The real advice is that "while working in the role of Developer, do not have access to the prod servers". If you additionally have the role of "sysadmin" from time to time, then so be it, but don't abuse your development power, nor your sysadmin power.
In my experience of big companies, small companies and a few in between this really does work best. People talk of 'creating high walls' and whatnot, but by forcing devs to mould their output into something system-friendly results in a far superior product and far less maintenance overhead. It appears to take longer to get things into production, hence the 'high walls' comments, but the alternative is almost always worse in the long run.
Beware the 'catchy' titles. This one happens to sum up to "if you reuse some code, you won't have intimate knowledge of it and will just consider it a black box". It's not made especially clear why that's such a bad thing though.
Couldn't you just have said "you made a mistake, because the number was over 10 years whereas your quotes numbers were over one year". Was all the insulting really necessary? Lucky you're AC so your comment didn't get seen.
Most of the time/. is "news several days old, you already read about it". Now you're complaining that the news is too early! There's no pleasing some people;-)
What would happen if this case went ahead? Would the Ethiopian government send a representative to the trial? Probably not. Let's say then that they're convicted in-absentia. Now what? Do you arrest the Ethopian Ambassador next time he comes out of the embassy until he pays up the damages/fines? Is he/she responsible? Of course not. So do you jail him/her for non-payment? Do you expel them from the country? The actual government of Ethopia can quite reasonably state that they don't recognise the US courts, and so unless the case is tried in Ethopia, no judgement stands. So exactly what would a case 'won' in the US actually do?
I realise the law doesn't really concern itself with practicality, but you have to wonder what good it would do to allow this case to go ahead.
The other thing evident by ommission is that (say) the CIA gets a warrant to hack into your TV. They'll start collecting data, but will they 'unhack' your TV when they're done? Not much to suggest they do, so your TV stays hacked, even though you're not a suspect in some new case they're working on.
If a company has people doing hundreds of taxi rides globally per day, you can bet they want good invoicing/expensing. They'll get contract deals with taxi companies in their most major areas specifically to get the invoicing (if they can beat down the total price too, that's a bonus, but actually sensible invoicing saves them money because they don't have to do mountains of expense handling). Thus, doing one deal with Uber and getting a couple of dozen cities covered is great (note: "countries" is misleading, because often they only operate in one city in a country, and amazingly, sometimes people have to leave that city to get to work).
So the point is, Uber/Lyft/Addison Lee, or indeed your local i-own-a-mercedes-and-a-tax-license driver are all great when you can get them to centrally bill/invoice for the work they do. If they're handing you paper receipts on every journey, even if it's 10-20% cheaper than the alternative, then they won't get the business.
Upload your data to foreign server Take a burner phone, or indeed no phone at all (and buy one on arrivial) Copy data from server to new phone, or just reference it on server...would be less hassle.
"I don't know it *now*, but I will know it in the future" would be a new defence. Whilst I'd be inclined to agree with you, it might be a new technicality. Not sure I'm ready to risk my liberty to try it out though.
One thing I've always wondered about this method is... isn't it rather convenient that these planets orbital plane is exactly right for this to work? I mean, surely there must be an infinite number of possible orbital planes, and indeed the possibility that there are planets that aren't on their neighbouring plane at all.
I'm sure I didn't just discover the Great Flaw in all of astrophysics, so I guess there's an explanation somewhere...
America: Have your phone's contents read and your children groped while you have to "step back from the line, Sir" Canada: Local people volunteer to go to the airport with the sole intention to welcome travellers into the country.
I'd hope the average/.er knows that the hard part to self-driving cars is 'productising' it into something that passes regulations and doesn't kill people. However, I say this guy's pretty cool - first up, he's done some Ultimate Geek Hacking - it involves computers, 3d printing and cars - what's not to love!?. Second, he's shown it's possible for ordinary people to get some distance with self-driving cars. It means Fred-in-his-shed can take a look at this technology and try some stuff out. Sure, most of those attempts won't result in a marketable product, but maybe, just maybe they'll find a clever way to do something the big guys haven't thought of. Lastly, this guy has actually done something - and from the outside it's easy to pick on things he didn't do (yet?), or could do better, but let's not forget he's way ahead of most of us because he's actually got something physical working.
I'm not likely to start my own self-driving car business, but it's great to see that I could, and I don't need to be a millionaire first.
"Er... I dropped my straw on the floor, could I please have another one?" "Sure, here you go. Have a nice day!" "Err, sorry, no, I said 'straw', not 'straw', can I swap it please?" "Oh sorry, yeah sure, here have one of these"
They came up with a (clever) gimmick, and the best name they could come up with was "straw".
I'll accept the office thing, because they're usually hooked up to a building control system of some sort, and so can/will be saving out stats and whatnot. However, having a light in your garage that comes on when you walk in and turns off when you're not in there has zero surveillance potential.
> you shouldn't have a bias toward easily obtained data
Nicely summed up. Management is hard, if you're not up to that challenge, then get out and let someone else have a crack at it. It seems though, as humans, having a nice graph to look at makes us feel like we have some control over something.
