I like to say "backups are easy, disaster recovery is hard." Old school, tapes go offsite weekly. Contemporary, all backups are synced to the "cloud." There is no true backups solution that leaves everything available to the running systems, remote mounting or not. From what I can tell, he was really talking about disaster recovery replication, which isn't what I would call backups anyway.
My wife is a self taught speed reader (basically as a kid she thought everyone could do it). She can also recite passages verbatim from books that she read years ago. Being a speed reader doesn't mean that you HAVE to speed read. For things that are important, you slow down and concentrate on the words, like a normal reader. So how can it be bad? Use it when appropriate, and read normally when not.
I've never met a project manager or engineer who spent any time designing in proper security. That would delay the deliverable. Security is an afterthought, and left for the deployment phase, usually after the first failed PCI scan. Then the sysadmins and network teams get to scramble to plug the holes.
In the early half of the 20th century there was a huge push to stop highway billboard advertising. They are ugly and block your view of the countryside. Notice how that ended up.
"People in Russia, sadly, don't seem to care much about Panama Papers. As Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports, most Russians haven't heard of -- or don't care about -- the Panama Papers. The media house interviewed 30 people on the street, of which it found only 1 person thought it was wrong. (video)."
Does not follow. You mean to say: only one person was willing to speak out against it. Polls have little to do with what people think. They only tell you what they are willing to admit.
Birth gender is not as cut and dry as most people think. There are many many people who had gender assignment surgery just after birth, to make the child meet the physical standards of being a male or female. From wiki, Sex Assignment:
- In approximately 1 in 2,000 infants, there is enough variation in the appearance of the external genitalia to merit hesitation about appropriate assignment by the physician involved.
- Before the 1950s, assignment was based almost entirely on the appearance of the external genitalia. Although physicians recognized that there were conditions in which the apparent secondary sexual characteristics could develop contrary to the person's sex, and conditions in which the gonadal sex did not match that of the external genitalia, their ability to understand and diagnose such conditions in infancy was too poor to attempt to predict future development in most cases.
Not only that, you may have had re-assigment surgery, and never been told. Before the 1990's:
- Non-disclosure of the intersex condition to the individual on whom sex assignment treatment was conducted.
So-called 'social media' is no substitute for actual interaction, preferably face-to-face, and is just enabling socially avoidant people from getting over their awkwardness and anxiety of social situations. Also, your ten-thousand 'friends' on Facebook? They are not your friends. Do yourself a favor and get some real, living, breathing, live-in-person friends that you actually connect with on a personal level.
Because all it takes to get over social anxiety is to go out and make friends? That shows just how clueless you are as to the causes and therapy for these issues.
Be sure to read my sigline before commenting, you'll save you and me both time and energy better spent doing something else.
And you would be better off without that "fuck you" attitude if you expect anyone to take you seriously.
The Celts were a northern European tribe (France, Germany). The British Isles people were Picts and Saxons. I've always wondered how the Irish claimed to be Celtic. Never made any sense to me. It's nice to be vindicated.
Hillary can beat Drumpf without working too hard. Sanders can beat Drumpf without even needing to open his mouth. Frankly the democrats could run a ficus tree and almost certainly defeat Drumpf.
That's what we said about George W., and look what happened. Agreed, it took some ballot stuffing to make it official, but it was not the landslide for Gore everyone predicted. People voted for that dumb fuck. They will vote for Trump, in droves.
Over 200 BART employees earned over $200,000 a year in total compensation...
Those look mostly like executives, which are definitely NOT Union positions. The Unions are the ones trying to get some of that executive salary down to the real workers.
BART is about equally priced to driving for a single person, and significantly more expensive for multiple people (i.e. versus carpool). People use it because, despite it's various frustrations, it's genuinely more convenient than driving, not because it's less expensive.
BART is the only way to get across the Bay during rush hour without waiting at least 2 hours to drive across the bridge. That's NOT an exaggeration.
Gygax had something of a reputation for borrowing things without giving proper credit, and this latest revelation shows how the open and collaborative environment of early gaming was quickly exploited for commercial purposes.
