Absolutely! But in this case, the line of guilt is not circumstantial evidence, witness statements of dubious quality, but a straightforward, clear manhandling of another person including burying her alive. So what's to argue here? And while I'm not too keen on capital punishment, an offender like that - what's the alternative? The only one we have is incarceration for life. How human is it, to put someone behind bars for life, knowing he'd die in prison, eventually of old age, having 'lived' in a small cell. Why not the old testament / Jewish 'an eye for an eye' and likewise bury that person 6 feet below, and likewise alive?
I was torn whether to mod this up or reply to it..
In the end you could have modded me up. Not that I really cared, but your contribution was kind of implicit. Plus the actual scarcity of a clean environment. Look at recent pictures of Beijing, where everyone is currently trying to stack up cars. Also a peak-resource variant, though on the other end of the production cycle.
I'd prefer a blind philosopher any day compared to those celebrating the post-scarcity. They are effectively delirious suicide candidates.
There is no solution to this situation that I could think of. IMO, we're fucked. Game over, pack your stuff, start growing some veggies in your back yard and hope that you survive the impending fallout.
I wouldn't be that negative, though. While in the currently fashionable economic theories a proper countermeasure is lacking, there is no good reason to preclude its existence. Once we are screwed, we will refocus our interests and research on the topic; leaving marketing research behind, because it won't help us any longer. What troubles me more, is the need of the individual to participate, to understand, to react and eventually to lower their expectations on impending richness.
All you need is a law requiring the driver to provide the start and end mileage to the customer and to have them agree verbally to a rate per mile.
Huh!? I wouldn't want to succumb to 'supply and demand' when I am standing in the middle of nowhere, at 23:00, and urgently need to go to some civilized place. Or back home. I don't want to do any haggling with a cab driver, and the next one and the third one, and so forth, until someone offered me a suitable price. I had to do this when living in Asia, and I was very sick of this.
The only economically sustainable solution is to have a labor force that matches labor requirements.
Quite so. But that is no more than day-dreaming. Because the labor requirement is going down rapidly, due to productivity increases. AND the labor force [us] is NOT desirous to earn less. Combine this with the desire of the labor force [us] to own ever more for ever cheaper, you know where the actual culprit is located. Yep, in the end it is the consumer who wants ever more for ever cheaper with her hat of consumer; and demands ever more salary with her hat as member of the labor force. If this is not a vicious circle, then there isn't.
The problem is not over-production, it is that for some odd reason we see production as the goal of economy. Problem is, the goal is not production, it's selling.
This is the best of the statements in your post, and Insightful as such. Over-production is actually an empty term, when not seen in conjunction with the rest of the market. The key term here is demand. And what would better be taken into consideration is the term of over-supply. We actually suffer from over-supply. Just drive to your next friendly supermarket, be it in LA, Nairobi, Moscow or Madrid. The shelves are bursting with merchandise. Much more than you can ever consume.Therefore, the value of each item goes down, and implicitly the potential / possible salary for everyone involved in the chain from development / design over manufacturing to distribution.
...but I don't think that the only necessities are economic (...as both dyed-thru Marxists and Neocons seem to? I get that this is not you). While it's true the trigger for my involvement with "sharing"--from free-as-in-beer file-sharing to using Airbnb to potlucks to etc. etc.--may sometimes be economic, "because I can't afford to otherwise" doesn't actually make it in the top three of my reasons, now very much engaged with "sharing," for continuing in it.
The New Intimacy is new not because humans are different, but because more are more available than ever before.
Perceive yourself being modded up 'Insightful'.
It is a new economic paradigm that currently evolves. Until recently, economics was based on the distribution of scare resources. And Marx didn't live to see this new aspect. Therefore, despite of his usefulness of his work in our days, his insights need to be accompanied by the only-evolving paradigm of managing an oversupply. Combine this with the concept of the necessity of growth, and we all run into troubled times. Because the necessity of growth is by mathematical definition not linear but exponential. Compound interest, in case you don't understand the pure term. Overall, an exponential growth is needed [so teach us the prevailing economic theories], while on the other hand an oversupply with decreasing prices [due to great leaps in productivity] kind of drowns us in mountains of consumables.
I know, well, I know, I know... beta and all sorts of things, lazy editors, many downsides...
But still, this is the site I love to come back to. As a last (AFAIK) resort of sanity in an unsound world!! - Thanks, Slashdot. When I read the post, I had about the same feelings that our commentators have already exposed to a large extent.
