection and privacy are fundamental rights in the EU, there is no equivalent protection in the US.
EU data protection consists of several principles, which include, rules on data quality standards, on sensitive data, independent supervision, the purpose limitation principle, rules on inter-agency exchange or transfer of data to third states, time limits for the retention of data, effective judicial review and access possibilities, independent oversight, proportionality elements, notification requirements after surveillance or data breaches, access, correction and deletion rights as well as rules on automated decisions, data security as well as technical protection. These rights and principles are subject to restrictions, but these restrictions are limited by proportionality elements and are continually subject to judicial review. Some of these EU rights, such as notification, supervision or judicial review can also be found in certain US Acts, for instance in the ECPA, however, they only exist in a mitigated form.
Most of the EU data protection guarantees simply do not exist in US law. Good for businesses, bad for humans.
This is par for the course in trademark land. Trademark rights might be lost when a trademark owner fails to police its mark against eroded distinctiveness. In this case, Citigroup think that AT&T's use could lessen the distinctiveness of their THANKYOU. On the face of it, it probably does. As a result, their trademark will become weaker, and may lose its distinctiveness entirely. If it does, they could actually lose the mark. To help avoid this, the trademark owner it pretty much obliged to police its mark through legal means, up to and including going to court. This is pretty much mandatory - you need to do this, it's not really an option. Some courts have determined you don't have to prosecute every infringing third-party use, but if you have the money and the mark is worth it to you, then it's a no brainer.
If you aren't using it yet, you should. Indeed, I'd like all sites to enable 2-factor by default. It's not like most folks don't have phones or email accounts.
Mod this guy up, just for the word "Vexatious". Needs more of that here in the US.
Follow the money: After a phone is sold, only carriers and the app store owners make any from the subscriber. Manufacturers get nothing. If the carriers were smart, they would structure their purchasing contracts to include a service contract with the manufacturers, e.g., 10% of the sale price for X years of support. Then the OEM could justify keeping a sustaining engineering team going, assuming the opportunity cost isn't too high.
I remember having to set up the sound driver IRQ's and other junk before playing. It was common back in the DOS days to have to configure your sound card before playing a game.
I'm genuinely interested. Do Chinese start-ups give stock to employees? Or is it all cash and bonuses? I've worked for multiple US companies and stock is one of the big drivers to pay over and above the base salary. Sure, there's employees at start-ups all over the world who work night and day, but they're doing it because they have a stake in the company usually.
Good photo. The kids seem far more fearless than the adults with these droids!
They are mobile. And they look pretty much 100% the same.
I was going to comment on this too. They are roaming around the Stanford shopping center doing mall-cop duties. They're very polite and usually get attacked by little kids jumping in front of them to make them stop. From what I could tell they don't do much except video everything (they have 4 or more cameras).
I'd click cancel on Comcast and instead go to... um... AT&T dial up service? I have no broadband choice!!!
I just came back via SFO and they had a stack of automated passport machines. Just slapped my passport in it, looked and the camera, tapped a few obvious questions and got a print out with my picture on it. Showed it to an officer and went through. No need for customs form either. Seems like a free Global Entry and about time too. I've enjoyed the EU automatic gates for years (I'm a dual citizen) and always wondered why the US took so long and imposed a fee.
This is totally weird, but as I was reading that article and seeing the BASIC listing, I actually remembered the smell and feel of my TRS-80.
I always thought there would be a mine of information based on a company's searches too. Engineer is reading a spec and googles an acronym, finance google a company they are planning to merge with, HR google potential candidates, R&D google research terms, etc. Not too much of an issue if you have no other interaction with google, but if your company competes with google or otherwise has a business relationship with them, then it may be a good idea not to google anything!
Hmm, the obvious solution is to filter out finger movements due to bumps by shifting the screen in the opposite direction. Accelerometer sensors would provide the inputs, along with "anticpational imaging", i.e., a camera that tracks generalized finger movement and plots out the likely tradgectory. It'd be like a steady-cam, but for the touchscreen. Alternatively, you could be boring and have a knob or button.
Which ISPs force you to rent their WiFi Router?
What firmware are you talking about? The chips that provide WiFi are pretty well known and established. I'd like to know which ones you are referring to. Are they on this list? https://downloads.openwrt.org/...
I hope someone mods you up because I've been asked by high-schooler's "what's the difference between Computer Science and Computer Engineering?" and I've answered in pretty much the same way, except your answer is better. I'd like to add that on top of what you've written, there are a lot of other tasks/skills/jobs that go into getting successful software products out the door. E.g., Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Build Team, Test Team, Customer Engineering, etc.
I'm not a professional programmer - OMG, if I was, I'd shudder to think what would happen - but I did programming back as school in the 80's and 90's and have kept it up as a hobby ever since. I'm one of those engineers who went into product management and I've found coding terrifically helpful as a tool at work, just like presentation skills, personal skills, negortation skills etc. I've used it to create demo content for conferences (ActionScript) (got an award for that one), analyze customer requests via simulating their proposed algorithms and showing they were ineffective (Java), deduce requirements for lifetime UV exposure of a product (Matlab, Excel), model product uptake, etc. etc. When I get stuck, I work with engineering, but I like to keep them focused on their real job. Having a mindset that knows you can apply code to data and get answers is super important. Even knowing that this is possible would be one step up from nothing.
Read the court documents on Toyota's ECU software sometime, to see what 'researchers' found when they were allowed to look at it.
Summary:
Mirroring (where key data is written to redundant variables) was not always done. This gains extra significance in light of
Stack overflow. Toyota claimed only 41% of the allocated stack space was being used. Barr's investigation showed that 94% was closer to the truth. On top of that, stack-killing, MISRA-C rule-violating recursion was found in the code, and the CPU doesn't incorporate memory protection to guard against stack overflow.
Two key items were not mirrored: The RTOS' critical internal data structures; and—the most important bytes of all, the final result of all this firmware—the TargetThrottleAngle global variable.
Although Toyota had performed a stack analysis, Barr concluded the automaker had completely botched it. Toyota missed some of the calls made via pointer, missed stack usage by library and assembly functions (about 350 in total), and missed RTOS use during task switching. They also failed to perform run-time stack monitoring.
Toyota's ETCS used a version of OSEK, which is an automotive standard RTOS API. For some reason, though, the CPU vendor-supplied version was not certified compliant.
Unintentional RTOS task shutdown was heavily investigated as a potential source of the UA. As single bits in memory control each task, corruption due to HW or SW faults will suspend needed tasks or start unwanted ones. Vehicle tests confirmed that one particular dead task would result in loss of throttle control, and that the driver might have to fully remove their foot from the brake during an unintended acceleration event before being able to end the unwanted acceleration.
A litany of other faults were found in the code, including buffer overflow, unsafe casting, and race conditions between tasks.
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