They've come up with a much better solution. Their security is just so bad that they never notice that they've been hacked. They seem to think that if they're completely inept, the hackers will feel bad for them and fix some things before they log out.
Could they fund an open source replacement for it? They're probably spending a lot of money keeping the old thing alive, they'd probably also have to spend a lot of money to migrate to the new software. So why not roll that money into an open development effort and make the resulting code freely available to everyone?
Clearly running the microwave creates a virtual quantum burrito. As long as there's a burrito in the microwave, thrust is guaranteed to be generated,shortly!
Sure! No problem! All we need to do is set up a surveillance state that can realize in real-time that some nutbag with a past history of psychosis and spousal abuse is really buying a lot of guns and ammunition.
What? You just asked if technology could solve the problem, not that anyone had to like the solution.
For the most part, I haven't explicitly used a whole lot of math since I got out of school. Most of the programming I've done has not been math-oriented. The exception being ephemeris and ground track calculations for a local satellite company recently, and I had to re-learn a bunch of crap I had down solidly in 6th grade (Matrix multiplication et al.)
But recently a friend of mine was taking a college basic math class and asked me a question about why something she was looking at was the way it was, and I looked at the problem and wrote a proof for her to demonstrate how a variable would change on a geometric plane. That despite having basically used no math for the last 3 decades. As a programmer I manipulate variables and symbols on a daily basis, and even when you don't think you're using a lot of math, you're still using a lot of math. Thing is, if we don't realize we're doing it, how is a CEO who doesn't really understand what we do going to? And those are the sorts of people who are dictating what's being taught at the coding schools.
I want to see Trump's long form Birth Certificate, because it's pretty clear he's an Oompa Loompa. It seems much more likely that he was born in Loompaland, not the USA.
And exactly how are they supposed to weld cars? Am I to assume that they'll be equipped with some sort of... "Laser"? Because I can honestly see NOTHING WRONG with building an ARMY of CAR WELDING and Microwave-Oven-Camoflaged LASER SPIDER ROBOTS. Nope, it all checks out here!
Heh heh, think the little ones will hunt their prey by hanging out in the break room until someone needs a burrito microwaved?
I think so, yeah. The problem was the reader would index files on the CD and those were super slow at the time. And it would do this each time you started, rather than caching its indexes on the hard drive somewhere. And of course it wouldn't be processing messages from the system input queue while it was indexing. The windows one would do the same thing, but since you could run separate instances of windows in OS/2, you could use your system for other things while the document reader was indexing.
They were probably "Working as designed". That was the answer I got for a lot of that shit. You had to submit a "Program Design Change Request", the only copies of which were kept in a file cabinet in one of the steam tunnels under the Boca Raton facility, just right of the sign reading "Beware of Leopard" (Yes, I stole that from Doug Adams.)
Yeah, I had some carefully planned tech demos for it. Formatting a floppy disk (Specifically, from the command line) and printing a document out was a fun one. As long as you knew how to avoid tying up the system input queue, you could accomplish some mind-boggling (for the time) things with the system. At the '95 COMDEX in Atlanta, we set up a quad processor Compaq box at the Compaq stand to play 4 videos at once. It had a staggering 16 MB of RAM, so we made a small RAM disk to hold the videos so we wouldn't have to go to disk for them. It sat there quite happily for a good chunk of the show, playing its 4 videos in separate windows side by side. The WIndows NT box next to it was running its polygons screensaver.
Not really. They just built a timeout into the single input queue. If something wasn't processing messages for a while, it'd give you the option to kill it. Funnily enough, their multiprocessor version of OS/2 had an input queue per processor, so you could tie one up 100% of the time and the system would remain responsive. The attitude in IBM at the time was that PCs were toys and that if you wanted to do real multitasking, you should spring the 5 grand or so for an AIX box.
Their OS/2 SDK shipped with a lot of documentation in some format or other not entirely unlike HTML. Ironically the document reader that shipped with OS/2 didn't utilize threads and would lock your system up while it operated, but the windows version of the program could be run in a standalone windows session and not tie your system up. So the windows application was much better for actually reading the OS/2 SDK documentation. IIRC you could also format a disk from the command line and not tie the system up, but if you used the GUI object to do it, it would. There were a lot of little quirks like that in the operating system. A few months before they shut it all down, I got into Linux and stopped worrying about it so much. There were some die hard OS/2 users inside IBM after all that, but by the time my last contract with them wound down in 2005, I didn't know of very many who were left.
OS/2 was actually really not that bad and they could have improved it, but they killed it instead. Lotus notes, on the other hand, was shitty for pretty much anything you could use it for, and they were still beating the fucking Lotus Notes drum when I left. AFAIK they never did manage to port their ticketing system (RETAIN) over to notes, even though they had a huge strategy boner to do so for well over a decade.
