This is absolutely not true. The vast majority of industry trade shows look quite professional. A small minority of industries that attract people with developmental problems (automobiles, guns, and games) don't.
Can add to your list advertising, radiology, and the oil and gas industries. Last time I was at a gun show there weren't any booth babes in evidence, actually.
Might as well get down off the high horse. Booth babes aren't a matter of "developmental problems". They're a matter of attractive women attracting attention. Mostly from men, but women's magazines are full of ads featuring attractive women as well. That there's a group of prudes who attempt to prey on geek insecurity where women are concerned to go against this is a reflection only on them, not on the geeks.
The last time CO2 levels were at 400ppm was a very long time ago, way before neanderthals, at the time of homo erectus. Maybe it's not unreasonable to worry.
Fortunately coffee is a C3 plant, and should respond well to a CO2-enriched atmosphere.
Its purpose is to approve warrants and provide oversight.
Yes, indeed, its purpose is to approve warrants. Not to decide whether they should be approved, just to put the "genuine judicial branch seal of approval" on them. It has the form of a court, but none of the substance.
Can you give an example of a civilization that collapsed for these reasons, rather than some combination of ecological catastrophe, foreign invasion and/or plague? Because I can't think of any.
Rome. The western empire didn't collapse because it was invaded; it was invaded because it had already rotted out from the inside.
It's called PRISM because that's what you use to split optical fibres.
No, you don't. It's probably called PRISM because of that image, but you actually tap optical fibers by bending them until a little light leaks out. Unless you're the NSA, in which case the backbone providers happily install splitters (also not prisms) for you.
Prisms separate light by frequency, which isn't what you're trying to do. Although the code name could refer to separating the information from the data stream (breaking the while light into colors) rather than being a reference to the collection method.
You not giving instructions on how to access the contents of the hard drive can be argued as contempt since you are preventing investigators from executing their court sanctioned search for evidence.
They can access the contents through the standard drive interface. Figuring out what the contents MEAN is up to them. For instance, Al Capone's ledgers were in code. It would have made a mockery of the Fifth Amendment if they could demand Capone decrypt them to be used in his prosecution. (so instead they tortured the decryption out of one of his underlings, but that's another story)
I think the commenter who suggested this was an NSA internal April Fools joke is probably right. And it's probably now being released so when that revelation is made public, it casts doubt on the very real surveillance of all telco call record data the Guardian uncovered.
Why is nobody outraged about the fact that Verizon is collecting this data? The NSA isn't spying on you, Verizon is!
Two answers, somewhat complementary 1) Many of these records are needed for the operation of Verizon's business. 2) The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act ("CALEA")
It sounds like the problem in Austria is that it's version of 'Part 16' is broken if they're threatening fines over a defective beer fridge. Here in the United States, as long as it's been certified by the FCC, as long as the owner uses it as intended and has not modified it, there is no legal liability that I'm aware of.
Not so. In the US, if a Part 15 device is causing interference on licensed bands, the owner of said device is required to correct the interference or stop using the device. Seems like it's the same in Australia (except the regulation number is likely different).
It may be that even the prosecutors have stopped believing the cops.
Of course the prosecutors know the cops are full of shit. The judges (mostly ex-prosecutors) know too. Everyone in the system knows what's going on, they just don't give a shit. The purpose of the system is to keep people subservient to it, not to dispense justice, and everyone pretending to believe the testilying helps to support that.
Thank you, where do I find the groups that understand global warming exists but are pushing actual technical solutions rather than moronic and unsustainable cut back and use less messages? Until this grassroots movement starts I'll have to advocate for the deniers.
Come to the dark side. You could probably get some small funding for your technical solutions from our leaders in the oil industry who occasionally need to pretend to be "green". Not enough to implement, but enough to explore (and emit press releases). If it turns our the AGW crowd is right and the industry baron's estates are threatened, the money to implement will show up in no time.
It's interesting how many posts here assume that this well written and thoughtful article was written by a man.
This is slashdot. Most of us didn't read the article. A good number didn't read the summary. The English language makes it fairly difficult to write naturally without an assumption of gender, and the default assumption for an unknown is "he". You're reading too much into it.
It's also interesting how a lot of posts seem to say "well yeah, everyone just wants to make money!" I actually read the article, and you might notice she specifically says that lots of people are LEAVING Wall Street (and I'd assume their high paying jobs) to go be entrepreneurs. The problem is that they're focusing on the Wrong Areas.
Working a regular job on Wall Street probably means you're making high 6-figures; if you're leaving to become an entrepreneur you probably want to make millions. Or, you want to do what YOU want to do, not what Wall Street bosses want you to do. Neither motive fits with entrepreneurs doing what Ms. Nnaemeka wants them to do. If you want entrepreneurs to focus on the "right" areas, you have to make those areas interesting to entrepreneurs, potentially lucrative, or ideally, both.
