You could have phones with great security that even the 15 year old girls would be fine with. The priorities toward non-securirty come from the the data harvesting interests of the phone manufacturers, carriers, advertising companies, and (comparatively distantly) snooping governments.
Seriously... the most common phone OS is developed by an advertising company and it's a surprise that security and privacy are low priorities?
Zero-filling the SD card will take forever and, by the time the device is grabbed, most of the data on the card will be intact with the partial zero-fill being obvious evidence of you trying to destroy the contents of the card. Much better to keep the whole SD card encrypted and just destroy the key there, too.
So the management just gets to offload the responsibility for its own incompetence onto the worker? It's clearly way too hard to anticipate the lunch rush or inventory night more than 30 minutes in advance!
That's a terrible fit of the data and the trend that Rei refers to isn't even that convincing. All that you can get from these data are that conditions at and above 66F were well-sampled and predominantly (though not entirely) associated with non-failure. There are nearly as many non-zero points above 66F as below. Drawing conclusions from sparse data, especially in retrospect, is silly and unscientific.
The plot you link to gives a ridiculously high weight to the sparsest data and deviates greatly from the best-sampled data. The page it's from seems to be down, but is his fit to any particular model or is it just a scary looking curve?
And I have no doubt that the ad industry lies to their customers, giving them a false idea of how many people are seeing or bypassing the ads.
You've hit the nail on the head with that line.
I'm skeptical about the actual effectiveness of advertising on consumers on the whole, but the ad industry has been extremely effective in selling advertising to companies. That is apparently where advertising actually works and I bet the ad mongers are just as unscrupulous in their dealings with their clients as they are with the public.
Without units, the number that the AC posted is completely meaningless. This entire thread is based around confusion caused by the lack of units: the article is referring to percent and the German guy was referring to permille.
"1.0", without any units or descriptor, doesn't mean that your blood is only alcohol because it doesn't mean anything. My 1.0% was just as meaningless as his 1.0, which was the point!
Apple helpfully provides a tool called "Network Link Conditioner" that lets you deliberately slow down or fuck up your network connection in various ways so that you can test how your stuff reacts to bad network conditions. Pretty handy... to bad more dev environments don't have something like this.
A true hologram is produced by recording (and then illuminating) the interference pattern created by coherent light interacting with an object.
In the vernacular, however, the word "hologram" is used to describe any planar or volumetric "image" that is projected onto "empty space" (where "empty space" is anything that is sufficiently insubstantial, like air, a cloud of water droplets, or even a really really clean pane of glass that you almost can't tell is there).
You're technically correct (the best kind of correct), but you're tilting at windmills by getting pissed about politicians and the media incorrectly using technical terms. That way lies madness.
It's more than just that, though. A mouse allows you to represent a huge space of possible pointing positions as a 2D plane, which we're very good at dealing with. For FPS games, you can make any aiming movement from twirling around 180 to shifting your aim slightly in an extremely short amount of time by moving the mouse to a distance on the plane that represents that angular shift.
With a controller stick, your control over aiming is a matter of holding the stick at a certain angle for a certain amount of time. The angle of the sick is much less easily controlled and the time you have to hold it has a direct impact on the player's ability to make twitch movements. Adding aids for controller users like smoothing the input (to make the stick angle more forgiving) or adding acceleration (to cut down on the time it takes to make a large movement) only makes the controller less fit for rapid precise aiming.
Of course, a keyboard having more buttons is nice, even if they aren't in really the best layout for gaming. Being able to directly switch equipped items or activate certain items helps. Avoiding the overuse of "action buttons" makes it easier to control what your character is actually doing instead of accidentally doing something you didn't want to do (although these are usually carried over in console ports).
Have you tried offering them more money? If you offer enough money, people will move and you will get more applications. It's silly that employers expect to be exempt from basic supply and demand economics.
HR's job is to be the recruiter. To sift through the resumes, and find potential candidates to bring in for interviews.
HR's job is to apply a simple string matching algorithm to the incoming resumes and pass along the ones that have the most matches to the posting, typos and all. How can you possibly be a project lead or senior scientist if you don't list Microsot [sic] Office on your resume? And Facebook isn't going to post to itself all day, after all...
If you're just looking at the applications that you're getting from HR, you're missing out on almost all of the cream.
I personally just took a job last month, where I told them out right, I want the Software Engineering job they are offering, and in addition to everything I'll bring to the table, that I also offered to work for them for a less than market rate (Basically a 50% paycut from previous job and about 20% under median rates).
