A few years back, the UK gave cloud a pass, because they couldn't be guaranteed that UK government data would remain on UK soil.
And, speaking as en employee of US federal contractor and sysadmin, you're going to prove to me that a) it stays on US soil, and not, say, in datacenters in the Middle East or Russia; b) that every single person who has access to the physical servers that provide the service all have US federal security clearances?
Fat chance. But that's ok, Trump & the GOP are smarting over the US OPM b reach of a few years ago, and they want a *bigger* breach.
And the reason I say this is simple: if we were to observe one, we would know certain things from the observations... and so we would know something is possible that we didn't know before.
However, there have been NO UNEXPLAINED BREAKTHROUGHS. We know where *every* bit of technology came from, from what research. No, UFO's didn't give us microwave ovens.....
Besides, if *you* were an intelligent alien race, would *you* want to contact this bunch of insane idiots (obligatory nod to the psycho in the White House)?
And let's not forget that M$ bought 20% of RedHat about the time that Putteringaround was implementing systemd.
Why hide the configuration files for services? Why nest them?
And who *cares* about how fast it boots, if you're not running a laptop, or a ton of VMs? I have servers that take *minutes* before they finish posting. Hell, I've got an older HP DL580 G5 that takes seventy seconds before it even lights the screen and shows a logo, to let you know it' started posting.
And it's linux. Most folks just leave them running... so, again, who cares how fast? And, with the emphasis on parallel booting, when there's a problem, it's just made debugging that a *lot* harder. And come *on*, give me one justification for a binary journal file. And that's not even that great, given that not long ago, I was unable to boot a system, except to an older kernel, until I found, by chance, an error in/etc/fstab. For all the attempted boots, there was NOTHING in journald.
Since he's talking O'Hare, what reason does he have, other than for show? For those of you who don't know Chicago, the Blue Line subway GOES RIGHT FROM O'HARE TO DOWNTOWN, and has for decades.
And I'll wager it will continue to cost less than Musk's fares.
PS: Chicago's other airport, Midway, is at the end of the Orange line, which *also* goes downtown.
Alleged democracies, like the us, belong to "we, the people", and use our tax dollars for provide things.
And if *you* don't want to pay taxes, then get the fuck off the highways *my* taxes paid for, don't walk on the street *my* taxes paid for, don't use city water or sewer. In fact, get the hell out of the country that *my* taxes paid for.
And take your guns with you, to protect you against any invading army., navy, or air force.
If you write a check for $10k or over, the banks have to hold it for 10 days, and report it. The judge should have chosen $10k... and this should be true for ALL cryptocurrencies.
Cryptocurrencies: avoid paying taxes (and stick the rest of us with your damn taxes), and helping crime (ransomware? money laundering anyone?)
Who, other than someone running it on a laptop, gives a flying fart how fast it boots?
I've got an older (580 G5) that takes SEVENTY SECONDS before the POST logo appears. I've got HBS (honkin' big servers) that take minutes before it gets to the grub boot. And the servers, we're working on a once-a-month maintenance window, to reboot to new kernels, etc.
Show me how it outperforms other distros running, say, a very large R job, or modeling protein folding. Then I'll be interested....
This is what the scientific method has been for the last couple hundred years. It most certainly doesn't "belong" to someone who's just pointing that out, as any teacher does.
Really? They did that? When and where? Show me something that didn't come out of your own brainwashed imagination... and nothing from Faux News or Dimbart counts.
Besides, what good would that do, when they can call employees in, individually or in small groups, and threaten that they'll lose their jobs if they vote a union in. You know, like the Gothamist, and the other paper?
Or like in the South, where a state legislator threatened an auto plant that if they voted to join a union, he'd pass legislation.
Don't give me crap that the rich told you to believe.
There are a significant number of people who consider your statement that a) Mars is uninteresting and b) there's no reason to go there on par with "why should you go anywhere that you don't have cellphone coverage?"
If this is news for nerds, than you *certainly6* don't fit here. The rest of us want to see the universe in person.
Some half-wit multinational tells their new hire with a cert in security to hack back... and the fool doesn't begin to have the experience to distinguish between a direct malicious actor and someone's grandparent's infected home computer, and the fry it, along with all their pics of their kids and grandkids, and they have lost everything, and don't know why. Certainly, they won't know who to sue for that action....
1. As early as the early nineties, I read that companies that already had heavy experience with telecommuting wanted their employees in the office at least one or two days a week, not just for face-to-face meetings, but for water-cooler conversations that turned out to be critically important. You just do *not* have that kind of random connection conversation otherwise. 2. Is your company going to pay rent for the room you use as an office, as well as the utilities? If not, why should *you* pay for *their* office space? 3. Do you *really* want to be in the house, not out with other people, that much? 4. When I'm at work, I'm working. When I'm not, I'm not. 5. Sorry, but there are a lot of folks who *can't* do their work at home. I mean, just off the top of my head, should all employees with computer issues have to commute to the desktop support person's home?
