this s**tbag's employer, Teledata Communications,
was heavily fined...they must have had hundreds of complaints over the course of the thievery and never
turned enough scrutiny on their own orgnaization to see the problem until way too late.
I will be looking at which credit card issuers, banks, etc use Teledata Communications services and seeing if I can avoid doing business there.
and a bunch of connectors and CAT5e wire. You can
get 5-port ethernet hubs for FREE from some online
catalog places. You won't be able to send e-mails
from your balcony but then all those neighbors won't
be able to listen in either.M\
worx4me
From TFA:...Recently, Pike stumbled onto a call where a young male customer was flirting with a female service agent at a cell phone company. After some giggles and banter, the woman relented and gave her personal phone number to the customer. Pike quickly alerted the cell phone company to the phone date....
How the hell else is a Nerd supposed to get a date? I mean, like, which girl in the office is ever gonna give me the time of day?
I blew todays dose of modpoints and now comes
a comment with a really important twist to the story! MS's earlier amnesty for folks with pirated
XPs who wanted SP2 was not swaying a lot of those underserved, underground users. This may catch some of the less wary users. Great comment.
its slashdotting like a man. I got the page load
in ~8 seconds when comment counter said 30...thats
about when most sites have smoke coming out of the
servers.
and any interest at all in biochem, you could cover
your bets pretty well by going after one of the
Bioinformatics programs [those are two programs I know of...quite expensive as they are presumed by the schools to be in demand and it is expected your employer is helping pay the tuition] It does not outfit you for commercial web app development or for some mainstream IT jobs but within a few narrow areas such as search and rapid access to terabyte databases, these guys are at the limits of computing. You will get a job if you survive.
I know Eclipse and EJB and some of the other framework pieces are either open sourced for at least free downloads but TFA is actually a whole folder of white-paper class documents and they all point to Rational...which is anything but free.
I don't have enough time to wade through all that to try and figure out if there is a "solution" in it somewhere that I can afford [i.e. free-as-in-beer].
This art. is probably aimed at a few project managers and PHBs with big for-profit development jobs staring up at them from their to-do lists. I wonder how many such managers even read/.
The JDJ page is mostly previous articles
except for the CES coverage...we have even discussed some of it already here on/. I for one would welcome our overdue rebound in the tech industries but I am going to have to hear of it from a source that doesn't make its money from ad revenue based on publishing technology news to a technical audience. I will really see a rally when the VC's crack open their purses to pursue opportunities that they can see. A recuiter showed me a list of 6 startups that are hiring this month...that is not a flood but its been 2 years since I saw even a trickle.
that the silver lining of this cloud is that
Pay Per Message keeps junk messages off the air.
If I screw up IM for a minute [like rebooting the
firewall] my highschool student stomps up the stairs whining and fuming. I'm just lucky that we
set the phone policy as a condition of even getting cell phones: go over the base plan charges by a more than a few bucks and hand over the phone for the month...he uses his unlimited minutes all up in the first 3 weeks of the month and uses text messaging only in circumstances we would approve, e.g. letting us know he arrived safely from/to a party when he knows we are at a play or concert where cell phone noises are verboten. He assures us we are downright cheap compared to his school chums whose phone bills rival our car insurance payments. Looks like the stats back us up in our frugality.
Since when is this topic news? I hope it isn't just because DDJ mentioned it. I don't feel like dredging up pointers to the bezillion pages on the matter but there has been academic and industry handwringing about the inevitable limitations of transistor size and speed for a decade. OK, one URL, thats all you get! [rice.edu] read pg 62 for consice four year old description of the issue [and how carbon nanotubes are going to save us]. The predictions of the exact day when progress stops were always a bit vague and hedged with hopeful notes about gallinium and going to 3-d circuits...all that is really happening is that, having seen the wall a long ways off, chip makers aren't going to smack into it head on with an abrupt cesation of speed increases but veer off in new directions and so only slow down the increases.
at 500 comments in 2 hours, there is clearly healthy/. interest...but you could have had this conversation anytime in the last 5 years!
