The four current options (in the US, anyway) for Safari's search engine are:
Google (default) Yahoo Bing DuckDuckGo
I can't imagine Yahoo will be there much longer. And DuckDuckGo is relatively new - I don't believe it was there prior to iOS 8 (although I used to manually add it on my jail broken devices).
Witness all the crude AC posts which appear near the top if browsing at threshold -1.
And, unfortunately, the Slashdot option which purportedly allows you to change the lower threshold for which you see posts has been broken for several years - so, if you didn't change that setting long ago, you cannot avoid all those crap posts now.
By the way, do you still have the wagon? I saw one driving on I-5 the other day and assumed it was you.
I do still have the wagon! It mainly serves to get me from my house to the local Sounder station, but occasionally I still take it on I-5. I prefer to avoid freeways when I can, though.
It's been a very reliable car, but it's definitely showing its age... I'm probably going to finally retire it for something else before the end of the year. I'll probably be unreasonably sad when that day comes, though.
The part you seemed to have missed is: This is an experiment to learn whether an alternative approach to hardening can be developed. If it's successful, the benefits would be obvious.
Experiments are the raison d'etre for the ISS... so why is this a problem?
Younger workers are often willing to put in lots of extra time on a project without being asked. Older workers often prefer to have some sort of life outside of work; so, if they are expected to put in extra time, they want to be asked - and will sometimes still say no.
The people in power st Google - and other places - seem to think it's perfectly fine to discriminate based on these factors. Funny thing is, the people in power often want to do stuff outside of work and expect to be accommodated without penalty... they just don't think the little people deserve the same consideration.
The authors were concerned about SCO's zombie lawyers, rising up from the grave like Solomon Grundy, if they were to even touch a disc containing the SCO install media.
I remember during the "configure" stage of building one particular piece of software - while it was checking for the existence of various libraries, it would also "check the fridge for beers".
I believe it was Enlightenment 0.16, but it may very well have been something else. In any case, it made me laugh.
It's possible. I wasn't the one in the army - my dad was, and he was the one who referred to them as C-rations.
During the 60s and 70s, he worked in a number of different support-type admin roles, first in the army proper and later in the full-time reserves. Those rations lasted next to forever; but they were still required to rotate their stocks every so often - and when the new stuff came in, the old stuff was supposed to be tossed (though it hadn't expired). My dad would bring home maybe a half-dozen individual meals, and we kids would fight over the couple that we actually liked. It was usually just one component that we wanted, such as the franks & beans main course of one, or another meal's cookie dessert (IIRC it was kind of like a Moon Pie, but in a can).
He kept the cigarettes... back when they still included a cigarette ration.
He never ate the meals, though. Looking back, it's possible they may have reminded him too much of Vietnam - not that he said that.
You've got to think about how lazy the average person is and remember that half of them are lazier than that. They aren't going to maintain 28 different subscriptions, they aren't even going to think about looking to see if they can purchase an axed channel separately. This laziness gives the package re-seller power.
Well, except you're ignoring one important detail - that was Cable TV's modus operandi, and people eventually got fed up and started leaving in droves. That situation is still fresh in everybody's minds. They're not going to be easily drawn back into paying large amounts of money again just for convenience's sake.
I've eaten MREs, and I've eaten K-rations. MREs are certainly better than K-rations, and they are probably nice when you're out in a dirty foxhole somewhere... but they're not exactly haute cuisine. Unless your point of comparison is a Walmart-branded TV dinner, it's hard to see how anyone would want to pay for this.
Since this is a real world issue, it's important not to let perfect be the enemy of good.
They don't really need to solve the traveling salesman problem. Just coming up with something reasonably close that can be done reasonably quickly saves a lot of money - significantly more than the one million dollar prize you mentioned.
Actually, I wonder if the school district ever thought about talking to UPS and/or FedEx - unfortunately I doubt it. But they're dealing with similar problems, and we know the two companies have put a lot of time and money into solving this.
Slashdot Mirror
Phew! That won't pick me up... a modern terrorist rioter uses IPv6!
The four current options (in the US, anyway) for Safari's search engine are:
Google (default)
Yahoo
Bing
DuckDuckGo
I can't imagine Yahoo will be there much longer. And DuckDuckGo is relatively new - I don't believe it was there prior to iOS 8 (although I used to manually add it on my jail broken devices).
replace with duckduckgo
DuckDuckGo is one of the built-in options with iOS - I've got it set as my default search engine.
Witness all the crude AC posts which appear near the top if browsing at threshold -1.
And, unfortunately, the Slashdot option which purportedly allows you to change the lower threshold for which you see posts has been broken for several years - so, if you didn't change that setting long ago, you cannot avoid all those crap posts now.
