Imagine owning one of those things for several years. What happens if the damned thing gets stuck? Or a motor burns out that controls the expansion. Or a gear gets stripped...
And honestly, how small do you need to make a car? The difference between the expanded and contracted versions was not that great. I'd keep it expanded all the time. Why not. Are you ever going to have that little space? Unlikely.
The guy's Indian, and to your average dimwitted, racist TSA goon that's just another variety of "terr'ist sand-nigger." They're not even smart enough to be racist properly.
Them's too many words. Just say Ay-rab and be done with it.
Some of the linux subsystems still read like they were written in someone's basement even after a decade of most of the maintainers being paid a yearly salary to maintain it.
So in other words, right on par with commercial product code.
I for one like software which is smart enough to put the menus I need in an easy place to reach when I want them. Beats digging through a "mega evil rats nest of doom" tree structure every time I do something routine (like adjusting error bars). Context sensitive is just smart.
But not that smart.
The thing that blew my blood pressure was when Office 2003 got clever with menus.
I'm used to printing via Ctrl-P command key. Office 2003 kept assuming I didn't use the File/Print menu so it removed it. Along with its binding to Ctrl-P. Half the time I went to print something, it didn't print. Because "clever" Office 2002 removed it from the context.
Idioms don't have to make sense when taken literally.
Actually, try this. And see what you think:
There's "try and". Which, as you can see, is a perfectly sensible construct.
And there's "try to". Which is also sensible, but has an obviously different meaning.
And finally, there's the idiomatic "try and". Which doesn't make literal sense, because it's actually just being sloppy with the above. But that's idioms for you.
Welcome to 2013, the terrerists are still winning without having to lift a finger.
The terrorists won long ago and occupied the USA using outsourced forces, since their own numbers are so small. The terrorists surrogate army has outposts at every airport in the land reminding people constantly that their ability to travel freely is limited.
First you put a cloud on people's ability to travel.
Then you put a cloud on people's ability to speak.
There have been quite a few time savers (I won't call them improvements) built into Linux.
A rather wry observation that I made when working regularly with Solaris 8 was that a lot of the system commands resembled the Linux commands of a decade earlier. Before they added the extra options. Ditto the usages of the/etc directory. One of the best things about Linux is that it has virtually no binary files under/etc.
8: The security in a company are the routers, switches, and network fabric, then secondarily the IDS/IPS and the hypervisor's snapshot functionality. Host security is a lost cause these days.
Spoken like a true Windows apologist. Please stay far, far away from my servers. I have machines that bounce thousands of attacks every day. It's true that no OS is bulletproof, but as long as you have competent administration, you can be reasonably sure that the servers can fend off the vast majority of the stuff that firewalls can't block.
10: You can't get fired using Windows, period.
Unless you happen to work for one of the stock exchanges that had to toss their Windows systems.
We aren't all equally likely to be surveilled. I guess if you're a 9-5er who only goes to work and the grocery store, has a wife and kids, and watches the game on sunday, you don't have much to worry about. I'll bet 15% of the people who post here are or were on some kind of elevated watchlist at some point. A little paranoia is justified. Now someone like kim dotcom is definitely justified.
I take it you've been living in a cave for the last 6 months.
If you live in or have any contact with the USA, you're 100% likely to be surveilled. They've admitted as much thanks to Snowden.
The only question is what depth the surveillance goes to. Whether it's just basic Metadata collection ("just in case") or being fed to the intelligence woodchipper. And, since so much of the mechanisms are statistically-driven, it has less to do with your innocence as it does with how well you shake out from the statistical analysis. For all you know, you're dropping off your laundry next door to an Arab charity and your GPS data triggers a flag.
So, the only way to get our representatives to take note of civil rights abuses is to have them affect a protected class. I wonder how I get myself classified as a journalist?
Oh stop fussing. Innocent people have nothing to worry about.
The "proper authority" wording really catches at me. Authority doesn't mean that you know everything; it just means that you were in the right place at the right time with sufficient credentials to have power.
What he could have said there is, "In my low-level position I didn't have the perspective to see what damage this might cause, and should not have overriden the authority of those in a position to take a broader perspective." It's written so that people could come away thinking that's what he did say, but it clearly doesn't. Instead, he's saying exactly what you said: "I had no power to change things. I'd hoped the leaks would give me some, but they didn't. The power structure remains in place."
