4) I had to learn this and other things, so can you. It wasn't easy for me. Moreover, there are things that I do which people point out, so its just a matter of protocol.
If you ever talk to a university dean or professor, the aim of a university to educate undergraduates is secondary. Most of the engineering budget comes from research grants to the department. At best, the jobs of a university is to educate graduate students and to conduct research from which to receive further research grants. I was told that a MIT's EE professor brings in 5 times his salary in research grants. So, as long as this happens, the university carries on. However, in times of intense growth or economic boon, it is more lucrative for both parties involved to hire a professor outright. I guess the major factor for many professors to not leave their university is that they think that maybe working in industry might draw them away from research and risk making them obsolete in case the tech changes. Also, universities tend to make the path to becoming a full tenured professor quite a journey, where each stage requires a considerable investment in order to be vetted by your peers. Many professors put up with this because they think that get stability and respect at a university. Technology has a half life of maybe 5 years, so even if you are an expert in something hot, it will eventually become passe. I remember reading an article in Newsweek about some researcher who was able to transfer the bioluminese gene from jellyfish to other organisms in the mid 1980s. At that time, it was a ground breaking achievement. Now, he was working for a little bit better than minimum wage at Hertz Rent-A-Car in Madison, AL.
Most meds developed by research institutes are funded with public research dollars. However, once a medicine becomes effective at treating a disease, more extensive testing is done to validate it and the side effects on a broader population. This is where pharms enter the picture and get in make money. They buy the work from the research institute and write patents on the chemical process to obtain exclusivity. If you want to do research, best stick with problems faced by poor people without resources to cure their problems, e.g. parasites found in the South.
Most of my FaceBook friends are people with whom I went to HS 30 years ago and haven't seen since. Some of my FB friends are people I ones that I never spoke with, unless I count my HS reunion after 5 beers.
Many of my LinkedIn associates are people I met while in career transition. So I had lunch with so and so, hence we reached out since we had some "common interests" Nice as this sounds, we are really worlds apart. However, the kicker is that there are many coworkers out there who turned down my LinkedIn request, and vis versa.
Much of this is probabilistic analysis.
My favorite FB moment was a FB suggestion I had. FB found that I have lots of friends in common with this person. Ok, she is my wife, but maybe she does not want to admit this to too many people.
I guess if the Dutch try it, so can we.
I wonder if this is not being done all ready. Some guy growing drugs notices that there seem to be too many drones flying around and decides to take matter into his own hands. Better than shooting the drones with a rifle, as there is culpable deniability.
Incidences like this have and always will be about selective enforcement. There are a plenty of laws on the book, which people violate every day. It is just a matter of who gets prosecuted.
Back in the 1990's, one of the Kennedy's was accused of having sex with his kid's babysitter. For a while, this became a news story, only to disappear into the background.
When the government wants to make a example out of you, they just fabricate evidence to frame you. Look at Nixon and the case of the pumpkin papers. Evidence will be planted to make you look bad. This is especially useful against dissidence and anyone who disagrees with the state. After all, if you are not for us, you are for the "enemy".
The thing about it is that it was built at a time of the Cold War SDI/Star Wars concepts. While as it might have had civilian uses, I suspect that it was a precursor to the equivalent of the American "Thousand Points of Light", a SDI concept that would use a ground based laser to fire into a orbiting mirror which would be redirected towards a target. However, if all you are doing is calibrating and orienting an orbiting mirror, you could sell it to the world as a purely scientific experiment.
The kicker in all of this is the protests mentioned which would disrupt the natural night environment. Now, we have been polluted with lots of light during the night time for the last hundred years, so I doubt that this is hardly a valid concern. I don't think that even the atomic bomb tests, which did irradiate a lot of people in the Pacific did not draw the same level of "concern".
I heard that Oil of Oley was sued. I think that they reworded their commercials to say that "it makes skin look younger" from the old claims that it "actually reverses effects of aging". Mostly, I think that the company reduced the number of explicit TV ad and rely on "word of mouth" and leave the blame with the cosmetics salesperson to take any hits.
Still, fraud by my definition, but less fraudulent. Olive Oil is just as "effective at reducing lines and wrinkles" but costs a lot less.
Did the same team that developed that code also run an accuracy assessment? Was there a "prize" (contract payment) associated with meeting certain accuracy? I remember reading about facial recognition systems which worked well in labs, but fail in the field.
As soon as developers become aware that they might be identified, I think that they might do things (spoof, run beautify and strip comments) to throw such a system off.
