Or "Rape Culture" when rape has been falling steadily since the 70's, and rape rates are lower on college campuses than outside them.
But it generates too much money and votes for them to bother with facts. Who would willingly give up votes when if they spoke the truth nobody would listen anyway?
> Pick almost ANY topic and the parties are going to take polar opposite views of it.
First way: Topic A, Democrats and Republicans pick yes and no, when it's a logical fallacy to assume there are only two ways to solve an issue, or it's not a real problem to begin with.
Second way. Topic B. Democrats and Republicans are on opposing sides but one one of them never actually intends to do anything about it so it'll still happen as if there was only one side.
Third way. Topic C. Democrats and Republicans are on opposing sides but neither actually will do something about it--like government transparency. Nobody actually wants to give away the power that spying gives them, so they'll say everything and do nothing.
I can't wait for Windows 10 to finally support C++ applications. I've been using it since the 70's, and it's really great to see such a prolific language finally hit the Windows platform. This truly is the year of the Windows Desktop.
As a programmer, KDBUS (or any proper IPC system for Linux) sounds really useful.
Here is a write-up on DBUS vs KDBUS for those who are interested.
To sum up: D-Bus is great for sending control messages ("change volume") but not for lots of data (audio streams), it's not available at boot-time (a serious problem if you need to talk to it!), and it's got security flaws. KDBUS is the incremental solution to these problems. A kernel space message sending system that all programs can use at boot to talk to each other.
DO NOT try Server 2012. It's pathetic for a typical user--Metro interface aside.
WiFi is disabled by default. Sleep/hibernation is disabled and cannot be re-enabled (so much for taking demo laptops to clients! Thanks, Microsoft for making my job easier!).
And I just learned this today, apparently many free versions of software will refuse to install unless you buy them because they use the OS ID to tell whether you're a business or consumer. Businesses have to pay.
1) People complain about poor driver support in Linux every year. It's been getting better. This is an example.
2) Adding feedback to Xbox controllers is a minor change compared to adding an entire, new IPC interface for systemd.
3) Kernel changes are not a zero-sum game. Just because some kid in college wants his controller to work and submits a patch, doesn't mean Linus cries himself to sleep instead of doing his usual work.
4) Are you against making Linux a more robust gaming machine?
Seems like someone could make balls-tons of money if they operated a non-profit music label that provided all of the usual services that musicians use (recording studios, instruments, backup musicians, venue booking, advertising, steaming service negotiations and so on.)
The biggest destroyer of privacy on the Internet is the fucking US government, not a single corporation. You can always choose not to use a company's products (minus Comcast, eh?), but the government literally sifts everything regardless of your choices.
In otherwords, morons are leading morons in the great education debate. Classrooms are failing to teach huge amounts of children because we've decided "one learning method is better than all, and any kids who don't succeed must be broken." and now we're going to take that to the point that it's literally impossible to do anything but put the big glowing screen on and let the last of our kids brains melt away.
Between the stupidity of "leaders" in teaching, and zero tolerance insanity, homeschooling or private schooling my children looks better and better every day.
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You answered your own question. Make a law that if it's a corporation sues an individual, the corporation has to pay if it loses. If a corporation sues a corporation, or a person sues a person, it's the way it is already.
What's the difference? A completely disproportionate amount of power and leverage. A billion dollar company (or the government!) shouldn't be able to sue and automatically win against a single person just because they can't afford to defend themselves.
It's not difficult to see how a large company or government would have much more access to potential research, expert witnesses, and more. So if they're going to use all that... AND lose, then they should fit the damn bill for their frivolity.
What the fuck are you talking about? We see all kinds of sick, crazy shit in movies because it's fantasy.
Should we be okay with killing people because it Arnold blows people away?
Should we be okay with incest because Game of Thrones is popular?
Should we be okay with torture because they use it in the movies?
Should we be okay with hitting women because Shawn Connery did in in films?
I mean what the fuck kind of argument are you trying to put forth, and how the hell have you convinced people to mod up some a moronic idea?
I went from using my 23" 1080p screen to a 40" screen at 1080p and it's blindly low DPI. You can see the damn ClearType subpixel rendering at a few feet away.
That's a pretty silly logical fallacy. Just because they have undue influence doesn't mean they always win, or can win against the entirety of public opinion. It's far more important all of the things they can accomplish that the public doesn't know, understand, or have the capacity to mount a successful counter-campaign.
