Who chooses? A lot of students choose courses based on what academics advisers recommend? "Oh, you're good at art but terrible in English and with computers. It sounds like you might want to take X, Y, and Z"
Hell, my wife was looking at applying for a position at the local Uni. When she talked to an advisor, they said the recommended requirements for the position was... "a degree." Not a degree in business, tourism, or IT, but "a degree". When she mentioned she already HAD "a degree" but was looking at changing fields, they suggested some other courses etc that might be helpful.
Part of the problem is there is an industry built around pushing people into a system that's high cost and low reward. Many of them aren't sure exactly what they want to do, and are taking the advice of so-called "professionals" which are close ties to the for-profit education system.
And technically they're not telling the truth either. If they want to throttle *ALL* customers down to 1kb/s and then give some "unlimited" data at that speed, fine. But if they're singling out people who have the unlimited package and applying throttling whilst everyone else gets 10MB/s (or whatever), then I'm sorry but that's not going to fly.
Ah yes, the good ol days. Custom maps. Custom gameplay mods (low gravity, grappling hooks, etc). Custom meshes+textures (giant spider VS homer simpson). Custom music (all played to the dance of the sugarplum fairly).
Modern FPS's are cool, but the lack of moddability is lame. Even for games like Battlefield, one of the best parts used to be mods (DesertCombat etc).
That's what a contingency-fee based lawyer is for. Of course, he/she has to believe the case is winnable, and it *will* cost you a pretty penny if you win, but at least you can get representation.
Who's to say that your friendly ISP or government agency isn't doing the same? Or even better yet, how about for OS updates.
Last time I checked even my linux *.list files were referencing HTTP hosts rather than HTTPS (not that HTTPS is really much better, when gov't agencies are concerned)
Might make sense to use an SSL-enabled connection and a key that's provided with the distro.
A cellphone app (or site), which after you've completed your order either sends it to the store directly, or gives you a scannable barcode. Scan the barcode, and your order is done exactly with what you asked for, you just need to pay (or maybe you can even do that through the app)
For those that commonly order the same thing, save the barcode and re-use it next time.
OK, except in Canada it actually works this way. A guy with a gun is noticed. Since there's no legit reason to be carrying around a firearm in public, the police were notified and the guy was picked up.
Now in the U.S., dude may have had a carry permit, and been legit. Around here there's no such thing, so there's a much better chance of noticing when some guy has a rifle in his jacket or a pistol bunging out under his shirt or pants pocket. The only people other than uniformed authorities with guns in public WILL be criminals, or idiots who don't pay attention to the proper storage/transport rules.
People call "women" X because they fill their profiles with pictures of themselves looking like X.
Sometimes this may be true. Other times it's just a convenient insult for morons. I've been called n*gg*r, j*w, sp*c, f*g, etc etc, yet I am white, not religious at all, straight, etc. Really I think that part of it is infantile minds can't come up with more meaningful/fitting insults.
My favorite is the "ask.com updater" which on many machine can't be removed via "Programs and Features" (Add/Remove Programs for those XP users) even as an admin.
On the other hand, that could have been accomplished by doing something like display an error "your device contains an unrecognised/counterfeit chip and cannot be used with this driver.", or possibly a BSOD. That doesn't break the device but does prevent its use with the driver while notifying the user.
Based on the story, it seems like once you plug in the illegitimate devices, they're going to be reassigned the bad PID fairly quickly making them rather useless afterwards. Unfortunately that would pre-empt any sort of windows app which tests whether they're legitimate.
In Linux-land, I'd guess that the current driver still works well. Does anyone know of a way to test whether devices are legitimate?
It's pretty easy to get a gun in Canada if you don't have a criminal record or mental illness, and can find people to vouch for you.
Not all types of guns - handguns are harder - mind you, but hunting is a pretty common sport and rifles or shotguns aren't a huge deal to get if you're patient.
What we *DON'T* have is stuff like carry permits etc allowing people to walk around in public with guns (which I still personally think is a bit crazy). Bag 'em and/or lock 'em up until you're at the range or the hunting trails.
