I always thought the new Dr Who could've done more with the Daleks and Cybermen. Sure it's nice to pay homage to your roots, but in 21st century they simply do not cut it as enemies. Surely there could've been something more creative with a Dalek reinvention that kept the voice and style but made them a bit more mobile? It's like they said hey but these things suck, I know let's make them fly!
Global Warming is long term, so you don't have to change 32000 ships at once, you can integrate the newer design into and new ship designs, or maintenance plans of existing vessels. Combined with other ideas I've seen such as green roofs (putting plants on billions of house roofs instead of tile, steel on concrete), this global warming challenge might be achievable after all.
I moved to a subtropical area a decade ago, we get strange flash storms in November December most years, unlike what I'm used to. It can be perfectly hot and sunny 27 deg (80 for people still living in the dark ages), then suddenly solid black clouds, twilight conditions, thunder, lightning even hail, then 15 minutes later it's sunny again. It freaked me out the first couple of years, but you learn to pickup on it. I'm not sure exactly what the sensation is, but you feel it in the sky. Some sort of stillness, or ominous colour of light or something like it's about to get evil. If you were living a few thousand years ago it would certainly convince there was a super being up there controlling shit.
Or even better, just pay off the sysadmin. There's a whole ton of socially inept admins out there who run corporate networks. It wouldn't require too much effort to wine and dine them with promises of big cash and prostitutes in exchange for data. To make sure, you give them the choice of riches and regular sex, or we kill your family. This is espionage 101, no Russians required.
Where is this? Our cameras are all infrared, no visible flash needed. Prior to this it was a requirement that all flashes were positioned facing the rear of any potential targets.
Depends, I used to have a moped that didn't always get picked up on the light sensor. I could sit at a set of lights indefinitely until a bigger vehicle came along and triggered the lights for me. I learnt from that point to treat a red light the same as a stop sign. Use your brain, ensure traffic is clear then go.
But in an earlier/. article, about a year or two ago, a study showed that pirate sites were being used even when free legal download was available. So that doesn't work, either.
"A study"? Well that solves it then. If a study has been done then you can't possibly argue with that.
I know of no such legitimate free download site, so if it did exist they clearly didn't advertise very well, nor give it much of a chance to succeed. And if it was an industry site then I'll bet my right nut it wasn't as simple as search for content->download->consume which is what we want. There would be some long winded process involved that was cumbersome to use, then once you finally got it, there would've been restrictions to when and how you could consume the content, along with forced messages and advertising and all sorts of shit that drives millions of people like me to torrents in the first place.
So what if thousands of people emailed the email address in the letter with the statement "I suspect I may be possession of Stolen Information [sic], please advise". Then if responded to, the thousands of people play the 419 scam baiter game and simply consume as many hours of legal services as possible? Sony only has so many dollars to throw at lawyers, surely it would be trivial to simply overload them with submissions?
We have these road barriers made from plastic, similar to the concrete ones but filled with water. Same result, except a regular person can easily empty it take off with it and put it on their own street:)
Elevators shaft opeinings have doors. Why don't trains tracks?
They do in developed countries. Hong Kong's MTR has elevator style stations with doors for the station as well as the train. Stations are clean, air-conditioned, have full mobile coverage despite being fully underground, use contactless payment which everybody has, and costs a trivial amount to use. And you know what the real kicker is, the system actually runs at a profit so costs the taxpayer nothing.
Oh but Hong Kong isn't a real democracy so it must be bad...
I'd argue that A pillars have been getting progressively fatter to the point now that in some cars they are dangerous. Having years of FPS gaming experience I have hawk like spatial awareness, but even I've been caught out with once or twice with entire cars hidden behind the A pillar at certain angles. Some cars are worse than others, the worst I've had is the Holden/Vauxhall Monaro/Pontiac GTO. The A pillars in that thing should be illegal.
Science clearly defines the difference for sperm, egg, zygote, embryo etc and The law recognises these definitions. The only side I see clouding things up is the anti abortionists who can only make the logical argument of murder if you blatantly confuse an embryo as a human.
