Yeah, and said younger banks have been getting cracked left and right over the last year, serving as the base for attacks on the SWIFT global payment clearing system.
The Yahoo Board that rejected Microsoft's $43 billion takeover offer are the parties who committed breach of fiduciary duty. Everything that came after that has been a desperate attempt to stack sandbags in front of a tsunami.
Three gub'mint pensions actually (University of California, State of California, and United States Government).
Much like the anti-government crusader Paul Ryan who used his Social Security survivor benefits to pay his college tuition (quite legitimately - that's what the program was created to do) then immediately embarked on a lifelong career cashing government paychecks while campaigning on the evils of... government.
The question that I always have when reading essays of this type is, what is the appropriate course of action? Setting up business information systems to be thoroughly and deeply secure would take 100% of the financial resources of a good-sized organization and would render the business tools virtually unusable by ordinary human beings. OTOH it is becoming increasingly clear that all of our interconnected systems are penetrated to some degree, including those of the organizations banks, trading partners, and government. If everyone is insecure is there any profit or even any theoretical reason to make ones own systems fortress-like?
That's even leaving aside the question of exactly how an organization would go about this, given that we now know that every firewall and router we use for security has been compromised by national intelligence agencies and it appears that one of the most ubiquitous operating systems has been since 1996 as well.
So the House introduces a series of revenue bills, as it deems appropriate. There is no requirement for a single "budget" and absolutely no requirement for a "balanced budget" - that was argued out around 1795.
There's no requirement for a "budget" in the Constitution. The House and Senate are free to write a series of spending bills, and the House to originate a series of revenue bills, if that is their preference. Which apparently it is because that is how both houses have proceeded for about 30 years now. There's a certain faction in the US that fetishizes a single integrated bill it calls a budget, but that's just their preference and that preference is clearly not shared by most members of Congress (of all parties).
= = = A couple of years ago I heard of a late-70's VAX still being used at a small power plant. To my knowledge it controlled some sort of HVAC systems. Another old system, one I've actually seen, was a mid-80's computer of unknown make/model used to control traffic lights in a small city. It's funny, or actually impressive, to see such old systems still in use.= = =
Those systems were designed to be reliable, maintainable, and understandable by thorough professionals, so it is in no way surprising they continue to work. And in the industrial infrastructure world you don't replace equipment just because there is a shinier new version. 50 year old equipment is not uncommon in the provision-of-electricity industry and I've seen some 80 year old stuff in operation.
Back in the 1980s my then-employer shared the cost with the FAA of updating IBM's 1401 emulator to the latest architecture (IIRC whatever was the half generation between 370 and 390), so I wouldn't count on that 360 being the oldest!
= = = owever, some citizens and council members don't like corporations strong-arming local government and effectively writing their own regulations. = = =
But... but... but... that's the libertarian paradise that's always been dreamt of, no? The Dagney Tagger Dollar Sign, ruling over (erasing really) any concept of 'we the People'?
The Chevy Malibu is a good example: the 2010 model was as good as any in its class and better for North American driving conditions than most of its European- and Japan-optimized competitors. I haven't seen the 2016 yet but early reviews are that is it substantially improved over the 2009-2011 type. There are many very good Big 2.5 designed and built models on the market that are competitive with anything (particularly in North America). Also some not-so-great models - which is also true of Mazda, Toyota, Nissan, etc (not even getting into the VW cult/mess). Toyota automatic transmissions? Woah, there's a great design;-(
= = = Thats because on the whole compared to what is available from the rest of the world they're quite crap, especially in the fuel economy, power per litre and quality of materials used for interiors. = = =
The 1980s called; they want their auto industry analysis back.
Airbus airplanes have substantial content sourced from the United States. Likewise Boeing airplanes have content sourced from the EU, including from subsidiaries of Airbus. The prime and its preferred contractors obviously get the greatest benefit but the industry is one big bowl of international spaghetti.
- - - - - I get that for high-traffic websites need a better scalable solutions than the traditional databases, and I get that you have to sacrifice some of the features of those traditional databases to do so. - - - - -
Whenever I read something similar to this as related to a database I immediately think that what is being sacrificed is transaction integrity and multi-user contested performance/scaleability, but that's just me.
