So to paraphrase "MS Using Fat Gits for development."
Yes I can believe that.
2000 devs. 300GB of code.
It must be good.
Never mind the bugs, feel the bigness.
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And in most of the bad ways.
Ancient Rome ran on the basis of very powerful individuals wielding huge power. This only works if those individuals have a sense of "service" above personal self interest.
That's not a Democracy. That's not even how a well structured bureaucracy operates.
You can see why "Sweet" Pai is smiling.
How long has the bug been present?
How many others have been reported with this S/W?
How does that compare with equivalent apps installed as part of commercial OS's?
I'd suggest quite well but 90 days is a bit slow given how severe this seems.
They seemed pretty good at fixing client issues but this seems worse.
Exactly.
It's the modern equivalent of Roentgen's fogged plates. They had been exposed to "something" IE a ray, but something that can go through visibly opaque covers. Hence the "X rays"
In the same way "Dark Matter" and "Dark Energy" are placeholders for something that has to exist to cause the observed effects.
As always in proper science the candidate theories to explain what's happening have to explain all the behaviour and make testable predictions for what can be seen next. Eventually we will get a theory that does both and whose tests confirm it.
In this case O(1x10^-11) and O(1 x 10^9) --> 1x10^-2
IOW to get a 1% (actually about 0.6%) chance of finding something you need to see most (all?) of these particles having energies over the 1GeV mark to begin with
This assumes the machine's working alright and these particles are fairly numerous to begin with.
Note prolonged lack of detection suggests a) Particles not as numerous as thought (model wrong) b) Particles don't exist (model wrong)
Either way something has been learned and they continue to home on what is the real story.
Exiting times.
Also get automated log analysis tools and learn how to use them.
Other useful stuff.
Set up 1 or more test PC's with the standard network build and test each new patch on them before roll out. Get it in writing from a PHB if they don't want one or more (tested to work) patches installed if they are security related. IOW it's on them if there's a breach.
The eternal questions. What ports are open on this PC? Why exactly are they open? Can this PC be seen from the internet?
Who remembers the CDC and "Back Orifice?"
Or the rather natty Green on Black teeshirt?
Joking aside it is of course all about the pronouciation. Anal as in "analysis" of course.
Like that classic spoof dog food commercial. "Mate, with added vigor."
It's a free market, did you not know?
They are free to cross reference your data from other sources to build a very detailed picture of you that they can sell to retailers for money
Your free to give them your data.
That's a corporations definition of a free market.
Indeed. Electrocuted and bankrupt.
BTW Terry Gilliam always said he did not make up that idea for "Brazil." He said he got it from a report that some political prisoners had received essentially a bill for "time and materials" for their interrogation.
Water, electricity and skilled labor is expensive.
It already has been, with the DEA falsifying the source of some information against drug dealers where the "confidential informant" was in fact the NSA supplying phone and email data (although following their SOP this was probably a digested version, no direct quotes etc).
The rest are operating BAU.
If you are unable to verify a statement how can you know if it's true?
I think you've be very foolish to think the NSA does not have a Plan B to continue what their management seems to think is their "sacred" mission to spy on everyone, all the time, forever.
Yes. I missed that I'd written "prove" when I meant "probe."
That is the critical idea about how HFT's behave. Building up a picture of the market without having to commit funds first.
People have suggested a "transaction tax" to stop HFT's but HFT are already a transaction tax on the rest of the stock market.
Paid by every non HFT company in the market. for the benefit of HFT companies.
You're assuming that HFT are actually "speculating"
In fact they are reading the market (though their probe share deals) to find out who is buying and jump the queue. They have a guaranteed customer and a timing edge no real trader can afford to buy.
The real trader is gambling they have real insight into the share they are buying and that it will move as they predict.
IRL imagine someone following you around a shop and (just before you reached for something) buying all of it off the shelf before you did, then turning around and selling what you wanted at a price a bit more than the listed one.
That's what HFT does.
They are parasites.
Traders do make money on short term movements in the markets. A sharp trader really could see news of (say) a major oil spill by an oil company and plan to short (expecting it to fall) or wait (till it has fallen, expecting its price to recover fairly quickly) depending on it. That's a short time scale.
Let's be real. Once a company has sold its shares in the market any direct connection to improving the financial health of the company is gone. Everything else is a gamble on its future to make money by the traders.
