All I can think is if she's going to be remembered because of her work at NASA/or/ that she just because she was a black woman. In other words, would this video, this article, her popularity, etc etc, exist if she were not a black woman? Hmm.
Personally I would have been just as interested in the story if it were titled and about "The human computer that made the moon landing possible". Sure the black woman thing makes it more interesting to a broader audience (maybe), but as nerd (for which this site is supposed to cater to), the fact that it was a human that was used to double check a computer's computations, is interesting enough.
Well we could set up a bunch of really big mirrors to redirect all of the sunlight that would normally hit the earth around the earth, thus masking our transit shadow and making the earth invisible to any outside observers. This would totally cloak us and make us safe from future invading aliens. The only side effect I can think of is that it would be darker and colder here on earth.
Perhaps we should also ban all of the books in dark libraries? - that would be any book not found in a public library. After all there could be dangerous information in books that haven't been screened and approved for general public consumption by your local library staff.
If it takes 22 weeks to obtain replacement thyristors (or any given part) and you haven't stockpiled enough thyristors to cover the expected failures that will occur over the next 22 weeks (plus some for the unexpected failures), you have a management problem. If parts are becoming unobtainable and you haven't identified a suitable replacement part (or re-engineered the system that uses that part), you have a management problem. If the costs to keep adequate spares or perform retrofit work exceed your budget, you have a management problem. None of these issues are technical in nature, they are all signs of the people responsible for keeping the system running at the business level (management) not doing their jobs.
The company is not yet sure what information the attacker stole, but it's certain that, due to its security system, no Bitcoins were stolen and that the attacker didn't get access to personal user details (driver's licenses, IDs, passports data, etc.) or their email addresses.
One day after the attack, the company says it emailed withdrawal instructions to all sellers, that all transactions have been processed, and that only 3% of the money it stored prior to the attack has remained unclaimed.
So they found a breach, shut down everything immediately, made arrangements to refund everyone's "money", actually refunded everyone's money, and are waiting to ensure they can start back up safely.
MSSQL was a rebrand of Sybase -- in the early 90s.
Since then it has been completely rewritten. Here is a timeline. SQL Server is a seriously good product. Not just a seriously good product for Microsoft, but a seriously good product. It's SQL for when NOSQL is not enough.
I believe that ship based dead reckoning systems are physically attached to the ship and "up" for the dead reckoning system is always "up" with respect the the physical ship. Same thing for "forward" or "front" (or "fore" if you want to get all nautical). How could this work for a phone that is in some random (and changing) orientation in your pocket?
I got my replacement yesterday. It was about a half inch longer then the original. Seems like a non news event to me as well. I have the US version, perhaps other models changed; even if they did, I don't think a free replacement is much of a news event.
I propose that they offer a web site subscription for a reasonable price. The summary says that they are offering access to the site via an ad blocker for $1/week, which is $52 per year. The print subscription price is less than $25 per year and that of course includes physical printing and mailing. They are asking way too much to not view ads on their web site.
It's a rather ill conceived idea IMHO. If I were to get hit by it, I'd just tell them to arrest me. They'd spend more processing me than they'd get when I eventually paid the fine./p>
And the next time you apply for a job or have a background check, the answer to the question "Have you ever been arrested?" will be "Yes". Don't forget to consider the cost of an arrest record in your cost benefit analysis.
But it does not work the way you describe at all in regards to offline/online. Outlook simply shows you one years worth of email with this setting, period.
This is annoyingly useless for any user who even occasionally needs to look at older emails. To view older mail, you have to change the cache settings [...]
I don't experience this. When looking at the mail items in a folder (or a set of search results), you should see a link that reads "There are more items in this folder on the server Click here to to view more on Microsoft Exchange". A single click should redirect your search to the Exchange server and give you results across your entire email history. Microsoft knowledge base article describing this
Outlook isn't the fucking problem, exchange and its bastardised architecture is.
No. Outlook is also a fucking problem.
The architecture of the data stores is an ongoing cluster-fuck.
