Without question, Beijing is very direct with how it wishes to silence civilians. You say they only target the big fish. Perhaps that's true. But if the method of how they target is anything like America, it can be both the little and the big fish. I'll cite a few examples. Take the IRS. It's purpose is to collect US tax money. While they go after those with deeper pockets to make the time worth while, sometimes they will go after someone random just to make a point. Fear. The population learns to fear the IRS and thus act as an advisory against not paying taxes. All other neighbors will generally hear from their plight. The MPAA does the same thing only worse. They go after the small fish. Little grandmother getting smashed into bankruptcy. They don't want money. That want to financially ruin her as an example to others. Again, it's all about the message and the sacrificial lambs they make out of people in the process.
What I'm essentially saying is this. Just because you're from China doesn't mean you should ignore the kind of crap that goes on in other nations too. In fact, I would say being an asshole is a universal human constant regardless of the nation you live in. I'm sure there's a mathematical equation written about it someplace...
Awhile back, one of my clients (whom I provide outsourced IT support too) employed a few interns. One of them starting pushing for the job is internal IT as a secondary role of his while also wanting to get rid of their SBS server and go pure MS Office 365. I'm not opposed to any of this in principle so long as the owners of the company fully understand what they would be getting themselves into. But they don't. And that's the problem. Pushy interns trying to make a name for themselves all while unnecessary costs, disruptions, and possibly damage in the process. These 20 somethings know jobs are hard to get, and are fighting tooth and nail to shine off any and everyone that stands in their way.
I guess it's sort of like seagull management. They fly in, crap all over the place, and you're left to clean up the mess. In these cases, it's best to give them enough rope to hang themselves before things get too much worse later on.
It will collapses entirely and leave us with inflation to the point of the dollar being worthless. Currency standards might even fall back to the states as our federal government isn't allowed to legally default. In other words, the breakup of the 50 state union would be required to end this death-spiral. A new nation (or nations) could be formed in its place much in like how a corporation files for bankruptcy only for the same people to refile an entirely new Corp. Of course, then things start get really hairy internationally at the diplomatic level. The world would still try and hold the original inhabitants accountable some how I think. Why wouldn't they? Speaking of nations. American's is till very young. In fact, from a historical POV, so is the very concept of a nation as well.
Uhuh, sure. You just keep on saying that... Now excuse me while I help Exxon, BP, and others continue to search for natural resources with dowsing rods. -sarcasm
No, not really. Unless LASIK disqualifies, having natural 20/20 vision and a hight requirement will be the most likely limiting generic factors. Other then that, almost any one Slashdot can be physically fit and well educated enough to get a bachelors of science degree. All you need is a driven personality to make that happen. For example, a childhood dream you really want to turn into reality.
As for myself? I don't have the required degree and my 20/20 is starting to fade as I get older. So count me out. I'm sure there are plenty of ex-military members that would disproportionally qualify over any random civilian. Physical fitness, endurance, and calm collective psyche are all qualities NASA is looking for. Again, most ex-military fit the bill perfectly.
I suppose you can divide NASA into two parts. On one hand, NASA is the leader of space exploration through satellite instrumentation and planetary robotics. On the other, the more sexy, manned space exploration such orbital mission, space labs, and men landing on the moon. I would say NASA's ability to excel on the first part exceeds any the shortcomings of the second part. It seems almost every day now how many discoveries NASA is able to make like never before.
So what your saying is that the human brain can only climb the ladder of knowledge and understanding so high. It's a biological limitation. But here's a real twist of irony I can see being played out in the future. We develop AI that will augment or replace our ability to discovery and develop on our own. The machines will take over, and we worship them as God/s because from our perspective, it's no difference.
Religion worships a conceptual God/s. Science creates a physical God/s to be worshiped.
Have you not seen a list of federal funding programs? I know military spending is a lot higher than it should be, but at least the defense of this nation is a justified core element. As of 2005, out of the near 2 Trillion in public expenditures and grants, certainly you would agree that there's some fat here to be trimmed. A list below.
Throw in the religious Christian and Islamic radicals that believe in the rapture too and you've got a recipe for disaster. Or maybe a N. Korean that's all pissed off his Dear Leader kicked the bucket and realized his life was all a lie. Whatever. Censored or not, the information will get released or R&D will be thrown into making this with the full confidence that it can be done via announcement of this publication. Not to be Mr Doom & Gloom here, but this will get released sooner or later. I can only hope governments around the world start mass-producing a vaccine ASAP. This isn't a waste of time or money. It's exceedingly important that we treat this as an urgent matter.
