Don't throw your disposable tech workers in the trash. Recycle!
I am 73, and I just completed a contract. I recycled myself, by teaching myself Linux internals, by writing some sophisticated code, by doing some object oriented training and design. I did not ever take a liking to java, but I do like C++ and python. And APL. I am also a specialist in logistics, supply chain, warehousing, manufacturing (mrp,mps), service, from the sales quote to invoicing, and finance support as well as writing some sophisticated ERP code.
And I am faster than new kids on the block, because I have my experience behind me and my knowledge about where to not make mistakes. I am, probably less costly than the H1B kids they hired to avoid giving we old guys a break.
there is probably a more nuanced discussion to be had about affirmative action
but having been in the hiring seat, I can tell you that almost every single applicant is white and male, and very few of those are actually qualified
so unless Jackson thinks HP should hire unqualified people just because they are black or latino, he should probably focus his efforts earlier in the pipeline
Jesse is not asking for companies to hire unqualified people. He is asking to not discriminate. Baseball, Football, and all sports stopped having barriers in the 50's. Sales, finance and other than software engineering hire talent, irrespective of color. Why not silicon valley?
50 years ago it used to be a hot-bed of science and technological innovation. Now it is a magnet for designer coffee-swigging social cloud blog web 2.0 get rich quick smartphone app hipsters.
Look for real companies designing and building real products for proper customers. Silicon Valley's day is gone.
Can you give us a hint as to where we would look for those real companies? "Outside of Silicon Valley" covers a lot of ground - where specifically are those real companies designing real products located?
Probably in China is where you will find them. Why there? You've got the brains and skills, but your salary, benefits and whatever perks are too high. Ergo, higher the geniouses in China, India, Malaysia, etc. They have all had 8 years as English as a second school language. Hate to be critical, but how many Americans can say they can live and work in a second language?
It's all related to the most profitable configuration for the company.
The problem is, "profitable" usually actually means "what will get me (high-level exec) the most profit in the least time?" Often followed by "before I bail the ship I just helped sink."
Shore that up with bean-counter metrics, projections that fail to properly account for costs (especially intangible ones) and you can easily justify "saving" money by preferring the inexperienced. The only reason why anything has any quality anymore is that advanced manufacturing techniques and materials allows relatively incompetent and de-motivated employees to turn out items that exceed what was possible 50 years ago when low price and cheap junk were more obviously related. Software, however, isn't something that benefits much from microprocessor-controlled fabrication equipment, which is why cheap software is still cheap junk.
The old-time model of a corporation was based on the idea of a more or less permanent core population of differing levels of skill and experience. Since the 1980s the model has changed to the conceit that everyone is an interchangeable cog purchased at commodity prices, used up, and then discarded at will. Except senior management (who are obviously unique, indispensable and irreplaceable, thus mandating extreme compensation).
Juniors and newbees to programming will delight in 16 hour days and short delivery schedules. That product that they produce will be as good as any Monday morning product. Full of potential, but also costly to maintain. Bug fixes in the field cost lots of $$$$. The senior, works his day, perhaps after supper another two hours, but those two hours are for quality control. Who has the cleanest bugfree code? Any answers to give?
Did Fluke actually request this? Or did Customs do this of their own volition?
If it's the latter, Fluke should step up and allow them to make a one time exception for this shipment. It would generate considerably goodwill for the company and show that they're not bullies keeping the little guy down.
If they DID request this, then fuck them all with a chainsaw, seriously.
Fluke is a brand I used in the past. It was and still is a quality product type of brand. What was the quality of the offending Shipment? Fluke could say that for a buck a device, they would let it pass. And an agreement to respect colors.
If this were true I wouldn't even have a brain left.
I bet there are so many caveats here that the truth of this is almost certain to be lost in the noise. People differ so much, I tend to take it with a very large dose of salt when someone tells me such and such consequences are inevitable. People smoke their entire lives, no cancer. Others, bang, almost right away. Some people have immense physical stamina. Some enjoy the night. Some like the day. Some think kids are the most wonderful thing in the world, others think they're the purest form of annoyance. Some people live for sex, others don't care.
