Was a toy, still is a toy, and always will be a toy.
Says you. Care to, you know, substantiate your claim? Mind you, I am no Windows fan-boy. It has plenty of problems, but I can't think of a single operating system that I'd say makes Windows look like a toy. So do enlighten us.
What part of "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. " ...does our current group of "leaders" not get? Once upon a time, we the people considered that right to be so important that we made it a foundation of our system of law and government. That it has now been eroded that certain groups are silenced by fear is cause for deep, deep shame for us as a society.
...you whiny liberal bitches. This is the free market at work. If the telecoms don't want to waste their time on squeezing money from low-lifes and bottom-feeders like "the poor", they don't have to. They should be free to run their businesses in whatever way they find most profitable. Right? So just STFU about net neutrality, and monopolies, all the rest of your socialist ideas.
I know... do they really expect the system to last forever? Surely they had a plan replace/upgrade after 20 years or so?
They did, but the Republicans started defunding infrastructure construction and maintenance projects over thirty years ago. We are just now starting to pay the interest on some of the debt accrued by such neglect.
Seriously? About yet another new shiny from Apple? Uhm... let me check...
Nope. Not the least bit excited. I may not have much going on, but I have far more of a life than one in which a new widget makes me giddy.
...who thinks that this guy was doing a service to all riders who also consider inconsiderate cell phone talkers to be boorish? When I'm forced into close proximity (train, restaurant, etc.), I should not be forced to listen to your over-loud end of a phone conversation just because your mother never taught you anything about proper decorum in such situations.
Leave it to RedHat. Next we'll see systemd-CVE, which uses a dbus interface to generate new numbers on the fly, except the announcement will be in a binary format only readable by a new 'cvectl' binary.
Yeah, why am I not feeling good about the results of RedHat's "contribution" here? Don't get me wrong. It's cool that a company with the resources to do so is willing to help out with an important project, but still...
...whether I should be glad that the DoD has realized that they need to hire some smart people to explain to them how "this networking thing" works, or deeply disappointed (for the same reason), or sadly unsurprised that the DoD has created a shiny new type of pork to waste taxpayer dollars on.
...because Republican presidential politics has become all about dick size. Heaven forbid they actually address real issues, that affect real Americans, every day.
No. They think we'd rather hear about ways to beat down a noisy, but ultimately inconsequential petty dictator.
...and that is that you should not trust the security of your stuff to a third party. Not Apple, not "the cloud", and definitely not the government. Don't get me wrong. I am not some foil hat wearing paranoid when it comes to "the government", but I damn sure don't consider them trustworthy enough to manage my crypto keys. I'd trust a handful of cloud operators before I'd trust the government, and none of them get my keys either.
Listen up, law enforcement, DoJ, et al. I am more afraid of your incompetence than I am any dark "world domination" motive on your part, but I am nowhere near as afraid of:"teh terrorists" as I am of you, regardless of your motive. So hands off my crypto. M'kay?
this is the problem with soft sciences. The article in the link talks about how the term fewer is falling out of favor in common vernacular in the educated population, when all he really means is he and his friends don't know grammar.
...and judging by what appears regularly, in this forum at least, he has many, many friends.
It turns out software development is engineering, not clerical work.
At least some of what was going on there was hardware work. The first picture shows a woman holding a 'scope probe, connected to an advanced, (for its time). Tektronix oscilloscope. And if she used the equipment for more than just that photo op, then her role was considerably more than clerical in nature.
It is much more likely that the woman was "...posing with a scope probe..." Not that she could not have been an engineer holding one of the tools she used every day, just not very likely.
But we're all about "free trade" nowadays, where companies are free to roam the globe looking for the cheapest, most desperate labor with the lowest cost of living. If laws can drive industry away, they can keep it around too.
My gawd! That's socialist talk. A free market is good for everyone. Right?
If they want to launch it at us, they've pretty much got to get it small enough to fit in a car.
Not that it really matters anyway -- the NPRK would only launch a nuclear first strike as a form of ritual suicide. MAD still applies, even to nasty little third-world dictatorships, and launching a single nuclear missile (or even a few of them) makes no sense strategically; in a nuclear war you need to knock out your opponent's nuclear response capability or they're going to respond by nuking you to ashes in short order.
If North Korea did decide to nuke someone, they'd be much better served to smuggle the nuke aboard a ship and detonate it in a harbor somewhere; at least then they'd have some fig leaf of plausible deniability.
