We've done a great job of reducing risk to manageable levels.
However, reducing risk to zero is unnecessary and astoundingly Orweillein. Stupid people dying is a fact of life and keeping them from killing themselves especially in this day and age of padded safe everything is probably not the best course of action.
I grew up and lived in the North East and I have to say this, fall is the most overrated season ever which then allows us to be greeted by the worst season ever Winter.
Let's list why fall stinks:
1. It's the end of summer. Thank goodness the traditionally fall months are hot, but instead of a gradual weather change, it's now hot hot hot and then freezing cold. I'll take having a few extra months of hot weather before the frigid cold and ice sets in.
2. High fall, ie the time when the leaves are the most colorful, only lasts at best 2 weeks. You have beautiful lush green forests, then red, brown orange, colorful forests, and then barren brown. It will remain barren and brown until mid-April/ early May. LAME!
3. Seeing Christmas decorations, ads, and every worst aspect of the holiday season hit three months before the actual event. I wish someone would write a law that says Christmas can't be advertised or appear at all until the end of Thanksgiving.
4. And the realization that winter is upon us. Every time I hear someone say they look forward to snow fall, I want to punch them in the face. Snow means freezing cold as I walk to the bus stop, snow means slushy $hit everywhere I walk, snow means spending time outside moving the crap around, snow means rusting vehicles, stale indoor air, obnoxiously heavy clothing, expensive heating oil bills, and maybe if i'm lucky there will be enough of the crap to force a work from home day. Maybe if winter disappeared immediately after New Years and spring began I would be happier, but no. You have to power through the crap for at least three more months.
The only redeeming thing about winter are the sports. Thankfully, I've since relocated to a locale where the weather is hot and sunny 24/7 and it's possible for me to drive 2-3 hours to ski resorts packed with snow. Get my fix, and then drive back to a tropical paradise.
The question remains, will the remaining die-hard movie fans who don't care about endless sequels and superhero flicks be enough to keep Hollywood and the US box office afloat?
I doubt it and Hollywood will continue to pander to China making their US existence far more irrelevant.
"Everyone needs to learn how to code so I can grow my business and pay my programmers the absolute bare minimum because there are so many programmers and I sense a certain administration closing the noose on the previous methods of reducing wage costs."
Does anyone want to guess how much steam the Apple engine has left now that Tim has been slowly rehashing every idea Steve came up with?
He found an unsent text message in the drafts folder of the phone of his relative he found dead before anyone else. Totally doesn't seem self serving at all!/sarcasm
Guys, do all yourselves a favor to avoid this familial post life bickering: get a living will that outlines your last will and testament as well as what to do if you become a vegetable!
I'm not going to let strangers into my home. X1000 I will never let a delivery person into my home when I am not present.
I can, however, grant permission for them to drop stuff off in a small outdoor closet that can be securely opened by the delivery man. Whether I decide to build such an addition and not fill it with junk in storage is left to be seen!
Had a very expensive clock stolen off of my porch once. I can only imagine all of the little items that would start to go missing if I let delivery people into my home when I'm not there.
At least with Mondays you still have the after glow of the weekend to keep you happy.
Tuesday is by far the worst day of the week. It's not even half way through and the glow of the weekend is long gone.
Honestly, why do we even have 7 day weeks? Let's get rid of a day in the week preferably Saturday so we can match up better with the Muslim religious days. Now with a 6 day week, we can eliminate the weird cacophony month system where some are 30, others are 31, and February with its weird 28 days.
This can all be done while maintaining the 365 day year by giving each month roughly the same amount of days. The best part of all of this is, we will then have a 4 day work week! No more middle of the week hopelessness because the weekend is so far away.
The problem here isn't Kaspersky and Russian hackers, they're just being opportunistic.
The REAL problem here is a dumb @$$ contractor who stole classified information and brought it home.
Why isn't the contractor, both company and employee, being punished for breach of secure information? Any other countries' spooks would want this info, including our allies.
Ahh that's right, let's just take this as an opportunity to bash Russia some more while our real enemy China is cleaning out both our industrial trade and military secrets!/sarcasm
So long that the companies of the self driving cars are wholly liable for any and all injuries, deaths, and emotional distress to the tune of $10 million plus.
Doubt the law actually places liability on the companies testing these and we're just expected to take the deaths as the inevitable cost of progress!
Hopefully this "mass extinction" event includes knob heads like yourself.
