Seriously, the social security problem is easily solved by actually making the wealthy pay their proportionate share of the taxes.
Actually, you do it by raising the retirement age. That's a much more direct method of preventing problems, as it limits the payouts a lot. Any good actuary can tell you that.
The problem I have faced is that none of my server ISPs will even let me get an IPv6 address even if I know they have it and I beg.
They'll come round once they start having problems getting more IPv4 addresses from their upstream providers, at which point it will start to hit their bottom line (as they need to have all their cloud instances individually direct-routable for configuration and management purposes). We're getting close to that, but aren't there yet.
I wouldn't base any long term plans on them staying IPv4 only...
On the other hand, plants aren't so keen on heat stress. There's multiple effects going on, some of which are positive and some negative and many of which are non-linear, and that's why this stuff is so hard to work out: balancing the relative sizes of all these things to get the overall picture (especially in non-equilibrium situations) is viciously difficult.
But the very rich (fiscal conservatives) are too small a minority to be politically viable. That's why they have to make a deal with the devil, so to speak, and form a coalition with social conservatives. So its in their interest to throw them a few crumbs and wire broadband out to where the white trash lives.
The very rich have a truly astonishing amount of money and power; they can buy a lot of support with that. The more conservative parts of the very rich use the rest of the republicans as their cats-paws, though the alliance with the social conservatives has been fraying rather since the start of the financial crisis. This discord is harming the party, though the full effects haven't been felt yet due to the nature of district boundaries. (Compare the compositions of the House and the Senate, where the latter has boundaries that cannot be conveniently gerrymandered.) You might argue that demographic shifts are also hurting the Reps, but that's not really the case: it's their response to the changes that is hurting them.
Interestingly, the not-so-conservative parts of the very rich — probably a minority, but they still exist — use the dems as their party, but at least in the modern party that's mostly making them act more towards the center so that's largely a good thing overall. In a "well, it's probably net positive I suppose" sort of way, and only as long as you accept that governing from the center is better than governing from the extremes. But then again, it's well known (though not very politically popular) that no party in a two-party system can gain lots of power by just doing policies for their activists: the Dems seem to be remembering this on the whole, but the Reps seem unsure on the importance of the concept. If they truly forget it, they're set fair for a generation out of power.
Dolls and action figures are wonderful tool for imagination and exploration of relationships, aka soft skills.
Yes, but they don't need to be highly gender-specific. A teddy bear will work just as well for those types of skills and encourage imagination as well.
Excessive water consumption - Top loading washing machines are a colossal waste of fresh water
Saving water is only an issue in some parts; others have vast amounts of fresh water and don't need to save any at all. There are good reasons for reducing water use in washing machines though; it means less water to heat and so less money spent on heating it. That's also a good reason for using more-efficient low-temperature washing cycles most of the time.
It's a little better for the rest of the world too, but saving money's always nice (and heating water is expensive due to its high heat capacity) so that's why everyone should do it.
Hell, I've used the internet since that meant using Mosaic, and worked in IT for over 15 years, and I have not ever gone to a ".int" domain knowingly (though I've probably hit one or two through Google searches and didn't notice).
I'm in a similar position to you, except I have knowingly been to.int addresses. It's amazing what having dealings with the EU bureaucracy can lead you into! (Well, not really. "Boring. Terribly, terribly boring" is far closer to the truth.)
It's trivial to fix most vulnerabilities in customer websites without spending effort on scanning their code. There's a simple configuration change that will deal with virtually all the problems in one swoop.
(British readers should swap the terms "public" and "private" in this discussion. It's an interesting different between the dialects of English.;-)
British public schools are just very very exclusive private schools. This terminology is just weird. The real equivalent of the US term "public school" is the UK term "state school".
intel could be making the best fabbed arm chips in 6 months if they chose that x86 is dead
It'd take longer; Intel's fabs are a long way ahead of everyone else's and so ARM aren't yet producing layouts for that scale. Which would mean that Intel would have to rearchitect the Intel designs for their own fabs, which takes time.
however the arm fabs can't switch other way
Definitely true at the moment; the ARM licensees (ARM don't make stuff themselves; that's not their business model) are a generation or two behind Intel on the fab side of things. They compensate by having specialist hardware on their chips to do particularly important operations (e.g., handling the signal processing for LTE) so they can get away with less raw CPU power. It's a different approach that is very relevant for mobile and embedded markets.
