I would just say, if americans were at least a little bit better at math (again I'm not talking about partial differential equations or anything, just basic division/estimation) then we'd collectively be a lot better at calling BS on the large for profit organizations when they try to manipulate things.
And maybe, just maybe, we'd actually try to deal with real problems instead of made up ones.
I've made this point repeatedly to my friends... I'll state it here now. The problem with America today is that we suck so badly at math.
As an example, 200 people get sick eating tomatos.... Suddenly 300 million people stop buying tomatos... All because no one can do that math in their head and figure out that they only have a 0.000000667% chance of getting sick eating tomatos.
I routinely perform this kind of math in my head, if there are more than 3 zeros after the decimal point, I generally don't have to worry about it. The sensationalist media doesn't help, but if people could do a little fact checking on their own, then we could avoid 99% of the problems caused by overreaction.
Terrorism falls into a very similar place. Everyone is OK with this insane security system because its protecting us from a "threat" unfortunately, no one is good enough at math to realize your likelihood of dying in a car accident is way way higher than being killed by a terrorist. You can probably be killed 10 times over in car accidents on the way to the airport before you will be killed by a bomb on a plane... Where are the enhanced pat downs and mandatory breathalizer tests for everyone before they operate a motor vehicle? Not to mention why don't we turn cars into faraday cages to keep people off cell phones? And we really should look at automatic governors on cars to limit their top speed to 55mph, and limit the weight/hp ratio in all cars to something that will barely allow acceleration... Well... no lets just ban cars all together, they're way too dangerous.
Unfortunately, as Gosling correctly points out, the claim that apple is the only one doing this is simply not true. IBM, HP, and many other vendors supply their own implementation of Java for their hardware/systems. Microsoft did too for a long time, until they tried "embrace and extend" on the platform and Sun shut them down. Until that happened, the only JVM sun built was for solaris it seems, and maybe the linux version...
Trying to claim "oh poor apple, they've done all this work for free while everyone else just got a free ride from Sun" is pretty disingenuous given the actual history of JVM implementations.
there are literally hundreds of studies that refute your claim, google them, I don't have time to answer you here, I was going to do my college thesis paper on your claim, and argue that electric cars wouldn't save us any pollution, but as soon as I started looking for sources, I gave up on that, its like 90-95% cleaner to mass produce electricity and use that to power transportation than to produce power locally at the source of transportation (IE burning gas in an ICE)
except that its not! You can still drive the volt 40 miles without using a drop of gas. Even if you go over 70mph, as long as you have battery power, you won't use any gas. Once the batteries are depleted, the gas generator kicks on, and starts charging the batteries, and you drive off the power there. The only time this "controversy" occurs is if a) the batteries are depleted and b) you want to drive over 70mph. Then some of the power from the engine will be sent straight to the wheels.
Its not deceitful, you just have to have a sliver of a brain, and use it. Generally when someone makes an outlandish claim to me, my first reaction is "well, that is clearly not possible following the rules of how the world works that I know, so either this person is lying to me, or they are applying a different set of rules" Then I proceed to figure out which they are doing.
In this case, there IS NOT AN HONEST STRAIGHT FORWARD WAY for GM to represent the mileage of this car, because the GOVERNMENT has not provided a way to do so... Sure that leaves the door open for applying whatever standard GM chooses, but it doesn't excuse people from using their brains to at least attempt to understand things. Hence my claim that people are being idiotic. If you just blindly believe someone when they say "Oh I have this 25k RPM Hard Drive" then yes, you are an idiot.
See I read those statements as being inclusive, like a logical and (&&)... when the battery pack runs down && speed near or above 70 then the engine will drive the front wheels with the electric motors. IE both conditions have to be met before the engine directly drives the wheels.
Where did you see point #2? I have only seen that if the batteries are dead, then some portion of the power from the engine will go to realtime-charging (IE through the generator, to the batteries, to the wheels), and if you're above 70mph then some portion of the power from the engine will go directly to the wheels.
I assumed this has to do with power ratings on the generator... IE the generator can only generate enough volts/watts/whatever to power the car up to 70mph in real time... above that it needs the engine to go faster. That seems to me the more plausible explanation. If the batteries are charged, then they can discharge fast enough to power the car over 70mph, however, if there isn't an extra store of electricity there, and the electricity is coming directly from the engine through the generator... it seems to me, this would be either a power rating on the generator, or the "optimum RPM" thing where optimal charging only produces enough power to go 70mph, anything above that, they designed a system to pull power off the engine, when real time charging isn't sufficient to maintain/attain the desired speed.
