Air-bags, etc, yes, you do need them. But just try getting a car without a multi-thousand dollar stereo system with satellite radio included. Or Internet connection. Or Onstar (or other brands' equivalant). Or a sun-roof that leaks rain in the summer and cold air in the winter, etc, etc, etc.
Show me six lines written by the most honest man in the world, and I will find enough therein to hang him
You'll see slight variations, depending on how the original French is translated... "Qu'on me donne six lignes de la main du plus honnete homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre".
Add in the HR assholes who insist on hiring only people with Facebook accounts, and bosses will be able to manufacture a reason to fire any employee at any time.
> To a right winger everything bad is 'leftist'. I know multiple idiots who think > Hitler was a leftist despite his corporation worshipping, union busting, executing, > you know, leftists, and also of course declaring war on the Soviet Union which by the > was just a thuggish dictatorship but at least nominally leftist. But none of that > matters. To them, Hitler bad and bad equals leftist no matter the actual ideaology.
Hitler was the leader of the NSDAP. The full name was "Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., i.e. "National Socialist German Workers Party". Part of Hitler's election campaign consisted of nationalizing banks, etc. Since the party's name was rather long for lazy English speakers, it was abreviated to the first 2 syllables of the German name, pronounced like "nat-zi".
During the Cold War era there was a joke about a western visitor going through Poland/Hungary/East-Germany looking at the cars and noticing something weird. There were no steering wheels. When he finally asked about it, the answer was "The steering wheels are all in Moscow".
Similarly, the EU is now effectively run by unelected bureaucrats (aka "Euro-crats") in Brussels who were grabbing more and more power from elected governments. When people complained about local problems, they were told that no solution was possible, because they had to follow EU regulations.
Case in point, "record breaking floods" in recent years. The "Euro-crats" blamed them on "global warming", which was a lie. The true cause... * before EU, British local authorities dredged local rivers and dumped the debris out to sea * with EU regulations, that became a no-no, and the debris had to be stored on land. I.e. it became illegal to move mud from the bottom of the river to the bottom of the English Channel. * England is crowded, and real-estate is insanely expensive. * Dredging became insanely expensive * Local authorities stopped dredging local rivers, because they couldn't afford the increased costs * After several years of not being dredged, rivers started overflowing their banks every time they got hit with a moderate rainfall... well... like... dohhh.
The first one stops scripted HTML5 videos. This allows me to run with Javascript on, but still no HTML5 autoplaying ads.
> Some sites (including YouTube) act a little wonky and require two or three clicks > (the first is interpreted as "Pause" since it assumes the video is already playing).
This is not the first such incident. See https://apple.slashdot.org/sto... about how easy it is to socially engineer your way into someone else's account. That's why I do not want anything vital "in the cloud"...
* because people can get at your data on the cloud * GM can shut down your car from the cloud via Onstar * California now demands that phones "reported stolen" be shut down from the cloud
At least the first backup would easily blow through my monthly quota. Assuming that the backup algorithm used versioning (e.g. rsync), subsequent backups would be smaller.
> The once dominant interactive web "standard" is > dead. What killed it? Security problems.
The security problems were caused by mission creep, e.g. stuff like "Actionscript" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... If they had stuck to being a media player, instead of inserting an "object-oriented programming language", they'd be OK. And it wouldn't be so effing bloated. I just removed removed Flash from my machine (Gentoo linux). To re-install would require 7 megabytes just for the Flashplayer. This does not count fonts, and nss, and nspr.
Similarly, I gave up on Adobe Acrobat a long time ago, and switched to mupdf. If they had stuck to simply redering PDF documents, rather than some singing-dancing monstrosity, that would not have been necessary.
> GP also ignorantly fails to understand that props efficient in > high speed flight are inefficient at low airspeed and vice versa, > so stowing climb props is a very good choice for an electric airplane.