Needless to say, I got the job. And also encouraging friends to start doing the same. If we want to compete with those that want to work for less, we need to be willing to work for less. And I chose work for a lot less money, at a job I'll enjoy.
You've discovered the approach that everybody in academia uses, which is why academic positions pay (at most) half of what industry positions pay.
Did your living expenses halve themselves to match your income? Devaluing your skills for the win! The management, who aren't in a race to the bottom, really appreciate the money you've freed up for their extra bonuses.
Lastly, put in a bounty program for body shops that use B1 visa holders for body shopping. Reporters get 40% of the imposed fine, which is a multiple of the salary delta between the body shoppers and the equivalent FTE.
This is a great idea that can work in many different areas also. Most of the illegal immigration/guest worker abuses and issues depend on the actions of unscrupulous employers. The only other people who know the reality of the situation are the deportable or indentured employees who have a strong incentive to not report the employee. We should instead create an incentive to turn in the employer (well... and then actually prosecute them instead of just looking the other way).
Ha ha, but the free market answer really is that a difficult to fill position (due to extreme qualifications, danger, or unpleasantness) is going to have to pay more to attract applicants. Why are we always expected to "let the market decide", except when it hurts those with the money?
I still have Windows installed on a drive, just for games, too. As time goes on, I just find myself not playing Windows-only games anymore.
Every blue moon, I'll reboot into Windows to play a game, wait for twenty minutes while it finishes installing the update it started the last time I turned it off, maybe have it reboot again immediately... finally get to the desktop where it starts complaining about another update that it needs to download and reboot for, have it automatically start downloading it and saturating my network because I forgot to turn that "feature" off the last time I used Windows (or it was helpfully turned back on for me in the previous update)... get sick of waiting for it, give up on playing the Windows-only game, reboot into Linux and not think about it again for months.
As an infrequent Windows user, literally all I ever see of Windows is the shitty upgrade experience. If there's a better way to train me off of ever wanting to use Windows, I can't think of it.
The 2012 MBP was the last to have an ethernet port and upgradable RAM and storage. They were selling it new as recently as last year when I bought what will probably be my last Mac (or Apple product, likely). And yeah, with 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD, it's still doing everything I need it to.
My perspective is ignorant of what? The value that all of the (multiple!) Vice Chancellors of Diversity, each with their own offices full of support staff, or the university's huge marketing department, or the entire building that's just devoted to executive suites and HR personnel, or... bring to my research? I pay my own salary, the salary of my postdocs, and buy all of my equipment and supplies from the half of my grants that's left after indirects are taken by the university. If I bring in twice as much money and don't take up any more space or electricity, they'll take twice as much also and deliver exactly what they were delivering before.
Indirects as a percentage of grant income only encourage waste and administrative bloat. Administrators are necessary, but only to a point. If your perspective is that there is no such thing as administrative bloat and that hiring more administrators always adds more value to researchers, then you're going to have to make a better argument than a vague appeal to your own authority on the matter.
Regulations may be the excuse, but the reason administrators proliferate is because there's money available for them to suck from the institution. This happens to all institutions as they age, even corporations with their bloat of middle management, massive HR departments and such. Administrators hire administrators, who then hire more administrators, ad nauseam. They don't interact with anybody who actually does reasonably productive work, so they don't really have any metric to compare their own work (or the work of their assistant's assistant's assistant's assistant) to.
You must be the only person in the world who thinks that the indirects siphoned off by the university are actually being well spent. From my perspective, it's almost entirely wasted on administrative bloat.
You can get a better idea of the real costs of overhead by renting lab space from the university's incubator, even after you account for any subsidies that they put toward them. (I mean, just look at the fact that indirects are taken as a fixed percentage of the the total money brought in. How would that work to cover the fixed costs of facilities and admin, which don't directly scale with the dollar amount of research funding?)
Now the funds that actually get to go toward the research, sure... that's lacking.
You used to be able to do that when it was Gizmo5, before Google bought it and started their all too familiar process of slowly strangling the life out of it.
OK, it looks like the fix for them accidentally revoking their certificate was just to un-revoke it and pretend that it never happened. Clearing my OCSP cache "resolved" the issue. That whole affair really reinforces my faith in the CA system.
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You could have phones with great security that even the 15 year old girls would be fine with. The priorities toward non-securirty come from the the data harvesting interests of the phone manufacturers, carriers, advertising companies, and (comparatively distantly) snooping governments.
