Invariably these reports are followed shortly by a government study that claims all out problems will be solved by taxing the h*ll out of the common citizen.
I would really like to see a report of how the CO2 emission rights trading has helped the environment get any better. I doubt very much that there has been any impact other than many wallets getting thinner, and a few wallets becoming extremely well filled.
And why would it need one of these when it has a big battery to operate on, and an entire time-driven network to sync with as soon as the main battery is connected?
Connecting flight controls to "The Internet" would be the stupidest of all ideas. If they do this, anyone getting on board would be a candidate for the Darwin awards.
I'm sure they meant to say that all these systems are networked together, using ARINC or other aviation network technologies.
It's not the few loud attention seekers that have me worried. It is that the big silent mass of 'peaceful' Islamic people do nothing whatsoever to express their disagreement, nor to stop the attention seekers. To me that is the same as passively agreeing.
He was in a radio interview for Dutch Radio 2 this morning. He claims that he did contact the company and they replied that they were not interested, and if he had a complaint that he should write them a letter. That will take weeks, meanwhile leaving the door wide open for others to get unauthorized access to confidential patient records.
He was fined because the judge thought he retrieved more records than necessary to show the issue. During the interview he claimed that he did this to show that with this single user account he could get records from patients who were not with this doctor. During discovery it turned out that anyone with access to the system had access to pretty much all records. Even support people from the company who maintains the system had access to patient records. That's a pretty big f*ckup.
We have discussions here about a national health record system. It is this kind of lame 'security' that make a lot of people not want to participate, including myself. A country-wide central health record is a goldmine for insurance companies, at the expense of the people. Also, the system is supposedly developed by a company with roots in the USA, and US law would allow US government to snoop in our database. Let's just say I pass..
I interviewed with them, on their request. I was asked a hypothetical question:
"Suppose you are at a customer and you as consultant know that product A is the best fit. However, your sales wants to sell product B because it makes a better margin for EMC (or closes that guy's target, who knows). What will you advice the customer?"
I will always advice what's best for the customer. Honesty will always pay in the long run. But not for EMC. They expect you to advice what is best for EMC, right there and then.
That was the moment I decided EMC and I are not compatible.
Most of today's computers are so overpowered for what they are used for, that any of the programs running on it have ample CPU time. When I look at my nowadays lowly Core2 Duo CPU, it runs at less than 10% most of the time. Only when I compile a program it will peak a bit, but even streaming full-HD video doesn't stress it at all. Any installer should be able to make a reasonable estimation if CPU would be the gating factor.
I/O is more problematic during an install or download. Especially harddisks are s-l-o-w by today's standards. Have two programs compete for I/O and it will take a lot longer than with a single program. Add unknowns such as filesystem fragmentation, deep nested file structures and lots of small files, and you have a recipe for disaster.
So enlighten me. You make a wrong, and you get caught in the act. Just before the case is due you stop doing that, and you are off the hook? Sounds odd.
I can see it now; "Yes officer, I was doing 80 in a 50 zone, but I'm not doing that anymore, so we are good, right??"
Journalist: "So why are you skeptical about this apparent good news"? Eco-alarmists: "Because it scr*ws up our entire business model made of subsidies, taxes and levies!!"
.. Are they saying that fear mongering will kill more people than the radiation from actual nuclear disaster? Wow. So that means, on the death toll scale: 1. The actual Tsunami 2. Traffic accidents from people trying to flee 3. Stress related deaths 4. Radiation related deaths
"Please log in to your Microsoft Windows Live account to access the 'Shoot' application"... click-swipe-click-type-swipe...
"Thank you. There are 6 friends and 17 enemies on-line. There is a new version of 'Shoot' available, do you want to upgrade?" Noo!... click-swipe-click-type-swipe...
"Please note that your current version of 'Shoot' is no longer supported. The application will be disabled" Arrrggh!!.... (*#@)
I built a set of DOS-based diagnostics tools for SCSI tape streamers about 20 years ago. The logging function checks for time validity and asks the user to try and find me if it is really beyond 2038. And yes, I tried testing that, except DOS didn't let me set the date beyond its valid end..
