Ah, yes. I like it for those things -- what I don't like is its integration with things like Pidgin. I really do not need a popup whenever someone sends me a message on gchat.
But it's great for file copy jobs, as you mention.
Linux has never had marketing behind it. Marketing is what sells to low-knowledge consumers. Linux has only seen success among high-knowledge folks (power users, server admins, scientists) and in scenarios where someone else does the marketing (Android).
I find KDE to be wonderful (and, in fact, used it as a replacement for the Win8 that my new laptop came with). It's pretty easy to use, pretty flexible if you care, and in general just gets the hell out of the way. It doesn't try to be everything -- it's a window manager, and a thing that provides basic services like network management. (The exception is the annoying "notifications" mechanism...)
I don't deny that the Obama administration's been doing some dirty things. But torturing captives is, to my mind, rather more depraved (and a larger break from traditional American values) than what Obama's done; plus, Bush's the one who set the precedent for this sort of thing in modern times. Obama's bad. But he's not *as* bad.
... if someone emails someone else a compressed (.zip etc.) file, do the computers automatically decompress it to examine it, or do they store only the compressed version?
I recall people using specially designed.zip archives which decompress to many times their original size (a 10KB file turning into a 100GB file, for instance) as a form of DoS attack. If the spooks have been lazy the same thing might catch their computers out...
They can't because the world one learns about in law school, where courts are impartial arbiters of justice and where any tort deserves compensation, doesn't exist. We live in a world where Bush/Cheney's lawyers wrote the flimsiest of legal justifications for torturing prisoners and got away with it not because of their justifications but because of who they are.
Mossad is the sort of organization that will drive up next to you on a motorcycle in traffic and throw a magnetic grenade on your car. What are you going to do, sue them for wrongful death?
The thing about private sector corruption is that, absent government corruption, you can always choose not to associate yourself with it by not buying their products or stock.
It's different, IMO, since it's part of the site. It's the difference between going to a concert and the band selling CD's, and going to a concert and the band painting a Wal-Mart logo on the stage.
Marriage should not give you those rights. Domestic partnership should give you those rights. (And insurance rates are not granted by government; they are set by insurers as they see fit.)
Let me form a domestic partnership with whoever I wish, so long as we meet some reasonable standard (two or three brothers living together for years ought to qualify, for instance). That's government's business.
Who I fall in love with and who I fuck and what I call these relationships are my business and society's business, not government's.
The Xenu story *is* no sillier than Christianity. But the difference between the Scientologists and the Christians is that the latter won't send lawyers after you if you post the Bible on the internet or make a webpage saying "The Pope is a dickbag". Silliness is perfectly fine; silliness that attempts to impose itself via lawyers on others is not.
Dismissing their magic is very different than dismissing their potential for dirty tricks. That madman staggering toward you with a knife babbling about the New World Order and lizard people? He's still got a knife.
Never mind the actual safety or lack thereof; "But CHEMICALS!" from the droolers on the Left is the equivalent of "But BENGHAZI!" from the droolers on the Right.
She invited him into her room. She did not invite him to have sex with her.
I'm glad we live in a world where social contact doesn't mean an invitation to forcibly fuck. I rather like having interactions with women that are based on something other than sex.
"Innocent until proven guilty" applies only in court. Nobody is advocating throwing this guy in jail without a fair trial.
But she has the right to blog about being attacked, and I have the right to believe her based on my experience (that people with stories like that generally aren't making them up).
I dunno, often I type something like "26", and it autocompletes to "26 weeks pregnant" (basically, any small two-digit number autocompletes to "XX weeks preggers"), when all I really wanted to do was a little math in Google Calculator.
Sprint is the only cellphone company that has treated me like a person. But -- here in Washington DC -- their service is garbage. It's so bad that I have to constantly ask voice callers to repeat themselves because of dropped frames. At home I have to pick up the phone with "Let me call you back on skype".
There is LTE service randomly in random places, but never consistently or predictably.
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Ah, yes. I like it for those things -- what I don't like is its integration with things like Pidgin. I really do not need a popup whenever someone sends me a message on gchat.
But it's great for file copy jobs, as you mention.
Linux has never had marketing behind it. Marketing is what sells to low-knowledge consumers. Linux has only seen success among high-knowledge folks (power users, server admins, scientists) and in scenarios where someone else does the marketing (Android).
I got them from my Swedish friends instead. Less trouble, and they come with more drivers.
