"....codebase which had been prone to having features bolted on without a clear cut architectural vision.”
Most places that's called "software development"......
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Ok, so far so good.
However, once those ridiculously large number of billions of years are up and the black hole disappears, what happens to all the hairy information stored in its, now non-existant, event horizon?
This one looks like it belongs in the category of "Ridiculous answers given 'cos nobody's got the balls to say that the question's a load of cobblers."
Best example of Murphy's Law in action that I ever saw was a diesel genny.
Test run every week it was. Once a month there was a full load cutover on a Sunday to prove the UPS and that the genny kicked in when required. Every six months it was fully serviced and the diesel tank was drained and refilled with fresh.
So, when there was an actual power cut do you think the sodding thing would start...........?
I cannot let that pass without the obligatory XKCD reference.
The CC's will have been omitted 'cos it's a diesel with a particulate filter.
Plumbed in upstream of the filter, they clog with particulates. Downstream they get screwed by the filter's burnoff cycles.
End result is that they suffer from short life in such applications, which is why they got left out when particulate filters[1] became mandatory. Too likely to fail within the warranty period.
Some diesels of Euro III or earlier and prior to filters have a catalytic converter. These use a more open matrix to allow the passage of particulates. It also allows the passage of most of the exhaust gases without them getting near the internal surfaces once appreciable flow rates are achieved. Still, they do a job at idle during testing.........(!!)
[1] A typically political fix. They turn larger particulates, which are known to be carcinogenic, into very small ones, which are only thought to be carcinogenic.
Leave.
For most of the same reasons........(!)
Standardisation. All the meaningful standards are set internationally. The EU is a turd-polishing machine at best in this area......Ok, a very expensive and highly inefficient turd-polishing machine.
Produce. The CAP is the worst example of expensive, unnecessary, bureaucratic protectionism ever seen on earth. Its main effect is to fuck over producers outside the EU by skewing prices.
Emergency Coverage. If we're not using it, we shouldn't be paying for it.
Economic negotiation. Er, bollocks, bollocks and thrice bollocks. An argument oft given by the "in" crowd but unprovable (except by leaving and testing independence in this area) at best. As trade negotiations prior to EU membership (where you substitute the USSR for China as gorilla) didn't seem to be a major stumbling block, this one's almost certainly just FUD and outright lies.
Socialism. Yes, of course. Having our electorate's selected government overruled by the oligarchy of the EU commission is such a good idea., isn't it? Then again, socialism and democracy are and always will be natural enemies, so you can see the left's point here. The NHS is actually under more threat from the EU, as everywhere else has a private / insurance system, so any EU rules are designed to fit such.
Law. (1) That human rights legislation you're so fond of is a Council of Europe thing and not the EU anyway. (2) The way most European law is structured (including that self same HR legislation) is always going to be an issue with a Common Law legal system, as it's all framed for Code Napoleon.
Travel. You have noticed we're not in Schengen, right? No change either way here then.
Defense. A real shame NATO doesn't work for us........oh......hang on. Just what purpose does EU defense policy serve (apart from making oligarchs in Brussels feel important)?
....a community of Twitter followers that equates to roughly 4% of the domestic population.
Which, as a way of keeping in touch with the population[1] is of about the same use as a packet of spongecloths is in addressing the York flooding. It would be quite interesting to know if any of those followers are not party activists or journalists......
[1] i.e. All of it.
Every bugger knows damned well that it'll be a pig's ear, a waste of money and that the touted energy savings associated are distilled from purest bullshit and the resulting concentrated turds polished in powerpoint.
But the EU have mandated that it be done, so we're fucked. Everything you see from the government here is a manful attempt to deflect blame from the oligarchy actually at fault, in a vain attempt to avoid a GTFON vote in 2017 and the sudden stop of a rich political gravy train.
Once, while chatting to an IBM engineer while we desperately tried to figure out why a System/36 point-blank refused to talk to the outside world, he related to me the tale of the oddest callout he ever went to.
While the customer had provided the IBM feature code for the faulty machine, they could not identify it on their systems. He got sent out anyway. To a butcher's shop.
The feature code was absolutely correct but as IBM had not manufactured bacon slicers for many years it was no longer in the system(!) To cap it all, on being told that they no longer did that sort of thing the customer produced the extended warranty that he'd been religiously renewing every year[1], as had his father before him(!!)
I now wonder if it had that logo on it.
[1] Apparently inflation and decimalisation had not been kind to the premium charged.
He's gone down in my estimations from "shameless wanker" to "incompetent twat".
He quite obviously has no idea why people buy mechanical watches, which displays an almost total lack of style or appreciation of design[1]. Bit of a career issue that, given his job.
[1] Then again, I've often thought that iDesign is best characterised as "chav Ikea".
Well that depends on the advice now, doesn't it.
Note that the improvement suggested is to take the MD5 hash of the seed candidate and use that as the actual seed. That'll be the same known vulnerable MD5 function mentioned elsewhere here as something nobody in their right mind should be still using, right? Note also that the use of the known time as the seed candidate is preserved, making deriving the hash and thus the key later a somewhat trivial task.
When it comes to staying ahead of the scrotes, there's only one thing better than knowing the fuckup they made this time around and that's knowing the one they're going to make next time.........
We see an ever growing set of "things", all of which have one thing in common. The security's shit and the chances of regular patch updates to fix 'em is slightly lower than that of ice storms in hell.
And you'd want to connect them to your LAN why exactly? Is there a name for this particular insanity?
For somewhere north of 99% of "things", connecting them to the internet doesn't actually make them any better at what they do......
