He probably could have tried legal measures to implement reform if it was actually more important to him than being famous
Really? What legal measures could he have tried while remaining in the US? He would have been arrested faster than SSD read times, and never heard from again for "national security" reasons. The government's first response was to label him a traitor - they don't let you have much freedom as a traitor, in case you didn't know. I doubt any legal measures he could have tried before being arrested as a traitor would even have been reported on by the press, again for national security reasons.
Whether you think his revelations were right or wrong, I think you'd have to agree he couldn't have truly revealed anything successfully by staying in the US.
I guess the policy in the USA for anything that is security related is "Kill the messenger". In other-words, the whistle blower, while legally standing a chance, doesn't have a chance in Hell to survive his job. Whistle blowing in the US government is a career suicide, if such a career exists.
By the way the expression " faster than SSD read times" could be replaced with " faster than an I/O interrupt".
Perhaps what is needed is an app in the cellphone and an app in the car, so that if the user was sitting in the car with the car motor running or the car transmission not in park, the cellphone would cease to function.
Changing part without changing part number is something which the engineer shouldn't have done. Sure, management wouldn't let him make the change and that is bad. However, by making a change without following the basic accepted procedures meant that sleuth work needed to be done to even identify that a change had been made. The engineer clearly did something wrong. That in no way reduces the responsibility of management for their decisions and the consequences of those decisions.
That said, naming names of an engineer is a really bad precedent. What is the goal GM is trying to achieve here. Do they want people to go break the guy's windows? Burn down his house? Call him in the middle of the night or deliver pizza? Apart from potentially removing the guy's livelihood for the remainder of his life because no-one wants to hire 'that guy' ever again, and a lot of abuse being targeted his way, what will this achieve?
If he did something criminal, then he should be charged. If he did something extremely incompetent then maybe membership of the engineering body should be revoked, but it isn't the place of GM to throw their engineers to the wolves.
OK, so the part number was not changed. But the date of the change is known, and cars manufactured one week after that date or with the arrival of the first batch of new parts is known. It is therefore not the total of all the cars manufactured. And yes, some replacement parts sales will also have to be checked. I suppose that they can test if it is the new or old switch, just by testing manually. If the switch turns off with trivial pressure, its the old part.
If the engineer did the change when the company refused to do it, bless the man for saving lives.
Wile the AC made this into a joke it really is the best advice if you do this badly.
Rather than be the person who is going to be perceived as the one who pushes Linux into your workspace I would recommend getting in a consultant from a reputable firm and get written recommendations on "how" or even "why not to". If this is done properly then everyone looks good. A Professional Consultant could come up with relevant recommendations in less then a week (assuming a small organization of say less than 100) contrary to what some would say.
Another thing don't be the person who is going to be stuck supporting a Linux environment unless you really have had experience, one or more support personal and get paid accordingly.
In a small ma and pa shop (as described), consultancy fees may be a serious expense. I would do things as follows: post a bulletinboard notice asking for two volunteers to try Linux in place of XP for one week. At the end, they should provide a verbal feedback. Recommend or Abort the project. If they like it, convert the other users and have them assist in the training. Choose a woman and a man for the Mint trial.
...if you like your 7.1 million sign-ups, you can keep your 7.1 million sign-ups.
I think that if there was a strict audit, that you would find numbers closer to the truth, around 9 million. Some opponents are embarassed to report that "affordable care" is a success.
Too bad you don't have what we do in Canada. Single payer.
My friends wife has just had $100k of medical treatment (ruptured bowl, split intenstines, Cerebrial Circulation problems. She had surgery, had machine forced breathing, a trachia tube for feeding, and more. It is now about 1 month in hospital, and she can sit, can write on a tablet, and will be outpatient within the next three weeks. No extra costs for drugs). What would 2 months of intensive care cost in the USA?
My friend pays $16.00/day for parking and about $10.00 for his meals while he stays at her bedside. Socialism has it's place in a country.
You can only hear up to like 20k Herz. But there are so called overtones, multiples of the base frequency. In this case 40k, 60k, 80k 100k etc. No human is able to hear 40k and above frequencies, but we all can hear if a 20k frequency is combined with an 40k overtone, or an 100k overtone even. Modern lossy compression algorithms cut off these overtones (as the overtone itself is unhearable)... nevertheless we can hear if it is 'there' or not.
Completely false. Often repeated. But completely, utterly false.
The human ear can only make out an amplitude rise equivalent to a ~20k Hz sine wave (lower as you age). No amount of "overtones," monster cables, or megahertz sampling will change the ability of the hairs inside the ear to move/accelerate only so fast. The ear is mechanically band limited.
