Fox IT Has close ties with various governments that are known to run cyber spying operations and/or have questionable human rights records. I wouldn't trust those guys anywhere near my systems. Also one of the founders, Prins, is politically well connected and lobbies for far-ranging police powers, like letting the police break into private citizens' computers. These guys are Part Of The Problem.
Nothing in that plan seems all that implausible, given other extraordinary measures that have actually been effected (the detention of Japanese-Americans in WW2, the McCarthy commission, etc). And it's highly likely that various governmental organizations had plans on how to deal with imminent nuclear attacks.
I might actually walk up to the guard if I had put a sticker with my name and address on that thing. Running off and hiding behind the sofa when the security guys come calling isn't going to cut it, and might lead to all manner of unpleasantness. Although I can imagine asking the guard "Can I have that back please?" is going to end poorly as well.
Perhaps a curious professional decided to sound out the White House defense perimeter, and ran afoul of the top secret drone death ray. If you're planning to fly a drone near or into a site as well guarded as the White House for some specific purpose, this is exactly what you'd do: try with an inexpensive and harmless drone first, masquerading as a hobbyist.
But as soon as Google offered a good search with minimal advertising the market spoke very loudly about that kind of thing.
Google wasn't the first search engine with a minimalist site design; Altavista started that, and I think you're right about it being an important driver for their success. This was in the days of dial-up, and the difference between loading the Yahoo page and the Altavista one was quite a few seconds.
The model for today's social networks appear to be to deliberately start with low-friction, low-bullshit, come-in-we're-open policies (sometimes after a beta-for-the-leet-only period), become popular, then cash in and pile on the restrictions, rules, ads and dataraping. Not that I begrudge the founders of a good startup their fortunes, and I'm not a big fan of the word "sell-out" and the sentiment that it carries, but in some of these cases that word does apply. When you sell your initial users on being all open and huggy, with the intent of adding massive monetization schemes later (or selling your business to someone who will), then you ought to feel a little bit sleazy about it.
Why do you think they have no money? Or no need for financial services like bank transfers or loans? I'm surprised that the image of the average African as a fly ridden naked tribesman grubbing in the mud for meager sustenance, persists to this day. The same idea that prompts the question: "Why would these people need cellphones (or smartphones)?", when there have been so many stories about cellphones having brought about a revolution in local commerce and finance.
Home automation enthusiasts quickly discover that it's wise to always pick equipment that has a manual override, and does not depend on the master controller or even its own electronics. Light switches that function independently of the controller, locks that can still be opened with a key if necessary, etc. And even when no device is broken, the software still craps out or does something unexpected, or needs changes. Some people add an "I am dead" switch to set their HA setup to full manual mode, so that other members of the household can still turn on the lights or the coffee maker in case the system craps out and the expert happens to be away.
It sounds like Clippy from Hell: "It looks like you did not pay close attention to the privacy policy. Your computer will be locked until you re-read it and take the subsequent test to confirm your understanding of this policy".
It's a start. While you learn how to code you can actually start doing it as a hobby, which (as others have pointed out) is more or less required practice to reach a decent level of proficiency which no course will ever give you.
We don't expect an architect fresh out of college to design a skyscraper, nor a guy with a new medical degree to perform complex procedures on his own, nor a newly graduated MBA to run a division. (Sometimes it does happen, with crap results as a rule). By the same token, someone starting out in coding shouldn't be made responsible for critical parts of the software, design work, etc. They need coaching and training, same as in any other highly skilled profession. The problem is that, unlike other professions, there seems to be a lack of time, budget, or even perceived need to provide such coaching to new coders.
By the way, I think coding should be taught to (more or less) everyone in high school. Not with the goal of teaching them to code, but because coding teaches and trains other skills that are valuable in many other professions: problem analysis, troubleshooting, logic, etc.
Looks like expensive overkill, and not all that suitable for vehicle mounting. But a similar weapon using short range radar and a gun firing buckshot could be made a lot smaller, lighter and cheaper. Sounds like an interesting hobby project actually, though I'm not to keen on homebrew projects involving computer controlled firearms.
Exactly. There's a big difference between telling it like it is, and being an asshole. I've worked for a boss who would never fail to point out mistakes and shortcomings. Some people had a problem working with him, calling him "not nice", even though he would never chew someone out in public, and never got abusive. That I can respect. I have also worked for people taking the Torvalds approach to criticism, and I've since promised myself never to work for assholes again (it's one of my reasons to go freelance). I'm not suggesting that Linus should become PC, and he should manage his project as he sees fit, but I wouldn't work for him nor employ him.
I'm a little sad that Free Range parenting is a "thing" now. When I grew up (in the 70s), almost every kid was raised free range. From a very young age we walked or cycled to school. If we wanted to go swim, play soccer or see a movie, our parents wouldn't take us; we'd cycle there instead. The notion of "play dates" didn't exist except perhaps for toddlers; most of our after school time was unstructured and if you wanted to play with friends, you just went. Our parents taught us early on how to take the train to see our grandparents. The one rule our parents imposed was "home before dark". And all of this was the norm; parents didn't drive their kids anywhere unless the route was very long or dangerous.
