But why does it matter who wins? What logical reason does one have to support a specific team? What makes your team the good team? Why not just support an individual player no matter which team he plays on?
I was raised to support one team in each sport because it was our family's team. I didn't understand why then either. It's like religion and politics. You are parents or community force it on you.
I also don't understand why people would want to escape everyday life. I made my everyday life fun. And stress means challenges and stress is a message that tells you that you found a good challenge to overcome.
I don't discredit sports as being a means of entertainment, I simply dislike that people support teams and want someone to dominate someone else for no other reason than the uniform they wear. It just feels ethically wrong. It's like Jews and Muslims killing each other for no other reason than because they were ejected from the vagina of a woman on the other team.
You mention supporting your home team. But your home team probably has 3 players from your home at most. The players you are supporting have been chosen for you to support. The team owners will choose what people to buy and market to you based on skill and popularity. You aren't really given a choice. You simply blindly believe your team is great and that even if your team sucks at the moment, real supports stick through with their mismanaged team and you continue to support the team no matter how wrong their leadership is.
So yes... I am pretentious. I want a better way of choosing players than leaving it to team leaders. I don't want to support people who are vetted, bought and marketed by a team. I believe it is possible for people to use the Internet to bypass teams and field players on our own. And by breaking the two team system, legislation will require discussion, debate and compromise.
Can you honestly say team red and team blue did their jobs well by making us choose between Trump and Clinton?
I'm not sure I agree with you regarding whether we're supposed to be the smart people in the room.
I tend to spend that majority of my time on Slashdot with hopes for an interesting science or engineering article that makes it worth my while to read the comments.As that doesn't happen nearly as often as it should, I'm not willing to give up and I spend the rest of my time here reading comments to see if there's someone I can contradict instead of simply doing something useful with my life.
It is very likely that many people on Slashdot are genuinely smart people... when speaking in terms of engineering knowledge. It's possible they are also skilled at historical knowledge. But it generally strikes me that most of us are relatively clueless when considering topics outside of our scopes of expertise... like politics and law. Though, it seems that every single post on Slashdot will have at least a few gripes about the elected administration. And given the diversity of the audience on Slashdot, I believe all political beliefs are fairly well represented... and noisy it seems.
Over the years, I believe that Slashdot has helped me greatly to understand politics better as well. I now truly understand the two party system. I also understand why people argue over who is president. It's unintentionally orchestrated. I don't believe there's a mastermind or two behind it. I believe that people are so well programmed that we feel the need to join teams.
- Liverpool vs. Chelsey
- Mets vs. Yankees
- Red vs. Black
- Black vs. White
- America vs. (whoever is convenient at this time)
- America vs. everyone else just because we have to be better because we are Americans... so let's just piss on everyone
- Libtards vs. Right wing nut jobs.
- Jews vs. Muslims
- Christians vs Christians
Consider the approach of how sports teams work. It doesn't matter what sports team you support, there are rarely players on that team which are from the regions which their teams represent. Instead, some team owner (also unlikely from the area) will put a great deal of effort into recruiting talent from wherever they can for however much money they can. When the team is assembled, a group of people will get together and try and teach them to play together and work as a group. Then, they will through a very organized system play a bunch of games with other teams and attempt to monetize their efforts through many different methods. The more successful teams can afford the better players or at least the more exciting players and can generate stir. That stir causes people to not just pay to watch these games, but also to invest in the purchase of licensed merchandise such as hats and t-shirts or oddly enough, towels... which are meant to wipe up spilled beer... which they'll wear as clothing... as if they were bar maids... from the age of 2 or 3.
What's the rationality of this working? In order for this to work, people have to be willing to pay to watch basically a bunch of kids play games, buy merchandise and more. But society has programmed us to believe we absolutely have to "be part of something more than ourselves". We have to be part of a team. As though the performance of these children in costumes playing with a ball will have some impact on our lives in a spiritually meaningful way.
Consider this. People may justify the behavior or watching sports because they like to see experts at work and see they greatest athletes of the world playing. And that makes sense. It's even sensible that a person could form something of an emotional attachment to a player because of many different reasons. I personally for example like the color green. There's no rational reason for it, I simply find it pleasing. What is completely illogical is that people believe it's important who wins.
That's the problem. It matters who won. Instead of simply enjoying the grace of a great athlete, it is really important that the individual
That money mostly doesn't belong to Apple, it's basically something like a backwards bank.
They keep money somewhere outside the US and then take loans in the form of bonds against it.
This means they have just as much money in America as they would have had otherwise and they create just as many jobs as they would otherwise. The difference is that they borrow the money from investors willing to get money into the US for the purpose of investment.
If they need more money, there is a long queue of banks and governments and other investors that would gladly give them another $10 billion in cash in the US against promises made on their cash reserves for collateral.
Here's the kicker... even if they move that money to the US, they would be required to horde the cash account. This is because they've used the money as collateral. So, it makes little difference where they keep it. They keep money made outside of the US outside and money made inside the US inside. If they need to move money back and forth, they issue bonds instead of using their own money.
It's actually very similar to a ponzi scheme with the exception that all the investors involved are 100% aware of what's being done and support it. As long as the faith in Apple's bank account and ability to continue filling it is high, they will gladly feed it. In addition, almost everyone who has invested in Apple bonds can't afford for the bonds to fail, so they will continue to help Apple fill it.
Consider the number of bankers, lawyers and other useless people Apple does employ directly and indirectly to make this happen. I would be absolutely shocked if Apple would actually create more jobs than that if they moved the money to the US.
Oh... Did you hear the news about the hiring freeze and layoffs at Apple for restructuring because they had cash availability issues in the US that was making it impossible for them to perform business?
No one else did either... it didn't happen. Apple hires the people they need when they need them as simple as that. They expand their business when they need to and that's that. They don't just decide "hey... we need to employ more people, let's do stuff to make more jobs". Instead, they plan and decide what to invest in and when they do, they go all the way with it. They don't fill rooms with people who do nothing for a living while waiting for a project. They aren't Google who will hire a bunch of smart people hoping they'll have the next great idea. This isn't the spaghetti approach, Apple doesn't throw programmers at the wall to see what will stick. They have a few people who think "what's next" and then they build a product and infrastructure around it.
So... how many jobs do you really think would come out of moving the money from a holding account in Ireland or Thailand to the U.S.?
I would actually assume that overall it would simplify accounting, politics and press relations for Apple and eliminate jobs instead.
Ok... here's the thing. Microsoft, no matter what console they are shipping will run Windows 10 as the underlying system. In addition, they make use of x86 now as the processor. I suppose at some point, they could experiment with ARM, but it would be a little silly.
So, if what they are shipping is basically an x86 PC with high end graphics and controllers... why are they confusing the shit out of us?
We know Project Scorpio is coming. We don't know what it is... or whether it will cost money. But it is coming. So, will it work on XBox One, One S, One X?
Will all my existing games works on it? Meaning, if I invest in an XBox One X, will all the games I buy for the One X work on Scorpio?
So... all I can say about this console is... who gives a shit?
Of course, it would be pretty cool if they announced a less powerful console that is portable. I don't know what AMD has up their sleeve. I don't know if they have any mobile graphics parts worth speaking of. I do know that PowerVR needs a new sugar daddy now that Apple is working on their own GPU. Maybe AMD could make a mobile gaming GPU based on x86 which would be awesome for making something worth buying.
