You forgot to yell at everyone to get off your lawn.
My older (now adult) kids paid for their own airtime (pay-as-you-go phones). Once they're socially self-propelled, it's good to be able to track them down if you need them.
And even if they're skint and out of airtime, the phone will work for 911 in an emergency, so I feel ok about that.
Now, the younger kids... they're preschoolers, so the only cells they get are the little plastic ones with the push buttons that make "boop-boop" noises and blinky lights. Kinda like a cheap AT&T phone except with better coverage.
Back on topic, social networking sites... I always warned the younguns to very carefully read and consider the terms of the software before installing it on their Myface or whatever page. Read those licenses in the most paranoid light possible ("What are these guys trying to put over on me"), because at least once, it'll be justified.
The same reason that GM made and sold compacts and even when they wanted everyone to buy uber SUVs: if you won't buy the soccer-mom-battleship, maybe you'll buy their smaller vehicle.
Even Oracle (in its dark, festering, inner heart-of-hearts) realizes that not every DBMS installation needs Oracle 13qq UnrealMegaApplicationHyperClustering (tm). MySQL is the foot in the door. If you'll buy the GM compact car now, it's more likely you'll buy the GM RoadWhale later when you become a fat exurban bourgeois poseur (like me). It's the American Way(tm)!
I've been rightfully accused of highfalutin', but this was pretty impressive. On principles, I don't normally recommend writing to the third-grade level, but there is such a thing as too smart.
The question as to why will imply that they will take action at certain points. It does not mean that I change the numbers, it means that I have some insight in what they want.
The phrase I hear a lot is "actionable decision-quality information." If the executive has to ask "what does this mean to me and the company", you're presenting too much raw data. It's not filtered enough, cooked down and crystallized. Really, if you understand something of the business goals the execs are working towards, you'll know you've distilled the technical data enough if you feel like you can make the business decision with that data.
The only executive who would be meaningfully impressed with technical metrics would probably be in your direct up-chain (e.g., CTO), so tailor those metrics towards their concerns. Things like performance measures that allow you to spot trends ("Is it me, or do those new servers crash more often?") and predict future necessary action ("Are we nibbling into our system resource reserve? Time to budget for upgrades.").
Outside of geek-ville, measure stuff which translates into business terms. Compute uptimes and responsiveness and scale transaction measurements against sales, or eyeballs, or whatever your company is really about.
It is not just you, the headline is really bad. However, this is a good time to point out that McCartny and EMI are shooting themselves in the foot by not making the Beatles catalog available online.
I think I follow you. Let me try to rephrase it with an analogy (which, in approved Slashdot manner, contains at least some car content.)
General Motors sues the Trilateral Commission for infringing on its patent for liquid evil. The Trilateral Commission responds with a novel Intellectual Property Chewbacca defense. The court, presided over by Cardinal Fang, grants General Motors a preliminary injunction forcing the Trilateral Commission to stop making or selling liquid evil.
And the moral of this story is that kdawson...hates...SAUERKRAUT!
I thought about that too. All those press references to "1970s" and "Carter-era". But these are the same geniuses in the Fourth Estate who called the thing a "mainframe", so their ignorance is manifest.
I apply the BS test here. If anyone tells me they have a Nova (even a late-model Nova 4) controlling all the traffic lights of an entire metropolitan county adjacent to the District of Columbia, will I cry shenanigans? In this case, yes. I've worked with Novas, PDP-11s, and Perkin-Elmer 16-bit minis. I'm familiar with their capabilities. You would have to be coder of absolute godly skill to write the realtime control software to safely manage dozens (scores? hundreds?) of street lights in only 64Kbytes of core (or RAM, whatever).
Whereas the most primitive Eclipse would have ample horsepower to do the trick.
So I still say Eclipse. Certainly, the comparative newness of the Eclipse over the Nova doesn't help the parts situation at all, because they're both dead as a doornail, support-wise. EMC end-of-lifed the last and greatest Data General line, AViiON, nearly a year ago.
True. Since turning off traffic lights also suspends the Pauli Exclusion Principle, vehicles can zip right through each other in the intersection without interacting all. Brilliant!
And this just proves that traffic signals are just a conspiracy to get red-light-runner ticket money into corrupt local government budget coffers.
You are absolutely right. TFA (the Register article originally cited) has an obscure link at the bottom of the page which points to the CVE-based page at RedHat.
Which, happily, brings us full-circle to the original point: if people explicitly and clearly used the CVE identifier (instead of burying them in an obscure link), there wouldn't be any confusion about which Intel page 0 mmap exploit we're talking about. (And there seem to be a lot of them all of a sudden.)
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Bernie might want to disagree.
(Though his money allowed him to get away with it a damn long time, eventually it didn't work.)
You forgot to yell at everyone to get off your lawn.
My older (now adult) kids paid for their own airtime (pay-as-you-go phones). Once they're socially self-propelled, it's good to be able to track them down if you need them.
And even if they're skint and out of airtime, the phone will work for 911 in an emergency, so I feel ok about that.
Now, the younger kids... they're preschoolers, so the only cells they get are the little plastic ones with the push buttons that make "boop-boop" noises and blinky lights. Kinda like a cheap AT&T phone except with better coverage.
