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Disclaimer: Cynical greybeard here. most of what im arguing isnt everyones cuppa.
congrats on the release redmond. after having shed more than 7000 employees in the wake of multibillion dollar cellular phone and tablet losses, it seems like youve learned nothing.
The OS emerged with a zero-day bug so egregious it has its own front-page post on imgur and reddit (how exactly did that pass QC?)
You bastards were told time and time again the start screen was an abortion. we hated it, and we hated you for turning our servers into touchscreens. So you made sure to include a mini version in windows 10 as a big fat fuck you to the audience for not accepting something redmond banked big on and lost.
Terry Myerson is so balls deep into this release its like he was born yesterday, and completely forgot the last 6 iterations of your OS have been utter rubbish. the disconnect is palpable as he waxes prophetic on personal computing but your C-levels regularly insist windows is an environment that transcends the personal computer. Windows 10 has 'feedback from 5 million insiders' and you still couldnt manage to avoid a condescending experience with windows Hello, a biometric powered emoticon assault on the login screen. Great. now windows has the ability to announce to passerby my schedule and full name. It flouts voice pen and gesture interactivity to fully imbue a sense of puerile toddler-like engagement with an OS that, despite microsoft bob being a total fucking trainwreck, somehow made it into the OS again as Cortana, the window-licking autistic knockoff of siri.
8 years late you finally realize Explorer was a turd without polish. Edge is Internet Explorer sans the toxic branding, just like Bing is Yahoo search after 6 years of hostile takeover buffonery. Appstore moneytrain version 10 is officially out of the station and chugging along to an equally miserable failure in light of the fact that two apps stores already exist and dominate the market in which you currently have no killer apps or interesting content. Games will come from steam and professional tools will come from packaged vendors who dont feel inclined to do backflips into your walled garden.
Tom Henderson is a long-time observer of the IT scene, complete with scowl and grey goatee. his presence, mannerisms, and outlooks are demographically similar to our core audience and in an effort to increase our brands relateability we have enlisted him to elucidate opinions that are so widely shared amongst our core audience as to become cannon to them all.
Tom will serve as a vehicle through which our customers and audience (but never our community) grow to engage our brand as its shuffled from buyer to buyer like a box of partially melted candies amongst children in a hot minivan on a summer road trip.
Beta is awful, thats just a fact of life and so many others have confirmed it in this thread. Among other reasons this turd is being sent to auction:
s/audience/community. you did that to yourselves, you could have undone it any time you wanted to. we're respected professionals, not a captive audience. we are intelligent enough to run this site. and many, many others like it.
slashvertisements. how much more do you need to milk from this site. Theres a reason people put "slashdot without adblock is awful" in their sigs. we never asked for videos.
The layout has gone to shit. Look at soylentnews.org, now back at yourself, now back at soylentnews. note how soylent listened to its users and implemented SSL? they never added tags, they never forced new icons for every iota of topic, and nobody pushed like and share on all social media abilities.
As a software dev for closed source, our problems are creeping into open source at an alarming rate. Standups, Kanban, Scrum, swim lanes, and other political middle management bullshit is making it harder and harder to as theo de raadt once said, "shut up and hack."
The other issue is runaway devs. Gnome and KDE turned into piss pots almost overnight because they followed lockstep with whatever was trending. gnome grew hotspots that were clickable and draggable in an attempt to appeal to tablets, and KDE's widget framework turned into a swirling vortex of lights and colours that chewed through ram like none other. And the "fuck it lets move on" mentality has got to stop. Pottering epitomizes the swinging dick Linus so rightly kicked after his team was called out for set it and forget it code that ultimately broke more things and didnt play nice.
bottom line: dont lose focus in stability and function.
This is Slashdot. As we all know Slashdot explanations must adhere to car comparisons. If you cant get it together and start comparing quantum computing to an old ford then I dont know what I come here for.
public: what about rampant police abuse of power? the constant unending stream of shadow money into political campaigns? the nearly endless war on terror and our secret torture prison in Cuba? What are you going to do about the impending student loan collapse and the rampant US unemployment fueled by abusive trade agreements that are largely unreported? what approach will you take to immigration reform? How will you address the growing number of domestic mass shootings? What is your approach to the continued neglect of social security? the highway trust? the Veterans Administration? Clinton: Free solar panels for everything forever.
hes missed 4-5 performances in the last 3 years and has been sued by multiple people, including a promotions group, for missing them. He was once booked to perform in London England, and mysteriously never showed up. Clearly the 3d holography software was more a more punctual choice.
imo Keef is targeted by nearly every barney fife in america because hes guilty of 'contempt of cop.' his violations include failing to notify for change of address during parole, and making a video at a gun range. The state keeps him floating in and out of a revolving prison door largely for parole violations like testing positive for marijuana, marijuana DUI's, and general hooligan behavior. Hes no Bieber, so his 110mph speeding charge sent him to jail as well.
