Is La Guardia airport operating only North American flights ? And is it still there mostly for historical reasons ? I have googled it and the perpendicular runways surrounded by water seem quite exciting.
La Guardia is a domestic flight only airport that serves NYC. The reason it stays open, despite the issues raised in TFA, is convenience. It's a lot easier to get to LGA than JFJ or EWR. DCA (Reagan Washington National) stays open for the same reason, despite the challenges flying in and out of there and the existence of nearby BWI and IAD; it's far easier to get to DCA than those two and no one of importance in DC wants to give that up.
The Hoover era aside, many of the Feds were there because they wanted to help protect people and joined the agencies because they wanted to use their talents to make a difference. Yes, they could make a lot more in the civilian world but would lack the satisfaction they got by doing what they were doing. They didn't waste time chasing singers but we're looking for real bad guys bent on hurting us. Cuffing some guy who wanted to make a statement by killing a bunch of people was their goal, one that I can respect. I sat in meetings where they were very concerned about doing it the right way, I.e. Within the Constitution, because as they said "those are our rights as well." I guess I just have a different perspective. As an aside, I'm not sure why you got a Troll mod for expressing your opinion, because I think openly expressing concerns and understanding why you have them is important to addressing them and fixing what gave you that impression.
The feds I've talked to at conferences generally don't mind, as long as there's no associated publicity that goes outside the conference -- that is, they don't want to be on someone's blog, and especially don't want to show up on a news site. Probably because they're at the conference on the government dime.
Yup. Those could be a CLE (Career Limiting Event). For the Feds, especially those with an interest in tech, such events are a low stress event and can be fun; even if they envy some of the tech as they have to work with tech that often is described as yesterday's technology tomorrow. The ones I've worked with have good senses of humor and, contrary to the opinions voiced here, have no desire to trample on anyone's rights.
Looks like typical bureaucratic language. I think there is some kind of law that says all reports must be written in in passive voice and with no humor at all. I'd bet some of the Feds found Spot the Fed humorous...
By "Far Right" you mean those that oppose government forcing people to things, then yes, I am "far right"
Left wingers love to use government force, but hate it when applied to them. I oppose Government force for just about everyting, except to stop an actual crime in progress, or to arrest someone who actually harmed someone (unlike Eric Garner, who harmed nobody but the state)
Actually, much of the far right only opposes the government's use of force when it is to make them do something they don't like but are all for it when it is used to force someone else to do something the far right thinks they should or shoildn't do. In that regard the left and right agree on how to accomplish their ends but disagree on the actual ends.
I know I'm going up against many years of case law here, but... the Fourth Amendment doesn't say anything about privacy. It says no searches and seizures without a warrant.
So the question is: Is it legal for MetroPCS to hand over the data, presumably in violation of their privacy policy and CPNI laws? Or did they do it because they were threatened and intimidated?
That is a good question. I'm guessing their privacy policy has enough outs to let them do this. as for the CPNI law it has an exception for laws requiring turnover of data. If a court ordered the turn over it could fall within that exception. Just as TFA stated that old decisions prior to technological advances are not relevant to today's technological capabilities with respect to the availability of information one could argue that technological advances have changed expectations of privacy. To use a car apology, one could expect privacy when riding a horse but that changed once cars came into being and license plates gave police the ability to identify where someone was based on tickets or observation of tags while in public. I would expect this eventually to be decided by the Supremes.
Considering the fact that some thieves have been caught after they used a stolen phone to post geolocated selfies to the victims' Instagram or Facebook account, I think that for the most part, low-brow thieves are by definition some kind of stupid.
If you have attention to detail, patience and intelligence, you realize that there are easier ways to make money than petty theft.
How true. My cop friends tell me they only catch the stupid ones, like those who get stopped in a traffic stop, turn over their license and then run away when the cop sees drugs in the car, or call 911 to report a crime a mile away from the pay phone they use to call in the information. In the latter, they sent a cruiser to the pay phone location and caught the guy in the act of crime. His comment? How did you know to come here? In the former, he let the guy run and simply drove to his address to bust him.
