You can't be...... a materials design nerd?... a neuroscience nerd?... a genetic design nerd?... an atomic reaction nerd?... a political relations nerd?... a food preparation (or consumption) nerd?
Google tells me: 1) A foolish or contemptible person who lacks social skills or is boringly studious: "one of those nerds who never asked a girl to dance". 2) An intelligent, single-minded expert in a particular technical discipline or profession.
I find it interesting that a nerd of (a popular) discipline don't want to share this blog with nerds of other (perhaps less popular, or less represented) disciplines. Perhaps it has to do with pride in wearing the label.
You may have heard tell of the 1979 american embassy invasion in Iran, where many shredded documents were pieced back together.
Re the direction you give above, either the disks are still readable after the demolition of the hard drive, or they are not. If they are not readable, then further dividing them in trash bins is pointless. If they are readable, your instructions might prevent industrial spies, but may well prove insufficient against a determined government (or a really determined industry).
The first warning sign is the "over 30 years". This will be based on "if things keep on keeping on". But they won't. Everyone knows that.
The second warning sign is scale. $4.4 billion over 30 years. $4.4 billion sounds like a lot. The "Average 146 million a year" almost certainly includes inflation and the associated escalating costs. That is, most of the savings will be in the last 10 of those 30 years, not the first 10. And saying "average 30 million a year over 10 years" doesn't sound anywhere nearly as impressive. *
For the US government, we're talking about a very very small impact on the annual budget.
* 30 million: figure pulled out of a hat. Do not mistake for estimate based on actual study. Use with extreme caution.
My mom always said, "so in my old age, you can keep me in the way I wish to become accustomed to."
And seeing my grandparents' struggles - grandma a former teacher on a pension, grandpa a vet on a pension, both taking piece-work and part time work just to keep ends meetings, I can definitely see why.
Inflation eats any savings plan you can come up with. Kids are a safety net that improves with age.... usually.
A throwaway comment about "fix it over the phone": Car Talk. Not the original vendor, but still "over the phone".
As for support contracts, it's like this: as a previous poster said, for big companies, the user is insulated from the purchase and install issues. It's not cheap, it's not expensive, it's installed. "Do we have support for this?" is not something they even consider.
Either they are talking about bullets not-yet-fired, or they are talking about the spent casings rather than the bullets themselves. The spent bullet itself is generally going to be fragmented or at least deformed by its travails, presenting an unhelpful surface for fingerprinting.
Heck, when my apartment was broken into a few years ago, the officer who came around told me that getting prints off even the glass door or the door handle was problematic.
Of course, in a murder case, they make a greater effort than for a simple B&E.
> And this is why we should be signing secession petitions. Not because one of the twin candidates lost, but because the Federal government long ago began overreaching.
That worked so well the last time secession over states rights was tried. It's a harder sell, though, on both sides: unlike slavery, funding issues are harder to motivate people over (for OR against).
> We don't force religious parents to vaccinate their children.
We do, however, jail them for neglect if they follow their religious beliefs and "treat their children with prayer". Sometimes they are acquitted after a trial. Sometimes they get jail time.
Which is to say, it is not a subject with a unified and unambiguous body of law behind it.
You might recall the scene from Real Genius, with the entire class represented only by tape recorders.... and then the lecturer replaced by a tape player.
Of course nowdays, the lecture would be on an MP3 file on the teacher's web site for kids to ignore. Or maybe download and listen to. My money is on "ignore", though.
As I understand it, the police told Wing Point (the club) that they have to hand over the remains of the drone "or they could be liable for a felony". While it might possibly be a felony, it's certainly grounds for a civil suit. And SHARK has a document that looks like the opening for a civil suit. I certainly don't blame the police for staying out of it once a suit is filed - any 'felony' remedies can certainly be compensated for by court awards, in theory.
