There's a difference between doing something by instinct, and developing a new behavior in response to personal experiences. Squirrels don't bury food because they remember getting hungry last winter; they just do it. Leopards certainly don't "plan their menu for tomorrow". A dog bringing toys to the front door is simply a learned behavior, repeating something they did by chance previously that resulted in a positive outcome. What appears to be happening here is the chimp devising a new behavior, not by chance, but by anticipating the future.
If you don't see the fundamental parallels between using dumb terminals to access big central computers were all the data is held and processed using centrally managed software, and using fairly-dumb tablets to access huge central data centers where all the data is held and processed using centrally managed apps... well, it's better for your career that you posted AC.
"Regardless, recent trends have been bringing computing back to the mainframe model." No, its moving to the tablet model.
Meaning what, exactly? My employer is implementing tablets... as front-end devices for mainframe-based computing. The tablet in this computing model is fundamentally no different from an X Terminal: a device with limited compute power and storage, acting as the physical user interface to a centralized system where all the data-processing takes place. And this isn't just in "enterprise" computing: web-mail, browser-based office software, streaming video and music services, cloud storage... all of this is pushing toward a thin-client/server model of computing, which is fundamentally what the mainframe was all about. Sorry, but in many ways tablets = terminals.
As to the 1979 CS degree, is there such a thing? PCs only existed since about 1984's so any degree he had has no relevance at all to modern computing. Who care what he did on PDP11s in Fortran?
Thank you for this demonstration of how age discrimination works in the tech industry. For the record, PCs existed before 1984, and as long as you don't insist on IBM-standard they also existed in 1979 (e.g. Commodore PET, TRS-80, Apple II). And there were CS degrees even before those existed.
I have a CS degree from the 1980s (transcripts available), and as a matter of fact I did learn to write Fortran on a DEC minicomputer (a Vax 11; the PDP was in high school). Very little of my CS coursework was done on microcomputers: just graphics, assembly language, and an independent study. I had my own micro in my dorm room, which I used to dial into the Vax, for word processing, and to play Missile Command. No Internet, just a BITNET e-mail gateway. In fact, very few of the technology standards in use then are still in use now; even ASCII is on the way out.
But what I learned back in the Dark Ages (before the Windows opened up) wasn't simply Fortran, command-line interfaces, and the use of parity bits over a serial connection. What I learned was how to solve problems, and those skills remain just as relevant and valuable today as they were a quarter century ago.
A little reality check I occasionally give to students: Outside of academia, the only people who will ever sincerely care what your major was in college (and especially your minor) are the people who hire you for your first job. At that point in your career, your major and the grades you got in those classes are all you have going for you, so it's the only basis they have for judging you. But when you apply for your second job, all they will care about was your performance at your current/previous job, and maybe what kind of grades you got in college. "You've got a BA in English Literature, but you've spent the last two years writing binary control code for moisture vaporators? Welcome to Hutt Engineering." Third job and onward: it's 100% about your work experience. So it isn't worth lying about, and it isn't worth the petty outrage over it.
Let those whose resumés are a frankly honest documentation of their job histories, and those who have not put any "spin" on the reasons for leaving previous jobs... throw the first stones.
Yes, it is grounds for suspicion, which is where your this-guy-is-an-innocent-victim line of "reasoning" first goes off track. He was already a suspect, and the notion that security agents somehow encoded and implanted credible-looking information into the porn in his underwear is more than a little fanciful. A court that has been presented with the actual evidence will determine whether there is reasonable doubt of his guilt; you simply don't have adequate information to make that judgment (although that apparently hasn't stopped you from acquitting him in your mind).
A fundie Muslim just might hide porn in his pants, not wanting his colleagues to know he's got it. It's at least more plausible than hiding it in MS Word documents or vacation snapshots, which would make no sense whatsoever to conceal. I'd guess that stego-encoding the info was a one-last-line-of-defense tactic, so that even if the files were discovered and the operative caught, or if he dropped the storage device somewhere, at least there'd be a chance that officials wouldn't find the plans. Kind of like OBL having a gun to carry around the house in Abbottabad, it wasn't really a lynchpin of their defense strategy, but it couldn't hurt and it just might help, so they'd be stupid not to try it.
This isn't some random dude who got nabbed because something incriminating got planted on his laptop, "in plain sight" to be found by random no-thought-required screening. He was concealing it because he knew it would get him in trouble with security agents if found, and it was found because he and his companion "...were on a watch list, and when they handed over documents at a European border crossing, their names registered with counterterrorism agencies....Ocak is also charged with helping to form a group called the German Taliban Mujahedeen, and is alleged to have made a video for the group threatening attacks in Germany.... Prosecutors believe the pair met at a terrorist training camp in Pakistan's tribal territories and were sent back to Europe to recruit a network of suicide bombers." (from TFA)
While your clever strategy is certainly possible, and can be effective at disrupting the kind of security theater that the TSA performs, that's not what's happening here. This is an example of good old-fashioned investigative, targeted counter-espionage working.
