Memo: Go get it yourself.
Gentlemen,
We're tired of having to carry this data mining workload on our networks and servers. Here's the list of user names and passwords that we collected for you. Knock yourself out.
Regards,
RIM
The fourth amendment's applicability is only certain in the minds of privacy advocates. Legally, the fourth amendment is generally held to mean that the government can't disrupt your life with its searches or target someone specifically without a good enough reason to convince a judge. The NSA's sniffing is legally comparable to a police dragnet checking door-to-door for a suspect - it infringes privacy, but the impact on any particular person's life isn't unreasonable.
Says who? May I not be the judge of whether or not some unwarranted (so stipulated in the forgoing) invasion of my privacy is reasonable or not? Furthermore, the comparison of the NSA's wholesale warehousing of private data with a neighborhood canvas is patently absurd.
Sandy hit at high tide and a full moon
the gravity of the moon raised the water a few feet which is why the storm surge caused all the flooding
we had a more powerful storm hit NYC the year before and it did a lot less damage because it didn't hit at high tide. very minor flooding.
for another hurricane to do as much damage as Sandy, it has to hit the around the 22nd of the month and make landfall close to 8pm
...and be at least as strong. I know it's convenient to leave out meaningful factors that don't really support your assertion, but the force of the storm kinda counts, don't you think?
This is not a good sign. A developer with sufficient skills can be productive using vi as her IDE...
Yes, but not as productive. Yes, it's true. It's been measured. A skilled coder, working in an IDE, can run rings around the coder working in a text editor when the "product" is something more sophisticated than "hello world".
After massive pressure from Congresspersons responsible for NASA's budget, NASA said, "Hurricane Sandy, which pelted multiple states in Oct. and created billions of dollars in damage, was a freak occurrence and not an indication of future weather patterns..."
An enthusiastic second to this suggestion. This book is the place to start when trying to learn relational database design. Yes, it is far from a complete treatise on the subject, but what it does offer is eminently approachable and immediately useful; something that can not be said of most of the other texts covering the subject. Dear gawd, I wish that more "developers" had read this book before building anything that used a relational database to store and manipulate information. Once you get the normalization part down, all the other tools in the dba's quiver (triggers, stored procedures, functions, RI enforcement, etc.) start to look less like a hammer in search of a nail, and much more like a welcome aid to keeping things sane, regardless of what some application or user may through at your database.
Read the one post above about how little actual flying time pilots get these days. Takeoff, get to cruise altitude, switch on auto pilot.
How much actual stick and rudder time, I mean actual handling the aircraft do pilots get these days? Not in simulators, but in the cockpit, actually handling the throttles, the flaps and all the other controls.
An excellent point. So we have pilots who, for want of adequate training and/or sufficient experience, can become confused or distracted and subsequently fail to "keep flying the plane". This rather underscores the observation of Captain Anonymous, who observed a long string of poorly qualified pilots from Korean airlines and documents a clear pattern of pressure to sign them off anyway. This is nothing, if not a cultural issue. Perhaps not Korean culture, per se, but definitely something that pervades the major airlines of South Korea and that nation's aviation regulators.
The latter stages of primary flight instruction include scenarios where the student pilot is presented with various distractions. The purpose of this evolution is to stress the importance of seeing first to "flying the plane" while dealing as effectively as possible with unexpected conditions. Every check ride for every rating likewise includes one or more such "challenges". I can certainly see the possibility, at least, that our 10,000 hour pilot had little enough actual stick-and-rudder time to have developed, and maintained, the habits that only come from long and frequent repetition.
And as a seasoned air traveler, you are eminently qualified to judge the "safety" of any given carrier... Right. And an airline is unsafe if you've had "bad flight" (whatever the hell that means) with them. Uh-huh. Logical fallacy, anyone?
The pilot was a trainee learning the capabilities and handling of the 777 and his co-pilot, the instructor was merely incompetent? I'll believe that before I believe cultural hierarchies resulted in the crash.
Believe what you like, but that one is probably wrong. The PF was a 10,000 hour pilot. He had only a few dozen hours in the 777, but a seasoned pilot does not need time in a specific model of aircraft to know that he needs to monitor airspeed and sink rate on final. That not one, but two seasoned pilots managed to miss those two key metrics until it was far, far too late can not reasonably be laid to incompetence alone. The question must be asked, "Exactly how did two experienced pilots screw this up so badly?". The answer to that must consider all possible causes, including cultural issues that have, in the past, had a negative effect on safe operations.
