Anecdote time: I live in Orlando. My family is visiting from Kentucky. One of the kids' shoes started falling apart so they went shoe shopping. They went to 4-5 different stores looking for shoes. They came back and one of the kids (innocently) noticed that there are a lot of black people. She was incorrect, she saw a lot of Hispanic people, but she's 8 so give her a break. Where she lives it's pretty white-washed, but her comment kind of puzzled me. I realized that I ALMOST never see a Hispanic person in my day-to-day life. I work at in the national headquarters of a household name company in IT work. In my department of 50 or so people there's one Asian person (India I think), three African Americans, two white women, and the rest are white men. This city has two Lockheed Martin campuses with like 10k+ employees, mostly white... we have Research Park which is mostly defense contractors and is the simulation capital of the world... mostly white, etc. See, my in-laws went to places filled with low-end retail workers. Chock full of minority employees. It's interesting to think about what percentage of this division is cultural vs. what percentage is structural racism. I never hear any blatant racism at work or in my circle, but there's hardly any minorities in any of the places I've ever worked. Sadly it's interesting mind candy for me on occasion while for people on the other side it's a life sentence of menial low paying work.:(
It's fairly simple. The industrial revolution is waning and/or completely over. In my opinion we'll see some evolutionary changes in our technology for the next few decades (smaller/smarter phones for example) but generally nothing really revolutionary (invention of the cell phone). In many areas of technology (processors, combustion engines, etc.) we're really hitting on the theoretical limits of the physics involved so dramatic improvement will really take something "out of this world" revolutionary with regards to designs for these products/systems.
I agree. I'm hesitant to say that our current interpretation of evolution is 100% fact. It is, however, the most reasonable explanation I've heard based on the evidence available. Just as new discoveries in particle physics may change our understanding of "real world" physics we may discover new evidence in the future to change our understanding of how human beings came into existence. I wouldn't even discount the possibility of finding evidence to support super-human (divine) intervention. The current evidence doesn't seem to point that way though.
In the original story it was revealed that he was in some kind of sales and took regular trips to the middle east, he also regularly sent money to his family back in Egypt. That's why he was being monitored. That doesn't mean he was doing anything wrong, he apparently just tripped the automated sensors or whatever that tracks these sorts of things.
You may appreciate Metacrawler. They aren't so much a search engine as they are a search engine aggregator. They query quite a few search engines for your query and provide some mix of all the results.
I haven't really found much of a difference in quality between Bing's or Google's maps themselves but (IMHO) Bing's APIs are far superior to Google's. My company migrated last year from a proprietary mapping system to Bing because of this. Not that it matters, but we're not a MSFT shop, we're a *nix/java shop.
I'm sorry.. will keep Android from ever taking off? Android has more unit sales in the United States than any other smart phone OS. I think your statement is a bit past due.
I know there's a lot of cross-pond business on ebay where people from the UK buy stuff from the US and vice-versa. Just gotta be careful when you go to the US ebay that the person is willing to ship overseas, many are not.
If you'd been making proper backups then restoring to a previous "good state" should be simple. Also, if you count how many hours you'd already spent on it you probably could have gotten it going again from scratch in that time.
This is the natural progression of technology across all industries. We'll be migrating to needing a very small number of highly skilled people and a lot of "sysadmin" drones who mostly do point and click things.
I don't see how any of this should be surprising. My understanding is that these guys were contract spooks hired out by the CIA, FBI, NSA, etc. to do work they either wouldn't or couldn't do. It shouldn't surprise anyone that the NSA and their private counterparts have databases of 0-day vulnerabilities and rootkits lying around to use for whatever "legitimate" spooking purposes arise.
Okay, you know those charts that show the evolution of man from the ape-like figure to the modern human? This sub-thread made me want to make a chart like that but for adult material. From ascii art on BBSes up to high-def on a large screen in 3-d, and then back down to 4" android screen.:(
We were investigating using Mono in my shop a while back (within the last year) and the documentation for the current version at the time recommended restarting every night because of some weird memory leak or something which would cause the server to become unresponsive. Not something I'm willing to rely on in a meaningful environment.
