How easy would it be to get fiscally wiped out by this kind of thing?
Not very, actually. Your protections are fairly good when someone gets your CC #. Yeah, you'll be in for a hassle protesting the charges, but you don't have to pay the bill on the disputed charges. This is a better situation than if they got your debit card info, in which case they can clean your bank account out.
I -never- use my ATM card for payments for this reason.
Hm-m-m-m. I do this on a daily basis with one of our instances. We use SQL Server as a data preparation engine for a predictive modeling operation. This typically involves mass updates of the type you're specifying. I'm working on a set of data right now, with table sizes up to 45M rows. Some of the longer updates will run for 3 to 5 minutes, but that's hardly locking up the box. If you poorly construct the query, it will run for a couple of hours, but I don't call that bringing the database down, it's just stupid query development.
For all the bashing of SQL Server, in 5 years of hard use over probably a dozen different instances, I have -never- seen it crash, or corrupt data, including indexes. We have an enitre line of business supported on SQL Server (online data searches for various sources), and it's been rock solid for us.
Well, this seems to justify my observation, which was that cold fusion seems to be capable of generating grant money. I eagerly look forward to the time when it can generate energy for us as well.;-)
Moderators and temp bans are a proven method for keeping forum discussions across the world civil, productive and on topic.
One of my favorite forums on Usenet was moderated. It needed to be due to it's provocative nature (rec.guns). It worked well, though I haven't been there is a while.
The thing with Usenet is that it's based on a protocol, NNTP, so it's part of the very thing that's the internet.
And that Facebook shit, you know, uses that commie protocol HTTP, which isn't a real protocol, because it lets people, you know, see stuff, so you know what that's all about.;-)
I'm still getting spam from those days. I have received spam in the last year which was also addressed to the email address I was using on Usenet in 1995 (same name, different domain). It's unique enough that I doubt it was autogenerated.
Hm-m-m. Isn't this really just an inevitable effect of having so much more material than back in the day? While usenet was grand (rec.sport.fishing.fly, of how I miss thee), it was a bit of a blunt tool. When the number of users goes up by three orders of magnitude, things were likely to break, and they did.
While not arguing with your major point, the regional craft breweries in the US have reversed the trend of shitty American beer. We are now awash in quite decent beers. I say this as someone who drank my way through Germany. It would be arrogant (and inaccurate) to assert that our beers and wines are better than the rest of the world's, but we have many that are quite good, and that often win top prizes in world wide tastings.
If you ever make it to the Pacific Northwest, I encourage you to sample the Widmer, Red Hook, or Full Sail offerings.
I don't think it's accurate to call it hypocrisy to have a 21 year drinking age, though hypocrisy certainly exists around the subject. We have high rates of alcoholism, so it's not apriori stupid for us to try to address the problem with laws. After the fact, however, it's apparent that the laws don't work, and that maybe we should be looking at other causes. One of those causes is that young people don't get taught good, safe drinking habits, and I would have to say that beer pong and other drinking games are certainly not emblematic of good habits.
I don't disagree with you as to the ailments you bemoan, but hypocrisy is not an accurate description. Hypocrisy is condemning someone else for behavior that you yourself exhibit. What we have going on in the US is a willful resistance to acknowledging that our tactics do not move us towards our goals. We refuse to admit that prohibition doesn't keep kids from doing drugs, that mandating abstinence doesn't inhibit teen pregnancy, and that invading foreign countries makes their people hate us.
it is impractical to buy a 100 mile long extension cord.
You already have one. It's called the electrical grid. I'm not sure how it works in Europe, but in the US, power can be routed pretty much from anywhere, to anywhere in the country. Creating a lot of additional capacity in the south would require infrastructure investments, but it -could- be done.
But, in the bigger picture, it doesn't matter if this doesn't work in the frozen north. If it works in the temperate areas of the country, it will free up current energy sources for the use of you northerners. It's all good.
How many times do you really need to get an email six months old?
