I think part of it is belonging to "the club". Some bosses have the mentality of "I spent all that time and effort getting an education so I won't reward someone who didn't by hiring them".
My past boss (left just before a big layoff) probably would never have hired me based on my (lack of) education. He had a PhD and tended to only hire M.S.** (this was EE work but an M.S. Computer Science could get you hired) or B.S.** actively working toward M.S.**. Performance reviews were heavily weighted to how many courses/seminars you attended over the past year (some would consider this a plus but I am able to do my job with the knowledge that I already have along with a little web/book searching when needed).
...trying their best to do The Right Thing, i.e. stopping the rot before it takes hold.
That's "The Right Thing(TM)";-)
But yes, this looks more like a press release than a news story.
From the title you would think Intel was going with some new non-microchip technology for their next processor line. Rather they are just leveraging their existing customer base with... er...
That's the problem, everyone has high expectation on Google now that even one slight mistake will be scrutinized and punished.
Was it a mistake or are they "playing by their own rules"?
From TFA:
Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have always insisted they will run their 7-year-old company the way they want, even if it means ignoring stock market pressures to hit a widely watched earnings target.
Of course playing by your own rules on Wall Street may be a mistake.
They should concentrate on data collection, aggregation, and dissemination tools.
That could be what this project is for. Everyone is assuming this is for public distribution but it could be for internal consumption. I'm sure Google will make it publicly available under the GPL. But the goal may be to have a uniform distribution with all the tools that Google employees need day to day.
Yes. Hopefully this will stop them from continuing to be idiots.
300k is a lot of people but what percentage of total users is that?
Never mind... It's actually a percentage of users who;
1) have an ISP that doesn't block obviously infected attachments.
2) don't have anti virus software running on their machines.
This is likely why no one is reverse-engineering them anymore, no point.
Unless you want to do some snooping or personal intrusion detection with kismet.
Last I knew linuxant and ndiswrapper didn't support the hooks that were needed by kismet.
I was a happy Linuxant customer before needing this functionality.
Now I'm a happy customer of both madwifi on my laptop and prism54 on my desktop.
You make a good point. Although the original antibiotic, penicillin (bread mold), has been around for a long time, I have no idea just what the modern antibiotics are made of. Is any of it "naturally occurring"? Probably not.
But antibacterial soap concerns me the most. I don't see a need for it, regular soap and water has always worked just fine for everyone except maybe surgeons. Every time someone uses that stuff more of the active ingredient goes down the drain and into the environment. This has the potential of creating tolerant organisms. I always go to the trouble to make sure the label on the soap container does not say antibacterial when I buy anything like that.
Animal feed is one that is easy to overlook. I always assumed that once the antibiotic was eaten it "disappeared". Apparently some amount (most?) comes out the other end and studies actually report finding traces in the animals flesh (meat).
Still it's probably okay to eat the dirt, but make sure at least one member of your party orders the non-dirt meal just in case;-)
It's not likely that the bacteria in question can infect you. Your insides are a very different environment than Canadian mud. (Otherwise anyone who got a cut while out gardening would die from infection.)
According to TFA; the real danger is if the dirt bacteria cross with bacteria that can infect humans. They seem to imply that this is likely to happen and may have already happened (resistant staph infections).
Why this would suddenly come to light may have more to do with research funding coming up than any real danger. After all humans have been around dirt for a long time.
For nand flash it is on the order of 100k write/erase cycles. The file system is responsible for 'wear leveling' i.e. you write and erase a file 10 times the file will be written to a different part of memory each time.
Most flash cards (SmartMemory etc..) and USB thumb drives are nand based.
As an experiment I took a freshly burned brand name (is it live or...) CD-R in a thinline case and put it in an environmental chamber (as a piggyback to normal testing) at work. The chamber routinely cycles between -10 and +70C with extended periods (>24 hours) at the extremes. After about three months the data was still good (md5sum/dev/cdrom matched and no read errors in/var/log/messages).
This was not a scientific test but it did give me more confidence in the media.
And don't forget the other side; anyone considering buying the SCO product (other than certain companies with their own agenda) was also scared off because of the bad publicity.
This has nothing to do with patents (SCO is claiming copyright infringement. Right?) but shows how going to court can effect your bottom line outside of any official judgments.
I was assuming this would only work if the quake happened under dry land. From The Fine Article;
"GPS receivers measure the static displacement of the earth, and after the first few minutes of a quake, that doesn't change much."
But looks like there may be a way to detect a tsunami caused by an under sea event;
"Quakes that cause tsunamis create deformation on the surface of the water, and that causes an atmospheric 'thump,'" MacDoran said. "A compression wave travels into the upper atmosphere, and that disturbance causes subtle changes in the way GPS signals travel." Digital processing of the changed signals coming from nearby receivers would indicate that a tsunami was imminent.
Sounds promising but is it possible to tell the difference between air movement caused by a tsunami and just a sudden gust of wind?
How dense would the sensor array need to be to prevent false positives?
From an infrastructure standpoint airline deregulation may be a better comparison.
After deregulation air fares are somewhat lower. But there has been consolidation of airlines and the resultant companies look to be unstable. How many times have we seen an airline file for bankruptcy protection in the past few years?