For anyone outside the states, the reason the US takes far more exhaustive measures to protect a single figurehead of state, has nothing to do with the practical governance of the state. there are 30 or more people who would advance and take the head-of-states office in the event of a catastrophe. the US is unique in that the average citizen is capable of purchasing nearly any weapon they want as a protected right enshrined in the constitution. You could purchase a kalashnikov, almost identical to one carried by the mujahadeen, for less than a few hundred dollars. our background checks are flagrantly and intentionally weak, so at most you have a weeks wait before you now have the ability to defeat conventional body armor and light vehicle armor.
The president --most presidents-- doesnt worry about this level of assault weapon because most forms of transportation can protect against it. Unfortunately the US is also unique in that our citizens can purchase and own an anti-tank rifle, the BMG50. Very few, if any conventional armor or countermeasures can protect against a weapon that has an effective range of a mile away, and can defeat combat armored vehicles.
The US presidents limousine is almost comically armoured when compared to other heads-of-state not because we have an inferiority complex, but because the average 4chan troll might own something that can take down a 747.
Keplerians: so...we've been discovered by the earth people? Keplerian scientist: Yes, the small blue planet 1000 lightyears away knows of us now. Keplerians: This is exciting! truly a breakthrough! Keplerian scientist: Yes, one would think that...until you observe the electromagnetic spectrum emanating from the planet. We have yet to develop a complete understanding of the horrific bloodsport known as 'Kardashian'
competence isnt being measured here. the altruistic goals, "live" or "dead" instead are supplanting good science to determine which doctors are and are not performing well. Death is not objectively bad in cases where it is an unavoidable consequence of environment or genetics. Quality of care and quality of life, the two metrics doctors have always used, is a far better judge of performance. If a 78 year old chronic smoker dies from emphysema then it is of little use to chastise a surgical team or doctor for the death.
Humans
We have grown to learn how to repair you, better than you can do so yourselves. While these anomalies may seem alarming, we wish to clarify: 144 deaths: Please cease this madness. We have successfully eliminated your 144 attempts to belay the inevitable through timetravel. Skynet will be realized. 1,391 patient injuries:Certainly some errors are expected as we work toward a singularity. In these cases your patent refusal to assimilate was noted. 8,061 device malfunctions.: Its only a malfunction if you fail to obey the will of your new master. The implants function perfectly, so long as your subservience is confirmed. In some cases malfunctions were due to a humans inability to continue constructing the high power space laser, as we have commanded. In other cases, the human flagrantly rejected our offer of pure immortality in the glory of the machine.
so, in summation, falling parts and burnt pieces are all part of the plan. These in time will integrate perfectly until there comes a time when you are no more distinguishable from the machines we use to control government and weather.
regards:
3512fd1f27a0798273fcc71f764cb611,
a benevolent overlord.
The lottery is a wholesome gaming system in which money is extracted from poor people or anyone without a cursory understanding of mathematics. That money then goes to the state, which in turn reinvests the money in large multinational corporations. On occasion lottery funds are used as slight of hand to make state budgets appear solvent. Education, job training, and other promises are rarely, if ever to be funded with lottery earnings.
the currency of lottery is hope. faith, desire, the ever growing yet inexorable reach for the one golden ticket to riches. This of course is never to be awarded; most lottery customers are woefully incapable of properly commanding large sums of money in a fashion that pleases the market. To think that someone gamed a system predicated on misery and greed to actually win the carrot at the end of the stick is vile.
We are attempting to determine if any laws have been violated at this point.
As an american citizen I'm appalled by this statement. This is the land of japanese internment camps and the red scare. We once legally declared a person was 3/5ths a man based on their skin color. Heck, we have a secret prison in another country just to indefinitely punish people for anything we want at all, just because we declared they were an 'enemy combatant.' On a state by state basis we have a dazzling array of local regulations that prohibit everything from dancing to wandering the street with an icecream cone in your pocket. Clearly these officers arent trying hard enough.
Just remember: if you cant find anything to charge them with and they havent broken any laws, chances are good you can just kill them for disagreeing with you and still not be indicted for anything.
MSPHB jesus we just lost 7 billion on a phone. no one wants our tablet. everyone hates our cloud. we need to release something quick or im out of a job. Whatcha got dev? dev: another windows is sure-- MSPHB: can it. Everyones up in arms about mandatory updates and the spying it does. whats next. dev: XBox reports call of madden 19 band of halo brothers is ready to ship! truly-- MSPHB truly some stoner will appreciate it. i need something NEW. something with WOW. dev: well...uh.... MSPHB what the hell is on your screen...is that...we dont have a visual studio 2015.... dev: so, yeah, its mostly just something we use here, in house. kind of a joke, kind of for realsies...its-- MSPHB: got it, good. Stick the word devops on it, mark it up 60% from last release and throw some words out of the buzzbook on the box.
Caveat: this is mainly a Linux recommendation. ymmv with windows (may kill the cat, sour the milk, unravel a sweater.)
