The english don't handle english traffic that well. There was a 200 car pileup last week just outside london, mostly attributable to travelling too fast and following too close in poor conditions (fog).
There was a similar mass crash 2 years ago between london and bristol, for the same reasons (smoke drifted across the motorway) which had a fairly high death toll.
I've had BMW X5 drivers (they seem to be the worst offenders) so close up my ass in high speed traffic that you couild lean out the rear door and touch them. This kind of agressive driving would never be tolerated in the USA, but it's common in the UK, even at 85-90mph (forget the speed limits, that's what people travel at)
Even better use a long-lived perl process and feed that (Spamd, etc). Perl's startup load can overwhemly even a lightly loaded mailserver if there are a bunch of parallel invokations.
2nd, 3rded and amen to the suggestion to use spam assassin. It's mature. The rulesets are updated regularly and it works. Greylisting is becoming less effective with every passing year.
The vast majority of actual "spying" and intelligence gathering requires many hours reading newspapers and correllating stories. It's the little things which let slip that something's up. 90% of spy work used to be carried out at library reading rooms, I'd say it's now 80% and add 10% trawling contact metadata.
Yes, there are some "Bonds", but they're a last resort, disposable and used only when everything else has failed.
Field agents _are_ disposable. It's part of the unwritten rules of conduct. The spymasters will kill them as quickly as the "enemy" should they prove to be a liability.
Mi5 have never, _ever_ in their 100 year history actually managed to catch a real, honest to god spy on their own cognisance.
They've been handed a few on a silver platter and made a great fuss about it, but they've falsely branded a far greater number of people as spies (and eventually had that blow back on them). They seem to mainly exist as a place to hide incompetent and paranoid civil servants. Arnold RImmer would be perfectly at home there.
You're being buttraped. I pay 1c/min for calls to the other side of the world (or $5/month for unmetered calls to most of the western world including to anywhere in North America)
"Lastly, consider that ICANN is definitely the most inept entity in existence."
Perhaps, but the mover and shaker behind the policy (their last chair) is now working for a registrar and has a long history of shady dealings
This isn't ineptitude. It's a cynical ploy to milk the system for all it's worth, as most large companies feel obligated to register their brandname in EVERY top level in order to defend their trademarks - ICANN doesn't benefit much but the registrars sure as hell do.
"if a "pretty girl" decided to flash her chest at male drivers at a busy intersection, and there was an accident, I'd say it would be pretty likely that, in addition to any indecency charges, the woman would be held partly accountable for the carnage"
I know of a couple of cases where this DID happen. The women concerned were convicted of causing a traffic hazard (no indecency charges were laid).
I'm lactose intolerant(*) but it just gives me cramps and a little bit of gas(**). There's a big difference between intolerant and allergic.
OTOH, I've seen what happens when XYZ food manufacturer runs out of cornflour when making gluten-free product and substitutes wheatflour. Reactions among several coeliac friends ranged from cramps to 3 days in hospital.
(*) MOST adult humans are lactose intolerant. Only Mongolians and Caucasians have developed the mutations which keeps them producing rennin. The issue is that uncleaved lactose molecules pass into the bowel where bacteria can feed on it and generate gas.
(**) My reaction is typical. Those who get violently ill are probably allergic to caesein proteins, not lactose intolerant.
I agree this is a case of chicken little. Perhaps people might like to bear in mind that other than direct victims of the nuclear blasts (and their descendants), the rates of cancer in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 2-3% over background levels and so far there hasn't been any detectable increase in cancer rates in western european areas which were under the Chernobyl cloud.
I think they're more concerned about the 20,000 people who died in the tsunami and the hundreds of thousands whose homes were trashed by it than the ZERO people who died in the meltdown and cleanup efforts.
The latest radiation leak is so small you could go swimming in the ponds without ill effects. There's a whole load of hysteria for what's on par with dropping a radium-dial watch in a swimming pool.
