Hey, at least we plebs know where we stand. So crimes, in descending order or importance are:
- Making a politician look stupid - Preventing a corporation from maximising their profits - Ridicule of any government organisation - crimes against rich people -... -... - property crimes ( rich people only) - murder (poor people only) - rape (poor people only) (sorry, property crimes again poor people don't count at all)
They could have don't something creative, like give a tip to someone they don't like that their stock is going to plunge. Wait until the person has shorted the stock, then make some announcement (We're going into Chapter 11, etc).
Once the stock tanks, and your enemy has made some money, report them to the SEC for fraud, and tell the police that your enemy has hacked the account.
I had some time in hospital, so I bought the first 4 seasons of The Walking dead and watched them through.
I watched the first season in real time, that was ok. For the second season, things just went too slowly, so I watched it on 2x.
After that, I watched all of the remaining series in 2x. Far better pacing. I know that the show likes to set the atmosphere and be slow, but it was too slow for me. At 2x speed, it was perfect.
Occasionally, I had to go back and watch a scene in normal speed again, but that wasn't too often.
No, that's sort of only right. There were physical constraints they had to deal with, with some extra security, but not the main bag checking security.
They blew up the check in area as that is where you drop off large bags, and they had large bombs in suitcases, not hand luggage size bags.
There are two exits from where they were towards the gates. The international gates has the passport control. You could physically take large bags through there, but you would get stopped by the police. The other exit is for European destinations, and there are large metal bollards made to stop the bag trolleys. It would have been very noticeable if they had tried to squeeze their bags past.
Only after both of these exit points, nearer to the walkways to the gates (and of course, past the shops) are the hand luggage scanners and the extra security. They could have never made it that far with their large suitcases.
The bombers set off their bombs at the best place they could, just like a car bomb could only be set off outside, and not inside a terminal building.
The bombers of the airport in Brussels exploded their bombs in the check-in area (before the passport control and even further from the baggage scanners). When the airport reopened, they had pushed the security as far back as they could.
There are now military+police checkpoints for cars before you get near the airport, just off the highway exits. It would be difficult to get a car bomb past. You have to get dropped off in a specific car park and walk up to 2 km to get to the security queue to get into the temporary airport buildings.
The queue for the next security check, where they check bags is about 500m long. Everyone is in a very long, thin queue. If there were bombs in the bags to be checked in, the best they could do is explode in the queue outside of the building, which would cause little damage, except to the few within 10m or so.
The end result is a nightmare of an airport, with people avoiding it and not flying. Passenger numbers are way down. A friend who flew recently took 4 hours to get through the security lines and to his flight. He just made it, even though it was a morning flight, and he arrived 4 hours in advance, at around 6am. I would hate to see the queue at 10am or later.
It hasn't crippled the economy, but has really screwed the operators of the airport and all of the airlines using it.
Yes. The trade partnership agreement will see corporations at the center of policy making... not like what we have now.
So, you're saying that there is some sort of trade federation, backed by a shadowy figure trying to control everything......... I have a bad feeling about this.....
Anyway, you want examples of why I don't like Trump, SURE THING! There are SO MANY. I don't actually know of any homophobic behaviour, but I'd say he's more of a racist, lying, anti-intellectual asshole with no regard for the truth . The majority of his entire shtick is a confidence-man con game.
So, you're saying that he has all of the qualifications to become president, or maybe a house/senate majority leader?
You may laugh, but it is true. Oracle were never going to turn itself into an Open Source company, and give away it's database for free.
Back in 1997, Oracle didn't have any official open source policy. It was not possible to officially run Oracle on Linux. There was a SCO release, and it was possible to grab a couple of SCO libraries and get Oracle running. There was no official project inside Oracle to get the database running on Linux.
Any open source work that was going on at the time was non-official, by individual employees, with no official support by Oracle management. Now, Oracle are paying people to work on the Linux kernel, along with a number of other Linux related open source add-ons.
Wim was an important player in getting Oracle to have an open source policy, and getting an official Linux version of the database, even if they did rip-off Redhat.
For a car analogy, Oracle have delivered an open source sub-compact, and if you were expecting them to deliver a fleet of 18 wheelers, then you're going to be sorely disappointed - but you can't say that they didn't deliver something, which is more than nothing.
