I'm in IT for 35 years now and I can't agree more!
So one geezer agreed with another that new fangled stuff is unnecessary, and we should go back to the good ole' days of floppies and dot-matrix printers.
Also, "being in IT" does not make you an expert on the convenience of the design of interfaces to household appliances. If anything, it should disqualify you.
Why the hell does a hot tub need blue tooth and GPS data?
Because if you can turn it on remotely, from work or wherever, only on the days you decide to use it, then you don't need to leave it on all the time. This saves money and reduces CO2 emissions.
A remotely controlled hot tub is a sensible convenience. It just needs to be done securely.
No. For cars, it makes sense to send a "clean" car for emissions testing, and then sell a "dirty but efficient" car to the public. That way the regulators see low emissions, the customers get good milage, and everyone is happy.
For IoT security, this makes no sense. It is only more expensive to design good security. Once you have it, it would make no sense to put in only the test unit. Since software has zero marginal cost, why not deploy it in every unit sold?
If an OS stops booting because of a web browser then you know it's built on shit coding practices.
That depends on your objectives. If you want a system to be secure and robust, then it is shitty practice. If you want to maximize profit based on customer lock-in to a complex integrated monolithic system, it is good practice.
Microsoft made $110B in profit during the last fiscal year. That is up 14% on a year earlier, and a record high.
They should not be releasing names Period.... But in every case the public really shouldn't be involved in any way.
Open courts are a cornerstone of a free society. Names should not be released until the suspect is formally charged, but from that point on it must be public.
I'm curious as to why the dichotomy is Dollar Store vs. Whole Foods. Why not just Fred Meyer?
Because forcing people to shop at Fred Meyer is just as idiotic as forcing them to shop at Whole Foods.
If Fred Meyer can offer a better combination of selection and price, they are free to compete. The government should not be in the business of "picking winners" and coercing people into shopping only where the bureaucrats approve.
failing to grow as the community recovers, it stalls and kills the local economy.
This is asserted in TFA without evidence. How does filling an obvious need in a affordable way, "kill" the economy?
Ask yourself this? Is it better to have a rookie...
This is the dumbest analogy I have seen in a while. How you go from "employees should be trained" to "the government should force people to shop correctly" is utterly beyond my comprehension.
Some things need to be managed. Capitalism is a tool, not a holy religion.
During the 20th Century, government management of food supplies resulted in the starvation and deaths of 100 million people. I'll continue to put my trust in capitalism.
Who is innocent? They were caught breaking the law.
No they weren't. They were arrested based on a "tip-off". There is no other evidence against them.
We really need to change the legal system in both the UK and US. The police should not be releasing names of people that are merely suspects, even when the police are under political pressure to show that they are "doing something".
This couple had their lives turned upside down. They had their names and faces plastered on news reports where they were called "morons", and blamed for "ruining Christmas". Yet the police had no evidence against them, and no justification for naming them to the press.
They should get a lawyer and sue for the mental distress caused by the police's reckless incompetence. That would be a no-brainer in America, but even in the UK, they might get a nice payout.
"Futures contracts" is the biggest fucking scam I've ever fucking heard of.
Futures contracts help to provide stability, which is something that cryptocurrencies desperately need if they are ever going to be used as money rather than as modern day tulip bulbs.
That is your choice. But you don't get to make that choice for other people. TFA is a rant trying to justify privileged "let them eat cake" snobs imposing their will on others. A poor family struggling to make ends meet does not have the option of shopping at Whole Foods, where feeding their family is likely to cost 3 or 4 times as much, and it is idiotic to suggest that is an alternative.
The oil/pension fund is investing more abroad than it does in Norway's own population.
That is the whole point of the fund. Norway has a small population and a small economy. An influx of that much capital would quickly result in the Dutch Disease of high inflation and economic strangulation of other industries.
This is what happened to Australia during the commodity boom of the 00s, before they set up the Australian Future Fund to prevent a recurrence.
Norway is doing the right thing by investing their windwall worldwide, and only repatriating the wealth at a rate that their economy can effectively absorb.
Yes, of course there is an off switch. There is also a "degrade" switch that can make it less accurate for anyone without the proper encryption keys.. Furthermore, both of these switches can be geographically selective, so GPS could continue to work over most of the earth, but be degraded over, say, Southwest Asia.
GPS-guided munitions are much cheaper and more accurate than the laser-guided munitions they replaced. Furthermore, they are fire-and-forget. There is no need for an aircraft or vehicle to stay on station to guide it to the target.