Back when Vitesse finally started getting decent
yields on its communication components I bought shares that eventually doubled several times. I admit that a lot of less substantial technical achievments have made equally substantial profits in the market of the mid 90's. I don't know squat about stock markets and the only thing that kept VTSS from skining me alive later was my wife's advice to sell half the shares any time it split or duoubled. In 96, the typical stock analyst didn't know squat about GaAs so I had a temporary advantage. Just wanted to note that a few GaAs promises have been kept. [looks like I should invest in companies that make good heat sinks and fans?]
in the old days, great programmers used to say...
on
Where's My 10 Ghz PC?
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"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time:
premature optimization is the root of all evil." - Donald Knuth "Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined." - Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
"More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity." - W.A. Wulf
I loved and still get a kick out of squeezing a function into the fewest bytes or cpu cycles possible...I also like math puzzles. But it would be a mistake to romanticize the "good old days" when memory was expensive and cpu's were both slow and costly. Tweaking and whittling code at the instruction level would take you forever to write systems as complex as sit on the average user's desk these days. The real lessons of computer era are not Moores' law of transistor density but Gate's law of cyber-guzzling by dense users which I now coin:
"processors are never so fast or memory so big that the next generation of customers can't be convinced to buy software that strains the system"
In the long run, marketing pull always gets ahead of engineering push...just look at DEC. When I joined DEC in 77, those old programming proverbs were taped like gospel to the cubicles where the compiler writers worked. They seem forgotten but I found them
here and here. In that year, nearly any system or periperal DEC dreamed up found willing scientific and engineering customers in labs. By '84, the earliest PC's were all the buzz but DEC's offerings in that area were ignored by the market. The imagination and genius of engineers and scientists is generally sufficient to awe the public initially. But if the technology has gratifying uses and economic benefits, markets absorb magic and make it an ordinary commodity and finally a staple for which improvement is always wanted.
And by the way, since when is this topic news? I hope it isn't just because DDJ mentioned it. I don't feel like dredging up pointers to the bezillion pages on the matter but there has been academic and industry handwringing about the inevitable limitations of transistor size and speed for a decade. OK, one URL, thats all you get! read pg 62 for consice four year old description of the issue [and how carbon nanotubes are going to save us]. The predictions of the exact day when progress stops were always a bit vague and hedged with hopeful notes about gallinium and going to 3-d circuits...all that is really happening is that, having seen the wall a long ways off, chip makers aren't going to smack into it head on with an abrupt cesation of speed increases but veer off in new directions and so only slow down the increases.
I don't have much information on private R&D in hydrogen...I'm not interested in it because it is no more a source of energy than a pipeline or a power is a source of energy.
in biomass, I don't have hard numbers handy but I have bookmarks on dozens of companies doing one thing or another with biodiesel...and not Shell and Exxon but startups...US companies. R is hardly needed, D is in full swing. I would say the govt doesnt need to lead or coax the creation of a biodiesel industry; just let it happen. Where more risk is involved is in ethanol from biomass...Canadian companies are in the lead on that because Ottawa is either subsidizing them or giving tax breaks. Better yields from otherwise useless feedstocks [well you could always burn it] is the promise with ethanol but ADM and
Mississippi University Research Consortium for the Utilization of Biomass are not at commercial break-even yet.
I don't care who you are but I am curious as to what you are afraid of AC.
...Not intentionally but we probably all have at one point or another... ouch! and while we're at it, add "greedy" to stupid and naive. thats how I lost big on WCOM
All in all, your comment rates a + for interesting and one for insightful.
My wife works at Fidelity. We are pretty sure the email, IM and browsing is monitored/logged. Less clear that phones are monitored but we still avoid personal business via phone conversations at work. You wind up having these wierd conversations like "yes, uh, that item we discussed this morning...its moving too fast in the wrong lane and we should find an exit or a prime rest stop"
Thanks, Informative. Not surprising that there is a "back story" to the departure of a group of employees. But even with all the reason in the world to depart CIBC, conducting their planning via the electronic equivalent of talking loudly in the hallways casts doubt about their knowlege and judgement.