Howsabout variable pitch propellors??? They've been around since the 1920's, and have been in practical use since the 1930's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Rev up 2 or 4 engines (admittedly a bit inefficient) for takeoff, and then back off to more efficient speed for cruising. 2 or 4 larger engines are cheaper and more efficient than 14 smaller ones. A bonus feature is that many "variable pitch propellors" can change pitch to *REVERSE* thrust. This is useful for backing up out of a hangar, as well as providing braking during landing on short airstrips.
> A robot requires at least one expensive backup, you're not > bringing in any joe schmoe off the streets to fill in when it's down.
OK, have a backup, or even *TWO* backups. Let's say you're running a 24x7 operation * There are 52 weeks in a year, with 5 workdays each * Subtract 10 mandatory statutory Holidays, and you're down to 50 working weeks per employee per year * Assume a minimum 2 weeks vacation per year per employee, and you're down to 48 working weeks per employee per year * At 40 hours per week, that's 1920 working hours per employee per year, assuming no sick time, etc. * There 8760 hours in a regular year (8784 in a leap year). * To keep the operation running 24x7, you're going to need at least 5 employees
> A robot requires increasing maintenance as it ages,
Start with 3 or 4 robots. Cannibalize parts, and you'll have 2 or 3 working robots for a long time.
> even moreso when the manufacturer reveals the flashy upgrade.
> A robot will need to be replaced with a different machine when the task changes.
Upgrade the firmware/software. That's what's often done with routers/PCs.
> A robot, if told to, will sabotage a company.
But boss, that email claimed to be from you, and it said to enable macros when opening the document.
> The only annoying thing is the clickbox that asks if you want to not show > the profile manager any more that is periliously close to the ok button. > > If anyone clicks that, then firefox doesn't show the profilemanager even if > you tell it to on the command line unless you manually edit the profiles.ini
This works in Pale Moon, and should work in Firefox, too. From the commandline
firefox -no-remote -ProfileManager
will bring up the profile manager dialogue. If it works from the command line it'll also work from a linux bash script in an xterm or a.BAT or.CMD file in a Windows Dos Box. You can even have a "program launcher" launch the appropriate profile. E.g. my Slashdot profile is launched with
palemoon -new-instance -p slashdot
You should be able to create a similar Firefox shortcut on the Windows desktop. I currently have 21 profiles for various forums and tasks. Execute
There are a lot of asshat webmasters that design websites that play "stupid webmaster tricks", depending on the user agent they sniff out. I use Pale Moon, a Firefox fork. For updates, it tends to revbump the version # by +0.1 when Firefox increments by +1.0.
Net result is that Pale Moon 26.2 is approximately equivalant to Firefox 39 or 43 or whatever it's at now. Go to an asshat website, and it refuses to let you in, whining about an "out-of-date unsupported browser". Yet if you lie to the website, and change the user agent to Firefox 43, it works just fine. I'm sure this happens with various other browsers, too.
Unfortunately, that strategy is self-defeating. The asshat webmasters look at their access logs, and see more Firefox hits and fewer "other browser" hits, which they then use as an excuse to "block all other browsers because they're only a fraction of a percent".
> One feature will be LinkedIn's newsfeed "that serves up articles based > on the project you are working on and Office suggesting an expert > to connect with via LinkedIn to help with a task you're trying to complete".
Question... how the BLEEP will they know what task you're trying to complete? Telemetry? Remember, he's not talking about Linked-In's standard job listings, but about a one-off project that an employee is currently working on.
Do like spending good money on a home light controller (Revolv), only to have it bricked when the new owners after an acquisition decide they can't be bothered with it? https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
Anything "in the cloud" is susceptible to some minimum-wage level-1 helpdesk employee in Mumbai being fast-talked into handing over your password. You need to keep 100% control over as much of your possessions as possible.
> Wingnuts actually believe that. If you immerse yourself in far-right propaganda, > and lack critical thinking skills, you'll wind up so brainwashed that you'll actually > believe the Nazis were the "left."