What you are actually saying is that you don't like gambling and you want it to stop. That is unrealistic. But HFT's are not gambling. They've rigged the market so no one else can win.
In the sense of "Won't kill you outright." Which is why I chose the level, as I didn't want someone to die to prove that statement is bu***hit.
The CO2 level in your lungs is what triggers the human breathing cycle, not the lack of O2 (see what happens if you learn your science watching Deadpool?)
IRL symptoms are
"Breathing becomes extremely laboured, headaches, sweating and bounding pulse"
as listed here
No doubt some will say that sounds a bit like a hangover. But it's a permanent hangover and not drinking alcohol won't fix it.
My point exactly.
Of course you can bet it will get tricky due to investment in the local community. "Fairness" would suggest one center per state for each agency (yes, I know that's barking mad).
More sensible options would be
1)Roughly the geometric centre of the US (about where the US telephone network has it's time standard) to give (in theory) equal delays in all directions
2) Most seismically stable area for backup data center.
3) Coldest state to lower electricity bills.
4) Cheapest electricity state for raw input.
Least sensible option.
5) Washington DC. Because it's the seat (as in posterior) of government.
First you're behind the times. This is not a proposal. In IT language this is a plug-in for RIPA to spell out exactly what they want, where the original paragraph basically said "To be to determined."
Second is the fact you seem to think this is being driven by politicians. Did it not seem strange to you that 9 Home Secretaries from Labour and Conservative parties have spouted the same line?
IRL that's exactly what I expect to happen.
Without the UK the EU population is 678m Vs UK population 65m (Google listed 743m but I took off the UK figure), roughly 10.5x bigger.
IRL the UK could have easier qualification standards than the EU but so what? You've put in the effort and got access to a market 1/10.5 that of the EU. Why bother?
Unless an EU standard is massively stupid the UK will harmonize with EU standards anyway, without any say (hard Brexit, as promised by the Great & Glorious Leader herself) in how it's set.
Good to know the UK is "Taking back control (c)" is it not?
Not letting those pesky furriners dictate their absurdist Socialist fantasists to plucky Brits.
I see the headline "Brexit Takes Back Control (c) of the Internet (of Things)" (C Rabid Xenophobia Publications T/A The Daily Heil)
"tacking back control" "Take back control" and all variants thereof in terms of font and capitalization copyright 2016 Lynton Crosby
And the word (allegedly) came down "Milk the b**ch hard."
Local government.
Where the only think capable of making larger (alleged) savings than outsourcing is insourcing.
Mind you 3 years untangle this (when Whitehall cannot seem to untangle their contract on a timescale of decades) is greased lightning.
Let's see if the gradual sharing of back office services across the 12 councils of the region is more effective at actually saving money.
A fascinating article about how to move away from supporting a company like a bunch of stanalone PC's.
Having worked helpdesk I did indeed find recording the time spent on a job a PITA. What really p**sed me off was all PC's have clocks. I wanted to do
1)Go to job
2) Hit start button (yes I do want the control)
3)Hit stop button or pause (if I've been interrupted, and with a note box to remind why).
BTW Taking the top 10 help desk call reasons and fixing the root causes is what is some times called "Capability Maturation."
Something which seems as implausible in the UK today as it was a decade (or two) ago.
Looks like the Supremes have have felt this situation was well overdue for revision.
Damm right too. Is anyone else hearing the voice of Ron Pearlman saying "You dirty ol' Troll."
The downside is that in principle trolls could choose to still sue overseas companies in East Texas if they had no incorporated US office. But that would raise the question "Why are you suing them when they have a US subsidary to go after, that is incorporated in the US (but nowhere near E.Texas)?"
"Russia" has never been the target for the UK "independent" nuclear deterrent.
Moscow, and in particular the Kremlin is the main target. Any warheads left other will be assigned to high value targets to disable the Russian's ability to fight a war.
To be a deterrent with such a small force both the UK and France have to hurt their opponents in a way that makes them think twice about starting a war in the first place.
Actually I would have described a port scan as exactly like trying the doors on a building you work in.
Not attempting to enter (by your analogy), just test to see if it's open to begin with.
However if you're writing your own authorization letter you should probably include a clause to allow repeat scans whenever there is a significant change in the system, with "significant" being loosely or tightly defined on how awkward your boss is likely to be.