...with seven feet of red hot, curare-tipped wrought-iron fencepost. It's bad enough H1B visas are being abused like they are when the U6 is upwards of 25%.
Reminds me of how the Air Force got intel on Iraq during Desert Storm. "Ssh, we secretly switched this laser printer shipment with one that has compromised firmware. Let's see if they notice the Americans are getting a copy of every document it prints!"
Retroactive measures like antivirus aren't a proper substitute for having a system that doesn't encourage bad habits like running as administrator and installing whatever flies along in the first place.
I wonder how this will fly in states that have a long history of successfully defending it's 10th Amendment rights, where sales tax is unconstitutional.
It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: *BSD is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
I like his theory, but the execution sucks. The problem isn't government backing, it's the for-profit university system. Remove the profit incentive by extending universal education through college. Ending it after grade 12 isn't any more equitable or less arbitrary than Mexico ending it after grade 6.
...water is wet, and a total solar eclipse will be visible from the Tulsa area this coming May. These stories, and your weekend forecast, tonight on Oklahoma's Own News on Six at Ten.
This is old news to rural households in the midwest, whose only unlimited bandwidth option was AT&T before they slammed everyone onto metered plans. Never mind they're getting federal rural broadband dollars to supply flat-rate unlimited broadband to rural America. They should have to either hold up their end of the bargain or pay the government back the money they received, plus interest.
Anybody who thinks Portland is friendly clearly hasn't been to the midwest. Portland is a city on the brink, high unemployment, high food prices, high rents, high tuition, and people who are just plain high all the time have pushed Portland from the quirky, well-off city of the 90s to being hungry, homeless and angry. This city is a powderkeg, and it's only going to take a spark to make the Rodney King riots look like a day in Disneyland compared to how badly Portland's going to tear itself apart.
You know, people say that and every time I've been to Seattle it's been 70 and sunny. I think the crappy weather is just rumors spread by residents who don't want anyone else moving there!
Only half true. Those days are very rare. Besides, Seattle is full. Just look at the cost of living and unemployment. Moving to Oregon or Washington serves only to make the cost of living and unemployment rates higher in a part of the world with a static-sized economy.
Get a business license for some company that only exists on paper (but ostensibly requires you to use a vehicle) and sign up for Pacific Pride cardlocks. They're exclusively self-service, even in Oregon.
I wonder if Oregon will hang on to this nonsense if, one day, some CEO considered Oregon for their new corporate HQ. But he (or she) is a real car nut and just said, "Can't pump my own gas? I'll locate somewhere else. Thanks anyway."
Why pay more to do the gas station's job for 'em? Gas is 10-20 cheaper at minimum-service pumps than self service pumps in the same area in Washington and BC because the insurance liability is lower than letting every random moron handle volatile liquids that stick to skin...
You can if you own or work for a transportation or energy company, or a farm. Rationale being that if you work in those sectors, you know what you're doing and aren't going to spill it, contaminating the air, groundwater and creating a fire hazard (since most of Oregon's population lives surrounded by trees that burn explosively). Gas is also cheaper as a result, since it doesn't cost as much to insure. The cheapest gas stations in Vancouver, WA are also minimum-service only with no self serve.
Seattle and SF are on two extremes. Portland is just the right mix of those two, without quite the douchiness (despite what the TV show Portlandia might try to portray).
I would say that as far as douchiness is concerned, it is highest in SF, next highest in Portland, then least in Seattle.
Western California in general has Californicated pretty much every major American city within a two day drive of it, that hasn't the stones to take none of their crap. Portland used to have the stones, but then the population tripled in ten years largely from the smarmy side of California, so now there's far more Californians than Portlanders in Portland, and Portlanders that have the means to do so are abandoning the city for places that don't take California's bullshit.
I'm not sure what happens when you cross the border and get into Vancouver, BC, as I think their douchiness is measured in metric, and I don't know how to convert that. Google was of absolutely no help there.:(
You have an international boundary between Vancouver and California, which cuts down the asshole factor big-time. This major difference alone is good enough reason to expel California from the US, for the protection of Denver, Phoenix, Portland, Bend, Boise, Seattle, Butte....
Intel and Nike don't pay property taxes because Washington County and Oregon cut 'em sweetheart deals to go run out of state. Both pretty much only offer revolving door six month contracts, contributing to the high unemployment. And since they're not paying anything to the county, then people wonder why the schools are so lousy and most roads are still two lane here. Beaverton is Los Angeles North, and Portlandia is an accurate description of Portland (speaking as someone who's middle name is Eliot after the Northeast Portland district, where I was born and grew up). If you can't see this, you're clearly reading The Oregonian in a vacuum and never have been to someplace that has a tax strategy that's a bit less favorable to cheapskate corporations, like Oklahoma, where the wages and job security are better and the cost of living is lower.
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...with seven feet of red hot, curare-tipped wrought-iron fencepost. It's bad enough H1B visas are being abused like they are when the U6 is upwards of 25%.
Reminds me of how the Air Force got intel on Iraq during Desert Storm. "Ssh, we secretly switched this laser printer shipment with one that has compromised firmware. Let's see if they notice the Americans are getting a copy of every document it prints!"
