I think an intelligence service selling a camera with highly sensitive classified data on it is just a little more serious than some local council leaving the password to their VPN on a router.
I would expect small local agencies to either not have or ignore proper data scrubbing policies prior to selling old equipment, but national intelligence agencies? That's a whole different kettle of fish.
They only know how to fix old Russian satellites, so they would have to be completely re-trained to handle the Hubble. Besides, we'd have to send a rocket all the way to the moon to retrieve Tommy Lee Jones after he rode the other satellite there.
Of course, he's probably been captured by the moon men and made to toil in their underground mines by now, so trying to get him may end up being more trouble than its worth.
This book is a waste of paper. Everyone knows the proper way to deal with legacy code:
1.) Spend 2 weeks looking at code you don't understand. 2.) Loudly complain about the poor quality of the code, particularly algorithms that you don't understand. 3.) Make derogatory comments about the previous developers. Be sure to paint them as monosyllabic imbeciles who probably got dropped on their heads multiple times as children. 4.) Make minor changes to the code. If they blow up in your face, blame the previous developers for their poor grasp of basic programming practices. Make references to the previous programmers' relationship with their mothers. 5.) Delete the whole thing and start from scratch. 6.) 18 months of fumbling around later, realize that the previous code may have been better than you gave it credit for. 7.) Deny this. 8.) Release cobbled-together mess that lacks half the features of the previous codebase and features twice the bugs. 9.) Get job elsewhere. 10.) Company hires new programmer who starts the process over at step 1.
Obama is just as "neck deep" if not more in "the biggest baking scandal / bailout in US history"
Personally, I'm appalled at the special treatment the baking industry is getting. It's not my fault they made too many cookies and loaves of bread and had to eat the loss when they spoiled. Why should I have to pay for their lack of foresight? They decided to overbake because they got greedy, and then they got caught with their pants down. They now have to try and sell a ton of day-old bread that no one really wants at steep discounts, and my tax money gets to make up the difference? Give me a break!
Sure, you hear a lot of nonsense about how the baking crisis could spill over into the fried foods industry or, heaven help us, deli meats, but I don't believe it for a second. We have plenty of preservative-laden Wonder Bread to take us past any temporary fresh bread shortage, and if worse comes to worst we still have emergency Twinkie rations left over from the Great Yeast Die-Off of 1983.
All this talk of a bailout is short-sighted and foolish. If we bail out the bakers now, who's next? The butchers? The candlestick makers? It boggles the mind.
It's because many people still harbor some childhood bitterness toward the Chinese for their well-known tendency to urinate in other people's Coca-Cola.
If you invent something on company time and/or using company resources, they likely own it anyway. You can either participate or just give them the idea for free, because if you try and go behind their backs and patent it on your own, you're going to be in a legal mess.
Sure, you can just invent things on your own time using your own equipment, but depending on the idea and your own personal resources, that may or may not be possible.
Give a cash bonus plus stock, but make sure you have some sort of review process to make sure the patents being filed are not clearly derivative or otherwise not likely to be granted a patent.
The cash bonus gives people an immediate reward for their work. The stock bonus gives people a sense that they are working on something that will benefit them, and not just their employer, over the long term. The review board keeps people from abusing the system by flooding you with patent applications that are highly unlikely to be accepted.
Just remember, if you make the rewards too small, no one will take the program seriously and no one will put forth any real effort to invent patentable stuff.
The summary clearly states that only lynx is not affected. It's pretty obvious what's going on here: the exploit is a nefarious plot to make everyone switch over to lynx, thereby crippling the non-text-based porn industry.
It's very similar to the DNS issue from a couple of months back: It's a hugely scary thing that will doom the Internet, but because we're responsible we can't tell you what it is in any detail. However, if you don't patch your browser immediately (patch not yet available), you are fucked.
this will give more time to sit around in front of the computer at home, playing video games
Bad idea. Thanks to him, we all know that violent video games are a direct cause of violent behavior, and I don't think we need someone as dangerously imbalanced as him getting violent.
He was disbarred in Florida. Doesn't this mean he can still take the exam and be re-barred (okay, probably not the word, although anything involving Thompson and rebar sounds like fun) in any other state?
I've actually made "cloned" recipes from that site, and most of them are...not exact, to say the least. They're from people who tried to make something that tasted like the original dish, not the actual authentic recipes for the dishes in question.
Besides, if anyone ever posted the authentic recipe, the KFC mafia would find them and smother them to death in beakless, clawless chickens with enormous breasts. Everyone knows that.
What about all those insurance companies that decided to become investment banks, like AIG? That worked out pretty well, right?
Seriously though, this could work for people that like to hand over the keys to one company and wipe their hands of the whole mess (a non-trivial number of companies), but any company that likes to handle most of its own IT is probably not going to go for it unless Oracle has come up with a way to optimize the hardware for the Oracle DB that no one else has.
