Oh? By posting here without identifying credentials or using an alias violates the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1984. I have you on a class I felony. Speaking of, I need to report myself to termination bay 2 for posting using an alias.
Kidding aside, the law literally says that. It was designed mostly to protect ATMs but due to loose wording is often used to prosecute almost any computer "crime." You literally can't visit a website legally without giving them identifying credentials first under that law. Even a subscribe to a website page is illegal under that law (you need to provide that information before visiting). The law was partially written for modems, but the writers didn't understand how modems worked - they just saw the 1984 movie War Games and panicked.
Factory defaults are designed to be easy so the manual can say 'enter 0000, then press change PIN).' It is also usually designed with a factory reset in mind in case the PIN is lost or forgotten (which would require direct hardware access, usually behind an alarmed key lock).
Definitely still pay inside stores in the US, as I often fill at one. The security system takes a clear shot at your plate and there are several fines for not paying including jail time. I do it when I get pre-paid gas cards from low income people I shuttle around. Usually I get 6-8 $5 or $10 cards a month and the pump readers make me insert, fill, wait, insert next card which fails if you haven't driven off but resets the reader, insert, fill another $5-10, repeat until done. Walking in they scan all I need in about 3 seconds (multiple minutes the other way).
To be fair, it is little different than illegally entering modem sites in the early 1980s because they left the user/password as admin/admin (which still happens with routers today).
At least it was just gasoline and not nuclear launch codes (the infamous 00000000).
I've had mixed results, especially with older Sylvania and Philips, which at the time were $30 a bulb. Those older bulbs were used in medium to light traffic areas and began flickering after about 5 years. I have some Cree bulbs that are nearly 6 years old now that are used in high traffic areas and have had no issues. I also have a highly used vanity that burned out a Philips in 2 years - the three incandescent bulbs still in it outlasted the Philips, but they eventually all died . It now actually has 4 newer Philips bulbs (electric company gave me them free) and I haven't had any issues.
With that said, it was a 1% workforce cut. I've been in far worse technical layoffs - one company I worked for (that eventually fired me as well) had massive layoffs filling auditoriums in multiple waves - roughly 40%, followed by 30% - when the tech bubble broke in 2001, Then they rebuilt and had a 30% layoff again in 2008. In my case I survived the worst of it but my salary bubbled to the top and I got caught in a 15% cost cutting layoff along with several of the best engineers in the company. Honestly, I think they're f**ked trying to replace us with new hires or desperately scrambling to find anyone with any knowledge of certain areas, but I don't give a shit. My next placement will likely be in direct competition with my former company for product consulting on the product I formerly worked on. I couldn't do that right away (without legal problems - the agreement did include firing as a cause) because of a non-compete clause, but anything goes now, and I will likely work with 3 of the best customization engineers that company had because we all got laid off together and joined this company.
Pretty sure I can tell some stories that are 100% true but only about 5% believe them, much less machines. Weird things happen when you work in the music industry (which I did when I was in my 20s, not anymore). Really. Effing. Weird. Things. Like finding a 2 foot long, 2 inch thick rubber cock under a couch with a rubber chicken, which we HAD to use in our show... because. Bad things followed, but it was ridiculously funny until then.
Actually, that is probably why women are paid more - they're scarcer and equal opportunity employers want them to meet diversity quotas. The job I'm at now has several hundred white male IT contractors (and 2 female, both India natives) so they can show their diversity in employees (which are far more balanced in gender and color ).
Actually, the correct answer is all of them because they all shelter money made overseas in tax havens. Amazon is just lucky enough to pay 0 taxes on US earned money. I will happily vote for anyone that campaigns on breaking them up, as I feel they are the greatest threat to society right now - those taxes are all getting handed over to smaller businesses like mine.
