. . . the Spanish Soccer Inquisition!
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency....
" Our chief weapon is mics... mics and GPS... GPS and mics.... Our two weapons are mics and GPS...and IP Addresses...."
This was one of the under-reported issue of the Trump / Kim summit . . . along with supporting ZTE in China, the USA will now promote Internet hosting in North Korea!
As to halting its nuclear ambitions . . . Kim is "currently implementing plans to size the effort" . . .
I'd argue that the ability to buy tickets for cash is a good enough reason to have ticket agents.
Oh, I guess we'll see, really soon, that train ticket agents get a DHS agent setup at their booths. If you buy a ticket with cash, you'll have your face photographed, your thumb fingerprinted, and your mouth swabbed for a DNA sample.
The fastest supercomputer is going to be whomever has built the newest one.
Not necessarily. IBM is also building a newer . . . slower . . . supercomputer for the DoE:
Summit is one of two of these next-generation supercomputers that IBM is building for the DEO. The second one is Sierra, which will be housed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Sierra, which is also scheduled to go online this year, is less powerful at an expected 125 petaflops, but both systems are significantly more powerful than any other machine in the DoE’s arsenal right now.
I am surprised Microsoft is publicizing this. They are hurting recruitment by broadcasting that they have crappy pay, and raising expectations of salary increases among existing employees.
They're publicizing it, because they are saying that they are going to do something about it.
Their employees are probably already whining about it anyway on Socialist Media, so this is to counter that.
Yeah, they're raising expectations . . . maybe they can convince some folks to stay on for another year, to see if Microsoft follows through . . . ?
Well, you can download the source code and examine it for back doors.
Well, google on "ken thompson compiler backdoor":-)
You can put some source code in that looks innocuous, but the compiler adds a backdoor when it sees that code:
In 1984 KenThompson was presented with the ACM TuringAward. Ken's acceptance speech Reflections On Trusting Trust (http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html) describes a hack (in every sense), the most subversive ever perpetrated, nothing less than the root password of all evil.
Ken describes how he injected a virus into a compiler. Not only did his compiler know it was compiling the login function and inject a backdoor, but it also knew when it was compiling itself and injected the backdoor generator into the compiler it was creating. The source code for the compiler thereafter contains no evidence of either virus.
I'm speculating that the operational costs of the program are the prohibiting factor. In other words, it costs too much just to keep it running.
But instead of junking it . . . sell it instead! I'm sure the likes of Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg or Larry Ellison would love to have a Jupiter satellite in their collections of toys.
Bezos could sell stuff to Jupiterians via Amazon Jupiter.
Zuckerberg could sell private data about Jupiterians.
Ellison has already been an asshole to everyone on planet Earth. He could now expand, and be an asshole to Jupiterians.
Oh, and they could continue to do some science, on the side. Maybe some stuff that NASA had to ditch because of the costs involved . . . ?
What exactly would this do that a passport wouldn't? If you want to know who someone is, tada, passport.
With facial recognition systems, the more sample photos of a subject you have, the better it works. A lot better than having just one passport picture.
The DHS folks want to build a bigger database that allows law enforcement folks to better identify criminal folks from surveillance cameras.
That won't work until Congress repeals the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.
Would a Presidential Pardon be enough . . . ? I hear Presidential Pardons will be the Next Big Thing.
If you have a diabetic roommate, you could use a large biobattery to power your laptop.
What do you do with your roommates when they are empty . . . ? Are they rechargeable, or do you need to dispose them at special environmental recycling center?
Is there a danger that roommates will spontaneously burst into flames, like Samsung batteries?
It remains to be seen how much Microsoft has paid for GitHub, but why pay anything if they're unprofitable
The classic Economics answer, is that you believe that it is unprofitable because it is poorly managed, and that you can do a better job of managing it to profitability. This usually means that you can integrate it with your existing businesses, streamline, and cut a lot of costs. This also usually includes massive layoffs at the purchased company, accompanied by folks jumping ship to look elsewhere for a job, before they are eventually fired.
IBM's ThinkPad business was unprofitable when Lenovo bought it. Lenovo turned it around into profitability.
Of course, there are often other ulterior motives. Microsoft bought Nokia because they thought Nokia built hardware would help Windows Phone be a success.
Microsoft was wrong. So they did what any other rational investor would do . . . cut your losses and let it die.
We'll see in about a year what Github's fate is . . . profitability . . . or death . . .