What I don't understand is, just who is this addressed to? Surely he doesn't expect the sentencing judge to be fooled by this non-apology into granting leniency. Could it just be a thinly coded message, telling the people who support him that there's still a lot of work to do, dressed up as an "apology" so that it would get press coverage?
Actually, if the quotes are exact, what really bothers me is the way they read.
My dad was obsessed with brainwashing. 1984, Communism, the whole Cold War terror. Which, ironically, even though the Satan-led Godless Commies were going to come in and force us to all Love Big Brother managed to get by just fine without "enemy combatants" or citizens who effectively became non-citizens the minute they left US soil.
So he collected books on brainwashing. And the stilted wording of the "confessions" of the brainwashed in those books were rife with phrasings like those attributed to Manning.
In fact, that is probably why you don't hear too much about brainwashing any more. Essentially brainwashing was the process of brutalizing someone into a psychotic state where they'd parrot out "the truth". But only the most credulous would believe the wooden delivery or unnatural tone of these confessions. As propaganda, brainwashing sucked. And that's all most brainwashing was ever used for, since it didn't actually cause anyone to truly "love Big Brother". It didn't re-shape them to be happy supporters of Communism and its ideals. It just produced automatons whose sole utility was to act as automatons speaking the words that were forced into their heads.
It wasn't like this was temporary life support to give her time to heal. It was a prison that she couldn't escape from - worse than Guantanamo, worse than Abu Graibh, worse than the worst prison ever built by pre-technological man
Not if she wasn't conscious. Was there any reason to believe she might have been?
Where do we go when the lights go out? I certainly don't know.
According to Schiavo's so-called "defenders", she was "conscious". According to the autopsy, her brain was smaller than a dog's. But dogs have consciousness, regardless of whether they have "souls".
As for me, if there was even the thinnest thread tying me to a functionally-dead body and brain, I hope my friends would be merciful enough to let it snap. Immortal soul or poof-and-we're-gone, what they did to her might have been "life", but it certainly wasn't living.
Last year CSCO was $17.35. Today after the layoff announcement it's $24.54. I don't know how you play the market, but in my world that's a kick-ass stock.
In my world that's an average performer, because the S&P 500 index over that same index is up by about that same amount.
I.e., you're better off buying the S&P 500 index and minimizing risk than holding all Cisco stock.
I would have done better with a Bank Savings Account. Because I sold my last Cisco shares at around $26. But that was several years back. Before it dropped to $17.35.
Actually, yes, in this case. People tend to think that "recession" has a fuzzy definition, and means bad economic times, or high numbers of jobless. It doesn't. Recession means two or more consecutive quarters of economic contraction. Period. A recession is not "over" when you get back to the previous levels of income and employment. It is over when you hit bottom and start to recover.
That's a major problem. The governments and news organizations use the term "recession" based on numbers. The general populace uses the term "recession" based on pain. As far as they're concerned, being financially restrained because of suppressed wages or worries about job stability means "recession" a lot more than the level of the Dow or T-Bill rates.
The Greenspans and Bernankes don't get this. They've got high-paying civil service jobs which are still going to be there, recession or not. Political demagogues do, however.
You Sir, are the next Warren Buffet. Your logic is unassailable.
Share price basically hasn't budged since I unloaded it several years ago.
Cisco hasn't been a growth stock for quite a while. Acquisitions are only of value to the run-of-the-shareholder if either they raise the stock price or pay out in dividends.
Yeah, innovation. Cutting employees, buying back your own stock, and giving all your cash to stockholders in the form of special dividends all tell investors that you don't know where growth is going to come from: you're out of ideas.
So, of course the stock is down after this announcement.
There was no ethical quandary in the Schiavo case. She was not conscious, and more or less had no brain to be conscious with. It was a clear cut case of a lost cause where the body was only being kept alive to fuel the aforementioned family feud (her parents were not a big fan of her husband, IIRC, and did not want him inheriting her estate, so they fought the issue until her estate was gone and her husband bankrupt, then finally let it go).
The Schiavo case was an ethical travesty. Why was she kept hooked up all that time? Because of "God". It was "immoral" to "kill" her.
