This is an opportunity to convert a building, with cafeteria, gymn, etc, into a building housing software development people. Remove the bars, remove the toilets and restructure the builiding a bit, and there you are. Perhaps the prisons that are not sellable as a prison can be sold for land value.
Of course government can read my e-mail. All they have to be is waterboard me. Or install enough camera in public places to capture my unlock pattern. The question is what we allow the government to do, and in democracy we deserve what we get. No amount of encryption is going to solve this problem. We should have a direct popular vote for a commission of constitutional enforcement and then if majority of them rule that some secret agency is in violation, they will be able to disclose it legally.
After a mental debate about the pros and cons of NSA surveillance, I have reached some conclusions.
With total secured data and transmissions, businesses have the confidence that what is private to them remains so.
With total secured data and transmissions, criminals have the confidence that what is private to them remains so.
With total secured data and transmissions, NSA have the confidence that what is private to them remains so.
With total secured data and transmissions, terrorists have the confidence that what is private to them remains so.
So what?
As a citizen of a multi-cultural democratic country, can I obtain all my information about criminals and terrorists only by infiltrating their organizations? Can the NSA, in proactive mode, be able to do so before an illegal act occurs, or only after the bodies are buried. When do you want them to do the searching?
A positive point to consider:
If the NSA surveys the transmissions with sophisticated search engines, looking for illegal activities, and from the algorithms within the search engines, obtain a list of messages and meta data about the sender/recipient, can they protect us better?
A negative point to ponder.
Can the NSA search engine software be audited by some authority to insure that the searches are against legitimate use are not done, what would be your stance?
I don't feel threatened by NSA and it's probing, as all my uses of email, web browsing, encryption, and purchasing of crap through the internet is for legal purposes.
So, draw your conclusions from my ponderings. Where do my thoughts lie?
85 KW*hr in 5 minutes is about a megawatt of power. Even at 10,000 volts, you're talking 100 amps.
The Koch brothers are rubbing their hands in glee. Bye bye Oil, hello Electricity, hello coal.
It's true that they kill birds. But so do cars and skyscrapers. And I'd wager that coal - between the waste disposal, emitted mercury, and mining - kills birds, too.
Wind power gives birds a fighting chance. Solar, with the reflector technology that concentrates a beam of sunshine against a target boiler, is fatal if a bird flies through the path.
Which is likely to happen more often?
The saying from some people is "I have a lifetime supply of barbque fowl".
Seriously, starting to experiment with uncertain approaches in a time of crisis is about the most stupid thing that can be done. Stick to what is known to work, there is no time to come up with anything better. If something better had been found in centuries of research into medical methods, then it would be the standard-approach. There is nothing. There will not be anything new even if you debate that question to death now.
This continues the series of incompetence, misinformation, self-aggrandizement and general fuck-ups that have become the signature of the fight against Ebola this time.
May I be polite and say that "You don't have exclusivity on intelligence". The decision to try experimental medication is a "last chance" possibility to save a life. And if it works, then perhaps it will work with others. If my life was in peril from Elboa, and I knew I had a 60% chance of dying, I would go for it.
I had a flesh eating disease(Necrotizing fasciitis) on one leg, and was told "Tomorrow we amputate, because the existing anti-biotics are not working. I responded, give me a stronger dose, and try a different medication. Result-- I still have both legs.
Yes, it is ethical, and even if it failed, we know the person would have died.
Restore the prohibitions against spying and require real warrants to engage. No more dragnets.
Things are just going to keep getting worse until it happens.
Too late. There is no trust in the internet. None, nada. Nicht, Non, Nein, Zift.
A new internet will arise, where all sessions are doubly encrypted. Workstation encrypts files, transmission is encrypted and receiver ( partner) receives and decrypts same. We are entitled to privacy.
lol
"Syntax that every programmer uses to make their program readable is unreasonable as a semantically meaningful syntax"
Come on, python's got its problems, but forcing you to lay out your program in a naturally readable way to compile isn't one of them.
For example, duck-typing might be one of the worst ideas in the universe, because it's doing the exact opposite of the whitespace thing. It's decoupling easy-to-make mistakes with the output of compiling of your code.
But this whining about whitespace just comes off as having never actually tried it.
My favorite language is Iverson's APL. It will never die. It is used by financial statistical and string oriented language used by actuaries moreso than other professions.
Everyone on slashdot seems confused because this is on the internet. Spying is spying. It's legal in your own country to spy on foreign powers, it's illegal in the country you're spying on.
You're never going to agree to the extradition of one of your own spies if they get exposed, which is why you occasionally get "tit for tat" diplomatic expulsions, as it's the only real way of showing that you know you've been spied on, as the spy will most likely have diplomatic cover.
If you get caught red-handed spying abroad, it depends on which country you're talking about. North Korea would probably execute you, Canada would pack you off home and take you off their "actual diplomats" list.
OK Canada, please spy on xyz for me and I will spy on abc for you. Don't you just love these loopholes?
The problem [is] that the energy output is less than the energy inputs.
Are you saying that science has found a way around the second law of thermodynamics?
There's always one in the energy stories...
It's not about 'creating' energy, it's about accessing the energy already stored in things. Think of it like a gold mine: Just owning the gold isn't enough. You have labor costs and other overhead. if it costs you $50 to mine $100 worth of gold, you're doing better than breaking even. If it costs you $150 to mine $100 worth of gold, you're better off leaving it where it is. At no point in the process are you creating gold.
