If you are using bit torrent, you are *uploading* as well as downloading.
But more to the point, even if you are only downloading, defending yourself from a lawsuit is expensive. 99.9% of the people who speak so confidently as you lack the resources to defend themselves when caught and settle because even at $3,000, it is much less expensive than hiring an attorney and defending yourself. And if you lose, the damages can be catastrophic to most people.
My original advice stands. Stay away from super current, super hot items unless you are using VPN. Some people go so far as to use a given network adapter *one time* for superhot works and then toss it.
People engaged in criminal activity get increasingly careless as time goes by. Most "superhackers" were caught because they got lazy and used their real names somewhere. Sounds idiotic but after 3 or 5 years of not being caught, it's human nature.
It's also why we shouldn't have humans mix with nuclear power. It's fine- if humans were not humans.
This version should be better formatted and more legible.
Millions of puerto ricans would not be suffering in darkness if Clinton were president. She would have been prepared.
Mrs Clinton is a methodist who wanted to make the world a better place since she was 18.
President Trump shows many of the classic signs of a narcissistic sociopath*.
I'm not sure if it is genetic or just the way he was raised. Mr Trump literally can not talk to disaster victims without making it about how great he is and having his ego stoked. Mr. Trump utterly lacks empathy- even insulting the military families who have lost children serving the country. That's a huge problem.
But we could deal with that if he was even remotely competent. But he's not. He hasn't even staffed hundreds (even thousands) of positions after 8 months needed to run the government during wars and disasters. Every other recent president- republicans and democrats had them staffed within 90 days or less. Mr. Trump isn't the worst president ever.
James Buchanan still holds that title for now. But Mr. Trump has only had 8 months in office. Give him time. Mr. Trump is on track to replace James Buchanan as the worst president ever. Even James Buchanan didn't collude with enemy nations. ---
* Antisocial personality disorder is "a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, occurring since age 15 years"
Narcissistic personality disorder is "a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning in early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts.
If a narcissistic sociopath cares about anything other than himself, it is destructive power and control over people. (check)
Behaviors that seek love and admiration. To be sure, this isn't needy love. It's not even emotional love. It's superficial. A narcissistic sociopath sees love and admiration as power tools to manipulate and dominate (Do Sociopaths Even Have Feelings?). (check)
No apologies, no guilt, no remorse under any circumstance. (check- his lack of ability to apologize is staggering at times)
A sociopathic narcissist believes that she is a gift to the world who makes it richer and more colorful. Therefore, her calculated, even cruel actions are always justified. (check)
Invincibility. The narcissistic variety of sociopath believes he is indomitable. Even punishment and prison can't stop him. They're merely part of the game. (check- part of his appeal to authoritarian voters)
Wholly self-serving. The needs and wants of others are insignificant and undeserving of consideration. (check)
Acts as the producer, director, and only actor of his own show. The narcissistic sociopath casts people in roles that increase his power and sense of importance and when bored, casts them aside. (crooked hillary, lyin Ted, etc. How many people did he cast aside so far? check. Why do people even believe he WON'T cast them aside at this point?)
--- Sound familiar?
Which of these has Mr. Trump displayed since in office? All of them. Literally all of them.
Mr. Trump has displayed every trait on this list just in the 8 months since taking office.
Again- it's bad that he's a sociopathic narcissist but the real problem is that feeds into is complete lack of ability to recognize when he's wrong, clueless, uninformed, or a living breathing example of the dunning krueger effect. Because those are terrible traits for a national leader. Being both that grossly incompetent AND that overconfident is terrible for the country.
Millions of puerto ricans would not be suffering in darkness if Clinton were president. She would have been prepared.
Mrs Clinton is a methodist who wanted to make the world a better place since she was 18.
President Trump shows many of the classic signs of a narcissistic sociopath*. I'm not sure if it is genetic or just the way he was raised. Mr Trump literally can not talk to disaster victims without making it about how great he is and having his ego stoked. Mr. Trump utterly lacks empathy- even insulting the military families who have lost children serving the country.
That's a huge problem. But we could deal with that if he was even remotely competent. But he's not. He hasn't even staffed hundreds (even thousands) of positions after 8 months needed to run the government during wars and disasters. Every other recent president- republicans and democrats had them staffed within 90 days or less.
