So a state makes a law that says only whites can open up shops, blacks aren't allowed to compete. Do you think the federal government would step in? Yes. Black people are allowed to compete in business.
A state makes a law saying only conglomerates can upon up shows, locals aren't allowed to compete. Do you think the federal government would step in? Yes. Local businesses are allowed to compete in business.
Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it doesn't happen. It means you don't understand. The mere fact you didn't know firmware was upgradable means you are unqualified to tell us things aren't a big deal.
>But if you booted a different, known-good machine, then mounted the hard drive in question as a secondary drive, it seems feasible you should be able to read and verify the firmware.
No... no, you're missing it. The firmware isn't some magical OS. The firmware runs whenever it's connected. Not only when its booted from. Do you know what firmware is?
The firmware handles all requests. So clearly, you are requesting data from something that's tampered with, to see if it's tampered with. It's entirely possible that to make their firmware harder to catch, the firmware would only give you the "false" previous firmware data as you talk to it. Given the complexity of all of their groups viruses we've seen so far, and the fact they compress their payloads, this is not far fetched at all.
I mean, have you ever even used a microcontroller before? How do you think data gets off your hard drive?
>IE 11 implements W3C standards better than any browser.
Yeah, it supports everything except their own products, like Dynamics CRM 2013.
Try explaining that to a fucking client. Pumping out version after version of half-assed enterprise software that only functions if you treat it exactly the right way. A house of cards waiting to be blown over by a moderate gust of wind. Meanwhile, we've got serious issues for the 2009 edition onward that still haven't been addressed.
Government intervention should be "as necessary" and "no further." Note how that doesn't mean "all government intervention is bad." The telecoms have a huge history of being assholes and they brought this on themselves.
I've personally had lots of trouble with proper 3-D acceleration pass-through in virtual machines. Vmware gives you half a driver worth, so things like multisampling aren't supported. Which is annoying if you're doing lots of primitive drawing in OpenGL like I was.
A bunch of Roombas with proximity sensors would probably be cheaper that a fucking flying machine that doesn't need to fly to do its job. There's this magical thing called a "tower" that lets you see things, and you only have to pay once to put it in the air.
"Judge a person not on what they say, but what they do."
and
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."
I plan in instilling that into my daughters as they grow up.
The problem there is that, as I understand it, the USA is a complete asshole and that 1) It believes its laws are enforceable in other countries, and 2) it has even less protection for non-US citizens (read: zero).
The US government is okay with bombing civilians to death for a good cause ("Oops, we thought there was a terrorist there!"). What makes you think they give a shit about your data?
The German and Japanese were war opponents who wanted to take over the world.
How the fuck can you compare another country's attacking military with me wanting my health care records private between myself and my doctor? Or my messages to my wife?
The NSA can not magically say, "We don't know if what you're doing is wrong, so we deserve the right to find out." That goes against every grain of Innocent Until Proven Guilty and moves us to a "Let us proof you're not doing anything illegal" system.
So in other words, what people here are exaggerating him to believe of programmers is actually true. That they can be complete morons when it comes to critical thinking. He didn't even speak that badly, but people are exaggerating his words and actually fulfilling those claims.
Secondly, pseudo-intellectualism is a huge problem with "smart people" these days. (see: Reddit) They read expert opinions and believe them, but don't actually have the skill (or care) to follow the steps that lead to those conclusions. So you get morons who end up defending green energy movements even if they're full of shit. Ethanol anyone?
...it's about being able to learn stuff, as needed, with almost no help, on a deadline.
Clearly, an engineer should not take a senior position of a job he has no knowledge of. It's against the engineering code of ethics. However, not knowing something specific you think might be obvious, in a field with topics as numerous as there are stars in the sky, is silly. A worker is not judged by what they know, they're judged on what they can do. And what they can do is capable of changing with the application of learning.
Your man might not know public key encryption when you asked. The test of a man's character is "What did he do afterward?" If he immediately noticed he didn't understand a fundamental topic, and started researching it, he's a damn fine employee.
