Re: "suddenly become vapor..."
A hell of a lot of Bitcoin trades are drug dealer / illegal-arms exchanges that are high risk anyway...
Ransomeware probably should also be included on that list...
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I've heard several different versions of what he supposedly said. It was in response to a test against F-16's and F-18's. Those planes never saw the F-35 coming in on their radar (supposedly). Only when the F-35 turned on it's transponder did they know where the F-35 was.
So... maybe it's ready for something or almost ready for something or maybe there's a deadline tic box on a PowerPoint that needed ticking?
To be cynical, I guess its harder to scrape cash off the top if you just buy an already working system, then if you "develop" a brand new one...
Also they need to employ all those graduates of the their "tech" universities... The ones left in India after the others have high-tailed it to jobs in other countries....
Icon ------------------> For those lucky enough to get employment outside of India even as an outsourced developer.
Based on your paragraph #2... that's where I sit. No my mind isn't made up except to reject the first two numpties. As for the two popping their heads up now... it's toss up for the entertainment value. It kind of reminds me of listening to Spiro Agnew or watching Gerald Ford...
I do believe there's a bunch of folks taking a hard look at their choice between the first two and wondering "what the hell were we thinking?". Or at least, I would hope they are.
FTR, my state is so late in the primary process, the vote itself is pretty much meaningless.
Re: And how does that make it a "service?
RE: "It helps to look at as in when a Bull 'services' a Cow, then it makes perfect sense."
Ahhh. So sex is a bad thing? I must be doing it wrong.
If you're of the bovine species, you're doing fine. But if you are of the bovine species, why are you here unless you work in marketing that is?
No restitution for customers? No jail time for the board? If you or I did this, we would face both these penalties in addition to a fine, but being a corporation, they basically get a slap on the hands and get away with it. Corporate fraud is approved somewhere and ultimately, it's the C-Suite and the board that's responsible. Maybe if jail time were an option for the upper manglement, this would become a thing of the past.
I think it's the last sentence of your post. But there also seems to be a revolving door policy... Booted from MS.. goto Cisco... booted from Cisco, goto HP.. etc. etc. Funny thing is, the people I've known that do this never, ever, retrain on "new tech"... they just sell it.
The church in question demands it of their priests, nuns, and monk types so they will be more "like Jesus". A quick look at the saints is an interesting read unto itself.
OTOH, this is the same church that doesn't believe in birth control and sex is only for procreation... which gets the number of members higher.
Nah.. it's a Monday morning Urinating Contest with the contestants going for distance and accuracy.
Disclaimer... I don't play it and have no desire to, but it is an interesting phenomena none the less. I have friends of my age (late 60's) and I think it's great that they are playing. Oh wait.. I just peed on the lawn.
They've had auto-feeders for years for pets. (Yeah.. farms have had them also). And this long before IoT or even the internet. Why buy and then keep paying? If your WAN connection goes down... doggie dies.
One of the fun things about having a pet is feeding time....
If you have to rely on the Internet to feed your pet, you shouldn't have a pet. Sadly, there's a lot of owners who are merely owners and not a bud with their pet. It's a possession that they haven't a clue about.
One of the pure joys in life is when I feed our dog. You'd think she won the lottery or something. And when she's done, she comes and lays on my feet or asks to sit on my lap.
Or maybe the other way around... geek lady with a line of admiring guys? Given the way the world is, any thing even remotely similar will offend someone. Best to stay with inanimate objects in ads... except for the beer commercials and maybe the 'Old Spice' label about "your grandfather"...
Perhaps the publishers (site owners, etc.) need to push back on the advertising networks. There's a reason folks us adblockers and scriptblockers. There's a reason for readers not clicking on ads. It's not about "relevancy" or any of those other buzzwords... It's fear and annoyance. Fear of the cyber crim and malware. And annoyance by intrusive ads that take over the whole screen. Then there's ones that when you manage to get rid of it, another takes it's place until you finally click out of the site you went to read.
We users are mad as hell.. maybe the publishers need to get mad as hell. The advertisers seem to see themselves as the victims here and not the cause and that's just plain BS.
It does smell like the "fix" was in before the auction began, doesn't it? Maybe ICANN is taking the money to get them through the upcoming lean times after the next bubble burst?
Maybe in a couple of months, someone needs to take a quick look around the parking lot and see how many new Ferraris, etc. are there?
I think it's a stepping-stone approach. We've landed (hard and bounced but landed) on a comet and walked on the moon. Both, with no atmosphere and rather lifeless. We can do that. But Mars has an atmosphere (ok.. not much... granted) and gravity.
Mars gives us an opportunity to fine tune the landings and the exploration vehicles. Other than Mars, the only other chance for finding life* seems to be outside the solar system which will take some pretty extreme engineering and project life (time) to accomplish.
If we don't discover life, I'd like to think we want to find a planet that can support our life form. Finding is one thing, getting there and landing is another.
*Life as we define it. Might be life elsewhere that's not carbon based.
Let's give him a bit of credit... he's a media darling because he's a walking soundbite. The public knows him as the "you're fired" guy and either don't remember or don't know his past history.
I won't go into the Hillary as it's not relevant to this. I'm equally disgusted by her also.
Also carry a packet of honey from one of the fast food joints. After the clamping, squirt some honey on it to draw some flies and maybe ants. Then go outside, have a cup of coffee, maybe a cigarette or two and then call the cops.
However, in the US atmosphere lately, one could probably be sued for using the vice grips... so maybe, clamp, honey, and leave....
Icon... I'm feeling a bit evil today....