My non-jewish family was victimized by fascism. But I don't run around yelling "I'm offended!" every time the subject is brought up. My family moved on 5 decades ago, and I still think it took the a bloody long time to do it.
Seriously, stop it. Just let it go and move on. You're doing nobody any good.
On the other hand it may give the survivors of Palestine a legal basis to demand restitution from Israel if ever justice be done. (Which I doubt...just sayin').
We must care about civilian casualties. But we must not care more about some casualties over others.
You are right, there should be outrage wherever there is holocaust and genocide. I think the difference here is in the hypocrisy of the Israelis given their own treatment at the hands of those more powerful than themselves. Or perhaps the difference is in how one sided this conflict is, with Israel effectively slaughtering the Palestinians like cattle in a pen.
"More children than Palestinian fighters are being killed in the offensive on Gaza, according to the latest United Nations statistics http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
"...a conflict that has claimed more than 1,000 Palestinian lives, mostly civilians. Around 40 Israelis, most of the soldiers, have also been killed." http://www.france24.com/en/201...
The Israelis are doing to the Palestinians what the Germans did to them, if in smaller numbers.
I do not support Hamas' methods at all, and so I do not support Hamas.
I also do not support Israel's complete disregard for (non-Jewish) civilian human life.
It is also possible the the VPN packets are transiting a different upstream peer from Verizon and bypassing the peering bottleneck at issue. Assuming that Verizon is performing inspection of packets and throttling only Netflix packets is quite a leap.
My understanding is that Netflix peers directly with Verizon so unless the VPN was to a Netflix IP across the same interco between Verizon and Netflix then the traffic would have to take a longer path to get to Netflix to start with.
For the same reason, Verizon may have rate limiting / shaping / whatever to police traffic down to whatever value they want on the direct peering links which wouldn't be visible to anyone outside Verizon.
Even if traffic were to take the same path it would be easy to rate limit / police / shape / whatever based on protocol ports (or NBAR or the equivalent).
SO when you pay for that service it says something like "up to 75mbps" which in reality means that the speed test and google's home page could see that much speed and everyone else will look like dial up from the 1990's.
I have a suggestion.... Web browsers should take some measurements and display prominently in a visible status bar or other location.... average TCP throughput --- And Estimated average bandwidth;
Both a "this site" value, a "this browser session" value, and (Optionally) if the user decides to share their numbers, Community average bandwidth for this site, Community average bandwidth for this ISP, and Community average for this site on this ISP.
If Community average for this site on this ISP is more than a standard deviation below Community average for this site,
Then a little warning exclamation point should appear to the right of the browser bar. On mouseover, and for a few seconds after loading the page, a little warning bubble should appear for a few seconds. "Your internet service provider seems to have below average performance in loading this page."
So tcp 80 won't be throttled but whatever netflix (or whatever) uses will be -
I rather doubt Bush was stupid as the Left made him out to be. And I rather doubt Obama is as smart as the Left wants him to be.
What I can tell you, is that as bad as GWB was (awful), he at least tried to pretend to do his job, while Obama seems to be going from Fundraiser to Vacation to Fundraiser to Golf to HipHop to Basketball, while the world is burning around him.
Rome is burning, and he is the new Nero.
You didn't actually pay attention to my response and you choose instead to continue to rant about left and right.
I'll say it again. There is no more left and right. If you think that there is then you, along with too many Americans, are caught up in a waste of time nonsense game of who gets to pretend to have power.
How, exactly, does advanced math help anyone not actually working in some STEM related field in the modern world?
Unless you're talking about basic finance, understanding interest rates, rates of return and so forth - but for me this is not 'advanced' math.
Since the article was mentioning STEM degrees, the definition of 'advanced' math here is college level math. That basically means calculus and statistics, and then even more advanced as you start 300+ level courses. Most STEM degrees only require about 3-5 math courses, although math is often applied in many other courses taught in a STEM degree. I was a Physics major, and I did just as much math in my physics courses as I did in my math courses.
