He does work for a company with a help desk, security, and remote wipe. His data was valuable. He was in a country where the 800 number he had memorized didn't work, and he didn't know many phone numbers by heart. It was the middle of the night in the US, so his calls to family and friends were not answered quickly. He didn't have a phone, and the restaurant and patrons weren't eager to let him make long distance call after long distance call. Once he got hold of his elderly mother, she was able to call the 800 number and ask them how to call internationally. All in all, it took an hour. It could have taken longer.
Thanks for the condescending attitude, though. That smug overconfidence is the reason a defense contractor had a potentially serious data breach.
The screen locks, but not instantly. There is a configurable timeout, often 10-30 seconds. I guess you could set a.5 second timeout, but you'd end up smashing your phone.
True, diesel contains a bit over 20% more energy per unit volume. I am a fan of diesel so that is what I primarily am interested in. I occasionally browse for new trucks and am mortified by the low mileage. There are small diesel pickups with good mileage available in other countries, but for whatever reason not in the US. It is rare to find a diesel pickup that breaks 20mpg.
My coworker had a secured blackberry stolen from his table at a restaurant. He set it down for a second and saw the guy take it, tried to catch him but there was a possible accomplice that blocked him.
Since it was active, it didn't require a password. By the time he was able to get the device disabled, the thief had unfettered access to pretty much everything for an hour. I don't know how to make it more secure without it being annoying. Maybe an implant.
Even if it didn't cover the added cost, I think a gym that was partially human-powered would be a good selling point. I think some people would be motivated to work harder if they knew it was being used, and there is a good crossover between fitness enthusiasts and green power enthusiasts. It is probably a good business idea.
Someone in decent shape can output about 350 watts for a few minutes. If you have a 100% efficient generating system, no downtime, and an endless stream of rested users it would take about 4 machines running 24/7 to generate enough power for a typical US household. A gym with hundreds of these used in a more realistic fashion would probably be able to defray its electricity use somewhat, but A/C is pretty energy hungry. The harder people work the more A/C needed.
If other sites are like the ones I manage it would be a couple thousand, but less than half those active all the time. It's sure different from when I worked at a voice/audio/fax conferencing company in the 90s. We had tens of thousands of servers and less than $100M in revenue.
Penguinisto had a dual G5 PowerMac used as a heater. Then he lost his home and used a trash fire as a heater. Then he got sick of being cold and rode a boxcar to mexico and has never used a heater again.
I grow fruits and vegetables in my front yard, and planted flowers along the sidewalk as a diversion. People help themselves to the occasional flowers and have left my crops alone. I also feel that flowers are a good shield from people who might otherwise think my front yard is ugly.
Netcom was my very first paid-for ISP. When I finished at college my dialup account stayed active for a few years, but when I moved away it was cheaper to "buy the internet" than pay for long distance. There were very few ISPs that serviced all of the metro areas I spent time in the early 90s. I was very happy with Netcom until they got bought by Earthlink.
I had to call support a few times, mostly to report outages. There were a dozen or more access numbers for each city, some of them would work better than others, and some of them would be busy.
I stole a dumb terminal from the trash and used a 9600 baud modem to dial in to my shell account. I would compile code, read USENET, email, poke around on gopher and ftp. All my friends thought I was insane for spending $20 for the internet.
The taxes vary from state to state, but US averages are 5.5 cents per gallon higher for diesel. That is not significant when fuel is ~$3.50/gal. I've heard oil industry people say that it is due to refinery capacity issues.
Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and the black market combined don't break the top 3. The top 3 in CA economy are Real Estate, Education/Health care, Trade/Transportation/Utilities. #4 is probably government, at 12%, depending on how you count the black market and Silicon Valley values.
I was curious about how things stack up and was shocked to see agriculture at 2%. I figured it would be much higher.