Unlike some sites that cover lawsuits (their own or others), there does not appear to be any timeline tracking the suit, nor notice of when it was filed, yadda yadda. So to me it looks more like they're interested in the publicity than in the prosecution. Kinda loses my vote at that point.
Your example is not apropos. A better example on the lawsuit would be retrieving a fallen weather balloon or camera-laden rocket. (An example that leaves out HOW the object got there - how it got there is a separate issue.)
In this case, the hunters shot it, it fell into a tree on the club property. No mention is made whether the drone was on the club's property itself, but it'd have to be close to land in the tree.
But the police SHOULD be interested in this for precisely the reason you mention: "... shots fired...". In this case, firing on the drone means they weren't firing on the carefully plotted pigeon range, but instead over inhabited areas. The proper response would have been to call the police to remove the nuisance.... but you already covered why police don't show up for that sort of thing, didn't you?
I'm rather more worried about irritated people with guns who aren't maintaining gun discipline, than I am about pigeons getting killed or protesters losing their toys.
In some ways, the USPS is like the BBC - a pseudo- (or perhaps, para-) government entity with the goal of being a zero-sum impact on the government.
It's annual budget is something like $70B. That puts it at about the level of the discretionary portion of Health and Human Services (including Medicare and Medicaid) or about twice the entire budget of the Department of Justice. Currently, being a "separate" entity makes it hard for congress to play politics with its budget. Rolling it back as a department of the government would erase that barrier, weak as it is.
I wasn't able to easily locate a history on when the USPS funding was separated from the general budget, if indeed it was ever a direct part of it. Would love to see the history of that decision.
It's not so much what is illegal in your photos, as it is "who takes offense at your pictures". And when anyone can sue (civil court) anyone for anything, there doesn't even have to be a law against it.
Or do, if you like. But in the mean time, how about you program my VCR for me with this unmarked remote? It won't matter that the UI is in mandarin, will it?
> The real problem is that representatives *have no fucking idea what they are talking about on most subjects*.
This is a double-edged sword.
The one hand is that the ones that realize they don't know anything about (topic X) will turn to people they can identify as experts on (topic X) for information. Your homework task is to BE that person they turn to.
The other hand is that the ones who think they DO know something about (topic X) may well be wrong. And thus, get it wrong. Clipper chip. Internet censorship. Authority over the content and linkages of domains. Need I go on?
On the gripping hand, what are the implications of our representatives knowing precisely what they are talking about (for any given topic)? Such as, how did they all get that knowledge? And will they still be representing OUR interests?
>...and being near an unregistered gun... Which story on this event was that from? The only line I found talking about guns (registered or not) in the linked article is the "several guns were found" line.
Yes, I realize the irony in even hoping a petition to change the petition system would receive any attention at all. But as I don't have the ear of the website developer, this is what I can do from my armchair.
Sure, it is almost certain to fail. But it has a measurably - if still small - better chance of success than whinging at the screen where nobody can hear me.
Do I need to put emoticons in my posts, now? Have you not seen ID-based one-up-manship happen on slashdot before? In any case, thank you for explaining my funny for the masses.
I'm sorry, perhaps I'm just being thick tonight. Perhaps you could tell me why a port scanner would not pick up on this? Or did they not do much in the way of vulnerability assessment?
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> and turning away all other customers who want to buy an iPhone...
So...
You aren't a nerd unless your focus is computers?
You can't be ... ... a materials design nerd? ... a neuroscience nerd? ... a genetic design nerd? ... an atomic reaction nerd? ... a political relations nerd? ... a food preparation (or consumption) nerd?
Google tells me:
1) A foolish or contemptible person who lacks social skills or is boringly studious: "one of those nerds who never asked a girl to dance".
2) An intelligent, single-minded expert in a particular technical discipline or profession.
I find it interesting that a nerd of (a popular) discipline don't want to share this blog with nerds of other (perhaps less popular, or less represented) disciplines. Perhaps it has to do with pride in wearing the label.
