I'm on the do-not-call list, so the call is illegal. If the 'product' or 'service' is fraudulent, then the call is illegal. If the call is a robocall, then it is illegal (with few exceptions).
If you want to learn the true character of the people calling you, make a click on the line so it sounds like you hung up. After they have heaped abuse upon you (thinking you can't hear them), ask them to repeat it and listen to them swallowing their own tongue as they hang up.
So you personally choose to flagellate yourself daily so you figure that gives you the moral right to expect it of everyone else? I choose to stay up late. Why don't you quit being a lazy bum and stay up too?
Imagine your delight if someone breezed in and dragged you out of bed at 3:00 A.M. every day and expected you to be not just coherent but actually enthusiastic.
Well, only Congress can nationalize something. The local city council can't do it, now can they? The very word "nationalize" implies the federal government.
Now, you offered bills put to the floor as an option and I picked it, so where are they?
How about a bill put to the floor? Or even a transcript of a Congressional debate? You make it sound as if we have a Congress packed with socialists who might actually have an effect or cause serious consideration, I don't see any.
The closest I see are local governments laying fiber within their jurisdiction.
What "socialist" have you seen advocating to nationalize internet service? I haven't seen any.
The only calls for nationalization I have seen are for health care where the market has clearly failed and a few calls for large banks at the time they had their hands out for a trillion dollar bailout.
No. When I go to a main branch of my bank downtown, they have a LOT more money out in the tills and are a much bigger target (think hundreds of thousands in cash and being a bank it they can't just run it to the bank mid-day). They have just high counters and one security guard who looks to be in his late '60s. No Plexiglas.
Comcast has the security measures because their customer service is terrible enough to inspire violence in regular everyday people (there have been incidents).
The problem with trigger warnings is that there is literally no way to know what might trigger someone. It can be literally anything that they have somehow associated with a very bad thing. Unless you know each and every student's life history (which they might not be comfortable sharing) you REALLY can't know. That becomes a problem when you can be subject to various disciplinary proceedings and campus court if you fail to anticipate each and every trigger. I'm not sure how things should go if, for example, a court like proceeding is a trigger for someone.
I get that there are indeed times and situations that should not be open to the public. However, the safe spaces they are talking about are not situation oriented, they're identity group based. But what of the old Gentleman's club (I mean actual gentlemen, not a euphemism for a strip joint)? Was that not a safe space for men that has been thoroughly condemned?
At the base of it, the problem comes from an unwillingness to accept offense. There are even cases where offense is inevitable. Consider religious expression. Around the "Winter Holiday", some may want to display a nativity for Christmas and find it offensive that their religion is somehow forbidden if they cannot. Others may want to display a pentacle for Yule. But some will be horrified to see a pentacle on display.
It's been 30 years since I used any part of healthcare.
However, I do support actual socialized medicine. I do not support the insurance scam. All the insurance does is perpetuate the extreme costs of health care in the U.S. and remove what little option there was to leave a failed market.
Sigh yourself. Did you know that the Apollo astronauts all drink water that came from a fuel cell? Yes, long term you would develop an electrolyte imbalance drinking only ultra pure water (which is not what comes out of fuel cells) much as you would if you ate only food that had all salt removed from it. If you're concerned about it, eat a snack sized bag of chips when you land.
You pick components close to the limits rather than allowing a margin. Perhaps you run them a touch beyond rating. Cheat the heatsink a little smaller than requirements.
I don't remember anyone voting to alter the Constitution to permit the things now being done that are directly against it. I don't remember anyone voting to allow the NSA to spy domestically. I do remember multiple elections where people are dissapointed by the results. I do remember a lot of agencies directly ignoring the courts and perjuring themselves before Congress.
No, the answer is non-bug ridden EUFI that has a simple sane way to return to factory settings if you wipe the variables. In the BIOS days, no amount of screwing up the CMOS settings would brick the board. Worst case you have to remove the battery for a moment to return to defaults and then re-configure from the CMOS menu. Most boards had a jumper for that as well.
You could brick it by erasing the flash, but that was in no way a usual operation for configuring the machine. Some boards even had a recovery path for that where it would boot from a protected backup flash.
Put a reset to factory jumper on the board and have EFI detect that and replace any existing variables with the factory default and the problem goes away.
It's a real brick. Stupid EFI won't come up far enough to let you change the variables and it has no way to reset to factory short of re-flashing with an external programmer (if you can get a good image to flash).
The new shiny screws up something that's been working fine for 32 years.
No, it's not the kids these days that are the problem for me. Yeah, I question some of their taste in music and fashion, but I accept that it's hardly the end of the world and indeed, it's just part of the natural order.
My problem is with people who are old enough to know better but are substantially reducing freedom and spreading fear in a country that supposedly values freedom and bravery. They didn't just "sell out to the man", they became worse than the man in many ways.
Sure, it's an unsafe system and that's irresponsible at best, possibly criminally negligent.
But knowing that is probably the case somewhere, it is also irresponsible at best to violate the principle of least astonishment and effectively fuzz a production system without warning.
If they would like to log a warning and then operate normally, I don't think anyone would object. Perhaps they would care to tell their customers how to spot the fakes? The only thing I have seen about that was the result of reverse engineering their secret sauce in the last borked driver.
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In many places in the U.S., pulse dialing still works.
I'm on the do-not-call list, so the call is illegal. If the 'product' or 'service' is fraudulent, then the call is illegal. If the call is a robocall, then it is illegal (with few exceptions).
If you want to learn the true character of the people calling you, make a click on the line so it sounds like you hung up. After they have heaped abuse upon you (thinking you can't hear them), ask them to repeat it and listen to them swallowing their own tongue as they hang up.
