Most of the weight of a glacier sits on the flanks of the mountain. That would be the area scrubbed by the movement of the glacier*. The ice/snow on the peaks is thinner and relatively stable. So the effect of a glacier-covered mountain is to have its flanks carved away, making it 'pointier'. This will continue until the slopes become so steep that the shape is no longer structurally stable. An ice-free mountain would probably erode uniformly from top to bottom and its resulting shape would be different (probably rounder on top).
*Increased melting rates causes glaciers to move faster, also accelerating the rate of mountain flank erosion.
Time for politicians to either blow up the patriot act to bits or loose their jobs.
A nice thought in theory. But how do you propose organizing support for this initiative. You don't think the NSA is watching for attempts to undermine their operating charter just as earnestly (if not more so) than backpacks and pressure cookers?
... forgets to enter this exception into their CICS system and the NSA is in arrears $2.4 mill, I want to be the lineman handling the disconnect notice.
... for an enterprise critical app at a large corporation (why I wore so many hats is a long story), I was introduced to my replacement with about 60 days to go. I gave him a copy of my 'run book' (you real life admins call them) and showed him where all the requirements and development documentation was. I told him that I'd be redirecting some (easier) administration issues to him and call him in on the tough stuff for the next two months.
Most of the stuff was 'glued together' with Perl. So one of the job requirements for my replacement was an understanding of Perl. So I sit down with him on a simple task and have him look over my shoulder as I patched one of the Perl CGI scripts. After about 5 minutes of his silence, he asked, "What language is this written in?" And there we were, staring at the "#!/bin/perl" line at the top of the script. Things were not going to go well.
As my end date approached, I gave him a copy of a configuration file that managed sending out e-mail/paging on error conditions and suggested that upon my departure, he put his own e-mail address and pager number in there. One of the addresses was my home e-mail account. For the next three years, I continued to get, "The server is up/The server is down" messages.
Some time later, the company outsourced the whole system to an offshore company (Strange, I thought, for a DoD contractor). They found my name in the headers of all the files I had revised (its a rather unique name, easy to Google) and hired me as a well paid consultant to assist them in maintaining the system.
Collecting metadata from telecommunications companies (which is legal, albeit retroactively, thanks to passed and signed legislation)
And there is an issue that also needs to be addressed. In totalitarian governments, laws are written to allow the ruling class to do as they please. So technically, no laws are being broken no matter how egregious the behavior. We have this thing called a Constitution. There may come a time when someone with standing[1] brings a court case and the whole NSA/Patriot Act/FISA scheme is found to be in violation of the constitution. But until then, yes, its all legal.
It's a matter of justice, which is a higher standard than that of legality. Its what we expect our system of government to deliver, sometimes by throwing out bad laws. For those of you who just parrot, 'Its the law', that's fine. You go right ahead and do what the law proscribes. The rest of us are engaged in a discussion about changing the law. And we'd appreciate the rest of you to wait on the sidelines until we are finished. Then we'll tell you what to do.
[1] How do you know that you have standing to bring a fourth amendment case when the details of espionage conducted against you are secret?
US airspace? Most of it isn't. And others exploring for oil up there (Russia for one) might look upon this as a form of surveillance of their exploration activities.
The point of having a car is to get me from point A to point B. An autonomous car I can understand. For those too dim to drive. But what would be the point of me sitting at home while directing my car all over town? I mean if I've got to sit with a wheel in my hand, I might as well be sitting in the driver's seat.
The application proposed by TFA (delivering rental cars) still requires paying a (remote) driver for the one way trip. Might as well have one person drive a car carrier and drop vehicles off where needed.
DPRK smuggled one in a while back and reverse engineered it. They figured if that was all the tech we had, we'd be an easy conquest. Hence their new missile program.
Probably true. At work, when the shitty Windows system bombs, its coffee break time until the IT people show up. So the company computing system is like a lab rat. I've seen what kills it and I know enough not to drink the same KoolAide.
The problem with ignoring experts or deriding them is that sooner or later the rube consumer is going to depend on experts.
But the experts have been bought or discounted. The MCSEs have a vested interest in propagating Windows. Its defects are their job security. The others have been discredited as Apple or Linux fanbois. Besides, people become emotionally invested in their choices. Once they have been led down a bad path, they are less likely to listen to alternatives than when they made their original choice.
Sometimes all you can do (as that expert) is to walk away. Even Dr. House has to call the time of death on occasion.
