Don't forget, these days, if a job posting goes unfulfilled long enough, you can back it up with an H1-b. It is illegal to request H1-b candidates only. Listing the requirements in this way allows the hiring entity to dissmiss a candidate for *any* reason, only to cite "not qualified" officially. Lots of operating between the lines here. No cluelessness here at all..../cynicism
Slightly inaccurate, but the only post I've seen that gets to the root of the problem.
"Oh, you have 4 years experience with Cisco 4900s? So sorry, we need 3 years experience with Cisco 6500s, you just wouldn't fit."
"Oh, you used dot1q VLAN # 100 for your voip phones? So sorry, we use VLAN # 200 here for our voip phones, disqualified."
Two weeks later some dude from India is certified as required in the H1B program because there are not enough experienced high tech workers available in America. Its all just a scam.
The low-hanging fruit is gone - the tech world will need to really think creatively to create the next round of stuff that people find useful.
The companion problem is thinking hard about covering your target market, in all fields, not just tech, such as marketing and artsy-craftsy stuff. Used to be simple, everyone owned a SDTV in an "entertainment console" roughly the size of a dorm fridge.
We're headed to a hyper fragmented market. Middle class folks with traditional old dorm fridge sized CRT SDTVs. Poor people with giant HDTV big screens (sorry for the stereotype, but it runs true). Rich folks with the new 3D TVs but no knowledge of how to use them, or projector setups run in the dark. Then there's the slingbox and itunes viewers. How are the TV director, camara man, and art director planning to handle even simple artsy stuff like font selection, even worse think of backgrounds.
For example I have $3,000 sitting in my bank right now. I need a new phone but refuse to pay more than $140. Even at $140 I will have bad anxiety for purchasing it.
$140 per month... The real big money is in the multi-year service contracts, unless you're carrying exclusively for free 911 service. $3000 will just barely pay for two years of iphone, if you carefully never exceed your monthly limits and don't buy many accessories, apps, or media. Realistically you can't afford an iphone with only three grand and should stick to pay as you go or a plain ole phone, unless you can somehow make more than $3K after taxes by owning the phone... I certainly cannot.
I do the pay as you go thing and $140 is probably about right per year. Note I do not talk on the phone as much as a stereotypical teenage girl. Thats only a couple thousand minutes of service spread across a year, probably only a couple calls per day average.
Maximum practical dynamic range of CD: 90dB Maximum practical dynamic range of 24-bit audio: around 140dB Dynamic range required for full range live music playback, according to Ampex: 118dB average Maximum practical dynamic range of high quality studio analog tape: 80dB Maximum practical dynamic range of studio analog tape in the '60s: ~70dB
Maximum dynamic range of post loudness war recordings: 3 dB
You'd be surprised how fast acid paper decays. Yellows, cracks, falls apart. You can actually buy cheap paperbacks at physical barnes and noble stores that have started to decay.
In my opinion copyright law should be short enough for it not to be an issue, but, it most certainly is not.
The other failure mode is heavily used books that are out of print. Go ahead, try to get some newly printed Leo Frankowski. Good Luck. Doesn't have to be ancient to get worn out.
Patrons of this Internet Archive-led group of libraries may borrow up to five books at a time, for up to two weeks. Like print books, the eBooks may be on loan only to one patron at a time...... The books are mostly 20th-century titles.
So... its basically Project Gutenberg with added DRM?
Yeah, the Windows machine specs out nicer, but that doesn't mean much outside of test-bed environments, looking at performance from a clean install on a pristine new computer.
You cannot buy a pristine new windows laptop at this time. Only offered by Apple. Everything else is stuffed with bloatware by the manufacturer.
Isn't it odd how Japanese cars have just a few trim levels and no stand-alone options besides what you can get installed at the dealership? That/is/ very much like how Apple does things.
The "american car maker" way to sell electronics would be to sell the box for $100 and then mark up all the accessories, so the video cable and the gold plated cat seven ethernet cable each cost $75. Also they'd refuse to discuss prices and only talk how-much-a-month. And instead of spraying rustproofing they'd offer anti-virus installation. Actually that sounds very much like my last trip to Best Buy. Anyone know a good "Japanese style" place to buy electronics in the USA, other than apple?
I was in a tmobile store the other day and saw a number of Android-based handsets.... Apple seems to be the only ones who can generate any significant buzz about whatever it is they're announcing.
Other products sit on the shelves, people actually buy apple products. Thats why they're important. Quantity has a quality all its own.
Imagine if this could be easily leveraged to shut down all DNS resolvers for, say, all of Comcast.
