Deleting your facebook account is easy for people with no friends.
And if you think that the "friends" you have on FB are actually friends (who will help you when you need it, or go for a beer with you or invite you to their wedding) then you are sorely mistaken.
People collecting "friends" on Facebook is like dogs collecting fleas.
That is all the matters: not what people say (they often will say what they think the surveyor wants to hear), but whether they follow through. And I doubt that many actually will.
The overriding design requirement was to meet user response time targets. This was for numbers of users in the thousands with well defined peak hour periods, both daily and weekly. Performance was measured in terms of user perceived "happiness" - responsiveness.
From an I.T. perspective, the response time was the sum of all the wait time (network latency, queuing time) and the processing time. This approximated a m/m/1 model.
And most of the situations described in the reference article describe poorly framed problems. I understand that it is supposed to be a jokey, light, non-serious, read. However it illustrates the problem with people asking the wrong question, or making incorrect assumptions.
Many years ago the multi-billion $$$$ utility company I was working for had a team from [ name removed to protect the stupid ] a well-known consultancy outfit. One of their conclusions was that some of our servers were running with too much idle time - under utilised in their opinion. All they had done was collect %idle data from sar (Unix systems from Sun, IBM and HP). and their junior idiot looked at that and decided it was a "problem"
When I was asked about this by the CIO and the "consultants", my response was that I could easily increase the utilitisation figure to whatever the CIO desired, or that the consultants recommended - how high would he like it to be? Since he knew me, and saw the smile, he saw the trap. I explained that "idle" time and user response time were tightly linked: that reducing one would increase the other. This was news to the "consultants" once I explained the maths and Queuing Theory behind it.
In this thread we learn that Pete's POV is to always make sure to blame the victim.at least a little bit.
So yo are prepared to simply close your eyes and walk out into oncoming traffic? Just because you have a right of way???
A tombstone that reads: Here lies an Anonymous Coward. Killed by a car that he/she/it didn't look out for. But they did have right of way - even though they are still dead.
It seems like a futile way to end your existence, when a tiny amount of care could have avoided the situation. Even if you are legally entitled to cross a road wherever you please, no responsible individual would ever trust their life to a complete stranger and their ability to both be alert and responsive.
I watched the video and it looked to me like (in the visible spectrum at least) she literally appeared out of the shadows less than a second or two before she was hit.
But the other question would be why didn't she see the oncoming vehicle. It had its lights on and even coming around a bend, the light it threw onto the roadway would be visible long before the car itself appeared.
Even if one party in a collision is not at fault, that doesn't mean they couldn't have avoided it.
So the takeaway is that all potable water contains microplastics. But some sources contain more than others - while the distributions of size and type are broad.
But add to that all the other sources of microplastics: washing clothes, vacuuming carpets, all the plastic items that surround us, rubber tyres, paints and it is reasonable to ask: does one more source really make much difference? Is it worth getting upset about?
Since all the characters contribute to the address, there is no redundancy. So just like with phone numbers calling the wrong person, an incorrect character will send your stuff (or visitors) to the wrong place. Possibly even to the wrong continent if one of the early characters is mistaken.
The accompanying audio does not sound like "highly trained" personnel. It sounds like a couple of (stoned?) jocks playing a video game. If that is the standard of professionalism for fighter pilots, then it explains a lot about recent armed conflicts.
Got the email, but couldn't find a reliable source to validate it.
I recevied the email, too. It contained details that only a bona fide vendor would have. It had the Amazon order number. It was sent to the email address I use for Amazon (please tell me you know better than to just have a single email address for everything). The product description matched my order history.
So yes, I was sure - to a level of certainty that outweighed the potential (very limited) "hack attack" probability and scope for damage.
The only worrying thing is that since I bought this in 2015, I have parted company with the power bank. I don't know where it is, or who has got it. Though I do still have the charger, so I guess / hope the device isn't being used by anyone.