We get it. Commercial is bad. Everything should be non-profit. We should all make the same wage. We should all have the same stuff.
That's not the issue. Gygax represented himself as the sole creator and writer of D&D. He removed Arneson from the credits in a typical Stalinistic purge. I remember meeting him when he was sitting behind the counter at the Dungeon hobby shop in Wisconsin, and he was a complete jerk. But when you are copyrighting everything that you can to lock in revenue, you just don't give anyone else credit. Bastard. Cashing in on other people's work. But hey, it happens in IT all the time.
The cameras are said to be use for some grease dumping project. That doesn't mean that they are. That's just a cover for whatever they are there for, looking for Meth labs or some such. Let's not go overboard on the wrong problems.
It really makes me wonder who in the world is using Oracle, because they are very, very far away from any company I've ever worked with.
That misconception about Oracle here always confuses me. It is used at every company I've ever worked for, including a small development firm. I don't know anyplace that doesn't have Oracle used in finance, HR, etc.
sys V init is old. So are the old, genuine unix wizards.
SystemD is new. So is Pottering and Pals.
The divide comes from "old culture" vs "new culture." The old unix culture adores simplicity, sparseness, and adaptability.
The "old culture" knows that a server is just part of a bigger process, and reliability and maintainability are more important than simplicity, sparseness (whatever that means in this context), and adaptability. Without something like systemd, Linux cannot be enterprise ready. "Rolling your own" scripts for failover and redundancy is the worst idea when more than one admin has to diagnose problems at 2:00 AM. You want something supported by the vender, with standard configuration options, that can be easily understood by everyone on the team. Sometimes the "most elegant" solution is not the best for the business.
It is unfortunate that in this day and age, it is necessary to explain how science works, and why it is different from other belief systems.
First science is a belief system. The fundamental axiom of science is that an objective reality exists, is independent of the observer, and that by investigation, truths about that reality can be discovered.
Philosophically incorrect, but a common misconception. To paraphrase Bohr, science is NOT how the universe works. It is what we can say about how the universe works. Repeatability under varying conditions drives science. That does not imply that other conditions and results could not exist, only that we currently do not see them. Think of classical mechanics and a solid sphere, to atomic physics and the atoms that compose that sphere, and particle physics and quantum mechanics that describe the structure of the atom. Classical mechanics is perfectly sound under macroscopic conditions, but that does not make it the entire truth. Science never looks for absolutes, only incremental glimpses of the unknowable (to not get too metaphysical).
The science of earlier generations was weird as well. I think, that compared with the past, we live in a golden age of science.
Any time someone bewails the decline of American intellects, this is usually the correct response. At no point in history has the US or any other nation been populated by a majority of sober, thoughtful, rational individuals. There has always been a large population of idiots, and always will be. We only think it's worse now because mass media makes it much easier for idiots to be heard, and, as this is still a liberal democracy of sorts, even idiots are allowed to speak their mind and vote.
The problem is that those same idiots have more politics power right now than any other time in the country's history. Science used to drive industry. Now that industry is trying to control science. Research used to be the domain of dedicated private researchers. Now pretty much all university and lab funding comes from corporations who don't care about the long term health of the country, only today's profits. In an economy where stocks are bought and sold in seconds, there is no way that long term research is going to be prized.
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I like to say "backups are easy, disaster recovery is hard." Old school, tapes go offsite weekly. Contemporary, all backups are synced to the "cloud." There is no true backups solution that leaves everything available to the running systems, remote mounting or not. From what I can tell, he was really talking about disaster recovery replication, which isn't what I would call backups anyway.
My wife is a self taught speed reader (basically as a kid she thought everyone could do it). She can also recite passages verbatim from books that she read years ago. Being a speed reader doesn't mean that you HAVE to speed read. For things that are important, you slow down and concentrate on the words, like a normal reader. So how can it be bad? Use it when appropriate, and read normally when not.
