The trade deficit with China last year was $365 billion. With an all out 100% trade war, China loses $365 billion more than we do. How is that winning? We have the upper hand since currently we are the ones giving them net money.
You really have no idea how economies and trade wars work, do you?
If you think that it's simply a matter of "net money", I have some very sad news for you my friend.
"Microsoft Says Windows 10 Version 1607 is The Most Secure Windows Ever"
Yeah, and and they should be able to say this about version 1608, and 1609, and 1610....so what? Every later version SHOULD be more secure than the previous versions.
It's like saying that "on my next birthday I'll be older than I was on my last birthday".
And yet the car makers haven't changed the name of cruise control, despite some initial confusion.
Yeah, but it took 40 years of car crashes for that to sink in.
The fact is that when most people hear "autopilot" they think of it as something that will literally drive the car for them with no attention required. Using that terminology is going to cause accidents.
Why not avoid another 40 years of crashes by just naming it something that isn't misleading?
And secretary of education Ben Carson doesn't believe in: evolution, climate science, physics, geology or history.
Jesus fucking hell....please tell me he's not really thinking of appointing Dr Dumbfuck to be the secretary of education, is he?
Carson is one of THE stupidest people I've ever seen in my life. The notion that he could actually be one of the moving parts in our government is depressing as shit.
It's funny- all the time and energy and thought they put into the various copy protection schemes and none of it worked. Most stuff was copied and/or cracked within a week, maybe two. I don't recall a single piece of software that couldn't be cracked or copied.
I don't expect systemd to be fixed, ever, but in 5 years you can expect the CADT team to invent a yet another init scheme, with even more regressions, and force everyone to transition to it.
Lets call it dmetsys; it'll use double-encypted log and config files with a proprietary unlock key that costs $75 per bootup.
All config directives will be in Sumerian, but the values will be written in Sicilian Arabic.
Documentation must be done solely in Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Finally, any configuration mistake should trigger an automatic format of all attached hard drives.
339 million accounts, but 338.8 million were fake accounts with pictures of large-breasted women who were eager to have sex with me. And they all live "near" me, even though I live on the International Space Station in low-Earth orbit.
Memories. Remember the laser hole copy protection scheme? That was a simple hex editor hack to get around.
I don't recall that one offhand. I remember fuzzy sectors, duplicate sectors, duplicate tracks, "impossible" sectors and tracks, and a few others. I remember a few apps that had embedded-key licensing schemes that you could overcome just by hex editing a character or two.
I remember a tank game that had a printed page of tank silhouettes that was dark red on black so as to make it impossible to photocopy. (This was back when Photoshop didn't exist and scanners were $2000 or more.) I called the company and told them I was visually impaired and they mailed me a black-and-white copy of the page, which was promptly photocopied and distributed. Later it was cracked so it skipped over asking you to match a random onscreen tank with one on the key page.
I cut out the middleman by not having a Twitter account, lol.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't want to "follow" anyone. I don't care what their next bon mot or timeless bit of 140-character wisdom will be. I don't want to be interrupted every minute or so by hearing about someone's "awesome lunch" or what their cat did or how Biff and Mandy are breaking up again. I guess it boils down to the fact that I just don't care.
I've looked through a lot of Twitter comments in the last several years and although some of them are witty, entertaining, or useful, the majority (99.999999999999%) aren't. Twitter is the confetti of the internet and the flakes of gold leaf are far and few between.
I'm just not willing to sift through all that noise to find something of value. It's like looking for something to watch on Netflix- it seems like I spend way more time looking than watching.
I have shit to do, I can't spend my life tapping out replies to everyone who just bought a breakfast bagel. But for those who do like Twitter and do find it useful or whatever, more power to ya.
Yep, Myron Ebell doesn't believe in climate change and Mike Pence doesn't believe in evolution. What a fantastic start we're off to.
(Not to mention that proposed Chief of Staff Steve Bannon doesn't believe in equality, Trump himself doesn't believe in the First Amendment, and likely Secretary of the Interior Sarah Palin doesn't believe in vowels or coherent sentences.)
I'll be darned if I can reliably tell whether that hot chick I see on the street is 24 or 14.
It's not just you. They sure don't look like they did when I was younger.
I see young women in stores and yeah, they could be 15 or they could be in their 20s. And they're a lot more curvy or buxom or whatever than I remember them being when I was in high school or junior high. Some scientific studies are claiming that the age of puberty is dropping, so maybe that's it.
