Re: Welcome to 'The Machine'
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This is a cut down SQL Server version for development environments and limited use cases.
No, it's not. This is full Enterprise SQL Server. At SQL Pass, they were even showcasing Availability Groups and clustering (using a Linux clustering engine), and talking about their work on Full-Text Search. The only reason these and other features aren't yet available in the preview is that they haven't gotten the SQLPAL and SQLOS layers for them stable enough to showcase.
This is Microsoft's Data Group recognizing 3 things:
1. A lot of Oracle runs on Linux and if they want to cut into that market further, they need to support the OS their potential customers are used to.
2. A lot of development is moving towards containers, so they need a database engine which works well with those containers, including Linux ones.
3. Only about half of developers develop on Windows; the other half are split between MacOS and Linux. If they want those developers writing for SQL Server, they need to make it accessible to them.
And its amaaaaaazing that every single piece of video I have seen about wonky machines were a vor Trump being recorded as a vote the Hildebeastand machines were started up with votes already recorded for the Dems.
No, it's not amazing. You're selecting evidence which matches your preconceived notions. That's human nature, and the nature of the internet actually enforces that behavior.
"Some academic" who just happens to be a Democrat.
Do you have a source for that? None of the articles I've seen on this identify Halderman's political affiliation.
Re-read the article, particularly where it says:
"I believe the most likely explanation is that the polls were systematically wrong, rather than that the election was hacked. But I don’t believe that either one of these seemingly unlikely explanations is overwhelmingly more likely than the other," Halderman writes.
In short, this isn't a partisan academic claiming that vote fraud happened, or that it's even likely. He's simply saying it's one possible explanation for the swing in those close states -- and if it happened anywhere, those states would be the places to look for it.
The rest is just El Reg being true to form, and oversensationalizing a story with little sensation in it.
He's dead -- Facebook told me so.
Ok, I agree with him in principle, but this:
"You can take an Internet Protocol (IP) packet and encapsulate it in an IP header. There are four options just for that: IPv4 in IPv4, IPv4 in IPv6, IPv6 in IPv4, and IPv6 in IPv6. Given all those options, it's hard to get one of them implemented and deployed everywhere."
is wrong on several counts.
First off, IPv4 and IPv6 are not different standards; they are different versions (editions if you will) of the IP standard.
Second, these four options are just the Cartesian product of the two versions. Want to make any list exponentially larger? Throw in a Cartesian product.
Third, each of these four options have clear uses, as defined by the capabilities of the host network and the desired capabilities of the virtual network.
There are a lot of unnecessary duplicate or overlapping standards out there. But the options for encapsulation of IP traffic over different versions of the standard don't deserve to be lumped in with them.
How bad is your music if it sounds good on a pint-sized monaural coaxial speaker?
How bad is your music if it requires a large complex multichannel sound system in order to sound good?
Good music sounds good on all but the very shittiest of sound systems. Yes, it can sound better on better systems But only truly horrible music requires anything more than an OK speaker.
Great music can even sound good on one of these:
Prikazyvat Kendy.
Recognized but couldn't place it*. Had to resort to searching. First result started with the following excerpt:
"The crew were not supposed to be aware that the ship's computer and its recorded personality could eavesdrop on them."
Your comment was result #4.
Have you been manipulating Google search results again?
* ( to be fair, I haven't read The Integral Trees in over 20 years...)
Make no mistake - these things are the PC / phone / tablet replacement for the non-geek person.
That's what they said about the Mac -- then the PDA -- then the netbook -- then the smartphone -- then the tablet.
The truth is that people are much more complex than "geek" and "non-geek". This is why all of these devices (yes, even the humble PDA) still exist and are still in use.
In fact any time you find yourself thinking of people in two categories, just fuck right off.
@Big John,
Are you complaining about the imagined violence or the lack of real violence?
