In 2010 Nielsen said [broadcastengineering.com] that only 9% of American households received only terrestrial broadcast TV (ie. not cable or satellite). That number might have increased as the recession has made dropping paid services in favor of free
Don't forget long term ramifications... If for more than a generation, the median American inflation adjusted income has been dropping, while the cost of paid TV services has been increasing faster than inflation, planning for the future indicates that eventually, very few people will be paying for TV service, its just simple math. It is rare for govt or industry to plan ahead, but it could theoretically happen.
Its not broken, its just that some people are really, really dumb.
I think a lot of it is people living in areas where there ARE NO ALERTS, for whatever legal / cultural / geographic reasons, so they think human beings cannot survive under those conditions.
Where I live, the local cableco tests local EAS the first wednesday morn monthly, and the local cops test the useless tornado sirens every thursday morning at 0930 if the weather is non-threatening. Also we activate EAS every weekend evening, roughly, for child custody disputes 50 miles away, sure glad we have that interruption to our lives. I can imagine places exist where this kind of testing simply never happens... where people simply don't know how to react.
Kind of like some southerners simply cannot wrap their brains around the concept that an inch of snow isn't even newsworthy where I live, they go into utter freak out at the very concept of something like an inch of snow happening.
Yes, and in an emergency that control is necessary. Especially if the media outlet wouldn't voluntarily cooperate. The media resistance is the coup; the government is already the government.
If five corporations own most of the media, and coincidentally, a handful of big corporations also own all the elected officials, I'm not seeing how, or why, the corporations would fight internally. Sure they do stupid stuff like all interdepartmental squabbles, and they put on an antisocial show occasionally, but I'm not seeing why any serious disagreement would/could happen.
I would prefer text messages as the basic alert media. With the noted exceptions I always have access to my phone, so I would prefer "text" as a media.
How would you know the message is authentic?
If its a text, it is not authentic unless you're within a very small restricted age range that uses texts constantly.
I would assume any "attention grabbing" text is just spam. "Zombie apocalypse reported downtown... please email zombie@ripoffonlinephamacy.com for details"
Just like the QR code fad. I'm not interested in QR codes because I know from history that within a year, 90% of public QR codes are going to be hacked URLs pointing to goatse or some virus delivery payload website that will add another toolbar and tracking virus to my machine or at absolute best, a rickroll. I'm surprised people aren't doing this already, placing new stickers with "enhanced" QR codes on top of existing QR code marketing materials.
Actually, a large percentage of people still watch TV now-a-days. Just because a larger percentage of SLASHDOT has moved off TV and onto Hulu+Netflex+Torrents+Whatever doesn't translate very well to Joe Sixpack
The live TV viewers are poor people. Watch the commercials for once instead of DVR FF, netflixing the whole series at once, downloading the torrent, or mythtv auto-skipping the entire break. The commercials are all for criminal defense lawyers, scam schools (become a highly paid video game programmer in two months!), used car dealers, scammy loan operations like auto title loans and strange mortgage offers, bankruptcy laywers... There are not many TV commercials for/.ers like AMD CPUs or heatsink paste.
Now who is going to logically think things thru and not panic, the average/.er or some poor person who watches too much FOX news and CSI?
Why? There are vast numbers of qualified, unemployed teachers in every state. When districts are actively laying off teachers and have been for many years, the only thing more teaching degrees would cause is more unemployed teachers
Its actually worse than that. My sister in law is roughly the youngest employee of her school district. The union contract enforces that, more or less, no one is employed between the ages of 22 and roughly 40. As they downsize (and age !!) the lower bound goes up due to seniority/experience/union membership rules. Dumping a big cohort of new 22 year old teachers doesn't mean the odds of all unemployed teachers overall drop from 20% to 10%, it means the lower bound of age increases until quite possibly, the 22 year old grad won't have an open teaching slot until approximately retirement age !!!
