A malicious actor could fake their IP address, which gives information about a user's computer and its location.
What? IP Spoofing is something new to be afraid of, and somehow opens mystical doors into satellite control systems? No. I can set my computer's IP address to the same IP address as the workstation controlling a satellite, but that doesn't in any way afford me the ability to tap into the control stream for sattelites.
This person could then get access to the satellite's computer system, and manipulate where the satellite goes or what it does.
How? It doesn't just "happen", it's not like when the robbers go into a bathroom with a palmtop computer and a cord with two alligator clips and by carefully peel back the outer cover on CCTV cameras and can "take over" the CCTV surveillance system.
Alternatively, an actor could jam the satellite's radio transmissions with earth, essentially disabling it. The cost of such an attack could be huge.
Again, HOW? The ground control station is a non-trivial facility, you can't just hack one together with an SDR dongle and a raspberry pi.
This is a staggeringly simplistic view of satellite control systems - just slightly more sophisticated than the business plan of The Underpants Gnomes from Southpark:
While we're at it - let's change the way books are made, I am wasting countless hours endlessly flipping pages - pages should be much, much taller than they are wide, fitting two or three old pages on a new page. Who cares if it looks like I'm reading a restaurant menu, and it makes shelving books almost impossible, think of the time savings!
Laptops are often used for watching video, so 16:9 makes sense for consumer ones.
16:9 also works well for spreadsheets.
The real issue with documents is that the screens are too small to have two pages side-by-side like you can have on desktop. The text is too small to read if you do that.
The issue you are having is that you are displaying two printed pages side-by-side, with four side margins taking up way too much screen space, forcing the text to be very small. Try the other view options for reading two pages side-by-side.
I have seen the vertical monitors used to great effect in certain applications - for example, I used to work in telecom, and the engineers tasked with reading call setup/takedown logs looking for problems benefitted greatly from having the entire call log on the display at the same time, no scrolling... but that is a special use case, most programmers I know work with two side-by-side windows on a widescreen display.
The current "wider than it is tall" format for laptops is based on the physical size/shape requirements of that human interface below it, the keyboard.
The default orientation for a tablet is "taller than it is wide", because it has no keyboard - add a keyboard and you'll typically find yourself turning the tablet on it's side.
It's not unusual for a developer to turn a large, high-res second display 90 degrees to have a two foot+ tall screen sitting on their desk like a tower, to allow for seeing huge swaths of traces, logs, or source code without having to scroll.
Please, explain to me the benefit for the average computer user of a display that is "taller than it is wide" - don't forget, many 'average users' do a lot of work in spreadsheets, an application that lends itself to a "wider than it is tall" display.
There are only two forces that can possibly counter corporate power: 1) unions and 2) government regulation. I would much rather see 1 than 2.
Unions are virtually non-existent in the private sector, and slowly losing their grip on public sector workers.
Teachers unions like to talk about how they are defenders of public schools and champions for better public education, but until just last month I'd never, in my half century on the planet, seen a teachers union strike for anything other than higher wages, increased pension, and better health benefits. I understand tat it is the union's job to look out for union members, but most parents seem to think that the teachers union has something to do with curriculum development and teaching - that has never been the case in my experience.
A new amazon HQ in your city gives you: - thousands of new jobs - hundreds if not thousands of new homeowners and renters, increasing property values - thousands of new customers for local businesses
And every new worker will be throwing the bulk of their paycheck at local car dealerships, restaurants, movie theaters, gas stations and grocery stores and all of it taxed - the workers salary, the car they buy, the meals they eat out, etc. the tax concessions are to Amazon, and typically offer them the opportunity to build an office on otherwise unproductive land (property) tax free for a number of years, and takingbout long term loans (municipal bonds) to pay for Highway off ramps and roads to/from the facility are easily paid off over the next 20 years.
Try setting up a booth at a trade show in a union conference facility...
I once worked with a theater company that was putting on a road show in my college town. They hired me and a few other college kids to help unload the trucks... only we were only allowed to move boxes to the edge of the truck, where the union workers would pick them up and roll them into the theater. We were forced to take the union breaks, and if we dared to touch anything that came off the truck once it was off the truck the union workers would start yelling at us.
It's only one example, an isolated incident, but I've never heard of a union doing anything different.
I've seen performers be prevented from bringing their luggage into a performance, and only be allowed to move open bottles of water on stage.
Sell your possessions - it provides capital for your 'agent fees' and eliminates moving costs.
