mhurron

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by mhurron 11y ago
> They're stopping that one spy program everybody knows about Yes, I'm sure it will stop.
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by mhurron 11y ago
Thundercloud, not Thunderbolt. There's a big difference.
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by mhurron 11y ago
> What does this role really do? Act as a stepping stone to bigger positions in the private sector.
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by mhurron 11y ago
Lenovo doesn't care that your individual security minded person had an issue with it, Lenovo cares that their volume purchasers continue to purchase in volume. They weren't impacted and they don't care. There are basically no
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by mhurron 11y ago
In 18 months no one will remember this. Honestly, corporations face basically no repercussions from customers because of doing stupid or outright malicious things.
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by mhurron 11y ago
> Coffee is ingrained into the culture of many professions, far beyond just office jobs. Exactly, so it could be very silly to claim that any benefits to coffee are actually because of it being a part of healthy lifestyles. I too, like t
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by mhurron 11y ago
You're projecting your own lack of self control to everyone else with no evidence to back it up.
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by mhurron 11y ago
I wasn't talking about the title of the article, but in general. Those in support of these surveillance programs have worked hard to conflate 'something to hide' with 'something illegal' so that most people will go
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by mhurron 11y ago
Exactly. The phrase 'something to hide' has become synonymous with 'something illegal' or 'you're doing something wrong', when in reality everyone has things they simply wish to keep private.
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by mhurron 11y ago
> But if you look at it purely in terms of your own self-interest, the opposite is true. It's one less car in your lane slowing you down - no different at all from an actual carpooler. The "carpool cheater" is doing you a
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by mhurron 11y ago
or the animal, or several combinations of the city and the animal. But definitely not a sentence.
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by mhurron 11y ago
But in reality that's not the prosecutors call to make. In the US laws are challenged in the court system, or overturned by lawmakers. I would say that the current government in the US is not going to be open to changing these things s
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by mhurron 12y ago
> How about hiring strippers for a funeral? Most funerals I've been too really did need something to liven them up.
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by mhurron 12y ago
Not to say there aren't a lot of shitty admins, however - > compromised via Joomla and Wordpress exploits Lots of Wordpress installations are not run by someone who should know better. Hell a lot of servers on the internet are run b
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by mhurron 12y ago
That's the best part about these words, they can mean whatever anyone wants them to mean. Also, what I said really shouldn't be counted as any interesting data point. I was simply responding to someone who thought, based on what t
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by mhurron 12y ago
To your anecdote, I hardly see Ubuntu mentioned in the enterprise space. Ubuntu is a little desktop player like Apple.
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by mhurron 12y ago
What software company in the US isn't bringing in huge military contracts?
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by mhurron 12y ago
> WSUS just caches updates locally New updates do supersede others though, if they're marked to do so from Microsoft. That should cover at least some of the .Net point release updates and the like.
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by mhurron 12y ago
"No." -Donald Knuth Edit: Now, now, I'm pretty sure he has said that at least once in his life.
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by mhurron 12y ago
> I currently have Jenkins build an OS image every two weeks, just so our Deployment Server has an up to date image. Ya, lots of tools have made this easier recently, but thinking about it, doesn't WSUS handle this? I haven't b
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by mhurron 12y ago
The way around this is to update your deployment images from time to time. It's one reason I liked service packs, new service pack comes out, generate a new install image.
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by mhurron 12y ago
With the size of the Great Lakes, it wouldn't be that surprising that some bays or inlets would be clean while others were disgusting. I don't know about Lake Michigan, but I wouldn't really have advocated swimming in the par
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by mhurron 12y ago
Scheduling conflicts? Requiring others to flop their lives by 180 degrees so you can play a round of golf is a scheduling conflict? And the joke here is being used to illustrate a point (that the engineer thought of a solution when no one e
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by mhurron 12y ago
Well, I would say that the Doctor offered to explore a solution to the firefighters issue, the engineer offered a work-around that would make his life easier at the expense of others. "Have you turned it off and on again?"
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by mhurron 12y ago
> 2. DO NOT COMPLAIN TO HR/LEGAL. Only say good things about your boss and how's he's so intelligent and you really respect his leadership and blah blah. Swallow your pride and openly acknowledge his criticisms of you and
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by mhurron 12y ago
If you're fired in the US you may not be able to get unemployment either.
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by mhurron 12y ago
Does that include this article that said something very similar?
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by mhurron 12y ago
> exactly how is that not complete and total defeat The US just left. They left with egg on their face and not looking so superpowery but neither Vietnam or the USSR were in a position to do anything to the US. The US lost, but the US wa
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by mhurron 12y ago
> I cannot see how US Military leaders should not be tried for their actions in an international court. War crimes are a final insult of the victor over the vanquished. While the US was not victorious in Vietnam, neither were they defeat
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by mhurron 12y ago
> Eventually we have to get a re-boot of these characters Why? For instance James Bond worked just fine with simply replacing whomever was playing Bond from time to time. > You can only drag someone to see an origin story so many time

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