Given the alternatives and various goals (not to mention semi-religious beliefs) that are already appearing here, it doesn't sound like it will be long before this open hw/sw project forks into a multitude of other projects. Ones that advocate different battery technologies, different charging regimes, different... well, you name it!
And as such, instead of a single commercial pressure on the existing UPS makers to up their game, we will end up with a "background noise" of ever-changing, starting-then-fading, projects that become increasingly incompatible. And therefore instead of a united front that competes with the UPS makers, there will be loads of minor players that the big guys can safely ignore.
A better way to approach this would have been to introduce a mature product, build a user base and offer off-the-shelf solutions. Much like with RPi or Arduino (though admittedly, both of those suffer from fork-ism). Rather than to hail the coming of vapourware and getting bogged down in design arguments.
Each quarter the internet providers would give the money made from the deactivation fees to the state's general treasurer, who would forward the money to the attorney general to fund the operations of the Council on Human Trafficking, according to the bill's language
So this council would then be directly profiting from the sex-trade?
they haven't even customized their software to account for the new shape of the screen.
It's no big deal. So long as the publicity given freely (or at least having the junkets paid for) and duly pushed out to the media lackeys results in sales of what looks like a competitor, the deficient software can be pushed out later.
Or not. Because once the phone company has got the money from the sale, what is the point of giving stuff away for free?
And of course those phones will only be a success if all the corrupt, wined and dined (at the very least!!!) journos who sing the praises of these half-ready devices hold up their end and give them the 5-star reviews and enthusiasm that they don't deserve. Which of course they will, for fear of not being invited to next year's little get-together, and all the freebies they will have showered on them for playing the game and misleading the public.
or leave behind soap residue or water spots that would affect a camera's ability to see.
So driving through a puddle or getting splattered from the mud kicked up by the vehicle in front will disable an AV? How about purposeful vandalism with a paint aerosol?
And all those fragile sensors that might get dislodged. That would make the cars off-limits to about half the neighbourhoods. "Hey, mister! Do you want your £30,000 LIDAR back.... it'll cost you"
And when that happens, I hate to think what the insurance premiums would be. If these are real problems, rather than media scaremongering (the most likely explanation) then these vehicles have the status of showroom dummies - not real vehicles that are ready for the real world. That's just added another 5 years to their development time.
we have a vast number of self-taught programmers who have never been taught "best practices"
Arrrrgh! The worst sort.
These people tend to be rank amateurs. But with the "experience" that makes them think they are actually professionals. Almost none of them are. And most never will be.
Most people, even people who make a living from programming, are much worse at it than they think they are. They are impatient, they are hit-and-miss, most can't think clearly and an unfortunate number share in the twin misconceptions that "if it compiles cleanly, it works" and that testing is merely a stage that comes between coding and release to production (and is not there to fix problems, merely to tick boxes).
Personally I would focus this workshop on the cost of the errors made - and target it at the senior people there. Drum it home that "good" software - best practices is not about how many million lines of code you can write in a day, nor about how complex you can make an algorithm. It is about being able to hand your work off to others and the ease with which they can understand what it does.
My "misunderstanding" about Apple products is that any new phone I buy will be out of date in a time measured in months. Whether that means it will become unsupported, won't run new stuff, can't be repaired or becomes incompatible with the other hardware you'd expect to work - I can't say. But I have this feeling that within a year to 18 months it will be one of the above.
Ad blocker? Why not just a sheet of black card over the screen and the volume turned off?
Or even easier: ignore it. People are exposed to so many advertisements now (like we are exposed to germs) that I would expect most of us are simply immune to them.
As with terrorism, the biggest threat is from inside - home grown terrorists, not foreigners.
It is likely that cyber vulnerabilities follow the same pattern. While everyone is busy looking for the overseas threat, the domestic (and government) hackers are spreading mayhem and chaos internally.
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the coffee makers hadn't presented the proper grounds
So what do they do with all their waste product?
