I know this is Slashdot, and R'ing TFS is almost too much to ask, but please note that we're focused primarily on the impact of withdrawing the UK's nuclear capability from Scotland. In this sense, I put forth the very narrow example of the civil workforce at HMNB Clyde and working very specifically on Trident II and Vanguard-class operations.
I was just pointing the absurd underestimation of Simon Brooke's claims of less than 50 affected jobs, which I must surmise was yanked out of his ass.
Yes. Withdrawing MoD's entire impact on the Scottish economy will be a substantial effect, even if pro-independence partisans promise that everyone thusly rendered unemployed will either find employment in the Scottish government or somehow continue to be able to work for the MoD... somehow.
FWIW, I sense a lot of handwaving on this issue from that side. Something akin to "It'll be fine because STFU."
I don't do much ebook reading, but I can assure you that since I tend to read books random access*, I can easily get plot sequences out of line.
This is not specifically an ebook problem, if it's any kind of problem at all.
*Yeah. I skip around sometimes. The author is not the boss of me. If I want to jump ahead, cheat and see the ending early, whatever... that's how I read it.
"I donâ(TM)t want any of our employees to feel that pressure to go through and sellâ¦or [strong]feel[/strong] like theyâ(TM)re going to get fired," Tom Karinshak, Comcastâ(TM)s senior vice president of customer experience, tells The Verge. "Thatâ(TM)s not good for us."
We don't want our employees to "feel" like they'll be fired if they don't upsell aggressively. We want them to know it, be sure of it, fear it to the core of their beings. "Feeling" isn't sure enough. We want bone-deep certainty and visceral dread. We want our employees to completely understand that not selling in every breath and every moment of interaction with a customer is high treason, malfeasance, and heresy, and such dereliction of sacred duty will be treated with appropriate harshness.
More to the point, dead former customers can't seek arbitration. So a sufficiently failed roof (i.e., lethally collapsed) is a guaranteed win for the roofer.
Every system is gamed. The system described by GPP is optimized for the gamer, to the fundamental detriment of anyone "playing fair".
The 14th Amendment explicitly extends Constitutional Due Process (4th Amendment) to all states.
Only a shill or a moron would claim that incorporation to the states doesn't extend to any sub-state legal jurisdictional level, including piss-ant "municipalities".
Counter Con: What makes you think the rules will be applied to corporate persons or political entities?(who are the drivers behind most astroturfing.)
The rules apply to the little people, and if you judge the acceptability of a curtailment of freedom on the basis of the fairness of its application, you're judging falsely.
Yea, what you say is true, but it really doesn't make good news to talk about things that way. At least until somebody actually does it, then we get weeks of wall to wall "breaking news" and "Alert" coverage and the hosts of MSNBC will pontificate about how we should have known this was going to happen and stopped it.
If your point is that the talking heads always talk about everything but the threat which will actually materialize, true. Not a deep insight, but true.
OMG ROBOT BOMB CARZ is what's playing up on stage on tonight's episode of Security Masterpiece Theatre.
Quadcopter grenade bombers is what will actually happen. Unless it's something even more lo-tek, like moar pressure cookers.
Use any OpenPGP app to create a key pair, which has the property that any message encrypted with one half can be decrypted with the other half. This one half is your private key and the other half you make public.
Where?
There's no such thing as a single uniform federated national-level public key clearing house, in any nation. If you want this to happen for J. Random JapaneseGrandma, you'll have to install that first.
People who think PKI infrastructure is easy don't understand PKI.
So, what you're saying is that Oracle's stagnant "sit on it" leadership is bad for people for whom the language and runtime are the end, the product, the point of it all.
As opposed to in the real world, in which the language and runtime are just tools to get shit done, and its users want stability.
You don't have to guess which community Oracle cares about. But if you're not sure, ask yourself which community can Oracle extort support contracts out of, or can be upsold on other products.
Follow the money. How much is the JCP paying Oracle to give a rat's ass about their concerns? Innovation is a cost center to someone protecting a market share, and competing against others who are protecting a market share.
