I'd never get a ticket there - because I drive the speed limit. The only reason the gold mine exists is because people are stupid, not because of the calibration of the lights.
The problems are availability, plausible deniability and finally, "red flaging" (I don't know the proper term, my apologies).
You forgot "paranoia" and "treating made up extreme edge cases as if they represented reality". It's not as if there aren't a myriad other ways for you to be traced and the writing identified as yours.
Seriously, Slashdot is more and more making me wish I'd invested my retirement funds in aluminum foil manufacturers.
As a further note, right now there's no way to trace that serial number to me.
They can identify that two pages both came from the same printer. Which includes sneaking into your house when you're not around and printing a test page. Or not sneaking in, if they already suspect you enough.
Paranoid much? Seriously, they've been doing that with handwriting and typewriters since, roughly forever. Then there's any fingerprints or DNA you might leave on the paper to consider too. And your license plate number when they surveil the parking lot of the post office where the documents were mailed from. And checking your hard drive for the digital files, and your trash for draft copies, and your email for related writings, and your bookcase/ereader for related reading. Doing textual analysis on emails and other postings on the internet... Etc... etc...
Consider that the Unabomber was caught because his brother recognized his writing style. The Lindbergh kidnapper by comparing handwriting. Albert Fish because he used a unique paper... (Huh, Wikipedia to the rescue again - they have an entire article on this, found while researching cases.)
Seriously, acting like this represents some unique threat or certain nail in your coffin where there is no other is simply ludicrous.
It's also a seasonal job. And you get to deal with all manner of... disorganized people and less than fully intellectually developed people. And it's a three month long exercise in burnout level hours for a wage that works out annually to something less than minimum wage.
Tax season is also why my wife, an accountant, quit the CPA firm she worked at and took a pay cut to work as the accountant for a small family firm.
Bullshit. SpaceX has already proven itself, as the only private company to orbit a vehicle.
Bullshit yourself. There's no magical fairy dust that private companies (Since all launchers in the US are built by private companies and most are launched by private companies) that aren't SpaceX get that makes their launches easier.
No such missions are funded. No such vehicles are funded.
Care to guess what no such missions/vehicles are funded? (Hint: Think *really hard* about how likely a mission or vehicle is to be funded that doesn't have a launcher available.)
Know how many jobs there were in the new mission control? 602, exactly the same. They designed it on purpose to preserve civil service jobs. That is pork.
That belief is based on your unsupported assumption that somehow they should have gone from running one vehicle to running one vehicle and one facility and still have fewer jobs. (Or, IOW, bullshit.)
How many NASA centers were closed after the Apollo program ended, and NASA funding dropped by 2/3? Zero. Keeping those centers open, with an average of 400 support staff each (receptionists, the guys that mowed the lawns, etc) was more important than keeping the science and engineering people around.
Again, more bullshit. Since none of those centers were only doing Apollo work, why should any of them have been shut down?
The funny thing is - I read Southern slaveowners saying the same thing before the [US] Civil War. And English landowners and landlords during the centuries that England occupied Ireland. And from factory owners in the US around the turn of the 20th century when unions began agitating and labor laws started to be passed.
It's the same old excuses, again and again about how the "[insert underclass here] never had it so good, they should appreciate what we do for them". It's a carefully constructed rationale for why it's OK to treat them that way - after all "them there darkies love it, and they'd be lost without us!".
Probably a lot of normal people's reaction to Reddit's policy change is "You mean sexual imagery of children wasn't already against the rules? How is that not firmly established from day one?"
Sexual imagery of children has been banned since day one. What they banned yesterday was pictures of girls that were everything from fully (if revealingly) dressed to in bikini's. Pictures that are (as the saying goes) "as legal as church on Sunday".
I don't give a flying fuck how you feel about free speech, or even child porn: giving advice on intoxicating, seducing, and fucking people is wrong.
Translation: It's not against the law - be we hateses it anyhow. Burn 'em at the stake. Fuck their rights. Fuck the Constitution. (But only on subjects I think it should be fucked about. Stay the fuck away from the things I like and agree with.)
And thus begins the slippery slope.
As I've already had to say once this month on slashdot, sometimes 'think of the children' is a valid concern.
An even bigger concern is what you're advocating - creating thoughtcrime.
For the workloads a mainframe is designed to perform, I can't imagine NASA would have much use for one. They are database and transaction processing monsters.