Why would your resolvers every do an IXFR? That takes quite an imagination. Now your secondary authoritative servers might be knocked out if they allow IXFRs in addition to the "traditional" AXFR zone transfers.
Let me ask a question, when alerts come out like this that explain a vulnerability, do they always state the problem the way it happens?
Thankfully, yes, err, well, as far as they know at that time. I don't do IXFR on my authoritative or resolving bind servers so I simply don't care. Kind of hard to cause a deadlock during a tiny slice of a time in a process I don't run...
Like, if someone understood how to exploit this vulnerability, are they really going to shut down DNS services or could it be that there is a worse vulnerability underneath? For instance, could this actually be a call to patch something that allows for DNS spoof, where someone does not want the issue to have wide awareness?
the server simply stops responding. Usually deadlocks in any software freeze it up quite well rather than false data. Old data, maybe, at worst...
What happens to the rest of your security infrastructure when it stops getting DNS responses? Probably nothing, but someone whom tried really hard could make something like a syslog that wouldn't log if it cant log reverse DNS, so I guess you could brute force something while no one is watching, that is vulnerable to brute forcing (no rate limiting, weak enough to be brute forced, etc). Once they have access maybe they could set up some sort of spoofy thing.
They said the activity was unlikely to be associated with heat from the phone because it occurred near the antenna rather than where the phone touched the head.
Not relevant. Microwave amplifiers are not known for high efficiencies. So most of the battery energy goes into heating the handset circuit board up. The rest goes into the antenna, of which some fraction will go into simple thermal RF tissue heating (see radio-diathermy or just diathermy).
Dumping a couple milliwatts of RF generated thermal energy into the side of your head has about the same effect as dumping a couple milliwatts of natural gas generated thermal energy into the side of your head, in other words something measurable but irrelevant, compared to sunlight, etc.
Curious they used cellphones. You'd think cordless would be similar power level, frequencies, and much cheaper, but probably not as good for scare mongering and FUD...
Status update "buying new lamps!!!!" with a gps tag that puts you in home depot
Ahh see thats the problem. So Lowes could poach customers out of Home Depot or whatever. Great. The problem is most people use modal thinking.
A dude who is into cars cars cars and more cars used to read car and driver and think about buying a ford mustang all the time, at least when he's not thinking about a Ferrari... now he burns his spare cycles thinking about playing mafia wars more effectively. Which makes ford more revenue, feeding the fires of the car fanatic via some flashy ads or complimentary copy advertorials, or trying to distract the mafia wars player whom is trying to think of mafia wars not car shopping, into thinking about car shopping?
My wife is at HD thinking about buying a new lamp. 99% of the time facebook will be a huge distraction. Should I buy antique brass finish or shiny finish? My phone beeped, oh look so and so's kids has a cold, aww how sad, hmm, I also need to harvest my virtual onions, and oh look Micheals is having a sale on glitter yarn. Five minutes of similar triviality later, um... I'm busy what was I here at HD to buy before I got distracted? A get well soon card for the kid or lamps or something? Forget it, I'm going home.
Thats the killer problem. Aspirational demand destruction. Advertisers by definition are trying to tell the consumers what to think, which works in a fanatic environment or a passive TV watching environment, but doesn't work on a user generated content platform. Good luck distracting them from what they're most interested in. Or if they're not "most interested" they'll switch to a newer better website. Either way epic fail.
For some reason, this seems to be seen as more "artistically credible" these days.
Its maxing out the special effects budget, not some artistic goal... You have to realize they are purely sensational movies not cerebral at all. So not applying lots of special effects to the last survivors leaves the audience wondering why it was left out, did they run out of special effects budget or ideas? It would be like showing a car squealing away in a cop movie and not including the mandatory special effects filled car chase, the whole purpose is to watch the effects, so without the special effects being maxed out, the audience feels ripped off.
'We can experience an adverse event through film, and we know that it will end. We'll survive it. We'll go on with our lives.' Interestingly, horror only seems to work if the player or viewer knows that what they see is fake.
Geeze you'd think he's talking about starting a war on the other side of the planet with the excuse of evidence everyone knows is false, not some silly plot-free fictional movie.
These are commit comments, which I can hardly see worth the effort to curse. Maybe C++ and Ruby developers are more rule based than others so they are more dedicated to making entertaining commit messages?
Ruby mostly works by POLA principle of least astonishment so there's little reason to be shocked and swear. C++ seems to be the opposite in how it draws moths to the flame of weird language features (Overload the + operator into actually subtracting, that type of thing). There is no obfuscated C++ code competition because any large C++ project is inherently obfuscated already, so wheres the sport in that?
