It hasn't been breached... they just got a hold of their email mailing list! This is the crappiest bad summary of all crappy bad summaries.
Yes, and their ability to manage a mailing list is in no way related to their ability to manage more sensitive information, in their system that isn't even live yet.
Pissed might be too strong a word but I have a Walgreens right down the street from the CVS and Rite-Aid. Only one supports Apple Pay so guess which one I'm going to use if I want to use Apple Pay? (or Google's alternatives)
That's right, I will vote with my wallet.. er, crap, my phone!
That constitutes a "daily driver" machine? (BTW, I appreciate the car analogy.) But I only launch one or two apps each day; most of the time I'm resuming already running apps. Do they have to reboot each day as part of this tool?
What the article fails to mention is that the new reactor has to be 800 feet tall or buried 400 feet in the ground. Or 400 feet tall and 200 feet buried. It's pretty complicated figuring out the math here.
A related article from the comments below says that the final size will be small enough to fit on the back of a truck (roughly cargo container sized), or 10 times smaller than ITER being built in France.
I found it interesting that 55 pounds of deuterium is needed as fuel, but only a few grams of tritium ('bred' from lithium) is needed, since part of the nuclear reaction makes tritium to feed back into the reaction.
I was then reminded of many Star Trek episodes where power couldn't be generated because of damage to the "dilithium crystals". Maybe those should have been called "trilithium crystals" instead?
A public agency that uses an unmanned aircraft system, or contracts for the use of an unmanned aircraft system, pursuant to this title shall first provide reasonable notice to the public. Reasonable notice shall, at a minimum, consist of a one-time announcement regarding the agency’s intent to deploy unmanned aircraft system technology and a description of the technology’s capabilities.
There's also some reasonable limitations on data captured by drones (can't be kept long) and a requirement to log who requests drone missions. If only there was some federal body that could come up with some reasonable standard for all states...
It is no surprise really. Doesn't anyone remember when there were no third-party native iOS apps?
The initial implementation of something that can take my money is handled by a single vendor on their hardware while they sort out everything? Sounds like a good plan to me.
I assume you missed the part about building 10 single-room buildings in a day for $5,000 each.
Well, the price is right, but people have been building modularly for a long time. Single room buildings don't really seem that challenging, especially since it is just a concrete box.
The Hilton Palacio Hotel in San Antonio was built in just 202 days, and that was 500 rooms, fully furnished, decorated and kitted (down to the bottle openers and coffee makers). And this was back in 1968.
I can't remember the last time a [major] web site or web framework was done in Perl.
Oh, I dunno, how about booking.com (about)? 'World's leading online accommodation provider' where 650K rooms a night are booked (they're owned by Priceline group, if that's a more popular brand where you live)?
A YAPC talk by one of their employees says 99% of their code is Perl. Check out their dev blog.
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What's the difference between a hipster and a Perl hipster?
A hipster liked it before it was cool and doesn't now. A Perl hipster liked it when it was cool, and still does.
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Perl 5.20 was just released and "represents approximately 12 months of development since Perl 5.18.0 and contains approximately 470,000 lines of changes across 2,900 files from 124 authors."
That doesn't seem to bad to me, but I'm not sure how that number of core release authors compares to other languages like Python or Ruby.
I was just going to write the same thing: if you hired someone you trust, trust that they are going to do the job well.
I like the three month transition plan given by Capt.DrumkenBum below, but I'd also like to add that you should try not to take too much pride or ownership in your existing systems. If new guy is going to change them and has good reason, be supportive, even if it feels personal. New guy has to run the ship now, let him run it the way it works, and works for him. Even if you have to say goodbye to one of your own creations and ways of doing things.
Having been there myself, it isn't always easy to go from micro to macro (or trusting someone else to handle some your old micro), but try to think of it is standing on shoulders instead of standing on toes. Now you have bigger challenges to face.
I'm sure there's a John Travlota joke about letting go to be made here...
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Will be released in 2015... just sayin'.
If I've learned nothing else from Harry Potter... obviously a Basilisk has invaded Cape Breton. Beware, Mudbloods!
When a journalist writes a bulls--t story about you ought to know whos paying their bills and who their friends are.
What I want to know is when did anyone with a blog/website suddenly become "a journalist"? Is the bar really that low?
I can setup a domain and pound out some page-view inducing BS; am I a journalist then?
Judge me by my size, do you?
-- Yoda
It hasn't been breached... they just got a hold of their email mailing list! This is the crappiest bad summary of all crappy bad summaries.
Yes, and their ability to manage a mailing list is in no way related to their ability to manage more sensitive information, in their system that isn't even live yet.
It isn't alleged-- TFA states CurrenC sent out a notice saying email addresses were compromised.
