But don't you understand? Obamacare has to be an abject failure or they might not retake the Senate! No matter what is happening in the real world, Obamacare is a failure. A failure. A failure. Shut up, it's a failure! Lalalalala!
The "It doesn't count until they've paid a premium" talking point is pure desperation. They've already bet the farm on Obamacare being a huge flaming wreck, and now they're grasping at straws because it looks like it's more or less following the administration's expectations.
By law you should have all of the necessary forms by the first business day after Jan 31. If your bank/job/retirement manager/etc... is dragging their heels then the IRS can take them to task.
This whole "but they have not PAID yet!!!" talking point has got to die. The Obamacare opponents are grasping at straws now hoping against hope that the majority of Americans are deadbeats.
A lot of it was just people waiting for the last minute to sign up. Massachusetts (where Romney first implemented this plan) saw the same pattern. Never underestimate the power of people to wait to the last minute to do something. Did you know that December 24th is the busiest shopping day of the year?
Yeah. Space is a full blown character. This reeks of intentional backdoor, there's really no other plausible scenario in my mind.
That's not to say the backdoor was necessarily malicious. Maybe the guy in charge of the password login system was always breaking stuff and locking himself out of his box, so he put a bypass in there so he could get in an fix it, but forgot to remove it later. It's at best really sloppy.
For what it is worth, people who know the math thought Dual_EC_DRGB smelled funny from the first time it was announced, although it was impossible to prove if it was actually compromised or not. Combined with the fact that it's much slower than its competitors (and low speed is not a virtue in a RNG like it is in a crypto alg) and you have something that was only used by people who were explicitly told to use it.
This is unfortunately not compatible with the security threat from a connected world. If a machine is on the network then it needs to be supported and fixable if some previously unknown security flaw is detected. You can minimize the risk with careful design and programming, but hardware manufacturers generally don't do a good job of that. This is why in places where it matters, people set up secure private networks for their embedded devices, and when they don't it is a disaster. See: Target.
Because Tesla owners don't want a car that shatters when they hit a curb or get rear ended by a slow moving vehicle. If you've ever seen a F1 car just absolutely disintegrate on crash you've seen what Carbon Fiber does. That's not a desirable quality in a daily driver.
Nothing? People are just using the correct tool for the job. 3D printing isn't some end-all be-all technology. It has some very useful niches with prototypes and small production run objects, but for mass producing a hunk of metal to bolt on a car it's the wrong solution.
Leave it be. Amazingly enough, Microsoft's patching system is insanely inefficient and having it require 100% of the CPU for an hour or more to determine which patches to install is normal. It's apparently a flaw in the way the patches work that makes it take an amount of time equivalent to the exponent of the number of patches installed. Since there are a lot of patches now, that can be a very long time. Microsoft has a fix for this, but you'll have to wait through at least one incredibly slow patch cycle for it to get installed.
We were scouring the lab here and noticed that our traffic generator had an embedded OS and it was of course XP. It took a LOT of back and forth with the vendor (whom we pay a big fat support contract to each year) to get a Win 7 disc. Apparently they don't have a plan for XP migration because they don't want to buy a ton of new license keys. This is a problem for people who can not have unpatched systems on the network. Technically the embedded edition is not going EOL yet, but we have concern about Microsoft keeping the patches flowing when the majority of the installs are no longer supported. The last thing we want is someone using one of our own network appliances as an attack vector. The printers are bad enough (they had to be vlaned--no way to properly secure them), but some of the other stuff requires real network access.
In case anybody is curious, the next Presidential election is over two years away, none of the horse race talk means a goddamn thing right now. This is just talking heads needing to fill airtime with inane babble because covering the events in Crimea would be too depressing.
This. The reason Netflix was able to build an empire on DVDs is that they didn't have to ask permission from every studio to do it. They just bought the DVDs and put them in the mail. This is also why the streaming selection sucks, because media companies wrote the laws for streaming, and Netflix has to put their balls directly in their hands and ask how hard they want to squeeze. The situation won't improve without a major overhaul in copyright law, which is absolutely not going to happen anytime soon. If anything, Congress will make the laws even more restrictive/stupid because that's what they're getting paid to do.
Hmm, well that got it built, but it still doesn't work.
%/usr/local/musl/bin/musl-gcc hello.c /usr/local/musl/lib/libc.so: undefined reference to `isinf'
I didn't see any obvious errors while it was building, but there were like a million lines of buildscroll to go through, and it would have been so easy to miss one. There's probably just enough issues with this to make it not worth it sadly.
%./configure
checking for C compiler... gcc
checking whether compiler is gcc... yes
checking whether to build musl-gcc wrapper... yes
checking target system type... amd64-undermydesk-freebsd./configure: unknown or unsupported target "amd64-undermydesk-freebsd"
:(
I thought this might be helpful in those cases where something doesn't like llvm libc, but no such luck. It also appears to lack c++ support, which is a pretty big caveat in this day and age.
Sparkfun is also somewhat notorious about copying products in the Arduino peripheral space as well. For almost every Adafruit product, there is a Sparkfun version that is nearly identical, except that you have to go to Adafruit to get the code. Since it's open hardware this is legal, but one would prefer if the company innovated a bit more instead of just copying everything they see. I don't feel too sorry for them getting burned by it here.
The magic of the Blarney Stone isn't what it's made of, it's the fact that you have to hold your body over a very tall drop in order to kiss it. It's one of those thing where after you do it you're supposed to be thrilled to be alive, and presumably have something to talk about.
Of course these days it has been ruined by some metal bars that make it impossible to fall off of the castle and die.
Especially when you live in an area where everybody just lost their job. Southern West Virginia is depressed enough already without all of the coal mines shutting down at basically the same time.
