At this year's illegal immigrant influx, a group of illegal immigrants aged unknown participated in maybe? 13 elections. One illegal immigrant changed the voting results. A 11 year-old-girl was also able to change the voting results. Overall, illegals voted, and you can't prove otherwise.
This is exactly as true as the original shit/. story.
I grew up in a time when knowing something about computer cases meant something. Machine tooling was expensive, so knowing the difference between one case that had been designed by a machining efficiency expert and another that had been designed by a wizened system builder was worth a 100-150% markup. Cheap cases were notable for having a layout where the motherboard was screwed down so far from the 5 1/4" bays that your leads from your cheap power supply wouldn't reach your floppy drive.
Computer cases have since become some kind of wealth signal for the PC builder prosperity gospelists. If you accept the desktop PC into your heart, you too can have an RGB-LED double aluminum liquid-cooled heaven right now on your fold-out table.
Incontrovertible fact #1: all PRs hide the chewy center. The default of a large account added greatly to the problem is the chewy center. Every business is accountable to its shareholders. If CaseLabs went out of business because they lost a primary account, they will definitely blame anything but that fact. That's why they are pointing to tariffs, which they have no control over, as a primary cause, rather than the possibility that they have been price raping a major client, who may have hired somebody who said "why the f-ck are you buying $400 cases?".
Incontrovertible fact #2: US companies that arbitrage Chinese trade markets are rent-seekers. They could employ 1,000 minimum wage+ employees, but they are not what you'd call "domestic industry". China knows quite well what industry looks like. That's why everything is built in China.
Incontrovertible fact #3: In the modern world, a Chinese child laborer who hand-solders an Arduino board has more skills than a union worker who ensures the "Made in the USA" sticker was applied correctly. If you're a producer, and you have no control over your production chain, you're a marketer.
Currently running El Capitan, and thought about upgrading to Sierra. These are the highlights of Sierra according to the App Store:
1. Siri everywhere! No thanks. It's helpful to turn speech-to-text when I'm driving two tons of car. If I'm at a computer, I have a keyboard. Don't get me wrong, good speech-to-text (and in reverse) is awesome when it helps somebody. But as an ordinary able-bodied computer user, I don't trust any corporation that is recording everything you say to their device.
2. Copy/Paste Everywhere! No thanks. Because current security requirements involve passwords that look like line noise, I'm leery of any changes to copy/paste that means my root password may live on forever in some corner of iCloud.
3. Auto login with your Apple Watch! Great, now the thief who steals my computer will also lop off my hand to steal my watch.
4. Apple Pay! Pass.
5. Access your desktop files from your phone! Great, now the thief doesn't have to sever my hand, he can just cold-cock me while I'm talking on the phone and get access to everything. Maybe Apple was smart enough to limit desktop file access with Touch ID? Great. Now we're back to hand-lopping.
6. Tabs in Apps! Eh. Tabs can be great. Tabs can be awful. Tabs are many things, but they are not a marquee feature.
7. Picture in Picture! Auto-play videos on Web sites are a pox on the Internet. Bringing this putrid idea to the desktop is a mortal sin, and Apple should be ashamed of it. And if you're one of those people who say "but I want to watch my Sportsball team play while I'm doing my Paywork!" you are a terrible person and you should be watching the Big Game at the Sportspark or at a Sportsbar. Watching it on your computer while you pretend to do Paywork makes you a tool.
8. Photos library! As a technically minded user of Apple products for many years, having lived through spotty transitions between iPhoto, Aperture and Photos, I don't trust Apple to curate my photo library at all. Instagram is better. Stop pretending to be a friend to artists, or stop breaking things.
9. Apple Musi--(dramatic record scratch) Hold on now. I'd happily pay $10/month for unlimited access to all music forever, especially if that means that every time I play a song from some Danish screamo band they get a cut. My problem is that I can't help but assume that the Danish screamo band gets 2/3rds of a cut, and Apple gets the other third. I'm pretty sure Apple isn't sharing whatever revenue they acquire from mining our music habits, so this is all around a bad deal.
