This cheap? *lol*
...and Apple believers will still assert that their phones are safe. When it comes to dumbing down people, religion is certainly the most effective.
1) The United States spent 20 percent of the federal budget on defense in 2011. All told, the U.S. government spent about $718 billion on defense and international security assistance in 2011 — more than it spent on Medicare. Jan 7, 2013
Never changes for the better, thus likely gotten worse.
It seems more and more like a third world country from my perspective.
Crazy cops that shoot each and every one once the words 'Shots fired!' are heard. People 'living' in plastic tents in the outskirts; people running around without healthcare and then – the fucking cables hanging around everywhere. Once this goes wrong, they simply put up new cables in the same spot, so that people can enjoy the next outage...
This 'driving against the wall' mentality has degraded large portions of the states into third world countries. There are even states where the schools open only four days a week, because the teachers need second/third jobs to make it. Insane - all this, while spending everything on weapons systems nobody needs!
I can only encourage everyone to sue Volkswagen. They have a big mouth, but once push comes to shove – they prefer to keep things under the hood. They even 'settled' here in Germany, where it is almost impossible to win against a company. Needless to say that they deserve what is coming to them and more.
There's nothing wrong with that feature. If you happen to be left-handed, you might even prefer Arabic.;-)
If you are receiving an executable that way, there should be a warning. Better even, it should be renamed for safety. Just add an '_disabled_this_executable_' post(/pre)fix. Not everybody is into computers. Most Malware spreads by people downloading and clicking on it. Sometimes this takes out entire hospitals. Therefore, you have to keep this in mind when designing software. You can always have an option to enable executables, if it bothers too many professionals (which won't be the case here).
As far as I can tell, the playback UI is missing obvious features like X second skip forward/back, slow motion, etc,...
As far as I remember, it's customizable: Tools => Customize Interface
... and isn't at all touch screen friendly.
You just won't believe this, but it has support for different skins too! Just use a search engine and look for something like: vlc touchscreen skin.;-)
Lovely, but (mostly) useless. This is only interesting for bigger companies, if you have to do your own checksumming.
If the distros would implement it, however, this would be far more practical. You could even boot from a distro-CD/DVD to check if your system is clean (signed checksum-db).
Has anyone seen something like 'Tripwire' making it to a standard distro? That could actually be useful and it would be relatively easy to implement. Therefore, I'm wondering why nobody seems to bother?
He's too much of a 'commercial wizard' for my taste. He doesn't write as an artist, but rather to fill the pages. Ask him for a 396-page novel and he'll have the lead struck down by lightning on page 395.;-)
After I read the first two, I don't want to read the third. In fact, I don't want to read anything from him anymore.
This means you got a lib with Unicode, left to right, upside down writing, i18n as simple as breaking the egg and layout management. All the elements fall in place automatically, regardless of screen size and you can have the font adapting to the given DPI. It's all there - even Qt!
You don't really want a multi-user, multi-processing system for something like that. It can all cause unnecessary problems. It's straight down the line programming here: Input -> Action -> Output.
He's got a point, nonetheless. You would expect a slim real-time-OS with a minimum of attack surface. Windows isn't really 'deterministic'. You can do a lot of things much cleaner with a RTOS. The problem here is that most of the big reputable companies don't have any decent programmers. Therefore, you can expect some crappy software at VB level on top of a 'not too reliable' OS. A clever 13-year old computer kid could do a much better job. Marketing - and thus the big blenders in suits - always wins, however.:-(
Did you never hear about corruption in China? Somebody surely profited from this and it wasn't China as a total, so much can be sure.
You can get a Brazilian kid from the favelas to cut somebody's throat for a few bucks. That doesn't make it the child asking for the job...
Actually, as we were able to find out only recently, that 'disposal' consisted in shipping it to China and declaring it 'recycled'. We learned that, when China refused to take any more of that plastic wastes from the US and GERMany, upon which both nations are now facing the problem of keeping their statistics 'green'.
I believe the term to use here is "whitewashing". The western world is very good at this, thanks to our – totally independent – media.;-)
"Bitcoin is consuming enough energy to power Denmark for a year
Mining the cryptocurrency ‘consumes a ridiculous amount of energy’ estimates suggest"
For those of you who live in the US: Denmark is a small country up the north of Europe with less than 6 million inhabitants. In terms of civilization, it is more advanced than the US. This means that they consume energy in abundance.
What's wrong with a taxi? In many countries senior citizens get a discount on public transportation (bus, taxi,...). If it's not the case where you live, shouldn't this be fixed first before everybody goes and buys a new car?
This is plain stupid as it is just misleading. Granted, scholars can barely read these days. Nonetheless, what is being defined as 'AI' here might lead to frustration when people actually expect some sort of 'intelligence' from it.
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This cheap? *lol*
...and Apple believers will still assert that their phones are safe. When it comes to dumbing down people, religion is certainly the most effective.
1st thing popping up on Google:
1) The United States spent 20 percent of the federal budget on defense in 2011. All told, the U.S. government spent about $718 billion on defense and international security assistance in 2011 — more than it spent on Medicare.
Jan 7, 2013
Never changes for the better, thus likely gotten worse.
They can't even read. :-(
It seems more and more like a third world country from my perspective.