And as I mentioned in another post, math teaches logical thought, the use of precise definitions, the use of careful and rigorous arguments, etc. It is not the ability to do integrations that's important, it is the act of learning how to do integrations that matters. Or at least that is how the argument goes (which I agree with).
The same argument might be used to justify learning chess or debating legal positions or, indeed, any activity that requires logical thought and planning.
So not sure I agree with you that schools should teach higher math for this reason but okay, I understand your reasoning.
The lure of a liberal arts degree has always been to have a very well rounded education that just makes you a smarter person instead of just teaching a certain profession. In today's technological world, STEM education is performing a very similar role. Learning high level math provides extreme advances in our current economy regardless of your actual job.
Hopefully colleges start to understand this and increase the level of math that all college graduates are required to learn. Perhaps in 20 years the average Gen Ed requirements of a Bachelors will require 20+ credits of math related courses to help prepare students for the modern world.
How, exactly, does advanced math help anyone not actually working in some STEM related field in the modern world?
Unless you're talking about basic finance, understanding interest rates, rates of return and so forth - but for me this is not 'advanced' math.
From the Vice article, this sounds a lot like a robotic polygraph - the article directly mentions using "electrodes to measure cardiographic and electrodermal responses".. which is essentially what a polygraph does. I can't imagine that a robot will be any more effective at applying baseless pseudoscience than a human would - in fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the number of people who have their careers ruined due to a failed polygraph is higher with the robot than with a human "interpreter".
Wouldn't it be much more efficient to just eliminate the polygraph altogether?
This isn't about efficiency. It's about removing the human element as much as possible, allowing those at the top to not worry that those underneath might slip one by them deliberately.
1st. Left? What left? 2nd. Created under right and the left hated it, extended under left and the right hated it. So you still think you have some say in this?
Only a fool will think that if you do the same thing over and over again, you will get a different result. Voting R one time and D the next time and then R again and back to D is not doing things differently. Building a guilotine and off with their heads if they do not perform as promissed is doing things differently.
Have to wonder how many supporters of anyone other than R and D are going to be on this watchlist.
Created under GWB, and the left hated it, extended under BHO, and the left goes silent. I'm trying to figure out at what point does principle gets put aside for politics?
More like you're just deaf.
I'm left of center and I was for Obama but the only thing I can say for him over Bush is that he's not literally stupid.
There is no more left and right in American politics.
I'm sure there are hundreds of people who are dying to be criminalized without due process and live in Russia just to be an American patriot.
There are thousands who are willing to give their lives for 'the American way of life' so yes, there might be more than you would think willing to sacrifice to protect Americans from their own government.
Some places want them to fill lower-level rolls and low pay as it's much cheaper and they locked into the job.
Now maybe if there was say very high H-1b min wage say 100K + COL and forced OT pay (so they can't get the work 2-3 people out of 1 h-1b) that would get rid of a lot of the abuse of the system.
Or just remove the system altogether and let market forces drive up (or keep where they're already at) salaries/rates until Americans actually want the jobs.
Biden said he also learned from his talks with tech's top CEOs that 200,000 of the jobs that companies provide each year to highly-skilled H-1B visa holders could in fact be done by Americans with no more than a two-year community college degree
So perhaps he can reconcile those two concepts and explain why we allow H1Bs when we have MILLIONS of unemployed college grads?
Mr. Biden, I have a word of advice for you - CEOs lie. And not just a little, but as their primary (and sometimes only) qualification. You might not want to go around repeating the crap they spew to try to sway you to do their bidding. It just, y'know, make you look like a little like a Special Olympics winner, if you get my meaning.
You seem to have forgotten the primary (and sometimes only) qualification of politicians.
Hey, working 60+ hours per week is a bona fide occupational qualification for some jobs! These immigrants are just filling jobs that Americans don't want to do for the salaries that companies want to pay - and can get away with paying to H1B visa holders
FTFY
I can't count the number of times I've recently been approached by Indian service companies for contracts I would have taken if it weren't for the rates on offer.
I'm guessing they're keeping count of how many people turn down how many jobs/contracts and use this as justification to demand temporary visas.