If it weren't for the magnetic field, these particles would interact with the atmosphere and mess it up pretty bad, and we'd end up with an atmosphere like Venus (I'm to lazy to search for sources now, so you'll just have to decide whether you'll take my word for it or not).
It would be a heck of a lot more like Mars... think about it like a sandblaster slowly eroding the atmosphere away.
Since all standard candles would be affected the same way, we would not detect it by comparing the distances calculated with different standard candles.
Until you cross calculate non-luminosity figures and it means galaxies must move faster than the speed of light, or rotate too quickly for their apparent density, or the redshifts indicate something weird, or typical stellar evolution would imply that distant galaxy should have collapsed into a black hole already, and measured supernova luminosities would not be remotely close to theoretical, etc.
I keep waiting for us to do something halfway exciting in space. Instead we blow our money on being world police. Screw all that. Cut the military budget in half and we could have a colony on mars.
How would a mars base support using fear to control the populace? The ole Australia gambit, be good or we ship you far away?
One thing that is not the same is resupply, and that (not surprisingly) is the sticking point with all these sorts of schemes.
Also massive thermal problems. Everything on the station was designed with one hemisphere experiencing vaguely constant room temperature radiation from the surface and the other half oscillates from deep space to direct solar every 90 minutes or so.
Deep space operations will have some pretty weird thermal effects. I suppose if you spin it fast enough...
How much stamina does it take to go get some blankets out of the closet?
Not much. How much stamina does it take to survive the cold even when you have the blankets? More than some old people have.
Its all very amusing watching southerners condescendingly babble about the elderly struggling in unsurvivable 32 degree F weather, but PLEASE recall that there are actually people in Canada over the age of 50! Grandparents are not simply placed on ice floes and pushed out to sea up here. In fact I have heard a rumor there are people in northern Wisconsin over the age of 80! And not just surviving, but thriving.
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Don't forget, these days, if a job posting goes unfulfilled long enough, you can back it up with an H1-b. It is illegal to request H1-b candidates only. Listing the requirements in this way allows the hiring entity to dissmiss a candidate for *any* reason, only to cite "not qualified" officially. Lots of operating between the lines here. No cluelessness here at all.... /cynicism
Slightly inaccurate, but the only post I've seen that gets to the root of the problem.
"Oh, you have 4 years experience with Cisco 4900s? So sorry, we need 3 years experience with Cisco 6500s, you just wouldn't fit."
"Oh, you used dot1q VLAN # 100 for your voip phones? So sorry, we use VLAN # 200 here for our voip phones, disqualified."
Two weeks later some dude from India is certified as required in the H1B program because there are not enough experienced high tech workers available in America. Its all just a scam.
The low-hanging fruit is gone - the tech world will need to really think creatively to create the next round of stuff that people find useful.
The companion problem is thinking hard about covering your target market, in all fields, not just tech, such as marketing and artsy-craftsy stuff. Used to be simple, everyone owned a SDTV in an "entertainment console" roughly the size of a dorm fridge.
We're headed to a hyper fragmented market. Middle class folks with traditional old dorm fridge sized CRT SDTVs. Poor people with giant HDTV big screens (sorry for the stereotype, but it runs true). Rich folks with the new 3D TVs but no knowledge of how to use them, or projector setups run in the dark. Then there's the slingbox and itunes viewers. How are the TV director, camara man, and art director planning to handle even simple artsy stuff like font selection, even worse think of backgrounds.
For example I have $3,000 sitting in my bank right now. I need a new phone but refuse to pay more than $140. Even at $140 I will have bad anxiety for purchasing it.
$140 per month ... The real big money is in the multi-year service contracts, unless you're carrying exclusively for free 911 service. $3000 will just barely pay for two years of iphone, if you carefully never exceed your monthly limits and don't buy many accessories, apps, or media. Realistically you can't afford an iphone with only three grand and should stick to pay as you go or a plain ole phone, unless you can somehow make more than $3K after taxes by owning the phone... I certainly cannot.
I do the pay as you go thing and $140 is probably about right per year. Note I do not talk on the phone as much as a stereotypical teenage girl. Thats only a couple thousand minutes of service spread across a year, probably only a couple calls per day average.
Maximum practical dynamic range of CD: 90dB
Maximum practical dynamic range of 24-bit audio: around 140dB
Dynamic range required for full range live music playback, according to Ampex: 118dB average
Maximum practical dynamic range of high quality studio analog tape: 80dB
Maximum practical dynamic range of studio analog tape in the '60s: ~70dB
Maximum dynamic range of post loudness war recordings: 3 dB
... then it's old enough to be OUT OF COPYRIGHT
You'd be surprised how fast acid paper decays. Yellows, cracks, falls apart. You can actually buy cheap paperbacks at physical barnes and noble stores that have started to decay.
