My son is not allowed into other people's homes. Too many people do not secure their guns or their internet. At least one neighbor on the street that I know of keeps a loaded shotgun under their bed unsecured. And of course other parents do give unrestricted access to the Internet to their kids. That is why my kids don't go into other people's homes.
Electronic devices are not allowed at school either. No phones, no tablets, and the schools devices are locked down.
He really doesn't have any place to be exposed to any of it.
One more year of elementary school, then that starts to go, since kids are allowed to have phones in junior high. I will spend the summer before junior high discussing this stuff. He isn't ready for it now.
I understand your point... too many upgrades too often is just churning money...
A ton of businesses skipped Vista and stayed on Windows XP. Which would have been fine, had Vista not been so delayed.
But then those same businesses delayed going to Windows 7, to the point where Windows 8 came out. But they didn't like 8, so many companies just finished their Windows 7 transition and don't want to move to Windows 10 just yet.
By the time they are ready, Windows 11 (or whatever) will be out.
Part of the pain here was the 6 years between XP and Vista, that is far longer than normal for MS and it is still something they are recovering from. The failure to make XP SP2 a "new OS" was their big mistake. SP2 was probably enough of a change to make it a new OS, slap a new shiny on the front, and offer cheap upgrades.
Vista wasn't actually that bad, once SP1 came out and some better hardware came out. Put Vista RTM on a Pentium 4 or even Pentium D and it sucks. Put Vista SP1 on a Core2Duo with 4GB of RAM and it is actually pretty good.
The irony is that COBOL is actually easier to use long term than VB is, given the systems that it runs on.
Windows 9x and Windows XP are not systems you want to be married to. One of the benefits of mini-computers and mainframes is that you are spared some of the headaches of running consumer desktop operating systems, abit at a higher up front cost.
If VB6 doesn't run on Windows 10, then you need to find a solution, because keeping your whole bank on Windows XP is simply not an option.
Whoever made that decision 15 years ago probably isn't even in the position to be fired for it anymore, but future decisions should not be made the same way, that's for sure.
Why Caterpillar's autonomous mining tech is "completely different from anything" itâ(TM)s ever done
Guess what... dirt movers are now in the tech business, and actually have been for awhile now.
They don't want to replace it after 5 years, because writing software is not part of their business and is just a cost centre.
Not wanting to, and needing to, are two different things.
Perhaps every 5 years is too often, but every 15+ years might not be often enough, it depends on the application.
If you're running desktop programs on a Windows PC that is connected to the Internet, then you need to keep that machine updated. It is simply not safe to run Windows XP on the Internet anymore. If your business can't handle bringing your technology up to date, then you have a business problem.
VB was probably entirely the wrong tool for the job for many of these companies given those requirements, but it's too late now.
You may be right about VB... but it isn't too late, money will fix this problem. As a business, you have to invest in your technology from time to time to keep it current. A little bit every year goes a long way to avoiding huge expenses all at once.
without the possibility to patch and recompile the old environment for new hardware you are stuck with an impaired development tool.
Who is sitting on 15 year old code that has had no effort to keep it current made?
This is one of the problems, people leave stuff too long and then it becomes a monster job to move to something newer.
Imagine sticking around on Windows 3.1 for too long, until Windows XP came out. That isn't just a monster jump, that might as well be a brand new OS from a brand new company.
VB6 should have been left years ago, with plans and efforts in place to move to.net or something else long before today.
If you wait 15 years to move in the tech world, you're in for some pain. (yes, there are exceptions, but they are the exceptions that prove the rule)
That's like saying there's no real difference between my inept artistic endeavors and Da Vinci's Last Supper because they are all images painted on flat surfaces. The US dollar is backed by the world's largest market economy, a powerful government of a sovereign state and a sophisticated financial system capable of processing huge numbers of complex transactions a day (for example annual USD/EUR FX transactions are running at about $1,300 billion (gross) per day). Bitcoin is based on an arbitrary choice to follow one particular genesis block, can't do more than 3 tps due to inherent limitations, and is backed by people who keep writing extremely buggy software in PHP and Javascript and other people who make a living as drug dealers, rip-off merchants and ransomware shits. Pretending these are equivalent is not sensible.
Do you wipe down the screen after typing the pin so they can't figure out which numbers were pressed?
No, but it doesn't tell them the order, and having it auto-wipe after 10 wrong guesses and having each further guess take longer and longer fixes that.
That, and being 5 years old and my being lord and ruler of all things in his life, are enough for now.
