I'm not so worried about the ingestion part of GM crops but the troubling part for me is seeing Megacorp take down small time farmers for "copyright infringement"[0][1] due to crops cross-pollinating via the wind, bees, whatever. It's ridiculous. It's basically a legal argument to eradicate any form of alternative food source other than Monsanto's monopoly.
Thing is, GM crops are the foothold for food copyright. If you need any indication where that could end up have a look at RIAA proceedings for the past 10 years or even Microsoft's (et al) Seed Vault[2].
1) Do the sh*tty TPS report work yourself. Don't hand it out. 2) If the printer is a continuing problem, GET ONE THAT WORKS 3) Never, under any circumstance, take the stapler away from the mumbly Aspergers guy
(seriously...)
4) Keep the department a fun place to work. Good employees work best when they enjoy the workplace.
5) Don't dictate. Lead by example. It's really crappy to see the Manager leave at 5:30 on a Friday while everyone else toils on a late project. Even if you can't help, let everyone know you're willing and making yourself available wherever you can help.
6) Taking everyone out for lunch once a is a great appreciation strategy. Even if it means bringing in doughnuts. People appreciate managers going above-and-beyond once in a while.
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I would be interested in your success with compiling insert_your_browser_here.
Memory requirements for the compilation process is not necessarily indicative of the resulting binary size or memory usage. Sometimes compilers include optimizations which stress the resources on the host system (I've actually discovered bad ram this way).
Sure firefox is bloaty but I'll take a little bloat over the other locked-up alternatives. At least I can verify whether "carrierIQ" or similar ilk has not been surreptitiously compiled into my web browser. Besides, who's running windows with 3G anymore? I thought SP3 fixed that.
It's not that hard to find a balance between security and usability. At least try. When I read about:
* un-encrypted data on portable devices getting lost[1]
* tapes being swiped in people's cars[2]
* servers with egregiously unsecured login portals[3]
I'm not sure why people aren't just allowing google to index their entire infrastructure. Really. It would be cheap backup and really easy to find your stuff. Sure, 0-days happen, mistakes are made, admins are not infallible but I can't blame the Chinese (or whoever) for picking the low-hanging fruit when it's been places so close to the ground.
A step in the right direction but not adequate. I we had adequate laws in place already, BP's Gulf disaster, and others like it*, would be far less frequent and less disastrous. In short, this ain't enough to keep your groundwater from igniting. It's just going to cost corporations a little more money to keep doing what they're already doing. The only real answer here is to cull the demand if what your after is environmental conservation. Expect egregious and negligent violations whenever money and energy are involved.
When you have 3 help-desk wookies at $24k/year, they can sit on the support line and click buttons as instructed. They don't need to know how it works, and frankly, most don't usually care. That's what companies want. They will sometimes call in consultants to help with the extra hard stuff because It's cheaper than having a Guru sitting around for 3x the wage waiting for stuff to break/inventing stuff to wait to break.
Until the vendors really, really, REALLY start costing companies more money than it takes to have a guru or two on hand, things will most likely remain the same. Unfortunately, most of the mgrs I've worked for are very easily swayed by sleazy salespeople making holy-grail type claims. The vendors have historically won.
It's pointless trying to shut these operations down. The cartels don't care about loosing a tunnel or the drugs; they will just use/build another. The loss is written off as operating cost. I don't understand what drives the gov to continue this stuped cat-and-mouse game. I'd love to see the numbers for the US cost for one of these seizure operations though.
What would be a nice to see: Global movement to help Thais get back on their feet.
What will actually happen: Drive manufacturers scream jackpot as visions of twenty years of price fixing begins. Self-involved consumers look everywhere for someone to shut-up and take their money.
The PC is not dead its just that common end users are driving up the shut-up-and-take-my-money model. the PC will end up being left to the geeks again which is probably the same small percentage of people (compared to the entire pc market space right now) it was back in the late 80s. the only reason common end users bought pcs was to get on the internet. they have other ways to do that now without having to learn anything. internet access has acheived the easiness of the VCR and thats what most people want who are not geeks.
Chrome is popular partly because of three things: it's new, users are ignorant (below), and the Chrome plugin API[0] allows the browser to do some really fast, but braindead[1], crap (aka ActiveX/IE) like running native system code in a sandbox.
Re Ignorance: There has been a lot of misunderstanding towards mozilla "memory usage" over the years because users can't figure out that each of the 100 tabs they have open consumes a certain amount of memory. And several of those tabs, running Adobe Flash in the background, simply bring their system to it's knees.
Yeah, chrome is snazzy, and Mozilla does some brain dead stuff too, but I trust them more than Google. Furthermore, segregation in the market space is actually a really, really, really good thing for the consumer.
I replaced my old wrt54g and buffalo routers with two of these and flashed with dd-wrt. Can be had for around $30.00 on ebay. Gig ports, N wi-fi. Way more ram for connection tracking than the wrt. Make sure you get the version 2 model. Version 1 will not flash.
