Comment truer words were never spoken... (Score 1) 198
>That sole defendant, CenturyLink, Inc., is a parent holding company that has no customers, provides no service...
Got that right.... as a former customer.
>Those wizards caught at the border will be turned into newts!
Won't work - they just get better eventually....
They certainly do know where their towels are...
>The other renter — a woman named Erin — said her host chose to report her for damages after she unplugged a device she found inside a Houston Airbnb.
Was it acutally a camera? There have been stories of paranoid guests tearing down smoke detectors thinking they were cameras. Not every electronic gadget in a home is spying on you (Alexa/Home/etc. excepted, of course).
How long until they combine this with their "anti-revenge porn" scheme? Where you'll have to upload a new nude picture every time you log in. They'll be sure to delete them, after the admins have verified the identity of the user ("yup, they got a mole in the right place"), and checked the ownership of the photos.
(FB - this is not a suggestion, btw).
This is the sort of thinking that comes from living too long inside a bubble - with double-thick, clue-proof walls.
It's not done until warp is ported to it...
I'm stuck in an open plan office, and there's plenty of dialog all right. Almost none of it about actual *work*. We have lots of Sales/Marketing/Communications types right next to the small developer group. And boy, do they talk. And talk. Loudly. And about every aspect of their personal lives that we really don't care about. The managers of those group work in a different state, and couldn't care less.
Noise cancelling headphones work great on repetitive sounds, like engine noise on a bus. But human voices (especially some of these people) cut right through. Most of the development colab happens on email/im/etc anyways, so we're almost always more productive working from home.
Sort of like those "For Your Consideration..." ads the movie studios run in trade magazines before the Academy Award voting. Granted the Ig Noble awards are much more prestigious, but this seems like an attempt at building early name recognition.
Besides, my luggage has short skis instead of wheels. Much better over a variety of challenging terrain.
We had an entire data center shut down this way. Facilities *insisted* that the BRB (Big Red Button) not have any sort of shroud or cover over it. Just in case someone couldn't figure out how to get to the button in a dire emergency.
So one day, they've got a clueless photographer taking pictures of the racks. He was backing up to frame the perfect framing and... we'll, you can guess the rest.
Now, the button has a shroud that you have to reach into to hit it, and non-essential personnel are banned from the rooms. Total cost of the outage (even with the geo-redundant systems kicking in) was over $1M.
Just another day in the life of IT.
Likewise. I'd been programming in BASIC/FORTRAN/ASM,etc for several years on PDP-11s and others, but the KIM-1 was the first one that was mine. Handwrapped a 44-pin backplane for some home-built expansion cards. That little thing really taught me the value of tight, efficient code.
I still have it in the garage.
Initial reports on the outage list calls from wired and wireless to local and toll-free numbers (and other carriers), while long-distance (is that a thing anymore??) was unaffected. Don't know if this impacted pure data connections yet - it seems not.
Probably a rogue backhoe...
Likewise. Very easy for the family to use - even preschoolers can navigate to their videos - over and over again (note to self: need to "lose" those Dora episodes....
They might be hard-sector floppies, like my Northstar uses. 10-sector, single-sided with physical holes around the hub. Those things were always more expensive and hard to find than the regular soft-sector ones.
So, you're saying that some organization had the drone under Control?
That would eventually lead to Kaos.
(sorry for the obscure TV references. too much time watching as a child).
Those entities are regulated, and generally must use certified measuring devices. And there's always a theoretical appeal to a state agency if there's a dispute.
Comcast has no oversight of their usage billing, and a financial incentive to cheat a bit.
Look at it this way - from Comcast's point of view, there's no problem. One account went over, another went under by the same amount. They averaged out, and there was balance in the Force (or at least their billing system).
Now go back to your TV and stop complaining!
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