Bullshit. "God" wanted her to go ahead and die. If He hadn't, He would have kept her alive, even without the equipment. It wasn't like this was temporary life support to give her time to heal. It was a prison that she couldn't escape from - worse than Guantanamo, worse than Abu Graibh, worse than the worst prison ever built by pre-technological man. Whatever consciousness she might have had was trapped in a body with no ability to move, to interact, and even to sense, for the most part. If she had been revivable after all that, she probably would have been insane. If I was to do deliberately what they did to her, "torture" would be the least unkind word used.
And for what? If you believe that Jesus had a place waiting for her, why forcibly restrain her from joining him? Even if you believe she was destined for Hell, she was already there. What was she supposed to be doing in there? Meditating on her sins? We don't grant as much reflection time for mass-murderers. Not in Florida, which is nearly as Old-Testament as Texas when it comes to capital crimes.
If there is any mercy in the Universe, God or no God, her consciousness fled long before they pulled the plug. Because with friends like those, who needs demonic enemies?
Cell phone holsters are the sign that you have gone too far.
Back in them early days with cell phones that measured its thickness in inches, those holsters were a little more accepted. However today we just put them in our pocket.
If you have to carry more stuff, get a brief case. Don't try to attach stuff to your pants.
How old is your phone?
One of the biggest problems with phones today is that in their ongoing effort to out-tablet tablets, they're often much larger than older phones.
Something like an Evo is large enough to make me walk with a distinct list to one side. Or rip out pockets with inferior stitching.
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Unless they're editing for a tech journal, I sincerely doubt this to be the case.
Regardless.
Remember "Business 2.0"? They're not longer around. Server crashed with all their assets on it. They hadn't been doing backups.
Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day.
Be the only one around who owns fishing equipment and you can rent it to him on a daily basis for the rest of his life.
Johnny Mnemonic anyone?
Charlie Stross (The Laundry). Memex? Carbon paper?
Imagine owning one of those things for several years. What happens if the damned thing gets stuck? Or a motor burns out that controls the expansion. Or a gear gets stripped...
And honestly, how small do you need to make a car? The difference between the expanded and contracted versions was not that great. I'd keep it expanded all the time. Why not. Are you ever going to have that little space? Unlikely.
I expect it to fold up into a briefcase.
Also Fly. Carrying a family of 4.
The guy's Indian, and to your average dimwitted, racist TSA goon that's just another variety of "terr'ist sand-nigger." They're not even smart enough to be racist properly.
Them's too many words. Just say Ay-rab and be done with it.
Some of the linux subsystems still read like they were written in someone's basement even after a decade of most of the maintainers being paid a yearly salary to maintain it.
So in other words, right on par with commercial product code.
If he were in the 1%, he wouldn't need to commute to work at all.
I wouldn't go that far. I see quite a few 1-percenters who come into work regularly.
Of course, sometimes "work" is at a golf course, private Super Bowl box, island resort, etc.
If you were of the 1%, you could have a chauffeur-driven vehicle.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, speaking on behalf of Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch.
I for one like software which is smart enough to put the menus I need in an easy place to reach when I want them. Beats digging through a "mega evil rats nest of doom" tree structure every time I do something routine (like adjusting error bars). Context sensitive is just smart.
But not that smart.
The thing that blew my blood pressure was when Office 2003 got clever with menus.
I'm used to printing via Ctrl-P command key. Office 2003 kept assuming I didn't use the File/Print menu so it removed it. Along with its binding to Ctrl-P. Half the time I went to print something, it didn't print. Because "clever" Office 2002 removed it from the context.
Idioms don't have to make sense when taken literally.
Actually, try this. And see what you think:
There's "try and". Which, as you can see, is a perfectly sensible construct.
And there's "try to". Which is also sensible, but has an obviously different meaning.
And finally, there's the idiomatic "try and". Which doesn't make literal sense, because it's actually just being sloppy with the above. But that's idioms for you.
Welcome to 2013, the terrerists are still winning without having to lift a finger.
The terrorists won long ago and occupied the USA using outsourced forces, since their own numbers are so small. The terrorists surrogate army has outposts at every airport in the land reminding people constantly that their ability to travel freely is limited.
First you put a cloud on people's ability to travel.
