Sure it sounds silly in one paragrah but they had 6 years to elaborate on the story.
All the more time for him to do a sanity check and have someone else verify the story. It's not just the money but the fact the guy thought his life was in danger and yet he didn't bring in some independent security guys to evaluate the risk. He is a dumbass.
There's nothing wrong with being a trust fund baby. We all wanna be one, don't be jealous.
But there is a hell of a lot wrong with a trust fund baby that's also a dumbass. It goes completely against the american ethic we all learned in civics class of rewarding excellence.
Oh boy, more nonsense. Is it really a fair contract when it's between you and a multi-billion dollar corporation presenting you a one-sided contract?
And just to pile on here, note that its a multi-billion dollar corp that is dependent on government granted monopolies on otherwise public airspace. I'm sure the corps would argue that they bought those monopolies free and clear at the FCC spectrum auctions, but given that the entire reason for such monopolies is justified as public benefit it's not congruous with then limiting device functionality at the expense of the public.
Man those chinese are desperate. This isn't a prison, Google isn't responsible for your personal well-being under any international treaty, convention, or agreement.
I dunno, but it sure appears weird from thousands of miles away. I know it's an off the wall theory, but could it actually be motivated by the government as a way to marginalize the idea of a hunger strike as a meaningful protest so that actual political dissidents who go on hunger strikes might be more easily brushed off?
Homicide rate in El Paso in 2009 is 1.9 per 100,000 versus a range of 0 to 6.5 for the various canadian provinces (in 2006).
Furthermore, both violent crime and property crime rates have been steadily falling in all of the southern border states. And not just by a small amount, mostly double-digits with some states seeing more than a 50% reduction in certain types of violent crimes over the past decade. Sorry, I have no links handy to a formal analysis but anyone can take the UCR numbers from the FBI site above and do the math themselves to verify. (Something I did by hand a couple of months back in another web forum).
Guess I buy a different class of printer... I have several, some years old, and never had a problem with jets clogging.
Clogged jets are mostly caused by disuse. The longer the printer sits unused, the more the ink dries up - starting at the nozzle. If it dries up too much, it turns into a cork.
The TSA is supposed to provide security at airports (and wherever else). When I fly, the TSA scans my bags and pats me down. Thus, they are doing what they are supposed to be doing. Shown. Anything else?
Do you really think that making up your own definition of their purpose trumps their own mission statement? I'd say you are tied with "Bad Analogy Guy" for the most apt username prize.
If a high percentage of negative actions are performed by one group of people should you not focus more so on that one group?
No. If all you care about is effectiveness then what matters is if a high percentage of that group perform negative actions. Getting 1,000,000 false positives for every true positive is effectively no better than than getting 10,000,000 false positives for every true positive.
I think the fact that terrorists have tried attacking incoming flights (shoe bomber, underwear bomber, cargo bomber) shows that the will to attack us is still there and that the terrorists no longer believe that an attack originating from US soil is logistically possible.
That's classic post hoc ergo propter hoc. 9/11 was a singular event. The 20+ years before 9/11 showed no terrorist attacks on domestic flights either.
Yet another ban for show rather than actual security. How about, gee, I dunno, profiling passengers? You know, be politically incorrect and actually practice forensic science for a change, and stop harassing and inconveniencing the rest of us?
I was actually wondering last night why governments in places like myanmar bother with voter intimidation when they only need to do a bit of number magic for vote counting (which happens away from the eye of [most] members of the public).
Iran tried that recently and it ended up being the closest they've come to losing control in the last 30 years. You might argue they just weren't slick enough, but that's a risk in and of itself too.
Like which ones? I can't think of any agencies that don't do what they are supposed to.
TSA for one. Unless you think their stated purpose to "protect the nation's transportation systems to ensure freedom of movement for people and commerce" is not its real purpose.
