Rupert Murdoch didn't personally hold anybody at gunpoint demanding a passcode. News Corp didn't send Nazi Zombies after her family demanding information. But I can already tell from the headline that some people will just go there right off the bat.
I'm all for charging the PI with obstruction of justice, but unless News Corp explicitly told him what to do, their involvement in this is tangential at best.
The profits make their way up, why not responsibility?
If someone cannot give a reasonable presentation, PowerPoint will not help them, and it will not actually make the presentation much worse.
It has the potential of just doing that: make bad presentations worse.
There is of course the bad use of power point: "Things I am talking about, things I will be talking about,... and here we are at point 4.1.1.1 subpoint b. If you still remember the rest of the structure which was on a previous slide, it could almost make sense. Ooops, that was too fast? don't worry I'll come back to it later, but you might not be able to see it back there anyway. No it is 12 point, It just looks like 6 point to you. Sorry, the labels are also kind of off."
But then there are also power-point specific issues. And not just Tufte is criticizing those: You're forced to shorten things into statements that fit on individual slides. Information appears and disappears without warning, the overall structure is hidden. In bad cases you can't concentrate on the speaker because summaries flash in and out of existence in the other corner of the room.
Colleges love power point. The theory is that multi channel presentation of redundant information increases retention. But some studies show, that retention might actually be lower. At the very least, power point can prevent the audience from thinking-along. Quite often, I think a handout would be the better solution: you don't have to cut quotes, everyone gets the same point size, people can go back and forth on their own and have an overview of the whole structure. Ooh, and even mark interesting points or write down questions.
Years ago, the same thing went on with printer cables. Someone had a website, warning about BestOffice USA's price policy: sell the main component cheaper and mark up the extras. Same for analog of course: Coax cables, AV-cables used to be the same thing. And if you get an expensive sound system, make sure to get the gold plated see through extra cables for the true audiophile so you can turn your amplifier all the way up to eleven.
- And yes, I know about shielding, loss, transmission standards,... That's not the point, you can take care of that by just spending a little bit more. What the sales people tell you is not that a cat5e is better than a cat5, or that 12 awg has a lower voltage drop than 18awg, what they want you to believe is that the name brand $40 shiny cable makes your data shinier and crisper than what you would get with a same category grey cable .
I was checking on a flight this morning and according to United's site it left a minute late. In reality it was almost an hour.
While United didn't have the delay listed, both flightstats and flightaware did. So the information is available, United just doesn't want to share it with anyone. - Or do they use their own website, to prove your flight was on time?
They can book people on flights and move them even from one flight to another, so it isn't RES
But before boarding they have to manually re-enter the passenger data...
If they have an unrealistic expectation tell them that, but also tell them what their alternatives are: spend more money now, use "cloud" (aka rented) resources a[n]d pay later.
Just the same reason as normal outsourcing: Fast fix for something that would take forever to do it internally. Sometimes the fast fix is a fix, sometimes it comes back later to bite you. - Hopefully, after the earnings statement, the promotion, or transfer...
The interesting part is not that C++ is faster, but that it was quite comparable to Java and only became much, much faster after several Google engineers optimized it!
Let this be the final evidence in what I call the "great C++ conspiracy":
Good coders make good code. If you want the fastest code you have to go beyond compiler optimization. You need programmers who are not only at the top of their field, but can dream in code. So, if you want a language to reliably produce the best results, you have to make sure that it attracts the right kind of people and kills the weak.
A language that only works for people who have given up any regular sleeping patterns, social ties, and hope. A language that will cause any sane person to stab themselves with a null pointer. A language where operators can be overloaded, and anything could mean anything else in a different context. Beautiful if done right, but treacherous and deadly to the uninitiated. What better, than to design a language that is the coding equivalent of walking through Mordor!
The real pros would install a spying device that can also disable the car and then sell this to the car owner as "extra service".
Maybe even add a button for the owner to press, so he thinks he is in control. A blue button with a star on it would look very nice.
