Next will be when everyone moves their stuff to an "internal" cloud. Just like when people moved off of timeshare mainframes to computers on premise.
Actually this already happened. A few weeks ago our salesman happily reported that a customer would be storing data in their 'private cloud'. I've seen that private cloud; it happens to be on-site at the customer premises. It looked a lot like a server rack to me...
If you don't show up for a vote, your vote isn't counted. It's an entirely self-inflicted wound, and it does not give any special rights to complain afterwards. In particular, it does not convey the right to count all non-voters as being in one camp or the other. By not voting they've shown they have no interest in the process and don't care either way.
As for the poll, that was taken before Madrid decided to go all stormtrooper on Catalonia. That changed the opinion of a lot of people.
Also, I'm more than a little amazed that at least one major Dutch news site (nu.nl) fails to cover these momentous events in Europe, except as a short footnote under "Madrid sacks government of Catalonia". That shows just how badly the news is being colored, these days...
Oh! Oh! Can I?;-) Actually the universe is a giant three-dimensional Mobius strip, and all the anti-matter is on the other side of the strip. However, moving along the strip slowly changes the fundamental properties of particles so that by the time they reach the 'other' side, they have morphed into their own opposites.
And here's another. The universe is not expanding at all; instead we are falling to the gravity well of a black hole. The phenomenon known as 'time' is actually our motion into the gravity well. At least it explains why time has a direction...;-)
Thanks for your advice. My boss knows. He told me that corporate HQ is actually displeased with our security practices (for example, we tend to make ourselves local admin far too often - a state which lasts a few hours and then magically disappears again), and will be tightening the screws even further in the future. We'll see how it goes - but realistically speaking, we are right on the edge where we will _really_ be unable to do our jobs.
All the security in the world is pointless if the actual task at hand can no longer be performed.
For example, my corporate IT policy forbids me sending "files" to customers. It enforces this by not allowing FTP access, and not allowing binaries, archives, etc. to be transmitted in email messages.
This is kinda funny, because my job is writing software. I'm literally being paid to create binaries and send them to customers - something I'm no longer allowed to do. So what are my alternatives? If I'm remote-debugging an application in another country, should I just send them USB sticks or CDs every time I have an update? Or should I just fly out and stay in a hotel a couple of days each time?
Oh, and if someone sends me a binary or an archive (or an SVG drawing - very dangerous, those), the mail is simply disappeared by the corporate email system, with neither a message to me that this has happened, nor to the customer that their message wasn't delivered. About the only thing I can think of that is even more secure is to just abolish email altogether.
Since we switched to Skype for Business we haven't been able to make phonecalls either, so if they removed email, in any practical sense I could just stay at home. Nobody would notice the difference anymore...
How about "you write better code samples"? I guess I must be some kind of genius to figure that one out. It's either that, or the OP facing some mental challenges.
It's not a good idea to show samples from work anyway. At the very least you need to ask for permission, and that tends to start a process that ends with you leaving, whether you have a new job lined up or not.
The problem with policing ideas is that once you start, you will never be able to stop. And once youtube decides to become a podium for just the enlightened elite, rather than everyone, it will lose all value, and become just another controlled medium, like television or the newspapers.
Of course most of us already predicted this back when the phrase 'fake news' was first heard...
I decided to help out on stack overflow for a while, answering C++ questions. I stopped doing that after I found that my answers were getting downvoted to minus infinity, and then copied _word for word_ by other people who would receive massive praise for it. It was, by and large, not at all a good experience.
It's good that there are still people that are willing to do the right thing, and not fall for the temptation to embezzle those hundreds of millions nudge nudge wink wink;-)
Physical proof, you say? Does your "gaia" speak to you? Does it speak to _anyone_? Or is it just another (rather massive) pagan statue, merely a piece of dumb rock? The number of people that do not believe in the surface they stand on is really rather limited. The number of people believe that the surface they stand on is sentient and god-like is much, much smaller.
I'm totally with you on the naked dancing though. All religions should be doing that, it would improve things a lot.
I'm a little unclear why a bootloader would ever even be in a position to become 'critical'. Either it works, in which case the machine works and a real operating system takes over, or it doesn't, in which case the machine displays the ultimate in security and fails to deliver service to anyone, including malicious agents.
If bootloaders are now written to somehow be remote-hackable, we have done something very wrong.
OK, I'll bite. Who is paying for the electricity in your house if it isn't you?
_I_ am paying for the electricity. The _website_ is getting the money. So for them it's free.
