Indeed.
I just googled my name (real name) and the real me only shows up once in the first 3 pages of results, among at least a dozen other people who share my name.
The username I use here (and in variant spellings in many other places) didn't appear associated with my real name anywhere.
My wife is even more invisible. Searching her real name did not reveal her at all. Only a bunch of other people with the same name.
It looks like being a bit judicious about what we put out there is still working.
*shrug*.
I'm still watching a CRT TV, analog tuner, low-feature DVD (though it can import from USB), and occasionally VHS.
No digital cable box, no blu-ray, no HD, no flat screen.
But I do watch a lot of downloaded stuff (via USB memstick) on my old 30" CRT.
Good enough is good enough for the scant few hours of video I watch in a week.
Would people be able to access your utilities without physically trespassing on your property?
Would someone be able to use your garden hose without leaving the comfort of their own home?
But then, does it cause you grief if someone on the sidewalk is listening to the music you are playing even though you paid (presumably) for the CD, and they are simply freeloading? You could turn it down or close the window (secure it from prying ears)
Well, the iPhone's screen is actual glass, rather than the plastic or polycarbonate that almost every other phone has always been, so I suspect they are not treating the things any different. They're just made of a more fragile material.
OTOH, the tijme my iPhone's screen broke. it's because it slipped from my rain-soaked hand onto a tile floor. I maintain that if the thing had a grippy surface anywhere on it, it would never have fallen.
The airforce spends a lot of time and effort training their pilots.
The majority of drivers learned from someone in the family, who was never properly trained themselves.
If there was proper driver training and testing these shows wouldn't be able to exist:
* Australia's Worst Driver
* Österreichs schlechtester Autofahrer
* Y'a pas pire conducteur
* Canada's Worst Driver
* Canada's Worst Drivers vs. The World - similar to World's Worst Driver
* Danmarks Værste Bilist (Denmark's Worst Driver)
* New Zealand's Worst Driver
* Najgorszy polski kierowca (Poland's Worst Driver)
* O pior condutor de sempre (Worst Driver ever)
* Sveriges värsta bilförare (Sweden's Worst Driver)
* Y'a pas pire conducteur en Suisse romande
* Britain's Worst Celebrity Driver
* World's Worst Driver
* Britain's Worst Driver 2003
* Britain's Worst Driver 2010 The Ben Shaw Chronicles
* America's Worst Driver
Interesting because there are basically 204 plus some odd working days in year. Less for the CEO because I'm sure he gets more vacation that you do to. So that means he makes just about your annual salary in per day.
If it makes you feel any better he is probably in a higher overall tax bracket than you...
Foolishly, I googled him.
According to Forbes, he's also on the board of his former employer.
Another 2* my salary per year.
*sigh*
Yeah, it's hard for me to stay motivated when our CEO makes 204.76 times more per year than I do. (real number, I just did the math)
Especially after sitting thru a mandatory video conference that he presented yesterday.
What exactly is it that he does again? I couldn't really tell from that meeting.
The primary constraining factor on good motion pictures is the relative scarcity of good writing.
What this does allow for is the unknown, but incredibly good writer who is outside the "Hollywood machine" to tell his story without selling his soul, or needing gazillions of dollars.
Sure there are a lot of crap indie films, but there are also some amazing ones. Quality open source tools, in the hands of talented creative people can make good, cheap movies look better
Having worked in IT, the problems rest with the technologically-inept managers. For one thing, budgeting. Why, oh why do they base the IT budget on what they spent in previous years?
Because that's how the finance dept budgets all the departments.
No special treatment for you.
Inept is one word.
Bureaucratic is another. (can't deviate from the procedure. can't question the procedure. can't change the procedure)
That assumes the idiots are adequate-to-good shots.
A few of the towers my company owns get shot up each year. The damage is almost always to the antenna cables running up the tower within 10 feet above or below the tower lights. Occasionally they actually hit the light in the process, but not always.
And once every couple of years some douche shoots the hell out of the equipment shack. The record is 157 bullet holes in one 10x20 building.
We have a policy that there must be a vehicle parked visibly on-site if someone is working in the shack. Never drop off someone, then take the truck to another site.
I actually didn't think the Aiplex site was correct at first, just because of how awful it is. Maybe they got into the "anti-piracy" business because they failed so amazingly hard at website design.
Wow, I see what you mean.
It looks a lot like a domain squatter/parking page.
No one is installing new GSM or CDMA at the base stations. It's strictly "keep it running for now" on the carrier side.
UMTS/HSDPA/LTE is what is currently happening.
I'm not trying to be facetious, but how does a phone with Exchange produce the same amount of load on a network as a device that's constantly making voice calls? I realize that the phone will be signaling to a server to keep data synced, but how does it produce that much load?
