I am reading the book Atomic America. They describe an incident where a guy was pulling out the control rod and the reactor blew. It impaled him and left him hanging from the ceiling. It took the cleanup crew five days to figure out how to get him down. When they got the body down, they noted that the body had no signs of decay due to the radioactivity.
You can read about this and more in the awesome book "The Complex" by John Duignan. You may have to order it from Ireland, but it is a great book that describes one man's brave attempt to escape scientology after making it up the ranks.
Put humans into PET scanners, run some experiments, and it starts to look like humans do not exactly have free will. And it appears that our cognitive mind may not be able to directly will an action. And there is an area of the brain devoted to figuring out what the hell it is we are doing, and making up a consistent story about what is happening. In everyday life this stuff works smoothly and you don't notice it. But certain experiments or injuries reveal the way it works.
But with modern memory management, I suppose it would be no more difficult to have the memory manager set aside that page as invalid, as it does with page zero.
and Microsoft ignores them. There was never any sense that there would be equity in pay, that is why there was a corporate preference for H1s. Also, MS moved them around from job to job (PROHIBITED BY THE RULES) and it was common to have a team member not on your cost center (to hide the fact they were being moved around). It is this idea that they are above the rules that leaves me with no sympathy for MS.
When I first heard about this (around 1999) I had access to NT source. For fun I did a search and found something like _NSA_KEY. Ironically our department manager used to work for NSA and said he would check into. He said there was nothing to it. While I certainly did not trust him on a topic like this, I have no personal knowledge of any back doors. But it would surprise me more if there were not any.
Virtual memory is now used for little tricks, in addition to providing more memory than is physically available.
One example is ring transitions into kernel mode which start out as exceptions. (Everyone seems to have ignored call gate, the mechanism Intel offered for ring transitions).
Another is memory mapped pointers. It is cool to be able to increment a pointer to file backed ram and not have to care if it is in ram or not.
Maybe the OP is onto something. Imagine writing Windows drivers without having to worry about IRQL and paging.
In another e-mail, Microsoft Windows product manager Mike Nash said even he was fooled by the campaign: "I personally got burned by the Intel 915 chipset issue on a laptop that I personally" bought "with my own $$$." Nash said he purchased the Sony laptop "because it had the Vista logo and was pretty disappointed."
"I now have a $2,100 e-mail machine," Nash complained.
Nothing new here. Another day. Another episode demonstrating that there are no ethics or leadership at the top of this company. Just a bunch of ignorant whores.
Security
Jobs
Access to education (that doesnt bankrupt them)
Access to healthcare (that doesnt bankrupt them)
A voice in government
Problems with the last one prevent the other ones from happening. US made a huge mistake bestowing personhood and financial amnesty on corporations, and giving corporations a direct line into the legislative branch. If corporations had to go through the people instead, things would be very different.
When I was mistreated at a job last year I bought some labor law books. You summarized nicely most of the important things I got from the books. The other thing was keep a work diary at home. It rarely worth pursuing but if you do have to sue, the person with the biggest pile of paper often wins. I am not the suing type, I usually just move on. But I went thru a suit with my wife against her employer and she won. Everyone acts like it is so easy, it certainly was not. Lots of paperwork and corroboration needed.
But let's not forget that employers can simply reclassify their hourly employees as salaried and get as much unpaid overtime as they want.
In southern California, Edwards Cinemas found out that it is not that simple. "Managers" were sweeping floors, cleaning toilets. The courts ruled in favor of the employees.
Some testing was conducted to see if the various transmitters on a Toyota Camry could interfere with operation of a defibrillator. Interference was detected that caused the defibrillator to miss sensing important heart events, and also to fire when there was no event. The study recommended staying a few meters away from certain areas of the car. Similar article on hybrid intereference: http://trusted.md/feed/items/system/2008/02/25/pacemakers_defibrillators_and_hybrid_cars
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Working on the communications software for one of these devices, I can say for sure there is no encryption on at least one of them. A decision was made by the company to not worry about this issue at the moment.
I just watched a DVD by Steve Coleman and his work with the mathematical M-Base approach to composition. Near the end of the DVD is footage of the band performing live, reading the music off of LCD screens. A computer is writing the music. http://www.m-base.com/videos.html
I don't know about the salary amount issue. But in support you have people all over the place that work for one manager but yet report to the cost center of another. We stumbled upon this accidentally and the explanation was that they are supposed to work at one position for a certain amount of time according to H-1 rules. To get around this, they still move people around but leave them on the original cost center. This should come as no surprise. Microsoft has made it very clear that their ethic is they will do whatever they think they can get away with. Funny this is, if I stooped to their level, I would walk out every night with a hard drive in my pocket. But I dont.
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I am reading the book Atomic America. They describe an incident where a guy was pulling out the control rod and the reactor blew. It impaled him and left him hanging from the ceiling. It took the cleanup crew five days to figure out how to get him down. When they got the body down, they noted that the body had no signs of decay due to the radioactivity.
