When the HTML programming goes to a firm with a college classmate of Michelle and that firm is a subsidiary of a Canadian outfit AND it is done on a NO BID basis well you can guess what is going on in Obamacare.
If you knew this in the beginning, you would have predicted something like this.
Come on now. There had to be one hell of a lot of easily obtained food in massive fields of easily reached, easily mouthed leaves and stalks for these huge vegetarians to exist (we'll ignore the tiny guys.) There also had to be a limited number of viable predators. Dinos also must have been able to grow fairly fast to reach those sizes within what could be considered a likely lifespan.
How come nobody talks about these other requirements? In other words there is a whole ecosystem and genetic system that conspired to let the huge dinosaurs exist.
I am a bit numbed by the number of failures of software systems at big companies (& governments) who should know better.
If you are designing critical systems, there has to be an incredibly detailed master system describing fallbacks, trip points and fail safe conditions, let alone a gross shutdown (seen multiple times recently.) What do these failures in both checking and security and logic mean for trusting large institutions and government?
The question: What overview system of principles of software design are going to be needed to properly organize a major software program from day one to prevent, at least, the obvious failure modes? There is something inherently wrong by design when hundreds to thousands of security breaches occur in the US on public websites and databases each year.
Then there are massive gov't software projects that are supposed to "reform" or "modernize" ancient softwere systems that never get finished and are just dropped after tens of millions of dollars. Just Google "failed government software".
"Please learn a little bit..." You are WRONG! Citations follow
Just a quick quote from wikipedia on Egypt, without the scientific article citations: "Climate changes and/or overgrazing around 8000 BC began to desiccate the pastoral lands of Egypt, forming the Sahara. Early tribal peoples migrated to the Nile River where they developed a settled agricultural economy and more centralized society.[18]
We have had a 50 meter rise in sea level in about 20,000 years. Does that give ANYONE a clue? Do you think any government could have stopped that?
Egypt was the most powerful nation on earth about 5000 years ago because of its fabulous growing regions. They are now desert caused by NATURAL climate change. Could any government reverse that change?
Based on lack of Sunspots of late, we may have an inordinately cold hard winter (climate change?) and some areas in the upper midwest already had 20,000 steers freeze to death. Climate change? Well, the same thing happened back in the 1960s, so was it climate change? Tell me when the next Maunder Minimum will occur? No solar scientist knows if or when. We still don't understand the long term variations of climate due to the variability of the Sun's output. Vary the sun up or down.01-.02% and the earth has large changes.
Scientists afraid of losing their job don't necessarily want to publish papers that go against the grain of politics. To do so may eliminate one's income.
There are damn good reasons to eliminate pollution where they occur, but the U.S. is not going to eliminate Asia's soot, carbon and heavy metals and chemical pollution. About 25% of the Los Angeles air pollution was noted in the paper recently to be from Asia/China. The US is NOT going to stop that by spending large sums in the US.
If we start spending massive sums before we really understand what is needed or even after, we may doom society to merely working for the government bureaucrats on a futile search for "stability" that can never be reached meaning we will all be serfs to an omnipresent government.
It is not like this is a new issue. Fire all IT managers who were responsible for not doing penetration testing, including the ones at Homeland Security.
If you do NOT hold managers responsible then they are just lifers waiting for their pension!!
Education on relative risks is crucial to rational living. What is your daughter most likely to get & WHEN?
When people are in their prime years, the CDC says 120 million US citizens have STDs; 1 out of 3 adults or more. 1 out of 3 will get heart disease, kidney & pancreas/diabetes. All of these can severely degrade ones ability to live & work and kill prematurely.
So what does your daughter really need to focus on to avoid MAJOR problems in her prime productive years.
Google didn't see the benefit of a open & yet controlled environment along with the concept of having their own top line hardware and now Apple has seemingly walked away with the mindshare of the educated & upscale side of the country. I don't see Apple letting up on their advancement of both hardware and software plus the key OS programming environment.
You need to be a practicing contract lawyer in the field the EULA operates in to understand what they mean.
Last time I tried to read a EULA was on Microsoft's site. I read for maybe 15 minutes and hadn't finished more than a third of the document when MS's website cut me off for 'inactivity'.
EULA's are a joke from any typical user's standpoint.
Microsoft's attitude is part of the reason they get so little respect.
I am not a particle physicist, but do wonder if this dual laser Boron fusion method is likely to be a more simpler device than the one Tri-Alpha Energy has been working on for the last half dozen years?
Inevitable change is the order of the century. The question may be whether we revert socially because a substantial portion of the US population doesn't care or want to learn more technical subjects that would allow them to stay well employed.
If we develop the 'taker' society, we in line for violent revolution when the goodies run out.
The cost of hydrogen has nothing to do with the viability of fusion reactions.
The end goal that must be met is financial viability of say $.05 per KWhr from a continuously operating fusion reactor over the lifetime of the facility.
We are a long time from such a result, if ever. We just don't know if and when we will achieve it.
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NSA is doing nothing its forbears weren't doing just "better."
Not only that, but Adobe wants to move ALL their customers to the cloud!
"probably cuts corners in almost every other area" uh let's make that 'always cuts corners ...'
When the HTML programming goes to a firm with a college classmate of Michelle and that firm is a subsidiary of a Canadian outfit AND it is done on a NO BID basis well you can guess what is going on in Obamacare.
If you knew this in the beginning, you would have predicted something like this.
