Do you know where the transmitters are? Often they are in a suburb or one side of the city, at a higher elevation than the original city, which tends to be in a river valley.
Sixty miles should be borderline for most indoor antennas, no problem for most outdoor / attic antennas - if they are pointed at the transmitters. Basically, a longer range antenna is one that is more directional. More or less, every antenna of the same size will receive just as well. The question is to what degree they are directional, picking up signals in a specific direction rather than noise from other directions.
On the other hand, to reverse a popular phrase in logic, ante hoc, ergo ne propter hoc.
The Democrat leadership turned 180 on border security *before* Trump was elected. Shortly after he made a major campaign promise of finishing the barrier that Obama had bragged "is now basically complete" under Obama's watch, the same Democrats who voted for it starting voicing opposition to it - months BEFORE the election.
That which comes last cannot cause something that comes before. Therefore Trump's conduct of his presidency, silly as it may be, could not cause Democrat politicians to do a 180 in 2016. Simply not possible.
It's logically pissut that their politically motivated reversal in 2016 could affect how Trump interacts with them in 2019.
Of course this doesn't excuse the un-presidential behavior, it is however quite clear that Trump in 2019 didn't cause Pelosi in 2015 and 2016.
> The vast majority of unauthorized immigration is not illegal. > It's only a misdemeanor the first time you're caught
Are you saying it's not illegal because it's a misdemeanor, or it's not illegal if you don't get caught?
Misdemeanors include crimes such as:
Assault resulting in bodily injury DUI/DWI (the first time) Conspiracy Misdemeanor Domestic Violence Burglary of a store or other non-residence Resisting arrest Obscenity Perjury Possession of a controlled substance Property theft Harboring a runaway child Deadly conduct Making a false report Unlawful possession of a weapon Violating a restraining order
You're saying misdemeanors are perfectly legal? Maybe you haven't quite thought this through all the way?
I forgot to say, thanks for "technology, where you actually are usually well informed and come off as intelligent."
I'm sure sure how noticing what Clinton, Obama, Senate Minority leader Schumer, and Speaker of the House Pelosi (basically all of the Democrat leadership) says is "phenomenally stupid", but to each their own. I suppose one should only pay attention to what they say today, and try really, really hard to forget that they all said the exact opposite just a few years ago? That's cool, if you want to do that.
> I'm not sure where the talking points for came from that a wall would protect the people trying to migrate and seek refuge here but it's just not true.
Those quotes are from Hillary Clinton, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer - all of the leading Democrats. Obama said the same things, though I didn't quote him.
Perhaps you disagree with the Democrats. That's cool. I often disagree with them too.
You may have noticed my post, which you replied to, consists mostly of direct quotes from Obama, Clinton, and Chuck Schumer. If you think what was said is stupid, take it up with the people who said those things. I didn't say those things, the Democrat leadership said those things. If you think Obama's comments are dumb, okay - I won't argue with you. If you think Clinton is a dumbass, okay. No argument from me.
You don't even know what I have proposed regarding border security. What you replied to is what Clinton, Schumer, and Obama said about it.
> The fence was a failure. People simply went around it or went over it
So what you're saying is, they a) go aroundnit, to places where there is no wall, the go around the walled part, right? And b) where there is a shorter fence they can hop over, they do?
So based on your observations, the obvious solutions would be a) make it so you can't go around the wall - don't have huge gaps and b) make it very hard to climb over - at least 8' tall with barbed wire in top.
> Manually check every Tuesday... If you are incapable of remembering to perform one task a week, please give your computer to someone not quite as mentally disabled.
Patch Tuesday is second Tuesday of the month, not every Tuesday. Once or twice a year they do one on a fourth Tuesday.
You were saying people who are too "mentally disabled" to know when to update Windows shouldn't touch computers? I assume you'll be unable to reply to this since you'll have to "give your computer to someone not quite as mentally disabled."
Clinton, Obama, Schumer and Pelosi all voted for a wall before Trump made actually getting it done a major campaign promise. Millions of people entering illegally, and often getting injured, assaulted, or even killed during the trek, was a "crisis" that needed to be solved, until Trump decided to actually solve it. The funding was "urgently needed", these Democrats said on national TV, until Trump would "get credit" for having done it.
