I get your point on the whole "Russian saturation" aspect, but you don't have to read these. I scanned the top 20 articles on/. and chose two or three of interest. You won't find me complaining about the other articles I didn't read.
Don't worry. If you crash because of problems with weather forecasting, Trump will blame Obama. Fox News will make sure of it. It won't solve any of the problems, and it'll sure suck for you, but at least we'll have blamed the proper people.
Ya know, if we had other places to call home, it might not be a big deal if we shit all over this here Earth. Since we're kinda stuck here, wouldn't it make sense to take a cautious approach to our own living space?
Yes and no. I'm old enough to remember the "duck and cover" drills in second grade. By third and fourth grade, we no longer had to do those. And in the decades since, even when the Cold War waged heavily, I never actually feared an attack: level heads generally prevailed. However, with the recent childish goading of an unstable nut job with nuclear abilities at his fingertips - and I'll leave you to figure out who is whom, because it works both ways - I don't feel nearly as safe as I used to. And that does come down to one of two people.
Ya know, back in the '50s, we tried to take out N. Korea with a "conventional" war. Didn't work so well. Maybe you should read up on it, but I'm guessing that failure, leading to something of a detente', is why following presidents were reluctant to engage in another war. But if you're smarter than all of those administrations, please do run for office and fix things.
Agreed: The process has to be annoyingly, painstakingly defined at every turn. I wrote some instructions for an add-on module to an existing product in the healthcare industry: it was actually just a Linksys router used in an internal configuration with maybe 3 changes at the setup screen. I figured, based on my experience researching the module add-on and configuring/testing it, it would be easy-peasy for the field people to get it working. I assumed they'd probably set up similar devices in their own homes. At the first training session, I was shocked by how badly these guys could bungle what should've been an incredibly simple task for anyone with a modicum of technical acuity. After that class, I went back to my desk, tossed all of my assumptions, and rewrote the two page quick sheet into a five page highly detailed set of instructions.
For giggles, I just pulled my TRS Model 100 out of storage and put in some fresh batteries to see if it still worked. Yep, just like it used to: all 13286 glorious bytes of RAM. What's shocking is that I still remember many of the commands and function keys to make use of it. I did have to look up "kill" to delete a file.
There was also extensive study of the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the extent that, iirc, the American authorities on site left people to suffer rather than treat them simply to see what happened to the victims. I can understand that it was a unique opportunity and wanting this data to see what might happen in an all-out nuclear war, but there's just something wrong about knowingly letting people suffer like that. The twenty-years-younger me would've argued that America would never do such a thing.
1. Build your own. Check out RePhone from seeed. https://www.seeedstudio.com/Re...
2. Use a portable WiFi hotspot with Google Voice and an iPod Touch. I have a data plan with a Straight Talk device and use Google Voice for texts. I don't get many calls, and that's the way, uh huh uh huh, I like it.
In my last job as a sysad, before I semi-retired (I'll rejoin the work force sooner or later), all of our equipment was co-located in a few hosting facilities around the country, so we were never really physically in front of a box, anyway. Our conversations were almost always in chat, even though we sat in cubicles right next to each other and could hear each other laughing at our jokes and insults. There were times we stood up and actually talked with each other, but it was by far the exception. Phone calls? I got 0 calls on my desk phone in the three years I worked in that group. As for management's perspective of our productivity, it's pretty obvious when a disk runs low or a host isn't operating and someone's slacking on the job. Quick to spot, quick to fix. The only times when those types of things happened was when there was a near-catastrophic breakdown in our team's communication; it was a rare occurrence. For the most part, I drove in to work just because it was expected. But if I saw three flakes of snow on the road, I'd work remotely, and my boss wouldn't really care.
Ya know, pragmatically, we have only the one planet and I rather like breathing clean air. I also like drinking unpolluted water. I don't have any problem with "wackadoos" fighting to keep things clean and safe. I accept your right to prefer money over clean water and air, but you don't have a right to pollute my water and air in pursuit of money.
Just a quick word about your "rule of law": Fuck you. We just celebrated, today, the 52nd anniversary of the taking of Seneca lands by the federal government for the implementation of the Kinzua Dam. In spite of the treaty signed by G. Washington promising them the free use of their land in perpetuity, my wife's family was forced by the Corp of Engineers out of their house and their house set on fire before they could come back to pick up the remainder of their possessions. The Senecas had upheld their end of the treaty for hundreds of years, but the government's courts said the government's abrogation was all legal. But that doesn't make it right. I don't know all the details of this Hawaiian business, but to throw "rule of law" out here as if that's an ace-in-the-hole card is misleading. Civil forfeiture is also, currently, the rule of law, and many victims of it would pretty much tell you what I said, above.
