European countries are generally welfare-state capitalist countries, not socialist countries. There were plenty of socialist countries (in soviet block), who happily abandoned socialism in 1989 and returned back to (european-style) capitalism.
BSDs are chill with breaking API and ABI between major versions, while Linux kernel keeps them stable (or at least not intentionaly broke them), so such transition has to be more complicated (like in off_t 32->64 bit transition where there are two sets of functions / data types and programs can either explicitly use the 64-bit ones, or be recompiled with define that transparently switches to 64-bit ones).
EGA was slightly sharper but its default text mode (which is what everyone used if they didn't boot into a graphical display) was still the CGA noninterlaced NTSC timings.
Not really. EGA card was compatible with older monitors and used DIP switch block to specify which monitor was connected. Its default mode depended on these DIP switches, so when switched for CGA monitor it used 15 kHz 640x200 text mode, but when properly switched for EGA monitor (e.g IBM 5154) it used 21 kHz 640x350 text mode with 8x14 chars.
IBM PCs were introduced with MDA and CGA, both of which output noninterlaced NTSC timings -- 15Khz horizontal, 60Hz vertical refresh. Their 80 column text modes ran at 640x200.
That is true for CGA, but MDA 80 column text mode was 720x350 18 kHz horizontal, 50 kHz vertial, that was better even than EGA text mode (640x350).
Also note that regarding release date of original Amiga (1985), it makes sense to compare it to PC AT with EGA (1984), not original IBM PC (1981).
Great. Now all the people that for a long time warned against dependence on centralized proprietary services can finally say 'i told you so'.
Especially in context of FOSS development and GitHub it was particularly depressing. Common people could be excused by their ignorance of the issue, but FOSS developers should know better.
Well, the world is not black and white. Not being welcoming does not mean being hostile. Not being patient does not mean being impatient.
People want their emotional autonomy. While reasonable person would have enough self-control to not act hostile even if feeling that way, requirement to act friendly instead of just neutral/professional (with the implicit threat of persecution if the behavior is not friendly enough) is clearly over the top. That is emotional labor and it is degrading even for cashiers and waitresses, who are required to do that. No need to accept that just for contributing to an open-source project.
Historical definition of second is irrelevant. Current time standards (TAI, UTC) are defined in terms of the current definition of second. If a clock reports time sufficienty near to appropriate time standard, then it is by definition correct.
With 20 hour smearing you get that for ~10 hours (i.e. significant time interval) time on synchronized computers would be more than 1/2 sec (i.e. human-noticeable difference) from correct value. That is substandard quality for time synchronization.
Parliament rubber stamped the council nomination but where did the public vote for him?
Like in most parliamentary democracies, head of government is formally nominated by president or monarch (or European Council in case of EU), but it is the majority of the parliament who vote for him.
You have obviously forgotten that few in the EU wanted Juncker and if you think European politicians consider Junckers "election" legitimate then consider
Not really. Leading national politicians (e.g. European Council) did not want Juncker as EC president. After 2014 EP election there was conflict between them and newly elected MEPs whether the Council nominate Juncker or some of Council preferred candidate. But leaders of EP party groups expressed that they did not vote for any other candidate that winner of the EP election.
You think the public in Northern Europe would have considered the guy electable?
Well, definitely not worse than last five prime ministers in country me being citizen of.
My reading (and it has been some time) was simply that the commission can overrule parliament and that the council of ministers can overrule the commission.
From Wikipedia:
Article 294 TFEU outlines ordinary legislative procedure in the following manner. The Commission submits a legislative proposal to the Parliament and Council. At the first reading Parliament adopts its position. If the Council approves the Parliament's wording then the act is adopted. If not, it shall adopt its own position and pass it back to Parliament with explanations. The Commission also informs Parliament of its position on the matter. At the second reading, the act is adopted if Parliament approves the Council's text or fails to take a decision. The Parliament may reject the Council's text, leading to a failure of the law, or modify it and pass it back to the Council. The Commission gives its opinion once more. Where the Commission has rejected amendments in its opinion, the Council must act unanimously rather than by majority.
So EP can reject legislation in the second reading.
Rather than a simple majority vote we have an arbitrary 75%
Two-thirds is ~67 %, the usual margin for important decisions.