Good question. We wondere tht ourselves why the idiots that programmed it used local times. Since they probably never operated a piece of equipment in their life they probably assumed we'd want local time but never asked; which illustrates the classic user / developer disconnect. Years later while on. Control room design project I had to tell developers that the all digital panel design they were so proud of was interesting, cool, futuristic and totally useless for actually operating a plant.. As a result the final design we developed was one operators could actually understand and use.
when we had an equipment malfunction and our data logger's time stamped data made no sense - one second we were recording values of x and the next second normal values. Turned out the daylight savings time switch had occurred during the incident and as a result all the time stamps and resulting data were screwed up.
If you could measure programming ability somehow, its curve would look like the normal distribution.
This guy doesn't know how to measure programming ability, but somehow manages to spend 3000 words writing about it.
Defining programming ability is a real challenge and the definition probably varies based on what is being programmed. I had a teacher who defined it as being able to complete a task in as few lines of code as possible. OTOH, is it worth spending 2x the hours to get rid of 2 lines of code when a quicker solution works just fine? Maybe ability is being able to produce working code that meets the design specifications. Ability, IMHO, depends on the capability to complete the tasks at hand; and thus what constitutes ability will vary. I guess instead of being a 2D U curve or some such thing it is really a 3 D space with peaks and valleys.And thus I reveal my true ability: To change the parameters and drive a discussion to the end I want; which is why I am a consultant.
It may seem to you. I asked real students on campus, who had no idea what 4/16 was. Yet a student has lost their educational opportunities here, and likely life ruined.
They didn't lose their educational opportunities, they did something incredibly stupid and yet serious and thus suffered the consequences. Just because many people did not know what 4/16 represented doesn't mean the PD were wrong to treat it as a real threat and for the student to be held responsible for his actions.
Google's lifetime plan only provides 5/1mbps, but the capacity for gigabit is still there. I wonder if they'll start selling that extra capacity to whoever wants it.. like if you sign up for Netflix, Netflix says "You can't stream our highest quality HD content, but for an extra $3.95/month we can enable that." Then they pay Google for 10mbps on your behalf just for use with their service.
Interesting idea,and I could see Google going for such a model considering how they are marketing their Fi service. A la carte higher speed access only when needed would be a good business model and the free, after initial instal, service is one way to get their pipe to the consumer. Once they have that in large enough numbers than it opens up a whole new set of ways to make money; for example they could gove everyone a 4300 credit towards higher speed services so people can see what they would get and drive demand for it.
Bullshit. I'm the IT guy for a chain of independent pharmacies and know this is a categorically false statement. Like many others it is part of the mythology surrounding the healthcare "crisis".
You. I have friends who are drug reps and the days of "spend whatever it take stop keep the docs happy" and getting called on the carpet for "not spending enough" are long gone. The reps are probably healthier though, because it means no more late nights at strip clubs or eating lavish meals every night.
would seem that this would be a violation of HIPPA security rules, assume pharmacies are covered entities, which I think they are. Specifically, covered entities must maintain adequate:
Administrative Safeguards
Security Management Process. As explained in the previous section, a covered entity must identify and analyze potential risks to e-PHI, and it must implement security measures that reduce risks and vulnerabilities to a reasonable and appropriate level.
Technical Safeguards
Access Control. A covered entity must implement technical policies and procedures that allow only authorized persons to access electronic protected health information (e-PHI).
It would seem simply allowing access via a name and birthdate is a violation of the above requirements.
Truth is, they can't do much to the passenger, and that's why they are trying to bully the messenger. I say bully because they don't have much of a case given that connecting info is all public info.
I agree. They don't want it to be easy to find hidden cities since then more people would use it. It's easier to kill th messenger. I worked for a company that used back to backs regularly and us travelers rarely had a problem; the only time one did was when they gave the wrong ticket to the agent raising questions about the itineraries. The airline went after our travel agent saying we could not do that anymore and they'd cancel tickets if we were caught. We switched to another airline for the mid week flight and after a month or so of seeing half the previous revenue, not double as they expected, the airline called and said go ahead and use back to backs. Given we of the had 200 people flying every week some sales agent finally figured out that X was better than 1/2X even if X was less than what it would be if we didn't back to back.
While helping someone find hidden cities the airlines can cancel renaining segments if they catch you. It's like they would do if they caught you ising back to back fares to get saturday stayiver pricing without staying the weekend.
