The Air Force should be abolished. Establish the Department of Strategic Warfare instead.
If there's going to be a Space Force, originate it in the Navy and review after 15 years to determine if it should be split off into its own branch.
Canada already tried to solve this problem, we tried an integrated military service model years ago. It is called FINKS or flying infantry with naval knowledge.
I'll have to look them up tonight. I've never heard of them, but from what you describe it sounds like complete heresy. Nothing in Revelations indicated that the end times can be or will be brought about by man. In fact, it says "no man knows the hour or the day" indicating it will be on God's time table. I often wonder how these groups call themselves Christians when there is nothing in scripture to substantiate what they believe.
One little ditty from Revelation that seems to be conveniently skipped by the American religious right these days is the following one in quotes. The Mennonites are keenly aware of this prophecy and it is the one that is turning out to be most current.
"The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”
I was modded down for this post rather quickly for being "off topic" but to me at least, it seems that taking care of the earth and all the creatures that are upon it is job one and we are failing at miserably.
Cooperative space exploration and science does not have to include military function, and our very industrial base does not need to be in future mostly created for destructive ends. The optimism during the Vietnam war created by the peaceful aspects of the space race that landed us on the moon could be repeated. The entire human race could become united and excited by both the rapid advancement of ecologically sound industrial and agricultural practices and experiments in space farming technology and the future necessary expansion of live off this planet. The technologies necessary for environmentally sound agriculture on this planet and in outer space are closely related. Our current greenhouse technologies are primitive, instead we are fucking things up royally and wasting precious petroleum based polymers and hydrocarbon based fuels on automotive tech and plastic packaging.
Either we smarten up and learn to use our resources wisely or we will have to deal with idiots like Trump rolling back the clock to primitive technologies that consume ridiculous amounts of resources just to put a few boots with guns in space! And BTW nuclear weapons that just go bang are essentially useless in space unless they are emp pulse based and even so they are far too costly to refine into the cheap weapons of directed emp necessary for space warfare. But developing the technology to use nuclear resources exclusively for space based energy sources is a hell of a lot more sensible than experimenting with nuclear devices in the atmosphere to say the least. If we are to advance technologically it will eventually be in space but first we have to advance past the mindless greed of today's consumerism and the endless wars it creates.
Some idiots in America have learned nothing from getting a serious ass kicking in Vietnam. Especially idiots that went to the New York military academy and got out of service in Vietnam because of a bone spur. The problem is that the more block headed idiots get into power and think that mere economic and military power alone will solve what are essentially social and political issues the more things get fucked up. Somehow I seriously doubt that having a military force in space will do anything to advance the human race as a species.
Here in Canada we are finally coming to the conclusion that Sir John A MacDonald was a racist asshole that did little other than screw up what could have been a wonderful land of plenty with room and resources for all. In the US we have a new moron believing that sending the seventh cavalry into orbit to hunt down those pesky alien space injins will bring peace and economic security. Fscking bunch of morons we have elected that cannot see the forest for the fucking trees. We either start to take care of this planet and all life on it or we will never advance beyond the boundary of the earths atmosphere. Perhaps it is part of the evolution of intelligent life to come to the conclusion that advancement must include stewardship of all life that is bound to the origin planet or there will be no chance of advancement. In essence we either advance beyond aggression and war or die out as a species because of a lack of intelligence to see the obvious solutions to our shared problems.
I was with you until you confused VB6 and.Net so apparently you have a knowledge problem here.
No confusion involved. A butt tonne of old VB code is also still out there working so that the look and feel of the interfaces remain static as well as antiquated data base interface requirements that do not get updated because of rewrite and retraining costs. Then the problem becomes leaving network visible vulnerabilities there ignored for a very long time just waiting for a criminal hacker to spot them. The point is how and where in the front end did the attack happen?
Dollars to donuts the attack was done through old in house server code that just sits there and is never fixed because fixing it requires changing old network facing interfaces and retraining all the end users to use the new layouts. Move one feature to a different place or method of entry and bingo you have users complaining about even a simple change like moving a selection field to a different section of an interface. This is the problem in a nutshell, form trumps function and sloppy security is the result.
WTF? From the brief description what happened sounds like the "virus" spread instantly with a DB injection attack. A simple thing to do if vulnerable old VB6 scripted front end from 20 years ago is still shoe horned into an internet exposed db. Hell there are banks running VB6 coded garbage from 20 years ago and one wonders why we are still getting hosed. There are even a few banks here like the Bank of Nova Scotia that run backend XP desktops up until just a year ago because all of their key db software would only work with a really old activeX front end.
We complain bitterly about problems with industrial espionage and yet we still cheap out and use crapware swiss cheese.Net garbage that hackers in China and Russian can drive a truck through.
"Ecology... Nature is only model we have that has survived climate change with shear, total, utter, neglect..." @RestorationAgD http://bit.ly/1ohVqpE
Certainly, but the results can at times not be very conducive for the species causing the changes. For instance today we have the popular hypothesis put forward by the crowd that claims exponentially increasing CO2 will quickly do in geologic time to the permafrost of the Northern Hemisphere is a wonderful outcome of climate change. Whether or not this rapid change can very quickly be turned into habitable and arable land is highly dubious.