"Illegal Immigration is wrong, plain and simple. Until the American people are convinced we will stop future flows of illegal immigration, we will make no progress." Sen. Chuck Schumer
"We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented and unchecked." - Barak Obama Less than a year later, Obama and 25 other Senate Democrats voted for the Secure Fence Act, the 2006 legislation that authorized the construction of 700 miles of barriers along the southern border.
"[we must] spend money to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in.... I do think you have to control your borders." - Hillary Clinton
How about the Dems allow the government to do what they themselves have said is "urgently needed" rather than obstructing it because they don't want the orange idiot to get the credit for it?
Using binfmt_misc (or a GUI front-end to it) you can fairly easily configure your system to use whatever program you want to handle *.service "scripts". It can recognize them by name (.service) and/or by the first bytes being [Unit] or [Service]. This is similar to configuring a default handler for jpeg files, to open them when you click them (but also works from the command line).
For other file types that don't have a predictable name, nor predictable first bytes, a very simple kernel module can be used to register a handler.
Lastly, text files of unknown type are sent to/bin/sh if they are chmod executable. You can probably configure sh to handle service files.
> Maybe for non-power users. Who let every JS ad script run by default and open every email attachment without a care.
Careless users are a problem, a mostly separate problem. No it is needed. The MTC figure I mentioned is for an unpatched Windows machine simply connected to the internet, with no user doing anything.
One thing stupid users can do is turn off automatic updates on Windows. Another stupid thing that stupid users can do is enable (or leave enabled) UPnP. Those two combine to virtually guarantee the machine is compromised quite quickly.
We'll see. People have been saying that for the last 250 years, and it's been partly true.
Things definitely HAVE changed a lot. Most people in 50 years ago did tasks that are automated today. Those jobs are gone, though the job titles often remain, referring to job that is done very differently - entirely different daily tasks.
Because the way of getting the job done (programmer vs calculator-operator) is more efficient, real median household income has increased over the last 50 years (meaning wages have increased a bit faster than inflation). Over the last 250 years, average income has skyrocketed.
So there have been significant changes, and they have been pretty.
One thing that hasn't changed has been change itself - for the last 250 years it's been a good idea to think ahead. It's always been good to plan your career, thinking about what skills will be in demand five or ten years from now. Many people leave their career path to chance, accidentally ending up in a particular job with no direction in mind. That only sometimes works well.
Even simpler than a systemd declaration is saying "Alexa, start Apache".
That doesn't mean that Alexa's AI code is simpler than a 20-line bash script. You're comparing the *input* to the systemd code, a config file, vs the actual code that does things in SysVinit.
In sys V, the shell script starts the daemon, it *is* the code. If anything is wrong or you want to change anything, you can look through the shell script and change things. In systemd, the declaration is handed to a binary that does who-knows-what.
> I was able to roll back the updates and even disabled future updates, but that poses security issues.
Major security issues. If you're not being targeted by the NSA, the vast majority of attacks on Windows machines are taking advantage of known issues that have been addressed via updates. So lacking the updates makes a big difference to security. The "mean time to compromise", how quickly an internet-connected machine is hacked, is under 10 minutes for an unpatched Windows machine.
Multiple times I've automated much of the work that a person or department has been doing. In each case, it made the workers more valuable.
I talked to workers and watched them work. Together we looked at what tasks they spent a lot of time on, tasks that could be automated to help them achieve department goals more efficiently, while removing human error from that task. We talked about what their workflow would be after the automation and what additional value they could add after they didn't have to spend time in $menialtask.
Being part of the planning, they were able to think about how they could more effectively accomplish department and organization goals when they were freed up from the time-consuming task we were automating. There are ALWAYS more things the company or department wants to do, worthwhile things for people to work on, that they don't currently have time to do (unless perhaps the company is headed for bankruptcy).
The people I "automated away" didn't sit there and say "well now that I don't have to copy/paste from system A to system B, I'm useless". They said "now that I don't have to copy/paste from system A to system B, I can do these other important things to move the organization forward".
Not just "someone", but the sysadmin. The guy who actually enters the commands to give the boss access to stuff can use the same commands to give himself access. Don't hire shady people for those roles, and don't shortchange them on pay so they need a few bucks from someone else.
What I strange topic to come up now. Last night, I was wondering what exactly "American cheese" is. I looked it up on Wikipedia and from there I started reading on Wikipedia about the sizeable cheese stockpiles in various countries.
Odd that this would come up on Slashdot the next day.
