> (that they need v40 codes to store an entire oops, and > few phones will read v40 codes).
few of today's phones perhaps. but the development of phones is not exactly at a standstill, when QR-oops gets released with some future kernel what will the phone technology support then?
to quote Doc Brown, you have to think four dimensionally.
That it was not written in a vacuum and it is shown that the authors thought a lot about the existing common law and how what they wrote would relate to it, only gives more weight to the simple and precise words they put down on, er, hemp. They knew exactly what they were saying and said it as plainly as they could.
I guess it was inevitable that not leaving any room for lawyers to weasel out of it would eventually be used as a "look how strict it is! they can't have been serious! ignore what it says!" opposite-day fantasy.
oblig. look up the ironic history of yelling "fire" in a movie theater, an idea first used in a court case trying to illegally silence political protesters in the early years of WWI.
just because they may be alternative medicine crackpots does not mean that they are not experts in identifying exotic plant species. one might expect just the opposite actually.
As this is a more or less duplicate top-10 style list to the one posted yesterday, among many other "biggest foul ups" and "worst dressed" articles, the floor is open for meta-discussion.
I get that laughing at others' misfortune and fuckups makes sad people feel better about themselves and sells lots of glossy magazines, but you've got to admit it's all a bit depressing that we can't get past the psychology of school yard bullies and instead have at least one in five of these top 10 lists be about the greatest medical, quantum physics, and space exploration breakthroughs of the previous year and what's on the horizon for the next.
As always, FOSS means you don't have to put up with the bullshit.
F-Droid build all apps they ship from source, including some sort of grep filter on permissions to catch (and then remove) any code which is not in the user's best interest, or at minimum flag and explain the issue in detail to let you decide for yourself. Otherwise-good apps with flagrant ad-ware or cripple-ware in it simply gets patched.
As another poster pointed out, Android already is running the Linux kernel. If you want the GNU-ecosystem OS on top of the kernel all you have to do is install a chroot environment like "Lil' Debi" and you're done. (requires root)
Same goes for those very nice and very cheap long-life Chromebooks.
People give RMS lots of grief for calling "it" GNU/Linux, but he ain't no fool. Linux can be many things besides the kernel for the GNU OS, and see the Debian ports for the familiar GNU environment running on BSD, and yes, Hurd kernels instead of the Linux one.
the laws of physics care not what Al Gore thinks or does.
it does not matter if it is Al Gore, JP Morgan & Co., or Colonel Fucking Sanders who points it out: internalising the market externalities around the burning of fossil fuels is the single greatest tool we have to do something about this before it is too late.
we know pretty much how many barrels oil, gas, and coal we sell (and so extract and burn) each year. We know quite well how many molecules of CO2 that will release. We know, pretty much, since the mid-1800s (starting with Fourier) what effect that CO2 will have on our atmosphere. We monitor it both in amount and radioisotope and it matches expectations pretty much spot on.
arguing over the minute details or the character of the messenger is both totally irrelevant and short sighted, not to mention intellectually dishonest.
A cap and trade marked based solution worked beautifully for SO2, there's absolutely no reason it wouldn't work for other pollutants as well, beyond intentional and sociopathic sabotage that is.
To put this in some context, have a look at Jim Pettit's "spiral" graphs and consider that the grey zone in the NSIDC plots linked from the summary are still two standard deviations from the norm, and this year we're almost touching that (if that doesn't mean much to you now would be a good time to brush up on your statistics). So compared to last year we've gone from holy shit batshit insane outlier to just plain old holy shit.
To anyone about to complain that the number of samples is too short, 1) these measurements start when humanity invented the satellites to measure it - can't change that, and 2) we have deep Greenland ice cores for a pretty good idea of what was going on before.
> Our corporate fascist system is failing us badly and if we won't put > them all in check soon, consequences of their misdeeds, greed and > corruption will hit us hard.
If this article and many of the other stories we see on Slashdot every-friggin-day are anything to go by, apparently they already are.
> In that case you just go with whichever runs fastest.
Not quite, optimizing to "result = 1" will be fastest, but obviously not correct. If you know -Ofast will degrade numerics compared to -O0 you do know something.
