There's plenty of productive things you can do if you have your basic needs securely covered well enough to not need to pinch every penny. Some of them may lead to employment, some will never pay a dime.
What drives people to drugs is constantly hearing that your job defines you and not able to get a job. That and being at the mercy of petty bureaucrats who might at any time decide to make you jump through hoops to get what you need to live. Another thing that drives people to drugs is the way that any gainful activity is punished by taking away more than they made. e good month could lead to a year of ruin if you don't hide it well enough.
A blank check implies that you can draw any amount you want any time you want. I don't think that's a very apt description of UBI. At the least, it's a humongous exaggeration.
Now, yes. Then no. Then it meant wire used to wrap the solenoid in a bell (and similar applications). Now people frequently enough mis-use the term to mean the wire that goes from the button to the bell that we call the enameled stuff magnet wire. Of course, bell wire was originally insulated with paraffin dipped cotton cloth, but times change.
Totally off topic, but one of the recommended videos on that page was "Hacking Juiceroos DRM fruit bags". What the hell is wrong with this world? Picture yourself shopping at the Big Star back in '77 looking at a can of chopped fruit and someone walks up and says "one day that fruit will include advanced integrated circuits to make sure you only use that fruit in an approved manner. It will be illegal to get around it".
RadioShack was mortally wounded and trying to die back when the internet was dial-up and there was no Amazon.com. AOL was still a walled garden and Compu$erve was spelled with a dollar sign. If you had a full T1, you were a big player on the internet.
Exactly this. Their staff used to be primarily retired engineers and EEs looking for supplemental income that wouldn't overly hinder studying. Many were hams. You want advice on a project? They knew what they were talking about.
I knew RS was going down the first time I walked into one, asked where the bell wire was and they had no clue what I was asking for. I tried "enamel coated wire" and they still had no clue. "That kind of orangy colored wire like you see in a speaker" didn't ring any bells (sorry for the pun) either. I might as well have been speaking Venusian.
It seems their management forgot what their name even meant.
Towards the end of RS, had I wanted a digital multimeter NOW, Home Depot would be a better choice than RS.
Since I was using BTRFS, I sincerely doubt mdadm was the problem. What I was seeing was another manifestation of the same basic issue, systemD THOUGHT it understood the dependencies but in fact, it did not. That's why it wouldn't even try the mount command.
The systemd design failure is that it refuses to acknowledge that there can be such a situation where it has no idea what the dependencies might be. It demands that everything else must conform to it's concept of what constitutes a dependency. It doesn't even have a way to tell it "use this external program to decide if dependencies have been met" nor does it have a way to tell it just give it a try and if the command returns no error, all is well.
Bottom line, stubbing systemd out and using SysV to bring the VM up worked flawlessly. One of MS's sins is that they demand a perfect world in order to work correctly and will not allow the admin to tell it to just give it a try. Systemd shares that sin. Without systemd, a great advantage of Linux is that when the actually intelligent human knows more than the system, the system will defer to his of her judgement and the job gets done.
I gave systemD a spin on a VM to see if it would be suitable. Unfortunately, it flunked when I disconnected a redundant drive and it flatly refused to even attempt to mount/home in degraded mode. It just dropped me to the emergency shell. I attempted the mount command by hand to see the diagnostics and iot worked perfectly. It seems there is no way to make a command imperative. I looked on the mailing lists and found exactly the same problem with RAID. The response was a collective shrug.
I can absolutely work around that problem, but I can't just put aside the fact that the developers just don't give a crap because it would be a hard problem and their architecture won't accommodate a solution cleanly.
It's just too brittle for me to want it in charge of a server.
The catch is that the cable internet will be the same crap company that provides the cable TV. Available internet options may have data caps too low to support replacing cable TV with streaming. Or they may mysteriously have a bunch of dropped packets when you try to stream from any popular service they don't own. They will definitely not do any of the logical engineering they would do if they were internet only (such as placing caching systems on their network to relieve upstream traffic).
The problem is that the cable companies strive to be just barely better than nothing. They can get away with that because they carefully avoid competition. In many markets they have worked very hard to make sure that you can't see any of the local sports over broadcast TV.
If you want to call just barely better than nothing satisfaction, that's your call.
It really wasn't homophobic. It would have the same meaning and same offensiveness if Trump was a woman (removing the homosexual element).
As for the rest, as far as the FCC is concerned, it doesn't matter what he actually said, only what actually went over the air. *BEEP* isn't actionable.