The proof is a matter of public record. The experience of an instructor brought in to fix the problems evident in that proof, related here firsthand (thank you Captain AC) is strong corroboration. Jezuz H Christ. What else do you need?
How is a USER supposed to track down a bug? They're users.
Sounds to me like the developers just didn't like dealing with bugs and wanted the users to do it all and present them with a gift-wrapped solution.
Bullshit.
Asking for the most basic of useful information, as in "steps to duplicate" is not "gift wrapping". Bugs that appear at the user's hands are, almost always, bugs that developers and alpha testers did not see. It is reasonable, then, to expect the user to do what they can to document the steps that gave rise to the unexpected behavior. It is absolutely not reasonable to expect the developers to cast about blindly, guessing at how the user might have behaved.
Well..., yes. None of us gets out alive, but if your intent is to sarcastically suggest that this event is not another in a line of well documented indicators of climate change, nice try.
I'm sorry but "cultural dynamics" is a poor fig leaf for what, admittedly on the surface, appears to be gross incompetence. Maintaining proper airspeed on approach is flight school 101, not a fucking Korean costume drama. I hope for the pilots' sake they come up w/a better reason for this tragic event.
Again, you missed the point. No one disputes that the PF had the responsibility to maintain a safe airspeed. Between the two pilots (PF and his instructor) they certainly should have caught this and corrected. They did not. Nevertheless, TFA correctly observes that, in the past, Korean cultural mores have contributed to this very thing; failure to identify and correct, and speculates that this may have been the case aboard Asiana 214. That is not an excuse or "fig leaf" as you put it. No one has suggested any such thing. It is a thoughtful examination of another factor that may have contributed to the crash. To ignore this, especially given the fact that it was clearly such a contributing factor in the past, would be simply negligent.
No, TX governor Rick Perry is a _total_ scumbag. Tried to make it a requirement that all adolescent females receive HPV vaccine, which just happened to be produced by one of his big campaign donors. Both offenses are disgusting examples of political graft, but somehow, forcing medical procedures on children, especially by a governor who is, in public, so big on "freedom", seems especially twisted.
Besides, OSC's SF books have nothing to do with his views on a totally orthogonal societal issue. Boycotting the former because of the latter is called an ad hominem
Yes, exactly. And your point would be..., what? If I don't want to give my money to anything that might remotely profit an ignorant dickhead like Card, I'm doing it to hurt him, not his books or the movies made from those books. Surely, you are not suggesting something as patently stupid as the notion that, since his books don't contain the overt hatred that he personally displays, he somehow deserves a pass from people who would prefer not to give him money?
Hands off, you socialist regulators. If you want lower e-book prices build your own giant company, Then buy or crush enough of the competition to gain an effective hegemony and then don't squeeze the customers. Feel free. Just stop trying to inject things like fairness into our God-given marketplace.
A solid state, gyroscopically controlled, wireless input tool. Why, if we'd had that technology back in the day, we'd still be making and selling buggy whips, I tell you.
According to the airline, a senior colleague with more experience landing 777s, including at San Francisco, sat beside him as co-pilot.
and "Ultimately, it’s the trainer pilot who is responsible for the flight;
Period.
While (as I have been given to understand) both pilots were rated and signed off for this aircraft, the pilot flying (PF) was being instructed by a senior instructor. It is fair to say that he (the instructor) had a responsibility to make sure that the training exercise did not compromise safety. He failed in this.
On the other hand, the PF has, at all times, the responsibility to "fly the airplane". That includes seeing to it that the AC remains above stall speed until there's a runway right underneath the wheels, and that it doesn't fly into things (other aircraft, mountains, the ground, etc.). He failed too.
Either pilot could have, and arguably should have, noticed the deviation from expected airspeed and glide slope, and then taken appropriate action. Neither did. There seems to be more than enough blame to go around.
As an American, it made no sense to me that a person would consider that the respect towards their superior was worth more than the lives of two hundred people.
It's not surprising that you, as an American, have glibly demonstrated that you don't have the foggiest notion of what went on in that cockpit, nor the cultural dynamics that affected what did, and probably more to the point, what did not go on. Which is, of course, the entire point of TFA - there are deeply ingrained social mores that may have adversely affected the communication required of the flight crew operating a complex commercial aircraft. The landing operation, especially, is an intense period, with little margin for certain errors at certain points. It would not take much, the slightest hesitation to say something like, "Hey. Shouldn't we maybe add a little power here?", when it has become evident that the operation has fallen "outside of expected parameters", could easily be enough to make the difference. I wasn't there, but the guy at the controls almost had to have known, well before that "Oh shit!" moment, that his airspeed was not what it was supposed to be. It's not difficult at all to envision that guy asking himself if he should say something yet and risk the wrath of his superior. At that point, it would not have been an "I must say something or we crash" decision. That's the part you're missing.
