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Yes, I'm well aware of that. It's another instance of GIGO.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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It would be reasonable to expect doing nothing to be an easy, simple task for a kernel, but it isn't. "People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."
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Farm Bitcoins maybe 
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An idle CPU is the devil's playground 
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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A new survey of senior IT decision makers at some of the world's largest organizations that still rely on legacy mainframe systems reveals that most want to move away from the technology due to the high cost and inflexibility that it has brought to their business. This survey brought to you by every year since about 1985
And it's about as likely to happen as it did in any of those years
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Are there any reportable cases of major businesses actually reducing the number of mainframes they're using or stopping all together, or is this just a rehash of the last 20+ years of businesses stating they want to but not successfully following through due to various reasons (financial or technical)?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I've only ever heard of one or two big companies switching off their mainframe (and one went to SAP of all horrors). Thus my comment about "every year since 1986". I think the writers just dust off this article/survey regularly.
Of course the way it was worded in this one was accurate - they "want" to move off the mainframe. It just ain't going to happen in this lifetime.
TTFN - Kent
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Dan Neely wrote: Are there any reportable cases of major businesses actually reducing the number of mainframes they're using or stopping all together
Company takes well documented, well designed, and well tested legacy system written in COBOL and starts replacing pieces of it, implemented by junior devs, with no consideration of requirements for design changes necessitated by a different programming language and DB architecture, no consideration for documentation, and certainly no testing other than "compare your output with what the legacy system produced" which is actually useful but doesn't cover the majority of scenarios, not to mention edge cases. And after 12 years of so-called development (during which the language, framework, ancillary technologies and 3rd party interfaces have expanded, changed, or gone out of vogue), the legacy system still hasn't been replaced.
Of course this kind of behavior wouldn't be reported.
And no, I'm not making this up. 
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modified 13-Oct-18 10:29am.
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Actually, I was part of a team working for the U.S. Army to rewrite and/or convert all mainframe code to client/server in the late 1990s - Y2K worries basically. Did all MF code at Fort Sill, Fort Leavenworth, and a major part of Fort Benning (watched the base commander actually cut the mainframe plug with a axe for framing).
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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Some nice momentum for privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo which has just announced it’s hit 30 million daily searches a year after reaching 20M — a year-on-year increase of 50%. Or about 12.5 minutes of Google's day
Sorry, I feel a little mean-spirited posting this one.
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Even the best AI programs still make stupid mistakes. So DARPA is launching a competition to remedy the field’s most glaring flaw. Step 0: agree on common sense?
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How was it... Sad about common sense is that is not so common.
How can you teach something you don't have?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Self-preservation is part of common sense. Hence, it cannot be part of anything military 
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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First they need to define military intelligence.
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 military intelligence::= MI
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Step 0: agree on common sense?
Step 1: Start a war to impose your version of common sense.
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Republican senators start inquiry in Google's handling of Google+ security breach. Maybe they posted the memo to Google+ and no one noticed it?
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Google likely did the math based on the Yahoo fine and concluded that the SEC fine would be worth it. The SEC needs to multiply the Yahoo fine by ten or a hundred and see if Google remains so cavalier.
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Guess they'll have to alert the tens of thous..hundred... okay ten people, that their information might be compromised. Maybe put an alert on facebook.
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And those ten will ask, "What's Google+?"
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Some of science's biggest mysteries are in outer space. The identity of dark matter and dark energy involve fundamental questions about how the Universe is constructed. If you instead are interested in mysteries about what the Universe is doing, then fast radio bursts may be at the top of the enigma list. Someone check the microwave (again)
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I think the aliens have confiscated the earths supply of Microsoft zunes(I haven't seen any lately) and are broadcasting their play lists.
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Mozilla, along with Omidyar Network, Schmidt Futures, and Craig Newmark Philanthropies, has launched an initiative for professors, graduate students, and teaching assistants at U.S. colleges and universities to integrate and demonstrate the relevance of ethics into computer science education at the undergraduate level. Just posting this to see if anyone remember the item from yesterday about ethics not affecting developers
And because YE GODZ, but it's an incredibly slow, slow news day.
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Internet users around the world may experience network connection failures on Thursday as the main domain servers and related infrastructure controlling the web will be powered down for some time. Downloading cat videos and stockpiling Twitter rage, just in case
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