Approximately twice a month. Any project manager would probably have the same experience. Email is my primary repository for project information, and for a fair amount of system configuration information. I store passwords, addresses, system configurations there. Why? Because it's password protected by a password that I know is solid, is accessible from anywhere I need it, (via Outlook Web, yeah, I know, shudder, go fuck yourself), and I know that the email system is solidly backed up. I keep reference copies of important documents, which are then time stamped and stored.
My company has a policy of journaling all mail for all time. At the same time, they have a policy, thus far unenforced at my division, of constraining email folder size to 50 MB. I support the first policy, while the second is old generation silly. We're one of those IT companies that is still figuring out that not all computers run MVS.
The words may not be there, but there is a pretty clear message there for me to see that they are not happy or smug about this event, and are agreeing with the consumer that this shouldn't have happened, and won't happen again if they can help it. That's enough for me.
And I'm actually one of their consumers, compared to some of the dilletantes here. We use S3 and EC2 to manage training and demo instances of our software, and are pretty pleased so far.
Didn't work with the 5007 chipset as of 2 months ago. There is a patch working it's way through that I got to work briefly, but haven't quite figured out how to repeat my success yet.
Protection against SQL injection, better application performance are the two I know of. I can imagine that you would get some additional exception handling possibilities in some cases as well.
If morality is a luxury, why are some of the poorest societies on Earth also the most religious?
1) Let's see a little proof that you statement is factual, before we debate using it as a premise. The US is actually one of the more religious societies around, though religiosity (is that a word) tends to be inversely correlated with income within the US.
2) Morality != religion. They may be related, they serve different purposes. Religion explains the world and placates fears, morality instructs on how to treat others.
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How easy would it be to get fiscally wiped out by this kind of thing?
Not very, actually. Your protections are fairly good when someone gets your CC #. Yeah, you'll be in for a hassle protesting the charges, but you don't have to pay the bill on the disputed charges. This is a better situation than if they got your debit card info, in which case they can clean your bank account out.
I -never- use my ATM card for payments for this reason.
Hm-m-m-m. I do this on a daily basis with one of our instances. We use SQL Server as a data preparation engine for a predictive modeling operation. This typically involves mass updates of the type you're specifying. I'm working on a set of data right now, with table sizes up to 45M rows. Some of the longer updates will run for 3 to 5 minutes, but that's hardly locking up the box. If you poorly construct the query, it will run for a couple of hours, but I don't call that bringing the database down, it's just stupid query development.
For all the bashing of SQL Server, in 5 years of hard use over probably a dozen different instances, I have -never- seen it crash, or corrupt data, including indexes. We have an enitre line of business supported on SQL Server (online data searches for various sources), and it's been rock solid for us.
Well, this seems to justify my observation, which was that cold fusion seems to be capable of generating grant money. I eagerly look forward to the time when it can generate energy for us as well. ;-)
France, Holland, and Italy, for example.
Moderators and temp bans are a proven method for keeping forum discussions across the world civil, productive and on topic.
One of my favorite forums on Usenet was moderated. It needed to be due to it's provocative nature (rec.guns). It worked well, though I haven't been there is a while.
I dunno. Slashdot does it pretty well.
The thing with Usenet is that it's based on a protocol, NNTP, so it's part of the very thing that's the internet.
And that Facebook shit, you know, uses that commie protocol HTTP, which isn't a real protocol, because it lets people, you know, see stuff, so you know what that's all about. ;-)
I'm still getting spam from those days. I have received spam in the last year which was also addressed to the email address I was using on Usenet in 1995 (same name, different domain). It's unique enough that I doubt it was autogenerated.
Hm-m-m. Isn't this really just an inevitable effect of having so much more material than back in the day? While usenet was grand (rec.sport.fishing.fly, of how I miss thee), it was a bit of a blunt tool. When the number of users goes up by three orders of magnitude, things were likely to break, and they did.
