Not necessarily. The good thing about countries is that there are so many to choose from. Same for all does not override local regulation. It just means that when banned it will be banned in one country only instead of banned in one country and inaccessible in a shitload due to geoblocking.
One of the nice things about travelling in Europe was sampling the local Netflix content while in another country. I'm currently stationed in Germany and half way through a series I now pirated because my home account (I assume) won't show it when I head off to Germany again tomorrow.
I did notice that my Netflix account didn't have any French movies in it yesterday which I found odd.
I know it's well meaning, but not all of us asked for this. What we did ask for is the stupid geoblocking to be torn down completely once and for all.
Moore's Law exclusively talked about transistor count. Speed aside: GTX 770 in 2013 : 3.5bn transistors. GTX 1070 in 2017: 7.2bn transistors Moore's law is dead, but not because you defeated it, but because you failed to live up to it just like the CPU vendors did.
We have been counting advances on multiple fronts since the Intel Core architecture debuted 12 years ago, but welcome to the 21st century Jensen Huang.
and they have a really good track-record of keeping compatibility across different processor lines. Compared to say Microsoft who barely made the 64bit transition.
You're joking right? Compatibility with what? A whole version of Adobe's creative suite was missed on Mac due to one of their transitions, and software vendors almost universally hated them the last few times Apple dictated the move.
I am surprised. I wonder if software vendors will continue to support the Mac line. I mean it's not like their shitty mobile apps are what laptop and workstation users want. There's some real effort involved in pleasing the fruit's decision of the day.
Why are you blaming the programmer? The feature must have been designed; did the design call for empty being interpreted as a wildcard?
Don't assume it was designed. It's amazing how much gets "designed" at implementation if something isn't expressly stated in the specification. The only thing we know is that we don't know who to blame.
That said the GP's assertion that someone should face prison time is completely stupid. Even by American "jail everyone for everything" standards.
And yet it doesn't seem any more favorable than my own IP address. It doesn't have ocean views, doesn't get discounts at the local restaurant, and the chicks don't really give a damn. Also thanks to the service run on it you never need to give a damn what your IP address is.
And you casually call each other "cunt" aa a term of endearment.
Yes, you have to really start to worry when someone calls you mate. Depending on the tone of voice he's either your BFF or about to end you via a good ol' fashioned glassing.
For the American and British out there yes the 3:10 mark of the Googz video is actually how we speak. And if you don't know what a Maccas is http://logos.wikia.com/wiki/Fi...
And it was most likely caused by some construction worker tightening something that was supposed to be tight already and no be messed with in the field in the absence of an engineer.
Tensioning is not some fun cowboy activity don't by some bearded tattooed builder by his feels. You don't just make something tighter. You adjust it to the specification using calibrated hydraulic equipment. There are any number of things that could go wrong here. Time will tell if you had a really lucky guess or if it was one of the many other causes of tensioning going wrong than "some construction worker tightening something that was supposed to be tight already".
AVE on YouTube made a video about it on March 16. It was called by the civil engineers in the forum he linked to in his video description. It's well worth a read as well as our foul mouthed Canadian really simplifies what has turned into a very long multi page discussion on how and why.
Why not? The first thing every Linux installation does is enable interoperability with Windows networking. Wanacry very quickly spreads to SMB shares. If they are writable then a remote client can happily encrypt your shit. Or if you want, https://www.samba.org/samba/se... gives you your own Linux special flavour of Wanacry.
Now yes the GP is a troll, and it most likely wasn't the case. But security is about dealing with the possible, and just running Linux doesn't make you immune from anything, especially not user stupidity.
But instead we get this version of moot: 2 : deprived of practical significance : made abstract or purely academic
That version is perfectly accepted by both dictionaries and better still actual legal meaning. You know what a "moot" is in noun form? A mock process with no legal standing often used for practice. Just because you think the UK used Germanic root is the only valid one, doesn't make it so.
Here, there's an entire wikipedia entry on why your pedantry is... moot (America legal definition): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Now don't you British have a Brexit to get on with rather than showing your lack of understanding of the English language outside your own little island?