I believe that you are wrong. The harmonics of two frequencies, say at 18khz and18.1kh will at some point have a difference that is well within the audio range. The point you may want to make perhaps, is that the beat frequencies at the 5th or 6th harmonic, while being in the audible range, are two feeble to be heard and noticed. I bet that with a digital filtering system, the beat frequencies will have a woofer speaker putting out a very nice audible sound.
I mean seriously. There is no down side to going from not hearing to hearing except for having to listen to contemporary "music".
I agree with your comment and agree entirely with you, if it comes to a music, we need to get away from the electronic repetition digital sounds and bring back true musicians that can play an instrument. We need a revival of good wind, string, or real drum music, not the digital perfect pitch of the preprogrammed noise machines.
Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ?
That sounds preposterous to me.
If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.
Microsoft just spent billions of dollars and many years to create Windows 8, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up and moved to Intel and Microsoft.
Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible.
I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.
Microsoft stole (cloned) the best parts of OS2. IBM was there, as was Zerox, before MS. Linux started as a clone of a Unix derivative. Please do not heap praise on MS. Their past is not without stealing ideas.
The fruit of knowledge. There was a reason the bible described things as it did. Knowledge isn't just the anti-christ, it's the anti-god.
000 Churches, Synaagogues, Mosques, Templsw, and other reigious mass meeting places serve two purposes. a) social gathering and b) worship. The Internet transfers the first to the web. Now, whats left is worship, and cynically, financial dues for building and clergy. The dues rise as memberships drop. It does not take much thinking to come to the same conclusion as did MIT research.
AFAIK, Fedora 20 has a very good firewall offering, and it is presented as a dynamic software, meaning that you can make changes to network protections, etc., on the fly.
So you're that guy who races up to red lights and then has to slam on the brakes.
Here's what happens. You and I are stopped at a light with you in front of me. There's another light 20 seconds away at 35 mph or 10 seconds way at 70mph. The first light turns green and the second is due to turn green in 20 seconds. You arrive at the second light in 10 seconds and have to come to a complete stop. I arrive in 20 seconds the moment the second light turns green but I have to stop because of you. Everyone behind me also has to stop because of you. Your actions caused us all to decelerate and accelerate unnecessarily.
Actually, I wouldn't stop. I'd slow down giving you enough room to accelerate so to minimize my change in speed, but most people wouldn't apply that forethought.
The concept of aliasing is not applicable to the timing of traffic lights for a number of reasons. First, you're going the wrong way, a more reasonable answer would be 17.5 mph also works for lights timed for 35mph, but that's not true either. The timing is a phase variance, not a change in frequency. There's pretty much nothing you can do to beat the system of lights timed for a given speed other than drive that speed. That's a pretty optimal solution anyway.
--- We had an interesting situtation at a local traffic jam. It was on a through street in a residential community. Two police officers worked together. They determined the number of cars that could get through on a light, and one of then walked back in the queue. He had them shut off the motors until the queue in front was clear, then he let in a another packet of vehicles. It worked out well. Polution was down, but there was some discomfort in that the A/C in the car had some catch-up to do.
I for one used this service to share files between my Ubuntu desktops, it worked seamlessly. It is especially useful for development files (programs and scripts) that I share between my different workplaces.
If anyone has a replacement suggestion that integrates well with the Ubuntu desktop, I would be glad to hear from it.
I have made the open offer before that anyone who thinks waterboarding isn't torture is welcome to explain to me why that is, as long as they can do it while being waterboarded until I am satisfied with what they are saying is the truth.
water boarding is a beautiful torture. It leaves no physical bruises. Allows the perpertrators to be in denial and get away with it. It only has consequences if the victim drowns or dies of a heart attack. Blue bodies from interrogators are signs of oxygen deprivation.
Why should they be on a network at all? My refrigerator does just fine with a basic thermostat, electrical fusing, a device to pour water into a mold, dump it in a bin when frozen, then stop dumping it when the bin fills up, a switch to turn on the light when the door opens and a fan so it runs without the need to be defrosted. The additional gewgaws don't help with core operation.
Same with a stove or a microwave. For safety's sake, it should only be able to be turned on by someone who is physically present.
Sometimes, there is just no real point in adding a device to the IoT, and the fewer devices that have networks, the fewer attack vectors an attacker will have to operate with.
This doesn't mean that isolated networks are bad... for example a vehicle needs the CANBus. However, if one doesn't need to have that functionality in a toaster, why built it in?
