Hitler was 1/4 Jewish on his mother's side. He was an impoverished loser just trying to survive right up until the outbreak of WW1 - that allowed him to volunteer and be looked after. The Jews looked after each other, they gave each other work and generally made sure that they were doing ok. If he had been half-jewish he would have had access to that network. Hate, hate, froths at mouth, hate, hate . . .
Hitler came out of WW1 in a far better situation than before the war. To his mind, war had allowed his natural qualities to show through and he floated to the top. War was g-o-o-d.
War was good and the Jews were bad. Everything was s-o-o-o simple. He took over a minor party, spread the word and made it so. All the lies they told, all means to justify their insane ends.
This article appears to be written by someone who understands neither the German legal system nor (probably) the language.
Germany has public prosecutors, I think the US has the same system. This lawyer is in private practice. He has essentially gone to the law-enforcement authorities with a complaint. I looked up a German-language source and it is the second time he has tried this, the first one was in Hamburg last year and it was kicked around for a year before being dropped for "formal reasons". btw, the article I found was dated 30 September - it just took a while for some English-language site to notice.
No big deal.
Finally, a Frank Herbert quote? "Eternal sloppiness is the price of liberty". People moan that Google (+ Youtube) is too quick to delete content, people moan that Facebook is too slow. The Norwegian head of state recently got really stroppy with Facebook because they had censored that well known full-frontal picture of a naked girl running down the road after a napalm attack in Vietnam. It is not possible to get this one right.
That assumes prescience, but you always have to expect the unexpected.
I can think of a very good reason *for* this bill - the excerable habit U.S. legislators have of adding totally unrelated "riders" to bills. If this helps to stop that practice, go for it. As for the opposition, the quote comes down to: "I'm against it because he wants it, waaaaaaa".
Microsoft considers my Windows machines to be vehicles for their updates, they think I only purchased the PCs for that purpose. The Windows 10 machine breaking the dual-boot Linux installation should be actionable - it is probably time to restart the monopoly anti-trust proceedings.
Nope. Windows 7 - I believe 8.1 as well - allows you to not install updates. In fact that is the only way it works for me now, their brand new unified update for October was automatically backed out by my system so I can no longer apply their updates. That is withdrawal of support by the back door.
The "ich bin ein Björk" is a German thinking the Greenland national anthem is Icelandic, it is the one between them which no-one has worked out. Not wanting to do a statistical analysis of this, but this story seems to have attracted a very high proportion of a/c postings. Most of said postings are slanted the same way, rather like stories which involve Russia attract large numbers of postings from the Leningrad Troll House.
What surprises me here is that the National Geographic Channel is majority-owned by Murdoch's News Corp and has been for over 5 years. This makes reports more credible that the National Geographic Society "still maintains complete editorial control".
As to whether it is happening or not: I have lived in the same area since 1982 and there have been major changes in the temperatures here in that time, in particular in the last 5-10 years. It is generally warmer and a higher incidence of heavy rain showers in summer, with or without thunder and lightning. Wildlife is changing as well, I really hope malaria does not make it up here.
But, just as eBay used semantic hair-splitting and legal trickery to escape the responsibilities of auctioneers, Amazon will do the same to escape the responsibilities of being a store.
They will try. There was an article here a week or so about 90% of Apple chargers sold over Amazon being fakes, I saw an article in a German computer magazine (C't) a year or two ago saying 100% of the Samsung batteries they bought online were fakes of wildly variable quality. The German magazine informed Amazon, they did nothing.
Anything can happen in a jury trial and this one has the potential to really hurt Amazon.
A German computer magazine called C't was checking on Amazon products a year or two ago, I'm pretty sure it was Samsung batteries they were testing. They bought a selection of batteries from a selection of third-party sellers and were expecting some of them to be fakes. What they were not expecting was that every single battery was a fake, it was just that some of the fakes were better (in terms of product quality) than others. They reported this to Amazon. Nothing changed - the same vendors were selling the same products weeks later.
I remember reading reports of the U.S. Power-Utility companies bitching like hell when they were forced to hook outlying farms to their networks. Of course the numbers involved were completely different.
There was a Dilbert cartoon which fits that. The company bid low and won a contract to provide wireless services to some area, then pointy head passed the task of implementing this on to the techs. "how difficult can it be not to have to put up wires"?
