Sure, it just means we only have a couple of milliseconds in which to act. I'm sure Lockheed Martin can give you a quote on that mission. "Space station partial recovery during 1.2ms activity window at 1.okm altitude", etc.
Ooooh, 9 months. So what! Playing just-in-time games with $20B of space station is just stupid. A thruster should have been among the FIRST items installed in the station framework. Ever hear of "station keeping"?
I stand by my previous predictions that the ISS will be allowed to decay and burn up, just like ALL stations and other orbital hardware have done. NASA's real missions are to be a jobs program for PhDs, as well as a welfare program for aerospace companies. So that means conspicuous consumption, and that summarizes as obvious waste. Unless taken over by a country with a real long-term view (like China), the ISS is going to re-enter. Count on it.
Someone should tell Thompson that in general, kdis and cops don't need protections over and above the ones they receive now. Kids have parents and cops are armed. If having supervisors or weapons are insufficient protections, then your society is collapsing and no further regulation is going to help.
Of course, no one listens to this point of view. It's crazy. Even more importantly, it's UNELECTABLE.
Considering these kids are growing up into a populace that has a maximum vote participation of 40% (and is often less than 20% for off-year elections), these "kids can't vote" in another, important sense. They are falling out democracy... which suits the politicians just fine. The political parties have covertly welcomed low voter turnouts for decades.
I remember seeing in a National Science Teacher Assocation flyer that most studies show the big "black hole" in science education occurs around the 5th-8th grade[.]
I wouldn't be surprised that this "black hole" is being caused in that age group by intensive exposure to the modern entertainment system in America. This system is very, VERY adept at acquiring and holding complete attention in some very time-wasting enterprises, and in my considered opinion, that really leads to a drop in overall life exposure to intellectual topics.
I've noticed overall that homes with no or few books tend to have TVs and other entertainment systems blaring constantly.
The socially liberal among us should be doing what I'm doing: preparing to leave America eventually. The Right Wingnuts are going to want to hang us from the light poles in the Final Analysis. I'd rather live modestly in a drafty apartment in Germany than have my neck stretched here in America.
If you want to throw amounts around, notice that he's getting older. Billionaires still die. Yet billionaires have all the resources to mount the effort to conquer aging.
Strange though it seems, most billionaires are not focusing on the thing which should be most important to them, namely survival. Bill and the next 4 billionaires could probably find out at least how to stop the teleomeres (sp?) from shortening on Human cells during divisions, thereby stopping that important part of of the aging (hence dying) process.
Anyway, the basic message he was trying to get across, in my opinion, was that no matter what you do these days, technology is going to play a role [...]
Sure, but that technology will be Indonesian hardware and Slavic software. What job will you have again? Probably field support at $12/hr... or police officer. But as a real tech worker you'd have to emigate to the nations that will be building things.
These project management jobs are also not as numerous as the various and much larger number of technical jobs they are now attempting to outsource to a large extent. So what's the use in getting a 6yr degree with all the corresponding debt that goes along with it, just to be yet another MBA-type who's standing in a bread line?
This sentiment you've echoed sounds like the modern propaganda where people are trying to convince Americans to support the rape of the commonwealth. They do this by bribing them with the "good jobs" vision of the future. Is America filling up with air-conditioned office towers, to prepare for these millions of managers, who will allegedly manage the rest of the planet? HELL, NO. What's simply happening is that wealth is undergoing ultra-concentration as part of a general looting exercise. Capital is fleeing America at a great pace. So the nation isn't going to be the Land of the Managers. It's just going to be one of the world's largest Third World nations, with the uber-wealthy jetting from city to city, over the groaning poor in the flyovers and cheap-labor zones that will ring each city.
We should stop pretending that IQ tests are NOT geared towards the White elite that is well represented by people like Bush.
Case in point, I knew a student in Boston whose father designed IQ tests. She was no slouch, but her father was constantly testing her since it was a way to "test the test". Hence, she now (then) does phenomenally well on IQ tests. She was wrapped around those tests like a DNA strand.