If we have to have a network or bus for statuses, why not a read-only bus, essentially like a serial port with the return line cut so the device can send status messages out, but not have them go back. The basic concept of a data diode. This way, one can tell if their fridge is over temperature, but a blackhat can't log on and turn the fridge off and spoil someone's steak stash.
There are appliances that I would absolutely like to have under internet access. Here are a few and my justifications. a) I am a working stiff: In the AM, I put a roast in the oven, I set the turn on time for 20 minutes / lb (50 min/kilo) and I leave for work. Suddenly I have to work late. I want to delay the cooking of the roast. b) I have a setback thermostat in the house. I would like the heat/air-conditioner to turn on to normal temp 1.5 hrs before I plan to arrive. I am coming home late, and want the system to start 1.5 hrs later. c) I have a keypad access to the garage. I have a repair man coming for the washer/dryer. When he arrives, I want to see who she/he is, and then change the keypad code once to allow him in. d) Usually turn on the sprinklers early am, but I know it is going to rain tomorrow. I want the system to skip a watering and therefore I use my cell to tell the sprinkler system to skip the day. Ditto if the gardener is coming to work in the yard or on the flower beds.
Probably you noticed that most of the access is not to control temperature, but to control when a device that is preset to a temperature or action, that it may start or be stopped. And of course, access security. If I have a security system that alarms to me about someone in the house, I want to see if it is my mother-in-law visiting, or a stranger. And I want an event message sent to me if someone goes into the master bedroom.
Looking back, you can actually see a timeline of their PR bullshit.
1. "Here, the new Metro! It's shiny and cool, and you'll be so much more productive!" 2. "The new Metro is great! Really, it is! If for some odd reason you don't instantly fall in love with it, it only means that you haven't tried it!" 3. "Metro is good! And the only people who don't like it yet are those that didn't give it a chance and try it for a while." 4. "Metro is really useful, trust us! You just need to give it a try and use it for a while and get used to it. Honestly, once you're used to it you'll wonder how you could live without it." 5. "Ok, for the time being you can switch back to old style, but you'll see that you'll do it less and less frequently and you'll eventually embrace Metro, most applications will only be useful in Metro anyway!" 6. "Well, it seems that at least for now we have to allow using "old style" for more apps, because there are still those luddites that can't accept change. But you WILL find Metro useful at some point in the future, maybe the time isn't right yet!" 7. "Ok, ok... the world is not ready yet for Metro it seems."
Still waiting for the "Ok, ok... we admit, we tried to fix something that wasn't broken and realized that looking for a problem with a solution nobody wants is the wrong way 'round."
=== This is a bail the boat guys, The desktop and laptop manufacturers want to put android on their devices and via dual boot, give the user the option of Android/Linux or Windows. We've got to plug the hole in the boat. Keep on bailing guys, while we negotiate with the hardware guys.
Part of the problem here is "downing their tools" which is an idiom that is not used in American english. While I was able to take a guess at what it meant it is confusing and awkward to those who are not familiar with the idiom.
=== where I live, downing the tools is also accompanied with "Walking off the job", or "a mini grievance strike",
>>> COULD move from price and quality to 'who has the best patent lawyer'?
>> What COULD? How about we accept the reality it's already happened?
> It's only happened to a small extent - if patent trolls are protected you can write off the USA as a source for innovation, period.
Sorry, I must disagree. It has not happened to a small extent. It's pervasive throughout all of the US legal system, when combined with bullying by rich corporations. Actually, some victims would rather pay for dubious patents than risk losing lots of money in a legal victory.
It's not just some magical powers that make China advance so fast; entrepreneurs are freer to try new things. Everybody says China only copies the West -- and surely it happens, sometimes very faithfully even -- but they're also experimenting with several innovations in design alone. They have still a lot of things to learn about customer satisfaction, but they succeeded in having a faster innovation cycle.
OTOH, the USA is becoming more and more trapped in legal bureaucracy. And it's not unintentional.
I download Russian Software and the reason is, that they embellish the USA software with add-ons, add-ons that in the USA might or probably be under a USA patent. Russia does not allow patents on software. Algorithms are not patentable is their rule. And yes, their software is in English or Russian.
In my youth, if you could not focus, you were given a desk at the back of the class. That was done so that you would not disturb the rest of the class.
In 2008 and thereafter, better methods of detecting and working with autism has evolved. Now in our Montreal public schools, we practice "No child left behind".
My daughter specializes in breaking through the autistic child's barriers and personality problems, and getting the child to learn, and even do homework. That child, hopefully, after highschool, may have enough self discipline to attend college or university.
But it is expensive, as my daughter, a teacher to autistic children is a 1 on 1 dedicated resource. Hopefully, that investment will mean that society will not have to support the child, when he/she reaches adulthood/maturity.
