Not really so much that it's DOS, but just the innovation. The RPI has given people a platform to experiment, innovate and just have fun. It's refreshing to know there are people out there using their minds for things other than mass-media termination points.
but then I imagined them working from a remote town hall and surrounded by their constituants
Yes, especially if those town halls and constituents are in barbados, or tahiti. IT people working remotely is a whole different ball of wax than a bunch of politicians already suspect of corruption.
The political environment added with each countries customs and beliefs will not let them just say "oh hah.. lol sorry, forgot it's the interenetz!"
Afghanistan/Iran and other countries already censor. Many will follow. It's the only logical, but unfortunate, recourse a country has over something they cannot otherwise control. Or, you just make your own state-sponsored trucks 'n tubes
When you are dealing with a potential calamity on the scale of Fukishama (or even Deepwater Horizon for that matter) the system needs to be able to rebound easily from instabilities such as fire, earthquake, overheating, floods or Rats. The biggest problem with Nuclear is you need guaranteed cooling for the system to remain stable -- and you can't get that to 100%. Ever. The entire system needs to shift over to one of the less problematic alternatives in order for it to gain wide acceptance.
"There are three different computer types on the Voyager spacecraft and there are two of each kind. Total number of words among the six computers is about 32K."*
I see a lot of people complaining about the actions of the researcher, but what about the actions of the manufacturer? If Medeco made a lock that had the equivalent of "admin/admin telnet" on it, they'd be strung up. I'm not saying the researcher is not responsible for his actions, however putting all the blame on him isn't reasonable either.
They've been operating on a shoestring budget since as long as I can remember. Shit wages make for shit teachers. Stop paying Administration with 6-digit salaries and distribute the difference among the staff and things will improve. Gates is a two-faced jackwagon blaming a systematically hamstrug public educational system that all his buddies want privatized.
Oh, and the reason Corporations go overseas for outsourcing is the H1B visa money, not talent. They couldn't give two shits about talent as long as someone is there to answer the support line.
As long as we're going down the road of matching cores and RAM to that of nearly current desktop specs, why not nail down some standards for connecting peripherals? And no, I don't mean shitty proprietary bluetooth/wi-fi protocols. I mean a standard mini-usb dock with VGA, HDMI, DVI output and a few USB ports for a keyboard and rat. Something that can be implemented by the entire range of Android devices whether it's HTC, or Samsung, or Motorola. Otherwise, I see no point in phone with 4 damn cores and 3-4G of ram. It's just an expensive and wasteful pocket heater. Gaming on a screen that small is ridiculous.
The same type of reckless design that went into AT&T's website for registration is symptomatic of the direction the industry has been heading. It represents that YOUR PRIVACY in the hands of a monopoly is not worth two-shits to them. Even if it was "only an email address" it could have easily been your SSN# on a CD, or medical record on an unencrypted laptop, voting record or ballot on a voting machine, whatever. Weev sounds like a jackass, but I would have expected better security from AT&T. If you're going to take the place to be a reactionary "victim" then maybe you should ask yourself who victimized you first -- AT&T perhaps? If AT&T left your car unlocked, would you still blame the thief?
Is it not completely possible that one intelligent man, $300 laptop, and an internet connection be just as "deadly" as any country's electronic warfare unit?
Seems to me the bastard didn't care much about the rights of anyone in the theater when when he kicked in the and started shooting people. Insane or not, public hanging ftw.
Really not trying to be sexist here which is the first problem. It's really difficult to address the difficulties pertaining to male vs. female co-workers/bosses when the core issues are so deeply ingrained in the differences which make it sexist.
I don't see DST/CST going away. Seems there would be a lot of code in use that would need to be updated, thrown out, debugged, rewritten, trashed, etc. It would be worse than the y2k that wasn't.
Seems like it's a good time to think about plugging the cable modem into a persistent Tor connection or something. If the courts can't protect 1st amendment rights, Tor would at least make it harder for the Trolls to drag you through legal mire over a basic right that's supposed to be protected under the constitution.
Slashdot Mirror
company will sue the cancer patients
You might by trying for cynicism, but this is just all too similar to cases already won by Monsanto
3 different people in the office have already started using this word today. I imagine it will catch on like crazy now.
Not really so much that it's DOS, but just the innovation. The RPI has given people a platform to experiment, innovate and just have fun. It's refreshing to know there are people out there using their minds for things other than mass-media termination points.
Apple is one of the most popular brands ever
So is Walmart. That doesn't mean it's the end-all of great business practice.
but then I imagined them working from a remote town hall and surrounded by their constituants
Yes, especially if those town halls and constituents are in barbados, or tahiti. IT people working remotely is a whole different ball of wax than a bunch of politicians already suspect of corruption.
