Ok...how about this... Do you do business with any companies that have your name and number? Have you ever had to hire some sort of service provider for a utility or home infrastructure (ie plumbing, electrical, HVAC, etc)? Have you ever placed an order for some part or device that was not kept on-site that you were required to provide a contact number for?
No one has 100 real friends. Just about everyone in modern society has at least 100 people that maintain you on their contact list. Out of those 100+ people the chances of at least one of them using an Android based phone for their contact management is not zero. If there is one person out there with an Android device that has associated your name with a phone number, congratulations: You are now on Google's contact list under that number. You can just about guarantee that even if you don't personally use Google's services, they know your contact information. They know your employer. They know your phone number with your employer. They have a good idea of your home city, if not your exact address. They probably know your phone number. They probably know your cell phone number and what carrier it's on.
The biggest takeaway from this is if someone wants to find out who you are, or how to contact you, there's much greater than a non-zero chance that they will. You can find out a lot about anyone without even having to acquire a Private Eye permit. All it takes is time and a reason to direct their magnifying glass over you. Welcome to modern society. Anything that makes you stand out, paints a target on your back for one group or another.
In response: a) I use several online vendors; Newegg, B&H, Micro Center...among others. Amazon I use now only when I need rush delivery or delivery over the weekend for a part I don't happen to have in house (limited space and no warehouse)...and now because I can't trust the products coming from them I have to use them only as a last resort. b) I undercut Geek Squad so sometimes to get the best price on a decent drive OEMs are it. c) I use SSDs when they work for the job. Large SSD drives aren't cost effective for volume storage. d) Best Buy is the only (other) local vendor. Fry's if I want to drive for 2 hrs for the larger selection of dated parts. Most of the other brick and mortars around here don't even bother with carrying a wide selection for the same reason I don't generally house a large selection myself; if a customer is coming to me for a drive, they want me to install it for them; otherwise the customer has all the same resources I do to do it themselves.
Might be great cost savings and all...but how many more Hard drives am I going to have to RMA as DOA because the damn robots aren't using any fucking packing materials when shipping a bare drive. Not even a fucking bubble wrap bag around the static bag (at least there's a static bag) and enough space between the drive and shipping box to turn the damn thing into a friggen maraca! ! 4th one this year just arrived today!
Snapd seems to be spreading with the same wildfire potential that systemd did. I hope I'm cringing over nothing in this case and snapd will only be an optional package management system (so far it sounds like it). But I'm leery. Systemd fractured a lot of distros with the "my way or the highway" attitude they had over it. I managed to avoid it on my servers where just about everything run on it right down to the compiler time sharing are background user processes. If even more distros move on pushing snapd in the same way it may finally be time for me to look into one of the Beasties to migrate to... either way, there's going to be a lot of workflows that will need analysis for migration one way or the other.
Well he will be soon, he's very ill; despite his claims to be getting better. He really isn't, he'll be stone dead at any moment. Now here's your nine pence.
$900M isn't Holmes' net worth; it's the entire net worth of Theranos as a company. Last line of the summary is a bit confusing but what it's saying is that if the company were forced to liquidate all current assets, Holmes would be among the last to get paid. Other investors in the company with preferred shares would be paid first. By the time it gets to the point where Holmes could legally be paid from the liquidation, it's more than likely there'd be nothing left for her to get.
I've not been able to test this myself as of yet, however there are multiple times in this very thread that state that this new change to the way systemd operates explicitly breaks tmux, screen, and nohup. I've done some cursory research on a google search and this does appear to be the case. Especially damning is this thread where it seems the workaround is to use a completely new command structure to create a long running process. If anything, the systemd team is breaking the old adage "If it ain't broke...".
Seriously; a change to the fundamental way a system handles user processes cannot be taken lightly. This new behavior is fine for a desktop machine where there'd only be a single user. For a server with multiple users that may rely on background processes to complete long running computations this very much breaks the expected behavior; and can quickly become a sysadmin's nightmare when users begin complaining that their processes are no longer staying active.
Nah...Going after the Windows 10 team would be about as effective as taking down the street thug running a loansharking op. The mob just pulled in more muscle from the streets of Queens, Brooklyn, Chicago...or Sicily if need be. MS would do about the same, albeit skipping the local streets and getting their thug muscle from India. Fighting the symptom but not doing a thing against the disease. A better bet would be using something like RICO to take out Nadella in about the same way they brought down the Gambino family.