A single-file data file-based data store that's simply allowed to grow into obscene, unstable, performance destroying sizes.
More-over, if you crash one of the files, your chances of actually recovering anything is somewhere between "Pray for a miracle" and "Just start over".
When used in a corporate environment (with an Exchange server), the Outlook data store does not grow unbounded. Outlook caches a subset of your mailbox for potential offline use and the bulk of your data sits on the Exchange server. When online you can seamlessly search and access all of your past email; when offline you can access what you have cached. The Exchange server uses a fairly robust database which supports transaction logging and replication, and also has several recovery options if needed.
Legally, it doesn't matter that the emails weren't classified at the time they were sent. Classification doesn't depend on markings, classification depends on content. If you strip the classified markings from an item that doesn't mean it isn't classified anymore.
So was the content classified when the emails were originally sent, or was the content later re-categorized as classified? By "content" I mean the information conveyed by the text, not the specific text itself.
I have not idea what the answer is, but I believe it is the question that should be asked and reported on.
You are probably correct. But just in case I legally declare (as much is possible on an loosely authenticated online forum) the idea to be in the public domain and free for anyone to use. Produced by Al, anyone, or no one, the sound is gonna be stuck in my head for a while...
Somewhere in the back of my head I am hearing the song Helium Rain begin sung to the tune of Purple Rain, but after taking a bit hit on a helium balloon.
No one in their right mind should really be operating a personal email server in 2015. This is what Google Apps is for. If you earn minimum wage or above, anything you pay for Google Apps will be a lot less than the time you spent on maintaining an email server.
I disagree. True, it does cost you some time and you need certain skill sets to do it properly. You are purchasing benefits with that cost however, namely the comfort that no third party is accessing your already received and historically sent (archived) mail. In a legal discovery situation, you would know that there is legal action pending as you would have to be notified of a request to turn over old email; if your email is on someone else's server, you might never know. It may be true that for most people the cost benefit mix for running your own email server doesn't pay off, but it is not true for all people or "no one" as you say.
Is the ability to control a non-Phillips device with the Phillips control software an advertised feature? Does Phillips advertise that the control software and bulbs adhere to a published and openly licensed standard? If the answer to these questions is "no", then you probably don't have a legal complaint. I am not a lawyer, but unless you are not getting something that was promised, you likely don't have a case.
It is still a dick move, and I won't be purchasing the product.
So, to have an IOT thermostat I have to give it around 350 ma @ 5 v (over 1.5 watts) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? That's roughly 13 kWh over the space of a year.
It must be nice to design devices where someone else has to pay for the sloppy engineering.
Presumably the reason you would have an IOT thermostat instead of a regular (non-IOT) thermostat is that you want to be able to remote control it and have it collect performance data about the heating and cooling of your house. Being able to remotely turn something on when it is "off" requires it not to truly be off. 1.5 watts is not an unreasonable amount of power for this, especially if you include over time monitoring of temperature and that that the device needs to maintain a network connection. Where I live electricity costs about 11 cents per kilowatt hour, so a 1.5 watt load costs me $1.45 a year.
Good engineering is determining a plan that examines and balances the costs of various build options with a set of desired features our outcomes to arrive at an acceptable solution.
I suppose you could say that the engineering was sloppy and the load should only be about a watt bringing the annual cost down to about a dollar a year. What would the saving of that half watt cost in terms of design and manufacturing? Would the product now be too expensive to sell? Would customers even notice the reduced power consumption? Do customers care about a fifty cent operational cost annually? I would argue that extra effort to save the half watt is probably not worth it.
Setting aside the potential straw man, if the engineers who designed the thing considered the above questions then it was not sloppy engineering.
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All I can think is if she's going to be remembered because of her work at NASA /or/ that she just because she was a black woman. In other words, would this video, this article, her popularity, etc etc, exist if she were not a black woman? Hmm.