If this happens to anyone else I suggest that when they say "Oh so you're not interested?" that instead of answering 'No' answer instead 'Yes but I want my rate of X per hour/day/year'.
Only 1.5 TB and it will run on ANYTHING (with 8x8 core processors and 32GB of RAM). Of course it still comes in 24 different variations that all licensed differently.
You laugh but the trend in network devices at the moment is to build the hardware once and then license different throughput levels. (i.e. Cisco 4451X, Juniper MX5)
At least it's still opt-in which is better than a site that states 'Use of this site implies acceptance of our policy' and your only choice is to use the site or not.
And before you reply 'Just don't use the site' that isn't always an option - i.e. sites that are needed to support one's work.
"Phishing emails are without a doubt one of the biggest security issues consumers and businesses face today."
Only on Microsoft Windows, the Operating System that made clicking on a URL or opening an email attachment dangerous. Mainly because Windows doesn't know the difference between OPEN and RUN. If you want to be safe doing your online banking then use a LiveCD
A live CD isn't going to help against a redirect attack and subsequent harvest of your login credentials.
The only real protection for this type of attack is if your banks, credit card companies, etc. and you use one time passwords (i.e. one or more tokens of some sort)
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My non-jewish family was victimized by fascism. But I don't run around yelling "I'm offended!" every time the subject is brought up. My family moved on 5 decades ago, and I still think it took the a bloody long time to do it.
Seriously, stop it. Just let it go and move on. You're doing nobody any good.
On the other hand it may give the survivors of Palestine a legal basis to demand restitution from Israel if ever justice be done. (Which I doubt...just sayin').
The problem is that in terms of mathematical relativity, the fighting in Gaza is not a terribly important ongoing conflict.
There are an *exponentially* larger number of ongoing casualties in Syria. Where is the outrage?
There are more ongoing casualties in Sudan, Pakistan and other non-reported conflicts as well. Where are the street protests?
Selective outrage is inherently indicative of a motivation *other* than humanitarian concern.
Great stats here: http://notquant.com/the-israel...
We must care about civilian casualties. But we must not care more about some casualties over others.
You are right, there should be outrage wherever there is holocaust and genocide. I think the difference here is in the hypocrisy of the Israelis given their own treatment at the hands of those more powerful than themselves. Or perhaps the difference is in how one sided this conflict is, with Israel effectively slaughtering the Palestinians like cattle in a pen.
"More children than Palestinian fighters are being killed in the offensive on Gaza, according to the latest United Nations statistics
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
"...a conflict that has claimed more than 1,000 Palestinian lives, mostly civilians. Around 40 Israelis, most of the soldiers, have also been killed."
http://www.france24.com/en/201...
The Israelis are doing to the Palestinians what the Germans did to them, if in smaller numbers.
I do not support Hamas' methods at all, and so I do not support Hamas.
I also do not support Israel's complete disregard for (non-Jewish) civilian human life.
Netflix uses http and https, mostly off of Amazon cloud services.
Okay - does that change what I said in any way?
It is also possible the the VPN packets are transiting a different upstream peer from Verizon and bypassing the peering bottleneck at issue. Assuming that Verizon is performing inspection of packets and throttling only Netflix packets is quite a leap.
My understanding is that Netflix peers directly with Verizon so unless the VPN was to a Netflix IP across the same interco between Verizon and Netflix then the traffic would have to take a longer path to get to Netflix to start with.
For the same reason, Verizon may have rate limiting / shaping / whatever to police traffic down to whatever value they want on the direct peering links which wouldn't be visible to anyone outside Verizon.
Even if traffic were to take the same path it would be easy to rate limit / police / shape / whatever based on protocol ports (or NBAR or the equivalent).
SO when you pay for that service it says something like "up to 75mbps" which in reality means that the speed test and google's home page could see that much speed and everyone else will look like dial up from the 1990's.
