This behavior is all in line with those who have Borderline and Narcisistic Personality Disorders. Most highly motivated people with the drive to be leaders have them to some degree. Some worse than others. That's why all of our elected officials are essentially pricks motivated by self gain rather than true public service. Their behavior drives away the decent people who might otherwise want to participate but can't tolerate interacting with such people.
While not the most admirable traits to have, it also isn't a crime to be a backstabbing asshole. It seems like someone is on a character assassination agenda.
I said "the people running them". This includes everyone in the pyramid down to the lowly grunts who get frivolous perks like extended coffee breaks and are assigned three at a time to do a one man job. Everyone in the hierarchy games the system because they know it's biased in their favor. Less work, more money.
The problem with unions is that they are a useful idea that has been subverted into a money making scheme for the people running them. They are now a symbol of waste and greed rather than liberation. Some smug internet Libertarians recognize them for what they are.
As a former Resident of Rochester you should be so lucky. Try living 1 mile from a Frontier CO and only be able to get 2Mbps down. NYs upstate cities could use some broadband funding too.
The GPs point is that before the advent of the automobile, governments largely avoided building transportation infrastructure. Bridges, canals, and plank roads were built by private individuals that would charge tolls to recoup their investment in construction and maintenance.
Once you accumulate enough adapters there is a real risk of connecting a supply with too high a voltage or too low a current rating into a device. While the supplies are all labeled with voltage, current, tip polarity, and DC/AC output type, many electronic devices that use them don't have the matching specs on their enclosure. With the generic Chinese made supplies there is often no label connecting that supply to the OEM of the device it powers.
Agent Orange Posed A Health Threat To Servicemen Long After Vietnam
Slashdot headline:
Herbicides used in Vietnam in the 1970s still pose a threat to servicemen
These planes were repurposed for other duties during the 70's. They went out of service in 1982. They don't "still" pose a threat because nobody is using them. The issue is for the servicemen who worked on them 40 years ago.
Comcast isn't a peering middleman. They are an ISP serving whatever IP packets their paying customers request. They already get paid to connect their customers to the greater internet. It doesn't matter where Comcast's incoming traffic comes from so long as they provide the service they agreed to in the contract they have with their paying customers. It doesn't matter that a large portion of their inbound traffic comes from one source. If the same volume came from 1000 sources they'd still be obligated to deliver those packets as contracted. That's what IP is all about.
Imagine, a communications tool. Allowing USERS to choose whether to store data or not. And companies that don't feel the need to run reports on their team.
This is a software product meant to be deployed in a business environment. You are an employee not a user. You don't have any reasonable expectation of privacy when using a computer you don't own.
The majority of Venzuelans voted for the government they have today. They stood idly while Chavez rewrote the constitution "for the common people". Now they get to enjoy the benefits.
'I wonder if I can swap out Chrome from Chrome OS or Mobile Safari in iOS.
The browser bundling argument was always the lamest attack on MS. No other computing vendor has been forced to bend over like MS to provide browser alternatives. Nobody ever complained that Notepad and Wordpad were anti-competetive either. Microsoft certainly engaged in monopolistic practices (forcing OEMs to buy Windows licences) but bundling IE was a complete red herring.
It's funny how today nobody is up in arms about the "lock in" with bundled Safari, or Chrome, or WAP browsers on dumb phones. Particularly with iOS, Apple has an official policy of prohibiting alternate browsers that don't use the Safari rendering engine. Why aren't they being investigated for such anti-competetive behavior?
That sort of system isn't exactly fair to the teachers who get stuck with the bad kids who have learned that misbehavior is the only way to get attention from adults.
The researcher who found the bug is Adam Langley. CIA headquarters is in Langley, Virginia.
Coincidence? I think not!
Adam Langley is an anagram of "A lang madly e". Clearly this is the product of some leet Canadian insider who has gone rouge with this disclosure. Time to put on a new layer of tinfoil.
The original Mac had a 512x342 screen and users generally only had one program displayed at a time due to limited screen real estate and memory. There was little need for multiple menu bars. That design philosophy doesn't translate well to modern computers. If the menubar is attached to a window I can directly access the menu of a non-focused window without having to mouse over to it and then back up to the top left.
My six years at the TSA played out like a circus of absurd security regulations, presided over by a coterie of managers who, for the most part, made the Keystone Cops look competent.
Oh man that's just cold Harrington. Such an insult to the Keystone Cops.
Ask Patents was created at the behest of the USPTO. Presumably they get some financial support in exchange but the USPTO is self-funded so no slush fund adventures are needed.
Toyotas generally disable the traction control when there is a check engine light.
It seems pretty dumb to disable a driveability feature that is completely unrelated to an emissions failure. That would be like disabling power steering if a tire is low on air. Note to self: Definitely never buy Toyota.
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Lets see here:
You've got the PREEMPT_RT patch which makes the Linux kernel fully preemptible.
Then you've got the RTLinux extension which runs Linux within a hard real-time hypervisor.
Nope. It's definitely impossible to do real-time work with Linux.
Write legislation forcing robots to declare a religious affiliation and tithe 10% of their income.
This behavior is all in line with those who have Borderline and Narcisistic Personality Disorders. Most highly motivated people with the drive to be leaders have them to some degree. Some worse than others. That's why all of our elected officials are essentially pricks motivated by self gain rather than true public service. Their behavior drives away the decent people who might otherwise want to participate but can't tolerate interacting with such people.