And these days, I *am* seeing more female gamers (though often more casual etc).
Many guys I know started with computers/coding because they wanted to replicate the stuff they played on in younger days. Perhaps we'll see more young girls who grow into women with similar aspirations, which may be a feedback loop resulting in more cross-gender-friendly games.
Except that in many shops "like everyone else" means odd jokes with a certain amount of sarcasm, and things that interpreted a certain way may end up as a trip to HR...
I'll second this for many shops I've worked, but those actually tend to have a good male/female dynamic anyhow. On the other hand, the workplaces that did *NOT* have a good dynamic,often had guy who, yes, tried to be nice but really came off creepy or giving a used-care-salesman type vibe. Sharing weird material, and sharing with other male co-workers after discovered a female c/w's previous "modelling" career was particularly uncool. That the CEO was also early 20's and most of the women tended to be of a certain age/appearance demographic may have also contributed (not that people can't be smart/productive and attractive at the same time, but experience in that environment did indicate that it was a primary contributing factor).
Thankfully, I can honestly say that particular workplace was an outlier, and that most workplaces I've had seem to promote respectful and have good interpersonal relationships.
In my old building, I was on the Strata council. One of the things we made sure was to *never* include fines in our revenue projections. Yes, paid fines went to general revenue, and were somewhat consistent, but all the operating budgets were set from set revenue and fines just got dump in at the end of the year (which did help with unexpected shortfalls, or to shore up the reserve) but they were never *expected*.
HTTPS/SSL, but with the signing, distribution, and recovation done in-house. The big SSL vendors seem to often be prone to poor security, as well as possibly succumbing to the demands of certain government agencies and providing "private" keys.
At least if your certificate is signed in-house, you have control of your certs and a certain amount of extra protection against the above. This might not be a good solution for smaller shops, but mid/medium shops could accomplish this, it's just easier to use a "big name" registrar.
Perhaps one solution would be to have an easily deployed appliance/distribution that runs as an internal certificate store.
Just out of curiosity, what's the shell behind Android? if it's BASH then there could be a *LOT* more exploitable devices out there than people might think.
So how about building inspections, utilities hookups, etc? How are these houses getting connected if they're listed as vacant (and couldn't the city just cross-reference utilities/inspections otherwise)
While they have their flagship products (Galaxy S? for Samsung), those vendors also sell multiple different models targeting multiple market segments, so one thing they've got going is that they've got phones at a lot of different price/feature points. If you're talking about Samsung: NFC, Infrared, water resistance/proof, tap, screen mirroring standards, wireless charging (yes, Apple has NFC too but it's also a year later).
I believe somebody (Song?) was looking into cool tech like 3d/spatial scanning etc.
For features that aren't new but make the phone attractive: user removable battery, SD card slot (so you don't need to buy a new phone to upgrade).
The thing is, Apple was once known for bringing new features that really stood out. The one thing in recent phones I'd say makes the iPhone attractive is the fingerprint-authentication, (though I get similar functionality with a tethered smartwatch). For stuff like NFC, payments, and larger screen sizes they're actually playing catch-up. The new iOS is actually slower in many cases and certainly no better on batteries, while Android L is set to boost battery life and performance (caveat: may not work on 32-bit phones from my current readings).
All that space, just to fit the keyboard. Why not a snap-out keyboard like the HTC phones used to have (and that people were pissed off when they stopped making).
Those users move on, find another site, and rise up again. Or, they just go on a spree with no central site at all. Did shutting down P2P sites stop torrents? Shutting down 4chan as a site won't help, we need to address the underlying social issues.
And yet I've had two of those phones and I've never experienced anything close to the bending issue. Neither has anyone I know (Blackberries and S4's are pretty prevalent through my friends and co-workers), nor have I seen any news about it.
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Who chooses? A lot of students choose courses based on what academics advisers recommend?
