Uh, really? Is there something inherent in 4G that somehow limits the total amount of data you can use per month?
Or did you MEAN to say that the obvious lesson is that our mobile broadband companies in this country suck? Because the technology has nothing to do with the companies that are screwing folks over.
4G Seems to work for a whole lot less cost in many other places. Don't give me the old infrastructure bullshit either. You plan for huge volumes of data to be used, you make the capital outlay ONCE for the equipment, and you're good for 10-15 years.
Instead, these companies do estimates of expected usage, drastically understate it, then purposefully buy the absolutely minimum about of infrastructure that will provide to their estimates. I.e., they'll continue to underprovide intentionally because scarcity allows them to jack up the prices.
A great majority of manufacturing systems that live in power plants are built on old platforms. Windows 3.1 and Windows XP abound. These systems are widely connected by standard ethernet connections to information systems that the engineers monitor. These reside on servers that are hooked to the same network as the IP phone systems, all directly linked by fiber-optic lines to the internet.
In other words, you have a bunch of horribly outdated non-virus / malware protected systems running on OS's without build in firewalls connected to the internet.
Now the companies have firewalls between themselves and the internet, but once you get inside that initial firewall internal security is fairly lax.
I think your sarcasm meter is broken. I don't support the removal of anonymity. That is where we are headed, however, when people can play nicely in the sandbox.
Your post is perfect. I hope it isn't deleted. It's perfect because of the irony. In our case, we have you abusing a forum's anonymity to spread your "message".
In the case of these two children's groups, they are abusing the anonymity of the internet to spread theirs.
Most websites have removed the ability to anonymously comment. In fact many are getting rid of the ability to comment altogether. That same parallel is happening on the internet. New standards with higher security are being enacted and government control is increasing.
So thank you. Your ignorant and juvenile hate is just one more brick in the wall of destroying what the internet was built on and thrived on. Now that slashdot is owned by a company interested only in profits, you can bet that they'll eventually put a stop to your kind of post, along with ALL anonymous posting.
I don't believe the litmus test for discrimination is whether or not you can find a case like this in the past. That's a pretty naive definition of discrimination.
How many of them drive cars with foreign name plates? I have a friend who lost his job to someone from India a couple years ago. While we sat at his kitchen table I looked out his front windows at the two Toyota Prii that sat there. I was too polite to say anything.
I don't want to downplay the issue. But... market forces and cheap labor. There are a WHOLE lot of Americans in Vietnam, Korea, China, and South Africa tooling up their auto plants and teaching them to be competitive. Welcome to the real world. H1-B Visas are a red herring, and the sooner IT folks realize it, the better. The bigger problem is all the jobs that are going overseas - but there isn't a fix to that.
A operator running a drone that can hover near motionless may not consider things a 'near miss'. On the other hand, an airline pilot flying a jumbo jet that can not be maneuvered travelling at several hundred miles an hour is something completely different.
At the speeds Jumbo jets travel, by the time they see something as small as a drone it's already passed by them. That's a near miss. They saw it. There's no time for them to avoid an object like that.
So while the drone operators are bitching that - hey I was near a half mile or a mile away. Or even two miles away. The airline pilots are saying - get the hell out of my way. I can't turn and by the time I see your little hobby I'm either running it over or passed it putting my entire crew and my passengers at risk.
It's not even an argument.
One of the biggest issues with today's technology is the difficulty non-technical users have in getting it running. I just purchased a new truck, and learning how to run all the different systems is anything but trivial.
Turning routers into automated appliances is precisely what needs to happen. Google isn't the first to understand it. But they are the biggest, so perhaps they can be successful at it.
Give me something I can plug into my network and will auto-configure everything. An app to manage it, as long as it is straightforward, is a great idea. Auto updates for firmware are absolutely needed, as it a robust fallback.
I'm struggling to find the point in this story. Are you really asking if anyone who wants to shouldn't be able to learn to code?
And it took you half a page of text to ask the question? A huge number of the 'advances' in technology have been made by people working out of their garage. People who would never have been allowed to program given this ridiculous elitist attitude.
Oh. Right. I forgot to check who posted the story.
I love Android's auto-update functionality. Except when I don't. For instance, if I'm doing something like recording an hd video of my son wrestling, the last thing I want on planet earth is for the phone to start updating and slow to a crawl.
