People with those qualitifications do exist, but there aren't many.
(...and they're all making 6 figures, working in undisclosed locations on securing communications between intelligence assets in other undisclosed locations and drones bombing undisclosed targets in undisclosed countries we're officially not at war with. Good luck poaching one to work on some IDS tool that's already way behind schedule for $30k.)
It's very common in the US to have "slow" internet speeds (10-15mbps), probably because the country is so large and urban sprawl.
No, it's very common to have "slow" internet speeds here because of telco/government collusion at the local level, and toothless regulation at the federal level.
Stop believing the density myth. Our infrastructure sucks because we have a cheap, paranoid, rabidly anti-government, and very loud segment of the populace that opposes all taxation and any spending that might benefit other people, and a handful of modern-day robber barons whose enormous profits depend on keeping them that way.
"The Cloud" is also somewhere in "The Internet", which Joe just knows is full of unsavory people. He may be past the hysterical there's-a-pedo-behind-every-keyboard phase, but he still isn't ready to trust it with sole custody of any files more important than kitten videos.
Right. So if you take the current glut of starches that we fat humans are eating and feed them to animals to produce fats and protein (at a conversion efficiency of ~1.5%) suddenly you no have much less food available. That might not be a bad thing, but it should be acknowledged in any alternate future dietary fanfic where the beef lobby beat out the corn lobby in Congress.
Well, it's a good idea. Given Vermont's granite and metamorphic dominated geology, drilling gas wells and fracking would probably liberate radon instead of methane!
Even not-so-organized thieves are getting wise to tracking and remote wipe software. There was a story on NPR a week or two ago about the market in *cough* "found" smartphones in NYC that mentioned the resale value of a phone doubles if you take the battery out immediately after "finding" it.
Unless one works for a secretive government agency, or Apple, then the data has no resale market value.
If the data contains login details for online banking and investment sites, it has an immediate value of up to $all-your-money.
(And even if you're smart enough not to save those passwords, it probably contains your email login and password, which would let the thief reset your bank passwords, clear out your savings, and invest your whole 401k in "evil guy Caribbean beach retirement fund LLC".)
That would be the DSL provider with long queues and lots of lag, the cable provider with long queues and lots of lag, and the "4G" operator (more like 3.25G speed) with long queues, lots of lag, signal strength issues, and a 100MB monthly cap.
If this theory of competition between the duopoly worked, cable and DSL would both have better customer service and lower rates...
Not to mention the damned-if-they-do-damned-if-they-don't aspect of that line of reasoning. If the 22nm parts don't overclock as well as the predecessors, their node transition "failed". If they do, Big Bad Chipzilla is gouging us by artificially restricting the supply of high-clock parts.
"How the processor performs when overclocked (or really, not factory-underclocked) provides an extremely revealing look at business practices and yields."
It's an interesting look to be sure, but considering the IB chips perform fine and use less power than SB at their marked clock speeds, there's nothing you can derive from that look to back up "the Ivy Bridge does nothing extra in terms of performance and consumes not lower power than its older 32nm sibling" in the post you appear to be defending here...
What a nice economy you have there, it would be a shame if someone were to park a carrier battle group off your largest port, closing it for a year or two. Now be a good lapdog and sign the patent treaty.
"How long do you think the gap between the FTTH demarc and the customer prem equipment is going to remain copper? 5 years, sure, 10 maybe, 15 doubtful."
Until it's replaced by something wireless. In 15 years, the only physical ports you're going to see on "consumer" hardware will be for power cords.
My mom's house came with Norton pre-installed, it takes 10 minutes to turn on a lamp, and an hour to preheat the oven. You're better off without it, really.
Valve has been a good steward with Steam, not doing nefarious things like turning off old games to sell new ones, or banning Wine users, or any other evil things they could do, but it's still funny to me to see the/. community all excited about rumors that someone is going to port a DRM platform to Linux.
Valve has yet to officially comment, but you'd hope they wouldn't invite someone up to their offices and send them home to spew lies.
Yeah well. I still say I'll believe it when I have a download link.
On that subject, whatever happened to the super-duper-optimizing compiler that was going to revolutionize everything Linux that Phoronix "confirmed" a while back?
