If anyone wants to know what specific changes he suggests universities implement, don't bother watching the movie, he doesn't mention it.
It wouldn't matter if he did. Beating security consciousness into the programmer is the easy part. Beating security consciousness into businesses is... mostly impossible.
The interviewer never gives him the chance.
Replace "interviewer" with "boss" and you've encapsulated the problem in a nutshell.
and the ease of a Roku or AppleTV is incredibly tempting.
It's likely that Apple and Roku are collecting some type of metrics on your watching habits, regardless of which boxes you (un)tick in the settings. I know Roku explicitly allows/enables google analytics in their channels. You'd have to block that nonsense at the router.
*The movie was directed by Terry Gilliam, the man responsible for directing the sci-fi classic Brazil and most (all?) of the filmed Monty Python material.
I cannot understand how it could possibly be unethical to explain the dangers and still give candidates the right to say, "yeah, I know I'm not coming back. For personal pride, for adventure, for my country, and for humanity I choose to go anyway. Now step aside and light this candle."
It's NASA's candle and the Astronauts don't get to choose if it gets lit.
Therefore, contrary to your assertion, they were properly planning for the costs but that planning did not encompass irrational public opinion shutting down the plant ahead of schedule.
Uhh... no. Their plan is to idle the plant and let the decommissioning fund appreciate.
What it really sounds like is the State of Vermont & the NRC made some poor assumptions about decommissioning costs and didn't require the operator to set aside enough money over the last 42 years. Irrational public opinion has nothing to do with this, even if Entergy wasn't shutting the plant down because of profitability concerns.
The problem here is this. Extremely rich companies can have the fastest links to the exchanges, but this is no different from the olden days where the oldest and richest companies had the smartest and most well-connected traders.
You couldn't be more wrong. Buying the fastest link is an exploit in the trading system. Having traders (smart or not) is part of the trading system.
People who have never worked in this field who are against HFT really don't understand computer-based trading very well, from either a programmer's perspective or a trader's perspective.
With all due respect, why should we care about "a programmer's perspective or a trader's perspective."
I care about competitive markets. Without competitive markets, it's just more of the shitty behavior we've been trying to eliminate through regulation. Consider that many big trading houses have never lost money. Does that strike you as something that happens in a competitive market?
Wouldn't it be fucking fantastic if the "free" market actually moved itself towards a place of honest competition? That's what these guys are trying to do and I applaud them.
You want your 401K to execute as accurately-priced trades as possible. HFT ensures that both styles of trading benefit.
What's the point of accurately priced trades if my orders disappear into an in-house dark pool where [who knows]? You can't have a free market without transparency and the biggest market makers have a profit motive to avoid transparency.
CEOs and corporations are not "required by law to be heartless bastards". If that were true, corporations would be barred from working with charities.
Corporations can do whatever they want, including "fuck the shareholders" if it's written in their corporate charter. Google is a prime example of this, with their three tiered stock structure that concentrates power in the hands of its founders. And their IPO which stated that Google is not a conventional company so don't expect it to focus on quarterly earnings estimates.
The notion that corporations are supposed to put profits above all else is and has been incredibly corrosive to our society. Not just because corporations are acting that way, but because people believe corporations should/have to act that way, which in turn provides corporations the room to behave like complete and utter sociopaths with regards to the common good.
As a result, the accumulation of wealth by individuals and corporations allows them to spend megabucks on PR/lobbying to maintain/expand the situation we're all in.
Our society wasn't always like this and it doesn't have to remain this way.
No. Your chain-of-commerce should have ended at "customer". Any further actions do not qualify as commerce.
1. There's more to commerce than the exchange of money. 2. Your definition of consumer is a transparently biased straw man you've built up specifically so you can beat it down.
For this conversation to be meaningful, we need a common definition. Heck, it'd probably help if you even read the fucking article
"It's an established product," Rubio said. "Customers should be allowed to buy products that fit their need, especially a product that we know is safe and has consumer confidence beneath it."
3. Rubio isn't even using "consumer" in the way that's got you Anonymous Cowards all hot and bothered.
Is "consumer confidence" derogatory? Does it imply "mindless automatons?" Or maybe you ACs are just full of shit.
Fuck. I don't even like Rubio's Tea Party politics, but I definitely dislike incorrect/. pedants even more.
If they aren't packed close, how are people like me with small feet supposed to heel-toe in a manual?
Are you aware that the position of the brake and gas pedal isn't set in concrete? Pretty much everything on your car can be modified or replaced, including the location of the gas and brake pedal.
