This guy is a modern hero. He works extremely hard to make the world a better place. He's well-spoken, selfless, and kind. I'm glad people like Louis Rossmann are out there in the world, doing what they do.
He reminds me a bit of Mister Rogers. Someone who you can look to and say: "This is how all people should be. This is how all people should act." And then smile.
Thanks for helping us out, Louis. I hope we can find some ways to help you out, too. Remember, don't be hesitant to take help from people. There are a lot of us in your court.
Android File Transfer sometimes fails (for no known reason and unsearchable solution) transferring files to the Mac, so I pop out the SD card, put it in a card reader, and I'm fine.
If my phone dies, I buy a replacement, put the SD card in, and all my music/pictures are there. I have a 128GB MicroSD card, so there's a lot of music and pictures (and videos) on there.
No MicroSD card slot == No Sale for me, too. At least until there is no phone with a MicroSD slot. Then I guess I'll figure out how to deal with the shit sandwich I've been given.
Ah, yes, the one fellow who wiped away a trillion dollars of value. What do you call it when something loses a trillion dollars of value, solely due to the actions of the people who hold full ownership of the thing? A bubble.
It seems there's a small class of people from whom, if you shift value to yourself, will guarantee you become a criminal, even an international one. And another large class of people from whom, if you shift value to yourself, will guarantee wealth.
The 2008 mortgage-backed securities fiasco contrasted against this case is very telling. Where's the list of names of who went to prison in 2008-2009? From whom did they make most of their money?
Birds, when ill, will feign being perfectly healthy right up until they drop dead. Many humans, when ill, will feign being healthy until they can no longer hold up the façade and fall over unconscious.
Most animals, when witnessing another similar animal that is very ill, will react with revulsion and fear.
It's prossibly* a result of a few millions years of natural selection. Those who stay away from their brethren when ill tend to live, whereas those that stick around and contract the disease tend to die and/or limit their reproductive potential.
I think a lot of the scary shit humans do comes down to these sort of innate psychological traits. They're left over from an era that no longer exists and is largely irrelevant (not entirely irrelevant, see Norovirus and Influenza etc etc).
*prossibly: it was a typo that I decided, as a sexual descendant of possibly and probably, was a good word and deserved to live.
As to the above drama about mixing measuring units, the article says:
These images are also at least twice as sharp as what the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) can make because the 6.5m Magellan telescope is much larger than the 2.4m HST.
So there you go. Both measurements in Imperial European Units.
But then I read on, and was pretty stoked to see them discovering things like this.
MagAO was then used to map out all the positions of the brightest nearby Orion Trapezium cluster stars and was able to detect very small motions compared to older LBT data, a result of the stars slowly revolving around each other. Indeed, a small group of stars called Theta 1 Ori B1-B4 was proved to be likely a bound “mini-cluster” of stars that will likely eject the lowest mass star in the near future (see figure 4). This result has just been published in the Astrophysical Journal.
Nice! I'd love to see a time-lapse video over the course of the next million years watching this black sheep star get flung out of its little flock.
I know, I shouldn't feed the troll. But since trolls are tireless, we must be also tireless in trying to talk sense.
It isn't stealing. When I steal, you don't have what I took from you.
The copyright contract has been broken. It is specifically mandated to be for a LIMITED TIME. Since copyrights are now unlimited, there is no longer an obligation to follow copyright.
The justifications aren't tortured. At this point, the justifications of the copyright cartel are pretty tortured, though.
The people actually producing the art work don't get much compensation for their work. The copyright cartel makes sure of that. Musicians don't get their royalties, and film crews are constantly the victims of bizarro accounting rules where no matter what happens, the film always "lost money."
And your flippant dismissal of calling politicians corrupt flies in the face of extremely extensive and well-documented history.
What do you call the opposite of a tinfoil hatter? Someone who in the face of overwhelming evidence still believes the lies of the slave driver? A Stockholmer? This is you. Welcome to your new label.
Clearly what they are doing (the airport officials) isn't right. But so far as I can tell, airport officials have made a career of doing wrong things and saying it's in our favour. From little things like taking away our water, to major things like irradiating us. It's a little disconcerting.
Mod this up. These people aren't "conspiracy theorists" anymore. When in doubt, you should assume a theory about the US gov't spying on you is true. The burden of proof is on the person suggesting the UNLIKELY event: aka the government acting above-board.
RTFA. If the user doesn't buy in a few days, they delete the domain- doesn't cost them anything.