Parents of the autistic children are most grateful for what the school board is doing and funding. My daughter also teaches parents how to re-enforce the child's social skills and learning. The hard part is the initial task of getting the child to be responsive and having him/her out of her own cloud.
What I do in my bedroom has no bearing on how I treat my secretary. If I can keep my private life private, and not have it spill over to public, then what am I guilty of?
Given the above example I say, "the new Mozilla leader has a right to a past, and from a nomination committee, was found to be the best candidate. He is there because he was the best of the very fine group of candidates. I say he stays as CEO
If you keep the minimum wage at 7.25, then a couple without kids, both of whom are on minimum wage, can barely get by. $15.50 for two, with medical insurance, taxes, food, lodging, car expense have no net net money, and thus, can't buy the goods or services they need. Too low a minimum wage kills the economy. They also cannot put anything away for retirement.
In Quebec, and most Canadian provinces, we have the minimum wage at 11.25, allowing a couple to bring in at least $20/hr. At 800/week, they can afford to live quite reasonably, but not luxuriously, and even put a few pennies away for retirement. They would even have money to cover a dental bill, or some other needs, besides clothing.
It is not correct for a person (a discount store, or restaurent worker) to have to beg money to get help for a dental bill, or to repair a car that has not been in an accident. Why, the price of Gasoline per gallon is almost at the minimum wage in NY for waiter and waitress workers.
May cause sparks when they hit a rock. I haven't noticed many rocks on the greens of golf courses, but I'm not a golfer. Also, if a shower of sparks came off your club and started a conflagration wouldn't you notice?
One could suppose that after a ball got hit into the rough, that in trying to play honestly, the player used the club alone to clear the ball to the green, and in that process of a few missed swings, those tiny embers of titanium started the golf fires.
So, now the rule must be, do not play golf when there is a drought.
* Netflix pays for their bandwidth * Customers pay for their bandwidth
And yet, AT&T wants more money because they think they have the right to charge Netflix more to pass through their tollbooth.
People aren't paying for "Internet except for Netflix" and Netflix isn't paying their bandwidth costs for "Internet except for consumers."
AT&T, and other providers, should have no right to put up walls. If there are issues of peering, those should be working out at the peering level, and not at the application/service or individual business level.
The news about Apple being willing to pay for AppleTV to have a "special line" to consumers is particularly worrisome and strikes the core of the problems with anti-net neutrality positions: they create unfair markets with barriers to competition. Netflix may complain, but they can (and do! with Comcast) pay if they have to. Apple can afford to pay the gatekeepers as well.
But some new startup (Aereo, for example) or small business? They can't and won't be able to pay those gatekeeper tolls to reach consumers. And they'll be prevented from competing or disrupting.
Big business will thrive in an anti-net neutrality world. Honestly, it might even help Netflix in the long run as barriers to any competing service will be high. But it's anticompetitive and small businesses and startups alike will be prevented from innovating, and maybe even be driven out of the market by an inability to pay these tolls.
Are we going to need to build a second internet? We have highways and backroads, so why not have an alternative internet. Let the big boys get off the one we have and go to their own for that kind of traffic between major cities.
I think Sparkfun is out either way from what I understand. They're planning on giving the Fluke ones away...
Sparkfun is out only because they CHOOSE to give stuff away. Don't cry for them, they're being made whole by the generosity of a large evil corporation, or at least that was the opinion most people had of Fluke yesterday. It's Fluke who is out either way. Either Fluke becomes this evil company that is simply trying to keep its trademark and a few people stop buying from them, or they hand out $30k and the same people who would buy from them anyway keep buying from them.
And Fluke is out for support, too. Those people who get free Fluke meters from Sparcfun aren't going to call Sparcfun when they need help with the meter. They're going to call Fluke because Fluke's name is on them.
I think that's a pretty sweet deal for Sparcfun. They violated a trademark and they're not suffering one bit from it. The company whose trademark they infringed is the one losing money.
Because Sparkfun gives away the meters, they will get the repairs for them, and will earn some money that way. Think of the situation this way Sparkfun ordered a quantity of meters, and Fluke jumped up to supply them. Sparkfun paid for them and now the Flukes are the ones they planned to ship / give away. Its a win-win. And why is every company evil? I do not understand the logic that automatically looks for the worst in an organization, imaginary or real.
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He probably could have tried legal measures to implement reform if it was actually more important to him than being famous
Really? What legal measures could he have tried while remaining in the US? He would have been arrested faster than SSD read times, and never heard from again for "national security" reasons. The government's first response was to label him a traitor - they don't let you have much freedom as a traitor, in case you didn't know. I doubt any legal measures he could have tried before being arrested as a traitor would even have been reported on by the press, again for national security reasons.