Being a hobbyist farmer, ever hear about leaving fields fallow or planting different plants each year to avoid nutrition depletion? How the heck do you think farmers handle this? Either with fertilizer or with the thousand year old method above.
Oh conveniently left it out. That's fine, just do us a favor and off others like yourself so we can stop global cooling, err warming, err climate change.
I've got my own complaints with Oracle and their licensing BS. It's a capable database no doubt, but when they make it difficult for me to spend my money I sometimes wonder.
Any who, I found a start up that enables the Oracle database to store unstructured data within the database and is able to transform, stream it, and manipulate it at speeds that rival traditional object storage.
Disclaimer: I am a DBA for a mid sized manufacturing firm, no affiliation with this start up.
I called to inquire more and found that the use cases for this are staggering. One such case was being able to utilize the database as a stand in for Apache to deliver web pages, videos, and other content over the internet (apparently working to implement that for their own website). Another project they've been building in house for a customer is a simplified CMS system for managing business documents automatically within an Oracle database and mapping keywords to specific structured data already stored within the DB.
Nifty tools and i'm looking forward to the demo they're going to provide me for my own experimentation. They're going to be showcasing the tools at Oracle Open World in a few weeks. Might be useful for a few of you out there www.asteriondb.com
Shame a start up can't fix Oracle's licensing antics!
Probably not a good idea to send a legal threat to someone who is a trained and bar'd attorney. Furie is going to quickly discover the mistake he made.
I doubt greatly that the emissions is contributing that much to the health of individuals.
Maybe a better question to ask would be how many violent crimes have been committed by immigrants in the past few years and trying to figure out the commonality between them all.
That might have a greater impact on health and quality of life when you have such high crime in formally crimeless locales.
Verizon could have simply told them that they are going to be sending these rural customers to the local cell operators and transfer the contract to the rural guys. It would have been easy to retroactively put this into some terms of service agreement.
Even though the UK is leaving the EU, the EU is going to have a field day with this.
It's good to know that Equifax will probably no longer exist in a few months. Probably makes sense why those executives sold their stock. They knew the company was over. The question is, will the other reporting agencies take their jobs more seriously?
My last Palm device was a Treo 650. Before that, I was firmly a PDA user because I didn't want to pay extra for unlimited data when I could use bluetooth and have it billed against my voice plan on Verizon. Boy, those were the days!
This was all through school. While I was of a nerdier persuasion, between gameboy, nes, and SNES emulators and an assortment of movies on my get this: 1GB SD card that I paid $60 for, people thought I was cool in a sort of Ferris Bueller type of way.
Handheld devices were so exciting, new, unique, and not an everyday gadget that most people had. I started with a Sony Cleo, migrated to a Tungsten E, fell in love with a Tapwave Zodiac, and then was seduced by the ever more and more compelling hardware devices on the Windows Mobile side.
Dell's Axim x50v was my first, followed by an x51v that I got Dell to replace for free out of warranty (hehe). Had a Treo 650 for a long time and then I got the nifty HTC xv6700 followed by the even more powerful xv6800. Tried another Windows Mobile phone and got fed up with it.
I went to a Blackberry after that and held out for as long as I could until Moto's Droid 4 got me into Android. Switched back to Blackberry and i've been using a Keyone ever since.
I had a really bad warranty experience with Blackberry and I think it's time I just go out and find a no name, keyboardless, boring candy bar smartphone off of ebay for $200. It was hard to justify the expense on my Keyone and the level of BS I went through to get it serviced wasn't worth being Blackberry's CS b!tch again.
Sigh, those were the days. This must be what car enthusiasts must have felt when cars started becoming computerized monstrosities. Yeah, technology marches on, things become streamlined,and cheaper but you lose the excitement and enthusiasm.
But the last update borked my install of Windows so badly that I had to wipe it and reinstall. Bluetooth wasn't working right and my audio was cutting in and out.
Will DEFINITELY be deferring this one for a good month.
A HUGE assumption in this argument: 1) Governments have the power to control or ban crypto currencies: There are many things that are currently banned by the government that can easily be obtained. Drugs come to mind first. Any teenager can go and get as much Pot as they want, they don't care that its banned by the government. The ban does now slow consumption, it only increases value. Many a ban or a regulation attempt will also increase crypto's value
Apples v. Oranges.
Drugs and especially pot have value because you can get high with it.
