APC SmartUPS Dell PowerConnect switches HP switches (forget the name of the line) Canon, Konica, and Xerox copiers Etc.
These types of things are in place for decades, and all require some sort of ancient voodoo tool chain to fully manage.
Lord help you if you need to connect to an old UPS or switch via serial. 99 times out of 100 you won't have a serial port on any convenient device, the UPS to serial adapters only work half the time even when you can figure out the specific settings for the device, and then you run the risk running into a device that demands a non-standard cable with fucked-up pin mapping - I'm looking at you, APC.
It's gotten to the point that every device we deploy gets deployed with the serial cable permanently attached AND a USB adapter that is known to work with it. Then the device is covered in labels with shit like the internal IP, what flow control/etc. settings you need for serial, and which dark god you must pray to in order to get in and do your job.
At least let me fucking override shit for my devices (UPSes, copiers, etc.) that have absolutely no ability to use anything other than the self-signed shit they come with.
I'm fine with warning or blocking by default, but when those idiots remove my ability to do what I need to do (whitelist) I end up having to keep an older version of the browser with more holes in it just to connect to this UPS, that switch, this copier, etc.
Failure of the rocket that was "meant to carry 13 communication satellites into space" does not mean that it wasn't carry those 13 communication satellites. It means that it did not carry them into space.
Whether or not it carried them at all is not stated.
Really, really? Put a net such that anything less than 1-inch in size gets snagged. $100 and a trip to Home Depot and you're fucking done.
Please find me such a device or materials to make such a device at homedepot.com or amazon.com or alibaba.com or wherever. You can go up to $1000 if you want.
Snagging shit MORE than 1 inch across along its thinnest axis is easy.
Amazon's data center.
- Known location.
- Many employees susceptible to bribery, trickery, and extortion.
- No one would question someone snooping around at night since it's a busy 24/7 operation.
- No one will shoot you when you break in.
- No dogs guarding the area.
- Susceptible to all manner of attacks ranging from cutting power, cutting data, tampering with cooling, etc. that would result in easier access (everyone running around trying to fix the problem, card scanner not working so they just let you in if you look like you're in a hurry and you need to grabs those drives ASAP or Bozos will have your head, etc.)
Rando house:
- Which house is it?
- Who is there right now?
- Are they armed?
- What am I looking for? A NAS device? A laptop? A computer?
- Where in the house is it?
- Is there a dog that will instantly alert when I get within 100 yards of the house?
- Will a nosy neighbor see me peeking through the windows / trying to pick the lock?
"6.4 times less latency" means that if the latency of the baseline thing you are comparing against is X, then the latency of the new thing has a latency of 6.4 times X less than X, which is X minus 6.4 times X, which is negative 5.4 X.
The latency we're discussing is a measurement of time (and up until Intel's amazing breakthrough it was always positive). This means that Intel has discovered tachyons, invented a time machine, and violated causality in general. Either that, or "journalists" and marketers don't know what they're doing.
Such terms and changes do not constitute a legal contract.
Contracts REQUIRE understanding, agreement, and negotiation (even if it's a "yes" or "no"). If you remove one party's ABILITY to negotiate, you don't have a contract.
Of course, the courts are retarded from the top down, and the Supreme Shits allowed corporations to remove your legal right to sue with binding arbitration clauses, so let's not pretend anything matters.
Plus, hard copies aren't nearly secure enough. Even the best archival quality printing will fade. That's even true just for the relatively short amount of time some of us have been keeping digital archives.
Perhaps you just never did anything interesting ever...
One day you will die. Your children, friends, neighbors, or government will then go through your crap and toss the vast majority of it out. When those people die, the same will happen to them, and wait trace remained of your shit will be further diluted.
Your futile efforts to preserve everything are nothing but a symptom of your inability to accept your own mortality. Even if you die on a cross or you end up buried in a pyramid, people will forget you and your mark on the world will fade out of existence.
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That's exactly what I do.
But I need multiple versions for different pieces of shit.
APC SmartUPS
Dell PowerConnect switches
HP switches (forget the name of the line)
Canon, Konica, and Xerox copiers
Etc.
These types of things are in place for decades, and all require some sort of ancient voodoo tool chain to fully manage.
Lord help you if you need to connect to an old UPS or switch via serial. 99 times out of 100 you won't have a serial port on any convenient device, the UPS to serial adapters only work half the time even when you can figure out the specific settings for the device, and then you run the risk running into a device that demands a non-standard cable with fucked-up pin mapping - I'm looking at you, APC.
It's gotten to the point that every device we deploy gets deployed with the serial cable permanently attached AND a USB adapter that is known to work with it. Then the device is covered in labels with shit like the internal IP, what flow control/etc. settings you need for serial, and which dark god you must pray to in order to get in and do your job.
