Netflix was quite innovative in their CDN. If you haven't worked "at scale" before: every time you add a 0 to the end of your user base, there's a whole new set of lessons to learn. Netflix is the single biggest source of web traffic (by bytes) on the internet. Getting there required innovation.
How does Google have our SS numbers if all we do is search? Is that legal?
Google knows an astonishing amount about you. I chatted with one of their professional racists: the team that determines your race from all the information they have on you from searches, mail, web bugs, and so on. Gotta target them ads.
Want a registry of all Muslims in the US, or perhaps all the Jews? Google has it.
If you dislike this, you can much of these . DuckDuckGo for the win. Outlook.com doesn't suck. Ghostery or other tracking blockers. There's no total escape if you use the internet, but you can avoid situations like this.
The F-22 is great, but it first flew 20 years ago, with the YF-22 accepted as the winner in 1991. The new Seawolf attack sub is great, but the first was commissioned 20 years ago, with the contract awarded in 1989. Those were fine programs.
The standard rules work just fine. Why would you say otherwise? Pay the hourly rate that, when obeying standard overtime rules, is the compensation the job needs in order to find workers.
Worse than that, they would often kill a piece of the missile. The Patriot is a great cautionary tale for missile defense systems. It was perfectly good at intercepting a certain kind of missile, which turned out to be entirely useless in practice. Military proving exercises are just full of "but the enemy would never do that" excuses.
The US military has gotten a lot better at skepticism for delivered weapon systems. The current problem is: we fund the entire program, take delivery of a couple of early production examples, decide they suck, and stop. While it's great that we don't deploy useless systems, we still paid most of the cost! And we didn't get a working system.
The F-35 is sadly one of the best military R&D projects of the past 20 years, as it's actually somewhat usable for its intended purpose. Contrast with Navy's failed programs for a new cruiser, an new destroyer, and a new frigate, all of witch gave us nothing very useful (the two Zumwalts we have barely work, and we're stopping at 3) . Or the army's attempt to replace the M16/M4.
They did not stage violent riots. They had peaceful protests going on until some assholes came along and ruined it.
And yet, mysteriously, every "mostly peaceful" campus protest works the same way: the speaker is prevented, by violence or threat of violence, from speaking. This is the exact opposite of free speech.
These weren't Berkeley students. This wasn't any sort of required material for any course. This was a free offering for interested parties. Are you seriously claiming that making it unavailable for everyone is better then having it available for almost everyone?
Sorry, but no right includes compelling others to be your slave. If they were Berkeley students and this was course material, then the ADA would make sense - a business should provide reasonable accommodations to its customers as a cost of doing business. But that's not what this is.
It's being offered for free. Better it's available to anyone who can consume it than available to nobody. "Produced partly with tax money" has nothing to do with anything.
I'd mod you insightful if/. ever gave me mod points.
Berkeley was once the proud home of free speech, really a founder in the "free speech on campus" movement in the US. Now they stage violent riots to shut down on-campus speakers who may say something they disagree with. WTF happened, Berkeley?
f I want another device to watch what I do, I'll just buy another microwave.
No, no, you need a Nest thermostat in every room to watch you have sex, and some "smart" device in the bathroom to watch you poop. Can't we have some more enthusiasm around here for the internet of things that watch you poop?
Sure it was - I had it. It was the blatantly obvious better choice over the end-of-life 98/ME trash. The big problem was that it didn't support many games, as it was very early days for DirectX. I played the Hell out of Starcraft though.
I sincerely doubt the UIs are getting worse year after year. If that were the case, we would have unusable devices by now.
I couldn't use Windows 8 until I found classic shell. I seriously could discover how to do anything as far as box admin. BUt in think geek consensus is that 10 is better than 8, just still (much) worse than 7.
A good UI is difficult. It needs to meet a lot of goals:
But we had UIs that met those goals, and lost them due to "designers" seeking fashion over function. Heck, just last month some update pushed to my Android moved its UI from tolerable to unusable. I now cant guess what the icons on the lock screen mean, and I cant read the light-grey-on-white alerts screen. Can we just kill all the "designers" and start over?
You can't deny nearly a fourth of the kids from education. Of course the Republicans here want to do that since they're anti-science and support mandatory vaccinations.
Arrest the parents for child endangerment. The foster homes will get the kids vaccinated and they'll get an education. No reason to tolerate child abuse.