Note that this depends on local area. If you're a teachers union member and willing to work in "must wear bullet proof vest" neighborhood, the have a shortage of teachers, but if you want a nice neighborhood, then its gonna be tough not to get bumped out of your slot unless you have gray hair. Which brings up a secondary effect, that all the STEM parents in the nice suburban STEM neighborhoods want their kids to grow up and become little STEM-lets, but union rules mean all the new young teachers will end up in the meth and crack neighborhoods, which are not exactly noted as hotbeds of STEM activity or blind faith in STEM positive outcomes.
Which leads to a third level effect that if 20 years of teachers union membership is required to reach a STEM-positive environment, no one can transfer into the program... By the time I'd graduate with the required Ed degree, add 20 more years, and I'd be past retirement before I'd ever get to apply my "STEM" skills in a STEM-positive environment.
My impression after all these years is he really didn't care because there's no way he didn't know. (I mean he was a physics professor for floating spaghetti monster's sake. He had to have know what level of math was expected
(slightly made up numbers) What happens if you graduate 10000 Physics degrees per year, and there's only 10 open tenure track professor jobs per year? Eventually, you end up with the profs assuming everyone else can teach themselves calculus in 24 hours, after all, they did, so whats the big deal?
Its a classic problem in higher ed... Do you keep the standards up for educational reasons for the 10, or adjust the standards to the needs of the other 9990 students for vocational reasons?
"and 100,000 new teachers with majors in science, technology, engineering and math"
Good luck with that. A large majority with the skills to learn said fields is probably going to laugh at a teacher's salary.
Can't even legally be hired here at the K-12 level without education degrees, and there's a lot more K-12 jobs than higher ed jobs, so "teacher personality" types are sensibly going to sign up for Ed degrees not STEM degrees, because thats where most of the jobs are.
At the college level the schools are run by people who think that english and art are equal to engineering in terms of importance. On a national GDP competitiveness this is sheer BS but go talk to the faculty in schools and they are making engineers take poetry classes and a bunch of other BS.
College / University was originally set up centuries ago to educate the kids of the idle rich. Tradition dies hard. From an educational standpoint, english and art ARE equal to engineering in terms of importance. A well educated citizen should know at least a little about Impressionist paintings, and at least a little about Fourier transforms. From a vocational/technical standpoint, obviously engineering is much more important. The interface between education and training needs to be cleaned up, and the interface between college/uni and voc/tech needs to be cleaned up. Until then we will forever be frustrated with "comp sci" students who want to be "video game coders" complaining about Early English Poetry class.
You can get excellent IT training from people who think IT is more important than art, at a local votech school. That 2 year degree is how I got the job to pay for the 4 year degree, etc etc etc.
I've been gainfully employed in the field since '96
STEM major
Who's going to create it? CS. Granted some CS stuff has moved overseas, but there's still plenty left.
No, CS is like Knuth, IT is the guy who gives you a replacement mouse when yours breaks, pulls cat-5 cable, reboots the server, codes.
The second "no" is you've cherry picked the brightest of the dying embers to characterize all of "STEM". STEM isn't the 3 in 10 IT grads who get real jobs as opposed to the 7 in 10 who get helpdesk or starbucks or unemployment. STEM includes the math major, of whom 1 in 100 used to get $100K/yr on wallstreet but that fad died out 4 years ago. STEM includes the BS in biology grad who, if he's lucky, might be able to work for the DNR as a forester, but competition is intense, so more likely "want fries with that?" STEM is the T "technology" like the kids who saw the TV ad claiming they can become a video game designer making $75K/yr if only they take out immense student loans...
You're doing your kids an incredible disfavor by discouraging them from taking a STEM major
I already said there's nothing wrong with STEM as a hobby, or as a second major, or as a lark if they turn out to be one of the 1 in 100 lucky ones, they just need a "real job" to pay the bills.
