I think despite our best efforts to track down the issue, be it money or advertiser influence or lack of truly independent editorial staff, one thing remains true. The answer to a lack of quality journalism in the internet age should always and forever be directly attributed solely to Timmy.
now let us all turn our heads and cast our neverending gaze of shame and distrust upon him.
the reason a legacy of GPL can be attributed ot stallman is because of the egregious error of computing in capitalism. Namely, the means of production of code were given to coders themselves and in doing so they were empowered to construct the terms of that softwares use.
Hardware has enjoyed this luxury for quite some time, however its days may be numbered. open source firmware for routers and mp3 players has existed for a while, and open source chip design and hardware is slowly coming to fruition with the open hardware laptop by bunny huang and programmable keyboards from input.club.
expect a future of open hardware to seem eerily familiar to the future of open source software. First its ignored, then its laughed at, then its attacked as inferior and dangerous, and finally its either embraced by hackers and business or outlawed through a combination of DMCA style legislative chicanery and thoughtcrime akin to aaron schwartz.
the point to emphasize is that the CEO has an enormous advantage over the average employee as he was given a number of shares during his hire. And while most employees can buy stocks, for very few of them does it seriously matter. The stock market is not designed, nor has it ever been predicated, on casual investors.
this is how the vast majority of millionaires BECOME millionaires - buying a bit of stock each month, typically through a mutual fund.
This is a widely held belief, but its false. The average millionaire is a millionaire because of the concept of dynastic wealth. They are rich through the lottery of birth. conversely, the average american stands no chance to enter a circle of millionaires simply through investment. GE has for example 9.4 billion shares, each costing around $23 a piece, and each returning approximately 25 cents of interest. you would need to purchase, at minimum, around half a million shares before you realized even upper-middle class living standards from your investment. Wealth sees new entry through sports stars and pop stars, and occasional lottery winners however statistically, this makes up a fraction of a percentage of all millionaires.
now, its tempting to assume this is a very reasonable regular salary for such a high position. you may even feel compelled to complement Joel on his humility, but dont. What isnt disclosed is Joels quarterly and yearly CEO bonus as well as his earnings from any assets he may hold in the buffer corporation such as interest from stock or dividends paid.
what the buffer corporation, and i suspect a large number of other more libertarian 'uber economy' minded corporations, are trying to do is get employees to compete amongst eachother for salary equity while ignoring the bigger picture: the control of the corporation and its assets are fundamentally outside their scope of influence. They participate in the companies performance and production, but gain very little from its successes outside their formal salary. The companies operational objective, for example, is stockholder value and not the greater good of providing gainful employment and retirement security for its employees. I also conject that 'open salaries' are a clever means of equalization for tech industries that are sick and tired of having to pay market price for talented IT staff and coders.
outcome 1: Administration has as good laugh, invites teen to the whitehouse and a tour of the CIA. STEM and CS agendas are lauded and the teens intuition and cleverness are chamioned as a sterling mark of american ingenuity and creativity. peace in the middle east is championed as a fundamental necessity of the 21st century outcome 2: the teen spends half a decade in juvenile incarceration and another few years in a correcitonal facility after age 18. his parents find gainful employment hard to come by. as a convicted felon the teen loses access to PEL grants and scholarships required to attend college. everything from fast food to janitorial work refuses to hire a felon, and public assistance programs from section 8 housing to food benefits categorically deny him.
legislators: we should tackle existing agenda items such as the impending repeal of our states healthcare exchange from a newly elected governor, or the drug crisis in cities like Covington and Louisville. John Carney: I wrote something on a dennys napkin about people who do things i dont like.
Im sure for anyone who bought a "drone" 2 weeks ago at christmas, this article is neat. However fearmongering aside Terorrism in 2015 killed only 34 people in the United States, the country with the most drones. heck, in 2014 auto accidents alone killed 34,000 people here...and by comparison terorrism is almost a non-issue when pitted against heart disease, which kills 610,000 per year. Unlike terrorism, which is costly to defend against, most of the cases of heart disease in the united states that claim a life could have been prevented by simple diet and exercise. Hell, in 2013 there were 33,000 firearm related deaths in the US, almost 1000 times the number of terrorism related deaths.
but, you know...terorrism...gotta stop those terrorists.