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. . . the Spanish Soccer Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency....
" Our chief weapon is mics... mics and GPS... GPS and mics.... Our two weapons are mics and GPS...and IP Addresses ...."
. . . against Facebook, and their business practices about collecting and selling data about folks who are not associated with their business.
Maybe if enough people file complaints against Facebook, they will take some action against themselves.
But where are we supposed to host things anymore?
North Korea!
They're (nuclear) tanned, rested and ready!
This was one of the under-reported issue of the Trump / Kim summit . . . along with supporting ZTE in China, the USA will now promote Internet hosting in North Korea!
As to halting its nuclear ambitions . . . Kim is "currently implementing plans to size the effort" . . .
One of the sheriffs in Illinois is arguing that if the state legalizes pot all the police dogs will have to be put down.
If Illinois legalizes pot, maybe they won't need so many sheriffs . . . and they will have to be put down.
Tell me when it really crashes and who's left holding the bag.
"You are . . . Number 6 . . ."
This will be just like the sub-prime mortgages bust:
The folks who bought houses way beyond their means couldn't bail it out. They were flat broke.
The rich banks and bankers couldn't bail it out. They were "Too Big To Fail". That would have expanded the financial crisis.
So . . . I guess that left the taxpayers . . . who had nothing to do with the sub-prime loan shenanigans . . . to bail it out.
So . . . who will bail out the mess left by a Bitcoin Bubble Burst . . . ?
The Bitcoin speculators will have no money. They won't be able to bail it out.
The banks and bank speculators who have been messing with Bitcoin quietly are still "Too Big To Fail" . . .
. . . so I guess that leaves the taxpayers . . . who have not speculated with Bitcoin . . .
The old-time government birthday party game:
"Pin the bill, on the taxpayers!"
The Microsoft of today is not the same Microsoft as in the days of Ballmer and Gates.
The Nazi Party of today is not the same Nazi Party as in the days of Himmler and Hitler.
The Nazi Party has announced plans to buy Kibbutzes and install new shower plumbing there for free.
Microsoft tried for years to kill Linux and Open Source. They have realized they can't achieve that any more.
So they want to control Open Source.
That's why they bought GitHub . . . for control . . .
Odd looking design. They remind me of the tombs of the ancient kings in the Narnia stories.
I dunno. When I look at them . . . I think they look like those Easter Island Heads:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'd argue that the ability to buy tickets for cash is a good enough reason to have ticket agents.
Oh, I guess we'll see, really soon, that train ticket agents get a DHS agent setup at their booths. If you buy a ticket with cash, you'll have your face photographed, your thumb fingerprinted, and your mouth swabbed for a DNA sample.
The fastest supercomputer is going to be whomever has built the newest one.
Not necessarily. IBM is also building a newer . . . slower . . . supercomputer for the DoE:
Summit is one of two of these next-generation supercomputers that IBM is building for the DEO. The second one is Sierra, which will be housed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Sierra, which is also scheduled to go online this year, is less powerful at an expected 125 petaflops, but both systems are significantly more powerful than any other machine in the DoE’s arsenal right now.
If you had access to a computer this powerful, what would you do with it? just asking...
. . . in other news . . . the DoE has just announced that they own 51% of the Bitcoin Universe . . .
low pay = more H1B's that locked to the job and will do 80+ hours a week so they don't kicked out the USA.
It's kind of weird actually. Back in the British Colonial times, English companies went to India to exploit the workers there.
Now the workers from India come to the US voluntarily to be exploited there.
Lazy American companies! They can't even be bothered to travel abroad to exploit folks!
I am surprised Microsoft is publicizing this. They are hurting recruitment by broadcasting that they have crappy pay, and raising expectations of salary increases among existing employees.
They're publicizing it, because they are saying that they are going to do something about it.
Their employees are probably already whining about it anyway on Socialist Media, so this is to counter that.
Yeah, they're raising expectations . . . maybe they can convince some folks to stay on for another year, to see if Microsoft follows through . . . ?
which are those that the workers don't expect to last or that workers call temporary.
Isn't that all jobs these days . . . ?
I've been with the same employer for more than 30 years, but change jobs every few years.
"Hello, My Line, do you have Prince Albert in a can?" "Hello, My Line, is your refrigerator running?"
It is probably a premium service toll number . . . so the joke will be on the caller, who gets stuck with the bill.
Well, you can download the source code and examine it for back doors.
