If he's very very smart he shut down the machine immediately, mounted the drive read only and recovered the files. The chances are most of them were just unlinked and can be recovered since they havent been overwritten yet
Sure, but that's true if you get hit by a semi too, or honestly if you're in a car of any kind and get ploughed by an F-350 or above even. it's not like they mounted guns on the thing and told the NHTSA "go mad max on any vehicle coming towards you" to game the test and make it safer at the cost of being lethal to others
I agree with 90% of what you wrote... but I have to say, while there may be machines being sold with 32bit *windows* on them, I don't think intel *makes* a 32bit only x86 chip anymore. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that died out with the the introduction of the core 2s years ago... so you're not seeing 32bit quads in the store...
While the calculators are certainly lucrative, they're hardly TI's primary business, which may account for the neglect. Also, honestly, outside of dropping the price what do they really need to add to the current line of calculators? And given the truly massive margins they have on the calculators I wouldnt be surprised if they're response to this kind of threat is exactly that: drop the price.
I did actually say smaller too, though it's late here and I may be as coherent as I think:p
Agreed on the disposable income connundrum too, especially when you consider how many people are already shelling out for a smartphone that's quite capable for their media consumption as both of us have noted
I'd also add thag the decline in home ownership may controbute too, a TV is one more large object to move if you don't expect to stay in the same place for a long time. At the very least only having 1 TV makes things easier than multiple ones
As people have bigger TVs I suspect they want to watch primarily on the one big one if they're watching on a full fledged TV, and portable devices like phones and tablets (and to a lesser extent laptops since battery life has gotten so good) have killed the idea of having a smaller TV in other rooms: Why bother when you can just carry your iPad in? I suspect the same effect has killed TV ownership completely for a lot of people who don't have room in their house for a large TV (or don't watch it enough to decide to spend on that when they can access content on their other devices).
I was (mostly) joking, given how generally incompetant the TSA is (they aren't law enforcement though BTW, and have no power to actually arrest or detain at all which is why they have to call other police over when they do.
I'm not sure the TSA counts as a "lawfully authorized investigative, protective, or intelligence activity of a law enforcement agency of the United States, a State, or a political subdivision of a State, or of an intelligence agency of the United States."
In full calexit America we also have 164,000 less square miles, 40M less people, a lot less money, way less export ability, and far less agriculture, just to name a few things. You can't just be like "yeah, I mean, except for these people he would've won the popular vote." that's cherry picking, and it's particularly stupid when you're talking about the 3rd largest state by size and the 1st in population. You've literally just said "yes, without 1/8 of the US pop trump would have won the popular election.
If their sh*t uses a standard, but is custom enough that there can be a counterfeit, tells me they're doing it wrong.
First of all, what the hell are you talking about when it comes to standards? Every computer company uses a different charger. I dare you to plug in an HP charger into a Dell (that's if the connector even works). Second, it doesn't matter if Apple or Dell follows a standard, the counterfeit chargers won't follow one which is the point.
Outside of the long business of selling multi-adapters, I'll point out that a lot of new laptops are moving to USBC for charging, so the different adapter thing may soon be a thing of the past
A lot of big companies that give this time off usually have spare capacity on staff to be assigned to cover such things. I once started at a job where my nominal boss had already been out for 2 months on maternity leave, my temporary manager (not a temp, a full employee on staff who had literally become a floating manager for these kind of assignments) was my boss for my first 5 months, and she had been assigned the position before my real boss had gone out, so that she already knew the dept when my manager went on leave. When my manager came back, my temporary manager got a new assignment. No one did extra work to cover the nearly 7 months my boss was out. It's typically not startups that offer this kind of benefit, Amex can definitely afford to shift staff to accommodate maternity/paternity leaves without piling double work on a lot of people.
You should do your own research on it. There's just too many things to list in this space. Search through Slashdot's archives for plenty of discussion.
Code for: "I don't really know." (But now that someone's called me on it, I will do some Googling and reply with stock Trump / anti-TPP information to show that I do know what I'm talking about.)
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FWIW I'm pretty damn liberal and I think the TPP is an abomination, or more accurately contains enough sub-abominations that its good features are not redeeming to the document as a whole.
Tech Firms Say FBI Wants Browsing History Without Warrant
Just how is this different — in principle — from the normal and old-fashioned investigation, where the investigator would talk to the suspect's friends, business-partners, grocery-suppliers, neighbors, and landlords? And, if the folks had any relevant records, ask to see them?
Sherlock Holmes would do that, Perry Mason would do that, Hercule Poirot would do that, Miss Marple would do that. Why can't the FBI — which law are they violating by the mere asking? There is no allegation in TFA of any illegal threats the agents have made against the companies for non-compliance or for demanding a warrant or some other approval from the Judiciary... What is the there there?