Honestly... who cares about the most powerful gaming console anymore. We don't buy consoles for powerful. We buy them for long-term support and compatibility.
I won't waste money on another console if it isn't portable.
Since we bought the Switch, our house barely wastes time on Xbox One. We just pack it up and go sit somewhere else. It has basically changed our entire game play dynamic.
Switch looks as though it will eventually get a good game lineup too. We may miss the Xbox lineup, but Switch is just a better console all around. Its performance won't win any awards as it's not much faster than an Apple TV, but Nintendo has apparently invested very heavily in building the infrastructure we should expect to make a game console happen.
I'm with you on that... of course, I see this as a huge advantage.:)
Here's my evil plan!
1) Install Windows 10 S on the system 2) Install Hyper-V on Windows 10 S (hopefully this is allowed) 3) Configure RemoteFX graphics so I can run the Guest VM with good performance 4) Setup a SMB share with an ACL only accessible by the Guest VM on the host 5) Install Windows 10 Professional as the guest 6) Run Windows Update. 7) Install Office, Visual Studio, Docker, Linux Subsystem, some other crap as well. 8) Snapshop the VM 9) Configure Windows Backup and Restore to do "Time Machine" like backups of all my data to the host machine.
Using a similar approach on corporate laptops will be awesome too.:)
I already do 90% of my work over remote desktop anyway. My local PC is pretty much for nothing but entertainment. This way, the local machine is well protected and the "remote machine" is actually a local VM.
I theorized that the Mandelbrot is capable of generating any string of data of any size given a high enough resolution, high enough iterations and enough time to process it. I haven't retested my theory on scale since 1998 (significant because of general availability of GPUs... if you count Voodoo2 as a GPU), but processing on a 486DX-50 with 16 megs of RAM and Linux allowed me to search for simple strings (kilobytes in size) within reasonable time.
What I found was that every 4KB sequence I randomly generated as part of a set was able to be located within the Mandelbrot set. Results generally were found in the nautilus or horse tail areas. I used several search methods.
1) Linear
2) Rectangular spiral clockwise (variable width, variable height)
3) Rectangular spiral counter-clockwise (variable width, variable height)
4) Zig-zag in 45 degree rotations and variable width and variable height)
5) Elliptical Spiral (clockwise and counter-clockwise, variable width, variable height)
I also experimented with added dimension which included iteration as a 3rd dimension when pattern searching allowing strings to extend across multiple iterations in cubical, spheroidical, etc... footprints. I had to abandon this effort due to computational complexity.
I also experimented with experimenting with adding bit layers as a 3rd dimension when searching, but this added even greater computational complexity than the previous method described above but certainly promised greater results.
The algorithms I used were exhaustive. So where a video motion vector search algorithm would abandon searching a given direction for performance reasons when the delta values in said direction were not yielding results, I searched every pattern type for every pixel for every parameter... etc...
Now, given my computational capacity and limitations of the time, the average seek time per 4KB string before finding a result was 1-2 weeks. All my code was heavily optimized to exploit memory as it was used on the architecture. Consider a combination of Michael Abrash style coding/optimizations with more specific knowledge of the specific CPU and memory it would run on. I also spent a great deal of money getting memory with 60ns response time (though I never measured better than 64ns on the scope). I also used a Micronics motherboard which at the time meant something as Intel had yet to enter the chipset market and as ECC memory was far too expensive... for pretty much anyone on that scale, and the memory controller was not yet part of the CPU, I needed a reliable and documented chipset to work with.
Ok, so here's the summary of all the results
1) It is worth investing greater effort in scientifically proving that absolutely any string can be found in the Mandelbrot Set given enough iterations, resolution, search creativity and of course CPU power.
2) It is believed (though through non-thorough experimentation, not mathematically proven) that any 4KB string can be found in the Mandelbrot Set
3) Once found, depending on the resolution and number of iterations provided as a coefficients for identifying the set, the data can be retrieved in a reasonable period of time (deterministic, though variable) on any device. The real computational cost was the search itself.
4) This method of compression has no value for video as the data sets are too large.
5) It is most common that longer string lengths searched for often requires higher resolutions and higher iteration counts to be found. This is common, not a rule. Depending on the search pattern, often strings with a more level histogram distribution could be found as bit patterns in lower resolutions and iterations.
6) The size of the strings found increased far more rapidly than the size of the coefficients required to represent the find. Meaning without employing additional methods such as entropy coding the:
- resolution of the Mandelbrot image,
I'm confused... while I must admit that I'm think the AC above you was a bit rude in his/her/its response to the post, I'm kind of in agreement here. I don't think Microsoft has done anything wrong in this case... and I've actually bought a new BMW from my profits on antitrust law suits against Microsoft.
I think that the heart of the complaint by Kapersky depends on short-comings related to their developers, development process and project managers. Microsoft doesn't exactly just drop new versions of Windows on the planet with no prior notice. They don't release breaking fixes for security without first testing them (usually) in the public. Microsoft isn't making use of any critical undocumented APIs... hell Windows these days has no shortage of developer documentation, their main problem is that they have a shortage of ways of sifting through it... something to do with Bing.
The fact is, Kapersky should be more than capable of keeping up with Microsoft's releases.
Oh, and let's be honest, the "inferior anti-virus" claim doesn't hold much water anymore. Microsoft, quality-wise is in the top 6 and Kapersky takes turns in first, second or third. Both Microsoft and Kapersky tend to get bitchslapped by exactly the same zero-days.
Compared to Linux? Because there are no hacks against Linux? And because the malware protection software for Linux is so damn good you can't even find it to know whether it's working or not unless you actually like digging through/var/logs?
Compared to Mac OS X that yesterday asked me for my administrator password 14 times so that I could give absolute access to all kinds of programs without reading what program was asking or what access it was asking for? And let's not forget that Apple's approach to security is to block absolutely everything requiring the user to disable all the security mechanisms to install anything and everything... and where's the malware protection software again?
I suppose you must be using Android which never has any security holes... well at least it doesn't seem to on a stock image, but heaven forbid you run a T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy and then you're pretty much just screwed.
I actually feel safer on Windows these days than other platforms because I have a healthy sense of paranoia when using Windows and Windows Defender is actually good enough to help me no feel totally paranoid.
I've been running a Windows 10 honey pot lately and even spend some time visiting web sites with naughty pictures and videos which asks me to install software... of course I don't visit those sites for purposes other than academic interest (mostly anatomy, more specifically range of motion studies):/, but I generally find that in most cases, Windows Defender combined with Google Chrome do a fair job of keeping my stuff pretty safe. I've been hit with 3 different randsomware tools in a year but none of them had any impact on my Windows Backup/Restore (think Time Machine for Windows) of the system, so all files were easily recovered in minutes by simply pressing the Windows key and typing "restore" then next, next, next, finished.
Oh... and on that honeypot virtual machine, i generally install all the things they ask me to install... and give all the permissions necessary. I also use this as the honeypot for talking with "Windows Support from India". They're sneaky since they actually like to try to lock me out of my system unless I pay.
We all know you started as a video game tester. 95% of your posts mention your entire history, high school grades included.
You still didn't get the joke either. Mreed911 said something pretty much any competent IT guy would find hilarious and you either didn't read it or didn't get it.
