Do not EVER burn bridges. You may have decided you would rather live under a bridge than go back. But forever is a long time and all things do change in time.
Simple. Do good, make people working for you feel they're doing something good for the world.
Nobody is talking about the fact that these government agencies, contractors, and individuals can easily do a silent Snowden and sell their secrets to the highest corporate bidder, giving inside access to the juicy contracts, and ways to destroy competition. The commercial aspects of the government AND CONTRACTORS seeing all eye is much worse than the governmental prosecution fears. Those on the inside have the gold and make the rules. Our President his staff, the entire useless congress and their staffs have no clue what the NSA/CIA/FBI/DHS is saying to them.... They have NO imagination and live in fear bowing to the Generals to "protect" us. Ben Franklin should have talked louder..
Why would the average person give a fuck about their privacy? Most people have nothing to hide, and unless they are a fanatic or a hobbyist, they could not care less who reads their stuff.
This security stuff is NOT about the average guy, though. It's about movers and shakers... politicians, lawyers, businessmen, members of the media... people who have power in some ways to affect change, and who communicate in ways which REQUIRE privacy.
Likewise, the NSA monitoring the average person does not matter in the least. It is about them monitoring movers and shakers. It's about people who could potentially upset the powers that be.
So cut me a break with the ruminations about whether Joe Six Pack or Susy Soccer Mom is going to encrypt their email. The real question will be, will the next candidate for high office, who aims to shake things up, and who thinks the current Republicratic overlords need to GTFO... the question is... will he us it, and will he continue to be monitored.
No I don't have anything to hide. So what! Damn snoops have no business in my business. I'm trying the new Japanese University experiment VPN. Works pretty good, so far. And anything private goes on over something NOT called YAHOO, GOOGLE, MICROSUCKS, etc.
Have you hear of management by exception? That "meta-data"? Those supercomputers work continuously building patterns for each person, each device. Then when your pattern changes, voila, the evil roving eye swings your way. The FBI is a domestic shill for the NSA so as to allow monitoring of citizens that is expressly forbidden by law (or was). And they have a file on every citizen and not in the USA and likely most of the planet. Mess with them. Move your IP to Japan, Korea, Mexico. Move lots. And post as a coward.
The smart people know that you never suggest something unless you are prepared to do the work yourself. Its called volunteering your time for free. So smart people just work around it until a new "smarter" guy comes along and suggests and gets nominated to do the work. Do not EVER volunteer.
Agree. What's missing from this debate is science AKA the 2nd law of thermodynamics. All things degrade over time and at differing rates. The big decay amplifier is heat. So focus on heat and you find the power supply #1, the actual transmitter #2. heat X time = degradation
Things known to degrade at a high rate, capacitors, other analog devices. Digital devices degrade but with only two states it typically takes longer for the states to become non-deterministic and the new devices with very low voltages have less room for error.
A gentleman above provided an elegant solution. Measure the output of the power supply and if lagging get a new one. Problem fixed.
There is a huge problem in the knowledge set of slashdot being software people who have no clue of the underlying structures and perticularly reliability and safety disciplines.
Not sure of the physics here but if it can store that much energy and energy always finds its way (eventually) to heat don't we have a fantastic heat engine source? Drive your heat engine car coast to coast no refueling?
Yes I would travel on it and in many cases I would prefer that to air travel. To work the rail needs a mixture of Express and Roundabout. There must also be a car/train on the major routes as in the Amtrak train to Florida where you take the car with you on a flat bed.
I graduated with a BSE in 1973 and later received an MBA. In my wide experience an engineer has about 15 good years before the $ increases cease and the juicy assignments start flowing to new grads. The terminal phase of an engineer is management and he will never equal his law and medicine alumni in wages earned. There is no respect for engineering in America, you will never see a 'Marcus Welby, PE" show on TV. Until one actually has to have a PE license to practice engineering this will not change. Corporate America has always controlled the engineering salaries by manipulating supply and demand. Now there is unlimited supply from India, China, and the like. So the "smarter" Americans go into Law and Medicine so they can make money from those newly minted foreign born engineers. As an aside I would recommend that the new grads go into international finance and move to London.
