"Holy Mother Of All Single Point of Failures, Batman!"
Well, if the contractor is like some of the ones I know, he will justly say, "I was instructed to turn off the switch . . . not to turn it back on again!"
Which brings to the obvious point: Which British Airways employee was responsible for the work being done? Blaming the lowly contractor is a complete shift of the blame to someone who obviously couldn't know any better.
Or is British Airways an example of "Contractors . . . all the way down" . . . ?
Too bad that by law, this can't legally protect a civilian life from a gunshot.
Whose law . . . ? In which country . . . ? Do you, by any chance, live in a fascist dictatorship . . . ? Or a police/surveillance-state . . . ?
Around my parts, wearing body armor in public spaces is required by law for safety reasons. Kinda sorta like wearing seat belts is required in some places.
Body armor is illegal for non-LEO/military personnel . ..
. . . which is not a problem for us, as we are all LEO/military personnel. Folks in other parts get baptized at birth; we get deputized at birth. Firearm ownership is mandatory for home protection. Each household needs at least a PDW, like a Tavor, an H&K MP7A1 or a Beretta Mx4 and additionally a sawed-off tactical shotgun with phosphorous Dragon's Breath loads: "Feel THAT burn, Senator Sanders!"
Some animals are more equal than others.
That is a corollary to Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem, but his biographers have no definitive information on what firearms he carried. Phone calls to the Institute for Advanced Studies near Princeton University inquiring about the body armor worn by faculty members were answered with:
This visa is only meant for founders and key employees of start up businesses.
What it is meant for . . . and what it is actually used for . . . may turn out to be two entirely different animals.
But Brexit fears give anything remotely related to Brexit additional leverage:
"My company needs to hire these cheap foreign IT replacements . . . otherwise, my company will not survive Brexit, and you will lose the election next year over the economic fallout!"
"Plus . . . the UK workers that we let go will be free to pursue jobs that require even higher skill levels! This will make the UK and even more high-techie place!"
"I didn't change anything on my configuration, but my computer is not working any more, so it must be some automatic security restriction that happened automatically . . . "
So-called "brownouts" due to demand for electricity exceeding supply are relatively common in Third World countries . . . why should outer space be any different . . . ? The nukes that power the star just aren't big enough.
. . . or . . .
The system's civilization utilizes advanced solar technology for 100% of their energy needs. They turn down the brightness of the star on weekends and holidays to conserve precious solar energy.
Alien mega-structures are not blocking the sunlight. The Dead Kennedys successfully halted the mega-structure construction, because it would have obstructed the view from their mega-compound there.
By the way, I'm looking forward to the days when C/C++ programmers will be rare... And expensive !
The year 2038 will be our year!
"If you don't hire me to inspect your C code for time_t usage, your IoT toaster oven will go berserk, and kill and eat your grandmother!"
"Oh, look! A time_t field in a structure that gets passed over only God knows where, and gets cast haphazardly as a pointer throughout the code! How cute!"
Want to check in faster . . . ? Just fly 1st or business class.
Oh, is that too expensive for you? Well, there's the answer right there. Airlines treat passengers like shit, because they can. This was the breakthrough discovered and exploited by RyanAir: People will put up with being treated like shit in exchange for a cheap airline ticket. Folks are addicted to cheap flights now. And, just like a drug addict, they are at the mercy of the drug dealers . . . in this case, the airlines.
I don't see this changing at all, because the airlines have no financial incentive to speed up check in times. If they think the face recognition stuff will help them save operating costs, they'll do it. Otherwise, just bring a folding chair to sit on while you are waiting in line, and fiddle with one of your electronic gadgets.
I just sit on my suitcase, with my elbows on my knees propping up my head, so I look like a bored statue of "The Thinker" taking a dump. Wave to me if you see me in the airport check in waiting line, and I promise to wave back. Anything to kill the time waiting in line . . .
I guess that means that we're going to have to just talk about something else...
Lack of knowledge of a subject has never stopped Slashdotters from ranting on endlessly about it. We don't read TFA, we don't read the summary, and sometimes we don't even read the post that we are replying to.
When in doubt, just string up something with Trump, Climate Change, Russians, Universal Basic Income, Bitcoin, 3D-Printing, Apple, Drones, Bones and Elon Musk's new plan to eat a cathedral.
. . . is all those PCs that were forcibly upgraded to Windows 10! The threat caused by IoT devices is puny in comparison. PCs easily outgun IoT devices. The damage already done by Windows malware and DDoSes has easily exceeded what IoT devices could ever dream about achieving.
