Yup, I saw this movie, doesn't end well for the humans.
The human race should just get it over with and a third of us will work on building terminator like machines, another third giving animals super human intelligence and the last third photocopying our butts and sending those photos out electronically to the stars!
Sooooooooooooooo.......
We've already finished the photocopying. FYI, Uranus was jealous. Should we divide our group in half and start helping with the Terminators and the Super Intelligent Animals now?
Groceries can be very expensive, especially for families. All it takes is a simple temperature change hack to ruin an entire fridge full of food, and cost you another trip to the store (if your fridge is even fixable/usable at that point).
I believe the primary obstacle is that the gov't [particularly the federal gov't] loathes actually hiring people. they want to outsource everything, because of the mantra "private industry steals the best". and then to make sure only the crappiest companies bid on the project, make everyone submit hundreds of pages of mostly useless paperwork, and then pick the lowest bidder, regardless of ability to actually perform the work. Then, when the lowest bidder fails, award the contract to a close friend's company, and whatever price they suggest, because "it has to get done by yesterday".
THIS!
This IS exactly what happens, and the laws, processes, and people that are in place are so broken it is impossible to get anything meaningful accomplished. It's ALL WASTED. The Time, Money, and Talent are spent on chasing down paperwork that was submitted properly 2 months ago that one bottle-necked individual couldn't bother to take 5 seconds to sign because they had to take a 2 week long vacation with nobody as an alternate point of contact or delegate of responsibility. Now you have to resubmit all that paperwork AGAIN because since the first submission the form has changed. They added a box to account for pink slippers instead of "light red" slippers, but that's only after not being told by anyone the form changed. If you're lucky, you might get that stuff in before you run into other issues that prevent even more actual work, but somehow create even greater paperwork. Often you end up putting in a year and a half effort into getting granted extensions for 6 months.
I used to get repeat calls from some "continuing education" bullshit asking for someone by the name of Sasha by some Indian guy. When I told him I wasn't Sasha, he asked for my name, and I very politely said I don't give out that information.
Then they claimed they were from some health organization...
Then they claimed they were from M$ and wanted to remote into my "Windows PC" to install their virus scanner because it "was infected, and they were seeing traffic from it". I called that bullshit outright, told the guy I run Linux, and that he was a fscktard scammer. They hung up...
Then the next time they called, I acted like I knew him, was too busy to talk, asked for his number, and repeatedly told him I'd call him back in 5 minutes. Man did that piss him off LOL!
I'd report them, but they block or disguise their numbers. Now I just don't answer numbers I don't know. If it's important, they will leave a voicemail.
Incorporating solar panels into low income housing doesn't sound like a bad idea so long as the panel infrastructure were stable and went undamaged by the residents. They get housing, and they provide themselves and others energy.
Just a short while ago there was a Slashdot story that IE now had only single-digit market share. Which seems to be in stark contradiction to what is said in this story. Are we now saying those numbers were not really that close to reality, but we went with them anyway?
I think that story is largely overblown. Those statistics are gathered from their site (W3Schools), and their site only. All that really shows is that most users who visit W3Schools don't run IE. And that doesn't surprise me. Why would anyone that deals with web development want to use a browser which has historically not followed standards and caused so much heartache for the web development community to support?
This article doesn't surprise me either. I thought the target was obvious.
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I for one welcome our new rodent overlords.
Yup, I saw this movie, doesn't end well for the humans. The human race should just get it over with and a third of us will work on building terminator like machines, another third giving animals super human intelligence and the last third photocopying our butts and sending those photos out electronically to the stars!
Sooooooooooooooo....... We've already finished the photocopying. FYI, Uranus was jealous. Should we divide our group in half and start helping with the Terminators and the Super Intelligent Animals now?
Did you guys get hacked or what? It seems like this site has been down as much as it has been up lately...
They went to get something to replace the NETGEAR. They'll be back from Walmart shortly.
"Humans are not machines. Many of them come to hate their jobs beyond the point they can bear, ..." It must be very painful to work for the most obviously abusive company in the United States.
Comcast is the 2014 "Worst Company In America"
Comcast's X1 Platform Might Have "National Known Issue" Stopping It From Actually Working
Comcast abuse
They beat out EA and Monsanto?!?
W*F?!?
I want my hoverboard!
Groceries can be very expensive, especially for families. All it takes is a simple temperature change hack to ruin an entire fridge full of food, and cost you another trip to the store (if your fridge is even fixable/usable at that point).