1) intimidating crowds of protesters 2) mass delivery of casual pepper spray 3) spying on any person/house/field 4) following vehicles remotely 5) issue speeding tickets remotely 6) back-up air support for raids (Branch Davidian debacle)
Until I see law enforcement acting responsibly with the power they already have I am not a fan of giving them more.
If the oceans degenerate to the point where no coral is left we are going to have bigger problems than "think of the coral". Valiant effort, yes, however I wish Science/People would focus on addressing the bigger problem; the reason the ocean is warming in the first place.
You'll get a lot of temporary work and the benefits kind of suck but oftentimes a company will contract out to a consulting agency and not care too much about pedigrees. All they want is an able body for a 3-6 month stint. If you have decent skills it could work to your long-term advantage though. There are places who test-drive potential employees through consulting, so getting a full-time "permanent" position is possible under the right circumstances.
Be warned though, It helps to have thick skin. Projects get cancelled and you can be the last to know. Your "co-workers" can play dirty sometimes also, so I keep a log of things I worked on and a couple sentence summary of what I did. When I'm done with a project, I'll offer to make the log available to the boss for documentation reasons. It's a great way of showing you can go the extra mile should they consider hiring you long term.
1) printer is: 2) windows is: 3) internet is: a) f#cked up 4) network is: b) slow 5) files are: c) gone 6) icons are:
People get pissed at these things and take their anger to the IT office to vent. They always seem to think their problem should trump all others and their argument always comes down to "I don't have to do that at home". It's just as exasperating for IT people to work with end-users who have the technical IQ of a carrot or don't think the AUP applies to them.
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I'm not so worried about the ingestion part of GM crops but the troubling part for me is seeing Megacorp take down small time farmers for "copyright infringement"[0][1] due to crops cross-pollinating via the wind, bees, whatever. It's ridiculous. It's basically a legal argument to eradicate any form of alternative food source other than Monsanto's monopoly.
Thing is, GM crops are the foothold for food copyright. If you need any indication where that could end up have a look at RIAA proceedings for the past 10 years or even Microsoft's (et al) Seed Vault[2].
[0] - http://www.nelsonfarm.net/issue.htm
[1] - http://www.mnn.com/your-home/organic-farming-gardening/stories/monsanto-wins-lawsuit-against-indiana-soybean-farmer
[2] - http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23503
Allows law enforcement to record citizens but beats citizens for recording them.
1) Do the sh*tty TPS report work yourself. Don't hand it out.
2) If the printer is a continuing problem, GET ONE THAT WORKS
3) Never, under any circumstance, take the stapler away from the mumbly Aspergers guy
(seriously...)
4) Keep the department a fun place to work. Good employees work best when they enjoy the workplace.
5) Don't dictate. Lead by example. It's really crappy to see the Manager leave at 5:30 on a Friday while everyone else toils on a late project. Even if you can't help, let everyone know you're willing and making yourself available wherever you can help.
6) Taking everyone out for lunch once a is a great appreciation strategy. Even if it means bringing in doughnuts. People appreciate managers going above-and-beyond once in a while.
FTFA: "While Google Wallet hides the full credit-card account number, the last four digits reside in plain text in the app's local SQLite database."
Sheesh, big deal about nothing. You know how many gasoline sales receipts end up in the garbage can next to the automated upmp.
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> trying to do too much with a "browser"
I would be interested in your success with compiling insert_your_browser_here.
Memory requirements for the compilation process is not necessarily indicative of the resulting binary size or memory usage. Sometimes compilers include optimizations which stress the resources on the host system (I've actually discovered bad ram this way).
Sure firefox is bloaty but I'll take a little bloat over the other locked-up alternatives. At least I can verify whether "carrierIQ" or similar ilk has not been surreptitiously compiled into my web browser. Besides, who's running windows with 3G anymore? I thought SP3 fixed that.
It's not that hard to find a balance between security and usability. At least try. When I read about:
* un-encrypted data on portable devices getting lost[1]
* tapes being swiped in people's cars[2]
* servers with egregiously unsecured login portals[3]
I'm not sure why people aren't just allowing google to index their entire infrastructure. Really. It would be cheap backup and really easy to find your stuff. Sure, 0-days happen, mistakes are made, admins are not infallible but I can't blame the Chinese (or whoever) for picking the low-hanging fruit when it's been places so close to the ground.
[1] - http://www.phiprivacy.net/?p=6572
[2] - http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/military/article/Tricare-patient-data-lost-in-car-burglary-2195822.php
[3] - www.dataprotectioncenter.com/antivirus/sophos/second-dutch-security-firm-hacked-unsecured-phpmyadmin-implicated/
A step in the right direction but not adequate. I we had adequate laws in place already, BP's Gulf disaster, and others like it*, would be far less frequent and less disastrous. In short, this ain't enough to keep your groundwater from igniting. It's just going to cost corporations a little more money to keep doing what they're already doing. The only real answer here is to cull the demand if what your after is environmental conservation. Expect egregious and negligent violations whenever money and energy are involved.