TFS says you should taper your expectations, going from thin to wide. Should also you temper them, counterbalancing hopeful expectations against the actual current capabilities?
The effective salary average may not be quite as high as one would think compared to other professions. Silicon Valley and some other parts of California tend to have a lot of software people. They also tend to have high prices and salaries - a devalued dollar.
Iowa and Nebraska tend to have a much higher numbers of corn farmers, and much lower prices. A Silicon Valley software developer making $100K isn't doing nearly as well as a Nebraska corn farmer averaging $100K. You can live pretty well on $100K in Nebraska.
So looking at national averages using nominal dollars overstates the effective pay for jobs that tend to cluster in California and and understates the buying power of jobs that tend to be found more in inexpensive areas.
As a specific example, the cost of living is about 2 1/2 times higher in San Jose than Dallas. That makes a difference. It means people working in aerospace and defense on average have more buying power than someone with the same salary working in solar-electric development.
Once read about three paragraphs of Portuguese before I realized i wasn't reading a dialect of Spanish. If you already know Portuguese reasonably well, you can pick up Spanish easily.
Amendment I. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
That's the first amendment. "Congress shall make no law..." The US Constitution says what the federal government may and may not do, and how it is to be run. It doesn't specify what MishMash can do.
Last I checked, Facebook isn't Congress, and doesn't make laws. The courts have expanded the text, pretending it says "the government may not in any way...", which is kinda reasonable since the Constitution generally is about the federal government. Facebook is not the federal government. The Constitution doesn't tell us how Facebook needs to be run.
It's not even that they aren't in California; they aren't in the usual spot, which might be because the usual spot was burned in a wildfire. As far as we know, they are three miles from their usual spot.
At a company I ran in 1990s we self-hosted version control, email, everything. We assembled our own servers, we wrote out own highly secure password manager. We did everything ourselves. We saved a lot of money vs buying. We also spent so much time and attention on handling our own infrastructure that we had little energy left to put toward our actual business, building our customer base, our brand, etc.
If I run a company again, I may let someone else worry about some of infrastructure while we worry about the things our business does.
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Do you know where the transmitters are? Often they are in a suburb or one side of the city, at a higher elevation than the original city, which tends to be in a river valley.
Sixty miles should be borderline for most indoor antennas, no problem for most outdoor / attic antennas - if they are pointed at the transmitters. Basically, a longer range antenna is one that is more directional. More or less, every antenna of the same size will receive just as well. The question is to what degree they are directional, picking up signals in a specific direction rather than noise from other directions.
You bring up an interesting point.
On the other hand, to reverse a popular phrase in logic, ante hoc, ergo ne propter hoc.
The Democrat leadership turned 180 on border security *before* Trump was elected. Shortly after he made a major campaign promise of finishing the barrier that Obama had bragged "is now basically complete" under Obama's watch, the same Democrats who voted for it starting voicing opposition to it - months BEFORE the election.
That which comes last cannot cause something that comes before. Therefore Trump's conduct of his presidency, silly as it may be, could not cause Democrat politicians to do a 180 in 2016. Simply not possible.
It's logically pissut that their politically motivated reversal in 2016 could affect how Trump interacts with them in 2019.
Of course this doesn't excuse the un-presidential behavior, it is however quite clear that Trump in 2019 didn't cause Pelosi in 2015 and 2016.
> The vast majority of unauthorized immigration is not illegal. > It's only a misdemeanor the first time you're caught
Are you saying it's not illegal because it's a misdemeanor, or it's not illegal if you don't get caught?
Misdemeanors include crimes such as:
Assault resulting in bodily injury
DUI/DWI (the first time)
Conspiracy
Misdemeanor Domestic Violence
Burglary of a store or other non-residence
Resisting arrest
Obscenity
Perjury
Possession of a controlled substance
Property theft
Harboring a runaway child
Deadly conduct
Making a false report
Unlawful possession of a weapon
Violating a restraining order
You're saying misdemeanors are perfectly legal?
Maybe you haven't quite thought this through all the way?
I forgot to say, thanks for "technology, where you actually are usually well informed and come off as intelligent."
I'm sure sure how noticing what Clinton, Obama, Senate Minority leader Schumer, and Speaker of the House Pelosi (basically all of the Democrat leadership) says is "phenomenally stupid", but to each their own. I suppose one should only pay attention to what they say today, and try really, really hard to forget that they all said the exact opposite just a few years ago? That's cool, if you want to do that.