People might stop attacking you and stop teasing you if you stopped calling everyone names (about 70% of your posts, 50% when you specifically initiate aggression). They might respect you more if you don't self-aggrandize with your resume which on slashdot, isn't particularly impressive. Or if, knowing we all have a general assessment of your skills and experience, stopped making comments about how you would take it upon yourself to engineer things like dynamos for running shoes if you had the time when it would things like expertise in mechanical engineering, miniaturization, polymers, ohh... and running shoe engineering which I assume are all outside of your skill-set with the possible exception of mechanical engineering on a hobbyist scale.
Over the past five years, I've slowly learned that pointing out problems without attempting to offer a meaningful solution is a waste of time. If you don't have an answer or something meaningful to contribute, making the comment in the first place simply makes people hate you. So, in an effort to get people to hate me less, I've been trying to change myself.
You mention a triple whammy. 47 + 350lb and 50k income. Based on this description, one would generally assess that you're screwed. Age, you're still young. 50 is the new 40. You have time to work with. I never hit 350lbs, so I can't possibly understand or even relate to your situation, but a few years back, I made it up to 200lbs (my comfort weight it 165). When I went to the store and smiled at the girl and she responded by telling me I would have to start shopping at places which specialize in "big boys". I realized I was old enough that she thought of me as her father and I was fat. 4 months later, I went back weighing in at 163 with a 31" waist line. During the time since then I've learned a great deal about humans in a meaningful way.
Men... especially IT guys have really short attention spans. If we can't solve the problem quickly... while we're on a roll, we lose interest. We tend to set goals for ourselves which are somewhat unrealistic and hope that we make it through before losing interest and hope no one notices when we give up and we spend a lot of energy coming up with great excuses for why it's ok we gave up. It's generally all about momentum, we think all problems have to be solved the way we send rockets to the moon. Stick enough fuel into the first stage of the rocket and break free of earth's atmosphere and all we'll need is some course correction to get there. The bitch of it is, most problems don't have a point where we can break free of gravity and friction.
Another thing I learned about when I was younger was poverty.
You've heard people make the comment "If he's so poor, how come he always seems to have enough money for food... fat ass"?
Obesity is inversely correlated to income bracket for a reason. The poorer you are the fatter you tend to become. An IT guy with IT guy interests generally tends to prioritize toys over food and as a result a $50k income can be equal a a $20k + welfare/foodstamps income. The only difference being that with some financial planning/responsibility, $50k can actually make ends meet... barely.
How does this matter? That's easy, you and I were among the last people in America to take Home Economics in high school and what's worse is that we both were of a generation where mommy going back to work was something cute and short-term. We didn't take the class seriously. We never learned the important things about managing a household. In addition, I know I've never vacuumed under the couch in my life. I suck at it.
Important things about managing a house.
1) Plan your meals
2) Meal pl
He was referring to a common commercial X server for Windows. He didn't understand that you were talking about remoting to a Linux machine. Though, while his comment was less than perfect, it is worth pointing out that there are some great X Servers for Windows which are great for this. In fact, unless you can find a Sync on Green friendly LCD panel these days, remoting is the best option when working with old Unix machines.
I wonder if I could dig up an old 50-pin external SCSI CDROM and get my Indy converted back to Irix,
Oh, I'm about to roll over and die here. This is just brilliant, I wanted to see what you were responding to and I clicked back one... it was beautiful. I've actually made a bookmark to this one as it's going down in history as one of my favorite examples of how pathetic people "responsible for security" on government networks are.
Did you even read what mreed911 wrote? If so, did you understand it?
I love this!!! Criemer, you're absolutely brilliant. I think you might be my favorite new comedian... and you don't even get the joke!!!
I'll stop typing now. Kicking the slow guy even if he's mean is still kicking the slow guy which is wrong.
A socket is a means of communicating between processes (and the kernel) in UNIX. Berkeley implemented a sockets API for network communications as part of BSD and called it Berkeley sockets and later, a similar API called WinSock was implemented to provide a similar platform of communications on Windows, though it wasn't technically a socket.
There are hundreds (probably thousands) of operating systems which don't use sockets for communications as the API is often overkill for small applications. Instead, they'll use the native APIs of systems like LWIP or uIP or similar. There may even be more systems on the planet today communicating via IP and the Internet without using sockets. But of course, a small and limited example of a system like this is the EU's network for mobile phone signal monitoring which at last count had 4 million + sensors.. all running without sockets. Or another I know of which is the Norwegian weather sensor network which I believe currently has close to 5 million + sensors, mostly without sockets.
Time related issues are easy to solve. The real problem is that no one wants to pay a few bucks for accurate time since probably 99% or more of all systems synchronizing time probably don't need better than the correct second... forget milliseconds or better.
So here's the thing. Replace NTP as the wide spread time protocol with one that uses a round trip timer over HTTPS for get time requests and changes are the precision is good enough.
Most enterprise and industrial environments don't need precision time, but instead need consistent time. So, running a local time server is optimal. Windows domain services does time as well, so once computers are domain joined, they sync against the AD server and so long as the AD server is correct, then all the PCs should be synced against the AD.
This is where there could be a problem. NTP has no security so wherever possible, it is preferable to run NTP over IPv6 with encryption enabled. This should be true for most enterprise traffic today. If nothing else, placing the AD server in an IPv6 only domain and requiring DirectAccess when IPv6 isn't available will secure the connection. And it's generally better than most systems like Cisco, Palo Alto, Checkpoint and open source solutions since every time there's a Windows update that fixes VPN bugs, the VPN is policy based, so both the client and server are updated and then reconfigured to secure the link. It's stupid how many people still run AD on IPv4 when running it on IPv6 is a millions time better... ESPECIALLY when IPv6 isn't available and DirectAccess needs to be used.
Of course, synchronizing against a server is stupid since time on Windows and Linux is generally REALLY bad because they're running on general purpose operating systems without real-time extensions, so clock drift is a reality. There's also the issue of non-deterministic packet processing latency. For this reason, using an older Cisco router (running IOS, not IOS-XE) is a good idea. These cost $20-$100 on eBay. Cisco has classically had pretty good NTP implementations even if they generally aren't very secure. This solution is a much better option than server syncing. Of course, if all you have is modern equipment, you don't want to use Cisco IOS-XE devices since Cisco did a half-assed job on real-time Linux (try BFD out on XE and you'll see what I mean).
Now, the Cisco solution is nice because you can stick a few cheap IOS based devices at the edge of the network, peer them to each other and sync them against NTP and you're good to go. The entire configuration with security (what little you can get with NTP and less with Cisco) should take 10-15 minutes if the Cisco guy knows his stuff... good luck with that.
If your an enterprise that considers time to be more important than just per second resolution... then it's time for a proper time server.
http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/Raspberry-Pi-NTP.html
That's currently my favorite option as it's dirt cheap, GPS sync'd and very simple... and it's almost 100% guaranteed to be a better option than buying expensive devices from somewhere else.
$200 per server, get two of these per location and configure them properly to include NTP peering and run your own "master".
The claim clearly mentions relativity in relation to qualifications.
This would mean people would have to risk their reputation with their employer to testify in favor of her qualifications.
That said, the receptionist goosed me while I was making coffee the other day! I am not sure whether I should sue... or maybe think it was funny.
