I think they should have a draft for congress instead of elections. Use the same security and accountability procedures that the lotteries and Las Vegas use, you know, real security.
Every year, they draw up random SSN's for 1/2 of the legislatures. If you SSN comes up, you have to serve your district or state for 2 years. Legislatures cannot run for reelection, nor can they vote for pay increases that affect them.
The results may be random, but I can't imagine the results being any worse than what we have now.
The problem is that with our food industry, there is no such thing as a "moderate" amount of sugar. Did you know that a Baskin Robins M&M shake has 287g of sugar. For those metric challenged, that is well over 1/2 pound of sugar. Just dumped into your single serving drink
Oh well, that is desert, I don't go to Baskin Robins. How about breakfast at McDonalds? A Deluxe breakfast will run you another another 161g. Or how about Dinner? Uno Chicago Grill baby back ribs run you another 110g and that is before you add the potato, drinks or anything else
Speaking of drinks, did you know that your average martini mixer has about 3 times the sugar of the original tooth rotting standard, coke (about 10 teaspoons per 4 ounces)
The bottom line, when it comes to our food industry, we are the rats, being fed many times the natural doses of sugars, fats and sodium. In my case - I'm diabetic - the food at most restaurants is literally poisonous. There are plenty of horrible things at the grocery stores too, but at least they have to show the ingredients so you at least know what you are eating
Didn't they have "Bill the Gates" towards the end of the strip?
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I know what you're thinking. "Did he apply six patches or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is Windows, the most pwned O/S in the world, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?"
The DOS prompt is surprisingly powerful. To access its man pages, type "help" at the prompt . Ironically, you will find one of the best man pages written with plenty of detailed examples and useful information. It almost seems !Microsoft.
It is also an ugly kludge with the "for" command being used for a lot of stuff besides loops, as well plenty of other weird semantics. But it is powerful.
It won't make you forget BASH but it can make you forget the GUI. I think every Windows system admin should know it. And while cygwin may be more powerful, you can use your scripts on any Windows box you might have to administer. A great advantage if can't install cygwin or another shell.
You have answered a question I have had for ages. Whenever I open a computer, I see a lot of dust around the hard drive and wonder where it came from. It must be the bits flying off from the centrifugal force as the disk spins.
Since 10.04 is an LTS, I think I will keep my machines at it. I have several and have upgraded them all without major issues. By the time it expires, all of my machines will be over 5 years old so I will probably upgrade them with something nice from system76. It really does help if you start with a machine preloaded with Linux as all of your drivers and shit will just work.
IBM really nailed it with SMIT. You did it once through the GUI to figure out the options you had, then generated the scripts to use the other 1,000 times you needed to do it. GUI tools generally make it easier to figure out how to do something the first time, but the command line beats it every time once you have figured out how to do it. Why the Linux tools don't have this option is beyond me.
Unless you have These. You can change the key in seconds. For my house, I bought locks with several different keys, then rekeyed them to all be the same and kept the extra keys. That way, if a contractor needs access, I can just rekey one lock and change it back when they are done.
BTW, paypal offers 2-factor authentication through your cell phone. You enter your password and they send a text message to the phone you have on file. Why can't banks use the same system?
Seems to be portable, even on the desktop. I have always thought Java Desktop apps looked crappy until I came across this game. I had no idea it was running Java until I started looking at the files in order to make a Debian package for my website.
Here is the startup script for Linux:
#!/bin/sh
cd "${0%/*}/data"
if [ -n "$JAVA_HOME" ]; then
$JAVA_HOME/bin/java -Djava.library.path=lib -jar ./launcher.jar./game.sh
else
java -Djava.library.path=lib -jar./launcher.jar./game.sh
fi
cd "$OLDPWD"
If I wanted a simple and cheap SSTO design, I would do something like:
My space vehicle fits inside the bay of a cargo 747 or C-5 and fully fueled meets the weight restrictions (a 747 can carry 500 people + luggage which is at least 50 tons - Subtract the weight of the fuel required for international flights which isn't required here, and we probably could get a lot more)
Your 747/cargo plane is equipped with bomb-bay doors and your vehicle can be dropped like a regular bomb. Sure it is much bigger and heaver than most bombs, but if you make the mechanism beefy enough, I don't see why it wouldn't work.