You mean the "Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei", which translates as "National Socialist German Workers' Party"? Because it's a real mouthful, the MSM called them "Nazis". Hitler's campaign platform in 1933 included the nationalization of banks. More like Bernie, if you ask me.
> Those idiots blame everything on the tricksy left, even now when they've > nominated an actual fascist who promises to commit impeachable offenses.
As opposed to Hillary, who already has commited impeachable offenses with her private mail server?
4) The vehicle can be remotely disabled/shut-down by the dealer if you don't make your monthly payment on time.
5) The vehicle can be remotely disabled/shut-down by the police if they merely suspect that you might have been remotely connected to a crime. "Shutdown first, and ask questions later".
6) The vehicle can be remotely disabled/shut-down by criminals on the other side of the planet. who demand payment in Bitcoins to re-enable the car.
> Good luck because your pretty much SOL and you'll find that you have to look > to digital signage displays. They will last longer but you'll have less choice when > it comes to sizes, inputs, advanced image controls, refresh rates and other > features. While the lack of features and advanced image controls might not > be a problem the commercial displays usually are more durable which sounds > great but this comes at a cost. Expect to pay 2x-3x what a "smart" TV > would cost at the same size.
Buy a "computer monitor" and hook it up to a cheap PC. You can either stream from the internet, or get an OTA tuner card and connect your antenna to it. Simple.
If you want OTA TV, get a separate tuner box (e.g. HDHomerun http://www.silicondust.com/pro... ) It has drivers for Windows/Mac/Linux. 32 inch monitors are now around $500 Canadian (under $400 US ?). Hook it up to a small PC, and you're ready to go.
And another thing that is one of my pet peeves. TV monitors are being built like it's the 1950's. 60 years ago, CRT monitors had pictures that shrank as the TV aged. There was also a horizontal bar across the top of the picture, 45 pixels high, which is why the 525-scanline TV sets ended up being used as 640x480 monitors.
*MAJOR RANT* Idiot TV manufacturers are *STILL* building digital TV screens with major overscan. Try using a digital TV set as a computer monitor; I dare you. You'll soon notice that your "1920x1080" TV is showing only 1750x950, if that. Whereas a computer monitor actually shows the full picture.
> Franchisee looses out, because every time a new menu item is introduced > they have to buy a new robot rather than retrain existing staff.
Actually, the maintenance tech comes along and loads new software in the general-purpose food-robot.
> Franchisee continues to loose out when 12 your old script kiddie figures out > how to hack the robots and stages a robot gladiatorial battle in their kitchen.
Make that any idiot franchisee that connects the robots directly to the internet.
Slashdot Mirror
Do you want to stay in EU?
No; we want to leave.
Are you, *SURE* you don't want to stay in EU?
No; we want to leave.
Are you, *SURE* you don't want to stay in EU?
No; we want to leave.
Remain side tries to obstruct Brexit via backdoor tactics.
"There should be no bank too big to fail and no individual too big to jail." --Hillary #DemDebate
https://twitter.com/HillaryCli...
> So that rules out Clinton and Trump. Who is left?
One guy who is way way left
32-bit posix dates use Jan 1, 1970 as the zero point. The maximum range is...
-2^31 seconds to
(2^31) - 1 seconds
from Jan 1, 1970, 0000 hr
Try the following short bash script
#!/bin/bash
date --date="@2147483647"
date --date="@2147483648"
date --date="@-2147483649"
date --date="@-2147483648"
On a 32-bit linux system (real or VM), you get...
Mon Jan 18 22:14:07 EST 2038
date: invalid date '@2147483648'
date: invalid date '@-2147483649'
Fri Dec 13 15:45:52 EST 1901
If you're a bank amortizing 25-year mortgages, you're already running into problems on a 32-bit linux. On a 64-bit system you'll get...