Oh... and I am in favor of firing people who "cat call". I have been "cat called" at work by the ladies and it makes me blush. I think calling me over to harass me privately is much better and preferred.
And this is part of the issue... not directly, but ironically.
I as a man have been raised in a society where multiple times a day, every single day... wherever I may be, I or the the people around me make comments or have discussions or make jokes that define a person who is in possession of their very own penis makes use of it as a secondary brain that is occasionally dominant and able to preempt logical thought process.
It is extremely clear to most people that gender and sex are related. Although, no as in sex = gender... but instead gender and sex go hand in hand.. or more specifically penis in whatever you can stick it in.
I raise my daughter in a way where I explain to her that once hormones kick in within teenage boys, primal urges kick in and while most people learn to adapt and control them and let them out during appropriate times and in appropriate places, far too many (even if it's few) men never learn... and they are a danger to those around them. Whether it's their urge to dominate and overcome through fighting or sex, they are a danger to the people around them.
I recently talked with my son about drinking parties (he's 15 and drinking age is 18 which means.. well they're all drinking now). I set some rules
- Never ever be at a party where there isn't at least one person who is sober and responsible enough to call parents, taxis and ambulances etc... if needed
- If there's no one else, it's you.
- If you're the responsible one, that means you sip on a single beer all night and sneak refill it with water to keep the drunks from pressuring you to drink too much
- If there is a girl passed out on a bed or couch... find another girl and sit on the bed next to the passed out one chatting.
- If there isn't another girl, then pick her up and carry her outside and let her sit and puke there.
- If there are any drunk girls who need to get home, find a sober(ish) girl to walk/carry her home with or call her parents. Do not stick her in a cab or uber alone. You don't want her parents worrying you violated her.
- Invite your guy friends to crash at our place if needed. Girls ALWAYS go home and you have to get them there if needed.
Basically, I'm teaching my son how to make sure his friends don't have the opportunity to think with the wrong head. I'm also teaching him how to not be accused of raping a girl at a party that someone else raped.
So... all of this is about penises doing the thinking. Testosterone is a shitty thing and makes people stupid. Alcohol with testosterone is a disaster.
So... it's not about being perceived as duplicitous or perverted any more than any other penis baring human.
The point is that these are people that have testosterone in their bodies. And while not all people with penises are driven by sexual desires, someone who identifies themselves as a woman but should in theory be prone to testosterone driven desires to dominate and overcome... well... here's the problem. Even if their solution is just to tug themselves off in the bathroom, and while I have never found myself that desperate, I have been forced to listen to people tell me and others that they have... unabashedly. And now, that person may be using the ladies room to deal with those desires.
Ok... so here's the thing... the real problem isn't which room they do it in. I certainly don't like the idea of some asshole jerking it in the stall next to my son or my daughter. I don't like the idea of some asshole jerking off because they are aroused by my son or daughter. I hate the idea of some asshole thinking they should relieve themselves by dominating my son or daughter.
So for me the problem has nothing to do with gender or gender identity. It has everything to do with the types of people who can't keep it in their pants (or skirts I guess).
I'm not far from beating the shit out of the next person who looks
Why not just do co-ed bathrooms with stalls? Make sure at least one stall is marked "sitting only". Good companies can even make sure there are enough supplies to deal with messes left by assholes who actually think their pee doesn't sprinkle... everywhere off of the main stream.
If men and women are equal, we can share a bathroom.
As for rapes and violence in bathrooms, I'm pretty sure men's and ladies' toilets never helped with that anyway.
I wrote OCR software years ago just for fun. Writing algorithms that could identify boundaries each typeset character from a scanned magazine page as well as images was pretty hard to do... but I did it... with 98% accuracy... and no real AI... just algorithms like SPF.
What this guy did barely counts. It just identifies rectangles (poorly) and guesses what kind of rectangle (poorly) and spits out code.
I'm trying to figure out how your comment is a response to the previous post. What exactly was the point of your comment and who was it directed to? Are you attacking Rockoon or something in the original article? Or was it just a failed joke or pun about the equality issues?
I suppose some people might say that the greatest problem with the open source is people like you... I know that I have been involved with multiple open source projects until people like you came around and I decided it's just not worth my effort. The guy above came off as a know-it-all. Fine. But he wasn't rude and he made some valid points. He is attempting to raise awareness as well as advocate merits of open source while suggesting people shouldn't just blindly expect the code to be perfect.
Consider the Linux Kernel for example. The Linux Kernel is one gigantic, glorious and wonderful shit heap of code. It is riddled with security problems. There are probably 2000 functions that do the same thing spread out over the code base. The GPL has been awful for the kernel at times since developers writing drivers... which of course are always monolithic... must either reinvent wheel after wheel after wheel (rbtree.h and rbtree.c for example) since the GPL on that code means that they can't use that code for closed source drivers on other operating systems. The network stack as it stands right now has grown far too complex and can never be rewritten as the project would be too large. There needs to be a revisit to devfs and procfs to make it cleaner and more secure. Oh.... and if someone were to completely drop the unix file permissions model and implement something more intelligent, that would only require rewritting most file systems and probably... you know what... it's not even worth trying to map that scope.
Linux gets fixed quick.
But it has a development team which is paid for... in a distributed fashion.
And it has project management.
And it has testers.
And it has extensive quality control.
Which works kinda ok...
As for open vs. closed... I discovered about 50 minor to devastating zero-days in a specific Cisco product which most governments depend on this year. What's worse is, I wasn't looking for them. I stumbled on them while writing some code. I have not released them and I can't seem to figure out who to talk with at Cisco to get them sorted... unless I release them and screw all my customers by doing so. And I have deadlines to meet... and I just don't have the time to deal with it.
Here's the kicker.... 3/4 of the hacks were because Cisco blindly uses open source products (they follow licenses) which if you don't apply patches weekly or more often are security disasters. Then, there's the issue that if they patch those products, then they have to write new code to work with the patches. Which they don't... so they don't patch the open source code. So they don't get the security fixes.
That means, vulnerable versions of JBoss, OpenSSL, Java, MySQL and far more. Even if Cisco's tools were open sourced, it is perfectly clear to me that their QA team doesn't employ unit tests or automated testing. So those vulnerabilities are actually in poorly managed open source code within a commercial product.
So.... thankfully you posted that as AC, you'd only embarrass yourself otherwise.
I was thinking that co-ed bathrooms would just make this easier. If there are stalls for all sitting/standing positions, there's not really a privacy concern either. The whole discussion of guy, girl, girl turned guy, guy turned girl blah blah blah.... let's make it easy... if you want to support a culture where everyone is equal... they have to be equal, that means equally happy and equally uncomfortable.
Just build the stalls and make it coed. If the employees don't like it, then quit.
P.S. - I recommend hiring a cleaning person to keep them clean all the time... otherwise there will be problems as guys seem to think "I never miss the bowl" which may be true... but what we don't generally realize is that there are little sprinkles and tinkles spraying everywhere.... including the floor, the seat and the walls.
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But why does it matter who wins? What logical reason does one have to support a specific team? What makes your team the good team? Why not just support an individual player no matter which team he plays on?
I was raised to support one team in each sport because it was our family's team. I didn't understand why then either. It's like religion and politics. You are parents or community force it on you.
