I think we are do for another big tech bubble bursting.
I mean really where has the innovation in tech been lately. What can I do online that I could not do in 2010? The only thing that is really new in the last decade or so is the "gig-economy". Basically its a bunch of permutations of GPS/Cellphone apps stapled to Mechanical Turk. Out of that you get Uber, Waze, variations on food delivery and bike sharing, and some other stuff like Takle and dating apps.
If you ask me none of that has to much of a future, well maybe the dating apps. It pretty much is just taking advantage of the fact we have a large population of economically displaced persons who are desperate enough to scratch out an existence doing odd jobs for strangers online. That pretty much fails no matter which way the U6 ticks, if unemployment and uncertainty rise, people will go back to doing their own stuff and staying home, the gigs dry up, if the U6 goes down people will go back to looking for steady jobs with predictable wages.
Really pure tech is a waste of time right now. Which is why Google, Apple, etc are getting into industrial supply trying to work out how to provide self driving components to auto makers.
No that was the old Mozilla/Seamonkey suite. Firefox as a whole was the browser people chose because they did not care. FF scrapped a lot of good features and customization, offered nothing new, it was lighter weight for all of like three releases...
FF is where Mozilla started to go wrong! They should have re-branded the suite and fixed the performance issuers there at the time.
I would argue its a sick state of affairs anyone needs "on the books income" there should be no income recording. We only need consumptive side taxes and most government functions like waste pickup should simply be fee for service. The federal government should stick to its constitutional mandates. Its total budget should probably not be greater than and of the higher population states (which will grow to do a lot of what the feds are doing now).
The federal government should have no power to tax individuals or business only power to tax states, to again provide its constitutionally mandated responsibilities, setting weights and measures, defense, etc.
It can be both an art and a trade. Both the guy working in the design studio building prototypes at a big auto and the guy at the restoration shop down the street are metal fabricators. Both might be highly skilled. One is an artist the other is a tradesman. Which is not to say the tradesman can go make art doing something totally custom but its not bulk of what he does.
The software world is the same. Building that CRUD app for marketing (trade work). Building that library for writing CRUD apps could be art. Designing a new sorting algorithm for a specialized case of inputs could be art, could be science.
I went to a RAILS boot camp and did an Android boot camp as well. Both of which I did because my boss was willing to pay. I could have grabbed some books and taught myself just fine. It was a nice way to spend a week away from other distractions though and get instantly familiar with all the basic machinery so I could than hit the ground running on projects. I say that as someone with a computer science degree (BS) and years of experience in LOB software development.
What I needed out of those camps was freedom form other things like e-mail and people asking me questions about legacy projects my team supported and a chance to walk thru some structured exercises to learn the basic libraries, name spaces, and paradigms used, and parlance ("dictionary" vs "hash" vs "frame" etc) people working primarily in those technologies use.
There were many people at both camps (HOTT) like myself, however there were also people who had clearly never done any development before, outside a shell script or two in their mothers basement, if that. They were not doing much other than key punching the samples in and not understanding at all what was going on, you could tell by the questions they were and were not asking. Its hard for me to imagine they really got much out of the courses. I don't think they could go home and make even a simple CRUD type app/service pair without a lot of hand holding.
nonsense, the birthrate of Americans excluding first generation immigrants is basically at the replacement rate. All you have to do to have the US population stabilize is close the boarder. Yes it will still go up a little because life spans are increasing but unless we all suddenly start living into our 150s that won't really mean all that many more people.
Yea giving people choices sucks! Just admit it you think you are better than people who take deals like that and you want to dictate their choices to them. Well you're not rich so I'll decide that you should ride the train, no car for you; its not good for you!
You hate freedom. Freedom is messy sometime it means letting people make mistakes.
Its not repulsive at all. These devices are installed on cars sold to people with piss poor credit so that they can be easily repossessed if the person does not pay. If these devices did not exist interest rates would have to be higher and people who represent higher credit risks simply could not be financed. So people like the man in this story would likely not have the possibility of buying anything other than a terrible old beater that would not likely be reliable and cause them similar problems.
Really check your frigging outrage. This is market working! Now yes they charge you for the privilege of having this disable device installed. Frankly the dealer did screw up, they should have just built the $200 fee into the initial invoice one way or another so that it was effectively paid once the original invoice was but at the end of the day they were just collecting for services rendered. Surprising someone with additional fees at checkout time is a shitty business practice. Still who hasn't bought something or subscribed to a service and found out that there is an install fee or a setup fee or something missing from the top line number and only in the fine print or worse when they actually were standing their CC in hand?
