I know it's probably wishful thinking, but I do wish that we may someday start in off-planet colonization efforts. If most manual jobs are handled by machine, then perhaps somewhat more risky, labour-intense jobs will become more attractive. If they're augmented by machines, so much the better (you'll need intellectually-oriented people too, but plain old hard work and rough lifestyle would play a generous part).
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So what the hell. Locally in the US, and on the other side of the world, google was shipping within days. For Canadians ordering the 16GB models, it's an additional 1-2 weeks (I ordered mine before Jun30). Beyond that, those that pre-ordered are getting their devices later AND paying more for shipping than if they had just ordered from Staples etc. Canoe has a good article on how Canadians are getting hosed in this regard.
It's a nice device, and I do support what Google is doing with the Android OS, but their respect for (esp Canadian) customers in this regard has been absolute shit.
A few times when I was younger, I saw people had left their lights on and their doors unlocked. Rather than let the battery drain, I popped the door and flipped the lights off.
I wonder what the legal situation would be on that nowadays, especially with a "bait" vehicle.
With the exemption of certain fancy toys (brand-name smartphones for example cost much the same anywhere), the value of a wage depends greatly on the cost-of-living in the area.
If the workers may $300/month, but you can get a decent lunch for under a buck then it's not actually too bad.
Stop being cheap/lazy about critical infrastructure? There are rules and frameworks for the medical industry (HIPAA etc). Ditto for the construction industry. Perhaps they need something similar for critical IT infrastructure, especially regarding firewalls, air-gaps, passwords, encryption, patching, and upgrading.
How about we start with: * Control of any critical system that does not need to be online shall not be accessible online (air-gap) * Information that is needed in a read-only capacity should be configured through a non-writable medium
If you want reports from your water treatment plant, then have something send data through a one-way medium. Remote access is great and all, but if what's standing between you and a possible hack harming thousands or millions is a few on-site personnel rather than remote access... stop being cheap about it and put people on-site.
A bunch of street thugs decided to take potshots against each other, with civilians in between.
Now add a situation where there's gas obscuring the view, and tons of people with guns exchanging fire. Maybe you can identify the "bad guy", but what's to stop you from blowing the brains out of somebody else either a) by accident b) mistakening him/her for the malicious shooter
Evidence held against them is rarely divulged, nor is it clear how they can challenge it.
And therein lies the problem. They want to know everything about us. They want to share it amongst themselves.
BUT, when we want to know how our information is being used, stored, or managed, it's a big secret. When we want to know about them, it's a secret (remember how Mark Z got pissed when people got into his FB profile).
Combine that with secret court trials and other such things and it's damn scary.
There often seems to be a double-standard for some of this type of thing. Where I used to work, some of the same people who would have been annoyed by this and run to HR were the same people who often told "useless man" jokes. If one thinks that men aren't regularly denigrated (at least by the standards of this article) in the workplace, you're sadly mistaken. A joke I once heard. In the beginning, it tends to leave "righteous types" looking very offended:
35% of women worry that their @ss is too big
25% of women worry that their @ss is too small
40% say that he's a good provider and love him just the way he is
By the end, they laugh and find it funny. Why is that?
As many people say "I'd hate for my daughter to be exposed to [behavior X]..." So would I.I would have for my daughter be skipped for a promotion, have her ideas dismissed as less significant, or otherwise have her future harmed in any way according to her gender. On the other hand, I'll also teach her the difference between a silly joke, deliberate vindictiveness, and damaging discriminate behaviour. Most women I know would recognise that this joke doesn't show hostility to women at all, but rather that - as another bloke aptly put it already - this guy probably still chuckles at the phrases he can write by turning his calculator upside down. Silly, mildly immature, but hardly the cause for great uproar.
There is very little in this world that can be funny without potentially offending somebody. I hope that your children grow up to an world where they can still laugh and have a little fun (even immature fun sometimes), while not suffering because some dumb sod did something truly hurtfully discriminatory. I hope your children find success in their lives, but not at the expense of laughter and happiness.
Because the cost of court + legal fees may be exceeded by the revenue of blocking your opponent's product from market at launch, crippling their initial sales, or damaging their reputation.
If company [S] comes out with a product that has new technology and features, but company [A] blocks it at launch for 6 months using a B.S. patent... then company [A] launches their own product with similar tech features, it's completely worth it for them to tie things up in court and even pay out legal fees. It's also terribly anti-competitive, but the courts don't seem to be dealing with that yet.
It takes a lot of labor to pry apart the circuit board from the plastic and metal structures around it.
Maybe for somebody who only does it once in a blue moon, and is concerned about saving the housing. For other stuff, it's pretty easy to tear apart electronics (even iDevices) if you don't care about being able to put it back together afterwards.