It would be overly arrogant; and counterproductive, to assume that only we in the 20th/21st century have an exclusive right on science and knowledge. An alienable right, that cannot be challenged nor overruled by science and knowledge of future research. Think back into the eighteenth century; think back when there were no microscopes to see bacteria or viruses. How the heck was it 'bad science' then, not to know about bacteria and viruses then? Pure observation assumes a flat Earth, and a sun actually rising in the morning. There is nothing wrong at all with using whatever is available to deduce about the universe. Wrong is only, when dogma, and more so religion, stand in the way of scientific progress. It was Galileo to discover planetary movements. Until then, a geocentric approach was completely valid. The obstacles to progress were thrown in by the christian churches. It is pure arrogance on the side of the original authors to assume authority on the frontiers of knowledge. Yes, including global warming. While I - I dare say: of course - believe that it exists and is probably man-made, it also is not an insight produced by a genius. It rather is nothing but a result of an observation, like the path of the sun across the skies of the old days, which is currently being analysed.
The misery is not, and can never be, to have different, opposing, theories. The misery only starts, when counter-intuitive theories take a grasp in science, teaching, etc. Nothing against someone's own, and very personal religion; but assuming an invisible higher being that created the universe, including stars and planets up to the human race within 7 days; yes, that is unhelpful to progress. Doubting vaccination, big bangs, and whatnot, however, ought not become scientific outlaws per se.
Very much deservedly, though! I for one have never trodden a golf course all my life, and wouldn't have to, I guess, for my remaining years. I don't envy golfers, neither.
But the message is highly interesting, and spot on. Because it points out a serious deficiency our society has been developing, globally. If it is education, higher education, PhDs, salary, luxury, climbing Mount Everest, scoring all 'A's, CGPA of 3.99 and above... . Everything needs to be just there, in front of a person, and most of all with the slightest effort. If one can afford it. Mount Everest does not equal hard mountaineering, and expertise, any longer but a cheque of US$ 60.000+. And off you go, entitled to score being at the top, if need be carried on the back of a Sherpa. Universities are being dumped down, of cause with the good reason that schools are. Just read Slashdot over the last few days, if in doubt. The message is that everyone is equal (to which I personally even subscribe one way or another), and everyone can achieve; no, is entitled to achieve whatever (s)he so desires (to which I subscribe as far as that person does on her own, without conveniently modifying the rules). Therefore, yes, it is very suitable as 'stuff for nerds' and it does matter. Nerds are the opposite, usually. They dig deep into a specific subject trying to master, or conquer, it. A good golfer, so I am being told, needs to work really hard on herself as well, to master the drive, to concentrate, be physically fit, etc. Simply to equate golfers with a bunch of lazy big spenders following this sport for only social reasons and networking would do the serious and hard-working golfing enthusiasts injustice.
[my excuses for being redundant - please mod me down! - but I have to say this to this apologetic (?) parent:] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/s... is the complete showstopper, not only for me. For the last 2 years, suddenly, SVG, EPS simply do not work anymore, at all. I have hundreds of lecturing slides that from yesterday to tomorrow cannot be shown any longer. And what has been done so far? Read the comments, and read the comments in the dup bug reports. This isn't as dangerous as the Heartbleed, but similarly without any concern nor consideration by the people in the project. Though they keep rolling out new versions regularly, which have been suffering from this, known, bug for all versions since 4.X.
Easy. As much as I hate to say it. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/s... is the complete showstopper, not only for me. For the last 2 years, suddenly, SVG, EPS simply do not work anymore, at all. I have hundreds of lecturing slides that from yesterday to tomorrow cannot be shown any longer. And what has been done so far? Read the comments, and read the comments in the dup bug reports. This isn't as dangerous as the Heartbleed, but similarly without any concern nor consideration by the people in the project. Though they keep rolling out new versions regularly, which have been suffering from this, known, bug for all versions since 4.X.
What's your intention with your statement? Or didn't you read the whole lot? There are a number of angles to it; Theo mentioned one only. Someone who releases a buffer, and then rereads it, hoping to get the same data commits definitively a very major and unforgivable error. And then plug it into one of the basic security-relevant software without testing is irresponsible.
