I wonder if I'm the only person who hears or reads "golden parachute" and gets a mental image of a CEO jumping from a burning plane with his company's stock ticker on the side, holding on to a dozen overstuffed briefcases full of cash like he's a modern-day DB Cooper.:D
Why stick with plane imagery? A golden lifeboat would be just as appropriate: you get the mental image of the ship listing so badly that the CEO loses his foothold, starts sliding from the bridge accross the deck, and just happens to fall right into the golden lifeboat, which conveniently already contains several bags of cash which must have slid from the strongroom whose door popped open when the ship hit the rocks.
And the CEO rows into the sunset, while the shareholders vainly shout "vade a bordo, c*zzo!"...
Consider various postings about the TSA. TSA gained relevance on/. due to their use of body scanners and so forth; however, at least a few of the more recent posts is about the gross ineptitude of the TSA, tech being merely one outlet for set ineptitude. Yet no one complains about TSA articles (that I've seen, anyway).
TSA is relevant to geeks, because often nerdy contraptions are mistaken for bombs by screeners. And because geek's general lack of self-confidence may be mistaken for a suicide bomber's anxiousness.
TSA's ineptitude has nothing to do with it (but of course, thrown into the mix, it makes the subject even more interesting).
There's two key strategies to avoid being DDoSed...
You forgot the most efficient strategy: don't piss off your customers (or users, in case you consider your customers to be your advertisers only). Don't pick battles with anonymous.
Even having beefier I/O and network doesn't help: we are legion!
It is also fitted with resistors to stop it heating up and becoming too hot to touch.
Maybe these are thermovariable resistors, that are used to detect when temperature is rising too high, and temporarily reduce power if/when it happens?
Exactly. And this makes most of those video tutorials on youtube so stupid: most people won't even find them because google doesn't index the spoken word (yet).
Moreover, you can't print out the tutorial either before walking down to the NOC, or to a remote customer's site, as you could with a written tutorial.
Give us videos if it's about explosions, or nifty quadricopters hovering accross the room, or planes slamming into buildings, or police beating the crap out of some poor helpless geek. But if it's just some boring guy reading his submission from a sheet, then printed text is way more appropriate.
I am a user, and I tell you: no, I don't feel that video is superior. First, the human brain is faster at reading than at listening. Second, I spend 8 hours per day at work. Not necessarily working, but I don't really want to make that distinction obvious by blaring it out of my PC's loudspeakers. And third: this is slashdot, we're supposed to hate flash. So if you post a video, why don't you at least use a sane format?
Video is ok if it is actually needed (showing something happening that is visually appealing). A video of a guy reading off a transcript is just way beyond stupid (... from the user's point of view. Advertisers may have a different opinion)
It takes ages to sit through a video with someone talking, compared to reading a transcription, so a written story is obviously superior.
... and moreover people can't listen to it at work, because either their computer has no audio, or people don't want half of the open plan office knowing that you're not working but "reading" Slashdot.
The alibi was actually not that solid. She left the art opening early to tend to her boyfriend's broken knee. Theoretically she could have rushed to the bar instead. The only witness to her alibi is her boyfriend, hardly an uninterested party.
Hell no! Good God, what if there are drugs (or any kind of residue) in the purse?! Or it was related to a serious crime? And there are *no* benefits, to you or anyone else. Most likely, that person is going to do the logical thing of retracing their steps, or someone else who is capable of not randomly dropping things they've strapped to their body can make use of it.
Or it could have been stolen, stripped of its valuable contents, and discarded. Victim will be happy to retrieve item, because some contents that is not valuable to the average thief (id documents, photos,...) is still useful to the victim (who would else have a lot of hassle to get duplicatas issued). And in this scenario, victim would be unlikely to know/guess where thief might have discarded the item.
So, in a reasonable country, it would still be useful to bring such item to the lost & found office.
In an unreasonable country, cops might just assume that you stole any money that might be missing from the item.
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Obi-wan voice: "That's no moon! Its a ..."
Dear passengers, we are flying over Christmas Islands right now...
It would be more funny if you actually keeled over, with chair, and lots of noise...
I wonder if I'm the only person who hears or reads "golden parachute" and gets a mental image of a CEO jumping from a burning plane with his company's stock ticker on the side, holding on to a dozen overstuffed briefcases full of cash like he's a modern-day DB Cooper. :D
Why stick with plane imagery? A golden lifeboat would be just as appropriate: you get the mental image of the ship listing so badly that the CEO loses his foothold, starts sliding from the bridge accross the deck, and just happens to fall right into the golden lifeboat, which conveniently already contains several bags of cash which must have slid from the strongroom whose door popped open when the ship hit the rocks.
And the CEO rows into the sunset, while the shareholders vainly shout "vade a bordo, c*zzo!"...
... did anybody notice the date in the sideline of that PDF?
