What this parking app (and there are a couple of others too) does is encourage people to drive into town and make money by parking in spots, auctioning it off, then driving to the next one and repeating the process.
Just guess how much chaos this will cause when a lot of people start doing this professionally.
I see every spot taken by a car with someone in the driver's seat. I see this escalating into organized groups doing this, and then those groups start fighting over territories.
"ParkModo, which appears poised to launch later this week, according to recent employment postings on Craigslist, will employ drivers at a rate of $13.00 per hour to occupy public parking spaces in the Mission District."
Uh huh. Assholes gaming a system. I see the next revenue source for tweakers.
I think the deniers are the same people, with the same arguments.
It's easy to spot the people who don't know what they're talking about. Over the last few days:
1) Just re-assign multicast! 2) Hey, they don't appear to be using those addresses, let's take those! 3) Double/Triple-NAT is good enough for me and everyone else! 4) Let's give out one IP address to everyone and we'll be set for awhile! 5) Let's make a new protocol! 6) IPv6 addresses are too big to remember! 7) You just need to sell it better!
All of those show fundamental misunderstandings about networking. And that part is OK. The problem is that people think they know about flying a plane because they've flown a paper airplane.
Calm down people. Stop trying to barge into the cockpit.
The summary made it sound like an electronic hardware startup, and the difficulties behind competing with the bigwigs like IBM, AMD, Intel, Cisco, Apple, etc.
No, it's click-bait.
As nice as a bicycle headlamp is (that will still be stolen -- thieves don't use normal tools, and they're usually supporting a drug habit), the article didn't even talk about manufacturing in Silicon Valley, or even San Francisco (which is 45 miles north), and they had no unoriginal issues with certifications in other countries. I'm voting this article down. Re-submit with an accurate summary next time.
1. What is the most unusual location you have written a program from?
As soon as WAPs became available, I was outside by the pool on my laptop, coding from a lounge chair without cords. It was beautiful.
2. What is the most unusual circumstance under which you have written a program?
Way back in school, I helped someone write a program on a phone call. The compiler was on his side. I just dictated and debugged code by memory.
3. What is the most unusual computing platform that you wrote a program from?
From? Linux used to be fairly unusual. Hardware... uh Vic20, Apple][, and an old PDP mainframe. I guess those weren't unusual for the time.
4. What is the most unusual application program that you wrote?
I wrote a quick-n-dirty caching-server for SETI@home before it had the capability. SETI's servers were very trusting of input which made it easy to reverse-engineer. I poked around to see the limits, but I didn't allow anyone to abuse it.
I also wrote a wxradar gif scraper. It saved and cataloged the radar images every 5 minutes. Weather sites didn't save this data for more than a couple of hours, and I wanted to track the progress of storms and recall it much later.
[Cox president Pat Esser] said Cox's plan isn't contingent on whether towns and cities offer any sweeteners to Cox to make the rollout easier. Two years ago, Google's ability to get discounted and free services from Kansas City as it constructed its fiber service raised the hackles of local incumbent operators, including Time Warner Cable and AT&T. AT&T has indicated it is interested in getting similar concessions from towns as it rolls out its gigabit speeds.
All of you ALREADY GET CONCESSIONS! You get a monopoly ffs.
AND, you already have the fiber and the coax buried or strung to each business/home. While it's not cheap, all you need to do is send the subscriber a new modem and beef up your headend with new equipment, but that IS the cheapest part.
AND FINALLY, you need to upgrade your peering point with Level 3!
Bunch of lazy, greedy jerks.
Sorry, I'm a bit on the foul side of my mood today.
Don't take it personally. Most employees can do a lot of damage, and IT is essentially the records and archival department for companies. You have to REALLY trust someone to let them go on their own recognizance.
However, most people *DO* take it personally when they're escorted out, and it's emotional, but a lot of people don't let logic rule. A business must protect itself, and there is a lot of history behind it. For management not to do this and immediately take away system privileges, is negligent at best.
Advice to employees: Stay calm. If you are terminated, laid off, fired (or quit), be calm about it. You do want another job, right? How's it going to sound when you are known for threatening to sue your ex-employers for frivolous reasons? Or you're the one that trashed all of a companies systems in a temper-tantrum?
