The old MSMail had this on NT server. You could unsend an unread message, but not if it was read. Seemed to work fine.
This needs a centralized sever to work well but that's what FB has.
It's harder with federation like SMTP. I seem to recall Usenet had a cancel-message format. Like return-receipt, doing this on SMTP would be up to the client to honor, but that would have been better than all the "ignore my last message, this one is corrected" messages all the time. Heck, there must be a dusty RFC on this.
If it deployed a light sail upon leaving the solar system, the sail would be reflecting sunlight back at us now. A sail big enough to accelerate an object of that size would be visible.
Nobody has suggested that. The suggestion is that it could be a discarded piece of an old light sail.
I just happened to read the paper yesterday, and we're here dozens of comments in and nobody commenting has read it.
The jokes are amusing but assuming what the paper says and reacting to it is a less useful application of time that reading it (and maybe not even taking the time for reacts, if one must choose) or just cracking stupid jokes.
Yeah, see, it's such a bad idea that even a/. headline doesn't get it right.
Also, go work for a company that starts work 1 hour sooner in the summertime. Somehow, Home Depot manages to change their hours twice a year, unrelated to the government calendar, and everybody gets by just fine.
Don't worry - it'll be completely automated within a decade and you won't have to/get to feel smugly superior to these hard-working folks who are doing tough jobs you feel are beneath them, even though they took the job voluntarily.
But I'm sure you're busy creating jobs when you're not criticizing employers and employees as a/. AC./s
People used to use their computers for boring things. How many times did I have to remove the AppleTalk-aware Energizer Bunny extension from the machines in the computer lab?
Now people's PC's and phones have lots of personal data on them and you don't mess with that.
Mostly the same here. I did recommended support to a large client once and when we called for help with a driver on a 1394 storage system they refused, calling the bus "unsupported". I found a patch on a mailing list, rebuilt the kernel, and installed centos-release instead of renewing. The next major version had an upstream fix.
I later learned that people bought RHEL in the minority for proprietary cluster tools and in the majority for "somebody to blame".
After losing too many nights sleep to botched Spectre/Meltdown mitigations on/only/ Fedora/CentOS systems, I'm just about done converting everything else to Debian. Turns out that all of my old complaints about Debian were fixed by Jessie and Stretch is just nice. Buster is as quirky on laptop as Fedora but at least upstreams are followed more quickly.
Yup. I think UBI fundamentally misunderstands both economics and human psychology and think the Alaska Fund is a stupid comparison. Alaska is already constrained by other crazy non-market conditions which the fund seeks to level.
why should it be legal to waste electricity for something 100% useless and virtual.
Lots of people buy drugs with it, so it's at least more useful than television; you have your facts wrong, at least, so put down the ban hammer. Go ahead and try to take away people's game shows and see what happens. Some old lady might try for a face shot, which is what people who want to ban everything they don't understand probably deserve.
Which it can't be, because the transaction throughput is far too low.
It's fine. The Blockstream Core code is creaky, but the guys at Bitcoin Unlimited have made several fixes and optimizations, easily managing 32MB blocks now, and have mined gigabyte blocks on TestNet. Together with working 0-conf this is expected to be plenty of scaling headroom for the near future, with at least as much time for better code to replace the existing codebase, as well as faster computers and network connections.
Have a look at https://txhighway.com/ and try to fill that up first, then worry about throughput problems.
Tell us all about the free market failing under state-enforced monopolies?
But the answer to bad data is simple - if they claim service to an address they install it on their dime within 60 days or the CEO faces a purgury trial.
Only if all needs are uniform, which they're not. Home Depot changes its hours with the sun despite DST. How could we ever find out when they're open, then? If only we had an Internet with integrated calendars and navigation!
I don't even get what the big problems are at this point. Five years ago there was a laundry list but everybody expected it to be default three years ago.
This is a problem because everybody knows X11 ain't no good anymore but nobody is fixing it because Wayland (nee "x12") is the fix.
Can somebody describe or link some current info here?
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The old MSMail had this on NT server. You could unsend an unread message, but not if it was read. Seemed to work fine.
This needs a centralized sever to work well but that's what FB has.
It's harder with federation like SMTP. I seem to recall Usenet had a cancel-message format. Like return-receipt, doing this on SMTP would be up to the client to honor, but that would have been better than all the "ignore my last message, this one is corrected" messages all the time. Heck, there must be a dusty RFC on this.
If it deployed a light sail upon leaving the solar system, the sail would be reflecting sunlight back at us now. A sail big enough to accelerate an object of that size would be visible.
Nobody has suggested that. The suggestion is that it could be a discarded piece of an old light sail.
I just happened to read the paper yesterday, and we're here dozens of comments in and nobody commenting has read it.
