Why does the title "Professor of Communications" sound like "Bullshit Artist Extraordinare" to my ears?
Because otherwise you couldn't justify your "I know better than any actual professor, never mind I've neither conducted studies nor have any statistics, I just know better regardless" rant. And without that rant, you can't get in your karma whoring slam at the media.
It is better to change people thru inspiration and education rather than by force and control. Always has been, always will be. However, if the states launched an education campaign about texting & driving dangers, that would be an expensive, not an income from citations. Also, our precious insurance companies wouldnt be able to jack your rates up nearly as high.
The problem with your anti-goverment/anti-business rant is that it has roughly zero connection with reality. The states have launched education campaigns about texting & driving, the same as they have with drinking & driving (and with roughly the same lack of effect). Ditto for the insurance companies - if they're jacking the rates because of texting and driving, it's because they're paying out more. (Not to mention all of my insurance companies routinely send me anti texting & driving literature.)
" While it's only 50 meters wide, it could have the impact of a 20 megaton bomb."
Which sounds impressive - until you realize just how empty the Earth really is. Across probably 80% of the Earth, a 20 meg explosion will produce few (if any) casualties. Doubly so since that size range is likely to breakup and deposit most of it's energy in the upper atmosphere.
Phil, you've done lots of good stuff, but you're just reaching for the hits and ad impressions with this one.
I find your ignorance appalling. In the first place, there's no guarantee that gold will go up and up - it's cyclic. Second off, in your ignorance of the difference ('spread') between buy and bid - they'd have bought the gold above market back then and be selling it below market now. Between that and taxes, they'd make much less money than you think.
My investments are doing quite well thank you, but I'm in for the long haul not trying to beat the cycles. The former is how you make money, the latter is how you go broke.
Seriously, why? If people want to invest in gold, they're generally going to buy it in larger lots than this. What's the point of selling gold in a vending machine when no one is going to take a gold coin as currency?
If these machines had been around during the last Presidential election cycle, they'd have made a mint off the Paulists. Which is the general idea.
No Really I can't tell from the context if that's Taco or the submitter, but paper narrative tests that the author mentions basically are just there to make sure you know your job or have memorized your DR plan, but they don't make you think.
I suspect you haven't ever taken part in a large scale simulation like this. I have. Short (and long) version: you're wrong.
Not that there's anything wrong with ensuring that the participants know their jobs and/or have memorized their disaster recovery plan.
It's a lot like preparing for a D&D game and having the players ignore half the story/encounters you wrote up.
Preparing for a D&D game is to a simulation like this as an Estes rocket launch is to a Saturn V launch.
3) you, and not Google, should get to decide what is "fair use"
Doubly important in the case of Wikipedia - whose "fair use" justification is frequently "we couldn't find an image usable under the normal interpretations of fair use, so we used this one anyhow".
I think the general public considers port scanning and brute force attacks to be hacking. At least the news reports it as such.
You wouldn't?
Of course not, because this isn't a criminal that Slashdot can find some way to glorify. Do the same thing to DoD computers, and you'll be a hero here.
Why not deport him right away? Because if we did that would essentially be putting a sign that says "come to the US and commit a crime - and get off scot free if even if found guilty." This time it was phone minutes, what might it be next time?
It has been 4 + decades since the space program dominated electronics development.
Despite the propaganda of the time - it never did dominate electronics development.
In the first place, the size of the market was and is incredibly tiny. Between the goods offered for sale and the infrastructure for sales and operation, there's probably an order of magnitude more computing power down at my local mall today than has been launched into space in the last forty plus years. Include the cars in the parking lot and the smart phones on the hips of the customers - and the flown-in-space market will probably vanish in the noise. And that's just one of the couple of thousand malls in the US, and a smallish one at that.
