I'm under 50, maybe only a decade under, but still. I can solder, but pitches less than 0.5mm are rough. Caps are easy to distinguish from my ass, they're usually a whole lot smaller. I've done AM radio transmitters on a bread board, ultrasonic vision systems, audio amplifiers, and antennas and that was just for fun. For work I've done source/measure units (SMU) that can source DC to an accuracy of microvolts and resolution of 100s of picovolts and measure to an accuracy of femtoamps and a resolution of attoamps, I'll bet you've never worried about the DC resistance of solder mask. I've also done analog to 2.1G and digital to 3Gbps (comes out to about 10G edges). Everything I've designed has been wholly built in the US. Much of what I've designed has been exported to Asia, primarily Taiwan and China. (Sorry getting off-topic there)
My boys want to spend their days pulling things apart to figure out how they work and what they can do with them. My daughter wants to know the why, but could care less what she can do with the knowledge (she's the typical physicist).
Yes there are a lot of plugged in and tuned out kids (aka anyone younger than me) who have no interest in how things work, but the majority I've interacted with are still truly curious. A lot of twenty-somethings I've talked with are curious about their technological world, even if they don't understand it. We're not sunk yet.
The admin's point of view should be that there will always be barbarians at the gates, it's his job to keep them out. In this case the admin instead put up a big bright neon welcome sign. It is this gross negligence which so over shadows the hacker's criminal activities that causes outrage here. This is part of the way we self police, or at least educate. In the non-tech inclined world the perceived level of responsibility will be switched.
Since university at least Obama has never been below upper middle class...how can you call him a class traitor? A race-traitor perhaps, but he is mixed race. Has he let down the masses he fooled with all the promises of change? Absolutely. Has he betrayed his own class? Not the least, he is an integral part of the ruling class. Or do you think there are substantial differences between the Republican and Democratic parties? If there is no real substantial difference between the parties, why do you think there is a substantial difference in their candidates? The only difference is on the campaign trail.
Going to college and having student loans isn't the problem with engineering. The problem is that schools used to weed out marginal candidates more effectively. Now they graduate with a 3.something gpa despite having no critical thinking skills. The rough solution is to only focus on hiring from schools that do the hard work for you.
I'd say my school effectively weeded out marginal or even good candidates effectively. I went to a small school, but when the dean of engineering got all the freshman engineering students together to talk about the next four years for us there were about 300 students (very small school). When I graduated the entire graduating engineering class for four engineering disciplines sat together in one row of about 30 students. My EE group started out around 150 students, there were nine of us left to graduate. We had a general attrition rate of 90%, and 94% in EE. We kept only the brightest and/or most stubborn (I fall into the second category just ask my wife).
`In a report titled "The other side of Apple", published 20th, 2011, a coalition of environmental organizations brought to light problems of pollution and poisoning in Apple's supply chain in China. Yet to this day, Apple has systematically failed to respond to all queries regarding their suply chain environmental violations'.
So Apple hasn't responded to all queries/allegations, that's easy to accomplish. Just add as the last allegation: "Job's mother was a hamster and his father smelt of elderberries" and you know Apple won't respond to it. Tada instant fodder for the Apple's a horrible steward of the environment, as in "Apple has failed to respond to all queries".
We don't manufacture anything in North America anymore because we have environmental regulations that cost billions of dollars to comply with...
I work for a company that designs, fabricates, and assembles our products in the US. We make a profit. We also do contract assembly. Manufacturing is not dead in North America, but much of it has moved inland from the coasts.
I know, I'm responding to the Anonymous Troll, but nonetheless this seems to be a common delusion on Slashdot. The company I work for makes a class of electronic equipment. We do not make our own PCBs, but neither do we get them made in China. Our PCBs are fabricated in a few plants scattered about the US. (Our PCBs are more complex than those found in PCs.) Once the PCBs are fabricated we assemble them in-house. Design, fabrication, assembly, test and QA are all done in the US. Not only do we do our own assembly, but as we have capacity we do contract assembly. US manufacturing is not dead, but a lot of it has moved to the Mid West.
This is nothing new in Pakistan, they open(ed) all mail. I lived there as a young teen (too many years ago) and one of the other expats related how she had written her mother and and mentioned the mail being opened. When her mother received the letter it had been slit open and taped back shut. In the letter where she had mentioned the mail being opened was a note from the post office which said, "We don't open the mail."
There were no revolutions over mail being opened, or over telephone conversations being monitored, there's not likely to be a revolution over encryption being banned. There will be riots in the middle of the summer, there always are, I think it's just that the heat gets to be too much.
Contributions...... that needs to be done by people who *really* know what they are doing. People that can participate and fix bugs and have a deeper understanding of the software.