You may think you're looking at an employee who doesn't know fundamentals, but I'm doing the same thing. Looking at someone who doesn't understand the fundamentals of running a business long-term.
"Hello, officer."
"ID please."
"Here you go." [unlocks phone and hands it to cop.]
"Thanks.
The cop now has, an unlocked-by-you, legal access to everything on your phone. You willing handed to him, and disabled the protective lock. Enjoy your reduced legal freedom, tech hippy.
Everyone gets mad that there's lots of boys in programming. Attention world: Programming is logical. Males are logical. It should not be a mind teaser why boys find solace in spending time on something they can predict and understand.
Why isn't everyone equally mad that there aren't more men in female-dominated workplaces? Why aren't there more male hairdressors? More male nurses? More male teachers? More male waiters at hooters? Because the world is still stuck in a "cute little innocent girls need protecting" mindset. Stop assuming all workplaces should be a 50-50 split between male and female. Stop assuming men and women want the same things, and stop assuming that all jobs appeal equally to the genders.
In the future, people will look back at us, and think of us as morons for trying to bring equality to areas that didn't want, need, or benefit from it.
So scripts are bad because people write bad scripts? Interesting. C must be bad because there is code that has buffer overruns.
And as for execution overhead? Who cares. 99% of people are bandwidth or disk limited. Why does it matter if updating my Linux distribution takes 60 seconds instead of 30, if it means the developers can get the job done. If using something better requires a developer to work harder, they'll just not do the work at all. And in 4 years, when my computer is more than twice as fast as it was before, it'll take 15 seconds anyway.
You're acting like optimization is more important than serviceability.
With developer choice, comes complexity. End of story.
You want everything to be the same, write in Python, where they enforce a coding style.
If you want to do things the best way for you, you'll have to support a variety of duplicating libraries and APIs. The thing is, one once library becomes a clear winner over all the others, development often stops on the others, which means everyone stops using those libraries.
So while yes, things may be complex now, but only because of the rapid amount of development and progress. As things calm down, the lesser ones will be depreciated. Give it time. You can't control an entire community spanning the globe as if it had a single leader, as if we could predict the right answer 30 years from now. Moreover, we shouldn't. To say things should be less complex means people should be restricted from doing what they think is best. And that mentality is the opposite of what attracts people to Linux.
"Hey honey! I just got back from being IN FUCKING SPACE. Check out this cool stuff I brought home."
"Oh my God! That's government property! Who would even imagine taking something from the government that you used in space! You take that back right now!"
Exactly. Lot's stop assuming childhood, and parenting occur in a vacuum. There are just as many "well-meaning parents" (of other families) that will tell your children.There are children of those parents that will dissuade them. And even peers that will infect you with terrible parenting ideas, like the obvious anti-vaccination trend. The media will dissuade them indirectly by never showing intelligent females being anything but stereotypical "I'm no worse than a man!" exploitism--but never actually accomplishing much.
And yes, teachers will screw them over. Just like they screw tons of students from all walks of life. When I was super shy, I hit community college. I had social phobia. And like a death sentence, I was told in front of the entire class by a teacher that, "You will never become an engineer." The whole room when quiet. Even my fellow students were in shock someone would be so blatant. Well, I've got my degree and offered to start a Ph.D in Robotics, so that woman can suck a bag of moth balls. But had I not been so passionate, driven, stubborn, and vengeful at my opponents, I never would have succeeded. I'm lucky in that I had a worldview that protected and encouraged me. But what about all the people who aren't lucky enough to have that?
So let's be clear. This issue, is really only a cusp of the gigantic problem of the entire world offering it's unresearched opinion on why tons of people will never succeed. It's not just women, but they are one of the most obviously opposed groups by simple ignorance, and pessimism.
Slashdot Mirror
Which one?
So a state makes a law that says only whites can open up shops, blacks aren't allowed to compete. Do you think the federal government would step in? Yes. Black people are allowed to compete in business.