I also don't understand why people would want to escape everyday life. I made my everyday life fun. And stress means challenges and stress is a message that tells you that you found a good challenge to overcome.
I don't discredit sports as being a means of entertainment, I simply dislike that people support teams and want someone to dominate someone else for no other reason than the uniform they wear. It just feels ethically wrong. It's like Jews and Muslims killing each other for no other reason than because they were ejected from the vagina of a woman on the other team.
You mention supporting your home team. But your home team probably has 3 players from your home at most. The players you are supporting have been chosen for you to support. The team owners will choose what people to buy and market to you based on skill and popularity. You aren't really given a choice. You simply blindly believe your team is great and that even if your team sucks at the moment, real supports stick through with their mismanaged team and you continue to support the team no matter how wrong their leadership is.
So yes... I am pretentious. I want a better way of choosing players than leaving it to team leaders. I don't want to support people who are vetted, bought and marketed by a team. I believe it is possible for people to use the Internet to bypass teams and field players on our own. And by breaking the two team system, legislation will require discussion, debate and compromise.
Can you honestly say team red and team blue did their jobs well by making us choose between Trump and Clinton?
I'm not sure I agree with you regarding whether we're supposed to be the smart people in the room.
I tend to spend that majority of my time on Slashdot with hopes for an interesting science or engineering article that makes it worth my while to read the comments.As that doesn't happen nearly as often as it should, I'm not willing to give up and I spend the rest of my time here reading comments to see if there's someone I can contradict instead of simply doing something useful with my life.
It is very likely that many people on Slashdot are genuinely smart people... when speaking in terms of engineering knowledge. It's possible they are also skilled at historical knowledge. But it generally strikes me that most of us are relatively clueless when considering topics outside of our scopes of expertise... like politics and law. Though, it seems that every single post on Slashdot will have at least a few gripes about the elected administration. And given the diversity of the audience on Slashdot, I believe all political beliefs are fairly well represented... and noisy it seems.
Over the years, I believe that Slashdot has helped me greatly to understand politics better as well. I now truly understand the two party system. I also understand why people argue over who is president. It's unintentionally orchestrated. I don't believe there's a mastermind or two behind it. I believe that people are so well programmed that we feel the need to join teams.
- Liverpool vs. Chelsey
- Mets vs. Yankees
- Red vs. Black
- Black vs. White
- America vs. (whoever is convenient at this time)
- America vs. everyone else just because we have to be better because we are Americans... so let's just piss on everyone
- Libtards vs. Right wing nut jobs.
- Jews vs. Muslims
- Christians vs Christians
Consider the approach of how sports teams work. It doesn't matter what sports team you support, there are rarely players on that team which are from the regions which their teams represent. Instead, some team owner (also unlikely from the area) will put a great deal of effort into recruiting talent from wherever they can for however much money they can. When the team is assembled, a group of people will get together and try and teach them to play together and work as a group. Then, they will through a very organized system play a bunch of games with other teams and attempt to monetize their efforts through many different methods. The more successful teams can afford the better players or at least the more exciting players and can generate stir. That stir causes people to not just pay to watch these games, but also to invest in the purchase of licensed merchandise such as hats and t-shirts or oddly enough, towels... which are meant to wipe up spilled beer... which they'll wear as clothing... as if they were bar maids... from the age of 2 or 3.
What's the rationality of this working? In order for this to work, people have to be willing to pay to watch basically a bunch of kids play games, buy merchandise and more. But society has programmed us to believe we absolutely have to "be part of something more than ourselves". We have to be part of a team. As though the performance of these children in costumes playing with a ball will have some impact on our lives in a spiritually meaningful way.
Consider this. People may justify the behavior or watching sports because they like to see experts at work and see they greatest athletes of the world playing. And that makes sense. It's even sensible that a person could form something of an emotional attachment to a player because of many different reasons. I personally for example like the color green. There's no rational reason for it, I simply find it pleasing. What is completely illogical is that people believe it's important who wins.
That's the problem. It matters who won. Instead of simply enjoying the grace of a great athlete, it is really important that the individual
That money mostly doesn't belong to Apple, it's basically something like a backwards bank.
They keep money somewhere outside the US and then take loans in the form of bonds against it.
This means they have just as much money in America as they would have had otherwise and they create just as many jobs as they would otherwise. The difference is that they borrow the money from investors willing to get money into the US for the purpose of investment.
If they need more money, there is a long queue of banks and governments and other investors that would gladly give them another $10 billion in cash in the US against promises made on their cash reserves for collateral.
Here's the kicker... even if they move that money to the US, they would be required to horde the cash account. This is because they've used the money as collateral. So, it makes little difference where they keep it. They keep money made outside of the US outside and money made inside the US inside. If they need to move money back and forth, they issue bonds instead of using their own money.
It's actually very similar to a ponzi scheme with the exception that all the investors involved are 100% aware of what's being done and support it. As long as the faith in Apple's bank account and ability to continue filling it is high, they will gladly feed it. In addition, almost everyone who has invested in Apple bonds can't afford for the bonds to fail, so they will continue to help Apple fill it.
Consider the number of bankers, lawyers and other useless people Apple does employ directly and indirectly to make this happen. I would be absolutely shocked if Apple would actually create more jobs than that if they moved the money to the US.
Oh... Did you hear the news about the hiring freeze and layoffs at Apple for restructuring because they had cash availability issues in the US that was making it impossible for them to perform business?
No one else did either... it didn't happen. Apple hires the people they need when they need them as simple as that. They expand their business when they need to and that's that. They don't just decide "hey... we need to employ more people, let's do stuff to make more jobs". Instead, they plan and decide what to invest in and when they do, they go all the way with it. They don't fill rooms with people who do nothing for a living while waiting for a project. They aren't Google who will hire a bunch of smart people hoping they'll have the next great idea. This isn't the spaghetti approach, Apple doesn't throw programmers at the wall to see what will stick. They have a few people who think "what's next" and then they build a product and infrastructure around it.
So... how many jobs do you really think would come out of moving the money from a holding account in Ireland or Thailand to the U.S.?
I would actually assume that overall it would simplify accounting, politics and press relations for Apple and eliminate jobs instead.
Child, if you are this preoccupied with white space, I wouldn't let you near the git because we adults are to busy working to babysit you.
I don't give a rats ass what spacing you use so long as your code is consistent and clean.
Ok... here's the thing. Microsoft, no matter what console they are shipping will run Windows 10 as the underlying system. In addition, they make use of x86 now as the processor. I suppose at some point, they could experiment with ARM, but it would be a little silly.
So, if what they are shipping is basically an x86 PC with high end graphics and controllers... why are they confusing the shit out of us?
We know Project Scorpio is coming. We don't know what it is... or whether it will cost money. But it is coming. So, will it work on XBox One, One S, One X?
Will all my existing games works on it? Meaning, if I invest in an XBox One X, will all the games I buy for the One X work on Scorpio?
So... all I can say about this console is... who gives a shit?
Of course, it would be pretty cool if they announced a less powerful console that is portable. I don't know what AMD has up their sleeve. I don't know if they have any mobile graphics parts worth speaking of. I do know that PowerVR needs a new sugar daddy now that Apple is working on their own GPU. Maybe AMD could make a mobile gaming GPU based on x86 which would be awesome for making something worth buying.
