I'm retired now, but my firm had a plan to replace me with the cloud.
We were a law firm.
During my last two weeks, an elderly couple drove in from about 70 miles away to sign some family law papers and they were waiting in the conference room when a partner got hold of me and told me, "The cloud's down again .
I called the support number and they said they were aware of the problem and that they were working on it.
After a lot of pressure, I called again and told them to fail-safe over to the mirror that they had bragged about.
They said the outage got the mirror, as well.
I informed the partner and she started screaming at me. She yelled, "WHAT IS PLAN B?"
I said, "Ma'am, plan B is plan A."
It was quite a shit storm.
I had argued against the cloud, and I documented their rejection of my recommendations and they signed off on it.
They spent a a butt load of money bringing all that shit home, and I worked there another 5 years.
I had full hands-on control of the shit I built. All of it. I was totally responsible and could either fix, or get fixed, anything running in my house.
According to a Patreon blog about creator fees, these partners include Stripe and PayPal (which has a history of refusing to serve sex workers), but the pressure to turn sex workers away comes from major banking networks.
It's the payment partners.
Any objections should be addressed to those payment partners.
Well, the Yanks are Trumping that by forbidding coal plants closing, expanding oil drilling to national preserves, and deep water.
Also in the works is deregulating pollution and gas mileage standards in patriotic non-China, made in America Great Again, America First non-electric transportation.
... who, after some back-and-forth, hired me for some systems work at his insurance company.
I was in his office, a glass-enclosed cubicle surrounded by female administrative assistants.
He told me that he'd walk me around to make introductions to the stupid women help, conspiratorially, like we'd be the ruling good ole' boys.
They could hear.
I was polite to the staff, of course, and I could tell that, because jobs were tight back then, these women were suffering this sorry motherfucker because they needed the goddam job.
They looked like whipped dogs.
Goddam motherfucking son of a bitching sorry ass yellow belly blue balled bastard.
I looked each lady in the eye and strolled out the door as he said, "Blah, blah, blah, blah..."
I got voicemails offering more pay and asking me why I walked out...
I told my wife that this guy was useless as tits on a boar and he wasn't going to get one molecule of respect from me.
... a fairy tale starts, "Once upon a time..." and a sea story starts, "Hey, this ain't no shit:"
Hey, this ain't no shit: I was at the hangar at NAS Quonset Point, RI, working on an antisubmarine computer that lived on a P3 Orion and the goddam thing was nuts.
In self-test mode, it was tracking a sub at 3 feet above the surface going 60 knots.
HAhahaHAHahA
Seriously, folks; it's OK to mode me down but that memory (which was a hand-woven ferrite core, 64 bytes not Kb) is a hoot.
Google, Google, Google, why is it always Google? Momma always did like Google best.
Sure, the people who live in urban areas have choices like Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, dogpike and stuff, but those who live in rural areas only have access to Google.
The Americanizationism of the indigeneousley concatenated form of the corrupted "F**'em is (localizationizing a locality-based colloquallismatctation) is "Fuck 'em."
... content that will be FREELY accessible to all across the globe.
Emphasis mine.
The content was not generated "freely."
Sources of information, particularly involving resources such as reporters, information systems, infrastructure, should be fairly compensated for expenses.
News and other content aggregators are doing little to no work and making money off other's IP.
We recently had discussions here on/. about copyright law that views this matter from a different perspective.
Lawrence Lessig Criticizes Proposed 140-Year Copyright Protections
Slashdot Mirror
I agree.
Get this: At the initial meeting, I asked if there were any speed issues and the vendor said, "No, you'll operate much faster than you do now."
The fucking latency was shit.
And get this: The firm logged in using RDP.
It was actually just one big duplication of our production servers (I had a dual system) loaded up to the "cloud."
So I've been retired 3 years now and They're out of business?
Who the fuck have I been drinking coffee with every Friday afternoon?
All they need is to make money. They don't have any feet.
This.
I'm retired now, but my firm had a plan to replace me with the cloud.
We were a law firm.
During my last two weeks, an elderly couple drove in from about 70 miles away to sign some family law papers and they were waiting in the conference room when a partner got hold of me and told me, "The cloud's down again .
I called the support number and they said they were aware of the problem and that they were working on it.
After a lot of pressure, I called again and told them to fail-safe over to the mirror that they had bragged about.
They said the outage got the mirror, as well.
I informed the partner and she started screaming at me. She yelled, "WHAT IS PLAN B?"
I said, "Ma'am, plan B is plan A."
It was quite a shit storm.
I had argued against the cloud, and I documented their rejection of my recommendations and they signed off on it.
