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  1. Re: This might call for some Fox News counterhacki on Government Shutdown: TLS Certificates Not Renewed, Many Websites Are Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The gibson has been hacked and its anything but righteous, man

  2. Re: Bad Challenge on DeepMind's AI Agents Exceed 'Human-Level' Gameplay In Quake III (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So considering in all liklihood we are simulated automotons, i don't suppose you know what problem our observers are attempting to solve?

  3. You just described my life but my 7yo is binge watching full house instead

  4. Re: Hypothesis on Flat Earther Fails To Launch His Homemade Rocket -- Yet Again (facebook.com) · · Score: 1

    Levity.

  5. A shared completely secure database between companies. This is gamechanging and how I know you don't know jack as a skeptic.

  6. Am I the only one who really likes this show? on Star Trek: Discovery Will Return On January 7th, 2018 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I get why everyone hates on it but I tune them out these are the same people still mad at George Lucas and Ronald D Moore.

    I like Michael, I like the crew, I like their interactions, the scenery is fan-fucking tastic. Honestly in a 10 years before enterprise world where the movie storylines never happened, to me this is ideal Star Trek with a huge budget.

    Of course everyone complains. I am not, and will watch every episode thrice as I have every other Trek before it.

  7. Re:They're Trying To Milk Subscriptions on Star Trek: Discovery Will Return On January 7th, 2018 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Rewatched recently and Enterprise holds up way better than DS9. IMHO

    Yeah the Xindi plot was strange, but just the type of thing Id expect from noobs in space with powerful friends and technology.

  8. Do it right. Invest in blockchain companies and their technologies. Not currency.

  9. Re:What a terrible headline on 'Something Is Wrong On the Internet' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    I definitely remember the smoking, and also thinking it was pretty holy crap I thought this was a kids movie.

  10. Kernel backporting on Interviews: Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst Answers Your Questions (redhat.com) · · Score: 1

    Boy I bet you wish you had backported Samba2 support to 2.6 kernel.

  11. Happened to me a few times like my wife and i are done having kids. Talking with my friends about their upcoming baby and boom next thing i know im getting pampers ads and investing in my childs education ads againsl all of sudden.

    I got a new phone and only use facebook via web and grant it no axs. It has not happened since

    Facebook isnt lying but they dont stop others from using it

  12. Re:Look, I love Elon as much as the next sycophant on Tesla Turns Power Back On At Children's Hospital In Puerto Rico (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A motivation to prove that his technology is rapidly deployed and viable? After everyone hates on him and says he's selling pipe dreams?

  13. Protect Yo Neck. on A 14-Year-Old Asks: When Should I Get a VPN? · · Score: 1

    Just connecting on the Internet these days is risky, but adding the extra maturity required to use a VPN it is best to protect oneself. It's okay to be curious about and explore VPNs at such a young age, (it's only natural to be curious about one's privacy) but as 'it' can have life long consequences, I recommend that all uncommitted customers purchase their VPNs with Walmart Gift Cards. Once you decide to settle down with a VPN for a while and really start leeching, maybe it's time you gave them your credit card number and start surfing for nasty stuff with a much lower risk factor.

  14. Re: The Cloud is your enemy. on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Hard Truths IT Must Learn To Accept? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Honestly looking at the same thing right now. We have to be more flexible and hedge cloud solutions. Im sure you agree the cloud is not a datacenre we can't treat it like one, on-prem or not. Diversity is healthy.

  15. Re:It Makes Perfect Sense on Peer Pressure Forced Whales and Dolphins To Evolve Big Brains Like Humans, Says Study (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    >world population dropping to a few thousand individuals, intelligence equivalent to our own did not give them a huge survival advantage at that time.

    This seems like a reach. If there was such an extinction event, high intelligence and social cooperation are an adaptation to environmental pressure. It drastically improves the odds of not only surviving but rebounding to support a large social group quickly, leading to the very apparent intelligence arms race you point out during successful times.

    I don't disagree that success in this case perhaps is a stronger pressure to adapt but only in a large society. Until then the pressure to survive and grow socially faster than others is a major evolutionary advantage.