And then there's the stats angle... Headline: "your chances are TWICE the nomal fella if you (fill in the blank)", when it turns out that the chances for the normal fella are one in ten thousand, and yours are now a whopping 1 in 5000. Yawn.
Nah, not buying it. Think I'll skip sleeping tonight and play with my radios.:) 80 meters is open all night, and it's pretty quiet (in the atmospheric noise sense) now!
You know what probably REALLY gives you brain damage? Superstition.
=== How would you know if the all nighter is BS? After all, you may be thinking that because your brain was modified (ie, damaged in a particular way).
Refreshing there is some common sense creeping into this global warming/climate change/the new name when the current one looses its umph. Naturally the pro-we-ignore-the-earths-climate-has-changed-over-millions-of-years crowd cry foul. I cannot ever recall a group of scientists like these folks be so opposed and go to the lengths they do to squelch any and all dissenting views. That is not science but fanaticism.
=== There is perhaps a situation that is arising because of polution in the atmosphere, and it is due to climate change. The last few years have shown weather change extremes. Super hot weather in the USA's midwest, with draught, and heavy winds. In Canada, we are also experiencing warmer summers, but not to a point of being severe, but our winters are getting more extreme, with more than historical levels snow and colder than average day, and longer winter seasons. We can presume that the climate change is making extreme, the two seasons and the transitions between.
Certainly I'd be more worried about their intentions to sink the US dollar by selling all their reserves held in that currency. A lot cheaper than firing several ICMBs, and much more effective...Regarding the economic warfront, I don't see any tactical advantages for the US here. Imagine the Russians selling all their US dollars, China following them, and bringing the value of a dollar bill cheaper than paper toilet...
The US dollar is not held by most countries, because of the high debt. The USA itself is responsible for the dollar's decline in value and popularity. Who wants to hold a dollar from such a highly indebted country?
I am told that China takes the US currency and buys US companies and land. Land is the forever investment. Businesses and governments come and go.
Exactly, but only because you had the drive to study and complete your assignments based on understanding, rather than rote memorization. It's easy enough to recognize a pattern in the answers that a professor is looking for and answer as expected without really understanding *why* you're expected to answer that way. Getting through a university with something more valuable than a piece of paper is work.
On the other hand, if you haven't learned hard work and writing before university, then you're less likely to succeed during it. Or, you could be a self-driven student that would learn the material even if they weren't directed by a university curriculum.
In my classes, there were many "late bloomers". These were young adults from poor families who left high school for the workforce, saved their pennies to return to university full time. They were obliged to do the first year as a evening university student, taking two winter courses, one summer courses, for 6 credits, and when completed, they could transfer to continue full time. For the full-time student, some of his courses had to be attended in the evening, meaning that the quality of instruction was the same in the evening as what could be obtained during the day. I had to admire these individuals, and what they did for all of us was to instil in us, that desire to achieve.
Is that missing today? Sadly, my view is that with two working parents, that burning desire is now, a tepid flame. Parents are too tired to apply parental pressure on the student to be in the top ten.
In my university classes, I knew more than one student that weaseled their way through classes without really understanding the material, so I know that those people are out there. A college/university education isn't a panacea; the student has to do work on their own to end up with any level of competency at graduation time.
In my case, I saw two benefits to a college education. First, it showed me what was important to study in my time. Second, it provided me the pass to get past the HR gatekeeper-goons at most employers. A degree is no replacement for having the drive to learn.
Want a degree from our Quebec Canada universities? It's easy! You just have to learn to work, stay focused, study to understand your subjects, learn to analyse, learn to write and spell and learn to do appropriate math. If your memory is superb, perhaps, on a slim chance, you could write your exams (sorry, no multiple choice questions). That's what I had to do, and what did it give me? A indepth knowledge of my profession, a scolarship to grad school, and a b+ average.
