In every wifi GUI tool I've used, ad-hoc networks show up with a special icon. I don't know about the public in general, but any decent Slashdot reader should know better than to connect to one!
When you've got a country with that many people and that much manufacturing capacity, you can get a huge army without resorting to oddball tactics like this.
I think the real reason is genuine concern over a social problem that may be far more pronounced in China than it is here. They also have a heavy-handed government that doesn't mind creating a new social program at the drop of a hat, so they end up with all kinds of (wacky) things being done so that every branch of every agency can say "Look what we did!"
Slow down a bit. They're being investigated, not prosecuted. Even if they get brought to court and convicted of some antitrust charge, history has shown us the the punishments directed at corporations are inconsequential.
More advanced hardware should deliver a performance benefit no matter what is running on it.
Not if your code is not tuned for this new "advanced hardware". Surely there are new compile flags to consider, and if you are not tuning your code for the new processor features it could very well be slower than before.
Facebook is written in PHP; there are no compile flags.
Crap code on faster computer is still going to be faster than it was on a slower computer. He's not saying anything about how efficient their software is, just that buying new processors didn't get him the performance delta that it was supposed to. More advanced hardware should deliver a performance benefit no matter what is running on it.
But of course this isn't only about money, but purely renewable energy. This man basically isn't polluting anymore.
That's certainly the truth. If this is going to save me money, however, I'll jump on the bandwagon sooner rather than later. I can't be the only one that feels this way.
So maybe it'll pay for itself in 12 years, but how long before those panels need to be replaced? That's what we really need to know in order to decide if he's actually saving money.
If you're scared of people, then I guess that could all be a problem.
Can't have those blacks and Mexican living near me! Gotta build a house on the outskirts of town where everyone has the same economic status that I do!
White flight into the suburbs has brought us nothing but Wal-Mart and SUV's. I grew up in a suburb, and I hated how I was not able to go anywhere without a ride from my parents because everything was so far apart. Should I have children, I will not put them through that sort of social isolation.
Don't be a fool. There are obvious things that everyone can do to reduce pollution at a personal level.
40% of all car trips go less than 2 miles. Get a bike and use it when it makes sense. Turn up your AC a few degrees. You'll use less energy. Get a reusable shopping bag and stop using plastic ones.
It's not perfect, but it's much better than doing nothing. If I can do it, so can nearly everyone. If everyone did, we'd be in less trouble than we are now.
Paving roads? Car companies wouldn't exist the way they do now if we didn't have a huge road system. Every road we pave is basically a subsidy for the auto industry. We could've spent some of that money on railways. Perhaps if we had, we wouldn't be trapped in the sprawling suburban nightmare we have today.
Think about it: what do you see out the window when you're driving in the car? Where I live, I see parking lots. When I drive anywhere, I park in a parking lot that uses more land than my actual destination. If not for the proliferation of automobiles, we would not rely on them.
If he's actually lazy, he wouldn't have gotten so much useful knowledge in the first place. Knowledge is power, now matter how many legal documents a corporation might throw at it.
It's not news for nerds, but it is stuff that matters (to Americans). Things like Hummers make it hard to show pride in my country. At least now we can legitimately shift a bit of the blame on someone else.
An open API (whatever that is) is not the same as an open source program. If they were releasing the code that makes EC2 work, that would really be newsworthy. Of course, it'll never happen. Making their API accessible is just a way to get more people using their service.
The hosting situation has nothing to do with the SQL injection. This is a software problem caused by coders who don't know the proper way to interact with a relational database when receiving input from a user. This software would be insecure when turned toward the public under any circumstances.
If your requirement is to be able to run Windows software, then there may in fact be "no serious alternatives".
A realistic goal for the agency would have been more like "run whatever software gets the job done". For every job, there's a non-Microsoft product that is at least worth consideration.
I suspect this is simply a case of non-technical bureaucrats getting in over their heads making purchasing decisions when they should've handed it off to their IT folks (if they even have any).
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In every wifi GUI tool I've used, ad-hoc networks show up with a special icon. I don't know about the public in general, but any decent Slashdot reader should know better than to connect to one!
When you've got a country with that many people and that much manufacturing capacity, you can get a huge army without resorting to oddball tactics like this.
I think the real reason is genuine concern over a social problem that may be far more pronounced in China than it is here. They also have a heavy-handed government that doesn't mind creating a new social program at the drop of a hat, so they end up with all kinds of (wacky) things being done so that every branch of every agency can say "Look what we did!"