Deleting your facebook account is easy for people with no friends.
And if you think that the "friends" you have on FB are actually friends (who will help you when you need it, or go for a beer with you or invite you to their wedding) then you are sorely mistaken.
People collecting "friends" on Facebook is like dogs collecting fleas.
And let's see how many actually do!
That is all the matters: not what people say (they often will say what they think the surveyor wants to hear), but whether they follow through. And I doubt that many actually will.
The overriding design requirement was to meet user response time targets. This was for numbers of users in the thousands with well defined peak hour periods, both daily and weekly. Performance was measured in terms of user perceived "happiness" - responsiveness.
From an I.T. perspective, the response time was the sum of all the wait time (network latency, queuing time) and the processing time. This approximated a m/m/1 model.
HTH
And most of the situations described in the reference article describe poorly framed problems. I understand that it is supposed to be a jokey, light, non-serious, read. However it illustrates the problem with people asking the wrong question, or making incorrect assumptions.
Many years ago the multi-billion $$$$ utility company I was working for had a team from [ name removed to protect the stupid ] a well-known consultancy outfit. One of their conclusions was that some of our servers were running with too much idle time - under utilised in their opinion. All they had done was collect %idle data from sar (Unix systems from Sun, IBM and HP). and their junior idiot looked at that and decided it was a "problem"
When I was asked about this by the CIO and the "consultants", my response was that I could easily increase the utilitisation figure to whatever the CIO desired, or that the consultants recommended - how high would he like it to be? Since he knew me, and saw the smile, he saw the trap. I explained that "idle" time and user response time were tightly linked: that reducing one would increase the other. This was news to the "consultants" once I explained the maths and Queuing Theory behind it.
Please do NOT upload porn videos to our servers though
When a group who are armed to the teeth ask you politely, who would possibly argue with them.
In this thread we learn that Pete's POV is to always make sure to blame the victim.at least a little bit.
So yo are prepared to simply close your eyes and walk out into oncoming traffic? Just because you have a right of way???
A tombstone that reads: Here lies an Anonymous Coward. Killed by a car that he/she/it didn't look out for. But they did have right of way - even though they are still dead.
It seems like a futile way to end your existence, when a tiny amount of care could have avoided the situation. Even if you are legally entitled to cross a road wherever you please, no responsible individual would ever trust their life to a complete stranger and their ability to both be alert and responsive.
But the other question would be why didn't she see the oncoming vehicle. It had its lights on and even coming around a bend, the light it threw onto the roadway would be visible long before the car itself appeared.
Even if one party in a collision is not at fault, that doesn't mean they couldn't have avoided it.
Why would they bother creating a giant propaganda machine? Couldn't they just buy Facebook?
in which information will have value only if it is already filtered, evaluated and commented upon by others.
So how good is the author's reputation, that we should believe this?
But add to that all the other sources of microplastics: washing clothes, vacuuming carpets, all the plastic items that surround us, rubber tyres, paints and it is reasonable to ask: does one more source really make much difference? Is it worth getting upset about?
Since all the characters contribute to the address, there is no redundancy. So just like with phone numbers calling the wrong person, an incorrect character will send your stuff (or visitors) to the wrong place. Possibly even to the wrong continent if one of the early characters is mistaken.
The accompanying audio does not sound like "highly trained" personnel. It sounds like a couple of (stoned?) jocks playing a video game. If that is the standard of professionalism for fighter pilots, then it explains a lot about recent armed conflicts.
Got the email, but couldn't find a reliable source to validate it.
I recevied the email, too. It contained details that only a bona fide vendor would have. It had the Amazon order number. It was sent to the email address I use for Amazon (please tell me you know better than to just have a single email address for everything). The product description matched my order history.
So yes, I was sure - to a level of certainty that outweighed the potential (very limited) "hack attack" probability and scope for damage.
