The caller was the murderer and the police were his weapon, just as if he had hired a hit man. If police are just a weapon, then we should get rid of them. Police should be thinking professionals who protect the public, not shoot the public because someone on the phone told them to. They should know what swatting is, act accordingly. At least that is how I think I should be spending my tax dollars.
"97% of all bitcoins are held by 4% of addresses," And how is this different from stocks or bonds? An enormous fraction of all wealth is owned by the wealthiest 4%, like Warren Buffet.
I think the staying power and value of bitcoin will be continue to be due to people in nations like South Sudan and Venezuela with high inflation rates and limited access to trading in other currencies.
States and cities make decisions about which businesses get to run cables on property owned by those states and cities. There are many requirements that businesses must meet to run such cables. Why not make net neutrality such a requirement? The city or state is not regulating that business. That business is free to choose not to run their cable in the right-of-way and shit on net neutrality. But, if they want that contract, they have to meet the standards of the property owners.
the police THOUGHT they were rolling on a murder and hostage situation
No, what we know is that "swattings" are pretty common, police know that they are common, and therefore they should be extremely cautious about any such call that they receive. Yet they were not, instead mowing down civilians anyway.
Your example is off base. 1. I seldom search my gzipped backlogs, because if something went wrong, it was recent. That is why they are gzipped. 2. If I am searching for a specific error message, like "$whatever_I_really_wanted_to_see", then generally no other program will spew that and the extra "grep dovecot" is unnecessary. Generally this is all you need: grep $whatever_I_really_wanted_to_see mail* Which is even simpler than the journalctl bullshit.
Second, the example that you give above is not that difficult for an admin because zcat, cat, grep ARE ALL STANDARD TOOLS that I use for the output of virtually every program and service that I use. I do not want to have to use a different command (journalctl) to look at the output of every different program (systemd) that I run.
Sexual Harassment... Is As Old As the Proterozoic Eon. Sex first developed a billion years ago, and since then, males have been giving females lots of attention, wanted or not. Ever watched a nature show on PBS? Ever notice that in every species the males pursue and badger the females? Why? Because it is in their DNA and has been for the last billion years. If you think humans, who have the same ancestors as those animals, are any different, you are deceiving yourself.
The point of the article is that human evolution is really just one big alien experiment. In this case aliens were dropping chunks of metal on us, so we can use it to evolve our societies.
Though maybe I'm reading too much into the article.
Yes, this was definitely scary because if a terrorist did put a bomb on board, we all know that the second thing he would do would be to make a wifi network called, "Bomb on Board", alerting everyone to it.
Cats came to live with humans? Pff. Give me a break. Cats discovered knuckle dragging humans and made humans their slaves. Humans now feed cats, open the door for them, rub them, open the door for them, and feed them to curry favor with the higher life forms known as cats.
How is this following the law? Nashville says, yes, you can put your cables on our right-of-ways, but you have to follow our rules. Incumbent telcos do not move their cables on the right-of-way when told to. The city says, its our property, our rules, we will move your stuff. Federal judge, not city judge, says, no city, you may not tell companies what to do on your own right-of-ways. Sounds like overreach to me.
We need a micropayment system where all messages contain some payment. I then set my email reader to only preserve messages that contain at least 10 cents. My friends can pony up that money if they want me to read something.
And do not post the "why your email solution won't work" check list. That is perfect being the enemy of good.
Alternatively the large business (university) could just stop overcharging for tuition. If they charged reasonable rates, then the taxes would be very low.
There are hundreds of different departments and even more sub departments in every part of a council that does not "just use a word processor and a spreadsheet', hell I have a friend who is an accounts auditor and he does not use a word processor or a spreadsheet.