The people who sold the NINJAs a bill of goods are the ones who fucked over the entire world. The NINJAs were just guilty of being dumb enough to allow themselves to be convinced by supposed experts that they could afford something they obviously couldn't.
NINJAs are the same type of people who consider playing the lottery a retirement plan, though, so you can hardly blame them too much for being taken in by people who presented themselves as being mortgage experts.
Granted, the government shouldn't be shoveling money at them to help them keep those houses, but they certainly shouldn't be shoveling money at the investment banks that thought it was a good idea to lend these people money either.
Now, if these NINJAs were actual ninjas, they could silently decapitate the mortgage brokers and solve the problem that way, but unfortunately most of them aren't.
I thought the reason old people drove such big cars is so they could drive in a straight line indefinitely without having to be bothered by such minor inconveniences as road debris, stop signs, small dogs, children, etc.
Don't be. It's obviously false advertising. Guys with beards are old-school UNIX hackers, not Windows users. They could also be circa-1983 stock brokers.
Truman and LBJ both ran larger wars without running up nearly the same deficit. The problem is not the war per se, but rather the fact that Bush has attempted to run a war and cut taxes at the same time. Without the huge tax cuts, the war debt would at least be at a manageable level.
The only presidents since 1963 to have ever submitted balanced budgets to Congress are Johnson and Clinton. At no time since 1945 when Republicans have been in charge of both Congress and the White House have they ever reduced spending.
The vast majority of the national debt to date was accrued during the Presidencies of three men: Reagan, Bush I and Bush II, all Republicans. In Reagan's case, he was working with a Republican Senate for his first 6 years in office, and Bush had Republicans controlling both houses for 6 years as well.
The Bush II years have seen tax cut after tax cut that were, in theory, supposed to result in increased growth and therefore reduced deficit. Instead, he has posted record deficits year after year. And still, the fiction that large tax cuts will somehow reduce the deficit persists.
The idea that Democrats are the big spending party and Republicans are fiscally responsible is pure fiction, and it boggles the mind why people continue to believe it despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Even the "big spending" LBJ was more fiscally responsible than the Republicans of the past 28 years.
If people would treat politics less like religion maybe they would make decisions based on actual historical data rather than what their party keeps telling them is the truth.
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I think an intelligence service selling a camera with highly sensitive classified data on it is just a little more serious than some local council leaving the password to their VPN on a router.
I would expect small local agencies to either not have or ignore proper data scrubbing policies prior to selling old equipment, but national intelligence agencies? That's a whole different kettle of fish.
Google != The Internet
Yet.
They only know how to fix old Russian satellites, so they would have to be completely re-trained to handle the Hubble. Besides, we'd have to send a rocket all the way to the moon to retrieve Tommy Lee Jones after he rode the other satellite there.
Of course, he's probably been captured by the moon men and made to toil in their underground mines by now, so trying to get him may end up being more trouble than its worth.
This book is a waste of paper. Everyone knows the proper way to deal with legacy code:
1.) Spend 2 weeks looking at code you don't understand.
2.) Loudly complain about the poor quality of the code, particularly algorithms that you don't understand.
3.) Make derogatory comments about the previous developers. Be sure to paint them as monosyllabic imbeciles who probably got dropped on their heads multiple times as children.
4.) Make minor changes to the code. If they blow up in your face, blame the previous developers for their poor grasp of basic programming practices. Make references to the previous programmers' relationship with their mothers.
5.) Delete the whole thing and start from scratch.
6.) 18 months of fumbling around later, realize that the previous code may have been better than you gave it credit for.
7.) Deny this.
8.) Release cobbled-together mess that lacks half the features of the previous codebase and features twice the bugs.
9.) Get job elsewhere.
10.) Company hires new programmer who starts the process over at step 1.
So with the larger text on the iPod Nano you get like, what, 1 letter on the screen at a time?
Obama is just as "neck deep" if not more in "the biggest baking scandal / bailout in US history"
Personally, I'm appalled at the special treatment the baking industry is getting. It's not my fault they made too many cookies and loaves of bread and had to eat the loss when they spoiled. Why should I have to pay for their lack of foresight? They decided to overbake because they got greedy, and then they got caught with their pants down. They now have to try and sell a ton of day-old bread that no one really wants at steep discounts, and my tax money gets to make up the difference? Give me a break!
Sure, you hear a lot of nonsense about how the baking crisis could spill over into the fried foods industry or, heaven help us, deli meats, but I don't believe it for a second. We have plenty of preservative-laden Wonder Bread to take us past any temporary fresh bread shortage, and if worse comes to worst we still have emergency Twinkie rations left over from the Great Yeast Die-Off of 1983.
All this talk of a bailout is short-sighted and foolish. If we bail out the bakers now, who's next? The butchers? The candlestick makers? It boggles the mind.
Finally, we know the undisclosed location Cheney is always going to!
It's because many people still harbor some childhood bitterness toward the Chinese for their well-known tendency to urinate in other people's Coca-Cola.
