Funny, I just took a job as a programmer. I am not relocatable, as in I work in the same lab as the equipment I write software for is in. While I could be replaced by an H1B, I do not fear this as long as I do my job reasonably well. -nB
"I imagine that if it is possible to create a very large magnetic field in a very short period of time (microseconds?) and that if this field was large enough (1/2 size of planet?) [...] use the field to spring the spacecraft in any given direction with a great amount of force without using a single drop of fuel! "
"4. Why? There would be a GRADUAL increase in speed - otherwise who would ride that thing? "
These two (both your words) seem to contradict each other. microseconds != gradual.
Also you would in fact use a very large ammount of fuel. The energy to create a field 1/2 that of earth is astonishing. -nB
I understand your argument but it is too "high horse" for me. I used to do things all day long at work I did not think were ethical (according to me and me alone; any similarity between my ethics and anyone else's is strictly coincidental).
I sold cars. I sold cars that were worth about what we were asking for them; I made $200 per car I sold. Simple right? Well I had a lady come in who had 2 BK's on her record and $3K in her pocket. That is enough down on a low end Saturn that I knew the bank would finance her. I tried to sell her a $3K beater rather than the new car she wanted b/c I knew the interest would be brutal. In the end she bought the new car @ 22% APR for 72 months. If you do the math, she was royally screwed. I do not feel good about that, in fact I quit my job the following day. The point of this is that if I was to fully follow my ethics I would have refused to sell her the car. If I had done that I would not have had dinner that night (literally). Thus the $cost$ of my morals that day was food. Killing someone (referenced earlier) is outside of my experience and as such I would refuse the job. Hacking something/someone is well within my work/life skill set and as such that skill is for sale. I have a reasonably good ethical code, but that does not mean I will under no circumstance bend or break it. Enough $$ and I would most certainly attack whatever system you want (some are out of bounds from a self preservation interest). -nB
I've long held that if someone were to come to me with the offer to wire up a fibre interface to my brain I would be one of the first in line to get wetware / hybrid / augmented computing / whatever installed in my head.
I still like that best Lynch mob to assemble outside Darryl's office at 8:00 am (yeah I know it's early but that's when he's at work). Bring burlap bags full of bound printed matter (must be open source to be used) to bludgeon him with. I'll provide the empty bag to actually literally sack him with. -nB
The slippery slope will exist if I post non-slanderous content on my site negative of a major candidate and I am forcibly shut down, address the issue to the courts as an abridgement of free speech and then do not win.
I know that was a joke, but I think that is the point of adding regulation. If so how the hell do they propose regulating my speech (esp. if I move my server overseas)? -nB
In the lab I "Lord over" they do not need access to the internet. That's what their notebooks and 802.11x are for. (yes we have corp. wireless). All the lab machines contain company top security info and so should not see the internet as it is. I help my users more than they could immagine. Predominately by keeping our stock value up by preventing IP from leaking to competitors. -nB
Precicely the proxy we use! But for some reason the PHBs always overturn my DENY ALL by default proxy rule after it goes into effect (They always say do it when presented on paper/email/powerpoint/etc.); thus I am always trying to play keepup with what sites to blacklist etc.
I've actually given up personally and switched to a job as the SW dev and IT sec. guy for one of our smaller labs. In this environment I am god (little 'g' on purpose) and the firewall / proxy setup is so strict people actually assume we have no connectivity to the outside world (including the rest of the company intranet) until they see the list of favorites in IE (alas I can't use Firefox due to corp. specific toolsets again). Can't win them all I guess. -nB
gah! Meant to post as plain text: "This [selective breeding] isn't GM. GM involves targeting specific amino acids in the DNA for modification. Mendel was merely doing selective breeding based on phenotypes; GM works directly with genotypes."
In so far as the importation of genes from one Genus to another; what you say is true, yes. However cross species breeding does something quite similar and while often results in mules, also often results in better crops. This is still genetic manipulation; it just isn't seen as such by Joe Public.
I'm willing to wager that I could get any number of (insert any "tree hugging org" here) up in arms about it. Kind of like the Greens and DiHydrogenOxide. -nB
"This [selective breeding] isn't GM. GM involves targeting specific amino acids in the DNA for modification. Mendel was merely doing selective breeding based on phenotypes; GM works directly with genotypes."
In so far as the importation of genes from one Genus to another; what you say is true, yes. However cross species breeding does something quite similar and while often results in mules, also often results in better crops. This is still genetic manipulation; it just isn't seen as such by Joe Public.
