That you know of. Oil companies are hardly going to tell the world if someone has hacked their systems.
"The worst that could happen is that someday a few people get mispriced gas, or unleaded instead of premium"
No. The worst that could happen in that instance is someone gets diesel instead of gas or vice verca which is pretty fucking serious and will destroy an engine. Shall we give them your name to come for compensation since you think its no big deal?
"Yea, good luck getting through that centimeter-thick steel firewall from any collision with anything short of a semi tractor."
Centimeter thick? A few mm if you're lucky. And if you want to see the sort of damage that 2 cars colliding at 70mph can do there are plenty of videos on youtube.
"Airbags cause:"
Yeah, airbags can do all that. But generally they'll save your life.
Hey, its your life pal. You want to believe your antiquated POS is built like a tank, you go right on ahead. I just hope you never find out the hard way that it isn't.
"ure gas mileage sucks, but it's a fucking TANK in construction and will eat up most any other modern vehicle that decides to get in a collision with it."
Keep believing that myth if you like. Lots of people think it because the bodywork of older cars was stronger than today, however the core structure (usually a chassis but applies to monocoques) was a damn site weaker. And thats before we get onto lack of collapsable steering column, intrustion of engine block, no airbag etc.
So in a low speed bump with a new car you'll come off better, but in a high speed head to head that guy in his new 5 series you hit will be walking wounded. You however will be a corpse.
FYI I've written a window manager. Switching desktops involves nothing more than moving the correct windows on and off screen. You can't unmap them because that generates a different event which the applications might respond to incorrectly in the circumstances.
Oddly enough windows are moved around all the time. There must be something specific they're doing here wrt switching desktops since apparently the crash doesn't happen at other times.
... cause a crash when desktops are switched? All that does is move windows from onscreen to off and vice verca. What the hell is KDE doing with the X server than means this happens anyway?
And people who compare trivial dislikes with nazism are silly little kids with no clue about history.
"js is lower level than c"
And in your case no clue about what low level means either. Go on, amaze us. Tell us some low level functionality that JS can do that C can't. Please bear in mind that most javascript engines are written in C/C++. Just thought I'd let you know that before you make a complete idiot of yourself.
... destroy it due to local laws of physics would be destroyed at the moment of their formation when the energies tend to infinity. This may well have happened in the past (if you believe in the eternal inflation-collapse universe theory) or be happening (if you believe the multiverse theory) but since our universe is still here after 14 billion years I think its a safe bet that the laws of physics here don't allow it.
That way you might still be a cog, but you're a cog paid somewhere between 50-100% more than the permie staff plus you don't have to put up with any of the political BS that you find in every company. Do your work, get paid, go home. Done. Ok, it has its downsides but in general I found the upsides outweigh them quite considerably.
... their opponents would simply wear sunglasses. Or some sort of eye covering that would block the light sufficiently. As a non lethal anti personel weapon it would probably work poorly once on the battlefield, then never again. Now in civilian control situations, thats another matter...
When you've done the amount of ham fisted nation building and interfering as the USA has done since WW2 you're going to make enemies that you need to defend yourself against.
Anyway, a common enemy either real of imaginary is an age old method of taking the mind of the people off of internal matters. The Romans were doing it, never mind the USA, and todays best practitioners are Putin and the fat kid running north korea.
Believe it or not sonny, Facebook hasn't been around that long. Zuckerberg wasn't even born when I was 15 so the odds on there being anything online about me when I was a kid are pretty slim wouldn't you say?
And no, I didn't do anything embarrasing unless you think getting into fights, trying it on with girls and driving cars fast is embarrassing. But then you're obviously a millennial so who knows.
"Everyone has a chapter in their book they don't real out loud, including you"
Not all of us mate. Sure , I did some dumb stuff but nothing I'd be particularly embarrassed about. If a teen thinks posting pictures of their genitals or a "hilarious" throwing up incident in a bar or whatever isn't going to have future consequences then they're probably so clueless and thick that they're not going to go far in life anyway.
Most teens are sensible, why should be protect the idiot minority from themselves?
In plenty of fields (aviation, industrial, railway) there's always a backup failsafe system. No one expects any one system to be 100% fooolproof. Perhaps they - and you - could go learn something from these areas.
To be fair, no one apart from a few vested interests are claiming that quantum computers are some sort of magical panacea. But just like modern graphics GPUs, they could be built into ordinary computers and used when the problem domain suits their capabilities.
Who said anything about a key? You ever seen a proper combination banking safe? Anyway, I meant have the mechanical locking as a secondary backup, not as a failsafe opening mechanism for the electronic lock.
Thanks, but I did read the article first. However obviously you must have understood it much better than I, so if you could point me to the part that describes why a mechanical backup lock would be impossible to install in the safe I'd be much ablidged.
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"and has caused ZERO problems"
That you know of. Oil companies are hardly going to tell the world if someone has hacked their systems.
"The worst that could happen is that someday a few people get mispriced gas, or unleaded instead of premium"
No. The worst that could happen in that instance is someone gets diesel instead of gas or vice verca which is pretty fucking serious and will destroy an engine. Shall we give them your name to come for compensation since you think its no big deal?
"Most steering columns to day don't collapse"
Not the part in the cabin no. The rest - yes.
"Yea, good luck getting through that centimeter-thick steel firewall from any collision with anything short of a semi tractor."
