I think what the question really shows is that Canadians have a much stronger grasp of the English language, and don't see a few buzzwords and ignore the context. It's one thing to "walk by faith and not by sight" but quite another to think that we depend too much on knowledge (science = knowledge... scientific method or scientists are different kettles of poutine).
Which part of India are you in? My info is all second/third hand, but I'm not talking about the cities or surrounding areas -- that's why I made the comment about the Nokia phones for those areas.
Any way you look at it, Nokia rules the airwaves, and smartphones will still be for the richer, unless the prices continue to come down. But some people I've talked to have indeed switched from TV to smartphone, and that's in the city outskirts. If they want to see a sporting event, etc. they go to a friend's place.
And yet... that 80% mark is probably correct to some degree. Some villages only have one cell phone that everyone shares, but in the cities, that's how people communicate.
So think of it as each person in India putting out $1100 for their phone, which they use in lieu of land line, TV and computer. Assuming it lasts as long as the Nokia phones they used to have, I can see this getting a high adoption rate, with a new phone, say, every 5 years.
You've got this 100% backwards. Deciding to drive slower than everyone else makes you a much bigger risk than the people driving the same speed. If the speed at which most drivers are comfortable on a road is too high for safety the road system itself (which includes signage and surroundings) has been designed incorrectly and should be corrected.
Correct -- the problem occurs when that person at the front of the line suddenly drives slower, due to hitting something, not being able to react in time, seeing the traffic light at the last minute, etc.
There are a few things that affect how fast people SHOULD drive -- intersection timings (get rid of intersections, they're unsafe, and there are better soltuions), road engineering, weather, driver alertness/reflexes, chances of some obstruction such as a child suddenly veering onto the road, and people doing stupid things.
Unfortunately, you can't fix the last one.
What gets me is NOT people driving over the limit, but people rushing to the next intersection when it's obvious they'll stop at the same light I will, people inside my 2 second react-time zone (that means if you're going faster than the limit, you should be giving other cars MORE room, not less), and people who just don't understand the laws of physics.
When you speed up a car, damage on impact is exponential, not linear. Also, cars react differently on different surfaces when braking, and people's reaction times have a limit. Many cities are lazy with their speed limits, and you can often find roads that, barring stupid drivers, are safe to drive at significantly higher speeds.
But again, you can't fix stupid, so the limits get normalized. It doesn't matter how good a driver you are, the limits are there to protect you from the intersection of your reaction speed and vehicle's mass+coefficient of friction, and the other person who did something idiotic that you didn't expect.
There are often reasons road speeds are set low that are way beyond how safe the road surface is for traffic to drive on at higher speeds, and those other reasons often can't be corrected, whereas a speed limit can be easily adjusted.
Besides, who cares how your speeding is detected? If you're speeding you're speeding. There's no "it's ok as long as I don't get caught"-clause.
I agree with you 98%. The system must detect if it's on public roads or private property, and also the flow of traffic (if traffic is going fast, you probably should go fast, too). I agree that our laws need to be obeyed even if there's little chance of getting caught.
We're talking V2V here -- unless the vehicle is able to read signs, I can't see the data containing more than GPS location, direction of travel, rate of accelleration. It'll still get a bunch wrong, but it'll see the cars you can't while sitting in the left hand turn lane.
What you're talking about is more like a V2N (Vehicle to network) system, where your car is always reporting what it is doing to some other location.
Thats all fine and good except, ATT shouldn't be charging for the overhead on their internal network. The reason that the meter their network usage is to limit how much upstream bandwidth they need, not because the DSL network is saturated.
Is that what your contract says?
Most places I've seen measure with encapsulation, because it's easier. The problem's not with the meter, it's with the small print. If your small print states that they measure the TCP packets only though, that's deceptive advertising and also puts them in violation of their contract.
Considering how hard I have to work to get any data usage stats out of my ISP though, my guess is that the small print doesn't say one way or the other -- which could still be considered deceptive, if you're willing to spend lots of money prosecuting in court.
