While niggers in their native setting are still chucking spears at each other and niggers taken out of their native setting are chucking bullets and gang signs at each other. But you're not supposed to notice. That would make you a bad terrible person and we will brand you "racist" to make you a modern heretic
I'm gonna go with another theory: repeatedly using 'nigger' in a sentence to describe dark-skinned people is the likely cause of you being branded a 'racist'.
That demeaning word comes from the Spanish Négro, (for black skinned person). It was the British and Americans who made its use despicable .
Except that they don't encrypt your data, you do. Probably would have helped to RTFA, huh bub? =p
I am not certain of there product is secure. After all, what they distribute are the keys for a group, or the algorithm to generate the keys. All one needs to do is join the group, and the entire group's communications will be in the clear.
I use that concept in software that I wrote. It has a header of four unsigned integers consisting of groupno,key1,key2,key3, where each field is an integer in the range 0..255.
Groupno selects a group from a previous randomly generated encryption keys. Each individual group has 256 encryption keys (3DES) or key fragments(AES,other). It works by a) Select a group, b) select the first key, or fragment by indexing into the table to retrieve the encrypted 8 characters, do likewise with the 2nd key, and the 3rd key, and then from an divulged based table of fields, select the salt for cypher block chaining.
Yes, it is secure, no, it is not too too scalable (only 256 groups) However (256^4)*(!3) is the approximate number of individual combinations of possible encryption key combinations. Keep the group information confidential, and there you have it. You can always distribute the information as 60,36,24,35, or whatever. Is anything divulged?
The Dutch normally speak Dutch, because, well, it's their native tongue. Dutch itself is pretty close to German, but neither are world-popular language. As such, most people in the Netherlands speak English as well, because they're a hub of business. Publishing this in English ensures it's widely readable to the rest of the world.
Is American "World English"? The rest of the world puts in the missing letters omitted from words, such as neighbour, colour, etc.
The rest of the world says I will take some ideas "from" xyz and Americans say "will take ideas "off of" xyz. It would take tomes to list the differences in language usage, so much so that in my view, "American" is a distinct language.
Not for *any* reason - if they went full Denny's and discriminated against people based on race, that would be crazy fun to watch.
Yes, we might finally get a court ruling that the Civil Rights Act is blatantly unconstitutional because it infringes on the property owner's right to refuse service to anyone for *any* reason, and the resulting crazy would be fun to watch from the other side of the ocean.
Any reason is a bit extreme. Taking photos without permission is a reason. If the photographer does not have the restaurent's permission, then it is the restaurant that would own the pictures and also the copyright.
It is probably also permissible for a person who is talking on the cell phone while eating, and talking loud enough to be intrusive to other peoples desires to eat undisturbed.
'We find that a large influx of capital is successful in escaping the poverty trap, but increasing health spending alone is not,
Pretty much, we spend more money on HC in America than any other country yet our care is no where near good by any stretch of the imagination. Throwing more money at it like the current admin wants to do, according to this study anyway seems to be a waste of money
Healthcare by for profit businesses can never compete with state medicare. Those with money get served sooner, but not better than those with much lesser amounts ($0.00+) of money.
My daughter gets $30k/yr of MS medicine. Her cost for all her meds $1000/yr. When I say all, it is the max out-of-pocket for meds the combined total med costs. And she is going to receive this amount for the next 40+ years at least.
Osama was right. He said his actions are going to drive the USA crazy, and cause them to spend billions over the next few years. The spending, "To defend themselves from their own fears".
The terrorists are going to win over stupid individuals who, unfortunately, will one day be victims of their own stupidity.
As expensive and technically tough as it is to make a nuclear weapon (and its delivery system!), even a small nuke can do a hell of a lot more damage in one go than even 1,000 drones can accomplish. Quake analogy? multiple blasters versus a given BFG (or rather, one very amped-up BFG).
There is also the fact that drones are still subject to interference, and that there is only so much room in the sky to hold a sufficient number of drones (to do the same damage as a nuke) on a practical level.
I honestly get that there is a huge potential for problems stemming from the use of drones-as-weapons, but unlike a 'fire-and-forget' ICBM/SRBM/SLBM*? The drone still has to call home, most have to get their instructions and updates from somewhere, a higher degree of accuracy is required, and as a practical matter they need sufficient safeguards built in to avoid having it turn around and attack its owner(s).