Mr. Trump isn't the worst president ever. James Buchanan still holds that title for now. But Mr. Trump has only had 8 months in office. Give him time. Mr. Trump is on track to replace James Buchanan as the worst president ever. Even James Buchanan didn't collude with enemy nations.
---
*
Antisocial personality disorder is "a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, occurring since age 15 years"
Narcissistic personality disorder is "a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning in early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts.
https://www.healthyplace.com/p...
How do you spot a sociopathic narcissist? Watch for certain traits:
A driven quest for power. If a narcissistic sociopath cares about anything other than himself, it is destructive power and control over people.
Behaviors that seek love and admiration. To be sure, this isn't needy love. It's not even emotional love. It's superficial. A narcissistic sociopath sees love and admiration as power tools to manipulate and dominate (Do Sociopaths Even Have Feelings?).
No apologies, no guilt, no remorse under any circumstance. A sociopathic narcissist believes that she is a gift to the world who makes it richer and more colorful. Therefore, her calculated, even cruel actions are always justified.
Invincibility. The narcissistic variety of sociopath believes he is indomitable. Even punishment and prison can't stop him. They're merely part of the game.
Wholly self-serving. The needs and wants of others are insignificant and undeserving of consideration.
Act as the producer, director, and only actor of his own show. The narcissistic sociopath casts people in roles that increase his power and sense of importance and when bored, casts them aside.
---
Sound familiar?
Which of these has Mr. Trump done since in office? All of them. Mr. Trump has displayed every trait on this list just in the 8 months since taking office.
I see what you did there. You said the risk of a person sending email and browsing the web is the same as the risk of a person downloading a watermarked video from a torrent site.
It's not. Not even close. It's illegal and can get you into trouble.
Don't be the stoner who offers the friendly policeman a hit on his joint in a state where pot is still illegal. (true story).
If you are going to do something illegal- recognize that fact and either don't do it because the risk/reward is off or take precautions.
And while the instantiated steps may vary- the process and template of the steps is useful.
Project management prevents you from being blindsided by a late delivery. With good project management, regular builds, and unit testing, you'll know if a problem is developing.
One tip as a retired PM and manager of 15 developers.
Do the risky/new stuff first. Prove it works before you do $50 million worth of 'easy" work and then find out the foundation of the entire application won't work.
The worst case I saw of this was a failed SAP installation that cost over one billion dollars.
While they project managed the hell out of it, they started easy coding before proving a couple basic systems would work under the proposed loads. They did not. The entire project failed.
A show like this is going to be too hot. Anyone downloading without using a VPN client is risking a $3,000 fine and possible loss of their internet connection.
I like star trek. But I'm simply not going to watch it.
I have too many other forms of entertainment anyway.
If it's good- perhaps it will be available thru less expensive or less risky delivery methods.
If you watched the debates, then you know clinton knew the names of world leaders, the names of well... countries, where those countries were, how to deal with those countries diplomatically.
She also displayed a working knowledge of the constitution- which Mr. Trump failed at very impressively. You know- the founding blueprint for our government?
Mr. Trump was barely capable of speaking intelligibly much less intelligently on most of the questions asked.
His answers were mostly, "America, fuck yea!" and "Lots of people know this. I have words. Trust me!"
I will grant that Clinton was certainly not up to Nixon/Kennedy debate standards but who would be today.
Unlike most republicans who can't say a negative word about Trump after he calls white supremacists and nazis good people, I'm willing to point out problems with Clinton had issues. Too many ties to big corporations. Too many ties to the financial industry. Of course trump, out did her on ties to the financial industry with several goldman sachs people in his administration, including senior positions.
Clinton was prepared, did have plans ready to implement.
Trump had nothing. Has had nothing for 7 months now. And is marching us towards a war with NK and potentially China.
If you have multiple sources of income, run a business with business expenses, have 23 stock purchases of a stock at 23 different prices, own a house, deduct mortgage expenses, had major medical bills and want to deduct them, had home repair expenses and want to deduct them, buy and sell real estate, pay state taxes and want to deduct them from your income, then your taxes will not be simple.
Tens of millions of american tax payers qualify for a postcard like 1040ez. Tens of millions more americans qualify for a tax return which takes under 30 minutes to finish.
