Underground hydrocarbon-fueled fires are not new. Centralia, Pennsylvania has been on fire, underground, since 1961. That's forty-seven years. Second, those 'black smokers' are old news, also -older than most/. readers.
Yeah, like most geeks, you're thirty pounds or more overweight from all the Jolt and chips, your complexion is pasty, you sweat a lot when you talk to girls and you still live in your parent's basement.
It just confirms the Viking results that Mars is just one big solid rocket booster for the Martians to use to get out of the neighborhood before the Sun dies out.
For the Apache foundation to revise its licensing terms. Microsoft's plan is as evil as it comes; if we can't scare `em with patent litigation risk -and no-one wants to enter into an indemnification agreement- then we'll get in their code and fuck-it-up for them.
If you didn't see this coming way back when, you'll be part of the landscape by the time they pull their next move.
I so fucking done with 'announcements' like this one that have phrases like this:
"Nocera...suggested that the technologies to bring this into a typical home could be ready in less than a decade."
The World, not just the USA, is between a 'rock-and-a-rock' and a 'hard place and a hard place', squeezed from all sides with the dire predictions of global warming and the economy wrecking ever-increasing price of petroleum. WTF is it with these assholes that they simply can't come out and say; "If you throw the entire world's cash supply at me I can have this working in a year."?
Okay 'smart, science-type guy', you figured out how to make it work, how much cash do you want, how much booze, broads, and blow do you need to get you off your fat, university funded, ass to get this into a viable commercial product?
Come on, just tell us, genius.
Yeah, I thought so.
For a lawyer, Ray, you're a pretty funny guy.
Brilliant analysis, too. We can only hope that the members of the Judiciary of this country read your article and really understand it.
""and then ask the "geniuses", over and over again, a few questions about Apple's proprietary ways..."
This will only get them thrown out of the store. Apple still has the right to refuse service to anyone in their stores. The managers of the Apple stores will see this as a disruption to their operation and those that refuse to leave when asked, will be forcibly removed. Count on it.
If the FOS community wants to compete with Apple, make the software better. Make it easier to use for the average person. Make it available to more people by getting it installed on new machines or as the default installed OS from major manufacturers, not just as a hard-to-find option from Dell. Competing on a business level will yield better results than conducting a one geek jihad against a corporation that has used free software to it's advantage. Business is tough thing for most FOS geeks to get, but if you don't 'smarten-up', throw in the towel now.
As for Microsoft being irrelevant, that sounds like desperate talk. I've heard that before from companies that were doomed by their own hubris and failed to see the looming precipice. Ignore them and they will roll over you when you least expect it.
"...because he didn't really have the authority to do that..."
But his supervisors and everyone in his department knew he was the only one -the 'go to' guy- that really had the in-depth knowledge to figure out problems and make stuff work. If they let him do that without objection or questioning his reasons, they gave their tacit approval to allow him to operate in the fashion that he did.
"What happens with some thug snips your power cord?"
First there will be a short, loud, buzzing sound. That will be simultaneous with a bright, blue-white, flash of light. Which will be followed by a shower of red-hot molten metal of several types. This will be followed by screams of pain as the vandal's flesh is seared by the molten metal droplets, hopefully they will mostly strike that person in the face, leaving an easily identifiable burn pattern. After that, there will be no more vandalism of 'car plugs'.
That is the one, major, stick-in-the-eye, problem with the utility companies in SoCal. You install all these energy-saving devices and what do you get, absolutely dick, from the utility companies. They charge us tiered rates -which vary by 'season'- transmission, distribution, DWR Bond charges, Nuclear Decommissioning charges, Competition Transition charges, and the municipalities charge franchise fees, plus the state charges regulatory fees and surcharge taxes, so we all pay fourfucking times what our actual, billable, electric energy usage amounts to. This is all because of asshats like Steve "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" Peace and the other asshats in Sacramento that fell for the Enron 'deregulation' scam back in 2000. So there really is no incentive to do this for any of us here in SoCal, because we'd be better off investing our money in the local utility companies than trying to conserve energy.
and running around the room screaming that the sky is falling.