I am under no illusion I have been lucky, more so than most. None the less I've kept my backup plans. Due to ageism I'm probably in my last job in the field, so I'll likely be implementing my backup plans soon enough (and note that I'm less than twice your age, assuming you're a "traditional student")
Some backup plans that are fun for a STEM type guy: 1) land surveyor (used to be lots of trig, still some, now gadget and computer heavy) 2) extremely skilled computer user. "computer guys" with gray hair cannot be hired due to ageism. But, draftsmen can, and I'm quite handy with the CAD. Also I'm pretty handy with g-code programming and machining in general, although getting into manufacturing is probably not a wise idea. 3) I can weld. Everyone knows the field has very low tech, low ability jobs like automotive muffler replacement, but I could get pressure vessel certified somewhat quickly, my old military clearance could be renewed if necessary or I could pass other clearances, and there's a nice nuke plant just a couple dozen miles away.. 4) Librarian. pay is terrible, long term outlook so so, but a masters of library science is supposedly fast and easy, and my female coworkers have a reputation I'd enjoy testing.
I would encourage a trade that cannot be outsourced. Electrician,
Also look out for in sourcing. Otherwise known as illegal aliens. My HVAC guy subcontracted to an illegal to wire up my air conditioner. I have the knowledge and experience (but not the license) to do that work, so I was able to verify he did it correctly. I was kind of nervous that a guy who can't be bothered to follow the immigration laws or be bothered to learn English might not be bothered to learn the NEC or the local codes or basic techniques, but I guess I was lucky that he did a good job and I had the ability to verify he did a good job (specs like wire gauge, technique stuff like how he routed the wiring thru the basement, tightness of connections, good waterproofing strategy, etc)
Chemical engineering is another story - that is what I should have gone into if I knew then what I know now.
My pigeon-holed cousin would advise against.
If you really need a RF semiconductor polymer packaging chem-eng then you pretty much have to hire her for $125K/yr or maybe its $175K/yr now. Sounds great, unless she's looking for work and theres no openings for that specific skillset, and if an employer needs any other skillset, there are 50 applicants pigeonholed into that specific skillset before HR would even consider her unqualified application...
Imagine if after a couple years of experience, a medical doctor could, for example, be hired to only set broken left femur bones, absolutely nothing else, and if there's no openings for doc, you'd think he could transfer into a "set broken right femur bones" job, except there's 20 applicants with 20 years experience on right bones so theres simply no chance of doc ever getting another job again.
'Treating the freshman year as a "sink or swim" experience and accepting attrition as inevitable,'
They'd make more money filtering them on the output stage rather than on the input stage, since that is all that matters to the administrators, I don't understand why they don't do this.
I know the educational-industrial complex is corrupt and evil, I'm surprised the only "output filtering" I can think of is lawyers having to pass the bar exam after law school collects all the money.
the excitement quickly fades as students brush up against the reality of what David E. Goldberg calls 'the math-science death march'
What a load of B.S.
The problem is jobs... there aren't any in this country for non-H1B holders. Its very much like the market for French Literature, 1% of the graduates will get $100K/yr professorship jobs, the rest.... will not have a positive outcome.
Would a degree in Physics have been fun for four years? Sure. Would living in permanent unemployable poverty be fun for the next sixty years? Not so much. I'd rather see my kids being rich enough to own shoes, or not depending on food stamps for my next meal.
If you're going to end up with an "unemployable" degree, why the heck not get one in something more fun, with more women, better parties, less homework...
I encourage my kids to avoid STEM fields because they do not live in China or India. Why go into a field the government is actively trying to destroy? It would be like encouraging my kids to go into automotive assembly line work or textiles or manufacturing consumer goods or...
(Note there is absolutely nothing wrong with STEM as a hobby.. nuke-eng or chem would be a tough hobby, but my son likes computers, and theres nothing wrong with IT/CS as a hobby, as long as he has some other plan, one that involves making money)
Researchers at Australia's Queensland University of Technology (QUT) have now developed what they say is a world-first intelligent absorbent that is capable of removing radioactive material from large amounts of contaminated water
So, they've reinvented zeolite filters which have been used since the 40s to do the exact same task exactly the same way?
If you want one, and you click on the buy button in time, you can have one; they’re being sold on a first-come, first-served basis, whoever you are, and whether or not you are a programmer.