I'd expect nothing less from a 1st world culture in general that says "do what YOU want to do," "find YOUR dream," "YOU're the most important to YOU." Reading the comments on this thread so far, it is evident that we'd rather remain blissfully ignorant and shift the burden elsewhere.
Yeah, these first world cultures are so bad; let's replace them with Third World cultures which are morally superior, and I'm sure the problems of the poor will be solved. Oh, wait, "Third World" is more or less a synonym for "poverty-stricken hellhole"?
Thing is, privileged netizen, YOUR problems ARE being solved.
Indeed. Largely by me and by people like me. Now you want me to solve everyone else's problems instead, to my own detriment?
We've riled as the 99% against the 1% and the sheer injustice of it all, but we forget that we're still part of the upper 20% that are still quite plumply sitting on another lowly 80%. We are the 20%, and we are unashamed.
We're not sitting on them at all. The only reason I see injustice in the 1% is a lot of them earn their money the old fashioned way: they steal it. Fraud, market manipulation, political rent-seeking, or out-and-out embezzlement; that's how many of us see the 1% getting their position. It's a little hard for me to get upset at people writing smartphone apps or facebook games or whatever; such activity may not be the pinnacle of social utility, but it's not at all crooked.
Unashamed? Sure, I've got nothing to be ashamed of.
Google's standards are too hard to be realistic for the rest of the industry, but the standards for Google itself are 0 security defects ever. How does that work again?
(disclosure: I work for Google. I don't speak for them.)
This question comes up all the time. The answer is the same every time. Not because the math is useful in itself (though it often is), but because if you can't do math you can't do computer science. You may think you're good at programming, but you're just pushing code around without really understanding it. Linear algebra, statistics, number theory, calculus and differential equations; you don't have to learn them all, but if you can't seem to learn any of them, computer science probably isn't for you.
(as for "advanced", mathematics is such a deep subject that for any field I could name, there'd be some mathematician who would claim it was elementary and real advanced math started somewhere else)
Pretty much everybody who has driven one says that this time the Model S is different.
The enthusiasts ALWAYS say "this time is different", even when they used to launch into impassioned defenses of "last time". Unless I know they were a curmudgeonly skeptic before, someone saying "this time is different" is meaningless.
Despair.org has the poster for this one. None of us is as dumb as all of us. This is one of those dumbass articles intended to make programmers feel bad because we're not schmoozers and claim our code suffers as a result. It doesn't. The code suffers because bosses assume you can simply harness programmers together, probably under some MBA, assign them bits of the job ad-hoc, and you'll get miracles.
Yeah, it seems nearly all Americans think of themselves merely as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. Which leads to stupidity like people voting for politicians that promise to cut the taxes of the rich and end the programs that the voter needs to eat.
The problem is I get the choice between Candidate A, who says he's going to raise the taxes for the rich (greater than half what I make) to fund programs for the poor (less than one tenth of what I make), and Candidate B, who says he's going to lower the taxes on the rich (greater than twice what I make) and make those deadbeats work (with enough wiggle room that he can say he's not against veterans, women and children, the handicapped, the elderly, etc). Neither one seems all that appealing.
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Can add to your list advertising, radiology, and the oil and gas industries. Last time I was at a gun show there weren't any booth babes in evidence, actually.
Might as well get down off the high horse. Booth babes aren't a matter of "developmental problems". They're a matter of attractive women attracting attention. Mostly from men, but women's magazines are full of ads featuring attractive women as well. That there's a group of prudes who attempt to prey on geek insecurity where women are concerned to go against this is a reflection only on them, not on the geeks.
If you hack back, just remember to follow the 11th Commandment:
THOU SHALL NOT GET CAUGHT.
Fortunately coffee is a C3 plant, and should respond well to a CO2-enriched atmosphere.
Yes, indeed, its purpose is to approve warrants. Not to decide whether they should be approved, just to put the "genuine judicial branch seal of approval" on them. It has the form of a court, but none of the substance.
Coffee futures are down, supplies are up. This is just another warmist scare story.
As far as the FAA is concerned, general aviation can just dry up and blow away and save them the headaches.
A court might feature such things as having more than one party represented before it, and might more than occasionally rule against the government.
The FISA court is a court like Reality TV is reality. A warrant signed by Judge R. Stamp is as good as no warrant at all.
Payback, that is, for all the hurricanes they send us every year. Suck on it, Africa.
Rome. The western empire didn't collapse because it was invaded; it was invaded because it had already rotted out from the inside.