I've had my 10 year old try getting past the firewall on the desktop... he lost access to the computer for a week, including homework, everything. I made it quite clear that access to the computer is a privilege and that I can remove it until he is 18 years old if he prefers to not follow my rules. His eyes went rather wide when I said that, we shall see if he tries again...
Our civilization and way of life depend on rules, even those we don't agree with. You can't rob a bank just because you think Bank of America is a crappy company or screwed us over in the 2008 GFC, we have rules about that. Likewise, you follow my rules in my house or you pay the price, and I can make that price almost as high as I care to.
When you're paying the bills, you can do as you like, until then, my house and my rules.
Keep in mind that I'm preparing him for the real world. How many kids have been killed by cops because they ran away? You can't do that, even if you don't like cops. We have rules, if a cop pulls you over or tells you to stop, you have to comply or the rest of your day will just get worse.
Fancy is fun in the movies, but rarely works in real life...
How about a box of thermite stored on top of the samples with a remote trigger outside the door protected by thick glass. You set it off by shooting the glass.
Guards with guns who are in trouble can simply turn around and shoot the glass, good bye smallpox (and everything else in the room).
Now that being said... stockpiles of the live virus should not be kept very many places and there needs to be a "destroy plan" in the event these locations become compromised. (such as war, civil unrest, the end of the world, etc.)
Perhaps in the US, UK, France, Russia, and China... Each nation can have stored samples of the virus in known locations under guard.
For the same reason we'll never really get rid of nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, or anything else, there is a greater than non-zero value to having them. But we don't need "lots" of them.
My parents restricted Internet access, computer access, and put the computer in a public viewable space. That never stopped me from downloading a ton of porn.
Then they didn't do a very good job... Or you were 15 and just went to someone else's house.:)
Our computers are password protected and Internet access is on a white-list... My kids are 10 and under and while they are smart, there are limits to what they can do without me knowing about it, at least in my house...
I had to actively work against my parents every moment I was on the computer
Ahh, in other words you didn't give a crap about your parents, their rules, or their efforts to raise you. What a punk ass worthless fuck...
Maybe... there are likely exceptions out there, perhaps you're one of them...
MORE likely you're not and you'll regret it in 20 years, but only time will tell.:)
There is some NASTY stuff online... goat sex, BDSM, etc. that he'll run across that a 10 year old brain isn't ready to handle. Hell, I'm 40 and I don't want to see that stuff.:)
Further, most 10 year olds don't understand how creepy and messed up some people in the world really are, they will end up talking to someone who will not have their best interests at heart.
But it is your kid, so do as you like, just own the results.:)
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Then you should have better control over your computers.
If you don't understand technology and don't have a handle on it, but you depend on it for your business, then you deserve your problems.
My son is not allowed into other people's homes. Too many people do not secure their guns or their internet. At least one neighbor on the street that I know of keeps a loaded shotgun under their bed unsecured. And of course other parents do give unrestricted access to the Internet to their kids. That is why my kids don't go into other people's homes.
Electronic devices are not allowed at school either. No phones, no tablets, and the schools devices are locked down.
He really doesn't have any place to be exposed to any of it.
One more year of elementary school, then that starts to go, since kids are allowed to have phones in junior high. I will spend the summer before junior high discussing this stuff. He isn't ready for it now.
I buy something on Amazon because I don't have the time to go to the store and pick it up.
I buy stuff on Amazon because going to the store takes time and costs money, I buy very little at stores anymore.
You're doing this manually but noticed three price adjustments in a two week period? Are you unemployed?
No, I simply do a lot of shopping there and keep an eye on my past purchases.
About once a week, I take a look at anything over $50 or so that I've bought in the past month and click on it to see the current price.
Amazon changes prices so often, it isn't hard to catch.
I've gotten a lot of money back over the years this way.
I buy a TON of things from Amazon, I'm a heavy Prime customer...
That being said, my last three price adjustment requests in the past two weeks have all been denied, which is very odd.
I do it manually, just when I notice things... I buy at least a half a dozen items a week from Amazon.
This change will make me think twice before buying as much.
I understand your point... too many upgrades too often is just churning money...
A ton of businesses skipped Vista and stayed on Windows XP. Which would have been fine, had Vista not been so delayed.
But then those same businesses delayed going to Windows 7, to the point where Windows 8 came out. But they didn't like 8, so many companies just finished their Windows 7 transition and don't want to move to Windows 10 just yet.
