" One of the NSA's jobs is to make sure that any devices used by US government employees are "secure"."
No, it isn't. NSA is strictly comms interception and analysis with a bit of certification for DoD devices. But they are getting out of the latter fast as the COTS world is moving a lot faster than can NSA.
The Dutch are not surrounded by water on 3 sides, nor are they subjected to hurricanes, at least not of the sort is Florida. They are also not afflicted by brainless politicians who cannot think further that their kickbacks.
Not to mention that the Republicans in the House voted to impeach Billy on lying about getting BJs, whereas they cannot see fit to do anything about an alleged Administration which seems bought and paid for by the Soviets, we call them Russians now.
And, Reagan got snookered by Tip O'Neill. Reagan would get his tax cuts and O'Neill would cut the appropriations. O'Neill never followed through and knew that his caucus didn't give a flying rat's ass what O'Neill promised Reagan, it was an empty promise.
Reagan at least knew that cutting taxes would increase the deficit and hence wanted the appropriations cut. When that didn't happen, his administration discovered voodoo economics. The economy was fueled by deficit spending and the beginnings of the tech revolution. Also the business cycle recovered from Carter's years.
The current lot of Republicans never learned that lesson. They somehow believe that since Kennedy cut taxes and increased tax receipts as a result, they can do the same thing. When taxes are that high (over 70% in some cases), that works. When taxes are relatively low like now, it doesn't work. They figure if they give companies and rich people more money, they'll invest in more business. What they leave out is that demand hasn't changed. Businessmen and rich people aren't stupid, they won't invest to meet non-existent demand.
Republicans also feel nostalgia for Bill Clinton and the boom economy of the 1990s. That happened because of the tech boom and the race to fix Y2K. Once that was over, in approx. April-May of 2000, the economy started tanking.
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are working with business? How do you figure? They still kowtow to the unions which are generally anti-free trade, at least their leaders are.
The Republicans have kicked all the smart people out of the party. Now it is left with dolts from the Religious Right, the Ditto-Heads of Rush Limbaugh, and Russian stooges.
Actually, most of us voted for the OTHER woman in the race. It was only the quirk of the Electoral Collage that gave us this knob.
The embarrassing part is that a significant portion of the U.S. still think he's a good idea. When I saw the reports on the White Lives Matter demonstration in Tenn., I thought I would puke me guts out. Glorifying Nazis, as they did, was a kick in the gut to those who lost family members in WWII in Europe. That told the rest of America that they had thrown the American ideals out the window.
This is not unlike putting a diagram in a talk with slides. If everyone knows the ground rules governing the diagram, then it will be meaningful generally. If some don't, the diagram will not self-explain anything. I once saw a brief by Gen. Pataeus while he was still a general. He's going through the brief and then hits a slide with arrows all over it, arrows pointing at the door, arrows pointing at the ceiling, arrows pointing at other arrows, arrows point to nothing at all, etc. It was a very noisy slide. He complimented the help he got from Microsoft for constructing that slide for him. That would explain the arrows, what it doesn't explain is why he thought the slide conveyed anything but confusion.
UIs are similar. If you know the rules, they are fine. Otherwise, they are opaque. Apple once had a development system called MPW. It had a command line tool generator called Commando for putting together Unix like (but different) command lines. Every command has a lot of variations, but when you typed in the name of the command, it would pull up a dialog box with radio buttons, text boxes with labels, etc. You could just select what you needed and it would build a command line in a window. You could run the command line there or copy and paste it into a terminal window. It was refreshing never needing to recall some arcane syntax just to execute a command.
Conservatives do not fall apart just because you show them what they believe is erroneous. They live in a world of denial. Many on the Left do as well.
Errrrmmm...you mean Hannity hasn't already been hired by the Soviets? I guess we call them Russians now. How will we know when he stops being in their employ?
From what I understand, it didn't just walk out the door. The la Presidenta Tweetie hasn't filled the head position of that agency yet. NPR obtained the report, probably because it was leaked. lPT will just claim it is all part of The Conspiracy. His sycophants in the right wing media will parrot the same line. The rank and file Republicans will have been given their talking points and will repeat them ad nauseum. It's part of their philosophy to treat anything that might alter their lifestyle as a threat. And if global warming does that to them, they'll simply claim it was an act of G-d. Shiva is a vengeful G-d.
