I think most people do trust what comes out the white House.
After all, calling some countries shitholes is a pretty accurate reflection of those countries. Or are you considering holidaying in any of them anytime soon? No? Is that because they're shitholes (for want of a longer description of their general lack of progress towards modern civilisation caused by whatever factors, but mainly corruption and crime)
In my country, we call various towns shitholes (eg Clacton on Sea), and even many residents would agree.
so here, Trump is saying like it is, and people think "yup, that's right" while the media have a little outrage-fest as how un-diplomatic and "waycist" he is, because that's what they want to tell you.
In a way that's a good thing - we've had so many politicans who use "diplomatic speak" and yet seem to achivee the net sum of nothing. But I guess they might have interests in maintaining the status quo.
Trumpy happily says stupid things and it makes the targets of those things stop in their tracks. Right now, I doubt North Korea would be sending a joint North-South team to the Olympics if Clinton had won. All we had to put up with was some childish willy-waving over who had the biggest button.
I doubt it'll set the model for the rest of humanity, but it seems to be working out quite well in the short term. If only the MSM would report impartially, we'd have a better handle on what is actually happening. I've had enough of their nonsense whining, wish they'd get back to being journalists.
Isn't that the point - no longer can companies rely on unlimited immigration so they (gasp!) train people to do them instead!
Sure, wages will slip as the supply of workers increase, but that's possibly that wages have been rising faster than Google would like already due to various factors such as the cost of living in places where Google has brought in lots of overpaid workers already.hold.
What's wrong with MUMPS except that its old and didn't support all the bells and whistles the processing power of yesteryear couldn't support anyway?
If you're writing mission critical software, an ACID transactional system built into the language seems like a good idea that makes things easier to do good work with. But I guess if its not flashy and super complex and bloated then it must be crap, right?
True, but sometimes it gets broken for no reason other than "new stuff".
For example: firefox has redesigned its new home page, and whilst it used to have a set of often-accessed sites, like a super-bookmark page, it now has "trending on pocket" and a history. Neither of which are particularly useful when what you want is the old set of bookmarks.
Fortunately you can turn the pocket stuff off, but then you're left with a big gap of blank space instead.
(this is on mobile, on desktop it simply puts the remaining bookmarkets in the middle with a load of white space around them)
So sometimes complaints about the new does not equal a general reluctance to change.After all, people have gotten used to Windows 10 new interface, but its still fucked in comparison to the old one.
It varies - typically lower paid/skilled jobs are banded into fixed roles and salary levels based on experience or tenure. These are not the issue about gender pay gap. In these cases, in the UK at least, paying people differently for the same job has been illegal for decades.
That only comes into play in more well-paid professional roles, for example, as an IT engineer I never got paid a calculated amount, it was always based on what I already earned within the constraints of what they were willing to pay. It was always a flexible number.
at the moment the gender pay gap seems to be much more about people earning large amounts, like the BBC where the rank and file staff are paid in bands, but the ones squealing about gender pay gap all are paid well into the 6 figures.
Not really, its recognising that pay is often down to many factors and a simplistic average is meaningless.
For example, imagine a company of 3 people - 1 practice owner and 2 receptionists to equally man the phones and ensure someone is always on duty to take calls. The boss is a man and pays himself $1m, the receptionists are a man and a women and they get paid $40,000.
If you look at the averages you'll see that there is a massive gender pay gap at that company where men get $502,000 each and the women get £40,000!!!
Obviously that means the female members of staff must be paid more... so you end up with a boss on $1m, a female receptionist on $502,000 and a male receptionist on $40,000. and that, apparently, fixes the "gender pay gap".
when Perl does it, its a feature. If you can't understand it, you're not good enough a coder to work with it.
Keeps the inferior, amateur and kiddie coders away. After seeing some code submitted by our outsourced department, I wish other languages could do the same.
And even then its a nuisance as they get updated in breaking versions - my mate works with Angular and spits feathers when its mentioned. What incompatible version is it on now? Angular 5?
Same if you watch The Big Short where one chap interviewed a stripper about her real estate deals, and she revealed (fnarr!) that she had leveraged up tot he eyeballs on property as "it only goes up". He figured that was the time it was all going to crash. And then she told him she didn't have 1 property but half a dozen condos she was basically buying through debt and speculation.
