And after we illegally and immorally invaded, found out that Hussein was talking about them most heavily to influence Iran, with whom they'd fought a truly bloody war that lasted years, to prevent further attacks?
I'd expect them to be using 90+% of their effort for nuclear power, and a tiny bit elsewise for PR purposes, and aren't really interested in them.
Why do I think that (since this is slashdot in 2013, not 2001, I have to say that)? Simple: what would they target? Israel? Where? They can't target Jerusalem, where most of Israel's government is, because the city is sacred to Muslims, as well, and doing so would bring the entire Muslim world down on them, as well as a good part of their own people.
Anywhere else in Israel is almost as bad, since (after the ignorant idiots here look at a map of Israel and the scale) Israel is actually about the size of New Jersey, and the fallout would do almost the *entire* country, Israelis and Palestinians alike.
Oh, yes, and the winds would blow fallout towards Iran.
So the *only* purpose they'd have to build one is for MAD (not the magazine, kiddies) with Israel, and it costs a *lot* less to pretend to be doing it.
What we have in the US is a completely non-uniform population.
*rant*
I mean, the people who vote for the neoConfederate Tea Party Republicans, and the funniementalist who claim to believe in Jesus as love, and want to create a dictatorship to make sure everyone belives as they do don't even live on this planet. */rant*
The US is completely fractured - the so-called "culture wars" are literally talking about complete, non-geographic or semi-geographic societies. To try to come to conclusions with that - and I haven't read the article, but I'll wager it's a very small sample size - is ludicrous.
If I had the money, I'd buy the factory. And start an ad campaign all over France, featuring the CEO's letter, and then saying: buy French, boycot highway robbers.
And I just *adore* the kiddies here on slashdot, who think that they're worth the money they make working 60 or 80 hours a week, and look down on unions, that force 1.5x for > 40 hr, and even the chance to have an actual life.... but, no, you live to work, you don't work to live, because you have no life, or significant others, or....
Get a reasonable new workstation - figure that you ought to be use it for at least 5-6 years (you said, no Windows; Linux, of course, well, they *just* dropped support for 386's , a better graphics card, if you game.
Get what fits your house, and you like. You probably don't need the 80" tv, honest; for a lot less, you can get a projector for your computer.
Right: get a *removable* drive to back up everything; do a regular backup, and put the drive somewhere else. I'd suspect that theives wouldn't grab a lone drive, even if they found it - it's not as easily marketable.
How did they get in? Were the windows and doors locked? Do you post what you're doing, and when you're out on Facebook?
Some folks have mentioned a dog: many years ago, I read an article in a paper that found, after interviewing guys in the stir for burglery and theft, that a security system deterred about 20% of them... but a dog, of *any* size, deterred 60%.
Firearms: yep, the thieves will enjoy picking them up, since THE FOLKS WERE OUT.!. And, of course, not one of the gun nuts I noticed in the comments said anything about a gun safe.
I'm sure I can find more study references, but here's one, referring to one (of many) studies showing that access to port *CUTS* violence against women. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-sunny-side-of-smut&PHPSESSID=b78ca943dd5e6cf79c6baa2504c1b47b >
And I believe others have noted that the states that repress port also have high violence against women rates.
Sexuality, if repressed, is going to come out in some other way....
Here in the US, there's been a lot in *increase* in radar use at airports... becuase they're now using it to view microclimes, as well... and planes have gone off the runways, and there have been other near accidents, that we now know had to do with sudden strong winds and bursts.
Hey, all you libertarians and Republicans and the rest of you fascists and neoConfederates: this is what you voted for. This is what you *want*, along with "celibacy-only" birth control, and borrow and spend trillion dollar wars (which none of *you* risked you necks in, alone in your parents' basement....)
Someone wants to convert COBOL programs to RPG? What, and the CICS COBOL to RPG? I've seen that - a "language" that was intended to allow monkeys (management speak for secretaries) to produce reports, hundreds of lines long, running online stuff?