This crowd thinks nothing of buying a Dodge Ram Diesel and chipping it, in fact they claim that their actions will help create enough farm land in Canada, Alaska and Putin's gulag labour camp areas to feed much more than the current population of the Earth. Even though the lands around the equator will become uninhabitable and the Saudis will all need to move north into Russia where farm land will be cheap. Forget the other Arab populations they will either die in the new deserts or join with the Saudis in buying up cheap farm land in either Alaska, the Canadian territories or the really cheap stuff in Siberia.
So just think of it this way, every time you put the peddle to the metal and beat the sucker beside you to the next light you are in fact creating new farm land for your children. Just remember to vote correctly in November and you will help create a bright future by electing only the people who advocate abolishing public transportation funding and putting more money into using coal slag for new and improved cheap road pavement so that people can drive anywhere and everywhere.
"It's the third-most-valuable company on Earth, with smaller annual profits than Southwest Airlines Co.,
In a nutshell it is an acquisition corporation combined with the fact that how you manage your high tech information technology in service industries efficiently is more important than profits if you are going to serve customers and grow your product lines. Walmart is the next fodder for the Bezos juggernaut they just don't see the importance of information technology and their online presence and service sucks for that very reason. Canadian Tire is another corp that could see problems, Best Buy after screwing up and over expanding brick and mortar in Canada is already in a world of hurt for the very same reasons. Target became a target and shuttered a shitload of stores because of a poor grasp of the growing importance of web tech in retail and service industries. Soon brick and mortar will become cheap so we might even see a slump in commercial real estate that leads to old malls and stores becoming housing. Which in a great many places would not be that bad of an outcome. Especially in places like Vancouver where employees working for minimum wage retail and service industries like Walmart and Best Buy cannot even afford to rent a shit house basement suite!!!
firing just leads to people covering up errors and blame passing. or people slowing work down to the point where you need 2-3 people to sign off to get stuff done.
Completely agree. And what is worse it leads to the discouragement of those who truly care about serving the public with integrity and good faith in the work that they do! That is exactly why so many positions that require only people that care more than a pay check at a time are being filled with people who could care less and only seek the thrill of power...going all the way up to the POTUS!!!!
I can see that you have had too many intel chips and coke. Nerds who nit pic at good digital humor can easily wind up eating digital silicon potato chips.
Either that wind or up doing the low grade copy for the Washington Post
What for me is interesting is the monkey wrench quantum entanglement adds to the equation. It implies information exchange but defies distance and energy exchange physics. Indeed quantum entanglement between particles could be an explanation for self awareness beyond neural synaptic activity. Here on slashdot we think mostly of how electrons work in circuits. Thinking only about how timed circuits instantiate an action defies understand how the activity of awareness can be initiated. The ultimate classical chicken and egg quantum physics paradox, who came first the physicist or the equation?
"They built fireplaces throughout the length of the cave, again and again, in the same place, in the same sort of defined arrangement."
Seems to me that any tribe of humans that relies upon caves and uses fire pits might very well cause extensive health issues and limit their success as a group. Since we do not know yet if they advanced beyond being cave dwellers they certainly are a poor candidate for being an Adam and Eve keystone offshoot of modern humans. I doubt that they actually used the caves as a permanent place of long term residence, however if they did then most likely the health problems created by the air quality did some very nasty things to the group health wise.
It seems that primitive tribes that ventured forth away from primitive shelters like a cave would have better health and a better chance of surviving as a group. Indeed an essential part of our evolution as a species may very well be not hunkering down in what we assume to be civilized groups. The way we are effecting the air quality of the entire earth today, it may be that unless we continue to venture forth as a species we may not survive too much longer on this planet as a group. Ika had the right idea she didn't live in caves but made out with freely with other sub species and wandered around a lot for an H. sapiens I know she made me into an H. erectus just watching her do her schtick!
Apple runs shuttle buses for it's employees in San Francisco.
Apple runs shuttle buses for it is employees?
Don't sweat it, it's only superfluous water in the form of text in this case, as indeed sweating with it is. Superfluous verbiage is a curse of the internet, however correction of the header phrase to "Apple runs shuttle buses for employees in San Francisco." is a little beyond the editing skill of the average submission made on Slashdot, its part of the culture as is the gentrification and genderfication at Apple and Google.
Being old is a sin at Apple? I'll tell my brother. He works at Apple and is over 50 years of age..
Also California hasn't legalized recreational MJ yet, so I rather doubt it's available cafeteria dispensers.
Time for your annual physical there, deviated_pervert. Ask your doctor if you need to up your meds. Or perhaps you just need a high colonic cleansing, because you're obviously full of shit.
I just had a mega dump this morning and I did not even bother to post pictures of it on Faceplant. And no, I do not smoke up or need it to, I was simply poking fun at the uptight crowd of young coders riding on those buses who mostly do smoke up after sitting at a desk all day trying to be creative! Seems humour is a little beyond the comprehension level of quite a few nerds who post anonymously. #WOOOOSH
Mod up. At last an anon cowherd with a brain! Individuals who resort to this kind of tactic are either woefully lacking in self esteem or lack the intelligence, creativity and guts to act responsibly.