The alternative for the dealer would have been sending this to collections, so this guy could have been harassed for some indefinite period of time. I am really not sure that is better but it was prior practice.
Wait who is being murdered in the streets and facing a credible threat of genocide?
By population there are enough white supremacists in this country to represent a single rain drop in a swimming pool. They are not important and they have no power. All the statistics show that if anything ethnic minorities have a less to fear as far as being killed by anyone in authority than whites.
So minorities being murdered in the streets is largely a thing being done at the hands of their brothers and sisters. The only genocide risk they face is one from marching themselves into planned parenthood murder mills.
Anfta isn't standing up for anyone ones rights, their grievances are as baseless as any of those offered up by the skinhead crowd. What Antifa is a bunch of violent thugs. Yes we should consider them to be the guys wearing masks and hitting people with bike locks, because those are the folks that identify as Antifa. I have never once heard anyone else say "I am Antifa" not even the types that turn up for "counter protests" in places like Cville.
Tolerance of intolerance is not tolerance. It is acceptance of abuse.
Possibly, but you don't tolerate intolerance by calling it out when you see it. You educate your children not think and behave that way. You pursue actual justice for real grievances in courts of law. You don't run around being violent yourself towards your fellow citizens, and you don't go destroying property and rioting.
I won't tolerate violent thugs like you. You better believe I'll lobby to classify Antifa as a domestic terror organization. I will turn people in to the police for wearing masks in public where its a crime. I'll support laws to keep your kind locked away behind bars where you belong.
That is what I am saying though. They are hardening the cellular interfaces which at one point were laughably badly done. They are starting to segment the network and put what are basically firewalls onto the CAN bus.
What you are seeing now is that cellular interface will be connected to the body module, and sure it can send any message it wants, so you pwn the cellular adapter. Alright great, but the firewall module that connects the body modules zone of the CAN bus to the say the engine-management modules zone of the CAN bus will only pass certain messages. It won't say let you change the fuel mix but will pass the "Show me your fault codes" message.
The firewall modules are programmable in terms of policy, I don't know if the one I was looking at could have its policy updated remotely or if you'd need to cable up. That was out of scope, we were assigned to test the policy. The rules were we could plug into the ODB2 port and/or pop the infotainment system out and plug in there. Were were supposed to prove that even if you got code running on the infotainment system (possible can update firmware, handles user provided files, usb etc) you could not interact with anything safety critical.
So I am one of those infosec guys and we have been doing CAN bus assessments for the big 3 for some time now. This has to be the stupidest article I have read in some time.
First off the next gen cars are already implementing 'segmented' CAN buses with a firewall module that allows some devices to send white listed messages from the less privileged body areas to the more privileged engine management and safety buses. So this problem is already being solved.
Very few existing cars have a path to remotely introduce CAN messages. Some do but those interfaces have by and large been hardened pretty well, the Jeep stuff from some years ago is long fixed.
So what have here is basically if you are in the car you can do bad stuff by wiring into the can bus. Okay I make the airbag fail too buy yanking it out of the dash board, who cares.
The 777 though has one of the most reliable service records of any aircraft in use. There are so many other 777s in the air that if there was a problem characteristic of the class it would be known.
This is a case where we can pretty much assume either a truly freak accident (most likely), or foul play of some kind. There is little to gain by locating that plane other than some peace for the victims. We are well past the cost benefit tipping point of continuing the search in terms of controlling for future risks.
I don't quite get this one either. I *might* choose to approach what looks to be a long wait for a specific restaurant that I
1) already have patronized, but really like or am really in the mood for. I'll probably be annoyed there is a long line and think they are bit a silly when I find out the line is fake. I might just think better of it and move along and than they will have lost a *real* potentiality customer that day.
2) already have heard of because its famous or something or been highly recommended by a trusted source. I'll think "well I guess I gota try it any way"
Mostly thought I'd just keep on going, without a strong enough reason to put up with what looks like a longer wait time, I usually avoid a crowd. If i have a reason to put up with one It would have been a good enough reason to go anyway.
Are other people such sheep that they would actually choose a place just because its busy without any other information?
I will agree the XML is highly over prescribed. It is however useful in situations that do require heterogeneous systems to exchange complex and potentially changing data structures where changes cannot be 100% coordinated.
That said XML is often hobbled for security reasons such that applications don't actually process DTDs etc. If you are doing those things you giving up a lot of the flexibility while keeping most of the complexity. You probably should be asking from a design perspective if perhaps XML isn't the correct solution.
