Really? Louisiana is a democratic machine. Corrupt as hell, has been for decades. Just because they voted for Trump as the nation did doesn't somehow put everything on the Republicans/Trump.
Hell, in case you haven't noticed, Trump is really neither a Dem or a Rep. They would both happily nail him if they could. They're the alligators and they don't like the swamp being drained.
So where is this proof that man has any effect on climate? We have some models, that over the years haven't worked out based on the current level of CO2. As Einstein said - once there is on counter example your proof/theory is no more. Yet they keep trying to prove it is instead of realizing it's not CO2. CO2 is a symptom, not the cause and history going back millions of years proves that. Paying Al Gore a whole bunch of money won't change that. It'll make his get rich quick scheme work, however. It's helped shoddy science that we should all be upset about prevail. Science where we can never reproduce the results that some people received a PhD for.
One really good indicator that MMGW is a scam is we know the nuts at NASA have been changing the data. All you have to do is look at the way back machine and you can see definitively that the 1930s is not as hot as it actually was. Stubborn facts, so they changed them.
News for nerds or news for really dumb shits? There was no hacking, if anyone would know, that's nerds. Breaking into Podesta's account using the password of password isn't hacking. There is nothing to show anything was done with any election process in any state to help Trump. We know thanks to Stein that Trump is very likely missing votes because when she did a recount he ended up with a lot more. We know from Obama's own best help he had that there was no Russian connection. In fact we know his people didn't take that bait. On the other hand we know Hillary received money from Russia, gave them around 1/3 of our Uranium while she was Scty of state and Podesta receive hundreds of thousands of bucks from them, as an illegal unregistered foreign agent. Lots of ties from Russia to the Democrats.
Again - what hacking?
Not even a talking point, it's just outright lies.
Problem was the name. Juicero. Should have come up with another bullshit german name because dumb people think anything german is great. Even german shaving blades (if you've been watching TV lately). As if. Maybe Strasse Juicer! Just stick your S bag into the machine, walla! Instant juice you don't have to work for. It's only $7 that can replace a whole $10 meal! (Show a very attractive ripped woman in a bikini with a big smile, sparkle on her tooth) You'll even lose weight! Buy it today!
Fine print - this product hasn't been evaluated for weight loss nor a viable meal replacement.
This was solved at least in the 1980s when we used to do it. The solution is to freeze the code. Pick a date and at that point the source code is frozen. Move it to a test machine if you have to, however no new changes are allowed. Build it and test it. If it's good (and therefore approved), release it.
I think we used to use sccs, however any revision control system will do. All of us developers had our own tree. In fact, the entire tree, linked file by file,dir by dir. This was back in the days when the largest drive you could get was a couple of gig, maybe not even that. I could check out my own version of code, update it and compile it all into my version of that program for testing. There were maintenance commands to resync all the links and such to stock, update the real source tree and such. Every night a new version would build. This was world wide.
If your asking about just some guy changing code on his own, a rogue guy, that's a daily management chore for someone (that isn't responsible for coding, a separation of duties). You'll have to rsync everything to someplace you trust to be the authority. Someplace the other people can't get to because some people will play games. Then check it all for a status to see what's changed. Do you have approvals for all the changes? If not, roll it back, find the offender and have a little talk with them about that. If everything is approved, check it all in. Make sure all of this is kept track of every day. I do this all the time. I had a case a couple of years ago that a manager swore his machine was set a certain way. I had subversion control over it. I told him how the machine was set up from day one to today. He was right, it was set up the way he thought years ago. Then about 2 weeks later he changed it to the way it is now. I had the change, date, even his e-mail and ticket to change it. So it was approved and he knew about it. He thanked me for my efforts and moved on. You have to be able to do this. Developers are great people, very creative, smart, etc. However sometimes they can be real assholes. Especially young ones that never make any mistakes and it could be years later and they don't remember. Once you show them, they're fine. No problem.
Using chromebooks, the point is making it a whole lot more secure is by NOT using microsoft products. I noticed that at a security conference recently and said so. The speaker kept telling us about what he did to make his family and company a whole lot safer. I noticed that not one thing was running microsoft. He said precisely.
