What (little) I hear on solid-state is for stationary applications, and some of the things being floated (heh) sounds very promising. The systems I am seeing are designed for opportunistic charging for renewables. Price point isn't there by a long shot yet though.
The Bose Quiet Confort in-ear headphones (if I didn't already own an analog pair) are a good reason to go with lightning: you need a battery for the noise cancelling feature, and it is in my experience the best one on the market.
The problem of course is that for an 11+ hour flight you need to recharge the fscking phone now, and you can't use the fscking Lightning port for the in-flight entertainment.
Technically, you would be playing with the avionics bay below the cockpit, but still.
While it would be possible given sufficient access and knowledge, it would be a heck of a lot less effort to try and fly it away when "nobody is watching."
Not pretending to know the exact merits in this particular case, but my guess would be it has more to do with San Francisco, 18 vacant positions relative to 49 employees. If you can't find the people you are kind of stuck.
To typical/. Point #2: these employees are union, no? What does their collective bargaining agreement say about this?
The better approach rather than outsourcing to India (or another state) would be for the IT labor pool to be shared across the Board of Regents schools, although I doubt they can really work that way given how they are structured. I would think Berkley and UCLA (maybe Irvine and San Diego as well) would be in a better position to lead / handle common services, and limit dedicated staff to dedicated needs. They need to try to leverage economies of scale and synergies and all that crap.
No, but the pay cap is about $8-10/hour and it can't fund healthcare benefits. Paying $15/hour when investing so much in a person (18-20 year old child) just doesn't work. Honestly, I would prefer to pay $5/hour plus pay for some formal courses for them to take (of our choosing).
There is a way to do it, but it takes a lot of paperwork and you need to prove they aren't doing billable work or something. It ends up being more community service than anything-- which I don't really object to, but there isn't much in the way of a business benefit.
Degrees are extremely over-rated, and we have too much emphasis on them in our society-- but they give you some kind of baseline. I will likely never hire a devry, ITT, or University of Phoenix graduate (and so help me, I hope I never again have the misfortune of hiring a Harvard or MIT grad).
It used to be that a degree meant that you had a balanced education, and you had proved that you can learn new things. Now, it seems like universities are becoming more like trade schools (at least my alma mattar's engineering school). People might graduate with more engineering hours, but they are so specialized that they are often useless.
Specific to IT though, I really wish more of the people we work with had better communication skills rather than trying to explain a plan with Visio.
Too bad labor laws now make it too dificult to hire people for (> 1year) internships. Most kids today would be better off with a good internship than college.
But what are you trying to fix? No airport would have stopped box cutters pre 9/11; I thought a 4" knife was still ok.
That said, airport security still sucked, screening lines were too long, and the results were inconsistent at best. Not much has changed, beyond the cost.
That doesn't seem to be the case at SFO--- better efficiency, better retention, and I believe better pay. If you drive up efficiency it is easier to pay more.
The systems that work well seem to be double scanner with bypass of the second scanner for those 90%. It allows for 10x scan time on suspect bags, and the rest zip through. The metal detector/naked body scanner can work in the same way; stick to the metal detector for everyone, but the people that flag (plus random) go throu the NBS. People failing the NBS and considered sufficiently worthy of additional screening get the pat-down.
The problem today is the only real triage is with pre-check, and I doubt it is nearly as effective at doing anything as the TSA want people to believe.
There is a real threat today... It is just minuscule in percentage terms. If the threat is 0.01% of the population, 99%+ of those people would be via guns or easily detected bombs. It is that 1-in-a-million case today, that you don't want to see getting worse.
Most large banks I have worked with do full DR exercises, and have since the 90's at least. Smaller banks will simulate typically, but one bank I know of actually shifted mainframes to their DR warehouse and brought things up from there.
Now with hot-hot sites, the activity is much more trivial, but it is obviously not a universal thing across all organizations.
In theory, because if you can't do it in this particular location, there is another location where you can-- in the interests of the common good.
Many of the restrictions are based on problems that have occurred in the past. In my "town", realtor "offices" are under scrutiny. They crowd out other merchants and are effectively only an advertisement. A city has a need to control growth, character, and sustainability-- and zoning is an effective tool for that.
Sure, it can go overboard, but you need to have some checks and balances.
I completely agree with your last paragraph, and it is the true "fair spirit" of tax law.
I simply take issue with it being applied retroactively after 20 years, and without promise of local tax authorities within the EU not being able to double-dip.
While it doesn't change your point too much, you are off by an order of magnitude, since the tax is for 10+ years.
The taxes that Ireland did get are jurisdiction shopping-- they got 1% of a very large number rather than 12.5% of a very small number. Ireland lost nothing by the arrangement, but the other EU nations did, at least in theory.
