My acceleration is zero. If I took my chair to the top of a mountain and sat in it, my acceleration would still be zero at that time. My speed might change, but my acceleration is relative. I'm not speeding up or down (actually, if I recall correctly, the rotation of the Earth is slowing by a very small amount, so technically my acceleration would be negative...I could be wrong about that.)
As for the amount of matter below me, ummm...from a relative perspective, the entire Earth is below me, so the amount of matter is the same. Now, if you consider all of the matter that is visible in the Universe from the opposite side of the world at any given time, that probably changes with the rotation of the Earth throughout each day, but the measurement would be so gargantuan that it really doesn't matter (pun intended.)
Don't focus on language, or one operating system, or any of that. Give them problems and encourage/help them figure out the answer as much on their own as possible. When they enter the workforce, they will be asked to deal with problems that they have never seen before (hence, why there isn't already a solution.) Being able to adapt is the most important skill in tech, or any field for that matter.
I will always be able to enable encryption manually, I don't use it for nefarious purposes. I use my phone for work, and I work in an industry where there is a LOT of industrial espionage. Whether you're protecting trade secrets, customer lists, whatever, there is a perfectly sound reason for encrypting your phone/computer(s). That said, the fact that I have to manually turn it on really isn't a big deal to me. At the same time, my Mom really has no need for it. The FBI can look at the stuff on her phone all they want...they're not going to find anything fun.
Well, the Big Bang Theory includes a very short period of time at the very beginning that requires that the Universe expand at a speed faster than light. Further, Theory of Special Relativity is a) just a theory however well it may have been tested, and b) there are competing theories that do not necessarily agree, but have also been tested (Quantum.)
To say something is impossible because Physics doesn't allow for it is ignorant. Am I saying FTL travel/communication is possible? No, but I'm also not willing to say it is impossible.
I agree with all of the above. No one person is going to be an expert on everything programming/IT. Case in point, I spent the first 18 years of my career as a developer...in many languages. I recently made a career shift and became a Network Administrator for a company. I made it clear to them that while I had exposure to that side of things, I was by no means a Net Admin. I didn't know shite about Exchange administration when I started 6 months ago. I know WAY more now, but only enough to know that I still don't know shite about it.
In my interview, I was asked a very interesting question by my potential boss...I thought it was a good one, and applies across technological and for that matter, any fields. He asked, "How's your Google-Fu?" At first I didn't know what he meant, so I asked, and he explained that he was asking about my Google usage abilities. I responded that I basically look everything up (generally using Google.) I asked, "Why should I figure it out and make mistakes along the way when no doubt someone else has figured it out already?" He hired me the next day, and gave me a large raise just this week.
The questions I would be asking are not about what potential employees already know about a specific subject, but more about how quickly they can learn. There are of course exceptions to every rule...I would not hire a Neural Surgeon unless they had extensive training in the field:)
I don't fully understand what they did. But, here's my take. It would seem to me that they may have demonstrated that there is not a single timeline, which kinda goes along with some other assumptions in Quantum mechanics. Relativity assumes that Time is a constant so-to-speak. Quantum Mechanics does not. How this experiment might lead to unifying Relativity with Quantum I don't know, and don't believe, because I think both theories (and they are both THEORIES) are flawed.
The company I work at has lots (probably 50% or more) of apps built in-house. Many of them VB6...we're still transitioning to.NET, and aren't even close. The problem we see (and part of why I was hired) is that legacy apps require legacy systems to run them. My suggestion is to go web-based. Deployment is easy, cross-platform is relatively easy, and there are lots of libraries out there for PHP or other languages to make rich user interfaces. The LAMP platform is solid and flexible, but using other languages or databases than mySQL and/or PHP is still fine. Unless you're developing apps for image editing or hard-core word-processing/spreadsheet type stuff, you can do about whatever you want using LAMP. And, the user support community is enormous.