Note that micro-flourescents contain mercury that if not re-cycled ends up in landfills. Any legislating that mandates the use of mercury devices shall also mandate a recycling by manufacturers and consumers. In this instance (though I also have reservations about GE "timing) I say GO FOR IT GE. If incandescents can match or come close to mercury devices we should have it.
Plasma is BRIGHT even in sunlight (tho obviously not as you would wish). The colors contrast nicely. LCDs do not have the contrast. If you live in an area where your home air conditioning consists mostly of heating the plasma adds a nice set of BTUs to the room. If you need mostly cooling go for the LCD.
Need statistical evaluation to see the relation between IT and divorce. There are always multiple factors and cause and effect are not what they seem. You may want to look at your commmunity situation. Some areas of the country have very high divorce rates and you will find concentrations of some type of work or profession there that may provide a casual link. For example, here in Huntsville, AL we are chock full of engineers and scientists, mostly male. The ratio of men to women is high. The women have their pick and they don't mind the divorce to move up that ladder. American women in general are spoiled; so many Americn men are going overseas to find brides. Look for that phenomena to continue.
Just use the C stuff within C++. Spawning stuff in run time (with hope it actually gets killed when you destruct) is dangerous to stability. Don't use virtual file systems (operating system). Go back to good old days of static coding. Load once and everything you need is in memory, data is initialized at load time as well as at first useage. Kepp it simple and it should be predictable, (stable).
The only thing "better" about contracting is dropping the facade of job security. The golden handcuffs are gone and both sides know that it only takes a minute to close up your laptop and fill your carry out box. Two weeks notice not required, though with a good rlationship a contractor wil have more notice than that. One talks to the customer about contract money frequently. You will know where you stand.
The downside is all the self employment paperwork hassle from the government who is "here to help you." Between Fed/State/Unemployment/licenses you will be driven to distracion.
As to working hours there is the odd job where you can be free. But it is a working day world and the customer expects you to be there when he is there. No, you don't have to live with the employee manual but if you are not there when the customer needs you, you may not be there very long. Very few projects are "team of one."
I've had two nice gigs. One was telework with a customer in another state. The other was pulling the graveyard shift in a lab of tech company. The military computer box being developed was too expensive to make more. For development work the prototype was put to work 24/7 and the contractor got it all to himself till the sun did rise.
Another perk is to be able to work for different companies at the same time. It gives you new views and opportunities.
Be sure to fill your retirement accounts as that is all you can count on. You ain't getting any younger.
The job of the government is NOT to protect Manhatten or any other place or people. The job of the government is to protect and defend the sacred constitution of this United States of America.
Think hard about the difference.
By denigrating our constitution we are not America anymore. The terrorists have easily won already. The US government is working to aid them in the destruction of our way of life.
This is fundamental stuff. I wonder what Patrick Henry would say to you wimps who think it is the governments' job to protect your hairy butts?
How many of you folks know that a photo image is made of the front of every piece of snail mail sent? I'm not making this up (wish I was). I can just see Poindexter grinning as he databases all your snail mail whilst you thought he was just looking at your cyber stuff.
The reason for the photo copy is to aid the automated handwriting analyzer. If it is stumped the image is projected on to the screen of a human who then enters corrections, etc. The fact that each one is imaged leads to the possibility of a huge civilian spying operation AND WE HAD NO CLUE.
Slashdot Mirror
Close air support is done with drone swarms
Pls ppl. Govt officials are lawyers. Lawyers know what a "server" is? Seriously?
That page boy/girl that you may harrass for sex and drinks is the political server.
Load Accumulator (lda)
Add an integer (add)
Store Accumulator (sta)
Most CS graduates have no idea what this is, and that's the problem with CS.
Do not EVER burn bridges. You may have decided you would rather live under a bridge than go back. But forever is a long time and all things do change in time.