I am a layman, and what I understand from this experiment is that the obvious assumption (that you don't need a chute for a two foot drop) is the correct one, and that no experiment was necessary to prove it.
This is the exact opposite of what they intended to show.
It may be true that "obvious" assumptions can be wrong, but this experiment certainly does not show that.
Who wants to live with poor people? The crime and poverty moving into once good areas?
These are not poor people. In Silicon Valley, especially on the western side, there are people making $100k living in RVs and trailers.
A common question at job interviews is whether we provide showers (we do) and laundry machines (we don't, but we provide a take-out service once a week).
The "tax" a city can extract from the more wealth home owners is a plus for that kind of city planning too.
Nope. Not in California. We have Prop 13, which means that young people with families pay far higher property taxes than their older and richer neighbors living in a nearly identical house.
An hour long train ride is not a good substitute for building housing where people actually want to live. I live in Silicon Valley, and we have mile after mile of low-rise sprawl. There is plenty of space to build high density housing in the core area where the jobs are.
Liberals love to criticize Republican tax cuts for the rich, but coastal city zoning regulations contribute as much to income inequality by keeping people of modest means away from the best job opportunities.
But the company insisted they were accurate and that they never made mistakes.
Bullcrap. All of these companies have huge disclaimers about the accuracy of their results all over their websites and on the results you receive. None of them say they "never make mistakes."
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I'm in IT for 35 years now and I can't agree more!
So one geezer agreed with another that new fangled stuff is unnecessary, and we should go back to the good ole' days of floppies and dot-matrix printers.
Also, "being in IT" does not make you an expert on the convenience of the design of interfaces to household appliances. If anything, it should disqualify you.
Why the hell does a hot tub need blue tooth and GPS data?
Because if you can turn it on remotely, from work or wherever, only on the days you decide to use it, then you don't need to leave it on all the time. This saves money and reduces CO2 emissions.
A remotely controlled hot tub is a sensible convenience. It just needs to be done securely.
No. Hot tubs can take days to heat up
No they don't. A typical electric hot tub has a 4kw heater and holds 400 gallons. That is about 5F or 3C per hour.
A gas heater is much faster.
No. For cars, it makes sense to send a "clean" car for emissions testing, and then sell a "dirty but efficient" car to the public. That way the regulators see low emissions, the customers get good milage, and everyone is happy.
For IoT security, this makes no sense. It is only more expensive to design good security. Once you have it, it would make no sense to put in only the test unit. Since software has zero marginal cost, why not deploy it in every unit sold?
If an OS stops booting because of a web browser then you know it's built on shit coding practices.
That depends on your objectives. If you want a system to be secure and robust, then it is shitty practice. If you want to maximize profit based on customer lock-in to a complex integrated monolithic system, it is good practice.
Microsoft made $110B in profit during the last fiscal year. That is up 14% on a year earlier, and a record high.
They should not be releasing names Period.... But in every case the public really shouldn't be involved in any way.
Open courts are a cornerstone of a free society. Names should not be released until the suspect is formally charged, but from that point on it must be public.
I'm curious as to why the dichotomy is Dollar Store vs. Whole Foods. Why not just Fred Meyer?
Because forcing people to shop at Fred Meyer is just as idiotic as forcing them to shop at Whole Foods.
If Fred Meyer can offer a better combination of selection and price, they are free to compete. The government should not be in the business of "picking winners" and coercing people into shopping only where the bureaucrats approve.
failing to grow as the community recovers, it stalls and kills the local economy.
This is asserted in TFA without evidence. How does filling an obvious need in a affordable way, "kill" the economy?
Ask yourself this? Is it better to have a rookie ...
This is the dumbest analogy I have seen in a while. How you go from "employees should be trained" to "the government should force people to shop correctly" is utterly beyond my comprehension.
Some things need to be managed. Capitalism is a tool, not a holy religion.
During the 20th Century, government management of food supplies resulted in the starvation and deaths of 100 million people. I'll continue to put my trust in capitalism.
No I don't remember why they can't use a little 410 shotgun to pop drones at all.
Because a shotgun has an effective range of about 50 meters, and Gatwick Airport has an area of 674 hectares (2.6 sq miles).
You would need thousands of shotguns, and some way to aim and maintain them.
Also, there is a simple counter-counter-measure: The drone could fly slightly higher.
Who is innocent? They were caught breaking the law.
No they weren't. They were arrested based on a "tip-off". There is no other evidence against them.
We really need to change the legal system in both the UK and US. The police should not be releasing names of people that are merely suspects, even when the police are under political pressure to show that they are "doing something".