An article over at the Register, states that this 'vulnerability' was discovered three years ago by Ian Green and published in a paper he wrote for the SANS Institute. While Kaminsky does deserve some credit for his organizational skills in getting people to act on this, that's about as far as his role goes. Since this has been known about for three years and we haven't seen anything 'in the wild' -until now that the media bandwagon is careening downhill on fire- just goes to show how hard this is to exploit.
The metal alloys you cite have melting points too high to be of any practical use for semiconductor cooling. They have to be a liquid throughout the entire system to provide fluid flow to allow the liquid to be circulated within the system.
IT in education has been around for more than forty years; that would make it middle-aged. IBM punchcard machines and Bell 212a terminals with paper tape were the staples of IT in education forty-plus years ago. The problem today is that the training of teachers has not -and cannot- keep pace with the rapidly changing pace of information technology. While there are programs in place to train new teachers in the use of IT resources in the classroom, there are a huge number of teachers who lack that training and are either too intimidated by it's use or simply don't want to change how they deliver their lessons.
The other factor, currently, is the huge cut in budgets for K-12 education across the country. The precipitous drop in available funds for IT have made it impossible for schools to keep pace with equipment, software, and training for staff. IT people in education need to keep one thing in mind though, educating students can still be accomplished by the use of the tried and true means of pencil, paper, and practice.
"Google as an organization is not geared -- culturally -- to delivering enterprise class reliability to its user applications."
You don't have to be, when the entire on-line world is your beta test laboratory.
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Damn their oily hides!
Underground hydrocarbon-fueled fires are not new. Centralia, Pennsylvania has been on fire, underground, since 1961. That's forty-seven years. Second, those 'black smokers' are old news, also -older than most /. readers.
"I'm a big Linux user..."
Yeah, like most geeks, you're thirty pounds or more overweight from all the Jolt and chips, your complexion is pasty, you sweat a lot when you talk to girls and you still live in your parent's basement.
It just confirms the Viking results that Mars is just one big solid rocket booster for the Martians to use to get out of the neighborhood before the Sun dies out.
Embrace, Extend...
Choke on it...Bitches.
For the Apache foundation to revise its licensing terms. Microsoft's plan is as evil as it comes; if we can't scare `em with patent litigation risk -and no-one wants to enter into an indemnification agreement- then we'll get in their code and fuck-it-up for them.
If you didn't see this coming way back when, you'll be part of the landscape by the time they pull their next move.
I so fucking done with 'announcements' like this one that have phrases like this:
"Nocera...suggested that the technologies to bring this into a typical home could be ready in less than a decade."
The World, not just the USA, is between a 'rock-and-a-rock' and a 'hard place and a hard place', squeezed from all sides with the dire predictions of global warming and the economy wrecking ever-increasing price of petroleum. WTF is it with these assholes that they simply can't come out and say; "If you throw the entire world's cash supply at me I can have this working in a year."?
Okay 'smart, science-type guy', you figured out how to make it work, how much cash do you want, how much booze, broads, and blow do you need to get you off your fat, university funded, ass to get this into a viable commercial product?
Come on, just tell us, genius.
Yeah, I thought so.
Canada? Comet? Ice Age?
For a lawyer, Ray, you're a pretty funny guy.
Brilliant analysis, too. We can only hope that the members of the Judiciary of this country read your article and really understand it.
"What is this guy smoking?"
Besides crack?
"Waiting for the port."
Stop waiting and patch your server you insensitive clod!
What was once old, is new again.
""and then ask the "geniuses", over and over again, a few questions about Apple's proprietary ways..."
This will only get them thrown out of the store. Apple still has the right to refuse service to anyone in their stores. The managers of the Apple stores will see this as a disruption to their operation and those that refuse to leave when asked, will be forcibly removed. Count on it.
