Yeah. I've had keyboards on client machines with a power button right next to home and delete. It's the most insane, horrific thing ever.
You shouldn't be able to POWER DOWN A SERVER with a single keyboard press. You don't power down machines that often. You shouldn't even be able to restart Windows with a single accidental press by pressing the windows key and then a couple more keys (this has happened). You don't make "high risk, low occurrence" things faster... unless you're an idiot.
I, for one, want a button next to my volume control on my car radio, that disables my steering.
Ken Thompson's Reflections on Trust showed back in the 80's that you can have "clean" source code, and a tainted self-compiling compiler that produces tainted code from completely clean code.
5) Source code != security. Open source means it's easier to verify the SOURCE. It's not magically easy to verify the BINARY.
1) You clearly DON'T need source code to notice when people are opening connections every time you move the mouse. Because we wouldn't know about this at all if that was the case.
2) Having source code doesn't guarantee anyone is looking at it, or knows what to look for.
3) Having source code doesn't mean you have source for the entire toolchain or libraries.
4) Having source code is no proof that it matches the binary. https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~gange...
That's a damn good point. Pepe is being used in various protests. (IANAL but) I recall protest being the highest, most protected right of speech, like when that guy wrote a "Fuck you to the TSA" on his chest for when he got body scanned even though the airport was scared of "muh security".
If we really think you can take down Pepe, then shouldn't everyone burning a Trump face be sued into oblivion? And for another comparison, shouldn't every political cartoon be subject to banning? What's the difference between a political cartoon featuring a caricature to make a point, and a meme... featuring a caricature to make a point? I'm honestly out of ways to cut and slice it any further... political cartoons are 100% legal.
The "only" difference I can think of--if pressed--is someone might say some pepe memes are directly copy-and-pasting his original creation (and then added their derivative work). But what about all "pepe" memes that were written by hand by a new creator?
This guy is turning the Streisand effect up to 11. And the other posts about "who is funding it?" are really good questions to ask. Because this guy is either getting paid by someone, or, his fellow liberals are making his life a living hell and he's trying to "atone" for it to get them off his back. Because who gives a freakin' shit about a meme being used by other people? I mean, how many memes (containing OTHER'S copyrighted content) has this guy copied-and-pasted throughout his lifetime?
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Screw my active professional experience as an engineer. WE WANT THIS SILLY THING TO WORK. Fundamental physics don't exist. We can send rockets into space for a $1, if we only have more smart people on it.
If you think this practicing engineer is stupid, and you're ACTUALLY an unbiased, open-minded person. I dare you to simply Google "hyperloop won't work / busted" and watch some videos on YouTube.
What's next, Slashdot pretending solar roads are possible--completely ignoring the scientists and engineers screaming "it won't work!" (Google eevblog solar road.)
It's not an issue of SMARTS. It's an issue of PHYSICS. You can't outsmart physics. You can't make a car get 200 MPG and have it weigh 3,000 and shaped like a normal car. No matter how many people and billions you spend. The hyperloop is technologically COMPLEX multiplied by HUGE LENGTH. Those are two factors that DO NOT MESH.
Space stations are not a HUNDRED MILES LONG. And they cost BILLIONS for the relatively tiny machines they are to ensure they don't leak and kill the HIGHLY TRAINED crews--as opposed to a bunch of fat families going to Disney Land.
Is everyone left on this site a complete retard? Does anyone have professional engineering experience on their belt?
Watch all of the tests and "achievements." Making it to 70 MPH [sic] in a mile long tube by a bunch of (essentially) college students pulling a trolley on a wire in a vacuum. The "huge" achievement of getting vacuum in that tube.
We can't even keep pressurized OIL pipelines from leaking. How the hell do you VACUUM pressurize (way harder because air has no viscosity compared to thick oil) MILES of much larger radius pipeline and ensure enough for humans? It's insane in the face of it. Imagine a terrorist (or even a drunk driver) hitting it. Now realize that "hitting it" means protecting MILES upon MILES of area. It's hard enough to protect a single building from a terror attack (involving 300+ feet of distance and concrete from the road as bombs lose energy at the cube of distance.).
And it doesn't even have to be a terror attack. It can be a single, accidental drunk driver. It could be a TREE from say... this thing called a HURRICANE or other storm knocking it over. How often do we have power and internet outages from downed lines? The shear area we have to protect is physically unimaginable without a diagram.
We can't even keep our car tires from rupturing. And we're supposed to put _human beings_ inside 100+ mile long tires and hope they never pop?
(Not to try and turn this political but) Liberals understand the shear difficulty of keeping thick, slow moving, oil over a pipeline. Yet somehow are completely okay with super-high-speed machines, in a pure vacuum (ala no viscosity to save you), full of REAL HUMAN LIVES at stake.