10. Bling in iMessage conversations! I text people on Android devices often. Asi no se puede. Otherwise, bling is fun! However, I'm not using iMessage on my computer. So I don't care about emojis or fireworks.
Anyway, I assume High Sierra is a more stable version of things I don't care about? Hard pass.
Densely populated cities rely quite a bit on automation, facilitated by modern communication networks. Urban areas have a high population density. They are designated critical because they have more people per square mile than Billings, Montana.
If you live in NYC or LA, please explain why Billings, MT should care if you drown in your own sewage because your WiFi is down.
There is literally no way you can communicate with another person where you can be assured that your communication is not monitored.
Even face-to-face communication in code is compromised, if the other party is compromised.
Cell phones only work by collecting a lot of data about the caller and the caller's recipient.
If CBS is only now figuring out that D.C. is a hotbed of cell data leakage, they are fantastically bad at their jobs.
Quark used to be the benchmark for page layout. Not many people really liked it, but everybody used it. Competitors came and went. Adobe's InDesign was the first to make a significant splash.
Then Quark sat around on its ass while users were moving to OSX. It took far too long for them to properly support it. In the meantime, InDesign made significant in-roads in the market. It helped a lot that InDesign worked very well with Photoshop and Illustrator (natch). Quark has never been super-responsive to their customers, because there wasn't really a need. They owned the market so thoroughly for so many years.
Quark survives today because there are a number of companies who went full in on a Quark workflow. They have custom and/or expensive XTensions that are used extensively as part of their core operations. Newspapers, for example: to do ad placement, dumping classifieds from whatever gimcrack system they use, etc. Quark has improved quite a bit recently, but they lost a lot of ground. They completely lost the battle at the education level. Graphic design classes teach Adobe products for the most part. Adobe has historically been a lot easier to work with with educational pricing than Quark.
On the other hand, the local auto mechanic probably has a dozen wrenches and a parts truck that comes around every other day that can bring a new one in for nearly zero overhead. So she might be willing to accept a higher failure rate.
Using male gendered pronouns for overwhelmingly male-dominated professions isn't sexism. If you threw a rock into a crowd, you'd hit more male teachers than female mechanics. It's okay to assume a mechanic is a "he" and a teacher is a "she".
Or, alternately, go whole hog. Instead of someone working in aerospace or other sensitive area, say a woman working in aerospace or other sensitive area.
Your last paragraph suggests that your pronoun gendering may have been intentional and part of a larger issue you wished to promote. If so, bravo! I award you one Internet point for being aggressively subtle.
This is one of those things that SXSW doesn't want to burn a lot of calories on trying to wrangle. SXSW is still mostly focussed on music and movies. Nerds fighting over video game politics are not in the wheelhouse.
Put another way, you go to SXSW to have a great time. You do not go there because you want to fight over ideology. Nobody from the alt-rock music scene is making angry Tweets because the alt-country guys have a venue, nor vice versa. As far as SXSW is concerned, both factions are music fans who might find common ground, but otherwise are not interested in open warfare.
Activists on games, they're not so chill. (They'll become chill, after gaming has passed through the "Fonzie Barrier," where rebellion and fear mellow and become folksy humor.)
TL;DR: SXSW isn't interested in burning resources on your gay slapfight over who's right on the Internet.
The funny (tragic) part is that the kind of people who tend to be strongly pro-gun, also tend to be strong against social programs that could prevent a great deal of the violence typically associated with guns.
Ain't that the truth...
It's not really the truth. If you doubt it, go to the neighborhoods in your city most thoroughly covered by "social programs."
I wouldn't go there unarmed, but that's up to you.
All of those violent neighborhoods would benefit from more of the law-abiding residents being armed to the teeth. The old saying goes "an armed society is a polite society," as nothing deters assholery so much as the sudden onset of room temperature-ness.
This obviously isn't ideal, but let's not lose sight of the important things, like Network Neutrality. We need a strong and powerful government to make sure the Internet is not metered by corporate interests. Only the FCC can prevent AT&T and Comcast from abusing their power.
