Not true.. IF you had a funded government contract, you got (or will) get paid for work done/hours worked.
If you got sent home because there was no work to do, too bad you are a contractor but it was your choice. That's the risk of contracting, you can be let go at a moment's notice. Sucks to be you, but I'm not going to cry crocodile tears for your losing 4 weeks worth of work and if you don't have enough resources stashed away for such contract interruptions, you are crazy or inept. IF a contractor lives paycheck to paycheck how on earth will they survive when their contract is not renewed? Not a good idea.
Actually, it's not a good idea to live paycheck to paycheck anyway, I don't care who you are. One should always have 3-6 months of living expenses (not income, minimum living expenses) on hand. Layoffs happen, contacts end, accidents happen and unemployment takes time to get. I can attest that it's not a matter of IF, but WHEN it will happen to you. Nearly all of us will lose a job one or more times in our careers. Be ready. Bankruptcy is a royal pain and ruins your live for a decade. Don't do it.
Backups are quite often useless and offline backups are usually weeks if not months old and take many hours to restore. Some 70% of "backups" turn out to be broken in some way or another, including not actually backing up the right data, not backing up data that's in a restorable format, and when compressed (as is often done) has unrecoverable bit errors or dropouts that render the whole backup set as good as empty.
Why? Few folks take the time to do backups right, verify they can read the data off the media clean, verify they got the right data and verify they know how to restore it. Even fewer regularly review their backups to keep up with the ever changing system configurations, including doing all the testing outlined before so MOST backups are junk.
Also, depending on how nasty they were being, they might have lurked long enough to poison the offline backups too. People tend to not actually check them till something goes wrong.
AND, when they check, some 70% turn out to be insufficient or not restorable. Most turn out to be nearly useless for anything but giving you a warm fuzzy feeling as you trot them off to offsite storage.
Having a backup plan is one thing, TESTING your backup plan is the next level.... However, revising your backup plan and TESTING your backups are restorable on a regular basis is the only way to know it will work when the chips are down. IF you don't do all this work, it's NOT really backed up, regardless of how many tapes you put into storage.
True, it is not unique to college age kids. It's just more common to that age due to the normal development of the human brain. I too have run into older adults who think they know everything when they obviously don't. It just becomes less and less common as age goes up.
Of course, some professions attract these "I know it all, my opinion trumps any facts" people. I'm thinking of politicians, who often think they just happen to *know* something about everything and cannot keep themselves from addressing "the issues" even if they've not versed in even the rudimentary understanding of the subject.
It doesn't matter what you're doing, but there is an old saying about not keeping all of your eggs in one basket. Sometimes even incredibly intelligent people are capable of horrible foolishness.
Yea, I've done some stupid stuff with my money too. This guy learned his lesson I suppose, shame about the money he lost, but as the saying goes, "A fool and his money are soon parted" to which I add, "especially for greedy fools." I suppose it could have been worse, he could have sunk it into cash and moved it that way. I don't feel too sorry for him, he took his chances and lost on a really strange turn of events.
When you take your chances to avoid a couple of bucks of fees, you MIGHT want to consider any number of ways to do this kind of transfer that don't involve the risk of loosing it all...Maybe it would be good to do the move in chunks, moving only part of it each time or using multiple methods?
LOL.. It's thinking like that which will get a war started.
I can tell you that shooting at satellites you don't own is likely to be interpreted as a prelude to war, if not a declaration of war. As such, I'd bet the Russians would be unlikely to do that.
However, what they *might* do is some jamming to disrupt communications without doing any lasting damage. "Oh, so your Yankee satellite was broken for awhile? Too bad. You should have used ours, they don't break like yours.. "
To be fair.... These type of gotcha "man on the street" interviews are very self serving to the interviewer's position.
There are a pile of folks who whish to believe they are "in the know" and it's not hard to find somebody who *thinks* they are more knowledgeable than they really are. Such "I know everything" is common among college age people, who have still not completely developed their adult mental capacity and still have the adolescent tendencies. It's an age and maturity thing.