Clear Linux ships in an optimized form for delivering best performance on INTEL x86 hardware with enabling many INTEL compiler optimizations by default
For major corporate environments, this means nothing as youve likely been married to Intel hardware for quite some time. For startups, most of these features are pointless: Autoproxy: is compensating for departmental overhead and the bloat of a monolithic organizational structure that prevents network operations or system administrators from coherently deploying a server outside the corporate proxy. Function Multiversioning (FMV): is intels solution for the -march=native compiler flag. Want your code to scream on haswell and crawl on bulldozer? Intel sure does, and what better way to ensure that then fucking with the compiler again. Telemetry: something something agile...something something quality...we rewrote the linux Backtrace so in 15 years after we lose interest in clear linux, your code is still hobbled to us. clear containers: take something an open source team worked almost a decade on and slap you brand on it. viola. stateless: half a dozen devops tools already take care of imaging, reimaging, config management, and the rest. but lets have an Intel proprietary solution too. after all, Openstack is no fun unless youre vendor dependent all over again. debug: did we mention we fucked with the compiler again? it was awesome when we did it to kill AMD64, and now its awesome again when we're trying to kill openstacks vendor-independent features.
thug on a phone: Yeah Tony look, we need to lay low for a bit...yeah....no I know its arriving this Saturday but see listen...those cameras? Yeah...on the pole at 23rd street Tony just look at em....of course! they know Tony...THEY know about the grease man its only a matter of time before they figure it....what?.....jesus christ Tony you're a genius.....Nobody would ever suspect it....yeah of course I've had McDonalds!
What this country needs is an inspirational space program. I'll bet @realDonaldTrump could do it.
Rob --can I call you Rob?-- Rob, what youre proposing is that a 69 year old living anachronism of economic wrack and ruin that predicated everything from the death of the middle class to the torpedoing of the american dream through predatory lending and carte-blanc bailout...is going to somehow get it together in 10 months and become the next president of the United States. Granted, bush is an excellent example of how sometimes the electoral college conspires to pedal this nation into a gaping fiery hell-maw of endless war and poverty...however...at no point does a man whos alienated every known minority in the country stand a chance of doing anything more than passing by 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in a Rolls Royce, clenching his fists and swirling his caviar around his vacuous cocksucker of a mouth as he pines for the days of Reagan oncemore.
now, laughably, should a republican actually secure the presidency in 2016, youre going to find out the hard way that never ever would he fund something his party has been diametrically and vehemently opposed to ever since the fall of the Soviet Union. That is, unless your space program involves ground troops in the middle east or a renewed commitment to the war on drugs. Does your space program install american backed dictators in key islamic states? does it destabilize threats to american capitalism in central and south america? is it somehow working to disenfranchise millions of voters across the country? then no, its not getting any cheddar from a man who once starred on a television show that made light of terminating employees.
Sure, a loudspeaker campaign might not seem like the most tactful or appropriate means to an end of nearly half a century of aggression but take for a moment to consider this: Korea, both north and south, has succeeded in creating the worlds only 160 mile long insufferable asian shouting contest. Thats right. while problems like global warming, climate change, systemic poverty, famine, and clean potable drinking water exist around the globe we can all take comfort in knowing Korea, both north and south, have taken the important first step of solving the major global defecit of a 160 mile audible pissing contest.
As a DOA manager, and having overseen part of the autopsy, I can tell you with all certainty that medical privacy is of tyhe utmost importance. Lets face it: you know it, I know it, the world knows it. The south river is about as healthy as a bullet to the head, but many people dont yet know how awful its become outside of the realm of its recent acclaim from the guinness book of records for "most likely to spread an epidemic plague of black death and ebola." For example, did you know that the south river is now viscous enough to float a bowling ball? or did you know that on a cold winters day you can huddle near its many eddies and currents for warmth from its innumerable short and long bursts of radiation as a byproduct of its constant brush with nuclear criticality? Many of my employees tell stories of how after misplacing their cigarette lighter they simply dip the end of a marlborough into the river instead. And lets not get started on "the voices" that compelled nearly two dozen virgin women to enter the deep, never to return.
trust me. things are well under control and you needn't worry yourself with frivolous reports of the 300 foot tall "dolphin" with "spiderlike appendages" now roaming the countryside in search of "blood and bone." Having communicated with us telephathically it has been very stern in its demand for medical privacy both in words and in the uncontrollable nosebleeds affecting our newborns.
Not since Shiah LeBouf barking "DO IT!" at the top of his lungs has such a relentless campaign been launched to drag windows users kicking and screaming into Microsoft Windows 10 appstore talking start bar moneytrain edition. As a member of the system administration community, allow me to expound upon the very many upgrade paths users should consider.
