Are you sure all of these people have perfectly good reasons ?
Absolutely sure ?
Who cares if they do or not? The point is that one should not be *forced* to carry one's real name everywhere they go (as if that wasn't easy to fake online, but I digress...)
I'm actually quite impressed that the Massachusetts politicians have reversed course on this idiotic tax so quickly.
I'm surprised they hadn't moved faster - tech consultants aren't just small companies after all, and some of the big boys likely started making noises about "funding opponents" and suchlike.
1) Intel's high-end chip fabs are in Oregon, Arizona, California... not exactly close to Beijing. (They're still building some rather massive additions to their Ronler Acres fab up here in Oregon).
2) ARM chips, on the other hand (e.g. tablets and smartphone bits)? In that case I hereby petition Slashdot to introduce the "scary as fuck" mod.
Treason is the act of sabotage, destruction, sedition, and suchlike. Refusing a search w/o a *proper* warrant is not treason. Secret court generated 'warrants' do not count as being proper by any stretch of common law.
Ditto for home - the only Windows box left in the house is a VM on my MacBook Pro, which doesn't have network access to the outside world.
Now at work? It depends on the box, where it sits (inside, DMZ, etc), what it does, and how badly the patch is needed. Snapshot/backup-before-patching is a *must*. Takes work to triage it all, but well worth the effort, all things considered.
I can vouch for this as well (the existence, not the dog+badge thingy)... there is good to be had in having one guy who can zero in on a hairy problem and start working towards a solution even before the meeting is over... these are the guys you want your DevOps (glorified sysadmin who can talk to folks and write code) to have a good relationship with.
The arrogance varies - personally, I've found it to be rare. Most top-quality devs I've spoken with are quite personable, and aren't really half the prig they appear to be at first. It just takes getting to know the personality a little and working with it.
Considering that King was reviled by a large hunk of America, and still is (see "Robert E. Lee Day)
Great. Now I have an image of Dr. King astride a warhorse, leading his sword at full gallop, and charging Confederate positions alongside Sherman in Atlanta.
What the hell, dude?
Let's get a couple of things straight here...
Point The First: Historical celebrations of events long passed does not automatically denote an adherence to the babblings of some backwoods sheet-donning inbred.
Point The Second: while racism is certainly not dead yet, I can tell you for damned certain that it's currently suffering from a fatal case of terminal neglect. Clue: *ACTUAL* racism has faded so badly that certain ideologues have to invent new meanings of the word (e.g. "I disagree with Obama" == "racist" in some quarters), just to keep the outrage flowing and (more importantly) the campaign coffers full.
Point The Third: Jesse Jackson and his ilk have been waving Dr. King's bloody shirt for decades now, shaking down individuals and corporations alike for agreement, compliance, and (again, more importantly) money. They have contributed absolutely nothing towards the elimination of racial hatred, and I daresay they have incited more than a little.
I can prove him wrong with two words: commercial satellites.
I can prove him semi-right with a slightly higher word count: It will likely take some heavy-duty research to help get the costs down to under $100/kg or so, but once it hits that threshold, then you'll likely find a shitload of companies falling all over themselves to strip-mine space for everything from aluminum to methane (assuming a vessel could be made to send the stuff down w/o it burning/boiling off during re-entry.) It'll also open up colonization, albeit on a small scale.
The reasons why? Sure there's unlimited distances, but there's also unlimited potential for wealth, and a lot of folks are going to give it a shot. Most will fail miserably. Many will see death, dismemberment, and spectacular horror. A few however will succeed - some will do so enough to make them wealthier than anyone could imagine.
Not much different from the state of things in 1493 Europe, if you think about it.
Seriously - does this guy have any clue as to how frickin' BIG the Moon is? You could carve a hole in it the size of New York City and it would barely be noticeable. You could carve out the entire dark side of the Moon and no one would ever see it (and misnomer aside, it gets just as much sunlight, thus He3, etc...)
The environmental angle? Maybe if it all got brought back here, okay... having not RTFA, I hope he isn't worried about the Moon's "environment", namely because it really doesn't have one of note.