Unfortunately, their incentives are diametrically opposed to common sense. There is literally no downside for a USPTO examiner to rubber-stamp everything on his or her desk. They get to go home early to beat the traffic, while productive society is left to deal with the legal fallout. The net effect is to devalue legitimate IP while rewarding the trolls.
Alternatively, so many patents are filed that in order to work through them an examiner must spend the minimum time possible as well s avoid re-examination if he or she refuses it so the rational thing to do is approve all unless it is obviously not patentable. The legal system can then sort out what is valid and what is not.
A solution would be to hire more examiners or make a patent case loser pay if the holder loses the suit but that would involve Congress actually looking at realistic solutions.
The first question that comes to my mind is, "What the fuck is the point of 2 Gbps service for residential customers?" It's marketing department dick waving that serves no purpose. It would seem to me that society (both public and corporate) ought to be looking at the areas that are lucky to get T-1 speeds before it worries about upgrading cities that already have access to double and triple digit Mbps connections. For most people it's all gravy once you get past 10-15Mbps and I'm not aware of any consumer grade gear that can take advantage of 2Gbps.
More importantly, what are the caps on such service? You'll essentially wind up paying more for band width you really don't need and not getting any noticeable performance boost, at least for the average home user. The best result from Google's rollout is that incumbents may be forced to offer more competitive offerings, especially if Google offers $300/lifetime rates.
The Bismarck was not a bad ida, it just had the bad luck to take a hit in the rudder and thus become a sitting duck. Had she escaped to become a commerce raider in the Atlantic she would have sunk a lot of tonnage and tie up a lot of ships in an effort to sink her.
The Japanese strategy of using their subs as highly ineffective aircraft carriers is one of the reasons they lost the war. While they were wasting their efforts on that, the American's were using their subs as commerce raiders, devastating the Japanese economy... and the Japanese failed to stop that because they never developed effective anti-sub warfare. They should have consulted with their German allies, who could have told them a lot about the effective anti-sub tactics used against them in the Atlantic.
True, but one tactic that the Germans didn't realize was we were reading their codes and thus able to better intercept U-Boots and wolf packs. I'm not sure if Japan had developed sonar to the point it could detect submerged submarines; although radar could detect them while surfaced, which was their normal mode of operation, but then that also warns the submarine you are there before you detect them. Finally, the Allies pretty much controlled the seas in the Atlantic and thus could conduct ASW without much concern that they would get into surface battles; Japan did not have that luxury and was trying to fight naval battles that took ships that could be used for ASW away from that role. Not disagreeing with you but the two theaters were different enough that many of the things that work din one might not in the other.
Agreed. We look at the Pinto specifically as a case study in my engineering ethics class back in college, there was not excuse for what they did. All engineers do have to make trade-off decisions, but the fucking deluxe fix was $11, that is it.They could have built that into the car price with virtually no impact. TFA picked one terrible example...
I'm curious how the case was presented. We did not have an this case when I studied engineering, our professors made a point of ensuring we understood that all our decisions had ramifications and as engineers we had a duty to ensure we made decisions in the best interests of the public. that didn't mean we had to over engineer everything but that we made sure what we did was the right solution and not just the easiest solution.
My experience, much later in business school when we did have to take an ethics class was that all too often the case was designed to come to an obvious answer and ignored much of the factors that went into a decision; as a result my classmates tut-tuted decision made by the obvious evil decision maker and felt smug in the knowledge they would never do that. Being an engineer, who also spent a lot of time investigating incident at plants, I wanted to understand why the deacons was made and what the conditions were when it was made. Of course, when I presented a contrary opinion my classmates no doubt though I was some kind of psychopath. My experience has been it's a lot easier to say "I would not have done that" than to actually not do it when the situation arises. of course, I could probably have phrased some of my comments better by not starting out with "just because people die doesn't mean it was the wrong decision..."
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Is La Guardia airport operating only North American flights ? And is it still there mostly for historical reasons ? I have googled it and the perpendicular runways surrounded by water seem quite exciting.