I'm with you on that. However they said we won't be that way. In another 5 years or so they'll improve us a great deal. I'm looking at my 70s-110s to be more like my 30s. Maybe even more like my 20s if I'm lucky. Sounds like when we do go, it'll be quick. Nothing like the sad state of affairs today.
He's 73 years old and has been in public office since 1979.
Correction: He's been in Congress since '79, but he was in the Wisconsin State Assembly before then, since 1969. So personal (as in micro-) computers were barely even a thing when he got on the gravy train. Why the hell was this guy the Chairman of the House Committee on Science and Technology anyway?
However he is in fact right. This is an outdated Obama era law. Back when people used http instead of https, which is universal today. The whole law was questionable in the first place. They *COULD* do it, not that they ever did sell that data. Besides, they don't even need to do such things anymore. They already know who you are and where you're going through the network of advertisements and clicks and such.
This is one time where an old congressman knew what he was talking about more than nerds. Must be Trump. What next, hell freezing over?
Washington DC area. The real work is all done on Linux/Unix machines. Windows are in some agencies, sometimes exclusively. Mainframes are around. I think Customs still uses a few though I don't know anyone over there anymore. I'm in my 50s. I've worked at the same place for about 20 years, have had other side jobs and I'm right about at the 200K mark. I do software engineering and security. Practitioner, some policy work. I'm also remote (home) 2 times a week.
I joke that the best thing they could do is fire me. I'd set up my own company and probably make a lot more money. Who knows. You're right, management can really stink. I took over as manager a few years ago, for the first time in probably 25 years. I had a terrible black woman. She had a degree in technical writing and somehow that qualified her as a security person. Oh boy, was that a management nightmare. After that, seems like a cake walk. Key is setting everything up so you don't have to do anything.
I think remote work is going be be harder and harder to get. It's being tried at a lot of places and too many are abusing it. IBM, SAS, others are pulling them back in to an actual office again.
If you're 35, in Raleigh, you're in a good position. I have family down there. IMHO, I'd dump.net. Dunno your background. However I don't think it has a future. All my life I've been right on in the industry. The demise of the mainframe and rise of Unix and so on. Laughed at a lot in the past, now it's fact. I see Microsoft dumping the microsoft server. They're moving to Linux. I see more evidence of that all the time especially when I talk to them. Windows is just so full of holes, so poorly written to be backward compatible that I think they're just going to ditch it. Probably in the next 10 years. I see other technologies taking over. Rust seems to have a future, Java though I hate java. Python. I do a lot of stuff in Perl though if you're not into it, you're probably better off going to python.
Look to the future. You must get multiple streams of income coming in. I own a bunch of houses and they're almost paid off now. I also flip them though that gives a LOT of money to the Government. They don't like people making a bunch of money so they tax the hell out of it. About 50%. Even if you did put a whole lot of work in it. If you own the house for over a year, it's subject to normal tax instead of bend 'em over tax. I'm also into stocks and options. Beware, you can lose a LOT of money if you don't know what you're doing in stocks. Make sure you're educated FIRST. No, really. Do it for like a year and see how you would have done. Otherwise, just send me that money because you'd lose it anyhow.
Well at least you can think about this now. Good luck.
Nothing to worry about. Dump ubuntu and debian. They were never really viable in the first place and took a great deal of stuff from RedHat. I used to laugh a lot as things like the wifi driver and such came out and the ubuntu people were so proud. I'd say - yea, look at that code. Where did it come from? Oh yea, RedHat.
Pick up Fedora. I know, it doesn't have non free stuff. Not hard to get. I've found over the years its just way more stable. Even though Fedora is a test bed. RedHat actually makes money.
But don't answer yet. There are plenty of other distros. Linux isn't going anywhere.
Age discrimination, now you're talking. Oh yea. Big time. Seen it for years. Hit five - oh, Uh oh! Management position for you, if you can even get that.
I think Google is exposed on that. So is apple, others. Those tech companies for the most part, if you're over 30 you need not even apply. If they hire someone over 50, they might as well wear a little t-shirt that has a T on it, T for Token. Problem is most people > 50 are also expensive. Sometimes very expensive.
