"Rock stars" - we called them divas in my company - are notoriously unmanageable: many of them are temperamental, don't work well with others, tend to do what they "know" is right instead of doing what they're told, and have an overinflated sense of ego...
"Damnit, I told you the app had to read my mind, why doesn't it work???"
If the people you hire are doing the wrong thing, get new people. If those new people *still* can't do it, suspect the requirements are not achievable.
... Consistently, if you want a king's ransom, you'll have to make that on your own in the private sector, but if you're happy with a 3000sf house on 10 acres in Hawaii and money to travel at will, it's amazing how many public sector/military retirees can pull that off.
Not really that amazing. The first way to make enough money to retire to the Hawiian estate, is to inherit it. Many politicians/bureaucrats take this route. Pick your parents wisely. (:-)
The next way to become rich is networking. With a proper network, you can marry well, and find good jobs after you leave the public sector.
The most important thing to getting rich, don't spend all your money, and invest wisely. You network can let you in on the best investments.
My dad was Army for 4 years, then worked for the US Government for 23 years. When his retirement was calculated they included the military time for ~27 years of service. After he died, my mother gets 50% of the benefit, plus government health insurance. I don't know if this was automatic, or they had to pay for it.
AFAIK, when you retire makes a big difference. How old you are, and exactly what laws are in effect at the time of retirement can cause the numbers to be different for people who might have retired only a few months apart.
Also, my dad told me what might be a military legend. Your retirement pay is based on "highest rank received", vs. your rank at the time of retirement. During WWII it was common for a corporal to be the highest ranking member of his group left after an attack, and would be field promoted to a lieutenant or higher by the nearest officer. These field promotions wouldn't last much longer than the current battle, but would be included in calculating retirement benefits.
I presume that your bank uses a "One Time Password", which is good, but not proveably unbreakable.
I was refering to "One Time Pad", where the key length == text length. Getting the new pads to agents in the field is difficult. Back in the day, they really did use pads of paper covered with random letters + some sort of synchronization protocol. You were suppose to destroy each sheet of paper after using it, but sometimes that wasn't done.
But you're right, just using login+password is almost as bad as using a Social Security Number to identify someone.
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Huh? Um... excuse me, but the trial was a month long, and jurors don't get paid squat, nor are their accommodations expensive. A juror I know not long ago got locked into a 9-day trial, he got paid less than minimum wage for it, and the lunch he got EVERY DAY was a peanut butter sandwich and an apple.
Even if Posner's court is more generous than that, there is no way in hell the jury cost "millions".
I assume the Judge and Lawyers got the other $1,990,000.
All the experts for a given technology already work for industry. Finding independent experts that are affordable and want to work on a tribunal would be a challenge.
Sort of, but not really. You still can't prove P != NP or otherwise.
For problems like travelling salesman, you know you can figure out the best route by trying them all (perfect induction). What a quantum computer allows you to do, is try every combination in constant time. You still have to try every combination.
Yes, and the Germans, Soviets, and Americans have all been caught re-using their pads.
Some famous last words in the crypto business: "Everyone knows OTP is unbreakable, so no-one would ever try." "It's been over a year since I last used this pad, they couldn't possibly have kept the data that long."
It's time for some new entrepreneur to work out the details of this business model:
Generated tons of random data.
Distribute DVDs of data to people.
On request, some of your data will be transmitted securely to designated financial organizations.
For the next year or so, all your important communication with those banks will be secure.
Problem is, all the communication channels can be made absolutely secure, but the endpoints are the weak link. If the customer's PC is infected, all the encryption in the world won't help.
Grenade launchers don't work that way! They are rotationally armed, and need to turn a certain number of times after firing or they will not detonate. You can't fire them at point blank range!..
He's from the future. When you weren't looking, he disassembled the rounds, adjusted the arming device, and replaced the explosive with 5 common household chemicals that make it 10x more explosive.
This isn't about the money, it's about control. If they can get a law that makes default royalities so high no-one can enter the business, they'd be overjoyed. Then, when everyone else is locked out of the business, they can buy up the failed businesses, and run their own monopoly services. They might not be extracting every last cent out of the music, but they, and only they would control it. (Artists and Listeners can take a hike)
Of course this idea sets a lot of the anti-abortion arguments on it's ear, since if you believe it then hell is filled with unbabtised babies.
Check out, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbo, esp. "Limbo of Infants". "While the Catholic Church has a defined doctrine on original sin, it has none on the eternal fate of unbaptized infants, leaving theologians free to propose different theories, which Catholics are free to accept or reject"
So, yes, there is a special hell reserved for the unborn/recent born, where children frolic and dance under poles. How low can they go?
For others: The sentiment here is that just because someone has chosen to spend their life single instead of raising a family, does not mean they should be taken advantage of by the rest of the world.