So are most critics, apparently. The first article I saw gave it 1 1/2 stars and said it was a mess. Rotten Tomatoes was in the 60% range for critics last I checked. Audiences liked it about 97%, but I suspect that was mostly fanboys and fangirls doing the review and in a few days that will drop. I'm always a little torn with movies like this - on one hand, I'm often craving good Sci-Fi or Fantasy and on the other hand Cameron, Bruckheimer and Bay just don't do it for me. Avatar was hippie shit and IMO the last good thing Bruckheimer and Bay put out was Bad Boys (and the sequel sucked). My wife liked Coyote Ugly (it was mediocre at best), but I haven't been able to stand a single movie of theirs since then. King Arthur? Yuck. G-Force? WTF is this?!?! The Lone Ranger? Blech. 12 Strong? Great cast, terrible movie. I'd rather watch Uwe Boll and that is not a compliment and I'm not kidding.
Yeah - I got laid off after 9.8% growth when they required 10% growth, as did 15% of the company. Got a consultant role that paid basically the same (benefits aren't as good), but pay is decent; Everyone I know that was laid off was hired by the same consulting company, and all of them extremely competent. I have no idea what the layoff criteria was, but I could pick 15 more incompetent workers than the did, but I imagine it was all about salary.
I agree, OS/2 was way more elegant, but Microsoft got exclusive bundling deals with vendors and forced all competition out and thus OS/2, DR-DOS, GEM, etc all shriveled up and died.
They were the Comcast of the 1980s/1990s - Comcast is doing the exact same things Microsoft was doing then - in my state and many others they pushed (and won) a law against community fiber. In my city they have exclusive rights to fiber and high speed data (and give the city the kickback of free internet for police and government in return). This kind of shit should be banned from the highest level of government, but you can't change things when all your government representatives are highly bribed by the telecoms and they largely control the elections (because corporations are people too, and thus can provide vast amounts of campaign money to support their preferred candidates who inevitably win).
Wasn't Verizon Wireless (at the time still partially owned by Vodaphone, now they're wholly owned by Verizon) the first to pull that stunt? Verizon Wireless 4G was 3G+ because the standard wasn't finished yet and they fell far short of the standard (especially on data), so when they met the standard they rebranded 4G as "4GLTE."
Not that I'm complaining - waiting for any real 5G here. Please give me an alternative to Comcast, the local government has prevented anyone from running fiber in the neighborhood for years (and it's looking like 2020 - from what I heard talking to the mayor, 2 carriers put in 5G capable towers [whatever that means] when the water tower was repainted, but won't have the infrastructure until late next year at the earliest - AT&T was not one of them).
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of how nuclear works. The vast majority of "waste" is simply non fissile uranium which decays very slowly and pulled out of the ground radioactive already. With slow nuclear reactors you do get some longer lived actinides, but the really long lived stuff is what you started with. What this article is about is allowing more research into fast neutron reactors. Fast reactors breed up fertile uranium to fissile plutonium or fertile thorium to fissile uranium. This makes almost all your waste fuel. What is left is still highly radioactive, but the reactor burns away long lived actinides and is radio-neutral in 300ish years (e.g. background radiation is higher). This is what the Dems that killed the Fast Breeder Reactor in the 1990s didn't understand. Gen IV is also required to be passively safe.
As AC states, nobody cares HOW the data gets sent and arrives, only that it gets between point A and point B with the correct data at the other end. I could go on all day about how terrible underlying infrastructure technologies like ATM are for data, but at the end of the day it boils down to "did my data get to its destination at 100Mbps?" And that's all technological laymen like Nancy Pelosi care about.
Keeping the bar low does one other thing - it allows Pai to claim the majority of Americans have at least 2 ISPs that offer broadband and therefore justify removal of Net Neutrality to allow natural competition, even though by the FCC's own numbers that was just over 50% (like 54 or 56%, I believe). When you jump to 100Mbps, only 24% of households have more than one option.
What ISPs can (illegally, but it takes time for the DoJ to catch up and the fines often come way to late) do is charge more for people where they have a monopoly and use cutthroat prices to force out competition where they do have competition. This is the legendary Wal-Mart predatory pricing model that Wal-Mart has been sued for using multiple times to eliminate competition and expand.
