Consider this, which includes a video at the bottom of police officer planting drugs, walking away, turning on camera, then "finding" those same drugs.
A Baltimore news station showed the internal police department procedures for actually going through this footage. They are of course understaffed and there's way too much video. The guy basically goes through "I watch initial contact. See if there are any signs of anger in the officers or citizen's voices. If not, then I SKIP FORWARD A FEW MINUTES and see how the tone is there."
Until these cameras are ALWAYS ON, there are punishments for obstructing them, and the video is AVAILABLE OUTSIDE OF POLICE, what oversight is there?
Let's run with this! Do a statistics study "How likely is smoking crack to turn you into NERRRRRRRD!!!!" Whether we use 80s "Nerd" as a negative or 2010s "Nerd" as a positive depends on whether it is in our interest to demonize or promote crack usage.
It's actually.7%, you forgot to multiply by 100 to get a percentage based on the 2013 statistics. That's about 1-in-every-140-people. Think about it, if there were 1000 / 1000 people in jail would that be 1% of the population or 100%? According to those same 2013 stats, America has both the most total and the second-most per-capita (behind some 100,000 citizen African island country).
I draw a smiley face or a line or something... the machine takes a few seconds and then says "signature confirmed." It's just a gimmick to make people believe that somehow they are protected from credit card fraud because some advanced technology somewhere would detect an invalid signature. Total FUD. And talking with others, it seems I am basically the only person in my local society who doesn't believe that the signatures are checked! Folks actually believe that the companies are using this as some sort of hyper-advanced fraud prevention. Even girlfriends when using their card to go grab milk or something have asked me, "but how are you going to fake my signature?"
Given this, it's very surprising to me that a credit card company would willingly get rid of this myth which people believe without question or second-thought, and builds trust in their card..
There's systemd-verify which can be used to check dependency cycles and whatnot before rebooting. Other than that, you just need to ensure you're not doing stupid things. Why would you need to start and restart things? Everything in systemd has a target (where it runs) and dependencies (what is required to be started before it runs). From this it creates a tree and uses that to boot in parallel. Having things restart during boot can be an issue sometimes, I remember for example we had to reorder the network cards as rhel7 broke the previously udev-based sane ordering, and network cards would come up out of order. It took a little bit of time to learn how to do it, basically a custom startup task that would run during pre-network which would stop the network, reorder the macs, and then restart network. Changed the next target to wait for that to complete before starting, and everything fell into place.
My favourite init system was archlinux used to have its own 2-level system during boot. You defined a flat list of services, and each either waited for the previous to complete (default), or you could prefix a service with "@" and it would start in the background. This sped up boots from ~30 seconds to ~2 seconds as it allowed parallel starting to-a-degree. systemd is much more advanced than that, as I said it is event based. You have a series of "Targets" (the levels). Services are assigned to run within a target, and they may depend on other services/targets to complete before starting. This makes it an N-level parallel system. If you can only understand serial after 50 years in the industry, sorry I can't help you.
Yes it's annoying that everything switched over, yes it broke a lot of custom application startups (though really you can take any existing/etc/rc.d init script and just do a systemd service wrapper around it).
What it did do, any why every distro adopted it, is it meant every distro didn't have to have ITS OWN INIT SYSTEM (which was the previous case), you didn't need 5 different init scripts (remember init.d.redhat vs init.d.suse, and forget about it if you're using a custom distro, you have to write your own!). Sure the transition from serial to parallel init may be hard for some, like writing a parallel application vs a serial application, but now the init is standardized across all of Linux... the concepts aren't new, the implementation isn't crazy.
This is tech. You have to learn new things all the time. Thankfully, systemd means as an application developer you don't need to know, and ship a different init file for every distro, you just write it in systemd and it works.
A lot of kids took Physics 2 ( AP Physics now? ) because it was well known that everyone who managed to get at least a C got to go on the field trip to Six Flags (an amusement park with rollercoasters, aka physics applied to entertainment) toward the end of the year. Sure, you could have skipped school and gone by yourself, you didn't NEED the class to go, but it would be hard to assemble a group of your good friends to all skip the same day... And also, it was somehow cooler that it was school-sanctioned and not just an act of truancy. That field trip would have totally sucked if it was just riding rollercoasters with a VR headset. How can a VR headset mimic the feeling of your brain compressing against the back of your skull as you go from 0-60 in 2.3 seconds flat? And really the experience wouldn't be complete unless the school also was selling cups for $17 dollars with which you could fill with soda.