And that's a 40 year old design which was beyond end-of-life. Yes there's a lot of cleanup to deal with but noone's in danger and you get more radiation exposure living in Helsinki for a year from the local granites than most people will ever get around the reactors even with the radiation leaks (Most of what's leaking is Alpha-emitting so it's only dangerous if ingested or on your skin. The gamma levels are about 1/10-1/100 of what's reported and even then most of isn't particularly energetic (A lot of the gamma radiation is only at soft-xray photon levels).
"I was reading some Kipling a little while back and in his day a crack express train could reach speeds of up to 70mph. Commuter and freight trains were a lot slower than that. A train that "struggled" to average 100mph would be a wonder to the folks of a hundred years ago."
In the UK, average train journey speeds have slowed since the start of the 20th century. in the 1920s people lived at Brighton and commuted into London with an overall journey time oess less than an hour. Now you'd be lucky to pull it off in 90 minutes.
The solution lies in the way the Dutch have sorted things for heavy commuter routes - there are express trains and local trains. If you need to get to an intermediate point you take the express to the nearest suitable station and catch a local one from there (there are more than 2 levels of trains.)
Yes you have to change trains if you're not at an express station, but it's still way faster than catching the local train that stops at every one horse town along the route for the whole journey. (This also works with their metro/tram/bus routes. The Dutch really do have an integrated transport system)
Musk's system can handle local spurs but the technology to do so is expensive and disruptive to longhaul traffic throughput.
There's already a lot of HSR in europe, but there's also a need for faster trains, better rail freight handling and roll-on-roll-off HSR (people drive long distances mainly so they don't have to rent at the far end) and HSR is already going about as fast as is practical (the limit is air resistance, not the rails - and most of the air resistance encountered on a high speed train is along the sides, not at the front.). Practical HSR needs entirely new trackways so Hyperloop isn't as disadvantaged economically as one might think and there strong arguments for keeping longhaul rail optimised for freight operations.
It's been said that if there was rail transport between spain and morocco, perishable transport operations would go faster and use significantly less carbon than the current airfrieghting operations - as well as bringing economic benefits to most of subsaharan africa. Hyperloop might well extend itself to this kind of work using freight pods.
Overall, the Hyperloop concept is good, but given the amount of systemic corruption in the american political system, it's unlikely to have legs in our lifetimes. I personally doubt the claims about self-sustaining operations off solar but I'd love to be proven wrong.
"It's catching on in Europe and Nokia's cheap models are really starting to move in the lesser developed (i.e. growing) markets."
I live in europe. I have yet to see more than occasional windows phone or tablet in a real users hands. (Disclosure. My tech department has a couple for eval and support. They're not well-liked. Even the resident winboys prefer android for tablets.)
As for nokia, those lesser models you talk about are featurephones, not smartphones running winphone. That's a nobrainer when you can pick up a cheap nokia for $15-30 vs any form of smartphone starting at $175
Is to start spitting out masses of random MACS and overload their database.
(Don't go using harvested MACs, that's naughty.)
I'd buy an app which did that, simply to spite those wankers and put QRcodes on the bins to encourage others to do the same.. Only caveat is that it has to give the genuine MAC when associating with a wanted SSID.
This is not an employer demanding access to the entire facebook account without good reason (which would be slapped down quite hard by a NZ court and a lawyer suggesting it would probably face sanctions)
This is a specific case in employment court where the employer is accusing the employee of "bunking off" during sick leave and the court agreeing that obtaining FB posts for the 2 days in question will help resolve the dispute quickly.
The same logic applies to the demand for bank records for those 2 days - New Zealanders use debit cards a _lot_ and the records for those 2 days will show her approximate location via retail purchases made.
Given that Facebook entries can be deleted, the only reason I can imagine for her resistance up to this point is to ensure the court gets untainted evidence, or that she's been so stressed by their activities that she's naturally uncooperative (this is common in cases of constructive dismissal). Not that it'd help. I use quiet periods in bed when stuck home with flu to update my FB feed as a f'instance.
