why in earth would you use an enterprise / server side distro for a laptop?
RHEL Workstation is a good OS for laptops, especially if you want to maintain binary and package version compatibility with your servers. Development is a good example of where this is useful. Automounts that contain binaries and/or libraries is another. And remote X. Sometimes compatibility wins over bleeding edge.
Most good mobile phones today support not only GPS but also GLONASS and Galileo (which is still not fully operational, but when you get a fix on one of them, it increases the precision). I typically get a 3-4 meter resolution if the weather is good, which is better than the Garmin device I used to have in the car.
What the government explicitly allows for, should not private institutions seek to uphold?
Hell, no. Do you want a Christian institution to seek to uphold Atheist or Muslim speech in their congregations, when the government explicitly allows for freedom of religion?
If it's only the government that allows ALL speech, and all private sources block some speech - do you really have freedom of speech?
Yes, you do. You have the right to say what you want, but you have no right to stand on my soapbox when doing so. If all the soap boxes are owned by someone who won't let you speech, then you need to either build your own soap box, or find a different way to get your voice heard. The onus is on you, not the soap box owners. Also, you have a right to speak, but no right to be heard. People have the right to not listen to you, including filtering, and including using services that does filtering for them.
Tesla's autopilot doesn't use human eyes. If I understand it correctly, it has a monochrome camera and a forward facing radar. If there is not enough monochromatic contrast between an object and its surrounding, the camera won't detect it, and if the object is at an angle and composition where it cannot return radar signals directly back to the car, the radar won't detect it. How good the visibility is only affects the human, who is the one with the driver's license and the responsibility that goes with it.
The flip side being the people who dabbled (iow 'spent' £10) on them 10 years ago, and cashed out at the end of last year for £200,000.
I suspect they're pretty happy with their choice...
Not necessarily, if they are Good People. Because bitcoin doesn't add any intrinsic value, that £199,990 gain came from other people's pockets. Some are undoubtedly fine with taking other people's money, but some are not.
* A kilogram of bell peppers, soaked in a solution with a single drop of resiniferatoxin, would be rendered as hot as a kilogram of ghost peppers.
From a cooking perspective, bell peppers are notoriously bad at soaking up other flavors. What kind of solution would make the bell pepper cells permeable, allowing it to soak up the substance, without causing other major taste changes? I'm only asking because I'd love to infuse flavor into otherwise bland peppers.
Ghost pepper has its uses, like making a hot dip from sour cream. Milder (and I use that term loosely) peppers tend to have the heat disappear unless you use so much that the pepper taste overpowers everything else. Also, ghost pepper flakes, used sparingly, is excellent for sprinkling on barbecued vegetables and pizza. You get bites that taste hotter than others, which makes for a more interesting meal than when every bite tastes the same. Two flakes per pizza slice is enough.
Then there's vinegar-free ghost pepper sauce, which is my favorite. One drop stirred into a soft-boiled egg totally transforms it.
People that don't have kids are always the best parents.
This seems true. They don't wear blinders like parents do, but see things from the outside, objectively. Just like the best doctors are those who don't have the disease you want treated.
That is not true. Knives and edged tradesman's tools, including pocket knives and kitchen knives were allowed in Japan. The samurai didn't consider them credible weapons to begin with. And lacquer was expensive and peasants initially used plain wooden or ceramic tableware. No, it's because the Japanese used chopsticks that they had to cut their food into bite-sized chunks before serving.
Except that chopsticks didn't originate in Japan, but in China. They became commonplace during the Han dynasty, and spread from there to Japan. And the Han dynasty is when lacquered wooden plates really took off, and wooden utensils with them.
I can say that the opposite is true. If you still need to cut your food when it's on your plate, it isn't fully prepared yet,
Food that's served uncut stays hot far better than pre-cut food, for one thing. And a steak isn't cut (or even handled with a fork) before served so it preserves the juices. As for preparation, tossing everything in a wok for a couple of minutes and serving vegetables half-cooked is the laziest cooking I can think of. You dare say that a cassoulet isn't fully prepared?
And chopsticks are much better at picking up food than a fork
Sauce Bearnaise? Jambalaya? Button mushrooms in gravy? Peas in aspic? Devilled eggs?
Forks double as both a spade that you push foot onto with the knife, and as a spear (except for American forks, which are blunt, because Americans are risk-averse sissies). And Western spoons also have semi-sharp edges so you can cut with them, unlike the Eastern ceramic spoons that only work as mini-ladles. Try to eat French onion soup with one of those...