I blame the always-online data raping society we live in. I always envisioned this device to work offline with a local database that I'd fill myself as I went along. In other words: with no information other than what I gathered myself. But one can hardly blame people to be wary of these devices when companies like Google and Facebook get into the game.
I've seen few applications that wouldn't be better or more conveniently served with either a GoPro or a Smart Watch. The one application that I would have jumped on was banned by Google: facial recognition. I'm seriously bad at remembering names and faces, and having a HUD showing people's names would be some help in overcoming this social handicap.
I'm not talking about reckless experiments on patients, but about looking outside one's own comfort zone. Instead of referring a patient with odd, conflicting symptoms to the next specialist, and the next, and the next who will fob it off with an "it's psychological", maybe confer with that next specialist instead, and discuss what could be ailing the patient. It also means looking to other industries and asking yourself: "what can we learn from airline pilots to make our own jobs safer?", or "would a 3d printed model of a brain help us plan this surgery better and perform it more accurately?".
No surprise here. I've recently had to deal with doctors of various kinds, and found many (though not all) to be myopic, stubborn and deeply conservative, reluctant to consult outside their own area of expertise, prone to seek the cause of unknowns outside their own area of expertise ("It's not X, go see a specialist for Y"), and having a disturbing lack of curiosity. Maybe I expect too much of them, but doctors act a lot more like technicians than scientists or researchers. There was an article (in the Economist I believe) about health care being one of the least innovative disciplines. The science of medicine has progressed, but there's been relatively little progress in the way we diagnose and treat patients. Some doctor proudly spoke about how they now employ checklists similar to those being used by pilots, to reduce errors in surgery. A great innovation... which they could have known about and implemented about 50 years ago.
There are plenty of examples of desperate patients nudging their doctors in the right direction after doing some self-diagnosis and research online. There are also some examples of extraordinary breakthroughs in medical science made by engineers with no medical background.
Why, those teachers may still think email is relevant. To a 15 year old, email might as well be the telegraph
The teacher would be right in that case, and the student will be in for a rude awakening when they enter the work force in any sort of knowledge worker role. In business, email is still the medium of choice for written communication. And that's not likely to change in the near future.
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Fox IT Has close ties with various governments that are known to run cyber spying operations and/or have questionable human rights records. I wouldn't trust those guys anywhere near my systems. Also one of the founders, Prins, is politically well connected and lobbies for far-ranging police powers, like letting the police break into private citizens' computers. These guys are Part Of The Problem.
Nothing in that plan seems all that implausible, given other extraordinary measures that have actually been effected (the detention of Japanese-Americans in WW2, the McCarthy commission, etc). And it's highly likely that various governmental organizations had plans on how to deal with imminent nuclear attacks.
I might actually walk up to the guard if I had put a sticker with my name and address on that thing. Running off and hiding behind the sofa when the security guys come calling isn't going to cut it, and might lead to all manner of unpleasantness. Although I can imagine asking the guard "Can I have that back please?" is going to end poorly as well.
Perhaps a curious professional decided to sound out the White House defense perimeter, and ran afoul of the top secret drone death ray. If you're planning to fly a drone near or into a site as well guarded as the White House for some specific purpose, this is exactly what you'd do: try with an inexpensive and harmless drone first, masquerading as a hobbyist.
But as soon as Google offered a good search with minimal advertising the market spoke very loudly about that kind of thing.
Google wasn't the first search engine with a minimalist site design; Altavista started that, and I think you're right about it being an important driver for their success. This was in the days of dial-up, and the difference between loading the Yahoo page and the Altavista one was quite a few seconds.
The model for today's social networks appear to be to deliberately start with low-friction, low-bullshit, come-in-we're-open policies (sometimes after a beta-for-the-leet-only period), become popular, then cash in and pile on the restrictions, rules, ads and dataraping. Not that I begrudge the founders of a good startup their fortunes, and I'm not a big fan of the word "sell-out" and the sentiment that it carries, but in some of these cases that word does apply. When you sell your initial users on being all open and huggy, with the intent of adding massive monetization schemes later (or selling your business to someone who will), then you ought to feel a little bit sleazy about it.
Why do you think they have no money? Or no need for financial services like bank transfers or loans? I'm surprised that the image of the average African as a fly ridden naked tribesman grubbing in the mud for meager sustenance, persists to this day. The same idea that prompts the question: "Why would these people need cellphones (or smartphones)?", when there have been so many stories about cellphones having brought about a revolution in local commerce and finance.
Home automation enthusiasts quickly discover that it's wise to always pick equipment that has a manual override, and does not depend on the master controller or even its own electronics. Light switches that function independently of the controller, locks that can still be opened with a key if necessary, etc. And even when no device is broken, the software still craps out or does something unexpected, or needs changes. Some people add an "I am dead" switch to set their HA setup to full manual mode, so that other members of the household can still turn on the lights or the coffee maker in case the system craps out and the expert happens to be away.
Whatever fines are collected should be distributed to the lawyers representing the people that they violated - and I'm not one of them.