While not the most admirable traits to have, it also isn't a crime to be a backstabbing asshole. It seems like someone is on a character assassination agenda.
I said "the people running them". This includes everyone in the pyramid down to the lowly grunts who get frivolous perks like extended coffee breaks and are assigned three at a time to do a one man job. Everyone in the hierarchy games the system because they know it's biased in their favor. Less work, more money.
The problem with unions is that they are a useful idea that has been subverted into a money making scheme for the people running them. They are now a symbol of waste and greed rather than liberation. Some smug internet Libertarians recognize them for what they are.
As a former Resident of Rochester you should be so lucky. Try living 1 mile from a Frontier CO and only be able to get 2Mbps down. NYs upstate cities could use some broadband funding too.
The GPs point is that before the advent of the automobile, governments largely avoided building transportation infrastructure. Bridges, canals, and plank roads were built by private individuals that would charge tolls to recoup their investment in construction and maintenance.
Once you accumulate enough adapters there is a real risk of connecting a supply with too high a voltage or too low a current rating into a device. While the supplies are all labeled with voltage, current, tip polarity, and DC/AC output type, many electronic devices that use them don't have the matching specs on their enclosure. With the generic Chinese made supplies there is often no label connecting that supply to the OEM of the device it powers.
Original article title:
Agent Orange Posed A Health Threat To Servicemen Long After Vietnam
Slashdot headline:
Herbicides used in Vietnam in the 1970s still pose a threat to servicemen
These planes were repurposed for other duties during the 70's. They went out of service in 1982. They don't "still" pose a threat because nobody is using them. The issue is for the servicemen who worked on them 40 years ago.
The world doesn't revolve around Xbox. There are plenty of households without a console who would benefit from a cheap video streaming device.
Comcast isn't a peering middleman. They are an ISP serving whatever IP packets their paying customers request. They already get paid to connect their customers to the greater internet. It doesn't matter where Comcast's incoming traffic comes from so long as they provide the service they agreed to in the contract they have with their paying customers. It doesn't matter that a large portion of their inbound traffic comes from one source. If the same volume came from 1000 sources they'd still be obligated to deliver those packets as contracted. That's what IP is all about.
Imagine, a communications tool. Allowing USERS to choose whether to store data or not. And companies that don't feel the need to run reports on their team.
This is a software product meant to be deployed in a business environment. You are an employee not a user. You don't have any reasonable expectation of privacy when using a computer you don't own.
The majority of Venzuelans voted for the government they have today. They stood idly while Chavez rewrote the constitution "for the common people". Now they get to enjoy the benefits.
'I wonder if I can swap out Chrome from Chrome OS or Mobile Safari in iOS.
The browser bundling argument was always the lamest attack on MS. No other computing vendor has been forced to bend over like MS to provide browser alternatives. Nobody ever complained that Notepad and Wordpad were anti-competetive either. Microsoft certainly engaged in monopolistic practices (forcing OEMs to buy Windows licences) but bundling IE was a complete red herring.
It's funny how today nobody is up in arms about the "lock in" with bundled Safari, or Chrome, or WAP browsers on dumb phones. Particularly with iOS, Apple has an official policy of prohibiting alternate browsers that don't use the Safari rendering engine. Why aren't they being investigated for such anti-competetive behavior?
If I get a device that uses a generic unlabeled power supply I'll mark it with a silver Sharpie to remind me what it goes to.
That sort of system isn't exactly fair to the teachers who get stuck with the bad kids who have learned that misbehavior is the only way to get attention from adults.
Lint tools can catch this sort of unconditional goto which one would hope is never used intentionally by goto afficionados.
The researcher who found the bug is Adam Langley. CIA headquarters is in Langley, Virginia.
Coincidence? I think not!
Adam Langley is an anagram of "A lang madly e". Clearly this is the product of some leet Canadian insider who has gone rouge with this disclosure. Time to put on a new layer of tinfoil.
IIRC, OOXML isn't in any version of MS Office that doesn't have ODF support.
Office 2003 has an add-on for OOXML support but no ODF. Yes, I still run it in an XP VM because I don't like how clunky OO Writer is.
FTA:
Just to clarify, the "tasks" are equivalent to apps running on smartphones or PCs.
It's sad that a publication targeted to EEs has writers that dumb everything down with this sort of populist pap.
The original Mac had a 512x342 screen and users generally only had one program displayed at a time due to limited screen real estate and memory. There was little need for multiple menu bars. That design philosophy doesn't translate well to modern computers. If the menubar is attached to a window I can directly access the menu of a non-focused window without having to mouse over to it and then back up to the top left.
FTA:
My six years at the TSA played out like a circus of absurd security regulations, presided over by a coterie of managers who, for the most part, made the Keystone Cops look competent.
Oh man that's just cold Harrington. Such an insult to the Keystone Cops.
Simple solution:
1) Install noscript
2) Don't whitelist fsdn.com or rpxnow.com
Result:
No beta. No popups.
Ask Patents was created at the behest of the USPTO. Presumably they get some financial support in exchange but the USPTO is self-funded so no slush fund adventures are needed.
Toyotas generally disable the traction control when there is a check engine light.
It seems pretty dumb to disable a driveability feature that is completely unrelated to an emissions failure. That would be like disabling power steering if a tire is low on air. Note to self: Definitely never buy Toyota.