Because many of us would like to employ an in-house exorcist to rid our data centres of the evil within.
What? The rid ourselves of the Board of Directors? Hmm.... where did I leave that Bible and cup of Holy Water?
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Now that fine and jail time seems like it would be a deterrent unlike some of the penalties issued here in the States for similar crimes. It's possible he's pulling an Assange and hiding out somewhere in an embassy but I kind of doubt that as it would have made the news. So... mom and dad's basement?
Want to speak to your friends? Send them a text or Whatsapp message.
What's wrong with actually calling and talking? I don't regard texting and Whatsapp to be "talking" as too much of communication is nuances in voice (and if in the same place as the other person visual contact) is lost and rather impersonal with just text type communication.
Seriously... am I just being old-fashioned?
Not so fast... yes, they had an increase in income but, they're cutting costs meaning employees. And the new guy is going to continue with the plan Meg started. At what point does cutting employees kill new products, sales,etc.? The investors might be excited for a couple of quarters but it probably won't last.
Not just rockets. but ships with cargo, dead fish, and even airplanes. Oh.. and humans, dead ones, but humans. SpaceX is at least trying and having success at recovering their rockets. Not just from a pollution standpoint but there's a savings in resources. etc. They should be commended not called "louts".
Here we are 13 years later and they still can read and verify the chips? On top of that they haven't even looked for or ordered the software? Yet, these guys claim to be defending the country's borders from the evil (fill in enemy of the day). Not surprising, just unexpected that this sort of crap is happening.
Off the wall question... does the Petro smell like tulips?
Seems that at some point, the market will be saturated by crypto currencies.. then what? The bottom falls out and the only one's who make any money are the ones who cashed out ahead of time. I have a feeling that this one might be the start after reading the article and I'm thinking it's wishful thinking on Maduro's part. Somehow, he and his government are going to control this? Mining isn't an option or is it since the currency will be "issued"?
3- Blocking Ads is just as much a security decision these days.
There's the big one. How many times have we read that some major news org is slinging malware in it's ads that they have no control over? I'm old school in that I can ignore ads no matter how shiny or noisy. It's the security holes these things open up that makes me nervous.
This label (fake news) is dangerous when over-used. We have a President who is constantly using "Fake News" at every opportunity. What this seems to be doing is making people think it's not because he's overused the term to the point that it's tossed at anyone or anything. We're becoming inoculated to ignore those words as it's rapidly becoming another version of "where's smoke, there's fire".
In what can only be called a cruel irony, Dutton returned to IT topics later in his speech, promising that his department will help keep Australians safe from cyber threats,
So exactly how will the government do this beside issue warm, fuzzy platitudes about how safe you are? Magic pixie dust maybe? Judging from the reports we've seen, governments can't keep themselves safe.
What am I missing?
For exploration like what were doing now, there's no saving in just sending a "builder" and lots of parts. Best to build and test here on earth first then send. Up there, you send a "factory" machine to build and the parts then assemble the parts and test. How do you fix if there's no testing bot? Or repair bot? We're actually saving money the way it's being done.
Then there's finding the raw materials and processing them into something useful which hasn't been done. The "finding" part is really just now starting but it'll take time to find the ores. And the issue of mining it and refining and then manufacturing. Not so simple in reality.
Go back a bit in history to the early 1900's. There were protests and riot by labor unions and the government sent in the troops to "restore order" which usually involved gunfire from the troops only. Also see rh587 reply here for more specific history: https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2018/02/16/violent_video_games_guns_florida/#c_3432326
This isn't about "common sense".. MS has deep pockets and for some reason, Lundgren's lawyers either didn't bring all this up about the licenses, etc. or failed to clearly explain it to the judge/jury at the first trial. And, let's not forget that it's about "law" and "lawyers" and not about common sense. If it were that simple, there never would have been any lawsuits for people falling off ladders or spilling a hot cup coffee from McDonald's on their lap as they drive off from the drive through.
Clearly, I don't speak DevOps.
Have an upvote for common sense. Tell me in plain English (or whatever language we can communicate in) what you want/need and why. I'll get it done. If it's a redundant function or a problem, we'll get a cup of coffee and sort it out. Certainly not 2 months worth of pondering the meaning of the universe and all that.
They've busy trying to convince the holdouts how glorious Win10 is plus trying to get everyone to stop using the old OS and browsers. They're working hard also to sell more ads for the OS you pay for.. dual income opportunity. So who's got time for patching bugs when there is more profit to be made?
My first IT job as a programmer on a UNIX system. Note... we didn't have a "test" environment, only "live" data. I'm writing a search utility for marketing and did some cut and pasting from another script to speed up the writing process with the intention (what the road to hell is paved with) of fixing the thing. Come in the next morning and the boss wants met to run what I have done so he can see my progress. Cue mad panic as suddenly all the data on the mainframe disappeared. Luckily, the backups were on site and only about an hours work was lost by the staff. I kept my job as did the manager though we both got reamed for it. The following week a "test" server appeared at our door. The same one the manager had been requesting for two years.
How did you take a photo with 3 hours of exposure and not get the "arcs" you see when the earth rotates during that time?
They use what's called a clock drive to rotate the telescope/camera so that it cancels out the Earth's rotation. Here's link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_drive