Or the little issue with WHERE to collect taxes. It is based in the purchaser's place of residence, not their brick and mortar store's location. To do that for me you need to collect the 6.5% state tax, bit then you get the fun of detecting county and city, both of which have sales tax levies right now (stadium and courthouse). If the city and county fail to get their cut , more lawsuits will certainly happen.
I see two probable reasons. 1) Clear is a minimal distribution focusing on performance in cloud computing, and 2) Ubuntu is a user facing distribution focusing on the desktop and based on Debian, which puts stability first and everything else including performance after that.
Ubuntu felt like a slow train wreck after moving from GenToo (there were literally tasks that took 4x as long when I profiled my code), but honestly, for normal users I'd never in a million years advise GenToo (especially the version that builds everything from source customized for your specific box). I personally would rather use Mint or Elementary OS from a user point of view (or Debian, SuSE, RedHat, etc for programming/enterprise programming - hell, as a programmer, I'm equal opportunity - I'll even take a Windows box or mac - IDEs today are great on all platforms).
MAC addresses aren't fixed, so changing it and regenerating your IPv6 address would be a way to avoid being traced (most if not all IPv6 generators use MAC addresses as a parameter and a fixed algorithm, so regenerating it without changing the MAC will give you the same address every time). That said, it is much more of a pain in the ass than just going to a coffee shop and logging on when you want to be anonymous. Also with coffee shops you need to either move around or know to clear your IP cache or the fuzz will be able to trace back to you eventually.
Not a criminal, but worked on network security enough to know how to be invisible if I need to be.
CenturyLink still is using absolutely ancient infrastructure where I live, stuff they inherited from Qwest. With my city having an exclusive fiber deal with Comcast, that is unlikely to change anytime soon. They did update their DSL to 10Mbps, but Comcast was running multi-gigabit service last I checked. Personally I'd like to not do business with either company and am waiting for Gen V wireless - high speed and low latency.
COBOL needed to die decades ago. It was kept on life support by bankers (some of the financial world like the stock market let it go years ago) and the bank mainframes they didn't want to upgrade, mainly. Python is a popular language for mostly non-programmers and nearly everything I've seen written with it is classic functional programming.
The biggest problem at least for enterprise is it often Python code has a complete lack of reusability. When I write java classes I follow the strict OOP paradigm of have each class do one thing and do it well. It can lead to lots of classes, but I was able to reuse 80% of my work moving between dissimilar projects doing a similar task (validating data migration between various data stores). Since a lot of that code is independent, I mainly had to write transform logic and data-store connectivity logic - the matching and data structures (which use Maps) are entirely the same and just need to be fed formatted schema (in XML or JSON - JSON is the internal format, I wrote an XML converter because it was easier to convert the spreadsheet to XML than to JSON).
Since we're talking Fortran and only Mechanical Engineers still used Fortran when I was in school 20+ years ago, I'd say Python or LabView are most important to learn these days for Mechanical Engineers. My understanding is Fortran is dying quickly in that industry. Personally I hate Python with a passion and am not too keen on LabView, but I didn't have to do much with either and now pretty much program straight java or C# (got laid off, now doing automation/programming/management consulting).
Citizens United proved that - corporations are citizens and can dump money into politics. Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump had massive corporate backings. Studies say the US is an Oligarchy if not Plutocracy. You need to go back to Truman to get a "poor" president, as in net worth under 1 million. No president since I've been alive has been anywhere near that poor.
They may not even be punished or get a slap on the wrist. I knew a kid that was busted for piracy but because he was a minor and all they did was confiscate his computer and software, some of which were later returned. Then again, that was the Secret Service since piracy is considered a financial crime (yep, the same apes that protect the president had jurisdiction) and he wasn't making any money from it, just cracking and distributing.