Embedded: expect 32,768 unacknowleded and largely invisible notification windows for that CNC lathe or medical diagnostic machine to suddenly disappear. Once your ephemeral and wholly unverifiable upgrade is complete, the vendor will notify you of your lapsed contract, and you will have either declared chapter 11 for a manufacturing facility, or botched a heart transplant. laptop: a crescendo of fan noise and flashing lights will be followed by an undulating windows icon for the remainder of the physical life of the machine. Use this undulating logo as a night light on your way to the toilet, or keep it around for the cat to play with. desktop: unfortunately due to an oversight in the upgrade process, the system erroneously prompts you to upgrade to Windows 10. You should disregard this notice and instead, upgrade to a distribution of Linux.
att 6 years ago: unlimited data for a low low monthly fee, browse all the tubes. browse too much and we cancel your service. att 5 years ago: nevermind. we dont like this. FCC: net neutrality. it doesnt matter what your provider likes, they cant throttle or cap or inject ads. common carriers are common carriers... Comcast:cant hear you over the hold music. Time Warner: fuck your shit. fcc: guise...seriously... T-Mobile: unlimited data forever for a low low price also if you use too much or too little or certain kinds of sites we will throttle you to oblivion ATT:Ditto we have this too also ATT is best TT. fcc: ok assholes come on...common...carrier. comcast: have fun in our corporate cheerleader thunderdome this year AKA the supreme court.
Bowies eccentricities aside, Ive never understood why his kidnapping charge wasnt investigated? Sure, he certainly as a monarch reserved diplomatic immunity but his 13 hour standoff over the child was completely uncalled for.
Now that hes gone, what of his estate? I certrainly hope someone does something with the bog of eternal stench he was so enamoured with...and that horrible room full of staircases? certainly someones complained of trip hazards and safety violations...Rest in peace Goblin King.
"Girls don't see other girls programming," Microsoft explained in 2013
One word: Adafruit. hell, all you have to do is hit twitter to see people like @aloria (infosec engineer) fully participating in programming. Please stop focusing on why gender isnt part of programming and start focusing on the fact that, with the help of the DMCA, you've effectively crushed any attempts at hacker culture that might interest kids in technology and programming. The governments insistance that a clock is a bomb certainly isnt helping young hackers. And while you're at it, proprietary software is a huge hinderance to the type of hacker/programmer culture of sharing code.
The very same corporations that spent 40 years insisting we didnt need to code, didnt need to understand, and could subsist through blind consumer lust are reaping the rewards of a sustained campaign to maximize short term profit at the expense of corporate sustainability.
to rephrase, Johnny cant code because Sony, Microsoft, and a wealth of other conglomerates told him he didnt need to. The product would "just work" in the words of Steve Jobs, and in the spirit of the DMCA is was heresy to disassemble, to hack, to question the nature of that great gift that had been bestowed upon him by so many corporate cloistered elite. Step back 20 more years and antithetic culture to nerds and science in the United states ensured even remote interests were extinguished in favour of sportsball, gender-enforced labour roles, and the empty promise of a working class labor market. Corporations are waking up a day late and a dollar short to the party where a six-figure class of non-disposable labor is beginning to not only act as a serious liability, but a serious long term threat to the profitability of labor reforms ushered in during the carter and reagan administration.
you dont just backflip out of this in a decade with code.org and a hard fast pelvic thrust into the public education system. Charter schools have ensured little Johnny puts more thought into matching his uniform and cleaning his shoes to avoid meaningless conformist regimen than the arithmetic thats thrown at him daily by a wageslave instructor fudging test scores to save his job for another year and make it to some form of retirement. You get out of this in the long term. another 40 years of eschewing stereotypes and building the foundation of good education through building blocks you've torn down for short-term goose to the stakeholders wealth. You fund schools, stop trying to malnurish them with definitions of a tomato as a vegetable on pizza and you repeal the DMCA. whats more, you make sure that the fist school that attempts to railroad a bright young child with an electronics project into prison for terrorism gets the brunt of your reformist policies. You stop funding the political shills in local government that push this kind of FUD and you take it on the chin come tax time. Because if you dont, in another 40 years anyone who likes to code and hack isnt working for you, theyre working on their emigration plan.
storage is slower than processors until you consider caching things in ram and in which case its magically faster.
Other points mentioned: Balanced Systems: you can have lots of ram but make sure you have the network to serve it. CPUs were unavaillable for comment. Contention-Free I/O-centric Scheduling: uh, has been around for nearly 15 years since the invention of the X86_64 architecture...at least...formally in the domain of commodity hardware. CPUS could not be reached for comment. Workload-aware Storage Tiering: remember all that crap we mentioned about memory caches for everything? well now we're drifting into the realm of object stores so sit tight. tiered storage has existed for 15 years as well...so we're a bit late to the party for this one.