Nah, mine doesn't have the spoke wheels. :-P
I think he made enough to make-up for his past online gambling losses.
Pursuing the dream of making money for nothing - sounds like Bitcoin mining in a nutshell.
By the way, do you still have the wagon? I saw one driving on I-5 the other day and assumed it was you.
I do still have the wagon! It mainly serves to get me from my house to the local Sounder station, but occasionally I still take it on I-5. I prefer to avoid freeways when I can, though.
It's been a very reliable car, but it's definitely showing its age... I'm probably going to finally retire it for something else before the end of the year. I'll probably be unreasonably sad when that day comes, though.
The part you seemed to have missed is: This is an experiment to learn whether an alternative approach to hardening can be developed. If it's successful, the benefits would be obvious.
Experiments are the raison d'etre for the ISS... so why is this a problem?
Younger workers are often willing to put in lots of extra time on a project without being asked. Older workers often prefer to have some sort of life outside of work; so, if they are expected to put in extra time, they want to be asked - and will sometimes still say no.
The people in power st Google - and other places - seem to think it's perfectly fine to discriminate based on these factors. Funny thing is, the people in power often want to do stuff outside of work and expect to be accommodated without penalty... they just don't think the little people deserve the same consideration.
I dunno... earlier today I heard an AI spouting off some anti-vaccination nonsense and talking about Making Dire Great Again.
It's really sad that Ximian Gnome, circa 2001-2002, seems more user friendly than the 2017 version of Gnome.
The authors were concerned about SCO's zombie lawyers, rising up from the grave like Solomon Grundy, if they were to even touch a disc containing the SCO install media.
I remember during the "configure" stage of building one particular piece of software - while it was checking for the existence of various libraries, it would also "check the fridge for beers".
I believe it was Enlightenment 0.16, but it may very well have been something else. In any case, it made me laugh.
2000 wasted bytes in every Rust executable disagree with you, millennial.
His Slashdot UID indicates he joined this site significantly earlier than me - and I was here in 2003. Are you suggesting he signed up in utero?
It's possible. I wasn't the one in the army - my dad was, and he was the one who referred to them as C-rations.
During the 60s and 70s, he worked in a number of different support-type admin roles, first in the army proper and later in the full-time reserves. Those rations lasted next to forever; but they were still required to rotate their stocks every so often - and when the new stuff came in, the old stuff was supposed to be tossed (though it hadn't expired). My dad would bring home maybe a half-dozen individual meals, and we kids would fight over the couple that we actually liked. It was usually just one component that we wanted, such as the franks & beans main course of one, or another meal's cookie dessert (IIRC it was kind of like a Moon Pie, but in a can).
He kept the cigarettes... back when they still included a cigarette ration.
He never ate the meals, though. Looking back, it's possible they may have reminded him too much of Vietnam - not that he said that.
You've got to think about how lazy the average person is and remember that half of them are lazier than that. They aren't going to maintain 28 different subscriptions, they aren't even going to think about looking to see if they can purchase an axed channel separately. This laziness gives the package re-seller power.
Well, except you're ignoring one important detail - that was Cable TV's modus operandi, and people eventually got fed up and started leaving in droves. That situation is still fresh in everybody's minds. They're not going to be easily drawn back into paying large amounts of money again just for convenience's sake.
US$30K could have gotten you a lot of Speedos.
So perhaps we should be thanking everyone associated with the demise of Sun, rather than castigating them?
And that's Silicon Valley in a nutshell.
From what I've seen - most people's principles, liberal or conservative, stop (or at least get a lot more blurry) a few feet from themselves.
Excuse me - I've eaten C-Rations, not K-Rations.
I've eaten MREs, and I've eaten K-rations. MREs are certainly better than K-rations, and they are probably nice when you're out in a dirty foxhole somewhere... but they're not exactly haute cuisine. Unless your point of comparison is a Walmart-branded TV dinner, it's hard to see how anyone would want to pay for this.
Be. Sure. To. Drink. Your. Ovaltine.
How many times are we going to have this same (group) argument?
Since this is a real world issue, it's important not to let perfect be the enemy of good.
They don't really need to solve the traveling salesman problem. Just coming up with something reasonably close that can be done reasonably quickly saves a lot of money - significantly more than the one million dollar prize you mentioned.
Actually, I wonder if the school district ever thought about talking to UPS and/or FedEx - unfortunately I doubt it. But they're dealing with similar problems, and we know the two companies have put a lot of time and money into solving this.
I was wondering what benchmark was coming off the board.
Groupings per executive man-hour.