You can see through walls in a 2 bedroom apartment, and can detect cellular issues in a human body. Yeah, could those iffy whatevers be, I dunno, a dirty shirt hanging off a door knob? Or my sleeping body on the other side of my 42" flatscreen?
One would hope Theranos would be a big enough warning signal, but evidently there are way too many stupid idiots with more money than I'll ever earn in a lifetime. Wish I was smart enough to swindle, err, get them to invest in my company. Which turns empty beer caps into gold. It's patented, but trust me it works. Send me money (I have enough beer caps hanging off my ceiling) and I'll make you rich. Rich I say, Rich beyond your wildest imagination! Just send money. But don't call it beer money.
Guess what, my finger is either at 0% or 100%. I try to modulate it with varying results, but after 6 years of PS3 gaming I'm still full on or full off 99% of the time. The other 1% is me feathering it.
My phone's touchscreen is a lot less discerning that my PS3 controller. And I still have a bitch of a time with games that provide, I dunno, a slider. I want 50%, I settle for 45%, but when my finger leaves the screen I'm at 60%. I can't imagine 3D will make this situation any better.
I don't have a single file in the cloud. Why? Because I know that storing stuff in the cloud means "storing it on someone else's computer". I have enough disk space, and I'm not a selfie-holic, that local storage isn't an issue. I burn stuff I care about to a thumb drive every month or so, and store important stuff to a NAS.
A fire at home could wipe out all my data (except maybe for the 64G thumb drive in my pocket), but anything short of that and I'm good. Then again, I sleep naked and if I had a fire I'd look for the cat first, then my pants. YMMV.
I'm sorry, I live in San Diego. I'll never forget that asshat youtuber who took his supercar the wrong way on the freeway and killed a mom and her 12 year old daughter.
When I hear "youtube star" I instantly think "douchbag", and so far they've only gone down from there.
Someone competent needs to start reviewing the merger plans of these companies...any company. It is, by default, anti-competitive behavior and suspect in a free market.
They have. They have been shouted down for at least since Clinton allowed the merger of 2 large oil companies. I remember that one because I used to think the D's would protect us from this shit, but Clinton took the donations and gave it a free pass.
/ Monica prolly had his cock in her mouth at the time // #metoo is about 30 years too late // fewer competition -> fewer consumer choices -> higher prices, no brainer
Give me an office with a door I can close, all by myself. Windows are nice, but a fucking door is a requirement.
Silly question. You pay me $170k/year + bennies. Why would you put me in a cube farm (open office? I'm gone) where you save $10k, and I lose half my productivity?
This is a great idea. The problem with it is the honest folks will look at the requirements and think "aww hell no", while those who are less than honest will be looking for loopholes and places to hide their income stream.
IMHO, I suspect this is half our problem with our "elected officials". The other half is, no matter how honest you are the system forces you to be corrupt. Where corrupt is defined by anything you or I would call corrupt, but congress sees as business as usual. See also congresscritters required to spend x hours per week at a call center drumming up money.
Then you have the absolute idiots like Duncan Hunter, who one day throws his wife under the bus, and the next day says "keep my wife out of it".
Some 20 years ago I was consulting for a company that needed $BigCompay approval to release software. While at $BigCompany I ran across an old boss, who flat out said "interview with us, you're in". I did.
One guy asked the standard string reversal question, in C. I put a pointer at each end of the string and walked them together. The guy was completely flummoxed, it was like he'd never encountered an answer he hadn't thought of. This was like the second question he asked me, we spent the rest of the interview me explaining my solution, he never understood it.
Guy turned out to be my sorta boss (matrix management means the guy you report to has no say in your performance review). He was a good guy, one of the early employees of the company, but as time went on I realized he did not understand C pointer arithmetic.
Mind you, this guy was smarter than me, and more driven. But he had never done assembly programming, hence he never really understood C pointers.
Me? Started with Z-80 assembly, moved to 8080, 8086, then 80386, which is when I learned C. Took to C pointers like a duck to water.
FWIW, the company I was consulting for never paid me for my last month (2 bi-weekly paychecks). Lots of phone calls, meetings, and fights. Huge reason I quit consulting and went back to working for companies.
to chasing CPUs and GPUs. Spending $2.5k every 3 years to buy a new PC was expected.
My laptop is, what, 5-6 years old? But still fully functional. My PS3 is gonna get replaced in a few months with a PS4, plus a bunch of used games from craigslist.
In other words, I'm old, I've played that game, I'll leave it to the more gullible younger folks to maintain that bleeding edge, then when it's more a rough, scratchy edge I'll look into buying.
Couldn't a bunch of AWS customers band together to hire a security researcher to check their permissions? Or even Amazon itself on behalf of their clients?
