Indeed. And while they're at it, have them rewrite their websites to take advantage of this year's secure web programming language -> PHP. Then have them rewrite their apps in C or C++, for speed / security reasons.
See, I've been charting cloud outages. If they push everything onto the cloud, no matter what the cloud operator tells them about 99.99999% up-time, they'll get hit, and will have downsized / pissed off their home IT to the point that nothing will ever work right again.
And I was thinking that the triumvirate of money, stupidity, and law had decided to give it a miss after the ACTA / PIPA / SOPA debacle.
Still, it's nice to know that I have choices. Not ISPs, they seem eager to place themselves into the cross-hairs of 'not a common carrier' (good luck with that), but choices of which countries I live in. I swear, it's like that scene in the Simpsons where Principal Skinner is explaining to Lisa why they've been having so much 'magazine time.'
Which reminds me. Has anyone else noticed the price for fiber optic cables (outdoor) are extremely low these days? They can carry a signal for a mile without a repeater.
Nonsense. If past civilizations are anything to go by, the records of the various laws, religions, judgements, rulers, and wars will survive.
Think Egyptians. Think Hebrews. Think Babylonians. What of them has survived for thousands of year? Some architecture and various records. But those records...are probably incomplete. They don't give us much information about what jokes were popular among the Egyptians, what dishes were considered commonplace but spectacular among the Babylonians, and of the Hebrews...well...they know what they're missing.
Does no one think that the cultures listed here didn't evolve from year to year? Does anyone think something like fashion, the simple style of clothes, remained the same for hundreds of years?
Nonsense. Reddit has been enjoyable, although after Digg crashed, the signal to noise ratio has gotten worse; and the number of reposts lately has been killing me.
Still, the forums work, and they have an edit feature that works.
Because it's difficult to place bugs in the Source code that won't be discovered during quality testing (laugh with me, but yes, some companies do do it) or by your fellow developers.
How many need it? Submit a patch that fixes a known issue, and quietly creates a new one. Who is going to know, off-hand, that the code causes a hardware glitch at regular intervals on Intel / AMD processors that causes the kernel to check a memory location and execute any code found there?
It's not like someone is going to submit a patch that looks like "LOL. if(username == "w00t!") { privilegeescalationcode(); fork(); } "; they aren't even going to do "code that patches something(); code for a completely unrelated area that introduces a backdoor()"; they're going to introduce some code that fixes a known problem that also introduces privilege escalation if you had access to the UV mask at the foundries, and traced the pathways manually to find a bug that even Intel / AMD are unaware of; remember, plausible deniability is where it's at. Hands up the number of people who knew about the hidden debug mode found in AMD processors, and reported on/. a while back?
Look around you. It's election year; many of you have been here before; if it's your first time voting, welcome. You are dissatisfied with the progress that has been made. You have been all your life.
You're a rational person.
This election is about the economy.
Of the candidates being offered to you, which one fills you with confidence?
Which one of them will give you a job?
Which one of them will give you a raise?
If they are not elected, which one will still give you a job?
If they are not elected, which one will still give you a raise?
Which one of them will take a bullet for you?
Which one of them will rush to your hospital bed when tragedy befalls?
Which one of them will lay down their life for their brother, alone, in the dark, where no one will ever know?
Aux armes, citoyens...
Tremblez, tyrans et vous perfides L'opprobre de tous les partis, Tremblez ! vos projets parricides Vont enfin recevoir leurs prix ! (bis) Tout est soldat pour vous combattre, S'ils tombent, nos jeunes héros, La terre en produit de nouveaux, Contre vous tout prêts à se battre !
What API? It's self-modifying software / hardware that many societies are so fed up with, they try running a virtual machine on top that does what they want it to do. That's what 12+ years of education is about, paring you down to the least common denominator, until you match a wine-drinker's normal model.
Lower / middle / high school -> punishment before the Almighty hierarchy depending on how well you conform to your peer's standards. College / real life -> working hard at a job to earn money so you can try to retrieve the relative peace of mind you once had when people didn't expect anything of you. When you're younger, you try to grow up, to get at those privileges denied to you by your seniors, when you're older, you try to stay the same age. And when you're really old, you look forward to death as some form of rest.
Someone, somewhere, thought that if you're borderline sentient, you wouldn't be able to be unhappy, or that you'd be so busy with trivial problems that you wouldn't get bored enough to die. Hence schools belt out kids, year after year, that appear to be successively less knowledgeable, in pursuit of some golden "Ignorance is bliss." Well, it's not. However, there are things we can do, somewhat independent of intelligence, that we can enjoy until we discover sentient life somewhere else in the universe / multiverse / whatever. My personal favorite, of course, is watching anime and reading manga, which as I am terrible at foreign languages, should keep me preoccupied with a pleasantly futile task until sometime after the last star cools. Pick a task you're not particularly good at, and stick with it; for some of us, this will be rising at an early hour, for others, this will be evolving / designing cats that yodel (going to need a Bass, a Soprano, a Falsetto...and since they're cats, getting them to do something as a group is the futile task).
