you cant retroactively claim the 'locked down' strategy suddenly makes sense after seven fucking iterations of the software that didnt boast the software brickup solution for a wetware problem. Youre also entirely discarding the fact that everything from the new mac pro to the ipad actively resists attempts to load any other operating system than the one its packaged with...or did you fail to consider those devices jailed-by-default?
lets try this again. Apples war against jailbreaking is a wholly justified endeavor based on market research, financial analysis and business strategy that ensures consistently increased quarterly profits for its board and its shareholders. reducing the level of iPhone theft (outside the glass doors of the macstore) is not conducive to these goals and has been implemented largely due to consumer unrest and politically incensed district attorneys for various states. The goal is to develop a cheap product with a high markup and a rabid fanbase that will questionlessly purchase every regularly-scheduled iteration of the product regardless of perceived need. for the consumer to actually control what the device does and the parameters under which it operates means the death of planned obsolescence.
1. immediately proceed to the bathroom, become known as "that bathroom robot that slowly sings 'bad romance' by lady gaga all day long"
2. have conversation with boss in which you slowly inch further away from her until you're nearly down the hallway.
3. only one speed: bat-out-of-hell fast. insist a racing stripe, cubicle nametag change to 'the crimson terror'
4. stand near vending machines, stare forcefully into coworkers eyes.
5. "Leave" work at the end of the day, exit parking lot, local intersection, merge onto freeway.
4. attend meetings, take your place at the table, begin slowly rotating around and around. do not stop until the meeting ends.
3. telepresence camera can and will be pointed at anything. this becomes a known fact as your attendance on tuedays is now referred to as 'that electric bellybutton on wheels'
2. once per day, fly out the door, race through the parking lot and directly into the quarter panel of the most expensive car you find. insist this is a bug.
1. show up to work, insist the use of the telepresence robot during all interaction. refuse any requests that do not utilize it.
the act of pedaling Redmond into the earth takes careful planning. Some very important people have to get up very early in the morning and make some very poor decisions. if the selling points are 'only every hour' connections and 'wont record your private conversations' then id hate to see the downsides of the product.
these arent really the kinds of jobs americans need. these will be 115 individuals of borderline cognitive function that load dispensers, change lightbulbs and drive forklifts. the jobs wont pay anywhere near a living wage, will likely specify "mandatory overtime" and preferentially select individuals who either have no concept of formal unionized labour or have had the notion beaten out of them from years of walmart servitude. Turnover will be high, regulation will be sparse. in this case the local government simply decided to go on a cocksucking contest and award absurd tax breaks for a factory that will likely leave the people as well as the state worse off than they were had the corporation never set foot.
Acers free thumb drive will be factored into 1q2014 quarterly profit and expenditures accordingly. it will be reflected in the price of the $next_Acer_laptop
$50 in free pizza at Papa Johns might be used by President John Schnatter as damage control for his recent plan to raise the price of his food based on the healthcare reform act. then again he might suddenly decide to decrease the size of a pizza, or the amount of topping, or the quality, or both.
tl;dr: at no point does your class action windfall guarantee companies wont try to fuck you in the future in pursuit of the same greed that landed them in court the first time. its most ethical to not participate in class action skull duggery and simply act as a responsible consumer. maybe consider the local pizzaria next time, or pick up some ingredients at the local market and make one. laptops from thinkpenguin or system76 are also pretty good too, and im sure there are a few other places willing to make you a windows laptop that wont try to screw you out of a component.
so the company is using data analytics to determine where it should plant crops most efficiently? thats pretty cool. Chances are great theyve been using analytics heavily in their biosciences divisions for quite some time, considering output from computational modeling software is rarely terse.
this might seem naive, but wasnt this the grand plan for the future? a supercrop that never needs to worry about weeds or bugs? that grows tens of times larger than its regular counterpart? I have a legitimately difficult time bashing monsanto but ive followed lots of slashdot discussion on the matter and it seems to be a pretty common thread.
are they really targeting farmers for intentional litigation somehow? there are plenty of other corn seeds besides roundup ready for example that farmers could decide to plant, and the only evidence ive seen to date was some guy who went to the supreme court to challenge the fact that he knowingly saved proprietary seeds. solution: vote with dollars, dont buy proprietary monsanto seeds.
is GM food dangerous? i really cant find any scientific data on the subject...maybe thats because research hasnt been/is still being conducted, but so far i havent seen a public crisis that indicates GM is a bad thing, other than a tentative link to colony collapse disorder.
does monsanto have a history of using analytics for some nefarious purpose? Other than creating superplants i cant think of any.
