But it's still good to get a record of the shenanigans out in the open, if only to force the cheaters to do more work to find a different approach next time.
And who knows, it just may give some voters pause, come 2020. For a somewhat similar example on the other side: I know that news of Elizabeth Warren's various shenanigans regarding her heritage have largely soured me on her candidacy for president in 2020. If, miraculously, some reasonably honest middle-of-the-road Republican ended up being the presidential candidate and was facing Warren, there's a decent chance I'd vote for him/her.
Seattle isn’t generally that cold... but when it gets icy the absolute worst roads are the ones which still have stretches of exposed cobblestone. It doesn’t take much to make that stuff slicker than snot, as my mom likes to say.
Listen to music from the 1980's or 1970's. When artists were actually involved instead of just formulas. When there was no autotune so you actually had singers...
... and those kids should get off your lawn, amirite?
. . . finally giving up and borrowing dad's tools to extract your radio from the dash and remove the lid to get the mangle tape out when all else fails . ..
I remember having to do that a few times when the cassette eject mechanism in the car player refused to lift up the cassette and push it out! I'd forgotten about that particular "nostalgic memory" until I read your post.
I always had a sneaking suspicion that the designers of the cassette cartridge intentionally made the hub the same size as a number two pencil because they knew how often people would need to attempt home repair jobs on the things.
I lived through the cassette era, and I really don’t get it. Setting aside the bad sound quality... it was not uncommon for the tapes to get “eaten” by players and recorders. It also was not uncommon for the tapes to get folded inside the cassette, and for the tapes to just break. I spent numerous hours, back then, attempting various repairs on cassettes which were messed up, one way or another... and even if you were “successful”, so to speak, your reward was a tape with fade outs or fuzzy sound or gaps...
The only medium which was worse was 8-track tapes, where it was a common experience to have at least one song on an album which overlapped a track change by design.
I propose that the members of the USB Working Group be dropped on their heads repeatedly until they start demonstrating an ability to adopt sane naming conventions. This may take a while, so I’m calling for volunteers with strong arms and backs.
On a couple different occasions now, I’ve tried to work a War Dogs reference into a Slashdot story discussion - but I seem to be the only one who’s read the books.
Yeah, the summary is pretty bad. The layoffs are part of a “restructuring” and are more or less unrelated to the additional announcement that the company is “also relentlessly pursuing automation”.
Slashdot Mirror
What does that even actually mean?
It's good to know that Google has figured out a way to prevent criminals and other evildoers from running https on their web servers.
But it's still good to get a record of the shenanigans out in the open, if only to force the cheaters to do more work to find a different approach next time.
And who knows, it just may give some voters pause, come 2020. For a somewhat similar example on the other side: I know that news of Elizabeth Warren's various shenanigans regarding her heritage have largely soured me on her candidacy for president in 2020. If, miraculously, some reasonably honest middle-of-the-road Republican ended up being the presidential candidate and was facing Warren, there's a decent chance I'd vote for him/her.
setup, manage and monitor yourself!
That’s somewhat more difficult to do if you’re trying to “VPN” out of your home country.
But for, say, accessing work materials when you’re away from your home base... definitely.
And Mars is going to pay for it!
A bigger notch. 8K iMac.
Picture this... an 8K iMac WITH A NOTCH.
Seattle isn’t generally that cold... but when it gets icy the absolute worst roads are the ones which still have stretches of exposed cobblestone. It doesn’t take much to make that stuff slicker than snot, as my mom likes to say.
Was that the Linux firewall before ipchains and iptables?
Listen to music from the 1980's or 1970's. When artists were actually involved instead of just formulas. When there was no autotune so you actually had singers...
... and those kids should get off your lawn, amirite?
I seem to recall some browser add-on from 10-15 years ago which promised the ability to comment on any website.
. . . finally giving up and borrowing dad's tools to extract your radio from the dash and remove the lid to get the mangle tape out when all else fails . . .
I remember having to do that a few times when the cassette eject mechanism in the car player refused to lift up the cassette and push it out! I'd forgotten about that particular "nostalgic memory" until I read your post.
I always had a sneaking suspicion that the designers of the cassette cartridge intentionally made the hub the same size as a number two pencil because they knew how often people would need to attempt home repair jobs on the things.
I lived through the cassette era, and I really don’t get it. Setting aside the bad sound quality... it was not uncommon for the tapes to get “eaten” by players and recorders. It also was not uncommon for the tapes to get folded inside the cassette, and for the tapes to just break. I spent numerous hours, back then, attempting various repairs on cassettes which were messed up, one way or another... and even if you were “successful”, so to speak, your reward was a tape with fade outs or fuzzy sound or gaps...
The only medium which was worse was 8-track tapes, where it was a common experience to have at least one song on an album which overlapped a track change by design.
You’ve given me an idea.
I propose that the members of the USB Working Group be dropped on their heads repeatedly until they start demonstrating an ability to adopt sane naming conventions. This may take a while, so I’m calling for volunteers with strong arms and backs.
What’s next - FarFarFarOut?
Maybe we need to take the naming rights away from these astronomers.
..."Don't be evil"
I’d argue that “canary” functioned as we’d want - when it disappeared, we should’ve had a pretty good idea what was coming.
This story is about IBM, not Nintendo - and IBM has been a notorious outsourcer for the past decade or two.
So this was another side-effect of out-sourcing... gotcha.
I have jaundice, you insensitive clod!
"I'm not suggesting that working at Applebee's is the same as being at Guantanamo, but the principle's the same."
Food’s probably better at Guantanamo, for one thing.
On a couple different occasions now, I’ve tried to work a War Dogs reference into a Slashdot story discussion - but I seem to be the only one who’s read the books.
I thought they were rather good...
One needs to be on Mars, with another sunk deep into the seas of Triton. And if we ever locate Planet Nine, a third copy could go there.
Of course it'd be best if each came with some mechanism to protect the archives...
Corrected headline - Android is helping to spread pervasive tracking.
I am shocked. SHOCKED! Are you saying an advertising company has an economic incentive for the continued development of Android?
Well, correlation is not causation. More likely than not, it was the good-honest, conservative patriotic pollution that caused the hippies.
Whoa. Mind BLOWN.
Hippies first appeared in the 1960s. Rivers first caught on fire in the 1960s. How much stronger of a link do you need?
Yeah, the summary is pretty bad. The layoffs are part of a “restructuring” and are more or less unrelated to the additional announcement that the company is “also relentlessly pursuing automation”.