[*] - http://www.osha.gov/dep/bp/Fact_Sheet-BP_2009_Monitoring_Inspection.html
> I'm sure someone will figure out a way to reflect (mirror?) back to the source.
Yep. and make it a parabolic reflector at that. Increase the intensity many-fold.
We still don't friggin know.
When you have 3 help-desk wookies at $24k/year, they can sit on the support line and click buttons as instructed. They don't need to know how it works, and frankly, most don't usually care. That's what companies want. They will sometimes call in consultants to help with the extra hard stuff because It's cheaper than having a Guru sitting around for 3x the wage waiting for stuff to break/inventing stuff to wait to break.
Until the vendors really, really, REALLY start costing companies more money than it takes to have a guru or two on hand, things will most likely remain the same. Unfortunately, most of the mgrs I've worked for are very easily swayed by sleazy salespeople making holy-grail type claims. The vendors have historically won.
It's pointless trying to shut these operations down. The cartels don't care about loosing a tunnel or the drugs; they will just use/build another. The loss is written off as operating cost. I don't understand what drives the gov to continue this stuped cat-and-mouse game. I'd love to see the numbers for the US cost for one of these seizure operations though.
Creating a reliance on a locked-up platform doesn't make much sense for a school.
What would be a nice to see: Global movement to help Thais get back on their feet.
What will actually happen: Drive manufacturers scream jackpot as visions of twenty years of price fixing begins. Self-involved consumers look everywhere for someone to shut-up and take their money.
Trying to imagine a small car going up like a cheap Dell laptop vs. an exploding Pinto.... which one would I rather be in?
The PC is not dead its just that common end users are driving up the shut-up-and-take-my-money model. the PC will end up being left to the geeks again which is probably the same small percentage of people (compared to the entire pc market space right now) it was back in the late 80s. the only reason common end users bought pcs was to get on the internet. they have other ways to do that now without having to learn anything. internet access has acheived the easiness of the VCR and thats what most people want who are not geeks.
so..... the two crystals each have atomic particles sharing the same nucleus or something?
Chrome is popular partly because of three things: it's new, users are ignorant (below), and the Chrome plugin API[0] allows the browser to do some really fast, but braindead[1], crap (aka ActiveX/IE) like running native system code in a sandbox.
Re Ignorance: There has been a lot of misunderstanding towards mozilla "memory usage" over the years because users can't figure out that each of the 100 tabs they have open consumes a certain amount of memory. And several of those tabs, running Adobe Flash in the background, simply bring their system to it's knees.
Yeah, chrome is snazzy, and Mozilla does some brain dead stuff too, but I trust them more than Google. Furthermore, segregation in the market space is actually a really, really, really good thing for the consumer.
[0] - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/25/mozilla_on_npapi_pepper/
[1] - http://www.tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/24/151238/bug-opens-chrome-to-easy-remote-code-execution
I don't understand the point of trying to run the x86 architecture on a device where you want efficiency and low power use.
I replaced my old wrt54g and buffalo routers with two of these and flashed with dd-wrt. Can be had for around $30.00 on ebay. Gig ports, N wi-fi. Way more ram for connection tracking than the wrt. Make sure you get the version 2 model. Version 1 will not flash.
1) intimidating crowds of protesters
2) mass delivery of casual pepper spray
3) spying on any person/house/field
4) following vehicles remotely
5) issue speeding tickets remotely
6) back-up air support for raids (Branch Davidian debacle)
Until I see law enforcement acting responsibly with the power they already have I am not a fan of giving them more.
If the oceans degenerate to the point where no coral is left we are going to have bigger problems than "think of the coral". Valiant effort, yes, however I wish Science/People would focus on addressing the bigger problem; the reason the ocean is warming in the first place.
You'll get a lot of temporary work and the benefits kind of suck but oftentimes a company will contract out to a consulting agency and not care too much about pedigrees. All they want is an able body for a 3-6 month stint. If you have decent skills it could work to your long-term advantage though. There are places who test-drive potential employees through consulting, so getting a full-time "permanent" position is possible under the right circumstances.
Be warned though, It helps to have thick skin. Projects get cancelled and you can be the last to know. Your "co-workers" can play dirty sometimes also, so I keep a log of things I worked on and a couple sentence summary of what I did. When I'm done with a project, I'll offer to make the log available to the boss for documentation reasons. It's a great way of showing you can go the extra mile should they consider hiring you long term.
> It will be used against you.
It is* being used against you.
[*] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_controversy
Reasons people storm into the IT office.
1) printer is:
2) windows is:
3) internet is: a) f#cked up
4) network is: b) slow
5) files are: c) gone
6) icons are:
People get pissed at these things and take their anger to the IT office to vent. They always seem to think their problem should trump all others and their argument always comes down to "I don't have to do that at home". It's just as exasperating for IT people to work with end-users who have the technical IQ of a carrot or don't think the AUP applies to them.