"Oh, you're good at art but terrible in English and with computers. It sounds like you might want to take X, Y, and Z"
Hell, my wife was looking at applying for a position at the local Uni. When she talked to an advisor, they said the recommended requirements for the position was... "a degree." Not a degree in business, tourism, or IT, but "a degree". When she mentioned she already HAD "a degree" but was looking at changing fields, they suggested some other courses etc that might be helpful.
Part of the problem is there is an industry built around pushing people into a system that's high cost and low reward. Many of them aren't sure exactly what they want to do, and are taking the advice of so-called "professionals" which are close ties to the for-profit education system.
Works for a little while. But if/when the senior classes all have a 90%+ failure rate then it's not going to last.
"Eh, technically they're not lying"
And technically they're not telling the truth either. If they want to throttle *ALL* customers down to 1kb/s and then give some "unlimited" data at that speed, fine. But if they're singling out people who have the unlimited package and applying throttling whilst everyone else gets 10MB/s (or whatever), then I'm sorry but that's not going to fly.
Ah yes, the good ol days. Custom maps. Custom gameplay mods (low gravity, grappling hooks, etc). Custom meshes+textures (giant spider VS homer simpson). Custom music (all played to the dance of the sugarplum fairly).
Modern FPS's are cool, but the lack of moddability is lame. Even for games like Battlefield, one of the best parts used to be mods (DesertCombat etc).
That's what a contingency-fee based lawyer is for. Of course, he/she has to believe the case is winnable, and it *will* cost you a pretty penny if you win, but at least you can get representation.
Who's to say that your friendly ISP or government agency isn't doing the same? Or even better yet, how about for OS updates.
Last time I checked even my linux *.list files were referencing HTTP hosts rather than HTTPS (not that HTTPS is really much better, when gov't agencies are concerned)
Might make sense to use an SSL-enabled connection and a key that's provided with the distro.
A cellphone app (or site), which after you've completed your order either sends it to the store directly, or gives you a scannable barcode. Scan the barcode, and your order is done exactly with what you asked for, you just need to pay (or maybe you can even do that through the app)
For those that commonly order the same thing, save the barcode and re-use it next time.
OK, except in Canada it actually works this way. A guy with a gun is noticed. Since there's no legit reason to be carrying around a firearm in public, the police were notified and the guy was picked up.
Now in the U.S., dude may have had a carry permit, and been legit. Around here there's no such thing, so there's a much better chance of noticing when some guy has a rifle in his jacket or a pistol bunging out under his shirt or pants pocket. The only people other than uniformed authorities with guns in public WILL be criminals, or idiots who don't pay attention to the proper storage/transport rules.
People call "women" X because they fill their profiles with pictures of themselves looking like X.
Sometimes this may be true. Other times it's just a convenient insult for morons. I've been called n*gg*r, j*w, sp*c, f*g, etc etc, yet I am white, not religious at all, straight, etc. Really I think that part of it is infantile minds can't come up with more meaningful/fitting insults.
My favorite is the "ask.com updater" which on many machine can't be removed via "Programs and Features" (Add/Remove Programs for those XP users) even as an admin.
Thankfully still killable by Malware Bytes, etc.
On the other hand, that could have been accomplished by doing something like display an error "your device contains an unrecognised/counterfeit chip and cannot be used with this driver.", or possibly a BSOD. That doesn't break the device but does prevent its use with the driver while notifying the user.
Based on the story, it seems like once you plug in the illegitimate devices, they're going to be reassigned the bad PID fairly quickly making them rather useless afterwards. Unfortunately that would pre-empt any sort of windows app which tests whether they're legitimate.
In Linux-land, I'd guess that the current driver still works well. Does anyone know of a way to test whether devices are legitimate?
It's pretty easy to get a gun in Canada if you don't have a criminal record or mental illness, and can find people to vouch for you.
Not all types of guns - handguns are harder - mind you, but hunting is a pretty common sport and rifles or shotguns aren't a huge deal to get if you're patient.
