My current It job is basically "eyes on glass" situation management for a very large airline, plus a collection of other companies. I work an overnight shift, four 10's. I love my job, but that's mainly because most nights I don't actually do any "work". It's the best job ever; I have eight monitors and a 100mb net connection. All night I watch netflix / primewire. I've seen hundreds of zombie movies now, I sit and cruise the net all night. I remote back to my home network and configure my test servers. I have four weeks of vacation. My boss is awesome too; he's got 20+ years of hands-on experience and it one of the most knowedgeable people in this field I've met. When something does break, he knows exactly who to call to get it fixed, no matter what country their in or what time it is.
But I've worked some pretty horrible positions too, at the same company. The best was a Director who hired her lesbian (and married) lover and made her a manager...neither knew much of anything. One client had their Exchange servers go down; I was told "well they can just use OWA until their back up", not realizing OWA is just the web interface to those same non-responding servers. Eventually those two got busted, neither works there now. The Director was working for a month or so on a different team in the same area I am now; it was VERY amusing to see her almost have a heart attack when she walked in and saw me there...someone she had fired was still there at another position making 2x what I had before. I see it all as karma for working at a crap position and finally getting some kind of reward.
"You'd like to think that, wouldn't you?" Me too, and in an ideal world we'd be right. But it seems the Feds employ this methodology all the time, including the FBI and CIA. This whole trap was just to destroy Silk Road the only way they knew.
It's actually considered a "commodity" per the IRS for tax purposes. This data has a specific value, only valid for that particular combination of bits. Technically, these bitcoins might even be worth "more" or "less" depending on the market and their actual brands. There are at least 200 different "bitcoin" "currencies".
It's still not enough. He proved that, with just a little bit of governance (Silk Road), the drug market can be tamed. Thus, this DEA set up. They knew that without some real solid charges it wasn't good enough. Even if the whole "attempted murder" bullshit was thrown out he's still fucked. If he had gotten "big enough" to be noticed the cartel's would have taken him out anyway.
In most poor countries, deforestation is also occurring because the people there still use wood / charcoal to cook and heat with. Those areas of the world don't have an electric grid like the US / Europe and depend upon this wood for survival.
There are bacteria and eukaryotes that have been found consuming plastic in the ocean. It's only a matter of time until a bird consumes an "infected plastic" with said organism on it and isn't just killed off. Eventually, if we keep pouring plastic into the environment, this evolution will happen, but it could take thousands / millions of years.
Good, WWZ was one of the most disappointing book-to-screen adaptations I've ever seen. I've seen over 200 zombie movies, and if I hadn't read the book first I wouldn't have cared BUT...yeah.
In the next "proper shooting war" the amount of planes anyone can make won't matter. Once the nukes start going off, we won't be making any new planes for the next several thousands of years, if not millions.
your right, the f-35 won't sit on the ground, it will engage in A2A. Then the troops won't have any air support, as it will get chewed up by the existing enemy jets. It's not good enough to win against an F-16, except when the F-35 has superior numbers. Additionally, there are several "models" of the F-35, but their not some lego swap out kit done in the field. The specific F-35s that will replace the A-10s will be nothing more than targets for existing F-16s, and other already deployed aircraft.
Even better if the newer electronics can be retrofitted into the older ships as well, after a solid shake-out in the new A-10s. If it's all based on the same airframe...
If the A-10s can hang around nearby for extended periods, perhaps we should even add in electronic packages that can electronically support troops in the field too.
yeah, I don't know if their idea of a three meter rock (mentioned in this article that is linked inside TFA) is thick enough to stop radiation once outside the heliosphere. But the second article is discussing intra-solar transfers, not between systems. I have no idea what level of shielding would be required to survive millions / billions of years of traveling through interstellar space.
robots, automation, industrial-level 3-d printing, and many more sustainable energy generation systems. It's actually not too far outside our current capabilities. It's just that the 1% will never allow everyone else to come up to their level, or allow themselves down here in the dirt with the rest of us.
I don't know about the recycling part...much of this plastic has been degraded by UV so badly it's past the point of recycling. We still need to clean this up though.
WWF is a horrible app. After exiting, it's still running...draining your battery, sending annoying notifications 24/7, and reporting back who knows what information. I liked the game itself, but the battery drain and notifications was too much and now it's gone.
"Tired of partisan politics? Demand a split ticket - Green Party President with a Libertarian Vice-president." Last part of your sentence...and that's not an ass reaming, their just doing a gentle salad-tossing.
What about over the public roads and streets? How would anyone get permission to fly over those? Leave it to California to pass laws that screw everything up...and what California does, the rest of the country does by default.
"defining constants in wp-config.php, or adding filters using a Plugin. " is NOT considered a GUI-based "default". As far as I can tell, there is no area inside the GUI to enable this, without installing a plugin. That too shouldn't be considered "default". It needs to be in the core GUI, right on the Dashboard "Enable auto updating?" and enabled by default on all deployments. Forcing users to edit a php file on a server isn't a good policy, nor is requiring a plug in. All major operating systems and software puts this right out in the open and doesn't make me edit INI / PHP files.
It took a coming together of RH, VMWare, and Novel to push Linux into the "enterprise" on a serious level. Wordpress has a long way to go, especially if auto updating (and other features) are hidden like this.
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My current It job is basically "eyes on glass" situation management for a very large airline, plus a collection of other companies. I work an overnight shift, four 10's. I love my job, but that's mainly because most nights I don't actually do any "work". It's the best job ever; I have eight monitors and a 100mb net connection. All night I watch netflix / primewire. I've seen hundreds of zombie movies now, I sit and cruise the net all night. I remote back to my home network and configure my test servers. I have four weeks of vacation. My boss is awesome too; he's got 20+ years of hands-on experience and it one of the most knowedgeable people in this field I've met. When something does break, he knows exactly who to call to get it fixed, no matter what country their in or what time it is.