And, if you think the TSA really is performing its stated purpose - note that not one single person "caught" by the TSA has been convicted, or even prosecuted, for being a terrorist threat to the flight they were prevented from boarding.
So no direct successes. Nor is the evidence for deterrence very strong either - if they were turning terrorists away from air planes they would just attack other targets, but the number of terrorist attacks on other targets has been something less than 1 per year and even those were smaller scale than thousands of drug-related violent crimes during the same period.
Uh, that's what "mini big bang" means. OK, so you don't like it, but who cares.
It isn't cheap sensational BS, it's expensive evocative BS at worst.
100% agreement. Its ridiculous for the OP to get a bug up his ass over that headline. Headlines need to be short and sweet (aka maximally informative to the intended audience) - the BBC's headline is both, the OP's version is far too long to use as a headline. Might fine for the title of a scientific paper, but not a general news website.
So, just when you thought HFT couldn't get any worse of a rep, now its going to turn our world into a dystopian matrix/terminator/cleopatra2525 place. At least there's a chance of hot babes in leather and armored bikinis though! That's gotta count for something.
That makes no sense. The Tea Party supports free trade. If you're for free trade, why are you worried about them?
The tea party is populist and protectionism is almost always the populist agenda. I looked around in google for a bit and I didn't find all that much about free trade from tea party associated politicians. But I did find a number of articles along these lines: http://money.cnn.com/2010/11/01/news/trade_tea_party.fortune/index.htm
India and US have a lot in common, outside trade and commerce. Like Free Press. Unrestricted Internet. Real courts. Democracy. I could go on. Similarly, we have a lot of respect for other democratic countries. It is not always about money.
Exactly what I was thinking. India's far from perfect, but ideologically a heck of lot closer to the american ideal than china.
Another point is that H-1B workers are required, by law, to be paid at least the "prevailing wage" based on their work and geographical location. While this is by no means perfect, it does provide some protection against wage depression.
"Less the perfect" hardly describes the situation. In some career fields, jobs are very well defined, in IT it is just the opposite, i.e. a sysadmin may also be the DBA and/or a developer; or a developer may work as an admin, or a network engineer. In IT, the phrase "prevailing wage" is completely meaningless.
Also, there is zero budget allocated for enforcement. Nobody in the government even bothers to check if employers are complying. But, the numbers that have been reported are indicative of massive violations: In 2007 the medium wage for new H1B hires was $50K, less than what new grads with zero experience make. Furthermore, 90% of H-1B employers' prevailing wage claims for programmers were below the median U.S. wage for that occupation and location, with 62% being in the bottom 25%.
Because H1Bs can not easily quit. A US worker can go to his/her boss and say "I'm way over due for a raise, either increase my salary, or I will be forced to look for work elsewhere." If an H1B does that, he/she is on the next airplane back to India.
No. That's no longer true. In fact, it hasn't been that way for a while. The H1B program was amended around 2000 to enable people on an H1B visa to move from job to job without being forced out of the country.
What has not been changed is the green card process. If you want a green card, it can easily take 4+ years and the system requires you to stick with one employer during the application process. If you change employers, you have to start the entire process all over again. The thing is that the H1B visa is only good for 6 years - after which you gotta leave the country for an entire year and then start the green card process all over again.
So, if the H1B holder wants to become a permanent citizen, he generally can't go job shopping after the first year or so of employment. Which is really quite perverse since, presumably, these guys are highly skilled and there is a dearth of people like them in the US labor market. So we ought to be doing everything we can to make it easier for them to become citizens, not harder.
Sure you can get used books for super cheap and even market place paper backs cheap as well, but we are talking about bookstore prices here, not bargain bin copies.