The Future: RAM + Acronym + expensive support contract = Storage Class Memory!. learn it, embrace it, and most importantly, make sure its on the fucking purchase order this year*
*not applicable if youre using redis, memcached, ceph, couch, hadoop, hypercube, or any one of about 30 other different commodity hardware centric distributed data frameworks designed to purge the vendors from the budget as jesus purged the jews from the temple.
this is little more than an irritation for most slashdotters practicing password segregation, but for the average home user the consequences of this are pretty relevant. The target for the data exfiltration, time warner, services individuals who cant distinguish internet from facebook or google. The password they use for time warner is likely the same for their wireless router (provided and configured by time warner) as well as their banking institution, amazon, and countless other online services. Whats even more infuriating is how clandestine Time Warner is being about this breech. Nowhere on the front of site for their cable conglomerates web presence is a breech even hinted. when logging into bill pay, the site also conveniently omits the fact that time warner has released the personal credentials of a usergroup the size of a midwestern city.
the real kicker? because this was reported by the federal government and not through time warners own due diligence, it raises more sincere questions about just how embeddded federal intelligence and law inforcement agencies are with internet service providers.
south korea: things have been peaceful lately, lets turn off those loudspeakers. im sure the residents near the border would like a good nights sleep and the electric bill is getting a little out of hand... DPRK: AT LAST! we have, under our glorious leaders infallable guidance, finally created and detonated a HYDROGEN BOMB. cower before the might of our glorious nuclear harbinger of the wests final demise! south korea:...Get Psy on the phone. Ask his producer what its going to cost to get a chipmunk christmas remix of Gangnam Style at every border outpost by tomorrow morning. DPRK: the glory of allmighty leader cannot be denied! his wisdom and purity will cleanse the west in a fiery blaze of enlightenment and retribution for the... south korea: pick up a copy of whatever Biebers got out this year while you're at it...
the decline of labour was ushered in during the seventies. as japan and europe completed reconstruction after world war II the trade-on-credit agreement from the US became decreasingly valuable to these nations and, instead, they began to outpace the dominant commerce sector in the US, namely manufacturing, with cheaper labour and higher quality in the void that was a reigning superpower resting on its laurels..
in the interrim US firms worked to fight directly what they could not compete with. Harley Davidson lobbied for steep tarrifs on japanese motorcycles while other manufacturing firms slashed prices and increased nationalism in their advertising. Behind the scenes labour and social reforms which began, albeit halfheartedly under the carter administration, took off in earnest in the reagan administration. Through a combination of outsourcing, labor deregulation, union busting, and reductions in the US social safety net (welfare, unemployment benefits, and healthcare) corporations were able to impose longer working hours and lower pay, without the risk of strikes. Reagan did his part by firing eleven thousand air traffic controllers as a show of force and a clear message to the masses: the concessions of a benevolent capital class to a newfound middleclass are over.
And now today, in this foul year of our lord 2016, the fact remains. Corporations no longer operate for the greater good of a people but for shareholder value. A corporation is now a job creator only as a last resort.
untold thousands of scientific references: sure...fine...whatever, we hardly get it. if anything maybe dial back the laugh track so the show seems more like a comedy and less like dora the explorer for jokes. song about a cat.: sweet mother mary of thundering christs white whiskers...call from on high with a cacophany of wailing babes the name of every lawyer you can summon. a true injustice has been committed.
My local coffee shop has evolved to accept so many forms of payment, from apple to coin to mastercard to google pay and i think even bitcoin, that i've simply out of habit begun storing torn and crinkled singles in my shoes. I know the future of e-i-e-i-o payment is here, but the mode lacks the satisfaction of bypassing 150 different imaginary money systems in order to push a wad of sweat-soaked washingtons across a counter to a liberal arts major. Im even working on a payment system that uses dimes and nickels i store in expired cartons of milk.
as outlined by microsofts official policy, the transition path is to follow: OEM-Vendors: will continue bundling IE10 with no fewer than 32,768 OEM specific plug-ins and search bars, as per "the agreement." home users: through the dark caverns of innumerable bonzi buddies and search helpers, and through the cloistered mass of trojans and activeX malware, Windows will at first notify, then plead, then insist, and finally quietly download and install Edge with, or without your knowledge. You are to verbally complain (with or without audience) that either "someone changed my icons" or "the internet button isnt working." Embedded applications: checkout appliances, billboards, interactive kiosks, computerized lathes and mills, and medical devices will continue to run Internet Explorer 3.0 until the last star falls from the heavens or the last operator dives from a major skyscraper. Banking institutions: please continue to ensure browsers conform to at least windows explorer. The version clearly doesnt matter. Hell, just getting the name to stick with you guys is an accomplishment Doris in finance: please install the final pinochle/oprah book club toolbar to your barely recognizeable "browser." Doing so will collapse the waveform and upon its arrival, shear the very fabric of reality and spacetime into what you may perceive as a perfect game of web solitare but which is in actuality the very embodiment of a digital christ, if you will. The singularity now ushered upon us, we may finally become one with infinity through your divine portal. The bonzi buddy will confirm this with his signature "flip"
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I think despite our best efforts to track down the issue, be it money or advertiser influence or lack of truly independent editorial staff, one thing remains true. The answer to a lack of quality journalism in the internet age should always and forever be directly attributed solely to Timmy.
now let us all turn our heads and cast our neverending gaze of shame and distrust upon him.
the reason a legacy of GPL can be attributed ot stallman is because of the egregious error of computing in capitalism. Namely, the means of production of code were given to coders themselves and in doing so they were empowered to construct the terms of that softwares use.
