All right, what were you trying to write and why are you too stupid to use the Preview button?
Exactly what I wrote: Nazgûl. If there's an issue with special characters displaying fine in my browser but getting munged across browsers/platforms, that's hardly my fault, yeah?
Also, Slashdot doesn't let people post without previewing, but I suspect you knew that.
...of course, seeing as Trump took the active step of clearing his senior staff from the room before saying these things to Comey, one might suggest there's a rather strong consciousness of guilt argument to be made.
Between that and Comey's testimony, it strains credulity to suggest that Trump was just kinda bumping around the room with the lights out and didn't really know he was doing something wrong. The dude knew perfectly well what he was doing wasn't on the up-and-up. He wouldn't have cleared the room otherwise.
America, unlike a lot of the rest of the first world, has tied most of the social safety net--retirement, insurance, etc-to private employers instead of the state for the past few decades.
Setting aside any discussion of whether this is a good or bad way to do things, a dramatic shift from a employer-based workforce to a gig-based workforce without a commensurate redirection of the safety net is cause for considerable concern.
The gig economy doesn't pay well enough to make up the difference in lost benefits for the worker. That's one of the big reasons employers like it--it's a lot cheaper. This is gonna kick us in the teeth as a country as gig workers start to age, get hurt, get sick, and need care.
No, you'd just use locks everywhere. With infinite speed, the overhead caused by locking before every action wouldn't matter.
Yes, but if speed is infinite, then results are produced instantaneously, regardless of their complexity; the computer performs any given task in zero time. If the computer exists as a physical entity that performs some kind of action to achieve its result (e.g. shunting electrons down pathways etched in silicon, actuating relays, modulating-the-shield-harmonics-spooky-motion etc,) then in order for it to work, that action needs to happen in zero time, as well. The concept of sequential physical actions in zero time is the hangup, here--hence the issue of the race condition. For an infinitely fast computer to exist, you need to be able to cause a physical sequence of events to occur in literally zero time.
Every single lock request you make happens at exactly the same time, which is also the exact same time at which everything else in your program is occurring. Regardless of where it is in your code, it's all happening at the exact same time in the computer itself by definition.
Oh, I'm not saying stop -fighting-. I'm saying "stop pretending that his policy suggestions are serious, because they never came from a serious place in the first place."
There is not a single person, anywhere, who actually expected him to even begin to deliver on this promise. He says whatever the hell he feels like saying in the moment and has absolutely no interest whatsoever in actually doing the work of running a country--then or now.
Please stop pretending otherwise. Things are bad enough without this layer of affectation.
And you trust that Apple appointed "Secure Enclave" to actually be secure? What if you actually want to install a 3rd party home button because you trust them more? Imagine if all your apple computers required an apple keyboard because "security and key loggers". Imagine if the home button factory is under state control and it isn't just secure, it's "homeland security" secure.
...happily, this argument is moot; if you don't trust Apple's Secure Enclave, you don't trust any other part of the device, either, and you therefore do not own one in the first place.
As I understand it, this is a security measure, not an "arbitrary" lock. The home button is part of the Secure Enclave. If you let third parties make modifications to the Secure Enclave, it ceases to be secure.
[No, don't get me started on Trump. Please, everyone, vote 3rd party.]
Sure, great! Which third party do you prefer--the one that just dropped homeopathy from their platform this year and whose nominee flew to the wrong city today, or the one that had the Iron-Cross-tattooed candidate performing a striptease at the podium during their convention?
(The moral of the story is that third parties are a special, highly-distilled breed of terrible, but we happily give them a pass because we all know they're hopeless yutzes doomed to failure.)
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You elect amateur hour, you're gonna get amateur hour.
Slashdot doesn't let people post without previewing
There's no Preview on mobile, and there's no CAPTCHA on mobile either.
Huh--I didn't [know|remember] that!
All right, what were you trying to write and why are you too stupid to use the Preview button?
Exactly what I wrote: Nazgûl. If there's an issue with special characters displaying fine in my browser but getting munged across browsers/platforms, that's hardly my fault, yeah?
Also, Slashdot doesn't let people post without previewing, but I suspect you knew that.
I mean sure and maybe the Nazgûl can give their rings back to Sauron and become human again
Anybody seen Samuel L. Jackson around lately?
...of course, seeing as Trump took the active step of clearing his senior staff from the room before saying these things to Comey, one might suggest there's a rather strong consciousness of guilt argument to be made.