Still, a good enough programmer can ensure they get one merely by writing a page-watcher up to and including an entire ordering bot.
I would assume they are factoring in the usual overhead that non-indie development houses have: - Multi-million dollar per year executive compensation team - A-grade star voice acting - 3-d art department - product licenses (the official scooby doo ifart app as opposed to just another ifart app, etc) - RIAA licensed music instead of magnatune or none - release parties - marketing
Almost forgot to mention, the smallest (cheapest) deposit boxes are scarcely bigger than a letter envelope... They will not hold a burned CD, or many printed papers. But multiple SD / CF cards will fit. This is a handy way to back up your most valuable / irreplaceable digital files in case the house burns down or whatever.
There are still a couple uses for a physical bank aside from notary service...
Rent a tiny bank safe deposit box for about 10 years prepaid. It doesn't cost very much, although I suppose it depends on local competition and your income level... Place copies of relevant documents in safe deposit box. Along with some silver and gold coins, unused but valuable jewelry, etc. Certified copies of birth cert, photocopies of documents like passport, etc.
Make sure all the details of the deposit box are in your will.
If you're going biometric / 2-factor, luckily for you biometrics are easily faked, cannot be changed and are extremely insecure, so a fingerprint will do, an outline of your hand will do, retina picture will do. You don't need to actually put an eye or finger in the safe deposit box.
I have a small herd of AFS servers at home, sounds like it would meet your needs. One RW and a herd of RO replicants, at least for the important stuff. The RO replicants are updated automatically every day or so by a script I wrote, I can also run it manually. I believe you are limited to 6 RO replicants for each RW volume and I'm bumping up against that limit at home, don't know how big installations survive that limitation. If the RW blows up, which hasn't happened, supposedly its trivial to make one of the RO a live RW. I also snapshop backup each night at 2am and have the daily snapshots mounted on ~/backup to make it easy to correct accidental deletion errors.
If you use AFS be prepared for an avalanche of people who have never used it, or haven't used it since 1996, or tried to use it without reading any docs or howtos or tutorials, telling you its impossible and too complicated and too difficult and should never be attempted and it'll never work. On the other hand, I just used some simple tutorials and walkthrus found via google, practically screencasts in terms of level of detail, and found it to be quite trivial, like a couple hours work, which isn't bad for all it does. I (almost) feel sorry for the haters. Sucks to be them, I guess.
The idea proposed by Microsoft Research involves using a running hash that would add a hash of the previous voter's receipt to each person's receipt, ideally preventing a privileged insider from using discarded receipts to alter votes.
Isn't this the ancient notary system? take the previous hash, hash in the new document or a hash of the doc or just its sig or whatever, pub key sign the new hash, publish the new hash (maybe in a classified ad in an old fashioned news paper or something?), repeat...
Also it only works if the voters care, which is pretty unlikely, and it only matters if there is any difference between the two parties, also pretty unlikely. Democracy has failed here. Maybe it would work in a difference country?
M-10M and earlier were this spring or earlier. I can't remember the last Progress failure. They do collide with the station on a regular basis. M-11M worked fine in June M-12M shut down early and burned up in the atmosphere in august, more or less M-13M is this one, successful.
The Soyuz booster "blowed up real good" on the last launch. The booster itself has been in use for years and years. This launch merely confirms that they know (and have fixed) what went wrong last time.
What is all this "blow up" stuff in the comments? Are you guys talking about Progress M-12M from the end of this summer aka the "constipation incident"? Intestinal blockage would have been a better analogy, but we're stuck with the nickname I heard about it, I guess. Or is there another recent Soyuz launch that failed, or confusing another nations launcher failure with the Soyuz or ? Soyuz has a ridiculous good safety record, like two incidents in the last four decades or something like that, so if there was a second recent failure I imagine I would have heard lots of babble about it.
