When they refer to it as a moving target, they probably mean that the stuff they're trying to build on top of it breaks far too often because there's too much change.
Moving target for security = good. Moving target for foundation to build on = not as good.
He didn't do shit, other than sign his name to CONGRESSIONAL appropriation bills.
CONGRESS controls spending, CONGRESS controls debt. The Executive only enacts the laws that CONGRESS passes saying what money should go where; if tax receipts don't match up with the spending that is authorized by CONGRESS, then the Executive comes up with the money the only way they can - with the debt that CONGRESS already authorized, or will authorize by raising the statutory debt ceiling, created by CONGRESS.
We wouldn't have to have Congress raise the debt ceiling, if Congress would stop authorizing spending that necessitates the creation of more debt. Let's see if we can make this a bit more simple:
1. Congress passes a binding law saying that the government WILL spend $X on $Y. 2. The Executive branch then complies with the law, spending $X on $Y. However, $X happens to be less than $Z in federal tax receipts, so $B treasury bonds need to be sold in order to comply with the law passed in step 1, where $Z + $B = $X. 3. Congress then shits themselves inside out about the debt that is being created in order to comply with THEIR OWN FUCKING LAW. 4. They then have "think tanks" and "policy institutes" go on talk radio and news shows spewing complete bullshit about "if I have to balance my checkbook, the GUBBMINT should do the same!!"
They have three options: A) raise the statutory debt ceiling so that the Executive can comply with what the Congress told them to do B) change the appropriation bills to reduce spending, eliminating the need to increase debt C) default on past debt obligations (created by past Congresses from the above procedure) and collapse the entire world economy by reducing faith in US Treasury Bonds to zero, and making it impossible for the US Treasury to get the necessary funds to meet their Congressionally-created legal obligations.
it's especially silly when the President, spending all those dump trucks of cash, is only complying with the law that Congress passed. Outside of signing the appropriations bills, the President has fuck-all to do with setting spending levels.
It's actually more severe than that - the legislative brach passes BINDING LAWS that appropriate money, and the executive branch merely complies with the laws passed.
Everyone likes to blame the President for budget deficits, but outside of asking nicely for stuff at the beginning of the process, and putting his signature on whatever comes back from Congress in the end, he / she has fuck-all to do with how it's divided up. That's how the Founders wanted it, and that's how it still is.
And what's even more funny, is that there have been numerous reporters that have brought their iPad with them to those tribes in the Amazon, or the jungles of the Congo, and they figured out how to use it in about 5 seconds with no instruction whatsoever, as they didn't speak the same language as the reporter.
Metro / Modern fails in every way except for one: it is a pretty good kiosk interface. Licensors of Windows Embedded will love it - stupidly easy to use with a touchscreen, and you can lock it up like a motherfucker using existing policy tools. For general computing though, it's a horrendous fucking mess.
What, move your mouse to the right edge until a huge gutter of icons appears, then clicking "Settings" in order to find a button to shut down / restart isn't your idea of intuitive?
Remember: this is the company that gave us "start > shut down" - you have to start before you can stop!
Why squash one competitor, when you can squash the whole field?
Yes, they could buy Netflix, and that would take care of Netflix. It does nothing about Hulu, Amazon, Google, Apple, etc.
If you buy the subscriber network, and then behave like fuckwits because the government is paralyzed and won't prevent you from being fuckwits, you fuck over all of them (and anyone else that might not be on the radar yet) in one move.
Well, Time Warner's operating costs go down, because they are now owned by the same company that owns NBC Universal. Comcast then gets to renegotiate carrier contracts with other content providers based on the combined subscriber counts, leveraging larger volume to get better pricing. Then, they get to put the screws to any content delivery service that uses their IP service by packet shaping and being general assholes, making their shitty pay-per-view service look better than the competition.
Oh, and don't forget the part where the combined entity is less than the sum of it's parts from a quality and customer service perspective - if a company is using a slightly more expensive, but slightly less shitty piece of equipment, that will be discontinued in favor of the cheaper, shittier model gained in the merge.