Even while I was in high school, they removed the soda machines and replaced them with crazy fun-cool milk vending machines. Not until we had several weeks wherein we learned how to hack the soda machine to drop the cost to 0 (it would still require you to put in a coin, but it would be returned as change. We had a several-person team, one would load the quarter in, one would reach in the vending slot and pass it back to the line, and another would pass the coin up from the change slot back to the person loading quarters. Had to be quick so we wouldn't get caught, especially because 200 kids in line after school in the cafeteria wasn't a "normal" thing. How they didn't suspect something was up when the coke guy had to restock the machine every day yet there was probably only a few bucks in there from the normal run during the day when we restored the original pricing)
That's an interesting point. Since we are already trapped within The Matrix (well, some of us haven't unplugged..), this is clearly an attempt to ease the transition from dream to dream-within-dream.
I remember very well my field trip to Washington DC. The experience could never be replicated with a VR headset. I already knew the history from books; seeing the monument was cool but didn't convey any information I didn't already possess. Seeing the massive homeless problem and having to be warned to stay away from the con men who frequent tourists was the real eye-opening thing for me. A VR tour of DC would obviously exclude all these negative things and jjust go further to paint reality with broad pink strokes of someone's ideals, and cause further detachment from the truth.
I've played serious sam 3d. Honestly, it was fun in that it was new and different, but you could tell all the quick-twitch reflex requirements (aka skill) had to be removed so that you wouldn't die every second due to the far less sensitive controls.
At best, instead of watching a movie when teacher drank too much the night before, he/she will pass our VR headsets and the class will "go on a trip" while teacher tries to nap-off the banging headache.
Seriously how hard is systemd? So you have to learn something new once in a while. That doesn't mean throw away everything inclluding OS which I seriously doubt was cheaper (man hours, experience, time spent, alternatives required) than just spending a few hours learning how to go from single-layer serial boots to an event asynchronys model..
If they did this, and I submitted an ajax request that takes 30 seconds on one tab, I will have to just sit on that tab until it goes through. Maybe for reading slashdot that isn't an issue, but for a lot of work it is. Don't forget the J in AJAX stands for something.
I am targeting developers with my statement and questioning why any in their right mind would develop browser-specific anymore when there are standards. Nothing to do with end users other than them being a market, and the out-of-mind developer/business choosing willingly to ignore a chunk of them.
Since somehow my example of "Born Secret" (which includes public sources) wasn't enough, maybe I can offer another example more along your line. Consider the FBI files on Tupac and Biggy. These were classified for years, yet if you look through them, 99% of the information contained within is just newspaper articles / pictures etc from public sources. If you had released a partially-redacted (redacting the 1% of non-public sourced) information from those reports, such that you were only releasing the information which amounted to copies of public data, you would still be transmitting classified information.
I know it can get a little tricky, and that's why there's training for handling classified / titled data for those of us who do so.
Microsoft's environment is so advanced even banner ads can scan my system and tell me they found viruses! And it only costs $19.99 to download the fix!
I think you're missing my qualifier, "right mind." Yes, there are people/companies that do stupid things. Anyone who had to support IE8 where having an id and a name that were the same meant document.getElementById could not longer fetch the id knows this all too well. And don't get me started on IE6...
And even if it does have 60% of the global market, that does not mean it has 60% of YOUR market, nor does it mean that 40% isn't important. 40% growth in ANY market is HUGE HUGE HUGE, and 40% loss the same.
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Doesn't matter. So long as the police are not culpable to anyone but themselves, police misconduct will continue.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/02/us/baltimore-police-body-camera-videos/index.html
Consider this, which includes a video at the bottom of police officer planting drugs, walking away, turning on camera, then "finding" those same drugs.
A Baltimore news station showed the internal police department procedures for actually going through this footage. They are of course understaffed and there's way too much video. The guy basically goes through "I watch initial contact. See if there are any signs of anger in the officers or citizen's voices. If not, then I SKIP FORWARD A FEW MINUTES and see how the tone is there."
