Where's the trade happening ? the business is between Facebook and the data consumers, not the hapless dupes who post all the personal information up there.
And in any case, do you think that the US gov would stop the opportunity to get any information which NK projects to the world, or to capture (and control) public reaction to NK's actions?
The product isn't the social networking service offered to the mostly unwitting registrants. The product is the data harvested from them and sold to advertisers and other human detritus for their nefarious purposes.
The announcement is really "we're going to pump this GPS data out of the data cows and you'll be able to buy it from us".
see also: a number of pronouncements from Zuckerberg indicating how much he respects the users.
True enough for when it falls out of the sky and onto the catchment area for your locale, but anything further than that starts to involve an energy cost and by extension, a relevance to conservation. Now the water itself still is unlimited for a while on a local or national basis, but eventually your aqueducts and ground pumps are sapping water from places which can ill afford it - see various Middle East countries for examples of this, as well as in the south west USA.
The other source is corporations wasting water on our behalf in the pursuit of the cheapest cost approach. Do you really think a 40inch LCD TV would cost as little as it does to buy if the companies were conserving water, energy, and other materials, and cleaning up all their waste afterwards? Guess that's why they don't build them here (N America, W Europe, ANZ) any more.
Its been a while since I worked a problem queue for a living, but this sev 1 defect which has been raised "Ocean Circulation Doesn't Work As Expected" is just going to be closed as "Working as designed".
To be truely accurate, the college project should have no clear requirements at the start, they should change half way through. No server infrastructure should be in place until you are nearly complete.
Then, a week before the end of the project, you should be called into a meeting room and be told the project is cancelled but could you just tidy up the last few loose ends and put them in the document library.
Surely you just get mobile broadband via a USB modem stick? I can get one which runs at upto 7.2Mb/sec for $15/month (equivalent USD cost after rebates), with a 5Gb usage limit.
Not sure if that kind of service has reached much of the US yet.
In terms of the original error, it may well be down to cost. As for correcting the error, you can offer to do it for free and you will be turned down, because that is a matter of honour. The person who did it wrong would be having their mistake pointed out, and would thus lose face. This is much less palatable than sticking with an incorrect sign.
Frankly if you knew your approach was (a) ethically right and (b) not achievable in the time allowed, you should have raised that immediately after the first lab was late in.
So stuff you learned in college:-
Life isn't fair.
Organisations don't usually like people rocking the boat.
The majority wins the day.
A blind eye will be turned to commonly accepted immoral activity if it gets the job done faster or cheaper
You can't throw labor at every problem however cheap it is.
Following the instructions to the letter is not always necessary - look around and see what your peers or competitors are doing and read the acceptable standards in your environment.
Sounds to me you got a pretty good education there.
Good for you doing the full lab assignment - I don't understand why the rest weren't penalised if they were required.
But as for the method of getting to the results, going off and writing your own programs to produce graphs when there is a commonly used tool available is just a waste of time. It smacks of inefficency and a narrow-minded view of the possible ways to get a job done. I guess in your case, the moral aspect coupled with the high software cost vs your income led you down that path.
I imagine most security services would find it easy to infiltrate an ISP here and there and watch traffic as it goes through, and no one would be any the wiser.
Isn't that exactly what the security services are doing at the moment ? In the USA and in the UK at least.
Yes, and if they'd been busy, on vacation, or sick, you wouldn't have got a minute of help.
Yes, and if the system had been a small customer who couldn't (or wouldn't) pay for top-tier support, or if your company determined that the problem wasn't a mission-critical failure, would you have provided your tip-top 24-hour bugfix support?
First, the "won't pay": If you do not need 24-hour bug fix support, then its not mission critical. Almost by definition: if the cost to the business is greater than the cost of support, you purchase the support to mitigate the risk of the business losing money. Corporate IT is driven by money, not technical perfection.
