to make up for the DS9 & Voyager movies that we haven't had yet, and now can't have)
Why not have any Voyager movies? The hull was not a loss by the end of the series so it can still be out doing the Star Fleet thing. Obviously not the lost far away thing, but it might be good to have a movie around a light cruiser instead of the Galaxy class heavy cruisers for a change. After all, a less badass ship than usual was part of what made Voyager interesting.
That's a great way to prepare them for the real world, isn't it, where corporate computers are locked down pretty hard. I think a better idea would be to survey some companies (larger ones with as many or more employees as there are students) in the local area and average out their practices.
I meant significant problem as in more the root cause, not technical difficulty. If only the senders could be 100% verified, it would do a LOT more towards eliminating spam than identifying the recipient's desire to recieve.
Moral imperatives are a function of the social system
Beware when the (people in) government wants to impose and act out its idea of what is a morally just intervention. Note this is equally true whether it be 'for the people' or 'for god'. The true "social" system, expressed via private charities, operates FAR more efficiently to help individuals in need than any government program ever.
my school's IT department confused my port scanning with that of a virus
At a consulting client once I plugged in my usb thumb drive to transfer a document and the corporate scanning software on their computer detected nmap. It was immediately deleted with a pop-up that screamed "hacking tool detected!" On the one hand I was glad I didn't get escorted out (and not paid) but on the other hand it was rude of them to delete it when they could have just disallowed running it.
Someone please shoot the asshole controlling the camera
Chill out - the camera's servo only has one speed as should be obvious from the panning when the view zooms out versus when it zooms in. You would not have done any better.
That's the thing; Neanderthals aren't just like us. If they were, they'd be Homo Sapiens, not Homo Neanderthalensis. There IS a small, but definite, genetic difference by definition.
Good god, man, only suckers with corporate accounts have to shop at CDW. $1,900 for an MLC drive? Try $300 for the same speed specs. If you want SLC you'll have to double that, but still, CDW is way overpriced these days.
could be wrong, but you sound like you're being sarcastic
I was being 50% sarcastic - some people get lucky and a technological advance allows them to fix poorly performing design for the time being (they then turn into) Other people assume that some advance will come along and then either it doesn't or they can't afford it. Finally, there are people who see that a poorly performing design is going to catch them up and they proactively fix it before anyone loses their job over the order taking system crashing for a couple of days due to heavy load.
Databases are frequently the workhorse backend on which the business runs; deciding whether to spend $$$ now to fix poor initial design is like deciding whether to put safety bladders in the gas tanks of Pintos.
Not on a regular basis, but I too have been the victim of 15+ minute corporate boot times when updates were pushed. Never knew when it would hit you but one day you'd boot the thing up and it would say 'now installing update...' and you'd be in limbo for a while. Heck yeah, I was on the clock for that.
I wish I could have one pointed out and slap them up side the head
While we're having wild fantasies, I wish I had a time machine to go slap the idealistic hippies who originally designed the fledgeling network with practically no verification or security ON PURPOSE.
an underrated fact is that many users eventually get the feeling that they're stuck with an underpowered laptop
I have a new netbook with Intel's Atom chip in it (Lenovo Ideapad) and it isn't underpowered so much as just underfeatured. For the screen, it isn't the size but the resolution; Fujitsu manages to put 1280x800 in their even smaller Lifebook models but that doesn't explain the 6x cost difference. It'd be nice to have a firewire port (I have a FW video camera and external drives) and a DVI instead of analog VGA. Other than that, the thing is perfect so it's close enough. Some people will want more CPU power for... games? Who knows... I think it's the same mentality that gets dual/quad CPUs in desktops that are used for spreadsheets and browsing. More power to AMD to sell their products - just as long as it comes with a screen resolution upgrade.
Wasting money protecting source code after the event
In the US practically all law enforcement is after the event. Even if the police are standing right there, the criminals actually have to actually start doing whatever or seriously look like they're about to. There's almost no proactive arrests. Do you really want the FBI/cops to arrest people BEFORE they commit crimes? There was a silly Tom Cruise movie with this premise that you might find mildly amusing, but not for normal theft and whatnot crimes. That's why it's such a huge deal to make an exception for people plotting terrorism to be proactively arrested/detained. It isn't the normal course of things.
The whitelist would be of executables, not websites. If a website wants to launch a thread outside the normal display features of a browser, that needs extreme scrutiny. A whitelist would be the easy way to do this, both for web apps and locally installed software. Now, the problem of who and how makes/approves such a whitelist of websites wanting to execute jobs is another matter...
McCain doesn't even tell you that the $5,000 tax credit you get back for medical insurance probably won't cover the average family of 4's insurance premiums
And I have here a flyer from Kaiser Permanente offering "whole family" insurance for just under $300 per month. Last I checked, 300 * 12 5,000. The myth of unaffordable insurance marches on towards socialized medical care. You're going to pay a lot more than 5,000 in taxes to support a national system if the wonderfully streamlined and efficient Medicare/Medicaid are the examples.
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to make up for the DS9 & Voyager movies that we haven't had yet, and now can't have)
Why not have any Voyager movies? The hull was not a loss by the end of the series so it can still be out doing the Star Fleet thing. Obviously not the lost far away thing, but it might be good to have a movie around a light cruiser instead of the Galaxy class heavy cruisers for a change. After all, a less badass ship than usual was part of what made Voyager interesting.
That's a great way to prepare them for the real world, isn't it, where corporate computers are locked down pretty hard. I think a better idea would be to survey some companies (larger ones with as many or more employees as there are students) in the local area and average out their practices.
I meant significant problem as in more the root cause, not technical difficulty. If only the senders could be 100% verified, it would do a LOT more towards eliminating spam than identifying the recipient's desire to recieve.
one where every email sent is assumed to be one that the designated recipient wants.