In my opinion copyright law should be short enough for it not to be an issue, but, it most certainly is not.
The other failure mode is heavily used books that are out of print. Go ahead, try to get some newly printed Leo Frankowski. Good Luck. Doesn't have to be ancient to get worn out.
Patrons of this Internet Archive-led group of libraries may borrow up to five books at a time, for up to two weeks. Like print books, the eBooks may be on loan only to one patron at a time. ..... The books are mostly 20th-century titles.
So... its basically Project Gutenberg with added DRM?
There is a reason there are signs in a machine room that say, "Do not look down fiber optic cable with remaining eye."
I'm not sure if FDDI GBIC escon or any other "end user-ish" fiber system has ever been sold thats not eye safe.
Now telco gear, some of that is not to be fooled with, but then again you're probably violating several laws by messing with ma bells stuff.
Can anyone out there think of a non-eye safe end user-ish optical transport thats been commercially available (not vaporware?)
Yeah, the Windows machine specs out nicer, but that doesn't mean much outside of test-bed environments, looking at performance from a clean install on a pristine new computer.
You cannot buy a pristine new windows laptop at this time. Only offered by Apple. Everything else is stuffed with bloatware by the manufacturer.
Isn't it odd how Japanese cars have just a few trim levels and no stand-alone options besides what you can get installed at the dealership? That /is/ very much like how Apple does things.
The "american car maker" way to sell electronics would be to sell the box for $100 and then mark up all the accessories, so the video cable and the gold plated cat seven ethernet cable each cost $75. Also they'd refuse to discuss prices and only talk how-much-a-month. And instead of spraying rustproofing they'd offer anti-virus installation. Actually that sounds very much like my last trip to Best Buy. Anyone know a good "Japanese style" place to buy electronics in the USA, other than apple?
I was in a tmobile store the other day and saw a number of Android-based handsets .... Apple seems to be the only ones who can generate any significant buzz about whatever it is they're announcing.
Other products sit on the shelves, people actually buy apple products. Thats why they're important. Quantity has a quality all its own.
Imagine if this could be easily leveraged to shut down all DNS resolvers for, say, all of Comcast.
Why would your resolvers every do an IXFR? That takes quite an imagination. Now your secondary authoritative servers might be knocked out if they allow IXFRs in addition to the "traditional" AXFR zone transfers.
Let me ask a question, when alerts come out like this that explain a vulnerability, do they always state the problem the way it happens?
Thankfully, yes, err, well, as far as they know at that time. I don't do IXFR on my authoritative or resolving bind servers so I simply don't care. Kind of hard to cause a deadlock during a tiny slice of a time in a process I don't run...
Like, if someone understood how to exploit this vulnerability, are they really going to shut down DNS services or could it be that there is a worse vulnerability underneath? For instance, could this actually be a call to patch something that allows for DNS spoof, where someone does not want the issue to have wide awareness?
Uh, no. At least not directly. According to
http://www.isc.org/software/bind/advisories/cve-2011-0414
the server simply stops responding. Usually deadlocks in any software freeze it up quite well rather than false data. Old data, maybe, at worst...
What happens to the rest of your security infrastructure when it stops getting DNS responses? Probably nothing, but someone whom tried really hard could make something like a syslog that wouldn't log if it cant log reverse DNS, so I guess you could brute force something while no one is watching, that is vulnerable to brute forcing (no rate limiting, weak enough to be brute forced, etc). Once they have access maybe they could set up some sort of spoofy thing.
It could be something as simple as the phone gets warmer, increasing the rate of chemical reactions on that side of the brain.
From TFA (stolen from another AC):
They said the activity was unlikely to be associated with heat from the phone because it occurred near the antenna rather than where the phone touched the head.
Not relevant. Microwave amplifiers are not known for high efficiencies. So most of the battery energy goes into heating the handset circuit board up. The rest goes into the antenna, of which some fraction will go into simple thermal RF tissue heating (see radio-diathermy or just diathermy).
Dumping a couple milliwatts of RF generated thermal energy into the side of your head has about the same effect as dumping a couple milliwatts of natural gas generated thermal energy into the side of your head, in other words something measurable but irrelevant, compared to sunlight, etc.
Curious they used cellphones. You'd think cordless would be similar power level, frequencies, and much cheaper, but probably not as good for scare mongering and FUD...
Status update "buying new lamps!!!!" with a gps tag that puts you in home depot
Ahh see thats the problem. So Lowes could poach customers out of Home Depot or whatever. Great. The problem is most people use modal thinking.