This will probably change by the way. They're starting to say that we'll live to be older. A lot older. In fact, our 70 - 120 years will likely be more like our 20s or 30s. I could make it to 150. That is what I was told in the 1970s, I never believed it. Not until recently. With the birth rates down, we may need to make it up there.
Never the less, for now there is clear discrimination for older people.
Think so? Let's see, the first equal pay act for women was passed in the 1930s. Yes, the 1930s. Women whined about it again in the 1960s so they "fixed" it once and for all, signed by LBJ. Here we are again and for some reason we need a new law, as if the old one isn't even there.
So not lip service. This has already been addressed. If a woman is not being paid the same as a man for doing the same job, they can sue.
I've worked in the personnel department when I was in college. I had access to everyone's records and I did an analysis. Every woman at this real big company was being paid as much or more than the men. At least on paper.
I don't think so. They're saying there is no gender pay gap, which is true. Just as true when they pointed out that Obama wasn't paying his women that worked for him as much as the men at the White House. Same BS here. There is no gender gap. They get paid as much if not more. No new law is needed, the one passed in the 1930s and updated in the 1960s will do just fine. Yes, the law passed in the 1930s. That's how long this BS has been around.
Let 'em strike. When they do sign, no more using old crap. Top of the list - Police/private dick murder show. Don't we already have way too many of these?
I have hundreds of channels and with a handful of exceptions - still NOTHING worth watching.
Idiots indeed. Remember when Rick Wagner was fired by President Obama? After all, it's not just anyone that manages to get fired by a President. That takes a special kind of an idiot.
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Really? Louisiana is a democratic machine. Corrupt as hell, has been for decades. Just because they voted for Trump as the nation did doesn't somehow put everything on the Republicans/Trump.
Hell, in case you haven't noticed, Trump is really neither a Dem or a Rep. They would both happily nail him if they could. They're the alligators and they don't like the swamp being drained.
So where is this proof that man has any effect on climate? We have some models, that over the years haven't worked out based on the current level of CO2. As Einstein said - once there is on counter example your proof/theory is no more. Yet they keep trying to prove it is instead of realizing it's not CO2. CO2 is a symptom, not the cause and history going back millions of years proves that. Paying Al Gore a whole bunch of money won't change that. It'll make his get rich quick scheme work, however. It's helped shoddy science that we should all be upset about prevail. Science where we can never reproduce the results that some people received a PhD for.
One really good indicator that MMGW is a scam is we know the nuts at NASA have been changing the data. All you have to do is look at the way back machine and you can see definitively that the 1930s is not as hot as it actually was. Stubborn facts, so they changed them.
https://realclimatescience.com...
News for nerds or news for really dumb shits? There was no hacking, if anyone would know, that's nerds. Breaking into Podesta's account using the password of password isn't hacking. There is nothing to show anything was done with any election process in any state to help Trump. We know thanks to Stein that Trump is very likely missing votes because when she did a recount he ended up with a lot more. We know from Obama's own best help he had that there was no Russian connection. In fact we know his people didn't take that bait. On the other hand we know Hillary received money from Russia, gave them around 1/3 of our Uranium while she was Scty of state and Podesta receive hundreds of thousands of bucks from them, as an illegal unregistered foreign agent. Lots of ties from Russia to the Democrats.
Again - what hacking?
Not even a talking point, it's just outright lies.
You've never done acid either or you'd know how fucked up it is. Brain fry.
Problem was the name. Juicero. Should have come up with another bullshit german name because dumb people think anything german is great. Even german shaving blades (if you've been watching TV lately). As if. Maybe Strasse Juicer! Just stick your S bag into the machine, walla! Instant juice you don't have to work for. It's only $7 that can replace a whole $10 meal! (Show a very attractive ripped woman in a bikini with a big smile, sparkle on her tooth) You'll even lose weight! Buy it today!
Fine print - this product hasn't been evaluated for weight loss nor a viable meal replacement.
about:performance is your best friend.
This was solved at least in the 1980s when we used to do it. The solution is to freeze the code. Pick a date and at that point the source code is frozen. Move it to a test machine if you have to, however no new changes are allowed. Build it and test it. If it's good (and therefore approved), release it.