Whether you think his revelations were right or wrong, I think you'd have to agree he couldn't have truly revealed anything successfully by staying in the US.
I guess the policy in the USA for anything that is security related is "Kill the messenger". In other-words, the whistle blower, while legally standing a chance, doesn't have a chance in Hell to survive his job. Whistle blowing in the US government is a career suicide, if such a career exists.
By the way the expression " faster than SSD read times" could be replaced with " faster than an I/O interrupt".
I'm hungry. Lets eat grandma!
I'm hungry. Lets eat, grandma!
How about
the cat, the rat, ate. the cat, the rat ate,
but that would be too much to ask.
Perhaps what is needed is an app in the cellphone and an app in the car, so that if the user was sitting in the car with the car motor running or the car transmission not in park, the cellphone would cease to function.
Changing part without changing part number is something which the engineer shouldn't have done. Sure, management wouldn't let him make the change and that is bad. However, by making a change without following the basic accepted procedures meant that sleuth work needed to be done to even identify that a change had been made. The engineer clearly did something wrong. That in no way reduces the responsibility of management for their decisions and the consequences of those decisions.
That said, naming names of an engineer is a really bad precedent. What is the goal GM is trying to achieve here. Do they want people to go break the guy's windows? Burn down his house? Call him in the middle of the night or deliver pizza? Apart from potentially removing the guy's livelihood for the remainder of his life because no-one wants to hire 'that guy' ever again, and a lot of abuse being targeted his way, what will this achieve?
If he did something criminal, then he should be charged. If he did something extremely incompetent then maybe membership of the engineering body should be revoked, but it isn't the place of GM to throw their engineers to the wolves.
OK, so the part number was not changed. But the date of the change is known, and cars manufactured one week after that date or with the arrival of the first batch of new parts is known. It is therefore not the total of all the cars manufactured. And yes, some replacement parts sales will also have to be checked.
I suppose that they can test if it is the new or old switch, just by testing manually. If the switch turns off with trivial pressure, its the old part.
If the engineer did the change when the company refused to do it, bless the man for saving lives.
Then run like hell!
Wile the AC made this into a joke it really is the best advice if you do this badly.
Rather than be the person who is going to be perceived as the one who pushes Linux into your workspace I would recommend getting in a consultant from a reputable firm and get written recommendations on "how" or even "why not to". If this is done properly then everyone looks good. A Professional Consultant could come up with relevant recommendations in less then a week (assuming a small organization of say less than 100) contrary to what some would say.
Another thing don't be the person who is going to be stuck supporting a Linux environment unless you really have had experience, one or more support personal and get paid accordingly.
In a small ma and pa shop (as described), consultancy fees may be a serious expense. I would do things as follows:
post a bulletinboard notice asking for two volunteers to try Linux in place of XP for one week. At the end, they should provide a verbal feedback. Recommend or Abort the project. If they like it, convert the other users and have them assist in the training. Choose a woman and a man for the Mint trial.
...if you like your 7.1 million sign-ups, you can keep your 7.1 million sign-ups.
I think that if there was a strict audit, that you would find numbers closer to the truth, around 9 million. Some opponents are embarassed to report that "affordable care" is a success.
Too bad you don't have what we do in Canada. Single payer.
My friends wife has just had $100k of medical treatment (ruptured bowl, split intenstines, Cerebrial Circulation problems. She had surgery, had machine forced breathing, a trachia tube for feeding, and more. It is now about 1 month in hospital, and she can sit, can write on a tablet, and will be outpatient within the next three weeks. No extra costs for drugs). What would 2 months of intensive care cost in the USA?
My friend pays $16.00/day for parking and about $10.00 for his meals while he stays at her bedside. Socialism has it's place in a country.
You can only hear up to like 20k Herz. ... nevertheless we can hear if it is 'there' or not.
But there are so called overtones, multiples of the base frequency. In this case 40k, 60k, 80k 100k etc.
No human is able to hear 40k and above frequencies, but we all can hear if a 20k frequency is combined with an 40k overtone, or an 100k overtone even. Modern lossy compression algorithms cut off these overtones (as the overtone itself is unhearable)
Completely false. Often repeated. But completely, utterly false.
The human ear can only make out an amplitude rise equivalent to a ~20k Hz sine wave (lower as you age). No amount of "overtones," monster cables, or megahertz sampling will change the ability of the hairs inside the ear to move/accelerate only so fast. The ear is mechanically band limited.