I don't understand you objections to JSON. Its easy to parse safely and for smallish data structures its easy enough for humans to understand. Virtually every ecosystem has tools for JSON parsing so you won't be left reinventing the wheel for some integration task. TML and YAML are good for more complex structures without introducing the complexity of XML. They might not as widely supported though, but even if you had to develop your own parser neither would be difficult.
If two parents have exactly two children, never more and never less, that's stagnation and it only takes one OOPS! before the numbers drop
Not for any sufficiently advanced society with an already adequate population and gene pool. Stagnation should from a biological standpoint be acceptable and even desirable once a sufficient safety margin is achieved. Lots of specie modulate their birth rate according to available food and habitat resources; to prevent mass die offs.
As long as you have numbers that are not so small a significant die off of individuals threatens your gene pool, you can replace the lost population in a generation or two. Suppose we created a total moratorium on immigration today. Suppose the birth rate remains about 2.3 children per woman. Remember there will always be some natural attrition thru accidents etc, so that.3 is there to stabilize the population. So each generation is the same size. Human women are easily capable of having 4 and 5 children. So the median woman can likely double her "output." Some women are already having four or five children, pulling the average up and some are having none but most of those could be mothers if there was a need. Point being even if you suddenly lost half the population to disease or war or whatever, you can get the number back to normal pretty darn quickly.
The problem with someone like Mr. Damore is that their views, whether well researched or not, create toxic work environments, precisely the kind of environment that many organizations are trying to eliminate through increasing diversity
I agree if your meaning is he circulated it to to wide an audience and not just the HR folks or legal folks it probably should have been addressed to. If you argument is that certain "views" even when supported by the facts are toxic in their own right and we have to suppress them because little Johny or Jane snowflake can't handle reality than I most vehemently disagree.
He became a distraction! You never want to be a distraction in any job. Your reason for being there is to help the company get it work done. Once YOU become the topic of conversation rather than the objectives its a problem. Unless you are a C-Level and even than it can be a problem.
Now I find Google's policies and this diversity business "deplorable" I think companies should hire the best qualified candidates they can get that want to work there for what they are offering to pay, full stop. The moment you start giving special consideration to someone's skin color, gender, sir name, or any other damned thing that isn't immediately relevant to their expected job functions you are off in heave bullshit territory in my book. I would even go as far as to say I agree with almost all the content of his little manifesto.
I still understand why he got fired though!
He was not a hiring manger, he does not work in HR. If he thought Google was engaging in some kind of illegal discriminatory hiring practice there were probably a small number of official people who should have raised that concern with and likely given them more than a couple weeks to respond to serious matter like that. He kept circulating the document, he should have reasonably know would cause controversy, though to a wider audience of people who did not need to be involved.
So Boom gets fired. Now I hope I am right I hope he was fired for being a distraction and not just because someone important "disagreed."
Agreed, they should not be adding custom code paths to handle individual CAs. That is a recipe for bugs and errors in what is supposed to be an AAA function.
If MS does anything they should add a Do-Not-Trust-After-Date option to their certificate manager for all CAs, and make this visible and settable by end users. Ideal with an additional flag "Set-by-Microsoft" to indicate its value that came down thru windows update. Their update process should never set a later date than a user has set.
Let's Encrypt is bad for a whole host of other reasons. They don't even do real domain verification at least not when I looked. You only had to have access to the host. What's more likely? Compromise a 3rd party DNS provider, or compromise someones terrible website? As far as access to the host goes you might not even need much access to the host, a simple path traversal bug that lets you write inside the wwwroot would be enough. You don't even need to full pwn it, likely.
The bigger issue though is LE is entirely robotic, they will sign anything even if its an obvious phishing domain, something like 1300 fake paypal certs went out, for sites like paypall etc. Sure that is somewhat the users fault for not carefully checking urls but considering everything is corss-domain-ajax request these days...
LE has essentially destroyed what little faith in authenticity one could still have in the CA system as far as their certs go. Honestly for a security perspective THEY MIGHT AS WELL BE SELF SIGNED. All LE certs should be treated exactly as one would treat a self signed cert.
There is still lots of room to be a good coach builder that drops a car on top of a mostly 3rd party chassis/battery/power train.
Plenty of auto maker do this to in the ICE powered space. The thing it it usually moves you off into the boutique market space. The majors don't do it that way because there are big advantages in integrated manufacturing.
You get some design flexibility because you don't have to work round the constraints of someone else's chassis/equipment
You avoid a lot of overhead, much cheaper to shift something car sized from one assembly line to the next for than to incur all kinds of shipping and handling.
