Neil de Grasse Tyson isn't bad. Not a Carl Sagan, but running a TV show about science is really about building a bridge between the general public and the current science and I think that Neil de Grasse Tyson can do that.
If you extend to 50 years you suddenly get some shows and films that were quite novel at the time; Star Trek and 2001.
As much as Star Trek was an adventure it was also a view back upon contemporary issues - especially racial. Star Trek broke the "rules" of the time by being the first TV show aired where a kiss between a black and a white person occurred.
Regardless of if you are a consultant or an employee you have the responsibility to call out problems that you see. In the long run it's a benefit for you. There are too many persons trying to do things that don't have a clue about them and just hides it by confidence.
Leonard Nimoy is probably one of the most influental actors the last century. He may not have intended to be, but that's how things are - you can't control every aspect of your life - accept what you have become. As a person that have a rather iconic status he can reach more people than many others. He has at least not abused his position in life given by his characterization of Spock, which means that people will listen when he do say something.
The sad thing here is that the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a very slow and agonizing thing to experience - you know that you eventually will die from it. Cancer is another high risk for smokers. Of course people can die from lung cancer or COPD anyway - but smoking increases the risk considerably. Be it passive smoking or active - it increases the risk.
I'd rather die quickly than have a slow agonizing death.
Most data breaches have occurred within a company, and the only way around it is to segment the networks and servers so that only select computers have access to financial data, others have access to HR data and yet others have access to strategic documents. Then it depends on company type if yet more segments are needed. In most cases the software development can go in one segment - the majority of the software developed is bread&butter. But in other cases special projects may need their own segment. Also make sure that all printers have their own sub-segment of each segment to make sure that any printer that has been hacked isn't going to have access to all the data, just the print data.
Of course - this goes against the strategy of installing everything in one huge server running virtual servers.
Whenever there is a need to exchange data it has to require manual action between individuals in both segments.
And for browsing the internet - run a sandbox solution to isolate any browsing from the remaining network. It may mean that the web browser is on a special server. If that server is contaminated it's not a big problem to rebuild it.
Writing the code in text is often producing more efficient code than using generic blocks of code that someone has written. The problem with the generic block style is that they invariably have an overhead of always checking incoming and outgoing data which is good from a stability point of view but horrible from a performance point of view.
When writing code in text you can select where to put the data constraints for the least performance impact, and then execute your loops, parallelize your tasks and optimize the I/O easier.
And even if you have a building blocks system you need someone to program the building blocks.
And it did mess up things when I tried to post because it re-loaded in the background and killed the post I was trying to make.
Be aware that change isn't always for the better, using a lot of flashy features and the latest HTML with Javascript isn't always good. Think of the lynx users!
Chewing on the article it looks like it was an archive building containing both electronic media and paper.
More interesting is the following statement (from Google Translate of the first link in parent post): "According to a newspaper report released today by the BBC and other file New York Post, the company has a history of losses in three deposits in New Jersey USA in 1997 and two fires in England and Ottawa, Canada in 2006."
The most easily variable power source is actually water power, it's literally power on a tap.
Nuclear power - it's clean at the power plant, but it's dirty when mining and enriching, and it costs a crapload of energy to enrich, which means that it's not always the best option. Sun and wind are suffering from varying intensity. But if every household had solar panels on the roof then the amount of energy produced that way would be significant. And with a large number the variations in production due to clouds would be smoothed out. Wind power is more unreliable since it depends a lot on mechanical reliability and safety reviews of the blades - it makes bad news when a blade comes flying on its own.
The future is probably best served by a combination of minimizing energy usage and a diversifying of energy production.
And who really cares? It may be 10% of the accounts that are obviously fake, then there are probably a huge number of accounts that are "fake" in the way that the person behind it don't want to reveal the real identity for one reason or another but holds a low profile.
It's only the fans for each team that really cares, the rest of the viewers are looking at it for the show while a large number of people don't care at all about superbowl.
And that's my experience - too many names to keep track of, too much information inflow to filter makes me forget names of people even though I recognize their faces.
The big problem with age is that your mind gets filled up with information, and it's hard to intentionally forget stuff. Sometimes it's easier to remember old stuff than new. If there only was a way to forget some bad old stuff to make room for new...
One way to improve the situation is to lower the time spent watching TV since that's a giant information feed. And lack of sleep impacts the memory capacity too.