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In 2010 Nielsen said [broadcastengineering.com] that only 9% of American households received only terrestrial broadcast TV (ie. not cable or satellite). That number might have increased as the recession has made dropping paid services in favor of free
Don't forget long term ramifications... If for more than a generation, the median American inflation adjusted income has been dropping, while the cost of paid TV services has been increasing faster than inflation, planning for the future indicates that eventually, very few people will be paying for TV service, its just simple math. It is rare for govt or industry to plan ahead, but it could theoretically happen.
Its not broken, its just that some people are really, really dumb.
I think a lot of it is people living in areas where there ARE NO ALERTS, for whatever legal / cultural / geographic reasons, so they think human beings cannot survive under those conditions.
Where I live, the local cableco tests local EAS the first wednesday morn monthly, and the local cops test the useless tornado sirens every thursday morning at 0930 if the weather is non-threatening. Also we activate EAS every weekend evening, roughly, for child custody disputes 50 miles away, sure glad we have that interruption to our lives. I can imagine places exist where this kind of testing simply never happens... where people simply don't know how to react.
Kind of like some southerners simply cannot wrap their brains around the concept that an inch of snow isn't even newsworthy where I live, they go into utter freak out at the very concept of something like an inch of snow happening.
Yes, and in an emergency that control is necessary. Especially if the media outlet wouldn't voluntarily cooperate. The media resistance is the coup; the government is already the government.
If five corporations own most of the media, and coincidentally, a handful of big corporations also own all the elected officials, I'm not seeing how, or why, the corporations would fight internally. Sure they do stupid stuff like all interdepartmental squabbles, and they put on an antisocial show occasionally, but I'm not seeing why any serious disagreement would/could happen.
How would you know the message is authentic?
If its a text, it is not authentic unless you're within a very small restricted age range that uses texts constantly.
I would assume any "attention grabbing" text is just spam. "Zombie apocalypse reported downtown... please email zombie@ripoffonlinephamacy.com for details"
Just like the QR code fad. I'm not interested in QR codes because I know from history that within a year, 90% of public QR codes are going to be hacked URLs pointing to goatse or some virus delivery payload website that will add another toolbar and tracking virus to my machine or at absolute best, a rickroll. I'm surprised people aren't doing this already, placing new stickers with "enhanced" QR codes on top of existing QR code marketing materials.
Actually, a large percentage of people still watch TV now-a-days. Just because a larger percentage of SLASHDOT has moved off TV and onto Hulu+Netflex+Torrents+Whatever doesn't translate very well to Joe Sixpack
The live TV viewers are poor people. Watch the commercials for once instead of DVR FF, netflixing the whole series at once, downloading the torrent, or mythtv auto-skipping the entire break. The commercials are all for criminal defense lawyers, scam schools (become a highly paid video game programmer in two months!), used car dealers, scammy loan operations like auto title loans and strange mortgage offers, bankruptcy laywers... There are not many TV commercials for /.ers like AMD CPUs or heatsink paste.
Now who is going to logically think things thru and not panic, the average /.er or some poor person who watches too much FOX news and CSI?
Why? There are vast numbers of qualified, unemployed teachers in every state. When districts are actively laying off teachers and have been for many years, the only thing more teaching degrees would cause is more unemployed teachers
Its actually worse than that. My sister in law is roughly the youngest employee of her school district. The union contract enforces that, more or less, no one is employed between the ages of 22 and roughly 40. As they downsize (and age !!) the lower bound goes up due to seniority/experience/union membership rules. Dumping a big cohort of new 22 year old teachers doesn't mean the odds of all unemployed teachers overall drop from 20% to 10%, it means the lower bound of age increases until quite possibly, the 22 year old grad won't have an open teaching slot until approximately retirement age !!!
Note that this depends on local area. If you're a teachers union member and willing to work in "must wear bullet proof vest" neighborhood, the have a shortage of teachers, but if you want a nice neighborhood, then its gonna be tough not to get bumped out of your slot unless you have gray hair. Which brings up a secondary effect, that all the STEM parents in the nice suburban STEM neighborhoods want their kids to grow up and become little STEM-lets, but union rules mean all the new young teachers will end up in the meth and crack neighborhoods, which are not exactly noted as hotbeds of STEM activity or blind faith in STEM positive outcomes.