Don't even need that -- just if something happens off-cam, the officer's word means next to nothing and the ruling is heavily weighted towards the plaintiff. If officers found that their testimony in court is automatically thrown out if they don't play by the recording rules, there'd be less messing with evidence.
They are also less likely to charge you with a bullshit charge they "discovered" having stopped you on sketchy grounds in the first place.
Are you sure about that? There are always stock charges that a camera won't pick up, and they need to show evidence of why they stopped you in the first place. I'd guess that for every charge they drop, another one is probably added.
Better to start writing poetry, a novel, some music, etc., and then possibly get a job as an analyst (full-time or contract). Management is an option, but really only for those who enjoy it. Do what you love; find a way to convert your experience into a paycheck.
Having a background like his, a different favourite form of poetry to write, and a love for LISP, I have to agree -- but after you've been coding for a few decades, the trick is to move into analysis and give up on the codemonkey work as a paying gig:( This doesn't mean going into management (which is another option), but instead using your years of expertise to look over other people's (finished/unfinished) code, tear it apart, and make suggestions on how to fix what they inevitably missed. Or go into security research, or become an independent contractor that can go in and fix all the software you wrote 20+ years ago that nobody has a clue about how to maintain anymore. It all comes back to "don't fall in love with the code" -- it's kind of like a NYT bestseller attempting to churn out books for 20+ years and keep them all best sellers; a few can do it, but for the most part, it's time to move to a supporting role and get paid more/in a more stable way.
You can, of course, move coding into a hobby, polishing that codebase you've been working on for the past 15 years just for the love of it. It's unlikely to make you as much money as you put into it though./grump.
I'd be interested to know if the majority of that money was in Ireland. If it wasn't, this is a non-story. If it was... well, there are ways of making the money "non-US" and you can rest assured that MS knows ALL of these ways. Their tax lawyers are just as good as IBM's IP lawyers.
This kind of assignment is usually done at the behest of social services to see what "signs" of home problems or mental issues students may have. It's pretty much a standard for students aged 13-15.
And yeah; I hated those too; but what I hated most was when no structure was given, and then I was penalized for thinking outside the box (yes, that unspoken box that the teacher said didn't exist until s/he saw my work).
Huh. Then he was following the rules of the assignment. Facebook statuses are mostly fiction, and some are fantasy.
Ah; I begin to see the problem. For him to be so insightful, he'd have to be using Facebook. As he's not 18 yet, he's underage to be using facebook, and so needed to be visited by the police for participating illegally in adult activities such as reading Facebook.
Come on, show me link to story that got French or Chinese kid arrested over writing school assignment about shooting something.
It wouldn't make the news. That's not the same thing as saying it doesn't happen. In China, the child would probably be sent off to a re-education camp, and everyone would think it normal. In France, he'd likely just get a bad grade.
I remember having to write a story a week in grade 8; I wrote a number of fictional stories based on real life happenings, some of which did include guns. A lot of what I did at/brought to school looks like it would now result in a call to the police. Of course, I have my suspicions that in many cases (including this one), there's more to the story. I don't think that if the schoolboy me was suddenly dropped into today's schools, they'd call the police (at least not for that sort of thing). More likely, this is a kid that had been talking a lot about guns, was being unruly in class, and this was the last straw for the teacher -- so they abused a "gun" rule and tried to scare him into proper behaviour by having the local policeman talk to him. Doesn't make it right, but it sure frames the story differently, doesn't it?
"The pen is mightier than the sword" is really a typo; it should read "The pen is mightier than the words." It's hard to poke someone's eye out with a word.
Yes; I seem to recall the amber light timings do have a floor/ceiling -- but as I pointed out, that range has to take into consideration all sorts of intersections and traffic speeds; the result is that you would require a conservative range of 2-6 seconds; setting a 6-second intersection to 2 seconds could have catastrophic results.
http://redlightrobber.com/red/... lays out the mathematical issues at stake here. This paper was published in 1959, but is just as true today.
Islam has been at war with everyone else from its inception. The West had to do nothing to incur their wrath. In fact, they need the West so they can claim to be victims and prepare their followers to die for Islam...and virgins...don't forget the virgins. Apparently, Heaven is full of them just waiting for a bunch of hairy, smelly jihadis.