Tell me again why someone with an incredibly complicated income from many sources who wants dozens of deductions is supposed to have a simple income tax form?
The candidate who was elected insulted everyone else in the race and has no real positions.
The competent candidate who wasn't elected (by a few votes in 3 states) had real positions but was part of the establishment.
While we wouldn't have had the excitement of nuclear brinksmanship, we would have had more of the same which was actually not that bad. Most people were employed and it's really trends in automation which were destroying stable jobs.
I couldn't say why we are seeing a resurgence of neo-nazis and white supremacists in the u.s. and in europe (except Italy which is doing pretty well).
But, the last time right wing people and nazi's had power, millions of people died. So that put the "right" to bed until people forgot how bad it is to be governed by the "right".
The right wing is pretty blatantly fueled by a few very wealthy people like Mercer who hold hard right and racist views (mostly anti-black) and by the Republican "southern strategy".
In the privacy of the voting booth they voted for a person who was lying 30 times a day (over 30 times some days), who even then was obviously going to put out 1 page kindergardenish tax "plans" (in place of realistic 800 to 1500+ page tax plans, who asks for geopolitical briefings with a limit of 9 bullet point items per page, and whose racism and misogyny was well known even then.
The conservative evangelists who voted for trump disgraced themselves and I do not want to hear them talking about sexual morals of candidates on the left again. But I'm sure i will.
It was not lack of coders. It was ruthless and relentless offshoring and outsourcing because they were less expensive and more willing to work 80 hour weeks without pay.
Stop the H1B program for any job making under $150,000 a year and coders would be there.
Offshoring is usually bad enough that companies that they can't stick with it for too long.
Doesn't matter, there will be new weaknesses discovered.
Windows, Linux, and probably cloud computing are simply fundamentally insecure at this time.
Only small custom systems are reasonably secure because so few people are trying to break into them. Anything that becomes financially viable becomes a target.
You can't automate this stuff- you have to keep humans in the loop. And even then humans are socially hackable.
That was what my degree was like. It was damn hard.
Never built CPU's but we did work with breadboards and we did programming like yours (vax macro assembly language at my school). Implemented our own database with simple SQL statements. Implemented our own compiler from a skeleton.
If you wanted to be a computer scientist- you got a masters or better yet a doctorate.
Bachelors degree was just to get you a solid programming job (not a code monkey).
Number of senior programmer analysts required at my last place-- 300. Number of architects required-- 3 (it was briefly 5-- for maybe 6 months one time).
Bachelor's degrees in computer science are absolutely supposed to lead to jobs as coders. But not as "code monkeys".
Masters and Doctorates lead to jobs as actual Computer Scientists.
A 4 year degree teaches you theory, teaches you to think rigorously (mostly the math), makes you well rounded (english, government, history), gives you good written and verbal communication skills (english classes), and gives you a good base in math- which you may never use (in which case it will rot), gives you better design theory, gives you a wider range of experience.
Compare that to someone who spends a couple days learning a single language in a single setting and writes a program.
I have a bachelor's degree, in Science-- Computer Science. In my case it paid off well- retired at 51. Many 6 figure income years. And it was dirt cheap for me- about $4,000 out of pocket (about $9,000 with $5,000 reimbursed by my job).
School is TOO expensive for the kids. We shouldn't be charging them so much.
I'm in a major city and there is something wrong with the TMobile tower near my grocery store.
It shows as functioning correctly but my current and prior phones never connect to it. Even when I'm only a half block away from ti. So my phone is connecting to towers much further away as a result. I've reported it twice now and nothings been done.
My particular method (which I did not fully reveal) produces unique derivable passwords per site so writedown is not an issue.
It does develop a problem over a period of several years. I.e. I have some sites that change passwords frequently and that eventually drives me to change my base pattern. No problem at first but after several base phrase changes, now it becomes a question of which base phrase was in use when I return to a site I don't even recall visiting and it knows me and requests a password. I can try a couple likely candidates and reset to the current base pattern. After that it's password reset territory.
Purchasing a new phone also seems to set off a password storm.
I do not like using services or apps which store passwords. They just seem to be begging on my knees to be compromised when those sites are inevitably compromised.
Many have obvious, easily implementable functions.