PS This is not limited to progressives. Even conservative candidates are indulging in this. If you think DerekCurrie has a mental disorder, you must believe Trump is batshit insane, given the frequency with which he expresses the desire for violence against Hillary, other women, men, etc. ad nauseam.
"3) How are the accusations against Bill Clinton around sexual misbhaviour relevant to email retention?"
it's the COVERUP part that's important. Mrs. Clinton has a history of coverups. It seems to extend throughout her entire career.
Oh, of course. If there's not enough evidence, there must be a cover-up (that's how you write it, by the way.) It can't be that the evidence simply doesn't exist because your batshit insane conspiracy theory isn't true...
"4) You should really provide a link to this supposed 'lost evidence' "
http://www.hannity.com...
Really? You link to Sean Hannity's website as your source for truth? I rest my case.
"What is the point of putting your stuff on VMs and then running them from one bunch of hardware? "
Not having to buy many bunches of hardware, each specced out to peak usage and hence idle 99% of the time.
You are absolutely correct that virtualization allows for the recovery options you mentioned.
However, you completely ignore the fact that virtualization was originally and still is most often sold not as a recovery solution but as a cost-cutting solution.
For public entities required to jump through hoops for every penny spent, and then still criticized by moronic taxpayers for any expense with more than three digits to the left of the decimal, no matter how well-spent,the natural tendency is to cut costs rather than to optimize. The net result is what you see here.
As long as it's a finite improbability, and he's got the kettle on...
Oh, and:
I'm all for massive ambitions, and this programme will generate technological and possibly scientific progress, but sending people to die on this ocean voyage will be a huge turn-off for the general population, even if the pioneers are well-informed volunteers.
If you're using a sub 10" screen to watch video... then it really doesn't matter one iota if it's served up in 480p or 1920p, because the human eyes ability to accurately distinguish between the two is severely diminished at that scale.
What matters more is the DPI than the screen res.
Neither of those two statements is true.
To take the second one first, what matters is DPA (dots per arcsecond [of vision]). That changes with the distance of the screen from the eye. This is why "jumbotron" type screens at sporting arenas and advertising venues can use individual light bulbs (as low as 0.5 DPI depending on the specific type of bulb) and still create high resolution images -- the screens are far enough away that each light bulb occupies ~50-100as of vision.
Now to the first: my 5" phone, when held about 1-1.5 feet from my eyes, occupies about the same space as my 50" televison across the room (and about 1/2 the width/height of my laptop screen 2.5 -3 feet away.) I can clearly make out the pixels on any of those screens at a 480p resolution at those distances. I can even make out the pixels at 720p. At 1080p, the pixels are hard to see, though still visible on my laptop (the largest in terms of arcseconds at the distance I keep it.)
The USG is hardly perfect, but it can usually be relied upon to do bugger all when bugger all is exactly what is required.
It's the "usually" part of that which scares me. "Usually" by definition includes "sometimes not." The current volume (and volume) of technologically illiterate, theocratically tyrannical, and scientifically ignorant politicians in the US is high enough that I don't feel comfortable leaving this in the hands of my government.
winlogon.exe is presumably signed by Microsoft so why exactly doesn't AV software respect this ?
Might have something to do with the fact that signing keys have been stolen in the past. Might have something to do with the fact that signing keys don't even have to be stolen to infect signed files:
Basic defense-in-depth principles require that the design of each layer must assume that the other layers may have been compromised.
Cart before the horse.
The vast majority of tax is not investment in government for future benefit. Most of it is payment for benefits already received from government. Your taxes pay for your education already received, the roads you travel which are already built, the infrastructure you depend on every day.
In a more serious note, I don't think that calling USA's citizens "Americans " is correct or admissible, even if mostly everybody does it.
Well, technically, calling US citizens "Americans" is as correct as calling squares "rectangles" (i.e, the first is a specific subset of the second.)
However, using "Americans" to refer ONLY to US citizens is, yes, extremely stupid.