I always find the rhetoric of people claiming to represent 'the people' complaining about 'the government' to be rather fascinating since if their views actually did represent the full population then it would be reflected in their elected officials.
Thing is, if you lie by snail mail, it is a federal crime. By having USPS in the chain you bring in some non-trivial legal weight along with it. Commit fraud via email, yeah, it is illegal. Commit fraud via snail mail and they bring the hammer down.
As soon as they started lamenting about the "inefficiencies" of USPS, I had trouble taking their story seriously. It is an old myth that plays to a particular audiance but does not resemble reality even a little, esp compared to public and private services across the world.
Considering they are using commercially available satellite images from other companies and 'processing' them to make these finds, I suspect they do not actually have the technological capability they claim to. I would go further and suspect they do not have the level of sensing technology that we already know about. It is more likely they are some small shop using existing images to try to scam money out of investors and other companies with just another dowsing rod dressed up with fancy science sounding words.
With tech from that erra, it is a lot easier to fabricate replacements from scratch then today. For that matter, more of it can be fixed as opposed to being integrated in such a way that your only option is to trash and replace.
Actually it is a pretty good one. Older equipment has been vetted for a good long time, and is generally simpler so there are fewer points where new vulnerabilities might exist. One of the reasons we have had so many security problems is the constant flow of new features being tacked on at every level combined with people wanting the technology to do so much more.
'as soon as' assumes that there will be a good app. There is no guarantee anything will or even can be developed that would be attractive enough to pull customers away from smart phones and traditional watches into some kind of smart watch ecosystem.
I take this as a good example of why we should not strive for universal languages to use everywhere. Functional languages are really useful in their domains, while procedural and OOP languages are really useful in their domains. Language designers, or maybe just programmers who do not want to learn more then one language and thus find the One True Language, keep trying to extend languages to handle everything.
Regulator and lobbyists do not have a 'field', their skills are not related to any particular domain or technology. They could leave the FCC and go work for the farm industry and have pretty much the same transferability.
This is rewarding regulators with well paying jobs.
After that you need to cure customer support too since that is a common social engineering target. In fact you might have to wipe out tech support in general...
Keep in mind this was pre-DMCA, so it was much harder to go after someone for reverse engineering a protocol. Today on the other hand companies sue each other all the time over reverse engineering, and did in the past too using conventional copyright, patent, or trade secrets laws. So in general, corporations can not 'do this stuff with impunity', they can get their asses sued off.
Well, since we are a society that places a high value on monetary gain, since both of these products resulted in profits (ok, that is debatable) for both of their companies then by many standards they were quite useful.
Well, their comment probably is wasting precious Comcast network bandwidth as people read it, so they must raise their rates in order to compensate for the increased non-tv load.
Big surprise.. tech hirer not valuing fields they do not hire from.
Though given how laborious and difficult an actual english degree is and how high the failure rate is, saying that CS has more 'rigor in thinking' and 'challenging' is laughable. Those upper level english courses require a lot of rigors thinking and are quite challenging, even if they do not get the same respect as the more profitable CS degree.
And this is coming from someone with a Computer Engineering degree. However I wish there were more english majors in tech since they can bring some pretty useful skills and thought patterns to the table and can provide, esp if your department is aspie-culture heavy.
The high cost used to be offset by the status associated with the game, but it just isn:t the symbol of wealth and refinement that it used to be. Thus I suspect giant holes will not help much.
That being said, are we sure this is not some kind of joke or hoax? This reads like something from The Onion....
This really strikes me as the type of problem that will never have a good solution. There will always be competing interests and some of them will be mutually exclusive while still being valid concerns.
I think one of the big bonuses of the SSDs hitting the mainstream is people (and manufacturers) are re-examining how much capacity people actually need. For a while there was a trend of just throwing the biggest drives possible at every machine made since a bigger number looks better then a smaller number on marketing material, but it meant a lot of people bought computers with drives that far exceeded their actual use cases.
For most people 256GB is more then enough, depending on how they are using it. Though it is no where near enough for other uses.
Personally for my use case, I have both. a 128GB drive for OS and applications, and 1TB HDD for data. If I kept my data on the SSD it would fill up rapidly, so it is not enough for this 'anybody' at least, and I know people who burn through space a lot faster then I do.
The problem with 'belong to the people' is that when it actually does, we end up with situations like this were some people want to profit off something public and get up in arms if the people decide differently.
Seriously, did they pay slashdot to run this garbage? "IT consulting company produces colourful but unattributed info-graphic saying developers are important but IT is to slow." would be a better summary.
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gun nuts and good armed people are not really the same group.
Yeah, but things that happen frequently make for much less dramatic story telling then rare events.
Which is kinda scary. Destroy the life of a real person at no risk to themselves over hypothetical legal changes.
I also note the glee in the thread around her being an attractive woman, which makes me wonder how much masculine insecurity is playing a role.