Mon Jan 18 22:14:07 EST 2038
Mon Jan 18 22:14:08 EST 2038
Fri Dec 13 15:45:51 EST 1901
Fri Dec 13 15:45:52 EST 1901
The wraparound date for 64-bit time_t is 15:30:08 on Sunday, 4 December 292,277,026,596 by which time I don't expect to be around.
Air-bags, etc, yes, you do need them. But just try getting a car without a multi-thousand dollar stereo system with satellite radio included. Or Internet connection. Or Onstar (or other brands' equivalant). Or a sun-roof that leaks rain in the summer and cold air in the winter, etc, etc, etc.
That is why people can't afford new cars.
Show me six lines written by the most honest man in the world, and I will find enough therein to hang him
You'll see slight variations, depending on how the original French is translated... "Qu'on me donne six lignes de la main du plus honnete homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre".
Add in the HR assholes who insist on hiring only people with Facebook accounts, and bosses will be able to manufacture a reason to fire any employee at any time.
> To a right winger everything bad is 'leftist'. I know multiple idiots who think
> Hitler was a leftist despite his corporation worshipping, union busting, executing,
> you know, leftists, and also of course declaring war on the Soviet Union which by the
> was just a thuggish dictatorship but at least nominally leftist. But none of that
> matters. To them, Hitler bad and bad equals leftist no matter the actual ideaology.
Hitler was the leader of the NSDAP. The full name was "Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., i.e. "National Socialist German Workers Party". Part of Hitler's election campaign consisted of nationalizing banks, etc. Since the party's name was rather long for lazy English speakers, it was abreviated to the first 2 syllables of the German name, pronounced like "nat-zi".
During the Cold War era there was a joke about a western visitor going through Poland/Hungary/East-Germany looking at the cars and noticing something weird. There were no steering wheels. When he finally asked about it, the answer was "The steering wheels are all in Moscow".
Similarly, the EU is now effectively run by unelected bureaucrats (aka "Euro-crats") in Brussels who were grabbing more and more power from elected governments. When people complained about local problems, they were told that no solution was possible, because they had to follow EU regulations.
Case in point, "record breaking floods" in recent years. The "Euro-crats" blamed them on "global warming", which was a lie. The true cause...
* before EU, British local authorities dredged local rivers and dumped the debris out to sea
* with EU regulations, that became a no-no, and the debris had to be stored on land. I.e. it became illegal to move mud from the bottom of the river to the bottom of the English Channel.
* England is crowded, and real-estate is insanely expensive.
* Dredging became insanely expensive
* Local authorities stopped dredging local rivers, because they couldn't afford the increased costs
* After several years of not being dredged, rivers started overflowing their banks every time they got hit with a moderate rainfall... well... like... dohhh.
> I would buy a bunch of these and use them as servers and routers.
A Beowolf Cluster of smartphones; yay
> In Firefox you can set media.autoplay.enabled to false, which will disable auto-playing videos.
I use Pale Moon, a Firefox fork. I find that I need to set 2 values
media.autoplay.allowscripted false
media.autoplay.enabled false
The first one stops scripted HTML5 videos. This allows me to run with Javascript on, but still no HTML5 autoplaying ads.
> Some sites (including YouTube) act a little wonky and require two or three clicks
> (the first is interpreted as "Pause" since it assumes the video is already playing).
I get that behaviour too.
This is not the first such incident. See https://apple.slashdot.org/sto... about how easy it is to socially engineer your way into someone else's account. That's why I do not want anything vital "in the cloud"...
* because people can get at your data on the cloud
* GM can shut down your car from the cloud via Onstar
* California now demands that phones "reported stolen" be shut down from the cloud
etc, etc.
At least the first backup would easily blow through my monthly quota. Assuming that the backup algorithm used versioning (e.g. rsync), subsequent backups would be smaller.
> The once dominant interactive web "standard" is
> dead. What killed it? Security problems.
