Not really applicable here: pointing out that the problem isn't about a certain ideology but general corruption and mismanagement doesn't even touch the subject if it is a true X ( X = whatever).
Windows NT was developed with better security than Unix from scratch. The permission mechanism is very powerful (too powerful according to some) compared to the basic Unix mechanism (root all powerful, users are members of groups, RWX rights, wheel to patch that up some). So no, not _always_ a late adopter. Compared to Unix that is - which I assume is what you like to compare to? Multics did a lot of security work back in the days but was mostly derided by the Unixians. Keykos with its capability system was also pretty damn secure if correctly configured etc.
Some (but not all) SVGA cards had a sprite for the mouse pointer, the VGA standard didn't.
The big problem of using software drawn mouse pointers on the normal PC was that there wasn't a vertical blank interrupt on most VGA and SVGA cards (the original IBM VGA did support it IIRC but strangely it wasn't copied in the clones). That meant that there wasn't a guarantee that the drawing of the pointer was complete in a certain displayed frame leading to flicker and tearing. Compatible code had to assume that the only way to synchronize with a frame was polling. Polling wasn't cheap then and it is even worse now (it uses an unusual feature of the x86 architecture, a separate I/O address space - handled very slow today for some reason), using double buffering wasn't trivial either even though the hardware would handle the buffer flip. One could simulate a VBL by timing a video frame with a timer and then set the timer to go off a little bit earlier than the start of the next frame - the interrupt handler would then poll the graphics card till the frame actually started, adjust the timer and call the drawing code. That wastes processor cycles and removes a precious timer for other use. Nowadays there are a lot of different timers available in the PC standard, back then there were very few and some (e.g. the RTC periodical timer) wasn't generally reliable.
The easy solution was to add one limited hardware sprite. Well adding a VBL interrupt would have been even easier for the graphics card manufacturer but getting an extra interrupt allocated back then wasn't realistic as a general solution.
There is no need for written history to know the climate in the past. So that is irrelevant. Also something local to the northern hemisphere isn't global per definition.
Why not do some basic research before writing things like this? Wikipedia is an okay start.
There are no resource problems. It's a myth. It's the same as people complaining about increasing population in the US will soon lead to space problems - when the US is sparsely populated and have extreme amounts of resources not being used today.
Often (don't know if it applies to you) this is actually a complaint that the current society model will not continue unmodified in the future. That is true - already there are problems in certain hotspots where water and energy are consumed or rather wasted in extreme amounts. But that isn't a real problem, the world have always changed and we have changed with it.
Resources are available - we just need to learn to use them wisely even if that means moving people to other locations instead of e.g. settling in a desert environment and transporting water, food and electricity for watering grass, overeating in the extreme and cooling inefficient buildings.
Emojis as generally used in forums, social media and phone-based messages are idiotic crap. Not only are there 10Gi versions of emojis (to make sure one can select a specific type that nobody knows what it actually means) but they look different on different platforms to ensure that not even those that would like to learn every single (useless) emoji have any chance to master the crap.
ASCII emojis are sometimes useful to add _some_ extra information and (if not automagically translated to animated crap as referenced above) is universal, WYSIWYG. Sure there are a lot of extra ASCII based crap too but they aren't used in practice, the crap mentioned above _ARE_ being used widely by idiots that can't understand that actually writing down what is to be communicated is better than using an obscure symbol...
And here we go further in effort to obfuscate communication by allowing the idiots to make more crap. Holy fucking shit is this scary!
(Or something like that - much more efficient IMHO;)> )
First: it's not the "left" you are referring to, liberals are a better word but not correct either (using the definitions used in the rest of the world) Second: it's mostly the extreme right that do those kinds of trolling. You should know that as you posted the above post yourself.
It have also been long suspected that UN strives for world domination and have plans to take control of the US via military force, that aliens insert tracking chips into people and that the MIB goes around harassing people that "knows" this with silent black helicopters.
IT'S. NOT. LOGICAL.
Stop giving in to shitty conspiracy theories - there's no need for them. If there were secret backdoors inserted in hardware and software then we would know it, stopping such information from leaking via the engineers building the things would be impossible. Add to this the fact that many hardware designs are created and manufactured abroad or (not that unusual) as a co-operation between several teams in several countries. How could leaks be stopped unless all the governments in question work together and wipe the minds of the engineers after the designs are done? That's simply crazy!
