Asked me nicely to display ads. /. was whitelisted. /. will remain whitelisted until one of their adds follows me around the screen or plays some annoying sound.
I understand that site content has to be paid for somehow, and so long as the ads that back it up don't
Irritate me
Infect my workstation with malware
I have no problem letting the ads through. There are less than 10 sites whitelisted in adblocker. Everyone gets ghostery'd.
Find a job that supports the robots. It is going to be a very long time before the "automated stuff" loop is entirely closed. Humans are involved at some point, whether it be in design, support or repair.
Complaining about automation isn't going to stop or slow the trend towards increasing the automation of precise, repetitive tasks, anymore than complaining about the combustion engine kept wagon-repair shops in business.
The downside to information being ubiquitous is that it is much harder to shiny-up a crappy job and convince people to make a career out of it.
As others have mentioned, 24% seems awfully high — but if they want it to be higher, initial interest in "cyber security" as a career may be heightened if the pay were improved. The whole Snowden incident has probably not improved interest either.
Earning potential is what motivated me to select Electrical Engineering over Computer Science when deciding on a major, and glassdoor.com motivated me to avoid several potential employers.
If I had mod points, you would get them all!
Quality documentation is difficult to write. Explaining things clearly and concisely in a way that folks uninvolved with the development can grok requires that the author forget all of their assumptions as they're explaining algorithms/functionality/use. It is useful to have someone interrogate you about your code while you're generating end-user documentation for it.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
I'd have a hard time believing that the servers have been this consistently overwhelmed with traffic. A more likely explanation is that a poorly designed system was patched together from components hastily built from a thousand different vendors. The web-app equivalent of a diesel engine held together with duct-tape and baling wire was then rolled out without any real testing.
The only time, "Good enough for government work," has ever escaped my lips was when I was confronted with a marginally functional mess of spaghetti code.
If you have a stable job, don't burn any bridges too soon. The two paths this will take will be vaporware or custerfluck. Neither of which are desireable options for the dutifully-employed.
If you're unemployed, can code, and don't already do consulting for scraps - make sure the scope of what you take on is well defined. This behemoth will not be easily scoped or contained.
Outside of costing Brazil a significant amount of cash, I'm not certain what this will really accomplish. Despite all of the publicized outrage, the U.S. still has standing agreements with European intelligence agencies.
Reading over this thread:
It appears as though many of us self-identified techs and engineers already have a reasonable exposure to the humanities and philosophy. We just didn't shell out for credit hours in them.
That is a sophisticated attack, yes. Overrated does not mean impossible - years ago, practical attacks on WEP and SSL also seemed unlikely. I also seem to remember a story recently about malware being found on Reaper drones - certainly not the end of the world, but unless things have been drastically altered (not a hallmark of MilAero applications) many of those vulnerabilities are probably still present.
On the whole, I am more concerned about the potential of an adversary simply interrupting communication with the drone, this takes a lot less effort. They don't have to take control of the drone, they just have to remove the pilot's.
What was an effective weapon is now just a hunk of metal hurtling through the air.
Losing a Predator to this kind of attack would be annoying and the gain for an opponent is minimal, but an F-35 or an F-22? That is a much greater gain/loss.
Yes, a physical pilot prevents the craft from pulling 15Gs.
As others have pointed out, that same fragile bag of fluids is also the component that can't be hacked. Even if pilots are remotely controlling the planes, the tenuous connection between pilot and drone can be interrupted. There is no substitute for having a human in the cockpit, this is particularly true for the times when we're confronted with a technologically advanced opponent.
It doesn't harm youtube.
It is not like this eliminates the only means the Egyptian people have of broadcasting the insane things their government is doing.
If they are genuinely doing this over the "Innocence of Muslims" video, the only thing this legislature accomplished is broadcasting how much it doesn't understand about the internet.
I do understand the fear they have of western culture, anytime honey boo-boo shows up on my TV I have to run out of the room.
Hiring managers aren't stupid.
A degree does not mean that a candidate is smart, capable, or even a good problem solver. A degree indicates that a candidate can be trained to handle difficult material and conformed to a lecture-style environment.
Research, side projects, and yes, internships show that the potential hire has experience solving problems. In the case of an unpaid internship where the intern just fetched coffee, they will at least have been exposed to working in a corporate environment, and if they spent their time well, they will have made some useful professional connections while serving coffee and manning the photocopy machine.
I'm working an internship right now. It is paid (as far as I can tell, unpaid engineering internships do not exist). They did hand off the red-headed-step-child projects to their interns, but in the process of conducting efficiency and feasibility studies, I am making solid professional connections inside and outside of the company.
