Freezing credit lines does squat to stop the identity thieves from hijacking your accounts. They got social security number, driver license number and dates of birth.
If your records show multiple dates of birth, you might be a victim of identity theft. Or your mom was trying to hide something.
Suppose the general is abusing his son. Suppose he is discussing something with his mistress. Suppose the general is dressing up in his daughter's clothes. Knowing any of that could make him vulnerable to coercion. This leverage could be used to influence the general in subtle ways.
One reason people objected to the collection of meta-data was that with sufficient, seemingly innocent, data it is possible to discern guilty behavior.
Trump is giving the people exactly what they asked for, but he isn't paying attention to the people who understand the systems already in place. He thinks his ideas are the best, the best, fabulous, truly amazing ideas, regardless of their actual effects.
I often wonder why in my shop the Windows guys even bother. They have created scripts which are run weekly to defrag and reboot the Win2K3 Server machines. I asked our AIX administrator how often he defrags his machines. He just gave me the Spock eyebrow.
People shed DNA all the time without being aware of it. What happens if someone borrows my toothbrush (yuk), comb, that crungy dust from my keyboard, whatever and grabs a sample of my DNA and replicates it using techniques similar to the Human Genome Project? Now trillions of copies of my DNA are available to anyone wanting to steal my identity!
The reality is that company that treat developers as interchangeable modules
Too true. However, common layouts of code make it easier for developers of all stripes to read code and get an overall idea of how the code flows.
Having worked with a team that used all manner of indentation I can tell you that when an if block doesn't line up start to end, it is difficult to tell where to look for code flow.
The best thing you can do is to identify your key lead developers, keep them happy
Again a true statement. However, there is always a situation where the lead developer will leave. It makes a lot of sense to cross polinate. Eliminate the single source of all knowledge about your project or any critical piece of it. Code reviews help a lot. Senior folk find errors in code and junior folk learn from constructive criticism. The trick is to promote reviews not as a place to put people down, but as a place to teach/mentor. It's not an easy task to foster this environment, but the benfits are truly impressive.
The alternative is to use process and standards as a club to force conformity
Granted, I (perhaps like others) have a problem with authority forcing this kind of thing down my throat. However, with a bit of explanation for the reasons for the standards, I think most developers will understand the value and adopt and adapt.
The reason for leaning out the fuel mixture as the aircraft gains altitude is not for fuel efficiency, but to prevent fouling of the plugs.
As the aircraft gains altitude the density of the atmosphere goes down, making the fuel-air mixture much richer. If the mixture isn't leaned out the engine will flood, resulting the return of said aircraft to mother earth -- not necessarily in a location conducive to a happy meeting.
True that there weren't games like them before. But if I recall correctly, they are both based on the same rendering engine. That's the key technology that enabled all of the cool things that followed.
Granted that what OSS has done is create the buggy, when the rest of the proprietary gaming world has moved on to the Edsel. However, IMNSHO this is a key milestone in OSS gaming. It's a key component of the required infrastructure to build more sophisticated games.
Think of it like early FPSes. The infrastructure for rendering, AI, etc. has now been built. In the same way that Wolfenstein and Doom were the source, or inspiration of, the rendering engines used in today's game, this is part of OSS's required infrastructure. Now a lot of the heavy lifting has been done and we can get on with the more interesting job of not making it work, but making it more interesting/fun/better.
Considering that during the current fiscal year we have spent $ 151,351,702,275.20 just on interest on the debt, it seems that $4.2M is a very effective use of tax dollars.
I like the sentiment. It would be great if all voters would take time to investigate the issues and weed out the lies (i.e. factcheck.org), but...
What level of "invested effort" qualifies one to vote?
What about folks who's "invested effort" consists of only looking at <insert left/right leaning news consortium here>?
What about people who's "invested effort" consists only of finding material to back their biases (Kerry flip-flops, Bush is stupid)?
Are we back to a poll tax in the form of a test to show the voters have "invested effort" and understand the candiates histories and stands on the issues?
Much like dropping general development for OS/2. Why have your own army developing, marketing and supporting a product (database, OS, et. al.) when you can get someone else to do the heavy lifting then sell services to support it.
I thought OS/2 Warp was a fine product with a lot going for it, but I understand that it was costing IBM more than they recovered in revenue from sales. This looks like the same kind of thinking.
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"Gru" and "Minion"
Well, I'm paying to heat the house in winter anyway, I might as well get some work out of those electrons other than making the wall heater warm.