I find KDE to be wonderful (and, in fact, used it as a replacement for the Win8 that my new laptop came with). It's pretty easy to use, pretty flexible if you care, and in general just gets the hell out of the way. It doesn't try to be everything -- it's a window manager, and a thing that provides basic services like network management. (The exception is the annoying "notifications" mechanism...)
I don't deny that the Obama administration's been doing some dirty things. But torturing captives is, to my mind, rather more depraved (and a larger break from traditional American values) than what Obama's done; plus, Bush's the one who set the precedent for this sort of thing in modern times. Obama's bad. But he's not *as* bad.
Then you can create an even more severe denial of service condition. Spook time is a lot more expensive than machine time.
... if someone emails someone else a compressed (.zip etc.) file, do the computers automatically decompress it to examine it, or do they store only the compressed version?
I recall people using specially designed .zip archives which decompress to many times their original size (a 10KB file turning into a 100GB file, for instance) as a form of DoS attack. If the spooks have been lazy the same thing might catch their computers out...
They can't because the world one learns about in law school, where courts are impartial arbiters of justice and where any tort deserves compensation, doesn't exist. We live in a world where Bush/Cheney's lawyers wrote the flimsiest of legal justifications for torturing prisoners and got away with it not because of their justifications but because of who they are.
Mossad is the sort of organization that will drive up next to you on a motorcycle in traffic and throw a magnetic grenade on your car. What are you going to do, sue them for wrongful death?
The thing about private sector corruption is that, absent government corruption, you can always choose not to associate yourself with it by not buying their products or stock.
It's different, IMO, since it's part of the site. It's the difference between going to a concert and the band selling CD's, and going to a concert and the band painting a Wal-Mart logo on the stage.
Marriage should not give you those rights. Domestic partnership should give you those rights. (And insurance rates are not granted by government; they are set by insurers as they see fit.)
Let me form a domestic partnership with whoever I wish, so long as we meet some reasonable standard (two or three brothers living together for years ought to qualify, for instance). That's government's business.
Who I fall in love with and who I fuck and what I call these relationships are my business and society's business, not government's.
The Xenu story *is* no sillier than Christianity. But the difference between the Scientologists and the Christians is that the latter won't send lawyers after you if you post the Bible on the internet or make a webpage saying "The Pope is a dickbag". Silliness is perfectly fine; silliness that attempts to impose itself via lawyers on others is not.
Dismissing their magic is very different than dismissing their potential for dirty tricks. That madman staggering toward you with a knife babbling about the New World Order and lizard people? He's still got a knife.
Never mind the actual safety or lack thereof; "But CHEMICALS!" from the droolers on the Left is the equivalent of "But BENGHAZI!" from the droolers on the Right.
And then there will be fewer mosquitoes. They already do that in a lot of cities.
She invited him into her room. She did not invite him to have sex with her.
I'm glad we live in a world where social contact doesn't mean an invitation to forcibly fuck. I rather like having interactions with women that are based on something other than sex.
Yes. And "assault and attempted rape" is a serious crime, just like almost murdering someone is.
Why does this matter?
She explicitly addresses this in her post. Very explicitly. Did you read it?
"Innocent until proven guilty" applies only in court. Nobody is advocating throwing this guy in jail without a fair trial.
But she has the right to blog about being attacked, and I have the right to believe her based on my experience (that people with stories like that generally aren't making them up).
I dunno, often I type something like "26", and it autocompletes to "26 weeks pregnant" (basically, any small two-digit number autocompletes to "XX weeks preggers"), when all I really wanted to do was a little math in Google Calculator.
Sprint is the only cellphone company that has treated me like a person. But -- here in Washington DC -- their service is garbage. It's so bad that I have to constantly ask voice callers to repeat themselves because of dropped frames. At home I have to pick up the phone with "Let me call you back on skype".
There is LTE service randomly in random places, but never consistently or predictably.
Hey, I just go with what the computational physicists say.
Or it is the plural of "flop", constructed in the standard English way where you put an S at the end.
As a computational physicist:
"flop" is sometimes used to mean "floating point operation", when you're talking about the compute cost of an algorithm. For instance:
"The Wilson dslash operation requires 1,320 flops per site" or "The comm/compute balance of this operation is 3.2 bytes per flop".
So saying "ten flops per second" is fine -- "flops" is the plural of "flop".
Yes, "flops" is also acronymized as "... per second", and while that's the most common use it's not exclusive.
Ah, sorry for the confusion -- I meant Washington, DC.
There was recently a fracture in the foundation of the university building where I work, leading to the following quip:
"Q: What do Corcoran Hall and City Hall have in common?"
"A: The crack in the basement."