This is actually Poe's Law in real life: "Without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is difficult or impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism". The crap around CoC's has become so crazy that it's indistinguishable from parody.
As such, they have a much larger user base with a wider variety of hardware and software to test.
Funny, just a few stories down there's this one, which implies that testing for Windows 10 changes is more or less optional:
Either tests do not exist at all for this code (and I've been told that yes, it's permitted to integrate code without tests, though I would hope this isn't the norm), or test failures are being regarded as acceptable, non-blocking issues, and developers are being allowed to integrate code that they know doesn't work properly...
Has anyone turned this into a searchable archive? At the moment you need to download and process x GB of gunk in order to check whether random tweet X was a troll or not, it'd be useful to have this in an online searchable archive.
An even bigger problem here is that what's being done doesn't need a state machine. Nor does TLS, which is also described in the spec as a state machine, and there were a whole pile of vulns discovered a year or two back where you could flip different implementation's state machines into unexpected (and illegal) states.
If you look at what both TLS and SSH do, it's basically, client says A, server says B, client says C, server says D, client says E, server says F, and then they're done. It's a fixed series of request/response pairs, one after the other, with a few branches depending on whether you're doing mechanism 1 for step C or mechanism 2, but it's a fixed dance, not a state machine. The protocol spec is inviting errors by describing something that isn't a state machine as a state machine, leading to the inevitable errors when implementers try and shoehorn it into this unnatural form.
It's also 94% of public Internet web sites. There's about a gazillion non-public devices that have a web interface and that aren't going to be updated to a newer version of TLS, ever. I wonder what deprecating TLS 1.0 and 1.1 will do for those?
This is because Google+ was actually two different things:
It wasn't two things, it was everything. At the same time, it was nothing. No-one in Google really knew what Google+ was supposed to be. It was this... and this... and that too. None of it had been coded up yet, but Google+ was going to do all of it when it was finished. No idea how it would all fit together, but it'll be great when we get there.
I don't know whether you can lay the blame at the feet of any one person. It was like a train wreck in slow motion, one freeze frame at a time. No manager could have managed it to success. It was where innovation went to die.
Nor do it. Well, not my printer anyway, I take advantage of my constitutionally guaranteed right (33 1/3rd Amendment) to print reams of crap on my work's printers. Medical, dental, and free printing of as much crap as you can gather, that's the job benefits.
I love my Kyocera office-grade (not home user) laser printer, bought for $50 at a surplus auction: Stick any old third-party cartridge in it and it reports "Genuine cartridge installed" and runs with it. None of this cartridge DRM crap.
When it does finally work, it will be used in a few places, but it will never really go mainstream because it isn't solving a mainstream problem.
I'm not sure if "lack of VR porn" is an actual problem, but whoever "solves" it is going to be making so much money they won't know what to do with it.
64 countries allow visa free entry to South Africans, and another 33 issue visas on arrival.
It depends on the country. Visa-free entry to Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, Somalia, Congo, the South Sudan, and South Ossetia isn't exactly a selling point for a particular passport. See my other comment, you need a visa for most of the countries you'd actually want to visit, and for some even though you can in theory get a visa in practice you can't.
One of the sillier things happened at the Tighina Fortress in Transnistria, still held by Russian Guards, who do not discuss what is stored under the Fortress.
Since Tighina Fortress' official name is Bender Fortress, I'm guessing it's a gay disco.
Just checked the index, there's a surprising 102 countries that an SA passport will get you into. Less surprising is what those countries are: Places like Kyrgyzstan, Kosovo, Niue, and a pile of African countries and a few South American ones. Anywhere else, Europe, North America, Australasia, nope. Some, like the US, you may as well not bother applying for on an SA passport even if, on paper, you can get a visa.
South Africa is pretty bad. I have neighbours from there and they need to get a visa to visit their own country. Not to mention pretty much every other country on earth.
I wasn't thinking of a bomb, just bringing a critical mass together, thus the "power excursion" comment. If you're Russian, you can do it in a cooking pot (I think it was Krasnoyarsk where that one happened).