There's no NRPGA because it's not illegal to pretend to be a troll or hobbit. ... and because they'd have to compete with the already existing RPGA...
You may have heard tell of the 1979 american embassy invasion in Iran, where many shredded documents were pieced back together.
Re the direction you give above, either the disks are still readable after the demolition of the hard drive, or they are not. If they are not readable, then further dividing them in trash bins is pointless. If they are readable, your instructions might prevent industrial spies, but may well prove insufficient against a determined government (or a really determined industry).
The first warning sign is the "over 30 years". This will be based on "if things keep on keeping on". But they won't. Everyone knows that.
The second warning sign is scale. $4.4 billion over 30 years. $4.4 billion sounds like a lot. The "Average 146 million a year" almost certainly includes inflation and the associated escalating costs. That is, most of the savings will be in the last 10 of those 30 years, not the first 10. And saying "average 30 million a year over 10 years" doesn't sound anywhere nearly as impressive. *
For the US government, we're talking about a very very small impact on the annual budget.
* 30 million: figure pulled out of a hat. Do not mistake for estimate based on actual study. Use with extreme caution.
My mom always said, "so in my old age, you can keep me in the way I wish to become accustomed to."
And seeing my grandparents' struggles - grandma a former teacher on a pension, grandpa a vet on a pension, both taking piece-work and part time work just to keep ends meetings, I can definitely see why.
Inflation eats any savings plan you can come up with. Kids are a safety net that improves with age. ... usually.
A throwaway comment about "fix it over the phone": Car Talk. Not the original vendor, but still "over the phone".
As for support contracts, it's like this: as a previous poster said, for big companies, the user is insulated from the purchase and install issues. It's not cheap, it's not expensive, it's installed. "Do we have support for this?" is not something they even consider.
People keep saying "found a print on a bullet".
Either they are talking about bullets not-yet-fired, or they are talking about the spent casings rather than the bullets themselves. The spent bullet itself is generally going to be fragmented or at least deformed by its travails, presenting an unhelpful surface for fingerprinting.
Heck, when my apartment was broken into a few years ago, the officer who came around told me that getting prints off even the glass door or the door handle was problematic.
Of course, in a murder case, they make a greater effort than for a simple B&E.
> And this is why we should be signing secession petitions. Not because one of the twin candidates lost, but because the Federal government long ago began overreaching.
That worked so well the last time secession over states rights was tried. It's a harder sell, though, on both sides: unlike slavery, funding issues are harder to motivate people over (for OR against).
> We don't force religious parents to vaccinate their children.
We do, however, jail them for neglect if they follow their religious beliefs and "treat their children with prayer". Sometimes they are acquitted after a trial. Sometimes they get jail time.
Which is to say, it is not a subject with a unified and unambiguous body of law behind it.
> One kid left in class, carrying 20 badges...
You might recall the scene from Real Genius, with the entire class represented only by tape recorders. ... and then the lecturer replaced by a tape player.
Of course nowdays, the lecture would be on an MP3 file on the teacher's web site for kids to ignore. Or maybe download and listen to. My money is on "ignore", though.
> They still haven't found the precious.
I originally read that as:
They still haven't found the pernicious.
If you only type a couple of keystrokes for your password, it must not be much of a password.
Or perhaps you are averaging out keystrokes/message?
Or have your applications save your passwords?
Ah, there you're right and you're wrong.
As I understand it, the police told Wing Point (the club) that they have to hand over the remains of the drone "or they could be liable for a felony". While it might possibly be a felony, it's certainly grounds for a civil suit. And SHARK has a document that looks like the opening for a civil suit. I certainly don't blame the police for staying out of it once a suit is filed - any 'felony' remedies can certainly be compensated for by court awards, in theory.
Unlike some sites that cover lawsuits (their own or others), there does not appear to be any timeline tracking the suit, nor notice of when it was filed, yadda yadda. So to me it looks more like they're interested in the publicity than in the prosecution. Kinda loses my vote at that point.