Hardware has enjoyed this luxury for quite some time, however its days may be numbered. open source firmware for routers and mp3 players has existed for a while, and open source chip design and hardware is slowly coming to fruition with the open hardware laptop by bunny huang and programmable keyboards from input.club.
expect a future of open hardware to seem eerily familiar to the future of open source software. First its ignored, then its laughed at, then its attacked as inferior and dangerous, and finally its either embraced by hackers and business or outlawed through a combination of DMCA style legislative chicanery and thoughtcrime akin to aaron schwartz.
this is how the vast majority of millionaires BECOME millionaires - buying a bit of stock each month, typically through a mutual fund.
This is a widely held belief, but its false. The average millionaire is a millionaire because of the concept of dynastic wealth. They are rich through the lottery of birth. conversely, the average american stands no chance to enter a circle of millionaires simply through investment. GE has for example 9.4 billion shares, each costing around $23 a piece, and each returning approximately 25 cents of interest. you would need to purchase, at minimum, around half a million shares before you realized even upper-middle class living standards from your investment. Wealth sees new entry through sports stars and pop stars, and occasional lottery winners however statistically, this makes up a fraction of a percentage of all millionaires.
Joel CEO 2010-08-01 New York, NY, USA $218,000
now, its tempting to assume this is a very reasonable regular salary for such a high position. you may even feel compelled to complement Joel on his humility, but dont. What isnt disclosed is Joels quarterly and yearly CEO bonus as well as his earnings from any assets he may hold in the buffer corporation such as interest from stock or dividends paid.
what the buffer corporation, and i suspect a large number of other more libertarian 'uber economy' minded corporations, are trying to do is get employees to compete amongst eachother for salary equity while ignoring the bigger picture: the control of the corporation and its assets are fundamentally outside their scope of influence. They participate in the companies performance and production, but gain very little from its successes outside their formal salary. The companies operational objective, for example, is stockholder value and not the greater good of providing gainful employment and retirement security for its employees. I also conject that 'open salaries' are a clever means of equalization for tech industries that are sick and tired of having to pay market price for talented IT staff and coders.
outcome 1: Administration has as good laugh, invites teen to the whitehouse and a tour of the CIA. STEM and CS agendas are lauded and the teens intuition and cleverness are chamioned as a sterling mark of american ingenuity and creativity. peace in the middle east is championed as a fundamental necessity of the 21st century
outcome 2: the teen spends half a decade in juvenile incarceration and another few years in a correcitonal facility after age 18. his parents find gainful employment hard to come by. as a convicted felon the teen loses access to PEL grants and scholarships required to attend college. everything from fast food to janitorial work refuses to hire a felon, and public assistance programs from section 8 housing to food benefits categorically deny him.
legislators: we should tackle existing agenda items such as the impending repeal of our states healthcare exchange from a newly elected governor, or the drug crisis in cities like Covington and Louisville.
John Carney: I wrote something on a dennys napkin about people who do things i dont like.
Im sure for anyone who bought a "drone" 2 weeks ago at christmas, this article is neat. However fearmongering aside Terorrism in 2015 killed only 34 people in the United States, the country with the most drones. heck, in 2014 auto accidents alone killed 34,000 people here...and by comparison terorrism is almost a non-issue when pitted against heart disease, which kills 610,000 per year. Unlike terrorism, which is costly to defend against, most of the cases of heart disease in the united states that claim a life could have been prevented by simple diet and exercise. Hell, in 2013 there were 33,000 firearm related deaths in the US, almost 1000 times the number of terrorism related deaths.
but, you know...terorrism...gotta stop those terrorists.
Clear Linux ships in an optimized form for delivering best performance on INTEL x86 hardware with enabling many INTEL compiler optimizations by default
For major corporate environments, this means nothing as youve likely been married to Intel hardware for quite some time. For startups, most of these features are pointless:
Autoproxy: is compensating for departmental overhead and the bloat of a monolithic organizational structure that prevents network operations or system administrators from coherently deploying a server outside the corporate proxy.
Function Multiversioning (FMV): is intels solution for the -march=native compiler flag. Want your code to scream on haswell and crawl on bulldozer? Intel sure does, and what better way to ensure that then fucking with the compiler again.