Slashdotters: Why are you defending Ricky Joe Mitchell? He should be made out to be an example of what not to do. People like him make businesses take even more drastic measures on severance, and rightfully so. If Mitchell had a legitimate grievance, he should have pursued it in an adult-like fashion, with HR, and if it was really that bad, through legal channels. It's shocking that half the posts on here seem to be "Well here's what he should've done to protect himself AFTER damaging all those systems," not "Wow that was stupid, and we should ostracize him immediately."
No one in the Bay Area wants to live in Sacramento. Not many people in Sacramento want to live in Sacramento.
1) In SF, you're 4 miles from the beach, at the most. In San Jose, while the salt marsh at the south end of the San Francisco Bay is not quite a beach, you're only 35 miles away from Santa Cruz.
2) The South Bay is still overloaded with large industrial buildings and is still cheap to run a tech business in.
3) When the economy crashes again and tech TANKS like it does, guess where there is critical mass to still have a job? Silicon Valley.
No one wants to shovel snow and ice from their driveway unless they're enjoying a weekend ski trip at Lake Tahoe or Mammoth.
However, if owning a house is so damned important to you, then sure, it's too expensive in Silicon Valley. Buy a house in Oakland instead. Just a few miles across the Bay from San Francisco... and commute like everyone else.
Oh wait.. I forgot... California sucks. You won't like it here.
The article is irrelevant since the ocean floor around the pings is still being searched.
Since the article can't even get a basic fact correct, I don't even trust their analysis. FTA: But now the search of 154 square miles of ocean floor around the signals has concluded with no trace of wreckage found. Pessimism is growing as to whether those signals actually had anything to do with Flight 370. If they didn’t, the search area would return to a size of tens of thousands of square miles.
The link the article uses to "prove" that says something different: The hunt for a missing Malaysian passenger jet entered a new phase as an international team abandoned its aerial search and said efforts to find wreckage on the ocean floor may take as long as eight months. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
It looks like slashdot just linked to another conspiracy theory. Please quit doing that.
I'm not going to say the kids need to leave the lawn, but saying Git can be seen in any way as Torvalds' more important contribution is speaking from ignorance. The people who say there were other OSes that could've filled the same role, but then list off prices for each, are ignorant too.
Linux was free and freely available.
I went from installing it out of the back of a book and from some odd company named Yggdrasil's ftp server, to installing it for a multi-million dollar enterprise fail-over solution.
I went from twiddling values for "drums" to get my hard disks recognized, to it upgrading itself unattended on a phone in my pocket.
Git got to where it was because Torvalds mandated it for Linux contributions. Linux, and the rest of the world, would be fine if Git didn't exist. There were and are plenty of free revision control systems out there. No one can say the same for Linux.
I have a lot photos, documents, and on/near-line backups. Over 15 years worth (and for this crowd, the surprising thing is that it isn't porn). Every few years I rebuild my server with a new RAID, and I buy based on the $99 range. A 6 disk RAID gives me a lot more capacity than with SSD right now. And I have a physical external backup disk.
You could say my setup is paranoid, but I've had so many disk failures, RAID failures (software/OS/filesystem), and backup failures, it's not even funny. And then there was the one time the house burned down. So....
I necessarily go with the most bang for the buck that I can afford.
Looking at Frys.com, I see 256GB SSD at $150. But at the same price, one can buy a 3 TB hard disk.
Hopefully these new SSDs will put more price pressure on the bottom. It was several years before answering machines switched from tape to SSD, too, for a lot of the same kinds of reasons. Don't judge me.
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What this parking app (and there are a couple of others too) does is encourage people to drive into town and make money by parking in spots, auctioning it off, then driving to the next one and repeating the process.
Just guess how much chaos this will cause when a lot of people start doing this professionally.
I see every spot taken by a car with someone in the driver's seat. I see this escalating into organized groups doing this, and then those groups start fighting over territories.
"ParkModo, which appears poised to launch later this week, according to recent employment postings on Craigslist, will employ drivers at a rate of $13.00 per hour to occupy public parking spaces in the Mission District."
Uh huh. Assholes gaming a system. I see the next revenue source for tweakers.
"You can use [external] ultrasound, but the technician has to be there the whole time to hold it on the chest."
Use a strap.
Why wasn't that the follow-up question?
You: Read it again: declines with density. DECLINES. Mercury is very dense, hence its stiffness has DECLINED to the point where it is very low.
Subby: "that's why when bone density decreases, fractures become more likely"
Someone's incorrect here.
What's your idea of "crappy cheap notebook with the crappy cheap keyboards" that breaks all the time?