What a fantastic product. Lets see how I would use it. I have a flight to take, and I need to get there on time. Vehicle parking, waiting for the parking lot bus, etc, make for long pre-trips. Ergo, I let my wife drop me off, I take my "briefcase" with me, and I am on my way. I arrive at my destination, I wait for the baggage and take my "briefcase". Instead of renting a car, I convert it to a scooter. I am on my way. No fuss, no hassle, just on my way. I complete my meeting, (perhaps even charging the battery (if battery powered) at the same time, and I head back to the airport. When I arrive, I convert it again to a scooter, and drive to where my wife and car are located.
How many trips to take before I recover the $6k purchase?
I don't have much love for the US government, but I don't trust US corporations not at all. And there are a lot of foreign governments I don't trust to act in the best interests of the Internet. I am not sure how to feel about this.
There are many international organizations that work well. IATA, and also other global transportation agencies for land and sea.
The internet agency could be made part of IATA, or use IATA as a model for a global ownership of ICANNES
It is a bit more expensive, but take would be the way I would go. There are cartridge tapes that can run as fast as the hard disk transfers can take place.
Many tape backup systems rely on a base backup, and then on incremental backups. Each incremental backup was the one based on the base backup. Once a month we would create a new base backup. (It was a business application, with daily changes).
I made sticky lables to indicate the backup date and generation number. These labels went onto the tape cartridge's plastic case.
In a very large shop, tape backupsrun from a feeder machine, with major automation and cataloging to allow reasonable file recovery time.
Tapes are checked a day before reuse, to insure no lost oxide or fading. That function was part of the tape backup system. Weekly tapes were duplicated and moved off-site.
Some cables are legitimately expensive because they are expensive to make. Some cables are expensive because they are a niche product and there is only one vendor and then some cables are stupidly expensive simply to prey on idiots.
These cables undoutablly will not be cheap but they may well be cheaper than terminating and patching all those fibers seperately for those few niches that really need that much bandwidth between the same pair of devices.
Your comments remind me of the $40.00 six foot HDMI cables from that big box store. I went to the dollar store and bought equivalents for, you guessed it, two bucks. Have as yet (2 years) not had a problem with them.
And the new scam of the year is LEDs.
Before it became "wrong" to purchase incandescents, the LED lamps were priced 1/3 lower. I paid $7 per bulb, and now the price varies between $14 and $37. LED lamps may pose a fire hazard, not because of low wattage at the LEDS, but because the dropdown from 120 to 10 volts is done in the base, which gets very very hot, in fact, too hot to touch. Where is the danger? You need a porcelain socket, if the lamp is enclosed, but the existing light fixtures that we commmonly use are made with cheap bakelite sockets. Before, the heat was in the bulb, and the socket remained cool, now the bulb is cool but the socket is hot.
Could this result in cryopreservation becoming mainstream and generating massively increased lifespans for people who are wealthy enough to afford it? Would you trust a for-profit corporation to not pull the plug on you in 30 or 40 years when the new board of directors takes over?
Not to mention that this greedy corporation has an unfair market advantage: they've already developed the necessary defrosting technology to re-animate all those wealthy frozen clients,. The government really should look into the activities of this "Steam" business.
Is there a diff between cryotech and crytech as organizations?
There are some major differences in the water. Animals can move towards water, including many naturally occurring locations. Plants grow where they are planted, and they are dependent on nature giving them water.
Now the real issue is about how we farm. These farms in the dessert, because the weather stays warmer all year, comes at a cost of heavy water usage. Farms up in the north east are smaller, however they take advantage of many of the natural resources around them, ponds, adequate rainfall. At the expense of a shorter growing season.
If you think that California has water problems, what about the country of Israel. They turned desert into arable land. They have very substantially less water than does California. However, they don't spray over the fields, they irrigate. By each plant they have a drip nozzle. The plant gets the water, and not the surrounding soil. Do your internet search Californians, look at how water is conserved, and then take action.
If you feel that vegetable growers should be free to spray water willy-nilly, then be prepared to pay double for your vegetables, fruits, and cereals. Humans, reduce your reliance on beef. Eating more fowl and fish and carbohydrates will prolong your life along with good quality.