Come on now. There had to be one hell of a lot of easily obtained food in massive fields of easily reached, easily mouthed leaves and stalks for these huge vegetarians to exist (we'll ignore the tiny guys.) There also had to be a limited number of viable predators. Dinos also must have been able to grow fairly fast to reach those sizes within what could be considered a likely lifespan.
How come nobody talks about these other requirements? In other words there is a whole ecosystem and genetic system that conspired to let the huge dinosaurs exist.
I am a bit numbed by the number of failures of software systems at big companies (& governments) who should know better.
If you are designing critical systems, there has to be an incredibly detailed master system describing fallbacks, trip points and fail safe conditions, let alone a gross shutdown (seen multiple times recently.) What do these failures in both checking and security and logic mean for trusting large institutions and government?
The question: What overview system of principles of software design are going to be needed to properly organize a major software program from day one to prevent, at least, the obvious failure modes? There is something inherently wrong by design when hundreds to thousands of security breaches occur in the US on public websites and databases each year.
I expected much more description of what the concept meant and how it worked.
Then there are massive gov't software projects that are supposed to "reform" or "modernize" ancient softwere systems that never get finished and are just dropped after tens of millions of dollars. Just Google "failed government software".
"Egypt was always a desert you fucking moron." Read the Wikipedia article on Egypt's prehistory Sorry you didn't check that first.
"Please learn a little bit ..." You are WRONG! Citations follow
Just a quick quote from wikipedia on Egypt, without the scientific article citations: "Climate changes and/or overgrazing around 8000 BC began to desiccate the pastoral lands of Egypt, forming the Sahara. Early tribal peoples migrated to the Nile River where they developed a settled agricultural economy and more centralized society.[18]
We have had a 50 meter rise in sea level in about 20,000 years. Does that give ANYONE a clue? Do you think any government could have stopped that?
Egypt was the most powerful nation on earth about 5000 years ago because of its fabulous growing regions. They are now desert caused by NATURAL climate change. Could any government reverse that change?
Based on lack of Sunspots of late, we may have an inordinately cold hard winter (climate change?) and some areas in the upper midwest already had 20,000 steers freeze to death. Climate change? Well, the same thing happened back in the 1960s, so was it climate change? Tell me when the next Maunder Minimum will occur? No solar scientist knows if or when. We still don't understand the long term variations of climate due to the variability of the Sun's output. Vary the sun up or down .01-.02% and the earth has large changes.
Scientists afraid of losing their job don't necessarily want to publish papers that go against the grain of politics. To do so may eliminate one's income.
There are damn good reasons to eliminate pollution where they occur, but the U.S. is not going to eliminate Asia's soot, carbon and heavy metals and chemical pollution. About 25% of the Los Angeles air pollution was noted in the paper recently to be from Asia/China. The US is NOT going to stop that by spending large sums in the US.
If we start spending massive sums before we really understand what is needed or even after, we may doom society to merely working for the government bureaucrats on a futile search for "stability" that can never be reached meaning we will all be serfs to an omnipresent government.
...And...as I said, fire all those responsible for ignoring penetration testing and then implementation or it will continue.
It is not like this is a new issue. Fire all IT managers who were responsible for not doing penetration testing, including the ones at Homeland Security.
If you do NOT hold managers responsible then they are just lifers waiting for their pension!!
Education on relative risks is crucial to rational living. What is your daughter most likely to get & WHEN?
When people are in their prime years, the CDC says 120 million US citizens have STDs; 1 out of 3 adults or more. 1 out of 3 will get heart disease, kidney & pancreas/diabetes. All of these can severely degrade ones ability to live & work and kill prematurely.
So what does your daughter really need to focus on to avoid MAJOR problems in her prime productive years.
Look where the billionaires are piling up and those who work for them trying to emulate their status.
Look where Burberry mushroomed their sales.
Li has it right.
It differs in that everyone in the upper levels knows that they get compensated on how much $s they extract from the newbies for their "courses."
Google didn't see the benefit of a open & yet controlled environment along with the concept of having their own top line hardware and now Apple has seemingly walked away with the mindshare of the educated & upscale side of the country. I don't see Apple letting up on their advancement of both hardware and software plus the key OS programming environment.
A product is not just an "OS" in today's world.
Mid-day sweeping keeps the cobwebs out.
They are quickest and stand ready to demolish their opponent, go for the gun ... pull trigger ...
You need to be a practicing contract lawyer in the field the EULA operates in to understand what they mean.
Last time I tried to read a EULA was on Microsoft's site. I read for maybe 15 minutes and hadn't finished more than a third of the document when MS's website cut me off for 'inactivity'.
EULA's are a joke from any typical user's standpoint.
Microsoft's attitude is part of the reason they get so little respect.
Tell me that GM, Ford & Chrysler haven't already spend 7 figures each on battery technology & I will call them losers.
Something tells me this is a "support your local college" PR building campaign.
How to bury your company's reputation with one password.
I am not a particle physicist, but do wonder if this dual laser Boron fusion method is likely to be a more simpler device than the one Tri-Alpha Energy has been working on for the last half dozen years?
Inevitable change is the order of the century. The question may be whether we revert socially because a substantial portion of the US population doesn't care or want to learn more technical subjects that would allow them to stay well employed.
If we develop the 'taker' society, we in line for violent revolution when the goodies run out.
The cost of hydrogen has nothing to do with the viability of fusion reactions.
The end goal that must be met is financial viability of say $.05 per KWhr from a continuously operating fusion reactor over the lifetime of the facility.
We are a long time from such a result, if ever. We just don't know if and when we will achieve it.