Comment Re:fake Cisco equipment from suppliers in China. (Score 1) 72
What a coincidence.
Neither can most of their equipment.
What a coincidence.
Neither can most of their equipment.
...provided it runs, e.g. because it was started automatically, which it cannot in our setup. So I'd have to start it. If I find it.
If you count the "heath insurance" industry as being part of "big heath", there are countless people they'd love to see dead. They want healthy people on premium plans, not chronically sick people making endless claims.
Not true. ACA/Obamacare limits health insurance profits to 15% of payouts. So the more they payout, the more they can jack up rates, and the higher their profits.
The technical term for this is "perverse incentive."
Not yet, otherwise they would just let patients die without enough nurses, and without AI.
A dead patient is no longer a source of revenue.
Big Health has no interest in curing you but also doesn't benefit from killing you.
Their ideal strategy is to drip-feed you the most expensive and ineffective medicine while keeping you in a vegetative state on life support.
Who funded this?
Mostly UK taxpayers.
What a waste of time.
Perhaps. But the government needs to burn up those tax pounds on something, and this is better than bombs.
Nope, that's not the program. Unfortunately the Windows-internal screenshot program is inferior and not suitable to my needs.
That they found an easier way to spy on their citizens.
Is that like the old Aussie saying "Try to catch the snake that bit you, we need it for our statistics to know which species killed you"?
I'd rather try to invent something that makes kid spit those things out instead of swallowing them.
If we give it a couple generations, evolution could take care of that.
It's not critical to my daily workflow. That's the problem. Case in point, the snapshot program. I need it whenever I find something worth reporting and need to do a screenshot. What's its name? I know it's in the "graphics" program submenu, and I remember the color of its icon, but what was its name? Somethingshot. But what was that something, because search for "shot" sure won't produce what I'm looking for. What colorful name did their marketing department come up that really made a lot of sense in the mind of a coke-fuelled markedroid's head but certainly won't in a normal mind?
Internet should be provided for free by local governments, just like the roads and sidewalks.
This dramatically lowers the cost since no billing department is needed, and much of the connectivity can be through neighborhood hotspots rather than running a cable to each house.
The (minimal) cost is tacked onto your property tax bill.
Over 400 cities in America already have municipal Internet. Costs are lower, and satisfaction is higher.
My key problem with this is that I know WHERE my program is in the program menu, but I don't know what it's called. Care to tell me how to search for a program you don't know the exact name of?
And frankly, with more and more programs coming up with more and more esoteric names...
The only application I "need" that I couldn't find a suitable Linux replacement for was Autodesk 360. And that runs fine in a VM.
What else would I need that I can't get on Linux?
We run our own (huge) data center, so convincing our people that we should stay "at home" was easier, especially since we have our own cloud service (with blackjack. And hookers) so they can placate marketing with "yes, yes, we are doing this in the cloud" without even lying, but even here, some felt that urge to move stuff into AWS.
And yes, now we're having severe headaches.
The expense isn't in the infrastructure. That's peanuts. Quite frankly, the metal you need to haul your data back into the data center is pocket change. What really puts the money boot on your back is adaptation of your software, services, processes and of course the manpower you now suddenly need for maintenance.
The alternatives to the cloud are certainly not free. Actually, cloud services do have their niche. When I need sudden spikes of processing power, Lambda services beat on-prem server farms in pretty much any aspect. If I just need to try something out and need to spin up a machine quickly, a cloud container sure is easier to get with less overhead than even an on-prem VM.
But for anything where you have a constant base load, especially if you're large enough to warrant the staff for maintenance, the costs for cloud services quickly spin out of whack compared to on-prem systems.
Cloud systems are a tool. Not a silver bullet. They are not the hammer and your problems are not all nails.
A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
