Thanks for the rundown, nice to see the sequence summarized and in one place.
You are right, there were so many tremendously unlikely events that happened at the same time it boggles the mind. It's like when people ask about the probability of flipping a coin and having it come up heads 10 times in a row. Well, once is 50-50 but ten times in a row starts becoming very unlikely.
Now, I see where the tsunami was actually two waves that combined to provide the massive scale which hit the coast. Also very unlikely, right?
Sometimes when I think about this extremely improbable sequence of extremely improbable events, it makes my otherwise sane mind begin to put stock in the conspiracy theorists who are saying that the Fukushima disaster was the result of some far-out weather war scenario using HAARP.
At what point are the odds so astronomical it is more likely that it was not an accident?
This is a routine trick in a security audit: drop some USB sticks in the employee parking lot, and see how many folks just plug it into their computer.
Or, an autorun CD with "top secret" or "big huge boobies" written on it with a sharpie.
What percent "success" rate do the pen testers get seeding a parking lot with removable media?
I'd label a CD-R with the name of a current large project or some other verbiage and make it look like someone was sneaking out confidential design files. Drop it some place someone will see it who knows about that project, and you'd be almost guaranteed it will get stuck in a computer, they will have to try and see what was being walked out of the building and by whom.
So reasonable in fact, it's a wonder no one has done it before, or maybe they have and they are keeping it a secret!.... it must be a government conspiracy!
Now there's an idea that can gain some traction! Bravo. Alert Alex Jones at once! Oh wait, Jones has been proven right on lots of things... hmmmm
The problem is it creates the wrong incentives. Data is not like water or gas where you can save it by not using it. The fixed costs are the same no matter how much bandwith we use, and any bandwidth we don't use is lost forever. This means we should encourage people to use more bandwidth, and if we don't have enough, we should build more infrastructure. Usage based billing encourages us to waste network capacity, and discourages ISPs from building out infrastructure. Why spend money to upgrade the network when you can make money by charging the heavy users instead?
Look at how all the cell phone carriers eliminated the unlimited data packages. I'm paying as much for 2 gigs a month as I was paying for unlimited, with verizon. Of course, I haven't hit 500 megs in a month yet, but still. If I had unlimited, I wouldn't CARE how much I used. Now, I do.
Heavy internet users need to get off any cable company provided internet.
I can attest to this. Google recently offered the small town I work in a deal that would have paid for the construction of an entire wireless infrastructure, and 3 years of support to get the whole town Wi-Fi coverage. They only had to take up support costs after 3 years.
The town declined because Google refused to filter the connection. They were so afraid of somebody might see a tit that they turned down FREE town-wide wifi coverage.
You took the words from my mouth, the last few days the only impression I've been getting from AT&T is one of a crybaby.
My favorite part of TFA was Sprint's comment, they're basically using fancy words to point and laugh.
From TFA: “Over the past several years, no company has invested more in the United States than AT&T,” Cicconi said
Bull. Where? GSM in New York? What about their copper? ATT has countless miles of ancient copper all over the US, creating sub-par connectivity over their own DSL product and the DSL product for all the local ISP's to which they lease their copper.
They milk the arthritic cow of their copper infrastructure yet strongarm to create a wireless empire not unlike the behemoth which got broken up years ago.
Sure, sure, wireless is the way of the future, blah blah blah.
Read a couple articles up re: the usage based internet fees, AHA the netflix tax. In 10 years get everyone on the only two choices in the US - comcast and AT+T. Yeah, there's no monopolies, plenty of competition.
Looking at the NARA article, as soon as I saw that some big IT contract was given to Lockheed Martin I saw all I needed to know about this initiative.
how much money did LM or someone closely associated with LM give to the present administration or someone closely associated with the present administration? Like "they" always say, follow the money.
I believe in Evolution. I don't think humans evolved from pond scum OR monkeys.
But you believe pond scum, monkeys, and humans, all share a common ancestor. Right?
Well, evolution is observable. Evolution as origin of species, a creationist would have a problem with that. Lots of Christians are all up in arms with evolution itself, but evolution isn't bad.
One thing I've heard said a lot is that humans and monkeys don't have a common ancestor, they have a common creator. Similarities with appearance, biology, genome, etc, are evidence of the same creator.
I wonder what the numbers are in Europe, I don't know a single person who uses Bing and I barely know anyone non-technical who even knows what it is. Google is the standard here in the Netherlands, we we don't like to change things that are good.
I know a guy who uses bing exclusively, he avoids all things google because they track everything you do. As far as I know he doesn't wear a tinfoil hat.
This is the whole point. Apple has always been about the interface and experience, the personality of an apple product. Android is cold and mechanical, like an android.
