Sorry, folks, but no Master's in CS is worth $45,000, and certainly not from Georgia Tech when better schools offer the same for half the tuition (Univ. of Texas comes to mind), and regional schools for a quarter of this. This seems to be nothing more than a marketing ploy to show what a good "deal" you could get if you went 100% online while at the same time inflating the quality of the on-campus program at Georgia Tech.
The other day a Google tech recruiter (not a headhunter) contacted me about an interview at Google. This after I turned down a second interview with them seven years ago. Yes, seven years ago. It got me to thinking: Is Google that desperate for qualified employees that they are having to dig that deep into their interview files to find talent? After doing some research, it seems as though they want to interview me for a "technical sales engineering" position or some such thing. Still, this article and the fact that Google is searching their archives for help seems to point to a dwindling supply of technical types in the market.
And since I'm a few years older than Vince Vaughan, I seriously doubt I'd quite fit in anymore. Say what you want about The Internship, but Google's imprimatur was all over it.
I have a perfectly usable 2G iPod that is perfectly unusable because it's no longer supported and it doesn't talk to anything except the mothership that disowned it.
I was honored to be able to hold my father's hand when he passed away from stage IV lung cancer a few years back. One can never really say they are ready for a loved one to pass, but I was resigned to the fact, and therefore there weren't many emotions going through my head while telling my dad it was ok to let go. (I had read in a couple of places that scientists believe hearing might be one of the last senses to shut down immediately prior to death, so I figured I could do no harm telling him everything would be ok.)
One thing I did notice, and will probably never forget: In the moments up to his final breaths, while his BP was dropping, his eyes never stopped moving, It could have been involuntary movements, but they would stop for an instant as if to focus on something, then move again. He never acknowledged me while I was with him the last few hours, but his eyes: They would flick around the room as if he was looking for something, or maybe seeing something only he could see. The doctor said it was likely his vision had already shut down at that point, which made it all the more impactful on me. Even as his BP dwindled away to 0/0, after his breathing had stopped (no death rattle, just shallower and shallower, with increasing apnea gaps, until it simply stopped), his eyes made a few last furtive movements, then were still.
Who knows what my dad was seeing in his final moments? Obviously he didn't live to tell me about it. But the scientific part of my brain tells me something was going on his brain right up to the moment that he no longer had blood flowing through his brain.
All I can say is never in a million years did I think I would ever search for "wombat turds." Even more surreal is this video. I'm just astounded. Fuck the iPhone tritone, this is far more interesting....
Not only this, but you don't even have any idea of what you're trying to do. If the company is sending your personal data to you, they need your public key. Really, go read up on PKI first before you embarrass yourself further.
BTW, it's considered good practice in anything related to scientific research to define acronyms the first time they are used. In this case, EUV == extreme ultraviolet
This raises another question. What happens when these people refuse to answer questions or allow a search of their home?
IANAL, but I've done quite a bit of reading about this topic. The rule (at least in the US) is very simple: You are not required, nor should you allow any law enforcement officer into your home or business without a search warrant. Needless to say, you should not be talking to them at the front door either. They are not going to bust your door down, and it's likely they will not return.
Keep in mind that you should never talk to a federal agent without your attorney's advice. The reason? It is a federal crime to lie to a federal agent, and there are many cases of people being charged with lying rather than the original crime for which they were being investigated.
Don't take my word for it. Read the words of a former government attorney (scroll down to "The Raid"). There are any number of good articles and videos authored by attorneys. Here's another one that's worth a read.
...and since I have an interest in chemistry, I do a lot of Google searches about things that are mentioned in the show, such as the process of meth production and the precursors of meth production. I noticed Wikipedia has an article on meth production, not to mention alternative ways to produce precursors such as phenylacetone without getting the attention of the feds.
So why is it that I stand a better chance of getting a visit from the DEA than does Jimmy?
And no, I don't use Tor because I refuse to submit to a tyrannical government (at least not while I don't have an M-16 pointed at my face).
No they didn't. Nearly every consumer ISP has clauses that state you can't run "business servers" through the residential connections. While that term is broad and hard to enforce, ISP's don't hassle you if your traffic is light or unobtrusive. I've only been notified by Charter about my server when it got a PHP/SQL injection and hosted a virus. As soon as that was cleared up and patched they didn't care about it.