I will just remind our younger readers of the dotcom boom, where tech stocks were seen as the new big thing and pumped up a bubble that eventually crashed. You can tell the top of this by looking at a tech company that was registered on the NASDAQ called NETJ.COM,
This had all the right words in the name, "net", "J" (for Java, hot at the time) and ".com" but its description of what the company did was:
The company is not currently engaged in any substantial activity and has no plans to engage in such activities in the foreseeable future
and this raised several $110 million in IPO funding from ordinary investors when it floated.
So a dog coin cryptocurrency "worth" $1bn... just same shit, different day.
You'd think, if any president was less tied to the lobbyists and corporate "we have a nice non-exec directorship for you after you've left office" its Trump.
I'd say he probably is the most likely to want to break up the likes of silicon valley's little gang of "progressive liberal" tax payers too, and its not like they have any love for him or his followers either.
it isn't just sites though, I've viewed jpg images on a site using Chrome and when savign them to disk, it saves them as webp format. Annoying as hell as there's little way to save them in their native format.
Its little things like this where Google wants you to use their ways, and gives you no alternative so you just put up with it.
Not necessarily - as in London, the authorities can ban them (ok, pending review there), alternative apps can appear and next thing you know, Uber is out of cash, out of business.
the comments section is going downhill too - its got to the point where posters are openly criticising the downvotes for anything even vaguely "not left wing liberal" that's posted regardless of the quality of the comment itself.
Once your own user base starts to seriously question you, its a downward spiral. Maybe Ars should add itself to the list.
When I was involved in high-security software development, we built the web sites around multiple layers each of which was secured and access was limited, reducing the attack surfaces. If a hacker ever got past all our layers to hit the database, then frankly, I wouldn't argue with them as they would be the NSA or KGB.
But then I started work with new Microsoft frameworks designed to make web building nice and easy (even though its a right over-engineered mess) and I see everything stuck in the webserver tier with full and open direct access to the DB via an ORM. All designed to be written as quickly and easily as possible with security a very distant concept to it.
and yet, said framework could easily split its MVC architecture up to a service and web tier, could put comments or a text file with security hardening information in, could partition the database into secured schemas and it'd be just as easy to write as the monolithic one but far, far more securable.
The current asp.net core framework almost is insecure by design, almost designed that everything is exposed if a hacker gets past the first (and only) level of security. All it takes is 1 zero-day exploit and all your data belongs to someone else. (and yes, other web frameworks are just as bad)
so yes, open-source projects could help - not by compiling a database or package manager of updates and security fixes, but by providing templates and architectures for project defaults that are based around layers of protection.
There will always be some weakness or flaw or bug in software, the only way to mitigate them is to work assuming they're are already there.
Sorry but the Guardian isn't the most impartial site to report things. They are quite happy to use statistics to suit themselves.
The sentence after the graphic is more telling - 50% of all people killed by police were white. and the 'deaths by police" also includes those hit by vehicles - ie bystanders involved in accidents which made up 3% of the total.
But the numbers - 464 deaths in a country of 350 million suggests that the numbers are not statistically significant, even assuming the deaths of most would be in high-crime poverty-stricken areas that were not counted as part of the data gathering.
I'd disagree with the aggressive prosecutions - the guy might have been negligent, but then, he might have been following his training as you say, that told him to fire first just in case when he thought he might be in danger. for all we know here the victim might have held a remote control in his hands and too quickly pulled it up in a motion that could have looked like it was a gun being pointed. What it looked like could vary depending on the cop's vantage point, and his heightened stress at the time.
He could have been a trigger-happy git, but I think we can't assume that from the get-go.
What absolutely needs to be done is better training, much better training that says to assess situations correctly. Prosecutions won't solve anything in preventing more shootings, unless you end up with fewer recruits to the police force in general because they don't want to be put in a situation where they have to choose between getting killed or getting prosecuted.
Economy of scale only works when the supplied goods can be bought more cheaply at scale.