I have a suggestion.... Web browsers should take some measurements and display prominently in a visible status bar or other location.... average TCP throughput --- And Estimated average bandwidth;
Both a "this site" value, a "this browser session" value, and (Optionally) if the user decides to share their numbers,
Community average bandwidth for this site, Community average bandwidth for this ISP, and Community average for this site on this ISP.
If Community average for this site on this ISP is more than a standard deviation below Community average for this site,
Then a little warning exclamation point should appear to the right of the browser bar.
On mouseover, and for a few seconds after loading the page, a little warning bubble should appear for a few seconds.
"Your internet service provider seems to have below average performance in loading this page."
So tcp 80 won't be throttled but whatever netflix (or whatever) uses will be -
These almost certainly aren't real loses, just tax loses. The profits have all just been shifted offshore as the big multinationals do now.
Yeah, that probably explains the vast majority of the cases.
I actually had to leave the (open) office after reading this and snorting laughter loud enough that about twenty people here turned to look at me.
Thanks for that :-D
Do you still drive a 70's car?
If the price of a new car was $180M, I would definitely stick with my trusty 70s car.
Depends on if you're up against other 70s cars or something more recent that could wipe your muscle car off the road.
What's the requirement?
What's the cost of meeting the requirement?
From TFA: "If a golf ball were to fly fast enough, it would be better off with a smooth skin."
The dimples make things better at low speeds, and worse at high speeds.
And thus the 'morphing' aspect of the proposition. Smooth when fast, dimpled when not so fast.
I rather doubt Bush was stupid as the Left made him out to be. And I rather doubt Obama is as smart as the Left wants him to be.
What I can tell you, is that as bad as GWB was (awful), he at least tried to pretend to do his job, while Obama seems to be going from Fundraiser to Vacation to Fundraiser to Golf to HipHop to Basketball, while the world is burning around him.
Rome is burning, and he is the new Nero.
You didn't actually pay attention to my response and you choose instead to continue to rant about left and right.
I'll say it again. There is no more left and right. If you think that there is then you, along with too many Americans, are caught up in a waste of time nonsense game of who gets to pretend to have power.
How, exactly, does advanced math help anyone not actually working in some STEM related field in the modern world?
Unless you're talking about basic finance, understanding interest rates, rates of return and so forth - but for me this is not 'advanced' math.
Since the article was mentioning STEM degrees, the definition of 'advanced' math here is college level math. That basically means calculus and statistics, and then even more advanced as you start 300+ level courses. Most STEM degrees only require about 3-5 math courses, although math is often applied in many other courses taught in a STEM degree. I was a Physics major, and I did just as much math in my physics courses as I did in my math courses.
And as I mentioned in another post, math teaches logical thought, the use of precise definitions, the use of careful and rigorous arguments, etc. It is not the ability to do integrations that's important, it is the act of learning how to do integrations that matters. Or at least that is how the argument goes (which I agree with).
The same argument might be used to justify learning chess or debating legal positions or, indeed, any activity that requires logical thought and planning.
So not sure I agree with you that schools should teach higher math for this reason but okay, I understand your reasoning.
The lure of a liberal arts degree has always been to have a very well rounded education that just makes you a smarter person instead of just teaching a certain profession. In today's technological world, STEM education is performing a very similar role. Learning high level math provides extreme advances in our current economy regardless of your actual job.
Hopefully colleges start to understand this and increase the level of math that all college graduates are required to learn. Perhaps in 20 years the average Gen Ed requirements of a Bachelors will require 20+ credits of math related courses to help prepare students for the modern world.
How, exactly, does advanced math help anyone not actually working in some STEM related field in the modern world?
Unless you're talking about basic finance, understanding interest rates, rates of return and so forth - but for me this is not 'advanced' math.
How much virtual money is your virtual life worth? 10k fakecoins and I'll help you escape...
From the Vice article, this sounds a lot like a robotic polygraph - the article directly mentions using "electrodes to measure cardiographic and electrodermal responses".. which is essentially what a polygraph does. I can't imagine that a robot will be any more effective at applying baseless pseudoscience than a human would - in fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the number of people who have their careers ruined due to a failed polygraph is higher with the robot than with a human "interpreter".