Yeah, I'll add a pin to the 50 other goddamn pins I have. And I'll add another goddamn password to all the other passwords I have. I'll also remember, because I'm caustically reminded, to change my password every frikken 2 months. Oh, I can get a dongle for creating new passwords that I can carry around wherever the hell I go.
...then the alleged Administration should put more money into research. China and most of the rest of the Asian countries understand research is the gateway to a better future. Hell, even the Arab countries get it. Africa gets it. Would someone please send a memo to la Presidenta Tweetie that research matters, but you do not get to dictate the results.
Thomas Friedman had a great op-ed in the NYT about the U.S. military in Niger. The entire Sahel is under threat from climate change. With their economic prospects dimming, the young men are easy targets for Daesh recruiters. The Knob's response is to send in the U.S. military. Even Mattis recognizes the futility of that policy and once commented that without a functioning State Dept and programs designed for economic development, the U.S. will have to spend much more on bullets. Too bad he's another eunuch in the court of someone who, in Friedman's article, is too dim to connect the dots.
Hey, you should tell the advertising geniuses at companies that advertising doesn't work. I'm sure they'd listen to you, just present them with your statistics showing that it doesn't work. Errr...you do have those, right?
Really? Suppose you want to become an astrophysicist. You'll be wanting years of higher mathematics and physics, and had better be working for some professor who is at the top of some specialty in that field. This isn't the 1900's any longer where someone, say a patent examiner, can come up with a new theory of gravity, just to pick an example at random. Physics has very narrow specialties, you'll be wanting to pick one (two if you are really, really good and can stomach the extra years that will take). Unfortunately, the specialists are working at unis which you'll be needing to get into any actual experiments...if you go the experimental route since you cannot afford the equipment. If you go the theory route, the idea of competing against that crowd by home schooling is ludicrous.
Want to do quantum physics? You'll be needing those advanced math courses again just to read papers in the field. And you'd better be quite good at it because mathematics is the language of physics. Math alone won't get you there. You'll be needing years of study in the latest physics. That generally gets done at a university because the payoff for physics is so far down the road that people like you cannot see to fund the people doing the work now.
Chemistry, biology, etc. are similar. Want to be a code monkey the rest of your life. Then go off and program your heart out. However, if you want to work at a company that does drives controls for the machine tool industry, you'll be wanting that engineering degree. Or practice. Of course you won't get a chance to practice because you won't know enough to be allowed to practice on a company's dime, and you cannot buy your own drives controls to practice on since it is way out of your price league. Most computing gets done in fields that are not approachable being a code monkey alone, you'll need domain knowledge. To get that, you'll probably be needing that degree again so you can be taught what you need to learn. But you seem like a self-starter, please pick some field that uses programming to achieve an end but isn't primarily concerned with programming. Go get that domain knowledge, be sure you cover all the bases, and be ready to show any prospective employer your self-taught brilliance.
Maybe in your experience. In my experience, professors were required to teach their courses, grad assistants taught the labs and had one or two of their own sessions with the class. Professors constructed the exams.
There was also feedback taken quite seriously by the administration in the form of student reviews of the professors. Admittedly, there are too many administrators.
Also, no professor of any substance would have his grad students write his/her papers lest something go out the door with mistakes. The academic world (at least the sciences and mathematics) is quite brutal when incorrect results are flogged. Graduate students working for a professor on research are generally funded by research grants that the professors must acquire by themselves (yes, in your bunny world, grants are handed out like candy; in the real world, they are not),
Sure, there are a few slackers in the professorial corps, there are in every profession. However, at least in the sciences, they are usually dealt with harshly since they effect the salaries of everyone else in the dept.
And few would go to see the movies. One thing that keeps people coming back is they can see a star they can relate to. Stars generate press for themselves, they come with a backstory, and some with stories we'd rather not hear. However, this is what the proles see as interesting.