Second, the "can't pay". This is certainly a case for "self insuring", i.e. having in-house expertise, and ideally implementing systems which can obtain 24-hour support. For actual product defects which truely require vendor intervention, I agree you are pretty much stuffed with closed source. Most likely outcome is to work around the issue, either by changing your procedures or your code. But for general support issues like "how do I....", searching google will offer much more shared common knowledge for a "popular" (common/most installed) package compared to a much less used piece of software, even if the source is open.
Yes, and if they'd been busy, on vacation, or sick, you wouldn't have got a minute of help. That's not an acceptable mitigation strategy for the risks associated with using software for mission critical applications. But a pre-paid fast response service for Sev 1 problems *is* an acceptable mitigation strategy in the eyes of IT service managers, compared with a couple of well meaning dudes who wrote the code and are empowered to fix it for whomever they choose - at the end-users' risk.
In summary, its horses for courses. Value for money ? I'll leave that for someone else to discuss.
Preferred-vendor (or preferred technology) approaches are OK until your business problem can't be helped by an existing off the shelf component. Rather than go for large scale bespoke development, the result is often large scale package customisation and integration, with most of the same disadvantages. Either of these need decent in-house business domain knowledge, which pure IT services companies can't provide, which is why some of them are aligning to industry segments and not just technology. But if you did have a decent in-house development team, that is where the pay off comes - people who 'can' *and* people who 'know'.
I don't know about healthcare, but in many other sectors, they have already moved away from having deep technical skills aligned to their business and their IT environment. Instead, they have been sold a set of packages with some glue to stick them together, plus some consultancy to glue them together. There is an in-house service delivery organisation who are there to service the machine, but they don't get asked to build new stuff. This is a shame since some of them used to do that work and enjoy it more than investigating support calls. SD will have expertise in the majority vendor (e.g. Microsoft on the desktop/office infrastructure side, Oracle on the server/db side) - but more for support than development or enhancement of applications.
The business as a whole sees a lower baseline cost for IT, with individual units (HR, marketing etc) paying for expensive projects by outside consultants, whilst accepting the trade off between the disadvantages of this model against bottom line costs.
They're safer until you are in a collision. Often performance cars are built without some of the heavier materials and construction features which are put into standard cars. Clearly they comply with the minimal regulations, but they are minimal.
Another aspect is that whilst you can move faster and stop quicker in a little sports car, that can actually confuse other drivers who are unable to judge your acceleration/decelleration.
One area which is possibly safer is when mature & experienced drivers of performance cars are on the road, because they are able to control their vehicles better due to experience on the track etc. Doesn't necessarily mean they can cope with heavy traffic though.
Unfortunately, they will be allowing all officers to carry electric stun guns in the very near future - not just trained firearms officers. And then it will used as a replacement for people skills as it is for some police officers in the USA.
I remember reading a paper about a modified tapping mode AFM that imaged a 256x256 pixel image at 256Hz and did so clearly enough to show nano-particles wandering around, in realtime, a stepped sample at low T. Actually for all I know now AFM at Khz image rates is common:)
This could be because the particles are being pushed around by the tip - even in tapping or other intermittent force techniques, there is the opportunity for the tip to put mechanical force on the surface. I had the problem with imaging soft surfaces, which were also undergoing electrochemical reactions on the surface - very difficult not to change the structure of a soft polymer residue when you are rastering around on the surface of it.
Mind you, this was 10 years ago now, before I ran away to join the IT circus. I wonder what happened to all those undergrad I taught the STM to....
On atomically flat surfaces with small scan areas, you can scan in constant height mode (rather than constant current, where the tunneling current is the input to the feedback loop to adjust the probe height ). Still, a 400x400 point image of a 20 x 20 nm area still used to take a couple of minutes. Not 1/1000 second.
I'm not sure its even true that you will loose the money if you put it somewhere safe enough. I often think that someone stealing $2 million and gets out within a few years has earned pretty good money.