What does that mean? Well, for one thing, that the web we knew and loved is _over_. Just like how every website loaded up with as much ads as they could possibly fit, now they will load up with as much mining as they can. Which means that opening a webbrowser, in the near future, will guarantee a CPU load of 100%, no matter what you're doing, with every page you open fighting for its unfair share.
There will be countermeasures, of course: noscript, but the smarter solutions will try to take the money before it gets to the miner. And browsers that only use one core are going to be a feature...
CPU mining has a return of between 1 and essentially 0% depending on the currency and the price of electricity. Best case scenario, you leave you web browser open for two days, you consume $1 of extra electricity and the web site gets $0.01. Unless the browser could leverage your GPU, you live in Quebec (cheap electricity) and it's winter so you are heating your house with the GPU, this is never going to make sense.
It makes perfect sense if it is other people paying for the electricity...
Same Bloody thing happened in Germany in 1944 and we ignored it then too
To be fair, it was already a bit late. They'd invaded Poland (or was it bombed Pearl Harbour?) four years earlier.
Do you seriously not know whether nazi Germany invaded Poland or bombed Pearl Harbor?
The Germans invaded Poland in 1939 (technically five years before 1944, but we'll let it slide), kicking off WW2 in the process.
Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese in 1941, in response to the US strangling supplies of fuel and other raw materials to Japan (in an effort to stop Japanese imperialistic ambitions).
I'm actually more terrified by the notion that activities in one core can cause bits to flip for another, completely randomly. We have a _lot_ of important stuff riding on the correct calculations happening in all those CPUs, worldwide, and the idea that you can pretty trivially cause random results is not a happy one.
Hidden "caches" are harder to find thanks to current GPS inaccuracy. Next year, new caches will be so easy to find the game will lost interest...
Hidden caches are hard to find thanks to bad measurement on the part of the hider, bad hints by the hider, and generally bad choice of locations. Also, the game is not really about tearing your hair out searching for something unfindable; it's about the joy of discovering a new, exciting location. I know there are websites where the last statement would be considered flamebait, but nonetheless that's what attracts vast numbers of people to this hobby: the chance to discover something you didn't know about before, rather than wasting an hour methodically searching through every possible hiding spot in a 20m radius.
No, you _cannot_ learn coding in a couple of days - why does drivel like this get +5?
You can maybe understand a few of the absolute bottom layer basics in a few days, but that doesn't qualify you for a job as a programmer yet - that takes years of effort and experience.
Who are you, Jason1729? Some manager type who really looks down on his employees? An academic who really believes coding is something you can learn in a few days, but of course you never bothered because it is for those of lower education?
Hah, I'm the same: always drinking tomato juice on planes, and never anywhere else. Glad to know I'm not the only one;-)
Anyway, I'm sure being stuck in one position, with no space for your legs, and possibly next to people you really don't care about, is surely also a factor in any sensation of discomfort one might have... When I stand up after a long flight, it is not because I want to get off the plane urgently, but simply because I cannot stand sitting anymore.
After user-friendly design comes aggressive phonisation:
- Simple, clear, concise, discoverable menus are removed, or hidden underneath an utterly unclear icon, or somehow folded out into a ribbon that makes just about zero organisation sense. - Bloody icons everywhere. And none of them represent a meaningful real-world thing, it's all about as understandable as Chinese. In fact they should go and label all those icons in Chinese; at least some significant fraction of the world's population will understand, and for the rest learning Chinese will not be any harder than learning 'hamburger', 'triple dot', or 'diagonal bar with half circle'. And there's the added benefit of learning Chinese, of course. - Animation, animation, animation. It was a relief when I finally turned animated windows off on my new laptop (after a few hours); waiting for windows to melt in and out, menus to slide open, dialog boxes to fade in, etc. was really getting on my nerves. If a window opens, I want it as soon as the machine can manage.
We used to have a visual language that did a really good job at hinting what an interface was going to do. Buttons had a certain shape, checkboxes another, text input boxes yet another, etc. Nowadays it's a total crapshoot. A blank area might trigger an unexpected command. A piece of text may turn out to be a button while a neighbouring, visually identical piece of text does nothing.
We could have hoped for true resolution-independence instead of half-baked coordinate scaling, but nooo... Considering this was a solved problem back in the nineties it's a shame we still have to suffer through non-resizable windows and fixed-size fonts.
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No, but why would you call a server rack a "private cloud"? What weird, pretentious nonsense is that?
Next will be when everyone moves their stuff to an "internal" cloud. Just like when people moved off of timeshare mainframes to computers on premise.
