"a good portion of people are going to see the movie no matter what some reviewer says"
Just wait for Star Wars: The Force Awakens to be released....for every person that screems "OMG Disney" or "GTH J.J. Abrams", I know they are still going to see the movie.
"Why the hell do I pick your overpriced American company instead of the cheaper alternatives? Is it because you'll do a better job [slashdot.org]? Don't make me laugh."
So instead of choosing overpriced Americans (or possibly Europeans) you would choose somebody from India? Because they never have failed IT projects:
"Americans pay far more for their prescription drugs than the rest of the world"
I'm assuming you mean individual Americans....wouldn't someone in Europe end-up paying the same amount for the drug as well? What I mean is that someone is paying for the drug, whether it's individual citizens or the government health insurance programs. Wouldn't antibiotics be the same everywhere regardless of who pays for it (currency exchange rates aside)?
"Yes, the goals of the secpro often conflict with the goals of the desktop support technician, but in the end security is more important than usability"
So take your server, unplug it from the network, lock it in a safe, and throw away the key....since security is more important than usability, as you say.
A few years ago I saw a comedian on TV who was talking about watching Dr. Doolittle with his wife who happened to be a lawyer. When Dr. Doolittle's wife offered to defend him in a court case, the lawyer wife said "That would never happen in real life, the court would never let a spouse represent a defendant". The comedian responded with "Did you miss the part 5 minutes ago where they had a talking alligator?"
Sure, but it looks like years they definitely end up in the black sometimes, even if not by much (and not enough to cover losses from the previous years). But profit is profit.:-)
Not to mention they are the same guys to recommend the iPhone 4, and then not recommend it after conducting a test that they saw someone else do that they didn't feel important enough to do the first time.
What's really weird is that just over 20 years ago I can remember them being regarded as the #1 Internet porn site, if not one of the most visited sites overall.
I keep seeing people mention SJW reasons for this, but it may go beyond that. Even the systemd people were fed up with the attitude: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
"i stopped working on the upstream kernel "long ago" for reasons i cannot stand the attitude of these guys, i decided to work with grown up or funny, or grown up and funny people instead and i enjoy it a lot more. not sure what this childish blackmail attempt relates to."
What I find ironic is that Linus hammer banned Kay Sievers for having the same type of attitude that Sarah Sharp and Matthew Garrett are accusing Linus of having.
"under current rules cars sold globally, such as the Ford Focus or Volkswagen Golf, must still be re-engineered multiple times - at considerable expense to manufacturers - to satisfy crash-test standards around the world."
I don't think current model of the Focus sold in Europe is fundamentally different than the one sold in the U.S. (?)
I read the article and I'm a little confused. The article sounds like the US cars met the US based-standards, but not the EU ones. In an effort to bring the US standards in line with the EU ones, a test was done to see if the current US models would pass the EU test, but they weren't able. Not only that, but that the US-produced models that are supposed to meet EU regulations weren't able as well, with US based models 33% more likely to be harmful to the passengers in a front-end collision. However, I assume that these vehicles still passed both EU and US regulations, right? Otherwise they wouldn't be allowed on EU roads?
And there's no link for the report itself to find out what was actually said.
I should also mention that I've had to intentionally program bugs into the replacement system in order mimic flaws that were in the old mainframe system, because the companies had built some of their processes and business rules around those bugs. An example is an extract file being sent from a mainframe to a third-party system through an interface of some sort. Since the mainframe is being replaced, but not the third-party system (which had to be changed to accept bad data from the mainframe), the replacement system had to be fudged to send bogus data through the interface. Good times.
"At 50 million bucks, why didn't they emulate the old machinery or port the code to an interpreter running on a modern system?"
The hardware isn't an issue with IBM mainframes, even their newest Z-Series implementations are mostly backwards compatible with the 1960's era System/360. I'm pretty sure the cost of new hardware would have been cheaper than porting their software over to a completely new hardware platform and language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
" But (reluctantly...) in all fairness, getting off the mainframe is very VERY difficult,"
Having worked on well over a dozen projects to do just that, this post is 100% on-point, although my success rate has been much better, on projects that span half-a-decade:-) I'm working on one right now to port a COBOL/IMS system over to.NET and SQL Server that has been in the works for over 2 years.
