Yeah I liken it to someone who smashes your car window to get at the change left in your car where 300$ worth of damage was done to steal the 5$ that is in there. Either way you're out the money. In terms of an analogy, I know people who just leave their cars unlocked without valuables to avoid this, banks I'd imagine lack this countermeasure...
Looking at news over the last several years I think it is less likely that you'd lose your coins in some hacking event, and more likely though some sort of more fraud scheme. Either in some coin that is more less fake, or even in established coins where the brokerage/trading houses just embezzle it and vanish.
A lot is made out of blockchain ledgers supplanting the need about placing your trust in corporate banks or nations, but they don't exactly have a monopoly on fraudulent activity.
I think the time has come and gone that these crypto "currencies" can be legitimately called currencies anymore. They are simply speculative investment schemes, but one where their are literally zero assets attached to them. They are particularly risky fundamentally in that at least a currency can be spent someplace (unless inflation makes it worthless), and more traditional investments, even should they fail are able to recoup some value by selling off assets. If/when they fail, you'll be left with nothing except perhaps the few at the top (due to sheer volume and value), or those with enough savvy to GTFO at just the right time, the rest will be left with squat. The *only* thing keeping them going at this point is the collective will of those that own it, and the get rich quick greed of new investors. Once the later drops off because the price is too high, or public perception changes, then the end is neigh...
The problem with nuclear is 100% perception. I think it is really a missed opportunity to not advance our nuclear technology. Somehow I see some textbook in the future and some child asking about the dark ages (sorry, sort of pun) of nuclear technology where little if any advancements were made, and the teacher responds that they were very very afraid, because they convinced themselves to be.
From what I've heard 99% of nuclear waste is things like gloves, dirt, whatever, and various other non-core materials that are slightly radioactive, have a huge half-life (i.e. they will be like that more less forever), but are only slightly more dangerous to handle than bananas... Of the very small amount of stuff that is left over (i.e. core and coolent like materials), it falls into two categories. The REALLY dangerous stuff that'll kill you from exposure, however it's half-life is extremely short (because it is decaying so fast to throw off so much radiation), so the storage isn't as big of a deal really, other than handling. The second category is the more problematic, in that it is radioactive to be pretty dangerous with any sort of long exposure, but isn't radioactive enough that it still has a pretty long half-life so it is going to be around for a very long time. Trying to do anything for a very long time is pretty hard. However again, from my understanding the reason it is produced like that is that we're using old designs, largely to produce weapons. Presumably in a newer design that same material would be consumed to the point where there is nothing left but a little nub of truly dangerous stuff, but which would dissipate on it's own in the short term so long as it is stored and handled properly.
Well #2 and #3 you can find anywhere, and for the last 30 years, so no sense complaining about it.
While #5 is somewhat uniquely American, I've seen some where as the adage goes "never attribute to malice what could be stupidity".... In that many times the ridiculous qualification requirements are because the Manager and HR boffins who wrote the job specification may have a very loose (i.e. barely any at all) understanding of the job, or what it does. Could be the person that did everything left (perhaps bc felt underappreciated) or retired and they really don't have a real clue of what the job really entailed, so the list everything and the kitchen sink. Similarly with lowball salaries, they could just be overly optimistic of how much that position really costs, heck perhaps that is what they paid the last guy for 20 years before he finally got sick of being undervalued, got wind of better opportunities, and left them in the lurch to replace him, and probably has a smile of satisfaction when they try to re-hire his position at the salary they were paying him, and get no takers...
There is also BS stuff with management and internal politics and budgets and staffing levels etc... which may result in wacky job situations, which again aren't malice purposefully directed towards a potential employee but exist none the less.
Well a few years ago there was a TV program (this was years ago) that detailed the actual POLICY of one of the big banks (Bank of America perhaps). Not only was this done automatically, it wasn't a random shuffle, and changes (including checks) were NOT put though necessarily in the order in which they were done, but by value. This was because the bank got a NSF charge for EVERY transaction past an overdue account. The order they did it was largest to smallest, so your rent and car payments would come out first, draining your account until NSF, then every 1$ coffee purchase after that would get a 20$ fee attached to it... The crazy part to me, was this wasn't some corrupt bank manager, this was corporate america.
I'd imagine there is a spectrum, and it is pretty broad for schizophrenics.
In my experience it is more of a coming to terms with and dealing with what is reality VS fantasy. Does not necessary mean auditory or visual hallucinations. From what I have seen it could simply mean that they are easily flustered by decisions or complex situation and are just unable to deal with it very well. Also a cacophony of noise or a lot of bright light may agitate them as there is too much input coming at them all at once and can't handle it. The person in question was extremely smart, but given certain situations had trouble dealing what what you or I might consider simple tasks. At the same time given other conditions could perform just as well or better. Lastly it is a condition that doesn't manifest itself until a bit later in life, meaning the individual will need time to learn how to deal with it, likely in coordination with medication. That is assuming of course that the have the support system which allows for that. Many of the homeless folks I'd guess lacked the support system and simply fell through the cracks to end up where they are, which is very sad. I'd say in likely all but the most extreme cases, probably one of the sides of homelessness that is pretty preventable if proper support was available.
