Occupation of Iraq was the seminal crime that unleashed all the hatred and terror we're suffering from
Of course. That explains things like the Lockerbie bombing of 1988. You know, right about the time when Iran and Iraq were throwing chemical weapons at each other.
Shame on you, Bush. Your warmongering knows no limits, it even defies the forward-only nature of time.
Electronic security against what? Bearded, illiterate hackers running sql injection scripts they found on astalavista using a mikee dees free wifi connection?
Have you seen those beasts? They come with earthquake kits (hydraulic suspension, gyros, etc), waterproof cables connectors (to keep working in a small flood) and nitrogen-rich fire-resistant enclosures. Drives are snapped in a backplane because loose cables are a liability, and IBM even provides an optimal distribution of redundant components inside the case based on their extensive records of hardware failures experienced by all their large customers in the last 20 years (because of course those machines are not serviced by the customers themselves).
This kind of big iron is definitely not a pimped pizza box. It is an amazing piece of engineering. Loud, expensive, inflexible, but truly amazing.
Besides the price, I'm always on the fence regarding IBM's approach to licensing. On one hand it feels like having an itemized bill with individual licenses and fees for everything down to individual screws gives more control to the buyer (as opposed to a "bundle" where one could feel like he's paying for stuff he doesn't need), but in my experience it's almost impossible to seriously weed out (or even understand) items from the list.
My best billing experience has been in a small business that was using Dell's financing. No big upfront cost, a simple monthly amount to pay. Need one more server or ten more workstations? No problem, the stuff is delivered and the monthly amount is increased by $200. Awesome.
No. PaaS is scale-out. while a mainframe is scale-up. A scale-out architecture is good at processing a lot of different requests, but does not offer very good results for high-frequency complex operations because by nature the distribution of workloads over a large network is costly. Anything similar to Newton's method would be a good example of a workload that doesn't translate well on a scale-out architecture.
I'm not saying that many mainframe applications couldn't be replaced by a cloud computing solution, but there are situations where latency and expensive orchestration are not acceptable.
Sometimes, you have to put a dog down that you're particularly fond of.
Sometimes, you have to put one down that really needs to go.
This ubiquitous sanctity for human life is way overrated.
This is exactly what those terrorists think. Don't you understand that in real life conflicts, neither side usually considers itself to be "the bad guys"?
My preference favose scortched-earth --- vaporizing a few A-rab desert shiteholes like Mecca and razing all physical traces of Muslim juju. Back-to-the-cave b*stards!
I don't know about transformers, but I have tried a lot of distros lately on Lenovo convertible laptops, and my best experience has definitely been with Fedora. The setup is almost as easy as Ubuntu and the touch screen works well.
I'm not a Debian fan and I typically pick CentOS, but I was surprised to see how Fedora is more polished and convenient.
Um... No. Identity theft is using someone else's identity, not just obtaining information about them.
What if you use someone else's identity for fun? Like writing their names on a pair of soiled underwear and leaving it in the middle of the school cafeteria, like we used to do in high school?
The summary is almost as long as the linked blog post, which reads more like a "Computer Guy" column in a magazine for retired dentists than Slashdot material.
My favorite part: "In 2014, several women were doxed by male gamers trying to intimidate them into keeping silent about sexism in computer games."
It is interesting that Switzerland did all they could to protect the secrecy of the accounts of war criminals and dictators, but did not think twice before sharing information about US customers with the IRS.
Swiss banking secrecy and swiss cheese now have many things in common (they stink, they have holes, nobody cares about it, etc).
It depends on what you mean by half-million-dollar-idea. Is that revenue or profit? Because half a million of revenue in a company where people spend a lot of time looking at high-quality sites is not a lot.
As an example, if the company has 100 employees with an average salary of $50,000, and they all spend 2h per day websurfing, you need at lest 3 of those ideas per year to break even.
You bought a whole company for 20 millions? Did they let you keep the ice trays from the break room fridge for that bargain price?
That's the part that always drive me mad when I buy companies for less than 100 millions. You get there as soon as the ink is dry on the contract, thinking that you will have ice cubes to put in your glass of whisky while you're dictating a letter to the secretary who used to work for your boss (the one with the big tits) - and then, BANG, no fucking ice because the lowball price only included furniture, not miscellaneous items like ice trays.