Or teach them to swim before letting them out of sight near a pool or lake?
There will always be a gap between the age a baby can crawl and swim.
That's the "before" part, when you do not let them out of sight near a pool or lake. If you have a pool in the back yard, shut it down until they're old enough. If you still use it, tarp it when you don't and have a gate. If you go somewhere that has a pool, either don't bring the tykes or don't let them out of your sight. You know, parenting.
When I first read the summary the first thing that went through my mind is the Super Freakenomics book mentions children are more likely to die from falling in a swimming pool than accidental gun death at home.
How about the sum of accidental and deliberate gun death?
A lot of kids fall into pools or drown swimming in the USA and something like this (perhaps the new generation of this tool) could be helpful.
Or teach them to swim before letting them out of sight near a pool or lake?
g) Rifles are for sport. Rare to find a handgun unless its a police or military owner.
I like that the mounties keep their guns in their holster, and don't even open the flap unless they really need to. Being stopped by them felt a lot safer than being stopped by American troopers, for sure.
Arguably, forks came about because food was served steaming hot, not luke warm, and in big enough chunks that it needed to be cut while eating. Holding a sizzling piece of meat or boiling turnip with your hand is a bad idea. Chopsticks serve a different purpose - the peasantry was not allowed knives, so food was pre-cut. Plates were lacquered, and chopsticks damaged the precious plates less than other utensils did.
That ethanol kills many germs isn't disputed, but it doesn't kill enough of them to really sanitize, and leaves the bacteria's food source, just smeared around. It's like if you scrape off most of the mold on a piece of cheese, smearing it around a bit in the process. What do you think happens then? The main difference is that bacteria multiply a heck of a lot faster than mold.
The best you can do for your hands are wash and rinse. And in public facilities, turn off the tap with a paper towel, not your hand, and open the door with your foot or elbow, not your still moist hand.
Amusingly, one of the arguments given for voting leave (and the reason that a lot of Indian and Pakistani immigrants voted) was the preferential treatment of Europeans over Asians by the UK immigration system. It's amusing how even the racism in the leave campaign wasn't self consistent, let alone their economic arguments.
There were many reasons why individuals would choose to leave EU, and many for wanting to stay too. Many of the reasons did not follow party lines at all. It's easy for Americans who are used to polarization to think of it as right versus left and party lines, but that is seldom the case in European politics. Things are far more nuanced, and especially in referendums. A left-leaning English man might have voted for leaving because he felt he paid too much to the EU compared to what England got back, while a right-leaning Scot might think that EU subsidies and incentives for his region were needed for his business, while another Scot might be fed up of London controlling their oil income. It's all varied, and I would guess that only a minority of the votes had anything to do with xenophobia.
Britain is used to high immigration, and people around the world who have Commonwealth passports and rights already. Integration is much better in the UK than in the US, although certainly not perfect. The parts that have immigration fears are quite often left-leaning, not almost all right-leaning like in the US. Sure, you'll find skinhead right-wing supremacists, but they are hardly numerous enough to influence a referendum. Religion plays a much smaller part, and if anything, the Christians are more welcoming, not less like in the US. It's a very different playing field.
I get that the traffic to these specific IP addresses (or ranges) are interesting - but which DNS names resolve to these addresses?
Your question is meaningless; it's like when politicians ask which web links point to https://www.piratebay.se/
Any number of forward DNS entries can point to these two addresses. If you ran the DNS server for sillyexample.com, you could point dns.sillyexample.com or vengeful.foxbats.sillyexample.com to these addresses if you wanted. But there is no way of knowing who points.
Or are reverse lookups involved?
Neither forward nor reverse DNS is needed for the name servers themselves. That said, for reverse DNS, just ask the DNS server itself: 1.0.0.1.in-addr.arpa name = 1dot1dot1dot1.cloudflare-dns.com. 1.1.1.1.in-addr.arpa name = 1dot1dot1dot1.cloudflare-dns.com.
I.e. both point to the same name. They would work just fine without a reverse pointer to a name too.
I would be very interested in following the research they are undertaking. Anyone know how/where this will be published?
And when the research will be completed, with the 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 addresses going back to IANA and no longer serving DNS? I bet that some people bought the hype and thought that these would be perpetual addresses, and not just a research run.