Also realize that the human brain has evolved to be an information store and an association processor to pick out a good solution for a problem based on what seems to be insufficient data. This is of course not always a blessing - it's a curse too, and that's what causes the balance between a genius and a mad man. I would like to extend the quote by Arthur Schopenhauer: "Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see." to also add "A mad man sees a target that isn't there."
Snowden is a messenger, and messengers brings good news for some, bad for others.
Those that hate him are those that have been exposed doing dirty deeds. Those that love him do it because they were the ones that have been watched or potentially watched.
And when all said and done everything here is just a real life soap opera.
Just invest in snow plows, they won't complain about sitting unused for four years. Just make sure that the trucks you have can use them. Having one is an insurance.
Salt spreaders are an expensive luxury in most cases, if your car isn't prepared for ice you shouldn't be driving. Proper winter tires is better than salt.
And look at the weather report, if the report says 4" of snow and windy, you will sure have 4' of snow in some places and no in other, causing problems.
PS (PferdStärke) is also known as HP DIN, and that's very close to HP SAE. The definition Metric Horsepower is inaccurate.
You have to be aware that the HP SAE definition has changed at one time in history making the modern version virtually equal to the HP DIN value (the tolerance difference between engines is greater than the difference of measurement today, which means that stating HP DIN or HP SAE is redundant today), so you have to use the correct translation depending on model year.
The most common standards to measure horsepowers by are SAE or DIN, but there have been others as well, like SMMT.
I agree - he has leaked stuff, but almost everything he did leak was only damaging to the NSA in the form of showing that they have gone way too far.
And none of the leaks were really surprising.
He has made a point, and being in exile isn't easy either. The US government is in a really bad position already, and is fighting an uphill battle with the rest of the world due to a sluggish economy.
What the US needs is to get straightened out and cut down on unnecessary surveillance and instead invest that money into some real research for the future.
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Neil de Grasse Tyson isn't bad. Not a Carl Sagan, but running a TV show about science is really about building a bridge between the general public and the current science and I think that Neil de Grasse Tyson can do that.
Don't forget Buckazoids.
And look at several well-known movies and their budget compared to what they did earn: http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfro...
But for every movie success there are several failures.
And then you have Iron Sky.
If you extend to 50 years you suddenly get some shows and films that were quite novel at the time; Star Trek and 2001.
As much as Star Trek was an adventure it was also a view back upon contemporary issues - especially racial. Star Trek broke the "rules" of the time by being the first TV show aired where a kiss between a black and a white person occurred.
And we also have this story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
And in that case it will be either that the ISPs has to install firewalls to filter out "unwanted" traffic that otherwise will drive up your bill.
Unwanted traffic in a somewhat escalating scale:
Don't ever think that this will end up well.
All hail the new EU central committee that will govern our lives.
4. Anybody that proposes votes on Lemonparty in a political discussion.
Regardless of if you are a consultant or an employee you have the responsibility to call out problems that you see. In the long run it's a benefit for you. There are too many persons trying to do things that don't have a clue about them and just hides it by confidence.
Yes - there is one way to inflate a person even worse than a Cisco cert and it's a Microsoft Cert.
Which is the majority of phones on the market today - Android uses the Linux kernel.
But I bet that some places that do run Linux would be really weird for Windows.
Already there.
The recovery from each downturn in the economy has been worse each time since the 70's.
The next economic downturn can be horrible since the recovery from '08 has been very weak.
Leonard Nimoy is probably one of the most influental actors the last century. He may not have intended to be, but that's how things are - you can't control every aspect of your life - accept what you have become. As a person that have a rather iconic status he can reach more people than many others. He has at least not abused his position in life given by his characterization of Spock, which means that people will listen when he do say something.
The sad thing here is that the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a very slow and agonizing thing to experience - you know that you eventually will die from it. Cancer is another high risk for smokers. Of course people can die from lung cancer or COPD anyway - but smoking increases the risk considerably. Be it passive smoking or active - it increases the risk.
I'd rather die quickly than have a slow agonizing death.
Most data breaches have occurred within a company, and the only way around it is to segment the networks and servers so that only select computers have access to financial data, others have access to HR data and yet others have access to strategic documents. Then it depends on company type if yet more segments are needed. In most cases the software development can go in one segment - the majority of the software developed is bread&butter. But in other cases special projects may need their own segment. Also make sure that all printers have their own sub-segment of each segment to make sure that any printer that has been hacked isn't going to have access to all the data, just the print data.
Of course - this goes against the strategy of installing everything in one huge server running virtual servers.
Whenever there is a need to exchange data it has to require manual action between individuals in both segments.