ATMs - or anything else relying on plastic money - were not working either. So how will some of the A/Cs here - the ones making "moron" comments - cope the next time a major storm hits the area where their parents' basements are and floods them out?
The first time I was confronted with C I was shocked - they check for binary zero as a string terminator? seriously? wtf? I studied compilers and languages (amongst other things) in the 70's and that one decision - which Dennis Ritchie has since said he very much regrets - flies against everything we were being taught. Of course C had been released a year earlier but I don't remember it being mentioned directly as something to avoid. What else was there?
Pascal with its fixed-length strings was certainly not the answer.
Algol68 never achieved critical mass although it had a hell of a lot going for it.
Fortran (the 1977 standard, not earlier versions) was/is a decent language.
PL/1 was designed to run on IBM 360/370s and its deficiencies tended to be mandated by the hardware inadequacies.
I can't remember what some of the other offerings were even called nowadays.
I have worked on a line of computers where the OS was written in pre-1977 Fortran and some assembler, later versions of the OS were written in PL/1 but I had moved on by then. We were taught that the compiler should take care of a lot of the error-checking for you and when I do any programming nowadays, the languages I use still do that. Some have runtime array-checking as an option at compile time, one you can turn off later if you feel the need. Works for me and has done for decades now. I try and avoid languages where a subroutine cannot ask how long argument n is. Several of the things we were taught turned out to be bad ideas but not that one. If only Algol68 had made it, there would be no code-obfustication competitions there.
Two points here: - I live under a rock but I still knew about the breach months ago, there was an article here about the hack and I passed it on to a Yahoo Group I am a member of. - Yahoo themselves are claiming that it was something along the lines of a state-sponsored group which hacked them. Well, they would say that - there is very little shame associated with being hacked by a top group of hackers with huge funds. Personally I doubt it but you never know, and Yahoo probably don't know either.
I read the article here a couple of days ago where he "outed" the pair and got the impression that vDOS had been active for more than just two years.
Brian Krebs writes that he has obtained the hacked database of an Israeli company that is responsible for most of the large-scale DDoS attacks over the past (at least) 4 years.
They are 18 now? Most of their misdeeds would have been performed as minors, and I'm a bit sceptical that they started when they were (at most) 14.
I use Mozilla and was mostly happy with it until they dropped the "decide on the expiry date of cookies at runtime" option a couple of months ago. Now I use ESR and am hoping an alternative - or add-on - turns up. Experimenting with Chrome shows me where the more idiotic of the recent changes arose, at least Firefox has about:config to turn most of them off again. Who cares about logos? The whole discussion indicates that their priorities have gone south.
Last year - in particular the start of July and August - we had the highest temperatures ever recorded here. This year has been a few degrees cooler, the thunderstorms in May and June stopped the temperatures running away.
Elsewhere? No idea.
I glanced at a forum recently which claimed to have found proof that global warming is really fiction. It was some community site in Oregon. The crazy thing was, the posters to that forum were serious.
This story brought to you courtesy of paperless tickets. Yes they are cheaper, yes it is simpler if people can print their own tickets, but the IT has to be up and running. I remember an airline IT outage back in September 2004, there was a bug in the OS's error-handling routine for a particular class of error. This had all been tested with this particular OS level and had worked, but they had been forced to change the OS configuration to accomodate some new software and the bug was in place. Moving to new discs required a reboot, an additional configuration error caused problems. If it had been fixed within (I think) 90 minutes all would have been fine. The outage was 8 hours. Passengers turned up at the airports with their paper tickets and were allowed to board. Any pre-allocated seating was ignored. People were laughing about flying the way things used to be, a good time was had by most.
Then came paperless tickets. The next outage had effects more like those we see in this case.
You got it. Some of their other updates have broken my system, but at least they back themselves out again automatically (and in again, and out . . . far be it for me to speculate on the sex life of the peons in Redmond)
I seem to remember this was introduced in the aftermath of 9/11 and am surprised that people have widely forgotten about it. Luckily that 100-miles-from-the-border applies within the U.S., I was in southern BC recently and probably less than 5 miles from the U.S.
Someone would take them over and re-interpret all existing rights and responsibilities (warranties) to fit their own purposes. I can see John Deere going out of business rather quickly if they don't adopt a more sensible business model.