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Oh? By posting here without identifying credentials or using an alias violates the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1984. I have you on a class I felony. Speaking of, I need to report myself to termination bay 2 for posting using an alias.
Kidding aside, the law literally says that. It was designed mostly to protect ATMs but due to loose wording is often used to prosecute almost any computer "crime." You literally can't visit a website legally without giving them identifying credentials first under that law. Even a subscribe to a website page is illegal under that law (you need to provide that information before visiting). The law was partially written for modems, but the writers didn't understand how modems worked - they just saw the 1984 movie War Games and panicked.
Yep, it is an acronym and not an abbreviation, even, because it is an abbreviation that forms a new word like NASA or LASER.
Factory defaults are designed to be easy so the manual can say 'enter 0000, then press change PIN).' It is also usually designed with a factory reset in mind in case the PIN is lost or forgotten (which would require direct hardware access, usually behind an alarmed key lock).
Definitely still pay inside stores in the US, as I often fill at one. The security system takes a clear shot at your plate and there are several fines for not paying including jail time. I do it when I get pre-paid gas cards from low income people I shuttle around. Usually I get 6-8 $5 or $10 cards a month and the pump readers make me insert, fill, wait, insert next card which fails if you haven't driven off but resets the reader, insert, fill another $5-10, repeat until done. Walking in they scan all I need in about 3 seconds (multiple minutes the other way).
To be fair, it is little different than illegally entering modem sites in the early 1980s because they left the user/password as admin/admin (which still happens with routers today).
At least it was just gasoline and not nuclear launch codes (the infamous 00000000).
I've had mixed results, especially with older Sylvania and Philips, which at the time were $30 a bulb. Those older bulbs were used in medium to light traffic areas and began flickering after about 5 years. I have some Cree bulbs that are nearly 6 years old now that are used in high traffic areas and have had no issues. I also have a highly used vanity that burned out a Philips in 2 years - the three incandescent bulbs still in it outlasted the Philips, but they eventually all died . It now actually has 4 newer Philips bulbs (electric company gave me them free) and I haven't had any issues.
With that said, it was a 1% workforce cut. I've been in far worse technical layoffs - one company I worked for (that eventually fired me as well) had massive layoffs filling auditoriums in multiple waves - roughly 40%, followed by 30% - when the tech bubble broke in 2001, Then they rebuilt and had a 30% layoff again in 2008. In my case I survived the worst of it but my salary bubbled to the top and I got caught in a 15% cost cutting layoff along with several of the best engineers in the company. Honestly, I think they're f**ked trying to replace us with new hires or desperately scrambling to find anyone with any knowledge of certain areas, but I don't give a shit. My next placement will likely be in direct competition with my former company for product consulting on the product I formerly worked on. I couldn't do that right away (without legal problems - the agreement did include firing as a cause) because of a non-compete clause, but anything goes now, and I will likely work with 3 of the best customization engineers that company had because we all got laid off together and joined this company.
Pretty sure I can tell some stories that are 100% true but only about 5% believe them, much less machines. Weird things happen when you work in the music industry (which I did when I was in my 20s, not anymore). Really. Effing. Weird. Things. Like finding a 2 foot long, 2 inch thick rubber cock under a couch with a rubber chicken, which we HAD to use in our show... because. Bad things followed, but it was ridiculously funny until then.
Actually, that is probably why women are paid more - they're scarcer and equal opportunity employers want them to meet diversity quotas. The job I'm at now has several hundred white male IT contractors (and 2 female, both India natives) so they can show their diversity in employees (which are far more balanced in gender and color ).
Actually, the correct answer is all of them because they all shelter money made overseas in tax havens. Amazon is just lucky enough to pay 0 taxes on US earned money. I will happily vote for anyone that campaigns on breaking them up, as I feel they are the greatest threat to society right now - those taxes are all getting handed over to smaller businesses like mine.