That same issue is shared at my work, where we already have this system of forced updates. I'll be working and notice the computer progressively getting slower, and slower..... to the point where I can't open documents, pull something from the network drive, or read email. Why? Because it's updating in the background while I'm trying to work.
Then, of course, there are the forced emergency security updates. The ones where I leave my desk for a meeting with a bunch of stuff open, and return to my desk with a rebooted computer because IT pushed an emergency patch.
These are all problems that can be solved, but the tech industry has chosen NOT to solve them. Limit background transfers to a 100kB a second. Don't update while users are working. Don't reboot while things are open. Yet they ignore all that. THAT's where they're really out of touch.
[i] Hey dipshit. You just quote the parent in your reply and presto problem solved. I mean, Jesus christ. What clueless idiot hasn't figure that out yet? Asshole.[/i]
Did I get that right?
Sex sells. The majority of people who buy gadgets (especially 'tech' ones) are guys. So they get marketed to.
Go to a cooking expo. Guess what you're going to see?
You're a prime example of political correctness gone to far. I like sexy woman. I find them attractive. By the very definition I'm sure that I'm sexist.
Recently, a cosmetics company stepped in as a big sponsor for a worldwide robotics competition. Some of the competitors complained because "makeup objectifies women - the very thing we're trying to avoid in this program". Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Why would you run a story that says "Treatment of cancer type "A" has been marginally improved and an additional.3% of patients will survive", when you could instead report that "Scientists at have taken another important step toward the curing of cancer. Cancer cells injected into mice have shown a significant reduction after... etc etc".
Why did I call this the circle of life? Because the media jumped on the initial sickness for great sensational headlines. Then they sensationalize the research. Then they write a story about how we have a 'cure culture'. Next they'll write a story about lack of coverage of another disease in the news and start all over.
We run a robotics team. This team is extremely well known, and the students pride themselves on writing a web page every year full of useful information. It was well-visited, and when you searched for the team name and number it was the top result.
Now? Searching for the team brings up youtube. And vine. And twitter. And facebook. And other social media sites that the team uses. The team web page has been pushed to the SECOND PAGE of the search results, because the kids didn't build a mobile web page.
You're breaking your own search engine for your business plan. What happened to 'do no evil'?
Yep. That's how I rate my apps too. I have a gay scale of 1 to 10, scientifically calibrated from 0 (Chuck Norris), to 10 (Richard Simmons). Your post is coming in at a 9. Do you work out to "Sweatin to the Oldies"?
If the parents of the students participating in the game haven't signed a release to have their pictures taken, and someone is taking them, then the school could have major legal issues. At our school, staff and volunteers are banned from taking anything home that has children's names on it like seating charts, absent logs, or even track schedules. It has something to do with the kids being minors.
That said, the principal should have handled this way, way differently.
Not so mention that hackers cracked the key generating code for Windows 7. Same with MS office. They generate codes and try them until one works, and bingo you've got a legit code.
Really? Show Northrop Grumman the law that says they have to comply.
Auditing is a self-perpetuating (see how smart we are?) parasite that has come about mainly because someone wanted to make some money and was good at blowing smoke up other people's asses.
Punish companies that break the law equal with how badly they broke it. After they break it. ANY company that wants to hide thing from auditors knows just how much of a cakewalk it is. After all, the only way a company can incriminate itself to auditors is if it is stupid enough to actually GIVE them the incriminating data. Motherfucker.
Fuck auditors. I have yet to meet a single auditor *ever* who is qualified enough to be asking questions of the experts - the engineers - who are working on the project. Almost universally the auditors work from a pre-made playbook that looks for the same thing. They have neither the time nor the intelligence to actually understand why decisions were made the way they were made.
We recently had an quality audit at the manufacturing firm I work for. The auditor noted that several of our part-feeders had parts laying underneath, and broke into a full fledged 'teach moment' about how we could save money and lower scrap by correcting the feeding issues. I bit my tongue.
At the wrap-up meeting with directors present, the auditor pressed the point. I was quiet as long as I could, then I carefully explained that we had a $2,000,000 capacity problem that our engineers were working on, and politely asked my director if he'd like me to pull those engineers off that to work on saving a couple dozen parts a day that cost a fraction of a penny a piece.
