It doesn't matter if the processes that create the output are in your office, your server room or even your building. You're providing the services that produce the output the business needs and the business management wants. If I.T. has made the transition in your workplace to service provider you will always have a place as the person making sure the desired output is delivered. If management still sees I.T. as the people who take care of the computers then yes you'd have something to worry about.
Now the legions of contractors and subcontractors will sweep in on a tidal wave of self-service and mediocrity to see who can offer the lowest price for their labor and the best kickbacks to the politicians and NRC people in charge of protecting us.
It doesn't matter how good your design is or how strict your regulations are when the people that build, own, maintain and oversee nuclear power plants prize money over all other things, including the safety of the population. This is why we continue to have huge industrial disasters. Not because nuclear power is unsafe, or drilling for oil in the gulf is unsafe. It's because the people in positions of responsibility are weak, selfish idiots.
If you expose a product to at least 100 million people you're going to collect some of those who have addictive personalities. If you think it requires modern marketing analysis to create an addictive game, replacing "real" content with material designed to addict then you must have missed out on the late 1970s/early 1980s when kids were glued to arcade games. Space Invaders, Pac-Man et al were drawing children intro scrounging for every last quarter just for one more play. This happened worldwide, with none of the benefit of the cold, computer-aided fine-tuning that we're told is luring people in.
Can they make a video game more addictive? Possibly, but the idea that only specialized work on a title is what makes people addicted to it is not accurate.
We're probably 20 years away from that if you consider how much testing will need to be done prior to extensive legal challenges and official tests in various cities and states. It will be the greatest legal tool for oppression mankind has ever known.
I have BPPV so I get dizzy pretty easily but after at least twenty MRIs I've never felt anything other than claustrophobia. I wonder if you have to go in head first to get the effect.
I can't support unions when they use the same kind of illegal tactics as employers. I believe in the power of the strike to compel owners to behave responsibly. I do not believe in illegal or simply irresponsible actions to try and achieve that result.
We read about fines like this all the time but there is no follow-up to see if they are ever paid. It's similar to the drug busts where law enforcement agencies assign an arbitrary massively inflated value to the confiscated material to make themselves look good. Agencies declare these fines so they look good in the press, but are they ever actually paid? In full? On time?
I don't understand this article at all because emergency dispatching is not prioritized based on the caller's choice of priority. I could have ten calls at once all insisting they are the top priority and that information would be irrelevant. The nature of the emergency is what's important, not how badly the caller wants assistance.
I dispatched during the L.A. riots and believe me every caller wanted someone to help them RIGHT NOW and I don't blame them. But calls for people being beaten got priority over property crime calls. I question the thought process behind this article that dispatchers do not or cannot already properly prioritize calls.
Any politician who believes that somewhere in America schoolchildren are being "indoctrinated in socialism" must have his motives questioned. This was not about accuracy, this was about a politician chasing the socialism bugbear. It was a strange political agenda couched in the name of accuracy. The validity of the change is undermined by the agenda and acting on one part without addressing the other is disingenuous.
The law was prompted by a bad motive and the citizens should not be held to a higher, more objective standard when assessing the law than the people who sponsored it and put it into place.
"But on Monday, Senate floor sponsor Sen. Mark Madsen, R-Eagle Mountain, said in some states children are being indoctrinated in socialism via some curriculum.
“This is happening at least in some places in our country, so I believe this is all the more important in this state, so that we can protect our children from such curriculum,” Madsen said."
The goal is to make money for government contractors and politcians, not enhance safety. Inefficient, ineffective solutions produce much more profit for government contractors and the politicians that support them.
When I lived in Vancouver, B.C. in the 1980s these "super-quake" stories about the northwest were common, and just as full of lurid and horrible details of destruction. It's not that I think the stories are incorrect so much as they serve no purpose other than to feed the human hunger for new and overwhelming things to fear.
I've lived in Los Angeles since I left Vancouver and been faced with the same cycle of destruction predictions and they serve no useful purpose. They are not instructive. They just terrify people to no real end. How are people supposed to respond to a supposedly impending natural disaster that spells utter destruction? Should we abandon every part of the U.S. that has been under "super-quake" warning for the last 100 years? So there goes the entire west coast? What about the New Madrid fault? Ok, we'll clear out the midwest from top to bottom. Hmm, isn't there a big fault in the northeast that threatens Quebec and New York? Then everyone can move to the southeast. Where they'll all get killed by hurricanes.
I've been playing computer and console games as long as they've existed and the environment in RDR blew me away. Great set design and decoration, wonderful sound and lighting. As impressive as the density is of cityscapes like GTA 4 and Saints Row 2 convincing nature settings are extremely hard to pull off but RDR does it. Sun, dust, shade, scrub, elevation changes... it makes the attempt by games like Oblivion and Fallen Earth almost laughable.