* note that I'm not even counting a missile (or any type) with a MIRV warhead.
Your conjecture is that the enemy would use nukes, and that they would wipe out a radius of 25miles(or kms). Would that stop a country the size of the USA, Russia, or China, if it happened to them, from retaliation? In geographical territories where it is a vs b, and a wins, what are they going to do with devistated b? Old wars were based on assets of the conquored land, not on idiologies.
Suppose it happened. My belief is that the first counterattacks would be all the religious shrines, mosques, temples and whatever, since it is my belief that a nuke attack is motivated by religious extremists. Anyway, packaging a miniature nuclear bomb would pose size and weight problems.
The obvious solution is self-flying planes! Then there won't be a pilot to rely too much on automation.
If cars can park themselves, and look ahead in the traffic for accident avoidence, then planes should be able to taxi, takeoff, land and come to a boarding gate unattended.
The pilot holds the ignition key. We don't want a plane like that stolen.
"has many officers worried that commanders will monitor their every move"
That's sorta the point of this operation. We know it sucks if you're just in a doughnut-shop and a robbery happens next door. This will just nudge you to take the robbery first, the doughnut second.
As for the 45 minute dark alley meetings with confidential informants, you can be seen there with the naked eye! Give your CI a fucking burner-phone, we're in the 3. millennium.
These are police officers working with police officers. The gps will be a dispatcher's tool. He will be able to send the appropriate (nearest) vehicle to an accident scene. The only policemen to have fear are those who do not fill their quota of tickets. (They may have to show that they were busy with traffic, a safety issue or the like). Trusted officers will still be trusted. Will automation be the next step to where vehicles are monitored for being stationary? That is the fear, I suppose.
I can't believe this is being seriously considred..?!?!
WTF is in charge of the US with respect to these things?
Are we allowed to put these same type of things on Russian soil too?
As far as I know, it is tit-for-tat. The era of world wars is over. The only wars now are with global trade and jobs. Eliminating one country would cause a world depression that would last a long time.
However, a war, where non-nuclear weapons are used, would create jobs, and eliminate overpopulation. It would certainly eliminate a lot of obese people.
Next to the 9 of course is the 0, and therein was my error. I should have proofed my reply, but from a tablet, it is a problem of too small a font to notice the finger slip from the 9 to the 0.
Last year an HP visionary predicted that smartphones and tablets would start utilizing ReRAM-based storage sometimes in 2014 - 2015. However, with current plans to start commercial manufacturing of ReRAM in late 2013 it looks like the first mass products featuring the technologyare only going to emerge in 2015 - 2016.
Two questions that I would like to have answered follows "Is reRAM more power consumptive during operation?" Are we therefore looking at RF radiation noise appearing as white noise?"
In my early IT years, we bought magnetic cores, 28 guage wire and we wired up and tested our own core memories. We needed some bit values to be remembered if there was a power failure. The environment was hostile to moving memory. (Circa 1070 is when I did this stuff). Finally, we bought magnetic latching relays, which turned out to be a less expensive approach, but required lots more cabinet space.
When is BTRFS finally going to be declared stable and become default on major distros? Its features were needed years ago. The Copy on Write features are killer features that have been needed on Linux for years, such as to implement a filesystem level versioning, system restore an restore point feature and improved snapshot features. Ext4 is only a stop-gap and Ext is really starting to show its age.
SUSE13.1 is saying that BTRFS is suitable for home use. They see no problems in a desktop or non-banking industry environment. Ditto for Mint16, and Fedora20. Btrfs is here to enjoy. But... for most work that I do, ext4 provides faster I/O. I timed it so I know so.
Considering that the 14NM Broadwell chips are not scheduled to ship till the second quarter of 2014. With support for power saving per component coming along it looks like using the Linux kernel on laptops will also be much more inviting. It is all well and good that the advances in the kernel hardware support are keeping pace with what Microsoft is doing. I am still eagerly awaiting a great high end powerhouse Linux laptop. As it is the old IBM T42 non-pae clunker that I am writing this on is still very usable but if a company ever finally does ship an OS agnostic laptop with high specs I will jump at the chance.