They tried to restrict gold dealers in Europe too in an attempt to prevent money laundering. Going to be very hard, because gold is gold and has value both intrinsically and industrially.
Both of these have value because you can hold it with your hands. Fiat has value for a different reason. You have to pay taxes with it. Certain countries are ahead of the curve by accepting bitcoin for taxes, but they're still converting it into whatever the home currency is for tax purposes.
With cryptocurrencies, how are sky high fiat valuations going to matter if there's no way to convert it into fiat because the SEC has banned exchanges from operating? What about if other governments follow suit as well?
Sure, you can take those coins to an individual and negotiate cash , but now with the gauntlet of public opinion firmly negative against cryptocurrencies and the legal framework working against you you're now driven underground where the government hunts down individuals who operate illicit exchanges.
But what can you buy with this currency? Businesses don't accept it, you can't pay taxes, and the few "illicit exchange" individuals you know both have wildly different conversion rates because there's no common market.
See where i'm going with this?
TL;DR You can't get high with cryptocurrencies nor can you pay taxes with them. If a ban happens, the size of your currency market will shrink to nothing and the conversion ratios between fiat and crypto will be wildly all over the place. It will continue to have value to crypto coin nerds, but not at the crazy valuations we see today.
Even with the spread that FOREX firms use as their fee have you factored in the cost that folks like Coinbase and others charge for their commission to convert BTC into fiat? Coinbase's fee for US accounts is 1.49%, i'm not sure how you'd compare it to Xe.com's fees. I'd hazard a guess however that it beats out coinbase's fee.
I'd still bet more on tradational forex to beat out crypto exchanges on fees.
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We've done a great job of reducing risk to manageable levels.
However, reducing risk to zero is unnecessary and astoundingly Orweillein. Stupid people dying is a fact of life and keeping them from killing themselves especially in this day and age of padded safe everything is probably not the best course of action.
I grew up and lived in the North East and I have to say this, fall is the most overrated season ever which then allows us to be greeted by the worst season ever Winter.
Let's list why fall stinks:
1. It's the end of summer. Thank goodness the traditionally fall months are hot, but instead of a gradual weather change, it's now hot hot hot and then freezing cold. I'll take having a few extra months of hot weather before the frigid cold and ice sets in.
2. High fall, ie the time when the leaves are the most colorful, only lasts at best 2 weeks. You have beautiful lush green forests, then red, brown orange, colorful forests, and then barren brown. It will remain barren and brown until mid-April/ early May. LAME!
3. Seeing Christmas decorations, ads, and every worst aspect of the holiday season hit three months before the actual event. I wish someone would write a law that says Christmas can't be advertised or appear at all until the end of Thanksgiving.
4. And the realization that winter is upon us. Every time I hear someone say they look forward to snow fall, I want to punch them in the face. Snow means freezing cold as I walk to the bus stop, snow means slushy $hit everywhere I walk, snow means spending time outside moving the crap around, snow means rusting vehicles, stale indoor air, obnoxiously heavy clothing, expensive heating oil bills, and maybe if i'm lucky there will be enough of the crap to force a work from home day. Maybe if winter disappeared immediately after New Years and spring began I would be happier, but no. You have to power through the crap for at least three more months.
The only redeeming thing about winter are the sports. Thankfully, I've since relocated to a locale where the weather is hot and sunny 24/7 and it's possible for me to drive 2-3 hours to ski resorts packed with snow. Get my fix, and then drive back to a tropical paradise.
They very much in fact, do care.
The question remains, will the remaining die-hard movie fans who don't care about endless sequels and superhero flicks be enough to keep Hollywood and the US box office afloat?
I doubt it and Hollywood will continue to pander to China making their US existence far more irrelevant.
"Everyone needs to learn how to code so I can grow my business and pay my programmers the absolute bare minimum because there are so many programmers and I sense a certain administration closing the noose on the previous methods of reducing wage costs."
Does anyone want to guess how much steam the Apple engine has left now that Tim has been slowly rehashing every idea Steve came up with?
He found an unsent text message in the drafts folder of the phone of his relative he found dead before anyone else. Totally doesn't seem self serving at all! /sarcasm
Guys, do all yourselves a favor to avoid this familial post life bickering: get a living will that outlines your last will and testament as well as what to do if you become a vegetable!
I'm not going to let strangers into my home. X1000 I will never let a delivery person into my home when I am not present.