By the time they are ready, Windows 11 (or whatever) will be out.
Part of the pain here was the 6 years between XP and Vista, that is far longer than normal for MS and it is still something they are recovering from. The failure to make XP SP2 a "new OS" was their big mistake. SP2 was probably enough of a change to make it a new OS, slap a new shiny on the front, and offer cheap upgrades.
Vista wasn't actually that bad, once SP1 came out and some better hardware came out. Put Vista RTM on a Pentium 4 or even Pentium D and it sucks. Put Vista SP1 on a Core2Duo with 4GB of RAM and it is actually pretty good.
Cap and Trade is such a scam... it just moves the money around, it doesn't really change the carbon picture... not by enough to matter anyway...
What it REALLY does it make a select few rich at the expense of everyone else. Talk about a dog and pony show.
A straight carbon tax would make far more sense. If you tax what you don't like, you generally get less of it.
The irony is that COBOL is actually easier to use long term than VB is, given the systems that it runs on.
Windows 9x and Windows XP are not systems you want to be married to. One of the benefits of mini-computers and mainframes is that you are spared some of the headaches of running consumer desktop operating systems, abit at a higher up front cost.
If VB6 doesn't run on Windows 10, then you need to find a solution, because keeping your whole bank on Windows XP is simply not an option.
Whoever made that decision 15 years ago probably isn't even in the position to be fired for it anymore, but future decisions should not be made the same way, that's for sure.
The problem with this argument is that most of the companies that built systems with VB6 aren't in the tech world.
Ahh, that is their mistake... YES THEY ARE...
Everyone is in the tech world today, that is the viewpoint that has to change.
They're in a host of other fields
What, like moving dirt?
http://www.equipmentworld.com/...
Why Caterpillar's autonomous mining tech is "completely different from anything" itâ(TM)s ever done
Guess what... dirt movers are now in the tech business, and actually have been for awhile now.
They don't want to replace it after 5 years, because writing software is not part of their business and is just a cost centre.
Not wanting to, and needing to, are two different things.
Perhaps every 5 years is too often, but every 15+ years might not be often enough, it depends on the application.
If you're running desktop programs on a Windows PC that is connected to the Internet, then you need to keep that machine updated. It is simply not safe to run Windows XP on the Internet anymore. If your business can't handle bringing your technology up to date, then you have a business problem.
VB was probably entirely the wrong tool for the job for many of these companies given those requirements, but it's too late now.
You may be right about VB... but it isn't too late, money will fix this problem. As a business, you have to invest in your technology from time to time to keep it current. A little bit every year goes a long way to avoiding huge expenses all at once.
without the possibility to patch and recompile the old environment for new hardware you are stuck with an impaired development tool.
Who is sitting on 15 year old code that has had no effort to keep it current made?
This is one of the problems, people leave stuff too long and then it becomes a monster job to move to something newer.
Imagine sticking around on Windows 3.1 for too long, until Windows XP came out. That isn't just a monster jump, that might as well be a brand new OS from a brand new company.
VB6 should have been left years ago, with plans and efforts in place to move to .net or something else long before today.
If you wait 15 years to move in the tech world, you're in for some pain. (yes, there are exceptions, but they are the exceptions that prove the rule)
If it costs nothing, then why is it needed?
You might want to learn about the future prospects of this plant, it is at risk of being totally shut down.
The three idiots replying to you didn't bother to read what you linked to...
The California regulators may end up forcing the plant to shut down, thus triggering the loan guarantee...
Worse, even if it keeps running, it is producing power for 6 times the cost of a natural gas fired plant.
No, wait, it gets better!
"Interestingly enough, Ivanpah uses natural gas to supplement its solar production."
You just can't make this stuff up...
The entire transportation industry DOES need to get off carbon fuels
That might be, but it is so easy to say, so very hard to do...
What would container ships and cruise ships use instead? Nuclear reactors strike me as the only reasonable options.
A 747 burns through 3,600 Gallons of fuel per hour for just over 416 Passengers. This ship burns 1/3 of that for nearly 9000 people.
True, but it also does it going 600 mph...
Yep... for the amount of money involved, there should have been lawyers involved...
Yes, I don't always like them either, but they do serve a purpose, one is to avoid this nonsense...
But yes, Karpeles might just be an idiot, he won't be the first or last.