NOT having the sense to clear traffic while performing an "inherently risky" operation is the most obvious fuck-up
And is also not a root cause which is why investigations actually take months despite your claim to the contrary. The point of investigations is not to come up with what happened, but rather the reason of why it happened. So... since you know it already please share with us the detailed assessment that lead to them not closing the bridge including the risk assessment that was performed. After all I will humour you and assume you understand that post tensioning comes in a great variety of different forms, some are inherently risky such as post tensioning a structure to make it stable, and others less so, such as adjusting post tensioners for a pre-tensioned bridge. You did know this bridge was pre-tensioned right?
And my "ignored" comment was referring to a voice mail that was left by an engineer two days prior to the collapse to report structural cracking, but was not picked up until the day after the collapse
Except it wasn't ignored. That was just some initial quality journalism. The only part of the ignored voice mail is that the actual crack was identified and a proper engineering assessment done to it making the subsequent discovery of a voice mail irrelevant, and as many have pointed out not only did the engineering assessment (before collapse) not consider the cracks a concern, but depending on the shape and position of a crack in a tensioned concrete bridge they are often completely irrelevant and quite common.
Had more than one organization reviewed the damage surveyed prior to the collapse, tragedy may have been avoided.
Tell me again what you think the crack had to do with a post tensioner failing? Better still given that structural member 11 was a critical supporting member with no redundancy tell me why you think a perfect bridge with absolutely not a single crack in it would survive a critical tensioned member suddenly ceasing to exist.
Don't get caught up in the crack hysteria. No doubt in a few months after the investigation is finished you'll see it was completely irrelevant, risk assessed, and quite normal for a tensioned concrete structure.
Regarding ultimately finding fault, that will likely never be found due to the insane amount of variables you have already cited.
Well it won't if you don't risk assess properly. But people actually do, and it's not insurance companies as you so claim. The root causes i.e "fault" will be identified. There may be more than one, there certainly will be several mitigation failures as well as an incident such as this often relies on a perfect storm of several failures in order to cause the problems it does, but ultimately there barely any structural failures in the west where root causes were unable to be identified. I'm sure lawyers are salivating.... well evidently they already are.
the cause of the collapse is a bit more obvious when they were in the middle of tweaking structural integrity on an already damaged structure when it failed
As said, immediate causes are irrelevant. Blaming tensioning on the collapse is like blaming someone who bought a car for the fact that they were involved in an accident. If your cause ends at a perfectly normal and completely routine activity, then you haven't found the cause, just a useless intermediary and you need to keep looking.
You might not be able to avoid the spycraft, but you can certainly derail its end goal. Reduce, reuse, and recycle goods you buy. Avoid major brands, and branded consumer holidays like Christmas. Repair instead of replacing old coats, gloves, and household small appliances. Look up a cobbler in your city, as there certainly exists one or more, and resole your shoes and boots instead of buying new ones.
While the goal is noble you've just described being poor and that carries a stigma of its own. Your 5 times repaired coat is not likely to get you a pat on the back for sticking it to the man as much as confused looks from the people around you saying you should be buying a new one.
Do you also hear about why people happily hand over data? Google knows my location as I travel down the highway. That's scary. A company like that could provide real time traffic information that makes my trip to work better. Just one example, but the bottom line is people don't use Google and Facebook for the exercise of handing over their data if they didn't get something in return.
The same applies to membership programs. I'm not a Marriott member because I want them spying on me, and knowing which airline I fly. I am a member because in exchange for the inconsequential information I get rewards that make the exercise worth while.
"Thousands of companies" aren't using search and social networking and Android monopoly power to spy on us like you guys are. It's only you doing that.
You're right. Only a few companies are doing that, the others wanted to do that from the onset but didn't get the market capture to succeed. You may not remember registration cards, loyalty programs, surveys, but this concept long pre-dates the internet, hell it was a feature of electronic payment.
"Thousand of companies" also don't have PR problems due to arrogant, dismissive management. That's a Google and Facebook problem.
Actually they quite often do. The difference is if you don't have 2bn customers around the world your PR tends to be more localised. Think only a few years back when Target started sending a pregnant girl advertisements for kids stuff which upset her parents... who didn't know she was pregnant. Target knew.
"Thousands of companies" haven't lost the trust of their audience by trying to impose Silicon Valley "values" on them. That's a Google and Facebook problem.
Actually that isn't even a Google / Facebook problem. The users don't care, at best a couple of investors caused the shareprice to dro... oh look it's rising again.
an extremely wide range of processing power and RAM combinations...
