The secret to getting out of engineering or other technical work and into management is to become friends with management and to see them socially. Go drink with them. Go play golf with them. Go camping, go to strip clubs, go to games like football or baseball or the like, go play with offroad toys like quads or dune buggies with them. Whatever their interest is, go do it with them.
Of course, for this to work you probably have to be likable to them too.
Just so we're clear, you're saying that an up-and-coming technology that has the potential to be the single largest paradigm shift since the dawn of the self-propelled vehicle does not belong on Slashdot?
If Uber's vehicle age rules apply in the Phillippines and in other nations that are much financially poorer than the United States and Western Europe, then it would make sense that Uber rides would be more luxurious. Base taxis may well be whatever vehicle can be made to move under its own power and has accommodations for a passenger.
If Uber were priced in US and other Western markets where it naturally would be if it complied with the laws and regulations, it would probably occupy a tier somewhere between a conventional taxi and a luxury sedan service. Instead passenger livery regulations are violated and drivers are apparently subject to ridiculous shifts in order to pay for the cars they bought through the company store.
I think the difference is between their being allowed to sample your fingerprint and their being allowed to force you to do something specific your fingerprint.
If they take your fingerprint then they have to figure out how to turn that fingerprint into a finger again in order to then use it.
Best you consult a criminal lawyer before providing or refusing to provide information you are asked. There are times you cannot refuse.
That may be rather difficult to do if you're detained and they're not willing to release you. I suppose that you could use your phone to make a call...
I donno where you lived, but we were pretty thoroughly smack-dab in the middle of middle-class. We saved up our allowances for almost two years in order to buy that Nintendo. We traded games with our friends because no one could afford to buy everything that we wanted and we bought and sold games at local shops.
If I understand the government's side of the argument, a fingerprint is not simply a password or other set of abstract information that courts have previously generally allowed to remain secret. A fingerprint is also a real-world structure that the courts have allowed to be sampled by law enforcement from those arrested. It's right on the body, so it's not truly secret as it is obscure.
If I were going to use a fingerprint I would use it as the equivalent of the username, or as an alternate means of entering the username, not as the equivalent of the password. For that I probably still would use a password, since a password essentially can be changed an infinite number of times. If a password is compromised then it can just be changed. A fingerprint does not really have that luxury beyond the ten we normally come equipped with.
It sounds like from the summary that the court is allowing the government to collect fingerprints in the traditional way, and is allowing the government to use the fingerprints collected in the traditional way to be used to unlock devices, but is prohibiting the government from bypassing the collection step in order to force the individual to use the fingerprint on their own device.
Today, that desktop experience is based on a very simple, pared-down interface that is reminiscent of the 2000 birthdate of the startup itself.
You mean one that actually works, as opposed to useless eye-candy bullshit that was made by people that really want to make fake UIs for movies and TV shows?
I thought for moment going into the summary that it was going to contrast difficulty from the San Bernadino shooters phones with some fundamental flaw allowing someone with bit of extra weight to put the phone up against some bit of anatomy to unlock it...
absurd as this sounds, a friend apparently worked at a dotcom whose fingerprint scanners were so awful that one day he let himself into the office with the end of his convenience store hotdog. His hands were full with the dog and the 64 oz Mountain Dew...
If you can't reproduce it, it's either fake or you were just being sloppy. Either way, it's no wonder ordinary civilians have doubts.
I am not concerned if any particular scientist or team can't replicate it. I am concerned if no one at all can replicate it.
Modern cutting-edge science can be very hard to do to begin with. I don't care so much how many fail, I care if there are cases where it has succeeded.
Before the interwebs was console gaming. My mother has talked about seeing the shift in the neighborhood as the various kids got nintendos or segas and how suddenly groups of kids stopped playing outdoors.
Last time I read about this it was because Heinz sponsored a competition to design a bottle that pours better. Some smartass MIT undergrads played around in the materials sciences lab and designed a bottle that was extremely hydrophobic such that the ketchup literally all just slid out, constrained only by the mouth of the container.