My experience at a couple different US campuses: IT support is very MS centered, their tips are on the level of reboot and reinstall. Some faculty insist on using Macs, so they are somehow supported, but linux? "We don't support that".
The MS-fandom goes so far, that even OS neutral technology is supported as MS specific. If I want to set up my email client, all I need is a server name and port number. None of their web pages have the information I need. But clicking through their screencasts for Windows XP I can find it. Then they change the authentication on the Outlook server, and email doesn't work anymore. I claim to have a Mac and with some luck it gives me a screencast that shows what authentication they use now. Same with vpn. It stops working and I'm supposed to run some program on my home computer that will set up my browser or my computer or whatever. Right. Using the old server name, I find they just switched from pptp to cisco anyconnect. Instead of using their java client it now works with network manager. I now can access the shared drives again. Thanks to the Mac-fanboys for that: the shared drives are called "Y:" and "Z:" or whatever, but if you look through mac support, you find the actual smb share name. Were it not for some Mac using faculty, I would have no chance of getting any of that information.
That's IT, CS is a different story. They run linux in the labs, do some student projects, and quite a few people are using it. And of course IT has someone who knows about linux, so they can support the CS department. But normally, that person is not within the reach of a normal computer user and has no say in what their PC division does or offers.
IT used to keep a bearded Unix guy locked up somewhere in the basement to run the servers. If you made it past the windows people and somehow got hold of him, you were in luck. Not only did he know all ports, protocols, authentication mechanisms, and addresses of relevant servers, he was also quite happy to see that someone on campus was interested in more than point-and-click. As it turns out, yes you can connect to ldap, and we are running a ftp server. There is even a local news server. Unfortunately, that guy has also no say within IT, which is driven by user-experience and other buzzwords. And as the whole campus software becomes more "integrated", more and more servers are replaced with MS-servers. I overheard a couple newer IT guys talking about how much they can do as administrators and how cool the tools are that they are using for it: Fill in the right boxes, click on it, and it pushes the updates to all the lab computers. Wow. I at least know now, why non MS codecs or standards don't work on campus.
The School District==The Taxpayer==Me. Great. Another check for me to write and I had nothing to do with it.
And if live in that city that check comes out of your property tax. Which would make you unhappy. Hopefully, the consequence would be to go after the people responsible for it. Hint: not the student.
They can not claim I was following orders, because they are the ones that make the orders.
But they can claim that the student is pursuing this just for the money:
"Today, Lower Merion spokesman Doug Young called Levin's lawsuit 'solely motivated by monetary interests and a complete waste of the taxpayer's dollars.'"
These people need personal consequences, otherwise they'll use their position to pitch this as a We-the-taxpayers versus greedy student story.
Long term fix: Privacy laws with legal consequences and contractual consequences such as demotions, loss of tenure, income, or job.
Short term fix: Was the student underage? In his bed room? Not fully dressed? - Just saying.
No surprise there. I looked at some of my comment mods and it alternated between "funny" and "troll" for quite some time. Once it hits "+4 funny" the troll mods stop. Maybe clue starts to hit at that level: "Oh, 4 people thought this is funny. Maybe I should read it again and look for irony markers." Just odd that that doesn't happen at "+2 funny" already.
I suggest a new mod-point: "+-0 I don't get it". It doesn't mod it up or down, but gets rid of a mod point.
The headline is a little misleading, in that the left off the last part. It should read "25% of US Hackers are FBI/CIA Informers After They are Caught". They are informing to get out of the previous shit they got caught for, much like drug informers.
I wonder.
Are they pressured, turned, reformed, or "healed"?
I guess, the motives would greatly depend on the circumstances. Someone, who started breaking into systems for the coolness or bragging factor would find it equally cool to be a secret undercover agent. If it was just technical curiosity, a little agreement lets you keep your toys. And someone who helps to stop criminals that steal credit information from unsuspecting grandmas might even get the feeling that they are making up for their past, much more so than someone who helps to intimidate 14 year olds that download the latest movie trash. Someone who hacks for concrete political reasons might be harder to get to the state were they fully cooperate, harder than someone who defines it as part of his post-political cyber-identity whatever manifesto.
