The title would have you believe the FCC says internet service isn't telecom. The argument is that internet service is more than telecom.
Removing the NN rules means we can have ISP provided, network level pi-holes to block ads now. But wait! Google/Mozilla have implemented DNS over HTTPS specifically to prevent such a thing happening, and in the process, funnel all your DNS lookups over to your "friends" at Cloudflare.
I used to be in favor of NN, but my eyes are wide open now.
I have more than 50M records at work. I'm the lead (read: only) programmer on the project. My company thinks a $2000 laptop is too expensive to buy for me. They'll soil their pants when I deliver this news to them.
Why do people act like a project would be forced to take in substandard code just because the maintainers aren't allowed to be assholes?
Because I've watched it happen. When everyone knows daddy is going to scold you if you screw up, you try really hard not to screw up. Quality stays high.
The alternative is people know they won't get scolded, so they not only commit shit to start with, but then they want to debate how bad the shit stinks when there's push back. Then they throw a tantrum when the merge is denied. "I worked a whole hour on this. I spent my time and effort!" Before long, they've worn down the maintainers who get tired of their shit and leave for another project. The gates of hell open onto the project at this point. Shit begins to flood in and nobody can stop it.
This is especially bad on large projects like Linux. Everyone will push bullshit commits trying to get "Contributes to Linux Kernel" on their resume.
Linux is officially done. I'm already looking for an alternative.
I doubt this comment alone got her fired. People like that are toxic to work with
Good point, but I think the company could have handled this in a better way. To start with, by outright firing her, they've given her more of the attention she wants. It's a weaponized Streisand effect, and people like her have learned how to use it to their advantage.
I would suggest, in the future, to make her recant her statements publicly, start giving negative performance reviews, then finally firing her for failing to meet performance expectations.
Most companies have this down to a science. They should have multiple levels of managers above her. She would be called in to long meetings with each one of them to discuss the issue she created. Some good cop/bad cop action. Some "Why aren't you done with your project that's due yet?" knowing full well its because she's been stuck in meetings about her little tantrum. Wearing her down psychologically until she publicly retracts her statements. Once she retracts fully, all her little followers will be deflated and the people she offended will feel a small measure of triumph.
I think this game company should look into hiring some professional management drones. The company seem really unprepared to handle her outburst properly.
If a power surge caused the issue, then surely BA will sue the power company. If the power company can demonstrate there was no surge, surely they will sue BA for defamation.
FTFA: "Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Adam B. Schiff"
Schiff is in the House, not the Senate. Furthermore, where did they get this rock solid information from?
Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr., cited a long history of Russian efforts to influence elections abroad, and said that âoeit shouldnâ(TM)t come as a big shock to peopleâ that Moscow might seek to use cyber capabilities for that purpose.
Who cares? It's ICANN. We just build a new domain system that doesn't have a central naming authority based on blockchain or something. Seriously, the internet blows now because all the domains are taken and every time ICANN creates new TLDs, they either ransom them off and/or it's a land grab by squatters. That system is already broken and garbage. I'd much prefer a proof of work system. Want a vanity domain? Go rent yourself an AWS compute farm for a few weeks.
Machine learning is software generated by statistical algorithms fit to lots of data. Without the training data, the algorithms alone are quite useless. Pre-trained networks are essentially closed source, because the source is the training data.
There's lots of open source code for this work already. It boils down to who has access to the data. Tesla can turn on autopilot to collect data from its entire fleet for millions of miles traveled. Google doesn't have a fleet, so it wants to collect so much data with Android Auto, automakers are walking away.
GNU, well, they've got some algorithms, just like everyone else.
Apple is often among the first companies to adopt emerging standards and technologies,... Apple is expected to announce the refreshed MacBook lineup sporting Intel Skylake processor later this year.
Yes, Skylake. The technology that's been shipping since fall of last year.
I don't see anybody protesting that if I lock my house, government can't come in, even with a warrant
That's not an accurate analogy. It would be more accurate to say the government wants a copy of the key to your house. Not only that, but they're not responsible for what happens to your stuff and your family if that key is stolen, copied from them, or misused by someone working for them. They also plan to use it, in secret, without your knowledge. A government agent will be in your house planting cameras and microphones, using the key you provided.
If we give the government a back door to our data, it's only a matter of months before criminals and other nation states have that key.
I'm not even concerned about that. If the US Government has the key, that alone is bad enough. This is the same government that has systematically attacked developers as a group. Not terrorists. Software developers. They've launched the digital equivalent of a drone strike on users of this very site. They've developed malware that looks like developer tools. Coincidently, just such malware showed up to attack Chinese developers.
I am just gob smacked that Obama can show up at SXSW for any other reason than to apologize to us. He wants us to dig our own mass graves. Here is your shovel developer. Start digging.
Everybody wants the cool job of being one of the original coders. Nobody wants the not-so-cool job of actually maintaining it over the long-term, writing documentation for it, supporting it, etc.
