On the other hand, if there is a piece of commercial software that you must get your hands on but cannot afford. And the only way for many is get it is via some untrusted source illegally. That has to carry to much higher risk of malware.
And specifically, what software might that be? I cannot think of one that a person must have that they cannot afford, and for which there is no free or very inexpensive alternative. Not a one. Can't afford MS Office? OpenOffice/LibreOffice. Photoshop? GIMP or Paint.net.
Are they feature for feature replacements? No. But if you need the exact feature set, either you or your company should be able to fess up the funds.
Can someone please explain why the U.S. should host, subsidize, or be a member of the U.N. given its current condition and activities? In all seriousness, I can think of no reason whatsoever.
Here's an idea, if a service being infiltrated can result in deaths, DON'T CONNECT IT TO THE FUCKING INTERNET
Given that some of these systems have to communicate, that is exactly what this guy is proposing! Don't connect them to the regular 'Net, but some other communication setup.
I grill/BBQ a lot. I've tried many brands of wireless thermometers over the last few years. None have lasted more than about 4 uses. The cheap thermocouples start giving wildly incorrect temps (I know the meat doesn't go to 467F in 3 minutes). or they just stop working altogether.
Anyone have a recommendation on a good one that lasts more than a couple of times? Price not an issue, within reason of course.
Perhaps plugins would have some way to "lock" the cord to the car with access tied to the car keys. People could still cut the wire, but I suspect that would happen far less frequently than walking down a block unplugging every car.
A locked door, similar to the 'open from the inside only' current gas filler tube door. The whole plug end is inside the locked space. Cord trailing out to the pole/meter. But this is still a chicken-egg issue. If I live 'in the city', and can't charge it on the street, why buy the car? And if there are no cars to demand that hookup, why should someone (who?) pay the large amount of $$ to build up the streetside infrastructure?
We are still in the nascent stage of this. These cars are only useful to a tiny percentage of the population. Those who have a) a short commute, b) a garage to install the charging facilities, and c) the extra funds to buy them over a good gas mileage small car.
Tiny.
Extension cord? br.You can't push 50 or 100 miles of battery recharge amperage through a 100' 14 ga. extension cord strung out a 3rd floor window, across the sidewalk. Assuming you can park right outside your apartment.
The infrastructure is not there yet. If I live in an apartment (city dweller?), where do I plug it in? If I have a house, but no garage, where do I plug it in.
Yes, some few companies are equipping their parking lots with plugin terminals. Very few. And as far as street side (parking meter?) plugins? I can see serious vandalism, just for the lulz.
A 50 mile range means that I have to manage the cars fuel every day. Doesn't sound like fun to me. I love the idea of an all electric. But I just can't see it yet.
Snake food was almost exempt from the proposal. After all, pythons have to eat, and they like their lunch alive. But at a heated meeting, Commissioner Pam Hemphill questioned how it could be humane to sell live animals to be fed to other live animals.
At that point I can't help but think you've crossed a line somewhere and gone into some kind of pseudo-religion where it isn't nature on the throne but human ego. Animals gotta eat and they don't know a damned thing about this humane thing you keep talking about.
Yes, they have gone round the bend. You know that cute fuzzy little cat that you love so much? You know what he's really thinking? {"if I were bigger, you'd be lunch"}
I'm sure I'll get marked flamebait for all of this, but from my personal experiences both learning to code and working with other coders from America, Japan, and India I can tell you I'd probably never choose to partner with an American coder over an Indian or Japanese. Drop the attitudes and learn from those who in reality are doing it better than you.
Of the 3 Indian programmers I've worked with in the US, 1 was spectacular, 1 was above average, and 1 was quite possibly the worst programmer I've ever seen and still get paid for it. yeah, small sample size, but it's not all wine and roses.
Because its thrust direction depends on the shape of the rotor blades. You'd have to flip the rotor blades upside down to get upwards thrust.
No, just change the AOA of the blades sufficiently. However, you run the risk of the rotors contacting the tail rotor or the boom. They are not designed to flex in that direction. There are some vids around of R/C helicopters hovering upside down.
We had one idiot IT guy try to tell our developers that they couldn't have root access to the machines. Guess what, sherlock: we *write drivers*. We bloody well will have root access, thank you.
That's where you set up a virtual environment for the driver writers. Root access, easily backed up/rolled back. They can root to their hearts content, and not screw up the wider network. Everyone is happy. Maybe that concept was too hard for them and you.
I've not delved into the BitCoin world much, but here is a question:
I 'own' BitCoin xx1 - xx10. I have this backed up on a thumbdrive, stored in a safe.
LAter, I transfer BitCoin xx1 - xx5 to someone in exchange for goods/services/currency. Those BitCoins are now removed from me. My BitCoin stash now holds BC xx6 - xx10.
Later,I restore that backup, so that my stash again holds BC xx1 - xx10. Who is the arbiter of this dispute. Does the recipient have to somehow 'prove' that he received them from me? Can he not somehow fake this and 'steal' BC xx1-xx5 from me?
With currency, there is a physical transfer from my pocket to yours. With electronic money, a bank or credit card agency is the arbiter. What similar function is there with BitCoins?
