People can handle accidental, isolated deaths. Yes, someone dies, but there is no malicious force that caused it....
People cannot accept someone else who is out to kill them intentionally because of hatred or a belief system.
I find sporadic intentional, malicious deaths to be far more acceptable than widespread preventable accidental deaths. Any decent human being would feel the same. The important thing is to minimize the loss of human life. Whether there's intentionality behind the deaths is irrelevant.
The problem is, most people aren't decent human beings and care more about being slighted by foreigners than about actually saving lives.
The reason there ever was a "war on terror" isn't to "funnel money to corporate buddies" â" it's because, to be blunt, we don't put up with that shit
What's sad is that you probably actually believe that. If that were actually true, we'd have actual reasons for going to war, instead of flimsy pretexts.
e.g. Afghanistan, we're there to get Bin Laden, but once we get there we stop looking for him and waste years spending money for nothing. Who does that benefit besides military contractors?
e.g. Iraq. What reason is there to invent a non-existant link between Saddam Hussein and OBL, and hype up non-existent WMDs based on evidence that was known to be false?
Why did we go intervene in Lybia and haven't done much yet in Syria? One's an oil producing nation, the other isn't.
You've made a bold assertion in that "we don't put up with that shit". What sort of mechanisms are in place to prevent that shit from happening? If a well connected vice president actually decided to go to war in order to benefit his cronies, how does the system prevent that? What reason is there to believe that ANY US politician makes ANY decision without considering how it would profit their friends and campaign contributors?
No thank you. Emulators are inferior to actual consoles. Get a console, any console, and compare it to an emulator hooked up to the same display with a video switch. You'll see.
The cloud provider effectively has physical access to your machine, which is game over for any sort of security. Even if you use full disk encryption, you're going to have to decrypt it, and that means your key will be in RAM. A motivated spy in the cloud provider would have little trouble dumping your VM's RAM and decrypting everything.
You might be able to get away with running machines locally, and using the cloud for storage, if you encrypt everything locally and only store encrypted data in the cloud. But that removes most of the benefits of using the cloud in the first place.
They sell flash devices now that read the ROM file and present it to the console as if it were a real cartridge. For the NES, the only one around AFAIK is the PowerPak. For the Genesis, your best bet is the Everdrive. For the PCE, there is a card from NeoFlash but I don't recommend it, mine broke. The creator of the Everdrive is rumored to have a PCE card in the works, so I'd wait for that.
Complete sets for all of these consoles are available through torrents. I have downloaded most of these, and they come in under a terabyte. IIRC, the Dreamcast and PC Engine CD are the largest torrents, each a couple hundred gigs. The cartridge based systems obviously take much less space.
FWIW, a complete PSX torrent comes out at about 500GB. And that's USA only, with ECM stripped and 7zipped.
No, you don't know whether it's statistically significant unless you know the uncertainty in the measurement. A 50% increase with a standard deviation of 100% would not be statistically significant. A 1% increase with a standard deviation of.1% would be statistically significant. And that's all without considering sample size.
The PC is a lot more than a form factor. It's a personal computer, one that you own, control, and can do whatever you want with. You can upgrade it with third party hardware, you can write your own software, you can write your own drivers, you can do any math problem you want on it. If Microsoft and Apple have their way, that will go away.
I read your link. Where can you get ephedrine over the counter? Under what brand name? Pseudoephedrine is still available over the counter (literally, it's behind the counter), but I haven't seen anything with ephedrine for years.
What does it even mean to "agree/disagree" with a thing that happens? I hear people say that a lot, do they really mean "disapprove"? Agreement is for propositions. It makes sense to say "I disagree that homosexuality occurs in 5-10% of the population" or that "I disagree that homosexuality is a choice" or that "I disagree that homosexuality will not cause the collapse of civil society". Those are at least well formed ideas. Saying "I disagree with homosexuality" is a lot like saying "I disagree with poetry". What does that even mean?