It's really difficult to turn around an organization like Oracle, and the amount of open source support, no matter how small, is still more than I would have expected back in 1996.
From what I understood, Oracle were already invested heavily in Java before they bought Sun, and so in buying Sun, they were protecting their own products and stoping the ability of someone else doing what they are now trying to do to Google.
They are just following the golden rule of business "Do unto others..... but do it first."
They're "no-go" zones that even the cops don't dare to enter. But don't worry; the leftist media likes to pretend that these places don't exist.
I'm sorry, that's just wrong. These "no-go" zones do not exist. This is just something that Trump said.
I've lived in Brussels for 20 years. I used to live in Forest, just a short distance up the hill from where the last safe house was in Forest, where there was a shootout and one terrorist was killed and the two others got away. The police station there is just around the corner from that safe house. I would see them all the time at Place St Denis, which is the square in-between the police station and the safe house. It's where the local supermarket and fast food (fries, etc) are located.
All of the other places you're heard of, I've also walked, shopped, visited friends there. They are not no-go areas.
Keep repeating Trump to try to defend your personal world outlook, it won't help you. Your US concept of left/right doesn't exist here (everyone is left here of the US left), so why do you bring it up?
On the other hand, if you have first hand knowledge of the no-go areas in Brussels, then please elaborate. You can be as precise as possible, since I know Brussels very well after 20 years.
Unless the closest of being to Brussels you've been is eating some fries in McDonalds....
Belgium, and Brussels specifically has a problem where the various immigrant groups live in their own enclaves. In some of these communities, there is little engagement with the rest of the community and the local authorities.
Without local engagement of communities,this is what we get. It has been reported that the UK has been more successful in stopping attacks because they are engaging the communities.
God damn taking away our freedoms sure isn't going to make us any safer.
I for one am going to contact my local representative in Brussels and say we need more engagement, and less restriction of everyone's freedoms.
Well incidents of terrorism in western cities doesn't occur every day.
The fact that the group most likely behind it is the most web-wise terrorist group that has ever existed should be of at least a little bit of interest to us here.
You you think you live in isolation? What happens in Brussels won't have effects in the rest of the world? You think that various world leaders are not going to use this as an excuse to bring in more monitoring, loss of rights? If not, let me know where you live, I'd like to move there.
I passed through the metro station where the bomb went off 30 minutes before hand. My wife, only 15 minutes. Either of us could have been caught if the timing had been different.
All public transport in Brussels has been stopped. Taxis are impossible to find - but the streets out of Brussels are mostly blocked, so cars aren't very good anyway. I have no way of getting home, except a very long walk for many hours. Sucks to be me, but sucks more for the people in the train that was behind mine.
Ok, here's an IT angle for you:
The mobile phone network stopped working just after the attacks. The Belgian government recommended people to use social media to communicate. Facebook added a 'I have not been blow up' button (or something like that, I don't use Facebook).
David Attenborough and Brian May are paid by the entertainment industry. You would automatically discount their achievements because of this?
Just because you can sell out stadiums and appear on the telly talking about space doesn't mean you can't also be a astrophysicist who does serious work and try to honestly explain science to the general public.
I was in a play once, by your logic I can't code perl.
Interesting perspective. Let me give myself as a counter example.
I came to Apple after the switch to Intel. I use any operating system that I need to (VAX/VMS was my favorite, I used to own a VAX cluster, then I got married). The main machine for email was a Linux box. My wife had a Windows computer, and I got sick of having to do technical support for it. It was my fault every time the scanner didn't work properly, or an update ran adn broke something, or the virus scanner went crazy. So, I bought wifey a MacBook. After setting it up and showing her how to access email and use the web browser, my amount of home technical support dropped by an order of magnitude.
When playing around with MacOS in a terminal, to my surprise it was all Unix underneath - up until then, I didn't know.
Since then I bought a number of other Macs. I have a big silver older generation MacPro, which was good for video editing at the time, but works well as a workstation with multiple screens. I have a Macbook Pro for when I go on site. Almost everything I do is via the terminal. I don't use the gui that much when I'm working. I used to use Linux laptops for work, but I never had luck with the sleep/wake functions, where I don't have problems with my Macbook.
Now, having said that, I don't use my Macs as my main machines. My currently biggest machine has 192GB ram, 17T HDD (inc a couple of SSDs), dual socket Xeon 6-core CPUs, running Linux. I don't know if the Mac Pro offerings can match that, but I'm sure that it if they did it would be way too expensive.