I temporarily retired (parents died, leaving me enough to coast by for a while; I'll eventually have to go back to work) and while I have a number of electronics and programming projects I want to do, I find I don't really want to do them. I've got a major case of Meh. I can focus on some things - exercise for example; I can bicycle for hours - but sit me down at my desk, and I'll look through/., FB, just about anything but the projects I "wanted" to do. It's not that I can't do them - I've already mastered the fundamental elements involved - it's just that I don't *have* to do them, so I'm not bothered to get after it. I think her phone and other diversions are just masking a bigger problem: She's bored with what she's doing and craves something - anything - more stimulating.
People who are incapable of getting work are likely to end up less likely to reproduce as they make less attractive mates
If only thinking made it so. Out here in Bumfuck NY / PA, just saunter into any Walmart or Sheetz and you'll be plenty disappointed by the "humanity" that can reproduce at any level.
I agree with Voltaire, but Google isn't preventing anyone from spewing their hate. What Google is actually doing is saying, "We don't want your business. Please go somewhere else." And Daily Stormer is free to do just that. Google is not the be-all and end-all of DNS.
Yep. Left my last job in part because of this. (Getting a modest inheritance from my mum helped a bit, too.) There were some days when things happened, and life was Ok, but I spent most days just watching the clock, waiting for quitting time to roll around. In spite of the regular paycheck, I couldn't handle the inactivity, and I didn't feel right doing side projects on company time.
Granted, it was back in '00, but I used to fly in and out of O'Hare weekly, and didn't really consider the experience all that bad. Occasionally, I'd fly into Midway, because of flight time or availability, but I didn't recall either one being that onerous.
I live not too far from Canada, either, and enjoy this little Oriental restaurant in Ft. Erie, but the hassle of getting back into my own country is no longer worth the hop across the border. American border patrol is a bunch of power-tripping assholes.
I find that getting into Canada is no problem: they just ask the standard questions and wave us through. It's coming back into our country that's a PITA. At least in Buffalo. Fuck-tards at that border act like we're top-level ISIS leaders. Though it tickles me that they dress like they're going into combat just to sit in a booth.
Admittedly, I'm a corner case, but I need the 1/8" jack to connect to my cochlear implant, if I want to do the equivalent of "use headphones." The sound processor has an input jack just for that purpose. So, unless Apple makes a Lightning-to-1/8" adapter, I won't be able to "plug in" and listen quietly to my music. Why do you hate handicapped people, Apple...?
I used to just turn down my hearing aid, but not all the way off. Worked well enough. It's been a few years since I worked downtown, though. I kinda miss that guy announcing, "The doors open on the right at Wabash," or whichever street.
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I get your point on the whole "Russian saturation" aspect, but you don't have to read these. I scanned the top 20 articles on /. and chose two or three of interest. You won't find me complaining about the other articles I didn't read.
Don't worry. If you crash because of problems with weather forecasting, Trump will blame Obama. Fox News will make sure of it. It won't solve any of the problems, and it'll sure suck for you, but at least we'll have blamed the proper people.
Ya know, if we had other places to call home, it might not be a big deal if we shit all over this here Earth. Since we're kinda stuck here, wouldn't it make sense to take a cautious approach to our own living space?
My uncle has a country place, no one knows about.
Yes and no. I'm old enough to remember the "duck and cover" drills in second grade. By third and fourth grade, we no longer had to do those. And in the decades since, even when the Cold War waged heavily, I never actually feared an attack: level heads generally prevailed. However, with the recent childish goading of an unstable nut job with nuclear abilities at his fingertips - and I'll leave you to figure out who is whom, because it works both ways - I don't feel nearly as safe as I used to. And that does come down to one of two people.
Ya know, back in the '50s, we tried to take out N. Korea with a "conventional" war. Didn't work so well. Maybe you should read up on it, but I'm guessing that failure, leading to something of a detente', is why following presidents were reluctant to engage in another war. But if you're smarter than all of those administrations, please do run for office and fix things.
Agreed: The process has to be annoyingly, painstakingly defined at every turn. I wrote some instructions for an add-on module to an existing product in the healthcare industry: it was actually just a Linksys router used in an internal configuration with maybe 3 changes at the setup screen. I figured, based on my experience researching the module add-on and configuring/testing it, it would be easy-peasy for the field people to get it working. I assumed they'd probably set up similar devices in their own homes. At the first training session, I was shocked by how badly these guys could bungle what should've been an incredibly simple task for anyone with a modicum of technical acuity. After that class, I went back to my desk, tossed all of my assumptions, and rewrote the two page quick sheet into a five page highly detailed set of instructions.
For giggles, I just pulled my TRS Model 100 out of storage and put in some fresh batteries to see if it still worked. Yep, just like it used to: all 13286 glorious bytes of RAM. What's shocking is that I still remember many of the commands and function keys to make use of it. I did have to look up "kill" to delete a file.
Holy mackerel! Think of all the Scrabble points you'd earn from that word.
There was also extensive study of the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the extent that, iirc, the American authorities on site left people to suffer rather than treat them simply to see what happened to the victims. I can understand that it was a unique opportunity and wanting this data to see what might happen in an all-out nuclear war, but there's just something wrong about knowingly letting people suffer like that. The twenty-years-younger me would've argued that America would never do such a thing.
