I'm retired, now, so the first isn't a factor. As far as weather goes, everyplace has its own weather issues. We don't have hurricanes but we do have windstorms, brush fires and earthquakes. As far as better women, I'm sure that there are many other parts of the US that would disagree with you.
California and New York are engaged in an all out conflict to see which state can erode its citizens' rights the quickest.
That's an excellent way to describe the situation. And, I admit, it's things like this that make me wonder why I still live in The People's Republic of California.
(why is it that nearly EVERY time a linux kernel upgrade resulted in either hours of debugging or reinstalling the distro (easy to do but a pain in the ass, especially on a mission critical system).
Maybe because you don't have enough sense to keep more than one kernel installed? I have three; the current one and the preceding two. That way, if a kernel upgrade breaks something, all I have to do is boot into the one I was using before and go on with my life. And, in fact, that's the default in the two distros I'm familiar with (I use Fedora, and my sister uses Ubuntu.) and I'd be a tad surprised to find that the only reason your boxes don't do that is because you "knew better" and changed it.
Shouldn't just one of those things being to listen when a large number of like minded groups are all claiming the IRS is harassing them?
Yes, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that that's how they found out what was happening. If so, the next question is why didn't they look into what was going on sooner.
No problem. In fact, it's not really a mistake at all, because I'm sure there are people reading this that weren't able to make the connection on their own.
I do too. In fact, that was the point I was trying to make, indirectly. (Instead of just saying that there's a typo, I decided to make the readers take another look and figure it out on their own.)
Yes. Of course. However, they can't be everyplace, looking over everybody's shoulder all of the time. They can only do so much. And, of course, the low level agents who (it's claimed) were responsible probably knew better than to let their bosses know about it. Not just (or mostly) to give them plausible
deniability but because they understood that their boss can't forbid something they don't know is happening.
...it was stated that no disciplinary action had been taken by those who engaged in this activity.
What else would you expect? Did you really think that the people who did this were going to discipline themselves? What I would have expected was that disciplinary action had been taken against the people responsible. And, I'll add, I'm sure that whoever did this would have ended up in hot water if they'd targeted groups that supported President Obama.
Of course, this has to be adjusted for things like Chernobyl, but I think it's safe to trust that this has been done. GW deniers have gotten very good at checking for things like this and the AGW evangelists have learned to be careful. (In case you're wondering why I'm knocking both sides, I'm a skeptic; I don't deny that the climate is changing, I'm just not convinced that humanity is the cause.)
I think that the problem is that TFS starts off by saying that we've been monitoring C02 for 55 years, then says that it's the highest it's been in 800,000 years and at first glance, it looks like a contradiction. Of course, all it takes is a moment's thought to clear things up, but remember, this is Slashdot, where people post first, and think later, if at all.
It didn't take me more than a few seconds to come up with a case where it could matter: in the judge's vote, first and second place differ by only a few points, and most of the home voters voted for whoever was in second place. It's unlikely, of course, but if enough of the viewers vote the same way, they could change the outcome even in the first round they're allowed to vote. And, of course, if the judge's pick is in the lead by enough, it won't matter how the home viewers vote, even if they all vote the same way.
Which DE? Gnome 3 can be just as hard to adapt to (and customize) as Win8 is, from what I'm hearing. KDE and Xfce are much closer to what the average user's accustomed to using. It's nice having that choice, but which one you used may be important. (No, I'm not an evangelist for any specific DE, but I am curious.)
The US Constitution states quite clearly that all revenue and spending bills must originate in the House of Representatives. It doesn't matter how good or bad this bill is, having it introduced in the Senate is unconstitutional, and I predict that it will get shot down very, very fast when it reaches the House because regardless of how badly some of the Representatives want this, they're not about to let the Senate step on their own privileges.
Before 2001 nobody ever hear the US Govt use terms like "homeland".
In Russia, it's always been "Holy Mother Russia." In Germany, it's "The Fatherland." Here in gender neutral, America, it has to be "The Homeland," to avoid offending the PC crowd.
what the fuck does this even have to do with Dell?