So, Apple may be more of a gadget shop these days, but as long as they keep putting out Unix based MacOS, then for me they are still making nice little workstations, but not workhorses.
Sadly I think thanks to the sick liberal values in society and promoted by mass media
Maybe.... or maybe it's just your son and his friends.
My Son 12 yr old asked me for a soldering iron for his birthday. He now tries to fix any electronics that are broken. He pulled apart a Christmas penguin (with internal led lights) and tried to get it working again.
He took the iron and some other tools to school to show his friends, so his friends have some level of interest as well.
For Christmas I got him a number of soldering kits from Maker Shed http://www.makershed.com/ , as well as a couple of Arduino boards.
Windows 10 also runs just as well on a Q6600 as it deos on a Core i7 whatever. Oh sure, it IS faster on the newer machines, but not by so much to make millions of people throw them out.
What may me throw out my Q6600 and similar generation CPUs was the power consumption. A Core i5 was faster and used less power and needed less cooling.
Well, it's easy to diss someone that you don't know. From one blog post, you assume that you know everything about her?
I've actually emailed with her over a big security issue. She delt with it quickly and professionally. She understood the significance and very quickly (almost unheard of quickness for Oracle) had a patch produced and a security notice issued.
She is not a moron, even if she has a different perspective from you.
And this was around 20 years ago. I'm sure she's got more knowledgeable since.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, if we're going old school....
First Piss!
(more appropriate in this context than post) ...Naked and petrified...
Hey, at least we plebs know where we stand. So crimes, in descending order or importance are:
- Making a politician look stupid ... ...
- Preventing a corporation from maximising their profits
- Ridicule of any government organisation
- crimes against rich people
-
-
- property crimes ( rich people only)
- murder (poor people only)
- rape (poor people only)
(sorry, property crimes again poor people don't count at all)
It's good to know ones place in society.
They could have don't something creative, like give a tip to someone they don't like that their stock is going to plunge. Wait until the person has shorted the stock, then make some announcement (We're going into Chapter 11, etc).
Once the stock tanks, and your enemy has made some money, report them to the SEC for fraud, and tell the police that your enemy has hacked the account.
Sit back and watch them try to explain it.
I had some time in hospital, so I bought the first 4 seasons of The Walking dead and watched them through.
I watched the first season in real time, that was ok. For the second season, things just went too slowly, so I watched it on 2x.
After that, I watched all of the remaining series in 2x. Far better pacing. I know that the show likes to set the atmosphere and be slow, but it was too slow for me. At 2x speed, it was perfect.
Occasionally, I had to go back and watch a scene in normal speed again, but that wasn't too often.
This is why you can't trust anyone over 30, they are prone to be invested in the status quo.
That's a valid concern. The Eurovision song contest is a culturally significant European event, only open to truly integrated European countries, .... like Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest/
This is why you can't trust anyone over 30, they are prone to be invested in the status quo.
How do you reconcile this with the fact that 27% of 18-24 year old voted to leave, and 73% voted for the status quo?
See: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36616028/
Also, of the 65+ age group, 60% voted to leave.
If appears that reality has some disagreements with what you think. Now, unless you're Steve Jobs, you can't distort reality.
So, it's either -
Woosh!
Or I have been trolled.
It's hard to tell these days.
No, that's sort of only right. There were physical constraints they had to deal with, with some extra security, but not the main bag checking security.
They blew up the check in area as that is where you drop off large bags, and they had large bombs in suitcases, not hand luggage size bags.
There are two exits from where they were towards the gates. The international gates has the passport control. You could physically take large bags through there, but you would get stopped by the police. The other exit is for European destinations, and there are large metal bollards made to stop the bag trolleys. It would have been very noticeable if they had tried to squeeze their bags past.
Only after both of these exit points, nearer to the walkways to the gates (and of course, past the shops) are the hand luggage scanners and the extra security. They could have never made it that far with their large suitcases.
The bombers set off their bombs at the best place they could, just like a car bomb could only be set off outside, and not inside a terminal building.
The bombers of the airport in Brussels exploded their bombs in the check-in area (before the passport control and even further from the baggage scanners). When the airport reopened, they had pushed the security as far back as they could.