Interesting. I have a NAS with 3TB Seagate drives set up in RAID5. There was apparently a firmware issue in these drives that made the NAS drop a drive every now and then for a spurious read or write error.. Run a verify pass on the failed drive and all checked out OK. The drive would happily be added aback into the RAID group.
Because of the capacity, the rebuild took about 2 days. But on one of the drives it actually took 6 days! Perhaps I should look into this again.. The drives have since been updated to the latest firmware and the NAS has not dropped any since.
How would you feel if some alien species arrives at our galaxy and decides to throw their used-up dilithium on your porch. What if the moon turns out to be made of cheese after all, and the probes punch a hole in the protective crust. The moon might deflate and we end up covered in cheese. Yuck!
Sillyness besides, I find it quite amazing that the USA decides they can abuse the moon as their public junk yard and just dump their garbage there.
You do not seem to get what Facebook is. At Facebook, *YOU* are the merchandise. If you are allowed to use a nickname, or somehow hide your real identity, then your value as merchandise goes down. We wouldn't want that to happen now, do we?!?
Welcome to the sweet world of Cloud. Where everything is cheap and available. Until it is not.. Lesson learned: If your business depends on specific tools or functionality, set up your own infrastructure.
Just make an entry on your website named "Why am I not on Facebook". Explain why you do not join the rage and that you value privacy. Don't make it a rant, just state that you see no value in opening up your life there.You'll attract people who appreciate your value on privacy. They will know that *their* privacy is safe in your hands.
The EU is just p*ssed off that the member countries refuse to pay for a budget hike of 8% next year. So instead the EU finds a scapegoat and collects their extra money this way. The consumers will see nothing in return.
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Invariably these reports are followed shortly by a government study that claims all out problems will be solved by taxing the h*ll out of the common citizen.
I would really like to see a report of how the CO2 emission rights trading has helped the environment get any better. I doubt very much that there has been any impact other than many wallets getting thinner, and a few wallets becoming extremely well filled.
So, what would be the point of creating a 3D image of a proclaimed 2D world?!?
And why would it need one of these when it has a big battery to operate on, and an entire time-driven network to sync with as soon as the main battery is connected?
You thought wrong
How long will it take before an 'unfortunate accident' at one of these nuclear sites makes an end to their aspirations?
Connecting flight controls to "The Internet" would be the stupidest of all ideas. If they do this, anyone getting on board would be a candidate for the Darwin awards.
I'm sure they meant to say that all these systems are networked together, using ARINC or other aviation network technologies.
The F-35 outperforms the superhornet even if the SH is slicked off, lubed up, and going down-hill with another SH pushing it
Not if it doesn't fly...
It's not the few loud attention seekers that have me worried. It is that the big silent mass of 'peaceful' Islamic people do nothing whatsoever to express their disagreement, nor to stop the attention seekers. To me that is the same as passively agreeing.
He was in a radio interview for Dutch Radio 2 this morning. He claims that he did contact the company and they replied that they were not interested, and if he had a complaint that he should write them a letter. That will take weeks, meanwhile leaving the door wide open for others to get unauthorized access to confidential patient records.
He was fined because the judge thought he retrieved more records than necessary to show the issue. During the interview he claimed that he did this to show that with this single user account he could get records from patients who were not with this doctor. During discovery it turned out that anyone with access to the system had access to pretty much all records. Even support people from the company who maintains the system had access to patient records. That's a pretty big f*ckup.
We have discussions here about a national health record system. It is this kind of lame 'security' that make a lot of people not want to participate, including myself. A country-wide central health record is a goldmine for insurance companies, at the expense of the people. Also, the system is supposedly developed by a company with roots in the USA, and US law would allow US government to snoop in our database. Let's just say I pass..
I interviewed with them, on their request. I was asked a hypothetical question:
"Suppose you are at a customer and you as consultant know that product A is the best fit. However, your sales wants to sell product B because it makes a better margin for EMC (or closes that guy's target, who knows). What will you advice the customer?"
I will always advice what's best for the customer. Honesty will always pay in the long run. But not for EMC. They expect you to advice what is best for EMC, right there and then.