Lars is going to drive his gold plated limo the 20 miles from his palatial palace to grace the event? I'm tempted to go just to spit at him.
Why would you? The whole idea of a laser is that it stays cohesive. It isn't like you'd see the beam like using a laser in atmosphere.
You mean like using a laser in a dusty room. It takes effort to make the beam of a laser visible, contrary to how Hollywood represents it.
I've never met a project manager or engineer who spent any time designing in proper security. That would delay the deliverable. Security is an afterthought, and left for the deployment phase, usually after the first failed PCI scan. Then the sysadmins and network teams get to scramble to plug the holes.
In the early half of the 20th century there was a huge push to stop highway billboard advertising. They are ugly and block your view of the countryside. Notice how that ended up.
"People in Russia, sadly, don't seem to care much about Panama Papers. As Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports, most Russians haven't heard of -- or don't care about -- the Panama Papers. The media house interviewed 30 people on the street, of which it found only 1 person thought it was wrong. (video)."
Does not follow. You mean to say: only one person was willing to speak out against it. Polls have little to do with what people think. They only tell you what they are willing to admit.
Birth gender is not as cut and dry as most people think. There are many many people who had gender assignment surgery just after birth, to make the child meet the physical standards of being a male or female. From wiki, Sex Assignment:
- In approximately 1 in 2,000 infants, there is enough variation in the appearance of the external genitalia to merit hesitation about appropriate assignment by the physician involved.
- Before the 1950s, assignment was based almost entirely on the appearance of the external genitalia. Although physicians recognized that there were conditions in which the apparent secondary sexual characteristics could develop contrary to the person's sex, and conditions in which the gonadal sex did not match that of the external genitalia, their ability to understand and diagnose such conditions in infancy was too poor to attempt to predict future development in most cases.
Not only that, you may have had re-assigment surgery, and never been told. Before the 1990's:
- Non-disclosure of the intersex condition to the individual on whom sex assignment treatment was conducted.
The article neglects to mention perhaps the most famous case of all, Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff, Senior. And that's just an abbreviation -- his actual surname (or so he claimed) was 666 letters long.
According to wiki, his great-grandfather made up the name. Just another pre-internet troll.
So-called 'social media' is no substitute for actual interaction, preferably face-to-face, and is just enabling socially avoidant people from getting over their awkwardness and anxiety of social situations. Also, your ten-thousand 'friends' on Facebook? They are not your friends. Do yourself a favor and get some real, living, breathing, live-in-person friends that you actually connect with on a personal level.
Because all it takes to get over social anxiety is to go out and make friends? That shows just how clueless you are as to the causes and therapy for these issues.
Be sure to read my sigline before commenting, you'll save you and me both time and energy better spent doing something else.
And you would be better off without that "fuck you" attitude if you expect anyone to take you seriously.
Yeah, with all the collateral damage, there will be lots of roaming rats.
The Celts were a northern European tribe (France, Germany). The British Isles people were Picts and Saxons. I've always wondered how the Irish claimed to be Celtic. Never made any sense to me. It's nice to be vindicated.
Hillary can beat Drumpf without working too hard. Sanders can beat Drumpf without even needing to open his mouth. Frankly the democrats could run a ficus tree and almost certainly defeat Drumpf.
That's what we said about George W., and look what happened. Agreed, it took some ballot stuffing to make it official, but it was not the landslide for Gore everyone predicted. People voted for that dumb fuck. They will vote for Trump, in droves.
...when all their money is going to high salaries and benefits for union employees?
Over 200 BART employees earned over $200,000 a year in total compensation...
Those look mostly like executives, which are definitely NOT Union positions. The Unions are the ones trying to get some of that executive salary down to the real workers.
BART is about equally priced to driving for a single person, and significantly more expensive for multiple people (i.e. versus carpool). People use it because, despite it's various frustrations, it's genuinely more convenient than driving, not because it's less expensive.
BART is the only way to get across the Bay during rush hour without waiting at least 2 hours to drive across the bridge. That's NOT an exaggeration.
