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GartzenDeHaes

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About GartzenDeHaes

Do not fear them. Do not believe them. Do not obey them.

#resist

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    Comment #47556148

    Good thing they won't be needing any of that LNG from the Gulf.

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    Comment #45467195

    COBOL used to drive some government and business web sites. You could tell because the HTML was output in 100 column fixed width format.

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    Comment #45380214

    > they wouldn’t have to worry about competing CPU designs, at least not for a very long time. US Government sales require two vendors, which I think is why AMD had x86 licenses in …

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    Comment #45326659

    The uniform scale of the symbols is deceptive since the source drawings have substantially different sizes. The hand outline is hand sized, for instance.

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    Comment #45306319

    H-1B is for difficult-to-find specialists and O-1 is for people with extraordinary ability in their field. H-2B is for ordinary workers.

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    Comment #45176125

    Hardware attestation. They say vendors are pushing this like crazy at security and government conferences.

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    Comment #45146247

    Just like during the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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    Comment #45134570

    Getting ready for doomsday? You need a solar powered, wifi-enabled, offline wikipedia server. https://piwithvic.com/offline-wikipedia-with-kiwix/

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    Comment #44730538

    That's what the specs say, but I found out it actually didn't work that way when I was working on a transpiler, at least for that installation.

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    Comment #44716243

    People aren't getting that it was two characters that need to be added, not two bytes to make a short into an int. COBOL uses a fixed width character format for all data (yes even …

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    Comment #44295212

    Gen. Ripper is getting some validation now that fluoride is being banned in some places.

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    Comment #42307156

    Here one example. Al-Qaeda was the name of Osama bin Laden's legitimate political party in Saudi Arabia, which he kept separate from his jihadist activities in Afghanistan. There i…

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    Comment #41166558

    'explosively pumped flux compression generator', is an EMP generator I think.

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    Comment #41166543

    I think older TOW, AT-2, and other such missiles used wires rather than fiber optics. Fiber optics is thinner, which would give it a much longer range presumably.

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    Comment #40944661

    > which could enable high-speed flight and longer range across numerous multi-mission aircraft This is DoD language, so more secret drones I would think.

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    Comment #40574077

    > main threat is from malware that compromises SYSTEM It's a keylogger -- the system IS the malware.

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    Comment #40544405

    Remember George Zimmerman? People aren't going to do what you say just because you have a gun.

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    Comment #40523860

    By diagnosing more things, performing more procedures, and prescribing more pharmaceuticals. The opioid crisis, for example.

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    Comment #40484567

    It seems as if the people who rave about it's coding abilities are doing a lot of copy+paste stack overflow level of coding. I'm not sure whether it's great that this can be automa…

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    Comment #40484405

    How long before people start non-ironically wearing their prompts on tshirts or putting them on business cards?

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    Comment #40447857

    There are two sides to this: investigations and monitoring. For HR and security investigations, this rewind capability would be very useful, is legal, and at least partially alread…

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    Comment #40428671

    SOX was implemented with COBIT 4, Control Objectives for IT. This introduced a lot of process and cost overhead, so COBIT 5 removed the control objectives -- it's just a list of IT…

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    Comment #40422432

    Probably whatever they're calling Windows Store apps now, universal windows app or something. These are .net applications that are natively compiled when installed (I think).

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    Comment #40422281

    It's wild to think the world of 2001 A Space Odyssey seemed very possible to the people of the late 1960's. They went to the moon in only about 10 years, so a Jupiter mission in an…