(Having no mods points as of now) Your first post is currently 'Troll' (OMG, where have all the competent mods gone!!); and it isn't, this one rather is. Or flamebait. or... You know (and explain) the shit that is currently happening. Good. In your first post. Plus a bit of rant, and that's what we expect in here! The parent, however, is way out of reason. We know what is going on, we know that a proper malloc/free would
- protect the owner from becoming a pwner
- reasonably likely result in a crash
Now, what's your fight with Theo based on the fact that Theo has no actual solution to this s**t (I mean, we all agree, there isn't); and then you conclude trying to rubbish a perceived wastage of RAM in exchange for security.
Not being exactly a friend of Theo (who is??!), I can vouch that I ran 'his' software as long as I was sysadmin on all my servers, and neither ever failed me - except of hardware failure. Now to the issue that you mention: No, you are alas very wrong; in an engineering sense. Any complex system, when a responsible for a subsystem is unhappy or lacks confidence in the working of another subsystem, cannot be improved by that person or team circumventing the other subsystem. Out and over. Example: When I construct the wheel base of a car, I can't add my own brakes or my own electric motors simply because I don't trust the braking system or the engine. Any approach like that is doomed to fail. In software, garbage collection is done, or just not. But it would be ridiculous if everyone wrote her own garbage collection in Java for not trusting what is provided. And so forth... .
Now, when a team works on OpenSSL, it makes a lot of sense to pass malloc down to the host system. Good, if you really feel that is inadequate, and you overrule it by not free-ing what is free, and your application is all on security (like OpenSSL), then you better confirm 800% that your own solution is totally waterproof. If we look at what happened, the OpenSSL team contravened both suggestions. This deserves pulling the red card.
Wrong. Only if no client contacts their servers. And I did that for almost 2 years until I got a client installed to update the zone file regularly, and now this requirement is gone.
Oh, come on! We all know, and you can take an educated guess as well, I'm sure. It starts by ignoring, if need be lobbying, and - if the latter fails - brown envelopes to the decision makers. That's what is going to happen next. In this sequence.
My dear AC, though I usually don't reply to ACs, even less mod up any AC, in this particular case I offer my excuses for having exhausted my mod points very recently. I really would love to mod you up. Seriously, I did have a good laugh; and I am confident that you were targeting a 'Funny, +5'. Alas, the mods today are a tad not-so-humorous and that's quite sad.:-(
This comment is just as redundant as the request to the editors to throw garbage like this into the waste-bin instead of treading us to it and waste even more bits.
Correlation is no causation and here Northwestern Medicine ought to pay back the funding and instead be supplied with brown bags for over their heads: "This bag covers gently the red face of someone who bungled it on science"
Yep, this case could make it into a new standard textbook example why correlation is obviously no causation. It is so bloody obvious that even a/.-editor can be expected to understand it. The assumption is really and seriously ridiculous. Any remnant of common sense teaches any low-IQ person that the light can not have any influence of BMI; be it morning light or late afternoon light. Common sense dictates that the early bird simply favours a lifestyle different from the average late riser. Nothing to be seen here: You may move on happily! - Northwestern Medicine has actually confirmed that BMI depends to a large extends on someone's lifestyle.
There is much, much more to the process of professional evaluation and diagnosis than what you describe. The process is a whole lot more rigorous than idle speculation.
May it be as it is or as you describe it.
Fact is, that autism is a fairly recent addition to the spectrum of diseases. Therefore, to start with, the numbers of diagnosed suffers is bound to increase until the last practitioner has been formally educated about it.
Secondly, irrespective of the scientific background, at my age I have seen a number of increases/decreases of 'fashionable' diagnoses. Some 30 years ago, one third of the school kids from where I lived and worked had a paper on them certifying dyslexia. This number peaked, and was followed by around one third of the kids, in the same school, within a few years, to carry a certificate of 'highly gifted'. I for one make this a problem of the parents; not so much on the children.
Thirdly, with all the talk of 'individual' and 'holistic', I actually can perceive (I never bothered to come with with scientific proof) that on the other hand, the personal perspectives tend to become ever more unified, one could say ISO-ised, with a spectrum of ever more uniform expectations of a person growing up. Achievements, career perspectives, financial expectations are ever more tightly knit for the individual. Success, in this sense, is what a society expects it to be. Despite of factual and legal liberties with regards to sexual or religious orientation (to give an example), the day-to-day, worse hour-to-hour expectations get more uniform. Some friends of us noticed this. A girl of 20 is shunned for not putting constantly photos of her daily foods up at that service. Another one is looked down on for riding a push-bike to school. Hell, if I were at that age, I'd either kill myself or exclude myself from all those implicit demands, that are rolling in 24/7. Rolling in constantly only because the world is now connected round the clock.