If the FOS community wants to compete with Apple, make the software better. Make it easier to use for the average person. Make it available to more people by getting it installed on new machines or as the default installed OS from major manufacturers, not just as a hard-to-find option from Dell. Competing on a business level will yield better results than conducting a one geek jihad against a corporation that has used free software to it's advantage. Business is tough thing for most FOS geeks to get, but if you don't 'smarten-up', throw in the towel now.
As for Microsoft being irrelevant, that sounds like desperate talk. I've heard that before from companies that were doomed by their own hubris and failed to see the looming precipice. Ignore them and they will roll over you when you least expect it.
"...because he didn't really have the authority to do that..."
But his supervisors and everyone in his department knew he was the only one -the 'go to' guy- that really had the in-depth knowledge to figure out problems and make stuff work. If they let him do that without objection or questioning his reasons, they gave their tacit approval to allow him to operate in the fashion that he did.
You setup a website with forums for user comments. Haven't you learned anything from reading /.?
No. It will be called 'Blonde' or 'Bimbo'.
"What happens with some thug snips your power cord?"
First there will be a short, loud, buzzing sound. That will be simultaneous with a bright, blue-white, flash of light. Which will be followed by a shower of red-hot molten metal of several types. This will be followed by screams of pain as the vandal's flesh is seared by the molten metal droplets, hopefully they will mostly strike that person in the face, leaving an easily identifiable burn pattern. After that, there will be no more vandalism of 'car plugs'.
"...they don't pay us for the excess."
That is the one, major, stick-in-the-eye, problem with the utility companies in SoCal. You install all these energy-saving devices and what do you get, absolutely dick, from the utility companies. They charge us tiered rates -which vary by 'season'- transmission, distribution, DWR Bond charges, Nuclear Decommissioning charges, Competition Transition charges, and the municipalities charge franchise fees, plus the state charges regulatory fees and surcharge taxes, so we all pay four fucking times what our actual, billable, electric energy usage amounts to. This is all because of asshats like Steve "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" Peace and the other asshats in Sacramento that fell for the Enron 'deregulation' scam back in 2000. So there really is no incentive to do this for any of us here in SoCal, because we'd be better off investing our money in the local utility companies than trying to conserve energy.
and running around the room screaming that the sky is falling.
An article over at the Register, states that this 'vulnerability' was discovered three years ago by Ian Green and published in a paper he wrote for the SANS Institute. While Kaminsky does deserve some credit for his organizational skills in getting people to act on this, that's about as far as his role goes. Since this has been known about for three years and we haven't seen anything 'in the wild' -until now that the media bandwagon is careening downhill on fire- just goes to show how hard this is to exploit.
The metal alloys you cite have melting points too high to be of any practical use for semiconductor cooling. They have to be a liquid throughout the entire system to provide fluid flow to allow the liquid to be circulated within the system.
Chill out. Dickwad.
More.
IT in education has been around for more than forty years; that would make it middle-aged. IBM punchcard machines and Bell 212a terminals with paper tape were the staples of IT in education forty-plus years ago. The problem today is that the training of teachers has not -and cannot- keep pace with the rapidly changing pace of information technology. While there are programs in place to train new teachers in the use of IT resources in the classroom, there are a huge number of teachers who lack that training and are either too intimidated by it's use or simply don't want to change how they deliver their lessons.
The other factor, currently, is the huge cut in budgets for K-12 education across the country. The precipitous drop in available funds for IT have made it impossible for schools to keep pace with equipment, software, and training for staff. IT people in education need to keep one thing in mind though, educating students can still be accomplished by the use of the tried and true means of pencil, paper, and practice.
A way to find twitter idiots and flashmob them into non-existence. Excellent.
"Google as an organization is not geared -- culturally -- to delivering enterprise class reliability to its user applications."
You don't have to be, when the entire on-line world is your beta test laboratory.