On the other hand, motives and your reasoning don't have to go hand in hand. Once pressured you can always try to convince yourself, that it was your duty anyhow.
You don't have to know the absolute number. You just have to have a rough estimate, which you get by counting girls hanging out with their best female friend on Saturday night. Then you just go to a 2600 or lug meeting and drop a giant butterfly net from the ceiling. Next you simply count your sample and check how many wear dark suits. They are either FBI or IBM.
Or do you mean the readability of English with all those French and Latin words that have been added to our old German over the past 1000 years?
Over the past 1000 years? No, 923 years only. That's when the liberals started to teach liberals education and other baloney. The US has been going downhill ever since.
-------
"Teach our childrens reading, riting, rithmatic or give me death!"
Paul Revere (wikipedia, new edition)
The title to the linked article is 'Palin Fans Trying to Edit Wikipedia Paul Revere Page'
Being fans of Palin it is perfectly understandable and likely they got confused and gave up.
Not their fault. Over centuries liberals intentionally decreased the readability of English texts by introducing foreign words.
Slashdot Mirror
Rupert Murdoch didn't personally hold anybody at gunpoint demanding a passcode. News Corp didn't send Nazi Zombies after her family demanding information. But I can already tell from the headline that some people will just go there right off the bat. I'm all for charging the PI with obstruction of justice, but unless News Corp explicitly told him what to do, their involvement in this is tangential at best.
The profits make their way up, why not responsibility?
You forgot, that you can still use Google as a search engine!
In the future you will be able do that with Google google
Oh, you are very funny, interesting, and insightful at the same time! Too bad, you're a Coward and part of Anonymous.
If someone cannot give a reasonable presentation, PowerPoint will not help them, and it will not actually make the presentation much worse.
It has the potential of just doing that: make bad presentations worse.
There is of course the bad use of power point: "Things I am talking about, things I will be talking about,... and here we are at point 4.1.1.1 subpoint b. If you still remember the rest of the structure which was on a previous slide, it could almost make sense. Ooops, that was too fast? don't worry I'll come back to it later, but you might not be able to see it back there anyway. No it is 12 point, It just looks like 6 point to you. Sorry, the labels are also kind of off."
But then there are also power-point specific issues. And not just Tufte is criticizing those: You're forced to shorten things into statements that fit on individual slides. Information appears and disappears without warning, the overall structure is hidden. In bad cases you can't concentrate on the speaker because summaries flash in and out of existence in the other corner of the room.
Colleges love power point. The theory is that multi channel presentation of redundant information increases retention. But some studies show, that retention might actually be lower. At the very least, power point can prevent the audience from thinking-along. Quite often, I think a handout would be the better solution: you don't have to cut quotes, everyone gets the same point size, people can go back and forth on their own and have an overview of the whole structure. Ooh, and even mark interesting points or write down questions.
.. I wonder if they would mind visualizing that with a nice presentation?
Last time I checked, Google was a big corporation determined to increase its revenue by all possible means, just like Facebook.
I see a big difference between a company that sets some ethical standards but doesn't always live up to it and a company that doesn't have any.
Years ago, the same thing went on with printer cables. Someone had a website, warning about BestOffice USA's price policy: sell the main component cheaper and mark up the extras. Same for analog of course: Coax cables, AV-cables used to be the same thing. And if you get an expensive sound system, make sure to get the gold plated see through extra cables for the true audiophile so you can turn your amplifier all the way up to eleven.
- And yes, I know about shielding, loss, transmission standards,... That's not the point, you can take care of that by just spending a little bit more. What the sales people tell you is not that a cat5e is better than a cat5, or that 12 awg has a lower voltage drop than 18awg, what they want you to believe is that the name brand $40 shiny cable makes your data shinier and crisper than what you would get with a same category grey cable .
some random guy's blog? you'd probably call huffpo some random chick's blog...