Pissed might be too strong a word but I have a Walgreens right down the street from the CVS and Rite-Aid. Only one supports Apple Pay so guess which one I'm going to use if I want to use Apple Pay? (or Google's alternatives)
That's right, I will vote with my wallet.. er, crap, my phone!
If I could delete 3 things from all existence they would be:
How about Flash? Isn't that how we ended up with "analytics provider Adobe"?
That constitutes a "daily driver" machine? (BTW, I appreciate the car analogy.) But I only launch one or two apps each day; most of the time I'm resuming already running apps. Do they have to reboot each day as part of this tool?
What the article fails to mention is that the new reactor has to be 800 feet tall or buried 400 feet in the ground. Or 400 feet tall and 200 feet buried. It's pretty complicated figuring out the math here.
A related article from the comments below says that the final size will be small enough to fit on the back of a truck (roughly cargo container sized), or 10 times smaller than ITER being built in France.
I found it interesting that 55 pounds of deuterium is needed as fuel, but only a few grams of tritium ('bred' from lithium) is needed, since part of the nuclear reaction makes tritium to feed back into the reaction.
I was then reminded of many Star Trek episodes where power couldn't be generated because of damage to the "dilithium crystals". Maybe those should have been called "trilithium crystals" instead?
Other article, cited below
It is my own fault for not seeing this was a Bennett Has-too-much-time-on-his-hand-elton story.
Probably the sticking point was:
A public agency that uses an unmanned aircraft system, or contracts for the use of an unmanned aircraft system, pursuant to this title shall first provide reasonable notice to the public. Reasonable notice shall, at a minimum, consist of a one-time announcement regarding the agency’s intent to deploy unmanned aircraft system technology and a description of the technology’s capabilities.
There's also some reasonable limitations on data captured by drones (can't be kept long) and a requirement to log who requests drone missions. If only there was some federal body that could come up with some reasonable standard for all states...
It is no surprise really. Doesn't anyone remember when there were no third-party native iOS apps?
The initial implementation of something that can take my money is handled by a single vendor on their hardware while they sort out everything? Sounds like a good plan to me.
Those of us with 6-digit IDs remember.
What I want to know is this: when did we 6-digit ID folks become the Lawn Guardians? Will no one think of the 4-digit'ers?!
I mean seriously, why would you want Mojang?
Maybe they don't want to buy it, they just want to leak a salacious story on the day some other company had big news?
I assume you missed the part about building 10 single-room buildings in a day for $5,000 each.
Well, the price is right, but people have been building modularly for a long time. Single room buildings don't really seem that challenging, especially since it is just a concrete box.
The Hilton Palacio Hotel in San Antonio was built in just 202 days, and that was 500 rooms, fully furnished, decorated and kitted (down to the bottle openers and coffee makers). And this was back in 1968.
I can't remember the last time a [major] web site or web framework was done in Perl.
Oh, I dunno, how about booking.com (about)? 'World's leading online accommodation provider' where 650K rooms a night are booked (they're owned by Priceline group, if that's a more popular brand where you live)?
A YAPC talk by one of their employees says 99% of their code is Perl. Check out their dev blog.
Ha! True (for me as well).
What's the difference between a hipster and a Perl hipster?
A hipster liked it before it was cool and doesn't now. A Perl hipster liked it when it was cool, and still does.
Perl 5.20 was just released and "represents approximately 12 months of development since Perl 5.18.0 and contains approximately 470,000 lines of changes across 2,900 files from 124 authors."
That doesn't seem to bad to me, but I'm not sure how that number of core release authors compares to other languages like Python or Ruby.
I was just going to write the same thing: if you hired someone you trust, trust that they are going to do the job well.
I like the three month transition plan given by Capt.DrumkenBum below, but I'd also like to add that you should try not to take too much pride or ownership in your existing systems. If new guy is going to change them and has good reason, be supportive, even if it feels personal. New guy has to run the ship now, let him run it the way it works, and works for him. Even if you have to say goodbye to one of your own creations and ways of doing things.
Having been there myself, it isn't always easy to go from micro to macro (or trusting someone else to handle some your old micro), but try to think of it is standing on shoulders instead of standing on toes. Now you have bigger challenges to face.
I'm sure there's a John Travlota joke about letting go to be made here...
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tuf...
Williams F1 has been working on this technology for quite awhile now. It's definitely fascinating. This video shows the technology applications.
Porsche also used the same Williams tech for their endurance 911 GT3R.
Nothing really new to see here; another instance of racing tech trickling down to production vehicles.
We need these little setbacks to take a giant leap forward, right Kent?
Paraphrasing: Dragon has junk in the trunk; we're all still ready to launch.
Proof that everyone loves a little junk in the trunk.