They spent a a butt load of money bringing all that shit home, and I worked there another 5 years.
I had full hands-on control of the shit I built. All of it. I was totally responsible and could either fix, or get fixed, anything running in my house.
I agree with you.
I'm skeptical of cryptocurrencies and blockchain right now , because I think we'll be looking back after we get both in versions 2.0 and above.
I'm a retired IT guy and I was not an early adopter.
....it's called a transaction, using a currency.
Yep.
But at the outset there was a bitter battle about whether Bitcoin was a currency.
We just settled that, right?
Which approach makes them more money, your approach or their decision to be capitulant [sic capitilating] little bitches?
... FTA:
According to a Patreon blog about creator fees, these partners include Stripe and PayPal (which has a history of refusing to serve sex workers), but the pressure to turn sex workers away comes from major banking networks.
It's the payment partners .
Any objections should be addressed to those payment partners.
Patreon just wants to make a buck.
Well, the Yanks are Trumping that by forbidding coal plants closing, expanding oil drilling to national preserves, and deep water.
Also in the works is deregulating pollution and gas mileage standards in patriotic non-China, made in America Great Again, America First non-electric transportation.
Suck it, Chins.
olfactory
In the beginning, batshit crazy Bitcoinerites touted the "off the grid" anonymous, fee-less utopia of cryptocurrencies.
We of sound mind informed that as soon as Bitcoin found a way to convert to more traditional currency, the shit would hit the fan.
And, that's precisely what's happened.
Now Bitcoin is subject to regulation, has lost its anonymity, is a commodity with exchange rates to fiat, and the IRS is working to tax transactions.
Effectively, across the planet, Bitcoin is a proxy USD.
Bitcoin was great before it got hijacked by ponzi scheme "investors".
No, Bitcoin was great before it found a way to convert to fiat currency..
... who, after some back-and-forth, hired me for some systems work at his insurance company.
I was in his office, a glass-enclosed cubicle surrounded by female administrative assistants.
He told me that he'd walk me around to make introductions to the stupid women help, conspiratorially, like we'd be the ruling good ole' boys.
They could hear.
I was polite to the staff, of course, and I could tell that, because jobs were tight back then, these women were suffering this sorry motherfucker because they needed the goddam job.
They looked like whipped dogs.
Goddam motherfucking son of a bitching sorry ass yellow belly blue balled bastard.
I looked each lady in the eye and strolled out the door as he said, "Blah, blah, blah, blah ..."
I got voicemails offering more pay and asking me why I walked out ...
I told my wife that this guy was useless as tits on a boar and he wasn't going to get one molecule of respect from me.
He went away after a few months.
... a fairy tale starts, "Once upon a time ..." and a sea story starts, "Hey, this ain't no shit:"
Hey, this ain't no shit: I was at the hangar at NAS Quonset Point, RI, working on an antisubmarine computer that lived on a P3 Orion and the goddam thing was nuts.
In self-test mode, it was tracking a sub at 3 feet above the surface going 60 knots.
HAhahaHAHahA
Seriously, folks; it's OK to mode me down but that memory (which was a hand-woven ferrite core, 64 bytes not Kb) is a hoot.
What in Sam Hill were we all doing with those senses before all this technical shit?
I'm 72 years old and I'm totally guilty of looking at something for 11 fucking hours a day.
How about an article about how dancing the Twist causes injuries?
This.
Google, Google, Google, why is it always Google? Momma always did like Google best.
Sure, the people who live in urban areas have choices like Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, dogpike and stuff, but those who live in rural areas only have access to Google.
The Americanizationism of the indigeneousley concatenated form of the corrupted "F**'em is (localizationizing a locality-based colloquallismatctation) is "Fuck 'em."
It was Tarabull.
Why are you singling out Bernie? I'm not objecting to your post.
I am admitting ignorance, and I'd appreciate the backstory.
Thanks.
... right here:
... content that will be FREELY accessible to all across the globe.
Emphasis mine.
The content was not generated "freely."
Sources of information, particularly involving resources such as reporters, information systems, infrastructure, should be fairly compensated for expenses.
News and other content aggregators are doing little to no work and making money off other's IP.
We recently had discussions here on /. about copyright law that views this matter from a different perspective.
Lawrence Lessig Criticizes Proposed 140-Year Copyright Protections
THE PUBLIC!
They don't give a flying rat's ass.
To say that the data set was not "password-protected," is equivalent to, "unencrypted like we always wanted to do with your iPhone."
#####seriously
... and I don't like to read them.
I USE UPPERCASE.
I got an F for using a wholecolon.