Oil is generally not used for electricity production in the United States. Coal is +/- 50%. I know there's supposed to be some decent ways to make coal fuel, but it generally doesn't translate well and I'm not particularly confident we could ramp up coal production enough to quench our thirst. The only real solution imho is to migrate most commuter traffic to full electric. Then it doesn't matter where that electricity comes from: nuclear, coal, oil, wind, hydro, solar, etc. No matter how it goes, it's going to be crazy expensive.
The police don't determine whether you've done something illegal. The courts do. But I am on your side that whatever crime he's being accused of is clearly non-violent so having the police bash down the door is silly at best and probably quite dangerous for everyone involved.
If he had been doing something illegal and knew about it there's a good chance he could have destroyed evidence if the police had announced themselves. The smarter thing to do, and safer for all parties involved, would have been to serve the search warrant while he wasn't home. For non-violent crimes this type of behavior is ridiculous. If waiting for him to leave could not be done for whatever reason, him potentially destroying evidence is (imo) worth the risk compared to the risk to everyone involved of bashing the door down.
If you hover over the horizontal bar on the "home" screen you can even click a little X on the far right side to completely remove the whole section from the UI. I think the GP was talking about the icons to the right of the address bar though. Currently mine has: the Chrome wrench, Adblock, Amazon Wish List, Google Voice, Gmail, Chromey Calculator, Flashblock, and an RSS subscriber tool. The only things I actually *like* having there are: Chrome wrench, google voice, gmail. *shrug*
Depends. If you're only travelling at thousands of miles per hour (assuming generations of humans living in this imaginary spacecraft) then you may need quite a bit of fuel for course correction towards the "end" of the journey.
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Anecdote time: I live in Orlando. My family is visiting from Kentucky. One of the kids' shoes started falling apart so they went shoe shopping. They went to 4-5 different stores looking for shoes. They came back and one of the kids (innocently) noticed that there are a lot of black people. She was incorrect, she saw a lot of Hispanic people, but she's 8 so give her a break. Where she lives it's pretty white-washed, but her comment kind of puzzled me. I realized that I ALMOST never see a Hispanic person in my day-to-day life. I work at in the national headquarters of a household name company in IT work. In my department of 50 or so people there's one Asian person (India I think), three African Americans, two white women, and the rest are white men. This city has two Lockheed Martin campuses with like 10k+ employees, mostly white... we have Research Park which is mostly defense contractors and is the simulation capital of the world... mostly white, etc. See, my in-laws went to places filled with low-end retail workers. Chock full of minority employees. It's interesting to think about what percentage of this division is cultural vs. what percentage is structural racism. I never hear any blatant racism at work or in my circle, but there's hardly any minorities in any of the places I've ever worked. Sadly it's interesting mind candy for me on occasion while for people on the other side it's a life sentence of menial low paying work. :(
It's fairly simple. The industrial revolution is waning and/or completely over. In my opinion we'll see some evolutionary changes in our technology for the next few decades (smaller/smarter phones for example) but generally nothing really revolutionary (invention of the cell phone). In many areas of technology (processors, combustion engines, etc.) we're really hitting on the theoretical limits of the physics involved so dramatic improvement will really take something "out of this world" revolutionary with regards to designs for these products/systems.
I agree. I'm hesitant to say that our current interpretation of evolution is 100% fact. It is, however, the most reasonable explanation I've heard based on the evidence available. Just as new discoveries in particle physics may change our understanding of "real world" physics we may discover new evidence in the future to change our understanding of how human beings came into existence. I wouldn't even discount the possibility of finding evidence to support super-human (divine) intervention. The current evidence doesn't seem to point that way though.
In the original story it was revealed that he was in some kind of sales and took regular trips to the middle east, he also regularly sent money to his family back in Egypt. That's why he was being monitored. That doesn't mean he was doing anything wrong, he apparently just tripped the automated sensors or whatever that tracks these sorts of things.
