Many people are pointing out that you can get an app for a pad or phone that does everything a TI calculator does and then the device itself does many more things.
This is not why the TI has value.
The TI has value because of all the things it *can't* do... while your taking your standardized test. It *can't* text your math savvy buddy across the room for answers. It *can't* google them. etc etc etc.
This is why TI can still charge what they charge. Their calculator is approved for use on the test.
"Some of us dont like things turning themselves back on."
The button does not advertise itself as an off button. It advertises itself as a disconnect button. The button is doing exactly what it says it does when you press it, it is disconnecting. It doesn't turn things off, because it's not an off button nor does it claim to be.
Your argument is: this button, which is clearly does what it is clearly labeled to do doesn't do something it isn't labeled to do.
The anti-apple hate here is just... something else. Two stories on this, really?
So, on iOS there is this control panel you can access when you swipe up from the bottom of the screen. In there is a WiFi logo, that is normally blue if you are connected to WiFi. If I tap it, it disconnects from the currently connected WiFi network. It's really nice for when I decide "hey, I don't want to access this NSFW thing while on the work WiFi" or "the hotspot in my Car (which has a different carrier then my cell phone)" is in a cellular dead spot and I need to disconnect from it. But when I come in range of another known network, the phone will associate with it again (like, when I get home and I'd like my phone using my home WiFi, I don't have to remember to turn it back on).
When you do this you even get a blurb of text on the screen "Disconnecting from {wifi name}." NOT "I've powered the WiFi radios down."
You still CAN actually power the WiFi radios down. You just have to go to Setting -> WiFi -> and flip the off switch. Now they are off, period.
So yea, the button in the control panel really means: disconnect from this wifi network because I don't like it right now.
Bluetooth does the same thing. Tapping that in the control center basically drops all connected devices. But two hours later when you turn your bluetooth headset on, it'll pair up just fine.
Banks, in order to operate with integrity, DO need to keep a transaction ledger. Honest ones had been doing so for centuries before the Bank Secrecy Act.
There is a highly important yet subtle difference here. The Bank Secrecy Act requires banks divulge information they already were keeping.
A similar act given to apple would require them to divulge information about your account (information they are already keeping). But, the newest FaceTime does peer-to-peer VoIP if it can. Is Apple required to engineer a backdoor in to listen to a conversation that *today* they only facilitate the initial call setup? Should they be required to keep an audio copy of the call? Apple currently does not store the call, and if possible they only arbitrate the two phones finding each other (they may not even transit the call audio). This would be like requiring you bank to keep tabs on how you spend your cash.
It's well known that foreign governments are watching this case very closely. It's understood that if the US wins this case, governments like China are going to start requiring backdoors as well.
While Apple winning this case doesn't prevent China, etc from doing so... Apple loosing this case will assuredly open the floodgates to foreign governments all getting their hook in the code.
The AP put newspapers on the path to death decades ago.
If you think about it, The Associated Press was basically an RSS feed of news items for many decades before things like the internet existed. Small papers found that they could subscribe to this feed, and then fire reporters. It kept their papers full of ink, but the AP had hollowed out their organization.
What we realized when the internet happened is: our local hard working news paper wasn't really all that hard working. They were essentially an RSS aggregator, with a few local style pieces tossed in.
What newspapers didn't see coming was technology being able to so easily replace their RSS aggregation functions and cut them out as the middle-man.
What we need to ask ourself is: not how do we save newspapers. How do we support quality content generators and reporters?
But... common... how can our Federal Highway Administration go about researching and the setting a standard for a font... and then be so stupid as to not procure rights to that font and then license them to every other agency/company at no cost?
As a republican... this is the kind of thing I expect my government TO do. I know wikipedia says "It was developed by independent researchers with the help of the Texas Transportation Institute and the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute, under the supervision of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)," why didn't any of these agencies say "So... we're going to pay you a huge pile of money... once... for this font."
The school grouped several classes together into one room to watch the shuttle go up. Mind you this was the mission they were putting a teacher up as part of the crew, so... much hype in the schools about it.
Anyway, room full of kids say K-3rd grade all watching the launch live on TV. Then... boom... and teachers quietly shuffle the kids out of the room and back to their desks.