While not arguing with your major point, the regional craft breweries in the US have reversed the trend of shitty American beer. We are now awash in quite decent beers. I say this as someone who drank my way through Germany. It would be arrogant (and inaccurate) to assert that our beers and wines are better than the rest of the world's, but we have many that are quite good, and that often win top prizes in world wide tastings.
If you ever make it to the Pacific Northwest, I encourage you to sample the Widmer, Red Hook, or Full Sail offerings.
"Whose god?"
There, fixed that for you.
I don't think it's accurate to call it hypocrisy to have a 21 year drinking age, though hypocrisy certainly exists around the subject. We have high rates of alcoholism, so it's not apriori stupid for us to try to address the problem with laws. After the fact, however, it's apparent that the laws don't work, and that maybe we should be looking at other causes. One of those causes is that young people don't get taught good, safe drinking habits, and I would have to say that beer pong and other drinking games are certainly not emblematic of good habits.
I don't disagree with you as to the ailments you bemoan, but hypocrisy is not an accurate description. Hypocrisy is condemning someone else for behavior that you yourself exhibit. What we have going on in the US is a willful resistance to acknowledging that our tactics do not move us towards our goals. We refuse to admit that prohibition doesn't keep kids from doing drugs, that mandating abstinence doesn't inhibit teen pregnancy, and that invading foreign countries makes their people hate us.
Or real golf, or real bowling, or real tennis...
I'm just sayin'...
it is impractical to buy a 100 mile long extension cord.
You already have one. It's called the electrical grid. I'm not sure how it works in Europe, but in the US, power can be routed pretty much from anywhere, to anywhere in the country. Creating a lot of additional capacity in the south would require infrastructure investments, but it -could- be done.
But, in the bigger picture, it doesn't matter if this doesn't work in the frozen north. If it works in the temperate areas of the country, it will free up current energy sources for the use of you northerners. It's all good.
See, for example, the claims on cold fusion some years back.
How many times do you really need to get an email six months old?
Approximately twice a month. Any project manager would probably have the same experience. Email is my primary repository for project information, and for a fair amount of system configuration information. I store passwords, addresses, system configurations there. Why? Because it's password protected by a password that I know is solid, is accessible from anywhere I need it, (via Outlook Web, yeah, I know, shudder, go fuck yourself), and I know that the email system is solidly backed up. I keep reference copies of important documents, which are then time stamped and stored.
My company has a policy of journaling all mail for all time. At the same time, they have a policy, thus far unenforced at my division, of constraining email folder size to 50 MB. I support the first policy, while the second is old generation silly. We're one of those IT companies that is still figuring out that not all computers run MVS.
The words may not be there, but there is a pretty clear message there for me to see that they are not happy or smug about this event, and are agreeing with the consumer that this shouldn't have happened, and won't happen again if they can help it. That's enough for me.
And I'm actually one of their consumers, compared to some of the dilletantes here. We use S3 and EC2 to manage training and demo instances of our software, and are pretty pleased so far.
Didn't work with the 5007 chipset as of 2 months ago. There is a patch working it's way through that I got to work briefly, but haven't quite figured out how to repeat my success yet.
Protection against SQL injection, better application performance are the two I know of. I can imagine that you would get some additional exception handling possibilities in some cases as well.
Which has the unfortunate side effect of making the application portable across DBMS's.
I'm just sayin'...
I don't think I've ever heard of a Live CD for MVS.
Need a washcloth?
If morality is a luxury, why are some of the poorest societies on Earth also the most religious?
1) Let's see a little proof that you statement is factual, before we debate using it as a premise. The US is actually one of the more religious societies around, though religiosity (is that a word) tends to be inversely correlated with income within the US.
2) Morality != religion. They may be related, they serve different purposes. Religion explains the world and placates fears, morality instructs on how to treat others.
I guess freedom is relative.
"Subjective" is the word I would use.
All the party leadership had to do was find a relative nobody with a relatively clean past (for a politician), and the election was theirs.
And Obama isn't that?