As for the reason, it was clever marketing that gave them the possibility of seeing a new product (none were adopted) while being widely picked up by the press and getting a fair amount of exposure to the general public. Not since Garrison Keillor had the virtues of ketchup been so widely sang.
I'm not sure that I agree when you say it doesn't apply to all media.
First, when I own physical media I know that I'll have permanent access to the contents, within the scope of my player working and my display and sound system working. Given that I've got VHS and Laserdisc still functioning in the mix I don't think this is all that big of a problem. Online content providers, both properly licensed and unlicensed have shown themselves to be unreliable for a number of reasons. Sometimes a provider closes down. Sometimes a provider is closed down. Sometimes a provider thinks that they have the licensing worked out and it turns out they're wrong so the title is pulled. Sometimes the provider has only licensed the work for a limited duration, or has licensed the work when it's off-season (thinking of christmas specials that are not accessible during christmas except from the one excluslve provider but are available everywhere off-season). Rates change. Even with the attacks on net-neutrality, being able to access may change.
Second, people like to collect things. People like having sets. There's a certain satisfatction in it. Obviously not everyone has this penchant, but that's ok.
Third, going through the motions can be a means to determine if one really wants to watch something, or if one is just doing it as the path of least resistance. Personally I feel I watch too much TV and spend too much time on the Internet already, without having a streaming service and without having cable or other pay-TV. It makes it a lot easier to actually go do something else besides vegetate on the couch if I find myself not able to make a choice for what to watch.
If some of these aspects apply to comic books or graphic novels or manga or whatever you want to call them, then I can see why people want phyiscal media and why they want sets.
What may really bake your noodle is that they might not have had to latex the entire tank in order to protect it. They well might have been able to calculate the combination of ablative characteristics of the tank along with the speed of impact based on distance from the break-off point to the orbiter itself, such that they might have been able to get away with painting the nosecone and perhaps a parabolic-slice of the side of the tank facing the orbiter, such that pieces most likely to have a chance of damaging the orbiter were held down, while the side away from the orbiter wouldn't have had such protections.
In particular the issue with the o-rings stemmed from manufacturing the SRBs at Thiokol in Utah. The only practical means to ship said boosters was by rail. To ship them by rail ultimately meant designing components that could fit into the form-factor necessary to transport by rail.
The Saturn V rockets were manufactured in Louisiana, in New Orleans, so the large pieces could be barge-shipped to Florida in much larger segments than anything that had to be moved by rail. It was also the site where the Shuttle's external fuel tank was manufactured, for exactly the same reason.
If you look at a topographical map of the United States, you can see that Utah is about the least-suitable place, geographically, to try to manufacture and then transport something as large as the SRB. The entire state is within the Rocky Mountains and there are no navigable waterways out to an ocean or to flat lowland or plains. By contrast just about any state in the Great Plains, Coastal Plains, and the Central Lowlands possibly could've allowed for ground transport of the rockets even if it required new road or rail infrastructure simply because there are no mountains to contend with, and in the case of the Central Lowlands there's already a history of canal and lake barge shipping through the Great Lakes and out through the St. Lawrence River, in addition to alternative routes via the Missouri, Mississippi, and Ohio rivers.
I they hadn't chosen Thiokol, and if they hadn't opted to remove the latex to save all of six hundred pounds, it's possible that the Shuttle would still be flying with a perfect record.
My anecdotal experience has predominately been to witness sexism that's centered around when the guys get together without the gals around, and that in most cases it evaporates when there are women present, and it's almost always centered in social or off-hours situations. It's literally like the idiots revert to being thirteen and start openly speculating about sex acts that they're probably never going to get an opportunity to perform with women that they're never going to have any intimacy with without having any real-world knowledge of sex. What's kind of funny is witnessing the immediate-switch if a woman that could find issue comes into earshot, it's literally as dramatic as when the character in Office Space listening to the gangster rap on his commute is faced with a couple of potential bangers and he gets as meek as a mouse...