So I think you will see the majors pretty much go for building these components themselves. You can't deliver a mass market vehicle in the ICE world if you have outsourced these things. I don't see it playing out differently in the electric market, once the electric market becomes mass market.
So either Nissan is content to move into the boutique space or does not really believe in the electric car, having tried it now for a decade+.
I could get behind a direct popular vote if we went back to limited constitutional government, but right now we have a enormously powerful federal government that intrudes into everyone daily life.
People not in the NE Corridor or on the West Coast have vastly different political interests than those who do. Its would be total BS to allow two large population centers to strip those folks of any influence.
Shrink the federal government until state taxes are higher than federal taxes and then we can talk about doing something about the EC. Not before.
The left keeps saying and but we live in a nation where you can't buy cough syrup without ID.
The arguments against voter ID are equally illegitimate. Who does not have ID? Seriously? I don't buy it all. There may be a handful of very elderly who don't. That is problem that could be easily addressed, everyone else has little excuse.
The simple fact is in person voter fraud is possible, there is no reason not to control for it because if anything it would give the election a greater appearance of legitimacy, which is critical to a functioning republic/democracy. That alone is a more than strong enough argument to require id.
The truth is there is tons of evidence now that millions of votes are in fact cast by people who are not eligible, because they have lost voting rights due to felony convictions, are not a legal US citizen, etc. ID would raise the bar beyond just getting on the rolls to these ineligible votes. THAT is the real reason the left opposes ID laws, because they do impact elections.
Yes, there is often enough male misogynists, weirdos, and "those guys" in IT that it would make women uncomfortable
Are there not enough hyper feminists, weirdos and "those girls" to make men feel uncomfortable?
I don't want to listen to prattle every friggin day about how terrible it is you can't get the kind of birth control you want for free, and my gosh how come we don't have menstruation breaks here, or see your stupid pussy hat on the coat rack when nobody else would wear something like that to place of professional business. Lets face it. The real issue here is that we allow this shit to be an issue. The issue we tolerate people who want to make this shit an issue. You want my opinion the first person to say "what about diversity" at the office ought be canned on the spot.
People need to act like professionals. Keep your politics and religion out of the office unless you work for an organization that is specifically related too, or actively identifies with such a group from the top. Not everybody you work with is going to agree with and you and they need to keep their no-work related opinions to themselves while at work.
If you are at a faith based or politically allied organization of some kind you either need to embrace that organizations views and toe the line, or find another gig.
Except he did not denigrate anyone. At no point did he argue for a discriminatory hiring policy or suggest there were not good engineers among any group.
What he did suggest was that diversity hires don't help the situation over all. There are valid statistical reasons fewer female engineers exist. You can take aptitude tests and compare the distribution of men vs women and its plain that if you grab any random man off the street you have better odds he will posses the aptitude for higher math for example than any random woman will.
That is not at all to say this will hold true among the population of say job applicants for an engineering position. That will give you a huge selection bias. It might even eliminate the difference in distribution between men and women form the most part.
What does not make sense however is to say welp we don't have enough people who are X so we will exclude people that are Y and lower our requirements until we can fill enough positions with X. That won't get you the best people. Is his argument.
Frankly its a correct one, unless you take it as an article of faith that these other groups are just 'oppressed' in some way and these diversity hires will blossom once they are given a chance. This is a purely unscientific claim. This entire thing exists in the realm of politics.
Google is a private company. If they want to fire people because they don't support managements politics that is their right, but I think we should call this exactly what it is.
Been in situations not entirely unlike that. Its still not rocket surgery. You get back in the car, you drive five or ten miles until you see a sign for a town. Usually you will go thru an intersection somewhere, glance at the sings for the cross streets, and see what the road you are on is called. Most often this indicate N/S/E/W, ie "North US11" Once you have collected some of these details you pull off and consult the map figure out where you are.
Usually this won't happen to you on something like I-80, its hard to get on a limited access highway/interstate without signs indicating your direction, additional signs indicating the road number and direction are also usually every 5 miles or so if not more frequent than that oh and those will have mile markers that almost always correspond to exit numbers now days so you'll be able locate yourself (relatively) on a decent road atlas pretty quickly based on that as well.
The only place I can see this being much of a problem is possibly out West. I can't think of anywhere east of the Mississippi where you are looking at more than 10 - 15 miles before seeing at least a sign for something that would appear on quality a road map. In most places 10 miles will probably put you somewhere that is on a road map. Even in Eastern Kentucky or West Virginia.