When you read about people with broken brains, you can easily see how mammal intelligence is composed of multiple subsystems. Even chimps and dogs have self awareness, the concept of object permanence, surprise, joy, affection, and some even humor.
We need to be very careful of A.I. research.
A successful A.I. could be 500 years away. Or it might happen next year.
We need things like * Power limits with analog unhackable indicators of power consumption. * Not connected to the internet. * Independent observers (via camera) of the people working directly with the A.I. research. * Easy manual methods to disable the potential A.I. * A genuinely isolated box (no USB ports for example).
There is no reason for an A.I. to be "friendly".
It doesn't have to be evil- it just has to be like humans. Humans have enslaved, robbed, killed, and driven species extinct when they wanted something from that species- all without viewing themselves as evil.
If an A.I. ramps up slowly (decades) not a big problem. If it ramps up quickly (weeks) then a lot of risk and societal disruption. If it ramps up at machine speeds (minutes or seconds), it could go from being barely intelligent to vastly exceeding our intelligence before we even know what's happening.
---
And saying all that, "non-intelligent" A.I.'s could still destroy jobs faster than they can be created for a couple decades. Which could cause financial panics, civil unrest, or just a lot of misery.
--- I hope A.i. researchers read books like "Brain Bugs" and "The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat" to get a better idea what human intelligence is like.
Slashdot Mirror
If you are using bit torrent, you are *uploading* as well as downloading.
But more to the point, even if you are only downloading, defending yourself from a lawsuit is expensive. 99.9% of the people who speak so confidently as you lack the resources to defend themselves when caught and settle because even at $3,000, it is much less expensive than hiring an attorney and defending yourself. And if you lose, the damages can be catastrophic to most people.
My original advice stands. Stay away from super current, super hot items unless you are using VPN. Some people go so far as to use a given network adapter *one time* for superhot works and then toss it.
People engaged in criminal activity get increasingly careless as time goes by. Most "superhackers" were caught because they got lazy and used their real names somewhere. Sounds idiotic but after 3 or 5 years of not being caught, it's human nature.
It's also why we shouldn't have humans mix with nuclear power. It's fine- if humans were not humans.
Sigh. I hate slashdot sometimes...
This version should be better formatted and more legible.
Millions of puerto ricans would not be suffering in darkness if Clinton were president.
She would have been prepared.
Mrs Clinton is a methodist who wanted to make the world a better place since she was 18.
President Trump shows many of the classic signs of a narcissistic sociopath*.
I'm not sure if it is genetic or just the way he was raised. Mr Trump literally can not talk to disaster victims without making it about how great he is and having his ego stoked. Mr. Trump utterly lacks empathy- even insulting the military families who have lost children serving the country. That's a huge problem.
But we could deal with that if he was even remotely competent. But he's not. He hasn't even staffed hundreds (even thousands) of positions after 8 months needed to run the government during wars and disasters. Every other recent president- republicans and democrats had them staffed within 90 days or less. Mr. Trump isn't the worst president ever.
James Buchanan still holds that title for now. But Mr. Trump has only had 8 months in office. Give him time. Mr. Trump is on track to replace James Buchanan as the worst president ever. Even James Buchanan didn't collude with enemy nations. ---
*
Antisocial personality disorder is "a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, occurring since age 15 years"
Narcissistic personality disorder is "a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning in early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts.
https://www.healthyplace.com/p... [healthyplace.com]
How do you spot a sociopathic narcissist?
Watch for certain traits:
A driven quest for power. (check)
If a narcissistic sociopath cares about anything other than himself, it is destructive power and control over people. (check)
Behaviors that seek love and admiration. To be sure, this isn't needy love. It's not even emotional love. It's superficial. A narcissistic sociopath sees love and admiration as power tools to manipulate and dominate (Do Sociopaths Even Have Feelings?). (check)
No apologies, no guilt, no remorse under any circumstance. (check- his lack of ability to apologize is staggering at times)
A sociopathic narcissist believes that she is a gift to the world who makes it richer and more colorful. Therefore, her calculated, even cruel actions are always justified. (check)
Invincibility. The narcissistic variety of sociopath believes he is indomitable. Even punishment and prison can't stop him. They're merely part of the game. (check- part of his appeal to authoritarian voters)
Wholly self-serving. The needs and wants of others are insignificant and undeserving of consideration. (check)
Acts as the producer, director, and only actor of his own show. The narcissistic sociopath casts people in roles that increase his power and sense of importance and when bored, casts them aside. (crooked hillary, lyin Ted, etc. How many people did he cast aside so far? check. Why do people even believe he WON'T cast them aside at this point?)
