Some of us actually work in the real world, where Windows is the Gold Standard and is usually a requirement for certain business software packages.
The gold standard for business computing *IS* Linux based systems, the game was over for windows in this space years ago. MicroSoft lost all credibility in data centres around 20 years ago when NT screensavers would activate on headless servers and consume most of the CPU time of the system. It took MS until Win Server 2012 to have a decent file system and NT could only pass C2 (Orange Book) security standards when you refrained from plugging it into a network.
Azure is barely a player compared to the GCC compiled versions of Xen which is run AWS, you know, Amazon's platform and even commercial offerings like VMware, which trounce Azure for functionality are based on Linux.
Windows is a desktop operating system and even there it is becoming less relevant e.v.e.r.y.d.a.y and the only business software you are talking about is for small business, which, in itself is a massive market but constantly being eroded by new web offerings. So the only markets left for Microfost are platform owners who they can convince to use.Net which generally ends up with upwards of double the TCO of a software stack hosted on a Linux server. MS would practically fellate you to take on their stack. Do you even vaguely know what you are talking about Mr AC?
What you *don't* get, that Microsoft *does* get is that Open Source Software isn't going away. It is a fait acompli.
Not everyone is sitting home playing Tux Racer and writing GCC code.
Maybe they are playing GTA on their windows machine? Games are a massive market for Microsift and whilst there is no reason for them to go away it is inevitable that widows transforms to a Linux machine. The writing has been on the wall for a long time and MS has been taking baby steps towards it because the rest of the technology industry has moved on and they want to survive.
As usual, TFA is useless. Why didn't the cops get a warrant in this case?
Specifically, because this applies not just to the US, but the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Telecommunication intercepts.
First, politicians can pass laws that are unconstitutional, however they are bits of paper because they violate the constitution which are the founding principles of a nation. Effectively, they aren't laws at all because they are unconstitutional.
In this context, after 9/11, a series of anti terrorism laws were passed in these countries that violated the constitution. In the US Bush by-passed the Attorney General by using his personal attorney and once the political elite of the Bush cabal saw they could pass laws this way without anybody objecting they went crazy establishing the surveillance state we are now subjected to. The reason I know this is because I read and analyzed hundreds of pages of these "laws" and wrote submissions about them.
The political elite came after Telecommunications and the freedom of speech and association that came with it around 2004. I also analyzed these laws which read like a fundamental attack on the constitutional foundations of all western democracies, or what was left of them. Of course the trick for them is not to act on the power in a big an obvious way but to inflict a death by a thousand paper cuts.
So thirteen years later, laws we saw framed under the guise of being used only for the intelligence community to track terrorists is now being used against the populous to track common criminals without using due process which people may not object to, because it's a criminal however just because the police are tracking a criminal doesn't mean they are allowed to commit a criminal act.
For further context, traditionally telecommunication intercepts were treated more seriously than search warrants by judges until anti-terrorism laws made them a moot point.
This is how politician by-pass the will of the people and erode the freedom that a nation is built on with attempt to neuter the constitutional values that are inconvenient and antagonistic to their power over the population.
Just like Aloha this is how the Keks say hello, goodbye and, I love you. You must be a Kek telling me that you love me too. It was baffling, at first, I mean, can you imagine, what does any sane person say if someone calls them a Nazi - gee I must be cause you say so? I love you too AC, I love that you have the free speech to demand that I don't have free speech, it's the Kek way.
The Keks would say Shut up you stupid fucking Nazi and I didn't get it until a female (I think female) Kek tried to kiss me while saying Shut up you stupid fucking Nazi, then I got it, "s/he" was hot for me.
Then it all made sense. At night I would hear safety, trump, Safety, Trump, SAFETY, TRUMP, SAFETY,TRUMP,SAFETY,OMG,TRUMP,TRUMPSAFETY and at first put it down to the moronic machinations of SJW and alt-right arguing in naivety about their obsolete political constructs that make no sense and neither of them could see that they were both being extremists dragging all of us into fascism, but then I realized they were just fucking each other and they can't wait to fuck the rest of us.
