Comment Re:OP customer here: this must be pure vandalism (Score 1) 92
By the way, I 100% agree with your sig.
By the way, I 100% agree with your sig.
You are right, this does make sense. I've seen some incredible Russian propaganda (and sock puppets) around the 'net these days. It's insane.
I see no other reason for this DDoS attack but vandalism of some sort. The attackers have no political agenda (this is a small Finnish bank, not one of the big tax-haven transfer banks like UBS. It also has no political connections/owners.
The attack also has no way of obtaining any useful info, as all banks in Finland use one-time passwords for login.
You pose a question but don't give enough information to answer it or even check for validity in the implied claim you're making. Try again.
Indeed - textbook example of a troll post.
Throwing around nebulous, 100% unsubstantiated accusations to start a flamewar, just to see what sticks? Yes, you are trolling.
Thank you for the link to that Wikipedia article - that's a fascinating read!!! And I thought I knew the history of computing relatively well.
In an alternative steampunk universe, this is how graphical displays MIGHT work.
Google services, including Gmail, have been blocked for years, in China. Sure, a lot of Chinese use them with VPN, but Gmail being blocked in China is old news!
For some "strange" reason, Bing and Hotmail aren't blocked, though.
Why though? At least now Sony is doing the right thing. Or are you angry that they're releasing it only in very few theaters?
I had the impression your post had an agenda, and then I read, at the end, you confirmed it:
When FreeBSD changes to a modern init-system (they will probably clone systemd)
Unfortunately, I had to accept that Slashdot editors and submitters are not, typically, capable to distinguish between power (watt, W) and energy (watt hour, W h), but this is a... new low? Hell, I don't even know if it's new, with how things have been going, it is quite possible that there was a similarly disgraceful submission already.
Mentally insert image of double facepalm here.
I have been wishing for ODF support in Google Docs since forever. This one feature is what makes it now really feasible for me to start using the Google office tools - becauses I can then open the documents with a myriad other suites that work with ODF!
Yes and no.
It's more related to the time period in which those neighborhoods were built, and how they were built. Grid street patterns were normal before WWII, along with smaller houses (Victorians, Craftsman bungalows, etc.). "Subdivisions" didn't become common until the postwar era, when sprawling ranch houses with two-car garages and big yards were popular.
Not coincidentally, those postwar subdivisions were also getting built at the same time as the civil rights movement: at the time, black people were "blockbusting" in those grid-street neighborhoods, while the white people were moving out to the curved/cul-de-sac subdivisons to get away from them. In fact, the restricted number of subdivision entrances/exits, along with the higher housing prices (enforced in the zoning code by minimum lot sizes, which forced lower-density development) were, in part, tools to keep out those perceived to be undesirable.
Very nice post, and very true.
I recommend watching an interesting, newly released documentary: Spanish Lake. It explains blockbusting very well, as well as the dynamic of white middle class families staying vs. moving out of neighborhoods.
My impression of most of the US (I visited three times, three different states) is that you're discouraged from walking - no walkways, no way to cross roads unless you're willing to walk half a mile to get to a crossing, etc. In Texas I felt like walking was practically a felony, and if you don't have a car you're subhuman.
Needless to say, when I left Texas and returned to my beloved Finland, I breathed a sigh of relief.
I was going to ask the same exact thing. I'd be happy to download them via torrent, if I knew what to look for exactly.
If you find something, please kindly post the result of your search by answering. I'll do likewise.
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.