To further what you're saying, there is a huge market for recycled computers in at least SOME places. I went through this a period of interest in collecting vintage computers. But I couldn't get any! All of the donated ones were wrapped up, and shipped over seas to either be resold or melted down.
Why don't we cut a couple hundred billion out of the multi-trillion dollar "war on everything" Military–industrial complex that's obviously going so well?
Fun-fact: We used to look at the Vietnam War as obviously fruitless and a waste of money and lives. Yet we've been in Afghanistan since 2001.
Yeah, but when an animal is fairly intelligent compared to humans we afford rights to--including intentional morons and genetically mentally handicapped ones, the line becomes much more blurry.
That's the problem. When my dog/chimp/robot is capable of doing more in society than your aunt with dementia, hard but important ethical questions must be addressed. And it should be fairly obvious that society has put off addressing those important questions.
Emergencies are the best time to pass significant legislation. If we can pass the Patriot Act from a single attack on US soil, why not use "thousands of dead people from lack of water" to get some nuke plants up and running?
There's a couple of issues. But I'm not a power systems engineer, so chime in if you are one.
If the control systems make the assumption that power will always be net positive--all work will be going in always and any fluctuations will still be overwhelmed by the amount of current indraw--then those meters, and the control station could have problems.
Think of it this way. Your power supply has a current source limit. It rarely publishes the current SINK limit. So if you plugged your 12-volt supply into your 5-volt supply (to get 12-5=7 volts) the 12-volt line would be sourcing, but instead of common, the 5-volt line would be sinking. The sink limit for a typical power supply voltage rail is MUCH smaller. You can have a 5 A rail that can only take a few milliamps of INPUT current. The key thing here is, power supplys typically have a direction.
For a more IT analogy, think about cable service. Cable comes from head end, hits distribution nodes, and then more nodes, and then finally the end node and to your house. Each one of those makes an assumption that you're not going to broadcast cable (not internet, but TV) from your house.
Second, end-node measurement. Power meters don't have to be designed to measure current both ways. That's an assumption made during manufacture. If you bought one of those nifty Kill-A-Watt meters and then ran current backwards, it would likely either not register it, OR register it still going forward. That's a serious problem for a power company. They can see reduced load using their existing system, they cannot see negative loads.
It's possible I'm wrong and they're great future thinkers or need negative power measurement as part of some sort of power systems. But I've not heard of it, so a Power Sys engineer chime in.
Moving along, let's be honest: Just because someone makes something does not mean it's compatible with the grid. You don't run one-off kernel drivers made by your neighbors. If someone hacks together some random garage equipment (and not some government certified power controller box) and plugs it into the grid, that grid is now touching everyone else's house nearby. Imagine water coming into your house, and all a sudden some guy in your neighborhood is pumping his well water back into your system. Would you want to drink that? Now clearly the stakes are a little less dangerous with electricity, but that guy can still muck up the line. He can add tons of noise to it, he can raise or lower the voltage level until the system can react--and if his changes faster than the system can react, it's not going away. I wonder if it's even possible that someone could use a system like that to "game" the correction system into swinging harder and damaging your components.
More on compatibility, it's not just current and voltage. There's power factor. There's noise. There's the shape of the power wave to begin with. (Also called noise.) Someone dumping square waves at the right voltage and current into your power line is going to cause problems. It's kind of like someone buying an Arduino and bit-blasting ethernet frames into a hub (Layer 1). Everyone shares those physical lines and if that Arduino doesn't do it exactly right, everyone's got problems.
The point with all of this scribble is that power grids are very specific and allowing anyone to plug in and generate power is like allowing anyone of your neighbors to share your water. If they're not careful, or don't even care, to match the requirements of the system, they can easily wreck havoc with it and you.
I am not even remotely saying it should be illegal to generate power. What I am saying is it should be very clear what the requirements of the grid are, and that anyone who violates those requirements should be fined, and repeat offenders kicked off the grid. I also think generators/controllers should be certified to work with the grid if they're not already.
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Libertarianism is about the correct amount of regulation and no more. If you think all regulation is bad, congratulations, you are an Anarchist.
Or "Rape Culture" when rape has been falling steadily since the 70's, and rape rates are lower on college campuses than outside them.
But it generates too much money and votes for them to bother with facts. Who would willingly give up votes when if they spoke the truth nobody would listen anyway?
> Pick almost ANY topic and the parties are going to take polar opposite views of it.
First way: Topic A, Democrats and Republicans pick yes and no, when it's a logical fallacy to assume there are only two ways to solve an issue, or it's not a real problem to begin with.
