Those household appliances are small potatoes compared to autos. The car companies outfit our cars with computers but give us no decent way to connect up our PCs or handhelds and have the vehicles tell us what ails them. Why? The conditions that generate sensor signals can be complex and the car companies are essentially saying "we do not understand our vehicles that well"...and it 'tis but a short step from that to forcing you into a dealership or auto repair shop just to "read and reset the computer".
Okay, but they then go further and outfit our vehicles with lots of small processors and connect them together in insecure ways. It will become the next hackers paradise especially when cars become endpoints on the interwebs, or worse, mobile routers.
"Perhaps if IT people were not expected to be as obsessed and asocial as they are, it wouldn't happen."
Bingo!! Women are much more social creatures than males. Science and engineering prize individual accomplishments (more science than engineering). Admittedly this is only one anecdotal data point, I was an assistant director of a uni lab. The women would all work together and discuss each others work. The males wanted nothing to do with anyone else. Regardless of how the sifting happened by the time they reached grad level work, but the die by that time had already been cast and I think it probably originates in innate differences between males and females.
In companies, both skills are necessary: obsessive concentration on small goals, and group interaction to achieve a common goal. So what should probably happen is that schools needs to encourage both but evenly, not based on sex.
Citation: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03... (admittedly behind a paywall but they paid less than $100K in fines. They also promised to clean up the other 24 accidents waiting to happen that they own just in N. Carolina. And this is after they "defanged" the state regulatory board.
Not really. It was triggered by young people being able to look abroad via the interwebs and see how people in other countries lived. So they too wanted to live in a place where their political voices could be heard. The problem was that they ignored the snake in grass ready to pounce if the central governments were weakened. Political Islam hijacked the soft revolutions; they saw it as their chance to finally exert a Nazi like control over the rest of the pop. and make them enjoy the pure hell on earth that an unchecked religion can deliver.
The factors behind political Islam were originally religious in nature, however politicized Islam is mainly run by young men. The main reason for them to support political Islam is that if women in Islamic countries are freed from their slavery, they will be free to make their own marriage decisions. This scares the hell out of the young men because they figure they'll be on the losing end of that deal...and probably rightly so. The women won't be interested in subjugating themselves or their (new) careers to their husbands, they won't be interested in being part of the husband's brothel of kept women, and they'll be wanting a say in all decisions.
The headgear worn by Islamic women has nothing to do with religion; it 'tis but a mark of their enslavement and yet one more method to keep them in line.
The reason we don't think of MS when it comes to open source is because it is like being reminded of one's evil mother-in-law. You know she's out there, scheming, plotting. You know will have to deal with her one way or another. You know she'd like to steal your soul and sell it straight to Satan.
Yep, you as a mild-mannered undergraduate are able to leap tall theories, run faster than a locomotive, and who, disguised as beguiling innocent, are able to use your Super-XRay vision to totally predict your future life. Let no man in the organizations you work for attempt to get you to contribute to areas not in your chosen field of tunnel vision. There hasn't been a subject yet devised that could aid your future self in ways you cannot predict.
What I'd really like is an extra space dimension so I can jump around traffic jams. An extra time dimension would good too so that it doesn't take me very long to do it.
That's easily defended. All physical theories are math. That's it, there's nothing more to them. We interpret mathematical theories using a model, i.e., in this case, the universe. Some theories are consistent with the model, some are not. Those that are not, are no less scientific because they describe what cannot be the case. All that is required of a mathematical theory is that it be consistent.
Einstein's general relativity a mathematical theory. Astrophysicists are still constructing tests to see how valid it is. Any testing is only as good as the resolution inherent in the physical system used for testing. In that sense, you could say that general relativity will forever be just a mathematical theory, it can never be fully tested because we'll never have infinite resolution (if that even makes sense). Mathematical theories of physics are merely scribbles on a piece of paper. We manipulate the scribbles and when we see our manipulation mirrored or represented in the Universe, we say the theory describes that part of the Universe. However, the representation is only up to a certain epsilon, so it is more accurate to say the theory describes the representation only up to the limit of resolution of our tests.
Let there be myriad mathematical theories. It's okay, no one is going to lose their lunch over it. Einstein's theory of relativity was theoretical at first. It was only later that scientists were able to devise experiments to test it, and they are still conjuring up new experiments for further testing. Even the aether theory had an impact on science. It forced experiments that falsified it and we learned by doing that.
Science posits new theories all the time. Even if the aren't testable now, they may some day.
