And how about the drivers that go out of their way to try to screw you? Most of my cab travel was on business, so as long as I got a receipt I didn't care, but in Chicago especially, the drivers would play games with the meter or drive way the hell out of the way just to jack the fare. I wasn't losing any money, so it wasn't worth the time for me to hold them to the fire for it.
Look into getting a 'business' connection. Most places don't really require you to show much official business documentation....but you can get truly unlimited internet, no caps AND you can run servers if you want.
I looked into switching to a Comcast biz connection not long ago. For the connection itself, Comcast wanted a $300 installation fee, and a one-year contract. The fee went down as you committed to a longer term, down to $100 for a three-year commitment. If you wanted static IPs, you had to use their cable modem at $7.00/month on top of $25/month for a/29 netblock. Right now, I've had AT&T 12/1 business service for about four years, which costs me $65/month including the statics. The service sucks, but there aren't any caps, they finally have decent IPv6 support, and it's a hell of a lot cheaper than Comcast.
It seems clear that Uber's long-term plan is to get rid of the drivers entirely. Self-driving cars are in our near future. Having humans drive them for now is a plan to achieve mindshare while they wait.
Getting rid of the drivers means they can't really externalize the cost of the car like they do now, especially fuel and maintenance. I would not be surprised in the least to see their fares go up substantially if this happens.
Same here. I have no need to replace the current phone, and don't foresee the need in the near future. I've replaced the battery once, and am much happier spending $20 to do that rather than a few hundred for a new phone.
Same here. I pay $65/month for 12 Mbps (uncapped), 5 static IPs, and decent IPv6 support (now, anyway) through AT&T. They're not my favorite company in the world by any stretch, and the service hasn't been the best, but that's *far* less than what Comcast wants for something comparable, plus Comcast wants a $300 install fee for a business line, which is the only way they'll offer static IPs. Then on top of that they require $7.00/month or so for the modem rental, because they won't provision the statics unless is on their own hardware. No thanks.
your good fortune has MUCH more to do with luck than it does with your brilliance, charm, hard work, or whatever. Luck can and does run out.
In addition to luck, it often has to do with being a sociopath and having an unfettered willingness to screw over anyone and everyone for your own benefit.
Perhaps we could go as far as banning for-profit corporations, all companies could be public-benefit corporations.
And then watch the value and cash flow of those corporations plummet as their stock becomes worthless. No one will invest if there's no possibility of a return on their investment.
For some things. For many others, not a chance unless they reach some sort of parity with PCs regarding memory and storage capacity, display capability, and expandability. Perhaps we might see something like a docking station where one could connect their phone with the needed peripherals, but there are still some severe shortcomings to overcome before it will be adequate across all of those different use cases.
The photomasks were taped out originally, but it was still a 10 um photolithographic process (huge by today's standards) on a very tiny die that required a lot of specialized equipment. It's possible to make individual discrete components (transistors, fundamental logic gates) yourself, but a die with thousands of transistors on it is still a bit beyond the DIY crowd.
Snowden ought to get an arrangement negotiated where he can testify Via teleconference from a secured location without physically handing himself over.
"Instead, it has called for him to give evidence via a video link, or for German officials to interview him in Moscow, both of which Snowden turned down."
It won't until the folks running the show are willing to wait a quarter or two to recognize revenue in order to make sure stuff doesn't break. Which is to say, it won't happen.
When we replace menial jobs with specialized jobs, those people who are A) too young to have the ability or intelligence to do these new jobs or B) are too stupid to learn will still be pushed out of employability
And C), those who have the physical ability and intelligence to perform the new job, but not the financial means to learn what they need for it.
Another important factor we tech people often ignore is time: it takes time to learn a new job, so even if automation does not affect the total number of jobs, the new jobs will require different skills.
And there's a non-zero cost to that retraining, which in the vast number of cases is expected to be borne by those that have been displaced. I'm guessing that most people that find themselves out of work aren't going to have the wherewithal to drop a few tens of thousands of dollars to learn what they need for a new career.
In addition, the FBI can install spyware on suspects' phones, effectively turning their phones into ambient audio and video, and phone call, message, and SMS surveillance devices, as well as overriding the shutdown functions of the phones so that they appear to be turned off but the spyware is still active. Basically, full-spectrum surveillance.
But you need a lawful warrant. Ain't nobody got time for that.
It is the same quality as the "real" product and is typically run on the same production lines, but costs 10% of what the "real" product is.
Except that it's often NOT the same quality. Compare a genuine Music Man Stingray or Rickenbacker 4003 electric bass to the bullshit counterfeits that flood Alibaba, and then come back and tell me they're equivalent.
I got into the BBS scene around 1985, and I loved it. The height of it for me was around 1994, when I was one of the sysops on a friend's Amiga system running C/Net. Eight lines, a gig of file storage (huge at the time), FidoNet, and I wrote a little shim to allow the Amiga to talk to an ancient PC/XT running Remote Access so we could offer PC doors on the system. Toward the end we started offering Internet mail access through a SLIP gateway at a local college. I miss the BBS days a lot, and it's hard to get kids that have grown up with the Internet to understand how cool it was at the time.
