I watched the Navy burn $27 million on a glorified CRM that used Siebel and never got any working components. While that clusterfuck was going on a small team of four people built a prototype type system that was eventually rolled out to production because it was the only one that worked.
The person responsible for the $27 million dollar disaster got promoted and took over management of the working system, which they promptly turned over to EDS to manage.
When it comes to software development, spending more doesn't necessarily get you more.
>Or don't, but provide a citation for this obvious nonsense.
Where's yours? Show your list of Linux zero day exploits. Just declaring they're out there doesn't conjure them. And make sure that they're automated with super user privileges.
>Thank goodness he bet on the wrong social network.
MySpace is what you get when Rupert Murdoch tries to be hip. He should stick to scaring old people and giving them sound bite answers to complex problems, it's what he does best.
"In his suit, which is also being argued by the Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative legal group, Mr. Bopp alleges a wide range of acts against supporters, including “death threats, acts of domestic terrorism, physical violence, threats of physical violence, vandalism of personal property, harassing phone calls, harassing e-mails, blacklisting and boycotts.”"
Republicans act like that every day but when it comes back around they go crying to court. Waaaaaaa we need to keep our donors secret because people might boycott them.
>A pool of radioactive lava is only problematic while it's still too hot to build a new containment building around.
Makes me wonder though. A nuke plant in Japan is certainly going to be built for an area prone to earthquakes. What could have happened that the reactor didn't scram? Or, if it did, how did it go critical later? Something isn't right here.
Ah, the good old days when you could just push the rods in and go home.
> But since they did, it means they want to keep an eye on their kid to make sure they turn out as they wish
My brother is one of those fat, old "the ends justify the means" right wingers. He felt it was okay spying on his kids because the ends justified it. What he didn't know was that my nieces and nephews were way ahead of him. I got a clue when they started asking me about running Ubuntu from a live CD and various ways someone might spy on a cell phone. It got to the point they were running "wild weasel" missions to cover one another. I don't think my brother knows to this day.
I mark the time we started going downhill as a country as the day those BABY ON BOARD stickers started showing up on cars. The dawn of the overprotective helicopter parents. After that it was locker and backpack searches, drug tests, fences, badges and metal detectors. On the way to the golf course a bunch of us drove past what I thought it was a minimum security prison. One of the other guys corrected me that it was a school. When we raise our children like prisoners, how do we expect them to behave as adults?
Classes like the one the police chief is teaching do little more than highlight the extent of decay our society has experienced the last 40 years.
>tax from the state you live in needs to be decided (federally) and set in stone once and for all.
Like a VAT. I'd go along with that. Although I'm sure it would start out fair, each state getting a return based on how much they spend, I'm willing to bet it would turn into welfare for deadbeat states. Like almost every other federal program.
>Yes, it was in fact Democrats whom cancelled breeder, reprocessing, and fast reactor research.
I was in DoE in those days and most of the program cuts came during the reign of Ronnie We-Don't-Need-No-Steeking-Alternate-Energy Reagan. He derailed many programs that held real promise for cutting our use of fossil fuels. Some of those programs have been revived recently.
DoE pulled funding for the breeder reactor in the face of budget realities in 1994 when Republicans swept back into power.
>They are trying to cut budgets across the board, because the government has no money.
Some of the tea party Repubs are trying to cut the budget, the rest are working on such weighty affairs of state as making sure the EPA can't regulate greenhouse gases, re-defining rape, and making sure poor people don't get decent medical care.
Republicans aren't going to be serious about alternate energy as long as the Koch family is funding most of their outreach, so don't even pretend like you care.
>"it appears that Ballmer planning to install engineers in high places to turn the company around."
Except he won't listen to them. I'm wiling to bet people took risks with their careers to give Ballmer good advice over the years and he ignored them. I find it highly unlikely he's going to start listening now.
This is either for show or so he's got someone else to blame for the next Zune and Windows mobile.
>Rushkoff suggests that we use the lessons of the internet to build a communications infrastructure that cannot be controlled from the top.
Even if they were jammed on a wide scale, a network of inexpensive, self-discovering networks would be damn difficult to control. Relatively easy to monitor, but tough to trace. The hardware is cheap enough, all we need is the reason to start assembling it.
>When I compete for a job, it is irrelevant where my competition is.
Do you live in a cardboard ghetto? You can live on $3/day if you don't have to pay for an apartment that has running water and electricity.
It used to be people getting rich off our hard work and that was okay. Now it's the same people getting richer off someone who can live on $3/day and extending the middle finger of indifference to their fellow Americans. There's a line there somewhere. Outsourcing has not benefited this country much at all. It gutted our middle class, lowered the standard of living for 99% of the country and shipped our manufacturing base to places where they don't really like us all that well.
The idea we could survive as efficient consumers is right up there with wishing on a star.
And usually that's the admins. Most admins gone bad would be smart enough to bone the backups if they were going to do deliberate damage. The best way to protect yourself is an off-site DVD backup, but that's a lot of work to keep current.
People waiving the flag of false equivalence are intellectually corrupt. Violent rhetoric is not coming from both sides of the political spectrum, it's coming from the Fox News right.
I think a lot of people buy that crap because they're too gutless to take a stand for what's right.
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I watched the Navy burn $27 million on a glorified CRM that used Siebel and never got any working components. While that clusterfuck was going on a small team of four people built a prototype type system that was eventually rolled out to production because it was the only one that worked.
The person responsible for the $27 million dollar disaster got promoted and took over management of the working system, which they promptly turned over to EDS to manage.
When it comes to software development, spending more doesn't necessarily get you more.
>Or don't, but provide a citation for this obvious nonsense.
Where's yours? Show your list of Linux zero day exploits. Just declaring they're out there doesn't conjure them. And make sure that they're automated with super user privileges.