It is surprising how many middle aged obsolete technology professionals you will find if you care to visit your local job career transition networking meetings. It not always that the people don't want to learn a new skill set, but more times than not, its a matter of cost of training. Its hard to fork down money for a training program if you are not working. Moreover, there is another problem in that people are reluctant to lay down cash on a skill set if they are unsure that it will be used in two years. I remember learning COM & OLE. I thought that it was hot shit. Well, it was more worthless than Elvis paraphernalia in another two years. Moreover, most head hunters or corporations will not want you if you only have a training program or a homemade portfolio (or open-source project). Its hard enough selling yourself to upper management if you have the skill set, but are an outsider without business contacts. There is an strong and established good old boys network for most upper end jobs. About the only way to circumvent it is if you know something that some business owner cannot find something thought his connections. I worked in finance, and it is ironic how many people knew each other from early childhood. On the other end of the age spectrum, I have met many a Ph. D. s in fields that had a glut of people, e.g. medical sciences or in fields that do not have a high demand, Philosophy, Mathematics, Literature, or Oceanography. Most of these former students had unrealistic expectations of job prospects or believed that somehow they would be the one to overcome the odds and land a professorship. After about a two year job search, most come to the realization that they should have became a "short order chef: which has better career prospects. Being broke and destitute, they are looking to retool to become a programmer or bank administrator or "tech writer" and have the mental aptitude to learn what is necessary.
I think that your words will be ignored. Sorry Pal, you had a shot at the big chair and blew it. Well, some of us never were given the chance. Enjoy your cash.
Why not grab a shipment of Ford cars being brought into the country too. And how about them iPhones with pesky rare earth minerals extracted from war torn nations? And lets not forget DeBeer's stash of diamonds illegally exported from South Africa. We should take them as they have the potential to release CO2 into the atmosphere if they were super cooled and dropped into a vat of liquid oxygen!
The tech you develop today is going to be tending to you ass in 25 years. I have been thinking on the side, what can I devise to make life later on easier for me. I was giving thought to natural buoyancy chambers. If I become so weak and feeble, would it not make sense to design a water tank in which to live. I got this idea years ago (1975), when sensory deprivation chambers were receiving a lot of attention
Probably we'd die of laughter if it wasn't "our" money, but the US and Soviets spent huge amounts of money trying to find and control psychotic weapons. One plausible sounding idea was "remote reading". After all, if you could read cards, then why not read "intelligence" documents. I guess Yuri Geller said that he could ready Soviet intelligence on their psychotic weapons research and would suggest further avenues of research. Now, don't these "investigation" have to be scrutinized by experts in a field. Otherwise, there would be an army of people trying all sorts of shit. The biggest example of bogus science was at Harvard, when the world's leading brain surgeons decided to lobotomize J.F. Kennedy's sister Rosemary. Now, the two biggest problems are that the Kennedy's had access to money and were not morons.
The offshore consulting agencies and their cohorts, large businesses which employee engineers conspire against hard working programmer who have honed their skills and handicraft only to see the market flooded by cheap offshore agencies. Furthermore, most of these head hunters are now staffed with former low paid consultants brought to this country under the dream of making it big one day.
At best it exposes a bit of coding to kids. At worst, it turns them off completely.
However, even writing a damn "Hello World" takes hours if a novice has to do it with some support. Much more if there is no hand holding involved. I have seen adults struggle to find the matching closing quote problem. I had to fight with a problem because I typed code in with MS-Word, which used the slanted quotes, which gave me some weird error, something along the lines of incorrect encoding.
I seriously doubt that any spy, agent or terrorist carries along encrypted plans. Even plans are not communicated. This has been understood for well over a thousand years of warfare. At best, there are a series of code words which are clues to events, but alone, are meaningless. Hence, if you are going to go through with a plan, you might communicate, "The match is on." But even that is suspicious. Probably something more along the lines of quoting some obscure text.
The other day, there was a discussion of what sort of jobs are there in the IoTs marketplace. I guess you can put this on your craigslist resume,
Well, I downloaded the software to the controls and helped fly and maneuver a helicopter to Bubba so he could get a hacksaw blade & can get out.
Almost. Except that we live in a world of distorted markets. Funny how you see apartment buildings built right next to a park. Half of the property owners have an in with local city government which help keep them in the cat bird seat which controls where and when these city parks are going to be built, so that they can put up a building right next to it. Or they manipulate and bribe people to put zones next to their facilities.