And make damn sure about that last part: never put yourself or your team in a position where the responsibility of an overly hasty launch comes back to you.
That presumes ethical management that is willing to accept responsibility for their part in any problems that arise. You're 100% correct that our job is to merely implement the solution and advise of potential problems, and theirs is to accept that advice, balance the pros/cons of a particular course of action, and make the decisions regarding what is to be done and accept responsibility for the results (good or bad). Far too often, that willingness is not there and the finger gets pointed back at us, regardless of the emails and other documentation proving otherwise.
And I've done just that, followed by a visit to HR for being "insubordinate". My favorite was when we had a project that got cancelled halfway through. I took great care to make notes in the source that it wasn't finished, hadn't been properly tested, and under no circumstance should it be shipped. About a year later, I got written up because "my code" was causing crashes in a another customer's mission critical system. They didn't tell me specifically what the problem was, so I went exploring through the commit logs. Apparently some knob found a class in that source that he thought would do what he wanted, incorporated it into production code for a customer, and then when the customer started having problems, *I* was the one that got written up for it because I was the one that had checked it in a year prior. The fact that I'd committed to a non-production branch and clearly marked it as "not finished and not to be used in its current state" didn't matter at all.
Me: "So, you'd rather I just discarded thousands of dollars' worth of work instead of committing it to a development branch (also clearly marked as such)?"
Dev mgr: "No, of course not."
M: "So why am I being written up?"
DM: "Because you're the one that checked it in in an unfinished state."
M: "Really? You told me to move off that project to something else."
DM: "Yes, but that code wasn't finished and shouldn't have been committed."
M: "But you just said you didn't want me to toss that code and also didn't want me to spend any more time on it."
DM: "Right, but you should never be committing code that isn't finished."
M: "It was committed to a fricking INACTIVE DEV BRANCH!"
DM: "Doesn't matter, the code made it into production."
The idiot that actually merged that code into production got off scot-free. Needless to say, I'm no longer associated with those morons.
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And how about the drivers that go out of their way to try to screw you? Most of my cab travel was on business, so as long as I got a receipt I didn't care, but in Chicago especially, the drivers would play games with the meter or drive way the hell out of the way just to jack the fare. I wasn't losing any money, so it wasn't worth the time for me to hold them to the fire for it.
Look into getting a 'business' connection. Most places don't really require you to show much official business documentation....but you can get truly unlimited internet, no caps AND you can run servers if you want.
/29 netblock. Right now, I've had AT&T 12/1 business service for about four years, which costs me $65/month including the statics. The service sucks, but there aren't any caps, they finally have decent IPv6 support, and it's a hell of a lot cheaper than Comcast.
I looked into switching to a Comcast biz connection not long ago. For the connection itself, Comcast wanted a $300 installation fee, and a one-year contract. The fee went down as you committed to a longer term, down to $100 for a three-year commitment. If you wanted static IPs, you had to use their cable modem at $7.00/month on top of $25/month for a
I think the problem with the IoT is that the manufacturers take little or no steps to make their devices secure
That's *part* of the problem, and new laws aren't going to affect the Alibaba vendors who simply don't care.
It seems clear that Uber's long-term plan is to get rid of the drivers entirely. Self-driving cars are in our near future. Having humans drive them for now is a plan to achieve mindshare while they wait.
Getting rid of the drivers means they can't really externalize the cost of the car like they do now, especially fuel and maintenance. I would not be surprised in the least to see their fares go up substantially if this happens.
Same here. I have no need to replace the current phone, and don't foresee the need in the near future. I've replaced the battery once, and am much happier spending $20 to do that rather than a few hundred for a new phone.
And you get the annoying, never-ending ads on Slashdot for free!
Same here. I pay $65/month for 12 Mbps (uncapped), 5 static IPs, and decent IPv6 support (now, anyway) through AT&T. They're not my favorite company in the world by any stretch, and the service hasn't been the best, but that's *far* less than what Comcast wants for something comparable, plus Comcast wants a $300 install fee for a business line, which is the only way they'll offer static IPs. Then on top of that they require $7.00/month or so for the modem rental, because they won't provision the statics unless is on their own hardware. No thanks.
your good fortune has MUCH more to do with luck than it does with your brilliance, charm, hard work, or whatever. Luck can and does run out.
In addition to luck, it often has to do with being a sociopath and having an unfettered willingness to screw over anyone and everyone for your own benefit.
Perhaps we could go as far as banning for-profit corporations, all companies could be public-benefit corporations.
And then watch the value and cash flow of those corporations plummet as their stock becomes worthless. No one will invest if there's no possibility of a return on their investment.
Eventually, phones will take over from PCs
For some things. For many others, not a chance unless they reach some sort of parity with PCs regarding memory and storage capacity, display capability, and expandability. Perhaps we might see something like a docking station where one could connect their phone with the needed peripherals, but there are still some severe shortcomings to overcome before it will be adequate across all of those different use cases.