Training police (or other workers) is a fixed cost per worker, so the more of them you have, the more it costs. hence the recruitment of lots of cheap foreign workers in the West these days, and skimping of police training.
Now you might ave a police training college somewhere to send cops to, but the more cops you have, the bigger the burden on that college and the cost of sending them away will be a significant cost to the police force sending them away from doing their job. If the numbers are too great then you might even need more police colleges and that will cost even more. So the trend is to do less training - either less of it, shorter courses, or skimp all round.
I read Breitbart occasonally, its interesting. I just wish the media would also follow up on the stories BB runs instead of ignoring them as its obvious there's interest in knowing of the usua reported atrocities out there.
But until the media does get a little less biased and propagandising, I'll just have to make do with what I can and attempt to fill in the blanks with a widespread read of various sites.
Incidentally, the most amusing one at the moment is Guido Fawkes' Order Order. those hypocritical and naughty politicians... https://order-order.com/
I think its simply because all the cops there are armed, and are taught that all situations they go to are life-threateningly dangerous (due to everyone, particularly criminals, having firearms themselves). As a result, cops in the USA have to be much more alert and ready to shoot to defend themselves.
the trouble then comes when you have so many cops which means that many of them will be relatively poorly trained. None of them get the kind of intensive firearms training a UK armed policeman (say) would get, because it wouldn't be possible to train them all to the required level.
I doubt this case was a SWAT team member shooting, but one of the beat cops who was there to provide support and was shitting himself that the suspect would come out guns blazing.
Either way, I doubt its possible to really improve the situation in the US, you have too many cops, too many guns, and as a result you have quantity over quality. These kinds of incidents are likely to happen occasionally (and they do occur less frequently that you are led to believe by the media as the media just loves to report them all).
in this case, lets hope the gamers are made an example of, big time. The cops should be finding them, prosecuting them, parading them before the media, keeping the whole "no more of this, we will come for you" message out there for the rest of the children who might think its a good idea to do this.
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I think most people do trust what comes out the white House.
After all, calling some countries shitholes is a pretty accurate reflection of those countries. Or are you considering holidaying in any of them anytime soon? No? Is that because they're shitholes (for want of a longer description of their general lack of progress towards modern civilisation caused by whatever factors, but mainly corruption and crime)
In my country, we call various towns shitholes (eg Clacton on Sea), and even many residents would agree.
so here, Trump is saying like it is, and people think "yup, that's right" while the media have a little outrage-fest as how un-diplomatic and "waycist" he is, because that's what they want to tell you.
In a way that's a good thing - we've had so many politicans who use "diplomatic speak" and yet seem to achivee the net sum of nothing. But I guess they might have interests in maintaining the status quo.
Trumpy happily says stupid things and it makes the targets of those things stop in their tracks. Right now, I doubt North Korea would be sending a joint North-South team to the Olympics if Clinton had won. All we had to put up with was some childish willy-waving over who had the biggest button.
I doubt it'll set the model for the rest of humanity, but it seems to be working out quite well in the short term. If only the MSM would report impartially, we'd have a better handle on what is actually happening. I've had enough of their nonsense whining, wish they'd get back to being journalists.
Isn't that the point - no longer can companies rely on unlimited immigration so they (gasp!) train people to do them instead!
Sure, wages will slip as the supply of workers increase, but that's possibly that wages have been rising faster than Google would like already due to various factors such as the cost of living in places where Google has brought in lots of overpaid workers already.hold.
What's wrong with MUMPS except that its old and didn't support all the bells and whistles the processing power of yesteryear couldn't support anyway?
If you're writing mission critical software, an ACID transactional system built into the language seems like a good idea that makes things easier to do good work with. But I guess if its not flashy and super complex and bloated then it must be crap, right?
True, but sometimes it gets broken for no reason other than "new stuff".
For example: firefox has redesigned its new home page, and whilst it used to have a set of often-accessed sites, like a super-bookmark page, it now has "trending on pocket" and a history. Neither of which are particularly useful when what you want is the old set of bookmarks.
Fortunately you can turn the pocket stuff off, but then you're left with a big gap of blank space instead.
