if that does NOT make them idiots i dont know what does.
Would you want to be the manager who had to tell everyone that the mission will be delayed three years because of possible contamination in one experiment?
Or do you launch anyway and live with 95% of the science returns while looking for a workaround for this problem?
She's expecting a full refund because the hardware is faulty.
Do you think that Newegg were going to put it in a box and sell it on to another customer? Most likely they'll ship it back to Lenovo and they'll have to fix it or scrap it.
That said, I thought everyone know that you reinstall Windows before returning a defective PC.
With the economy in the crap, the government so unpopular that the Labour Party, who destroyed said economy with a decade of easy credit, look set to win a majority at the next election and the EU falling apart all around them, I'm glad to see that Parliament have found time to pass a law about something so unimportant.
You're twenty years too late. The Telcos designed such a system. It was called ATM.
You know why most people have never heard of it? Because it fscking sucked and was primarily relegated to providing point to point connections over DSL.
We've seen the Glorious Telco Future and rejected it already. They don't know crap about anything other than making PSTN calls, and we don't need ATM Mk II.
You save the hassles of maintaining a file server, daily backups, etc. Also gives more features as in the ability of sharing some docs with third parties for example.
Of course when the Feds seize the server because some users have been sharing their music and movies with third parties, you're screwed.
If it's so trivial and easy to find that a ten year old could have found it after 15 minutes of penetration testing...how long did it take you? Oh, you had no clue until just now? Well, blow me down...
Yes, because we should all spend our spare time trying to break random pieces of software.
Yes, but modern GPUs can compute SHA-1 hashes of various passwords at enormously fast rates. Even if they used per-user salts, it's likely that they would also be acquired during the original compromise: with the salts being known, the attacker could run through the various password possibilities at a high rate of speed.
Western nations need to refocus on society, and place the almighty economy (and "jobs") back in the realm of serving society, not the end-all be-all single-greatest-force-on-society it seems to have become.
Uh, the whole problem with Europe is that 'society' has been considered more important than the economy. Now they've poisoned the Golden Goose and are running around trying to figure out how to revive it without abandoning socialism... which is the very poison that's killing it.
The whole point is that short term sacrifice has destroyed greece
Lying their way into the Euro and then following a borrow-and-spend policy has destroyed Greece. For years their economy was based on easy credit which has now gone away, and the Euro doesn't allow them to devalue their currency the way they always used to.
caused a double dip recession in the UK
The British economy has been a joke for years. For a decade or so it's been based on borrowing more and more money to sell houses to each other while exporting factories to Eastern Europe. And it's going into a recession despite the very borrow and spend policies you promote, because there's no real economy left.
and left all of europe wallowing in a debt crisis they can't get out of because austerity is shrinking economies and leaving them no path to growth.
That's like complaining that you borrowed $100k on your credit cards and now you're having to cut spending to pay it back. The solution is not to get another credit card and borrow more money on that to pay the interest on the existing cards.
It's also destroying 'confidence' in their ability to recover, because everyone with money to lend realizes you can't cut your way into prosperity in bad economic times.
Europe has no 'ability to recover' without massively slashing regulation and taxation. Which won't happen before a catastrophic collapse.
Taxation is agreeing that some things are best for the state to manage and paying for those from everyone.
Really? So I can agree that those things aren't best for the state to manage and not pay for them?
No, I didn't think so.
You need to focus more on jobs, which will create wealth.
Jobs do not create wealth. Jobs are a cost. If you think jobs create wealth, you should be eliminating all technology and promoting a Pol Pot-style 'back to the land' movement.
Cutting spending is creating a spiral of destruction in its wake that is destroying wealth left right and centre.
Cutting government spending frees up money for private uses. Sucking money out of the real economy to spend on useless government non-jobs makes you poor.
The problem is that the governments which have had bloated borrow and spend policies are also typically the same countries that have been pushing regulations that have destroyed much of the private industry in their nation. So they're fscked either way.
You're missing the third option, that the same app works with both touch and mouse.