I love the Echo. It is the only small car I've found that has enough headroom for me (6'1") to comfortably sit, even in the back seat. I can fit 5 in it for short trips. I had one that gave me 50k miles with very little maintenance until someone rammed it to death. I wish I kept it for parts. Now I have a 2005 Echo. I am sad they stopped making it, the Yaris has much worse headroom. I even like the center instrument panel. My best avg mileage was 43mpg on a tank. Mountain driving barely affects the efficiency, which is pretty surprising to me.
The police already use this data to harass people for political reasons. If your vehicle is seen at certain rallies or events, or near an activists house, prepare to be subjected to special treatment. Even if you are certain that none of your hobbies or interests are on the official shitlist right now, you never know when the boundaries will shift. Perhaps going to an electronic parts store or the army surplus store becomes suspicious, or you just have the bad luck to live next door to a wannabe terrorist.
They used to have to assemble the data manually, but this labor saving innovation will ensure the practice becomes more widespread and far reaching.
I live in a state that requires front plates, and a lot of people back into spaces for safety reasons. Especially with large vehicles or in congested areas, it is safer to back in, knowing the foot and vehicle traffic around you at the time. Front-in forces you to back out with reduced visibility into unknown foot and vehicle traffic. If you think about it, it is no harder to back in than back out. I guess people tend to do what they see other people doing, plus the human tendency to procrastinate. It is less work right now to front in even if it makes things harder later.
I know as drivers age it becomes harder to see clearly and turn your neck all the way around, so that may be a factor as well. here is an article I found on the subject.
The median is defined as the point at which half of the population falls above the value and half falls below. If we have a situation where more than half of the population can sneak in below the median our model of intelligence is incorrect. Once we recalibrate our model, precisely half of the population will be below the median.
Average is the same as median and mean for a normal distribution. It gets more complicated for other distributions, which you seem to be arguing is the case, but I haven't seen any research proving this.
There are lots of big companies with hardly any servers. I work for a multibillion dollar company that has about 150 physical servers. We don't sell bits, so the servers are there to keep the factories and administrative stuff running.
I understand your claim, but I disagree with it. Intelligence is widely assumed to be normally distributed, making the mean the same as the median. Statistically, half of the population would be below the mean, half above it. For example, IQ is defined as having an average of 100 with half the population falling above and half below it. As the human population gains/loses intelligence the IQ test will be weighted differently to maintain the statistical distribution.
Being somewhat cynical, I suspect that outliers are not evenly distributed. I suspect there are more morons than geniuses. This would pull the distribution away from normal, but make a majority of people above average intelligence. I have no data to back up this suspicion.
I'm on a HOA board for a small 9-member association. We just modified our dues structure in order to satisfy a buyer's lender. We did it because the seller needed to sell, and if this deal walked they would have to lower their asking price, reducing the value of all of our properties.
In the current real estate market we would do any reasonable concession to grease the wheels on a sale. I am certain that HOAs in most parts of the country are super sensitive to home prices and are willing to deal right now. Make sure you get it in writing, though. Boards come and go, and when the economy is booming they won't remember why they allowed you to plant a farm in your front yard or whatever.
I think companies don't like part time white collar workers because they have the same overhead with less output, making them more expensive than full time employees. How true this is is not clear.
One way to get part time work is to go freelance. Do some projects or piecework for whatever your field is, or take contract work, things like that.
I think the obsession comes from the benefit people derive from interacting with those less fortunate.
Jesus could have been more efficient if he spent his time raising rich people from the dead for cash and selling loaves and fishes. Then he could have paid for dozens of people to die on crosses and stuff.
US crime rates have been dropping for nearly 10 years, and the recession, unemployment, etc. haven't caused an increase so far. Your theory doesn't match the data
The software isn't supposed to predict specific crimes, but areas/times. e.g. it is probable that 10 houses in this neighborhood will be burgled this month during work hours.