"At the turn of the 20th century, the average age for an American girl to get her period was 16 to 17. Today, that number has plummeted to less than 13, according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey."
"Navinder Sarao abused sophisticated technology to make a quick profit, and jeopardised the integrity of US financial markets," said Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell.
TRANSLATION:
"Only we get to fuck with the integrity of US financial markets." - Wall Street Bankers
Even had a tool I had made that was like a hole punch but the punch was square and it had a frame to automatically position it correctly on the disk. I wonder where that is now?
Yep, that was it...I had one of these (although you could use a hole-punch or scissors too). Mine was, I think, called a "Nibbler" or "Notcher" and they were about $5 at the software stores. Mine is no doubt packed in the box with the rest of my system.
Lol, "software stores", truly a blast from the past.
Yes kids, they actually had software stores that were filled with racks and racks of 5.25" disks in plastic sleeves. There were racks for games, utilities, business apps, "artists tools", and misc stuff. A lot of it was Shareware. Remember Shareware?
A lot of stores would let you rent disks for a couple of bucks a week, but you had to promise that you wouldn't copy them (lol). Of course we copied them, that was the ONLY reason you'd ever rent a disk.:)
A Happy Drive and a copy of Diskey, woo hoo! It would even replicate disks with "fuzzy sectors" by duplicating the sectors that were supposed to be fuzzy. I copied a shitload of stuff in my time, and patched lots more to knock out the copy protection.
Back then we considered copy protection to be a bug, and you know what you do when you find a bug...you go in and root it out.:)
I have a complete system Atari 800 system with loads of software and one of the "Happy Drives" (used for duping copy-protected software). Everything is there, power supplies, tons of carts, manuals, plus all the cables and joysticks and stuff. It's all packed into some well-sealed boxes. I don't know if the disks are any good anymore though since it's all been packed away for about 35+ years or so. Maybe a collector would want it.
If they seek psychiatric help, the doctor is required to report them. So they stay untreated in the shadows.
This is a good point. They've made it dangerous for these people to seek treatment (not that many of them do, but still...).
In a way I almost feel sorry for them. We don't pick what we like or what we're attracted to, and it seems clear that most pedophiles are driven by urges far beyond conscious choice. (I mean, who would consciously choose to be attracted to children? No one, that's who.)
So obviously we can't let them do what they want to do (molest children), but at the same time we should recognize that they're not in control of what they want. That appears to be something that's baked into their personality from the start.
Just look at these guys on "To Catch A Predator"- many of them have seen the shows and are even worried that the "girl" they're going to meet is in fact a setup, and they still go. What does that tell you? It tells you that they'll ignore their own reasoning for a chance to fulfill their desires. That's an obvious sign of a mental disorder.
So you're right- pedophiles shouldn't be made to be afraid to seek treatment, or as you point out, they'll stay untreated in the shadows. And that benefits no one, especially the children they'll eventually victimize.
The easiest thing to do is to patch the DNC, replacing Clinton with Sanders. That would have solved the other situation.
Damn straight. Sanders would have obliterated Trump.
The worst part of this whole debacle has to be placed squarely on the shoulders of a sleazy triumvirate consisting of Hillary Clinton herself, the DNC, and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. This crooked cabal of cheaters worked their dirty little magic behind the scenes to torpedo Bernie Sanders, a much-loved candidate with no baggage who would have easily mopped the floor with Donald Trump. The unethical behavior and malicious tactics that Clinton, Shultz, and the DNC used to exclude him undermined the very foundations of the democratic process.
Bernie Sanders has no financial baggage and no ties to Wall Street. Bernie Sanders has a spotless voting record. Bernie Sanders was the ONLY candidate that didn't have a Super PAC funding him. Bernie Sanders has the respect of his peers in and out of Congress. Bernie Sanders is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history. Finally, Bernie Sanders is likable. A lot of the people that voted for Hillary absolutely hated her.
Most Democrats know in their hearts it's true: Bernie Sanders would have won.
But honestly, I don't miss the whole BBS thing except as an exercise in nostalgia. I had a 300 baud modem on an Atari 800 and you could literally watch the characters coming across the phone line slow enough to read. You could also turn the baud rate down to anything you wanted, and sometimes it was fun to turn it down to 10 or 20 baud so we could laugh at the data stream between bong hits.
What needs to be changed is the minds of people who think that the feature set is completely autonomous and capable of high-level decision-making.
It'll be easier and more effective to call it something that doesn't imply that it's an actual autopilot than it will be to educate hundreds of millions of people.
