In IT more so than any other industry I've seen, people believe google searches are an acceptable substitute for training, talent and experience. Sure, an internet search can extremely helpful in finding the missing piece to a puzzle ("what was that command line option I needed to make this work?"). But so many people base their entire work efforts around google results ("how do I do --fill in the project/task--?"). While this may work in some short-term cases, in the long run it always shows in projects that are riddled with security flaws, unscalable and impossible to maintain (just to name a few).
Yet, the IT industry still hires such people. I suppose we're lucky this is fairly unique to IT. Would you want a brain surgeon who had to pause an operation while he checked something in google? Or a paramedic who had to search for CPR instructions? Or an airline pilot who had to dig thru pages of search results on emergency landing procedures?
Instead of making buying decisions from info on websites (Amazon, Newegg,etc.) trying to sell you the product, why not try some other sources like hardware review sites?
Bonus Tip: The two budget priced laptops listed on Amazon.com? Performance sucks on both.
I'm happy that you're willing and able to pay $26k/year for housecleaning ($500/week * 52) .., . but I can safely say you don't represent the typical American household. I might even risk saying the typical American family isn't even paying $26k/year for the house PAYMENTS (especially not for 2000 square feet)
But Facebook doesn't just track the idiots, it tracks everybody those idiots interract with whether they are a Facebook user or not. That is exactly what the government needs to crack down on and crack down hard.
So true. Actual incident that happened about a year ago: I was sitting at home on a Sunday afternoon. I get a call on my work cellphone -- I keep a separate personal cellphone and never mix the two: never work stuff on the personal and vice versa. The call is from somebody at work from a completely different department who I never have dealt with before. Ordinary phone call - we talk a few minutes and I resolve an issue he was having. The strange thing is, the very next day that same person popped up as a friend suggestion on my personal cellphone with FB app installed.
It was disturbing to me how FB made that connection to me from just a phone call. Looking back now, I can speculate that he added me as a contact on his phone before/during dialing and his FB app harvested that. From there I guess it was simple (I have an unusual surname) to link that phone call to an otherwise unrelated FB account.
Now you may be thinking "Yeah, well that's what you get for having a FB account" - but I would counter that whatever I do on the personal side is fair game, but I never gave any consent to allow FB to bridge my personal and professional business.
Or a more practical question: why doesn't anybody fall on their ass when rematerializing? I mean, if you're transported while sitting in a chair, there's nothing to hold you up while rematerializing therefore "ass meet floor". Somehow the transporter always seems to rematerialize them in a standing position.
Exactly. While we may be anxious to get 5G deployed, who is going to "race" in and do it ahead of us? Space aliens?
And that whole rationale about cost is simply ridiculous. We (I work for a cellphone provider) spend about a million bucks PER enodeB (LTE) tower. (construction or leasing, the enodeB hardware, backhaul and licensing). And they're yakking about 37 million INDUSTRY WIDE????? Gimme a break.
Pure and simple.
When I have a question about "something", whether that "something" is a casual curiosity question ("What did the Hittites contribute to civilization?") to a technical question I need for my job ("What's the advantages of protocol 'x' over protocol 'y'?), it's far easier to find a "good enough" answer from wikipedia than to filter thru pages of crap search results from the large search engines (most of which I refuse to use anyway). And if I want more detail than wp provides, there's often enough cited references to make wp into a little search engine.
If ISPs win and will no longer have a Title II Order classification - will this mean they are no longer a public utility so their easement for the cables crossing my property is no longer "en gross" so i can charge them a rent fee for private land use - right ?
Tread lightly there. With SCOTUS ruling that eminent domain can be applied for private endeavors, some weird shit could happen if you dared exercise your legal rights.
Get a card sent to a P.O. Box, pay using a prepaid card. Put the app on a cheap secondary phone which doesn't even need service. Use the theater's WiFi to confirm you're there.
That way, you can share an account (i.e. card + burner phone) among an entire family or group of neighbors and friends. Turn off the phone when not "in use" to turn off the tracking function.
That is completely independent of the total impossibility of an ISP being able to figure out how and which sites serve "porn" and exactly what constitutes "porn" and what happens when things are misfiltered.
This is actually the easy part. There's already a number of CIPA compliant solutions and services (Netsweeper, for instance) that can quite accurately filter routine traffic (http/https/streaming/etc.) -- complete with whitelisting and feedback mechanisms. An ISP could easily hang their hat on "we're using a CIPA compliant solution for filtering". Torrent/Tor/VPN/etc. traffic would be another matter, but that just highlights how poorly thought out this bill is.
For the record: I think this is an AWFUL idea -- but still it's very technically feasible for the majority of the cases.
WEA (aka CMAS) alerts are delivered to geographical areas via cell broadcast. They are NOT directed to particular handsets. If you received an alert, it's because you were within range of a tower that was instructed to broadcast that alert. Whether that cell *should* have been broadcasting that particular message is another story. It's not unheard of for a carrier to have inaccurate maps that causes such mis-broadcasts (I operate the WEA system for a carrier)
Holy Cow! You're bitching about the word "finally" in a headline??? Is it that particular adverb that offends you? Or would you be just as outraged had the chosen adverb been "quickly"?
