This is why people transporting prisoners should not carry guns. If the bailiff hd been armed with a nightstick, there would very likely be three more people alive tonight.
here, I'll boil it down: "Is it fucking broken? No? THEN DON'T FIX IT!"
Depending on severely antique technology (8" floppies!) is stupid and broken. Depending on a language that's just not in fashion because the kool kidz have declared it 'My grandpa used it so it MUST be too old and no good anymore!' is neither stupid or broken.
Oh FUCK Skype for business, with a goddamn rusty pitchfork. It decides that the reply to an IM I send from my desktop client must be sent to my phone, because I woke it up when I got a text (in an entirely different app) from my wife.
And that's not even considering the clusterfuck that is SfB on the mac. Oh yeah, no such thing as SfB on the mac. I have to run a goddamn VM just to use our group chat client, because we're too goddamn special to use a functional application like Slack, IRC or the thirty goddamn years of chat clients before SfB...
Well for once I don't feel ancient
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I've only been doing it for 21 years.:-)
The only thing that hasn't changed is..nothing.
I started out running a Dec Mini-Vax about the size of a washing machine, only much louder...(we still remember the blessed silence in our office/server 'room' the day it was finally turned off.) using (IIRC) kermit to connect to it from my desktop.
Cut my unix teeth on a HP/Apollo franken-unix thing: part SysV, part BSD.
All the machines I am sysadmin for now are Linux VM's, except my desktop systems...which all run OS X....so, yeah, still using Unix.
Better not tell Jim Bakker this, he's saying people should get horses because Gawd is a-gonna fry us with an EMP , and you should buy Jim Bakker's special dehydrated soup supply http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/doomsday-prepper-jim-bakker-swears-youll-love-his-160-potato-soup-bucket/
Compared to the volume of the rest of the planet, much of it consisting of, you guessed it, bridgmanite, water is a very thin film on the surface....water is about 0.02% of the total earths' mass
Me too. After my first marathon session of DOOM back in the day, I felt like I was having the worst drunk/hangover of my ife...lasted for three days, I couldn't close my eyes without getting the spins. To this day i cannot take more than about 2 minutes of an FPS.
The music industry has a long and sordid history of ripping off the artists...in the main there's nothing to negotiate because the music publishers own the republishing rights.
Book publishers, contract to publish the book, in one format.
(The same negotiations often have to take place for paperback rights as well, so it's not like this is something new, and is, in the main simple boilerplate contracting with the author, author's agent, or estate) The renegotiations are hard because the publishers are greedy.
Of course all of your basic/. 'intellectual property is theft' technomarxists who never had to make their living off their own intellectual property couldn't be arsed to comprehend this...while musicians can sometimes eke out a living playing live (when they still own their own music, that is), there's not a lot of call for authors to read their books in front of adoring crowds night after night...
A truly random one-time pad longer than your cipher text is not crackable other than brute-force. Use a code along with the OTP and it's uncrackable (because the crackers won't recognize the plaintext when they do decipher it.) Of course you need to distribute copies of your codebook and OTP, which is why they developed ciphers in the first place...the only trick is to develop a code that parses to plain boring text. "Aunt Martha sends her love; she made a wonderful cherry pie for the church potluck last week, everyone was raving about it!"
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Nonsense, Baldrick! It's a perfectly cromulent plan! Cannot Fail!
Because the "middle class" is broke enough that they have to rent out their spare rooms on AirBnB to keep the rest of the roof over their heads...
The power goes out. How much is your gold worth then?
More likely he's a parts salesman who needed this for his work and IT had "other priorities" so he hacked something together to get his job done.
Users, like the internet, route around obstructions.
And he was lucky if you didn't pound a six and smoke two packs by the time yah got home, right?
This is why people transporting prisoners should not carry guns. If the bailiff hd been armed with a nightstick, there would very likely be three more people alive tonight.
here, I'll boil it down: "Is it fucking broken? No? THEN DON'T FIX IT!"