Most of the rest of the sexism has been older guys with no filter that say inappropriate things in front of coworkers regardless of the gender-mix, occasionally making it personal about a person present. Often this is in the context of the group enjoying a mild bit of prurient humor centered around double-entendre, only for this other person to come into the conversation and just destroy any sort of plausible deniability with outright escalation of the joke or the deliberate explicit statement instead of leaving the double-entendre intact.
I have no doubt that other forms of sexism exist in tech, but I have not personally witnessed anything as egregious as the article discusses.
I don't think that you're going to find a lot of argument about the cost problems associated with the Space Shuttle program, at least among those that actually think critically about the cost per pound, but bear in mind that if NASA had continued to pursue other launch platforms for the non-man-rated launch of materiel, and used the Shuttle more sparingly for when long-term crew accommodation was actually necessary we'd probably be having a different discussion.
If NASA had such an alternate heavy-launch method, they probably could have designed larger space station modules, could've launched more of them in groups, and sent up crews of astronauts, using the orbiter as crew quarters, to build the station in much shorter order. Instead of using the Shuttle to ferry parts smaller than the shuttle, they could have used it for what its name actually implied. They possibly could've even designed passenger accommodations for the cargo bay, if the space station itself had gotten large enough to be crewed by so many at a time, assuming that permanent emergency escape re-entry vehicles were left attached.
If the Shuttle hadn't been a bus misused as a tractor trailer needing all the weight-savings that could be achieved then they could've kept that latex coating over the main fuel tank and its insulation, such that the insulation wouldn't have been directly subjected to the forces that break it apart and that ultimately led to the destruction of Columbia.
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The secret to getting out of engineering or other technical work and into management is to become friends with management and to see them socially. Go drink with them. Go play golf with them. Go camping, go to strip clubs, go to games like football or baseball or the like, go play with offroad toys like quads or dune buggies with them. Whatever their interest is, go do it with them.
Of course, for this to work you probably have to be likable to them too.
Just so we're clear, you're saying that an up-and-coming technology that has the potential to be the single largest paradigm shift since the dawn of the self-propelled vehicle does not belong on Slashdot?
If Uber's vehicle age rules apply in the Phillippines and in other nations that are much financially poorer than the United States and Western Europe, then it would make sense that Uber rides would be more luxurious. Base taxis may well be whatever vehicle can be made to move under its own power and has accommodations for a passenger.
If Uber were priced in US and other Western markets where it naturally would be if it complied with the laws and regulations, it would probably occupy a tier somewhere between a conventional taxi and a luxury sedan service. Instead passenger livery regulations are violated and drivers are apparently subject to ridiculous shifts in order to pay for the cars they bought through the company store.
I think the difference is between their being allowed to sample your fingerprint and their being allowed to force you to do something specific your fingerprint.
If they take your fingerprint then they have to figure out how to turn that fingerprint into a finger again in order to then use it.
Best you consult a criminal lawyer before providing or refusing to provide information you are asked. There are times you cannot refuse.
That may be rather difficult to do if you're detained and they're not willing to release you. I suppose that you could use your phone to make a call...
I donno where you lived, but we were pretty thoroughly smack-dab in the middle of middle-class. We saved up our allowances for almost two years in order to buy that Nintendo. We traded games with our friends because no one could afford to buy everything that we wanted and we bought and sold games at local shops.
I wonder if a dirty fingerprint scanner simply picked up residue from the previous time it was touched.
If I understand the government's side of the argument, a fingerprint is not simply a password or other set of abstract information that courts have previously generally allowed to remain secret. A fingerprint is also a real-world structure that the courts have allowed to be sampled by law enforcement from those arrested. It's right on the body, so it's not truly secret as it is obscure.
If I were going to use a fingerprint I would use it as the equivalent of the username, or as an alternate means of entering the username, not as the equivalent of the password. For that I probably still would use a password, since a password essentially can be changed an infinite number of times. If a password is compromised then it can just be changed. A fingerprint does not really have that luxury beyond the ten we normally come equipped with.
