20 years ago, sure, but less and less these days. My bumper -- the parts that absorb low-speed impacts -- are completely foam and plastic. They attach to a metal beam, but all of the characteristics of the thing we call a "bumper" are non-metal.
Yeah, well, that's the problem, to be honest. We favor offensive capabilities over defensive. When the NSA discovers critical flaws, they exploit them instead of alerting the manufacturer and patching holes. We can't have it both ways. If we want secure networks, we're going to have to rethink our priorities.
The things that makes me happiest are efficiency and lack of complications. That is, I like it when I drive to work and there's no traffic and I don't hit any red lights. Or when I write code that just works with little or no revision required. I like it when things go according to plan.
An app that does exactly what I want with little delay, crashing, or complication makes me happier, and an app that doesn't do what I want lowers my happiness. I don't want sympathy or empathy when I'm unhappy; I want things to work. There's no need to respond to my emotional state when you can focus on making it better by doing what I want, regardless of my emotional state.
If you want to know the future of the Apple Watch, look at the history of the calculator watch. Once the "wow factor" wears off, it will be relegated to the wrists of virgins.
There's probably some truth to that, but it's not the whole story. Much of the speculation regarding sexism in Silicon Valley has been inferred by working backwards from the numbers instead of asking women about their views of working in tech. There are many professions that have a dearth of one gender or the other, but I don't think anyone believes that there is a conspiracy to keep men out of, say, interior design or nursing. When it comes to those, it's "obviously" preference, but when it comes to tech, somehow there's a conspiracy, or entrenched inertia, and it's a problem. That's poor logic. Show me that women are being discouraged in the numbers required to prevent parity, and then I'll start listening. Until then, the most obvious reason for the disparity is self-selection, especially in an industry with such a low barrier to entry (see: India). If an impoverished Indian can learn programming and gain employment on another continent, despite overt hostility (see any H1B article here, for example), then women can achieve parity in tech if they want it.
But all of the available evidence seems to be that they don't want it. We don't seem women protesting in numbers, as we would for social issues that actually strike a chord. We see some very vocal individuals who may or may not actually be women, but that's about it.
Note that I've never used it personally, but I don't think there's any consensus that it's a bad idea. It's like any other tool though -- there are appropriate and inappropriate uses.
No, that's exactly the meaning it had. Some people like to say it's for credit too, but it's not -- it's for when shit happens and nobody takes responsibility.
Mine is exceedingly inconvenient. I would have to commute as far to the nearest train station as it is to my work.
Where I lived before -- with a train station across the street-- it took 20 minutes to drive to work, and 70 minutes to train. On top of that, I had to deal with the hassle of finding a seat, switching trains (and necessarily losing a seat in the process), and endless station closures for repairs.
So no, I wouldn't ride if it were free. If they paid me, it would have to be around $100 per round trip to be worth my time.
Causation is reversed. Obviously brain cancer causes people to do abnormal things, like keep devices pasted to the side of their head instead of talking to people in the surrounding environment.
Does it cost $20 though, or is Hulu gouging their subscribers? I don't subscribe to, say, NBC, yet they and their affiliates manage to turn a profit from advertising alone. Digital distribution is extremely cheap, and yet, it costs more to buy a digital download of something than to buy a physical copy. Something is amiss. Hopefully competition will force downward pressure on prices, but right now it's more of a cartel than a competition. Netflix may be an outlier in that regard, for now, but Hulu and "premium" content providers like HBO and ShowTime trying to charge $10/mo for their limited content is a bit ridiculous. And Hulu doesn't even create original content.
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1) The IC comprises 17 agencies. That's not a secret. Anymore, at least. 2) Some of those agencies use OPM for background investigations, and some don't. I can tell you that the distinction is not strictly military/"civilian" though. 3) Some (not a small number) of the people that work at those agencies have pre-existing background investigations from prior employment, be it military, civilian, or contractor. It's not an impossible task to use data mining to map past background investigations to current employees at those agencies once you have those records, especially for overt employees.
Also, this impacted the FBI's employees, so that by itself is a huge national security issue, since they have access to a lot of the same information that the IC does.
Honestly, though, this is only the most visible OpSec failure. It's likely that our "non allies" -- Russia and China -- already have our intelligence agencies fairly well mapped out just from surveillance and humint, let alone sigint. That's the easy part. Finding out what we know and don't know is a bit tougher, but nothing's impossible. The payoffs of espionnage are large and the risks are relatively low in nation-state terms. I would be shocked if they don't know at least as much about us as we know about them, if not more, because we are far and away the biggest and most lucrative target on the world stage, and there's no such thing as perfect security.
But that's not such a bad thing, to be honest. For the most part, we have a high degree of integrity in our foreign policy (relative to most other nation-states, if not in absolute terms), and we don't try to hide our agenda. They're not going to discover that we have secret plans to invade Mexico, or that our NATO missile defense system is really setting the stage to invade Russia. And it's no secret that we have the capability to defend ourselves, so even finding chinks in our armor isn't going to negate the fact that we have the world's largest Navy, we're fully capable of crippling retaliatory strikes through a plethora of means.
