In a democracy the majority should get their way - by definition.
To a point. But you certainly wouldn't want to find yourself in a situation where, for example, the majority could decide that black's or women don't get the vote.
Some things aren't really best decided by the majority -- "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
Nope, leather's still the best from an abrasion perspective. But all in all, it's the gear you actually wear rather than the stuff left in the closet that'll protect the best:)
Oh, so very true.
I remember years ago when my brother raced and my father was on his 4th bike or so... saw a guy driving down the road in cut off jeans, sneakers, and a helmet.
I just remember thinking how badly mangled he'd be if he ever wiped out. I'd take being too warm over skin grafts any day.
It calculates gestational age starting with the first day of the last menstrual period rather than the date of conception
Seriously, WTF? How do such stupid people get in position to be passing laws in the first place?
And, except for the woman in question, who the heck is going to be able to prove when her period happened? Lots of women have irregular cycles.
Most worrying is:
With the current law, a woman could still legally have an abortion after that time if it was to "protect the life or health of the woman". That would no longer be the case with the new law.
So, the health of the woman is secondary to that of the parasite which she may or may not want? Or, wait, but since we're promoting only abstinence, if you're knocked up you have to have the baby. Sorry, but the baby doesn't get a vote if it couldn't survive outside the body -- and nobody else should either.
Kimberly Yee sounds like she needs to be mauled by bears.
The difference being that leather can take a few slides down the pavement and still be usable. Synthetics are often a one-shot deal.
Really? I haven't ridden in years, so I don't know... but I'd thought Cordura had abrasion resistance which was far in excess of almost anything natural.
That said, I like my Aerostich just fine, I just wouldn't wear it for a session of track racing.
Judging by the number of people I know who used to duct-tape knee-pads to their leathers because they'd worn though in the corners, and having seen someone do a nice long slide which more or less trashed their leathers... it seems you're going to do a heck of a lot of damage to either if you do that much.
I'm pretty sure for most people they try to avoid pavement surfing, and the safety gear is a contingency, not a recurring theme.
I know very few motorcyclists who would want to slide like that any more than strictly 'necessary'.
But what if you have a moral objection to killing an animal for leather but prefer bio-engineered leather to any of the synthetic replacements and are willing to pay the premium for bio-engineered? Then this is perfect for you...
I'm betting anybody who is staying away from leather for ethical reasons is going to look at the idea of tank-grown leather and still be thinking "that still sounds nasty".
Then again, maybe a whole bunch of vegans are just waiting for tank-grown leather and there's a market for it.
Don't let the past blind you to the best free AV for Windows.
It's a long past to get over.:-P
But I have been seriously considering switching to MSE for quite some time now -- AVG has been really getting more annoying with each release.
But that doesn't mean that it's easy to say "oh, it's Microsoft, they must know lots about security" since for a lot of years they clearly knew nothing at all about it.
Agreed. MSE is the the only free antivirus worth anything.
I've always had an issue of trust with MSE... the reason to run AV software is I don't trust Microsoft to write a secure OS.
Trusting them to write the AV software has always seemed like quite a leap for me -- if you can spot them, fix the damned OS.
Granted, I've heard people say really nice things about it. But it has always sounded like asking the security guard who keeps leaving the door unlocked to check if the door is unlocked.
I'm losing patience with AVG. It used to be really good.
Now it wants to inform me when I'm going to do an update and reboot (I'll tell you when you can reboot), and it wants to push me towards the paid version, and it wants to install a bunch of extra crap all the time.
I'm in the market for a replacement for AVG myself. It has really gone down hill since I started using it in terms of overall experience. It has started to be like the Oracle Java installer where you have to read very carefully to keep all the extra shit it wants to install away.
Well, it looks like I might need to find a new distro.
Sorry guys, but if you're planning on adding ads directly to my operating system, you won't be getting any money from me as I'll be moving to another distro.
If I want to search Amazon, I'll bloody well go to Amazon.com.
In the end, they might hurt themselves more than they help themselves.
Normally software installation is repeatable no matter what the environment unless you are trying to install software that is being hacked on a daily basis and if that is the case no self respecting System Administrator would allow that software to be installed on anything but what we would call a "Crash and Burn" machine.
I've seen software that gets deployed by the developers... and it usually comes down to a bunch of manual steps and voodoo they don't share with other people. If you need a dev to install it, you have a horrid install process.
And, in my experience, a lot of developers can still be a little cavalier in dealing with Production machines. Sometimes just simply because they haven't in all cases figured out that Production outages are expensive and Really Bad Things. I've seen developers making manual changes in live environments which have caused outages. But far too many developers still have the mindset of "oh, we'll just do this" and don't always see the world outside of their little bubble and the possible impacts.
If I'd bought software, and was told it took a developer to install it -- that would be raising huge red flags for me.
As you say, for Enterprise software... the change process should be much better thought out than having a dev just go in and make changes. Having been a developer, and having been now on the other side of things, in my experience, sometimes you need to wrangle the devs a little more to keep them on track.