I think we used to use sccs, however any revision control system will do. All of us developers had our own tree. In fact, the entire tree, linked file by file,dir by dir. This was back in the days when the largest drive you could get was a couple of gig, maybe not even that. I could check out my own version of code, update it and compile it all into my version of that program for testing. There were maintenance commands to resync all the links and such to stock, update the real source tree and such. Every night a new version would build. This was world wide.
If your asking about just some guy changing code on his own, a rogue guy, that's a daily management chore for someone (that isn't responsible for coding, a separation of duties). You'll have to rsync everything to someplace you trust to be the authority. Someplace the other people can't get to because some people will play games. Then check it all for a status to see what's changed. Do you have approvals for all the changes? If not, roll it back, find the offender and have a little talk with them about that. If everything is approved, check it all in. Make sure all of this is kept track of every day. I do this all the time. I had a case a couple of years ago that a manager swore his machine was set a certain way. I had subversion control over it. I told him how the machine was set up from day one to today. He was right, it was set up the way he thought years ago. Then about 2 weeks later he changed it to the way it is now. I had the change, date, even his e-mail and ticket to change it. So it was approved and he knew about it. He thanked me for my efforts and moved on. You have to be able to do this. Developers are great people, very creative, smart, etc. However sometimes they can be real assholes. Especially young ones that never make any mistakes and it could be years later and they don't remember. Once you show them, they're fine. No problem.
Good luck.
Using chromebooks, the point is making it a whole lot more secure is by NOT using microsoft products. I noticed that at a security conference recently and said so. The speaker kept telling us about what he did to make his family and company a whole lot safer. I noticed that not one thing was running microsoft. He said precisely.
OMG, that was Logan's run? Should have googled it....
30 is way too young. However I guess if people were to die at say 100 back then... who would care?
There is that problem. Who wants to live forever? Could be a special kind of hell. Ah, first world problems.
I think there was a movie out about that in the 1970s or 80s. Maybe it was a TV show. Everyone had a termination date.
Then there is the memory problem.
Left important stuff out.
I'm with you on that. However they said we won't be that way. In another 5 years or so they'll improve us a great deal. I'm looking at my 70s-110s to be more like my 30s. Maybe even more like my 20s if I'm lucky. Sounds like when we do go, it'll be quick. Nothing like the sad state of affairs today.
Think so? Retirement guys are saying we need to plan for living to be 100 to 120. So unless you're real old, you'll see it.
You're ugly too!
A 4 MHz z80 in the late 1970s? I couldn't find anything faster than a 1MHz z80 in the 1980s.
He's 73 years old and has been in public office since 1979.
Correction: He's been in Congress since '79, but he was in the Wisconsin State Assembly before then, since 1969. So personal (as in micro-) computers were barely even a thing when he got on the gravy train. Why the hell was this guy the Chairman of the House Committee on Science and Technology anyway?
However he is in fact right. This is an outdated Obama era law. Back when people used http instead of https, which is universal today. The whole law was questionable in the first place. They *COULD* do it, not that they ever did sell that data. Besides, they don't even need to do such things anymore. They already know who you are and where you're going through the network of advertisements and clicks and such.
This is one time where an old congressman knew what he was talking about more than nerds. Must be Trump. What next, hell freezing over?
I get a scam warning when I pasted in the code.
Washington DC area. The real work is all done on Linux/Unix machines. Windows are in some agencies, sometimes exclusively. Mainframes are around. I think Customs still uses a few though I don't know anyone over there anymore. I'm in my 50s. I've worked at the same place for about 20 years, have had other side jobs and I'm right about at the 200K mark. I do software engineering and security. Practitioner, some policy work. I'm also remote (home) 2 times a week.
I joke that the best thing they could do is fire me. I'd set up my own company and probably make a lot more money. Who knows. You're right, management can really stink. I took over as manager a few years ago, for the first time in probably 25 years. I had a terrible black woman. She had a degree in technical writing and somehow that qualified her as a security person. Oh boy, was that a management nightmare. After that, seems like a cake walk. Key is setting everything up so you don't have to do anything.
