In theory the one benefit OSS/F software can offer us is better security. Those who are able have been willing to pay the price of a little inconvenience for that. In professional settings, against casual attackers this still holds true. In daily life? No. The attack surface is too big, the job of securing things too complicated, the likely attack is more often social engineering than technical, and state level actors can compromise the system at lower levels outside the scope of the kernel. They can compromise the BIOS, the hardware, whatever they want. We lost. They have control. The phone world trained most us to accept it. Everything is spying on us, so fuck it.
The only real security is outside of modern tech entirely. If you're in a car from 10 years ago or more, you're probably safe. "Things we say in the car". It has become an expression I use.
The old Slashdot article says it was launched with a Russian vehicle called "Rockot", and people also thought that was a misspelling. So let's hear it for this telescope. In death as in life, it was so humble that it didn't even mind that Slashdot hated all the spelling and confusion that surrounded it.
If I provide my real name, my reputation just might make you believe the subject. Alternatively, it might make you *disbelieve* that 2+2=4. That's how propaganda works. The only reason we're paying attention at all is because it's Linus. Let's see some AC put forth a good argument against anonymity. If it's a compelling argument, it won't matter that it's an AC.
Otherwise though I agree with him about simple thumbs up/down and re-tweet being garbage. That's why I'm still here, still pseudonymous after all these years. It's stood the test of time better than sites that require your real name, and better than sites that try to distill everything into a simple up/down vote, and sometimes, Sometimes, ACs put forth the best arguments right on this very site..
I submit this site as empirical evidence against his opposition to anonymity, and for his arguments against simpler moderation and sharing schemes.
My understanding is that this proposal makes the paper receipt *optional* if you give them an e-mail. First, I don't want to be on their list. Secondly, I sometimes want a paper receipt for a variety of reasons, such as eating at the grocery store and not wanting to get accused of shoplifting.
What they need to do is regulate the width and length of the receipt, and the number of items per unit length. They also need to phase out thermal paper, perhaps tax the thermal paper to fund a program for replacing it with plain paper. Why? Because thermal paper is plastics, and plastic pollution is a huge problem. Require the receipt to tell us if it's plain or thermal so we can dispose of it properly. Finally, no coupons or promotions printing out of the register unless we hit OK on the terminal.
Of course that's a lot, and lobbyists are going to push HARD against that but IMHO it's really the direction we need to go. I'm not sure how we get there.
Maybe then we can get rid of the stinkin' "club cards" and games they want you to play at the store, but first things first.
Your response is interesting to me, because when I made this comment on reddit, they assumed I was pro-Trump and downvoted accordingly.
As somebody who isn't particularly fond of the president, but also not fond of the condescending attitudes from the Democrats, I may stand in an unusual position here--destined to be taken the wrong way by the vast majority who appear to be more polarized.
But surely, SURELY you must be rooting hard for one team or the other? No, and stop calling me Shirley.
From Barr's summary: "The Special Counsel states that 'while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him'"
Now picture Homer Simpson watching that soccer game: "A tie? Everyone's a loser".
Frink's prediction might come true after all. "I predict that within 100 years, computers will be twice as powerful, ten thousand times larger, and so expensive that only the 5 richest kings of Europe will own them "
Yes, until yesterday all these files were available to be served, right? If they were being incrementally overwritten you'd think somebody would have complained... at least before it was *all* over-written, one of a few dozen people would notice, right?
There are programs out there that intentionally wipe drives because rm simply unlinks files, it doesn't erase bits. Unless the drives were over-written then the data is there. OK, maybe some stuff would get written over after being un-linked, but not all the old data, right?
At least some of that data, probably a significant percentage, is probably nice and clean on drive sectors. A decent recovery program could salvage a lot, but these aren't F-99 spy satellite plans, they're gaudy web sites and mediocre bands.
Many files are most likely not lost, they're just not economically recoverable.
That's body shops only. Notice all their links are for making the car safe, rendering the electrical aspects inert so body shops can work. If you follow the link pertaining to battery damage for example, it says right there that only Tesla can repair the battery pack.
ie, Tesla will let you fix scratches and dents, but that's about it.
The real "real problem" is that California has too many people and too much agriculture using too much water.
The highest estimate I could find of pre-contact population in California was about 700,000. Of course natives didn't use massive flood irrigation techniques, so the state's carrying capacity is probably much higher, but we're closing in on 40 million people here combined with an unsustainable Central Valley irrigation system that's already causing salination of the soil and draw-downs of aquifers to the point where land is subsiding.