The 9/11 hijackers had valid IDs and valid boarding passes for the flights they were on. They went through without any trouble that morning, and they would go right through with the inconvenience of taking off their shoes and an option of the ball-grope or dose of X-rays today.
"And all this of course completely ignores the danger that if a 500 ton asteroid that can be moved and aimed is essentially a weapon of mass destruction and that bringing it into orbit is actually a terrifyingly bad idea."
Taking an earth-crossing asteroid and putting it into circular lunar orbit should be considered defusing a weapon of mass destruction, not building one...
They had a choice: push back. Require visas for all Americans entering the EU (including government and military personnel), slap tariffs on American goods, bar American businesses from euro-zone governmental contracts, tell the USAF to GTFO Germany, that sort of thing.
They chose to take the path of least resistance instead, as usual. Handing over the little peoples' data is cheap, maintaining a credible military is expensive.
Everyone, everywhere who ever voted against their country building ballistic missiles and aircraft carriers. Uncle Sam can "project force" all over the world precisely because nobody else bothers with the expense of operating their own machines of global arm-twisting.
Gotta disagree. Stephenson seems to have the same amount of "awesome" on hand to put in each book, and the later ones have been much longer and therefore more diluted.
Snow Crash > Diamond Age > Cryptonomicon > Baroque cycle > Anathem. The only exception is Zodiac, which isn't as good as Snow Crash or Diamond Age, but still infinitely more enjoyable than his latest alternate-history textbooks.
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People with those qualitifications do exist, but there aren't many.
(...and they're all making 6 figures, working in undisclosed locations on securing communications between intelligence assets in other undisclosed locations and drones bombing undisclosed targets in undisclosed countries we're officially not at war with. Good luck poaching one to work on some IDS tool that's already way behind schedule for $30k.)
...that GPS is a one-way system, right? There's no link back from your TomTom to the government's satellites or the corporate mothership.
It's very common in the US to have "slow" internet speeds (10-15mbps), probably because the country is so large and urban sprawl.
No, it's very common to have "slow" internet speeds here because of telco/government collusion at the local level, and toothless regulation at the federal level.
Stop believing the density myth. Our infrastructure sucks because we have a cheap, paranoid, rabidly anti-government, and very loud segment of the populace that opposes all taxation and any spending that might benefit other people, and a handful of modern-day robber barons whose enormous profits depend on keeping them that way.
"The Cloud" is also somewhere in "The Internet", which Joe just knows is full of unsavory people. He may be past the hysterical there's-a-pedo-behind-every-keyboard phase, but he still isn't ready to trust it with sole custody of any files more important than kitten videos.
If you get one person doing the work of three, that's management success and you should get a big bonus.
If that person does 3 jobs badly, that's his personal failure and should be noted in his next performance review!
Right. So if you take the current glut of starches that we fat humans are eating and feed them to animals to produce fats and protein (at a conversion efficiency of ~1.5%) suddenly you no have much less food available. That might not be a bad thing, but it should be acknowledged in any alternate future dietary fanfic where the beef lobby beat out the corn lobby in Congress.
Well, it's a good idea. Given Vermont's granite and metamorphic dominated geology, drilling gas wells and fracking would probably liberate radon instead of methane!
It's a better example. Hours of disassembly to get the transmission out and open it up for the car vs. *point* "look, gears!" for the bike...
So, go back to 1970 and promote say, nothing but beef or pork production, and you can have a glut of food, without obesity.
You probably wouldn't have a glut of food, the conversion ratio of feed calories to meat is pretty terrible, especially for cattle.
Even not-so-organized thieves are getting wise to tracking and remote wipe software. There was a story on NPR a week or two ago about the market in *cough* "found" smartphones in NYC that mentioned the resale value of a phone doubles if you take the battery out immediately after "finding" it.
Unless one works for a secretive government agency, or Apple, then the data has no resale market value.
If the data contains login details for online banking and investment sites, it has an immediate value of up to $all-your-money.
(And even if you're smart enough not to save those passwords, it probably contains your email login and password, which would let the thief reset your bank passwords, clear out your savings, and invest your whole 401k in "evil guy Caribbean beach retirement fund LLC".)