I can, however, grant permission for them to drop stuff off in a small outdoor closet that can be securely opened by the delivery man. Whether I decide to build such an addition and not fill it with junk in storage is left to be seen!
Had a very expensive clock stolen off of my porch once. I can only imagine all of the little items that would start to go missing if I let delivery people into my home when I'm not there.
At least with Mondays you still have the after glow of the weekend to keep you happy.
Tuesday is by far the worst day of the week. It's not even half way through and the glow of the weekend is long gone.
Honestly, why do we even have 7 day weeks? Let's get rid of a day in the week preferably Saturday so we can match up better with the Muslim religious days. Now with a 6 day week, we can eliminate the weird cacophony month system where some are 30, others are 31, and February with its weird 28 days.
This can all be done while maintaining the 365 day year by giving each month roughly the same amount of days. The best part of all of this is, we will then have a 4 day work week! No more middle of the week hopelessness because the weekend is so far away.
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Sorry, this cracks me up each time I see this. Yet the BBC doesn't get the same treatment.
Made possible by Royal decree and is funded by forced taxes. Honest question, why doesn't the BBC doesn't qualify as "state run media" ?
The problem here isn't Kaspersky and Russian hackers, they're just being opportunistic.
The REAL problem here is a dumb @$$ contractor who stole classified information and brought it home.
Why isn't the contractor, both company and employee, being punished for breach of secure information? Any other countries' spooks would want this info, including our allies.
Ahh that's right, let's just take this as an opportunity to bash Russia some more while our real enemy China is cleaning out both our industrial trade and military secrets! /sarcasm
So long that the companies of the self driving cars are wholly liable for any and all injuries, deaths, and emotional distress to the tune of $10 million plus.
Doubt the law actually places liability on the companies testing these and we're just expected to take the deaths as the inevitable cost of progress!
Thus story makes me feel bad. It's a sorry state that a giant portion of our retiree population live in mobile homes.
I am however, happy that a scumbag like Jeff Bezos has however found a way to employ these people, albeit temporarily.
No one is a winner in this. What has become of us?
Hopefully this "mass extinction" event includes knob heads like yourself.
Being a hobbyist farmer, ever hear about leaving fields fallow or planting different plants each year to avoid nutrition depletion? How the heck do you think farmers handle this? Either with fertilizer or with the thousand year old method above.
Oh conveniently left it out. That's fine, just do us a favor and off others like yourself so we can stop global cooling, err warming, err climate change.
Stop with the hyperbole, this is the worst analogy I've ever seen on Slashdot and you should be ashamed.
Why don't you ask a botanist what happens to plants in greenhouses when you add more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere?
(Here's a hint, they grow bigger!)
I've got my own complaints with Oracle and their licensing BS. It's a capable database no doubt, but when they make it difficult for me to spend my money I sometimes wonder.
Any who, I found a start up that enables the Oracle database to store unstructured data within the database and is able to transform, stream it, and manipulate it at speeds that rival traditional object storage.
Disclaimer: I am a DBA for a mid sized manufacturing firm, no affiliation with this start up.
I called to inquire more and found that the use cases for this are staggering. One such case was being able to utilize the database as a stand in for Apache to deliver web pages, videos, and other content over the internet (apparently working to implement that for their own website). Another project they've been building in house for a customer is a simplified CMS system for managing business documents automatically within an Oracle database and mapping keywords to specific structured data already stored within the DB.
Nifty tools and i'm looking forward to the demo they're going to provide me for my own experimentation.
They're going to be showcasing the tools at Oracle Open World in a few weeks. Might be useful for a few of you out there www.asteriondb.com
Shame a start up can't fix Oracle's licensing antics!
Probably not a good idea to send a legal threat to someone who is a trained and bar'd attorney. Furie is going to quickly discover the mistake he made.
Are, are contributing...
I doubt greatly that the emissions is contributing that much to the health of individuals.
Maybe a better question to ask would be how many violent crimes have been committed by immigrants in the past few years and trying to figure out the commonality between them all.
That might have a greater impact on health and quality of life when you have such high crime in formally crimeless locales.
Verizon could have simply told them that they are going to be sending these rural customers to the local cell operators and transfer the contract to the rural guys. It would have been easy to retroactively put this into some terms of service agreement.
Another example of corporate ineptitude.
Even though the UK is leaving the EU, the EU is going to have a field day with this.
