"Windows just isn't ready for enterprise use yet." reminds me of:
Why Windows NT Server 4.0 continues to exist in the enterprise would be a topic appropriate for an investigative report in the field of psychology or marketing, not an article on information technology. Technically, Windows NT Server 4.0 is no match for any UNIX operating system, not even the non-commercial BSDs or Linux.
http://linux.math.tifr.res.in/...
"The policy document instead leaves people assuming Russia et al are forming a breakaway internet. In reality, it's basically calling for yet more root mirrors."
"But a parallel domain name system with a separate set of root zone servers? There's virtually no point."
...it hits 99% and the economy collapses. Nobody wants to work in any occupation except the legal field. Indeed, with the high cost of legal insurance and the virtual guarantee of being sued at least once a month, nobody can afford to be anything but a lawyer, judge, or politician
I did pretty much the same thing after high school. After a few years of working thankless, low paying, no future jobs, the company I worked for went bankrupt. I took the opportunity to go to college and got straight A's. I never would have been able to do that right out of high school as I didn't have the right attitude and the right motivation.
"Excellent. What is a killfile?"
"Uh. It's a list of usernames/topics/news items etc. that you wish the news-reader to automatically skip so you don't have to wade through rubbish."
"Uh. No. Remember I said pertaining to Operations. A killfile is in fact a file with a list of names of people you are going to have killed."
"Oh. Of course."
It seems like this is a good place for a new app. It could display only your driver's license but not allow access to the rest of the phone without a PIN being entered. It would also have to shut off the data port, NFC, etc to prevent the other ways of getting data off of the phone with physical access.
...
The phones that were in my home at my birth in 1962 were identical to the one in my dorm room when AT&T was broken up in 1982. We are turning the Internet into a public utility -- name three innovations from an American public utility in the last 40 years. Name one.
And all you free-speech advocates, do you really think the Feds won't use this as a back-door to online censorship? We are talking about the same agency that went into a tizzy when Janet Jackson may have accidentally on purpose shown a nipple on TV. All that is good with TV today-- The Sopranos, Game of Thrones, Arrested Development, etc. etc. etc. results mainly from the fact that cable is able to avoid exactly the kind of freaking regulation you want to impose on the Internet.
Apparently the 1934 Telecommunications Act imposes a legal obligation on phone carriers to complete calls no matter who they are from. Sounds familiar, huh? Just like net neutrality. It turns out this law is one of the major barriers preventing phone companies from offering innovative services to block spam calls.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't think I read alt.ensign.wesley.die.die.die, but I remember seeing it when looking thru newsgroups to subscribe to. Good times back then.
I think this should be effective against tele-spammers too:
http://www.jollyrogertelco.com...
It's not AI, but it's better in a way because the timed responses will talk over the caller and interrupt them.
"Windows just isn't ready for enterprise use yet." reminds me of:
Why Windows NT Server 4.0 continues to exist in the enterprise would be a topic appropriate for an investigative report in the field of psychology or marketing, not an article on information technology. Technically, Windows NT Server 4.0 is no match for any UNIX operating system, not even the non-commercial BSDs or Linux.
http://linux.math.tifr.res.in/...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
"The policy document instead leaves people assuming Russia et al are forming a breakaway internet. In reality, it's basically calling for yet more root mirrors."
"But a parallel domain name system with a separate set of root zone servers? There's virtually no point."
It's all fun and games until the Lawyerclysm hits:
...it hits 99% and the economy collapses. Nobody wants to work in any occupation except the legal field. Indeed, with the high cost of legal insurance and the virtual guarantee of being sued at least once a month, nobody can afford to be anything but a lawyer, judge, or politician
http://humorix.org/10187
http://humorix.org/10303
Lawyers To Be Replaced With Perl Scripts
http://humorix.org/10523
This script, originally created as a way to generate mundane legal documents, achieved sentience last week and easily passed the Turing Test.
Make a short skit, act it out, take the CC output and redo the skit with the new words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I assume like the day trip that 'Kidd of Speed' (aka Elena Filatova) took:
http://www.angelfire.com/extre...
It's still an interesting read though even if her motorcycle trip thru there wasn't true.
I did pretty much the same thing after high school. After a few years of working thankless, low paying, no future jobs, the company I worked for went bankrupt. I took the opportunity to go to college and got straight A's. I never would have been able to do that right out of high school as I didn't have the right attitude and the right motivation.
He's still writing for TheReg. It's about 1 story a month.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/d...
Unfortunately the original site of bofh.ntk.net doesn't resolve for me, but http://bofh.bjash.com/ has the original classics.
Reminds me of my favorite BOFH story involving killfiles:
https://www.andrews.edu/~freem...
"Excellent. What is a killfile?"
"Uh. It's a list of usernames/topics/news items etc. that you wish the news-reader to automatically skip so you don't have to wade through rubbish."
"Uh. No. Remember I said pertaining to Operations. A killfile is in fact a file with a list of names of people you are going to have killed."
"Oh. Of course."
It seems like this is a good place for a new app. It could display only your driver's license but not allow access to the rest of the phone without a PIN being entered. It would also have to shut off the data port, NFC, etc to prevent the other ways of getting data off of the phone with physical access.
For me, I'll stick with my plastic license.
The phones that were in my home at my birth in 1962 were identical to the one in my dorm room when AT&T was broken up in 1982. We are turning the Internet into a public utility -- name three innovations from an American public utility in the last 40 years. Name one.
And all you free-speech advocates, do you really think the Feds won't use this as a back-door to online censorship? We are talking about the same agency that went into a tizzy when Janet Jackson may have accidentally on purpose shown a nipple on TV. All that is good with TV today-- The Sopranos, Game of Thrones, Arrested Development, etc. etc. etc. results mainly from the fact that cable is able to avoid exactly the kind of freaking regulation you want to impose on the Internet.
Apparently the 1934 Telecommunications Act imposes a legal obligation on phone carriers to complete calls no matter who they are from. Sounds familiar, huh? Just like net neutrality. It turns out this law is one of the major barriers preventing phone companies from offering innovative services to block spam calls.
Japan wants to fly paper plane from International Space Station to earth:
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20080118p2a00m0na025000c.html