I'm pretty sure one of Oracle's IP lawyers would understand the difference between specification and implementation. To claim this could kill the GPL is at best disingenuous and at worst incompetence. Or perhaps the other way around
There's an easy solution for that! Clean Atomic Energy! But then everyone'd be like "Waaaah! Waaaah! There's a floating nuclear reactor down on the dock!" Honestly, there's just no pleasing some people.
I'm pretty sure this is just part of Google's whole skynet thing they have going on. Like it's watched Terminator dozens of times and decided that what it needs to do is snag John Conner with a self driving car before he can become a thorn in Google's side.
There was a story in the Denver Post a few days ago about how tech employers in the area were having trouble finding employees in an environment where unemployment is sitting around 2.9%. Then they go on to name all the companies in the area that have reputations for being the worst companies to work for. And one of them had just had a case go to the Colorado supreme court recently because they fired some guy who had spinal injury after he tested positive for marijuana use (He had a medical card.) So yeah, shitty employers have trouble finding employees. News at 11.
If some shit I'm doing makes me want to kill myself, I stop doing that shit. Especially if I'm doing it for free. Gotta wonder what kind of person would consider killing themselves versus just leaving with a giant "Fuck you, assclowns" note on the way out.
I didn't really care for Doom, though a co-worker relating how he ran out of bullets, went melee and punched some dude in the neck was pretty funny. Now Quake, that was another matter. I got a lot of mileage out of Quake. I loved using the grenade launcher to bounce grenades off the walls and send them spinning after people. I haven't really liked the weapon feel in any FPS since then. The ones in Quake 2 felt like plastic toy pea shooters.
Any costs incurred will be more than offset by the reductions in accidents and traffic fatalities and the ability for the cars to optimize traffic and their routes based on information that we're only now starting to receive. And even if it's true, does it really matter? You can let the car drive itself, so you can be doing other things. A lot of the hassle of commuting is that it's time that can't really be spent doing anything else.
And if it's REALLY bad and we all just go semi-nomadic, crawling along from place to place at 1-2 mph, you could just work from your car and have a pizza drone bring you food, and the pet cleanup drones carry away your waste.
I hunted down and killed GWX at work on several machines my group administers and this hasn't happened on any of those machines so far. If I missed any, I suppose we'll find out if our crap is compatible with Windows 10 (I'm not holding my breath) or if we have to accelerate our plans to move our test platform to Linux in the coming months.
I decided to see how long I could stay booted over to Xbuntu at home and haven't booted to Windows in several months. I suppose I'll be pissed off if I get a hankerin' to play Skyrim, but a surprising number of my steam games run great on Linux. It's a refreshing turn of events from back in the day when the only way to run commercial games on Linux was to buy Lokisoft titles. I went out of my way to buy several of their games before they went out of business. All my install media got lost a couple moves ago. I still miss Tribes 2. It was getting pretty old booting to Windows for games and back to Linux for real work (video processing, programming, etc) so I'm happy to be 100% Linux at home again.
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They've come up with a much better solution. Their security is just so bad that they never notice that they've been hacked. They seem to think that if they're completely inept, the hackers will feel bad for them and fix some things before they log out.
Could they fund an open source replacement for it? They're probably spending a lot of money keeping the old thing alive, they'd probably also have to spend a lot of money to migrate to the new software. So why not roll that money into an open development effort and make the resulting code freely available to everyone?
Clearly running the microwave creates a virtual quantum burrito. As long as there's a burrito in the microwave, thrust is guaranteed to be generated,shortly!
What? You just asked if technology could solve the problem, not that anyone had to like the solution.
But recently a friend of mine was taking a college basic math class and asked me a question about why something she was looking at was the way it was, and I looked at the problem and wrote a proof for her to demonstrate how a variable would change on a geometric plane. That despite having basically used no math for the last 3 decades. As a programmer I manipulate variables and symbols on a daily basis, and even when you don't think you're using a lot of math, you're still using a lot of math. Thing is, if we don't realize we're doing it, how is a CEO who doesn't really understand what we do going to? And those are the sorts of people who are dictating what's being taught at the coding schools.
Giving PayPal access to $50,000 of your funds: Priceless.
I want to see Trump's long form Birth Certificate, because it's pretty clear he's an Oompa Loompa. It seems much more likely that he was born in Loompaland, not the USA.
Heh heh, think the little ones will hunt their prey by hanging out in the break room until someone needs a burrito microwaved?
I don't reckon I'd ever have bet my customers' lives on Microsoft software.
Is the Venture Brothers going to have to change his name?