*gah!*
You can write bad code in anything.
And forever? Well, there's the story about the COBOL programmer who, in 1999, couldn't stand any more Y2K crap, and had himself put into cold sleep until after the year 2000. Unfortunately, his records got misplaced, and he slept on..and on, and on. Finally, they wake him up, and tell him it's the year 9998. He's shocked, and thinks of everyone he knows is long gone, but he's in the far future. Then he asks why they woke him up, and they tell him that it's about to roll over the year 10,000, and there are these COBOL programs....
mark, who long ago left a number of programs at a number of companies with "PERFORM 1000-DUMMY-PARAGRAPH THROUGH 1000-DUMMY-PARAGRAPH-EXIT WHILE (blah, blah, blah....)
Reminds me of my first programming class, many many years ago - before a lot of you were born. It was a pseudo-assembly course, with a make-believe assembly language with 13 instructions, including add, subtract, multiply and divide. 36 or 39 statrted the course: 13 of us took the final, and three of us thought it was a Micky Mouse course, while the other 10 were barely treading water.
We figured it was weed out for the folks who read You Can Make Big Money With Computers on the inside of a matchbook cover.
I'd be shocked, shocked I tell you, if a lot of folks taking the first computer class weren't there because a) they confused it with playing games, or b) you can make big money with computers, and it cost less and is less yucky than medical school.
"The mainframe era ended"? Really? Then why is IBM having trouble keeping up with demand for them... and I hear that every ten years or so, when I hear the era is over.
The cloud? Tell me, what's the difference between the cloud and a time-shared mainframe? The only answer is that you've got a cluster of seriously high-powered servers instead of one high-powered box.
Move all your govenrment stuff to the cloud? Well, recently the UK decided it would *not* be doing that, because whichever cloud they were talking to could not guarantee that the private stuff (what we call PII, HIPAA, and all the rest) would reside solely on UK territory.
Some of us have varying levels of clearance, just so we can work with servers that might have that kind of data (I, personally, have a POTS, which entitles me to bottom secrets, or maybe just bargain basement secrets... it's a JOKE, son, a JOKE). Do you think that the folks who work the cloud *all* have that kind of training or commitment?
Phat chance.
We already hear, regularly, about somone working for a government entitiy who's looking up stuff on someone they shouldn't. You really think to trust folks who are stuck with, say, third shift and a lower salary than you're making? All of them?
Sorry, but nowhere *near* everything can be done on a pc.
People here talk about homework. Tell me, how many of you have any real sum of money invested in something? What homework did you do before doing that... or was it just that your company offered to match you in a 401(k) that they designated?
About five years ago, I put some real money into bonds, which were *supposed* to be safer than stocks. I'd asked for specific AAA bonds; the people I was dealing with... gee, how odd, it was Chase Investments, via my bank at the time, weren't overly familiar with bonds; by the time they got back to me, two days later, they were gone, but they suggested some AA bonds.
I would *NEVER* have bought anything with a lower rating. Had I known then what's come out in the last 3 years or so, that companies PAY the rating companies to rate them - and can anyone give me a better example of corruption? - I'd *never* have trusted that AA rating, nor would I have bought those bonds.
Which, btw, were in Lehman Bros. This was a few months before the excrement met the impeller.
Gee, another *child* responds to the European. For your information, *kiddie*, that didn't used to happen on broadcast TV or radio 30 years or so ago here in the US, either.
Look at the spam and malware on your system (if any of the latter). Then do a whois on the IP that the spam and phishing comes from, the original received that has a real IP or domain name. Where do they want your money to *go*?
...I have to say that it made points that approached, well, cognitive dissonance. Then I saw the author's position: asst. prof at the "Centre for Interdisciplinary Methologies"... which sounds like deconstructionist pudding.