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He does work for a company with a help desk, security, and remote wipe. His data was valuable. He was in a country where the 800 number he had memorized didn't work, and he didn't know many phone numbers by heart. It was the middle of the night in the US, so his calls to family and friends were not answered quickly. He didn't have a phone, and the restaurant and patrons weren't eager to let him make long distance call after long distance call. Once he got hold of his elderly mother, she was able to call the 800 number and ask them how to call internationally. All in all, it took an hour. It could have taken longer.
Thanks for the condescending attitude, though. That smug overconfidence is the reason a defense contractor had a potentially serious data breach.
The screen locks, but not instantly. There is a configurable timeout, often 10-30 seconds. I guess you could set a .5 second timeout, but you'd end up smashing your phone.
True, diesel contains a bit over 20% more energy per unit volume. I am a fan of diesel so that is what I primarily am interested in. I occasionally browse for new trucks and am mortified by the low mileage. There are small diesel pickups with good mileage available in other countries, but for whatever reason not in the US. It is rare to find a diesel pickup that breaks 20mpg.
I have an 81 Datsun 720 diesel pickup, gets ~40mpg. To be fair, it doesn't have any modern heavy safety features, and it is woefully underpowered.
I would love to buy a modern efficient small pickup, but there hasn't been one available for decades.
My coworker had a secured blackberry stolen from his table at a restaurant. He set it down for a second and saw the guy take it, tried to catch him but there was a possible accomplice that blocked him.
Since it was active, it didn't require a password. By the time he was able to get the device disabled, the thief had unfettered access to pretty much everything for an hour. I don't know how to make it more secure without it being annoying. Maybe an implant.
Real men don't need a gym. Metrosexuals and ladies that frequent gyms need A/C, this summer especially.
Even if it didn't cover the added cost, I think a gym that was partially human-powered would be a good selling point. I think some people would be motivated to work harder if they knew it was being used, and there is a good crossover between fitness enthusiasts and green power enthusiasts. It is probably a good business idea.
Someone in decent shape can output about 350 watts for a few minutes. If you have a 100% efficient generating system, no downtime, and an endless stream of rested users it would take about 4 machines running 24/7 to generate enough power for a typical US household. A gym with hundreds of these used in a more realistic fashion would probably be able to defray its electricity use somewhat, but A/C is pretty energy hungry. The harder people work the more A/C needed.
If other sites are like the ones I manage it would be a couple thousand, but less than half those active all the time. It's sure different from when I worked at a voice/audio/fax conferencing company in the 90s. We had tens of thousands of servers and less than $100M in revenue.
Penguinisto had a dual G5 PowerMac used as a heater. Then he lost his home and used a trash fire as a heater. Then he got sick of being cold and rode a boxcar to mexico and has never used a heater again.
I grow fruits and vegetables in my front yard, and planted flowers along the sidewalk as a diversion. People help themselves to the occasional flowers and have left my crops alone. I also feel that flowers are a good shield from people who might otherwise think my front yard is ugly.
Netcom was my very first paid-for ISP. When I finished at college my dialup account stayed active for a few years, but when I moved away it was cheaper to "buy the internet" than pay for long distance. There were very few ISPs that serviced all of the metro areas I spent time in the early 90s. I was very happy with Netcom until they got bought by Earthlink.
I had to call support a few times, mostly to report outages. There were a dozen or more access numbers for each city, some of them would work better than others, and some of them would be busy.
I stole a dumb terminal from the trash and used a 9600 baud modem to dial in to my shell account. I would compile code, read USENET, email, poke around on gopher and ftp. All my friends thought I was insane for spending $20 for the internet.
The taxes vary from state to state, but US averages are 5.5 cents per gallon higher for diesel. That is not significant when fuel is ~$3.50/gal. I've heard oil industry people say that it is due to refinery capacity issues.
Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and the black market combined don't break the top 3. The top 3 in CA economy are Real Estate, Education/Health care, Trade/Transportation/Utilities. #4 is probably government, at 12%, depending on how you count the black market and Silicon Valley values.
I was curious about how things stack up and was shocked to see agriculture at 2%. I figured it would be much higher.