That's true today. But it hasn't always been true, especially back when NASA first got into mainframes. Nor are they limited to doing database and transaction processing.
Did you bother to actually read the pages you link to?
In the first place the 'data center' in Slidell (if that's what it really is) seems to be part of the Stennis Space Center and have a lot more going on than just housing servers (if you bother to read the jobs listing you linked to).
Then, if you bother to read the other web page you linked to - NASA isn't building anything. Though NASA owns the land, they haven't paid a thin dime towards science center - it's run by a non profit.
Yes. Cheaper running costs, not only from the reduced equipment demands, but from all the staff that they no longer need to employ to fill all of those buildings.
Virtually all of those buildings are the equivalent of a modern data center - they don't employ all that many staff (relative to their size) in the first place. Plus, that number has already been steadily dropping for decades as the equipment has decreased in size and amount of maintenance required.
So, they make hefty profits from all this, a lot of people lose their jobs and naturally prices will rise, because customers need to pay for this amazing new technology that'll give them 'better service quality.'
Well, you're at *least* a decade too late in your concern. The people have already lost their jobs with each wave of upgrades, and the new technology is already widely deployed. (Which is, duh, why they have a surplus of floor space.)
I've owned several over the years in fact. And I've stood up multiple times against customers who wanted to bully me into running my business they way they thought it should be run.
What's abundantly clear is that you're clueless about running a business and clueless about the issue at hand. It's not "I have to work in the customers interest", which is (duh) common sense. It's "not being held under the threat of being publicly bullied over their next cause-of-the-month". Now that they've done it once, they've tasted blood and will do it again - and there's no guarantee that next time the issue will actually be one of substance. The minor fee that Wikipedia will pay for registering a domain with me wouldn't be worth the risk of being held publicly hostage to their political views.
That is what it really comes down too. A deterrent.
Yes, indeed. A deterrent to dealing with Wikipedia.
Seriously, if I were running a hosting company, my first action after Wales' announcement would have been to call my sales department and say "if Wikipedia calls, just hand up on 'em". They can be political on someone else's dime.
The article doesn't say cellular voice coverage isn't available there - it says cellular data coverage isn't there. The aren't the same thing, not even close. Not to mention, the lack of cellular data coverage isn't the same thing as lack of internet access.
If you compare maps from 10 years ago, the same areas look like wastelands for net access in general. Telecommunications companies simply don't want to build out.
Well, duh. If you look at those maps and look at population and geographic maps - I wouldn't want to build out in many of the black areas either. Not only is the terrain forbidding, there's just not that many people there to be served.
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I'd never get a ticket there - because I drive the speed limit. The only reason the gold mine exists is because people are stupid, not because of the calibration of the lights.
You forgot "paranoia" and "treating made up extreme edge cases as if they represented reality". It's not as if there aren't a myriad other ways for you to be traced and the writing identified as yours.
Seriously, Slashdot is more and more making me wish I'd invested my retirement funds in aluminum foil manufacturers.
Paranoid much? Seriously, they've been doing that with handwriting and typewriters since, roughly forever. Then there's any fingerprints or DNA you might leave on the paper to consider too. And your license plate number when they surveil the parking lot of the post office where the documents were mailed from. And checking your hard drive for the digital files, and your trash for draft copies, and your email for related writings, and your bookcase/ereader for related reading. Doing textual analysis on emails and other postings on the internet... Etc... etc...
Consider that the Unabomber was caught because his brother recognized his writing style. The Lindbergh kidnapper by comparing handwriting. Albert Fish because he used a unique paper... (Huh, Wikipedia to the rescue again - they have an entire article on this, found while researching cases.)
Seriously, acting like this represents some unique threat or certain nail in your coffin where there is no other is simply ludicrous.
It's also a seasonal job. And you get to deal with all manner of... disorganized people and less than fully intellectually developed people. And it's a three month long exercise in burnout level hours for a wage that works out annually to something less than minimum wage.
Tax season is also why my wife, an accountant, quit the CPA firm she worked at and took a pay cut to work as the accountant for a small family firm.
Which is a meaningless and irrelevant statement, since we aren't talking about which riceburner we're going to buy.
*yawn* Get back to me when you can for a coherent, non ranting, post that addresses the issues in the post to which you're replying.
Fixed that for you.