Put one of these tests in front of the average ghetto kid and you can only conclude that they were technically morons... but among other things, they won't try to bomb the Middle East on the basis of a set of elite lies, and then expect to sail into retirement loved by millions.
So much for high IQs. Like personality testing, IQ testing is a cultural disease -- an anti-social and Fascist meme -- that continually gnaws away at the foundation of society. (It seems that we're now due another dance with the testers as they strive to prove the superiority of those who simply hold power.)
Malpractice insurance rates are so high that differentials between a "safe" doctor and an "unsafe" doctor aren't that large. Combined with this, is the trend of the medical associations to protect (not punish) members who make mistakes. For example, the stories of drunken or drugged doctors making mistakes are numerous... yet the instances of barring such doctors from practice are rare.
I don't know, but can well imagine that protections like this are unfortunately reflected in insurance premiums, since part of the insurance eval process probably includes examining the enforcement record upon the doctor. The association tends not to enforce, hence these records are fraudulently clean. This is also probably why premiums are so high overall, since the insurance industry is forced to cover many unsafe doctors that they are unable to (legally or otherwise) identify.
China has decided that if you are spending too much time online, you must be an addict.
Makes you wonder. Oriental cultures have a distinctly different approach to social arrangement. And in America, we've seen more than enough people devolving their lives with playing EQ, indulging in chat rooms in lieu of real socialization, ditching husbands, wives and lovers for "true life mates" they meet online, etc.
Often enough, I look at my own life and wonder if I haven't made a bad trade by investing time in Internetting than things I otherwise could do... and as well, DID do when I was a younger man! My physical hobbies have withered on the vine... generally in favor of hours devoted to reading Internet-based news items.
The Chinese may be onto something here. When a person favors a machine over a person, they may well have a mental problem. And with rampant technophilia in the West, Westerners will probably fight tooth and nail before admitting THAT.
The RPL is no more or less impossible to enforce than any law upon an internal corporate process. Such cases are broken open due to a snitch, and then there is the legal process of "discovery", and then the corp is screwed.
You might as well critique corporate laws as beign equally idealistic.
The banks on the other hand, treat these issues as PR that the marking or HR chicks take care of, when they need a techically assute attack person to counteract. I have seen (and personally warned) banks that their images were being called remotely in phishing emails. Of the dozens, only one did anything about it (by putting "EMAIL FRAUD" in a gif and replacing it with the one in the site). Preventing remote linking of images on a web server is rediculously easy, yet the large hosts don't do it, and the banks that host their own sites dont know how. Just the simple step of not allowing remote image linking without the proper http-referrer header would stop a lot of phishers in their tracks.
Yet they don't do much...
THEY WON'T. Banks became profit engines after the S&L fiasco in the early 90s, and then started a massive merger culture in the early 00s. Anything spent within a bank (except for executive bonuses and other elite perks) are overscrutinized for cost controls. Fixing data systems for constant security revisions ("constant" = "more than a couple of significant changes per decade") is just another excessive cost that is shot down. In fact, I'm pretty sure that such measures never reach exec levels for evaluation... since people have learned not to bring new costs to their attention.
Banks are being run now as larger and larger profit-only enterprises. They only act to protect customers when forced to do so by law or obvious circumstance. Putting up signs about Internet frauds is about as far as they are going at the moment... since a screwed customer is the customer's fault, not the bank's.
And with the Neo-Con attitude that everything bad that happens to you is always YOUR OWN FAULT, it's hardly going to change in the corporate environment.
In short, banks today are in a race to become a very small set of very large banks, and they just don't have time to take care of customers.
I watched a good colleague, with a new wife and new son, gently refuse to do more than 60 hours/week at his start-up. [...] Several old department heads told me privately that they'd tried to rehire him for their departments but had been blocked by a vice president from doing any re-hiring of laid-off personnel.
Sorry, I don't believe that re-hire policy rationale whatsoever in that guy's case. I DO believe instead that the refusal as indicated, fatally marked him in the eyes of management. The refusal marked him as NOT a company man, so his days were certainly numbered at that point.