I offer an alternative to riding on either Google's or Apples buses here. Considering being an old fart is a sin at both of these hip joints. Eat my shit... I use Linux and get the things done with an efficiency that you can only dream about coming from your young genderfied smurfs slaves! Of course I am not welcome in either Redmond, Cupertino or Mountainview. Eat my dust I am on the Magic Bus of just about anything with a bus and a proc and can smoke you guys when it comes to picking up the chicks on a bus. YEEHAAA....man oh man the shit being sold up in Canada's dispensaries is good ganja.
I hear that you guys have it in the dispensers in the cafeteria down in Frisco. No wonder, your software design and choices suck dead horse balls and look like they were coded by a bunch of monkees!Result being that the Zuck is starting to eat you for breakfast when it comes to picking up and getting along with the chicks and the old farts of this world. Wonder if Faceplant is considering releasing a hardware OS in future if they do it could put you in a world of hurt because it would make the grade in the market if it could run separate from your OS wares.
Woah there comrade! Have you been studying history? Having a knowledge of classical antiquity will not help Zuckerberg optimize the latest update to the Javascript ad delivery system! Stopping wasting your time on "liberal arts" and study something PRODUCTIVE! It's for your own good!
Faceplant does not need my help. It has very adequately replaced the liberal arts of communication by either debate or letters. And this is precisely the short coming of a site where I can share pictures of my latest bowel movements. Certainly "a picture is worth a thousand words" but millions of images can never replace a well reasoned argument well founded upon history and current events. Very many otherwise intelligent humans in Germany fell for Joseph Goebbels reasoned arguments, the same can be said about the propaganda that was spread over social networks by the Russians as well as Trump and his myrmidons. Let me see the next little ditty will be that Obama bought a phony birth certificate and that his terms as POTUS should therefore be stricken from the historical record.
Revisionist history is certainly not new and the origins of it go back as far as there was human governance, to ignore the study of how revisionist history plays a crucial role in the down fall of societies is a serious mistake, regardless if you have knowledge of server side scripting with javascript, php, ruby, perl or MS based.net nuttiness. For the record I code web sites and find a well founded historical knowledge invaluable in understanding why people will click on things and some will just hit the home button..;-)
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
We have no idea what Mueller has, but the people he is handing subpoenas to is highly interesting.
Either Mueller really has some dynamite shit on trump that we don't know about; or he will become biggest lamb to the slaughter house in history since about AD 36 or so when Lidia the mother of Tiberius died. The back stabbing and bullshit going on in Washington since Trump started his rise to power before the coming of Obama is in many ways similar to what happened to the Roman Empire after the reign of Augustus. It is a sad situation when neighbors start to rattle sabers and defame each other and a symptom of a sickness within the US democratic system that somehow must be resolved. If the Trump Republicans turf 800,000 mostly active productive humans out the window and no one in the Republican party cares enough to help stop the slaughter then the US deserves the scorn it will receive internationally. If the Democrats hold Trump to ransom on this issue are they really that evil?
Most Canadians feel for the individuals about to be abused by Trump's vain and inhuman policy in this regard and I am sure the influx of another wave of largely talented caring young people into our country will not hurt our economy in any way. Even if the US considers Canada to be unfairly subsidizing lumber, the truth is in reality we have been subsidizing American Corporations and helping deal with your racially motivated insanity for a very long time. The removal of this charlatan from office by impeachment might be the only way to return to any sanity at all and start to heal the divisions this asshole has fed upon and indeed created. Either that or replace the Statue of Liberty with a Trump tower with a stone on the bottom inscribed with;
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired rich,
Your huddled well healed masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the ambitious, opportunistic lost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden Trump Tower's door!"
The problem with voice activated commands to effectively use web sites like facebook, is that there is no web specific way of selecting functions on standard web page even with HTML5. However I am sure that they are working on it at facebook. If they do release a facebook specific browser with a function audio command structure for a front end that remains static then it may become entirely possible to surf the site. Google chrome does surf by audio and is operating system agnostic unlike Siri which is apples pie in the sky attempt at market dominance or Cortana which is Microsoft's answer to Google chrome and Siri.
The overwhelming problem with all of these speech recognition interfaces is that web sites are not coded for key word searches and every website on the planet would most likely screw up the idea of using a keyword search structure. Again it all comes down to language and the fact that the complexity involved in obtaining fine grained results from key words in combinations interpolated by a computer is an enormous task that is fraught with the possibility of error.
Inflation caused by devaluation of currency due to the overproduction of units of the currency was solved by the indigenous peoples of the North West Coast of North America centuries ago. Their answer to currency speculation was very effective. The problem was that: the artisans that created the money out of hand hammered copper currency sheets ran amok and the supply of sheets went out of control. So the wisdom of the potlatch was created to end currency speculation and the hording of currency. Naturally we came along and fucked up a perfectly good economy model by outlawing the potlatch.