Correct. Apple can fix this problem with a single phone call that goes something like: "Fix these working conditions or our business is going elsewhere". That's sorta a perk of being one of the world's richest companies. OTOH, not making that call maybe helped make them one of the world's richest companies/shrug
Or is it hypocrisy? Science fiction writers have long history of "borrowing" others' work. Robert Heinlein even made reference to it in Glory Road: "That's the way with writers; they'll steal anything, file off the serial numbers, and claim it for their own."
I'm not sure you'll find a lot of people agreeing that the third was the best. I will say though after having rewatched it a few times on DVD in the past few years, my initial reactions to seeing it during it's theatrical release might have been a little harsh. It has some redeeming points, but I still have a problem with just discarding two central characters developed in Aliens.
I think only Star Wars and Alien peaked in the second iteration.
All of these new Wars movies suck. I'd rather watch Jar Jar.
I generally agree although I would say that rather than Aliens peaking, it managed to maintain the high standard set by Alien - albeit in a different genre (Scifi action/adventure versus the original Scifi horror)
All MMS is IP based. MM1 (handset) communication is done via http. MM4 (intercarrier) occurs via modified smtp. VAS providers communicate via SOAP and/or XML. The only thing NOT strictly IP based in regards to MMS is the message waiting indicator that is delivered via SMS (and if your carrier has you connecting to an IMS core you're getting SMS via IP anyway).
The free market -- where it exists (primarily in wireless). If we (I work for a large cell provider) were to throttle every VPN connection, we'd lose customers in droves.
Or maybe the dean should look at the course instead of the students. Is the material relevant and useful (i.e. are the students motivated to learn it) Or are they viewing it simply as a "bullshit-requirement-or-prerequisite-that-must-be-endured"? And I won't even get into the whole mixed of message of "Welcome to Intro to Computer science. The exciting field that, among other things, promotes the ability to share information. Now please don't share information or cheat."
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Seriously.
In IT more so than any other industry I've seen, people believe google searches are an acceptable substitute for training, talent and experience. Sure, an internet search can extremely helpful in finding the missing piece to a puzzle ("what was that command line option I needed to make this work?"). But so many people base their entire work efforts around google results ("how do I do --fill in the project/task--?"). While this may work in some short-term cases, in the long run it always shows in projects that are riddled with security flaws, unscalable and impossible to maintain (just to name a few).
Yet, the IT industry still hires such people. I suppose we're lucky this is fairly unique to IT. Would you want a brain surgeon who had to pause an operation while he checked something in google? Or a paramedic who had to search for CPR instructions? Or an airline pilot who had to dig thru pages of search results on emergency landing procedures?
I suggest you bone up on who actually brought up the subject of entangling alliances https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Instead of making buying decisions from info on websites (Amazon, Newegg,etc.) trying to sell you the product, why not try some other sources like hardware review sites?
Bonus Tip: The two budget priced laptops listed on Amazon.com? Performance sucks on both.
I'm happy that you're willing and able to pay $26k/year for housecleaning ($500/week * 52) . ., . but I can safely say you don't represent the typical American household. I might even risk saying the typical American family isn't even paying $26k/year for the house PAYMENTS (especially not for 2000 square feet)
But Facebook doesn't just track the idiots, it tracks everybody those idiots interract with whether they are a Facebook user or not. That is exactly what the government needs to crack down on and crack down hard.
So true. Actual incident that happened about a year ago: I was sitting at home on a Sunday afternoon. I get a call on my work cellphone -- I keep a separate personal cellphone and never mix the two: never work stuff on the personal and vice versa. The call is from somebody at work from a completely different department who I never have dealt with before. Ordinary phone call - we talk a few minutes and I resolve an issue he was having. The strange thing is, the very next day that same person popped up as a friend suggestion on my personal cellphone with FB app installed.
It was disturbing to me how FB made that connection to me from just a phone call. Looking back now, I can speculate that he added me as a contact on his phone before/during dialing and his FB app harvested that. From there I guess it was simple (I have an unusual surname) to link that phone call to an otherwise unrelated FB account.
Now you may be thinking "Yeah, well that's what you get for having a FB account" - but I would counter that whatever I do on the personal side is fair game, but I never gave any consent to allow FB to bridge my personal and professional business.
Of course not! We all know Al Gore invented the internet!
Or a more practical question: why doesn't anybody fall on their ass when rematerializing? I mean, if you're transported while sitting in a chair, there's nothing to hold you up while rematerializing therefore "ass meet floor". Somehow the transporter always seems to rematerialize them in a standing position.
Exactly. While we may be anxious to get 5G deployed, who is going to "race" in and do it ahead of us? Space aliens?