Before you say "RTFA" maybe you should consider perhaps TFA is gone? Both URLs posted in the description give us "page is borked!" error HTMLs. There's no FA to R.
Are we no longer allowed to have any secrets, even on our own systems? In a fascist police state, you are not allowed to have privacy or secrets. I thought we'd agreed the (lack of) utility of a fascist police state after World War II, but apparently we've all changed our minds.
The eastern philosophies argue that all phenomena, from electrical activity in the brain, to the existence of rocks, are chaotic, always in flux. In other words, you are a different 'you' for every moment of your existence.
I would argue this is absolutely true. The reason we are blind to it is hinted at by an old saying: to predict the weather tomorrow, it's pretty safe to say it will be exactly the same as today.
The "you" at any given moment in time is very much like the "you" that immediately preceded it, but you are different in significant, even if imperceptible ways. It merely takes a camera, diary, or other such recording device to help you see that you are, indeed, a fully different person.
Yeah, this web 2.0 thing is just crap. I mean, you have a multimillion dollar company, and you try to get a bunch of people on the internet excited about your stupid sauce product, and no-one seems to have any enthusiasm for your boring corporate image whatsoever.
All eight people on the internet that ARE excited about your stupid sauce product are just mediocre media creators without the creative vision required to make your stupid sauce product look hip and cool.
Obviously we should just move directly on to web 3.0, where everyone is fucking stoked about sauce products. The top DJs of the world will do entire sets themed on ketchup, mayonnaise, and mustard. Beautiful runway models will gyrate and make kissing faces at your stupid sauce product.
Hells yeh, babies. No more of this web 2.0 BS. It just wasn't all it was cracked up to be.
But some +5 commenter pointed out what the 8 points against were, and they sounded lame. Another commenter actually listed 8 real problems with MySQL. But no matter how you slice it, the biggest, baddest, most ass kicking websites on the planet* are powered by MySQL. So... uh... deal with the reality. MySQL isn't going away.
Maybe I'm alone in this or something, but clicking the mouse doesn't hurt my wrists at all after 20 years of using computers. It's holding the mouse button down while moving the mouse that hurts.
Even if I use a trackball, I get the same problem (but in a different area of the wrist).
Either these people are way off the mark, or I am more unique than I'd like to be.
You know, I don't think it's a catch-22 if you jump into the water, insult everyone in earshot, and piss them off so that they all hate you. I think that's called painting yourself in a corner.
So who's gonna extend a helping hand and get the RIAA out of the corner? I guess it's time for another metaphor. The metaphor of the drowning man.
...[he] stopped criminals from defrauding the 2004 presidential campaign.... Hi. FBI? I hate to break this to you, but the 2004 presidential campaign was defrauded. Your guy tricked you into thinking it was stopped. I suggest you re-open the investigation.
You know, a lot of people talk about how crappy the United States is becoming, and compare it to Orwell. I don't think that's really an apt comparison. What you really want to do is watch Terry Gilliam's "Brazil." Don't worry. The movie really has nothing to do with Brazil. Instead it's a black comedy about what the future is going to be like (or, for the pessimist, what the present is already like).
Every time I watch it, I'm horrified. It tried to show a future society that is almost comicly inept in just about everything it does EXCEPT totally fuck up peoples' lives. It's far less comedy now, and more like a documentary on current events.
Seriously. Give it a watch if you care at all about privacy, rights, the superiority of a person over an institution, or such things. And perhaps we can all start talking about how our societies are becoming more Gilliamesque, rather than Orwellian.
Anyone who read this article summary and who has been subscribing to the Cryptogram almost knows verbatim the answer:
When the burden of a security breach lies on another party, that is called an externality. The other party bears all the pain of the security breach, and so security is never improved.
Bruce Schneier has covered this topic in GREAT detail over the past several years. He knows exactly what will happen if customers bear the brunt of pain over this. Things will get worse. There is historical precedent. There's no unanswered question here.
The banks, who have all the control over the security, need to bear 100% the burden of security breaches.
Wow. I notice no-one's replied to you. Those are EXACTLY the questions I'd ask. I can get Linux working on just about any laptop on the face of the planet.
But I have never seen Linux suspend to disk (or suspend in *ANY* fashion, actually) without hosing on restart. I'm currently running Ubuntu on an IBM (Lenovo) which should have the best Linux support out there, and I can only suspend the laptop once. The second time I do, I have to power it off and reboot. Not useful.
I haven't even bothered with trying to get 3D working on it.
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This guy is a modern hero. He works extremely hard to make the world a better place. He's well-spoken, selfless, and kind. I'm glad people like Louis Rossmann are out there in the world, doing what they do.