Our real weakness is well known -- we allow ourselves to get baited into spending vast resources on what are ultimately inconsequential conflicts: Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq II, and now ISIS. None of these were legitimate threats to our national security on a significant scale, but we treat them as though they were, out of pride or something. We lose a pawn and we chuck the board aside and turn it into a deathmatch. That's our real weakness. Pride.
Maybe in a "hold my beer and watch this," kind of cool. Like lighting fireworks off on your head. You'll get "cool points" until you're prematurely dead, and then everyone will just shake their heads and wonder what you were thinking, and you will be dead. That's Mars.
I don't mean this in a cynical, "why do anything," sort of way, but what exactly is the objective? Glory? No breathable atmosphere, no native food source, little to no natural resources, high radiation, and likely a very shortened lifespan as a consequence. Not to mention social isolation. Most explorers come back, and most migrants travel for a better life, so it seems like you are doing this wrong.
I don't remember ever seeing the number 16.7 million except to advertise a video card. Perhaps your memory is playing tricks on you?
In any case, the number of colors humans can distinguish is far lower -- about 10 million.
Also, the ability of LCDs to accurately render even 24-bit color is rare, let alone the full gamut of visible color. Many LCDs only render 18-bit color anyway, which is 131,072. Even in the case of true 24-bit displays, that's merely mapped to whatever gamut range the display has, not the complete spectrum of visible light. So that makes LSB changes almost certainly imperceptible.
1) Productivity is either satisfactory or it's not. If it's not, then find another employee, or revoke telework privileges. 2) Walk out the front door, around the block, and go back inside. Done. 3) My co-workers IM me from *across the aisle*. Nobody talks here except in meetings, mostly because it annoys the hell out of everyone trying to work. 4) See #3.
I love working in a team environment, and that's not conducive to telework. I've been doing software development for about 10 years now with 6 different jobs, and I have yet to find a job that allows people to really team up. There are generally meetings to dole out tasks, then individualized efforts, and report back when they're done. Maybe, *maybe* there will be some collaboration for the APIs, in which case there can be meetings for that, but generally that's dictated as well.
The only reason I don't mind coming in to the office is that it gets me out of the house. My home desktop setup and chair make working much easier though.
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Somewhat bizarre road sign to see if you don't know what it is.
20 years ago, sure, but less and less these days. My bumper -- the parts that absorb low-speed impacts -- are completely foam and plastic. They attach to a metal beam, but all of the characteristics of the thing we call a "bumper" are non-metal.
Hell, most motorists don't even allow enough braking distance when driving their giant SUVs.
Because that worked so well for the War on Drugs, yeah?
MOAR GAOL!
Jesus.
Yeah, well, that's the problem, to be honest. We favor offensive capabilities over defensive. When the NSA discovers critical flaws, they exploit them instead of alerting the manufacturer and patching holes. We can't have it both ways. If we want secure networks, we're going to have to rethink our priorities.
The things that makes me happiest are efficiency and lack of complications. That is, I like it when I drive to work and there's no traffic and I don't hit any red lights. Or when I write code that just works with little or no revision required. I like it when things go according to plan.
An app that does exactly what I want with little delay, crashing, or complication makes me happier, and an app that doesn't do what I want lowers my happiness. I don't want sympathy or empathy when I'm unhappy; I want things to work. There's no need to respond to my emotional state when you can focus on making it better by doing what I want, regardless of my emotional state.
If you want to know the future of the Apple Watch, look at the history of the calculator watch. Once the "wow factor" wears off, it will be relegated to the wrists of virgins.
There's probably some truth to that, but it's not the whole story. Much of the speculation regarding sexism in Silicon Valley has been inferred by working backwards from the numbers instead of asking women about their views of working in tech. There are many professions that have a dearth of one gender or the other, but I don't think anyone believes that there is a conspiracy to keep men out of, say, interior design or nursing. When it comes to those, it's "obviously" preference, but when it comes to tech, somehow there's a conspiracy, or entrenched inertia, and it's a problem. That's poor logic. Show me that women are being discouraged in the numbers required to prevent parity, and then I'll start listening. Until then, the most obvious reason for the disparity is self-selection, especially in an industry with such a low barrier to entry (see: India). If an impoverished Indian can learn programming and gain employment on another continent, despite overt hostility (see any H1B article here, for example), then women can achieve parity in tech if they want it.
But all of the available evidence seems to be that they don't want it. We don't seem women protesting in numbers, as we would for social issues that actually strike a chord. We see some very vocal individuals who may or may not actually be women, but that's about it.
Bad idea? I don't think MongoDB got the message.
Note that I've never used it personally, but I don't think there's any consensus that it's a bad idea. It's like any other tool though -- there are appropriate and inappropriate uses.
There's really only one group of people who needs to be shielded from reality for its own good: children.
No, that's exactly the meaning it had. Some people like to say it's for credit too, but it's not -- it's for when shit happens and nobody takes responsibility.
I live in CA and I manually relieve pressure several times a week. No major earthquakes since I started!
Make friends who live in other places.
No. You don't *have to* do anything. If it's indeterminate, then leave it alone and save your mod points for a more deserving post.