I love the Echo. It is the only small car I've found that has enough headroom for me (6'1") to comfortably sit, even in the back seat. I can fit 5 in it for short trips. I had one that gave me 50k miles with very little maintenance until someone rammed it to death. I wish I kept it for parts. Now I have a 2005 Echo. I am sad they stopped making it, the Yaris has much worse headroom. I even like the center instrument panel. My best avg mileage was 43mpg on a tank. Mountain driving barely affects the efficiency, which is pretty surprising to me.
The police already use this data to harass people for political reasons. If your vehicle is seen at certain rallies or events, or near an activists house, prepare to be subjected to special treatment. Even if you are certain that none of your hobbies or interests are on the official shitlist right now, you never know when the boundaries will shift. Perhaps going to an electronic parts store or the army surplus store becomes suspicious, or you just have the bad luck to live next door to a wannabe terrorist.
They used to have to assemble the data manually, but this labor saving innovation will ensure the practice becomes more widespread and far reaching.
I live in a state that requires front plates, and a lot of people back into spaces for safety reasons. Especially with large vehicles or in congested areas, it is safer to back in, knowing the foot and vehicle traffic around you at the time. Front-in forces you to back out with reduced visibility into unknown foot and vehicle traffic. If you think about it, it is no harder to back in than back out. I guess people tend to do what they see other people doing, plus the human tendency to procrastinate. It is less work right now to front in even if it makes things harder later.
I know as drivers age it becomes harder to see clearly and turn your neck all the way around, so that may be a factor as well. here is an article I found on the subject.
The median is defined as the point at which half of the population falls above the value and half falls below. If we have a situation where more than half of the population can sneak in below the median our model of intelligence is incorrect. Once we recalibrate our model, precisely half of the population will be below the median.
Average is the same as median and mean for a normal distribution. It gets more complicated for other distributions, which you seem to be arguing is the case, but I haven't seen any research proving this.
There are lots of big companies with hardly any servers. I work for a multibillion dollar company that has about 150 physical servers. We don't sell bits, so the servers are there to keep the factories and administrative stuff running.
I understand your claim, but I disagree with it. Intelligence is widely assumed to be normally distributed, making the mean the same as the median. Statistically, half of the population would be below the mean, half above it. For example, IQ is defined as having an average of 100 with half the population falling above and half below it. As the human population gains/loses intelligence the IQ test will be weighted differently to maintain the statistical distribution.
Being somewhat cynical, I suspect that outliers are not evenly distributed. I suspect there are more morons than geniuses. This would pull the distribution away from normal, but make a majority of people above average intelligence. I have no data to back up this suspicion.
Can you elaborate? I am curious.
I'm on a HOA board for a small 9-member association. We just modified our dues structure in order to satisfy a buyer's lender. We did it because the seller needed to sell, and if this deal walked they would have to lower their asking price, reducing the value of all of our properties.
In the current real estate market we would do any reasonable concession to grease the wheels on a sale. I am certain that HOAs in most parts of the country are super sensitive to home prices and are willing to deal right now. Make sure you get it in writing, though. Boards come and go, and when the economy is booming they won't remember why they allowed you to plant a farm in your front yard or whatever.
I think companies don't like part time white collar workers because they have the same overhead with less output, making them more expensive than full time employees. How true this is is not clear.
One way to get part time work is to go freelance. Do some projects or piecework for whatever your field is, or take contract work, things like that.
They've been putting bombs in kids for many years. $7k - $14k for children as young as 7
I think the obsession comes from the benefit people derive from interacting with those less fortunate.
Jesus could have been more efficient if he spent his time raising rich people from the dead for cash and selling loaves and fishes. Then he could have paid for dozens of people to die on crosses and stuff.
US crime rates have been dropping for nearly 10 years, and the recession, unemployment, etc. haven't caused an increase so far. Your theory doesn't match the data
The software isn't supposed to predict specific crimes, but areas/times. e.g. it is probable that 10 houses in this neighborhood will be burgled this month during work hours.