La Guardia is a domestic flight only airport that serves NYC. The reason it stays open, despite the issues raised in TFA, is convenience. It's a lot easier to get to LGA than JFJ or EWR. DCA (Reagan Washington National) stays open for the same reason, despite the challenges flying in and out of there and the existence of nearby BWI and IAD; it's far easier to get to DCA than those two and no one of importance in DC wants to give that up.
I hate the "new" /. My reply was directed to another comment and it got posted to yours.
The Hoover era aside, many of the Feds were there because they wanted to help protect people and joined the agencies because they wanted to use their talents to make a difference. Yes, they could make a lot more in the civilian world but would lack the satisfaction they got by doing what they were doing. They didn't waste time chasing singers but we're looking for real bad guys bent on hurting us. Cuffing some guy who wanted to make a statement by killing a bunch of people was their goal, one that I can respect. I sat in meetings where they were very concerned about doing it the right way, I.e. Within the Constitution, because as they said "those are our rights as well." I guess I just have a different perspective. As an aside, I'm not sure why you got a Troll mod for expressing your opinion, because I think openly expressing concerns and understanding why you have them is important to addressing them and fixing what gave you that impression.
The feds I've talked to at conferences generally don't mind, as long as there's no associated publicity that goes outside the conference -- that is, they don't want to be on someone's blog, and especially don't want to show up on a news site. Probably because they're at the conference on the government dime.
Yup. Those could be a CLE (Career Limiting Event). For the Feds, especially those with an interest in tech, such events are a low stress event and can be fun; even if they envy some of the tech as they have to work with tech that often is described as yesterday's technology tomorrow. The ones I've worked with have good senses of humor and, contrary to the opinions voiced here, have no desire to trample on anyone's rights.
Looks like typical bureaucratic language. I think there is some kind of law that says all reports must be written in in passive voice and with no humor at all. I'd bet some of the Feds found Spot the Fed humorous...
By "Far Right" you mean those that oppose government forcing people to things, then yes, I am "far right"
Left wingers love to use government force, but hate it when applied to them. I oppose Government force for just about everyting, except to stop an actual crime in progress, or to arrest someone who actually harmed someone (unlike Eric Garner, who harmed nobody but the state)
Actually, much of the far right only opposes the government's use of force when it is to make them do something they don't like but are all for it when it is used to force someone else to do something the far right thinks they should or shoildn't do. In that regard the left and right agree on how to accomplish their ends but disagree on the actual ends.
I know I'm going up against many years of case law here, but... the Fourth Amendment doesn't say anything about privacy. It says no searches and seizures without a warrant.
So the question is: Is it legal for MetroPCS to hand over the data, presumably in violation of their privacy policy and CPNI laws? Or did they do it because they were threatened and intimidated?
That is a good question. I'm guessing their privacy policy has enough outs to let them do this. as for the CPNI law it has an exception for laws requiring turnover of data. If a court ordered the turn over it could fall within that exception. Just as TFA stated that old decisions prior to technological advances are not relevant to today's technological capabilities with respect to the availability of information one could argue that technological advances have changed expectations of privacy. To use a car apology, one could expect privacy when riding a horse but that changed once cars came into being and license plates gave police the ability to identify where someone was based on tickets or observation of tags while in public. I would expect this eventually to be decided by the Supremes.
Considering the fact that some thieves have been caught after they used a stolen phone to post geolocated selfies to the victims' Instagram or Facebook account, I think that for the most part, low-brow thieves are by definition some kind of stupid.
If you have attention to detail, patience and intelligence, you realize that there are easier ways to make money than petty theft.
How true. My cop friends tell me they only catch the stupid ones, like those who get stopped in a traffic stop, turn over their license and then run away when the cop sees drugs in the car, or call 911 to report a crime a mile away from the pay phone they use to call in the information. In the latter, they sent a cruiser to the pay phone location and caught the guy in the act of crime. His comment? How did you know to come here? In the former, he let the guy run and simply drove to his address to bust him.
Why didn't/couldn't you use GMT?