The naive emails were being exchanged for the purpose of starting an investment company! would you give a nickle to a banker or broker who was that clueless?
it would cost the employer less to take out an add in the financial section pointing out that the upstart company was demonstrably dishonest and joining a competitive race with its intellectual pants down around its ankles than it would to sue the dummies.
only a few areas of the nation have the terrain to generate hydro and are lightly enough populated for that energy to meet majority of needs [e.g. Oregon gets 60% of its juice from hydro, WA even more]...they are exceptional in this regard
Hydro is clean as far as air is concerned but not as far as water is concerned. If you add a dam, you lose a fishery.
You will also inundate human and animal habitat if you try to increase hydro capacity.
Washington's Columbia River contains some of the largest hydroelectric generating facilities in the nation, and hydropower is a major source of the state's relatively inexpensive electricity. In light of the significant environmental impacts that these large hydroelectric dams pose to riverine ecosystems and aquatic species like salmon, this study included only small-scale hydroelectric activities in its definition of renewable energy. We defined small-scale hydroelectric as those facilities with 30 megawatts or less of generating capacity. . .
Others have also pointed out China...and you are right: Their record sucks regarding the balance they strike between preserving a livable planet and fostering their particular vision of economic growth, their soot wafts across the Pacific to settle on Oregon. But I give them credit for at least trying to keep a lid on population. [What irony that the biggest capitalist nation and the biggest communist nation, despite any difference of rhetoric, per-capita wealth or belief, wind up as vaguely co-equal master polluters of the planet. IMHO it simply emphasizes that our resouce problems have grown to dwarf our politics: Politicians who mostly try to spot which way the hurd is headed and jump out in front of it waving a flag deserve to be the first ones crushed when the hurd goes over an ecological cliff...they have not been leaders in any true sense.] I really don't know if democracy, decrees and tax-influenced market forces, in any combination, can stem the total effects that arise from billions of individual choices that all sound like "$8.50 a gallon! damn! but I just gotta get to work now". But optimism takes imagination whereas pessimism has a surplus of substantiation. And as to our topic: the Japanese are way ahead of the US in hydrogen research budget and somewhat ahead, from what I have read, in implementation, e.g. fuel cell powered cars...haven't heard that China is doing anything in this area.
The real difference between slashdot and all the jetsam and blogsam bobing in and out of the attention of the surfing public is the peer refereeing: the moderation.
This becomes a "blog" worth reading on the strength of its participants/readers [and fails with their weaknesses: sloth, bias, misinformation...just read some of my comments!] more than on the strength of its "writers" [the bizzare zoo of/. eds and Roland Clique-appeal wannabes] who drag stuff in for us to kick around.
Nope, quite different from the usual blog and worth the trouble. And if you think the moderation is spotty and random, get off yer arse and metamoderate!
Thanks, I was both uninformed about Kyoto details and sloppy in my wording. But I stand by the general drift of my statement: The US, more than any other nation, should take the lead in reducing emissions: We should have signed the treaty...the effects would NOT be economic disaster but rather upset the status quo for some powerful industrial lobbying groups. The US voters and even more, the US administration are clueless, or in denial about the effects of their appetite for oil. They have found excuses and will continue to find excuses to ruin nature, other countries and, ultimately, their own economy by continuation at all costs of traditional energy use trends rather than devote levels of political will and reseach funding to alternatives proportional to the crisis that is actually bearing down on them. Mention of hydrogen by this administration is lip service. If you read the DOE and USDA budgets, you would find that funding has decreased in the last two fiscal years for alternative energy sources that are technically much nearer to feasibility and would stimulate our perpetually beleagured farm economy, e.g. biodiesel.
...Now, if it ran in Windows too...
I admit I am not a typical PC user [who is?]
I get by fine with Open Office
I use VB but lately find NetBeans IDE also handy for knocking out little apps...vb for apps others might use, NetBeans to please myself
Perhaps because my intentions are not primarily commercial, and I am not hung up on strict compatibility with everyone else's productivity apps, I see making tools that run on proprietary/monopolistic OSes as supporting the evil wizard only because he has so many thralls. If instead, the Gambas developers devoted some of of their energies to adding development features that address, for instance, the security and search weaknesses [leverage that DB integration] which plague users and features that help develop apps which can work with Open Office documents, more of the thralls will wake up and come over to the good side. In other words: Don't give your good ideas to Microsoft...they will copy them soon enough. Rather, copy theirs!
