Comment Re:I've grappled with the ethics of CS for 20 year (Score 1) 183
You think that's bad? I sent spam for N'SYNC.
You think that's bad? I sent spam for N'SYNC.
We already have redirects. They work just fine.
Well, they do when they're used. And mostly they aren't. Which is what I have to say to this article: We already have a mechanism for handling this, and yet nobody is actually handling it. What's sad is that CMSes don't handle it for you automatically. Drupal for example has a module which automatically generates path aliases. But there's no module which produces a redirect for the old alias when the path changes.
This is clearly meant to be a remote management backdoor for the ISPs, hence the need to secure it but not remove it.
There is no such need.
Such a feature would look very different, probably involving a certificate. This is a back door for cisco etc. Or for the NSA. It's not for ISPs, or the ISPs would have known about it.
That's different from "denatured alcohol", which is usually some combination of ethanol and things that are bad for you, and it's the version that's not food-grade, it's paint-thinner-grade solvent.
I don't even use denatured alcohol for cleaning things. You can buy pure IPA in gallon steel cans (or even five gallon cans!) at most hardware stores. The only time I've gotten it cheaper is in those rare cases when the grocery outlet has 70% IPA, but usually it's only 50% and less than 70% won't adequately clean many varnishes and so on off of the metal surfaces where I tend to use IPA — in automotive applications. I refill my bottles and then add water to make my own 75%-ish bottles for less-demanding jobs.
They've been dicking around with paint thinner, too! Now you often can't get real toluene, they have some kind of substitute. That sucks, because it's got a bunch of specific uses as a thinner for stuff other than paints, like silicone.
IMO the reason Indians, Japanese, and Koreans do so well is because their culture values work
Do they? Do they really? Japanese values seem to work, right up until they go completely insane and fail epically. Koreans, which Koreans? Indians? Have you seen India?
I don't think the USA is that great or anything, this isn't about that. But seriously.
Largely because better trained staff will demand more pay, or will go somewhere else to get it.
Yes. But guess what? If you hire that talent from outside, you're going to have to pay them more, or they will just quit and go to work for someone else. You have to pay for talent.
There's a fun little space station game called Startopia that is cheap on GOG, where you build in the contents of a station to serve visitors and engage in trade. You hire employees from the pool of visitors to the station. Each employee has three statistics, which are skill, dedication, and loyalty. Each stat can have zero to five pips and each pip raises their hiring cost. As employees age, they increase in ability. Every three pips and they demand another pip in pay; pay is one to five pips. If their abilities exceed their pay for too long, they quit; the lower their loyalty stat, the sooner they quit. There's also a factor of their desires; what you build either appeases those or doesn't. If they don't get what they want, they will eventually quit. If they don't have enough to do, they will eventually quit.
This extremely simple set of rules actually produces a pretty good approximation of employee behavior, albeit in a sci-fi setting. People expect to get paid for what they can do. Some people feel loyalty to their employers, but most people are just trying to appease their own needs. And why not? They wouldn't be working for you, otherwise. You can either pay them and make sure they get what's important to them, or you can watch them quit and wave goodbye.
Now, how applicable the frequencies of action are to actual life is another issue, but the takeaway is that you hire loyal employees, who won't just up and quit on you when times are tough and you're having trouble giving raises because you'll empty your coffers, and you give them some training. You need to hire employees who have enough skill to carry your business forward, but if you hire employees with more skill than you need, you're just wasting money.
The real bitch is that there are three unemployed for every job opening, and many job postings now attract literally thousands of applicants. You can't just count stars when hiring humans, and now there are just too many applications to even go through for many technical positions.
Sadly, when I studied welding it was taught by a short-timer. And while I can [MIG] weld OK in normal conditions, when I'm in a tiny little space with fifteen other guys trying to learn to weld, I just sweat out. It's probably horribly hazardous to health just breathing all that shit. Not even fume hoods, just one of those big vac hoses over each station that catches about a quarter of what comes off of the work.
Nothing is more frustrating than already being frustrated and having the "instructor" "teaching" the class being about to leave next year, and not giving a shit.
By the way, I always thought that URIs were supposed to handle precisely this - that they were supposed to be unique, universally accessible identifiers for contents and resources - identifiers that, once assigned, wouldn't need to be changed to access the same contents or resources in the future.
What happens when you want to access something on fubar.com but the domain fubar.com no longer exists?
Source please?
Butamax is a shell company of BP and DuPont. It is suing Gevo to prevent it from selling Butanol fuel based on an obvious patent developed at public university, partly with our tax money.
So, you're telling me someone who can afford to drop $70,000 on a car is going to want to be seen driving it 8 years later?
That depends. Top Gear reports when the cocks have shifted brand, I believe they've moved from BMWs to Audis just in time for me to buy one and remove all doubt. Otherwise, they seem to get rid of their cars (What's a $70k car? S-Class, A8, Jag...) about the same time all the electrical stuff takes a dump. I don't think they're worried about being current, only having the correct brand.
Holy shitballs, batman. Even on an Audi A8 the transmission lines are only four hundred bucks. They only list one part so apparently that's both of them and you buy them together.
On the other hand, the Chevy dealer wouldn't sell me door handles, they wanted to sell me door handle mechanisms. 2000 Astro, a thousand bucks in door handles. I got the handles on eBay for ten to twenty bucks a piece depending on placement. So I guess Chevy really is worse than Audi
With gas cars, you buy them doing calculations about repair cost and resale value that simply do not apply to the situation with electric cars. It's damn unlikely (unless I get in a wreck) that ANY repairs will ever be needed on my Leaf other than the big one
The suspension is pretty much guaranteed to be ripe for a rebuild by or before that time, because they're still not using polyurethane bushings. That's spendy and it's no less (or more) spendy on the Leaf.
The CNC milled guns tend to have parts that go in without smithing. I'll take that over pedigree.
Per-home ROs are cheap as hell now. A system that was up to a grand (if you were being robbed) a decade ago is just over a hundred bucks now.
It's only a problem if you are taking too much of the plant away from the field. Growing corn isn't the problem, growing corn and carrying away the waste instead of turning it in is the problem. Corn still gets most of its carbon from the air like every other plant.
Testing can show the presense of bugs, but not their absence. -- Dijkstra