Oil isn't going anywhere and Cost is a complex question.
It might not be used for personal transportation as much in the future, which will have a significant impact on demand.
However things like planes and ships are not going to stop using oil. The whole military complex isn't going to stop using oil. You mention nuclear, however the most numerous ships are subs, mostly owned by Russia and the US. After that is Carriers, of which there are only a handful, mostly owned by the US. Apart from those to things, there are a handful of Ice Breakers, owned by Russia. That's about it. Also probably almost all of the above are a couple decades old...
Then there are things like plastics and the like, which aren't going anywhere and are largely composed of oil.
There are plenty of houses heated by oil, though many have been replaced with cheaper gas. It would be interesting to see if the lack of demand for cars drives the cost lower to make it more economical for house heat generation again. Then again, as mentioned, less demand could just mean less production, which would actually raise prices, so it is pretty hard to predict.
One possible growth area (though limited in scope) are remote areas powered by oil moving to small scale nuclear, as was recently seen by Russia. Too early to tell however if that is a trend that will continue or not.
If I have to do a task a few times, it isn't worth my time or trouble to try and automate it, I will just continue to do it in an ad hoc fashion. If I have to do a task a thousand times, I will spend the time to automate it because, it is difficult to do in an ad hoc fashion.
The reality is somewhere in between without Universal health care, in that there will still be plenty of patients with the money to do it. However with Universal, not only do you increase that amount by a magnitude, but also involve a government which is paying for it which will be looking for the providers to do everything in their power to automate the process to save costs. So it would likely be accelerated by the numbers and incentivized by the method.
Many have pointed out legislation to prevent this. However at least in my country, there are often large loopholes left for business. So while I'll get pure spam every now again again, most of it is from some company with whom I already have some service with who are exempt (Cable, Internet, Phone, Electrical, Gas, Charities, etc) who will try to constantly up-sell you whatever promotion they are doing that week. So while Bell for example couldn't just cold call me if I wasn't already a customer, but once a customer they can seemingly call whenever they like. I've dropped charities for this exact reason as some once you are involved see it as a cart blanch to call and harass you for more money constantly. The Red Cross is another one, that once I gave blood, I now get vampire calls constantly...
About the only one who ever calls me anymore are my parents, and they have had the same phone number for like the last 40 years...
OK, I'm thinking the editor didn't live though that era or play those games.
1) Doom was out a LOT earlier than any of those. Doom II would be a more appropriate example. 2) Oh Duke Nukem 3D, what fun you were... (also there were plenty of "Duke Nukem's", but only one 3D, but I'll give them that one) 3) No Quake? Yeah because that wasn't a major title I guess. 4) No Warcraft II? Again, was probably just a minor release (sarcasm) 5) While Descent was definitely fun for nausea, or loosing you mind while high, it was more of a proof of technology than an actual game.
I knew a lot of people who played Descent and thought it was really cool, but I don't think anyone played it for any amount of time. Doom II was only played until DN3D/Quake came out. Thinking back it is still kind of funny to think that the ability to "jump" was a feature lol! Warcraft II while a bit of a different genre was probably just as big or bigger than any of the rest (arguably a lot bigger than any of them).
Yeah I pretty much stopped reading the post after:
>As a single white male, I was at the bottom of the hiring list. Bell Telephone HR told me as much. I qualified well for their employ, but they needed more people who didn't look like me. Jobs that didn't prefer white males in the 70s? Jesus F. Christ, that's a bold lie right there.
Fortunately for me it was near the beginning. Anyway I'm sure every "generation" has it's challenges. However I've always found the term generation is to a be a bit ridiculous in all but the very macro sense of context. Timing is everything. I finished my computer science degree pretty much the exact same time as the DotCom bubble burst. That kind of sucked. My delusions of grandeur were certainly dashed a bit. It's all worked out more less OK. I'd agree that they have gotten a bit of the short end of the stick... As I see it they are getting hit with two sucker punches. One being the advent of automation which requires less jobs (and globalization/offshoring), and an economy largely based on finance/real estate/debt making much of those things unafforadable. That bubble has been going for a very long time, and there is a lot of inertia and collective will to keep it going, but I have to wonder how long that type of growth is really possible... So perhaps it's too early to tell just yet how that generation will do in the end....
Nope. That is what Trump wanted. NK has so far agreed to stop TESTING conventional physical nuclear weapons, and to destroy the site in which they have done it in the past (which multiple sources have said was already pretty destroyed to the point of uselessness anyway), so while a start, not much.
They never said they would give up their nukes. They never said they would stop their nuclear program. They never said they would stop other non-explosive nuclear testing to further refine their weapons. Allow inspections, etc...
