Can someone explain this data? I see these numbers for "Ballot Status" but no clue what they mean:
69360 ""s
201979 As
16126 Cs
3594 Rs
104 Ss
ACCEPT, CANCEL, REJECT, SUPRESS? (it is Georgia j/k... prolly SUSPECT). The blank entries are "unclassified" or under consideration. The CANCELED usually have an explanation (they voted in-person, voluntarily canceled, etc.)
Why bother granting administrative privileges when the device is physically accessed and any nefarious payloads can already be executed?! Just because a "slow-burn" strategy might be employed to take down a target network, that doesn't make this "vulnerability" a big deal. Instead the underlying issue is that when poor security practices are employed and registry access is readily offered... anything bad can happen, from granting elevated privileges or printing out codes for the nuclear fusion reactors.
Sure, it's a bit of an issue, but the only sensible fix is to store all RID-encoded permissions into an alternate location (cloud) which is not otherwise accessible on the local machine. But then all Windows machines would *require* internet access... or all log-ins would be susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks during authn/authz checks against the cloud (or proximate central auth directory).
Come to think of it, the solution already exists: domain-join all workstations against a locally-deployed AD. Yay, problem solved.
Whoooah! No, it is not. [] that's not what we're aiming for. Indeed, if you trust [] what we're doing here is to ensure that you can store stuff on a web server you control.
Actually, yes, you make it seem exactly like DRM: the terms of consent are centralized ("web server you control") for content consumed by others ("you trust your data with someone"). While Disney owns (legally) and controls (via DRM) their movies on their servers (self-managed datacenters or outsourced to 'the cloud'), they've established a time-limited contract encapsulating the terms upon which you may consume the content. Their terms typically include the disclosure of your personal and digital identity (who are you and where/how is the content consumed).
Technologically, however, it seems like a decentralized DRM implemented simply as an Onion server running atop an Onion router. The content would be marked up as HyperText Markup Language (HTML) or an alternative DRM-friendly annotation scheme (read: metadata) with an associated logging strategy as to establish a sufficient audit trail.
HONESTLY, however, my very first thought is that TBL/Solid/Inrupt is trying to re-invent/re-incarnate the WWW as it was back in 1989... with more contemporary systems and network architectures... with the idea of leaving a lasting legacy of a new green-field project. Oh, with the marketing playbook that AOL, CompuServe, Yahoo! Dial-up, Prodigy, McAfee, etc., all used in the mid- to late-1990s about a "safer" internet with greater control over your data. (Yes, I remember the days when a selling point to using AOL was that your information and activities would remain private and solely on AOL infrastructure and not end up floating around on the scary WWW. Ha.)
The only reasonable "value" from this exercise is the digital (read: artificial) production of crypto dollars (with broad traceability) instead of exchanging of real currency. If this path holds, then soon regulations for dollar-backed cryptos will follow that of big banks; namely, a "monetary stress test" so that the amount of real currency can itself be a diluted quantity from the asset class on hold... and then regulations will again cascade to exotic investment vehicles with another layer of dilution from the real currency. IOW, digitally bigger currency valuations will beget even larger economic collapses.
But search results for simple keywords brings back movies ("power" brings up Power Rangers, "black" brings up Black Panther). I don't know their infrastructure architecture but maybe their product search indexes are off-line but their media properties' are okay or back up already?
Would copy-and-paste be available commands across browsers, or do I have to type everything across every browser window? Cuz if it's the latter, it is a solution that improves security but dramatically impedes user friendliness (and thus adoption).
URI/URL effectively died a decade or so ago when savage PHP coders and their armada of "content
management systems" violated the usage guidance on them and then took years to rediscover the
concept on their own (as "permalinks").
Though I'd say the initial first blow was the constant rearranging of static sites by companies that
apparently had nothing better to do than pay people to move files around for no good reason.
Umm, what?!
Are you referring to the practice of adding SEO keywords into the URL? Cuz if not, when's the last time you took your meds?
A co-founder of a quasi-influential silicon valley company left the company. Why is this written like an obituary? These days, everybody leaves their employers -- even Steve Jobs left Apple on a few occasions.
"The bucket in question was created by an AWS salesperson to store prospective AWS pricing scenarios while working with a customer," an AWS spokesperson told ZDNet.
Somebody is not getting their performance bonus this quarter...