"insidehighered" is to liberal ed. what the latter is to liberals.
First they went after the free drinks
and I didn't speak out, because I don't care much about getting drunk on a plane.
Then they came for mothers traveling with strollers
and I didn't speak out, because I hate the kicking children sitting behind me.
Then they came for the guitars
and I didn't speak out, because I didn't care about Canadians.
Now they're coming for me and this is really unfair.
I was checking on a flight this morning and according to United's site it left a minute late. In reality it was almost an hour.
While United didn't have the delay listed, both flightstats and flightaware did. So the information is available, United just doesn't want to share it with anyone. - Or do they use their own website, to prove your flight was on time?
Sunday morning: Still down.
They can book people on flights and move them even from one flight to another, so it isn't RES
But before boarding they have to manually re-enter the passenger data...
If they have an unrealistic expectation tell them that, but also tell them what their alternatives are: spend more money now, use "cloud" (aka rented) resources a[n]d pay later.
Just the same reason as normal outsourcing: Fast fix for something that would take forever to do it internally. Sometimes the fast fix is a fix, sometimes it comes back later to bite you. - Hopefully, after the earnings statement, the promotion, or transfer...
The interesting part is not that C++ is faster, but that it was quite comparable to Java and only became much, much faster after several Google engineers optimized it!
Let this be the final evidence in what I call the "great C++ conspiracy":
Good coders make good code. If you want the fastest code you have to go beyond compiler optimization. You need programmers who are not only at the top of their field, but can dream in code. So, if you want a language to reliably produce the best results, you have to make sure that it attracts the right kind of people and kills the weak.
A language that only works for people who have given up any regular sleeping patterns, social ties, and hope. A language that will cause any sane person to stab themselves with a null pointer. A language where operators can be overloaded, and anything could mean anything else in a different context. Beautiful if done right, but treacherous and deadly to the uninitiated. What better, than to design a language that is the coding equivalent of walking through Mordor!
The real pros would install a spying device that can also disable the car and then sell this to the car owner as "extra service".
Maybe even add a button for the owner to press, so he thinks he is in control. A blue button with a star on it would look very nice.
My experience at a couple different US campuses: IT support is very MS centered, their tips are on the level of reboot and reinstall. Some faculty insist on using Macs, so they are somehow supported, but linux? "We don't support that".
The MS-fandom goes so far, that even OS neutral technology is supported as MS specific. If I want to set up my email client, all I need is a server name and port number. None of their web pages have the information I need. But clicking through their screencasts for Windows XP I can find it. Then they change the authentication on the Outlook server, and email doesn't work anymore. I claim to have a Mac and with some luck it gives me a screencast that shows what authentication they use now. Same with vpn. It stops working and I'm supposed to run some program on my home computer that will set up my browser or my computer or whatever. Right. Using the old server name, I find they just switched from pptp to cisco anyconnect. Instead of using their java client it now works with network manager. I now can access the shared drives again. Thanks to the Mac-fanboys for that: the shared drives are called "Y:" and "Z:" or whatever, but if you look through mac support, you find the actual smb share name. Were it not for some Mac using faculty, I would have no chance of getting any of that information.
That's IT, CS is a different story. They run linux in the labs, do some student projects, and quite a few people are using it. And of course IT has someone who knows about linux, so they can support the CS department. But normally, that person is not within the reach of a normal computer user and has no say in what their PC division does or offers.