1. microsoft already enjoys lock-in at most universities and private colleges. shit like outlook and sharepoint has unfortunately shoved years of well-maintained unix to the roadside in an effort for universities to seem more cutting edge. protracted multi-month outages (ahem, University of Kentucky) requiring expensive consultants drive alongside patch tuesday now in the race to time best wasted.
2. 90% of the engineering labs, the ones we slashdotters fondly pine for, are sadly Microsft lock stock and barrel. each desltop basically exists as a $500 PuTTY workstation.
id be willing to guess microsoft is trying to reduce the amount of apple on campus. in the arm and in the backpack of millions of students rests the most egregious chunk of the student loan, the macbook. Microsoft wants that few inches of space so badly they can taste the sweat off steves greasy forehead, but theyve failed catastrophically in the past and if history is any indicator, this will just serve to ever cement microsoft as the spreadsheet king. the Zune was a godless abortion, the netbook was an underpowered way to piss off university hackers, and the tablets are about the only thing left until you realize apple has been doing it better for years. Now we're going for the laptops...and its worth noting most $college macbooks run XP or 7 so as to comply with university requirements for courseware. Make no mistake however, they roll back over to mac whenever theres a party and someone needs to fire up a jukebox playlist fitting for kegstands.
making college kids beg wont work. at the end of the day sure, theyre accustomed to it with their parents but microsoft doesnt represent anything they inherently need that they cant already download off bittorrent or use a lab for. victory has defeated you microsoft, your ubiquity is the titration point at which college students simply dont care about your products. they all know windows, they all use it, but there is no fundamental 'want' or drive you can possibly conjure up that will spur kids to fall to their knees the way steve jobs could get them to.
You meet and exceed all qualifications for our bug bounty, Mr. Kugler, and we thank you for your participatory effort and hacker spirit. in the spirit of our ethos, we would certainly not be forgiven if we were remiss in this congratulation, and we certainly have not forgotten about the security of the internet.
to ensure your reward is provided quickly and safely, we must insist upon our currency the Bitcoin.
while other agencies are struggling to react to the sequester, the pentagon has clearly seen the benefit of using sensationalism, fear, uncertainty, and doubt to secure its funding.
the DoD keeps the red-menace ready to repackage and sell at a moments notice for good reason. Recently the president vocally and publically criticized the 'war on terror' and his intent to close guantanamo bay. for whatever thats worth to us its apparently enough to get the DoD to shuffle aside its 'terrorist' brand for a 'communist' model in the congressional windowsill. add a dash of "cyber" and a pinch of "hacker" and bobs your uncle, bills start to de-emphasize defence cuts a little more each week.
to dial back the crazy just a bit on this article its worth putting our interation with the chinese into perspective. we've schitzophrenically insisted china is both a major international trade partner as well as some sort of enemy communist nation. we're more than willing to buy practically every major modern convenience from toothpaste to cellphones without a concern for safety or security, however strangely enough we're also willing to denigrate and lambast the country on everything from civil rights, to working conditions. We are a walking contradiction of 80's cold war rhetoric and modern day milton friedman hand-over-fist greed that somehow has managed for thirty years to avoid the uncomfortable truth that china is in actuality a capitalist dictatorship.
what the DoD doesnt exactly recommend is the precise thing that would secure us from this manufactured menace: reduce the amount of off-shored and outsourced manufacturing to China.
Microsoft, Tivo, Sony, and EA have all acted in the 'best interest of customers' by crippling their users experience to some extent. based upon their past actions, you may be mistaken in assuming your user isnt intelligent enough to not only sidestep your endeavors but challenge your hubris as well.
the entire summary and the first half of the article is basically an agenda for discrediting anonymous and whitewashing the local cops.