Until these cameras are ALWAYS ON, there are punishments for obstructing them, and the video is AVAILABLE OUTSIDE OF POLICE, what oversight is there?
Let's run with this! Do a statistics study "How likely is smoking crack to turn you into NERRRRRRRD!!!!" Whether we use 80s "Nerd" as a negative or 2010s "Nerd" as a positive depends on whether it is in our interest to demonize or promote crack usage.
It's actually .7%, you forgot to multiply by 100 to get a percentage based on the 2013 statistics. That's about 1-in-every-140-people. Think about it, if there were 1000 / 1000 people in jail would that be 1% of the population or 100%? According to those same 2013 stats, America has both the most total and the second-most per-capita (behind some 100,000 citizen African island country).
I draw a smiley face or a line or something... the machine takes a few seconds and then says "signature confirmed." It's just a gimmick to make people believe that somehow they are protected from credit card fraud because some advanced technology somewhere would detect an invalid signature. Total FUD. And talking with others, it seems I am basically the only person in my local society who doesn't believe that the signatures are checked! Folks actually believe that the companies are using this as some sort of hyper-advanced fraud prevention. Even girlfriends when using their card to go grab milk or something have asked me, "but how are you going to fake my signature?"
Given this, it's very surprising to me that a credit card company would willingly get rid of this myth which people believe without question or second-thought, and builds trust in their card..
There's systemd-verify which can be used to check dependency cycles and whatnot before rebooting. Other than that, you just need to ensure you're not doing stupid things. Why would you need to start and restart things? Everything in systemd has a target (where it runs) and dependencies (what is required to be started before it runs). From this it creates a tree and uses that to boot in parallel. Having things restart during boot can be an issue sometimes, I remember for example we had to reorder the network cards as rhel7 broke the previously udev-based sane ordering, and network cards would come up out of order. It took a little bit of time to learn how to do it, basically a custom startup task that would run during pre-network which would stop the network, reorder the macs, and then restart network. Changed the next target to wait for that to complete before starting, and everything fell into place.
My favourite init system was archlinux used to have its own 2-level system during boot. You defined a flat list of services, and each either waited for the previous to complete (default), or you could prefix a service with "@" and it would start in the background. This sped up boots from ~30 seconds to ~2 seconds as it allowed parallel starting to-a-degree. systemd is much more advanced than that, as I said it is event based. You have a series of "Targets" (the levels). Services are assigned to run within a target, and they may depend on other services/targets to complete before starting. This makes it an N-level parallel system. If you can only understand serial after 50 years in the industry, sorry I can't help you.
Yes it's annoying that everything switched over, yes it broke a lot of custom application startups (though really you can take any existing /etc/rc.d init script and just do a systemd service wrapper around it).
What it did do, any why every distro adopted it, is it meant every distro didn't have to have ITS OWN INIT SYSTEM (which was the previous case), you didn't need 5 different init scripts (remember init.d.redhat vs init.d.suse, and forget about it if you're using a custom distro, you have to write your own!). Sure the transition from serial to parallel init may be hard for some, like writing a parallel application vs a serial application, but now the init is standardized across all of Linux... the concepts aren't new, the implementation isn't crazy.
This is tech. You have to learn new things all the time. Thankfully, systemd means as an application developer you don't need to know, and ship a different init file for every distro, you just write it in systemd and it works.
A lot of kids took Physics 2 ( AP Physics now? ) because it was well known that everyone who managed to get at least a C got to go on the field trip to Six Flags (an amusement park with rollercoasters, aka physics applied to entertainment) toward the end of the year. Sure, you could have skipped school and gone by yourself, you didn't NEED the class to go, but it would be hard to assemble a group of your good friends to all skip the same day... And also, it was somehow cooler that it was school-sanctioned and not just an act of truancy. That field trip would have totally sucked if it was just riding rollercoasters with a VR headset. How can a VR headset mimic the feeling of your brain compressing against the back of your skull as you go from 0-60 in 2.3 seconds flat? And really the experience wouldn't be complete unless the school also was selling cups for $17 dollars with which you could fill with soda.