If your possessions aren't worth anything, they aren't worth moving.
Staying in a place with no jobs, no prospects, is not really a great plan - hell, start walking to someplace with jobs... if you can't walk then you are disabled, and we have assistance programs designed to help you.
A few years ago it was reported that a high percentage of college students at Michigan State were on SNAP, kind of odd that they can afford/borrow tens of thousands of dollars for tuition & board, but need help buying food - perhaps they should borrow a bit more to sign up for the meal plan?
Entrepreneur Peter Barnes has called for the creation of a Sky Trust that would both limit the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and provide revenue from carbon taxes. These "carbon dividends" solve two problems at once: income inequality and climate change. He would also tax corporations for using natural resources, on the thinking that the atmosphere, minerals and fresh water around us represent a "joint inheritance." He would also tax speculative financial transactions and use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
So the idea is to monetize the air, water, and minerals around us, right? And how exactly do you realize the declared value in these 'shared assets'? By consuming them, which means the only way people get the financial benefit is by polluting/consuming precious natural resources... why that's as stupid as funding children's health care by taxing their parents for smoking known carcinogens.
The competition for retail jobs has changed since the 60s.
There was an article a few years ago about a McDonald's franchisee that made the comment that he was hiring only college graduates for counter/other jobs. The press twisted the story to be "you need to have a college degree to get a job at McDonalds". The reality was that when he was hiring he was swamped with applications, the easiest filter was to weed out folks without college degrees, because they earned the wage as an employee without a degree, and a candidate with a degree could work out better (remain with restaurant and work into management) than one without.
You can argue the franchisee should consider all applicants equally, but ina society that values a college degree, isn't a college graduate better qualified?
Should he have gone out of his way to only hire candidates without a degree? How is that fair?
As Recode pointed out, because most programmers are white men, these AI are actually often trained using white male faces and male voices. That can lead to misperceptions of black faces or female voices, which can lead to the AI making negative judgments about those people. The results could trend sexist or racist, but the employer who is using this AI would be able to shift the blame to a supposedly neutral technology. Companies are also having people do their first interview with an AI chatbot. "One popular AI that does this is called Mya, which promises a 70 percent decrease in hiring time," reports The Daily Beast. "Any number of questions these chatbots could~/b> ask could be proxies for race, gender or other factors."
What an elaborate argument for a possibly Racist interview. I'm curious, what is the alternative - rely on 'gut feelings' from experienced managers who've only previously worked with programmers of their own ethnicity?
As I see it, the AI software likely looks for 'tells' or other indicators an interviewee is lying/being evasive (eye movement, shifting in seat, nervous behavior, etc), and NOT making blanket decisions based on, say, surname, gender, or skin color.
Might there be a bias? Sure, but it will likely be much less than a human confronted with a mountain of resumes, trying to whittle it down to a manageable pile.
We'd like to think that a manager of a programming Dept staffed nearly completely with white, Indian, or some other ethnicity would be open to considering an applicant of a different ethnicity, she may fear a culture clash and focus on candidates that might fit better with her current team... is it wrong, sure. But it's understandable, to a certain extent.
We pay for 13 years of education at no cost to the child is or the child's family... If the locals choose to reward teachers that fail to teach their students with higher paychecks, tenure, and life-long pension and healthcare rather that's on the community.
People aren't denied education, they simply mismanaged the resources provided to educate them.
Put a dollar figure on that - what hourly wage provides enough money to support an adult & 1 child? While you're at it, what are the minimum number of hours each worker must work each week collecting the this 'speaker's wage? Must every job pay $15/hr and every worker be guaranteed 30 hours/wk minimum to ensure their paycheck is sufficient?
Amazon uses temp workers who may also be on food stamps
Temp workers qualifying for SNAP benefits?!?! I don't understand, if they have a job, no matter the skills involved not the hours worked, shouldn't their part-time temporary job meet all their financial obligations, no matter how big their family or where in the country they choose to live?/sarcasm
How is it that Bill Clinton (without ANY prodding from Newt Gingrich and the House & Senate republicans that shut the government down THREE TIMES to force bill to reform welfare and other entitlements) 'balances the budget' yet the national debt increased every day of his presidency?
