There's this amazing thing called "The Cloud", you rent a piece of it and spin up a virtual server of your choice (I tend to go for CentOS because production should *not* be "bleeding edge"). The Cloud rarely goes down, and when it does it's not because some board got fried (there are exceptions).
Well, it did achieve low-earth orbit... just somewhat lower than planned, and its tidally locked with the planet. But it's still orbiting once every 24 hours.
If only we had a spacecraft that could maneuver close to it, grab it with a big arm, put it in the spacecraft's payload bay, and take it where it was supposed to go. That would be amazing.
So... using other networks, but not "the internet"? You know that "the internet" is a network of networks, perhaps even different kinds of networks - right?
My first thought is that what he's talking about sounds a lot like way back in the stone age when you had to work your way through different "exchanges" to maybe possibly reach Aunt Flo on the other side of the country, by negotiating with various operators...
It works "OK" for now, but it will be no problem for Google to deploy another block. Amazon needs to work something out with Google, otherwise this just keeps going: Fix->Block->Fix->Block and so on...
If anyone worked in that agency with a sincere desire to protect the American people and inform their national leaders of threats against the country, then that person's motivation is going to evaporate. When your leader has basically announced that he won't extend any consideration or trust to your organization, is there any value to your work? At the end of the day, what will all of your efforts accomplish?
And that's the problem: The pay is *not bad* though less than private for some folks. So what's the motivation to stay? Serving your country and all that. When the President starts bad-mouthing what you do, why you do it, and calling into question your patriotic motivations, YES, it's no longer worth it.
Thanks for your views on copyright. I support your views. I use *TONS* GPL'd code without concern for the copyright at all, after all, cod just wants to be free, and so the GPL is illegitimate.
By the way, while there is *actual* fake news, most real news has "editorial bias" because it is reported and written by human beings, who are in general not completely unbiased however they may try.
It's free money and anyone who says different is a rube. I just mortgaged my house and pulled my kid out of college so I could use his tuition to buy more Bitcoins!
Police represent the State. Police/State under threat. SMS invokes a well regulated militia to come to the State's aid.
In the event that our Law Enforcement ever needs a "well regulated" militia, they're not going to find it by alerting a bunch of fat red-necks in tactical vest with AR-15's and such. What is meant by "well regulated militia" is called the National Guard .
For example when Katrina went down and the National Guard was called out.
Or that big earth quake in California. The National Guard was called out.
Or the situation with wild fires. The National Guard is helping on that one, too.
Or massive flooding in the Mississippi River drainage - I believe the National Guard helped out on that one.
Or back on 9/11, the National Guard was called out to secure airports...
Yes, this is a good idea, let's all converge on the scene of a shootout... Or whatever.
On the one hand, with typical "police behavior", often we are lucky when there are "citizen" observers.
On ywt another hand, this presents a safety danger with unknown consistences many of which are not good.
Another aspect that comes to mind is that this is just one more step in the direction of a "Police State" where our Law Enforcement are seen as some holy religious order, our Priests in Blue... We've all seen these 200 car processions when a police officer is killed in the line of duty...
Let the Intertube Memes begin! This will not be pretty! Well, it will be pretty funny...
I do, however, wonder if there might be legal ramifications in any lawsuits brought on the Net Neutrality issue? An impartial judge might look dimly on this buffoonery...
Slashdot Mirror
How do you measure downtime? A few minutes or hours OR A FUCKING FEW DAYS because the BOARD IS TRASHED?
There's this amazing thing called "The Cloud", you rent a piece of it and spin up a virtual server of your choice (I tend to go for CentOS because production should *not* be "bleeding edge"). The Cloud rarely goes down, and when it does it's not because some board got fried (there are exceptions).
Funny part is that there was a prompt for "are you sure?"
The thing is, like all state of the art systems of this sort, it's run on NT or Win95, so Clippy is involved.
There's that term again, "AI"... Is it really?
Computer algorithms that automate and change and actually add to human generated tracks are nothing new.
And I wonder if they can put (or it already has) and arm in this thing?