After a few different times, I can pull my stuff apart in a reasonable amount of time without damaging it. If I didn't care about the damage it would be a *lot* quicker.
Lots of stuff gets dumped un-necessarily, but there are a few good reasons to replace a CRT a) Resolution. For anyone who plays games, a CRT isn't likely going to meet the resolution requirements. No games aren't a "necessity" in life (but neither is TV) b) Size/space. Depending on the dimensions of your house, an LCD is going to allow you to fit into a smaller floorspace. c) Weight. I left my CRT behind while moving, along with a bunch of furniture which I sold off. It was just too damn heavy to lug around d) Power consumption. An LCD (especially LED-backlit) generally consumes less power than a CRT of equivilent size
That being said, for those that have the space, getting an LCD TV doesn't mean the old CRT needs to get tossed in the dump. Got an old console or two to go with it? Stick it downstairs or somewhere the kids can play, as many older games actually look *better* on a CRT than modern LCD's or plasmas.
Oh I don't agree. Happily married here. What I meant is that not everybody is at the stage where they can manage a relationship (+ rest of life). Many geeks I knew were pretty hopeless until at least post high-school. For those that went to college, meeting somebody (friends, relationships or both) with common interests became a little easier, and their social maturity also improved. I'd imagine by that time raging hormones had also subsided as well.
Geeks can end up doing stupid things. Cracking is dumb, but so is a lot of the more "macho" stuff that occurs in similar age groups until maturity [hopefully] sets in.
A job would be a good start, depending on how the person in question's social skills fit into a work environment (but then, those are pretty important in relationships too).
If said person is a decent hacker, then (s)he is probably decently intelligent and could be putting those skills to good use somewhere. Perhaps part of the problem locally is related to the farming out and devaluation of intelligent jobs.
It takes work, and not everyone is cut out for the same lifestyle.
Some young people aren't into relationships. Some aren't ready. Suggesting that having a relationship is a solution to "social issue X" (in this case, young black-hat hackers) is disingenuous. Possibly in some cases, a relationship would divert attention and help the issue. In other cases perhaps it would cause further/different issues. Some people aren't really cut out for relationships in the same time-frame as others. They need to grow in a general social sense before they start mixing in hormones and the intense psychology of one-on-one relations. Judging by the oft juvenile comments on slashdot, a lot of the geek crowd haven't differentiated "relationship" from "getting lucky" and/or assessed the levels of commitment and complication involved between the two.
Indeed. Copular interactions are fun, but the frustration of trying to figure out the opposite (or in some cases same) sex, coupled with the pain of breakups, etc.
Like my wife and I, who purchased various DVD's while in her home country because: a) They weren't readily available here except possibly from Chinese bootleg shops (generally of crap quality) b) The local versions wouldn't have Subs in her language
My player doesn't like them, but the PC attached to the TV had no problem using VLC.
" there is no indication whatsoever on the hardware or the packaging (or the manual!) that the player is region locked and to what region"
As much as I think that region-encoding is lame and somewhat evil, that statement is false. Almost all DVD players I've seen have a region indicator (on the box at least). The Blu-ray player I recently bought indicated both the regions for DVD and blu-ray (and actually, the Blu-ray region is a lot "bigger" than the DVD region).
Cheap brands may not have any such indicators, but often enough the cheaper brands don't have region-locking (or unskippable ads... wish I could have found a BD player like that).
You mean the clearly-marked, fairly highly visible van that's driving through a public area, right? The one that has alghorythms that try to blur out people's faces so that they DON'T show up on street view?
Oh yes, that's exactly the same as somebody installing surveillance software on somebody else's property, eavesdropping on their customers, and using said photos in their entirety without permission.
When I saw the google van go by, I waved. If somebody had installed software without permission on my computer (or on my personal/business premesis), I'd be pissed.
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I know it's probably wishful thinking, but I do wish that we may someday start in off-planet colonization efforts.
If most manual jobs are handled by machine, then perhaps somewhat more risky, labour-intense jobs will become more attractive. If they're augmented by machines, so much the better (you'll need intellectually-oriented people too, but plain old hard work and rough lifestyle would play a generous part).
$2 per meal? Where would this be?
US Status:
If you ordered your tablet with a case, charger or Nexus Q, your Nexus 7 will ship this week with overnight shipping, in some cases ahead of the rest of your order. But don’t worry, the rest of your order will be on its way soon.
UK Status:
All Nexus 7 8GB orders will ship by July 20 (BST). All Nexus 7 16GB orders placed through June 30 (BST), will ship by July 20 (BST).
