Which of these represent something the US couldn't have done a half century ago?
A perhaps more interesting question is, which of these represent something the US could still do today? Sadly, I believe the answer to that question would be 5) None of the above.
A calamitous failure of the Colorado river dam system would probably cause the collapse of the United States as a single country. The entire western US is dependent on them for both water and power. Yet I'm fairly certain that we Americans couldn't currently muster the political will to replace (or even do major repairs on) just one of them, much less the entire system.
OpenBSD tends to take some very conservative security choices (see OpenSSH) but then turns around and does stuff like LibreSSL forks of OpenSSL, instead of fixing the problem, they make their own version of the problem.
Maybe (pure speculation) the OpenBSD team considered the human processes around the OpenSSL code to be the real security problem. Heartbleed did seem a tad bit too convenient to be an accidental bug...
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Two spaceship crashes in one week does seem awful suspicious, so sabotage seems like a plausible explanation. Likewise Russia seems like a plausible culprit given the ongoing proxy war in Ukraine. But I'm not aware of any actual evidence to support these reasonable guesses.
I kinda doubt the Chinese would be involved. Current relations between Bushbama regime and CCP are, outwardly, pretty cordial.
NO. It's NOT a dumb SSID name. It's a FUNNY name. When most people see an SSID with a funny name, it makes them chuckle. It takes a special kind of fucktardedness to call in the Gestapo because of someone's mildly amusing joke.
It's never Martin Luther King, Jr, walking up to the stand; it's always the Black Panthers, the Trayvon rioters, Jessie Jackson, hood drug dealers, and hood gang members coming to complain about "The Man" because they need something to complain about.
In fairness I don't think the Panthers belong with the others in this list. When a movement for social change ends with its leaders being killed in a hail of FBI bullets, that's at least a good hint they were doing something positive for the common people.
That's what progressives do: They make real issues illegitimate by associating a group of people with a bunch of whiny babies.
Progressives don't actually want to change the problems they whine about. Rather, they want cushy gubmint-funded non-profiteer jobs "managing" the ill effects thereof.
Yes, that's a good little Centrist - lick that boot. No one could possibly have an experience with the legal apparatus that contradicts the fairy tales you were taught in high school Civics class...
Regardless of your baseless opinion on why I was removed, the fact is at least 11 of 12 original jurors were removed. The attorneys cycled thru something like 18 of the 30-ish potential jurors by the time I was excluded. Jury selection continued after I left.
It's pretty obvious juries in my city are not juries of the defendants' peers, but rather juries of select persons favored by attorneys.
When I was called for jury duty (in California), the attorneys had something like 10 peremptory challenges each. Everyone who wasn't a slack-jawed dimwit was removed. This was only for a traffic accident case - I imagine the lawful-corruption would be even worse in a more serious case.
In Centrist America, it's only a jury of your "peers" if you ride the short bus.
The best-run company I ever worked with took what I thought was a sensible approach to optimization:
We were working on a complicated production system with hundreds of individual components and intense uptime requirements. The vast majority of the programmers (about 1000) were to focus on writing "robust" code that worked in an "obvious", easy-to-maintain way. The Performance Engineering team would look at system metrics (everything was instrumented) to find the actual performance bottlenecks. Then they would send in a crack team of commando programmers to do trippy, non-obvious optimizations on very small pieces of code.
The idea was, in a complicated system it's very unlikely that your specific piece of code is going to be the limiting factor in overall system performance. So it's better to have less performance-optimal but more robust code in most places; and to use fast but brittle code only where absolutely necessary.
FWIW, the company in question is outlandishly profitable, and their software is widely considered the best in their industry.
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Which of these represent something the US couldn't have done a half century ago?
A perhaps more interesting question is, which of these represent something the US could still do today? Sadly, I believe the answer to that question would be 5) None of the above.
A calamitous failure of the Colorado river dam system would probably cause the collapse of the United States as a single country. The entire western US is dependent on them for both water and power. Yet I'm fairly certain that we Americans couldn't currently muster the political will to replace (or even do major repairs on) just one of them, much less the entire system.
No, seriously!
OpenBSD tends to take some very conservative security choices (see OpenSSH) but then turns around and does stuff like LibreSSL forks of OpenSSL, instead of fixing the problem, they make their own version of the problem.
Maybe (pure speculation) the OpenBSD team considered the human processes around the OpenSSL code to be the real security problem. Heartbleed did seem a tad bit too convenient to be an accidental bug...