The existence of other options doesn't matter if the system is mathematically biased in favor of the two biggest. Both Duverger's Law and the Spoiler Effect make third parties practically unworkable. Further, the median voter theorem ensures that the two choices available will be as similar as possible.
All these mathematical constraints of our voting system make any sort of real choice impossible. Remember, elections are only a tool for measuring the will of the people, which is the only just government. A badly designed tool will give incorrect results. The solution isn't to work even harder with the broken tool, it's to fix the damn tool so it measures accurately.
LILO fails under predictiable and preventable circumstances. Grub leaves me wondering whether my system is actually going to boot after I do anything to it.
how does anybody (yourself included) know that a) you didn't screw it up, b) some other software didn't screw it up
Complete reinstallation of the boot loader should always at least get you a system where the boot loader loads. It shouldn't even be possible for me or software that doesn't even load at that point to screw that up.
c) your hardware wasn't screwed up?
Still using the same hardware years later. It took a 'cat/dev/zero >/dev/sdx' on my boot drive to do it, but it definitely wasn't the hardware.
Grub tries to be complex and simple at the same time. It's doing something pretty complicated, and hides all the details from the user. This is great when it works, but when it doesn't you have to learn a whole new command line language to troubleshoot it as opposed to simply checking the values in a configuration file.
It doesn't matter anyway. Both parties are equally corrupt and serve the same.01% of the population. In order for voting to matter, you need a real choice to vote on.
The big advantage of GRUB over LILO was that you didn't have to worry about an unbootable machine if you changed anything and forgot to 'rerun lilo'.
Which was never a big deal anyway. Just boot from external media run lilo, and reboot. Worked every single time. Why is that worth writing a whole new boot loader over?
Grub on the other hand would occasionally hose itself for no reason. Booting from external media and running 'grub-install' or 'update-grub' usually worked, but I still had one system that grub so totally screwed up that even that wasn't enough.
Microsoft "needs" to employ secure boot in order to gain an advantage over smaller competitors who can't push OEMs into providing their signing key by default. Nothing more, nothing less. Any other justifications offered are smokescreens, and you are a naive fool if you believe them.
I wont arguee over the definition of 'faith', except to say that yours is certainly different from Feyman's, but:
Feynman's definition is certainly different than that used by religious folk.
There is no evidence that the real world exists
Except for the fact that every time you do an experiment you get the same result. How can that not be evidence for the existence of the real world? Not that it's proof, you can't prove the non-existence of magic.
and lots of evidence that any such evidence is impossible to get.
science (Natural philososphy) requires the "faith that the real world exists"
Working as if something is true because it has been useful to do so is not the same as having faith. The fact that you can repeat the same experiment as many times as you want, and get the same result is evidence that the real world exists. That's much more support than anything people typically take on faith.
The really amazing thing is that the recent port of PoP to the C64 was done before the source code was located. He actually had to reverse engineer the game from the Apple II version.
Leaking of Secret/classified information is separate from ordinary whistleblowers working for the government. It's a bright-line distinction: each document is Secret, or not.
So just classify the evidence of your misdeeds and the law itself will protect you. It's almost as if you want our government to be corrupt.
the right system is to police that through oversight committies with appropriate clearance to review the information in the first place
And exactly why do we trust them?
Allowing secrecy sounds useful, there are certainly cases where it would be useful to keep secrets, if we could trust men with that power. But the fact is we can't. Any suggestion otherwise is wishful thinking at best. Foreign enemies are distant, their threat usually exaggerated, and obscurity provides poor security. The threat from our own government is much closer and real. We stand to gain a lot more than we lose by abolishing government secrecy entirely.
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People can handle accidental, isolated deaths. Yes, someone dies, but there is no malicious force that caused it. ...
People cannot accept someone else who is out to kill them intentionally because of hatred or a belief system.
I find sporadic intentional, malicious deaths to be far more acceptable than widespread preventable accidental deaths. Any decent human being would feel the same. The important thing is to minimize the loss of human life. Whether there's intentionality behind the deaths is irrelevant.