"Crash proof"? Perhaps. It was certainly very tight code, and while it didn't "crash" in the traditional sense it definitely gave Apollo 11 a tense moment. I'm given to understand the error displayed during the landing sequence was there to inform operators that the computer was running low on resources and was prioritizing jobs. This isn't a crash of course, but the fact that the computer would face constraints in scheduling tasks is certainly a deficiency, and the poorly documented, unfriendly error (just a number, no text to explain what was happening) nearly caused them to abort the landing.
Indeed, I can't think of what I'd add. The benefit of a widget like calc.exe is that it starts *immediately*. It's a sub second start for sub-minute work. If I need anything more than what it provides, I'm firing up a spread sheet or some advanced number-crunching program that takes longer to start, but I'm OK with that because I'm going to be spending 15 minutes or more with it.
That 2nd picture looks like a rosemary bush with miniature buildings around it. Then you realize it's bikes. It was worthwhile scrolling to the bottom. Amazing pix.
IANAL, but since so many laws are out there regarding odometers and how they are set, I don't believe it's legally possible to market a car without one. Rolling back the odometer would definitely get them in all kinds of trouble.
The only car that wouldn't have one might be something vintage from the early 20th or late 19th century that's grandfathered in. Even a custom car has to pass inspection and needs to make some kind of statement on the title regarding miles driven. Not being able to make that statement dramatically reduces the value unless it's something super rare like the 1st Benz. Maybe top fuel dragsters don't have them, but let's see you take that to the grocery store..
Because/u/shittymorph is a genius at stringing people along with plausible prose, and often you don't know what is going to hit you until the last line. It wasn't just a few times either--he was quite prolific for a while, and even if you knew in the back of your mind that he existed, he'd still get you.
You might not find that entertaining, but a lot of people did. He really has a unique kind of talent.
It's a bit of Barnum, I suppose. "This way to the fantastic egress", and when you realized what happened, you weren't even mad. Anyone can rick-roll you on the Internet. Few can rick-roll you with the lyrics right there in the damned post.
I do too, and I think it doesn't do much unless you have a critical mass of people, or a community that cares. "Pinterest sucks". There. I just made a comment about an arbitrary web site, but you have to be part of Slashdot to see it. Pinterest itself only lives because it has a community that has reached a critical mass... of people who don't care about ruining our search results.
As somebody who doesn't use Gab, their ability to "comment on any URL" doesn't appeal to me. It's not enough to make me a part of their community. Oh look--I just commented on another arbitrary thing.
I'm guessing that a lot of kids these days spend so much time with keyboards and tablets that they'll never realize that a Bic pen is perfectly suited to sticking through the holes in the cassette so you can wind the tape back in.
LOL, I sort of get the vinyl thing but tapes? Oh, it's hissing. Turn on the Dolby. Great. Now there's way too much bass. Fiddle with the equalizer... if you've got one. You probably don't. Oh well, at least you can carry around this cool looking suitcase that holds something like 36 albums, and you only paid $5 for each, what a bargain! What? You left it at the beach house and it's nowhere to be seen? Oh well. Nostalgia!!!
Some businesses can't process cards or "process cash", whatever that means but there are definitely backup plans available.
In the case of cards, any business that wants payments should have one of these old school devices for emergencies. Given the cost of this device, it seems foolish to take the chance of missing sales because you don't have one. AFAIK, you process the payments electronically somehow after the power comes back up. Back in the day I don't know how they did it--perhaps they mailed a carbon copy to a clearinghouse.
As for cash, you just write the paper invoices by hand. People do it all the time where I am. I know some one-man shop mechanics that only take checks or cash because they don't want to deal with all the BS from credit companies.
Strange indeed. Whether his assets were in the US or Canada is irrelevant. Those have to be in the top 10 most stable places to keep your money. Were I in his situation, I'd keep it where I earned it and make periodic small transfers for daily living expenses. If I planned to move and never come back, I'd just bite the bullet and pay whatever tax you have to pay. It's the cost of doing business. Instead he channeled his entire net worth through a type of entity that has been known to lose everything with no recourse, not even lawsuits. He probably isn't a criminal, just penny-wise and pound foolish in the way that people used to be by sticking pennies in their fuse boxes rather than going to the hardware store for a fuse.
You're supposed to troll as AC. Seriously, he would have been golden if he had gotten an ID from a homeless guy or something. Just do it a bit away, like in another state. You'd get to smirk when they track the origin of the papers to a tent under a bridge in Dallas, and you wouldn't lose your tenure.