And what's more, Russian Hackers can use all the Windows 10 built in spyware to hack the next US election!
I'd advise folks not to talk politics with their computers. Otherwise, Russian Hackers will hack your computer, and not just fix the election . . . they will fix YOU, as well!
The way to deal with this going forward is simple...... Tons and tons of pumped concrete. Keep pumping into the crater caused by collapse, until there is no longer a hole, then pump in more tons to create a 5ft slab over the top of the tunnel
Can we at least pump in fracking fluid, instead of concrete? Then we could get some natural gas out of the deal.
Although, instead of the neighbors' tap water just burning . . . it will come roaring out as a thermonuclear plasma reaction!
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. . . maybe the CIA writes files=20 in their config.sys . . . ?
Strange design.
I dunno . . . I think I saw a similar critter on one of Gerry Anderson's show . . . "Thunderbirds" or "U.F.O."
It'll be interesting to see it fly...
Be sure to look close, to see if you can spot puppet wires holding it up.
Most of the employees at Walmart I've met couldn't pass a sanity check...
It's a Catch-22 . . . if you would pass a sanity check, you wouldn't be working for Balled-Mart in the first place . . .
- Hooking two mice together, is way much more than that.
. . . so should I try surgically attaching mice to my own body . . . ?
Side effects include "squeaking" and a craving for cheese . . .
"Hi, I'm Mr. Kid, and this thing next to me playing with the Fidget Spinner is my surgically attached teenager."
Hey, all those folks on Universal Basic Income have plenty of time on their hands . . . maybe they can be used as involuntary blood donors . . . ?
You simply cannot engineer around stupid well enough to fix it, regardless of how hard you try..
Nothing can be made foolproof . . . because fools are so ingenious."
"Holy Mother Of All Single Point of Failures, Batman!"
Well, if the contractor is like some of the ones I know, he will justly say, "I was instructed to turn off the switch . . . not to turn it back on again!"
Which brings to the obvious point: Which British Airways employee was responsible for the work being done? Blaming the lowly contractor is a complete shift of the blame to someone who obviously couldn't know any better.
Or is British Airways an example of "Contractors . . . all the way down" . . . ?
Maybe Watson can cure IBM's stagnating business and stock price . . . ?
Dr. Warren Buffet already threw in the towel on that patient.
Just climb your sick self in, shut the lid, and the machine fixes you right up.
. . . and if it can't fix you up, you are already right there in your coffin, ready to be buried . . . or shipped to the Soylent Green factory.
This definitely would streamline the whole process.
The second LIGO detector is like 20 miles away, so when a gravity wave comes by I know I felt it :)
The second LIGO detector is like 20 miles away, so when a gravity wave comes by I know I caused it :)
"He who felt it . . . dealt it!"
an AI that takes in garbage,
. . . Facebook readers . . .
hides in the darkest cramped spaces,
. . . We call them collaborative cubicles . . .
efficiently distributes viruses,
. . . Emails from your friends . . .
and is a plague to humankind?
Ah, yes, humans' leading cause of death . . . other humans.
Yep, rat-brained AI really would fit well in as a human brain.
Too bad that by law, this can't legally protect a civilian life from a gunshot.
Whose law . . . ? In which country . . . ? Do you, by any chance, live in a fascist dictatorship . . . ? Or a police/surveillance-state . . . ?
Around my parts, wearing body armor in public spaces is required by law for safety reasons. Kinda sorta like wearing seat belts is required in some places.
Body armor is illegal for non-LEO/military personnel . . .
. . . which is not a problem for us, as we are all LEO/military personnel. Folks in other parts get baptized at birth; we get deputized at birth. Firearm ownership is mandatory for home protection. Each household needs at least a PDW, like a Tavor, an H&K MP7A1 or a Beretta Mx4 and additionally a sawed-off tactical shotgun with phosphorous Dragon's Breath loads: "Feel THAT burn, Senator Sanders!"
Some animals are more equal than others.
That is a corollary to Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem, but his biographers have no definitive information on what firearms he carried. Phone calls to the Institute for Advanced Studies near Princeton University inquiring about the body armor worn by faculty members were answered with:
"Eh?"
This visa is only meant for founders and key employees of start up businesses.
What it is meant for . . . and what it is actually used for . . . may turn out to be two entirely different animals.
But Brexit fears give anything remotely related to Brexit additional leverage:
"My company needs to hire these cheap foreign IT replacements . . . otherwise, my company will not survive Brexit, and you will lose the election next year over the economic fallout!"