You're doing front end design and trying to tailor it to processing power and RAM combinations? What are you doing? Mining bitcoin while sending database requests?
You tailor to single combination: The slowest, and the people with faster equipment will thank you for not writing a bloated POS. Also if you're writing for a browser but are majorly concerned about the underlying OS then you're doing it wrong.
Saying nature selected these birds for extinction is absurd.
Last I checked humans were not synthetic and are also a superior predator than the passenger pigeon. Sucks that the pigeon didn't evolve to be less fun to hunt, but hey that's natural selection for you.
... I assume you know which report I am talking about given that the NHTSA has only investigated one so far. Well you don't even need to read it, just look at the pretty pictures in it. There's also a nice little write up that talks about figure 11.
One would think that their user base would wake up after all the bloated, invasive, insecure and underperforming product they've been using or "upgraded" to, but possibly they're just used to it.
Their userbase welcome it due to there being no other single vendor alternative for management of an entire office. Sure you could cobble together a Linux back end with god knows what different apps from god knows which vendors only to have to go to MS for the desktop system anyway, and what about Exchange.... Or you would realise that having one vendor is actually a very good cost saving measure.
Insecure and underperforming? Tell me just how much better my office would be without an exchange backend, realtime linking between email systems and my desk phone, document editing not just of files, but of resources directly in sharepoint allowing multiple people to edit the same document concurrently.
Yeah Windows I wouldn't run a windows machine without at least 4GB of RAM, but that's a small one-off price to pay.
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Not necessarily. The good thing about countries is that there are so many to choose from. Same for all does not override local regulation. It just means that when banned it will be banned in one country only instead of banned in one country and inaccessible in a shitload due to geoblocking.
One of the nice things about travelling in Europe was sampling the local Netflix content while in another country. I'm currently stationed in Germany and half way through a series I now pirated because my home account (I assume) won't show it when I head off to Germany again tomorrow.
I did notice that my Netflix account didn't have any French movies in it yesterday which I found odd.
I know it's well meaning, but not all of us asked for this. What we did ask for is the stupid geoblocking to be torn down completely once and for all.
Moore's Law exclusively talked about transistor count. Speed aside:
GTX 770 in 2013 : 3.5bn transistors.
GTX 1070 in 2017: 7.2bn transistors
Moore's law is dead, but not because you defeated it, but because you failed to live up to it just like the CPU vendors did.
We have been counting advances on multiple fronts since the Intel Core architecture debuted 12 years ago, but welcome to the 21st century Jensen Huang.
Thats weird. You run a closed source OS on your Mac. Freedom doesn't seem very important to you.
Freedom comes in many forms. Sometimes the freedom people seek is freedom from association with OpenSource Zealots.
and they have a really good track-record of keeping compatibility across different processor lines. Compared to say Microsoft who barely made the 64bit transition.
You're joking right? Compatibility with what? A whole version of Adobe's creative suite was missed on Mac due to one of their transitions, and software vendors almost universally hated them the last few times Apple dictated the move.
I am surprised. I wonder if software vendors will continue to support the Mac line. I mean it's not like their shitty mobile apps are what laptop and workstation users want. There's some real effort involved in pleasing the fruit's decision of the day.
Why are you blaming the programmer? The feature must have been designed; did the design call for empty being interpreted as a wildcard?
Don't assume it was designed. It's amazing how much gets "designed" at implementation if something isn't expressly stated in the specification. The only thing we know is that we don't know who to blame.
That said the GP's assertion that someone should face prison time is completely stupid. Even by American "jail everyone for everything" standards.
When a service is free, you're the product
Not always. You have to have something of value from you along with a buyer for you in order for you to be the product. Cloudfare isn't.
Sometimes when a service is free for you, you're lucky to ride on the paying service of others.
Follow the money. Sometimes there is a free lunch.
You're forgetting 9.9.9.9 which is https://www.quad9.net/ and also a DNS server.
This is the lowest IP number on the internet.
And yet it doesn't seem any more favorable than my own IP address. It doesn't have ocean views, doesn't get discounts at the local restaurant, and the chicks don't really give a damn. Also thanks to the service run on it you never need to give a damn what your IP address is.
So what makes it so valuable in you eyes?
