Comment Re: Man why can't people fix things properly (Score 1) 100
Do you expect Earth to be alive when 64-bit time runs out?
Does Indigogo do any kind of vetting before a product/idea pitch makes it to their page (beyond the initial application where you have to prove you are who you say you are).
Nope.
But the backers aren't just angry with Batio. They're frustrated by how easily a scammer could flourish in the high-risk world of gadget crowdfunding -- and how poorly Indiegogo was equipped to deal with it.
This sort of thing is nothing new, and is the reason why “caveat emptor” even exists as a principle. Further, as this story demonstrates, outright fraud is already illegal.
Between those two concepts, the onus cannot and should not be on the funding intermediary, any more than a bank should be ultimately responsible for fraud perpetrated by a third party. Indiegogo is just a broker, not an agent; it’s not their job to vet your investment. That responsibility is your own.
(Their Terms of Use basically state as much.)
I tried the Apple map app on my iPhone and I saw no latitude/longitude coordinates. I tried the Google map app and didn't see it there either. Maybe I missed something on each but it was not obvious.
I just clicked on my current location in the Apple Maps and Google Maps apps, and both gave me my latitude and longitude. Apple Maps even literally uses the words, “latitude” and “longitude.”
So I suppose that, yes, you’re missing something, because it was really quite simple and obvious on both.
I think this is nothing new, and began when Sony dumped the Vaio PC line and decided if you can't sell people premium hardware for profit anymore why bother to do it.
The issue with this assertion is that the Vaio line wasn't actually premium hardware. At best, it was nicely-decorated mediocre hardware sold at a premium price. At worst, they were just dreadfully crappy (albeit pretty) machines.
couple months back, a separate division of my employer had 3 of a 16 disk group fail within 2 days -- killing a raid-6 group. These were 8TB seagate disks and were ~6 months old.
This is why, as a rule, you shouldn't populate a RAID with drives from the same manufactured batch.
Gnome+Unity is so utterly messed up beyond redemption, maybe something that'll kill off defective thinking would be helpful in the long run.
I don’t really think you’ll have to worry about Unity all that much anymore.
Finance chiefs say the ubiquitous spreadsheet software that revolutionized accounting in the 1980s...
I thought this was about Excel, not VisiCalc or Lotus 1-2-3.
Reminds me a little of Theranos.
Similar to this story, Wired has also written quite a bit about Thearnos as well.
They'll start moving the data in-house again. They'll call it "The ground" or something equally meaningless...
"On-prem." They're calling it "on-prem."
FreeBSD runs on a Mach microkernel?
Darwin in OSX is derived from 4.4BSD.
And I thought that Chicago, LA, and NYC were the only cities that thought of themselves as being states of their own.
This is more apropos to this discussion than one might think. O’Hare International Airport is only technically in Chicago. It’s physically nestled well within the northwest suburbs, but is connected to Chicago via a very long and ridiculously narrow strip of land that extends the Chicago border just far enough to claim that site.
On the eighth day, God created FORTRAN.