And for browsing the internet - run a sandbox solution to isolate any browsing from the remaining network. It may mean that the web browser is on a special server. If that server is contaminated it's not a big problem to rebuild it.
Writing the code in text is often producing more efficient code than using generic blocks of code that someone has written. The problem with the generic block style is that they invariably have an overhead of always checking incoming and outgoing data which is good from a stability point of view but horrible from a performance point of view.
When writing code in text you can select where to put the data constraints for the least performance impact, and then execute your loops, parallelize your tasks and optimize the I/O easier.
And even if you have a building blocks system you need someone to program the building blocks.
And it did mess up things when I tried to post because it re-loaded in the background and killed the post I was trying to make.
Be aware that change isn't always for the better, using a lot of flashy features and the latest HTML with Javascript isn't always good. Think of the lynx users!
Chewing on the article it looks like it was an archive building containing both electronic media and paper.
More interesting is the following statement (from Google Translate of the first link in parent post):
"According to a newspaper report released today by the BBC and other file New York Post, the company has a history of losses in three deposits in New Jersey USA in 1997 and two fires in England and Ottawa, Canada in 2006."
The most easily variable power source is actually water power, it's literally power on a tap.
Nuclear power - it's clean at the power plant, but it's dirty when mining and enriching, and it costs a crapload of energy to enrich, which means that it's not always the best option.
Sun and wind are suffering from varying intensity. But if every household had solar panels on the roof then the amount of energy produced that way would be significant. And with a large number the variations in production due to clouds would be smoothed out. Wind power is more unreliable since it depends a lot on mechanical reliability and safety reviews of the blades - it makes bad news when a blade comes flying on its own.
The future is probably best served by a combination of minimizing energy usage and a diversifying of energy production.
And who really cares? It may be 10% of the accounts that are obviously fake, then there are probably a huge number of accounts that are "fake" in the way that the person behind it don't want to reveal the real identity for one reason or another but holds a low profile.
Facebook is a pool for exhibitionists.
And who really cares which team that wins?
It's only the fans for each team that really cares, the rest of the viewers are looking at it for the show while a large number of people don't care at all about superbowl.
And that's my experience - too many names to keep track of, too much information inflow to filter makes me forget names of people even though I recognize their faces.
The big problem with age is that your mind gets filled up with information, and it's hard to intentionally forget stuff. Sometimes it's easier to remember old stuff than new. If there only was a way to forget some bad old stuff to make room for new...
One way to improve the situation is to lower the time spent watching TV since that's a giant information feed. And lack of sleep impacts the memory capacity too.
Also realize that the human brain has evolved to be an information store and an association processor to pick out a good solution for a problem based on what seems to be insufficient data. This is of course not always a blessing - it's a curse too, and that's what causes the balance between a genius and a mad man. I would like to extend the quote by Arthur Schopenhauer: "Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see." to also add "A mad man sees a target that isn't there."
Thanks. Please mod parent up!
Snowden is a messenger, and messengers brings good news for some, bad for others.
Those that hate him are those that have been exposed doing dirty deeds. Those that love him do it because they were the ones that have been watched or potentially watched.
And when all said and done everything here is just a real life soap opera.
And we still have the age old question: "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
Just invest in snow plows, they won't complain about sitting unused for four years. Just make sure that the trucks you have can use them. Having one is an insurance.
Salt spreaders are an expensive luxury in most cases, if your car isn't prepared for ice you shouldn't be driving. Proper winter tires is better than salt.
And look at the weather report, if the report says 4" of snow and windy, you will sure have 4' of snow in some places and no in other, causing problems.
PS (PferdStärke) is also known as HP DIN, and that's very close to HP SAE. The definition Metric Horsepower is inaccurate.
You have to be aware that the HP SAE definition has changed at one time in history making the modern version virtually equal to the HP DIN value (the tolerance difference between engines is greater than the difference of measurement today, which means that stating HP DIN or HP SAE is redundant today), so you have to use the correct translation depending on model year.
The most common standards to measure horsepowers by are SAE or DIN, but there have been others as well, like SMMT.
1 hp SMMT = 1.13 hp DIN.
I agree - he has leaked stuff, but almost everything he did leak was only damaging to the NSA in the form of showing that they have gone way too far.
And none of the leaks were really surprising.
He has made a point, and being in exile isn't easy either. The US government is in a really bad position already, and is fighting an uphill battle with the rest of the world due to a sluggish economy.
What the US needs is to get straightened out and cut down on unnecessary surveillance and instead invest that money into some real research for the future.