Apple's presence in Ireland at the time of the agreement made a huge positive impact on Ireland, creating jobs at a time of a massive brain-drain and putting it on the map as a technology center. At the time of the agreement, it was a fairly balanced deal. Things are only skewed by Apple's tremendous growth over the past 10 years.
Not sure why you think those are related. Operationally, Apple has only 5,000 employees in Ireland and a lot more in other places, so money needs to be pushed around. From a tax perspective, the cash in the Irish subsidiary are retained earnings, and repatriating them is necessary in order to distribute to shareholders... who are subject to US taxes.
Good point on the firewalls; compartmentalization is an important tool.
Personally, I use a little firewall (an Ubilquiti EdgeRouter X - $50) in my office to block access to my backup NAS from the remainder of my company, and to be able to do DPI on traffic coming to my machine.
As systems become more complicated and interconnected though, security gets very difficult. A good part of my workflow is now using Terminal Services/Remote Desktop, and I am limited in how I can protect myself from that side, beyond relying on Microsoft's host-client security provisions.
Why bother with range when you can go for quantity instead?
A good pirate radio setup would be small box with PV cell, battery, antenna, SD card, and a means to update broadcast via optical networking (or peer to peer mesh, or even low power RF upload). If you could make it for $30, just get a few dozen and scatter them around.
Makes it reasonably hard to trace back to the source, although you would need to design it so you can't easily reverse engineer the encryption when seized and co-opt the network...
You could conceivably have a module that inflates and expands inside the shell of the tank; it is much more viable than I thought just looking at the headline, although it isn't a slam-dunk proposition.
The real question is how much mass do you save for launching compared to a purpose-built device, and does that mass and velocity have a higher value than the complexity of re-assembling in space.
It will be interesting to see if it goes anywhere.
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What (little) I hear on solid-state is for stationary applications, and some of the things being floated (heh) sounds very promising. The systems I am seeing are designed for opportunistic charging for renewables. Price point isn't there by a long shot yet though.
The Bose Quiet Confort in-ear headphones (if I didn't already own an analog pair) are a good reason to go with lightning: you need a battery for the noise cancelling feature, and it is in my experience the best one on the market.
The problem of course is that for an 11+ hour flight you need to recharge the fscking phone now, and you can't use the fscking Lightning port for the in-flight entertainment.
Solid state batteries should be better at limiting fault current without the efficiency penalty.
There are so many things that will kill us all, might as well go surfing with sharks.
(I expect better of you too, Bruce.)
Technically, you would be playing with the avionics bay below the cockpit, but still.
While it would be possible given sufficient access and knowledge, it would be a heck of a lot less effort to try and fly it away when "nobody is watching."
Not pretending to know the exact merits in this particular case, but my guess would be it has more to do with San Francisco, 18 vacant positions relative to 49 employees. If you can't find the people you are kind of stuck.
To typical /. Point #2: these employees are union, no? What does their collective bargaining agreement say about this?
The better approach rather than outsourcing to India (or another state) would be for the IT labor pool to be shared across the Board of Regents schools, although I doubt they can really work that way given how they are structured. I would think Berkley and UCLA (maybe Irvine and San Diego as well) would be in a better position to lead / handle common services, and limit dedicated staff to dedicated needs. They need to try to leverage economies of scale and synergies and all that crap.
I do-- hue, sonos, insteon. Marginally useful when laying on floor without phone handy. Not a great UX yet though.
No, but the pay cap is about $8-10/hour and it can't fund healthcare benefits. Paying $15/hour when investing so much in a person (18-20 year old child) just doesn't work. Honestly, I would prefer to pay $5/hour plus pay for some formal courses for them to take (of our choosing).
There is a way to do it, but it takes a lot of paperwork and you need to prove they aren't doing billable work or something. It ends up being more community service than anything-- which I don't really object to, but there isn't much in the way of a business benefit.
Degrees are extremely over-rated, and we have too much emphasis on them in our society-- but they give you some kind of baseline. I will likely never hire a devry, ITT, or University of Phoenix graduate (and so help me, I hope I never again have the misfortune of hiring a Harvard or MIT grad).
It used to be that a degree meant that you had a balanced education, and you had proved that you can learn new things. Now, it seems like universities are becoming more like trade schools (at least my alma mattar's engineering school). People might graduate with more engineering hours, but they are so specialized that they are often useless.
Specific to IT though, I really wish more of the people we work with had better communication skills rather than trying to explain a plan with Visio.
Too bad labor laws now make it too dificult to hire people for (> 1year) internships. Most kids today would be better off with a good internship than college.