The hardware platform isn't the biggest hurdle (although expensive, it's bullet-proof reliable). The biggest challenges boil down to three things:
1) Business rules coded in languages long considered obsolete (COBOL, JCL, IMS databases) by people who either retired or died decades ago. 2) Data that has been severely polluted over the years, such has having fax numbers in an address field, lookup codes that have been deleted, (although the data remains in place, causing broken referential integrity), etc etc. 3) Business rules that are done more for tradition. A user may have been instructed to do a process a certain way, but no one is sure what the reasoning is for doing it. It may be a valid reason; but that reason was discovered years ago by someone (either retired or dead), forgotten, and has just been done for traditions sake. In cases like this, it's hard to make a case to carry a process like that over to the new system, but it can't just be ignored either.
I'm simplifying #3, but you'll probably get the idea. I think that these three problems could crop up in ANY software system that has been in use for 40 years, regardless of the hardware platform or the programming language. As much as we try to mitigate planning for the future use a system, very few people in our industry really expect the software we write to be in use 40+ years from now. I think Y2K is a pretty good example of that too:-)
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"a good portion of people are going to see the movie no matter what some reviewer says"
Just wait for Star Wars: The Force Awakens to be released....for every person that screems "OMG Disney" or "GTH J.J. Abrams", I know they are still going to see the movie.
"Why the hell do I pick your overpriced American company instead of the cheaper alternatives? Is it because you'll do a better job [slashdot.org]? Don't make me laugh."
So instead of choosing overpriced Americans (or possibly Europeans) you would choose somebody from India? Because they never have failed IT projects:
http://www.computerworlduk.com...
http://www.computerworld.com/a...
http://www.businessinsider.com...
"Americans pay far more for their prescription drugs than the rest of the world"
I'm assuming you mean individual Americans....wouldn't someone in Europe end-up paying the same amount for the drug as well? What I mean is that someone is paying for the drug, whether it's individual citizens or the government health insurance programs. Wouldn't antibiotics be the same everywhere regardless of who pays for it (currency exchange rates aside)?
"Yes, the goals of the secpro often conflict with the goals of the desktop support technician, but in the end security is more important than usability"
So take your server, unplug it from the network, lock it in a safe, and throw away the key....since security is more important than usability, as you say.
"Question: Who provides reliable truthful media reports in today?"
I've had pretty good luck with trusting a reporter who goes by the moniker "Anonymous Coward".
"Note that the weapons the hijackers allegedly used were ILLEGAL TO CARRY ON PLANES before then, and they got them on in other ways."
Are you sure about that? I was able to bring my pocket knife through security before 9/11 as long as the blade was just a few inches.
Wikipedia confirms this as well:
"Box cutters and similar small knives were allowed onboard aircraft at the time."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I believe that you're thinking of Virtual PC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Virtual_PC), which I think VirtualBox may be descended from (?)
I was able to run OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 from retail copies I had just fine in VMWare Fusion.
Installing this from 36 floppies sure brought back memories.
This guy? Looks like he was found VERY guilty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Raytheon, the same company that hired this guy:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
AC is right, this only seems to infect MySQL running on Windows systems:
http://www.symantec.com/connec...
It modifies registry entries that fool with Termial Services and other nasty stuff. You should be safe on Linux/BSD.
A few years ago I saw a comedian on TV who was talking about watching Dr. Doolittle with his wife who happened to be a lawyer. When Dr. Doolittle's wife offered to defend him in a court case, the lawyer wife said "That would never happen in real life, the court would never let a spouse represent a defendant". The comedian responded with "Did you miss the part 5 minutes ago where they had a talking alligator?"
Sure, but it looks like years they definitely end up in the black sometimes, even if not by much (and not enough to cover losses from the previous years). But profit is profit. :-)
"Amazon is is burning cash (have yet to post a profit)"
Where did you hear that? I'm fairly certain that they've had profitable quarters during their 20 year history.
https://ycharts.com/companies/...
Not to mention they are the same guys to recommend the iPhone 4, and then not recommend it after conducting a test that they saw someone else do that they didn't feel important enough to do the first time.
"Yeah, a guy's 30 seconds of friction and little squirt are equivalent to a woman's pregnancy and childbirth subsequent recovery. Spot on."
