The Executive Branch of the US government appealed a September ruling by the Judicial Branch of the US government, striking down as unconstitutional an act approved by the Legislative Branch of the US Government.
Google releases open social without a RI for the server, promising one *any day now*. In the meantime, they're also proposing all sorts of new data standards and pushing a creaky technology to the limit.
Westminster, in London, is installing Wi-Fi-enabled security cameras that can identify illegally parked cars and issue tickets without an on-site witness. In theory, the number of parking tickets should increase dramatically without much additional cost, and city coffers will swell. "Parking enforcement is the killer application that everyone is looking for," a Westminster City Council member said in early September.
What's next? Automated ticketing for jaywalking? For picking your nose in public?
As my sainted grandmother would say, "Bad cess to them!"
Good luck to them. I hope all goes well, the repair is made, and nobody gets hurt.
That bit about not being able to take it down for repair, well, that's going to make it into some future book on industrial design. Oh, and into future space stations. I hope.
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We just had a "buggy whip" moment. And it's only accelerating.
Welcome to the singularity.
...of some moments ago.
Verizon just blew up the US cell phone industry.
Go read Joel Spolsky's newsletter (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html) for a fuller understanding.
Happy times are ahead!
Smartass!
/. is competing with LOTR on my DVD. Please forgive teh slip.
I've got the 'flu, I'm chugging nyquil, and
(And yes, the "teh" was intentional.)
Airbus is about to start manufacturing aircraft in Alabama. ThyssenKrupp is well established. Mercedes makes cars their.
I was stationed in Alabama for a year. While there, I had a world-class Shakespearean theater at my back door. I loved living in Alabama.
It's just the world's last rational people mounting a vanguard action against enviro-collectivists. Don't trouble yourself about it.
For their clinbdown on global warming/climate change/whatever they call it today.
Cowboy IT people remain employed because they're cheap!
First thing I learned in the military: your weapon was made by the lowest bidder.
IIRC, Gavin King is Australian, and he gave us Hibernate.
A Chinese colleague of mine once remarked that my buddha belly would mark me as a lucky person in China.
"Mischief managed."
'nuff said.
Google releases open social without a RI for the server, promising one *any day now*. In the meantime, they're also proposing all sorts of new data standards and pushing a creaky technology to the limit.
Oh, and they're easy to hack.
Of who am I reminded?
(*Apologies to Flannery O'Connor.)
So, how *do* the seashells work? Oh, and when can you introduce me to Sandra Bullock?
The Feds want a 1984-style system of ID for citizens, but will do almost nothing about the flood of illegals coming across the Southern border.
The states are refusing to comply on the ID card, and are enforcing border controls.
This is a fascinating inversion of control.
...but I don't want the Zealots of Mac (tm) to mod me down to -1, Flamebait.
As my sainted grandmother would say, "Bad cess to them!"
....greenhouse gas belching transportation for Diplodoci.
Now I know where the dinosaurs went.
Obviously I was talking about the future, not the present.
You're starting to come across as a complete prick. Did you design the current (as it were) fuckup?
"Embrace and Extend" not working, Microsoft goes with "Repudiate and Close".
I expect a Dilbert strip about this any day now.
I think you just answered your own question.
Good luck to them. I hope all goes well, the repair is made, and nobody gets hurt.
That bit about not being able to take it down for repair, well, that's going to make it into some future book on industrial design. Oh, and into future space stations. I hope.
I like the extra "u". Gives an ould-wourld feeling oune wants when discussing the Apoucalypse.
Hey! Hey! Leave off or I'll have my neighbor on you.