Both sides do agree that it is ALIVE and is a life. But is it a person yet? That is the crux of the debate.
No debate, it's not a person until the latter trimesters when it could theoretically survive on it's own, and actually exist outside the womb.
The clueless executive in your example is usually the CIO. I've worked for both types, and a good one will ensure the CEO commits and signs off on the CIO strategy for the course of the next x years. Server/Desktop refreshes committed, Application projects committed. A budget for new & unknown upcoming tech committed. A good CIO should know what is required to run an IT dept, and should be able to sell this up the chain. This is what allows the IT Dept to do its job.
Moving anything "to the cloud" simply means moving it "to someone else's computer". How do you judge their security?
How do you trust your employees who have access to the same privileged information? Employees are bound by contracts and relevant laws, so are service providers. None of this is rocket science. Security is merely managing risk, both options (on-premise vs cloud) have risk, but generally one option costs a whole lot more than the other.
Your story seems to miss a few key elements. How exactly did "propagation delay" cause a disaster?(no need to dumb it down - this is a site for nerds remember) Are you saying the cloud provider went offline along with your second site? With the limited information provided, I see no problem with the cloud as a concept merely your implementation of it which seems to lack even the fundamentals of a cloud migration, ie proof-of-concept and DR testing. Having done many successful cloud migrations myself, I still struggle to justify why you would waste time and effort with On-premise other than job security.
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Only hard to us, at this point on time. That is not the case for all instances of life in the universe over the period of millions of years.
I always thought the new Dr Who could've done more with the Daleks and Cybermen. Sure it's nice to pay homage to your roots, but in 21st century they simply do not cut it as enemies. Surely there could've been something more creative with a Dalek reinvention that kept the voice and style but made them a bit more mobile? It's like they said hey but these things suck, I know let's make them fly!
Global Warming is long term, so you don't have to change 32000 ships at once, you can integrate the newer design into and new ship designs, or maintenance plans of existing vessels. Combined with other ideas I've seen such as green roofs (putting plants on billions of house roofs instead of tile, steel on concrete), this global warming challenge might be achievable after all.
I moved to a subtropical area a decade ago, we get strange flash storms in November December most years, unlike what I'm used to. It can be perfectly hot and sunny 27 deg (80 for people still living in the dark ages), then suddenly solid black clouds, twilight conditions, thunder, lightning even hail, then 15 minutes later it's sunny again. It freaked me out the first couple of years, but you learn to pickup on it. I'm not sure exactly what the sensation is, but you feel it in the sky. Some sort of stillness, or ominous colour of light or something like it's about to get evil. If you were living a few thousand years ago it would certainly convince there was a super being up there controlling shit.
Are these the same birds that fly into jet engines and wind generator turbines?
Or even better, just pay off the sysadmin. There's a whole ton of socially inept admins out there who run corporate networks. It wouldn't require too much effort to wine and dine them with promises of big cash and prostitutes in exchange for data. To make sure, you give them the choice of riches and regular sex, or we kill your family. This is espionage 101, no Russians required.
Where is this? Our cameras are all infrared, no visible flash needed. Prior to this it was a requirement that all flashes were positioned facing the rear of any potential targets.
Ticket: I have to pay. Rear ended: His insurance will pay for it.
The choice is obvious. Fuck safety.
I'll take a few hundred dollar penalty than be forced to deal with the problems of whiplash for the rest of my life...
Running red lights is not safe.
Depends, I used to have a moped that didn't always get picked up on the light sensor. I could sit at a set of lights indefinitely until a bigger vehicle came along and triggered the lights for me. I learnt from that point to treat a red light the same as a stop sign. Use your brain, ensure traffic is clear then go.
And most importantly, better designed roads. There is a reason we have black spots, and it's not because driver behaviour suddenly changes...
In the door, ceiling or seat? Making a car more dangerous in order to add safety features seems a bit pointless don't you think?