It is more likely that the companies doesn't want to release the data as: . they haven't documented it well enough. . they don't want to add extra work for documentation for external consumption. . they don't want to waste money on something that will not earn them extra money. . there are hacks and holes in the specification that they don't want others to see. (not backdoor holes - crappy code holes) . they don't want to have problems with people using the hardware out-of-spec, something that can lead to serious legal problems. . they don't want competitors to see how they solved some hardware, software or hardware-software problem. Trade secrets are a thing. . they don't want competitors to see that they use patented technology without license.
Of course there may be _some_ hardware manufacturer that is forced (as it would be a liability for them) to insert backdoors from a goverment agency, hard to prove otherwise. But again that would be either an unusual exception for an unusual case as otherwise the reveal of such backdoors from a certain country will lead to quick and hard economical problems. E.g. a processor manufacturer may suddenly get no orders from abroad and other processor manufacturers will be suspected to also have backdoors. Do you realize the impact that could have?
Eh, no. UEFI implementations have been "hacked"* several times but AFAIK there is no instance of the security processor being tampered with.
(* back in the days we used to assume that access to hardware == access to the computer, it's just that hardware/software makes that much harder to do than before)
So you are a beer snob. Budweiser are excellent thirst quenchers on a hot summer day, works better than water IMHO and it tastes somewhat like beer too.
No the logic is the same as a suspect ordered to unlock a safe/hidden room/car etc. having to do that. If the locked space then contains something illegal it is valid evidence however the suspect isn't being forced to say there are illegal stuff there.
Or to make the comparison even easier: if police have a search warrant they have to be provided access to a location, failure to give that access is in itself a criminal act. Here the police have a search warrant for the disks and aren't given access to them.
The only way the analogy fails is that it is possible to genuinely forget a password. Well a key can be dropped too but it is easier to do a search of the suspects belongings than searching their memories...
But, this guy should be in jail. He put the lives of others at risk. He says he has no regrets.
What do you mean? Everybody who drives a car puts the lives of others at risk, the moment they start up their car and drive onto the public street with other cars.
That's why there's something called a drivers license.
Don't see very many of them in jail.
If you go driving without a license or with one but ignoring safety for you and/or others then you are likely to get put in jail.
So how is this guy and a Lawnchair putting other peoples' lives at any higher risk?
First: by not having any way to control the flight path - that's the main one, Second: by not informing pilots that he could fly into their path, Third: by not having a license to pilot an aircraft, Fourth: by moving into a dimension (up) where there, unlike ground vehicles, there is only a few dangers (birds) and unlike birds aircraft aren't constructed to survive impacts of a stupid guy in a chair.
Well I guess more people can identify with and be horrified at the thought of getting their penis stuck in a hole... That accounts for about 50% of the readers and the rest are more interested in some light entertainment that doesn't require using their brain I guess.
Or alternatively the readers are perhaps so upset how fucked up the world is at the moment and just want to occupy their thoughts for a while? I'm hoping it's the later.
That's cute. One day you will look back at that post and realize how fucking st... Wait, your an USian? And sitting in your mothers basement, unshaved, unwashed in your "Trump the truth" t-shirt and your "White is right" cap? Well... I guess your definition is _right_ then.
Sun, HP, DEC, and others would disagree. You don't seem to recall what the situation was at the time.
They did memory protection on the 8088? Nope. Sun did with extra hardware, two 68k processors and a shitload of ca$h. Not for personal computers though. Even if the IBM PC cost a lot the price of a Sun workstation would have most normal people running away screaming...
> Again MSDOS supported what the hardware provided. While 640KiB is the "accepted" limit in the IBM PC
"In the IBM PC". Plenty of other machines supported a full 32 bit address space. You don't seem to recall what the situation was at the time.
Yes I do. What system are you thinking of? It isn't a reasonable priced _personal_ computer, that's for sure. Even the 68k based systems available at approximately the same time had an address space of 16MiB (or 24 bit). Actual addressable memory was of course much less and even less were installed in real personal computers - as memory cost a lot of ca$h. -- I'm surprised that you don't complain that Microsoft didn't support vector processing in MSDOS. After all there were vectors computers available at the time. But not for personal computing and not for the masses.
> The Internet that nobody had access to you mean?
No, the internet that was growing leaps and bounds while Microsoft tried to marginalize it with their own proprietary network. You don't seem to recall what the situation was at the time.