The last meaningful America's Cup races were held in the late '80s. Somebody squinted hard enough at the 12-meter rules and entered a multi-hull. Now it's just a matter of who spends the most money on a carbon fiber boat with a wing sail. This is a sailing race of fundamentally unseaworthy vessels. It would be literally be safer to cross an ocean in a dinghy than in one of these monstrosities.
Come September, do yourself a favor. Watch Deep Water on Netflix. Read any book on Ernest Shackleton. Read any Lin and Larry Pardey book. You'll finish all three before the America's Cup race is over, and you'll know more about sailing than watching every second of the America's Cup races.
I have a late 2008 15" MBP on Mountain Lion. It's fine.
Upgrade to the maximum RAM you are capable of. (A good practice at all times.) Mavericks will be a different beast, and it's well worth waiting to see on a 5+ year old machine, but you're probably fine.
It's actually fairly common for construction projects to run into changes. While nobody requests to turn a shed into a skyscraper, large changes that touch many disciplines occur quite regularly.
The difference between AEC and programming projects is a long history and legal framework that deals with these changes. Projects are given a budget, and that budget is often paid out at milestones--design development, 95%, construction documents, etc. If the owner requests a substantial change, or if a change is required because of unknowable circumstances, the budget is either revised or the work is value-engineered to fit--and this reality is reflected in the contract signed at the beginning.
The problem with programming projects is that there are not very many really good programmers, and programming is not suited to throwing more warm bodies at the problem. AEC is plate spinning, while programming is juggling. You can hire a bunch of folks to help keep the plates spinning, but you can't just send in somebody to help juggle.
If you don't like the 2nd Amendment, perhaps we can interest you in gutting the 1st Amendment?
Come come, now, we can all agree that those evil GUNS and evil VIDEO GAMES are ultimately culpable. Let's all come together and blame things that we don't like.
Auto-documentation is good stuff nowadays. Everything changes so much, and so quickly, that enforced documentation standards lead to better understanding of the underlying API or intent.
(As an example, why is PHP so popular? It's not because it's beautiful, or elegant. It is, however, very accessible, largely due to good documentation.)
Good comments--that are not prescriptive for whatever autodoc tool you use--are invaluable, but bad or marginal ones do more harm than good, especially in interpreted languages. You can condense 4 lines of comments into a 22-character, well-constructed function call/local variable and accomplish the same goal.
For extra points you could probably modify the registration process in all kinds of manners which would confound an automated and replay attacks. Chances are that for the average forum it would be sufficient that no script would even bother to defeat it and would simply move onto softer targets.
This is the answer, more or less. For small-to-middling forums, reducing spam is pretty easy. A few volunteers to delete the ones that get through suffices for the rest.
It breaks down to 1) keep out easy drive-by spammers, which means registration with a valid email address and some kind of barrier to detour the smarter bots (ReCaptcha and the like); 2) filter posts through Akismet or similar method; 3) have a community large enough and engaged enough to want to zero out spam posts.
The third step is the hardest, and has nothing to do with spam posts.
I doubt that most of the "scalped" tickets are actually sold by scalpers. Most are probably sold by friends and employees of the event and/or venue.
Think about it--before tickets go on sale, roadies and janitors get a chance to buy premium seats at face value, maybe even with an employee discount. The performers don't care, the venue doesn't have to pay employment taxes on this unofficial employee benefit, and the employee gets some extra cash.
It's the perfect computer for a significant chunk of the population. Email, Web, photos, videos. Takes up little space, and doesn't need to have a nerd peer up its asshole every 6 months looking for malware cancer.
Having a way for people with simple needs to get quick medical attention and out of the waiting rooms so that people who do NOT have simple needs is a good idea.
It doesn't matter if the good idea comes from a source you think is compromised. The good idea stands on its own merits.
This is like the self-checkout line at grocery stores. I say they should go for it.
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This is exactly as true as the original shit /. story.