I look forward to the SlashBiFanfic posts. The question is which we'll get more of: Beverly/Jean-Luc/Will, Leia/Luke/Han, Hermione/Harry/Ron, or Zoe/Mal/Wash.
What's scary is that there are probably political analysts looking at the impact of higher sea levels on voting patterns, to see whether it would favor one political party or another and at what level. I just hope they're accounting for the fact that all those coastal lib'ruls whose homes would be flooded would simply move inland rather than disappearing into the sea.
What the troops REALLY want is to end the killing of innocents & come back home to defend THIS country.
Is that true? It's not like they didn't know what they were getting into when they signed up. I would love to see the data you use to back this statement.
Yes, most soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines know what they're signing up for. That doesn't mean they actually like the killing or injuring, or being away from home. People enlist out of a sense of duty, or to gain job skills, or because there are non-combat positions that appeal to them, or because it's the only decent option open to them. The notion that people join the military because they're bloodthirsty savages is completely out of touch with reality.
"The Ron Paul movement goes beyond that. In fact, it probably started the original tea party idea before it was hijacked by a bunch of idiots and absorbed in to a Republican movement."
More correct than you realize. "It" (the Ron Paul movement) has been passed on into the Rand Paul* movement, which is little more than a faction of the now-larger Tea Party movement, which are managed by the Republican machine.
*Rand is a classic example of a second-generation ideologue. He understands none of the experiences and intellectual struggles that led Ron to his beliefs, only the ideology that springs from it, random hand-me-down parts of which he parrots to appeal to the crowds of idiots.
The Occupy movement also qualifies a "real political movement". If you don't like the status quo, self-centered libertarianism isn't the only parade out there to join.
Note the difference between: "Feds Shut Down Tor Using Narcotics Store" and "Feds Shut Down Tor-Using Narcotics Store".
(In the first headline, the feds have used a narcotics store to shut down Tor. In the second, the feds have shut down a narcotics store that uses Tor.)
When using an adjective that consists of multiple words (a.k.a. a multiple-word adjective), hyphens connecting those words make the meaning much clearer.
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There's a difference between doing something by instinct, and developing a new behavior in response to personal experiences. Squirrels don't bury food because they remember getting hungry last winter; they just do it. Leopards certainly don't "plan their menu for tomorrow". A dog bringing toys to the front door is simply a learned behavior, repeating something they did by chance previously that resulted in a positive outcome. What appears to be happening here is the chimp devising a new behavior, not by chance, but by anticipating the future.
If he reports a fault in the AE35 unit, don't go out to fix it.
He isn't just planning ahead, and then coming up with a new plan. He's being deceptive.
I'm as free as a bird now, and this bird you cannot chayayayayayayange!
Or this one:
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First you have to post your resumé here – the same one you used in your last job application – for verification.
People my age write in English.
If you don't see the fundamental parallels between using dumb terminals to access big central computers were all the data is held and processed using centrally managed software, and using fairly-dumb tablets to access huge central data centers where all the data is held and processed using centrally managed apps... well, it's better for your career that you posted AC.
Meaning what, exactly? My employer is implementing tablets... as front-end devices for mainframe-based computing. The tablet in this computing model is fundamentally no different from an X Terminal: a device with limited compute power and storage, acting as the physical user interface to a centralized system where all the data-processing takes place. And this isn't just in "enterprise" computing: web-mail, browser-based office software, streaming video and music services, cloud storage... all of this is pushing toward a thin-client/server model of computing, which is fundamentally what the mainframe was all about. Sorry, but in many ways tablets = terminals.
Thank you for this demonstration of how age discrimination works in the tech industry. For the record, PCs existed before 1984, and as long as you don't insist on IBM-standard they also existed in 1979 (e.g. Commodore PET, TRS-80, Apple II). And there were CS degrees even before those existed.
I have a CS degree from the 1980s (transcripts available), and as a matter of fact I did learn to write Fortran on a DEC minicomputer (a Vax 11; the PDP was in high school). Very little of my CS coursework was done on microcomputers: just graphics, assembly language, and an independent study. I had my own micro in my dorm room, which I used to dial into the Vax, for word processing, and to play Missile Command. No Internet, just a BITNET e-mail gateway. In fact, very few of the technology standards in use then are still in use now; even ASCII is on the way out.
But what I learned back in the Dark Ages (before the Windows opened up) wasn't simply Fortran, command-line interfaces, and the use of parity bits over a serial connection. What I learned was how to solve problems, and those skills remain just as relevant and valuable today as they were a quarter century ago.