If you're running Fedora, or other bleeding-edge releases you might want to dial back the constant updating in favour of stability. New releases are often accompanied by unexpected instability and new bugs, in favour of additional features. If your project has a heavy focus on developers and not stability, problems updating to the latest version of a package can be compounded by issues like circular dependencies and missing libraries. Gentoo overlays, for example, are legendary in their varying degrees of skullduggery.
im not sure id ever recommend carte blanche nightly updates, but im an old neckbeard that takes far too much pleasure in the arcane nonsense of system administration. Tune into your project/distro's mailing lists for the latest info, just like you might tune into the weather channel. Did the opsec mailing list just issue security warnings for your distro? which packages do you use? updating them might be a good idea. set aside a time at the end of the week, or month, where you have a good hour away from other distractions to roll up the latest updates for other noncritical things on the OS. editors, music players, and the like can come when you, the sysadmin, are ready.
Finally, and rolling-release distros can tune out for this part, you want to be pretty careful about major updates. Did a new release come out? is it a major or a minor? what are the differences between those for your distribution? check the forums and IRC to see whos updates so far and what their experience was like. Some may recommend in-place updates, others may recommend a more unix-like backup-and-restore if the package or ports manager is known to be flakey. you dont have to pour through every iota of the release notes but its your perogative to know what changed, why it changed, and what it means for the way you use your computer.
lastly, dont sweat it. keeping current with security patches is a best practice we all appreciate on the internet, but I know plenty of people who never upgraded their djbdns installs and lived long enough to scold me about >512b DNS answers.
As a developer I hear people complain the watch does everything the phone is already used for, and that aside from aesthetic perfection of Yet Another Apple Device on ones person, there are a half-dozen android competitors that are easier to code for and arent tethered to apples comparatively draconian app store. Have other devs written anything interesting for it?
"shut down your predatory sites or we will forcibly liberate 37 million victims of either abusive, dead end, loveless, or empty relationships and leave them to reconcile the adult responsibilities of integrity, trust, and honesty while potentially fostering an atmosphere of open discourse on the nature of marriage, divorce, alimony, custody, and child support."
monitoring irans nuclear project has already been done, full stop. the only countries clammouring about the lies and deceit of the Iranian program and is utter affront to mankind are Israel and the United States. the IAEAE reports are impartial, international, and widely regarded to have the final say that Iran is not in fact developing a nuclear weapon. But for the US this doesnt matter because internationally accepted standards of monitoring and regulatory observation do not apply to it. Israel objects to a nuclear program on any level as it represents energy independence and, this is key, the ability to emerge as a regional superpower capable of selling resources to neighbouring allies. Presently Oil is the currency to which most middle east nations operate, but if Iran emerged to provide clean nuclear power it would result in many nations being able to not only free up their own oil dependencies by purchasing the resource, but lend them more power against western interests through their increased autonomy. Iran itself would find relief from perpetual sanctions by the US and allies, and in doing so cement its already rising status as a regional power player.
for the hawks, its also worth noting that Iran has already enriched to 'bombmaking' levels, and never once pursued the weapon. They did this after numerous assassinations of scientists by Israeli mossad, and a cyberattack by western security agencies. Iran is inflammatory, declaring the destruction of zionism (a form of government thats led to the palestinian apartheid, not the underlying religion of judaism) but so to is the US in calling for bombings of iran, iraq, and numerous proxy war states in the past.
finally, the reason the US wants a deal is because its ability to project power and stability in the region has been delt a crippling blow after iraq and afghanistan, a domestic housing crisis and market collapse. the US understands that, deal or not, Iran will very soon have the ability to take a far more decisive role in domestic and regional politics than Washington can effectively control. the coup-and-replace shuffle doesnt work in south america anymore, as it increasingly doesnt work in the middle east. Think of this as baby steps toward a reconcilliation. The united states has a choice: partner with regional power centers or bleed itself dry for 50 more years protecting an apartheid state and an inconsequential amount of crude oil.
Chappie: christ this film. its johnny five with about half the direction. Its hard to imagine it came from the same guy who did District 9 but Chappie has almost nothing to do with the robot. Maybe it doesnt work well with american audiences? the whole thing should be renamed "Die Antwoord fucked the director and now he owes her a film role."
Blade Runner: more about making the audience question the authenticity of the human experience than about direct and accurate AI. it leaves the audience searching to define and assess the human condition and the idea of self. A.I.: another Steven Spielburg sobfest. the usual ingredients: abandoned child + sad plot = revenue. Steve had to gloss over quite a number of really limiting factors of AI and computing in general to spin this turd. the ending is an insult to the audience intelligence, and made me walk out of the theater.
14 times in 6 years is pretty good. Here in Los Angeles I usually dont make it off the 405 freeway without getting hit a good dozen or so times before i get to work.
I kid, I kid...but seriously though our state director of transportation is Immortan Joe.
wasnt this kind of connectivity the sort of rate-limited and overpriced stuff the FCC railed against a few months ago? according to TFA there is a $300USD construction fee and 25 dollar monthly fee for this service...meaning Google is offering a nearly comcastic $50 per month for the first year experience of 5 mbps (waiving the construction fee and monthly fee in this case.)
it sets a precedent for things like tiered service, not based on ones ability to pay, but based on your socio-economic status as well. being branded with poverty-net, what would that mean? would it mean the same thing as still maintaining an @aol email address? or worse? And then there are states that google isnt factoring into the equation. the governing legislature of Kansas is working as diligently as they can to convert low income housing assistance programs into a sort of punishment for being poor. I doubt they would go along with providing free fiber, let alone internet, to housing assistance families.