Well, google on "ken thompson compiler backdoor" :-)
You can put some source code in that looks innocuous, but the compiler adds a backdoor when it sees that code:
In 1984 KenThompson was presented with the ACM TuringAward. Ken's acceptance speech Reflections On Trusting Trust (http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html) describes a hack (in every sense), the most subversive ever perpetrated, nothing less than the root password of all evil.
Ken describes how he injected a virus into a compiler. Not only did his compiler know it was compiling the login function and inject a backdoor, but it also knew when it was compiling itself and injected the backdoor generator into the compiler it was creating. The source code for the compiler thereafter contains no evidence of either virus.
Microsoft? Security? Something doesn't seem quite right.
For me, security and Microsoft is not the issue. It's trust and Microsoft.
As in, "I trust Microsoft, as far as I can throw them."
Yeah, but at least these developers will be able to continue their development work. They just won't be getting paid for it anymore.
It would be quite amusing to now see Oracle apply for some H-1Bs for "Java Internals Core Developers" . . .
. . . claiming that they can't find any US folks for the jobs.
I'm guessing that the Java Mission Control team somehow pissed off Larry Ellison . . . a very dangerous thing to do . . .
No reason to waste a perfectly good spacecraft.
I'm speculating that the operational costs of the program are the prohibiting factor. In other words, it costs too much just to keep it running.
But instead of junking it . . . sell it instead! I'm sure the likes of Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg or Larry Ellison would love to have a Jupiter satellite in their collections of toys.
Bezos could sell stuff to Jupiterians via Amazon Jupiter.
Zuckerberg could sell private data about Jupiterians.
Ellison has already been an asshole to everyone on planet Earth. He could now expand, and be an asshole to Jupiterians.
Oh, and they could continue to do some science, on the side. Maybe some stuff that NASA had to ditch because of the costs involved . . . ?
What exactly would this do that a passport wouldn't? If you want to know who someone is, tada, passport.
With facial recognition systems, the more sample photos of a subject you have, the better it works. A lot better than having just one passport picture.
The DHS folks want to build a bigger database that allows law enforcement folks to better identify criminal folks from surveillance cameras.
I mean, Bayer isn't called "IG Farben" for good reason. Bayer associates with "aspirin", which is good, right!?!
"Give a man aspirin . . . and he'll be free of headaches for a day."
"Give a man Zyklon B, and he'll be free of headaches for the rest of his life."
They'll reduce the number of situations where humans are needed slowly but surely and eventually none will be needed.
Gee, when I read:
"Humans Are Still Crucial"
. . . I thought that Amazon's robots run on Soylent Green for fuel.
This is just a peremptory defensive strike at the anti-automation and anti-AI crew.
Amazon is certainly NOT going to brag about how many human jobs they have eliminated with automation and AI.
Maybe Amazon should put bumper stickers on their robots claiming:
"We brake for humans!"
On the plus side, Microsoft raised Nokia up to be the world leader in phones...
On the plus side, Microsoft raised Nokia up to be the world leader in Windows phones...
Too bad nobody bought any . . .
That won't work until Congress repeals the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.
Would a Presidential Pardon be enough . . . ? I hear Presidential Pardons will be the Next Big Thing.
If you have a diabetic roommate, you could use a large biobattery to power your laptop.
What do you do with your roommates when they are empty . . . ? Are they rechargeable, or do you need to dispose them at special environmental recycling center?
Is there a danger that roommates will spontaneously burst into flames, like Samsung batteries?
I mean, people buy it, but after the first day of playing with it, do they actually use it?
It doesn't matter if the people who bought it use it.
The FBI/CIA/NSA will use it to spy on the people who bought it.
It remains to be seen how much Microsoft has paid for GitHub, but why pay anything if they're unprofitable
The classic Economics answer, is that you believe that it is unprofitable because it is poorly managed, and that you can do a better job of managing it to profitability. This usually means that you can integrate it with your existing businesses, streamline, and cut a lot of costs. This also usually includes massive layoffs at the purchased company, accompanied by folks jumping ship to look elsewhere for a job, before they are eventually fired.
IBM's ThinkPad business was unprofitable when Lenovo bought it. Lenovo turned it around into profitability.
Of course, there are often other ulterior motives. Microsoft bought Nokia because they thought Nokia built hardware would help Windows Phone be a success.
Microsoft was wrong. So they did what any other rational investor would do . . . cut your losses and let it die.
We'll see in about a year what Github's fate is . . . profitability . . . or death . . .