The temperatures in hell are dropping but I am not going to hold my breath as Windows still holds the retailers and manufacturers by the balls to say the least. However with both Intel and AMD actively supporting the Linux kernel this quickly for their most important product lines perhaps a manufacturer like Samsung or Lenovo might actually try to market a real full blown Linux based device for a change instead of just dabbling in Android consumer craptronic devices.
Do you want manufacturers and vendors onside? What does it take? It takes some free code and the right to add $100.00US per system. The manufacturer and the retailer need that to cover returns, repairs, some Geek staff and profits.
Would I pay $100.00 for a fully pre-installed system that works (graphics, sound, network, security, and user software selection), as an off-the shelf package? I guess I would! When I look at the time I spend on a downloads, on testing patches, and rebuilding my test Linux, I would spend that money. Time saved will give me more time to respond to slashdot about things. Important things that I would not be able to comment on with a limit placed on my spare time .
Here we have prison to punish people. It doesn't exist as a means to control risk by controlling dangerous people. We've collectively decided that we should put people in cells(and let them be raped) like it's telling 5 year olds to stand in the corner.
There is a big difference between punishment and revenge or vengence. 10 years for a hack is vengence. It also showed how sloppy the company security was, that anyone could break into their system and be able to copy data. Is copying something stealing, or what. I can steal an object, that has resale value, I can steal something intangible, such as a kiss, and surely the purchases on Boxingday are real steals.
Here's a hint for SF: if you want to identify bad actors, one indication is that they are an advertiser...Whenever a new technology comes along, advertisers are there to shit all over it. Excuse me, "monetize" it.
The problem here is you (well, us) as consumers. We not only want FOSS, we want delivery to be free, too -- without regard for the fact that the infrastructure to facilitate that delivery actually takes tangible resources (i.e. money, not just developer time) to operate.
So, in effect, we the consumer base are CHOOSING this advertising model. If you were willing to pay $0.25 to Sourceforge every time you downloaded a program or code tree from them, you could make a reasonable demand for SF to do away with the stupid ad shenanigans. But you're not. Even if you personally are, the user base as a whole has gotten accustomed to delivery being "free" and now demands it. And since it's not actually free, sites like SF have to find a way to stay solvent.
The "bad actors" here are consumers of free stuff who get their panties in a bunch whenever the silver platter that their free stuff is served on is even the slightest bit tarnished.
Perhaps SourceForge is financing Slashdot via those ads. I find though that most software is available directly from the vendor's website, and that vendor rarely ever posts ads along with his product.
It's a balance in my experience. I've had places where they would get upset if they saw you talking to someone rather than nose to the grind stone and others that got upset if you didn't stop what you were doing and say hi to someone that came into your workspace to talk to someone else (who was there, not that they came asking for them and you ignored them).
Sadly, it is the lowest common denominator (well maybe highest common denominator): those that do need a lot of social interaction will get very frustrated by not having it. The assumption is usually that those that are quite or less social are not harmed by being forced to say hi and deal with small talk (even though that isn't the case when you need hours of consecutive time to figure out things sometimes, or just like the socialites might feel with no social interaction that like your life is being wasted with "how's the weather" talk). Regardless, the socially adapt are by definition the squeaky wheel and so are the ones that will get their way. Also, they tend to be the ones seen as being leaders/liked by people so are more likely to be your manager now or in the future so always a good idea to keep them happy.
Suggestion: have lunch with people. You have to eat anyways, so if they have to feel like they know you let them have their meaningless conversations with you while you are stuffing your frozen dinner in your mouth.
In every organization, there are fences created around departments. Good fences make good neighbours. It is also a "don't over step your boundaries".
When you need to communicate with your peer in another department, first do so over coffee or in a non-committal way. If you need to work with that peer, If there are decisions that are needed from your boss, tell your boss what you can trust him to know but always escalate to your boss. He will communicate with his peers, to clear the way for you to deal with your equivalent in the another department.
Communication also means summarizing information for distribution, and also not keeping your boss in the dark. When you can, make your boss look good. That is part of communication.
The car said it needed servicing and "may not restart", if it were me I'd probably keep driving too. The final "Pull over, I'm shutting down" message would (in hindsight) have been a better initial response from the car but "out of warranty mode" would have been funnier.