I can assure you from personal experience that Comcast will move heaven and earth in order to ensure you don't run any type of server on their networks. My point being is that your point is totally anecdotal (as is mine) and not necessarily representative of all ISPs.
Geez, what a manipulative waste of time. Randal is a smart guy; maybe that was the point of the exercise: To see just how many morons out there (including myself) followed this banal story to its bitter and anticlimactic end.
For those just dying to poke sharp sticks in their eyes, I recommend this link instead.
The summary makes it sound like the truck was at fault, when in fact the school bus driver stopped "forward of the stop line" then proceeded into the intersection with the truck having the right of way.
Also misleading: The NTSB is not calling for wireless technology in vehicles. In fact, the report simply states (as a conclusion, not a recommendation) that such technology may have prevented the situation from occurring:
Connected vehicle technology could have provided active warnings to the school bus driver of the approaching truck and possibly prevented the crash.
Oh, and no amount of "active warnings" would likely have helped an impaired driver. Nothing to see here, just more sensationalism.
These boards are only half the solution to a parallel problem. I used to write satellite imaging software that was parallelized on a 12-CPU server. A lot of work went into the code necessary to parallelize the mapping and DTM algorithms. It wasn't trivial either. I'm failing to see the usefulness of these boards for anything other than intensive scientific computation. Because if the code being run isn't written for parallel processors, you're getting no advantage to running it on a multicore/multiprocessor computer.
IMO, if students don't show up for roll call too often, you talk to them. Then you talk to their parents. Motivating them (children AND parents) is your job
You mistakenly assume every kid has a parent (or parents, if they're lucky) who actually care about the welfare of the child. I teach at a large high school that is 60% Hispanic, 50% or more on free lunch. I can tell you that most of these students don't have parents that you can just call and say "Little Hector wasn't at school today, can you please explain to him the importance of class blah blah blah?" These parents are out working, many working 12-16 hour days. They don't have the time nor the inclination to get involved with the child's education process. Many of them have never themselves graduated from high school.
The point being is that parental contact is not the panacea that you make it out to be, especially when you are teaching young people who basically survive on the streets and don't have the traditional family structure from which you and I were lucky enough to come.
In dismissing the case, the court agreed with the precedent set in two other cases, which basically said that Americans donâ(TM)t even have the right to sue their government over its surveillance program, unless they can prove that their communications were intercepted. Of course, thatâ(TM)s essentially impossible since the program is classified and you canâ(TM)t use classified documents in court, even if you somehow got your hands on them.
I don't get it... we can't even secure our nuclear power plants, water and waste processing facilities, and other critical public infrastructure from attacks on industrial infrastructure. Why would anyone in their right mind think home automation would be any more secure? Reply to This Share
Because some of us are in our right mind. I use an SSH tunnel accessible by my smartphone to control a Radio Thermostat via my wifi router, with WPA-2 authentication and MAC authentication. Perfect? Of course not...but I'm reasonably comfortable with the level of security I'm using. So yes, home automation can be done securely. It would be far easier for someone to just bust a window and change the thermostat by hand than to hack their way into my setup.
Unfortunately, doing it right is beyond 99.99% of the population's technical know-how to pull it off successfully and securely. The GP nailed it: So long as there is a commercial incentive to give the public a shiny interface to their home automation stuff, it will never be done securely.
and yet, we'll continue to lie to our kids at school when we teach them about our 'constitution' and how we have the high moral ground on all the issues and that the US is the most free country in the world.
We'll continue the "lie" in the hopes that our children will take up the mantle and fight for freedom from domestic spying and all the other Constitutional abuses that we have permitted to creep into our lives. Since us adults have utterly failed at the job.
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Bedbugs are known to drop down onto beds from the ceiling. They can also crawl (not jump) from furniture that happens to be touching the bed as well.
Sorry, folks, but no Master's in CS is worth $45,000, and certainly not from Georgia Tech when better schools offer the same for half the tuition (Univ. of Texas comes to mind), and regional schools for a quarter of this. This seems to be nothing more than a marketing ploy to show what a good "deal" you could get if you went 100% online while at the same time inflating the quality of the on-campus program at Georgia Tech.
The only one I know of is down I-45 in Garrett. Where are the others?
Fuck you.