Generally speaking, infrastructure configurations and vendor-negotiated pricing arrangements are relatively confidential for the entity (GoDaddy) and they are traditionally classified as "trade secrets" (especially in the eyes of lawyers and employment/vendor contracts). The vendor/team/person who setup "abbottgodaddy" is liable for any damages directly attributable to this snafu; the direct damages would be changes in pricing strategy and infrastructure migration costs -- for a company like GoDaddy (with over 24K systems) that'll be a lotta budget spent to resolve, and the vendor would go broke (I hope they have good liability insurance).
Less so in San Francisco proper but greatly available throughout Silicon Valley and even Seattle proper, there is PLENTY of property (rental and for-purchase) available... except they are in "undesirable" parts of town, along a major highway, tucked in an area with lots of low-income/no-income tenants, etc.
So there are options, it's just that most want a ready-made mid-level (or higher) semi-luxury palace next to a Whole Foods and a hopping nightlife. Like a Suburbia++ if you will.
Those options are always fewer and those prices are affected by supply-and-demand economics, but to believe nothing reasonably affordable exists is truly misleading. Want proof? Just check the property values of properties in "slums" and "dangerous hoods" and recognize how little it would cost to buy/invest in the same manner a professional developer would.
Microsoft's Teams is really a repackaged Yammer with better Skype and SharePoint/OneNote integrations. It's solid, and when the bundle can be obtained for FREE, the cost-benefit is a no-brainer compared to all of the limitations of the free Slack offerings.
They've both got that "shiny happy people" look I associate with cult members and business drones who are more concerned about what their briefcase looks like than what's in it.
Number of American universities in the global top 50: 32
Number of German universities in the global top 50: 1*
What's funny is using an AMERICAN "mainstream media" publication enterprise for evaluating GLOBAL universities! Their methodologies are quasi-closed (also quasi-open) and flawed to the bone. The publication has a history of ranking institutions based on their financial contributions to the rankings projects, sponsorships of the company, and donations to specific causes. In other words, corrupt!
I personally know summa cum laude graduates from both Harvard and MIT (ranks #1 and #2 on that list) who have no marketable real-world skills (or knowledge of world histories) and have been unemployed/unemployable for the bulk of their adulthood! Their clearly have their well-ranked schools to thank for that...yet most of us are doing just fine being employed/employable and retiring early!
BTW their global rankings methodology includes funds IN US DOLLARS spent on research, grants, etc. They do not compare the quality of the output ("educated students/graduates") but rather the abstract sex appeal based on the cohort of professionals whose job is to feed those schools with students.
...but I have to suspect Langley's situation has more to do with his seniority than his chronological age. He's probably right at the top of the salary range for his position, and he's also earning these huge performance bonuses.
Their performance would be proportional to their own salary range; the higher the salary, the more challenging the performance metrics. ALSO, the dispensation of a huge performance bonus in the same quarter as poorest performer ranking is incongruent.
Alternatively, maybe the huge performance bonus was a back-handed severance package! But that doesn't add up with "resignation" and "retirement" actions within the IBM HR systems -- retirement accolades after voluntary resignation after receiving a pink slip?? None of that adds up.
Wholeheartedly agreed! The way businesses work is to acquire those non-CAPEX assets and layoff/reduce the CAPEX assets: the difference ends up being profits/margins which the acquiring company retains as value for their own shareholders. Capitalism at work.
The Washington DC one is a Verizon switching center, not an AT&T one. You can go look yourself.
Yeah, the story makes clear that Qwest (CenturyLink) [Seattle] and Verizon [DC] own several buildings but AT&T simply leases space for their own telecom needs. You know there are tin-foil hats being worn when the space-leasing is assumedly nefarious in nature.
DRM for Java ("subscription services") is clearly the future... for ORCL. This is the same ORCL who has lost so much touch with the industry [and lost steam for its Oracle Cloud mojo] that they STOPPED reporting the cloud growth with their investors because most customers are not buying into their cloud story. With this stick (unilateral move from perpetual to subscription licensing with eventual investor marketing push to say "oh so many customers have migrated to our amazing subscription services") they are essentially declaring war against their customers! Ugh.
So these 'Researchers' are calling an 'autodidactic iteration' what is otherwise known as embedding FOR loops with every iteration added to one of two collections: success or failure. Where is the innovation, exactly? Its increased in performance is attained solely by using newer generations of hardware -- give it older hardware and its performance would comparatively deteriorate.
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in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens
The summary wasn't wrong.
Can someone explain this data? I see these numbers for "Ballot Status" but no clue what they mean:
ACCEPT, CANCEL, REJECT, SUPRESS? (it is Georgia j/k... prolly SUSPECT). The blank entries are "unclassified" or under consideration. The CANCELED usually have an explanation (they voted in-person, voluntarily canceled, etc.)
