An entire second of google showed this: https://definitions.uslegal.co...
There are laws against any automatic booby trap, just about everywhere.....
Personally, I think he should get a medal, but law != justice no matter what you think.
Do you realize you just effectively agreed with me? My point was that anything not agreed with is now called fake, regardless of facts, and that media has a pretty lousy track record with facts going pretty far back into the past. The hyperpartisanship evident has reduced the value of actual facts due to many true things also being called fake because someone with a megaphone says so.
Which again, was my point. As long as we allow facts to be called fake, we can't get rid of the crap. And that's where we sit - factually, right now.
If fake is defined by "I don't agree" than all news is fake to someone. It's impossible to get rid of that, unless you just want no news at all. Which might be worth pondering, as at every event I've attended that also had media there, the resulting coverage differed greatly from what I myself witnessed. Add the bias of "if it bleeds, it leads" which we all know is true (it's only fake if that's not what you want to hear) - and the news is in shoddy shape. Just the fact that it still supports the idea that of two arbitrarily divided boxes of public policy, one must be correct since the other isn't. As if they both weren't wrong, public lies to get votes, and never really followed anyway. Telling the truth about that - I've watched this crap since Eisenhower - would be news. What we see today, not so much.
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Since when are rules that make sense in a dense city right for farms? And vice versa...I'm sure the land use, pest control, trash burning, and fertilizer requirements are different - or should be. You can't swing your arms in the city without breaking a nose. Does that mean farmers shouldn't be able to swing their arms? .
From what I observe, the whole central statist model has some real serious issues. One size does NOT fit all.
DevStudio 6 had a very nice GUI editor and a bunch of automatic MFC macros that made good UI easy to do...but the learning curve on MFC was very difficult...
So far, it was the best combo of GUI and code editor I ever worked on, and we learned how to munge our own data xfer macros as well, it was nice.
Then they VB'd it to hell with that.NOT shit, I stopped getting paid to fix windows issues and write drivers for embedded products...and well, linux + glade + "language of choice" suits me better than say, QT and C++. Of course, everything has some learning curve, but being able to make a call like "connect all signals from widgets to subroutines" in one line of code kinda rocks.
And html, css, javascript, etc...that's for grunts who like cubicles, I wrote real code and still do. In my opinion, of course. I'm lucky to have gone down the path less traveled and didn't have to go through that misery.
GTK is an ABI, Glade produces XML, and any language can eat it (at least the ones I work with) and there is zero need for my writing of any object, though the Perl GTK library produces a few that I just use (ditto for python and AFAIK C, but I haven't done a GUI in C or C++ since MFC and windows.
I don't have to care what language GTK is written in, that's the point. I can write for it in any language that can eat the XML glade produces, I'd be an idiot to program for it directly, the WYSIWYG editor removes the need for that, and makes it easier by far to do good design.
My cat things a gold lump is just a rock to piss on, a tree just sees it as in the way of a root. .
Fun thought experiment for those who think anything other than "it's worth what others will give you for it".
I'm crusin across the desert and I encounter you - you've run out of water, but have a big pile of gold (or bitcoin, or other fiat). You are going to die - you offer me your whole stash for just one canteen. I laugh, continue my journey, rent a vehicle on the other side, with borrowed money if necessary, or steal it - and come back to collect your "money" off your dead body so I can take it where someone WILL exchange it for something I want. Which might be paying back the loan, or bribing the guy who busts me for stealing the vehicle. Doesn't matter to YOU, you're dead. .
So...what is value in this situation? It's not a completely artificial one. Look at what older rich people spend on work to prolong life...or convince others (like governments) to add their value to the search.
But...doesn't work that well, does it. And at that last breath, nothing else matters to those who think it's the end.
Glade + GTK3 + Perl (or C++, python or other language of your choice) for running on a REAL opsys.
Faster, better, cheaper. Oh wait, that's a NASA saying.
I'm alone in a beautiful mountain community with 20k souls in the whole county. We're not so alone, it's just that we're not stupid enough to pack in like sardines.