And yes, most of the time, I do use public transit.
I lived with a true alcoholic for about six years. There is NO DIFFERENCE between zombiephone addicts and an alcoholic. They *can't* stop looking at it, never mind they're in a crowd, and blocking people, they act like it's a matter of life and death that they respond to every text immediately, if not sooner.
They're all fucking drug addicts. They're another opioid crisis.
But won't admit it, any more than any other addict.
instead of companies hiring folks who actually know what they're doing, they'll tell someone to run this. And the next thing you know, the person who doesn't actually know what's going on will "fix" it so it includes anyone attacking them, and then someone's mother or grandmother, whose machine was compromised by malware that they had no clue about, will suddenly be toast, all their emails, and writings and pictures of their kids gone. And they won't have a clue what happened.
It's not just "you're soooo old...", it's also, um, er, we can hire someone right out of school, or foreign, and pay them a *lot* less than you. Well, yes, you do have a ton of experience, and what you produce will work better, and it will be developed sooner, and easier to maintain, but ROI THIS QUARTER!!!!!
Yep, sure, it was only $100k paid in rubles. Yup, there weren't any others. And no one in the US was actually paid (money not in that Facebook revenue) to retweet, like, whatever.
Nope, nothing here. By the way, if you want to make some real money, I've got this bridge for sale....
So, they can't master typing? Reminds me of the seventies and eighties, when Managers Didn't Type, like, that was for lowly secretaries.
And if you want to do something other than wave your hands to decide what some marketer thinks should be presented to, well, that's also *so* lowbrow and caveman....
Is the author of the article A. Idiot? What's "mysterious" about Nourse? Don't think I ever met him at a con, but... oh, right, maybe what's "mysterious" is that the author doesn't actually know diddly-squat about SF, and hasn't actually read anything that doesn't tie to a movie or tv show.
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A few years back, the UK gave cloud a pass, because they couldn't be guaranteed that UK government data would remain on UK soil.
And, speaking as en employee of US federal contractor and sysadmin, you're going to prove to me that a) it stays on US soil, and not, say, in datacenters in the Middle East or Russia; b) that every single person who has access to the physical servers that provide the service all have US federal security clearances?
Fat chance. But that's ok, Trump & the GOP are smarting over the US OPM b reach of a few years ago, and they want a *bigger* breach.
Come on - the whole right doesn't believe in basic research, because you can't make ROI on it in the next quarter or two.
That, and even though Ike created NASA, the Rethuglicans have always viewed manned spaceflight as a Democratic thing, and so they're agin' it.
And the fact that none of them has *any* imagination, nor hopes and dreams other than "get rich(er) quick", and nothing else matters.
Except maybe for stealth probes.
And the reason I say this is simple: if we were to observe one, we would know certain things from the observations... and so we would know something is possible that we didn't know before.
However, there have been NO UNEXPLAINED BREAKTHROUGHS. We know where *every* bit of technology came from, from what research. No, UFO's didn't give us microwave ovens.....
Besides, if *you* were an intelligent alien race, would *you* want to contact this bunch of insane idiots (obligatory nod to the psycho in the White House)?
And let's not forget that M$ bought 20% of RedHat about the time that Putteringaround was implementing systemd.
Why hide the configuration files for services? Why nest them?
And who *cares* about how fast it boots, if you're not running a laptop, or a ton of VMs? I have servers that take *minutes* before they finish posting. Hell, I've got an older HP DL580 G5 that takes seventy seconds before it even lights the screen and shows a logo, to let you know it' started posting.
And it's linux. Most folks just leave them running... so, again, who cares how fast? And, with the emphasis on parallel booting, when there's a problem, it's just made debugging that a *lot* harder. And come *on*, give me one justification for a binary journal file. And that's not even that great, given that not long ago, I was unable to boot a system, except to an older kernel, until I found, by chance, an error in /etc/fstab. For all the attempted boots, there was NOTHING in journald.
I do not see benefits.
Bzzzt! Thank you for playing.
Arthur was somewhere between the late-400 CE to early 500CE. That's about two thousand years after the end of the Bronze Age.
And before you try to argue that, *every* story and legend has him *after* the Roman Legions left Britain.
Since he's talking O'Hare, what reason does he have, other than for show? For those of you who don't know Chicago, the Blue Line subway GOES RIGHT FROM O'HARE TO DOWNTOWN, and has for decades.
And I'll wager it will continue to cost less than Musk's fares.
PS: Chicago's other airport, Midway, is at the end of the Orange line, which *also* goes downtown.
You're an idiot.
Alleged democracies, like the us, belong to "we, the people", and use our tax dollars for provide things.
And if *you* don't want to pay taxes, then get the fuck off the highways *my* taxes paid for, don't walk on the street *my* taxes paid for, don't use city water or sewer. In fact, get the hell out of the country that *my* taxes paid for.
And take your guns with you, to protect you against any invading army., navy, or air force.