The alternate (reasonable) explanation is that the employer demanded all records (excessive) and the court has agreed she only needs to provide for the 2 days in question. TFA doesn't give enough detail to explain the background of the order.
The Romans knew full well that lead was bad news in plumbing - IF THE WATER WAS LEFT STANDING - Which is why new installations were left with water flowing in them for several months before being used (this allows a protective layer to form on the lead) and why no roman lead-based plumbing system is fitted with faucets. Cisterns and fountains in particular were never lead-faced.
OTOH they'd dose food with lead salts as a flavour enhancer, which is several hundred times more bad than any lead piping could ever be.
It's not just Indian CV submitters. 80-90% of CVs are padded out with bogon shite. That makes finding people you do want difficult.
We make a point of asking _hard_ technical questions in interviews. It filters out those whose CCNP/MSCE/Oracle/RH/Whatever qualifications are just another piece of paper and leaves us with the the ones who actually know their shit - and the numbers are startling. Fewer than 1 in 30 can answer the questions with women getting particularly offended at being quizzed (One of them actually had the barefaced cheek to tell us she just gets a man to do all that stuff for her.)
As far as the fake companies are concerned, the UK immigration service would absolutely LOVE to know who they are so that they can do something about it. I'd imangine the USA INS would also appreciate tipoffs of that type.
As for submitting someone else's CV as your own: That's fraud, can be prosecuted as such and has been in a few instances. if I found someone submitting my own CV I'd invite them along to an interview amd make sure there the police were attending too.
Which is why H1B outfits pester people with job offers in different cities. ("We can't find anyone in the area and noone wants to move")
I'm not a USA citizen, nor do I have any desire to work on H1B - precisely because it leaves the holder vulnerable to employer diktat on hours, etc etc.
What does surprise me is that a country which was BUILT on immigration is trying so hard to lock the doors to anyone else now trying to come in. It's not exactly "full" and the protectionism which is occurring is precisely why these employment scams can be perpetuated (ie, skilled non-USA-born employees faced with unfair demands should be able to "walk" or negotiate better conditions just as easily as "locals". H1Bs force a lockin on them AND undercut the locals (although to be fair, some locals have higher expectations than they deserve.).
Comments on the quality of "foreign" programmers are noted and agreed with (especially observations along the lines of "4 pages of obfuscated code where only 3 lines are needed), however in a properly free market they wouldn't have been hired in the first place, nor would they be retained for long.
"Can we please get cheap bootable PCIe x4/x8 cards instead of SATA"
Yes. The drive interface format is already available. It'll trickle down to consumer space within 12 months.
Those devices have LARGE flash cells compared with flash cards or SSD. Losing a few hundred electrons doesn't matter. Losing a few hundred electrons at 22nm means the difference between 00/01/10/11
"added marginal value" is being polite. The polited bombs invariably missed due to pilots flinching at the last moment - something that mechanically guided ones don't hav issues with. (plus some payload was sacrificed for the mass of the pilot, plus added complexity of having human-operable controls.)
Japan was in an extremely bad place but the heirarchy was fully aware of the military uselessness of such devices, except as psychological weapons.
The 3D printed rifle is made in CANADA - a country which doesn't have a gun obsession.
For many people it's about the engineering challenges(*), not about 2nd amendment rights - a lof of "gun nuts" are fundamentally unstable people merely using the USA 2nd amendment as convenient cover. You can generally tell which is which by looking at what they choose to use as targets
* Such as containing 20-100,000psi monetary pressure in the breech without blowing up in the operator's face.
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The english don't handle english traffic that well. There was a 200 car pileup last week just outside london, mostly attributable to travelling too fast and following too close in poor conditions (fog).
There was a similar mass crash 2 years ago between london and bristol, for the same reasons (smoke drifted across the motorway) which had a fairly high death toll.