Well, after experience with unstable governments based on narrow majority of few MEPs, such hysteresis seems like a good idea even for national governments.
In 2014 EP election, party groups declared their candidates for Commission Presidents. Juncker was EPP candidate, Martin Schulz was PES candidate and Guy Verhofstadt was ALDE candidate. EPP won the election, so Juncker was nominated by EC and elected by EP.
and they can overrule parliament.
Not in codecision procedure, which is used in most areas since the Lisbon Treaty.
although it can fire the entire commission via unanimous vote.
That is not true. EP can dismiss the commission by two-thirds majority vote of no-confidence. See article 234 of the Lisbon Treaty.
Also note that in the past, EP was able to force resignation of Santer commission even without legal right to for that.
Santer Commission was forced by EP to resign even in time when EP did not have legal power to do so. Since Lisbon Treaty, EP has explicit power to vote of no-confidence for Commission.
This is effectively the inverse of the European "parliament". The EU commission decides what laws will be proposed, the parliament (the people who the people elected) then get to horse-trade the deal until the parliament and the commission agree, and then all countries must adopt the law. This is a significant reduction in the power of the people.
As a bonus, the commission are basically immunised against any effects of their political machinations, the only way for a member of the EU commission to be removed is if the parliament unanimously votes to remove all members of the commission at the same time. Yeah... Not gonna happen.
It is not really much different from national governments. EU commission has to be elected by EU parliament, president of EU commission (Juncker) is the leader of the winning party group in the last EU parliament elections. Individual commissioners cannot be dismissed by EP, but neither individual ministers in national governments. Whole commission may be dismissed by vote of no-confidence by EP (and there is no unanimous requirement), like national governments. Horse-trading between governement and parliament and pressing parliament to accept government legislation is IMHO worse on national level, because there is a tighter bond between government and MPs based on party lines.
The only significant difference is that EP cannot propose new legislation, but even in national systems, most legislative is proposed by governments and MP-proposed legislation is seldom approved.
When i wrote about encryption, i don't mean just the symmetric cipher, but the whole cryptographic chain. AFAIK, there is a randomly generated 256-bit key stored in some HSM (hardware security module) inside iPhone and user just enters passcode to open it. The limitation of password attempts is likely enforced by HSM, not by iOS (that would be lame). HSMs are supposted to be tamper-proof even from the OS.
If Apple can force OS update and that update could either extract real key from memory or from the HSM, or cripple HSM's ability to protect the key, then it is sham encryption.
Either the encryption is done properly and Apple is not able to decrypt it regardless of any court decision, or it is sham encryption, Apple is able to decrypt it (by say hacking the TPM containing the key) Apple knows it and it avoids the court decision as acknowledging ability do decrypt it would mean confessing to deceiving users about security of Iphones.
That is the reason why competitors are silent - either the court decision is irrelevant, or Apple is cheater.
And while their may be some truth in that, the British tax-payer will not pay a penny more or less if half Europe watches their shows, since the cost is in creating them, not in distributing.
Well, in IP there is also cost in distributing, esp. when local connectivity (exchanged at local peering point like LINX in London) to users in UK is probably much cheaper than international connectivity to users in rest of Europe.
"Paul Erdös (1913-1996), "the man who loved only numbers", was one of the most brilliant and prolific mathematicians of the twentieth century. Erdös spent much of his restless life on psychostimulants. As he once remarked, "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
But Erdös liked stronger medicine too. After his mother's death in 1971, Erdös became quite depressed. His physician prescribed amphetamines. Erdös took Benzedrine or Ritalin almost every day for the last twenty five years of his life. Sometimes he took both....
Colleagues worried that Erdös might have become addicted. In 1979, he accepted a $500 bet from his friend Ronald Graham. Graham challenged Erdös to abstain from speed for 30 days. Erdös met the challenge, but his output sank dramatically. Erdös felt the progress of mathematics had been held up by a stupid wager."
"Paul looked at his father, back to Hawat, suddenly conscious of the Mentat's great age, aware that the old man had served three generations of Atreides. Aged. It showed in the rheumy shine of the brown eyes, in the cheeks cracked and burned by exotic weathers, in the rounded curve of the shoulders and the thin set of his lips with the cranberry-colored stain of sapho juice."
