During those 8 weeks or so it is a full time job. And honestly, some of the laws and especially the budget are so complex that it isn't something you just whip out the pen and start writing. Maybe full-time research staff, but honestly that is the job of legislators.
And I personally believe that they should spend as much time reviewing old laws for relevance, modification and possible repeal as they do making new ones.
I don't know. This was the way things were set up back when it all started, a couple hundred years ago. The intent was that government was small enough to not be a full time job.
The problem is that belief has become a religion. We are no longer in the 1700s and the complexities of governing such a large and varied State have greatly evolved. It really isn't a part time job anymore, but not enough people are willing to admit that.
The point is that being a State House Representative is not a full time job. Whether it should be or not is a different question, but in the U.S. the position of State Legislator is mostly considered part-time.
It promotes a shallow understanding of the way things work. You can be good doing this, but will never be great unless you understand the fundamentals, deep down. This applies to almost every craft, and companies who are in the business of creating things should know that. It matters.
The key is once you get a good knowledge of assembler, you stop using assembler as a general purpose tool and only use it were it would benefit.
Back in the day ham radio exams in parts of the world required building a functioning radio from supplied parts. You had to know how a radio worked, in the abstract.
That doesn't mean that once you have that knowledge you forever build your own radios from unassembled kit.
"Code reuse, libraries, sharing, and open-source are very important to software engineering, but we should be careful to not enable the belief that programming should be as easy as gluing things together."
That is the management view of programming and a major corporate goal. This way it reduces the skills needed to complete the task, and hence you can pay less for the less skilled laborers.
Why do you think the average salary of a Windows Admin is lower than that of a Unix/Linux Admin? Because Microsoft pushed the "we've made it simple, just push the button" marketing drek and aimed it squarely at the management crowd -- who bought it hook, line and sinker.
"They made it easy, so I shouldn't have to pay you as much because anyone can do it. I'll just hire some kid with the latest MS cert..."
The simple truth is that while unbreakable encryption is out there in the form of books or papers with the math, most people -- bad guys included -- are lazy and just going to use what the simple, convenient stuff. (The back-doored stuff.)
They fall into the trap of thinking "there are so many people using Facebook chat, the authorities will never find MY stuff in all that noise". In many cases they end up using simple code-book substitution and trivial code names. Instead of Abdul al-Hazred, they'll use "Mr. White". Instead of the Twin Towers they'll use "Faculty of Commerce". They think they're being clever because THEY would never catch this stuff.
I've had this argument with gov't lawyers and it boiled down to me saying "but this is trivial to bypass -- smart bad guys would just use X", and them responding "yeah, but we'll catch the stupid ones and there are a TON of those".
Anyone who has studied the history of crypto knows it is damn near impossible to get it right every last time, much less develop it without bugs. Even WITH source code samples, algorithms and coding skills people who have been doing this for a lifetime screw it up. Thus, "the horse has escaped the barn" isn't really an honest argument. That horse is going to trip of its own volition fairly quickly.
The popular cryptographer and author Bruce Schneier in his blog recalled a conversation with fellow crypto expert Matt Blaze of the University of Pennsylvania, who said the publication of the Snowden documents would begin a âoenew dark age of cryptography, as people abandon good algorithms and software for snake oil of their own devising.â
They're one-day classes, so the training is essentially the bare minimum necessary to get the permit. Regardless, it isn't the responsibility of the instructor to ensure these people are competent in threat assessment and situational awareness. That takes constant practice, and THAT is my concern. Being able to properly handle a firearm, much less in an intense situation, takes commitment and practice.
Being a regular shooter at a couple ranges I can attest that the rise in the number of people coming to actually practice HAS risen, but nowhere near as much as the CC classes and gun sales have.
I went to the local gun range today and was chatting with the owner. His business spiked since the Paris shootings, with weekly concealed carry classes booked solid through February. With this he's going to have his best Christmas sales season in years.
I'm not sure what scares me more -- random shootings, or the thought of so many yokels with concealed carry permits who've only fired a gun once or twice in their, now life trying to return fire (or thinking they can).
You know your definition with "ancestors...for centuries" describes just about every European-descended person in North America short of the few with family lines back to before the American Revolution, right?
The whole point of having a path to becoming a citizen (any country) is flushed down the toilet with your post.
Speaking about the U.S., until you amend the Constitution -- too fucking bad. That is the system we have and your whining about it is counterproductive.
You need to read up more. Yes, that is *EXACTLY* what a lot of these idiots think, that one terror attack is going to collapse a country.
They live in such a bubble they can't believe the rest of the world doesn't see things exactly like they do.