the leak was in response to the complaints from citizens sent to the police department, assigned a case number, and basically ignored by the police. what were the complaints about? the shooting death of 34 platinum mine workers by the police. you dont need to worry about exposing whistleblowers because the police killed 34 mine workers during a protest pretty much describes the suspects. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10016471/South-Africa-the-Massacre-That-Changed-a-Nation-BBC-Two-review.html
the machine is really just a quantum annealer. you still need real computers to do your solving for things like computational quantum thermodynamics but where the D-Wave comes in, its really just there to assist the solver cluster with a more terse or efficient algorythm. Not bashing it, seeing as some of their jobs run months or years if the D-Wave manages to carve 20-30% off the time of a solver run, then you just saved ~80 days of work.
as to naysayers who think D-Wave isnt in a true quantum state, heres a research paper on the matter http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.4595
Simulations of quantum versus classical annealers show that a classical one has a fairly uniform probability of solving a problem correctly; a quantum device should instead have a low probability of success at solving hard problems, and a high probability of success solving easy ones. This is what D-Wave is shown to do.
disclosure: i work for a large engineering firm that handles computational fluid thermodynamic and finite element analysis simulation as a service. Id be speechless to have one of these ajacent to my datacenter.
between the benghazi conspiracy theory, the 37th repeal of healthcare reform, and the shitstorm over patriot groups applying for a form of charity that explicitly prohibits them from political activity its a wonder these guys can find a minute in the day to "write a letter to google" about their privacy concerns. its also kind of amazing because i didnt hear a fucking peep from most of these career policitians during the patriot act or warrantless wiretapping and im pretty fucking sure that involved a large telecommunications company. one question committee head Joe Barton is asking is:
When using Google Glass, is it true that this product would be able to use Facial Recognition Technology to unveil personal information about whomever and even some inanimate objects that the user is viewing? Would a user be able to request such information? Can a non-user or human subject opt out of this collection of personal data? If so, how? If not, why not?
Substitute "google glass" with "United States Law Enforcement" and you begin to see how fucking hypocritical this entire endeavor is
Sure, its fun to watch. just remember when the first coffee was brewed 30 years ago by a machine we all stood in wonderment at what appeared to be a robot future. Turns out the final product sitting in the breakroom of most offices grinds out a dull black water, comes in a box form factor, and occasionally shits cups all over the floor. its generally avoided by all but a fanatic few who pump 60 cents into it each morning and have never had a cup of starbucks. "Flair" and attractiveness are what make a bartender in many situations, same as a barista. Speaking as a former bartender, I have a few problems with this layout:
its inefficient: we move drinks, we look good doing it, we do NOT spill the product across the cup from the shaker as the machines did, for a number of reasons. 1. your inventory on the floor costs you money and customers. 2. all those sugary mixed drinks become a hellish glue to clean up eventually. 3. Fruit flies multiply inexorably with spillage and get you shut down by the health department/any competing bar that lodges a complaint very quickly. 4. customers dont want wet sticky plastic cups. its a static load: mixes are pre-portioned, all drinks must be shaken, garnish is not provided. this is basically an electronically assembled pre-mix cocktail that will invariably piss off 2-3 customers an hour with its inability to do 'doubles' or 'sidecars' or any other kitshy stuff customers just want out of habit. a few regulars might take double lime, no lime, or float a splash of cranberry juice. ive had to do beer-mosas on sunday when normally mimosas suffice. beermosa is not in the black book where i presume the machines recipes are sourced. account for fault conditions: what if we cant make a drink anymore? you're still selling so you need to improvise. offer other options to customers, listen to what they like, be creative and come up with something they will enjoy. "We dont do that" or "Empty" is the fastest way to lose a bar.
that having been said: where do i want this machine? I want it on saturday night at the front of the bar with a preset load of cocktails that people commonly order that, normally, i pour out of a mix. tequila sunrise, margarita, any mixed sugary shot, etc...I also might want it to make drinks that are very dangerous (check out the blue blazer sometime, it requires pouring flaming bourbon between two steel mugs to mix it.), and handle volatile liquors that some bars cannot procure insurance for (151 requires additional fire insurance for example.) im not sure i want it slinging beer. not that it cant, just that beer has a strange rate of return where ive found often customers want to "switch" because they dont like a certain new craft brew theyre trying.
Georgia Tech: Accredited educational institution, cash strapped and myred to a state that as much of the south does, thinks evolution isnt a real thing..
Udacity: guys that put education online, middlemen essentially until colleges do this themselves or states outlaw it because it cuts into sports funding and undermines tenured profs that show up in sweatsuits to mumble at lecturn.