To me, a dev largely shouldn't be anywhere near your prod environment unless you're 100% sure they're going to do absolutely everything by the book.
Software installs need to be repeatable, and need to be something which can be done by someone other than the devs.
Even for testing, unless you're talking about fully automated testing, it is often good to have someone other than the developer doing the tests. Because in QA if you do something random the developer hasn't encountered or thought of, you can sometimes get very interesting results.
I can't even begin to think of the number of times where a user or QA does something, files an issue, and the developer says "well why would you do that?" thinking it absurd someone would have deviated from their carefully plotted out use case.
People develop their own blind-spots to the software they work on, and tend to use it the way you're "supposed" to, and then they miss some corner cases where you do something totally unexpected.
IMO, if you need your developers to install in Prod, your software is a little on the creaky side and it isn't going to work well for customers. If you need a developer to install it, either you're going to be deploying it in a small number of environments (making it ridiculously annoying to maintain), or there's something broken about how you install.
My question for the Slashdot community is: in the case of single developer (for now), multiple machines, and a small-ish user base, what would be your suggestions for code versioning and deployment, considering that there are no real test environments and most code just goes into production ?
If I'm the people who run the company, I start firing people. If I'm the developer, I run like hell before anybody realizes what a complete mess I've made.
No versioning, no test environment, live changes in production... these are warning signs of something which has been cobbled together, and which continues working by sheer dumb luck.
I had a developer once who edited a live production environment without telling anybody and broke it even worse -- he very quickly found himself with no access to the machines and being told that we no longer trusted him with a production environment.
Having worked in highly regulated industries where the stakes are really high, I've had it drilled into me that you simply have no room whatsoever to be doing this kind of thing that ad hoc.
Glad you're starting to use something. But the risk to your employer of all of your stuff tanking and becoming something you can't recover is just too great. From the sounds of it, if you get abducted by aliens or hit by a bus, your company would come to a screeching halt.
And, it's likely illegal... unless you're talking about hot pony-on-pony action... which is probably OK as long as the ponies are old enough; a young pony would just be sick.;-)
A friend had a list (an actual paper list) of the types of animals she'd seen in the act (with an annotation for on TV or in person). I've always found that somewhat disturbing.
1) WTF? 2) How is he transporting 3000 lbs of bacon? 3) What the hell does this have to do with Slashdot or technology? 4) Is this because Slashdot is being bought by Dice?
Slashdot Mirror
No Proto-Star Left Behind?
Or, you just decide that some things are inalienable and not up for the vote.
Ideally some things are based on good principles instead of just what people will vote for.
It doesn't always work that way, but ideally your system tries to weed out some of the tyranny of the majority.
To a point. But you certainly wouldn't want to find yourself in a situation where, for example, the majority could decide that black's or women don't get the vote.
Some things aren't really best decided by the majority -- "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
Oh, so very true.
I remember years ago when my brother raced and my father was on his 4th bike or so ... saw a guy driving down the road in cut off jeans, sneakers, and a helmet.
I just remember thinking how badly mangled he'd be if he ever wiped out. I'd take being too warm over skin grafts any day.
Oh ... my ... god.
Seriously, WTF? How do such stupid people get in position to be passing laws in the first place?
And, except for the woman in question, who the heck is going to be able to prove when her period happened? Lots of women have irregular cycles.
Most worrying is:
So, the health of the woman is secondary to that of the parasite which she may or may not want? Or, wait, but since we're promoting only abstinence, if you're knocked up you have to have the baby. Sorry, but the baby doesn't get a vote if it couldn't survive outside the body -- and nobody else should either.
Kimberly Yee sounds like she needs to be mauled by bears.
I've seen examples of the former ... I'm terrified to ask google if the latter is real or not.
And, how would you know it works? ;-)
Really? I haven't ridden in years, so I don't know ... but I'd thought Cordura had abrasion resistance which was far in excess of almost anything natural.
Judging by the number of people I know who used to duct-tape knee-pads to their leathers because they'd worn though in the corners, and having seen someone do a nice long slide which more or less trashed their leathers ... it seems you're going to do a heck of a lot of damage to either if you do that much.
I'm pretty sure for most people they try to avoid pavement surfing, and the safety gear is a contingency, not a recurring theme.
I know very few motorcyclists who would want to slide like that any more than strictly 'necessary'.
That's what I was thinking -- they can pretty much know there was no cruelty involved and you can give consent.
Though, in a lot of ways, it's very similar to milking a cow in terms of method of extraction. ;-)
For me it's the 'ick' factor -- a coat made of pink slime is a mental hurdle I'm not so sure of. :-P
Which is suddenly making me wonder ... do vegan chicks swallow? Seems it would be an animal byproduct.
OK, I'm a bad bad person, I know. ;-)
Well, except for maybe ballistic nylon (Cordura), plastic, and kevlar. Think Joe Rocket.
I see a lot of gear now using those things, and they've been around quite a while.