This is exceptionally dishonest. Do those states have more leniency if you can prove motivated self defense? Yes. Are they shooting galleries? No.
The castle doctrine and family of laws is a (perhaps over reaction) to discretionary prosecution. Many states still have the legal doctrine that you must attempt to flee before you are allowed to respond with deadly force. There are examples of prosecutors who take self-define cases to court after the defendant has retreated all the way to a room like a bathroom, then while their assailant was attempting to come through the door finally returned deadly force. The prosecutors would then take these people to court making the case there was a window they could have attempted to squeeze out of.
Unfortunately the only easy way to say "hey... really? That was them attempting to flee first." Is to make the laws around the definition of when lethal force can be returned very liberal and remove the discretion from the prosecutors.
The emissions problems described are not about CO2 emissions. One of the unfortunate side effects of variable rate internal combustion engines (like the ones in every car) is frequently the burn is not complete, and at other times far too hot. Either of these conditions can cause the production of other components, more then CO2 and Water that would be the intended output of a hydrocarbon + O2 reaction. Things like NO (nitrous oxide), which can combine with atmospheric water and turn it slightly acidic and soot.
Reducing production rates of NO and soot is all about ensuring the engine is fueled properly, and sometimes installing filters in the exhaust system. However, nearly all of these things actually result in a loss of performance AND a loss in fuel efficiency. Filters cause back pressure on the engine, reducing the pumping efficiency and frequently to ensure proper burns you have to fuel the engine *more* to achieve proper temperatures for complete combustion, while also limiting the amount of fuel allowed to be injected when you step on it as this can cause the engine to exceed the optimal temperature zone and produce more things like NO output.
So, yes... to get cleaner air... the engines actually loose both performance and efficiency. None of these are desired by the customers.
I don't really care what classified documents Hillary was emailing with other members of our own government. Yes, I realize that there is a massive risk that foreign governments could have intercepted them. I acknowledge that is a huge risk.
Hillary has repeated several times that all of her emails with the state department, etc are properly documented and could be subject to FOIA requests. This is technically correct, we could get copies of any emails sent to/from Hillary Clinton and other members of our government.
What really concerns me, that I see nobody talking about is: we have no clue and no record that we can trust that documents Hillary Clinton's communications with governments not our own. What were the communications with the head of the State Department was having with Russia, China, Iran, etc? I understand that a great many of these communications may be "classified" or otherwise sensitive and not something for general public consumption today. But we will *never* be able to FOIA such documents 25, 50 or 100 years from now. Our inability to re-construct the details of historical events in the future has been greatly damaged.
The simple fact that even our own president can't say "get me every damn email that Clinton has sent to Russia" should be worrying to everybody.
Because if I choose not to use google, AWS or even NASDAQ to perform the services offered the police don't show up at my house and compel it.
You may say Google and NASDAQ offer services that are difficult to impossible to find elsewhere. Yet there are alternative search engines, and there are ways to trade stock that do not involve NASDAQ. If these companies continue to mess up, their competitors will get more traction. If my government messes up, they still compel me to use their service. The difference while minor at incident #1 can be quite a difference by incident #n.
I think it matters a bit on what you want to do. An awful lot of the "heavy lifting" math intensive stuff has been implemented in the form of shared libraries. Do you want to encrypt data? Knowing more of best practices around session and key management (which isn't a math laden topic) and that you need good entropy for key generation (something you can find implemented in a shared library). So, go find some shared libs with AES and prng (source of random data) and you're likely good.
Do you want to be the guy who makes what replaces AES? Learn to love math.
Really it comes down to: do you want to follow best practices or make them? The more you want to be on the end of making best practices vs gluing together bits and pieces the more really knowing math helps.
Minor correction: Midwest city dwellers are metered. People who live on a farm have to build their own well, pay for the electricity to operate it, and pipe infrastructure.
You know.. I find your reaction to #2 most interesting. Here in Iowa we do pay by the gallon, not much, but usage is metered. The poor do not go unwashed.
But, the metering by the gallon was very effective this summer. Nobody went unwashed, but a lot of lawns were brown.
Honestly, I was stunned when I learned this summer that large sections of California pay flat rate for water. No wonder you abuse/misuse it so much.