STFU NIGGER
And here we have a bot which deserves to be shat upon by no less than 56 bovine...
I believe the primary obstacle is that the gov't [particularly the federal gov't] loathes actually hiring people. they want to outsource everything, because of the mantra "private industry steals the best". and then to make sure only the crappiest companies bid on the project, make everyone submit hundreds of pages of mostly useless paperwork, and then pick the lowest bidder, regardless of ability to actually perform the work. Then, when the lowest bidder fails, award the contract to a close friend's company, and whatever price they suggest, because "it has to get done by yesterday".
THIS! This IS exactly what happens, and the laws, processes, and people that are in place are so broken it is impossible to get anything meaningful accomplished. It's ALL WASTED. The Time, Money, and Talent are spent on chasing down paperwork that was submitted properly 2 months ago that one bottle-necked individual couldn't bother to take 5 seconds to sign because they had to take a 2 week long vacation with nobody as an alternate point of contact or delegate of responsibility. Now you have to resubmit all that paperwork AGAIN because since the first submission the form has changed. They added a box to account for pink slippers instead of "light red" slippers, but that's only after not being told by anyone the form changed. If you're lucky, you might get that stuff in before you run into other issues that prevent even more actual work, but somehow create even greater paperwork. Often you end up putting in a year and a half effort into getting granted extensions for 6 months.
You mean the Chinese will start pirating Linux next?
The only way to get them to use Linux is to tell them it costs something.
Illegally connect and use RedHat repos?
Good news everyone...
Anyone else here miss the 1980s USSR? Looks like Putin does ...
ISR Pepperidge Farm remember you!
Nah, it was something like Microsoft Support or Windows Support.
That is devilishly clever, and wonderful, yet awful and a continuous propagation of their asshatted douchebaggery. The phone calls just get passed on.
3) Few seismic building laws in Eastern US, despite sizeable risk.
In the historic parts of Charleston you can see where they incorporated "earthquake bolts". I'm not sure how much they help. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
I used to get repeat calls from some "continuing education" bullshit asking for someone by the name of Sasha by some Indian guy. When I told him I wasn't Sasha, he asked for my name, and I very politely said I don't give out that information. Then they claimed they were from some health organization... Then they claimed they were from M$ and wanted to remote into my "Windows PC" to install their virus scanner because it "was infected, and they were seeing traffic from it". I called that bullshit outright, told the guy I run Linux, and that he was a fscktard scammer. They hung up... Then the next time they called, I acted like I knew him, was too busy to talk, asked for his number, and repeatedly told him I'd call him back in 5 minutes. Man did that piss him off LOL! I'd report them, but they block or disguise their numbers. Now I just don't answer numbers I don't know. If it's important, they will leave a voicemail.
SERIOUSLY. If they don't raise at least 5 million I'll be shocked.
DO YOU HAS THE 5 MIL?
Sorry, but Homestar Runner is lame. Really lame.
Go home Senor Cardgage, you're scaring the children.
AC.... You don't get a ding.
I know several 80's kids who loved H*R, myself included! Not to mention several Millennials!
Ya, I feel the same way. I was like what about us?
That sounds like something Sibbie would ask.
And let us never write a song about him...ever.
Long Pants Long Pants
BPA Free water bottles are common place now.
Except that it appears the BPA alternatives they created as replacements can be just as bad, and sometimes worse. http://www.motherjones.com/env...
Incorporating solar panels into low income housing doesn't sound like a bad idea so long as the panel infrastructure were stable and went undamaged by the residents. They get housing, and they provide themselves and others energy.
Care for a trojan with your unpatched hardware/software?
Lesser or two evils.
Definitely two evils here, HP and the unsympathetic, trojan lacing, pirate hackers. Though I can see how you might think they are one in the same.
Just a short while ago there was a Slashdot story that IE now had only single-digit market share. Which seems to be in stark contradiction to what is said in this story. Are we now saying those numbers were not really that close to reality, but we went with them anyway?
I think that story is largely overblown. Those statistics are gathered from their site (W3Schools), and their site only. All that really shows is that most users who visit W3Schools don't run IE. And that doesn't surprise me. Why would anyone that deals with web development want to use a browser which has historically not followed standards and caused so much heartache for the web development community to support? This article doesn't surprise me either. I thought the target was obvious.