It's good to know that Equifax will probably no longer exist in a few months. Probably makes sense why those executives sold their stock. They knew the company was over. The question is, will the other reporting agencies take their jobs more seriously?
Already have one brother! Coolest device i've ever owned to date.
Man, talk about a burst of nostalgia.
My last Palm device was a Treo 650. Before that, I was firmly a PDA user because I didn't want to pay extra for unlimited data when I could use bluetooth and have it billed against my voice plan on Verizon. Boy, those were the days!
This was all through school. While I was of a nerdier persuasion, between gameboy, nes, and SNES emulators and an assortment of movies on my get this: 1GB SD card that I paid $60 for, people thought I was cool in a sort of Ferris Bueller type of way.
Handheld devices were so exciting, new, unique, and not an everyday gadget that most people had. I started with a Sony Cleo, migrated to a Tungsten E, fell in love with a Tapwave Zodiac, and then was seduced by the ever more and more compelling hardware devices on the Windows Mobile side.
Dell's Axim x50v was my first, followed by an x51v that I got Dell to replace for free out of warranty (hehe). Had a Treo 650 for a long time and then I got the nifty HTC xv6700 followed by the even more powerful xv6800. Tried another Windows Mobile phone and got fed up with it.
I went to a Blackberry after that and held out for as long as I could until Moto's Droid 4 got me into Android. Switched back to Blackberry and i've been using a Keyone ever since.
I had a really bad warranty experience with Blackberry and I think it's time I just go out and find a no name, keyboardless, boring candy bar smartphone off of ebay for $200. It was hard to justify the expense on my Keyone and the level of BS I went through to get it serviced wasn't worth being Blackberry's CS b!tch again.
Sigh, those were the days. This must be what car enthusiasts must have felt when cars started becoming computerized monstrosities. Yeah, technology marches on, things become streamlined,and cheaper but you lose the excitement and enthusiasm.
A lament of a bored hardware nerd.
But the last update borked my install of Windows so badly that I had to wipe it and reinstall. Bluetooth wasn't working right and my audio was cutting in and out.
Will DEFINITELY be deferring this one for a good month.
I had a meeting with my manager and someone from HR the last time I was laid off.
You're telling me they announce lay offs by mail? What happens if I ignore the delivery?
Seems like a bad way to deliver bad news...
A HUGE assumption in this argument:
1) Governments have the power to control or ban crypto currencies: There are many things that are currently banned by the government that can easily be obtained. Drugs come to mind first. Any teenager can go and get as much Pot as they want, they don't care that its banned by the government. The ban does now slow consumption, it only increases value. Many a ban or a regulation attempt will also increase crypto's value
Apples v. Oranges.
Drugs and especially pot have value because you can get high with it.
They tried to restrict gold dealers in Europe too in an attempt to prevent money laundering. Going to be very hard, because gold is gold and has value both intrinsically and industrially.
Both of these have value because you can hold it with your hands. Fiat has value for a different reason. You have to pay taxes with it. Certain countries are ahead of the curve by accepting bitcoin for taxes, but they're still converting it into whatever the home currency is for tax purposes.
With cryptocurrencies, how are sky high fiat valuations going to matter if there's no way to convert it into fiat because the SEC has banned exchanges from operating? What about if other governments follow suit as well?
Sure, you can take those coins to an individual and negotiate cash , but now with the gauntlet of public opinion firmly negative against cryptocurrencies and the legal framework working against you you're now driven underground where the government hunts down individuals who operate illicit exchanges.
But what can you buy with this currency? Businesses don't accept it, you can't pay taxes, and the few "illicit exchange" individuals you know both have wildly different conversion rates because there's no common market.
See where i'm going with this?
TL;DR You can't get high with cryptocurrencies nor can you pay taxes with them. If a ban happens, the size of your currency market will shrink to nothing and the conversion ratios between fiat and crypto will be wildly all over the place. It will continue to have value to crypto coin nerds, but not at the crazy valuations we see today.
Even with the spread that FOREX firms use as their fee have you factored in the cost that folks like Coinbase and others charge for their commission to convert BTC into fiat? Coinbase's fee for US accounts is 1.49%, i'm not sure how you'd compare it to Xe.com's fees. I'd hazard a guess however that it beats out coinbase's fee.
I'd still bet more on tradational forex to beat out crypto exchanges on fees.