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Hitler was 1/4 Jewish on his mother's side. He was an impoverished loser just trying to survive right up until the outbreak of WW1 - that allowed him to volunteer and be looked after.
The Jews looked after each other, they gave each other work and generally made sure that they were doing ok. If he had been half-jewish he would have had access to that network. Hate, hate, froths at mouth, hate, hate . . .
Hitler came out of WW1 in a far better situation than before the war. To his mind, war had allowed his natural qualities to show through and he floated to the top. War was g-o-o-d.
War was good and the Jews were bad. Everything was s-o-o-o simple. He took over a minor party, spread the word and made it so.
All the lies they told, all means to justify their insane ends.
who is in private practice.
This is his second attempt, the first one was in October 2015 (German language). Here is a link for the new one dated 30 September (also German). The difference appears to be that the Munich prosecutors are actually looking at it.
This article appears to be written by someone who understands neither the German legal system nor (probably) the language.
Germany has public prosecutors, I think the US has the same system. This lawyer is in private practice. He has essentially gone to the law-enforcement authorities with a complaint. I looked up a German-language source and it is the second time he has tried this, the first one was in Hamburg last year and it was kicked around for a year before being dropped for "formal reasons".
btw, the article I found was dated 30 September - it just took a while for some English-language site to notice.
No big deal.
Finally, a Frank Herbert quote? "Eternal sloppiness is the price of liberty".
People moan that Google (+ Youtube) is too quick to delete content, people moan that Facebook is too slow. The Norwegian head of state recently got really stroppy with Facebook because they had censored that well known full-frontal picture of a naked girl running down the road after a napalm attack in Vietnam. It is not possible to get this one right.
That assumes prescience, but you always have to expect the unexpected.
I can think of a very good reason *for* this bill - the excerable habit U.S. legislators have of adding totally unrelated "riders" to bills. If this helps to stop that practice, go for it.
As for the opposition, the quote comes down to: "I'm against it because he wants it, waaaaaaa".
Microsoft considers my Windows machines to be vehicles for their updates, they think I only purchased the PCs for that purpose. The Windows 10 machine breaking the dual-boot Linux installation should be actionable - it is probably time to restart the monopoly anti-trust proceedings.
Nope. Windows 7 - I believe 8.1 as well - allows you to not install updates.
In fact that is the only way it works for me now, their brand new unified update for October was automatically backed out by my system so I can no longer apply their updates. That is withdrawal of support by the back door.
The "ich bin ein Björk" is a German thinking the Greenland national anthem is Icelandic, it is the one between them which no-one has worked out.
Not wanting to do a statistical analysis of this, but this story seems to have attracted a very high proportion of a/c postings. Most of said postings are slanted the same way, rather like stories which involve Russia attract large numbers of postings from the Leningrad Troll House.
What surprises me here is that the National Geographic Channel is majority-owned by Murdoch's News Corp and has been for over 5 years. This makes reports more credible that the National Geographic Society "still maintains complete editorial control".
As to whether it is happening or not: I have lived in the same area since 1982 and there have been major changes in the temperatures here in that time, in particular in the last 5-10 years. It is generally warmer and a higher incidence of heavy rain showers in summer, with or without thunder and lightning. Wildlife is changing as well, I really hope malaria does not make it up here.
But, just as eBay used semantic hair-splitting and legal trickery to escape the responsibilities of auctioneers, Amazon will do the same to escape the responsibilities of being a store.
They will try.
There was an article here a week or so about 90% of Apple chargers sold over Amazon being fakes, I saw an article in a German computer magazine (C't) a year or two ago saying 100% of the Samsung batteries they bought online were fakes of wildly variable quality.
The German magazine informed Amazon, they did nothing.
Anything can happen in a jury trial and this one has the potential to really hurt Amazon.
Amazon pimps these devices, taking their cut. They are just as culpable as the original sellers.
A German computer magazine called C't was checking on Amazon products a year or two ago, I'm pretty sure it was Samsung batteries they were testing. They bought a selection of batteries from a selection of third-party sellers and were expecting some of them to be fakes. What they were not expecting was that every single battery was a fake, it was just that some of the fakes were better (in terms of product quality) than others.
They reported this to Amazon.
Nothing changed - the same vendors were selling the same products weeks later.
I remember reading reports of the U.S. Power-Utility companies bitching like hell when they were forced to hook outlying farms to their networks. Of course the numbers involved were completely different.