Centimeter thick? A few mm if you're lucky. And if you want to see the sort of damage that 2 cars colliding at 70mph can do there are plenty of videos on youtube.
"Airbags cause:"
Yeah, airbags can do all that. But generally they'll save your life.
Hey, its your life pal. You want to believe your antiquated POS is built like a tank, you go right on ahead. I just hope you never find out the hard way that it isn't.
"ure gas mileage sucks, but it's a fucking TANK in construction and will eat up most any other modern vehicle that decides to get in a collision with it."
Keep believing that myth if you like. Lots of people think it because the bodywork of older cars was stronger than today, however the core structure (usually a chassis but applies to monocoques) was a damn site weaker. And thats before we get onto lack of collapsable steering column, intrustion of engine block, no airbag etc.
So in a low speed bump with a new car you'll come off better, but in a high speed head to head that guy in his new 5 series you hit will be walking wounded. You however will be a corpse.
FYI I've written a window manager. Switching desktops involves nothing more than moving the correct windows on and off screen. You can't unmap them because that generates a different event which the applications might respond to incorrectly in the circumstances.
Oddly enough windows are moved around all the time. There must be something specific they're doing here wrt switching desktops since apparently the crash doesn't happen at other times.
... cause a crash when desktops are switched? All that does is move windows from onscreen to off and vice verca. What the hell is KDE doing with the X server than means this happens anyway?
"most people that think js weird are nazis"
And people who compare trivial dislikes with nazism are silly little kids with no clue about history.
"js is lower level than c"
And in your case no clue about what low level means either. Go on, amaze us. Tell us some low level functionality that JS can do that C can't. Please bear in mind that most javascript engines are written in C/C++. Just thought I'd let you know that before you make a complete idiot of yourself.
...but less powerful? Sounds like a winner to me!
Another re-invention of the wheel. No one liked JVMs running bytecode in browser applets, I see no reason why this will be any more successful.
... destroy it due to local laws of physics would be destroyed at the moment of their formation when the energies tend to infinity. This may well have happened in the past (if you believe in the eternal inflation-collapse universe theory) or be happening (if you believe the multiverse theory) but since our universe is still here after 14 billion years I think its a safe bet that the laws of physics here don't allow it.
That way you might still be a cog, but you're a cog paid somewhere between 50-100% more than the permie staff plus you don't have to put up with any of the political BS that you find in every company. Do your work, get paid, go home. Done. Ok, it has its downsides but in general I found the upsides outweigh them quite considerably.
If you're old enough to join the army or vote you're old enough to accept responsibility for your actions. End.
... their opponents would simply wear sunglasses. Or some sort of eye covering that would block the light sufficiently. As a non lethal anti personel weapon it would probably work poorly once on the battlefield, then never again. Now in civilian control situations, thats another matter...
When you've done the amount of ham fisted nation building and interfering as the USA has done since WW2 you're going to make enemies that you need to defend yourself against.
Anyway, a common enemy either real of imaginary is an age old method of taking the mind of the people off of internal matters. The Romans were doing it, never mind the USA, and todays best practitioners are Putin and the fat kid running north korea.
Sorry, bad joke. In more than one way.
LOL! Spoken from a kiddy point of view or what :)
Believe it or not sonny, Facebook hasn't been around that long. Zuckerberg wasn't even born when I was 15 so the odds on there being anything online about me when I was a kid are pretty slim wouldn't you say?
And no, I didn't do anything embarrasing unless you think getting into fights, trying it on with girls and driving cars fast is embarrassing. But then you're obviously a millennial so who knows.
"Everyone has a chapter in their book they don't real out loud, including you"
Not all of us mate. Sure , I did some dumb stuff but nothing I'd be particularly embarrassed about. If a teen thinks posting pictures of their genitals or a "hilarious" throwing up incident in a bar or whatever isn't going to have future consequences then they're probably so clueless and thick that they're not going to go far in life anyway.
Most teens are sensible, why should be protect the idiot minority from themselves?
"an effort to change social perspective seems to be the sane and more permanent thing to do ."
Tell us oh great social visionary, how do you plan on changing the social perspective of 7 billion people?
That the best comeback you can manage? Go back to bed.
"To put it in your own retarded words:"
Not sure what the paraphrase is achieving there. I guess thats between you what passes for your braincell.
"I'm pretty sure that's not true"
Ok , no one with a clue expects.
"Are you done now making yourself look like an idiot?"
Sorry, I think you've been looking in the mirror by mistake. Go lie down and have a rest. Maybe the cluetrain will pull into town for you soon.
In plenty of fields (aviation, industrial, railway) there's always a backup failsafe system. No one expects any one system to be 100% fooolproof. Perhaps they - and you - could go learn something from these areas.
Wtf has power out got to do with it? That was a seperate issue question. FFS, can you read english?
To be fair, no one apart from a few vested interests are claiming that quantum computers are some sort of magical panacea. But just like modern graphics GPUs, they could be built into ordinary computers and used when the problem domain suits their capabilities.
Who said anything about a key? You ever seen a proper combination banking safe? Anyway, I meant have the mechanical locking as a secondary backup, not as a failsafe opening mechanism for the electronic lock.
No, I meant as a secondary seperate lock you idiot.
Thanks, but I did read the article first. However obviously you must have understood it much better than I, so if you could point me to the part that describes why a mechanical backup lock would be impossible to install in the safe I'd be much ablidged.