So if I'm recording my girlfriend at the beach and some topless 5 year old girl wanders through the frame or happens to be in the background and her mom gets a bug up her ass about it... I'm charged with a felony? No thanks. If you don't want to chance it ending up on film, don't make it visible in public.
Take the picture on a nude beach in the south of France.
It's only been a year or so since Mat Honan got all his Amazon, Google, and Apple data wiped because someone was able to trick their way into his accounts. Apple got castigated over that, and implemented a lot of extra security to try to prevent that sort of thing from happening again. Well, guess what? You can't have it both ways. One way or the other, there will be problematic edge cases - and this sort of thing is one of them.
=== This is different when you provide a death certificate, a will, a notarized or legally (court recognized document). Probably best to call a kid or hacker who can bypass the security that Apple thinks is unbreakable, as that will cost less money than all the fees for the other documents.
If there are no personal pictures on the cell, my recommendation is to just trash it.
Call yourself a statistician or database engineer and I promise there are still jobs around. And contrary to the summary, they are highly valuable jobs.
Is a data scientist really a pseudonym for SEO analyst? (SEO = Search Every Option or Search Engine Organization or that other one, ending in Optimisation)
I'm gonna be negatively commented out, but I disagree with that law. It has become too damn easy to create "felon" out of non-violent crime. Heck, you can become a felon over sheer copyright infringement, or because you were in the wrong place when you were 15 and got caught smoking marijuana... As a result, your constitutional right to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness is made void, without any chance to redeem yourself.
Then try to become an immigrant to another country. There are many where the quality of life is equal or better.
Sigh! I like my Subway sandwich. A very good proportion of vegetable fill and with just some mustard. Meat is not the main ingredient, the filling and wrap is.
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Don't throw your disposable tech workers in the trash. Recycle!
I am 73, and I just completed a contract. I recycled myself, by teaching myself Linux internals, by writing some sophisticated code, by doing some object oriented training and design. I did not ever take a liking to java, but I do like C++ and python. And APL. I am also a specialist in logistics, supply chain, warehousing, manufacturing (mrp,mps), service, from the sales quote to invoicing, and finance support as well as writing some sophisticated ERP code.
And I am faster than new kids on the block, because I have my experience behind me and my knowledge about where to not make mistakes. I am, probably less costly than the H1B kids they hired to avoid giving we old guys a break.
there is probably a more nuanced discussion to be had about affirmative action
but having been in the hiring seat, I can tell you that almost every single
applicant is white and male, and very few of those are actually qualified
so unless Jackson thinks HP should hire unqualified people just because
they are black or latino, he should probably focus his efforts earlier
in the pipeline
Jesse is not asking for companies to hire unqualified people. He is asking to not discriminate.
Baseball, Football, and all sports stopped having barriers in the 50's. Sales, finance and other than software engineering hire talent, irrespective of color. Why not silicon valley?
Ignore Silicon Valley.
50 years ago it used to be a hot-bed of science and technological innovation. Now it is a magnet for designer coffee-swigging social cloud blog web 2.0 get rich quick smartphone app hipsters.
Look for real companies designing and building real products for proper customers. Silicon Valley's day is gone.
Can you give us a hint as to where we would look for those real companies? "Outside of Silicon Valley" covers a lot of ground - where specifically are those real companies designing real products located?
Probably in China is where you will find them. Why there? You've got the brains and skills, but your salary, benefits and whatever perks are too high. Ergo, higher the geniouses in China, India, Malaysia, etc. They have all had 8 years as English as a second school language. Hate to be critical, but how many Americans can say they can live and work in a second language?
It's all related to the most profitable configuration for the company.
The problem is, "profitable" usually actually means "what will get me (high-level exec) the most profit in the least time?" Often followed by "before I bail the ship I just helped sink."