Right now, I expect Intel to continue to dominate in desktop and server markets (i.e., anywhere where you can get power easily) and ARM and their licensees to dominate in mobile and embedded (where the power budget is critical and the ability to combine with custom on-chip hardware invaluable).
Falcon 9 is cheaper and has been pretty successful.
But is it because they're good or because they're lucky? You can't tell from Musk's comments; one of his tasks is to pitch as high as possible to bring in investors and persuade customers to jump ship.
If I was running the Ariane program I would be worried. You are betting on the Falcon 9 having failures. Otherwise you cannot compete for a large part of the market.
If the Heavy works, you are out of business. It might be FUD, but it is also true.
Right now, you've got someone talking up a product that hasn't actually entered service yet and you're believing them on the basis of an exceptionally short service history with a different system (the Falcon 9 and Ariane 5 are targeted at different types of payloads; you'd probably be better off comparing with the A5 predecessor). It's FUD and vaporware vs stuff that actually exists. We don't tolerate that when talking about software, so why should we be more lenient about rockets? Arianespace will start worrying once the Falcon Heavy has actually lifted a decent number of loads without incident (remember to compare the sum of the launch costs and the insurance, because the satellite owners will surely do that sum).
Microsoft doesn't have to deliver a great solution, just something good enough that Windows users don't look for alternatives.
Luckily for Valve, this is something that Microsoft has consistently failed at to date over many years. While yes, they might change, Microsoft have never actually shown signs of understanding what is needed in a non-sucky system for distribution and securing games, and they really don't appear to understand the market they're selling to either.
That used to be Arthur Andersen. I first 'met' them in about 1975 when they were messing up something in Woolworths UK. Since then they've been involved in messing up a great many things in gov.uk and some of our bigger companies. I'm not sure what their record is like elsewhere. Also, remember they 'audited' Enron, hence the name change. So, I don't expect that much from this, either way. $3 million they'll be through that in a couple of days, too...
The AA/Accenture split happened before that, or at least before it blew up into public knowledge. IIRC, the business services part decided that they wanted to go off on their own and so did an MBO and became Arthur Andersen Consulting (before changing their name to Accenture a few years later). Meanwhile AA decided that they wanted to get back into the business services line. Everything was going fine (if somewhat confusing) and then it was discovered that AA had been rather less diligent than they should have been with Enron, and promptly died. I guess that Accenture at that point felt huge relief that they'd changed their name a few years earlier, as it let them keep the amount of blowback heading their way down.
Nonsense. Patents apply to everybody. There's no exception for people who "only" make 1-10 units. Patents literally forbid you to tinker in your own home and then sell the item you just invented, if someone paid a fee and lodged a vague sounding description about something roughly similar already.
But the reality is that if someone only makes 1-10 units then the patent holder is exceptionally unlikely to even notice. Moreover, the cost of litigating would make the likely gain for the patent holder really miniscule.
The big barriers are that it isn't easy to do a good job of manufacturing a mobile phone without a lot of very specialized (and expensive) equipment, and that there are a lot of high-quality competitor devices out there. Chip manufacturing is not a backyard activity, and custom ICs (particularly ARM SoC) are completely the key to economic phone manufacturing. The real market barriers are damn high. (There are also legal and regulatory issues, but they don't explain why there are no such tinkerers anywhere.)
It is outside north-west Europe (England excepted) that unions seem to have such a terrible relationship, it is an English/Italian thing, to snobby to admit you are just a wage slave at the mercy of your boss and to corrupt to handle money and power.
Most unions in England are in many ways very similar to the model in the rest of NW Europe; generally trying to serve their members (and persuade non-members to join without the ability to force them) but not wanting to strike except when management have decided to be total jerks. Occasionally a union gets a more leftist executive and becomes more bolshie (with this being more likely in some industries than others for historical reasons) but that's mostly pretty rare as their members want to work and have their employer succeed as a business. (For a union to survive, it has to continually prove to its members and prospective members that it is doing things to help them. That's healthy.)
The advantage for employers of having reasonably strong but optional unions is that consulting employees about changes they're making to the business becomes much simpler, and far fewer disputes need to reach the attention of a court. After all, you're not going to stop employees from talking to each other (not without destroying the business entirely).