The best case of this is RTP outside of Durham, NC. Basically, companies gerrymandered a part of Durham to be a new town called RTP, which did not have to pay taxes to schools for black kids. However, Durham had a sewage system. RTP could not put one in its region, so in the end, bribed the right officials to get access to Durham's sewage system. In a capitalist system, Durham could have set a price which would cover the lost taxes. However, this is not how city politics work. Similarly with other types of eminent domain laws in NYC used by banks to grab choice real estate at a bargain. After 2001, when the property values fell in NYC, Rudy Giuliani got the top job at the "NYC Redevelopment Council." He tried to pass a series of laws to keep NYC economically "viable". He tried to pass laws to tax people working in NYC at a higher rate than the historical average, and offered a rebate to those who lived in NYC. One thing which he was successful in passing was to give small businesses a tax break. Well, Merrill Lynch got a tax break? How? The law was aimed to "help" small businesses which employed less than 500 people. Well, its not Merrill Lynch which is a small business, but "ML Fixed Income Mortgage Ventures", a sub-division of ML employing 499 people.
We use to laugh at the Soviet Union, but in many ways, we are not that different. We just won WWII!
Often, they ask indirectly, either by asking your HS or college graduation year.
Moreover, I have had employers ask for my SSN or drivers license, which usually give away most information. With the exception of a few contracting jobs, I usually had to submit to a drug and background test. Ironically, once I worked at IBM via a small contracting agency for a 18 month gig. Had I tried to get a job via direct employment at IBM, I would have had to have shown a lot more info.
While-as I believe that one cannot show up at work stoned, if you have joint on a weekend, I don't think this is any worse than someone who polishes off a couple of martinis after work.
Well, there is a bigger issue at stake here. There are lots of things in this society that get paid for without public support [mostly though back room deals]. Mostly corporate subsidies and tax breaks. Even things like economic and military support for Isreal.
I think these students think that they can play the same game as the elite.
So, if Donald Trump, the Hunts brothers, American oil investors in Mexican pipelines (1990's) or major banks make bad investments [by changing regulations governing commercial investments bailouts and "antiquated" regulations enacted after the 1930's ], they get time and allowances to reorganized. But don't think that you can play that game too. Even shit like imminent domain allows the transfer of wealth from those who don't have it to those who do [and have the political clout to keep this going on].
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4) I had to learn this and other things, so can you. It wasn't easy for me. Moreover, there are things that I do which people point out, so its just a matter of protocol.
If you ever talk to a university dean or professor, the aim of a university to educate undergraduates is secondary. Most of the engineering budget comes from research grants to the department. At best, the jobs of a university is to educate graduate students and to conduct research from which to receive further research grants. I was told that a MIT's EE professor brings in 5 times his salary in research grants. So, as long as this happens, the university carries on. However, in times of intense growth or economic boon, it is more lucrative for both parties involved to hire a professor outright. I guess the major factor for many professors to not leave their university is that they think that maybe working in industry might draw them away from research and risk making them obsolete in case the tech changes. Also, universities tend to make the path to becoming a full tenured professor quite a journey, where each stage requires a considerable investment in order to be vetted by your peers. Many professors put up with this because they think that get stability and respect at a university. Technology has a half life of maybe 5 years, so even if you are an expert in something hot, it will eventually become passe.
I remember reading an article in Newsweek about some researcher who was able to transfer the bioluminese gene from jellyfish to other organisms in the mid 1980s. At that time, it was a ground breaking achievement. Now, he was working for a little bit better than minimum wage at Hertz Rent-A-Car in Madison, AL.
Most meds developed by research institutes are funded with public research dollars. However, once a medicine becomes effective at treating a disease, more extensive testing is done to validate it and the side effects on a broader population. This is where pharms enter the picture and get in make money. They buy the work from the research institute and write patents on the chemical process to obtain exclusivity. If you want to do research, best stick with problems faced by poor people without resources to cure their problems, e.g. parasites found in the South.
Most of my FaceBook friends are people with whom I went to HS 30 years ago and haven't seen since. Some of my FB friends are people I ones that I never spoke with, unless I count my HS reunion after 5 beers.
Many of my LinkedIn associates are people I met while in career transition. So I had lunch with so and so, hence we reached out since we had some "common interests" Nice as this sounds, we are really worlds apart. However, the kicker is that there are many coworkers out there who turned down my LinkedIn request, and vis versa.
Much of this is probabilistic analysis.
My favorite FB moment was a FB suggestion I had. FB found that I have lots of friends in common with this person. Ok, she is my wife, but maybe she does not want to admit this to too many people.
My project isn't done. Someone is going to try to make money and I'm not ready.
I guess if the Dutch try it, so can we.