If OSX were to ever be licensed to generic PC's, I strongly suspect that Microsoft would be in deep shit within two years. The only thing that keeps that from happening is that Apple doesn't want their own profits diluted.
If the existing divisions are lagely self-contained, what stops that now?
Problem is, Microsoft doesn't let them be self-contained. Everything is geared towards protecting Windows and Office. Divisions have been shuffled around as needed when the SEC reports and/or marketing needs a boost.
* Many banks do diversify, and have split themselves up into semi-autonomous companies (one for mortgages, one for banking, one for investments, etc). The actions of each of these do not generally affect the others, and are run independently.
* Microsoft on the other hand has 'divisions' that are all forced to play nice with each other, and are all suborned to the interests of Windows and Office - even when it makes no strategic or economic sense to do so. Also, those 'divisions' often change and morph as needed to make the SEC reports look rosy.
They didn't invent video games to be played with girlfriends.
Shows how much you know - my wife and I played the unholy shit out of Mario Kart on an old N64.
(clue: I learned years later why; in addition to being fun, some women just want to know how you handle not winning a game once in awhile. I guarantee you that on that particular game she will kick. your. ass.)
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Are you sure all of these people have perfectly good reasons ?
Absolutely sure ?
Who cares if they do or not? The point is that one should not be *forced* to carry one's real name everywhere they go (as if that wasn't easy to fake online, but I digress...)
AC is of course correct - the point was that they made the equivalent of a potato clock, but on a computer.
IIRC, they're not even the first to make a simple electrolysis battery drive a computer. Which means we have at least one outside boundary for the typical Slashdot editor's memory-span...
I'm actually quite impressed that the Massachusetts politicians have reversed course on this idiotic tax so quickly.
I'm surprised they hadn't moved faster - tech consultants aren't just small companies after all, and some of the big boys likely started making noises about "funding opponents" and suchlike.
So he wasn't around long enough to get tenure? Well, there goes the control experiment.
(besides, he wasn't half as funny as that Dr. Bob dweeb.)
Well, there goes the mod I plopped in, but...
1) Intel's high-end chip fabs are in Oregon, Arizona, California... not exactly close to Beijing. (They're still building some rather massive additions to their Ronler Acres fab up here in Oregon).
2) ARM chips, on the other hand (e.g. tablets and smartphone bits)? In that case I hereby petition Slashdot to introduce the "scary as fuck" mod.
Minus physical assault, it's getting to be the only way to transport anything securely.
Either way it's a crap excuse.
Treason is the act of sabotage, destruction, sedition, and suchlike. Refusing a search w/o a *proper* warrant is not treason. Secret court generated 'warrants' do not count as being proper by any stretch of common law.
Restoring domain controllers from images is a dangerous game. Nothing like'a'split brain AD network to make your day.
I agree, but consider the alternative of having to rebuild one from scratch because a patch blew the original one into uselessness.
Ditto for home - the only Windows box left in the house is a VM on my MacBook Pro, which doesn't have network access to the outside world.
Now at work? It depends on the box, where it sits (inside, DMZ, etc), what it does, and how badly the patch is needed. Snapshot/backup-before-patching is a *must*. Takes work to triage it all, but well worth the effort, all things considered.
I can vouch for this as well (the existence, not the dog+badge thingy)... there is good to be had in having one guy who can zero in on a hairy problem and start working towards a solution even before the meeting is over... these are the guys you want your DevOps (glorified sysadmin who can talk to folks and write code) to have a good relationship with.
The arrogance varies - personally, I've found it to be rare. Most top-quality devs I've spoken with are quite personable, and aren't really half the prig they appear to be at first. It just takes getting to know the personality a little and working with it.
Considering that King was reviled by a large hunk of America, and still is (see "Robert E. Lee Day)
Great. Now I have an image of Dr. King astride a warhorse, leading his sword at full gallop, and charging Confederate positions alongside Sherman in Atlanta.
What the hell, dude?
Let's get a couple of things straight here...
Point The First: Historical celebrations of events long passed does not automatically denote an adherence to the babblings of some backwoods sheet-donning inbred.