So you do a sensitivity analysis and learn what parts of the results you can trust and what parts you can't.
Or you re-run your forecast models from 10 days ago with what-you-knew 10 days ago and see which ones got closest to reality. After doing those hindcasts for a while you can build up some confidence about model performance.
That doesn't work so well when trying to model a 1 in 500 year storm which you have no hindcast experience with, but it's better than nothing.
protip: just because the current Supreme Court rules that it's ok, doesn't make it morally or even constitutionally right. But don't take my word for it, four of the Supreme Court Justices thought it was wrong too.
I'm talking about real justice, not the outcomes of a fallible legal system.
And history suggests that we should worry less about the surveillance itself and more about when the war in whose name the surveillance is being conducted will end.
In other words, the ends justify the means, and historical precedence makes it ok to do commit whatever crime you like.
I wonder if the author feels the same about the WWII internment camps for Japanese? We won that war, so it's all ok, we can do that again, right?
Or the way the Native Indians were treated? We eventually grew a great nation on the land so that was all ok too, and we are justified in doing the same in future for other lofty goals?
We define our nation by the society that we create through our actions. Don't try to feed us this apologist bullshit two days after the 4th, we have it in our power to be better than this.
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> (that they need v40 codes to store an entire oops, and
> few phones will read v40 codes).
few of today's phones perhaps. but the development of phones is
not exactly at a standstill, when QR-oops gets released with some
future kernel what will the phone technology support then?
to quote Doc Brown, you have to think four dimensionally.
That it was not written in a vacuum and it is shown that the authors thought a lot about the existing common law and how what they wrote would relate to it, only gives more weight to the simple and precise words they put down on, er, hemp. They knew exactly what they were saying and said it as plainly as they could.
I guess it was inevitable that not leaving any room for lawyers to weasel out of it would eventually be used as a "look how strict it is! they can't have been serious! ignore what it says!" opposite-day fantasy.
oblig. look up the ironic history of yelling "fire" in a movie theater, an idea first used in a court case trying to illegally silence political protesters in the early years of WWI.
Interesting that the map shows Spain to be so solidly in the Android camp.
I wonder if iOS is doing something funny there to skew the data, Apple has abandoned the market, or if it is local preference.
https://www.mapbox.com/labs/tw...
> And we need growth because?
Because electrolytes, stupid.
just because they may be alternative medicine crackpots does not mean that they are not experts in identifying exotic plant species. one might expect just the opposite actually.
train your brain to avoid the ad hominem.
As this is a more or less duplicate top-10 style list to the one posted yesterday, among many other "biggest foul ups" and "worst dressed" articles, the floor is open for meta-discussion.
I get that laughing at others' misfortune and fuckups makes sad people feel better about themselves and sells lots of glossy magazines, but you've got to admit it's all a bit depressing that we can't get past the psychology of school yard bullies and instead have at least one in five of these top 10 lists be about the greatest medical, quantum physics, and space exploration breakthroughs of the previous year and what's on the horizon for the next.
Celebrate good times, come on.
> No kidding. I had to look through dozens of "flashlight" apps
> to find one that didn't want my calendar, SMS, internet access,
> and GPS.
F-Droid is your friend.
As always, FOSS means you don't have to put up with the bullshit.
F-Droid build all apps they ship from source, including some sort
of grep filter on permissions to catch (and then remove) any code
which is not in the user's best interest, or at minimum flag and
explain the issue in detail to let you decide for yourself.
Otherwise-good apps with flagrant ad-ware or cripple-ware in it
simply gets patched.
Ok, ok, you're not going to look it up so here's the link,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVE_Mizar
"Smolinski and his associate, Harold Blake, were killed in the
resulting fiery crash."
> Perhaps you should ask Google what "citation" means.
It's old Spanish which translates roughly to mean "painted horse".
As another poster pointed out, Android already is running the Linux kernel. If you want the GNU-ecosystem OS on top of the kernel all you have to do is install a chroot environment like "Lil' Debi" and you're done. (requires root)
https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=info.guardianproject.lildebi&fdpage=13
Same goes for those very nice and very cheap long-life Chromebooks.