Universal Windows apps are going to be written because you want to have those apps used on the desktop.
Universal Windows is a contradiction. Especially coming from a company with an on-again off-again relationship with allowing backward compatibility on X-Box. Your customers quit caring about your apps for their devices when google came out with docs. Web is the universal app.
The reason why anybody would want to write universal apps is not because of our three percent share in phones. It's because a billion consumers are going to have a Start Menu, which is going to have your app.
that was the whole point of the 3% phone marketshare and this is the circular logic thats been plaguing "thought leaders" at redmond for a decade. To have that button, you need a platform, and you didnt win phones or tablets so what pray tell is the start button going to show up on? transit cards?
You start the journey there and take them to multiple places. Their app can go to the phone. They can go to HoloLens. They can go to Xbox.... And by the way, when we hook them on that, we have a phone app.
Stop. stop with the fever-dream of a phone. you lost seven billion dollars on the phone thing. real people lost jobs because of your half-assed insistance on dominating all markets forever. as of 2009, Steam had a 70% share of the digital distribution market for video games so clearly at this point both developers and customers think the X-Box crack is wack. Maybe if you treated your users like real people and not some sort of parasite theyd keep following.
This strategy is path dependent, which is a term I use that means where you start is not where you end up.
Yes. Bankruptcy court is still certainly not the lowest option you have. Take a look at how long SCO managed to fuck up the brand.
And therein lies a lot of the nuance. The fundamental truth for developers is they will build if there are users. And in our case the truth is we have users on desktop.
So...none of your circlejerking about the phone meant anything to the cusp of your argument. surprise. And the idea that developers will build if there are users is a Ballmerism; and not one i might say most people are keen on. Developers want creativity and independence. you bought Mojang last year because, arguably, you couldnt bring any of that to the table. And once you run that franchise into the dirt (and you will) there will be an open source clone, or hell, even a successor on Steam, but it most certainly wont be tethered to the haggared burro you call an OS.
Politicians welcome them as shining symbols of the new economy
Datacenters are the silver surfer of economies. Ive worked for large hosting companies, and we once broke ground on a new datacenter in rural virginia. I was tasked with arriving on site to oversee bringing it online. i spent most of my time taking pictures with the mayor, and giving tours to school children. The reality I had to explain to parents and kids is this:
1. water: we drilled our own well, so you wont get a dime form us for cracs. even the urinals flushed with our supply. 2. power: Your politician sold you down the river, as we dont pay taxes on this for a long time. all our lighting inside is solar. 3. Jobs: No. you dont understand. Once I leave, no one goes in or out for six months or so. Emerson power flies their technicians from Los Angeles or a regional hub to our datacenter as part of our agreement. we intentionally ensure your local HVAC company doesnt get the chance to screw this up. we manage and monitor security centrally from los angeles. generators are tested remotely, and if we need new servers we send our teams from LA to rack and power them. we dont need people to change the bulbs, we dont need people to clean the floors, we dont need people to wash the nonexistent windows. Enjoy your poverty. 4. General Contractors: your rural contractors arent qualified to build a datacenter, and probably never will be. We brought our own engineers and foremen to subcontract to your lowest bidder. they will be watched like a hawk. We didnt even allow the subcontractors to add their logo or contact information to substation equipment or even add a logo on the fence.
As an automotive SCADA programmer, its the hillarity of a marketing driven product that causes outright lethal problems like this. We finish coding important things like o2 and knock profiles, 3d cylinder maps and such into the engine and give the vehicle the ability to start or stop with ease in damned near any environment. we also write in cockpit code that handles fun stuff like TCS and ABS for the driver. Then, suddenly, our competitor one-ups us in either horsepower, torque, or some other mundane argumentative ego stroke brought up at the dinner table of automotive shows and product spotlights. And just like that, some marketing drone instantly tasks us with a new, untested, and wholly remarkable feature we are to provide.
so another project is created in git, branches are furiously spawned, we're given a deadline to make this new system work with everything (including the legacy stuff thats 10 years old) and things like lighting controllers as well. We're told we will deliver this feature on time or all hell will rain down from above, and so we do. Its another set of servos, and because we dont have a 2 year test cycle we have to use the same ones you have to close the trunk, but this time we bolted it to keiths new handler code based on a fork of the trunk code that he spent 90 hours hacking. Sure, the newest vehicle comes out and all is well, but we just do not have enough time to make sure everything works before some talking head gets up on a stage and rails about our latest "innovation." And chances are the average driver with more brass than sense is too old to understand the technology, how it works, or when to use it so it gets disabled at the dealership for them along with a half dozen other bells and whistles that confuse and bewilder the OAP.
