In a real, functioning economy, it isn't accepted as a medium of exchange.
In a small subculture of people who blast off half crates of ammo and have a rack full of server equipment in their basement, it might be an adequate 'lubricant' for the barter exchange.
Working as an Apple employee in the part of the company that performed non-user updates, how many times did you THINK you would encounter customers who wanted to do the upgrade themselves?
Why would Mac owners who wanted to upgrade their own hardware have even come into contact with you??
And a significant number of those accidents are due to 'distracted driving.' Yet it's trivial for the GPS function built into most smartphones to detect motion and disable themselves.
It was Bob Dole's 'turn' once also, and we know how that turned out.
The Democrats should have learned something from this election cycle, and also the Republicans. Sadly, neither party probably has learned enough to change.
We won, simply by the fact that both the Bush and the Clinton dynasties were shut down in this election cycle.
Trump is sort of the political equivalent of Drano. Nobody wants to drink it or get any of it on their skin, but there are times when pouring some Drano into a sink will fix problems.
I doubt if he'll get a second term. You don't need to use Drano that often.
I wasn't aware that every player of Minecraft for the PC is paying Oracle for a license. I don't think Mojang/Microsoft pay a per-seat license, though Minecraft itself is not free. In the more recent versions for Windows, there is even it's own self-contained copy of the JVM packaged with the installer for Minecraft. Most newer players probably don't even know there is Java in there.
The free part of Java can live on. Not under the custody of Oracle, though. There are always people who view their chosen platform as the best, who want other competing platforms to die.
The part of Java that Sun Microsystems set free can live on. The captive part that Oracle acquired when they acquired Sun is foundering, because of the clumsy way Oracle chooses to license it. Oracle could operate more like Red Hat does and make their Java Product line something that would carry forward. Oracle doesn't have the corporate culture to do so, however,
What sort of a computer do you own? An Itanium? An Alphastation from the 90s? Or an Alienware running the greatest games?
I used to have a SparcServer 1000. That's a machine that uses thousands of watts of power when you just glance at it, without it even being plugged in. Also requires a room with a pretty solid floor.
The 'clueless hippies' that I knew while in college drove cars like one guy I knew who had a Delta 88. This was in the late 80's and it was a 70's pig car. It even had the 8-Track player. He would boat up to the north woods in it to commune with nature.
Probably what he should have done in the reply is not include the body of the message being discussed as part of the response, including the fraudulent link to change the email.. There was no reason for him to have chained the response along containing any of that information and the phishing link to click on.
It's shocking how much incompetent IT departments are in allowing Google inside their corporate structure. The company I work for now has replaced all in-house email services with a corporate-wide Gmail. Furthermore, our systems are 'locked down' in the respect that we cannot install any software on the systems (Windows 7) but the whole Google Apps suite is available to us, though I have never heard anybody in IT talk about that fact. We still use MS Office, but there are corporate 'template' type spreadsheets used for things like our timesheets. They are password protected with 'locked down' fields that cannot be edited by the employee, and some of the locked fields are just annoyances. I can open said spreadsheets in Google Docs and the locked cells are no longer restricted.
I hear, at least on 'fake news' sites or in the comment sections of news sites ('fake' or not) that the Clinton email server was penetrated by at least 5 Foreign governments.
Now, it may have been contrived made-up garbage, because there was certainly a shitstorm of that going around during the election, but can you or anybody else provide an authoritative link showing that there is no evidence Clinton's email server was hacked?
Much appreciated, because we need this stuff nailed down.
Weiner was being investigated for a new instance of child molesting (an underaged post-pubescent young woman, but we get weird about that stuff) and the Weiner household apparently was sharing machines and a bunch of Abedin's email was on one of the machine seized. It's really appalling that those emails were being tossed around so recklessly by various parties involved.
If it was a Russian hacking effort, it didn't need to be governmental. There is a large population of Russian hackers who are private entrepreneurs. If you're a Russian with computer smarts you don't have the same 'legit' opportunities as a western hacker*. The economy there isn't as big as in the US.