Auditting rarely adds anything of value anywhere. If it were that easy to the correct the problems, the competent engineers would have already done it.
Are you an American? I ask because I cringe when I see this type of comment from a people who should understand what freedom and limited government is supposed to mean.
We don't use a metric of what I 'need' to do to determine what freedoms I should have. I don't need to purchase a 64 ounce mountain dew. That hardly means that I should be protected from doing so if I choose to. It's not exactly analogous to the drone situation, but it's a good representation of why the metric you propose is NOT one than anyone worried about personal freedom would ever support.
I don't need to make an argument of why I should be able to do something. You're trying to put the onus on the users, when it fact the onus is ALWAYS on the person trying to take away. Do we have systems in our cars that prevent us from crashing the gates at the White House? Do we have systems in our phones that prevent us from abusing the 911 emergency line?
I could continue, but frankly if you don't understand or agree with the argument it's pointless to go on. You comment regarding the United States being 'not so different' that China is fairly telling. It's not based in any semblence of reality. Censorship? Political arrests?
You argument is completely nonsensical on both counts.
I didn't know that. It actually bothers me that they would intentionally make their product un-flyable in areas to 'prevent' me from breaking the law.
Is it a law that they have to do it? I'm looking at car manufacturers: how would people feel if they governed their cars to the posted speed limits on the roads?
A lot more analogies can be drawn. I'm not surprised that a Chinese company took this route: it's par for the course in China to be under the governmental thumb.
China is preparing for a cyber war. They've watched what happened to North Korea. Having more direct connections to the net both prevents you from being DDOS'd as easily and allows you to counterattack. It's a simple numbers game. The person with the biggest pipe is going to end up winning the fight.
1. Don't actually develop technology
2. Hire another company to build smart phones with no particularly compelling features
3. ????????
4. Profit!
Exactly HOW does that bring a company back from irrelevancy?
Unless they are planning to acquire some whiz-bang startup with new tech or a new social paradigm that is going to make them stand out, this will just continue their slide into obscurity.
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Uh, really? Is there something inherent in 4G that somehow limits the total amount of data you can use per month? Or did you MEAN to say that the obvious lesson is that our mobile broadband companies in this country suck? Because the technology has nothing to do with the companies that are screwing folks over. 4G Seems to work for a whole lot less cost in many other places. Don't give me the old infrastructure bullshit either. You plan for huge volumes of data to be used, you make the capital outlay ONCE for the equipment, and you're good for 10-15 years. Instead, these companies do estimates of expected usage, drastically understate it, then purposefully buy the absolutely minimum about of infrastructure that will provide to their estimates. I.e., they'll continue to underprovide intentionally because scarcity allows them to jack up the prices.
You are 100% wrong.
A great majority of manufacturing systems that live in power plants are built on old platforms. Windows 3.1 and Windows XP abound. These systems are widely connected by standard ethernet connections to information systems that the engineers monitor. These reside on servers that are hooked to the same network as the IP phone systems, all directly linked by fiber-optic lines to the internet.
In other words, you have a bunch of horribly outdated non-virus / malware protected systems running on OS's without build in firewalls connected to the internet.
Now the companies have firewalls between themselves and the internet, but once you get inside that initial firewall internal security is fairly lax.
you're....
I think your sarcasm meter is broken. I don't support the removal of anonymity. That is where we are headed, however, when people can play nicely in the sandbox.
Your post is perfect. I hope it isn't deleted. It's perfect because of the irony. In our case, we have you abusing a forum's anonymity to spread your "message".
In the case of these two children's groups, they are abusing the anonymity of the internet to spread theirs.
Most websites have removed the ability to anonymously comment. In fact many are getting rid of the ability to comment altogether. That same parallel is happening on the internet. New standards with higher security are being enacted and government control is increasing.
So thank you. Your ignorant and juvenile hate is just one more brick in the wall of destroying what the internet was built on and thrived on. Now that slashdot is owned by a company interested only in profits, you can bet that they'll eventually put a stop to your kind of post, along with ALL anonymous posting.
I don't believe the litmus test for discrimination is whether or not you can find a case like this in the past. That's a pretty naive definition of discrimination.