--- Sound familiar?
Which of these has Mr. Trump displayed since in office? All of them. Literally all of them.
Mr. Trump has displayed every trait on this list just in the 8 months since taking office.
Again- it's bad that he's a sociopathic narcissist but the real problem is that feeds into is complete lack of ability to recognize when he's wrong, clueless, uninformed, or a living breathing example of the dunning krueger effect. Because those are terrible traits for a national leader. Being both that grossly incompetent AND that overconfident is terrible for the country.
Millions of puerto ricans would not be suffering in darkness if Clinton were president. She would have been prepared. Mrs Clinton is a methodist who wanted to make the world a better place since she was 18. President Trump shows many of the classic signs of a narcissistic sociopath*. I'm not sure if it is genetic or just the way he was raised. Mr Trump literally can not talk to disaster victims without making it about how great he is and having his ego stoked. Mr. Trump utterly lacks empathy- even insulting the military families who have lost children serving the country. That's a huge problem. But we could deal with that if he was even remotely competent. But he's not. He hasn't even staffed hundreds (even thousands) of positions after 8 months needed to run the government during wars and disasters. Every other recent president- republicans and democrats had them staffed within 90 days or less. Mr. Trump isn't the worst president ever. James Buchanan still holds that title for now. But Mr. Trump has only had 8 months in office. Give him time. Mr. Trump is on track to replace James Buchanan as the worst president ever. Even James Buchanan didn't collude with enemy nations. --- * Antisocial personality disorder is "a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, occurring since age 15 years" Narcissistic personality disorder is "a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning in early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts. https://www.healthyplace.com/p... How do you spot a sociopathic narcissist? Watch for certain traits: A driven quest for power. If a narcissistic sociopath cares about anything other than himself, it is destructive power and control over people. Behaviors that seek love and admiration. To be sure, this isn't needy love. It's not even emotional love. It's superficial. A narcissistic sociopath sees love and admiration as power tools to manipulate and dominate (Do Sociopaths Even Have Feelings?). No apologies, no guilt, no remorse under any circumstance. A sociopathic narcissist believes that she is a gift to the world who makes it richer and more colorful. Therefore, her calculated, even cruel actions are always justified. Invincibility. The narcissistic variety of sociopath believes he is indomitable. Even punishment and prison can't stop him. They're merely part of the game. Wholly self-serving. The needs and wants of others are insignificant and undeserving of consideration. Act as the producer, director, and only actor of his own show. The narcissistic sociopath casts people in roles that increase his power and sense of importance and when bored, casts them aside. --- Sound familiar? Which of these has Mr. Trump done since in office? All of them. Mr. Trump has displayed every trait on this list just in the 8 months since taking office.
man.. you sound so much like wesley snipes about how he didn't have to pay income taxes. he was sure.
Hell, that's what I do for shows like Supernatural and Bones these days. The commercials just are not worth it to see it first run.
No one *talks* about tv shows in my social circles any more anyway because everyone is on a different season.
I see what you did there. You said the risk of a person sending email and browsing the web is the same as the risk of a person downloading a watermarked video from a torrent site.
It's not. Not even close. It's illegal and can get you into trouble.
Don't be the stoner who offers the friendly policeman a hit on his joint in a state where pot is still illegal. (true story).
If you are going to do something illegal- recognize that fact and either don't do it because the risk/reward is off or take precautions.
Exactly.
And while the instantiated steps may vary- the process and template of the steps is useful.
Project management prevents you from being blindsided by a late delivery. With good project management, regular builds, and unit testing, you'll know if a problem is developing.
One tip as a retired PM and manager of 15 developers.
Do the risky/new stuff first. Prove it works before you do $50 million worth of 'easy" work and then find out the foundation of the entire application won't work.
The worst case I saw of this was a failed SAP installation that cost over one billion dollars.
While they project managed the hell out of it, they started easy coding before proving a couple basic systems would work under the proposed loads. They did not. The entire project failed.