Personally I would have been just as interested in the story if it were titled and about "The human computer that made the moon landing possible". Sure the black woman thing makes it more interesting to a broader audience (maybe), but as nerd (for which this site is supposed to cater to), the fact that it was a human that was used to double check a computer's computations, is interesting enough.
Well we could set up a bunch of really big mirrors to redirect all of the sunlight that would normally hit the earth around the earth, thus masking our transit shadow and making the earth invisible to any outside observers. This would totally cloak us and make us safe from future invading aliens. The only side effect I can think of is that it would be darker and colder here on earth.
Perhaps we should also ban all of the books in dark libraries? - that would be any book not found in a public library. After all there could be dangerous information in books that haven't been screened and approved for general public consumption by your local library staff.
If the battery is too dead to unlock the car it's probably not going to start.
Yes, but it would be nice to be able to get into the car so you can open the hood so you can attach jumper cables...
If it takes 22 weeks to obtain replacement thyristors (or any given part) and you haven't stockpiled enough thyristors to cover the expected failures that will occur over the next 22 weeks (plus some for the unexpected failures), you have a management problem. If parts are becoming unobtainable and you haven't identified a suitable replacement part (or re-engineered the system that uses that part), you have a management problem. If the costs to keep adequate spares or perform retrofit work exceed your budget, you have a management problem. None of these issues are technical in nature, they are all signs of the people responsible for keeping the system running at the business level (management) not doing their jobs.
I for one welcome our rock climbing fish overlords.
The company is not yet sure what information the attacker stole, but it's certain that, due to its security system, no Bitcoins were stolen and that the attacker didn't get access to personal user details (driver's licenses, IDs, passports data, etc.) or their email addresses. One day after the attack, the company says it emailed withdrawal instructions to all sellers, that all transactions have been processed, and that only 3% of the money it stored prior to the attack has remained unclaimed.
So they found a breach, shut down everything immediately, made arrangements to refund everyone's "money", actually refunded everyone's money, and are waiting to ensure they can start back up safely.
Sounds pretty professional to me.
This would be it. This is a good example of an article that should be on slashdot.
MSSQL is a rebrand of Sybase.
MSSQL was a rebrand of Sybase -- in the early 90s.
Since then it has been completely rewritten. Here is a timeline. SQL Server is a seriously good product. Not just a seriously good product for Microsoft, but a seriously good product. It's SQL for when NOSQL is not enough.
The fire alarms routinely went off in the hospital all the time.
Perhaps this is the problem, and not that people are paying attention to the alarms.
ugh "wouldn't", as in "wouldn't it be nice if we could edit a post within a short period of time after posting".
Someone noticed, or we would be reading about it here...
Compass only works when the phone is horizontal.
I believe that ship based dead reckoning systems are physically attached to the ship and "up" for the dead reckoning system is always "up" with respect the the physical ship. Same thing for "forward" or "front" (or "fore" if you want to get all nautical). How could this work for a phone that is in some random (and changing) orientation in your pocket?
I got my replacement yesterday. It was about a half inch longer then the original. Seems like a non news event to me as well. I have the US version, perhaps other models changed; even if they did, I don't think a free replacement is much of a news event.
I propose that they offer a web site subscription for a reasonable price. The summary says that they are offering access to the site via an ad blocker for $1/week, which is $52 per year. The print subscription price is less than $25 per year and that of course includes physical printing and mailing. They are asking way too much to not view ads on their web site.
It's a rather ill conceived idea IMHO. If I were to get hit by it, I'd just tell them to arrest me. They'd spend more processing me than they'd get when I eventually paid the fine. /p>
And the next time you apply for a job or have a background check, the answer to the question "Have you ever been arrested?" will be "Yes". Don't forget to consider the cost of an arrest record in your cost benefit analysis.
But it does not work the way you describe at all in regards to offline/online. Outlook simply shows you one years worth of email with this setting, period.
This is annoyingly useless for any user who even occasionally needs to look at older emails. To view older mail, you have to change the cache settings [...]