In today's America, the government has less the consent, and more the apathy of the governed. The fact that the populace is so disengaged and ill-informed is the only reason there aren't many more protests in the streets.
Yeah? So? As long as we can not be scared of teh terrorists and as long as new episodes of Survivor, American Idol, and Tia and Tamera keep coming out, we're happy.
If the question is, "are financial institutions doing the end run around public or private regulation for the purpose of screwing people, engaging in fraud, and dodging (necessary) liability?" the answer is always yes.
But that's the "free market" at work. How dare you suggest that taking advantage, even extremely unfair advantage of suckers is somehow wrong. That's just..., just... un-American.
The EFF want to ban your spam filters - they consider them to be "censorship", and unacceptable (unless there's never, ever a legitimate email accidentally blocked for any user - which isn't possibly, even theoretically).
Now that is a very creative (i.e. totally fucked up) interpretation of the EFF's clearly stated stance on spam. In point of fact, the EFF explicitly supports "your spam filters". To wit, "On a larger scale, EFF supports combatting spam by providing end-users with adequate tools to filter unwanted messages on the receiving end."
It's all well and good to suggest that they use a full-fledged database -- but in reality, they can probably get something useful in a few days for a fraction of the cost.
It sounds like in this instance, the code was just horribly inefficient.
And if that were the end of it, we'd be in agreement. Delivering effective tools to users is what made the PC take off. That has not changed. Nevertheless, there are those who will, usually unwittingly, misuse those tools and, predictably, want to know why it doesn't work anymore. The fact is that there most certainly are times when a more sophisticated approach is called for.
No matter what you think of Snowden, at this point he's just a whistleblower or spy.
Just a whistle blower? He's God damn American hero, even if most American's can't understand that. Where are the yellow ribbons reading "Support Our Whistle Blowers"?
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Memo: Go get it yourself. Gentlemen, We're tired of having to carry this data mining workload on our networks and servers. Here's the list of user names and passwords that we collected for you. Knock yourself out. Regards, RIM
The fourth amendment's applicability is only certain in the minds of privacy advocates. Legally, the fourth amendment is generally held to mean that the government can't disrupt your life with its searches or target someone specifically without a good enough reason to convince a judge. The NSA's sniffing is legally comparable to a police dragnet checking door-to-door for a suspect - it infringes privacy, but the impact on any particular person's life isn't unreasonable.
Says who? May I not be the judge of whether or not some unwarranted (so stipulated in the forgoing) invasion of my privacy is reasonable or not? Furthermore, the comparison of the NSA's wholesale warehousing of private data with a neighborhood canvas is patently absurd.
Sandy hit at high tide and a full moon the gravity of the moon raised the water a few feet which is why the storm surge caused all the flooding
we had a more powerful storm hit NYC the year before and it did a lot less damage because it didn't hit at high tide. very minor flooding.
for another hurricane to do as much damage as Sandy, it has to hit the around the 22nd of the month and make landfall close to 8pm
...and be at least as strong. I know it's convenient to leave out meaningful factors that don't really support your assertion, but the force of the storm kinda counts, don't you think?
This is not a good sign. A developer with sufficient skills can be productive using vi as her IDE...
Yes, but not as productive. Yes, it's true. It's been measured. A skilled coder, working in an IDE, can run rings around the coder working in a text editor when the "product" is something more sophisticated than "hello world".
After massive pressure from Congresspersons responsible for NASA's budget, NASA said, "Hurricane Sandy, which pelted multiple states in Oct. and created billions of dollars in damage, was a freak occurrence and not an indication of future weather patterns..."
TFTFY.
An enthusiastic second to this suggestion. This book is the place to start when trying to learn relational database design. Yes, it is far from a complete treatise on the subject, but what it does offer is eminently approachable and immediately useful; something that can not be said of most of the other texts covering the subject. Dear gawd, I wish that more "developers" had read this book before building anything that used a relational database to store and manipulate information. Once you get the normalization part down, all the other tools in the dba's quiver (triggers, stored procedures, functions, RI enforcement, etc.) start to look less like a hammer in search of a nail, and much more like a welcome aid to keeping things sane, regardless of what some application or user may through at your database.