Its not 6 years for repairs. They typically give 1 year warranty, though I believe the European Commission (which has a higher legal status than our own country) sets the warranty period for electronic goods at 2 years.
There are plenty of other get out clauses. "Mis-use" is a great one - because if you were using right, it wouldn't have been broken, right ?
Generally true, but you can always sting them for some loss-leading item that you are shopping for at the same time they are selling. This particularly applies when you want it right away and don't want to wait (or pay) for shipping.
The default is usually the local computer component shop (novatech) or online, but generally I check the currys/comet/dixons/pcworld/argos turdfest to see if anyone's slitting their throat this week. E.g. the HP 1018 laserjet I got for £40 - but of course I didn't take the £20 USB cable or printer paper and I won't be going back for a replacement cartridge.
Ha! Talk about sticking to The Man !
I suspect they have been doing this for some time more discreetly. But since SWIFT cut-over to its IP network and new PKI infrastructure, the Merkins have had trouble eaves-dropping. Hence the 'go direct' approach.
What is interesting is that a great deal of traffic through SWIFT originates in the US. If they thought they had a legal and legitimate reason to collect that data, they should be able to demand it from the US-based banks, and not from a foreign-based international organisation.
I think they've been hoping for molecule- or atom-sized storage for a while, since they invented the STM and the AFM. The STM or AFM probe was used to 'write' on the surface as well as read it. I think one of the problems they had there was physical control of the probe - I'm not sure how this would be any different. Fixing the whole system to a very low temperature helps since you eliminate thermal effects. I used to do room temperature AFM and STM and it was a pain if someone opened the door to your lab and changed the temperature, or if you spent too long holding your sample or STM probe so it spent some time heating up and cooling again.
So yes, I admire your sentiments, but anywhere outside of the best places in Japan, I've never seen them in practice. I've never been to the UK, but I presume they have worse problems than the US given all the surveillance cameras they've felt the need to install in recent years.
Well despite all the cameras, they aren't helping - crime is worse than ever in areas not covered by cameras. Advice to other countries: don't bother with this approach to crime.
As the Inquirer commented today - http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41 884 - a teenage boy was shot today in a 'nice' suburb of one of our cities, whilst the police are messing around with this minor WiFi infraction elsewhere in the country. Sure WiFi theft is a crime under our law, but those laws weren't designed for these crimes. And technically you could be charged even if you machine did some automatic connection or even just a handshake - Plod doesn't understand the difference. I would hope nobody would actually convict though.
That's only because their posessive grammar constructs are too much of a mouthful to say quickly.
But then there are 20 or 30 completely separate and distinct countries in Europe, with utterly different languages and cultures - rendering a phrase like 'in many European countries' rather silly.
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What, from all those NK consumers responding to the flashing click-me-to-order-now adverts ?
Where's the trade happening ? the business is between Facebook and the data consumers, not the hapless dupes who post all the personal information up there.
And in any case, do you think that the US gov would stop the opportunity to get any information which NK projects to the world, or to capture (and control) public reaction to NK's actions?
The product isn't the social networking service offered to the mostly unwitting registrants. The product is the data harvested from them and sold to advertisers and other human detritus for their nefarious purposes. The announcement is really "we're going to pump this GPS data out of the data cows and you'll be able to buy it from us". see also: a number of pronouncements from Zuckerberg indicating how much he respects the users.
True enough for when it falls out of the sky and onto the catchment area for your locale, but anything further than that starts to involve an energy cost and by extension, a relevance to conservation. Now the water itself still is unlimited for a while on a local or national basis, but eventually your aqueducts and ground pumps are sapping water from places which can ill afford it - see various Middle East countries for examples of this, as well as in the south west USA. The other source is corporations wasting water on our behalf in the pursuit of the cheapest cost approach. Do you really think a 40inch LCD TV would cost as little as it does to buy if the companies were conserving water, energy, and other materials, and cleaning up all their waste afterwards? Guess that's why they don't build them here (N America, W Europe, ANZ) any more.