The other day a Google tech recruiter (not a headhunter) contacted me about an interview at Google. This after I turned down a second interview with them seven years ago. Yes, seven years ago. It got me to thinking: Is Google that desperate for qualified employees that they are having to dig that deep into their interview files to find talent? After doing some research, it seems as though they want to interview me for a "technical sales engineering" position or some such thing. Still, this article and the fact that Google is searching their archives for help seems to point to a dwindling supply of technical types in the market.
And since I'm a few years older than Vince Vaughan, I seriously doubt I'd quite fit in anymore. Say what you want about The Internship, but Google's imprimatur was all over it.
Glad you were able to speak to him. Don't beat yourself up over leaving. He didn't pass away alone.
I have a perfectly usable 2G iPod that is perfectly unusable because it's no longer supported and it doesn't talk to anything except the mothership that disowned it.
Rockbox!
I was honored to be able to hold my father's hand when he passed away from stage IV lung cancer a few years back. One can never really say they are ready for a loved one to pass, but I was resigned to the fact, and therefore there weren't many emotions going through my head while telling my dad it was ok to let go. (I had read in a couple of places that scientists believe hearing might be one of the last senses to shut down immediately prior to death, so I figured I could do no harm telling him everything would be ok.)
One thing I did notice, and will probably never forget: In the moments up to his final breaths, while his BP was dropping, his eyes never stopped moving, It could have been involuntary movements, but they would stop for an instant as if to focus on something, then move again. He never acknowledged me while I was with him the last few hours, but his eyes: They would flick around the room as if he was looking for something, or maybe seeing something only he could see. The doctor said it was likely his vision had already shut down at that point, which made it all the more impactful on me. Even as his BP dwindled away to 0/0, after his breathing had stopped (no death rattle, just shallower and shallower, with increasing apnea gaps, until it simply stopped), his eyes made a few last furtive movements, then were still.
Who knows what my dad was seeing in his final moments? Obviously he didn't live to tell me about it. But the scientific part of my brain tells me something was going on his brain right up to the moment that he no longer had blood flowing through his brain.
All I can say is never in a million years did I think I would ever search for "wombat turds." Even more surreal is this video. I'm just astounded. Fuck the iPhone tritone, this is far more interesting....
Not only this, but you don't even have any idea of what you're trying to do. If the company is sending your personal data to you, they need your public key. Really, go read up on PKI first before you embarrass yourself further.
Actually explains the process in detail:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/design/plans-for-nextgen-chips-imperiled
BTW, it's considered good practice in anything related to scientific research to define acronyms the first time they are used. In this case, EUV == extreme ultraviolet
...because avast! has been offering this for a while now. Plus, I'm not sure I want allow more Google access into my life.
This raises another question. What happens when these people refuse to answer questions or allow a search of their home?
IANAL, but I've done quite a bit of reading about this topic. The rule (at least in the US) is very simple: You are not required, nor should you allow any law enforcement officer into your home or business without a search warrant. Needless to say, you should not be talking to them at the front door either. They are not going to bust your door down, and it's likely they will not return.
Keep in mind that you should never talk to a federal agent without your attorney's advice. The reason? It is a federal crime to lie to a federal agent, and there are many cases of people being charged with lying rather than the original crime for which they were being investigated.
Don't take my word for it. Read the words of a former government attorney (scroll down to "The Raid"). There are any number of good articles and videos authored by attorneys. Here's another one that's worth a read.
...and since I have an interest in chemistry, I do a lot of Google searches about things that are mentioned in the show, such as the process of meth production and the precursors of meth production. I noticed Wikipedia has an article on meth production, not to mention alternative ways to produce precursors such as phenylacetone without getting the attention of the feds.
So why is it that I stand a better chance of getting a visit from the DEA than does Jimmy?
And no, I don't use Tor because I refuse to submit to a tyrannical government (at least not while I don't have an M-16 pointed at my face).
The American people did vote. They voted for a candidate that explicitly promised the closing of Guantanamo
Not only has Obama not closed Gitmo, he closed the office that was charged with closing Gitmo . Go figure.
No they didn't. Nearly every consumer ISP has clauses that state you can't run "business servers" through the residential connections. While that term is broad and hard to enforce, ISP's don't hassle you if your traffic is light or unobtrusive. I've only been notified by Charter about my server when it got a PHP/SQL injection and hosted a virus. As soon as that was cleared up and patched they didn't care about it.