It is always the management. And always about $. Their personal pocket $. If no more $ for them they move on. Always.
Simple. Do good, make people working for you feel they're doing something good for the world.
Nobody is talking about the fact that these government agencies, contractors, and individuals can easily do a silent Snowden and sell their secrets to the highest corporate bidder, giving inside access to the juicy contracts, and ways to destroy competition. The commercial aspects of the government AND CONTRACTORS seeing all eye is much worse than the governmental prosecution fears. Those on the inside have the gold and make the rules. Our President his staff, the entire useless congress and their staffs have no clue what the NSA/CIA/FBI/DHS is saying to them.... They have NO imagination and live in fear bowing to the Generals to "protect" us. Ben Franklin should have talked louder..
Why would the average person give a fuck about their privacy? Most people have nothing to hide, and unless they are a fanatic or a hobbyist, they could not care less who reads their stuff.
This security stuff is NOT about the average guy, though. It's about movers and shakers... politicians, lawyers, businessmen, members of the media... people who have power in some ways to affect change, and who communicate in ways which REQUIRE privacy.
Likewise, the NSA monitoring the average person does not matter in the least. It is about them monitoring movers and shakers. It's about people who could potentially upset the powers that be.
So cut me a break with the ruminations about whether Joe Six Pack or Susy Soccer Mom is going to encrypt their email. The real question will be, will the next candidate for high office, who aims to shake things up, and who thinks the current Republicratic overlords need to GTFO... the question is... will he us it, and will he continue to be monitored.
Joe six pack is being watched.
No I don't have anything to hide. So what! Damn snoops have no business in my business. I'm trying the new Japanese University experiment VPN. Works pretty good, so far. And anything private goes on over something NOT called YAHOO, GOOGLE, MICROSUCKS, etc.
Have you hear of management by exception? That "meta-data"? Those supercomputers work continuously building patterns for each person, each device. Then when your pattern changes, voila, the evil roving eye swings your way. The FBI is a domestic shill for the NSA so as to allow monitoring of citizens that is expressly forbidden by law (or was). And they have a file on every citizen and not in the USA and likely most of the planet. Mess with them. Move your IP to Japan, Korea, Mexico. Move lots. And post as a coward.
The smart people know that you never suggest something unless you are prepared to do the work yourself. Its called volunteering your time for free. So smart people just work around it until a new "smarter" guy comes along and suggests and gets nominated to do the work. Do not EVER volunteer.
Yes, a few weeks at Paris Island is what's needed..
It's called a pencil.
Agreed, mechanical pencil.
Agree. What's missing from this debate is science AKA the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
All things degrade over time and at differing rates.
The big decay amplifier is heat.
So focus on heat and you find the power supply #1, the actual transmitter #2.
heat X time = degradation
Things known to degrade at a high rate, capacitors, other analog devices.
Digital devices degrade but with only two states it typically takes longer for the states to become non-deterministic and the new devices with very low voltages have less room for error.
A gentleman above provided an elegant solution. Measure the output of the power supply and if lagging get a new one.
Problem fixed.
There is a huge problem in the knowledge set of slashdot being software people who have no clue of the underlying structures and perticularly reliability and safety disciplines.
Hmmm,
Not sure of the physics here but if it can store that much energy and energy always finds its way (eventually) to heat don't we have a fantastic heat engine source? Drive your heat engine car coast to coast no refueling?
Size Matters
Yes I would travel on it and in many cases I would prefer that to air travel.
To work the rail needs a mixture of Express and Roundabout. There must also be a car/train on the major routes as in the Amtrak train to Florida where you take the car with you on a flat bed.
Sorry to burst your bubble but those lawyers who deserve worse than death were paid by the hour and are laughing all the way to the bank.
So tell me again why you didn't go to law school?