If you're driving along at freeway speeds and the batteries deplete, maybe the generator can only supply enough electricity to run at 55mph, I don't know, but I'm sure the generator supplies power in watts, its rated for x number of watts, and to maintain speeds above 55 maybe you need more watts than that, maybe the generator would cost twice as much, or be 20% heavier it were rated to supply the extra wattage necessary to maintain 75mph... but for arguments sake, we'll say the generator can only maintain 55mph, well your options then would be to slow to 55mph, or pull over and wait til the batteries are charged again. Me, I'd much rather kick the ICE up a notch, put some power directly to the wheels, and keep going 70mph.
How that is not seen as a feature by EVERYBODY is completely beyond me. In the Nissan Leaf, your option would be... oh wait, you don't have any, pull over and find the nearest power outlet, and wait for an hour or 2. In the prius, you're always burning gasoline no matter what, and you don't have 200k to spend on a tesla roadster... I'm sure there are trade offs in the engineering of the car, and this only happens if you're going above 70mph and the batteries are depleted, so I think for the core market of this car (people commuting less than 40 miles a day on average) this is a completely acceptable and very good trade off.
For me, my commute is about 15 miles each way, 3-5 of that being freeway, speed limit 60mph... so unless I was breaking the law by more than 10mph, which I don't generally do, I'd be in all electric all the time (even when the motor needs to kick in to charge the batteries). I'd never burn a drop of gas in this car on my normal commute as long as I plug the thing in every day. However, if my wife called while I was on my way home from work, and said "Lets meet at such and such a place downtown for dinner" (downtown is the opposite direction from work, so it would be about 20 extra miles one way) then I could say "sure" and just head there, and stay on the freeway, and keep going 65-70 the whole way, and I'd burn a gallon of gas, but I'd make it home without stopping, or slowing, and if I needed to pass someone and go over 70mph, then the engine would kick in and give me a little extra power and off I go. In the Nissan Leaf (estimated range 70-85) I'd be very hard pressed to make it to work, then downtown, then back to my house, that is about an 85 mile round trip... And assuming I got 30mpg while on gas in the volt, I would only use a little more than 1 gallon of gas to go 85 miles, so my MPG would be like 78mpg... which is at least 150% better than a prius. And most days, I'd never burn a drop of fuel, so I'd be easily destroying the mpg's of a prius or any other hybrid.
Again, how you can see this as anything other than a really nice feature to have when you need it is beyond me.
You people need to read the articles and use your brains.
The articles clearly state that the "new" mpg stats are if you never plug the thing in. If it runs 100% on its gasoline engine to charge batteries in real time, then it gets 25-40mpg depending on circumstances.
The 230MPG is some kind of "pollution" conversion that they do, the EPA hasn't established a standard for this, but basically it is "If you drive the car 40 miles each day, and charge it every night, so you never burn a drop of gas, then the pollution created generating the electricity to power the car is equal to the pollution you would create if the car got 230MPG" That has been understood since the beginning. GM never claimed it would get 230MPG running on gasoline. To try to say that was their claim now is completely unfair and completely idiotic.
well, the 30MPG vs 230 is just poor reporting. The articles clearly state that is IF YOU DON'T CHARGE THE CAR AT ALL. IE, if you drive it off the lot, and you never plug it in again, you will get 25-40MPG depending on driving circumstances. the 230 that GM claims is one of those crazy "pollution" conversion things, where if you drive it 40 miles each day, and charge it each day, so you are always using just electricity, then the pollution created generating the electricity to power the car is somehow equivalent to getting 230MPG burning gasoline.
My guess would be charge times. If you are driving on the freeway at 70mph, and the battery becomes depleted, you'd need to supply some number of watts, through the generator, to the batteries to maintain speed... if the generator can only realtime charge and provide enough power to travel at 50mph, then, your car is going to slow to 50mph. However, if the motor has extra power, but the generator is not large enough to use that extra power, it makes sense to rev up the engine a bit more, send that power to the wheels directly, maintain 70mph speeds, and charge the battery simultaneously.