THAT'S IT? For a car that costs over $30,000? I would not be able to drive to work and back on that.
You are not the target audience. I live close enough to mostly make it work. But I have no garage to install the charger thingy, just a carport. A 110v extension cord does not cut it. So apparently I am not in the target zone either. I wonder how many people actually are?
Not sure if they've addressed this situation, but Gmail has/had a problem with the dot between first.last@gmail.com. It is actually ignored. john.shopkin@gmail.com, johnshopkins@gmail.com, and johns.hopkins@gmail.com would all route to the same address. I've gotten a couple that were addressed to someone else, and the position of the dot was one space off. Completely different last name.
Heh, the only way I've ever been able to tolerate having to use any version of Sharepoint is to open a document library in IE, and then click on some dropdown to change it to explorer view, and then create and right click on a folder and select explore in a new window. Then it opens up in File Explorer, where I bookmark/favorite it so I don't have to deal with the atrocious "information blackhole" Sharepoint web interface, and I can easily drag / drop / delete entire folders using the File Explorer interface, and the URLs I send to coworkers are a lot more sane-looking and consistent.
And that is the precise wrong way to use SP. The concept of 'folder tree within a SP document library' is fuckin useless in SP. Hard to navigate and locate stuff. Metadata (extra columns) on the doc libs, and various views will get you what you want, easier and faster.
Interesting. We've run a pretty large SP farm (100,000+ users, 7M+ items in the search index) for about the same time, and i can't recall it actually losing any documents/items, without direct deletion by a user. Ever. Can't find something? Poor design of sites/libraries/lists.
For a simple at home Sp implementation, a couple of doc libraries with appropriate metadata would allow for easy searching.
Oh, and SP Foundation can run on Win7. Doesn't strictly need Server2008. If you're well tied into the whole MS ecosystem, then SharePoint may be the way to go. If not....try somewhere else.
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Wait, what? You can be jailed for six months for going to the park in the US?
Makes me even more glad I live in the UK.
As always, there is probably far more to the backstory than what appears here, or in any news story. Maybe Mr AC will grace us with the details.
On the other hand, if there is a piece of commercial software that you must get your hands on but cannot afford. And the only way for many is get it is via some untrusted source illegally. That has to carry to much higher risk of malware.
And specifically, what software might that be? I cannot think of one that a person must have that they cannot afford, and for which there is no free or very inexpensive alternative. Not a one.
Can't afford MS Office? OpenOffice/LibreOffice. Photoshop? GIMP or Paint.net.
Are they feature for feature replacements? No. But if you need the exact feature set, either you or your company should be able to fess up the funds.
"I can't afford it" is not justification.
Can someone please explain why the U.S. should host, subsidize, or be a member of the U.N. given its current condition and activities? In all seriousness, I can think of no reason whatsoever.
To keep an eye on the idiots?
Here's an idea, if a service being infiltrated can result in deaths, DON'T CONNECT IT TO THE FUCKING INTERNET
Given that some of these systems have to communicate, that is exactly what this guy is proposing!
Don't connect them to the regular 'Net, but some other communication setup.
Maverick is probably the only (reasonable) brand I haven't tried yet. Ordering one tomorrow.
I grill/BBQ a lot. I've tried many brands of wireless thermometers over the last few years. None have lasted more than about 4 uses. The cheap thermocouples start giving wildly incorrect temps (I know the meat doesn't go to 467F in 3 minutes). or they just stop working altogether.
Anyone have a recommendation on a good one that lasts more than a couple of times? Price not an issue, within reason of course.
Just wait until the first Muslim gets in one and crashes into some capitol building!
You mean like how they could rent or buy a Cessna today, and do the same thing?
As a 'non annex 1' country, China is not required to reduce anything. Which is why they readily came on board with it.
Perhaps plugins would have some way to "lock" the cord to the car with access tied to the car keys. People could still cut the wire, but I suspect that would happen far less frequently than walking down a block unplugging every car.
A locked door, similar to the 'open from the inside only' current gas filler tube door. The whole plug end is inside the locked space. Cord trailing out to the pole/meter.
But this is still a chicken-egg issue. If I live 'in the city', and can't charge it on the street, why buy the car? And if there are no cars to demand that hookup, why should someone (who?) pay the large amount of $$ to build up the streetside infrastructure?
We are still in the nascent stage of this. These cars are only useful to a tiny percentage of the population. Those who have a) a short commute, b) a garage to install the charging facilities, and c) the extra funds to buy them over a good gas mileage small car.
Tiny.
Extension cord?
br.You can't push 50 or 100 miles of battery recharge amperage through a 100' 14 ga. extension cord strung out a 3rd floor window, across the sidewalk. Assuming you can park right outside your apartment.
The infrastructure is not there yet. If I live in an apartment (city dweller?), where do I plug it in? If I have a house, but no garage, where do I plug it in.
Yes, some few companies are equipping their parking lots with plugin terminals. Very few. And as far as street side (parking meter?) plugins? I can see serious vandalism, just for the lulz.
A 50 mile range means that I have to manage the cars fuel every day. Doesn't sound like fun to me.