We give an astonishing chunk of life-sustaining energy to the brain, while a CEO makes a trivially tiny portion of a company's total payroll.
Any individual member of the corporation other than the CEO will do far less damage as a fuckup. Companies rarely recover from a fuckup at the top.
(I put "improve" in quotes because some of the things that CEOs do to increase that 1% harm the company in the long term.)
Well, it's up to the owners to provide the correct incentive structure. But if they want to destroy the company for a quick turn-around? Sucks, but it's their company to ruin.
For that 3rd-world construction worker, he will be better off on average as a hard worker than a whiner. If he had a (reasonable) path for becoming a pampered heir, that would in turn be a better strategy than hard work! But that seems unlikely to exist.
When I was at VMware, years back, they were busily developing VMware for phones (focused on providing a "Work VM" that could be remotely wiped, leaving the rest of your phone untouched). I can only assume there wasn't a market for it, since I haven't seen it since.
Hypervisor escape exploits are very rare and valuable, and usually involve some sort of built-in sharing between VMs.
The same malware creators target both platforms equally now. Too many banks try to use the phone as a 2nd factor, so it's a very valuable malware target, and attackers have had enough success to make the news in security circles.
A PC is really pretty secure (in this specific case) if you don't use the same browser for banking as everything else, because the vast majority of malware here is "man in the browser" attacks (and they try to stay hidden after infecting the browser, not call attention by trying to infect more). Personally, I have a separate VM I only use for financial stuff, and use a physical token as a second factor, but I'm paranoid.
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Netflix was quite innovative in their CDN. If you haven't worked "at scale" before: every time you add a 0 to the end of your user base, there's a whole new set of lessons to learn. Netflix is the single biggest source of web traffic (by bytes) on the internet. Getting there required innovation.
How does Google have our SS numbers if all we do is search? Is that legal?
Google knows an astonishing amount about you. I chatted with one of their professional racists: the team that determines your race from all the information they have on you from searches, mail, web bugs, and so on. Gotta target them ads.
Want a registry of all Muslims in the US, or perhaps all the Jews? Google has it.
If you dislike this, you can much of these . DuckDuckGo for the win. Outlook.com doesn't suck. Ghostery or other tracking blockers. There's no total escape if you use the internet, but you can avoid situations like this.
Never will I give the NYT a click. You don't fund the enemy.
The F-22 is great, but it first flew 20 years ago, with the YF-22 accepted as the winner in 1991. The new Seawolf attack sub is great, but the first was commissioned 20 years ago, with the contract awarded in 1989. Those were fine programs.
I don't believe it's that simple. Consider the following example I just found:
"I love my parents, Lady Gaga and Humpty Dumpty."
The older form of this example was:
"I want to thank my parents, Ayn Rand and God."
Of course, on Slashdot someone will mod me down for just mentioning Ayn Rand. My favorite example is:
"The hunter eats, shoots and leaves."
Just for the humor value. Oh, and it's such a classic example that there's a grammar book named Eats, Shoots & Leaves.
I actually have an uncle named Jack who raised horses. I learned the value of commas early in life.
Interesting if true. Do you have a reliable source for that? The NYT will print anything that furthers their agenda, after all, as is well known.
The standard rules work just fine. Why would you say otherwise? Pay the hourly rate that, when obeying standard overtime rules, is the compensation the job needs in order to find workers.
Worse than that, they would often kill a piece of the missile. The Patriot is a great cautionary tale for missile defense systems. It was perfectly good at intercepting a certain kind of missile, which turned out to be entirely useless in practice. Military proving exercises are just full of "but the enemy would never do that" excuses.
The US military has gotten a lot better at skepticism for delivered weapon systems. The current problem is: we fund the entire program, take delivery of a couple of early production examples, decide they suck, and stop. While it's great that we don't deploy useless systems, we still paid most of the cost! And we didn't get a working system.
The F-35 is sadly one of the best military R&D projects of the past 20 years, as it's actually somewhat usable for its intended purpose. Contrast with Navy's failed programs for a new cruiser, an new destroyer, and a new frigate, all of witch gave us nothing very useful (the two Zumwalts we have barely work, and we're stopping at 3) . Or the army's attempt to replace the M16/M4.
Corruption at its worst.
Intentions are the least interesting or useful thing in the world.
The result in this particular case is bullshit, and the judge should have shown some discretion. Society was harmed, needlessly.
