Nah; sports cars are a second-childhood thing. Monster pickup trucks are the vehicle of choice for the micro-dick crowd. Micro-brain as well, as evidenced by the way they behave on the road....
"Who, Obama? So fast? Too fast -- he hasn't had the time to do anything yet."
~Lech Walesa, winner of the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize
"He has achieved nothing. He's stumbling. He hasn't achieved any of his promises and nothing is working. He promised to close Guantanamo and now that's not going to happen, and the Arab-Israeli conflict looks like it's going to get very nasty."
~Hisham Qasim, Egyptian democracy and human rights activist
"While it is OK to give school children prizes for 'effort' -- my kids get them all the time -- I think international statesmen should probably be held to a higher standard."
~Gideon Rachman, foreign affairs columnist for The Financial Times
"The president has done nothing to push forward peace between Israeli and Palestinians."
The back-to-the-trees types that the Left Coast is infested with will throw up roadblock after roadblock, until Arnold either gives it up or all the money ends up lining lawyer's pockets.
...a guy by the name of Massad Ayoob wrote a book called "The Truth About Self-Protection." (http://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-Self-Protection/dp/0553195190) I recommend it highly, as one of the things he did was go over to the local prison and ask career criminals how they would go about protecting themselves from the same sort of people. It's quite instructive.
All our workstations have serial numbers burned into their BIOS. During imaging, we have a bash script grep a hwinfo dump for the serial number string and use the result to create the workstation name. The same script also uses the hwinfo dump to automatically determine which hardware image to load onto the machine.
Any other info we need to track is kept in a database, with the workstation name as the key.
If you want to get REALLY fancy, check out ZENworks Configuration Management (ZCM). ];)
Expect Boeing to be asking for "bail-out" money shortly, blaming their woes upon the "down" market, rather than on their near-sighted "cost-cutting" where it belongs.
Meanwhile, the bean-counters will be gently wafting away on their golden parachutes, searching-out other American corporations to ravage.
This twit posted the name and address of one of the officers, quite possibly placing both himself and his family in mortal danger. Are you people truly so naive as to think that there aren't thugs out there who would just love to dump a truckload of hurt on the cops who busted them in the past?
If that cop's lucky, he'll just come home to a burned-down house. If he's not-so lucky, the house will have burned down while his wife and kids are in it. Or maybe he'll just open his front door one fine morning, and find himself looking down the business end of a sawed-off shotgun. All so this little idiot could get her entertainment, and you people call it free speech.
I can't believe some of you are actually allowed to vote.
You can brag about density all you want, but if you can't deliver the needed wattage to the racks AND the HVAC tonnage to carry away the dissipated heat, it doesn't amount to a hill of beans.
That's one of the things I've always found deeply troubling about some of people on the Left: They're all about Free Speech, until the moment you disagree with them on something.
The problem is there hasn't been the digital equivalent of a 9-11 yet. Once someone breaks into one of the major banks and zeroes the accounts of several million Americans, then you'll see a reaction. Too late. As usual.
1: The suits will ignore IT's warnings. "What do geeks know about running a business?" 2: The suits will ignore Legal's warnings. "The money we save far outweighs the minimal risks." 3: A significant amount of time passes. The suits pat themselves on the back for padding the bottom line. Stock options are cashed in. 4: A medical datastore gets hacked into, probably from a PC belonging to one of the suits. (You know; the one with the password pasted to the monitor.) Data subsequently gets auctioned on a blackhat site. Men in Black pay a friendly visit. Ambulance Chasers descend. 5: The suits panic, look for scapegoat, invariably select IT. "But we didn't KNOW our IT department was putting records on Google!" Non-suit heads roll. 6: Organization is crushed by civil fines and lawsuits. Suits move on, soon finding other firms to trash. Balance of staff find themselves on the street. 7: PC Magazine finally gets around to publishing an article on how stupid it is to put HIPAA documents on Google et al. Loyal readership (CEOs in airport lobbies) panics, head back to own firms were non-suit heads subsequently roll. 8: Suits proceed on to the next insanity. ... Lesson: Scott Adams is an optimist.
....Our government has used pretty underhanded techniques to push these laws, effectively grouping all opposition to the censorship law with child molesters....
"But...but it's for the CHILDREN!"
Amazing, isn't it, how much you can get away with if you precede all your actions with that one line.
'Security' is the ultimate tool of the dictator, for who can successfully argue against 'security?'
ICNND is yet another one of those idiotic feel-good organizations that make a living by spinning-up ridiculously unlikely scenarios that push their agenda. . Hello? Their entire charter is nuclear disarmament. Having them commission a report that doesn't say Armageddon is coming is about as likely as Greenpeace commissioning one that doesn't conclude that Technology is Bad. . As Top used to say; "Whenever I get something like this, first thing I do is consider the source. And baby, just who the hell are you?"
....that will be immediately supplanted by yet another 'standard,' once again brought to you by the moronic greed-heads who couldn't come to an agreement in time to get 802.11n out the door before it was already obsolescent.
Passengers in the vehicle (at least those over 12) STFU where the driver is busy or when a situation develops, and their silence or their warnings actually calls attention to some dangers.
Slashdot Mirror
....What a wonderful problem to have.
Nah; sports cars are a second-childhood thing.
Monster pickup trucks are the vehicle of choice for the micro-dick crowd. Micro-brain as well, as evidenced by the way they behave on the road....
....Though I think it is a ridiculously over-hyped term for something that has been around since 60s-70s (think "time-sharing").
The problem was the consumers' assumption they could safely consign their info to a data-store operated by Microsoft.
For which, in turn, Microsoft buys lots and lots of ad space from said publication.
Let's hear it for impartiality.
"Who, Obama? So fast? Too fast -- he hasn't had the time to do anything yet."