- - - - - Oracle is such a pile of shite it does not actually work unless you have a support contract. and even then, the features you use are likely to be abandoned without warning unless you are a major first world government (and probably even then, but I cant speak from experience on that).
That's funny. I learned Oracle when I inherited a midrange ERP/WMS system at a small manufacturing company that used a vendor-supplied 8i as the base. It pretty much just ran for two years under heavy load with just the basic DBA maintenance instructions provided by the ERP vendor in a 1-hour training. Meanwhile our peers in the software user group reported crashes, lockups, lost transactions, and extremely poor reporting performance on their MS SQL Server installations of the same package.
Over that two years as my staff and I taught ourselves Oracle, good performant SQL practices, and good reporting practices my respect for the DBMS and its fundamental design grew. I'm very, very skeptical about software and its vendors in general but by the time we upgraded to 9i I was (and remain) a very strong Oracle RDBMS supporter.
I do find that people who have self-trained on databases via Excel, MS Access, and MySQL have a very hard time with Oracle (and presumably also PostgSQL and DB2). I also have seen a lot of really bad, transaction-unsafe, non-performant MS SQL Server code. So YMMV.
Public libraries too are generally run by people with a professional and personal dedication to providing the widest possible selection of information and viewpoints possible within their budgets, not the narrowest.
= = = Uber offers point-to-point route service without having to wait 30 minutes. = = =
Uber also routinely breaks numerous law put in place to protect consumers and citizens, often as a result of hard-won experience. Not sure what the legal or moral justification for that is, other than "I wanna".
Not to mention the ridiculous use of "around". Does your product do something (or describe something, if it is a paper)? If so, say what it is/does; don't give me the unfocused and non-understandable "around".
That's a bit disingenuous. The motto of the "disruption" crowd is explicitly 'better to have your lawyers fight for dismissal than ask for permission', particularly when it comes to the structure of laws and regulations that have been put in place to protect the general population from damage and exploitation. How about a commitment by the technology-pushers to obey the law to start with?
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"Cadence" = we have no idea how to describe an overall plan or schedule
sPh
Which action gave Microsoft permission to install the forced upgrade?
sPh
Yeah, and said younger banks have been getting cracked left and right over the last year, serving as the base for attacks on the SWIFT global payment clearing system.
sPh
Your former teacher should join the ACM and read through the archives of the HOPL committee (History of Programming Languages)
sPh
The Yahoo Board that rejected Microsoft's $43 billion takeover offer are the parties who committed breach of fiduciary duty. Everything that came after that has been a desperate attempt to stack sandbags in front of a tsunami.
sPh
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Three gub'mint pensions actually (University of California, State of California, and United States Government).
Much like the anti-government crusader Paul Ryan who used his Social Security survivor benefits to pay his college tuition (quite legitimately - that's what the program was created to do) then immediately embarked on a lifelong career cashing government paychecks while campaigning on the evils of... government.
sPh
There are places on earth where an airplane can be flown at or below sea level, so 00000 would not be safe either.
sPh
The question that I always have when reading essays of this type is, what is the appropriate course of action? Setting up business information systems to be thoroughly and deeply secure would take 100% of the financial resources of a good-sized organization and would render the business tools virtually unusable by ordinary human beings. OTOH it is becoming increasingly clear that all of our interconnected systems are penetrated to some degree, including those of the organizations banks, trading partners, and government. If everyone is insecure is there any profit or even any theoretical reason to make ones own systems fortress-like?
That's even leaving aside the question of exactly how an organization would go about this, given that we now know that every firewall and router we use for security has been compromised by national intelligence agencies and it appears that one of the most ubiquitous operating systems has been since 1996 as well.
sPh
So the House introduces a series of revenue bills, as it deems appropriate. There is no requirement for a single "budget" and absolutely no requirement for a "balanced budget" - that was argued out around 1795.
sPh
There's no requirement for a "budget" in the Constitution. The House and Senate are free to write a series of spending bills, and the House to originate a series of revenue bills, if that is their preference. Which apparently it is because that is how both houses have proceeded for about 30 years now. There's a certain faction in the US that fetishizes a single integrated bill it calls a budget, but that's just their preference and that preference is clearly not shared by most members of Congress (of all parties).
sPh
Can you point to me where in the Constitution a budget is defined or required?
