I totally agree. It was obvious the media loved Obama and was hard to find anyone who reported on him objectively. This is why, IMHO political Blogs an be a good thing such as your work about the credit card donation fraud. I would highly suggest you create your Blog and put your data of what you found out there!
I'm thinking he's looking for total cost to support the salary you have. This means more than just how many hours you actually do work. This includes how much time is saved if you prevent an outage, be it email, file server, web server and so on. Think of it this way if you have an e-commerce site that provides revenue to the company, how much money is being lost if it goes down? then compare it to your salary and how long it would take for you to fix it.
I will be happy if we just bring our troops home. And Obama has a more enlightened and strategic approach to international diplomacy than Bush; not to mention that his skin color is closer to the worldwide average, which will make him a better diplomat for entirely superficial reasons as well.
Maybe he does have an 'enlightened' approach, I don't know yet. My greatest fear is he will just lay down and let the US be a doormat as was the policy from previous offices.
I sure hope you guys are right about him, if he isn't there will be trouble.
To see what things are like for the US a year from now, when everyone comes back to reality and realizes Obama was just another man and couldn't, realistically, make the changes he hinted at, after all the expectations are way to high for him. Either way he will be the most watch president and will have to walk such a fine line.
Yes there are similarities to the Panic of 1907 also, I'll give you that. But it doesn't negate that the same similarities existed for the Great Depression.
Probably the biggest challenge to the next president is that the current economic situation is unprecedented in that there's no real comparison to past economic times. The media describes things in therms like "..not since 1929.." or "..like in the 1970's.." but in reality nothing like this has ever happened. Economics is such a complex beast. Your best bet in making predictions or comparisons is the past. Economists like to start sentences with "Traditionally, blah blah" well there is no "traditionally" with what is happening today.
In fact the cause of the Stock market Crash in 1929 was almost the exactly same cause as today, the banks at that time were against being regulated and Government had a staunch "leze faire" stance. During the 1920's banks gave loans/mortgages out to people who were credit risks. Exactly like what happened today. In 1929, to save the banks the Government had to come in and bail them out.
Now ever since then the Government has slowly deregulated them and now we suddenly find ourselves repeating history. One benefit is that the Government took much longer back then to help the financial institutes, taking years as compared to weeks today.
Q2: THEN WHAT THE FUCK DID WE DO TO PISS THEM OFF SO MUCH THEY FELT COMPELLED TO FLY PLANES INTO FOUR MAJOR BUILDINGS?I don't think we're making it any better.
Nothing, they just want to get back at someone and they chose the US since it is a big wealthy country.
Whoever goes into office will be faced with the same challenges and most likely the same solutions, all-be-it in a slightly different way. There will have a deficit for awhile and it will grow in the next year, no way around it. With a bad economy and high unemployment rate and banking problems, the only way the government will be able to prevent a depression is to pump money into the economy, creating jobs and fixing problems. Fascinatingly the same thing happened with banking sector back in October of 1929.
See Here
There's always building more Greenhouse farms to cool the lower atmosphere. Or we could research this further to come up with alternative way of cooling locally.
I see your point. After re-reading the article and skimming the papers they cited, you are very much correct, the papers do not fully support there claims as they should. If I could I'd mod you up.
Did you look at the originating article Here? Looks like they are backing up what they are saying. I'm not to fond or familiar with an 'open-access article' as I think it could lead to distorting the facts, but I'll be open minded, for now.
I believe also that the Turing test may not be enough, humans can always be fooled. As you said a computer with large enough database could hold it's own for a little while.
Maybe if a computer could learn and then modify an object without human input, based on general commands and then clearly communicate what it has done to a human being would give a better indication of intelligence?
On the other hand, the lefties are so excited to finally have another candidate that can appear both intelligent AND human, after Kerry and Gore, they can't see/hear/read enough about Obama.
Well that's not the only part, but yes it is apart of science. The other part is empirical data, collect enough data from observation and that should tell you the answer as well.
Anyone in IT knows this, with out needing a study to be done. Next time ask the guys who have had more than 3 years experience in any IT related field!
Not that we found him, more the fact we, as security professionals see the worst of people, at most that's the only reason we have jobs. We don't focus on the best of what people are doing and so often miss it totally.
True, but this is a State agency, we can't block traffic to other agencies, just keep an eye open, as much as possible. In State Government we are damned if we do and damned if we don't. We have tried to enforce the statewide security policy, but without luck. The agency ISO's, I believe, do not have the ball's to enforce it.
I had one of the misfortunes to assist the DJJ to stop a guy who was contacting underage kids using IM. Sadly we did find him and the guy committed suicide a week later!! So yes I completely understand what your saying.
In the photograph it shows the coils parallel to each other, if it can be perpendicular the larger coil could be placed under a rug or flooring or possibly in the wall, and thus hiding it.
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I totally agree. It was obvious the media loved Obama and was hard to find anyone who reported on him objectively. This is why, IMHO political Blogs an be a good thing such as your work about the credit card donation fraud. I would highly suggest you create your Blog and put your data of what you found out there!
