Posts by jake

For ground ("close air") support?

I'll take the A-10 against anything heavy. Harrier AV-8B for everything else.

Seems the USMC agrees with me.

Semper Fi.

It ain't a Jeep ...

... if it can't make the Rubicon run.

Corporate braggadocio not withstanding.

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Early riser, saturday morning, Sears Point:

"I thought I was in Sonoma for the Indy car race!

"Nobody told me there would be TARANTULAS!"

"sapiens" is from the Latin word for "wise"

I propose a new clade for so-called "social" media users: Homo Puerilis

One wonders ...

... how much harder "A Journalist Who Just Happened To Find This Interesting" could possibly back-peddle faster.

Seriously, dude/tte, you could have stood on roof roof & yelled "I'm tired of my spouse!" at the top of your lungs. Would have been simpler and faster, and none of your colleagues would have been any the wiser.

The thing about Palo Alto is ...

... It was designed & built as a bedroom community in the 1950s. Yes, the University Avenue and California Avenue corridors between Bayshore (now Hwy 101), the rail line, and The Farm (Stanford) existed back before WW1, and have large, expensive houses built by Professors at Stanford along them. But most of the town was built roughly during the Korean war.

The town planners decided that "the great outdoors" was important. Thus places like Mitchel Park, Rinconada Park, Foothills Park, and later the Astradero preserve (etc.).

My parents bought their house for US$12,000 in 1962.

Nice place to grow up. Nice place to live, as a kid.

Then the Intel 4004 happened ... Students at Stanford, Berkeley, San Jose State, Mission College, and San Francisco State, already noting that the Bay Area was a nice place to live, decided to stay here after graduation.

The word got 'round. SillyConValley became a "location". Many of the Engineers graduating from the above schools decided to stay and set down roots, regardless of where they came from. Most PaloAltans had no issue with this. We love our multiple ethnicities, for many reasons.

About 1980, a certain group of people who believe in numerology decided that the 94303 and 94306 zipcodes were "good luck". They out-bidded each other into purchasing nominally $120,000 properties into $450,000 properties.

The entire over inflation of property values on the mid-peninsula was driven by high-tech, and people from all over the world discovering that it's a nice place to live, having a reasonable degree, and the tech-boom providing really good wages.

Trying to describe this phenomena in terms relating to a 2000+ year old London is an exercise in futility. Palo Alto ain't old enough for that kind of thing.

Most native Palo Alto citizens aren't insane. Some of the imports might be.

Am I the only one ...

... who has noticed that anything labeled "smart" is targeted at people who have absolutely zero idea how the technology works, and thus are the most vulnerable?

Once again:

TehIntraWebTubes[tm] was built as a research network, designed to research networking. It was (and is) designed to share information, not hide it. Anybody who assumes otherwise is completely unclear on the concept.

"significant windows 10"

Isn't that an oxymoron? Just askin'

Marketing on drugs.

Never a good idea ... if you have a clue about security.

Oh, that's where I misplaced those.

jake, in Sonoma California.

(Plod, world-wide, is fairly clueless, in my estimation).

Agree on the H1-B comment.

That said, I'd volunteer to take a dump on Trump on national TV. That asshole needs to see the working end of the proletariat's assholes.

More succinctly:

IoT so-called security ... isn't.

One wonders how many of the engineering staff working on IoT were born before 1990 ... Back in my day (pre so-called IoT, of course), the conversation went something like this:

Management: MARKETING SEZ WE GOTTA SHIP IT!!!!

Engineer: Sorry, it's not ready to ship. I'm not signing off on it.

Marketing: BUT YOU HAVE TO! WE HAVE ADVERTISING READY!!!

Engineer: Ok, Marketing, YOU sign off on it.

Marketing: BUT WE'RE NOT QUALIFIED TO DO THAT!!!

Management: Now, now, Engineer. Be nice to Marketing. They have ADVERTISING!!!

Engineer: Then you sign off on it, Management. I'm not going to.

Management: We could FIRE you for this insurrection!!!

Engineer: Go ahead. Then you'll never have a working product.

Management: ::sputter::

Management: OK, WE'LL HIRE NEWLY MINTED ENGINEERS TO SIGN OFF!

Marketing: Yeah! That's EXACTLY what we'll do! (BTW, what does "sign off" mean?).

Management: (It's a technical term. I don't really get it either. Don't worry about it.)

Marketing: (Thank heavens for that. Ignoring technical stuff is easy for me.)

Engineer: Good luck with that, guys. I'm taking early retirement. Have fun.

RIP DEC

Out of curiosity ...

... who is funding this particular scramjet effort?

It's a GREAT idea, and will certainly be functional eventually, but today? Spendy, spendy,spendy. Lots of cash going into the ocean. Can the UOQ justify this all by itself?

Lovely.

Steve's spinning fast enough to power all to iFads world-wide.

"surprise and delight"? Really?

Everybody who enjoys the blight of billboards, please stand up and make yourselves known.

Plumbing's easy.

Fresh water is input.

Pipes move it about appropriately.

Grey & black water get shifted as needed.

Leaks are easily fixed, thanks to the UBC in your jurisdiction.

It's not exactly rocket science.

Slackware patched July 28th.

Thanks PV & team.

SHIT!

Why didn't Capital Hill think of that? Soak 'em out of money with the promise of virgins here on Earth! Gawd/ess knows there are any number of proliferate self portrait "sharers" out there. A little mild gimp manipulation to hide the (maybe not so) innocent, and Bob's your Uncle :-)

I much prefer my free upgrades to BSD and Slackware.

Between the pair of them, two decades later ... It just works.

Earth to Russia:

This het dude finds your opinion not only very, very retro, but also completely stupid. Do grow up and join the 21st century. Ta.

Why, exactly, do these things need outside connectivity in the first place?

If you've ever spent any time in a hospital (or a vet clinic, for that matter!), you'd know that there is always somebody within arm's reach when pushing life&death drugs mechanically.

Marketards in charge of engineering will undoubtedly be the death of humanity ... and are probably the biggest signal that humanity is an evolutionary dead-end.

I've been fiddling with it for a couple months.

Still recommending BSD on the servers & Slackware on the desktops to my clients. One exception is AutoCAD, and that on air-gapped systems only.