It sounds like from the summary that the court is allowing the government to collect fingerprints in the traditional way, and is allowing the government to use the fingerprints collected in the traditional way to be used to unlock devices, but is prohibiting the government from bypassing the collection step in order to force the individual to use the fingerprint on their own device.
Today, that desktop experience is based on a very simple, pared-down interface that is reminiscent of the 2000 birthdate of the startup itself.
You mean one that actually works, as opposed to useless eye-candy bullshit that was made by people that really want to make fake UIs for movies and TV shows?
Only if I-am-bored or if I'm feeling rotten.
Did anyone else misread this as, "cellulite"?
I thought for moment going into the summary that it was going to contrast difficulty from the San Bernadino shooters phones with some fundamental flaw allowing someone with bit of extra weight to put the phone up against some bit of anatomy to unlock it...
absurd as this sounds, a friend apparently worked at a dotcom whose fingerprint scanners were so awful that one day he let himself into the office with the end of his convenience store hotdog. His hands were full with the dog and the 64 oz Mountain Dew...
Yes. To the same degree that any time confuses and frightens me.
no but my narcissism was self-lovingly confirmed by repetition of safe space reaffirmation bias.
If you can't reproduce it, it's either fake or you were just being sloppy. Either way, it's no wonder ordinary civilians have doubts.
I am not concerned if any particular scientist or team can't replicate it. I am concerned if no one at all can replicate it.
Modern cutting-edge science can be very hard to do to begin with. I don't care so much how many fail, I care if there are cases where it has succeeded.
Before the interwebs was console gaming. My mother has talked about seeing the shift in the neighborhood as the various kids got nintendos or segas and how suddenly groups of kids stopped playing outdoors.
It is not driving me insane!
now give me a minute to see what fark, deadspin, facebook, twitter, reddit, tumblr, livejournal, wordpress, and blogger have to say about it.
Last time I read about this it was because Heinz sponsored a competition to design a bottle that pours better. Some smartass MIT undergrads played around in the materials sciences lab and designed a bottle that was extremely hydrophobic such that the ketchup literally all just slid out, constrained only by the mouth of the container.
As for the reason, it was clever marketing that gave them the possibility of seeing a new product (none were adopted) while being widely picked up by the press and getting a fair amount of exposure to the general public. Not since Garrison Keillor had the virtues of ketchup been so widely sang.
Didn't we agree back in the eighties to refer to Douglas Adams' most well-known work as H2G2 or H^2G^2 where superscript is supported?
Space Shuttle Challenger DISINTEGRATES in the upper atmosphere. Several ASTRONAUTS without parachutes are DEAD.
Did you write UNIX fortune entries back in the day? This is formatted just like a lot of them...
I'm not sure that I agree when you say it doesn't apply to all media.
First, when I own physical media I know that I'll have permanent access to the contents, within the scope of my player working and my display and sound system working. Given that I've got VHS and Laserdisc still functioning in the mix I don't think this is all that big of a problem. Online content providers, both properly licensed and unlicensed have shown themselves to be unreliable for a number of reasons. Sometimes a provider closes down. Sometimes a provider is closed down. Sometimes a provider thinks that they have the licensing worked out and it turns out they're wrong so the title is pulled. Sometimes the provider has only licensed the work for a limited duration, or has licensed the work when it's off-season (thinking of christmas specials that are not accessible during christmas except from the one excluslve provider but are available everywhere off-season). Rates change. Even with the attacks on net-neutrality, being able to access may change.
Second, people like to collect things. People like having sets. There's a certain satisfatction in it. Obviously not everyone has this penchant, but that's ok.
Third, going through the motions can be a means to determine if one really wants to watch something, or if one is just doing it as the path of least resistance. Personally I feel I watch too much TV and spend too much time on the Internet already, without having a streaming service and without having cable or other pay-TV. It makes it a lot easier to actually go do something else besides vegetate on the couch if I find myself not able to make a choice for what to watch.
If some of these aspects apply to comic books or graphic novels or manga or whatever you want to call them, then I can see why people want phyiscal media and why they want sets.