So are most critics, apparently. The first article I saw gave it 1 1/2 stars and said it was a mess. Rotten Tomatoes was in the 60% range for critics last I checked. Audiences liked it about 97%, but I suspect that was mostly fanboys and fangirls doing the review and in a few days that will drop. I'm always a little torn with movies like this - on one hand, I'm often craving good Sci-Fi or Fantasy and on the other hand Cameron, Bruckheimer and Bay just don't do it for me. Avatar was hippie shit and IMO the last good thing Bruckheimer and Bay put out was Bad Boys (and the sequel sucked). My wife liked Coyote Ugly (it was mediocre at best), but I haven't been able to stand a single movie of theirs since then. King Arthur? Yuck. G-Force? WTF is this?!?! The Lone Ranger? Blech. 12 Strong? Great cast, terrible movie. I'd rather watch Uwe Boll and that is not a compliment and I'm not kidding.
Yeah - I got laid off after 9.8% growth when they required 10% growth, as did 15% of the company. Got a consultant role that paid basically the same (benefits aren't as good), but pay is decent; Everyone I know that was laid off was hired by the same consulting company, and all of them extremely competent. I have no idea what the layoff criteria was, but I could pick 15 more incompetent workers than the did, but I imagine it was all about salary.
I agree, OS/2 was way more elegant, but Microsoft got exclusive bundling deals with vendors and forced all competition out and thus OS/2, DR-DOS, GEM, etc all shriveled up and died.
They were the Comcast of the 1980s/1990s - Comcast is doing the exact same things Microsoft was doing then - in my state and many others they pushed (and won) a law against community fiber. In my city they have exclusive rights to fiber and high speed data (and give the city the kickback of free internet for police and government in return). This kind of shit should be banned from the highest level of government, but you can't change things when all your government representatives are highly bribed by the telecoms and they largely control the elections (because corporations are people too, and thus can provide vast amounts of campaign money to support their preferred candidates who inevitably win).
Wasn't Verizon Wireless (at the time still partially owned by Vodaphone, now they're wholly owned by Verizon) the first to pull that stunt? Verizon Wireless 4G was 3G+ because the standard wasn't finished yet and they fell far short of the standard (especially on data), so when they met the standard they rebranded 4G as "4GLTE."
Not that I'm complaining - waiting for any real 5G here. Please give me an alternative to Comcast, the local government has prevented anyone from running fiber in the neighborhood for years (and it's looking like 2020 - from what I heard talking to the mayor, 2 carriers put in 5G capable towers [whatever that means] when the water tower was repainted, but won't have the infrastructure until late next year at the earliest - AT&T was not one of them).
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of how nuclear works. The vast majority of "waste" is simply non fissile uranium which decays very slowly and pulled out of the ground radioactive already. With slow nuclear reactors you do get some longer lived actinides, but the really long lived stuff is what you started with. What this article is about is allowing more research into fast neutron reactors. Fast reactors breed up fertile uranium to fissile plutonium or fertile thorium to fissile uranium. This makes almost all your waste fuel. What is left is still highly radioactive, but the reactor burns away long lived actinides and is radio-neutral in 300ish years (e.g. background radiation is higher). This is what the Dems that killed the Fast Breeder Reactor in the 1990s didn't understand. Gen IV is also required to be passively safe.
As AC states, nobody cares HOW the data gets sent and arrives, only that it gets between point A and point B with the correct data at the other end. I could go on all day about how terrible underlying infrastructure technologies like ATM are for data, but at the end of the day it boils down to "did my data get to its destination at 100Mbps?" And that's all technological laymen like Nancy Pelosi care about.
Keeping the bar low does one other thing - it allows Pai to claim the majority of Americans have at least 2 ISPs that offer broadband and therefore justify removal of Net Neutrality to allow natural competition, even though by the FCC's own numbers that was just over 50% (like 54 or 56%, I believe). When you jump to 100Mbps, only 24% of households have more than one option.
