A fellow had just been hired as the new CEO of a large high tech corporation. The CEO who was stepping down met with him privately and presented him with three numbered envelopes. "Open these if you run up against a problem you don't think you can solve," he said.
Well, things went along pretty smoothly, but six months later, sales took a downturn and he was really catching a lot of heat. About at his wit's end, he remembered the envelopes. He went to his drawer and took out the first envelope. The message read, "Blame your predecessor."
The new CEO called a press conference and tactfully laid the blame at the feet of the previous CEO. Satisfied with his comments, the press -- and Wall Street - responded positively, sales began to pick up and the problem was soon behind him.
About a year later, the company was again experiencing a slight dip in sales, combined with serious product problems. Having learned from his previous experience, the CEO quickly opened the second envelope. The message read, "Reorganize." This he did, and the company quickly rebounded.
After several consecutive profitable quarters, the company once again fell on difficult times. The CEO went to his office, closed the door and opened the third envelope.
Equifax was careless with the information of hundreds of millions of people It's trebly sad they are in the personal information protection business, but as we've learned, pretty much everybody is seemingly careless with the information of others.
But. Malware is still being delivered on their site? I know that Einstein said only the universe and stupidity are infinite, and he's not sure about the universe, but isn't it plausible these breaches have entered the realm of corporate espionage?
Experian and Lifelock, et al. seem to be benefiting quite largely from Equifax's misfortune.
You're confusing sea ice (floating on the sea surface, formed by cooling to the air and freezing oof seawater onto the bottom of the ice sheet) and glacier ice (formed by snowfall in the mountains, compressing under it's own weight and moving downhill.) The physics of the two are the same, but because of the different formation processes and locations, the implications are different.
Probably; yet the polynya is described as being in the Weddell Sea, so for the purpose of differentiating the ice's thickness, the comparison is not completely unreasonable.
The stuff Google showed off on October 4 was brazenly designed and strangely, invitingly touchable. These gadgets were soft, colorful... delightful? They looked human, but like something future humans had made; people who'd gotten righteously drunk with aliens.
Cautionary tale: if you get righteously drunk with aliens, you richly deserve the soft, colorful, delightful anal probe you will not remember completely, save for the faint reckoning that your drinking is perhaps getting out of hand.
You present an incredibly well reasoned argument, and if humans were logical on the order of the Vulcans, there would be no viable position against it.
Yet, there are people aplenty who will not ride the train, in the same fashion that they won't wait for appointment TV. It's either slightly inconvenient for them, or significantly beneath their imagined station in life.
The nascent technology of diver-less, electric autos is such that gains in efficiency are inevitable.
It also seems likely the technology will garner substantial government subsidies on the order of alternative energy generation, so the leaps in advancement will be measured in bounds.
Judges are an integral part of the very important checks and balances doctrine initially instituted by the founders of the Republic.
Since the most influential of them are appointed by the party in power at the moment, the process is subject to gaming; yet, the nature of the voting public is fickle, and when the ruling party begins to leave a foul taste in their mouths, the voters generally have dismissed the party in power in favor of the ephemeral change.
Though impartiality is a ruse, and the illusion of the change is little more than that, the balance of power between the right and left has kept the Republic safe.
They're onto me. Shite... What would our Fearless Leader do with Puerto Rico in shambles, the Secretary of State calling him an effin' moron, and a tinpot dictator besting him in a game of one-upmanship?
"Oh yeah! Well, what about the NFL players kneeling during the anthem?"
Yessir. Lest we forget, the protections afforded citizens by the Bill of Rights are tested most severely when they protect the rights of the people you disagree with.
I see the President for what I believe he is, a charlatan with a magician's gift for distraction, but I would never condone the outing of his supporters' personal information in a warrant-less search.
Perhaps the author would have been better served to use a more ubiquitous USian measurement of area, such as Olympic-sized swimming pools or football fields.
I didn't realise that Obama had been a Major. When was that? Anyway, as long as they don't repeal the President Obama-era emission rules we should be fine.
I suspect his work toward reducing greenhouse emissions generated a performance-driven promotion to Major Obvious.
Yes, let's all debate the petty partisan differences of opinions while the World implodes.
Clearly, my parents were wrong about comic books... we could've all learned something from the debate between scientists and politicians on the Planet Krypton.
Racism boils down to casting a discriminating eye toward those who are different.
One theory gaining ground in anthropology: Neanderthals lost out to Homo erectus peoples, despite their larger brains and greater physical strength, precisely because of the innate, savage tendency of Homo erectus to kill those who were different.
The one obvious downside of an interracial breeding is the inherent difficulty for the offspring, who, almost without exception, has a more difficult upbringing than a child bearing the physical traits in vogue at the time of the child's birth.
Disadvantage is a double-edged sword; though it may cull out the weaker offspring and their chances of passing on their genetic line, the harsher conditions are also quite likely to temper the stronger crossbreeds who survive, giving them a breeding advantage.
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Now what about PED users?
We have it on good authority that ChrisRedfield88 and Doomslaya were wreaking havoc while under the influence of Redbull & Mountain Dew.
A fellow had just been hired as the new CEO of a large high tech corporation. The CEO who was stepping down met with him privately and presented him with three numbered envelopes. "Open these if you run up against a problem you don't think you can solve," he said. Well, things went along pretty smoothly, but six months later, sales took a downturn and he was really catching a lot of heat. About at his wit's end, he remembered the envelopes. He went to his drawer and took out the first envelope. The message read, "Blame your predecessor."
