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Mosul dam engineers warn it could fail at any time, killing 1M people(theguardian.com)
522 points by larrymcp 11y ago|247 comments
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by larrymcp 11y ago
Don't forget "leverage" instead of "use", "orthogonal" instead of "unrelated", and "onboarding" instead of "training"!
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by larrymcp 11y ago
To play devil's advocate: Mr. Cook expressed concern that "the government could intercept your messages, access your health records or financial data, track your location, or even access your phone's microphone or camera with
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by larrymcp 11y ago
The author doesn't say why this is worrisome. He just says he's worried "that the PKI front-end (auth.startssl.com) is now hosted within a Chinese Antivirus Company, who uses a Chinese ISP for 2 months and that there hasn&#x
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by larrymcp 11y ago
Funny, I was wondering the same thing. I use the AWS console all the time and have to scratch my head when people say how horrific it is. I presume it's because some people just enjoy criticizing stuff. :)
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by larrymcp 11y ago
I heartily agree! I do it all the time. The only stuff I really downvote is uncivil comments / mean people.
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by larrymcp 11y ago
Heh, this reminded me of when Z-100 used to say: "if it's too loud... you're too old ."
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by larrymcp 11y ago
Uh-oh, the attacks started again a few minutes ago: http://status.linode.com/incidents/mkcgnmjmnnln
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by larrymcp 11y ago
oh, whoops...
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by larrymcp 11y ago
True... but by pulling jQuery from Google's CDN for example, you theoretically save page-load time anyway. If multiple sites pull from the same CDN, then it's already cached in the user's browser.
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by larrymcp 11y ago
At first I was horrified: from the headline I thought we were predicting that vertical videos would become the norm for a generation. "Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!" (whew)
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by larrymcp 11y ago
We use WinSCP also, a file copying utility; it would be useful to know whether that's affected if anybody has that info.
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by larrymcp 11y ago
Oh my goodness no: I don't feel like that at all! Life just keeps getting better and better for humanity, year after year, and technology drives a lot of that. No reason to think it's gonna stop now...
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by larrymcp 11y ago
"Je suis Linode" what an awesome sentiment... I just signed up for a Linode server. Going to use it for part of our offsite backup storage and to monitor some nodes on our primary network. Huzzah...
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by larrymcp 11y ago
In this one they're both possessive... so to avoid looking unprofessional it would be: friends' phones' background images And on the web site, photos is not possessive, so it would be spelled: photos
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by larrymcp 11y ago
Thanks; I hadn't seen that that page from Google and that's a pretty good idea to make that available. You know what would be a cool idea: if Google developed a method of copying an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) to Google Cloud. Th
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by larrymcp 11y ago
Hmm. Well, somehow these heavy-hitters have presumably done their research and then chose AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/ I see your characterization of AWS above as "terrible", but
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by larrymcp 11y ago
Congrats on the domain name! I like the name and it's rare to be able to get something catchy these days.
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by larrymcp 11y ago
It was funny when the chick at Starbucks called me "sir". Heh.. "sir"... that didn't happen when I was in my early 20's...
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by larrymcp 11y ago
Yep... I didn't take my GF to the office Christmas party, cuz I didn't wanna hear the comments. ay!
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by larrymcp 11y ago
Well if this is a "race" as the headline says, it sure is gonna be a long race, folks. These cars haven't yet been programmed to handle things like snow-covered roads where you can't see the lines, or construction zones
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by larrymcp 11y ago
I am seriously looking forward to a response from PeopleSpark about this post. Will stay tuned! Edit: It does appear that they've made major changes to their site since those screen shots were taken.
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by larrymcp 11y ago
The Mythbusters guys did a segment on the Monty Hall Paradox. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mykzd Cool...
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by larrymcp 11y ago
Here's a random one I noted from 1983: From: KIM::CALFEE 16-DEC-1983 13:50 To: @SYS$MAIL:COINOP Subj: Atari 800 Software Theft It has been brought to my attention that some stolen Atari computer software may now be
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by larrymcp 11y ago
Oh my goodness, yes definitely... I love my job, love my work, the bosses are fantastic... I am living testimony that it's possible. Don't know how common this is though. I work crazy long hours because the work is so much fun,
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by larrymcp 11y ago
Oh, this actually works great at AWS, yeah! We've been sending transactional e-mails from our servers at Amazon for a couple of years. They do require you to request the e-mail ports be unblocked, but once we made the request it was
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by larrymcp 11y ago
> Add to that the possibility that one's account will be closed for no reason and without recourse, and you have the most unstable platform for apps imaginable. We use AWS heavily and I considered the very same possibility. My solu
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by larrymcp 11y ago
Oh wow... I didn't know Google lacks the ability for customers to specify reverse DNS. I had assumed any full-service cloud provider would offer this feature. If Google doesn't have configurable RDNS, they're not a "o
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by larrymcp 11y ago
Wouldn't the office inevitably start smelling like that familiar "dog smell"? Maybe that's okay with them... but personally I'm not sure I'd want that aroma wafting all around my workplace.
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by larrymcp 11y ago
Friend, I humbly submit that XP was their best.

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