This is why the procedure(s) would have to be transparent to all
"In theory"... they'd also obey their Constitutional restrictions. I the real world, they're lawless and get by on parallel construction. The government was instituted to protect our liberties and now it's our greatest threat against them.
"When you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you."
Some will (rightly) point out the privacy problems of police executing a no-knock raid and getting film of the housewife traipsing about in her birthday suit.
Some of them will then proceed to blame the cameras rather than the [unconstitutional] no-knock raids. It's important to be able to clearly analyze the entirely of these situations and realize that the cameras are pointing out yet another reason existing abuses need to be extinguished.
Some inside baseball: Mazda has been trying to get its Sky-D diesel engine EPA-compliant (while also customer-viable) for the past two years, without success so far. You are denied this 50-plus MPG (and extremely clean) diesel because of the particulate jihadists in Washington.
They're the enemy of the environment, not its friend. But you have to be willing to follow the math to understand that and most knee-jerk environmentalists just want to feel.
The brushfires have been smouldering, but in 2016 both the owners and subjects will organize to oppose each other with fervor. Individuals and companies will begin making news for fleeing repressive regimes to continue their work and these will be regimes that used to claim a penchant for liberty. Other subjects of these regimes will begin to notice and start a three-year cycle that will lead to one extreme or the other.
If I _had_ to write python, for some reason, I'd probably write a little pre-compiler to take something maintainable that I'd write and output whitespace-tokenized python.
I don't see why the people who want Swift to be Python don't just write one of these of their own. They'd learn why nobody wants to use whitespace as a token separator but after that presumably they'd be happy in their mad little world writing code the way they want and finally compiling it with the Apple compiler.
In the perl community we never told somebody they were crazy if they wanted to code perl in some insane, dead, or fictional, language -- just write a module for it and don't bother us with your dysfunction. What manager at Apple decided it would be a good idea to take feedback from the peanut gallery?
>Men get treated just as badly, it's just that women are more prone to whine about it publicly.
Assuming that's true, good for them. Call the assholes on their assholery every single time and the incentive structure will change. Community standards are defined by the behavior of the community. Show some personal responsibility and.... uh... "woman up".
Maybe the problem with dorks in the community isn't that they're mostly abusers but that they're mostly passive victims.
Bruce, please do what you can to get the word out that every instance of assholery needs to stop. It doesn't matter what the gender of the victim is - males should be no more "expected" to take abuse than females. If we stop the abuse, we stop the abuse. I agree, it starts with good parenting, but we can also apply social pressures to adults. Our movement is about means as much as, if not more so than, than ends, and this is a black eye on it. Maybe women as a group tend to be smarter about not abiding such behavior.
Most people don't like to hear that every instance of assholery needs to be countered because it requires *them* to act at every opportunity to counter injustice. This can't be delegated to a committee and if learning to behave is as required as learning to code in our community then it doesn't matter what personality types are at a disadvantage, except that they may need extra help. Other community members need to be as willing to help a newbie behave as they are to help him submit good patches. Is that comfortable in our society? No, but we're doing the evolution thing here - nobody said it was going to be easy.
And one good patch from an asshole isn't worth the loss of several more community members. If we had to make that trade, I'd take one fewer patch, on principle, but we don't have to - a vibrant community is non-zero sum.
My favorite open source communities are joyous playgrounds and rich in female contributors. I'm hesitant to post them here because/. has its share of miscreants, but get in touch if you want some follow-up. Thanks for keeping this problem at the fore.
What exactly is the issue here? The creation of federal agencies is derived directly from the Constitution
Well, the real actual issue is that the Constitution doesn't grant any kind of NRLB power to the Feds - that's a state problem, should States wish to deal with it (per the 10th Amendment). All the Founding Fathers, including Hamilton, wrote about the limitations of Congress's delegated powers before Ratification, it's discussed in the minutes of the Constitutional Convention, and all of them excepting Hamilton wrote about it after the Ratification. It's just widely ignored today while the Constitution is paid lip service to placate the masses.
