JohnStudio's comments

After visiting the bay area ... it makes me wonder if Tesla done f'd up by not working with them on an OS for their cars. It seems like such a natural fit for the two.

I think the entire statosphere of DevOps is just about dead on the whole in 2018 .. in retro, after working with things like Docker .. and more specific industry variations beyond the Amazon tech, it makes no sense to dwell on the security / control of a dedicated systems admin professional since the tools are all outside the local domain anyway. The rest from VoIP to IoT to container services are managed whole-sale .... SysAdmin is a dino in the age of distributed tech and outsourced IT resources.

I'm a programmer, so I'll take heat for it .. but I don't see a need for them anymore.

Ya, that's the irony I find in that. I thought I was the only one not drinking the kool-aid here from the outside in view.

People wanted disruption ... well that's what you get. Economics of capitalism at work.

It's a tough bag, and unfortunate, because there are some really talented folks left swinging in the wind. Case in point - Kevin Mitnick, but that is a solid example to follow and take advice on post-computer access from yore. You don't exactly need the programmer job, considering there are many options for fronting a self-employed avenue and doing the consultant thing. The comments so far are much around small companies and beyond because the need is there more than the rigors of corporate American which places a premium on vetted resources w/o a mark on the record.

Hope this helps. There is plenty of work to be had and the avenues are wide and paved with honest wages if you advertise and remove yourself from the past and work towards the culture.

G'luck!

Kinda not really keen on its perverse use of title with "Strongman". China makes up 1.38 billion people of the world's population and the over generalizations of the article don't highlight the issues that China faces in the coming few decades and the need for a unified leadership. Coming from the US's perspective, it's very hard to write a cohesive article that accurately reflects China, to be honest. Additionally, I think anyone from a high-density urban center like New York has a tough time taking into perspective how wide the country's foot-print is across Asia.

I may be equally unqualified, but its a pretty terse way to write about our largest economic party in the world.

Well, one thing to really do is look at the resumes of some of the great photographers of all time and work your way backwards. I saw that, because artistic photographers often partake in pay-jobs and end up being totally outside of the realm of "art". One of the biggest things I've seen is the resurrection of techniques prior to film as you know it today - namely on sub-straits like tin/glass and low ISO below 1 .. yes ISO --> 1 <---. That might be a start.

https://petapixel.com/2015/12/08/ansel-adams-job-opening-in-...

Honestly, I can't agree more with this. It's like talking about cars, and then talking about weapons of mass destruction. Its falls in the context of scope, and not creep over that scope. But it is what it is. Keep it separated.

A >>former-friend<< was running an illegal FTP full of software on Macs at CompUSA for years through their firewall even. Don't think it doesn't happen.

Its like weed growers on state-federal owned land. Worst thing that happens is they loose their job, in most cases. Woop .. flip burgers.

define "illegal" imagery .. two steps to avoid 1337 h@x0rs is to not send in a personal hard drive in the first place. Ethics at the $10/h counter is about as transparent as this glass of water I'm drinking. Morality, especially when a smart 18 year old, sees cash -> a few bits of planted evidence -> huge pay day (relative to what they know as such) can be a lot easier to overcome thanks to money.

I replace the storage device on my Apple laptops immediately, and store it in case a unit dies. Warranty services outside of the care of a local shop - mail in stuff - is also a big no-no. Nobody looking at my 4th Amendment rights.

Call me paranoid, but if you are remotely ignorant to the fact that snooping teenagers aren't looking through your stuff ... think again. It's just common sense to just replace the drive as a matter of privacy.

Does anyone know the source of those stats?

"steep decline of animal, fish and bird numbers was calculated by analyzing 10,000 different populations, covering 3,000 species"

Logistically speaking, I'd like to know how they tracked that. I've seen how caribou are tracking in Canada rather effectively (http://mffp.gouv.qc.ca/the-wildlife/hunting-fishing-trapping...)

However, specifics of their research I'd find very interesting if indeed I could see it sited.

Any help?

So let me ask you .... how do IT folks actually handle this type of situation? The experience required for systems work both in the field and base are both between making soldiers at home, in combat zones, and also keeping them safe. It's something that requires a LOT of experience on new tech to really stop/filter/protect against situations where data is being transferred off base. There is also the STORED perspective. That data may not be transmitted ON base .. it could be transferred over a wifi at something like the "sister's house" or some other place you never expected on an open network for wifi with that device. It's nearly impossible to stop this. It's like White House leaks .. when there is a way to transmit, it will be used.

It's a platform problem. The cross-availability of information on let's say ... Google Android. They can use a microphone, wifi signal analysis, and other techniques that make your GPS coordination data moot. What's getting more complex is the data itself, and how it be sorted and moved around the need for actual location data. That's why I think the "disable GPS / Location" actions in Android (and macOS) needs to be more granular. When we say "don't track me" .. it means ... on everything and protect the information from software in silos. It goes against the grain of security vs. usability .. but its gonna happen by will of the people.

They are not robots. Why do they need iPads? Why do they need personal phones? Not being snide, but when on deployment they have a LOT of tech tools, just like any other demographic of folks. It's just a thing ...

I call this data scrapping .. two sets of data, and making correlations is my primary job function. I can't tell you how easy it is to take static data and make it dynamic with a series of algorithms that are well thought out, for correlation longitudinal goals.

It's sort of in that realm of de-identified personal data. I think that location data is right up there with physical address. It's because one doesn't have to take a very large stretch to identify your house ... from cross-identified information publically on the WWW and use it maliciously with this. with basic code skills. (I just did)

.. and you.

Namely disable them. The website registration is about as annoying as pop-ups now. It's one of those things, that once you open pandora's box on ... you can't really put it back in the box.

I find notifications great for a phone, but terrible on implementation on desktop. But maybe my workflow is more unique than most? Or maybe its just not evolved. It drives me bananas, in general because its so abused.

The other portion of this is Cloud buy in. If you purchase a Cloud product from Apple, the specific portion of Photos (the app) that unifies the experience across platforms - iPhone, iPad, Mac desktop/laptops - does not have one feature to back out photos and archive. You have to individually select and the previous feature to "select all" or cntrl-click from start to last on an image group has disappeared. They effectively make it impossible to export a catalog.

argh!!!! JACKIE CHAN MEME!!!!

Yes, but outsource to someone like SITEL to handle these. It's not like Microsoft staffs the phone directly.

I was being constructive, yet the immediate response was "I am not a moderator (but implied .. if I was, you'd be banned)" like its IRC