No, I yelled "NOAA to save the motherfuckin' day, yeah!"
Did you even read the link? Do you even understand the issues?
Yes Mr. Mayor, I read the link, and yes, I understand the issues. Mismanagement and apathy on behalf of city government caused a huge clusterfuck in a major metropolitan city. The mayor is blaming the state, the governor is blaming the NWS, nobody is willing to say they fucked up. It was not a forecasting error. The mayor and governor were both chillin', eating, and accepting awards while this shit was bearing down.
When you don't have the equipment to handle a winter weather event, you beg/borrow/steal from neighboring municipalities or even farther out, from nearby states. I'm in Tennessee, and when we get our annual ice storms, the cities and state are out there salting. If the local utility can't cope, there are people from Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, and Mississippi all coming in to help get the power back on.
NOAA/NWS may be underfunded, but they do an absolutely outstanding job. They are the only government agency that I trust, implicitly, up to and including with my life (I live in "tornado alley"). NOAA/NWS has no political bent, they use real science to make increasingly more accurate forecasts, and better products come out almost every year. Huge portions of the US population and economy rely upon NOAA/NWS, not the least of which being every single person in an aircraft at any given time, from airline transport pilot all the way down to cropdusters - and of course the passengers.
You can insult my government all day, every day; I do it too. But don't question the ability of NOAA/NWS.
Like you, I'm still not seeing the security benefit. If I've encoded someone else's card data onto my Radisson hotel key from last year, all I need to do is remember what the last 4 digits of my victim's card are, and I'm good? Oh yeah, that's foolproof. Have the cashier swipe the card instead and they can look at whatever they want to.
The only thing Best Buy ever asked me for at checkout was my ZIP code, and I gave a bogus answer even to that, just on principle. They don't need my ZIP, Radio Shack doesn't need my address, etc. I just want to buy $X and get the fuck out.
Even if it was GPL... Slashdot is a web application and doesn't redistribute code, yes? How does the GPL help?
Slashcode, the web application that runs Slashdot, is GPL'd and for awhile there were a lot of other websites running their own tweaked versions. There was a Japanese version, there was MacSlash, etc. You can still download Slashcode, install it on your own web server, and run your own discussion site with it.
I don't know if there are any sites still using the code, seeing as how it hasn't been updated in ages, and much newer options are available - for example Reddit's code is open source and you could use that instead.
Last 4 are not a secret. Best buy and lots of box retailers now actually ask you for it when you check out. You have to broadcast it in the air in front of everyone in line.
Wait, what? Admittedly I don't shop at Best Buy anymore, but if I'm checking out and I swipe my credit card, why would they ask for the last 4 digits? I just gave the whole number to the card reader.
The problem is that such granular permissions are too complex for most users to understand. It's not such a good security model. Think about how endless permission messages on Vista lead to people blindly clicking "OK" all the time. Think about how parents were quickly trained by their kids to enter their PIN every time the iPad required it to play some game.
Granular permissions are too complex because the requests are too fucking generic, and I say this as both a user and a developer. There are ways to quickly tell the user what's going on, give a bit more information to users who actually might care, and still maintain ease of use.
BeerFart wants to access text messages
[OK | Don't Install]
BeerFart wants to access your current location
[OK | Don't Install]
Of course anyone who wants to install BeerFart will click right through those dialogs. What about a more consumer-friendly alternative?
BeerFart wants to access every text you send and get, even private ones! They may save them forever or sell them to other companies.
[OK | Only TXTs from BeerFart | Don't Install]
BeerFart wants to know your current location anytime your phone is on. They may store that forever or sell it to other companies!
[OK | Only When Running BeerFart | Don't Install]
Maybe folks would think twice - or at least once and a half - before allowing everything. And there should still be a way for proper apps to run even if you deny some of those permissions. The problem is that the manufacturers want carriers to sell the devices, the carriers don't want support calls, and the app stores want to take their cut on every last piece of shit that any user can be convinced to buy or use.