Hmm? No. The Internet took of when the WWW started, before that it was BBS, AOL etc. that was available for common people. Yes if one really wanted there were dial-up Internet connections before but for a lot of ca$h and relatively little useful stuff (Usenet+email+FTP mostly).
First I call bullshit on your black and white description of politicians. You may remember it like that (and other people too) but what I remember is strong anti-AGW advocates admitting that _some_ contributions could be due to human activities. The AGW (scientific) group will almost always at least indirectly point out that some effects could be natural.
And then I will call bullshit one the later part too. It isn't reasonable to assume, without backing evidence, that an issue _is_ a grey area. Without supporting evidence that some natural process (or processes) lead to increased global temperatures it could be that the AGW is so strong that a natural cooling process is disrupted. So unless your bit-of-both claim includes 0% and negative percentages it simply isn't a reasonable position.
I'm actually feeling that this is a serious thing (even though you apparently don't). Why should men be more exposed to physical violence than women (ignoring the case where men behave more aggressively)? Why is it "acceptable" (not in the legal meaning) for women to beat their boyfriends/husbands but not vise versa?
Assholes that use violence against others are assholes no matter what gender they and their victim have, and it should be treated the same socially and legally.
BTW I really do think this and a lot of other social memes are a problem for the egalitarian society.
Yes? As much as I'm ready to do it on a man. Mind you I'm not the OP and the level of provocation needed is probably much higher than it is for the OP (or maybe not - people talk tough on the Internet). To use physical force I'd have to be in a situation when talking someone calm isn't working, there being a threat to me, another person or (expensive) physical property, then the force would be in the order of physically keeping the person in control (just standing in the way) to holding the person still to (if really needed) pushing and/or hitting the person.
And yes that applies to either gender, it's the level of threat that makes the difference.
Naive? Nope. FBI and other agencies would be very angry if the CIA did stuff they aren't authorized to do. And of course CIA do use those tools against US citizens, they are allowed to and required to do so in some circumstances.
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The concept of socialism doesn't even require a government to exist...
Not really applicable here: pointing out that the problem isn't about a certain ideology but general corruption and mismanagement doesn't even touch the subject if it is a true X ( X = whatever).
"Score:5, Insightful" - yeah right. Way to not understand anything of the article...
The rest of your post is so ludicrous I'll not take time to point out how you can't understand anything else either...
Windows NT was developed with better security than Unix from scratch. The permission mechanism is very powerful (too powerful according to some) compared to the basic Unix mechanism (root all powerful, users are members of groups, RWX rights, wheel to patch that up some). So no, not _always_ a late adopter. Compared to Unix that is - which I assume is what you like to compare to? Multics did a lot of security work back in the days but was mostly derided by the Unixians. Keykos with its capability system was also pretty damn secure if correctly configured etc.
Some (but not all) SVGA cards had a sprite for the mouse pointer, the VGA standard didn't.
The big problem of using software drawn mouse pointers on the normal PC was that there wasn't a vertical blank interrupt on most VGA and SVGA cards (the original IBM VGA did support it IIRC but strangely it wasn't copied in the clones). That meant that there wasn't a guarantee that the drawing of the pointer was complete in a certain displayed frame leading to flicker and tearing.
Compatible code had to assume that the only way to synchronize with a frame was polling. Polling wasn't cheap then and it is even worse now (it uses an unusual feature of the x86 architecture, a separate I/O address space - handled very slow today for some reason), using double buffering wasn't trivial either even though the hardware would handle the buffer flip. One could simulate a VBL by timing a video frame with a timer and then set the timer to go off a little bit earlier than the start of the next frame - the interrupt handler would then poll the graphics card till the frame actually started, adjust the timer and call the drawing code. That wastes processor cycles and removes a precious timer for other use. Nowadays there are a lot of different timers available in the PC standard, back then there were very few and some (e.g. the RTC periodical timer) wasn't generally reliable.
The easy solution was to add one limited hardware sprite. Well adding a VBL interrupt would have been even easier for the graphics card manufacturer but getting an extra interrupt allocated back then wasn't realistic as a general solution.
There is no need for written history to know the climate in the past. So that is irrelevant. Also something local to the northern hemisphere isn't global per definition.
Why not do some basic research before writing things like this? Wikipedia is an okay start.
There are no resource problems. It's a myth. It's the same as people complaining about increasing population in the US will soon lead to space problems - when the US is sparsely populated and have extreme amounts of resources not being used today.