So ya there is still a long way to go between what NK has said it would consider and what Trump wants. Probably just a very crude negotiating tactic, though perhaps one might argue the only kind Kim might pay any attention to...
Why the hell do we have to call it an "Amber" alert? Are we just piggy backing on the old US Homeland Security colour threat level scheme? wtf did "Amber" come from anyway? Is it just a way of saying that it isn't the end of the world (red I presume), or worth not ignoring (yellow I guess)?
I'm going to throw it out there if you are forcibly sending out an alert to MILLIONS of people across THOUSANDS of kilometers, it better be a RED level event...
While I disagree with most of what you say, I will agree that I raised an eyebrow over that alert. Was it really necessary to notify millions of people across thousands of kilometers that Bob and Nancy are having what amounts to a domestic custody dispute?
I don't necessarily think it is a terrible idea in general, but they obviously have some work ahead of them in terms of implementation before it is really ready for prime time. That said, they are testing the system, so I suppose can cut them some slack. Obviously aside from technical issues some thought needs to go into oversight and some rules about what it is actually used for, as you say I don't think the last alert was really what the intention was...
Just waiting for the next couple weeks for an alert to go out to everyone to "Vote for _______!":p
Canada is big. I mentioned years ago to an English exchange student who I went to university with that I drive home to Nova Scotia from Ontario each summer to visit my family, and that it is an 1800km trip. He was astounded, and said he could probably reach Russia in the same distance. I just google mapped it now, and from London to Moscow is just under 1800km...
Even just Ontario is big, you can drive from Windsor to Pickle Lake (farthest north you can actually drive) is over 2200km...
As far as the Amber Alerts go, they are still fine tuning it, that is why they are having "tests" that is what they are for. Didn't go off for all networks either, or all phones, so that have that to work out. What made the alert in question a bit more frustrating other than the fact that it was so far away as to be meaningless, was that this wasn't a kid that got picked up by some stranger, or lost in the woods or who knows what, but rather they knew his mom took him in what was obviously a custody dispute... So I'm not sure it was really necessary to involve millions of people across thousands of kilometers about what amounts to a domestic issue...
It's like notifying Ivan and Ivana in Russia that Oliver and Olivia in England are on the outs again, and she's taking her son to her mothers place... Keep an eye out!
At the rate in which quantum computing is progressing, I'd bet that things like crypto-coins will implode just fine on their own long before they have to worry about quantum computing causing a problem...
As an aside when I first started working back in 2000 I actually had one of those ancient Tektronic Phaserjet wax-transfer printers. It was pretty massive for printers of the day and weighed a metric ton I think. It was pretty cool however, I used it pretty exclusively for everything. The little wax blocks were surprisingly convenient way to supply colour, and the waste bucket I recall with all the leftover wax. It printed great colour in comparison to other technologies even at that time. One of the things I really thought was nice about it, was all the lines were slightly raised with wax, so you could run your hand over it and feel the texture of it, almost like braille. About the only thing that wasn't so great about it (which I found out years later), is the wax didn't really hold up to sunlight very well over time, and would fade pretty dramatically. That said I limped that thing along for as long as I could, I had it on a Windows NT workstation, and I believe it used a parallel port (or it may have been SCSI). Eventually it had issues, where the print drivers got so outdated, that we had issues, and then moving to other computers even more, and having to try and convert ports, etc... became too much to try to keep going, but I was sad to see it go... It could do a Tabloid size page which was nice also as many newer printers at the time could not particularity in colour. Anyway it was pretty ancient when I got my hands on it, but it was a pretty neat piece of technology...
Without knowing how fast the probe was going, nor how dense the plume of water, my spidey sense says "unlikely".
As it is likely the probe was going really fast, and when I think of a "plume of water" I think pretty dense, which if ever the two were to meet, the "detection" would be in the form of the probe de-compiling into it's composite parts...
That said, for very low values of plume of water, where it is more accurate to say, a very slight increase in water vapor where you might expect zero, is a more survivable event.
Also a plume "hundreds" of miles high? That would be a catastrophic event. Think about the largest volcano ever, and the largest eruption ever, and how high that was... though taking into account gravity and atmospheric density might also need to be factored in. At any rate at least the way it was written seems implausible.
Similar situation. Grad in 2000, still working at the same place since summer intern in '99. I'm definitely in the minority though, and people are usually surprised that I've been at the same place for 18 years or so. That said, I'm not exactly doing the same things or position I had, my career has evolved over time obviously. I am doing similar stuff, though roles and responsibility have expanded as it goes. Typically someone retires or a reorg is done every 5 years or so, and I get another system to manage or whathaveyou.
Seeing what some other colleagues have done I could have definitely gotten a higher salary jumping around, but would also likely have transitioned into management as well which I am not so sure would ever be for me. I like the idea of more power over significant business decisions, however having to deal with all the HR BS is not something I would relish. As it is simply my experience gives me clout to make what case I want to, if management wants to adopt it or not is their decision. At the very least I get to rsvp the right to say I told you so years later which is sometimes fun (so long as you're not the one that has the headaches of the fallout).