I wonder if this is not being done all ready. Some guy growing drugs notices that there seem to be too many drones flying around and decides to take matter into his own hands. Better than shooting the drones with a rifle, as there is culpable deniability.
Incidences like this have and always will be about selective enforcement. There are a plenty of laws on the book, which people violate every day. It is just a matter of who gets prosecuted.
Back in the 1990's, one of the Kennedy's was accused of having sex with his kid's babysitter. For a while, this became a news story, only to disappear into the background.
When the government wants to make a example out of you, they just fabricate evidence to frame you. Look at Nixon and the case of the pumpkin papers. Evidence will be planted to make you look bad. This is especially useful against dissidence and anyone who disagrees with the state. After all, if you are not for us, you are for the "enemy".
The thing about it is that it was built at a time of the Cold War SDI/Star Wars concepts. While as it might have had civilian uses, I suspect that it was a precursor to the equivalent of the American "Thousand Points of Light", a SDI concept that would use a ground based laser to fire into a orbiting mirror which would be redirected towards a target. However, if all you are doing is calibrating and orienting an orbiting mirror, you could sell it to the world as a purely scientific experiment.
The kicker in all of this is the protests mentioned which would disrupt the natural night environment. Now, we have been polluted with lots of light during the night time for the last hundred years, so I doubt that this is hardly a valid concern. I don't think that even the atomic bomb tests, which did irradiate a lot of people in the Pacific did not draw the same level of "concern".
I heard that Oil of Oley was sued. I think that they reworded their commercials to say that "it makes skin look younger" from the old claims that it "actually reverses effects of aging". Mostly, I think that the company reduced the number of explicit TV ad and rely on "word of mouth" and leave the blame with the cosmetics salesperson to take any hits.
Still, fraud by my definition, but less fraudulent. Olive Oil is just as "effective at reducing lines and wrinkles" but costs a lot less.
Did the same team that developed that code also run an accuracy assessment? Was there a "prize" (contract payment) associated with meeting certain accuracy? I remember reading about facial recognition systems which worked well in labs, but fail in the field.
As soon as developers become aware that they might be identified, I think that they might do things (spoof, run beautify and strip comments) to throw such a system off.
Use 451 for legal reasons,
Use code 452 for political ones.
And a citation of what particular stature is being offended.
It is surprising how many middle aged obsolete technology professionals you will find if you care to visit your local job career transition networking meetings. It not always that the people don't want to learn a new skill set, but more times than not, its a matter of cost of training. Its hard to fork down money for a training program if you are not working. Moreover, there is another problem in that people are reluctant to lay down cash on a skill set if they are unsure that it will be used in two years. I remember learning COM & OLE. I thought that it was hot shit. Well, it was more worthless than Elvis paraphernalia in another two years. Moreover, most head hunters or corporations will not want you if you only have a training program or a homemade portfolio (or open-source project). Its hard enough selling yourself to upper management if you have the skill set, but are an outsider without business contacts. There is an strong and established good old boys network for most upper end jobs. About the only way to circumvent it is if you know something that some business owner cannot find something thought his connections. I worked in finance, and it is ironic how many people knew each other from early childhood.
On the other end of the age spectrum, I have met many a Ph. D. s in fields that had a glut of people, e.g. medical sciences or in fields that do not have a high demand, Philosophy, Mathematics, Literature, or Oceanography. Most of these former students had unrealistic expectations of job prospects or believed that somehow they would be the one to overcome the odds and land a professorship. After about a two year job search, most come to the realization that they should have became a "short order chef: which has better career prospects. Being broke and destitute, they are looking to retool to become a programmer or bank administrator or "tech writer" and have the mental aptitude to learn what is necessary.
I think that your words will be ignored. Sorry Pal, you had a shot at the big chair and blew it. Well, some of us never were given the chance. Enjoy your cash.
Why not grab a shipment of Ford cars being brought into the country too. And how about them iPhones with pesky rare earth minerals extracted from war torn nations? And lets not forget DeBeer's stash of diamonds illegally exported from South Africa. We should take them as they have the potential to release CO2 into the atmosphere if they were super cooled and dropped into a vat of liquid oxygen!
Who is going to hire someone out of prison with a record as a programmer. It is tough to get hired as a gardener with a record.
The tech you develop today is going to be tending to you ass in 25 years.