It's especially stupid when you consider that you aren't even using the electric company's electrons, but rather the ones already present in your house wiring. You're just paying someone to make them move around a bit.
Because scientific knowledge and discovery has NEVER EVEN ONCE resulted in better economies, new products, innovation and applied science in commercial products, or advances in the general state of manufacturing arts.
We already did that. The problems with nuclear power are problems of emotion and education, not technology. Yet it's the most opposed form of generation out there.
I don't even look at their channel guide, because the show I'm looking for will be over by the time I find it. Seriously, it shows like 5 channels at a time on a HD display, because they can't stop showing you fucking ads for their rape-per-view content; and takes 15 seconds to load the next 5 when you hit the up / down button.
TimeWarner's equipment is shit, the service is shit, the quality is shit. They only thing they had going for them is that they weren't Comcast, and now they don't even have that.
Because the Congress doesn't get to write laws concerning your local bus system, except for laws regarding safety equipment the bus must have to operate on the Federal Highway System.
Piss off your users, and they first get loud and tell you what you're doing wrong. Then, they get quiet. REAL quiet. As in, no longer visiting your site. And, for Slashdot, if people aren't visiting, then they aren't posting, they aren't submitting stories, and they aren't looking at your ads.
Slashcode, at least the last time I took a look at it, was ass-old and a complete pain to get installed on any modern Linux. It may well make for a good start point though.
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When they refer to it as a moving target, they probably mean that the stuff they're trying to build on top of it breaks far too often because there's too much change.
Moving target for security = good.
Moving target for foundation to build on = not as good.
10.8.5 isn't even effected, why would any previous version be? This is strictly an iOS 6.x, iOS 7.x and Mac OS X 10.9.x bug.
He can still apply the "full authority" given to him, it's just a meaningless, toothless amount of regulative power now.
He didn't do shit, other than sign his name to CONGRESSIONAL appropriation bills.
CONGRESS controls spending, CONGRESS controls debt. The Executive only enacts the laws that CONGRESS passes saying what money should go where; if tax receipts don't match up with the spending that is authorized by CONGRESS, then the Executive comes up with the money the only way they can - with the debt that CONGRESS already authorized, or will authorize by raising the statutory debt ceiling, created by CONGRESS.
See who's really responsible yet?
Ahh, the debt ceiling argument.
We wouldn't have to have Congress raise the debt ceiling, if Congress would stop authorizing spending that necessitates the creation of more debt. Let's see if we can make this a bit more simple:
1. Congress passes a binding law saying that the government WILL spend $X on $Y.
2. The Executive branch then complies with the law, spending $X on $Y. However, $X happens to be less than $Z in federal tax receipts, so $B treasury bonds need to be sold in order to comply with the law passed in step 1, where $Z + $B = $X.
3. Congress then shits themselves inside out about the debt that is being created in order to comply with THEIR OWN FUCKING LAW.
4. They then have "think tanks" and "policy institutes" go on talk radio and news shows spewing complete bullshit about "if I have to balance my checkbook, the GUBBMINT should do the same!!"
They have three options:
A) raise the statutory debt ceiling so that the Executive can comply with what the Congress told them to do
B) change the appropriation bills to reduce spending, eliminating the need to increase debt
C) default on past debt obligations (created by past Congresses from the above procedure) and collapse the entire world economy by reducing faith in US Treasury Bonds to zero, and making it impossible for the US Treasury to get the necessary funds to meet their Congressionally-created legal obligations.
Get it?
it's especially silly when the President, spending all those dump trucks of cash, is only complying with the law that Congress passed. Outside of signing the appropriations bills, the President has fuck-all to do with setting spending levels.
It's actually more severe than that - the legislative brach passes BINDING LAWS that appropriate money, and the executive branch merely complies with the laws passed.
Everyone likes to blame the President for budget deficits, but outside of asking nicely for stuff at the beginning of the process, and putting his signature on whatever comes back from Congress in the end, he / she has fuck-all to do with how it's divided up. That's how the Founders wanted it, and that's how it still is.