Except that if this current approach takes off there will never ever be any more used books. I'm sure the publishers think that's a good thing for them. But they aren't thinking it through. The used market supports the new market. If they can't resell your used copy, that's effectively a price increase for anyone buying new. Furthermore, lack of cheap used books means less opportunity for an author to build an audience. People are much more willing to risk 50 cents on an author they've never read before than they are $10. If those 50 cents books aren't around that just more incentive to look elsewhere for entertainment or to pirate, and once you've gone through the effort to figure out pirating why would you ever return to paying? So yeah, the availability and price of used books is one of the most important factors to the long term viability of the industry.
With rare exceptions, all network protocols require two-way traffic. So this idea of a "data diode" is not possible to implement in practice. People who claim otherwise are trying to sell you snake oil.
I suggest you do some research. Data diodes tend to be application specific and the good ones "know" enough of the protocols involved in order to spoof the necessary handshaking.
Do NOT, under any circumstances, connect the SCADA systems, including workstations which can control or monitor them, to anything which touches or has access to the Internet.
When that's not possible due to management pressure, there are options that are better than just giving in and connecting systems up to the internet.
The simplest of such options is a "data diode" -- its a device that physically only permits data to flow in one direction. For example, optical network connections have a transmit fibre and a receive fibre. A data diode would physically connect just one fibre.
Implementing a data diode - say to run your monitoring software on an internet connected PC so as to send status updates via SMS to engineers' phones - can take some effort in order to get all the necessary software to work in the one-way environment. But it is a way to get data out of your SCADA system without having to worry about malicious attacks coming in on the same connection. At worst your monitoring system gets fuxxored, but the SCADA stuff continues to run unmolested.
Here's one data diode product with an emphasis on SCADA, it was just the first one that came up in google, there are many such products out there:
Slashdot Mirror
Sure it sounds silly in one paragrah but they had 6 years to elaborate on the story.
All the more time for him to do a sanity check and have someone else verify the story.
It's not just the money but the fact the guy thought his life was in danger and yet he didn't bring in some independent security guys to evaluate the risk.
He is a dumbass.
Unlike everyone here who has all there important documents^Hporn encrypted
"important documentporn"? I think you meant ^W or ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H.
No, he got it right.
The word "documentporn" is german for porn kept at the office mixed into a stack of documents that no one would ever look at otherwise.
There's nothing wrong with being a trust fund baby. We all wanna be one, don't be jealous.
But there is a hell of a lot wrong with a trust fund baby that's also a dumbass.
It goes completely against the american ethic we all learned in civics class of rewarding excellence.
Oh boy, more nonsense. Is it really a fair contract when it's between you and a multi-billion dollar corporation presenting you a one-sided contract?
And just to pile on here, note that its a multi-billion dollar corp that is dependent on government granted monopolies on otherwise public airspace. I'm sure the corps would argue that they bought those monopolies free and clear at the FCC spectrum auctions, but given that the entire reason for such monopolies is justified as public benefit it's not congruous with then limiting device functionality at the expense of the public.
If Google violated a contract, take them to court. If not, then there is no room for complaint.
Oh sure there is, the court of public opinion doesn't follow the same rules as a court of law.
Man those chinese are desperate. This isn't a prison, Google isn't responsible for your personal well-being under any international treaty, convention, or agreement.
I dunno, but it sure appears weird from thousands of miles away. I know it's an off the wall theory, but could it actually be motivated by the government as a way to marginalize the idea of a hunger strike as a meaningful protest so that actual political dissidents who go on hunger strikes might be more easily brushed off?
You mislinked, the El paso numbers are here:
http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2009/data/table_08_tx.html
Homicide rate in El Paso in 2009 is 1.9 per 100,000 versus a range of 0 to 6.5 for the various canadian provinces (in 2006).
Furthermore, both violent crime and property crime rates have been steadily falling in all of the southern border states. And not just by a small amount, mostly double-digits with some states seeing more than a 50% reduction in certain types of violent crimes over the past decade. Sorry, I have no links handy to a formal analysis but anyone can take the UCR numbers from the FBI site above and do the math themselves to verify. (Something I did by hand a couple of months back in another web forum).