Which leads to a third level effect that if 20 years of teachers union membership is required to reach a STEM-positive environment, no one can transfer into the program... By the time I'd graduate with the required Ed degree, add 20 more years, and I'd be past retirement before I'd ever get to apply my "STEM" skills in a STEM-positive environment.
My impression after all these years is he really didn't care because there's no way he didn't know. (I mean he was a physics professor for floating spaghetti monster's sake. He had to have know what level of math was expected
(slightly made up numbers) What happens if you graduate 10000 Physics degrees per year, and there's only 10 open tenure track professor jobs per year? Eventually, you end up with the profs assuming everyone else can teach themselves calculus in 24 hours, after all, they did, so whats the big deal?
Its a classic problem in higher ed... Do you keep the standards up for educational reasons for the 10, or adjust the standards to the needs of the other 9990 students for vocational reasons?
"and 100,000 new teachers with majors in science, technology, engineering and math"
Good luck with that. A large majority with the skills to learn said fields is probably going to laugh at a teacher's salary.
Can't even legally be hired here at the K-12 level without education degrees, and there's a lot more K-12 jobs than higher ed jobs, so "teacher personality" types are sensibly going to sign up for Ed degrees not STEM degrees, because thats where most of the jobs are.
At the college level the schools are run by people who think that english and art are equal to engineering in terms of importance. On a national GDP competitiveness this is sheer BS but go talk to the faculty in schools and they are making engineers take poetry classes and a bunch of other BS.
College / University was originally set up centuries ago to educate the kids of the idle rich. Tradition dies hard. From an educational standpoint, english and art ARE equal to engineering in terms of importance. A well educated citizen should know at least a little about Impressionist paintings, and at least a little about Fourier transforms. From a vocational/technical standpoint, obviously engineering is much more important. The interface between education and training needs to be cleaned up, and the interface between college/uni and voc/tech needs to be cleaned up. Until then we will forever be frustrated with "comp sci" students who want to be "video game coders" complaining about Early English Poetry class.
You can get excellent IT training from people who think IT is more important than art, at a local votech school. That 2 year degree is how I got the job to pay for the 4 year degree, etc etc etc.
I'm a current IT student,
I've been gainfully employed in the field since '96
STEM major
Who's going to create it? CS. Granted some CS stuff has moved overseas, but there's still plenty left.
No, CS is like Knuth, IT is the guy who gives you a replacement mouse when yours breaks, pulls cat-5 cable, reboots the server, codes.
The second "no" is you've cherry picked the brightest of the dying embers to characterize all of "STEM". STEM isn't the 3 in 10 IT grads who get real jobs as opposed to the 7 in 10 who get helpdesk or starbucks or unemployment. STEM includes the math major, of whom 1 in 100 used to get $100K/yr on wallstreet but that fad died out 4 years ago. STEM includes the BS in biology grad who, if he's lucky, might be able to work for the DNR as a forester, but competition is intense, so more likely "want fries with that?" STEM is the T "technology" like the kids who saw the TV ad claiming they can become a video game designer making $75K/yr if only they take out immense student loans...
You're doing your kids an incredible disfavor by discouraging them from taking a STEM major
I already said there's nothing wrong with STEM as a hobby, or as a second major, or as a lark if they turn out to be one of the 1 in 100 lucky ones, they just need a "real job" to pay the bills.
I am under no illusion I have been lucky, more so than most. None the less I've kept my backup plans. Due to ageism I'm probably in my last job in the field, so I'll likely be implementing my backup plans soon enough (and note that I'm less than twice your age, assuming you're a "traditional student")
Some backup plans that are fun for a STEM type guy:
1) land surveyor (used to be lots of trig, still some, now gadget and computer heavy)
2) extremely skilled computer user. "computer guys" with gray hair cannot be hired due to ageism. But, draftsmen can, and I'm quite handy with the CAD. Also I'm pretty handy with g-code programming and machining in general, although getting into manufacturing is probably not a wise idea.