Yeah, not so much. Not that the Norks wouldn't try that dodge, but fingerprinting nuclear weapons is a thing. Within hours of it's use, we'll know whose it was, or at least who built it.
"the Feds have an important say in the encryption debate, but in car emissions, much less so."
Huh? Exactly what power allows the Feds to regulate encryption, per se, more than car emissions?
That whole privacy thing. You know, Constitutionally protected right, and all?
Doctrine about the 5th amendment is that the government is not allowed to force you to create evidence (by speaking or writing in answer to a question). It is not considered to protect already existing evidence (your diary in a lockbox).
[citation needed]
Not disagreeing, but would really like to read something halfway authoritative.
This is what lobbying efforts in your favor feel like. Enjoy it while you can. It's rare.
Nonsense. The 1% always knows what's best for the rest of us, even if we don't. Why else would we keep electing representatives who are so deeply in the 1%'s pocket?
Oh. Wait...
" an example from the 1950s US Air Force where the "myth of the average resulted in a generation of planes that almost no pilots could reliably fly, and which killed as many as 17 pilots in a single day"
Did I miss the part of the story that explains HOW it managed to kill 17 pilots in one day?
Yeah, some more detail there would have been nice, but as a pilot, I can easily see how this was certainly related to physical dimensions. Consider the non-average pilot with shorter than average arms. If he lost his grip on the stick during certain maneuvers, it's entirely possible that it could have moved to a position out of his reach. Same goes for rudder pedals for the pilot whose knees won't fit under the panel when he's thrown forward in the straps, or that won't allow them to bend enough to allow full travel of that control surface.
Sounds reasonable to me. I'm supposed to get 150Mb, but end up with barely 20Mb many evenings. There is a 20Mb package they offer for a fraction of what I'm paying. Seems fair that if that's all they can deliver that's all I'm paying.
When I pay someone to wash my car and wax it, if they run out of wax I'm not paying for the waxing. If they don't think it's worth keeping so much wax around then okay, but they can't charge me for it when they run out.
Look harder. The typical ISP business model is built around the words "up" and "to", as in "...up to 150Mbps..." The don't sell a guaranteed service level to their low-end customers, and residential customers are all low-end. Want to end this "injustice"? Elect representatives who will look out for your interests, not those of the telecom industry, by enacting real regulation.
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Except that it was owned (read outside of main stream media and use your brain bucket just a little).
[citation needed]
Any bets on what he comes up with?
Yep. I can sum that up in one word, "Segway".
Was a toy, still is a toy, and always will be a toy.
Says you. Care to, you know, substantiate your claim? Mind you, I am no Windows fan-boy. It has plenty of problems, but I can't think of a single operating system that I'd say makes Windows look like a toy. So do enlighten us.
What part of
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. "
...does our current group of "leaders" not get? Once upon a time, we the people considered that right to be so important that we made it a foundation of our system of law and government. That it has now been eroded that certain groups are silenced by fear is cause for deep, deep shame for us as a society.
...you whiny liberal bitches. This is the free market at work. If the telecoms don't want to waste their time on squeezing money from low-lifes and bottom-feeders like "the poor", they don't have to. They should be free to run their businesses in whatever way they find most profitable. Right? So just STFU about net neutrality, and monopolies, all the rest of your socialist ideas.
I know... do they really expect the system to last forever? Surely they had a plan replace/upgrade after 20 years or so?
They did, but the Republicans started defunding infrastructure construction and maintenance projects over thirty years ago. We are just now starting to pay the interest on some of the debt accrued by such neglect.
Seriously? About yet another new shiny from Apple? Uhm... let me check...
Nope. Not the least bit excited. I may not have much going on, but I have far more of a life than one in which a new widget makes me giddy.
...who thinks that this guy was doing a service to all riders who also consider inconsiderate cell phone talkers to be boorish? When I'm forced into close proximity (train, restaurant, etc.), I should not be forced to listen to your over-loud end of a phone conversation just because your mother never taught you anything about proper decorum in such situations.
Leave it to RedHat. Next we'll see systemd-CVE, which uses a dbus interface to generate new numbers on the fly, except the announcement will be in a binary format only readable by a new 'cvectl' binary.
Yeah, why am I not feeling good about the results of RedHat's "contribution" here? Don't get me wrong. It's cool that a company with the resources to do so is willing to help out with an important project, but still...
Who saw this coming?
/sarcasm
...whether I should be glad that the DoD has realized that they need to hire some smart people to explain to them how "this networking thing" works, or deeply disappointed (for the same reason), or sadly unsurprised that the DoD has created a shiny new type of pork to waste taxpayer dollars on.