You 747/cargo plane takes off and reaches cruising altitude at 25-30k/600mph, flying east with the earths rotation. When everything is ready for launch, the 747 does a loop and "drops" the vehicle out of the bomb bay doors just before it hits 90 degrees. The 747 closes the bomb bay doors and completes the loop, getting clearance from the vehicle which ignites its rockets several seconds later for the burn to orbit.
You have just put your vehicle on a perfect launch trajectory 5 miles up without needing the massive amounts of fuel required to get that high off the launch pad, all with technology that is currently in use at any airport now.
This is exactly what I would do. Assuming I was currently unemployed, I would do what one has to do.
That being said, I hate when US companies off-shore American jobs. I make it a point to buy shit made in the US and avoid if possible shit made in China. So what I would do is go in there, score some quick "wins" with the CEO/PHB, stuff like "I noticed you are re-typing stuff that is already on the screen. You don't have to do that. Just highlight it with the mouse and copy/paste. I'll show you how." Do a few things like that and you now have his ear.
Once you have his ear, start on your "off-shoring" project. Of course, you don't want it to succeed, but you can't tell him that as it is his pet project. Contact several overseas firms, ensuring you can find the ones with the lowest prices. Ensure you mention that you selected them based on the cost savings. Keep finding other simple "wins" to get further into his ear.
Now with everything set up, put together a transition plan from the local support to the overseas support. Include such gems as:
"Our local staff may have institutional knowledge that the overseas staff might not. We need to keep them on board during the transistion"
"Beijing is 13 hours ahead of us. Most of our support requirements are during the business day which is in the middle of the night there. So we probably keep some IT support staff here too. "
"If a support request requires physical access (such as replacing a failed network card on a users PC), overseas IT support won't work. So we still need some support staff even after we have fully transitioned"
Meanwhile, keep finding easy "wins" for your CEO/PHB (most organizations are so inefficient that this is easy)
Now you are set. Start implementing your transition plan. Suggest farming out an important support function to the overseas firm you selected, but keep the local staff onsite in case of "issues". When the whole thing falls apart (as it will), suggest rolling back support to the local staff (which you fortunately kept). Select a different overseas contractor, lather, rinse, repeat.
The key to this is really getting those quick "wins" I could be some as simple as going to the CEO's house and cleaning up his Windows PC.
Oh, and to clean up a lot of other crappy websites, download the latest/etc/hosts file from mvps.org. Just make sure your users don't have admin rights. Otherwise you are completely pwnned no matter what you do.
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With all of this time, I assume they have a Linux version?
You must be new here. 5 isn't even in the top ten. For last week.
I think they should have a draft for congress instead of elections. Use the same security and accountability procedures that the lotteries and Las Vegas use, you know, real security.
Every year, they draw up random SSN's for 1/2 of the legislatures. If you SSN comes up, you have to serve your district or state for 2 years. Legislatures cannot run for reelection, nor can they vote for pay increases that affect them.
The results may be random, but I can't imagine the results being any worse than what we have now.
The problem is that with our food industry, there is no such thing as a "moderate" amount of sugar. Did you know that a Baskin Robins M&M shake has 287g of sugar. For those metric challenged, that is well over 1/2 pound of sugar. Just dumped into your single serving drink
Oh well, that is desert, I don't go to Baskin Robins. How about breakfast at McDonalds? A Deluxe breakfast will run you another another 161g. Or how about Dinner? Uno Chicago Grill baby back ribs run you another 110g and that is before you add the potato, drinks or anything else
Speaking of drinks, did you know that your average martini mixer has about 3 times the sugar of the original tooth rotting standard, coke (about 10 teaspoons per 4 ounces)
The bottom line, when it comes to our food industry, we are the rats, being fed many times the natural doses of sugars, fats and sodium. In my case - I'm diabetic - the food at most restaurants is literally poisonous. There are plenty of horrible things at the grocery stores too, but at least they have to show the ingredients so you at least know what you are eating
xkcd
Didn't they have "Bill the Gates" towards the end of the strip?
I know what you're thinking. "Did he apply six patches or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is Windows, the most pwned O/S in the world, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?"