Read the one post above about how little actual flying time pilots get these days. Takeoff, get to cruise altitude, switch on auto pilot.
How much actual stick and rudder time, I mean actual handling the aircraft do pilots get these days? Not in simulators, but in the cockpit, actually handling the throttles, the flaps and all the other controls.
An excellent point. So we have pilots who, for want of adequate training and/or sufficient experience, can become confused or distracted and subsequently fail to "keep flying the plane". This rather underscores the observation of Captain Anonymous, who observed a long string of poorly qualified pilots from Korean airlines and documents a clear pattern of pressure to sign them off anyway. This is nothing, if not a cultural issue. Perhaps not Korean culture, per se, but definitely something that pervades the major airlines of South Korea and that nation's aviation regulators.
The latter stages of primary flight instruction include scenarios where the student pilot is presented with various distractions. The purpose of this evolution is to stress the importance of seeing first to "flying the plane" while dealing as effectively as possible with unexpected conditions. Every check ride for every rating likewise includes one or more such "challenges". I can certainly see the possibility, at least, that our 10,000 hour pilot had little enough actual stick-and-rudder time to have developed, and maintained, the habits that only come from long and frequent repetition.
And as a seasoned air traveler, you are eminently qualified to judge the "safety" of any given carrier... Right. And an airline is unsafe if you've had "bad flight" (whatever the hell that means) with them. Uh-huh. Logical fallacy, anyone?
The pilot was a trainee learning the capabilities and handling of the 777 and his co-pilot, the instructor was merely incompetent? I'll believe that before I believe cultural hierarchies resulted in the crash.
Believe what you like, but that one is probably wrong. The PF was a 10,000 hour pilot. He had only a few dozen hours in the 777, but a seasoned pilot does not need time in a specific model of aircraft to know that he needs to monitor airspeed and sink rate on final. That not one, but two seasoned pilots managed to miss those two key metrics until it was far, far too late can not reasonably be laid to incompetence alone. The question must be asked, "Exactly how did two experienced pilots screw this up so badly?". The answer to that must consider all possible causes, including cultural issues that have, in the past, had a negative effect on safe operations.
The proof is a matter of public record. The experience of an instructor brought in to fix the problems evident in that proof, related here firsthand (thank you Captain AC) is strong corroboration. Jezuz H Christ. What else do you need?
How is a USER supposed to track down a bug? They're users.
Sounds to me like the developers just didn't like dealing with bugs and wanted the users to do it all and present them with a gift-wrapped solution.
Bullshit.
Asking for the most basic of useful information, as in "steps to duplicate" is not "gift wrapping". Bugs that appear at the user's hands are, almost always, bugs that developers and alpha testers did not see. It is reasonable, then, to expect the user to do what they can to document the steps that gave rise to the unexpected behavior. It is absolutely not reasonable to expect the developers to cast about blindly, guessing at how the user might have behaved.
Dooomed we are all doooom. Dooooooomed!
Well..., yes. None of us gets out alive, but if your intent is to sarcastically suggest that this event is not another in a line of well documented indicators of climate change, nice try.
I'm sorry but "cultural dynamics" is a poor fig leaf for what, admittedly on the surface, appears to be gross incompetence. Maintaining proper airspeed on approach is flight school 101, not a fucking Korean costume drama. I hope for the pilots' sake they come up w/a better reason for this tragic event.
Again, you missed the point. No one disputes that the PF had the responsibility to maintain a safe airspeed. Between the two pilots (PF and his instructor) they certainly should have caught this and corrected. They did not. Nevertheless, TFA correctly observes that, in the past, Korean cultural mores have contributed to this very thing; failure to identify and correct, and speculates that this may have been the case aboard Asiana 214. That is not an excuse or "fig leaf" as you put it. No one has suggested any such thing. It is a thoughtful examination of another factor that may have contributed to the crash. To ignore this, especially given the fact that it was clearly such a contributing factor in the past, would be simply negligent.
No, TX governor Rick Perry is a _total_ scumbag. Tried to make it a requirement that all adolescent females receive HPV vaccine, which just happened to be produced by one of his big campaign donors. Both offenses are disgusting examples of political graft, but somehow, forcing medical procedures on children, especially by a governor who is, in public, so big on "freedom", seems especially twisted.
