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Why can't I have a tiny ICE in my phone/laptop etc to power it?
Good question. MIT designed one way back in 2006.
Of course, the "fuel and air quickly mix and burn at the melting point of steel." part might have been more of a problem than they thought. ☺
"look, there are no problems with our fence! It's tall, sturdy and everything! It has no holes!"
Sorry, I couldn't resist! ☺
In addition, it said it would be “performing a 360-degree review of DHS OIG’s development practices related to the case management system”.
What? you are going to run around in circles?
SOP: everyone stands in a circle, points to the left and says, "He did it!" when asked until the investigator gets back to the first one, stamps the case "Investigated" and everyone goes back to doing what they were doing, nothing changed.
24 Nov 2017 - Munich council finds €49.3m for Windows 10 embrace
04 Jan 2017 - And we return to Munich's migration back to Windo- it's going to cost what now?! €100m!
Holy cow! The estimate has doubled in only two months?
At this rate, by the time they fully switch by 2023, Munich will be a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary!
Yeah...that's what they want you to believe...right up to the moment when the invasion fleet full of little green men appears
Or:
[Several thousand years ago... give or take a couple]
Yzrak, the leader of the Ngda, flashed his chromatophores at the assembled beings in the Hall of Science, "There must be intelligent life elsewhere out there. How can we communicate with it?"
Myriad beings flash a confused babble of lights as they mutter among themselves, until a strobe of consensus flashes through the hall.
Gathered scientists in unison, "Great Yzrak, if we sent a fleet of small probes into the great dust cloud that encircles our sun, within a few rotations they could manipulate the cloud to modulate our sun's rays into a beacon that would proclaim, "We are here, Welcome." to all stars for thousands of lightyears around.
Any species capable of intelligent flashing will be able to see it and know we are here and sapient."
Pylok the otherthinker flashed in disagreement, "But what if other intelligent life out there don't communicate by light?"
Yzrak flashed mockingly, "And how else would an intelligent species communicate? Farts and belches?"
The laughter of the assembled was visible for yergs around.
Lots of Hype and superlatives, amusing anecdotes ripe with bon mots, a final tale of betrayal, and lastly, a product with absolutely no insecurities, backdoors, shoddy programming or construction, because it never existed!
The only losers here are the suckers backers that fell for the hype.
Hopefully, they'll know better next time.
I can't explain it, and neither can anyone else. Therefore goddidit.
You left out a very important word in that line of reasoning:
"I can't explain it, and therefore neither can anyone else. Therefore goddidit."
The more ignorant a person is, the more likely they are to assume that they know everything knowable.
Why is every video blurry and lacking detail (despite all the mass sightings and high quality cams we carry around in our pockets).
Got to realise there are probably a total of 300,000 - 400,000 excellent photographers out of a population of about 8 billion out there. Put the best camera on the market in the hands of the average klutz, and you get crappy pictures.
That said, Although the probability that intelligent life is somewhere out there*, The odds of them stumbling across our little backwater system out between the arms of the galaxy are virtually nil.
So all those pictures? Dust, or scratches on the lens catching light, or odd clouds, or weather balloons, random atmospheric phenomena, aircraft, both regular and secret, rocket launches, kites, lost party balloons, whatever, are all open to misinterpretation, especially if the viewer wants to see UFOs from space.
*Obligatory, "'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth."
Because their brains haven't fully developed and they are less likely to have the kind of bullshit filter you'd expect in a reasonable adult.
Hold on a minute, How're they supposed to develop a BS filter if they're never exposed to BS? One isn't just automatically assigned to you when you come of age.*
Hit'em with BS, early and often, so by the time they're adults (or sooner) they'll be wary of it! Otherwise, you'll have adults hitting the streets with no way to detect it!
*If they are, I never got mine! Had to build one meself, I did! Out of cynicism, mistrust, betrayal, and gaffer tape.
"This is particularly problematic in countries with very few fact-checkers, where the volume of potentially false news stories and the limited capacity of the fact-checkers made it difficult for us to get ratings from multiple fact-checkers,"
Don't bother trying to make a list of the countries this statement applies to, they don't make a pad of paper that big.
There are only 249 Country Codes in the ISO Standard List, other lists of countries list fewer.
So, the list of countries that apply (All of them) would fit on five sheets of A4 paper, one per line, with the title "Countries with very few fact-checkers" at the top of the first page.
(My silly bit of pedantry for the day) ☺
People ....want to get news...... from Facebook?
I know, right?
Facebook should be required to have a banner across the top of every page that reads:
WARNING!
Facebook is a social site, open to all.
Getting your news from Facebook is equivalent to getting it from bar gossips and loonies on street corners, ranting at traffic.
Facebook and the internet more generally are the greatest aid to detection ever invented.
At a police station, 2017-future:
"There's been a murder reported! Here's the report, quick log on to Twitter!
"Nothing there Sarge."
"Then check Facebook!"
"Nope, nothing there about it either."
"Reddit?"
"Still drawing a blank."
"Google?"
"Nada."
"[Sigh] Then mark it Unsolved and file it then."
at one point or another in my career. Deleted backups and reformatted drives. Disabled backup mechanisms. Not told users stuff behind the scenes was going horribly wrong. I don't think I've ever forwarded my boss' email without him knowing though.All of that, however, was done incidentally to somewhat proper IT activities.
And there, you have the gist of Mr. Michael Thomas's idiotic appeal.