I'm willing to wager that I could get any number of (insert any "tree hugging org" here) up in arms about it. Kind of like the Greens and DiHydrogenOxide.
-nB
No need to aplolgize for fanboy status of this! My brother and I were thinking about trying to do this (inspired by RvB) and realized we were doomed to think our work crap b/c they're so damn good at what they do. I bought the season 1 DVD (buying season 2 soon) and watch it about once a month. -nB (proud RvB Fanboy)
Likely no (unless I'd already dealt with him on this issue once before).
What I would do is rip him up one side and down the other. . . unless he was being genuinely stupid, then I might have strung him up with Cat5 (or fibre if I was really pissed).
I also should clarify that his boss acted irresponsibly in what he said to the media. -nB
Slightly OT: We just replaced (Wholesale) our old search with something like 12 of these things. Searches have never been better! (75K employees in company).
back OT:
If the cops could get together across state and agency lines with Google providing the search and DB indexing I'm sure there would be a lot less unsolved crimes across state lines!
The one thing to be noted is that running SETI on a server is unwise. While I have never seen a problem personally I enforce my company policy that it be kept off servers. Desktops/proto machines fine, just not production environment servers. We actually use it to increase load on pre-production servers though:-) -nB
Hell yeah! That would take care of the source of a lot of traffic jams. The only problem is that all those fools will be re-dialing leading to more accidents.
I know there is not a causal link between cell phone dialing and accidents, but tell that to the person that ran a red light and nearly killed my wife and kid.... -nB
Slashdot Mirror
"Umm... if ADULTS are getting addicted to Neopets, I think, most likely, that's the least of their problems...."
That's not funny, it's insightful!
-nB
Funny, I just took a job as a programmer. I am not relocatable, as in I work in the same lab as the equipment I write software for is in. While I could be replaced by an H1B, I do not fear this as long as I do my job reasonably well.
-nB
"I imagine that if it is possible to create a very large magnetic field in a very short period of time (microseconds?) and that if this field was large enough (1/2 size of planet?) [...] use the field to spring the spacecraft in any given direction with a great amount of force without using a single drop of fuel! "
"4. Why? There would be a GRADUAL increase in speed - otherwise who would ride that thing? "
These two (both your words) seem to contradict each other. microseconds != gradual.
Also you would in fact use a very large ammount of fuel. The energy to create a field 1/2 that of earth is astonishing.
-nB
"Just wait till we have to deal with greanpeice blocking the launch of ships designed to mine the asteroids...
:)
So long as it's the second or third launch, we can just drop some rocks on them."
I was thinking more along the lines of:
Why thankyou for volunteering to be reaction mass
-nB
"Moore's law will still be true. It's the doubling of *silicon* not the doubling of speed "
more precice: doubling of Silicon's capibility or doing the same at half the size (die space) IIRC.
-nB
I understand your argument but it is too "high horse" for me. I used to do things all day long at work I did not think were ethical (according to me and me alone; any similarity between my ethics and anyone else's is strictly coincidental).
I sold cars.
I sold cars that were worth about what we were asking for them; I made $200 per car I sold. Simple right? Well I had a lady come in who had 2 BK's on her record and $3K in her pocket. That is enough down on a low end Saturn that I knew the bank would finance her. I tried to sell her a $3K beater rather than the new car she wanted b/c I knew the interest would be brutal. In the end she bought the new car @ 22% APR for 72 months. If you do the math, she was royally screwed. I do not feel good about that, in fact I quit my job the following day.
The point of this is that if I was to fully follow my ethics I would have refused to sell her the car. If I had done that I would not have had dinner that night (literally). Thus the $cost$ of my morals that day was food. Killing someone (referenced earlier) is outside of my experience and as such I would refuse the job. Hacking something/someone is well within my work/life skill set and as such that skill is for sale. I have a reasonably good ethical code, but that does not mean I will under no circumstance bend or break it. Enough $$ and I would most certainly attack whatever system you want (some are out of bounds from a self preservation interest).
-nB
These individuals are very far and few between.
-nB
"People who steal from Bungie are not true Halo fans."
.
Bingo!
See my sig . .
I'll be buying 4 copies from the get go.
100% legit, even with a modded box.
-nB
Do I have to be disabled to get this?
I've long held that if someone were to come to me with the offer to wire up a fibre interface to my brain I would be one of the first in line to get wetware / hybrid / augmented computing / whatever installed in my head.
-nB
'sacked by open source-touting bandits.'