Entirely possible Google et-al will never bother to make an exact duplicate of siri. Meaning, the natural speech interaction. The "personality" of it.
Gasp, I wonder if secretly Steve Jobs downloaded his mind into the apple servers and SIRI *IS* Steve Jobs! That's why it is so powerful and natural and has attitude.... That's why the timing of his "death" and the release of the 4S were so close...
I'm a Christian. There, I said it. I've been hanging out on Slashdot for over 10 years. And I'm a Christian. Hold on, I'm not done yet.
I am a degreed engineer from one of the top private engineering schools in the country. I watch sci-fi. A lot. I believe in Evolution. I don't think humans evolved from pond scum OR monkeys. I believe in God. I believe he is on our side and is in favor of us. I believe God made the universe. I believe in the Bible. (See below) I have experienced things in my life which reinforce my beliefs. I know strict interpretation of the Bible says the earth is 6000 years old. I wasn't there then, I'm not going to argue about it. I'll leave that to people like Kent Hovind, he likes to argue.
I hate "religion". Religion has done more to harm people and discredit belief in God more than anything. Religion does not equal belief in God nor is the opposite true either. Religion is something people created.
I am suspicious there are important parts of the Bible that have been removed. There are things we've forgotten and not been told. I believe that there are certain parts of eastern mysticism that the Christian ought to pay attention to, such as meditation and the energy points in the body. See David Sereda regarding spirituality across religious boundary lines.
As a Christian, an Engineer and a Technologist I point to the spooky stuff in Quantum Physics as an olive branch between the two camps. There is a God, and we don't understand enough things yet to make science agree with that.
When it's free on Android and Blackberry, it's much harder to justify. Then again, if your organization needs to deploy custom smartphone apps, why on earth would you choose anything but blackberry?
With a 95% failure rate you could have had seagate tickling your balls while they tried to figure out what was going wrong... right up until the point where they should you how your power supplies were frying the drives.
That is simply unbelievable to anyone with 1/4 of a clue.
his 95% claim is less outlandish than the post saying enterprise drives are no better than consumer grade drives.
Maybe his 95% claim is from that period of time when seagate was having their little firmware "issue". Maybe his sample size for this anecdote was small, the drives were from the same batch and there was a bad run?
Also, 65% of all statistics made up on the spot are bogus.
I dont think engineers and such have ever been target customers for Apple.
But if you mean image/video field workers as professionals, then you probably are right.
Apple product lines are just following the industry trend of consumerism and becoming more targeted for home users, rather than enterprises(for which they never were targetting to begin with).
The only "professional" I've ever associated with Apple products was in the image/video arena. Used to be, if you were "serious" about making a living doing graphical and video work you had an apple workstation and used photoshop and final cut.
So, is Apple pushing them away? Maybe. I think TFA might be a little flamebait-ish tho. Apple has made some decisions that might be pushing away the pros, but I don't think their decision was to push away the pros. Follow what I'm sayin?
Assuming he hasn't done this sort of thing for a while, he's probably feeling a little nostalgic since his ol' buddy just died. Seems fitting to me, makes sense even. I don't know Woz at all, but I figure he's always been the more personable of the two Steves.
I don't know why we're all trying to figure out his hidden agendas.
BS - Most malware infections today do not come from perusing around the dark alleyways of the internet. Here's an anecdote:
I repaired a machine with a bad malware infection. I also was able to do an audit and see exactly where the machine was going on the inernet, when, and even the searches. The owner's kid was literally searching for busty milfs and goat sex. All week long, after the owner was going to bed. Saturday morning the last search before infection was "TV repair in [local town]". Bam. Drive-by download.
Yeah, it's an anecdote, but it is very symptomatic of what I see all the time. Porn sites are not to blame. Warez is still not safe, but more people do porn than warez and porn is NOT the current main cause of malware.
The ONLY cure on the horizon for malware is browsing in a sandbox, either a purpose built sandbox like "sandboxie" or in a VM. Period.
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Thanks for the rundown, nice to see the sequence summarized and in one place.
You are right, there were so many tremendously unlikely events that happened at the same time it boggles the mind. It's like when people ask about the probability of flipping a coin and having it come up heads 10 times in a row. Well, once is 50-50 but ten times in a row starts becoming very unlikely.
Now, I see where the tsunami was actually two waves that combined to provide the massive scale which hit the coast. Also very unlikely, right?
Sometimes when I think about this extremely improbable sequence of extremely improbable events, it makes my otherwise sane mind begin to put stock in the conspiracy theorists who are saying that the Fukushima disaster was the result of some far-out weather war scenario using HAARP.