Shore that up with bean-counter metrics, projections that fail to properly account for costs (especially intangible ones) and you can easily justify "saving" money by preferring the inexperienced. The only reason why anything has any quality anymore is that advanced manufacturing techniques and materials allows relatively incompetent and de-motivated employees to turn out items that exceed what was possible 50 years ago when low price and cheap junk were more obviously related. Software, however, isn't something that benefits much from microprocessor-controlled fabrication equipment, which is why cheap software is still cheap junk.
The old-time model of a corporation was based on the idea of a more or less permanent core population of differing levels of skill and experience. Since the 1980s the model has changed to the conceit that everyone is an interchangeable cog purchased at commodity prices, used up, and then discarded at will. Except senior management (who are obviously unique, indispensable and irreplaceable, thus mandating extreme compensation).
Juniors and newbees to programming will delight in 16 hour days and short delivery schedules. That product that they produce will be as good as any Monday morning product. Full of potential, but also costly to maintain. Bug fixes in the field cost lots of $$$$.
The senior, works his day, perhaps after supper another two hours, but those two hours are for quality control. Who has the cleanest bugfree code? Any answers to give?
Did Fluke actually request this? Or did Customs do this of their own volition?
If it's the latter, Fluke should step up and allow them to make a one time exception for this shipment. It would generate considerably goodwill for the company and show that they're not bullies keeping the little guy down.
If they DID request this, then fuck them all with a chainsaw, seriously.
Fluke is a brand I used in the past. It was and still is a quality product type of brand. What was the quality of the offending Shipment? Fluke could say that for a buck a device, they would let it pass. And an agreement to respect colors.
Yeah, also: oh, bullshit.
If this were true I wouldn't even have a brain left.
I bet there are so many caveats here that the truth of this is almost certain to be lost in the noise. People differ so much, I tend to take it with a very large dose of salt when someone tells me such and such consequences are inevitable. People smoke their entire lives, no cancer. Others, bang, almost right away. Some people have immense physical stamina. Some enjoy the night. Some like the day. Some think kids are the most wonderful thing in the world, others think they're the purest form of annoyance. Some people live for sex, others don't care.
And then there's the stats angle... Headline: "your chances are TWICE the nomal fella if you (fill in the blank)", when it turns out that the chances for the normal fella are one in ten thousand, and yours are now a whopping 1 in 5000. Yawn.
Nah, not buying it. Think I'll skip sleeping tonight and play with my radios. :) 80 meters is open all night, and it's pretty quiet (in the atmospheric noise sense) now!
You know what probably REALLY gives you brain damage? Superstition.
===
How would you know if the all nighter is BS? After all, you may be thinking that because your brain was modified (ie, damaged in a particular way).
Is this a blatent example of "Kill the messenger!"?
Refreshing there is some common sense creeping into this global warming/climate change/the new name when the current one looses its umph. Naturally the pro-we-ignore-the-earths-climate-has-changed-over-millions-of-years crowd cry foul. I cannot ever recall a group of scientists like these folks be so opposed and go to the lengths they do to squelch any and all dissenting views. That is not science but fanaticism.
===
There is perhaps a situation that is arising because of polution in the atmosphere, and it is due to climate change.
The last few years have shown weather change extremes. Super hot weather in the USA's midwest, with draught, and heavy winds. In Canada, we are also experiencing warmer summers, but not to a point of being severe, but our winters are getting more extreme, with more than historical levels snow and colder than average day, and longer winter seasons. We can presume that the climate change is making extreme, the two seasons and the transitions between.
Certainly I'd be more worried about their intentions to sink the US dollar by selling all their reserves held in that currency. A lot cheaper than firing several ICMBs, and much more effective...Regarding the economic warfront, I don't see any tactical advantages for the US here. Imagine the Russians selling all their US dollars, China following them, and bringing the value of a dollar bill cheaper than paper toilet...
The US dollar is not held by most countries, because of the high debt. The USA itself is responsible for the dollar's decline in value and popularity. Who wants to hold a dollar from such a highly indebted country?
I am told that China takes the US currency and buys US companies and land. Land is the forever investment. Businesses and governments come and go.