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I think we are do for another big tech bubble bursting.
I mean really where has the innovation in tech been lately. What can I do online that I could not do in 2010? The only thing that is really new in the last decade or so is the "gig-economy". Basically its a bunch of permutations of GPS/Cellphone apps stapled to Mechanical Turk. Out of that you get Uber, Waze, variations on food delivery and bike sharing, and some other stuff like Takle and dating apps.
If you ask me none of that has to much of a future, well maybe the dating apps. It pretty much is just taking advantage of the fact we have a large population of economically displaced persons who are desperate enough to scratch out an existence doing odd jobs for strangers online. That pretty much fails no matter which way the U6 ticks, if unemployment and uncertainty rise, people will go back to doing their own stuff and staying home, the gigs dry up, if the U6 goes down people will go back to looking for steady jobs with predictable wages.
Really pure tech is a waste of time right now. Which is why Google, Apple, etc are getting into industrial supply trying to work out how to provide self driving components to auto makers.
No that was the old Mozilla/Seamonkey suite. Firefox as a whole was the browser people chose because they did not care. FF scrapped a lot of good features and customization, offered nothing new, it was lighter weight for all of like three releases...
FF is where Mozilla started to go wrong! They should have re-branded the suite and fixed the performance issuers there at the time.
I would argue its a sick state of affairs anyone needs "on the books income" there should be no income recording. We only need consumptive side taxes and most government functions like waste pickup should simply be fee for service. The federal government should stick to its constitutional mandates. Its total budget should probably not be greater than and of the higher population states (which will grow to do a lot of what the feds are doing now).
The federal government should have no power to tax individuals or business only power to tax states, to again provide its constitutionally mandated responsibilities, setting weights and measures, defense, etc.
It can be both an art and a trade. Both the guy working in the design studio building prototypes at a big auto and the guy at the restoration shop down the street are metal fabricators. Both might be highly skilled. One is an artist the other is a tradesman. Which is not to say the tradesman can go make art doing something totally custom but its not bulk of what he does.
The software world is the same. Building that CRUD app for marketing (trade work). Building that library for writing CRUD apps could be art. Designing a new sorting algorithm for a specialized case of inputs could be art, could be science.
I went to a RAILS boot camp and did an Android boot camp as well. Both of which I did because my boss was willing to pay. I could have grabbed some books and taught myself just fine. It was a nice way to spend a week away from other distractions though and get instantly familiar with all the basic machinery so I could than hit the ground running on projects. I say that as someone with a computer science degree (BS) and years of experience in LOB software development.
What I needed out of those camps was freedom form other things like e-mail and people asking me questions about legacy projects my team supported and a chance to walk thru some structured exercises to learn the basic libraries, name spaces, and paradigms used, and parlance ("dictionary" vs "hash" vs "frame" etc) people working primarily in those technologies use.
There were many people at both camps (HOTT) like myself, however there were also people who had clearly never done any development before, outside a shell script or two in their mothers basement, if that. They were not doing much other than key punching the samples in and not understanding at all what was going on, you could tell by the questions they were and were not asking. Its hard for me to imagine they really got much out of the courses. I don't think they could go home and make even a simple CRUD type app/service pair without a lot of hand holding.
nonsense, the birthrate of Americans excluding first generation immigrants is basically at the replacement rate. All you have to do to have the US population stabilize is close the boarder. Yes it will still go up a little because life spans are increasing but unless we all suddenly start living into our 150s that won't really mean all that many more people.
Yea giving people choices sucks! Just admit it you think you are better than people who take deals like that and you want to dictate their choices to them. Well you're not rich so I'll decide that you should ride the train, no car for you; its not good for you!
You hate freedom. Freedom is messy sometime it means letting people make mistakes.
Its not repulsive at all. These devices are installed on cars sold to people with piss poor credit so that they can be easily repossessed if the person does not pay. If these devices did not exist interest rates would have to be higher and people who represent higher credit risks simply could not be financed. So people like the man in this story would likely not have the possibility of buying anything other than a terrible old beater that would not likely be reliable and cause them similar problems.
Really check your frigging outrage. This is market working! Now yes they charge you for the privilege of having this disable device installed. Frankly the dealer did screw up, they should have just built the $200 fee into the initial invoice one way or another so that it was effectively paid once the original invoice was but at the end of the day they were just collecting for services rendered. Surprising someone with additional fees at checkout time is a shitty business practice. Still who hasn't bought something or subscribed to a service and found out that there is an install fee or a setup fee or something missing from the top line number and only in the fine print or worse when they actually were standing their CC in hand?