Nothing, directly. Granted, I didn't RTFM because it's behind a paywall, but I haven't seen anything that implies that Dell was even aware of the sale at the time. AFAICT, the only reason they're mentioned is that it was Dell computers that were sold. What I'd like to know is what, if anything, Dell is going to do about it. Are they going to drop the reseller for violating the sanctions, or just try to pretend this never happened?
After all, who looks at code they wrote the previous semester?
And, of course, if last semester's code is all you have to show, you're probably not qualified unless you're applying for an internship or a job as an entry-level code monkey. Real programmers have real-world experience to show.
Just like natural language literacy is a lower standard than powerful, skilled writing.
Considering the poor writing skills of all too many Slashdot posters, I'd have to say that there's ample evidence right here for your statement. Clearly being able to read and understand English does not imply the ability to communicate your own ideas understandably.
Most folks would use XP until the universe's heat death if they could...
I have a friend who loves XP and uses it exclusively. Recently, I asked him what he was going to do next April when Microsoft drops support for it. His answer boiled down to one word: Nothing. He plans on continuing to use XP and the (mostly) Microsoft applications he runs on it, because from his POV, They Just Work. And, I'm sure, he'll continue to use it on the Internet (behind a router) and all of the anti-virus, anti-malware and other protective programs he uses to avoid infection because he's sure that they, at least, will still be updated. (Considering the number of people who think this way, he's probably right, although to be honest, I'm not sure that he's given that subject any real thought.)
Whoever modded you up doesn't know jack about computing in the enterprise.
This is Slashdot. More likely the first person to mod the OP up was simply too young to remember that far back and the rest of the up-mods were nothing more than Me Too.
TFS says that the three satellites are "...small satellites powered by Android running on Nexus smartphones." I didn't know that any smartphone put out that much power or that their batteries lasted that long. I think that whoever wrote that meant that they are controlled buy Nexus smartphones.
Or at least that what I've being told to believe by loud angry people who aren't scientists.
As you say, they aren't scientists. Ballistics is used to determine where the projectile will strike, depending on how it's aimed and how much charge there is and it's very, very good at that. How often a particular marksman will hit the target is outside its purview.
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I'm retired, now, so the first isn't a factor. As far as weather goes, everyplace has its own weather issues. We don't have hurricanes but we do have windstorms, brush fires and earthquakes. As far as better women, I'm sure that there are many other parts of the US that would disagree with you.
California and New York are engaged in an all out conflict to see which state can erode its citizens' rights the quickest.
That's an excellent way to describe the situation. And, I admit, it's things like this that make me wonder why I still live in The People's Republic of California.
(why is it that nearly EVERY time a linux kernel upgrade resulted in either hours of debugging or reinstalling the distro (easy to do but a pain in the ass, especially on a mission critical system).
Maybe because you don't have enough sense to keep more than one kernel installed? I have three; the current one and the preceding two. That way, if a kernel upgrade breaks something, all I have to do is boot into the one I was using before and go on with my life. And, in fact, that's the default in the two distros I'm familiar with (I use Fedora, and my sister uses Ubuntu.) and I'd be a tad surprised to find that the only reason your boxes don't do that is because you "knew better" and changed it.
Shouldn't just one of those things being to listen when a large number of like minded groups are all claiming the IRS is harassing them?
Yes, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that that's how they found out what was happening. If so, the next question is why didn't they look into what was going on sooner.
No problem. In fact, it's not really a mistake at all, because I'm sure there are people reading this that weren't able to make the connection on their own.
I think you managed to find something mistyped.
I do too. In fact, that was the point I was trying to make, indirectly. (Instead of just saying that there's a typo, I decided to make the readers take another look and figure it out on their own.)
Yes. Of course. However, they can't be everyplace, looking over everybody's shoulder all of the time. They can only do so much. And, of course, the low level agents who (it's claimed) were responsible probably knew better than to let their bosses know about it. Not just (or mostly) to give them plausible deniability but because they understood that their boss can't forbid something they don't know is happening.
...it was stated that no disciplinary action had been taken by those who engaged in this activity.
What else would you expect? Did you really think that the people who did this were going to discipline themselves? What I would have expected was that disciplinary action had been taken against the people responsible. And, I'll add, I'm sure that whoever did this would have ended up in hot water if they'd targeted groups that supported President Obama.