However, if I read this correctly, you would have to have the network key or physical access to the router in order to use this exploit. I use mine with WPA2 authentication, and only give the key to trusted individuals. I don't care what brand of router you have access to...if I have physical access, I can compromise it. So, unless you're using one of these routers in a commercial environment (I do use mine for work, but not in the office setting) then there's little to worry about it. That said, I will be updating my firmware with the fix ASAP.
I had progressive trifocals for a while. I kept them for a couple years...you get used to them. But, the last time I got a new prescription, I told my doctor that I didn't really think I needed them. He agreed. I'm back to normal lenses, and saved a bunch of money.
Please... Macs get viruses. For *NIX folks...ever heard of Shellshock? Blaming Windows Users is ignorant. That said, Microsoft has a long road ahead before Windows becomes hardened.
You can only kill the malware that is behind these DDoS's by completely eliminating security flaws in software. That is not reasonable to expect. Hell, even the NCC-1701-D (Starship Enterprise) got viruses. If they can't even fix this problem by the 24th century, I don't see how we can expect to fix it now. As long as there are people looking for exploits, the problem will exist.
In the performance industry, we control lights using a protocol called DMX (there are a couple other protocols out there, but DMX is by far the most common.) You could use something called "dimmer packs" to control standard LED Christmas lights. There are free software packages such as FreestylerDMX. You would still need to run power, but you can buy Wireless DMX receivers to avoid DMX cables.
Cheap however? Well that depends on your definition of cheap. You can buy dimmer packs pretty cheeap...$40 each or so to (normally) individually control 4 outlets. Both on-off, and variable voltage. Cheap Chinese Wireless units are around $50/each, but you'd only need 1 per dimmer pack.
Here's the thing. I work in a Microsoft based shop. I've had businesses in the past that we predominantly used open source tools such as the LAMP model. But, through my 17+ years of working in the IT industry, both as a developer and as an admin, I would say that the predominance depends on application. If you're doing web-related development, then you're probably using PHP/Java type stuff. If you're writing desktop applications (as we do here, although I'm not currently a developer...I'm an admin) then you're probably using C#/VB.NET. If you're writing core-systems or interfaces for physical tools, you're probably using C/C++. Hell, you might even be working on legacy systems and using RPG/COBOL. It all depends on your application...I don't think we will ever get to a point where there is just one programming language that is ideal for everything.
That said, in my experience, businesses tend to go with major company's products...aka, MS/IBM/Oracle. My impression is that executives, who are typically not very computer savvy, tend to want the security blanket of thinking the have support from those vendors. I personally feel that I get better support from the open-source community and it is usually free. I think MS support sucks (as demonstrated during my 9 hour $500 call to them a couple weeks ago.) If I could transition my company to more of a LAMP type infrastructure I definitely would, but I will never be allowed to do that. Why? Well, mostly because the software used by my highly specialiized manufacturing company, much of which is extremely expensive, is Windows based. The transition would be enormously costly, if possible at all. I think a lot of companies face this problem, and therefore.NET will live on. Is it the only solution? No. But at least in our case, we're married to it, and the divorce would cost us a lot of money.
The "under-the-cuff" idea is a good one. As for watch, I was thinking of wiping it and placing it outside the cuff after gowning, but this solution could work too. My problem is, I don't work in the CR most times...I only go in to service problems or do maintenance to systems. I'm usually in-and-out and the sometimes back in again, and often need to communicate with people outside in a convenient way (we use Zello as a "walkie-talkie" sort of communication when wired-phone isn't convenient. I think this solution could work, as it is becoming clear to me from this thread that a smart-watch currently can't really do all that I need...maybe someday.
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Set up a knowledge base. We use Wordpress, but you could use a Wiki or something. Both are free.