3) I can weld. Everyone knows the field has very low tech, low ability jobs like automotive muffler replacement, but I could get pressure vessel certified somewhat quickly, my old military clearance could be renewed if necessary or I could pass other clearances, and there's a nice nuke plant just a couple dozen miles away..
4) Librarian. pay is terrible, long term outlook so so, but a masters of library science is supposedly fast and easy, and my female coworkers have a reputation I'd enjoy testing.
I would encourage a trade that cannot be outsourced. Electrician,
Also look out for in sourcing. Otherwise known as illegal aliens. My HVAC guy subcontracted to an illegal to wire up my air conditioner. I have the knowledge and experience (but not the license) to do that work, so I was able to verify he did it correctly. I was kind of nervous that a guy who can't be bothered to follow the immigration laws or be bothered to learn English might not be bothered to learn the NEC or the local codes or basic techniques, but I guess I was lucky that he did a good job and I had the ability to verify he did a good job (specs like wire gauge, technique stuff like how he routed the wiring thru the basement, tightness of connections, good waterproofing strategy, etc)
Chemical engineering is another story - that is what I should have gone into if I knew then what I know now.
My pigeon-holed cousin would advise against.
If you really need a RF semiconductor polymer packaging chem-eng then you pretty much have to hire her for $125K/yr or maybe its $175K/yr now. Sounds great, unless she's looking for work and theres no openings for that specific skillset, and if an employer needs any other skillset, there are 50 applicants pigeonholed into that specific skillset before HR would even consider her unqualified application...
Imagine if after a couple years of experience, a medical doctor could, for example, be hired to only set broken left femur bones, absolutely nothing else, and if there's no openings for doc, you'd think he could transfer into a "set broken right femur bones" job, except there's 20 applicants with 20 years experience on right bones so theres simply no chance of doc ever getting another job again.
'Treating the freshman year as a "sink or swim" experience and accepting attrition as inevitable,'
They'd make more money filtering them on the output stage rather than on the input stage, since that is all that matters to the administrators, I don't understand why they don't do this.
I know the educational-industrial complex is corrupt and evil, I'm surprised the only "output filtering" I can think of is lawyers having to pass the bar exam after law school collects all the money.
the excitement quickly fades as students brush up against the reality of what David E. Goldberg calls 'the math-science death march'
What a load of B.S.
The problem is jobs... there aren't any in this country for non-H1B holders. Its very much like the market for French Literature, 1% of the graduates will get $100K/yr professorship jobs, the rest.... will not have a positive outcome.
Would a degree in Physics have been fun for four years? Sure. Would living in permanent unemployable poverty be fun for the next sixty years? Not so much. I'd rather see my kids being rich enough to own shoes, or not depending on food stamps for my next meal.
If you're going to end up with an "unemployable" degree, why the heck not get one in something more fun, with more women, better parties, less homework...
I encourage my kids to avoid STEM fields because they do not live in China or India. Why go into a field the government is actively trying to destroy? It would be like encouraging my kids to go into automotive assembly line work or textiles or manufacturing consumer goods or ...
(Note there is absolutely nothing wrong with STEM as a hobby.. nuke-eng or chem would be a tough hobby, but my son likes computers, and theres nothing wrong with IT/CS as a hobby, as long as he has some other plan, one that involves making money)
Researchers at Australia's Queensland University of Technology (QUT) have now developed what they say is a world-first intelligent absorbent that is capable of removing radioactive material from large amounts of contaminated water
So, they've reinvented zeolite filters which have been used since the 40s to do the exact same task exactly the same way?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeolite#Nuclear_industry
Whoops as I read off the raspberry website
If you want one, and you click on the buy button in time, you can have one; they’re being sold on a first-come, first-served basis, whoever you are, and whether or not you are a programmer.
Still, a good enough programmer can ensure they get one merely by writing a page-watcher up to and including an entire ordering bot.