Or Wolf Blitzer broadcasts. It is a fact that Wolf can actually suck information out of the ambient room and it is never seen nor heard from again. Think of him as an acoustical black hole.
I think it depends on whether the intelligent life has developed potato chips and bag in which to hold them while being eaten...under the assumption that potato chips are not toxic to the intelligent life as they sometimes are to terrestrial humans.
So, it is the Americans fault the new Russian Tsar stole back the Crimea, a piece of Georgia, is threatening a piece of Ukraine, is threatening Moldova, is threatening the Baltic states, and consolidating all power in the Kremlin.
Is there anything else you'd like to blame the U.S for?
I see. So if you were privileged or able to work your way into a company supplied med insurance program. You win the lottery and all is well. However, if you were unprivileged or had to work your life away in low, menial jobs to support your poor family and never had a chance to work your way into a company supplied insurance program, then you lost the lottery of life; you should just accept that you will die early. Then there is the lottery of your company shipping your job overseas to some low wage country when you are in your 40's or 50's. You then have little chance of further employment and your insurance is gone with your job. And you might have been allowed to get an medicaid, if you have lost enough of your wealth...except that was made harder by some governors rejecting the wider coverage. So, better hope you stay healthy and employed and aren't steamrolled by corporate America.
Most modern countries have healthcare for their citizens. How is it the U.S. cannot figure this out?
Hmmm....so it would be okay with you if you bought Joe-Bob's Magic Pills and they caused your brain to bleed? I find that it is your constitutional right to try unregulated drugs from your pharmacy. Get back to us with any side-effects you don't like so we can be sure not to make the same mistake.
So, you are going to deter Chinese hackers by outing them in public. Mao is laughing in his grave...and given the millions he caused to die, that's no small feat.
Nah, neither would want MS. Apple doesn't care all that much about industry...although they are changing that a bit recently. They still don't want the desktop ball and chain. Google doesn't either, they just want all communications in their cloud so that it be squeezed for information on everyone's grandmother and what she eats for breakfast (A hint, Google, think "prunes").
I doubt he's got enough enemies in Russia with enough power to take him out. He controls the state police and the armed forces. There would have to be mutiny in the armed forces and that won't happen because they do not want to be shot by the state police.
Putin is doing this because he fears others believe he has a small dick. There's nothing more to it than that. Everything else is window dressing to cover up his lack of manhood. The state police are tasked with defending his small dick.
Try 6000 years. They were bashing each other over the head way back then as well according to the ancient history book I read.
The wars aren't what's bankrupting the budget, it is the 2/3 of "non-discretionary" expenses that are dong that job quite nicely.
The U.S. is involved world wide because the U.S. has defense agreements and economic interests world wide. The U.S. had their head stuck up their ass before WW II and then WW II happened. It happened because "the world" didn't have the balls to stop German and Japanese aggression when it would have been easy.
Currently, Putin and Muslim radicals and Chinese expansionism will create another fucking world-wide mess, and two of them have nuclear weapons. As soon as Pakistan drops their panties for the radicals, the Muslim jihadis will have them as well. It's going to be wonderful world.
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Yep, I used to walk 20 miles a day just to pick up one processor instruction manual...in my bare feet...and then had to carry it back.
In the 80's, you had a few manuals on your desk and it was enough. Now you need the WWW just to hack your way through all the details to get something running. The systems were smaller back then, the languages were simpler, the assembly code was simpler. Nothing is simple any more.
It is true that past Ukrainian governments didn't do very well by the people. However, there is a split in the country about what to do with the situation. The Ukrainian nationalists laid the blame on Soviet era politics and decided they needed to look West for the solution. The idea was that the West is doing okay, Russia is more or less a failed state. Also, they believe that joining the EU will force economic reforms (and it will) that will require the old Soviet style of management goes bye-bye.
The Russian leaning part of the pop. of the Ukraine look at the situation and place the blame on leaving the Soviet Union. Hence, their solution is to go back to the embrace of its remnant, Russia. This part of the country has more heavy industry and their chief market is Russia, so they feel the economic draw of Russia. Also, going West would require their heavy industry become much more efficient to compete with EU industry. The problem with that is it would mean more unemployment as companies that cannot hack go out of business.
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Thanks for that bit of useless advice. I'll now ascertain whether any computers I need to connect with have malware installed, then I'll be safe.
Hint: classical logic presumes you have complete knowledge of the world. Use it with care.