Your example is not apropos. A better example on the lawsuit would be retrieving a fallen weather balloon or camera-laden rocket. (An example that leaves out HOW the object got there - how it got there is a separate issue.)
In this case, the hunters shot it, it fell into a tree on the club property. No mention is made whether the drone was on the club's property itself, but it'd have to be close to land in the tree.
But the police SHOULD be interested in this for precisely the reason you mention: "... shots fired...". In this case, firing on the drone means they weren't firing on the carefully plotted pigeon range, but instead over inhabited areas. The proper response would have been to call the police to remove the nuisance. ... but you already covered why police don't show up for that sort of thing, didn't you?
I'm rather more worried about irritated people with guns who aren't maintaining gun discipline, than I am about pigeons getting killed or protesters losing their toys.
In some ways, the USPS is like the BBC - a pseudo- (or perhaps, para-) government entity with the goal of being a zero-sum impact on the government.
It's annual budget is something like $70B. That puts it at about the level of the discretionary portion of Health and Human Services (including Medicare and Medicaid) or about twice the entire budget of the Department of Justice. Currently, being a "separate" entity makes it hard for congress to play politics with its budget. Rolling it back as a department of the government would erase that barrier, weak as it is.
I wasn't able to easily locate a history on when the USPS funding was separated from the general budget, if indeed it was ever a direct part of it. Would love to see the history of that decision.
Nothing illegal in your photo drive?
Do you have a flag of Taiwan in a picture? Perhaps you took a picture of your car? (Especially if you post it on your company's vanity page...) Or maybe there was a stranger in the background?
It's not so much what is illegal in your photos, as it is "who takes offense at your pictures". And when anyone can sue (civil court) anyone for anything, there doesn't even have to be a law against it.
The sad thing is: it ain't so.
Don't confuse ignorance with stupidity.
Or do, if you like. But in the mean time, how about you program my VCR for me with this unmarked remote? It won't matter that the UI is in mandarin, will it?
So what is next? Force me to shave off my asymmetrical beard because it throws off their software?
> The real problem is that representatives *have no fucking idea what they are talking about on most subjects*.
This is a double-edged sword.
The one hand is that the ones that realize they don't know anything about (topic X) will turn to people they can identify as experts on (topic X) for information. Your homework task is to BE that person they turn to.
The other hand is that the ones who think they DO know something about (topic X) may well be wrong. And thus, get it wrong. Clipper chip. Internet censorship. Authority over the content and linkages of domains. Need I go on?
On the gripping hand, what are the implications of our representatives knowing precisely what they are talking about (for any given topic)? Such as, how did they all get that knowledge? And will they still be representing OUR interests?
Guns don't kill people. Bullets kill people.
> ...and being near an unregistered gun...
Which story on this event was that from? The only line I found talking about guns (registered or not) in the linked article is the "several guns were found" line.
> How does one break out of a chroot prison, exactly?
SSH tunneling to a remote server? Just be sure to dispose of the extra bits in /dev/null a few at a time so the warden doesn't notice.
The article poster laments that the petition he referred to had vanished off the petition site.
So... do something about that, why don't you?
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/improve-transparency-online-petition-system/VmVB9XC2
Yes, I realize the irony in even hoping a petition to change the petition system would receive any attention at all. But as I don't have the ear of the website developer, this is what I can do from my armchair.
Sure, it is almost certain to fail. But it has a measurably - if still small - better chance of success than whinging at the screen where nobody can hear me.
Do I need to put emoticons in my posts, now? Have you not seen ID-based one-up-manship happen on slashdot before? In any case, thank you for explaining my funny for the masses.
I'm sorry, perhaps I'm just being thick tonight. Perhaps you could tell me why a port scanner would not pick up on this? Or did they not do much in the way of vulnerability assessment?