Telemetry: something something agile...something something quality...we rewrote the linux Backtrace so in 15 years after we lose interest in clear linux, your code is still hobbled to us.
clear containers: take something an open source team worked almost a decade on and slap you brand on it. viola.
stateless: half a dozen devops tools already take care of imaging, reimaging, config management, and the rest. but lets have an Intel proprietary solution too. after all, Openstack is no fun unless youre vendor dependent all over again.
debug: did we mention we fucked with the compiler again? it was awesome when we did it to kill AMD64, and now its awesome again when we're trying to kill openstacks vendor-independent features.
thug on a phone: Yeah Tony look, we need to lay low for a bit...yeah....no I know its arriving this Saturday but see listen...those cameras? Yeah...on the pole at 23rd street Tony just look at em....of course! they know Tony...THEY know about the grease man its only a matter of time before they figure it....what?.....jesus christ Tony you're a genius.....Nobody would ever suspect it....yeah of course I've had McDonalds!
What this country needs is an inspirational space program. I'll bet @realDonaldTrump could do it.
Rob --can I call you Rob?-- Rob, what youre proposing is that a 69 year old living anachronism of economic wrack and ruin that predicated everything from the death of the middle class to the torpedoing of the american dream through predatory lending and carte-blanc bailout...is going to somehow get it together in 10 months and become the next president of the United States. Granted, bush is an excellent example of how sometimes the electoral college conspires to pedal this nation into a gaping fiery hell-maw of endless war and poverty...however...at no point does a man whos alienated every known minority in the country stand a chance of doing anything more than passing by 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in a Rolls Royce, clenching his fists and swirling his caviar around his vacuous cocksucker of a mouth as he pines for the days of Reagan oncemore.
now, laughably, should a republican actually secure the presidency in 2016, youre going to find out the hard way that never ever would he fund something his party has been diametrically and vehemently opposed to ever since the fall of the Soviet Union. That is, unless your space program involves ground troops in the middle east or a renewed commitment to the war on drugs. Does your space program install american backed dictators in key islamic states? does it destabilize threats to american capitalism in central and south america? is it somehow working to disenfranchise millions of voters across the country? then no, its not getting any cheddar from a man who once starred on a television show that made light of terminating employees.
Sure, a loudspeaker campaign might not seem like the most tactful or appropriate means to an end of nearly half a century of aggression but take for a moment to consider this: Korea, both north and south, has succeeded in creating the worlds only 160 mile long insufferable asian shouting contest. Thats right. while problems like global warming, climate change, systemic poverty, famine, and clean potable drinking water exist around the globe we can all take comfort in knowing Korea, both north and south, have taken the important first step of solving the major global defecit of a 160 mile audible pissing contest.
As a DOA manager, and having overseen part of the autopsy, I can tell you with all certainty that medical privacy is of tyhe utmost importance. Lets face it: you know it, I know it, the world knows it. The south river is about as healthy as a bullet to the head, but many people dont yet know how awful its become outside of the realm of its recent acclaim from the guinness book of records for "most likely to spread an epidemic plague of black death and ebola." For example, did you know that the south river is now viscous enough to float a bowling ball? or did you know that on a cold winters day you can huddle near its many eddies and currents for warmth from its innumerable short and long bursts of radiation as a byproduct of its constant brush with nuclear criticality? Many of my employees tell stories of how after misplacing their cigarette lighter they simply dip the end of a marlborough into the river instead. And lets not get started on "the voices" that compelled nearly two dozen virgin women to enter the deep, never to return.
trust me. things are well under control and you needn't worry yourself with frivolous reports of the 300 foot tall "dolphin" with "spiderlike appendages" now roaming the countryside in search of "blood and bone." Having communicated with us telephathically it has been very stern in its demand for medical privacy both in words and in the uncontrollable nosebleeds affecting our newborns.
Not since Shiah LeBouf barking "DO IT!" at the top of his lungs has such a relentless campaign been launched to drag windows users kicking and screaming into Microsoft Windows 10 appstore talking start bar moneytrain edition. As a member of the system administration community, allow me to expound upon the very many upgrade paths users should consider.
Embedded: expect 32,768 unacknowleded and largely invisible notification windows for that CNC lathe or medical diagnostic machine to suddenly disappear. Once your ephemeral and wholly unverifiable upgrade is complete, the vendor will notify you of your lapsed contract, and you will have either declared chapter 11 for a manufacturing facility, or botched a heart transplant.
laptop: a crescendo of fan noise and flashing lights will be followed by an undulating windows icon for the remainder of the physical life of the machine. Use this undulating logo as a night light on your way to the toilet, or keep it around for the cat to play with.
desktop: unfortunately due to an oversight in the upgrade process, the system erroneously prompts you to upgrade to Windows 10. You should disregard this notice and instead, upgrade to a distribution of Linux.
att 6 years ago: unlimited data for a low low monthly fee, browse all the tubes. browse too much and we cancel your service.
att 5 years ago: nevermind. we dont like this.