Maybe the next step is a standard size desktop case paired with a standard way of doing liquid cooling with intelligent valves which can sense leaks and shut off as well as allow connects/disconnects with relative ease (and offer a high amount of disconnection/connection cycles.)
You'll still need lots of space for the radiator required for getting that heat out of the liquid. Either that means you're using a large case, or you're using a very hot case (problematic in a different way), or you're going to have external connections on the case for getting coolant in and out. Running external tubing for cooling is probably going to make you wish you were just dealing with cables, as anyone who's ever dealt with plumbing problems will tell you...
Adobe Reader and Flash were previously the largest attack vectors...Java is by far #1 and has been for the last few years. Since Sun/Oracle states "Java Runs on 3 Billion Devices" and that a large chunk of those devices will never or rarely see a patch, it has been a HUGE painted target lately.
Virtually all of those attacks are aimed at the code that integrates a Java runtime with a browser, as that's an extremely exposed part of the ecosystem. The plain old JRE is nowhere near as easy to attack (unless someone's running a moronic program, of course, but you can do that in any programming language except for ones you wouldn't use for anything serious at all) as it simply doesn't normally listen to the outside world. Other routes for doing Java things from a browser also tend to give me the willies (e.g., JNLP) but it's not really the "Java" that is the problem so much as the "run code where you can't be sure where it's from" and the alternatives aren't necessarily better.
The truly hard part of security is that it is too often antagonistic to utility, and users will virtually always pick utility over security.
But no, we "can't" afford to spend money on heavy interplanetary propulsion tech demonstrator missions, much less one with an actual science payload that could dwarf in significance all the data collected by all outer solar system programs so far.
Of course not! It's far more important for society for that money to be spent on invading other countries and giving Bain Capital another tax cut...
Solids and liquids are not significantly compressible.
While you're correct that they're a lot less compressible than a gas, you most certainly can still compress solids and liquids if you press hard enough. There's a lot of pressure inside the core of a planet...
Not to knock ARM, but A: I don't know that they have a design for a desktop processor yet (most of their designs seem to be in the Atom/Bobcat realm tops) B: With the absolutely massive amounts of money Intel put's into their Tick-Tock development cadence they have both pretty much the most optimized desktop/laptop architecture their is, and probably the most significant process advantage in the history of semiconductors.
ARM have most certainly had desktop processor designs in the past, but their main focus has been in the embedded space. That matters because the optimization goals are different than for desktops. More of a concern would be the fact that Intel are definitely ahead of everyone else in regards to feature size; there's no pressing need to produce a super-small process design when nobody who is a licensee can actually make the design in the near future. ARM aren't about to start building their own fabs unless someone gives them an utterly enormous pile of money to do so; that's just not their business model at all.
I predict that Apple will probably stay with Intel for desktops — and maybe laptops too — for now, and that will continue until someone other than Intel improves their process enough. Apple's one advantage here is that they have technology for supporting multiple CPU architectures in the same binary (they used it in the transition to Intel) so having one program distribution that supports both Intel and ARM is entirely possible; it's just disk space and bandwidth, and they're relatively cheap commodities. (With a fat binary, you essentially just generate the code out of the compiler twice, once for each architecture, and store the code in different sections of the object file. As long as the toolchain is aware, everything else is happy. You can even do so relatively easily in most circumstances, as you mostly don't need to reparse the source code. It's a technically elegant solution.)
The ongoing trend of saying "RTFM" to every question when TFM is either nonexistent, is written in geek terms a non-sysadmin will never comprehend, or the documentation simply sucks balls.
Be fair. An awful lot of commercial documentation is just as bad, but with bonus pictures of smiling multiracial actors. Too many damn systems and too much damn software has docs that just do not actually give the information you need. Sometimes, if you're really lucky you'll find a blog posting that describes a half-assed workaround that is now obsolete but which indicates the road to what the workaround is and actually lets you become able to find out how to make things work for a few weeks. Until some moronic dev breaks it again.
Sorry for bitching. Too much time dealing with badly-documented REST services and frameworks...
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Seriously, the social security problem is easily solved by actually making the wealthy pay their proportionate share of the taxes.
Actually, you do it by raising the retirement age. That's a much more direct method of preventing problems, as it limits the payouts a lot. Any good actuary can tell you that.
