Who here wishes the fuck we had a goddam act of Congress to establish best practices during our IT careers? THEN we could have said, "Security -- it's not just a good idea, it's the law!"
We're talking about congress here. The majority of them don't know jack about shit. They'd just mandate something stupid that would hamstring security.
Does compressed spring have more mass than uncompressed one?
Per inch? Yes. Overall? No. It has more potential energy, though. Same for a gas being compressed in a cylinder. It's got more mass per cubic inch, but not more mass of gas overall. One would expect the same from sound, since it's a compression wave passing through a medium.
As the saying goes: sometimes you have to swallow the bad-tasting medicine in order for it to heal you.
The bad-tasting thing in this case is not medicine, it's corporate cock. Your willingness to accept it into your throat does not have any bearing on its healthfulness.
Howabout doing your freakin' jobs and passing legislation to outlaw robocalls... oh, except of course during your campaigns. We wouldn't want to miss those/s.
Most of these robocalls are already illegal, and robocalls for political campaigns are already exempt from having to check the do not call list. But the government places more emphasis on going after victimless crimes like cannabis offenses than it does on things where there's actually a victim, like robocalling.
Old phones (esp. pre-2008) were "single processor" -- they used the same CPU for BOTH the radio AND running general software.
Not those Motorola phones. They absolutely had a separate radio processor, which did have its own firmware. It was just technician-flashable, and the technician tools were readily available on the internets.
a small bug that might be made extinct by the containment system is more important than the radiation pouring out of the damaged reactor. So no...a containment system would not cost a few trillion, It would not get built!
The containment would be built right over the top of the existing building, and there's substantial cleared area around plants, so there would be no danger to the orange-toed salamander, or the purple-dicked owl, or whatever animal of the week surrounded the site. This would be reflected in the EIR, and then the containment structure could be built.
Also the ocean is LARGE - there's plenty of water there to dilute the few hundred kilograms of dangerous isotopes that have leaked so far.
It doesn't matter that the ocean is LARGE, or even that it's REALLY LARGE. What matters is that currents tend to sweep materials along into concentrated locations, and that bioaccumulation of heavy metals begins at the bottom of the food chain, with algae — which are EXTREMELY NUMEROUS. Dilution DOESN'T WORK.
The radio IC already has its own firmware, separate from the application controller.
There's nothing in there called an "application controller". Did you mean the CPU?
This is about the firmware that controls the radio itself;
Yes, that's the firmware I'm talking about. I know I didn't specify, but an intelligent person could have determined that from context.
It isn't about the ARM processor that runs the application firmware that you, as a consumer, think of as "the firmware."
You obviously don't know what I'm thinking of. Next time confirm before coming on like a hard-on. Since I used to hack and tweak some of the old Motorola phones, I'm quite well-acquainted with radio firmware, thanks. I used to flash different ones on the regular.
Problem is, what game isn't totally half-assed? It's a great reason not to pay full price, but where do I spend my gaming dollar and not have do deal with incompetence? I'd go for a walk, but it still hurts the toe I crushed, and the ground's too soggy right now to go for a bike ride.
My problem is that there are no cheap sunglasses that fit my head. I have a gigantic noggin, and the only sunglasses I've found which really fit are Oakley M-frames, specifically in the XL size. I used to be able to buy knockoff frames at the flea market, and then fill them with quality replacement lenses sourced online, but Luxotica has spent a bunch of money attacking counterfeiters, so now I can't find the counterfeits any more. I still see other styles at flea markets, but not M2s, and never M2 XLs. I can sometimes get the frames used on eBay (with a scratched lens) and then go get quality replacement lenses (from a third party manufacturer) on Amazon. This is what I did last time a friend's dog jumped up on the table and ate my sunglasses.
I have hazel eyes, so sunlight affects me very strongly, and if I don't have sunglasses then I'm prone to headaches. But because of my big head, cheap sunglasses press on my temples... and give me headaches. So I'm pretty much limited to these Oakleys, which means I'm Luxotica's bitch.
It sounds like it's just meant to not allow users to control the radio tranmissions
You mean the transmission amplitude? That's what the rest of your comment implies. But they want to ban people from loading any new firmware, not just from controlling amplitude.
You define best by your own prerogatives- if users want centralization they should not be running Linux. Full stop. The very idea is antithetical to FOSS.
