Yes, he put a convincing Hitler on the screen. But the problem with al those 'historical' movies is, of course, is it true? Dunkirk, Pearl Harbour, A bridge too far, countless movies (and books, and series) are wll-known examples. But movies like U-571, convincing like they may seem, are way off the hstorical facts. Still they have shaped our perceeption of history. That worries me.
Forget about DRM of the content. If DRM of e.g., the rfc's (requests for comment; the 'standards' of the internet) had been enforced, the very structure of the internet would have been closed for every developer or hacker that would have wanted to experiment with it and add to it.
I do not understand why almost everybody keeps referring to these phenomena as 'atacks'. An 'attack' implies a malevolent agent and purpose.
So if you don't know what happened, what exactly is the damage or even whether anything happened at all, why keep using the word 'attack', implying that the Cubans had anything to do with it and did it on purpose? Unless of course somebody wants a reason to put pressure on Cuba. But the american gouvernement would not do that,would they?
I never understood the reluctance to develop weapons like the drones described here, or at least the emphasis on the problem whether innocent bystanders could be killed without human intervention. It did not stop bombing of open cities or the use of atomic bombs, where no human intervention was needed to select which individual had to die and who not.
I read the other day that it may also be a perfect example of mass hysteria...
Anyway: if the americans REALLY suspect a new weapon, they would not have closed the embassy, but replaced the personell with scientists to try and discover what was going on.
The author thinks that bash "...is the default shell included within Ubuntu...". Sometimes I think that too after a new (K)unbuntu install and then my scripts start acting funny and I am forcefully reminded that Ubuntu for some reason installs something called 'ash'. The same by the way is true for awk and gawk and only God knows why this so.
Anyway, I think WSL is no big deal. Twenty years ago there were already several ways to run the bash command line and Unix commands under Windows, all more or less satisfactory. And suddenly they would turn around and bite you. I suspect that it is the same for the newer ones.
The only thing that really works against speeding is the obligatory installation of an iron pin on the steering wheel aimed at a point between the drivers eyes.
The solution is perhaps rather expensive, but obvious: do not allow any operating system to have more than, e.g. 33% share in any essential sector of society. So that if any OS is overwhelmed by an attack, 66% of the capacity remains unaffected.
So the 'leaked emails' are from Macron. Or actually from Putin. Or from american far-right idiots. Or from canadese dito's. Or from the icelandic secret service, fucking up everybody just for the fun of it (my favorite).
But to know right from wrong I don't need Macrons personal views, or those of Trump, or Putin or whoever finds himself in the eye of a personal media shitstorm.
But who is the "us" you mention, who want the means of production? Do you mean the good old worldwide conspiracy of communists and jews? Or Jezuits? Or freemasons? Take your pick.
My friend, some of the most successful countries in the world have a large seasoning of socialism. But regardless the system you live in, there alway will be people who know how to play the system. They become obscenely rich. Typically you see them in the capitalistic countries, although we have our share of them in Holland (the king and his family, to name a few).
Now in Europe, this generally is balanced by various socialistic structures to keep the people from the poverty line. In the USA I have observed that this is not the case. Therefore I fear that the USA is in more danger of a bloody revolution like in 18-th century France. Only time can tell.
Socialism is just one of the ingredients of a working society. Too much, and you get communism (in the USA socialism is often confused with communism). Not enough, and you live in a country like the USA, where you can lose everything you have through no fault of your own or get shot in the streets over ten dollars.
Or perhaps socialism is like, say pasta and capitalism is like potatoes. You can make a good and healthy dish of either, if you add the right vegetables and condiments, and you can mess up both if you add sewage to the mix.
I am glad that I do not live in a communistic state and I am also glad that I do not live in the USA.
I have always been an avid reader - but for some reason only books that I owned. Libraries didn't work for me. And I never threw away a book. So in my houses always a seizable room was reserved as a private library and book storage. Five years ago I weaned myself away from the paper book. Then I sought (and found) om internet the ebook equivalents and gave away the paper copies. So within a few years I had an empty room here my library once existed. When I moved into a new house, it could be smaller - and cheaper - than earlier houses. I can read in bed without my wife complaining about the light staying on.
Yes, as far as I am concerned, the ereader is the best thing since sliced bread. BTW: I am 69 and it is nice to be able to adjust stuff like fonts and fontsize.
It is enlightening in itself how the book and the movie both are very, very good, how the movie follows the book much better than most movies do, and at the same time carries a totally different message.
Heinlein is very convincing in his fascistoid meritocracy. Paul Verhoeven is equally convincing in the rejection of that philosophy. I am very glad to have read/watched both.