Same idea with energy. Existing processes don't create energy, they get at existing energy. It takes a certain amount of energy to access that existing energy. Some (coal, oil, fission) are like the first gold mine, producing enough energy to make the process worth it. Fusion energy is currently like the second gold mine: you can get gold out of it, but it's going to cost you more than the gold is worth to do it.
There's probably something wrong in there (sorry, I'm rusty), but it's close enough to get the idea.
Edison fought to only distribute DC. In the end, he was wrong. Nicola Tesla pushed for alternating current distribution and the feelings between the two were strongly bitter. But when you have money (Edison), and you don't(Tesla), guess who won.
If the fusion reactor works, and if the fuel that is consumed is low cost or the energy conversion ratio is 90%, there is a good chance that it will solve the "burn coal for energy and polution" problem. Lets see if the fusion in the lab will work, and then review the costs.
The government shouldn't be providing services that can be done by the private sector.
Why? If it demonstratively runs better
Private police, armies, judges, prosecutors, --- wow. You are saying "All highways should be pay roads."
Highways are not restricted to 30mph (50kmph), so why is the INTERNET not at, for example, Sweden, Denmark, Latvia, Israel, and two dozen other countries speeds. The internet is a highway. Why are you forced to a snails pace. Answer because we can charge for normal high speed. (grin)
Doesn't have a damned thing to do with Windows or binary files, it has to do with the fact that Debian has been made Red hat's bitch by way of ex RH and Ubuntu employees taking over the board. For those that want to know what systemd is REALLY about its about cloud computing, specifically RH is pushing cloud computing like mad and systemd is gonna end up being a "SVCHost" for Linux dedicated to managing cloud computers.
This is one time me and the FOSSies are actually on the same page, as just like windows 8 was forced from on high and gave the users a big fat greasy finger so too is systemd being pushed by corporate with exactly zero fucks given about what the end users want. Ironically despite all this "empower the user" talk Linux has always had this is one case where Windows users had more power thanks to the ability to vote with their dollars, thus getting Win 8 shitcanned in favor of a much saner and nicer Win 10. But this does not mean that all hope is lost in Linux land, it just means you are gonna have to organize and SCREAM BLOODY MURDER and refuse to take this bullshit. You especially have to organize all the volunteer coders and get them to walk away, because losing all that free labor and forcing Red Hat and friends to pay for every single dime's worth of work is the ONLY way most of you can hit 'em in the pocketbook. those of you that run non cloud based servers can of course tell them you will no longer use their products but considering how much time and money you have invested in your servers I really don't see that happening.
Finally you need a rally cry, something simple and catchy and on message to focus the narrative and rally the troops, a "fuck beta" for systemd if you will. And since old Hairy will ALWAYS stand for the users allow me to give you one as a show of solidarity in your plight. Its simple, concise, on message, and sums up in a single simple sentence WTF is wrong with systemd..
SYSTEMD...Its the Metro of Linux!
As I see it for the corporate world, the server in the cloud is the way to go. It is just like outsourcing the data centre to IBM, CGI or other operations organization. It will be cheaper, it will not require a diesel generator and a computer wing, or expensive system admins or rooms of backup tapes and those couriers picking up and returning backups daily.
The server is going to be an appliance. Only if you work for the cloud company will you retain your career in Linux
Management doesn't know shit.
Actually, what he was referring to was the difference in knowledge between an IT graduate from the USA and an IT graduate from India. Management's argument would be "Why choose a graduate that can be productive in a month, against a graduate who requires 3 months and lots of hand-holding." The second argument would be lower cost in favor of the former graduate.
It's like any other hurdle that life can place in your path. You either deal with it and get past it or you whine that you are a victim. There are plenty of people that can manage the former as the latter is actively discouraged in many parts of western culture.
Tolerance of the damsel in distress mentality is far more harmful to women than "misogyny".
In small shops, the culture is not malliable. If there is a misoganist, and that person has seniority or "power", then promotion and recognition are not going to appear. And eventually, people leave because of fatigue or for more $$$$$.
In very large (200+ departments), this is less apparent. Transfers help to move on with a career.
A lot of these vendors are locked into their own technologies.
I had interviewed at Epic once (didn't feel like moving to Wisconsin... sorry) and realized that they used M for most of what they did... not much interconnectivity there.
We in Quebec use the Quebec Government's standard. The local Jewish General Hospital uses it's home grown software and a bridge to the Quebec Government one too.
And there is a hospital in Austrailia that uses the same software as the JGH, It works out well. For example, At night (daytime in Austrailia), digital xray readings for the JGH are done there, and results sent back almost as immediately as transmission allows.
In the daytime at the JGH, they handle the digital xrays of the Aussie hospital.
No, Epic is not in the picture.
If the problem was really in the OS, then windows server which shares many of the same underpinnings as Windows desktop(s), would suffer the same fate. Since servers like domain controllers and exchange servers run for years without that issue, the problem seems to be from the crAPP that gets installed, as the parent explained, as well as the article. Bad headline to suggest the bad apps are M$'s problem
The problem is one of recovery files that accumulate. MS never deletes a recovery file. If MS kept three or four generations only, then one could delete these obsolete disk fragmenters and performance would be restored. And a good defragger would help too.
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