People give RMS lots of grief for calling "it" GNU/Linux, but he ain't no fool. Linux can be many things besides the kernel for the GNU OS, and see the Debian ports for the familiar GNU environment running on BSD, and yes, Hurd kernels instead of the Linux one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
That could be considered apostrofal.
You'd do better to learn from the master:
Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit
http://www.xenu.net/archive/baloney_detection.html
the laws of physics care not what Al Gore thinks or does.
it does not matter if it is Al Gore, JP Morgan & Co., or Colonel Fucking Sanders who points it out: internalising the market externalities around the burning of fossil fuels is the single greatest tool we have to do something about this before it is too late.
we know pretty much how many barrels oil, gas, and coal we sell (and so extract and burn) each year. We know quite well how many molecules of CO2 that will release. We know, pretty much, since the mid-1800s (starting with Fourier) what effect that CO2 will have on our atmosphere. We monitor it both in amount and radioisotope and it matches expectations pretty much spot on.
arguing over the minute details or the character of the messenger is both totally irrelevant and short sighted, not to mention intellectually dishonest.
A cap and trade marked based solution worked beautifully for SO2, there's absolutely no reason it wouldn't work for other pollutants as well, beyond intentional and sociopathic sabotage that is.
no, it really is largely irrelevant. here are the numbers up to and including last week:
http://iwantsomeproof.com/extimg/siv_annual_polar_graph.png
are you so obtuse that you can't see what's happening here?
http://iwantsomeproof.com/extimg/siv_september_average_polar_graph.png
or are you purposefully keeping your head in the sand until this all blows over?
If nothing else, I hope we can agree that the outlook for polar bear cubs born today is pretty fucking grim.
To put this in some context, have a look at Jim Pettit's "spiral" graphs and consider that the grey zone in the NSIDC plots linked from the summary are still two standard deviations from the norm, and this year we're almost touching that (if that doesn't mean much to you now would be a good time to brush up on your statistics). So compared to last year we've gone from holy shit batshit insane outlier to just plain old holy shit.
https://sites.google.com/site/pettitclimategraphs/sea-ice-volume
To anyone about to complain that the number of samples is too short, 1) these measurements start when humanity invented the satellites to measure it - can't change that, and 2) we have deep Greenland ice cores for a pretty good idea of what was going on before.
> Our corporate fascist system is failing us badly and if we won't put
> them all in check soon, consequences of their misdeeds, greed and
> corruption will hit us hard.
If this article and many of the other stories we see on Slashdot every-friggin-day are anything to go by, apparently they already are.
> In that case you just go with whichever runs fastest.
Not quite, optimizing to "result = 1" will be fastest, but obviously not correct. If you know -Ofast will degrade numerics compared to -O0 you do know something.
So you do a sensitivity analysis and learn what parts of the results you can trust and what parts you can't.
Or you re-run your forecast models from 10 days ago with what-you-knew 10 days ago and see which ones got closest to reality. After doing those hindcasts for a while you can build up some confidence about model performance.
That doesn't work so well when trying to model a 1 in 500 year storm which you have no hindcast experience with, but it's better than nothing.
Oops, it's in the sensible-utils package.
apt-get install sensible-browser
> Everyone feels they are right, and everyone feels strongly.
> Is it possible for commenters to keep that in mind?
I'm guessing "no".
protip: just because the current Supreme Court rules that it's ok, doesn't make it morally or even constitutionally right. But don't take my word for it, four of the Supreme Court Justices thought it was wrong too.
I'm talking about real justice, not the outcomes of a fallible legal system.
You make yourself a slave in your own mind.
In other words, the ends justify the means, and historical
precedence makes it ok to do commit whatever crime you like.
I wonder if the author feels the same about the WWII internment
camps for Japanese? We won that war, so it's all ok, we can do that
again, right?
Or the way the Native Indians were treated? We eventually grew a
great nation on the land so that was all ok too, and we are
justified in doing the same in future for other lofty goals?
We define our nation by the society that we create through our
actions. Don't try to feed us this apologist bullshit two days after
the 4th, we have it in our power to be better than this.