I've known Eric personally for, um, better than 30 years (and have spent a fair bit of that time arguing or heckling him over politics amd guns), and to try to put his view in there with Tim O'Reilly, and anything resembling a working, representative government is saying that, oh, the Beatles, amelodic modern jazz, and Wayne Newton fit together becuase it's all music.
It's also like the neoConfederate tea partiers and the fascist current crop of non-tea party Republicans trying to argue that since Hitler called his movement "national socialism", that it was left wing....
It's not quite clear to me what you want to do... but here at work, we have a number of cameras in our server rooms, um, sorry, "computer labs", running 24x7x265.25, on servers running Linux. On that, we have motion taking the feed, and when motion is detected, whether it's people, or the lighting blinking, or too many clouds alternating with sun, and it sends the video in an email.
Um, sorry, not true. The current libertarianism is from the seventies, I believe. The earlier libertarians were *LEFT* wing, and friends of the IWW (and I have an old pamphlet my father picked up in the early fifties to prove it).
The current libertarians, of course, fall into my aphorism: there are two kinds of Republicans: millionaires, and suckers. I suggest that if you're a libertarian and posting here, you're the latter.
Their tech support is really good* - they pay attention to who their customers are. And even lately, when q/a seems to be down a bit, they're still good.
Most of you, you really want self-abuse, call Sun/Oracle "tech support". Maybe you'll get the engineer in Chile, like I did. Or the support for daytime by an engineer who *only* worked third shift.
As it is, their linux support's excellent, at least now.
Then you might want to call the FCC and discuss this; y'know, in spite of everything the Republicans can do, it's still your government, and parts of it still work for *you*.
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And after we illegally and immorally invaded, found out that Hussein was talking about them most heavily to influence Iran, with whom they'd fought a truly bloody war that lasted years, to prevent further attacks?
I'd expect them to be using 90+% of their effort for nuclear power, and a tiny bit elsewise for PR purposes, and aren't really interested in them.
Why do I think that (since this is slashdot in 2013, not 2001, I have to say that)? Simple: what would they target? Israel? Where? They can't target Jerusalem, where most of Israel's government is, because the city is sacred to Muslims, as well, and doing so would bring the entire Muslim world down on them, as well as a good part of their own people.
Anywhere else in Israel is almost as bad, since (after the ignorant idiots here look at a map of Israel and the scale) Israel is actually about the size of New Jersey, and the fallout would do almost the *entire* country, Israelis and Palestinians alike.
Oh, yes, and the winds would blow fallout towards Iran.
So the *only* purpose they'd have to build one is for MAD (not the magazine, kiddies) with Israel, and it costs a *lot* less to pretend to be doing it.
mark
What we have in the US is a completely non-uniform population.
*rant*
I mean, the people who vote for the neoConfederate Tea Party Republicans, and the funniementalist who claim to believe in Jesus as love, and want to create a dictatorship to make sure everyone belives as they do don't even live on this planet.
*/rant*
The US is completely fractured - the so-called "culture wars" are literally talking about complete, non-geographic or semi-geographic societies. To try to come to conclusions with that - and I haven't read the article, but I'll wager it's a very small sample size - is ludicrous.
mark
Yo. Moron. What good does that do him if he's not at home when it's burgled?
And then he's carrying - concealed? With/without a license?
Yes, your cock *is* too small....
mark
If I had the money, I'd buy the factory. And start an ad campaign all over France, featuring the CEO's letter, and then saying: buy French, boycot highway robbers.
And I just *adore* the kiddies here on slashdot, who think that they're worth the money they make working 60 or 80 hours a week, and look down on unions, that force 1.5x for > 40 hr, and even the chance to have an actual life.... but, no, you live to work, you don't work to live, because you have no life, or significant others, or....
mark
Get a reasonable new workstation - figure that you ought to be use it for at least 5-6 years (you said, no Windows; Linux, of course, well, they *just* dropped support for 386's , a better graphics card, if you game.
Get what fits your house, and you like. You probably don't need the 80" tv, honest; for a lot less, you can get a projector for your computer.
