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  1. The last thing I would connect to the internet on Microsoft and Miele Team Collaborate To Cook Up an IoT Revolution · · Score: 2

    Ultimately it means you'll be able to find a recipe online, have the ingredient list and preparation instructions sent to your mobile device,

    I already have that. Its called allrecipes (allrecipes.com) and conveniently allows me to check off ingredients I already have. Best of all, it is free.

    and your smart oven will be automatically configured with the correct settings.

    My oven is a device that if misconfigured can start fires or fill the house with explosive gas. It is about the last thing I would connect to the internet, especially with Micros~1 running it.

  2. Re:Please, no more! on Obama Authorizes Penalties For Foreign Cyber Attackers · · Score: 2

    This is apparantely not a joke. I would never actually read the article but I did carefully hover over the link and it is from the whitehouse.gov website. If it had been from, whitehouse.com that would be an entirely different story...

  3. Re:Familiar jobs ... on IT Jobs With the Best (and Worst) ROI · · Score: 1

    SAN Administrators? Man you guys nned to be paid some serious $DOUGH. That shit is gnarly. An EMC (Even More Complicated) tech tried to show me mapping and zoning and my head was ready to explode after 10 minutes. I'm just a user, a low life DBA. All I know is how to set up BCV backups and restore from them. I practice that shit because my job depends on it, but everything else, no, I'll leave it to the experts.

  4. Plain old boring rules on Why You Should Choose Boring Technology · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In about 1996, Oracle introduced the "Oracle Webserver", allowing you to serve dynamic webpages generated from stored procedures in the database. The beauty of this is that all of your website code is in the database, making it centrally managed and all application security logic is enforced by the database. The webserver is just a dumb client with no code, and has no permissions on any database tables.

    In 2001, it was now a mod for Apache and as since been opensourced (mod_owa). I convinced our client try it for a central website that we were developing, as the middle tier crap they were using didn't work. That system went live 2 weeks later with a few very simple webpages. It has been in production ever since and the website has over 50k users and 20+m hits a day.

  5. Re:We should all be pitching in. on Mars One Does Not Renew Contracts For Robotic Missions · · Score: 1

    But what will happen when someone contracts a disease from a dirty telephone?

  6. Re:Oops....success on The Revolution Wasn't Televised: the Early Days of YouTube · · Score: 1

    Nah, Powerball jumpped the shark when they went to $2 a bet. Mega Millions is still $1, so you can bet 2 numbers for each Powerball one. Sure the jackpots are bigger, but I would rather have 2 chances of winning $100m over 1 of winning $200m

  7. Re:Waste of time on NFL Asks Columbia University For Help With Deflate-Gate · · Score: 2

    I would agree, The key point is that the NFL doesn't actually have the test results. That would imply that the refs didn't check them properly. Tom Brady probably approved the the balls because they were the way he like them, and probably didn't give a shit if they were 10 PSI or 14 PSI. Never attribute to Malice what can be explained by incompentance.

  8. How about crappy Oracle products? on Little-Known Programming Languages That Actually Pay · · Score: 1

    Outside of the RDBMS, pretty much everything Oracle makes or buys is crap. The funny thing is, PHB's suck that stuff up like us DBA's drink beer. Then when The Shit Don't Work (TSDW), they need someone to fix it. If you can make the shit work, you can make some good money. Just be prepared to switch to the next crappy Oracle technology when the original falls out of fashion.

  9. What about landing at White Sands? on SpaceX To Attempt Falcon 9 Landing On Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship · · Score: 1

    White Sands Missile Range is right next to the Spaceport America and has 4,000 square miles of uninhabited desert. The Army tests rockets there all the time, and sometimes closes highway 70 (which passes through the range) when they do. Since the goal of cheaper launch costs is something the miltary would find useful, I am pretty sure Spacex could come to an agreement to do some testing using the range. Before talking to the Army, Spacex would probably want to run several real tests at sea, where they would expect the landings to fail until wthe worked out all of the bugs with the aerodynmics, winds, etc. Not so much to ensure you can land on a ship, but to ensure you can land within a few miles of where you want to. If you can do that, there are lots of places you can land.

  10. Re:"Could", on The Shale Boom Won't Stop Climate Change; It Could Make It Worse · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The funny thing about Sandy, is that the Capitol Weather Gang correctly predicted it about a week in advance, based on a very similar storm in 1878. We didn't quite as many SUVs nor coal plants back then.

  11. Why does the DRM even exist? on Keurig 2.0 Genuine K-Cup Spoofing Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    I mean, I understand the PHB/corporate group think that thinks this useful, but why, when I can get a perfectly good non-DRM official Keurig from amazon for less than I would pay for a Keurig 2.0? And no, it is not some discontinued model, it is the #1 best seller on Amazon.