Here is the horrible action the pharmaceutical company took:
But after results from a recent small pilot trial indicated that smaller doses would for most patients work as well as the large ones, its manufacturer, Janssen and Pharmacyclics, has decided on the basis of the doctors' interest in smaller dosages to reprice all sizes of the drug to the price of the largest size. This has the effect of tripling the price for patients,
So, previously there was a pricing anomaly in that 4x smaller pills were as effective as 1x large pill, so when they repriced the drug, each of the smaller doses cost as much as the larger dosages. Why would a patient keep taking several of the smaller dosage pills after the price change? Just take the 1x larger dose pill and it costs as much as the 4x smaller pils used to.
I would expect highly specialized medicines to retail at a price based on the amount of active ingredient in the container, if it is spread over 50 large dose pills or 200 small dose pills (small is 1/4th the large dosage).
Hillary locked-in most super delegates before she announced her candidacy for the presidency, and the DNC leadership admitted that the point of having super delegates was to ensure a charismatic outside candidate couldn't sweep in and become the Democrat candidate - exactly like trump did in the 2016 election with the rnc.
Last year, in consultation with trade groups, it created a program called the Global Skills Strategy to issue temporary work permits to people with job offers in certain categories, including senior software engineers, in as little as two weeks. Since the program started in June, more than 5,600 people have been granted permits, from the U.S., India, Pakistan, Brazil, and elsewhere.
So Canada has implemented their own version of the H1-B Visa program and took in 5,600 highly-skilled professionals and gave them temporary work permits... Big Deal.
But (some) Americans are so damn arrogant that they think they own the bloody (northern) continent.
Americans protect the Canadians and give jobs to the Mexicans, and what to we get in return? Mexico insists it has the right to enter our country at will and has a vote in any deliberation involving immigration policies in the US, and Canada likes to lecture us about how we should treat our immigrants, while they complain endlessly when they see a mere fraction of the immigrants America sees annually.
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No, no it isn't, any you have proven you have No Earthly Idea what you are talking about, put your pencil down and go home.
Why can't satellites be running Windows? Wall-E the robot ran Mac OS? /LOL
A malicious actor could fake their IP address, which gives information about a user's computer and its location.
What? IP Spoofing is something new to be afraid of, and somehow opens mystical doors into satellite control systems? No. I can set my computer's IP address to the same IP address as the workstation controlling a satellite, but that doesn't in any way afford me the ability to tap into the control stream for sattelites.
This person could then get access to the satellite's computer system, and manipulate where the satellite goes or what it does.
How? It doesn't just "happen", it's not like when the robbers go into a bathroom with a palmtop computer and a cord with two alligator clips and by carefully peel back the outer cover on CCTV cameras and can "take over" the CCTV surveillance system.
Alternatively, an actor could jam the satellite's radio transmissions with earth, essentially disabling it. The cost of such an attack could be huge.
Again, HOW? The ground control station is a non-trivial facility, you can't just hack one together with an SDR dongle and a raspberry pi.
This is a staggeringly simplistic view of satellite control systems - just slightly more sophisticated than the business plan of The Underpants Gnomes from Southpark:
While we're at it - let's change the way books are made, I am wasting countless hours endlessly flipping pages - pages should be much, much taller than they are wide, fitting two or three old pages on a new page. Who cares if it looks like I'm reading a restaurant menu, and it makes shelving books almost impossible, think of the time savings!
Laptops are often used for watching video, so 16:9 makes sense for consumer ones.
16:9 also works well for spreadsheets.
The real issue with documents is that the screens are too small to have two pages side-by-side like you can have on desktop. The text is too small to read if you do that.
The issue you are having is that you are displaying two printed pages side-by-side, with four side margins taking up way too much screen space, forcing the text to be very small. Try the other view options for reading two pages side-by-side.
I have seen the vertical monitors used to great effect in certain applications - for example, I used to work in telecom, and the engineers tasked with reading call setup/takedown logs looking for problems benefitted greatly from having the entire call log on the display at the same time, no scrolling... but that is a special use case, most programmers I know work with two side-by-side windows on a widescreen display.
The current "wider than it is tall" format for laptops is based on the physical size/shape requirements of that human interface below it, the keyboard.
The default orientation for a tablet is "taller than it is wide", because it has no keyboard - add a keyboard and you'll typically find yourself turning the tablet on it's side.
It's not unusual for a developer to turn a large, high-res second display 90 degrees to have a two foot+ tall screen sitting on their desk like a tower, to allow for seeing huge swaths of traces, logs, or source code without having to scroll.
Please, explain to me the benefit for the average computer user of a display that is "taller than it is wide" - don't forget, many 'average users' do a lot of work in spreadsheets, an application that lends itself to a "wider than it is tall" display.