FAIL 1: You conveniently ignored my original post and other posts on this topic. I did not say just "word processor and a spreadsheet". I also said "Web applications". At my place of work all non-office type apps are being moved to network applications, i.e. the accounts and assets are kept in a database accessible by a web application, or a scripted cross-platform database client. That database is regularly mirrored (not just kept on someone's desktop windows machine) and is easily auditable. FAIL 2: On top of that all that special software you list still does not explain why we would need a Windows ONLY environment. Not everyone uses one of those special pieces of software.
The engineering dept. with specific control software is a very small portion of a city's bureaucracy. Most of it is tax checks, pay checks, record keeping, etc. like any other business. It does not explain why a city would go Windows ONLY. The vast majority of systems on people's desks could be running ANY system. You should get out of your engineering dept once in a while.
I work in the public sector on computers all day. The only applications that people use here are office-type applications (word processors, spreadsheets, etc.) and web database applications. Either of these can easily be run or accessed on any OS. I really do not understand the "Windows ONLY" need at all.
Do mosquito females only mate with one male? I ask because if mosquitoes are like cats or humans who mate with many males, they would end up with offspring even if most of the males are shooting blanks.
The N900 ran native Linux and it ROCKED. I could compile and run just about any unix/X-windows program on that thing. It had USB networking built in. I could write apps using standard python libraries like gtk. You could add/modify GUI widgets with python scripts. It was a Debian system that used standard repositories with thousands of apps. Plus it made phone calls. It could make cell calls, voip calls, XMPP calls, all from the same app. Yes, the average moron would not care about most of this stuff, but for anyone with any hacker cred, it ROCKED.
we have decades of overwhelming evidence now that diets don't work
No, we have decades of evidence that people do not stick to their diets. Diets do work. If you burn fuel faster than you take it in you will lose mass. There is no way around it.
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The caller was the murderer and the police were his weapon, just as if he had hired a hit man.
If police are just a weapon, then we should get rid of them. Police should be thinking professionals who protect the public, not shoot the public because someone on the phone told them to. They should know what swatting is, act accordingly. At least that is how I think I should be spending my tax dollars.
"97% of all bitcoins are held by 4% of addresses,"
And how is this different from stocks or bonds? An enormous fraction of all wealth is owned by the wealthiest 4%, like Warren Buffet.
I think the staying power and value of bitcoin will be continue to be due to people in nations like South Sudan and Venezuela with high inflation rates and limited access to trading in other currencies.
Install a javascript blocker on your web browser, and you will be amazed how much faster your web browsing becomes.
States and cities make decisions about which businesses get to run cables on property owned by those states and cities. There are many requirements that businesses must meet to run such cables. Why not make net neutrality such a requirement? The city or state is not regulating that business. That business is free to choose not to run their cable in the right-of-way and shit on net neutrality. But, if they want that contract, they have to meet the standards of the property owners.
Stick that in your FCC.
the police THOUGHT they were rolling on a murder and hostage situation
No, what we know is that "swattings" are pretty common, police know that they are common, and therefore they should be extremely cautious about any such call that they receive. Yet they were not, instead mowing down civilians anyway.
Global warming was proven, you ignorant toad.
And global warming is a kind of climate change. They are both correct.
The NY Times is a source of curated information.
Google is an index of the internet. The internet is a cesspool. Google is an index of a cesspool.
Your example is off base.
1. I seldom search my gzipped backlogs, because if something went wrong, it was recent. That is why they are gzipped.
2. If I am searching for a specific error message, like "$whatever_I_really_wanted_to_see", then generally no other program will spew that and the extra "grep dovecot" is unnecessary.
Generally this is all you need:
grep $whatever_I_really_wanted_to_see mail*
Which is even simpler than the journalctl bullshit.
Second, the example that you give above is not that difficult for an admin because zcat, cat, grep ARE ALL STANDARD TOOLS that I use for the output of virtually every program and service that I use. I do not want to have to use a different command (journalctl) to look at the output of every different program (systemd) that I run.
Sexual Harassment ... Is As Old As the Proterozoic Eon.
Sex first developed a billion years ago, and since then, males have been giving females lots of attention, wanted or not.