Maybe putting in a larger generator that could handle real time charging at 70mph would increase costs... maybe the motor would need to be more powerful, I'm pretty sure these types of things are exponential in nature, IE, realtime charging for enough power at 50mph takes 100HP, at 70mph it takes 180HP or something, at 75mph it takes 220HP IE its not linear. And at some point it becomes inefficient to attempt, its better to just send the power straight to the wheels.
If you don't have a second computer, or a friend with a computer, or any other way to connect to the internet, well I feel sorry for you... But it is really pretty trivial to go get a different computer, run to the library, or starbucks, grab what you need, save on flash drive, and patch your computer. There are plenty of ways to connect to the internet that don't require *THAT* connection.
Anyway, I worked at a small ISP once that had this policy, and sure, we had a few angry customers when their connection got turned off, but, we had a lot of customers that were happy a) to know they were infected so they could fix it and b) that we were protecting them from their stupid neighbors.
I don't blame them for the end of the shuttle program, but they certainly do get the blame for canceling any hope of future manned space flight! Awesome Go Democrats! with the economy reeling lets pass trillion dollar bailouts for idiot bankers, and lay off more than 25k scientists and engineers! Awesome way to jump start the economy! Idiots! Hopefully all these nasa engineers can find work in Japan or China working on their space exploration missions...
as an aside, I also love how the health care legislation is already backfiring! McDonalds cancelled health insurance for 30k hourly workers yesterday because they can't afford to provide "full" coverage under the new law, and the coverage they did provide is now illegal, more than 10 health insurance companies have already pulled out of the health insurance market, pushing more and more people to UnitedHeath and Blue Cross Blue Shield... by 2014 those will be the only 2 choices for health care, and rates will probably be 2-5 times what they are today (you do know what monopoly pricing power means right?!? Especially when the government REQUIRES everyone to buy services from you...) How the democrats thought that was going to work is beyond me, they must be complete idiots, or there wasn't a single one of them that passed economics 101...
Second verse same as the first, if this is the "Change" everyone wanted... wow... I'd rather have had bush for another 8 years, started 2 more wars (North Korea and Iran) than have a censored internet, be forced to buy something by the federal government (I have health insurance already, but being FORCED to pay money for something, anything besides taxes, by the government is a step WAY BEYOND the freedoms this country is supposed to stand for).
And he hasn't even rolled back any of the Bush "secret" stuff, or closed Guantanamo. Instead as soon as he was in office he decided all that stuff was great!
I think its a counter to all the "let the yuan appreciate" garbage coming out of DC... China takes down facebook to prove our joblessness is really our fault (IE sudden spike in productivity related to lack of facebook). Then they can say "see you'd all have jobs if you weren't lazy narcissistic jerks". No one can hire you cause you waste 6 hours of every working day playing farmville...
Possibly... but the issues at least in this article are GLARING and show either a gross negligence towards security, or complete incompetence. These are web app 101 bugs... IE: profile IDs start at 1 and count up sequentially... once you're logged in you can go to your profile blahblah.com/profile/1/... change that 1 to any number greater than 1 and less than the total number of users on the system... oh look at that, you can edit their profile...
This is EVERYWHERE in diaspora code, they apparently didn't put in a single line of authorization checking anywhere... That these guys are the "guardians of privacy" in the social networking world makes me cringe.
OS X is slick but it runs on very expensive hardware
I love how this myth has continued to exist... Do you people really not know how to do a real hardware comparison? The last 3 laptops I've bought, I go to Dell, HP, IBM, and Apple... I configure the system I "need" (RAM, HD, processor, screen size, etc), then match specs across all vendors as close as possible (IE, maybe one has a 250gb HD, and the other only offers a 300GB HD)... And guess what? Apple, while routinely more expensive, is only slightly so... IE $20-50 more expensive. And when you throw in the fact that I don't have to purchase antivirus, deal with reinstalling the OS every 6 months, or other bizarre and arcane MS only issues... well its easily worth $50 to get the mac.
Windows 7 is easily the best Microsoft OS ever... but I highly prefer OS X (and even Ubuntu 10.04 talk about wanting to tinker?!?)
Pretty sure DoS attacks have landed many a hacker with extraordinarily long prison sentences... So when are we raiding the corporate HQs of the hollywood studios?!?