And that whole rationale about cost is simply ridiculous. We (I work for a cellphone provider) spend about a million bucks PER enodeB (LTE) tower. (construction or leasing, the enodeB hardware, backhaul and licensing). And they're yakking about 37 million INDUSTRY WIDE????? Gimme a break.
I bet if I was paid more I would know who or what Dunning Kruger is - should I find out before of after I ask for a raise in the morning?
Pure and simple. When I have a question about "something", whether that "something" is a casual curiosity question ("What did the Hittites contribute to civilization?") to a technical question I need for my job ("What's the advantages of protocol 'x' over protocol 'y'?), it's far easier to find a "good enough" answer from wikipedia than to filter thru pages of crap search results from the large search engines (most of which I refuse to use anyway). And if I want more detail than wp provides, there's often enough cited references to make wp into a little search engine.
If ISPs win and will no longer have a Title II Order classification - will this mean they are no longer a public utility so their easement for the cables crossing my property is no longer "en gross" so i can charge them a rent fee for private land use - right ?
Tread lightly there. With SCOTUS ruling that eminent domain can be applied for private endeavors, some weird shit could happen if you dared exercise your legal rights.
Get a card sent to a P.O. Box, pay using a prepaid card. Put the app on a cheap secondary phone which doesn't even need service. Use the theater's WiFi to confirm you're there.
That way, you can share an account (i.e. card + burner phone) among an entire family or group of neighbors and friends. Turn off the phone when not "in use" to turn off the tracking function.
Suck on that, Mitchie-boy.
Fuck that! I'll just spend my money elsewhere.
That is completely independent of the total impossibility of an ISP being able to figure out how and which sites serve "porn" and exactly what constitutes "porn" and what happens when things are misfiltered.
This is actually the easy part. There's already a number of CIPA compliant solutions and services (Netsweeper, for instance) that can quite accurately filter routine traffic (http/https/streaming/etc.) -- complete with whitelisting and feedback mechanisms. An ISP could easily hang their hat on "we're using a CIPA compliant solution for filtering". Torrent/Tor/VPN/etc. traffic would be another matter, but that just highlights how poorly thought out this bill is.
For the record: I think this is an AWFUL idea -- but still it's very technically feasible for the majority of the cases.
WEA (aka CMAS) alerts are delivered to geographical areas via cell broadcast. They are NOT directed to particular handsets. If you received an alert, it's because you were within range of a tower that was instructed to broadcast that alert. Whether that cell *should* have been broadcasting that particular message is another story. It's not unheard of for a carrier to have inaccurate maps that causes such mis-broadcasts (I operate the WEA system for a carrier)
Holy Cow! You're bitching about the word "finally" in a headline??? Is it that particular adverb that offends you? Or would you be just as outraged had the chosen adverb been "quickly"?
Correct. Apple can fix this problem with a single phone call that goes something like: "Fix these working conditions or our business is going elsewhere". That's sorta a perk of being one of the world's richest companies. OTOH, not making that call maybe helped make them one of the world's richest companies /shrug
Or is it hypocrisy? Science fiction writers have long history of "borrowing" others' work. Robert Heinlein even made reference to it in Glory Road: "That's the way with writers; they'll steal anything, file off the serial numbers, and claim it for their own."
I'm not sure you'll find a lot of people agreeing that the third was the best. I will say though after having rewatched it a few times on DVD in the past few years, my initial reactions to seeing it during it's theatrical release might have been a little harsh. It has some redeeming points, but I still have a problem with just discarding two central characters developed in Aliens.
I think only Star Wars and Alien peaked in the second iteration.
All of these new Wars movies suck. I'd rather watch Jar Jar.
I generally agree although I would say that rather than Aliens peaking, it managed to maintain the high standard set by Alien - albeit in a different genre (Scifi action/adventure versus the original Scifi horror)
All MMS is IP based. MM1 (handset) communication is done via http. MM4 (intercarrier) occurs via modified smtp. VAS providers communicate via SOAP and/or XML. The only thing NOT strictly IP based in regards to MMS is the message waiting indicator that is delivered via SMS (and if your carrier has you connecting to an IMS core you're getting SMS via IP anyway).
The free market -- where it exists (primarily in wireless). If we (I work for a large cell provider) were to throttle every VPN connection, we'd lose customers in droves.
If they can throttle popular destinations like NetFlix, or protocols like BitTorrent, why wouldn't throttling a VPN be practical?
It's practical, but not desirable. Throttling a VPN is an all-or-nothing proposition - you throttle all traffic on that flow or none of it.
I don't know if I would mod this as Insightful or Funny . . . if I had any mod points /shrug
You have three choices when developing your product. Cheap, fast and/or secure. You get to pick two of those.
Or maybe the dean should look at the course instead of the students. Is the material relevant and useful (i.e. are the students motivated to learn it) Or are they viewing it simply as a "bullshit-requirement-or-prerequisite-that-must-be-endured"? And I won't even get into the whole mixed of message of "Welcome to Intro to Computer science. The exciting field that, among other things, promotes the ability to share information. Now please don't share information or cheat."