The photomasks were taped out originally, but it was still a 10 um photolithographic process (huge by today's standards) on a very tiny die that required a lot of specialized equipment. It's possible to make individual discrete components (transistors, fundamental logic gates) yourself, but a die with thousands of transistors on it is still a bit beyond the DIY crowd.
The Apple IIe had some custom silicon, but the II/II+ was made up of entirely off-the-shelf components.
Snowden ought to get an arrangement negotiated where he can testify Via teleconference from a secured location without physically handing himself over.
"Instead, it has called for him to give evidence via a video link, or for German officials to interview him in Moscow, both of which Snowden turned down."
It won't until the folks running the show are willing to wait a quarter or two to recognize revenue in order to make sure stuff doesn't break. Which is to say, it won't happen.
When we replace menial jobs with specialized jobs, those people who are A) too young to have the ability or intelligence to do these new jobs or B) are too stupid to learn will still be pushed out of employability
And C), those who have the physical ability and intelligence to perform the new job, but not the financial means to learn what they need for it.
Another important factor we tech people often ignore is time: it takes time to learn a new job, so even if automation does not affect the total number of jobs, the new jobs will require different skills.
And there's a non-zero cost to that retraining, which in the vast number of cases is expected to be borne by those that have been displaced. I'm guessing that most people that find themselves out of work aren't going to have the wherewithal to drop a few tens of thousands of dollars to learn what they need for a new career.
In addition, the FBI can install spyware on suspects' phones, effectively turning their phones into ambient audio and video, and phone call, message, and SMS surveillance devices, as well as overriding the shutdown functions of the phones so that they appear to be turned off but the spyware is still active. Basically, full-spectrum surveillance.
But you need a lawful warrant. Ain't nobody got time for that.
It's highly unlikely that this girl will ever be revived, but one day somebody is going to solve the cellular bursting problem.
Perhaps, but I'll bet money that it's a treatment that's applied *before* the damage is done.
It is the same quality as the "real" product and is typically run on the same production lines, but costs 10% of what the "real" product is.
Except that it's often NOT the same quality. Compare a genuine Music Man Stingray or Rickenbacker 4003 electric bass to the bullshit counterfeits that flood Alibaba, and then come back and tell me they're equivalent.
I got into the BBS scene around 1985, and I loved it. The height of it for me was around 1994, when I was one of the sysops on a friend's Amiga system running C/Net. Eight lines, a gig of file storage (huge at the time), FidoNet, and I wrote a little shim to allow the Amiga to talk to an ancient PC/XT running Remote Access so we could offer PC doors on the system. Toward the end we started offering Internet mail access through a SLIP gateway at a local college. I miss the BBS days a lot, and it's hard to get kids that have grown up with the Internet to understand how cool it was at the time.
And make damn sure about that last part: never put yourself or your team in a position where the responsibility of an overly hasty launch comes back to you.
That presumes ethical management that is willing to accept responsibility for their part in any problems that arise. You're 100% correct that our job is to merely implement the solution and advise of potential problems, and theirs is to accept that advice, balance the pros/cons of a particular course of action, and make the decisions regarding what is to be done and accept responsibility for the results (good or bad). Far too often, that willingness is not there and the finger gets pointed back at us, regardless of the emails and other documentation proving otherwise.
*Posting AC for reasons I don't desire to get into.*
Um, about that...
Replying to myself - I was misremembering things. It was a 16M total address space, but still with 64K segments.
It did more or less, but a segment on the '286 could be 16 megabytes instead of being limited to 64K.
And I've done just that, followed by a visit to HR for being "insubordinate". My favorite was when we had a project that got cancelled halfway through. I took great care to make notes in the source that it wasn't finished, hadn't been properly tested, and under no circumstance should it be shipped. About a year later, I got written up because "my code" was causing crashes in a another customer's mission critical system. They didn't tell me specifically what the problem was, so I went exploring through the commit logs. Apparently some knob found a class in that source that he thought would do what he wanted, incorporated it into production code for a customer, and then when the customer started having problems, *I* was the one that got written up for it because I was the one that had checked it in a year prior. The fact that I'd committed to a non-production branch and clearly marked it as "not finished and not to be used in its current state" didn't matter at all.
Me: "So, you'd rather I just discarded thousands of dollars' worth of work instead of committing it to a development branch (also clearly marked as such)?"
Dev mgr: "No, of course not."
M: "So why am I being written up?"
DM: "Because you're the one that checked it in in an unfinished state."
M: "Really? You told me to move off that project to something else."
DM: "Yes, but that code wasn't finished and shouldn't have been committed."
M: "But you just said you didn't want me to toss that code and also didn't want me to spend any more time on it."
DM: "Right, but you should never be committing code that isn't finished."
M: "It was committed to a fricking INACTIVE DEV BRANCH!"
DM: "Doesn't matter, the code made it into production."
The idiot that actually merged that code into production got off scot-free. Needless to say, I'm no longer associated with those morons.