Granted, there are issues of what companies want public and what they want private. I'm guessing anything bigger than a gig might trigger a warning, as would anything with personal data.
Then again, I've never used the cloud for anything more than transferring stuff from my phone to my PC, or vice versa, and have never used AWS. So I have no real experience with the issues, but am willing to bloviate on them, just like Trump.
Since I retired I spend maybe 30 minutes a week in email (don't ask about texting).
Before I retired? Depends on what "dealing with email means". Does that count a 10 minute walk to another building to discuss something? Or just a quick "WTF? Come see me."?
A lot of huge customers, like cloud providers, are likely to upgrade their servers as soon as possible. Not seeing any sign they're moving to AMD, and AMD isn't 100% immune to these either.
So, has the expected surge in demand been factored into the price of the stock, or is now a good time to buy?
Conversely, there will soon be a bunch of Intel based servers flooding the surplus market. About the time I'll be looking to upgrade my desktop box. Can I pop a graphics card into one of these servers and make a nifty, cheap gaming box? I'm perfectly capable of moving a motherboard to a new chassis, I'm less capable at adding a PCI slot to an existing board.
As a home user do I care about these vulnerabilities? I do banking stuff once a month. I do Amazon maybe twice a year. I do/., fark, etc etc daily, but all my logins for those are snotnose with the same password. To be honest, send me an email with a funny joke and I'll tell you the password, I don't fricken care at this level of web activity.
I'm guessing they were surprised when the crypto-mining folks bought up all their cards, then looked into their APIs and what the crypto-minors needed, guessed at the market, and said "Nah. 1% does this shit, the rest of em want to run over pedestrians in some GTA variant".
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You can see through walls in a 2 bedroom apartment, and can detect cellular issues in a human body. Yeah, could those iffy whatevers be, I dunno, a dirty shirt hanging off a door knob? Or my sleeping body on the other side of my 42" flatscreen?
One would hope Theranos would be a big enough warning signal, but evidently there are way too many stupid idiots with more money than I'll ever earn in a lifetime. Wish I was smart enough to swindle, err, get them to invest in my company. Which turns empty beer caps into gold. It's patented, but trust me it works. Send me money (I have enough beer caps hanging off my ceiling) and I'll make you rich. Rich I say, Rich beyond your wildest imagination! Just send money. But don't call it beer money.
Guess what, my finger is either at 0% or 100%. I try to modulate it with varying results, but after 6 years of PS3 gaming I'm still full on or full off 99% of the time. The other 1% is me feathering it.
My phone's touchscreen is a lot less discerning that my PS3 controller. And I still have a bitch of a time with games that provide, I dunno, a slider. I want 50%, I settle for 45%, but when my finger leaves the screen I'm at 60%. I can't imagine 3D will make this situation any better.
I don't have a single file in the cloud. Why? Because I know that storing stuff in the cloud means "storing it on someone else's computer". I have enough disk space, and I'm not a selfie-holic, that local storage isn't an issue. I burn stuff I care about to a thumb drive every month or so, and store important stuff to a NAS. A fire at home could wipe out all my data (except maybe for the 64G thumb drive in my pocket), but anything short of that and I'm good. Then again, I sleep naked and if I had a fire I'd look for the cat first, then my pants. YMMV.
I'm sorry, I live in San Diego. I'll never forget that asshat youtuber who took his supercar the wrong way on the freeway and killed a mom and her 12 year old daughter.
When I hear "youtube star" I instantly think "douchbag", and so far they've only gone down from there.
Someone competent needs to start reviewing the merger plans of these companies...any company. It is, by default, anti-competitive behavior and suspect in a free market.
They have. They have been shouted down for at least since Clinton allowed the merger of 2 large oil companies. I remember that one because I used to think the D's would protect us from this shit, but Clinton took the donations and gave it a free pass.
// #metoo is about 30 years too late
// fewer competition -> fewer consumer choices -> higher prices, no brainer
/ Monica prolly had his cock in her mouth at the time
Why not? The theory is great. The implementation sucked.
$2B + the pentagon -> an RFP for F35 wing tanks,
$2B + DARPA -> useful stuff.
Forget how long I've been out of work, it's been 2-3 years now since I quit looking.
Back in '06 or so I overpaid for a PS3. Had I known that for only $100 more I could get a PS4 I'd have overpaid for that instead.
I'm savvy on tech terms, yet this is the first I've heard of OTT. One True Turd?
Give me an office with a door I can close, all by myself. Windows are nice, but a fucking door is a requirement.
Silly question. You pay me $170k/year + bennies. Why would you put me in a cube farm (open office? I'm gone) where you save $10k, and I lose half my productivity?
I'm guessing my lack of an MBA is showing here.