For what it's worth this is from Wikipedia; "Between 1978 and mid-2001 nine major carriers (including Eastern, Midway, Braniff, Pan Am, Continental, America West Airlines, and TWA) and over 100 smaller airlines had gone bankrupt or been liquidated--including most of the dozens of new airlines founded in deregulation's aftermath. Mergers and acquisitions among the survivors have created a "Big Six" club of "mega-carriers" and oligopolistic conditions in many markets."
Anyone can open a hamburger stand but it takes a lot more (infrastructure) to run fiber links from city to city.
For a few years, my daughter put a microphone in front of the radio to record the songs she liked.
I used to do the same thing when I was a kid.
For some people (probably very few) this is "good enough".
I predict this will do very little to solve the issue of piracy because too many people doing the pirating will be plenty happy with content that ignores these roadblocks altogether.
Yes, and this brings up the question; is every pirated copy a lost sale of a legit copy? The people behind this kind of legislation would have you believe so.
The real losers will be people like me who'll be forced to re-buy ephemeral content that disapears with time.
And the added cost of the "protected" equipment. This may only be a few more transistors on a chip or a whole black box at each electrical (A/V) port on your DVD player. Either way you will be charged for the extra complexity and its related lower MTBF.
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ah crap... they are already sold out! No drunken santa for the kids this year!
Wait for the first few trash pickup days after x-mas. 50 bucks is cheap enough for a lot of people to trash it rather than try to store a 5 ft tall corpse.
Then you have a year to come up with clever things for Santa to say and do.
Well, skimming the links provided I can find no one claiming that the Xbox360 is a fire starter.
Overheating in electronics can be vague; it just means the components involved are above the temperature they will operate properly at. Most commercial components are rated to operate at a max of 50-70C. It may just be that they got a bad batch of parts that fail at or near room temperature.
But that would be so cool if M$ got blamed for leveling a whole city;-)
I have a problem with automatic billing for _any_ vendor.
Don't get me started on auto billing (money grab); for me GMAC, Mass. Electric, and my Auto Insurance drive me crazy by only giving me the choice of mailing a paper check or giving them permission to access my bank account. There is some amount of satisfaction in controlling when and how much each vendor gets each month. For these three the price of a stamp is worth it.
...only choice is to TiVo the local 6:00 news...
I think I stopped watching the local TV news even before canceling my newspaper subscription;-) Maybe things have changed but there was too much chit-chat between the anchors and every third "news" story was meant to outrage the audience. Mostly get local news from the (not so) local news radio station. While only subtly different it works out better for me.
Back on topic; the newspaper industry appears to be afraid of change (who isn't). In some ways very similar to the **AA only the papers can not claim anyone is "stealing" their product. At least not to the same extent.
I wouldn't want to see the papers go away. There is some gratification in holding an "official" newsprint copy of the paper but I don't need that every day. Maybe the economys of scale won't allow the newspaper companys to run the presses at a reduced rate and still survive. In which case we may be stuck with the likes of CNN and MSNBC (or god forbid some j-random blog) for most our news in the future.
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No, a recall only happens if a product is found to fail the standards that it was originally tested to.
This is more like; a '69 Mustang doesn't meet todays safety and emissions standards so you can not sell it.
Or to stay in electronics; your antique tube radio would not meet UL standards today so you have to junk it.
No, I did not RTFM so don't know if private sales are exempt or whatever.
My past boss (left just before a big layoff) probably would never have hired me based on my (lack of) education. He had a PhD and tended to only hire M.S.** (this was EE work but an M.S. Computer Science could get you hired) or B.S.** actively working toward M.S.**. Performance reviews were heavily weighted to how many courses/seminars you attended over the past year (some would consider this a plus but I am able to do my job with the knowledge that I already have along with a little web/book searching when needed).
That's "The Right Thing(TM)";-)
But yes, this looks more like a press release than a news story.
From the title you would think Intel was going with some new non-microchip technology for their next processor line. Rather they are just leveraging their existing customer base with... er...
Oh well, I'll never make it in marketing.
But it _is_ a cool new logo.
Was it a mistake or are they "playing by their own rules"?
Of course playing by your own rules on Wall Street may be a mistake.From TFA:
Isn't that already handled by the /robots.txt file?
Google supposedly honers the Disallow statement.
Are things different when they go after a newspaper web site?
Maybe they haven't yet perfected undersea cable interception.
Where are those laser guided sharks when you need them?
That could be what this project is for. Everyone is assuming this is for public distribution but it could be for internal consumption. I'm sure Google will make it publicly available under the GPL. But the goal may be to have a uniform distribution with all the tools that Google employees need day to day.
300k is a lot of people but what percentage of total users is that?
Never mind... It's actually a percentage of users who;
1) have an ISP that doesn't block obviously infected attachments.
2) don't have anti virus software running on their machines.
Thats more idiots that I had hoped.
Unless you want to do some snooping or personal intrusion detection with kismet.
Last I knew linuxant and ndiswrapper didn't support the hooks that were needed by kismet.
I was a happy Linuxant customer before needing this functionality.