That doesn't invalidate your argument entirely, but for motorcycle jackets I know for a fact that you can get a good replacement for leather.
I'm betting anybody who is staying away from leather for ethical reasons is going to look at the idea of tank-grown leather and still be thinking "that still sounds nasty".
Then again, maybe a whole bunch of vegans are just waiting for tank-grown leather and there's a market for it.
Wow, that's the fastest I've seen rule #34 apply to a thread in a while. :-P
It's a long past to get over. :-P
But I have been seriously considering switching to MSE for quite some time now -- AVG has been really getting more annoying with each release.
But that doesn't mean that it's easy to say "oh, it's Microsoft, they must know lots about security" since for a lot of years they clearly knew nothing at all about it.
I've always had an issue of trust with MSE ... the reason to run AV software is I don't trust Microsoft to write a secure OS.
Trusting them to write the AV software has always seemed like quite a leap for me -- if you can spot them, fix the damned OS.
Granted, I've heard people say really nice things about it. But it has always sounded like asking the security guard who keeps leaving the door unlocked to check if the door is unlocked.
I'm losing patience with AVG. It used to be really good.
Now it wants to inform me when I'm going to do an update and reboot (I'll tell you when you can reboot), and it wants to push me towards the paid version, and it wants to install a bunch of extra crap all the time.
I'm in the market for a replacement for AVG myself. It has really gone down hill since I started using it in terms of overall experience. It has started to be like the Oracle Java installer where you have to read very carefully to keep all the extra shit it wants to install away.
What the hell does that even mean? Do you mean computer?
Well, it looks like I might need to find a new distro.
Sorry guys, but if you're planning on adding ads directly to my operating system, you won't be getting any money from me as I'll be moving to another distro.
If I want to search Amazon, I'll bloody well go to Amazon.com.
In the end, they might hurt themselves more than they help themselves.
I've seen software that gets deployed by the developers ... and it usually comes down to a bunch of manual steps and voodoo they don't share with other people. If you need a dev to install it, you have a horrid install process.
And, in my experience, a lot of developers can still be a little cavalier in dealing with Production machines. Sometimes just simply because they haven't in all cases figured out that Production outages are expensive and Really Bad Things. I've seen developers making manual changes in live environments which have caused outages. But far too many developers still have the mindset of "oh, we'll just do this" and don't always see the world outside of their little bubble and the possible impacts.
If I'd bought software, and was told it took a developer to install it -- that would be raising huge red flags for me.
As you say, for Enterprise software ... the change process should be much better thought out than having a dev just go in and make changes. Having been a developer, and having been now on the other side of things, in my experience, sometimes you need to wrangle the devs a little more to keep them on track.
To me, a dev largely shouldn't be anywhere near your prod environment unless you're 100% sure they're going to do absolutely everything by the book.
Software installs need to be repeatable, and need to be something which can be done by someone other than the devs.
Even for testing, unless you're talking about fully automated testing, it is often good to have someone other than the developer doing the tests. Because in QA if you do something random the developer hasn't encountered or thought of, you can sometimes get very interesting results.
I can't even begin to think of the number of times where a user or QA does something, files an issue, and the developer says "well why would you do that?" thinking it absurd someone would have deviated from their carefully plotted out use case.
People develop their own blind-spots to the software they work on, and tend to use it the way you're "supposed" to, and then they miss some corner cases where you do something totally unexpected.
IMO, if you need your developers to install in Prod, your software is a little on the creaky side and it isn't going to work well for customers. If you need a developer to install it, either you're going to be deploying it in a small number of environments (making it ridiculously annoying to maintain), or there's something broken about how you install.
If I'm the people who run the company, I start firing people. If I'm the developer, I run like hell before anybody realizes what a complete mess I've made.
No versioning, no test environment, live changes in production ... these are warning signs of something which has been cobbled together, and which continues working by sheer dumb luck.
I had a developer once who edited a live production environment without telling anybody and broke it even worse -- he very quickly found himself with no access to the machines and being told that we no longer trusted him with a production environment.
Having worked in highly regulated industries where the stakes are really high, I've had it drilled into me that you simply have no room whatsoever to be doing this kind of thing that ad hoc.
Glad you're starting to use something. But the risk to your employer of all of your stuff tanking and becoming something you can't recover is just too great. From the sounds of it, if you get abducted by aliens or hit by a bus, your company would come to a screeching halt.
Hmmm ... Rule 34 seems to apply here.
And, it's likely illegal ... unless you're talking about hot pony-on-pony action ... which is probably OK as long as the ponies are old enough; a young pony would just be sick. ;-)
A friend had a list (an actual paper list) of the types of animals she'd seen in the act (with an annotation for on TV or in person). I've always found that somewhat disturbing.
+1 House reference
Couple of questions:
1) WTF?
2) How is he transporting 3000 lbs of bacon?
3) What the hell does this have to do with Slashdot or technology?
4) Is this because Slashdot is being bought by Dice?
Bonus points for real tin.