Of course, this has to be adjusted for things like Chernobyl, but I think it's safe to trust that this has been done. GW deniers have gotten very good at checking for things like this and the AGW evangelists have learned to be careful. (In case you're wondering why I'm knocking both sides, I'm a skeptic; I don't deny that the climate is changing, I'm just not convinced that humanity is the cause.)
I think that the problem is that TFS starts off by saying that we've been monitoring C02 for 55 years, then says that it's the highest it's been in 800,000 years and at first glance, it looks like a contradiction. Of course, all it takes is a moment's thought to clear things up, but remember, this is Slashdot, where people post first, and think later, if at all.
It didn't take me more than a few seconds to come up with a case where it could matter: in the judge's vote, first and second place differ by only a few points, and most of the home voters voted for whoever was in second place. It's unlikely, of course, but if enough of the viewers vote the same way, they could change the outcome even in the first round they're allowed to vote. And, of course, if the judge's pick is in the lead by enough, it won't matter how the home viewers vote, even if they all vote the same way.
...so instead they used Redhat.
Which DE? Gnome 3 can be just as hard to adapt to (and customize) as Win8 is, from what I'm hearing. KDE and Xfce are much closer to what the average user's accustomed to using. It's nice having that choice, but which one you used may be important. (No, I'm not an evangelist for any specific DE, but I am curious.)
The US Constitution states quite clearly that all revenue and spending bills must originate in the House of Representatives. It doesn't matter how good or bad this bill is, having it introduced in the Senate is unconstitutional, and I predict that it will get shot down very, very fast when it reaches the House because regardless of how badly some of the Representatives want this, they're not about to let the Senate step on their own privileges.
Before 2001 nobody ever hear the US Govt use terms like "homeland".
In Russia, it's always been "Holy Mother Russia." In Germany, it's "The Fatherland." Here in gender neutral, America, it has to be "The Homeland," to avoid offending the PC crowd.
what the fuck does this even have to do with Dell?
Nothing, directly. Granted, I didn't RTFM because it's behind a paywall, but I haven't seen anything that implies that Dell was even aware of the sale at the time. AFAICT, the only reason they're mentioned is that it was Dell computers that were sold. What I'd like to know is what, if anything, Dell is going to do about it. Are they going to drop the reseller for violating the sanctions, or just try to pretend this never happened?
Another nice thing about motorcycles is that they're allowed to use the carpool lane.
After all, who looks at code they wrote the previous semester?
And, of course, if last semester's code is all you have to show, you're probably not qualified unless you're applying for an internship or a job as an entry-level code monkey. Real programmers have real-world experience to show.
Just like natural language literacy is a lower standard than powerful, skilled writing.
Considering the poor writing skills of all too many Slashdot posters, I'd have to say that there's ample evidence right here for your statement. Clearly being able to read and understand English does not imply the ability to communicate your own ideas understandably.
Most folks would use XP until the universe's heat death if they could...
I have a friend who loves XP and uses it exclusively. Recently, I asked him what he was going to do next April when Microsoft drops support for it. His answer boiled down to one word: Nothing. He plans on continuing to use XP and the (mostly) Microsoft applications he runs on it, because from his POV, They Just Work. And, I'm sure, he'll continue to use it on the Internet (behind a router) and all of the anti-virus, anti-malware and other protective programs he uses to avoid infection because he's sure that they, at least, will still be updated. (Considering the number of people who think this way, he's probably right, although to be honest, I'm not sure that he's given that subject any real thought.)
Whoever modded you up doesn't know jack about computing in the enterprise.
This is Slashdot. More likely the first person to mod the OP up was simply too young to remember that far back and the rest of the up-mods were nothing more than Me Too.
AC gets modded down all the time.
All this goes to prove is that no spelling checker will catch the wrong word spelled correctly.
TFS says that the three satellites are "...small satellites powered by Android running on Nexus smartphones." I didn't know that any smartphone put out that much power or that their batteries lasted that long. I think that whoever wrote that meant that they are controlled buy Nexus smartphones.
Actually, there are two. The other one is Usenet.
Or at least that what I've being told to believe by loud angry people who aren't scientists.
As you say, they aren't scientists. Ballistics is used to determine where the projectile will strike, depending on how it's aimed and how much charge there is and it's very, very good at that. How often a particular marksman will hit the target is outside its purview.