Hamilton wanted an Empire ruled by oligarchs, and that's what ignoring the Constitution has gotten us. Not that it wasn't destined to fail eventually, but since we're talking about what the Constitution allows, we can assume it could have worked as designed to present day for the sake of argument.
and backed up by 200 years of case law.
Yes, judges are cronies and bureaucrats, not activists for the Constitution, with very, very, few exceptions. "We've investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing" - the moment people stop buying that line, society will improve by one notch.
Yeah, why can't Disney be more forward-thinking like Lucas instead of just pandering to the moviegoers and giving them more of what they want?
Just to be fair, nobody was asking for "Star Wars" when it came out - it really was an entirely new type of movie.
But so was TPM, and it was an epic shitstorm of a film. My other comment riffs on why Lucas can't make great movies anymore, but that doesn't mean that Star Wars *couldn't* usher in a better type of movie.
The thing is Lucas is a student of Campbell so he knows what good stories need and chose not to do it in the prequels, even though it had worked so well for I-III. Sometimes the learner thinks he's becomes the master.
How is it Leia could remember her mother when she was about thirty seconds old when she died?
That's just one of the many temporal inconsistencies. Luke being 16-20 in IV-VI yet Obiwan aging probably a hundred years (Jedi are long-lived and Tarkin thought that "surely he must be dead by now") - plus Anakin at the end of RoTJ was pushing 80, even if he was dark-force-degraded, other Sith Lords last far longer.
And midichlorians...
Which don't exist in the ESB Yoda's universe. I-III, as currently filmed, exist in a similar but different universe from IV-VI; that much is provable from the timelines (relativistic effects are just not part of the Star Wars lore - you have to suspend disbelief on that one).
Lucas didn't want to make more Star Wars but there was so much money thrown at him that he went full-cynical and made the worst movies he knew how to do and taught his inner circle to not be yes-men after they all worked to turn out the crapfest of TPM, even though they knew it was bad (yet, it was a hugely profitable merchandising vehicle, so in that sense it was great, and Lucas has always done merchandising well because of his studio contracts). Lucas succeeded in proving to himself that the fans never really appreciated his work and will buy any shit sandwich with a logo on it.
Lucas's one concession to his younger self was that he left room to do I-III later, in a consistent universe, if he ever wanted to (he has zero compunction about remaking movies). He'd have to give up his fortune and prestige to return to his roots and find that energy again, and I think he's probably going to be happier doing his educational charity work instead. Meanwhile Disney couldn't be happier that he's talking smack about the new film - heck I might even go see it after hearing this.
BTTF2 showed a world where gravity can be countered directly. Hoverconversions, Hoverboards, etc. It was fun. Kids could probably have their own for $2-300, probably in the low thousands for the power models (graphics card vendors would face competition for teenage allowance money). Betcha a full car hoverconversion is north of $8 grand, but who wants to be groundbound?
Despite loving the films, all of this pretence with fans and magnets seems to me like a childish malinvestment.
I got the boy a Kinoma Create - it hooks up to WiFi and he'll be using the Google block language on his Chromebook to get started (he's been using Lightbot to get the idea). There was also a GoPiGo under the tree for his next step.
40% of Trump voters are in favor of bombing the Kingdom of Agrabah. A third of Republicans overall. A fifth of Democrats. Agrabah is the fictional setting of Disney's Aladdin.
While the governments we have now are based on horses and pidgeons, in terms of technology, and are totally obsolete, putting people directly into power never works. Putting representatives into power never works either. Power kills.
Work to replace these ancient barbaric systems, not augment them.
why would his thesis advisor have more knowledge of attempts at reputation systems than the/. readership? Most of what's tried in industry is buried next to the bodies behind the data center, not in research papers. Field research is usually more valuable than literature surveys.
They're doing well so far. Using Ubuntu Math, FirefoxOS already has over a billion users. This lags behind the 6.5 billion Firefox users, but it's a good start.