That can work with an application which only needs a mouse and has huge icons for touch, but it will still suck on one of the devices.
You say this in a post that's about a diversity in hardware configurations.
I was responding to your post which was talking about tablets and desktops. Most tablets don't have keyboards, because that just makes them an expensive, sucky laptop.
Further, things like apps that work across tablet and desktop is another big one.
So either:
1. I'll need to use a virtual mouse and keyboard on the tablet.
Or
2. I'll need a touch screen on the desktop.
Why do you think that pushing the same applications on both is a good idea?
And since there will be x86 platforms you still have access to all the best apps and games and universal device compatibility, which is one of the biggest shortcomings of the iPad and Android tablets.
Running Word and Excel on a touchscreen tablet will be great!
We already have that with Apparmor and SELinux. The problem is that common attack vectors such as web browsers already need access to all files on the machine; how can you upload that Lolcat picture to Facebook if your web browser is restricted to only accessing specific files on your system? How can you prevent a malware addon installing by blocking writes to the addon install directory if the web browser supports automatic installation of addons?
So it's an improvement, but still leaves big holes.
Nah, the troughers have to kick SpaceX out because they're the only company who have proven that they can do the job and do it cheaper than the competition. That cannot be allowed.
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if that does NOT make them idiots i dont know what does.
Would you want to be the manager who had to tell everyone that the mission will be delayed three years because of possible contamination in one experiment?
Or do you launch anyway and live with 95% of the science returns while looking for a workaround for this problem?
They launched anyway knowing the drill bit was contaminated. if thats not a facepalm i dont know what is.
The alternative would probably have been a multi-year delay for the next launch window.
I just dd and bzip it onto my home server. Normally it's only a few gigabytes when compressed because mosf of the disk is full of zeros.
In fact, if most of the disk isn't full of zeros that's probably a good sign that they sold me a laptop that someone else had returned.
She's expecting a full refund because the hardware is faulty.
Do you think that Newegg were going to put it in a box and sell it on to another customer? Most likely they'll ship it back to Lenovo and they'll have to fix it or scrap it.
That said, I thought everyone know that you reinstall Windows before returning a defective PC.
With the economy in the crap, the government so unpopular that the Labour Party, who destroyed said economy with a decade of easy credit, look set to win a majority at the next election and the EU falling apart all around them, I'm glad to see that Parliament have found time to pass a law about something so unimportant.
You're twenty years too late. The Telcos designed such a system. It was called ATM.
You know why most people have never heard of it? Because it fscking sucked and was primarily relegated to providing point to point connections over DSL.
We've seen the Glorious Telco Future and rejected it already. They don't know crap about anything other than making PSTN calls, and we don't need ATM Mk II.
You save the hassles of maintaining a file server, daily backups, etc. Also gives more features as in the ability of sharing some docs with third parties for example.
Of course when the Feds seize the server because some users have been sharing their music and movies with third parties, you're screwed.
Not enough RAM. Not enough disk space. Better have a hulking GPU if you plan to play games at that resolution.
If it's so trivial and easy to find that a ten year old could have found it after 15 minutes of penetration testing...how long did it take you? Oh, you had no clue until just now? Well, blow me down...
Yes, because we should all spend our spare time trying to break random pieces of software.
Because the store's brand is always the highest quality.
It may well be an almost identical product from the same Chinese factory in a different box...
Yes, but modern GPUs can compute SHA-1 hashes of various passwords at enormously fast rates. Even if they used per-user salts, it's likely that they would also be acquired during the original compromise: with the salts being known, the attacker could run through the various password possibilities at a high rate of speed.
Yeah, just TWO MILLION times slower.
Feel free to ignore reality, but eventually it will come back and bite you in the ass just as it has in Europe.
Western nations need to refocus on society, and place the almighty economy (and "jobs") back in the realm of serving society, not the end-all be-all single-greatest-force-on-society it seems to have become.