He reminds me a bit of Mister Rogers. Someone who you can look to and say: "This is how all people should be. This is how all people should act." And then smile.
Thanks for helping us out, Louis. I hope we can find some ways to help you out, too. Remember, don't be hesitant to take help from people. There are a lot of us in your court.
Louis Rossman.
This.
Android File Transfer sometimes fails (for no known reason and unsearchable solution) transferring files to the Mac, so I pop out the SD card, put it in a card reader, and I'm fine.
If my phone dies, I buy a replacement, put the SD card in, and all my music/pictures are there. I have a 128GB MicroSD card, so there's a lot of music and pictures (and videos) on there.
No MicroSD card slot == No Sale for me, too. At least until there is no phone with a MicroSD slot. Then I guess I'll figure out how to deal with the shit sandwich I've been given.
Ah, yes, the one fellow who wiped away a trillion dollars of value. What do you call it when something loses a trillion dollars of value, solely due to the actions of the people who hold full ownership of the thing? A bubble.
It seems there's a small class of people from whom, if you shift value to yourself, will guarantee you become a criminal, even an international one. And another large class of people from whom, if you shift value to yourself, will guarantee wealth.
The 2008 mortgage-backed securities fiasco contrasted against this case is very telling. Where's the list of names of who went to prison in 2008-2009? From whom did they make most of their money?
I watched the video. I don't know why this is rated "informative" instead of "funny."
I laughed a lot and was very cheered up. So thanks for improving my mood. But it does seem somewhat... offtopic.
Wow. This needs to be modded up for the subject line, if nothing else. That's the best short analogy I've ever seen.
Yeah, that's going to happen. 1.2 billion people. Every one of them will voluntarily hand over their fingerprints and eyeprints.
Methinks either "voluntary" or "every one" is being grossly misrepresented here.
Time for me to go to my voluntary re-education classes sponsored by the Ministry of Love.
Birds, when ill, will feign being perfectly healthy right up until they drop dead. Many humans, when ill, will feign being healthy until they can no longer hold up the façade and fall over unconscious.
Most animals, when witnessing another similar animal that is very ill, will react with revulsion and fear.
It's prossibly* a result of a few millions years of natural selection. Those who stay away from their brethren when ill tend to live, whereas those that stick around and contract the disease tend to die and/or limit their reproductive potential.
I think a lot of the scary shit humans do comes down to these sort of innate psychological traits. They're left over from an era that no longer exists and is largely irrelevant (not entirely irrelevant, see Norovirus and Influenza etc etc).
*prossibly: it was a typo that I decided, as a sexual descendant of possibly and probably, was a good word and deserved to live.
That is precisely when children are NOT cute.
...I keep trying but no matter how hard I work at it, no useful syllables are formed.
This probably encompasses the user experience of an MSNokia phone, so maybe that's apropos.
As to the above drama about mixing measuring units, the article says:
These images are also at least twice as sharp as what the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) can make because the 6.5m Magellan telescope is much larger than the 2.4m HST.
So there you go. Both measurements in Imperial European Units.
But then I read on, and was pretty stoked to see them discovering things like this.
MagAO was then used to map out all the positions of the brightest nearby Orion Trapezium cluster stars and was able to detect very small motions compared to older LBT data, a result of the stars slowly revolving around each other. Indeed, a small group of stars called Theta 1 Ori B1-B4 was proved to be likely a bound “mini-cluster” of stars that will likely eject the lowest mass star in the near future (see figure 4). This result has just been published in the Astrophysical Journal.
Nice! I'd love to see a time-lapse video over the course of the next million years watching this black sheep star get flung out of its little flock.
I know, I shouldn't feed the troll. But since trolls are tireless, we must be also tireless in trying to talk sense.
It isn't stealing. When I steal, you don't have what I took from you.
The copyright contract has been broken. It is specifically mandated to be for a LIMITED TIME. Since copyrights are now unlimited, there is no longer an obligation to follow copyright.
The justifications aren't tortured. At this point, the justifications of the copyright cartel are pretty tortured, though.
The people actually producing the art work don't get much compensation for their work. The copyright cartel makes sure of that. Musicians don't get their royalties, and film crews are constantly the victims of bizarro accounting rules where no matter what happens, the film always "lost money."
And your flippant dismissal of calling politicians corrupt flies in the face of extremely extensive and well-documented history.
What do you call the opposite of a tinfoil hatter? Someone who in the face of overwhelming evidence still believes the lies of the slave driver? A Stockholmer? This is you. Welcome to your new label.
