Once upon a time, "Nobel prize winning" was a mark of some distinction. More recently, the Nobel committees have blessed some enormous turkeys. Paul Krugman, former Enron adviser, for example.
And even Lawrence Peter, inventor of "The Peter Principle", notes that expertise in one field does not imply distinction in other fields, not even fields closely connected.
Don't get me wrong; I think Bitcoin is an enormous scam on the scale of the Dutch "Tulip Mania". But since I don't really understand what's going on, perhaps I'm not the right guy to criticize it. But then, I've never lost the credentials of a Bitcoin wallet containing a few thousand Bitcoins, so I'm at least that far ahead.
My first PC (purchased when I was already 30.....) was an Apple ][+ with a whopping 48K of RAM. But I thought I was super-special, because I'd paid for the 16K expansion card.....
Many employers would like to do background checks or do IQ tests, but most methods of evaluating the suitability of potential employers has been ruled illegal by the government. The ability to obtain a bachelor's degree, while mostly irrelevant to most jobs, does indicate that the graduate has the ability to show up and stick to a task. A college degree is a flawed tool, but in many cases, it's the only tool available.
Which begs the question, why didn't the FBI bother to do this within the 48 hour window? And if the phone is restarted (or the battery dies) then the passcode is required immediately.
He _DID_ get (unwitting) assistance - from the Air Farce, which couldn't be bothered to record his domestic violence convictions and his BCD to the NICS.
Does the FBI somehow think that they'll discover the true identity of the killer? Or discover that he was aided in his crime by foreign powers such as ISIS or the Russians?
Perhaps the universities, which are in many cases hoarding billions of dollars of tax-free endowment money, should actually PAY the grad students for research work that they're doing? Doesn't that sort of sound like what the endowments are intended for? Or perhaps the graduates should leave the university cloister and go experience the real world in some manner other than spring break. Take a gap year between graduation and starting an advanced degree, so that you don't have 25 year old PhDs who have ZERO real world experience.
On a related note, I would propose requiring all candidates for political office to have as many years working in the private sector as they have in government. Bernie Sanders, for example, has almost no actual work experience other than being on the government teat.
Why would the FBI be all panicky about being unable to get into the murderer's phone? Are they looking for signs of involvement with ISIS or the Russians? Who helped him get the guns? Well, other than the Air Farce, in failing to inform the NCIC of his court martial or his Bad Conduct Discharge or his conviction for domestic violence. Had the Air Force done that, then we wouldn't be having this discussion. On the other hand, most law enforcement agencies can't be bothered to actually arrest and prosecute criminals who try to buy guns.
It's quite likely that the FBI is ginning up a panic merely to muddy the waters and make this seem like's an actual problem, when it probably is not.
If 5% of all Amazon Prime customers were to buy an Amazon Key, the company who makes them would be rolling in the dough.. I personally would never get one - but I can see how a few people might find it convenient, especially for Amazon Pantry customers. How much worse is this than having the doorman for your apartment building having a key to your apartment?
Build a door between the foyer of your house and the rest of the house, put a refrigerator in there, and the Amazon guy can put your Prime Pantry perishables in the fridge and you'd never need to go shopping ever again. Especially when Amazon Prime Booze starts up....
Next year. Last year was an El Nino year; this is a La Nina year. And the solar cycle is becoming longer and flatter than any time in the past century, so I'm expecting COOLING trends for the next 30 years or so.
No, because you have searched the entire area of your bathtub with sensors that are capable of detecting the presence of aircraft debris. We can therefore be confident that MH370 did NOT crash in your bathtub.
I'd be a whole lot more impressed about the performance of "Big Data" if the submarine ROVs had found any trace of the aircraft. Right now, what they have is a big fat NOTHING. Some control surfaces washed up on islands a thousand miles away are not indicative of the performance of any sort of data analysis.
Nor in mine. Which doesn't mean that we shouldn't at least START taking the INITIAL steps to expand into the galaxy. The supervolcanoes in Yellowstone or or Naples aren't likely to erupt in my lifetime (which, considering my age, isn't all that long) - but that just means that we PROBABLY have enough time to do it. But we'll never finish the work if we don't start SOMETIME.
There are any number of existential threats that we can think of; nuclear war, an asteroid impact, a super-volcano, and at the end of all of that, the Sun will almost certainly expand into a red giant and terminate all life on Earth. IF the Earth is still here. Larry Niven has proposed a couple of ways to move the Earth into a different orbit, which we may have the technology to do when the time comes, a billion years from now.
But for nearer-term hazards, it's essential that some human beings leave the Earth and go elsewhere. The Moon. Mars. Ganymede or Titan or one of the other moons. Or build our own space habitats and roam the Galaxy in search of adventure.
Because if we stay here on the Earth, then any one of a dozen hazards can make us extinct. We need to spread out and become the weeds of the galaxy. It's very likely that the galaxy is ours for the taking; let's go take it!
"An SSN is a good primary key in a database because each SSN should correspond to a unique person"
SSN is a TERRIBLE primary key for any database. The Social Security Administration has a miserable record of maintaining a one-to-one correspondence between database rows and human individuals. The Social Security Administration has on numerous occasions issued the same number to different individuals who have the same name, and there are thousands of people who use someone else's SSN.
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So from now on, will you get a discount on an Uber ride if you make it with a Sprint phone?
Of all the places in the world where you should NOT trust an open WiFi hot spot, North Korea would be #1 on any list.
And WTF was the author doing in North Korea?
Trump wants to "create a ghost network of private spies in hostile countries "? Isn't that a basic description of Wikileaks?
Once upon a time, "Nobel prize winning" was a mark of some distinction. More recently, the Nobel committees have blessed some enormous turkeys. Paul Krugman, former Enron adviser, for example.