The stats for crime, lifetime, air and water quality, general friendliness, low taxes and such make it more than worth it even if it costs us faster internet. I know where I'd rather be if things go south. This is where your food comes from, for starters.
You need some water with that drinkypoo, or a citation, like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Which is limited by photolith tech. And now, worse yet, quantum effects and limitations of silicon itself due to attempts to work around heat.
They went to lower voltages to reduce the loss due to switching the effective capacity of the conductors. To do that they had to dope the transistors such that they could turn on at lower voltages. THAT resulted in transistors that also didn't turn off all the way, so unlike the CMOS of old, these draw some power even when not switching. So as density went up, heat issues reappeared. Going a little past 2d (finfets) helped somewhat, but it's not the complete answer. The limits to going further are things like ballistic electron behavior - they shoot off conductors instead of going around tight corners, and also simply fail to be contained on too-narrow tracks because their wavefunction is wider than that.
The "law" has been dead for awhile now, and so has the usual speed increase. I have no more ghz now than I did years ago, far from doubling, it's only tripled in a decade or more. We always hear about these magic new semiconductors that can go much faster, but there are zero high density chips that use them.
Why? You can't make complex circuits with lithographic processes using them.
Maybe you should stick to stuff you know better. Or you might get whipped.
Moore's law is an observation about being able to reduce feature size via photolithography. These are bigger than existing features by a fairly big factor! The limit is no longer even the photolith, it's the wavefunction size of the electrons - eg tunneling, and ballistic transport so they won't go around sharper corners. So, like virtually all press-release "science" and any article with a question in the title, the answer is somewhere between "no" and "WTF, obviously no".
It'd be cool if you could make diodes without any forward drop for Maxwell's demon applications, but that's a pretty marginal side case.
It allowed people from all over the world to meet and discover our governments were all telling us lies about one another. This lead to all kinds of issues, so it had to be stopped, just like they are deplatforming anyone both logical and anti-communist.
I recall one interesting hangout I was in as a musician, swapping licks with some other guys in Israel, Iran, Libya (when there was still a Libya). We were at it for most of an hour - no politics. This piqued my curiosity, so I brought it up. The response was interesting:
Doug, you know your government is full of shit, right? Yeah.
We are in smaller countries and ours is closer, you think we don't know ours are full of shit?
Don't fall for the scams to try to make us hate and go to war for the people who own our governments!
That message obviously pissed off some powerful folks, and it was becoming too widespread for the management. Their attempt at homepages like facefart was an obvious failure, but no one I know actually used that - we just chatted using the free video chat service, and only used text chat to set up calls.
Agreed, but when I use that explanation, I call the "Go take that hill" management, and the "Follow me" leadership. You can be great at one and lousy at the other as I've learned from experience.
I've never had a problem with "Ok, people, follow me" - It almost always works.
I've never managed to get them to go take that hill without me. No one else wants to take that first bullet. It's a different kind of skill to persuade others to go first.
Seems leaders are admired for being the first to take the big risks.
I do that too! You're after my own heart. Now what are those guys gonna do when we can't save them anymore? Just loop forever rediscovering the same stuff?
It becomes interesting if you know science and read the press release sites. Just this week some idiot thought that using lasers to have higher comm bandwidth from a moon probe would "totally reduce" the 2.5 second latency involved in remote controlling things on the moon. More than once a week, for years now, you see people asking for grants (who wouldn't be able to even ask if they hadn't already gotten one or more) for exploring something they think is new - but is already done in decades past and in books they never read.
I'm convinced....it's been the blind leading the blind, in part due to necessary specialization for lazy brains...for quite some time now, and any serious student of what's been going on will tell you the same thing.
Someone "invented" the plasma triode, again, thinking it was going to revolutionize displays, a few years ago when they were a thing. They were most upset when I sent them a scan of a 1950's Phillips data book showing a low voltage plasma triode tube to be used in car radios to save the need for a high voltage supply.