I remember when I was younger, I knew a lot more then than I know now, at least in my estimates. I grew up, realized my knowledge is limited, and my attitudes changed quite a bit, listening more, being slower to answer, and prone to actually looking up the facts for myself before running off my mouth on stuff I don't know anything about.
Well, unless they cut all phone and other telecom connections as well as jam around the border....
Well, then there are all the satellite based "backup" circuits and services you'd need to disrupt too. Good luck...
I think the Russians would be ill advised to try blocking all these paths, but it sure would be interesting to observe them trying. The amount of stuff we could learn about their capabilities would be invaluable. Please Mr. Putin, Please do this. Show us what ya got.
Tesla's scheme wasn't going to work. The amount of energy he could transfer over any reasonable distance was exceedingly small and took HUGE amounts of input power.
However, in Tesla's day this wasn't as clearly understood as it is now. I don't blame Tesla for trying, but he really did go nuts about it and blew all his money chasing a pipe dream. Shame how he ended up destitute and bankrupt.
I'm asking a serious question here, help me understand how this is possible...
The melting is at the BOTTOM of the glacier, where the effects of climate change are at the absolute lowest, being isolated from the air above by many feet of ice, snow and other stuff. Plus, the ice that's now melted was frozen and buried centuries ago. Plus, this is now a void, so one presumes that the conductive water flowing between the rocks below and the ice above is gone.
How is this due to global warming?
Seems to me that this void would be from the earth below is warmer at this spot than in others... But that's geothermal changes, not climate change. Is that wrong? If so, how do we know what caused this?
Will prices go up? As sure as the sun shines during the day....
Don't forget though that building out a 5G network to replace Sprint and T-Mobile's existing is what this merger thing is really about. Both companies own existing spectrum space, tower space and a subscriber base that will make the transition to 5G over time. Having a bigger network is an advantage when dealing with equipment vendors, having a larger subscriber base allows these costs to be passed on at a lower cost per subscriber, and having spectrum space that overlaps in may places makes the logistics easier.
But you are right, it's going to cost subscribers more and cost some their jobs if the merger happens... But the question really should be if this price increase will be more that it would have been had the merger not happened? On that question, the answer is less clear.
And how do you propose you train that neural net? Neural nets require training and that requires real world data, and quite a bit of it. They don't just work out of the box... You cannot just slap a neural net into some process, expect to get meaningful results without training, and call it AI.
Just because somebody imagines using AI like tools for automating some decision making, does not mean that it works like you imagine or that it's now magically AI based solution to the problem. AI is only a solution to specific kinds of problems, and specific AI tools are only usable in specific situations.
When the server is off shore and not owned by a US company?
Yes, moron. Believe it or not, foreign corporations are fined by the US all the time.
But do they pay? Unless they have some kind of assets in the USA, why would they? Fines are only a deterrent when they can be forcibly collected, AND when they are large enough to sufficiently impact profits.
When the server is off shore and not owned by a US company?
Protect yourself if you don't want to be tracked... Don't count on the good intentions of the sites you visit... If they want to track you, they will. Even if they don't set out to track you, they likely will collect a lot of information about you in their web server logs and *somebody* can track you if they get the logs and wanted to.
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Or.. DO know what they are doing, but are too lazy to actually make it work and are now trying to justify the funding because they spent it on pizza.
Is it just me, or can you hear them shouting that (and gesturing)?
I'm hearing the sounds of hot tar and feathers myself...
Bravo... I applaud your life choices and financial self sufficiency. Everybody should be like you.
And no, I'm not identifying who...
Well, what did you THINK would happen? Idiots..
Not true.. IF you had a funded government contract, you got (or will) get paid for work done/hours worked.
If you got sent home because there was no work to do, too bad you are a contractor but it was your choice. That's the risk of contracting, you can be let go at a moment's notice. Sucks to be you, but I'm not going to cry crocodile tears for your losing 4 weeks worth of work and if you don't have enough resources stashed away for such contract interruptions, you are crazy or inept. IF a contractor lives paycheck to paycheck how on earth will they survive when their contract is not renewed? Not a good idea.
