Comment What comes around goes around. (Score 4, Insightful) 291
What do you expect when you came in in the 90s and 00s and shunned the older workforce, that you would be able to be an older worker later on?
Comment Dust (Score 1) 48
Nothing new, I have had to install firmware updates and disable touch screens AIO computers on some electronics equipment here (in a rural area) because the touch panels went crazy. My best guess is the dusty environment here.
Like the AIO, they probably need to tone down the sensor so its not reacting so quickly.
Comment Yep, and lots of shilling (Score 2) 173
I looked at the Bladerunner 2048 Reviews on Saturday after the premiere, looks like a TON of canned 5-star reviews, overly verbose not really saying anything about watching the movie, but just how great the movie is, or the importance of the movie. Then there were the opposite one and no pointers, who wrote not again about the movie but how bad the movie was. In there if you read a bit you could find snippets of actual reviews where people mention the plot development form the original, characters, scenes etc.
Comment Re:National ID? (Score 1) 311
Well technically a SSN has been used because, for many developers, it's the only well documented, truly unique identification that each US citizen has that is universally used throughout the US.
SSNs weren't really a problem until the banks tied the numbers to individual's credit or debt that is causing the problem.
Comment Re:not as good (Score 1) 342
Except due to laws (ID check) you probably won't be able to buy any alcohol from it either.
Hurricane Irma Reaches 185 MPH, Trailing Only Allen As Strongest Atlantic Storm On Record (arstechnica.com) 318
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: We are quickly running out of adjectives to describe the destructive potential of Hurricane Irma. As of 2pm ET on Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center upgraded the storm's sustained winds to 185mph. This is near-record speed for a storm in the Atlantic basin, which includes the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico. Such high, sustained winds tie Irma for the second-strongest storm on record in the Atlantic, along with Hurricane Wilma (2005), Hurricane Gilbert (1998), and the 1935 Florida Keys hurricane. Only Hurricane Allen, which reached 190 mph in 1980 before striking a relatively unpopulated area of Texas, reached a higher wind speed. Globally, the all-time record for hurricanes is held by Patricia, which reached a staggering 215 mph in the Pacific Ocean in 2015. Although sustained winds capture the most public attention, meteorologists generally measure the intensity of a storm based upon central pressures, which are considerably lower than sea-level pressure on Earth, 1,013 millibars. Typhoon Tip, in 1979, holds this record at 870 millibars. For now, at least, Irma has a relatively high central pressure of 927 millibars. Why the storm has such an odd wind-speed-pressure relationship isn't entirely clear. According to the National Hurricane Center, Irma is expected to bring catastrophic winds and potential storm surges to the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and the UK territory of Turks and Caicos this week. The Florida Keys could get hit by late Saturday night or Sunday.
Comment FoxBase +/Mac (Score 1) 483
There was some really great things in that application, the interfacing and graphics capability was simply fantastic.
Comment Re:Developer learns the value of Backups. (Score 1) 765
Also developer learns lessons most other developers leaned in their career. Ive lost weeks, probably a month of work now and again - happens. Sometimes you have an old backup - it still stings.
Well, when you rewrite you probably have some better wisdom now on choosing method A or B, and can code a more efficient replacement, thats the way I think of it.
Also makes me think of John Harris' struggle with the Atari 8-bit Frogger from Sierra On-Line. (read the complete tale in Hackers by Steve Levy) He had it done and had it stolen (along with all all his 5.25 disks including utilities, etc.) at a programmers convention. No backup, had to re-code it from scratch.
Comment Re:Nothing like nostalgia! (Score 1) 301
I think it was probably the first home computer I got to touch, the local RS dealer was showing it off at a school open house (the school went with PETs) In high school they got donated a TRS-80 and I got to borrow it for a few months (so technically, first home computer too), That cheezy cheapo monitor I think added character to it... Had level3 BASIC to play with it as well as some other stuff, was kinda fun made me appreciate the PETs BASIC editor though (bith the TRS-80 and Apple II both had some weird key gymnastics needed to edit a program line.
You know, they have a version of Flight Simulator for it too, not too bad - graphics were blocky but it was balanced out by a nice frame rate.