The idea of "FOSS" is that you get software for free. The idea of Free Software is that the user gets software under a license that permits them to make and use modifications. The idea of Open Source is interoperability through source code access. None of these preclude centralization. In fact, software adoption depends on trust. Trust depends on either a web of trust system, or centralization. That's why Linux From Scratch is a niche concept, and virtually all Linux users run a distribution from one of the major centralized sources.
Turns out Skyrim modders figured out that the textures were in an unoptimized format, and were able to make a mod that optimized them,
AFAICT this is true of every Bethesda game. It's been the case for every fallout FPS, for example. Anyone who pays full price for any of those turds is part of the problem. I waited until it was ripe and got FO4 plus season pass for twenty bucks from cdkeys. And guess what? I still had to go to the console over and over again because of quest-breaking bugs. God help the dedicated system gamers, they're just fucked since they don't get a console.
The PS4 itself does not support delta/diff patches.
[citation needed]
Even if you were right, and I don't believe that you are, you could work around the problem through an intelligent loader which could handle looking in multiple files for a resource — it would look in the newest file first, then the older one, etc etc.
Setting up daemons on Linux is traditionally so difficult that many programming languages started just providing their own rather than try to get developers to understand initd well enough to write properly secured and managed daemons.
Wait, what? This is nonsense. First, there is no initd, it's init. Maybe you got it confused with inetd, which is used for short-running daemons. Managing those has always been easy. And because of the Unix philosophy of (among other things) using small, simple components that do one job and do it well, and more importantly are standards-based, it's easy to swap inetd out for a more secure inetd (typically xinetd.)
I can't tell you how many times I've seen Amazon Linux go down because no one sets up log rotation properly in the standard system packages. With initd, this is a bespoke per package hunt for how the logs get handled. With systemd, it's trivial and consistent.
The whole point of using a distribution is that this only has to get figured out once, by whoever is maintaining the package. That's why it's important for the distribution tools to be convenient. It's a shame if Amazon has failed at that in their distribution, but it's not an indictment of systemd-free Linux, but of Amazon Linux specifically.
Security nightmare. OpenBSD, ok, but freebsd? hell no.
Hardware support nightmare. OpenBSD doesn't support enough hardware to be useful to Joe Average. It's fine if you're building systems specifically for it, but beyond annoying if you're trying to run it on hardware that you have lying around. This is why Linux is still king, even netbsd couldn't keep up with it in hardware support. Gentoo is a good effort to use a BSD-style repository model with Linux, but not good enough. Last time I tried to install it, the install failed due to dependencies.
To my mind, the ideal solution would be essentially FreeBSD atop a Linux kernel. I was very happy using ports. Portage has always seemed slapdash by comparison.
It's all open source. There's no good reason to continue supporting the software with development and patches. Anyone can fork it.
Forking doesn't solve the problem, which is that the place the users go to get the software is antiquated and baroque. If you fork it, now the users have to go somewhere else (or to two places) and you'll wind up only serving a subset of the users. The best solution for the users is for the centralized repository to be efficiently maintained.
You're focused on the benefits to the maintainers, but the real issue is the benefits to the users. The project exists to serve the users, not the maintainers. If they can make changes to better serve the users, that benefits everyone.
The tools for creating and maintaining Debian packages are indeed baroque and obscure, and they are also not well-documented. A lot more work could be done by other people if the tools were documented better, and even more could be done if the tools were designed better.
Alibaba has China and taking over India. Guess what little AC tard, that's over a third the human race right there
Not all animals are created equal. Specifically, they're not all worth the same amount of profit. Numbers are only meaningful in context. China is likely headed for a crash as economic expansion stalls. India is slow just to get out of the gate. They have money to fix their problems, but won't spend it, so the problems persist.
The big problem with Oracle's cloud is that it's being run by Oracle. The distinguishing feature of Oracle is that they will always try to fuck you over. Sure, everyone does it sometimes, but Oracle does it always.
Shouldn't we rape Antarctica First for resources before the moon?
No, because that will pollute Earth, which matters. It doesn't matter if we pollute the moon, because it's a dusty ball of rocks where nothing currently lives.
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Who here wishes the fuck we had a goddam act of Congress to establish best practices during our IT careers?
THEN we could have said, "Security -- it's not just a good idea, it's the law!"
We're talking about congress here. The majority of them don't know jack about shit. They'd just mandate something stupid that would hamstring security.
Does compressed spring have more mass than uncompressed one?