Maybe we should cap it. Then open it to children as young as, say speaking age loaded up with all the responsibility for running society that you can't escape until about 40, maybe 50 years old at which time you are subjected to all of the consequences of your own decisions for the rest of your life.
It sounds crazy however that's how the free Kekistanis promote the values in their society. What most don't realize is because frogs can change their sex, not using an individual's gender pro-noun is considered to be hate-speech in Kekistan.
Rather than pile on from that ivory tower, how about you tell me how many fucking US jobs this created. How many families were fed, how much production to the GDP was done, how any of this shit made any real sense at all other than to a few propeller heads. Go.
I found a 2010 picture of the Cassini team and it looks like it created about 100 primary jobs related to the mission itself, I saw a later photo and there were a lot more people in the team. So at least 100 families were fed from STEM roles in the US. How is that bad, for the US or any other country for that matter.
In terms of the GDP and propeller head it's much better that these skilled people were working for NASA and the product of their intellectual output can be utilized in the GDP, indirectly, instead of being unavailable through secret military or commercial contracts. Knowledge is the harvest from economies that generate surplus resources.
It's true that it is easy to mod you out of existence however it's much better to dismantle the premise of your troll so that people see your rationale as the kind of regressive ignorance that prevents the whole human race from evolving. ANY spending on science and exploration is a win especially in the 21st century where knowledge is the new driver of economies.
Perhaps that doesn't make a lot of sense to you, which is ok, because if you have to ask the question, you wouldn't understand the answer anyway.
There is absolutely no spyware on this phone at all. No seriously, fuck off, stop laffing, it's really really true. This phone respects your privacy, it really honestly does.
Not only is gender determined biologically, gender identity can be detected with biological markers.
If a computer told a person the gender pronoun that their sexual preference aligned with, it would be the punchline of a joke so ironic you would have to take it as evidence there a god.
I've always used them because they are solid, like if a tank ran over it, the tank would still be ok. I'm using a T420 to post, which is kind of struggling now. I was nervous when lenovo bought the thinkpad line from IBM however they have still been pretty good.
Plus I get to say they are space rated to all my friends with Macs because it's true - even if it is lame.
They spent $950 million during the initial regulatory process (without any construction happening yet!)
Do you have a source for that figure I'd be interested to find out about the expenditure. They can claim it all under the sections I've supplied above.
All because it took the NRC seven extra years to finish the approval process, because otherwise they would have started construction back in 2009.
Apparently Westinghouse couldn't supply an AP1000 rated to withstand Florida's hurricane conditions.
It is time to consider nuclear power generation using molten-salt thorium.
The oil and coal industry will not let a reactor technology flourish that competes with oil or coal. They are the one lobbying to have nuclear regulation made that works in their favor.
The US already had a closed loop reactor/reprocessing technology in the IFR that solve the existing plutonium and DU waste issues that could power the entire US for the next five thousand years producing electricity and hydrogen that would supplant oil but maintain the current vehicle fleet. There is no way that the oil and coal industry are going to allow Nuclear to overtake their market.
Molten-salt thorium may have been a great help if it was the first fuel cycle we choose however it doesn't help us now and simply creates a new waste stream of Thallium 233 and its many many many many many many decay products. It's not about the reactor technology, it's about oil and coal, always.
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Some of us actually work in the real world, where Windows is the Gold Standard and is usually a requirement for certain business software packages.
The gold standard for business computing *IS* Linux based systems, the game was over for windows in this space years ago. MicroSoft lost all credibility in data centres around 20 years ago when NT screensavers would activate on headless servers and consume most of the CPU time of the system. It took MS until Win Server 2012 to have a decent file system and NT could only pass C2 (Orange Book) security standards when you refrained from plugging it into a network.
Azure is barely a player compared to the GCC compiled versions of Xen which is run AWS, you know, Amazon's platform and even commercial offerings like VMware, which trounce Azure for functionality are based on Linux.