A state makes a law saying only conglomerates can upon up shows, locals aren't allowed to compete. Do you think the federal government would step in? Yes. Local businesses are allowed to compete in business.
Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it doesn't happen. It means you don't understand. The mere fact you didn't know firmware was upgradable means you are unqualified to tell us things aren't a big deal.
>But if you booted a different, known-good machine, then mounted the hard drive in question as a secondary drive, it seems feasible you should be able to read and verify the firmware.
No... no, you're missing it. The firmware isn't some magical OS. The firmware runs whenever it's connected. Not only when its booted from. Do you know what firmware is?
The firmware handles all requests. So clearly, you are requesting data from something that's tampered with, to see if it's tampered with. It's entirely possible that to make their firmware harder to catch, the firmware would only give you the "false" previous firmware data as you talk to it. Given the complexity of all of their groups viruses we've seen so far, and the fact they compress their payloads, this is not far fetched at all.
I mean, have you ever even used a microcontroller before? How do you think data gets off your hard drive?
Xfce's file manager Thunar (unlike my experience with LXDE/pcmanfm) works just fine. I have absolutely no idea what you're complaining about.
>IE 11 implements W3C standards better than any browser.
Yeah, it supports everything except their own products, like Dynamics CRM 2013.
Try explaining that to a fucking client. Pumping out version after version of half-assed enterprise software that only functions if you treat it exactly the right way. A house of cards waiting to be blown over by a moderate gust of wind. Meanwhile, we've got serious issues for the 2009 edition onward that still haven't been addressed.
Government intervention should be "as necessary" and "no further." Note how that doesn't mean "all government intervention is bad." The telecoms have a huge history of being assholes and they brought this on themselves.
I've personally had lots of trouble with proper 3-D acceleration pass-through in virtual machines. Vmware gives you half a driver worth, so things like multisampling aren't supported. Which is annoying if you're doing lots of primitive drawing in OpenGL like I was.
If they're empty, why are we scanning them?!
A bunch of Roombas with proximity sensors would probably be cheaper that a fucking flying machine that doesn't need to fly to do its job. There's this magical thing called a "tower" that lets you see things, and you only have to pay once to put it in the air.
The best life lesson you can give a girl:
"Judge a person not on what they say, but what they do."
and
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."
I plan in instilling that into my daughters as they grow up.
The problem there is that, as I understand it, the USA is a complete asshole and that 1) It believes its laws are enforceable in other countries, and 2) it has even less protection for non-US citizens (read: zero).
The US government is okay with bombing civilians to death for a good cause ("Oops, we thought there was a terrorist there!"). What makes you think they give a shit about your data?
The German and Japanese were war opponents who wanted to take over the world.
How the fuck can you compare another country's attacking military with me wanting my health care records private between myself and my doctor? Or my messages to my wife?
The NSA can not magically say, "We don't know if what you're doing is wrong, so we deserve the right to find out." That goes against every grain of Innocent Until Proven Guilty and moves us to a "Let us proof you're not doing anything illegal" system.
From the bottom of my heart: Fuck you.
So in other words, what people here are exaggerating him to believe of programmers is actually true. That they can be complete morons when it comes to critical thinking. He didn't even speak that badly, but people are exaggerating his words and actually fulfilling those claims.
Secondly, pseudo-intellectualism is a huge problem with "smart people" these days. (see: Reddit) They read expert opinions and believe them, but don't actually have the skill (or care) to follow the steps that lead to those conclusions. So you get morons who end up defending green energy movements even if they're full of shit. Ethanol anyone?
Except that air pollution can travel with the wind, and can affect communities that aren't producing the problem at all.
Clearly, an engineer should not take a senior position of a job he has no knowledge of. It's against the engineering code of ethics. However, not knowing something specific you think might be obvious, in a field with topics as numerous as there are stars in the sky, is silly. A worker is not judged by what they know, they're judged on what they can do. And what they can do is capable of changing with the application of learning.
Your man might not know public key encryption when you asked. The test of a man's character is "What did he do afterward?" If he immediately noticed he didn't understand a fundamental topic, and started researching it, he's a damn fine employee.