What we *DON'T* have is stuff like carry permits etc allowing people to walk around in public with guns (which I still personally think is a bit crazy).
Bag 'em and/or lock 'em up until you're at the range or the hunting trails.
And these days, I *am* seeing more female gamers (though often more casual etc).
Many guys I know started with computers/coding because they wanted to replicate the stuff they played on in younger days. Perhaps we'll see more young girls who grow into women with similar aspirations, which may be a feedback loop resulting in more cross-gender-friendly games.
Except that in many shops "like everyone else" means odd jokes with a certain amount of sarcasm, and things that interpreted a certain way may end up as a trip to HR...
I'll second this for many shops I've worked, but those actually tend to have a good male/female dynamic anyhow. On the other hand, the workplaces that did *NOT* have a good dynamic,often had guy who, yes, tried to be nice but really came off creepy or giving a used-care-salesman type vibe. Sharing weird material, and sharing with other male co-workers after discovered a female c/w's previous "modelling" career was particularly uncool. That the CEO was also early 20's and most of the women tended to be of a certain age/appearance demographic may have also contributed (not that people can't be smart/productive and attractive at the same time, but experience in that environment did indicate that it was a primary contributing factor).
Thankfully, I can honestly say that particular workplace was an outlier, and that most workplaces I've had seem to promote respectful and have good interpersonal relationships.
In my old building, I was on the Strata council. One of the things we made sure was to *never* include fines in our revenue projections. Yes, paid fines went to general revenue, and were somewhat consistent, but all the operating budgets were set from set revenue and fines just got dump in at the end of the year (which did help with unexpected shortfalls, or to shore up the reserve) but they were never *expected*.
Signing key, not the key on the certificate itself.
HTTPS/SSL, but with the signing, distribution, and recovation done in-house. The big SSL vendors seem to often be prone to poor security, as well as possibly succumbing to the demands of certain government agencies and providing "private" keys.
At least if your certificate is signed in-house, you have control of your certs and a certain amount of extra protection against the above. This might not be a good solution for smaller shops, but mid/medium shops could accomplish this, it's just easier to use a "big name" registrar.
Perhaps one solution would be to have an easily deployed appliance/distribution that runs as an internal certificate store.
Just out of curiosity, what's the shell behind Android? if it's BASH then there could be a *LOT* more exploitable devices out there than people might think.
So how about building inspections, utilities hookups, etc? How are these houses getting connected if they're listed as vacant (and couldn't the city just cross-reference utilities/inspections otherwise)
While they have their flagship products (Galaxy S? for Samsung), those vendors also sell multiple different models targeting multiple market segments, so one thing they've got going is that they've got phones at a lot of different price/feature points.
If you're talking about Samsung: NFC, Infrared, water resistance/proof, tap, screen mirroring standards, wireless charging (yes, Apple has NFC too but it's also a year later).
I believe somebody (Song?) was looking into cool tech like 3d/spatial scanning etc.
For features that aren't new but make the phone attractive: user removable battery, SD card slot (so you don't need to buy a new phone to upgrade).
The thing is, Apple was once known for bringing new features that really stood out. The one thing in recent phones I'd say makes the iPhone attractive is the fingerprint-authentication, (though I get similar functionality with a tethered smartwatch). For stuff like NFC, payments, and larger screen sizes they're actually playing catch-up.
The new iOS is actually slower in many cases and certainly no better on batteries, while Android L is set to boost battery life and performance (caveat: may not work on 32-bit phones from my current readings).
All that space, just to fit the keyboard. Why not a snap-out keyboard like the HTC phones used to have (and that people were pissed off when they stopped making).
Those users move on, find another site, and rise up again. Or, they just go on a spree with no central site at all.
Did shutting down P2P sites stop torrents? Shutting down 4chan as a site won't help, we need to address the underlying social issues.
And yet I've had two of those phones and I've never experienced anything close to the bending issue. Neither has anyone I know (Blackberries and S4's are pretty prevalent through my friends and co-workers), nor have I seen any news about it.