That would be the DSL provider with long queues and lots of lag, the cable provider with long queues and lots of lag, and the "4G" operator (more like 3.25G speed) with long queues, lots of lag, signal strength issues, and a 100MB monthly cap.
If this theory of competition between the duopoly worked, cable and DSL would both have better customer service and lower rates...
Not to mention the damned-if-they-do-damned-if-they-don't aspect of that line of reasoning. If the 22nm parts don't overclock as well as the predecessors, their node transition "failed". If they do, Big Bad Chipzilla is gouging us by artificially restricting the supply of high-clock parts.
"How the processor performs when overclocked (or really, not factory-underclocked) provides an extremely revealing look at business practices and yields."
It's an interesting look to be sure, but considering the IB chips perform fine and use less power than SB at their marked clock speeds, there's nothing you can derive from that look to back up "the Ivy Bridge does nothing extra in terms of performance and consumes not lower power than its older 32nm sibling" in the post you appear to be defending here...
What a nice economy you have there, it would be a shame if someone were to park a carrier battle group off your largest port, closing it for a year or two. Now be a good lapdog and sign the patent treaty.
"How long do you think the gap between the FTTH demarc and the customer prem equipment is going to remain copper? 5 years, sure, 10 maybe, 15 doubtful."
Until it's replaced by something wireless. In 15 years, the only physical ports you're going to see on "consumer" hardware will be for power cords.
I knew I should have installed Norton!
My mom's house came with Norton pre-installed, it takes 10 minutes to turn on a lamp, and an hour to preheat the oven. You're better off without it, really.
Valve has been a good steward with Steam, not doing nefarious things like turning off old games to sell new ones, or banning Wine users, or any other evil things they could do, but it's still funny to me to see the /. community all excited about rumors that someone is going to port a DRM platform to Linux.
Valve has yet to officially comment, but you'd hope they wouldn't invite someone up to their offices and send them home to spew lies.
Yeah well. I still say I'll believe it when I have a download link.
On that subject, whatever happened to the super-duper-optimizing compiler that was going to revolutionize everything Linux that Phoronix "confirmed" a while back?
This check is a complete non-sequitor to 9/11.
The 9/11 hijackers had valid IDs and valid boarding passes for the flights they were on. They went through without any trouble that morning, and they would go right through with the inconvenience of taking off their shoes and an option of the ball-grope or dose of X-rays today.
"If you can't script you can't sysadmin. If you can't script you can't be a netadmin, what the hell can you do?"
Windows admin!
Click Remote Desktop icon ... wait ... select web server #1 from drop-down list ... wait ... type password .. wait ... Start -> services ... wait ... highlight hung IIS service, click restart ... wait ... log out. Repeat for web servers #2-N.
Slashdot: on the cutting edge of Dunning-Kreuger effect research since 1998!
"And all this of course completely ignores the danger that if a 500 ton asteroid that can be moved and aimed is essentially a weapon of mass destruction and that bringing it into orbit is actually a terrifyingly bad idea."
Taking an earth-crossing asteroid and putting it into circular lunar orbit should be considered defusing a weapon of mass destruction, not building one...
They had a choice: push back. Require visas for all Americans entering the EU (including government and military personnel), slap tariffs on American goods, bar American businesses from euro-zone governmental contracts, tell the USAF to GTFO Germany, that sort of thing.
They chose to take the path of least resistance instead, as usual. Handing over the little peoples' data is cheap, maintaining a credible military is expensive.
"Who elected them rulers of the planet?"
Everyone, everywhere who ever voted against their country building ballistic missiles and aircraft carriers. Uncle Sam can "project force" all over the world precisely because nobody else bothers with the expense of operating their own machines of global arm-twisting.
Gotta disagree. Stephenson seems to have the same amount of "awesome" on hand to put in each book, and the later ones have been much longer and therefore more diluted.
Snow Crash > Diamond Age > Cryptonomicon > Baroque cycle > Anathem. The only exception is Zodiac, which isn't as good as Snow Crash or Diamond Age, but still infinitely more enjoyable than his latest alternate-history textbooks.