Full memory encryption. Set a chip on the memory buss, it encrypts/decrypts all the data as it passes between the CPU and RAM chips. At first this would be something like old MMUs before they were built into the CPU itself. They sit on the address bus and add/subtract offsets. This would sit on the data bus and do some simple crypto. Put a capacitor right next to it, first time the chip powers up it selects a random key, when the motherboard looses power the capacitor keeps the chip running long enough for it to overwrite the key that it was internally storing.
Then if they manage to break into your super secure datacenter, wheal in their tank of liquid nitrogen and pump your server full of it just so they can steal your RAM chips...it still doesn't get them anything.
(If you read the paper, they talk about how if you cool the chips with liquid nitrogen they keep their contents with power off and removed for 'several hours'...they argue that simply modifying the bios to zero at startup isn't sufficient as they may physically *remove* the ram chips before you have a chance to zero them)
I'm the same way. But, I still find that being with a bunch of people while they get drunk to be a lot of fun, just got to make sure that I only down one or two and stop at slightly buzzed and not go any further.
A few months ago I finally left my first IT job, that I had since 16, and held for a bit over 10 years at a fortune 500 company.
It was after I had been at work for a solid week, handling migration issues and outage issues (unrelated, migrating datacenter A to datacenter B while big storage arrays in datacenter C just so happened to be failing). My wife had asked friends to watch our one year old so that she could keep working while our daycare was temporarily closed. These friends just so happened to be IMing me about how nice my kid was while I was also on a conference call where they were chewing me out for 'not being available.' How you get more available then living in your cube for a week...is beyond me.
Oh...and this company is actively attempting to outsource large segments of its IT to India.
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Many people are pointing out that you can get an app for a pad or phone that does everything a TI calculator does and then the device itself does many more things.
This is not why the TI has value.
The TI has value because of all the things it *can't* do ... while your taking your standardized test. It *can't* text your math savvy buddy across the room for answers. It *can't* google them. etc etc etc.
This is why TI can still charge what they charge. Their calculator is approved for use on the test.
"Some of us dont like things turning themselves back on."
The button does not advertise itself as an off button. It advertises itself as a disconnect button. The button is doing exactly what it says it does when you press it, it is disconnecting. It doesn't turn things off, because it's not an off button nor does it claim to be.
Your argument is: this button, which is clearly does what it is clearly labeled to do doesn't do something it isn't labeled to do.
The anti-apple hate here is just ... something else. Two stories on this, really?
So, on iOS there is this control panel you can access when you swipe up from the bottom of the screen. In there is a WiFi logo, that is normally blue if you are connected to WiFi. If I tap it, it disconnects from the currently connected WiFi network. It's really nice for when I decide "hey, I don't want to access this NSFW thing while on the work WiFi" or "the hotspot in my Car (which has a different carrier then my cell phone)" is in a cellular dead spot and I need to disconnect from it. But when I come in range of another known network, the phone will associate with it again (like, when I get home and I'd like my phone using my home WiFi, I don't have to remember to turn it back on).
When you do this you even get a blurb of text on the screen "Disconnecting from {wifi name}." NOT "I've powered the WiFi radios down."
You still CAN actually power the WiFi radios down. You just have to go to Setting -> WiFi -> and flip the off switch. Now they are off, period.
So yea, the button in the control panel really means: disconnect from this wifi network because I don't like it right now.
Bluetooth does the same thing. Tapping that in the control center basically drops all connected devices. But two hours later when you turn your bluetooth headset on, it'll pair up just fine.
Queue freakout.
Except Gawker is loosing the cases. This very much does imply Gawker did do something wrong.
Banks, in order to operate with integrity, DO need to keep a transaction ledger. Honest ones had been doing so for centuries before the Bank Secrecy Act.
There is a highly important yet subtle difference here. The Bank Secrecy Act requires banks divulge information they already were keeping.
A similar act given to apple would require them to divulge information about your account (information they are already keeping). But, the newest FaceTime does peer-to-peer VoIP if it can. Is Apple required to engineer a backdoor in to listen to a conversation that *today* they only facilitate the initial call setup? Should they be required to keep an audio copy of the call? Apple currently does not store the call, and if possible they only arbitrate the two phones finding each other (they may not even transit the call audio). This would be like requiring you bank to keep tabs on how you spend your cash.
Your questions are good.