I grew up in a time when knowing something about computer cases meant something. Machine tooling was expensive, so knowing the difference between one case that had been designed by a machining efficiency expert and another that had been designed by a wizened system builder was worth a 100-150% markup. Cheap cases were notable for having a layout where the motherboard was screwed down so far from the 5 1/4" bays that your leads from your cheap power supply wouldn't reach your floppy drive.
Computer cases have since become some kind of wealth signal for the PC builder prosperity gospelists. If you accept the desktop PC into your heart, you too can have an RGB-LED double aluminum liquid-cooled heaven right now on your fold-out table.
Incontrovertible fact #1: all PRs hide the chewy center. The default of a large account added greatly to the problem is the chewy center. Every business is accountable to its shareholders. If CaseLabs went out of business because they lost a primary account, they will definitely blame anything but that fact. That's why they are pointing to tariffs, which they have no control over, as a primary cause, rather than the possibility that they have been price raping a major client, who may have hired somebody who said "why the f-ck are you buying $400 cases?".
Incontrovertible fact #2: US companies that arbitrage Chinese trade markets are rent-seekers. They could employ 1,000 minimum wage+ employees, but they are not what you'd call "domestic industry". China knows quite well what industry looks like. That's why everything is built in China.
Incontrovertible fact #3: In the modern world, a Chinese child laborer who hand-solders an Arduino board has more skills than a union worker who ensures the "Made in the USA" sticker was applied correctly. If you're a producer, and you have no control over your production chain, you're a marketer.
Currently running El Capitan, and thought about upgrading to Sierra. These are the highlights of Sierra according to the App Store:
1. Siri everywhere! No thanks. It's helpful to turn speech-to-text when I'm driving two tons of car. If I'm at a computer, I have a keyboard. Don't get me wrong, good speech-to-text (and in reverse) is awesome when it helps somebody. But as an ordinary able-bodied computer user, I don't trust any corporation that is recording everything you say to their device.
2. Copy/Paste Everywhere! No thanks. Because current security requirements involve passwords that look like line noise, I'm leery of any changes to copy/paste that means my root password may live on forever in some corner of iCloud.
3. Auto login with your Apple Watch! Great, now the thief who steals my computer will also lop off my hand to steal my watch.
4. Apple Pay! Pass.
5. Access your desktop files from your phone! Great, now the thief doesn't have to sever my hand, he can just cold-cock me while I'm talking on the phone and get access to everything. Maybe Apple was smart enough to limit desktop file access with Touch ID? Great. Now we're back to hand-lopping.
6. Tabs in Apps! Eh. Tabs can be great. Tabs can be awful. Tabs are many things, but they are not a marquee feature.
7. Picture in Picture! Auto-play videos on Web sites are a pox on the Internet. Bringing this putrid idea to the desktop is a mortal sin, and Apple should be ashamed of it. And if you're one of those people who say "but I want to watch my Sportsball team play while I'm doing my Paywork!" you are a terrible person and you should be watching the Big Game at the Sportspark or at a Sportsbar. Watching it on your computer while you pretend to do Paywork makes you a tool.
8. Photos library! As a technically minded user of Apple products for many years, having lived through spotty transitions between iPhoto, Aperture and Photos, I don't trust Apple to curate my photo library at all. Instagram is better. Stop pretending to be a friend to artists, or stop breaking things.
9. Apple Musi--(dramatic record scratch) Hold on now. I'd happily pay $10/month for unlimited access to all music forever, especially if that means that every time I play a song from some Danish screamo band they get a cut. My problem is that I can't help but assume that the Danish screamo band gets 2/3rds of a cut, and Apple gets the other third. I'm pretty sure Apple isn't sharing whatever revenue they acquire from mining our music habits, so this is all around a bad deal.
10. Bling in iMessage conversations! I text people on Android devices often. Asi no se puede. Otherwise, bling is fun! However, I'm not using iMessage on my computer. So I don't care about emojis or fireworks. Anyway, I assume High Sierra is a more stable version of things I don't care about? Hard pass.
That is hilariously untrue, unless you think you can eat money.
In this case, "critical" means "urban."