The DOS prompt is surprisingly powerful. To access its man pages, type "help" at the prompt . Ironically, you will find one of the best man pages written with plenty of detailed examples and useful information. It almost seems !Microsoft.
It is also an ugly kludge with the "for" command being used for a lot of stuff besides loops, as well plenty of other weird semantics. But it is powerful.
It won't make you forget BASH but it can make you forget the GUI. I think every Windows system admin should know it. And while cygwin may be more powerful, you can use your scripts on any Windows box you might have to administer. A great advantage if can't install cygwin or another shell.
Obligatory: xkcd.
You have answered a question I have had for ages. Whenever I open a computer, I see a lot of dust around the hard drive and wonder where it came from. It must be the bits flying off from the centrifugal force as the disk spins.
If you are more old-school and want to make a wicked cool bike out of steel, check out tomiczombies.com.
Opened my corporate HP. Turns out is is made in the same factory as iPhones (Foxconn)
Out of an M-16, the .223 comes out at 3,250 feet/second, at least that is what the Army taught me.
Since 10.04 is an LTS, I think I will keep my machines at it. I have several and have upgraded them all without major issues. By the time it expires, all of my machines will be over 5 years old so I will probably upgrade them with something nice from system76. It really does help if you start with a machine preloaded with Linux as all of your drivers and shit will just work.
Shouldn't it be "getoffmylan"?
Now pipe down, and get off my LAN. FTFY :)
IBM really nailed it with SMIT. You did it once through the GUI to figure out the options you had, then generated the scripts to use the other 1,000 times you needed to do it. GUI tools generally make it easier to figure out how to do something the first time, but the command line beats it every time once you have figured out how to do it. Why the Linux tools don't have this option is beyond me.
Paypal offers an option to send a text message to your cell phone on file, thus eliminating the token problem. Why can't other banks do this?
You mean, like one of these?
BTW, paypal offers 2-factor authentication through your cell phone. You enter your password and they send a text message to the phone you have on file. Why can't banks use the same system?
Seems to be portable, even on the desktop. I have always thought Java Desktop apps looked crappy until I came across this game. I had no idea it was running Java until I started looking at the files in order to make a Debian package for my website.
Here is the startup script for Linux:
#!/bin/sh
./launcher.jar ./game.sh ./launcher.jar ./game.sh
cd "${0%/*}/data"
if [ -n "$JAVA_HOME" ]; then
$JAVA_HOME/bin/java -Djava.library.path=lib -jar
else
java -Djava.library.path=lib -jar
fi cd "$OLDPWD"
Obligatory:
xkcd
This is exactly what I would do. Assuming I was currently unemployed, I would do what one has to do.
That being said, I hate when US companies off-shore American jobs. I make it a point to buy shit made in the US and avoid if possible shit made in China. So what I would do is go in there, score some quick "wins" with the CEO/PHB, stuff like "I noticed you are re-typing stuff that is already on the screen. You don't have to do that. Just highlight it with the mouse and copy/paste. I'll show you how." Do a few things like that and you now have his ear.
Once you have his ear, start on your "off-shoring" project. Of course, you don't want it to succeed, but you can't tell him that as it is his pet project. Contact several overseas firms, ensuring you can find the ones with the lowest prices. Ensure you mention that you selected them based on the cost savings. Keep finding other simple "wins" to get further into his ear.
Now with everything set up, put together a transition plan from the local support to the overseas support. Include such gems as:
Now you are set. Start implementing your transition plan. Suggest farming out an important support function to the overseas firm you selected, but keep the local staff onsite in case of "issues". When the whole thing falls apart (as it will), suggest rolling back support to the local staff (which you fortunately kept). Select a different overseas contractor, lather, rinse, repeat.
The key to this is really getting those quick "wins" I could be some as simple as going to the CEO's house and cleaning up his Windows PC.
I thought they ran Linux. Oh, wait, it is bing that runs it.
Put in /etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
Facebook is now blocked. Problem solved.
Oh, and to clean up a lot of other crappy websites, download the latest /etc/hosts file from mvps.org. Just make sure your users don't have admin rights. Otherwise you are completely pwnned no matter what you do.