Honestly, the US government is well known to blow a ton of cash on flawed technology implementations, even if the specific tech itself is otherwise well established and durable. They bought a recognition technology that doesn't work because #reason -- chalk it up to more wasted spending. The company engaged likely has some political or nepotist tie somewhere./shrug
> None of the cars I drove as a teen had power steering, or power brakes. Kids these days.
Kindly attempt to visualize your past life driving a car that wasn't constructed prior to 1990. I sincerely apologize that you are super old, but that's how life works, and honestly that is not the debate here. However, thank you for your contribution, and the universe wholly apologizes for hosing you out of "driving cars that don't completely suck".
Honestly. I'm 40 and this all makes perfect sense to me. Hell, I'm pretty sure even my parents would fully understand this article and not feel slighted. Are you 80+ and confused? Would you like the assistance of a sound-minded adult to assist you henceforth?
Fucking old people, I tell ya.... If/when I get this way, please just do me a favor and assassinate me as soon as possible. If possible, I'd like it to happen during a nice breakfast: perhaps on an unsuspecting Wednesday or Thursday, while I'm sipping some coffee between enjoying bites of a nice omelet breakfast. Sounds lovely. Thanks team!
Honestly, this infatuation with buses has me a bit baffled. Sure, they do a great job of moving lots of people from point A to point B, but everyone seems to forget to take the actual consumer participation factor out of account. I live in a major metro area, which is sadly laden with buses, and I see at least 2 a day that are 100% empty of passengers. To make matters worse, these behemoths literally park in the right-most lane of traffic to drop of and pick up 'passengers'. In the best of cases, no one is there and the bus just slowly urks by the stop; in the worse of cases there are 3-4 people with bikes on the front rack that need a solid 10 minutes to get their shit together. Meanwhile, a solid 60 people behind said bus are stuck in traffic, going nowhere. Also, these things are slow as hell and take corners at 5mph, so you can bet everything behind them misses every possible light they happen upon.
I don't know why buses are still in use today. A fucking dedicated lane constant 5mph trolley that is pre-timed for lights will kick the shit out of these useless artifacts. Someone please kill off buses. They suck and don't work.
Maybe the real problem is that we didn't have significant historical data available for us to originally start claiming an arctic-melt-crisis when we did oh so many years ago, but we did anyways, and it now that the data doesn't line up it's incredibly unpopular for us to point out the obvious. Seriously, Bob - are you done making us look bad, or what?
Science reporting fail. Seriously. When you're wrong, or shit doesn't line up like you predicted, you point it out with a big, red marker. "We found unexpected deviation right fucking here, and we don't yet know why." Science is a community, and we learn as a community through collective experience. The argumentists in this emotional case are the ass hats that are still infuriatingly mad that their original predictions aren't still becoming reality. (To those people, I say: "Reality is allowed to change, that's the point, and you're actually not as smart as you thought-and-suggested that you were. Welcome to life.")
Quite honestly, the scientist in these researchers should be sparking the question "why", not the questions "what can I say to save face" or "why don't these fools agree with me"...
The reality is that immigrants, particularly illegals, are the ones performing jobs that others don't want. Hard to believe that not everyone grows up hoping to become the guy that scrubs the toilets and changes the paper towels at an office complex, or installing a new roof in 98 degree heat, but apparently these jobs are always looking for more people even in poor economic times.
That said, H1B was never designed to provide an alternate citizenship avenue. It was meant to allow the US to brain drain the rest of the world for our own benefit. Let the geniuses have a stay in our country for a while, get them to like the amenities, and then they will want to become residents. What it's turned into, however, is an alternate path to general citizenship for the unwashed masses. We already have an avenue for that. People should stop trying to game the system. Too many H1B's are lackluster and need to go home, yet continue to fuck up our economy with their poor job execution and language barriers. The latest is the recent college grad foreign exchange student, that tries to land some job where their mediocrity can get by just long enough to become the one guy in the company that knows how to do X, and then suddenly they become "critical" with "irreplaceable knowledge", as defined by lazy managers.
I specifically avoid hiring the average performing H1B's and foreign exchange students for this very reason. If I'm blown away by their abilities, then great, welcome to 'Merika. If not, then fuck them. Finding a local monkey is easy, and they generate far less paperwork for HR and don't drain on the economy.
Sounds like the taxing agencies that got stiffed on the previous sales should contact H2-11 to collect the back taxes owed. Problem solved. No story here. Stop sensationalizing nothingness; it's lame.