You do realize that a sizable portion of the world's Muslims live in The West, right?
I think you're confusing Islam with a particular politically motivated Islamic sect -- kind of like people do with the Crusades, Westboro, calling the US a Christian country that abuses its power, etc.
It's not that religions are at war with everyone; it's that they can be easily abused for political gain, if care is not taken to prevent this.
I guarantee you that "the vast, vast majority of tech engineers" would not assume that "other countries" automatically meant "the very best". The general consensus in my neck of the woods is that engineers of foreign origin are about on par with our native engineers. The consensus I've seen in pop culture is that the foreign engineers are generally much worse. I can only imagine the question that would lead to the response above:
Q: If faced with a choice between a top foreign engineer or a mediocre American one, which would you hire?
A: The foreign one. I'd want to work with the very best.
...which, of course, has nothing to do with the H1B program; the very best don't need that program, as they can ask top dollar and get direct sponsorship.
"Well for one, Google and even more with Facebook do not create or generate much of anything. It is all code."
But it lasts forever. My wife's hairdresser does not create or generate much of anything either, but the wife pays him anyway twice a month to do his job, which also cannot be done over the internet.
I bet that the job of hairdresser CAN be done over the internet; we just haven't invented the right hardware yet. After all, if you can get your appendix removed over the Internet, it seems to me a haircut should be a bit easier.
While I love and appreciate IPV6 as a means to remain anonymous online, I work for a company that's the victim of quite a bit of "comment" spam hailing from among other places IPV6. The spam ranges from individual businesses promoting themselves for their own benefit under false pretenses, all the way to professional spammers gaming the system (mostly locksmiths). I hope if the IPV6 network expands the list of proxies remains maintained so I can continue to blacklist content from those sources... it's heavy handed but beats swimming in spam.
FTFY.
In both cases, we're shooting the messenger. And yes, I regularly see IPV6 proxies being blocked, probably for these reasons.
Indeed. The things that could probably be controlled are: 1) Proximity green lights (all lights turn green just as if a pedestrian had pressed a button). The PLC will still require time to go through amber to red for the other direction prior to the green light which leads us to... 2) adjusting amber light timings THIS is where lives could be lost, which is the reason municipalities put up those "New Traffic Sequence" signs. If suddenly the amber light only takes a second or so, even though it takes 20 seconds to walk across the intersection and 5 seconds for cars to clear the intersection, you're going to end up with fatalities. The PLC, not being custom programmed for individual intersections, can't defend against this. 3) easiest one: default to the flashing red "4-way" signal. Unfortunately, a large number of drivers don't seem to know what flashing red means, resulting in confusion, snarled traffic, and the odd accident. Not too big a deal though.
But I'm more interested in the traffic cameras on the network. Being able to access all traffic and red light cameras city-wide could have many uses (including plotting the fastest route through town, searching for someone/something and collecting a massive license plate tracking system).
Indeed... not only that, but the system has to be set up to work with both non-authenticating and authenticating devices for a significant period of time, while each traffic light is swapped out for a reprogrammed light that authenticates correctly.
What's really needed is to use something like sslwrapper on both ends of the system, so that each device on the network must authenticate with its private key. To do so, however, will require creating a test controller and a testbed of lights (to assure that nothing will break when it gets implemented) followed by a controller roll-out, and then by requiring the new PK system be installed in each light/camera that goes into the field.
Then, for the next 3 years or so, the old lights get swapped out and the upgraded ones are swapped in, by someone being paid to do this.
Disabling the debug port on the controller should be something fairly cheap to fix, but if the municipal employees maintaining the system currently use debug for some purpose, they're also going to require retraining and a new and effective system will need to be developed to replace the insecure method.
So yeah; we're talking about each municipality undergoing a major retraining and QA budget bump, plus the hiring/re-purposing of employees to manage this. The costs will scale more than linearly with the size of the system being upgraded.
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I think what the question really shows is that Canadians have a much stronger grasp of the English language, and don't see a few buzzwords and ignore the context. It's one thing to "walk by faith and not by sight" but quite another to think that we depend too much on knowledge (science = knowledge... scientific method or scientists are different kettles of poutine).