AT&T: Major multinational telecommunications corporation....why? i mean if anything these guys will put the cost of the course significantly higher than $7000.
generally i keep my options pretty open. infrastructure servers are usually high availability and ordered from Silicon Mechanics or something. theyre cheap, my management enjoys the cost savings, and if one breaks its super simple to just order another as opposed to trying to justify the 'value.' ERP applications or databases will get the Dell/HP Treatment with the $nonferrous_metal level service support and $mm/$dd/$yyyy response SLA because management sees more value in them and theyre generally easier to get upgrades and DR stuff for. Dell for example knows this and actually ships an SAP "break-down" sheet for my manager to get the fuzzies about so he can look good in front of his management, who in turn can tout our 'core relationship with leading technology vendors' to investors and C-levels.
Ive stayed away from Cisco because of the cost, lock-in, and seriously underhanded sales tactics theyve used in the past. Things like firewalls and VPN are nearly exclusively Open Source here just because management cant justify the cost of a laptop for someone, let alone the cost of a token/license/enterprise server. Management gets their nano-yubikey (which they think is incredibly tech-savvy and sexy) and everyone is assigned a fun password from pwqgen.
and the argument in TFA from Glaser is that somehow dealerships are vital for things like recalls, malfunctions and service. Recalls and malfunctions are widely visible through Technical Service Bulletins that places like Firestone actually have a system to track. problems are fixable by any local garage, partly because the government tracks them. Taking your car to a dealership for service might happen once or twice, but the local garage is closer and likely more a part of the community than the regional chain of last-name-here car dealership. Glasers boilerplate at the end about who is going to support the YMCA and little league seems a bit far fetched. Crap like that is a write-off for dealerships, not something they do strictly out of kindness.
Macfarlane should have been passed over for this for one reason: He completely bombed the 2013 Oscars. Its not something you have to improv or give a great deal of consideration to; the entire event is scripted. The audience is known, and every variable has been populated for your consideration. Despite having a completely controlled environment, he still managed to fail miserably. His irreverant banter with Shatner, juvenile Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles number that just seemed to drag on ad-nauseum, and generally sexist hosting of the Oscars with deadpan jokes and universally reviled criticism should have been a red flag for Fox. Instead you're taking the guy who made Family Guy, the Cleveland Show, Ted, and American Dad and asking him to participate in a documentary about the cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson. Tyson juxtaposed against Macfarlanes habitual 'coonery bafoonery' portrayal of black characters is a gut-wretching consideration.
Morgan Freeman is more qualified as an executive producer based on his experience with Nova.
seem like a gimmick. taking steps like ensuring your MTA always delivers using a TLS connection is probably the most interoperable decision, seeing as endpoint encryption requires two mta's to be using the same hardware or software to encrypt/decrypt, assuming its PKI. endpoint encryption raises big questions like at what point does the message become decrypted? where are keys stored? how do you independently verify key integrity or revoke keys that have been compromised? is there a 'barracuda back door?' and can the system be arbitrarily bypassed. These tend to be the kinds of questions that force vendors to seem standoffish or unprofessional because they dont know the answers.
if you need real crypto, then use an open standard thats auditable and verifiable. assign keys to users, and revoke them when they become compromised or the employee leaves. you might consider configuring your mailserver to reject unencrypted messages, which can be detected using spamassassin or plain regex to ensure compliance. Make sure the stakeholders on your end are well informed as to the SLA and method/type of crypto being employed (TLS tunnel vs actual message or even both.) Encrypted messages have the potential to make collaboration cumbersome if not outright impossible without defeating the crypto at some point, while encrypted gateways can cause problems in the event certificates are checked against an authority for self-signature, or expiration. its also worth nothing once again that just because an email system is encrypted, does not mean you will receive less UBE (spam) or phishing attempts (in fact a compromised key makes these attacks far more effective.) encrypted email by nature also requires you to reveal envelope headers in plaintext, and does not excuse a mail administratior from considering or employing SDF and DKIM signatures.
disclaimer: ive done email for more than a decade for search engine companies.
as a near-term 'water bailing' strategy for microsoft but at some point, google will either adopt smarter strategies to avoid the patents entirely, buy the patents outright, or challenge them in court. considering how microsoft has been almost worthless for more than a decade in the smart phone industry though ill have to quote the words of Tony Stark, "You're missing the point. There's no throne, there is no version of this, where you come out on top."