Clearchannel (oops, iheart) sprays shit over 4 octaves of spectrum, instead of just the FM band.
Forgive me for preferring my CDs and USB device over your "radio".
This is a great idea. The problem with it is the honest folks will look at the requirements and think "aww hell no", while those who are less than honest will be looking for loopholes and places to hide their income stream.
IMHO, I suspect this is half our problem with our "elected officials". The other half is, no matter how honest you are the system forces you to be corrupt. Where corrupt is defined by anything you or I would call corrupt, but congress sees as business as usual. See also congresscritters required to spend x hours per week at a call center drumming up money.
Then you have the absolute idiots like Duncan Hunter, who one day throws his wife under the bus, and the next day says "keep my wife out of it".
Some 20 years ago I was consulting for a company that needed $BigCompay approval to release software. While at $BigCompany I ran across an old boss, who flat out said "interview with us, you're in". I did.
One guy asked the standard string reversal question, in C. I put a pointer at each end of the string and walked them together. The guy was completely flummoxed, it was like he'd never encountered an answer he hadn't thought of. This was like the second question he asked me, we spent the rest of the interview me explaining my solution, he never understood it.
Guy turned out to be my sorta boss (matrix management means the guy you report to has no say in your performance review). He was a good guy, one of the early employees of the company, but as time went on I realized he did not understand C pointer arithmetic.
Mind you, this guy was smarter than me, and more driven. But he had never done assembly programming, hence he never really understood C pointers.
Me? Started with Z-80 assembly, moved to 8080, 8086, then 80386, which is when I learned C. Took to C pointers like a duck to water.
FWIW, the company I was consulting for never paid me for my last month (2 bi-weekly paychecks). Lots of phone calls, meetings, and fights. Huge reason I quit consulting and went back to working for companies.
to chasing CPUs and GPUs. Spending $2.5k every 3 years to buy a new PC was expected.
My laptop is, what, 5-6 years old? But still fully functional. My PS3 is gonna get replaced in a few months with a PS4, plus a bunch of used games from craigslist.
In other words, I'm old, I've played that game, I'll leave it to the more gullible younger folks to maintain that bleeding edge, then when it's more a rough, scratchy edge I'll look into buying.
Couldn't a bunch of AWS customers band together to hire a security researcher to check their permissions? Or even Amazon itself on behalf of their clients?
Granted, there are issues of what companies want public and what they want private. I'm guessing anything bigger than a gig might trigger a warning, as would anything with personal data.
Then again, I've never used the cloud for anything more than transferring stuff from my phone to my PC, or vice versa, and have never used AWS. So I have no real experience with the issues, but am willing to bloviate on them, just like Trump.
Can't we just tell the guy protons that their girl is bonding with another nucleus, and let nature sort it out?
drink a healthy amount of alcohol. My family may differ, but I let them see the sober side of me and they wise right up.
...how many ugly people got laid because of alcohol?
According to my sample size of 1, about 12. Not counting myself.
And how many babies got made because of alcohol?
According to my sample size of 1, about 0. That I know of. And I'd know, else I'd have changed states sometime in the past 55 years.
Since I retired I spend maybe 30 minutes a week in email (don't ask about texting).
Before I retired? Depends on what "dealing with email means". Does that count a 10 minute walk to another building to discuss something? Or just a quick "WTF? Come see me."?
yet have no clue what it means to me. Can one of you web monkeys tell us embedded systems types WTF all that means?
A lot of huge customers, like cloud providers, are likely to upgrade their servers as soon as possible. Not seeing any sign they're moving to AMD, and AMD isn't 100% immune to these either.
/., fark, etc etc daily, but all my logins for those are snotnose with the same password. To be honest, send me an email with a funny joke and I'll tell you the password, I don't fricken care at this level of web activity.
So, has the expected surge in demand been factored into the price of the stock, or is now a good time to buy?
Conversely, there will soon be a bunch of Intel based servers flooding the surplus market. About the time I'll be looking to upgrade my desktop box. Can I pop a graphics card into one of these servers and make a nifty, cheap gaming box? I'm perfectly capable of moving a motherboard to a new chassis, I'm less capable at adding a PCI slot to an existing board.
As a home user do I care about these vulnerabilities? I do banking stuff once a month. I do Amazon maybe twice a year. I do
I'm guessing they were surprised when the crypto-mining folks bought up all their cards, then looked into their APIs and what the crypto-minors needed, guessed at the market, and said "Nah. 1% does this shit, the rest of em want to run over pedestrians in some GTA variant".
Why? Let the dust settle, then you have a 10/90 chance of seeing who benefits from your data, and you can make an (un)informed opinion.
I've already cut the cable, replacing it with a Pi 3B+ with Plex via Roku. I need to google kodi to see how to get it running on my system.