Guess I buy a different class of printer... I have several, some years old, and never had a problem with jets clogging.
Clogged jets are mostly caused by disuse. The longer the printer sits unused, the more the ink dries up - starting at the nozzle. If it dries up too much, it turns into a cork.
The TSA is supposed to provide security at airports (and wherever else). When I fly, the TSA scans my bags and pats me down. Thus, they are doing what they are supposed to be doing. Shown. Anything else?
Do you really think that making up your own definition of their purpose trumps their own mission statement? I'd say you are tied with "Bad Analogy Guy" for the most apt username prize.
If a high percentage of negative actions are performed by one group of people should you not focus more so on that one group?
No. If all you care about is effectiveness then what matters is if a high percentage of that group perform negative actions. Getting 1,000,000 false positives for every true positive is effectively no better than than getting 10,000,000 false positives for every true positive.
Where was it suggested that racial profiling be used?
When the words "politically incorrect" were used.
I think the fact that terrorists have tried attacking incoming flights (shoe bomber, underwear bomber, cargo bomber) shows that the will to attack us is still there and that the terrorists no longer believe that an attack originating from US soil is logistically possible.
That's classic post hoc ergo propter hoc. 9/11 was a singular event. The 20+ years before 9/11 showed no terrorist attacks on domestic flights either.
Yet another ban for show rather than actual security. How about, gee, I dunno, profiling passengers? You know, be politically incorrect and actually practice forensic science for a change, and stop harassing and inconveniencing the rest of us?
Stuff like this is why racial profiling won't work.
I was actually wondering last night why governments in places like myanmar bother with voter intimidation when they only need to do a bit of number magic for vote counting (which happens away from the eye of [most] members of the public).
Iran tried that recently and it ended up being the closest they've come to losing control in the last 30 years. You might argue they just weren't slick enough, but that's a risk in and of itself too.
Like which ones? I can't think of any agencies that don't do what they are supposed to.
TSA for one. Unless you think their stated purpose to "protect the nation's transportation systems to ensure freedom of movement for people and commerce" is not its real purpose.
And, if you think the TSA really is performing its stated purpose - note that not one single person "caught" by the TSA has been convicted, or even prosecuted, for being a terrorist threat to the flight they were prevented from boarding.
So no direct successes. Nor is the evidence for deterrence very strong either - if they were turning terrorists away from air planes they would just attack other targets, but the number of terrorist attacks on other targets has been something less than 1 per year and even those were smaller scale than thousands of drug-related violent crimes during the same period.
Uh, that's what "mini big bang" means. OK, so you don't like it, but who cares.
It isn't cheap sensational BS, it's expensive evocative BS at worst.
100% agreement. Its ridiculous for the OP to get a bug up his ass over that headline. Headlines need to be short and sweet (aka maximally informative to the intended audience) - the BBC's headline is both, the OP's version is far too long to use as a headline. Might fine for the title of a scientific paper, but not a general news website.
So, just when you thought HFT couldn't get any worse of a rep, now its going to turn our world into a dystopian matrix/terminator/cleopatra2525 place.
At least there's a chance of hot babes in leather and armored bikinis though! That's gotta count for something.
That makes no sense. The Tea Party supports free trade. If you're for free trade, why are you worried about them?
The tea party is populist and protectionism is almost always the populist agenda.
I looked around in google for a bit and I didn't find all that much about free trade from tea party associated politicians.
But I did find a number of articles along these lines:
http://money.cnn.com/2010/11/01/news/trade_tea_party.fortune/index.htm
If only it were the other Paul. This one doesn't come across as all that much better than Palin.
Kinda resembles the difference in the two Bushes.
India and US have a lot in common, outside trade and commerce. Like Free Press. Unrestricted Internet. Real courts. Democracy. I could go on.
Similarly, we have a lot of respect for other democratic countries. It is not always about money.