"SAPHO: high-energy liquid extracted from barrier roots of Ecaz. Commonly used by Mentats who claim it amplifies mental powers. Users develop deep ruby stains on mouth and lips."
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European countries are generally welfare-state capitalist countries, not socialist countries. There were plenty of socialist countries (in soviet block), who happily abandoned socialism in 1989 and returned back to (european-style) capitalism.
BSDs are chill with breaking API and ABI between major versions, while Linux kernel keeps them stable (or at least not intentionaly broke them), so such transition has to be more complicated (like in off_t 32->64 bit transition where there are two sets of functions / data types and programs can either explicitly use the 64-bit ones, or be recompiled with define that transparently switches to 64-bit ones).
EGA was slightly sharper but its default text mode (which is what everyone used if they didn't boot into a graphical display) was still the CGA noninterlaced NTSC timings.
Not really. EGA card was compatible with older monitors and used DIP switch block to specify which monitor was connected. Its default mode depended on these DIP switches, so when switched for CGA monitor it used 15 kHz 640x200 text mode, but when properly switched for EGA monitor (e.g IBM 5154) it used 21 kHz 640x350 text mode with 8x14 chars.
IBM PCs were introduced with MDA and CGA, both of which output noninterlaced NTSC timings -- 15Khz horizontal, 60Hz vertical refresh. Their 80 column text modes ran at 640x200.
That is true for CGA, but MDA 80 column text mode was 720x350 18 kHz horizontal, 50 kHz vertial, that was better even than EGA text mode (640x350).
Also note that regarding release date of original Amiga (1985), it makes sense to compare it to PC AT with EGA (1984), not original IBM PC (1981).
In article 13 of UDHR
Is it not possible just to pay a ticket with a debit card? (Which, i assume, does not require credit score.)
Checked first 5 holes in SSH in the list you mentioned, all of them seems like semantic errors that would not be prevented by Rust.
Great. Now all the people that for a long time warned against dependence on centralized proprietary services can finally say 'i told you so'.
Especially in context of FOSS development and GitHub it was particularly depressing. Common people could be excused by their ignorance of the issue, but FOSS developers should know better.
be friendly and patient, be welcoming,
Well, the world is not black and white. Not being welcoming does not mean being hostile. Not being patient does not mean being impatient.
People want their emotional autonomy. While reasonable person would have enough self-control to not act hostile even if feeling that way, requirement to act friendly instead of just neutral/professional (with the implicit threat of persecution if the behavior is not friendly enough) is clearly over the top. That is emotional labor and it is degrading even for cashiers and waitresses, who are required to do that. No need to accept that just for contributing to an open-source project.
There are both worker's co-ops and customer's co-ops. One cannot say that the first class is 'true' co-op while the second class is not.
Historical definition of second is irrelevant. Current time standards (TAI, UTC) are defined in terms of the current definition of second. If a clock reports time sufficienty near to appropriate time standard, then it is by definition correct.
With 20 hour smearing you get that for ~10 hours (i.e. significant time interval) time on synchronized computers would be more than 1/2 sec (i.e. human-noticeable difference) from correct value. That is substandard quality for time synchronization.
Like in most parliamentary democracies, head of government is formally nominated by president or monarch (or European Council in case of EU), but it is the majority of the parliament who vote for him.
Not really. Leading national politicians (e.g. European Council) did not want Juncker as EC president. After 2014 EP election there was conflict between them and newly elected MEPs whether the Council nominate Juncker or some of Council preferred candidate. But leaders of EP party groups expressed that they did not vote for any other candidate that winner of the EP election.
Well, definitely not worse than last five prime ministers in country me being citizen of.
From Wikipedia:
So EP can reject legislation in the second reading.
Two-thirds is ~67 %, the usual margin for important decisions.
Well, after experience with unstable governments based on narrow majority of few MEPs, such hysteresis seems like a good idea even for national governments.
In 2014 EP election, party groups declared their candidates for Commission Presidents. Juncker was EPP candidate, Martin Schulz was PES candidate and Guy Verhofstadt was ALDE candidate. EPP won the election, so Juncker was nominated by EC and elected by EP.
Not in codecision procedure, which is used in most areas since the Lisbon Treaty.
That is not true. EP can dismiss the commission by two-thirds majority vote of no-confidence. See article 234 of the Lisbon Treaty.