So I'm a time traveler, and I can go to any time and place that I choose. Why in this world would I go to Stephen Hawking's lame-ass party? History already recorded that it sucked. F-that, I'm gonna go crash one of Kanye's parties, get some sex from a drunk/drugged troglodyte-hooker, and score some low-priced kanye-coins before they catch on. Then I go home and be a billionaire, like I always wanted, and still get some sex from drunk/drugged troglodyte-hookers.
Honestly, Stephen, you're supposedly a great physicist, you should know better than to think that this sort of crap could ever work.
Lame. Try harder, or stop pretending to know what the fuck you're talking about.
Nope! Go get a BlackBerry Storm. Touch screen device that is improved via mechanism to detect difference between touching a widget and pushing a widget. I used to have one of those other touch screen phones, and navigation was a complete pain in the ass. My new phone with the clicky screen is much better, and it still uses multi-touch for on-screen text selection purposes. Interface improved, patent improved, life goes on.
What we really need is some patent reform to keep up with modern engineering and manufacturing speeds. A 20 year patent is a little long these days since time to market from prototype is often well under 2 years. Maybe 5-8 year patents are in order. Long patent durations encourage competitors to embrace/extend. Short patents encourage the original patent holder to continue making improvements, rather than sitting on their duff.
That's half the point. People only ask for code samples for 2 reasons. To measure knowledge, and to measure experience. They could really care less what it actually does, and what it actually does doesn't need to be that impressive. Good code structure, proper use of comments, intelligently named variables, is the code messy or organized, etc. It's just a litmus test designed to weed out the "wannabes" from those that actually do know what the hell they are doing. As an experienced programmer with several languages under my belt, I can look at a snippet of code and tell within a few seconds if the mind behind it really knew what they were doing or not. You'd be surprised the number of degree holders that apply for software engineering jobs, yet don't understand programming logic beyond 'cout "Welcome to my ATM";'.
The utility of code samples is still questionable, as anyone that asks for them may or may not understand what they are looking at. Even if they did, how do they really know you didn't just clip out a few lines of code from some random open source project?
The best thing I can suggest for things like this is to provide code you wrote for an open source project. Go find something small and simple that kind of bugs you, and write something to fix it. Post it on SF.net, and call it a day. If anyone asks you for code samples, you can provide them out of that, and even provide a link to the full source, and it's all your original work.
How is dying going to help with resource utilization? Whether you are around for 70 days, 70 years, or 70 eons, you still have the same burn rate per person. In fact, it could easily be argued that since you are immortal you would likely change your views on resource consumption. Instead of burning petrol to drive 100 miles, you'd choose to bike it instead. After all, why are you in a hurry? Plus this way you get to see all the sights along the way.
As for the extinction through super-virus, do you honestly think that dying regularly has saved us from this fate thus far? People need to give up on thoughts like this. Humanity has lived through far dirtier conditions than we do now (filth generally being the spawning ground for bacteria), and we've yet to been eradicated by any sort of super-bug. Virii don't play by the same rules, and instead mutate regardless of environmental conditions. It is well known that the mutation rate of bacteria and virii are far faster than our own due to our vastly organism different complexity levels. Any sort of detrimental weakness in humanity as a whole to virii or bacteria would have became an issue long ago. Yet here we are, after millions of years. Statistically, it just isn't going to happen. Even if it did, the only hope you have of saving the species is science to develop a cure, and interplanetary population to give you enough time to develop one. Both are only likely if we immortal.
And it isn't like living forever would actually stop our ability to evolve. Did you know that you lose 30,000 to 40,000 skin cells every minute of every day? Oxidation is everywhere, and it is burning you alive, right now. Yet here you are, rejuvenating yourself at a fast enough rate to sustain your existence. Cellular regeneration is a fact, and your genetics are the map your body uses to rebuild itself. Gene therapy could change your evolutionary state without the need for death. But instead of being by random chance, it would be a controlled mutation. We don't have the technology to do this now, but it obviously exists as we are all living proof.
So if you don't want to participate in the biggest experiment mankind can muster, then don't. But the cold truth is that we are a doomed species if we don't start taking a more proactive role in our existence. Immortality is step number one.
As do I. The 'natural' order of things, the 'circle of life', whatever bullshit label you want to stick on it, is lofty, naive, short-sighted, and obsolete. To those that claim the existence of a higher power, perhaps you're right. But did you ever stop and think that one of the major steps your deity intended for humanity to take was the leap to immortality? Suddenly all of the problems that we've been handing off to other generations, shady business practices and volatile economies, dependence on fossil fuels, deforestation, global warming, destruction of ecosystems, they all suddenly fall right back into our own lap. Having to live with your decisions forever certainly changes your perspective on matters.