Its been a while since I worked a problem queue for a living, but this sev 1 defect which has been raised "Ocean Circulation Doesn't Work As Expected" is just going to be closed as "Working as designed".
To be truely accurate, the college project should have no clear requirements at the start, they should change half way through. No server infrastructure should be in place until you are nearly complete. Then, a week before the end of the project, you should be called into a meeting room and be told the project is cancelled but could you just tidy up the last few loose ends and put them in the document library.
Surely you just get mobile broadband via a USB modem stick? I can get one which runs at upto 7.2Mb/sec for $15/month (equivalent USD cost after rebates), with a 5Gb usage limit. Not sure if that kind of service has reached much of the US yet.
In terms of the original error, it may well be down to cost. As for correcting the error, you can offer to do it for free and you will be turned down, because that is a matter of honour. The person who did it wrong would be having their mistake pointed out, and would thus lose face. This is much less palatable than sticking with an incorrect sign.
Frankly if you knew your approach was (a) ethically right and (b) not achievable in the time allowed, you should have raised that immediately after the first lab was late in. So stuff you learned in college:- Life isn't fair. Organisations don't usually like people rocking the boat. The majority wins the day. A blind eye will be turned to commonly accepted immoral activity if it gets the job done faster or cheaper You can't throw labor at every problem however cheap it is. Following the instructions to the letter is not always necessary - look around and see what your peers or competitors are doing and read the acceptable standards in your environment. Sounds to me you got a pretty good education there. Good for you doing the full lab assignment - I don't understand why the rest weren't penalised if they were required. But as for the method of getting to the results, going off and writing your own programs to produce graphs when there is a commonly used tool available is just a waste of time. It smacks of inefficency and a narrow-minded view of the possible ways to get a job done. I guess in your case, the moral aspect coupled with the high software cost vs your income led you down that path.
Second, the "can't pay". This is certainly a case for "self insuring", i.e. having in-house expertise, and ideally implementing systems which can obtain 24-hour support. For actual product defects which truely require vendor intervention, I agree you are pretty much stuffed with closed source. Most likely outcome is to work around the issue, either by changing your procedures or your code. But for general support issues like "how do I....", searching google will offer much more shared common knowledge for a "popular" (common/most installed) package compared to a much less used piece of software, even if the source is open.
Yes, and if they'd been busy, on vacation, or sick, you wouldn't have got a minute of help. That's not an acceptable mitigation strategy for the risks associated with using software for mission critical applications. But a pre-paid fast response service for Sev 1 problems *is* an acceptable mitigation strategy in the eyes of IT service managers, compared with a couple of well meaning dudes who wrote the code and are empowered to fix it for whomever they choose - at the end-users' risk. In summary, its horses for courses. Value for money ? I'll leave that for someone else to discuss.
Preferred-vendor (or preferred technology) approaches are OK until your business problem can't be helped by an existing off the shelf component. Rather than go for large scale bespoke development, the result is often large scale package customisation and integration, with most of the same disadvantages. Either of these need decent in-house business domain knowledge, which pure IT services companies can't provide, which is why some of them are aligning to industry segments and not just technology. But if you did have a decent in-house development team, that is where the pay off comes - people who 'can' *and* people who 'know'.
I don't know about healthcare, but in many other sectors, they have already moved away from having deep technical skills aligned to their business and their IT environment. Instead, they have been sold a set of packages with some glue to stick them together, plus some consultancy to glue them together. There is an in-house service delivery organisation who are there to service the machine, but they don't get asked to build new stuff. This is a shame since some of them used to do that work and enjoy it more than investigating support calls. SD will have expertise in the majority vendor (e.g. Microsoft on the desktop/office infrastructure side, Oracle on the server/db side) - but more for support than development or enhancement of applications.