Not really. I'm a hardware guy with a minimal understanding of C. I was working with a friend and colleague to implement Asterisk for an office of 60 extensions when we found a bug in the voicemail conf parser. (In 1.2 iirc). I worked through the problem and modified the code to fix it, but in analyzing the original code I couldn't explain why it didn't work. Still I contributed the fix and it was accepted. You don't have to be a super software guru to contribute code to OSS.
The point being neither CEO apparently contributed as a defensive method, but because of their own personal beliefs. Had they played the political game this likely wouldn't have happened. Neither party is above persecuting people who don't toe the line.
Let's take a rural state like south dakota, with a per capita income of $17,562, absolutely minimal broadband (if they could afford it on that), and externalize the power, internet connection, and computing resources because we can't pay for the unfunded federal mandates.
And let's take that money that could be spent on teachers and school infrastructure, and throws hundreds of millions into the e-training contract, software, training and courseware development.
Because by the time it's done, you'll have a billion dollar project or millions in training in COTS shit like WEBCT.... The infrastructure isn't there--it isn't as simple as adding classroom technology, and in a lot of places in the US -- it probably never will be.
Let's take a rural state, in fact let's take South Dakota itself. For years now South Dakota has had a distance learning program for middle and high school students that allows them to get all sorts of classes that would not otherwise be available in the small towns and small school districts in the state. The infrastructure is there and has been for years because the culture and dynamics of such a low population density demanded it. SD has pretty good broadband coverage with fiber. SD has some of the lowest energy costs in the US. This is not a significant burden on the population as you make it out to be.
Yep, believe it or not a red state has planned ahead and put in infrastructure when it could pay for it. Now that infrastructure can help it get through the hard times.
Wow, you had it easy. My grade school kids in South Dakota went to school from 7h50 to 16h00 with a 30 minute lunch break and two ten minute breaks. High school here starts later but goes longer.
Look at the region this is happening in. These are farmers, lots of single earner families. The towns are small, two towns have 300 kids, and much of the town will be extended family. This isn't the same as if it were happening in NYC.
Can we PLEASE start school at 9am. Prior to that, it messes with teenager circadian rhythm, which is not good for retaining information. I see schools starting earlier and earlier. One school a bit away from here is starting school at 6:45.
I'm not sure about this school district, but others in South Dakota have done this for middle and high school. Well middle school starts at 8:30 and high school at 9:00, the classes go later in each as well.
I'd wager less than 25% will be put into daycare. These two towns are out in the middle of farm country, there's not much else there. These will tend to be single earner families and many of them will have both parents around home much of the time. Add in the roughly 50% in middle and high school who can stay home by themselves and there you go. The daycare costs should be closer to $30K.
only problem with this assessment is that in Texas perry has been getting school funding slashed and firing teachers.
What's that have to do with parents abdicating their responsibilities as disciplinarians while forbidding the school system from administering discipline? Or are you so desperate to demonize Perry that you can't see anything else when you see the name "Texas"? (And I thought the Republicans were bad with Clinton).
Can't speak to this device since it looks a lot more complex, but I did a similar project in school for my EE. It ended up pretty simple after considering more complex options. The device had an ultrasonic emitter, an ultrasonic receiver, a 555 timer and a speaker. The 555 drove the emitter and speaker at a given frequency of chirps. However if the receiver got the pulse early it would interrupt the 555 and cause it to transmit sooner. Thus as an object got near the frequency of chirps would go up.
Parts List: (from 15 years memory sorry)
Ultrasonic transmitter
Ultrasonic receiver
Speaker (aka sonic transmitter)
555 Timer + R/C timing parts.
Amplifier (transistor I think) for both the speaker and transmitter
9-Volt battery
This device was mounted to a pair of glasses so the user would just move their head around to scan for objects. It could catch the edge of a table, but obviously had trouble with surfaces at a significant angle. One problem during testing was the transmitter would over power the receiver when it wasn't on a user's head. Instead of keeping a handy supply of freshman heads around I tried a 2x4 and found that ultrasonically at least the human head and a 2x4 are very similar.
Random junk because slashdot doesn't think I'm human...however I know my head and a 2x4 look the same to ultrasonic which must prove I am human.
It's my understanding that the proposed buyer in any major deal usually sees a drop in share price since they are proposing to reduce their available capital by a significant amount. What would be more telling is what happens to MSFT and AAPL.
Notebooks get similar treatment. A Windows notebook identical in specs and condition to a first gen MacBook is worthless while the MacBook is worth $102.77.
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CW's a lot harder than electrical theory.
Wow, you mention "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man" yet totally forgot about "Demolition Man"?
It was totally unrealistic, no one in their right mind would vote Schwarzenegger for governor.
You'd have better luck on the MW bands, but that of course requires a General or better ticket.