Now I'm a happy customer of both madwifi on my laptop and prism54 on my desktop.
But antibacterial soap concerns me the most. I don't see a need for it, regular soap and water has always worked just fine for everyone except maybe surgeons. Every time someone uses that stuff more of the active ingredient goes down the drain and into the environment. This has the potential of creating tolerant organisms. I always go to the trouble to make sure the label on the soap container does not say antibacterial when I buy anything like that.
Animal feed is one that is easy to overlook. I always assumed that once the antibiotic was eaten it "disappeared". Apparently some amount (most?) comes out the other end and studies actually report finding traces in the animals flesh (meat).
Still it's probably okay to eat the dirt, but make sure at least one member of your party orders the non-dirt meal just in case;-)
According to TFA; the real danger is if the dirt bacteria cross with bacteria that can infect humans. They seem to imply that this is likely to happen and may have already happened (resistant staph infections).
Why this would suddenly come to light may have more to do with research funding coming up than any real danger. After all humans have been around dirt for a long time.
But I'm the suspicious type.
So, go ahead and have another serving of dirt;-)
Most flash cards (SmartMemory etc..) and USB thumb drives are nand based.
While visiting my parents in Maine I was able to catch an episode on cable (bass fishing had been preempted). Had a nice 'feel' to it.
Will Sci-Fi be dubbing the series to US english?-) I'm guessing subtitles are out of the question;-P
That helps but the typos make for a painful read;
I assume this is the result of translation from the original to HTML.Not to be overly negative, this does look to be a good howto, but as a first impression I do have to question the quality.
This was not a scientific test but it did give me more confidence in the media.
Where does the overthruster err. I mean the Plasma thruster fit in?
This has nothing to do with patents (SCO is claiming copyright infringement. Right?) but shows how going to court can effect your bottom line outside of any official judgments.
I just assumed it was so good that I didn't understand it;-)
But looks like there may be a way to detect a tsunami caused by an under sea event;
Sounds promising but is it possible to tell the difference between air movement caused by a tsunami and just a sudden gust of wind? How dense would the sensor array need to be to prevent false positives?
After deregulation air fares are somewhat lower. But there has been consolidation of airlines and the resultant companies look to be unstable. How many times have we seen an airline file for bankruptcy protection in the past few years?
For what it's worth this is from Wikipedia;
"Between 1978 and mid-2001 nine major carriers (including Eastern, Midway, Braniff, Pan Am, Continental, America West Airlines, and TWA) and over 100 smaller airlines had gone bankrupt or been liquidated--including most of the dozens of new airlines founded in deregulation's aftermath. Mergers and acquisitions among the survivors have created a "Big Six" club of "mega-carriers" and oligopolistic conditions in many markets."
Anyone can open a hamburger stand but it takes a lot more (infrastructure) to run fiber links from city to city.
I used to do the same thing when I was a kid.
For some people (probably very few) this is "good enough".
I predict this will do very little to solve the issue of piracy because too many people doing the pirating will be plenty happy with content that ignores these roadblocks altogether.
Yes, and this brings up the question; is every pirated copy a lost sale of a legit copy? The people behind this kind of legislation would have you believe so.
The real losers will be people like me who'll be forced to re-buy ephemeral content that disapears with time.
And the added cost of the "protected" equipment. This may only be a few more transistors on a chip or a whole black box at each electrical (A/V) port on your DVD player. Either way you will be charged for the extra complexity and its related lower MTBF.
Wait for the first few trash pickup days after x-mas. 50 bucks is cheap enough for a lot of people to trash it rather than try to store a 5 ft tall corpse.
Then you have a year to come up with clever things for Santa to say and do.
TFA is confused. You do not need "approval" to start production (Patent applied for?).
You only need "approval" to start suing the pants off of others that are infringing.
Production could start at any time.
Overheating in electronics can be vague; it just means the components involved are above the temperature they will operate properly at. Most commercial components are rated to operate at a max of 50-70C. It may just be that they got a bad batch of parts that fail at or near room temperature.
But that would be so cool if M$ got blamed for leveling a whole city;-)
Don't get me started on auto billing (money grab); for me GMAC, Mass. Electric, and my Auto Insurance drive me crazy by only giving me the choice of mailing a paper check or giving them permission to access my bank account. There is some amount of satisfaction in controlling when and how much each vendor gets each month. For these three the price of a stamp is worth it.
I think I stopped watching the local TV news even before canceling my newspaper subscription;-) Maybe things have changed but there was too much chit-chat between the anchors and every third "news" story was meant to outrage the audience. Mostly get local news from the (not so) local news radio station. While only subtly different it works out better for me.
Back on topic; the newspaper industry appears to be afraid of change (who isn't). In some ways very similar to the **AA only the papers can not claim anyone is "stealing" their product. At least not to the same extent.
I wouldn't want to see the papers go away. There is some gratification in holding an "official" newsprint copy of the paper but I don't need that every day. Maybe the economys of scale won't allow the newspaper companys to run the presses at a reduced rate and still survive. In which case we may be stuck with the likes of CNN and MSNBC (or god forbid some j-random blog) for most our news in the future.