Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26124 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
The recent attacks were by a couple of lone nutters who thought that the UK and USA governments hated them, their people and their religion.
The attacks in Manchester and London weren't planned in a secret underground war room in Afghanistan with secret battle plans sent by secret encrypted communication.
Seeking foreign elected office loses you your American citizenship.
It became a bit of a scam for billionaire ex-pat Americans trying to skip tax, they would stand for mayor of some Caribbean island. In the same way that MPs apply to be 'royal nutpicker of the new forest" as a way to resign
"We spent years trying to make intelligent systems" says Prof Simon Williams from the Institute of Studies, but there was much greater demand for stupidity. The natural supply of stupid people couldn't keep up with the demands of millions of internet comment feeds - so we had to invent an automated system.
This is linux, it is installed from Ubuntu
It is merely running alongside Windows.
Modern operating systems allow you to run binaries for different subsystems at the same time. It's what happens when you have an OS descended from the proper OS created by the experts at DEC rather than one descended from a bodge cooked up by a couple of guys on their own DEC.
To be fair you need an existing admin to create a user starting with a number (which most don't because back in the day it wasn't allowed) then they need to create a Unit file with that user specified as owner, then the user needs to get root anyway to get write access to that Unit file to do anything.
Having government do everything is a surefire way to get very little for a whole lot.
The work will still be done by a NASA approved defense contractor, at "taxpayer is paying" rates, after it has been approved and overseen by NASA managers in 6 different states.
The crowdsourcing is just putting up the money
I always thought it was odd that eg a Boeing worker in Seattle would object to a foreigner coming to work there but is quite happy that their tax dollars are used by some poor southern state to offer Boeing huge subsidies to move production to Toad Suck Arkansas
Governments building hospitals, roads, schools and other infrastructure makes sense.
Paying people to build useless stuff to keep skills and facilities around in case you need them in the future makes sense.
Saying that it is justified to pay people to build useless stuff so that they have jobs and money to spend makes no sense, doubly so if they had skills which would be valuable for industry.
Imagine if the NHS announced that the great 20Bn IT cockup was a success because it employed lots of programmers at high wages who spent lots of money on London housing and commuting
>None, but it does provide a large number of highly skilled, well paid jobs in a relatively low paid part of the UK
Presumably highly skilled people who could have been producing profitable commercial products for sale and export?
Paying highly skilled, highly paid people to make stuff for the government is economically no different from them being on the dole.
Is that it is universal. So when your ship can't communicate with the ship next door because you have different versions of super-secret-secure-system, or they are a different navy - you can use morse.
Except they can't read your 200wpm computer morse and your system can't cope with manual traffic
systemd with faint praise
Had that in America - and this was years before the TSA.
Turn on your laptop.
It boots to a bash prompt.
No turn it on!
It is on
I need to see it turned on !
I eventually realise, type "startx" and move the mouse pointer around
He is happy and lets me through. So remember kids, XFree86 stops bombs