Fourth, and just to avoid the third to not become too long, who of us haven't been scolded for not answering one's handy?
And here I doubt that science is really objective; nor could it be: a diagnosis of social behaviour must necessarily depend on socio-cultural expectations. Someone who refuses to participate in the social networks looks pretty much like an autistic personality. Only 20 years ago, had he/she been content with personal conversation, this diagnosis could not have included the notion of 'socially active and approachable 24/7'.
Yes and no. The Malaysian government has been embarrassing itself for the last 14+ days. It really, really, wants the thingie being closed. So they are surely premature, with statistics on their side. There is really little chance to survive in raft for 14+ days. Drinking water, anyone? But mostly, the sea was known to be rough in that area. And without fuel, what a heck of landing would the best pilot be able to achieve in heavy waves? Guaranteed no coordinated exit, no coordinated inflation of life rafts, if at all. We cannot exclude that one or another person might have actually made it, but chances are slim. And then, sorry to say, it is only fair to finally put an end to all the hopes of the waiting family members and friends, and better say that no survivors can be expected.
I basically rooting, at this point, for the pilot to be cleared. Because the unwarranted animosity the press showed towards him based on just about 0 evidence
Without wanting to speculate (or flame more speculation) about what actually happened, I hope we can discuss some of your reasoning. I am open to your arguments, since I can mostly see arguments for the involvement of a trained hand into what happened. Nothing up until now has turned up for a passenger to have undergone the training to navigate the plane nicely around waypoints, make it climb, sink, turn by 180; and at the same time the pilot saying "OK. Good Night." on radio. Electric communications gear being switched off one by one; my god, who would know how to do that; and if, why? Maximum a so-called terrorist. But then, what for? No detour to some Islamic country; seemingly nobody with suspected involvement into ethnic or religious brawls. Which terrorist would silently and unnoticed and unclaimed, redirect a plane with some 200 people on board over a vast ocean, simply to make it crush in the waves?
I think we can agree that technical failure can be ruled out. A fire on board would not have the pilot say "OK. Good night.". A fire would have the pilot turn towards the next landing strip, and inform the ground to have equipment ready. And if the pilot was incapacitated to trying to bring the plane down safely, there is no reason why this same captain would re-route and detour the same plane around waypoints, make it climb, fall, turn, etc. with a fire burning on his backside.
Let us assume that all communication broke down. This is far-fetched, but why not. Then there was no chance for a Mayday, but since the machine was very navigable, the good captain would have straightforward made it touch down on some airstrip even without permission; flying in on a wide curve. And all traffic control would have cleared the way. On top, it was outside peak hours, in the middle of the night, after 01:00.
And on that fire: the whole thing was flying on nicely, at about the expected speed, for another 4 hours after the turn-around. Couldn't have been much of a fire, after all, can it! I do agree, we can not say anything about the maneuverability during the last hours of MH 370. But at least for some 45 minutes, it was great. It went off flying path NNE over the South China Sea, turning about 90, across the Malaysian peninsula, out to the Andaman Sea, and seemingly another angle very much down south from there.
Anything beyond, any assumption on the plane having been taken over completely in its navigational and communication abilities by some yet unknown force or forces, is too much of a conspiratorial theory to me. Into which I refuse to engage at this moment in time. And then, sorry to say, almost everything except of a clear motive, point to some deliberate action of the crew or parts thereof.
Absolutely!! - Mod one this up; the most insightful comment until here, AFAICS!
Trouble is, being a 100% FOSS-person, there is no close replacement, sorry. Tomboy is comparatively tomfoolery. Parent is also right about the prohibitive price. OneNote is the only software that I'd say is unavailable on *nix, that I'd really like to have. My partner is an academician and for her, this software is a must.
Haha, the article says it will be available on *droid, so I'd have it!? Or the usual test or evaluation version? The article states 'free'; okay, we are in/., and in 2014, so the submitters (editors) are much too young to know what 'free' actually means; so it ought to read FOC instead. I really hope for this to happen!
I'm sure that you can keep a porn diary in OneNote. Approach your habit as you would an academic discipline, and take notes on videos. Annotate your dickpics. Keep a running bibliography of interesting gurls.
And upload the whole bit to microsoft servers so that you can enjoy a seamless experience on phone, tablet, tv, and laptop.
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Absolutely! But in this case, the line of guilt is not circumstantial evidence, witness statements of dubious quality, but a straightforward, clear manhandling of another person including burying her alive.