That said, I don't think it hurts you long term either so long as you are constantly getting new experiences and learning and not doing the exact same thing forever as I don't think it really precludes you from jumping ship should you absolutely need to (as you did) and likely earning more as a result anyway.
I've worked with a lot of the jumpers/hoppers and a lot of them are useless. Spending 6 months at a time in a position before heading to a new one makes for a good looking resume that is useful for your next job, but in most cases you aren't going to absorb enough in that period of time to actual know what you are doing other than to have a general idea of how things work... Which is why I think you find the eventual result is that they end up in management where knowing a little bit about a lot of things is more useful that actually be competent at something (and I am not even meaning that as a jab at management or anything, just a statement of fact).
So yeah, if you are interested in what you do, you are compensated decently. and have a good work environment I'd say stick where you are. If you are out to make the most money you can, and want to eventually end up in management, jump around.
Additionally, once the police are involved, they gotta do what they gotta do until the investigation is done.
Pretty sure once the police (and crown lawyers) finished finding out what had occurred, they were pretty unimpressed with the NS government, and were like "uh huh".
As mentioned in the previous article, if there is any legal action here it is more likely going to be in the form of civil suits from either the kid, or those individuals who's information was released by the negligence of having what amounts to zero security over it.
"If it's on a public facing server it's "fair game", whether it's supposed to be or not."
I don't think that is really the case, though that could be that the above comment could be interpreted differently.
Just because it is on a public facing server doesn't make it fair game. I think in this particular case what was wrong was that they didn't make a reasonable effort to keep it secure, and it was also reasonable to assume that as a result the individual didn't realize they were doing anything wrong as a result.
There are plenty of examples of PI on public facing servers, however in all cases that data should be kept secure to the extent that were someone to gain unauthorized access to it the amount of effort involved should leave no doubt to the fact that they are doing something illegal.
This is a case that the NS government was in the wrong for allowing the breach and tried to blame some kid for finding out about it.
Further to another poster's comment, intent is almost everywhere in laws. Even look at the more grievous ones (in a simplified nutshell):
1st Degree Murder: I killed someone. I intended to do it. I planned it out in advance. 2nd Degree Murder: I killed someone. I intended to do it. I didn't really plan to however. Manslaughter: I killed someone. I didn't intend to do it, but through my negligence it happened. I didn't really plan to either.
So a pretty big difference, not only in charge, but in possible punishment. The first is more your typical murder (finding out wife is having an affair, then killing the guy 3 months later), the second typically a crime of passion (walking in on wife in bed with another man), the third was probably an accident, but one that could have been prevented (drunk driving).
So ya, "intent" is pretty critical in interpreting the law.
It is likely this falls under the realm of politics. In Canada we're not all that far away from a Federal election, and indeed Ontario is only a couple months away now. Papers like these are unfortunately used to wave around to support whatever agenda you're trying to espouse, be it how terrible the current government is and the choices the made, or what your plan is for the future and how you would fix the problem in said paper.
Some of these are more overt than others. Usually coming from a politically biased "think tank" which is funded by like minded politically motivated people/industry. In Canadian politics there is also some severe spending limited as to what you can spend on a campaign and where that money can come from. These "independent" think tanks can be a bit of an end run around some of this by essentially providing "facts" or fodder depending on your political leanings.
This particular one seems a bit more independent and less overt than some, so it takes a bit of digging to take a more critical look. So while this particular instance is associated with the University of Toronto, it as it's name suggests was largely funded by a fellow called Peter Munk, which brings into question how independent it really is.
Apparently there were strings attached to the money that was "donated" in that the school should "fit with the political views and sensitivities of Peter Munk".
Which then begs the question about what political views Peter Munk has, and when you look, and see for example that he apparently exceeded donation limits for the Conservative Party of Canada 3 times. So it is safe to say he is pretty right of center politically.
Soooo after all that, I'd say I would be pretty confident given the conclusions of the study that it will be used by Conservative Politicians around election time to point out how un-competitive we are in comparison to the US and that the obvious solution is to lower corporate tax to attract large tech corporations so that we can keep our tech talent from leaving Canada. Likely also suggest lower income tax for wealthy under the same guise and perhaps other "incentives" to attract corporations like cash bonuses, other waived taxes, real estate etc... I'm reminded of Ontario giving an auto maker 300 million to locate a new plant there, to which they did, while closing one of their other ones located there at the same time... Whoops! Here is 300 million to make a new plant for zero net new jobs.
Anyway I find it a bit sad that every time I seemingly come across some new "academic" paper purporting new facts, you need to do a critical analysis of where it came from because half the time it is part of some self serving political agenda.
I recall a story years ago about exiled teachers who were either incompetent or being accused of various types of misconduct who are literally paid to sit around and do nothing because they can't teach because of the above, and not be fired because of their union.