The problem is, most people aren't decent human beings and care more about being slighted by foreigners than about actually saving lives.
The reason there ever was a "war on terror" isn't to "funnel money to corporate buddies" â" it's because, to be blunt, we don't put up with that shit
What's sad is that you probably actually believe that. If that were actually true, we'd have actual reasons for going to war, instead of flimsy pretexts.
e.g. Afghanistan, we're there to get Bin Laden, but once we get there we stop looking for him and waste years spending money for nothing. Who does that benefit besides military contractors?
e.g. Iraq. What reason is there to invent a non-existant link between Saddam Hussein and OBL, and hype up non-existent WMDs based on evidence that was known to be false?
Why did we go intervene in Lybia and haven't done much yet in Syria? One's an oil producing nation, the other isn't.
You've made a bold assertion in that "we don't put up with that shit". What sort of mechanisms are in place to prevent that shit from happening? If a well connected vice president actually decided to go to war in order to benefit his cronies, how does the system prevent that? What reason is there to believe that ANY US politician makes ANY decision without considering how it would profit their friends and campaign contributors?
No thank you. Emulators are inferior to actual consoles. Get a console, any console, and compare it to an emulator hooked up to the same display with a video switch. You'll see.
The cloud provider effectively has physical access to your machine, which is game over for any sort of security. Even if you use full disk encryption, you're going to have to decrypt it, and that means your key will be in RAM. A motivated spy in the cloud provider would have little trouble dumping your VM's RAM and decrypting everything.
You might be able to get away with running machines locally, and using the cloud for storage, if you encrypt everything locally and only store encrypted data in the cloud. But that removes most of the benefits of using the cloud in the first place.
They sell flash devices now that read the ROM file and present it to the console as if it were a real cartridge. For the NES, the only one around AFAIK is the PowerPak. For the Genesis, your best bet is the Everdrive. For the PCE, there is a card from NeoFlash but I don't recommend it, mine broke. The creator of the Everdrive is rumored to have a PCE card in the works, so I'd wait for that.
Complete sets for all of these consoles are available through torrents. I have downloaded most of these, and they come in under a terabyte. IIRC, the Dreamcast and PC Engine CD are the largest torrents, each a couple hundred gigs. The cartridge based systems obviously take much less space.
FWIW, a complete PSX torrent comes out at about 500GB. And that's USA only, with ECM stripped and 7zipped.
If you want to play classic video games, you're better off buying flash adapters and modchips.
A Square game is like an app in the same way a hardcover novel is like a free weekly.
A 50% increase is statistically significant
No, you don't know whether it's statistically significant unless you know the uncertainty in the measurement. A 50% increase with a standard deviation of 100% would not be statistically significant. A 1% increase with a standard deviation of .1% would be statistically significant. And that's all without considering sample size.
The PC is a lot more than a form factor. It's a personal computer, one that you own, control, and can do whatever you want with. You can upgrade it with third party hardware, you can write your own software, you can write your own drivers, you can do any math problem you want on it. If Microsoft and Apple have their way, that will go away.
I read your link. Where can you get ephedrine over the counter? Under what brand name? Pseudoephedrine is still available over the counter (literally, it's behind the counter), but I haven't seen anything with ephedrine for years.
What does it even mean to "agree/disagree" with a thing that happens? I hear people say that a lot, do they really mean "disapprove"? Agreement is for propositions. It makes sense to say "I disagree that homosexuality occurs in 5-10% of the population" or that "I disagree that homosexuality is a choice" or that "I disagree that homosexuality will not cause the collapse of civil society". Those are at least well formed ideas. Saying "I disagree with homosexuality" is a lot like saying "I disagree with poetry". What does that even mean?
From the point of view of other Anglo-Saxon countries, and Europe, the US is a basketcase.
From the point of any reasonable human being the US is a basket case.