"Plus . . . the UK workers that we let go will be free to pursue jobs that require even higher skill levels! This will make the UK and even more high-techie place!"
These days I console hurt workstations and create tickets for the local techs to fix broken users
"User error. Please replace user and try again."
. . . the loose nut behind the keyboard.
"I didn't change anything on my configuration, but my computer is not working any more, so it must be some automatic security restriction that happened automatically . . . "
Archives of the Invisible Space Goat, Chapter 1, page 37.
I always wondered what that so-called Trinity was up to: you know, The Father, The Sun and the Holey (Wholly) Goat . . .
So-called "brownouts" due to demand for electricity exceeding supply are relatively common in Third World countries . . . why should outer space be any different . . . ? The nukes that power the star just aren't big enough.
. . . or . . .
The system's civilization utilizes advanced solar technology for 100% of their energy needs. They turn down the brightness of the star on weekends and holidays to conserve precious solar energy.
Alien mega-structures are not blocking the sunlight. The Dead Kennedys successfully halted the mega-structure construction, because it would have obstructed the view from their mega-compound there.
By the way, I'm looking forward to the days when C/C++ programmers will be rare ... And expensive !
The year 2038 will be our year!
"If you don't hire me to inspect your C code for time_t usage, your IoT toaster oven will go berserk, and kill and eat your grandmother!"
"Oh, look! A time_t field in a structure that gets passed over only God knows where, and gets cast haphazardly as a pointer throughout the code! How cute!"
Want to check in faster . . . ? Just fly 1st or business class.
Oh, is that too expensive for you? Well, there's the answer right there. Airlines treat passengers like shit, because they can. This was the breakthrough discovered and exploited by RyanAir: People will put up with being treated like shit in exchange for a cheap airline ticket. Folks are addicted to cheap flights now. And, just like a drug addict, they are at the mercy of the drug dealers . . . in this case, the airlines.
I don't see this changing at all, because the airlines have no financial incentive to speed up check in times. If they think the face recognition stuff will help them save operating costs, they'll do it. Otherwise, just bring a folding chair to sit on while you are waiting in line, and fiddle with one of your electronic gadgets.
I just sit on my suitcase, with my elbows on my knees propping up my head, so I look like a bored statue of "The Thinker" taking a dump. Wave to me if you see me in the airport check in waiting line, and I promise to wave back. Anything to kill the time waiting in line . . .
This makes me think of the eye's 'blind spot',
Strange . . . this makes me think of the universe's G-spot.
Which, if it really is cold, would explain a lot of things that are wrong with the universe.
. . . and makes it even more incredible that a bunch of geeky scientists were able to find it at all!
After you decrypt, you're left with a Windows XP system.
Hey, a decryptor that could turn Windows 10 systems into Windows 7 systems would actually be quite useful!
I guess that means that we're going to have to just talk about something else...
Lack of knowledge of a subject has never stopped Slashdotters from ranting on endlessly about it. We don't read TFA, we don't read the summary, and sometimes we don't even read the post that we are replying to.
When in doubt, just string up something with Trump, Climate Change, Russians, Universal Basic Income, Bitcoin, 3D-Printing, Apple, Drones, Bones and Elon Musk's new plan to eat a cathedral.
Just provide us with the names and addresses of the Patent Troll Lawyers . . . the Intertubers will crowdsource the contract.
Please donate the bounty money to the EFF.
. . . is all those PCs that were forcibly upgraded to Windows 10! The threat caused by IoT devices is puny in comparison. PCs easily outgun IoT devices. The damage already done by Windows malware and DDoSes has easily exceeded what IoT devices could ever dream about achieving.
And what's more, Russian Hackers can use all the Windows 10 built in spyware to hack the next US election!
I'd advise folks not to talk politics with their computers. Otherwise, Russian Hackers will hack your computer, and not just fix the election . . . they will fix YOU, as well!
But what is a "draft" horse?
Straight up? Or on the rocks?
And the horses on my ranch are just plain daft, and what is on third base, and on any horse at all.
The way to deal with this going forward is simple...... Tons and tons of pumped concrete. Keep pumping into the crater caused by collapse, until there is no longer a hole, then pump in more tons to create a 5ft slab over the top of the tunnel
Can we at least pump in fracking fluid, instead of concrete? Then we could get some natural gas out of the deal.
Although, instead of the neighbors' tap water just burning . . . it will come roaring out as a thermonuclear plasma reaction!
That would be cool.