I can assure you from personal experience that Comcast will move heaven and earth in order to ensure you don't run any type of server on their networks. My point being is that your point is totally anecdotal (as is mine) and not necessarily representative of all ISPs.
I haven't laughed so hard at anything posted on /. in months. Anyone who mods this down is fucking dead.
Geez, what a manipulative waste of time. Randal is a smart guy; maybe that was the point of the exercise: To see just how many morons out there (including myself) followed this banal story to its bitter and anticlimactic end.
For those just dying to poke sharp sticks in their eyes, I recommend this link instead.
The summary makes it sound like the truck was at fault, when in fact the school bus driver stopped "forward of the stop line" then proceeded into the intersection with the truck having the right of way.
Also misleading: The NTSB is not calling for wireless technology in vehicles. In fact, the report simply states (as a conclusion, not a recommendation) that such technology may have prevented the situation from occurring:
Connected vehicle technology could have provided active warnings to the school bus
driver of the approaching truck and possibly prevented the crash.
Oh, and no amount of "active warnings" would likely have helped an impaired driver. Nothing to see here, just more sensationalism.
Apparently by linking to that image, you were stealing it. Who knew?!
But wait! It says, right here in their TOS:
"8. Links
You are welcome to link to hardwaresecrets.com. Links may include text
of headlines and brief summaries up to one paragraph of the linked
article."
(Of course, I had to copy this from lynx since they do some JS chicanery that prevents you from hightlighting text on the page.)
These boards are only half the solution to a parallel problem. I used to write satellite imaging software that was parallelized on a 12-CPU server. A lot of work went into the code necessary to parallelize the mapping and DTM algorithms. It wasn't trivial either. I'm failing to see the usefulness of these boards for anything other than intensive scientific computation. Because if the code being run isn't written for parallel processors, you're getting no advantage to running it on a multicore/multiprocessor computer.
Or am I missing something here?
IMO, if students don't show up for roll call too often, you talk to them. Then you talk to their parents. Motivating them (children AND parents) is your job
You mistakenly assume every kid has a parent (or parents, if they're lucky) who actually care about the welfare of the child. I teach at a large high school that is 60% Hispanic, 50% or more on free lunch. I can tell you that most of these students don't have parents that you can just call and say "Little Hector wasn't at school today, can you please explain to him the importance of class blah blah blah?" These parents are out working, many working 12-16 hour days. They don't have the time nor the inclination to get involved with the child's education process. Many of them have never themselves graduated from high school.
The point being is that parental contact is not the panacea that you make it out to be, especially when you are teaching young people who basically survive on the streets and don't have the traditional family structure from which you and I were lucky enough to come.
In dismissing the case, the court agreed with the precedent set in two other cases, which basically said that Americans donâ(TM)t even have the right to sue their government over its surveillance program, unless they can prove that their communications were intercepted. Of course, thatâ(TM)s essentially impossible since the program is classified and you canâ(TM)t use classified documents in court, even if you somehow got your hands on them.
http://www.salon.com/2013/06/10/why_you_cant_sue_the_government_for_spying_on_you/
I don't get it... we can't even secure our nuclear power plants, water and waste processing facilities, and other critical public infrastructure from attacks on industrial infrastructure. Why would anyone in their right mind think home automation would be any more secure?
Reply to This Share
Because some of us are in our right mind. I use an SSH tunnel accessible by my smartphone to control a Radio Thermostat via my wifi router, with WPA-2 authentication and MAC authentication. Perfect? Of course not...but I'm reasonably comfortable with the level of security I'm using. So yes, home automation can be done securely. It would be far easier for someone to just bust a window and change the thermostat by hand than to hack their way into my setup.
Unfortunately, doing it right is beyond 99.99% of the population's technical know-how to pull it off successfully and securely. The GP nailed it: So long as there is a commercial incentive to give the public a shiny interface to their home automation stuff, it will never be done securely.
and yet, we'll continue to lie to our kids at school when we teach them about our 'constitution' and how we have the high moral ground on all the issues and that the US is the most free country in the world.
We'll continue the "lie" in the hopes that our children will take up the mantle and fight for freedom from domestic spying and all the other Constitutional abuses that we have permitted to creep into our lives. Since us adults have utterly failed at the job.