Fingerprint scanners can be fooled fairly easily. Two easy to fool things may discourage casual access, but it's hardly TLA type stuff. It's well within the reach of crazy ex or business rival.
Probably because they use their tremendous buying power to say, "We will pay no more than X. That gives you a fair profit", and the pharmaceutical companies freely choose to accept the offer.
The real question is why is Medicare legally bound to shout "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!" instead?
Economist: OMG! If the debt goes over X, the economy goes over a cliff
"Leaders": AUSTERITY!!! AUSTERITY!!! (well, except for that tax cut for my buds and and the programs that boost their profitability)
Student: OH! WAIT! Math error. There's no cliff"
"Leaders":What?
Student: I said there's no cliff, it was a silly math error
"Leaders": WHAT???
Student: The paper was wrong! No need to replace the safety net with broken glass!
"Leaders:" I CANNN'T HEEEEEEEEAR YOUUUUUUUU!
Or, to put it another way
Sales: Boss, sales are down. Our custiomers say our products are outdated. We need to revamp the line.
Boss:YOU FOOL! We can't do product development when sales are down. And better cut 30% from the marketing budget until sales recover!
Since this thread was about longer trips, and I already indicated electric is practical for around town, it's odd you're complaining about longer trips being an edge case.
I'm guessing you prefer the interstates over the 'scenic routes' where there aren't so many superchargers.
It is still necessary to plan the trip around the available chargers. One cannot simply stop along the way and drive around to see the sights for a bit without risk of not reaching the next charger. When there are enough that wherever you're going and whatever you're doing, there will be a charger, like there is with gas stations, then it will be sufficient.
Close enough that when it's getting low, I can just look for a place rather than needing to pull it up on Google. Preferably, enough that I can be confident I will find a place where I can eat while I recharge. For example, when I can see on the interstate, a sign showing the food options at the next exit and more than one has a charger emblem on it.
That's not to say I wouldn't consider an electric as an in-town car until then.
Now, it is a problem because the infrastructure just isn't there. Eventually, even the long charge times become less important since you will charge while you are in the bathroom or eating.
OTOH, "the" is properly spelled with thorn (the letter of the alphabet). But some young wags started spelling it with "th" or sometimes "y". Note it is still correctly pronounced as "the", not "yee". The latter is a word (spelled "ye" now but once spelled "ge") that has fallen entirely out of favor except in a few very formal and somewhat ritualistic settings.
Of course, formal writing generally should avoid the latest trends, yet it would be quite confusing (and annoying) if it insisted on Middle English. Today's informal writing is tomorrow's formal writing.
You can NEVER completely disable the ME. It is required to boot at all. If the BMC is turned off, it will compromise nothing.
There is a compelling reason to have the BMC ON by default. If it is ON, it can easily be turned off locally or remotely, but if it is OFF from the factory, you can't just have someone rack it and turn it over to you.
The BMCs used for IPMI have far less ability to spy on the running system than the ME does. The older BMCs only had a serial connection that the OS could choose to ignore. Newer ones can see the console (which a server can ignore) and a virtual drive (which the OS can ignore). They can be entirely disabled (including removing it from the board if you're paranoid) or restricted to a management network (physically separate or vlan, your choice).
In contrast, the ME cannot be removed without bricking the system, it can probe main memory and any device attached to the system. It can even blow the OS away and replace it with one under the attacker's control. Since it can do that without writing to disk, the whole thing can disappear without a trace by strobing reset.
Are you SURE the systems with IPMI are a bigger risk?
Yes, the silk road and a few other sites were attacked and taken down. I'm not claiming there will be no attempt to take down blatantly illegal operations (and a number of legal but inconvenient operations as well).
But they would have a really hard time taking down a mesh network. For one, it's not illegal and could be considered a free speech issue. Two, it would be popular among people who are committing no crimes. It's utility for non-criminal use will be obvious to the common citizen. It would be way too easy to spin any attempt to take down the mesh as blatant cronyism and being in the telcos' pocket. The first instance of someone in a disaster area calling for help over the mesh would cement the deal.
Except there are still Gnostics and there are still Tor nodes out there. Meanwhile, the mesh, unlike Tor would mean no ISP bill, and no constriction points where traffic can be watched.
Tor developed a much stronger concentration of dissident and illegal activity because there is little compelling reason for most regular net traffic to use tor.
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There's plenty of productive things you can do if you have your basic needs securely covered well enough to not need to pinch every penny. Some of them may lead to employment, some will never pay a dime.