Pu239 can run a reactor pretty much anywhere. Well, not so much a reactor as a single large power excursion. Great if you want to, for example, recharge all your Teslas at once, as well as power the entire world's bitcoin mining at the same time.
Friend of mine was part of a team that did a security assessment on an automatic 5in gun used for naval purposes. It was pretty much a tour de force of how not to do it, everything connected and enabled by default, little to no security/encryption, ancient insecure libraries, terrible coding practices, you name it, it was there. Apart from the direct security implications that anyone who gets access to the ship network, e.g. while berthed, has full control of an automatic 5in gun turret, it said really bad things about the rest of the software controlling the thing. They were limited in scope with what they were allowed to do, but said it responded in very unexpected ways to garbled control messages sent to it. In other words just normal, non-malicious operation in the presence of errors would cause it to do God knows what. Their recommendation was to disable as much computer-controlled automation on it as possible and run things under human control.
As people have been pointing out since the Microsoft Mouse, MS do pretty good hardware. If only they'd stick to that, their strong point, rather than trying to do software as well, which they really aren't that good at.
I have a neighbour called Susan, who's a native American sous chef. Can I use the app to sue Sue? As she's a Sioux, would I then sue Sue the Sioux? Its over her cooking, so I'd be sueing Sue the Sioux over being a sous.
There's actually another layer to the internet nobody has told you about because well we don't want you there.
Not mentioning the Ultranet is rule #1 for membership, you should know that by now. The enforcers will be around to confiscate your Neurodeck within the next 24 hours. After that, feel free to enjoy Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.
Just one actually: Governments legislate that phone vendors have to provide updates for at least three years after first sale.
There are already plenty of laws around requiring manufacturers to support their product, this one is a simple follow-on from those. Nothing else will do it, there just aren't enough OSS enthusiasts around to keep playing catchup with what phone vendors are doing.
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So is the SQLite CoC thing a joke or not?
This is actually Poe's Law in real life: "Without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is difficult or impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism". The crap around CoC's has become so crazy that it's indistinguishable from parody.
As such, they have a much larger user base with a wider variety of hardware and software to test.
Funny, just a few stories down there's this one, which implies that testing for Windows 10 changes is more or less optional:
Either tests do not exist at all for this code (and I've been told that yes, it's permitted to integrate code without tests, though I would hope this isn't the norm), or test failures are being regarded as acceptable, non-blocking issues, and developers are being allowed to integrate code that they know doesn't work properly...
Has anyone turned this into a searchable archive? At the moment you need to download and process x GB of gunk in order to check whether random tweet X was a troll or not, it'd be useful to have this in an online searchable archive.
prodigious German developer Sebastian Tschan
Not to be confused with prodigious German action-film actor Jackie Tschan.
An even bigger problem here is that what's being done doesn't need a state machine. Nor does TLS, which is also described in the spec as a state machine, and there were a whole pile of vulns discovered a year or two back where you could flip different implementation's state machines into unexpected (and illegal) states.
If you look at what both TLS and SSH do, it's basically, client says A, server says B, client says C, server says D, client says E, server says F, and then they're done. It's a fixed series of request/response pairs, one after the other, with a few branches depending on whether you're doing mechanism 1 for step C or mechanism 2, but it's a fixed dance, not a state machine. The protocol spec is inviting errors by describing something that isn't a state machine as a state machine, leading to the inevitable errors when implementers try and shoehorn it into this unnatural form.
Sorry, let me translate into plainer language.
The lion and the lamb agreed to sit down together for dinner. There was a pot of mint sauce on the table.
It's also 94% of public Internet web sites. There's about a gazillion non-public devices that have a web interface and that aren't going to be updated to a newer version of TLS, ever. I wonder what deprecating TLS 1.0 and 1.1 will do for those?
This is because Google+ was actually two different things:
It wasn't two things, it was everything. At the same time, it was nothing. No-one in Google really knew what Google+ was supposed to be. It was this... and this... and that too. None of it had been coded up yet, but Google+ was going to do all of it when it was finished. No idea how it would all fit together, but it'll be great when we get there.
I don't know whether you can lay the blame at the feet of any one person. It was like a train wreck in slow motion, one freeze frame at a time. No manager could have managed it to success. It was where innovation went to die.