Take a look at how many nutcases are arrested for shootings in the U.S. who were "trying to start a race war" -- as if one shooting is going to start civil war.
That asshole in Norway was trying to trigger a war against Muslims in Western Europe.
How many "preppers" are there in the U.S. that believe the West is going to collapse into ruin any day now. All it will take is just the right spark to start the race/culture/religious/civil war.
If you click on one of the reported IP addresses it tells you what the issues are. In Google's case it is still accepting SSL v3 and a couple of certificates signed with SHA1.
So take that up one level. The governments set CO2 emissions requirements for vehicles that, it seems, were impossible to meet given the current technology. After expending a large effort and resources on improving the technology, it was still impossible.
Those companies will then be punished by the government for failing to do the impossible. Should not the various governments who set the emission levels be held accountable? They essentially set the bar at an impossible level, given the time and resource constraints, and then threatened the livelihoods of all the participants who were guaranteed to fail.
1. Use Linux for the simple reason you can separate partitions. Create a separate/home partition that mounts on an encrypted removable drive, like an Ironkey.
2. Do all work on the removable drive.
3. Never cross a border with both the laptop and the removable drive. Ship out courier the drive separately and carry the laptop.
This way there is nothing on the laptop to be searched or seized.
Well, considering the department chair and vice-chair are the co-authors of the book, I don't think he would have gotten much traction.
How much does Linear Algebra change from year to year? Is there a real reason -- other than milking students (aka Federal Student Loan money) -- of not using a textbook from say, 2006, which is plentiful and under $10 on the used book market? Has there been a revolution in either the fundamental mathematical theory or the teaching of such to require new, "revised" editions of the text that are 10-20x more expensive?
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It was changed by aliens on the grassy knoll.
Are you trying to tell me Elvis was an alien? It is all starting to make sense!
God help that San Bernadino tech if he hit the "remote wipe" button when changing the password. :-)
If, by paying the subscription, I can continue to use the ad blocker, I'll pay for it.
My issues are when I pay for a subscription but still get a crapton of ads.
You can't have both. I will happily do without your service if that is the case.
Hey, we can't all be Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Larry Ellison or John McAfee!
Sorry, let me clarify.
During those 8 weeks or so it is a full time job. And honestly, some of the laws and especially the budget are so complex that it isn't something you just whip out the pen and start writing. Maybe full-time research staff, but honestly that is the job of legislators.
And I personally believe that they should spend as much time reviewing old laws for relevance, modification and possible repeal as they do making new ones.
You just described my senior management.
I don't know. This was the way things were set up back when it all started, a couple hundred years ago. The intent was that government was small enough to not be a full time job.
The problem is that belief has become a religion. We are no longer in the 1700s and the complexities of governing such a large and varied State have greatly evolved. It really isn't a part time job anymore, but not enough people are willing to admit that.
The point is that being a State House Representative is not a full time job. Whether it should be or not is a different question, but in the U.S. the position of State Legislator is mostly considered part-time.
https://ballotpedia.org/States_with_a_full-time_legislature
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It promotes a shallow understanding of the way things work. You can be good doing this, but will never be great unless you understand the fundamentals, deep down. This applies to almost every craft, and companies who are in the business of creating things should know that. It matters.
The key is once you get a good knowledge of assembler, you stop using assembler as a general purpose tool and only use it were it would benefit.
Back in the day ham radio exams in parts of the world required building a functioning radio from supplied parts. You had to know how a radio worked, in the abstract.
That doesn't mean that once you have that knowledge you forever build your own radios from unassembled kit.
"Code reuse, libraries, sharing, and open-source are very important to software engineering, but we should be careful to not enable the belief that programming should be as easy as gluing things together."
That is the management view of programming and a major corporate goal. This way it reduces the skills needed to complete the task, and hence you can pay less for the less skilled laborers.
Why do you think the average salary of a Windows Admin is lower than that of a Unix/Linux Admin? Because Microsoft pushed the "we've made it simple, just push the button" marketing drek and aimed it squarely at the management crowd -- who bought it hook, line and sinker.
"They made it easy, so I shouldn't have to pay you as much because anyone can do it. I'll just hire some kid with the latest MS cert..."
The simple truth is that while unbreakable encryption is out there in the form of books or papers with the math, most people -- bad guys included -- are lazy and just going to use what the simple, convenient stuff. (The back-doored stuff.)
They fall into the trap of thinking "there are so many people using Facebook chat, the authorities will never find MY stuff in all that noise". In many cases they end up using simple code-book substitution and trivial code names. Instead of Abdul al-Hazred, they'll use "Mr. White". Instead of the Twin Towers they'll use "Faculty of Commerce". They think they're being clever because THEY would never catch this stuff.