Hmm. Nitroglycerin pills with a stabilizer...that might work. 30 count. Just add heat.
However, we are dancing around the real issue here. None of us are particularly suicidal (with the exception of those people trying to earn a living doing OSS support), and outside of the Linux / Windows / Mac holy wars, none of us are homicidal. Life may not be what we were promised, but it hasn't yet, hit the level where people with the patience of the Buddha (have you done tech support? have you recompiled the linux kernel over a two day period? have you maintained your composure while submitting an untested fix for a web application on a live server while a client was watching?) are taking up arms in protest. I don't know if that's a good thing (relativity peaceful people), or a challenge (when the time does come, we're going to play life on "Nightmare" mode; more enemies than ammunition, bring a chainsaw / crow-bar / axe / sword / Duke's mighty foot).
Indeed. Why have a mole try to alter the code, and run the risk of being discovered, when you have a copy of the source, and can find existing bugs to use?
Hmm. Perhaps they should bribe them with a few premium channels; that may get them off the Viacom channels permanently (Hmm. No MTV wannabe starlets...but we can watch Game of Thrones until we're blind..). Would have hate written all over it.
And the thing is, it might work. DirecTV probably has healthy enough profit margins on their regular packages to give away a few premium channels for 'free.' And once they get used to having filet mignon, they may not be in such a rush to go back to hamburger. Convert enough customers, combined with the power of positive press (DirecTV giving away premium channels with a basic subscription), and Viacom will feel it. Not too many people who would go back to regular FM radio if they could get satellite radio for free.
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Indeed. And while they're at it, have them rewrite their websites to take advantage of this year's secure web programming language -> PHP. Then have them rewrite their apps in C or C++, for speed / security reasons.
Actually, I like the idea.
See, I've been charting cloud outages. If they push everything onto the cloud, no matter what the cloud operator tells them about 99.99999% up-time, they'll get hit, and will have downsized / pissed off their home IT to the point that nothing will ever work right again.
Hmm. I thought they did that for liability purposes.
Rich person accidentally hits someone, press goes nuts. Chauffeur hits someone, press is silent.
And I was thinking that the triumvirate of money, stupidity, and law had decided to give it a miss after the ACTA / PIPA / SOPA debacle.
Still, it's nice to know that I have choices. Not ISPs, they seem eager to place themselves into the cross-hairs of 'not a common carrier' (good luck with that), but choices of which countries I live in. I swear, it's like that scene in the Simpsons where Principal Skinner is explaining to Lisa why they've been having so much 'magazine time.'
And, just out of curiosity, how many of them have ever considered voting third-party?
Exactly.
Made up of people whose objectivity can be measured by the number of fraudulent lawsuits they've filed, then quickly withdrawn.
DoJ, get off your fat ass, and spank these guys!
Which reminds me. Has anyone else noticed the price for fiber optic cables (outdoor) are extremely low these days? They can carry a signal for a mile without a repeater.
Over the hill, and through the woods...
Nonsense. If past civilizations are anything to go by, the records of the various laws, religions, judgements, rulers, and wars will survive.
Think Egyptians. Think Hebrews. Think Babylonians. What of them has survived for thousands of year? Some architecture and various records. But those records...are probably incomplete. They don't give us much information about what jokes were popular among the Egyptians, what dishes were considered commonplace but spectacular among the Babylonians, and of the Hebrews...well...they know what they're missing.
Does no one think that the cultures listed here didn't evolve from year to year? Does anyone think something like fashion, the simple style of clothes, remained the same for hundreds of years?
Nonsense. Reddit has been enjoyable, although after Digg crashed, the signal to noise ratio has gotten worse; and the number of reposts lately has been killing me.
Still, the forums work, and they have an edit feature that works.
Red Hat, Suse, Gentoo, or Ubuntu?
Because it's difficult to place bugs in the Source code that won't be discovered during quality testing (laugh with me, but yes, some companies do do it) or by your fellow developers.
How many need it? Submit a patch that fixes a known issue, and quietly creates a new one. Who is going to know, off-hand, that the code causes a hardware glitch at regular intervals on Intel / AMD processors that causes the kernel to check a memory location and execute any code found there?
It's not like someone is going to submit a patch that looks like "LOL. if(username == "w00t!") { privilegeescalationcode(); fork(); } "; they aren't even going to do "code that patches something(); code for a completely unrelated area that introduces a backdoor()"; they're going to introduce some code that fixes a known problem that also introduces privilege escalation if you had access to the UV mask at the foundries, and traced the pathways manually to find a bug that even Intel / AMD are unaware of; remember, plausible deniability is where it's at. Hands up the number of people who knew about the hidden debug mode found in AMD processors, and reported on /. a while back?