So what's to argue here?
And while I'm not too keen on capital punishment, an offender like that - what's the alternative? The only one we have is incarceration for life. How human is it, to put someone behind bars for life, knowing he'd die in prison, eventually of old age, having 'lived' in a small cell.
Why not the old testament / Jewish 'an eye for an eye' and likewise bury that person 6 feet below, and likewise alive?
I was torn whether to mod this up or reply to it..
In the end you could have modded me up. Not that I really cared, but your contribution was kind of implicit. Plus the actual scarcity of a clean environment. Look at recent pictures of Beijing, where everyone is currently trying to stack up cars. Also a peak-resource variant, though on the other end of the production cycle.
I'd prefer a blind philosopher any day compared to those celebrating the post-scarcity. They are effectively delirious suicide candidates.
There is no solution to this situation that I could think of. IMO, we're fucked. Game over, pack your stuff, start growing some veggies in your back yard and hope that you survive the impending fallout.
I wouldn't be that negative, though.
While in the currently fashionable economic theories a proper countermeasure is lacking, there is no good reason to preclude its existence. Once we are screwed, we will refocus our interests and research on the topic; leaving marketing research behind, because it won't help us any longer.
What troubles me more, is the need of the individual to participate, to understand, to react and eventually to lower their expectations on impending richness.
All you need is a law requiring the driver to provide the start and end mileage to the customer and to have them agree verbally to a rate per mile.
Huh!? I wouldn't want to succumb to 'supply and demand' when I am standing in the middle of nowhere, at 23:00, and urgently need to go to some civilized place. Or back home. I don't want to do any haggling with a cab driver, and the next one and the third one, and so forth, until someone offered me a suitable price.
I had to do this when living in Asia, and I was very sick of this.
Furthermore, capitalism is no longer that popular.
How I wished you were right!
The only economically sustainable solution is to have a labor force that matches labor requirements.
Quite so. But that is no more than day-dreaming. Because the labor requirement is going down rapidly, due to productivity increases. AND the labor force [us] is NOT desirous to earn less.
Combine this with the desire of the labor force [us] to own ever more for ever cheaper, you know where the actual culprit is located. Yep, in the end it is the consumer who wants ever more for ever cheaper with her hat of consumer; and demands ever more salary with her hat as member of the labor force.
If this is not a vicious circle, then there isn't.
The problem is not over-production, it is that for some odd reason we see production as the goal of economy. Problem is, the goal is not production, it's selling.
This is the best of the statements in your post, and Insightful as such.
Over-production is actually an empty term, when not seen in conjunction with the rest of the market. The key term here is demand. And what would better be taken into consideration is the term of over-supply. We actually suffer from over-supply. Just drive to your next friendly supermarket, be it in LA, Nairobi, Moscow or Madrid. The shelves are bursting with merchandise. Much more than you can ever consume.Therefore, the value of each item goes down, and implicitly the potential / possible salary for everyone involved in the chain from development / design over manufacturing to distribution.
...but I don't think that the only necessities are economic (...as both dyed-thru Marxists and Neocons seem to? I get that this is not you). While it's true the trigger for my involvement with "sharing"--from free-as-in-beer file-sharing to using Airbnb to potlucks to etc. etc.--may sometimes be economic, "because I can't afford to otherwise" doesn't actually make it in the top three of my reasons, now very much engaged with "sharing," for continuing in it.
The New Intimacy is new not because humans are different, but because more are more available than ever before.
Perceive yourself being modded up 'Insightful'.
It is a new economic paradigm that currently evolves. Until recently, economics was based on the distribution of scare resources. And Marx didn't live to see this new aspect. Therefore, despite of his usefulness of his work in our days, his insights need to be accompanied by the only-evolving paradigm of managing an oversupply.
Combine this with the concept of the necessity of growth, and we all run into troubled times. Because the necessity of growth is by mathematical definition not linear but exponential. Compound interest, in case you don't understand the pure term.
Overall, an exponential growth is needed [so teach us the prevailing economic theories], while on the other hand an oversupply with decreasing prices [due to great leaps in productivity] kind of drowns us in mountains of consumables.
I know, well, I know, I know ... beta and all sorts of things, lazy editors, many downsides ...
But still, this is the site I love to come back to. As a last (AFAIK) resort of sanity in an unsound world!! - Thanks, Slashdot.
When I read the post, I had about the same feelings that our commentators have already exposed to a large extent.