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Yeah I liken it to someone who smashes your car window to get at the change left in your car where 300$ worth of damage was done to steal the 5$ that is in there. Either way you're out the money. In terms of an analogy, I know people who just leave their cars unlocked without valuables to avoid this, banks I'd imagine lack this countermeasure...
Looking at news over the last several years I think it is less likely that you'd lose your coins in some hacking event, and more likely though some sort of more fraud scheme. Either in some coin that is more less fake, or even in established coins where the brokerage/trading houses just embezzle it and vanish.
A lot is made out of blockchain ledgers supplanting the need about placing your trust in corporate banks or nations, but they don't exactly have a monopoly on fraudulent activity.
I think the time has come and gone that these crypto "currencies" can be legitimately called currencies anymore. They are simply speculative investment schemes, but one where their are literally zero assets attached to them. They are particularly risky fundamentally in that at least a currency can be spent someplace (unless inflation makes it worthless), and more traditional investments, even should they fail are able to recoup some value by selling off assets. If/when they fail, you'll be left with nothing except perhaps the few at the top (due to sheer volume and value), or those with enough savvy to GTFO at just the right time, the rest will be left with squat. The *only* thing keeping them going at this point is the collective will of those that own it, and the get rich quick greed of new investors. Once the later drops off because the price is too high, or public perception changes, then the end is neigh...
The problem with nuclear is 100% perception. I think it is really a missed opportunity to not advance our nuclear technology. Somehow I see some textbook in the future and some child asking about the dark ages (sorry, sort of pun) of nuclear technology where little if any advancements were made, and the teacher responds that they were very very afraid, because they convinced themselves to be.
From what I've heard 99% of nuclear waste is things like gloves, dirt, whatever, and various other non-core materials that are slightly radioactive, have a huge half-life (i.e. they will be like that more less forever), but are only slightly more dangerous to handle than bananas... Of the very small amount of stuff that is left over (i.e. core and coolent like materials), it falls into two categories. The REALLY dangerous stuff that'll kill you from exposure, however it's half-life is extremely short (because it is decaying so fast to throw off so much radiation), so the storage isn't as big of a deal really, other than handling. The second category is the more problematic, in that it is radioactive to be pretty dangerous with any sort of long exposure, but isn't radioactive enough that it still has a pretty long half-life so it is going to be around for a very long time. Trying to do anything for a very long time is pretty hard. However again, from my understanding the reason it is produced like that is that we're using old designs, largely to produce weapons. Presumably in a newer design that same material would be consumed to the point where there is nothing left but a little nub of truly dangerous stuff, but which would dissipate on it's own in the short term so long as it is stored and handled properly.
Well #2 and #3 you can find anywhere, and for the last 30 years, so no sense complaining about it.
While #5 is somewhat uniquely American, I've seen some where as the adage goes "never attribute to malice what could be stupidity".... In that many times the ridiculous qualification requirements are because the Manager and HR boffins who wrote the job specification may have a very loose (i.e. barely any at all) understanding of the job, or what it does. Could be the person that did everything left (perhaps bc felt underappreciated) or retired and they really don't have a real clue of what the job really entailed, so the list everything and the kitchen sink. Similarly with lowball salaries, they could just be overly optimistic of how much that position really costs, heck perhaps that is what they paid the last guy for 20 years before he finally got sick of being undervalued, got wind of better opportunities, and left them in the lurch to replace him, and probably has a smile of satisfaction when they try to re-hire his position at the salary they were paying him, and get no takers...
There is also BS stuff with management and internal politics and budgets and staffing levels etc... which may result in wacky job situations, which again aren't malice purposefully directed towards a potential employee but exist none the less.
Well a few years ago there was a TV program (this was years ago) that detailed the actual POLICY of one of the big banks (Bank of America perhaps). Not only was this done automatically, it wasn't a random shuffle, and changes (including checks) were NOT put though necessarily in the order in which they were done, but by value. This was because the bank got a NSF charge for EVERY transaction past an overdue account. The order they did it was largest to smallest, so your rent and car payments would come out first, draining your account until NSF, then every 1$ coffee purchase after that would get a 20$ fee attached to it... The crazy part to me, was this wasn't some corrupt bank manager, this was corporate america.
I'd imagine there is a spectrum, and it is pretty broad for schizophrenics.
In my experience it is more of a coming to terms with and dealing with what is reality VS fantasy. Does not necessary mean auditory or visual hallucinations. From what I have seen it could simply mean that they are easily flustered by decisions or complex situation and are just unable to deal with it very well. Also a cacophony of noise or a lot of bright light may agitate them as there is too much input coming at them all at once and can't handle it. The person in question was extremely smart, but given certain situations had trouble dealing what what you or I might consider simple tasks. At the same time given other conditions could perform just as well or better. Lastly it is a condition that doesn't manifest itself until a bit later in life, meaning the individual will need time to learn how to deal with it, likely in coordination with medication. That is assuming of course that the have the support system which allows for that. Many of the homeless folks I'd guess lacked the support system and simply fell through the cracks to end up where they are, which is very sad. I'd say in likely all but the most extreme cases, probably one of the sides of homelessness that is pretty preventable if proper support was available.