No, you don't. It's probably called PRISM because of that image, but you actually tap optical fibers by bending them until a little light leaks out. Unless you're the NSA, in which case the backbone providers happily install splitters (also not prisms) for you.
Prisms separate light by frequency, which isn't what you're trying to do. Although the code name could refer to separating the information from the data stream (breaking the while light into colors) rather than being a reference to the collection method.
They can access the contents through the standard drive interface. Figuring out what the contents MEAN is up to them. For instance, Al Capone's ledgers were in code. It would have made a mockery of the Fifth Amendment if they could demand Capone decrypt them to be used in his prosecution. (so instead they tortured the decryption out of one of his underlings, but that's another story)
I think the commenter who suggested this was an NSA internal April Fools joke is probably right. And it's probably now being released so when that revelation is made public, it casts doubt on the very real surveillance of all telco call record data the Guardian uncovered.
Two answers, somewhat complementary
1) Many of these records are needed for the operation of Verizon's business.
2) The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act ("CALEA")
Have you considered making a social network for cats instead? Ms. Naemeka will understand.
Not so. In the US, if a Part 15 device is causing interference on licensed bands, the owner of said device is required to correct the interference or stop using the device. Seems like it's the same in Australia (except the regulation number is likely different).
Of course the prosecutors know the cops are full of shit. The judges (mostly ex-prosecutors) know too. Everyone in the system knows what's going on, they just don't give a shit. The purpose of the system is to keep people subservient to it, not to dispense justice, and everyone pretending to believe the testilying helps to support that.
Come to the dark side. You could probably get some small funding for your technical solutions from our leaders in the oil industry who occasionally need to pretend to be "green". Not enough to implement, but enough to explore (and emit press releases). If it turns our the AGW crowd is right and the industry baron's estates are threatened, the money to implement will show up in no time.
This is slashdot. Most of us didn't read the article. A good number didn't read the summary. The English language makes it fairly difficult to write naturally without an assumption of gender, and the default assumption for an unknown is "he". You're reading too much into it.
Working a regular job on Wall Street probably means you're making high 6-figures; if you're leaving to become an entrepreneur you probably want to make millions. Or, you want to do what YOU want to do, not what Wall Street bosses want you to do. Neither motive fits with entrepreneurs doing what Ms. Nnaemeka wants them to do. If you want entrepreneurs to focus on the "right" areas, you have to make those areas interesting to entrepreneurs, potentially lucrative, or ideally, both.
Yeah, these first world cultures are so bad; let's replace them with Third World cultures which are morally superior, and I'm sure the problems of the poor will be solved. Oh, wait, "Third World" is more or less a synonym for "poverty-stricken hellhole"?
Indeed. Largely by me and by people like me. Now you want me to solve everyone else's problems instead, to my own detriment?
We're not sitting on them at all. The only reason I see injustice in the 1% is a lot of them earn their money the old fashioned way: they steal it. Fraud, market manipulation, political rent-seeking, or out-and-out embezzlement; that's how many of us see the 1% getting their position. It's a little hard for me to get upset at people writing smartphone apps or facebook games or whatever; such activity may not be the pinnacle of social utility, but it's not at all crooked.
Unashamed? Sure, I've got nothing to be ashamed of.
Google's standards are too hard to be realistic for the rest of the industry, but the standards for Google itself are 0 security defects ever. How does that work again?
(disclosure: I work for Google. I don't speak for them.)
This question comes up all the time. The answer is the same every time. Not because the math is useful in itself (though it often is), but because if you can't do math you can't do computer science. You may think you're good at programming, but you're just pushing code around without really understanding it. Linear algebra, statistics, number theory, calculus and differential equations; you don't have to learn them all, but if you can't seem to learn any of them, computer science probably isn't for you.
(as for "advanced", mathematics is such a deep subject that for any field I could name, there'd be some mathematician who would claim it was elementary and real advanced math started somewhere else)
The enthusiasts ALWAYS say "this time is different", even when they used to launch into impassioned defenses of "last time". Unless I know they were a curmudgeonly skeptic before, someone saying "this time is different" is meaningless.
Despair.org has the poster for this one. None of us is as dumb as all of us. This is one of those dumbass articles intended to make programmers feel bad because we're not schmoozers and claim our code suffers as a result. It doesn't. The code suffers because bosses assume you can simply harness programmers together, probably under some MBA, assign them bits of the job ad-hoc, and you'll get miracles.
The problem is I get the choice between Candidate A, who says he's going to raise the taxes for the rich (greater than half what I make) to fund programs for the poor (less than one tenth of what I make), and Candidate B, who says he's going to lower the taxes on the rich (greater than twice what I make) and make those deadbeats work (with enough wiggle room that he can say he's not against veterans, women and children, the handicapped, the elderly, etc). Neither one seems all that appealing.