When I'm in the middle of the forest or out in a boat is it's because someone is paying me to do work out there. I often need to communicate with people back at the office in those situations, and texting is often the easiest way to do that.
Who would have even looked for the leaked cables without stumbling upon them first?
Is bringing attention to the cables a good thing or "a security risk that can get people killed?" You are simultaneously praising Lamo for informing on a whistle blower and bringing attention to leaked documents in question.
As for the question of who would have looked for the leaked cables, I have a solid confidence the the U.S. government's ability to comprehensively monitor Wikileaks for potentially embarrassing material.
In essence he not only helped himself, but with the media attention also helped Manning's cause.
The positive impact of the media exposure given to Manning's cause by Lamo is easily outweighed by the evidence he turned over to the government.
If Manning's documents actually prove anything then none of this will have been in vain. If they unearth nothing then Manning leaked a bunch of garbage for nothing and is not only reckless but very, very stupid.
If Manning's documents prove anything, the many years he is about to spend in prison will have been in vain.
It's a trap. The successful applicant may "own" the decision, but that doesn't mean he will make it - it just means he will be responsible for dealing with any repercussions.
If you think that the economy will fall back to gold after a collapse of the fiat currency, take a look at Zimbabwe: is gold the major currency of the informal economy there? No. They use American dollars and South African rand.
And just to mix a little irony into the situation, many of those rand are earned by digging up gold and selling it for dollars.
Cambridge Brewing Co.? In Boston? Seems unlikely. I may have believed you if you had said it was in Cambridge, but you still would have come across as a pompous ass.
The only people I've had get bent have been the ones trying to use a stolen/loaned card.
False. Visa and MasterCard also got bent, but weren't there to show their displeasure. Most of those cards were loaned, and you cost the card companies money by your actions.
How do you square that with your self-righteousness?
I run a few Apple XRAIDs over FibreChannel. They are (were) the cheapest in the industry with very good specs and if you can afford a few Apple XServe's you get XSAN on there and a FibreChannel switch (on my wishlist for winter-een-mas) and you have a very easy to maintain expandable SAN.
I am an Xsan administrator, and I will grant you that Xsan is cheap and easy to maintain - for a cluster filesystem.
If you don't need a cluster filesystem (and you probably don't), Xsan is a ridiculously complicated, difficult to maintain, and expensive substitute for a nice, cheap, NAS solution.
If you (not *you* you, the generic "other" you) don't care here you are storing your files, then I don't care if you find it hard to find them.
I've read the entire apt-get man page several times, and I still don't know how to get a concise list of files that were just added to my system after "apt-get install awesome-widget"
Yes, the output of "find / -mmin -5" will contain most of what I am looking for, and "updatedb; locate awesome-widget" will likely point me in the right direction, but fuck you if you expect me to believe that you know the location of every file of interest on your filesystem.
Your employer is who gets what they deserve. Which isn't necessarily damning them - it is entirely possible that the preservation of that data isn't worth the extra cost of those LTO4 drives, servers, and tapes.
On the other hand, it is also possible that: A) they are just being cheap, or B) you have failed to adequately detail the risks inherent in the status quo.
Judging by the budget you quoted, it's a combination of all of the above: you are a crappy sysadmin for a crappy company with limited growth potential.
Which is why I find it so amusing when team owners complain their labor costs are too high. If you don't want to pay an athlete $15 million per year, THEN DON'T PAY THAT MUCH! I'm sure they can find some other athlete for less.
The complaints are directed at the politicians who have burdened them with a free market.
Embedded Linux, BlackBerry OS, Symbian OS, QNX, etc. all boot instantaneously.
Instantaneously? I think this may be one of those situations that involves somebody thinking, and somebody not thinking, and something meaning something or something.
Point being, those OSes don't boot instantaneously.
What's next, grant the patent to the large organizations simply because they're large?
Watch yourself, son. You're dangerously close to infringing my patent on "a method for granting patents to entities using a relative comparison of the size of entities."
Personally, I see a time & Place for just about all OSes/hardware,
I do too. Particularly with regards to OSes. I use Linux, XP, and Mac OS on the desktop everyday. Unfortunately, Apple is my only choice for hardware if I want to run all three on the same portable machine.
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Good for you.
When I'm in the middle of the forest or out in a boat is it's because someone is paying me to do work out there. I often need to communicate with people back at the office in those situations, and texting is often the easiest way to do that.
Who would have even looked for the leaked cables without stumbling upon them first?
Is bringing attention to the cables a good thing or "a security risk that can get people killed?" You are simultaneously praising Lamo for informing on a whistle blower and bringing attention to leaked documents in question. As for the question of who would have looked for the leaked cables, I have a solid confidence the the U.S. government's ability to comprehensively monitor Wikileaks for potentially embarrassing material.
In essence he not only helped himself, but with the media attention also helped Manning's cause.
The positive impact of the media exposure given to Manning's cause by Lamo is easily outweighed by the evidence he turned over to the government.