The new CEO called a press conference and tactfully laid the blame at the feet of the previous CEO. Satisfied with his comments, the press -- and Wall Street - responded positively, sales began to pick up and the problem was soon behind him.
About a year later, the company was again experiencing a slight dip in sales, combined with serious product problems. Having learned from his previous experience, the CEO quickly opened the second envelope. The message read, "Reorganize." This he did, and the company quickly rebounded.
After several consecutive profitable quarters, the company once again fell on difficult times. The CEO went to his office, closed the door and opened the third envelope.
The message said, "Prepare three envelopes."
It's just a glitch in the simulation.
Technically, if you take a bus with friends from the USA down to a Tijuana bar, are yall getting drunk with aliens?
No, but the Mexicans are.
Equifax was careless with the information of hundreds of millions of people It's trebly sad they are in the personal information protection business, but as we've learned, pretty much everybody is seemingly careless with the information of others.
But. Malware is still being delivered on their site? I know that Einstein said only the universe and stupidity are infinite, and he's not sure about the universe, but isn't it plausible these breaches have entered the realm of corporate espionage?
Experian and Lifelock, et al. seem to be benefiting quite largely from Equifax's misfortune.
Yes. A startling departure from the cutting edge news source we've come to expect here at the Slashdot.
You're confusing sea ice (floating on the sea surface, formed by cooling to the air and freezing oof seawater onto the bottom of the ice sheet) and glacier ice (formed by snowfall in the mountains, compressing under it's own weight and moving downhill.) The physics of the two are the same, but because of the different formation processes and locations, the implications are different.
Probably; yet the polynya is described as being in the Weddell Sea, so for the purpose of differentiating the ice's thickness, the comparison is not completely unreasonable.
Manhattan, though, seems like a poor representation to multiply exponentially from, in the attempt to predict nationwide usage.
The stuff Google showed off on October 4 was brazenly designed and strangely, invitingly touchable. These gadgets were soft, colorful... delightful? They looked human, but like something future humans had made; people who'd gotten righteously drunk with aliens.
Cautionary tale: if you get righteously drunk with aliens, you richly deserve the soft, colorful, delightful anal probe you will not remember completely, save for the faint reckoning that your drinking is perhaps getting out of hand.
You present an incredibly well reasoned argument, and if humans were logical on the order of the Vulcans, there would be no viable position against it.
Yet, there are people aplenty who will not ride the train, in the same fashion that they won't wait for appointment TV. It's either slightly inconvenient for them, or significantly beneath their imagined station in life.
The nascent technology of diver-less, electric autos is such that gains in efficiency are inevitable.
It also seems likely the technology will garner substantial government subsidies on the order of alternative energy generation, so the leaps in advancement will be measured in bounds.
Since the most influential of them are appointed by the party in power at the moment, the process is subject to gaming; yet, the nature of the voting public is fickle, and when the ruling party begins to leave a foul taste in their mouths, the voters generally have dismissed the party in power in favor of the ephemeral change.
Though impartiality is a ruse, and the illusion of the change is little more than that, the balance of power between the right and left has kept the Republic safe.
They're onto me. Shite... What would our Fearless Leader do with Puerto Rico in shambles, the Secretary of State calling him an effin' moron, and a tinpot dictator besting him in a game of one-upmanship?
"Oh yeah! Well, what about the NFL players kneeling during the anthem?"
Yessir. Lest we forget, the protections afforded citizens by the Bill of Rights are tested most severely when they protect the rights of the people you disagree with.
I see the President for what I believe he is, a charlatan with a magician's gift for distraction, but I would never condone the outing of his supporters' personal information in a warrant-less search.
Hmmm... you nailed publicly, but whiffed on accessible... Your no pure-blooded grammar Nazi, are you laddie?
I had not considered the regional angle.
Perhaps the author would have been better served to use a more ubiquitous USian measurement of area, such as Olympic-sized swimming pools or football fields.
The Arctic Sea's ice thickness is likely just a few meters, even though the inland ice sheet can be thousands of meters thick.
Don't be silly. It's not completely unreasonable that one of the research scientists posted this story to tap the unparalleled hive mind at /..
"...gigantic, mysterious hole" is as large as Lake Superior or the state of Maine.
Clearly, the real story here is that Lake Superior and the State of Maine are interchangeable units of measuring area. Who Knew?
I didn't realise that Obama had been a Major. When was that? Anyway, as long as they don't repeal the President Obama-era emission rules we should be fine.
I suspect his work toward reducing greenhouse emissions generated a performance-driven promotion to Major Obvious.
Clearly, my parents were wrong about comic books... we could've all learned something from the debate between scientists and politicians on the Planet Krypton.
One theory gaining ground in anthropology: Neanderthals lost out to Homo erectus peoples, despite their larger brains and greater physical strength, precisely because of the innate, savage tendency of Homo erectus to kill those who were different.
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The one obvious downside of an interracial breeding is the inherent difficulty for the offspring, who, almost without exception, has a more difficult upbringing than a child bearing the physical traits in vogue at the time of the child's birth.
Disadvantage is a double-edged sword; though it may cull out the weaker offspring and their chances of passing on their genetic line, the harsher conditions are also quite likely to temper the stronger crossbreeds who survive, giving them a breeding advantage.
The quality formerly known as "Belief that you're God's gift" to posting is not so uncommon on the green line site.
Shit, two really old Primes.