Crazy cops that shoot each and every one once the words 'Shots fired!' are heard. People 'living' in plastic tents in the outskirts; people running around without healthcare and then – the fucking cables hanging around everywhere. Once this goes wrong, they simply put up new cables in the same spot, so that people can enjoy the next outage...
This 'driving against the wall' mentality has degraded large portions of the states into third world countries. There are even states where the schools open only four days a week, because the teachers need second/third jobs to make it. Insane - all this, while spending everything on weapons systems nobody needs!
Have you filed a lawsuit yourself? Or do you just want to encourage people to spent lots of money on a lawsuit with a highly uncertain outcome?
There's the big mouth. Didn't take long. *lol*
I can only encourage everyone to sue Volkswagen. They have a big mouth, but once push comes to shove – they prefer to keep things under the hood. They even 'settled' here in Germany, where it is almost impossible to win against a company. Needless to say that they deserve what is coming to them and more.
Hurray, it's bedtime for Bonzo again!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Which is known to not be enough (hospitals down, etc.)...
There's nothing wrong with that feature. If you happen to be left-handed, you might even prefer Arabic. ;-)
If you are receiving an executable that way, there should be a warning. Better even, it should be renamed for safety. Just add an '_disabled_this_executable_' post(/pre)fix. Not everybody is into computers. Most Malware spreads by people downloading and clicking on it. Sometimes this takes out entire hospitals. Therefore, you have to keep this in mind when designing software. You can always have an option to enable executables, if it bothers too many professionals (which won't be the case here).
Yes, but that is a security problem. Sanitize your links and deactivate them, if you must...
They may have 'hardened' their cryptographic algorithms, but the problem here is clearly that most GUI-libraries are not. :-(
As far as I can tell, the playback UI is missing obvious features like X second skip forward/back, slow motion, etc, ...
As far as I remember, it's customizable: Tools => Customize Interface
... and isn't at all touch screen friendly.
You just won't believe this, but it has support for different skins too! Just use a search engine and look for something like: vlc touchscreen skin. ;-)
Lovely, but (mostly) useless. This is only interesting for bigger companies, if you have to do your own checksumming.
If the distros would implement it, however, this would be far more practical. You could even boot from a distro-CD/DVD to check if your system is clean (signed checksum-db).
Has anyone seen something like 'Tripwire' making it to a standard distro? That could actually be useful and it would be relatively easy to implement. Therefore, I'm wondering why nobody seems to bother?
He's too much of a 'commercial wizard' for my taste. He doesn't write as an artist, but rather to fill the pages. Ask him for a 396-page novel and he'll have the lead struck down by lightning on page 395. ;-)
After I read the first two, I don't want to read the third. In fact, I don't want to read anything from him anymore.
That was probably the status 20 years ago.
Check this out: From Qt 5.9 onwards, the Green Hills Software INTEGRITY Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) is a supported platform.
The Green Hills INTEGRITY Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) is widely used in safety- and security-critical systems.
This means you got a lib with Unicode, left to right, upside down writing, i18n as simple as breaking the egg and layout management. All the elements fall in place automatically, regardless of screen size and you can have the font adapting to the given DPI. It's all there - even Qt!
You don't really want a multi-user, multi-processing system for something like that. It can all cause unnecessary problems. It's straight down the line programming here: Input -> Action -> Output.
He's got a point, nonetheless. You would expect a slim real-time-OS with a minimum of attack surface. :-(
Windows isn't really 'deterministic'. You can do a lot of things much cleaner with a RTOS.
The problem here is that most of the big reputable companies don't have any decent programmers. Therefore, you can expect some crappy software at VB level on top of a 'not too reliable' OS.
A clever 13-year old computer kid could do a much better job. Marketing - and thus the big blenders in suits - always wins, however.
...and as always the answer is 42, according to Oxfam. ;-)
Did you never hear about corruption in China? Somebody surely profited from this and it wasn't China as a total, so much can be sure.
You can get a Brazilian kid from the favelas to cut somebody's throat for a few bucks. That doesn't make it the child asking for the job...
Actually, as we were able to find out only recently, that 'disposal' consisted in shipping it to China and declaring it 'recycled'. We learned that, when China refused to take any more of that plastic wastes from the US and GERMany, upon which both nations are now facing the problem of keeping their statistics 'green'. ;-)
I believe the term to use here is "whitewashing". The western world is very good at this, thanks to our – totally independent – media.
That doesn't make it any better.
If you ever saw him and know about his past (as a rat), this makes perfect sense.
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* 'Kimme' - GERMan slang: "crack that divides your two cheeks"
This is insane and NOT funny:
https://www.enbridge.com/energ...
"Bitcoin is consuming enough energy to power Denmark for a year
Mining the cryptocurrency ‘consumes a ridiculous amount of energy’ estimates suggest"
For those of you who live in the US: Denmark is a small country up the north of Europe with less than 6 million inhabitants. In terms of civilization, it is more advanced than the US. This means that they consume energy in abundance.
What's wrong with a taxi? In many countries senior citizens get a discount on public transportation (bus, taxi, ...).
If it's not the case where you live, shouldn't this be fixed first before everybody goes and buys a new car?
This is plain stupid as it is just misleading. Granted, scholars can barely read these days. Nonetheless, what is being defined as 'AI' here might lead to frustration when people actually expect some sort of 'intelligence' from it.