I've spent the first hour just riding around and hunting, or looking for people to interact with.
Sorry, I didn't see that one sentence in the article. Considering that "porn" was the first word in the headline to describe the content the botnet was spewing I expected to see more related info in the article than just a single sentence.
I honestly have never heard of "Smashing Magazine." Perhaps the professional web designers can attest to whether they're as important to the field as their PR paints them.
Just like pretty much every other company on Earth their primary interest is money. All other concerns are secondary including the safety of the public. It's not the technology that is dangerous, it's the terrible people operating it. I believe nuclear energy can be safe in theory but in practice it's the people who inject the danger to the process. This little omission is just one of thousands, if not tens of thousands of cover-ups by the nuclear industry who are their own worst enemy when it comes to the public embracing nuclear power.
I trust nuclear power. I do not trust the people responsible for providing it, or the people responsible for overseeing them. They are all blinded by money.
... and stuff like this makes me anxious. I had 30+ zaps to my leg. Initially there was a rather involved simulation to precisely aim the beam. They made a mold to hold my leg in place for the treatments and tattooed targeting dots on my leg.
They screwed up. It was completely bungled and part of the beam was aimed to go right down the side of my leg, frying the top layer of skin. Within a couple of treatments they adjusted it and just used sharpies to make new targeting dots.
One day I was lying on the table with my balls in the lead sphere to protect them when over the PA I heard the old Windows error sound. Scared the crap out of me until they told me they only used Windows for their scheduling software.
I don't feel like nuclear power itself is dangerous. I'm worried about the people who own and operate the plants. Most companies in this world focus on one thing: increasing profits at the expense of everything else. Forget safety. Forget responsibility. Whatever the industry just cut things to the absolute razor's edge to line the pockets of the owners and executives.
The repercussions of this attitude in the nuclear power industry are far greater than other energy producers. Mistakes (or outright negligence) in the handling of materials related to nuclear power production become the legacy of generations, and as usual we will only find out about these problems when it's too late.
Nuclear power can be clean. It can also be relatively safe. It's the people in the equation that make me anti-nuke. I just don't trust the owners, operators or regulators.
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It doesn't matter if the processes that create the output are in your office, your server room or even your building. You're providing the services that produce the output the business needs and the business management wants. If I.T. has made the transition in your workplace to service provider you will always have a place as the person making sure the desired output is delivered. If management still sees I.T. as the people who take care of the computers then yes you'd have something to worry about.
Now the legions of contractors and subcontractors will sweep in on a tidal wave of self-service and mediocrity to see who can offer the lowest price for their labor and the best kickbacks to the politicians and NRC people in charge of protecting us.
It doesn't matter how good your design is or how strict your regulations are when the people that build, own, maintain and oversee nuclear power plants prize money over all other things, including the safety of the population. This is why we continue to have huge industrial disasters. Not because nuclear power is unsafe, or drilling for oil in the gulf is unsafe. It's because the people in positions of responsibility are weak, selfish idiots.
Would've made for a more interesting article.
If you expose a product to at least 100 million people you're going to collect some of those who have addictive personalities. If you think it requires modern marketing analysis to create an addictive game, replacing "real" content with material designed to addict then you must have missed out on the late 1970s/early 1980s when kids were glued to arcade games. Space Invaders, Pac-Man et al were drawing children intro scrounging for every last quarter just for one more play. This happened worldwide, with none of the benefit of the cold, computer-aided fine-tuning that we're told is luring people in.
Can they make a video game more addictive? Possibly, but the idea that only specialized work on a title is what makes people addicted to it is not accurate.
We're probably 20 years away from that if you consider how much testing will need to be done prior to extensive legal challenges and official tests in various cities and states. It will be the greatest legal tool for oppression mankind has ever known.
I have BPPV so I get dizzy pretty easily but after at least twenty MRIs I've never felt anything other than claustrophobia. I wonder if you have to go in head first to get the effect.
I can't support unions when they use the same kind of illegal tactics as employers. I believe in the power of the strike to compel owners to behave responsibly. I do not believe in illegal or simply irresponsible actions to try and achieve that result.
We read about fines like this all the time but there is no follow-up to see if they are ever paid. It's similar to the drug busts where law enforcement agencies assign an arbitrary massively inflated value to the confiscated material to make themselves look good. Agencies declare these fines so they look good in the press, but are they ever actually paid? In full? On time?
It's a self-promotion piece that tries to pull disparate internet issues together and fails.
I don't understand this article at all because emergency dispatching is not prioritized based on the caller's choice of priority. I could have ten calls at once all insisting they are the top priority and that information would be irrelevant. The nature of the emergency is what's important, not how badly the caller wants assistance.