In the past year, someone published a "wow new discovery" that when annealing a tungsten plate with tiny rods all over it - supposedly some photonic device they were trying to make - when it wasn't quite red hot, it gave off green light. Any RF/Antenna engineer would immediately have recognized that it was effectively an array of dipoles tuned to "green". And known that at any temperature, you have a distribution of actual atomic velocities, some of which are faster than the current mean. And that dipoles will selectively radiate the frequency they're tuned to. But nope, another email and another big retraction.
You could fill journals with just retractions for things that are utterly laughable to a freshman in the latter half of the previous century, much less a real pro. And they almost do that if you look. They kinda want to keep it on the down low, due to profit motive in the journals that pretend to peer-review but don't really manage. Even if they did,l they're flooded with junk science, just someone finding one more gene or insect and no new big picture understanding of things.
I'll even debate cosmology, something I like. Dark...whatever - you put down string theory, but dark gravity isn't matter, it's just assumed that since all we know that has mass is matter...we just can't find the elusive particles. And we seem unable to come up with a good new model that would explain any of that some other way. It's not like we go out there and can test some of the predictions either, and a lot of the definitions are circular, even the Hubble constant has "issues" in what we think of as the real world of clusters moving around dynamically as well as space expanding generally. We do see blue shifts, we've found one of our standard candles isn't always...long list and this is only slashdot.
I'll go with increasing incompetence, exacerbated by there simply being a lot more to have to know already before further progress can be made. It's the simplest Occam's razor explanation.
I've had access to data from an expensive test - MRI - denied me due to admitted incompetence and lack of infrastructure. Back when this "only" cost ~ $1000, I had a scan done after a head injury. I wanted a copy of the data because, hey, being able to look inside yourself is kind of a cool thing, right? The nurse doing the test (after a most of the night wait for the MRI team to deign to show up at the emergency room), emailed the result to a doctor for analysis. I saw her do it, via some simple UI. She also had it on a zip disk locally. I offered to buy it right there.
Answer: "we only have one disk"
I'll go get another and bring it for a copy.
I don't know how.
Then email it to me.
I can't send email.
I just saw you do that, of course you can.
You can't interpret this data.
I write DSP sofware for a living
I can't get it to you, would you like to look at the data right here?
Yes - and I spent half an hour scrolling through slices of myself on her screen.
Then I paid an over $1k bill out of pocket - this was MY DATA, damnit, I paid for it after a long wait during what was supposedly an emergency - no one goes to the hospital in the middle of the night for fun after getting into an accident - but no dice.
Care providers, er, money grabbers, just aren't set up to do what's right, and don't want to be, someone might discover incompetence and sue or something.
I'm sure the fact that my brain scans reminded one of a bowl of popcorn had nothing to do with it.
OT, but a friend brought me a bunch of CPAP machines from a tech junkyard. They're pretty nice little air supply devices for forced air cooling in my lab...quiet and powerful, and not all that hard to reprogram for that use.
How can you hack something that doesn't even always run as it is? Did ALIS suddently start working and become highly available? Last I heard....not so much.
You gotta fly before you can crash. (but you can burn without flying!)
They've "fixed" that too in some ways. Things that used to work in init.d no longer work due to systemd breaking sequencing - the thing they were going to fix, you know. You now must write.service files and put them in one of a couple places depending on circumstances. Putting a valid service file in/etc/systemd/system and then using systemctl enable 'whatevername" gets it started now. If you setup all the variables in the.service file correctly...maybe.
You used not to have to care, for example, when mounting a share in/etc/fstab, if you were using wireless or wired network - it would just work, waiting or backgrounding as required until network was available. For awhile it was broken and you had to write a special mount file for that and put it in a special place, but now they broke that again and fstab works again....
And they say people who object to multiple breakages of their custom setups - breaking userland - more often than any other half decades of updates ever has - are haters. Yeah, it's my fault I don't like to have to redo things instead of making forward progress....