I still like that best
Lynch mob to assemble outside Darryl's office at 8:00 am (yeah I know it's early but that's when he's at work). Bring burlap bags full of bound printed matter (must be open source to be used) to bludgeon him with. I'll provide the empty bag to actually literally sack him with.
-nB
The slippery slope will exist if I post non-slanderous content on my site negative of a major candidate and I am forcibly shut down, address the issue to the courts as an abridgement of free speech and then do not win.
just 2c
-nB
I know that was a joke, but I think that is the point of adding regulation. If so how the hell do they propose regulating my speech (esp. if I move my server overseas)?
-nB
In the lab I "Lord over" they do not need access to the internet. That's what their notebooks and 802.11x are for. (yes we have corp. wireless). All the lab machines contain company top security info and so should not see the internet as it is. I help my users more than they could immagine. Predominately by keeping our stock value up by preventing IP from leaking to competitors.
-nB
Precicely the proxy we use!
But for some reason the PHBs always overturn my DENY ALL by default proxy rule after it goes into effect (They always say do it when presented on paper/email/powerpoint/etc.); thus I am always trying to play keepup with what sites to blacklist etc.
I've actually given up personally and switched to a job as the SW dev and IT sec. guy for one of our smaller labs. In this environment I am god (little 'g' on purpose) and the firewall / proxy setup is so strict people actually assume we have no connectivity to the outside world (including the rest of the company intranet) until they see the list of favorites in IE (alas I can't use Firefox due to corp. specific toolsets again).
Can't win them all I guess.
-nB
So if your user has admin rights (as all at my site do b/c our toolset requires it) then you're screwed if they goto a mal-site. . . . Great.
-nB
potato != food
potato == fuel (Vodka anyone?)
-nB
gah!
Meant to post as plain text:
"This [selective breeding] isn't GM. GM involves targeting specific amino acids in the DNA for modification. Mendel was merely doing selective breeding based on phenotypes; GM works directly with genotypes."
In so far as the importation of genes from one Genus to another; what you say is true, yes. However cross species breeding does something quite similar and while often results in mules, also often results in better crops. This is still genetic manipulation; it just isn't seen as such by Joe Public.
I'm willing to wager that I could get any number of (insert any "tree hugging org" here) up in arms about it. Kind of like the Greens and DiHydrogenOxide.
-nB
"This [selective breeding] isn't GM. GM involves targeting specific amino acids in the DNA for modification. Mendel was merely doing selective breeding based on phenotypes; GM works directly with genotypes." In so far as the importation of genes from one Genus to another; what you say is true, yes. However cross species breeding does something quite similar and while often results in mules, also often results in better crops. This is still genetic manipulation; it just isn't seen as such by Joe Public. I'm willing to wager that I could get any number of (insert any "tree hugging org" here) up in arms about it. Kind of like the Greens and DiHydrogenOxide. -nB
No need to aplolgize for fanboy status of this!
My brother and I were thinking about trying to do this (inspired by RvB) and realized we were doomed to think our work crap b/c they're so damn good at what they do. I bought the season 1 DVD (buying season 2 soon) and watch it about once a month.
-nB (proud RvB Fanboy)
"Surely they have a testbed of identical hardware that they would have tested the upgrade and performance on beforehand."
.
one would hope . .
Something tells me though, that their testbed is not quite what it should be.
-nB
Likely no (unless I'd already dealt with him on this issue once before).
What I would do is rip him up one side and down the other. . . unless he was being genuinely stupid, then I might have strung him up with Cat5 (or fibre if I was really pissed).
I also should clarify that his boss acted irresponsibly in what he said to the media.
-nB
Slightly OT:
We just replaced (Wholesale) our old search with something like 12 of these things. Searches have never been better! (75K employees in company).
back OT:
If the cops could get together across state and agency lines with Google providing the search and DB indexing I'm sure there would be a lot less unsolved crimes across state lines!
Just wonder what the leagal impact would be?
-nB
The one thing to be noted is that running SETI on a server is unwise. :-)
While I have never seen a problem personally I enforce my company policy that it be kept off servers. Desktops/proto machines fine, just not production environment servers. We actually use it to increase load on pre-production servers though
-nB
Hell yeah!
That would take care of the source of a lot of traffic jams.
The only problem is that all those fools will be re-dialing leading to more accidents.
I know there is not a causal link between cell phone dialing and accidents, but tell that to the person that ran a red light and nearly killed my wife and kid....
-nB
Wee still seem to be working on
"and justice for all" though.
-nB