Yes, these are legitimate activities in properly maintaining the systems, but as the court pointed out, They are not legitimate activities when used to vandalise the systems he was supposed to be maintaining.
His argument was as farcical as a killer offing his victim with a hammer, then claiming that as a carpenter, it was part of his job to swing a hammer.
Won't catch me near a diesel though. That must be, by the arguments above, 10x more dangerous than TNT.
Good point. If I recall correctly (and I'm just now too lazy to confirm) a chocolate bar has a higher energy density than than the equivalent weight of nitroglycerin.
What a lot of people fail to appreciate is that energy density, and the speed the energy can be released, are two entirely different things. ☺
It's almost as if we've erased from our collective consciousness the horror that was NiCad.
Oh, to be young and naive again!
Once upon a time (up until the nineteen seventies), the portable world ran on carbon/zinc drycells.
Anything under D size was practically worthless, and it took a minimum of two of those to give you nearly a half hours use.
Then you chucked them, bought more, and carried on for almost another half hour, provided they hadn't leaked and eaten away the electrical bits of the device.
Compared to them, NiCads were a godsend!
But, everyone knows that batteries have never improved, so I'm told. ☺
it's merely ignored like the sound of one hand clapping, people don't hear it, and probably wouldn't comprehend if they did,
Twas ever thus:
"Occasionally he stumbled over the truth but he always picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened." (Winston Churchill, allegedly referring to Stanley Baldwin)
Still applies to humanity in general.
About what percentage of your readers (or PTP followers for that matter) are actually still in school?
Or is there a way to calculate it from the number of schools that will still be closed after the snows due to frozen piping?
It looks like Parliament's push to get more students interested in IT may soon have real world results! ☺
The UPS system supported the load for its designed time and the generators started; however, due to the physical damage to the power cable, service to the site was unstable and intermittent. As a result, the generator set failed to synchronise and take over service.
Holy crap! You mean that their transfer switch didn't automatically cut the mains feed when the power went wobbly and back up kicked in?
And not restore mains power until it's stable? (For at least 15 minutes, if I recall correctly)
Or, just as bad, they had more than one generator operating, and no way to synchronise them?
...is how Wikipedia is constantly running out of money
Good Heavens man, look at their finances, they're rarely over 100 million in cash!
In order to be a respected world leader, a true shaker and mover in the modern Western world, they need BILLIONS!, otherwise, the one percenters will just point at them and laugh!
Is that what you really want?
Donate, Man, donate, for Jimmy's sake!!
-"NASA looks forward to supporting the president’s directive strategically aligning our work to return humans to the Moon, travel to Mars and opening the deeper solar system beyond,” NASA administrator Robert Lightfoot said of the directive.-
Wrong response!
When trump started talking about Moon/Mars missions from NASA, the first response should be [Vote your choice]:
□ "Money talks, bullshit walks."
□ "Show me the money!"
□ "With what? The two paper clips and a rubber band we can afford with this budget?"
□ "AH-HAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA! I suppose you want a pony and a fire engine too?"
□ "Dammit, we're NASA, not Santa!"
□ "Put up or shut up!"
I wonder if, in coming up with the name "Capita", were they influenced by the word "Capital" and synonyms such as "Excellent", "Cool", "Fine", "Awsome" etc
Yo're on the wrong scent there. "Capital" is also a synonym for "money", the only thing important to Capita.
(besides more money)
Did the armed forces forget to hand Capita the spec sheet?
<snark>To save costs, Capita only had one member of the crew with the proper security clearance to read the spec.
Since he couldn't legally tell the others what the specs were, they just threw code together, then kept revising it based on whether he approved it or sent it back.
To further exacerbate the problem, he was let go halfway through, since the project was going over budget.
(The developer's budget from Capita, not Capita's budget from the military.)</snark>
Managers. If they can't manage properly, then a little education followed by performance related HR procedures should get the job done.
Another method: Just have a timed announcement at closing to the effect that: "The office is closing in half an hour. Anyone still on premises after that will be escorted out by security."
Then enforce it.
Of course, any of the above might not pan out, but to claim any of them are failures at this point is clearly absolutely incorrect.
Aw, he's just furious that all that money is being "wasted" on research, development, and innovation, instead of enabling a cabal of venture vulture capitalists to buy yet another corporation to asset strip, so they can afford more yachts, summer homes in exotic locations, or kowtowing politicians.
"In an effort to make objects more chatty, ..."Oh why!
Simples. The more data they collect, the better they can profile you for ads.
Take the detergent bottle example.
Now they can tell via your smartphone that you're low, and also when you're near a store, put the two together and:
[ping-ding] Just a reminder that while you're here, you need to get more dish washing liquid!
This store is currently running a special on Sudzik™ Dishwashing liquid, 10% off if you use your iPhone to purchase it in the next half hour!
That's Sudzik dishwashing liquid! Professionals use it!*
[ping-ding] Just a reminder that while you're here, you need to get more dish washing liquid!
This store is currently running a special on Sudzik™ Dishwashing liquid, 10% off if you use your iPhone to purchase it in the next 29 minutes!
That's Sudzik dishwashing liquid! Professionals use it!*
[ping-ding] Just a reminder that while you're here, you need to get more dish washing liquid!
This store is currently running a special on Sudzik™ Dishwashing liquid...
*Professional Marketers use it to make big money selling it to you.