I love the idea of an all electric. But I just can't see it yet.
Snake food was almost exempt from the proposal. After all, pythons have to eat, and they like their lunch alive. But at a heated meeting, Commissioner Pam Hemphill questioned how it could be humane to sell live animals to be fed to other live animals.
At that point I can't help but think you've crossed a line somewhere and gone into some kind of pseudo-religion where it isn't nature on the throne but human ego. Animals gotta eat and they don't know a damned thing about this humane thing you keep talking about.
Yes, they have gone round the bend. You know that cute fuzzy little cat that you love so much? You know what he's really thinking?
{"if I were bigger, you'd be lunch"}
They know exactly squat about 'humane'.
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Go on..tell us more...
It's high time that "the Heartland" pulled their heads out of Jeebus's butthole long enough to realize that we're fucking up our climate. FUCK EM.
Did you eat today? Thank 'the Heartland'.
What happens in winter?
It gets cold. Not a lot of outdoor swimming pools in use in a New York winter.
I'm sure I'll get marked flamebait for all of this, but from my personal experiences both learning to code and working with other coders from America, Japan, and India I can tell you I'd probably never choose to partner with an American coder over an Indian or Japanese. Drop the attitudes and learn from those who in reality are doing it better than you.
Of the 3 Indian programmers I've worked with in the US, 1 was spectacular, 1 was above average, and 1 was quite possibly the worst programmer I've ever seen and still get paid for it.
yeah, small sample size, but it's not all wine and roses.
Rape isn't funny or justified. Ever.
Just last week, I anally raped a dead chicken with a 1/2 full beer can. Then slowly roasted it over hot coals.
Justified, and tasty.
Because its thrust direction depends on the shape of the rotor blades. You'd have to flip the rotor blades upside down to get upwards thrust.
No, just change the AOA of the blades sufficiently. However, you run the risk of the rotors contacting the tail rotor or the boom. They are not designed to flex in that direction.
There are some vids around of R/C helicopters hovering upside down.
We had one idiot IT guy try to tell our developers that they couldn't have root access to the machines. Guess what, sherlock: we *write drivers*. We bloody well will have root access, thank you.
That's where you set up a virtual environment for the driver writers. Root access, easily backed up/rolled back. They can root to their hearts content, and not screw up the wider network. Everyone is happy.
Maybe that concept was too hard for them and you.
I've not delved into the BitCoin world much, but here is a question:
I 'own' BitCoin xx1 - xx10. I have this backed up on a thumbdrive, stored in a safe.
LAter, I transfer BitCoin xx1 - xx5 to someone in exchange for goods/services/currency. Those BitCoins are now removed from me. My BitCoin stash now holds BC xx6 - xx10.
Later,I restore that backup, so that my stash again holds BC xx1 - xx10. Who is the arbiter of this dispute. Does the recipient have to somehow 'prove' that he received them from me? Can he not somehow fake this and 'steal' BC xx1-xx5 from me?
With currency, there is a physical transfer from my pocket to yours. With electronic money, a bank or credit card agency is the arbiter.
What similar function is there with BitCoins?
THAT'S IT? For a car that costs over $30,000? I would not be able to drive to work and back on that.
You are not the target audience. I live close enough to mostly make it work.
But I have no garage to install the charger thingy, just a carport. A 110v extension cord does not cut it.
So apparently I am not in the target zone either. I wonder how many people actually are?
Anyone have a guess what the average value of the contents of a container is?
After it has soaked in the ocean for a week? Not much. The container can probably be cleaned up, but the contents? Not so much.
Not sure if they've addressed this situation, but Gmail has/had a problem with the dot between first.last@gmail.com. It is actually ignored. john.shopkin@gmail.com, johnshopkins@gmail.com, and johns.hopkins@gmail.com would all route to the same address. I've gotten a couple that were addressed to someone else, and the position of the dot was one space off. Completely different last name.
Heh, the only way I've ever been able to tolerate having to use any version of Sharepoint is to open a document library in IE, and then click on some dropdown to change it to explorer view, and then create and right click on a folder and select explore in a new window. Then it opens up in File Explorer, where I bookmark/favorite it so I don't have to deal with the atrocious "information blackhole" Sharepoint web interface, and I can easily drag / drop / delete entire folders using the File Explorer interface, and the URLs I send to coworkers are a lot more sane-looking and consistent.
And that is the precise wrong way to use SP. The concept of 'folder tree within a SP document library' is fuckin useless in SP. Hard to navigate and locate stuff. Metadata (extra columns) on the doc libs, and various views will get you what you want, easier and faster.
Interesting. We've run a pretty large SP farm (100,000+ users, 7M+ items in the search index) for about the same time, and i can't recall it actually losing any documents/items, without direct deletion by a user. Ever.
Can't find something? Poor design of sites/libraries/lists.
For a simple at home Sp implementation, a couple of doc libraries with appropriate metadata would allow for easy searching.
Oh, and SP Foundation can run on Win7. Doesn't strictly need Server2008.
If you're well tied into the whole MS ecosystem, then SharePoint may be the way to go. If not....try somewhere else.