SuSE has the best installation and configuration utility
Not to be a dick, but SuSE is the last distro any Linux enthusiast should be suggesting. Their microsoft pact f#cked the rest of the community[0]
Everyone who was using Ubuntu switched to Linux Mint[1] after Shuttleworth decided Amazon needed to know what you do online.
[0] - http://arstechnica.com/business/2006/11/8141/
[1] - http://linuxmint.com/
Is this a repost from 1997?
A few immature people at pycon got modded off-topic and were escorted out. That's it.
The political environment added with each countries customs and beliefs will not let them just say "oh hah.. lol sorry, forgot it's the interenetz!"
Afghanistan/Iran and other countries already censor. Many will follow. It's the only logical, but unfortunate, recourse a country has over something they cannot otherwise control. Or, you just make your own state-sponsored trucks 'n tubes
*sigh* "conflict between the web and the enterprise worlds." is another way of saying users complained when not given an option to aim at their foot.
When you are dealing with a potential calamity on the scale of Fukishama (or even Deepwater Horizon for that matter) the system needs to be able to rebound easily from instabilities such as fire, earthquake, overheating, floods or Rats. The biggest problem with Nuclear is you need guaranteed cooling for the system to remain stable -- and you can't get that to 100%. Ever. The entire system needs to shift over to one of the less problematic alternatives in order for it to gain wide acceptance.
No, it wasn't the Eniac.
"There are three different computer types on the Voyager spacecraft and there are two of each kind. Total number of words among the six computers is about 32K."*
[*] - http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/faq.html
If you can't beat them, join them.
Or beat them from the inside.
I see a lot of people complaining about the actions of the researcher, but what about the actions of the manufacturer? If Medeco made a lock that had the equivalent of "admin/admin telnet" on it, they'd be strung up. I'm not saying the researcher is not responsible for his actions, however putting all the blame on him isn't reasonable either.
They've been operating on a shoestring budget since as long as I can remember. Shit wages make for shit teachers. Stop paying Administration with 6-digit salaries and distribute the difference among the staff and things will improve. Gates is a two-faced jackwagon blaming a systematically hamstrug public educational system that all his buddies want privatized.
Oh, and the reason Corporations go overseas for outsourcing is the H1B visa money, not talent. They couldn't give two shits about talent as long as someone is there to answer the support line.
Fines don't do it.
Agreed. If that were effective, BP would be really hurting right now.
Poor people rationalize their lives by believing that myth.
Miserable people find fault anywhere they can to keep their lives dysfunctional.
As long as we're going down the road of matching cores and RAM to that of nearly current desktop specs, why not nail down some standards for connecting peripherals? And no, I don't mean shitty proprietary bluetooth/wi-fi protocols. I mean a standard mini-usb dock with VGA, HDMI, DVI output and a few USB ports for a keyboard and rat. Something that can be implemented by the entire range of Android devices whether it's HTC, or Samsung, or Motorola. Otherwise, I see no point in phone with 4 damn cores and 3-4G of ram. It's just an expensive and wasteful pocket heater. Gaming on a screen that small is ridiculous.
The same type of reckless design that went into AT&T's website for registration is symptomatic of the direction the industry has been heading. It represents that YOUR PRIVACY in the hands of a monopoly is not worth two-shits to them. Even if it was "only an email address" it could have easily been your SSN# on a CD, or medical record on an unencrypted laptop, voting record or ballot on a voting machine, whatever. Weev sounds like a jackass, but I would have expected better security from AT&T. If you're going to take the place to be a reactionary "victim" then maybe you should ask yourself who victimized you first -- AT&T perhaps? If AT&T left your car unlocked, would you still blame the thief?
Running Solaris 2.6, even.
lol fully patched 2.6, right? right?
Is it not completely possible that one intelligent man, $300 laptop, and an internet connection be just as "deadly" as any country's electronic warfare unit?
That seems to describe the Melissa 'virus'
Seems to me the bastard didn't care much about the rights of anyone in the theater when when he kicked in the and started shooting people. Insane or not, public hanging ftw.
Really not trying to be sexist here which is the first problem. It's really difficult to address the difficulties pertaining to male vs. female co-workers/bosses when the core issues are so deeply ingrained in the differences which make it sexist.
I think I just gave myself a migrain.
I don't see DST/CST going away. Seems there would be a lot of code in use that would need to be updated, thrown out, debugged, rewritten, trashed, etc. It would be worse than the y2k that wasn't.
Seems like it's a good time to think about plugging the cable modem into a persistent Tor connection or something. If the courts can't protect 1st amendment rights, Tor would at least make it harder for the Trolls to drag you through legal mire over a basic right that's supposed to be protected under the constitution.