A little reality check I occasionally give to students: Outside of academia, the only people who will ever sincerely care what your major was in college (and especially your minor) are the people who hire you for your first job. At that point in your career, your major and the grades you got in those classes are all you have going for you, so it's the only basis they have for judging you. But when you apply for your second job, all they will care about was your performance at your current/previous job, and maybe what kind of grades you got in college. "You've got a BA in English Literature, but you've spent the last two years writing binary control code for moisture vaporators? Welcome to Hutt Engineering." Third job and onward: it's 100% about your work experience. So it isn't worth lying about, and it isn't worth the petty outrage over it.
Let those whose resumés are a frankly honest documentation of their job histories, and those who have not put any "spin" on the reasons for leaving previous jobs... throw the first stones.
Yes, it is grounds for suspicion, which is where your this-guy-is-an-innocent-victim line of "reasoning" first goes off track. He was already a suspect, and the notion that security agents somehow encoded and implanted credible-looking information into the porn in his underwear is more than a little fanciful. A court that has been presented with the actual evidence will determine whether there is reasonable doubt of his guilt; you simply don't have adequate information to make that judgment (although that apparently hasn't stopped you from acquitting him in your mind).
A fundie Muslim just might hide porn in his pants, not wanting his colleagues to know he's got it. It's at least more plausible than hiding it in MS Word documents or vacation snapshots, which would make no sense whatsoever to conceal. I'd guess that stego-encoding the info was a one-last-line-of-defense tactic, so that even if the files were discovered and the operative caught, or if he dropped the storage device somewhere, at least there'd be a chance that officials wouldn't find the plans. Kind of like OBL having a gun to carry around the house in Abbottabad, it wasn't really a lynchpin of their defense strategy, but it couldn't hurt and it just might help, so they'd be stupid not to try it.
This isn't some random dude who got nabbed because something incriminating got planted on his laptop, "in plain sight" to be found by random no-thought-required screening. He was concealing it because he knew it would get him in trouble with security agents if found, and it was found because he and his companion "...were on a watch list, and when they handed over documents at a European border crossing, their names registered with counterterrorism agencies. ...Ocak is also charged with helping to form a group called the German Taliban Mujahedeen, and is alleged to have made a video for the group threatening attacks in Germany.... Prosecutors believe the pair met at a terrorist training camp in Pakistan's tribal territories and were sent back to Europe to recruit a network of suicide bombers." (from TFA)
While your clever strategy is certainly possible, and can be effective at disrupting the kind of security theater that the TSA performs, that's not what's happening here. This is an example of good old-fashioned investigative, targeted counter-espionage working.
I look forward to the SlashBiFanfic posts. The question is which we'll get more of: Beverly/Jean-Luc/Will, Leia/Luke/Han, Hermione/Harry/Ron, or Zoe/Mal/Wash.
What's scary is that there are probably political analysts looking at the impact of higher sea levels on voting patterns, to see whether it would favor one political party or another and at what level. I just hope they're accounting for the fact that all those coastal lib'ruls whose homes would be flooded would simply move inland rather than disappearing into the sea.
...it has the words "DON'T PANIC" inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.
What the troops REALLY want is to end the killing of innocents & come back home to defend THIS country.
Is that true? It's not like they didn't know what they were getting into when they signed up. I would love to see the data you use to back this statement.
Yes, most soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines know what they're signing up for. That doesn't mean they actually like the killing or injuring, or being away from home. People enlist out of a sense of duty, or to gain job skills, or because there are non-combat positions that appeal to them, or because it's the only decent option open to them. The notion that people join the military because they're bloodthirsty savages is completely out of touch with reality.
I was just disappointed that the headline didn't refer to him having a "huge quarter" on display in the Apple Cave below Stately Cook Manor.
"The Ron Paul movement goes beyond that. In fact, it probably started the original tea party idea before it was hijacked by a bunch of idiots and absorbed in to a Republican movement."
More correct than you realize. "It" (the Ron Paul movement) has been passed on into the Rand Paul* movement, which is little more than a faction of the now-larger Tea Party movement, which are managed by the Republican machine.
*Rand is a classic example of a second-generation ideologue. He understands none of the experiences and intellectual struggles that led Ron to his beliefs, only the ideology that springs from it, random hand-me-down parts of which he parrots to appeal to the crowds of idiots.
The Occupy movement also qualifies a "real political movement". If you don't like the status quo, self-centered libertarianism isn't the only parade out there to join.
Clearly the solution is to elect someone named Roosevelt as president.
Speaking as a refugee from academia after spending most of my adult life attending or working at colleges, I would say this is exactly right.
Note the difference between: "Feds Shut Down Tor Using Narcotics Store" and "Feds Shut Down Tor-Using Narcotics Store".
(In the first headline, the feds have used a narcotics store to shut down Tor. In the second, the feds have shut down a narcotics store that uses Tor.)
When using an adjective that consists of multiple words (a.k.a. a multiple-word adjective), hyphens connecting those words make the meaning much clearer.