Slashdot Mirror
this s**tbag's employer, Teledata Communications, was heavily fined...they must have had hundreds of complaints over the course of the thievery and never turned enough scrutiny on their own orgnaization to see the problem until way too late. I will be looking at which credit card issuers, banks, etc use Teledata Communications services and seeing if I can avoid doing business there.
but who says their competition is any safer?
and a bunch of connectors and CAT5e wire. You can get 5-port ethernet hubs for FREE from some online catalog places. You won't be able to send e-mails from your balcony but then all those neighbors won't be able to listen in either.M\
worx4me
From TFA: ...Recently, Pike stumbled onto a call where a young male customer was flirting with a female service agent at a cell phone company. After some giggles and banter, the woman relented and gave her personal phone number to the customer. Pike quickly alerted the cell phone company to the phone date....
How the hell else is a Nerd supposed to get a date? I mean, like, which girl in the office is ever gonna give me the time of day?
I blew todays dose of modpoints and now comes a comment with a really important twist to the story! MS's earlier amnesty for folks with pirated XPs who wanted SP2 was not swaying a lot of those underserved, underground users. This may catch some of the less wary users. Great comment.
its slashdotting like a man.
I got the page load in ~8 seconds when comment counter said 30...thats about when most sites have smoke coming out of the servers.
and any interest at all in biochem, you could cover your bets pretty well by going after one of the Bioinformatics programs [those are two programs I know of...quite expensive as they are presumed by the schools to be in demand and it is expected your employer is helping pay the tuition] It does not outfit you for commercial web app development or for some mainstream IT jobs but within a few narrow areas such as search and rapid access to terabyte databases, these guys are at the limits of computing. You will get a job if you survive.
I know Eclipse and EJB and some of the other framework pieces are either open sourced for at least free downloads but TFA is actually a whole folder of white-paper class documents and they all point to Rational...which is anything but free. I don't have enough time to wade through all that to try and figure out if there is a "solution" in it somewhere that I can afford [i.e. free-as-in-beer].
/.
This art. is probably aimed at a few project managers and PHBs with big for-profit development jobs staring up at them from their to-do lists. I wonder how many such managers even read
The JDJ page is mostly previous articles except for the CES coverage...we have even discussed some of it already here on /.
I for one would welcome our overdue rebound in the tech industries but I am going to have to hear of it from a source that doesn't make its money from ad revenue based on publishing technology news to a technical audience.
I will really see a rally when the VC's crack open their purses to pursue opportunities that they can see. A recuiter showed me a list of 6 startups that are hiring this month...that is not a flood but its been 2 years since I saw even a trickle.
oops, I meant his anytime minutes...but he could probably use unlimited up if we had it.
that the silver lining of this cloud is that Pay Per Message keeps junk messages off the air.
If I screw up IM for a minute [like rebooting the firewall] my highschool student stomps up the stairs whining and fuming. I'm just lucky that we set the phone policy as a condition of even getting cell phones: go over the base plan charges by a more than a few bucks and hand over the phone for the month...he uses his unlimited minutes all up in the first 3 weeks of the month and uses text messaging only in circumstances we would approve, e.g. letting us know he arrived safely from/to a party when he knows we are at a play or concert where cell phone noises are verboten. He assures us we are downright cheap compared to his school chums whose phone bills rival our car insurance payments. Looks like the stats back us up in our frugality.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/0 7/1846247&tid=14
Since when is this topic news? I hope it isn't just because DDJ mentioned it. I don't feel like dredging up pointers to the bezillion pages on the matter but there has been academic and industry handwringing about the inevitable limitations of transistor size and speed for a decade. OK, one URL, thats all you get! [rice.edu] read pg 62 for consice four year old description of the issue [and how carbon nanotubes are going to save us]. The predictions of the exact day when progress stops were always a bit vague and hedged with hopeful notes about gallinium and going to 3-d circuits...all that is really happening is that, having seen the wall a long ways off, chip makers aren't going to smack into it head on with an abrupt cesation of speed increases but veer off in new directions and so only slow down the increases.