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Most of the weight of a glacier sits on the flanks of the mountain. That would be the area scrubbed by the movement of the glacier*. The ice/snow on the peaks is thinner and relatively stable. So the effect of a glacier-covered mountain is to have its flanks carved away, making it 'pointier'. This will continue until the slopes become so steep that the shape is no longer structurally stable. An ice-free mountain would probably erode uniformly from top to bottom and its resulting shape would be different (probably rounder on top).
*Increased melting rates causes glaciers to move faster, also accelerating the rate of mountain flank erosion.
Time for politicians to either blow up the patriot act to bits or loose their jobs.
A nice thought in theory. But how do you propose organizing support for this initiative. You don't think the NSA is watching for attempts to undermine their operating charter just as earnestly (if not more so) than backpacks and pressure cookers?
Most of the stuff was 'glued together' with Perl. So one of the job requirements for my replacement was an understanding of Perl. So I sit down with him on a simple task and have him look over my shoulder as I patched one of the Perl CGI scripts. After about 5 minutes of his silence, he asked, "What language is this written in?" And there we were, staring at the "#! /bin/perl" line at the top of the script. Things were not going to go well.
As my end date approached, I gave him a copy of a configuration file that managed sending out e-mail/paging on error conditions and suggested that upon my departure, he put his own e-mail address and pager number in there. One of the addresses was my home e-mail account. For the next three years, I continued to get, "The server is up/The server is down" messages.
Some time later, the company outsourced the whole system to an offshore company (Strange, I thought, for a DoD contractor). They found my name in the headers of all the files I had revised (its a rather unique name, easy to Google) and hired me as a well paid consultant to assist them in maintaining the system.
Right. There's nothing better than throwing on a backpack and heading out into the woods to escape the pressure cooker of the office.
Oh crap! Now I'm really screwed!
"Take refuge behind the sofa!"
It gets worse. People Google for bing.com.
And always wear clean underwear.
Collecting metadata from telecommunications companies (which is legal, albeit retroactively, thanks to passed and signed legislation)
And there is an issue that also needs to be addressed. In totalitarian governments, laws are written to allow the ruling class to do as they please. So technically, no laws are being broken no matter how egregious the behavior. We have this thing called a Constitution. There may come a time when someone with standing[1] brings a court case and the whole NSA/Patriot Act/FISA scheme is found to be in violation of the constitution. But until then, yes, its all legal.
It's a matter of justice, which is a higher standard than that of legality. Its what we expect our system of government to deliver, sometimes by throwing out bad laws. For those of you who just parrot, 'Its the law', that's fine. You go right ahead and do what the law proscribes. The rest of us are engaged in a discussion about changing the law. And we'd appreciate the rest of you to wait on the sidelines until we are finished. Then we'll tell you what to do.
[1] How do you know that you have standing to bring a fourth amendment case when the details of espionage conducted against you are secret?
So what you are saying is that both Linus and Richard Stallman won.
We're selling it in he UK. And its sort of cloud-like. So lets call it London Fog.
US airspace? Most of it isn't. And others exploring for oil up there (Russia for one) might look upon this as a form of surveillance of their exploration activities.
The point of having a car is to get me from point A to point B. An autonomous car I can understand. For those too dim to drive. But what would be the point of me sitting at home while directing my car all over town? I mean if I've got to sit with a wheel in my hand, I might as well be sitting in the driver's seat.
The application proposed by TFA (delivering rental cars) still requires paying a (remote) driver for the one way trip. Might as well have one person drive a car carrier and drop vehicles off where needed.
DPRK smuggled one in a while back and reverse engineered it. They figured if that was all the tech we had, we'd be an easy conquest. Hence their new missile program.
Probably true. At work, when the shitty Windows system bombs, its coffee break time until the IT people show up. So the company computing system is like a lab rat. I've seen what kills it and I know enough not to drink the same KoolAide.
The problem with ignoring experts or deriding them is that sooner or later the rube consumer is going to depend on experts.
But the experts have been bought or discounted. The MCSEs have a vested interest in propagating Windows. Its defects are their job security. The others have been discredited as Apple or Linux fanbois. Besides, people become emotionally invested in their choices. Once they have been led down a bad path, they are less likely to listen to alternatives than when they made their original choice.
Sometimes all you can do (as that expert) is to walk away. Even Dr. House has to call the time of death on occasion.
I Googled "A poor worker blames his tools". All I got was links to Craftsman and Harbor Freight.