I've had BMW X5 drivers (they seem to be the worst offenders) so close up my ass in high speed traffic that you couild lean out the rear door and touch them. This kind of agressive driving would never be tolerated in the USA, but it's common in the UK, even at 85-90mph (forget the speed limits, that's what people travel at)
"Use Perl."
Even better use a long-lived perl process and feed that (Spamd, etc). Perl's startup load can overwhemly even a lightly loaded mailserver if there are a bunch of parallel invokations.
2nd, 3rded and amen to the suggestion to use spam assassin. It's mature. The rulesets are updated regularly and it works. Greylisting is becoming less effective with every passing year.
The vast majority of actual "spying" and intelligence gathering requires many hours reading newspapers and correllating stories. It's the little things which let slip that something's up. 90% of spy work used to be carried out at library reading rooms, I'd say it's now 80% and add 10% trawling contact metadata.
Yes, there are some "Bonds", but they're a last resort, disposable and used only when everything else has failed.
Field agents _are_ disposable. It's part of the unwritten rules of conduct. The spymasters will kill them as quickly as the "enemy" should they prove to be a liability.
Mi5 have never, _ever_ in their 100 year history actually managed to catch a real, honest to god spy on their own cognisance.
They've been handed a few on a silver platter and made a great fuss about it, but they've falsely branded a far greater number of people as spies (and eventually had that blow back on them). They seem to mainly exist as a place to hide incompetent and paranoid civil servants. Arnold RImmer would be perfectly at home there.
You're being buttraped. I pay 1c/min for calls to the other side of the world (or $5/month for unmetered calls to most of the western world including to anywhere in North America)
"Lastly, consider that ICANN is definitely the most inept entity in existence."
Perhaps, but the mover and shaker behind the policy (their last chair) is now working for a registrar and has a long history of shady dealings
This isn't ineptitude. It's a cynical ploy to milk the system for all it's worth, as most large companies feel obligated to register their brandname in EVERY top level in order to defend their trademarks - ICANN doesn't benefit much but the registrars sure as hell do.
"if a "pretty girl" decided to flash her chest at male drivers at a busy intersection, and there was an accident, I'd say it would be pretty likely that, in addition to any indecency charges, the woman would be held partly accountable for the carnage"
I know of a couple of cases where this DID happen. The women concerned were convicted of causing a traffic hazard (no indecency charges were laid).
"Why couldn't the driver just pull over for a few min to correspond with his boss?"
In most jurisdictions it's an offence to stop on the freeway/motorway in absence of an emergency
Discussions about the USA's exploitative labour laws belong elsewhere. They read like a return to the 1820s.
I'm lactose intolerant(*) but it just gives me cramps and a little bit of gas(**). There's a big difference between intolerant and allergic.
OTOH, I've seen what happens when XYZ food manufacturer runs out of cornflour when making gluten-free product and substitutes wheatflour. Reactions among several coeliac friends ranged from cramps to 3 days in hospital.
(*) MOST adult humans are lactose intolerant. Only Mongolians and Caucasians have developed the mutations which keeps them producing rennin. The issue is that uncleaved lactose molecules pass into the bowel where bacteria can feed on it and generate gas.
(**) My reaction is typical. Those who get violently ill are probably allergic to caesein proteins, not lactose intolerant.
I agree this is a case of chicken little. Perhaps people might like to bear in mind that other than direct victims of the nuclear blasts (and their descendants), the rates of cancer in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 2-3% over background levels and so far there hasn't been any detectable increase in cancer rates in western european areas which were under the Chernobyl cloud.
I think they're more concerned about the 20,000 people who died in the tsunami and the hundreds of thousands whose homes were trashed by it than the ZERO people who died in the meltdown and cleanup efforts.
The latest radiation leak is so small you could go swimming in the ponds without ill effects. There's a whole load of hysteria for what's on par with dropping a radium-dial watch in a swimming pool.