Now that I think about it, producing the vaccine requires making the original virus in the first place right? It's not looking good I think.
Social conservatives and social liberals engage in sexual activity all over the world. The only difference is with whom or which group of people and how socially open you are about this topic. I think the real problem is having unprotected sex with a partner you know little or nothing about. You're free to do as you wish with whomever shares your desire. While HIV is the numero uno STD to watch out for, there are just as many other STDs out there can can ruin a happy and health life. So while social conservatives are annoyingly in-your-face about sexuality, the over all message is to be careful regarding your mind, body, and soul (if you believe). Perhaps the problem isn't so much with conservative philosophy as in how it's being delivered in a manor that rubs people the wrong way. Either way, you only have yourself to watch out for. Don't pay attention to others if you get all hot and bothered about it.
I'm pretty sure that in N Korea, if you don't clap when the Dear Leader claps, you DIE!!! That said, all together now. When you're happy and you know it clap your hands...When you're happy and you know clap your hands... Da da da da daaa....
I think you're looking at it all wrong. This has nothing to do with a comparative death ratios. This has everything to do with liability. At the end of the day, people want a legitimate target to point their finger at regardless of the fact injury or death could have been prevented. If people are allowed to take Google to court and render justice, then I'm sure this new automated driving technology would be ok in their minds. OTOH, if Google is given sanctuary from public lawsuits, hell no!
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton just visited Burma to establish the beginnings of hopefully will be a long a productive relationship. Both for the US, and the people of Burma. But I don't like coincidence. Something tells me either the US or Burma knew Kim Jong Il was on his deathbed and they wanted to establish a plan 'B' ahead of time.
Data Foundry located in Austin, TX has a nice natural disaster map located on their website. I used to live there myself. About the only thing to worry about would be tornadoes. But even those are extremely infrequent.
It will pass. The technological damage this will cause is -by design-. It serves four fundamental actions.
1. They will get their bag of money. 2. It will now distract from the Health Care fiasco that got passed awhile back. 3. New found power in the chaos this now creates. Looks like they can now create even more bills and laws to address the very one that started this mess the first place. 4. Restricts freedom. Politicians don't like to be healed accountable and controlled by the populous.
Comcast and others are testing IPv6. But let's be real here. There's profit in scarcity. The cell phone industry most assuredly be moving to IPv6, but it won't be pushed very if at all in the home market. Soon, the dynamic public IP will be gone and instead double-NAT will be the default behavior. This will service three purpose.
1. It will extend the useful life out of the IP block an ISP has and thus serve more customers. 2. Double-NAT inherently breaks bit torrent, and VPN connectivity. The former uses excessive bandwidth while VPN users are business oriented users anyways. 3. Forces users that need a public facing IP (like they used to have for free) to now pay for it at two different price points. One for dynamic and other static. Both could now be classified as a business account. Used by non other than VPN users.
Cha Ching Cha Ching $$$$$$!!!! And they laugh all the way to the bank.
Actually, it does matter a lot. Regardless if you have a static IP or not, you need the client to 'touch' your online account for you. Otherwise, it will expire unless you manually log into their website with your account. I'm not sure how often it's required, but don't let it pass more than a few weeks or you'll find your DynDNS account deleted.
Pretty much. Either you earned an MBA from a respected university and groomed into the role (very quickly I might add), or they hired someone who worked in management from a completely different industry (a lateral move). Management isn't about having the ability to offer an extended work knowledge base to your subordinates. Management is all about leadership and when to crack the whip. This role is also very self serving. They will not go down without sacrificing their underlings first as though they're a disposable flak jacket. Although this also hold true in multi-level management of a large corporation. It gets ruthless at that level!
My advise? When working in a large corp, learn the political landscape pronto. Mingle with management and especially their boss too. Make them treat you like family to the best of your ability. When shit hits the fan, you'll have a greater success of survival. You're rewarded with keeping your job...until next time.
Or, you could just run your own business and forget all that drama. To each his/her own.
Central Time Zone here. A co-worker stated it also happened to his home machine and a with regular client of his. We're not hearing anything from anyone about this, but I'll start asking around. It happened to me after a few minutes of booting up a VM of XP running on my MacBook. Go figure.