So what is their secret sauce?
It runs Ubuntu?
Why bother granting administrative privileges when the device is physically accessed and any nefarious payloads can already be executed?! Just because a "slow-burn" strategy might be employed to take down a target network, that doesn't make this "vulnerability" a big deal. Instead the underlying issue is that when poor security practices are employed and registry access is readily offered... anything bad can happen, from granting elevated privileges or printing out codes for the nuclear fusion reactors.
Sure, it's a bit of an issue, but the only sensible fix is to store all RID-encoded permissions into an alternate location (cloud) which is not otherwise accessible on the local machine. But then all Windows machines would *require* internet access... or all log-ins would be susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks during authn/authz checks against the cloud (or proximate central auth directory).
Come to think of it, the solution already exists: domain-join all workstations against a locally-deployed AD. Yay, problem solved.
This design seems like DRM for personal data.
Whoooah! No, it is not. [] that's not what we're aiming for. Indeed, if you trust [] what we're doing here is to ensure that you can store stuff on a web server you control.
Actually, yes, you make it seem exactly like DRM: the terms of consent are centralized ("web server you control") for content consumed by others ("you trust your data with someone"). While Disney owns (legally) and controls (via DRM) their movies on their servers (self-managed datacenters or outsourced to 'the cloud'), they've established a time-limited contract encapsulating the terms upon which you may consume the content. Their terms typically include the disclosure of your personal and digital identity (who are you and where/how is the content consumed).
Technologically, however, it seems like a decentralized DRM implemented simply as an Onion server running atop an Onion router. The content would be marked up as HyperText Markup Language (HTML) or an alternative DRM-friendly annotation scheme (read: metadata) with an associated logging strategy as to establish a sufficient audit trail.
HONESTLY, however, my very first thought is that TBL/Solid/Inrupt is trying to re-invent/re-incarnate the WWW as it was back in 1989... with more contemporary systems and network architectures... with the idea of leaving a lasting legacy of a new green-field project. Oh, with the marketing playbook that AOL, CompuServe, Yahoo! Dial-up, Prodigy, McAfee, etc., all used in the mid- to late-1990s about a "safer" internet with greater control over your data. (Yes, I remember the days when a selling point to using AOL was that your information and activities would remain private and solely on AOL infrastructure and not end up floating around on the scary WWW. Ha.)
The only reasonable "value" from this exercise is the digital (read: artificial) production of crypto dollars (with broad traceability) instead of exchanging of real currency. If this path holds, then soon regulations for dollar-backed cryptos will follow that of big banks; namely, a "monetary stress test" so that the amount of real currency can itself be a diluted quantity from the asset class on hold... and then regulations will again cascade to exotic investment vehicles with another layer of dilution from the real currency. IOW, digitally bigger currency valuations will beget even larger economic collapses.
But search results for simple keywords brings back movies ("power" brings up Power Rangers, "black" brings up Black Panther). I don't know their infrastructure architecture but maybe their product search indexes are off-line but their media properties' are okay or back up already?
Would copy-and-paste be available commands across browsers, or do I have to type everything across every browser window? Cuz if it's the latter, it is a solution that improves security but dramatically impedes user friendliness (and thus adoption).
URI/URL effectively died a decade or so ago when savage PHP coders and their armada of "content management systems" violated the usage guidance on them and then took years to rediscover the concept on their own (as "permalinks").
Though I'd say the initial first blow was the constant rearranging of static sites by companies that apparently had nothing better to do than pay people to move files around for no good reason.
Umm, what?!
Are you referring to the practice of adding SEO keywords into the URL? Cuz if not, when's the last time you took your meds?
A co-founder of a quasi-influential silicon valley company left the company. Why is this written like an obituary? These days, everybody leaves their employers -- even Steve Jobs left Apple on a few occasions.
And the settings menu in Chrome has always looked like it was designed by a 10 year old as an extra credit project in remedial programming.
The 27-year-old Ph.D. in computer science who did the design as part of their interview/internship at Google is mildly offended by that remark.
"The bucket in question was created by an AWS salesperson to store prospective AWS pricing scenarios while working with a customer," an AWS spokesperson told ZDNet.
Somebody is not getting their performance bonus this quarter...
Generally speaking, infrastructure configurations and vendor-negotiated pricing arrangements are relatively confidential for the entity (GoDaddy) and they are traditionally classified as "trade secrets" (especially in the eyes of lawyers and employment/vendor contracts). The vendor/team/person who setup "abbottgodaddy" is liable for any damages directly attributable to this snafu; the direct damages would be changes in pricing strategy and infrastructure migration costs -- for a company like GoDaddy (with over 24K systems) that'll be a lotta budget spent to resolve, and the vendor would go broke (I hope they have good liability insurance).