Granular permissions can be done in a user-friendly manner. Unfortunately, that reduces the almighty profit.
That's what I was thinking. Either that, or sales are down so much thanks to the spying debacle that they're having to push hard for new revenue, even if the new equipment doesn't/won't carry backdoors. 2013 was looking like a banner year for Cisco, up until August; they're almost back to 2012 share price now.
actually testing your junk before releasing updates
Everything Google puts out is "beta." Forever. They used to actually label it as such; this isn't the case anymore but I'm not sure that Google has ever released a product that they considered production-ready.
The choice isn't between AMC and a competitor, in many markets, but often between AMC and not going to the movies.
Or waiting until it comes around On Demand, which can take many months after the film has left theaters and will still cost you around $8. Or buying it on DVD, which for some reason incurs an even longer wait from the On Demand presentations via cable and is even more expensive, around $15. Because those little plastic discs are such wow.
And these morons wonder why so many people choose to download content...
Could someone contribute an executive summary? All I can gather is that Yale had its own "ratemyprofessor" implementation, it wasn't very accurate, and some students made a better one which was then blocked by Yale's network. Surely it's not really that simple? Where is Yale's statement on all of this as I'd love to know the rationale for blocking the site.
Something tells me that the inmate gasping and convulsing doesn't exactly make for an easy scene to watch, either.
It sure creates one hell of a revenge-spectacle for the victims' families to watch, though. That's what the death penalty is about and there's really no sense attempting to convince me otherwise.
For what it's worth, I was watching CNN coverage last night (Piers Morgan, Anderson Cooper) and both had their share of panelists who were also saying there is no smoking gun. I haven't had time yet to look at today's developments, but I haven't seen anything that directly implicates Governor Christie. He just comes out looking incompetent for not knowing what his top aides were up to, which isn't much better.
A few months back, I received an email on my Gmail from the agent of an NFL player. The agent was apparently looking to help his client negotiate a contract, and conveniently attached a draft of said contract. I went and updated the NFL player's Wikipedia entry stating that he was going into free agency and looking for a gig. Hey, I could have done a lot worse, like placing bets using inside info or something.
Many, many years ago, I had the screen name "File" on AOL. There was some sort of ancient productivity suite (maybe Notes, or 123, or something) where you would cc a message to "file" in order to keep a local copy, and many AOL users presumed their email service worked the same way. Oh sweet Christ, the things that landed in my inbox there over the years...
Guess what? When Congress passes a law saying you have to pre-pay pension funds for employees who haven't even been born yet, you're going to lose money.
I'm quite sure CIA knows exactly where Snowden is; they probably know the last time he took a shit, and from that even how much pork was in his last bowl of shchi. That said, there is absolutely zero possibility of the US touching him while he's in Russia.
Oh wait, if anyone edited this shit instead of piling more images and whatever else Dice's marketing team deems "awesome and revolutionary to leverage for Slashdot," this might be a reputable god-damned tech news site anymore.
What does the public know about Obama? Not much. All his supposed friends he describes in his book turned out to be fictitious, nobody has ever seen him in the universities he supposedly went, nobody knows why he used two different social security numbers, etc.
Are you high? I may regret voting for the man a second time, but let's try to keep the criticism somewhere within the stratosphere, really.
Slashdot Mirror
Did you yell "America Fuck Yeah!" after that too?
No, I yelled "NOAA to save the motherfuckin' day, yeah!"
Did you even read the link? Do you even understand the issues?
Yes Mr. Mayor, I read the link, and yes, I understand the issues. Mismanagement and apathy on behalf of city government caused a huge clusterfuck in a major metropolitan city. The mayor is blaming the state, the governor is blaming the NWS, nobody is willing to say they fucked up. It was not a forecasting error. The mayor and governor were both chillin', eating, and accepting awards while this shit was bearing down.