Even Andrew Carnegie at the end of his life held what was essentially a potlatch when he realized he couldn't take it with him. THE PROBLEM with bitcoin is that you do take it with you and poof instant inflation will occur and I do not see a way to pay for public infrastructure or all the other perks of our modern society with bitcoin or other crypt-currencies that are in truth nothing more than short sighted TAX DODGES that are becoming popular with the SNAKE OIL speculation crazed morons that trade in them!!!!
Mod parent way up guys. Finally an anon coward worth reading! As John Lennon once famously said; "Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it." If we start seeing computers generating music that can be have copy-write then just perhaps the entire copy-write motive for composing music will become irrelevant and not worth the doing. This will leave only composers who do it for performance and the love of music free to create variations and homage music again. If every tom dick and sherry can sit at a computer and put a lyric to music then just perhaps the "Day the music (industry, at least) died" is not far off.
The music publishing industry is about to change and the great publishing houses will need to distribute digital files of sheet music or they will all die a horrible death smothered by the paper they love to peddle. They cannot see the forest because their stupidity is still cutting down the trees! A large letter sized e-ink tablet on the music stand is the future and real musicians will pay for digital files only if the composition and setting is worthy of the player's time. The crap that is being sold by music publication houses these days is not worth the trip to the store or the online purchase! The same can be said about the quality of the digitally altered and generated music recordings being sold by today's so called "arteests" and especially the so called "song stylists" that are being pushed by the music production corporations that run the RIAA. We are indeed at a cross roads and the pied pipers are all silently waiting in the hall, they need to be paid or the "Day the Music Died" will become public domain. As it is our streets are silent except for the din of the drudgery of our lives, music will not die but it needs to be free to survive like all things of the spirit.
Only if the code is registered with the RIAA and there is no prior art... come to think of it the generated tunes were almost completely based upon some melodic and rhythmic riffs done by real musicians so the code can be said to have come entirely from prior art in the first place... obviously there was nothing GNU in it!
And Debashish Bhattacharya is beyond measure in the same light as Joe Pass and all the other real greats on strings. If you have the patience to watch and really listen to the incredible 11/8 and use of 10/8 sequences of this performance you will come to understand that computer created music is an unnecessary redundancy that is only there for the lazy in spirit.
To preempt the inevitable juvenile anon coward assholes that will post comments about this, all I have to say is that the noise being created on Slashdot by anon coward assholes who post prejudiced idiotic comments about anything not white need to just shut up and listen to these incredible, humble great artists.
Once one gets away from the American pop music prejudiced main stream pap pop crap there is a world of wonder out there that defies replication by artificially generated algorithms. In the original post link to Hello shadow the music is influenced by eastern rhythm but falls flat because it is not spontaneous and is not possible on stage therefore it is artificial and somewhat akin to wanking on a digital fiile not actually making music as I intemperate the word.
1 single volcano puts off more carbon monoxide that all the cars ever built. Yet we are still alive.
Grow up people, global warming is a giant lie.
Hey you dumb fuck carbon monoxide is not the gas at issue with the known and recorded atmospheric gas imbalance. The higher levels of CO2 created by recent human activity are causing a rapid average global atmospheric warming. To deny the science and the evidence that every reputable scientist in the field is reporting is also becoming a rather stupid platform. Anyone who claims that carbon monoxide is the problem here is a complete absolute ignorant idiot. The same as the idiots who claim that atmospheric warming does not cause weather anomalies, or about as logical as the tired old saw used by some shills posting here that "AGW does not equal weather".
More extreme weather events on average created by AGW is a sound hypothesis. And indeed we are seeing the increase in global atmospheric CO2 cause increased average temperatures and changes to the jet stream that cause more extreme anomalous weather events. Areas are becoming dryer and hotter and soon some areas adjacent to deserts that are currently inhabited may become uninhabitable. Areas of India and Southern Europe are starting to see more extreme heat events that kill. All of these things have been predicted and are being proved true.
In Canada we have seen a direct correlation between the pine beetle forest die off in British Columbia and the statistically recorded increases in average winter and summer temperatures in the pine beetles range. To deny the evidence of the destruction being caused by human caused climate change is idiotic and at worst a deliberate attempt by morons in the petro chemical industry and their shills in Washington to deflect the blame away from the causes!
*This* is the reason I quit using Firefox. After the third time it broke all the extensions I used to keep autoplaying malware launchers from killing my bandwidth, I switched browsers. A few switches later, and Palemoon seems a good fit.
Seems Firefox is much better at cutting through the cruft on the net than it once was and for this I give the devs at Mozi\\a kudos. 57 is definitely a step in the right direction. Too bad they had to rely on money from a bunch of yahoos to do their serious coding. Unless of course opensource coders are not allowed to eat and must be starved to death in coding concentration camps as some posters here on slashdot seem to advocated now and then.
I would indeed have liked to see yahoo succeed because of their association with Mozi//a and come back as an organization however unfortunately because they were late the gate with the open source community and did not have the foresight to learn to build their own open source based equipment and decent hard and software security solutions or spend the money to do so early on when they had the cash, Google who did spend on infrastructure as well as security simply, ate their lunch.