They did not stage violent riots. They had peaceful protests going on until some assholes came along and ruined it.
And yet, mysteriously, every "mostly peaceful" campus protest works the same way: the speaker is prevented, by violence or threat of violence, from speaking. This is the exact opposite of free speech.
These weren't Berkeley students. This wasn't any sort of required material for any course. This was a free offering for interested parties. Are you seriously claiming that making it unavailable for everyone is better then having it available for almost everyone?
Sorry, but no right includes compelling others to be your slave. If they were Berkeley students and this was course material, then the ADA would make sense - a business should provide reasonable accommodations to its customers as a cost of doing business. But that's not what this is.
It's being offered for free. Better it's available to anyone who can consume it than available to nobody. "Produced partly with tax money" has nothing to do with anything.
I'd mod you insightful if /. ever gave me mod points.
Berkeley was once the proud home of free speech, really a founder in the "free speech on campus" movement in the US. Now they stage violent riots to shut down on-campus speakers who may say something they disagree with. WTF happened, Berkeley?
f I want another device to watch what I do, I'll just buy another microwave.
No, no, you need a Nest thermostat in every room to watch you have sex, and some "smart" device in the bathroom to watch you poop. Can't we have some more enthusiasm around here for the internet of things that watch you poop?
I was considering buying one of these for my kitchen. I'm not any more. I have no interest in adding more unsolicited advertising to my life.
Is it in any way surprising that a home appliance sold by an advertising company starts ... advertising? I mean, really, who didn't see this coming.
No, he did say he blocked web ads, which is 95% or so of the attack surface these days.
Sure it was - I had it. It was the blatantly obvious better choice over the end-of-life 98/ME trash. The big problem was that it didn't support many games, as it was very early days for DirectX. I played the Hell out of Starcraft though.
I sincerely doubt the UIs are getting worse year after year. If that were the case, we would have unusable devices by now.
I couldn't use Windows 8 until I found classic shell. I seriously could discover how to do anything as far as box admin. BUt in think geek consensus is that 10 is better than 8, just still (much) worse than 7.
A good UI is difficult. It needs to meet a lot of goals:
But we had UIs that met those goals, and lost them due to "designers" seeking fashion over function. Heck, just last month some update pushed to my Android moved its UI from tolerable to unusable. I now cant guess what the icons on the lock screen mean, and I cant read the light-grey-on-white alerts screen. Can we just kill all the "designers" and start over?
You can't deny nearly a fourth of the kids from education. Of course the Republicans here want to do that since they're anti-science and support mandatory vaccinations.
Arrest the parents for child endangerment. The foster homes will get the kids vaccinated and they'll get an education. No reason to tolerate child abuse.
We give an astonishing chunk of life-sustaining energy to the brain, while a CEO makes a trivially tiny portion of a company's total payroll.
Any individual member of the corporation other than the CEO will do far less damage as a fuckup. Companies rarely recover from a fuckup at the top.
(I put "improve" in quotes because some of the things that CEOs do to increase that 1% harm the company in the long term.)
Well, it's up to the owners to provide the correct incentive structure. But if they want to destroy the company for a quick turn-around? Sucks, but it's their company to ruin.
You don't understand what a life strategy is.
For that 3rd-world construction worker, he will be better off on average as a hard worker than a whiner. If he had a (reasonable) path for becoming a pampered heir, that would in turn be a better strategy than hard work! But that seems unlikely to exist.
How is this even a little controversial?
A well-reasoned point. I don't have children or pets, so I can have nice things, but that's a small demographic.
When I was at VMware, years back, they were busily developing VMware for phones (focused on providing a "Work VM" that could be remotely wiped, leaving the rest of your phone untouched). I can only assume there wasn't a market for it, since I haven't seen it since.
Hypervisor escape exploits are very rare and valuable, and usually involve some sort of built-in sharing between VMs.
The same malware creators target both platforms equally now. Too many banks try to use the phone as a 2nd factor, so it's a very valuable malware target, and attackers have had enough success to make the news in security circles.
A PC is really pretty secure (in this specific case) if you don't use the same browser for banking as everything else, because the vast majority of malware here is "man in the browser" attacks (and they try to stay hidden after infecting the browser, not call attention by trying to infect more). Personally, I have a separate VM I only use for financial stuff, and use a physical token as a second factor, but I'm paranoid.