It's unambiguously an error in the AWS bucket configuration. The title doesn't state responsibility but the first line in the brief description does.
https://xkcd.com/927/
Except this is a HPC programming language, not a one-size-fits-all HTML5-style standard.
That was already forked from a repo last updated 3 months ago from https://github.com/4jy/Source-...
Less so in San Francisco proper but greatly available throughout Silicon Valley and even Seattle proper, there is PLENTY of property (rental and for-purchase) available... except they are in "undesirable" parts of town, along a major highway, tucked in an area with lots of low-income/no-income tenants, etc.
So there are options, it's just that most want a ready-made mid-level (or higher) semi-luxury palace next to a Whole Foods and a hopping nightlife. Like a Suburbia++ if you will.
Those options are always fewer and those prices are affected by supply-and-demand economics, but to believe nothing reasonably affordable exists is truly misleading. Want proof? Just check the property values of properties in "slums" and "dangerous hoods" and recognize how little it would cost to buy/invest in the same manner a professional developer would.
Ahh, Glitch, what a game!
Microsoft's Teams is really a repackaged Yammer with better Skype and SharePoint/OneNote integrations. It's solid, and when the bundle can be obtained for FREE, the cost-benefit is a no-brainer compared to all of the limitations of the free Slack offerings.
They've both got that "shiny happy people" look I associate with cult members and business drones who are more concerned about what their briefcase looks like than what's in it.
I'm gonna borrow that metaphor. =)
Number of American universities in the global top 50: 32 Number of German universities in the global top 50: 1*
What's funny is using an AMERICAN "mainstream media" publication enterprise for evaluating GLOBAL universities! Their methodologies are quasi-closed (also quasi-open) and flawed to the bone. The publication has a history of ranking institutions based on their financial contributions to the rankings projects, sponsorships of the company, and donations to specific causes. In other words, corrupt!
I personally know summa cum laude graduates from both Harvard and MIT (ranks #1 and #2 on that list) who have no marketable real-world skills (or knowledge of world histories) and have been unemployed/unemployable for the bulk of their adulthood! Their clearly have their well-ranked schools to thank for that...yet most of us are doing just fine being employed/employable and retiring early!
BTW their global rankings methodology includes funds IN US DOLLARS spent on research, grants, etc. They do not compare the quality of the output ("educated students/graduates") but rather the abstract sex appeal based on the cohort of professionals whose job is to feed those schools with students.
...but I have to suspect Langley's situation has more to do with his seniority than his chronological age. He's probably right at the top of the salary range for his position, and he's also earning these huge performance bonuses.
Their performance would be proportional to their own salary range; the higher the salary, the more challenging the performance metrics. ALSO, the dispensation of a huge performance bonus in the same quarter as poorest performer ranking is incongruent.
Alternatively, maybe the huge performance bonus was a back-handed severance package! But that doesn't add up with "resignation" and "retirement" actions within the IBM HR systems -- retirement accolades after voluntary resignation after receiving a pink slip?? None of that adds up.
Wholeheartedly agreed! The way businesses work is to acquire those non-CAPEX assets and layoff/reduce the CAPEX assets: the difference ends up being profits/margins which the acquiring company retains as value for their own shareholders. Capitalism at work.
The Washington DC one is a Verizon switching center, not an AT&T one. You can go look yourself.
Yeah, the story makes clear that Qwest (CenturyLink) [Seattle] and Verizon [DC] own several buildings but AT&T simply leases space for their own telecom needs. You know there are tin-foil hats being worn when the space-leasing is assumedly nefarious in nature.
DRM for Java ("subscription services") is clearly the future... for ORCL. This is the same ORCL who has lost so much touch with the industry [and lost steam for its Oracle Cloud mojo] that they STOPPED reporting the cloud growth with their investors because most customers are not buying into their cloud story. With this stick (unilateral move from perpetual to subscription licensing with eventual investor marketing push to say "oh so many customers have migrated to our amazing subscription services") they are essentially declaring war against their customers! Ugh.
So these 'Researchers' are calling an 'autodidactic iteration' what is otherwise known as embedding FOR loops with every iteration added to one of two collections: success or failure. Where is the innovation, exactly? Its increased in performance is attained solely by using newer generations of hardware -- give it older hardware and its performance would comparatively deteriorate.