Seriously... the most common phone OS is developed by an advertising company and it's a surprise that security and privacy are low priorities?
Zero-filling the SD card will take forever and, by the time the device is grabbed, most of the data on the card will be intact with the partial zero-fill being obvious evidence of you trying to destroy the contents of the card. Much better to keep the whole SD card encrypted and just destroy the key there, too.
Even in America, the squeaky wheel may get the grease, but it's also the first to be replaced.
So the management just gets to offload the responsibility for its own incompetence onto the worker? It's clearly way too hard to anticipate the lunch rush or inventory night more than 30 minutes in advance!
That's a terrible fit of the data and the trend that Rei refers to isn't even that convincing. All that you can get from these data are that conditions at and above 66F were well-sampled and predominantly (though not entirely) associated with non-failure. There are nearly as many non-zero points above 66F as below. Drawing conclusions from sparse data, especially in retrospect, is silly and unscientific.
The plot you link to gives a ridiculously high weight to the sparsest data and deviates greatly from the best-sampled data. The page it's from seems to be down, but is his fit to any particular model or is it just a scary looking curve?
And I have no doubt that the ad industry lies to their customers, giving them a false idea of how many people are seeing or bypassing the ads.
You've hit the nail on the head with that line.
I'm skeptical about the actual effectiveness of advertising on consumers on the whole, but the ad industry has been extremely effective in selling advertising to companies. That is apparently where advertising actually works and I bet the ad mongers are just as unscrupulous in their dealings with their clients as they are with the public.
Without units, the number that the AC posted is completely meaningless. This entire thread is based around confusion caused by the lack of units: the article is referring to percent and the German guy was referring to permille.
"1.0", without any units or descriptor, doesn't mean that your blood is only alcohol because it doesn't mean anything. My 1.0% was just as meaningless as his 1.0, which was the point!
1.0% doesn't mean that your blood is pure alcohol. Perhaps you need to go back to school...
This does reinforce my serious irritation with people not writing the fucking units when they write numbers, though.
Apple helpfully provides a tool called "Network Link Conditioner" that lets you deliberately slow down or fuck up your network connection in various ways so that you can test how your stuff reacts to bad network conditions. Pretty handy... to bad more dev environments don't have something like this.
A true hologram is produced by recording (and then illuminating) the interference pattern created by coherent light interacting with an object.
In the vernacular, however, the word "hologram" is used to describe any planar or volumetric "image" that is projected onto "empty space" (where "empty space" is anything that is sufficiently insubstantial, like air, a cloud of water droplets, or even a really really clean pane of glass that you almost can't tell is there).
You're technically correct (the best kind of correct), but you're tilting at windmills by getting pissed about politicians and the media incorrectly using technical terms. That way lies madness.
It's more than just that, though. A mouse allows you to represent a huge space of possible pointing positions as a 2D plane, which we're very good at dealing with. For FPS games, you can make any aiming movement from twirling around 180 to shifting your aim slightly in an extremely short amount of time by moving the mouse to a distance on the plane that represents that angular shift.
With a controller stick, your control over aiming is a matter of holding the stick at a certain angle for a certain amount of time. The angle of the sick is much less easily controlled and the time you have to hold it has a direct impact on the player's ability to make twitch movements. Adding aids for controller users like smoothing the input (to make the stick angle more forgiving) or adding acceleration (to cut down on the time it takes to make a large movement) only makes the controller less fit for rapid precise aiming.
Of course, a keyboard having more buttons is nice, even if they aren't in really the best layout for gaming. Being able to directly switch equipped items or activate certain items helps. Avoiding the overuse of "action buttons" makes it easier to control what your character is actually doing instead of accidentally doing something you didn't want to do (although these are usually carried over in console ports).
Have you tried offering them more money? If you offer enough money, people will move and you will get more applications. It's silly that employers expect to be exempt from basic supply and demand economics.
HR's job is to be the recruiter. To sift through the resumes, and find potential candidates to bring in for interviews.
HR's job is to apply a simple string matching algorithm to the incoming resumes and pass along the ones that have the most matches to the posting, typos and all. How can you possibly be a project lead or senior scientist if you don't list Microsot [sic] Office on your resume? And Facebook isn't going to post to itself all day, after all...
If you're just looking at the applications that you're getting from HR, you're missing out on almost all of the cream.
I personally just took a job last month, where I told them out right, I want the Software Engineering job they are offering, and in addition to everything I'll bring to the table, that I also offered to work for them for a less than market rate (Basically a 50% paycut from previous job and about 20% under median rates).