Between that and Comey's testimony, it strains credulity to suggest that Trump was just kinda bumping around the room with the lights out and didn't really know he was doing something wrong. The dude knew perfectly well what he was doing wasn't on the up-and-up. He wouldn't have cleared the room otherwise.
Yes, yes, I would say this headline is absolutely, 100% the key takeaway of the Comey testimony, yes.
America, unlike a lot of the rest of the first world, has tied most of the social safety net--retirement, insurance, etc-to private employers instead of the state for the past few decades.
Setting aside any discussion of whether this is a good or bad way to do things, a dramatic shift from a employer-based workforce to a gig-based workforce without a commensurate redirection of the safety net is cause for considerable concern.
The gig economy doesn't pay well enough to make up the difference in lost benefits for the worker. That's one of the big reasons employers like it--it's a lot cheaper. This is gonna kick us in the teeth as a country as gig workers start to age, get hurt, get sick, and need care.
As A Gen-Xer, I gotta say that the Millenials are doing a helluva lot better job at living than our generation ever did. Lay off 'em.
I'm sure this is completely unrelated to the previous article about our booming gig economy
...and here I was just dreaming about ways I could get even more Comcast in my life!
No, you'd just use locks everywhere. With infinite speed, the overhead caused by locking before every action wouldn't matter.
Yes, but if speed is infinite, then results are produced instantaneously, regardless of their complexity; the computer performs any given task in zero time. If the computer exists as a physical entity that performs some kind of action to achieve its result (e.g. shunting electrons down pathways etched in silicon, actuating relays, modulating-the-shield-harmonics-spooky-motion etc,) then in order for it to work, that action needs to happen in zero time, as well. The concept of sequential physical actions in zero time is the hangup, here--hence the issue of the race condition. For an infinitely fast computer to exist, you need to be able to cause a physical sequence of events to occur in literally zero time.
Every single lock request you make happens at exactly the same time, which is also the exact same time at which everything else in your program is occurring. Regardless of where it is in your code, it's all happening at the exact same time in the computer itself by definition.
What a pedantic bunch.
I mean, YES, and also, it turns out that the pedantic approach to this question is very very fun. :D
Wouldn't an infinitely fast computer be completely useless in that doing anything with it would result in a race condition?
The language for an infinitely fast computer is called DUH.
There are no keywords, operators, or logic structures; the entirety of the language is you typing "DUH" into the command line, then hitting ENTER.
Upon pressing ENTER, you are presented with every possible program that could ever exist. All you need to do is select the one you want.
Oh, I'm not saying stop -fighting-. I'm saying "stop pretending that his policy suggestions are serious, because they never came from a serious place in the first place."
There is not a single person, anywhere, who actually expected him to even begin to deliver on this promise. He says whatever the hell he feels like saying in the moment and has absolutely no interest whatsoever in actually doing the work of running a country--then or now.
Please stop pretending otherwise. Things are bad enough without this layer of affectation.
And you trust that Apple appointed "Secure Enclave" to actually be secure? What if you actually want to install a 3rd party home button because you trust them more? Imagine if all your apple computers required an apple keyboard because "security and key loggers". Imagine if the home button factory is under state control and it isn't just secure, it's "homeland security" secure.
...happily, this argument is moot; if you don't trust Apple's Secure Enclave, you don't trust any other part of the device, either, and you therefore do not own one in the first place.
Gorsuch's confirmation was the result of a rule change in the Senate.
Nah, Gorsuch's confirmation was the result of Mitch McConnell refusing to do his Constitutional duty last year.
As I understand it, this is a security measure, not an "arbitrary" lock. The home button is part of the Secure Enclave. If you let third parties make modifications to the Secure Enclave, it ceases to be secure.
"Russia, if you're listening..."
"Silicon Valley Veteran On Apple: Company Has Become Sloppy, Missed Updates, Delayed Refreshes By Long"
By contrast, if the company you work for has always been sloppy and slipshod, people simply lower their expectations and it's no big deal.
...in what universe is a 12-year-old company a startup?
[No, don't get me started on Trump. Please, everyone, vote 3rd party.]
Sure, great! Which third party do you prefer--the one that just dropped homeopathy from their platform this year and whose nominee flew to the wrong city today, or the one that had the Iron-Cross-tattooed candidate performing a striptease at the podium during their convention?
(The moral of the story is that third parties are a special, highly-distilled breed of terrible, but we happily give them a pass because we all know they're hopeless yutzes doomed to failure.)
Sorry, sorry, would have been more accurate to have said "Protection Racket" instead of "Extortion Racket".