It sounds like it is just a laser scan with a point cloud, albeit on a very substantial scale. Am I missing something?
I do wonder how they factor out the other cars though...
But what are you trying to fix? No airport would have stopped box cutters pre 9/11; I thought a 4" knife was still ok.
That said, airport security still sucked, screening lines were too long, and the results were inconsistent at best. Not much has changed, beyond the cost.
That doesn't seem to be the case at SFO--- better efficiency, better retention, and I believe better pay. If you drive up efficiency it is easier to pay more.
The systems that work well seem to be double scanner with bypass of the second scanner for those 90%. It allows for 10x scan time on suspect bags, and the rest zip through. The metal detector/naked body scanner can work in the same way; stick to the metal detector for everyone, but the people that flag (plus random) go throu the NBS. People failing the NBS and considered sufficiently worthy of additional screening get the pat-down.
The problem today is the only real triage is with pre-check, and I doubt it is nearly as effective at doing anything as the TSA want people to believe.
There is a real threat today... It is just minuscule in percentage terms. If the threat is 0.01% of the population, 99%+ of those people would be via guns or easily detected bombs. It is that 1-in-a-million case today, that you don't want to see getting worse.
Most large banks I have worked with do full DR exercises, and have since the 90's at least. Smaller banks will simulate typically, but one bank I know of actually shifted mainframes to their DR warehouse and brought things up from there.
Now with hot-hot sites, the activity is much more trivial, but it is obviously not a universal thing across all organizations.
Not if you remember the .com bust. Monoculture is not healthy.
In theory, because if you can't do it in this particular location, there is another location where you can-- in the interests of the common good.
Many of the restrictions are based on problems that have occurred in the past. In my "town", realtor "offices" are under scrutiny. They crowd out other merchants and are effectively only an advertisement. A city has a need to control growth, character, and sustainability-- and zoning is an effective tool for that.
Sure, it can go overboard, but you need to have some checks and balances.
I completely agree with your last paragraph, and it is the true "fair spirit" of tax law.
I simply take issue with it being applied retroactively after 20 years, and without promise of local tax authorities within the EU not being able to double-dip.
Are they even that high? For #3 I had 5-6 potential names in my mind before Google... aside from just hosted email.
While it doesn't change your point too much, you are off by an order of magnitude, since the tax is for 10+ years.
The taxes that Ireland did get are jurisdiction shopping-- they got 1% of a very large number rather than 12.5% of a very small number. Ireland lost nothing by the arrangement, but the other EU nations did, at least in theory.
Apple's presence in Ireland at the time of the agreement made a huge positive impact on Ireland, creating jobs at a time of a massive brain-drain and putting it on the map as a technology center. At the time of the agreement, it was a fairly balanced deal. Things are only skewed by Apple's tremendous growth over the past 10 years.
The Irish subsidiary is (supposedly) the largest tax payer in Ireland. They have roughly 5,000 employees and are growing in Ireland.
Not sure why you think those are related. Operationally, Apple has only 5,000 employees in Ireland and a lot more in other places, so money needs to be pushed around. From a tax perspective, the cash in the Irish subsidiary are retained earnings, and repatriating them is necessary in order to distribute to shareholders... who are subject to US taxes.
There is a difference by making a targeted attack (slightly) harder and using obscure means to hope for security.
Good point on the firewalls; compartmentalization is an important tool.
Personally, I use a little firewall (an Ubilquiti EdgeRouter X - $50) in my office to block access to my backup NAS from the remainder of my company, and to be able to do DPI on traffic coming to my machine.
As systems become more complicated and interconnected though, security gets very difficult. A good part of my workflow is now using Terminal Services/Remote Desktop, and I am limited in how I can protect myself from that side, beyond relying on Microsoft's host-client security provisions.
Guess that is why the products tend to focus on an idea, aesthetics, and a general lack of follow-through.
Not too sure about the solid-state batteries yet, but they are getting hype...Just not sure Dyson is much of a custodian of the technology.
Why bother with range when you can go for quantity instead?
A good pirate radio setup would be small box with PV cell, battery, antenna, SD card, and a means to update broadcast via optical networking (or peer to peer mesh, or even low power RF upload). If you could make it for $30, just get a few dozen and scatter them around.
Makes it reasonably hard to trace back to the source, although you would need to design it so you can't easily reverse engineer the encryption when seized and co-opt the network...
You could conceivably have a module that inflates and expands inside the shell of the tank; it is much more viable than I thought just looking at the headline, although it isn't a slam-dunk proposition.
The real question is how much mass do you save for launching compared to a purpose-built device, and does that mass and velocity have a higher value than the complexity of re-assembling in space.
It will be interesting to see if it goes anywhere.