There are now military+police checkpoints for cars before you get near the airport, just off the highway exits. It would be difficult to get a car bomb past. You have to get dropped off in a specific car park and walk up to 2 km to get to the security queue to get into the temporary airport buildings.
The queue for the next security check, where they check bags is about 500m long. Everyone is in a very long, thin queue. If there were bombs in the bags to be checked in, the best they could do is explode in the queue outside of the building, which would cause little damage, except to the few within 10m or so.
The end result is a nightmare of an airport, with people avoiding it and not flying. Passenger numbers are way down. A friend who flew recently took 4 hours to get through the security lines and to his flight. He just made it, even though it was a morning flight, and he arrived 4 hours in advance, at around 6am. I would hate to see the queue at 10am or later.
It hasn't crippled the economy, but has really screwed the operators of the airport and all of the airlines using it.
He's an economist.
He'll be using imaginary numbers.
It the way how how economists get their imaginary results.
Yes. The trade partnership agreement will see corporations at the center of policy making... not like what we have now.
So, you're saying that there is some sort of trade federation, backed by a shadowy figure trying to control everything.... ..... I have a bad feeling about this .....
Anyway, you want examples of why I don't like Trump, SURE THING! There are SO MANY. I don't actually know of any homophobic behaviour, but I'd say he's more of a racist, lying, anti-intellectual asshole with no regard for the truth . The majority of his entire shtick is a confidence-man con game.
So, you're saying that he has all of the qualifications to become president, or maybe a house/senate majority leader?
Because he's done so well at that at Oracle
You may laugh, but it is true. Oracle were never going to turn itself into an Open Source company, and give away it's database for free.
Back in 1997, Oracle didn't have any official open source policy. It was not possible to officially run Oracle on Linux. There was a SCO release, and it was possible to grab a couple of SCO libraries and get Oracle running. There was no official project inside Oracle to get the database running on Linux.
Any open source work that was going on at the time was non-official, by individual employees, with no official support by Oracle management. Now, Oracle are paying people to work on the Linux kernel, along with a number of other Linux related open source add-ons.
Wim was an important player in getting Oracle to have an open source policy, and getting an official Linux version of the database, even if they did rip-off Redhat.
For a car analogy, Oracle have delivered an open source sub-compact, and if you were expecting them to deliver a fleet of 18 wheelers, then you're going to be sorely disappointed - but you can't say that they didn't deliver something, which is more than nothing.
It's really difficult to turn around an organization like Oracle, and the amount of open source support, no matter how small, is still more than I would have expected back in 1996.
From what I understood, Oracle were already invested heavily in Java before they bought Sun, and so in buying Sun, they were protecting their own products and stoping the ability of someone else doing what they are now trying to do to Google.
They are just following the golden rule of business "Do unto others ..... but do it first."
They're "no-go" zones that even the cops don't dare to enter. But don't worry; the leftist media likes to pretend that these places don't exist.
I'm sorry, that's just wrong. These "no-go" zones do not exist. This is just something that Trump said.
I've lived in Brussels for 20 years. I used to live in Forest, just a short distance up the hill from where the last safe house was in Forest, where there was a shootout and one terrorist was killed and the two others got away. The police station there is just around the corner from that safe house. I would see them all the time at Place St Denis, which is the square in-between the police station and the safe house. It's where the local supermarket and fast food (fries, etc) are located.
All of the other places you're heard of, I've also walked, shopped, visited friends there. They are not no-go areas.
Keep repeating Trump to try to defend your personal world outlook, it won't help you. Your US concept of left/right doesn't exist here (everyone is left here of the US left), so why do you bring it up?
On the other hand, if you have first hand knowledge of the no-go areas in Brussels, then please elaborate. You can be as precise as possible, since I know Brussels very well after 20 years.
Unless the closest of being to Brussels you've been is eating some fries in McDonalds....
Belgium, and Brussels specifically has a problem where the various immigrant groups live in their own enclaves. In some of these communities, there is little engagement with the rest of the community and the local authorities.
Without local engagement of communities,this is what we get. It has been reported that the UK has been more successful in stopping attacks because they are engaging the communities.
God damn taking away our freedoms sure isn't going to make us any safer.
I for one am going to contact my local representative in Brussels and say we need more engagement, and less restriction of everyone's freedoms.
Well incidents of terrorism in western cities doesn't occur every day.