This couple had their lives turned upside down. They had their names and faces plastered on news reports where they were called "morons", and blamed for "ruining Christmas". Yet the police had no evidence against them, and no justification for naming them to the press.
They should get a lawyer and sue for the mental distress caused by the police's reckless incompetence. That would be a no-brainer in America, but even in the UK, they might get a nice payout.
"Futures contracts" is the biggest fucking scam I've ever fucking heard of.
Futures contracts help to provide stability, which is something that cryptocurrencies desperately need if they are ever going to be used as money rather than as modern day tulip bulbs.
I've never been to a dollar store.
That is your choice. But you don't get to make that choice for other people. TFA is a rant trying to justify privileged "let them eat cake" snobs imposing their will on others. A poor family struggling to make ends meet does not have the option of shopping at Whole Foods, where feeding their family is likely to cost 3 or 4 times as much, and it is idiotic to suggest that is an alternative.
This test, like those in the past, is not a good test.
1. It uses people that apply, and are thus self selected. They will likely behave very differently than randomly chosen people.
2. It ends in 3 years. People will behave differently if they know they will need a job again in 3 years.
The oil/pension fund is investing more abroad than it does in Norway's own population.
That is the whole point of the fund. Norway has a small population and a small economy. An influx of that much capital would quickly result in the Dutch Disease of high inflation and economic strangulation of other industries.
This is what happened to Australia during the commodity boom of the 00s, before they set up the Australian Future Fund to prevent a recurrence.
Norway is doing the right thing by investing their windwall worldwide, and only repatriating the wealth at a rate that their economy can effectively absorb.
Because they are paying for their environmentally friendly nation by selling fossil fuels to other countries.
So? What would your prefer they spend their fossil fuel money on?
Yes, of course there is an off switch. There is also a "degrade" switch that can make it less accurate for anyone without the proper encryption keys.. Furthermore, both of these switches can be geographically selective, so GPS could continue to work over most of the earth, but be degraded over, say, Southwest Asia.
GPS-guided munitions are much cheaper and more accurate than the laser-guided munitions they replaced. Furthermore, they are fire-and-forget. There is no need for an aircraft or vehicle to stay on station to guide it to the target.
The point is that flawed assumptions about "common sense" stuff are a major cause of flawed results.
Except that the "common sense" assumption about the outcome of this experiment is exactly what actually happened.
Nobody with "common sense" would assume a parachute would be helpful for a two foot drop.
It's an analogy to help the layman understand.
I am a layman, and what I understand from this experiment is that the obvious assumption (that you don't need a chute for a two foot drop) is the correct one, and that no experiment was necessary to prove it.
This is the exact opposite of what they intended to show.
It may be true that "obvious" assumptions can be wrong, but this experiment certainly does not show that.
We've had that functionally since the 90s. It's called the web
The web can't turn my lights on, nor can it communicate with my vacuum cleaner. I also can't use it while I am washing the dishes.
If a person that is a so called "pro" uses a hack to get an advantage how can still call them a pro
Why is innovative use of all available information considered "cheating"?
I once cheated on a geography test of all the state capitols. This is how I did it: I memorized all the answers.
When they say "cash" they actually mean short term treasury bills. Nobody "invests" in actual dollars.
3 month T-bills are currently paying about 2.35%.
What is your strategy for caring for stray animals?
Sodium thiopental works well.
Who wants to live with poor people? The crime and poverty moving into once good areas?
These are not poor people. In Silicon Valley, especially on the western side, there are people making $100k living in RVs and trailers.
A common question at job interviews is whether we provide showers (we do) and laundry machines (we don't, but we provide a take-out service once a week).
The "tax" a city can extract from the more wealth home owners is a plus for that kind of city planning too.
Nope. Not in California. We have Prop 13, which means that young people with families pay far higher property taxes than their older and richer neighbors living in a nearly identical house.
An hour long train ride is not a good substitute for building housing where people actually want to live. I live in Silicon Valley, and we have mile after mile of low-rise sprawl. There is plenty of space to build high density housing in the core area where the jobs are.
Liberals love to criticize Republican tax cuts for the rich, but coastal city zoning regulations contribute as much to income inequality by keeping people of modest means away from the best job opportunities.
Zoning laws and the rise of inequality
Fighting inequality through zoning
The left is waking up to inequality cause by zoning
When it comes to inequality, liberals need to stop asking "Who can we blame for this problem" and start asking "What can we do to fix this problem."
But the company insisted they were accurate and that they never made mistakes.
Bullcrap. All of these companies have huge disclaimers about the accuracy of their results all over their websites and on the results you receive. None of them say they "never make mistakes."