I believe that you are wrong. The harmonics of two frequencies, say at 18khz and18.1kh will at some point have a difference that is well within the audio range. The point you may want to make perhaps, is that the beat frequencies at the 5th or 6th harmonic, while being in the audible range, are two feeble to be heard and noticed. I bet that with a digital filtering system, the beat frequencies will have a woofer speaker putting out a very nice audible sound.
I mean seriously. There is no down side to going from not hearing to hearing except for having to listen to contemporary "music".
I agree with your comment and agree entirely with you, if it comes to a music, we need to get away from the electronic repetition digital sounds and bring back true musicians that can play an instrument. We need a revival of good wind, string, or real drum music, not the digital perfect pitch of the preprogrammed noise machines.
Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ?
That sounds preposterous to me.
If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.
Microsoft just spent billions of dollars and many years to create Windows 8, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up and moved to Intel and Microsoft.
Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible.
I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.
Microsoft stole (cloned) the best parts of OS2. IBM was there, as was Zerox, before MS. Linux started as a clone of a Unix derivative. Please do not heap praise on MS. Their past is not without stealing ideas.
The fruit of knowledge. There was a reason the bible described things as it did. Knowledge isn't just the anti-christ, it's the anti-god.
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Churches, Synaagogues, Mosques, Templsw, and other reigious mass meeting places serve two purposes. a) social gathering and b) worship.
The Internet transfers the first to the web. Now, whats left is worship, and cynically, financial dues for building and clergy. The dues rise as memberships drop. It does not take much thinking to come to the same conclusion as did MIT research.
AFAIK, Fedora 20 has a very good firewall offering, and it is presented as a dynamic software, meaning that you can make changes to network protections, etc., on the fly.
Indeed. :)
And I worry about 100W @ 5V, that's 20 A!
Sounds a bit troublesome through these small connectors.
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I think that it is possible as the power will be supplied on 180degree pairs of wires.
So you're that guy who races up to red lights and then has to slam on the brakes.
Here's what happens. You and I are stopped at a light with you in front of me. There's another light 20 seconds away at 35 mph or 10 seconds way at 70mph. The first light turns green and the second is due to turn green in 20 seconds. You arrive at the second light in 10 seconds and have to come to a complete stop. I arrive in 20 seconds the moment the second light turns green but I have to stop because of you. Everyone behind me also has to stop because of you. Your actions caused us all to decelerate and accelerate unnecessarily.
Actually, I wouldn't stop. I'd slow down giving you enough room to accelerate so to minimize my change in speed, but most people wouldn't apply that forethought.
The concept of aliasing is not applicable to the timing of traffic lights for a number of reasons. First, you're going the wrong way, a more reasonable answer would be 17.5 mph also works for lights timed for 35mph, but that's not true either. The timing is a phase variance, not a change in frequency. There's pretty much nothing you can do to beat the system of lights timed for a given speed other than drive that speed. That's a pretty optimal solution anyway.
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We had an interesting situtation at a local traffic jam. It was on a through street in a residential community.
Two police officers worked together. They determined the number of cars that could get through on a light, and one of then walked back in the queue. He had them shut off the motors until the queue in front was clear, then he let in a another packet of vehicles. It worked out well. Polution was down, but there was some discomfort in that the A/C in the car had some catch-up to do.
I for one used this service to share files between my Ubuntu desktops, it worked seamlessly. It is especially useful for development files (programs and scripts) that I share between my different workplaces.
If anyone has a replacement suggestion that integrates well with the Ubuntu desktop, I would be glad to hear from it.
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Dropbox or Spider Oaks.
I have made the open offer before that anyone who thinks waterboarding isn't torture is welcome to explain to me why that is, as long as they can do it while being waterboarded until I am satisfied with what they are saying is the truth.
water boarding is a beautiful torture. It leaves no physical bruises. Allows the perpertrators to be in denial and get away with it.
It only has consequences if the victim drowns or dies of a heart attack. Blue bodies from interrogators are signs of oxygen deprivation.
Why should they be on a network at all? My refrigerator does just fine with a basic thermostat, electrical fusing, a device to pour water into a mold, dump it in a bin when frozen, then stop dumping it when the bin fills up, a switch to turn on the light when the door opens and a fan so it runs without the need to be defrosted. The additional gewgaws don't help with core operation.
Same with a stove or a microwave. For safety's sake, it should only be able to be turned on by someone who is physically present.
Sometimes, there is just no real point in adding a device to the IoT, and the fewer devices that have networks, the fewer attack vectors an attacker will have to operate with.
This doesn't mean that isolated networks are bad... for example a vehicle needs the CANBus. However, if one doesn't need to have that functionality in a toaster, why built it in?