At what point are the odds so astronomical it is more likely that it was not an accident?
Just thinking....
This is a routine trick in a security audit: drop some USB sticks in the employee parking lot, and see how many folks just plug it into their computer.
Or, an autorun CD with "top secret" or "big huge boobies" written on it with a sharpie.
What percent "success" rate do the pen testers get seeding a parking lot with removable media?
I'd label a CD-R with the name of a current large project or some other verbiage and make it look like someone was sneaking out confidential design files. Drop it some place someone will see it who knows about that project, and you'd be almost guaranteed it will get stuck in a computer, they will have to try and see what was being walked out of the building and by whom.
So reasonable in fact, it's a wonder no one has done it before, or maybe they have and they are keeping it a secret! .... it must be a government conspiracy!
Now there's an idea that can gain some traction! Bravo. Alert Alex Jones at once! Oh wait, Jones has been proven right on lots of things... hmmmm
Alert Alex Jones anyway!
It isn't broken any more.
The gardener died a few weeks ago, didn't you see it in the news?
The problem is it creates the wrong incentives. Data is not like water or gas where you can save it by not using it. The fixed costs are the same no matter how much bandwith we use, and any bandwidth we don't use is lost forever. This means we should encourage people to use more bandwidth, and if we don't have enough, we should build more infrastructure. Usage based billing encourages us to waste network capacity, and discourages ISPs from building out infrastructure. Why spend money to upgrade the network when you can make money by charging the heavy users instead?
Look at how all the cell phone carriers eliminated the unlimited data packages. I'm paying as much for 2 gigs a month as I was paying for unlimited, with verizon. Of course, I haven't hit 500 megs in a month yet, but still. If I had unlimited, I wouldn't CARE how much I used. Now, I do.
Heavy internet users need to get off any cable company provided internet.
I can attest to this. Google recently offered the small town I work in a deal that would have paid for the construction of an entire wireless infrastructure, and 3 years of support to get the whole town Wi-Fi coverage. They only had to take up support costs after 3 years.
The town declined because Google refused to filter the connection. They were so afraid of somebody might see a tit that they turned down FREE town-wide wifi coverage.
I hate living in the Bible-belt . . . .
So all other ISP's in the town are filtered?
You took the words from my mouth, the last few days the only impression I've been getting from AT&T is one of a crybaby.
My favorite part of TFA was Sprint's comment, they're basically using fancy words to point and laugh.
From TFA: “Over the past several years, no company has invested more in the United States than AT&T,” Cicconi said
Bull. Where? GSM in New York? What about their copper? ATT has countless miles of ancient copper all over the US, creating sub-par connectivity over their own DSL product and the DSL product for all the local ISP's to which they lease their copper.
They milk the arthritic cow of their copper infrastructure yet strongarm to create a wireless empire not unlike the behemoth which got broken up years ago.
Sure, sure, wireless is the way of the future, blah blah blah.
Read a couple articles up re: the usage based internet fees, AHA the netflix tax. In 10 years get everyone on the only two choices in the US - comcast and AT+T. Yeah, there's no monopolies, plenty of competition.
Sorry, had to rant. I know it doesn't make sense.
Looking at the NARA article, as soon as I saw that some big IT contract was given to Lockheed Martin I saw all I needed to know about this initiative.
how much money did LM or someone closely associated with LM give to the present administration or someone closely associated with the present administration? Like "they" always say, follow the money.
Evolution is observable, it happens. Evolution as origin of species, that's what a creationist would disagree with.
I believe in Evolution. I don't think humans evolved from pond scum OR monkeys.
But you believe pond scum, monkeys, and humans, all share a common ancestor. Right?
Well, evolution is observable. Evolution as origin of species, a creationist would have a problem with that. Lots of Christians are all up in arms with evolution itself, but evolution isn't bad.
One thing I've heard said a lot is that humans and monkeys don't have a common ancestor, they have a common creator. Similarities with appearance, biology, genome, etc, are evidence of the same creator.
I wonder what the numbers are in Europe, I don't know a single person who uses Bing and I barely know anyone non-technical who even knows what it is. Google is the standard here in the Netherlands, we we don't like to change things that are good.
I know a guy who uses bing exclusively, he avoids all things google because they track everything you do. As far as I know he doesn't wear a tinfoil hat.
I thought I read somewhere they had software in place to prevent that tactic.
This is the whole point. Apple has always been about the interface and experience, the personality of an apple product. Android is cold and mechanical, like an android.
Entirely possible Google et-al will never bother to make an exact duplicate of siri. Meaning, the natural speech interaction. The "personality" of it.