My acceleration is zero. If I took my chair to the top of a mountain and sat in it, my acceleration would still be zero at that time. My speed might change, but my acceleration is relative. I'm not speeding up or down (actually, if I recall correctly, the rotation of the Earth is slowing by a very small amount, so technically my acceleration would be negative...I could be wrong about that.) As for the amount of matter below me, ummm...from a relative perspective, the entire Earth is below me, so the amount of matter is the same. Now, if you consider all of the matter that is visible in the Universe from the opposite side of the world at any given time, that probably changes with the rotation of the Earth throughout each day, but the measurement would be so gargantuan that it really doesn't matter (pun intended.)
Don't focus on language, or one operating system, or any of that. Give them problems and encourage/help them figure out the answer as much on their own as possible. When they enter the workforce, they will be asked to deal with problems that they have never seen before (hence, why there isn't already a solution.) Being able to adapt is the most important skill in tech, or any field for that matter.
Were they in clear text somewhere? If so, then they deserved to be hacked.
They are designed for extreme conditions and durability.
I will always be able to enable encryption manually, I don't use it for nefarious purposes. I use my phone for work, and I work in an industry where there is a LOT of industrial espionage. Whether you're protecting trade secrets, customer lists, whatever, there is a perfectly sound reason for encrypting your phone/computer(s). That said, the fact that I have to manually turn it on really isn't a big deal to me. At the same time, my Mom really has no need for it. The FBI can look at the stuff on her phone all they want...they're not going to find anything fun.
Did BRG have that concept patented?
Seriously.
That's a long way.
Didn't Torvalds talk about this last week? This is hardly news.
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Seems like using a robot would cut down on the obligatory tips.
Well, the Big Bang Theory includes a very short period of time at the very beginning that requires that the Universe expand at a speed faster than light. Further, Theory of Special Relativity is a) just a theory however well it may have been tested, and b) there are competing theories that do not necessarily agree, but have also been tested (Quantum.) To say something is impossible because Physics doesn't allow for it is ignorant. Am I saying FTL travel/communication is possible? No, but I'm also not willing to say it is impossible.
I agree with all of the above. No one person is going to be an expert on everything programming/IT. Case in point, I spent the first 18 years of my career as a developer...in many languages. I recently made a career shift and became a Network Administrator for a company. I made it clear to them that while I had exposure to that side of things, I was by no means a Net Admin. I didn't know shite about Exchange administration when I started 6 months ago. I know WAY more now, but only enough to know that I still don't know shite about it. In my interview, I was asked a very interesting question by my potential boss...I thought it was a good one, and applies across technological and for that matter, any fields. He asked, "How's your Google-Fu?" At first I didn't know what he meant, so I asked, and he explained that he was asking about my Google usage abilities. I responded that I basically look everything up (generally using Google.) I asked, "Why should I figure it out and make mistakes along the way when no doubt someone else has figured it out already?" He hired me the next day, and gave me a large raise just this week. The questions I would be asking are not about what potential employees already know about a specific subject, but more about how quickly they can learn. There are of course exceptions to every rule...I would not hire a Neural Surgeon unless they had extensive training in the field :)
I don't fully understand what they did. But, here's my take. It would seem to me that they may have demonstrated that there is not a single timeline, which kinda goes along with some other assumptions in Quantum mechanics. Relativity assumes that Time is a constant so-to-speak. Quantum Mechanics does not. How this experiment might lead to unifying Relativity with Quantum I don't know, and don't believe, because I think both theories (and they are both THEORIES) are flawed.
The company I work at has lots (probably 50% or more) of apps built in-house. Many of them VB6...we're still transitioning to .NET, and aren't even close. The problem we see (and part of why I was hired) is that legacy apps require legacy systems to run them. My suggestion is to go web-based. Deployment is easy, cross-platform is relatively easy, and there are lots of libraries out there for PHP or other languages to make rich user interfaces. The LAMP platform is solid and flexible, but using other languages or databases than mySQL and/or PHP is still fine. Unless you're developing apps for image editing or hard-core word-processing/spreadsheet type stuff, you can do about whatever you want using LAMP. And, the user support community is enormous.