Windows is a desktop operating system and even there it is becoming less relevant e.v.e.r.y.d.a.y and the only business software you are talking about is for small business, which, in itself is a massive market but constantly being eroded by new web offerings. So the only markets left for Microfost are platform owners who they can convince to use .Net which generally ends up with upwards of double the TCO of a software stack hosted on a Linux server. MS would practically fellate you to take on their stack. Do you even vaguely know what you are talking about Mr AC?
What you *don't* get, that Microsoft *does* get is that Open Source Software isn't going away. It is a fait acompli.
Not everyone is sitting home playing Tux Racer and writing GCC code.
Maybe they are playing GTA on their windows machine? Games are a massive market for Microsift and whilst there is no reason for them to go away it is inevitable that widows transforms to a Linux machine. The writing has been on the wall for a long time and MS has been taking baby steps towards it because the rest of the technology industry has moved on and they want to survive.
Wow, what a compliment that you think that I am that important for pointing out the obvious.
As usual, TFA is useless. Why didn't the cops get a warrant in this case?
Specifically, because this applies not just to the US, but the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Telecommunication intercepts.
First, politicians can pass laws that are unconstitutional, however they are bits of paper because they violate the constitution which are the founding principles of a nation. Effectively, they aren't laws at all because they are unconstitutional.
In this context, after 9/11, a series of anti terrorism laws were passed in these countries that violated the constitution. In the US Bush by-passed the Attorney General by using his personal attorney and once the political elite of the Bush cabal saw they could pass laws this way without anybody objecting they went crazy establishing the surveillance state we are now subjected to. The reason I know this is because I read and analyzed hundreds of pages of these "laws" and wrote submissions about them.
The political elite came after Telecommunications and the freedom of speech and association that came with it around 2004. I also analyzed these laws which read like a fundamental attack on the constitutional foundations of all western democracies, or what was left of them. Of course the trick for them is not to act on the power in a big an obvious way but to inflict a death by a thousand paper cuts.
So thirteen years later, laws we saw framed under the guise of being used only for the intelligence community to track terrorists is now being used against the populous to track common criminals without using due process which people may not object to, because it's a criminal however just because the police are tracking a criminal doesn't mean they are allowed to commit a criminal act.
For further context, traditionally telecommunication intercepts were treated more seriously than search warrants by judges until anti-terrorism laws made them a moot point.
This is how politician by-pass the will of the people and erode the freedom that a nation is built on with attempt to neuter the constitutional values that are inconvenient and antagonistic to their power over the population.
Actually, about fucking time.
Shut up you stupid fucking Nazi.
Just like Aloha this is how the Keks say hello, goodbye and, I love you. You must be a Kek telling me that you love me too. It was baffling, at first, I mean, can you imagine, what does any sane person say if someone calls them a Nazi - gee I must be cause you say so? I love you too AC, I love that you have the free speech to demand that I don't have free speech, it's the Kek way.
The Keks would say Shut up you stupid fucking Nazi and I didn't get it until a female (I think female) Kek tried to kiss me while saying Shut up you stupid fucking Nazi, then I got it, "s/he" was hot for me.
Then it all made sense. At night I would hear safety, trump, Safety, Trump, SAFETY, TRUMP, SAFETY,TRUMP,SAFETY,OMG,TRUMP,TRUMPSAFETY and at first put it down to the moronic machinations of SJW and alt-right arguing in naivety about their obsolete political constructs that make no sense and neither of them could see that they were both being extremists dragging all of us into fascism, but then I realized they were just fucking each other and they can't wait to fuck the rest of us.
Hmmmm...maybe we should raise the voting age.
Maybe we should cap it. Then open it to children as young as, say speaking age loaded up with all the responsibility for running society that you can't escape until about 40, maybe 50 years old at which time you are subjected to all of the consequences of your own decisions for the rest of your life.
It sounds crazy however that's how the free Kekistanis promote the values in their society. What most don't realize is because frogs can change their sex, not using an individual's gender pro-noun is considered to be hate-speech in Kekistan.