The problem I have faced is that none of my server ISPs will even let me get an IPv6 address even if I know they have it and I beg.
They'll come round once they start having problems getting more IPv4 addresses from their upstream providers, at which point it will start to hit their bottom line (as they need to have all their cloud instances individually direct-routable for configuration and management purposes). We're getting close to that, but aren't there yet.
I wouldn't base any long term plans on them staying IPv4 only...
Plants love CO2.
On the other hand, plants aren't so keen on heat stress. There's multiple effects going on, some of which are positive and some negative and many of which are non-linear, and that's why this stuff is so hard to work out: balancing the relative sizes of all these things to get the overall picture (especially in non-equilibrium situations) is viciously difficult.
Amazon certainly does have cloud services that run on hosts in the UK...
That's almost as misleading as saying that Havana is in the USA.
But the very rich (fiscal conservatives) are too small a minority to be politically viable. That's why they have to make a deal with the devil, so to speak, and form a coalition with social conservatives. So its in their interest to throw them a few crumbs and wire broadband out to where the white trash lives.
The very rich have a truly astonishing amount of money and power; they can buy a lot of support with that. The more conservative parts of the very rich use the rest of the republicans as their cats-paws, though the alliance with the social conservatives has been fraying rather since the start of the financial crisis. This discord is harming the party, though the full effects haven't been felt yet due to the nature of district boundaries. (Compare the compositions of the House and the Senate, where the latter has boundaries that cannot be conveniently gerrymandered.) You might argue that demographic shifts are also hurting the Reps, but that's not really the case: it's their response to the changes that is hurting them.
Interestingly, the not-so-conservative parts of the very rich — probably a minority, but they still exist — use the dems as their party, but at least in the modern party that's mostly making them act more towards the center so that's largely a good thing overall. In a "well, it's probably net positive I suppose" sort of way, and only as long as you accept that governing from the center is better than governing from the extremes. But then again, it's well known (though not very politically popular) that no party in a two-party system can gain lots of power by just doing policies for their activists: the Dems seem to be remembering this on the whole, but the Reps seem unsure on the importance of the concept. If they truly forget it, they're set fair for a generation out of power.
Dolls and action figures are wonderful tool for imagination and exploration of relationships, aka soft skills.
Yes, but they don't need to be highly gender-specific. A teddy bear will work just as well for those types of skills and encourage imagination as well.
FTFY...
Excessive water consumption - Top loading washing machines are a colossal waste of fresh water
Saving water is only an issue in some parts; others have vast amounts of fresh water and don't need to save any at all. There are good reasons for reducing water use in washing machines though; it means less water to heat and so less money spent on heating it. That's also a good reason for using more-efficient low-temperature washing cycles most of the time.
It's a little better for the rest of the world too, but saving money's always nice (and heating water is expensive due to its high heat capacity) so that's why everyone should do it.
Hell, I've used the internet since that meant using Mosaic, and worked in IT for over 15 years, and I have not ever gone to a ".int" domain knowingly (though I've probably hit one or two through Google searches and didn't notice).
I'm in a similar position to you, except I have knowingly been to .int addresses. It's amazing what having dealings with the EU bureaucracy can lead you into! (Well, not really. "Boring. Terribly, terribly boring" is far closer to the truth.)
It's trivial to fix most vulnerabilities in customer websites without spending effort on scanning their code. There's a simple configuration change that will deal with virtually all the problems in one swoop.
Turn off PHP and ASP.
(British readers should swap the terms "public" and "private" in this discussion. It's an interesting different between the dialects of English. ;-)
British public schools are just very very exclusive private schools. This terminology is just weird. The real equivalent of the US term "public school" is the UK term "state school".
intel could be making the best fabbed arm chips in 6 months if they chose that x86 is dead
It'd take longer; Intel's fabs are a long way ahead of everyone else's and so ARM aren't yet producing layouts for that scale. Which would mean that Intel would have to rearchitect the Intel designs for their own fabs, which takes time.
however the arm fabs can't switch other way
Definitely true at the moment; the ARM licensees (ARM don't make stuff themselves; that's not their business model) are a generation or two behind Intel on the fab side of things. They compensate by having specialist hardware on their chips to do particularly important operations (e.g., handling the signal processing for LTE) so they can get away with less raw CPU power. It's a different approach that is very relevant for mobile and embedded markets.