The alternative for the dealer would have been sending this to collections, so this guy could have been harassed for some indefinite period of time. I am really not sure that is better but it was prior practice.
Wait who is being murdered in the streets and facing a credible threat of genocide?
By population there are enough white supremacists in this country to represent a single rain drop in a swimming pool. They are not important and they have no power. All the statistics show that if anything ethnic minorities have a less to fear as far as being killed by anyone in authority than whites.
So minorities being murdered in the streets is largely a thing being done at the hands of their brothers and sisters. The only genocide risk they face is one from marching themselves into planned parenthood murder mills.
Anfta isn't standing up for anyone ones rights, their grievances are as baseless as any of those offered up by the skinhead crowd. What Antifa is a bunch of violent thugs. Yes we should consider them to be the guys wearing masks and hitting people with bike locks, because those are the folks that identify as Antifa. I have never once heard anyone else say "I am Antifa" not even the types that turn up for "counter protests" in places like Cville.
Tolerance of intolerance is not tolerance. It is acceptance of abuse.
Possibly, but you don't tolerate intolerance by calling it out when you see it. You educate your children not think and behave that way. You pursue actual justice for real grievances in courts of law. You don't run around being violent yourself towards your fellow citizens, and you don't go destroying property and rioting.
I won't tolerate violent thugs like you. You better believe I'll lobby to classify Antifa as a domestic terror organization. I will turn people in to the police for wearing masks in public where its a crime. I'll support laws to keep your kind locked away behind bars where you belong.
That is what I am saying though. They are hardening the cellular interfaces which at one point were laughably badly done. They are starting to segment the network and put what are basically firewalls onto the CAN bus.
What you are seeing now is that cellular interface will be connected to the body module, and sure it can send any message it wants, so you pwn the cellular adapter. Alright great, but the firewall module that connects the body modules zone of the CAN bus to the say the engine-management modules zone of the CAN bus will only pass certain messages. It won't say let you change the fuel mix but will pass the "Show me your fault codes" message.
The firewall modules are programmable in terms of policy, I don't know if the one I was looking at could have its policy updated remotely or if you'd need to cable up. That was out of scope, we were assigned to test the policy. The rules were we could plug into the ODB2 port and/or pop the infotainment system out and plug in there. Were were supposed to prove that even if you got code running on the infotainment system (possible can update firmware, handles user provided files, usb etc) you could not interact with anything safety critical.
So I am one of those infosec guys and we have been doing CAN bus assessments for the big 3 for some time now. This has to be the stupidest article I have read in some time.
First off the next gen cars are already implementing 'segmented' CAN buses with a firewall module that allows some devices to send white listed messages from the less privileged body areas to the more privileged engine management and safety buses. So this problem is already being solved.
Very few existing cars have a path to remotely introduce CAN messages. Some do but those interfaces have by and large been hardened pretty well, the Jeep stuff from some years ago is long fixed.
So what have here is basically if you are in the car you can do bad stuff by wiring into the can bus. Okay I make the airbag fail too buy yanking it out of the dash board, who cares.
The 777 though has one of the most reliable service records of any aircraft in use. There are so many other 777s in the air that if there was a problem characteristic of the class it would be known.
This is a case where we can pretty much assume either a truly freak accident (most likely), or foul play of some kind. There is little to gain by locating that plane other than some peace for the victims. We are well past the cost benefit tipping point of continuing the search in terms of controlling for future risks.
I don't quite get this one either. I *might* choose to approach what looks to be a long wait for a specific restaurant that I
1) already have patronized, but really like or am really in the mood for. I'll probably be annoyed there is a long line and think they are bit a silly when I find out the line is fake. I might just think better of it and move along and than they will have lost a *real* potentiality customer that day.
2) already have heard of because its famous or something or been highly recommended by a trusted source. I'll think "well I guess I gota try it any way"
Mostly thought I'd just keep on going, without a strong enough reason to put up with what looks like a longer wait time, I usually avoid a crowd. If i have a reason to put up with one It would have been a good enough reason to go anyway.
Are other people such sheep that they would actually choose a place just because its busy without any other information?
I will agree the XML is highly over prescribed. It is however useful in situations that do require heterogeneous systems to exchange complex and potentially changing data structures where changes cannot be 100% coordinated.
That said XML is often hobbled for security reasons such that applications don't actually process DTDs etc. If you are doing those things you giving up a lot of the flexibility while keeping most of the complexity. You probably should be asking from a design perspective if perhaps XML isn't the correct solution.
