Alphabet/Google/whatever they are called is a for-profit business. This endeavor has to (roughly) do one ore more of the following:
Generate a profit,
Enable other activities to generate profit (e.g. data collection on you), or
Be booked as an advertising expense.
Anything else would violate their fiduciary responsibilities.
Repeat after me: Do not plug into random USB ports or connect to random WiFi hot spots unless you are comfortable with their security practices and business model.
Unfortunately, as Firesheep demonstrated, any user authenticated (e.g. username/password) session over HTTP needs to be encrypted the entire duration. Switching between https and http is a security vulnerability.
Construction equipment is rented out all the time. For many construction firms it does not make economic sense to own a full complement of heavy construction equipment.
In the United States, your assertion that "working stiffs" are burdened with most of the taxes is not supported by the facts. If you look at total taxes paid (local, state, and Federal) as a percentage of income, the bottom 40% are taxed at about 20% and the top 20% are taxed at about 30% (Washington Post). So the rich are paying taxes at a higher rate then the "working stiffs."
If you look at it from the "income to the Federal government" perspective, as of tax year 2011, the top 5% paid 57% of the collected income tax and the bottom 50% paid 12% of the collected income tax.
Based on those two facts, I assert that the "working stiffs" are not taxed at a higher rate then the rich. Also, at the Federal level, the rich pay far more in taxes. Where the "working stiffs" lose out (and the Washington Post article shows this) is at the local and state level.
I hate, hate, hate, hate web pages that have hot-linked words with popups. It is even worse when it is an advertisement. And those "recommended articles" at the end are just as bad. Click-bait links to content that is of no value.
I think you have misinterpreted the rules a bit. Campaigning and party activity are prohibited with government resources.
The President and Cabinet sending emails on implementing political goals are permitted activities. Sending emails about ?NC platform discussions are not permitted.
When I went through ethics training with the GC, it was very clear what was and was not permissible. From the GC point of view, the default was use goverment email and save every email.
I can see the desire, particularly at the executive level, not to leave a record because policy formulation can be a messy activity. However, I'm not sure that is the motivation in this case. First, there is no control over the retention of the other end and, second, a lot discussion happens on the classified side.
I tried doing the smarthome bit about 15 years ago and it was flaky. While the technology has improved, the cost/benefit just is not there. Also, the concept never had a high WAF.
How long does it take the energy savings from a nest (or similar) thermometer to recoup the investment? Will the technology/service last that long? I don't have a smart thermometer, so I'm curious.
I was curious about point #1, so I looked up what the FDA has to say about regulating supplements:
Manufacturers and distributors of dietary supplements and dietary ingredients are prohibited from marketing products that are adulterated or misbranded. That means that these firms are responsible for evaluating the safety and labeling of their products before marketing to ensure that they meet all the requirements of DSHEA and FDA regulations.
FDA is responsible for taking action against any adulterated or misbranded dietary supplement product after it reaches the market.
It really is sad that the complexity of the tax code has gotten to the point that a computer program is the only practical way to file an error-free return for many people. The expenditure in time required to learn the tax code is not an effective use of time.
The really unfortunate part is that I don't see the tax code getting simpler even if companies like Intuit stop lobbying against it. The tax code is used to redistribute wealth (e.g. the Earned Income Tax Credit costs ~$56B) and encourage certain types of behavior (homeownership, subsidies to energy companies). Congress likes to use the IRS as a de facto welfare agency.
And that is why you don't use their router on your network.
From what I understand (I'm not a Comcast customer), Comcast is opening up the router they provide to offer wifi access to other Comcast customers. If you have your own router, this does not happen.
I do not understand why anyone would pay to rent a cable modem/router from the cable company--it makes no financial sense (ok if you are only at that location for ~10 months or less the rental is cheaper). The only reason you have to have their cable modem/router is if you get phone service from them, though getting phone service from the cable company is just crazy (in my humble opinion).
If you have to use a cable company provided modem/router, buy your own router and put your network behind your router.
Not a panopticon. The workers have private offices (with actual doors) and the boss is in a open area. A panopticon is designed such that a central point can monitor without the individuals knowing if they are being monitored at any given moment.
I toured the Eastern State Penitentiary and found the panopticon concept interesting from an efficiency point of view but creepy and dehumanizing.
Having worked in both an "open" environment and a "closed" work environment, I would have have to say that I prefer the closed environment. However, most of the work that I do involves focusing on a "task." In my case I define "task" as doing research, writing, analyzing, formulating options. When I need to interact, I go to the person I want to talk to our grab a group to discuss in an open area.