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In theory the one benefit OSS/F software can offer us is better security. Those who are able have been willing to pay the price of a little inconvenience for that. In professional settings, against casual attackers this still holds true. In daily life? No. The attack surface is too big, the job of securing things too complicated, the likely attack is more often social engineering than technical, and state level actors can compromise the system at lower levels outside the scope of the kernel. They can compromise the BIOS, the hardware, whatever they want. We lost. They have control. The phone world trained most us to accept it. Everything is spying on us, so fuck it.
The only real security is outside of modern tech entirely. If you're in a car from 10 years ago or more, you're probably safe. "Things we say in the car". It has become an expression I use.
The old Slashdot article says it was launched with a Russian vehicle called "Rockot", and people also thought that was a misspelling. So let's hear it for this telescope. In death as in life, it was so humble that it didn't even mind that Slashdot hated all the spelling and confusion that surrounded it.
Water drowns people. Let's ban it.
If I provide my real name, my reputation just might make you believe the subject. Alternatively, it might make you *disbelieve* that 2+2=4. That's how propaganda works. The only reason we're paying attention at all is because it's Linus. Let's see some AC put forth a good argument against anonymity. If it's a compelling argument, it won't matter that it's an AC.
Otherwise though I agree with him about simple thumbs up/down and re-tweet being garbage. That's why I'm still here, still pseudonymous after all these years. It's stood the test of time better than sites that require your real name, and better than sites that try to distill everything into a simple up/down vote, and sometimes, Sometimes, ACs put forth the best arguments right on this very site..
I submit this site as empirical evidence against his opposition to anonymity, and for his arguments against simpler moderation and sharing schemes.
My understanding is that this proposal makes the paper receipt *optional* if you give them an e-mail. First, I don't want to be on their list. Secondly, I sometimes want a paper receipt for a variety of reasons, such as eating at the grocery store and not wanting to get accused of shoplifting.
What they need to do is regulate the width and length of the receipt, and the number of items per unit length. They also need to phase out thermal paper, perhaps tax the thermal paper to fund a program for replacing it with plain paper. Why? Because thermal paper is plastics, and plastic pollution is a huge problem. Require the receipt to tell us if it's plain or thermal so we can dispose of it properly. Finally, no coupons or promotions printing out of the register unless we hit OK on the terminal.
Of course that's a lot, and lobbyists are going to push HARD against that but IMHO it's really the direction we need to go. I'm not sure how we get there.
Maybe then we can get rid of the stinkin' "club cards" and games they want you to play at the store, but first things first.
Your response is interesting to me, because when I made this comment on reddit, they assumed I was pro-Trump and downvoted accordingly.
As somebody who isn't particularly fond of the president, but also not fond of the condescending attitudes from the Democrats, I may stand in an unusual position here--destined to be taken the wrong way by the vast majority who appear to be more polarized.
But surely, SURELY you must be rooting hard for one team or the other? No, and stop calling me Shirley.
From Barr's summary: "The Special Counsel states that 'while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him'"
Now picture Homer Simpson watching that soccer game: "A tie? Everyone's a loser".
They know all about garbage collection algorithms.
Frink's prediction might come true after all. "I predict that within 100 years, computers will be twice as powerful, ten thousand times larger, and so expensive that only the 5 richest kings of Europe will own them "
Yes, until yesterday all these files were available to be served, right? If they were being incrementally overwritten you'd think somebody would have complained... at least before it was *all* over-written, one of a few dozen people would notice, right?
There are programs out there that intentionally wipe drives because rm simply unlinks files, it doesn't erase bits. Unless the drives were over-written then the data is there. OK, maybe some stuff would get written over after being un-linked, but not all the old data, right?
At least some of that data, probably a significant percentage, is probably nice and clean on drive sectors. A decent recovery program could salvage a lot, but these aren't F-99 spy satellite plans, they're gaudy web sites and mediocre bands.
Many files are most likely not lost, they're just not economically recoverable.
That's body shops only. Notice all their links are for making the car safe, rendering the electrical aspects inert so body shops can work. If you follow the link pertaining to battery damage for example, it says right there that only Tesla can repair the battery pack.
ie, Tesla will let you fix scratches and dents, but that's about it.
The real "real problem" is that California has too many people and too much agriculture using too much water.
The highest estimate I could find of pre-contact population in California was about 700,000. Of course natives didn't use massive flood irrigation techniques, so the state's carrying capacity is probably much higher, but we're closing in on 40 million people here combined with an unsustainable Central Valley irrigation system that's already causing salination of the soil and draw-downs of aquifers to the point where land is subsiding.