Depending on severely antique technology (8" floppies!) is stupid and broken. Depending on a language that's just not in fashion because the kool kidz have declared it 'My grandpa used it so it MUST be too old and no good anymore!' is neither stupid or broken.
Oh FUCK Skype for business, with a goddamn rusty pitchfork. It decides that the reply to an IM I send from my desktop client must be sent to my phone, because I woke it up when I got a text (in an entirely different app) from my wife.
And that's not even considering the clusterfuck that is SfB on the mac. Oh yeah, no such thing as SfB on the mac. I have to run a goddamn VM just to use our group chat client, because we're too goddamn special to use a functional application like Slack, IRC or the thirty goddamn years of chat clients before SfB...
We're just all goddamn lucky that MS doesn't make rockets...
Bill Gates would be a moderately wealthy harvard-educated lawyer.
Expensive. Not as much space as a Nomad. Lame.
I've only been doing it for 21 years. :-)
The only thing that hasn't changed is..nothing.
I started out running a Dec Mini-Vax about the size of a washing machine, only much louder...(we still remember the blessed silence in our office/server 'room' the day it was finally turned off.) using (IIRC) kermit to connect to it from my desktop.
Cut my unix teeth on a HP/Apollo franken-unix thing: part SysV, part BSD.
All the machines I am sysadmin for now are Linux VM's, except my desktop systems...which all run OS X....so, yeah, still using Unix.
That would possibly be the most amusing/horrifying Human Subjects Committee review ever.
Better not tell Jim Bakker this, he's saying people should get horses because Gawd is a-gonna fry us with an EMP , and you should buy Jim Bakker's special dehydrated soup supply http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/doomsday-prepper-jim-bakker-swears-youll-love-his-160-potato-soup-bucket/
Oh ghod don't get me started on my '81 Honda civic and the Kehin 3BBl, aka 'Satan's Own Carburetor'....
Modern Hawaii? The US is an imperial power occupying the 50th state?
Oh, I don't know; I was actually wondering what their business plan is once they run out of vegans to grind up and bottle...
Compared to the volume of the rest of the planet, much of it consisting of, you guessed it, bridgmanite, water is a very thin film on the surface....water is about 0.02% of the total earths' mass
Of course, your old school film camera just hovered there in mid-air when using this mysterious 'timer' feature, right?
Me too. After my first marathon session of DOOM back in the day, I felt like I was having the worst drunk/hangover of my ife...lasted for three days, I couldn't close my eyes without getting the spins. To this day i cannot take more than about 2 minutes of an FPS.
Now they can arrest people photographing anything the authorities don't want photographed. Welcome to the 21st century Fascist movement.
The music industry has a long and sordid history of ripping off the artists...in the main there's nothing to negotiate because the music publishers own the republishing rights.
Book publishers, contract to publish the book, in one format.
(The same negotiations often have to take place for paperback rights as well, so it's not like this is something new, and is, in the main simple boilerplate contracting with the author, author's agent, or estate) The renegotiations are hard because the publishers are greedy.
Of course all of your basic /. 'intellectual property is theft' technomarxists who never had to make their living off their own intellectual property couldn't be arsed to comprehend this...while musicians can sometimes eke out a living playing live (when they still own their own music, that is), there's not a lot of call for authors to read their books in front of adoring crowds night after night...
A truly random one-time pad longer than your cipher text is not crackable other than brute-force. Use a code along with the OTP and it's uncrackable (because the crackers won't recognize the plaintext when they do decipher it.) Of course you need to distribute copies of your codebook and OTP, which is why they developed ciphers in the first place...the only trick is to develop a code that parses to plain boring text. "Aunt Martha sends her love; she made a wonderful cherry pie for the church potluck last week, everyone was raving about it!"
Yes. because degenerate primitive theocracies have ALWAYS been very nice places to live.
You DO understand that if your phone is in the physical possession of the bad guy, they can do anything they want?
It's not like this can be done remotely with some crappily cloned Tetris game off the App Store, like some Android exploits we've seen....