In the "Rest of the World", there are people who will choose to work insane hours, and they will, in all probability, get ahead of you and the parent commentor. (If everything else is equal).
Does the existence of someone who is willing to work harder, smarter, longer mean the world is taking advantage of those that don't?
I can argue either side of the debate. This is a very similar argument to "Should steriods be allowed in sports?", i.e. should some people be allowed to screw themselves over, just for the chance to succeed? If you don't allow performance enhanceing drugs, why would you allow someone to become a coal miner, ruining his health, for a job?
People have always made sacrifices now, for a potential payoff, later.
It might, especially if you had a very long cord or extension. I've used several PS/2 mice with various converters and they've always worked. I even had a USB mouse -> PS/2 passive adapter -> PS/2 KVM switch -> USB into the computer.
I've had to add a pull-up resistor to the clock line on my Model M's for a new ASUS motherboard, but some adapters work find. A 2 port IOmega KVM switch works great with no mods. Do a google search for Model M resistor to see what people have done. (some people add two resistors)
Well, since you ask, that's when you go to plan 'B'.
Seriously, you would test the system, first by observing how the guards work, then by sending people through who are expendable, or diplomats with get-out-of-jail black passports. If all that fails, and you get pulled aside for a random search, have a co-worker create a diversion and slip away.
Good observation. Some forms of crime are more acceptable than others.
I'm not sure I'm not on board with that. Imagine a world where there was no violent crime or real property theft. If your bank account was stolen, you get it back in 90 days.
In such a world, keep several bank accounts and several credit cards, and regular normal people are safe.
If you could live in a world where all crime was crime against large corporations, and all war was cyberware, would you? What would you give up to live there?
Yes, these can be improved, but they are trying to be simple, fast, and cheap. When you have 200 people standing in line waiting to get on an airplane, Voight-Kampf'ing everyone is a non-starter.
Simply going to retinal scans makes fooling the system much harder, but retinal scanning is slower than iris scanning.
The clandestine services will simple send their people through with fake iris contact lenses the first time, and once for every identity needed. Then when they need to be "Joe Shablocknic" today, they just select the "Joe Shablocknic" eyes from the kit, and viola, new identity. They'll make the the spy's real eyes are never scanned by a 3rd party.
What this research shows is that they could send an iris printer with the spy. Then send him the codes for new eyes.
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"Rock stars" - we called them divas in my company - are notoriously unmanageable: many of them are temperamental, don't work well with others, tend to do what they "know" is right instead of doing what they're told, and have an overinflated sense of ego. ..
"Damnit, I told you the app had to read my mind, why doesn't it work???"
If the people you hire are doing the wrong thing, get new people. If those new people *still* can't do it, suspect the requirements are not achievable.
... Consistently, if you want a king's ransom, you'll have to make that on your own in the private sector, but if you're happy with a 3000sf house on 10 acres in Hawaii and money to travel at will, it's amazing how many public sector/military retirees can pull that off.
Not really that amazing. The first way to make enough money to retire to the Hawiian estate, is to inherit it. Many politicians/bureaucrats take this route. Pick your parents wisely. (:-)
The next way to become rich is networking. With a proper network, you can marry well, and find good jobs after you leave the public sector.
The most important thing to getting rich, don't spend all your money, and invest wisely. You network can let you in on the best investments.
My dad was Army for 4 years, then worked for the US Government for 23 years. When his retirement was calculated they included the military time for ~27 years of service. After he died, my mother gets 50% of the benefit, plus government health insurance. I don't know if this was automatic, or they had to pay for it.
AFAIK, when you retire makes a big difference. How old you are, and exactly what laws are in effect at the time of retirement can cause the numbers to be different for people who might have retired only a few months apart.
Also, my dad told me what might be a military legend. Your retirement pay is based on "highest rank received", vs. your rank at the time of retirement. During WWII it was common for a corporal to be the highest ranking member of his group left after an attack, and would be field promoted to a lieutenant or higher by the nearest officer. These field promotions wouldn't last much longer than the current battle, but would be included in calculating retirement benefits.
I presume that your bank uses a "One Time Password", which is good, but not proveably unbreakable.
I was refering to "One Time Pad", where the key length == text length. Getting the new pads to agents in the field is difficult. Back in the day, they really did use pads of paper covered with random letters + some sort of synchronization protocol. You were suppose to destroy each sheet of paper after using it, but sometimes that wasn't done.
But you're right, just using login+password is almost as bad as using a Social Security Number to identify someone.
... Huh? Um... excuse me, but the trial was a month long, and jurors don't get paid squat, nor are their accommodations expensive. A juror I know not long ago got locked into a 9-day trial, he got paid less than minimum wage for it, and the lunch he got EVERY DAY was a peanut butter sandwich and an apple. Even if Posner's court is more generous than that, there is no way in hell the jury cost "millions".
I assume the Judge and Lawyers got the other $1,990,000.