(Noting that no Congress can pass a law binding on a succeeding Congress; that can only be done with a constitutional amendment or treaty.)
sPh
Those systems were designed to be reliable, maintainable, and understandable by thorough professionals, so it is in no way surprising they continue to work. And in the industrial infrastructure world you don't replace equipment just because there is a shinier new version. 50 year old equipment is not uncommon in the provision-of-electricity industry and I've seen some 80 year old stuff in operation.
sPh
Back in the 1980s my then-employer shared the cost with the FAA of updating IBM's 1401 emulator to the latest architecture (IIRC whatever was the half generation between 370 and 390), so I wouldn't count on that 360 being the oldest!
sPh
But... but... but... that's the libertarian paradise that's always been dreamt of, no? The Dagney Tagger Dollar Sign, ruling over (erasing really) any concept of 'we the People'?
sPh
The Chevy Malibu is a good example: the 2010 model was as good as any in its class and better for North American driving conditions than most of its European- and Japan-optimized competitors. I haven't seen the 2016 yet but early reviews are that is it substantially improved over the 2009-2011 type. There are many very good Big 2.5 designed and built models on the market that are competitive with anything (particularly in North America). Also some not-so-great models - which is also true of Mazda, Toyota, Nissan, etc (not even getting into the VW cult/mess). Toyota automatic transmissions? Woah, there's a great design ;-(
sPh
The 1980s called; they want their auto industry analysis back.
sPh
Airbus airplanes have substantial content sourced from the United States. Likewise Boeing airplanes have content sourced from the EU, including from subsidiaries of Airbus. The prime and its preferred contractors obviously get the greatest benefit but the industry is one big bowl of international spaghetti.
sPh
Whenever I read something similar to this as related to a database I immediately think that what is being sacrificed is transaction integrity and multi-user contested performance/scaleability, but that's just me.
sPh
That's funny. I learned Oracle when I inherited a midrange ERP/WMS system at a small manufacturing company that used a vendor-supplied 8i as the base. It pretty much just ran for two years under heavy load with just the basic DBA maintenance instructions provided by the ERP vendor in a 1-hour training. Meanwhile our peers in the software user group reported crashes, lockups, lost transactions, and extremely poor reporting performance on their MS SQL Server installations of the same package.
Over that two years as my staff and I taught ourselves Oracle, good performant SQL practices, and good reporting practices my respect for the DBMS and its fundamental design grew. I'm very, very skeptical about software and its vendors in general but by the time we upgraded to 9i I was (and remain) a very strong Oracle RDBMS supporter.
I do find that people who have self-trained on databases via Excel, MS Access, and MySQL have a very hard time with Oracle (and presumably also PostgSQL and DB2). I also have seen a lot of really bad, transaction-unsafe, non-performant MS SQL Server code. So YMMV.
sPh
Public libraries too are generally run by people with a professional and personal dedication to providing the widest possible selection of information and viewpoints possible within their budgets, not the narrowest.
sPh
Uber also routinely breaks numerous law put in place to protect consumers and citizens, often as a result of hard-won experience. Not sure what the legal or moral justification for that is, other than "I wanna".
sPh
Not to mention the ridiculous use of "around". Does your product do something (or describe something, if it is a paper)? If so, say what it is/does; don't give me the unfocused and non-understandable "around".
sPh
Or too experienced to be seduced by the shiny new new thing without some measured consideration. Your viewpoint may vary.
sPh
That's a bit disingenuous. The motto of the "disruption" crowd is explicitly 'better to have your lawyers fight for dismissal than ask for permission', particularly when it comes to the structure of laws and regulations that have been put in place to protect the general population from damage and exploitation. How about a commitment by the technology-pushers to obey the law to start with?
sPh