Call it Driver Assist, Assisted Steering, something like that would probably help people realize that it's not an actual autopilot. The word "auto" or even "pilot" tend to imply a level of autonomy that will mislead people (even those who probably ought to know better). Part of this is all the hype in the media about "self driving" cars which tends to make people think that these things are actually self-driving. They are to some extent, but with significant limitations.
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These are probably the same type of people who thought that "Cruise Control" meant that the car was able of controlling their "cruise"
Exactly, which is all the more reason to call it something other than an "autopilot".
Right now, I'd bet that more than 2% of USAian drivers think they can do all that in their non-auto-anything car.
Yes, and all of those things are illegal, falling under "negligent driving" or other similar statutes. Just because you think you can do it doesn't mean you can (or should).
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You have to balance failure rates against rates of existence in the entire dataset.
Be sure to explain that to the doctors in the Emergency Room while they're trying to save your life or the life of your wife, children, etc. after the result of an "autopilot-related" accident.
Pilot 1: "Hey, that mountain is getting quite large in the window, should we do something about it?" Pilot 2: "Nah we're on autopilot! It keeps a set course without us touching anything!"
1) Most commercial aircraft fly at altitudes where avoiding mountains isn't an issue. (There are no mountains at 36,000 feet that I know of.) Yes, some fly do lower but mountains aren't something that suddenly appear, disappear, or change without warning, unlike traffic conditions. You generally know about mountains in advance since they're been around for millions of years.
2) There is such a thing as TFR, or terrain-following radar that does adjust for altitude. It's rarely used by ordinary passenger planes but there is no reason it couldn't be.
but hopefully nobody's dumb enough to actually abandon the wheel.
You're more optimistic than I am. I think the part about "without the intervention of the pilot" would tend to give a lot of people exactly the wrong idea.
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The trade deficit with China last year was $365 billion. With an all out 100% trade war, China loses $365 billion more than we do. How is that winning?
We have the upper hand since currently we are the ones giving them net money.
You really have no idea how economies and trade wars work, do you?
If you think that it's simply a matter of "net money", I have some very sad news for you my friend.
"Microsoft Says Windows 10 Version 1607 is The Most Secure Windows Ever"
Yeah, and and they should be able to say this about version 1608, and 1609, and 1610....so what? Every later version SHOULD be more secure than the previous versions.
It's like saying that "on my next birthday I'll be older than I was on my last birthday".
And yet the car makers haven't changed the name of cruise control, despite some initial confusion.
Yeah, but it took 40 years of car crashes for that to sink in.
The fact is that when most people hear "autopilot" they think of it as something that will literally drive the car for them with no attention required. Using that terminology is going to cause accidents.
Why not avoid another 40 years of crashes by just naming it something that isn't misleading?
And secretary of education Ben Carson doesn't believe in: evolution, climate science, physics, geology or history.
Jesus fucking hell....please tell me he's not really thinking of appointing Dr Dumbfuck to be the secretary of education, is he?
Carson is one of THE stupidest people I've ever seen in my life. The notion that he could actually be one of the moving parts in our government is depressing as shit.
It's funny- all the time and energy and thought they put into the various copy protection schemes and none of it worked. Most stuff was copied and/or cracked within a week, maybe two. I don't recall a single piece of software that couldn't be cracked or copied.
I don't expect systemd to be fixed, ever, but in 5 years you can expect the CADT team to invent a yet another init scheme, with even more regressions, and force everyone to transition to it.
Lets call it dmetsys; it'll use double-encypted log and config files with a proprietary unlock key that costs $75 per bootup.
All config directives will be in Sumerian, but the values will be written in Sicilian Arabic.
Documentation must be done solely in Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Finally, any configuration mistake should trigger an automatic format of all attached hard drives.
339 million accounts, but 338.8 million were fake accounts with pictures of large-breasted women who were eager to have sex with me. And they all live "near" me, even though I live on the International Space Station in low-Earth orbit.
Memories. Remember the laser hole copy protection scheme? That was a simple hex editor hack to get around.
I don't recall that one offhand. I remember fuzzy sectors, duplicate sectors, duplicate tracks, "impossible" sectors and tracks, and a few others. I remember a few apps that had embedded-key licensing schemes that you could overcome just by hex editing a character or two.
I remember a tank game that had a printed page of tank silhouettes that was dark red on black so as to make it impossible to photocopy. (This was back when Photoshop didn't exist and scanners were $2000 or more.) I called the company and told them I was visually impaired and they mailed me a black-and-white copy of the page, which was promptly photocopied and distributed. Later it was cracked so it skipped over asking you to match a random onscreen tank with one on the key page.