> Keeping it around also makes everyone more vulnerable.
No, that's the whole point of the Facebook/Cloudflare TLS switcher. Nobody gets SHA-1 signatures that can handle SHA-2.
There's something like 37 million people who can't handle SHA-2 yet. SHA-1 collisions are not a bigger risk than them running insecure HTTP instead of SHA-2-signed TLS.
Yes, if wishes were unicorns they'd all have DANE-validated TLSv1.2 with ECDHE and PFS, but not even Bernie can make that happen.
ZFS disk structures were stable a decade ago but frankly the userland is still a bit buggy today, and that's with ten times as many people working on it as btrfs and people knowing full well where the problems are and what needs to be done to fix them. btrfs hasn't gone through that discovery process yet.
Don't assume undone work is easy. I'll be delighted to be proven wrong in five years (I said the same thing five years ago).
Assuming Juniper has secure code audit logs and can personally identify the person who checked this in ("find the spook" if you will), will his identity be swept under the rug for some BS "privacy concerns" or will the Internet security community learn his identity so that he may be properly ostracized and precluded from any such future work?
Juniper has the money to settle any threats of lawsuits arising from such disclosure - doing the right thing here is probably the only way people will ever trust Juniper again - it may even be a 'cost of sales'.
If Juniper can't positively ID the perp then nobody can trust them going forward, so let's hope they can and do.
> newer UI/UX people are ignoring everything that the UI/UX people learned and built up over the last 20+ years
To the extent that UI/UX people are HCI scientists, there's nothing wrong with it. To the extent that they're not, it's all contemptible bullshit.
I wish one of the FLOSS desktops would get serious religion about usability science. "Fitt's Law isn't just a good idea." It would be a huge boon to the community and the user base would swell.
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This is why the procedure(s) would have to be transparent to all
"In theory" ... they'd also obey their Constitutional restrictions. I the real world, they're lawless and get by on parallel construction. The government was instituted to protect our liberties and now it's our greatest threat against them.
"When you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you."
Some will (rightly) point out the privacy problems of police executing a no-knock raid and getting film of the housewife traipsing about in her birthday suit.
Some of them will then proceed to blame the cameras rather than the [unconstitutional] no-knock raids. It's important to be able to clearly analyze the entirely of these situations and realize that the cameras are pointing out yet another reason existing abuses need to be extinguished.
your own open source project, ZoneMinder
Do you even github, bro?
The fact of the matter is that the government regulators are keeping the overall level of emissions higher than the market is trying to provide.
They're the enemy of the environment, not its friend. But you have to be willing to follow the math to understand that and most knee-jerk environmentalists just want to feel.
The brushfires have been smouldering, but in 2016 both the owners and subjects will organize to oppose each other with fervor. Individuals and companies will begin making news for fleeing repressive regimes to continue their work and these will be regimes that used to claim a penchant for liberty. Other subjects of these regimes will begin to notice and start a three-year cycle that will lead to one extreme or the other.
Thank you.
If I _had_ to write python, for some reason, I'd probably write a little pre-compiler to take something maintainable that I'd write and output whitespace-tokenized python.
I don't see why the people who want Swift to be Python don't just write one of these of their own. They'd learn why nobody wants to use whitespace as a token separator but after that presumably they'd be happy in their mad little world writing code the way they want and finally compiling it with the Apple compiler.
In the perl community we never told somebody they were crazy if they wanted to code perl in some insane, dead, or fictional, language -- just write a module for it and don't bother us with your dysfunction. What manager at Apple decided it would be a good idea to take feedback from the peanut gallery?
There's a threeple only an NSL could love.
>Men get treated just as badly, it's just that women are more prone to whine about it publicly.
Assuming that's true, good for them. Call the assholes on their assholery every single time and the incentive structure will change. Community standards are defined by the behavior of the community. Show some personal responsibility and .... uh ... "woman up".
