Posts by Destroy All Monsters

Failure circus is fail, followed by "it's not our fault".

This is what happens when you rush regression testing to meet externally imposed arbitrary 90 day deadlines.

We can work fast, or we can work accurate.

...And these 90 day deadlines apparently mean tweaking default values in Muffice is priority #1 and needs to be rolled out stat.

Context: It IS important.

The context being: The codebase is shit and the regression test set is arbitrary and possibly absent. And our dev skillset is arbitrary too. Prima donnas, freshmen and people miscommunicating with their navels trying to deal with arbitrary complexit injected by marketrdroid demands I suppose.

In any normal industry lawyers would be crawling up your arse. And this will happen sooner or later.

Re: Retrogression of the "Force".

German and Japanese technology actually improved after the war, courtesy of us bombing everything flat. Then the Americans made very generous loans and donations to allow them to rebuild with the latest technology.

This is beyond retarded and just proves a total misunderstanding of how an economy works, it's practically the picture-book-for-6-years-old view of the economy espoused by Keynesians.

1) If you "bomb everything flat" it's over. There isn't even the wherewithal to build the machines to build the machines to build the machines. It's called the capital base. The skillbase is gone too.

2) The "donations" you mention (aka "the Marshal Plan") mainly went to well-connected figures in Sweden and Greece, not germany.

3) It took about 30 years and the effects of post-war liberalization to get Germany anywhere near an acceptable industrial base. And there were still bombed-out areas, shitty roads, bad services, limited resources and underdeveloped regions.

4) US-based investors, meanwhile just could go on buying up everything, investing and expanding into Europe, and generally transforming most of the world into a dollar-dominated backwater. Of course the economic havoc of wartime and the subsequent "small wars" (not to mention the economic havoc of the preceding "New Deal") must have loped off a few hundred billion gold-based USD of lost revenue but hey, who is counting?

Re: Slightly baffled by aurora comments

Correct...

The plumes could be some sort of very unusual aurora, 1,000 times brighter than anything seen on Earth, triggered by a very strong magnetic pocket in the planet’s crust that drove solar wind particles out into the atmosphere.

... MARS MAGNETIC ANOMALY #1?

The Supersymmetry Bet: A bottle of Cognac can be won.

This is an extension of the bet of 2000, whereby no Supersymmetric particles were discovered during the first LHC run but people just moaned "we haven't tried enough ENERGY yet", so ... replay!

Re: I wonder why Apple customers don't sue for such things

Most people only care about looking cool on the bus while being totally retarded inside playing casino crap or browsing myfacebook. They might even check the stock ticker for added stupidity.

"Debugging" == "Get out of my face geek".

Re: What is a workstation indeed?

Workstation == The machine that you want you run a program on which:

1) the cheap PCs in the lab room are simply unable to run (plus, those are "Windows", unserious at best)

2) the Gods of the Sun Mainframe In the Basement decided you won't run: "Have your department head submit a request, LOL! X terminal access? No bandwidth for that, sorry."

The state of play has very much changed since then, so that term makes only sense to oldsters who want to keep young people off their lawn.

Today, get a cheap terminal and allocate CPUs in the cloud,

....until your personal AI needs a big machine right in your physical neighborhood.

Re: Huh?

This makes no fucking sense.

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In this scenario, the attacker has observed traffic across the switch and found that a specific machine is attempting to download a file located at the UNC path: \\10.0.0.100\Share\Login.bat

So cleary, a VPN isn't in use. The specific machine communicates in clear. From starbucks. Yeah, having extreme fun treating the starbucks LAN like like a Domain yet?

Re: Russians

Are you the newly minted commentard who has been tasked to tell us that all things Russian are shit?

Clown.

Re: Calling Pluto a planet was traditional too

Percival Lowell and Clive Tombaugh.

Seriously citation needed. I can't imagine people in 1930 being as keen on backronyms as people are today.

Re: "...there will always be a path of execution not covered by test scripts"

have been subject to MC/DC and full code coverage testing

Show that this kind of dead chicken waving would have detected the error. MC/DC testing is voodoo from a prior age at the best of times. Indeed, this paper says: "We believe that the rigor of the MC/DC metric is highly sensitive to the structure of the implementation and can therefore be misleading as a test adequacy criterion.". In other words: Your MC/DC testing value depends on how you write your program, i.e. on syntax. Ouch.

Theorem provers are what should be used today.

Re: Bizarre, but in the interests of science...

On the ISS? I hope that little device has ECC RAM (or at least a memory page hashsum check algorithm)?