There are only two forces that can possibly counter corporate power: 1) unions and 2) government regulation. I would much rather see 1 than 2.
Unions are virtually non-existent in the private sector, and slowly losing their grip on public sector workers.
Teachers unions like to talk about how they are defenders of public schools and champions for better public education, but until just last month I'd never, in my half century on the planet, seen a teachers union strike for anything other than higher wages, increased pension, and better health benefits. I understand tat it is the union's job to look out for union members, but most parents seem to think that the teachers union has something to do with curriculum development and teaching - that has never been the case in my experience.
A new amazon HQ in your city gives you:
- thousands of new jobs
- hundreds if not thousands of new homeowners and renters, increasing property values
- thousands of new customers for local businesses
And every new worker will be throwing the bulk of their paycheck at local car dealerships, restaurants, movie theaters, gas stations and grocery stores and all of it taxed - the workers salary, the car they buy, the meals they eat out, etc. the tax concessions are to Amazon, and typically offer them the opportunity to build an office on otherwise unproductive land (property) tax free for a number of years, and takingbout long term loans (municipal bonds) to pay for Highway off ramps and roads to/from the facility are easily paid off over the next 20 years.
Try setting up a booth at a trade show in a union conference facility...
I once worked with a theater company that was putting on a road show in my college town. They hired me and a few other college kids to help unload the trucks... only we were only allowed to move boxes to the edge of the truck, where the union workers would pick them up and roll them into the theater. We were forced to take the union breaks, and if we dared to touch anything that came off the truck once it was off the truck the union workers would start yelling at us.
It's only one example, an isolated incident, but I've never heard of a union doing anything different.
I've seen performers be prevented from bringing their luggage into a performance, and only be allowed to move open bottles of water on stage.
Sell your possessions - it provides capital for your 'agent fees' and eliminates moving costs.
If your possessions aren't worth anything, they aren't worth moving.
Staying in a place with no jobs, no prospects, is not really a great plan - hell, start walking to someplace with jobs... if you can't walk then you are disabled, and we have assistance programs designed to help you.
A few years ago it was reported that a high percentage of college students at Michigan State were on SNAP, kind of odd that they can afford/borrow tens of thousands of dollars for tuition & board, but need help buying food - perhaps they should borrow a bit more to sign up for the meal plan?
https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/...
Apparently Michigan questioned the appropriateness of students collecting SNAP benefits and dropped 30,000 students from SNAP.
Entrepreneur Peter Barnes has called for the creation of a Sky Trust that would both limit the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and provide revenue from carbon taxes. These "carbon dividends" solve two problems at once: income inequality and climate change. He would also tax corporations for using natural resources, on the thinking that the atmosphere, minerals and fresh water around us represent a "joint inheritance." He would also tax speculative financial transactions and use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
So the idea is to monetize the air, water, and minerals around us, right? And how exactly do you realize the declared value in these 'shared assets'? By consuming them, which means the only way people get the financial benefit is by polluting/consuming precious natural resources... why that's as stupid as funding children's health care by taxing their parents for smoking known carcinogens.
The competition for retail jobs has changed since the 60s.
There was an article a few years ago about a McDonald's franchisee that made the comment that he was hiring only college graduates for counter/other jobs. The press twisted the story to be "you need to have a college degree to get a job at McDonalds". The reality was that when he was hiring he was swamped with applications, the easiest filter was to weed out folks without college degrees, because they earned the wage as an employee without a degree, and a candidate with a degree could work out better (remain with restaurant and work into management) than one without.
You can argue the franchisee should consider all applicants equally, but ina society that values a college degree, isn't a college graduate better qualified?
Should he have gone out of his way to only hire candidates without a degree? How is that fair?
As Recode pointed out, because most programmers are white men, these AI are actually often trained using white male faces and male voices. That can lead to misperceptions of black faces or female voices, which can lead to the AI making negative judgments about those people. The results could trend sexist or racist, but the employer who is using this AI would be able to shift the blame to a supposedly neutral technology. Companies are also having people do their first interview with an AI chatbot. "One popular AI that does this is called Mya, which promises a 70 percent decrease in hiring time," reports The Daily Beast. "Any number of questions these chatbots could~/b> ask could be proxies for race, gender or other factors."
What an elaborate argument for a possibly Racist interview. I'm curious, what is the alternative - rely on 'gut feelings' from experienced managers who've only previously worked with programmers of their own ethnicity?