The security problems were caused by mission creep, e.g. stuff like "Actionscript" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... If they had stuck to being a media player, instead of inserting an "object-oriented programming language", they'd be OK. And it wouldn't be so effing bloated. I just removed removed Flash from my machine (Gentoo linux). To re-install would require 7 megabytes just for the Flashplayer. This does not count fonts, and nss, and nspr.
Similarly, I gave up on Adobe Acrobat a long time ago, and switched to mupdf. If they had stuck to simply redering PDF documents, rather than some singing-dancing monstrosity, that would not have been necessary.
> GP also ignorantly fails to understand that props efficient in
> high speed flight are inefficient at low airspeed and vice versa,
> so stowing climb props is a very good choice for an electric airplane.
Howsabout variable pitch propellors??? They've been around since the 1920's, and have been in practical use since the 1930's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Rev up 2 or 4 engines (admittedly a bit inefficient) for takeoff, and then back off to more efficient speed for cruising. 2 or 4 larger engines are cheaper and more efficient than 14 smaller ones. A bonus feature is that many "variable pitch propellors" can change pitch to *REVERSE* thrust. This is useful for backing up out of a hangar, as well as providing braking during landing on short airstrips.
> A robot requires at least one expensive backup, you're not
> bringing in any joe schmoe off the streets to fill in when it's down.
OK, have a backup, or even *TWO* backups. Let's say you're running a 24x7 operation
* There are 52 weeks in a year, with 5 workdays each
* Subtract 10 mandatory statutory Holidays, and you're down to 50 working weeks per employee per year
* Assume a minimum 2 weeks vacation per year per employee, and you're down to 48 working weeks per employee per year
* At 40 hours per week, that's 1920 working hours per employee per year, assuming no sick time, etc.
* There 8760 hours in a regular year (8784 in a leap year).
* To keep the operation running 24x7, you're going to need at least 5 employees
> A robot requires increasing maintenance as it ages,
Start with 3 or 4 robots. Cannibalize parts, and you'll have 2 or 3 working robots for a long time.
> even moreso when the manufacturer reveals the flashy upgrade.
> A robot will need to be replaced with a different machine when the task changes.
Upgrade the firmware/software. That's what's often done with routers/PCs.
> A robot, if told to, will sabotage a company.
But boss, that email claimed to be from you, and it said to enable macros when opening the document.
> The only annoying thing is the clickbox that asks if you want to not show
> the profile manager any more that is periliously close to the ok button.
>
> If anyone clicks that, then firefox doesn't show the profilemanager even if
> you tell it to on the command line unless you manually edit the profiles.ini
This works in Pale Moon, and should work in Firefox, too. From the commandline
firefox -no-remote -ProfileManager
will bring up the profile manager dialogue. If it works from the command line it'll also work from a linux bash script in an xterm or a .BAT or .CMD file in a Windows Dos Box. You can even have a "program launcher" launch the appropriate profile. E.g. my Slashdot profile is launched with
palemoon -new-instance -p slashdot
You should be able to create a similar Firefox shortcut on the Windows desktop. I currently have 21 profiles for various forums and tasks. Execute
firefox -help
to see what parameters are available.
There are a lot of asshat webmasters that design websites that play "stupid webmaster tricks", depending on the user agent they sniff out. I use Pale Moon, a Firefox fork. For updates, it tends to revbump the version # by +0.1 when Firefox increments by +1.0.
Net result is that Pale Moon 26.2 is approximately equivalant to Firefox 39 or 43 or whatever it's at now. Go to an asshat website, and it refuses to let you in, whining about an "out-of-date unsupported browser". Yet if you lie to the website, and change the user agent to Firefox 43, it works just fine. I'm sure this happens with various other browsers, too.
Unfortunately, that strategy is self-defeating. The asshat webmasters look at their access logs, and see more Firefox hits and fewer "other browser" hits, which they then use as an excuse to "block all other browsers because they're only a fraction of a percent".