Densely populated cities rely quite a bit on automation, facilitated by modern communication networks. Urban areas have a high population density. They are designated critical because they have more people per square mile than Billings, Montana.
If you live in NYC or LA, please explain why Billings, MT should care if you drown in your own sewage because your WiFi is down.
There is literally no way you can communicate with another person where you can be assured that your communication is not monitored. Even face-to-face communication in code is compromised, if the other party is compromised. Cell phones only work by collecting a lot of data about the caller and the caller's recipient. If CBS is only now figuring out that D.C. is a hotbed of cell data leakage, they are fantastically bad at their jobs.
As my grandmother used to say, "if you can't stand to be by yourself, you probably bore other people too." She lived to be 103.
Quark used to be the benchmark for page layout. Not many people really liked it, but everybody used it. Competitors came and went. Adobe's InDesign was the first to make a significant splash.
Then Quark sat around on its ass while users were moving to OSX. It took far too long for them to properly support it. In the meantime, InDesign made significant in-roads in the market. It helped a lot that InDesign worked very well with Photoshop and Illustrator (natch). Quark has never been super-responsive to their customers, because there wasn't really a need. They owned the market so thoroughly for so many years.
Quark survives today because there are a number of companies who went full in on a Quark workflow. They have custom and/or expensive XTensions that are used extensively as part of their core operations. Newspapers, for example: to do ad placement, dumping classifieds from whatever gimcrack system they use, etc. Quark has improved quite a bit recently, but they lost a lot of ground. They completely lost the battle at the education level. Graphic design classes teach Adobe products for the most part. Adobe has historically been a lot easier to work with with educational pricing than Quark.
On the other hand, the local auto mechanic probably has a dozen wrenches and a parts truck that comes around every other day that can bring a new one in for nearly zero overhead. So she might be willing to accept a higher failure rate.
Using male gendered pronouns for overwhelmingly male-dominated professions isn't sexism. If you threw a rock into a crowd, you'd hit more male teachers than female mechanics. It's okay to assume a mechanic is a "he" and a teacher is a "she".
Or, alternately, go whole hog. Instead of someone working in aerospace or other sensitive area, say a woman working in aerospace or other sensitive area.
Your last paragraph suggests that your pronoun gendering may have been intentional and part of a larger issue you wished to promote. If so, bravo! I award you one Internet point for being aggressively subtle.
This is one of those things that SXSW doesn't want to burn a lot of calories on trying to wrangle. SXSW is still mostly focussed on music and movies. Nerds fighting over video game politics are not in the wheelhouse.
Put another way, you go to SXSW to have a great time. You do not go there because you want to fight over ideology. Nobody from the alt-rock music scene is making angry Tweets because the alt-country guys have a venue, nor vice versa. As far as SXSW is concerned, both factions are music fans who might find common ground, but otherwise are not interested in open warfare.
Activists on games, they're not so chill. (They'll become chill, after gaming has passed through the "Fonzie Barrier," where rebellion and fear mellow and become folksy humor.)
TL;DR: SXSW isn't interested in burning resources on your gay slapfight over who's right on the Internet.
The funny (tragic) part is that the kind of people who tend to be strongly pro-gun, also tend to be strong against social programs that could prevent a great deal of the violence typically associated with guns.
Ain't that the truth...
It's not really the truth. If you doubt it, go to the neighborhoods in your city most thoroughly covered by "social programs."
I wouldn't go there unarmed, but that's up to you.
All of those violent neighborhoods would benefit from more of the law-abiding residents being armed to the teeth. The old saying goes "an armed society is a polite society," as nothing deters assholery so much as the sudden onset of room temperature-ness.
This obviously isn't ideal, but let's not lose sight of the important things, like Network Neutrality. We need a strong and powerful government to make sure the Internet is not metered by corporate interests. Only the FCC can prevent AT&T and Comcast from abusing their power.
The last meaningful America's Cup races were held in the late '80s. Somebody squinted hard enough at the 12-meter rules and entered a multi-hull. Now it's just a matter of who spends the most money on a carbon fiber boat with a wing sail. This is a sailing race of fundamentally unseaworthy vessels. It would be literally be safer to cross an ocean in a dinghy than in one of these monstrosities.