Back on topic, social networking sites... I always warned the younguns to very carefully read and consider the terms of the software before installing it on their Myface or whatever page. Read those licenses in the most paranoid light possible ("What are these guys trying to put over on me"), because at least once, it'll be justified.
It's worked so far.
I hope that, at the very least, someone sent MULTICS a very nice "I'm sorry I forgot your birthday" card. Something cute, perhaps with sad puppies.
OTOH, MULTICS is 40. I know I wanted everyone to forget my 40th birthday.
Car analogy warning!
The same reason that GM made and sold compacts and even when they wanted everyone to buy uber SUVs: if you won't buy the soccer-mom-battleship, maybe you'll buy their smaller vehicle.
Even Oracle (in its dark, festering, inner heart-of-hearts) realizes that not every DBMS installation needs Oracle 13qq UnrealMegaApplicationHyperClustering (tm). MySQL is the foot in the door. If you'll buy the GM compact car now, it's more likely you'll buy the GM RoadWhale later when you become a fat exurban bourgeois poseur (like me). It's the American Way(tm)!
Truly a great America. No, wait, was he?
Never mind, I won't believe it until Netcraft confirms it.
"put paid to"
"canard" (see def 1b)
I've been rightfully accused of highfalutin', but this was pretty impressive. On principles, I don't normally recommend writing to the third-grade level, but there is such a thing as too smart.
The question as to why will imply that they will take action at certain points. It does not mean that I change the numbers, it means that I have some insight in what they want.
The phrase I hear a lot is "actionable decision-quality information." If the executive has to ask "what does this mean to me and the company", you're presenting too much raw data. It's not filtered enough, cooked down and crystallized. Really, if you understand something of the business goals the execs are working towards, you'll know you've distilled the technical data enough if you feel like you can make the business decision with that data.
The only executive who would be meaningfully impressed with technical metrics would probably be in your direct up-chain (e.g., CTO), so tailor those metrics towards their concerns. Things like performance measures that allow you to spot trends ("Is it me, or do those new servers crash more often?") and predict future necessary action ("Are we nibbling into our system resource reserve? Time to budget for upgrades.").
Outside of geek-ville, measure stuff which translates into business terms. Compute uptimes and responsiveness and scale transaction measurements against sales, or eyeballs, or whatever your company is really about.
That's proof that Google understands the distinction between fact and fiction (let alone blatant impossibility).
(No, not World of Warcraft.)
I just tried the little experiment in TFA with the phrase "What are..."
Google's #1 suggestion: "...these strawberries doing on my nipples I need them for the fruit salad"
I boggle. I boggle at google.
There's an amazing untold story there. I hope it stays that way.
"How is babby formed?"
Sheesh. This might just be summarized "So, if he weighs as much as a duck, he is made of wood, and therefore.... a TERRORIST!"
It's not just security theater, it's security musical comic theater.
"We've upped our 3G network coverage! So up yours!"
It is not just you, the headline is really bad. However, this is a good time to point out that McCartny and EMI are shooting themselves in the foot by not making the Beatles catalog available online.
I think I follow you. Let me try to rephrase it with an analogy (which, in approved Slashdot manner, contains at least some car content.)
I suspect it's a backhanded conspiracy to make us stop complaining about /. editors not doing their job.
All the have to prove is that the alternative is worse, and they win.
"In a world where kdawson actually edits every submission in his queue..."
I think that qualifies either as a disaster epic or horror story. I am not sure which.
FTFY.
So you're advocating Java?
Steve Jobs, is that you?
I thought about that too. All those press references to "1970s" and "Carter-era". But these are the same geniuses in the Fourth Estate who called the thing a "mainframe", so their ignorance is manifest.
I apply the BS test here. If anyone tells me they have a Nova (even a late-model Nova 4) controlling all the traffic lights of an entire metropolitan county adjacent to the District of Columbia, will I cry shenanigans? In this case, yes. I've worked with Novas, PDP-11s, and Perkin-Elmer 16-bit minis. I'm familiar with their capabilities. You would have to be coder of absolute godly skill to write the realtime control software to safely manage dozens (scores? hundreds?) of street lights in only 64Kbytes of core (or RAM, whatever).
Whereas the most primitive Eclipse would have ample horsepower to do the trick.
So I still say Eclipse. Certainly, the comparative newness of the Eclipse over the Nova doesn't help the parts situation at all, because they're both dead as a doornail, support-wise. EMC end-of-lifed the last and greatest Data General line, AViiON, nearly a year ago.
True. Since turning off traffic lights also suspends the Pauli Exclusion Principle, vehicles can zip right through each other in the intersection without interacting all. Brilliant!
And this just proves that traffic signals are just a conspiracy to get red-light-runner ticket money into corrupt local government budget coffers.
Hmmm... probably an Eclipse MV machine. I worked with a ten-year-old MV/10000 back in the day (early 90s). That makes it the right timeline.
You are absolutely right. TFA (the Register article originally cited) has an obscure link at the bottom of the page which points to the CVE-based page at RedHat.
Which, happily, brings us full-circle to the original point: if people explicitly and clearly used the CVE identifier (instead of burying them in an obscure link), there wouldn't be any confusion about which Intel page 0 mmap exploit we're talking about. (And there seem to be a lot of them all of a sudden.)
Quantum uncertainty. Chaotic emergent systems. The GIFT theory.
effective 21st Century equivalent to "The Devil made me do it!"
Science has become the new superstition.