And you casually call each other "cunt" aa a term of endearment.
Yes, you have to really start to worry when someone calls you mate. Depending on the tone of voice he's either your BFF or about to end you via a good ol' fashioned glassing.
For the American and British out there yes the 3:10 mark of the Googz video is actually how we speak. And if you don't know what a Maccas is http://logos.wikia.com/wiki/Fi...
And it was most likely caused by some construction worker tightening something that was supposed to be tight already and no be messed with in the field in the absence of an engineer.
Oh oh oh, you should get one of these: http://www.israellycool.com/20...
Tensioning is not some fun cowboy activity don't by some bearded tattooed builder by his feels. You don't just make something tighter. You adjust it to the specification using calibrated hydraulic equipment. There are any number of things that could go wrong here. Time will tell if you had a really lucky guess or if it was one of the many other causes of tensioning going wrong than "some construction worker tightening something that was supposed to be tight already".
Let the incident investigators do their work.
AVE on YouTube called it on March 16.
AVE on YouTube made a video about it on March 16. It was called by the civil engineers in the forum he linked to in his video description. It's well worth a read as well as our foul mouthed Canadian really simplifies what has turned into a very long multi page discussion on how and why.
Why not? The first thing every Linux installation does is enable interoperability with Windows networking. Wanacry very quickly spreads to SMB shares. If they are writable then a remote client can happily encrypt your shit. Or if you want, https://www.samba.org/samba/se... gives you your own Linux special flavour of Wanacry.
Now yes the GP is a troll, and it most likely wasn't the case. But security is about dealing with the possible, and just running Linux doesn't make you immune from anything, especially not user stupidity.
But instead we get this version of moot: 2 : deprived of practical significance : made abstract or purely academic
That version is perfectly accepted by both dictionaries and better still actual legal meaning. You know what a "moot" is in noun form? A mock process with no legal standing often used for practice. Just because you think the UK used Germanic root is the only valid one, doesn't make it so.
Here, there's an entire wikipedia entry on why your pedantry is ... moot (America legal definition): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Now don't you British have a Brexit to get on with rather than showing your lack of understanding of the English language outside your own little island?
You mean the report that was only for the purposes of determining if AP was flawed?
Ahhh yes. Discredit the result because of the title of the report. You're an idiot.
NOT having the sense to clear traffic while performing an "inherently risky" operation is the most obvious fuck-up
And is also not a root cause which is why investigations actually take months despite your claim to the contrary. The point of investigations is not to come up with what happened, but rather the reason of why it happened. So... since you know it already please share with us the detailed assessment that lead to them not closing the bridge including the risk assessment that was performed. After all I will humour you and assume you understand that post tensioning comes in a great variety of different forms, some are inherently risky such as post tensioning a structure to make it stable, and others less so, such as adjusting post tensioners for a pre-tensioned bridge. You did know this bridge was pre-tensioned right?
And my "ignored" comment was referring to a voice mail that was left by an engineer two days prior to the collapse to report structural cracking, but was not picked up until the day after the collapse
Except it wasn't ignored. That was just some initial quality journalism. The only part of the ignored voice mail is that the actual crack was identified and a proper engineering assessment done to it making the subsequent discovery of a voice mail irrelevant, and as many have pointed out not only did the engineering assessment (before collapse) not consider the cracks a concern, but depending on the shape and position of a crack in a tensioned concrete bridge they are often completely irrelevant and quite common.
Had more than one organization reviewed the damage surveyed prior to the collapse, tragedy may have been avoided.
Tell me again what you think the crack had to do with a post tensioner failing? Better still given that structural member 11 was a critical supporting member with no redundancy tell me why you think a perfect bridge with absolutely not a single crack in it would survive a critical tensioned member suddenly ceasing to exist.
Don't get caught up in the crack hysteria. No doubt in a few months after the investigation is finished you'll see it was completely irrelevant, risk assessed, and quite normal for a tensioned concrete structure.
Regarding ultimately finding fault, that will likely never be found due to the insane amount of variables you have already cited.