I'll bite - because this is compelled, not asked. An NSL *compels* information, and it also comes with a gag order. Neither of that is true of a cop asking. Now, in the case of a standard investigation, if they wanted to compel testimony or info they could get a warrant or a subpoena, as they can now for these records, but that requires a judge, not just a senior FBI agent, and typically never came with gag orders.
Well, if you have JS allowed for the site, and they do AJAXy things and log the times for that you could profile someone's time spent relatively easily, even if all you get is the heartbeats of the requests
Or they're sitting on such a huge pile of cash that any investing in anything that would eat a substantial portion of it would fundamentally change their business or attract anti-trust problems
Snowden does actually count here. Love him or hate him, he's well known, and known for security (whether he's truly a "security guy" isn't really the point, as another poster pointed out Gates and Jobs are famous for tech, but what they really were were good managers, market analysts, and pitchmen)
Are you actually doing engineering work? Scoping out and building a system? If so calling yourself just a "programmer" may cheapen the scope of work you do. Moreover, the author points to huge software failures as examples of things that won't happen in Engineering, but bridges and buildings collapse too, trains derail, car designs turn out to be duds or unsafe, etc. Plenty of what the author defines as "real" engineering has run into the same problems he highlights in software.
The author, frankly, seems to have a beef with software as a concept, and a problem understanding its role in the modern world.
To answer the post title though: not all programming is engineering, but there is plenty of programming that is.
Unlike law, medicine and traditional engineering fields, software development is completely unregulated with no real standard certifications (even a degree is optional). This is nice for letting skilled yet uncertified people into the field and allowing self-taught people to capitalize on their self-investment.
The IOT-craze will probably force us to take a second look at this as craptastic software will have an even greater influence on the tangible world and people that live in it.
Developers usually do not shoulder outward responsibility for the applications they write.
On the flip side, most of what we consider "real" engineering was more of an apprenticeship than anything else up until the 20th century, with no degree most of the time either.
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If he's very very smart he shut down the machine immediately, mounted the drive read only and recovered the files. The chances are most of them were just unlinked and can be recovered since they havent been overwritten yet
Sure, but that's true if you get hit by a semi too, or honestly if you're in a car of any kind and get ploughed by an F-350 or above even. it's not like they mounted guns on the thing and told the NHTSA "go mad max on any vehicle coming towards you" to game the test and make it safer at the cost of being lethal to others
I agree with 90% of what you wrote... but I have to say, while there may be machines being sold with 32bit *windows* on them, I don't think intel *makes* a 32bit only x86 chip anymore. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that died out with the the introduction of the core 2s years ago... so you're not seeing 32bit quads in the store...
While the calculators are certainly lucrative, they're hardly TI's primary business, which may account for the neglect. Also, honestly, outside of dropping the price what do they really need to add to the current line of calculators? And given the truly massive margins they have on the calculators I wouldnt be surprised if they're response to this kind of threat is exactly that: drop the price.
And I typed that on my phone, between watching tv on it in bed, so I apologize for the spelling and prove our points at the same time
I did actually say smaller too, though it's late here and I may be as coherent as I think :p
Agreed on the disposable income connundrum too, especially when you consider how many people are already shelling out for a smartphone that's quite capable for their media consumption as both of us have noted
I'd also add thag the decline in home ownership may controbute too, a TV is one more large object to move if you don't expect to stay in the same place for a long time. At the very least only having 1 TV makes things easier than multiple ones
As people have bigger TVs I suspect they want to watch primarily on the one big one if they're watching on a full fledged TV, and portable devices like phones and tablets (and to a lesser extent laptops since battery life has gotten so good) have killed the idea of having a smaller TV in other rooms: Why bother when you can just carry your iPad in? I suspect the same effect has killed TV ownership completely for a lot of people who don't have room in their house for a large TV (or don't watch it enough to decide to spend on that when they can access content on their other devices).
You know, I even clicked knowing full well what it was going to be, jamming out now
/yeah yeah, offtopic, mod at me mods, I've got karma to burn
I was (mostly) joking, given how generally incompetant the TSA is (they aren't law enforcement though BTW, and have no power to actually arrest or detain at all which is why they have to call other police over when they do.
I'm not sure the TSA counts as a "lawfully authorized investigative, protective, or intelligence activity of a law enforcement agency of the United States, a State, or a political subdivision of a State, or of an intelligence agency of the United States."
There's a depressing irony in a battle over whether people should be allowed solar panels on their homes in the "sunshine state"
In full calexit America we also have 164,000 less square miles, 40M less people, a lot less money, way less export ability, and far less agriculture, just to name a few things. You can't just be like "yeah, I mean, except for these people he would've won the popular vote." that's cherry picking, and it's particularly stupid when you're talking about the 3rd largest state by size and the 1st in population. You've literally just said "yes, without 1/8 of the US pop trump would have won the popular election.