If you want novelty, go find it someplace else. The other posters comparing Java to COBOL, even if jokingly, are very nearly right. Especially if you stipulate that, at the time of COBOL's dominance, the primary implementation of COBOL was associated with IBM big iron.
And that's your historical analogue of the day: COBOL was to IBM what Java is to Oracle.
CS students taught in high-order language are completely deficient in their education. They haven't learned about opcode timing and instruction placement and hardware stack management.
If you aren't working exclusively in machine code, you're just a poser.
I think "Superpower" status includes the ability to have both. Because hypocrisy doesn't matter if you're big enough that you don't have to care what other people think.
I'm pretty sure the U.S. passed that moral event horizon a long time ago.
Every tool is a weapon in the hands of someone with violent intent.
Business is a battlefield. Weapons are damn useful in a battlefield.
Business is ultimately responsible for the weaponization of the law. How could anyone argue that the CFAA is intended for anything else? If no one is digging holes, the only use left for a shovel is bashing your adversaries. The only question left, and it's purely an academic one, is whether this (mis-)use of the CFAA is an accident arising after its inception, or its real but unpublicized raison d'être.
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I know this is Slashdot, and R'ing TFS is almost too much to ask, but please note that we're focused primarily on the impact of withdrawing the UK's nuclear capability from Scotland. In this sense, I put forth the very narrow example of the civil workforce at HMNB Clyde and working very specifically on Trident II and Vanguard-class operations.
I was just pointing the absurd underestimation of Simon Brooke's claims of less than 50 affected jobs, which I must surmise was yanked out of his ass.
Yes. Withdrawing MoD's entire impact on the Scottish economy will be a substantial effect, even if pro-independence partisans promise that everyone thusly rendered unemployed will either find employment in the Scottish government or somehow continue to be able to work for the MoD... somehow.
FWIW, I sense a lot of handwaving on this issue from that side. Something akin to "It'll be fine because STFU."
Or to hire a more experienced person at the prevailing wage for a more experience person.
the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. As long as they kiss the ring and swear fealty to WikiMedia.
Honestly, is anyone surprised? I guess the only wrinkle I can see is the division in the ranks of the fascist editor cabal.
Next up, a wikipedia Night of the Long Knives, where dissident editors are "defensively removed" to prevent their "planned putsch."
520 working the Trident program at Faslane alone.
Not thousands, but not mere dozens either. So don't minimize. It's not good for your credibility.
You know what they used to call people who hung around payphones waiting for business phone calls?
Street-level drug dealers.
There's a fabulous business image to project right there.
You can ignore them, in which case you've volunteered for the role of "victim".
You can make them your full-time job, in which case you're no longer a developer.
You should find a good defensive middle ground. At least, some situational awareness. Put your head up and look around. And listen.
I don't do much ebook reading, but I can assure you that since I tend to read books random access*, I can easily get plot sequences out of line.
This is not specifically an ebook problem, if it's any kind of problem at all.
*Yeah. I skip around sometimes. The author is not the boss of me. If I want to jump ahead, cheat and see the ending early, whatever... that's how I read it.
Did this solar-thermal power plan happen to be called HELIOS One?
"I donâ(TM)t want any of our employees to feel that pressure to go through and sellâ¦or [strong]feel[/strong] like theyâ(TM)re going to get fired," Tom Karinshak, Comcastâ(TM)s senior vice president of customer experience, tells The Verge. "Thatâ(TM)s not good for us."
We don't want our employees to "feel" like they'll be fired if they don't upsell aggressively. We want them to know it, be sure of it, fear it to the core of their beings. "Feeling" isn't sure enough. We want bone-deep certainty and visceral dread. We want our employees to completely understand that not selling in every breath and every moment of interaction with a customer is high treason, malfeasance, and heresy, and such dereliction of sacred duty will be treated with appropriate harshness.
More to the point, dead former customers can't seek arbitration. So a sufficiently failed roof (i.e., lethally collapsed) is a guaranteed win for the roofer.
Every system is gamed. The system described by GPP is optimized for the gamer, to the fundamental detriment of anyone "playing fair".