I don't experience this. When looking at the mail items in a folder (or a set of search results), you should see a link that reads "There are more items in this folder on the server Click here to to view more on Microsoft Exchange". A single click should redirect your search to the Exchange server and give you results across your entire email history. Microsoft knowledge base article describing this
Outlook isn't the fucking problem, exchange and its bastardised architecture is.
No. Outlook is also a fucking problem.
The architecture of the data stores is an ongoing cluster-fuck. A single-file data file-based data store that's simply allowed to grow into obscene, unstable, performance destroying sizes. More-over, if you crash one of the files, your chances of actually recovering anything is somewhere between "Pray for a miracle" and "Just start over".
When used in a corporate environment (with an Exchange server), the Outlook data store does not grow unbounded. Outlook caches a subset of your mailbox for potential offline use and the bulk of your data sits on the Exchange server. When online you can seamlessly search and access all of your past email; when offline you can access what you have cached. The Exchange server uses a fairly robust database which supports transaction logging and replication, and also has several recovery options if needed.
Legally, it doesn't matter that the emails weren't classified at the time they were sent. Classification doesn't depend on markings, classification depends on content. If you strip the classified markings from an item that doesn't mean it isn't classified anymore.
So was the content classified when the emails were originally sent, or was the content later re-categorized as classified? By "content" I mean the information conveyed by the text, not the specific text itself.
I have not idea what the answer is, but I believe it is the question that should be asked and reported on.
You are probably correct. But just in case I legally declare (as much is possible on an loosely authenticated online forum) the idea to be in the public domain and free for anyone to use. Produced by Al, anyone, or no one, the sound is gonna be stuck in my head for a while...
Somewhere in the back of my head I am hearing the song Helium Rain begin sung to the tune of Purple Rain, but after taking a bit hit on a helium balloon.
No one in their right mind should really be operating a personal email server in 2015. This is what Google Apps is for. If you earn minimum wage or above, anything you pay for Google Apps will be a lot less than the time you spent on maintaining an email server.
I disagree. True, it does cost you some time and you need certain skill sets to do it properly. You are purchasing benefits with that cost however, namely the comfort that no third party is accessing your already received and historically sent (archived) mail. In a legal discovery situation, you would know that there is legal action pending as you would have to be notified of a request to turn over old email; if your email is on someone else's server, you might never know. It may be true that for most people the cost benefit mix for running your own email server doesn't pay off, but it is not true for all people or "no one" as you say.
Is the ability to control a non-Phillips device with the Phillips control software an advertised feature? Does Phillips advertise that the control software and bulbs adhere to a published and openly licensed standard? If the answer to these questions is "no", then you probably don't have a legal complaint. I am not a lawyer, but unless you are not getting something that was promised, you likely don't have a case. It is still a dick move, and I won't be purchasing the product.
So, to have an IOT thermostat I have to give it around 350 ma @ 5 v (over 1.5 watts) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? That's roughly 13 kWh over the space of a year.
It must be nice to design devices where someone else has to pay for the sloppy engineering.
Presumably the reason you would have an IOT thermostat instead of a regular (non-IOT) thermostat is that you want to be able to remote control it and have it collect performance data about the heating and cooling of your house. Being able to remotely turn something on when it is "off" requires it not to truly be off. 1.5 watts is not an unreasonable amount of power for this, especially if you include over time monitoring of temperature and that that the device needs to maintain a network connection. Where I live electricity costs about 11 cents per kilowatt hour, so a 1.5 watt load costs me $1.45 a year.
Good engineering is determining a plan that examines and balances the costs of various build options with a set of desired features our outcomes to arrive at an acceptable solution.
I suppose you could say that the engineering was sloppy and the load should only be about a watt bringing the annual cost down to about a dollar a year. What would the saving of that half watt cost in terms of design and manufacturing? Would the product now be too expensive to sell? Would customers even notice the reduced power consumption? Do customers care about a fifty cent operational cost annually? I would argue that extra effort to save the half watt is probably not worth it.
Setting aside the potential straw man, if the engineers who designed the thing considered the above questions then it was not sloppy engineering.