I may or may not be an idiot, but I am no liar. I have been using Grub2 since Debian Squeeze was in unstable.
The existence of other options doesn't matter if the system is mathematically biased in favor of the two biggest. Both Duverger's Law and the Spoiler Effect make third parties practically unworkable. Further, the median voter theorem ensures that the two choices available will be as similar as possible.
All these mathematical constraints of our voting system make any sort of real choice impossible. Remember, elections are only a tool for measuring the will of the people, which is the only just government. A badly designed tool will give incorrect results. The solution isn't to work even harder with the broken tool, it's to fix the damn tool so it measures accurately.
LILO fails under predictiable and preventable circumstances. Grub leaves me wondering whether my system is actually going to boot after I do anything to it.
how does anybody (yourself included) know that a) you didn't screw it up, b) some other software didn't screw it up
Complete reinstallation of the boot loader should always at least get you a system where the boot loader loads. It shouldn't even be possible for me or software that doesn't even load at that point to screw that up.
c) your hardware wasn't screwed up?
Still using the same hardware years later. It took a 'cat /dev/zero > /dev/sdx' on my boot drive to do it, but it definitely wasn't the hardware.
Grub tries to be complex and simple at the same time. It's doing something pretty complicated, and hides all the details from the user. This is great when it works, but when it doesn't you have to learn a whole new command line language to troubleshoot it as opposed to simply checking the values in a configuration file.
Like a magician's card trick, the entire thing is rigged before you even make your selection.
It doesn't matter anyway. Both parties are equally corrupt and serve the same .01% of the population. In order for voting to matter, you need a real choice to vote on.
And we are supposed to give Microsoft ultimate control over what we run on our computers because you want to play a game?
The big advantage of GRUB over LILO was that you didn't have to worry about an unbootable machine if you changed anything and forgot to 'rerun lilo'.
Which was never a big deal anyway. Just boot from external media run lilo, and reboot. Worked every single time. Why is that worth writing a whole new boot loader over?
Grub on the other hand would occasionally hose itself for no reason. Booting from external media and running 'grub-install' or 'update-grub' usually worked, but I still had one system that grub so totally screwed up that even that wasn't enough.
Microsoft "needs" to employ secure boot in order to gain an advantage over smaller competitors who can't push OEMs into providing their signing key by default. Nothing more, nothing less. Any other justifications offered are smokescreens, and you are a naive fool if you believe them.
Grub2 is an epic piece of shit anyway.
I wont arguee over the definition of 'faith', except to say that yours is certainly different from Feyman's, but:
Feynman's definition is certainly different than that used by religious folk.
There is no evidence that the real world exists
Except for the fact that every time you do an experiment you get the same result. How can that not be evidence for the existence of the real world? Not that it's proof, you can't prove the non-existence of magic.
and lots of evidence that any such evidence is impossible to get.
Ok, present some.
science (Natural philososphy) requires the "faith that the real world exists"
Working as if something is true because it has been useful to do so is not the same as having faith. The fact that you can repeat the same experiment as many times as you want, and get the same result is evidence that the real world exists. That's much more support than anything people typically take on faith.
The really amazing thing is that the recent port of PoP to the C64 was done before the source code was located. He actually had to reverse engineer the game from the Apple II version.
Leaking of Secret/classified information is separate from ordinary whistleblowers working for the government. It's a bright-line distinction: each document is Secret, or not.
So just classify the evidence of your misdeeds and the law itself will protect you. It's almost as if you want our government to be corrupt.
the right system is to police that through oversight committies with appropriate clearance to review the information in the first place
And exactly why do we trust them?
Allowing secrecy sounds useful, there are certainly cases where it would be useful to keep secrets, if we could trust men with that power. But the fact is we can't. Any suggestion otherwise is wishful thinking at best. Foreign enemies are distant, their threat usually exaggerated, and obscurity provides poor security. The threat from our own government is much closer and real. We stand to gain a lot more than we lose by abolishing government secrecy entirely.