Actually this already happened. A few weeks ago our salesman happily reported that a customer would be storing data in their 'private cloud'. I've seen that private cloud; it happens to be on-site at the customer premises. It looked a lot like a server rack to me...
If you don't show up for a vote, your vote isn't counted. It's an entirely self-inflicted wound, and it does not give any special rights to complain afterwards. In particular, it does not convey the right to count all non-voters as being in one camp or the other. By not voting they've shown they have no interest in the process and don't care either way.
As for the poll, that was taken before Madrid decided to go all stormtrooper on Catalonia. That changed the opinion of a lot of people.
Also, I'm more than a little amazed that at least one major Dutch news site (nu.nl) fails to cover these momentous events in Europe, except as a short footnote under "Madrid sacks government of Catalonia". That shows just how badly the news is being colored, these days...
Andromeda is just a code name. The final name for consumers will be Microsoft Tablecloth.
Oh! Oh! Can I? ;-) Actually the universe is a giant three-dimensional Mobius strip, and all the anti-matter is on the other side of the strip. However, moving along the strip slowly changes the fundamental properties of particles so that by the time they reach the 'other' side, they have morphed into their own opposites.
And here's another. The universe is not expanding at all; instead we are falling to the gravity well of a black hole. The phenomenon known as 'time' is actually our motion into the gravity well. At least it explains why time has a direction... ;-)
Thanks for your advice. My boss knows. He told me that corporate HQ is actually displeased with our security practices (for example, we tend to make ourselves local admin far too often - a state which lasts a few hours and then magically disappears again), and will be tightening the screws even further in the future. We'll see how it goes - but realistically speaking, we are right on the edge where we will _really_ be unable to do our jobs.
All the security in the world is pointless if the actual task at hand can no longer be performed.
For example, my corporate IT policy forbids me sending "files" to customers. It enforces this by not allowing FTP access, and not allowing binaries, archives, etc. to be transmitted in email messages.
This is kinda funny, because my job is writing software. I'm literally being paid to create binaries and send them to customers - something I'm no longer allowed to do. So what are my alternatives? If I'm remote-debugging an application in another country, should I just send them USB sticks or CDs every time I have an update? Or should I just fly out and stay in a hotel a couple of days each time?
Oh, and if someone sends me a binary or an archive (or an SVG drawing - very dangerous, those), the mail is simply disappeared by the corporate email system, with neither a message to me that this has happened, nor to the customer that their message wasn't delivered. About the only thing I can think of that is even more secure is to just abolish email altogether.
Since we switched to Skype for Business we haven't been able to make phonecalls either, so if they removed email, in any practical sense I could just stay at home. Nobody would notice the difference anymore...
How about "you write better code samples"? I guess I must be some kind of genius to figure that one out. It's either that, or the OP facing some mental challenges.
It's not a good idea to show samples from work anyway. At the very least you need to ask for permission, and that tends to start a process that ends with you leaving, whether you have a new job lined up or not.
Seriously, is proofreading the title already too much?
Don't get too close, or you might fall through and land on the turtle.
The problem with policing ideas is that once you start, you will never be able to stop. And once youtube decides to become a podium for just the enlightened elite, rather than everyone, it will lose all value, and become just another controlled medium, like television or the newspapers.
Of course most of us already predicted this back when the phrase 'fake news' was first heard...
...harsh treatment of new users...
I decided to help out on stack overflow for a while, answering C++ questions. I stopped doing that after I found that my answers were getting downvoted to minus infinity, and then copied _word for word_ by other people who would receive massive praise for it. It was, by and large, not at all a good experience.
I've disabled the automatic update for the OS.
It's good that there are still people that are willing to do the right thing, and not fall for the temptation to embezzle those hundreds of millions nudge nudge wink wink ;-)
Physical proof, you say? Does your "gaia" speak to you? Does it speak to _anyone_? Or is it just another (rather massive) pagan statue, merely a piece of dumb rock? The number of people that do not believe in the surface they stand on is really rather limited. The number of people believe that the surface they stand on is sentient and god-like is much, much smaller.
I'm totally with you on the naked dancing though. All religions should be doing that, it would improve things a lot.
I'm a little unclear why a bootloader would ever even be in a position to become 'critical'. Either it works, in which case the machine works and a real operating system takes over, or it doesn't, in which case the machine displays the ultimate in security and fails to deliver service to anyone, including malicious agents.
If bootloaders are now written to somehow be remote-hackable, we have done something very wrong.