Mine is exceedingly inconvenient. I would have to commute as far to the nearest train station as it is to my work.
Where I lived before -- with a train station across the street-- it took 20 minutes to drive to work, and 70 minutes to train. On top of that, I had to deal with the hassle of finding a seat, switching trains (and necessarily losing a seat in the process), and endless station closures for repairs.
So no, I wouldn't ride if it were free. If they paid me, it would have to be around $100 per round trip to be worth my time.
Causation is reversed. Obviously brain cancer causes people to do abnormal things, like keep devices pasted to the side of their head instead of talking to people in the surrounding environment.
Does it cost $20 though, or is Hulu gouging their subscribers? I don't subscribe to, say, NBC, yet they and their affiliates manage to turn a profit from advertising alone. Digital distribution is extremely cheap, and yet, it costs more to buy a digital download of something than to buy a physical copy. Something is amiss. Hopefully competition will force downward pressure on prices, but right now it's more of a cartel than a competition. Netflix may be an outlier in that regard, for now, but Hulu and "premium" content providers like HBO and ShowTime trying to charge $10/mo for their limited content is a bit ridiculous. And Hulu doesn't even create original content.
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Eh?
1) The IC comprises 17 agencies. That's not a secret. Anymore, at least.
2) Some of those agencies use OPM for background investigations, and some don't. I can tell you that the distinction is not strictly military/"civilian" though.
3) Some (not a small number) of the people that work at those agencies have pre-existing background investigations from prior employment, be it military, civilian, or contractor. It's not an impossible task to use data mining to map past background investigations to current employees at those agencies once you have those records, especially for overt employees.
Also, this impacted the FBI's employees, so that by itself is a huge national security issue, since they have access to a lot of the same information that the IC does.
Honestly, though, this is only the most visible OpSec failure. It's likely that our "non allies" -- Russia and China -- already have our intelligence agencies fairly well mapped out just from surveillance and humint, let alone sigint. That's the easy part. Finding out what we know and don't know is a bit tougher, but nothing's impossible. The payoffs of espionnage are large and the risks are relatively low in nation-state terms. I would be shocked if they don't know at least as much about us as we know about them, if not more, because we are far and away the biggest and most lucrative target on the world stage, and there's no such thing as perfect security.
But that's not such a bad thing, to be honest. For the most part, we have a high degree of integrity in our foreign policy (relative to most other nation-states, if not in absolute terms), and we don't try to hide our agenda. They're not going to discover that we have secret plans to invade Mexico, or that our NATO missile defense system is really setting the stage to invade Russia. And it's no secret that we have the capability to defend ourselves, so even finding chinks in our armor isn't going to negate the fact that we have the world's largest Navy, we're fully capable of crippling retaliatory strikes through a plethora of means.
Our real weakness is well known -- we allow ourselves to get baited into spending vast resources on what are ultimately inconsequential conflicts: Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq II, and now ISIS. None of these were legitimate threats to our national security on a significant scale, but we treat them as though they were, out of pride or something. We lose a pawn and we chuck the board aside and turn it into a deathmatch. That's our real weakness. Pride.
Maybe in a "hold my beer and watch this," kind of cool. Like lighting fireworks off on your head. You'll get "cool points" until you're prematurely dead, and then everyone will just shake their heads and wonder what you were thinking, and you will be dead. That's Mars.
This one is simple: steal someone else's identity. The last one left without an identity loses and we shun them.
I don't mean this in a cynical, "why do anything," sort of way, but what exactly is the objective? Glory? No breathable atmosphere, no native food source, little to no natural resources, high radiation, and likely a very shortened lifespan as a consequence. Not to mention social isolation. Most explorers come back, and most migrants travel for a better life, so it seems like you are doing this wrong.
I don't remember ever seeing the number 16.7 million except to advertise a video card. Perhaps your memory is playing tricks on you?
In any case, the number of colors humans can distinguish is far lower -- about 10 million.
Also, the ability of LCDs to accurately render even 24-bit color is rare, let alone the full gamut of visible color. Many LCDs only render 18-bit color anyway, which is 131,072. Even in the case of true 24-bit displays, that's merely mapped to whatever gamut range the display has, not the complete spectrum of visible light. So that makes LSB changes almost certainly imperceptible.
True, but Comcast's wifi network seems to authenticate based on MAC addresses. Sniff, spoof, and done.
1) Productivity is either satisfactory or it's not. If it's not, then find another employee, or revoke telework privileges.
2) Walk out the front door, around the block, and go back inside. Done.
3) My co-workers IM me from *across the aisle*. Nobody talks here except in meetings, mostly because it annoys the hell out of everyone trying to work.
4) See #3.
I love working in a team environment, and that's not conducive to telework. I've been doing software development for about 10 years now with 6 different jobs, and I have yet to find a job that allows people to really team up. There are generally meetings to dole out tasks, then individualized efforts, and report back when they're done. Maybe, *maybe* there will be some collaboration for the APIs, in which case there can be meetings for that, but generally that's dictated as well.
The only reason I don't mind coming in to the office is that it gets me out of the house. My home desktop setup and chair make working much easier though.