Microsoft Further Pledges Linux Loyalty, Joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation (betanews.com) 109
BrianFagioli quotes BetaNews: Today, Microsoft further pledges its loyalty to Linux and open source by becoming a platinum member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. If you aren't familiar, the CNCF is a part of the well-respected Linux Foundation (of which Microsoft is also a member). With the Windows-maker increasingly focusing its efforts on the cloud -- and profiting from it -- this seems like a match made in heaven. In fact, Dan Kohn, Executive Director of the foundation says, "We are honored to have Microsoft, widely recognized as one of the most important enterprise technology and cloud providers in the world, join CNCF as a platinum member."
"CNCF is a part of the Linux Foundation, which helps govern for a wide range of cloud-oriented open source projects, such as Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTracing, Fluentd, Linkerd, containerd, Helm, gRPC, and many others," says John Gossman Azure Architect, Microsoft. "Since we joined the Linux Foundation last year, and now have decided to expand that relationship to CNCF membership as a natural next step to invest in open source communities and code at multiple levels, especially in the area of containers."
The announcement notes that Microsoft has already been contributing code to the Kubernetes project, "as well as running Kubernetes as part of the Azure Container Service."
"CNCF is a part of the Linux Foundation, which helps govern for a wide range of cloud-oriented open source projects, such as Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTracing, Fluentd, Linkerd, containerd, Helm, gRPC, and many others," says John Gossman Azure Architect, Microsoft. "Since we joined the Linux Foundation last year, and now have decided to expand that relationship to CNCF membership as a natural next step to invest in open source communities and code at multiple levels, especially in the area of containers."
The announcement notes that Microsoft has already been contributing code to the Kubernetes project, "as well as running Kubernetes as part of the Azure Container Service."
Comment Because of new "Not Secure" browser messages (Score 4, Interesting) 234
If you get a password field on a web page the browser will display various scary looking messages depending of the security of the page.
Generally if its a local network page with an IP address (most router interfaces) having the password field will have the browser alert you the page is "Not Secure" of the address bar. If its a self signed certificate (which ads encryption between you and the browser, the message is even scarier with red fields or strikethroughs as a spoofed certificate COULD be playing a man in the middle confidence scheme. Only ones that get through this is devices that have set up proper certification.
So the easiest way to avoid a lot of the scary "not secure" address bar messages, is just do the login in plain text.
Comment Seems to be getting worse (Score 5, Insightful) 381
Just re-looked at it and noticed when I drag my cursor into a subject frame all the links brighten, very disconcerting.
The other point I would like to point out is the new format removed snippets of the stories from the article blocks so you cant tell whether it really is something you want to read or not. Now (to me) it scans like a wall of clickbait.
Meh.
Inside Germany's Plan To Kill Online Registrations (cnn.com) 140
An anonymous reader writes: Germany's corporate giants are promising a brave new future in the form of a single account -- one that will let you do your online shopping, get a flight and rent a car, all with no more registrations or repetitive passwords. Deutsche Bank (DB), Germany's biggest bank, announced Monday it's teaming up with other big firms to create a new company that will create the service. Users would enter their ID details just once before they can make all their online purchases across multiple sites. The partners -- which include Mercedes-Benz maker Daimler, insurer Allianz and publisher Axel Springer -- hope other firms will sign up to their vision. They're calling it a "pan-industry platform for online registration, e-identity and data services." The program could eventually be expanded to include government services. For example, drivers could apply for a new license through the system before their old one expires. The partners expect the program will be running in Germany by mid-2018, and they stressed it will be "secure" and comply with all European Union data protection rules.
Comment Re:Meh (Score 1) 53
And if it is like the $7.99 Hulu.... WHERE IS RICK & MORTY SEASON 3?!?!?
They have some nice content, just not a lot of it at any particular time.
Comment Its a very diverse place (Score 5, Interesting) 55
SL is a very large diverse place there are various cultural communities as well as social communities. Virtual world is a good description as you can be satisfied sticking to one area or exploring and learn and experience different stuff.
Many are interested in the social aspect but there also is a large creative group: The appeal of doing 3-D virtual virtual building is very satisfying, The in-world building components and controls are VERY easy to learn and with the SL scripting language you can make your creations animate, makes sounds, perform tasks, interact, etc.
If you search around you usually can find a community that suits your social and creative needs. While searching you might stumble into some really weird stuff too. I myself spend most of my SL time as a humanoid squirrel, either as 1 1/2 foot tall "tiny avatar" or a bit taller furry like one, and hang around the sillier communities - when on Second Life you don't have to live it like real life.