That was the moment I decided EMC and I are not compatible.
Most of today's computers are so overpowered for what they are used for, that any of the programs running on it have ample CPU time.
When I look at my nowadays lowly Core2 Duo CPU, it runs at less than 10% most of the time. Only when I compile a program it will peak a bit, but even streaming full-HD video doesn't stress it at all. Any installer should be able to make a reasonable estimation if CPU would be the gating factor.
I/O is more problematic during an install or download. Especially harddisks are s-l-o-w by today's standards. Have two programs compete for I/O and it will take a lot longer than with a single program. Add unknowns such as filesystem fragmentation, deep nested file structures and lots of small files, and you have a recipe for disaster.
So enlighten me. You make a wrong, and you get caught in the act. Just before the case is due you stop doing that, and you are off the hook? Sounds odd.
I can see it now; "Yes officer, I was doing 80 in a 50 zone, but I'm not doing that anymore, so we are good, right??"
Journalist: "So why are you skeptical about this apparent good news"?
Eco-alarmists: "Because it scr*ws up our entire business model made of subsidies, taxes and levies!!"
For starters, they do not own those asteroids. Who are they to take what isn't theirs?
Mining asteroids also risks changing their trajectory, which may endanger the Earth or other stellar bodies.
.. Are they saying that fear mongering will kill more people than the radiation from actual nuclear disaster? Wow.
So that means, on the death toll scale:
1. The actual Tsunami
2. Traffic accidents from people trying to flee
3. Stress related deaths
4. Radiation related deaths
The enemy is coming! Shoot! SHOOT!
"Please log in to your Microsoft Windows Live account to access the 'Shoot' application" ... click-swipe-click-type-swipe...
"Thank you. There are 6 friends and 17 enemies on-line. There is a new version of 'Shoot' available, do you want to upgrade?" ... click-swipe-click-type-swipe...
Noo!
"Please note that your current version of 'Shoot' is no longer supported. The application will be disabled"
Arrrggh!!.... (*#@)
Game Over.
I built a set of DOS-based diagnostics tools for SCSI tape streamers about 20 years ago. The logging function checks for time validity and asks the user to try and find me if it is really beyond 2038. And yes, I tried testing that, except DOS didn't let me set the date beyond its valid end..
Interesting. I have a NAS with 3TB Seagate drives set up in RAID5. There was apparently a firmware issue in these drives that made the NAS drop a drive every now and then for a spurious read or write error.. Run a verify pass on the failed drive and all checked out OK. The drive would happily be added aback into the RAID group.
Because of the capacity, the rebuild took about 2 days. But on one of the drives it actually took 6 days! Perhaps I should look into this again..
The drives have since been updated to the latest firmware and the NAS has not dropped any since.
How would you feel if some alien species arrives at our galaxy and decides to throw their used-up dilithium on your porch.
What if the moon turns out to be made of cheese after all, and the probes punch a hole in the protective crust. The moon might deflate and we end up covered in cheese. Yuck!
Sillyness besides, I find it quite amazing that the USA decides they can abuse the moon as their public junk yard and just dump their garbage there.
You do not seem to get what Facebook is. At Facebook, *YOU* are the merchandise. If you are allowed to use a nickname, or somehow hide your real identity, then your value as merchandise goes down. We wouldn't want that to happen now, do we?!?
Welcome to the sweet world of Cloud. Where everything is cheap and available. Until it is not..
Lesson learned: If your business depends on specific tools or functionality, set up your own infrastructure.
Just make an entry on your website named "Why am I not on Facebook". Explain why you do not join the rage and that you value privacy. Don't make it a rant, just state that you see no value in opening up your life there.You'll attract people who appreciate your value on privacy. They will know that *their* privacy is safe in your hands.
That is not next, that is today. At least in many European countries it is.
The EU is just p*ssed off that the member countries refuse to pay for a budget hike of 8% next year. So instead the EU finds a scapegoat and collects their extra money this way. The consumers will see nothing in return.
This is like the government saying that your car no longer belongs to you when you park it on a public road. Bullshit indeed.