Actually, it's not a good idea to live paycheck to paycheck anyway, I don't care who you are. One should always have 3-6 months of living expenses (not income, minimum living expenses) on hand. Layoffs happen, contacts end, accidents happen and unemployment takes time to get. I can attest that it's not a matter of IF, but WHEN it will happen to you. Nearly all of us will lose a job one or more times in our careers. Be ready. Bankruptcy is a royal pain and ruins your live for a decade. Don't do it.
So do we agree that "Facebook's user agreement sucks."
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/10/senator-to-zuckerberg-your-user-agreement-sucks.html
Before you vote "yes" remember the guy who said this to the Zuck was a Republican Senator. Surprised?
offsite tape backup is sounding good right about now
Don't worry, the admin was E-mailing the backups to himself every night for safe keeping...
Plot twist: the last remaining copy of the encryption key is backed up on the encrypted backup tapes.
Yea, but it's "12345".... What idiot uses THAT as a combination?
Remind me to change the combination on my luggage..
No offsite backups? No tapes????
Who designed the disaster plan for these guys?
No, no.. The Admin E-mailed the backups to himself every night.... They are all in his inbox... Don't worry, he encrypted them.
Backups are quite often useless and offline backups are usually weeks if not months old and take many hours to restore. Some 70% of "backups" turn out to be broken in some way or another, including not actually backing up the right data, not backing up data that's in a restorable format, and when compressed (as is often done) has unrecoverable bit errors or dropouts that render the whole backup set as good as empty.
Why? Few folks take the time to do backups right, verify they can read the data off the media clean, verify they got the right data and verify they know how to restore it. Even fewer regularly review their backups to keep up with the ever changing system configurations, including doing all the testing outlined before so MOST backups are junk.
Also, depending on how nasty they were being, they might have lurked long enough to poison the offline backups too. People tend to not actually check them till something goes wrong.
AND, when they check, some 70% turn out to be insufficient or not restorable. Most turn out to be nearly useless for anything but giving you a warm fuzzy feeling as you trot them off to offsite storage.
Having a backup plan is one thing, TESTING your backup plan is the next level.... However, revising your backup plan and TESTING your backups are restorable on a regular basis is the only way to know it will work when the chips are down. IF you don't do all this work, it's NOT really backed up, regardless of how many tapes you put into storage.
True, it is not unique to college age kids. It's just more common to that age due to the normal development of the human brain. I too have run into older adults who think they know everything when they obviously don't. It just becomes less and less common as age goes up.
Of course, some professions attract these "I know it all, my opinion trumps any facts" people. I'm thinking of politicians, who often think they just happen to *know* something about everything and cannot keep themselves from addressing "the issues" even if they've not versed in even the rudimentary understanding of the subject.
It doesn't matter what you're doing, but there is an old saying about not keeping all of your eggs in one basket. Sometimes even incredibly intelligent people are capable of horrible foolishness.
Yea, I've done some stupid stuff with my money too. This guy learned his lesson I suppose, shame about the money he lost, but as the saying goes, "A fool and his money are soon parted" to which I add, "especially for greedy fools." I suppose it could have been worse, he could have sunk it into cash and moved it that way. I don't feel too sorry for him, he took his chances and lost on a really strange turn of events.
When you take your chances to avoid a couple of bucks of fees, you MIGHT want to consider any number of ways to do this kind of transfer that don't involve the risk of loosing it all...Maybe it would be good to do the move in chunks, moving only part of it each time or using multiple methods?
LOL.. It's thinking like that which will get a war started.
I can tell you that shooting at satellites you don't own is likely to be interpreted as a prelude to war, if not a declaration of war. As such, I'd bet the Russians would be unlikely to do that.
However, what they *might* do is some jamming to disrupt communications without doing any lasting damage. "Oh, so your Yankee satellite was broken for awhile? Too bad. You should have used ours, they don't break like yours.. "
I guess when you're running low on real intelligence, you have to resort to artificial.