I don't understand you objections to JSON. Its easy to parse safely and for smallish data structures its easy enough for humans to understand. Virtually every ecosystem has tools for JSON parsing so you won't be left reinventing the wheel for some integration task. TML and YAML are good for more complex structures without introducing the complexity of XML. They might not as widely supported though, but even if you had to develop your own parser neither would be difficult.
If two parents have exactly two children, never more and never less, that's stagnation and it only takes one OOPS! before the numbers drop
Not for any sufficiently advanced society with an already adequate population and gene pool. Stagnation should from a biological standpoint be acceptable and even desirable once a sufficient safety margin is achieved. Lots of specie modulate their birth rate according to available food and habitat resources; to prevent mass die offs.
As long as you have numbers that are not so small a significant die off of individuals threatens your gene pool, you can replace the lost population in a generation or two. Suppose we created a total moratorium on immigration today. Suppose the birth rate remains about 2.3 children per woman. Remember there will always be some natural attrition thru accidents etc, so that .3 is there to stabilize the population. So each generation is the same size. Human women are easily capable of having 4 and 5 children. So the median woman can likely double her "output." Some women are already having four or five children, pulling the average up and some are having none but most of those could be mothers if there was a need. Point being even if you suddenly lost half the population to disease or war or whatever, you can get the number back to normal pretty darn quickly.
The problem with someone like Mr. Damore is that their views, whether well researched or not, create toxic work environments, precisely the kind of environment that many organizations are trying to eliminate through increasing diversity
I agree if your meaning is he circulated it to to wide an audience and not just the HR folks or legal folks it probably should have been addressed to. If you argument is that certain "views" even when supported by the facts are toxic in their own right and we have to suppress them because little Johny or Jane snowflake can't handle reality than I most vehemently disagree.
He became a distraction! You never want to be a distraction in any job. Your reason for being there is to help the company get it work done. Once YOU become the topic of conversation rather than the objectives its a problem. Unless you are a C-Level and even than it can be a problem.
Now I find Google's policies and this diversity business "deplorable" I think companies should hire the best qualified candidates they can get that want to work there for what they are offering to pay, full stop. The moment you start giving special consideration to someone's skin color, gender, sir name, or any other damned thing that isn't immediately relevant to their expected job functions you are off in heave bullshit territory in my book. I would even go as far as to say I agree with almost all the content of his little manifesto.
I still understand why he got fired though!
He was not a hiring manger, he does not work in HR. If he thought Google was engaging in some kind of illegal discriminatory hiring practice there were probably a small number of official people who should have raised that concern with and likely given them more than a couple weeks to respond to serious matter like that. He kept circulating the document, he should have reasonably know would cause controversy, though to a wider audience of people who did not need to be involved.
So Boom gets fired. Now I hope I am right I hope he was fired for being a distraction and not just because someone important "disagreed."
Agreed, they should not be adding custom code paths to handle individual CAs. That is a recipe for bugs and errors in what is supposed to be an AAA function.
If MS does anything they should add a Do-Not-Trust-After-Date option to their certificate manager for all CAs, and make this visible and settable by end users. Ideal with an additional flag "Set-by-Microsoft" to indicate its value that came down thru windows update. Their update process should never set a later date than a user has set.
Let's Encrypt is bad for a whole host of other reasons. They don't even do real domain verification at least not when I looked. You only had to have access to the host. What's more likely? Compromise a 3rd party DNS provider, or compromise someones terrible website? As far as access to the host goes you might not even need much access to the host, a simple path traversal bug that lets you write inside the wwwroot would be enough. You don't even need to full pwn it, likely.
The bigger issue though is LE is entirely robotic, they will sign anything even if its an obvious phishing domain, something like 1300 fake paypal certs went out, for sites like paypall etc. Sure that is somewhat the users fault for not carefully checking urls but considering everything is corss-domain-ajax request these days...
LE has essentially destroyed what little faith in authenticity one could still have in the CA system as far as their certs go. Honestly for a security perspective THEY MIGHT AS WELL BE SELF SIGNED. All LE certs should be treated exactly as one would treat a self signed cert.
There is still lots of room to be a good coach builder that drops a car on top of a mostly 3rd party chassis/battery/power train.
Plenty of auto maker do this to in the ICE powered space. The thing it it usually moves you off into the boutique market space. The majors don't do it that way because there are big advantages in integrated manufacturing.
You get some design flexibility because you don't have to work round the constraints of someone else's chassis/equipment
You avoid a lot of overhead, much cheaper to shift something car sized from one assembly line to the next for than to incur all kinds of shipping and handling.