1. Build your own. Check out RePhone from seeed. https://www.seeedstudio.com/Re...
2. Use a portable WiFi hotspot with Google Voice and an iPod Touch. I have a data plan with a Straight Talk device and use Google Voice for texts. I don't get many calls, and that's the way, uh huh uh huh, I like it.
*reads this morning's news about Trump* Um, is this a "whoosh"?
In my last job as a sysad, before I semi-retired (I'll rejoin the work force sooner or later), all of our equipment was co-located in a few hosting facilities around the country, so we were never really physically in front of a box, anyway. Our conversations were almost always in chat, even though we sat in cubicles right next to each other and could hear each other laughing at our jokes and insults. There were times we stood up and actually talked with each other, but it was by far the exception. Phone calls? I got 0 calls on my desk phone in the three years I worked in that group. As for management's perspective of our productivity, it's pretty obvious when a disk runs low or a host isn't operating and someone's slacking on the job. Quick to spot, quick to fix. The only times when those types of things happened was when there was a near-catastrophic breakdown in our team's communication; it was a rare occurrence. For the most part, I drove in to work just because it was expected. But if I saw three flakes of snow on the road, I'd work remotely, and my boss wouldn't really care.
Sun Type 5 USB keyboards. I don't leave home without 'em. Ok, I do, but you know what I mean.
Ya know, pragmatically, we have only the one planet and I rather like breathing clean air. I also like drinking unpolluted water. I don't have any problem with "wackadoos" fighting to keep things clean and safe. I accept your right to prefer money over clean water and air, but you don't have a right to pollute my water and air in pursuit of money.
Just a quick word about your "rule of law": Fuck you. We just celebrated, today, the 52nd anniversary of the taking of Seneca lands by the federal government for the implementation of the Kinzua Dam. In spite of the treaty signed by G. Washington promising them the free use of their land in perpetuity, my wife's family was forced by the Corp of Engineers out of their house and their house set on fire before they could come back to pick up the remainder of their possessions. The Senecas had upheld their end of the treaty for hundreds of years, but the government's courts said the government's abrogation was all legal. But that doesn't make it right. I don't know all the details of this Hawaiian business, but to throw "rule of law" out here as if that's an ace-in-the-hole card is misleading. Civil forfeiture is also, currently, the rule of law, and many victims of it would pretty much tell you what I said, above.
I temporarily retired (parents died, leaving me enough to coast by for a while; I'll eventually have to go back to work) and while I have a number of electronics and programming projects I want to do, I find I don't really want to do them. I've got a major case of Meh. I can focus on some things - exercise for example; I can bicycle for hours - but sit me down at my desk, and I'll look through /., FB, just about anything but the projects I "wanted" to do. It's not that I can't do them - I've already mastered the fundamental elements involved - it's just that I don't *have* to do them, so I'm not bothered to get after it. I think her phone and other diversions are just masking a bigger problem: She's bored with what she's doing and craves something - anything - more stimulating.
People who are incapable of getting work are likely to end up less likely to reproduce as they make less attractive mates
If only thinking made it so. Out here in Bumfuck NY / PA, just saunter into any Walmart or Sheetz and you'll be plenty disappointed by the "humanity" that can reproduce at any level.
I agree with Voltaire, but Google isn't preventing anyone from spewing their hate. What Google is actually doing is saying, "We don't want your business. Please go somewhere else." And Daily Stormer is free to do just that. Google is not the be-all and end-all of DNS.
Yep. Left my last job in part because of this. (Getting a modest inheritance from my mum helped a bit, too.) There were some days when things happened, and life was Ok, but I spent most days just watching the clock, waiting for quitting time to roll around. In spite of the regular paycheck, I couldn't handle the inactivity, and I didn't feel right doing side projects on company time.
Granted, it was back in '00, but I used to fly in and out of O'Hare weekly, and didn't really consider the experience all that bad. Occasionally, I'd fly into Midway, because of flight time or availability, but I didn't recall either one being that onerous.
I live not too far from Canada, either, and enjoy this little Oriental restaurant in Ft. Erie, but the hassle of getting back into my own country is no longer worth the hop across the border. American border patrol is a bunch of power-tripping assholes.
I find that getting into Canada is no problem: they just ask the standard questions and wave us through. It's coming back into our country that's a PITA. At least in Buffalo. Fuck-tards at that border act like we're top-level ISIS leaders. Though it tickles me that they dress like they're going into combat just to sit in a booth.
Admittedly, I'm a corner case, but I need the 1/8" jack to connect to my cochlear implant, if I want to do the equivalent of "use headphones." The sound processor has an input jack just for that purpose. So, unless Apple makes a Lightning-to-1/8" adapter, I won't be able to "plug in" and listen quietly to my music. Why do you hate handicapped people, Apple...?
I used to just turn down my hearing aid, but not all the way off. Worked well enough. It's been a few years since I worked downtown, though. I kinda miss that guy announcing, "The doors open on the right at Wabash," or whichever street.