Right: get a *removable* drive to back up everything; do a regular backup, and put the drive somewhere else. I'd suspect that theives wouldn't grab a lone drive, even if they found it - it's not as easily marketable.
How did they get in? Were the windows and doors locked? Do you post what you're doing, and when you're out on Facebook?
Some folks have mentioned a dog: many years ago, I read an article in a paper that found, after interviewing guys in the stir for burglery and theft, that a security system deterred about 20% of them... but a dog, of *any* size, deterred 60%.
Firearms: yep, the thieves will enjoy picking them up, since THE FOLKS WERE OUT.!. And, of course, not one of the gun nuts I noticed in the comments said anything about a gun safe.
mark
I'm sure I can find more study references, but here's one, referring to one (of many) studies showing that access to port *CUTS* violence against women.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-sunny-side-of-smut&PHPSESSID=b78ca943dd5e6cf79c6baa2504c1b47b >
And I believe others have noted that the states that repress port also have high violence against women rates.
Sexuality, if repressed, is going to come out in some other way....
mark
The companies still using training and ERP from places like skillport and Lawson....
mark
Here in the US, there's been a lot in *increase* in radar use at airports... becuase they're now using it to view microclimes, as well... and planes have gone off the runways, and there have been other near accidents, that we now know had to do with sudden strong winds and bursts.
mark
Hey, all you libertarians and Republicans and the rest of you fascists and neoConfederates: this is what you voted for. This is what you *want*, along with "celibacy-only" birth control, and borrow and spend trillion dollar wars (which none of *you* risked you necks in, alone in your parents' basement....)
mark
Someone wants to convert COBOL programs to RPG? What, and the CICS COBOL to RPG? I've seen that - a "language" that was intended to allow monkeys (management speak for secretaries) to produce reports, hundreds of lines long, running online stuff?
*gah!*
You can write bad code in anything.
And forever? Well, there's the story about the COBOL programmer who, in 1999, couldn't stand any more Y2K crap, and had himself put into cold sleep until after the year 2000. Unfortunately, his records got misplaced, and he slept on..and on, and on. Finally, they wake him up, and tell him it's the year 9998. He's shocked, and thinks of everyone he knows is long gone, but he's in the far future. Then he asks why they woke him up, and they tell him that it's about to roll over the year 10,000, and there are these COBOL programs....
mark, who long ago left a number of programs at a number of companies with "PERFORM 1000-DUMMY-PARAGRAPH THROUGH 1000-DUMMY-PARAGRAPH-EXIT WHILE (blah, blah, blah....)
Reminds me of my first programming class, many many years ago - before a lot of you were born. It was a pseudo-assembly course, with a make-believe assembly language with 13 instructions, including add, subtract, multiply and divide. 36 or 39 statrted the course: 13 of us took the final, and three of us thought it was a Micky Mouse course, while the other 10 were barely treading water.
We figured it was weed out for the folks who read You Can Make Big Money With Computers on the inside of a matchbook cover.
I'd be shocked, shocked I tell you, if a lot of folks taking the first computer class weren't there because a) they confused it with playing games, or b) you can make big money with computers, and it cost less and is less yucky than medical school.
mark
Oh? And you have a full lab, and supplies, available at home?
mark
"The mainframe era ended"? Really? Then why is IBM having trouble keeping up with demand for them... and I hear that every ten years or so, when I hear the era is over.
The cloud? Tell me, what's the difference between the cloud and a time-shared mainframe? The only answer is that you've got a cluster of seriously high-powered servers instead of one high-powered box.
Move all your govenrment stuff to the cloud? Well, recently the UK decided it would *not* be doing that, because whichever cloud they were talking to could not guarantee that the private stuff (what we call PII, HIPAA, and all the rest) would reside solely on UK territory.