Exactly, but only because you had the drive to study and complete your assignments based on understanding, rather than rote memorization. It's easy enough to recognize a pattern in the answers that a professor is looking for and answer as expected without really understanding *why* you're expected to answer that way. Getting through a university with something more valuable than a piece of paper is work.
On the other hand, if you haven't learned hard work and writing before university, then you're less likely to succeed during it. Or, you could be a self-driven student that would learn the material even if they weren't directed by a university curriculum.
In my classes, there were many "late bloomers". These were young adults from poor families who left high school for the workforce, saved their pennies to return to university full time. They were obliged to do the first year as a evening university student, taking two winter courses, one summer courses, for 6 credits, and when completed, they could transfer to continue full time.
For the full-time student, some of his courses had to be attended in the evening, meaning that the quality of instruction was the same in the evening as what could be obtained during the day. I had to admire these individuals, and what they did for all of us was to instil in us, that desire to achieve.
Is that missing today? Sadly, my view is that with two working parents, that burning desire is now, a tepid flame. Parents are too tired to apply parental pressure on the student to be in the top ten.
Translation, They have a website.
Yes, in the same sense that Amazon "has a website", except that Alibaba is far bigger than Amazon.
And offers much better deals.
In my university classes, I knew more than one student that weaseled their way through classes without really understanding the material, so I know that those people are out there. A college/university education isn't a panacea; the student has to do work on their own to end up with any level of competency at graduation time.
In my case, I saw two benefits to a college education. First, it showed me what was important to study in my time. Second, it provided me the pass to get past the HR gatekeeper-goons at most employers. A degree is no replacement for having the drive to learn.
Want a degree from our Quebec Canada universities? It's easy! You just have to learn to work, stay focused, study to understand your subjects, learn to analyse, learn to write and spell and learn to do appropriate math. If your memory is superb, perhaps, on a slim chance, you could write your exams (sorry, no multiple choice questions). That's what I had to do, and what did it give me? A indepth knowledge of my profession, a scolarship to grad school, and a b+ average.
What a fantastic product. Lets see how I would use it.
I have a flight to take, and I need to get there on time. Vehicle parking, waiting for the parking lot bus, etc, make for long pre-trips.
Ergo, I let my wife drop me off, I take my "briefcase" with me, and I am on my way.
I arrive at my destination, I wait for the baggage and take my "briefcase".
Instead of renting a car, I convert it to a scooter. I am on my way. No fuss, no hassle, just on my way.
I complete my meeting, (perhaps even charging the battery (if battery powered) at the same time, and I head back to the airport.
When I arrive, I convert it again to a scooter, and drive to where my wife and car are located.
How many trips to take before I recover the $6k purchase?
I don't have much love for the US government, but I don't trust US corporations not at all. And there are a lot of foreign governments I don't trust to act in the best interests of the Internet. I am not sure how to feel about this.
There are many international organizations that work well. IATA, and also other global transportation agencies for land and sea.
The internet agency could be made part of IATA, or use IATA as a model for a global ownership of ICANNES
It is a bit more expensive, but take would be the way I would go. There are cartridge tapes that can run as fast as the hard disk transfers can take place.
Many tape backup systems rely on a base backup, and then on incremental backups. Each incremental backup was the one based on the base backup. Once a month we would create a new base backup. (It was a business application, with daily changes).
I made sticky lables to indicate the backup date and generation number. These labels went onto the tape cartridge's plastic case.
In a very large shop, tape backupsrun from a feeder machine, with major automation and cataloging to allow reasonable file recovery time.
Tapes are checked a day before reuse, to insure no lost oxide or fading. That function was part of the tape backup system.
Weekly tapes were duplicated and moved off-site.
All it takes is gelt and time.
Some cables are legitimately expensive because they are expensive to make. Some cables are expensive because they are a niche product and there is only one vendor and then some cables are stupidly expensive simply to prey on idiots.
These cables undoutablly will not be cheap but they may well be cheaper than terminating and patching all those fibers seperately for those few niches that really need that much bandwidth between the same pair of devices.