Not to mention the scientific gains to be had if we stopped losing the top researchers. Hell, given enough time, we'd all be a hell of a lot wiser. A few hundred years of slacking off and you'll find yourself ready to start doing something more useful. Learn to play the piano, write some dissertations on quantum physics, learn a new language, get a structural engineering degree, explore the world, finally finish that piece of software you started writing 50 years ago...
With the right perspective, this world would suck a lot less. As for the religious fanatics that want the opportunity to meet their maker, no one said you would be forced into the program. Go ahead and die. The rest of us will probably be happier without hearing you spouting off in public about how we're all sinners for cheating death.
Disk based backup solutions are worth the effort, so I can see why you're leaning this way. Unfortunately, trying to utilize ~100 PATA drives for this is going to give you nightmares for ages. Find a way to reclimate them for cash, either directly or indirectly. Hell, you can donate them to charity for a tax writeoff if you like (just make sure you DoD wipe the disks first). Take the reclimated capital and buy yourself a new data-deduplicated VTL, or a NearStor, or similar. Backup solutions need to have some level of trustworthiness to be useful, and I doubt you'll find that in a pile of aged PATA disk.
I would have to agree. Having configured both SELinux and AppArmor to their desired effect, AppArmor is definitely the easier and faster of the two to get configured correctly. I'm much more likely to go through the effort to get AppArmor correctly configured, than piss around with SELinux for hours.
SELinux may have more bells and whistles, but when you simply turn if off because it's a pain in the ass it doesn't really make your system any more secure.
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Honestly, the US government is well known to blow a ton of cash on flawed technology implementations, even if the specific tech itself is otherwise well established and durable. They bought a recognition technology that doesn't work because #reason -- chalk it up to more wasted spending. The company engaged likely has some political or nepotist tie somewhere. /shrug
Plants do this thing with other plants, called fertilization, primarily via pollen, which ends up spreading by bugs, animals, gusts of wind, etc.
Ask Monsanto about how easily their proprietary DNA spreads between fields and between crop types.
So what happens when this gene starts showing up in other plants where we didn't intend it to be present?
Should I expect impending global crop blight, or simply lawsuits because the world-saving crop genes got into my tomato garden?
> None of the cars I drove as a teen had power steering, or power brakes. Kids these days.
Kindly attempt to visualize your past life driving a car that wasn't constructed prior to 1990. I sincerely apologize that you are super old, but that's how life works, and honestly that is not the debate here. However, thank you for your contribution, and the universe wholly apologizes for hosing you out of "driving cars that don't completely suck".
Honestly. I'm 40 and this all makes perfect sense to me. Hell, I'm pretty sure even my parents would fully understand this article and not feel slighted. Are you 80+ and confused? Would you like the assistance of a sound-minded adult to assist you henceforth?
Fucking old people, I tell ya.... If/when I get this way, please just do me a favor and assassinate me as soon as possible. If possible, I'd like it to happen during a nice breakfast: perhaps on an unsuspecting Wednesday or Thursday, while I'm sipping some coffee between enjoying bites of a nice omelet breakfast. Sounds lovely. Thanks team!
Honestly, this infatuation with buses has me a bit baffled. Sure, they do a great job of moving lots of people from point A to point B, but everyone seems to forget to take the actual consumer participation factor out of account. I live in a major metro area, which is sadly laden with buses, and I see at least 2 a day that are 100% empty of passengers. To make matters worse, these behemoths literally park in the right-most lane of traffic to drop of and pick up 'passengers'. In the best of cases, no one is there and the bus just slowly urks by the stop; in the worse of cases there are 3-4 people with bikes on the front rack that need a solid 10 minutes to get their shit together. Meanwhile, a solid 60 people behind said bus are stuck in traffic, going nowhere. Also, these things are slow as hell and take corners at 5mph, so you can bet everything behind them misses every possible light they happen upon.
I don't know why buses are still in use today. A fucking dedicated lane constant 5mph trolley that is pre-timed for lights will kick the shit out of these useless artifacts. Someone please kill off buses. They suck and don't work.
My sources suggest differently. Would you care to share yours? URLs please. After all, I want to be conscientious - high-five / thanks much.
Stop being logical - society doesn't care as long as they have a 4 second headline for CNN's morning recap. Science is old school.