In short: working a fax machine, photocopier, or percolator? Collect business cards, names and handshakes. Until you are managing the work of others, the only person who can waste your time is you.
First: CLEP or test out of as many of the general-education classes as you can, if for no other reason than it is ridiculous to spend tuition cash on knowledge that will be discarded in a semester. The tests aren't that difficult, but then again neither is the material they cover.
The "well-rounded individual" is a line of hokum. I'm nearing the end of my own degree, the field-specific material is marginally useful, and the general-ed requirements were an expensive waste of time and money. The usefulness of a BS degree is that it demonstrates your trainability in difficult or technical fields. The first two and half years of material aren't useable - you'll spend your time studying "ideal" situations and tasks that are simplified enough for an untrained mind to handle. With the amount of programming you've already done, you'll probably be bored to tears for most of your undergraduate career.
The things that have made me a decent candidate for entry level positions are the research and projects that have been conducted outside of the classes. Sounds like you're already doing a good deal of that.
Get your degree, but understand what it is. It is a "certificate of potential ability to understand." Not a "certificate of capability."
From TFA (emphasis mine).
"College students who hit campus after 2000 have empathy levels that are 40% lower than those who came before them, according to a stunning new meta-analysis..."
The questionnaire requires one to objectively analyze himself. Someone else mentioned that the results are likely to be skewed towards whatever the question-ee wanted them to be.
TFA also seems like more of an editorial than an actual news article (I know I know, I must be new here).
How exactly do they quantify this? Are businesses actually losing material resources, or do they obtain these numbers via conjecture? The math used to quantify "profit loss due to software-piracy" seems similar to the math used to quantify "jobs saved." Which is to say, filled with voodoo and hand waving.
I admit, I have pirated a program or two, but I never seem to hold on to those programs very long. I can see the businesses claiming that they are losing income, because some folks have the opportunity to "try" before they buy, but I imagine a good majority of the people out there utilizing pirated software never would have paid for it in the first place.
How many goons with their own photoshopzerzz grafix would have actually paid for it? None. They probably would have done something else with their time. The genuinely indigent graphic artist, without piracy, would likely learn gimp or inkscape.
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I understand that site content has to be paid for somehow, and so long as the ads that back it up don't
I have no problem letting the ads through. There are less than 10 sites whitelisted in adblocker. Everyone gets ghostery'd.
Yes Yes Yes!
Nothing summons my HOSTS file like noisy advertisements.
So what was the probability at before this study was performed?
0.005% is significantly higher than 0.0005%, but neither is particularly alarming.
Find a job that supports the robots. It is going to be a very long time before the "automated stuff" loop is entirely closed. Humans are involved at some point, whether it be in design, support or repair. Complaining about automation isn't going to stop or slow the trend towards increasing the automation of precise, repetitive tasks, anymore than complaining about the combustion engine kept wagon-repair shops in business.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
The downside to information being ubiquitous is that it is much harder to shiny-up a crappy job and convince people to make a career out of it.
As others have mentioned, 24% seems awfully high — but if they want it to be higher, initial interest in "cyber security" as a career may be heightened if the pay were improved. The whole Snowden incident has probably not improved interest either.
Earning potential is what motivated me to select Electrical Engineering over Computer Science when deciding on a major, and glassdoor.com motivated me to avoid several potential employers.
If I had mod points, you would get them all!
Quality documentation is difficult to write. Explaining things clearly and concisely in a way that folks uninvolved with the development can grok requires that the author forget all of their assumptions as they're explaining algorithms/functionality/use. It is useful to have someone interrogate you about your code while you're generating end-user documentation for it.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
I'd have a hard time believing that the servers have been this consistently overwhelmed with traffic. A more likely explanation is that a poorly designed system was patched together from components hastily built from a thousand different vendors. The web-app equivalent of a diesel engine held together with duct-tape and baling wire was then rolled out without any real testing.
The only time, "Good enough for government work," has ever escaped my lips was when I was confronted with a marginally functional mess of spaghetti code.
If you have a stable job, don't burn any bridges too soon. The two paths this will take will be vaporware or custerfluck. Neither of which are desireable options for the dutifully-employed.
If you're unemployed, can code, and don't already do consulting for scraps - make sure the scope of what you take on is well defined. This behemoth will not be easily scoped or contained.
Outside of costing Brazil a significant amount of cash, I'm not certain what this will really accomplish. Despite all of the publicized outrage, the U.S. still has standing agreements with European intelligence agencies.
It is unfortunate you posted AC -- you may have meant this as a joke, but it is quite insightful.
No.
Well ... tip over. Kind of like the housing bubble.