(*hacker in the old sense that nerds used to understand)
It could have been governmental, but the fact that it happened in 'Russia' doesn't mean it was government-operative-based. Especially since it was a lame phishing exploit.
The technical term for that is that it was a 'brain fart'. Brain farts can happen to anybody. As evidenced here, when a brain fart happens you can even re-correct the words around the 'typo' as in using 'a' instead of 'an.'
The takeaway is that it was ordinary low-level phishing that cracked Podesta's account. The Clinton team wasn't even invulnerable to plain vanilla phishing.
Is Podesta even in any kind of position now where his computer illiteracy could get him in trouble again? The team he was on lost, and he's very tied to the fortunes of Ms. Clinton and probably won't be the head of anybody's campaign again.
'The strength of the government' is not an inherently good thing that needs defending. Some would say that a strong government impairs industry competitiveness.
If Trump really does manage to turn the whole government into a top-to-bottom herd of bootlicking sycophants that completely reverses policy with every election, he will destroy the stability that makes USD the global currency.
The strength of the USD is not determined by the number of entrenched civil service employees that are securely in place within the government bureaucracy. In fact, some would even say that the government bureaucracy is an impediment to the competitiveness of the private industry that the strength of the USD is dependent on.
If the wheels of the bureaucracy are stricken off, it won't matter who is elected. The bureaucrats can fume and fluster at their desks. We can just ignore it all.
Compile it yourself, using a compiler, linker, and libraries that you've read the source for yourself, or that you trust a great deal. Also, review the firmware in the hard drive of the machine you compile it on, and also the firmware in the keyboard. And the firmware on the Ethernet card, if any of the source traversed the network. Etc. etc.
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Charge is measured in coulombs. It isn't an 'analogy' thing.
In a real, functioning economy, it isn't accepted as a medium of exchange.
In a small subculture of people who blast off half crates of ammo and have a rack full of server equipment in their basement, it might be an adequate 'lubricant' for the barter exchange.
But Bitcoin isn't a foreign or a local currency anywhere.
So your script has a data type error if applied to Bitcoin.
Working as an Apple employee in the part of the company that performed non-user updates, how many times did you THINK you would encounter customers who wanted to do the upgrade themselves?
Why would Mac owners who wanted to upgrade their own hardware have even come into contact with you??
And a significant number of those accidents are due to 'distracted driving.' Yet it's trivial for the GPS function built into most smartphones to detect motion and disable themselves.
It was Bob Dole's 'turn' once also, and we know how that turned out.
The Democrats should have learned something from this election cycle, and also the Republicans. Sadly, neither party probably has learned enough to change.
We won, simply by the fact that both the Bush and the Clinton dynasties were shut down in this election cycle.
Trump is sort of the political equivalent of Drano. Nobody wants to drink it or get any of it on their skin, but there are times when pouring some Drano into a sink will fix problems.
I doubt if he'll get a second term. You don't need to use Drano that often.
How does the Oracle culture impact VirtualBox. A lot of people like me still use it on our home desktops.
I wasn't aware that every player of Minecraft for the PC is paying Oracle for a license. I don't think Mojang/Microsoft pay a per-seat license, though Minecraft itself is not free. In the more recent versions for Windows, there is even it's own self-contained copy of the JVM packaged with the installer for Minecraft. Most newer players probably don't even know there is Java in there.
The free part of Java can live on. Not under the custody of Oracle, though. There are always people who view their chosen platform as the best, who want other competing platforms to die.
The part of Java that Sun Microsystems set free can live on. The captive part that Oracle acquired when they acquired Sun is foundering, because of the clumsy way Oracle chooses to license it. Oracle could operate more like Red Hat does and make their Java Product line something that would carry forward. Oracle doesn't have the corporate culture to do so, however,
Ellison isn't anything magical or mystical.
It's a mistake to give what he is that kind of an aura.