  16. They arent stupid they are reckless and agile (well half agile. Continuously fail at infrastructure).

    I have done boutiqe devops for software teams thay make stuff i guarantee you use everyday. They never learn.

  17. Re: The Cloud is your enemy. on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Hard Truths IT Must Learn To Accept? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks man. I derided cloud naysayers in my office and they are the ones without jobs now. The ones who refuse to use github, automate anything or learn linux in 2017.

  18. LOL this is the best one I heard all day. I spend my entire day cleaning up developer's messes and re-architecting (that would imply it was architected in the first place, right) their mindbogglingly stupid bottlenecks? And then fixing their code and pulling a branch for them.
    Then I fix the database they broke with massive wads of binary data. Recovering their data from "sometime, naw shur". Then I pick up the phone in the evening to save their ass and their deadline.

    Your computers boot because of good IT.

  19. Re:The Cloud is your enemy. on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Hard Truths IT Must Learn To Accept? (cio.com) · · Score: 2

    Never heard of an on-prem cloud? Also, serious question, after Equifax, or any number of hacks, you don't seriously think your data is any better or worse off in a private LAN, that happens to be hosted in the cloud?

    I'll admit the cloud is IT's enemy. But IT has to transform in to operations in the cloud. IT is dead. Anyone who doesn't is doomed to customer support, or worse.

    Anecdotal- my IT job of like 25 years at the same place just ended a couple of months ago. And I'm not even the oldest relic. I worked in a heavily IT focused shop, data, and physical datacenter operations. I touched my computers all the time, got nice new toys, fancy facilities. For a long time life was good until I closed down my whole physical operations and moved them to some remote faceless facility where I will never touch them (or admin them) again. They will be supported by someone else using my documentation. They will eventually roll it in to some on prem cloud. Sounds sad, and it was kind of like a close friend dying. Anyone with a brain saw it coming but it happened so fast. Anyway it was as depressing as shutting down my multinode BBS for good.

    But like getting used to how we roll on the Internet, I found a cloud job (kinda more fun than my old job) right away. Also, it seems that my years of IT experience and skills are terribly needed by the kids running the show amok. They are smart, adaptable, but do not work smartly all the time.

    So, in short I've kept my enemy close, and I've learned it's ways. I've come to see my place among their ranks as a hip grey-ish beard. That didn't happen by me fearing the enemy. And life is good for this old BOFH

  20. Re: Another Microsoft is dying and irrelevant thre on How Does Microsoft Avoid Being the Next IBM? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    MS makes mistakes but as you point out are doing and will be- just fine!

  21. Re: Windows Mobile died because MS killed it. on How Does Microsoft Avoid Being the Next IBM? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I ran those CE devices for development at a large monlithic ancient corporation kind of like these companies we're discussing.

    Its absolutely true what you say and it was my business case for shutting down the embedded device build lab where i work. Zero resistance. Devs just gave up on them

  22. Re: A few lousy conjectures, there ... on How Does Microsoft Avoid Being the Next IBM? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Hardware is the thinnest of margins and Nintendo makes money on every piece, unlikr Sony and MS. Your analysis is lacking

    Not a nintendo fanboy here but facts are facts.

  23. Yeah man, Im from there, I remember when it was scorched earth, moonlanding like. Rock climbing for miles and river pollution oh man. Crazy colours ive seen in creeks south of the superstack.

    On the drive in on the Kingsway it would feel like another planet, but today there are forests galore. They started planting in the 80s and now it has really improved, there is soil again, less bareface rock, and the air is so much better.

  24. Re: Can someone please explain? on Tesla Badly Misses Model 3 Production Goals (wsj.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    GM had these problems all the time until they went to three or four unified platforms. Every ititial iteration of a platform has trouble. This is as true for hardware as it is for software in any industry.

    He is building 2 new platforms from scratch.

    So why are you or any investors surprised?

  25. Its not racist, its a reference to a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters. This is how the sausage is made.