The problem of being assumed wanted by the recipient pales to insignificance compared to the problem of the sender being correctly identified.
Um, flag day?
At 0800GMT on the Nth of Y, all admins everywhere in the world will press the magic button and convert to the new email sending protocol.
Moral imperatives are a function of the social system
Beware when the (people in) government wants to impose and act out its idea of what is a morally just intervention. Note this is equally true whether it be 'for the people' or 'for god'. The true "social" system, expressed via private charities, operates FAR more efficiently to help individuals in need than any government program ever.
don't think anybody is going to steal the thumbdrive on a key ring which is attached to my pants, along with my laptop
The way this parses, you make it sound like your laptop is attached to your pants.
Chewbacca was way ahead of this guy
I don't get it; Mallatobuck is not a robot.
my school's IT department confused my port scanning with that of a virus
At a consulting client once I plugged in my usb thumb drive to transfer a document and the corporate scanning software on their computer detected nmap. It was immediately deleted with a pop-up that screamed "hacking tool detected!" On the one hand I was glad I didn't get escorted out (and not paid) but on the other hand it was rude of them to delete it when they could have just disallowed running it.
Someone please shoot the asshole controlling the camera
Chill out - the camera's servo only has one speed as should be obvious from the panning when the view zooms out versus when it zooms in. You would not have done any better.
What if it turns out they are just like us?
That's the thing; Neanderthals aren't just like us. If they were, they'd be Homo Sapiens, not Homo Neanderthalensis. There IS a small, but definite, genetic difference by definition.
Good god, man, only suckers with corporate accounts have to shop at CDW. $1,900 for an MLC drive? Try $300 for the same speed specs. If you want SLC you'll have to double that, but still, CDW is way overpriced these days.
could be wrong, but you sound like you're being sarcastic
I was being 50% sarcastic - some people get lucky and a technological advance allows them to fix poorly performing design for the time being (they then turn into) Other people assume that some advance will come along and then either it doesn't or they can't afford it. Finally, there are people who see that a poorly performing design is going to catch them up and they proactively fix it before anyone loses their job over the order taking system crashing for a couple of days due to heavy load.
Databases are frequently the workhorse backend on which the business runs; deciding whether to spend $$$ now to fix poor initial design is like deciding whether to put safety bladders in the gas tanks of Pintos.
We spent weeks benchmarking and optimizing a database
And just think of all the people who have crappy unoptimized databases who can just buy these and leave their design as-is!
but I have seen it take more than 15
Not on a regular basis, but I too have been the victim of 15+ minute corporate boot times when updates were pushed. Never knew when it would hit you but one day you'd boot the thing up and it would say 'now installing update...' and you'd be in limbo for a while. Heck yeah, I was on the clock for that.
Hey, we were trying to keep it within the real of the possible until you came along.
I wish I could have one pointed out and slap them up side the head
While we're having wild fantasies, I wish I had a time machine to go slap the idealistic hippies who originally designed the fledgeling network with practically no verification or security ON PURPOSE.
Possibly even enough to power new forms of interplanetary propulsion
Yeah, because NASA (and similar agencies around the world) have whopping piles of cash laying around for this.
Reporter: What's it like to fly the new spaceship?
Pilot: Like burning a load of gold as fast as I can!
Yeah, and you think the class warfare rhetoric between the rich and poor nations is bad now?!?
an underrated fact is that many users eventually get the feeling that they're stuck with an underpowered laptop
... games? Who knows... I think it's the same mentality that gets dual/quad CPUs in desktops that are used for spreadsheets and browsing. More power to AMD to sell their products - just as long as it comes with a screen resolution upgrade.
I have a new netbook with Intel's Atom chip in it (Lenovo Ideapad) and it isn't underpowered so much as just underfeatured. For the screen, it isn't the size but the resolution; Fujitsu manages to put 1280x800 in their even smaller Lifebook models but that doesn't explain the 6x cost difference. It'd be nice to have a firewire port (I have a FW video camera and external drives) and a DVI instead of analog VGA. Other than that, the thing is perfect so it's close enough. Some people will want more CPU power for
way too big and heavy for a shark's head
You need to do more shark research. At a mere 400 pounds, it wouldn't bother this shark at all to carry several around.
Wasting money protecting source code after the event
In the US practically all law enforcement is after the event. Even if the police are standing right there, the criminals actually have to actually start doing whatever or seriously look like they're about to. There's almost no proactive arrests. Do you really want the FBI/cops to arrest people BEFORE they commit crimes? There was a silly Tom Cruise movie with this premise that you might find mildly amusing, but not for normal theft and whatnot crimes. That's why it's such a huge deal to make an exception for people plotting terrorism to be proactively arrested/detained. It isn't the normal course of things.
The whitelist would be of executables, not websites. If a website wants to launch a thread outside the normal display features of a browser, that needs extreme scrutiny. A whitelist would be the easy way to do this, both for web apps and locally installed software. Now, the problem of who and how makes/approves such a whitelist of websites wanting to execute jobs is another matter...
Does that include "The Count of Monte Cristo"?
(Only prisoners have time to actually read the entire thing without skipping a few entire chapters.)
WTF? There is no content on Piratebay - that's what makes the site legal.
McCain doesn't even tell you that the $5,000 tax credit you get back for medical insurance probably won't cover the average family of 4's insurance premiums
And I have here a flyer from Kaiser Permanente offering "whole family" insurance for just under $300 per month. Last I checked, 300 * 12 5,000. The myth of unaffordable insurance marches on towards socialized medical care. You're going to pay a lot more than 5,000 in taxes to support a national system if the wonderfully streamlined and efficient Medicare/Medicaid are the examples.