Ever watched a nature show on PBS? Ever notice that in every species the males pursue and badger the females? Why? Because it is in their DNA and has been for the last billion years.
If you think humans, who have the same ancestors as those animals, are any different, you are deceiving yourself.
The point of the article is that human evolution is really just one big alien experiment. In this case aliens were dropping chunks of metal on us, so we can use it to evolve our societies.
Though maybe I'm reading too much into the article.
WTF is "smart luggage"?
Why would I want it?
Is it even useful anymore if you have to take the battery out of it when traveling?
Yes, I'm sure all those "private spies" in that network will be totally trustworthy and only take $$ that they have earned...
Yes, this was definitely scary because if a terrorist did put a bomb on board, we all know that the second thing he would do would be to make a wifi network called, "Bomb on Board", alerting everyone to it.
Whew! Good thing they diverted the plane!
Cats came to live with humans? Pff. Give me a break. Cats discovered knuckle dragging humans and made humans their slaves. Humans now feed cats, open the door for them, rub them, open the door for them, and feed them to curry favor with the higher life forms known as cats.
-Max the Cat
How is this following the law?
Nashville says, yes, you can put your cables on our right-of-ways, but you have to follow our rules. Incumbent telcos do not move their cables on the right-of-way when told to. The city says, its our property, our rules, we will move your stuff. Federal judge, not city judge, says, no city, you may not tell companies what to do on your own right-of-ways. Sounds like overreach to me.
We need a micropayment system where all messages contain some payment. I then set my email reader to only preserve messages that contain at least 10 cents. My friends can pony up that money if they want me to read something.
And do not post the "why your email solution won't work" check list. That is perfect being the enemy of good.
Alternatively the large business (university) could just stop overcharging for tuition. If they charged reasonable rates, then the taxes would be very low.
There are hundreds of different departments and even more sub departments in every part of a council that does not "just use a word processor and a spreadsheet', hell I have a friend who is an accounts auditor and he does not use a word processor or a spreadsheet.
FAIL 1: You conveniently ignored my original post and other posts on this topic. I did not say just "word processor and a spreadsheet". I also said "Web applications". At my place of work all non-office type apps are being moved to network applications, i.e. the accounts and assets are kept in a database accessible by a web application, or a scripted cross-platform database client. That database is regularly mirrored (not just kept on someone's desktop windows machine) and is easily auditable.
FAIL 2: On top of that all that special software you list still does not explain why we would need a Windows ONLY environment. Not everyone uses one of those special pieces of software.
The engineering dept. with specific control software is a very small portion of a city's bureaucracy. Most of it is tax checks, pay checks, record keeping, etc. like any other business. It does not explain why a city would go Windows ONLY. The vast majority of systems on people's desks could be running ANY system. You should get out of your engineering dept once in a while.
I work in the public sector on computers all day. The only applications that people use here are office-type applications (word processors, spreadsheets, etc.) and web database applications. Either of these can easily be run or accessed on any OS.
I really do not understand the "Windows ONLY" need at all.
The medium.com article is very good by the way. Read it!
Do mosquito females only mate with one male?
I ask because if mosquitoes are like cats or humans who mate with many males, they would end up with offspring even if most of the males are shooting blanks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
The N900 ran native Linux and it ROCKED.
I could compile and run just about any unix/X-windows program on that thing.
It had USB networking built in.
I could write apps using standard python libraries like gtk. You could add/modify GUI widgets with python scripts.
It was a Debian system that used standard repositories with thousands of apps.
Plus it made phone calls. It could make cell calls, voip calls, XMPP calls, all from the same app.
Yes, the average moron would not care about most of this stuff, but for anyone with any hacker cred, it ROCKED.
we have decades of overwhelming evidence now that diets don't work
No, we have decades of evidence that people do not stick to their diets. Diets do work. If you burn fuel faster than you take it in you will lose mass. There is no way around it.