Then you put a cloud on people's ability to speak.
Then...
There have been quite a few time savers (I won't call them improvements) built into Linux.
A rather wry observation that I made when working regularly with Solaris 8 was that a lot of the system commands resembled the Linux commands of a decade earlier. Before they added the extra options. Ditto the usages of the /etc directory. One of the best things about Linux is that it has virtually no binary files under /etc.
8: The security in a company are the routers, switches, and network fabric, then secondarily the IDS/IPS and the hypervisor's snapshot functionality. Host security is a lost cause these days.
Spoken like a true Windows apologist. Please stay far, far away from my servers. I have machines that bounce thousands of attacks every day. It's true that no OS is bulletproof, but as long as you have competent administration, you can be reasonably sure that the servers can fend off the vast majority of the stuff that firewalls can't block.
10: You can't get fired using Windows, period.
Unless you happen to work for one of the stock exchanges that had to toss their Windows systems.
Unix has three definitions.
1. Legacy Unix, based on the AT&T Unix source code. eg: Solaris and AIX.
2. Certified Unix(tm). eg: Solaris, AIX, and OS X (apparently not included in their decline of Unix numbers).
3. Unix-like operating systems. eg: Linux, *BSD. (*BSD is also somewhat legacy in that AT&T incorporated their source code).
I don't think you can classify BSD as "Unix-like". My understanding that it is considered full-on Unix. And the basis for Solaris, no less.
We aren't all equally likely to be surveilled. I guess if you're a 9-5er who only goes to work and the grocery store, has a wife and kids, and watches the game on sunday, you don't have much to worry about. I'll bet 15% of the people who post here are or were on some kind of elevated watchlist at some point. A little paranoia is justified. Now someone like kim dotcom is definitely justified.
I take it you've been living in a cave for the last 6 months.
If you live in or have any contact with the USA, you're 100% likely to be surveilled. They've admitted as much thanks to Snowden.
The only question is what depth the surveillance goes to. Whether it's just basic Metadata collection ("just in case") or being fed to the intelligence woodchipper. And, since so much of the mechanisms are statistically-driven, it has less to do with your innocence as it does with how well you shake out from the statistical analysis. For all you know, you're dropping off your laundry next door to an Arab charity and your GPS data triggers a flag.
So, the only way to get our representatives to take note of civil rights abuses is to have them affect a protected class. I wonder how I get myself classified as a journalist?
Oh stop fussing. Innocent people have nothing to worry about.
The "proper authority" wording really catches at me. Authority doesn't mean that you know everything; it just means that you were in the right place at the right time with sufficient credentials to have power.
What he could have said there is, "In my low-level position I didn't have the perspective to see what damage this might cause, and should not have overriden the authority of those in a position to take a broader perspective." It's written so that people could come away thinking that's what he did say, but it clearly doesn't. Instead, he's saying exactly what you said: "I had no power to change things. I'd hoped the leaks would give me some, but they didn't. The power structure remains in place."
What I don't understand is, just who is this addressed to? Surely he doesn't expect the sentencing judge to be fooled by this non-apology into granting leniency. Could it just be a thinly coded message, telling the people who support him that there's still a lot of work to do, dressed up as an "apology" so that it would get press coverage?
Actually, if the quotes are exact, what really bothers me is the way they read.
My dad was obsessed with brainwashing. 1984, Communism, the whole Cold War terror. Which, ironically, even though the Satan-led Godless Commies were going to come in and force us to all Love Big Brother managed to get by just fine without "enemy combatants" or citizens who effectively became non-citizens the minute they left US soil.
So he collected books on brainwashing. And the stilted wording of the "confessions" of the brainwashed in those books were rife with phrasings like those attributed to Manning.
In fact, that is probably why you don't hear too much about brainwashing any more. Essentially brainwashing was the process of brutalizing someone into a psychotic state where they'd parrot out "the truth". But only the most credulous would believe the wooden delivery or unnatural tone of these confessions. As propaganda, brainwashing sucked. And that's all most brainwashing was ever used for, since it didn't actually cause anyone to truly "love Big Brother". It didn't re-shape them to be happy supporters of Communism and its ideals. It just produced automatons whose sole utility was to act as automatons speaking the words that were forced into their heads.