What drives people to drugs is constantly hearing that your job defines you and not able to get a job. That and being at the mercy of petty bureaucrats who might at any time decide to make you jump through hoops to get what you need to live. Another thing that drives people to drugs is the way that any gainful activity is punished by taking away more than they made. e good month could lead to a year of ruin if you don't hide it well enough.
A blank check implies that you can draw any amount you want any time you want. I don't think that's a very apt description of UBI. At the least, it's a humongous exaggeration.
Now, yes. Then no. Then it meant wire used to wrap the solenoid in a bell (and similar applications). Now people frequently enough mis-use the term to mean the wire that goes from the button to the bell that we call the enameled stuff magnet wire. Of course, bell wire was originally insulated with paraffin dipped cotton cloth, but times change.
Totally off topic, but one of the recommended videos on that page was "Hacking Juiceroos DRM fruit bags". What the hell is wrong with this world? Picture yourself shopping at the Big Star back in '77 looking at a can of chopped fruit and someone walks up and says "one day that fruit will include advanced integrated circuits to make sure you only use that fruit in an approved manner. It will be illegal to get around it".
RadioShack was mortally wounded and trying to die back when the internet was dial-up and there was no Amazon.com. AOL was still a walled garden and Compu$erve was spelled with a dollar sign. If you had a full T1, you were a big player on the internet.
Exactly this. Their staff used to be primarily retired engineers and EEs looking for supplemental income that wouldn't overly hinder studying. Many were hams. You want advice on a project? They knew what they were talking about.
I knew RS was going down the first time I walked into one, asked where the bell wire was and they had no clue what I was asking for. I tried "enamel coated wire" and they still had no clue. "That kind of orangy colored wire like you see in a speaker" didn't ring any bells (sorry for the pun) either. I might as well have been speaking Venusian.
It seems their management forgot what their name even meant.
Towards the end of RS, had I wanted a digital multimeter NOW, Home Depot would be a better choice than RS.
Since I was using BTRFS, I sincerely doubt mdadm was the problem. What I was seeing was another manifestation of the same basic issue, systemD THOUGHT it understood the dependencies but in fact, it did not. That's why it wouldn't even try the mount command.
The systemd design failure is that it refuses to acknowledge that there can be such a situation where it has no idea what the dependencies might be. It demands that everything else must conform to it's concept of what constitutes a dependency. It doesn't even have a way to tell it "use this external program to decide if dependencies have been met" nor does it have a way to tell it just give it a try and if the command returns no error, all is well.
Bottom line, stubbing systemd out and using SysV to bring the VM up worked flawlessly. One of MS's sins is that they demand a perfect world in order to work correctly and will not allow the admin to tell it to just give it a try. Systemd shares that sin. Without systemd, a great advantage of Linux is that when the actually intelligent human knows more than the system, the system will defer to his of her judgement and the job gets done.
I gave systemD a spin on a VM to see if it would be suitable. Unfortunately, it flunked when I disconnected a redundant drive and it flatly refused to even attempt to mount /home in degraded mode. It just dropped me to the emergency shell. I attempted the mount command by hand to see the diagnostics and iot worked perfectly. It seems there is no way to make a command imperative. I looked on the mailing lists and found exactly the same problem with RAID. The response was a collective shrug.
I can absolutely work around that problem, but I can't just put aside the fact that the developers just don't give a crap because it would be a hard problem and their architecture won't accommodate a solution cleanly.
It's just too brittle for me to want it in charge of a server.
The catch is that the cable internet will be the same crap company that provides the cable TV. Available internet options may have data caps too low to support replacing cable TV with streaming. Or they may mysteriously have a bunch of dropped packets when you try to stream from any popular service they don't own. They will definitely not do any of the logical engineering they would do if they were internet only (such as placing caching systems on their network to relieve upstream traffic).
The problem is that the cable companies strive to be just barely better than nothing. They can get away with that because they carefully avoid competition. In many markets they have worked very hard to make sure that you can't see any of the local sports over broadcast TV.
If you want to call just barely better than nothing satisfaction, that's your call.
It really wasn't homophobic. It would have the same meaning and same offensiveness if Trump was a woman (removing the homosexual element).
As for the rest, as far as the FCC is concerned, it doesn't matter what he actually said, only what actually went over the air. *BEEP* isn't actionable.
Fingerprint scanners can be fooled fairly easily. Two easy to fool things may discourage casual access, but it's hardly TLA type stuff. It's well within the reach of crazy ex or business rival.
Yeah, but would anyone be that surprised if the latest MS install disk encoded to a hyper virulent super Ebola?