You're not supposed to patent ideas, but machines and processes. AFAIK, the filing fee isn't that large, it's the patent search that costs so much.
Congress just has to define what you are allowed to sue over. If you can't sue, you can't have a Jury. ('cept in criminal cases)
All the experts for a given technology already work for industry. Finding independent experts that are affordable and want to work on a tribunal would be a challenge.
So will this protect you from a "real bad day"?
Sort of, but not really. You still can't prove P != NP or otherwise.
For problems like travelling salesman, you know you can figure out the best route by trying them all (perfect induction). What a quantum computer allows you to do, is try every combination in constant time. You still have to try every combination.
Some famous last words in the crypto business: "Everyone knows OTP is unbreakable, so no-one would ever try." "It's been over a year since I last used this pad, they couldn't possibly have kept the data that long."
It's time for some new entrepreneur to work out the details of this business model:
Problem is, all the communication channels can be made absolutely secure, but the endpoints are the weak link. If the customer's PC is infected, all the encryption in the world won't help.
Grenade launchers don't work that way! They are rotationally armed, and need to turn a certain number of times after firing or they will not detonate. You can't fire them at point blank range!..
He's from the future. When you weren't looking, he disassembled the rounds, adjusted the arming device, and replaced the explosive with 5 common household chemicals that make it 10x more explosive.
This isn't about the money, it's about control. If they can get a law that makes default royalities so high no-one can enter the business, they'd be overjoyed. Then, when everyone else is locked out of the business, they can buy up the failed businesses, and run their own monopoly services. They might not be extracting every last cent out of the music, but they, and only they would control it. (Artists and Listeners can take a hike)
Try staring your own business. You *can't* be layed off. Of course, you might have negative income for awhile.
Of course this idea sets a lot of the anti-abortion arguments on it's ear, since if you believe it then hell is filled with unbabtised babies.
Check out, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbo, esp. "Limbo of Infants". "While the Catholic Church has a defined doctrine on original sin, it has none on the eternal fate of unbaptized infants, leaving theologians free to propose different theories, which Catholics are free to accept or reject"
So, yes, there is a special hell reserved for the unborn/recent born, where children frolic and dance under poles. How low can they go?
For others: The sentiment here is that just because someone has chosen to spend their life single instead of raising a family, does not mean they should be taken advantage of by the rest of the world.
In the "Rest of the World", there are people who will choose to work insane hours, and they will, in all probability, get ahead of you and the parent commentor. (If everything else is equal).
Does the existence of someone who is willing to work harder, smarter, longer mean the world is taking advantage of those that don't?
I can argue either side of the debate. This is a very similar argument to "Should steriods be allowed in sports?", i.e. should some people be allowed to screw themselves over, just for the chance to succeed? If you don't allow performance enhanceing drugs, why would you allow someone to become a coal miner, ruining his health, for a job?
People have always made sacrifices now, for a potential payoff, later.
It might, especially if you had a very long cord or extension. I've used several PS/2 mice with various converters and they've always worked. I even had a USB mouse -> PS/2 passive adapter -> PS/2 KVM switch -> USB into the computer.
This: http://chronicle.com/article/From-Bench-to-Bunker/132743/
Nope: http://chronicle.com/article/From-Bench-to-Bunker/132743/
I've had to add a pull-up resistor to the clock line on my Model M's for a new ASUS motherboard, but some adapters work find. A 2 port IOmega KVM switch works great with no mods. Do a google search for Model M resistor to see what people have done. (some people add two resistors)
Well, since you ask, that's when you go to plan 'B'.
Seriously, you would test the system, first by observing how the guards work, then by sending people through who are expendable, or diplomats with get-out-of-jail black passports. If all that fails, and you get pulled aside for a random search, have a co-worker create a diversion and slip away.
Good observation. Some forms of crime are more acceptable than others.
I'm not sure I'm not on board with that. Imagine a world where there was no violent crime or real property theft. If your bank account was stolen, you get it back in 90 days.
In such a world, keep several bank accounts and several credit cards, and regular normal people are safe.
If you could live in a world where all crime was crime against large corporations, and all war was cyberware, would you? What would you give up to live there?
Yes, these can be improved, but they are trying to be simple, fast, and cheap. When you have 200 people standing in line waiting to get on an airplane, Voight-Kampf'ing everyone is a non-starter.
Simply going to retinal scans makes fooling the system much harder, but retinal scanning is slower than iris scanning.
You don't have to fool the criminals to sell an expensive lock. You just have to fool management at the corporate or government level.
The clandestine services will simple send their people through with fake iris contact lenses the first time, and once for every identity needed. Then when they need to be "Joe Shablocknic" today, they just select the "Joe Shablocknic" eyes from the kit, and viola, new identity. They'll make the the spy's real eyes are never scanned by a 3rd party.
What this research shows is that they could send an iris printer with the spy. Then send him the codes for new eyes.