I know that it isn't convenient for you, but the defaults should be safe for the average sized *person.
Interestingly, there is one special case where no-fee interconnection is embraced by the big ISPs -- when they are connecting among themselves. They argue this is because roughly the same amount of data comes and goes between their networks. But when we ask them if we too would qualify for no-fee interconnect if we changed our service to upload as much data as we download** -- thus filling their upstream networks and nearly doubling our total traffic -- there is an uncomfortable silence. That's because the ISP argument isn't sensible. Big ISPs aren't paying money to services like online backup that generate more upstream than downstream traffic. Data direction, in other words, has nothing to do with costs.
**in other words, moving to peer-to-peer content delivery
AT&T + friends just don't like provisioning more bandwidth for companies that don't directly make them money.
Yet another contractor who seems to have been doing the minimum required to get paid. Fire suppression turned off, flammable materials stored after repeated inspections required that they be removed. Outsource responsibility and this seems to be the result.
At what point do we stop blaming the contractors and start blaming a lax regulatory environment (which the contractors probably lobbied for)?
I expect the free market to behave like a 5 year old on a sugar rush. What I can't accept is the adults' repeated refusal to punish bad behavior. We have a regulatory framework. Enforce it.
There is an immense amount wealth being extracted from the area, but very little of it trickles down to the inhabitants. The region is so fucked that black lung is making a comeback because of captured regulators.
When the DNR gives out permits to kill 500 moose, it's probably done with the assumption that only 45% of those hunters will succeed.
If the DNR gives out permits to kill 500, it's because they want to cull 500 moose from the herd. Hunting season ends early if the number of permitted animals are killed sooner than expected. If the season ends and all the permitted animals aren't killed, most DNRs will increase quotas for the next year.
Some states have ongoing problems where there aren't enough hunters to kill the number of [animal] that the DNR feels is necessary to bring a population under control.
Remind me again why "black box" style cellular data transmitters aren't required to be transmitting cockpit voice data and full telemetry from every major airliner at all times yet?
Because in the middle of the ocean, there are no cellular towers. You could do it with satellites, but that becomes cost prohibitive extremely quickly.
Not to mention that there just isn't enough bandwidth to do what you're proposing for every plane.
As a compromise, there's a company looking to put ADS-B receivers on satellites. That way, the existing line-of-sight radio broadcasts from planes can be tracked without an extensive ground based network.
Alas it looks like Russia doesn't want it to be over and wants to rekindle its 'former glory'.
This has nothing to do with glory and everything to do with geopolitics/spheres of influence.
Russia might be wrapping their activity in patriotism and nationalism, but that's just an easy way to sell militarism to the Russian people.
The real issue is that Europe has been slowly encroaching on Russia's borders and Putin isn't about to allow a buffer state with a warm water port used by the Russian Navy to align itself with Europe.
So how can you reasonably claim that a warmer climate leads to food shortages when we have direct evidence showing we can grow more overall in a warmer climate? Warming should lead to more, and cheaper, food for all nations (well all nations that treat farmers well anyway).
It may have something to do with the proliferation of cities, suburbs, and high density animal farming sometime during the last 1,000 years since the medieval warming period. And we've also done our best to deplete the stocks of every important sea creature that we like to eat.
It's disingenuous to try and compare the two periods, for many more reasons than the few I've listed.
"The biggest slap in the face to all of us here is we have to train all of our replacements," said the IT worker. Once that training is completed, the IT workers receive severance pay. Some employees were offered jobs with the offshore firms, but at lower salaries and with reduced benefits, he said.
There's no reason they couldn't be training Americans to replace those jobs.
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If anyone wants to know what specific changes he suggests universities implement, don't bother watching the movie, he doesn't mention it.
It wouldn't matter if he did.
Beating security consciousness into the programmer is the easy part.
Beating security consciousness into businesses is... mostly impossible.
The interviewer never gives him the chance.
Replace "interviewer" with "boss" and you've encapsulated the problem in a nutshell.
and the ease of a Roku or AppleTV is incredibly tempting.
It's likely that Apple and Roku are collecting some type of metrics on your watching habits, regardless of which boxes you (un)tick in the settings.
I know Roku explicitly allows/enables google analytics in their channels.
You'd have to block that nonsense at the router.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzo_journalism
If you've ever read/watched* Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas you'll have a decent idea of what Gonzo is.
*The movie was directed by Terry Gilliam, the man responsible for directing the sci-fi classic Brazil and most (all?) of the filmed Monty Python material.