And even if it did, Ubisoft, EA, and others wouldn't develop for it crying that not being able to control the hardware makes the whole thing ripe for piracy to steal their profits away.
Open API? Not good enough. I want to be able to have completely open Infrastructure under my direct control. Mycroft is the only AI that I'm probably going to build and rely on to operate my home. Why? Because if I'm going to have an assistant in my house, it's not going to be a closed box that someone else has the keys to with ownership over the hardware processing my information system. If I'm going to have an AI assistant, I'm going to be in sole control of the Hardware (on premisis), network infrastructure, and any APIs that operate the system. At least now I might have a use for my Tesla cluster that's been collecting dust (no I didn't pay nearly that much for the three of those).
They did a simultaneous release on the GameCube and the Wii at the Wii's launch in 2006. I have both versions. Also, the GameCube already had a Zelda title. The Wii also has its exclusive title The Wii-U, however, has yet to publish a single original Zelda game; although it has HD remakes of the 2 GameCube titles with a few gameplay enhancements added (extra hard mode, amiibo features that work with the Zelda characters from the Smash Bros. line, new exclusive dungeons, etc). This makes it the first time that Nintendo has just about skipped releasing an original Zelda title on an entire console platform.
At this point, I'm figuring that the next Zelda will be a dual-release on the Wii-U and Nin-NX. It would most likely be a near 1:1 release where both versions of the game are relatively equal, but I'm somewhat hoping that they do something like they did with Pokemon where individually they are both complete games on their own but they can be combined in some way (password token, system link, etc) where events that occur on one platform can affect elements on the other and expand the story line further. Something similar to what they did with the Oracle games.
You must be an electrician. This is powers of zoom. It's not watts, it's scale. A 500 mm focal length is 10x the power of a 50 mm focal length. 50 mm is presumed to be about the focal length equivalent to the human eye (high levels of debate on this due to the science behind the differences between camera lenses / sensor mechanics and the human eye mechanics). Before you apply a blanket definition of power to only apply to electricity, remember that the word power applies to a plenitude of scientific applications. Mathematical powers (A x B^10), Horse Power (arbitrary method of measuring presumed output of an engine as compared to how many horses could perform the same amount of work), Power as a function of force..etc.
Because I can't comment and keep the moderation (even if I post anonymous) I think it will serve better to offer a bit of reassurance. Specifying that T.A.H.I.T.I. was a protocol actually is what breaks the joke. Remember, early on in the series Coulson and everyone without clearance around him only knew that after he was killed in Avengers he went to Tahiti for a miraculous recovery. It wasn't till near the climax of the season that he and the team found out what T.A.H.I.T.I. really was.
Congratulations, you got to drink from the Firehose. The Red Headline means the story hasn't made it to the front page except for subscribers. At least, that's what it used to mean. I think if you have a high karma level select future stories will be visible with the red headline as well (speculation only since I too occasionally see the red headlines but have never subscribed).
eeeehhh...that one doesn't really fit here. This is not a standard designed to be an umbrella for all current standards which winds up unintentionally competing; but this is a standard designed with the specific goal of directly competing against all other standards right out of the gate with the hopes of becoming a defacto open standard.
That was the "per platform" part. The only OS (platform) supported without having to purchase a separate license was Windows Phone (since it already has a native CLR that can read.NET). For instance, since my team has two developers that focus work with Android (2 devs, 1 platform), and two developers that work with iOS and some side work for Android (2 devs, 2 platforms), that's ~$12,000 we're spending on licenses. If management provided us with 4 Macs instead of two, then we'd be paying $16k as all 4 devs would be working on 2 platforms each.
Score 101, Slashdot? I see what you're doing today... and I'm kinda hating you for it; but at the same time, it's better than some of the recent jokes/. did on this day. Good play.
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But where would I set up my bed? On a bright note, at 500W per unit, I wouldn't need a heating system.
Because this is cray cray
I think I just puked a little. Really.
Unfortunately for HP, I think the only purpose they have for existing anymore is "to blave"(sic).
Ok...how about this... Do you do business with any companies that have your name and number? Have you ever had to hire some sort of service provider for a utility or home infrastructure (ie plumbing, electrical, HVAC, etc)? Have you ever placed an order for some part or device that was not kept on-site that you were required to provide a contact number for?