I'm still scratching me head over this behavior though. Normally AU will install a 3AM in the morning and reboot if required. But my Windows 7 machine automatically started installing updates in the background around 10pm last night while I was watching Netflix. I only noticed because of all the excessive HDD activity from the LED on my case. I minimized Netflix and *bam*, a pop-up window started counting down 15 seconds with an option to ignore which I choose. Eventually, it popped back up again and I wasn't there to cancel it. So my machine got rebooted. It's as though Microsoft knew this was some uber security issue that they just had to update on my machine at all costs. I just want to know what the KB number of that update that was deemed so important to them. This was truly one of those "for your own good" moves that quite frankly got me torqued.
I have many clients that have SBS 2008 servers that manage WSUS policies by default along with many GPOs associated with computer OUs. You can still define WSUS updates manually, but you risk breaking the link back to the main SBS console. There's an entire KB article on this. Anyways, I haven't check if those workstations are experiencing the same behavior. I'm also managing a domain with standard 2003 DCs and GPOs to modify the update behavior and custom WSUS settings.
Basically it comes down to this. like I've stated in my previous post, I've never seen this behavior before in which Microsoft forces a dead man's switch upon the user every 15 minutes to reboot. The default update behavior happens at 3AM, but at least the user gets prompted to reboot on their own time for changes to take effect. That's ok in fact. But to force a reboot *without* user interaction isn't defensible as far as I'm concerned.
So far, I'm found a few XP and Windows7 PC that automatically install and schedule a reboot regardless of your Automatic Update settings. For some reason, MS decided to override this policy with some super-secret update policy I've never seen before. This would be the first time I've noticed it. These machines are always update to date each month and some are on a domain while others in workgroup mode. Anyways, the updates that got push out this week will prompt a user every 15 minutes to reboot. It's like a dead man's switch. If you ignore the option to postpone the reboot, it does it on it's own.
I smell a lawsuit coming for loss of user data that hand't had a chance to be saved while open on the desktop.
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Without question, Beijing is very direct with how it wishes to silence civilians. You say they only target the big fish. Perhaps that's true. But if the method of how they target is anything like America, it can be both the little and the big fish. I'll cite a few examples. Take the IRS. It's purpose is to collect US tax money. While they go after those with deeper pockets to make the time worth while, sometimes they will go after someone random just to make a point. Fear. The population learns to fear the IRS and thus act as an advisory against not paying taxes. All other neighbors will generally hear from their plight. The MPAA does the same thing only worse. They go after the small fish. Little grandmother getting smashed into bankruptcy. They don't want money. That want to financially ruin her as an example to others. Again, it's all about the message and the sacrificial lambs they make out of people in the process.
What I'm essentially saying is this. Just because you're from China doesn't mean you should ignore the kind of crap that goes on in other nations too. In fact, I would say being an asshole is a universal human constant regardless of the nation you live in. I'm sure there's a mathematical equation written about it someplace...
Awhile back, one of my clients (whom I provide outsourced IT support too) employed a few interns. One of them starting pushing for the job is internal IT as a secondary role of his while also wanting to get rid of their SBS server and go pure MS Office 365. I'm not opposed to any of this in principle so long as the owners of the company fully understand what they would be getting themselves into. But they don't. And that's the problem. Pushy interns trying to make a name for themselves all while unnecessary costs, disruptions, and possibly damage in the process. These 20 somethings know jobs are hard to get, and are fighting tooth and nail to shine off any and everyone that stands in their way.
I guess it's sort of like seagull management. They fly in, crap all over the place, and you're left to clean up the mess. In these cases, it's best to give them enough rope to hang themselves before things get too much worse later on.
It will collapses entirely and leave us with inflation to the point of the dollar being worthless. Currency standards might even fall back to the states as our federal government isn't allowed to legally default. In other words, the breakup of the 50 state union would be required to end this death-spiral. A new nation (or nations) could be formed in its place much in like how a corporation files for bankruptcy only for the same people to refile an entirely new Corp. Of course, then things start get really hairy internationally at the diplomatic level. The world would still try and hold the original inhabitants accountable some how I think. Why wouldn't they? Speaking of nations. American's is till very young. In fact, from a historical POV, so is the very concept of a nation as well.
And the world will continue to hate us. All the more reason to not give a shit what others think.