The business as a whole sees a lower baseline cost for IT, with individual units (HR, marketing etc) paying for expensive projects by outside consultants, whilst accepting the trade off between the disadvantages of this model against bottom line costs.
They're safer until you are in a collision. Often performance cars are built without some of the heavier materials and construction features which are put into standard cars. Clearly they comply with the minimal regulations, but they are minimal.
Another aspect is that whilst you can move faster and stop quicker in a little sports car, that can actually confuse other drivers who are unable to judge your acceleration/decelleration.
One area which is possibly safer is when mature & experienced drivers of performance cars are on the road, because they are able to control their vehicles better due to experience on the track etc. Doesn't necessarily mean they can cope with heavy traffic though.
Unfortunately, they will be allowing all officers to carry electric stun guns in the very near future - not just trained firearms officers. And then it will used as a replacement for people skills as it is for some police officers in the USA.
This could be because the particles are being pushed around by the tip - even in tapping or other intermittent force techniques, there is the opportunity for the tip to put mechanical force on the surface. I had the problem with imaging soft surfaces, which were also undergoing electrochemical reactions on the surface - very difficult not to change the structure of a soft polymer residue when you are rastering around on the surface of it.
Mind you, this was 10 years ago now, before I ran away to join the IT circus. I wonder what happened to all those undergrad I taught the STM to....
On atomically flat surfaces with small scan areas, you can scan in constant height mode (rather than constant current, where the tunneling current is the input to the feedback loop to adjust the probe height ). Still, a 400x400 point image of a 20 x 20 nm area still used to take a couple of minutes. Not 1/1000 second.
:s/loose/lose
I'm not sure its even true that you will loose the money if you put it somewhere safe enough. I often think that someone stealing $2 million and gets out within a few years has earned pretty good money.
Its not 6 years for repairs. They typically give 1 year warranty, though I believe the European Commission (which has a higher legal status than our own country) sets the warranty period for electronic goods at 2 years.
There are plenty of other get out clauses. "Mis-use" is a great one - because if you were using right, it wouldn't have been broken, right ?
Generally true, but you can always sting them for some loss-leading item that you are shopping for at the same time they are selling. This particularly applies when you want it right away and don't want to wait (or pay) for shipping.
The default is usually the local computer component shop (novatech) or online, but generally I check the currys/comet/dixons/pcworld/argos turdfest to see if anyone's slitting their throat this week. E.g. the HP 1018 laserjet I got for £40 - but of course I didn't take the £20 USB cable or printer paper and I won't be going back for a replacement cartridge.
Ha! Talk about sticking to The Man !
I suspect they have been doing this for some time more discreetly. But since SWIFT cut-over to its IP network and new PKI infrastructure, the Merkins have had trouble eaves-dropping. Hence the 'go direct' approach.
What is interesting is that a great deal of traffic through SWIFT originates in the US. If they thought they had a legal and legitimate reason to collect that data, they should be able to demand it from the US-based banks, and not from a foreign-based international organisation.
I think they've been hoping for molecule- or atom-sized storage for a while, since they invented the STM and the AFM. The STM or AFM probe was used to 'write' on the surface as well as read it. I think one of the problems they had there was physical control of the probe - I'm not sure how this would be any different. Fixing the whole system to a very low temperature helps since you eliminate thermal effects. I used to do room temperature AFM and STM and it was a pain if someone opened the door to your lab and changed the temperature, or if you spent too long holding your sample or STM probe so it spent some time heating up and cooling again.
Well despite all the cameras, they aren't helping - crime is worse than ever in areas not covered by cameras. Advice to other countries: don't bother with this approach to crime.
As the Inquirer commented today - http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=4
That's only because their posessive grammar constructs are too much of a mouthful to say quickly. But then there are 20 or 30 completely separate and distinct countries in Europe, with utterly different languages and cultures - rendering a phrase like 'in many European countries' rather silly.