One or three guys came up with the "hack", fired it up, filled their 15 gallon tanks for free, then couldn't figure out how to turn the hack off. People kept coming in, filling their tanks, either not realizing nor not caring the gas was free. Some of them called their buddies, who came and filled up cuz it was free.
Meanwhile the dudes that did the "hack" are either laughing their asses off that they got $50 of gas for free, freaking out because if everyone gets free gas someone will notice, or they were script kiddies $Someone was using as a test case for an attack.
Gave up on it a good 30 years or so ago, when templates were introduced. Suddenly no 2 compilers gave the same results. Readability? It was as bad as perl. WORA. Write Once, Run Away.
Java gets a lot of crap but damn it, C++ drives me up a wall.
Companies that take dedicated recycling have trouble staying afloat. You think paying people minimum wage to distinguish between an "oooo, $0.10 glass bottle" vs "ooo, $0.20 in that plastic thing" in a typical garbage stream is really gonna get you more plastic things?
I worked for $BigNameChipCo some 10-15 years ago. Back then there were 4 foundries: a, b, c, and Intel. Chip version A from foundry A was considered a completely separate beast from same chip from foundry B.
My company cross-licensed stuff from ARM, but the resulting chips came from foundry's A, B, or C. None of those foundries were named Samsung, ARM, nor Intel.
Having Samsung and ARM join up to make faster clock speeds just don't work. Neither Samsung nor ARM are in the business of cranking up clock speeds.
I just got rid of my cable a couple weeks ago. Disconnecting everything I ran across 1 plug I remember hating. It plugged in such that it took up 4 plugs. You couldn't put it at the end because one way it covered the power switch and every breath of air turned the entire power strip off. You couldn't hang it off the other end because it had polarized plugs and only went 1 way.
I had an entire power strip dedicated to 1 fricken power brick.
On the other hand, I had jury duty a few years back. I brought my laptop, it's charger, and a power strip. All power outlets were being used so I asked some woman if I could unplug her phone and plug in my power strip. She was fine with it. Me and my power strip were very popular that day, people were bummed when I got released, took my power strip, and went home.
Back in the 80s he proposed that drivers get a dart a month. You can shoot that dart at an asshole driver. If a driver collects 3 or more darts they lose driving privileges for a month.
It should be illegal for cites and states to offer special advantages to anyone. You make a level playing field. Companies want to play in your sandbox, that's all good. Companies decide your sandbox has the wrong kind of sand and go elsewhere, that's good. Don't like it? Change the rules for everyone, not just $megaCorp. Do it in open sunlight, not in the dead of night with special rules that only apply to $megaCorp tomorrow.
You've got a mom and pop store run by the grandkids of the founders. They play by a set of rules. Some $megaCorp comes in, they want tax breaks that apply only to them. How is that fair to mom&pop?
You might be able to negotiate with mom&pop. They probably have an advantage as they know the market and their customers, where you know how to raise money and get elected. Now it's time to negotiate with $megaCorp. You think that's a level playing field? You're a hayseed from a community college going against someone who not only went to an elite university, but ended up graduating in the upper 50% of their class. You spend your time getting re-elected. They spend their time figuring out tax laws, local laws, and various jurisdictions. You don't stand a fucking chance.
The older I get the more fucked up things seem as I figure things out. The more fucked up things are the more I drink. Unless I can R&R my liver easily I can see my "best by" date.
Big thing today is the closing of the Toys-R-Us stores. Every talking head I heard said e-commerce killed them. Nobody mentioned how Mitt Romney, by way of Bain, did a leveraged buyout, sucked out all the cash, loaded it up with debt, then sold it to suckers.
I don't remember the exact numbers, but it was something like they had $500 million cash, $300 million debt. Bain bought them, stripped them of the assets, then sold them with something like $100 million cash and $5 billion in debt.
There is no way a company can survive that, Amazon/Walmart/Target had nothing to do with it.
That was one of my usenet sigs back in the 80s. It went "I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers".
No, it wasn't original. I read it somewhere and stole it.
Don't forget that if you lose your internet for any reason you can't play any games.
I just dumped U-Verse. One thing I hated about it is if I lost my internet connection I couldn't watch shows on the DVR. Seemed completely stupid to me.
You've never had net neutrality. Do you have equal up and down bandwidth? Can you host a public-facing server at home under your ISP's TOS?