I got burned by them too but there's always hippie once a sensible company takes over.
Dude, I think your autocorrect is baked.
That said, knowing AMD, they'd find a way to accidentally combine the worst parts of all of the involved parties' contributions.
The 14th Amendment explicitly extends Constitutional Due Process (4th Amendment) to all states.
Only a shill or a moron would claim that incorporation to the states doesn't extend to any sub-state legal jurisdictional level, including piss-ant "municipalities".
Gotcha.
Pros: Easier to identify astroturfers/shills.
Counter Con: What makes you think the rules will be applied to corporate persons or political entities?(who are the drivers behind most astroturfing.)
The rules apply to the little people, and if you judge the acceptability of a curtailment of freedom on the basis of the fairness of its application, you're judging falsely.
Yea, what you say is true, but it really doesn't make good news to talk about things that way. At least until somebody actually does it, then we get weeks of wall to wall "breaking news" and "Alert" coverage and the hosts of MSNBC will pontificate about how we should have known this was going to happen and stopped it.
If your point is that the talking heads always talk about everything but the threat which will actually materialize, true. Not a deep insight, but true.
OMG ROBOT BOMB CARZ is what's playing up on stage on tonight's episode of Security Masterpiece Theatre.
Quadcopter grenade bombers is what will actually happen. Unless it's something even more lo-tek, like moar pressure cookers.
Which is probably why you wouldn't be interested in an MMORPG. Which World of Warcraft explicitly names itself.
But you're posting in an off-topic thread. So carry on.
Use any OpenPGP app to create a key pair, which has the property that any message encrypted with one half can be decrypted with the other half. This one half is your private key and the other half you make public.
Where?
There's no such thing as a single uniform federated national-level public key clearing house, in any nation. If you want this to happen for J. Random JapaneseGrandma, you'll have to install that first.
People who think PKI infrastructure is easy don't understand PKI.
So, what you're saying is that Oracle's stagnant "sit on it" leadership is bad for people for whom the language and runtime are the end, the product, the point of it all.
As opposed to in the real world, in which the language and runtime are just tools to get shit done, and its users want stability.
You don't have to guess which community Oracle cares about. But if you're not sure, ask yourself which community can Oracle extort support contracts out of, or can be upsold on other products.
Follow the money. How much is the JCP paying Oracle to give a rat's ass about their concerns? Innovation is a cost center to someone protecting a market share, and competing against others who are protecting a market share.
If you want novelty, go find it someplace else. The other posters comparing Java to COBOL, even if jokingly, are very nearly right. Especially if you stipulate that, at the time of COBOL's dominance, the primary implementation of COBOL was associated with IBM big iron.
And that's your historical analogue of the day: COBOL was to IBM what Java is to Oracle.
A youtube video from Iran's Culture Minister explaining Tehran Catholicism.
I'll betcha a current CS grad wrote the auto-correct logic that did that.
Case... fucking...closed.
Feh. C. "Memory Management".
CS students taught in high-order language are completely deficient in their education. They haven't learned about opcode timing and instruction placement and hardware stack management.
If you aren't working exclusively in machine code, you're just a poser.
If watching cute adorable kitten videos is crazy, I don't want to be sane.
Because, cute adorable kittens.
I think "Superpower" status includes the ability to have both. Because hypocrisy doesn't matter if you're big enough that you don't have to care what other people think.
I'm pretty sure the U.S. passed that moral event horizon a long time ago.
News flash, badly written laws get misused.
Every tool is a weapon in the hands of someone with violent intent.
Business is a battlefield. Weapons are damn useful in a battlefield.
Business is ultimately responsible for the weaponization of the law. How could anyone argue that the CFAA is intended for anything else? If no one is digging holes, the only use left for a shovel is bashing your adversaries. The only question left, and it's purely an academic one, is whether this (mis-)use of the CFAA is an accident arising after its inception, or its real but unpublicized raison d'être.
Yeah, it's racism. GPP hates corporate people. (I guess that's politically incorrect; I should have said "Corporate-American people".)