Gasp, I wonder if secretly Steve Jobs downloaded his mind into the apple servers and SIRI *IS* Steve Jobs! That's why it is so powerful and natural and has attitude.... That's why the timing of his "death" and the release of the 4S were so close...
I think I'm on to something here...
I'll "come out" and chime in on this.
I'm a Christian. There, I said it. I've been hanging out on Slashdot for over 10 years. And I'm a Christian. Hold on, I'm not done yet.
I am a degreed engineer from one of the top private engineering schools in the country. I watch sci-fi. A lot. I believe in Evolution. I don't think humans evolved from pond scum OR monkeys. I believe in God. I believe he is on our side and is in favor of us. I believe God made the universe. I believe in the Bible. (See below) I have experienced things in my life which reinforce my beliefs. I know strict interpretation of the Bible says the earth is 6000 years old. I wasn't there then, I'm not going to argue about it. I'll leave that to people like Kent Hovind, he likes to argue.
I hate "religion". Religion has done more to harm people and discredit belief in God more than anything. Religion does not equal belief in God nor is the opposite true either. Religion is something people created.
I am suspicious there are important parts of the Bible that have been removed. There are things we've forgotten and not been told. I believe that there are certain parts of eastern mysticism that the Christian ought to pay attention to, such as meditation and the energy points in the body. See David Sereda regarding spirituality across religious boundary lines.
As a Christian, an Engineer and a Technologist I point to the spooky stuff in Quantum Physics as an olive branch between the two camps. There is a God, and we don't understand enough things yet to make science agree with that.
When it's free on Android and Blackberry, it's much harder to justify. Then again, if your organization needs to deploy custom smartphone apps, why on earth would you choose anything but blackberry?
Have you seen the news the last few weeks?
Bullshit.
With a 95% failure rate you could have had seagate tickling your balls while they tried to figure out what was going wrong ... right up until the point where they should you how your power supplies were frying the drives.
That is simply unbelievable to anyone with 1/4 of a clue.
his 95% claim is less outlandish than the post saying enterprise drives are no better than consumer grade drives.
Maybe his 95% claim is from that period of time when seagate was having their little firmware "issue". Maybe his sample size for this anecdote was small, the drives were from the same batch and there was a bad run?
Also, 65% of all statistics made up on the spot are bogus.
I don't care how fixed they say it is. They broke my trust, this app will never see my (or my friends') phones again.
What browser do you plan to go to now? Dolphin "worked" pretty well for me, but ... obviously ...
I don't see spybot SD installing itself and spreading automatically....
You ever hear of these things called "buses" or "trains"?
James May Quote (Top Gear) on a self driving car (paraphrase):
They invented self driving cars ages ago. You get in and tell it where to go and just sit back. They call them taxi cabs!
I dont think engineers and such have ever been target customers for Apple. But if you mean image/video field workers as professionals, then you probably are right. Apple product lines are just following the industry trend of consumerism and becoming more targeted for home users, rather than enterprises(for which they never were targetting to begin with).
The only "professional" I've ever associated with Apple products was in the image/video arena. Used to be, if you were "serious" about making a living doing graphical and video work you had an apple workstation and used photoshop and final cut.
So, is Apple pushing them away? Maybe. I think TFA might be a little flamebait-ish tho. Apple has made some decisions that might be pushing away the pros, but I don't think their decision was to push away the pros. Follow what I'm sayin?
Assuming he hasn't done this sort of thing for a while, he's probably feeling a little nostalgic since his ol' buddy just died. Seems fitting to me, makes sense even. I don't know Woz at all, but I figure he's always been the more personable of the two Steves.
I don't know why we're all trying to figure out his hidden agendas.
BS - Most malware infections today do not come from perusing around the dark alleyways of the internet. Here's an anecdote:
I repaired a machine with a bad malware infection. I also was able to do an audit and see exactly where the machine was going on the inernet, when, and even the searches. The owner's kid was literally searching for busty milfs and goat sex. All week long, after the owner was going to bed. Saturday morning the last search before infection was "TV repair in [local town]". Bam. Drive-by download.
Yeah, it's an anecdote, but it is very symptomatic of what I see all the time. Porn sites are not to blame. Warez is still not safe, but more people do porn than warez and porn is NOT the current main cause of malware.
The ONLY cure on the horizon for malware is browsing in a sandbox, either a purpose built sandbox like "sandboxie" or in a VM. Period.
Bravo. Needed to be said. Apple has survived because of Steve Jobs and also in spite of Steve Jobs.
I don't have a mac or an iphone, but I wouldn't want to live in a world without them.
RIP.
ninite pro also has some auto-update functionality that reminds me (vaguely) of the linux repository functionality.