I dispatched during the L.A. riots and believe me every caller wanted someone to help them RIGHT NOW and I don't blame them. But calls for people being beaten got priority over property crime calls. I question the thought process behind this article that dispatchers do not or cannot already properly prioritize calls.
Any politician who believes that somewhere in America schoolchildren are being "indoctrinated in socialism" must have his motives questioned. This was not about accuracy, this was about a politician chasing the socialism bugbear. It was a strange political agenda couched in the name of accuracy. The validity of the change is undermined by the agenda and acting on one part without addressing the other is disingenuous.
The law was prompted by a bad motive and the citizens should not be held to a higher, more objective standard when assessing the law than the people who sponsored it and put it into place.
From the article:
"But on Monday, Senate floor sponsor Sen. Mark Madsen, R-Eagle Mountain, said in some states children are being indoctrinated in socialism via some curriculum.
“This is happening at least in some places in our country, so I believe this is all the more important in this state, so that we can protect our children from such curriculum,” Madsen said."
What a wonderfully bigoted, one-sided view of things. Do you provide this service professionally?
...it's the people producing it that are dangerous.
The goal is to make money for government contractors and politcians, not enhance safety. Inefficient, ineffective solutions produce much more profit for government contractors and the politicians that support them.
When I lived in Vancouver, B.C. in the 1980s these "super-quake" stories about the northwest were common, and just as full of lurid and horrible details of destruction. It's not that I think the stories are incorrect so much as they serve no purpose other than to feed the human hunger for new and overwhelming things to fear.
I've lived in Los Angeles since I left Vancouver and been faced with the same cycle of destruction predictions and they serve no useful purpose. They are not instructive. They just terrify people to no real end. How are people supposed to respond to a supposedly impending natural disaster that spells utter destruction? Should we abandon every part of the U.S. that has been under "super-quake" warning for the last 100 years? So there goes the entire west coast? What about the New Madrid fault? Ok, we'll clear out the midwest from top to bottom. Hmm, isn't there a big fault in the northeast that threatens Quebec and New York? Then everyone can move to the southeast. Where they'll all get killed by hurricanes.
I've been playing computer and console games as long as they've existed and the environment in RDR blew me away. Great set design and decoration, wonderful sound and lighting. As impressive as the density is of cityscapes like GTA 4 and Saints Row 2 convincing nature settings are extremely hard to pull off but RDR does it. Sun, dust, shade, scrub, elevation changes... it makes the attempt by games like Oblivion and Fallen Earth almost laughable.
I've spent the first hour just riding around and hunting, or looking for people to interact with.
Destroying one of our rovers is a hostile act!
Sorry, I didn't see that one sentence in the article. Considering that "porn" was the first word in the headline to describe the content the botnet was spewing I expected to see more related info in the article than just a single sentence.
Supporting/controlling botnets I can understand, but where does serving up porn figure in the shutdown? I can't see how it did.
I honestly have never heard of "Smashing Magazine." Perhaps the professional web designers can attest to whether they're as important to the field as their PR paints them.
And your post perfectly demonstrates why the majority of people will never trust nuclear energy proponents. Nothing but insults! :D
Just like pretty much every other company on Earth their primary interest is money. All other concerns are secondary including the safety of the public. It's not the technology that is dangerous, it's the terrible people operating it. I believe nuclear energy can be safe in theory but in practice it's the people who inject the danger to the process. This little omission is just one of thousands, if not tens of thousands of cover-ups by the nuclear industry who are their own worst enemy when it comes to the public embracing nuclear power.
I trust nuclear power. I do not trust the people responsible for providing it, or the people responsible for overseeing them. They are all blinded by money.
... and stuff like this makes me anxious. I had 30+ zaps to my leg. Initially there was a rather involved simulation to precisely aim the beam. They made a mold to hold my leg in place for the treatments and tattooed targeting dots on my leg.
They screwed up. It was completely bungled and part of the beam was aimed to go right down the side of my leg, frying the top layer of skin. Within a couple of treatments they adjusted it and just used sharpies to make new targeting dots.
One day I was lying on the table with my balls in the lead sphere to protect them when over the PA I heard the old Windows error sound. Scared the crap out of me until they told me they only used Windows for their scheduling software.
I don't feel like nuclear power itself is dangerous. I'm worried about the people who own and operate the plants. Most companies in this world focus on one thing: increasing profits at the expense of everything else. Forget safety. Forget responsibility. Whatever the industry just cut things to the absolute razor's edge to line the pockets of the owners and executives.
The repercussions of this attitude in the nuclear power industry are far greater than other energy producers. Mistakes (or outright negligence) in the handling of materials related to nuclear power production become the legacy of generations, and as usual we will only find out about these problems when it's too late.
Nuclear power can be clean. It can also be relatively safe. It's the people in the equation that make me anti-nuke. I just don't trust the owners, operators or regulators.