Those household appliances are small potatoes compared to autos. The car companies outfit our cars with computers but give us no decent way to connect up our PCs or handhelds and have the vehicles tell us what ails them. Why? The conditions that generate sensor signals can be complex and the car companies are essentially saying "we do not understand our vehicles that well"...and it 'tis but a short step from that to forcing you into a dealership or auto repair shop just to "read and reset the computer".
Okay, but they then go further and outfit our vehicles with lots of small processors and connect them together in insecure ways. It will become the next hackers paradise especially when cars become endpoints on the interwebs, or worse, mobile routers.
"Perhaps if IT people were not expected to be as obsessed and asocial as they are, it wouldn't happen."
Bingo!! Women are much more social creatures than males. Science and engineering prize individual accomplishments (more science than engineering). Admittedly this is only one anecdotal data point, I was an assistant director of a uni lab. The women would all work together and discuss each others work. The males wanted nothing to do with anyone else. Regardless of how the sifting happened by the time they reached grad level work, but the die by that time had already been cast and I think it probably originates in innate differences between males and females.
In companies, both skills are necessary: obsessive concentration on small goals, and group interaction to achieve a common goal. So what should probably happen is that schools needs to encourage both but evenly, not based on sex.
Gold is used throughout industry. Attempting to use Bitcoins in place of it would be a really neat trick.
Citation: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03... (admittedly behind a paywall but they paid less than $100K in fines. They also promised to clean up the other 24 accidents waiting to happen that they own just in N. Carolina. And this is after they "defanged" the state regulatory board.
Not really. It was triggered by young people being able to look abroad via the interwebs and see how people in other countries lived. So they too wanted to live in a place where their political voices could be heard. The problem was that they ignored the snake in grass ready to pounce if the central governments were weakened. Political Islam hijacked the soft revolutions; they saw it as their chance to finally exert a Nazi like control over the rest of the pop. and make them enjoy the pure hell on earth that an unchecked religion can deliver.
The factors behind political Islam were originally religious in nature, however politicized Islam is mainly run by young men. The main reason for them to support political Islam is that if women in Islamic countries are freed from their slavery, they will be free to make their own marriage decisions. This scares the hell out of the young men because they figure they'll be on the losing end of that deal...and probably rightly so. The women won't be interested in subjugating themselves or their (new) careers to their husbands, they won't be interested in being part of the husband's brothel of kept women, and they'll be wanting a say in all decisions.
The headgear worn by Islamic women has nothing to do with religion; it 'tis but a mark of their enslavement and yet one more method to keep them in line.
The reason we don't think of MS when it comes to open source is because it is like being reminded of one's evil mother-in-law. You know she's out there, scheming, plotting. You know will have to deal with her one way or another. You know she'd like to steal your soul and sell it straight to Satan.
Yep, you as a mild-mannered undergraduate are able to leap tall theories, run faster than a locomotive, and who, disguised as beguiling innocent, are able to use your Super-XRay vision to totally predict your future life. Let no man in the organizations you work for attempt to get you to contribute to areas not in your chosen field of tunnel vision. There hasn't been a subject yet devised that could aid your future self in ways you cannot predict.
What I'd really like is an extra space dimension so I can jump around traffic jams. An extra time dimension would good too so that it doesn't take me very long to do it.
That's easily defended. All physical theories are math. That's it, there's nothing more to them. We interpret mathematical theories using a model, i.e., in this case, the universe. Some theories are consistent with the model, some are not. Those that are not, are no less scientific because they describe what cannot be the case. All that is required of a mathematical theory is that it be consistent.
Einstein's general relativity a mathematical theory. Astrophysicists are still constructing tests to see how valid it is. Any testing is only as good as the resolution inherent in the physical system used for testing. In that sense, you could say that general relativity will forever be just a mathematical theory, it can never be fully tested because we'll never have infinite resolution (if that even makes sense). Mathematical theories of physics are merely scribbles on a piece of paper. We manipulate the scribbles and when we see our manipulation mirrored or represented in the Universe, we say the theory describes that part of the Universe. However, the representation is only up to a certain epsilon, so it is more accurate to say the theory describes the representation only up to the limit of resolution of our tests.
Let there be myriad mathematical theories. It's okay, no one is going to lose their lunch over it. Einstein's theory of relativity was theoretical at first. It was only later that scientists were able to devise experiments to test it, and they are still conjuring up new experiments for further testing. Even the aether theory had an impact on science. It forced experiments that falsified it and we learned by doing that.
Science posits new theories all the time. Even if the aren't testable now, they may some day.