I think remote work is going be be harder and harder to get. It's being tried at a lot of places and too many are abusing it. IBM, SAS, others are pulling them back in to an actual office again.
If you're 35, in Raleigh, you're in a good position. I have family down there. IMHO, I'd dump .net. Dunno your background. However I don't think it has a future. All my life I've been right on in the industry. The demise of the mainframe and rise of Unix and so on. Laughed at a lot in the past, now it's fact. I see Microsoft dumping the microsoft server. They're moving to Linux. I see more evidence of that all the time especially when I talk to them. Windows is just so full of holes, so poorly written to be backward compatible that I think they're just going to ditch it. Probably in the next 10 years. I see other technologies taking over. Rust seems to have a future, Java though I hate java. Python. I do a lot of stuff in Perl though if you're not into it, you're probably better off going to python.
Look to the future. You must get multiple streams of income coming in. I own a bunch of houses and they're almost paid off now. I also flip them though that gives a LOT of money to the Government. They don't like people making a bunch of money so they tax the hell out of it. About 50%. Even if you did put a whole lot of work in it. If you own the house for over a year, it's subject to normal tax instead of bend 'em over tax. I'm also into stocks and options. Beware, you can lose a LOT of money if you don't know what you're doing in stocks. Make sure you're educated FIRST. No, really. Do it for like a year and see how you would have done. Otherwise, just send me that money because you'd lose it anyhow.
Well at least you can think about this now. Good luck.
So about 10 fewer Anonymous Cowards on /. ?
Nothing to worry about. Dump ubuntu and debian. They were never really viable in the first place and took a great deal of stuff from RedHat. I used to laugh a lot as things like the wifi driver and such came out and the ubuntu people were so proud. I'd say - yea, look at that code. Where did it come from? Oh yea, RedHat.
Pick up Fedora. I know, it doesn't have non free stuff. Not hard to get. I've found over the years its just way more stable. Even though Fedora is a test bed. RedHat actually makes money.
But don't answer yet. There are plenty of other distros. Linux isn't going anywhere.
Age discrimination, now you're talking. Oh yea. Big time. Seen it for years. Hit five - oh, Uh oh! Management position for you, if you can even get that.
I think Google is exposed on that. So is apple, others. Those tech companies for the most part, if you're over 30 you need not even apply. If they hire someone over 50, they might as well wear a little t-shirt that has a T on it, T for Token. Problem is most people > 50 are also expensive. Sometimes very expensive.
This will probably change by the way. They're starting to say that we'll live to be older. A lot older. In fact, our 70 - 120 years will likely be more like our 20s or 30s. I could make it to 150. That is what I was told in the 1970s, I never believed it. Not until recently. With the birth rates down, we may need to make it up there.
Never the less, for now there is clear discrimination for older people.
Wrong administration. This BS was launched under Obummer's admin.
Think so? Let's see, the first equal pay act for women was passed in the 1930s. Yes, the 1930s. Women whined about it again in the 1960s so they "fixed" it once and for all, signed by LBJ. Here we are again and for some reason we need a new law, as if the old one isn't even there.
So not lip service. This has already been addressed. If a woman is not being paid the same as a man for doing the same job, they can sue.
I've worked in the personnel department when I was in college. I had access to everyone's records and I did an analysis. Every woman at this real big company was being paid as much or more than the men. At least on paper.
I don't think so. They're saying there is no gender pay gap, which is true. Just as true when they pointed out that Obama wasn't paying his women that worked for him as much as the men at the White House. Same BS here. There is no gender gap. They get paid as much if not more. No new law is needed, the one passed in the 1930s and updated in the 1960s will do just fine. Yes, the law passed in the 1930s. That's how long this BS has been around.
No more reality TV?
As if that's not scripted.
Let 'em strike. When they do sign, no more using old crap. Top of the list - Police/private dick murder show. Don't we already have way too many of these?
I have hundreds of channels and with a handful of exceptions - still NOTHING worth watching.
Idiots indeed. Remember when Rick Wagner was fired by President Obama? After all, it's not just anyone that manages to get fired by a President. That takes a special kind of an idiot.