Also the GP has a point, all kinds of cars do burst into flames every now and then, in 35 years of driving I've seen it happen 3 times. Once to myself in a Datsun on the freeway, my brother-in-law's ford while it was parked in the driveway, both of those were oil fires. The third incident was a mate's prime mover, a large spanner came loose and fell on the battery shorting out the terminals. All three incidents happened in the 80's. The fact that the car was damaged means all bets are off, but it also means that the manufacturer will get feedback on the incident and suggestions on how to fix it. If they don't listen then often they will be "forced" to do so by legislation that could see a lead engineer jailed for manslaughter.
Western governments are almost single-handedly responsible for the massive improvement in both car and road safety over the last 40yrs, free market competition has worked out how to put those legal requirements into a car without it looking like a 1970's Volvo. If road/car safety was left to the "invisible hand" then people would still be driving around with "DIY LPG conversions" - An 80kg LPG cylinder strapped to the roof racks of station wagons, like a torpedo waiting to be launched in the event of a frontal collision.
Did the attaching of the trailer cause a over draw of power, resulting in overheating and possible melting of insulation around wires. Many wires are plastic wrapped and will burn, resulting in the actual wire shorting to the car frame.
In my youth, I put up an antenna on the roof, and with a coil, capacitor and a crystal, was able to tune to and listen to radio broadcasts with earphones. I once connected a step down transformer in reverse to the earphone jacks and was able to drive a loud speaker, although, not loud enough to hear without straining.
There is a lot of wireless radiation, and one can capture what one needs to charge a battery and subsequently, a LED: I even bought some garden lamps and used them to charge multiple Nicad cells, which in the evening, I put in parallel to drive a camping lamp.
I am sure you just can't wait for the Windows 8.1 update! Just imagine how happy we'll all be! After all the outrage and frustration over Windows 8 losing it's "start" menu, Windows 8.1 is here to save the day! Now, that old start menu that used to do something useless... listing all of your applications so you could find them... has been replaced! Now it takes you directly to the Metro UI, where you can barf all over your keyboard! Happy day!
=== While we think Linux is the great and be all for everyone, it is not the case. Windows 7, in a business environment is a good product. Before you kick me, I have been a diehard Linux user for 10 years. Windows is a commerical product with dollars behind it to insure the products meet corporate user needs.
Libreoffice, without a ribbon and with java as the implementation is not responsive. You end up sometimes waiting a few precious seconds as garbage collection takes off, or memory compaction occurs. There must be no stalls in execution and there must be excellent compatibility.
A product out of China is what I am using (kingsoft) as my office product. I write with it in Linux, and MS office can't tell the difference. It is my Linux saviour.
But in development, I rely on the free compiler suite to get my work done otherwise. MS is doing what it can to remain in the public's eye.
=== Bravo to the policy of stigmatizing guns. Perhaps in 25 years, the USA will join the world in sharing common rules about gun ownership. Guns for hunting, yes, guns for sports (only at gun clubs), personal ownership? No. -- No need.
Devices manufactured in China, using a British-designed chip, routed through British Telecom using Huawei equipment... as you said, what could possibly go wrong?
All current or modern CPU designs have a microcode update capability. Perfectly good chips can be delivered, and then the microcode patch is applied. during the boot process. My android and my Linux system both do microcode updates at this boot time. For my desktop, Intel or AMD supply the "patches".
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While niggers in their native setting are still chucking spears at each other and niggers taken out of their native setting are chucking bullets and gang signs at each other. But you're not supposed to notice. That would make you a bad terrible person and we will brand you "racist" to make you a modern heretic
I'm gonna go with another theory: repeatedly using 'nigger' in a sentence to describe dark-skinned people is the likely cause of you being branded a 'racist'.
That demeaning word comes from the Spanish Négro, (for black skinned person). It was the British and Americans who made its use despicable .
Except that they don't encrypt your data, you do. Probably would have helped to RTFA, huh bub? =p
I am not certain of there product is secure. After all, what they distribute are the keys for a group, or the algorithm to generate the keys. All one needs to do is join the group, and the entire group's communications will be in the clear.