I buy cheap, and the keyboards don't break. Take a hammer to the keyboard, however.... Are you saying you type with a hammer?
That's not a euphemism...
So you can buy a cheap keyboard that breaks in six months
I've never broken a keyboard through typing alone, and I type a lot. What are you doing to break your keyboards in 6 months?
It doesn't help that IPv6 doesn't play nicely with dynamic address assignment ... So, no more mapping a network printer using just its IP
The prefixes won't change that often. (years.. decades?)
But if you're that paranoid, use the FE80 link-local address. That will never change.
I think the deniers are the same people, with the same arguments.
It's easy to spot the people who don't know what they're talking about. Over the last few days:
1) Just re-assign multicast!
2) Hey, they don't appear to be using those addresses, let's take those!
3) Double/Triple-NAT is good enough for me and everyone else!
4) Let's give out one IP address to everyone and we'll be set for awhile!
5) Let's make a new protocol!
6) IPv6 addresses are too big to remember!
7) You just need to sell it better!
All of those show fundamental misunderstandings about networking. And that part is OK. The problem is that people think they know about flying a plane because they've flown a paper airplane.
Calm down people. Stop trying to barge into the cockpit.
Yes, having 2^128 addresses will make routing so much simpler.
Indeed, it will. All IPv6 addresses are regional. There won't be any subnets split across continents.
*Clang* *Clang* *Clang*
Didn't Mythbusters have an episode on this?
The guts?? The GUTS??
To pay for it, Meg just fired 30,000 people over the last 2 years, and is going to fire another 20,000 by next year. Sorry, Meg, that's chutzpah.
Anyone who's still at HP is hoping they're not next, or looking for another job.
Now that's an achievement.
Well, that's how I first read it anyway.
Some guy hacked freeway condition signs in LA with cryptic messages and weather reports, and even installed a set of remote-operable bagpipes in one.
The hacker went to jail later for a series of 419 scams.
The summary made it sound like an electronic hardware startup, and the difficulties behind competing with the bigwigs like IBM, AMD, Intel, Cisco, Apple, etc.
No, it's click-bait.
As nice as a bicycle headlamp is (that will still be stolen -- thieves don't use normal tools, and they're usually supporting a drug habit), the article didn't even talk about manufacturing in Silicon Valley, or even San Francisco (which is 45 miles north), and they had no unoriginal issues with certifications in other countries. I'm voting this article down. Re-submit with an accurate summary next time.
1. What is the most unusual location you have written a program from?
As soon as WAPs became available, I was outside by the pool on my laptop, coding from a lounge chair without cords. It was beautiful.
2. What is the most unusual circumstance under which you have written a program?
Way back in school, I helped someone write a program on a phone call. The compiler was on his side. I just dictated and debugged code by memory.
3. What is the most unusual computing platform that you wrote a program from?
From? Linux used to be fairly unusual. Hardware... uh Vic20, Apple][, and an old PDP mainframe. I guess those weren't unusual for the time.
4. What is the most unusual application program that you wrote?
I wrote a quick-n-dirty caching-server for SETI@home before it had the capability. SETI's servers were very trusting of input which made it easy to reverse-engineer. I poked around to see the limits, but I didn't allow anyone to abuse it.
I also wrote a wxradar gif scraper. It saved and cataloged the radar images every 5 minutes. Weather sites didn't save this data for more than a couple of hours, and I wanted to track the progress of storms and recall it much later.
Except it's called MPEG video. And it's used for TV.
MPEG also has a mode to recover the errors, but it's expensive, and when you're streaming, who cares? If your link sucks, you don't blame the stream.
[Cox president Pat Esser] said Cox's plan isn't contingent on whether towns and cities offer any sweeteners to Cox to make the rollout easier. Two years ago, Google's ability to get discounted and free services from Kansas City as it constructed its fiber service raised the hackles of local incumbent operators, including Time Warner Cable and AT&T. AT&T has indicated it is interested in getting similar concessions from towns as it rolls out its gigabit speeds.
All of you ALREADY GET CONCESSIONS! You get a monopoly ffs.
AND, you already have the fiber and the coax buried or strung to each business/home. While it's not cheap, all you need to do is send the subscriber a new modem and beef up your headend with new equipment, but that IS the cheapest part.
AND FINALLY, you need to upgrade your peering point with Level 3!
Bunch of lazy, greedy jerks.
Sorry, I'm a bit on the foul side of my mood today.