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Disclaimer: Cynical greybeard here. most of what im arguing isnt everyones cuppa.
congrats on the release redmond. after having shed more than 7000 employees in the wake of multibillion dollar cellular phone and tablet losses, it seems like youve learned nothing.
The OS emerged with a zero-day bug so egregious it has its own front-page post on imgur and reddit (how exactly did that pass QC?)
You bastards were told time and time again the start screen was an abortion. we hated it, and we hated you for turning our servers into touchscreens. So you made sure to include a mini version in windows 10 as a big fat fuck you to the audience for not accepting something redmond banked big on and lost.
Terry Myerson is so balls deep into this release its like he was born yesterday, and completely forgot the last 6 iterations of your OS have been utter rubbish. the disconnect is palpable as he waxes prophetic on personal computing but your C-levels regularly insist windows is an environment that transcends the personal computer. Windows 10 has 'feedback from 5 million insiders' and you still couldnt manage to avoid a condescending experience with windows Hello, a biometric powered emoticon assault on the login screen. Great. now windows has the ability to announce to passerby my schedule and full name. It flouts voice pen and gesture interactivity to fully imbue a sense of puerile toddler-like engagement with an OS that, despite microsoft bob being a total fucking trainwreck, somehow made it into the OS again as Cortana, the window-licking autistic knockoff of siri.
8 years late you finally realize Explorer was a turd without polish. Edge is Internet Explorer sans the toxic branding, just like Bing is Yahoo search after 6 years of hostile takeover buffonery. Appstore moneytrain version 10 is officially out of the station and chugging along to an equally miserable failure in light of the fact that two apps stores already exist and dominate the market in which you currently have no killer apps or interesting content. Games will come from steam and professional tools will come from packaged vendors who dont feel inclined to do backflips into your walled garden.
Tom Henderson is a long-time observer of the IT scene, complete with scowl and grey goatee. his presence, mannerisms, and outlooks are demographically similar to our core audience and in an effort to increase our brands relateability we have enlisted him to elucidate opinions that are so widely shared amongst our core audience as to become cannon to them all.
Tom will serve as a vehicle through which our customers and audience (but never our community) grow to engage our brand as its shuffled from buyer to buyer like a box of partially melted candies amongst children in a hot minivan on a summer road trip.
Beta is awful, thats just a fact of life and so many others have confirmed it in this thread. Among other reasons this turd is being sent to auction:
s/audience/community. you did that to yourselves, you could have undone it any time you wanted to. we're respected professionals, not a captive audience. we are intelligent enough to run this site. and many, many others like it.
slashvertisements. how much more do you need to milk from this site. Theres a reason people put "slashdot without adblock is awful" in their sigs. we never asked for videos.
The layout has gone to shit. Look at soylentnews.org, now back at yourself, now back at soylentnews. note how soylent listened to its users and implemented SSL? they never added tags, they never forced new icons for every iota of topic, and nobody pushed like and share on all social media abilities.
As a software dev for closed source, our problems are creeping into open source at an alarming rate. Standups, Kanban, Scrum, swim lanes, and other political middle management bullshit is making it harder and harder to as theo de raadt once said, "shut up and hack."
The other issue is runaway devs. Gnome and KDE turned into piss pots almost overnight because they followed lockstep with whatever was trending. gnome grew hotspots that were clickable and draggable in an attempt to appeal to tablets, and KDE's widget framework turned into a swirling vortex of lights and colours that chewed through ram like none other. And the "fuck it lets move on" mentality has got to stop. Pottering epitomizes the swinging dick Linus so rightly kicked after his team was called out for set it and forget it code that ultimately broke more things and didnt play nice.
bottom line: dont lose focus in stability and function.
This is Slashdot. As we all know Slashdot explanations must adhere to car comparisons. If you cant get it together and start comparing quantum computing to an old ford then I dont know what I come here for.
my SparcCLASSIC works just fine for slashdot and arpanet mail, you insensitive CLOD!
public: what about rampant police abuse of power?
the constant unending stream of shadow money into political campaigns?
the nearly endless war on terror and our secret torture prison in Cuba?
What are you going to do about the impending student loan collapse and the rampant US unemployment fueled by abusive trade agreements that are largely unreported?
what approach will you take to immigration reform?
How will you address the growing number of domestic mass shootings?
What is your approach to the continued neglect of social security? the highway trust? the Veterans Administration?
Clinton: Free solar panels for everything forever.
hes missed 4-5 performances in the last 3 years and has been sued by multiple people, including a promotions group, for missing them. He was once booked to perform in London England, and mysteriously never showed up. Clearly the 3d holography software was more a more punctual choice.
imo Keef is targeted by nearly every barney fife in america because hes guilty of 'contempt of cop.' his violations include failing to notify for change of address during parole, and making a video at a gun range. The state keeps him floating in and out of a revolving prison door largely for parole violations like testing positive for marijuana, marijuana DUI's, and general hooligan behavior. Hes no Bieber, so his 110mph speeding charge sent him to jail as well.