Uhuh, sure. You just keep on saying that... Now excuse me while I help Exxon, BP, and others continue to search for natural resources with dowsing rods. -sarcasm
No, not really. Unless LASIK disqualifies, having natural 20/20 vision and a hight requirement will be the most likely limiting generic factors. Other then that, almost any one Slashdot can be physically fit and well educated enough to get a bachelors of science degree. All you need is a driven personality to make that happen. For example, a childhood dream you really want to turn into reality.
As for myself? I don't have the required degree and my 20/20 is starting to fade as I get older. So count me out. I'm sure there are plenty of ex-military members that would disproportionally qualify over any random civilian. Physical fitness, endurance, and calm collective psyche are all qualities NASA is looking for. Again, most ex-military fit the bill perfectly.
I suppose you can divide NASA into two parts. On one hand, NASA is the leader of space exploration through satellite instrumentation and planetary robotics. On the other, the more sexy, manned space exploration such orbital mission, space labs, and men landing on the moon. I would say NASA's ability to excel on the first part exceeds any the shortcomings of the second part. It seems almost every day now how many discoveries NASA is able to make like never before.
So what your saying is that the human brain can only climb the ladder of knowledge and understanding so high. It's a biological limitation. But here's a real twist of irony I can see being played out in the future. We develop AI that will augment or replace our ability to discovery and develop on our own. The machines will take over, and we worship them as God/s because from our perspective, it's no difference.
Religion worships a conceptual God/s.
Science creates a physical God/s to be worshiped.
Have you not seen a list of federal funding programs? I know military spending is a lot higher than it should be, but at least the defense of this nation is a justified core element. As of 2005, out of the near 2 Trillion in public expenditures and grants, certainly you would agree that there's some fat here to be trimmed. A list below.
http://funding-programs.idilogic.aidpage.com/
Throw in the religious Christian and Islamic radicals that believe in the rapture too and you've got a recipe for disaster. Or maybe a N. Korean that's all pissed off his Dear Leader kicked the bucket and realized his life was all a lie. Whatever. Censored or not, the information will get released or R&D will be thrown into making this with the full confidence that it can be done via announcement of this publication. Not to be Mr Doom & Gloom here, but this will get released sooner or later. I can only hope governments around the world start mass-producing a vaccine ASAP. This isn't a waste of time or money. It's exceedingly important that we treat this as an urgent matter.
Now that I think about it, producing the vaccine requires making the original virus in the first place right? It's not looking good I think.
Social conservatives and social liberals engage in sexual activity all over the world. The only difference is with whom or which group of people and how socially open you are about this topic. I think the real problem is having unprotected sex with a partner you know little or nothing about. You're free to do as you wish with whomever shares your desire. While HIV is the numero uno STD to watch out for, there are just as many other STDs out there can can ruin a happy and health life. So while social conservatives are annoyingly in-your-face about sexuality, the over all message is to be careful regarding your mind, body, and soul (if you believe). Perhaps the problem isn't so much with conservative philosophy as in how it's being delivered in a manor that rubs people the wrong way. Either way, you only have yourself to watch out for. Don't pay attention to others if you get all hot and bothered about it.
I'm pretty sure that in N Korea, if you don't clap when the Dear Leader claps, you DIE!!! That said, all together now. When you're happy and you know it clap your hands...When you're happy and you know clap your hands... Da da da da daaa....
I think you're looking at it all wrong. This has nothing to do with a comparative death ratios. This has everything to do with liability. At the end of the day, people want a legitimate target to point their finger at regardless of the fact injury or death could have been prevented. If people are allowed to take Google to court and render justice, then I'm sure this new automated driving technology would be ok in their minds. OTOH, if Google is given sanctuary from public lawsuits, hell no!
A new Internet meme! Nice. Let me try.
North Korean State television Says Kim Jong Il died peacefully in his sleep while golfing a hole-in-one from the Earth to the Moon.
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton just visited Burma to establish the beginnings of hopefully will be a long a productive relationship. Both for the US, and the people of Burma. But I don't like coincidence. Something tells me either the US or Burma knew Kim Jong Il was on his deathbed and they wanted to establish a plan 'B' ahead of time.
Data Foundry located in Austin, TX has a nice natural disaster map located on their website. I used to live there myself. About the only thing to worry about would be tornadoes. But even those are extremely infrequent.
http://www.datafoundry.com/data-centers/texas1/location/
It will pass. The technological damage this will cause is -by design-. It serves four fundamental actions.