Corporations are essentially Fascist regimes. They demand obedience and will terminate you one way or another if you don't. Smaller companies can be quite a bit worse in this behavior, since such may involve a egomaniacal young Republican at the helm who never takes "NO" as an answer.
There is a certain and strong element of truth in what you've said. But the point remains (which is what I believe the OP had) that a rented space filled with minimal furnishings by highly mobile professionals is NOT the mark of a company with longevity intentions. This is a point to be doubly made to all the cities across America who are falling all over themselves to offer tax breaks, grants and loans to the companies exhibiting this behavior.
So what's next, having banks operate out of trailers, so that they are easily moved when the savings and loan environment tanks in that neighborhood? Whatever happened to the long-term view so allegedly necessary for confidence between citizens?
Well, no need for me to belabor the point. I think both our points should be clear by now.
Bravo! It is remarkably pleasant seeing anyone anywhere actually deal up some truthful criticism of all this excess housing investment (i.e. the housing bubble). Thank you. People are treating homes like stock certificates now, and this is only going to end badly... while screwing people like myself on things like my own renting behavior, as well as the impoverishment of local government services that grew complacent on the overinflated property taxes.
These RE-tards have to RE-alize that their investments aren't RE-al.
I worked in the "Digital Clusters for Windows NT" group in 1996/7. As time went on, it became obvious that we were working under the assumption that we would be shut down by Wolfpack (as we were). My theory is that this was due in no small part to the so-called partnership between DEC and MS, flavored by the "Dave Cutler Affair". But I also detected a particular lack of willpower on the part of the company to stand behind the development effort.
This is all pretty pathetic given DEC's lead in clustering. They simply surrendered to MS, yet MS's clustering effort was itself poor. The end result was that current and potential customers were not served. Capitalism should have met their needs, but something beyond Capitalism was at work behind the scenes: corporate self-interest.
So I see Linux rising now and terrorizing these companies to various degrees... and I smile an evil little smile. While the American tech companies were playing massive corporate games to the expense of their customers and the public at large, some nerd from Finland was creating a corporation killer.
How do these systems handle the alarming problem of running out of disk space? Do they progressively (file by file) degrade into a fs normal for the OS, hence allowing admins time to respond to the alert to expand disk space or manually invoke compression procedures?
Automated tracking of ANYTHING related to a costing activity will be analyzed eventually in order to evolve a use of force against workers. If there's any organization we should not condone having overall greater tracking power, it's the Fascist power of the corporation.
Your personal finances are often scrutinized and therefore held against you for things not related to them, namely rental lodging and employment. Factories are closed and moved simply because a spreadsheet says so, and those numbers are the result of increasingly denser analysis environment. So who's wearing the fucking tinfoil hat here? I think it's YOU, and the tinfoil's been pulled over your eyes, in your denial of the abuses that inevitably follow more pervasive surveillance technology.
Anything invoked for surveillance should be roundly criticized for invasion of privacy and overall good sense. From that, regulations must occur if We The People are to retain our Human rights and dignity in all places, public and private.
In the example you offered, the locators for the carts should be restricted by at least the regulation that such data be "location display" only, and not be logged so that some fuck in a suit can use their movement as leverage against worker productivity.
Legacy hardware and software doesn't help the major tech companies, only the smaller ones looking to maintain installed plant for many years at good rates of pay.
This is why we're throwing Windows 95 away and replacing it with the bloated pig called Windows XP. It's because Microsoft and Intel say we must. And that crying sound you hear outside? Yep, that's from your local consultants who could have obtained some of your upgrade investment. Screw them anyway. Real men work for Microsoft.
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It appears from numerous technical testimonials that WebSphere is most efficient in transferring money from corporate clients to IBM.
This causes me to suspect that that was WebSphere's true design goal.
Duh! That's why I said "partial recovery". You've gotta know how to CYA in these contracts, guy. Har har!
Sure, it just means we only have a couple of milliseconds in which to act. I'm sure Lockheed Martin can give you a quote on that mission. "Space station partial recovery during 1.2ms activity window at 1.okm altitude", etc.