Oil isn't going anywhere and Cost is a complex question.
It might not be used for personal transportation as much in the future, which will have a significant impact on demand.
However things like planes and ships are not going to stop using oil. The whole military complex isn't going to stop using oil. You mention nuclear, however the most numerous ships are subs, mostly owned by Russia and the US. After that is Carriers, of which there are only a handful, mostly owned by the US. Apart from those to things, there are a handful of Ice Breakers, owned by Russia. That's about it. Also probably almost all of the above are a couple decades old...
Then there are things like plastics and the like, which aren't going anywhere and are largely composed of oil.
There are plenty of houses heated by oil, though many have been replaced with cheaper gas. It would be interesting to see if the lack of demand for cars drives the cost lower to make it more economical for house heat generation again. Then again, as mentioned, less demand could just mean less production, which would actually raise prices, so it is pretty hard to predict.
One possible growth area (though limited in scope) are remote areas powered by oil moving to small scale nuclear, as was recently seen by Russia. Too early to tell however if that is a trend that will continue or not.
If I have to do a task a few times, it isn't worth my time or trouble to try and automate it, I will just continue to do it in an ad hoc fashion.
If I have to do a task a thousand times, I will spend the time to automate it because, it is difficult to do in an ad hoc fashion.
The reality is somewhere in between without Universal health care, in that there will still be plenty of patients with the money to do it. However with Universal, not only do you increase that amount by a magnitude, but also involve a government which is paying for it which will be looking for the providers to do everything in their power to automate the process to save costs. So it would likely be accelerated by the numbers and incentivized by the method.
SPAM calls are really the reason.
Many have pointed out legislation to prevent this. However at least in my country, there are often large loopholes left for business. So while I'll get pure spam every now again again, most of it is from some company with whom I already have some service with who are exempt (Cable, Internet, Phone, Electrical, Gas, Charities, etc) who will try to constantly up-sell you whatever promotion they are doing that week. So while Bell for example couldn't just cold call me if I wasn't already a customer, but once a customer they can seemingly call whenever they like. I've dropped charities for this exact reason as some once you are involved see it as a cart blanch to call and harass you for more money constantly. The Red Cross is another one, that once I gave blood, I now get vampire calls constantly...
About the only one who ever calls me anymore are my parents, and they have had the same phone number for like the last 40 years...
OK, I'm thinking the editor didn't live though that era or play those games.
1) Doom was out a LOT earlier than any of those. Doom II would be a more appropriate example.
2) Oh Duke Nukem 3D, what fun you were... (also there were plenty of "Duke Nukem's", but only one 3D, but I'll give them that one)
3) No Quake? Yeah because that wasn't a major title I guess.
4) No Warcraft II? Again, was probably just a minor release (sarcasm)
5) While Descent was definitely fun for nausea, or loosing you mind while high, it was more of a proof of technology than an actual game.
I knew a lot of people who played Descent and thought it was really cool, but I don't think anyone played it for any amount of time. Doom II was only played until DN3D/Quake came out. Thinking back it is still kind of funny to think that the ability to "jump" was a feature lol! Warcraft II while a bit of a different genre was probably just as big or bigger than any of the rest (arguably a lot bigger than any of them).
Yeah I pretty much stopped reading the post after:
>As a single white male, I was at the bottom of the hiring list. Bell Telephone HR told me as much. I qualified well for their employ, but they needed more people who didn't look like me.
Jobs that didn't prefer white males in the 70s? Jesus F. Christ, that's a bold lie right there.
Fortunately for me it was near the beginning. Anyway I'm sure every "generation" has it's challenges. However I've always found the term generation is to a be a bit ridiculous in all but the very macro sense of context. Timing is everything. I finished my computer science degree pretty much the exact same time as the DotCom bubble burst. That kind of sucked. My delusions of grandeur were certainly dashed a bit. It's all worked out more less OK. I'd agree that they have gotten a bit of the short end of the stick... As I see it they are getting hit with two sucker punches. One being the advent of automation which requires less jobs (and globalization/offshoring), and an economy largely based on finance/real estate/debt making much of those things unafforadable. That bubble has been going for a very long time, and there is a lot of inertia and collective will to keep it going, but I have to wonder how long that type of growth is really possible... So perhaps it's too early to tell just yet how that generation will do in the end....
Nope. That is what Trump wanted. NK has so far agreed to stop TESTING conventional physical nuclear weapons, and to destroy the site in which they have done it in the past (which multiple sources have said was already pretty destroyed to the point of uselessness anyway), so while a start, not much.
They never said they would give up their nukes. They never said they would stop their nuclear program. They never said they would stop other non-explosive nuclear testing to further refine their weapons. Allow inspections, etc...