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you cant retroactively claim the 'locked down' strategy suddenly makes sense after seven fucking iterations of the software that didnt boast the software brickup solution for a wetware problem. Youre also entirely discarding the fact that everything from the new mac pro to the ipad actively resists attempts to load any other operating system than the one its packaged with...or did you fail to consider those devices jailed-by-default?
lets try this again. Apples war against jailbreaking is a wholly justified endeavor based on market research, financial analysis and business strategy that ensures consistently increased quarterly profits for its board and its shareholders. reducing the level of iPhone theft (outside the glass doors of the macstore) is not conducive to these goals and has been implemented largely due to consumer unrest and politically incensed district attorneys for various states. The goal is to develop a cheap product with a high markup and a rabid fanbase that will questionlessly purchase every regularly-scheduled iteration of the product regardless of perceived need. for the consumer to actually control what the device does and the parameters under which it operates means the death of planned obsolescence.
1. immediately proceed to the bathroom, become known as "that bathroom robot that slowly sings 'bad romance' by lady gaga all day long"
2. have conversation with boss in which you slowly inch further away from her until you're nearly down the hallway.
3. only one speed: bat-out-of-hell fast. insist a racing stripe, cubicle nametag change to 'the crimson terror'
4. stand near vending machines, stare forcefully into coworkers eyes.
5. "Leave" work at the end of the day, exit parking lot, local intersection, merge onto freeway.
4. attend meetings, take your place at the table, begin slowly rotating around and around. do not stop until the meeting ends.
3. telepresence camera can and will be pointed at anything. this becomes a known fact as your attendance on tuedays is now referred to as 'that electric bellybutton on wheels'
2. once per day, fly out the door, race through the parking lot and directly into the quarter panel of the most expensive car you find. insist this is a bug.
1. show up to work, insist the use of the telepresence robot during all interaction. refuse any requests that do not utilize it.
the act of pedaling Redmond into the earth takes careful planning. Some very important people have to get up very early in the morning and make some very poor decisions. if the selling points are 'only every hour' connections and 'wont record your private conversations' then id hate to see the downsides of the product.
these arent really the kinds of jobs americans need. these will be 115 individuals of borderline cognitive function that load dispensers, change lightbulbs and drive forklifts. the jobs wont pay anywhere near a living wage, will likely specify "mandatory overtime" and preferentially select individuals who either have no concept of formal unionized labour or have had the notion beaten out of them from years of walmart servitude. Turnover will be high, regulation will be sparse. in this case the local government simply decided to go on a cocksucking contest and award absurd tax breaks for a factory that will likely leave the people as well as the state worse off than they were had the corporation never set foot.
Acers free thumb drive will be factored into 1q2014 quarterly profit and expenditures accordingly. it will be reflected in the price of the $next_Acer_laptop
$50 in free pizza at Papa Johns might be used by President John Schnatter as damage control for his recent plan to raise the price of his food based on the healthcare reform act. then again he might suddenly decide to decrease the size of a pizza, or the amount of topping, or the quality, or both.
tl;dr: at no point does your class action windfall guarantee companies wont try to fuck you in the future in pursuit of the same greed that landed them in court the first time. its most ethical to not participate in class action skull duggery and simply act as a responsible consumer. maybe consider the local pizzaria next time, or pick up some ingredients at the local market and make one. laptops from thinkpenguin or system76 are also pretty good too, and im sure there are a few other places willing to make you a windows laptop that wont try to screw you out of a component.
so the company is using data analytics to determine where it should plant crops most efficiently? thats pretty cool. Chances are great theyve been using analytics heavily in their biosciences divisions for quite some time, considering output from computational modeling software is rarely terse.
this might seem naive, but wasnt this the grand plan for the future? a supercrop that never needs to worry about weeds or bugs? that grows tens of times larger than its regular counterpart? I have a legitimately difficult time bashing monsanto but ive followed lots of slashdot discussion on the matter and it seems to be a pretty common thread.
are they really targeting farmers for intentional litigation somehow? there are plenty of other corn seeds besides roundup ready for example that farmers could decide to plant, and the only evidence ive seen to date was some guy who went to the supreme court to challenge the fact that he knowingly saved proprietary seeds. solution: vote with dollars, dont buy proprietary monsanto seeds.
is GM food dangerous? i really cant find any scientific data on the subject...maybe thats because research hasnt been/is still being conducted, but so far i havent seen a public crisis that indicates GM is a bad thing, other than a tentative link to colony collapse disorder.
does monsanto have a history of using analytics for some nefarious purpose? Other than creating superplants i cant think of any.