No details have been made available yet as to how those first 10k units will be allocated
"In the space below, write a scheme program that outputs your shipping address"
I would assume they are factoring in the usual overhead that non-indie development houses have:
- Multi-million dollar per year executive compensation team
- A-grade star voice acting
- 3-d art department
- product licenses (the official scooby doo ifart app as opposed to just another ifart app, etc)
- RIAA licensed music instead of magnatune or none
- release parties
- marketing
Almost forgot to mention, the smallest (cheapest) deposit boxes are scarcely bigger than a letter envelope... They will not hold a burned CD, or many printed papers. But multiple SD / CF cards will fit. This is a handy way to back up your most valuable / irreplaceable digital files in case the house burns down or whatever.
There are still a couple uses for a physical bank aside from notary service...
Rent a tiny bank safe deposit box for about 10 years prepaid. It doesn't cost very much, although I suppose it depends on local competition and your income level... Place copies of relevant documents in safe deposit box. Along with some silver and gold coins, unused but valuable jewelry, etc. Certified copies of birth cert, photocopies of documents like passport, etc.
Make sure all the details of the deposit box are in your will.
If you're going biometric / 2-factor, luckily for you biometrics are easily faked, cannot be changed and are extremely insecure, so a fingerprint will do, an outline of your hand will do, retina picture will do. You don't need to actually put an eye or finger in the safe deposit box.
You'd have a heck of a lot easier time switching to Debian than rhat. Also there are more consultants available for Debian.
I have a small herd of AFS servers at home, sounds like it would meet your needs.
One RW and a herd of RO replicants, at least for the important stuff. The RO replicants are updated automatically every day or so by a script I wrote, I can also run it manually. I believe you are limited to 6 RO replicants for each RW volume and I'm bumping up against that limit at home, don't know how big installations survive that limitation.
If the RW blows up, which hasn't happened, supposedly its trivial to make one of the RO a live RW.
I also snapshop backup each night at 2am and have the daily snapshots mounted on ~/backup to make it easy to correct accidental deletion errors.
If you use AFS be prepared for an avalanche of people who have never used it, or haven't used it since 1996, or tried to use it without reading any docs or howtos or tutorials, telling you its impossible and too complicated and too difficult and should never be attempted and it'll never work. On the other hand, I just used some simple tutorials and walkthrus found via google, practically screencasts in terms of level of detail, and found it to be quite trivial, like a couple hours work, which isn't bad for all it does. I (almost) feel sorry for the haters. Sucks to be them, I guess.
The idea proposed by Microsoft Research involves using a running hash that would add a hash of the previous voter's receipt to each person's receipt, ideally preventing a privileged insider from using discarded receipts to alter votes.
Isn't this the ancient notary system? take the previous hash, hash in the new document or a hash of the doc or just its sig or whatever, pub key sign the new hash, publish the new hash (maybe in a classified ad in an old fashioned news paper or something?), repeat...
Also it only works if the voters care, which is pretty unlikely, and it only matters if there is any difference between the two parties, also pretty unlikely. Democracy has failed here. Maybe it would work in a difference country?
There were two failed launches
Hmm lets check the chronology
M-10M and earlier were this spring or earlier. I can't remember the last Progress failure. They do collide with the station on a regular basis.
M-11M worked fine in June
M-12M shut down early and burned up in the atmosphere in august, more or less
M-13M is this one, successful.
So, what mission was the other failure?
The Soyuz booster "blowed up real good" on the last launch. The booster itself has been in use for years and years. This launch merely confirms that they know (and have fixed) what went wrong last time.
What is all this "blow up" stuff in the comments? Are you guys talking about Progress M-12M from the end of this summer aka the "constipation incident"? Intestinal blockage would have been a better analogy, but we're stuck with the nickname I heard about it, I guess. Or is there another recent Soyuz launch that failed, or confusing another nations launcher failure with the Soyuz or ? Soyuz has a ridiculous good safety record, like two incidents in the last four decades or something like that, so if there was a second recent failure I imagine I would have heard lots of babble about it.