I don't see it that way at all. I find that the maintainers are there because the code is useful to them. It's far easier to take what's there and fix a few bugs than start a whole new version just for the sake of having written it yourself.
Sometimes starting a project is simply implementing something from one language in another. The 'starter' is only interested in getting it to the "good enough" stage that he can use it. I don't consider that cool at all. That's just work. And the starter is just a porter. I'd rather have an existing library that does what I want to do in my language.
Starting a project can happen for more reasons than, "Look at me! I'm reinventing the wheel!" Sometimes, there's one bug that simply can't be fixed in an existing implementation, because it would break literally all the code. Take the '+' operator, for instance. What's 100 + 100? -56 of course! You can't just fix overflow in C or Java or whatever. You have to start something from scratch that does things differently.
It could be so much more fun than this though. Think about it. They are MAILING the letters. Anyone can stick something in the mail. So drive your car down prostitute lane until you get one on purpose. Once you get one, scan, shop, print, mail to all the people you don't like. Hell, get one just to put together a web app and charge $5 to send them. Just enter a name and address of an LA resident. Web app will handle the rest.
Is there any way to get a download of/. comments along with moderations? It could be an interesting way to train machine learning to recognize forum trolls.
It's only expensive if you buy it there:) Go to an Asian grocery and look near the tofu in the fridge. You'll probably find the Konnyaku there. It comes as noodles or in a brick that you slice. It's a hard jelly.. a bit like agar, but more firm. It doesn't really have any taste unless you have one of those delicate Japanese palettes, unspoiled by sugary American snacks and hot sauce.
Just curious... How do you blame him for failing to do a job when he was being told bald faced lies? This was the impetus for Snowden's whistle blowing.
Don't have a smartphone, don't have a tablet, and don't even have a microphone on my desktop machine... For the rest of you, I'd suggest hacking into your TV
Pfft, this guy. I don't even have a TV. Turn in your/. paranoid card.
Yes, this. energy drink and Starbucks. People aren't drinking fewer caffeinated beverages, they're generally drinking stronger ones. Whether it's carbonated or not doesn't really matter.
My favorite commercial of course, is 5-hour energy. "Get five hours of energy with only 4 calories!" I got a news flash for those guys... calories == energy. No calories means it's a drug, not energy. I wonder if I could sue them for blatantly false advertisements?
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The title would have you believe the FCC says internet service isn't telecom. The argument is that internet service is more than telecom.
Removing the NN rules means we can have ISP provided, network level pi-holes to block ads now. But wait! Google/Mozilla have implemented DNS over HTTPS specifically to prevent such a thing happening, and in the process, funnel all your DNS lookups over to your "friends" at Cloudflare.
I used to be in favor of NN, but my eyes are wide open now.
I have more than 50M records at work. I'm the lead (read: only) programmer on the project. My company thinks a $2000 laptop is too expensive to buy for me. They'll soil their pants when I deliver this news to them.
Why do people act like a project would be forced to take in substandard code just because the maintainers aren't allowed to be assholes?
Because I've watched it happen. When everyone knows daddy is going to scold you if you screw up, you try really hard not to screw up. Quality stays high.
The alternative is people know they won't get scolded, so they not only commit shit to start with, but then they want to debate how bad the shit stinks when there's push back. Then they throw a tantrum when the merge is denied. "I worked a whole hour on this. I spent my time and effort!" Before long, they've worn down the maintainers who get tired of their shit and leave for another project. The gates of hell open onto the project at this point. Shit begins to flood in and nobody can stop it.
This is especially bad on large projects like Linux. Everyone will push bullshit commits trying to get "Contributes to Linux Kernel" on their resume.
Linux is officially done. I'm already looking for an alternative.
Yay we agree!
You guys work in teams, don't you? Good cop, bad cop.
I doubt this comment alone got her fired. People like that are toxic to work with
Good point, but I think the company could have handled this in a better way. To start with, by outright firing her, they've given her more of the attention she wants. It's a weaponized Streisand effect, and people like her have learned how to use it to their advantage.
I would suggest, in the future, to make her recant her statements publicly, start giving negative performance reviews, then finally firing her for failing to meet performance expectations.
Most companies have this down to a science. They should have multiple levels of managers above her. She would be called in to long meetings with each one of them to discuss the issue she created. Some good cop/bad cop action. Some "Why aren't you done with your project that's due yet?" knowing full well its because she's been stuck in meetings about her little tantrum. Wearing her down psychologically until she publicly retracts her statements. Once she retracts fully, all her little followers will be deflated and the people she offended will feel a small measure of triumph.
I think this game company should look into hiring some professional management drones. The company seem really unprepared to handle her outburst properly.
Came here to say this
If a power surge caused the issue, then surely BA will sue the power company. If the power company can demonstrate there was no surge, surely they will sue BA for defamation.
FTFA: "Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Adam B. Schiff"
Schiff is in the House, not the Senate. Furthermore, where did they get this rock solid information from?
Clapper, the guy that lied to congress about intelligence activities.
I think that says it all.