There was a Dilbert cartoon which fits that. The company bid low and won a contract to provide wireless services to some area, then pointy head passed the task of implementing this on to the techs. "how difficult can it be not to have to put up wires"?
ATMs - or anything else relying on plastic money - were not working either.
So how will some of the A/Cs here - the ones making "moron" comments - cope the next time a major storm hits the area where their parents' basements are and floods them out?
The first time I was confronted with C I was shocked - they check for binary zero as a string terminator? seriously? wtf?
I studied compilers and languages (amongst other things) in the 70's and that one decision - which Dennis Ritchie has since said he very much regrets - flies against everything we were being taught. Of course C had been released a year earlier but I don't remember it being mentioned directly as something to avoid.
What else was there?
I have worked on a line of computers where the OS was written in pre-1977 Fortran and some assembler, later versions of the OS were written in PL/1 but I had moved on by then.
We were taught that the compiler should take care of a lot of the error-checking for you and when I do any programming nowadays, the languages I use still do that. Some have runtime array-checking as an option at compile time, one you can turn off later if you feel the need. Works for me and has done for decades now. I try and avoid languages where a subroutine cannot ask how long argument n is.
Several of the things we were taught turned out to be bad ideas but not that one.
If only Algol68 had made it, there would be no code-obfustication competitions there.
Two points here:
- I live under a rock but I still knew about the breach months ago, there was an article here about the hack and I passed it on to a Yahoo Group I am a member of.
- Yahoo themselves are claiming that it was something along the lines of a state-sponsored group which hacked them. Well, they would say that - there is very little shame associated with being hacked by a top group of hackers with huge funds. Personally I doubt it but you never know, and Yahoo probably don't know either.
What is the market for this?
I read the article here a couple of days ago where he "outed" the pair and got the impression that vDOS had been active for more than just two years.
Brian Krebs writes that he has obtained the hacked database of an Israeli company that is responsible for most of the large-scale DDoS attacks over the past (at least) 4 years.
They are 18 now? Most of their misdeeds would have been performed as minors, and I'm a bit sceptical that they started when they were (at most) 14.
I use Mozilla and was mostly happy with it until they dropped the "decide on the expiry date of cookies at runtime" option a couple of months ago. Now I use ESR and am hoping an alternative - or add-on - turns up. Experimenting with Chrome shows me where the more idiotic of the recent changes arose, at least Firefox has about:config to turn most of them off again.
Who cares about logos? The whole discussion indicates that their priorities have gone south.
Last year - in particular the start of July and August - we had the highest temperatures ever recorded here.
This year has been a few degrees cooler, the thunderstorms in May and June stopped the temperatures running away.
Elsewhere? No idea.
I glanced at a forum recently which claimed to have found proof that global warming is really fiction. It was some community site in Oregon. The crazy thing was, the posters to that forum were serious.
This story brought to you courtesy of paperless tickets. Yes they are cheaper, yes it is simpler if people can print their own tickets, but the IT has to be up and running.
I remember an airline IT outage back in September 2004, there was a bug in the OS's error-handling routine for a particular class of error. This had all been tested with this particular OS level and had worked, but they had been forced to change the OS configuration to accomodate some new software and the bug was in place. Moving to new discs required a reboot, an additional configuration error caused problems. If it had been fixed within (I think) 90 minutes all would have been fine. The outage was 8 hours.
Passengers turned up at the airports with their paper tickets and were allowed to board. Any pre-allocated seating was ignored. People were laughing about flying the way things used to be, a good time was had by most.
Then came paperless tickets. The next outage had effects more like those we see in this case.
You got it.
Some of their other updates have broken my system, but at least they back themselves out again automatically (and in again, and out . . . far be it for me to speculate on the sex life of the peons in Redmond)
I seem to remember this was introduced in the aftermath of 9/11 and am surprised that people have widely forgotten about it. Luckily that 100-miles-from-the-border applies within the U.S., I was in southern BC recently and probably less than 5 miles from the U.S.
Someone would take them over and re-interpret all existing rights and responsibilities (warranties) to fit their own purposes. I can see John Deere going out of business rather quickly if they don't adopt a more sensible business model.
No-one would buy from them under those circumstances.
Who are the competition? Are they being just as asinine?