...a repeat from 1998?
Maybe if the IT staff went on strike and demanded the pay and respect such a critical assignment should afford, we might be able to break the cycle.
...unintended acceleration.
Retroactive measures like antivirus aren't a proper substitute for having a system that doesn't encourage bad habits like running as administrator and installing whatever flies along in the first place.
Ever take the E 470 in Colorado? Your plates have been read by the mystery box there, too.
Windmills do not work that way! Goodnight!!
...upsets PETA, then nobody should tell them about Anthrocon.
Good thing my Steam password is unique to my Steam account, and the credit card associated won't work because I changed banks...
I wonder how this will fly in states that have a long history of successfully defending it's 10th Amendment rights, where sales tax is unconstitutional.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
It does, but mostly to protect server load. Once you hit that, you're advised to grab the whole planet source data and serve it yourself.
I like his theory, but the execution sucks. The problem isn't government backing, it's the for-profit university system. Remove the profit incentive by extending universal education through college. Ending it after grade 12 isn't any more equitable or less arbitrary than Mexico ending it after grade 6.
...water is wet, and a total solar eclipse will be visible from the Tulsa area this coming May. These stories, and your weekend forecast, tonight on Oklahoma's Own News on Six at Ten.
This is old news to rural households in the midwest, whose only unlimited bandwidth option was AT&T before they slammed everyone onto metered plans. Never mind they're getting federal rural broadband dollars to supply flat-rate unlimited broadband to rural America. They should have to either hold up their end of the bargain or pay the government back the money they received, plus interest.
No, we just have a regressive, fuck-the-poor-and-middle-class tax structure modeled after the US...
Anybody who thinks Portland is friendly clearly hasn't been to the midwest. Portland is a city on the brink, high unemployment, high food prices, high rents, high tuition, and people who are just plain high all the time have pushed Portland from the quirky, well-off city of the 90s to being hungry, homeless and angry. This city is a powderkeg, and it's only going to take a spark to make the Rodney King riots look like a day in Disneyland compared to how badly Portland's going to tear itself apart.
The 1990s called, they wanted to remind you that it was ruined over 20 years ago.
You know, people say that and every time I've been to Seattle it's been 70 and sunny. I think the crappy weather is just rumors spread by residents who don't want anyone else moving there!
Only half true. Those days are very rare. Besides, Seattle is full. Just look at the cost of living and unemployment. Moving to Oregon or Washington serves only to make the cost of living and unemployment rates higher in a part of the world with a static-sized economy.
Get a business license for some company that only exists on paper (but ostensibly requires you to use a vehicle) and sign up for Pacific Pride cardlocks. They're exclusively self-service, even in Oregon.
I wonder if Oregon will hang on to this nonsense if, one day, some CEO considered Oregon for their new corporate HQ. But he (or she) is a real car nut and just said, "Can't pump my own gas? I'll locate somewhere else. Thanks anyway."
Why pay more to do the gas station's job for 'em? Gas is 10-20 cheaper at minimum-service pumps than self service pumps in the same area in Washington and BC because the insurance liability is lower than letting every random moron handle volatile liquids that stick to skin...
You can if you own or work for a transportation or energy company, or a farm. Rationale being that if you work in those sectors, you know what you're doing and aren't going to spill it, contaminating the air, groundwater and creating a fire hazard (since most of Oregon's population lives surrounded by trees that burn explosively). Gas is also cheaper as a result, since it doesn't cost as much to insure. The cheapest gas stations in Vancouver, WA are also minimum-service only with no self serve.
Seattle and SF are on two extremes. Portland is just the right mix of those two, without quite the douchiness (despite what the TV show Portlandia might try to portray).
I would say that as far as douchiness is concerned, it is highest in SF, next highest in Portland, then least in Seattle.
Western California in general has Californicated pretty much every major American city within a two day drive of it, that hasn't the stones to take none of their crap. Portland used to have the stones, but then the population tripled in ten years largely from the smarmy side of California, so now there's far more Californians than Portlanders in Portland, and Portlanders that have the means to do so are abandoning the city for places that don't take California's bullshit.
I'm not sure what happens when you cross the border and get into Vancouver, BC, as I think their douchiness is measured in metric, and I don't know how to convert that. Google was of absolutely no help there. :(
You have an international boundary between Vancouver and California, which cuts down the asshole factor big-time. This major difference alone is good enough reason to expel California from the US, for the protection of Denver, Phoenix, Portland, Bend, Boise, Seattle, Butte....
Intel and Nike don't pay property taxes because Washington County and Oregon cut 'em sweetheart deals to go run out of state. Both pretty much only offer revolving door six month contracts, contributing to the high unemployment. And since they're not paying anything to the county, then people wonder why the schools are so lousy and most roads are still two lane here. Beaverton is Los Angeles North, and Portlandia is an accurate description of Portland (speaking as someone who's middle name is Eliot after the Northeast Portland district, where I was born and grew up). If you can't see this, you're clearly reading The Oregonian in a vacuum and never have been to someplace that has a tax strategy that's a bit less favorable to cheapskate corporations, like Oklahoma, where the wages and job security are better and the cost of living is lower.