Which part of India are you in? My info is all second/third hand, but I'm not talking about the cities or surrounding areas -- that's why I made the comment about the Nokia phones for those areas.
Any way you look at it, Nokia rules the airwaves, and smartphones will still be for the richer, unless the prices continue to come down. But some people I've talked to have indeed switched from TV to smartphone, and that's in the city outskirts. If they want to see a sporting event, etc. they go to a friend's place.
Try to sell the Galaxy Nexus across India in volume and maybe you can tell us the answer :)
And yet... that 80% mark is probably correct to some degree. Some villages only have one cell phone that everyone shares, but in the cities, that's how people communicate.
So think of it as each person in India putting out $1100 for their phone, which they use in lieu of land line, TV and computer. Assuming it lasts as long as the Nokia phones they used to have, I can see this getting a high adoption rate, with a new phone, say, every 5 years.
You've got this 100% backwards. Deciding to drive slower than everyone else makes you a much bigger risk than the people driving the same speed. If the speed at which most drivers are comfortable on a road is too high for safety the road system itself (which includes signage and surroundings) has been designed incorrectly and should be corrected.
Correct -- the problem occurs when that person at the front of the line suddenly drives slower, due to hitting something, not being able to react in time, seeing the traffic light at the last minute, etc.
There are a few things that affect how fast people SHOULD drive -- intersection timings (get rid of intersections, they're unsafe, and there are better soltuions), road engineering, weather, driver alertness/reflexes, chances of some obstruction such as a child suddenly veering onto the road, and people doing stupid things.
Unfortunately, you can't fix the last one.
What gets me is NOT people driving over the limit, but people rushing to the next intersection when it's obvious they'll stop at the same light I will, people inside my 2 second react-time zone (that means if you're going faster than the limit, you should be giving other cars MORE room, not less), and people who just don't understand the laws of physics.
When you speed up a car, damage on impact is exponential, not linear. Also, cars react differently on different surfaces when braking, and people's reaction times have a limit. Many cities are lazy with their speed limits, and you can often find roads that, barring stupid drivers, are safe to drive at significantly higher speeds.
But again, you can't fix stupid, so the limits get normalized. It doesn't matter how good a driver you are, the limits are there to protect you from the intersection of your reaction speed and vehicle's mass+coefficient of friction, and the other person who did something idiotic that you didn't expect.
There are often reasons road speeds are set low that are way beyond how safe the road surface is for traffic to drive on at higher speeds, and those other reasons often can't be corrected, whereas a speed limit can be easily adjusted.
Besides, who cares how your speeding is detected? If you're speeding you're speeding. There's no "it's ok as long as I don't get caught"-clause.
I agree with you 98%. The system must detect if it's on public roads or private property, and also the flow of traffic (if traffic is going fast, you probably should go fast, too). I agree that our laws need to be obeyed even if there's little chance of getting caught.
We're talking V2V here -- unless the vehicle is able to read signs, I can't see the data containing more than GPS location, direction of travel, rate of accelleration. It'll still get a bunch wrong, but it'll see the cars you can't while sitting in the left hand turn lane.
What you're talking about is more like a V2N (Vehicle to network) system, where your car is always reporting what it is doing to some other location.
Thats all fine and good except, ATT shouldn't be charging for the overhead on their internal network. The reason that the meter their network usage is to limit how much upstream bandwidth they need, not because the DSL network is saturated.
Is that what your contract says?
Most places I've seen measure with encapsulation, because it's easier. The problem's not with the meter, it's with the small print. If your small print states that they measure the TCP packets only though, that's deceptive advertising and also puts them in violation of their contract.
Considering how hard I have to work to get any data usage stats out of my ISP though, my guess is that the small print doesn't say one way or the other -- which could still be considered deceptive, if you're willing to spend lots of money prosecuting in court.
Don't even need that -- just if something happens off-cam, the officer's word means next to nothing and the ruling is heavily weighted towards the plaintiff. If officers found that their testimony in court is automatically thrown out if they don't play by the recording rules, there'd be less messing with evidence.