The penny-pinching bean counters have significant influence over whether systems get maintained/upgraded and, too often, they rely on "look, it hasn't broken so far, right?" when deciding whether or not to upgrade. Some people are surprisingly short-sighted that way, preferring reactive over proactive.
It can be a bit more expensive than just replacing a server. Often, systems have bespoke software that requires specific hardware or capabilities not compatible in newer systems, or where new licenses aren't procurable. And porting large software projects can increase the costs a lot. I've seen a quote for over a million for porting the software on a server that would cost ten k to replace.
You might not realize, but energy efficiency is so much better today that you might as well consider you are *still paying* for it. You know electricity isn't free right?
That's not always an argument. My main server runs on a PIII 1133S, which runs well without even a CPU fan. The load is so low that it most of the time pulls very little power, but even when it runs full out, the bogomips/TDP rating of 82.9 is so good that there aren't many newer options that do better. There are some other server CPUs that are also quite frugal. Newer CPUs can do more, but that's not always needed.
And, for some, increased power usage isn't that big of an issue either, unless you run a big datacenter. A server located in Northern cold climates will produce heat that's needed anyhow most of the year, and the heat produced by the server can be subtracted from the heat needed to be produced by a heater.
I'm as upset as you are, but let's face it, we're dealing with 8-10 year old processors here. Yes, for many applications still way more than good enough, but still. I think it's asking a bit much to expect patches for hardware that is about 3-4 generations old.
When companies like Red Hat and Microsoft offer extended OS service plans so you can keep the OS updated with security patches for 10 years, it would be nice if the firmware on those machines certified for that OS could also receive security updates. Even for a price, because the price of migrating large software systems can be very high, and companies want to avoid doing it when it doesn't buy anything extra for as long as possible. So yes, you will find 10 year old systems in many companies, going on doing what they always have, and making money for the business.
The number of murders and other violent crimes is about the same, or higher than before
No, it isn't. The murder rate was at its highest around 2002-2004, with around 15 murders per million population (excluding the 172 victim count of Dr. Shipman in 2003 which skews figures). The last 3-4 years, it has been under 10 murders per million population. That's down, not up. Gun murders have gone down, while knife murders have not gone up. The ratio of knife murders to other murders in the UK has been pretty much the same since the 60s.
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why in earth would you use an enterprise / server side distro for a laptop?
RHEL Workstation is a good OS for laptops, especially if you want to maintain binary and package version compatibility with your servers.
Development is a good example of where this is useful. Automounts that contain binaries and/or libraries is another. And remote X. Sometimes compatibility wins over bleeding edge.
Most good mobile phones today support not only GPS but also GLONASS and Galileo (which is still not fully operational, but when you get a fix on one of them, it increases the precision).
I typically get a 3-4 meter resolution if the weather is good, which is better than the Garmin device I used to have in the car.
We don't live in a binary world. Nothing prevents joke speech from also being hate speech.
What the government explicitly allows for, should not private institutions seek to uphold?
Hell, no. Do you want a Christian institution to seek to uphold Atheist or Muslim speech in their congregations, when the government explicitly allows for freedom of religion?
If it's only the government that allows ALL speech, and all private sources block some speech - do you really have freedom of speech?
Yes, you do. You have the right to say what you want, but you have no right to stand on my soapbox when doing so. If all the soap boxes are owned by someone who won't let you speech, then you need to either build your own soap box, or find a different way to get your voice heard. The onus is on you, not the soap box owners.
Also, you have a right to speak, but no right to be heard. People have the right to not listen to you, including filtering, and including using services that does filtering for them.
Tesla's autopilot doesn't use human eyes. If I understand it correctly, it has a monochrome camera and a forward facing radar. If there is not enough monochromatic contrast between an object and its surrounding, the camera won't detect it, and if the object is at an angle and composition where it cannot return radar signals directly back to the car, the radar won't detect it.
How good the visibility is only affects the human, who is the one with the driver's license and the responsibility that goes with it.
The flip side being the people who dabbled (iow 'spent' £10) on them 10 years ago, and cashed out at the end of last year for £200,000.
I suspect they're pretty happy with their choice...
Not necessarily, if they are Good People. Because bitcoin doesn't add any intrinsic value, that £199,990 gain came from other people's pockets. Some are undoubtedly fine with taking other people's money, but some are not.
* A kilogram of bell peppers, soaked in a solution with a single drop of resiniferatoxin, would be rendered as hot as a kilogram of ghost peppers.
