All the major sports leagues have an exemption. It's nothing new.
I assume the blackout protection expires for all sports, not just the NFL. But the NFL is the current big and bad (not just headline wise; we're also in the middle of the regular season when blackouts are most likely to happen), so they get the mention.
Past Ebola incubation periods were under 3 days. This one can be dormant up to 3 weeks. That means you can be a carrier and not know until 3 weeks later. In a place where the health care system is top notch and any outbreak can be contained in a relatively short time, that doesn't mean much. But combine that with crappy health care and ignorant masses, you've got a perfect storm where people who have it don't know they have it or don't want to get treated and thus get other people infected, who then travel somewhere else before showing symptoms and getting other people infected.
This is why it's not as big a deal in the U.S. if it gets here. The people who show signs are quickly quarrantined. The people who are close to them are quarrantined. They'll quarrantine entire towns if necessary.
The only issue is if it hits a big city, and people aren't aware of their symptoms, and it starts spreading. But it's hard to not be aware of your symptoms when you're bleeding out of every orfice. And we do have experimental treatments, worst case. They've already been shown to work. We just don't know if they won't cause worse things to happen in the edge cases, like massive blood clots for certain people or some such.
That's a test of bash specifically. If you want to see how vulnurable your system could potentially be, change bash to sh. Since all sorts of things will spawn shells for some purpose or another, any of them is an attack vector.
Most Linux distros (except Ubuntu and derivatives, and more recent Debian) will be vulnurable because sh symlinks to bash. But for non-Linux *NIX systems like BSD, this may or may not be true.
Patch anyway, but if you've got a vulnurable public-facing system, you may want to go over your firewall logs as well.
Based on their source of data, I question whether the numbers have been adjusted for experience, years of service, and qualification.
Teaching is largely a unionized job. In a union, compensation is more or less set in stone based on years of service and certain qualification criteria (degree, etc.). There's not much wiggle room. Administration is a bit different, as is higher education teaching, but for K-12, I'd imagine the difference in salary is not related to discrimination whether conscious or subconscious.
If you want to talk about wild, black holes are about as wild as they get. Collapse of matter into a singularity that not even light can escape? Seriously? I mean, there's some wacky stuff out there. But there's nothing quite as crazy as the singularity, which is 0 and +/- infinity all wrapped up into one thing.
It is a much less crazy universe without black holes. Occam's razor however, so far has favored it, in the same way that it's favored dark matter. That's all.
Replace "white people" with active and retired military servicemen and women, and it's pretty much reality.
They do a lot of infectious disease combat testing on our troops. It probably started out of necessity, and that's still the excuse, but it evolved into just treating our soldiers as an easy supply of ideal human test subjects. Makes you wonder if those troops they're sending over were exactly for this purpose.
Quite impossible. If I privately sold you a LP record for $20 cash, how is the IRS going to trace that? Or what if we traded, a LP worth $20 fair market for a LaserDisc worth $15 fair market? They can't track these kinds of transactions now, and they won't be able to no matter what. Tax evasion would skyrocket if you go to a use/sales tax.
Income tax is actually pretty good. What's bad are the complex web of deductable items. A non-discriminatory revenue tax, with no write offs, would be perfect. And if you work for someone other than yourself, you wouldn't even have to file your taxes every year. Your company would just file it for you. The IRS would calculate and deduct automatically so that if you worked multiple jobs and had multiple sources of income, it would all be accounted for. And that would be the end of all that April 15th headache.
It's not just the calls. Text messages, e-mails, location data, IMEI number, heck even the make, model, and OS version of your phone gets captured by these things (probably--most likely).
In reality, it's not so different from what would be captured via a wiretap. All this does is circumvents the need for a warrant.
Just FYI, these types of things are more for the poly-sci majors out there, not for tech graduates. Unless you want to get into politics, which I doubt most tech people would or even could, this type of thing isn't for you.
It cuts both ways. Most people in the industry jump after 2 years for better pay, or to a startup. How many people stay on for 5, 10 years? Why would you spend 50-100K training someone just so they can leave and work for your competitor or anyone else just because the pay's better? There's a reason besides cost savings that companies stopped training their employees and choose to incur the extra cost of getting more experienced individuals.
I mostly agree with GP (the AC, not GGP) in that, if you're good, you're always in demand, and can make a good living. Especially in this current market, there's no reason anyone who's good can't find a job other than that person isn't looking hard enough. If you're not that good, sorry, can't help you there. You should try to aim lower. Or shoot for something a little different. Now, you might not necessarily do as well as GP, but then again, you don't know what GP's qualifications actually are.
As a US citizen working a tech job, I don't see H1B's as competition. I do see offshoring as competition, but with respect to the tech sector, only for the menial and uninteresting jobs that I probably wouldn't do, or would quickly graduate from anyway. There'll always be cool stuff here, if you're good enough for it. I do blame the general state of the education system for producing poorly educated people with no understanding of fundamentals and little ability to think for themselves, but that's a completely separate and much bigger issue and IMHO, a conspiracy orchestrated by the people in power to kill the middle class. And if you agree with that last statement, then the solution is not to whine or rail against foreign talent, but to better yourself and if not possible, then sorry, that's life; suck it up and better your children instead.