But a General isn't that hard to get any more. There's no code requirement, so it can be done with memorization.
I'm under 50, maybe only a decade under, but still. I can solder, but pitches less than 0.5mm are rough. Caps are easy to distinguish from my ass, they're usually a whole lot smaller. I've done AM radio transmitters on a bread board, ultrasonic vision systems, audio amplifiers, and antennas and that was just for fun. For work I've done source/measure units (SMU) that can source DC to an accuracy of microvolts and resolution of 100s of picovolts and measure to an accuracy of femtoamps and a resolution of attoamps, I'll bet you've never worried about the DC resistance of solder mask. I've also done analog to 2.1G and digital to 3Gbps (comes out to about 10G edges). Everything I've designed has been wholly built in the US. Much of what I've designed has been exported to Asia, primarily Taiwan and China. (Sorry getting off-topic there)
My boys want to spend their days pulling things apart to figure out how they work and what they can do with them. My daughter wants to know the why, but could care less what she can do with the knowledge (she's the typical physicist).
Yes there are a lot of plugged in and tuned out kids (aka anyone younger than me) who have no interest in how things work, but the majority I've interacted with are still truly curious. A lot of twenty-somethings I've talked with are curious about their technological world, even if they don't understand it. We're not sunk yet.
At current RIAA prices isn't that just two MP3s?
The admin's point of view should be that there will always be barbarians at the gates, it's his job to keep them out. In this case the admin instead put up a big bright neon welcome sign. It is this gross negligence which so over shadows the hacker's criminal activities that causes outrage here. This is part of the way we self police, or at least educate. In the non-tech inclined world the perceived level of responsibility will be switched.
or c) a class traitor.
Since university at least Obama has never been below upper middle class...how can you call him a class traitor? A race-traitor perhaps, but he is mixed race. Has he let down the masses he fooled with all the promises of change? Absolutely. Has he betrayed his own class? Not the least, he is an integral part of the ruling class. Or do you think there are substantial differences between the Republican and Democratic parties? If there is no real substantial difference between the parties, why do you think there is a substantial difference in their candidates? The only difference is on the campaign trail.
Going to college and having student loans isn't the problem with engineering. The problem is that schools used to weed out marginal candidates more effectively. Now they graduate with a 3.something gpa despite having no critical thinking skills. The rough solution is to only focus on hiring from schools that do the hard work for you.
I'd say my school effectively weeded out marginal or even good candidates effectively. I went to a small school, but when the dean of engineering got all the freshman engineering students together to talk about the next four years for us there were about 300 students (very small school). When I graduated the entire graduating engineering class for four engineering disciplines sat together in one row of about 30 students. My EE group started out around 150 students, there were nine of us left to graduate. We had a general attrition rate of 90%, and 94% in EE. We kept only the brightest and/or most stubborn (I fall into the second category just ask my wife).
`In a report titled "The other side of Apple", published 20th, 2011, a coalition of environmental organizations brought to light problems of pollution and poisoning in Apple's supply chain in China. Yet to this day, Apple has systematically failed to respond to all queries regarding their suply chain environmental violations'.
So Apple hasn't responded to all queries/allegations, that's easy to accomplish. Just add as the last allegation: "Job's mother was a hamster and his father smelt of elderberries" and you know Apple won't respond to it. Tada instant fodder for the Apple's a horrible steward of the environment, as in "Apple has failed to respond to all queries".
We don't manufacture anything in North America anymore because we have environmental regulations that cost billions of dollars to comply with...
I work for a company that designs, fabricates, and assembles our products in the US. We make a profit. We also do contract assembly. Manufacturing is not dead in North America, but much of it has moved inland from the coasts.
I know, I'm responding to the Anonymous Troll, but nonetheless this seems to be a common delusion on Slashdot. The company I work for makes a class of electronic equipment. We do not make our own PCBs, but neither do we get them made in China. Our PCBs are fabricated in a few plants scattered about the US. (Our PCBs are more complex than those found in PCs.) Once the PCBs are fabricated we assemble them in-house. Design, fabrication, assembly, test and QA are all done in the US. Not only do we do our own assembly, but as we have capacity we do contract assembly. US manufacturing is not dead, but a lot of it has moved to the Mid West.
I smell a revolution brewing.
This is nothing new in Pakistan, they open(ed) all mail. I lived there as a young teen (too many years ago) and one of the other expats related how she had written her mother and and mentioned the mail being opened. When her mother received the letter it had been slit open and taped back shut. In the letter where she had mentioned the mail being opened was a note from the post office which said, "We don't open the mail."
There were no revolutions over mail being opened, or over telephone conversations being monitored, there's not likely to be a revolution over encryption being banned. There will be riots in the middle of the summer, there always are, I think it's just that the heat gets to be too much.