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Banks also got bailed out on our dime. They are special and more powerful than "the law" and don't forget it.
An entire second of google showed this: https://definitions.uslegal.co...
There are laws against any automatic booby trap, just about everywhere.....
Personally, I think he should get a medal, but law != justice no matter what you think.
Do you realize you just effectively agreed with me? My point was that anything not agreed with is now called fake, regardless of facts, and that media has a pretty lousy track record with facts going pretty far back into the past. The hyperpartisanship evident has reduced the value of actual facts due to many true things also being called fake because someone with a megaphone says so.
Which again, was my point. As long as we allow facts to be called fake, we can't get rid of the crap.
And that's where we sit - factually, right now.
As if they both weren't wrong, public lies to get votes, and never really followed anyway. Telling the truth about that - I've watched this crap since Eisenhower - would be news. What we see today, not so much.
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Since when are rules that make sense in a dense city right for farms? And vice versa...I'm sure the land use, pest control, trash burning, and fertilizer requirements are different - or should be. You can't swing your arms in the city without breaking a nose. Does that mean farmers shouldn't be able to swing their arms?
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From what I observe, the whole central statist model has some real serious issues. One size does NOT fit all.
DevStudio 6 had a very nice GUI editor and a bunch of automatic MFC macros that made good UI easy to do...but the learning curve on MFC was very difficult... So far, it was the best combo of GUI and code editor I ever worked on, and we learned how to munge our own data xfer macros as well, it was nice. Then they VB'd it to hell with that .NOT shit, I stopped getting paid to fix windows issues and write drivers for embedded products...and well, linux + glade + "language of choice" suits me better than say, QT and C++.
Of course, everything has some learning curve, but being able to make a call like "connect all signals from widgets to subroutines" in one line of code kinda rocks.
And html, css, javascript, etc...that's for grunts who like cubicles, I wrote real code and still do. In my opinion, of course. I'm lucky to have gone down the path less traveled and didn't have to go through that misery.
GTK is an ABI, Glade produces XML, and any language can eat it (at least the ones I work with) and there is zero need for my writing of any object, though the Perl GTK library produces a few that I just use (ditto for python and AFAIK C, but I haven't done a GUI in C or C++ since MFC and windows. I don't have to care what language GTK is written in, that's the point. I can write for it in any language that can eat the XML glade produces, I'd be an idiot to program for it directly, the WYSIWYG editor removes the need for that, and makes it easier by far to do good design.
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Fun thought experiment for those who think anything other than "it's worth what others will give you for it".
I'm crusin across the desert and I encounter you - you've run out of water, but have a big pile of gold (or bitcoin, or other fiat). You are going to die - you offer me your whole stash for just one canteen. I laugh, continue my journey, rent a vehicle on the other side, with borrowed money if necessary, or steal it - and come back to collect your "money" off your dead body so I can take it where someone WILL exchange it for something I want. Which might be paying back the loan, or bribing the guy who busts me for stealing the vehicle. Doesn't matter to YOU, you're dead.
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So...what is value in this situation? It's not a completely artificial one. Look at what older rich people spend on work to prolong life...or convince others (like governments) to add their value to the search. But...doesn't work that well, does it. And at that last breath, nothing else matters to those who think it's the end.
Probably correct, but you don't have to care if you judge by post content alone.
Seems like they're handing out more mod points to old timers these days...which is why I'm AC right now.
Could have something to do with it?
Glade + GTK3 + Perl (or C++, python or other language of your choice) for running on a REAL opsys. Faster, better, cheaper. Oh wait, that's a NASA saying.
Title really says it all. Ground reality is a heck of a lot closer to what MS is saying than the FCC.
I'm alone in a beautiful mountain community with 20k souls in the whole county. We're not so alone, it's just that we're not stupid enough to pack in like sardines. The stats for crime, lifetime, air and water quality, general friendliness, low taxes and such make it more than worth it even if it costs us faster internet. I know where I'd rather be if things go south. This is where your food comes from, for starters.