It wasn't like this was temporary life support to give her time to heal. It was a prison that she couldn't escape from - worse than Guantanamo, worse than Abu Graibh, worse than the worst prison ever built by pre-technological man
Not if she wasn't conscious. Was there any reason to believe she might have been?
Where do we go when the lights go out? I certainly don't know.
According to Schiavo's so-called "defenders", she was "conscious". According to the autopsy, her brain was smaller than a dog's. But dogs have consciousness, regardless of whether they have "souls".
As for me, if there was even the thinnest thread tying me to a functionally-dead body and brain, I hope my friends would be merciful enough to let it snap. Immortal soul or poof-and-we're-gone, what they did to her might have been "life", but it certainly wasn't living.
In my world that's an average performer, because the S&P 500 index over that same index is up by about that same amount.
I.e., you're better off buying the S&P 500 index and minimizing risk than holding all Cisco stock.
I would have done better with a Bank Savings Account. Because I sold my last Cisco shares at around $26. But that was several years back. Before it dropped to $17.35.
No.
Actually, yes, in this case. People tend to think that "recession" has a fuzzy definition, and means bad economic times, or high numbers of jobless. It doesn't. Recession means two or more consecutive quarters of economic contraction. Period. A recession is not "over" when you get back to the previous levels of income and employment. It is over when you hit bottom and start to recover.
That's a major problem. The governments and news organizations use the term "recession" based on numbers. The general populace uses the term "recession" based on pain. As far as they're concerned, being financially restrained because of suppressed wages or worries about job stability means "recession" a lot more than the level of the Dow or T-Bill rates.
The Greenspans and Bernankes don't get this. They've got high-paying civil service jobs which are still going to be there, recession or not. Political demagogues do, however.
You Sir, are the next Warren Buffet. Your logic is unassailable.
Share price basically hasn't budged since I unloaded it several years ago.
Cisco hasn't been a growth stock for quite a while. Acquisitions are only of value to the run-of-the-shareholder if either they raise the stock price or pay out in dividends.
Yeah, innovation. Cutting employees, buying back your own stock, and giving all your cash to stockholders in the form of special dividends all tell investors that you don't know where growth is going to come from: you're out of ideas.
So, of course the stock is down after this announcement.
"Our employees are our greatest asset."
Let's liquidate some assets.
There was no ethical quandary in the Schiavo case. She was not conscious, and more or less had no brain to be conscious with. It was a clear cut case of a lost cause where the body was only being kept alive to fuel the aforementioned family feud (her parents were not a big fan of her husband, IIRC, and did not want him inheriting her estate, so they fought the issue until her estate was gone and her husband bankrupt, then finally let it go).
The Schiavo case was an ethical travesty. Why was she kept hooked up all that time? Because of "God". It was "immoral" to "kill" her.
Bullshit. "God" wanted her to go ahead and die. If He hadn't, He would have kept her alive, even without the equipment. It wasn't like this was temporary life support to give her time to heal. It was a prison that she couldn't escape from - worse than Guantanamo, worse than Abu Graibh, worse than the worst prison ever built by pre-technological man. Whatever consciousness she might have had was trapped in a body with no ability to move, to interact, and even to sense, for the most part. If she had been revivable after all that, she probably would have been insane. If I was to do deliberately what they did to her, "torture" would be the least unkind word used.
And for what? If you believe that Jesus had a place waiting for her, why forcibly restrain her from joining him? Even if you believe she was destined for Hell, she was already there. What was she supposed to be doing in there? Meditating on her sins? We don't grant as much reflection time for mass-murderers. Not in Florida, which is nearly as Old-Testament as Texas when it comes to capital crimes.
If there is any mercy in the Universe, God or no God, her consciousness fled long before they pulled the plug. Because with friends like those, who needs demonic enemies?
Cell phone holsters are the sign that you have gone too far.
Back in them early days with cell phones that measured its thickness in inches, those holsters were a little more accepted. However today we just put them in our pocket.
If you have to carry more stuff, get a brief case. Don't try to attach stuff to your pants.
How old is your phone?
One of the biggest problems with phones today is that in their ongoing effort to out-tablet tablets, they're often much larger than older phones.
Something like an Evo is large enough to make me walk with a distinct list to one side. Or rip out pockets with inferior stitching.