So I think you will see the majors pretty much go for building these components themselves. You can't deliver a mass market vehicle in the ICE world if you have outsourced these things. I don't see it playing out differently in the electric market, once the electric market becomes mass market.
So either Nissan is content to move into the boutique space or does not really believe in the electric car, having tried it now for a decade+.
I could get behind a direct popular vote if we went back to limited constitutional government, but right now we have a enormously powerful federal government that intrudes into everyone daily life.
People not in the NE Corridor or on the West Coast have vastly different political interests than those who do. Its would be total BS to allow two large population centers to strip those folks of any influence.
Shrink the federal government until state taxes are higher than federal taxes and then we can talk about doing something about the EC. Not before.
The left keeps saying and but we live in a nation where you can't buy cough syrup without ID.
The arguments against voter ID are equally illegitimate. Who does not have ID? Seriously? I don't buy it all. There may be a handful of very elderly who don't. That is problem that could be easily addressed, everyone else has little excuse.
The simple fact is in person voter fraud is possible, there is no reason not to control for it because if anything it would give the election a greater appearance of legitimacy, which is critical to a functioning republic/democracy. That alone is a more than strong enough argument to require id.
The truth is there is tons of evidence now that millions of votes are in fact cast by people who are not eligible, because they have lost voting rights due to felony convictions, are not a legal US citizen, etc. ID would raise the bar beyond just getting on the rolls to these ineligible votes. THAT is the real reason the left opposes ID laws, because they do impact elections.
Yes, there is often enough male misogynists, weirdos, and "those guys" in IT that it would make women uncomfortable
Are there not enough hyper feminists, weirdos and "those girls" to make men feel uncomfortable?
I don't want to listen to prattle every friggin day about how terrible it is you can't get the kind of birth control you want for free, and my gosh how come we don't have menstruation breaks here, or see your stupid pussy hat on the coat rack when nobody else would wear something like that to place of professional business. Lets face it. The real issue here is that we allow this shit to be an issue. The issue we tolerate people who want to make this shit an issue. You want my opinion the first person to say "what about diversity" at the office ought be canned on the spot.
People need to act like professionals. Keep your politics and religion out of the office unless you work for an organization that is specifically related too, or actively identifies with such a group from the top. Not everybody you work with is going to agree with and you and they need to keep their no-work related opinions to themselves while at work.
If you are at a faith based or politically allied organization of some kind you either need to embrace that organizations views and toe the line, or find another gig.
Except he did not denigrate anyone. At no point did he argue for a discriminatory hiring policy or suggest there were not good engineers among any group.
What he did suggest was that diversity hires don't help the situation over all. There are valid statistical reasons fewer female engineers exist. You can take aptitude tests and compare the distribution of men vs women and its plain that if you grab any random man off the street you have better odds he will posses the aptitude for higher math for example than any random woman will.
That is not at all to say this will hold true among the population of say job applicants for an engineering position. That will give you a huge selection bias. It might even eliminate the difference in distribution between men and women form the most part.
What does not make sense however is to say welp we don't have enough people who are X so we will exclude people that are Y and lower our requirements until we can fill enough positions with X. That won't get you the best people. Is his argument.
Frankly its a correct one, unless you take it as an article of faith that these other groups are just 'oppressed' in some way and these diversity hires will blossom once they are given a chance. This is a purely unscientific claim. This entire thing exists in the realm of politics.
Google is a private company. If they want to fire people because they don't support managements politics that is their right, but I think we should call this exactly what it is.
Been in situations not entirely unlike that. Its still not rocket surgery. You get back in the car, you drive five or ten miles until you see a sign for a town. Usually you will go thru an intersection somewhere, glance at the sings for the cross streets, and see what the road you are on is called. Most often this indicate N/S/E/W, ie "North US11" Once you have collected some of these details you pull off and consult the map figure out where you are.
Usually this won't happen to you on something like I-80, its hard to get on a limited access highway/interstate without signs indicating your direction, additional signs indicating the road number and direction are also usually every 5 miles or so if not more frequent than that oh and those will have mile markers that almost always correspond to exit numbers now days so you'll be able locate yourself (relatively) on a decent road atlas pretty quickly based on that as well.
The only place I can see this being much of a problem is possibly out West. I can't think of anywhere east of the Mississippi where you are looking at more than 10 - 15 miles before seeing at least a sign for something that would appear on quality a road map. In most places 10 miles will probably put you somewhere that is on a road map. Even in Eastern Kentucky or West Virginia.