Maybe the problem with dorks in the community isn't that they're mostly abusers but that they're mostly passive victims.
Show some ovaries (apparently).
Bruce, please do what you can to get the word out that every instance of assholery needs to stop. It doesn't matter what the gender of the victim is - males should be no more "expected" to take abuse than females. If we stop the abuse, we stop the abuse. I agree, it starts with good parenting, but we can also apply social pressures to adults. Our movement is about means as much as, if not more so than, than ends, and this is a black eye on it. Maybe women as a group tend to be smarter about not abiding such behavior.
Most people don't like to hear that every instance of assholery needs to be countered because it requires *them* to act at every opportunity to counter injustice. This can't be delegated to a committee and if learning to behave is as required as learning to code in our community then it doesn't matter what personality types are at a disadvantage, except that they may need extra help. Other community members need to be as willing to help a newbie behave as they are to help him submit good patches. Is that comfortable in our society? No, but we're doing the evolution thing here - nobody said it was going to be easy.
And one good patch from an asshole isn't worth the loss of several more community members. If we had to make that trade, I'd take one fewer patch, on principle, but we don't have to - a vibrant community is non-zero sum.
My favorite open source communities are joyous playgrounds and rich in female contributors. I'm hesitant to post them here because /. has its share of miscreants, but get in touch if you want some follow-up. Thanks for keeping this problem at the fore.
Your boss is an idiot. Do what you please, but your talents are probably undervalued where you are.
In fact, I propose even more infantile project names to put the morons at a further economic disadvantage.
and finally the mystery of that reversal is solved. Thanks, Slax guys.
What exactly is the issue here? The creation of federal agencies is derived directly from the Constitution
Well, the real actual issue is that the Constitution doesn't grant any kind of NRLB power to the Feds - that's a state problem, should States wish to deal with it (per the 10th Amendment). All the Founding Fathers, including Hamilton, wrote about the limitations of Congress's delegated powers before Ratification, it's discussed in the minutes of the Constitutional Convention, and all of them excepting Hamilton wrote about it after the Ratification. It's just widely ignored today while the Constitution is paid lip service to placate the masses.
Hamilton wanted an Empire ruled by oligarchs, and that's what ignoring the Constitution has gotten us. Not that it wasn't destined to fail eventually, but since we're talking about what the Constitution allows, we can assume it could have worked as designed to present day for the sake of argument.
and backed up by 200 years of case law.
Yes, judges are cronies and bureaucrats, not activists for the Constitution, with very, very, few exceptions. "We've investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing" - the moment people stop buying that line, society will improve by one notch.
Yeah, why can't Disney be more forward-thinking like Lucas instead of just pandering to the moviegoers and giving them more of what they want?
Just to be fair, nobody was asking for "Star Wars" when it came out - it really was an entirely new type of movie.
But so was TPM, and it was an epic shitstorm of a film. My other comment riffs on why Lucas can't make great movies anymore, but that doesn't mean that Star Wars *couldn't* usher in a better type of movie.
The thing is Lucas is a student of Campbell so he knows what good stories need and chose not to do it in the prequels, even though it had worked so well for I-III. Sometimes the learner thinks he's becomes the master.
How is it Leia could remember her mother when she was about thirty seconds old when she died?
That's just one of the many temporal inconsistencies. Luke being 16-20 in IV-VI yet Obiwan aging probably a hundred years (Jedi are long-lived and Tarkin thought that "surely he must be dead by now") - plus Anakin at the end of RoTJ was pushing 80, even if he was dark-force-degraded, other Sith Lords last far longer.
And midichlorians...
Which don't exist in the ESB Yoda's universe. I-III, as currently filmed, exist in a similar but different universe from IV-VI; that much is provable from the timelines (relativistic effects are just not part of the Star Wars lore - you have to suspend disbelief on that one).