Come September, do yourself a favor. Watch Deep Water on Netflix. Read any book on Ernest Shackleton. Read any Lin and Larry Pardey book. You'll finish all three before the America's Cup race is over, and you'll know more about sailing than watching every second of the America's Cup races.
I have a late 2008 15" MBP on Mountain Lion. It's fine.
Upgrade to the maximum RAM you are capable of. (A good practice at all times.) Mavericks will be a different beast, and it's well worth waiting to see on a 5+ year old machine, but you're probably fine.
It's actually fairly common for construction projects to run into changes. While nobody requests to turn a shed into a skyscraper, large changes that touch many disciplines occur quite regularly.
The difference between AEC and programming projects is a long history and legal framework that deals with these changes. Projects are given a budget, and that budget is often paid out at milestones--design development, 95%, construction documents, etc. If the owner requests a substantial change, or if a change is required because of unknowable circumstances, the budget is either revised or the work is value-engineered to fit--and this reality is reflected in the contract signed at the beginning.
The problem with programming projects is that there are not very many really good programmers, and programming is not suited to throwing more warm bodies at the problem. AEC is plate spinning, while programming is juggling. You can hire a bunch of folks to help keep the plates spinning, but you can't just send in somebody to help juggle.
If you don't like the 2nd Amendment, perhaps we can interest you in gutting the 1st Amendment?
Come come, now, we can all agree that those evil GUNS and evil VIDEO GAMES are ultimately culpable. Let's all come together and blame things that we don't like.
'Merica.
Auto-documentation is good stuff nowadays. Everything changes so much, and so quickly, that enforced documentation standards lead to better understanding of the underlying API or intent.
(As an example, why is PHP so popular? It's not because it's beautiful, or elegant. It is, however, very accessible, largely due to good documentation.)
Good comments--that are not prescriptive for whatever autodoc tool you use--are invaluable, but bad or marginal ones do more harm than good, especially in interpreted languages. You can condense 4 lines of comments into a 22-character, well-constructed function call/local variable and accomplish the same goal.
For extra points you could probably modify the registration process in all kinds of manners which would confound an automated and replay attacks. Chances are that for the average forum it would be sufficient that no script would even bother to defeat it and would simply move onto softer targets.
This is the answer, more or less. For small-to-middling forums, reducing spam is pretty easy. A few volunteers to delete the ones that get through suffices for the rest.
It breaks down to 1) keep out easy drive-by spammers, which means registration with a valid email address and some kind of barrier to detour the smarter bots (ReCaptcha and the like); 2) filter posts through Akismet or similar method; 3) have a community large enough and engaged enough to want to zero out spam posts.
The third step is the hardest, and has nothing to do with spam posts.
It's a wonderful technological breakthrough that will thrill about two dozen people. This is a great story for 2003.
What he said. Cheers, mate.
And with Net Neutrality, if you don't get good government-regulated service... what?
Or are you pretty confident that the FCC will handle regulating the Internet as well as they do, say, terrestrial radio and broadcast TV?
Yeah, because Rails is being used everywhere.
I doubt that most of the "scalped" tickets are actually sold by scalpers. Most are probably sold by friends and employees of the event and/or venue.
Think about it--before tickets go on sale, roadies and janitors get a chance to buy premium seats at face value, maybe even with an employee discount. The performers don't care, the venue doesn't have to pay employment taxes on this unofficial employee benefit, and the employee gets some extra cash.
This.
It's the perfect computer for a significant chunk of the population. Email, Web, photos, videos. Takes up little space, and doesn't need to have a nerd peer up its asshole every 6 months looking for malware cancer.
Having a way for people with simple needs to get quick medical attention and out of the waiting rooms so that people who do NOT have simple needs is a good idea.
It doesn't matter if the good idea comes from a source you think is compromised. The good idea stands on its own merits.
This is like the self-checkout line at grocery stores. I say they should go for it.