I've learned my lesson the hard way implement a Google APIs or use a Google service and poof gone the next day.
True, and sadly also true of just about any 3rd-party service that some other process relies on.
One of my sites used to rely on another site for some IP-to-Geo lookups. The other site disappeared without warning one day and so of course my service failed as well.
I learned my lesson and started hosting the IP records myself. I have to update them from time to time, but that's a minor annoyance compared to waking up and finding that my site has crashed because I relied on a 3rd-party site to do some of the heavy lifting.
Yay! The Internet Of Things That Are Quickly Abandoned And No Longer Work!
"*SMACK* Please sir, may I spend another $300 on a gadget that will deliberately be made useless as soon as the warranty expires? Thank you sir! *SMACK*"
Yes, let's all dance around and worship the Internet Of Things That Suckers Buy, because companies really don't give a shit about YOU. Your money, well, they care about that but once they have it, "Fuck you!"
And funnily enough one party has been claiming govt is terrible AND defunding it at every turn...amazing that you get what you pay for.
Spot-on. The Republicans have made hating our government a party plank, and they openly brag to their constituents about how they want to dismantle it and shut it down and "starve it" until it dies. And yet at the same time, they fight like madmen to hold the reins of power. That makes NO DAMN SENSE*.
Look, if you hate the government, that's your business- but don't tell us you hate it and that you also want to run it.
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* Oddly enough, their constituents are the ones MOST likely to need and use government assistance, but they fall for that "shut it down" shit every time. Remember the idiots with the "keep your government hands off my Medicare!" signs? Yes, they're that dumb.
Actually, watching my friends pass away is way better than the alternative- having them watch me pass away. I don't like going to funerals but I'd rather go to theirs than they go to mine.
As far as I'm concerned, one of the better parts of getting older is watching your enemies die off. I confess, that's given me quite a bit of pleasure so far.:)
I suppose I should feel bad about it, but I really don't. Every time one of them dies I feel a renewed sense of vigor and satisfaction. "Yipee, I out lived that fucking asshole, yay for ME!" And I have a drink. Not in their memory, but just because I can.:)
So fuck you, Mike W., James P., and Jerry L. You're all dead and I'm still eating bacon sandwiches and banging my lovely young wife. Suck it, boys. Oh, that's right, you can't- because you're dead. ha ha ha ha!
I have mod points, but using them on April Fools day seems like shooting blanks at the Moon- pointless and/or meaningless.
Which, now that I think of it, makes me wonder if my mod points are actually real or not....
Ah well, perhaps it's best to wait a few days until all the posts about solar-powered slippers and helium-filled paperweights have ceased being posted.
We're headed to a paradigm shift, old son. That is certain. The only speculation is when it is going to snap and where it will take us. But that it is coming is beyond doubt.
I agree with much of what you've said. The fact is that paradigm shifts are constantly occurring all around us, every day. Most of the time they're slow, gradual, and gentle, sometimes they're abrupt or even catastrophic.
For example...Vinyl to CDs, CDs to MP3s, landlines to cellphones, gas vehicles to electric vehicles, the acceptance of same-sex marriage, the rise of the 'gig economy', the slide from a service-based workforce to an information-based one, etc etc etc....paradigm shifts happen all the time.
Now we're seeing a paradigm shift in the nature of politics (or the political process), for better or worse. Mostly worse in my opinion- this nomination cycle has been the most debased, theatrical, and craven I've ever seen. What was once a mostly somber process undertaken with decorum and at least a pretense of thoughtful consideration has been turned into a flat-out circus, mostly on the Republican side.
I think the fact that a 100% substance-free person like Donald Trump could get run a "campaign" and have a very good chance of becoming the actual Republican nominee is proof that paradigm shifts have the potential to be disastrous. Will the current campaign become the template or standard for future nomination races? If so, then we'll all suffer for it.
Great news would be Amazon white-listing compliant cables,
This would be the ideal solution, but I'm unsure how they'd go about it without testing cables themselves or relying on customer feedback.
Amazon could certainly afford to test USB cables, but that would also open up a can of worms in that they might then be expected to test other items they sell. I'm pretty sure they don't want to dip their toe in that pool, even for something as simple as a USB cable. It would be great for their customers and the "goodwill" factor, but it'll cost them time and money and they probably don't want to start down that path. Plus, maybe they'd get a fully-compliant cable from ABC Cable Company one day and then after passing certification, the company reverts to a non-compliant cable to save a few pennies.