It's a shame that the 30 seconds of friction and little squirt are equivalent to 18 years of child support.
What's really weird is that just over 20 years ago I can remember them being regarded as the #1 Internet porn site, if not one of the most visited sites overall.
"one medium-sized joint, you're only combusting a few grams of plant material"
but about 30 minutes later you'll still eat food-grade material that most often has been farmed, trucked, and packaged ;-)
I keep seeing people mention SJW reasons for this, but it may go beyond that. Even the systemd people were fed up with the attitude:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
"i stopped working on the upstream kernel "long ago" for reasons i cannot stand the attitude of these guys, i decided to work with grown up or funny, or grown up and funny people instead and i enjoy it a lot more. not sure what this childish blackmail attempt relates to."
What I find ironic is that Linus hammer banned Kay Sievers for having the same type of attitude that Sarah Sharp and Matthew Garrett are accusing Linus of having.
I think all one needs to do is read up on the person quoted in the article. I'm sure she doesn't have an agenda:
http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/...
The article has this to say:
"under current rules cars sold globally, such as the Ford Focus or Volkswagen Golf, must still be re-engineered multiple times - at considerable expense to manufacturers - to satisfy crash-test standards around the world."
I don't think current model of the Focus sold in Europe is fundamentally different than the one sold in the U.S. (?)
"but a motocyclist doesn't have to wear a helmet."
This is somewhat misleading. Almost every state in the U.S. has some type of motorcycle helmet law:
http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topic...
For the states with "partial" laws, this is usually the requirement that the rider maintain a $10,000 insurance policy, as well as an age requirement.
I read the article and I'm a little confused. The article sounds like the US cars met the US based-standards, but not the EU ones. In an effort to bring the US standards in line with the EU ones, a test was done to see if the current US models would pass the EU test, but they weren't able. Not only that, but that the US-produced models that are supposed to meet EU regulations weren't able as well, with US based models 33% more likely to be harmful to the passengers in a front-end collision. However, I assume that these vehicles still passed both EU and US regulations, right? Otherwise they wouldn't be allowed on EU roads?
And there's no link for the report itself to find out what was actually said.
I hear you brother.
I should also mention that I've had to intentionally program bugs into the replacement system in order mimic flaws that were in the old mainframe system, because the companies had built some of their processes and business rules around those bugs. An example is an extract file being sent from a mainframe to a third-party system through an interface of some sort. Since the mainframe is being replaced, but not the third-party system (which had to be changed to accept bad data from the mainframe), the replacement system had to be fudged to send bogus data through the interface. Good times.
"At 50 million bucks, why didn't they emulate the old machinery or port the code to an interpreter running on a modern system?"
The hardware isn't an issue with IBM mainframes, even their newest Z-Series implementations are mostly backwards compatible with the 1960's era System/360. I'm pretty sure the cost of new hardware would have been cheaper than porting their software over to a completely new hardware platform and language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
" But (reluctantly...) in all fairness, getting off the mainframe is very VERY difficult,"
Having worked on well over a dozen projects to do just that, this post is 100% on-point, although my success rate has been much better, on projects that span half-a-decade :-) I'm working on one right now to port a COBOL/IMS system over to .NET and SQL Server that has been in the works for over 2 years.
The hardware platform isn't the biggest hurdle (although expensive, it's bullet-proof reliable). The biggest challenges boil down to three things:
1) Business rules coded in languages long considered obsolete (COBOL, JCL, IMS databases) by people who either retired or died decades ago.
2) Data that has been severely polluted over the years, such has having fax numbers in an address field, lookup codes that have been deleted, (although the data remains in place, causing broken referential integrity), etc etc.
3) Business rules that are done more for tradition. A user may have been instructed to do a process a certain way, but no one is sure what the reasoning is for doing it. It may be a valid reason; but that reason was discovered years ago by someone (either retired or dead), forgotten, and has just been done for traditions sake. In cases like this, it's hard to make a case to carry a process like that over to the new system, but it can't just be ignored either.
I'm simplifying #3, but you'll probably get the idea. I think that these three problems could crop up in ANY software system that has been in use for 40 years, regardless of the hardware platform or the programming language. As much as we try to mitigate planning for the future use a system, very few people in our industry really expect the software we write to be in use 40+ years from now. I think Y2K is a pretty good example of that too :-)