Besides, OSC's SF books have nothing to do with his views on a totally orthogonal societal issue. Boycotting the former because of the latter is called an ad hominem
Yes, exactly. And your point would be..., what? If I don't want to give my money to anything that might remotely profit an ignorant dickhead like Card, I'm doing it to hurt him, not his books or the movies made from those books. Surely, you are not suggesting something as patently stupid as the notion that, since his books don't contain the overt hatred that he personally displays, he somehow deserves a pass from people who would prefer not to give him money?
Hands off, you socialist regulators. If you want lower e-book prices build your own giant company, Then buy or crush enough of the competition to gain an effective hegemony and then don't squeeze the customers. Feel free. Just stop trying to inject things like fairness into our God-given marketplace.
A solid state, gyroscopically controlled, wireless input tool. Why, if we'd had that technology back in the day, we'd still be making and selling buggy whips, I tell you.
According to the airline, a senior colleague with more experience landing 777s, including at San Francisco, sat beside him as co-pilot. and "Ultimately, it’s the trainer pilot who is responsible for the flight;
Period.
While (as I have been given to understand) both pilots were rated and signed off for this aircraft, the pilot flying (PF) was being instructed by a senior instructor. It is fair to say that he (the instructor) had a responsibility to make sure that the training exercise did not compromise safety. He failed in this.
On the other hand, the PF has, at all times, the responsibility to "fly the airplane". That includes seeing to it that the AC remains above stall speed until there's a runway right underneath the wheels, and that it doesn't fly into things (other aircraft, mountains, the ground, etc.). He failed too.
Either pilot could have, and arguably should have, noticed the deviation from expected airspeed and glide slope, and then taken appropriate action. Neither did. There seems to be more than enough blame to go around.
As an American, it made no sense to me that a person would consider that the respect towards their superior was worth more than the lives of two hundred people.
It's not surprising that you, as an American, have glibly demonstrated that you don't have the foggiest notion of what went on in that cockpit, nor the cultural dynamics that affected what did, and probably more to the point, what did not go on. Which is, of course, the entire point of TFA - there are deeply ingrained social mores that may have adversely affected the communication required of the flight crew operating a complex commercial aircraft. The landing operation, especially, is an intense period, with little margin for certain errors at certain points. It would not take much, the slightest hesitation to say something like, "Hey. Shouldn't we maybe add a little power here?", when it has become evident that the operation has fallen "outside of expected parameters", could easily be enough to make the difference. I wasn't there, but the guy at the controls almost had to have known, well before that "Oh shit!" moment, that his airspeed was not what it was supposed to be. It's not difficult at all to envision that guy asking himself if he should say something yet and risk the wrath of his superior. At that point, it would not have been an "I must say something or we crash" decision. That's the part you're missing.
In today's America, the government has less the consent, and more the apathy of the governed. The fact that the populace is so disengaged and ill-informed is the only reason there aren't many more protests in the streets.
Yeah? So? As long as we can not be scared of teh terrorists and as long as new episodes of Survivor, American Idol, and Tia and Tamera keep coming out, we're happy.
If the question is, "are financial institutions doing the end run around public or private regulation for the purpose of screwing people, engaging in fraud, and dodging (necessary) liability?" the answer is always yes.
But that's the "free market" at work. How dare you suggest that taking advantage, even extremely unfair advantage of suckers is somehow wrong. That's just..., just... un-American.
The EFF want to ban your spam filters - they consider them to be "censorship", and unacceptable (unless there's never, ever a legitimate email accidentally blocked for any user - which isn't possibly, even theoretically).
http://w2.eff.org/spam/position_on_junk_email.php
(Old document, but still their current position).
Now that is a very creative (i.e. totally fucked up) interpretation of the EFF's clearly stated stance on spam. In point of fact, the EFF explicitly supports "your spam filters". To wit, "On a larger scale, EFF supports combatting spam by providing end-users with adequate tools to filter unwanted messages on the receiving end."
It's all well and good to suggest that they use a full-fledged database -- but in reality, they can probably get something useful in a few days for a fraction of the cost.
It sounds like in this instance, the code was just horribly inefficient.
And if that were the end of it, we'd be in agreement. Delivering effective tools to users is what made the PC take off. That has not changed. Nevertheless, there are those who will, usually unwittingly, misuse those tools and, predictably, want to know why it doesn't work anymore. The fact is that there most certainly are times when a more sophisticated approach is called for.
No matter what you think of Snowden, at this point he's just a whistleblower or spy.
Just a whistle blower? He's God damn American hero, even if most American's can't understand that. Where are the yellow ribbons reading "Support Our Whistle Blowers"?