A show like this is going to be too hot. Anyone downloading without using a VPN client is risking a $3,000 fine and possible loss of their internet connection.
I like star trek. But I'm simply not going to watch it.
I have too many other forms of entertainment anyway.
If it's good- perhaps it will be available thru less expensive or less risky delivery methods.
If you watched the debates, then you know clinton knew the names of world leaders, the names of well... countries, where those countries were, how to deal with those countries diplomatically.
She also displayed a working knowledge of the constitution- which Mr. Trump failed at very impressively. You know- the founding blueprint for our government?
Mr. Trump was barely capable of speaking intelligibly much less intelligently on most of the questions asked.
His answers were mostly, "America, fuck yea!" and "Lots of people know this. I have words. Trust me!"
I will grant that Clinton was certainly not up to Nixon/Kennedy debate standards but who would be today.
Unlike most republicans who can't say a negative word about Trump after he calls white supremacists and nazis good people, I'm willing to point out problems with Clinton had issues. Too many ties to big corporations. Too many ties to the financial industry. Of course trump, out did her on ties to the financial industry with several goldman sachs people in his administration, including senior positions.
Clinton was prepared, did have plans ready to implement.
Trump had nothing. Has had nothing for 7 months now. And is marching us towards a war with NK and potentially China.
Taxes are simple for people with simple incomes.
If you have multiple sources of income, run a business with business expenses, have 23 stock purchases of a stock at 23 different prices, own a house, deduct mortgage expenses, had major medical bills and want to deduct them, had home repair expenses and want to deduct them, buy and sell real estate, pay state taxes and want to deduct them from your income, then your taxes will not be simple.
Tens of millions of american tax payers qualify for a postcard like 1040ez. Tens of millions more americans qualify for a tax return which takes under 30 minutes to finish.
Tell me again why someone with an incredibly complicated income from many sources who wants dozens of deductions is supposed to have a simple income tax form?
Let me state a position.
The candidate who was elected insulted everyone else in the race and has no real positions.
The competent candidate who wasn't elected (by a few votes in 3 states) had real positions but was part of the establishment.
While we wouldn't have had the excitement of nuclear brinksmanship, we would have had more of the same which was actually not that bad. Most people were employed and it's really trends in automation which were destroying stable jobs.
I couldn't say why we are seeing a resurgence of neo-nazis and white supremacists in the u.s. and in europe (except Italy which is doing pretty well).
But, the last time right wing people and nazi's had power, millions of people died. So that put the "right" to bed until people forgot how bad it is to be governed by the "right".
The right wing is pretty blatantly fueled by a few very wealthy people like Mercer who hold hard right and racist views (mostly anti-black) and by the Republican "southern strategy".
In the privacy of the voting booth they voted for a person who was lying 30 times a day (over 30 times some days), who even then was obviously going to put out 1 page kindergardenish tax "plans" (in place of realistic 800 to 1500+ page tax plans, who asks for geopolitical briefings with a limit of 9 bullet point items per page, and whose racism and misogyny was well known even then.
The conservative evangelists who voted for trump disgraced themselves and I do not want to hear them talking about sexual morals of candidates on the left again. But I'm sure i will.
I've seen this for 30 years.
It was not lack of coders. It was ruthless and relentless offshoring and outsourcing because they were less expensive and more willing to work 80 hour weeks without pay.
Stop the H1B program for any job making under $150,000 a year and coders would be there.
Offshoring is usually bad enough that companies that they can't stick with it for too long.
See, this is the problem tho.
You *CAN"T PROTECT YOUR DATA".
How many of these have to occur.
"Oh but they weren't patched"
Doesn't matter, there will be new weaknesses discovered.
Windows, Linux, and probably cloud computing are simply fundamentally insecure at this time.
Only small custom systems are reasonably secure because so few people are trying to break into them. Anything that becomes financially viable becomes a target.
You can't automate this stuff- you have to keep humans in the loop. And even then humans are socially hackable.
Almost every senior programmer analyst there (all 300ish) there had CS degrees.
One architect had an architect degree. Two had CS degrees + 15 years experience with the system.
Maybe it's different out on the west coast.
That was what my degree was like. It was damn hard.