Here's a video of a relatively SMALL container experiencing implosion collapse.
Now turn fill that with people and make it miles long. Even if they survive... how are you going to get them out? With jaws of life? And then what? The hyperloop is disabled until they replace the entire affected section, plus testing, plus a complete lack of public trust from then on.
...but by 2040 we're going to find out those plumes of black smoke coming out of the electric cars weren't actually delicious all-nature chocolate powder.
Except oh wait. If there was ANY useful evidence AT ALL they would be screaming it from podiums and ACTUALLY CHARGING THEM.
I've never seen a more bloodthirsty political environment and yet Democrats are still grasping at straws and swing their dicks in the dark hoping that somehow if they swing their dicks enough they'll eventually fuck a pussy.
A HUGE CAVEAT you've missed inside the middle of your words.
How LONG are we talking about both the [vacation] and the [period the company is in danger]. If you actually cut your logic into the two extremes, both have obvious answers.
If the company is crisis this week / month, taking LONG vacations is obvious a bad thing. Some guy partying 90% of the time is a dickhole.::cough:::Reddit staff (see "Internets Own Boy")::cough:: But a few days to clear your head when you're the one tasked with GENERATING IDEAS to save the entire company? Not bad. Your brain isn't a machine, you have to meet your other needs to keep it moving.
If the company is in crisis for a YEAR and keeps falling no matter what you do? Taking a few weeks or even a MONTH (pushing it) might be change of pace, environment, and social interactions that leads you to save your company.
Nobody is ACTUALLY debating that taking excessive vacation is wrong. "Excessive" being a variety of factors. What we're all debating is, thanks to the non-specific wording of parent posters / submission, COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SCENARIOS.
...I have no idea what to do. Almost every two weeks there's another major breach--that we KNOW of.
We basically have two choices. Use NOTHING in the modern world--not just websites but anything. Cellphones were hacked. CREDIT TRACKING companies were hacked. Everything. Or, basically just accept you're entire life is online even if you never post anything.
The third option would be, if we lived in a rational world with a non-inept government, would be to PIN THEIR ASSES TO THE WALL (the companies) until SECURITY becomes such a financial liability that full-time qualified security engineers (with regular 3rd party pentesting) are a business requirement for every medium to large size company. Make that shit LEGAL and the companies will follow.
But who am I kidding? Congress is a bunch of fucking retards. And the DOJ hasn't been pinning companies asses to the wall since Eric Holder got into Office. And I'm NO Bush fan! But remember when Enron management... WENT TO JAIL? Statistically (google it) prosecution of white collar crimes have dropped >20% AND this is at a time when we had the one of the largest financial collapses in our countries history and NO ONE GOES TO JAIL!? No laws change?! Nothing?!
It seems like every great corporation starts with great engineers.... and then slows down when it's filled with other people.
Look at Wikipedia. The majority of their payroll doesn't even go to servers or engineers. It goes to administration and "community outreach." They don't even make content--their users do.
Look at YouTube. They were a great startup and then... in the last 5 years, you can count the number of actual, useful , innovative features on one hand. Everything else has been incremental, or a complete fuck up inspired by morons in management.
C (and far worse, C++) compilation is incredibly I/O bound because of the insanely archaic include system (and preprocessor too) . I'm not even talking out of my ass. It's such a problem that Facebook and (IIRC) Google have both come up with custom solutions to try and reduce compile times because they're so insanely taxing on their day-to-day operations.
Fun side note: Andrei Alexandrescu and Walter Bright (creators behind the D language) were directly involved in helping Facebook improve their compile and linking problem.
And one of the main advantages for using D is actually compilation times, of which Facebook ported a large project over. In the previous link, they saw total project build times decrease by up to 40%. FORTY PERCENT.
Now I'm not saying "Everyone switch to D." But clearly there are issues in C (and worse C++) that become significant headaches for large codebases.
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Yeah. I've had keyboards on client machines with a power button right next to home and delete. It's the most insane, horrific thing ever.
You shouldn't be able to POWER DOWN A SERVER with a single keyboard press. You don't power down machines that often. You shouldn't even be able to restart Windows with a single accidental press by pressing the windows key and then a couple more keys (this has happened). You don't make "high risk, low occurrence" things faster... unless you're an idiot.
I, for one, want a button next to my volume control on my car radio, that disables my steering.
Wow. If you only understood how many fucked up things you said in a single post. Advoca
This site really is dead.
Slashdot ate the rest of my damn comment!