...because Republican presidential politics has become all about dick size. Heaven forbid they actually address real issues, that affect real Americans, every day. No. They think we'd rather hear about ways to beat down a noisy, but ultimately inconsequential petty dictator.
Listen up, law enforcement, DoJ, et al. I am more afraid of your incompetence than I am any dark "world domination" motive on your part, but I am nowhere near as afraid of :"teh terrorists" as I am of you, regardless of your motive. So hands off my crypto. M'kay?
this is the problem with soft sciences. The article in the link talks about how the term fewer is falling out of favor in common vernacular in the educated population, when all he really means is he and his friends don't know grammar.
...and judging by what appears regularly, in this forum at least, he has many, many friends.
I feel for you, I really do, but dude... It's Twitter. It just doesn't matter much. Really.
It turns out software development is engineering, not clerical work.
At least some of what was going on there was hardware work. The first picture shows a woman holding a 'scope probe, connected to an advanced, (for its time). Tektronix oscilloscope. And if she used the equipment for more than just that photo op, then her role was considerably more than clerical in nature.
It is much more likely that the woman was "...posing with a scope probe..." Not that she could not have been an engineer holding one of the tools she used every day, just not very likely.
But we're all about "free trade" nowadays, where companies are free to roam the globe looking for the cheapest, most desperate labor with the lowest cost of living. If laws can drive industry away, they can keep it around too.
My gawd! That's socialist talk. A free market is good for everyone. Right?
If they want to launch it at us, they've pretty much got to get it small enough to fit in a car.
Not that it really matters anyway -- the NPRK would only launch a nuclear first strike as a form of ritual suicide. MAD still applies, even to nasty little third-world dictatorships, and launching a single nuclear missile (or even a few of them) makes no sense strategically; in a nuclear war you need to knock out your opponent's nuclear response capability or they're going to respond by nuking you to ashes in short order.
If North Korea did decide to nuke someone, they'd be much better served to smuggle the nuke aboard a ship and detonate it in a harbor somewhere; at least then they'd have some fig leaf of plausible deniability.
Yeah, not so much. Not that the Norks wouldn't try that dodge, but fingerprinting nuclear weapons is a thing. Within hours of it's use, we'll know whose it was, or at least who built it.
"the Feds have an important say in the encryption debate, but in car emissions, much less so." Huh? Exactly what power allows the Feds to regulate encryption, per se, more than car emissions?
That whole privacy thing. You know, Constitutionally protected right, and all?
Oh, would that I had mod points today. Well played, sir. Well played indeed.
Doctrine about the 5th amendment is that the government is not allowed to force you to create evidence (by speaking or writing in answer to a question). It is not considered to protect already existing evidence (your diary in a lockbox).
[citation needed]
Not disagreeing, but would really like to read something halfway authoritative.
This is what lobbying efforts in your favor feel like. Enjoy it while you can. It's rare.
Nonsense. The 1% always knows what's best for the rest of us, even if we don't. Why else would we keep electing representatives who are so deeply in the 1%'s pocket?
Oh. Wait...
He's not just the president, He's a member.
I see what you did there. Kinda juvenile, but I still like it.
Did I miss the part of the story that explains HOW it managed to kill 17 pilots in one day?
Yeah, some more detail there would have been nice, but as a pilot, I can easily see how this was certainly related to physical dimensions. Consider the non-average pilot with shorter than average arms. If he lost his grip on the stick during certain maneuvers, it's entirely possible that it could have moved to a position out of his reach. Same goes for rudder pedals for the pilot whose knees won't fit under the panel when he's thrown forward in the straps, or that won't allow them to bend enough to allow full travel of that control surface.
Sounds reasonable to me. I'm supposed to get 150Mb, but end up with barely 20Mb many evenings. There is a 20Mb package they offer for a fraction of what I'm paying. Seems fair that if that's all they can deliver that's all I'm paying.
When I pay someone to wash my car and wax it, if they run out of wax I'm not paying for the waxing. If they don't think it's worth keeping so much wax around then okay, but they can't charge me for it when they run out.
Look harder. The typical ISP business model is built around the words "up" and "to", as in "...up to 150Mbps..." The don't sell a guaranteed service level to their low-end customers, and residential customers are all low-end. Want to end this "injustice"? Elect representatives who will look out for your interests, not those of the telecom industry, by enacting real regulation.