I wonder how easy it will be for someone unauthorized to force a cellphone off the air. And how easy it will be to get someone authorized to do it through social engineering.

I just hope that however they implement it, they make sure that emergency calls can still be made.

You useless peace of shit, quit spamming unrelated threads with hosts files, FFS!

We all believed you until you hit "A Wife." This is ./, and we already know that the virgin crowd rules these shores...

Let me make it simpler on you.

Rational choice + Social disorganization = Crime

Interestingly enough, when you break one or two of those two options, you're doing enough to break the classic situation which breeds criminal behavior. Reinforce it however, or do nothing, and it will continue to perpetuate itself.

Oh no, not at all! The beauty of startups is having motivated, talented people willing to work long hours for peanuts!

Oh you mean the beauty of startups for the *employees*... :P

At a what? Are you at a 21-year-old company or are you at a startup?

Or are you at a 21-year-old company that pretends to be a startup when they say things like "hey guys we're a startup so can you work this weekend?"

This one time this guy died in a car crash and he was driving a Volvo.

Therefore motorbikes are safer than Volvos.

This sysadmin/scripter/system architect/DBA role exists in virtually every company that has a core business other than IT or software development. Even in a very large multinational, there's more utility in having one "Mr Wizard" in each business unit than there is in having a room full of software developers somewhere far away from the rest of the business.

It really is a support role and it's more an outgrowth of system administration than it is saddling your brightest software guy with managing the mail server. Of course, it's possible to get stuck in that role because there's nowhere to go from there, but it's a niche that suits some people. If it doesn't suit you, then move.

It's also a distinct role from the "do everything guy" at a startup, because at a startup everyone is multitasking and as the startup expands, new people are hired to take on some of these roles. DevOps is a role in itself.

Who are controlled in turn by an even more mysterious organisation: ROUS.

But I doubt they exist.

Sir! I think we've just identified the Babelfish Bandit!

Just physically unplug the hard drive before booting off a live CD? I have to admit, though, that my first reaction was also "Anonymously produced live CD promises to protect your secrets? Sounds legit."

Well that's not really true, in the cases of both Benghazi and say F&F they're still on-going because the witnesses have either disappeared. Or the government itself has made the evidence disappear.

When I was single and didn't make much money, I used to do my own taxes, on paper, and mail them.

Then I started making more, and started paying a guy recommended by my father to do them for fifty bucks.

Then I got married, and my wife decided that she would file them instead of spending the money, which had gotten to a hundred by then.

Then my wife salary rose, and we went over the cutoff point for using the website she had been using.

So now, I am again doing my taxes on paper, except that I am filing earlier, because my wife gets antsy about it.

Something's wrong with this. :-)

And this is the issue with every single "flying car" prototype. The efficiency of a rotorcraft is determined by its disc loading. All of the VTOL "flying car" designs have a comparatively tiny disc area, and thus a ridiculous disc loading. With enough power you can make something like that, but in terms of engineering complexity, cost, and reliability it'll be far closer to a Harrier Jump Jet than it will to the Jetsons' car. That SkyTran thing seems pretty cool. Basically an autonomous pod transport system a la every sci-fi metropolis ever.