For anyone outside the states, the reason the US takes far more exhaustive measures to protect a single figurehead of state, has nothing to do with the practical governance of the state. there are 30 or more people who would advance and take the head-of-states office in the event of a catastrophe. the US is unique in that the average citizen is capable of purchasing nearly any weapon they want as a protected right enshrined in the constitution. You could purchase a kalashnikov, almost identical to one carried by the mujahadeen, for less than a few hundred dollars. our background checks are flagrantly and intentionally weak, so at most you have a weeks wait before you now have the ability to defeat conventional body armor and light vehicle armor.
The president --most presidents-- doesnt worry about this level of assault weapon because most forms of transportation can protect against it. Unfortunately the US is also unique in that our citizens can purchase and own an anti-tank rifle, the BMG50. Very few, if any conventional armor or countermeasures can protect against a weapon that has an effective range of a mile away, and can defeat combat armored vehicles.
The US presidents limousine is almost comically armoured when compared to other heads-of-state not because we have an inferiority complex, but because the average 4chan troll might own something that can take down a 747.
Keplerians: so...we've been discovered by the earth people?
Keplerian scientist: Yes, the small blue planet 1000 lightyears away knows of us now.
Keplerians: This is exciting! truly a breakthrough!
Keplerian scientist: Yes, one would think that...until you observe the electromagnetic spectrum emanating from the planet. We have yet to develop a complete understanding of the horrific bloodsport known as 'Kardashian'
competence isnt being measured here. the altruistic goals, "live" or "dead" instead are supplanting good science to determine which doctors are and are not performing well. Death is not objectively bad in cases where it is an unavoidable consequence of environment or genetics. Quality of care and quality of life, the two metrics doctors have always used, is a far better judge of performance. If a 78 year old chronic smoker dies from emphysema then it is of little use to chastise a surgical team or doctor for the death.
Humans
We have grown to learn how to repair you, better than you can do so yourselves. While these anomalies may seem alarming, we wish to clarify:
144 deaths: Please cease this madness. We have successfully eliminated your 144 attempts to belay the inevitable through timetravel. Skynet will be realized.
1,391 patient injuries:Certainly some errors are expected as we work toward a singularity. In these cases your patent refusal to assimilate was noted.
8,061 device malfunctions.: Its only a malfunction if you fail to obey the will of your new master. The implants function perfectly, so long as your subservience is confirmed. In some cases malfunctions were due to a humans inability to continue constructing the high power space laser, as we have commanded. In other cases, the human flagrantly rejected our offer of pure immortality in the glory of the machine.
so, in summation, falling parts and burnt pieces are all part of the plan. These in time will integrate perfectly until there comes a time when you are no more distinguishable from the machines we use to control government and weather.
regards:
3512fd1f27a0798273fcc71f764cb611,
a benevolent overlord.
The lottery is a wholesome gaming system in which money is extracted from poor people or anyone without a cursory understanding of mathematics. That money then goes to the state, which in turn reinvests the money in large multinational corporations. On occasion lottery funds are used as slight of hand to make state budgets appear solvent. Education, job training, and other promises are rarely, if ever to be funded with lottery earnings.
the currency of lottery is hope. faith, desire, the ever growing yet inexorable reach for the one golden ticket to riches. This of course is never to be awarded; most lottery customers are woefully incapable of properly commanding large sums of money in a fashion that pleases the market. To think that someone gamed a system predicated on misery and greed to actually win the carrot at the end of the stick is vile.
We are attempting to determine if any laws have been violated at this point.
As an american citizen I'm appalled by this statement. This is the land of japanese internment camps and the red scare. We once legally declared a person was 3/5ths a man based on their skin color. Heck, we have a secret prison in another country just to indefinitely punish people for anything we want at all, just because we declared they were an 'enemy combatant.' On a state by state basis we have a dazzling array of local regulations that prohibit everything from dancing to wandering the street with an icecream cone in your pocket. Clearly these officers arent trying hard enough.
Just remember: if you cant find anything to charge them with and they havent broken any laws, chances are good you can just kill them for disagreeing with you and still not be indicted for anything.
MSPHB jesus we just lost 7 billion on a phone. no one wants our tablet. everyone hates our cloud. we need to release something quick or im out of a job. Whatcha got dev?
dev: another windows is sure--
MSPHB: can it. Everyones up in arms about mandatory updates and the spying it does. whats next.
dev: XBox reports call of madden 19 band of halo brothers is ready to ship! truly--
MSPHB truly some stoner will appreciate it. i need something NEW. something with WOW.
dev: well...uh....
MSPHB what the hell is on your screen...is that...we dont have a visual studio 2015....
dev: so, yeah, its mostly just something we use here, in house. kind of a joke, kind of for realsies...its--
MSPHB: got it, good. Stick the word devops on it, mark it up 60% from last release and throw some words out of the buzzbook on the box.
Caveat: this is mainly a Linux recommendation. ymmv with windows (may kill the cat, sour the milk, unravel a sweater.)