> One feature will be LinkedIn's newsfeed "that serves up articles based
> on the project you are working on and Office suggesting an expert
> to connect with via LinkedIn to help with a task you're trying to complete".
Question... how the BLEEP will they know what task you're trying to complete? Telemetry? Remember, he's not talking about Linked-In's standard job listings, but about a one-off project that an employee is currently working on.
Going off on a bit of a tangent about IOT, but it is relevant. OK, cellphones have to be controlled by the cellphone provider.
But do you like the fact that your GM car can be de-activated from the cloud (Onstar)?
Do want "Cloud connect" controlling your home router (Linksys; withdrawn quickly after backlash) https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
Do like spending good money on a home light controller (Revolv), only to have it bricked when the new owners after an acquisition decide they can't be bothered with it? https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
Anything "in the cloud" is susceptible to some minimum-wage level-1 helpdesk employee in Mumbai being fast-talked into handing over your password. You need to keep 100% control over as much of your possessions as possible.
> Wingnuts actually believe that. If you immerse yourself in far-right propaganda,
> and lack critical thinking skills, you'll wind up so brainwashed that you'll actually
> believe the Nazis were the "left."
You mean the "Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei", which translates as "National Socialist German Workers' Party"? Because it's a real mouthful, the MSM called them "Nazis". Hitler's campaign platform in 1933 included the nationalization of banks. More like Bernie, if you ask me.
> Those idiots blame everything on the tricksy left, even now when they've
> nominated an actual fascist who promises to commit impeachable offenses.
As opposed to Hillary, who already has commited impeachable offenses with her private mail server?
4) The vehicle can be remotely disabled/shut-down by the dealer if you don't make your monthly payment on time.
5) The vehicle can be remotely disabled/shut-down by the police if they merely suspect that you might have been remotely connected to a crime. "Shutdown first, and ask questions later".
6) The vehicle can be remotely disabled/shut-down by criminals on the other side of the planet. who demand payment in Bitcoins to re-enable the car.
> Never understood the attraction to the bash cli. Good for scripting, though (when Perl is missing).
Often a lot better than Perl. Perl is a mediocre operating system that lacks a lightweight text-parsing/scripting ability.
> Good luck because your pretty much SOL and you'll find that you have to look
> to digital signage displays. They will last longer but you'll have less choice when
> it comes to sizes, inputs, advanced image controls, refresh rates and other
> features. While the lack of features and advanced image controls might not
> be a problem the commercial displays usually are more durable which sounds
> great but this comes at a cost. Expect to pay 2x-3x what a "smart" TV
> would cost at the same size.
Buy a "computer monitor" and hook it up to a cheap PC. You can either stream from the internet, or get an OTA tuner card and connect your antenna to it. Simple.
If you want OTA TV, get a separate tuner box (e.g. HDHomerun http://www.silicondust.com/pro... ) It has drivers for Windows/Mac/Linux. 32 inch monitors are now around $500 Canadian (under $400 US ?). Hook it up to a small PC, and you're ready to go.
And another thing that is one of my pet peeves. TV monitors are being built like it's the 1950's. 60 years ago, CRT monitors had pictures that shrank as the TV aged. There was also a horizontal bar across the top of the picture, 45 pixels high, which is why the 525-scanline TV sets ended up being used as 640x480 monitors.
*MAJOR RANT* Idiot TV manufacturers are *STILL* building digital TV screens with major overscan. Try using a digital TV set as a computer monitor; I dare you. You'll soon notice that your "1920x1080" TV is showing only 1750x950, if that. Whereas a computer monitor actually shows the full picture.
> Franchisee looses out, because every time a new menu item is introduced
> they have to buy a new robot rather than retrain existing staff.
Actually, the maintenance tech comes along and loads new software in the general-purpose food-robot.
> Franchisee continues to loose out when 12 your old script kiddie figures out
> how to hack the robots and stages a robot gladiatorial battle in their kitchen.
Make that any idiot franchisee that connects the robots directly to the internet.