I think it depends upon how the data is used. If you have a black district and then apply the program, and you have a white district and do not apply the program, then the bias results. Or just wait longer in white districts before asking for confirmation. From what I gather in the synopsis, there was a recent change from requiring confirmation to allowing election officials to immediately purge the roles.
Do not underestimate the complexity in modern fighter aircraft. These are not A-10s. And the red tape wasn't the driving force causing delays, it was complicated aircraft, the military always wanting the latest shiny gizmo, the length of time for production which only gave the military more time to consider the new gizmos the industry was offering in the meantime.
It isn't exactly one size fits all. The Navy has their carrier version, the Marines has theirs (it goes up and down as well as forward), and the Air Force has their version (probably more than one). If the Army was allowed planes of this calibre, they'd have their own version for their "special" circumstances.
The amt of time necessary to design, build prototypes, and test is so long now that it is guaranteed to be using out of date technology, which again increases costs because the older tech is no longer in production.
I would have told the Marines they are getting the A-10, great for what they need, and no you won't storming any beaches in the future. The Navy has demonstrated pilotless aircraft of fighter abilities. They'd get those instead of keeping a meat sack expensively supplied with oxygen and braincase helmets. The Air Force would have been kept on the F-22 until they get their own pilotless aircraft designed. And they can damn well shrink their ego-inflated pilot corps.
"scrum sessions" There's your problem right there. Agile does not encourage good overall design. It is a micromanagering dream and causes coders to only work for the next sprint goals. As long as their little piece of the pie works, they get rewarded. The entire dirty snowball that gets produced is merely a by-product.
Yes, there is plenty of blame to go around. Part of that blame is on CS depts. I was once associated with a CS dept. of a major midwest uni. They said they had an "honors" group of students. I got saddled with three of them for a project in Java. When I asked if they could whack together something that did X, they grumbled, moaned, whined, and produced nothing. They didn't know how to get started. Yet they all went on to "promising" careers in industry...and they were seniors.
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" One of the NSA's jobs is to make sure that any devices used by US government employees are "secure"."
No, it isn't. NSA is strictly comms interception and analysis with a bit of certification for DoD devices. But they are getting out of the latter fast as the COTS world is moving a lot faster than can NSA.
The Dutch are not surrounded by water on 3 sides, nor are they subjected to hurricanes, at least not of the sort is Florida. They are also not afflicted by brainless politicians who cannot think further that their kickbacks.
Not to mention that the Republicans in the House voted to impeach Billy on lying about getting BJs, whereas they cannot see fit to do anything about an alleged Administration which seems bought and paid for by the Soviets, we call them Russians now.
Not spy, stooge.
And, Reagan got snookered by Tip O'Neill. Reagan would get his tax cuts and O'Neill would cut the appropriations. O'Neill never followed through and knew that his caucus didn't give a flying rat's ass what O'Neill promised Reagan, it was an empty promise.
Reagan at least knew that cutting taxes would increase the deficit and hence wanted the appropriations cut. When that didn't happen, his administration discovered voodoo economics. The economy was fueled by deficit spending and the beginnings of the tech revolution. Also the business cycle recovered from Carter's years.
The current lot of Republicans never learned that lesson. They somehow believe that since Kennedy cut taxes and increased tax receipts as a result, they can do the same thing. When taxes are that high (over 70% in some cases), that works. When taxes are relatively low like now, it doesn't work. They figure if they give companies and rich people more money, they'll invest in more business. What they leave out is that demand hasn't changed. Businessmen and rich people aren't stupid, they won't invest to meet non-existent demand.
Republicans also feel nostalgia for Bill Clinton and the boom economy of the 1990s. That happened because of the tech boom and the race to fix Y2K. Once that was over, in approx. April-May of 2000, the economy started tanking.
Believing a lie is never a recipe for success.
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are working with business? How do you figure? They still kowtow to the unions which are generally anti-free trade, at least their leaders are.
The Republicans have kicked all the smart people out of the party. Now it is left with dolts from the Religious Right, the Ditto-Heads of Rush Limbaugh, and Russian stooges.
I don't think so. I've read them before Bezo and after Bezo and I cannot tell the difference.
There are roughly 7.6 billion people on the planet, and about 1/4 of them use facebook?