  12. Re:Coastal people live in their own universe on We Are Running Out of Sand · · Score: 2

    You mean like Wonko the Sane, who also lives in California? According to ancient legends, when Wonko saw instructions on how to use a toothpick on a packet of toothpicks, he became convinced that the world had gone crazy and so built the house as an asylum for it, with the insides and outsides reversed. Apparently he also received a fishbowl from the Dolphins before they left.

  13. Re:Tin Foil... on Flaw in New Visa Cards Would Let Hackers Steal $1M Per Card · · Score: 1

    Right here.

  14. Re:do one thing and do it well on GNU Emacs 24.4 Released Today · · Score: 1

    You mean VI, the notepad for Unix? Since it is by default installed on pretty much every Unix system, including Macs, I would say it is cross platform. It is even easy to get for Windows. As far as stability goes, it has never crashed in the 20+ years I have used it on any platform. An it is easy to replace. All you have to do install another editor, i.e. sudo apt-get install emacs.

  15. Re:The driving force to open source? on If You're Connected, Apple Collects Your Data · · Score: 2

    I don't think the command line is an issue. I don't think instructing a user to open a terminal and issue commands is any harder than having them open regedit and add obscure keys.

    The really sweet spot is a well designed GUI configuration utility which allows you to generate approriate command line scripts to allow the configuration to be duplicated. Unfortunately, this is rare in the Unix world and non-existent in Windows.

    Compared to GUIs, command line interfaces are stable. I am still using commands for 20+ years ago to adminster modern systems, while the recent "upgrade" to Win7/2008 has made so many changes to the interface that it seems like I have to relearn it each time I use it.

  16. Re:Shellshock is way worse on How Poor Punctuation Can Break Windows · · Score: 4, Informative

    Windows has its own version of shellshock in CMD.EXE C:\Usersl>set foo=bar^&ping -n 1 google.com
    C:\Usersl>echo %foo%
    bar

    Pinging google.com [74.125.228.105] with 32 bytes of data:
    Reply from 74.125.228.105: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=250

    Ping statistics for 74.125.228.105:
    Packets: Sent = 1, Received = 1, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
    Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 8ms, Maximum = 8ms, Average = 8ms
    C:\Users>
    Unlike Linux, I don't think this has been patched.

  17. Re:Camel = Horse designed by committee... on Microsoft Announces Windows 10 · · Score: 3, Informative

    In Linux, the killer feature is that each desktop has a separate taskbar. I once had several major migrations running from my workstation, and had a separate deskop named for each one of them. This feature made keeping track of the tasks in each project much easier.

  18. Re:Crude? on Original 11' Star Trek Enterprise Model Being Restored Again · · Score: 1

    In TOS, if watch The Doomsday Machine episode, it is obvious that the the damage Constellation had was caused by something like a lighter. There is some debate as to whether the model was actually one of those Revell models we used to get as kids at the local Gemco, or if it was the crappiest version of the full scale models. Given that it would be easier to generate those kinds of burns on a smaller Revell model, I would guess the former.

  19. Re:All the more reason-- on Watch a Cat Video, Get Hacked: the Death of Clear-Text · · Score: 1

    I once had a computer which did that, a Commodore 64. I am pretty sure most others at that time were that way too. The whole "store the O/S on a R/W hard drive" was an IBM PC/Microsoft idea, as were viruses.

    A ROM based system with Ubuntu or Knoppix would be pretty sweet for surfing teh Interwebs.

  20. Re:another record on Paint Dust Covers the Upper Layer of the World's Oceans · · Score: 1

    In other words, stop buying shit made in China. If enough people do that then even the 1% will listen. Even in the US, it is still easy to find shit made here - you just have to look. And most of the the time the price is about the same and the quality is better.

  21. I mean, isn't all of Apples shit made in China anyway? That would be like the US government banning GM cars.

  22. Re:Rogers is a serial liar on The Hacking of NASDAQ · · Score: 1

    How is that different than any other member of congress?

  23. Re:Move along, nothing to see here... on Giant Crater Appears In Northern Siberia · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing that less than 2% of you know probably what the heck I'm talking about here.

    Missed it by THAT much? Agent 86 once said that after he almost shot his dick off. I wonder if he ever screwed Agent 99? Man, I used to think she was hot. And the Cone of Silence? I saw a real one in action while on jury duty once. The judge lowered this stupid contraption when he was talking with the lawyers. It made this white noise which gave everyone headaches but I had no problem hearing their entire conversation from the other side of the room...

  24. Going back to cash on Predicting a Future Free of Dollar Bills · · Score: 5, Informative

    Last week I swiped my card at a gas station pump before noticing the tamper proof seals had been broken. I have replaced the card, but while waiting for the new card I used cash. You tend to conserve more money when it is cold, hard cash instead of of just swiping a card. Less surface area for compromise as well.

  25. Re:Things are simple... on The Least They Could Do: Amazon Charges 1 Cent To Meet French Free Shipping Ban · · Score: 1

    All of those small family bookstores that Barnes and Noble and Borders put out of business about 15-20 years ago? Guess what, they are back in business. The just sell through Amazon now.