Web browsing on company time is a self correcting problem. It's accepted (at least where I work) that quick breaks throughout the day are almost a necessity. I usually do so when I get hung up or frustrated by something. A quick glance through any one of several sites I frequent gives my brain a break, and then I find I can get back at it.
Last year I spent a few months working on site for a client that has a zero tolerance policy for personal use of internet. When I learned about this I was horrified and almost declined the contract, but as soon as I started working there I found out that not only did my productivity improve, my general mood also improved. Hours flew by even if the project was not that interesting. At the end of the day I had more energy, and I also took more pleasure in non-work activities in the evening.
I am not kidding. Try it for a week: no personal email, no personal web browsing, no funnies, nothing like that during business hours (including the phone). Also cut the chitchat and the gossiping around the watercooler (or espresso machine). You won't believe how better you will feel. It's almost zen.
I just said it *looks* like a spambot. It could be a lot worse; the message happens to have 70 characters, and that's an exact match for a Google Adsense body - or half a tweet.
Also for all I know you could be impersonating Sternishefan, a respected member of this community, like those scammers on Craigslist who pretend to be legitimate landlords. Providing a captcha (which may or may not be real) is no proof. How can we tell if it's you?
I'm a guy so each time I see the name of a gamergate girl I can't help but google her to see her picture. And each time I'm surprised that they all more or less look like the geek girl in Criminal Minds... Always a bad hybrid of a tattoo parlor employee and an overweight self-published YA novel author that looks more like her father than her mother.
I'm ok with being called an ignorant and a despicable misogynist, but could that movement please find an attractive spokesperson to do so? They could even rent one with all the money they make from extra traffic sent to their blogs. Show a little respect.
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Occupation of Iraq was the seminal crime that unleashed all the hatred and terror we're suffering from
Of course. That explains things like the Lockerbie bombing of 1988. You know, right about the time when Iran and Iraq were throwing chemical weapons at each other.
Shame on you, Bush. Your warmongering knows no limits, it even defies the forward-only nature of time.
Electronic security against what? Bearded, illiterate hackers running sql injection scripts they found on astalavista using a mikee dees free wifi connection?
Have you seen those beasts? They come with earthquake kits (hydraulic suspension, gyros, etc), waterproof cables connectors (to keep working in a small flood) and nitrogen-rich fire-resistant enclosures. Drives are snapped in a backplane because loose cables are a liability, and IBM even provides an optimal distribution of redundant components inside the case based on their extensive records of hardware failures experienced by all their large customers in the last 20 years (because of course those machines are not serviced by the customers themselves).
This kind of big iron is definitely not a pimped pizza box. It is an amazing piece of engineering. Loud, expensive, inflexible, but truly amazing.
Besides the price, I'm always on the fence regarding IBM's approach to licensing. On one hand it feels like having an itemized bill with individual licenses and fees for everything down to individual screws gives more control to the buyer (as opposed to a "bundle" where one could feel like he's paying for stuff he doesn't need), but in my experience it's almost impossible to seriously weed out (or even understand) items from the list.
My best billing experience has been in a small business that was using Dell's financing. No big upfront cost, a simple monthly amount to pay. Need one more server or ten more workstations? No problem, the stuff is delivered and the monthly amount is increased by $200. Awesome.
No. PaaS is scale-out. while a mainframe is scale-up. A scale-out architecture is good at processing a lot of different requests, but does not offer very good results for high-frequency complex operations because by nature the distribution of workloads over a large network is costly. Anything similar to Newton's method would be a good example of a workload that doesn't translate well on a scale-out architecture.
I'm not saying that many mainframe applications couldn't be replaced by a cloud computing solution, but there are situations where latency and expensive orchestration are not acceptable.
We can't shut them down like that. It's one of the two most powerful and wealthy Koreas in the world!
Awesome! At last a way to hack North Korea and steal all their... valuable things?
Sometimes, you have to put a dog down that you're particularly fond of.
Sometimes, you have to put one down that really needs to go.
This ubiquitous sanctity for human life is way overrated.
This is exactly what those terrorists think. Don't you understand that in real life conflicts, neither side usually considers itself to be "the bad guys"?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki...
when someone posts a link that points to the mobile version of a website, I always wonder if they did it while taking a shit.