Bullshit yourself. There's no magical fairy dust that private companies (Since all launchers in the US are built by private companies and most are launched by private companies) that aren't SpaceX get that makes their launches easier.
Care to guess what no such missions/vehicles are funded? (Hint: Think *really hard* about how likely a mission or vehicle is to be funded that doesn't have a launcher available.)
That belief is based on your unsupported assumption that somehow they should have gone from running one vehicle to running one vehicle and one facility and still have fewer jobs. (Or, IOW, bullshit.)
Again, more bullshit. Since none of those centers were only doing Apollo work, why should any of them have been shut down?
Is that in real dollars (I.E. corrected for inflation) or total dollars (I.E. without said correction)?
The funny thing is - I read Southern slaveowners saying the same thing before the [US] Civil War. And English landowners and landlords during the centuries that England occupied Ireland. And from factory owners in the US around the turn of the 20th century when unions began agitating and labor laws started to be passed.
It's the same old excuses, again and again about how the "[insert underclass here] never had it so good, they should appreciate what we do for them". It's a carefully constructed rationale for why it's OK to treat them that way - after all "them there darkies love it, and they'd be lost without us!".
It was bullcrap then, and it's bullcrap now.
Sexual imagery of children has been banned since day one. What they banned yesterday was pictures of girls that were everything from fully (if revealingly) dressed to in bikini's. Pictures that are (as the saying goes) "as legal as church on Sunday".
Translation: It's not against the law - be we hateses it anyhow. Burn 'em at the stake. Fuck their rights. Fuck the Constitution. (But only on subjects I think it should be fucked about. Stay the fuck away from the things I like and agree with.)
And thus begins the slippery slope.
An even bigger concern is what you're advocating - creating thoughtcrime.
The problem is 99.9999% of the content they banned wasn't "clearly illegal". It wasn't illegal at all.
Nope. Read the linked article - no money or other compensation will change hands. It's a donation to the university.
That's true today. But it hasn't always been true, especially back when NASA first got into mainframes. Nor are they limited to doing database and transaction processing.
Did you bother to actually read the pages you link to?
In the first place the 'data center' in Slidell (if that's what it really is) seems to be part of the Stennis Space Center and have a lot more going on than just housing servers (if you bother to read the jobs listing you linked to).
Then, if you bother to read the other web page you linked to - NASA isn't building anything. Though NASA owns the land, they haven't paid a thin dime towards science center - it's run by a non profit.
Virtually all of those buildings are the equivalent of a modern data center - they don't employ all that many staff (relative to their size) in the first place. Plus, that number has already been steadily dropping for decades as the equipment has decreased in size and amount of maintenance required.
Well, you're at *least* a decade too late in your concern. The people have already lost their jobs with each wave of upgrades, and the new technology is already widely deployed. (Which is, duh, why they have a surplus of floor space.)
And rich men spending their money on junkets and toys is news how Slashdot? What's next, keeping up the Kardashians?
I've owned several over the years in fact. And I've stood up multiple times against customers who wanted to bully me into running my business they way they thought it should be run.
What's abundantly clear is that you're clueless about running a business and clueless about the issue at hand. It's not "I have to work in the customers interest", which is (duh) common sense. It's "not being held under the threat of being publicly bullied over their next cause-of-the-month". Now that they've done it once, they've tasted blood and will do it again - and there's no guarantee that next time the issue will actually be one of substance. The minor fee that Wikipedia will pay for registering a domain with me wouldn't be worth the risk of being held publicly hostage to their political views.
No, it's more like I don't care to be publicly bullied over whatever their cause-of-the-month is. They've done it once, they'll do it again.
Yes, indeed. A deterrent to dealing with Wikipedia.
Seriously, if I were running a hosting company, my first action after Wales' announcement would have been to call my sales department and say "if Wikipedia calls, just hand up on 'em". They can be political on someone else's dime.
The issue goes beyond Facebook. Slashdot could use the same model. So could Amazon. And G+. And Flickr. And... well, you get the point.
The article doesn't say cellular voice coverage isn't available there - it says cellular data coverage isn't there. The aren't the same thing, not even close. Not to mention, the lack of cellular data coverage isn't the same thing as lack of internet access.
Well, duh. If you look at those maps and look at population and geographic maps - I wouldn't want to build out in many of the black areas either. Not only is the terrain forbidding, there's just not that many people there to be served.