It's well known that foreign governments are watching this case very closely. It's understood that if the US wins this case, governments like China are going to start requiring backdoors as well.
While Apple winning this case doesn't prevent China, etc from doing so ... Apple loosing this case will assuredly open the floodgates to foreign governments all getting their hook in the code.
The AP put newspapers on the path to death decades ago.
If you think about it, The Associated Press was basically an RSS feed of news items for many decades before things like the internet existed. Small papers found that they could subscribe to this feed, and then fire reporters. It kept their papers full of ink, but the AP had hollowed out their organization.
What we realized when the internet happened is: our local hard working news paper wasn't really all that hard working. They were essentially an RSS aggregator, with a few local style pieces tossed in.
What newspapers didn't see coming was technology being able to so easily replace their RSS aggregation functions and cut them out as the middle-man.
What we need to ask ourself is: not how do we save newspapers. How do we support quality content generators and reporters?
.. and very pro capitalism, etc bla bla.
But ... common ... how can our Federal Highway Administration go about researching and the setting a standard for a font ... and then be so stupid as to not procure rights to that font and then license them to every other agency/company at no cost?
As a republican ... this is the kind of thing I expect my government TO do. I know wikipedia says "It was developed by independent researchers with the help of the Texas Transportation Institute and the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute, under the supervision of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)," why didn't any of these agencies say "So ... we're going to pay you a huge pile of money ... once ... for this font."
I was in kindergarten.
The school grouped several classes together into one room to watch the shuttle go up. Mind you this was the mission they were putting a teacher up as part of the crew, so ... much hype in the schools about it.
Anyway, room full of kids say K-3rd grade all watching the launch live on TV. Then ... boom ... and teachers quietly shuffle the kids out of the room and back to their desks.
Man ... I wish we had only *one* install.
The digital natives believe themselves to be mechanics because they know how to drive cars.
This is exceptionally dishonest.
Do those states have more leniency if you can prove motivated self defense? Yes. Are they shooting galleries? No.
The castle doctrine and family of laws is a (perhaps over reaction) to discretionary prosecution. Many states still have the legal doctrine that you must attempt to flee before you are allowed to respond with deadly force. There are examples of prosecutors who take self-define cases to court after the defendant has retreated all the way to a room like a bathroom, then while their assailant was attempting to come through the door finally returned deadly force. The prosecutors would then take these people to court making the case there was a window they could have attempted to squeeze out of.
Unfortunately the only easy way to say "hey ... really? That was them attempting to flee first." Is to make the laws around the definition of when lethal force can be returned very liberal and remove the discretion from the prosecutors.
The emissions problems described are not about CO2 emissions. One of the unfortunate side effects of variable rate internal combustion engines (like the ones in every car) is frequently the burn is not complete, and at other times far too hot. Either of these conditions can cause the production of other components, more then CO2 and Water that would be the intended output of a hydrocarbon + O2 reaction. Things like NO (nitrous oxide), which can combine with atmospheric water and turn it slightly acidic and soot.
Reducing production rates of NO and soot is all about ensuring the engine is fueled properly, and sometimes installing filters in the exhaust system. However, nearly all of these things actually result in a loss of performance AND a loss in fuel efficiency. Filters cause back pressure on the engine, reducing the pumping efficiency and frequently to ensure proper burns you have to fuel the engine *more* to achieve proper temperatures for complete combustion, while also limiting the amount of fuel allowed to be injected when you step on it as this can cause the engine to exceed the optimal temperature zone and produce more things like NO output.
So, yes ... to get cleaner air ... the engines actually loose both performance and efficiency. None of these are desired by the customers.
I don't really care what classified documents Hillary was emailing with other members of our own government. Yes, I realize that there is a massive risk that foreign governments could have intercepted them. I acknowledge that is a huge risk.
Hillary has repeated several times that all of her emails with the state department, etc are properly documented and could be subject to FOIA requests. This is technically correct, we could get copies of any emails sent to/from Hillary Clinton and other members of our government.
What really concerns me, that I see nobody talking about is: we have no clue and no record that we can trust that documents Hillary Clinton's communications with governments not our own. What were the communications with the head of the State Department was having with Russia, China, Iran, etc? I understand that a great many of these communications may be "classified" or otherwise sensitive and not something for general public consumption today. But we will *never* be able to FOIA such documents 25, 50 or 100 years from now. Our inability to re-construct the details of historical events in the future has been greatly damaged.