When you don't have the equipment to handle a winter weather event, you beg/borrow/steal from neighboring municipalities or even farther out, from nearby states. I'm in Tennessee, and when we get our annual ice storms, the cities and state are out there salting. If the local utility can't cope, there are people from Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, and Mississippi all coming in to help get the power back on.
NOAA/NWS may be underfunded, but they do an absolutely outstanding job. They are the only government agency that I trust, implicitly, up to and including with my life (I live in "tornado alley"). NOAA/NWS has no political bent, they use real science to make increasingly more accurate forecasts, and better products come out almost every year. Huge portions of the US population and economy rely upon NOAA/NWS, not the least of which being every single person in an aircraft at any given time, from airline transport pilot all the way down to cropdusters - and of course the passengers.
You can insult my government all day, every day; I do it too. But don't question the ability of NOAA/NWS.
Like you, I'm still not seeing the security benefit. If I've encoded someone else's card data onto my Radisson hotel key from last year, all I need to do is remember what the last 4 digits of my victim's card are, and I'm good? Oh yeah, that's foolproof. Have the cashier swipe the card instead and they can look at whatever they want to.
The only thing Best Buy ever asked me for at checkout was my ZIP code, and I gave a bogus answer even to that, just on principle. They don't need my ZIP, Radio Shack doesn't need my address, etc. I just want to buy $X and get the fuck out.
Even if it was GPL ... Slashdot is a web application and doesn't redistribute code, yes? How does the GPL help?
Slashcode, the web application that runs Slashdot, is GPL'd and for awhile there were a lot of other websites running their own tweaked versions. There was a Japanese version, there was MacSlash, etc. You can still download Slashcode, install it on your own web server, and run your own discussion site with it.
I don't know if there are any sites still using the code, seeing as how it hasn't been updated in ages, and much newer options are available - for example Reddit's code is open source and you could use that instead.
It was hard to browse at -1 for awhile without seeing dozens upon dozens of
CRUISIN' FOR PRETEENS IN MY SLASHDOT PT CRUISER!
I thought I'd forgotten that particular troll.
Last 4 are not a secret. Best buy and lots of box retailers now actually ask you for it when you check out. You have to broadcast it in the air in front of everyone in line.
Wait, what? Admittedly I don't shop at Best Buy anymore, but if I'm checking out and I swipe my credit card, why would they ask for the last 4 digits? I just gave the whole number to the card reader.
The problem is that such granular permissions are too complex for most users to understand. It's not such a good security model. Think about how endless permission messages on Vista lead to people blindly clicking "OK" all the time. Think about how parents were quickly trained by their kids to enter their PIN every time the iPad required it to play some game.
Granular permissions are too complex because the requests are too fucking generic, and I say this as both a user and a developer. There are ways to quickly tell the user what's going on, give a bit more information to users who actually might care, and still maintain ease of use.
BeerFart wants to access text messages
[OK | Don't Install]
BeerFart wants to access your current location
[OK | Don't Install]
Of course anyone who wants to install BeerFart will click right through those dialogs. What about a more consumer-friendly alternative?
BeerFart wants to access every text you send and get, even private ones!
They may save them forever or sell them to other companies.
[OK | Only TXTs from BeerFart | Don't Install]
BeerFart wants to know your current location anytime your phone is on.
They may store that forever or sell it to other companies!
[OK | Only When Running BeerFart | Don't Install]
Maybe folks would think twice - or at least once and a half - before allowing everything. And there should still be a way for proper apps to run even if you deny some of those permissions. The problem is that the manufacturers want carriers to sell the devices, the carriers don't want support calls, and the app stores want to take their cut on every last piece of shit that any user can be convinced to buy or use.
Granular permissions can be done in a user-friendly manner. Unfortunately, that reduces the almighty profit.