Because signaling traffic and user traffic are handled differently.
A very rough analogy to TCP/IP:
Signaling traffic is similar to SYN, ACK, DNS, DHCP, STP, ARP, SMB and all the other stuff you see on a normal LAN that isn't user payload. On a GSM/UMTS network, this stuff is running on a separate virtual channel from the user traffic (voice or data). Think of it like a separate VLAN which has a max bandwidth allocated to it. (by design)
Basically, the "overhead" packets clog the signaling channel, even though the traffic channel still has oodles of bandwidth available. SYN flood anyone?
And occasionally will contain such vandalisms as that Iron is mined from monkeys, that the bridges in Ancient Rome were made in Japan, or that didgeridoos are cloned in test tubes. (I swear to the FSM, all three are actual things I've learned on Wikipedia.) Without any knowledge of your own, how would you know whether to trust that or not?
And that's actually on a good day. On a bad day you won't even have that Wikipedia link.
So you are saying that Wikipedia, and by extension the internet, teaches critical thinking by forcing ridicule on those who simply accept what they read on the 'net as irrefutable fact?
In the Canadian system, all prospective jurors were given a number, and only addressed by that.
The lawyers could ask a few questions if they chose, and each had the opportunity of rejecting 3 (IIRC) prospective jurors.
Keeping the identities of the jurors secret is intended to prevent jury tampering and intimidation by the parties in the trial. A good motivation, I believe.
I find it disturbing that anyone in the courtroom (or associated with the process) even knows the names of the jurors.
Conspiracy theorist, much?
Fine, you sit on a jury against a high ranking Hells angels member and see how comfortable you are having your name known to their associates after you hand down a guilty verdict...
The transcript of the entire trial is available after the end of the trial. (Even in the rare instance of a coverage blackout during the trial)
The only thing not part of the record is the names of the jurors, who quietly go back to their lives after the trial, hoping that the scumbag that they put in jail (or a freaked out relative of the plaintiff if the verdict was not-guilty) shouldn't have an easy time tracking them down.
Sure, it's not the most likely outcome, but why take the chance?
Slashdot Mirror
Yet another reason for me not to start using either Facebook or Bing.
Indeed. I just googled my name (real name) and the real me only shows up once in the first 3 pages of results, among at least a dozen other people who share my name.
The username I use here (and in variant spellings in many other places) didn't appear associated with my real name anywhere.
My wife is even more invisible. Searching her real name did not reveal her at all. Only a bunch of other people with the same name.
It looks like being a bit judicious about what we put out there is still working.
*shrug*.
I'm still watching a CRT TV, analog tuner, low-feature DVD (though it can import from USB), and occasionally VHS.
No digital cable box, no blu-ray, no HD, no flat screen.
But I do watch a lot of downloaded stuff (via USB memstick) on my old 30" CRT.
Good enough is good enough for the scant few hours of video I watch in a week.
Would people be able to access your utilities without physically trespassing on your property?
Would someone be able to use your garden hose without leaving the comfort of their own home?
But then, does it cause you grief if someone on the sidewalk is listening to the music you are playing even though you paid (presumably) for the CD, and they are simply freeloading? You could turn it down or close the window (secure it from prying ears)
Well, the iPhone's screen is actual glass, rather than the plastic or polycarbonate that almost every other phone has always been, so I suspect they are not treating the things any different. They're just made of a more fragile material.
OTOH, the tijme my iPhone's screen broke. it's because it slipped from my rain-soaked hand onto a tile floor. I maintain that if the thing had a grippy surface anywhere on it, it would never have fallen.
$100 parts and labour to repair.
The majority of drivers learned from someone in the family, who was never properly trained themselves.
If there was proper driver training and testing these shows wouldn't be able to exist
Interesting because there are basically 204 plus some odd working days in year. Less for the CEO because I'm sure he gets more vacation that you do to. So that means he makes just about your annual salary in per day.
If it makes you feel any better he is probably in a higher overall tax bracket than you...
Foolishly, I googled him.
According to Forbes, he's also on the board of his former employer.
Another 2* my salary per year.
*sigh*
Yeah, it's hard for me to stay motivated when our CEO makes 204.76 times more per year than I do. (real number, I just did the math)
Especially after sitting thru a mandatory video conference that he presented yesterday.
What exactly is it that he does again? I couldn't really tell from that meeting.
. Apple is trying to get the web to conform to Apple's desires, instead of Apple supporting what is already out there on the web.
And this surprises you why?
It's Apple's world, you just live in it. Ask Steve. He'll tell you.
Sure there are a lot of crap indie films, but there are also some amazing ones. Quality open source tools, in the hands of talented creative people can make good, cheap movies look better
Individuals who work for these firms can always chose to stop being evil, thereby reducing their risk.