It would be overly arrogant; and counterproductive, to assume that only we in the 20th/21st century have an exclusive right on science and knowledge. An alienable right, that cannot be challenged nor overruled by science and knowledge of future research.
Think back into the eighteenth century; think back when there were no microscopes to see bacteria or viruses. How the heck was it 'bad science' then, not to know about bacteria and viruses then? Pure observation assumes a flat Earth, and a sun actually rising in the morning. There is nothing wrong at all with using whatever is available to deduce about the universe.
Wrong is only, when dogma, and more so religion, stand in the way of scientific progress. It was Galileo to discover planetary movements. Until then, a geocentric approach was completely valid. The obstacles to progress were thrown in by the christian churches.
It is pure arrogance on the side of the original authors to assume authority on the frontiers of knowledge. Yes, including global warming. While I - I dare say: of course - believe that it exists and is probably man-made, it also is not an insight produced by a genius. It rather is nothing but a result of an observation, like the path of the sun across the skies of the old days, which is currently being analysed.
The misery is not, and can never be, to have different, opposing, theories. The misery only starts, when counter-intuitive theories take a grasp in science, teaching, etc. Nothing against someone's own, and very personal religion; but assuming an invisible higher being that created the universe, including stars and planets up to the human race within 7 days; yes, that is unhelpful to progress. Doubting vaccination, big bangs, and whatnot, however, ought not become scientific outlaws per se.
How did this get posted? Golf??!
Very much deservedly, though!
I for one have never trodden a golf course all my life, and wouldn't have to, I guess, for my remaining years. I don't envy golfers, neither.
But the message is highly interesting, and spot on. Because it points out a serious deficiency our society has been developing, globally. If it is education, higher education, PhDs, salary, luxury, climbing Mount Everest, scoring all 'A's, CGPA of 3.99 and above ... . Everything needs to be just there, in front of a person, and most of all with the slightest effort. If one can afford it. Mount Everest does not equal hard mountaineering, and expertise, any longer but a cheque of US$ 60.000+. And off you go, entitled to score being at the top, if need be carried on the back of a Sherpa. Universities are being dumped down, of cause with the good reason that schools are. Just read Slashdot over the last few days, if in doubt.
The message is that everyone is equal (to which I personally even subscribe one way or another), and everyone can achieve; no, is entitled to achieve whatever (s)he so desires (to which I subscribe as far as that person does on her own, without conveniently modifying the rules).
Therefore, yes, it is very suitable as 'stuff for nerds' and it does matter. Nerds are the opposite, usually. They dig deep into a specific subject trying to master, or conquer, it. A good golfer, so I am being told, needs to work really hard on herself as well, to master the drive, to concentrate, be physically fit, etc.
Simply to equate golfers with a bunch of lazy big spenders following this sport for only social reasons and networking would do the serious and hard-working golfing enthusiasts injustice.
[my excuses for being redundant - please mod me down! - but I have to say this to this apologetic (?) parent:]
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/s... is the complete showstopper, not only for me. For the last 2 years, suddenly, SVG, EPS simply do not work anymore, at all. I have hundreds of lecturing slides that from yesterday to tomorrow cannot be shown any longer. And what has been done so far? Read the comments, and read the comments in the dup bug reports.
This isn't as dangerous as the Heartbleed, but similarly without any concern nor consideration by the people in the project. Though they keep rolling out new versions regularly, which have been suffering from this, known, bug for all versions since 4.X.
Easy. As much as I hate to say it. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/s... is the complete showstopper, not only for me. For the last 2 years, suddenly, SVG, EPS simply do not work anymore, at all. I have hundreds of lecturing slides that from yesterday to tomorrow cannot be shown any longer. And what has been done so far? Read the comments, and read the comments in the dup bug reports.
This isn't as dangerous as the Heartbleed, but similarly without any concern nor consideration by the people in the project. Though they keep rolling out new versions regularly, which have been suffering from this, known, bug for all versions since 4.X.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
What's your intention with your statement? Or didn't you read the whole lot?
There are a number of angles to it; Theo mentioned one only.
Someone who releases a buffer, and then rereads it, hoping to get the same data commits definitively a very major and unforgivable error. And then plug it into one of the basic security-relevant software without testing is irresponsible.
(Having no mods points as of now) ...
Your first post is currently 'Troll' (OMG, where have all the competent mods gone!!); and it isn't, this one rather is. Or flamebait. or
You know (and explain) the shit that is currently happening. Good. In your first post. Plus a bit of rant, and that's what we expect in here!