Ooooh, 9 months. So what! Playing just-in-time games with $20B of space station is just stupid. A thruster should have been among the FIRST items installed in the station framework. Ever hear of "station keeping"?
I stand by my previous predictions that the ISS will be allowed to decay and burn up, just like ALL stations and other orbital hardware have done. NASA's real missions are to be a jobs program for PhDs, as well as a welfare program for aerospace companies. So that means conspicuous consumption, and that summarizes as obvious waste. Unless taken over by a country with a real long-term view (like China), the ISS is going to re-enter. Count on it.
Jack wants to protect children and cops.
Someone should tell Thompson that in general, kdis and cops don't need protections over and above the ones they receive now. Kids have parents and cops are armed. If having supervisors or weapons are insufficient protections, then your society is collapsing and no further regulation is going to help.
Of course, no one listens to this point of view. It's crazy. Even more importantly, it's UNELECTABLE.
I think a big reason is that kids can't vote.
... which suits the politicians just fine. The political parties have covertly welcomed low voter turnouts for decades.
Considering these kids are growing up into a populace that has a maximum vote participation of 40% (and is often less than 20% for off-year elections), these "kids can't vote" in another, important sense. They are falling out democracy
I remember seeing in a National Science Teacher Assocation flyer that most studies show the big "black hole" in science education occurs around the 5th-8th grade[.]
I wouldn't be surprised that this "black hole" is being caused in that age group by intensive exposure to the modern entertainment system in America. This system is very, VERY adept at acquiring and holding complete attention in some very time-wasting enterprises, and in my considered opinion, that really leads to a drop in overall life exposure to intellectual topics.
I've noticed overall that homes with no or few books tend to have TVs and other entertainment systems blaring constantly.
Scientists? No, they're:
Liberals! Liberals! Liberals! Liberals! Liberals!
The socially liberal among us should be doing what I'm doing: preparing to leave America eventually. The Right Wingnuts are going to want to hang us from the light poles in the Final Analysis. I'd rather live modestly in a drafty apartment in Germany than have my neck stretched here in America.
If you want to throw amounts around, notice that he's getting older. Billionaires still die. Yet billionaires have all the resources to mount the effort to conquer aging.
Strange though it seems, most billionaires are not focusing on the thing which should be most important to them, namely survival. Bill and the next 4 billionaires could probably find out at least how to stop the teleomeres (sp?) from shortening on Human cells during divisions, thereby stopping that important part of of the aging (hence dying) process.
Anyway, the basic message he was trying to get across, in my opinion, was that no matter what you do these days, technology is going to play a role [...]
... or police officer. But as a real tech worker you'd have to emigate to the nations that will be building things.
Sure, but that technology will be Indonesian hardware and Slavic software. What job will you have again? Probably field support at $12/hr
These project management jobs are also not as numerous as the various and much larger number of technical jobs they are now attempting to outsource to a large extent. So what's the use in getting a 6yr degree with all the corresponding debt that goes along with it, just to be yet another MBA-type who's standing in a bread line?
This sentiment you've echoed sounds like the modern propaganda where people are trying to convince Americans to support the rape of the commonwealth. They do this by bribing them with the "good jobs" vision of the future. Is America filling up with air-conditioned office towers, to prepare for these millions of managers, who will allegedly manage the rest of the planet? HELL, NO. What's simply happening is that wealth is undergoing ultra-concentration as part of a general looting exercise. Capital is fleeing America at a great pace. So the nation isn't going to be the Land of the Managers. It's just going to be one of the world's largest Third World nations, with the uber-wealthy jetting from city to city, over the groaning poor in the flyovers and cheap-labor zones that will ring each city.
We should stop pretending that IQ tests are NOT geared towards the White elite that is well represented by people like Bush.
... but among other things, they won't try to bomb the Middle East on the basis of a set of elite lies, and then expect to sail into retirement loved by millions.