Per inch? Yes. Overall? No. It has more potential energy, though. Same for a gas being compressed in a cylinder. It's got more mass per cubic inch, but not more mass of gas overall. One would expect the same from sound, since it's a compression wave passing through a medium.
Alt-tab usage cannot be monetized, so it's not part of telemetry.
Every keystroke is optionally part of telemetry, and the EULA permits them to grab them.
Even Windows 7 can have multiple desktops, with a power toy. And it's got a visual task switcher with another one... win+tab.
Portage has always seemed slapdash by comparison.
So, Gentoo?
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When I try actually using the USE flags, things go south rapidly. Even when I don't, the build is often problematic. No thanks.
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As the saying goes: sometimes you have to swallow the bad-tasting medicine in order for it to heal you.
The bad-tasting thing in this case is not medicine, it's corporate cock. Your willingness to accept it into your throat does not have any bearing on its healthfulness.
Howabout doing your freakin' jobs and passing legislation to outlaw robocalls... oh, except of course during your campaigns. We wouldn't want to miss those /s.
Most of these robocalls are already illegal, and robocalls for political campaigns are already exempt from having to check the do not call list. But the government places more emphasis on going after victimless crimes like cannabis offenses than it does on things where there's actually a victim, like robocalling.
Old phones (esp. pre-2008) were "single processor" -- they used the same CPU for BOTH the radio AND running general software.
Not those Motorola phones. They absolutely had a separate radio processor, which did have its own firmware. It was just technician-flashable, and the technician tools were readily available on the internets.
a small bug that might be made extinct by the containment system is more important than the radiation pouring out of the damaged reactor. So no...a containment system would not cost a few trillion, It would not get built!
The containment would be built right over the top of the existing building, and there's substantial cleared area around plants, so there would be no danger to the orange-toed salamander, or the purple-dicked owl, or whatever animal of the week surrounded the site. This would be reflected in the EIR, and then the containment structure could be built.
Also the ocean is LARGE - there's plenty of water there to dilute the few hundred kilograms of dangerous isotopes that have leaked so far.
It doesn't matter that the ocean is LARGE, or even that it's REALLY LARGE. What matters is that currents tend to sweep materials along into concentrated locations, and that bioaccumulation of heavy metals begins at the bottom of the food chain, with algae — which are EXTREMELY NUMEROUS. Dilution DOESN'T WORK.
The radio IC already has its own firmware, separate from the application controller.
There's nothing in there called an "application controller". Did you mean the CPU?
This is about the firmware that controls the radio itself;
Yes, that's the firmware I'm talking about. I know I didn't specify, but an intelligent person could have determined that from context.
It isn't about the ARM processor that runs the application firmware that you, as a consumer, think of as "the firmware."
You obviously don't know what I'm thinking of. Next time confirm before coming on like a hard-on. Since I used to hack and tweak some of the old Motorola phones, I'm quite well-acquainted with radio firmware, thanks. I used to flash different ones on the regular.
One more reason my last Bethesda game was FO3.
Problem is, what game isn't totally half-assed? It's a great reason not to pay full price, but where do I spend my gaming dollar and not have do deal with incompetence? I'd go for a walk, but it still hurts the toe I crushed, and the ground's too soggy right now to go for a bike ride.
My problem is that there are no cheap sunglasses that fit my head. I have a gigantic noggin, and the only sunglasses I've found which really fit are Oakley M-frames, specifically in the XL size. I used to be able to buy knockoff frames at the flea market, and then fill them with quality replacement lenses sourced online, but Luxotica has spent a bunch of money attacking counterfeiters, so now I can't find the counterfeits any more. I still see other styles at flea markets, but not M2s, and never M2 XLs. I can sometimes get the frames used on eBay (with a scratched lens) and then go get quality replacement lenses (from a third party manufacturer) on Amazon. This is what I did last time a friend's dog jumped up on the table and ate my sunglasses.
I have hazel eyes, so sunlight affects me very strongly, and if I don't have sunglasses then I'm prone to headaches. But because of my big head, cheap sunglasses press on my temples... and give me headaches. So I'm pretty much limited to these Oakleys, which means I'm Luxotica's bitch.
It sounds like it's just meant to not allow users to control the radio tranmissions
You mean the transmission amplitude? That's what the rest of your comment implies. But they want to ban people from loading any new firmware, not just from controlling amplitude.
And the fact is that nuclear is a boondoggle.
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http://www.pollutionissues.com...
https://www.quora.com/Is-dilut...