The fact that the group most likely behind it is the most web-wise terrorist group that has ever existed should be of at least a little bit of interest to us here.
You you think you live in isolation? What happens in Brussels won't have effects in the rest of the world? You think that various world leaders are not going to use this as an excuse to bring in more monitoring, loss of rights? If not, let me know where you live, I'd like to move there.
I passed through the metro station where the bomb went off 30 minutes before hand. My wife, only 15 minutes. Either of us could have been caught if the timing had been different.
All public transport in Brussels has been stopped. Taxis are impossible to find - but the streets out of Brussels are mostly blocked, so cars aren't very good anyway. I have no way of getting home, except a very long walk for many hours. Sucks to be me, but sucks more for the people in the train that was behind mine.
Ok, here's an IT angle for you:
The mobile phone network stopped working just after the attacks. The Belgian government recommended people to use social media to communicate. Facebook added a 'I have not been blow up' button (or something like that, I don't use Facebook).
Huh?
David Attenborough and Brian May are paid by the entertainment industry. You would automatically discount their achievements because of this?
Just because you can sell out stadiums and appear on the telly talking about space doesn't mean you can't also be a astrophysicist who does serious work and try to honestly explain science to the general public.
I was in a play once, by your logic I can't code perl.
Interesting perspective. Let me give myself as a counter example.
I came to Apple after the switch to Intel. I use any operating system that I need to (VAX/VMS was my favorite, I used to own a VAX cluster, then I got married). The main machine for email was a Linux box. My wife had a Windows computer, and I got sick of having to do technical support for it. It was my fault every time the scanner didn't work properly, or an update ran adn broke something, or the virus scanner went crazy. So, I bought wifey a MacBook. After setting it up and showing her how to access email and use the web browser, my amount of home technical support dropped by an order of magnitude.
When playing around with MacOS in a terminal, to my surprise it was all Unix underneath - up until then, I didn't know.
Since then I bought a number of other Macs. I have a big silver older generation MacPro, which was good for video editing at the time, but works well as a workstation with multiple screens. I have a Macbook Pro for when I go on site. Almost everything I do is via the terminal. I don't use the gui that much when I'm working. I used to use Linux laptops for work, but I never had luck with the sleep/wake functions, where I don't have problems with my Macbook.
Now, having said that, I don't use my Macs as my main machines. My currently biggest machine has 192GB ram, 17T HDD (inc a couple of SSDs), dual socket Xeon 6-core CPUs, running Linux. I don't know if the Mac Pro offerings can match that, but I'm sure that it if they did it would be way too expensive.
So, Apple may be more of a gadget shop these days, but as long as they keep putting out Unix based MacOS, then for me they are still making nice little workstations, but not workhorses.
Sadly I think thanks to the sick liberal values in society and promoted by mass media
Maybe.... or maybe it's just your son and his friends.
My Son 12 yr old asked me for a soldering iron for his birthday. He now tries to fix any electronics that are broken. He pulled apart a Christmas penguin (with internal led lights) and tried to get it working again.
He took the iron and some other tools to school to show his friends, so his friends have some level of interest as well.
For Christmas I got him a number of soldering kits from Maker Shed http://www.makershed.com/ , as well as a couple of Arduino boards.
Windows 10 also runs just as well on a Q6600 as it deos on a Core i7 whatever. Oh sure, it IS faster on the newer machines, but not by so much to make millions of people throw them out.
What may me throw out my Q6600 and similar generation CPUs was the power consumption. A Core i5 was faster and used less power and needed less cooling.
The operating system wasn't ever a consideration.
Well, it's easy to diss someone that you don't know. From one blog post, you assume that you know everything about her?
I've actually emailed with her over a big security issue. She delt with it quickly and professionally. She understood the significance and very quickly (almost unheard of quickness for Oracle) had a patch produced and a security notice issued.
She is not a moron, even if she has a different perspective from you.
And this was around 20 years ago. I'm sure she's got more knowledgeable since.
Now you've got me curious - which currencies are *not* backed by force?
Imperial credits of course.
In the old republic, the republic credits were backed by the force.
Here's a link to a BBC article where some doubts are also expressed on this being real.
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-32828359/
damn. .. should have been 'fast to believe' not 'far to believe'....
and I've been around here long enough to know that I should always preview the post first!