/. interest...but you could have had this conversation anytime in the last 5 years!
at 500 comments in 2 hours, there is clearly healthy
Back when Vitesse finally started getting decent yields on its communication components I bought shares that eventually doubled several times. I admit that a lot of less substantial technical achievments have made equally substantial profits in the market of the mid 90's. I don't know squat about stock markets and the only thing that kept VTSS from skining me alive later was my wife's advice to sell half the shares any time it split or duoubled. In 96, the typical stock analyst didn't know squat about GaAs so I had a temporary advantage.
Just wanted to note that a few GaAs promises have been kept. [looks like I should invest in companies that make good heat sinks and fans?]
The real lessons of computer era are not Moores' law of transistor density but Gate's law of cyber-guzzling by dense users which I now coin: In the long run, marketing pull always gets ahead of engineering push...just look at DEC. When I joined DEC in 77, those old programming proverbs were taped like gospel to the cubicles where the compiler writers worked. They seem forgotten but I found them here and here. In that year, nearly any system or periperal DEC dreamed up found willing scientific and engineering customers in labs. By '84, the earliest PC's were all the buzz but DEC's offerings in that area were ignored by the market. The imagination and genius of engineers and scientists is generally sufficient to awe the public initially. But if the technology has gratifying uses and economic benefits, markets absorb magic and make it an ordinary commodity and finally a staple for which improvement is always wanted.
And by the way, since when is this topic news? I hope it isn't just because DDJ mentioned it. I don't feel like dredging up pointers to the bezillion pages on the matter but there has been academic and industry handwringing about the inevitable limitations of transistor size and speed for a decade. OK, one URL, thats all you get! read pg 62 for consice four year old description of the issue [and how carbon nanotubes are going to save us]. The predictions of the exact day when progress stops were always a bit vague and hedged with hopeful notes about gallinium and going to 3-d circuits...all that is really happening is that, having seen the wall a long ways off, chip makers aren't going to smack into it head on with an abrupt cesation of speed increases but veer off in new directions and so only slow down the increases.
I don't have much information on private R&D in hydrogen...I'm not interested in it because it is no more a source of energy than a pipeline or a power is a source of energy.
in biomass, I don't have hard numbers handy but I have bookmarks on dozens of companies doing one thing or another with biodiesel...and not Shell and Exxon but startups...US companies. R is hardly needed, D is in full swing. I would say the govt doesnt need to lead or coax the creation of a biodiesel industry; just let it happen. Where more risk is involved is in ethanol from biomass...Canadian companies are in the lead on that because Ottawa is either subsidizing them or giving tax breaks. Better yields from otherwise useless feedstocks [well you could always burn it] is the promise with ethanol but ADM and Mississippi University Research Consortium for the Utilization of Biomass are not at commercial break-even yet. I don't care who you are but I am curious as to what you are afraid of AC.
...Not intentionally but we probably all have at one point or another...
ouch! and while we're at it, add "greedy" to stupid and naive. thats how I lost big on WCOM
All in all, your comment rates a + for interesting and one for insightful.
My wife works at Fidelity. We are pretty sure the email, IM and browsing is monitored/logged. Less clear that phones are monitored but we still avoid personal business via phone conversations at work. You wind up having these wierd conversations like "yes, uh, that item we discussed this morning...its moving too fast in the wrong lane and we should find an exit or a prime rest stop"
Thanks, Informative. Not surprising that there is a "back story" to the departure of a group of employees. But even with all the reason in the world to depart CIBC, conducting their planning via the electronic equivalent of talking loudly in the hallways casts doubt about their knowlege and judgement.
The naive emails were being exchanged for the purpose of starting an investment company! would you give a nickle to a banker or broker who was that clueless?
it would cost the employer less to take out an add in the financial section pointing out that the upstart company was demonstrably dishonest and joining a competitive race with its intellectual pants down around its ankles than it would to sue the dummies.