Good question. We wondere tht ourselves why the idiots that programmed it used local times. Since they probably never operated a piece of equipment in their life they probably assumed we'd want local time but never asked; which illustrates the classic user / developer disconnect. Years later while on. Control room design project I had to tell developers that the all digital panel design they were so proud of was interesting, cool, futuristic and totally useless for actually operating a plant.. As a result the final design we developed was one operators could actually understand and use.
when we had an equipment malfunction and our data logger's time stamped data made no sense - one second we were recording values of x and the next second normal values. Turned out the daylight savings time switch had occurred during the incident and as a result all the time stamps and resulting data were screwed up.
If you could measure programming ability somehow, its curve would look like the normal distribution.
This guy doesn't know how to measure programming ability, but somehow manages to spend 3000 words writing about it.
Defining programming ability is a real challenge and the definition probably varies based on what is being programmed. I had a teacher who defined it as being able to complete a task in as few lines of code as possible. OTOH, is it worth spending 2x the hours to get rid of 2 lines of code when a quicker solution works just fine? Maybe ability is being able to produce working code that meets the design specifications. Ability, IMHO, depends on the capability to complete the tasks at hand; and thus what constitutes ability will vary. I guess instead of being a 2D U curve or some such thing it is really a 3 D space with peaks and valleys.And thus I reveal my true ability: To change the parameters and drive a discussion to the end I want; which is why I am a consultant.
It may seem to you. I asked real students on campus, who had no idea what 4/16 was. Yet a student has lost their educational opportunities here, and likely life ruined.
They didn't lose their educational opportunities, they did something incredibly stupid and yet serious and thus suffered the consequences. Just because many people did not know what 4/16 represented doesn't mean the PD were wrong to treat it as a real threat and for the student to be held responsible for his actions.
Google's lifetime plan only provides 5/1mbps, but the capacity for gigabit is still there. I wonder if they'll start selling that extra capacity to whoever wants it.. like if you sign up for Netflix, Netflix says "You can't stream our highest quality HD content, but for an extra $3.95/month we can enable that." Then they pay Google for 10mbps on your behalf just for use with their service.
Interesting idea,and I could see Google going for such a model considering how they are marketing their Fi service. A la carte higher speed access only when needed would be a good business model and the free, after initial instal, service is one way to get their pipe to the consumer. Once they have that in large enough numbers than it opens up a whole new set of ways to make money; for example they could gove everyone a 4300 credit towards higher speed services so people can see what they would get and drive demand for it.
To me the issue is not that they have such a policy but they fail to properly protect the data; which may be a HIPPA violation.
Bullshit. I'm the IT guy for a chain of independent pharmacies and know this is a categorically false statement. Like many others it is part of the mythology surrounding the healthcare "crisis".
You. I have friends who are drug reps and the days of "spend whatever it take stop keep the docs happy" and getting called on the carpet for "not spending enough" are long gone. The reps are probably healthier though, because it means no more late nights at strip clubs or eating lavish meals every night.
would seem that this would be a violation of HIPPA security rules, assume pharmacies are covered entities, which I think they are. Specifically, covered entities must maintain adequate:
Administrative Safeguards
Security Management Process. As explained in the previous section, a covered entity must identify and analyze potential risks to e-PHI, and it must implement security measures that reduce risks and vulnerabilities to a reasonable and appropriate level.
Technical Safeguards
Access Control. A covered entity must implement technical policies and procedures that allow only authorized persons to access electronic protected health information (e-PHI).
It would seem simply allowing access via a name and birthdate is a violation of the above requirements.
Source: http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy...
Truth is, they can't do much to the passenger, and that's why they are trying to bully the messenger. I say bully because they don't have much of a case given that connecting info is all public info.
I agree. They don't want it to be easy to find hidden cities since then more people would use it. It's easier to kill th messenger. I worked for a company that used back to backs regularly and us travelers rarely had a problem; the only time one did was when they gave the wrong ticket to the agent raising questions about the itineraries. The airline went after our travel agent saying we could not do that anymore and they'd cancel tickets if we were caught. We switched to another airline for the mid week flight and after a month or so of seeing half the previous revenue, not double as they expected, the airline called and said go ahead and use back to backs. Given we of the had 200 people flying every week some sales agent finally figured out that X was better than 1/2X even if X was less than what it would be if we didn't back to back.
While helping someone find hidden cities the airlines can cancel renaining segments if they catch you. It's like they would do if they caught you ising back to back fares to get saturday stayiver pricing without staying the weekend.