Interesting.. the moderation dropdown is missing from this comment, and only from this comment. It must be subject to some type of special censorship downmod from site operators.
The only way to stop a bad cop is a bunch of good cops.
Or the National Guard...
Unity is awesome. It's the main reason I stay with Ubuntu.
Two spaceship crashes in one week does seem awful suspicious, so sabotage seems like a plausible explanation. Likewise Russia seems like a plausible culprit given the ongoing proxy war in Ukraine. But I'm not aware of any actual evidence to support these reasonable guesses.
I kinda doubt the Chinese would be involved. Current relations between Bushbama regime and CCP are, outwardly, pretty cordial.
Remember the first World Trade Center attack, where the terrorist was arrested when he tried to get his $400 deposit back on the truck he used?
That part of the Official Mythology has always seemed a wee bit implausible to me...
Should I live in terror of an anvil spontaneously falling thru my ceiling and crushing me? 'Cuz there's no real chance of that happening either.
Really dumb SSID name choice? Yes.
NO. It's NOT a dumb SSID name. It's a FUNNY name. When most people see an SSID with a funny name, it makes them chuckle. It takes a special kind of fucktardedness to call in the Gestapo because of someone's mildly amusing joke.
How about we fine the dunce in charge, who decided a humorous wifi name was a good reason to go into ape-shit public panic mode.
Personally, I am terrified of my wrists...
Mine's 'Big brother is watching'.
It's never Martin Luther King, Jr, walking up to the stand; it's always the Black Panthers, the Trayvon rioters, Jessie Jackson, hood drug dealers, and hood gang members coming to complain about "The Man" because they need something to complain about.
In fairness I don't think the Panthers belong with the others in this list. When a movement for social change ends with its leaders being killed in a hail of FBI bullets, that's at least a good hint they were doing something positive for the common people.
That's what progressives do: They make real issues illegitimate by associating a group of people with a bunch of whiny babies.
Progressives don't actually want to change the problems they whine about. Rather, they want cushy gubmint-funded non-profiteer jobs "managing" the ill effects thereof.
Ohh noez - kiddie pr0n!!!1!!1! Burn the witch, burn the witch, BURN THE WITCH!
I'll take that as a "yes".
Ahhh... so you believe only subjects with a credulous & servile attitude should be included on a jury?
Yes, that's a good little Centrist - lick that boot. No one could possibly have an experience with the legal apparatus that contradicts the fairy tales you were taught in high school Civics class...
Regardless of your baseless opinion on why I was removed, the fact is at least 11 of 12 original jurors were removed. The attorneys cycled thru something like 18 of the 30-ish potential jurors by the time I was excluded. Jury selection continued after I left.
It's pretty obvious juries in my city are not juries of the defendants' peers, but rather juries of select persons favored by attorneys.
This is the morning before we wake up to a boot on our neck
Sorry, too late by about a decade. The old Republic was sick for a long time, and died an inglorious death in 2001. Long live the Empire!
When I was called for jury duty (in California), the attorneys had something like 10 peremptory challenges each. Everyone who wasn't a slack-jawed dimwit was removed. This was only for a traffic accident case - I imagine the lawful-corruption would be even worse in a more serious case.
In Centrist America, it's only a jury of your "peers" if you ride the short bus.
If the honest cops want to stop this perception
There are no honest cops. Any decent, non-abusive, non-corrupt person who joins up is drummed out of the force within a year.
Yup - pure banditry.
Since we're on the freeway to neofeudalism anyways, maybe we ought to look into how bandits were dealt with back in the bad old days....
The best-run company I ever worked with took what I thought was a sensible approach to optimization:
We were working on a complicated production system with hundreds of individual components and intense uptime requirements. The vast majority of the programmers (about 1000) were to focus on writing "robust" code that worked in an "obvious", easy-to-maintain way. The Performance Engineering team would look at system metrics (everything was instrumented) to find the actual performance bottlenecks. Then they would send in a crack team of commando programmers to do trippy, non-obvious optimizations on very small pieces of code.
The idea was, in a complicated system it's very unlikely that your specific piece of code is going to be the limiting factor in overall system performance. So it's better to have less performance-optimal but more robust code in most places; and to use fast but brittle code only where absolutely necessary.
FWIW, the company in question is outlandishly profitable, and their software is widely considered the best in their industry.
If you're writing your own sort function, you're doing it wrong. Just call the one in the API.
Amen.
Imho,
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