Uh, the whole problem with Europe is that 'society' has been considered more important than the economy. Now they've poisoned the Golden Goose and are running around trying to figure out how to revive it without abandoning socialism... which is the very poison that's killing it.
The whole point is that short term sacrifice has destroyed greece
Lying their way into the Euro and then following a borrow-and-spend policy has destroyed Greece. For years their economy was based on easy credit which has now gone away, and the Euro doesn't allow them to devalue their currency the way they always used to.
caused a double dip recession in the UK
The British economy has been a joke for years. For a decade or so it's been based on borrowing more and more money to sell houses to each other while exporting factories to Eastern Europe. And it's going into a recession despite the very borrow and spend policies you promote, because there's no real economy left.
and left all of europe wallowing in a debt crisis they can't get out of because austerity is shrinking economies and leaving them no path to growth.
That's like complaining that you borrowed $100k on your credit cards and now you're having to cut spending to pay it back. The solution is not to get another credit card and borrow more money on that to pay the interest on the existing cards.
It's also destroying 'confidence' in their ability to recover, because everyone with money to lend realizes you can't cut your way into prosperity in bad economic times.
Europe has no 'ability to recover' without massively slashing regulation and taxation. Which won't happen before a catastrophic collapse.
Taxation is agreeing that some things are best for the state to manage and paying for those from everyone.
Really? So I can agree that those things aren't best for the state to manage and not pay for them?
No, I didn't think so.
You need to focus more on jobs, which will create wealth.
Jobs do not create wealth. Jobs are a cost. If you think jobs create wealth, you should be eliminating all technology and promoting a Pol Pot-style 'back to the land' movement.
Cutting spending is creating a spiral of destruction in its wake that is destroying wealth left right and centre.
Cutting government spending frees up money for private uses. Sucking money out of the real economy to spend on useless government non-jobs makes you poor.
The problem is that the governments which have had bloated borrow and spend policies are also typically the same countries that have been pushing regulations that have destroyed much of the private industry in their nation. So they're fscked either way.
You're missing the third option, that the same app works with both touch and mouse.
That can work with an application which only needs a mouse and has huge icons for touch, but it will still suck on one of the devices.
You say this in a post that's about a diversity in hardware configurations.
I was responding to your post which was talking about tablets and desktops. Most tablets don't have keyboards, because that just makes them an expensive, sucky laptop.
Further, things like apps that work across tablet and desktop is another big one.
So either:
1. I'll need to use a virtual mouse and keyboard on the tablet.
Or
2. I'll need a touch screen on the desktop.
Why do you think that pushing the same applications on both is a good idea?
And since there will be x86 platforms you still have access to all the best apps and games and universal device compatibility, which is one of the biggest shortcomings of the iPad and Android tablets.
Running Word and Excel on a touchscreen tablet will be great!
Only if they were saying that nothing disastrous is happening to the climate and it's just doing what it's always done... change.
I understand that if you are someone who knew exactly where every option was then the ribbon would be a step back.
I didn't know where those options were in the menus... and I don't know where they are on the ribbon, either.
So from my viewpoint it's no change other than wasting more space on my screen.
We already have that with Apparmor and SELinux. The problem is that common attack vectors such as web browsers already need access to all files on the machine; how can you upload that Lolcat picture to Facebook if your web browser is restricted to only accessing specific files on your system? How can you prevent a malware addon installing by blocking writes to the addon install directory if the web browser supports automatic installation of addons?
So it's an improvement, but still leaves big holes.
Plus when they start finding duplicate fingerprints, they're going to need to check more than one finger.
This is a good idea in a way because it should resolve the question of how common fingerprint matches really are.
Maybe people with Alzheimer's forget where they left their coffee and never drink it.
Nah, the troughers have to kick SpaceX out because they're the only company who have proven that they can do the job and do it cheaper than the competition. That cannot be allowed.
In the future... there will be crates.
(OK fanboys, I know Star Wars is set 'a long time ago')
As far as I can see, Star Wars games have sucked since X-Wing/Tie Fighter. Have there been any good ones in the last twenty years?