I'm thinking he's looking for total cost to support the salary you have. This means more than just how many hours you actually do work. This includes how much time is saved if you prevent an outage, be it email, file server, web server and so on. Think of it this way if you have an e-commerce site that provides revenue to the company, how much money is being lost if it goes down? then compare it to your salary and how long it would take for you to fix it.
I will be happy if we just bring our troops home. And Obama has a more enlightened and strategic approach to international diplomacy than Bush; not to mention that his skin color is closer to the worldwide average, which will make him a better diplomat for entirely superficial reasons as well.
Maybe he does have an 'enlightened' approach, I don't know yet. My greatest fear is he will just lay down and let the US be a doormat as was the policy from previous offices. I sure hope you guys are right about him, if he isn't there will be trouble.
To see what things are like for the US a year from now, when everyone comes back to reality and realizes Obama was just another man and couldn't, realistically, make the changes he hinted at, after all the expectations are way to high for him. Either way he will be the most watch president and will have to walk such a fine line.
Yes there are similarities to the Panic of 1907 also, I'll give you that. But it doesn't negate that the same similarities existed for the Great Depression.
Probably the biggest challenge to the next president is that the current economic situation is unprecedented in that there's no real comparison to past economic times. The media describes things in therms like "..not since 1929.." or "..like in the 1970's.." but in reality nothing like this has ever happened. Economics is such a complex beast. Your best bet in making predictions or comparisons is the past. Economists like to start sentences with "Traditionally, blah blah" well there is no "traditionally" with what is happening today.
In fact the cause of the Stock market Crash in 1929 was almost the exactly same cause as today, the banks at that time were against being regulated and Government had a staunch "leze faire" stance. During the 1920's banks gave loans/mortgages out to people who were credit risks. Exactly like what happened today. In 1929, to save the banks the Government had to come in and bail them out. Now ever since then the Government has slowly deregulated them and now we suddenly find ourselves repeating history. One benefit is that the Government took much longer back then to help the financial institutes, taking years as compared to weeks today.
Q2: THEN WHAT THE FUCK DID WE DO TO PISS THEM OFF SO MUCH THEY FELT COMPELLED TO FLY PLANES INTO FOUR MAJOR BUILDINGS?I don't think we're making it any better.
Nothing, they just want to get back at someone and they chose the US since it is a big wealthy country.
Whoever goes into office will be faced with the same challenges and most likely the same solutions, all-be-it in a slightly different way. There will have a deficit for awhile and it will grow in the next year, no way around it. With a bad economy and high unemployment rate and banking problems, the only way the government will be able to prevent a depression is to pump money into the economy, creating jobs and fixing problems. Fascinatingly the same thing happened with banking sector back in October of 1929. See Here
There's also the fact that more CO2 in the water makes it more acidic, killing off coral and fish and stuff like that.
There's always building more Greenhouse farms to cool the lower atmosphere. Or we could research this further to come up with alternative way of cooling locally.
I see your point. After re-reading the article and skimming the papers they cited, you are very much correct, the papers do not fully support there claims as they should. If I could I'd mod you up.
Did you look at the originating article Here? Looks like they are backing up what they are saying. I'm not to fond or familiar with an 'open-access article' as I think it could lead to distorting the facts, but I'll be open minded, for now.
So the last guy you gave contribution to didn't make it either, huh?
Sure we have money! We can print as much as we like!
I believe also that the Turing test may not be enough, humans can always be fooled. As you said a computer with large enough database could hold it's own for a little while. Maybe if a computer could learn and then modify an object without human input, based on general commands and then clearly communicate what it has done to a human being would give a better indication of intelligence?
On the other hand, the lefties are so excited to finally have another candidate that can appear both intelligent AND human, after Kerry and Gore, they can't see/hear/read enough about Obama.
Appearances aren't everything.
You the MAN Elon!
Well that's not the only part, but yes it is apart of science. The other part is empirical data, collect enough data from observation and that should tell you the answer as well.
Anyone in IT knows this, with out needing a study to be done. Next time ask the guys who have had more than 3 years experience in any IT related field!
It could be a drive flare from a Photon/fusion/antimatter (pick one) drive that's happened to point exactly our way for those few days.
"Atlas Shrugged", excellent book! Wouldn't think most /. would read that one.
Not that we found him, more the fact we, as security professionals see the worst of people, at most that's the only reason we have jobs. We don't focus on the best of what people are doing and so often miss it totally.
True, but this is a State agency, we can't block traffic to other agencies, just keep an eye open, as much as possible. In State Government we are damned if we do and damned if we don't. We have tried to enforce the statewide security policy, but without luck. The agency ISO's, I believe, do not have the ball's to enforce it.
I had one of the misfortunes to assist the DJJ to stop a guy who was contacting underage kids using IM. Sadly we did find him and the guy committed suicide a week later!! So yes I completely understand what your saying.
In the photograph it shows the coils parallel to each other, if it can be perpendicular the larger coil could be placed under a rug or flooring or possibly in the wall, and thus hiding it.