Wouldn't it be much more efficient to just eliminate the polygraph altogether?
This isn't about efficiency. It's about removing the human element as much as possible, allowing those at the top to not worry that those underneath might slip one by them deliberately.
1st. Left? What left?
2nd. Created under right and the left hated it, extended under left and the right hated it.
So you still think you have some say in this?
Only a fool will think that if you do the same thing over and over again, you will get a different result.
Voting R one time and D the next time and then R again and back to D is not doing things differently. Building a guilotine and off with their heads if they do not perform as promissed is doing things differently.
Have to wonder how many supporters of anyone other than R and D are going to be on this watchlist.
Created under GWB, and the left hated it, extended under BHO, and the left goes silent. I'm trying to figure out at what point does principle gets put aside for politics?
More like you're just deaf.
I'm left of center and I was for Obama but the only thing I can say for him over Bush is that he's not literally stupid.
There is no more left and right in American politics.
I'm sure there are hundreds of people who are dying to be criminalized without due process and live in Russia just to be an American patriot.
There are thousands who are willing to give their lives for 'the American way of life' so yes, there might be more than you would think willing to sacrifice to protect Americans from their own government.
At least, we can hope.
Racist.
Some places want them to fill lower-level rolls and low pay as it's much cheaper and they locked into the job.
Now maybe if there was say very high H-1b min wage say 100K + COL and forced OT pay (so they can't get the work 2-3 people out of 1 h-1b) that would get rid of a lot of the abuse of the system.
Or just remove the system altogether and let market forces drive up (or keep where they're already at) salaries/rates until Americans actually want the jobs.
Biden said he also learned from his talks with tech's top CEOs that 200,000 of the jobs that companies provide each year to highly-skilled H-1B visa holders could in fact be done by Americans with no more than a two-year community college degree
So perhaps he can reconcile those two concepts and explain why we allow H1Bs when we have MILLIONS of unemployed college grads?
Mr. Biden, I have a word of advice for you - CEOs lie. And not just a little, but as their primary (and sometimes only) qualification. You might not want to go around repeating the crap they spew to try to sway you to do their bidding. It just, y'know, make you look like a little like a Special Olympics winner, if you get my meaning.
You seem to have forgotten the primary (and sometimes only) qualification of politicians.
Hey, working 60+ hours per week is a bona fide occupational qualification for some jobs! These immigrants are just filling jobs that Americans don't want to do for the salaries that companies want to pay - and can get away with paying to H1B visa holders
FTFY
I can't count the number of times I've recently been approached by Indian service companies for contracts I would have taken if it weren't for the rates on offer.
I'm guessing they're keeping count of how many people turn down how many jobs/contracts and use this as justification to demand temporary visas.
If this happens to anyone else I suggest that when they say "Oh so you're not interested?" that instead of answering 'No' answer instead 'Yes but I want my rate of X per hour/day/year'.
Only 1.5 TB and it will run on ANYTHING (with 8x8 core processors and 32GB of RAM). Of course it still comes in 24 different variations that all licensed differently.
You laugh but the trend in network devices at the moment is to build the hardware once and then license different throughput levels. (i.e. Cisco 4451X, Juniper MX5)
Maybe they'll follow Apple, Cisco, Juniper, etc. and the unified windows will be a graphical overlay of *nix.
At least it's still opt-in which is better than a site that states 'Use of this site implies acceptance of our policy' and your only choice is to use the site or not.
And before you reply 'Just don't use the site' that isn't always an option - i.e. sites that are needed to support one's work.
"Phishing emails are without a doubt one of the biggest security issues consumers and businesses face today."
Only on Microsoft Windows, the Operating System that made clicking on a URL or opening an email attachment dangerous. Mainly because Windows doesn't know the difference between OPEN and RUN. If you want to be safe doing your online banking then use a LiveCD
A live CD isn't going to help against a redirect attack and subsequent harvest of your login credentials.
The only real protection for this type of attack is if your banks, credit card companies, etc. and you use one time passwords (i.e. one or more tokens of some sort)