Right now, I expect Intel to continue to dominate in desktop and server markets (i.e., anywhere where you can get power easily) and ARM and their licensees to dominate in mobile and embedded (where the power budget is critical and the ability to combine with custom on-chip hardware invaluable).
Sadly the image seems a little bit out of focus as well as zoomed out way too much to see any details.
Hire a photographer next time!
Just Photoshop it afterwards, being careful to get the shadows right!
Falcon 9 is cheaper and has been pretty successful.
But is it because they're good or because they're lucky? You can't tell from Musk's comments; one of his tasks is to pitch as high as possible to bring in investors and persuade customers to jump ship.
If I was running the Ariane program I would be worried. You are betting on the Falcon 9 having failures. Otherwise you cannot compete for a large part of the market.
If the Heavy works, you are out of business. It might be FUD, but it is also true.
Right now, you've got someone talking up a product that hasn't actually entered service yet and you're believing them on the basis of an exceptionally short service history with a different system (the Falcon 9 and Ariane 5 are targeted at different types of payloads; you'd probably be better off comparing with the A5 predecessor). It's FUD and vaporware vs stuff that actually exists. We don't tolerate that when talking about software, so why should we be more lenient about rockets? Arianespace will start worrying once the Falcon Heavy has actually lifted a decent number of loads without incident (remember to compare the sum of the launch costs and the insurance, because the satellite owners will surely do that sum).
Microsoft doesn't have to deliver a great solution, just something good enough that Windows users don't look for alternatives.
Luckily for Valve, this is something that Microsoft has consistently failed at to date over many years. While yes, they might change, Microsoft have never actually shown signs of understanding what is needed in a non-sucky system for distribution and securing games, and they really don't appear to understand the market they're selling to either.
That used to be Arthur Andersen. I first 'met' them in about 1975 when they were messing up something in Woolworths UK. Since then they've been involved in messing up a great many things in gov.uk and some of our bigger companies. I'm not sure what their record is like elsewhere. Also, remember they 'audited' Enron, hence the name change. So, I don't expect that much from this, either way. $3 million they'll be through that in a couple of days, too...
The AA/Accenture split happened before that, or at least before it blew up into public knowledge. IIRC, the business services part decided that they wanted to go off on their own and so did an MBO and became Arthur Andersen Consulting (before changing their name to Accenture a few years later). Meanwhile AA decided that they wanted to get back into the business services line. Everything was going fine (if somewhat confusing) and then it was discovered that AA had been rather less diligent than they should have been with Enron, and promptly died. I guess that Accenture at that point felt huge relief that they'd changed their name a few years earlier, as it let them keep the amount of blowback heading their way down.
Nonsense. Patents apply to everybody. There's no exception for people who "only" make 1-10 units. Patents literally forbid you to tinker in your own home and then sell the item you just invented, if someone paid a fee and lodged a vague sounding description about something roughly similar already.
But the reality is that if someone only makes 1-10 units then the patent holder is exceptionally unlikely to even notice. Moreover, the cost of litigating would make the likely gain for the patent holder really miniscule.
The big barriers are that it isn't easy to do a good job of manufacturing a mobile phone without a lot of very specialized (and expensive) equipment, and that there are a lot of high-quality competitor devices out there. Chip manufacturing is not a backyard activity, and custom ICs (particularly ARM SoC) are completely the key to economic phone manufacturing. The real market barriers are damn high. (There are also legal and regulatory issues, but they don't explain why there are no such tinkerers anywhere.)
It is outside north-west Europe (England excepted) that unions seem to have such a terrible relationship, it is an English/Italian thing, to snobby to admit you are just a wage slave at the mercy of your boss and to corrupt to handle money and power.
Most unions in England are in many ways very similar to the model in the rest of NW Europe; generally trying to serve their members (and persuade non-members to join without the ability to force them) but not wanting to strike except when management have decided to be total jerks. Occasionally a union gets a more leftist executive and becomes more bolshie (with this being more likely in some industries than others for historical reasons) but that's mostly pretty rare as their members want to work and have their employer succeed as a business. (For a union to survive, it has to continually prove to its members and prospective members that it is doing things to help them. That's healthy.)