I'm guessing there are well north of 200 million fakes.
Actually, most of us voted for the OTHER woman in the race. It was only the quirk of the Electoral Collage that gave us this knob.
The embarrassing part is that a significant portion of the U.S. still think he's a good idea. When I saw the reports on the White Lives Matter demonstration in Tenn., I thought I would puke me guts out. Glorifying Nazis, as they did, was a kick in the gut to those who lost family members in WWII in Europe. That told the rest of America that they had thrown the American ideals out the window.
This is not unlike putting a diagram in a talk with slides. If everyone knows the ground rules governing the diagram, then it will be meaningful generally. If some don't, the diagram will not self-explain anything. I once saw a brief by Gen. Pataeus while he was still a general. He's going through the brief and then hits a slide with arrows all over it, arrows pointing at the door, arrows pointing at the ceiling, arrows pointing at other arrows, arrows point to nothing at all, etc. It was a very noisy slide. He complimented the help he got from Microsoft for constructing that slide for him. That would explain the arrows, what it doesn't explain is why he thought the slide conveyed anything but confusion.
UIs are similar. If you know the rules, they are fine. Otherwise, they are opaque. Apple once had a development system called MPW. It had a command line tool generator called Commando for putting together Unix like (but different) command lines. Every command has a lot of variations, but when you typed in the name of the command, it would pull up a dialog box with radio buttons, text boxes with labels, etc. You could just select what you needed and it would build a command line in a window. You could run the command line there or copy and paste it into a terminal window. It was refreshing never needing to recall some arcane syntax just to execute a command.
Conservatives do not fall apart just because you show them what they believe is erroneous. They live in a world of denial. Many on the Left do as well.
Errrrmmm...you mean Hannity hasn't already been hired by the Soviets? I guess we call them Russians now. How will we know when he stops being in their employ?
From what I understand, it didn't just walk out the door. The la Presidenta Tweetie hasn't filled the head position of that agency yet. NPR obtained the report, probably because it was leaked. lPT will just claim it is all part of The Conspiracy. His sycophants in the right wing media will parrot the same line. The rank and file Republicans will have been given their talking points and will repeat them ad nauseum. It's part of their philosophy to treat anything that might alter their lifestyle as a threat. And if global warming does that to them, they'll simply claim it was an act of G-d. Shiva is a vengeful G-d.
Yeah, I'll add a pin to the 50 other goddamn pins I have. And I'll add another goddamn password to all the other passwords I have. I'll also remember, because I'm caustically reminded, to change my password every frikken 2 months. Oh, I can get a dongle for creating new passwords that I can carry around wherever the hell I go.
...then the alleged Administration should put more money into research. China and most of the rest of the Asian countries understand research is the gateway to a better future. Hell, even the Arab countries get it. Africa gets it. Would someone please send a memo to la Presidenta Tweetie that research matters, but you do not get to dictate the results.
Thomas Friedman had a great op-ed in the NYT about the U.S. military in Niger. The entire Sahel is under threat from climate change. With their economic prospects dimming, the young men are easy targets for Daesh recruiters. The Knob's response is to send in the U.S. military. Even Mattis recognizes the futility of that policy and once commented that without a functioning State Dept and programs designed for economic development, the U.S. will have to spend much more on bullets. Too bad he's another eunuch in the court of someone who, in Friedman's article, is too dim to connect the dots.
Hey, you should tell the advertising geniuses at companies that advertising doesn't work. I'm sure they'd listen to you, just present them with your statistics showing that it doesn't work. Errr...you do have those, right?
I think if you were to call the GP "poopyhead", that would really make your argument airtight. BTW, just what is the point that you are making?
Really? Suppose you want to become an astrophysicist. You'll be wanting years of higher mathematics and physics, and had better be working for some professor who is at the top of some specialty in that field. This isn't the 1900's any longer where someone, say a patent examiner, can come up with a new theory of gravity, just to pick an example at random. Physics has very narrow specialties, you'll be wanting to pick one (two if you are really, really good and can stomach the extra years that will take). Unfortunately, the specialists are working at unis which you'll be needing to get into any actual experiments...if you go the experimental route since you cannot afford the equipment. If you go the theory route, the idea of competing against that crowd by home schooling is ludicrous.