Now they are reduced to litigation to survive as a corporate entity which is a sad way to see them go. HOWEVER someone might step in and light the fire with piles of cash to help them crush the Mozi??a juggernaut once and for all. Watch out for Baystar Capital style cash cows, the browser wars over Netscape ain't over quite yet and as long as what was mosiac exists there will be those who try to keep it off their OS customers computers. Somehow I do not think Google feels threatened in their place as number one in internet add and search revenues, however the number two search engine is a different story and Yahoo Corp. could become another SCO like backdoorbuyout for some company we all know and love. Especially if the backdoorbuyout could include a long drawn out legal attack that may very well inevitably sink Mozi11a as a corporation. The corporate skulduggery that goes on when lawyers are in the board rooms is a joy to watch unfold. CUE THE POPCORN SLASHDOT HERE WE SCO AGAIN!
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The Air Force should be abolished. Establish the Department of Strategic Warfare instead. If there's going to be a Space Force, originate it in the Navy and review after 15 years to determine if it should be split off into its own branch.
Canada already tried to solve this problem, we tried an integrated military service model years ago. It is called FINKS or flying infantry with naval knowledge.
I'll have to look them up tonight. I've never heard of them, but from what you describe it sounds like complete heresy. Nothing in Revelations indicated that the end times can be or will be brought about by man. In fact, it says "no man knows the hour or the day" indicating it will be on God's time table. I often wonder how these groups call themselves Christians when there is nothing in scripture to substantiate what they believe.
One little ditty from Revelation that seems to be conveniently skipped by the American religious right these days is the following one in quotes. The Mennonites are keenly aware of this prophecy and it is the one that is turning out to be most current.
"The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”
I was modded down for this post rather quickly for being "off topic" but to me at least, it seems that taking care of the earth and all the creatures that are upon it is job one and we are failing at miserably.
Cooperative space exploration and science does not have to include military function, and our very industrial base does not need to be in future mostly created for destructive ends. The optimism during the Vietnam war created by the peaceful aspects of the space race that landed us on the moon could be repeated. The entire human race could become united and excited by both the rapid advancement of ecologically sound industrial and agricultural practices and experiments in space farming technology and the future necessary expansion of live off this planet. The technologies necessary for environmentally sound agriculture on this planet and in outer space are closely related. Our current greenhouse technologies are primitive, instead we are fucking things up royally and wasting precious petroleum based polymers and hydrocarbon based fuels on automotive tech and plastic packaging.
Either we smarten up and learn to use our resources wisely or we will have to deal with idiots like Trump rolling back the clock to primitive technologies that consume ridiculous amounts of resources just to put a few boots with guns in space! And BTW nuclear weapons that just go bang are essentially useless in space unless they are emp pulse based and even so they are far too costly to refine into the cheap weapons of directed emp necessary for space warfare. But developing the technology to use nuclear resources exclusively for space based energy sources is a hell of a lot more sensible than experimenting with nuclear devices in the atmosphere to say the least. If we are to advance technologically it will eventually be in space but first we have to advance past the mindless greed of today's consumerism and the endless wars it creates.
hell yes, we will kick commie ass in space too
Some idiots in America have learned nothing from getting a serious ass kicking in Vietnam. Especially idiots that went to the New York military academy and got out of service in Vietnam because of a bone spur. The problem is that the more block headed idiots get into power and think that mere economic and military power alone will solve what are essentially social and political issues the more things get fucked up. Somehow I seriously doubt that having a military force in space will do anything to advance the human race as a species.
Here in Canada we are finally coming to the conclusion that Sir John A MacDonald was a racist asshole that did little other than screw up what could have been a wonderful land of plenty with room and resources for all. In the US we have a new moron believing that sending the seventh cavalry into orbit to hunt down those pesky alien space injins will bring peace and economic security. Fscking bunch of morons we have elected that cannot see the forest for the fucking trees. We either start to take care of this planet and all life on it or we will never advance beyond the boundary of the earths atmosphere. Perhaps it is part of the evolution of intelligent life to come to the conclusion that advancement must include stewardship of all life that is bound to the origin planet or there will be no chance of advancement. In essence we either advance beyond aggression and war or die out as a species because of a lack of intelligence to see the obvious solutions to our shared problems.
I was with you until you confused VB6 and .Net so apparently you have a knowledge problem here.
No confusion involved. A butt tonne of old VB code is also still out there working so that the look and feel of the interfaces remain static as well as antiquated data base interface requirements that do not get updated because of rewrite and retraining costs. Then the problem becomes leaving network visible vulnerabilities there ignored for a very long time just waiting for a criminal hacker to spot them. The point is how and where in the front end did the attack happen?
Dollars to donuts the attack was done through old in house server code that just sits there and is never fixed because fixing it requires changing old network facing interfaces and retraining all the end users to use the new layouts. Move one feature to a different place or method of entry and bingo you have users complaining about even a simple change like moving a selection field to a different section of an interface. This is the problem in a nutshell, form trumps function and sloppy security is the result.