> I'm not sure where the talking points for came from that a wall would protect the people trying to migrate and seek refuge here but it's just not true.
Those quotes are from Hillary Clinton, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer - all of the leading Democrats. Obama said the same things, though I didn't quote him.
Perhaps you disagree with the Democrats. That's cool. I often disagree with them too.
You may have noticed my post, which you replied to, consists mostly of direct quotes from Obama, Clinton, and Chuck Schumer. If you think what was said is stupid, take it up with the people who said those things. I didn't say those things, the Democrat leadership said those things. If you think Obama's comments are dumb, okay - I won't argue with you. If you think Clinton is a dumbass, okay. No argument from me.
You don't even know what I have proposed regarding border security. What you replied to is what Clinton, Schumer, and Obama said about it.
> The fence was a failure. People simply went around it or went over it
So what you're saying is, they a) go aroundnit, to places where there is no wall, the go around the walled part, right? And b) where there is a shorter fence they can hop over, they do?
So based on your observations, the obvious solutions would be a) make it so you can't go around the wall - don't have huge gaps and b) make it very hard to climb over - at least 8' tall with barbed wire in top.
Thanks for the suggestions!
> Manually check every Tuesday ... If you are incapable of remembering to perform one task a week, please give your computer to someone not quite as mentally disabled.
Patch Tuesday is second Tuesday of the month, not every Tuesday.
Once or twice a year they do one on a fourth Tuesday.
You were saying people who are too "mentally disabled" to know when to update Windows shouldn't touch computers? I assume you'll be unable to reply to this since you'll have to "give your computer to someone not quite as mentally disabled."
Clinton, Obama, Schumer and Pelosi all voted for a wall before Trump made actually getting it done a major campaign promise. Millions of people entering illegally, and often getting injured, assaulted, or even killed during the trek, was a "crisis" that needed to be solved, until Trump decided to actually solve it. The funding was "urgently needed", these Democrats said on national TV, until Trump would "get credit" for having done it.
"Illegal Immigration is wrong, plain and simple. Until the American people are convinced we will stop future flows of illegal immigration, we will make no progress." Sen. Chuck Schumer
"We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented and unchecked." - Barak Obama
Less than a year later, Obama and 25 other Senate Democrats voted for the Secure Fence Act, the 2006 legislation that authorized the construction of 700 miles of barriers along the southern border.
"[we must] spend money to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in. ... I do think you have to control your borders." - Hillary Clinton
How about the Dems allow the government to do what they themselves have said is "urgently needed" rather than obstructing it because they don't want the orange idiot to get the credit for it?
Using binfmt_misc (or a GUI front-end to it) you can fairly easily configure your system to use whatever program you want to handle *.service "scripts". It can recognize them by name (.service) and/or by the first bytes being [Unit] or [Service]. This is similar to configuring a default handler for jpeg files, to open them when you click them (but also works from the command line).
For other file types that don't have a predictable name, nor predictable first bytes, a very simple kernel module can be used to register a handler.
Lastly, text files of unknown type are sent to /bin/sh if they are chmod executable. You can probably configure sh to handle service files.
> Maybe for non-power users. Who let every JS ad script run by default and open every email attachment without a care.
Careless users are a problem, a mostly separate problem. No it is needed. The MTC figure I mentioned is for an unpatched Windows machine simply connected to the internet, with no user doing anything.
One thing stupid users can do is turn off automatic updates on Windows. Another stupid thing that stupid users can do is enable (or leave enabled) UPnP. Those two combine to virtually guarantee the machine is compromised quite quickly.
We'll see. People have been saying that for the last 250 years, and it's been partly true.
Things definitely HAVE changed a lot. Most people in 50 years ago did tasks that are automated today. Those jobs are gone, though the job titles often remain, referring to job that is done very differently - entirely different daily tasks.
Because the way of getting the job done (programmer vs calculator-operator) is more efficient, real median household income has increased over the last 50 years (meaning wages have increased a bit faster than inflation). Over the last 250 years, average income has skyrocketed.
So there have been significant changes, and they have been pretty.
One thing that hasn't changed has been change itself - for the last 250 years it's been a good idea to think ahead. It's always been good to plan your career, thinking about what skills will be in demand five or ten years from now. Many people leave their career path to chance, accidentally ending up in a particular job with no direction in mind. That only sometimes works well.