The parent, however, is way out of reason. We know what is going on, we know that a proper malloc/free would
- protect the owner from becoming a pwner
- reasonably likely result in a crash
Now, what's your fight with Theo based on the fact that Theo has no actual solution to this s**t (I mean, we all agree, there isn't); and then you conclude trying to rubbish a perceived wastage of RAM in exchange for security.
Not being exactly a friend of Theo (who is??!), I can vouch that I ran 'his' software as long as I was sysadmin on all my servers, and neither ever failed me - except of hardware failure. ... .
Now to the issue that you mention: No, you are alas very wrong; in an engineering sense.
Any complex system, when a responsible for a subsystem is unhappy or lacks confidence in the working of another subsystem, cannot be improved by that person or team circumventing the other subsystem. Out and over.
Example: When I construct the wheel base of a car, I can't add my own brakes or my own electric motors simply because I don't trust the braking system or the engine. Any approach like that is doomed to fail. In software, garbage collection is done, or just not. But it would be ridiculous if everyone wrote her own garbage collection in Java for not trusting what is provided. And so forth
Now, when a team works on OpenSSL, it makes a lot of sense to pass malloc down to the host system. Good, if you really feel that is inadequate, and you overrule it by not free-ing what is free, and your application is all on security (like OpenSSL), then you better confirm 800% that your own solution is totally waterproof.
If we look at what happened, the OpenSSL team contravened both suggestions. This deserves pulling the red card.
Wrong. Only if no client contacts their servers.
And I did that for almost 2 years until I got a client installed to update the zone file regularly, and now this requirement is gone.
Oh, come on! We all know, and you can take an educated guess as well, I'm sure.
It starts by ignoring, if need be lobbying, and - if the latter fails - brown envelopes to the decision makers.
That's what is going to happen next. In this sequence.
My dear AC, though I usually don't reply to ACs, even less mod up any AC, in this particular case I offer my excuses for having exhausted my mod points very recently. :-(
I really would love to mod you up. Seriously, I did have a good laugh; and I am confident that you were targeting a 'Funny, +5'.
Alas, the mods today are a tad not-so-humorous and that's quite sad.
This comment is just as redundant as the request to the editors to throw garbage like this into the waste-bin instead of treading us to it and waste even more bits.
Correlation is no causation and here Northwestern Medicine ought to pay back the funding and instead be supplied with brown bags for over their heads: "This bag covers gently the red face of someone who bungled it on science"
Yep, this case could make it into a new standard textbook example why correlation is obviously no causation. It is so bloody obvious that even a /.-editor can be expected to understand it. The assumption is really and seriously ridiculous.
Any remnant of common sense teaches any low-IQ person that the light can not have any influence of BMI; be it morning light or late afternoon light. Common sense dictates that the early bird simply favours a lifestyle different from the average late riser.
Nothing to be seen here: You may move on happily! - Northwestern Medicine has actually confirmed that BMI depends to a large extends on someone's lifestyle.
There is much, much more to the process of professional evaluation and diagnosis than what you describe. The process is a whole lot more rigorous than idle speculation.
May it be as it is or as you describe it.
Fact is, that autism is a fairly recent addition to the spectrum of diseases. Therefore, to start with, the numbers of diagnosed suffers is bound to increase until the last practitioner has been formally educated about it.
Secondly, irrespective of the scientific background, at my age I have seen a number of increases/decreases of 'fashionable' diagnoses. Some 30 years ago, one third of the school kids from where I lived and worked had a paper on them certifying dyslexia. This number peaked, and was followed by around one third of the kids, in the same school, within a few years, to carry a certificate of 'highly gifted'. I for one make this a problem of the parents; not so much on the children.
Thirdly, with all the talk of 'individual' and 'holistic', I actually can perceive (I never bothered to come with with scientific proof) that on the other hand, the personal perspectives tend to become ever more unified, one could say ISO-ised, with a spectrum of ever more uniform expectations of a person growing up. Achievements, career perspectives, financial expectations are ever more tightly knit for the individual. Success, in this sense, is what a society expects it to be. Despite of factual and legal liberties with regards to sexual or religious orientation (to give an example), the day-to-day, worse hour-to-hour expectations get more uniform. Some friends of us noticed this. A girl of 20 is shunned for not putting constantly photos of her daily foods up at that service. Another one is looked down on for riding a push-bike to school. Hell, if I were at that age, I'd either kill myself or exclude myself from all those implicit demands, that are rolling in 24/7. Rolling in constantly only because the world is now connected round the clock.