Who cares? It's ICANN. We just build a new domain system that doesn't have a central naming authority based on blockchain or something. Seriously, the internet blows now because all the domains are taken and every time ICANN creates new TLDs, they either ransom them off and/or it's a land grab by squatters. That system is already broken and garbage. I'd much prefer a proof of work system. Want a vanity domain? Go rent yourself an AWS compute farm for a few weeks.
No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
Machine learning is software generated by statistical algorithms fit to lots of data. Without the training data, the algorithms alone are quite useless. Pre-trained networks are essentially closed source, because the source is the training data.
There's lots of open source code for this work already. It boils down to who has access to the data. Tesla can turn on autopilot to collect data from its entire fleet for millions of miles traveled. Google doesn't have a fleet, so it wants to collect so much data with Android Auto, automakers are walking away.
GNU, well, they've got some algorithms, just like everyone else.
Apple is often among the first companies to adopt emerging standards and technologies, ... Apple is expected to announce the refreshed MacBook lineup sporting Intel Skylake processor later this year.
Yes, Skylake. The technology that's been shipping since fall of last year.
I don't see anybody protesting that if I lock my house, government can't come in, even with a warrant
That's not an accurate analogy. It would be more accurate to say the government wants a copy of the key to your house. Not only that, but they're not responsible for what happens to your stuff and your family if that key is stolen, copied from them, or misused by someone working for them. They also plan to use it, in secret, without your knowledge. A government agent will be in your house planting cameras and microphones, using the key you provided.
Still okay with that?
If we give the government a back door to our data, it's only a matter of months before criminals and other nation states have that key.
I'm not even concerned about that. If the US Government has the key, that alone is bad enough. This is the same government that has systematically attacked developers as a group. Not terrorists. Software developers. They've launched the digital equivalent of a drone strike on users of this very site. They've developed malware that looks like developer tools. Coincidently, just such malware showed up to attack Chinese developers.
I am just gob smacked that Obama can show up at SXSW for any other reason than to apologize to us. He wants us to dig our own mass graves. Here is your shovel developer. Start digging.
I think the unbiased view is that Firefox is clearly more secure than any browser other than Chrome
Doesn't Chrome ship pre-installed with Adobe Flash?
Everybody wants the cool job of being one of the original coders. Nobody wants the not-so-cool job of actually maintaining it over the long-term, writing documentation for it, supporting it, etc.
I don't see it that way at all. I find that the maintainers are there because the code is useful to them. It's far easier to take what's there and fix a few bugs than start a whole new version just for the sake of having written it yourself.
Sometimes starting a project is simply implementing something from one language in another. The 'starter' is only interested in getting it to the "good enough" stage that he can use it. I don't consider that cool at all. That's just work. And the starter is just a porter. I'd rather have an existing library that does what I want to do in my language.
Starting a project can happen for more reasons than, "Look at me! I'm reinventing the wheel!" Sometimes, there's one bug that simply can't be fixed in an existing implementation, because it would break literally all the code. Take the '+' operator, for instance. What's 100 + 100? -56 of course! You can't just fix overflow in C or Java or whatever. You have to start something from scratch that does things differently.
ca-se-et-te-ta-pe
12 letters :)
It could be so much more fun than this though. Think about it. They are MAILING the letters. Anyone can stick something in the mail. So drive your car down prostitute lane until you get one on purpose. Once you get one, scan, shop, print, mail to all the people you don't like. Hell, get one just to put together a web app and charge $5 to send them. Just enter a name and address of an LA resident. Web app will handle the rest.
Totally vaporized and then some by the overhead of the union.
Not really, but I'm sure there's nothing I can say to convince you otherwise.
Is there any way to get a download of /. comments along with moderations? It could be an interesting way to train machine learning to recognize forum trolls.
It's only expensive if you buy it there :) Go to an Asian grocery and look near the tofu in the fridge. You'll probably find the Konnyaku there. It comes as noodles or in a brick that you slice. It's a hard jelly.. a bit like agar, but more firm. It doesn't really have any taste unless you have one of those delicate Japanese palettes, unspoiled by sugary American snacks and hot sauce.
Ron Wyden, Oregon
Just curious... How do you blame him for failing to do a job when he was being told bald faced lies? This was the impetus for Snowden's whistle blowing.
Don't have a smartphone, don't have a tablet, and don't even have a microphone on my desktop machine... For the rest of you, I'd suggest hacking into your TV
Pfft, this guy. I don't even have a TV. Turn in your /. paranoid card.
;)
Four times what? Are these ranges measured in the meters, or in miles like LoRa WAN?
Yes, this. energy drink and Starbucks. People aren't drinking fewer caffeinated beverages, they're generally drinking stronger ones. Whether it's carbonated or not doesn't really matter.
My favorite commercial of course, is 5-hour energy. "Get five hours of energy with only 4 calories!" I got a news flash for those guys... calories == energy. No calories means it's a drug, not energy. I wonder if I could sue them for blatantly false advertisements?