Even simpler than a systemd declaration is saying "Alexa, start Apache".
That doesn't mean that Alexa's AI code is simpler than a 20-line bash script. You're comparing the *input* to the systemd code, a config file, vs the actual code that does things in SysVinit.
In sys V, the shell script starts the daemon, it *is* the code. If anything is wrong or you want to change anything, you can look through the shell script and change things. In systemd, the declaration is handed to a binary that does who-knows-what.
> I was able to roll back the updates and even disabled future updates, but that poses security issues.
Major security issues. If you're not being targeted by the NSA, the vast majority of attacks on Windows machines are taking advantage of known issues that have been addressed via updates. So lacking the updates makes a big difference to security. The "mean time to compromise", how quickly an internet-connected machine is hacked, is under 10 minutes for an unpatched Windows machine.
The company claims that about half the time, it is accurate to within 50 Km.
https://www.maxmind.com/en/geo...
Multiple times I've automated much of the work that a person or department has been doing. In each case, it made the workers more valuable.
I talked to workers and watched them work. Together we looked at what tasks they spent a lot of time on, tasks that could be automated to help them achieve department goals more efficiently, while removing human error from that task. We talked about what their workflow would be after the automation and what additional value they could add after they didn't have to spend time in $menialtask.
Being part of the planning, they were able to think about how they could more effectively accomplish department and organization goals when they were freed up from the time-consuming task we were automating. There are ALWAYS more things the company or department wants to do, worthwhile things for people to work on, that they don't currently have time to do (unless perhaps the company is headed for bankruptcy).
The people I "automated away" didn't sit there and say "well now that I don't have to copy/paste from system A to system B, I'm useless". They said "now that I don't have to copy/paste from system A to system B, I can do these other important things to move the organization forward".
Not just "someone", but the sysadmin. The guy who actually enters the commands to give the boss access to stuff can use the same commands to give himself access. Don't hire shady people for those roles, and don't shortchange them on pay so they need a few bucks from someone else.
What I strange topic to come up now. Last night, I was wondering what exactly "American cheese" is. I looked it up on Wikipedia and from there I started reading on Wikipedia about the sizeable cheese stockpiles in various countries.
Odd that this would come up on Slashdot the next day.
TFS says you should taper your expectations, going from thin to wide. Should also you temper them, counterbalancing hopeful expectations against the actual current capabilities?
The effective salary average may not be quite as high as one would think compared to other professions. Silicon Valley and some other parts of California tend to have a lot of software people. They also tend to have high prices and salaries - a devalued dollar.
Iowa and Nebraska tend to have a much higher numbers of corn farmers, and much lower prices. A Silicon Valley software developer making $100K isn't doing nearly as well as a Nebraska corn farmer averaging $100K. You can live pretty well on $100K in Nebraska.
So looking at national averages using nominal dollars overstates the effective pay for jobs that tend to cluster in California and and understates the buying power of jobs that tend to be found more in inexpensive areas.
As a specific example, the cost of living is about 2 1/2 times higher in San Jose than Dallas. That makes a difference. It means people working in aerospace and defense on average have more buying power than someone with the same salary working in solar-electric development.
That's interesting. I've only read Portuguese (getting the gist of what is written); I wasn't aware the pronunciation is so different.
Once read about three paragraphs of Portuguese before I realized i wasn't reading a dialect of Spanish. If you already know Portuguese reasonably well, you can pick up Spanish easily.
Amendment I. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
That's the first amendment. "Congress shall make no law ..."
The US Constitution says what the federal government may and may not do, and how it is to be run. It doesn't specify what MishMash can do.
Last I checked, Facebook isn't Congress, and doesn't make laws. ...", which is kinda reasonable since the Constitution generally is about the federal government. Facebook is not the federal government. The Constitution doesn't tell us how Facebook needs to be run.
The courts have expanded the text, pretending it says "the government may not in any way
It's not even that they aren't in California; they aren't in the usual spot, which might be because the usual spot was burned in a wildfire. As far as we know, they are three miles from their usual spot.
At a company I ran in 1990s we self-hosted version control, email, everything. We assembled our own servers, we wrote out own highly secure password manager. We did everything ourselves. We saved a lot of money vs buying. We also spent so much time and attention on handling our own infrastructure that we had little energy left to put toward our actual business, building our customer base, our brand, etc.
If I run a company again, I may let someone else worry about some of infrastructure while we worry about the things our business does.