Comment B.S. (Score 1) 301
I don't believe that anyone could find 50 "Netflix-only" kids who have never seen "normal" TV.
The citizens of the US decide immigration laws through their representatives. What makes that concept so hard for you to understand.
No, we don't. The citizens of the US elect the people who make the laws, but that's where it ends.
When was the last time one of your representatives asked your opinion about a proposed new law? I'm willing to bet it's never happened, because it's certainly never happened to me.
DDG was ok for generic queries but sucked ass last I tried it for anything technical. Has it improved substantially since the Snowden revelations for day to day programming queries?
To me, the do-not-track benefit of DDG outweighs the occasionally poor search results. So I always search DDG first. If I don't find what I'm looking for in the first page or two of results, then I rerun the search in Google. And that includes both geeky queries and non-geeky queries.
1. Duress codes are a dumb idea that sounds cool. Why ? By definition you almost never use them
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Let me just throw out a few other "dumb ideas" you almost never use... Airbags. Fire Extinguishers. Life insurance. Parachutes. Seatbelts. Fire Departments. Just because they're an extreme response and you don't use them very often doesn't make them a "dumb idea".
Home alarm systems don't have them any more for a reason.
Friend of mine proved you wrong last year. His wife got home after a craaazy day at work and put in the wrong PIN on her home alarm. 15 minutes later there's a knock on the door from a guy in a white coat and the entire backdrop is full of cops. "What is this? I disarmed my alarm?" "yes, m'am but you used the *duress code* to do it." "oh..." So a bunch of boys in blue came in and swept the entire house while she was outside talking with the cops. Yes there will be false alarms, but the feature serves a function. They had that option enabled because someone they knew a few years back had been forced to disarm their car alarm at knifepoint so they knew the risk was real.
My home security system has the same feature, and it's easy to remember the "panic" code. It's just one number less than your "real" code.
I work for one of the largest Defense companies in the nation. In the last year we have had two major network outages. One related to provider issues and the other related to firewall changes gone bad.
This shit happens. Creating/Managing/Upgrading huge networks like this a very complicated and delicate task.
Certificate management is not a complicated task. Expired certificates is an example of incompetence, not an example of "complicated shit that just happens". It should be somebody's job to manage those expiration dates, period.
That's not just an "only" complaint. That's a HUGE fuckin' complaint.
I sure-as-hell love to find out that EVERYTHING I WAS DOING the last day at work is completely wiped away. It's fucking infuriating. And I maintain Microsoft products for a living.
Rebooting a PC won't lose a damn thing, unless you're too ignorant to save your work. Ever heard of a hard drive? You can save things semi-permanently there. Just like magic, what gets saved to your hard drive is still there after a reboot!
The only thing that rebooting would lose is your "current desktop", such as which apps are open and where the windows are located. And of course anything in-progress that hasn't been saved yet, but only idiots work in an unsaved Book1/Sheet1 in Excel all day.
It sounds to me like you are getting the treatment that your ignorance deserves. Or you just like to spread FUD.
I thought you scientist types were supposed to have an open mind? Yet you absolutely refuse to even consider anything religious.
Because religion is made-up bullshit. Being a scientist requires intelligence and the ability evaluate factual evidence. Once most scientists evaluate the "evidence" of religion, they realize that it is a man-made concept.
Yet, we both know you can't prove it wrong, so why be so closed minded?
Nor can you prove it right. Why do you insist in believing in fairy tales?
what could possibly go wrong?
I have talked to dozens of SAP customers, and I always ask them "Are you happy that you decided to go with SAP?". So far, this is that number that have answered affirmatively: 0.
As a user stuck in the middle of an SAP migration, I would agree. Our legacy system has 18 years of transaction history, and it can run database queries that would crash SAP that only has 5% of the transaction volume. SAP can't even do simple data transfers to your PC without crashing because they do everything in-memory.
After migrating less than 1/5 of our sites to SAP, we are having such awful performance issues that we are implementing SAP's only solution (called HANA), which just runs the entire system in-memory. Great solution - instead of creating a well-designed system, just charge way too much money for more RAM.
SAP is 10% product and 90% marketing.
Rules get ignored and circumvented. Devices and software have backdoors. I don't see how to make sense attempting to apply the concept in one area to the other.
Sorry, poor terminology choice. I should have said "exceptions" or "loopholes."
From Sharp minds come... pointed heads. -- Bryan Sparrowhawk