Slow down a bit. They're being investigated, not prosecuted. Even if they get brought to court and convicted of some antitrust charge, history has shown us the the punishments directed at corporations are inconsequential.
How about Parallels?
This can be done well, it just hasn't yet been done well on a Linux host.
You can also do this in VirtualBox, which is free and full featured (for non-commercial use.)
This isn't the first time someone has used this data; looks like they're too scared to go after the big guys.
http://maps.google.com/intl/en/landing/transit/
Not if your code is not tuned for this new "advanced hardware". Surely there are new compile flags to consider, and if you are not tuning your code for the new processor features it could very well be slower than before.
Facebook is written in PHP; there are no compile flags.
Crap code on faster computer is still going to be faster than it was on a slower computer. He's not saying anything about how efficient their software is, just that buying new processors didn't get him the performance delta that it was supposed to. More advanced hardware should deliver a performance benefit no matter what is running on it.
I thought the three groups were those who are good at math, and those who aren't.
1. Dicks
2. Pussies
3. Assholes
But of course this isn't only about money, but purely renewable energy. This man basically isn't polluting anymore.
That's certainly the truth. If this is going to save me money, however, I'll jump on the bandwagon sooner rather than later. I can't be the only one that feels this way.
So maybe it'll pay for itself in 12 years, but how long before those panels need to be replaced? That's what we really need to know in order to decide if he's actually saving money.
It's good to see hardware acceleration being added, but this has been working in software for years.
http://dataferrett.census.gov/
The summary conflated a web server with a database and a programming language (PHP+Apache+MySQL) when discussing benchmarking of just a web server.
I'll go ahead and assume that the article isn't worth reading.
If you're scared of people, then I guess that could all be a problem.
Can't have those blacks and Mexican living near me! Gotta build a house on the outskirts of town where everyone has the same economic status that I do!
White flight into the suburbs has brought us nothing but Wal-Mart and SUV's. I grew up in a suburb, and I hated how I was not able to go anywhere without a ride from my parents because everything was so far apart. Should I have children, I will not put them through that sort of social isolation.
Don't be a fool. There are obvious things that everyone can do to reduce pollution at a personal level.
40% of all car trips go less than 2 miles. Get a bike and use it when it makes sense.
Turn up your AC a few degrees. You'll use less energy.
Get a reusable shopping bag and stop using plastic ones.
It's not perfect, but it's much better than doing nothing. If I can do it, so can nearly everyone. If everyone did, we'd be in less trouble than we are now.
Paving roads? Car companies wouldn't exist the way they do now if we didn't have a huge road system. Every road we pave is basically a subsidy for the auto industry. We could've spent some of that money on railways. Perhaps if we had, we wouldn't be trapped in the sprawling suburban nightmare we have today.
Think about it: what do you see out the window when you're driving in the car? Where I live, I see parking lots. When I drive anywhere, I park in a parking lot that uses more land than my actual destination. If not for the proliferation of automobiles, we would not rely on them.
If he's actually lazy, he wouldn't have gotten so much useful knowledge in the first place. Knowledge is power, now matter how many legal documents a corporation might throw at it.
If he's really worth it, the former employee should be paid to not work for the competition.
It's not news for nerds, but it is stuff that matters (to Americans). Things like Hummers make it hard to show pride in my country. At least now we can legitimately shift a bit of the blame on someone else.
An open API (whatever that is) is not the same as an open source program. If they were releasing the code that makes EC2 work, that would really be newsworthy. Of course, it'll never happen. Making their API accessible is just a way to get more people using their service.
None of the illegal immigrants I've ever met have arrived by airplane.
This leaves two options: either these guys are really stupid, or the real goal is different from the stated goal.
Our nonprofit uses "Decapitated Poultry v0.01 beta".
The Enterprise version is popular with small internet businesses nowadays. It's great with the "Layoff" and "Reboot the server" extensions!
The hosting situation has nothing to do with the SQL injection. This is a software problem caused by coders who don't know the proper way to interact with a relational database when receiving input from a user. This software would be insecure when turned toward the public under any circumstances.
If your requirement is to be able to run Windows software, then there may in fact be "no serious alternatives".
A realistic goal for the agency would have been more like "run whatever software gets the job done". For every job, there's a non-Microsoft product that is at least worth consideration.
I suspect this is simply a case of non-technical bureaucrats getting in over their heads making purchasing decisions when they should've handed it off to their IT folks (if they even have any).