So this skydiving student goes on his first solo jump. When the plane gets up to altitude and over the target, he jumps. Falling to the proper altitude, he pulls the release on the main chute. Nothing.
Fighting back panic, he remembers what they taught in class and pulls the release on the backup chute. Nothing happens again. Things are starting to look pretty grim as he watches the ground rapidly approach.
Then, he notices a man, rising toward him from the ground. Odd, he thinks to himself. But what the hell..... When this person gets within earshot, the skydiver yells, "Hey buddy! Do you know how to work a parachute?"
"No", the other person replies. "Do you know how to light a Coleman stove?"
... disgreement may be why Assange is still effectively a prisoner. Schmidt probably went over at the behest of the NSA to assess the threat he might still pose. Assange, not being a sycophant, told him what he really thought. Not what would get his sentence reduced.
Imputing some sort of religious/magic interpretations onto other cultures' tools and customs seems to be a problem with our anthropologists.
I remember years ago, they came up with a bunch of theories about how the Rapa Nui moved their Moai stone sculptures from the quarries to their current locations. When asked, the descendents just said, "They walked". So the anthropologists wrote that off as some sort of mysticism and theorized about rollers and dragging.
Then, someone asked, "What do you mean by 'walked'?". The islanders said they stood the statues up, tied ropes to them and rocked them back and forth, while leaning them forward. Much the same as you'd move a heavy appliance. The scientists tried it as an experiment and it worked.
Or people do something similar to what many do in my state (Washington). They register them in a low tax state (Oregon). Of course, state law says one must register a vehicle in WA state when one resides there. But this asumes a cooperative DMV. If they turned people away, the cars would continue to be registered out of state.
Get off my lawn, kid! In my day, we used to have 50 people at meetings, easy. There was an entire parallel org chart of people who lived for nothing other then going to meetings. It was how they justified their existance to their boss and stayed out of sight, so as not to raise questions about what they actually did. But try to assign them any action items at a meeting and listen to the whining.
Fast forward to a world of fiber broadband. Telecommunters can participate in multiple video links simultaneously. A couple of corporate drones can do the work of dozens of actual warm bodies. The demand for MBAs will collapse and take our employment rate and economy down with it.
The Frontier salesman stopped by my house a few months ago to get me to sign up. He said they were going to be doubling their FiOS speed in the next few months for the same price. I asked him if they had a package offering the existing speed for half the price. He just looked at me as if I was from a different planet (I am, but that's discussion for another thread).
Upon perusing their offering, I find that the offered price requires me to sign up for a 'qualified' phone package (Don't need it. I have VoIP service.), and an Internet service package (streaming TV plus some other crap I've already got, no doubt). The result is going to cost me around $100/month. No thanks. I've got a wimpy 5Mb/s now. But that runs everything I need just fine. For about $20/month.
If I really want to shut down the salespeople fast, when they tell me about their Internet service package, I always say, "Of course, that includes Usenet, right?" Again with the extraterrestrial look.
You go out of state*, buy your Tesla and receive the title. You then either get a temporary operating permit to drive it home. Or load it on a truck. When you arrive in Michigan, you register the vehicle with the title documents in your possession.
*All done virtually. You do the paperwork wherever you want (in the Tesla showroom) but it is effective in whatever state you and Tesla agree on.
undergound, recently excavated and features sacrificial altars
In the distant future, archeologists will unearth the food court on the lower level of our local mall and discover the altar upon which thousands of chickens were sacrificed to the god Colonel Sanders.
OK. That fixes an event that can take one data center out*. But why mirrored? Why aren't these systems distributed and colocated with the municipalities that they serve? And why a globally unique call ID that overflows at 4E7 records?
* I helped develop a system that achieved its reliability through the use of distributed servers. And then had the IT people put all the servers in one rack, in one building. For cost savings, of course. The building sits right on top of the Seattle fault. So you'll have to excuse me when I don't take details like this for granted.
It's helping Google. Because people that manage their own folders and filters end up shit-canning all the sponsored e-mail that Google wants you to see.
Its the frog in hot water theory. If a taxing agency takes it out in one big chunk, people will notice. If they take it out a little at a time, not so much.
Also referred to as death by a thousand cuts. No single agency will be held responsible for the resulting economic collapse.
For 911 services in 7 states? Set aside issues about the backup system for the moment (which may be a second server in the same data center): Why do all the 911 calls have to funnel through a single system? Emergency services are largely local. Not many people have to make 911 calls across a large region. So why isn't the energency call routing handled by local systems? And calls routed to local service centers?
Even if there was a common software glitch in all the handling systems, I doubt everyone would hit some call limit in a database field simultaneously.
Slashdot Mirror
Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to be in their study. Call that job satisfaction, 'cause I don't.
So this skydiving student goes on his first solo jump. When the plane gets up to altitude and over the target, he jumps. Falling to the proper altitude, he pulls the release on the main chute. Nothing.
Fighting back panic, he remembers what they taught in class and pulls the release on the backup chute. Nothing happens again. Things are starting to look pretty grim as he watches the ground rapidly approach.