Never built CPU's but we did work with breadboards and we did programming like yours (vax macro assembly language at my school). Implemented our own database with simple SQL statements. Implemented our own compiler from a skeleton.
If you wanted to be a computer scientist- you got a masters or better yet a doctorate.
Bachelors degree was just to get you a solid programming job (not a code monkey).
yea right. A bachelors degree in computer science is equivalent to a bachelors degree in chemistry or psychology.
It's the first 3-5 years of your real degree if you want to work as a computer scientist.
Number of senior programmer analysts required at my last place-- 300.
Number of architects required-- 3 (it was briefly 5-- for maybe 6 months one time).
Bachelor's degrees in computer science are absolutely supposed to lead to jobs as coders. But not as "code monkeys".
Masters and Doctorates lead to jobs as actual Computer Scientists.
A 4 year degree teaches you theory, teaches you to think rigorously (mostly the math), makes you well rounded (english, government, history), gives you good written and verbal communication skills (english classes), and gives you a good base in math- which you may never use (in which case it will rot), gives you better design theory, gives you a wider range of experience.
Compare that to someone who spends a couple days learning a single language in a single setting and writes a program.
I have a bachelor's degree, in Science-- Computer Science. In my case it paid off well- retired at 51. Many 6 figure income years. And it was dirt cheap for me- about $4,000 out of pocket (about $9,000 with $5,000 reimbursed by my job).
School is TOO expensive for the kids. We shouldn't be charging them so much.
I'm in a major city and there is something wrong with the TMobile tower near my grocery store.
It shows as functioning correctly but my current and prior phones never connect to it. Even when I'm only a half block away from ti. So my phone is connecting to towers much further away as a result. I've reported it twice now and nothings been done.
My particular method (which I did not fully reveal) produces unique derivable passwords per site so writedown is not an issue.
It does develop a problem over a period of several years. I.e. I have some sites that change passwords frequently and that eventually drives me to change my base pattern. No problem at first but after several base phrase changes, now it becomes a question of which base phrase was in use when I return to a site I don't even recall visiting and it knows me and requests a password. I can try a couple likely candidates and reset to the current base pattern. After that it's password reset territory.
Purchasing a new phone also seems to set off a password storm.
I do not like using services or apps which store passwords. They just seem to be begging on my knees to be compromised when those sites are inevitably compromised.
Use words mixed with standard but arbitary punctuation and numbers.
For example
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
Tqbfjotld - probably not secure.
T?qbfjotl9D - fairly secure now. Easy to type too.
With limited attempts, you can't try that many passwords before the account is blocked.
What secure sites give you unlimited attempts to sign in?
RSI doesn't affect everyone.
But I work on folks who your approach fails for.
Keep doing your regular breaks. Most the people I work on do not take breaks.
The standard keyboard position plays havoc with the wrists, the forearms, the teres, the neck muscles, the back.
Being able to sit comfortably with arms folded and "type" would help with many of those issues.
Every sub part of the brain isn't intelligent.
Many have obvious, easily implementable functions.
When you read about people with broken brains, you can easily see how mammal intelligence is composed of multiple subsystems. Even chimps and dogs have self awareness, the concept of object permanence, surprise, joy, affection, and some even humor.
We need to be very careful of A.I. research.
A successful A.I. could be 500 years away. Or it might happen next year.
We need things like
* Power limits with analog unhackable indicators of power consumption.
* Not connected to the internet.
* Independent observers (via camera) of the people working directly with the A.I. research.
* Easy manual methods to disable the potential A.I.
* A genuinely isolated box (no USB ports for example).
There is no reason for an A.I. to be "friendly".
It doesn't have to be evil- it just has to be like humans. Humans have enslaved, robbed, killed, and driven species extinct when they wanted something from that species- all without viewing themselves as evil.
If an A.I. ramps up slowly (decades) not a big problem.
If it ramps up quickly (weeks) then a lot of risk and societal disruption.
If it ramps up at machine speeds (minutes or seconds), it could go from being barely intelligent to vastly exceeding our intelligence before we even know what's happening.
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And saying all that, "non-intelligent" A.I.'s could still destroy jobs faster than they can be created for a couple decades. Which could cause financial panics, civil unrest, or just a lot of misery.
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I hope A.i. researchers read books like "Brain Bugs" and "The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat" to get a better idea what human intelligence is like.