Ken Thompson's Reflections on Trust showed back in the 80's that you can have "clean" source code, and a tainted self-compiling compiler that produces tainted code from completely clean code.
5) Source code != security. Open source means it's easier to verify the SOURCE. It's not magically easy to verify the BINARY.
[PDF]
https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~gange...
I love the grandparent. It makes me chuckle.
1) You clearly DON'T need source code to notice when people are opening connections every time you move the mouse. Because we wouldn't know about this at all if that was the case.
2) Having source code doesn't guarantee anyone is looking at it, or knows what to look for.
3) Having source code doesn't mean you have source for the entire toolchain or libraries.
4) Having source code is no proof that it matches the binary. https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~gange...
That's a damn good point. Pepe is being used in various protests. (IANAL but) I recall protest being the highest, most protected right of speech, like when that guy wrote a "Fuck you to the TSA" on his chest for when he got body scanned even though the airport was scared of "muh security".
If we really think you can take down Pepe, then shouldn't everyone burning a Trump face be sued into oblivion? And for another comparison, shouldn't every political cartoon be subject to banning? What's the difference between a political cartoon featuring a caricature to make a point, and a meme... featuring a caricature to make a point? I'm honestly out of ways to cut and slice it any further... political cartoons are 100% legal.
The "only" difference I can think of--if pressed--is someone might say some pepe memes are directly copy-and-pasting his original creation (and then added their derivative work). But what about all "pepe" memes that were written by hand by a new creator?
This guy is turning the Streisand effect up to 11. And the other posts about "who is funding it?" are really good questions to ask. Because this guy is either getting paid by someone, or, his fellow liberals are making his life a living hell and he's trying to "atone" for it to get them off his back. Because who gives a freakin' shit about a meme being used by other people? I mean, how many memes (containing OTHER'S copyrighted content) has this guy copied-and-pasted throughout his lifetime?
The above comment has been rated -1 Too Truthful for Slashdot.
Screw my active professional experience as an engineer. WE WANT THIS SILLY THING TO WORK. Fundamental physics don't exist. We can send rockets into space for a $1, if we only have more smart people on it.
If you think this practicing engineer is stupid, and you're ACTUALLY an unbiased, open-minded person. I dare you to simply Google "hyperloop won't work / busted" and watch some videos on YouTube.
What's next, Slashdot pretending solar roads are possible--completely ignoring the scientists and engineers screaming "it won't work!" (Google eevblog solar road.)
It's not an issue of SMARTS. It's an issue of PHYSICS. You can't outsmart physics. You can't make a car get 200 MPG and have it weigh 3,000 and shaped like a normal car. No matter how many people and billions you spend. The hyperloop is technologically COMPLEX multiplied by HUGE LENGTH. Those are two factors that DO NOT MESH.
Space stations are not a HUNDRED MILES LONG. And they cost BILLIONS for the relatively tiny machines they are to ensure they don't leak and kill the HIGHLY TRAINED crews--as opposed to a bunch of fat families going to Disney Land.
Is everyone left on this site a complete retard? Does anyone have professional engineering experience on their belt?
I'm not kidding.
Watch all of the tests and "achievements." Making it to 70 MPH [sic] in a mile long tube by a bunch of (essentially) college students pulling a trolley on a wire in a vacuum. The "huge" achievement of getting vacuum in that tube.
We can't even keep pressurized OIL pipelines from leaking. How the hell do you VACUUM pressurize (way harder because air has no viscosity compared to thick oil) MILES of much larger radius pipeline and ensure enough for humans? It's insane in the face of it. Imagine a terrorist (or even a drunk driver) hitting it. Now realize that "hitting it" means protecting MILES upon MILES of area. It's hard enough to protect a single building from a terror attack (involving 300+ feet of distance and concrete from the road as bombs lose energy at the cube of distance.).
And it doesn't even have to be a terror attack. It can be a single, accidental drunk driver. It could be a TREE from say... this thing called a HURRICANE or other storm knocking it over. How often do we have power and internet outages from downed lines? The shear area we have to protect is physically unimaginable without a diagram.
We can't even keep our car tires from rupturing. And we're supposed to put _human beings_ inside 100+ mile long tires and hope they never pop?
(Not to try and turn this political but) Liberals understand the shear difficulty of keeping thick, slow moving, oil over a pipeline. Yet somehow are completely okay with super-high-speed machines, in a pure vacuum (ala no viscosity to save you), full of REAL HUMAN LIVES at stake.
Here's a video of a relatively SMALL container experiencing implosion collapse.
https://youtu.be/0N17tEW_WEU?t...
Now turn fill that with people and make it miles long. Even if they survive... how are you going to get them out? With jaws of life? And then what? The hyperloop is disabled until they replace the entire affected section, plus testing, plus a complete lack of public trust from then on.