First off, that has nothing to do with net neutrality.
Second, you have x bandwidth. Some % will be for upload, some download. Me? 99% of my internet usage is download. I'm fine with my ISP dedicating 90% of my bandwidth to downloads. I have no desire to run a public-facing server at home, but if I did I could pay for it. I also have no desire to post as much commentary on/. as I read.
It would really suck to have my heavily used download bandwidth reallocated to seldom used uploads.
Wanna go to China? Don't care about the censorship? Have fun.
Wanna go to China and you're concerned about censorship? Oh, hey, this place I wanna go to lets me access CNN and FB, let's go!. How about "fuck no, you're giving money to a totalitarian government that is trying to get money from you".
30 years ago I was sysadmin for a network of maybe 20 Sun workstations. We got some new machines, naturally the boss got the first one. Found out about the mic and told the boss this might be a problem. He asked "why? It can be useful". I asked him to give me a minute, then call someone into his office and small talk for a minute. I went to my cube, logged into his machine, recorded him for a minute or so, then mailed him the audio file.
Spent the next couple hours opening up these brand new workstations and clipping a wire.
Why yes, I do have tape over my laptop camera. Why do you ask?
I don't recall making an opinion, I merely stated a fact. They're the ones taking kids away from parents. See? Nothing in there says I think that's a good or bad thing. It's called a fact, not an opinion. You might want to look in a dictionary to see the difference between the two.
And have the balls to use your name next time you spout bullshit.
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Why would anyone store their passwords in the cloud? Color me stupid, paranoid, whatever, I don't get it.
Keepass for the win,
One or three guys came up with the "hack", fired it up, filled their 15 gallon tanks for free, then couldn't figure out how to turn the hack off. People kept coming in, filling their tanks, either not realizing nor not caring the gas was free. Some of them called their buddies, who came and filled up cuz it was free.
Meanwhile the dudes that did the "hack" are either laughing their asses off that they got $50 of gas for free, freaking out because if everyone gets free gas someone will notice, or they were script kiddies $Someone was using as a test case for an attack.
Gave up on it a good 30 years or so ago, when templates were introduced. Suddenly no 2 compilers gave the same results. Readability? It was as bad as perl. WORA. Write Once, Run Away.
Java gets a lot of crap but damn it, C++ drives me up a wall.
Now I have the top 5 billionaires in the world pestering me to give them money.
FFS
Let my ramen noodles get soft before you expect me to invest like guys who have been doing this for 40+ years.
Not a Zuck fan, but on this issue he gets a pass from me.
I LIVE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. MY AIR CONDITIONER, WHICH I RUN 2-3 DAYS A YEAR IN AUGUST/SEPTEMBER, HAS BEEN ON HIGH FOR 2 DAYS NOW!
SPEAK UP, I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER MY FREEDUM AIR!!
Companies that take dedicated recycling have trouble staying afloat. You think paying people minimum wage to distinguish between an "oooo, $0.10 glass bottle" vs "ooo, $0.20 in that plastic thing" in a typical garbage stream is really gonna get you more plastic things?
Inevitable, from the Kardashian's to the color of your phone. This is how we've become as a culture.
I worked for $BigNameChipCo some 10-15 years ago. Back then there were 4 foundries: a, b, c, and Intel. Chip version A from foundry A was considered a completely separate beast from same chip from foundry B.
My company cross-licensed stuff from ARM, but the resulting chips came from foundry's A, B, or C. None of those foundries were named Samsung, ARM, nor Intel.
Having Samsung and ARM join up to make faster clock speeds just don't work. Neither Samsung nor ARM are in the business of cranking up clock speeds.
I just got rid of my cable a couple weeks ago. Disconnecting everything I ran across 1 plug I remember hating. It plugged in such that it took up 4 plugs. You couldn't put it at the end because one way it covered the power switch and every breath of air turned the entire power strip off. You couldn't hang it off the other end because it had polarized plugs and only went 1 way.
I had an entire power strip dedicated to 1 fricken power brick.
On the other hand, I had jury duty a few years back. I brought my laptop, it's charger, and a power strip. All power outlets were being used so I asked some woman if I could unplug her phone and plug in my power strip. She was fine with it. Me and my power strip were very popular that day, people were bummed when I got released, took my power strip, and went home.
All in all a fun idea. Infeasible but fun.