The jokes are amusing but assuming what the paper says and reacting to it is a less useful application of time that reading it (and maybe not even taking the time for reacts, if one must choose) or just cracking stupid jokes.
This is why reading comprehension is important, folks.
2020 Headline: Google admits disclosing home layout and belonging data to SWAT teams for use in planning of raids.
(totally not Big Brother)
Yeah, see, it's such a bad idea that even a /. headline doesn't get it right.
Also, go work for a company that starts work 1 hour sooner in the summertime. Somehow, Home Depot manages to change their hours twice a year, unrelated to the government calendar, and everybody gets by just fine.
Don't worry - it'll be completely automated within a decade and you won't have to/get to feel smugly superior to these hard-working folks who are doing tough jobs you feel are beneath them, even though they took the job voluntarily.
But I'm sure you're busy creating jobs when you're not criticizing employers and employees as a /. AC. /s
People used to use their computers for boring things. How many times did I have to remove the AppleTalk-aware Energizer Bunny extension from the machines in the computer lab?
Now people's PC's and phones have lots of personal data on them and you don't mess with that.
It's clearly a reason to not trust them with sensitive data. Tell us the risks of sharing your kids' Halloween pics with Aunt Helen?
Shades of meaning are essential for accurate risk analysis.
You think processor scaling doesn't exist on Android and you're posting logged in?
Apple already did PPC to Intel on the current architecture and a good number of people believe the Mac will go Apple ARM soon.
Then it's simply a matter of having a Mac Mode on the iDevices that offers a KVM experience.
Looks like that day is getting closer.
Like the 10 XR, XS and XS Max? Whoops, that didn't happen.
Apple's algorithm was stupid and their UI was uninformative. That's why it was controversial - nobody wants their phone shutting off unexpectedly.
Mostly the same here. I did recommended support to a large client once and when we called for help with a driver on a 1394 storage system they refused, calling the bus "unsupported". I found a patch on a mailing list, rebuilt the kernel, and installed centos-release instead of renewing. The next major version had an upstream fix.
I later learned that people bought RHEL in the minority for proprietary cluster tools and in the majority for "somebody to blame".
After losing too many nights sleep to botched Spectre/Meltdown mitigations on /only/ Fedora/CentOS systems, I'm just about done converting everything else to Debian. Turns out that all of my old complaints about Debian were fixed by Jessie and Stretch is just nice. Buster is as quirky on laptop as Fedora but at least upstreams are followed more quickly.
So long and thanks for all the red Red Hat hats.
When your problem calls for an expensive fab that you don't have funding for, FPGA seems like the solution. Again and again.
Yup. I think UBI fundamentally misunderstands both economics and human psychology and think the Alaska Fund is a stupid comparison. Alaska is already constrained by other crazy non-market conditions which the fund seeks to level.
GIGO is right.
Do you not have a business account? Plenty of people have Internet-only business accounts for less than $225.
Just quoting for Scott Adams to notice for his cliche list.
why should it be legal to waste electricity for something 100% useless and virtual.
Lots of people buy drugs with it, so it's at least more useful than television; you have your facts wrong, at least, so put down the ban hammer. Go ahead and try to take away people's game shows and see what happens. Some old lady might try for a face shot, which is what people who want to ban everything they don't understand probably deserve.
Which it can't be, because the transaction throughput is far too low.
It's fine. The Blockstream Core code is creaky, but the guys at Bitcoin Unlimited have made several fixes and optimizations, easily managing 32MB blocks now, and have mined gigabyte blocks on TestNet. Together with working 0-conf this is expected to be plenty of scaling headroom for the near future, with at least as much time for better code to replace the existing codebase, as well as faster computers and network connections.
Have a look at https://txhighway.com/ and try to fill that up first, then worry about throughput problems.
Tell us all about the free market failing under state-enforced monopolies?
But the answer to bad data is simple - if they claim service to an address they install it on their dime within 60 days or the CEO faces a purgury trial.
How did African elephants end up in China ? They are non migratory
With a space elevator - did you even read TFA?
Only if all needs are uniform, which they're not. Home Depot changes its hours with the sun despite DST. How could we ever find out when they're open, then? If only we had an Internet with integrated calendars and navigation!
I don't even get what the big problems are at this point. Five years ago there was a laundry list but everybody expected it to be default three years ago.
This is a problem because everybody knows X11 ain't no good anymore but nobody is fixing it because Wayland (nee "x12") is the fix.
Can somebody describe or link some current info here?
I'm not saying he offered the victim 10% to make the complaint, but that would certainly be one way to get seed funding for a new start-up venture.
Graffiti is paint, technically.
Google updated my Nexus 4 for two years then said fuck you.
Maintenance is boring, dude.
(Google's new corporate motto, I think).