If you write a check for $10k or over, the banks have to hold it for 10 days, and report it. The judge should have chosen $10k... and this should be true for ALL cryptocurrencies.
Cryptocurrencies: avoid paying taxes (and stick the rest of us with your damn taxes), and helping crime (ransomware? money laundering anyone?)
Who, other than someone running it on a laptop, gives a flying fart how fast it boots?
I've got an older (580 G5) that takes SEVENTY SECONDS before the POST logo appears. I've got HBS (honkin' big servers) that take minutes before it gets to the grub boot. And the servers, we're working on a once-a-month maintenance window, to reboot to new kernels, etc.
Show me how it outperforms other distros running, say, a very large R job, or modeling protein folding. Then I'll be interested....
Now I know where to point my ship, time to buy the hull build and install my engines with FTL, and I'm *gone*.
You can keep Trumpolini & co.
This is what the scientific method has been for the last couple hundred years. It most certainly doesn't "belong" to someone who's just pointing that out, as any teacher does.
Really? They did that? When and where? Show me something that didn't come out of your own brainwashed imagination... and nothing from Faux News or Dimbart counts.
Besides, what good would that do, when they can call employees in, individually or in small groups, and threaten that they'll lose their jobs if they vote a union in. You know, like the Gothamist, and the other paper?
Or like in the South, where a state legislator threatened an auto plant that if they voted to join a union, he'd pass legislation.
Don't give me crap that the rich told you to believe.
There are a significant number of people who consider your statement that a) Mars is uninteresting and b) there's no reason to go there on par with "why should you go anywhere that you don't have cellphone coverage?"
If this is news for nerds, than you *certainly6* don't fit here. The rest of us want to see the universe in person.
Though I will say they've got their NERVA....
Should we assume that, at the very least, they're going to start with that, rather than from scratch?
Some half-wit multinational tells their new hire with a cert in security to hack back... and the fool doesn't begin to have the experience to distinguish between a direct malicious actor and someone's grandparent's infected home computer, and the fry it, along with all their pics of their kids and grandkids, and they have lost everything, and don't know why. Certainly, they won't know who to sue for that action....
But couldn't he have deleted *Trump*, not just his twitter account?
1. As early as the early nineties, I read that companies that already had heavy experience with telecommuting wanted their employees in the office at least one or two days a week, not just for face-to-face meetings, but for water-cooler conversations that turned out to be critically important. You just do *not* have that kind of random connection conversation otherwise.
2. Is your company going to pay rent for the room you use as an office, as well as the utilities? If not, why should *you* pay for *their* office space?
3. Do you *really* want to be in the house, not out with other people, that much?
4. When I'm at work, I'm working. When I'm not, I'm not.
5. Sorry, but there are a lot of folks who *can't* do their work at home. I mean, just off the top of my head, should all employees with computer issues have to commute to the desktop support person's home?
And yes, most of the time, I do use public transit.
I mean, who would believe in the existence of universe with a world in it that had the name "Donald Trump" and "President" in the same sentence?
I lived with a true alcoholic for about six years. There is NO DIFFERENCE between zombiephone addicts and an alcoholic. They *can't* stop looking at it, never mind they're in a crowd, and blocking people, they act like it's a matter of life and death that they respond to every text immediately, if not sooner.
They're all fucking drug addicts. They're another opioid crisis.
But won't admit it, any more than any other addict.
instead of companies hiring folks who actually know what they're doing, they'll tell someone to run this. And the next thing you know, the person who doesn't actually know what's going on will "fix" it so it includes anyone attacking them, and then someone's mother or grandmother, whose machine was compromised by malware that they had no clue about, will suddenly be toast, all their emails, and writings and pictures of their kids gone. And they won't have a clue what happened.
It's not just "you're soooo old...", it's also, um, er, we can hire someone right out of school, or foreign, and pay them a *lot* less than you. Well, yes, you do have a ton of experience, and what you produce will work better, and it will be developed sooner, and easier to maintain, but ROI THIS QUARTER!!!!!
Yep, sure, it was only $100k paid in rubles. Yup, there weren't any others. And no one in the US was actually paid (money not in that Facebook revenue) to retweet, like, whatever.
Nope, nothing here. By the way, if you want to make some real money, I've got this bridge for sale....
We let ours, the first, crash first. In the late seventies. And it weighed 80 tons.
*Hmph* We're the US, we make bigger booms....
So, they can't master typing? Reminds me of the seventies and eighties, when Managers Didn't Type, like, that was for lowly secretaries.
And if you want to do something other than wave your hands to decide what some marketer thinks should be presented to, well, that's also *so* lowbrow and caveman....
Is the author of the article A. Idiot? What's "mysterious" about Nourse? Don't think I ever met him at a con, but... oh, right, maybe what's "mysterious" is that the author doesn't actually know diddly-squat about SF, and hasn't actually read anything that doesn't tie to a movie or tv show.