This really wouldn't be too uncommon. IBM has to have very detailed technical conversations/emails/etc with outsourced people in India, it would not take much to determine their future plans, product launches, progress, feature sets, etc. If you're competing with IBM and have access to all this information, you can easily beat them in the game. Same goes for any company with outsourced workers in India. It's not necessarily that it would "quickly sink" IBM, but it could easily quickly sink a new product launch, or a new division... And if you're a startup, and IBM, HP, or MSFT has access to this information that you've passed off to your outsourced labor, it could very quickly sink your company. IBM releases your product 2 months before you do you're done.
You mentioned "thinking about your internal security" the problem isn't internal security, it is that your perceived internal security now has an open spigot to the government of India... you have no internal security by default. Employees have to be able to discuss project progress, plans, etc. You have to have product meetings, there has to be communication about these things or nothing will ever get done. And the nature of these discussions if revealed to a third party can easily spell doom to a product, business division, or startup.
Further, it would be a huge temptation to use this information to trade stocks... Think you overhear an HP conversation where its revealed that they just lost a major customer to IBM, or they are months behind schedule on a new product... You've finally found step 2 1) Use gov't access to private communication to glean insider information 2) Short/Buy stock as appropriate 3) Wait for information to become public/earnings release 4) Profit
Only problem is, now that I have 15 years of experience, I find I rarely need to pull an all nighter, I've matured enough in my life and coding that I know that if I take an extra couple hours, take a walk, get some separation from the problem... then generally I solve it faster and better than the 20 yr old who just bangs code out for hours without thinking...
Having "something else" to do greatly enhances my coding, it doesn't detract from it.
Now, do I still have my own setup? Yes, 5 servers, running VMware probably about 40 VMs, an iSCSI SAN, I've set up HA, load balanced database clusters and web server farms with automated deployment scripts for about 10 side projects that I've built/manage... all stuff I've never "had" to do at any of my jobs, but I'm interested in HA.... Does this stop me from playing hockey? Skiing? or golfing? reading? hiking? no, although setting all that up when I was 20 probably would have, cause I would have spent hours and hours and days on end beating my head against a wall instead of periodically taking a break and getting time to think through issues and come up with the best solution...
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I would just say, if americans were at least a little bit better at math (again I'm not talking about partial differential equations or anything, just basic division/estimation) then we'd collectively be a lot better at calling BS on the large for profit organizations when they try to manipulate things.
And maybe, just maybe, we'd actually try to deal with real problems instead of made up ones.
I've made this point repeatedly to my friends... I'll state it here now. The problem with America today is that we suck so badly at math.
As an example, 200 people get sick eating tomatos.... Suddenly 300 million people stop buying tomatos... All because no one can do that math in their head and figure out that they only have a 0.000000667% chance of getting sick eating tomatos.
I routinely perform this kind of math in my head, if there are more than 3 zeros after the decimal point, I generally don't have to worry about it. The sensationalist media doesn't help, but if people could do a little fact checking on their own, then we could avoid 99% of the problems caused by overreaction.
Terrorism falls into a very similar place. Everyone is OK with this insane security system because its protecting us from a "threat" unfortunately, no one is good enough at math to realize your likelihood of dying in a car accident is way way higher than being killed by a terrorist. You can probably be killed 10 times over in car accidents on the way to the airport before you will be killed by a bomb on a plane... Where are the enhanced pat downs and mandatory breathalizer tests for everyone before they operate a motor vehicle? Not to mention why don't we turn cars into faraday cages to keep people off cell phones? And we really should look at automatic governors on cars to limit their top speed to 55mph, and limit the weight/hp ratio in all cars to something that will barely allow acceleration... Well... no lets just ban cars all together, they're way too dangerous.
Unfortunately, as Gosling correctly points out, the claim that apple is the only one doing this is simply not true. IBM, HP, and many other vendors supply their own implementation of Java for their hardware/systems. Microsoft did too for a long time, until they tried "embrace and extend" on the platform and Sun shut them down. Until that happened, the only JVM sun built was for solaris it seems, and maybe the linux version...