Honestly... who cares about the most powerful gaming console anymore. We don't buy consoles for powerful. We buy them for long-term support and compatibility.
I won't waste money on another console if it isn't portable.
Since we bought the Switch, our house barely wastes time on Xbox One. We just pack it up and go sit somewhere else. It has basically changed our entire game play dynamic.
Switch looks as though it will eventually get a good game lineup too. We may miss the Xbox lineup, but Switch is just a better console all around. Its performance won't win any awards as it's not much faster than an Apple TV, but Nintendo has apparently invested very heavily in building the infrastructure we should expect to make a game console happen.
So, if it's not portable, we're not interested.
I'm with you on that... of course, I see this as a huge advantage. :)
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Here's my evil plan!
1) Install Windows 10 S on the system
2) Install Hyper-V on Windows 10 S (hopefully this is allowed)
3) Configure RemoteFX graphics so I can run the Guest VM with good performance
4) Setup a SMB share with an ACL only accessible by the Guest VM on the host
5) Install Windows 10 Professional as the guest
6) Run Windows Update.
7) Install Office, Visual Studio, Docker, Linux Subsystem, some other crap as well.
8) Snapshop the VM
9) Configure Windows Backup and Restore to do "Time Machine" like backups of all my data to the host machine.
Using a similar approach on corporate laptops will be awesome too.
I already do 90% of my work over remote desktop anyway. My local PC is pretty much for nothing but entertainment. This way, the local machine is well protected and the "remote machine" is actually a local VM.
I theorized that the Mandelbrot is capable of generating any string of data of any size given a high enough resolution, high enough iterations and enough time to process it. I haven't retested my theory on scale since 1998 (significant because of general availability of GPUs... if you count Voodoo2 as a GPU), but processing on a 486DX-50 with 16 megs of RAM and Linux allowed me to search for simple strings (kilobytes in size) within reasonable time.
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What I found was that every 4KB sequence I randomly generated as part of a set was able to be located within the Mandelbrot set. Results generally were found in the nautilus or horse tail areas. I used several search methods.
1) Linear
2) Rectangular spiral clockwise (variable width, variable height)
3) Rectangular spiral counter-clockwise (variable width, variable height)
4) Zig-zag in 45 degree rotations and variable width and variable height)
5) Elliptical Spiral (clockwise and counter-clockwise, variable width, variable height)
I also experimented with added dimension which included iteration as a 3rd dimension when pattern searching allowing strings to extend across multiple iterations in cubical, spheroidical, etc... footprints. I had to abandon this effort due to computational complexity.
I also experimented with experimenting with adding bit layers as a 3rd dimension when searching, but this added even greater computational complexity than the previous method described above but certainly promised greater results.
The algorithms I used were exhaustive. So where a video motion vector search algorithm would abandon searching a given direction for performance reasons when the delta values in said direction were not yielding results, I searched every pattern type for every pixel for every parameter... etc...
Now, given my computational capacity and limitations of the time, the average seek time per 4KB string before finding a result was 1-2 weeks. All my code was heavily optimized to exploit memory as it was used on the architecture. Consider a combination of Michael Abrash style coding/optimizations with more specific knowledge of the specific CPU and memory it would run on. I also spent a great deal of money getting memory with 60ns response time (though I never measured better than 64ns on the scope). I also used a Micronics motherboard which at the time meant something as Intel had yet to enter the chipset market and as ECC memory was far too expensive... for pretty much anyone on that scale, and the memory controller was not yet part of the CPU, I needed a reliable and documented chipset to work with.
Ok, so here's the summary of all the results
1) It is worth investing greater effort in scientifically proving that absolutely any string can be found in the Mandelbrot Set given enough iterations, resolution, search creativity and of course CPU power.
2) It is believed (though through non-thorough experimentation, not mathematically proven) that any 4KB string can be found in the Mandelbrot Set
3) Once found, depending on the resolution and number of iterations provided as a coefficients for identifying the set, the data can be retrieved in a reasonable period of time (deterministic, though variable) on any device. The real computational cost was the search itself.
4) This method of compression has no value for video as the data sets are too large.
5) It is most common that longer string lengths searched for often requires higher resolutions and higher iteration counts to be found. This is common, not a rule. Depending on the search pattern, often strings with a more level histogram distribution could be found as bit patterns in lower resolutions and iterations.
6) The size of the strings found increased far more rapidly than the size of the coefficients required to represent the find. Meaning without employing additional methods such as entropy coding the
- resolution of the Mandelbrot image,
I'm confused... while I must admit that I'm think the AC above you was a bit rude in his/her/its response to the post, I'm kind of in agreement here. I don't think Microsoft has done anything wrong in this case... and I've actually bought a new BMW from my profits on antitrust law suits against Microsoft.
I think that the heart of the complaint by Kapersky depends on short-comings related to their developers, development process and project managers. Microsoft doesn't exactly just drop new versions of Windows on the planet with no prior notice. They don't release breaking fixes for security without first testing them (usually) in the public. Microsoft isn't making use of any critical undocumented APIs... hell Windows these days has no shortage of developer documentation, their main problem is that they have a shortage of ways of sifting through it... something to do with Bing.
The fact is, Kapersky should be more than capable of keeping up with Microsoft's releases.
Oh, and let's be honest, the "inferior anti-virus" claim doesn't hold much water anymore. Microsoft, quality-wise is in the top 6 and Kapersky takes turns in first, second or third. Both Microsoft and Kapersky tend to get bitchslapped by exactly the same zero-days.
In comparison with what other OS?
/var/logs?
:/, but I generally find that in most cases, Windows Defender combined with Google Chrome do a fair job of keeping my stuff pretty safe. I've been hit with 3 different randsomware tools in a year but none of them had any impact on my Windows Backup/Restore (think Time Machine for Windows) of the system, so all files were easily recovered in minutes by simply pressing the Windows key and typing "restore" then next, next, next, finished.
Compared to Linux? Because there are no hacks against Linux? And because the malware protection software for Linux is so damn good you can't even find it to know whether it's working or not unless you actually like digging through
Compared to Mac OS X that yesterday asked me for my administrator password 14 times so that I could give absolute access to all kinds of programs without reading what program was asking or what access it was asking for? And let's not forget that Apple's approach to security is to block absolutely everything requiring the user to disable all the security mechanisms to install anything and everything... and where's the malware protection software again?
I suppose you must be using Android which never has any security holes... well at least it doesn't seem to on a stock image, but heaven forbid you run a T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy and then you're pretty much just screwed.
I actually feel safer on Windows these days than other platforms because I have a healthy sense of paranoia when using Windows and Windows Defender is actually good enough to help me no feel totally paranoid.
I've been running a Windows 10 honey pot lately and even spend some time visiting web sites with naughty pictures and videos which asks me to install software... of course I don't visit those sites for purposes other than academic interest (mostly anatomy, more specifically range of motion studies)
Oh... and on that honeypot virtual machine, i generally install all the things they ask me to install... and give all the permissions necessary. I also use this as the honeypot for talking with "Windows Support from India". They're sneaky since they actually like to try to lock me out of my system unless I pay.
We all know you started as a video game tester. 95% of your posts mention your entire history, high school grades included.
... especially IT guys have really short attention spans. If we can't solve the problem quickly... while we're on a roll, we lose interest.
You still didn't get the joke either. Mreed911 said something pretty much any competent IT guy would find hilarious and you either didn't read it or didn't get it.