Often (don't know if it applies to you) this is actually a complaint that the current society model will not continue unmodified in the future. That is true - already there are problems in certain hotspots where water and energy are consumed or rather wasted in extreme amounts. But that isn't a real problem, the world have always changed and we have changed with it.
Resources are available - we just need to learn to use them wisely even if that means moving people to other locations instead of e.g. settling in a desert environment and transporting water, food and electricity for watering grass, overeating in the extreme and cooling inefficient buildings.
You are doing it wrong - here's how you do it:
Emojis as generally used in forums, social media and phone-based messages are idiotic crap. Not only are there 10Gi versions of emojis (to make sure one can select a specific type that nobody knows what it actually means) but they look different on different platforms to ensure that not even those that would like to learn every single (useless) emoji have any chance to master the crap.
ASCII emojis are sometimes useful to add _some_ extra information and (if not automagically translated to animated crap as referenced above) is universal, WYSIWYG. Sure there are a lot of extra ASCII based crap too but they aren't used in practice, the crap mentioned above _ARE_ being used widely by idiots that can't understand that actually writing down what is to be communicated is better than using an obscure symbol...
And here we go further in effort to obfuscate communication by allowing the idiots to make more crap. Holy fucking shit is this scary!
(Or something like that - much more efficient IMHO ;)> )
First: it's not the "left" you are referring to, liberals are a better word but not correct either (using the definitions used in the rest of the world)
Second: it's mostly the extreme right that do those kinds of trolling. You should know that as you posted the above post yourself.
It have also been long suspected that UN strives for world domination and have plans to take control of the US via military force, that aliens insert tracking chips into people and that the MIB goes around harassing people that "knows" this with silent black helicopters.
IT'S. NOT. LOGICAL.
Stop giving in to shitty conspiracy theories - there's no need for them. If there were secret backdoors inserted in hardware and software then we would know it, stopping such information from leaking via the engineers building the things would be impossible. Add to this the fact that many hardware designs are created and manufactured abroad or (not that unusual) as a co-operation between several teams in several countries. How could leaks be stopped unless all the governments in question work together and wipe the minds of the engineers after the designs are done? That's simply crazy!
It is more likely that the companies doesn't want to release the data as:
. they haven't documented it well enough.
. they don't want to add extra work for documentation for external consumption.
. they don't want to waste money on something that will not earn them extra money.
. there are hacks and holes in the specification that they don't want others to see. (not backdoor holes - crappy code holes)
. they don't want to have problems with people using the hardware out-of-spec, something that can lead to serious legal problems.
. they don't want competitors to see how they solved some hardware, software or hardware-software problem. Trade secrets are a thing.
. they don't want competitors to see that they use patented technology without license.
Of course there may be _some_ hardware manufacturer that is forced (as it would be a liability for them) to insert backdoors from a goverment agency, hard to prove otherwise. But again that would be either an unusual exception for an unusual case as otherwise the reveal of such backdoors from a certain country will lead to quick and hard economical problems. E.g. a processor manufacturer may suddenly get no orders from abroad and other processor manufacturers will be suspected to also have backdoors. Do you realize the impact that could have?
Eh, no. UEFI implementations have been "hacked"* several times but AFAIK there is no instance of the security processor being tampered with.
(* back in the days we used to assume that access to hardware == access to the computer, it's just that hardware/software makes that much harder to do than before)
So you are a beer snob. Budweiser are excellent thirst quenchers on a hot summer day, works better than water IMHO and it tastes somewhat like beer too.
No the logic is the same as a suspect ordered to unlock a safe/hidden room/car etc. having to do that. If the locked space then contains something illegal it is valid evidence however the suspect isn't being forced to say there are illegal stuff there.
Or to make the comparison even easier: if police have a search warrant they have to be provided access to a location, failure to give that access is in itself a criminal act. Here the police have a search warrant for the disks and aren't given access to them.
The only way the analogy fails is that it is possible to genuinely forget a password. Well a key can be dropped too but it is easier to do a search of the suspects belongings than searching their memories...
I wonder why wikileaks doesn't leak the agreement terms?
But, this guy should be in jail. He put the lives of others at risk. He says he has no regrets.
What do you mean? Everybody who drives a car puts the lives of others at risk, the moment they start up their car
and drive onto the public street with other cars.
That's why there's something called a drivers license.
Don't see very many of them in jail.
If you go driving without a license or with one but ignoring safety for you and/or others then you are likely to get put in jail.
So how is this guy and a Lawnchair putting other peoples' lives at any higher risk?