Lucas didn't want to make more Star Wars but there was so much money thrown at him that he went full-cynical and made the worst movies he knew how to do and taught his inner circle to not be yes-men after they all worked to turn out the crapfest of TPM, even though they knew it was bad (yet, it was a hugely profitable merchandising vehicle, so in that sense it was great, and Lucas has always done merchandising well because of his studio contracts). Lucas succeeded in proving to himself that the fans never really appreciated his work and will buy any shit sandwich with a logo on it.
Lucas's one concession to his younger self was that he left room to do I-III later, in a consistent universe, if he ever wanted to (he has zero compunction about remaking movies). He'd have to give up his fortune and prestige to return to his roots and find that energy again, and I think he's probably going to be happier doing his educational charity work instead. Meanwhile Disney couldn't be happier that he's talking smack about the new film - heck I might even go see it after hearing this.
BTTF2 showed a world where gravity can be countered directly. Hoverconversions, Hoverboards, etc. It was fun. Kids could probably have their own for $2-300, probably in the low thousands for the power models (graphics card vendors would face competition for teenage allowance money). Betcha a full car hoverconversion is north of $8 grand, but who wants to be groundbound?
Despite loving the films, all of this pretence with fans and magnets seems to me like a childish malinvestment.
I got the boy a Kinoma Create - it hooks up to WiFi and he'll be using the Google block language on his Chromebook to get started (he's been using Lightbot to get the idea). There was also a GoPiGo under the tree for his next step.
40% of Trump voters are in favor of bombing the Kingdom of Agrabah. A third of Republicans overall. A fifth of Democrats. Agrabah is the fictional setting of Disney's Aladdin.
While the governments we have now are based on horses and pidgeons, in terms of technology, and are totally obsolete, putting people directly into power never works. Putting representatives into power never works either. Power kills.
Work to replace these ancient barbaric systems, not augment them.
it's like a DVR for old people.
why would his thesis advisor have more knowledge of attempts at reputation systems than the /. readership? Most of what's tried in industry is buried next to the bodies behind the data center, not in research papers. Field research is usually more valuable than literature surveys.
They're doing well so far. Using Ubuntu Math, FirefoxOS already has over a billion users. This lags behind the 6.5 billion Firefox users, but it's a good start.
oh, man, we have the makings of a years-long meme starting up here. Well done, fellows, Merry Christmas and please continue.
> Keeping it around also makes everyone more vulnerable.
No, that's the whole point of the Facebook/Cloudflare TLS switcher. Nobody gets SHA-1 signatures that can handle SHA-2.
There's something like 37 million people who can't handle SHA-2 yet. SHA-1 collisions are not a bigger risk than them running insecure HTTP instead of SHA-2-signed TLS.
Yes, if wishes were unicorns they'd all have DANE-validated TLSv1.2 with ECDHE and PFS, but not even Bernie can make that happen.
ZFS disk structures were stable a decade ago but frankly the userland is still a bit buggy today, and that's with ten times as many people working on it as btrfs and people knowing full well where the problems are and what needs to be done to fix them. btrfs hasn't gone through that discovery process yet.
Don't assume undone work is easy. I'll be delighted to be proven wrong in five years (I said the same thing five years ago).
Assuming Juniper has secure code audit logs and can personally identify the person who checked this in ("find the spook" if you will), will his identity be swept under the rug for some BS "privacy concerns" or will the Internet security community learn his identity so that he may be properly ostracized and precluded from any such future work?
Juniper has the money to settle any threats of lawsuits arising from such disclosure - doing the right thing here is probably the only way people will ever trust Juniper again - it may even be a 'cost of sales'.
If Juniper can't positively ID the perp then nobody can trust them going forward, so let's hope they can and do.
> newer UI/UX people are ignoring everything that the UI/UX people learned and built up over the last 20+ years
To the extent that UI/UX people are HCI scientists, there's nothing wrong with it. To the extent that they're not, it's all contemptible bullshit.
I wish one of the FLOSS desktops would get serious religion about usability science. "Fitt's Law isn't just a good idea." It would be a huge boon to the community and the user base would swell.