I use that concept in software that I wrote. It has a header of four unsigned integers consisting of groupno,key1,key2,key3, where each field is an integer in the range 0..255.
Groupno selects a group from a previous randomly generated encryption keys.
Each individual group has 256 encryption keys (3DES) or key fragments(AES,other). It works by a) Select a group, b) select the first key, or fragment by indexing into the table to retrieve the encrypted 8 characters, do likewise with the 2nd key, and the 3rd key, and then from an divulged based table of fields, select the salt for cypher block chaining.
Yes, it is secure, no, it is not too too scalable (only 256 groups) However (256^4)*(!3) is the approximate number of individual combinations of possible encryption key combinations. Keep the group information confidential, and there you have it. You can always distribute the information as 60,36,24,35, or whatever. Is anything divulged?
The Dutch normally speak Dutch, because, well, it's their native tongue. Dutch itself is pretty close to German, but neither are world-popular language. As such, most people in the Netherlands speak English as well, because they're a hub of business. Publishing this in English ensures it's widely readable to the rest of the world.
Is American "World English"? The rest of the world puts in the missing letters omitted from words, such as neighbour, colour, etc.
The rest of the world says I will take some ideas "from" xyz and Americans say "will take ideas "off of" xyz.
It would take tomes to list the differences in language usage, so much so that in my view, "American" is a distinct language.
Yes, we might finally get a court ruling that the Civil Rights Act is blatantly unconstitutional because it infringes on the property owner's right to refuse service to anyone for *any* reason, and the resulting crazy would be fun to watch from the other side of the ocean.
Any reason is a bit extreme. Taking photos without permission is a reason. If the photographer does not have the restaurent's permission, then it is the restaurant that would own the pictures and also the copyright.
It is probably also permissible for a person who is talking on the cell phone while eating, and talking loud enough to be intrusive to other peoples desires to eat undisturbed.
'We find that a large influx of capital is successful in escaping the poverty trap, but increasing health spending alone is not,
Pretty much, we spend more money on HC in America than any other country yet our care is no where near good by any stretch of the imagination. Throwing more money at it like the current admin wants to do, according to this study anyway seems to be a waste of money
Healthcare by for profit businesses can never compete with state medicare. Those with money get served sooner, but not better than those with much lesser amounts ($0.00+) of money.
My daughter gets $30k/yr of MS medicine. Her cost for all her meds $1000/yr. When I say all, it is the max out-of-pocket for meds the combined total med costs.
And she is going to receive this amount for the next 40+ years at least.
The terrorists won.
Osama was right. He said his actions are going to drive the USA crazy, and cause them to spend billions over the next few years. The spending, "To defend themselves from their own fears".
The terrorists are going to win over stupid individuals who, unfortunately, will one day be victims of their own stupidity.
I would say that he has stuff going back to Nixon days, and can name names.
Don't lie. Just don't disclose your work from beyond 10 years, except as 1 line entries as.... Other skills
I am working 3 days/week @ age 73.
Well, there is one other small difference:
As expensive and technically tough as it is to make a nuclear weapon (and its delivery system!), even a small nuke can do a hell of a lot more damage in one go than even 1,000 drones can accomplish. Quake analogy? multiple blasters versus a given BFG (or rather, one very amped-up BFG).
There is also the fact that drones are still subject to interference, and that there is only so much room in the sky to hold a sufficient number of drones (to do the same damage as a nuke) on a practical level.
I honestly get that there is a huge potential for problems stemming from the use of drones-as-weapons, but unlike a 'fire-and-forget' ICBM/SRBM/SLBM*? The drone still has to call home, most have to get their instructions and updates from somewhere, a higher degree of accuracy is required, and as a practical matter they need sufficient safeguards built in to avoid having it turn around and attack its owner(s).
* note that I'm not even counting a missile (or any type) with a MIRV warhead.
Your conjecture is that the enemy would use nukes, and that they would wipe out a radius of 25miles(or kms). Would that stop a country the size of the USA, Russia, or China, if it happened to them, from retaliation? In geographical territories where it is a vs b, and a wins, what are they going to do with devistated b? Old wars were based on assets of the conquored land, not on idiologies.