IT used to keep a bearded Unix guy locked up somewhere in the basement to run the servers. If you made it past the windows people and somehow got hold of him, you were in luck. Not only did he know all ports, protocols, authentication mechanisms, and addresses of relevant servers, he was also quite happy to see that someone on campus was interested in more than point-and-click. As it turns out, yes you can connect to ldap, and we are running a ftp server. There is even a local news server. Unfortunately, that guy has also no say within IT, which is driven by user-experience and other buzzwords. And as the whole campus software becomes more "integrated", more and more servers are replaced with MS-servers. I overheard a couple newer IT guys talking about how much they can do as administrators and how cool the tools are that they are using for it: Fill in the right boxes, click on it, and it pushes the updates to all the lab computers. Wow. I at least know now, why non MS codecs or standards don't work on campus.
The School District==The Taxpayer==Me. Great. Another check for me to write and I had nothing to do with it.
And if live in that city that check comes out of your property tax. Which would make you unhappy. Hopefully, the consequence would be to go after the people responsible for it. Hint: not the student.
They can not claim I was following orders, because they are the ones that make the orders.
But they can claim that the student is pursuing this just for the money:
"Today, Lower Merion spokesman Doug Young called Levin's lawsuit 'solely motivated by monetary interests and a complete waste of the taxpayer's dollars.'"
These people need personal consequences, otherwise they'll use their position to pitch this as a We-the-taxpayers versus greedy student story.
Long term fix: Privacy laws with legal consequences and contractual consequences such as demotions, loss of tenure, income, or job.
Short term fix: Was the student underage? In his bed room? Not fully dressed? - Just saying.
Whoever modded you "troll" is an idiot.
No surprise there. I looked at some of my comment mods and it alternated between "funny" and "troll" for quite some time. Once it hits "+4 funny" the troll mods stop. Maybe clue starts to hit at that level: "Oh, 4 people thought this is funny. Maybe I should read it again and look for irony markers." Just odd that that doesn't happen at "+2 funny" already. I suggest a new mod-point: "+-0 I don't get it". It doesn't mod it up or down, but gets rid of a mod point.
If you're really good wouldn't you work for the people who CATCH those guys?
Only 25% would. ;)
The headline is a little misleading, in that the left off the last part. It should read "25% of US Hackers are FBI/CIA Informers After They are Caught". They are informing to get out of the previous shit they got caught for, much like drug informers.
I wonder.
Are they pressured, turned, reformed, or "healed"?
I guess, the motives would greatly depend on the circumstances. Someone, who started breaking into systems for the coolness or bragging factor would find it equally cool to be a secret undercover agent. If it was just technical curiosity, a little agreement lets you keep your toys. And someone who helps to stop criminals that steal credit information from unsuspecting grandmas might even get the feeling that they are making up for their past, much more so than someone who helps to intimidate 14 year olds that download the latest movie trash. Someone who hacks for concrete political reasons might be harder to get to the state were they fully cooperate, harder than someone who defines it as part of his post-political cyber-identity whatever manifesto.
On the other hand, motives and your reasoning don't have to go hand in hand. Once pressured you can always try to convince yourself, that it was your duty anyhow.
You don't have to know the absolute number. You just have to have a rough estimate, which you get by counting girls hanging out with their best female friend on Saturday night. Then you just go to a 2600 or lug meeting and drop a giant butterfly net from the ceiling. Next you simply count your sample and check how many wear dark suits. They are either FBI or IBM.
Or do you mean the readability of English with all those French and Latin words that have been added to our old German over the past 1000 years?
Over the past 1000 years? No, 923 years only. That's when the liberals started to teach liberals education and other baloney. The US has been going downhill ever since.
-------
"Teach our childrens reading, riting, rithmatic or give me death!"
Paul Revere (wikipedia, new edition)
I hope they had at least the courtesy to add the new elements at the bottom, so old tables can be updated more easily.
how they no it was sarah palin "fans"? could have been opposite
I always have that problem. Whenever a new Sarah Palin thing comes out, I'm sure it's satire.
The title to the linked article is 'Palin Fans Trying to Edit Wikipedia Paul Revere Page' Being fans of Palin it is perfectly understandable and likely they got confused and gave up.
Not their fault. Over centuries liberals intentionally decreased the readability of English texts by introducing foreign words.