You may think you're looking at an employee who doesn't know fundamentals, but I'm doing the same thing. Looking at someone who doesn't understand the fundamentals of running a business long-term.
"Hello, officer."
"ID please."
"Here you go." [unlocks phone and hands it to cop.]
"Thanks.
The cop now has, an unlocked-by-you, legal access to everything on your phone. You willing handed to him, and disabled the protective lock. Enjoy your reduced legal freedom, tech hippy.
Everyone gets mad that there's lots of boys in programming. Attention world: Programming is logical. Males are logical. It should not be a mind teaser why boys find solace in spending time on something they can predict and understand.
Why isn't everyone equally mad that there aren't more men in female-dominated workplaces? Why aren't there more male hairdressors? More male nurses? More male teachers? More male waiters at hooters? Because the world is still stuck in a "cute little innocent girls need protecting" mindset. Stop assuming all workplaces should be a 50-50 split between male and female. Stop assuming men and women want the same things, and stop assuming that all jobs appeal equally to the genders.
In the future, people will look back at us, and think of us as morons for trying to bring equality to areas that didn't want, need, or benefit from it.
People are interested in a successful privatized space company? NO. NEVER. MUST BE SHILLING.
So scripts are bad because people write bad scripts? Interesting. C must be bad because there is code that has buffer overruns.
And as for execution overhead? Who cares. 99% of people are bandwidth or disk limited. Why does it matter if updating my Linux distribution takes 60 seconds instead of 30, if it means the developers can get the job done. If using something better requires a developer to work harder, they'll just not do the work at all. And in 4 years, when my computer is more than twice as fast as it was before, it'll take 15 seconds anyway.
You're acting like optimization is more important than serviceability.
With developer choice, comes complexity. End of story.
You want everything to be the same, write in Python, where they enforce a coding style.
If you want to do things the best way for you, you'll have to support a variety of duplicating libraries and APIs. The thing is, one once library becomes a clear winner over all the others, development often stops on the others, which means everyone stops using those libraries.
So while yes, things may be complex now, but only because of the rapid amount of development and progress. As things calm down, the lesser ones will be depreciated. Give it time. You can't control an entire community spanning the globe as if it had a single leader, as if we could predict the right answer 30 years from now. Moreover, we shouldn't. To say things should be less complex means people should be restricted from doing what they think is best. And that mentality is the opposite of what attracts people to Linux.
"Hey honey! I just got back from being IN FUCKING SPACE. Check out this cool stuff I brought home."
"Oh my God! That's government property! Who would even imagine taking something from the government that you used in space! You take that back right now!"
Energy policy is not a zero-sum game.
Exactly. Lot's stop assuming childhood, and parenting occur in a vacuum. There are just as many "well-meaning parents" (of other families) that will tell your children.There are children of those parents that will dissuade them. And even peers that will infect you with terrible parenting ideas, like the obvious anti-vaccination trend. The media will dissuade them indirectly by never showing intelligent females being anything but stereotypical "I'm no worse than a man!" exploitism--but never actually accomplishing much.
And yes, teachers will screw them over. Just like they screw tons of students from all walks of life. When I was super shy, I hit community college. I had social phobia. And like a death sentence, I was told in front of the entire class by a teacher that, "You will never become an engineer." The whole room when quiet. Even my fellow students were in shock someone would be so blatant. Well, I've got my degree and offered to start a Ph.D in Robotics, so that woman can suck a bag of moth balls. But had I not been so passionate, driven, stubborn, and vengeful at my opponents, I never would have succeeded. I'm lucky in that I had a worldview that protected and encouraged me. But what about all the people who aren't lucky enough to have that?
So let's be clear. This issue, is really only a cusp of the gigantic problem of the entire world offering it's unresearched opinion on why tons of people will never succeed. It's not just women, but they are one of the most obviously opposed groups by simple ignorance, and pessimism.
What about false rape charges? Those are pretty popular and nobody goes to jail. It's a victimless crime!