Good times. :)
This morning I did a mass unfollowing on Twitter.
I cut out the middleman by not having a Twitter account, lol.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't want to "follow" anyone. I don't care what their next bon mot or timeless bit of 140-character wisdom will be. I don't want to be interrupted every minute or so by hearing about someone's "awesome lunch" or what their cat did or how Biff and Mandy are breaking up again. I guess it boils down to the fact that I just don't care.
I've looked through a lot of Twitter comments in the last several years and although some of them are witty, entertaining, or useful, the majority (99.999999999999%) aren't. Twitter is the confetti of the internet and the flakes of gold leaf are far and few between.
I'm just not willing to sift through all that noise to find something of value. It's like looking for something to watch on Netflix- it seems like I spend way more time looking than watching.
I have shit to do, I can't spend my life tapping out replies to everyone who just bought a breakfast bagel. But for those who do like Twitter and do find it useful or whatever, more power to ya.
Yep, Myron Ebell doesn't believe in climate change and Mike Pence doesn't believe in evolution. What a fantastic start we're off to.
(Not to mention that proposed Chief of Staff Steve Bannon doesn't believe in equality, Trump himself doesn't believe in the First Amendment, and likely Secretary of the Interior Sarah Palin doesn't believe in vowels or coherent sentences.)
I'll be darned if I can reliably tell whether that hot chick I see on the street is 24 or 14.
It's not just you. They sure don't look like they did when I was younger.
I see young women in stores and yeah, they could be 15 or they could be in their 20s. And they're a lot more curvy or buxom or whatever than I remember them being when I was in high school or junior high. Some scientific studies are claiming that the age of puberty is dropping, so maybe that's it.
https://www.theguardian.com/so...
http://sph.unc.edu/age-of-pube...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
http://www.newsweek.com/2015/0...
"At the turn of the 20th century, the average age for an American girl to get her period was 16 to 17. Today, that number has plummeted to less than 13, according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey."
So yeah, there's something going on.
"Navinder Sarao abused sophisticated technology to make a quick profit, and jeopardised the integrity of US financial markets," said Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell.
TRANSLATION:
"Only we get to fuck with the integrity of US financial markets." - Wall Street Bankers
Even had a tool I had made that was like a hole punch but the punch was square and it had a frame to automatically position it correctly on the disk. I wonder where that is now?
Yep, that was it...I had one of these (although you could use a hole-punch or scissors too). Mine was, I think, called a "Nibbler" or "Notcher" and they were about $5 at the software stores. Mine is no doubt packed in the box with the rest of my system.
Lol, "software stores", truly a blast from the past.
Yes kids, they actually had software stores that were filled with racks and racks of 5.25" disks in plastic sleeves. There were racks for games, utilities, business apps, "artists tools", and misc stuff. A lot of it was Shareware. Remember Shareware?
A lot of stores would let you rent disks for a couple of bucks a week, but you had to promise that you wouldn't copy them (lol). Of course we copied them, that was the ONLY reason you'd ever rent a disk. :)
A Happy Drive and a copy of Diskey, woo hoo! It would even replicate disks with "fuzzy sectors" by duplicating the sectors that were supposed to be fuzzy. I copied a shitload of stuff in my time, and patched lots more to knock out the copy protection.
Back then we considered copy protection to be a bug, and you know what you do when you find a bug...you go in and root it out. :)
I have a complete system Atari 800 system with loads of software and one of the "Happy Drives" (used for duping copy-protected software). Everything is there, power supplies, tons of carts, manuals, plus all the cables and joysticks and stuff. It's all packed into some well-sealed boxes. I don't know if the disks are any good anymore though since it's all been packed away for about 35+ years or so. Maybe a collector would want it.
" 720K disks" on an Atari 8 bit??
Yep. You got a 5.25" 360K floppy and punched an extra notch in the disk cover so you could flip it over and use the other side. 360 +360 = 720.
I still have boxes of 'em downstairs somewhere. These were actual floppies, not the 3.5" rigid disks.
If they seek psychiatric help, the doctor is required to report them. So they stay untreated in the shadows.
This is a good point. They've made it dangerous for these people to seek treatment (not that many of them do, but still...).
In a way I almost feel sorry for them. We don't pick what we like or what we're attracted to, and it seems clear that most pedophiles are driven by urges far beyond conscious choice. (I mean, who would consciously choose to be attracted to children? No one, that's who.)