Ok, so the whole stupid thing could've been an act, a ploy to get voter sympathy. But it's a well known fact that Cheney and Rove are both incredibly brilliant people, and there is plenty of evidence and testimony to point out that Cheney and Rove were behind a lot of the things Bush backed and the Bush administration as a whole did.
If Bush did not explicitly sign off on many of these things, at the very least, he was complacent and, not being in control of his own people, weak.
And I think considering all things, the latter is more likely than the former. And to be fair, you can say the same about Obama. Filling your ranks with 'yes men' who leech off your popularity on good days and point fingers on bad days is much the same as filling your ranks with people who ignore your presence and act of their own volition. Nothing good can come of it.
I know everybody talks about encryption, but the word itself is just the tip of security. What's the key size? What's the algorithm? What data is encrpyted? Is it even relevant to talk about local encryption with respect to metadata (which is just as if not more useful to the NSA than the actual data). What about backups? Is it a snapshot of the encrypted contents each time? Or does the backup use a different encryption key, and the data transferred securely? There are so many layers to security (including the user), the "encryption" buzzword is meaningless without full context.
My guess is, Google's not encrypting anything they're really interested in. They're probably not nearly as interested in your pictures or your contact list as say, Facebook. That's data they may currently collect, but ultimately throw away. They're probably more interested in the websites you go to, the links you used followed to get there, the links you followed from that site, the people you actually contact (text, chat, etc.), the geographical location of that person as well as your location, the date and times of your conversations, the contents of your conversations, etc. Local encryption does not apply to any of that data.
In fact, local encryption doesn't even matter much with regards to securing your phone's data. Your phone is probably leaking the encrypted data through one if not more applications. Facebook, Candy Crush, Twitter, etc. largely negate the effects of local encryption. The only thing it will do is keep your private information out of the hands of someone who picked up your lost phone and decided to keep it (or sell it).
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I believe the order goes: pre-95 (good), 95 (suck), NT4 (good), 98 (suck), 2000 (good), ME (suck), XP (good), Vista (suck), 7 (good).
Windows versions pre-95 were all good because DOS did all the sucking.
Sure the NFL will go PPV. And the networks will replace NFL with MLS.
All the major sports leagues have an exemption. It's nothing new.
I assume the blackout protection expires for all sports, not just the NFL. But the NFL is the current big and bad (not just headline wise; we're also in the middle of the regular season when blackouts are most likely to happen), so they get the mention.
Past Ebola incubation periods were under 3 days. This one can be dormant up to 3 weeks. That means you can be a carrier and not know until 3 weeks later. In a place where the health care system is top notch and any outbreak can be contained in a relatively short time, that doesn't mean much. But combine that with crappy health care and ignorant masses, you've got a perfect storm where people who have it don't know they have it or don't want to get treated and thus get other people infected, who then travel somewhere else before showing symptoms and getting other people infected.
This is why it's not as big a deal in the U.S. if it gets here. The people who show signs are quickly quarrantined. The people who are close to them are quarrantined. They'll quarrantine entire towns if necessary.
The only issue is if it hits a big city, and people aren't aware of their symptoms, and it starts spreading. But it's hard to not be aware of your symptoms when you're bleeding out of every orfice. And we do have experimental treatments, worst case. They've already been shown to work. We just don't know if they won't cause worse things to happen in the edge cases, like massive blood clots for certain people or some such.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke.
I guess MongoDB's replication just isn't advanced enough.
It's a reference to how much data it can hold. The rest of the FS is taken up by the swap file.
Santa's gonna slap you with a lawsuit for blinding his reindeer.
I'm an Excel user, you insensitive clod!
That's a test of bash specifically. If you want to see how vulnurable your system could potentially be, change bash to sh. Since all sorts of things will spawn shells for some purpose or another, any of them is an attack vector.
Most Linux distros (except Ubuntu and derivatives, and more recent Debian) will be vulnurable because sh symlinks to bash. But for non-Linux *NIX systems like BSD, this may or may not be true.
Patch anyway, but if you've got a vulnurable public-facing system, you may want to go over your firewall logs as well.
This is not funny! This is sad. And all too true.
Based on their source of data, I question whether the numbers have been adjusted for experience, years of service, and qualification.
Teaching is largely a unionized job. In a union, compensation is more or less set in stone based on years of service and certain qualification criteria (degree, etc.). There's not much wiggle room. Administration is a bit different, as is higher education teaching, but for K-12, I'd imagine the difference in salary is not related to discrimination whether conscious or subconscious.
she also clearly has massive cojones to put this out there. kudos to her.
Wouldn't that make her actually a him?
I kid, I kid.
If you want to talk about wild, black holes are about as wild as they get. Collapse of matter into a singularity that not even light can escape? Seriously? I mean, there's some wacky stuff out there. But there's nothing quite as crazy as the singularity, which is 0 and +/- infinity all wrapped up into one thing.
It is a much less crazy universe without black holes. Occam's razor however, so far has favored it, in the same way that it's favored dark matter. That's all.