Here is the thing: I have been teaching CS at a dutch university for thirty years. On our university, CS was obligatory, even for humanities students (which I think is a very good thing). About 80% of our students were women. Some of my best students were women, doing PhD trajects with heavy math, computers and statistics. No gender differences there.
But... and this is a big but... most of the female students just could not be bothered. They enrolled at the university because they were intelligent but ALSO wanted an occupation indoors without heavy lifting. And they were not above using their attributes to get a pass. It is not because I am male: my female collegues in the STEM department had the same experience (it is the Netherlands I am talking about - grin).
So all girls out there: stop whining about unequal opportunities. Do your assignments just like the boys. If you don't like maths or CS, just skip it - but don't expect to compete seriously in the world outside, without using your attributes, that is.
I *like* your attributes and they keep the world turning. But it is not maths.
I started in 1979 on an Apple II, graduated to CP/M and then MS-DOS. In 1991 I decided to try that newfangled Linux thing and never looked back. The important thing, however, was that I was driven by my needs; in 1991 my need was a Unix clone that could run an certain program. I then found that an Unix environment suited my other needs of that time much better: LaTeX/BibTeX was superior to MS-Word for writing my thesis, the command line and the Unix tools supported the experiments I needed to run so much better than MS-DOS, X was smoother even in 1991 as MS-Windows or the Mac... where should I stop?
So if you use your PC for writing 'simple' texts, internet and games, Ubuntu or Mint will serve your needs as well as Microsoft or Apple, but certainly not better. If at any point you need to get off the trodden path, the power of the Unix environment will get you forward regardless of the Unix flavour you use. Heck! An Macbook wil work in that case!
The creator of the 'Android operating system'? You can of course debate what exactly is an operating system, but as far as I am concerned 'uname' does have some say in it. 'Android' is just a load of complicated crap on top of the linux system... And Java... O, my God, Java...
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Thank you, sir, for illustrating both our points.
Paai
Yes, he put a convincing Hitler on the screen. But the problem with al those 'historical' movies is, of course, is it true? Dunkirk, Pearl Harbour, A bridge too far, countless movies (and books, and series) are wll-known examples. But movies like U-571, convincing like they may seem, are way off the hstorical facts. Still they have shaped our perceeption of history. That worries me.
Paai
Read Pratchett, more in particular 'Going Postal'. Beautiful examples of business speak all through the book.
Paai
Forget about DRM of the content. If DRM of e.g., the rfc's (requests for comment; the 'standards' of the internet) had been enforced, the very structure of the internet would have been closed for every developer or hacker that would have wanted to experiment with it and add to it.
Paai
I do not understand why almost everybody keeps referring to these phenomena as 'atacks'. An 'attack' implies a malevolent agent and purpose.
So if you don't know what happened, what exactly is the damage or even whether anything happened at all, why keep using the word 'attack', implying that the Cubans had anything to do with it and did it on purpose? Unless of course somebody wants a reason to put pressure on Cuba. But the american gouvernement would not do that,would they?
Paai
As Terry Pratchett wrote somewhere: "Evidence means 'that what is seen'". Nuff said.
Paaia
I never understood the reluctance to develop weapons like the drones described here, or at least the emphasis on the problem whether innocent bystanders could be killed without human intervention. It did not stop bombing of open cities or the use of atomic bombs, where no human intervention was needed to select which individual had to die and who not.
Paai
I read the other day that it may also be a perfect example of mass hysteria...
Anyway: if the americans REALLY suspect a new weapon, they would not have closed the embassy, but replaced the personell with scientists to try and discover what was going on.
Paai
The author thinks that bash "...is the default shell included within Ubuntu...". Sometimes I think that too after a new (K)unbuntu install and then my scripts start acting funny and I am forcefully reminded that Ubuntu for some reason installs something called 'ash'. The same by the way is true for awk and gawk and only God knows why this so.
Anyway, I think WSL is no big deal. Twenty years ago there were already several ways to run the bash command line and Unix commands under Windows, all more or less satisfactory. And suddenly they would turn around and bite you. I suspect that it is the same for the newer ones.
Paai
The only thing that really works against speeding is the obligatory installation of an iron pin on the steering wheel aimed at a point between the drivers eyes.
The solution is perhaps rather expensive, but obvious: do not allow any operating system to have more than, e.g. 33% share in any essential sector of society. So that if any OS is overwhelmed by an attack, 66% of the capacity remains unaffected.
Paai
Funny thing is, I read in the dutch press that the hackers and the dissemination of the texs were financed by far-right american groups...
Paai
So the 'leaked emails' are from Macron. Or actually from Putin. Or from american far-right idiots. Or from canadese dito's. Or from the icelandic secret service, fucking up everybody just for the fun of it (my favorite).