The simple fact that even our own president can't say "get me every damn email that Clinton has sent to Russia" should be worrying to everybody.
Because if I choose not to use google, AWS or even NASDAQ to perform the services offered the police don't show up at my house and compel it.
You may say Google and NASDAQ offer services that are difficult to impossible to find elsewhere. Yet there are alternative search engines, and there are ways to trade stock that do not involve NASDAQ. If these companies continue to mess up, their competitors will get more traction. If my government messes up, they still compel me to use their service. The difference while minor at incident #1 can be quite a difference by incident #n.
Actually, you're only half right. Tesla wanted to pump electricity into the ground, not the air.
Tesla thought electricity was a transverse wave (think: sound wave) not a sinusoidal wave (think: light). It's why his project didn't work.
Not to be too unfair, at the time it was hotly debated which kind of wave it was and nobody really knew for sure.
I think it matters a bit on what you want to do. An awful lot of the "heavy lifting" math intensive stuff has been implemented in the form of shared libraries. Do you want to encrypt data? Knowing more of best practices around session and key management (which isn't a math laden topic) and that you need good entropy for key generation (something you can find implemented in a shared library). So, go find some shared libs with AES and prng (source of random data) and you're likely good.
Do you want to be the guy who makes what replaces AES? Learn to love math.
Really it comes down to: do you want to follow best practices or make them? The more you want to be on the end of making best practices vs gluing together bits and pieces the more really knowing math helps.
Here's the political opportunity here: making the case for how we're all better off together.
Red states feel they can live on their own.
Blue states like to point out they tend to receive more fed dollars then they send.
Neither of those arguments are why we're better off together, and convinces the other side to try to work together.
Sign the petition. Make DC make the argument.
But ... they won't ... *sigh*
Minor correction: Midwest city dwellers are metered. People who live on a farm have to build their own well, pay for the electricity to operate it, and pipe infrastructure.
You know .. I find your reaction to #2 most interesting. Here in Iowa we do pay by the gallon, not much, but usage is metered. The poor do not go unwashed.
But, the metering by the gallon was very effective this summer. Nobody went unwashed, but a lot of lawns were brown.
Honestly, I was stunned when I learned this summer that large sections of California pay flat rate for water. No wonder you abuse/misuse it so much.
Maybe we should drop the code requirement.
Oh wait, that's HAM radio.
So, if I bench 225 lbs it means that I'm a nerd only when in countries that use metric?
Full memory encryption. Set a chip on the memory buss, it encrypts/decrypts all the data as it passes between the CPU and RAM chips. At first this would be something like old MMUs before they were built into the CPU itself. They sit on the address bus and add/subtract offsets. This would sit on the data bus and do some simple crypto. Put a capacitor right next to it, first time the chip powers up it selects a random key, when the motherboard looses power the capacitor keeps the chip running long enough for it to overwrite the key that it was internally storing.
Then if they manage to break into your super secure datacenter, wheal in their tank of liquid nitrogen and pump your server full of it just so they can steal your RAM chips...it still doesn't get them anything.
(If you read the paper, they talk about how if you cool the chips with liquid nitrogen they keep their contents with power off and removed for 'several hours'...they argue that simply modifying the bios to zero at startup isn't sufficient as they may physically *remove* the ram chips before you have a chance to zero them)
I'm the same way. But, I still find that being with a bunch of people while they get drunk to be a lot of fun, just got to make sure that I only down one or two and stop at slightly buzzed and not go any further.
A few months ago I finally left my first IT job, that I had since 16, and held for a bit over 10 years at a fortune 500 company.
It was after I had been at work for a solid week, handling migration issues and outage issues (unrelated, migrating datacenter A to datacenter B while big storage arrays in datacenter C just so happened to be failing). My wife had asked friends to watch our one year old so that she could keep working while our daycare was temporarily closed. These friends just so happened to be IMing me about how nice my kid was while I was also on a conference call where they were chewing me out for 'not being available.' How you get more available then living in your cube for a week...is beyond me.
Oh...and this company is actively attempting to outsource large segments of its IT to India.
Humm...why *are* young IT workers disillusioned.