People might stop attacking you and stop teasing you if you stopped calling everyone names (about 70% of your posts, 50% when you specifically initiate aggression). They might respect you more if you don't self-aggrandize with your resume which on slashdot, isn't particularly impressive. Or if, knowing we all have a general assessment of your skills and experience, stopped making comments about how you would take it upon yourself to engineer things like dynamos for running shoes if you had the time when it would things like expertise in mechanical engineering, miniaturization, polymers, ohh... and running shoe engineering which I assume are all outside of your skill-set with the possible exception of mechanical engineering on a hobbyist scale.
Over the past five years, I've slowly learned that pointing out problems without attempting to offer a meaningful solution is a waste of time. If you don't have an answer or something meaningful to contribute, making the comment in the first place simply makes people hate you. So, in an effort to get people to hate me less, I've been trying to change myself.
You mention a triple whammy. 47 + 350lb and 50k income. Based on this description, one would generally assess that you're screwed. Age, you're still young. 50 is the new 40. You have time to work with. I never hit 350lbs, so I can't possibly understand or even relate to your situation, but a few years back, I made it up to 200lbs (my comfort weight it 165). When I went to the store and smiled at the girl and she responded by telling me I would have to start shopping at places which specialize in "big boys". I realized I was old enough that she thought of me as her father and I was fat. 4 months later, I went back weighing in at 163 with a 31" waist line. During the time since then I've learned a great deal about humans in a meaningful way.
Men
We tend to set goals for ourselves which are somewhat unrealistic and hope that we make it through before losing interest and hope no one notices when we give up and we spend a lot of energy coming up with great excuses for why it's ok we gave up.
It's generally all about momentum, we think all problems have to be solved the way we send rockets to the moon. Stick enough fuel into the first stage of the rocket and break free of earth's atmosphere and all we'll need is some course correction to get there. The bitch of it is, most problems don't have a point where we can break free of gravity and friction.
Another thing I learned about when I was younger was poverty.
You've heard people make the comment "If he's so poor, how come he always seems to have enough money for food... fat ass"?
Obesity is inversely correlated to income bracket for a reason. The poorer you are the fatter you tend to become. An IT guy with IT guy interests generally tends to prioritize toys over food and as a result a $50k income can be equal a a $20k + welfare/foodstamps income. The only difference being that with some financial planning/responsibility, $50k can actually make ends meet... barely.
How does this matter? That's easy, you and I were among the last people in America to take Home Economics in high school and what's worse is that we both were of a generation where mommy going back to work was something cute and short-term. We didn't take the class seriously. We never learned the important things about managing a household. In addition, I know I've never vacuumed under the couch in my life. I suck at it.
Important things about managing a house.
1) Plan your meals
2) Meal pl
He was referring to a common commercial X server for Windows. He didn't understand that you were talking about remoting to a Linux machine. Though, while his comment was less than perfect, it is worth pointing out that there are some great X Servers for Windows which are great for this. In fact, unless you can find a Sync on Green friendly LCD panel these days, remoting is the best option when working with old Unix machines.
I wonder if I could dig up an old 50-pin external SCSI CDROM and get my Indy converted back to Irix,
Oh, I'm about to roll over and die here. This is just brilliant, I wanted to see what you were responding to and I clicked back one... it was beautiful. I've actually made a bookmark to this one as it's going down in history as one of my favorite examples of how pathetic people "responsible for security" on government networks are.
Did you even read what mreed911 wrote? If so, did you understand it?
I love this!!! Criemer, you're absolutely brilliant. I think you might be my favorite new comedian... and you don't even get the joke!!!
I'll stop typing now. Kicking the slow guy even if he's mean is still kicking the slow guy which is wrong.
A socket is a means of communicating between processes (and the kernel) in UNIX. Berkeley implemented a sockets API for network communications as part of BSD and called it Berkeley sockets and later, a similar API called WinSock was implemented to provide a similar platform of communications on Windows, though it wasn't technically a socket.
:)
There are hundreds (probably thousands) of operating systems which don't use sockets for communications as the API is often overkill for small applications. Instead, they'll use the native APIs of systems like LWIP or uIP or similar. There may even be more systems on the planet today communicating via IP and the Internet without using sockets. But of course, a small and limited example of a system like this is the EU's network for mobile phone signal monitoring which at last count had 4 million + sensors.. all running without sockets. Or another I know of which is the Norwegian weather sensor network which I believe currently has close to 5 million + sensors, mostly without sockets.
But I guess you're the expert
spoiled... I only have an Indy, but have been tempted to upgrade
Time related issues are easy to solve. The real problem is that no one wants to pay a few bucks for accurate time since probably 99% or more of all systems synchronizing time probably don't need better than the correct second... forget milliseconds or better.
So here's the thing. Replace NTP as the wide spread time protocol with one that uses a round trip timer over HTTPS for get time requests and changes are the precision is good enough.
Most enterprise and industrial environments don't need precision time, but instead need consistent time. So, running a local time server is optimal. Windows domain services does time as well, so once computers are domain joined, they sync against the AD server and so long as the AD server is correct, then all the PCs should be synced against the AD.
This is where there could be a problem. NTP has no security so wherever possible, it is preferable to run NTP over IPv6 with encryption enabled. This should be true for most enterprise traffic today. If nothing else, placing the AD server in an IPv6 only domain and requiring DirectAccess when IPv6 isn't available will secure the connection. And it's generally better than most systems like Cisco, Palo Alto, Checkpoint and open source solutions since every time there's a Windows update that fixes VPN bugs, the VPN is policy based, so both the client and server are updated and then reconfigured to secure the link. It's stupid how many people still run AD on IPv4 when running it on IPv6 is a millions time better... ESPECIALLY when IPv6 isn't available and DirectAccess needs to be used.
Of course, synchronizing against a server is stupid since time on Windows and Linux is generally REALLY bad because they're running on general purpose operating systems without real-time extensions, so clock drift is a reality. There's also the issue of non-deterministic packet processing latency. For this reason, using an older Cisco router (running IOS, not IOS-XE) is a good idea. These cost $20-$100 on eBay. Cisco has classically had pretty good NTP implementations even if they generally aren't very secure. This solution is a much better option than server syncing. Of course, if all you have is modern equipment, you don't want to use Cisco IOS-XE devices since Cisco did a half-assed job on real-time Linux (try BFD out on XE and you'll see what I mean).
Now, the Cisco solution is nice because you can stick a few cheap IOS based devices at the edge of the network, peer them to each other and sync them against NTP and you're good to go. The entire configuration with security (what little you can get with NTP and less with Cisco) should take 10-15 minutes if the Cisco guy knows his stuff... good luck with that.
If your an enterprise that considers time to be more important than just per second resolution... then it's time for a proper time server.
http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/Raspberry-Pi-NTP.html
That's currently my favorite option as it's dirt cheap, GPS sync'd and very simple... and it's almost 100% guaranteed to be a better option than buying expensive devices from somewhere else.
$200 per server, get two of these per location and configure them properly to include NTP peering and run your own "master".
Ask the Asian and African guys who built the railroads 50 years earlier.
The claim clearly mentions relativity in relation to qualifications.
This would mean people would have to risk their reputation with their employer to testify in favor of her qualifications.