You may appreciate Metacrawler. They aren't so much a search engine as they are a search engine aggregator. They query quite a few search engines for your query and provide some mix of all the results.
Were you looking for something on JCPenny? :D
I haven't really found much of a difference in quality between Bing's or Google's maps themselves but (IMHO) Bing's APIs are far superior to Google's. My company migrated last year from a proprietary mapping system to Bing because of this. Not that it matters, but we're not a MSFT shop, we're a *nix/java shop.
I'm sorry.. will keep Android from ever taking off? Android has more unit sales in the United States than any other smart phone OS. I think your statement is a bit past due.
I know there's a lot of cross-pond business on ebay where people from the UK buy stuff from the US and vice-versa. Just gotta be careful when you go to the US ebay that the person is willing to ship overseas, many are not.
If you'd been making proper backups then restoring to a previous "good state" should be simple. Also, if you count how many hours you'd already spent on it you probably could have gotten it going again from scratch in that time.
This is the natural progression of technology across all industries. We'll be migrating to needing a very small number of highly skilled people and a lot of "sysadmin" drones who mostly do point and click things.
I don't see how any of this should be surprising. My understanding is that these guys were contract spooks hired out by the CIA, FBI, NSA, etc. to do work they either wouldn't or couldn't do. It shouldn't surprise anyone that the NSA and their private counterparts have databases of 0-day vulnerabilities and rootkits lying around to use for whatever "legitimate" spooking purposes arise.
Okay, you know those charts that show the evolution of man from the ape-like figure to the modern human? This sub-thread made me want to make a chart like that but for adult material. From ascii art on BBSes up to high-def on a large screen in 3-d, and then back down to 4" android screen. :(
We were investigating using Mono in my shop a while back (within the last year) and the documentation for the current version at the time recommended restarting every night because of some weird memory leak or something which would cause the server to become unresponsive. Not something I'm willing to rely on in a meaningful environment.
I would say PHP definitely wins in the platform support category. You can run PHP just about anywhere. Mono is okay but it isn't "there" imho.
Maybe I'm a newb, but what's wrong with camel casing function names?
Oil is generally not used for electricity production in the United States. Coal is +/- 50%. I know there's supposed to be some decent ways to make coal fuel, but it generally doesn't translate well and I'm not particularly confident we could ramp up coal production enough to quench our thirst. The only real solution imho is to migrate most commuter traffic to full electric. Then it doesn't matter where that electricity comes from: nuclear, coal, oil, wind, hydro, solar, etc. No matter how it goes, it's going to be crazy expensive.
Police don't have to charge you with a crime before arresting you, at least in the United States of Freedom.
I solved this by not playing PC games.
The police don't determine whether you've done something illegal. The courts do. But I am on your side that whatever crime he's being accused of is clearly non-violent so having the police bash down the door is silly at best and probably quite dangerous for everyone involved.
If he had been doing something illegal and knew about it there's a good chance he could have destroyed evidence if the police had announced themselves. The smarter thing to do, and safer for all parties involved, would have been to serve the search warrant while he wasn't home. For non-violent crimes this type of behavior is ridiculous. If waiting for him to leave could not be done for whatever reason, him potentially destroying evidence is (imo) worth the risk compared to the risk to everyone involved of bashing the door down.
If you hover over the horizontal bar on the "home" screen you can even click a little X on the far right side to completely remove the whole section from the UI. I think the GP was talking about the icons to the right of the address bar though. Currently mine has: the Chrome wrench, Adblock, Amazon Wish List, Google Voice, Gmail, Chromey Calculator, Flashblock, and an RSS subscriber tool. The only things I actually *like* having there are: Chrome wrench, google voice, gmail. *shrug*
I think all other companies should uniquely identify me by my gmail account.
Depends. If you're only travelling at thousands of miles per hour (assuming generations of humans living in this imaginary spacecraft) then you may need quite a bit of fuel for course correction towards the "end" of the journey.
I use Apple because their mouse has one button. I tried a two button mouse once, but I found it too confusing.
/old person
/not really
/Don't troll mod me, it's just a joke.