Suppose it happened. My belief is that the first counterattacks would be all the religious shrines, mosques, temples and whatever, since it is my belief that a nuke attack is motivated by religious extremists. Anyway, packaging a miniature nuclear bomb would pose size and weight problems.
The obvious solution is self-flying planes! Then there won't be a pilot to rely too much on automation.
If cars can park themselves, and look ahead in the traffic for accident avoidence, then planes should be able to taxi, takeoff, land and come to a boarding gate unattended.
The pilot holds the ignition key. We don't want a plane like that stolen.
"has many officers worried that commanders will monitor their every move"
That's sorta the point of this operation.
We know it sucks if you're just in a doughnut-shop and a robbery happens next door.
This will just nudge you to take the robbery first, the doughnut second.
As for the 45 minute dark alley meetings with confidential informants, you can be seen there with the naked eye!
Give your CI a fucking burner-phone, we're in the 3. millennium.
These are police officers working with police officers. The gps will be a dispatcher's tool. He will be able to send the appropriate (nearest) vehicle to an accident scene.
The only policemen to have fear are those who do not fill their quota of tickets. (They may have to show that they were busy with traffic, a safety issue or the like). Trusted officers will still be trusted. Will automation be the next step to where vehicles are monitored for being stationary? That is the fear, I suppose.
I can't believe this is being seriously considred..?!?!
WTF is in charge of the US with respect to these things?
Are we allowed to put these same type of things on Russian soil too?
As far as I know, it is tit-for-tat. The era of world wars is over. The only wars now are with global trade and jobs. Eliminating one country would cause a world depression that would last a long time.
However, a war, where non-nuclear weapons are used, would create jobs, and eliminate overpopulation. It would certainly eliminate a lot of obese people.
Next to the 9 of course is the 0, and therein was my error. I should have proofed my reply, but from a tablet, it is a problem of too small a font to notice the finger slip from the 9 to the 0.
Glad you noted it.
Whoops, sorry, meant ReRAM. Same difference :p No wear leveling and DRAM like speeds and non-volatile. Assumg you're curious about ReRAM and not the MRAM that i originally said http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/memory/display/20130625232112_SK_Hynix_Further_Delays_Commercial_Production_of_ReRAM.html
Looks like it got pushed back a bit further.. /cry
Last year an HP visionary predicted that smartphones and tablets would start utilizing ReRAM-based storage sometimes in 2014 - 2015. However, with current plans to start commercial manufacturing of ReRAM in late 2013 it looks like the first mass products featuring the technologyare only going to emerge in 2015 - 2016.
Two questions that I would like to have answered follows "Is reRAM more power consumptive during operation?" Are we therefore looking at RF radiation noise appearing as white noise?"
In my early IT years, we bought magnetic cores, 28 guage wire and we wired up and tested our own core memories. We needed some bit values to be remembered if there was a power failure. The environment was hostile to moving memory. (Circa 1070 is when I did this stuff). Finally, we bought magnetic latching relays, which turned out to be a less expensive approach, but required lots more cabinet space.
When is BTRFS finally going to be declared stable and become default on major distros? Its features were needed years ago. The Copy on Write features are killer features that have been needed on Linux for years, such as to implement a filesystem level versioning, system restore an restore point feature and improved snapshot features. Ext4 is only a stop-gap and Ext is really starting to show its age.
SUSE13.1 is saying that BTRFS is suitable for home use. They see no problems in a desktop or non-banking industry environment. Ditto for Mint16, and Fedora20. Btrfs is here to enjoy. But... for most work that I do, ext4 provides faster I/O. I timed it so I know so.
Considering that the 14NM Broadwell chips are not scheduled to ship till the second quarter of 2014. With support for power saving per component coming along it looks like using the Linux kernel on laptops will also be much more inviting. It is all well and good that the advances in the kernel hardware support are keeping pace with what Microsoft is doing. I am still eagerly awaiting a great high end powerhouse Linux laptop. As it is the old IBM T42 non-pae clunker that I am writing this on is still very usable but if a company ever finally does ship an OS agnostic laptop with high specs I will jump at the chance.