A dude who is into cars cars cars and more cars used to read car and driver and think about buying a ford mustang all the time, at least when he's not thinking about a Ferrari ... now he burns his spare cycles thinking about playing mafia wars more effectively. Which makes ford more revenue, feeding the fires of the car fanatic via some flashy ads or complimentary copy advertorials, or trying to distract the mafia wars player whom is trying to think of mafia wars not car shopping, into thinking about car shopping?
My wife is at HD thinking about buying a new lamp. 99% of the time facebook will be a huge distraction. Should I buy antique brass finish or shiny finish? My phone beeped, oh look so and so's kids has a cold, aww how sad, hmm, I also need to harvest my virtual onions, and oh look Micheals is having a sale on glitter yarn. Five minutes of similar triviality later, um... I'm busy what was I here at HD to buy before I got distracted? A get well soon card for the kid or lamps or something? Forget it, I'm going home.
Thats the killer problem. Aspirational demand destruction. Advertisers by definition are trying to tell the consumers what to think, which works in a fanatic environment or a passive TV watching environment, but doesn't work on a user generated content platform. Good luck distracting them from what they're most interested in. Or if they're not "most interested" they'll switch to a newer better website. Either way epic fail.
For some reason, this seems to be seen as more "artistically credible" these days.
Its maxing out the special effects budget, not some artistic goal... You have to realize they are purely sensational movies not cerebral at all. So not applying lots of special effects to the last survivors leaves the audience wondering why it was left out, did they run out of special effects budget or ideas? It would be like showing a car squealing away in a cop movie and not including the mandatory special effects filled car chase, the whole purpose is to watch the effects, so without the special effects being maxed out, the audience feels ripped off.
'We can experience an adverse event through film, and we know that it will end. We'll survive it. We'll go on with our lives.' Interestingly, horror only seems to work if the player or viewer knows that what they see is fake.
Geeze you'd think he's talking about starting a war on the other side of the planet with the excuse of evidence everyone knows is false, not some silly plot-free fictional movie.
I was mad back then, quite, quite mad....
Intercal, now that would have been mad, quite, quite mad.
These are commit comments, which I can hardly see worth the effort to curse. Maybe C++ and Ruby developers are more rule based than others so they are more dedicated to making entertaining commit messages?
Ruby mostly works by POLA principle of least astonishment so there's little reason to be shocked and swear. C++ seems to be the opposite in how it draws moths to the flame of weird language features (Overload the + operator into actually subtracting, that type of thing). There is no obfuscated C++ code competition because any large C++ project is inherently obfuscated already, so wheres the sport in that?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment
So... we're all going to use Windows now?
Actually use iPads while endlessly promoting Android ipad-killer tablets.
If it weren't for the magnetic field, these particles would interact with the atmosphere and mess it up pretty bad, and we'd end up with an atmosphere like Venus (I'm to lazy to search for sources now, so you'll just have to decide whether you'll take my word for it or not).
It would be a heck of a lot more like Mars... think about it like a sandblaster slowly eroding the atmosphere away.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_wind#Atmospheres
The particle flux is part of God's creation too.
Which god? A particle flux sounds like the kind of thing Prometheus would steal from Hephaestus for humanities (ab)use.
Since all standard candles would be affected the same way, we would not detect it by comparing the distances calculated with different standard candles.
Until you cross calculate non-luminosity figures and it means galaxies must move faster than the speed of light, or rotate too quickly for their apparent density, or the redshifts indicate something weird, or typical stellar evolution would imply that distant galaxy should have collapsed into a black hole already, and measured supernova luminosities would not be remotely close to theoretical, etc.
I keep waiting for us to do something halfway exciting in space. Instead we blow our money on being world police. Screw all that. Cut the military budget in half and we could have a colony on mars.
How would a mars base support using fear to control the populace? The ole Australia gambit, be good or we ship you far away?
One thing that is not the same is resupply, and that (not surprisingly) is the sticking point with all these sorts of schemes.
Also massive thermal problems. Everything on the station was designed with one hemisphere experiencing vaguely constant room temperature radiation from the surface and the other half oscillates from deep space to direct solar every 90 minutes or so.
Deep space operations will have some pretty weird thermal effects. I suppose if you spin it fast enough...
Not much. How much stamina does it take to survive the cold even when you have the blankets? More than some old people have.
Its all very amusing watching southerners condescendingly babble about the elderly struggling in unsurvivable 32 degree F weather, but PLEASE recall that there are actually people in Canada over the age of 50! Grandparents are not simply placed on ice floes and pushed out to sea up here. In fact I have heard a rumor there are people in northern Wisconsin over the age of 80! And not just surviving, but thriving.