Trying to claim "oh poor apple, they've done all this work for free while everyone else just got a free ride from Sun" is pretty disingenuous given the actual history of JVM implementations.
there are literally hundreds of studies that refute your claim, google them, I don't have time to answer you here, I was going to do my college thesis paper on your claim, and argue that electric cars wouldn't save us any pollution, but as soon as I started looking for sources, I gave up on that, its like 90-95% cleaner to mass produce electricity and use that to power transportation than to produce power locally at the source of transportation (IE burning gas in an ICE)
except that its not! You can still drive the volt 40 miles without using a drop of gas. Even if you go over 70mph, as long as you have battery power, you won't use any gas. Once the batteries are depleted, the gas generator kicks on, and starts charging the batteries, and you drive off the power there. The only time this "controversy" occurs is if a) the batteries are depleted and b) you want to drive over 70mph. Then some of the power from the engine will be sent straight to the wheels.
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Its not deceitful, you just have to have a sliver of a brain, and use it. Generally when someone makes an outlandish claim to me, my first reaction is "well, that is clearly not possible following the rules of how the world works that I know, so either this person is lying to me, or they are applying a different set of rules" Then I proceed to figure out which they are doing.
In this case, there IS NOT AN HONEST STRAIGHT FORWARD WAY for GM to represent the mileage of this car, because the GOVERNMENT has not provided a way to do so... Sure that leaves the door open for applying whatever standard GM chooses, but it doesn't excuse people from using their brains to at least attempt to understand things. Hence my claim that people are being idiotic. If you just blindly believe someone when they say "Oh I have this 25k RPM Hard Drive" then yes, you are an idiot.
See I read those statements as being inclusive, like a logical and (&&)... when the battery pack runs down && speed near or above 70 then the engine will drive the front wheels with the electric motors. IE both conditions have to be met before the engine directly drives the wheels.
Where did you see point #2? I have only seen that if the batteries are dead, then some portion of the power from the engine will go to realtime-charging (IE through the generator, to the batteries, to the wheels), and if you're above 70mph then some portion of the power from the engine will go directly to the wheels.
I assumed this has to do with power ratings on the generator... IE the generator can only generate enough volts/watts/whatever to power the car up to 70mph in real time... above that it needs the engine to go faster. That seems to me the more plausible explanation. If the batteries are charged, then they can discharge fast enough to power the car over 70mph, however, if there isn't an extra store of electricity there, and the electricity is coming directly from the engine through the generator... it seems to me, this would be either a power rating on the generator, or the "optimum RPM" thing where optimal charging only produces enough power to go 70mph, anything above that, they designed a system to pull power off the engine, when real time charging isn't sufficient to maintain/attain the desired speed.
If you're driving along at freeway speeds and the batteries deplete, maybe the generator can only supply enough electricity to run at 55mph, I don't know, but I'm sure the generator supplies power in watts, its rated for x number of watts, and to maintain speeds above 55 maybe you need more watts than that, maybe the generator would cost twice as much, or be 20% heavier it were rated to supply the extra wattage necessary to maintain 75mph... but for arguments sake, we'll say the generator can only maintain 55mph, well your options then would be to slow to 55mph, or pull over and wait til the batteries are charged again. Me, I'd much rather kick the ICE up a notch, put some power directly to the wheels, and keep going 70mph.
How that is not seen as a feature by EVERYBODY is completely beyond me. In the Nissan Leaf, your option would be... oh wait, you don't have any, pull over and find the nearest power outlet, and wait for an hour or 2. In the prius, you're always burning gasoline no matter what, and you don't have 200k to spend on a tesla roadster... I'm sure there are trade offs in the engineering of the car, and this only happens if you're going above 70mph and the batteries are depleted, so I think for the core market of this car (people commuting less than 40 miles a day on average) this is a completely acceptable and very good trade off.
For me, my commute is about 15 miles each way, 3-5 of that being freeway, speed limit 60mph... so unless I was breaking the law by more than 10mph, which I don't generally do, I'd be in all electric all the time (even when the motor needs to kick in to charge the batteries). I'd never burn a drop of gas in this car on my normal commute as long as I plug the thing in every day. However, if my wife called while I was on my way home from work, and said "Lets meet at such and such a place downtown for dinner" (downtown is the opposite direction from work, so it would be about 20 extra miles one way) then I could say "sure" and just head there, and stay on the freeway, and keep going 65-70 the whole way, and I'd burn a gallon of gas, but I'd make it home without stopping, or slowing, and if I needed to pass someone and go over 70mph, then the engine would kick in and give me a little extra power and off I go. In the Nissan Leaf (estimated range 70-85) I'd be very hard pressed to make it to work, then downtown, then back to my house, that is about an 85 mile round trip... And assuming I got 30mpg while on gas in the volt, I would only use a little more than 1 gallon of gas to go 85 miles, so my MPG would be like 78mpg... which is at least 150% better than a prius. And most days, I'd never burn a drop of fuel, so I'd be easily destroying the mpg's of a prius or any other hybrid.