They are also less likely to charge you with a bullshit charge they "discovered" having stopped you on sketchy grounds in the first place.
Are you sure about that? There are always stock charges that a camera won't pick up, and they need to show evidence of why they stopped you in the first place. I'd guess that for every charge they drop, another one is probably added.
Better to start writing poetry, a novel, some music, etc., and then possibly get a job as an analyst (full-time or contract). Management is an option, but really only for those who enjoy it. Do what you love; find a way to convert your experience into a paycheck.
Having a background like his, a different favourite form of poetry to write, and a love for LISP, I have to agree -- but after you've been coding for a few decades, the trick is to move into analysis and give up on the codemonkey work as a paying gig :( This doesn't mean going into management (which is another option), but instead using your years of expertise to look over other people's (finished/unfinished) code, tear it apart, and make suggestions on how to fix what they inevitably missed. Or go into security research, or become an independent contractor that can go in and fix all the software you wrote 20+ years ago that nobody has a clue about how to maintain anymore. It all comes back to "don't fall in love with the code" -- it's kind of like a NYT bestseller attempting to churn out books for 20+ years and keep them all best sellers; a few can do it, but for the most part, it's time to move to a supporting role and get paid more/in a more stable way.
You can, of course, move coding into a hobby, polishing that codebase you've been working on for the past 15 years just for the love of it. It's unlikely to make you as much money as you put into it though. /grump.
We're talking 2500BCE here; the stamp would say "Made in Sumer" (or possibly "Made in Armenia"). This is waaay pre-Ghengis.
Of course, during this period, it could also have said "Made in Pakistan," "Made in Crete" or "Made in Peru."
Nobody else would have had the ability to handle the outsourcing (let alone S&R).
I'd be interested to know if the majority of that money was in Ireland. If it wasn't, this is a non-story. If it was... well, there are ways of making the money "non-US" and you can rest assured that MS knows ALL of these ways. Their tax lawyers are just as good as IBM's IP lawyers.
This kind of assignment is usually done at the behest of social services to see what "signs" of home problems or mental issues students may have. It's pretty much a standard for students aged 13-15.
And yeah; I hated those too; but what I hated most was when no structure was given, and then I was penalized for thinking outside the box (yes, that unspoken box that the teacher said didn't exist until s/he saw my work).
Huh. Then he was following the rules of the assignment. Facebook statuses are mostly fiction, and some are fantasy.
Ah; I begin to see the problem. For him to be so insightful, he'd have to be using Facebook. As he's not 18 yet, he's underage to be using facebook, and so needed to be visited by the police for participating illegally in adult activities such as reading Facebook.
Come on, show me link to story that got French or Chinese kid arrested over writing school assignment about shooting something.
It wouldn't make the news. That's not the same thing as saying it doesn't happen. In China, the child would probably be sent off to a re-education camp, and everyone would think it normal. In France, he'd likely just get a bad grade.
I remember having to write a story a week in grade 8; I wrote a number of fictional stories based on real life happenings, some of which did include guns. A lot of what I did at/brought to school looks like it would now result in a call to the police. Of course, I have my suspicions that in many cases (including this one), there's more to the story. I don't think that if the schoolboy me was suddenly dropped into today's schools, they'd call the police (at least not for that sort of thing). More likely, this is a kid that had been talking a lot about guns, was being unruly in class, and this was the last straw for the teacher -- so they abused a "gun" rule and tried to scare him into proper behaviour by having the local policeman talk to him. Doesn't make it right, but it sure frames the story differently, doesn't it?
"The pen is mightier than the sword" is really a typo; it should read "The pen is mightier than the words." It's hard to poke someone's eye out with a word.
Yes; I seem to recall the amber light timings do have a floor/ceiling -- but as I pointed out, that range has to take into consideration all sorts of intersections and traffic speeds; the result is that you would require a conservative range of 2-6 seconds; setting a 6-second intersection to 2 seconds could have catastrophic results.
http://redlightrobber.com/red/... lays out the mathematical issues at stake here. This paper was published in 1959, but is just as true today.