As I see it, the AI software likely looks for 'tells' or other indicators an interviewee is lying/being evasive (eye movement, shifting in seat, nervous behavior, etc), and NOT making blanket decisions based on, say, surname, gender, or skin color.
Might there be a bias? Sure, but it will likely be much less than a human confronted with a mountain of resumes, trying to whittle it down to a manageable pile.
We'd like to think that a manager of a programming Dept staffed nearly completely with white, Indian, or some other ethnicity would be open to considering an applicant of a different ethnicity, she may fear a culture clash and focus on candidates that might fit better with her current team... is it wrong, sure. But it's understandable, to a certain extent.
We pay for 13 years of education at no cost to the child is or the child's family... If the locals choose to reward teachers that fail to teach their students with higher paychecks, tenure, and life-long pension and healthcare rather that's on the community.
People aren't denied education, they simply mismanaged the resources provided to educate them.
Put a dollar figure on that - what hourly wage provides enough money to support an adult & 1 child? While you're at it, what are the minimum number of hours each worker must work each week collecting the this 'speaker's wage? Must every job pay $15/hr and every worker be guaranteed 30 hours/wk minimum to ensure their paycheck is sufficient?
Amazon uses temp workers who may also be on food stamps
Temp workers qualifying for SNAP benefits?!?! I don't understand, if they have a job, no matter the skills involved not the hours worked, shouldn't their part-time temporary job meet all their financial obligations, no matter how big their family or where in the country they choose to live? /sarcasm
How is it that Bill Clinton (without ANY prodding from Newt Gingrich and the House & Senate republicans that shut the government down THREE TIMES to force bill to reform welfare and other entitlements) 'balances the budget' yet the national debt increased every day of his presidency?
Here is the horrible action the pharmaceutical company took:
But after results from a recent small pilot trial indicated that smaller doses would for most patients work as well as the large ones, its manufacturer, Janssen and Pharmacyclics, has decided on the basis of the doctors' interest in smaller dosages to reprice all sizes of the drug to the price of the largest size. This has the effect of tripling the price for patients,
So, previously there was a pricing anomaly in that 4x smaller pills were as effective as 1x large pill, so when they repriced the drug, each of the smaller doses cost as much as the larger dosages. Why would a patient keep taking several of the smaller dosage pills after the price change? Just take the 1x larger dose pill and it costs as much as the 4x smaller pils used to.
I would expect highly specialized medicines to retail at a price based on the amount of active ingredient in the container, if it is spread over 50 large dose pills or 200 small dose pills (small is 1/4th the large dosage).
Hillary locked-in most super delegates before she announced her candidacy for the presidency, and the DNC leadership admitted that the point of having super delegates was to ensure a charismatic outside candidate couldn't sweep in and become the Democrat candidate - exactly like trump did in the 2016 election with the rnc.
The DNC is suing the Trump campaign because Trumps Russians were better than Hillarys.
Just to be clear, the Hillary campaign is suing because alleged Russian collusion limited them to 'only' raising $1.2BN compared with trumps $697M?
The DNC is suing because their emails, which have never been proven to be tampered or forged, were released to the public, embarrassing the democrats?
To sum up, democrats felt out-raising their opponent 2:1 and their internal communications being exposed cost them the election...
Last year, in consultation with trade groups, it created a program called the Global Skills Strategy to issue temporary work permits to people with job offers in certain categories, including senior software engineers, in as little as two weeks. Since the program started in June, more than 5,600 people have been granted permits, from the U.S., India, Pakistan, Brazil, and elsewhere.
So Canada has implemented their own version of the H1-B Visa program and took in 5,600 highly-skilled professionals and gave them temporary work permits... Big Deal.
But (some) Americans are so damn arrogant that they think they own the bloody (northern) continent.
Americans protect the Canadians and give jobs to the Mexicans, and what to we get in return? Mexico insists it has the right to enter our country at will and has a vote in any deliberation involving immigration policies in the US, and Canada likes to lecture us about how we should treat our immigrants, while they complain endlessly when they see a mere fraction of the immigrants America sees annually.
Annex Mexico and Canada, why would we want them?
My company does power and HVAC systems engineering for buildings. There is and has been a significant shortage of people in this field over the years
Please describe your company's mentorship/training programs to address this shortage...
(it has always paid less than high-tech and finance, and to really succeed you need the same personality and skill sets)
Yeah right, being an HVAC technician requires the exact same skill set as a career in finance and/or high-tech.