How do you trace them? And what percentage of the world's police force would you like to dedicate to protecting credit card company revenue?
But in an earlier /. article, about a year or two ago, a study showed that pirate sites were being used even when free legal download was available. So that doesn't work, either.
"A study"? Well that solves it then. If a study has been done then you can't possibly argue with that. I know of no such legitimate free download site, so if it did exist they clearly didn't advertise very well, nor give it much of a chance to succeed. And if it was an industry site then I'll bet my right nut it wasn't as simple as search for content->download->consume which is what we want. There would be some long winded process involved that was cumbersome to use, then once you finally got it, there would've been restrictions to when and how you could consume the content, along with forced messages and advertising and all sorts of shit that drives millions of people like me to torrents in the first place.
So what if thousands of people emailed the email address in the letter with the statement "I suspect I may be possession of Stolen Information [sic], please advise". Then if responded to, the thousands of people play the 419 scam baiter game and simply consume as many hours of legal services as possible? Sony only has so many dollars to throw at lawyers, surely it would be trivial to simply overload them with submissions?
We have these road barriers made from plastic, similar to the concrete ones but filled with water. Same result, except a regular person can easily empty it take off with it and put it on their own street :)
If you don't know that this happened, your education was affected by politics.
Or you lived in one of the other 99.5% of the world's countries that isn't the USA.
Elevators shaft opeinings have doors. Why don't trains tracks?
They do in developed countries. Hong Kong's MTR has elevator style stations with doors for the station as well as the train. Stations are clean, air-conditioned, have full mobile coverage despite being fully underground, use contactless payment which everybody has, and costs a trivial amount to use. And you know what the real kicker is, the system actually runs at a profit so costs the taxpayer nothing.
Oh but Hong Kong isn't a real democracy so it must be bad...
Or just use thinner pillars like they did up until about 20 years ago...
I'd argue that A pillars have been getting progressively fatter to the point now that in some cars they are dangerous. Having years of FPS gaming experience I have hawk like spatial awareness, but even I've been caught out with once or twice with entire cars hidden behind the A pillar at certain angles. Some cars are worse than others, the worst I've had is the Holden/Vauxhall Monaro/Pontiac GTO. The A pillars in that thing should be illegal.
I think you're missing the point. If the hostages are also robots, then it ceases to be an issue.
Both camps use names for this early life.
Science clearly defines the difference for sperm, egg, zygote, embryo etc and The law recognises these definitions. The only side I see clouding things up is the anti abortionists who can only make the logical argument of murder if you blatantly confuse an embryo as a human.
Both sides do agree that it is ALIVE and is a life. But is it a person yet? That is the crux of the debate.
No debate, it's not a person until the latter trimesters when it could theoretically survive on it's own, and actually exist outside the womb.
Yes you certainly got me there. You must be fun at parties...
The clueless executive in your example is usually the CIO. I've worked for both types, and a good one will ensure the CEO commits and signs off on the CIO strategy for the course of the next x years. Server/Desktop refreshes committed, Application projects committed. A budget for new & unknown upcoming tech committed. A good CIO should know what is required to run an IT dept, and should be able to sell this up the chain. This is what allows the IT Dept to do its job.
Moving anything "to the cloud" simply means moving it "to someone else's computer". How do you judge their security?
How do you trust your employees who have access to the same privileged information? Employees are bound by contracts and relevant laws, so are service providers. None of this is rocket science. Security is merely managing risk, both options (on-premise vs cloud) have risk, but generally one option costs a whole lot more than the other.
Your story seems to miss a few key elements. How exactly did "propagation delay" cause a disaster?(no need to dumb it down - this is a site for nerds remember) Are you saying the cloud provider went offline along with your second site? With the limited information provided, I see no problem with the cloud as a concept merely your implementation of it which seems to lack even the fundamentals of a cloud migration, ie proof-of-concept and DR testing. Having done many successful cloud migrations myself, I still struggle to justify why you would waste time and effort with On-premise other than job security.