And that's a 40 year old design which was beyond end-of-life. Yes there's a lot of cleanup to deal with but noone's in danger and you get more radiation exposure living in Helsinki for a year from the local granites than most people will ever get around the reactors even with the radiation leaks (Most of what's leaking is Alpha-emitting so it's only dangerous if ingested or on your skin. The gamma levels are about 1/10-1/100 of what's reported and even then most of isn't particularly energetic (A lot of the gamma radiation is only at soft-xray photon levels).
In geological time terms, a cold ocean floor is _very_ recent - concurrent with the onset of ice ages.
"I was reading some Kipling a little while back and in his day a crack express train could reach speeds of up to 70mph. Commuter and freight trains were a lot slower than that. A train that "struggled" to average 100mph would be a wonder to the folks of a hundred years ago."
In the UK, average train journey speeds have slowed since the start of the 20th century. in the 1920s people lived at Brighton and commuted into London with an overall journey time oess less than an hour. Now you'd be lucky to pull it off in 90 minutes.
The solution lies in the way the Dutch have sorted things for heavy commuter routes - there are express trains and local trains. If you need to get to an intermediate point you take the express to the nearest suitable station and catch a local one from there (there are more than 2 levels of trains.)
Yes you have to change trains if you're not at an express station, but it's still way faster than catching the local train that stops at every one horse town along the route for the whole journey. (This also works with their metro/tram/bus routes. The Dutch really do have an integrated transport system)
Musk's system can handle local spurs but the technology to do so is expensive and disruptive to longhaul traffic throughput.
There's already a lot of HSR in europe, but there's also a need for faster trains, better rail freight handling and roll-on-roll-off HSR (people drive long distances mainly so they don't have to rent at the far end) and HSR is already going about as fast as is practical (the limit is air resistance, not the rails - and most of the air resistance encountered on a high speed train is along the sides, not at the front.). Practical HSR needs entirely new trackways so Hyperloop isn't as disadvantaged economically as one might think and there strong arguments for keeping longhaul rail optimised for freight operations.
It's been said that if there was rail transport between spain and morocco, perishable transport operations would go faster and use significantly less carbon than the current airfrieghting operations - as well as bringing economic benefits to most of subsaharan africa. Hyperloop might well extend itself to this kind of work using freight pods.
Overall, the Hyperloop concept is good, but given the amount of systemic corruption in the american political system, it's unlikely to have legs in our lifetimes. I personally doubt the claims about self-sustaining operations off solar but I'd love to be proven wrong.
"It's catching on in Europe and Nokia's cheap models are really starting to move in the lesser developed (i.e. growing) markets."
I live in europe. I have yet to see more than occasional windows phone or tablet in a real users hands. (Disclosure. My tech department has a couple for eval and support. They're not well-liked. Even the resident winboys prefer android for tablets.)
As for nokia, those lesser models you talk about are featurephones, not smartphones running winphone. That's a nobrainer when you can pick up a cheap nokia for $15-30 vs any form of smartphone starting at $175
Is to start spitting out masses of random MACS and overload their database.
(Don't go using harvested MACs, that's naughty.)
I'd buy an app which did that, simply to spite those wankers and put QRcodes on the bins to encourage others to do the same.. Only caveat is that it has to give the genuine MAC when associating with a wanted SSID.
This is not an employer demanding access to the entire facebook account without good reason (which would be slapped down quite hard by a NZ court and a lawyer suggesting it would probably face sanctions)
This is a specific case in employment court where the employer is accusing the employee of "bunking off" during sick leave and the court agreeing that obtaining FB posts for the 2 days in question will help resolve the dispute quickly.
The same logic applies to the demand for bank records for those 2 days - New Zealanders use debit cards a _lot_ and the records for those 2 days will show her approximate location via retail purchases made.