Your comments remind me of the $40.00 six foot HDMI cables from that big box store. I went to the dollar store and bought equivalents for, you guessed it, two bucks. Have as yet (2 years) not had a problem with them.
And the new scam of the year is LEDs.
Before it became "wrong" to purchase incandescents, the LED lamps were priced 1/3 lower. I paid $7 per bulb, and now the price varies between $14 and $37. LED lamps may pose a fire hazard, not because of low wattage at the LEDS, but because the dropdown from 120 to 10 volts is done in the base, which gets very very hot, in fact, too hot to touch. Where is the danger? You need a porcelain socket, if the lamp is enclosed, but the existing light fixtures that we commmonly use are made with cheap bakelite sockets. Before, the heat was in the bulb, and the socket remained cool, now the bulb is cool but the socket is hot.
Could this result in cryopreservation becoming mainstream and generating massively increased lifespans for people who are wealthy enough to afford it? Would you trust a for-profit corporation to not pull the plug on you in 30 or 40 years when the new board of directors takes over?
Not to mention that this greedy corporation has an unfair market advantage: they've already developed the necessary defrosting technology to re-animate all those wealthy frozen clients,. The government really should look into the activities of this "Steam" business.
Is there a diff between cryotech and crytech as organizations?
There are some major differences in the water.
Animals can move towards water, including many naturally occurring locations. Plants grow where they are planted, and they are dependent on nature giving them water.
Now the real issue is about how we farm. These farms in the dessert, because the weather stays warmer all year, comes at a cost of heavy water usage.
Farms up in the north east are smaller, however they take advantage of many of the natural resources around them, ponds, adequate rainfall. At the expense of a shorter growing season.
Read my comments lower down in the listings.
If you think that California has water problems, what about the country of Israel. They turned desert into arable land. They have very substantially less water than does California. However, they don't spray over the fields, they irrigate. By each plant they have a drip nozzle. The plant gets the water, and not the surrounding soil. Do your internet search Californians, look at how water is conserved, and then take action.
If you feel that vegetable growers should be free to spray water willy-nilly, then be prepared to pay double for your vegetables, fruits, and cereals.
Humans, reduce your reliance on beef. Eating more fowl and fish and carbohydrates will prolong your life along with good quality.
So if I'm recording my girlfriend at the beach and some topless 5 year old girl wanders through the frame or happens to be in the background and her mom gets a bug up her ass about it... I'm charged with a felony? No thanks. If you don't want to chance it ending up on film, don't make it visible in public.
Take the picture on a nude beach in the south of France.
Apple probably used Apple Maps to locate the tax office.
Is acceptable legally, through loopholes in the law the same as morally acceptable?
If I was Australia, I know what I would do.
It's only been a year or so since Mat Honan got all his Amazon, Google, and Apple data wiped because someone was able to trick their way into his accounts. Apple got castigated over that, and implemented a lot of extra security to try to prevent that sort of thing from happening again. Well, guess what? You can't have it both ways. One way or the other, there will be problematic edge cases - and this sort of thing is one of them.
===
This is different when you provide a death certificate, a will, a notarized or legally (court recognized document). Probably best to call a kid or hacker who can bypass the security that Apple thinks is unbreakable, as that will cost less money than all the fees for the other documents.
If there are no personal pictures on the cell, my recommendation is to just trash it.
Call yourself a statistician or database engineer and I promise there are still jobs around. And contrary to the summary, they are highly valuable jobs.
Is a data scientist really a pseudonym for SEO analyst? (SEO = Search Every Option or Search Engine Organization or that other one, ending in Optimisation)
I'm gonna be negatively commented out, but I disagree with that law. It has become too damn easy to create "felon" out of non-violent crime. Heck, you can become a felon over sheer copyright infringement, or because you were in the wrong place when you were 15 and got caught smoking marijuana... As a result, your constitutional right to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness is made void, without any chance to redeem yourself.
Then try to become an immigrant to another country. There are many where the quality of life is equal or better.
Sigh! I like my Subway sandwich. A very good proportion of vegetable fill and with just some mustard. Meat is not the main ingredient, the filling and wrap is.