It would be a lot more efficient if you just had a cron job that sent out an email every night.
If you invent something on company time and/or using company resources, they likely own it anyway. You can either participate or just give them the idea for free, because if you try and go behind their backs and patent it on your own, you're going to be in a legal mess.
Sure, you can just invent things on your own time using your own equipment, but depending on the idea and your own personal resources, that may or may not be possible.
Give a cash bonus plus stock, but make sure you have some sort of review process to make sure the patents being filed are not clearly derivative or otherwise not likely to be granted a patent.
The cash bonus gives people an immediate reward for their work. The stock bonus gives people a sense that they are working on something that will benefit them, and not just their employer, over the long term. The review board keeps people from abusing the system by flooding you with patent applications that are highly unlikely to be accepted.
Just remember, if you make the rewards too small, no one will take the program seriously and no one will put forth any real effort to invent patentable stuff.
Why would you encourage the moderators to give you an Overrated mod? Flamebait can at least be meta-moderated, unlike the much-abused Overrated.
The summary clearly states that only lynx is not affected. It's pretty obvious what's going on here: the exploit is a nefarious plot to make everyone switch over to lynx, thereby crippling the non-text-based porn industry.
It's very similar to the DNS issue from a couple of months back: It's a hugely scary thing that will doom the Internet, but because we're responsible we can't tell you what it is in any detail. However, if you don't patch your browser immediately (patch not yet available), you are fucked.
Have a nice day.
this will give more time to sit around in front of the computer at home, playing video games
Bad idea. Thanks to him, we all know that violent video games are a direct cause of violent behavior, and I don't think we need someone as dangerously imbalanced as him getting violent.
He was disbarred in Florida. Doesn't this mean he can still take the exam and be re-barred (okay, probably not the word, although anything involving Thompson and rebar sounds like fun) in any other state?
I've actually made "cloned" recipes from that site, and most of them are...not exact, to say the least. They're from people who tried to make something that tasted like the original dish, not the actual authentic recipes for the dishes in question.
Besides, if anyone ever posted the authentic recipe, the KFC mafia would find them and smother them to death in beakless, clawless chickens with enormous breasts. Everyone knows that.
What about all those insurance companies that decided to become investment banks, like AIG? That worked out pretty well, right?
Seriously though, this could work for people that like to hand over the keys to one company and wipe their hands of the whole mess (a non-trivial number of companies), but any company that likes to handle most of its own IT is probably not going to go for it unless Oracle has come up with a way to optimize the hardware for the Oracle DB that no one else has.
The people who sold the NINJAs a bill of goods are the ones who fucked over the entire world. The NINJAs were just guilty of being dumb enough to allow themselves to be convinced by supposed experts that they could afford something they obviously couldn't.
NINJAs are the same type of people who consider playing the lottery a retirement plan, though, so you can hardly blame them too much for being taken in by people who presented themselves as being mortgage experts.
Granted, the government shouldn't be shoveling money at them to help them keep those houses, but they certainly shouldn't be shoveling money at the investment banks that thought it was a good idea to lend these people money either.
Now, if these NINJAs were actual ninjas, they could silently decapitate the mortgage brokers and solve the problem that way, but unfortunately most of them aren't.
I thought the reason old people drove such big cars is so they could drive in a straight line indefinitely without having to be bothered by such minor inconveniences as road debris, stop signs, small dogs, children, etc.
It feels like everything for the past 40 years has been centered around them.
Fixed that for you.
Try chewing your food next time.
Don't be. It's obviously false advertising. Guys with beards are old-school UNIX hackers, not Windows users. They could also be circa-1983 stock brokers.
Truman and LBJ both ran larger wars without running up nearly the same deficit. The problem is not the war per se, but rather the fact that Bush has attempted to run a war and cut taxes at the same time. Without the huge tax cuts, the war debt would at least be at a manageable level.
This is a joke, right?
The only presidents since 1963 to have ever submitted balanced budgets to Congress are Johnson and Clinton. At no time since 1945 when Republicans have been in charge of both Congress and the White House have they ever reduced spending.
The vast majority of the national debt to date was accrued during the Presidencies of three men: Reagan, Bush I and Bush II, all Republicans. In Reagan's case, he was working with a Republican Senate for his first 6 years in office, and Bush had Republicans controlling both houses for 6 years as well.
The Bush II years have seen tax cut after tax cut that were, in theory, supposed to result in increased growth and therefore reduced deficit. Instead, he has posted record deficits year after year. And still, the fiction that large tax cuts will somehow reduce the deficit persists.
The idea that Democrats are the big spending party and Republicans are fiscally responsible is pure fiction, and it boggles the mind why people continue to believe it despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Even the "big spending" LBJ was more fiscally responsible than the Republicans of the past 28 years.
If people would treat politics less like religion maybe they would make decisions based on actual historical data rather than what their party keeps telling them is the truth.