Case in point, I knew a student in Boston whose father designed IQ tests. She was no slouch, but her father was constantly testing her since it was a way to "test the test". Hence, she now (then) does phenomenally well on IQ tests. She was wrapped around those tests like a DNA strand.
Put one of these tests in front of the average ghetto kid and you can only conclude that they were technically morons
So much for high IQs. Like personality testing, IQ testing is a cultural disease -- an anti-social and Fascist meme -- that continually gnaws away at the foundation of society. (It seems that we're now due another dance with the testers as they strive to prove the superiority of those who simply hold power.)
Malpractice insurance rates are so high that differentials between a "safe" doctor and an "unsafe" doctor aren't that large. Combined with this, is the trend of the medical associations to protect (not punish) members who make mistakes. For example, the stories of drunken or drugged doctors making mistakes are numerous ... yet the instances of barring such doctors from practice are rare.
I don't know, but can well imagine that protections like this are unfortunately reflected in insurance premiums, since part of the insurance eval process probably includes examining the enforcement record upon the doctor. The association tends not to enforce, hence these records are fraudulently clean. This is also probably why premiums are so high overall, since the insurance industry is forced to cover many unsafe doctors that they are unable to (legally or otherwise) identify.
China has decided that if you are spending too much time online, you must be an addict.
... and as well, DID do when I was a younger man! My physical hobbies have withered on the vine ... generally in favor of hours devoted to reading Internet-based news items.
Makes you wonder. Oriental cultures have a distinctly different approach to social arrangement. And in America, we've seen more than enough people devolving their lives with playing EQ, indulging in chat rooms in lieu of real socialization, ditching husbands, wives and lovers for "true life mates" they meet online, etc.
Often enough, I look at my own life and wonder if I haven't made a bad trade by investing time in Internetting than things I otherwise could do
The Chinese may be onto something here. When a person favors a machine over a person, they may well have a mental problem. And with rampant technophilia in the West, Westerners will probably fight tooth and nail before admitting THAT.
Something is missing in your testimonial ... specifically: Where's the insurance on this alleged $100K in tools?
The RPL is no more or less impossible to enforce than any law upon an internal corporate process. Such cases are broken open due to a snitch, and then there is the legal process of "discovery", and then the corp is screwed.
You might as well critique corporate laws as beign equally idealistic.
The banks on the other hand, treat these issues as PR that the marking or HR chicks take care of, when they need a techically assute attack person to counteract. I have seen (and personally warned) banks that their images were being called remotely in phishing emails. Of the dozens, only one did anything about it (by putting "EMAIL FRAUD" in a gif and replacing it with the one in the site). Preventing remote linking of images on a web server is rediculously easy, yet the large hosts don't do it, and the banks that host their own sites dont know how. Just the simple step of not allowing remote image linking without the proper http-referrer header would stop a lot of phishers in their tracks.
... since people have learned not to bring new costs to their attention.
... since a screwed customer is the customer's fault, not the bank's.
Yet they don't do much...
THEY WON'T. Banks became profit engines after the S&L fiasco in the early 90s, and then started a massive merger culture in the early 00s. Anything spent within a bank (except for executive bonuses and other elite perks) are overscrutinized for cost controls. Fixing data systems for constant security revisions ("constant" = "more than a couple of significant changes per decade") is just another excessive cost that is shot down. In fact, I'm pretty sure that such measures never reach exec levels for evaluation
Banks are being run now as larger and larger profit-only enterprises. They only act to protect customers when forced to do so by law or obvious circumstance. Putting up signs about Internet frauds is about as far as they are going at the moment
And with the Neo-Con attitude that everything bad that happens to you is always YOUR OWN FAULT, it's hardly going to change in the corporate environment.
In short, banks today are in a race to become a very small set of very large banks, and they just don't have time to take care of customers.
I watched a good colleague, with a new wife and new son, gently refuse to do more than 60 hours/week at his start-up. [...] Several old department heads told me privately that they'd tried to rehire him for their departments but had been blocked by a vice president from doing any re-hiring of laid-off personnel.