My preference favose scortched-earth --- vaporizing a few A-rab desert shiteholes like Mecca and razing all physical traces of Muslim juju. Back-to-the-cave b*stards!
I'm sure they fear you personally
I don't know about transformers, but I have tried a lot of distros lately on Lenovo convertible laptops, and my best experience has definitely been with Fedora. The setup is almost as easy as Ubuntu and the touch screen works well.
I'm not a Debian fan and I typically pick CentOS, but I was surprised to see how Fedora is more polished and convenient.
Um... No. Identity theft is using someone else's identity, not just obtaining information about them.
What if you use someone else's identity for fun? Like writing their names on a pair of soiled underwear and leaving it in the middle of the school cafeteria, like we used to do in high school?
The summary is almost as long as the linked blog post, which reads more like a "Computer Guy" column in a magazine for retired dentists than Slashdot material.
My favorite part:
"In 2014, several women were doxed by male gamers trying to intimidate them into keeping silent about sexism in computer games."
Wuss.
It's been around for a while, but it is mostly a 4chan and IRC thing.
It is interesting that Switzerland did all they could to protect the secrecy of the accounts of war criminals and dictators, but did not think twice before sharing information about US customers with the IRS.
Swiss banking secrecy and swiss cheese now have many things in common (they stink, they have holes, nobody cares about it, etc).
trading gold is nothing more than trading the energy consumed in mining it.
Gold comes from mines? I always believed it came from pawn shops and elderly relatives.
At least my shit can be used to fertilize something.
Maybe it's time for me to stop buying organic fruits & veggies at the grocery store.
It depends on what you mean by half-million-dollar-idea. Is that revenue or profit? Because half a million of revenue in a company where people spend a lot of time looking at high-quality sites is not a lot.
As an example, if the company has 100 employees with an average salary of $50,000, and they all spend 2h per day websurfing, you need at lest 3 of those ideas per year to break even.
You bought a whole company for 20 millions? Did they let you keep the ice trays from the break room fridge for that bargain price?
That's the part that always drive me mad when I buy companies for less than 100 millions. You get there as soon as the ink is dry on the contract, thinking that you will have ice cubes to put in your glass of whisky while you're dictating a letter to the secretary who used to work for your boss (the one with the big tits) - and then, BANG, no fucking ice because the lowball price only included furniture, not miscellaneous items like ice trays.
Web browsing on company time is a self correcting problem. It's accepted (at least where I work) that quick breaks throughout the day are almost a necessity. I usually do so when I get hung up or frustrated by something. A quick glance through any one of several sites I frequent gives my brain a break, and then I find I can get back at it.
Last year I spent a few months working on site for a client that has a zero tolerance policy for personal use of internet. When I learned about this I was horrified and almost declined the contract, but as soon as I started working there I found out that not only did my productivity improve, my general mood also improved. Hours flew by even if the project was not that interesting. At the end of the day I had more energy, and I also took more pleasure in non-work activities in the evening.
I am not kidding. Try it for a week: no personal email, no personal web browsing, no funnies, nothing like that during business hours (including the phone). Also cut the chitchat and the gossiping around the watercooler (or espresso machine). You won't believe how better you will feel. It's almost zen.
I just deployed a secure PHP install for my new blog. Please adjust the numbers to reflect this since those numbers are allegedly for all installs.
I just said it *looks* like a spambot. It could be a lot worse; the message happens to have 70 characters, and that's an exact match for a Google Adsense body - or half a tweet.
Also for all I know you could be impersonating Sternishefan, a respected member of this community, like those scammers on Craigslist who pretend to be legitimate landlords. Providing a captcha (which may or may not be real) is no proof. How can we tell if it's you?
Isn't medium.com the wordpress equivalent for the Macbook people? I don't see how it could be called a left-wing source.
I'm a guy so each time I see the name of a gamergate girl I can't help but google her to see her picture. And each time I'm surprised that they all more or less look like the geek girl in Criminal Minds... Always a bad hybrid of a tattoo parlor employee and an overweight self-published YA novel author that looks more like her father than her mother.
I'm ok with being called an ignorant and a despicable misogynist, but could that movement please find an attractive spokesperson to do so? They could even rent one with all the money they make from extra traffic sent to their blogs. Show a little respect.
This looks like those spambots that post generic comments on blogs to create low-quality organic links.