I think it's equally important to recognize that both NASA and the astronauts are putting the mission first.
But how does the poor maligned suit feel about that? It's just not good enough without help and is now embarrassed about it. Mission smission, it's only LOOKING GOOD that counts!
"equally important" -- no, it's MORE important. Who does it is unimportant, that it gets done safely and properly is of prime importance. And that includes the tools and support staff. There's always a slight risk no matter what, but you minimize those to the best of your ability.
Really?? Microkernels are just Microaggressions to a Monolithic Kernel, which is doing the best that it can with what it's given. Why are you so eagerly supporting bullies?
If increasing security had been half as important as maximizing profits
FIRST you make it work, THEN you make it faster, and ONLY THEN you fix the security.
Right? You get first / early to market your product and you make it faster and better as people accept and purchase it. Once you've got a large enough customer base who "can't live without it" you hit them up for the security charges. If you had done that at the beginning, it would have cost more and been released later to the detriment of sales.
Besides, if you'd really wanted security you would have purchased a different product in the first place. If "all bugs are shallow given enough eyes", then "no bugs exist if no one's looking" -- and it's CHEAPER that way, too.
?? What? What are you talking about? They meant well, therefore they're innocent, pure as the driven [-over] snow. They're the good guys, trying to create a everlasting world of "good perfect feeling" equality where no one is ever hurt by cruel words such as: "truth", "I think that", or "that's not right." If you want to be a airplane pilot then BE ONE. No training is required if you just believe in yourself enough -- ignore the doubters and regulators, they don't understand your glory.
We'll have no eureka moments since everyone will be thinking the exact same way.
Cultural Appropriation? Invert that -- we'll soon have Cultural Imposition where the whole world must think like we do.
The joke used to be: "Play Nice or we'll bring freedom to your country too". Now it's: "Play Nice or we'll cry and hold our breath until you do".
We just found out that McCain was involved with spreading the known to be false rumor that Trump had colluded with Russia - a fact worthy of revealing to everyone.
But he's [McCain's] dead, and you don't want to malign the dead, do you? Therefore what he said must be the truth.
Besides, Trump is still breathing and THAT'S a crime against Humanity that must be repaired No Matter What The Cost To Our Democracy.
Someone who says "America First" and then tries to do just that? Why, the next you know you'll be expecting ALL of the politicians to keep the promises they made.
Typescript is basically JavaScript syntax with some extra type information tacked on.
Oh!! So it's RATFOR (1976) for JavaScript. Why didn't you just say so?
Hell, for that matter back in 80-ish I used a C compiler with 4 separate phases. Phase 1 was macro expansion only, the other 2 started compiling the code until the phase 4 produced linkable output.... which you then had to link with the supporting libraries before you had something that could actually run.
I don't like JavaScript, but I think I'll go look at TypeScript.
I'm sure everyone here could come up with their own list
I have my own list. It's all available (and has been) on my Plex server. Most of it's not new, and the few things that are magically have No Commercials. Hell, I'm STILL catching up on a few things and they've been finished for decades.
The same with music albums from the '70s and '80s - for some reason they're not making those much anymore.
is forced to actually address design flaws or other things they do that prevent their product from being fit for purpose.
The standard reply: It's not a flaw, it's a feature.
being "fit for purpose." It worked. It worked for a long time. YOUR long and MY idea of long may differ in length, that's a different issue.
No, really. Forever isn't an option. Ten years, five years, isn't really an option. The internal expected lifetime is whatever the standard warranty is plus one month. If it works past that, consider yourself lucky.
It's not design obsolescence; we'll have changed things around too much by then so the parts won't be available in quantity. No problem -- at least for US.
BTW, I have an old IBM model M keyboard that working great. That was back when we had pride in manufacturing and things were over-engineered. All of the keys work just fine -- both before AND after using it to bludgeon annoying people. (No, the key clicks are not annoying. **I** didn't want an open office; not my problem.)
Right -- for very small and randomly changing values of unlimited.
Thanks, but you've got a negative brownie point score. You'll have to try MUCH harder than that just to reach zero. I'd say change your name to MovieAss so the consumer knows exactly what they're getting. Truth in labeling, don't cha' know?
or if they are up the food chain... they get a very strong put down by IT
Well obviously. I'm the CEO, *I* didn't click that button. That's why I have a secretary who prints out all of my emails for me. I even have her print it double-sided just to save paper!
The "It'll never happen to me" belief is strong in people, even after it happens to them.
What are you talking about?? That's what the IT people are for. I just click the button to see the risque pictures. Last time I did, the IT people had to clean up a virus that got in somehow. When it was all over I clicked it again because I didn't see the pictures the first time. For some reason they were really mad that time.