As for relying on customer feedback, that would take a while to accumulate enough ratings and reviews before it was reliable, and it wouldn't help the people who bought the crap cables before the reviews came in, essentially turning them into guinea pigs or blind product testers.
I don't see a good solution to this kind of problem (and it's not just USB cables that this applies to, unfortunately). The "meet the specs or be banned" is a good first step, but any really shady supplier will just keep popping up under different names and selling their stuff.
I don't know about you, but I'd be proud as hell if I'd managed to write an application that had 1400+ vulnerabilities.
It must have taken a lot of work and testing to make sure it was that porous and vulnerable. I mean, just think of all the work involved in taking out all of the bounds checking, sanity tests, input validation, error checking, etc etc.
IF ($INPUT){
GRANT FULL ADMIN SUPERUSER ACCESS OMG; }ELSE{
GRANT FULL ADMIN SUPERUSER ACCESS OMG; }
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Operating systems are stupid.
Stupid people build stupid operating systems.
I don't expect a screwdriver to mistrust all screws until trust can be established, and only turn screws that it trusts.
If your screwdriver could unscrew stuff by itself without your permission, you probably shouldn't trust it.
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Is a computer a tool, or is it the wonderful new mechanical brain that will soon replace the meat in my skull?
For some people, it's both.
No, the people are NOT stupid.
Thousands upon thousands of years of history disagree.
People are stupid, film at 11.
I've learned my lesson the hard way implement a Google APIs or use a Google service and poof gone the next day.
True, and sadly also true of just about any 3rd-party service that some other process relies on.
One of my sites used to rely on another site for some IP-to-Geo lookups. The other site disappeared without warning one day and so of course my service failed as well.
I learned my lesson and started hosting the IP records myself. I have to update them from time to time, but that's a minor annoyance compared to waking up and finding that my site has crashed because I relied on a 3rd-party site to do some of the heavy lifting.
Yay! The Internet Of Things That Are Quickly Abandoned And No Longer Work!
"*SMACK* Please sir, may I spend another $300 on a gadget that will deliberately be made useless as soon as the warranty expires? Thank you sir! *SMACK*"
Yes, let's all dance around and worship the Internet Of Things That Suckers Buy, because companies really don't give a shit about YOU. Your money, well, they care about that but once they have it, "Fuck you!"
An algorithm can't be racist.
Correct, but the output can appear to be racist or provide racist results, and in many cases that's enough to cause a problem.
But you're right, mathematics itself isn't racist. It's the product of the computation that can be interpreted as being racist.
And funnily enough one party has been claiming govt is terrible AND defunding it at every turn...amazing that you get what you pay for.
Spot-on. The Republicans have made hating our government a party plank, and they openly brag to their constituents about how they want to dismantle it and shut it down and "starve it" until it dies. And yet at the same time, they fight like madmen to hold the reins of power. That makes NO DAMN SENSE*.
Look, if you hate the government, that's your business- but don't tell us you hate it and that you also want to run it.
-
* Oddly enough, their constituents are the ones MOST likely to need and use government assistance, but they fall for that "shut it down" shit every time. Remember the idiots with the "keep your government hands off my Medicare!" signs? Yes, they're that dumb.
A State Department system was found to be insecure?
As someone who's dealt with the online State Department software, it would be far more shocking to me if they'd found one that was secure.
"Watching your friends die off."
Actually, watching my friends pass away is way better than the alternative- having them watch me pass away. I don't like going to funerals but I'd rather go to theirs than they go to mine.
As far as I'm concerned, one of the better parts of getting older is watching your enemies die off. I confess, that's given me quite a bit of pleasure so far. :)
I suppose I should feel bad about it, but I really don't. Every time one of them dies I feel a renewed sense of vigor and satisfaction. "Yipee, I out lived that fucking asshole, yay for ME!" And I have a drink. Not in their memory, but just because I can. :)
So fuck you, Mike W., James P., and Jerry L. You're all dead and I'm still eating bacon sandwiches and banging my lovely young wife. Suck it, boys. Oh, that's right, you can't- because you're dead. ha ha ha ha!
I have mod points, but using them on April Fools day seems like shooting blanks at the Moon- pointless and/or meaningless.
Which, now that I think of it, makes me wonder if my mod points are actually real or not....
Ah well, perhaps it's best to wait a few days until all the posts about solar-powered slippers and helium-filled paperweights have ceased being posted.