~Lech Walesa, winner of the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize
"He has achieved nothing. He's stumbling. He hasn't achieved any of his promises and nothing is working. He promised to close Guantanamo and now that's not going to happen, and the Arab-Israeli conflict looks like it's going to get very nasty."
~Hisham Qasim, Egyptian democracy and human rights activist
"While it is OK to give school children prizes for 'effort' -- my kids get them all the time -- I think international statesmen should probably be held to a higher standard."
~Gideon Rachman, foreign affairs columnist for The Financial Times
"The president has done nothing to push forward peace between Israeli and Palestinians."
~Ahmed Yousef, Hamas
Apples and oranges: The average Turk is FAR more pragmatic than the average Left Coastie.
The back-to-the-trees types that the Left Coast is infested with will throw up roadblock after roadblock, until Arnold either gives it up or all the money ends up lining lawyer's pockets.
...a guy by the name of Massad Ayoob wrote a book called "The Truth About Self-Protection." (http://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-Self-Protection/dp/0553195190) I recommend it highly, as one of the things he did was go over to the local prison and ask career criminals how they would go about protecting themselves from the same sort of people.
It's quite instructive.
All our workstations have serial numbers burned into their BIOS. During imaging, we have a bash script grep a hwinfo dump for the serial number string and use the result to create the workstation name. The same script also uses the hwinfo dump to automatically determine which hardware image to load onto the machine.
Any other info we need to track is kept in a database, with the workstation name as the key.
If you want to get REALLY fancy, check out ZENworks Configuration Management (ZCM).
];)
Expect Boeing to be asking for "bail-out" money shortly, blaming their woes upon the "down" market, rather than on their near-sighted "cost-cutting" where it belongs.
Meanwhile, the bean-counters will be gently wafting away on their golden parachutes, searching-out other American corporations to ravage.
...do you?
This twit posted the name and address of one of the officers, quite possibly placing both himself and his family in mortal danger. Are you people truly so naive as to think that there aren't thugs out there who would just love to dump a truckload of hurt on the cops who busted them in the past?
If that cop's lucky, he'll just come home to a burned-down house. If he's not-so lucky, the house will have burned down while his wife and kids are in it. Or maybe he'll just open his front door one fine morning, and find himself looking down the business end of a sawed-off shotgun. All so this little idiot could get her entertainment, and you people call it free speech.
I can't believe some of you are actually allowed to vote.
....It's the watts.
You can brag about density all you want, but if you can't deliver the needed wattage to the racks AND the HVAC tonnage to carry away the dissipated heat, it doesn't amount to a hill of beans.
Yup. Thing is, right-wing totalitarians are pretty up-front about what they stand for.
It reminds me of a cynical old joke:
"What's the difference between a right-wing dictator, and a left-wing dictator?"
"The left-wing dictator has a PR department."
Someone once noted to me that "the definition of a Conservative is a Liberal who's been mugged."
];)
That's one of the things I've always found deeply troubling about some of people on the Left: They're all about Free Speech, until the moment you disagree with them on something.
The problem is there hasn't been the digital equivalent of a 9-11 yet. Once someone breaks into one of the major banks and zeroes the accounts of several million Americans, then you'll see a reaction. Too late. As usual.
It was called combat.
And I am utterly mystified as to why anyone in their right mind would consider it "fun."
I think I can put this into a nutshell for you:
A psychopath shoots you because the voices in his head told him to.
A sociopath shoots you because he wanted to function-check his weapon.
1: The suits will ignore IT's warnings. "What do geeks know about running a business?" ..
2: The suits will ignore Legal's warnings. "The money we save far outweighs the minimal risks."
3: A significant amount of time passes. The suits pat themselves on the back for padding the bottom line. Stock options are cashed in.
4: A medical datastore gets hacked into, probably from a PC belonging to one of the suits. (You know; the one with the password pasted to the monitor.) Data subsequently gets auctioned on a blackhat site. Men in Black pay a friendly visit. Ambulance Chasers descend.
5: The suits panic, look for scapegoat, invariably select IT. "But we didn't KNOW our IT department was putting records on Google!" Non-suit heads roll.
6: Organization is crushed by civil fines and lawsuits. Suits move on, soon finding other firms to trash. Balance of staff find themselves on the street.
7: PC Magazine finally gets around to publishing an article on how stupid it is to put HIPAA documents on Google et al. Loyal readership (CEOs in airport lobbies) panics, head back to own firms were non-suit heads subsequently roll.
8: Suits proceed on to the next insanity.
.
Lesson: Scott Adams is an optimist.
Let me guess; union electricians, right?
];)
....Our government has used pretty underhanded techniques to push these laws, effectively grouping all opposition to the censorship law with child molesters....
"But...but it's for the CHILDREN!"
Amazing, isn't it, how much you can get away with if you precede all your actions with that one line.
'Security' is the ultimate tool of the dictator, for who can successfully argue against 'security?'
ICNND is yet another one of those idiotic feel-good organizations that make a living by spinning-up ridiculously unlikely scenarios that push their agenda.
.
Hello? Their entire charter is nuclear disarmament. Having them commission a report that doesn't say Armageddon is coming is about as likely as Greenpeace commissioning one that doesn't conclude that Technology is Bad.
.
As Top used to say; "Whenever I get something like this, first thing I do is consider the source. And baby, just who the hell are you?"
....that will be immediately supplanted by yet another 'standard,' once again brought to you by the moronic greed-heads who couldn't come to an agreement in time to get 802.11n out the door before it was already obsolescent.
You're trying to be funny, right?
Obviously, you're too young to remember SCSI-1.
Passengers in the vehicle (at least those over 12) STFU where the driver is busy or when a situation develops, and their silence or their warnings actually calls attention to some dangers.
It is obvious you haven't met my wife.