I may well be alone in this, but I think this actually sounds like a good idea. I really could do with a personal assistant that knows every detail of every email I've ever written or received and can tell me to do stuff in emails that are 'below the fold' that I've forgotten about.
What I don't want is all that happening on someone else's server. If it could all happen on my computer without need to send every last detail to 'the cloud' then I'd genuinely be interested. Until then, I'll keep using my (Siri-disabled) Mac, thanks.
If this action leads to less/no sellers wanting to sell to the UK, then it does achieve something: it means that the average idiot can't get to the illegal content. Sure, you and I can get a Raspberry Pi, install Kodi (or even buy a 'plain' Kodi box, I guess) and install a bajillion plugins from random sources on the Internet, but we're a distinct minority. If this course of action succeeds, it does reduce the number of 'customers' for illegal content by quite a degree.
From another point of view, they *have* to stamp on these guys. I believe the legality of what they're doing is currently being tested in court, so even if that ruling says they're not doing something illegal, they still have to go after them. If we fast forward a couple of years when 10% of the TV watching public have one of these boxes and are using it, then it's impossible to stop it then. Right now the penetration is pretty low, and is 'destroyable', if the law goes the way they want it to.
Note to self: buy one of these boxes before they get harder to buy;-) (and in that respect, this action does more harm than good)
...and let's not forget the 'sidebar of shame' which is mostly about women in scant clothing and whatever scandal they can think of to make up some click bait. Hardly the way to incite confidence and trust in your journalism.
Such ships seem like a great idea - some years ago there was one for sale (not sure who the previous owner was). I seem to remember it was for sale in the low-millions of dollars sort of range. The thing is, to get it off the dock you need millions more just to tow it, millions more to dock it somewhere you can work on it and then (probably) hundreds of millions more to refit it and make it work in any useful sense.
There's a reason military budgets get measured in the billions;-)
How about $0/hour for lawn care, with a robot to do it for you? Granted, right now you'll spend around $1000 buying said robot, and will spend a bit of time getting it all setup in your garden, but after that it's $0. You could keep the initial costs down by sharing with your neighbour, if that matter to you.
As for the orange, I guess it's cost could come down if a robot grows it, picks it, packs it and drives it to your location. I can't see anyone wanting a robot babysitter unless it was pretty much a human-substitute, and they aren't happening for a generation or two, so the $30/hour probably won't come down though.
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The real advice is that "while working in the role of Developer, do not have access to the prod servers". If you additionally have the role of "sysadmin" from time to time, then so be it, but don't abuse your development power, nor your sysadmin power.
In my experience of big companies, small companies and a few in between this really does work best. People talk of 'creating high walls' and whatnot, but by forcing devs to mould their output into something system-friendly results in a far superior product and far less maintenance overhead. It appears to take longer to get things into production, hence the 'high walls' comments, but the alternative is almost always worse in the long run.
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Beware the 'catchy' titles. This one happens to sum up to "if you reuse some code, you won't have intimate knowledge of it and will just consider it a black box". It's not made especially clear why that's such a bad thing though.
Couldn't you just have said "you made a mistake, because the number was over 10 years whereas your quotes numbers were over one year". Was all the insulting really necessary? Lucky you're AC so your comment didn't get seen.
Most of the time /. is "news several days old, you already read about it". Now you're complaining that the news is too early! There's no pleasing some people ;-)
What would happen if this case went ahead? Would the Ethiopian government send a representative to the trial? Probably not. Let's say then that they're convicted in-absentia. Now what? Do you arrest the Ethopian Ambassador next time he comes out of the embassy until he pays up the damages/fines? Is he/she responsible? Of course not. So do you jail him/her for non-payment? Do you expel them from the country? The actual government of Ethopia can quite reasonably state that they don't recognise the US courts, and so unless the case is tried in Ethopia, no judgement stands. So exactly what would a case 'won' in the US actually do?
I realise the law doesn't really concern itself with practicality, but you have to wonder what good it would do to allow this case to go ahead.
The other thing evident by ommission is that (say) the CIA gets a warrant to hack into your TV. They'll start collecting data, but will they 'unhack' your TV when they're done? Not much to suggest they do, so your TV stays hacked, even though you're not a suspect in some new case they're working on.
If a company has people doing hundreds of taxi rides globally per day, you can bet they want good invoicing/expensing. They'll get contract deals with taxi companies in their most major areas specifically to get the invoicing (if they can beat down the total price too, that's a bonus, but actually sensible invoicing saves them money because they don't have to do mountains of expense handling). Thus, doing one deal with Uber and getting a couple of dozen cities covered is great (note: "countries" is misleading, because often they only operate in one city in a country, and amazingly, sometimes people have to leave that city to get to work).
So the point is, Uber/Lyft/Addison Lee, or indeed your local i-own-a-mercedes-and-a-tax-license driver are all great when you can get them to centrally bill/invoice for the work they do. If they're handing you paper receipts on every journey, even if it's 10-20% cheaper than the alternative, then they won't get the business.
Surely...
Upload your data to foreign server ...would be less hassle.