No one has 100 real friends. Just about everyone in modern society has at least 100 people that maintain you on their contact list. Out of those 100+ people the chances of at least one of them using an Android based phone for their contact management is not zero. If there is one person out there with an Android device that has associated your name with a phone number, congratulations: You are now on Google's contact list under that number. You can just about guarantee that even if you don't personally use Google's services, they know your contact information. They know your employer. They know your phone number with your employer. They have a good idea of your home city, if not your exact address. They probably know your phone number. They probably know your cell phone number and what carrier it's on.
The biggest takeaway from this is if someone wants to find out who you are, or how to contact you, there's much greater than a non-zero chance that they will. You can find out a lot about anyone without even having to acquire a Private Eye permit. All it takes is time and a reason to direct their magnifying glass over you. Welcome to modern society. Anything that makes you stand out, paints a target on your back for one group or another.
In response: a) I use several online vendors; Newegg, B&H, Micro Center...among others. Amazon I use now only when I need rush delivery or delivery over the weekend for a part I don't happen to have in house (limited space and no warehouse)...and now because I can't trust the products coming from them I have to use them only as a last resort. b) I undercut Geek Squad so sometimes to get the best price on a decent drive OEMs are it. c) I use SSDs when they work for the job. Large SSD drives aren't cost effective for volume storage. d) Best Buy is the only (other) local vendor. Fry's if I want to drive for 2 hrs for the larger selection of dated parts. Most of the other brick and mortars around here don't even bother with carrying a wide selection for the same reason I don't generally house a large selection myself; if a customer is coming to me for a drive, they want me to install it for them; otherwise the customer has all the same resources I do to do it themselves.
Might be great cost savings and all...but how many more Hard drives am I going to have to RMA as DOA because the damn robots aren't using any fucking packing materials when shipping a bare drive. Not even a fucking bubble wrap bag around the static bag (at least there's a static bag) and enough space between the drive and shipping box to turn the damn thing into a friggen maraca! ! 4th one this year just arrived today!
Eye witnesses later stated that they thought they heard the bot singing "Daisy" as its power ran out.... more at 11.
Et tu, Gentoo? Then fall Linux
Snapd seems to be spreading with the same wildfire potential that systemd did. I hope I'm cringing over nothing in this case and snapd will only be an optional package management system (so far it sounds like it). But I'm leery. Systemd fractured a lot of distros with the "my way or the highway" attitude they had over it. I managed to avoid it on my servers where just about everything run on it right down to the compiler time sharing are background user processes. If even more distros move on pushing snapd in the same way it may finally be time for me to look into one of the Beasties to migrate to... either way, there's going to be a lot of workflows that will need analysis for migration one way or the other.
He's not dead yet.
Well he will be soon, he's very ill; despite his claims to be getting better. He really isn't, he'll be stone dead at any moment. Now here's your nine pence.
Horse? What horse? I just see a giant lump of fur and maggots!
$900M isn't Holmes' net worth; it's the entire net worth of Theranos as a company. Last line of the summary is a bit confusing but what it's saying is that if the company were forced to liquidate all current assets, Holmes would be among the last to get paid. Other investors in the company with preferred shares would be paid first. By the time it gets to the point where Holmes could legally be paid from the liquidation, it's more than likely there'd be nothing left for her to get.
I've not been able to test this myself as of yet, however there are multiple times in this very thread that state that this new change to the way systemd operates explicitly breaks tmux, screen, and nohup. I've done some cursory research on a google search and this does appear to be the case. Especially damning is this thread where it seems the workaround is to use a completely new command structure to create a long running process. If anything, the systemd team is breaking the old adage "If it ain't broke...".
Seriously; a change to the fundamental way a system handles user processes cannot be taken lightly. This new behavior is fine for a desktop machine where there'd only be a single user. For a server with multiple users that may rely on background processes to complete long running computations this very much breaks the expected behavior; and can quickly become a sysadmin's nightmare when users begin complaining that their processes are no longer staying active.
Nah...Going after the Windows 10 team would be about as effective as taking down the street thug running a loansharking op. The mob just pulled in more muscle from the streets of Queens, Brooklyn, Chicago...or Sicily if need be. MS would do about the same, albeit skipping the local streets and getting their thug muscle from India. Fighting the symptom but not doing a thing against the disease. A better bet would be using something like RICO to take out Nadella in about the same way they brought down the Gambino family.