I've had this argument with gov't lawyers and it boiled down to me saying "but this is trivial to bypass -- smart bad guys would just use X", and them responding "yeah, but we'll catch the stupid ones and there are a TON of those".
Anyone who has studied the history of crypto knows it is damn near impossible to get it right every last time, much less develop it without bugs. Even WITH source code samples, algorithms and coding skills people who have been doing this for a lifetime screw it up. Thus, "the horse has escaped the barn" isn't really an honest argument. That horse is going to trip of its own volition fairly quickly.
The popular cryptographer and author Bruce Schneier in his blog recalled a conversation with fellow crypto expert Matt Blaze of the University of Pennsylvania, who said the publication of the Snowden documents would begin a âoenew dark age of cryptography, as people abandon good algorithms and software for snake oil of their own devising.â
Annealing? I RTFS and am envisioning repeatedly setting the D-Wave on fire and letting it cool slowly.
After reading the summary on the Google Research Blog...I still get that picture. Not really my field. :-(
No, it is a different market. Apple isn't selling those watches for $1,500 each at that quantity.
Your comparison is like saying Lamborghini is vastly outsold by Toyota, so why bother. Different niche.
They're one-day classes, so the training is essentially the bare minimum necessary to get the permit. Regardless, it isn't the responsibility of the instructor to ensure these people are competent in threat assessment and situational awareness. That takes constant practice, and THAT is my concern. Being able to properly handle a firearm, much less in an intense situation, takes commitment and practice.
Being a regular shooter at a couple ranges I can attest that the rise in the number of people coming to actually practice HAS risen, but nowhere near as much as the CC classes and gun sales have.
I went to the local gun range today and was chatting with the owner. His business spiked since the Paris shootings, with weekly concealed carry classes booked solid through February. With this he's going to have his best Christmas sales season in years.
I'm not sure what scares me more -- random shootings, or the thought of so many yokels with concealed carry permits who've only fired a gun once or twice in their, now life trying to return fire (or thinking they can).
You know your definition with "ancestors...for centuries" describes just about every European-descended person in North America short of the few with family lines back to before the American Revolution, right?
The whole point of having a path to becoming a citizen (any country) is flushed down the toilet with your post.
Speaking about the U.S., until you amend the Constitution -- too fucking bad. That is the system we have and your whining about it is counterproductive.
So this is turtle graphics, introduced with Logo, back in the late 1960s, reinvented with Minecraft.
Cool, yes. Revolutionary? Not so much.
You need to read up more. Yes, that is *EXACTLY* what a lot of these idiots think, that one terror attack is going to collapse a country.
They live in such a bubble they can't believe the rest of the world doesn't see things exactly like they do.
Take a look at how many nutcases are arrested for shootings in the U.S. who were "trying to start a race war" -- as if one shooting is going to start civil war.
That asshole in Norway was trying to trigger a war against Muslims in Western Europe.
How many "preppers" are there in the U.S. that believe the West is going to collapse into ruin any day now. All it will take is just the right spark to start the race/culture/religious/civil war.
Try a reverse proxy with a malware scanning component.
Or subscribe to the premium service for Virus Total and use the API to check all uploads to your server.
If you click on one of the reported IP addresses it tells you what the issues are. In Google's case it is still accepting SSL v3 and a couple of certificates signed with SHA1.
So take that up one level. The governments set CO2 emissions requirements for vehicles that, it seems, were impossible to meet given the current technology. After expending a large effort and resources on improving the technology, it was still impossible.
Those companies will then be punished by the government for failing to do the impossible. Should not the various governments who set the emission levels be held accountable? They essentially set the bar at an impossible level, given the time and resource constraints, and then threatened the livelihoods of all the participants who were guaranteed to fail.
Mars didn't lose its magnetic field, it just misplaced it. it is around the Solar System somewhere, so watch where you step.
1. Use Linux for the simple reason you can separate partitions. Create a separate /home partition that mounts on an encrypted removable drive, like an Ironkey.
2. Do all work on the removable drive.
3. Never cross a border with both the laptop and the removable drive. Ship out courier the drive separately and carry the laptop.
This way there is nothing on the laptop to be searched or seized.
Well, considering the department chair and vice-chair are the co-authors of the book, I don't think he would have gotten much traction.
How much does Linear Algebra change from year to year? Is there a real reason -- other than milking students (aka Federal Student Loan money) -- of not using a textbook from say, 2006, which is plentiful and under $10 on the used book market? Has there been a revolution in either the fundamental mathematical theory or the teaching of such to require new, "revised" editions of the text that are 10-20x more expensive?