So you personally choose to flagellate yourself daily so you figure that gives you the moral right to expect it of everyone else? I choose to stay up late. Why don't you quit being a lazy bum and stay up too?
Imagine your delight if someone breezed in and dragged you out of bed at 3:00 A.M. every day and expected you to be not just coherent but actually enthusiastic.
Yes, I would like to see the bills please.
Well, only Congress can nationalize something. The local city council can't do it, now can they? The very word "nationalize" implies the federal government.
Now, you offered bills put to the floor as an option and I picked it, so where are they?
How about a bill put to the floor? Or even a transcript of a Congressional debate? You make it sound as if we have a Congress packed with socialists who might actually have an effect or cause serious consideration, I don't see any.
The closest I see are local governments laying fiber within their jurisdiction.
What "socialist" have you seen advocating to nationalize internet service? I haven't seen any.
The only calls for nationalization I have seen are for health care where the market has clearly failed and a few calls for large banks at the time they had their hands out for a trillion dollar bailout.
No. When I go to a main branch of my bank downtown, they have a LOT more money out in the tills and are a much bigger target (think hundreds of thousands in cash and being a bank it they can't just run it to the bank mid-day). They have just high counters and one security guard who looks to be in his late '60s. No Plexiglas.
Comcast has the security measures because their customer service is terrible enough to inspire violence in regular everyday people (there have been incidents).
The problem with trigger warnings is that there is literally no way to know what might trigger someone. It can be literally anything that they have somehow associated with a very bad thing. Unless you know each and every student's life history (which they might not be comfortable sharing) you REALLY can't know. That becomes a problem when you can be subject to various disciplinary proceedings and campus court if you fail to anticipate each and every trigger. I'm not sure how things should go if, for example, a court like proceeding is a trigger for someone.
I get that there are indeed times and situations that should not be open to the public. However, the safe spaces they are talking about are not situation oriented, they're identity group based. But what of the old Gentleman's club (I mean actual gentlemen, not a euphemism for a strip joint)? Was that not a safe space for men that has been thoroughly condemned?
At the base of it, the problem comes from an unwillingness to accept offense. There are even cases where offense is inevitable. Consider religious expression. Around the "Winter Holiday", some may want to display a nativity for Christmas and find it offensive that their religion is somehow forbidden if they cannot. Others may want to display a pentacle for Yule. But some will be horrified to see a pentacle on display.
More probably, it's Window's bad habit of demanding a special snowflake driver even for bog standard hardware.
The AC I replied to apparently thinks they wouldn't but I suspect they would.
It's been 30 years since I used any part of healthcare.
However, I do support actual socialized medicine. I do not support the insurance scam. All the insurance does is perpetuate the extreme costs of health care in the U.S. and remove what little option there was to leave a failed market.
Sigh yourself. Did you know that the Apollo astronauts all drink water that came from a fuel cell? Yes, long term you would develop an electrolyte imbalance drinking only ultra pure water (which is not what comes out of fuel cells) much as you would if you ate only food that had all salt removed from it. If you're concerned about it, eat a snack sized bag of chips when you land.
So how often do people request their water intravenously on a flight?
All of that hoopla and theater and nobody thought to bring a NIST certified air gauge?
You pick components close to the limits rather than allowing a margin. Perhaps you run them a touch beyond rating. Cheat the heatsink a little smaller than requirements.
What is the last line in the National Anthem?
I don't remember anyone voting to alter the Constitution to permit the things now being done that are directly against it. I don't remember anyone voting to allow the NSA to spy domestically. I do remember multiple elections where people are dissapointed by the results. I do remember a lot of agencies directly ignoring the courts and perjuring themselves before Congress.
No, the answer is non-bug ridden EUFI that has a simple sane way to return to factory settings if you wipe the variables. In the BIOS days, no amount of screwing up the CMOS settings would brick the board. Worst case you have to remove the battery for a moment to return to defaults and then re-configure from the CMOS menu. Most boards had a jumper for that as well.
You could brick it by erasing the flash, but that was in no way a usual operation for configuring the machine. Some boards even had a recovery path for that where it would boot from a protected backup flash.
Put a reset to factory jumper on the board and have EFI detect that and replace any existing variables with the factory default and the problem goes away.
No. rm -rf / means reinstall or restore from backup. The non-obvious part is that your motherboard may never boot again.
It's a real brick. Stupid EFI won't come up far enough to let you change the variables and it has no way to reset to factory short of re-flashing with an external programmer (if you can get a good image to flash).
The new shiny screws up something that's been working fine for 32 years.
No, you force root to deliberately remount it rw when (and only when) it is actually necessary.
You have it exactly backwards. When I use a taser on someone, it should only drop them to the ground, not kill them.
When I rm -rf / a machine, it should leave it ready for a re-install or reload from backups. It should not kill it forever.
No, it's not the kids these days that are the problem for me. Yeah, I question some of their taste in music and fashion, but I accept that it's hardly the end of the world and indeed, it's just part of the natural order.
My problem is with people who are old enough to know better but are substantially reducing freedom and spreading fear in a country that supposedly values freedom and bravery. They didn't just "sell out to the man", they became worse than the man in many ways.
Sure, it's an unsafe system and that's irresponsible at best, possibly criminally negligent.
But knowing that is probably the case somewhere, it is also irresponsible at best to violate the principle of least astonishment and effectively fuzz a production system without warning.
If they would like to log a warning and then operate normally, I don't think anyone would object. Perhaps they would care to tell their customers how to spot the fakes? The only thing I have seen about that was the result of reverse engineering their secret sauce in the last borked driver.