Larry Himmel was a comedian.
Back in the 80s he proposed that drivers get a dart a month. You can shoot that dart at an asshole driver. If a driver collects 3 or more darts they lose driving privileges for a month.
Simply brilliant
/ RIP funny man
I can finally talk about a movie with my friends the weekend it's released!
It should be illegal for cites and states to offer special advantages to anyone. You make a level playing field. Companies want to play in your sandbox, that's all good. Companies decide your sandbox has the wrong kind of sand and go elsewhere, that's good. Don't like it? Change the rules for everyone, not just $megaCorp. Do it in open sunlight, not in the dead of night with special rules that only apply to $megaCorp tomorrow.
You've got a mom and pop store run by the grandkids of the founders. They play by a set of rules. Some $megaCorp comes in, they want tax breaks that apply only to them. How is that fair to mom&pop?
You might be able to negotiate with mom&pop. They probably have an advantage as they know the market and their customers, where you know how to raise money and get elected. Now it's time to negotiate with $megaCorp. You think that's a level playing field? You're a hayseed from a community college going against someone who not only went to an elite university, but ended up graduating in the upper 50% of their class. You spend your time getting re-elected. They spend their time figuring out tax laws, local laws, and various jurisdictions. You don't stand a fucking chance.
The older I get the more fucked up things seem as I figure things out. The more fucked up things are the more I drink. Unless I can R&R my liver easily I can see my "best by" date.
Big thing today is the closing of the Toys-R-Us stores. Every talking head I heard said e-commerce killed them. Nobody mentioned how Mitt Romney, by way of Bain, did a leveraged buyout, sucked out all the cash, loaded it up with debt, then sold it to suckers.
I don't remember the exact numbers, but it was something like they had $500 million cash, $300 million debt. Bain bought them, stripped them of the assets, then sold them with something like $100 million cash and $5 billion in debt.
There is no way a company can survive that, Amazon/Walmart/Target had nothing to do with it.
Nonsense. Mount a couple of wind turbines on the wings and let them generate power for your SFO to Shanghai flight.
That was one of my usenet sigs back in the 80s. It went "I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers".
No, it wasn't original. I read it somewhere and stole it.
Don't forget that if you lose your internet for any reason you can't play any games.
I just dumped U-Verse. One thing I hated about it is if I lost my internet connection I couldn't watch shows on the DVR. Seemed completely stupid to me.
You've never had net neutrality. Do you have equal up and down bandwidth? Can you host a public-facing server at home under your ISP's TOS?
First off, that has nothing to do with net neutrality.
/. as I read.
Second, you have x bandwidth. Some % will be for upload, some download. Me? 99% of my internet usage is download. I'm fine with my ISP dedicating 90% of my bandwidth to downloads. I have no desire to run a public-facing server at home, but if I did I could pay for it. I also have no desire to post as much commentary on
It would really suck to have my heavily used download bandwidth reallocated to seldom used uploads.
No, I've been watching these bozos for 40+ years now. See also Net Neutrality, from just last week.
If you don't sign you don't get a card to review.
You mean if I sign this NDA they'll send me free cards so I can write (good things) about them? And keep the card?
Where do I sign up!
Otherwise who knows what kind of skullduggery the Sacto slimeballs will bury into their version.
Wanna go to China? Don't care about the censorship? Have fun.
Wanna go to China and you're concerned about censorship? Oh, hey, this place I wanna go to lets me access CNN and FB, let's go!. How about "fuck no, you're giving money to a totalitarian government that is trying to get money from you".
30 years ago I was sysadmin for a network of maybe 20 Sun workstations. We got some new machines, naturally the boss got the first one. Found out about the mic and told the boss this might be a problem. He asked "why? It can be useful". I asked him to give me a minute, then call someone into his office and small talk for a minute. I went to my cube, logged into his machine, recorded him for a minute or so, then mailed him the audio file.
Spent the next couple hours opening up these brand new workstations and clipping a wire.
Why yes, I do have tape over my laptop camera. Why do you ask?
I don't recall making an opinion, I merely stated a fact. They're the ones taking kids away from parents. See? Nothing in there says I think that's a good or bad thing. It's called a fact, not an opinion. You might want to look in a dictionary to see the difference between the two.
And have the balls to use your name next time you spout bullshit.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They're the ones taking the kids away from their moms.