If their sh*t uses a standard, but is custom enough that there can be a counterfeit, tells me they're doing it wrong.
First of all, what the hell are you talking about when it comes to standards? Every computer company uses a different charger. I dare you to plug in an HP charger into a Dell (that's if the connector even works). Second, it doesn't matter if Apple or Dell follows a standard, the counterfeit chargers won't follow one which is the point.
Outside of the long business of selling multi-adapters, I'll point out that a lot of new laptops are moving to USBC for charging, so the different adapter thing may soon be a thing of the past
A lot of big companies that give this time off usually have spare capacity on staff to be assigned to cover such things. I once started at a job where my nominal boss had already been out for 2 months on maternity leave, my temporary manager (not a temp, a full employee on staff who had literally become a floating manager for these kind of assignments) was my boss for my first 5 months, and she had been assigned the position before my real boss had gone out, so that she already knew the dept when my manager went on leave. When my manager came back, my temporary manager got a new assignment. No one did extra work to cover the nearly 7 months my boss was out. It's typically not startups that offer this kind of benefit, Amex can definitely afford to shift staff to accommodate maternity/paternity leaves without piling double work on a lot of people.
You should do your own research on it. There's just too many things to list in this space. Search through Slashdot's archives for plenty of discussion.
Code for: "I don't really know." (But now that someone's called me on it, I will do some Googling and reply with stock Trump / anti-TPP information to show that I do know what I'm talking about.)
[ Please don't bother, your views are already clear. ]
FWIW I'm pretty damn liberal and I think the TPP is an abomination, or more accurately contains enough sub-abominations that its good features are not redeeming to the document as a whole.
Just how is this different — in principle — from the normal and old-fashioned investigation, where the investigator would talk to the suspect's friends, business-partners, grocery-suppliers, neighbors, and landlords? And, if the folks had any relevant records, ask to see them?
Sherlock Holmes would do that, Perry Mason would do that, Hercule Poirot would do that, Miss Marple would do that. Why can't the FBI — which law are they violating by the mere asking? There is no allegation in TFA of any illegal threats the agents have made against the companies for non-compliance or for demanding a warrant or some other approval from the Judiciary... What is the there there?
I'll bite - because this is compelled, not asked. An NSL *compels* information, and it also comes with a gag order. Neither of that is true of a cop asking. Now, in the case of a standard investigation, if they wanted to compel testimony or info they could get a warrant or a subpoena, as they can now for these records, but that requires a judge, not just a senior FBI agent, and typically never came with gag orders.
Well, if you have JS allowed for the site, and they do AJAXy things and log the times for that you could profile someone's time spent relatively easily, even if all you get is the heartbeats of the requests
...space. Why do you think Musk is so concerned with SpaceX getting a manned mission to Mars going?
Or they're sitting on such a huge pile of cash that any investing in anything that would eat a substantial portion of it would fundamentally change their business or attract anti-trust problems
That really depends on how fast you're driving, doesn't it?
Snowden does actually count here. Love him or hate him, he's well known, and known for security (whether he's truly a "security guy" isn't really the point, as another poster pointed out Gates and Jobs are famous for tech, but what they really were were good managers, market analysts, and pitchmen)
Given that payroll is probably done on those office machines you may want to care a little :p
It is no more effective than security theatre at the airport...just makes you feel warm and fuzzy
Erm... which part of the TSA make you feel all warm and fuzzy?
Sometimes the guy doing the pat downs is bearded and sweaty
Are you actually doing engineering work? Scoping out and building a system? If so calling yourself just a "programmer" may cheapen the scope of work you do. Moreover, the author points to huge software failures as examples of things that won't happen in Engineering, but bridges and buildings collapse too, trains derail, car designs turn out to be duds or unsafe, etc. Plenty of what the author defines as "real" engineering has run into the same problems he highlights in software. The author, frankly, seems to have a beef with software as a concept, and a problem understanding its role in the modern world. To answer the post title though: not all programming is engineering, but there is plenty of programming that is.
Unlike law, medicine and traditional engineering fields, software development is completely unregulated with no real standard certifications (even a degree is optional). This is nice for letting skilled yet uncertified people into the field and allowing self-taught people to capitalize on their self-investment.
The IOT-craze will probably force us to take a second look at this as craptastic software will have an even greater influence on the tangible world and people that live in it.
Developers usually do not shoulder outward responsibility for the applications they write.
On the flip side, most of what we consider "real" engineering was more of an apprenticeship than anything else up until the 20th century, with no degree most of the time either.