But to know right from wrong I don't need Macrons personal views, or those of Trump, or Putin or whoever finds himself in the eye of a personal media shitstorm.
Paai
As arguments go, this is pretty weak...
But who is the "us" you mention, who want the means of production? Do you mean the good old worldwide conspiracy of communists and jews? Or Jezuits? Or freemasons? Take your pick.
Paai
My friend, some of the most successful countries in the world have a large seasoning of socialism. But regardless the system you live in, there alway will be people who know how to play the system. They become obscenely rich. Typically you see them in the capitalistic countries, although we have our share of them in Holland (the king and his family, to name a few).
Now in Europe, this generally is balanced by various socialistic structures to keep the people from the poverty line. In the USA I have observed that this is not the case. Therefore I fear that the USA is in more danger of a bloody revolution like in 18-th century France. Only time can tell.
Paai
Socialism is just one of the ingredients of a working society. Too much, and you get communism (in the USA socialism is often confused with communism). Not enough, and you live in a country like the USA, where you can lose everything you have through no fault of your own or get shot in the streets over ten dollars.
Or perhaps socialism is like, say pasta and capitalism is like potatoes. You can make a good and healthy dish of either, if you add the right vegetables and condiments, and you can mess up both if you add sewage to the mix.
I am glad that I do not live in a communistic state and I am also glad that I do not live in the USA.
Paai
I have always been an avid reader - but for some reason only books that I owned. Libraries didn't work for me. And I never threw away a book. So in my houses always a seizable room was reserved as a private library and book storage.
Five years ago I weaned myself away from the paper book. Then I sought (and found) om internet the ebook equivalents and gave away the paper copies. So within a few years I had an empty room here my library once existed. When I moved into a new house, it could be smaller - and cheaper - than earlier houses. I can read in bed without my wife complaining about the light staying on.
Yes, as far as I am concerned, the ereader is the best thing since sliced bread. BTW: I am 69 and it is nice to be able to adjust stuff like fonts and fontsize.
Paai
It is enlightening in itself how the book and the movie both are very, very good, how the movie follows the book much better than most movies do, and at the same time carries a totally different message.
Heinlein is very convincing in his fascistoid meritocracy. Paul Verhoeven is equally convincing in the rejection of that philosophy. I am very glad to have read/watched both.
Paai
don't be stupid. a^2=b^2+c^2 does not care whether you carry your genitals inside or out.
Paai
Here is the thing: I have been teaching CS at a dutch university for thirty years. On our university, CS was obligatory, even for humanities students (which I think is a very good thing). About 80% of our students were women. Some of my best students were women, doing PhD trajects with heavy math, computers and statistics. No gender differences there.
But... and this is a big but... most of the female students just could not be bothered. They enrolled at the university because they were intelligent but ALSO wanted an occupation indoors without heavy lifting. And they were not above using their attributes to get a pass. It is not because I am male: my female collegues in the STEM department had the same experience (it is the Netherlands I am talking about - grin).
So all girls out there: stop whining about unequal opportunities. Do your assignments just like the boys. If you don't like maths or CS, just skip it - but don't expect to compete seriously in the world outside, without using your attributes, that is.
I *like* your attributes and they keep the world turning. But it is not maths.
Paai
Who are you and what are you using your PC for?
I started in 1979 on an Apple II, graduated to CP/M and then MS-DOS. In 1991 I decided to try that newfangled Linux thing and never looked back. The important thing, however, was that I was driven by my needs; in 1991 my need was a Unix clone that could run an certain program. I then found that an Unix environment suited my other needs of that time much better: LaTeX/BibTeX was superior to MS-Word for writing my thesis, the command line and the Unix tools supported the experiments I needed to run so much better than MS-DOS, X was smoother even in 1991 as MS-Windows or the Mac... where should I stop?
So if you use your PC for writing 'simple' texts, internet and games, Ubuntu or Mint will serve your needs as well as Microsoft or Apple, but certainly not better. If at any point you need to get off the trodden path, the power of the Unix environment will get you forward regardless of the Unix flavour you use. Heck! An Macbook wil work in that case!
Paai
The creator of the 'Android operating system'? You can of course debate what exactly is an operating system, but as far as I am concerned 'uname' does have some say in it. 'Android' is just a load of complicated crap on top of the linux system... And Java... O, my God, Java...
Paai
I like the position of this article directly below the exposition of the CIA hacks...
Paai
In short: the World Domination that our Great Leader predicted some twenty years ago, has come true...
Paai
Yes, I can see how you can apply different algoritms to get an optimal distribution of the ads over the passing cars.