1. microsoft already enjoys lock-in at most universities and private colleges. shit like outlook and sharepoint has unfortunately shoved years of well-maintained unix to the roadside in an effort for universities to seem more cutting edge. protracted multi-month outages (ahem, University of Kentucky) requiring expensive consultants drive alongside patch tuesday now in the race to time best wasted.
2. 90% of the engineering labs, the ones we slashdotters fondly pine for, are sadly Microsft lock stock and barrel. each desltop basically exists as a $500 PuTTY workstation.
id be willing to guess microsoft is trying to reduce the amount of apple on campus. in the arm and in the backpack of millions of students rests the most egregious chunk of the student loan, the macbook. Microsoft wants that few inches of space so badly they can taste the sweat off steves greasy forehead, but theyve failed catastrophically in the past and if history is any indicator, this will just serve to ever cement microsoft as the spreadsheet king. the Zune was a godless abortion, the netbook was an underpowered way to piss off university hackers, and the tablets are about the only thing left until you realize apple has been doing it better for years. Now we're going for the laptops...and its worth noting most $college macbooks run XP or 7 so as to comply with university requirements for courseware. Make no mistake however, they roll back over to mac whenever theres a party and someone needs to fire up a jukebox playlist fitting for kegstands.
making college kids beg wont work. at the end of the day sure, theyre accustomed to it with their parents but microsoft doesnt represent anything they inherently need that they cant already download off bittorrent or use a lab for. victory has defeated you microsoft, your ubiquity is the titration point at which college students simply dont care about your products. they all know windows, they all use it, but there is no fundamental 'want' or drive you can possibly conjure up that will spur kids to fall to their knees the way steve jobs could get them to.
You meet and exceed all qualifications for our bug bounty, Mr. Kugler, and we thank you for your participatory effort and hacker spirit. in the spirit of our ethos, we would certainly not be forgiven if we were remiss in this congratulation, and we certainly have not forgotten about the security of the internet. to ensure your reward is provided quickly and safely, we must insist upon our currency the Bitcoin.
All the best,
Anonymous.
while other agencies are struggling to react to the sequester, the pentagon has clearly seen the benefit of using sensationalism, fear, uncertainty, and doubt to secure its funding.
the DoD keeps the red-menace ready to repackage and sell at a moments notice for good reason. Recently the president vocally and publically criticized the 'war on terror' and his intent to close guantanamo bay. for whatever thats worth to us its apparently enough to get the DoD to shuffle aside its 'terrorist' brand for a 'communist' model in the congressional windowsill. add a dash of "cyber" and a pinch of "hacker" and bobs your uncle, bills start to de-emphasize defence cuts a little more each week.
to dial back the crazy just a bit on this article its worth putting our interation with the chinese into perspective. we've schitzophrenically insisted china is both a major international trade partner as well as some sort of enemy communist nation. we're more than willing to buy practically every major modern convenience from toothpaste to cellphones without a concern for safety or security, however strangely enough we're also willing to denigrate and lambast the country on everything from civil rights, to working conditions. We are a walking contradiction of 80's cold war rhetoric and modern day milton friedman hand-over-fist greed that somehow has managed for thirty years to avoid the uncomfortable truth that china is in actuality a capitalist dictatorship.
what the DoD doesnt exactly recommend is the precise thing that would secure us from this manufactured menace: reduce the amount of off-shored and outsourced manufacturing to China.
nothing of value was lost.