Second way. Topic B. Democrats and Republicans are on opposing sides but one one of them never actually intends to do anything about it so it'll still happen as if there was only one side.
Third way. Topic C. Democrats and Republicans are on opposing sides but neither actually will do something about it--like government transparency. Nobody actually wants to give away the power that spying gives them, so they'll say everything and do nothing.
I can't wait for Windows 10 to finally support C++ applications. I've been using it since the 70's, and it's really great to see such a prolific language finally hit the Windows platform. This truly is the year of the Windows Desktop.
I find it very sad that you heard this story and thought "AvP" and not "The Thing." You officially need to watch more classic movies now.
As a programmer, KDBUS (or any proper IPC system for Linux) sounds really useful.
Here is a write-up on DBUS vs KDBUS for those who are interested.
To sum up: D-Bus is great for sending control messages ("change volume") but not for lots of data (audio streams), it's not available at boot-time (a serious problem if you need to talk to it!), and it's got security flaws. KDBUS is the incremental solution to these problems. A kernel space message sending system that all programs can use at boot to talk to each other.
Sure, nobody likes what you wrote anyway, but to clarify:
If you had RTFA, the guy who raised the issue is running an arcade machine. A perfect example of how old hardware is used.
Furthermore, there are plenty of older chipsets that have internal AGP cards.
DO NOT try Server 2012. It's pathetic for a typical user--Metro interface aside.
WiFi is disabled by default. Sleep/hibernation is disabled and cannot be re-enabled (so much for taking demo laptops to clients! Thanks, Microsoft for making my job easier!).
And I just learned this today, apparently many free versions of software will refuse to install unless you buy them because they use the OS ID to tell whether you're a business or consumer. Businesses have to pay.
>XBox One controller force feedback support.
You mean the de facto standard controller for PC gaming these days?
1) People complain about poor driver support in Linux every year. It's been getting better. This is an example.
2) Adding feedback to Xbox controllers is a minor change compared to adding an entire, new IPC interface for systemd.
3) Kernel changes are not a zero-sum game. Just because some kid in college wants his controller to work and submits a patch, doesn't mean Linus cries himself to sleep instead of doing his usual work.
4) Are you against making Linux a more robust gaming machine?
Seems like someone could make balls-tons of money if they operated a non-profit music label that provided all of the usual services that musicians use (recording studios, instruments, backup musicians, venue booking, advertising, steaming service negotiations and so on.)
The biggest destroyer of privacy on the Internet is the fucking US government, not a single corporation. You can always choose not to use a company's products (minus Comcast, eh?), but the government literally sifts everything regardless of your choices.
In otherwords, morons are leading morons in the great education debate. Classrooms are failing to teach huge amounts of children because we've decided "one learning method is better than all, and any kids who don't succeed must be broken." and now we're going to take that to the point that it's literally impossible to do anything but put the big glowing screen on and let the last of our kids brains melt away.
Between the stupidity of "leaders" in teaching, and zero tolerance insanity, homeschooling or private schooling my children looks better and better every day.
We interrupt this class room broadcast to bring you "Waffles, Tastey Waffles," from Delicious Corp! If your mom doesn't buy you some, she's cheating on your father!
You answered your own question. Make a law that if it's a corporation sues an individual, the corporation has to pay if it loses. If a corporation sues a corporation, or a person sues a person, it's the way it is already.
What's the difference? A completely disproportionate amount of power and leverage. A billion dollar company (or the government!) shouldn't be able to sue and automatically win against a single person just because they can't afford to defend themselves.
It's not difficult to see how a large company or government would have much more access to potential research, expert witnesses, and more. So if they're going to use all that... AND lose, then they should fit the damn bill for their frivolity.
What the fuck are you talking about? We see all kinds of sick, crazy shit in movies because it's fantasy.
Should we be okay with killing people because it Arnold blows people away?
Should we be okay with incest because Game of Thrones is popular?
Should we be okay with torture because they use it in the movies?
Should we be okay with hitting women because Shawn Connery did in in films?
I mean what the fuck kind of argument are you trying to put forth, and how the hell have you convinced people to mod up some a moronic idea?
Congratulations, you now know you need glasses.
I went from using my 23" 1080p screen to a 40" screen at 1080p and it's blindly low DPI. You can see the damn ClearType subpixel rendering at a few feet away.