The advantage for employers of having reasonably strong but optional unions is that consulting employees about changes they're making to the business becomes much simpler, and far fewer disputes need to reach the attention of a court. After all, you're not going to stop employees from talking to each other (not without destroying the business entirely).
Maybe the next step is a standard size desktop case paired with a standard way of doing liquid cooling with intelligent valves which can sense leaks and shut off as well as allow connects/disconnects with relative ease (and offer a high amount of disconnection/connection cycles.)
You'll still need lots of space for the radiator required for getting that heat out of the liquid. Either that means you're using a large case, or you're using a very hot case (problematic in a different way), or you're going to have external connections on the case for getting coolant in and out. Running external tubing for cooling is probably going to make you wish you were just dealing with cables, as anyone who's ever dealt with plumbing problems will tell you...
Adobe Reader and Flash were previously the largest attack vectors...Java is by far #1 and has been for the last few years. Since Sun/Oracle states "Java Runs on 3 Billion Devices" and that a large chunk of those devices will never or rarely see a patch, it has been a HUGE painted target lately.
Virtually all of those attacks are aimed at the code that integrates a Java runtime with a browser, as that's an extremely exposed part of the ecosystem. The plain old JRE is nowhere near as easy to attack (unless someone's running a moronic program, of course, but you can do that in any programming language except for ones you wouldn't use for anything serious at all) as it simply doesn't normally listen to the outside world. Other routes for doing Java things from a browser also tend to give me the willies (e.g., JNLP) but it's not really the "Java" that is the problem so much as the "run code where you can't be sure where it's from" and the alternatives aren't necessarily better.
The truly hard part of security is that it is too often antagonistic to utility, and users will virtually always pick utility over security.
But no, we "can't" afford to spend money on heavy interplanetary propulsion tech demonstrator missions, much less one with an actual science payload that could dwarf in significance all the data collected by all outer solar system programs so far.
Of course not! It's far more important for society for that money to be spent on invading other countries and giving Bain Capital another tax cut...
Solids and liquids are not significantly compressible.
While you're correct that they're a lot less compressible than a gas, you most certainly can still compress solids and liquids if you press hard enough. There's a lot of pressure inside the core of a planet...
Not to knock ARM, but A: I don't know that they have a design for a desktop processor yet (most of their designs seem to be in the Atom/Bobcat realm tops) B: With the absolutely massive amounts of money Intel put's into their Tick-Tock development cadence they have both pretty much the most optimized desktop/laptop architecture their is, and probably the most significant process advantage in the history of semiconductors.
ARM have most certainly had desktop processor designs in the past, but their main focus has been in the embedded space. That matters because the optimization goals are different than for desktops. More of a concern would be the fact that Intel are definitely ahead of everyone else in regards to feature size; there's no pressing need to produce a super-small process design when nobody who is a licensee can actually make the design in the near future. ARM aren't about to start building their own fabs unless someone gives them an utterly enormous pile of money to do so; that's just not their business model at all.
I predict that Apple will probably stay with Intel for desktops — and maybe laptops too — for now, and that will continue until someone other than Intel improves their process enough. Apple's one advantage here is that they have technology for supporting multiple CPU architectures in the same binary (they used it in the transition to Intel) so having one program distribution that supports both Intel and ARM is entirely possible; it's just disk space and bandwidth, and they're relatively cheap commodities. (With a fat binary, you essentially just generate the code out of the compiler twice, once for each architecture, and store the code in different sections of the object file. As long as the toolchain is aware, everything else is happy. You can even do so relatively easily in most circumstances, as you mostly don't need to reparse the source code. It's a technically elegant solution.)
Where you see a prison, I see an zombie-proof enclave.
Since the zombies are only after eating braaaaains, Apple fanbois are naturally not at great risk.
The ongoing trend of saying "RTFM" to every question when TFM is either nonexistent, is written in geek terms a non-sysadmin will never comprehend, or the documentation simply sucks balls.
Be fair. An awful lot of commercial documentation is just as bad, but with bonus pictures of smiling multiracial actors. Too many damn systems and too much damn software has docs that just do not actually give the information you need. Sometimes, if you're really lucky you'll find a blog posting that describes a half-assed workaround that is now obsolete but which indicates the road to what the workaround is and actually lets you become able to find out how to make things work for a few weeks. Until some moronic dev breaks it again.
Sorry for bitching. Too much time dealing with badly-documented REST services and frameworks...