FCC: net neutrality. it doesnt matter what your provider likes, they cant throttle or cap or inject ads. common carriers are common carriers...
Comcast:cant hear you over the hold music.
Time Warner: fuck your shit.
fcc: guise...seriously...
T-Mobile: unlimited data forever for a low low price also if you use too much or too little or certain kinds of sites we will throttle you to oblivion
ATT:Ditto we have this too also ATT is best TT.
fcc: ok assholes come on...common...carrier.
comcast: have fun in our corporate cheerleader thunderdome this year AKA the supreme court.
Bowies eccentricities aside, Ive never understood why his kidnapping charge wasnt investigated? Sure, he certainly as a monarch reserved diplomatic immunity but his 13 hour standoff over the child was completely uncalled for.
Now that hes gone, what of his estate? I certrainly hope someone does something with the bog of eternal stench he was so enamoured with...and that horrible room full of staircases? certainly someones complained of trip hazards and safety violations...Rest in peace Goblin King.
"Girls don't see other girls programming," Microsoft explained in 2013
One word: Adafruit. hell, all you have to do is hit twitter to see people like @aloria (infosec engineer) fully participating in programming. Please stop focusing on why gender isnt part of programming and start focusing on the fact that, with the help of the DMCA, you've effectively crushed any attempts at hacker culture that might interest kids in technology and programming. The governments insistance that a clock is a bomb certainly isnt helping young hackers. And while you're at it, proprietary software is a huge hinderance to the type of hacker/programmer culture of sharing code.
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The very same corporations that spent 40 years insisting we didnt need to code, didnt need to understand, and could subsist through blind consumer lust are reaping the rewards of a sustained campaign to maximize short term profit at the expense of corporate sustainability.
to rephrase, Johnny cant code because Sony, Microsoft, and a wealth of other conglomerates told him he didnt need to. The product would "just work" in the words of Steve Jobs, and in the spirit of the DMCA is was heresy to disassemble, to hack, to question the nature of that great gift that had been bestowed upon him by so many corporate cloistered elite. Step back 20 more years and antithetic culture to nerds and science in the United states ensured even remote interests were extinguished in favour of sportsball, gender-enforced labour roles, and the empty promise of a working class labor market. Corporations are waking up a day late and a dollar short to the party where a six-figure class of non-disposable labor is beginning to not only act as a serious liability, but a serious long term threat to the profitability of labor reforms ushered in during the carter and reagan administration.
you dont just backflip out of this in a decade with code.org and a hard fast pelvic thrust into the public education system. Charter schools have ensured little Johnny puts more thought into matching his uniform and cleaning his shoes to avoid meaningless conformist regimen than the arithmetic thats thrown at him daily by a wageslave instructor fudging test scores to save his job for another year and make it to some form of retirement. You get out of this in the long term. another 40 years of eschewing stereotypes and building the foundation of good education through building blocks you've torn down for short-term goose to the stakeholders wealth. You fund schools, stop trying to malnurish them with definitions of a tomato as a vegetable on pizza and you repeal the DMCA. whats more, you make sure that the fist school that attempts to railroad a bright young child with an electronics project into prison for terrorism gets the brunt of your reformist policies. You stop funding the political shills in local government that push this kind of FUD and you take it on the chin come tax time. Because if you dont, in another 40 years anyone who likes to code and hack isnt working for you, theyre working on their emigration plan.
storage is slower than processors until you consider caching things in ram and in which case its magically faster.
Other points mentioned:
Balanced Systems: you can have lots of ram but make sure you have the network to serve it. CPUs were unavaillable for comment.
Contention-Free I/O-centric Scheduling: uh, has been around for nearly 15 years since the invention of the X86_64 architecture...at least...formally in the domain of commodity hardware. CPUS could not be reached for comment.
Workload-aware Storage Tiering: remember all that crap we mentioned about memory caches for everything? well now we're drifting into the realm of object stores so sit tight. tiered storage has existed for 15 years as well...so we're a bit late to the party for this one.