AU Status:
All Nexus 7 8GB and Nexus 7 16GB orders will be fulfilled by the end of day on July 19 (AEST) and will arrive in 3-5 days.
CA Status:
We’ve shipped all Nexus 7 8GB orders. We are in the process of shipping Nexus 7 16GB orders and will ship them in 1-2 weeks.
========
So what the hell. Locally in the US, and on the other side of the world, google was shipping within days. For Canadians ordering the 16GB models, it's an additional 1-2 weeks (I ordered mine before Jun30). Beyond that, those that pre-ordered are getting their devices later AND paying more for shipping than if they had just ordered from Staples etc. Canoe has a good article on how Canadians are getting hosed in this regard.
It's a nice device, and I do support what Google is doing with the Android OS, but their respect for (esp Canadian) customers in this regard has been absolute shit.
Obviously it's more than just the cost of lunch, I was just using that as a base for measurement.
Mojang should start a defend-against-patent-trolls fund. I'd be willing to donate.
Car alarms would be one reason for me. Even if the door is unlocked, it might still be alarmed (embarrassing even if you're trying to be helpful).
My other reason: people are more hostile these days so that "being helpful" may end one up in more trouble than it's worth. Sad, but true.
A few times when I was younger, I saw people had left their lights on and their doors unlocked. Rather than let the battery drain, I popped the door and flipped the lights off.
I wonder what the legal situation would be on that nowadays, especially with a "bait" vehicle.
With the exemption of certain fancy toys (brand-name smartphones for example cost much the same anywhere), the value of a wage depends greatly on the cost-of-living in the area.
If the workers may $300/month, but you can get a decent lunch for under a buck then it's not actually too bad.
Stop being cheap/lazy about critical infrastructure?
There are rules and frameworks for the medical industry (HIPAA etc). Ditto for the construction industry.
Perhaps they need something similar for critical IT infrastructure, especially regarding firewalls, air-gaps, passwords, encryption, patching, and upgrading.
How about we start with:
* Control of any critical system that does not need to be online shall not be accessible online (air-gap)
* Information that is needed in a read-only capacity should be configured through a non-writable medium
If you want reports from your water treatment plant, then have something send data through a one-way medium. Remote access is great and all, but if what's standing between you and a possible hack harming thousands or millions is a few on-site personnel rather than remote access... stop being cheap about it and put people on-site.
If that's the case, I'd imagine that the theatre is going to face a rather serious safety investigation and/or lawsuit.
How about something like this?
A bunch of street thugs decided to take potshots against each other, with civilians in between.
Now add a situation where there's gas obscuring the view, and tons of people with guns exchanging fire. Maybe you can identify the "bad guy", but what's to stop you from blowing the brains out of somebody else either
a) by accident
b) mistakening him/her for the malicious shooter
Evidence held against them is rarely divulged, nor is it clear how they can challenge it.
And therein lies the problem. They want to know everything about us. They want to share it amongst themselves.
BUT, when we want to know how our information is being used, stored, or managed, it's a big secret. When we want to know about them, it's a secret (remember how Mark Z got pissed when people got into his FB profile).
Combine that with secret court trials and other such things and it's damn scary.
There often seems to be a double-standard for some of this type of thing. Where I used to work, some of the same people who would have been annoyed by this and run to HR were the same people who often told "useless man" jokes. If one thinks that men aren't regularly denigrated (at least by the standards of this article) in the workplace, you're sadly mistaken. A joke I once heard. In the beginning, it tends to leave "righteous types" looking very offended:
35% of women worry that their @ss is too big
25% of women worry that their @ss is too small
40% say that he's a good provider and love him just the way he is
By the end, they laugh and find it funny. Why is that?
As many people say "I'd hate for my daughter to be exposed to [behavior X]..."
So would I.I would have for my daughter be skipped for a promotion, have her ideas dismissed as less significant, or otherwise have her future harmed in any way according to her gender. On the other hand, I'll also teach her the difference between a silly joke, deliberate vindictiveness, and damaging discriminate behaviour. Most women I know would recognise that this joke doesn't show hostility to women at all, but rather that - as another bloke aptly put it already - this guy probably still chuckles at the phrases he can write by turning his calculator upside down. Silly, mildly immature, but hardly the cause for great uproar.
There is very little in this world that can be funny without potentially offending somebody. I hope that your children grow up to an world where they can still laugh and have a little fun (even immature fun sometimes), while not suffering because some dumb sod did something truly hurtfully discriminatory. I hope your children find success in their lives, but not at the expense of laughter and happiness.
Don't worry, McDonalds, KFC, and Burger King are working on fixing that...
I've seen this in Gnome/linux and on Smartphones for quite a long time. How is it innovative?