Unfortunately, their incentives are diametrically opposed to common sense. There is literally no downside for a USPTO examiner to rubber-stamp everything on his or her desk. They get to go home early to beat the traffic, while productive society is left to deal with the legal fallout. The net effect is to devalue legitimate IP while rewarding the trolls.
Alternatively, so many patents are filed that in order to work through them an examiner must spend the minimum time possible as well s avoid re-examination if he or she refuses it so the rational thing to do is approve all unless it is obviously not patentable. The legal system can then sort out what is valid and what is not.
A solution would be to hire more examiners or make a patent case loser pay if the holder loses the suit but that would involve Congress actually looking at realistic solutions.
The first question that comes to my mind is, "What the fuck is the point of 2 Gbps service for residential customers?" It's marketing department dick waving that serves no purpose. It would seem to me that society (both public and corporate) ought to be looking at the areas that are lucky to get T-1 speeds before it worries about upgrading cities that already have access to double and triple digit Mbps connections. For most people it's all gravy once you get past 10-15Mbps and I'm not aware of any consumer grade gear that can take advantage of 2Gbps.
More importantly, what are the caps on such service? You'll essentially wind up paying more for band width you really don't need and not getting any noticeable performance boost, at least for the average home user. The best result from Google's rollout is that incumbents may be forced to offer more competitive offerings, especially if Google offers $300/lifetime rates.
(Though on reflection, we're probably saying much the same thing, just from different points of view.)
It's industrial capacity that was the real "secret weapon" that the Allies had in WWII - in both theatres.
True. You made a lot of good points. That's the problem with /.; things that have many books written explaining them are boiled down to a few sentences
The Bismarck was not a bad ida, it just had the bad luck to take a hit in the rudder and thus become a sitting duck. Had she escaped to become a commerce raider in the Atlantic she would have sunk a lot of tonnage and tie up a lot of ships in an effort to sink her.
The Japanese strategy of using their subs as highly ineffective aircraft carriers is one of the reasons they lost the war. While they were wasting their efforts on that, the American's were using their subs as commerce raiders, devastating the Japanese economy ... and the Japanese failed to stop that because they never developed effective anti-sub warfare. They should have consulted with their German allies, who could have told them a lot about the effective anti-sub tactics used against them in the Atlantic.
True, but one tactic that the Germans didn't realize was we were reading their codes and thus able to better intercept U-Boots and wolf packs. I'm not sure if Japan had developed sonar to the point it could detect submerged submarines; although radar could detect them while surfaced, which was their normal mode of operation, but then that also warns the submarine you are there before you detect them. Finally, the Allies pretty much controlled the seas in the Atlantic and thus could conduct ASW without much concern that they would get into surface battles; Japan did not have that luxury and was trying to fight naval battles that took ships that could be used for ASW away from that role. Not disagreeing with you but the two theaters were different enough that many of the things that work din one might not in the other.
Tell them you are considering Dish and want to compare plans.
Agreed. We look at the Pinto specifically as a case study in my engineering ethics class back in college, there was not excuse for what they did. All engineers do have to make trade-off decisions, but the fucking deluxe fix was $11, that is it.They could have built that into the car price with virtually no impact. TFA picked one terrible example...
I'm curious how the case was presented. We did not have an this case when I studied engineering, our professors made a point of ensuring we understood that all our decisions had ramifications and as engineers we had a duty to ensure we made decisions in the best interests of the public. that didn't mean we had to over engineer everything but that we made sure what we did was the right solution and not just the easiest solution.
My experience, much later in business school when we did have to take an ethics class was that all too often the case was designed to come to an obvious answer and ignored much of the factors that went into a decision; as a result my classmates tut-tuted decision made by the obvious evil decision maker and felt smug in the knowledge they would never do that. Being an engineer, who also spent a lot of time investigating incident at plants, I wanted to understand why the deacons was made and what the conditions were when it was made. Of course, when I presented a contrary opinion my classmates no doubt though I was some kind of psychopath. My experience has been it's a lot easier to say "I would not have done that" than to actually not do it when the situation arises. of course, I could probably have phrased some of my comments better by not starting out with "just because people die doesn't mean it was the wrong decision..."