In the second place - the really heavy lifting for space rated and lightweight/low power/low cooling was paid for at first by the DoD and later by commercial communications satellite operators. (The DoD wanted/wants such processors for a wide variety of uses, from satellites and missiles of all kinds to aircraft.) Consider the two best known computing systems in space: The Apollo computers and guidance systems were based on the ones used in the Polaris SLBM. The Shuttle's main computers are reworked DoD standard flight computers.
It never got the impact it was 'intended for' because it was largely a solution in search of a problem. Worse yet it was designed and hyped with with little or no thought or effort to consider how it would interact with the existing solutions and infrastructure.
It is. I'm on/. and I was a tech geek in the military, MOS 74B
I don't think he understands that civilians enlisting for those positions were techies before they joined the military. Just because I can type like the wind and work my way around a linux distro doesn't mean I can't shoot a M16A2 or M4
Same here over in blue - FTB2/SS. Just because I could think deeply about the complex innards of my computers and missiles and the complex procedures for operating them didn't mean that I couldn't fight flooding or a fire.
And that's something else many geeks on Slashdot don't seem to get - part of the military's recruiting difficulties for decades has been that folks like you and me, who can be geeks *and* adopt the military's unique mindset are damn rare birds. And as the systems grow ever more high tech, the problem is just getting worse.
Why not train the geeks to understand all the technical details?
Because it's not all about the details - it's a mindset, an attitude. It can't be taught, but it can be learned by example and by living it. But the real problem is that geeks tend to ignore things like personal hygiene and the social graces because they don't see them as useful skills - which makes them equally unlikely to absorb the lessons of the military mindset.
The other problem is that a key part of the 'military mindset' tool kit is the ability not only to multitask complex tasks, but also to rapidly switch tracks or initiate new ones. The geeks tendency to concentrate deeply on a single task, and to be irritated at being interrupted, are not advantages here.
All this coverage claiming that everyone went nuts seems like a desperate attempt by Facebook PR to make something positive out of this...namely, trying to convince us that Facebook is so integral to the people who use it, it must, of course, be to us as well.
Actually, all the coverage I've seen has been slanted like the summary above - that is, an attempt to denigrate and marginalize those that use Facebook. See the comments in Slashdot's previous coverage for some pretty clear examples of this.
Yes, it is a maturity thing. Mature people care about their family and friends. Shallow self centered children claim it's "not important".
Part of growing up, I think, is learning when and why to be emotionally invested.
You're honestly comparing the life of an unborn child to the Super Bowl and American Idol? You really are a jackass.
(As far as facebook specifically, again people have dealt with this for thousands of years without being able to update their facebook status. If you can't tell the people who need to know without using a web browser or an app on your smart phone, then you probably aren't putting enough effort into identifying a solution to the problem.)
Yeah, there's many other solutions to the problem - but here's a news flash for you jackass: none of them are anywhere nearly as easy as a simple update using a simple app on a site that everyone is already on. And in the midst of a looming crisis, that's a damm poor time to be trying to find a solution.
Who in their worst nightmares would could have thought that anyone could stoop to do what he did?
Anyone who regularly watches the news, or watch truTV (formerly Court TV), or who occasionally picks up a true crime book. In short, a pretty large segment of the population I suspect. People do seriously messed up things to other people all the time.
Or, in other words, I find the question "who is so isolated or unfamiliar with human nature as to not think this was probable?" much more interesting.
So with these things becoming more like tiny computers than cell phones
It's already there. A month ago my wife and I took our RV on a long weekend trip, and consciously left the laptop* behind - taking only our iPhones. Facebook, LiveJournal, Flickr, Google Maps, an interface to Geocaching.com, weather... Pretty much everything we'd need or want while traveling was available 24/7 in the palm of our hands. The only capability I missed was the ability to download and review photographs from my camera. She missed nothing at all.
In fact, since her laptop is on it's last legs, we're talking just recycling it and not replacing it all. On the few occasions she wants/needs a larger screen, she just uses my gaming rig.
*The laptop is hers, I use two desktops, one for gaming purchased when my 'office' machine could no longer provide sufficient performance.