The Future: RAM + Acronym + expensive support contract = Storage Class Memory!. learn it, embrace it, and most importantly, make sure its on the fucking purchase order this year*
*not applicable if youre using redis, memcached, ceph, couch, hadoop, hypercube, or any one of about 30 other different commodity hardware centric distributed data frameworks designed to purge the vendors from the budget as jesus purged the jews from the temple.
this is little more than an irritation for most slashdotters practicing password segregation, but for the average home user the consequences of this are pretty relevant. The target for the data exfiltration, time warner, services individuals who cant distinguish internet from facebook or google. The password they use for time warner is likely the same for their wireless router (provided and configured by time warner) as well as their banking institution, amazon, and countless other online services. Whats even more infuriating is how clandestine Time Warner is being about this breech. Nowhere on the front of site for their cable conglomerates web presence is a breech even hinted. when logging into bill pay, the site also conveniently omits the fact that time warner has released the personal credentials of a usergroup the size of a midwestern city.
the real kicker? because this was reported by the federal government and not through time warners own due diligence, it raises more sincere questions about just how embeddded federal intelligence and law inforcement agencies are with internet service providers.
south korea: things have been peaceful lately, lets turn off those loudspeakers. im sure the residents near the border would like a good nights sleep and the electric bill is getting a little out of hand... ...Get Psy on the phone. Ask his producer what its going to cost to get a chipmunk christmas remix of Gangnam Style at every border outpost by tomorrow morning.
DPRK: AT LAST! we have, under our glorious leaders infallable guidance, finally created and detonated a HYDROGEN BOMB. cower before the might of our glorious nuclear harbinger of the wests final demise!
south korea:
DPRK: the glory of allmighty leader cannot be denied! his wisdom and purity will cleanse the west in a fiery blaze of enlightenment and retribution for the...
south korea: pick up a copy of whatever Biebers got out this year while you're at it...
the decline of labour was ushered in during the seventies. as japan and europe completed reconstruction after world war II the trade-on-credit agreement from the US became decreasingly valuable to these nations and, instead, they began to outpace the dominant commerce sector in the US, namely manufacturing, with cheaper labour and higher quality in the void that was a reigning superpower resting on its laurels..
in the interrim US firms worked to fight directly what they could not compete with. Harley Davidson lobbied for steep tarrifs on japanese motorcycles while other manufacturing firms slashed prices and increased nationalism in their advertising. Behind the scenes labour and social reforms which began, albeit halfheartedly under the carter administration, took off in earnest in the reagan administration. Through a combination of outsourcing, labor deregulation, union busting, and reductions in the US social safety net (welfare, unemployment benefits, and healthcare) corporations were able to impose longer working hours and lower pay, without the risk of strikes. Reagan did his part by firing eleven thousand air traffic controllers as a show of force and a clear message to the masses: the concessions of a benevolent capital class to a newfound middleclass are over.
And now today, in this foul year of our lord 2016, the fact remains. Corporations no longer operate for the greater good of a people but for shareholder value. A corporation is now a job creator only as a last resort.
untold thousands of scientific references: sure...fine...whatever, we hardly get it. if anything maybe dial back the laugh track so the show seems more like a comedy and less like dora the explorer for jokes.
song about a cat.: sweet mother mary of thundering christs white whiskers...call from on high with a cacophany of wailing babes the name of every lawyer you can summon. a true injustice has been committed.
My local coffee shop has evolved to accept so many forms of payment, from apple to coin to mastercard to google pay and i think even bitcoin, that i've simply out of habit begun storing torn and crinkled singles in my shoes. I know the future of e-i-e-i-o payment is here, but the mode lacks the satisfaction of bypassing 150 different imaginary money systems in order to push a wad of sweat-soaked washingtons across a counter to a liberal arts major. Im even working on a payment system that uses dimes and nickels i store in expired cartons of milk.
as outlined by microsofts official policy, the transition path is to follow:
OEM-Vendors: will continue bundling IE10 with no fewer than 32,768 OEM specific plug-ins and search bars, as per "the agreement."
home users: through the dark caverns of innumerable bonzi buddies and search helpers, and through the cloistered mass of trojans and activeX malware, Windows will at first notify, then plead, then insist, and finally quietly download and install Edge with, or without your knowledge. You are to verbally complain (with or without audience) that either "someone changed my icons" or "the internet button isnt working."
Embedded applications: checkout appliances, billboards, interactive kiosks, computerized lathes and mills, and medical devices will continue to run Internet Explorer 3.0 until the last star falls from the heavens or the last operator dives from a major skyscraper.
Banking institutions: please continue to ensure browsers conform to at least windows explorer. The version clearly doesnt matter. Hell, just getting the name to stick with you guys is an accomplishment
Doris in finance: please install the final pinochle/oprah book club toolbar to your barely recognizeable "browser." Doing so will collapse the waveform and upon its arrival, shear the very fabric of reality and spacetime into what you may perceive as a perfect game of web solitare but which is in actuality the very embodiment of a digital christ, if you will. The singularity now ushered upon us, we may finally become one with infinity through your divine portal. The bonzi buddy will confirm this with his signature "flip"