I graduated with a BSE in 1973 and later received an MBA. In my wide experience an engineer has about 15 good years before the $ increases cease and the juicy assignments start flowing to new grads. The terminal phase of an engineer is management and he will never equal his law and medicine alumni in wages earned. There is no respect for engineering in America, you will never see a 'Marcus Welby, PE" show on TV. Until one actually has to have a PE license to practice engineering this will not change. Corporate America has always controlled the engineering salaries by manipulating supply and demand. Now there is unlimited supply from India, China, and the like. So the "smarter" Americans go into Law and Medicine so they can make money from those newly minted foreign born engineers. As an aside I would recommend that the new grads go into international finance and move to London.
Cheers,
Old Engineer
Tech support. I switched to LINUX and my browser won't work. Hello? Tech support??
Note that micro-flourescents contain mercury that if not re-cycled ends up in landfills. Any legislating that mandates the use of mercury devices shall also mandate a recycling by manufacturers and consumers. In this instance (though I also have reservations about GE "timing) I say GO FOR IT GE. If incandescents can match or come close to mercury devices we should have it.
Plasma is BRIGHT even in sunlight (tho obviously not as you would wish). The colors contrast nicely. LCDs do not have the contrast. If you live in an area where your home air conditioning consists mostly of heating the plasma adds a nice set of BTUs to the room. If you need mostly cooling go for the LCD.
Need statistical evaluation to see the relation between IT and divorce. There are always multiple factors and cause and effect are not what they seem. You may want to look at your commmunity situation. Some areas of the country have very high divorce rates and you will find concentrations of some type of work or profession there that may provide a casual link. For example, here in Huntsville, AL we are chock full of engineers and scientists, mostly male. The ratio of men to women is high. The women have their pick and they don't mind the divorce to move up that ladder. American women in general are spoiled; so many Americn men are going overseas to find brides. Look for that phenomena to continue.
Just use the C stuff within C++. Spawning stuff in run time (with hope it actually gets killed when you destruct) is dangerous to stability. Don't use virtual file systems (operating system). Go back to good old days of static coding. Load once and everything you need is in memory, data is initialized at load time as well as at first useage. Kepp it simple and it should be predictable, (stable).
The only thing "better" about contracting is dropping the facade
of job security. The golden handcuffs are gone and both sides
know that it only takes a minute to close up your laptop and
fill your carry out box. Two weeks notice not required, though
with a good rlationship a contractor wil have more notice than that.
One talks to the customer about contract money frequently. You will
know where you stand.
The downside is all the self employment paperwork hassle from the
government who is "here to help you." Between Fed/State/Unemployment/licenses
you will be driven to distracion.
As to working hours there is the odd job where you can be free. But
it is a working day world and the customer expects you to be there
when he is there. No, you don't have to live with the employee manual
but if you are not there when the customer needs you, you may not
be there very long. Very few projects are "team of one."
I've had two nice gigs. One was telework with a customer in another state.
The other was pulling the graveyard shift in a lab of tech company.
The military computer box being developed was too expensive to make
more. For development work the prototype was put to work 24/7 and
the contractor got it all to himself till the sun did rise.
Another perk is to be able to work for different companies
at the same time. It gives you new views and opportunities.
Be sure to fill your retirement accounts as that is all you can count on.
You ain't getting any younger.
OldEngineer
The job of the government is NOT to protect
Manhatten or any other place or people.
The job of the government is to protect
and defend the sacred constitution of this
United States of America.
Think hard about the difference.
By denigrating our constitution we are not
America anymore. The terrorists have easily
won already. The US government is working
to aid them in the destruction of our way of life.
This is fundamental stuff. I wonder what Patrick
Henry would say to you wimps who think it
is the governments' job to protect your hairy butts?
How many of you folks know that a photo image is
made of the front of every piece of snail mail sent? I'm not making this up (wish I was).
I can just see Poindexter grinning as he databases
all your snail mail whilst you thought he was
just looking at your cyber stuff.
The reason for the photo copy is to aid the
automated handwriting analyzer. If it is
stumped the image is projected on to the screen
of a human who then enters corrections, etc.
The fact that each one is imaged leads to
the possibility of a huge civilian spying
operation AND WE HAD NO CLUE.
Big Brother was never as nice.