I always find the rhetoric of people claiming to represent 'the people' complaining about 'the government' to be rather fascinating since if their views actually did represent the full population then it would be reflected in their elected officials.
Thing is, if you lie by snail mail, it is a federal crime. By having USPS in the chain you bring in some non-trivial legal weight along with it. Commit fraud via email, yeah, it is illegal. Commit fraud via snail mail and they bring the hammer down.
As soon as they started lamenting about the "inefficiencies" of USPS, I had trouble taking their story seriously. It is an old myth that plays to a particular audiance but does not resemble reality even a little, esp compared to public and private services across the world.
Considering they are using commercially available satellite images from other companies and 'processing' them to make these finds, I suspect they do not actually have the technological capability they claim to. I would go further and suspect they do not have the level of sensing technology that we already know about. It is more likely they are some small shop using existing images to try to scam money out of investors and other companies with just another dowsing rod dressed up with fancy science sounding words.
All,... I,.... want,.... is,.... an,.... expletive,.... web,.... browser!
Seriously, I just want to access web pages, I want to think about the browser itself as little as possible.
With tech from that erra, it is a lot easier to fabricate replacements from scratch then today. For that matter, more of it can be fixed as opposed to being integrated in such a way that your only option is to trash and replace.
Actually it is a pretty good one. Older equipment has been vetted for a good long time, and is generally simpler so there are fewer points where new vulnerabilities might exist. One of the reasons we have had so many security problems is the constant flow of new features being tacked on at every level combined with people wanting the technology to do so much more.
'as soon as' assumes that there will be a good app. There is no guarantee anything will or even can be developed that would be attractive enough to pull customers away from smart phones and traditional watches into some kind of smart watch ecosystem.
I take this as a good example of why we should not strive for universal languages to use everywhere. Functional languages are really useful in their domains, while procedural and OOP languages are really useful in their domains. Language designers, or maybe just programmers who do not want to learn more then one language and thus find the One True Language, keep trying to extend languages to handle everything.
Regulator and lobbyists do not have a 'field', their skills are not related to any particular domain or technology. They could leave the FCC and go work for the farm industry and have pretty much the same transferability.
This is rewarding regulators with well paying jobs.
Yeah, but depending on the local police, claiming you had a psychic vision or the baby jesus appeared before you would probably be enough.
After that you need to cure customer support too since that is a common social engineering target. In fact you might have to wipe out tech support in general...
Keep in mind this was pre-DMCA, so it was much harder to go after someone for reverse engineering a protocol. Today on the other hand companies sue each other all the time over reverse engineering, and did in the past too using conventional copyright, patent, or trade secrets laws. So in general, corporations can not 'do this stuff with impunity', they can get their asses sued off.
Well, since we are a society that places a high value on monetary gain, since both of these products resulted in profits (ok, that is debatable) for both of their companies then by many standards they were quite useful.
Well, their comment probably is wasting precious Comcast network bandwidth as people read it, so they must raise their rates in order to compensate for the increased non-tv load.
Big surprise.. tech hirer not valuing fields they do not hire from.
Though given how laborious and difficult an actual english degree is and how high the failure rate is, saying that CS has more 'rigor in thinking' and 'challenging' is laughable. Those upper level english courses require a lot of rigors thinking and are quite challenging, even if they do not get the same respect as the more profitable CS degree.
And this is coming from someone with a Computer Engineering degree. However I wish there were more english majors in tech since they can bring some pretty useful skills and thought patterns to the table and can provide, esp if your department is aspie-culture heavy.
The high cost used to be offset by the status associated with the game, but it just isn:t the symbol of wealth and refinement that it used to be. Thus I suspect giant holes will not help much.
That being said, are we sure this is not some kind of joke or hoax? This reads like something from The Onion....
Those cameras were built like tanks.....
This really strikes me as the type of problem that will never have a good solution. There will always be competing interests and some of them will be mutually exclusive while still being valid concerns.
I think one of the big bonuses of the SSDs hitting the mainstream is people (and manufacturers) are re-examining how much capacity people actually need. For a while there was a trend of just throwing the biggest drives possible at every machine made since a bigger number looks better then a smaller number on marketing material, but it meant a lot of people bought computers with drives that far exceeded their actual use cases.
For most people 256GB is more then enough, depending on how they are using it. Though it is no where near enough for other uses.
Personally for my use case, I have both. a 128GB drive for OS and applications, and 1TB HDD for data. If I kept my data on the SSD it would fill up rapidly, so it is not enough for this 'anybody' at least, and I know people who burn through space a lot faster then I do.
The problem with 'belong to the people' is that when it actually does, we end up with situations like this were some people want to profit off something public and get up in arms if the people decide differently.
Seriously, did they pay slashdot to run this garbage? "IT consulting company produces colourful but unattributed info-graphic saying developers are important but IT is to slow." would be a better summary.