You wascabby wabbit
Please explain exactly why you use Pastebin for this instead of proper tooling.
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The last time this happened, the Amadeus airline booking system , Hadoop and Linux servers around the world struck trouble, probably because they weren't set up to cope with the extra second.
Rather because nobody can be bothered to check the assumption, read the specs, think things through (true?) then test before shitting code into production.
"Coburn's dossier notes that the DHS bagged $61bn"
Fuck me, those luxury mansion pools must be VAST.
Considering that the Department of Heimland Sicherheit was created by Bush as a super-bureaucracy layer on top of the bureaucracy layers of the TLAs that had utterly failed prior to 9/11 with the sole justificiation of doling out the dollars rolling off the printing presses after the post-Greenspan-Bubble pop, I would say: "Mission Accomplished".
"I have very high confidence in that attribution."
Unfortunately the à priori probability of a govt official being right or actually telling the truth is so low right now that its multiplicative factor drags the gentleman's high confidence straight into the shitter.
Especially when the FBI is involved as these are they guys bragging about discovering terrorist plots that they themselves incited.
Woah, 3 thumbs down. I wonder why? Guess the general level of interest in interesting IT has gone down the toilet and has finally arrived in the web circle of hell, populated by zombies emitting noises like "Hurrr AJAX WIDGET Durrrr". Oh well.
Well, you sure WILL need a special license for it and cops can show up announced to check your garage for "non-licensed items". Also, sin taxes on any unconventional improvements.
After this festive season, a little bit of Sci-Fi reading, 1979 style: Lipidleggin'
That's the people who have a "JESUS SAVES" sticker on the bumper. Seen those.
But even in the world of Higher Sanity (tm), go to Portugal, drive like a mofo playing chicken with trucks, but at least the rosary hanging off the rear-view mirror gives you assurance.
Apart from that, what was so bad about the PS/1 except its eye-popping price (which was expected since you bought the IBM sticker actually, not the machine underneath). Ok, nobody would have wanted an 80286 if he had known what that was...
Of which there is none at the company's end.
"BEST EFFORT" is the best you can get.
As Dan Geer says in "Inviting More Heartbleed" -- "The only two products not covered by product liability today are religion and software, and we don’t think software is going to or should escape for much longer."
remember 4-5 years back, when they said they would put security at the core of Windows and all dev processes ?
I have the same problem: Time flies.
It was in January 2002 after a string a "access all areas" events IIRC.
The trustworthy computing group was disbanded this September.
As to the rejects claiming "OH NO 90 DAYS IS NOT ENOUGH FOR ANYBODY."
... what you gonna do when a 0-day hits the street and it's not 90 DAYS but 90 MINUTES. Huh? What you gonna do, PUNKS?
"We encourage customers to keep their anti-virus software up to date, install all available Security Updates and enable the firewall on their computer."
Recommendation to do the obnoxious, perform the borderline dangerous and enable the frankly useless.
That dog sure is being wagged by both of its tails.
Pat Buchanan asked whether "war was in the cards for 2015". By the farty sounds, one in Europe, a continuing one in Afghanistan (wait, we won that one yesterday, right?), a renewed one in the Caliphate, an couple of "interventions" in the Lybia/Mali region, one in Korea, .....
Warp drives ain't gonna come out of garages dude. They most probably won't come from anywhere, ever. (Yeah, Alcubierre Blah Blah Blah. Bullshit. Guess what, if I had the power to warp space at will, negatively not at my current location to boot, I could do ten impossible things before breakfast.)
There is no indication in experimental and theoretical physics that any of this is possible. None. Otherwise LHC would rip unicorns out of the vacuum.
> Farady cages
> Could Bermuda Triangle pilot’s ‘fog’ have been a space warp?
Perpetuum Mobile tier QUALITY SCIENCE!!!11!
...but if you carry it around in physical form, you are a suspect and police can actually seize it with no particular justification to finance their year's end partygear.
This is not a joke.
Excel and VBA - a great combination - should be more widely used.
No.
Excel: A bad idea, implemented badly. A dataflow program presented in a way that resembles a 2-D sheets for beancounters. Unmaintainable. Can't even compute correctly in the best of cases (uses floats instead of the appropriate fixed-point arithmetic). Stats show that most of the Excel sheets out there have errors that go unnoticed. Cancer.
VBA: Acceptable, but people with no training use this, resulting in overcooked macaroni and more cancer.
Norse has identified a group of six individuals – from the US, Canada, Singapore and Thailand – as potential suspects. One of the alleged perps is a 10-year veteran of Sony Pictures’ backroom technical staff who lost his job in May.
How.jpg
Did the query the NSA database? Did Sony give them full access to extended activity logs??
> Humans overwriting their memories and making shit up from whole cloth
ITT: Humans memory is volatile and has no error checking.
Well, we do it all the time. You know that most of these "repressed childhood memories" about being violated by parents were actually implanted by the therapists? Good job.
Young adults, aged between 18 and 24, say they frequently lie about their relationships, promotions at work and holidays.
At that age I had even difficulty keeping track of actual reality. Sometimes I really feared I was getting psychotic due to overwork and general stress. And that was before the Interwebs came out of the "text only" phase.