Some of us have varying levels of clearance, just so we can work with servers that might have that kind of data (I, personally, have a POTS, which entitles me to bottom secrets, or maybe just bargain basement secrets... it's a JOKE, son, a JOKE). Do you think that the folks who work the cloud *all* have that kind of training or commitment?
Phat chance.
We already hear, regularly, about somone working for a government entitiy who's looking up stuff on someone they shouldn't. You really think to trust folks who are stuck with, say, third shift and a lower salary than you're making? All of them?
Sorry, but nowhere *near* everything can be done on a pc.
mark
People here talk about homework. Tell me, how many of you have any real sum of money invested in something? What homework did you do before doing that... or was it just that your company offered to match you in a 401(k) that they designated?
About five years ago, I put some real money into bonds, which were *supposed* to be safer than stocks. I'd asked for specific AAA bonds; the people I was dealing with... gee, how odd, it was Chase Investments, via my bank at the time, weren't overly familiar with bonds; by the time they got back to me, two days later, they were gone, but they suggested some AA bonds.
I would *NEVER* have bought anything with a lower rating. Had I known then what's come out in the last 3 years or so, that companies PAY the rating companies to rate them - and can anyone give me a better example of corruption? - I'd *never* have trusted that AA rating, nor would I have bought those bonds.
Which, btw, were in Lehman Bros. This was a few months before the excrement met the impeller.
mark
when you're just installing, and there's a problem, or the system's crashed? Will there still be a real console in system space?
mark
Gee, another *child* responds to the European. For your information, *kiddie*, that didn't used to happen on broadcast TV or radio 30 years or so ago here in the US, either.
mark
Look at the spam and malware on your system (if any of the latter). Then do a whois on the IP that the spam and phishing comes from, the original received that has a real IP or domain name. Where do they want your money to *go*?
mark "Nevada? Utah? California? Pennsylvania?"
...I have to say that it made points that approached, well, cognitive dissonance. Then I saw the author's position: asst. prof at the "Centre for Interdisciplinary Methologies"... which sounds like deconstructionist pudding.
I've known Eric personally for, um, better than 30 years (and have spent a fair bit of that time arguing or heckling him over politics amd guns), and to try to put his view in there with Tim O'Reilly, and anything resembling a working, representative government is saying that, oh, the Beatles, amelodic modern jazz, and Wayne Newton fit together becuase it's all music.
It's also like the neoConfederate tea partiers and the fascist current crop of non-tea party Republicans trying to argue that since Hitler called his movement "national socialism", that it was left wing....
mark
It's not quite clear to me what you want to do... but here at work, we have a number of cameras in our server rooms, um, sorry, "computer labs", running 24x7x265.25, on servers running Linux. On that, we have motion taking the feed, and when motion is detected, whether it's people, or the lighting blinking, or too many clouds alternating with sun, and it sends the video in an email.
Will that do what you want?
mark
Nope. Darkover.
mark
Is there something that I signed when I was hired that allows this? If not, why's it not an invasion of privacy without my consent?
mark
Um, sorry, not true. The current libertarianism is from the seventies, I believe. The earlier libertarians were *LEFT* wing, and friends of the IWW (and I have an old pamphlet my father picked up in the early fifties to prove it).
The current libertarians, of course, fall into my aphorism: there are two kinds of Republicans: millionaires, and suckers. I suggest that if you're a libertarian and posting here, you're the latter.
mark
Not *one* mention of the best programmer's editor, Brief, that was used all over in the late eighties/well into the nineties?
Hmmm, maybe now it'll run under wine....
mark
Their tech support is really good* - they pay attention to who their customers are. And even lately, when q/a seems to be down a bit, they're still good.
Most of you, you really want self-abuse, call Sun/Oracle "tech support". Maybe you'll get the engineer in Chile, like I did. Or the support for daytime by an engineer who *only* worked third shift.
As it is, their linux support's excellent, at least now.
mark
Then you might want to call the FCC and discuss this; y'know, in spite of everything the Republicans can do, it's still your government, and parts of it still work for *you*.
mark