Because the cost of court + legal fees may be exceeded by the revenue of blocking your opponent's product from market at launch, crippling their initial sales, or damaging their reputation.
If company [S] comes out with a product that has new technology and features, but company [A] blocks it at launch for 6 months using a B.S. patent... then company [A] launches their own product with similar tech features, it's completely worth it for them to tie things up in court and even pay out legal fees. It's also terribly anti-competitive, but the courts don't seem to be dealing with that yet.
It takes a lot of labor to pry apart the circuit board from the plastic and metal structures around it.
Maybe for somebody who only does it once in a blue moon, and is concerned about saving the housing. For other stuff, it's pretty easy to tear apart electronics (even iDevices) if you don't care about being able to put it back together afterwards.
After a few different times, I can pull my stuff apart in a reasonable amount of time without damaging it. If I didn't care about the damage it would be a *lot* quicker.
I have a huge 16:9 CRT TV that works perfectly
Lots of stuff gets dumped un-necessarily, but there are a few good reasons to replace a CRT
a) Resolution. For anyone who plays games, a CRT isn't likely going to meet the resolution requirements. No games aren't a "necessity" in life (but neither is TV)
b) Size/space. Depending on the dimensions of your house, an LCD is going to allow you to fit into a smaller floorspace.
c) Weight. I left my CRT behind while moving, along with a bunch of furniture which I sold off. It was just too damn heavy to lug around
d) Power consumption. An LCD (especially LED-backlit) generally consumes less power than a CRT of equivilent size
That being said, for those that have the space, getting an LCD TV doesn't mean the old CRT needs to get tossed in the dump. Got an old console or two to go with it? Stick it downstairs or somewhere the kids can play, as many older games actually look *better* on a CRT than modern LCD's or plasmas.
Oh I don't agree. Happily married here.
What I meant is that not everybody is at the stage where they can manage a relationship (+ rest of life). Many geeks I knew were pretty hopeless until at least post high-school. For those that went to college, meeting somebody (friends, relationships or both) with common interests became a little easier, and their social maturity also improved. I'd imagine by that time raging hormones had also subsided as well.
Geeks can end up doing stupid things. Cracking is dumb, but so is a lot of the more "macho" stuff that occurs in similar age groups until maturity [hopefully] sets in.
A job would be a good start, depending on how the person in question's social skills fit into a work environment (but then, those are pretty important in relationships too).
If said person is a decent hacker, then (s)he is probably decently intelligent and could be putting those skills to good use somewhere. Perhaps part of the problem locally is related to the farming out and devaluation of intelligent jobs.
It takes work, and not everyone is cut out for the same lifestyle.
Some young people aren't into relationships. Some aren't ready. Suggesting that having a relationship is a solution to "social issue X" (in this case, young black-hat hackers) is disingenuous. Possibly in some cases, a relationship would divert attention and help the issue. In other cases perhaps it would cause further/different issues. Some people aren't really cut out for relationships in the same time-frame as others. They need to grow in a general social sense before they start mixing in hormones and the intense psychology of one-on-one relations.
Judging by the oft juvenile comments on slashdot, a lot of the geek crowd haven't differentiated "relationship" from "getting lucky" and/or assessed the levels of commitment and complication involved between the two.
Indeed. Copular interactions are fun, but the frustration of trying to figure out the opposite (or in some cases same) sex, coupled with the pain of breakups, etc.
Computers were safer and more fun...
Like my wife and I, who purchased various DVD's while in her home country because:
a) They weren't readily available here except possibly from Chinese bootleg shops (generally of crap quality)
b) The local versions wouldn't have Subs in her language
My player doesn't like them, but the PC attached to the TV had no problem using VLC.
" there is no indication whatsoever on the hardware or the packaging (or the manual!) that the player is region locked and to what region"
As much as I think that region-encoding is lame and somewhat evil, that statement is false. Almost all DVD players I've seen have a region indicator (on the box at least).
The Blu-ray player I recently bought indicated both the regions for DVD and blu-ray (and actually, the Blu-ray region is a lot "bigger" than the DVD region).
Cheap brands may not have any such indicators, but often enough the cheaper brands don't have region-locking (or unskippable ads... wish I could have found a BD player like that).
You mean the clearly-marked, fairly highly visible van that's driving through a public area, right? The one that has alghorythms that try to blur out people's faces so that they DON'T show up on street view?
Oh yes, that's exactly the same as somebody installing surveillance software on somebody else's property, eavesdropping on their customers, and using said photos in their entirety without permission.
When I saw the google van go by, I waved. If somebody had installed software without permission on my computer (or on my personal/business premesis), I'd be pissed.