If we have to have a network or bus for statuses, why not a read-only bus, essentially like a serial port with the return line cut so the device can send status messages out, but not have them go back. The basic concept of a data diode. This way, one can tell if their fridge is over temperature, but a blackhat can't log on and turn the fridge off and spoil someone's steak stash.
There are appliances that I would absolutely like to have under internet access. Here are a few and my justifications.
a) I am a working stiff: In the AM, I put a roast in the oven, I set the turn on time for 20 minutes / lb (50 min/kilo) and I leave for work. Suddenly I have to work late. I want to delay the cooking of the roast.
b) I have a setback thermostat in the house. I would like the heat/air-conditioner to turn on to normal temp 1.5 hrs before I plan to arrive. I am coming home late, and want the system to start 1.5 hrs later.
c) I have a keypad access to the garage. I have a repair man coming for the washer/dryer. When he arrives, I want to see who she/he is, and then change the keypad code once to allow him in.
d) Usually turn on the sprinklers early am, but I know it is going to rain tomorrow. I want the system to skip a watering and therefore I use my cell to tell the sprinkler system to skip the day. Ditto if the gardener is coming to work in the yard or on the flower beds.
Probably you noticed that most of the access is not to control temperature, but to control when a device that is preset to a temperature or action, that it may start or be stopped. And of course, access security. If I have a security system that alarms to me about someone in the house, I want to see if it is my mother-in-law visiting, or a stranger. And I want an event message sent to me if someone goes into the master bedroom.
Looking back, you can actually see a timeline of their PR bullshit.
1. "Here, the new Metro! It's shiny and cool, and you'll be so much more productive!"
2. "The new Metro is great! Really, it is! If for some odd reason you don't instantly fall in love with it, it only means that you haven't tried it!"
3. "Metro is good! And the only people who don't like it yet are those that didn't give it a chance and try it for a while."
4. "Metro is really useful, trust us! You just need to give it a try and use it for a while and get used to it. Honestly, once you're used to it you'll wonder how you could live without it."
5. "Ok, for the time being you can switch back to old style, but you'll see that you'll do it less and less frequently and you'll eventually embrace Metro, most applications will only be useful in Metro anyway!"
6. "Well, it seems that at least for now we have to allow using "old style" for more apps, because there are still those luddites that can't accept change. But you WILL find Metro useful at some point in the future, maybe the time isn't right yet!"
7. "Ok, ok... the world is not ready yet for Metro it seems."
Still waiting for the "Ok, ok... we admit, we tried to fix something that wasn't broken and realized that looking for a problem with a solution nobody wants is the wrong way 'round."
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This is a bail the boat guys, The desktop and laptop manufacturers want to put android on their devices and via dual boot, give the user the option of Android/Linux or Windows. We've got to plug the hole in the boat. Keep on bailing guys, while we negotiate with the hardware guys.
Part of the problem here is "downing their tools" which is an idiom that is not used in American english. While I was able to take a guess at what it meant it is confusing and awkward to those who are not familiar with the idiom.
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where I live, downing the tools is also accompanied with "Walking off the job", or "a mini grievance strike",
>>> COULD move from price and quality to 'who has the best patent lawyer'?
>> What COULD? How about we accept the reality it's already happened?
> It's only happened to a small extent - if patent trolls are protected you can write off the USA as a source for innovation, period.
Sorry, I must disagree. It has not happened to a small extent. It's pervasive throughout all of the US legal system, when combined with bullying by rich corporations. Actually, some victims would rather pay for dubious patents than risk losing lots of money in a legal victory.
It's not just some magical powers that make China advance so fast; entrepreneurs are freer to try new things. Everybody says China only copies the West -- and surely it happens, sometimes very faithfully even -- but they're also experimenting with several innovations in design alone. They have still a lot of things to learn about customer satisfaction, but they succeeded in having a faster innovation cycle.
OTOH, the USA is becoming more and more trapped in legal bureaucracy. And it's not unintentional.
I download Russian Software and the reason is, that they embellish the USA software with add-ons, add-ons that in the USA might or probably be under a USA patent. Russia does not allow patents on software. Algorithms are not patentable is their rule. And yes, their software is in English or Russian.
In my youth, if you could not focus, you were given a desk at the back of the class. That was done so that you would not disturb the rest of the class.
In 2008 and thereafter, better methods of detecting and working with autism has evolved. Now in our Montreal public schools, we practice "No child left behind".
My daughter specializes in breaking through the autistic child's barriers and personality problems, and getting the child to learn, and even do homework. That child, hopefully, after highschool, may have enough self discipline to attend college or university.