Microsoft, Tivo, Sony, and EA have all acted in the 'best interest of customers' by crippling their users experience to some extent. based upon their past actions, you may be mistaken in assuming your user isnt intelligent enough to not only sidestep your endeavors but challenge your hubris as well.
the loss of a forecast satellite is an event that can be computationally determined to a certain degree of accuracy.
id like to think its all part of gods divine plan to obliterate as much of the bible belt as possible each year.
typing this from the datacenter I work in, i can assure you robots will never replace 8rSta$O7qNO CARRIER
the entire summary and the first half of the article is basically an agenda for discrediting anonymous and whitewashing the local cops.
the leak was in response to the complaints from citizens sent to the police department, assigned a case number, and basically ignored by the police. what were the complaints about? the shooting death of 34 platinum mine workers by the police. you dont need to worry about exposing whistleblowers because the police killed 34 mine workers during a protest pretty much describes the suspects. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10016471/South-Africa-the-Massacre-That-Changed-a-Nation-BBC-Two-review.html
the machine is really just a quantum annealer. you still need real computers to do your solving for things like computational quantum thermodynamics but where the D-Wave comes in, its really just there to assist the solver cluster with a more terse or efficient algorythm. Not bashing it, seeing as some of their jobs run months or years if the D-Wave manages to carve 20-30% off the time of a solver run, then you just saved ~80 days of work.
as to naysayers who think D-Wave isnt in a true quantum state, heres a research paper on the matter http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.4595
Simulations of quantum versus classical annealers show that a classical one has a fairly uniform probability of solving a problem correctly; a quantum device should instead have a low probability of success at solving hard problems, and a high probability of success solving easy ones. This is what D-Wave is shown to do.
disclosure: i work for a large engineering firm that handles computational fluid thermodynamic and finite element analysis simulation as a service. Id be speechless to have one of these ajacent to my datacenter.
When using Google Glass, is it true that this product would be able to use Facial Recognition Technology to unveil personal information about whomever and even some inanimate objects that the user is viewing? Would a user be able to request such information? Can a non-user or human subject opt out of this collection of personal data? If so, how? If not, why not?
Substitute "google glass" with "United States Law Enforcement" and you begin to see how fucking hypocritical this entire endeavor is
Sure, its fun to watch. just remember when the first coffee was brewed 30 years ago by a machine we all stood in wonderment at what appeared to be a robot future. Turns out the final product sitting in the breakroom of most offices grinds out a dull black water, comes in a box form factor, and occasionally shits cups all over the floor. its generally avoided by all but a fanatic few who pump 60 cents into it each morning and have never had a cup of starbucks. "Flair" and attractiveness are what make a bartender in many situations, same as a barista. Speaking as a former bartender, I have a few problems with this layout:
its inefficient: we move drinks, we look good doing it, we do NOT spill the product across the cup from the shaker as the machines did, for a number of reasons. 1. your inventory on the floor costs you money and customers. 2. all those sugary mixed drinks become a hellish glue to clean up eventually. 3. Fruit flies multiply inexorably with spillage and get you shut down by the health department/any competing bar that lodges a complaint very quickly. 4. customers dont want wet sticky plastic cups.
its a static load: mixes are pre-portioned, all drinks must be shaken, garnish is not provided. this is basically an electronically assembled pre-mix cocktail that will invariably piss off 2-3 customers an hour with its inability to do 'doubles' or 'sidecars' or any other kitshy stuff customers just want out of habit. a few regulars might take double lime, no lime, or float a splash of cranberry juice. ive had to do beer-mosas on sunday when normally mimosas suffice. beermosa is not in the black book where i presume the machines recipes are sourced.
account for fault conditions: what if we cant make a drink anymore? you're still selling so you need to improvise. offer other options to customers, listen to what they like, be creative and come up with something they will enjoy. "We dont do that" or "Empty" is the fastest way to lose a bar.
that having been said: where do i want this machine? I want it on saturday night at the front of the bar with a preset load of cocktails that people commonly order that, normally, i pour out of a mix. tequila sunrise, margarita, any mixed sugary shot, etc...I also might want it to make drinks that are very dangerous (check out the blue blazer sometime, it requires pouring flaming bourbon between two steel mugs to mix it.), and handle volatile liquors that some bars cannot procure insurance for (151 requires additional fire insurance for example.) im not sure i want it slinging beer. not that it cant, just that beer has a strange rate of return where ive found often customers want to "switch" because they dont like a certain new craft brew theyre trying.
Georgia Tech: Accredited educational institution, cash strapped and myred to a state that as much of the south does, thinks evolution isnt a real thing..
Udacity: guys that put education online, middlemen essentially until colleges do this themselves or states outlaw it because it cuts into sports funding and undermines tenured profs that show up in sweatsuits to mumble at lecturn.
AT&T: Major multinational telecommunications corporation....why? i mean if anything these guys will put the cost of the course significantly higher than $7000.
down goes metropolia.fi.