I can see the value of an "open" environment in a watch center environment or where the quick dissemination of shared information is important. When I need to focus, the open environment was horrible because there was not barrier to interruption. I think most open environments are setup backwards: The boss has a private area and the workers have privacy. I think a better model has the boss in an open area with the workers in private areas. That allows for a smooth flow information to the boss and the workers can concentrate on the assigned task.
You probably are thinking of their post ~2000 stuff. It definitely got more windows and web focused (and thinner). Around 2005, I found it to be pretty unreadable.
The pre-2000 issues were much better.
This is probably the best advice that I have ever seen on Slashdot. The last thing you want to do is keep a tally and try to keep a 50/50 balance. You should always want to do something helpful or caring for your parent. Mod parent up.
Beta must die a horrible death. Delete it from the hard drives, degauss the drives, run the drives through a shredder, throw the scrap into a smelting furnace, cast into ingots, and then store the ingots with the waste from Fukushima.
I remember the Zenith Z-100 had dual processors, but I don't recall if you could get them going simultaneously. There were ISA cards for PCs (one of them was the Baby Blue card) that allowed CP/M to run on a PC.
Of course, the IBM mainframes running VM ran multiple OSes. Definitely not a new idea.
The book is a promising reference concept, but the execution is somewhat sloppy. Whatever generator they used was not fully tested. The bulk of each page seems random enough. However at the lower left and lower right of alternate pages, the number is found to increment directly.
What is your rebuild time like on the 10x2TB? I have a 4x1TB RAID5 array and the rebuild time is getting a bit long. With current drive capacities, my original motivation for going to RAID5 is no longer valid, so I'm thinking about splitting the data onto two 2x2TB RAID1 arrays instead.
There are so many trusted certificate signing authorities that I believe the trust system is untrustworthy. I counted over 40 certificate authorities in Mozilla and I did not make it past the letter "I' in the list of trusted CA's. Throw in the intermediate CA's and the problem gets worse. Lets assume that all CA's are trustworthy. Furthermore, assume that there is a 1 in a million chance for any individual CA in any given year to make a mistake. A system of 100 CA's would have a 1 in 10,000 chance of making a mistake. Many of the CA are regionally focused and it makes no sense why a user should trust all CA's equally.
The following changes could be useful:
selectively prune the trust hierarchy
flag certificates that change (there are addons)
specify the maximum path length you are willing to trust
However, if you are putting together a forensic program you need to be able to assess bombs made with Pu or U or both. Even if you could identify the reactor or mine that the fissile material came from, that does not tell you who built the weapon. There are many factors that a forensic capability has to account for.
Nuclear Weapons Incident Response
The Nuclear Weapons Incident Response (NWIR) Program serves as the United States’ primary capability for responding to and mitigating nuclear and radiological incidents worldwide. The FY 2009 Request for these activities is $221.9 million, of which $31.7 million is dedicated to the continued implementation of two national security initiatives that will strengthen the Nation’s emergency response capabilities—the National Technical Nuclear Forensics (NTNF) and the Stabilization Implementation programs.
In FY2009 alone there was a sizable chunk of money spent. You should implement you concept and sell it to the USG. Otherwise, please do not insult the people who are working on this program.
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Alphabet/Google/whatever they are called is a for-profit business. This endeavor has to (roughly) do one ore more of the following:
Anything else would violate their fiduciary responsibilities.
Repeat after me: Do not plug into random USB ports or connect to random WiFi hot spots unless you are comfortable with their security practices and business model.
Unfortunately, as Firesheep demonstrated, any user authenticated (e.g. username/password) session over HTTP needs to be encrypted the entire duration. Switching between https and http is a security vulnerability.
...and I'm not just worried about the data security aspect. Can you trust the electrical specs?
Maybe I'm paranoid, but that just doesn't seem like a good idea.
In the United States, your assertion that "working stiffs" are burdened with most of the taxes is not supported by the facts. If you look at total taxes paid (local, state, and Federal) as a percentage of income, the bottom 40% are taxed at about 20% and the top 20% are taxed at about 30% (Washington Post). So the rich are paying taxes at a higher rate then the "working stiffs."
If you look at it from the "income to the Federal government" perspective, as of tax year 2011, the top 5% paid 57% of the collected income tax and the bottom 50% paid 12% of the collected income tax.
Based on those two facts, I assert that the "working stiffs" are not taxed at a higher rate then the rich. Also, at the Federal level, the rich pay far more in taxes. Where the "working stiffs" lose out (and the Washington Post article shows this) is at the local and state level.
I hate, hate, hate, hate web pages that have hot-linked words with popups. It is even worse when it is an advertisement. And those "recommended articles" at the end are just as bad. Click-bait links to content that is of no value.