So ya there is still a long way to go between what NK has said it would consider and what Trump wants. Probably just a very crude negotiating tactic, though perhaps one might argue the only kind Kim might pay any attention to...
Why the hell do we have to call it an "Amber" alert? Are we just piggy backing on the old US Homeland Security colour threat level scheme? wtf did "Amber" come from anyway? Is it just a way of saying that it isn't the end of the world (red I presume), or worth not ignoring (yellow I guess)?
I'm going to throw it out there if you are forcibly sending out an alert to MILLIONS of people across THOUSANDS of kilometers, it better be a RED level event...
While I disagree with most of what you say, I will agree that I raised an eyebrow over that alert. Was it really necessary to notify millions of people across thousands of kilometers that Bob and Nancy are having what amounts to a domestic custody dispute?
I don't necessarily think it is a terrible idea in general, but they obviously have some work ahead of them in terms of implementation before it is really ready for prime time. That said, they are testing the system, so I suppose can cut them some slack. Obviously aside from technical issues some thought needs to go into oversight and some rules about what it is actually used for, as you say I don't think the last alert was really what the intention was...
Just waiting for the next couple weeks for an alert to go out to everyone to "Vote for _______!" :p
Canada is big. I mentioned years ago to an English exchange student who I went to university with that I drive home to Nova Scotia from Ontario each summer to visit my family, and that it is an 1800km trip. He was astounded, and said he could probably reach Russia in the same distance. I just google mapped it now, and from London to Moscow is just under 1800km...
Even just Ontario is big, you can drive from Windsor to Pickle Lake (farthest north you can actually drive) is over 2200km...
As far as the Amber Alerts go, they are still fine tuning it, that is why they are having "tests" that is what they are for. Didn't go off for all networks either, or all phones, so that have that to work out. What made the alert in question a bit more frustrating other than the fact that it was so far away as to be meaningless, was that this wasn't a kid that got picked up by some stranger, or lost in the woods or who knows what, but rather they knew his mom took him in what was obviously a custody dispute... So I'm not sure it was really necessary to involve millions of people across thousands of kilometers about what amounts to a domestic issue...
It's like notifying Ivan and Ivana in Russia that Oliver and Olivia in England are on the outs again, and she's taking her son to her mothers place... Keep an eye out!
At the rate in which quantum computing is progressing, I'd bet that things like crypto-coins will implode just fine on their own long before they have to worry about quantum computing causing a problem...
As an aside when I first started working back in 2000 I actually had one of those ancient Tektronic Phaserjet wax-transfer printers. It was pretty massive for printers of the day and weighed a metric ton I think. It was pretty cool however, I used it pretty exclusively for everything. The little wax blocks were surprisingly convenient way to supply colour, and the waste bucket I recall with all the leftover wax. It printed great colour in comparison to other technologies even at that time. One of the things I really thought was nice about it, was all the lines were slightly raised with wax, so you could run your hand over it and feel the texture of it, almost like braille. About the only thing that wasn't so great about it (which I found out years later), is the wax didn't really hold up to sunlight very well over time, and would fade pretty dramatically. That said I limped that thing along for as long as I could, I had it on a Windows NT workstation, and I believe it used a parallel port (or it may have been SCSI). Eventually it had issues, where the print drivers got so outdated, that we had issues, and then moving to other computers even more, and having to try and convert ports, etc... became too much to try to keep going, but I was sad to see it go... It could do a Tabloid size page which was nice also as many newer printers at the time could not particularity in colour. Anyway it was pretty ancient when I got my hands on it, but it was a pretty neat piece of technology...
Without knowing how fast the probe was going, nor how dense the plume of water, my spidey sense says "unlikely".
As it is likely the probe was going really fast, and when I think of a "plume of water" I think pretty dense, which if ever the two were to meet, the "detection" would be in the form of the probe de-compiling into it's composite parts...
That said, for very low values of plume of water, where it is more accurate to say, a very slight increase in water vapor where you might expect zero, is a more survivable event.
Also a plume "hundreds" of miles high? That would be a catastrophic event. Think about the largest volcano ever, and the largest eruption ever, and how high that was... though taking into account gravity and atmospheric density might also need to be factored in. At any rate at least the way it was written seems implausible.
Similar situation. Grad in 2000, still working at the same place since summer intern in '99. I'm definitely in the minority though, and people are usually surprised that I've been at the same place for 18 years or so. That said, I'm not exactly doing the same things or position I had, my career has evolved over time obviously. I am doing similar stuff, though roles and responsibility have expanded as it goes. Typically someone retires or a reorg is done every 5 years or so, and I get another system to manage or whathaveyou.
Seeing what some other colleagues have done I could have definitely gotten a higher salary jumping around, but would also likely have transitioned into management as well which I am not so sure would ever be for me. I like the idea of more power over significant business decisions, however having to deal with all the HR BS is not something I would relish. As it is simply my experience gives me clout to make what case I want to, if management wants to adopt it or not is their decision. At the very least I get to rsvp the right to say I told you so years later which is sometimes fun (so long as you're not the one that has the headaches of the fallout).