Then they came for the project managers,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't an project manager.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Fortunately, the Republicans already had their post-coital enema, so at least that particular category of political jokes is now gone.
for example if your right hand is hacked, use your left,
And if both hands are hacked, use the stumps...
Licensed to carry a firearm and a student of criminal justice, Zimmerman
Don't they teach in criminal justice 101 that usually judge, jury and executioner are not supposed to be one and the same person?
Consider various postings about the TSA. TSA gained relevance on /. due to their use of body scanners and so forth; however, at least a few of the more recent posts is about the gross ineptitude of the TSA, tech being merely one outlet for set ineptitude. Yet no one complains about TSA articles (that I've seen, anyway).
TSA is relevant to geeks, because often nerdy contraptions are mistaken for bombs by screeners. And because geek's general lack of self-confidence may be mistaken for a suicide bomber's anxiousness.
TSA's ineptitude has nothing to do with it (but of course, thrown into the mix, it makes the subject even more interesting).
Slashdot's firehose is sorta like the national primaries. No one takes part in them to get rid of the crap,
Actually, in the Republican primaries they recently did get rid of the crap (along with the lube mixed with it...)
you manage to concoct an edge case
Sorry, this is about 3G/4G, not EDGE.
how often do you ssh while in a moving car
As the passenger, of course. Only fools drive and text *wink* wink*.
that's going in and out of buildings?
Parking garages. Tunnels. Toll plazas. Petrol Stations. Or just between two tall buildings blocking out the signal.
And 15 years later, LOCAL_ECHO is back in mosh!
Actually, the glasses do exist, they're just being held up by customs because they lag a CE sign...
do it like they do in Luxembourg: arrest anybody who talks about the breach. After a while there will be nobody left that knows about it. Case closed!
There's two key strategies to avoid being DDoSed...
You forgot the most efficient strategy: don't piss off your customers (or users, in case you consider your customers to be your advertisers only). Don't pick battles with anonymous.
Even having beefier I/O and network doesn't help: we are legion!
It is also fitted with resistors to stop it heating up and becoming too hot to touch.
Maybe these are thermovariable resistors, that are used to detect when temperature is rising too high, and temporarily reduce power if/when it happens?
I've heard of latex allergies
Ew, must be painful...
(from gloves)
*sighofrelief* fortunately I'm not into fisting (but for those who are: that'll itch even more, at a less accessible place!)
You can't really search within video.
Exactly. And this makes most of those video tutorials on youtube so stupid: most people won't even find them because google doesn't index the spoken word (yet).
Moreover, you can't print out the tutorial either before walking down to the NOC, or to a remote customer's site, as you could with a written tutorial.
Give us videos if it's about explosions, or nifty quadricopters hovering accross the room, or planes slamming into buildings, or police beating the crap out of some poor helpless geek. But if it's just some boring guy reading his submission from a sheet, then printed text is way more appropriate.
Superior *for the user*,
I am a user, and I tell you: no, I don't feel that video is superior. First, the human brain is faster at reading than at listening. Second, I spend 8 hours per day at work. Not necessarily working, but I don't really want to make that distinction obvious by blaring it out of my PC's loudspeakers. And third: this is slashdot, we're supposed to hate flash. So if you post a video, why don't you at least use a sane format?
Video is ok if it is actually needed (showing something happening that is visually appealing). A video of a guy reading off a transcript is just way beyond stupid (... from the user's point of view. Advertisers may have a different opinion)
It takes ages to sit through a video with someone talking, compared to reading a transcription, so a written story is obviously superior.
... and moreover people can't listen to it at work, because either their computer has no audio, or people don't want half of the open plan office knowing that you're not working but "reading" Slashdot.
O, and it's flash. WTF?
Try to keep it to a low chuckle. The reality distortion field might break under greater strain.
Make sure to hook up Steve to a generator before you start, it would be a pity let the energy from his spinning go to waste...
...and had a solid alibi.
The alibi was actually not that solid. She left the art opening early to tend to her boyfriend's broken knee. Theoretically she could have rushed to the bar instead. The only witness to her alibi is her boyfriend, hardly an uninterested party.
a lost purse you found on a sidewalk
Hell no! Good God, what if there are drugs (or any kind of residue) in the purse?! Or it was related to a serious crime? And there are *no* benefits, to you or anyone else. Most likely, that person is going to do the logical thing of retracing their steps, or someone else who is capable of not randomly dropping things they've strapped to their body can make use of it.
Or it could have been stolen, stripped of its valuable contents, and discarded. Victim will be happy to retrieve item, because some contents that is not valuable to the average thief (id documents, photos, ...) is still useful to the victim (who would else have a lot of hassle to get duplicatas issued). And in this scenario, victim would be unlikely to know/guess where thief might have discarded the item.
So, in a reasonable country, it would still be useful to bring such item to the lost & found office.
In an unreasonable country, cops might just assume that you stole any money that might be missing from the item.
With a little bit of luck, a Nokia researcher might forget one on a chair...