...but by 2040 we're going to find out those plumes of black smoke coming out of the electric cars weren't actually delicious all-nature chocolate powder.
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stereotypes are used because they actually work.
You're 100%. There's tons of proof they colluded.
Except oh wait. If there was ANY useful evidence AT ALL they would be screaming it from podiums and ACTUALLY CHARGING THEM.
I've never seen a more bloodthirsty political environment and yet Democrats are still grasping at straws and swing their dicks in the dark hoping that somehow if they swing their dicks enough they'll eventually fuck a pussy.
When Facebook was censoring posts, and taking down insane things under the pretext of "hate speech" you never heard a peep from the liberals.
Now there's a chance of a Russia connection so OMFG WE WANT ANSWERS!
"While their company is tanking."
A HUGE CAVEAT you've missed inside the middle of your words.
How LONG are we talking about both the [vacation] and the [period the company is in danger]. If you actually cut your logic into the two extremes, both have obvious answers.
If the company is crisis this week / month, taking LONG vacations is obvious a bad thing. Some guy partying 90% of the time is a dickhole. ::cough:::Reddit staff (see "Internets Own Boy") ::cough:: But a few days to clear your head when you're the one tasked with GENERATING IDEAS to save the entire company? Not bad. Your brain isn't a machine, you have to meet your other needs to keep it moving.
If the company is in crisis for a YEAR and keeps falling no matter what you do? Taking a few weeks or even a MONTH (pushing it) might be change of pace, environment, and social interactions that leads you to save your company.
Nobody is ACTUALLY debating that taking excessive vacation is wrong. "Excessive" being a variety of factors. What we're all debating is, thanks to the non-specific wording of parent posters / submission, COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SCENARIOS.
...I have no idea what to do. Almost every two weeks there's another major breach--that we KNOW of.
We basically have two choices. Use NOTHING in the modern world--not just websites but anything. Cellphones were hacked. CREDIT TRACKING companies were hacked. Everything. Or, basically just accept you're entire life is online even if you never post anything.
The third option would be, if we lived in a rational world with a non-inept government, would be to PIN THEIR ASSES TO THE WALL (the companies) until SECURITY becomes such a financial liability that full-time qualified security engineers (with regular 3rd party pentesting) are a business requirement for every medium to large size company. Make that shit LEGAL and the companies will follow.
But who am I kidding? Congress is a bunch of fucking retards. And the DOJ hasn't been pinning companies asses to the wall since Eric Holder got into Office. And I'm NO Bush fan! But remember when Enron management... WENT TO JAIL? Statistically (google it) prosecution of white collar crimes have dropped >20% AND this is at a time when we had the one of the largest financial collapses in our countries history and NO ONE GOES TO JAIL!? No laws change?! Nothing?!
Google "IBM and the Holocaust"
I know people who run NT 4 in a VM. Maybe you should use a better VM, or a better install ISO.
Do you boot into DOS to play DOS games?
So... Wine? or QEMU?
Who is going to boot into a full OS just to run an old emulator?
VIDEO ON THE INTERNET?
JESUS CHRIST.
They may have removed open source but they LEAKED THE AMAZING IDEA.
Expect countless competitors yesterday!
THIS JUST IN.
CPU marketed for amateur servers NOT PRICE EFFECTIVE FOR GAMES. ::mind explodes::
It seems like every great corporation starts with great engineers. ... and then slows down when it's filled with other people.
Look at Wikipedia. The majority of their payroll doesn't even go to servers or engineers. It goes to administration and "community outreach." They don't even make content--their users do.
Look at YouTube. They were a great startup and then... in the last 5 years, you can count the number of actual, useful , innovative features on one hand. Everything else has been incremental, or a complete fuck up inspired by morons in management.
How many times did you run the test?
It's most likely I/O bound too.
C (and far worse, C++) compilation is incredibly I/O bound because of the insanely archaic include system (and preprocessor too) . I'm not even talking out of my ass. It's such a problem that Facebook and (IIRC) Google have both come up with custom solutions to try and reduce compile times because they're so insanely taxing on their day-to-day operations.
Fun side note: Andrei Alexandrescu and Walter Bright (creators behind the D language) were directly involved in helping Facebook improve their compile and linking problem.
https://code.facebook.com/post...
And one of the main advantages for using D is actually compilation times, of which Facebook ported a large project over. In the previous link, they saw total project build times decrease by up to 40%. FORTY PERCENT.
Now I'm not saying "Everyone switch to D." But clearly there are issues in C (and worse C++) that become significant headaches for large codebases.