I have been thinking on the side, what can I devise to make life later on easier for me. I was giving thought to natural buoyancy chambers. If I become so weak and feeble, would it not make sense to design a water tank in which to live. I got this idea years ago (1975), when sensory deprivation chambers were receiving a lot of attention
Probably we'd die of laughter if it wasn't "our" money, but the US and Soviets spent huge amounts of money trying to find and control psychotic weapons. One plausible sounding idea was "remote reading". After all, if you could read cards, then why not read "intelligence" documents. I guess Yuri Geller said that he could ready Soviet intelligence on their psychotic weapons research and would suggest further avenues of research. Now, don't these "investigation" have to be scrutinized by experts in a field. Otherwise, there would be an army of people trying all sorts of shit.
The biggest example of bogus science was at Harvard, when the world's leading brain surgeons decided to lobotomize J.F. Kennedy's sister Rosemary. Now, the two biggest problems are that the Kennedy's had access to money and were not morons.
The offshore consulting agencies and their cohorts, large businesses which employee engineers conspire against hard working programmer who have honed their skills and handicraft only to see the market flooded by cheap offshore agencies. Furthermore, most of these head hunters are now staffed with former low paid consultants brought to this country under the dream of making it big one day.
At best it exposes a bit of coding to kids. At worst, it turns them off completely.
However, even writing a damn "Hello World" takes hours if a novice has to do it with some support. Much more if there is no hand holding involved. I have seen adults struggle to find the matching closing quote problem. I had to fight with a problem because I typed code in with MS-Word, which used the slanted quotes, which gave me some weird error, something along the lines of incorrect encoding.
I seriously doubt that any spy, agent or terrorist carries along encrypted plans. Even plans are not communicated. This has been understood for well over a thousand years of warfare. At best, there are a series of code words which are clues to events, but alone, are meaningless. Hence, if you are going to go through with a plan, you might communicate, "The match is on." But even that is suspicious. Probably something more along the lines of quoting some obscure text.
The other day, there was a discussion of what sort of jobs are there in the IoTs marketplace. I guess you can put this on your craigslist resume, Well, I downloaded the software to the controls and helped fly and maneuver a helicopter to Bubba so he could get a hacksaw blade & can get out.
Almost. Except that we live in a world of distorted markets. Funny how you see apartment buildings built right next to a park. Half of the property owners have an in with local city government which help keep them in the cat bird seat which controls where and when these city parks are going to be built, so that they can put up a building right next to it. Or they manipulate and bribe people to put zones next to their facilities.
The best case of this is RTP outside of Durham, NC. Basically, companies gerrymandered a part of Durham to be a new town called RTP, which did not have to pay taxes to schools for black kids. However, Durham had a sewage system. RTP could not put one in its region, so in the end, bribed the right officials to get access to Durham's sewage system. In a capitalist system, Durham could have set a price which would cover the lost taxes. However, this is not how city politics work.
Similarly with other types of eminent domain laws in NYC used by banks to grab choice real estate at a bargain.
After 2001, when the property values fell in NYC, Rudy Giuliani got the top job at the "NYC Redevelopment Council." He tried to pass a series of laws to keep NYC economically "viable". He tried to pass laws to tax people working in NYC at a higher rate than the historical average, and offered a rebate to those who lived in NYC. One thing which he was successful in passing was to give small businesses a tax break. Well, Merrill Lynch got a tax break? How? The law was aimed to "help" small businesses which employed less than 500 people. Well, its not Merrill Lynch which is a small business, but "ML Fixed Income Mortgage Ventures", a sub-division of ML employing 499 people.
We use to laugh at the Soviet Union, but in many ways, we are not that different. We just won WWII!
Often, they ask indirectly, either by asking your HS or college graduation year.
Moreover, I have had employers ask for my SSN or drivers license, which usually give away most information. With the exception of a few contracting jobs, I usually had to submit to a drug and background test. Ironically, once I worked at IBM via a small contracting agency for a 18 month gig. Had I tried to get a job via direct employment at IBM, I would have had to have shown a lot more info.
While-as I believe that one cannot show up at work stoned, if you have joint on a weekend, I don't think this is any worse than someone who polishes off a couple of martinis after work.
Well, there is a bigger issue at stake here. There are lots of things in this society that get paid for without public support [mostly though back room deals]. Mostly corporate subsidies and tax breaks. Even things like economic and military support for Isreal.
I think these students think that they can play the same game as the elite.
So, if Donald Trump, the Hunts brothers, American oil investors in Mexican pipelines (1990's) or major banks make bad investments [by changing regulations governing commercial investments bailouts and "antiquated" regulations enacted after the 1930's ], they get time and allowances to reorganized. But don't think that you can play that game too.
Even shit like imminent domain allows the transfer of wealth from those who don't have it to those who do [and have the political clout to keep this going on].
I miss read the title.