FTFY
It sounds like Clippy from Hell: "It looks like you did not pay close attention to the privacy policy. Your computer will be locked until you re-read it and take the subsequent test to confirm your understanding of this policy".
A proper V8 is quiet and smooth. The one in my old Jaguar XJ Sovereign (2000) has its share of problems but it purrs, and is a joy to drive.
It's a start. While you learn how to code you can actually start doing it as a hobby, which (as others have pointed out) is more or less required practice to reach a decent level of proficiency which no course will ever give you.
We don't expect an architect fresh out of college to design a skyscraper, nor a guy with a new medical degree to perform complex procedures on his own, nor a newly graduated MBA to run a division. (Sometimes it does happen, with crap results as a rule). By the same token, someone starting out in coding shouldn't be made responsible for critical parts of the software, design work, etc. They need coaching and training, same as in any other highly skilled profession. The problem is that, unlike other professions, there seems to be a lack of time, budget, or even perceived need to provide such coaching to new coders.
By the way, I think coding should be taught to (more or less) everyone in high school. Not with the goal of teaching them to code, but because coding teaches and trains other skills that are valuable in many other professions: problem analysis, troubleshooting, logic, etc.
Looks like expensive overkill, and not all that suitable for vehicle mounting. But a similar weapon using short range radar and a gun firing buckshot could be made a lot smaller, lighter and cheaper. Sounds like an interesting hobby project actually, though I'm not to keen on homebrew projects involving computer controlled firearms.
Maybe these guys are on to something...
Exactly. There's a big difference between telling it like it is, and being an asshole. I've worked for a boss who would never fail to point out mistakes and shortcomings. Some people had a problem working with him, calling him "not nice", even though he would never chew someone out in public, and never got abusive. That I can respect. I have also worked for people taking the Torvalds approach to criticism, and I've since promised myself never to work for assholes again (it's one of my reasons to go freelance). I'm not suggesting that Linus should become PC, and he should manage his project as he sees fit, but I wouldn't work for him nor employ him.
I'm a little sad that Free Range parenting is a "thing" now. When I grew up (in the 70s), almost every kid was raised free range. From a very young age we walked or cycled to school. If we wanted to go swim, play soccer or see a movie, our parents wouldn't take us; we'd cycle there instead. The notion of "play dates" didn't exist except perhaps for toddlers; most of our after school time was unstructured and if you wanted to play with friends, you just went. Our parents taught us early on how to take the train to see our grandparents. The one rule our parents imposed was "home before dark". And all of this was the norm; parents didn't drive their kids anywhere unless the route was very long or dangerous.
Down to $1.72 here
Nice, we pay that per liter.
I blame the always-online data raping society we live in. I always envisioned this device to work offline with a local database that I'd fill myself as I went along. In other words: with no information other than what I gathered myself. But one can hardly blame people to be wary of these devices when companies like Google and Facebook get into the game.
I've seen few applications that wouldn't be better or more conveniently served with either a GoPro or a Smart Watch. The one application that I would have jumped on was banned by Google: facial recognition. I'm seriously bad at remembering names and faces, and having a HUD showing people's names would be some help in overcoming this social handicap.
I'm not talking about reckless experiments on patients, but about looking outside one's own comfort zone. Instead of referring a patient with odd, conflicting symptoms to the next specialist, and the next, and the next who will fob it off with an "it's psychological", maybe confer with that next specialist instead, and discuss what could be ailing the patient. It also means looking to other industries and asking yourself: "what can we learn from airline pilots to make our own jobs safer?", or "would a 3d printed model of a brain help us plan this surgery better and perform it more accurately?".
No surprise here. I've recently had to deal with doctors of various kinds, and found many (though not all) to be myopic, stubborn and deeply conservative, reluctant to consult outside their own area of expertise, prone to seek the cause of unknowns outside their own area of expertise ("It's not X, go see a specialist for Y"), and having a disturbing lack of curiosity. Maybe I expect too much of them, but doctors act a lot more like technicians than scientists or researchers. There was an article (in the Economist I believe) about health care being one of the least innovative disciplines. The science of medicine has progressed, but there's been relatively little progress in the way we diagnose and treat patients. Some doctor proudly spoke about how they now employ checklists similar to those being used by pilots, to reduce errors in surgery. A great innovation... which they could have known about and implemented about 50 years ago.
There are plenty of examples of desperate patients nudging their doctors in the right direction after doing some self-diagnosis and research online. There are also some examples of extraordinary breakthroughs in medical science made by engineers with no medical background.
Fun and tasty! There's already a company that will turn your raw CT scans into a 3d model of your brain... printed in chocolate.
Why, those teachers may still think email is relevant. To a 15 year old, email might as well be the telegraph
The teacher would be right in that case, and the student will be in for a rude awakening when they enter the work force in any sort of knowledge worker role. In business, email is still the medium of choice for written communication. And that's not likely to change in the near future.
Just save them in alphabetical order.
Mayhe his AI already killed him and is now posting here under his name.
How are the Charlie cartoons racist, or, how is islam a race?
This is not really about making 3d photos. 3D cameras have a wider application in areas like object recognition or augmented reality.