1. They will get their bag of money.
2. It will now distract from the Health Care fiasco that got passed awhile back.
3. New found power in the chaos this now creates. Looks like they can now create even more bills and laws to address the very one that started this mess the first place.
4. Restricts freedom. Politicians don't like to be healed accountable and controlled by the populous.
Comcast and others are testing IPv6. But let's be real here. There's profit in scarcity. The cell phone industry most assuredly be moving to IPv6, but it won't be pushed very if at all in the home market. Soon, the dynamic public IP will be gone and instead double-NAT will be the default behavior. This will service three purpose.
1. It will extend the useful life out of the IP block an ISP has and thus serve more customers.
2. Double-NAT inherently breaks bit torrent, and VPN connectivity. The former uses excessive bandwidth while VPN users are business oriented users anyways.
3. Forces users that need a public facing IP (like they used to have for free) to now pay for it at two different price points. One for dynamic and other static. Both could now be classified as a business account. Used by non other than VPN users.
Cha Ching Cha Ching $$$$$$!!!! And they laugh all the way to the bank.
Actually, it does matter a lot. Regardless if you have a static IP or not, you need the client to 'touch' your online account for you. Otherwise, it will expire unless you manually log into their website with your account. I'm not sure how often it's required, but don't let it pass more than a few weeks or you'll find your DynDNS account deleted.
Pretty much. Either you earned an MBA from a respected university and groomed into the role (very quickly I might add), or they hired someone who worked in management from a completely different industry (a lateral move). Management isn't about having the ability to offer an extended work knowledge base to your subordinates. Management is all about leadership and when to crack the whip. This role is also very self serving. They will not go down without sacrificing their underlings first as though they're a disposable flak jacket. Although this also hold true in multi-level management of a large corporation. It gets ruthless at that level!
My advise? When working in a large corp, learn the political landscape pronto. Mingle with management and especially their boss too. Make them treat you like family to the best of your ability. When shit hits the fan, you'll have a greater success of survival. You're rewarded with keeping your job...until next time.
Or, you could just run your own business and forget all that drama. To each his/her own.
Central Time Zone here. A co-worker stated it also happened to his home machine and a with regular client of his. We're not hearing anything from anyone about this, but I'll start asking around. It happened to me after a few minutes of booting up a VM of XP running on my MacBook. Go figure.
I'm still scratching me head over this behavior though. Normally AU will install a 3AM in the morning and reboot if required. But my Windows 7 machine automatically started installing updates in the background around 10pm last night while I was watching Netflix. I only noticed because of all the excessive HDD activity from the LED on my case. I minimized Netflix and *bam*, a pop-up window started counting down 15 seconds with an option to ignore which I choose. Eventually, it popped back up again and I wasn't there to cancel it. So my machine got rebooted. It's as though Microsoft knew this was some uber security issue that they just had to update on my machine at all costs. I just want to know what the KB number of that update that was deemed so important to them. This was truly one of those "for your own good" moves that quite frankly got me torqued.
I have many clients that have SBS 2008 servers that manage WSUS policies by default along with many GPOs associated with computer OUs. You can still define WSUS updates manually, but you risk breaking the link back to the main SBS console. There's an entire KB article on this. Anyways, I haven't check if those workstations are experiencing the same behavior. I'm also managing a domain with standard 2003 DCs and GPOs to modify the update behavior and custom WSUS settings.
Basically it comes down to this. like I've stated in my previous post, I've never seen this behavior before in which Microsoft forces a dead man's switch upon the user every 15 minutes to reboot. The default update behavior happens at 3AM, but at least the user gets prompted to reboot on their own time for changes to take effect. That's ok in fact. But to force a reboot *without* user interaction isn't defensible as far as I'm concerned.
So far, I'm found a few XP and Windows7 PC that automatically install and schedule a reboot regardless of your Automatic Update settings. For some reason, MS decided to override this policy with some super-secret update policy I've never seen before. This would be the first time I've noticed it. These machines are always update to date each month and some are on a domain while others in workgroup mode. Anyways, the updates that got push out this week will prompt a user every 15 minutes to reboot. It's like a dead man's switch. If you ignore the option to postpone the reboot, it does it on it's own.
I smell a lawsuit coming for loss of user data that hand't had a chance to be saved while open on the desktop.
You've lost the battle when play the low-middle-high game of negotiations for you have now accepted an inherently evil premise.