Replace "white people" with active and retired military servicemen and women, and it's pretty much reality.
They do a lot of infectious disease combat testing on our troops. It probably started out of necessity, and that's still the excuse, but it evolved into just treating our soldiers as an easy supply of ideal human test subjects. Makes you wonder if those troops they're sending over were exactly for this purpose.
Quite impossible. If I privately sold you a LP record for $20 cash, how is the IRS going to trace that? Or what if we traded, a LP worth $20 fair market for a LaserDisc worth $15 fair market? They can't track these kinds of transactions now, and they won't be able to no matter what. Tax evasion would skyrocket if you go to a use/sales tax.
Income tax is actually pretty good. What's bad are the complex web of deductable items. A non-discriminatory revenue tax, with no write offs, would be perfect. And if you work for someone other than yourself, you wouldn't even have to file your taxes every year. Your company would just file it for you. The IRS would calculate and deduct automatically so that if you worked multiple jobs and had multiple sources of income, it would all be accounted for. And that would be the end of all that April 15th headache.
Front pocket no less. Something is very, very wrong.
It's not just the calls. Text messages, e-mails, location data, IMEI number, heck even the make, model, and OS version of your phone gets captured by these things (probably--most likely).
In reality, it's not so different from what would be captured via a wiretap. All this does is circumvents the need for a warrant.
Oh yeah? I can use my phone to microwave food. And I don't even live in Soviet Russia.
Error: Integer overflow.
Just FYI, these types of things are more for the poly-sci majors out there, not for tech graduates. Unless you want to get into politics, which I doubt most tech people would or even could, this type of thing isn't for you.
Judge that however you will.
It cuts both ways. Most people in the industry jump after 2 years for better pay, or to a startup. How many people stay on for 5, 10 years? Why would you spend 50-100K training someone just so they can leave and work for your competitor or anyone else just because the pay's better? There's a reason besides cost savings that companies stopped training their employees and choose to incur the extra cost of getting more experienced individuals.
I mostly agree with GP (the AC, not GGP) in that, if you're good, you're always in demand, and can make a good living. Especially in this current market, there's no reason anyone who's good can't find a job other than that person isn't looking hard enough. If you're not that good, sorry, can't help you there. You should try to aim lower. Or shoot for something a little different. Now, you might not necessarily do as well as GP, but then again, you don't know what GP's qualifications actually are.
As a US citizen working a tech job, I don't see H1B's as competition. I do see offshoring as competition, but with respect to the tech sector, only for the menial and uninteresting jobs that I probably wouldn't do, or would quickly graduate from anyway. There'll always be cool stuff here, if you're good enough for it. I do blame the general state of the education system for producing poorly educated people with no understanding of fundamentals and little ability to think for themselves, but that's a completely separate and much bigger issue and IMHO, a conspiracy orchestrated by the people in power to kill the middle class. And if you agree with that last statement, then the solution is not to whine or rail against foreign talent, but to better yourself and if not possible, then sorry, that's life; suck it up and better your children instead.
Ok, so the whole stupid thing could've been an act, a ploy to get voter sympathy. But it's a well known fact that Cheney and Rove are both incredibly brilliant people, and there is plenty of evidence and testimony to point out that Cheney and Rove were behind a lot of the things Bush backed and the Bush administration as a whole did.
If Bush did not explicitly sign off on many of these things, at the very least, he was complacent and, not being in control of his own people, weak.
And I think considering all things, the latter is more likely than the former. And to be fair, you can say the same about Obama. Filling your ranks with 'yes men' who leech off your popularity on good days and point fingers on bad days is much the same as filling your ranks with people who ignore your presence and act of their own volition. Nothing good can come of it.
even if you were to fly them up there, they would find some way to disbelieve it.
If we did that, I think they'd have better stuff to do than create conspiracy theories. Like figure out how to get back for one.
Baby steps, Bob, baby steps.
I know everybody talks about encryption, but the word itself is just the tip of security. What's the key size? What's the algorithm? What data is encrpyted? Is it even relevant to talk about local encryption with respect to metadata (which is just as if not more useful to the NSA than the actual data). What about backups? Is it a snapshot of the encrypted contents each time? Or does the backup use a different encryption key, and the data transferred securely? There are so many layers to security (including the user), the "encryption" buzzword is meaningless without full context.
My guess is, Google's not encrypting anything they're really interested in. They're probably not nearly as interested in your pictures or your contact list as say, Facebook. That's data they may currently collect, but ultimately throw away. They're probably more interested in the websites you go to, the links you used followed to get there, the links you followed from that site, the people you actually contact (text, chat, etc.), the geographical location of that person as well as your location, the date and times of your conversations, the contents of your conversations, etc. Local encryption does not apply to any of that data.
In fact, local encryption doesn't even matter much with regards to securing your phone's data. Your phone is probably leaking the encrypted data through one if not more applications. Facebook, Candy Crush, Twitter, etc. largely negate the effects of local encryption. The only thing it will do is keep your private information out of the hands of someone who picked up your lost phone and decided to keep it (or sell it).