From a cooking perspective, bell peppers are notoriously bad at soaking up other flavors. What kind of solution would make the bell pepper cells permeable, allowing it to soak up the substance, without causing other major taste changes? I'm only asking because I'd love to infuse flavor into otherwise bland peppers.
Ghost pepper has its uses, like making a hot dip from sour cream. Milder (and I use that term loosely) peppers tend to have the heat disappear unless you use so much that the pepper taste overpowers everything else.
Also, ghost pepper flakes, used sparingly, is excellent for sprinkling on barbecued vegetables and pizza. You get bites that taste hotter than others, which makes for a more interesting meal than when every bite tastes the same. Two flakes per pizza slice is enough.
Then there's vinegar-free ghost pepper sauce, which is my favorite. One drop stirred into a soft-boiled egg totally transforms it.
People that don't have kids are always the best parents.
This seems true. They don't wear blinders like parents do, but see things from the outside, objectively.
Just like the best doctors are those who don't have the disease you want treated.
That is not true. Knives and edged tradesman's tools, including pocket knives and kitchen knives were allowed in Japan. The samurai didn't consider them credible weapons to begin with. And lacquer was expensive and peasants initially used plain wooden or ceramic tableware.
No, it's because the Japanese used chopsticks that they had to cut their food into bite-sized chunks before serving.
Except that chopsticks didn't originate in Japan, but in China. They became commonplace during the Han dynasty, and spread from there to Japan. And the Han dynasty is when lacquered wooden plates really took off, and wooden utensils with them.
I can say that the opposite is true. If you still need to cut your food when it's on your plate, it isn't fully prepared yet,
Food that's served uncut stays hot far better than pre-cut food, for one thing. And a steak isn't cut (or even handled with a fork) before served so it preserves the juices.
As for preparation, tossing everything in a wok for a couple of minutes and serving vegetables half-cooked is the laziest cooking I can think of.
You dare say that a cassoulet isn't fully prepared?
And chopsticks are much better at picking up food than a fork
Sauce Bearnaise? Jambalaya? Button mushrooms in gravy? Peas in aspic? Devilled eggs?
Forks double as both a spade that you push foot onto with the knife, and as a spear (except for American forks, which are blunt, because Americans are risk-averse sissies).
And Western spoons also have semi-sharp edges so you can cut with them, unlike the Eastern ceramic spoons that only work as mini-ladles. Try to eat French onion soup with one of those...
Yes, because if there's anything that toddlers absolutely love it's a sudden 131-decibel alarm tone.
Yes, they do appear to love the sound of their own voice.
When I first read the summary the first thing that went through my mind is the Super Freakenomics book mentions children are more likely to die from falling in a swimming pool than accidental gun death at home.
How about the sum of accidental and deliberate gun death?
A lot of kids fall into pools or drown swimming in the USA and something like this (perhaps the new generation of this tool) could be helpful.
Or teach them to swim before letting them out of sight near a pool or lake?
g) Rifles are for sport. Rare to find a handgun unless its a police or military owner.
I like that the mounties keep their guns in their holster, and don't even open the flap unless they really need to. Being stopped by them felt a lot safer than being stopped by American troopers, for sure.
Arguably, forks came about because food was served steaming hot, not luke warm, and in big enough chunks that it needed to be cut while eating. Holding a sizzling piece of meat or boiling turnip with your hand is a bad idea.
Chopsticks serve a different purpose - the peasantry was not allowed knives, so food was pre-cut. Plates were lacquered, and chopsticks damaged the precious plates less than other utensils did.
That ethanol kills many germs isn't disputed, but it doesn't kill enough of them to really sanitize, and leaves the bacteria's food source, just smeared around.
It's like if you scrape off most of the mold on a piece of cheese, smearing it around a bit in the process. What do you think happens then?
The main difference is that bacteria multiply a heck of a lot faster than mold.
The best you can do for your hands are wash and rinse. And in public facilities, turn off the tap with a paper towel, not your hand, and open the door with your foot or elbow, not your still moist hand.
Amusingly, one of the arguments given for voting leave (and the reason that a lot of Indian and Pakistani immigrants voted) was the preferential treatment of Europeans over Asians by the UK immigration system. It's amusing how even the racism in the leave campaign wasn't self consistent, let alone their economic arguments.
There were many reasons why individuals would choose to leave EU, and many for wanting to stay too. Many of the reasons did not follow party lines at all.
