Craiggybear

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by Craiggybear 14y ago
When the other board members bring charges ... Which they might or might not, depending on the true financial picture of FB. I am certain I would take offence at 1bn being spent on my behalf without prior consultation. Its actually a crimin
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by Craiggybear 14y ago
People used to go to jail for this type of shit. When we had fiscal oversight and corporate law.
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by Craiggybear 14y ago
No. I do sometimes, but I do take the train and bus (which incidentally costs a fortune) because I'd pass out at the wheel. This has never happened but its always in my mind. Besides there's (typically) nowhere to park. I've decided to leav
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by Craiggybear 14y ago
Free consultancy. Looks good on the CV I suppose. And, ok, its probably quite fun -- but I was paid double this in 1991 (£10,000) for a week/10 days -- my first consultancy. It wasn't even NASA or a mega-corp. It was documentation on the Vi
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by Craiggybear 14y ago
Yeah -- no mention of a linux client. Shame on them.
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by Craiggybear 14y ago
Thanks for that!
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by Craiggybear 14y ago
Its interesting -- my little rural library is very good. If you want a book they don't have, you fill in a card and they will either requisition it from somewhere else or they will buy it. Although I'm rural, the local amenities are actua
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by Craiggybear 14y ago
Like you, I couldn't even entertain this had I not an enormous load of audiobooks and a Kindle loaded with hundreds of titles. Most of which I've read. And listened to. At least twice.
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by Craiggybear 14y ago
It is absolutely batshit fucking crazy. And I don't even like the work. Partly my own fault because I chose several years ago to live in quite a rural area. Still, not worth the hassle.
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by Craiggybear 14y ago
No, lets face it, it is sub-optimal for anyone. I'll be leaving soon anyway. I couldn't keep that up indefinitely. Although, weirdly, there are those in there who do even further commutes.
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by Craiggybear 14y ago
I leave at 4.30 pm. I get in at 8.00 am, so I figure eight hours is enough -- any longer than that is pointless because I'm too tired. I have a three/four hour commute on top of this and have to be up at 5.15 am. I get back home around 6.45
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by Craiggybear 14y ago
> Ants have very complex social structure and engineering abilities - but are they intelligent? They are differently enabled. Evolution gave them all they need to thrive and be successful. Intelligence is, in evolutionary terms, very
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by Craiggybear 14y ago
You may have assets that are worth, or potentially worth, a lot -- now or in the future. The reality is, for some, the value of their digital dabblings will be worth as much, if not more, than their tangible assets -- if not today then seve
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by Craiggybear 14y ago
Actually, only about 5% is. The rest has more local origin.
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by Craiggybear 14y ago
Small cell, granuloma, take your pick. The data is available world-wide. The fact is that lung cancer is one from which there is never a good prognosis regardless of type. People can expect 4-5 years on average (although I know people who h
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by Craiggybear 14y ago
The longer you live the less like "cosmic woo-woo" it gets. Believe me. It becomes a mundane certainty. And if you can't give people the benefit of the doubt when you are well, then when it comes time for you to bear whatever cross comes
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by Craiggybear 14y ago
Because, like AI, molecular biology is complicated and there are no quick hacks . Some things are meant to take time and be right. First time. Survival rates are spectacularly better than they were fifteen or twenty years ago and they are
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by Craiggybear 14y ago
“Well look at her, she’s beautiful, she’s rich, she’s smart, she’s an amazing cook, and did it all with with kids. No one should have all that.” She also watched her husband and father of those children, John Diamond, die a long, slow linge
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by Craiggybear 14y ago
There are no legal definitions for being a programmer. There are for being a medical practitioner or a civil engineer. Only practising doctors who are certified to practice may prescribe. Only legally certified civil engineers who after
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by Craiggybear 14y ago
Ah, of course. How stupid of me to think that they would have an empirical definition or set of legal definitions that actually was robust and made coherent sense. Why bother with the hard stuff when opinionated prejudice gets you where you
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by Craiggybear 14y ago
"Think port scanners, password crackers, vulnerability identification and exploitation tools. Any reasonable person would consider these to be 'hacking tools'" But, once again, these are all perfectly legitimate system engineering tools and
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by Craiggybear 14y ago
Everything is a hacking tool. Every programming language and every pre-existing piece of software, every computer and every phone is a potential hacking tool. Thought itself is the biggest hacking tool. How are these fucking morons going to
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by Craiggybear 14y ago
It is full of excellent advice. But, you know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Somewhere along the line my fear is that it'll get forgotten and bad practice will start slipping in. That not everyone will be singing from th
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by Craiggybear 14y ago
Thanks for this. It concisely and exactly sums up my feelings in a nutshell.
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by Craiggybear 14y ago
Nice!
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by Craiggybear 14y ago
I've not used Perl in any real way for years but I am now brushing up on it again. You can do neat one-liners in Python or Ruby but I've always liked Perl for this kind of thing. I also have a weird penchant for using BASH scripting to do
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by Craiggybear 14y ago
Who needs actual "enemies of the state" when you have Senators like Joe Liberman?
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by Craiggybear 14y ago
I wouldn't go out of my way to support it either. If it happens to work in IE, then fine. If not, tough Rocco's.
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by Craiggybear 14y ago
What I can't get my head around here is how these employers know someone has a FB (or any other) account, and what Earthly bloody business they imagine that it has to do with them? Next, are they going to be asking for your bank card PIN nu
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by Craiggybear 14y ago
My original point was merely that FTP is far from dead for general purpose file transfer. It can still be quite safe if precautions are taken with encrypting the data first. Anyone looking at it will see nothing but gobbledegook, naturally.

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