We're headed to a paradigm shift, old son. That is certain.
The only speculation is when it is going to snap and where it will take us.
But that it is coming is beyond doubt.
I agree with much of what you've said. The fact is that paradigm shifts are constantly occurring all around us, every day. Most of the time they're slow, gradual, and gentle, sometimes they're abrupt or even catastrophic.
For example...Vinyl to CDs, CDs to MP3s, landlines to cellphones, gas vehicles to electric vehicles, the acceptance of same-sex marriage, the rise of the 'gig economy', the slide from a service-based workforce to an information-based one, etc etc etc....paradigm shifts happen all the time.
Now we're seeing a paradigm shift in the nature of politics (or the political process), for better or worse. Mostly worse in my opinion- this nomination cycle has been the most debased, theatrical, and craven I've ever seen. What was once a mostly somber process undertaken with decorum and at least a pretense of thoughtful consideration has been turned into a flat-out circus, mostly on the Republican side.
I think the fact that a 100% substance-free person like Donald Trump could get run a "campaign" and have a very good chance of becoming the actual Republican nominee is proof that paradigm shifts have the potential to be disastrous. Will the current campaign become the template or standard for future nomination races? If so, then we'll all suffer for it.
And even if they test a sample, what's to prevent a company from providing a quality sample, then selling shit?
Exactly....and this is why Amazon probably doesn't want to go down this path.
We can play identity politics or we can try to drill down to what matters.
Sure, but "drilling down to what matters" doesn't sell papers or page views or book guests on FOX News.
while ps -ef | grep darlmcbride | grep -v grep
do
pkill -9 darlmcbride
done
"We're The TSA- Slowing You Down Just For The Hell Of It"
"We're The TSA- Using Yesterday's Technology Tomorrow!"
"We're The TSA- We All Gots High School Degrees, Well Sum Of Us Do!"
"We're The TSA- Fat, Lazy, and Uninformed!"
Because if your only argument for abortion is "it is legal" and "lots of people support it", well, that isn't much to stand on.
Who said that was my argument? I never said anything like that. Stop projecting your delusions onto me.
Big oil is corrupt?! I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!
I could hardly believe it myself!
So all the other ones done after the first or second trimester don't count?
I don't know; do they? Do they count after the age of 18?
El Cheapo Cables Inc. would just call themselves Sir Cheap Cables Inc. and signup again.
Exactly. They'd be a moving target with a series of company names and you'd never know if they were legit or not.
Great news would be Amazon white-listing compliant cables,
This would be the ideal solution, but I'm unsure how they'd go about it without testing cables themselves or relying on customer feedback.
Amazon could certainly afford to test USB cables, but that would also open up a can of worms in that they might then be expected to test other items they sell. I'm pretty sure they don't want to dip their toe in that pool, even for something as simple as a USB cable. It would be great for their customers and the "goodwill" factor, but it'll cost them time and money and they probably don't want to start down that path. Plus, maybe they'd get a fully-compliant cable from ABC Cable Company one day and then after passing certification, the company reverts to a non-compliant cable to save a few pennies.
As for relying on customer feedback, that would take a while to accumulate enough ratings and reviews before it was reliable, and it wouldn't help the people who bought the crap cables before the reviews came in, essentially turning them into guinea pigs or blind product testers.
I don't see a good solution to this kind of problem (and it's not just USB cables that this applies to, unfortunately). The "meet the specs or be banned" is a good first step, but any really shady supplier will just keep popping up under different names and selling their stuff.
I don't know about you, but I'd be proud as hell if I'd managed to write an application that had 1400+ vulnerabilities.
It must have taken a lot of work and testing to make sure it was that porous and vulnerable. I mean, just think of all the work involved in taking out all of the bounds checking, sanity tests, input validation, error checking, etc etc.
IF ($INPUT){
GRANT FULL ADMIN SUPERUSER ACCESS OMG;
}ELSE{
GRANT FULL ADMIN SUPERUSER ACCESS OMG;
}
"... an acute observer found they were actually being inputted into a Google Docs spreadsheet."
Now that's the absolute height of security, nothing could possibly be more secure than that.
Cool idea, but this will just give trigger-happy cops another reason to be able to shoot you to death and get away with it. :(
"I thought it was one of those cell-phone guns, and I feared for my life, your honor!"
You are so fucking full of shit I can smell it through the screen. Die.
Wah wah wah.