Learning something new or sharpening something old is kind of a year-round activity. :-)
Reading over this thread:
It appears as though many of us self-identified techs and engineers already have a reasonable exposure to the humanities and philosophy. We just didn't shell out for credit hours in them.
Separate S from T from E from M.
I studied E. Most of my former classmates are dutifully employed *posted from the job I had secured prior to graduating in 2011*.
That is a sophisticated attack, yes. Overrated does not mean impossible - years ago, practical attacks on WEP and SSL also seemed unlikely. I also seem to remember a story recently about malware being found on Reaper drones - certainly not the end of the world, but unless things have been drastically altered (not a hallmark of MilAero applications) many of those vulnerabilities are probably still present.
On the whole, I am more concerned about the potential of an adversary simply interrupting communication with the drone, this takes a lot less effort. They don't have to take control of the drone, they just have to remove the pilot's.
What was an effective weapon is now just a hunk of metal hurtling through the air.
Losing a Predator to this kind of attack would be annoying and the gain for an opponent is minimal, but an F-35 or an F-22? That is a much greater gain/loss.
Yes, a physical pilot prevents the craft from pulling 15Gs.
As others have pointed out, that same fragile bag of fluids is also the component that can't be hacked. Even if pilots are remotely controlling the planes, the tenuous connection between pilot and drone can be interrupted. There is no substitute for having a human in the cockpit, this is particularly true for the times when we're confronted with a technologically advanced opponent.
It doesn't harm youtube.
It is not like this eliminates the only means the Egyptian people have of broadcasting the insane things their government is doing.
If they are genuinely doing this over the "Innocence of Muslims" video, the only thing this legislature accomplished is broadcasting how much it doesn't understand about the internet.
I do understand the fear they have of western culture, anytime honey boo-boo shows up on my TV I have to run out of the room.
A degree does not mean that a candidate is smart, capable, or even a good problem solver. A degree indicates that a candidate can be trained to handle difficult material and conformed to a lecture-style environment.
Research, side projects, and yes, internships show that the potential hire has experience solving problems. In the case of an unpaid internship where the intern just fetched coffee, they will at least have been exposed to working in a corporate environment, and if they spent their time well, they will have made some useful professional connections while serving coffee and manning the photocopy machine.
I'm working an internship right now. It is paid (as far as I can tell, unpaid engineering internships do not exist). They did hand off the red-headed-step-child projects to their interns, but in the process of conducting efficiency and feasibility studies, I am making solid professional connections inside and outside of the company.
In short: working a fax machine, photocopier, or percolator? Collect business cards, names and handshakes. Until you are managing the work of others, the only person who can waste your time is you.
First: CLEP or test out of as many of the general-education classes as you can, if for no other reason than it is ridiculous to spend tuition cash on knowledge that will be discarded in a semester. The tests aren't that difficult, but then again neither is the material they cover.
The "well-rounded individual" is a line of hokum. I'm nearing the end of my own degree, the field-specific material is marginally useful, and the general-ed requirements were an expensive waste of time and money. The usefulness of a BS degree is that it demonstrates your trainability in difficult or technical fields. The first two and half years of material aren't useable - you'll spend your time studying "ideal" situations and tasks that are simplified enough for an untrained mind to handle. With the amount of programming you've already done, you'll probably be bored to tears for most of your undergraduate career.
The things that have made me a decent candidate for entry level positions are the research and projects that have been conducted outside of the classes. Sounds like you're already doing a good deal of that.
Get your degree, but understand what it is. It is a "certificate of potential ability to understand." Not a "certificate of capability."
"College students who hit campus after 2000 have empathy levels that are 40% lower than those who came before them, according to a stunning new meta-analysis..."
The questionnaire requires one to objectively analyze himself. Someone else mentioned that the results are likely to be skewed towards whatever the question-ee wanted them to be.
TFA also seems like more of an editorial than an actual news article (I know I know, I must be new here).
How, exactly, do they quantify one's level of empathy? Seems like, "slow news day" blended with, "pseudoscience we can sensationalize."
Garbage.
How exactly do they quantify this? Are businesses actually losing material resources, or do they obtain these numbers via conjecture? The math used to quantify "profit loss due to software-piracy" seems similar to the math used to quantify "jobs saved." Which is to say, filled with voodoo and hand waving. I admit, I have pirated a program or two, but I never seem to hold on to those programs very long. I can see the businesses claiming that they are losing income, because some folks have the opportunity to "try" before they buy, but I imagine a good majority of the people out there utilizing pirated software never would have paid for it in the first place.
How many goons with their own photoshopzerzz grafix would have actually paid for it? None. They probably would have done something else with their time. The genuinely indigent graphic artist, without piracy, would likely learn gimp or inkscape.
We tend to find animated "helpers" annoying. Please stop.
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