?? What are you talking about, we've got them right now. You just have to get the driver drunk enough, going fast enough, and hitting something that creates an temporary uplift. Easy.
Of course as always, it's the landing that hard. Any landing that you can walk away from is a good one.
Oh, you mean the normal interpretation -- what, are you crazy? Flying great and easy, and I assume you still have to get an FAA license to carry passengers. Oh, and you've got that silly rule about clear weather vs instrument-only landings. And all those (cell) towers, high-rises, and what-not to deal with, never mind the OTHER TRAFFIC.
Only large cities will receive all of the "benefits" of this, and I think that's just great. I'll let you live in Blade Runner's L.A. Watch out for those replicants!
"But instead of clicking that virtual machine button 25 times, I automated it,"
She needs 170 terabytes of space across 25 computers for 121 days to produce 31.4 (Ha!) trillion digits. And she's worried about clicking a button a few times?? Hell, even I'm not that anal unless it was a trivial solution. (for a in `seq 1 25` ; do./push ; done)
First world problems, I guess.
So in all seriousness, how do you check that? Run it again and see if it produces the same number? If there's a timing bug, it'll differ. If there's (say) a BAD timing bug, it won't; but might differ on a different machine. Or numeric coprocessor problems: OneTwoThree. Or cosmic rays actually flipping a bit somewhere. (ECC CPUs?) I realize this is all fun and games, but how do you know that it's actually correct? See if you can use it to successfully square the circle, in which case it's not?
Cells from a woolly mammoth that died more than 28,000 years ago have been partially reactivated inside of mouse egg cells
BRAINZZZZZ.... and cheese.
So, errr, like, what do you use -- a mousetrap? A mammoth trap? And it kills them? But, but they're already dead.
More like you'd get 'em more pissed than they were already. A mammoth-sized mouse is now upset with you. And here you thought your day was bad enough already.
It was actually a holdover from the mainframe/3270 days, when F3 (PF3 in IBM parlance) was universally used to exit a running program.
IBM's CUA (Common User Access) at the time. Every mainframe program (WAAAY before PCs) had a different set of function key actions. CUA standardized that, and F3 was Exit.
LIke the parent said, the DOS F3 was copied from that for compatibility. (Muscle Memory. My God, why don't UI designers realize that? QUIT changing things just to change things!!)
If the universe is someone's simulation -- does that mean the stars are just stuck pixels?
What?? Wasn't it added in by a "rogue programmer" at the time who didn't tell management about it, then it took off, and it was too late to get rid of it.
That's pretty much what I remember -- it wasn't planned by corporate at all, it was added surreptitiously and found a foothold.
Can you imagine the conversation in the prison cell?
"What are you in for?"
"Javascript popup, you?"
"A goto command in basic"
"Goto?! you monster!"
And they all moved away from me on the bench there, with the hairy eyeball,
And all kinds of mean, nasty things, till I said, "And creatin' a nuisance",
And they all came back, shook my hand, and we had a great time on the bench talking about crime,...
Why would you give FB your phone number? Why would you give FB ANYTHING?
Most of my friends us it (I have to admit), but I don't.
I do publically gave FB my Real Name and phone number(!!), but that's it. Everything else is bogus. (I think I live on the night side of Sol, went to school on Pluto for a change.) I log in maybe once a year because something gives me a reward for doing so. I give an indirect FB promote "This Product Is Great" nag (I guess, never looked), and since I'm interested that's not a completely wrong thing.
But my name, address, and phone number USED to be in the phone book, so I'm not that concerned about it. Yep, the phone book has (had) thousands of page, a literal wall of data. The NEWISH phoneish bookish dataish thing has your info tied to interests and events, NOT at all the same thing. But since FB knows almost nothing about me -- I'm sure more than I think because of friends -- I treat it as an external locator beacon.
If you WANT to be my friend, you'll bloomin' well literally TALK to me. If _not_, you can thumbs-up me all day long, and I'll give you a finger back as well.
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I think it's equally important to recognize that both NASA and the astronauts are putting the mission first.
But how does the poor maligned suit feel about that? It's just not good enough without help and is now embarrassed about it. Mission smission, it's only LOOKING GOOD that counts!
"equally important" -- no, it's MORE important. Who does it is unimportant, that it gets done safely and properly is of prime importance. And that includes the tools and support staff. There's always a slight risk no matter what, but you minimize those to the best of your ability.
(Challenger, anyone?) Wiki, NASA, UPI
Microkernels are looking better all the time.
Really?? Microkernels are just Microaggressions to a Monolithic Kernel, which is doing the best that it can with what it's given. Why are you so eagerly supporting bullies?
/sarc, if you didn't notice.
If increasing security had been half as important as maximizing profits
FIRST you make it work, THEN you make it faster, and ONLY THEN you fix the security.