We complain bitterly about problems with industrial espionage and yet we still cheap out and use crapware swiss cheese .Net garbage that hackers in China and Russian can drive a truck through.
"Ecology... Nature is only model we have that has survived climate change with shear, total, utter, neglect..." @RestorationAgD http://bit.ly/1ohVqpE
Certainly, but the results can at times not be very conducive for the species causing the changes. For instance today we have the popular hypothesis put forward by the crowd that claims exponentially increasing CO2 will quickly do in geologic time to the permafrost of the Northern Hemisphere is a wonderful outcome of climate change. Whether or not this rapid change can very quickly be turned into habitable and arable land is highly dubious.
This crowd thinks nothing of buying a Dodge Ram Diesel and chipping it, in fact they claim that their actions will help create enough farm land in Canada, Alaska and Putin's gulag labour camp areas to feed much more than the current population of the Earth. Even though the lands around the equator will become uninhabitable and the Saudis will all need to move north into Russia where farm land will be cheap. Forget the other Arab populations they will either die in the new deserts or join with the Saudis in buying up cheap farm land in either Alaska, the Canadian territories or the really cheap stuff in Siberia.
So just think of it this way, every time you put the peddle to the metal and beat the sucker beside you to the next light you are in fact creating new farm land for your children. Just remember to vote correctly in November and you will help create a bright future by electing only the people who advocate abolishing public transportation funding and putting more money into using coal slag for new and improved cheap road pavement so that people can drive anywhere and everywhere.
"It's the third-most-valuable company on Earth, with smaller annual profits than Southwest Airlines Co.,
In a nutshell it is an acquisition corporation combined with the fact that how you manage your high tech information technology in service industries efficiently is more important than profits if you are going to serve customers and grow your product lines. Walmart is the next fodder for the Bezos juggernaut they just don't see the importance of information technology and their online presence and service sucks for that very reason. Canadian Tire is another corp that could see problems, Best Buy after screwing up and over expanding brick and mortar in Canada is already in a world of hurt for the very same reasons. Target became a target and shuttered a shitload of stores because of a poor grasp of the growing importance of web tech in retail and service industries. Soon brick and mortar will become cheap so we might even see a slump in commercial real estate that leads to old malls and stores becoming housing. Which in a great many places would not be that bad of an outcome. Especially in places like Vancouver where employees working for minimum wage retail and service industries like Walmart and Best Buy cannot even afford to rent a shit house basement suite!!!
firing just leads to people covering up errors and blame passing. or people slowing work down to the point where you need 2-3 people to sign off to get stuff done.
Completely agree. And what is worse it leads to the discouragement of those who truly care about serving the public with integrity and good faith in the work that they do! That is exactly why so many positions that require only people that care more than a pay check at a time are being filled with people who could care less and only seek the thrill of power...going all the way up to the POTUS!!!!
Either that wind or up doing the low grade copy for the Washington Post
What for me is interesting is the monkey wrench quantum entanglement adds to the equation. It implies information exchange but defies distance and energy exchange physics. Indeed quantum entanglement between particles could be an explanation for self awareness beyond neural synaptic activity. Here on slashdot we think mostly of how electrons work in circuits. Thinking only about how timed circuits instantiate an action defies understand how the activity of awareness can be initiated. The ultimate classical chicken and egg quantum physics paradox, who came first the physicist or the equation?
"They built fireplaces throughout the length of the cave, again and again, in the same place, in the same sort of defined arrangement."
Seems to me that any tribe of humans that relies upon caves and uses fire pits might very well cause extensive health issues and limit their success as a group. Since we do not know yet if they advanced beyond being cave dwellers they certainly are a poor candidate for being an Adam and Eve keystone offshoot of modern humans. I doubt that they actually used the caves as a permanent place of long term residence, however if they did then most likely the health problems created by the air quality did some very nasty things to the group health wise.
It seems that primitive tribes that ventured forth away from primitive shelters like a cave would have better health and a better chance of surviving as a group. Indeed an essential part of our evolution as a species may very well be not hunkering down in what we assume to be civilized groups. The way we are effecting the air quality of the entire earth today, it may be that unless we continue to venture forth as a species we may not survive too much longer on this planet as a group. Ika had the right idea she didn't live in caves but made out with freely with other sub species and wandered around a lot for an H. sapiens I know she made me into an H. erectus just watching her do her schtick!
Well said and well reasoned, are you sure you are a on slashdot?
Apple runs shuttle buses for it's employees in San Francisco.
Apple runs shuttle buses for it is employees?
Don't sweat it, it's only superfluous water in the form of text in this case, as indeed sweating with it is. Superfluous verbiage is a curse of the internet, however correction of the header phrase to "Apple runs shuttle buses for employees in San Francisco." is a little beyond the editing skill of the average submission made on Slashdot, its part of the culture as is the gentrification and genderfication at Apple and Google.
Being old is a sin at Apple? I'll tell my brother. He works at Apple and is over 50 years of age..
