" I think they have some knowledge in this field."
Apparently they don't have any knowledge on how to fund their own project (or how you fund first, research later), something most PHD students learn right at the beginning of their studies.
Those parents should be asking where the majority of Fortune 500 companies (and mom and pop outfits too) currently get their coding done, and then consider if they want their precious snowflakes to spend their school years learning a trade that is almost completely outsourced (and certainly will be in the next decade with various countries racing to the bottom bidding for coding and IT jobs). Does little Johnny want to compete with a foreign programmer that is perfectly happy making $50US a day?
You're absolutely right. When I went from Centos 6x to Centos 7x I had to learn nothing to make the box go from 100% uptime to crashing 2-3 times a week. Systemd is great, for no known reason it took a perfectly working system and turned it into a metal case full of steaming shit. Systemd only helps DIstro builders, it does NOTHING for any System Admin or Server wrangler. I have real work to do on my computers, so fixing a distro's fatal flaw isn't (and never will be) on my todo list.
"Help you stop watching"? I thought that was what the incessant yammering about YouTube Red was for. Google is fucking crazy if they think people will pay $10/month for their useless content
3.5 years older after 40 years. OMG - EVERYONE PANIC. At that rate, new dad's will be 180 years old by the end of the century (ok, I didn't do the maths so that number might be off a little).
Seems like a perfect example of natural selection. The birds that figure out NOT to eat plastic (or how to get their body to deal with plastic after it's consumed) will survive to breed, the others, well the rule of nature is: Adapt, Evolve or Die.
PT Barnum would be so proud. Would the AirBnB house owner care to show any type of business model where they earn their installation investment back. Seems like once again Musk has found away to spend OTHER PEOPLES MONEY.
Name one other occupation that arm's their "idiots" with weapons. Cops should be held to a much higher standard - at one time not all that long ago, they were, and they were respected and truested- now they've burnt thru all that respect and are feared and hated. The few good cops are vastly outnumbered by the assholes. I was raised to trust cops if I was in trouble - now I wouldn't call a cop if my life depended on it, since the cop could (would?) be just a dangerous. The system needs a complete overhaul with a independent oversight committee - it will never happen (or at least not until the back and forth killings escalate up a notch or three).
I have Gig Fiber coming into my research lab with a/24 subnet of IPv4. We assigned about 100 IP's right off the bat (mostly tunnels to other labs and remote access for outside researchers), we added another 12 or so this last year for new people/projects. So with 140 (give or take) IPv4 IP's left, why would I bother changing to IPv6.
IPv6 adds NO additional useful features to our network, none. Yet would add some expense in switching over (our firewalls are PFSense, so they're ready for IPv6 if there's ever a need to switch over). We have about 90 workstations, 10 servers, and three 384 core clusters, all just chunking away on their 10.0.x.x networks.
It will be decades before IPv4 traffic can't communicate with IPv6 networks, and if you want to run your networks on IPv6 then it's up to you and your service provides to bridge to IPv4 if you want to communicate with my systems.
So, until there's a REAL reason (read, worth the expense and time and training) to change over, I don't see it happening. Worse case, if we get a client that's valuable enough and they're on IPv6 only, we'll setup a bridge ourselves just for that client (but it hasn't happened yet).
Heroin overdose (like 700 mg). No shortage of that drug (just check your evidence locker), certainly not painful - you nod off and don't wake up, easy to administrate, only downside is it's not all that quick.
$40M divided amongst those four companies (Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Google) is a drop in the bucket. If it's so important to them, let them pony up the money.
Yes - I've turned down two solid offers in 2014 (both with a minor 10%ish package increase but more interesting research, at least more interesting to me) because the position did NOT come with dedicated office space. I agreed to do a followup interview and stated in no uncertain terms the entire reason for me refusing the offer was the open layout of their lab. The 30-something HR person looked at me like I had just grown two heads. Depending on your career level and path, your mileage may vary.
It's not your toys, it's not your electronics, it's not your friends, it's not your classes, it's not the radio/mp3/tv around you, it's not the 21st century - IT'S YOU.
Learn self discipline and control what and when and how you do things.
It's not that hard - people have been doing it successfully for centuries, until the fad to blame everyone and everything else for your own shortcomings became the norm.
In the old days (i.e. pre-90's) your parents would have taught you this, unfortunately now days your parents consider you to be a precious snowflake and didn't teach you squat, so you're on your own.
So robots are the solution to not having a pair and being able to fire upon any intrusion on a soft perimeter?
Just like a embassy, let the world know that we consider a 50 meter perimeter around ANY US vessel to be American soil and will act as needed (including weapons fire) to protect that perimeter.
There - problem solved. If the Cole (and it's Pentagon masters) would have had a pair back in the day, that cluster f**k wouldn't have happened. But hey, soon as a few more billions are spent, we'll have a fleet of rubber robot boats to yell mean things at people trying to damage our fleets.
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" I think they have some knowledge in this field."
Apparently they don't have any knowledge on how to fund their own project (or how you fund first, research later), something most PHD students learn right at the beginning of their studies.
Just out of curiosity, what's so special about your real identity that you have to post on Slashdot anonymously?
Give them a break, it takes time to produce CPU's with that many bugs, backdoors and loopholes and yet still mostly function as a CPU.