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generally i keep my options pretty open. infrastructure servers are usually high availability and ordered from Silicon Mechanics or something. theyre cheap, my management enjoys the cost savings, and if one breaks its super simple to just order another as opposed to trying to justify the 'value.' ERP applications or databases will get the Dell/HP Treatment with the $nonferrous_metal level service support and $mm/$dd/$yyyy response SLA because management sees more value in them and theyre generally easier to get upgrades and DR stuff for. Dell for example knows this and actually ships an SAP "break-down" sheet for my manager to get the fuzzies about so he can look good in front of his management, who in turn can tout our 'core relationship with leading technology vendors' to investors and C-levels.
Ive stayed away from Cisco because of the cost, lock-in, and seriously underhanded sales tactics theyve used in the past. Things like firewalls and VPN are nearly exclusively Open Source here just because management cant justify the cost of a laptop for someone, let alone the cost of a token/license/enterprise server. Management gets their nano-yubikey (which they think is incredibly tech-savvy and sexy) and everyone is assigned a fun password from pwqgen.
and the argument in TFA from Glaser is that somehow dealerships are vital for things like recalls, malfunctions and service. Recalls and malfunctions are widely visible through Technical Service Bulletins that places like Firestone actually have a system to track. problems are fixable by any local garage, partly because the government tracks them. Taking your car to a dealership for service might happen once or twice, but the local garage is closer and likely more a part of the community than the regional chain of last-name-here car dealership. Glasers boilerplate at the end about who is going to support the YMCA and little league seems a bit far fetched. Crap like that is a write-off for dealerships, not something they do strictly out of kindness.
Macfarlane should have been passed over for this for one reason: He completely bombed the 2013 Oscars. Its not something you have to improv or give a great deal of consideration to; the entire event is scripted. The audience is known, and every variable has been populated for your consideration. Despite having a completely controlled environment, he still managed to fail miserably. His irreverant banter with Shatner, juvenile Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles number that just seemed to drag on ad-nauseum, and generally sexist hosting of the Oscars with deadpan jokes and universally reviled criticism should have been a red flag for Fox. Instead you're taking the guy who made Family Guy, the Cleveland Show, Ted, and American Dad and asking him to participate in a documentary about the cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson. Tyson juxtaposed against Macfarlanes habitual 'coonery bafoonery' portrayal of black characters is a gut-wretching consideration.
Morgan Freeman is more qualified as an executive producer based on his experience with Nova.
seem like a gimmick. taking steps like ensuring your MTA always delivers using a TLS connection is probably the most interoperable decision, seeing as endpoint encryption requires two mta's to be using the same hardware or software to encrypt/decrypt, assuming its PKI. endpoint encryption raises big questions like at what point does the message become decrypted? where are keys stored? how do you independently verify key integrity or revoke keys that have been compromised? is there a 'barracuda back door?' and can the system be arbitrarily bypassed. These tend to be the kinds of questions that force vendors to seem standoffish or unprofessional because they dont know the answers.
if you need real crypto, then use an open standard thats auditable and verifiable. assign keys to users, and revoke them when they become compromised or the employee leaves. you might consider configuring your mailserver to reject unencrypted messages, which can be detected using spamassassin or plain regex to ensure compliance. Make sure the stakeholders on your end are well informed as to the SLA and method/type of crypto being employed (TLS tunnel vs actual message or even both.) Encrypted messages have the potential to make collaboration cumbersome if not outright impossible without defeating the crypto at some point, while encrypted gateways can cause problems in the event certificates are checked against an authority for self-signature, or expiration. its also worth nothing once again that just because an email system is encrypted, does not mean you will receive less UBE (spam) or phishing attempts (in fact a compromised key makes these attacks far more effective.) encrypted email by nature also requires you to reveal envelope headers in plaintext, and does not excuse a mail administratior from considering or employing SDF and DKIM signatures.
disclaimer: ive done email for more than a decade for search engine companies.
eggplants, in much higher quantities.
as a near-term 'water bailing' strategy for microsoft but at some point, google will either adopt smarter strategies to avoid the patents entirely, buy the patents outright, or challenge them in court. considering how microsoft has been almost worthless for more than a decade in the smart phone industry though ill have to quote the words of Tony Stark, "You're missing the point. There's no throne, there is no version of this, where you come out on top."