That's a pretty silly logical fallacy. Just because they have undue influence doesn't mean they always win, or can win against the entirety of public opinion. It's far more important all of the things they can accomplish that the public doesn't know, understand, or have the capacity to mount a successful counter-campaign.
>Time Warner, Comcast, their merger, or all-of-them?
No, you were mistaken. He was quoting the CEO of Comcast referring to Hulu.
To further what you're saying, there is a huge market for recycled computers in at least SOME places. I went through this a period of interest in collecting vintage computers. But I couldn't get any! All of the donated ones were wrapped up, and shipped over seas to either be resold or melted down.
Why don't we cut a couple hundred billion out of the multi-trillion dollar "war on everything" Military–industrial complex that's obviously going so well?
Fun-fact: We used to look at the Vietnam War as obviously fruitless and a waste of money and lives. Yet we've been in Afghanistan since 2001.
Yeah, but when an animal is fairly intelligent compared to humans we afford rights to--including intentional morons and genetically mentally handicapped ones, the line becomes much more blurry.
That's the problem. When my dog/chimp/robot is capable of doing more in society than your aunt with dementia, hard but important ethical questions must be addressed. And it should be fairly obvious that society has put off addressing those important questions.
Well, stop being such a dick then and volunteer your body for research.
Emergencies are the best time to pass significant legislation. If we can pass the Patriot Act from a single attack on US soil, why not use "thousands of dead people from lack of water" to get some nuke plants up and running?
>Batteries need to come down in cost before it makes sense to switch to an off-grid solution.
ALL HAIL IRON MAN. BUILDER OF LION BATTERIES.
There's a couple of issues. But I'm not a power systems engineer, so chime in if you are one.
If the control systems make the assumption that power will always be net positive--all work will be going in always and any fluctuations will still be overwhelmed by the amount of current indraw--then those meters, and the control station could have problems.
Think of it this way. Your power supply has a current source limit. It rarely publishes the current SINK limit. So if you plugged your 12-volt supply into your 5-volt supply (to get 12-5=7 volts) the 12-volt line would be sourcing, but instead of common, the 5-volt line would be sinking. The sink limit for a typical power supply voltage rail is MUCH smaller. You can have a 5 A rail that can only take a few milliamps of INPUT current. The key thing here is, power supplys typically have a direction.
For a more IT analogy, think about cable service. Cable comes from head end, hits distribution nodes, and then more nodes, and then finally the end node and to your house. Each one of those makes an assumption that you're not going to broadcast cable (not internet, but TV) from your house.
Second, end-node measurement. Power meters don't have to be designed to measure current both ways. That's an assumption made during manufacture. If you bought one of those nifty Kill-A-Watt meters and then ran current backwards, it would likely either not register it, OR register it still going forward. That's a serious problem for a power company. They can see reduced load using their existing system, they cannot see negative loads.
It's possible I'm wrong and they're great future thinkers or need negative power measurement as part of some sort of power systems. But I've not heard of it, so a Power Sys engineer chime in.
Moving along, let's be honest: Just because someone makes something does not mean it's compatible with the grid. You don't run one-off kernel drivers made by your neighbors. If someone hacks together some random garage equipment (and not some government certified power controller box) and plugs it into the grid, that grid is now touching everyone else's house nearby. Imagine water coming into your house, and all a sudden some guy in your neighborhood is pumping his well water back into your system. Would you want to drink that? Now clearly the stakes are a little less dangerous with electricity, but that guy can still muck up the line. He can add tons of noise to it, he can raise or lower the voltage level until the system can react--and if his changes faster than the system can react, it's not going away. I wonder if it's even possible that someone could use a system like that to "game" the correction system into swinging harder and damaging your components.
More on compatibility, it's not just current and voltage. There's power factor. There's noise. There's the shape of the power wave to begin with. (Also called noise.) Someone dumping square waves at the right voltage and current into your power line is going to cause problems. It's kind of like someone buying an Arduino and bit-blasting ethernet frames into a hub (Layer 1). Everyone shares those physical lines and if that Arduino doesn't do it exactly right, everyone's got problems.
The point with all of this scribble is that power grids are very specific and allowing anyone to plug in and generate power is like allowing anyone of your neighbors to share your water. If they're not careful, or don't even care, to match the requirements of the system, they can easily wreck havoc with it and you.
I am not even remotely saying it should be illegal to generate power. What I am saying is it should be very clear what the requirements of the grid are, and that anyone who violates those requirements should be fined, and repeat offenders kicked off the grid. I also think generators/controllers should be certified to work with the grid if they're not already.