Because in the history of electronics, there has never been a way to conceal or disable an LED.
And what's even more funny, is that there have been numerous reporters that have brought their iPad with them to those tribes in the Amazon, or the jungles of the Congo, and they figured out how to use it in about 5 seconds with no instruction whatsoever, as they didn't speak the same language as the reporter.
Metro / Modern fails in every way except for one: it is a pretty good kiosk interface. Licensors of Windows Embedded will love it - stupidly easy to use with a touchscreen, and you can lock it up like a motherfucker using existing policy tools. For general computing though, it's a horrendous fucking mess.
What, move your mouse to the right edge until a huge gutter of icons appears, then clicking "Settings" in order to find a button to shut down / restart isn't your idea of intuitive?
Remember: this is the company that gave us "start > shut down" - you have to start before you can stop!
Why squash one competitor, when you can squash the whole field?
Yes, they could buy Netflix, and that would take care of Netflix. It does nothing about Hulu, Amazon, Google, Apple, etc.
If you buy the subscriber network, and then behave like fuckwits because the government is paralyzed and won't prevent you from being fuckwits, you fuck over all of them (and anyone else that might not be on the radar yet) in one move.
Well, Time Warner's operating costs go down, because they are now owned by the same company that owns NBC Universal. Comcast then gets to renegotiate carrier contracts with other content providers based on the combined subscriber counts, leveraging larger volume to get better pricing. Then, they get to put the screws to any content delivery service that uses their IP service by packet shaping and being general assholes, making their shitty pay-per-view service look better than the competition.
Oh, and don't forget the part where the combined entity is less than the sum of it's parts from a quality and customer service perspective - if a company is using a slightly more expensive, but slightly less shitty piece of equipment, that will be discontinued in favor of the cheaper, shittier model gained in the merge.
That's off the top of my head.
It's especially stupid when you consider that you aren't even using the electric company's electrons, but rather the ones already present in your house wiring. You're just paying someone to make them move around a bit.
Because scientific knowledge and discovery has NEVER EVEN ONCE resulted in better economies, new products, innovation and applied science in commercial products, or advances in the general state of manufacturing arts.
There's no better investment of government money.
Because coal is so dirty that practically ANYTHING is "clean" in comparison.
and just do what it takes to make fission...
We already did that. The problems with nuclear power are problems of emotion and education, not technology. Yet it's the most opposed form of generation out there.
You're an optimist.
When it comes to telcos and cable operators, suck is multiplicative .
I don't even look at their channel guide, because the show I'm looking for will be over by the time I find it. Seriously, it shows like 5 channels at a time on a HD display, because they can't stop showing you fucking ads for their rape-per-view content; and takes 15 seconds to load the next 5 when you hit the up / down button.
TimeWarner's equipment is shit, the service is shit, the quality is shit. They only thing they had going for them is that they weren't Comcast, and now they don't even have that.
Because the Congress doesn't get to write laws concerning your local bus system, except for laws regarding safety equipment the bus must have to operate on the Federal Highway System.
Trains, too; unless we're talking Amtrak.
Unless the design doesn't have the laser emitter also pointed forward. Stupidly simple to not have that happen.
Yes, we're here generating traffic. Today.
Piss off your users, and they first get loud and tell you what you're doing wrong. Then, they get quiet. REAL quiet. As in, no longer visiting your site. And, for Slashdot, if people aren't visiting, then they aren't posting, they aren't submitting stories, and they aren't looking at your ads.
It pains me to see that this classic Slashdot flame has been used, and nobody even recognized it.
There's more than just Beta ruining this site, unfortunately.
use strict;
my $slashdot = shift;
while($slashdot =~ /[Bb]eta/ ) {
print "Fuck Beta\n";
}
Good, then it means they are at least SEEING the feedback. Doesn't mean they'll act on it though...
Slashcode, at least the last time I took a look at it, was ass-old and a complete pain to get installed on any modern Linux. It may well make for a good start point though.