Yeah, the janitor or the IT guy, or the receptionist can go and get any number of jobs in today's economy. (eyeroll)
If you're going to go all vigilante on people who work for bad companies, at least target the decision makers, not the wage slaves.
You're still operating under the faulty assumption it's against Iran.
Who else does Iran sell these PLC's to?
Don't you mean "who else uses these Siemens PLCs"?
I'm interested in hearing how the worm targeted PLCs in one specific country? Generally PLCs are fairly simple devices that aren't location aware.
Huh?
http://www.google.com/search?q=Operation+Dark+Heart+torrent
Especially if you are using your work computer.
In other news, I now know how many times you have to trigger the content filters before you get a visit...
Having worked in IT, the problems rest with the technologically-inept managers. For one thing, budgeting. Why, oh why do they base the IT budget on what they spent in previous years?
Because that's how the finance dept budgets all the departments.
No special treatment for you.
Inept is one word.
Bureaucratic is another. (can't deviate from the procedure. can't question the procedure. can't change the procedure)
That assumes the idiots are adequate-to-good shots.
A few of the towers my company owns get shot up each year. The damage is almost always to the antenna cables running up the tower within 10 feet above or below the tower lights. Occasionally they actually hit the light in the process, but not always.
And once every couple of years some douche shoots the hell out of the equipment shack. The record is 157 bullet holes in one 10x20 building.
We have a policy that there must be a vehicle parked visibly on-site if someone is working in the shack. Never drop off someone, then take the truck to another site.
I'd like to see some kind of reusable packaging.
Yeah. Something like cardboard boxes and bubble pack
As opposed to clamshells and form fitted foam pieces
I actually didn't think the Aiplex site was correct at first, just because of how awful it is. Maybe they got into the "anti-piracy" business because they failed so amazingly hard at website design.
Wow, I see what you mean.
It looks a lot like a domain squatter/parking page.
No one is installing new GSM or CDMA at the base stations. It's strictly "keep it running for now" on the carrier side.
UMTS/HSDPA/LTE is what is currently happening.
Way to get on last decade's bandwagon Microsoft.
I'm not trying to be facetious, but how does a phone with Exchange produce the same amount of load on a network as a device that's constantly making voice calls? I realize that the phone will be signaling to a server to keep data synced, but how does it produce that much load?
Because signaling traffic and user traffic are handled differently.
A very rough analogy to TCP/IP:
Signaling traffic is similar to SYN, ACK, DNS, DHCP, STP, ARP, SMB and all the other stuff you see on a normal LAN that isn't user payload.
On a GSM/UMTS network, this stuff is running on a separate virtual channel from the user traffic (voice or data). Think of it like a separate VLAN which has a max bandwidth allocated to it. (by design)
Basically, the "overhead" packets clog the signaling channel, even though the traffic channel still has oodles of bandwidth available. SYN flood anyone?
I especially like the Magic 8 Ball and Easy Button at the supervisor's station
And occasionally will contain such vandalisms as that Iron is mined from monkeys, that the bridges in Ancient Rome were made in Japan, or that didgeridoos are cloned in test tubes. (I swear to the FSM, all three are actual things I've learned on Wikipedia.) Without any knowledge of your own, how would you know whether to trust that or not?
And that's actually on a good day. On a bad day you won't even have that Wikipedia link.
So you are saying that Wikipedia, and by extension the internet, teaches critical thinking by forcing ridicule on those who simply accept what they read on the 'net as irrefutable fact?
Cool! I just learned something.
In the Canadian system, all prospective jurors were given a number, and only addressed by that.
The lawyers could ask a few questions if they chose, and each had the opportunity of rejecting 3 (IIRC) prospective jurors.
Keeping the identities of the jurors secret is intended to prevent jury tampering and intimidation by the parties in the trial. A good motivation, I believe.
I find it disturbing that anyone in the courtroom (or associated with the process) even knows the names of the jurors.
Conspiracy theorist, much?
Fine, you sit on a jury against a high ranking Hells angels member and see how comfortable you are having your name known to their associates after you hand down a guilty verdict...
The transcript of the entire trial is available after the end of the trial. (Even in the rare instance of a coverage blackout during the trial)
The only thing not part of the record is the names of the jurors, who quietly go back to their lives after the trial, hoping that the scumbag that they put in jail (or a freaked out relative of the plaintiff if the verdict was not-guilty) shouldn't have an easy time tracking them down.
Sure, it's not the most likely outcome, but why take the chance?
Those that get picked, in many cases, were not smart enough to get themselves dismissed during jury selection.
Or understand the concept of duty better than you seem to.
As in the phrase "jury duty"