Bro. Guy Consoglmo, one of the Vatican astronomers, who's been interviewed on NPR, among other places, and has been mentioned on /. before, also teaches at Catholic colleges around the US. One of the courses he teaches is "science for non-science majors". Some years back, he talked about the food chain of the majors that take that class. Next to the bottom were business majors, who didn't get it, but didn't let that worry them.

So, are they worried yet?

Btw, the bottom of the food chain are the communications majors, who didn't get it, and didn't know that they didn't get it. And these are the folks who go into journalism, and HR, and PR....

                  mark

Wood, and cellulose, are good insulators... of heat, as well. How ya gonna cool the chips? Put layers of cooling tubes through the chips?

                  mark "man that wood-chip is really burning... I mean, *really* burning.

You wouldn't want to spend money to hire ANOTHER PERSON IN THE CAB, so that the whole train isn't depending on ONE ENGINEER, now, would you?

The railroads have been working to get rid of anyone more than the engineer for decades. With the position labelled fireman gone, that's *one* person. How would you feel about, say, an commercial airliner with *one* person flying the plane?

How many hours are they on, with no company, no one to keep them awake, and only one set of eyes on things?

Stupid.

                mark

it won't, because the studios have always wanted assembly-line music, with musicians being interchangeable and replaceable, like parts in your car., and they've worked long and hard for that. (Such as the singers for Tin Pan Alley, and many of the groups that got played on American Bandstand)(They screwed up, early on, with the Monkees, who were actually real musicians....)

On the other hand, if someone goes viral, they will attempt to buy them, or create a cheaper clone, and will water down what they sing and how they sing it.

Still, there's more music out there, including more than they know about.

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Is this like, your new computerized prosthetic leg/hand/heart has been attached, but the software to regulate it so that it has no surges is extra?

Or is this "we hired new grads at ridiculously low wages, assuring that we got grads from the bottom half of the class, then gave them insanely short deadlines, so that they were writing the code in 60 or 70 hour weeks, and they'd never gotten the class they don't teach in school, error catching and handling, and that's what's running this, and they have to pay for the "extra", which was written by programmers (#insert nose_in_air.h; developers()) with some years of experience, who they had to pay a *lot* more for?

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Let's see, he came from running Delta Airlines to run RH. Then, back in December, at a RH dog-and-pony here at work, we watched a 20 min video as part of the many-hour presentation. I was amazed at how he could fill the entire 20 minutes with *nothing* but management buzzwords, and say pretty much nothing else at all.

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gin and tonic.

              mark "then go listen to the McGarrigle's Heartbeats Accelerating"

About the way COBOL was sold....

                  mark "puts paper bag over head before admitting he wrote COBOL long ago, using magnets to write the code...."

True, esp. when they expect most of their calls to be from clueless PC users, and anything more than "have you rebooted your computer" is haaard, man (as Barbie said).

Just in the last month: idiot nixspam, which is a blacklist of alleged spammers, and uses a method that's 20 years out of date (almost nobody uses an ISP that has 1000 users, total; my hosting provider has literally millions of domains), blocked my hosting provider's mail gateway. After nixidtiot's page asserted there were "too many spams", I contact my tech support by email, and forwarded them the bounce message.. In the blazing speed of a week, the tier I support managed to check *MY* HOME IP, and tell me it wasn't blocked.

After I came down, by email, like a ton of bricks on them, and the same in the "how did we do survey", a couple days later I got a response from Tier II, and a permanent tier II contact for things like this....

                  mark "this coffee mug holder not compatible with any other...."

Sorry, I've worked in a number of sectors, and these days for a US federal contractor, and unless you're talking about some upper manager, or someone in bed with same, I don't see how they'd do that. Everywhere I've worked, using, and changing passwords is enforced by the IT dept, and by software. Since everyone's networked these days, you don't get on otherwise. And the places I've worked have *forced* less than simple password.

The next question that comes to mind is *why* they wouldn't report a breach. And what spread of organizations was this survey taken in?

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Not surprised. I've met other former Republicans who say the GOP has moved so far to the right it's left them behind.* Meanwhile, I'm *really* tired that the last two Dems I voted for President who won are both Eisenhower Republicans.

At least for now, I have someone to vote for who's not "the least worst".

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Bernie Sanders for President!

Anyone know if there's a trojanized version of PuTTY-CAC?

For the rest of you, that's for use with "smart cards" (i.e., US fed gov PIV, or US DoD CAC id cards), and it's a fork of PuTTY.

And what about pageant?

              mark

Esp. after skimming some of the comments....

1. Amtrak was waiting for frequency bandwidth. Lawsuits... and I'd love to know how a company ended up with frequencies that were
                intended for safety communication.
2. After 9/11, for *months*, the pilots' union was saying that for trips under 300-400 mi, the train was very much the better option. Republicans,
                who are willing to spend tons of public money on airports, and to a lesser extent, roads, have *consistently* underfunded Amtrak.
3. Passenger rail travel, pre-Amtrak, was frequently a loss-leader for the freight business.
4. The idiot who thinks the cost of mass transit ia actually almost on par with Uber is an ignorant idiot. Clue: the regular ads from CSX, about
              moving a ton of freight 457 mi on one gallon of fuel.

And, for ironic grins, Boehner and Ryan denying that their personal refusal to fully fund Amtrak has *nothing* to do with the accident is what is
            known as "lying under oath", an impeachable offence. And, btw, for refusing to fund Amtrak so that they *could* have gotten this in
            sooner, are accessories to manslaughter.

                  mark

Quick questions:
  1.: what are the profits made by the major telecoms in the last year?
    2. what do the alleged false calls cost to
                a) the providers?
                b) the 911 call centers?
    3. What is the value of the 30+% that are *legitimate* screams for help, and the value of the lives if they can't make those calls?

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Which I had published in the now-defunct SysAdmin magazine in '06. http : //24.5-cent.us/egoless_docu.html

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