Don't take it personally. Most employees can do a lot of damage, and IT is essentially the records and archival department for companies. You have to REALLY trust someone to let them go on their own recognizance.
However, most people *DO* take it personally when they're escorted out, and it's emotional, but a lot of people don't let logic rule. A business must protect itself, and there is a lot of history behind it. For management not to do this and immediately take away system privileges, is negligent at best.
Advice to employees: Stay calm. If you are terminated, laid off, fired (or quit), be calm about it. You do want another job, right? How's it going to sound when you are known for threatening to sue your ex-employers for frivolous reasons? Or you're the one that trashed all of a companies systems in a temper-tantrum?
Slashdotters: Why are you defending Ricky Joe Mitchell? He should be made out to be an example of what not to do. People like him make businesses take even more drastic measures on severance, and rightfully so. If Mitchell had a legitimate grievance, he should have pursued it in an adult-like fashion, with HR, and if it was really that bad, through legal channels. It's shocking that half the posts on here seem to be "Well here's what he should've done to protect himself AFTER damaging all those systems," not "Wow that was stupid, and we should ostracize him immediately."
I couldn't help laughing at the article.
No one in the Bay Area wants to live in Sacramento. Not many people in Sacramento want to live in Sacramento.
1) In SF, you're 4 miles from the beach, at the most. In San Jose, while the salt marsh at the south end of the San Francisco Bay is not quite a beach, you're only 35 miles away from Santa Cruz.
2) The South Bay is still overloaded with large industrial buildings and is still cheap to run a tech business in.
3) When the economy crashes again and tech TANKS like it does, guess where there is critical mass to still have a job? Silicon Valley.
No one wants to shovel snow and ice from their driveway unless they're enjoying a weekend ski trip at Lake Tahoe or Mammoth.
However, if owning a house is so damned important to you, then sure, it's too expensive in Silicon Valley. Buy a house in Oakland instead. Just a few miles across the Bay from San Francisco... and commute like everyone else.
Oh wait.. I forgot... California sucks. You won't like it here.
Is this another +5 Troll thread?
The article is irrelevant since the ocean floor around the pings is still being searched.
Since the article can't even get a basic fact correct, I don't even trust their analysis.
FTA:
But now the search of 154 square miles of ocean floor around the signals has concluded with no trace of wreckage found. Pessimism is growing as to whether those signals actually had anything to do with Flight 370. If they didn’t, the search area would return to a size of tens of thousands of square miles.
The link the article uses to "prove" that says something different:
The hunt for a missing Malaysian passenger jet entered a new phase as an international team abandoned its aerial search and said efforts to find wreckage on the ocean floor may take as long as eight months.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
It looks like slashdot just linked to another conspiracy theory. Please quit doing that.
I see a creationist got mod points today.
Too many people believe the Earth was created 6000 years ago, among other things.
Conquer scientific illiteracy, and we'll go to the stars.
I'm not going to say the kids need to leave the lawn, but saying Git can be seen in any way as Torvalds' more important contribution is speaking from ignorance. The people who say there were other OSes that could've filled the same role, but then list off prices for each, are ignorant too.
Linux was free and freely available.
I went from installing it out of the back of a book and from some odd company named Yggdrasil's ftp server, to installing it for a multi-million dollar enterprise fail-over solution.
I went from twiddling values for "drums" to get my hard disks recognized, to it upgrading itself unattended on a phone in my pocket.
Git got to where it was because Torvalds mandated it for Linux contributions. Linux, and the rest of the world, would be fine if Git didn't exist. There were and are plenty of free revision control systems out there. No one can say the same for Linux.
I have a lot photos, documents, and on/near-line backups. Over 15 years worth (and for this crowd, the surprising thing is that it isn't porn). Every few years I rebuild my server with a new RAID, and I buy based on the $99 range. A 6 disk RAID gives me a lot more capacity than with SSD right now. And I have a physical external backup disk.
You could say my setup is paranoid, but I've had so many disk failures, RAID failures (software/OS/filesystem), and backup failures, it's not even funny. And then there was the one time the house burned down. So....
I necessarily go with the most bang for the buck that I can afford.
Looking at Frys.com, I see 256GB SSD at $150. But at the same price, one can buy a 3 TB hard disk.
Hopefully these new SSDs will put more price pressure on the bottom. It was several years before answering machines switched from tape to SSD, too, for a lot of the same kinds of reasons. Don't judge me.