What ISPs can (illegally, but it takes time for the DoJ to catch up and the fines often come way to late) do is charge more for people where they have a monopoly and use cutthroat prices to force out competition where they do have competition. This is the legendary Wal-Mart predatory pricing model that Wal-Mart has been sued for using multiple times to eliminate competition and expand.
Or the little issue with WHERE to collect taxes. It is based in the purchaser's place of residence, not their brick and mortar store's location. To do that for me you need to collect the 6.5% state tax, bit then you get the fun of detecting county and city, both of which have sales tax levies right now (stadium and courthouse). If the city and county fail to get their cut , more lawsuits will certainly happen.
I see two probable reasons. 1) Clear is a minimal distribution focusing on performance in cloud computing, and 2) Ubuntu is a user facing distribution focusing on the desktop and based on Debian, which puts stability first and everything else including performance after that.
Ubuntu felt like a slow train wreck after moving from GenToo (there were literally tasks that took 4x as long when I profiled my code), but honestly, for normal users I'd never in a million years advise GenToo (especially the version that builds everything from source customized for your specific box). I personally would rather use Mint or Elementary OS from a user point of view (or Debian, SuSE, RedHat, etc for programming/enterprise programming - hell, as a programmer, I'm equal opportunity - I'll even take a Windows box or mac - IDEs today are great on all platforms).
MAC addresses aren't fixed, so changing it and regenerating your IPv6 address would be a way to avoid being traced (most if not all IPv6 generators use MAC addresses as a parameter and a fixed algorithm, so regenerating it without changing the MAC will give you the same address every time). That said, it is much more of a pain in the ass than just going to a coffee shop and logging on when you want to be anonymous. Also with coffee shops you need to either move around or know to clear your IP cache or the fuzz will be able to trace back to you eventually.
Not a criminal, but worked on network security enough to know how to be invisible if I need to be.
CenturyLink still is using absolutely ancient infrastructure where I live, stuff they inherited from Qwest. With my city having an exclusive fiber deal with Comcast, that is unlikely to change anytime soon. They did update their DSL to 10Mbps, but Comcast was running multi-gigabit service last I checked. Personally I'd like to not do business with either company and am waiting for Gen V wireless - high speed and low latency.
COBOL needed to die decades ago. It was kept on life support by bankers (some of the financial world like the stock market let it go years ago) and the bank mainframes they didn't want to upgrade, mainly. Python is a popular language for mostly non-programmers and nearly everything I've seen written with it is classic functional programming.
The biggest problem at least for enterprise is it often Python code has a complete lack of reusability. When I write java classes I follow the strict OOP paradigm of have each class do one thing and do it well. It can lead to lots of classes, but I was able to reuse 80% of my work moving between dissimilar projects doing a similar task (validating data migration between various data stores). Since a lot of that code is independent, I mainly had to write transform logic and data-store connectivity logic - the matching and data structures (which use Maps) are entirely the same and just need to be fed formatted schema (in XML or JSON - JSON is the internal format, I wrote an XML converter because it was easier to convert the spreadsheet to XML than to JSON).
Since we're talking Fortran and only Mechanical Engineers still used Fortran when I was in school 20+ years ago, I'd say Python or LabView are most important to learn these days for Mechanical Engineers. My understanding is Fortran is dying quickly in that industry. Personally I hate Python with a passion and am not too keen on LabView, but I didn't have to do much with either and now pretty much program straight java or C# (got laid off, now doing automation/programming/management consulting).
Citizens United proved that - corporations are citizens and can dump money into politics. Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump had massive corporate backings. Studies say the US is an Oligarchy if not Plutocracy. You need to go back to Truman to get a "poor" president, as in net worth under 1 million. No president since I've been alive has been anywhere near that poor.
They may not even be punished or get a slap on the wrist. I knew a kid that was busted for piracy but because he was a minor and all they did was confiscate his computer and software, some of which were later returned. Then again, that was the Secret Service since piracy is considered a financial crime (yep, the same apes that protect the president had jurisdiction) and he wasn't making any money from it, just cracking and distributing.