I know, it's crazy. The Gates's ability to avoid corruption, with that much power, is a skill I am envious of.
It's like putting a man on the moon. Our kids are going to think it's all fake.
And yet we have so many Walmart greeters. I take it that fact doesn't bother you.
Now tell me that they've became Walmart greeters because they didn't learn as they were supposed to in school. Tell me it's their fault. Do it.
Hush. They told him how to think, let's see what he does with his life.
Kids under my lawn again. They've gotten crafty.
Look around you. It's election year; many of you have been here before; if it's your first time voting, welcome. You are dissatisfied with the progress that has been made. You have been all your life.
You're a rational person.
This election is about the economy.
Of the candidates being offered to you, which one fills you with confidence?
Which one of them will give you a job?
Which one of them will give you a raise?
If they are not elected, which one will still give you a job?
If they are not elected, which one will still give you a raise?
Which one of them will take a bullet for you?
Which one of them will rush to your hospital bed when tragedy befalls?
Which one of them will lay down their life for their brother, alone, in the dark, where no one will ever know?
Aux armes, citoyens...
Tremblez, tyrans et vous perfides
L'opprobre de tous les partis,
Tremblez ! vos projets parricides
Vont enfin recevoir leurs prix ! (bis)
Tout est soldat pour vous combattre,
S'ils tombent, nos jeunes héros,
La terre en produit de nouveaux,
Contre vous tout prêts à se battre !
What API? It's self-modifying software / hardware that many societies are so fed up with, they try running a virtual machine on top that does what they want it to do. That's what 12+ years of education is about, paring you down to the least common denominator, until you match a wine-drinker's normal model.
Lower / middle / high school -> punishment before the Almighty hierarchy depending on how well you conform to your peer's standards. College / real life -> working hard at a job to earn money so you can try to retrieve the relative peace of mind you once had when people didn't expect anything of you. When you're younger, you try to grow up, to get at those privileges denied to you by your seniors, when you're older, you try to stay the same age. And when you're really old, you look forward to death as some form of rest.
Someone, somewhere, thought that if you're borderline sentient, you wouldn't be able to be unhappy, or that you'd be so busy with trivial problems that you wouldn't get bored enough to die. Hence schools belt out kids, year after year, that appear to be successively less knowledgeable, in pursuit of some golden "Ignorance is bliss." Well, it's not. However, there are things we can do, somewhat independent of intelligence, that we can enjoy until we discover sentient life somewhere else in the universe / multiverse / whatever. My personal favorite, of course, is watching anime and reading manga, which as I am terrible at foreign languages, should keep me preoccupied with a pleasantly futile task until sometime after the last star cools. Pick a task you're not particularly good at, and stick with it; for some of us, this will be rising at an early hour, for others, this will be evolving / designing cats that yodel (going to need a Bass, a Soprano, a Falsetto...and since they're cats, getting them to do something as a group is the futile task).
Hmm. Nitroglycerin pills with a stabilizer...that might work. 30 count. Just add heat.
However, we are dancing around the real issue here. None of us are particularly suicidal (with the exception of those people trying to earn a living doing OSS support), and outside of the Linux / Windows / Mac holy wars, none of us are homicidal. Life may not be what we were promised, but it hasn't yet, hit the level where people with the patience of the Buddha (have you done tech support? have you recompiled the linux kernel over a two day period? have you maintained your composure while submitting an untested fix for a web application on a live server while a client was watching?) are taking up arms in protest. I don't know if that's a good thing (relativity peaceful people), or a challenge (when the time does come, we're going to play life on "Nightmare" mode; more enemies than ammunition, bring a chainsaw / crow-bar / axe / sword / Duke's mighty foot).
Indeed. Why have a mole try to alter the code, and run the risk of being discovered, when you have a copy of the source, and can find existing bugs to use?
Indeed. Just an informal survey, when's the last time any of you had a 30% raise?
Hmm. Perhaps they should bribe them with a few premium channels; that may get them off the Viacom channels permanently (Hmm. No MTV wannabe starlets...but we can watch Game of Thrones until we're blind..). Would have hate written all over it.
And the thing is, it might work. DirecTV probably has healthy enough profit margins on their regular packages to give away a few premium channels for 'free.' And once they get used to having filet mignon, they may not be in such a rush to go back to hamburger. Convert enough customers, combined with the power of positive press (DirecTV giving away premium channels with a basic subscription), and Viacom will feel it. Not too many people who would go back to regular FM radio if they could get satellite radio for free.
Hah. And yes, people watch that show, apparently, to feel better about themselves.
Like a straight-D's student laughing at the kids riding the short bus to school.
Nice. *Internet high-five*