How many of them drive cars with foreign name plates? I have a friend who lost his job to someone from India a couple years ago. While we sat at his kitchen table I looked out his front windows at the two Toyota Prii that sat there. I was too polite to say anything.
I don't want to downplay the issue. But... market forces and cheap labor. There are a WHOLE lot of Americans in Vietnam, Korea, China, and South Africa tooling up their auto plants and teaching them to be competitive. Welcome to the real world. H1-B Visas are a red herring, and the sooner IT folks realize it, the better. The bigger problem is all the jobs that are going overseas - but there isn't a fix to that.
A operator running a drone that can hover near motionless may not consider things a 'near miss'. On the other hand, an airline pilot flying a jumbo jet that can not be maneuvered travelling at several hundred miles an hour is something completely different. At the speeds Jumbo jets travel, by the time they see something as small as a drone it's already passed by them. That's a near miss. They saw it. There's no time for them to avoid an object like that. So while the drone operators are bitching that - hey I was near a half mile or a mile away. Or even two miles away. The airline pilots are saying - get the hell out of my way. I can't turn and by the time I see your little hobby I'm either running it over or passed it putting my entire crew and my passengers at risk. It's not even an argument.
MOD UP!
One of the biggest issues with today's technology is the difficulty non-technical users have in getting it running. I just purchased a new truck, and learning how to run all the different systems is anything but trivial.
Turning routers into automated appliances is precisely what needs to happen. Google isn't the first to understand it. But they are the biggest, so perhaps they can be successful at it.
Give me something I can plug into my network and will auto-configure everything. An app to manage it, as long as it is straightforward, is a great idea. Auto updates for firmware are absolutely needed, as it a robust fallback.
I'm struggling to find the point in this story. Are you really asking if anyone who wants to shouldn't be able to learn to code?
And it took you half a page of text to ask the question? A huge number of the 'advances' in technology have been made by people working out of their garage. People who would never have been allowed to program given this ridiculous elitist attitude.
Oh. Right. I forgot to check who posted the story.
I love Android's auto-update functionality. Except when I don't. For instance, if I'm doing something like recording an hd video of my son wrestling, the last thing I want on planet earth is for the phone to start updating and slow to a crawl.
That same issue is shared at my work, where we already have this system of forced updates. I'll be working and notice the computer progressively getting slower, and slower..... to the point where I can't open documents, pull something from the network drive, or read email. Why? Because it's updating in the background while I'm trying to work.
Then, of course, there are the forced emergency security updates. The ones where I leave my desk for a meeting with a bunch of stuff open, and return to my desk with a rebooted computer because IT pushed an emergency patch.
These are all problems that can be solved, but the tech industry has chosen NOT to solve them. Limit background transfers to a 100kB a second. Don't update while users are working. Don't reboot while things are open. Yet they ignore all that. THAT's where they're really out of touch.
[i] Hey dipshit. You just quote the parent in your reply and presto problem solved. I mean, Jesus christ. What clueless idiot hasn't figure that out yet? Asshole.[/i] Did I get that right?
Sex sells. The majority of people who buy gadgets (especially 'tech' ones) are guys. So they get marketed to.
Go to a cooking expo. Guess what you're going to see?
You're a prime example of political correctness gone to far. I like sexy woman. I find them attractive. By the very definition I'm sure that I'm sexist.
Recently, a cosmetics company stepped in as a big sponsor for a worldwide robotics competition. Some of the competitors complained because "makeup objectifies women - the very thing we're trying to avoid in this program". Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Because... mainstream media.
.3% of patients will survive", when you could instead report that "Scientists at have taken another important step toward the curing of cancer. Cancer cells injected into mice have shown a significant reduction after... etc etc".
Why would you run a story that says "Treatment of cancer type "A" has been marginally improved and an additional
Why did I call this the circle of life? Because the media jumped on the initial sickness for great sensational headlines. Then they sensationalize the research. Then they write a story about how we have a 'cure culture'. Next they'll write a story about lack of coverage of another disease in the news and start all over.
We run a robotics team. This team is extremely well known, and the students pride themselves on writing a web page every year full of useful information. It was well-visited, and when you searched for the team name and number it was the top result.