Lets just hope the Kekistani that have come here to anonymously maintain their cultural practice of shitposting aren't too traumatized by the ordeal.
If you have mastered key aspects of technology. No if you have not.
Rather than pile on from that ivory tower, how about you tell me how many fucking US jobs this created. How many families were fed, how much production to the GDP was done, how any of this shit made any real sense at all other than to a few propeller heads. Go.
I found a 2010 picture of the Cassini team and it looks like it created about 100 primary jobs related to the mission itself, I saw a later photo and there were a lot more people in the team. So at least 100 families were fed from STEM roles in the US. How is that bad, for the US or any other country for that matter.
In terms of the GDP and propeller head it's much better that these skilled people were working for NASA and the product of their intellectual output can be utilized in the GDP, indirectly, instead of being unavailable through secret military or commercial contracts. Knowledge is the harvest from economies that generate surplus resources.
It's true that it is easy to mod you out of existence however it's much better to dismantle the premise of your troll so that people see your rationale as the kind of regressive ignorance that prevents the whole human race from evolving. ANY spending on science and exploration is a win especially in the 21st century where knowledge is the new driver of economies.
Perhaps that doesn't make a lot of sense to you, which is ok, because if you have to ask the question, you wouldn't understand the answer anyway.
No. My bank is secure. They have armed guards and a vault. Plus it is insured by FDIC. Computers and networks aren't secure. Stop pretending they are.
Everything in your bank is on computers in their network. The value isn't just your money, it's your information.
The user is the product, the newest feature is more accurate data about their behavior.
Fuck you man, We worked hard on that predictive acne app in the facial recognition software for the iPhony. How can you say that's a gimmick?
There is no whammy bar on it!
There is absolutely no spyware on this phone at all. No seriously, fuck off, stop laffing, it's really really true. This phone respects your privacy, it really honestly does.
Well, after all this I've max my T420 to 16Gb ram and a second hard drive in the DVD bay - I'll squeeze a bit more out of it.
No that was a ZX-81
Not only is gender determined biologically, gender identity can be detected with biological markers.
If a computer told a person the gender pronoun that their sexual preference aligned with, it would be the punchline of a joke so ironic you would have to take it as evidence there a god.
We had better keep an eye on them and make sure they don't know we are here until they evolve.
Part of a balanced diet!
It's got vitamin C in it.
That's not lame at all. Lame would be if the astronauts engaged in blatant product placement. They don't.
You're right - MY T420 IS SPACE RATED!!!
I've always used them because they are solid, like if a tank ran over it, the tank would still be ok. I'm using a T420 to post, which is kind of struggling now. I was nervous when lenovo bought the thinkpad line from IBM however they have still been pretty good.
Plus I get to say they are space rated to all my friends with Macs because it's true - even if it is lame.
So fucking what.
They spent $950 million during the initial regulatory process (without any construction happening yet!)
Do you have a source for that figure I'd be interested to find out about the expenditure. They can claim it all under the sections I've supplied above.
All because it took the NRC seven extra years to finish the approval process, because otherwise they would have started construction back in 2009.
Apparently Westinghouse couldn't supply an AP1000 rated to withstand Florida's hurricane conditions.
It is time to consider nuclear power generation using molten-salt thorium.
The oil and coal industry will not let a reactor technology flourish that competes with oil or coal. They are the one lobbying to have nuclear regulation made that works in their favor.
The US already had a closed loop reactor/reprocessing technology in the IFR that solve the existing plutonium and DU waste issues that could power the entire US for the next five thousand years producing electricity and hydrogen that would supplant oil but maintain the current vehicle fleet. There is no way that the oil and coal industry are going to allow Nuclear to overtake their market.
Molten-salt thorium may have been a great help if it was the first fuel cycle we choose however it doesn't help us now and simply creates a new waste stream of Thallium 233 and its many many many many many many decay products. It's not about the reactor technology, it's about oil and coal, always.