You define best by your own prerogatives- if users want centralization they should not be running Linux. Full stop. The very idea is antithetical to FOSS.
The idea of "FOSS" is that you get software for free. The idea of Free Software is that the user gets software under a license that permits them to make and use modifications. The idea of Open Source is interoperability through source code access. None of these preclude centralization. In fact, software adoption depends on trust. Trust depends on either a web of trust system, or centralization. That's why Linux From Scratch is a niche concept, and virtually all Linux users run a distribution from one of the major centralized sources.
Turns out Skyrim modders figured out that the textures were in an unoptimized format, and were able to make a mod that optimized them,
AFAICT this is true of every Bethesda game. It's been the case for every fallout FPS, for example. Anyone who pays full price for any of those turds is part of the problem. I waited until it was ripe and got FO4 plus season pass for twenty bucks from cdkeys. And guess what? I still had to go to the console over and over again because of quest-breaking bugs. God help the dedicated system gamers, they're just fucked since they don't get a console.
The PS4 itself does not support delta/diff patches.
[citation needed]
Even if you were right, and I don't believe that you are, you could work around the problem through an intelligent loader which could handle looking in multiple files for a resource — it would look in the newest file first, then the older one, etc etc.
Setting up daemons on Linux is traditionally so difficult that many programming languages started just providing their own rather than try to get developers to understand initd well enough to write properly secured and managed daemons.
Wait, what? This is nonsense. First, there is no initd, it's init. Maybe you got it confused with inetd, which is used for short-running daemons. Managing those has always been easy. And because of the Unix philosophy of (among other things) using small, simple components that do one job and do it well, and more importantly are standards-based, it's easy to swap inetd out for a more secure inetd (typically xinetd.)
I can't tell you how many times I've seen Amazon Linux go down because no one sets up log rotation properly in the standard system packages. With initd, this is a bespoke per package hunt for how the logs get handled. With systemd, it's trivial and consistent.
The whole point of using a distribution is that this only has to get figured out once, by whoever is maintaining the package. That's why it's important for the distribution tools to be convenient. It's a shame if Amazon has failed at that in their distribution, but it's not an indictment of systemd-free Linux, but of Amazon Linux specifically.
Security nightmare. OpenBSD, ok, but freebsd? hell no.
Hardware support nightmare. OpenBSD doesn't support enough hardware to be useful to Joe Average. It's fine if you're building systems specifically for it, but beyond annoying if you're trying to run it on hardware that you have lying around. This is why Linux is still king, even netbsd couldn't keep up with it in hardware support. Gentoo is a good effort to use a BSD-style repository model with Linux, but not good enough. Last time I tried to install it, the install failed due to dependencies.
To my mind, the ideal solution would be essentially FreeBSD atop a Linux kernel. I was very happy using ports. Portage has always seemed slapdash by comparison.
It's all open source. There's no good reason to continue supporting the software with development and patches. Anyone can fork it.
Forking doesn't solve the problem, which is that the place the users go to get the software is antiquated and baroque. If you fork it, now the users have to go somewhere else (or to two places) and you'll wind up only serving a subset of the users. The best solution for the users is for the centralized repository to be efficiently maintained.
What you're really saying is any upstart junior programmer with a patch should be able to receive the benefit of putting their code in a project whose name has decades of cachÃf©, rather than forking the project and needing to spend the next two decades doing marketing and getting their fork to take over.
You're focused on the benefits to the maintainers, but the real issue is the benefits to the users. The project exists to serve the users, not the maintainers. If they can make changes to better serve the users, that benefits everyone.
The tools for creating and maintaining Debian packages are indeed baroque and obscure, and they are also not well-documented. A lot more work could be done by other people if the tools were documented better, and even more could be done if the tools were designed better.
Alibaba has China and taking over India. Guess what little AC tard, that's over a third the human race right there
Not all animals are created equal. Specifically, they're not all worth the same amount of profit. Numbers are only meaningful in context. China is likely headed for a crash as economic expansion stalls. India is slow just to get out of the gate. They have money to fix their problems, but won't spend it, so the problems persist.
The big problem with Oracle's cloud is that it's being run by Oracle. The distinguishing feature of Oracle is that they will always try to fuck you over. Sure, everyone does it sometimes, but Oracle does it always.
Shouldn't we rape Antarctica First for resources before the moon?
No, because that will pollute Earth, which matters. It doesn't matter if we pollute the moon, because it's a dusty ball of rocks where nothing currently lives.