Exactly what I was thinking. India's far from perfect, but ideologically a heck of lot closer to the american ideal than china.
Another point is that H-1B workers are required, by law, to be paid at least the "prevailing wage" based on their work and geographical location. While this is by no means perfect, it does provide some protection against wage depression.
"Less the perfect" hardly describes the situation. In some career fields, jobs are very well defined, in IT it is just the opposite, i.e. a sysadmin may also be the DBA and/or a developer; or a developer may work as an admin, or a network engineer. In IT, the phrase "prevailing wage" is completely meaningless.
Also, there is zero budget allocated for enforcement. Nobody in the government even bothers to check if employers are complying. But, the numbers that have been reported are indicative of massive violations: In 2007 the medium wage for new H1B hires was $50K, less than what new grads with zero experience make. Furthermore, 90% of H-1B employers' prevailing wage claims for programmers were below the median U.S. wage for that occupation and location, with 62% being in the bottom 25%.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201000479&pgno=3&queryText=&isPrev=
Because H1Bs can not easily quit. A US worker can go to his/her boss and say "I'm way over due for a raise, either increase my salary, or I will be forced to look for work elsewhere." If an H1B does that, he/she is on the next airplane back to India.
No. That's no longer true. In fact, it hasn't been that way for a while. The H1B program was amended around 2000 to enable people on an H1B visa to move from job to job without being forced out of the country.
What has not been changed is the green card process. If you want a green card, it can easily take 4+ years and the system requires you to stick with one employer during the application process. If you change employers, you have to start the entire process all over again. The thing is that the H1B visa is only good for 6 years - after which you gotta leave the country for an entire year and then start the green card process all over again.
So, if the H1B holder wants to become a permanent citizen, he generally can't go job shopping after the first year or so of employment. Which is really quite perverse since, presumably, these guys are highly skilled and there is a dearth of people like them in the US labor market. So we ought to be doing everything we can to make it easier for them to become citizens, not harder.
Sure you can get used books for super cheap and even market place paper backs cheap as well, but we are talking about bookstore prices here, not bargain bin copies.
Except that if this current approach takes off there will never ever be any more used books. I'm sure the publishers think that's a good thing for them. But they aren't thinking it through. The used market supports the new market. If they can't resell your used copy, that's effectively a price increase for anyone buying new. Furthermore, lack of cheap used books means less opportunity for an author to build an audience. People are much more willing to risk 50 cents on an author they've never read before than they are $10. If those 50 cents books aren't around that just more incentive to look elsewhere for entertainment or to pirate, and once you've gone through the effort to figure out pirating why would you ever return to paying? So yeah, the availability and price of used books is one of the most important factors to the long term viability of the industry.
With rare exceptions, all network protocols require two-way traffic. So this idea of a "data diode" is not possible to implement in practice. People who claim otherwise are trying to sell you snake oil.
I suggest you do some research. Data diodes tend to be application specific and the good ones "know" enough of the protocols involved in order to spoof the necessary handshaking.
Do NOT, under any circumstances, connect the SCADA systems, including workstations which can control or monitor them, to anything which touches or has access to the Internet.
When that's not possible due to management pressure, there are options that are better than just giving in and connecting systems up to the internet.
The simplest of such options is a "data diode" -- its a device that physically only permits data to flow in one direction. For example, optical network connections have a transmit fibre and a receive fibre. A data diode would physically connect just one fibre.
Implementing a data diode - say to run your monitoring software on an internet connected PC so as to send status updates via SMS to engineers' phones - can take some effort in order to get all the necessary software to work in the one-way environment. But it is a way to get data out of your SCADA system without having to worry about malicious attacks coming in on the same connection. At worst your monitoring system gets fuxxored, but the SCADA stuff continues to run unmolested.
Here's one data diode product with an emphasis on SCADA, it was just the first one that came up in google, there are many such products out there:
http://www.datadiode.eu/products/scada