A spokesperson for the office of California Gov. Gavin Newsom said in an email that it was "truly shocking that one of the biggest polluters on the planet would be opposed to transparency."
Are you sure that quote is correct? Shouldn't it be "blatantly obvious that one of the biggest polluters on the planet would be opposed to transparency."
Yep. I don't know how many times I've seen "hack like it's 1999" or words to that effect in security talks.
Also, many security devices (and security apps) are secure by executive fiat, not through actually being, you know, secure. It's a security appliance, it has to be secure, sez so in the name!
JC Penney isn't doing great these days. Sears would not be much better off. Both of these lost their middle-class customers to other stores and online shopping and their costs are much too high to service low-income customers.
Sears had a different audience than JCPenny. Sears was a beloved tool retailer with a cult following and well regarded for their appliances. JCPenny was a place for cheap clothes that are higher quality than WalMart. To me, that's like comparing In & Out to McDonald's.
I don't know what era you grew up in, but when I was a child, Sears and Pennys were direct competitors. Sears just had a better catalog and automotive section. People going to malls would go to both to see who had the better deal on competing items. Especially for clothing. Montgomery Ward was a competitor, but they were the Chrysler to Sears/Penney's GM and Ford, the third wheel that no one went to first.
Sears did not "fail", they were willfully destroyed by a vulture capitalist.
Sears fate was sealed the moment Amazon was created. The "vulture capitalist" just squeezed what value he could from the dying remains. With their catalogue business, and being "America's general store", they were in the perfect position to move from paper catalog to Internet based ordering. They adapted too late. Malls and physical department stores are never coming back at a level necessary for a Sears to thrive. It's Amazon and everyone else now.
We've had quite a few stories on how data centers are eating up available capacity for power generation, but no mention here.
Zero point modules designed by the AIs in the data centres that are yet to be built. Do try and keep up at the back there.
Trump received more black votes than any Republican in history.
As blacks move up, they move right. Same for Hispanics.
Democrats need a positive agenda that addresses the concerns of working-class voters. They aren't gonna win by playing the race card.
Two economists were walking down the street when they saw dog poop on the sidewalk.
The first economist said to the second, "I'll pay you $100 to eat a spoonful of that dog poop."
The second economist figured it was an easy $100, so ate a spoonful of poop. Then he said to the first, "I'll pay you $100 to eat a spoonful."
The first economist ate a spoonful and collected his $100.
As they walked further down the street, the second economist said to the first, "We both ate dog poop for nothing."
The first economist replied, "Not true. We just added $200 to the GDP."
Is Cobol specifically more difficult to debug?
Yes. Much Cobol code was written before structured programming was standard. There are no unit tests. There are no classes to encapsulate complexity.
Is there really a deficit in Cobol literate programmers?
No, not really. A programmer can learn Cobol well enough to get work done in about a week. The problem isn't "learning the language", but learning about the legacy application you need to maintain. For instance, why is a discount applied to every invoice for customer #478324? Well, because he was the CEO's college roommate, but you won't learn that from the manual.
Isn't Cobol actually spelled COBOL?
Only if you want to be pedantic.
I don't buy the implicit implication that because it's old it's not as good as new
There's been a lot of progress in programming languages in the last 60 years.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it
It is broke.
sure, he can delay the inevitable
Inevitable. LOL.
The EU will break up before it truly bans ICE engines. It's not going to happen in our lifetime. Brussels may impose a penalty of some kind on member states that don't comply, but it'll be fairly cheap. Some tax or another will be imposed, everyone will claim victory, and ICE vehicles will continue to roll off production lines on the Continent.
All the simple programs have been written.