No it's illegal to influence elections
Does that include buying the support of super delegates? Or does the law only apply to normal people?
OK, I'll bite. Who is paying for the electricity in your house if it isn't you?
_I_ am paying for the electricity. The _website_ is getting the money. So for them it's free.
What does that mean? Well, for one thing, that the web we knew and loved is _over_. Just like how every website loaded up with as much ads as they could possibly fit, now they will load up with as much mining as they can. Which means that opening a webbrowser, in the near future, will guarantee a CPU load of 100%, no matter what you're doing, with every page you open fighting for its unfair share.
There will be countermeasures, of course: noscript, but the smarter solutions will try to take the money before it gets to the miner. And browsers that only use one core are going to be a feature...
CPU mining has a return of between 1 and essentially 0% depending on the currency and the price of electricity. Best case scenario, you leave you web browser open for two days, you consume $1 of extra electricity and the web site gets $0.01. Unless the browser could leverage your GPU, you live in Quebec (cheap electricity) and it's winter so you are heating your house with the GPU, this is never going to make sense.
It makes perfect sense if it is other people paying for the electricity...
To be fair, it was already a bit late. They'd invaded Poland (or was it bombed Pearl Harbour?) four years earlier.
Do you seriously not know whether nazi Germany invaded Poland or bombed Pearl Harbor?
The Germans invaded Poland in 1939 (technically five years before 1944, but we'll let it slide), kicking off WW2 in the process.
Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese in 1941, in response to the US strangling supplies of fuel and other raw materials to Japan (in an effort to stop Japanese imperialistic ambitions).
I'm actually more terrified by the notion that activities in one core can cause bits to flip for another, completely randomly. We have a _lot_ of important stuff riding on the correct calculations happening in all those CPUs, worldwide, and the idea that you can pretty trivially cause random results is not a happy one.
Hidden "caches" are harder to find thanks to current GPS inaccuracy. Next year, new caches will be so easy to find the game will lost interest ...
Hidden caches are hard to find thanks to bad measurement on the part of the hider, bad hints by the hider, and generally bad choice of locations. Also, the game is not really about tearing your hair out searching for something unfindable; it's about the joy of discovering a new, exciting location. I know there are websites where the last statement would be considered flamebait, but nonetheless that's what attracts vast numbers of people to this hobby: the chance to discover something you didn't know about before, rather than wasting an hour methodically searching through every possible hiding spot in a 20m radius.
No, you _cannot_ learn coding in a couple of days - why does drivel like this get +5?
You can maybe understand a few of the absolute bottom layer basics in a few days, but that doesn't qualify you for a job as a programmer yet - that takes years of effort and experience.
Who are you, Jason1729? Some manager type who really looks down on his employees? An academic who really believes coding is something you can learn in a few days, but of course you never bothered because it is for those of lower education?
Hah, I'm the same: always drinking tomato juice on planes, and never anywhere else. Glad to know I'm not the only one ;-)
Anyway, I'm sure being stuck in one position, with no space for your legs, and possibly next to people you really don't care about, is surely also a factor in any sensation of discomfort one might have... When I stand up after a long flight, it is not because I want to get off the plane urgently, but simply because I cannot stand sitting anymore.
After user-friendly design comes aggressive phonisation:
- Simple, clear, concise, discoverable menus are removed, or hidden underneath an utterly unclear icon, or somehow folded out into a ribbon that makes just about zero organisation sense.
- Bloody icons everywhere. And none of them represent a meaningful real-world thing, it's all about as understandable as Chinese. In fact they should go and label all those icons in Chinese; at least some significant fraction of the world's population will understand, and for the rest learning Chinese will not be any harder than learning 'hamburger', 'triple dot', or 'diagonal bar with half circle'. And there's the added benefit of learning Chinese, of course.
- Animation, animation, animation. It was a relief when I finally turned animated windows off on my new laptop (after a few hours); waiting for windows to melt in and out, menus to slide open, dialog boxes to fade in, etc. was really getting on my nerves. If a window opens, I want it as soon as the machine can manage.
We used to have a visual language that did a really good job at hinting what an interface was going to do. Buttons had a certain shape, checkboxes another, text input boxes yet another, etc. Nowadays it's a total crapshoot. A blank area might trigger an unexpected command. A piece of text may turn out to be a button while a neighbouring, visually identical piece of text does nothing.
We could have hoped for true resolution-independence instead of half-baked coordinate scaling, but nooo... Considering this was a solved problem back in the nineties it's a shame we still have to suffer through non-resizable windows and fixed-size fonts.