Given that Facebook entries can be deleted, the only reason I can imagine for her resistance up to this point is to ensure the court gets untainted evidence, or that she's been so stressed by their activities that she's naturally uncooperative (this is common in cases of constructive dismissal). Not that it'd help. I use quiet periods in bed when stuck home with flu to update my FB feed as a f'instance.
The alternate (reasonable) explanation is that the employer demanded all records (excessive) and the court has agreed she only needs to provide for the 2 days in question. TFA doesn't give enough detail to explain the background of the order.
The Romans knew full well that lead was bad news in plumbing - IF THE WATER WAS LEFT STANDING - Which is why new installations were left with water flowing in them for several months before being used (this allows a protective layer to form on the lead) and why no roman lead-based plumbing system is fitted with faucets. Cisterns and fountains in particular were never lead-faced.
OTOH they'd dose food with lead salts as a flavour enhancer, which is several hundred times more bad than any lead piping could ever be.
It's not just Indian CV submitters. 80-90% of CVs are padded out with bogon shite. That makes finding people you do want difficult. We make a point of asking _hard_ technical questions in interviews. It filters out those whose CCNP/MSCE/Oracle/RH/Whatever qualifications are just another piece of paper and leaves us with the the ones who actually know their shit - and the numbers are startling. Fewer than 1 in 30 can answer the questions with women getting particularly offended at being quizzed (One of them actually had the barefaced cheek to tell us she just gets a man to do all that stuff for her.) As far as the fake companies are concerned, the UK immigration service would absolutely LOVE to know who they are so that they can do something about it. I'd imangine the USA INS would also appreciate tipoffs of that type. As for submitting someone else's CV as your own: That's fraud, can be prosecuted as such and has been in a few instances. if I found someone submitting my own CV I'd invite them along to an interview amd make sure there the police were attending too.
"No qualified candidate is available locally"
Emphasis on the word locally.
Which is why H1B outfits pester people with job offers in different cities. ("We can't find anyone in the area and noone wants to move")
I'm not a USA citizen, nor do I have any desire to work on H1B - precisely because it leaves the holder vulnerable to employer diktat on hours, etc etc.
What does surprise me is that a country which was BUILT on immigration is trying so hard to lock the doors to anyone else now trying to come in. It's not exactly "full" and the protectionism which is occurring is precisely why these employment scams can be perpetuated (ie, skilled non-USA-born employees faced with unfair demands should be able to "walk" or negotiate better conditions just as easily as "locals". H1Bs force a lockin on them AND undercut the locals (although to be fair, some locals have higher expectations than they deserve.).
Comments on the quality of "foreign" programmers are noted and agreed with (especially observations along the lines of "4 pages of obfuscated code where only 3 lines are needed), however in a properly free market they wouldn't have been hired in the first place, nor would they be retained for long.
"Can we please get cheap bootable PCIe x4/x8 cards instead of SATA" Yes. The drive interface format is already available. It'll trickle down to consumer space within 12 months.
Those devices have LARGE flash cells compared with flash cards or SSD. Losing a few hundred electrons doesn't matter. Losing a few hundred electrons at 22nm means the difference between 00/01/10/11
$1/Gb production cost is NOT the same as $1/Gb on the shop floor. To compete with flash, RRAM will need to be down arounsd 10c/Gb at rollout.
"added marginal value" is being polite. The polited bombs invariably missed due to pilots flinching at the last moment - something that mechanically guided ones don't hav issues with. (plus some payload was sacrificed for the mass of the pilot, plus added complexity of having human-operable controls.)
Japan was in an extremely bad place but the heirarchy was fully aware of the military uselessness of such devices, except as psychological weapons.
The 3D printed rifle is made in CANADA - a country which doesn't have a gun obsession.
For many people it's about the engineering challenges(*), not about 2nd amendment rights - a lof of "gun nuts" are fundamentally unstable people merely using the USA 2nd amendment as convenient cover. You can generally tell which is which by looking at what they choose to use as targets
* Such as containing 20-100,000psi monetary pressure in the breech without blowing up in the operator's face.