Freezing credit lines does squat to stop the identity thieves from hijacking your accounts. They got social security number, driver license number and dates of birth.
If your records show multiple dates of birth, you might be a victim of identity theft. Or your mom was trying to hide something.
they are ALL idiots licking the balls of the upper management
Given that we are talking about an executive manager... are you suggesting they spend copious amounts of time licking their own genitals?
You're suggesting they are all cats? That explains a lot of the behavior I see from execs.
One reason people objected to the collection of meta-data was that with sufficient, seemingly innocent, data it is possible to discern guilty behavior.
Trump is giving the people exactly what they asked for, but he isn't paying attention to the people who understand the systems already in place. He thinks his ideas are the best, the best, fabulous, truly amazing ideas, regardless of their actual effects.
FTFY
"Officer my computer says it's IP address is 192.168.1.10."
"So does mine. Does that mean I have your missing laptop?"
Wouldn't traceroute myserver.mycompany.tld provide better information?
Any other suggestions for improving the information from the script?
I often wonder why in my shop the Windows guys even bother. They have created scripts which are run weekly to defrag and reboot the Win2K3 Server machines. I asked our AIX administrator how often he defrags his machines. He just gave me the Spock eyebrow.
People shed DNA all the time without being aware of it. What happens if someone borrows my toothbrush (yuk), comb, that crungy dust from my keyboard, whatever and grabs a sample of my DNA and replicates it using techniques similar to the Human Genome Project? Now trillions of copies of my DNA are available to anyone wanting to steal my identity!
Okay, so that's a bit over the top. Isn't it?
Too true. However, common layouts of code make it easier for developers of all stripes to read code and get an overall idea of how the code flows.
Having worked with a team that used all manner of indentation I can tell you that when an if block doesn't line up start to end, it is difficult to tell where to look for code flow.
The best thing you can do is to identify your key lead developers, keep them happy
Again a true statement. However, there is always a situation where the lead developer will leave. It makes a lot of sense to cross polinate. Eliminate the single source of all knowledge about your project or any critical piece of it. Code reviews help a lot. Senior folk find errors in code and junior folk learn from constructive criticism. The trick is to promote reviews not as a place to put people down, but as a place to teach/mentor. It's not an easy task to foster this environment, but the benfits are truly impressive.
The alternative is to use process and standards as a club to force conformity
Granted, I (perhaps like others) have a problem with authority forcing this kind of thing down my throat. However, with a bit of explanation for the reasons for the standards, I think most developers will understand the value and adopt and adapt.
The reason for leaning out the fuel mixture as the aircraft gains altitude is not for fuel efficiency, but to prevent fouling of the plugs.
As the aircraft gains altitude the density of the atmosphere goes down, making the fuel-air mixture much richer. If the mixture isn't leaned out the engine will flood, resulting the return of said aircraft to mother earth -- not necessarily in a location conducive to a happy meeting.
True that there weren't games like them before. But if I recall correctly, they are both based on the same rendering engine. That's the key technology that enabled all of the cool things that followed.
Granted that what OSS has done is create the buggy, when the rest of the proprietary gaming world has moved on to the Edsel. However, IMNSHO this is a key milestone in OSS gaming. It's a key component of the required infrastructure to build more sophisticated games.
Think of it like early FPSes. The infrastructure for rendering, AI, etc. has now been built. In the same way that Wolfenstein and Doom were the source, or inspiration of, the rendering engines used in today's game, this is part of OSS's required infrastructure. Now a lot of the heavy lifting has been done and we can get on with the more interesting job of not making it work, but making it more interesting/fun/better.
Considering that during the current fiscal year we have spent $ 151,351,702,275.20 just on interest on the debt, it seems that $4.2M is a very effective use of tax dollars.
I like the sentiment. It would be great if all voters would take time to investigate the issues and weed out the lies (i.e. factcheck.org), but...
What level of "invested effort" qualifies one to vote?
What about folks who's "invested effort" consists of only looking at <insert left/right leaning news consortium here>?
What about people who's "invested effort" consists only of finding material to back their biases (Kerry flip-flops, Bush is stupid)?
Are we back to a poll tax in the form of a test to show the voters have "invested effort" and understand the candiates histories and stands on the issues?
Much like dropping general development for OS/2. Why have your own army developing, marketing and supporting a product (database, OS, et. al.) when you can get someone else to do the heavy lifting then sell services to support it. I thought OS/2 Warp was a fine product with a lot going for it, but I understand that it was costing IBM more than they recovered in revenue from sales. This looks like the same kind of thinking.