I cannot understand how it could possibly be unethical to explain the dangers and still give candidates the right to say, "yeah, I know I'm not coming back. For personal pride, for adventure, for my country, and for humanity I choose to go anyway. Now step aside and light this candle."
It's NASA's candle and the Astronauts don't get to choose if it gets lit.
Therefore, contrary to your assertion, they were properly planning for the costs but that planning did not encompass irrational public opinion shutting down the plant ahead of schedule.
Uhh... no.
Their plan is to idle the plant and let the decommissioning fund appreciate.
What it really sounds like is the State of Vermont & the NRC made some poor assumptions about decommissioning costs and didn't require the operator to set aside enough money over the last 42 years.
Irrational public opinion has nothing to do with this, even if Entergy wasn't shutting the plant down because of profitability concerns.
My car isn't a black box.
It has fuses and antennas and relays and switches.
If I want to disable a "feature," I can.
The problem here is this. Extremely rich companies can have the fastest links to the exchanges, but this is no different from the olden days where the oldest and richest companies had the smartest and most well-connected traders.
You couldn't be more wrong.
Buying the fastest link is an exploit in the trading system.
Having traders (smart or not) is part of the trading system.
People who have never worked in this field who are against HFT really don't understand computer-based trading very well, from either a programmer's perspective or a trader's perspective.
With all due respect, why should we care about "a programmer's perspective or a trader's perspective."
I care about competitive markets.
Without competitive markets, it's just more of the shitty behavior we've been trying to eliminate through regulation.
Consider that many big trading houses have never lost money.
Does that strike you as something that happens in a competitive market?
Wouldn't it be fucking fantastic if the "free" market actually moved itself towards a place of honest competition?
That's what these guys are trying to do and I applaud them.
You want your 401K to execute as accurately-priced trades as possible. HFT ensures that both styles of trading benefit.
What's the point of accurately priced trades if my orders disappear into an in-house dark pool where [who knows]?
You can't have a free market without transparency and the biggest market makers have a profit motive to avoid transparency.
CEOs and corporations are not "required by law to be heartless bastards". If that were true, corporations would be barred from working with charities.
Corporations can do whatever they want, including "fuck the shareholders" if it's written in their corporate charter.
Google is a prime example of this, with their three tiered stock structure that concentrates power in the hands of its founders.
And their IPO which stated that Google is not a conventional company so don't expect it to focus on quarterly earnings estimates.
The notion that corporations are supposed to put profits above all else is and has been incredibly corrosive to our society.
Not just because corporations are acting that way, but because people believe corporations should/have to act that way,
which in turn provides corporations the room to behave like complete and utter sociopaths with regards to the common good.
As a result, the accumulation of wealth by individuals and corporations allows them to spend megabucks on PR/lobbying to maintain/expand the situation we're all in.
Our society wasn't always like this and it doesn't have to remain this way.
Speaking of headaches, TFA didn't bother linking to the website of what we're all talking about
http://www.wearscript.com/en/latest/
No. Your chain-of-commerce should have ended at "customer". Any further actions do not qualify as commerce.
1. There's more to commerce than the exchange of money.
2. Your definition of consumer is a transparently biased straw man you've built up specifically so you can beat it down.
For this conversation to be meaningful, we need a common definition.
Heck, it'd probably help if you even read the fucking article
"It's an established product," Rubio said. "Customers should be allowed to buy products that fit their need, especially a product that we know is safe and has consumer confidence beneath it."
3. Rubio isn't even using "consumer" in the way that's got you Anonymous Cowards all hot and bothered.
Is "consumer confidence" derogatory?
Does it imply "mindless automatons?"
Or maybe you ACs are just full of shit.
Fuck. I don't even like Rubio's Tea Party politics, /. pedants even more.
but I definitely dislike incorrect
And then he called them "consumers."
Protip: That's the derogatory term economists use for the general public when they're feeling especially sociopathic.
Manufacturer, Distributor, Wholesaler, Retailer, Customer, Consumer
None of those terms are derogatory.
All they do is describe different roles in the chain of commerce.
Once it's been proven to work?
Medicine.
If they aren't packed close, how are people like me with small feet supposed to heel-toe in a manual?
Are you aware that the position of the brake and gas pedal isn't set in concrete?
Pretty much everything on your car can be modified or replaced, including the location of the gas and brake pedal.
I know that it isn't convenient for you, but the defaults should be safe for the average sized *person.
[...] theres NO REASON to compel them to do so.
How about to make sure there isn't a backdoor in the baseband software?