Now? Searching for the team brings up youtube. And vine. And twitter. And facebook. And other social media sites that the team uses. The team web page has been pushed to the SECOND PAGE of the search results, because the kids didn't build a mobile web page.
You're breaking your own search engine for your business plan. What happened to 'do no evil'?
Yep. That's how I rate my apps too. I have a gay scale of 1 to 10, scientifically calibrated from 0 (Chuck Norris), to 10 (Richard Simmons). Your post is coming in at a 9. Do you work out to "Sweatin to the Oldies"?
If the parents of the students participating in the game haven't signed a release to have their pictures taken, and someone is taking them, then the school could have major legal issues. At our school, staff and volunteers are banned from taking anything home that has children's names on it like seating charts, absent logs, or even track schedules. It has something to do with the kids being minors.
That said, the principal should have handled this way, way differently.
Not so mention that hackers cracked the key generating code for Windows 7. Same with MS office. They generate codes and try them until one works, and bingo you've got a legit code.
Over-react much?
Really? Show Northrop Grumman the law that says they have to comply.
Auditing is a self-perpetuating (see how smart we are?) parasite that has come about mainly because someone wanted to make some money and was good at blowing smoke up other people's asses.
Punish companies that break the law equal with how badly they broke it. After they break it. ANY company that wants to hide thing from auditors knows just how much of a cakewalk it is. After all, the only way a company can incriminate itself to auditors is if it is stupid enough to actually GIVE them the incriminating data. Motherfucker.
Fuck auditors. I have yet to meet a single auditor *ever* who is qualified enough to be asking questions of the experts - the engineers - who are working on the project. Almost universally the auditors work from a pre-made playbook that looks for the same thing. They have neither the time nor the intelligence to actually understand why decisions were made the way they were made.
We recently had an quality audit at the manufacturing firm I work for. The auditor noted that several of our part-feeders had parts laying underneath, and broke into a full fledged 'teach moment' about how we could save money and lower scrap by correcting the feeding issues. I bit my tongue.
At the wrap-up meeting with directors present, the auditor pressed the point. I was quiet as long as I could, then I carefully explained that we had a $2,000,000 capacity problem that our engineers were working on, and politely asked my director if he'd like me to pull those engineers off that to work on saving a couple dozen parts a day that cost a fraction of a penny a piece.
Auditting rarely adds anything of value anywhere. If it were that easy to the correct the problems, the competent engineers would have already done it.
Are you an American? I ask because I cringe when I see this type of comment from a people who should understand what freedom and limited government is supposed to mean.
We don't use a metric of what I 'need' to do to determine what freedoms I should have. I don't need to purchase a 64 ounce mountain dew. That hardly means that I should be protected from doing so if I choose to. It's not exactly analogous to the drone situation, but it's a good representation of why the metric you propose is NOT one than anyone worried about personal freedom would ever support.
I don't need to make an argument of why I should be able to do something. You're trying to put the onus on the users, when it fact the onus is ALWAYS on the person trying to take away. Do we have systems in our cars that prevent us from crashing the gates at the White House? Do we have systems in our phones that prevent us from abusing the 911 emergency line?
I could continue, but frankly if you don't understand or agree with the argument it's pointless to go on. You comment regarding the United States being 'not so different' that China is fairly telling. It's not based in any semblence of reality. Censorship? Political arrests?
You argument is completely nonsensical on both counts.
I didn't know that. It actually bothers me that they would intentionally make their product un-flyable in areas to 'prevent' me from breaking the law. Is it a law that they have to do it? I'm looking at car manufacturers: how would people feel if they governed their cars to the posted speed limits on the roads? A lot more analogies can be drawn. I'm not surprised that a Chinese company took this route: it's par for the course in China to be under the governmental thumb.
China is preparing for a cyber war. They've watched what happened to North Korea. Having more direct connections to the net both prevents you from being DDOS'd as easily and allows you to counterattack. It's a simple numbers game. The person with the biggest pipe is going to end up winning the fight.
1. Don't actually develop technology
2. Hire another company to build smart phones with no particularly compelling features
3. ????????
4. Profit!
Exactly HOW does that bring a company back from irrelevancy?
Unless they are planning to acquire some whiz-bang startup with new tech or a new social paradigm that is going to make them stand out, this will just continue their slide into obscurity.