Probably because they use their tremendous buying power to say, "We will pay no more than X. That gives you a fair profit", and the pharmaceutical companies freely choose to accept the offer.
The real question is why is Medicare legally bound to shout "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!" instead?
Actually, austerity is more like:
Economist: OMG! If the debt goes over X, the economy goes over a cliff
"Leaders": AUSTERITY!!! AUSTERITY!!! (well, except for that tax cut for my buds and and the programs that boost their profitability)
Student: OH! WAIT! Math error. There's no cliff"
"Leaders":What?
Student: I said there's no cliff, it was a silly math error
"Leaders": WHAT???
Student: The paper was wrong! No need to replace the safety net with broken glass!
"Leaders:" I CANNN'T HEEEEEEEEAR YOUUUUUUUU!
Or, to put it another way
Sales: Boss, sales are down. Our custiomers say our products are outdated. We need to revamp the line.
Boss:YOU FOOL! We can't do product development when sales are down. And better cut 30% from the marketing budget until sales recover!
I see no intrinsic moral wrong about giving a cat caviar, but that's not going to be in my cat's bowl any time soon.
Stating a belief is not the same as threatening an action.
Since this thread was about longer trips, and I already indicated electric is practical for around town, it's odd you're complaining about longer trips being an edge case.
I'm guessing you prefer the interstates over the 'scenic routes' where there aren't so many superchargers.
It is still necessary to plan the trip around the available chargers. One cannot simply stop along the way and drive around to see the sights for a bit without risk of not reaching the next charger. When there are enough that wherever you're going and whatever you're doing, there will be a charger, like there is with gas stations, then it will be sufficient.
You seem to be missing the point. Pointedly so.
Close enough that when it's getting low, I can just look for a place rather than needing to pull it up on Google. Preferably, enough that I can be confident I will find a place where I can eat while I recharge. For example, when I can see on the interstate, a sign showing the food options at the next exit and more than one has a charger emblem on it.
That's not to say I wouldn't consider an electric as an in-town car until then.
Now, it is a problem because the infrastructure just isn't there. Eventually, even the long charge times become less important since you will charge while you are in the bathroom or eating.
Mac seems like a reasonably popular minority desktop, but doesn't seem to be having a problem so far, why would Linux?
OTOH, "the" is properly spelled with thorn (the letter of the alphabet). But some young wags started spelling it with "th" or sometimes "y". Note it is still correctly pronounced as "the", not "yee". The latter is a word (spelled "ye" now but once spelled "ge") that has fallen entirely out of favor except in a few very formal and somewhat ritualistic settings.
Of course, formal writing generally should avoid the latest trends, yet it would be quite confusing (and annoying) if it insisted on Middle English. Today's informal writing is tomorrow's formal writing.
You can NEVER completely disable the ME. It is required to boot at all. If the BMC is turned off, it will compromise nothing.
There is a compelling reason to have the BMC ON by default. If it is ON, it can easily be turned off locally or remotely, but if it is OFF from the factory, you can't just have someone rack it and turn it over to you.
The BMCs used for IPMI have far less ability to spy on the running system than the ME does. The older BMCs only had a serial connection that the OS could choose to ignore. Newer ones can see the console (which a server can ignore) and a virtual drive (which the OS can ignore). They can be entirely disabled (including removing it from the board if you're paranoid) or restricted to a management network (physically separate or vlan, your choice).
In contrast, the ME cannot be removed without bricking the system, it can probe main memory and any device attached to the system. It can even blow the OS away and replace it with one under the attacker's control. Since it can do that without writing to disk, the whole thing can disappear without a trace by strobing reset.
Are you SURE the systems with IPMI are a bigger risk?
Yes, the silk road and a few other sites were attacked and taken down. I'm not claiming there will be no attempt to take down blatantly illegal operations (and a number of legal but inconvenient operations as well).
But they would have a really hard time taking down a mesh network. For one, it's not illegal and could be considered a free speech issue. Two, it would be popular among people who are committing no crimes. It's utility for non-criminal use will be obvious to the common citizen. It would be way too easy to spin any attempt to take down the mesh as blatant cronyism and being in the telcos' pocket. The first instance of someone in a disaster area calling for help over the mesh would cement the deal.
Except there are still Gnostics and there are still Tor nodes out there. Meanwhile, the mesh, unlike Tor would mean no ISP bill, and no constriction points where traffic can be watched.
Tor developed a much stronger concentration of dissident and illegal activity because there is little compelling reason for most regular net traffic to use tor.