It's easy for Americans who are used to polarization to think of it as right versus left and party lines, but that is seldom the case in European politics. Things are far more nuanced, and especially in referendums. A left-leaning English man might have voted for leaving because he felt he paid too much to the EU compared to what England got back, while a right-leaning Scot might think that EU subsidies and incentives for his region were needed for his business, while another Scot might be fed up of London controlling their oil income. It's all varied, and I would guess that only a minority of the votes had anything to do with xenophobia.
Britain is used to high immigration, and people around the world who have Commonwealth passports and rights already. Integration is much better in the UK than in the US, although certainly not perfect. The parts that have immigration fears are quite often left-leaning, not almost all right-leaning like in the US. Sure, you'll find skinhead right-wing supremacists, but they are hardly numerous enough to influence a referendum. Religion plays a much smaller part, and if anything, the Christians are more welcoming, not less like in the US. It's a very different playing field.
I get that the traffic to these specific IP addresses (or ranges) are interesting - but which DNS names resolve to these addresses?
Your question is meaningless; it's like when politicians ask which web links point to https://www.piratebay.se/
Any number of forward DNS entries can point to these two addresses. If you ran the DNS server for sillyexample.com, you could point dns.sillyexample.com or vengeful.foxbats.sillyexample.com to these addresses if you wanted.
But there is no way of knowing who points.
Or are reverse lookups involved?
Neither forward nor reverse DNS is needed for the name servers themselves.
That said, for reverse DNS, just ask the DNS server itself:
1.0.0.1.in-addr.arpa name = 1dot1dot1dot1.cloudflare-dns.com.
1.1.1.1.in-addr.arpa name = 1dot1dot1dot1.cloudflare-dns.com.
I.e. both point to the same name. They would work just fine without a reverse pointer to a name too.
Directing traffic at 1.1.1.1 is a little like calling 867-5309.
More like calling 555-1212 than Jenny, I'm afraid.
I would be very interested in following the research they are undertaking. Anyone know how/where this will be published?
And when the research will be completed, with the 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 addresses going back to IANA and no longer serving DNS? I bet that some people bought the hype and thought that these would be perpetual addresses, and not just a research run.
The penny-pinching bean counters have significant influence over whether systems get maintained/upgraded and, too often, they rely on "look, it hasn't broken so far, right?" when deciding whether or not to upgrade. Some people are surprisingly short-sighted that way, preferring reactive over proactive.
It can be a bit more expensive than just replacing a server. Often, systems have bespoke software that requires specific hardware or capabilities not compatible in newer systems, or where new licenses aren't procurable. And porting large software projects can increase the costs a lot. I've seen a quote for over a million for porting the software on a server that would cost ten k to replace.
You might not realize, but energy efficiency is so much better today that you might as well consider you are *still paying* for it. You know electricity isn't free right?
That's not always an argument. My main server runs on a PIII 1133S, which runs well without even a CPU fan. The load is so low that it most of the time pulls very little power, but even when it runs full out, the bogomips/TDP rating of 82.9 is so good that there aren't many newer options that do better.
There are some other server CPUs that are also quite frugal.
Newer CPUs can do more, but that's not always needed.
And, for some, increased power usage isn't that big of an issue either, unless you run a big datacenter. A server located in Northern cold climates will produce heat that's needed anyhow most of the year, and the heat produced by the server can be subtracted from the heat needed to be produced by a heater.
I'm as upset as you are, but let's face it, we're dealing with 8-10 year old processors here. Yes, for many applications still way more than good enough, but still. I think it's asking a bit much to expect patches for hardware that is about 3-4 generations old.
When companies like Red Hat and Microsoft offer extended OS service plans so you can keep the OS updated with security patches for 10 years, it would be nice if the firmware on those machines certified for that OS could also receive security updates. Even for a price, because the price of migrating large software systems can be very high, and companies want to avoid doing it when it doesn't buy anything extra for as long as possible.
So yes, you will find 10 year old systems in many companies, going on doing what they always have, and making money for the business.
I'm glad I didn't find my Tualatin-S on the "stopped" list.
I'm looking forward to a new update, because it's been a while since the last one.
The number of murders and other violent crimes is about the same, or higher than before
No, it isn't.
The murder rate was at its highest around 2002-2004, with around 15 murders per million population (excluding the 172 victim count of Dr. Shipman in 2003 which skews figures). The last 3-4 years, it has been under 10 murders per million population. That's down, not up.
Gun murders have gone down, while knife murders have not gone up. The ratio of knife murders to other murders in the UK has been pretty much the same since the 60s.
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