(this is on mobile, on desktop it simply puts the remaining bookmarkets in the middle with a load of white space around them)
So sometimes complaints about the new does not equal a general reluctance to change.After all, people have gotten used to Windows 10 new interface, but its still fucked in comparison to the old one.
Anybody have any links on defeating face recognition systems
yup, a small bit of tape. ...put over the camera.
It varies - typically lower paid/skilled jobs are banded into fixed roles and salary levels based on experience or tenure. These are not the issue about gender pay gap. In these cases, in the UK at least, paying people differently for the same job has been illegal for decades.
That only comes into play in more well-paid professional roles, for example, as an IT engineer I never got paid a calculated amount, it was always based on what I already earned within the constraints of what they were willing to pay. It was always a flexible number.
at the moment the gender pay gap seems to be much more about people earning large amounts, like the BBC where the rank and file staff are paid in bands, but the ones squealing about gender pay gap all are paid well into the 6 figures.
Not really, its recognising that pay is often down to many factors and a simplistic average is meaningless.
For example, imagine a company of 3 people - 1 practice owner and 2 receptionists to equally man the phones and ensure someone is always on duty to take calls. The boss is a man and pays himself $1m, the receptionists are a man and a women and they get paid $40,000.
If you look at the averages you'll see that there is a massive gender pay gap at that company where men get $502,000 each and the women get £40,000!!!
Obviously that means the female members of staff must be paid more... so you end up with a boss on $1m, a female receptionist on $502,000 and a male receptionist on $40,000. and that, apparently, fixes the "gender pay gap".
when Perl does it, its a feature. If you can't understand it, you're not good enough a coder to work with it.
Keeps the inferior, amateur and kiddie coders away. After seeing some code submitted by our outsourced department, I wish other languages could do the same.
And even then its a nuisance as they get updated in breaking versions - my mate works with Angular and spits feathers when its mentioned. What incompatible version is it on now? Angular 5?
Same if you watch The Big Short where one chap interviewed a stripper about her real estate deals, and she revealed (fnarr!) that she had leveraged up tot he eyeballs on property as "it only goes up". He figured that was the time it was all going to crash. And then she told him she didn't have 1 property but half a dozen condos she was basically buying through debt and speculation.
I will just remind our younger readers of the dotcom boom, where tech stocks were seen as the new big thing and pumped up a bubble that eventually crashed. You can tell the top of this by looking at a tech company that was registered on the NASDAQ called NETJ.COM,
This had all the right words in the name, "net", "J" (for Java, hot at the time) and ".com" but its description of what the company did was:
and this raised several $110 million in IPO funding from ordinary investors when it floated.
So a dog coin cryptocurrency "worth" $1bn... just same shit, different day.
You'd think, if any president was less tied to the lobbyists and corporate "we have a nice non-exec directorship for you after you've left office" its Trump.
I'd say he probably is the most likely to want to break up the likes of silicon valley's little gang of "progressive liberal" tax payers too, and its not like they have any love for him or his followers either.
it isn't just sites though, I've viewed jpg images on a site using Chrome and when savign them to disk, it saves them as webp format. Annoying as hell as there's little way to save them in their native format.
Its little things like this where Google wants you to use their ways, and gives you no alternative so you just put up with it.
are you sure about that, it seems to me the propaganda is strong everywhere, nobody cares about the truth anymore, just their entrenched positions..
Not necessarily - as in London, the authorities can ban them (ok, pending review there), alternative apps can appear and next thing you know, Uber is out of cash, out of business.
the comments section is going downhill too - its got to the point where posters are openly criticising the downvotes for anything even vaguely "not left wing liberal" that's posted regardless of the quality of the comment itself.
Once your own user base starts to seriously question you, its a downward spiral. Maybe Ars should add itself to the list.
Better to send them to the AI bot that will troll them back and waste their time:
https://www.netsafe.org.nz/res...
When I was involved in high-security software development, we built the web sites around multiple layers each of which was secured and access was limited, reducing the attack surfaces. If a hacker ever got past all our layers to hit the database, then frankly, I wouldn't argue with them as they would be the NSA or KGB.