Needless to say, I got the job. And also encouraging friends to start doing the same.
If we want to compete with those that want to work for less, we need to be willing to work for less.
And I chose work for a lot less money, at a job I'll enjoy.
You've discovered the approach that everybody in academia uses, which is why academic positions pay (at most) half of what industry positions pay.
Did your living expenses halve themselves to match your income? Devaluing your skills for the win! The management, who aren't in a race to the bottom, really appreciate the money you've freed up for their extra bonuses.
Speaking of firewalls, does anyone know of an application-level egress firewall, like Little Snitch, for Windows or Linux?
Lastly, put in a bounty program for body shops that use B1 visa holders for body shopping. Reporters get 40% of the imposed fine, which is a multiple of the salary delta between the body shoppers and the equivalent FTE.
This is a great idea that can work in many different areas also. Most of the illegal immigration/guest worker abuses and issues depend on the actions of unscrupulous employers. The only other people who know the reality of the situation are the deportable or indentured employees who have a strong incentive to not report the employee. We should instead create an incentive to turn in the employer (well... and then actually prosecute them instead of just looking the other way).
Ha ha, but the free market answer really is that a difficult to fill position (due to extreme qualifications, danger, or unpleasantness) is going to have to pay more to attract applicants. Why are we always expected to "let the market decide", except when it hurts those with the money?
I still have Windows installed on a drive, just for games, too. As time goes on, I just find myself not playing Windows-only games anymore.
Every blue moon, I'll reboot into Windows to play a game, wait for twenty minutes while it finishes installing the update it started the last time I turned it off, maybe have it reboot again immediately... finally get to the desktop where it starts complaining about another update that it needs to download and reboot for, have it automatically start downloading it and saturating my network because I forgot to turn that "feature" off the last time I used Windows (or it was helpfully turned back on for me in the previous update)... get sick of waiting for it, give up on playing the Windows-only game, reboot into Linux and not think about it again for months.
As an infrequent Windows user, literally all I ever see of Windows is the shitty upgrade experience. If there's a better way to train me off of ever wanting to use Windows, I can't think of it.
The 2012 MBP was the last to have an ethernet port and upgradable RAM and storage. They were selling it new as recently as last year when I bought what will probably be my last Mac (or Apple product, likely). And yeah, with 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD, it's still doing everything I need it to.
My perspective is ignorant of what? The value that all of the (multiple!) Vice Chancellors of Diversity, each with their own offices full of support staff, or the university's huge marketing department, or the entire building that's just devoted to executive suites and HR personnel, or... bring to my research? I pay my own salary, the salary of my postdocs, and buy all of my equipment and supplies from the half of my grants that's left after indirects are taken by the university. If I bring in twice as much money and don't take up any more space or electricity, they'll take twice as much also and deliver exactly what they were delivering before.
Indirects as a percentage of grant income only encourage waste and administrative bloat. Administrators are necessary, but only to a point. If your perspective is that there is no such thing as administrative bloat and that hiring more administrators always adds more value to researchers, then you're going to have to make a better argument than a vague appeal to your own authority on the matter.
Regulations may be the excuse, but the reason administrators proliferate is because there's money available for them to suck from the institution. This happens to all institutions as they age, even corporations with their bloat of middle management, massive HR departments and such. Administrators hire administrators, who then hire more administrators, ad nauseam. They don't interact with anybody who actually does reasonably productive work, so they don't really have any metric to compare their own work (or the work of their assistant's assistant's assistant's assistant) to.
You must be the only person in the world who thinks that the indirects siphoned off by the university are actually being well spent. From my perspective, it's almost entirely wasted on administrative bloat.
You can get a better idea of the real costs of overhead by renting lab space from the university's incubator, even after you account for any subsidies that they put toward them. (I mean, just look at the fact that indirects are taken as a fixed percentage of the the total money brought in. How would that work to cover the fixed costs of facilities and admin, which don't directly scale with the dollar amount of research funding?)
Now the funds that actually get to go toward the research, sure... that's lacking.
You used to be able to do that when it was Gizmo5, before Google bought it and started their all too familiar process of slowly strangling the life out of it.
Yeah, I think that it was just a long-winded restatement of, "Let them eat cake."
OK, it looks like the fix for them accidentally revoking their certificate was just to un-revoke it and pretend that it never happened. Clearing my OCSP cache "resolved" the issue. That whole affair really reinforces my faith in the CA system.