Also note that in the past, EP was able to force resignation of Santer commission even without legal right to for that.
Santer Commission was forced by EP to resign even in time when EP did not have legal power to do so. Since Lisbon Treaty, EP has explicit power to vote of no-confidence for Commission.
This is effectively the inverse of the European "parliament". The EU commission decides what laws will be proposed, the parliament (the people who the people elected) then get to horse-trade the deal until the parliament and the commission agree, and then all countries must adopt the law. This is a significant reduction in the power of the people.
As a bonus, the commission are basically immunised against any effects of their political machinations, the only way for a member of the EU commission to be removed is if the parliament unanimously votes to remove all members of the commission at the same time. Yeah... Not gonna happen.
It is not really much different from national governments. EU commission has to be elected by EU parliament, president of EU commission (Juncker) is the leader of the winning party group in the last EU parliament elections. Individual commissioners cannot be dismissed by EP, but neither individual ministers in national governments. Whole commission may be dismissed by vote of no-confidence by EP (and there is no unanimous requirement), like national governments. Horse-trading between governement and parliament and pressing parliament to accept government legislation is IMHO worse on national level, because there is a tighter bond between government and MPs based on party lines.
The only significant difference is that EP cannot propose new legislation, but even in national systems, most legislative is proposed by governments and MP-proposed legislation is seldom approved.
I see how the law is targeting transgender people, but how the law is targeting lesbian, gay or bisexual people?
When i wrote about encryption, i don't mean just the symmetric cipher, but the whole cryptographic chain. AFAIK, there is a randomly generated 256-bit key stored in some HSM (hardware security module) inside iPhone and user just enters passcode to open it. The limitation of password attempts is likely enforced by HSM, not by iOS (that would be lame). HSMs are supposted to be tamper-proof even from the OS.
If Apple can force OS update and that update could either extract real key from memory or from the HSM, or cripple HSM's ability to protect the key, then it is sham encryption.
Either the encryption is done properly and Apple is not able to decrypt it regardless of any court decision, or it is sham encryption, Apple is able to decrypt it (by say hacking the TPM containing the key) Apple knows it and it avoids the court decision as acknowledging ability do decrypt it would mean confessing to deceiving users about security of Iphones.
That is the reason why competitors are silent - either the court decision is irrelevant, or Apple is cheater.
And while their may be some truth in that, the British tax-payer will not pay a penny more or less if half Europe watches their shows, since the cost is in creating them, not in distributing.
Well, in IP there is also cost in distributing, esp. when local connectivity (exchanged at local peering point like LINX in London) to users in UK is probably much cheaper than international connectivity to users in rest of Europe.
It is nothing new:
"Paul Erdös (1913-1996), "the man who loved only numbers", was one of the most brilliant and prolific mathematicians of the twentieth century. Erdös spent much of his restless life on psychostimulants. As he once remarked, "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
But Erdös liked stronger medicine too. After his mother's death in 1971, Erdös became quite depressed. His physician prescribed amphetamines. Erdös took Benzedrine or Ritalin almost every day for the last twenty five years of his life. Sometimes he took both. ...
Colleagues worried that Erdös might have become addicted. In 1979, he accepted a $500 bet from his friend Ronald Graham. Graham challenged Erdös to abstain from speed for 30 days. Erdös met the challenge, but his output sank dramatically. Erdös felt the progress of mathematics had been held up by a stupid wager."
http://www.amphetamines.org/paul-erdos.html
There is a difference between amphetamine and methamphetamine.
Sapho juice was in the original Dune:
"Paul looked at his father, back to Hawat, suddenly conscious of the Mentat's great age, aware that the old man had served three generations of Atreides. Aged. It showed in the rheumy shine of the brown eyes, in the cheeks cracked and burned by exotic weathers, in the rounded curve of the shoulders and the thin set of his lips with the cranberry-colored stain of sapho juice."
"SAPHO: high-energy liquid extracted from barrier roots of Ecaz. Commonly used by Mentats who claim it amplifies mental powers. Users develop deep ruby stains on mouth and lips."
Note that there is no or just very limited plea bargain in most continental Europe.
This is how is leap second handled in POSIX systems, with the small different that it is not 23:59:59 but (following) 00:00:00 that happens twice.