Maybe the real problem is that we didn't have significant historical data available for us to originally start claiming an arctic-melt-crisis when we did oh so many years ago, but we did anyways, and it now that the data doesn't line up it's incredibly unpopular for us to point out the obvious. Seriously, Bob - are you done making us look bad, or what?
Science reporting fail. Seriously. When you're wrong, or shit doesn't line up like you predicted, you point it out with a big, red marker. "We found unexpected deviation right fucking here, and we don't yet know why." Science is a community, and we learn as a community through collective experience. The argumentists in this emotional case are the ass hats that are still infuriatingly mad that their original predictions aren't still becoming reality. (To those people, I say: "Reality is allowed to change, that's the point, and you're actually not as smart as you thought-and-suggested that you were. Welcome to life.")
Quite honestly, the scientist in these researchers should be sparking the question "why", not the questions "what can I say to save face" or "why don't these fools agree with me"...
Sounds about right. Do you have a newsletter? I would like to subscribe.
The reality is that immigrants, particularly illegals, are the ones performing jobs that others don't want. Hard to believe that not everyone grows up hoping to become the guy that scrubs the toilets and changes the paper towels at an office complex, or installing a new roof in 98 degree heat, but apparently these jobs are always looking for more people even in poor economic times.
That said, H1B was never designed to provide an alternate citizenship avenue. It was meant to allow the US to brain drain the rest of the world for our own benefit. Let the geniuses have a stay in our country for a while, get them to like the amenities, and then they will want to become residents. What it's turned into, however, is an alternate path to general citizenship for the unwashed masses. We already have an avenue for that. People should stop trying to game the system. Too many H1B's are lackluster and need to go home, yet continue to fuck up our economy with their poor job execution and language barriers. The latest is the recent college grad foreign exchange student, that tries to land some job where their mediocrity can get by just long enough to become the one guy in the company that knows how to do X, and then suddenly they become "critical" with "irreplaceable knowledge", as defined by lazy managers.
I specifically avoid hiring the average performing H1B's and foreign exchange students for this very reason. If I'm blown away by their abilities, then great, welcome to 'Merika. If not, then fuck them. Finding a local monkey is easy, and they generate far less paperwork for HR and don't drain on the economy.
Sounds like the taxing agencies that got stiffed on the previous sales should contact H2-11 to collect the back taxes owed. Problem solved. No story here. Stop sensationalizing nothingness; it's lame.
So I'm a time traveler, and I can go to any time and place that I choose. Why in this world would I go to Stephen Hawking's lame-ass party? History already recorded that it sucked. F-that, I'm gonna go crash one of Kanye's parties, get some sex from a drunk/drugged troglodyte-hooker, and score some low-priced kanye-coins before they catch on. Then I go home and be a billionaire, like I always wanted, and still get some sex from drunk/drugged troglodyte-hookers.
Honestly, Stephen, you're supposedly a great physicist, you should know better than to think that this sort of crap could ever work.
Lame. Try harder, or stop pretending to know what the fuck you're talking about.
Just plain wrong. Many states share reciprocity and honor CCP's issued by other states in the union. It's really not that much different from marriage licenses.
http://www.usacarry.com/concealed_carry_permit_reciprocity_maps.html
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enough said.
Yep.
You just misunderstand air shows.
Well Fah Q both then
Nope! Go get a BlackBerry Storm. Touch screen device that is improved via mechanism to detect difference between touching a widget and pushing a widget. I used to have one of those other touch screen phones, and navigation was a complete pain in the ass. My new phone with the clicky screen is much better, and it still uses multi-touch for on-screen text selection purposes. Interface improved, patent improved, life goes on.
What we really need is some patent reform to keep up with modern engineering and manufacturing speeds. A 20 year patent is a little long these days since time to market from prototype is often well under 2 years. Maybe 5-8 year patents are in order. Long patent durations encourage competitors to embrace/extend. Short patents encourage the original patent holder to continue making improvements, rather than sitting on their duff.
Oil is still over $100 a barrel in the US. It's been well over $45 a barrel for some time now.
That's half the point. People only ask for code samples for 2 reasons. To measure knowledge, and to measure experience. They could really care less what it actually does, and what it actually does doesn't need to be that impressive. Good code structure, proper use of comments, intelligently named variables, is the code messy or organized, etc. It's just a litmus test designed to weed out the "wannabes" from those that actually do know what the hell they are doing. As an experienced programmer with several languages under my belt, I can look at a snippet of code and tell within a few seconds if the mind behind it really knew what they were doing or not. You'd be surprised the number of degree holders that apply for software engineering jobs, yet don't understand programming logic beyond 'cout "Welcome to my ATM";'.