Also California hasn't legalized recreational MJ yet, so I rather doubt it's available cafeteria dispensers.
Time for your annual physical there, deviated_pervert. Ask your doctor if you need to up your meds. Or perhaps you just need a high colonic cleansing, because you're obviously full of shit.
I just had a mega dump this morning and I did not even bother to post pictures of it on Faceplant. And no, I do not smoke up or need it to, I was simply poking fun at the uptight crowd of young coders riding on those buses who mostly do smoke up after sitting at a desk all day trying to be creative! Seems humour is a little beyond the comprehension level of quite a few nerds who post anonymously. #WOOOOSH
Why might someone attack these buses?
Mod up. At last an anon cowherd with a brain! Individuals who resort to this kind of tactic are either woefully lacking in self esteem or lack the intelligence, creativity and guts to act responsibly.
I hear that you guys have it in the dispensers in the cafeteria down in Frisco. No wonder, your software design and choices suck dead horse balls and look like they were coded by a bunch of monkees!Result being that the Zuck is starting to eat you for breakfast when it comes to picking up and getting along with the chicks and the old farts of this world. Wonder if Faceplant is considering releasing a hardware OS in future if they do it could put you in a world of hurt because it would make the grade in the market if it could run separate from your OS wares.
Woah there comrade! Have you been studying history? Having a knowledge of classical antiquity will not help Zuckerberg optimize the latest update to the Javascript ad delivery system! Stopping wasting your time on "liberal arts" and study something PRODUCTIVE! It's for your own good!
Faceplant does not need my help. It has very adequately replaced the liberal arts of communication by either debate or letters. And this is precisely the short coming of a site where I can share pictures of my latest bowel movements. Certainly "a picture is worth a thousand words" but millions of images can never replace a well reasoned argument well founded upon history and current events. Very many otherwise intelligent humans in Germany fell for Joseph Goebbels reasoned arguments, the same can be said about the propaganda that was spread over social networks by the Russians as well as Trump and his myrmidons. Let me see the next little ditty will be that Obama bought a phony birth certificate and that his terms as POTUS should therefore be stricken from the historical record.
Revisionist history is certainly not new and the origins of it go back as far as there was human governance, to ignore the study of how revisionist history plays a crucial role in the down fall of societies is a serious mistake, regardless if you have knowledge of server side scripting with javascript, php, ruby, perl or MS based .net nuttiness. For the record I code web sites and find a well founded historical knowledge invaluable in understanding why people will click on things and some will just hit the home button..;-)
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. We have no idea what Mueller has, but the people he is handing subpoenas to is highly interesting.
Either Mueller really has some dynamite shit on trump that we don't know about; or he will become biggest lamb to the slaughter house in history since about AD 36 or so when Lidia the mother of Tiberius died. The back stabbing and bullshit going on in Washington since Trump started his rise to power before the coming of Obama is in many ways similar to what happened to the Roman Empire after the reign of Augustus. It is a sad situation when neighbors start to rattle sabers and defame each other and a symptom of a sickness within the US democratic system that somehow must be resolved. If the Trump Republicans turf 800,000 mostly active productive humans out the window and no one in the Republican party cares enough to help stop the slaughter then the US deserves the scorn it will receive internationally. If the Democrats hold Trump to ransom on this issue are they really that evil?
Most Canadians feel for the individuals about to be abused by Trump's vain and inhuman policy in this regard and I am sure the influx of another wave of largely talented caring young people into our country will not hurt our economy in any way. Even if the US considers Canada to be unfairly subsidizing lumber, the truth is in reality we have been subsidizing American Corporations and helping deal with your racially motivated insanity for a very long time. The removal of this charlatan from office by impeachment might be the only way to return to any sanity at all and start to heal the divisions this asshole has fed upon and indeed created. Either that or replace the Statue of Liberty with a Trump tower with a stone on the bottom inscribed with; "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired rich, Your huddled well healed masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the ambitious, opportunistic lost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden Trump Tower's door!"
The overwhelming problem with all of these speech recognition interfaces is that web sites are not coded for key word searches and every website on the planet would most likely screw up the idea of using a keyword search structure. Again it all comes down to language and the fact that the complexity involved in obtaining fine grained results from key words in combinations interpolated by a computer is an enormous task that is fraught with the possibility of error.
Even Andrew Carnegie at the end of his life held what was essentially a potlatch when he realized he couldn't take it with him. THE PROBLEM with bitcoin is that you do take it with you and poof instant inflation will occur and I do not see a way to pay for public infrastructure or all the other perks of our modern society with bitcoin or other crypt-currencies that are in truth nothing more than short sighted TAX DODGES that are becoming popular with the SNAKE OIL speculation crazed morons that trade in them!!!!