It's kind of hard to shoot the employees in a business, however. You can take an analogy too far.
You need some water with that drinkypoo, or a citation, like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Which is limited by photolith tech. And now, worse yet, quantum effects and limitations of silicon itself due to attempts to work around heat. They went to lower voltages to reduce the loss due to switching the effective capacity of the conductors. To do that they had to dope the transistors such that they could turn on at lower voltages. THAT resulted in transistors that also didn't turn off all the way, so unlike the CMOS of old, these draw some power even when not switching. So as density went up, heat issues reappeared. Going a little past 2d (finfets) helped somewhat, but it's not the complete answer. The limits to going further are things like ballistic electron behavior - they shoot off conductors instead of going around tight corners, and also simply fail to be contained on too-narrow tracks because their wavefunction is wider than that.
The "law" has been dead for awhile now, and so has the usual speed increase. I have no more ghz now than I did years ago, far from doubling, it's only tripled in a decade or more. We always hear about these magic new semiconductors that can go much faster, but there are zero high density chips that use them. Why? You can't make complex circuits with lithographic processes using them.
Maybe you should stick to stuff you know better. Or you might get whipped.
It will be NEVER for some value of never where I live. You'd need a tower per homestead. I'm pretty sure I'm not alone.
Moore's law is an observation about being able to reduce feature size via photolithography. These are bigger than existing features by a fairly big factor! The limit is no longer even the photolith, it's the wavefunction size of the electrons - eg tunneling, and ballistic transport so they won't go around sharper corners. So, like virtually all press-release "science" and any article with a question in the title, the answer is somewhere between "no" and "WTF, obviously no".
It'd be cool if you could make diodes without any forward drop for Maxwell's demon applications, but that's a pretty marginal side case.
It allowed people from all over the world to meet and discover our governments were all telling us lies about one another. This lead to all kinds of issues, so it had to be stopped, just like they are deplatforming anyone both logical and anti-communist.
I recall one interesting hangout I was in as a musician, swapping licks with some other guys in Israel, Iran, Libya (when there was still a Libya). We were at it for most of an hour - no politics. This piqued my curiosity, so I brought it up. The response was interesting:
Doug, you know your government is full of shit, right? Yeah.
We are in smaller countries and ours is closer, you think we don't know ours are full of shit?
Don't fall for the scams to try to make us hate and go to war for the people who own our governments!
That message obviously pissed off some powerful folks, and it was becoming too widespread for the management. Their attempt at homepages like facefart was an obvious failure, but no one I know actually used that - we just chatted using the free video chat service, and only used text chat to set up calls.
Agreed, but when I use that explanation, I call the "Go take that hill" management, and the "Follow me" leadership. You can be great at one and lousy at the other as I've learned from experience.
I've never had a problem with "Ok, people, follow me" - It almost always works.
I've never managed to get them to go take that hill without me. No one else wants to take that first bullet. It's a different kind of skill to persuade others to go first.
Seems leaders are admired for being the first to take the big risks.
I do that too! You're after my own heart. Now what are those guys gonna do when we can't save them anymore? Just loop forever rediscovering the same stuff?
Too bad I burned my mod points above. You got it, or at least a major part of it.
It becomes interesting if you know science and read the press release sites. Just this week some idiot thought that using lasers to have higher comm bandwidth from a moon probe would "totally reduce" the 2.5 second latency involved in remote controlling things on the moon. More than once a week, for years now, you see people asking for grants (who wouldn't be able to even ask if they hadn't already gotten one or more) for exploring something they think is new - but is already done in decades past and in books they never read.
I'm convinced....it's been the blind leading the blind, in part due to necessary specialization for lazy brains...for quite some time now, and any serious student of what's been going on will tell you the same thing.
Someone "invented" the plasma triode, again, thinking it was going to revolutionize displays, a few years ago when they were a thing. They were most upset when I sent them a scan of a 1950's Phillips data book showing a low voltage plasma triode tube to be used in car radios to save the need for a high voltage supply.