Again, how you can see this as anything other than a really nice feature to have when you need it is beyond me.
You people need to read the articles and use your brains.
The articles clearly state that the "new" mpg stats are if you never plug the thing in. If it runs 100% on its gasoline engine to charge batteries in real time, then it gets 25-40mpg depending on circumstances.
The 230MPG is some kind of "pollution" conversion that they do, the EPA hasn't established a standard for this, but basically it is "If you drive the car 40 miles each day, and charge it every night, so you never burn a drop of gas, then the pollution created generating the electricity to power the car is equal to the pollution you would create if the car got 230MPG" That has been understood since the beginning. GM never claimed it would get 230MPG running on gasoline. To try to say that was their claim now is completely unfair and completely idiotic.
well, the 30MPG vs 230 is just poor reporting. The articles clearly state that is IF YOU DON'T CHARGE THE CAR AT ALL. IE, if you drive it off the lot, and you never plug it in again, you will get 25-40MPG depending on driving circumstances. the 230 that GM claims is one of those crazy "pollution" conversion things, where if you drive it 40 miles each day, and charge it each day, so you are always using just electricity, then the pollution created generating the electricity to power the car is somehow equivalent to getting 230MPG burning gasoline.
My guess would be charge times. If you are driving on the freeway at 70mph, and the battery becomes depleted, you'd need to supply some number of watts, through the generator, to the batteries to maintain speed... if the generator can only realtime charge and provide enough power to travel at 50mph, then, your car is going to slow to 50mph. However, if the motor has extra power, but the generator is not large enough to use that extra power, it makes sense to rev up the engine a bit more, send that power to the wheels directly, maintain 70mph speeds, and charge the battery simultaneously.
Maybe putting in a larger generator that could handle real time charging at 70mph would increase costs... maybe the motor would need to be more powerful, I'm pretty sure these types of things are exponential in nature, IE, realtime charging for enough power at 50mph takes 100HP, at 70mph it takes 180HP or something, at 75mph it takes 220HP IE its not linear. And at some point it becomes inefficient to attempt, its better to just send the power straight to the wheels.
If you don't have a second computer, or a friend with a computer, or any other way to connect to the internet, well I feel sorry for you... But it is really pretty trivial to go get a different computer, run to the library, or starbucks, grab what you need, save on flash drive, and patch your computer. There are plenty of ways to connect to the internet that don't require *THAT* connection.
Anyway, I worked at a small ISP once that had this policy, and sure, we had a few angry customers when their connection got turned off, but, we had a lot of customers that were happy a) to know they were infected so they could fix it and b) that we were protecting them from their stupid neighbors.
I don't blame them for the end of the shuttle program, but they certainly do get the blame for canceling any hope of future manned space flight! Awesome Go Democrats! with the economy reeling lets pass trillion dollar bailouts for idiot bankers, and lay off more than 25k scientists and engineers! Awesome way to jump start the economy! Idiots! Hopefully all these nasa engineers can find work in Japan or China working on their space exploration missions...
as an aside, I also love how the health care legislation is already backfiring! McDonalds cancelled health insurance for 30k hourly workers yesterday because they can't afford to provide "full" coverage under the new law, and the coverage they did provide is now illegal, more than 10 health insurance companies have already pulled out of the health insurance market, pushing more and more people to UnitedHeath and Blue Cross Blue Shield... by 2014 those will be the only 2 choices for health care, and rates will probably be 2-5 times what they are today (you do know what monopoly pricing power means right?!? Especially when the government REQUIRES everyone to buy services from you...) How the democrats thought that was going to work is beyond me, they must be complete idiots, or there wasn't a single one of them that passed economics 101...
It's because the lawyers are running the show, and they win every time this stuff happens, no matter which side wins, the lawyers still get rich.
Second verse same as the first, if this is the "Change" everyone wanted... wow... I'd rather have had bush for another 8 years, started 2 more wars (North Korea and Iran) than have a censored internet, be forced to buy something by the federal government (I have health insurance already, but being FORCED to pay money for something, anything besides taxes, by the government is a step WAY BEYOND the freedoms this country is supposed to stand for).