That's like saying there's no real difference between my inept artistic endeavors and Da Vinci's Last Supper because they are all images painted on flat surfaces. The US dollar is backed by the world's largest market economy, a powerful government of a sovereign state and a sophisticated financial system capable of processing huge numbers of complex transactions a day (for example annual USD/EUR FX transactions are running at about $1,300 billion (gross) per day). Bitcoin is based on an arbitrary choice to follow one particular genesis block, can't do more than 3 tps due to inherent limitations, and is backed by people who keep writing extremely buggy software in PHP and Javascript and other people who make a living as drug dealers, rip-off merchants and ransomware shits. Pretending these are equivalent is not sensible.
^ AC quoted for truth...
Do you wipe down the screen after typing the pin so they can't figure out which numbers were pressed?
No, but it doesn't tell them the order, and having it auto-wipe after 10 wrong guesses and having each further guess take longer and longer fixes that.
That, and being 5 years old and my being lord and ruler of all things in his life, are enough for now.
I've had my 10 year old try getting past the firewall on the desktop... he lost access to the computer for a week, including homework, everything. I made it quite clear that access to the computer is a privilege and that I can remove it until he is 18 years old if he prefers to not follow my rules. His eyes went rather wide when I said that, we shall see if he tries again...
Our civilization and way of life depend on rules, even those we don't agree with. You can't rob a bank just because you think Bank of America is a crappy company or screwed us over in the 2008 GFC, we have rules about that. Likewise, you follow my rules in my house or you pay the price, and I can make that price almost as high as I care to.
When you're paying the bills, you can do as you like, until then, my house and my rules.
Keep in mind that I'm preparing him for the real world. How many kids have been killed by cops because they ran away? You can't do that, even if you don't like cops. We have rules, if a cop pulls you over or tells you to stop, you have to comply or the rest of your day will just get worse.
Set it to wipe after 10 incorrect tries, then take it away for 2 weeks after the first time they try it.
That fixed that problem. :)
Fancy is fun in the movies, but rarely works in real life...
How about a box of thermite stored on top of the samples with a remote trigger outside the door protected by thick glass. You set it off by shooting the glass.
Guards with guns who are in trouble can simply turn around and shoot the glass, good bye smallpox (and everything else in the room).
You can't control what your 10 year old is going to have access to when he isn't home.
Sure I can... He is home, then he is at school, or he is at a friends house of someone I trust...
He is 10, not 15... For now, I do have more or less total control over his world...
That won't last long however, he has one more year in elementary school, then it starts to go.
I've chosen rather to discuss with my son what to expect
You talk to your 10 year old about goat sex? Pedophiles? Worse?
This is one of them...
Now that being said... stockpiles of the live virus should not be kept very many places and there needs to be a "destroy plan" in the event these locations become compromised. (such as war, civil unrest, the end of the world, etc.)
Perhaps in the US, UK, France, Russia, and China... Each nation can have stored samples of the virus in known locations under guard.
For the same reason we'll never really get rid of nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, or anything else, there is a greater than non-zero value to having them. But we don't need "lots" of them.
Ha at 10 I was using renegade on the c64 to copy farm house cartoon porn from friends.
When the C64 was current, it is likely that your parents were not tech savvy... Sadly, many parents still aren't...
I am, have done this for a long time, and keep the house fairly well locked down.
From time to time, they'll surprise me, but I have monitoring in place to catch it.
While that is true, I cannot count on a 5 year old to follow the rules, they just don't work like that. :)
And as for breaking into an iPad, unless he guesses the pin, I don't think that is possible. I'm open to hearing if that is not true.
My parents restricted Internet access, computer access, and put the computer in a public viewable space. That never stopped me from downloading a ton of porn.
Then they didn't do a very good job... Or you were 15 and just went to someone else's house. :)
Our computers are password protected and Internet access is on a white-list... My kids are 10 and under and while they are smart, there are limits to what they can do without me knowing about it, at least in my house...
I had to actively work against my parents every moment I was on the computer
Ahh, in other words you didn't give a crap about your parents, their rules, or their efforts to raise you. What a punk ass worthless fuck...
my 10 year old can handle it
Maybe... there are likely exceptions out there, perhaps you're one of them...
MORE likely you're not and you'll regret it in 20 years, but only time will tell. :)
There is some NASTY stuff online... goat sex, BDSM, etc. that he'll run across that a 10 year old brain isn't ready to handle. Hell, I'm 40 and I don't want to see that stuff. :)
Further, most 10 year olds don't understand how creepy and messed up some people in the world really are, they will end up talking to someone who will not have their best interests at heart.
But it is your kid, so do as you like, just own the results. :)