First: by not having any way to control the flight path - that's the main one, Second: by not informing pilots that he could fly into their path, Third: by not having a license to pilot an aircraft, Fourth: by moving into a dimension (up) where there, unlike ground vehicles, there is only a few dangers (birds) and unlike birds aircraft aren't constructed to survive impacts of a stupid guy in a chair.
Well I guess more people can identify with and be horrified at the thought of getting their penis stuck in a hole... That accounts for about 50% of the readers and the rest are more interested in some light entertainment that doesn't require using their brain I guess.
Or alternatively the readers are perhaps so upset how fucked up the world is at the moment and just want to occupy their thoughts for a while? I'm hoping it's the later.
That's cute. One day you will look back at that post and realize how fucking st... Wait, your an USian? And sitting in your mothers basement, unshaved, unwashed in your "Trump the truth" t-shirt and your "White is right" cap? Well... I guess your definition is _right_ then.
> The hardware didn't support memory protection
Sun, HP, DEC, and others would disagree. You don't seem to recall what the situation was at the time.
They did memory protection on the 8088? Nope. Sun did with extra hardware, two 68k processors and a shitload of ca$h. Not for personal computers though. Even if the IBM PC cost a lot the price of a Sun workstation would have most normal people running away screaming...
> Again MSDOS supported what the hardware provided. While 640KiB is the "accepted" limit in the IBM PC
"In the IBM PC". Plenty of other machines supported a full 32 bit address space. You don't seem to recall what the situation was at the time.
Yes I do. What system are you thinking of? It isn't a reasonable priced _personal_ computer, that's for sure. Even the 68k based systems available at approximately the same time had an address space of 16MiB (or 24 bit). Actual addressable memory was of course much less and even less were installed in real personal computers - as memory cost a lot of ca$h.
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I'm surprised that you don't complain that Microsoft didn't support vector processing in MSDOS. After all there were vectors computers available at the time. But not for personal computing and not for the masses.
> The Internet that nobody had access to you mean?
No, the internet that was growing leaps and bounds while Microsoft tried to marginalize it with their own proprietary network. You don't seem to recall what the situation was at the time.
Hmm? No. The Internet took of when the WWW started, before that it was BBS, AOL etc. that was available for common people. Yes if one really wanted there were dial-up Internet connections before but for a lot of ca$h and relatively little useful stuff (Usenet+email+FTP mostly).
At least I remember gopher...
The proper paper should have error bars and assumptions listed. Otherwise I'd assume they are 100% unreliable.
First I call bullshit on your black and white description of politicians. You may remember it like that (and other people too) but what I remember is strong anti-AGW advocates admitting that _some_ contributions could be due to human activities. The AGW (scientific) group will almost always at least indirectly point out that some effects could be natural.
And then I will call bullshit one the later part too. It isn't reasonable to assume, without backing evidence, that an issue _is_ a grey area. Without supporting evidence that some natural process (or processes) lead to increased global temperatures it could be that the AGW is so strong that a natural cooling process is disrupted. So unless your bit-of-both claim includes 0% and negative percentages it simply isn't a reasonable position.
I'm actually feeling that this is a serious thing (even though you apparently don't). Why should men be more exposed to physical violence than women (ignoring the case where men behave more aggressively)? Why is it "acceptable" (not in the legal meaning) for women to beat their boyfriends/husbands but not vise versa?
Assholes that use violence against others are assholes no matter what gender they and their victim have, and it should be treated the same socially and legally.
BTW I really do think this and a lot of other social memes are a problem for the egalitarian society.
Yes? As much as I'm ready to do it on a man. Mind you I'm not the OP and the level of provocation needed is probably much higher than it is for the OP (or maybe not - people talk tough on the Internet). To use physical force I'd have to be in a situation when talking someone calm isn't working, there being a threat to me, another person or (expensive) physical property, then the force would be in the order of physically keeping the person in control (just standing in the way) to holding the person still to (if really needed) pushing and/or hitting the person.
And yes that applies to either gender, it's the level of threat that makes the difference.
Wouldn't one need to be retarded to think the CIA wouldn't do their job? Really...
There's no need to assassinate the character of Mr. Assange, he is doing a swell job himself with all lying, backstabbing behavior etc.
Naive? Nope. FBI and other agencies would be very angry if the CIA did stuff they aren't authorized to do. And of course CIA do use those tools against US citizens, they are allowed to and required to do so in some circumstances.