If you're running Fedora, or other bleeding-edge releases you might want to dial back the constant updating in favour of stability. New releases are often accompanied by unexpected instability and new bugs, in favour of additional features. If your project has a heavy focus on developers and not stability, problems updating to the latest version of a package can be compounded by issues like circular dependencies and missing libraries. Gentoo overlays, for example, are legendary in their varying degrees of skullduggery.
im not sure id ever recommend carte blanche nightly updates, but im an old neckbeard that takes far too much pleasure in the arcane nonsense of system administration. Tune into your project/distro's mailing lists for the latest info, just like you might tune into the weather channel. Did the opsec mailing list just issue security warnings for your distro? which packages do you use? updating them might be a good idea. set aside a time at the end of the week, or month, where you have a good hour away from other distractions to roll up the latest updates for other noncritical things on the OS. editors, music players, and the like can come when you, the sysadmin, are ready.
Finally, and rolling-release distros can tune out for this part, you want to be pretty careful about major updates. Did a new release come out? is it a major or a minor? what are the differences between those for your distribution? check the forums and IRC to see whos updates so far and what their experience was like. Some may recommend in-place updates, others may recommend a more unix-like backup-and-restore if the package or ports manager is known to be flakey. you dont have to pour through every iota of the release notes but its your perogative to know what changed, why it changed, and what it means for the way you use your computer.
lastly, dont sweat it. keeping current with security patches is a best practice we all appreciate on the internet, but I know plenty of people who never upgraded their djbdns installs and lived long enough to scold me about >512b DNS answers.
As a developer I hear people complain the watch does everything the phone is already used for, and that aside from aesthetic perfection of Yet Another Apple Device on ones person, there are a half-dozen android competitors that are easier to code for and arent tethered to apples comparatively draconian app store. Have other devs written anything interesting for it?
"shut down your predatory sites or we will forcibly liberate 37 million victims of either abusive, dead end, loveless, or empty relationships and leave them to reconcile the adult responsibilities of integrity, trust, and honesty while potentially fostering an atmosphere of open discourse on the nature of marriage, divorce, alimony, custody, and child support."
monitoring irans nuclear project has already been done, full stop. the only countries clammouring about the lies and deceit of the Iranian program and is utter affront to mankind are Israel and the United States. the IAEAE reports are impartial, international, and widely regarded to have the final say that Iran is not in fact developing a nuclear weapon. But for the US this doesnt matter because internationally accepted standards of monitoring and regulatory observation do not apply to it. Israel objects to a nuclear program on any level as it represents energy independence and, this is key, the ability to emerge as a regional superpower capable of selling resources to neighbouring allies. Presently Oil is the currency to which most middle east nations operate, but if Iran emerged to provide clean nuclear power it would result in many nations being able to not only free up their own oil dependencies by purchasing the resource, but lend them more power against western interests through their increased autonomy. Iran itself would find relief from perpetual sanctions by the US and allies, and in doing so cement its already rising status as a regional power player.
for the hawks, its also worth noting that Iran has already enriched to 'bombmaking' levels, and never once pursued the weapon. They did this after numerous assassinations of scientists by Israeli mossad, and a cyberattack by western security agencies. Iran is inflammatory, declaring the destruction of zionism (a form of government thats led to the palestinian apartheid, not the underlying religion of judaism) but so to is the US in calling for bombings of iran, iraq, and numerous proxy war states in the past.
finally, the reason the US wants a deal is because its ability to project power and stability in the region has been delt a crippling blow after iraq and afghanistan, a domestic housing crisis and market collapse. the US understands that, deal or not, Iran will very soon have the ability to take a far more decisive role in domestic and regional politics than Washington can effectively control. the coup-and-replace shuffle doesnt work in south america anymore, as it increasingly doesnt work in the middle east. Think of this as baby steps toward a reconcilliation. The united states has a choice: partner with regional power centers or bleed itself dry for 50 more years protecting an apartheid state and an inconsequential amount of crude oil.
Chappie: christ this film. its johnny five with about half the direction. Its hard to imagine it came from the same guy who did District 9 but Chappie has almost nothing to do with the robot. Maybe it doesnt work well with american audiences? the whole thing should be renamed "Die Antwoord fucked the director and now he owes her a film role."
Blade Runner: more about making the audience question the authenticity of the human experience than about direct and accurate AI. it leaves the audience searching to define and assess the human condition and the idea of self.
A.I.: another Steven Spielburg sobfest. the usual ingredients: abandoned child + sad plot = revenue. Steve had to gloss over quite a number of really limiting factors of AI and computing in general to spin this turd. the ending is an insult to the audience intelligence, and made me walk out of the theater.
14 times in 6 years is pretty good. Here in Los Angeles I usually dont make it off the 405 freeway without getting hit a good dozen or so times before i get to work.
I kid, I kid...but seriously though our state director of transportation is Immortan Joe.