- only a few areas of the nation have the terrain to generate hydro and are lightly enough populated for that energy to meet majority of needs [e.g. Oregon gets 60% of its juice from hydro, WA even more]...they are exceptional in this regard
- Hydro is clean as far as air is concerned but not as far as water is concerned. If you add a dam, you lose a fishery.
- You will also inundate human and animal habitat if you try to increase hydro capacity.
WA state, one of hydro's biggest beneficiaries, does not consider hydro a pure or purely good choice:Others have also pointed out China...and you are right: Their record sucks regarding the balance they strike between preserving a livable planet and fostering their particular vision of economic growth, their soot wafts across the Pacific to settle on Oregon. But I give them credit for at least trying to keep a lid on population.
[What irony that the biggest capitalist nation and the biggest communist nation, despite any difference of rhetoric, per-capita wealth or belief, wind up as vaguely co-equal master polluters of the planet. IMHO it simply emphasizes that our resouce problems have grown to dwarf our politics: Politicians who mostly try to spot which way the hurd is headed and jump out in front of it waving a flag deserve to be the first ones crushed when the hurd goes over an ecological cliff...they have not been leaders in any true sense.]
I really don't know if democracy, decrees and tax-influenced market forces, in any combination, can stem the total effects that arise from billions of individual choices that all sound like "$8.50 a gallon! damn! but I just gotta get to work now". But optimism takes imagination whereas pessimism has a surplus of substantiation.
And as to our topic: the Japanese are way ahead of the US in hydrogen research budget and somewhat ahead, from what I have read, in implementation, e.g. fuel cell powered cars...haven't heard that China is doing anything in this area.
The real difference between slashdot and all the jetsam and blogsam bobing in and out of the attention of the surfing public is the peer refereeing: the moderation. /. eds and Roland Clique-appeal wannabes] who drag stuff in for us to kick around.
This becomes a "blog" worth reading on the strength of its participants/readers [and fails with their weaknesses: sloth, bias, misinformation...just read some of my comments!] more than on the strength of its "writers" [the bizzare zoo of
Nope, quite different from the usual blog and worth the trouble.
And if you think the moderation is spotty and random, get off yer arse and metamoderate!
real decreases. http://www.bioproducts-bioenergy.gov/pdfs/USDA-DOE %20R&D%20Funding%20by%20Roadmap%20Category3.pdf
Thanks, I was both uninformed about Kyoto details and sloppy in my wording. But I stand by the general drift of my statement: The US, more than any other nation, should take the lead in reducing emissions: We should have signed the treaty...the effects would NOT be economic disaster but rather upset the status quo for some powerful industrial lobbying groups. The US voters and even more, the US administration are clueless, or in denial about the effects of their appetite for oil. They have found excuses and will continue to find excuses to ruin nature, other countries and, ultimately, their own economy by continuation at all costs of traditional energy use trends rather than devote levels of political will and reseach funding to alternatives proportional to the crisis that is actually bearing down on them. Mention of hydrogen by this administration is lip service. If you read the DOE and USDA budgets, you would find that funding has decreased in the last two fiscal years for alternative energy sources that are technically much nearer to feasibility and would stimulate our perpetually beleagured farm economy, e.g. biodiesel.
I admit I am not a typical PC user [who is?]
- I get by fine with Open Office
- I use VB but lately find NetBeans IDE also handy for knocking out little apps...vb for apps others might use, NetBeans to please myself
Perhaps because my intentions are not primarily commercial, and I am not hung up on strict compatibility with everyone else's productivity apps, I see making tools that run on proprietary/monopolistic OSes as supporting the evil wizard only because he has so many thralls. If instead, the Gambas developers devoted some of of their energies to adding development features that address, for instance, the security and search weaknesses [leverage that DB integration] which plague users and features that help develop apps which can work with Open Office documents, more of the thralls will wake up and come over to the good side.In other words: Don't give your good ideas to Microsoft...they will copy them soon enough. Rather, copy theirs!