ALL GLORY TO HYPNOTOAD
At least let me fucking override shit for my devices (UPSes, copiers, etc.) that have absolutely no ability to use anything other than the self-signed shit they come with.
I'm fine with warning or blocking by default, but when those idiots remove my ability to do what I need to do (whitelist) I end up having to keep an older version of the browser with more holes in it just to connect to this UPS, that switch, this copier, etc.
Successful voter fraud hasn't been measured. (Hint, when it's successful you don't know that it happened.)
"Vote early, vote often."
1: Plan route & stay on it.
2: Subtract start time from finish time to get travel time, divide route length by travel time to get speed.
If you can't stick to a route without getting lost or can't do basic math you shouldn't be allowed outside without adult supervision.
This is why Slashdot doesn't allow editing.
Your original post, as well as my posts quoting you, preserve your stupidity for all to see.
Ants won't be snagged by that. Ants are less than 1 inch in size.
Failure of the rocket that was "meant to carry 13 communication satellites into space" does not mean that it wasn't carry those 13 communication satellites.
It means that it did not carry them into space.
Whether or not it carried them at all is not stated.
LOL U R DUM
"Put a net such that anything less than 1-inch in size gets snagged."
DO YOU GET IT YET? DO U SEE UR FUCKUP?
Really, really? Put a net such that anything less than 1-inch in size gets snagged. $100 and a trip to Home Depot and you're fucking done.
Please find me such a device or materials to make such a device at homedepot.com or amazon.com or alibaba.com or wherever.
You can go up to $1000 if you want.
Snagging shit MORE than 1 inch across along its thinnest axis is easy.
Inflammable means it can be set ablaze.
Non-inflammable means it can't (easily).
"Flammable" and "non-flammable" are HORSESHIT with backwards and incorrect derivations that have only added confusion.
Harken not unto this man, for he knoweth naught of glass nor steel.
Offtopic, but WTF is the point of shit like http://amzn.to/1NQpuYW ?
D&D board games? Isn't D&D supposed to be roll-your-own type shit?
I've never played, but I think if I did I'd be seriously offended at the idea of a board game version.
Amazon's lunks aren't allowed to shoot you for trespassing.
A homeowner is.
Amazon's data center.
- Known location.
- Many employees susceptible to bribery, trickery, and extortion.
- No one would question someone snooping around at night since it's a busy 24/7 operation.
- No one will shoot you when you break in.
- No dogs guarding the area.
- Susceptible to all manner of attacks ranging from cutting power, cutting data, tampering with cooling, etc. that would result in easier access (everyone running around trying to fix the problem, card scanner not working so they just let you in if you look like you're in a hurry and you need to grabs those drives ASAP or Bozos will have your head, etc.)
Rando house:
- Which house is it?
- Who is there right now?
- Are they armed?
- What am I looking for? A NAS device? A laptop? A computer?
- Where in the house is it?
- Is there a dog that will instantly alert when I get within 100 yards of the house?
- Will a nosy neighbor see me peeking through the windows / trying to pick the lock?
"6.4 times less latency" means that if the latency of the baseline thing you are comparing against is X, then the latency of the new thing has a latency of 6.4 times X less than X, which is X minus 6.4 times X, which is negative 5.4 X.
The latency we're discussing is a measurement of time (and up until Intel's amazing breakthrough it was always positive).
This means that Intel has discovered tachyons, invented a time machine, and violated causality in general. Either that, or "journalists" and marketers don't know what they're doing.
Oh look, a fucking autist who thinks he's a SPECIAL fucking autist.
What a marvel. Never seen that before, nosiree.
GAS BRAKE HONK
GAS BRAKE HONK
HONK HONK PUNCH
GAS GAS GAS
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Don't forget Zynga!
Such terms and changes do not constitute a legal contract.
Contracts REQUIRE understanding, agreement, and negotiation (even if it's a "yes" or "no").
If you remove one party's ABILITY to negotiate, you don't have a contract.
Of course, the courts are retarded from the top down, and the Supreme Shits allowed corporations to remove your legal right to sue with binding arbitration clauses, so let's not pretend anything matters.
Plus, hard copies aren't nearly secure enough. Even the best archival quality printing will fade. That's even true just for the relatively short amount of time some of us have been keeping digital archives.
Perhaps you just never did anything interesting ever...
One day you will die.
Your children, friends, neighbors, or government will then go through your crap and toss the vast majority of it out.
When those people die, the same will happen to them, and wait trace remained of your shit will be further diluted.
Your futile efforts to preserve everything are nothing but a symptom of your inability to accept your own mortality.
Even if you die on a cross or you end up buried in a pyramid, people will forget you and your mark on the world will fade out of existence.
TLDR: Let it go, let it goooooooo!
I knew what this was going to be before I clicked on it.
I am satisfied.
Don't forget Meg Whitman!
That's just what Anonymou$ Coward wants you to think, man.