Right? You get first / early to market your product and you make it faster and better as people accept and purchase it. Once you've got a large enough customer base who "can't live without it" you hit them up for the security charges. If you had done that at the beginning, it would have cost more and been released later to the detriment of sales.
Besides, if you'd really wanted security you would have purchased a different product in the first place. If "all bugs are shallow given enough eyes", then "no bugs exist if no one's looking" -- and it's CHEAPER that way, too.
Or is that not collusion?
?? What? What are you talking about? They meant well, therefore they're innocent, pure as the driven [-over] snow. They're the good guys, trying to create a everlasting world of "good perfect feeling" equality where no one is ever hurt by cruel words such as: "truth", "I think that", or "that's not right." If you want to be a airplane pilot then BE ONE. No training is required if you just believe in yourself enough -- ignore the doubters and regulators, they don't understand your glory.
We'll have no eureka moments since everyone will be thinking the exact same way.
Cultural Appropriation? Invert that -- we'll soon have Cultural Imposition where the whole world must think like we do.
The joke used to be: "Play Nice or we'll bring freedom to your country too". Now it's: "Play Nice or we'll cry and hold our breath until you do".
We just found out that McCain was involved with spreading the known to be false rumor that Trump had colluded with Russia - a fact worthy of revealing to everyone.
But he's [McCain's] dead, and you don't want to malign the dead, do you? Therefore what he said must be the truth.
Besides, Trump is still breathing and THAT'S a crime against Humanity that must be repaired No Matter What The Cost To Our Democracy.
Someone who says "America First" and then tries to do just that? Why, the next you know you'll be expecting ALL of the politicians to keep the promises they made.
I misunderstood the title. I thought it was a suggestion to start taking Metamucil.
Don't forget Google's plan to hook up everyone to the internet via the sewer lines. Link.
Typescript is basically JavaScript syntax with some extra type information tacked on.
Oh!! So it's RATFOR (1976) for JavaScript. Why didn't you just say so?
... which you then had to link with the supporting libraries before you had something that could actually run.
Hell, for that matter back in 80-ish I used a C compiler with 4 separate phases. Phase 1 was macro expansion only, the other 2 started compiling the code until the phase 4 produced linkable output.
I don't like JavaScript, but I think I'll go look at TypeScript.
What kind of budget does a pirate have, exactly?
Do you REALLY have to ask? As many doubloons as they can find floating on the seas.
But it's pushing all those large coins into those tiny USB slots to convert to eGold that's the holdup.
I'm sure everyone here could come up with their own list
I have my own list. It's all available (and has been) on my Plex server. Most of it's not new, and the few things that are magically have No Commercials. Hell, I'm STILL catching up on a few things and they've been finished for decades.
The same with music albums from the '70s and '80s - for some reason they're not making those much anymore.
is forced to actually address design flaws or other things they do that prevent their product from being fit for purpose.
The standard reply: It's not a flaw, it's a feature.
being "fit for purpose." It worked. It worked for a long time. YOUR long and MY idea of long may differ in length, that's a different issue.
No, really. Forever isn't an option. Ten years, five years, isn't really an option. The internal expected lifetime is whatever the standard warranty is plus one month. If it works past that, consider yourself lucky.
It's not design obsolescence; we'll have changed things around too much by then so the parts won't be available in quantity. No problem -- at least for US.
BTW, I have an old IBM model M keyboard that working great. That was back when we had pride in manufacturing and things were over-engineered. All of the keys work just fine -- both before AND after using it to bludgeon annoying people. (No, the key clicks are not annoying. **I** didn't want an open office; not my problem.)
Right -- for very small and randomly changing values of unlimited.
Thanks, but you've got a negative brownie point score. You'll have to try MUCH harder than that just to reach zero. I'd say change your name to MovieAss so the consumer knows exactly what they're getting. Truth in labeling, don't cha' know?
We don't have the massive problems they have in the US
Here in the US we don't have massive problems. Those bits all just slide around like a greased pig -- no problems whatsoever.
It may be your data but it's our bits, and which do you think is more important?
or if they are up the food chain ... they get a very strong put down by IT
Well obviously. I'm the CEO, *I* didn't click that button. That's why I have a secretary who prints out all of my emails for me. I even have her print it double-sided just to save paper!
The "It'll never happen to me" belief is strong in people, even after it happens to them.
What are you talking about?? That's what the IT people are for. I just click the button to see the risque pictures. Last time I did, the IT people had to clean up a virus that got in somehow. When it was all over I clicked it again because I didn't see the pictures the first time. For some reason they were really mad that time.
?? What are you talking about, we've got them right now. You just have to get the driver drunk enough, going fast enough, and hitting something that creates an temporary uplift. Easy.