I think so, yeah. The problem was the reader would index files on the CD and those were super slow at the time. And it would do this each time you started, rather than caching its indexes on the hard drive somewhere. And of course it wouldn't be processing messages from the system input queue while it was indexing. The windows one would do the same thing, but since you could run separate instances of windows in OS/2, you could use your system for other things while the document reader was indexing.
They were probably "Working as designed". That was the answer I got for a lot of that shit. You had to submit a "Program Design Change Request", the only copies of which were kept in a file cabinet in one of the steam tunnels under the Boca Raton facility, just right of the sign reading "Beware of Leopard" (Yes, I stole that from Doug Adams.)
Yeah, I had some carefully planned tech demos for it. Formatting a floppy disk (Specifically, from the command line) and printing a document out was a fun one. As long as you knew how to avoid tying up the system input queue, you could accomplish some mind-boggling (for the time) things with the system. At the '95 COMDEX in Atlanta, we set up a quad processor Compaq box at the Compaq stand to play 4 videos at once. It had a staggering 16 MB of RAM, so we made a small RAM disk to hold the videos so we wouldn't have to go to disk for them. It sat there quite happily for a good chunk of the show, playing its 4 videos in separate windows side by side. The WIndows NT box next to it was running its polygons screensaver.
Their OS/2 SDK shipped with a lot of documentation in some format or other not entirely unlike HTML. Ironically the document reader that shipped with OS/2 didn't utilize threads and would lock your system up while it operated, but the windows version of the program could be run in a standalone windows session and not tie your system up. So the windows application was much better for actually reading the OS/2 SDK documentation. IIRC you could also format a disk from the command line and not tie the system up, but if you used the GUI object to do it, it would. There were a lot of little quirks like that in the operating system. A few months before they shut it all down, I got into Linux and stopped worrying about it so much. There were some die hard OS/2 users inside IBM after all that, but by the time my last contract with them wound down in 2005, I didn't know of very many who were left.
OS/2 was actually really not that bad and they could have improved it, but they killed it instead. Lotus notes, on the other hand, was shitty for pretty much anything you could use it for, and they were still beating the fucking Lotus Notes drum when I left. AFAIK they never did manage to port their ticketing system (RETAIN) over to notes, even though they had a huge strategy boner to do so for well over a decade.
I'm pretty sure one of Oracle's IP lawyers would understand the difference between specification and implementation. To claim this could kill the GPL is at best disingenuous and at worst incompetence. Or perhaps the other way around
She won't, but her sister will.
The plant manager heard it would give you super powers. Sadly, it only gave them lymphoma.
There's an easy solution for that! Clean Atomic Energy! But then everyone'd be like "Waaaah! Waaaah! There's a floating nuclear reactor down on the dock!" Honestly, there's just no pleasing some people.
I'm pretty sure this is just part of Google's whole skynet thing they have going on. Like it's watched Terminator dozens of times and decided that what it needs to do is snag John Conner with a self driving car before he can become a thorn in Google's side.
There was a story in the Denver Post a few days ago about how tech employers in the area were having trouble finding employees in an environment where unemployment is sitting around 2.9%. Then they go on to name all the companies in the area that have reputations for being the worst companies to work for. And one of them had just had a case go to the Colorado supreme court recently because they fired some guy who had spinal injury after he tested positive for marijuana use (He had a medical card.) So yeah, shitty employers have trouble finding employees. News at 11.
The hackers will probably sell it less and take better care of it than Linkedin did.
If some shit I'm doing makes me want to kill myself, I stop doing that shit. Especially if I'm doing it for free. Gotta wonder what kind of person would consider killing themselves versus just leaving with a giant "Fuck you, assclowns" note on the way out.
I didn't really care for Doom, though a co-worker relating how he ran out of bullets, went melee and punched some dude in the neck was pretty funny. Now Quake, that was another matter. I got a lot of mileage out of Quake. I loved using the grenade launcher to bounce grenades off the walls and send them spinning after people. I haven't really liked the weapon feel in any FPS since then. The ones in Quake 2 felt like plastic toy pea shooters.
And if it's REALLY bad and we all just go semi-nomadic, crawling along from place to place at 1-2 mph, you could just work from your car and have a pizza drone bring you food, and the pet cleanup drones carry away your waste.
I decided to see how long I could stay booted over to Xbuntu at home and haven't booted to Windows in several months. I suppose I'll be pissed off if I get a hankerin' to play Skyrim, but a surprising number of my steam games run great on Linux. It's a refreshing turn of events from back in the day when the only way to run commercial games on Linux was to buy Lokisoft titles. I went out of my way to buy several of their games before they went out of business. All my install media got lost a couple moves ago. I still miss Tribes 2. It was getting pretty old booting to Windows for games and back to Linux for real work (video processing, programming, etc) so I'm happy to be 100% Linux at home again.