The music publishing industry is about to change and the great publishing houses will need to distribute digital files of sheet music or they will all die a horrible death smothered by the paper they love to peddle. They cannot see the forest because their stupidity is still cutting down the trees! A large letter sized e-ink tablet on the music stand is the future and real musicians will pay for digital files only if the composition and setting is worthy of the player's time. The crap that is being sold by music publication houses these days is not worth the trip to the store or the online purchase! The same can be said about the quality of the digitally altered and generated music recordings being sold by today's so called "arteests" and especially the so called "song stylists" that are being pushed by the music production corporations that run the RIAA. We are indeed at a cross roads and the pied pipers are all silently waiting in the hall, they need to be paid or the "Day the Music Died" will become public domain. As it is our streets are silent except for the din of the drudgery of our lives, music will not die but it needs to be free to survive like all things of the spirit.
...the AI will sue him for a part of the money.
Only if the code is registered with the RIAA and there is no prior art... come to think of it the generated tunes were almost completely based upon some melodic and rhythmic riffs done by real musicians so the code can be said to have come entirely from prior art in the first place... obviously there was nothing GNU in it!
RLOF, BARF, CHUNDER PLUNK!
To preempt the inevitable juvenile anon coward assholes that will post comments about this, all I have to say is that the noise being created on Slashdot by anon coward assholes who post prejudiced idiotic comments about anything not white need to just shut up and listen to these incredible, humble great artists.
Once one gets away from the American pop music prejudiced main stream pap pop crap there is a world of wonder out there that defies replication by artificially generated algorithms. In the original post link to Hello shadow the music is influenced by eastern rhythm but falls flat because it is not spontaneous and is not possible on stage therefore it is artificial and somewhat akin to wanking on a digital fiile not actually making music as I intemperate the word.
1 single volcano puts off more carbon monoxide that all the cars ever built. Yet we are still alive.
Grow up people, global warming is a giant lie.
Hey you dumb fuck carbon monoxide is not the gas at issue with the known and recorded atmospheric gas imbalance. The higher levels of CO2 created by recent human activity are causing a rapid average global atmospheric warming. To deny the science and the evidence that every reputable scientist in the field is reporting is also becoming a rather stupid platform. Anyone who claims that carbon monoxide is the problem here is a complete absolute ignorant idiot. The same as the idiots who claim that atmospheric warming does not cause weather anomalies, or about as logical as the tired old saw used by some shills posting here that "AGW does not equal weather".
More extreme weather events on average created by AGW is a sound hypothesis. And indeed we are seeing the increase in global atmospheric CO2 cause increased average temperatures and changes to the jet stream that cause more extreme anomalous weather events. Areas are becoming dryer and hotter and soon some areas adjacent to deserts that are currently inhabited may become uninhabitable. Areas of India and Southern Europe are starting to see more extreme heat events that kill. All of these things have been predicted and are being proved true.
In Canada we have seen a direct correlation between the pine beetle forest die off in British Columbia and the statistically recorded increases in average winter and summer temperatures in the pine beetles range. To deny the evidence of the destruction being caused by human caused climate change is idiotic and at worst a deliberate attempt by morons in the petro chemical industry and their shills in Washington to deflect the blame away from the causes!
*This* is the reason I quit using Firefox. After the third time it broke all the extensions I used to keep autoplaying malware launchers from killing my bandwidth, I switched browsers. A few switches later, and Palemoon seems a good fit.
Funny but since 57 came out I find that there is much less of the crap happening without having to block stuff. So far no sites have made noise at me without my permission or a stupid click in the wrong place. 57 seems to block the porn site inspired hover_over_sound cursor blues and site redirects that once were the scourge of web browsing sites that use all sorts of js hooks with animations plastered all over the page like this site that at one time was unusable without a firefox extension to block the onslaught of scripted crap you might hover over. Warning for Internet Exploiter users this site link might make your head explode if you do not have script blocking turned on.
Seems Firefox is much better at cutting through the cruft on the net than it once was and for this I give the devs at Mozi\\a kudos. 57 is definitely a step in the right direction. Too bad they had to rely on money from a bunch of yahoos to do their serious coding. Unless of course opensource coders are not allowed to eat and must be starved to death in coding concentration camps as some posters here on slashdot seem to advocated now and then.
I would indeed have liked to see yahoo succeed because of their association with Mozi//a and come back as an organization however unfortunately because they were late the gate with the open source community and did not have the foresight to learn to build their own open source based equipment and decent hard and software security solutions or spend the money to do so early on when they had the cash, Google who did spend on infrastructure as well as security simply, ate their lunch.
Now they are reduced to litigation to survive as a corporate entity which is a sad way to see them go. HOWEVER someone might step in and light the fire with piles of cash to help them crush the Mozi??a juggernaut once and for all. Watch out for Baystar Capital style cash cows, the browser wars over Netscape ain't over quite yet and as long as what was mosiac exists there will be those who try to keep it off their OS customers computers. Somehow I do not think Google feels threatened in their place as number one in internet add and search revenues, however the number two search engine is a different story and Yahoo Corp. could become another SCO like backdoorbuyout for some company we all know and love. Especially if the backdoorbuyout could include a long drawn out legal attack that may very well inevitably sink Mozi11a as a corporation. The corporate skulduggery that goes on when lawyers are in the board rooms is a joy to watch unfold. CUE THE POPCORN SLASHDOT HERE WE SCO AGAIN!