So obviously we can't let them do what they want to do (molest children), but at the same time we should recognize that they're not in control of what they want. That appears to be something that's baked into their personality from the start.
Just look at these guys on "To Catch A Predator"- many of them have seen the shows and are even worried that the "girl" they're going to meet is in fact a setup, and they still go. What does that tell you? It tells you that they'll ignore their own reasoning for a chance to fulfill their desires. That's an obvious sign of a mental disorder.
So you're right- pedophiles shouldn't be made to be afraid to seek treatment, or as you point out, they'll stay untreated in the shadows. And that benefits no one, especially the children they'll eventually victimize.
If it's a good dream, don't pinch me.
After Trump won I kept jabbing myself with a needle to try and wake up. Now I'm just doing it so I can feel something.
The easiest thing to do is to patch the DNC, replacing Clinton with Sanders. That would have solved the other situation.
Damn straight. Sanders would have obliterated Trump.
The worst part of this whole debacle has to be placed squarely on the shoulders of a sleazy triumvirate consisting of Hillary Clinton herself, the DNC, and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. This crooked cabal of cheaters worked their dirty little magic behind the scenes to torpedo Bernie Sanders, a much-loved candidate with no baggage who would have easily mopped the floor with Donald Trump. The unethical behavior and malicious tactics that Clinton, Shultz, and the DNC used to exclude him undermined the very foundations of the democratic process.
Bernie Sanders has no financial baggage and no ties to Wall Street.
Bernie Sanders has a spotless voting record.
Bernie Sanders was the ONLY candidate that didn't have a Super PAC funding him.
Bernie Sanders has the respect of his peers in and out of Congress.
Bernie Sanders is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history.
Finally, Bernie Sanders is likable. A lot of the people that voted for Hillary absolutely hated her.
Most Democrats know in their hearts it's true: Bernie Sanders would have won.
"Facebook Bug Tells Users They Are Dead"
If only it were true.....
Same here. Ever play GTW? That was fun.
But honestly, I don't miss the whole BBS thing except as an exercise in nostalgia. I had a 300 baud modem on an Atari 800 and you could literally watch the characters coming across the phone line slow enough to read. You could also turn the baud rate down to anything you wanted, and sometimes it was fun to turn it down to 10 or 20 baud so we could laugh at the data stream between bong hits.
256 colors, 8-bit music, 720K disks, 2 count em' 2 joystick ports, holy shit.
Then we got 1200 baud modems and damn if we weren't livin' in the future.
Thank goodness that no one could ever find this information on the interweb!
What needs to be changed is the minds of people who think that the feature set is completely autonomous and capable of high-level decision-making.
It'll be easier and more effective to call it something that doesn't imply that it's an actual autopilot than it will be to educate hundreds of millions of people.
Call it Driver Assist, Assisted Steering, something like that would probably help people realize that it's not an actual autopilot. The word "auto" or even "pilot" tend to imply a level of autonomy that will mislead people (even those who probably ought to know better). Part of this is all the hype in the media about "self driving" cars which tends to make people think that these things are actually self-driving. They are to some extent, but with significant limitations.
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These are probably the same type of people who thought that "Cruise Control" meant that the car was able of controlling their "cruise"
Exactly, which is all the more reason to call it something other than an "autopilot".
Right now, I'd bet that more than 2% of USAian drivers think they can do all that in their non-auto-anything car.
Yes, and all of those things are illegal, falling under "negligent driving" or other similar statutes. Just because you think you can do it doesn't mean you can (or should).
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You have to balance failure rates against rates of existence in the entire dataset.
Be sure to explain that to the doctors in the Emergency Room while they're trying to save your life or the life of your wife, children, etc. after the result of an "autopilot-related" accident.
Pilot 1: "Hey, that mountain is getting quite large in the window, should we do something about it?"
Pilot 2: "Nah we're on autopilot! It keeps a set course without us touching anything!"
1) Most commercial aircraft fly at altitudes where avoiding mountains isn't an issue. (There are no mountains at 36,000 feet that I know of.) Yes, some fly do lower but mountains aren't something that suddenly appear, disappear, or change without warning, unlike traffic conditions. You generally know about mountains in advance since they're been around for millions of years.
2) There is such a thing as TFR, or terrain-following radar that does adjust for altitude. It's rarely used by ordinary passenger planes but there is no reason it couldn't be.
but hopefully nobody's dumb enough to actually abandon the wheel.
You're more optimistic than I am. I think the part about "without the intervention of the pilot" would tend to give a lot of people exactly the wrong idea.