Want to do quantum physics? You'll be needing those advanced math courses again just to read papers in the field. And you'd better be quite good at it because mathematics is the language of physics. Math alone won't get you there. You'll be needing years of study in the latest physics. That generally gets done at a university because the payoff for physics is so far down the road that people like you cannot see to fund the people doing the work now.
Chemistry, biology, etc. are similar. Want to be a code monkey the rest of your life. Then go off and program your heart out. However, if you want to work at a company that does drives controls for the machine tool industry, you'll be wanting that engineering degree. Or practice. Of course you won't get a chance to practice because you won't know enough to be allowed to practice on a company's dime, and you cannot buy your own drives controls to practice on since it is way out of your price league. Most computing gets done in fields that are not approachable being a code monkey alone, you'll need domain knowledge. To get that, you'll probably be needing that degree again so you can be taught what you need to learn. But you seem like a self-starter, please pick some field that uses programming to achieve an end but isn't primarily concerned with programming. Go get that domain knowledge, be sure you cover all the bases, and be ready to show any prospective employer your self-taught brilliance.
Maybe in your experience. In my experience, professors were required to teach their courses, grad assistants taught the labs and had one or two of their own sessions with the class. Professors constructed the exams.
There was also feedback taken quite seriously by the administration in the form of student reviews of the professors. Admittedly, there are too many administrators.
Also, no professor of any substance would have his grad students write his/her papers lest something go out the door with mistakes. The academic world (at least the sciences and mathematics) is quite brutal when incorrect results are flogged. Graduate students working for a professor on research are generally funded by research grants that the professors must acquire by themselves (yes, in your bunny world, grants are handed out like candy; in the real world, they are not),
Sure, there are a few slackers in the professorial corps, there are in every profession. However, at least in the sciences, they are usually dealt with harshly since they effect the salaries of everyone else in the dept.
And few would go to see the movies. One thing that keeps people coming back is they can see a star they can relate to. Stars generate press for themselves, they come with a backstory, and some with stories we'd rather not hear. However, this is what the proles see as interesting.
I think it depends upon how the data is used. If you have a black district and then apply the program, and you have a white district and do not apply the program, then the bias results. Or just wait longer in white districts before asking for confirmation. From what I gather in the synopsis, there was a recent change from requiring confirmation to allowing election officials to immediately purge the roles.
Do not underestimate the complexity in modern fighter aircraft. These are not A-10s. And the red tape wasn't the driving force causing delays, it was complicated aircraft, the military always wanting the latest shiny gizmo, the length of time for production which only gave the military more time to consider the new gizmos the industry was offering in the meantime.
It isn't exactly one size fits all. The Navy has their carrier version, the Marines has theirs (it goes up and down as well as forward), and the Air Force has their version (probably more than one). If the Army was allowed planes of this calibre, they'd have their own version for their "special" circumstances.
The amt of time necessary to design, build prototypes, and test is so long now that it is guaranteed to be using out of date technology, which again increases costs because the older tech is no longer in production.
I would have told the Marines they are getting the A-10, great for what they need, and no you won't storming any beaches in the future. The Navy has demonstrated pilotless aircraft of fighter abilities. They'd get those instead of keeping a meat sack expensively supplied with oxygen and braincase helmets. The Air Force would have been kept on the F-22 until they get their own pilotless aircraft designed. And they can damn well shrink their ego-inflated pilot corps.
"scrum sessions" There's your problem right there. Agile does not encourage good overall design. It is a micromanagering dream and causes coders to only work for the next sprint goals. As long as their little piece of the pie works, they get rewarded. The entire dirty snowball that gets produced is merely a by-product.
Yes, there is plenty of blame to go around. Part of that blame is on CS depts. I was once associated with a CS dept. of a major midwest uni. They said they had an "honors" group of students. I got saddled with three of them for a project in Java. When I asked if they could whack together something that did X, they grumbled, moaned, whined, and produced nothing. They didn't know how to get started. Yet they all went on to "promising" careers in industry...and they were seniors.