Yeah, that's what they should do, open themselves up to yet another round of MS dirty tricks. And to think you aren't a CEO yet.
Or Wolf Blitzer broadcasts. It is a fact that Wolf can actually suck information out of the ambient room and it is never seen nor heard from again. Think of him as an acoustical black hole.
I think it depends on whether the intelligent life has developed potato chips and bag in which to hold them while being eaten...under the assumption that potato chips are not toxic to the intelligent life as they sometimes are to terrestrial humans.
So, it is the Americans fault the new Russian Tsar stole back the Crimea, a piece of Georgia, is threatening a piece of Ukraine, is threatening Moldova, is threatening the Baltic states, and consolidating all power in the Kremlin.
Is there anything else you'd like to blame the U.S for?
I see. So if you were privileged or able to work your way into a company supplied med insurance program. You win the lottery and all is well. However, if you were unprivileged or had to work your life away in low, menial jobs to support your poor family and never had a chance to work your way into a company supplied insurance program, then you lost the lottery of life; you should just accept that you will die early. Then there is the lottery of your company shipping your job overseas to some low wage country when you are in your 40's or 50's. You then have little chance of further employment and your insurance is gone with your job. And you might have been allowed to get an medicaid, if you have lost enough of your wealth...except that was made harder by some governors rejecting the wider coverage. So, better hope you stay healthy and employed and aren't steamrolled by corporate America.
Most modern countries have healthcare for their citizens. How is it the U.S. cannot figure this out?
Hmmm....so it would be okay with you if you bought Joe-Bob's Magic Pills and they caused your brain to bleed? I find that it is your constitutional right to try unregulated drugs from your pharmacy. Get back to us with any side-effects you don't like so we can be sure not to make the same mistake.
You mean like the international and American aid Hamas diverted to build tunnels and rockets to attack Israel rather than on schools, hospitals, etc.?
So, you are going to deter Chinese hackers by outing them in public. Mao is laughing in his grave...and given the millions he caused to die, that's no small feat.
No, just Tibet.
Nah, neither would want MS. Apple doesn't care all that much about industry...although they are changing that a bit recently. They still don't want the desktop ball and chain. Google doesn't either, they just want all communications in their cloud so that it be squeezed for information on everyone's grandmother and what she eats for breakfast (A hint, Google, think "prunes").
I doubt he's got enough enemies in Russia with enough power to take him out. He controls the state police and the armed forces. There would have to be mutiny in the armed forces and that won't happen because they do not want to be shot by the state police.
Putin is doing this because he fears others believe he has a small dick. There's nothing more to it than that. Everything else is window dressing to cover up his lack of manhood. The state police are tasked with defending his small dick.
Try 6000 years. They were bashing each other over the head way back then as well according to the ancient history book I read.
The wars aren't what's bankrupting the budget, it is the 2/3 of "non-discretionary" expenses that are dong that job quite nicely.
The U.S. is involved world wide because the U.S. has defense agreements and economic interests world wide. The U.S. had their head stuck up their ass before WW II and then WW II happened. It happened because "the world" didn't have the balls to stop German and Japanese aggression when it would have been easy.
Currently, Putin and Muslim radicals and Chinese expansionism will create another fucking world-wide mess, and two of them have nuclear weapons. As soon as Pakistan drops their panties for the radicals, the Muslim jihadis will have them as well. It's going to be wonderful world.
Yep, I used to walk 20 miles a day just to pick up one processor instruction manual...in my bare feet...and then had to carry it back.
In the 80's, you had a few manuals on your desk and it was enough. Now you need the WWW just to hack your way through all the details to get something running. The systems were smaller back then, the languages were simpler, the assembly code was simpler. Nothing is simple any more.
It is true that past Ukrainian governments didn't do very well by the people. However, there is a split in the country about what to do with the situation. The Ukrainian nationalists laid the blame on Soviet era politics and decided they needed to look West for the solution. The idea was that the West is doing okay, Russia is more or less a failed state. Also, they believe that joining the EU will force economic reforms (and it will) that will require the old Soviet style of management goes bye-bye.
The Russian leaning part of the pop. of the Ukraine look at the situation and place the blame on leaving the Soviet Union. Hence, their solution is to go back to the embrace of its remnant, Russia. This part of the country has more heavy industry and their chief market is Russia, so they feel the economic draw of Russia. Also, going West would require their heavy industry become much more efficient to compete with EU industry. The problem with that is it would mean more unemployment as companies that cannot hack go out of business.