Fourth, and just to avoid the third to not become too long, who of us haven't been scolded for not answering one's handy?
And here I doubt that science is really objective; nor could it be: a diagnosis of social behaviour must necessarily depend on socio-cultural expectations.
Someone who refuses to participate in the social networks looks pretty much like an autistic personality. Only 20 years ago, had he/she been content with personal conversation, this diagnosis could not have included the notion of 'socially active and approachable 24/7'.
Yes and no.
The Malaysian government has been embarrassing itself for the last 14+ days. It really, really, wants the thingie being closed. So they are surely premature, with statistics on their side. There is really little chance to survive in raft for 14+ days. Drinking water, anyone?
But mostly, the sea was known to be rough in that area. And without fuel, what a heck of landing would the best pilot be able to achieve in heavy waves? Guaranteed no coordinated exit, no coordinated inflation of life rafts, if at all.
We cannot exclude that one or another person might have actually made it, but chances are slim. And then, sorry to say, it is only fair to finally put an end to all the hopes of the waiting family members and friends, and better say that no survivors can be expected.
I basically rooting, at this point, for the pilot to be cleared. Because the unwarranted animosity the press showed towards him based on just about 0 evidence
Without wanting to speculate (or flame more speculation) about what actually happened, I hope we can discuss some of your reasoning.
I am open to your arguments, since I can mostly see arguments for the involvement of a trained hand into what happened. Nothing up until now has turned up for a passenger to have undergone the training to navigate the plane nicely around waypoints, make it climb, sink, turn by 180; and at the same time the pilot saying "OK. Good Night." on radio. Electric communications gear being switched off one by one; my god, who would know how to do that; and if, why? Maximum a so-called terrorist. But then, what for? No detour to some Islamic country; seemingly nobody with suspected involvement into ethnic or religious brawls.
Which terrorist would silently and unnoticed and unclaimed, redirect a plane with some 200 people on board over a vast ocean, simply to make it crush in the waves?
I think we can agree that technical failure can be ruled out. A fire on board would not have the pilot say "OK. Good night.". A fire would have the pilot turn towards the next landing strip, and inform the ground to have equipment ready. And if the pilot was incapacitated to trying to bring the plane down safely, there is no reason why this same captain would re-route and detour the same plane around waypoints, make it climb, fall, turn, etc. with a fire burning on his backside.
Let us assume that all communication broke down. This is far-fetched, but why not. Then there was no chance for a Mayday, but since the machine was very navigable, the good captain would have straightforward made it touch down on some airstrip even without permission; flying in on a wide curve. And all traffic control would have cleared the way. On top, it was outside peak hours, in the middle of the night, after 01:00.
And on that fire: the whole thing was flying on nicely, at about the expected speed, for another 4 hours after the turn-around. Couldn't have been much of a fire, after all, can it! I do agree, we can not say anything about the maneuverability during the last hours of MH 370. But at least for some 45 minutes, it was great. It went off flying path NNE over the South China Sea, turning about 90, across the Malaysian peninsula, out to the Andaman Sea, and seemingly another angle very much down south from there.
Anything beyond, any assumption on the plane having been taken over completely in its navigational and communication abilities by some yet unknown force or forces, is too much of a conspiratorial theory to me. Into which I refuse to engage at this moment in time.
And then, sorry to say, almost everything except of a clear motive, point to some deliberate action of the crew or parts thereof.
Absolutely!! - Mod one this up; the most insightful comment until here, AFAICS!
Trouble is, being a 100% FOSS-person, there is no close replacement, sorry. Tomboy is comparatively tomfoolery.
Parent is also right about the prohibitive price. OneNote is the only software that I'd say is unavailable on *nix, that I'd really like to have.
My partner is an academician and for her, this software is a must.
Haha, the article says it will be available on *droid, so I'd have it!? Or the usual test or evaluation version? The article states 'free'; okay, we are in /., and in 2014, so the submitters (editors) are much too young to know what 'free' actually means; so it ought to read FOC instead.
I really hope for this to happen!
I'm sure that you can keep a porn diary in OneNote. Approach your habit as you would an academic discipline, and take notes on videos. Annotate your dickpics. Keep a running bibliography of interesting gurls.
And upload the whole bit to microsoft servers so that you can enjoy a seamless experience on phone, tablet, tv, and laptop.