Wasn't it Blockbuster who ran the mom and pop video rental stores out of business with their corporate muscle?
Yes, it was Blockbuster who ran the mom and pop stores out of business - by actually having new releases available on the day of release (and in quantity, not just one or two), by actually having a deep backstock of movies (and in quantity and across a wide variety of genres), etc., etc..
I'm tired of hearing crocodile tears for the steam powered "mom 'n pop" stores. As Blockbuster is being taken down by services that better provide what the customer wants, so the "mom 'n pop" stores were taken down by Blockbuster.
There must have been one of your friends sitting next to me at the movies last weekend because they were checking their phone pretty frequently. How updated do they need to be? Are they updated each centimeter of dialation?
He's not posting that often... But they were at a doctors appointment this morning, when the topic of inducing today was going to be the topic of discussion. (Result, not yet, but she is going into the hospital tomorrow so she can be monitored 24/7 until this is over one way or another.)
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Because otherwise you couldn't justify your "I know better than any actual professor, never mind I've neither conducted studies nor have any statistics, I just know better regardless" rant. And without that rant, you can't get in your karma whoring slam at the media.
The problem with your anti-goverment/anti-business rant is that it has roughly zero connection with reality. The states have launched education campaigns about texting & driving, the same as they have with drinking & driving (and with roughly the same lack of effect). Ditto for the insurance companies - if they're jacking the rates because of texting and driving, it's because they're paying out more. (Not to mention all of my insurance companies routinely send me anti texting & driving literature.)
Translation: Did they give us any information that will give us any excuse to excuse the pirates?
From the summary:
Which sounds impressive - until you realize just how empty the Earth really is. Across probably 80% of the Earth, a 20 meg explosion will produce few (if any) casualties. Doubly so since that size range is likely to breakup and deposit most of it's energy in the upper atmosphere.
Phil, you've done lots of good stuff, but you're just reaching for the hits and ad impressions with this one.
I find your ignorance appalling. In the first place, there's no guarantee that gold will go up and up - it's cyclic. Second off, in your ignorance of the difference ('spread') between buy and bid - they'd have bought the gold above market back then and be selling it below market now. Between that and taxes, they'd make much less money than you think.
My investments are doing quite well thank you, but I'm in for the long haul not trying to beat the cycles. The former is how you make money, the latter is how you go broke.
If these machines had been around during the last Presidential election cycle, they'd have made a mint off the Paulists. Which is the general idea.
I suspect you haven't ever taken part in a large scale simulation like this. I have. Short (and long) version: you're wrong.
Not that there's anything wrong with ensuring that the participants know their jobs and/or have memorized their disaster recovery plan.
Preparing for a D&D game is to a simulation like this as an Estes rocket launch is to a Saturn V launch.
Doubly important in the case of Wikipedia - whose "fair use" justification is frequently "we couldn't find an image usable under the normal interpretations of fair use, so we used this one anyhow".
Of course not, because this isn't a criminal that Slashdot can find some way to glorify. Do the same thing to DoD computers, and you'll be a hero here.
Why not deport him right away? Because if we did that would essentially be putting a sign that says "come to the US and commit a crime - and get off scot free if even if found guilty." This time it was phone minutes, what might it be next time?
Despite the propaganda of the time - it never did dominate electronics development.
In the first place, the size of the market was and is incredibly tiny. Between the goods offered for sale and the infrastructure for sales and operation, there's probably an order of magnitude more computing power down at my local mall today than has been launched into space in the last forty plus years. Include the cars in the parking lot and the smart phones on the hips of the customers - and the flown-in-space market will probably vanish in the noise. And that's just one of the couple of thousand malls in the US, and a smallish one at that.
In the second place - the really heavy lifting for space rated and lightweight/low power/low cooling was paid for at first by the DoD and later by commercial communications satellite operators. (The DoD wanted/wants such processors for a wide variety of uses, from satellites and missiles of all kinds to aircraft.) Consider the two best known computing systems in space: The Apollo computers and guidance systems were based on the ones used in the Polaris SLBM. The Shuttle's main computers are reworked DoD standard flight computers.