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/replicant-developers-find-and-close-samsung-galaxy-backdoor
The NSA's activities should have us rushing to audit and open as much as possible.
"Trust us" isn't a viable business model anymore.
FTFA
Interestingly, there is one special case where no-fee interconnection is embraced by the big ISPs -- when they are connecting among themselves. They argue this is because roughly the same amount of data comes and goes between their networks. But when we ask them if we too would qualify for no-fee interconnect if we changed our service to upload as much data as we download** -- thus filling their upstream networks and nearly doubling our total traffic -- there is an uncomfortable silence. That's because the ISP argument isn't sensible. Big ISPs aren't paying money to services like online backup that generate more upstream than downstream traffic. Data direction, in other words, has nothing to do with costs.
**in other words, moving to peer-to-peer content delivery
AT&T + friends just don't like provisioning more bandwidth for companies that don't directly make them money.
Yet another contractor who seems to have been doing the minimum required to get paid. Fire suppression turned off, flammable materials stored after repeated inspections required that they be removed. Outsource responsibility and this seems to be the result.
At what point do we stop blaming the contractors and start blaming a lax regulatory environment (which the contractors probably lobbied for)?
I expect the free market to behave like a 5 year old on a sugar rush.
What I can't accept is the adults' repeated refusal to punish bad behavior.
We have a regulatory framework. Enforce it.
It was a nightmare - the largest area of depression in the united states, and sizeable (East Tennessee).
East Tennessee is part of Appalachia.
It's a corridor of poverty that runs up the East Coast.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachia
There is an immense amount wealth being extracted from the area, but very little of it trickles down to the inhabitants.
The region is so fucked that black lung is making a comeback because of captured regulators.
When the DNR gives out permits to kill 500 moose, it's probably done with the assumption that only 45% of those hunters will succeed.
If the DNR gives out permits to kill 500, it's because they want to cull 500 moose from the herd.
Hunting season ends early if the number of permitted animals are killed sooner than expected.
If the season ends and all the permitted animals aren't killed, most DNRs will increase quotas for the next year.
Some states have ongoing problems where there aren't enough hunters to kill the number of [animal] that the DNR feels is necessary to bring a population under control.
Remind me again why "black box" style cellular data transmitters aren't required to be transmitting cockpit voice data and full telemetry from every major airliner at all times yet?
Because in the middle of the ocean, there are no cellular towers.
You could do it with satellites, but that becomes cost prohibitive extremely quickly.
Not to mention that there just isn't enough bandwidth to do what you're proposing for every plane.
As a compromise, there's a company looking to put ADS-B receivers on satellites.
That way, the existing line-of-sight radio broadcasts from planes can be tracked without an extensive ground based network.
Alas it looks like Russia doesn't want it to be over and wants to rekindle its 'former glory'.
This has nothing to do with glory and everything to do with geopolitics/spheres of influence.
Russia might be wrapping their activity in patriotism and nationalism, but that's just an easy way to sell militarism to the Russian people.
The real issue is that Europe has been slowly encroaching on Russia's borders and Putin isn't about to allow a buffer state with a warm water port used by the Russian Navy to align itself with Europe.
So how can you reasonably claim that a warmer climate leads to food shortages when we have direct evidence showing we can grow more overall in a warmer climate? Warming should lead to more, and cheaper, food for all nations (well all nations that treat farmers well anyway).
It may have something to do with the proliferation of cities, suburbs, and high density animal farming sometime during the last 1,000 years since the medieval warming period.
And we've also done our best to deplete the stocks of every important sea creature that we like to eat.
It's disingenuous to try and compare the two periods, for many more reasons than the few I've listed.
Did you even read the summary?
and arrest reports to field information cards filled out by cops on the beat even when no crime has occurred.
AFAIK those are not public records.
I could pick apart the entire post, but I think this is the core of the discussion:
apply the doctrine of tolerance equally
If we were doing this, we wouldn't be having conversations about homophobia and bigotry.
Your entire post is very well written, but essentially boils down to "tolerate the intolerance."
The only proper response to that is "No."
I suspect he means "not cheap"
FTFA:
"The biggest slap in the face to all of us here is we have to train all of our replacements," said the IT worker. Once that training is completed, the IT workers receive severance pay. Some employees were offered jobs with the offshore firms, but at lower salaries and with reduced benefits, he said.
There's no reason they couldn't be training Americans to replace those jobs.
I've never seen a tree shoot anyone, go mental, or rape other trees.
Many plants are constantly battling each other: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allelopathy
It's a very slow combination of chemical warfare and forced starvation.