And he hasn't even rolled back any of the Bush "secret" stuff, or closed Guantanamo. Instead as soon as he was in office he decided all that stuff was great!
Never been a worse president than Obama.
amen! #1 reason I've never understood podcasts... Reading is sooo much faster and more convenient.
I think its a counter to all the "let the yuan appreciate" garbage coming out of DC... China takes down facebook to prove our joblessness is really our fault (IE sudden spike in productivity related to lack of facebook). Then they can say "see you'd all have jobs if you weren't lazy narcissistic jerks". No one can hire you cause you waste 6 hours of every working day playing farmville...
Possibly... but the issues at least in this article are GLARING and show either a gross negligence towards security, or complete incompetence. These are web app 101 bugs... IE: profile IDs start at 1 and count up sequentially... once you're logged in you can go to your profile blahblah.com/profile/1/... change that 1 to any number greater than 1 and less than the total number of users on the system... oh look at that, you can edit their profile...
This is EVERYWHERE in diaspora code, they apparently didn't put in a single line of authorization checking anywhere... That these guys are the "guardians of privacy" in the social networking world makes me cringe.
OS X is slick but it runs on very expensive hardware
I love how this myth has continued to exist... Do you people really not know how to do a real hardware comparison? The last 3 laptops I've bought, I go to Dell, HP, IBM, and Apple... I configure the system I "need" (RAM, HD, processor, screen size, etc), then match specs across all vendors as close as possible (IE, maybe one has a 250gb HD, and the other only offers a 300GB HD)... And guess what? Apple, while routinely more expensive, is only slightly so... IE $20-50 more expensive. And when you throw in the fact that I don't have to purchase antivirus, deal with reinstalling the OS every 6 months, or other bizarre and arcane MS only issues... well its easily worth $50 to get the mac.
Windows 7 is easily the best Microsoft OS ever... but I highly prefer OS X (and even Ubuntu 10.04 talk about wanting to tinker?!?)
Pretty sure DoS attacks have landed many a hacker with extraordinarily long prison sentences... So when are we raiding the corporate HQs of the hollywood studios?!?
This really wouldn't be too uncommon. IBM has to have very detailed technical conversations/emails/etc with outsourced people in India, it would not take much to determine their future plans, product launches, progress, feature sets, etc. If you're competing with IBM and have access to all this information, you can easily beat them in the game. Same goes for any company with outsourced workers in India. It's not necessarily that it would "quickly sink" IBM, but it could easily quickly sink a new product launch, or a new division... And if you're a startup, and IBM, HP, or MSFT has access to this information that you've passed off to your outsourced labor, it could very quickly sink your company. IBM releases your product 2 months before you do you're done.
You mentioned "thinking about your internal security" the problem isn't internal security, it is that your perceived internal security now has an open spigot to the government of India... you have no internal security by default. Employees have to be able to discuss project progress, plans, etc. You have to have product meetings, there has to be communication about these things or nothing will ever get done. And the nature of these discussions if revealed to a third party can easily spell doom to a product, business division, or startup.
Further, it would be a huge temptation to use this information to trade stocks... Think you overhear an HP conversation where its revealed that they just lost a major customer to IBM, or they are months behind schedule on a new product... You've finally found step 2
1) Use gov't access to private communication to glean insider information
2) Short/Buy stock as appropriate
3) Wait for information to become public/earnings release
4) Profit
Only problem is, now that I have 15 years of experience, I find I rarely need to pull an all nighter, I've matured enough in my life and coding that I know that if I take an extra couple hours, take a walk, get some separation from the problem... then generally I solve it faster and better than the 20 yr old who just bangs code out for hours without thinking...
Having "something else" to do greatly enhances my coding, it doesn't detract from it.
Now, do I still have my own setup? Yes, 5 servers, running VMware probably about 40 VMs, an iSCSI SAN, I've set up HA, load balanced database clusters and web server farms with automated deployment scripts for about 10 side projects that I've built/manage... all stuff I've never "had" to do at any of my jobs, but I'm interested in HA.... Does this stop me from playing hockey? Skiing? or golfing? reading? hiking? no, although setting all that up when I was 20 probably would have, cause I would have spent hours and hours and days on end beating my head against a wall instead of periodically taking a break and getting time to think through issues and come up with the best solution...
more like 5...4...