Point The Second: while racism is certainly not dead yet, I can tell you for damned certain that it's currently suffering from a fatal case of terminal neglect. Clue: *ACTUAL* racism has faded so badly that certain ideologues have to invent new meanings of the word (e.g. "I disagree with Obama" == "racist" in some quarters), just to keep the outrage flowing and (more importantly) the campaign coffers full.
Point The Third: Jesse Jackson and his ilk have been waving Dr. King's bloody shirt for decades now, shaking down individuals and corporations alike for agreement, compliance, and (again, more importantly) money. They have contributed absolutely nothing towards the elimination of racial hatred, and I daresay they have incited more than a little.
Its always great to put people down but what have you done lately mr tyson.
...he whacked Pluto with smug satisfaction.
(yeah, still kinda mad about that one...)
He's probably both.
I can prove him wrong with two words: commercial satellites.
I can prove him semi-right with a slightly higher word count: It will likely take some heavy-duty research to help get the costs down to under $100/kg or so, but once it hits that threshold, then you'll likely find a shitload of companies falling all over themselves to strip-mine space for everything from aluminum to methane (assuming a vessel could be made to send the stuff down w/o it burning/boiling off during re-entry.) It'll also open up colonization, albeit on a small scale.
The reasons why? Sure there's unlimited distances, but there's also unlimited potential for wealth, and a lot of folks are going to give it a shot. Most will fail miserably. Many will see death, dismemberment, and spectacular horror. A few however will succeed - some will do so enough to make them wealthier than anyone could imagine.
Not much different from the state of things in 1493 Europe, if you think about it.
I suspect that the guy was just echoing the typical viewpoint... so why shoot the messenger?
Seriously - does this guy have any clue as to how frickin' BIG the Moon is? You could carve a hole in it the size of New York City and it would barely be noticeable. You could carve out the entire dark side of the Moon and no one would ever see it (and misnomer aside, it gets just as much sunlight, thus He3, etc...)
The environmental angle? Maybe if it all got brought back here, okay... having not RTFA, I hope he isn't worried about the Moon's "environment", namely because it really doesn't have one of note.
...brings up a fun question: Under what aspect does ionizing radiation count as "power"? Obviously not from an EE's point-of-view (wattage), but...
If OSX were to ever be licensed to generic PC's, I strongly suspect that Microsoft would be in deep shit within two years. The only thing that keeps that from happening is that Apple doesn't want their own profits diluted.
If the existing divisions are lagely self-contained, what stops that now?
Problem is, Microsoft doesn't let them be self-contained. Everything is geared towards protecting Windows and Office. Divisions have been shuffled around as needed when the SEC reports and/or marketing needs a boost.
Devil's advocate:
* Many banks do diversify, and have split themselves up into semi-autonomous companies (one for mortgages, one for banking, one for investments, etc). The actions of each of these do not generally affect the others, and are run independently.
* Microsoft on the other hand has 'divisions' that are all forced to play nice with each other, and are all suborned to the interests of Windows and Office - even when it makes no strategic or economic sense to do so. Also, those 'divisions' often change and morph as needed to make the SEC reports look rosy.
It was Oxnard, after hours (I prefer getting out there, as opposed to sitting around a hotel room or getting drunk.)
Nope, but consider that if she did, gaming is a perfect means of getting to know the kids. ;)
And I've got windows VMs that haven't had a reboot in over 6 months as well.
If I didn't give a damn about security and the server didn't do anything important, so would I. ;)
Yes, this model offers much more information that you'll ever get from a Linux system unless you have dip into some serious log file archeology.
You have no idea at all what /proc is, do you? If you did, you'd never make such an ignorant statement.
Now if you could only combine phone sex with coding together...
(...you know I only wrote that to make developers go all 'splodey, right?)
They didn't invent video games to be played with girlfriends.
Shows how much you know - my wife and I played the unholy shit out of Mario Kart on an old N64.
(clue: I learned years later why; in addition to being fun, some women just want to know how you handle not winning a game once in awhile. I guarantee you that on that particular game she will kick. your. ass.)