Islam has been at war with everyone else from its inception. The West had to do nothing to incur their wrath. In fact, they need the West so they can claim to be victims and prepare their followers to die for Islam...and virgins...don't forget the virgins. Apparently, Heaven is full of them just waiting for a bunch of hairy, smelly jihadis.
You do realize that a sizable portion of the world's Muslims live in The West, right?
I think you're confusing Islam with a particular politically motivated Islamic sect -- kind of like people do with the Crusades, Westboro, calling the US a Christian country that abuses its power, etc.
It's not that religions are at war with everyone; it's that they can be easily abused for political gain, if care is not taken to prevent this.
I guarantee you that "the vast, vast majority of tech engineers" would not assume that "other countries" automatically meant "the very best". The general consensus in my neck of the woods is that engineers of foreign origin are about on par with our native engineers. The consensus I've seen in pop culture is that the foreign engineers are generally much worse. I can only imagine the question that would lead to the response above:
Q: If faced with a choice between a top foreign engineer or a mediocre American one, which would you hire?
A: The foreign one. I'd want to work with the very best.
...which, of course, has nothing to do with the H1B program; the very best don't need that program, as they can ask top dollar and get direct sponsorship.
"Well for one, Google and even more with Facebook do not create or generate much of anything. It is all code."
But it lasts forever. My wife's hairdresser does not create or generate much of anything either, but the wife pays him anyway twice a month to do his job, which also cannot be done over the internet.
I bet that the job of hairdresser CAN be done over the internet; we just haven't invented the right hardware yet. After all, if you can get your appendix removed over the Internet, it seems to me a haircut should be a bit easier.
While I love and appreciate IPV6 as a means to remain anonymous online, I work for a company that's the victim of quite a bit of "comment" spam hailing from among other places IPV6. The spam ranges from individual businesses promoting themselves for their own benefit under false pretenses, all the way to professional spammers gaming the system (mostly locksmiths). I hope if the IPV6 network expands the list of proxies remains maintained so I can continue to blacklist content from those sources... it's heavy handed but beats swimming in spam.
FTFY.
In both cases, we're shooting the messenger. And yes, I regularly see IPV6 proxies being blocked, probably for these reasons.
Indeed. The things that could probably be controlled are:
1) Proximity green lights (all lights turn green just as if a pedestrian had pressed a button). The PLC will still require time to go through amber to red for the other direction prior to the green light
which leads us to...
2) adjusting amber light timings
THIS is where lives could be lost, which is the reason municipalities put up those "New Traffic Sequence" signs. If suddenly the amber light only takes a second or so, even though it takes 20 seconds to walk across the intersection and 5 seconds for cars to clear the intersection, you're going to end up with fatalities. The PLC, not being custom programmed for individual intersections, can't defend against this.
3) easiest one: default to the flashing red "4-way" signal. Unfortunately, a large number of drivers don't seem to know what flashing red means, resulting in confusion, snarled traffic, and the odd accident. Not too big a deal though.
But I'm more interested in the traffic cameras on the network. Being able to access all traffic and red light cameras city-wide could have many uses (including plotting the fastest route through town, searching for someone/something and collecting a massive license plate tracking system).
Indeed... not only that, but the system has to be set up to work with both non-authenticating and authenticating devices for a significant period of time, while each traffic light is swapped out for a reprogrammed light that authenticates correctly.
What's really needed is to use something like sslwrapper on both ends of the system, so that each device on the network must authenticate with its private key. To do so, however, will require creating a test controller and a testbed of lights (to assure that nothing will break when it gets implemented) followed by a controller roll-out, and then by requiring the new PK system be installed in each light/camera that goes into the field.
Then, for the next 3 years or so, the old lights get swapped out and the upgraded ones are swapped in, by someone being paid to do this.
Disabling the debug port on the controller should be something fairly cheap to fix, but if the municipal employees maintaining the system currently use debug for some purpose, they're also going to require retraining and a new and effective system will need to be developed to replace the insecure method.
So yeah; we're talking about each municipality undergoing a major retraining and QA budget bump, plus the hiring/re-purposing of employees to manage this. The costs will scale more than linearly with the size of the system being upgraded.