Sorry, I don't believe that re-hire policy rationale whatsoever in that guy's case. I DO believe instead that the refusal as indicated, fatally marked him in the eyes of management. The refusal marked him as NOT a company man, so his days were certainly numbered at that point.
Corporations are essentially Fascist regimes. They demand obedience and will terminate you one way or another if you don't. Smaller companies can be quite a bit worse in this behavior, since such may involve a egomaniacal young Republican at the helm who never takes "NO" as an answer.
There is a certain and strong element of truth in what you've said. But the point remains (which is what I believe the OP had) that a rented space filled with minimal furnishings by highly mobile professionals is NOT the mark of a company with longevity intentions. This is a point to be doubly made to all the cities across America who are falling all over themselves to offer tax breaks, grants and loans to the companies exhibiting this behavior.
So what's next, having banks operate out of trailers, so that they are easily moved when the savings and loan environment tanks in that neighborhood? Whatever happened to the long-term view so allegedly necessary for confidence between citizens?
Well, no need for me to belabor the point. I think both our points should be clear by now.
Bravo! It is remarkably pleasant seeing anyone anywhere actually deal up some truthful criticism of all this excess housing investment (i.e. the housing bubble). Thank you. People are treating homes like stock certificates now, and this is only going to end badly ... while screwing people like myself on things like my own renting behavior, as well as the impoverishment of local government services that grew complacent on the overinflated property taxes.
These RE-tards have to RE-alize that their investments aren't RE-al.
I worked in the "Digital Clusters for Windows NT" group in 1996/7. As time went on, it became obvious that we were working under the assumption that we would be shut down by Wolfpack (as we were). My theory is that this was due in no small part to the so-called partnership between DEC and MS, flavored by the "Dave Cutler Affair". But I also detected a particular lack of willpower on the part of the company to stand behind the development effort.
... and I smile an evil little smile. While the American tech companies were playing massive corporate games to the expense of their customers and the public at large, some nerd from Finland was creating a corporation killer.
This is all pretty pathetic given DEC's lead in clustering. They simply surrendered to MS, yet MS's clustering effort was itself poor. The end result was that current and potential customers were not served. Capitalism should have met their needs, but something beyond Capitalism was at work behind the scenes: corporate self-interest.
So I see Linux rising now and terrorizing these companies to various degrees
How do these systems handle the alarming problem of running out of disk space? Do they progressively (file by file) degrade into a fs normal for the OS, hence allowing admins time to respond to the alert to expand disk space or manually invoke compression procedures?
Yes, yes, when I leave behind too large a log, it won't properly flush, and that does lead to overflow.
... we were talking about bathrooms, weren't we?
Er
Automated tracking of ANYTHING related to a costing activity will be analyzed eventually in order to evolve a use of force against workers. If there's any organization we should not condone having overall greater tracking power, it's the Fascist power of the corporation.
Your personal finances are often scrutinized and therefore held against you for things not related to them, namely rental lodging and employment. Factories are closed and moved simply because a spreadsheet says so, and those numbers are the result of increasingly denser analysis environment. So who's wearing the fucking tinfoil hat here? I think it's YOU, and the tinfoil's been pulled over your eyes, in your denial of the abuses that inevitably follow more pervasive surveillance technology.
Anything invoked for surveillance should be roundly criticized for invasion of privacy and overall good sense. From that, regulations must occur if We The People are to retain our Human rights and dignity in all places, public and private.
In the example you offered, the locators for the carts should be restricted by at least the regulation that such data be "location display" only, and not be logged so that some fuck in a suit can use their movement as leverage against worker productivity.
Tinfoil that, you fuck.
Legacy hardware and software doesn't help the major tech companies, only the smaller ones looking to maintain installed plant for many years at good rates of pay.
This is why we're throwing Windows 95 away and replacing it with the bloated pig called Windows XP. It's because Microsoft and Intel say we must. And that crying sound you hear outside? Yep, that's from your local consultants who could have obtained some of your upgrade investment. Screw them anyway. Real men work for Microsoft.
Market choice is for hippies.