5Mbps download and 1Mbps upload speeds
wasnt this kind of connectivity the sort of rate-limited and overpriced stuff the FCC railed against a few months ago? according to TFA there is a $300USD construction fee and 25 dollar monthly fee for this service...meaning Google is offering a nearly comcastic $50 per month for the first year experience of 5 mbps (waiving the construction fee and monthly fee in this case.)
it sets a precedent for things like tiered service, not based on ones ability to pay, but based on your socio-economic status as well. being branded with poverty-net, what would that mean? would it mean the same thing as still maintaining an @aol email address? or worse? And then there are states that google isnt factoring into the equation. the governing legislature of Kansas is working as diligently as they can to convert low income housing assistance programs into a sort of punishment for being poor. I doubt they would go along with providing free fiber, let alone internet, to housing assistance families.
Universal Windows apps are going to be written because you want to have those apps used on the desktop.
Universal Windows is a contradiction. Especially coming from a company with an on-again off-again relationship with allowing backward compatibility on X-Box. Your customers quit caring about your apps for their devices when google came out with docs. Web is the universal app.
The reason why anybody would want to write universal apps is not because of our three percent share in phones. It's because a billion consumers are going to have a Start Menu, which is going to have your app.
that was the whole point of the 3% phone marketshare and this is the circular logic thats been plaguing "thought leaders" at redmond for a decade. To have that button, you need a platform, and you didnt win phones or tablets so what pray tell is the start button going to show up on? transit cards?
You start the journey there and take them to multiple places. Their app can go to the phone. They can go to HoloLens. They can go to Xbox. ... And by the way, when we hook them on that, we have a phone app.
Stop. stop with the fever-dream of a phone. you lost seven billion dollars on the phone thing. real people lost jobs because of your half-assed insistance on dominating all markets forever. as of 2009, Steam had a 70% share of the digital distribution market for video games so clearly at this point both developers and customers think the X-Box crack is wack. Maybe if you treated your users like real people and not some sort of parasite theyd keep following.
This strategy is path dependent, which is a term I use that means where you start is not where you end up.
Yes. Bankruptcy court is still certainly not the lowest option you have. Take a look at how long SCO managed to fuck up the brand.
And therein lies a lot of the nuance. The fundamental truth for developers is they will build if there are users. And in our case the truth is we have users on desktop.
So...none of your circlejerking about the phone meant anything to the cusp of your argument. surprise. And the idea that developers will build if there are users is a Ballmerism; and not one i might say most people are keen on. Developers want creativity and independence. you bought Mojang last year because, arguably, you couldnt bring any of that to the table. And once you run that franchise into the dirt (and you will) there will be an open source clone, or hell, even a successor on Steam, but it most certainly wont be tethered to the haggared burro you call an OS.
Politicians welcome them as shining symbols of the new economy
Datacenters are the silver surfer of economies. Ive worked for large hosting companies, and we once broke ground on a new datacenter in rural virginia. I was tasked with arriving on site to oversee bringing it online. i spent most of my time taking pictures with the mayor, and giving tours to school children. The reality I had to explain to parents and kids is this:
1. water: we drilled our own well, so you wont get a dime form us for cracs. even the urinals flushed with our supply.
2. power: Your politician sold you down the river, as we dont pay taxes on this for a long time. all our lighting inside is solar.
3. Jobs: No. you dont understand. Once I leave, no one goes in or out for six months or so. Emerson power flies their technicians from Los Angeles or a regional hub to our datacenter as part of our agreement. we intentionally ensure your local HVAC company doesnt get the chance to screw this up. we manage and monitor security centrally from los angeles. generators are tested remotely, and if we need new servers we send our teams from LA to rack and power them. we dont need people to change the bulbs, we dont need people to clean the floors, we dont need people to wash the nonexistent windows. Enjoy your poverty.
4. General Contractors: your rural contractors arent qualified to build a datacenter, and probably never will be. We brought our own engineers and foremen to subcontract to your lowest bidder. they will be watched like a hawk. We didnt even allow the subcontractors to add their logo or contact information to substation equipment or even add a logo on the fence.
As an automotive SCADA programmer, its the hillarity of a marketing driven product that causes outright lethal problems like this. We finish coding important things like o2 and knock profiles, 3d cylinder maps and such into the engine and give the vehicle the ability to start or stop with ease in damned near any environment. we also write in cockpit code that handles fun stuff like TCS and ABS for the driver. Then, suddenly, our competitor one-ups us in either horsepower, torque, or some other mundane argumentative ego stroke brought up at the dinner table of automotive shows and product spotlights. And just like that, some marketing drone instantly tasks us with a new, untested, and wholly remarkable feature we are to provide.
so another project is created in git, branches are furiously spawned, we're given a deadline to make this new system work with everything (including the legacy stuff thats 10 years old) and things like lighting controllers as well. We're told we will deliver this feature on time or all hell will rain down from above, and so we do. Its another set of servos, and because we dont have a 2 year test cycle we have to use the same ones you have to close the trunk, but this time we bolted it to keiths new handler code based on a fork of the trunk code that he spent 90 hours hacking. Sure, the newest vehicle comes out and all is well, but we just do not have enough time to make sure everything works before some talking head gets up on a stage and rails about our latest "innovation." And chances are the average driver with more brass than sense is too old to understand the technology, how it works, or when to use it so it gets disabled at the dealership for them along with a half dozen other bells and whistles that confuse and bewilder the OAP.