But I've worked some pretty horrible positions too, at the same company. The best was a Director who hired her lesbian (and married) lover and made her a manager...neither knew much of anything. One client had their Exchange servers go down; I was told "well they can just use OWA until their back up", not realizing OWA is just the web interface to those same non-responding servers. Eventually those two got busted, neither works there now. The Director was working for a month or so on a different team in the same area I am now; it was VERY amusing to see her almost have a heart attack when she walked in and saw me there...someone she had fired was still there at another position making 2x what I had before. I see it all as karma for working at a crap position and finally getting some kind of reward.
I'm hoping version 42 will have come type of reference in it, but I don't know if the coders are the type to always have a towel with them.
I think they are referring to the whole "murder for hire" setup, not this theft.
"You'd like to think that, wouldn't you?" Me too, and in an ideal world we'd be right. But it seems the Feds employ this methodology all the time, including the FBI and CIA. This whole trap was just to destroy Silk Road the only way they knew.
It's actually considered a "commodity" per the IRS for tax purposes. This data has a specific value, only valid for that particular combination of bits. Technically, these bitcoins might even be worth "more" or "less" depending on the market and their actual brands. There are at least 200 different "bitcoin" "currencies".
random murder of the perps is OK, stealing money that the Feds planned on seizing isn't. This is America, and he "stole" a pretty decent amount.
It's still not enough. He proved that, with just a little bit of governance (Silk Road), the drug market can be tamed. Thus, this DEA set up. They knew that without some real solid charges it wasn't good enough. Even if the whole "attempted murder" bullshit was thrown out he's still fucked. If he had gotten "big enough" to be noticed the cartel's would have taken him out anyway.
In most poor countries, deforestation is also occurring because the people there still use wood / charcoal to cook and heat with. Those areas of the world don't have an electric grid like the US / Europe and depend upon this wood for survival.
There are bacteria and eukaryotes that have been found consuming plastic in the ocean. It's only a matter of time until a bird consumes an "infected plastic" with said organism on it and isn't just killed off. Eventually, if we keep pouring plastic into the environment, this evolution will happen, but it could take thousands / millions of years.
Good, WWZ was one of the most disappointing book-to-screen adaptations I've ever seen. I've seen over 200 zombie movies, and if I hadn't read the book first I wouldn't have cared BUT...yeah.
In the next "proper shooting war" the amount of planes anyone can make won't matter. Once the nukes start going off, we won't be making any new planes for the next several thousands of years, if not millions.
LOL, well, if we can get everyone to "switch", then everyone will suck and we';; all be even right?
your right, the f-35 won't sit on the ground, it will engage in A2A. Then the troops won't have any air support, as it will get chewed up by the existing enemy jets. It's not good enough to win against an F-16, except when the F-35 has superior numbers. Additionally, there are several "models" of the F-35, but their not some lego swap out kit done in the field. The specific F-35s that will replace the A-10s will be nothing more than targets for existing F-16s, and other already deployed aircraft.
Even better if the newer electronics can be retrofitted into the older ships as well, after a solid shake-out in the new A-10s. If it's all based on the same airframe...
If the A-10s can hang around nearby for extended periods, perhaps we should even add in electronic packages that can electronically support troops in the field too.
yeah, I don't know if their idea of a three meter rock (mentioned in this article that is linked inside TFA) is thick enough to stop radiation once outside the heliosphere. But the second article is discussing intra-solar transfers, not between systems. I have no idea what level of shielding would be required to survive millions / billions of years of traveling through interstellar space.
robots, automation, industrial-level 3-d printing, and many more sustainable energy generation systems. It's actually not too far outside our current capabilities. It's just that the 1% will never allow everyone else to come up to their level, or allow themselves down here in the dirt with the rest of us.
There's also a major issue happening at Chernobyl, outlined here that indicates the actual damage is greater than we thought. It seems that the radiation has killed off much of the microbes and such that help decay plants. If they have a major forest fire there, this could quite easily stir up all that radioactive dust that is just under the surface.
I don't know about the recycling part...much of this plastic has been degraded by UV so badly it's past the point of recycling. We still need to clean this up though.
WWF is a horrible app. After exiting, it's still running...draining your battery, sending annoying notifications 24/7, and reporting back who knows what information. I liked the game itself, but the battery drain and notifications was too much and now it's gone.
from your tagline:
"Tired of partisan politics? Demand a split ticket - Green Party President with a Libertarian Vice-president." Last part of your sentence...and that's not an ass reaming, their just doing a gentle salad-tossing.
Real Libertarians don't need the State to help them out.
that's very Libertarian of you, endorsing even more government regulations. "Cognitive dissonance" in operation?
What about over the public roads and streets? How would anyone get permission to fly over those? Leave it to California to pass laws that screw everything up...and what California does, the rest of the country does by default.
If anything, it takes less time now so overall he's probably getting even less money!
"defining constants in wp-config.php, or adding filters using a Plugin. " is NOT considered a GUI-based "default". As far as I can tell, there is no area inside the GUI to enable this, without installing a plugin. That too shouldn't be considered "default". It needs to be in the core GUI, right on the Dashboard "Enable auto updating?" and enabled by default on all deployments. Forcing users to edit a php file on a server isn't a good policy, nor is requiring a plug in. All major operating systems and software puts this right out in the open and doesn't make me edit INI / PHP files.
It took a coming together of RH, VMWare, and Novel to push Linux into the "enterprise" on a serious level. Wordpress has a long way to go, especially if auto updating (and other features) are hidden like this.