I used to have a SparcServer 1000. That's a machine that uses thousands of watts of power when you just glance at it, without it even being plugged in. Also requires a room with a pretty solid floor.
The 'clueless hippies' that I knew while in college drove cars like one guy I knew who had a Delta 88. This was in the late 80's and it was a 70's pig car. It even had the 8-Track player. He would boat up to the north woods in it to commune with nature.
Probably what he should have done in the reply is not include the body of the message being discussed as part of the response, including the fraudulent link to change the email. . There was no reason for him to have chained the response along containing any of that information and the phishing link to click on.
It's shocking how much incompetent IT departments are in allowing Google inside their corporate structure. The company I work for now has replaced all in-house email services with a corporate-wide Gmail. Furthermore, our systems are 'locked down' in the respect that we cannot install any software on the systems (Windows 7) but the whole Google Apps suite is available to us, though I have never heard anybody in IT talk about that fact. We still use MS Office, but there are corporate 'template' type spreadsheets used for things like our timesheets. They are password protected with 'locked down' fields that cannot be edited by the employee, and some of the locked fields are just annoyances. I can open said spreadsheets in Google Docs and the locked cells are no longer restricted.
I hear, at least on 'fake news' sites or in the comment sections of news sites ('fake' or not) that the Clinton email server was penetrated by at least 5 Foreign governments.
Now, it may have been contrived made-up garbage, because there was certainly a shitstorm of that going around during the election, but can you or anybody else provide an authoritative link showing that there is no evidence Clinton's email server was hacked?
Much appreciated, because we need this stuff nailed down.
Weiner was being investigated for a new instance of child molesting (an underaged post-pubescent young woman, but we get weird about that stuff) and the Weiner household apparently was sharing machines and a bunch of Abedin's email was on one of the machine seized. It's really appalling that those emails were being tossed around so recklessly by various parties involved.
If it was a Russian hacking effort, it didn't need to be governmental. There is a large population of Russian hackers who are private entrepreneurs. If you're a Russian with computer smarts you don't have the same 'legit' opportunities as a western hacker*. The economy there isn't as big as in the US. (*hacker in the old sense that nerds used to understand) It could have been governmental, but the fact that it happened in 'Russia' doesn't mean it was government-operative-based. Especially since it was a lame phishing exploit.
The technical term for that is that it was a 'brain fart'. Brain farts can happen to anybody. As evidenced here, when a brain fart happens you can even re-correct the words around the 'typo' as in using 'a' instead of 'an.' The takeaway is that it was ordinary low-level phishing that cracked Podesta's account. The Clinton team wasn't even invulnerable to plain vanilla phishing. Is Podesta even in any kind of position now where his computer illiteracy could get him in trouble again? The team he was on lost, and he's very tied to the fortunes of Ms. Clinton and probably won't be the head of anybody's campaign again.
Be fair now. The cheaper laptops at WalMart all have AMD processors.
But what about moral relativity? Isn't that important, too?
Is there truly any right or wrong?
Or do we defer to gaia?
'The strength of the government' is not an inherently good thing that needs defending. Some would say that a strong government impairs industry competitiveness.
If Trump really does manage to turn the whole government into a top-to-bottom herd of bootlicking sycophants that completely reverses policy with every election, he will destroy the stability that makes USD the global currency.
The strength of the USD is not determined by the number of entrenched civil service employees that are securely in place within the government bureaucracy. In fact, some would even say that the government bureaucracy is an impediment to the competitiveness of the private industry that the strength of the USD is dependent on.
If the wheels of the bureaucracy are stricken off, it won't matter who is elected. The bureaucrats can fume and fluster at their desks. We can just ignore it all.
Compile it yourself, using a compiler, linker, and libraries that you've read the source for yourself, or that you trust a great deal. Also, review the firmware in the hard drive of the machine you compile it on, and also the firmware in the keyboard. And the firmware on the Ethernet card, if any of the source traversed the network. Etc. etc.