Take a burner phone, or indeed no phone at all (and buy one on arrivial)
Copy data from server to new phone, or just reference it on server
"I don't know it *now*, but I will know it in the future" would be a new defence. Whilst I'd be inclined to agree with you, it might be a new technicality. Not sure I'm ready to risk my liberty to try it out though.
your pin: 12345
safety pin: 12344
Not too hard, surely?
One thing I've always wondered about this method is... isn't it rather convenient that these planets orbital plane is exactly right for this to work? I mean, surely there must be an infinite number of possible orbital planes, and indeed the possibility that there are planets that aren't on their neighbouring plane at all.
I'm sure I didn't just discover the Great Flaw in all of astrophysics, so I guess there's an explanation somewhere...
Maybe, but it'd work well for company owned gear though.
America: Have your phone's contents read and your children groped while you have to "step back from the line, Sir"
Canada: Local people volunteer to go to the airport with the sole intention to welcome travellers into the country.
Quite the contrast...
I'd hope the average /.er knows that the hard part to self-driving cars is 'productising' it into something that passes regulations and doesn't kill people. However, I say this guy's pretty cool - first up, he's done some Ultimate Geek Hacking - it involves computers, 3d printing and cars - what's not to love!?. Second, he's shown it's possible for ordinary people to get some distance with self-driving cars. It means Fred-in-his-shed can take a look at this technology and try some stuff out. Sure, most of those attempts won't result in a marketable product, but maybe, just maybe they'll find a clever way to do something the big guys haven't thought of. Lastly, this guy has actually done something - and from the outside it's easy to pick on things he didn't do (yet?), or could do better, but let's not forget he's way ahead of most of us because he's actually got something physical working.
I'm not likely to start my own self-driving car business, but it's great to see that I could, and I don't need to be a millionaire first.
"Er... I dropped my straw on the floor, could I please have another one?"
"Sure, here you go. Have a nice day!"
"Err, sorry, no, I said 'straw', not 'straw', can I swap it please?"
"Oh sorry, yeah sure, here have one of these"
They came up with a (clever) gimmick, and the best name they could come up with was "straw".
Surely they could use tunnels to avoid having so many bridges?
Still, it means /. gets to fill up it's front page.
I'll accept the office thing, because they're usually hooked up to a building control system of some sort, and so can/will be saving out stats and whatnot. However, having a light in your garage that comes on when you walk in and turns off when you're not in there has zero surveillance potential.
I didn't realise these devices worked by smell ;-)
> you shouldn't have a bias toward easily obtained data
Nicely summed up. Management is hard, if you're not up to that challenge, then get out and let someone else have a crack at it. It seems though, as humans, having a nice graph to look at makes us feel like we have some control over something.
I may well be alone in this, but I think this actually sounds like a good idea. I really could do with a personal assistant that knows every detail of every email I've ever written or received and can tell me to do stuff in emails that are 'below the fold' that I've forgotten about.
What I don't want is all that happening on someone else's server. If it could all happen on my computer without need to send every last detail to 'the cloud' then I'd genuinely be interested. Until then, I'll keep using my (Siri-disabled) Mac, thanks.
If this action leads to less/no sellers wanting to sell to the UK, then it does achieve something: it means that the average idiot can't get to the illegal content. Sure, you and I can get a Raspberry Pi, install Kodi (or even buy a 'plain' Kodi box, I guess) and install a bajillion plugins from random sources on the Internet, but we're a distinct minority. If this course of action succeeds, it does reduce the number of 'customers' for illegal content by quite a degree.
From another point of view, they *have* to stamp on these guys. I believe the legality of what they're doing is currently being tested in court, so even if that ruling says they're not doing something illegal, they still have to go after them. If we fast forward a couple of years when 10% of the TV watching public have one of these boxes and are using it, then it's impossible to stop it then. Right now the penetration is pretty low, and is 'destroyable', if the law goes the way they want it to.
Note to self: buy one of these boxes before they get harder to buy ;-) (and in that respect, this action does more harm than good)
...and let's not forget the 'sidebar of shame' which is mostly about women in scant clothing and whatever scandal they can think of to make up some click bait. Hardly the way to incite confidence and trust in your journalism.
Such ships seem like a great idea - some years ago there was one for sale (not sure who the previous owner was). I seem to remember it was for sale in the low-millions of dollars sort of range. The thing is, to get it off the dock you need millions more just to tow it, millions more to dock it somewhere you can work on it and then (probably) hundreds of millions more to refit it and make it work in any useful sense.
There's a reason military budgets get measured in the billions ;-)
How about $0/hour for lawn care, with a robot to do it for you? Granted, right now you'll spend around $1000 buying said robot, and will spend a bit of time getting it all setup in your garden, but after that it's $0. You could keep the initial costs down by sharing with your neighbour, if that matter to you.
As for the orange, I guess it's cost could come down if a robot grows it, picks it, packs it and drives it to your location. I can't see anyone wanting a robot babysitter unless it was pretty much a human-substitute, and they aren't happening for a generation or two, so the $30/hour probably won't come down though.