In the past year, someone published a "wow new discovery" that when annealing a tungsten plate with tiny rods all over it - supposedly some photonic device they were trying to make - when it wasn't quite red hot, it gave off green light. Any RF/Antenna engineer would immediately have recognized that it was effectively an array of dipoles tuned to "green". And known that at any temperature, you have a distribution of actual atomic velocities, some of which are faster than the current mean. And that dipoles will selectively radiate the frequency they're tuned to. But nope, another email and another big retraction.
You could fill journals with just retractions for things that are utterly laughable to a freshman in the latter half of the previous century, much less a real pro. And they almost do that if you look. They kinda want to keep it on the down low, due to profit motive in the journals that pretend to peer-review but don't really manage. Even if they did,l they're flooded with junk science, just someone finding one more gene or insect and no new big picture understanding of things.
I'll even debate cosmology, something I like. Dark...whatever - you put down string theory, but dark gravity isn't matter, it's just assumed that since all we know that has mass is matter...we just can't find the elusive particles. And we seem unable to come up with a good new model that would explain any of that some other way. It's not like we go out there and can test some of the predictions either, and a lot of the definitions are circular, even the Hubble constant has "issues" in what we think of as the real world of clusters moving around dynamically as well as space expanding generally. We do see blue shifts, we've found one of our standard candles isn't always...long list and this is only slashdot.
I'll go with increasing incompetence, exacerbated by there simply being a lot more to have to know already before further progress can be made. It's the simplest Occam's razor explanation.
I've had access to data from an expensive test - MRI - denied me due to admitted incompetence and lack of infrastructure. Back when this "only" cost ~ $1000, I had a scan done after a head injury. I wanted a copy of the data because, hey, being able to look inside yourself is kind of a cool thing, right? The nurse doing the test (after a most of the night wait for the MRI team to deign to show up at the emergency room), emailed the result to a doctor for analysis. I saw her do it, via some simple UI. She also had it on a zip disk locally. I offered to buy it right there.
Answer: "we only have one disk"
I'll go get another and bring it for a copy.
I don't know how.
Then email it to me.
I can't send email.
I just saw you do that, of course you can.
You can't interpret this data.
I write DSP sofware for a living
I can't get it to you, would you like to look at the data right here?
Yes - and I spent half an hour scrolling through slices of myself on her screen. Then I paid an over $1k bill out of pocket - this was MY DATA, damnit, I paid for it after a long wait during what was supposedly an emergency - no one goes to the hospital in the middle of the night for fun after getting into an accident - but no dice.
Care providers, er, money grabbers, just aren't set up to do what's right, and don't want to be, someone might discover incompetence and sue or something.
I'm sure the fact that my brain scans reminded one of a bowl of popcorn had nothing to do with it.
OT, but a friend brought me a bunch of CPAP machines from a tech junkyard. They're pretty nice little air supply devices for forced air cooling in my lab...quiet and powerful, and not all that hard to reprogram for that use.
How can you hack something that doesn't even always run as it is? Did ALIS suddently start working and become highly available? Last I heard....not so much.
You gotta fly before you can crash. (but you can burn without flying!)
They've "fixed" that too in some ways. Things that used to work in init.d no longer work due to systemd breaking sequencing - the thing they were going to fix, you know. You now must write .service files and put them in one of a couple places depending on circumstances. Putting a valid service file in /etc/systemd/system and then using systemctl enable 'whatevername" gets it started now. If you setup all the variables in the .service file correctly...maybe. /etc/fstab, if you were using wireless or wired network - it would just work, waiting or backgrounding as required until network was available. For awhile it was broken and you had to write a special mount file for that and put it in a special place, but now they broke that again and fstab works again....
You used not to have to care, for example, when mounting a share in
And they say people who object to multiple breakages of their custom setups - breaking userland - more often than any other half decades of updates ever has - are haters. Yeah, it's my fault I don't like to have to redo things instead of making forward progress....