And even Lawrence Peter, inventor of "The Peter Principle", notes that expertise in one field does not imply distinction in other fields, not even fields closely connected.
Don't get me wrong; I think Bitcoin is an enormous scam on the scale of the Dutch "Tulip Mania". But since I don't really understand what's going on, perhaps I'm not the right guy to criticize it. But then, I've never lost the credentials of a Bitcoin wallet containing a few thousand Bitcoins, so I'm at least that far ahead.
Darn, you must be almost as old as I am! :-)
My first PC (purchased when I was already 30.....) was an Apple ][+ with a whopping 48K of RAM. But I thought I was super-special, because I'd paid for the 16K expansion card.....
Many employers would like to do background checks or do IQ tests, but most methods of evaluating the suitability of potential employers has been ruled illegal by the government. The ability to obtain a bachelor's degree, while mostly irrelevant to most jobs, does indicate that the graduate has the ability to show up and stick to a task. A college degree is a flawed tool, but in many cases, it's the only tool available.
"Job Security by Force" is always a management failure - you need to fix that situation before it goes horribly wrong.
By that time, it already HAS gone horribly wrong.
A 20-guage handgun with small birdshot loads would do a number on a whole swarm of microdrones.
Better yet, self-defense anti-drone microdrones to destroy any microdrones that approach a protected target....
Which begs the question, why didn't the FBI bother to do this within the 48 hour window? And if the phone is restarted (or the battery dies) then the passcode is required immediately.
"How many paychecks are going into this project?"
All of them, of course.
He _DID_ get (unwitting) assistance - from the Air Farce, which couldn't be bothered to record his domestic violence convictions and his BCD to the NICS.
Signal, of course.
Does the FBI somehow think that they'll discover the true identity of the killer? Or discover that he was aided in his crime by foreign powers such as ISIS or the Russians?
Perhaps the universities, which are in many cases hoarding billions of dollars of tax-free endowment money, should actually PAY the grad students for research work that they're doing? Doesn't that sort of sound like what the endowments are intended for? Or perhaps the graduates should leave the university cloister and go experience the real world in some manner other than spring break. Take a gap year between graduation and starting an advanced degree, so that you don't have 25 year old PhDs who have ZERO real world experience.
On a related note, I would propose requiring all candidates for political office to have as many years working in the private sector as they have in government. Bernie Sanders, for example, has almost no actual work experience other than being on the government teat.
Why would the FBI be all panicky about being unable to get into the murderer's phone? Are they looking for signs of involvement with ISIS or the Russians? Who helped him get the guns? Well, other than the Air Farce, in failing to inform the NCIC of his court martial or his Bad Conduct Discharge or his conviction for domestic violence. Had the Air Force done that, then we wouldn't be having this discussion. On the other hand, most law enforcement agencies can't be bothered to actually arrest and prosecute criminals who try to buy guns.
It's quite likely that the FBI is ginning up a panic merely to muddy the waters and make this seem like's an actual problem, when it probably is not.
If 5% of all Amazon Prime customers were to buy an Amazon Key, the company who makes them would be rolling in the dough.. I personally would never get one - but I can see how a few people might find it convenient, especially for Amazon Pantry customers. How much worse is this than having the doorman for your apartment building having a key to your apartment?
Build a door between the foyer of your house and the rest of the house, put a refrigerator in there, and the Amazon guy can put your Prime Pantry perishables in the fridge and you'd never need to go shopping ever again. Especially when Amazon Prime Booze starts up....
Next year. Last year was an El Nino year; this is a La Nina year. And the solar cycle is becoming longer and flatter than any time in the past century, so I'm expecting COOLING trends for the next 30 years or so.
Somehow, NONE of these climate apocalypse predictions ever come true, and I'd bet real money that this one will fail worse than most of them do.
Good to hear. That's what I get for relying on newspaper reports.
No, because you have searched the entire area of your bathtub with sensors that are capable of detecting the presence of aircraft debris. We can therefore be confident that MH370 did NOT crash in your bathtub.
I'd be a whole lot more impressed about the performance of "Big Data" if the submarine ROVs had found any trace of the aircraft. Right now, what they have is a big fat NOTHING. Some control surfaces washed up on islands a thousand miles away are not indicative of the performance of any sort of data analysis.
Also destroyed was the home and museum of "Peanuts" cartoonist Charles Schultz.
Nor in mine. Which doesn't mean that we shouldn't at least START taking the INITIAL steps to expand into the galaxy. The supervolcanoes in Yellowstone or or Naples aren't likely to erupt in my lifetime (which, considering my age, isn't all that long) - but that just means that we PROBABLY have enough time to do it. But we'll never finish the work if we don't start SOMETIME.
And if not now, when?
There are any number of existential threats that we can think of; nuclear war, an asteroid impact, a super-volcano, and at the end of all of that, the Sun will almost certainly expand into a red giant and terminate all life on Earth. IF the Earth is still here. Larry Niven has proposed a couple of ways to move the Earth into a different orbit, which we may have the technology to do when the time comes, a billion years from now.
But for nearer-term hazards, it's essential that some human beings leave the Earth and go elsewhere. The Moon. Mars. Ganymede or Titan or one of the other moons. Or build our own space habitats and roam the Galaxy in search of adventure.
Because if we stay here on the Earth, then any one of a dozen hazards can make us extinct. We need to spread out and become the weeds of the galaxy. It's very likely that the galaxy is ours for the taking; let's go take it!
"An SSN is a good primary key in a database because each SSN should correspond to a unique person"
SSN is a TERRIBLE primary key for any database. The Social Security Administration has a miserable record of maintaining a one-to-one correspondence between database rows and human individuals. The Social Security Administration has on numerous occasions issued the same number to different individuals who have the same name, and there are thousands of people who use someone else's SSN.