Those parents should be asking where the majority of Fortune 500 companies (and mom and pop outfits too) currently get their coding done, and then consider if they want their precious snowflakes to spend their school years learning a trade that is almost completely outsourced (and certainly will be in the next decade with various countries racing to the bottom bidding for coding and IT jobs). Does little Johnny want to compete with a foreign programmer that is perfectly happy making $50US a day?
" and can be rapidly deployed anywhere in the world."
Like to the Sahara?
You're absolutely right. When I went from Centos 6x to Centos 7x I had to learn nothing to make the box go from 100% uptime to crashing 2-3 times a week. Systemd is great, for no known reason it took a perfectly working system and turned it into a metal case full of steaming shit. Systemd only helps DIstro builders, it does NOTHING for any System Admin or Server wrangler. I have real work to do on my computers, so fixing a distro's fatal flaw isn't (and never will be) on my todo list.
A sub-10 year old needs a computer (of any flavour) as much as it needs another lazy, remote, uncaring parent.
"Help you stop watching"? I thought that was what the incessant yammering about YouTube Red was for. Google is fucking crazy if they think people will pay $10/month for their useless content
3.5 years older after 40 years. OMG - EVERYONE PANIC. At that rate, new dad's will be 180 years old by the end of the century (ok, I didn't do the maths so that number might be off a little).
Pocket change from Billionaires - oh how generous.
Military Research? You mean like their Whale Research except with bigger guns?
Can't imagine anything going wrong with that idea.
Dark matter eh - Is that what China is calling Fatty Kim Junior's hair style these days?
Seems like a perfect example of natural selection. The birds that figure out NOT to eat plastic (or how to get their body to deal with plastic after it's consumed) will survive to breed, the others, well the rule of nature is: Adapt, Evolve or Die.
PT Barnum would be so proud. Would the AirBnB house owner care to show any type of business model where they earn their installation investment back. Seems like once again Musk has found away to spend OTHER PEOPLES MONEY.
Name one other occupation that arm's their "idiots" with weapons. Cops should be held to a much higher standard - at one time not all that long ago, they were, and they were respected and truested- now they've burnt thru all that respect and are feared and hated. The few good cops are vastly outnumbered by the assholes. I was raised to trust cops if I was in trouble - now I wouldn't call a cop if my life depended on it, since the cop could (would?) be just a dangerous. The system needs a complete overhaul with a independent oversight committee - it will never happen (or at least not until the back and forth killings escalate up a notch or three).
Does it make me an evil person hoping a very small and precisely targeted asteroid hits the convention center at that time?
I have Gig Fiber coming into my research lab with a /24 subnet of IPv4. We assigned about 100 IP's right off the bat (mostly tunnels to other labs and remote access for outside researchers), we added another 12 or so this last year for new people/projects. So with 140 (give or take) IPv4 IP's left, why would I bother changing to IPv6.
IPv6 adds NO additional useful features to our network, none. Yet would add some expense in switching over (our firewalls are PFSense, so they're ready for IPv6 if there's ever a need to switch over). We have about 90 workstations, 10 servers, and three 384 core clusters, all just chunking away on their 10.0.x.x networks.
It will be decades before IPv4 traffic can't communicate with IPv6 networks, and if you want to run your networks on IPv6 then it's up to you and your service provides to bridge to IPv4 if you want to communicate with my systems.
So, until there's a REAL reason (read, worth the expense and time and training) to change over, I don't see it happening. Worse case, if we get a client that's valuable enough and they're on IPv6 only, we'll setup a bridge ourselves just for that client (but it hasn't happened yet).
Glad to see that management has all the real problems solved so they can worry about nonsense crap like easter eggs.
Heroin overdose (like 700 mg). No shortage of that drug (just check your evidence locker), certainly not painful - you nod off and don't wake up, easy to administrate, only downside is it's not all that quick.
$40M divided amongst those four companies (Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Google) is a drop in the bucket. If it's so important to them, let them pony up the money.
You mean all those industries that off-shored their IT and Security to the cheapest bidder can't secure their systems?
BIG FREAKING SURPRISE.
Yes - I've turned down two solid offers in 2014 (both with a minor 10%ish package increase but more interesting research, at least more interesting to me) because the position did NOT come with dedicated office space. I agreed to do a followup interview and stated in no uncertain terms the entire reason for me refusing the offer was the open layout of their lab. The 30-something HR person looked at me like I had just grown two heads. Depending on your career level and path, your mileage may vary.
Or you could just use one of the dozens of Apps for Android or Apple that shows that and much more info about the nearby hotspots.
Why do people re-invent the wheel - poorly?
Maybe you just need to get a grip.
It's not your toys, it's not your electronics, it's not your friends, it's not your classes, it's not the radio/mp3/tv around you, it's not the 21st century - IT'S YOU.
Learn self discipline and control what and when and how you do things.
It's not that hard - people have been doing it successfully for centuries, until the fad to blame everyone and everything else for your own shortcomings became the norm.
In the old days (i.e. pre-90's) your parents would have taught you this, unfortunately now days your parents consider you to be a precious snowflake and didn't teach you squat, so you're on your own.
So robots are the solution to not having a pair and being able to fire upon any intrusion on a soft perimeter?
Just like a embassy, let the world know that we consider a 50 meter perimeter around ANY US vessel to be American soil and will act as needed (including weapons fire) to protect that perimeter.
There - problem solved. If the Cole (and it's Pentagon masters) would have had a pair back in the day, that cluster f**k wouldn't have happened. But hey, soon as a few more billions are spent, we'll have a fleet of rubber robot boats to yell mean things at people trying to damage our fleets.