Even while I was in high school, they removed the soda machines and replaced them with crazy fun-cool milk vending machines. Not until we had several weeks wherein we learned how to hack the soda machine to drop the cost to 0 (it would still require you to put in a coin, but it would be returned as change. We had a several-person team, one would load the quarter in, one would reach in the vending slot and pass it back to the line, and another would pass the coin up from the change slot back to the person loading quarters. Had to be quick so we wouldn't get caught, especially because 200 kids in line after school in the cafeteria wasn't a "normal" thing. How they didn't suspect something was up when the coke guy had to restock the machine every day yet there was probably only a few bucks in there from the normal run during the day when we restored the original pricing)
That's an interesting point. Since we are already trapped within The Matrix (well, some of us haven't unplugged..), this is clearly an attempt to ease the transition from dream to dream-within-dream.
I remember very well my field trip to Washington DC. The experience could never be replicated with a VR headset. I already knew the history from books; seeing the monument was cool but didn't convey any information I didn't already possess. Seeing the massive homeless problem and having to be warned to stay away from the con men who frequent tourists was the real eye-opening thing for me. A VR tour of DC would obviously exclude all these negative things and jjust go further to paint reality with broad pink strokes of someone's ideals, and cause further detachment from the truth.
I've played serious sam 3d. Honestly, it was fun in that it was new and different, but you could tell all the quick-twitch reflex requirements (aka skill) had to be removed so that you wouldn't die every second due to the far less sensitive controls.
At best, instead of watching a movie when teacher drank too much the night before, he/she will pass our VR headsets and the class will "go on a trip" while teacher tries to nap-off the banging headache.
Aint no party like a eurotrash party cause a eurotrash party DON'T STOP!
If you'd go by how often aflak tries to hire me, you'd think a long history of computer science is an "insurance sales" qualification..
Since these lawsuits are about wrongful termination, it would be weirder if they came out during a period Tesla was NOT firing people.
Maybe the green/libertarian party should buy $100,000 worth of facebook ads and win the next election then?
My surface runs archlinux.
Is this some sort of commentary on microsoft's propriatary quote character? I'm confused.
Am I wrong to hang fuzzy dice from my ICBM?
drop some shrooms and mdma and PLUR your way to random code those security holes out while listening to 4 on the floor Techno.
Daaaaaaz how its done, son!
Seriously how hard is systemd? So you have to learn something new once in a while. That doesn't mean throw away everything inclluding OS which I seriously doubt was cheaper (man hours, experience, time spent, alternatives required) than just spending a few hours learning how to go from single-layer serial boots to an event asynchronys model..
If they did this, and I submitted an ajax request that takes 30 seconds on one tab, I will have to just sit on that tab until it goes through. Maybe for reading slashdot that isn't an issue, but for a lot of work it is. Don't forget the J in AJAX stands for something.
I am targeting developers with my statement and questioning why any in their right mind would develop browser-specific anymore when there are standards. Nothing to do with end users other than them being a market, and the out-of-mind developer/business choosing willingly to ignore a chunk of them.
Since somehow my example of "Born Secret" (which includes public sources) wasn't enough, maybe I can offer another example more along your line. Consider the FBI files on Tupac and Biggy. These were classified for years, yet if you look through them, 99% of the information contained within is just newspaper articles / pictures etc from public sources. If you had released a partially-redacted (redacting the 1% of non-public sourced) information from those reports, such that you were only releasing the information which amounted to copies of public data, you would still be transmitting classified information.
I know it can get a little tricky, and that's why there's training for handling classified / titled data for those of us who do so.
Microsoft's environment is so advanced even banner ads can scan my system and tell me they found viruses! And it only costs $19.99 to download the fix!
I think you're missing my qualifier, "right mind." Yes, there are people/companies that do stupid things. Anyone who had to support IE8 where having an id and a name that were the same meant document.getElementById could not longer fetch the id knows this all too well. And don't get me started on IE6...
And even if it does have 60% of the global market, that does not mean it has 60% of YOUR market, nor does it mean that 40% isn't important. 40% growth in ANY market is HUGE HUGE HUGE, and 40% loss the same.
Sorry about that. There was a piece of dust in my "i" key which caused a 1/20ms delay in processing.