Well, I don't use a printer anymore.
Nor do it. Well, not my printer anyway, I take advantage of my constitutionally guaranteed right (33 1/3rd Amendment) to print reams of crap on my work's printers. Medical, dental, and free printing of as much crap as you can gather, that's the job benefits.
I love my Kyocera office-grade (not home user) laser printer, bought for $50 at a surplus auction: Stick any old third-party cartridge in it and it reports "Genuine cartridge installed" and runs with it. None of this cartridge DRM crap.
When it does finally work, it will be used in a few places, but it will never really go mainstream because it isn't solving a mainstream problem.
I'm not sure if "lack of VR porn" is an actual problem, but whoever "solves" it is going to be making so much money they won't know what to do with it.
South Africa is pretty bad.
64 countries allow visa free entry to South Africans, and another 33 issue visas on arrival.
It depends on the country. Visa-free entry to Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, Somalia, Congo, the South Sudan, and South Ossetia isn't exactly a selling point for a particular passport. See my other comment, you need a visa for most of the countries you'd actually want to visit, and for some even though you can in theory get a visa in practice you can't.
One of the sillier things happened at the Tighina Fortress in Transnistria, still held by Russian Guards, who do not discuss what is stored under the Fortress.
Since Tighina Fortress' official name is Bender Fortress, I'm guessing it's a gay disco.
The NSK State also issues official passports. I don't think they're recognised by anyone either.
Just checked the index, there's a surprising 102 countries that an SA passport will get you into. Less surprising is what those countries are: Places like Kyrgyzstan, Kosovo, Niue, and a pile of African countries and a few South American ones. Anywhere else, Europe, North America, Australasia, nope. Some, like the US, you may as well not bother applying for on an SA passport even if, on paper, you can get a visa.
South Africa is pretty bad. I have neighbours from there and they need to get a visa to visit their own country. Not to mention pretty much every other country on earth.
I wasn't thinking of a bomb, just bringing a critical mass together, thus the "power excursion" comment. If you're Russian, you can do it in a cooking pot (I think it was Krasnoyarsk where that one happened).
Um, wot? Most of what you're saying isn't even wrong.
Pu239 can run a reactor in space,
Pu239 can run a reactor pretty much anywhere. Well, not so much a reactor as a single large power excursion. Great if you want to, for example, recharge all your Teslas at once, as well as power the entire world's bitcoin mining at the same time.
Friend of mine was part of a team that did a security assessment on an automatic 5in gun used for naval purposes. It was pretty much a tour de force of how not to do it, everything connected and enabled by default, little to no security/encryption, ancient insecure libraries, terrible coding practices, you name it, it was there. Apart from the direct security implications that anyone who gets access to the ship network, e.g. while berthed, has full control of an automatic 5in gun turret, it said really bad things about the rest of the software controlling the thing. They were limited in scope with what they were allowed to do, but said it responded in very unexpected ways to garbled control messages sent to it. In other words just normal, non-malicious operation in the presence of errors would cause it to do God knows what. Their recommendation was to disable as much computer-controlled automation on it as possible and run things under human control.
As people have been pointing out since the Microsoft Mouse, MS do pretty good hardware. If only they'd stick to that, their strong point, rather than trying to do software as well, which they really aren't that good at.
For those who missed the broadcast, it's been archived in Youtube.
I have a neighbour called Susan, who's a native American sous chef. Can I use the app to sue Sue? As she's a Sioux, would I then sue Sue the Sioux? Its over her cooking, so I'd be sueing Sue the Sioux over being a sous.
There's actually another layer to the internet nobody has told you about because well we don't want you there.
Not mentioning the Ultranet is rule #1 for membership, you should know that by now. The enforcers will be around to confiscate your Neurodeck within the next 24 hours. After that, feel free to enjoy Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.
The way around that requires a couple of things:
Just one actually: Governments legislate that phone vendors have to provide updates for at least three years after first sale.
There are already plenty of laws around requiring manufacturers to support their product, this one is a simple follow-on from those. Nothing else will do it, there just aren't enough OSS enthusiasts around to keep playing catchup with what phone vendors are doing.