If Manning's documents actually prove anything then none of this will have been in vain. If they unearth nothing then Manning leaked a bunch of garbage for nothing and is not only reckless but very, very stupid.
If Manning's documents prove anything, the many years he is about to spend in prison will have been in vain.
It's a trap. The successful applicant may "own" the decision, but that doesn't mean he will make it - it just means he will be responsible for dealing with any repercussions.
No. Your 12" G4 iBook is slow as balls, which makes it an ancient notebook rather than a notebook.
Well said.
If you think that the economy will fall back to gold after a collapse of the fiat currency, take a look at Zimbabwe: is gold the major currency of the informal economy there? No. They use American dollars and South African rand.
And just to mix a little irony into the situation, many of those rand are earned by digging up gold and selling it for dollars.
people who are not nerds are actually USING COMPUTERS!
Correct.
What they are not doing, however, is reading Slashdot.
just ask your girlfr... nevermind. forgot this was slashdot.
If Microsoft ... are they in the wrong?
Yes. Generally speaking.
Cambridge Brewing Co.? In Boston? Seems unlikely. I may have believed you if you had said it was in Cambridge, but you still would have come across as a pompous ass.
The only people I've had get bent have been the ones trying to use a stolen/loaned card.
False. Visa and MasterCard also got bent, but weren't there to show their displeasure. Most of those cards were loaned, and you cost the card companies money by your actions.
How do you square that with your self-righteousness?
Last and not least, USB is a terrible plug. You always have to try it both ways, you can't visually know if you have to plug it upwards or backwards.
The USB logo always faces upwards. On a desktop machine, "upwards" means "away from the motherboard." Hope this helps.
Because with WAV+BZIP you have to decompress and store the entire WAV file somewhere before beginning playback.
FFS, if you are an actual Mac user, surely you know that neither the company nor its users use all caps when writing the word "Mac."
In case you are as oblivious as you appear to be, "MAC" spelled in all caps is a bizarre pejorative used by Windows boosters.
There isn't any underlying meaning to the capitalization as used by haters , it's done to be annoying, and it is highly effective.
I run a few Apple XRAIDs over FibreChannel. They are (were) the cheapest in the industry with very good specs and if you can afford a few Apple XServe's you get XSAN on there and a FibreChannel switch (on my wishlist for winter-een-mas) and you have a very easy to maintain expandable SAN.
I am an Xsan administrator, and I will grant you that Xsan is cheap and easy to maintain - for a cluster filesystem.
If you don't need a cluster filesystem (and you probably don't), Xsan is a ridiculously complicated, difficult to maintain, and expensive substitute for a nice, cheap, NAS solution.
If you (not *you* you, the generic "other" you) don't care here you are storing your files, then I don't care if you find it hard to find them.
I've read the entire apt-get man page several times, and I still don't know how to get a concise list of files that were just added to my system after "apt-get install awesome-widget"
Yes, the output of "find / -mmin -5" will contain most of what I am looking for, and "updatedb; locate awesome-widget" will likely point me in the right direction, but fuck you if you expect me to believe that you know the location of every file of interest on your filesystem.
oh, like "grep -r /"?
Yeah, that would take a while.
Your employer is who gets what they deserve. Which isn't necessarily damning them - it is entirely possible that the preservation of that data isn't worth the extra cost of those LTO4 drives, servers, and tapes.
On the other hand, it is also possible that: A) they are just being cheap, or B) you have failed to adequately detail the risks inherent in the status quo.
Judging by the budget you quoted, it's a combination of all of the above: you are a crappy sysadmin for a crappy company with limited growth potential.
Hardly. Replace "GPL" with "BSD" and the statement is false.
It's a free market!
Which is why I find it so amusing when team owners complain their labor costs are too high. If you don't want to pay an athlete $15 million per year, THEN DON'T PAY THAT MUCH! I'm sure they can find some other athlete for less.
The complaints are directed at the politicians who have burdened them with a free market.
yeah, but I'm 25 IQ points shy of where I started, and I haven't opened a textbook in 4 years.
I'm not going to be the same math teacher I would have been, and I probably won't enjoy it as much.
Embedded Linux, BlackBerry OS, Symbian OS, QNX, etc. all boot instantaneously.
Instantaneously? I think this may be one of those situations that involves somebody thinking, and somebody not thinking, and something meaning something or something.
Point being, those OSes don't boot instantaneously.
What's next, grant the patent to the large organizations simply because they're large?
Watch yourself, son. You're dangerously close to infringing my patent on "a method for granting patents to entities using a relative comparison of the size of entities."
$comment =~ s/k\s(an.*com)/k\sat\s\1's/
I could get a great look an MBA by sticking my head up his ass, but I'd rather take Chicago2016.com word for it.
Personally, I see a time & Place for just about all OSes/hardware,
I do too. Particularly with regards to OSes. I use Linux, XP, and Mac OS on the desktop everyday. Unfortunately, Apple is my only choice for hardware if I want to run all three on the same portable machine.