Why not? It apparently works for tans....
Ah come on... I'm making a joke, not a political statement...
To be fair.... These type of gotcha "man on the street" interviews are very self serving to the interviewer's position.
There are a pile of folks who whish to believe they are "in the know" and it's not hard to find somebody who *thinks* they are more knowledgeable than they really are. Such "I know everything" is common among college age people, who have still not completely developed their adult mental capacity and still have the adolescent tendencies. It's an age and maturity thing.
I remember when I was younger, I knew a lot more then than I know now, at least in my estimates. I grew up, realized my knowledge is limited, and my attitudes changed quite a bit, listening more, being slower to answer, and prone to actually looking up the facts for myself before running off my mouth on stuff I don't know anything about.
Well, unless they cut all phone and other telecom connections as well as jam around the border....
Well, then there are all the satellite based "backup" circuits and services you'd need to disrupt too. Good luck...
I think the Russians would be ill advised to try blocking all these paths, but it sure would be interesting to observe them trying. The amount of stuff we could learn about their capabilities would be invaluable. Please Mr. Putin, Please do this. Show us what ya got.
A whole bunch of malware/ransomware will stop working... The real question will be how much stuff in the USA will stop because of this?
Yes, sir, Mr. Putin sir.. This will be a very interesting test.
Personally, I figure, even Russia doesn't have enough control over it's internet connectivity to actually isolate themselves fully.
Tesla's scheme wasn't going to work. The amount of energy he could transfer over any reasonable distance was exceedingly small and took HUGE amounts of input power.
However, in Tesla's day this wasn't as clearly understood as it is now. I don't blame Tesla for trying, but he really did go nuts about it and blew all his money chasing a pipe dream. Shame how he ended up destitute and bankrupt.
I'm asking a serious question here, help me understand how this is possible...
The melting is at the BOTTOM of the glacier, where the effects of climate change are at the absolute lowest, being isolated from the air above by many feet of ice, snow and other stuff. Plus, the ice that's now melted was frozen and buried centuries ago. Plus, this is now a void, so one presumes that the conductive water flowing between the rocks below and the ice above is gone.
How is this due to global warming?
Seems to me that this void would be from the earth below is warmer at this spot than in others... But that's geothermal changes, not climate change. Is that wrong? If so, how do we know what caused this?
Will prices go up? As sure as the sun shines during the day....
Don't forget though that building out a 5G network to replace Sprint and T-Mobile's existing is what this merger thing is really about. Both companies own existing spectrum space, tower space and a subscriber base that will make the transition to 5G over time. Having a bigger network is an advantage when dealing with equipment vendors, having a larger subscriber base allows these costs to be passed on at a lower cost per subscriber, and having spectrum space that overlaps in may places makes the logistics easier.
But you are right, it's going to cost subscribers more and cost some their jobs if the merger happens... But the question really should be if this price increase will be more that it would have been had the merger not happened? On that question, the answer is less clear.
And how do you propose you train that neural net? Neural nets require training and that requires real world data, and quite a bit of it. They don't just work out of the box... You cannot just slap a neural net into some process, expect to get meaningful results without training, and call it AI.
Just because somebody imagines using AI like tools for automating some decision making, does not mean that it works like you imagine or that it's now magically AI based solution to the problem. AI is only a solution to specific kinds of problems, and specific AI tools are only usable in specific situations.
And this is what passes as AI in the press? What you describe isn't AI, but something else. Oh the uneducated masses..
Yes, moron. Believe it or not, foreign corporations are fined by the US all the time.
But do they pay? Unless they have some kind of assets in the USA, why would they? Fines are only a deterrent when they can be forcibly collected, AND when they are large enough to sufficiently impact profits.
When the server is off shore and not owned by a US company?
Protect yourself if you don't want to be tracked... Don't count on the good intentions of the sites you visit... If they want to track you, they will. Even if they don't set out to track you, they likely will collect a lot of information about you in their web server logs and *somebody* can track you if they get the logs and wanted to.