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But don't you understand? Obamacare has to be an abject failure or they might not retake the Senate! No matter what is happening in the real world, Obamacare is a failure. A failure. A failure. Shut up, it's a failure! Lalalalala!
The "It doesn't count until they've paid a premium" talking point is pure desperation. They've already bet the farm on Obamacare being a huge flaming wreck, and now they're grasping at straws because it looks like it's more or less following the administration's expectations.
By law you should have all of the necessary forms by the first business day after Jan 31. If your bank/job/retirement manager/etc... is dragging their heels then the IRS can take them to task.
This whole "but they have not PAID yet!!!" talking point has got to die. The Obamacare opponents are grasping at straws now hoping against hope that the majority of Americans are deadbeats.
A lot of it was just people waiting for the last minute to sign up. Massachusetts (where Romney first implemented this plan) saw the same pattern. Never underestimate the power of people to wait to the last minute to do something. Did you know that December 24th is the busiest shopping day of the year?
Yeah. Space is a full blown character. This reeks of intentional backdoor, there's really no other plausible scenario in my mind.
That's not to say the backdoor was necessarily malicious. Maybe the guy in charge of the password login system was always breaking stuff and locking himself out of his box, so he put a bypass in there so he could get in an fix it, but forgot to remove it later. It's at best really sloppy.
They cost so much because the supply is held artificially low and NYC is one of the most profitable places to run a cab in the entire US.
For what it is worth, people who know the math thought Dual_EC_DRGB smelled funny from the first time it was announced, although it was impossible to prove if it was actually compromised or not. Combined with the fact that it's much slower than its competitors (and low speed is not a virtue in a RNG like it is in a crypto alg) and you have something that was only used by people who were explicitly told to use it.
Or just put the password in the file name.
This is unfortunately not compatible with the security threat from a connected world. If a machine is on the network then it needs to be supported and fixable if some previously unknown security flaw is detected. You can minimize the risk with careful design and programming, but hardware manufacturers generally don't do a good job of that. This is why in places where it matters, people set up secure private networks for their embedded devices, and when they don't it is a disaster. See: Target.
Because Tesla owners don't want a car that shatters when they hit a curb or get rear ended by a slow moving vehicle. If you've ever seen a F1 car just absolutely disintegrate on crash you've seen what Carbon Fiber does. That's not a desirable quality in a daily driver.
Nothing? People are just using the correct tool for the job. 3D printing isn't some end-all be-all technology. It has some very useful niches with prototypes and small production run objects, but for mass producing a hunk of metal to bolt on a car it's the wrong solution.
Leave it be. Amazingly enough, Microsoft's patching system is insanely inefficient and having it require 100% of the CPU for an hour or more to determine which patches to install is normal. It's apparently a flaw in the way the patches work that makes it take an amount of time equivalent to the exponent of the number of patches installed. Since there are a lot of patches now, that can be a very long time. Microsoft has a fix for this, but you'll have to wait through at least one incredibly slow patch cycle for it to get installed.
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We were scouring the lab here and noticed that our traffic generator had an embedded OS and it was of course XP. It took a LOT of back and forth with the vendor (whom we pay a big fat support contract to each year) to get a Win 7 disc. Apparently they don't have a plan for XP migration because they don't want to buy a ton of new license keys. This is a problem for people who can not have unpatched systems on the network. Technically the embedded edition is not going EOL yet, but we have concern about Microsoft keeping the patches flowing when the majority of the installs are no longer supported. The last thing we want is someone using one of our own network appliances as an attack vector. The printers are bad enough (they had to be vlaned--no way to properly secure them), but some of the other stuff requires real network access.
I have no love lost for Cisco, but this is a bullshit patent and a prime example of the biggest problem with the current patent system.
If your oven catches fire because it was turned on too long, you have a defective oven.
In case anybody is curious, the next Presidential election is over two years away, none of the horse race talk means a goddamn thing right now. This is just talking heads needing to fill airtime with inane babble because covering the events in Crimea would be too depressing.
This. The reason Netflix was able to build an empire on DVDs is that they didn't have to ask permission from every studio to do it. They just bought the DVDs and put them in the mail. This is also why the streaming selection sucks, because media companies wrote the laws for streaming, and Netflix has to put their balls directly in their hands and ask how hard they want to squeeze. The situation won't improve without a major overhaul in copyright law, which is absolutely not going to happen anytime soon. If anything, Congress will make the laws even more restrictive/stupid because that's what they're getting paid to do.
I didn't see any obvious errors while it was building, but there were like a million lines of buildscroll to go through, and it would have been so easy to miss one. There's probably just enough issues with this to make it not worth it sadly.
I thought this might be helpful in those cases where something doesn't like llvm libc, but no such luck. It also appears to lack c++ support, which is a pretty big caveat in this day and age.
WTF does this mean? I'm sure as hell not developing against a libc that doesn't have debugging hooks. This can't be what it means.
Sparkfun is also somewhat notorious about copying products in the Arduino peripheral space as well. For almost every Adafruit product, there is a Sparkfun version that is nearly identical, except that you have to go to Adafruit to get the code. Since it's open hardware this is legal, but one would prefer if the company innovated a bit more instead of just copying everything they see. I don't feel too sorry for them getting burned by it here.
Are they going to make you strip naked after you get off of the airplane unless you can prove that you paid Brazilian sales tax on your clothes?
The magic of the Blarney Stone isn't what it's made of, it's the fact that you have to hold your body over a very tall drop in order to kiss it. It's one of those thing where after you do it you're supposed to be thrilled to be alive, and presumably have something to talk about.
Of course these days it has been ruined by some metal bars that make it impossible to fall off of the castle and die.
Especially when you live in an area where everybody just lost their job. Southern West Virginia is depressed enough already without all of the coal mines shutting down at basically the same time.