But then I started work with new Microsoft frameworks designed to make web building nice and easy (even though its a right over-engineered mess) and I see everything stuck in the webserver tier with full and open direct access to the DB via an ORM. All designed to be written as quickly and easily as possible with security a very distant concept to it.
and yet, said framework could easily split its MVC architecture up to a service and web tier, could put comments or a text file with security hardening information in, could partition the database into secured schemas and it'd be just as easy to write as the monolithic one but far, far more securable.
The current asp.net core framework almost is insecure by design, almost designed that everything is exposed if a hacker gets past the first (and only) level of security. All it takes is 1 zero-day exploit and all your data belongs to someone else. (and yes, other web frameworks are just as bad)
so yes, open-source projects could help - not by compiling a database or package manager of updates and security fixes, but by providing templates and architectures for project defaults that are based around layers of protection.
There will always be some weakness or flaw or bug in software, the only way to mitigate them is to work assuming they're are already there.
Sorry but the Guardian isn't the most impartial site to report things. They are quite happy to use statistics to suit themselves.
The sentence after the graphic is more telling - 50% of all people killed by police were white. and the 'deaths by police" also includes those hit by vehicles - ie bystanders involved in accidents which made up 3% of the total.
But the numbers - 464 deaths in a country of 350 million suggests that the numbers are not statistically significant, even assuming the deaths of most would be in high-crime poverty-stricken areas that were not counted as part of the data gathering.
It also says that 95% were male. Total sexists!
I'd disagree with the aggressive prosecutions - the guy might have been negligent, but then, he might have been following his training as you say, that told him to fire first just in case when he thought he might be in danger. for all we know here the victim might have held a remote control in his hands and too quickly pulled it up in a motion that could have looked like it was a gun being pointed. What it looked like could vary depending on the cop's vantage point, and his heightened stress at the time.
He could have been a trigger-happy git, but I think we can't assume that from the get-go.
What absolutely needs to be done is better training, much better training that says to assess situations correctly. Prosecutions won't solve anything in preventing more shootings, unless you end up with fewer recruits to the police force in general because they don't want to be put in a situation where they have to choose between getting killed or getting prosecuted.
Economy of scale only works when the supplied goods can be bought more cheaply at scale.
Training police (or other workers) is a fixed cost per worker, so the more of them you have, the more it costs. hence the recruitment of lots of cheap foreign workers in the West these days, and skimping of police training.
Now you might ave a police training college somewhere to send cops to, but the more cops you have, the bigger the burden on that college and the cost of sending them away will be a significant cost to the police force sending them away from doing their job. If the numbers are too great then you might even need more police colleges and that will cost even more. So the trend is to do less training - either less of it, shorter courses, or skimp all round.
I read Breitbart occasonally, its interesting. I just wish the media would also follow up on the stories BB runs instead of ignoring them as its obvious there's interest in knowing of the usua reported atrocities out there.
But until the media does get a little less biased and propagandising, I'll just have to make do with what I can and attempt to fill in the blanks with a widespread read of various sites.
Incidentally, the most amusing one at the moment is Guido Fawkes' Order Order. those hypocritical and naughty politicians... https://order-order.com/
Hey, we don't even RTFA! You want us to watch the f-ing article too now?!!
I think its simply because all the cops there are armed, and are taught that all situations they go to are life-threateningly dangerous (due to everyone, particularly criminals, having firearms themselves). As a result, cops in the USA have to be much more alert and ready to shoot to defend themselves.
the trouble then comes when you have so many cops which means that many of them will be relatively poorly trained. None of them get the kind of intensive firearms training a UK armed policeman (say) would get, because it wouldn't be possible to train them all to the required level.
I doubt this case was a SWAT team member shooting, but one of the beat cops who was there to provide support and was shitting himself that the suspect would come out guns blazing.
Either way, I doubt its possible to really improve the situation in the US, you have too many cops, too many guns, and as a result you have quantity over quality. These kinds of incidents are likely to happen occasionally (and they do occur less frequently that you are led to believe by the media as the media just loves to report them all).
in this case, lets hope the gamers are made an example of, big time. The cops should be finding them, prosecuting them, parading them before the media, keeping the whole "no more of this, we will come for you" message out there for the rest of the children who might think its a good idea to do this.