The temperatures in hell are dropping but I am not going to hold my breath as Windows still holds the retailers and manufacturers by the balls to say the least. However with both Intel and AMD actively supporting the Linux kernel this quickly for their most important product lines perhaps a manufacturer like Samsung or Lenovo might actually try to market a real full blown Linux based device for a change instead of just dabbling in Android consumer craptronic devices.
Do you want manufacturers and vendors onside? What does it take? It takes some free code and the right to add $100.00US per system. The manufacturer and the retailer need that to cover returns, repairs, some Geek staff and profits.
Would I pay $100.00 for a fully pre-installed system that works (graphics, sound, network, security, and user software selection), as an off-the shelf package? I guess I would! When I look at the time I spend on a downloads, on testing patches, and rebuilding my test Linux, I would spend that money. Time saved will give me more time to respond to slashdot about things. Important things that I would not be able to comment on with a limit placed on my spare time .
What does not go into cars will feed the starving in this world of ours.
Here we have prison to punish people. It doesn't exist as a means to control risk by controlling dangerous people. We've collectively decided that we should put people in cells(and let them be raped) like it's telling 5 year olds to stand in the corner.
There is a big difference between punishment and revenge or vengence. 10 years for a hack is vengence. It also showed how sloppy the company security was, that anyone could break into their system and be able to copy data. Is copying something stealing, or what. I can steal an object, that has resale value, I can steal something intangible, such as a kiss, and surely the purchases on Boxingday are real steals.
I am sorry I stole your time with this reply.
Here's a hint for SF: if you want to identify bad actors, one indication is that they are an advertiser...Whenever a new technology comes along, advertisers are there to shit all over it. Excuse me, "monetize" it.
The problem here is you (well, us) as consumers. We not only want FOSS, we want delivery to be free, too -- without regard for the fact that the infrastructure to facilitate that delivery actually takes tangible resources (i.e. money, not just developer time) to operate.
So, in effect, we the consumer base are CHOOSING this advertising model. If you were willing to pay $0.25 to Sourceforge every time you downloaded a program or code tree from them, you could make a reasonable demand for SF to do away with the stupid ad shenanigans. But you're not. Even if you personally are, the user base as a whole has gotten accustomed to delivery being "free" and now demands it. And since it's not actually free, sites like SF have to find a way to stay solvent.
The "bad actors" here are consumers of free stuff who get their panties in a bunch whenever the silver platter that their free stuff is served on is even the slightest bit tarnished.
Perhaps SourceForge is financing Slashdot via those ads. I find though that most software is available directly from the vendor's website, and that vendor rarely ever posts ads along with his product.
It's a balance in my experience. I've had places where they would get upset if they saw you talking to someone rather than nose to the grind stone and others that got upset if you didn't stop what you were doing and say hi to someone that came into your workspace to talk to someone else (who was there, not that they came asking for them and you ignored them).
Sadly, it is the lowest common denominator (well maybe highest common denominator): those that do need a lot of social interaction will get very frustrated by not having it. The assumption is usually that those that are quite or less social are not harmed by being forced to say hi and deal with small talk (even though that isn't the case when you need hours of consecutive time to figure out things sometimes, or just like the socialites might feel with no social interaction that like your life is being wasted with "how's the weather" talk). Regardless, the socially adapt are by definition the squeaky wheel and so are the ones that will get their way. Also, they tend to be the ones seen as being leaders/liked by people so are more likely to be your manager now or in the future so always a good idea to keep them happy.
Suggestion: have lunch with people. You have to eat anyways, so if they have to feel like they know you let them have their meaningless conversations with you while you are stuffing your frozen dinner in your mouth.
In every organization, there are fences created around departments. Good fences make good neighbours. It is also a "don't over step your boundaries".
When you need to communicate with your peer in another department, first do so over coffee or in a non-committal way. If you need to work with that peer, If there are decisions that are needed from your boss, tell your boss what you can trust him to know but always escalate to your boss. He will communicate with his peers, to clear the way for you to deal with your equivalent in the another department.
Communication also means summarizing information for distribution, and also not keeping your boss in the dark. When you can, make your boss look good. That is part of communication.
The car said it needed servicing and "may not restart", if it were me I'd probably keep driving too. The final "Pull over, I'm shutting down" message would (in hindsight) have been a better initial response from the car but "out of warranty mode" would have been funnier.