The ability to turn other people's houses into ovens or freezers remotely[1] does sound like fun though.
[1] You'll almost certainly get bored with fiddling with that thermostat from your phone after a few goes but, rest assured, the bad guys will keep looking for that loophole until they find it.
Hmm, sounds more Stalinist than Fascist to me which would be more logical given their background.
Then again I can never tell the difference between the gibbering Nazis and the raving Marxists, although I believe that there are those who think one's "good" and the other's "bad" for some reason. Must be something to do with who you decide to demonise, with an option to go on and exterminate, to motivate the agitprop boot boys.....
Flash recording 314
Which makes Adobe the undisputed kings of shite in this game IMHO.
Why? 'Cos Apple's candidates are Operating Systems, performing a wide variety of tasks with multiple points of exposure to the world.
Flash does only one thing and yet is of such appalling quality that it's got almost as many holes as most things that are an entire order of magnitude larger and more complex.
New kit can't mess with digital TV...
Probably in exactly the same way that Powerline kit "can't" interfere with radio signals. The problem is that it can. And it will. And this time there'll be lawyers involved.
I still reckon that as bloody stupid ideas go this is likely to be seen as one of the bloodiest and most stupid once the dust settles.
Except, of course, that if the brainless dolt persists in allowing root/admin privilege to all and sundry when asked every OS is vulnerable. Anyone who knows slightly more than fuck-all about computers knows this, which puts you in with the dolts.
The real question here is how do we produce an OS that completely denies all admin level privilege to the end-user, also lets them do what they want, where installation / upgrade / additional software is all controlled by professionals and its health is continually monitored by same? Also how do we do this in such a way as to avoid the flaming 'tards of the internet immediately killing it with rants about corporate/government/alien sponges control?
This isn't about Facebook's commercial interests...
Of course not. I mean that could only be true if Zuckerbitch was all about signing up as many people as possible regardless of cost...........ah.........hang on.........
I sometimes wonder if the true purpose of the internet is to provide a platform for Facebum and Tw@ter to hold their subscriptions willy-waving contest on.
Nice obfuscation of the neat bullet points in the article there!
....throws money and time into features most people don't need and then enables them by default.
MS, Oracle, Adobe, IBM, Google, Mozilla........etc ad bloody nauseum are guilty of that one. I suspect that the idea here is twofold.
First is that they think that if they add everything including the kitchen sink, they can please all the people all the time.
Second it gives the development team something to do in the absence of any better ideas....
you can get last years Flagship on a virtually zero cost upgrade
If you're stupid enough to shell out for a premium price, long lock-in contract. Of course your network'll give you a decent upgrade in that case, it's the profit on the likes of you that gets the CEO his new Merc every year.
You should see what a nice, steaming hot coffee mug does to the actual disk inside a 3.5 inch floppy when the user is in the habit of using it as a coaster to protect their eye-wateringly expensive mahogany desk from the heat.......(!)
No, I didn't get the important spreadsheet data back..... although I was moved to enquire as to what it was that had led them to believe that diskettes were less vulnerable in this regard than legendarily robust hardwoods.
Had this one firsthand from a bloke at a software house who was called by a customer who'd installed their product (we'll call it the "XYZ" system here) to find it didn't work:
"Who were you logged in as when you ran the installation?"
"Er, me."
"Ah, that'll be the problem. It is clearly stated in the installation guide that the installation process must be run as root. Can you get the root password?"
"Yes, of course. Hang on a tick."
[a couple of minutes pass]
"Right. Got it. Shall I run the installation again?"
"Before you do that, we should probably tidy up the remains of the invalid one, just to be on the safe side. Could you cd to slash bin for me?" (yes, this is some considerable time prior to the POSIX directory merry-go-round)
"Done that."
"Great. Now type rm -rf XYZ* and press enter."
"Done that."
"Okay. Now we'll....."
"....Wait, it hasn't come back yet."
"Is it back now?"
"No...."
[cold sweaty feeling]
"Could you read back what you typed on the command line please?"
"rm minus rf XYZ star"
"Can I have that with the spaces please?"
"rm space minus rf space XYZ space star."
"Ooooooookaaaaayyyyyyy. Do you have a recent backup of the server....?"
YouTube are like the great granddaddy of torrent leechers. They chew on everyone else's bandwidth for their own benefit and give fuck-all back (any contribution made to backbone routing by google is of sod-all significance when it's your local loop getting the shaft).
For some reason, when we elect to block or throttle some leeching git it's a good thing, but when a provider does it for the same reasons, it's bad. One law for us I guess.....
Easy answer. If you really must have 24hr mobile access to that cat falling in the bog, don't use T-Mobile. Personally I like competition and a service where I knew that the bandwidth wasn't being shat on by drooling morons giggling at shit videos sounds very attractive.
So you reckon that playing any video in anything other than its native resolution is copyright infringement?
You are a complete spanner and ICMFP!
(Hint for the terminally thick: I reckon youtube don't put those 8k vids up purely for decoration).
Nobody anywhere seems to have ever implemented the right use for this sort of tech.
The ability to look up exactly where your bike currently is[1], courtesy of the electronics embedded in the frame and remotely detonate the 1/2 lb of C4 adjacent to same.
[1] In case the scrote who nicked it is currently using it in a place where there are innocent bystanders of course. Bonus points for finding it's in "Honest Dave's Dodgy Bikes" and claiming the jackpot.
If you have Cortana set to respond to "Hey Cortana", turn it off. That often does it.
Used to work just fine, but broken as of the 1511 update in Win 10. This is probably the most annoying thing about 10, the major updates have a nasty habit of breaking as much, if not more, than they fix.