The utility of code samples is still questionable, as anyone that asks for them may or may not understand what they are looking at. Even if they did, how do they really know you didn't just clip out a few lines of code from some random open source project?
The best thing I can suggest for things like this is to provide code you wrote for an open source project. Go find something small and simple that kind of bugs you, and write something to fix it. Post it on SF.net, and call it a day. If anyone asks you for code samples, you can provide them out of that, and even provide a link to the full source, and it's all your original work.
How is dying going to help with resource utilization? Whether you are around for 70 days, 70 years, or 70 eons, you still have the same burn rate per person. In fact, it could easily be argued that since you are immortal you would likely change your views on resource consumption. Instead of burning petrol to drive 100 miles, you'd choose to bike it instead. After all, why are you in a hurry? Plus this way you get to see all the sights along the way.
As for the extinction through super-virus, do you honestly think that dying regularly has saved us from this fate thus far? People need to give up on thoughts like this. Humanity has lived through far dirtier conditions than we do now (filth generally being the spawning ground for bacteria), and we've yet to been eradicated by any sort of super-bug. Virii don't play by the same rules, and instead mutate regardless of environmental conditions. It is well known that the mutation rate of bacteria and virii are far faster than our own due to our vastly organism different complexity levels. Any sort of detrimental weakness in humanity as a whole to virii or bacteria would have became an issue long ago. Yet here we are, after millions of years. Statistically, it just isn't going to happen. Even if it did, the only hope you have of saving the species is science to develop a cure, and interplanetary population to give you enough time to develop one. Both are only likely if we immortal.
And it isn't like living forever would actually stop our ability to evolve. Did you know that you lose 30,000 to 40,000 skin cells every minute of every day? Oxidation is everywhere, and it is burning you alive, right now. Yet here you are, rejuvenating yourself at a fast enough rate to sustain your existence. Cellular regeneration is a fact, and your genetics are the map your body uses to rebuild itself. Gene therapy could change your evolutionary state without the need for death. But instead of being by random chance, it would be a controlled mutation. We don't have the technology to do this now, but it obviously exists as we are all living proof.
So if you don't want to participate in the biggest experiment mankind can muster, then don't. But the cold truth is that we are a doomed species if we don't start taking a more proactive role in our existence. Immortality is step number one.
"Yes...I DO want to live for ever."
As do I. The 'natural' order of things, the 'circle of life', whatever bullshit label you want to stick on it, is lofty, naive, short-sighted, and obsolete. To those that claim the existence of a higher power, perhaps you're right. But did you ever stop and think that one of the major steps your deity intended for humanity to take was the leap to immortality? Suddenly all of the problems that we've been handing off to other generations, shady business practices and volatile economies, dependence on fossil fuels, deforestation, global warming, destruction of ecosystems, they all suddenly fall right back into our own lap. Having to live with your decisions forever certainly changes your perspective on matters.
Not to mention the scientific gains to be had if we stopped losing the top researchers. Hell, given enough time, we'd all be a hell of a lot wiser. A few hundred years of slacking off and you'll find yourself ready to start doing something more useful. Learn to play the piano, write some dissertations on quantum physics, learn a new language, get a structural engineering degree, explore the world, finally finish that piece of software you started writing 50 years ago...
With the right perspective, this world would suck a lot less. As for the religious fanatics that want the opportunity to meet their maker, no one said you would be forced into the program. Go ahead and die. The rest of us will probably be happier without hearing you spouting off in public about how we're all sinners for cheating death.
And hopefully the comments in the article won't all be attempts at +5, Funny.
Disk based backup solutions are worth the effort, so I can see why you're leaning this way. Unfortunately, trying to utilize ~100 PATA drives for this is going to give you nightmares for ages. Find a way to reclimate them for cash, either directly or indirectly. Hell, you can donate them to charity for a tax writeoff if you like (just make sure you DoD wipe the disks first). Take the reclimated capital and buy yourself a new data-deduplicated VTL, or a NearStor, or similar. Backup solutions need to have some level of trustworthiness to be useful, and I doubt you'll find that in a pile of aged PATA disk.
Ask it what it feels like when you shut off various parts of it. >:)
I would have to agree. Having configured both SELinux and AppArmor to their desired effect, AppArmor is definitely the easier and faster of the two to get configured correctly. I'm much more likely to go through the effort to get AppArmor correctly configured, than piss around with SELinux for hours.
SELinux may have more bells and whistles, but when you simply turn if off because it's a pain in the ass it doesn't really make your system any more secure.
At least they come with a decent text editor.