But it is expensive, as my daughter, a teacher to autistic children is a 1 on 1 dedicated resource. Hopefully, that investment will mean that society will not have to support the child, when he/she reaches adulthood/maturity.
Parents of the autistic children are most grateful for what the school board is doing and funding. My daughter also teaches parents how to re-enforce the child's social skills and learning. The hard part is the initial task of getting the child to be responsive and having him/her out of her own cloud.
What I do in my bedroom has no bearing on how I treat my secretary. If I can keep my private life private, and not have it spill over to public, then what am I guilty of?
Given the above example I say, "the new Mozilla leader has a right to a past, and from a nomination committee, was found to be the best candidate. He is there because he was the best of the very fine group of candidates. I say he stays as CEO
Judge him for what he will do as CEO
If you keep the minimum wage at 7.25, then a couple without kids, both of whom are on minimum wage, can barely get by. $15.50 for two, with medical insurance, taxes, food, lodging, car expense have no net net money, and thus, can't buy the goods or services they need.
Too low a minimum wage kills the economy. They also cannot put anything away for retirement.
In Quebec, and most Canadian provinces, we have the minimum wage at 11.25, allowing a couple to bring in at least $20/hr. At 800/week, they can afford to live quite reasonably, but not luxuriously, and even put a few pennies away for retirement.
They would even have money to cover a dental bill, or some other needs, besides clothing.
It is not correct for a person (a discount store, or restaurent worker) to have to beg money to get help for a dental bill, or to repair a car that has not been in an accident. Why, the price of Gasoline per gallon is almost at the minimum wage in NY for waiter and waitress workers.
May cause sparks when they hit a rock. I haven't noticed many rocks on the greens of golf courses, but I'm not a golfer. Also, if a shower of sparks came off your club and started a conflagration wouldn't you notice?
One could suppose that after a ball got hit into the rough, that in trying to play honestly, the player used the club alone to clear the ball to the green, and in that process of a few missed swings, those tiny embers of titanium started the golf fires.
So, now the rule must be, do not play golf when there is a drought.
Put another way:
* Netflix pays for their bandwidth
* Customers pay for their bandwidth
And yet, AT&T wants more money because they think they have the right to charge Netflix more to pass through their tollbooth.
People aren't paying for "Internet except for Netflix" and Netflix isn't paying their bandwidth costs for "Internet except for consumers."
AT&T, and other providers, should have no right to put up walls. If there are issues of peering, those should be working out at the peering level, and not at the application/service or individual business level.
The news about Apple being willing to pay for AppleTV to have a "special line" to consumers is particularly worrisome and strikes the core of the problems with anti-net neutrality positions: they create unfair markets with barriers to competition. Netflix may complain, but they can (and do! with Comcast) pay if they have to. Apple can afford to pay the gatekeepers as well.
But some new startup (Aereo, for example) or small business? They can't and won't be able to pay those gatekeeper tolls to reach consumers. And they'll be prevented from competing or disrupting.
Big business will thrive in an anti-net neutrality world. Honestly, it might even help Netflix in the long run as barriers to any competing service will be high. But it's anticompetitive and small businesses and startups alike will be prevented from innovating, and maybe even be driven out of the market by an inability to pay these tolls.
Are we going to need to build a second internet? We have highways and backroads, so why not have an alternative internet. Let the big boys get off the one we have and go to their own for that kind of traffic between major cities.
I think Sparkfun is out either way from what I understand. They're planning on giving the Fluke ones away...
Sparkfun is out only because they CHOOSE to give stuff away. Don't cry for them, they're being made whole by the generosity of a large evil corporation, or at least that was the opinion most people had of Fluke yesterday. It's Fluke who is out either way. Either Fluke becomes this evil company that is simply trying to keep its trademark and a few people stop buying from them, or they hand out $30k and the same people who would buy from them anyway keep buying from them.
And Fluke is out for support, too. Those people who get free Fluke meters from Sparcfun aren't going to call Sparcfun when they need help with the meter. They're going to call Fluke because Fluke's name is on them.
I think that's a pretty sweet deal for Sparcfun. They violated a trademark and they're not suffering one bit from it. The company whose trademark they infringed is the one losing money.
Because Sparkfun gives away the meters, they will get the repairs for them, and will earn some money that way. Think of the situation this way
Sparkfun ordered a quantity of meters, and Fluke jumped up to supply them. Sparkfun paid for them and now the Flukes are the ones they planned to ship / give away. Its a win-win. And why is every company evil? I do not understand the logic that automatically looks for the worst in an organization, imaginary or real.