Big scoop! Dell does not sell a workstation that works with Rift. Scoop! Neither does Lenovo. Neither does HP.
That's like a car company disabling half the cylinders in your engine after you buy the car.
Reducing the functionality of a purchased product post-purchase is sleazy and probably should be considered illegal on some level.
Like the Sony PS3?
What the fuck is this story doing on Slashdot? How is this, in any way, tech related?
Who ever said that Slashdot was a tech site?
Ok, maybe I'm missing it, but 4g seems fast enough to me.
Do a search on slashdot for "seems fast enough to me" for any article 5 years or older, and have a laugh.
Gygax had something of a reputation for borrowing things without giving proper credit, and this latest revelation shows how the open and collaborative environment of early gaming was quickly exploited for commercial purposes.
We get it. Commercial is bad. Everything should be non-profit. We should all make the same wage. We should all have the same stuff.
That's not the issue. Gygax represented himself as the sole creator and writer of D&D. He removed Arneson from the credits in a typical Stalinistic purge. I remember meeting him when he was sitting behind the counter at the Dungeon hobby shop in Wisconsin, and he was a complete jerk. But when you are copyrighting everything that you can to lock in revenue, you just don't give anyone else credit. Bastard. Cashing in on other people's work. But hey, it happens in IT all the time.
The cameras are said to be use for some grease dumping project. That doesn't mean that they are. That's just a cover for whatever they are there for, looking for Meth labs or some such. Let's not go overboard on the wrong problems.
It really makes me wonder who in the world is using Oracle, because they are very, very far away from any company I've ever worked with.
That misconception about Oracle here always confuses me. It is used at every company I've ever worked for, including a small development firm. I don't know anyplace that doesn't have Oracle used in finance, HR, etc.
This is a problem with "old vs new".
sys V init is old. So are the old, genuine unix wizards.
SystemD is new. So is Pottering and Pals.
The divide comes from "old culture" vs "new culture." The old unix culture adores simplicity, sparseness, and adaptability.
The "old culture" knows that a server is just part of a bigger process, and reliability and maintainability are more important than simplicity, sparseness (whatever that means in this context), and adaptability. Without something like systemd, Linux cannot be enterprise ready. "Rolling your own" scripts for failover and redundancy is the worst idea when more than one admin has to diagnose problems at 2:00 AM. You want something supported by the vender, with standard configuration options, that can be easily understood by everyone on the team. Sometimes the "most elegant" solution is not the best for the business.
It is unfortunate that in this day and age, it is necessary to explain how science works, and why it is different from other belief systems.
First science is a belief system. The fundamental axiom of science is that an objective reality exists, is independent of the observer, and that by investigation, truths about that reality can be discovered.
Philosophically incorrect, but a common misconception. To paraphrase Bohr, science is NOT how the universe works. It is what we can say about how the universe works. Repeatability under varying conditions drives science. That does not imply that other conditions and results could not exist, only that we currently do not see them. Think of classical mechanics and a solid sphere, to atomic physics and the atoms that compose that sphere, and particle physics and quantum mechanics that describe the structure of the atom. Classical mechanics is perfectly sound under macroscopic conditions, but that does not make it the entire truth. Science never looks for absolutes, only incremental glimpses of the unknowable (to not get too metaphysical).
The science of earlier generations was weird as well. I think, that compared with the past, we live in a golden age of science.
Any time someone bewails the decline of American intellects, this is usually the correct response. At no point in history has the US or any other nation been populated by a majority of sober, thoughtful, rational individuals. There has always been a large population of idiots, and always will be. We only think it's worse now because mass media makes it much easier for idiots to be heard, and, as this is still a liberal democracy of sorts, even idiots are allowed to speak their mind and vote.
The problem is that those same idiots have more politics power right now than any other time in the country's history. Science used to drive industry. Now that industry is trying to control science. Research used to be the domain of dedicated private researchers. Now pretty much all university and lab funding comes from corporations who don't care about the long term health of the country, only today's profits. In an economy where stocks are bought and sold in seconds, there is no way that long term research is going to be prized.