Of course as always, it's the landing that hard. Any landing that you can walk away from is a good one.
Oh, you mean the normal interpretation -- what, are you crazy? Flying great and easy, and I assume you still have to get an FAA license to carry passengers. Oh, and you've got that silly rule about clear weather vs instrument-only landings. And all those (cell) towers, high-rises, and what-not to deal with, never mind the OTHER TRAFFIC.
Only large cities will receive all of the "benefits" of this, and I think that's just great. I'll let you live in Blade Runner's L.A. Watch out for those replicants!
$10 for what? ..
Is that for fake 5G or real 5G?
Fake 5G. REAL 5G will cost, ahem, $5G.
"But instead of clicking that virtual machine button 25 times, I automated it,"
She needs 170 terabytes of space across 25 computers for 121 days to produce 31.4 (Ha!) trillion digits. And she's worried about clicking a button a few times?? Hell, even I'm not that anal unless it was a trivial solution. (for a in `seq 1 25` ; do ./push ; done)
First world problems, I guess.
So in all seriousness, how do you check that? Run it again and see if it produces the same number? If there's a timing bug, it'll differ. If there's (say) a BAD timing bug, it won't; but might differ on a different machine. Or numeric coprocessor problems: One Two Three. Or cosmic rays actually flipping a bit somewhere. (ECC CPUs?) I realize this is all fun and games, but how do you know that it's actually correct? See if you can use it to successfully square the circle, in which case it's not?
Cells from a woolly mammoth that died more than 28,000 years ago have been partially reactivated inside of mouse egg cells
BRAINZZZZZ .... and cheese.
So, errr, like, what do you use -- a mousetrap? A mammoth trap? And it kills them? But, but they're already dead.
More like you'd get 'em more pissed than they were already. A mammoth-sized mouse is now upset with you. And here you thought your day was bad enough already.
teaches me Chinese by talking about current events and correcting my pronunciation?
I still wouldn't pay enough attention over time. I'd have to have a Alexa enabled cattle prod tied to my chair.
"Yi jia yi?" "Huh?" "Bu." BZZZZT.
It was actually a holdover from the mainframe/3270 days, when F3 (PF3 in IBM parlance) was universally used to exit a running program.
IBM's CUA (Common User Access) at the time. Every mainframe program (WAAAY before PCs) had a different set of function key actions. CUA standardized that, and F3 was Exit.
LIke the parent said, the DOS F3 was copied from that for compatibility. (Muscle Memory. My God, why don't UI designers realize that? QUIT changing things just to change things!!)
If the universe is someone's simulation -- does that mean the stars are just stuck pixels?
Alt-tab is a UI thing Windows did right.
What?? Wasn't it added in by a "rogue programmer" at the time who didn't tell management about it, then it took off, and it was too late to get rid of it.
That's pretty much what I remember -- it wasn't planned by corporate at all, it was added surreptitiously and found a foothold.
an attacker would need control over Swiss Post's secured IT infrastructure "as well as help from several insiders with specialist knowledge
I've got some chocolate to trade for a password or two. Or if not that, maybe some cheese?
Science Daily: Social engineering: Password in exchange for chocolate
Can you imagine the conversation in the prison cell?
"What are you in for?"
"Javascript popup, you?"
"A goto command in basic"
"Goto?! you monster!"
And they all moved away from me on the bench there, with the hairy eyeball, ...
And all kinds of mean, nasty things, till I said, "And creatin' a nuisance",
And they all came back, shook my hand, and we had a great time on the bench talking about crime,
When I RFTA, I see that Cotton died in India - how was this verified?
Apparently they have the kind of death certificate that can be 'purchased' for $75.
!! Do you think he can afford to fake his own death? If he did, he could go to jail for it if caught. Not worth the risk.
Why would you give FB your phone number? Why would you give FB ANYTHING?
Most of my friends us it (I have to admit), but I don't.
I do publically gave FB my Real Name and phone number(!!), but that's it. Everything else is bogus. (I think I live on the night side of Sol, went to school on Pluto for a change.) I log in maybe once a year because something gives me a reward for doing so. I give an indirect FB promote "This Product Is Great" nag (I guess, never looked), and since I'm interested that's not a completely wrong thing.
But my name, address, and phone number USED to be in the phone book, so I'm not that concerned about it. Yep, the phone book has (had) thousands of page, a literal wall of data. The NEWISH phoneish bookish dataish thing has your info tied to interests and events, NOT at all the same thing. But since FB knows almost nothing about me -- I'm sure more than I think because of friends -- I treat it as an external locator beacon.
If you WANT to be my friend, you'll bloomin' well literally TALK to me. If _not_, you can thumbs-up me all day long, and I'll give you a finger back as well.