The only worrying thing is that since I bought this in 2015, I have parted company with the power bank. I don't know where it is, or who has got it. Though I do still have the charger, so I guess / hope the device isn't being used by anyone.
And as such, instead of a single commercial pressure on the existing UPS makers to up their game, we will end up with a "background noise" of ever-changing, starting-then-fading, projects that become increasingly incompatible. And therefore instead of a united front that competes with the UPS makers, there will be loads of minor players that the big guys can safely ignore.
A better way to approach this would have been to introduce a mature product, build a user base and offer off-the-shelf solutions. Much like with RPi or Arduino (though admittedly, both of those suffer from fork-ism). Rather than to hail the coming of vapourware and getting bogged down in design arguments.
fake news reaches users up to 20 times faster than factual content
So how far will this story get?
Each quarter the internet providers would give the money made from the deactivation fees to the state's general treasurer, who would forward the money to the attorney general to fund the operations of the Council on Human Trafficking, according to the bill's language
So this council would then be directly profiting from the sex-trade?
Is that really how they want to be funded.
they haven't even customized their software to account for the new shape of the screen.
It's no big deal. So long as the publicity given freely (or at least having the junkets paid for) and duly pushed out to the media lackeys results in sales of what looks like a competitor, the deficient software can be pushed out later.
Or not. Because once the phone company has got the money from the sale, what is the point of giving stuff away for free?
And of course those phones will only be a success if all the corrupt, wined and dined (at the very least!!!) journos who sing the praises of these half-ready devices hold up their end and give them the 5-star reviews and enthusiasm that they don't deserve. Which of course they will, for fear of not being invited to next year's little get-together, and all the freebies they will have showered on them for playing the game and misleading the public.
OK, this is merely a publicity stunt. But if Musk is planning to populate Mars, we need to start thinking about this sort of thing.
or leave behind soap residue or water spots that would affect a camera's ability to see.
So driving through a puddle or getting splattered from the mud kicked up by the vehicle in front will disable an AV? How about purposeful vandalism with a paint aerosol?
And all those fragile sensors that might get dislodged. That would make the cars off-limits to about half the neighbourhoods. "Hey, mister! Do you want your £30,000 LIDAR back .... it'll cost you"
And when that happens, I hate to think what the insurance premiums would be. If these are real problems, rather than media scaremongering (the most likely explanation) then these vehicles have the status of showroom dummies - not real vehicles that are ready for the real world. That's just added another 5 years to their development time.
we have a vast number of self-taught programmers who have never been taught "best practices"
Arrrrgh! The worst sort.
These people tend to be rank amateurs. But with the "experience" that makes them think they are actually professionals. Almost none of them are. And most never will be.
Most people, even people who make a living from programming, are much worse at it than they think they are. They are impatient, they are hit-and-miss, most can't think clearly and an unfortunate number share in the twin misconceptions that "if it compiles cleanly, it works" and that testing is merely a stage that comes between coding and release to production (and is not there to fix problems, merely to tick boxes).
Personally I would focus this workshop on the cost of the errors made - and target it at the senior people there. Drum it home that "good" software - best practices is not about how many million lines of code you can write in a day, nor about how complex you can make an algorithm. It is about being able to hand your work off to others and the ease with which they can understand what it does.
My "misunderstanding" about Apple products is that any new phone I buy will be out of date in a time measured in months. Whether that means it will become unsupported, won't run new stuff, can't be repaired or becomes incompatible with the other hardware you'd expect to work - I can't say. But I have this feeling that within a year to 18 months it will be one of the above.
Or even easier: ignore it. People are exposed to so many advertisements now (like we are exposed to germs) that I would expect most of us are simply immune to them.
So a research group thinks there should be more research into AI. But they think the topics to be researched should be kept secret.
I wonder if their AI driven grant application writer came up with that one.
It is likely that cyber vulnerabilities follow the same pattern. While everyone is busy looking for the overseas threat, the domestic (and government) hackers are spreading mayhem and chaos internally.