What may really bake your noodle is that they might not have had to latex the entire tank in order to protect it. They well might have been able to calculate the combination of ablative characteristics of the tank along with the speed of impact based on distance from the break-off point to the orbiter itself, such that they might have been able to get away with painting the nosecone and perhaps a parabolic-slice of the side of the tank facing the orbiter, such that pieces most likely to have a chance of damaging the orbiter were held down, while the side away from the orbiter wouldn't have had such protections.
In particular the issue with the o-rings stemmed from manufacturing the SRBs at Thiokol in Utah. The only practical means to ship said boosters was by rail. To ship them by rail ultimately meant designing components that could fit into the form-factor necessary to transport by rail.
The Saturn V rockets were manufactured in Louisiana, in New Orleans, so the large pieces could be barge-shipped to Florida in much larger segments than anything that had to be moved by rail. It was also the site where the Shuttle's external fuel tank was manufactured, for exactly the same reason.
If you look at a topographical map of the United States, you can see that Utah is about the least-suitable place, geographically, to try to manufacture and then transport something as large as the SRB. The entire state is within the Rocky Mountains and there are no navigable waterways out to an ocean or to flat lowland or plains. By contrast just about any state in the Great Plains, Coastal Plains, and the Central Lowlands possibly could've allowed for ground transport of the rockets even if it required new road or rail infrastructure simply because there are no mountains to contend with, and in the case of the Central Lowlands there's already a history of canal and lake barge shipping through the Great Lakes and out through the St. Lawrence River, in addition to alternative routes via the Missouri, Mississippi, and Ohio rivers.
I they hadn't chosen Thiokol, and if they hadn't opted to remove the latex to save all of six hundred pounds, it's possible that the Shuttle would still be flying with a perfect record.
My anecdotal experience has predominately been to witness sexism that's centered around when the guys get together without the gals around, and that in most cases it evaporates when there are women present, and it's almost always centered in social or off-hours situations. It's literally like the idiots revert to being thirteen and start openly speculating about sex acts that they're probably never going to get an opportunity to perform with women that they're never going to have any intimacy with without having any real-world knowledge of sex. What's kind of funny is witnessing the immediate-switch if a woman that could find issue comes into earshot, it's literally as dramatic as when the character in Office Space listening to the gangster rap on his commute is faced with a couple of potential bangers and he gets as meek as a mouse...
Most of the rest of the sexism has been older guys with no filter that say inappropriate things in front of coworkers regardless of the gender-mix, occasionally making it personal about a person present. Often this is in the context of the group enjoying a mild bit of prurient humor centered around double-entendre, only for this other person to come into the conversation and just destroy any sort of plausible deniability with outright escalation of the joke or the deliberate explicit statement instead of leaving the double-entendre intact.
I have no doubt that other forms of sexism exist in tech, but I have not personally witnessed anything as egregious as the article discusses.
I don't think that you're going to find a lot of argument about the cost problems associated with the Space Shuttle program, at least among those that actually think critically about the cost per pound, but bear in mind that if NASA had continued to pursue other launch platforms for the non-man-rated launch of materiel, and used the Shuttle more sparingly for when long-term crew accommodation was actually necessary we'd probably be having a different discussion.
If NASA had such an alternate heavy-launch method, they probably could have designed larger space station modules, could've launched more of them in groups, and sent up crews of astronauts, using the orbiter as crew quarters, to build the station in much shorter order. Instead of using the Shuttle to ferry parts smaller than the shuttle, they could have used it for what its name actually implied. They possibly could've even designed passenger accommodations for the cargo bay, if the space station itself had gotten large enough to be crewed by so many at a time, assuming that permanent emergency escape re-entry vehicles were left attached.
If the Shuttle hadn't been a bus misused as a tractor trailer needing all the weight-savings that could be achieved then they could've kept that latex coating over the main fuel tank and its insulation, such that the insulation wouldn't have been directly subjected to the forces that break it apart and that ultimately led to the destruction of Columbia.
...as the headline and summary do not explain at all, but it sounds like you have to be one to want to use it...