Then, he notices a man, rising toward him from the ground. Odd, he thinks to himself. But what the hell ..... When this person gets within earshot, the skydiver yells, "Hey buddy! Do you know how to work a parachute?"
"No", the other person replies. "Do you know how to light a Coleman stove?"
Imputing some sort of religious/magic interpretations onto other cultures' tools and customs seems to be a problem with our anthropologists.
I remember years ago, they came up with a bunch of theories about how the Rapa Nui moved their Moai stone sculptures from the quarries to their current locations. When asked, the descendents just said, "They walked". So the anthropologists wrote that off as some sort of mysticism and theorized about rollers and dragging.
Then, someone asked, "What do you mean by 'walked'?". The islanders said they stood the statues up, tied ropes to them and rocked them back and forth, while leaning them forward. Much the same as you'd move a heavy appliance. The scientists tried it as an experiment and it worked.
Or people do something similar to what many do in my state (Washington). They register them in a low tax state (Oregon). Of course, state law says one must register a vehicle in WA state when one resides there. But this asumes a cooperative DMV. If they turned people away, the cars would continue to be registered out of state.
Get off my lawn, kid! In my day, we used to have 50 people at meetings, easy. There was an entire parallel org chart of people who lived for nothing other then going to meetings. It was how they justified their existance to their boss and stayed out of sight, so as not to raise questions about what they actually did. But try to assign them any action items at a meeting and listen to the whining.
Fast forward to a world of fiber broadband. Telecommunters can participate in multiple video links simultaneously. A couple of corporate drones can do the work of dozens of actual warm bodies. The demand for MBAs will collapse and take our employment rate and economy down with it.
Speed matters less with each step up.
This.
The Frontier salesman stopped by my house a few months ago to get me to sign up. He said they were going to be doubling their FiOS speed in the next few months for the same price. I asked him if they had a package offering the existing speed for half the price. He just looked at me as if I was from a different planet (I am, but that's discussion for another thread).
Upon perusing their offering, I find that the offered price requires me to sign up for a 'qualified' phone package (Don't need it. I have VoIP service.), and an Internet service package (streaming TV plus some other crap I've already got, no doubt). The result is going to cost me around $100/month. No thanks. I've got a wimpy 5Mb/s now. But that runs everything I need just fine. For about $20/month.
If I really want to shut down the salespeople fast, when they tell me about their Internet service package, I always say, "Of course, that includes Usenet, right?" Again with the extraterrestrial look.
Title and registration are two different things.
This.
You go out of state*, buy your Tesla and receive the title. You then either get a temporary operating permit to drive it home. Or load it on a truck. When you arrive in Michigan, you register the vehicle with the title documents in your possession.
*All done virtually. You do the paperwork wherever you want (in the Tesla showroom) but it is effective in whatever state you and Tesla agree on.
undergound, recently excavated and features sacrificial altars
In the distant future, archeologists will unearth the food court on the lower level of our local mall and discover the altar upon which thousands of chickens were sacrificed to the god Colonel Sanders.
Plus, they cancelled a hockey game. Canadians are lining up at recruitment centers for the chance to take ISIS down.
Because of the bones? That's doesn't sound any scarier than the BBQ rib joint down the street.
Actually there are mirrored data centers
OK. That fixes an event that can take one data center out*. But why mirrored? Why aren't these systems distributed and colocated with the municipalities that they serve? And why a globally unique call ID that overflows at 4E7 records?
* I helped develop a system that achieved its reliability through the use of distributed servers. And then had the IT people put all the servers in one rack, in one building. For cost savings, of course. The building sits right on top of the Seattle fault. So you'll have to excuse me when I don't take details like this for granted.
It's helping Google. Because people that manage their own folders and filters end up shit-canning all the sponsored e-mail that Google wants you to see.
Its the frog in hot water theory. If a taxing agency takes it out in one big chunk, people will notice. If they take it out a little at a time, not so much.
Also referred to as death by a thousand cuts. No single agency will be held responsible for the resulting economic collapse.
For 911 services in 7 states? Set aside issues about the backup system for the moment (which may be a second server in the same data center): Why do all the 911 calls have to funnel through a single system? Emergency services are largely local. Not many people have to make 911 calls across a large region. So why isn't the energency call routing handled by local systems? And calls routed to local service centers?
Even if there was a common software glitch in all the handling systems, I doubt everyone would hit some call limit in a database field simultaneously.
A codpiece?
Micro... soft...
Small electronic devices that bend easily. No, wait. That's Apple's product line.
Thanks to mandatory seatbelt laws, we don't need airbags anymore. Have them disabled and removed.
In the UK they draw rulers on the road and the camera takes two pictures of you, one second apart.
Who's second are they using?
That is a pretty compelling reason to have most of the crew women.
Time to whip out my Dr Strangelove DVD and review the bit about mineshafts.
ban images of women with small breasts
Or a wax job that leaves anything less than a Hitler Mustache.
Ron Jeremy FTW!
That isn't porn unless he shakes it more than three times.