And even if it did, Ubisoft, EA, and others wouldn't develop for it crying that not being able to control the hardware makes the whole thing ripe for piracy to steal their profits away.
Open API? Not good enough. I want to be able to have completely open Infrastructure under my direct control. Mycroft is the only AI that I'm probably going to build and rely on to operate my home. Why? Because if I'm going to have an assistant in my house, it's not going to be a closed box that someone else has the keys to with ownership over the hardware processing my information system. If I'm going to have an AI assistant, I'm going to be in sole control of the Hardware (on premisis), network infrastructure, and any APIs that operate the system. At least now I might have a use for my Tesla cluster that's been collecting dust (no I didn't pay nearly that much for the three of those).
...Twilight Princess was supposed to come out on the GameCube.
It did.
They did a simultaneous release on the GameCube and the Wii at the Wii's launch in 2006. I have both versions. Also, the GameCube already had a Zelda title. The Wii also has its exclusive title The Wii-U, however, has yet to publish a single original Zelda game; although it has HD remakes of the 2 GameCube titles with a few gameplay enhancements added (extra hard mode, amiibo features that work with the Zelda characters from the Smash Bros. line, new exclusive dungeons, etc). This makes it the first time that Nintendo has just about skipped releasing an original Zelda title on an entire console platform.
At this point, I'm figuring that the next Zelda will be a dual-release on the Wii-U and Nin-NX. It would most likely be a near 1:1 release where both versions of the game are relatively equal, but I'm somewhat hoping that they do something like they did with Pokemon where individually they are both complete games on their own but they can be combined in some way (password token, system link, etc) where events that occur on one platform can affect elements on the other and expand the story line further. Something similar to what they did with the Oracle games.
The power of geek pop culture references coming out of left field and leaving a permanent fist imprint on my attempt at being serious.
I guess that's one way to emphasize that one should never underestimate the Power of the Force.
You must be an electrician. This is powers of zoom. It's not watts, it's scale. A 500 mm focal length is 10x the power of a 50 mm focal length. 50 mm is presumed to be about the focal length equivalent to the human eye (high levels of debate on this due to the science behind the differences between camera lenses / sensor mechanics and the human eye mechanics). Before you apply a blanket definition of power to only apply to electricity, remember that the word power applies to a plenitude of scientific applications. Mathematical powers (A x B^10), Horse Power (arbitrary method of measuring presumed output of an engine as compared to how many horses could perform the same amount of work), Power as a function of force..etc.
Because I can't comment and keep the moderation (even if I post anonymous) I think it will serve better to offer a bit of reassurance. Specifying that T.A.H.I.T.I. was a protocol actually is what breaks the joke. Remember, early on in the series Coulson and everyone without clearance around him only knew that after he was killed in Avengers he went to Tahiti for a miraculous recovery. It wasn't till near the climax of the season that he and the team found out what T.A.H.I.T.I. really was.
Congratulations, you got to drink from the Firehose. The Red Headline means the story hasn't made it to the front page except for subscribers. At least, that's what it used to mean. I think if you have a high karma level select future stories will be visible with the red headline as well (speculation only since I too occasionally see the red headlines but have never subscribed).
Or those about one's complete misunderstanding of how apostrophes work.
eeeehhh...that one doesn't really fit here. This is not a standard designed to be an umbrella for all current standards which winds up unintentionally competing; but this is a standard designed with the specific goal of directly competing against all other standards right out of the gate with the hopes of becoming a defacto open standard.
That was the "per platform" part. The only OS (platform) supported without having to purchase a separate license was Windows Phone (since it already has a native CLR that can read .NET). For instance, since my team has two developers that focus work with Android (2 devs, 1 platform), and two developers that work with iOS and some side work for Android (2 devs, 2 platforms), that's ~$12,000 we're spending on licenses. If management provided us with 4 Macs instead of two, then we'd be paying $16k as all 4 devs would be working on 2 platforms each.
Count the subject line for the third time
Score 101, Slashdot? I see what you're doing today... and I'm kinda hating you for it; but at the same time, it's better than some of the recent jokes /. did on this day. Good play.