Also the GP has a point, all kinds of cars do burst into flames every now and then, in 35 years of driving I've seen it happen 3 times. Once to myself in a Datsun on the freeway, my brother-in-law's ford while it was parked in the driveway, both of those were oil fires. The third incident was a mate's prime mover, a large spanner came loose and fell on the battery shorting out the terminals. All three incidents happened in the 80's. The fact that the car was damaged means all bets are off, but it also means that the manufacturer will get feedback on the incident and suggestions on how to fix it. If they don't listen then often they will be "forced" to do so by legislation that could see a lead engineer jailed for manslaughter.
Western governments are almost single-handedly responsible for the massive improvement in both car and road safety over the last 40yrs, free market competition has worked out how to put those legal requirements into a car without it looking like a 1970's Volvo. If road/car safety was left to the "invisible hand" then people would still be driving around with "DIY LPG conversions" - An 80kg LPG cylinder strapped to the roof racks of station wagons, like a torpedo waiting to be launched in the event of a frontal collision.
Did the attaching of the trailer cause a over draw of power, resulting in overheating and possible melting of insulation around wires. Many wires are plastic wrapped and will burn, resulting in the actual wire shorting to the car frame.
Was the trailer connected to a fused line?
In my youth, I put up an antenna on the roof, and with a coil, capacitor and a crystal, was able to tune to and listen to radio broadcasts with earphones. I once connected a step down transformer in reverse to the earphone jacks and was able to drive a loud speaker, although, not loud enough to hear without straining.
There is a lot of wireless radiation, and one can capture what one needs to charge a battery and subsequently, a LED: I even bought some garden lamps and used them to charge multiple Nicad cells, which in the evening, I put in parallel to drive a camping lamp.
I am sure you just can't wait for the Windows 8.1 update! Just imagine how happy we'll all be! After all the outrage and frustration over Windows 8 losing it's "start" menu, Windows 8.1 is here to save the day! Now, that old start menu that used to do something useless... listing all of your applications so you could find them... has been replaced! Now it takes you directly to the Metro UI, where you can barf all over your keyboard! Happy day!
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While we think Linux is the great and be all for everyone, it is not the case. Windows 7, in a business environment is a good product. Before you kick me, I have been a diehard Linux user for 10 years. Windows is a commerical product with dollars behind it to insure the products meet corporate user needs.
Libreoffice, without a ribbon and with java as the implementation is not responsive. You end up sometimes waiting a few precious seconds as garbage collection takes off, or memory compaction occurs. There must be no stalls in execution and there must be excellent compatibility.
A product out of China is what I am using (kingsoft) as my office product. I write with it in Linux, and MS office can't tell the difference. It is my Linux saviour.
But in development, I rely on the free compiler suite to get my work done otherwise. MS is doing what it can to remain in the public's eye.
It happens all the time. Kids are suspended from school for making a "gun" with their fingers, playing with a plastic see-through water pistol, or having any item that looks like a gun or has picture of a gun on it, even if it's barely bigger than a quarter ( http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/09/29/tiny-toy-gun-key-chain-cause-of-students-suspension-84337 ). Even saying the word gun in the contest of Hello Kitty "bubble gun" gets a 5 year old girl suspended for 10 days ( http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/21/us/pennsylvania-girl-suspended ). Its not about kids safety, it's about stigmatizing guns and gun owners.
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Bravo to the policy of stigmatizing guns. Perhaps in 25 years, the USA will join the world in sharing common rules about gun ownership. Guns for hunting, yes, guns for sports (only at gun clubs), personal ownership? No. -- No need.
Funniest thing about backdoors is that almost every mobile device in the world has an ARM chip, designed in Cambridge, UK. That's Cambridge as in MI5 open recruiting ground and MI6 clandestine recruiting ground.
Devices manufactured in China, using a British-designed chip, routed through British Telecom using Huawei equipment... as you said, what could possibly go wrong?
If I were the conspiratorial sort, I might have reason to suspect Cambridge-recruited personnel of working for the other side.
All current or modern CPU designs have a microcode update capability. Perfectly good chips can be delivered, and then the microcode patch is applied. during the boot process. My android and my Linux system both do microcode updates at this boot time. For my desktop, Intel or AMD supply the "patches".