It never got the impact it was 'intended for' because it was largely a solution in search of a problem. Worse yet it was designed and hyped with with little or no thought or effort to consider how it would interact with the existing solutions and infrastructure.
Amen brother.
USN, Submarine Service 1981-1991
Because the people that can be both are damn rare. The mindsets are just too different for it to be otherwise.
Same here over in blue - FTB2/SS. Just because I could think deeply about the complex innards of my computers and missiles and the complex procedures for operating them didn't mean that I couldn't fight flooding or a fire.
And that's something else many geeks on Slashdot don't seem to get - part of the military's recruiting difficulties for decades has been that folks like you and me, who can be geeks *and* adopt the military's unique mindset are damn rare birds. And as the systems grow ever more high tech, the problem is just getting worse.
Because it's not all about the details - it's a mindset, an attitude. It can't be taught, but it can be learned by example and by living it. But the real problem is that geeks tend to ignore things like personal hygiene and the social graces because they don't see them as useful skills - which makes them equally unlikely to absorb the lessons of the military mindset.
The other problem is that a key part of the 'military mindset' tool kit is the ability not only to multitask complex tasks, but also to rapidly switch tracks or initiate new ones. The geeks tendency to concentrate deeply on a single task, and to be irritated at being interrupted, are not advantages here.
Actually, all the coverage I've seen has been slanted like the summary above - that is, an attempt to denigrate and marginalize those that use Facebook. See the comments in Slashdot's previous coverage for some pretty clear examples of this.
Yes, it is a maturity thing. Mature people care about their family and friends. Shallow self centered children claim it's "not important".
You're honestly comparing the life of an unborn child to the Super Bowl and American Idol? You really are a jackass.
Yeah, there's many other solutions to the problem - but here's a news flash for you jackass: none of them are anywhere nearly as easy as a simple update using a simple app on a site that everyone is already on. And in the midst of a looming crisis, that's a damm poor time to be trying to find a solution.
Anyone who regularly watches the news, or watch truTV (formerly Court TV), or who occasionally picks up a true crime book. In short, a pretty large segment of the population I suspect. People do seriously messed up things to other people all the time.
Or, in other words, I find the question "who is so isolated or unfamiliar with human nature as to not think this was probable?" much more interesting.
Do you have any evidence that he's guilty, or are you just convicting him because the FBI raided him? Because you're sure acting as if he's guilty.
It's already there. A month ago my wife and I took our RV on a long weekend trip, and consciously left the laptop* behind - taking only our iPhones. Facebook, LiveJournal, Flickr, Google Maps, an interface to Geocaching.com, weather... Pretty much everything we'd need or want while traveling was available 24/7 in the palm of our hands. The only capability I missed was the ability to download and review photographs from my camera. She missed nothing at all.
In fact, since her laptop is on it's last legs, we're talking just recycling it and not replacing it all. On the few occasions she wants/needs a larger screen, she just uses my gaming rig.
*The laptop is hers, I use two desktops, one for gaming purchased when my 'office' machine could no longer provide sufficient performance.
Yes, it was Blockbuster who ran the mom and pop stores out of business - by actually having new releases available on the day of release (and in quantity, not just one or two), by actually having a deep backstock of movies (and in quantity and across a wide variety of genres), etc., etc..
I'm tired of hearing crocodile tears for the steam powered "mom 'n pop" stores. As Blockbuster is being taken down by services that better provide what the customer wants, so the "mom 'n pop" stores were taken down by Blockbuster.
He does. But email is not even fractionally as easy or convenient, either for him to send out updates or for us to discuss among ourselves.
99% of all statistics are made up. :) :)
He's not posting that often... But they were at a doctors appointment this morning, when the topic of inducing today was going to be the topic of discussion. (Result, not yet, but she is going into the hospital tomorrow so she can be monitored 24/7 until this is over one way or another.)
Thank you.