Well it won't if you don't risk assess properly. But people actually do, and it's not insurance companies as you so claim. The root causes i.e "fault" will be identified. There may be more than one, there certainly will be several mitigation failures as well as an incident such as this often relies on a perfect storm of several failures in order to cause the problems it does, but ultimately there barely any structural failures in the west where root causes were unable to be identified. I'm sure lawyers are salivating.... well evidently they already are.
the cause of the collapse is a bit more obvious when they were in the middle of tweaking structural integrity on an already damaged structure when it failed
As said, immediate causes are irrelevant. Blaming tensioning on the collapse is like blaming someone who bought a car for the fact that they were involved in an accident. If your cause ends at a perfectly normal and completely routine activity, then you haven't found the cause, just a useless intermediary and you need to keep looking.
You might not be able to avoid the spycraft, but you can certainly derail its end goal. Reduce, reuse, and recycle goods you buy. Avoid major brands, and branded consumer holidays like Christmas. Repair instead of replacing old coats, gloves, and household small appliances. Look up a cobbler in your city, as there certainly exists one or more, and resole your shoes and boots instead of buying new ones.
While the goal is noble you've just described being poor and that carries a stigma of its own. Your 5 times repaired coat is not likely to get you a pat on the back for sticking it to the man as much as confused looks from the people around you saying you should be buying a new one.
Society has helped kill the repair scene.
Do you also hear about why people happily hand over data? Google knows my location as I travel down the highway. That's scary. A company like that could provide real time traffic information that makes my trip to work better. Just one example, but the bottom line is people don't use Google and Facebook for the exercise of handing over their data if they didn't get something in return.
The same applies to membership programs. I'm not a Marriott member because I want them spying on me, and knowing which airline I fly. I am a member because in exchange for the inconsequential information I get rewards that make the exercise worth while.
"Thousands of companies" aren't using search and social networking and Android monopoly power to spy on us like you guys are. It's only you doing that.
You're right. Only a few companies are doing that, the others wanted to do that from the onset but didn't get the market capture to succeed. You may not remember registration cards, loyalty programs, surveys, but this concept long pre-dates the internet, hell it was a feature of electronic payment.
"Thousand of companies" also don't have PR problems due to arrogant, dismissive management. That's a Google and Facebook problem.
Actually they quite often do. The difference is if you don't have 2bn customers around the world your PR tends to be more localised. Think only a few years back when Target started sending a pregnant girl advertisements for kids stuff which upset her parents ... who didn't know she was pregnant. Target knew.
"Thousands of companies" haven't lost the trust of their audience by trying to impose Silicon Valley "values" on them. That's a Google and Facebook problem.
Actually that isn't even a Google / Facebook problem. The users don't care, at best a couple of investors caused the shareprice to dro... oh look it's rising again.
Oh, I absolutely agree. I just wanted to let the fine people of Slashdot know which flavor of congress-critter was shafting them this time.
It's irrelevant. Congress are way above your silly political bickering. They will shaft you regardless of who is in power.
an extremely wide range of processing power and RAM combinations...
You're doing front end design and trying to tailor it to processing power and RAM combinations? What are you doing? Mining bitcoin while sending database requests?
You tailor to single combination: The slowest, and the people with faster equipment will thank you for not writing a bloated POS. Also if you're writing for a browser but are majorly concerned about the underlying OS then you're doing it wrong.
Saying nature selected these birds for extinction is absurd.
Last I checked humans were not synthetic and are also a superior predator than the passenger pigeon. Sucks that the pigeon didn't evolve to be less fun to hunt, but hey that's natural selection for you.
... I assume you know which report I am talking about given that the NHTSA has only investigated one so far. Well you don't even need to read it, just look at the pretty pictures in it. There's also a nice little write up that talks about figure 11.
One would think that their user base would wake up after all the bloated, invasive, insecure and underperforming product they've been using or "upgraded" to, but possibly they're just used to it.
Their userbase welcome it due to there being no other single vendor alternative for management of an entire office. Sure you could cobble together a Linux back end with god knows what different apps from god knows which vendors only to have to go to MS for the desktop system anyway, and what about Exchange .... Or you would realise that having one vendor is actually a very good cost saving measure.
Insecure and underperforming? Tell me just how much better my office would be without an exchange backend, realtime linking between email systems and my desk phone, document editing not just of files, but of resources directly in sharepoint allowing multiple people to edit the same document concurrently.
Yeah Windows I wouldn't run a windows machine without at least 4GB of RAM, but that's a small one-off price to pay.