I suppose you could just be on the LAN, but why would you be on the LAN with an ASUS WiFi router and not have physical access to it?
However, if I read this correctly, you would have to have the network key or physical access to the router in order to use this exploit. I use mine with WPA2 authentication, and only give the key to trusted individuals. I don't care what brand of router you have access to...if I have physical access, I can compromise it. So, unless you're using one of these routers in a commercial environment (I do use mine for work, but not in the office setting) then there's little to worry about it. That said, I will be updating my firmware with the fix ASAP.
I had progressive trifocals for a while. I kept them for a couple years...you get used to them. But, the last time I got a new prescription, I told my doctor that I didn't really think I needed them. He agreed. I'm back to normal lenses, and saved a bunch of money.
Please... Macs get viruses. For *NIX folks...ever heard of Shellshock? Blaming Windows Users is ignorant. That said, Microsoft has a long road ahead before Windows becomes hardened.
You can only kill the malware that is behind these DDoS's by completely eliminating security flaws in software. That is not reasonable to expect. Hell, even the NCC-1701-D (Starship Enterprise) got viruses. If they can't even fix this problem by the 24th century, I don't see how we can expect to fix it now. As long as there are people looking for exploits, the problem will exist.
In the performance industry, we control lights using a protocol called DMX (there are a couple other protocols out there, but DMX is by far the most common.) You could use something called "dimmer packs" to control standard LED Christmas lights. There are free software packages such as FreestylerDMX. You would still need to run power, but you can buy Wireless DMX receivers to avoid DMX cables. Cheap however? Well that depends on your definition of cheap. You can buy dimmer packs pretty cheeap...$40 each or so to (normally) individually control 4 outlets. Both on-off, and variable voltage. Cheap Chinese Wireless units are around $50/each, but you'd only need 1 per dimmer pack.
Here's the thing. I work in a Microsoft based shop. I've had businesses in the past that we predominantly used open source tools such as the LAMP model. But, through my 17+ years of working in the IT industry, both as a developer and as an admin, I would say that the predominance depends on application. If you're doing web-related development, then you're probably using PHP/Java type stuff. If you're writing desktop applications (as we do here, although I'm not currently a developer...I'm an admin) then you're probably using C#/VB.NET. If you're writing core-systems or interfaces for physical tools, you're probably using C/C++. Hell, you might even be working on legacy systems and using RPG/COBOL. It all depends on your application...I don't think we will ever get to a point where there is just one programming language that is ideal for everything. That said, in my experience, businesses tend to go with major company's products...aka, MS/IBM/Oracle. My impression is that executives, who are typically not very computer savvy, tend to want the security blanket of thinking the have support from those vendors. I personally feel that I get better support from the open-source community and it is usually free. I think MS support sucks (as demonstrated during my 9 hour $500 call to them a couple weeks ago.) If I could transition my company to more of a LAMP type infrastructure I definitely would, but I will never be allowed to do that. Why? Well, mostly because the software used by my highly specialiized manufacturing company, much of which is extremely expensive, is Windows based. The transition would be enormously costly, if possible at all. I think a lot of companies face this problem, and therefore .NET will live on. Is it the only solution? No. But at least in our case, we're married to it, and the divorce would cost us a lot of money.
The "under-the-cuff" idea is a good one. As for watch, I was thinking of wiping it and placing it outside the cuff after gowning, but this solution could work too. My problem is, I don't work in the CR most times...I only go in to service problems or do maintenance to systems. I'm usually in-and-out and the sometimes back in again, and often need to communicate with people outside in a convenient way (we use Zello as a "walkie-talkie" sort of communication when wired-phone isn't convenient. I think this solution could work, as it is becoming clear to me from this thread that a smart-watch currently can't really do all that I need...maybe someday.
That was kind of the conclusion I came to, but always worth asking :)