>Thank goodness he bet on the wrong social network.
MySpace is what you get when Rupert Murdoch tries to be hip. He should stick to scaring old people and giving them sound bite answers to complex problems, it's what he does best.
"In his suit, which is also being argued by the Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative legal group, Mr. Bopp alleges a wide range of acts against supporters, including “death threats, acts of domestic terrorism, physical violence, threats of physical violence, vandalism of personal property, harassing phone calls, harassing e-mails, blacklisting and boycotts.”"
Republicans act like that every day but when it comes back around they go crying to court. Waaaaaaa we need to keep our donors secret because people might boycott them.
Good for the goose, good for the gander.
>A pool of radioactive lava is only problematic while it's still too hot to build a new containment building around.
Makes me wonder though. A nuke plant in Japan is certainly going to be built for an area prone to earthquakes. What could have happened that the reactor didn't scram? Or, if it did, how did it go critical later? Something isn't right here.
Ah, the good old days when you could just push the rods in and go home.
Really? That's like going to Hooters for the food.
>>>Stop giving Paypal business is my opinion.
Now I'm glad I closed my account. This is really a little vile.
>Online voting, if it were done right, would give me much more confidence than any number of safeguards you might put on a physical chain of custody.
I agree. Not sure if it's the chain of custody that's the bigger concern or verifying identity.
> But since they did, it means they want to keep an eye on their kid to make sure they turn out as they wish
My brother is one of those fat, old "the ends justify the means" right wingers. He felt it was okay spying on his kids because the ends justified it. What he didn't know was that my nieces and nephews were way ahead of him. I got a clue when they started asking me about running Ubuntu from a live CD and various ways someone might spy on a cell phone. It got to the point they were running "wild weasel" missions to cover one another. I don't think my brother knows to this day.
I mark the time we started going downhill as a country as the day those BABY ON BOARD stickers started showing up on cars. The dawn of the overprotective helicopter parents. After that it was locker and backpack searches, drug tests, fences, badges and metal detectors. On the way to the golf course a bunch of us drove past what I thought it was a minimum security prison. One of the other guys corrected me that it was a school. When we raise our children like prisoners, how do we expect them to behave as adults?
Classes like the one the police chief is teaching do little more than highlight the extent of decay our society has experienced the last 40 years.
>tax from the state you live in needs to be decided (federally) and set in stone once and for all.
Like a VAT. I'd go along with that. Although I'm sure it would start out fair, each state getting a return based on how much they spend, I'm willing to bet it would turn into welfare for deadbeat states. Like almost every other federal program.
>Yes, it was in fact Democrats whom cancelled breeder, reprocessing, and fast reactor research.
I was in DoE in those days and most of the program cuts came during the reign of Ronnie We-Don't-Need-No-Steeking-Alternate-Energy Reagan. He derailed many programs that held real promise for cutting our use of fossil fuels. Some of those programs have been revived recently.
DoE pulled funding for the breeder reactor in the face of budget realities in 1994 when Republicans swept back into power.
>They are trying to cut budgets across the board, because the government has no money.
Some of the tea party Repubs are trying to cut the budget, the rest are working on such weighty affairs of state as making sure the EPA can't regulate greenhouse gases, re-defining rape, and making sure poor people don't get decent medical care.
Republicans aren't going to be serious about alternate energy as long as the Koch family is funding most of their outreach, so don't even pretend like you care.
>all you need to do is invade^H^H^H^H^H^H ask
Watch out, they'll station this guy at the border: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjEcj8KpuJw
None shall pass!
>"it appears that Ballmer planning to install engineers in high places to turn the company around."
Except he won't listen to them. I'm wiling to bet people took risks with their careers to give Ballmer good advice over the years and he ignored them. I find it highly unlikely he's going to start listening now.
This is either for show or so he's got someone else to blame for the next Zune and Windows mobile.
>Rushkoff suggests that we use the lessons of the internet to build a communications infrastructure that cannot be controlled from the top.
Even if they were jammed on a wide scale, a network of inexpensive, self-discovering networks would be damn difficult to control. Relatively easy to monitor, but tough to trace. The hardware is cheap enough, all we need is the reason to start assembling it.
>When I compete for a job, it is irrelevant where my competition is.
Do you live in a cardboard ghetto? You can live on $3/day if you don't have to pay for an apartment that has running water and electricity.
It used to be people getting rich off our hard work and that was okay. Now it's the same people getting richer off someone who can live on $3/day and extending the middle finger of indifference to their fellow Americans. There's a line there somewhere. Outsourcing has not benefited this country much at all. It gutted our middle class, lowered the standard of living for 99% of the country and shipped our manufacturing base to places where they don't really like us all that well.
The idea we could survive as efficient consumers is right up there with wishing on a star.
>If cars are still able to be crashed in 10 years, I think something has gone wrong.
No kidding. We got totally ripped out of flying cars, the least we should get in return is self-driving autos.
And usually that's the admins. Most admins gone bad would be smart enough to bone the backups if they were going to do deliberate damage. The best way to protect yourself is an off-site DVD backup, but that's a lot of work to keep current.
>they're not complete idiots
Not sure I'd want to defend that assertion.
My amoebas just applied for farm subsidies.
Nuts with lawyers are better. At least he's only hurting his own financial future and wasting the court's time.
There you go, clouding the issue with facts.
Still hot, even with egg on her face.
Your hatred for anything conservative and Republican doesn't help yours, either.
I'm starting to feel like my hatred of the right is pretty damn justified right about now.
No, actually, it isn't.
People waiving the flag of false equivalence are intellectually corrupt. Violent rhetoric is not coming from both sides of the political spectrum, it's coming from the Fox News right.
I think a lot of people buy that crap because they're too gutless to take a stand for what's right.