Contributions...... that needs to be done by people who *really* know what they are doing. People that can participate and fix bugs and have a deeper understanding of the software.
Not really. I'm a hardware guy with a minimal understanding of C. I was working with a friend and colleague to implement Asterisk for an office of 60 extensions when we found a bug in the voicemail conf parser. (In 1.2 iirc). I worked through the problem and modified the code to fix it, but in analyzing the original code I couldn't explain why it didn't work. Still I contributed the fix and it was accepted. You don't have to be a super software guru to contribute code to OSS.
The point being neither CEO apparently contributed as a defensive method, but because of their own personal beliefs. Had they played the political game this likely wouldn't have happened. Neither party is above persecuting people who don't toe the line.
Where in the US? I've only lived one place where I couldn't get at least 6Mbps DSL, so there I switched to cable at 15-30 and saved $20/month.
The US did have poor broadband, but it's much better than it was.
Let's take a rural state like south dakota, with a per capita income of $17,562, absolutely minimal broadband (if they could afford it on that), and externalize the power, internet connection, and computing resources because we can't pay for the unfunded federal mandates.
And let's take that money that could be spent on teachers and school infrastructure, and throws hundreds of millions into the e-training contract, software, training and courseware development.
Because by the time it's done, you'll have a billion dollar project or millions in training in COTS shit like WEBCT. ... The infrastructure isn't there--it isn't as simple as adding classroom technology, and in a lot of places in the US -- it probably never will be.
Let's take a rural state, in fact let's take South Dakota itself. For years now South Dakota has had a distance learning program for middle and high school students that allows them to get all sorts of classes that would not otherwise be available in the small towns and small school districts in the state. The infrastructure is there and has been for years because the culture and dynamics of such a low population density demanded it. SD has pretty good broadband coverage with fiber. SD has some of the lowest energy costs in the US. This is not a significant burden on the population as you make it out to be.
Yep, believe it or not a red state has planned ahead and put in infrastructure when it could pay for it. Now that infrastructure can help it get through the hard times.
Wow, you had it easy. My grade school kids in South Dakota went to school from 7h50 to 16h00 with a 30 minute lunch break and two ten minute breaks. High school here starts later but goes longer.
Look at the region this is happening in. These are farmers, lots of single earner families. The towns are small, two towns have 300 kids, and much of the town will be extended family. This isn't the same as if it were happening in NYC.
Can we PLEASE start school at 9am. Prior to that, it messes with teenager circadian rhythm, which is not good for retaining information. I see schools starting earlier and earlier. One school a bit away from here is starting school at 6:45.
I'm not sure about this school district, but others in South Dakota have done this for middle and high school. Well middle school starts at 8:30 and high school at 9:00, the classes go later in each as well.
Probably works find for that school district. There aren't many companies there, mostly farms.
I'd wager less than 25% will be put into daycare. These two towns are out in the middle of farm country, there's not much else there. These will tend to be single earner families and many of them will have both parents around home much of the time. Add in the roughly 50% in middle and high school who can stay home by themselves and there you go. The daycare costs should be closer to $30K.
only problem with this assessment is that in Texas perry has been getting school funding slashed and firing teachers.
What's that have to do with parents abdicating their responsibilities as disciplinarians while forbidding the school system from administering discipline? Or are you so desperate to demonize Perry that you can't see anything else when you see the name "Texas"? (And I thought the Republicans were bad with Clinton).
Can't speak to this device since it looks a lot more complex, but I did a similar project in school for my EE. It ended up pretty simple after considering more complex options. The device had an ultrasonic emitter, an ultrasonic receiver, a 555 timer and a speaker. The 555 drove the emitter and speaker at a given frequency of chirps. However if the receiver got the pulse early it would interrupt the 555 and cause it to transmit sooner. Thus as an object got near the frequency of chirps would go up.
Parts List: (from 15 years memory sorry)
This device was mounted to a pair of glasses so the user would just move their head around to scan for objects. It could catch the edge of a table, but obviously had trouble with surfaces at a significant angle. One problem during testing was the transmitter would over power the receiver when it wasn't on a user's head. Instead of keeping a handy supply of freshman heads around I tried a 2x4 and found that ultrasonically at least the human head and a 2x4 are very similar.
Random junk because slashdot doesn't think I'm human...however I know my head and a 2x4 look the same to ultrasonic which must prove I am human.
It's my understanding that the proposed buyer in any major deal usually sees a drop in share price since they are proposing to reduce their available capital by a significant amount. What would be more telling is what happens to MSFT and AAPL.
Notebooks get similar treatment. A Windows notebook identical in specs and condition to a first gen MacBook is worthless while the MacBook is worth $102.77.