That said, the receptionist goosed me while I was making coffee the other day! I am not sure whether I should sue... or maybe think it was funny.
Oh... and I am in favor of firing people who "cat call". I have been "cat called" at work by the ladies and it makes me blush. I think calling me over to harass me privately is much better and preferred.
The questionnaires have the field : Sex/gender?
.. well they're all drinking now). I set some rules
And this is part of the issue... not directly, but ironically.
I as a man have been raised in a society where multiple times a day, every single day... wherever I may be, I or the the people around me make comments or have discussions or make jokes that define a person who is in possession of their very own penis makes use of it as a secondary brain that is occasionally dominant and able to preempt logical thought process.
It is extremely clear to most people that gender and sex are related. Although, no as in sex = gender... but instead gender and sex go hand in hand.. or more specifically penis in whatever you can stick it in.
I raise my daughter in a way where I explain to her that once hormones kick in within teenage boys, primal urges kick in and while most people learn to adapt and control them and let them out during appropriate times and in appropriate places, far too many (even if it's few) men never learn... and they are a danger to those around them. Whether it's their urge to dominate and overcome through fighting or sex, they are a danger to the people around them.
I recently talked with my son about drinking parties (he's 15 and drinking age is 18 which means
- Never ever be at a party where there isn't at least one person who is sober and responsible enough to call parents, taxis and ambulances etc... if needed
- If there's no one else, it's you.
- If you're the responsible one, that means you sip on a single beer all night and sneak refill it with water to keep the drunks from pressuring you to drink too much
- If there is a girl passed out on a bed or couch... find another girl and sit on the bed next to the passed out one chatting.
- If there isn't another girl, then pick her up and carry her outside and let her sit and puke there.
- If there are any drunk girls who need to get home, find a sober(ish) girl to walk/carry her home with or call her parents. Do not stick her in a cab or uber alone. You don't want her parents worrying you violated her.
- Invite your guy friends to crash at our place if needed. Girls ALWAYS go home and you have to get them there if needed.
Basically, I'm teaching my son how to make sure his friends don't have the opportunity to think with the wrong head. I'm also teaching him how to not be accused of raping a girl at a party that someone else raped.
So... all of this is about penises doing the thinking. Testosterone is a shitty thing and makes people stupid. Alcohol with testosterone is a disaster.
So... it's not about being perceived as duplicitous or perverted any more than any other penis baring human.
The point is that these are people that have testosterone in their bodies. And while not all people with penises are driven by sexual desires, someone who identifies themselves as a woman but should in theory be prone to testosterone driven desires to dominate and overcome... well... here's the problem. Even if their solution is just to tug themselves off in the bathroom, and while I have never found myself that desperate, I have been forced to listen to people tell me and others that they have... unabashedly. And now, that person may be using the ladies room to deal with those desires.
Ok... so here's the thing... the real problem isn't which room they do it in. I certainly don't like the idea of some asshole jerking it in the stall next to my son or my daughter. I don't like the idea of some asshole jerking off because they are aroused by my son or daughter. I hate the idea of some asshole thinking they should relieve themselves by dominating my son or daughter.
So for me the problem has nothing to do with gender or gender identity. It has everything to do with the types of people who can't keep it in their pants (or skirts I guess).
I'm not far from beating the shit out of the next person who looks
Why not just do co-ed bathrooms with stalls? Make sure at least one stall is marked "sitting only". Good companies can even make sure there are enough supplies to deal with messes left by assholes who actually think their pee doesn't sprinkle... everywhere off of the main stream.
If men and women are equal, we can share a bathroom.
As for rapes and violence in bathrooms, I'm pretty sure men's and ladies' toilets never helped with that anyway.
I wrote OCR software years ago just for fun. Writing algorithms that could identify boundaries each typeset character from a scanned magazine page as well as images was pretty hard to do... but I did it... with 98% accuracy... and no real AI... just algorithms like SPF.
What this guy did barely counts. It just identifies rectangles (poorly) and guesses what kind of rectangle (poorly) and spits out code.
It's a cute project for a high school kid.
I was reading the comments from the top down.
I'm trying to figure out how your comment is a response to the previous post. What exactly was the point of your comment and who was it directed to? Are you attacking Rockoon or something in the original article? Or was it just a failed joke or pun about the equality issues?
Do you kiss your..... never mind.
... in a distributed fashion.
I suppose some people might say that the greatest problem with the open source is people like you... I know that I have been involved with multiple open source projects until people like you came around and I decided it's just not worth my effort. The guy above came off as a know-it-all. Fine. But he wasn't rude and he made some valid points. He is attempting to raise awareness as well as advocate merits of open source while suggesting people shouldn't just blindly expect the code to be perfect.
Consider the Linux Kernel for example. The Linux Kernel is one gigantic, glorious and wonderful shit heap of code. It is riddled with security problems. There are probably 2000 functions that do the same thing spread out over the code base. The GPL has been awful for the kernel at times since developers writing drivers... which of course are always monolithic... must either reinvent wheel after wheel after wheel (rbtree.h and rbtree.c for example) since the GPL on that code means that they can't use that code for closed source drivers on other operating systems. The network stack as it stands right now has grown far too complex and can never be rewritten as the project would be too large. There needs to be a revisit to devfs and procfs to make it cleaner and more secure. Oh.... and if someone were to completely drop the unix file permissions model and implement something more intelligent, that would only require rewritting most file systems and probably... you know what... it's not even worth trying to map that scope.
Linux gets fixed quick.
But it has a development team which is paid for
And it has project management.
And it has testers.
And it has extensive quality control.
Which works kinda ok...
As for open vs. closed... I discovered about 50 minor to devastating zero-days in a specific Cisco product which most governments depend on this year. What's worse is, I wasn't looking for them. I stumbled on them while writing some code. I have not released them and I can't seem to figure out who to talk with at Cisco to get them sorted... unless I release them and screw all my customers by doing so. And I have deadlines to meet... and I just don't have the time to deal with it.
Here's the kicker.... 3/4 of the hacks were because Cisco blindly uses open source products (they follow licenses) which if you don't apply patches weekly or more often are security disasters. Then, there's the issue that if they patch those products, then they have to write new code to work with the patches. Which they don't... so they don't patch the open source code. So they don't get the security fixes.
That means, vulnerable versions of JBoss, OpenSSL, Java, MySQL and far more. Even if Cisco's tools were open sourced, it is perfectly clear to me that their QA team doesn't employ unit tests or automated testing. So those vulnerabilities are actually in poorly managed open source code within a commercial product.
So.... thankfully you posted that as AC, you'd only embarrass yourself otherwise.
I was thinking that co-ed bathrooms would just make this easier. If there are stalls for all sitting/standing positions, there's not really a privacy concern either. The whole discussion of guy, girl, girl turned guy, guy turned girl blah blah blah.... let's make it easy... if you want to support a culture where everyone is equal... they have to be equal, that means equally happy and equally uncomfortable.
Just build the stalls and make it coed. If the employees don't like it, then quit.
P.S. - I recommend hiring a cleaning person to keep them clean all the time... otherwise there will be problems as guys seem to think "I never miss the bowl" which may be true... but what we don't generally realize is that there are little sprinkles and tinkles spraying everywhere.... including the floor, the seat and the walls.
And what it does open source is basically just a bunch of crappy utilities that they don't care about.