That's what I was thinking. Either that, or sales are down so much thanks to the spying debacle that they're having to push hard for new revenue, even if the new equipment doesn't/won't carry backdoors. 2013 was looking like a banner year for Cisco, up until August; they're almost back to 2012 share price now.
actually testing your junk before releasing updates
Everything Google puts out is "beta." Forever. They used to actually label it as such; this isn't the case anymore but I'm not sure that Google has ever released a product that they considered production-ready.
The choice isn't between AMC and a competitor, in many markets, but often between AMC and not going to the movies.
Or waiting until it comes around On Demand, which can take many months after the film has left theaters and will still cost you around $8. Or buying it on DVD, which for some reason incurs an even longer wait from the On Demand presentations via cable and is even more expensive, around $15. Because those little plastic discs are such wow.
And these morons wonder why so many people choose to download content...
Could someone contribute an executive summary? All I can gather is that Yale had its own "ratemyprofessor" implementation, it wasn't very accurate, and some students made a better one which was then blocked by Yale's network. Surely it's not really that simple? Where is Yale's statement on all of this as I'd love to know the rationale for blocking the site.
We have [section sign] where ~ should be. That's a big clue right there who's responsible for this shit.
The fucking lawyers?
Something tells me that the inmate gasping and convulsing doesn't exactly make for an easy scene to watch, either.
It sure creates one hell of a revenge-spectacle for the victims' families to watch, though. That's what the death penalty is about and there's really no sense attempting to convince me otherwise.
It's important to ask, if the Verizon Order was in the rubber stamp pile -- what the hell was in those 11 that got rejected?
Probably various attempts to wiretap the FISC judges themselves.
Oh, I get it. They're blue. That's totally non-obvious.
For what it's worth, I was watching CNN coverage last night (Piers Morgan, Anderson Cooper) and both had their share of panelists who were also saying there is no smoking gun. I haven't had time yet to look at today's developments, but I haven't seen anything that directly implicates Governor Christie. He just comes out looking incompetent for not knowing what his top aides were up to, which isn't much better.
Need to update firmware? Have the IT guy at each store do it manually.
Ha, ha, ha. An IT guy for each store? Where is the CEO's bonus supposed to come from if they're spending money on employees like that?
A few months back, I received an email on my Gmail from the agent of an NFL player. The agent was apparently looking to help his client negotiate a contract, and conveniently attached a draft of said contract. I went and updated the NFL player's Wikipedia entry stating that he was going into free agency and looking for a gig. Hey, I could have done a lot worse, like placing bets using inside info or something.
Many, many years ago, I had the screen name "File" on AOL. There was some sort of ancient productivity suite (maybe Notes, or 123, or something) where you would cc a message to "file" in order to keep a local copy, and many AOL users presumed their email service worked the same way. Oh sweet Christ, the things that landed in my inbox there over the years...
UPSS? $15.9 BILLION loss last year...
Guess what? When Congress passes a law saying you have to pre-pay pension funds for employees who haven't even been born yet, you're going to lose money.
I'm quite sure CIA knows exactly where Snowden is; they probably know the last time he took a shit, and from that even how much pork was in his last bowl of shchi. That said, there is absolutely zero possibility of the US touching him while he's in Russia.
where's the slashcoin?
I think they're called dice instead of coin, but it's a gamble either way.
Those look sorta young. Now Slashdot will be banned in the UK and Australia!
Oh wait, if anyone edited this shit instead of piling more images and whatever else Dice's marketing team deems "awesome and revolutionary to leverage for Slashdot," this might be a reputable god-damned tech news site anymore.
What does the public know about Obama? Not much. All his supposed friends he describes in his book turned out to be fictitious, nobody has ever seen him in the universities he supposedly went, nobody knows why he used two different social security numbers, etc.
Are you high? I may regret voting for the man a second time, but let's try to keep the criticism somewhere within the stratosphere, really.
If the NSA pays folks to play video games, they will most certainly also pay folks to troll Slashdot.
Cold comments such as this serve only to open a fjord amongst the technocrats around here.