Well, it did achieve low-earth orbit... just somewhat lower than planned, and its tidally locked with the planet. But it's still orbiting once every 24 hours.
If only we had a spacecraft that could maneuver close to it, grab it with a big arm, put it in the spacecraft's payload bay, and take it where it was supposed to go. That would be amazing.
So... using other networks, but not "the internet"? You know that "the internet" is a network of networks, perhaps even different kinds of networks - right?
My first thought is that what he's talking about sounds a lot like way back in the stone age when you had to work your way through different "exchanges" to maybe possibly reach Aunt Flo on the other side of the country, by negotiating with various operators...
Please turn off your dumbquotes.
Or maybe Slashdot can enter the 20th century and handle UTF-8 correctly?
Even Slashdot filters the "n" word...
But skank, cunt, whore, fag, queer, penis, wop, beaner, white trash, and lezbo all seem just fine.
Even Slashdot filters the "n" word...
It works "OK" for now, but it will be no problem for Google to deploy another block. Amazon needs to work something out with Google, otherwise this just keeps going: Fix->Block->Fix->Block and so on...
If anyone worked in that agency with a sincere desire to protect the American people and inform their national leaders of threats against the country, then that person's motivation is going to evaporate. When your leader has basically announced that he won't extend any consideration or trust to your organization, is there any value to your work? At the end of the day, what will all of your efforts accomplish?
And that's the problem: The pay is *not bad* though less than private for some folks. So what's the motivation to stay? Serving your country and all that. When the President starts bad-mouthing what you do, why you do it, and calling into question your patriotic motivations, YES, it's no longer worth it.
This is why I've just left Federal servoce.
Thanks for your views on copyright. I support your views. I use *TONS* GPL'd code without concern for the copyright at all, after all, cod just wants to be free, and so the GPL is illegitimate.
I read Breitbart occasonally, its interesting.
Because you are a moron?
By the way, while there is *actual* fake news, most real news has "editorial bias" because it is reported and written by human beings, who are in general not completely unbiased however they may try.
While they probably should, Trump feels this way because Jeff Bozo, who owns Amazon, also owns the NYT - or as Trump says "Fake News"...
While Steve Jobs didn't create the Lisa, he was instrumental in its development...
I don't think Jobs did *any* significant programming at Apple, if he did any at all. Jobs was the "visionary".
Who is this Putin?
It's free money and anyone who says different is a rube. I just mortgaged my house and pulled my kid out of college so I could use his tuition to buy more Bitcoins!
Police represent the State.
Police/State under threat.
SMS invokes a well regulated militia to come to the State's aid.
In the event that our Law Enforcement ever needs a "well regulated" militia, they're not going to find it by alerting a bunch of fat red-necks in tactical vest with AR-15's and such. What is meant by "well regulated militia" is called the National Guard .
For example when Katrina went down and the National Guard was called out.
Or that big earth quake in California. The National Guard was called out.
Or the situation with wild fires. The National Guard is helping on that one, too.
Or massive flooding in the Mississippi River drainage - I believe the National Guard helped out on that one.
Or back on 9/11, the National Guard was called out to secure airports...
See the trend in these examples?
Yes, this is a good idea, let's all converge on the scene of a shootout... Or whatever.
On the one hand, with typical "police behavior", often we are lucky when there are "citizen" observers.
On ywt another hand, this presents a safety danger with unknown consistences many of which are not good.
Another aspect that comes to mind is that this is just one more step in the direction of a "Police State" where our Law Enforcement are seen as some holy religious order, our Priests in Blue... We've all seen these 200 car processions when a police officer is killed in the line of duty...
I don't think this is a well thought-out idea.
Of course. Many of their corporate clients still use 2007.
So?
Let the Intertube Memes begin! This will not be pretty! Well, it will be pretty funny...
I do, however, wonder if there might be legal ramifications in any lawsuits brought on the Net Neutrality issue? An impartial judge might look dimly on this buffoonery...
Do you really expect us to believe you have ever left your momâ(TM)s basement?