"Crash proof"? Perhaps. It was certainly very tight code, and while it didn't "crash" in the traditional sense it definitely gave Apollo 11 a tense moment. I'm given to understand the error displayed during the landing sequence was there to inform operators that the computer was running low on resources and was prioritizing jobs. This isn't a crash of course, but the fact that the computer would face constraints in scheduling tasks is certainly a deficiency, and the poorly documented, unfriendly error (just a number, no text to explain what was happening) nearly caused them to abort the landing.
Indeed, I can't think of what I'd add. The benefit of a widget like calc.exe is that it starts *immediately*. It's a sub second start for sub-minute work. If I need anything more than what it provides, I'm firing up a spread sheet or some advanced number-crunching program that takes longer to start, but I'm OK with that because I'm going to be spending 15 minutes or more with it.
That 2nd picture looks like a rosemary bush with miniature buildings around it. Then you realize it's bikes. It was worthwhile scrolling to the bottom. Amazing pix.
I liked it better when my horse was powered by Apache.
IANAL, but since so many laws are out there regarding odometers and how they are set, I don't believe it's legally possible to market a car without one. Rolling back the odometer would definitely get them in all kinds of trouble.
The only car that wouldn't have one might be something vintage from the early 20th or late 19th century that's grandfathered in. Even a custom car has to pass inspection and needs to make some kind of statement on the title regarding miles driven. Not being able to make that statement dramatically reduces the value unless it's something super rare like the 1st Benz. Maybe top fuel dragsters don't have them, but let's see you take that to the grocery store..
Because /u/shittymorph is a genius at stringing people along with plausible prose, and often you don't know what is going to hit you until the last line. It wasn't just a few times either--he was quite prolific for a while, and even if you knew in the back of your mind that he existed, he'd still get you.
You might not find that entertaining, but a lot of people did. He really has a unique kind of talent.
It's a bit of Barnum, I suppose. "This way to the fantastic egress", and when you realized what happened, you weren't even mad. Anyone can rick-roll you on the Internet. Few can rick-roll you with the lyrics right there in the damned post.
I do too, and I think it doesn't do much unless you have a critical mass of people, or a community that cares. "Pinterest sucks". There. I just made a comment about an arbitrary web site, but you have to be part of Slashdot to see it. Pinterest itself only lives because it has a community that has reached a critical mass... of people who don't care about ruining our search results.
As somebody who doesn't use Gab, their ability to "comment on any URL" doesn't appeal to me. It's not enough to make me a part of their community. Oh look--I just commented on another arbitrary thing.
I'm guessing that a lot of kids these days spend so much time with keyboards and tablets that they'll never realize that a Bic pen is perfectly suited to sticking through the holes in the cassette so you can wind the tape back in.
LOL, I sort of get the vinyl thing but tapes? Oh, it's hissing. Turn on the Dolby. Great. Now there's way too much bass. Fiddle with the equalizer... if you've got one. You probably don't. Oh well, at least you can carry around this cool looking suitcase that holds something like 36 albums, and you only paid $5 for each, what a bargain! What? You left it at the beach house and it's nowhere to be seen? Oh well. Nostalgia!!!
I didn't know what you were talking about, but after some googling around I found this. That's so evil. Screw that.
Some businesses can't process cards or "process cash", whatever that means but there are definitely backup plans available.
In the case of cards, any business that wants payments should have one of these old school devices for emergencies. Given the cost of this device, it seems foolish to take the chance of missing sales because you don't have one. AFAIK, you process the payments electronically somehow after the power comes back up. Back in the day I don't know how they did it--perhaps they mailed a carbon copy to a clearinghouse.
As for cash, you just write the paper invoices by hand. People do it all the time where I am. I know some one-man shop mechanics that only take checks or cash because they don't want to deal with all the BS from credit companies.
Strange indeed. Whether his assets were in the US or Canada is irrelevant. Those have to be in the top 10 most stable places to keep your money. Were I in his situation, I'd keep it where I earned it and make periodic small transfers for daily living expenses. If I planned to move and never come back, I'd just bite the bullet and pay whatever tax you have to pay. It's the cost of doing business. Instead he channeled his entire net worth through a type of entity that has been known to lose everything with no recourse, not even lawsuits. He probably isn't a criminal, just penny-wise and pound foolish in the way that people used to be by sticking pennies in their fuse boxes rather than going to the hardware store for a fuse.
Crypto currency advocates make gold bugs look sane by comparison. At least with gold, there would be something left behind.
You're supposed to troll as AC. Seriously, he would have been golden if he had gotten an ID from a homeless guy or something. Just do it a bit away, like in another state. You'd get to smirk when they track the origin of the papers to a tent under a bridge in Dallas, and you wouldn't lose your tenure.