I think you have misinterpreted the rules a bit. Campaigning and party activity are prohibited with government resources.
The President and Cabinet sending emails on implementing political goals are permitted activities. Sending emails about ?NC platform discussions are not permitted.
When I went through ethics training with the GC, it was very clear what was and was not permissible. From the GC point of view, the default was use goverment email and save every email.
I can see the desire, particularly at the executive level, not to leave a record because policy formulation can be a messy activity. However, I'm not sure that is the motivation in this case. First, there is no control over the retention of the other end and, second, a lot discussion happens on the classified side.
I tried doing the smarthome bit about 15 years ago and it was flaky. While the technology has improved, the cost/benefit just is not there. Also, the concept never had a high WAF. How long does it take the energy savings from a nest (or similar) thermometer to recoup the investment? Will the technology/service last that long? I don't have a smart thermometer, so I'm curious.
I remember pushing Tech Pan and using gas baths for astro photography.
I was curious about point #1, so I looked up what the FDA has to say about regulating supplements:
Manufacturers and distributors of dietary supplements and dietary ingredients are prohibited from marketing products that are adulterated or misbranded. That means that these firms are responsible for evaluating the safety and labeling of their products before marketing to ensure that they meet all the requirements of DSHEA and FDA regulations. FDA is responsible for taking action against any adulterated or misbranded dietary supplement product after it reaches the market.
Source: http://www.fda.gov/Food/DietarySupplements/.
It would appear to me that this is not just a New York State Law issue, but also a violation of Federal laws.
It really is sad that the complexity of the tax code has gotten to the point that a computer program is the only practical way to file an error-free return for many people. The expenditure in time required to learn the tax code is not an effective use of time.
The really unfortunate part is that I don't see the tax code getting simpler even if companies like Intuit stop lobbying against it. The tax code is used to redistribute wealth (e.g. the Earned Income Tax Credit costs ~$56B) and encourage certain types of behavior (homeownership, subsidies to energy companies). Congress likes to use the IRS as a de facto welfare agency.
And that is why you don't use their router on your network.
From what I understand (I'm not a Comcast customer), Comcast is opening up the router they provide to offer wifi access to other Comcast customers. If you have your own router, this does not happen.
I do not understand why anyone would pay to rent a cable modem/router from the cable company--it makes no financial sense (ok if you are only at that location for ~10 months or less the rental is cheaper). The only reason you have to have their cable modem/router is if you get phone service from them, though getting phone service from the cable company is just crazy (in my humble opinion).
If you have to use a cable company provided modem/router, buy your own router and put your network behind your router.
Not a panopticon. The workers have private offices (with actual doors) and the boss is in a open area. A panopticon is designed such that a central point can monitor without the individuals knowing if they are being monitored at any given moment.
I toured the Eastern State Penitentiary and found the panopticon concept interesting from an efficiency point of view but creepy and dehumanizing.
Having worked in both an "open" environment and a "closed" work environment, I would have have to say that I prefer the closed environment. However, most of the work that I do involves focusing on a "task." In my case I define "task" as doing research, writing, analyzing, formulating options. When I need to interact, I go to the person I want to talk to our grab a group to discuss in an open area. I can see the value of an "open" environment in a watch center environment or where the quick dissemination of shared information is important. When I need to focus, the open environment was horrible because there was not barrier to interruption. I think most open environments are setup backwards: The boss has a private area and the workers have privacy. I think a better model has the boss in an open area with the workers in private areas. That allows for a smooth flow information to the boss and the workers can concentrate on the assigned task.
You probably are thinking of their post ~2000 stuff. It definitely got more windows and web focused (and thinner). Around 2005, I found it to be pretty unreadable. The pre-2000 issues were much better.
This is probably the best advice that I have ever seen on Slashdot. The last thing you want to do is keep a tally and try to keep a 50/50 balance. You should always want to do something helpful or caring for your parent. Mod parent up.
Same here. I'm on FIOS and I'm getting about 70 MBPS to AWS East.
Beta must die a horrible death. Delete it from the hard drives, degauss the drives, run the drives through a shredder, throw the scrap into a smelting furnace, cast into ingots, and then store the ingots with the waste from Fukushima.
Of course, the IBM mainframes running VM ran multiple OSes. Definitely not a new idea.
What is your rebuild time like on the 10x2TB? I have a 4x1TB RAID5 array and the rebuild time is getting a bit long. With current drive capacities, my original motivation for going to RAID5 is no longer valid, so I'm thinking about splitting the data onto two 2x2TB RAID1 arrays instead.
The following changes could be useful:
In FY2009 alone there was a sizable chunk of money spent. You should implement you concept and sell it to the USG. Otherwise, please do not insult the people who are working on this program.