Clearly what they are doing (the airport officials) isn't right. But so far as I can tell, airport officials have made a career of doing wrong things and saying it's in our favour. From little things like taking away our water, to major things like irradiating us. It's a little disconcerting.
Mod this up. These people aren't "conspiracy theorists" anymore. When in doubt, you should assume a theory about the US gov't spying on you is true. The burden of proof is on the person suggesting the UNLIKELY event: aka the government acting above-board.
Before you say "RTFA" maybe you should consider perhaps TFA is gone? Both URLs posted in the description give us "page is borked!" error HTMLs. There's no FA to R.
The "you" at any given moment in time is very much like the "you" that immediately preceded it, but you are different in significant, even if imperceptible ways. It merely takes a camera, diary, or other such recording device to help you see that you are, indeed, a fully different person.
Yeah, this web 2.0 thing is just crap. I mean, you have a multimillion dollar company, and you try to get a bunch of people on the internet excited about your stupid sauce product, and no-one seems to have any enthusiasm for your boring corporate image whatsoever.
All eight people on the internet that ARE excited about your stupid sauce product are just mediocre media creators without the creative vision required to make your stupid sauce product look hip and cool.
Obviously we should just move directly on to web 3.0, where everyone is fucking stoked about sauce products. The top DJs of the world will do entire sets themed on ketchup, mayonnaise, and mustard. Beautiful runway models will gyrate and make kissing faces at your stupid sauce product.
Hells yeh, babies. No more of this web 2.0 BS. It just wasn't all it was cracked up to be.
But some +5 commenter pointed out what the 8 points against were, and they sounded lame. Another commenter actually listed 8 real problems with MySQL. But no matter how you slice it, the biggest, baddest, most ass kicking websites on the planet* are powered by MySQL. So... uh... deal with the reality. MySQL isn't going away.
* Google.
* Yahoo.
* Digg**.
** Yeh, I'm the Digg DBA.
Maybe I'm alone in this or something, but clicking the mouse doesn't hurt my wrists at all after 20 years of using computers. It's holding the mouse button down while moving the mouse that hurts.
Even if I use a trackball, I get the same problem (but in a different area of the wrist).
Either these people are way off the mark, or I am more unique than I'd like to be.
You know, I don't think it's a catch-22 if you jump into the water, insult everyone in earshot, and piss them off so that they all hate you. I think that's called painting yourself in a corner.
So who's gonna extend a helping hand and get the RIAA out of the corner? I guess it's time for another metaphor. The metaphor of the drowning man.
...[he] stopped criminals from defrauding the 2004 presidential campaign.... Hi. FBI? I hate to break this to you, but the 2004 presidential campaign was defrauded. Your guy tricked you into thinking it was stopped. I suggest you re-open the investigation.--
Captain Obvious
You know, a lot of people talk about how crappy the United States is becoming, and compare it to Orwell. I don't think that's really an apt comparison. What you really want to do is watch Terry Gilliam's "Brazil." Don't worry. The movie really has nothing to do with Brazil. Instead it's a black comedy about what the future is going to be like (or, for the pessimist, what the present is already like).
Every time I watch it, I'm horrified. It tried to show a future society that is almost comicly inept in just about everything it does EXCEPT totally fuck up peoples' lives. It's far less comedy now, and more like a documentary on current events.
Seriously. Give it a watch if you care at all about privacy, rights, the superiority of a person over an institution, or such things. And perhaps we can all start talking about how our societies are becoming more Gilliamesque, rather than Orwellian.
Anyone who read this article summary and who has been subscribing to the Cryptogram almost knows verbatim the answer:
When the burden of a security breach lies on another party, that is called an externality. The other party bears all the pain of the security breach, and so security is never improved.
Bruce Schneier has covered this topic in GREAT detail over the past several years. He knows exactly what will happen if customers bear the brunt of pain over this. Things will get worse. There is historical precedent. There's no unanswered question here.
The banks, who have all the control over the security, need to bear 100% the burden of security breaches.
Wow. I notice no-one's replied to you. Those are EXACTLY the questions I'd ask. I can get Linux working on just about any laptop on the face of the planet.
But I have never seen Linux suspend to disk (or suspend in *ANY* fashion, actually) without hosing on restart. I'm currently running Ubuntu on an IBM (Lenovo) which should have the best Linux support out there, and I can only suspend the laptop once. The second time I do, I have to power it off and reboot. Not useful.
I haven't even bothered with trying to get 3D working on it.