That said, I don't think it hurts you long term either so long as you are constantly getting new experiences and learning and not doing the exact same thing forever as I don't think it really precludes you from jumping ship should you absolutely need to (as you did) and likely earning more as a result anyway.
I've worked with a lot of the jumpers/hoppers and a lot of them are useless. Spending 6 months at a time in a position before heading to a new one makes for a good looking resume that is useful for your next job, but in most cases you aren't going to absorb enough in that period of time to actual know what you are doing other than to have a general idea of how things work... Which is why I think you find the eventual result is that they end up in management where knowing a little bit about a lot of things is more useful that actually be competent at something (and I am not even meaning that as a jab at management or anything, just a statement of fact).
So yeah, if you are interested in what you do, you are compensated decently. and have a good work environment I'd say stick where you are. If you are out to make the most money you can, and want to eventually end up in management, jump around.
https://i.imgur.com/SAZj3N2.jp...
Additionally, once the police are involved, they gotta do what they gotta do until the investigation is done.
Pretty sure once the police (and crown lawyers) finished finding out what had occurred, they were pretty unimpressed with the NS government, and were like "uh huh".
As mentioned in the previous article, if there is any legal action here it is more likely going to be in the form of civil suits from either the kid, or those individuals who's information was released by the negligence of having what amounts to zero security over it.
"If it's on a public facing server it's "fair game", whether it's supposed to be or not."
I don't think that is really the case, though that could be that the above comment could be interpreted differently.
Just because it is on a public facing server doesn't make it fair game. I think in this particular case what was wrong was that they didn't make a reasonable effort to keep it secure, and it was also reasonable to assume that as a result the individual didn't realize they were doing anything wrong as a result.
There are plenty of examples of PI on public facing servers, however in all cases that data should be kept secure to the extent that were someone to gain unauthorized access to it the amount of effort involved should leave no doubt to the fact that they are doing something illegal.
This is a case that the NS government was in the wrong for allowing the breach and tried to blame some kid for finding out about it.
Further to another poster's comment, intent is almost everywhere in laws. Even look at the more grievous ones (in a simplified nutshell):
1st Degree Murder: I killed someone. I intended to do it. I planned it out in advance.
2nd Degree Murder: I killed someone. I intended to do it. I didn't really plan to however.
Manslaughter: I killed someone. I didn't intend to do it, but through my negligence it happened. I didn't really plan to either.
So a pretty big difference, not only in charge, but in possible punishment. The first is more your typical murder (finding out wife is having an affair, then killing the guy 3 months later), the second typically a crime of passion (walking in on wife in bed with another man), the third was probably an accident, but one that could have been prevented (drunk driving).
So ya, "intent" is pretty critical in interpreting the law.
It is likely this falls under the realm of politics. In Canada we're not all that far away from a Federal election, and indeed Ontario is only a couple months away now. Papers like these are unfortunately used to wave around to support whatever agenda you're trying to espouse, be it how terrible the current government is and the choices the made, or what your plan is for the future and how you would fix the problem in said paper.
Some of these are more overt than others. Usually coming from a politically biased "think tank" which is funded by like minded politically motivated people/industry. In Canadian politics there is also some severe spending limited as to what you can spend on a campaign and where that money can come from. These "independent" think tanks can be a bit of an end run around some of this by essentially providing "facts" or fodder depending on your political leanings.
This particular one seems a bit more independent and less overt than some, so it takes a bit of digging to take a more critical look. So while this particular instance is associated with the University of Toronto, it as it's name suggests was largely funded by a fellow called Peter Munk, which brings into question how independent it really is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Apparently there were strings attached to the money that was "donated" in that the school should "fit with the political views and sensitivities of Peter Munk".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Which then begs the question about what political views Peter Munk has, and when you look, and see for example that he apparently exceeded donation limits for the Conservative Party of Canada 3 times. So it is safe to say he is pretty right of center politically.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
Soooo after all that, I'd say I would be pretty confident given the conclusions of the study that it will be used by Conservative Politicians around election time to point out how un-competitive we are in comparison to the US and that the obvious solution is to lower corporate tax to attract large tech corporations so that we can keep our tech talent from leaving Canada. Likely also suggest lower income tax for wealthy under the same guise and perhaps other "incentives" to attract corporations like cash bonuses, other waived taxes, real estate etc... I'm reminded of Ontario giving an auto maker 300 million to locate a new plant there, to which they did, while closing one of their other ones located there at the same time... Whoops! Here is 300 million to make a new plant for zero net new jobs.
Anyway I find it a bit sad that every time I seemingly come across some new "academic" paper purporting new facts, you need to do a critical analysis of where it came from because half the time it is part of some self serving political agenda.
I recall a story years ago about exiled teachers who were either incompetent or being accused of various types of misconduct who are literally paid to sit around and do nothing because they can't teach because of the above, and not be fired because of their union.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3149...