You can read about this and more in the awesome book "The Complex" by John Duignan. You may have to order it from Ireland, but it is a great book that describes one man's brave attempt to escape scientology after making it up the ranks.
Put humans into PET scanners, run some experiments, and it starts to look like humans do not exactly have free will. And it appears that our cognitive mind may not be able to directly will an action. And there is an area of the brain devoted to figuring out what the hell it is we are doing, and making up a consistent story about what is happening. In everyday life this stuff works smoothly and you don't notice it. But certain experiments or injuries reveal the way it works.
By this definition, Pluto is a planet, no ?
But with modern memory management, I suppose it would be no more difficult to have the memory manager set aside that page as invalid, as it does with page zero.
They had a round of layoffs in December. Another one coming in the spring. They are getting a little short handed. I hope the quality stays up.
and Microsoft ignores them. There was never any sense that there would be equity in pay, that is why there was a corporate preference for H1s. Also, MS moved them around from job to job (PROHIBITED BY THE RULES) and it was common to have a team member not on your cost center (to hide the fact they were being moved around). It is this idea that they are above the rules that leaves me with no sympathy for MS.
When I first heard about this (around 1999) I had access to NT source. For fun I did a search and found something like _NSA_KEY. Ironically our department manager used to work for NSA and said he would check into. He said there was nothing to it. While I certainly did not trust him on a topic like this, I have no personal knowledge of any back doors. But it would surprise me more if there were not any.
Virtual memory is now used for little tricks, in addition to providing more memory than is physically available.
One example is ring transitions into kernel mode which start out as exceptions. (Everyone seems to have ignored call gate, the mechanism Intel offered for ring transitions).
Another is memory mapped pointers. It is cool to be able to increment a pointer to file backed ram and not have to care if it is in ram or not.
Maybe the OP is onto something. Imagine writing Windows drivers without having to worry about IRQL and paging.
Their own managers got screwed by this. From Information Week:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212100310
In another e-mail, Microsoft Windows product manager Mike Nash said even he was fooled by the campaign: "I personally got burned by the Intel 915 chipset issue on a laptop that I personally" bought "with my own $$$." Nash said he purchased the Sony laptop "because it had the Vista logo and was pretty disappointed."
"I now have a $2,100 e-mail machine," Nash complained.
Nothing new here. Another day. Another episode demonstrating that there are no ethics or leadership at the top of this company. Just a bunch of ignorant whores.
Security
Jobs
Access to education (that doesnt bankrupt them)
Access to healthcare (that doesnt bankrupt them)
A voice in government
Problems with the last one prevent the other ones from happening. US made a huge mistake bestowing personhood and financial amnesty on corporations, and giving corporations a direct line into the legislative branch. If corporations had to go through the people instead, things would be very different.
When I was mistreated at a job last year I bought some labor law books. You summarized nicely most of the important things I got from the books. The other thing was keep a work diary at home. It rarely worth pursuing but if you do have to sue, the person with the biggest pile of paper often wins. I am not the suing type, I usually just move on. But I went thru a suit with my wife against her employer and she won. Everyone acts like it is so easy, it certainly was not. Lots of paperwork and corroboration needed.
"They can't fire you for not working overtime. "
Yes, yes they can, they can fire you without even giving a reason in any of the "at will" states.
At Will status can be accidentally surrendered by the employer though, and is part of the reason there are so many successful termination cases.
Not running on the defibrillator itself, but on the computer that configures it.
But let's not forget that employers can simply reclassify their hourly employees as salaried and get as much unpaid overtime as they want.
In southern California, Edwards Cinemas found out that it is not that simple. "Managers" were sweeping floors, cleaning toilets. The courts ruled in favor of the employees.
Some testing was conducted to see if the various transmitters on a Toyota Camry could interfere with operation of a defibrillator. Interference was detected that caused the defibrillator to miss sensing important heart events, and also to fire when there was no event. The study recommended staying a few meters away from certain areas of the car. Similar article on hybrid intereference: http://trusted.md/feed/items/system/2008/02/25/pacemakers_defibrillators_and_hybrid_cars
Working on the communications software for one of these devices, I can say for sure there is no encryption on at least one of them. A decision was made by the company to not worry about this issue at the moment.
I just watched a DVD by Steve Coleman and his work with the mathematical M-Base approach to composition. Near the end of the DVD is footage of the band performing live, reading the music off of LCD screens. A computer is writing the music. http://www.m-base.com/videos.html
I don't know about the salary amount issue. But in support you have people all over the place that work for one manager but yet report to the cost center of another. We stumbled upon this accidentally and the explanation was that they are supposed to work at one position for a certain amount of time according to H-1 rules. To get around this, they still move people around but leave them on the original cost center. This should come as no surprise. Microsoft has made it very clear that their ethic is they will do whatever they think they can get away with. Funny this is, if I stooped to their level, I would walk out every night with a hard drive in my pocket. But I dont.