The generation after the long IT boom inaugurated in the early 1980s and finishing off in about 2001 is going to earn less than their predecessors. Color me unsurprised. We squandered the fruits of that on peak socialism. Now the long slide since 2008 will continue until some disruptive element creates economic opportunity. I'm not exactly holding my breath.
Opera always had its share of compatibility problems with sites, anyway. So it's not a huge loss. Like it or not, we're stuck with Chrome or Firefox for most things.
But yes, I wouldn't bother with a Chinese browser. I can think of better ways of having my data lifted by the Chinese, such as having a file with the Office of Personnel Management in DC (OPM).
What she did was "spill" classified data onto an unclassified, public system.
The proper fix for a spill is to confiscate every computer that the spilled data is on and wipe it. You can find the processes in Army Regulation 25-2 "Information Assurance". The reg was written as it is to comply with the extant laws covering classified data as well as the Privacy Act.
Spillage is a big deal.
She signed SF 312, in which the penalties for this kind of mishandling of classified information are covered.
Belief that she should have gotten away with it is bogus. Her crime was evident, Comey wimped out, as usual for him.
ansi.sys: dvansi.com was the cure for that hunk of excrement. Faster, smaller, and no dependency on Desqview, but cooperated with it.
Colored text: The BIOS would do this just fine via int 10h, which is not writing directly to the hardware. You paid a price in speed for that, which is why people would write directly to B000: (mono) or B800: (color) to get faster output.
RAM use: On the previous point you were saying hardware support was an issue, but the reason why it was an issue was that DOS itself basically didn't drive hardware. DOS used the BIOS functions to do almost everything it did. All disk functionality was done in the BIOS, as was keyboard input. Video too, to the extent DOS supported video in its API (it only did mono TTY).
If you wanted to drive hardware in DOS, it would have been a much larger kernel, and with 1MB - (128 to 384KB) to work with...so there's your reason why it never did. Larger kernel means fewer programs would run in the residual address space. Most applications from the later days of DOS assumed ~500k available to even load initially.
Compiler: If you remember the compilers from then, you'd be stuck with a POS compiler with legacy code in abundance. Maybe a better outcome than now, but probably worse. Are you familiar with the Turbo Pascal Runtime Error 200 plague? Faulty timing code resulted in anything running over 200mhz barfing on TP compiled code.
You'd write an event loop. It's pretty much how it is done elsewhere, too. True, it was nice to have something like the Turbo Pascal "keypressed" boolean to save cycles, rather than comparing INKEY$ to figure out if a character came in, but you'd be stuck writing an event loop regardless to handle multiple forms of input (mouse, joystick, etc)
Failing that, you could CALL INTERRUPT 16h to get what you wanted, fairly easily, and wrap it in a SUB or FUNCTION. A copy of the old Peter Norton book would have been enough to do it.
Vis a vis Hillary, what she did was pretty blatant and if I tried it, i'd get silver bracelets and a stay in Club Fed. But yes, the more mundane rules get flouted regularly because it makes things hard to do, like get in touch with critical personnel when you need them.
The trends Pinker talks about have been statistically consistent over at least the last thousand years, and not just in war. Do you think the number of murders has gone down because of MAD? The number of third world genocides? Incidence of terrorism?
Absolutely not in terms of murder, third world genocides and terrorism - probably quite the opposite given the financial and military support of certain global powers for certain movements to cause trouble for their perceived enemies. Behind every incident of terrorism is a government funded movement. "Which government?" is the question.
If Pinker goes back a thousand years, the issue of the change in human minds over that time comes up. Feudal systems were very bloody by their nature. I have heard people theorize that the human brain has altered over time and our perceptions are different than those from a thousand years ago. That said, I read Caesar's Commentaries, and he doesn't sound all that different from Napoleon, Bismarck or Sherman in terms of his perceptions. Or, for that matter, from twentieth century military figures.
I haven't read Pinker's book but I disagree entirely, based on your summary. If you had cited MAD doctrine and the likelihood of nuclear release, I would have agreed as far as that went. Not that it stops war, but it makes it more likely to involve non-state actors and insurgencies that cannot be clearly traced to a nuclear state. The actual frequency of war itself doesn't seem to have abated much, though.
The US military also has strict rules that are bent and broken regularly in regards to wireless devices. One IA officer I knew actually yelled at me for leaving my cell phone at home, "How am I going to get in touch with you? Go get it!" when I was trying to think security and follow the rules.
China is a state with 1.3 billion people and can barely feed itself. Its population is barely held together by jingoistic propaganda against its natural impulses for greater self-rule.
It wouldn't take much of an interdiction campaign to reduce it to a rebellious shambles.
This is a misconception. Military bases permit cell phones. When passing into SCIFs or classified briefing rooms, you are required to get rid of your cellphones into lock boxes. If you like your battery, you turn it off or put it in airplane mode before doing so.
There are some buildings that are all-classified that require you to not have a phone along, but this would be a "building", not a whole base.
In the field, most people have a cell phone on them for basic communications, and they are rarely collected - only when someone has a bug up their ass about it.
I read TFA and it seems like they had some good practices in place. True, there was some contiguous PII released that could be used, along with other data, to identify someone. That said, they didn't lose any passwords.
Good on them. Sure, getting hit sucks, but this could have been a lot worse.
I'm just a realist, and your head is in the clouds. You may or may not come down to earth, but I assure you that I am right and you are completely wrong. The only solution to human problems is death. All the four horsemen of the apocalypse are represented, but they all lead to death, and only the death of one side in a conflict eliminates the conflict.
If you studied history very carefully, you'd come to the same conclusion. But you'll avoid it and moralize instead. Which is why the world is so full of unsolved problems - indecision disguised as scruple.
They're all going to live in misery and die anyway, so might as well fix a problem with the deaths. The problem is insoluble. Everyone thinks they own the same land due to some past possession and none are willing to compromise an inch.
Fixing the legal system is a great goal, but if you make product liability suits a lot harder to do, you run the risk of having manufacturers simply not care about safety. Doing it in a way that arrives at both goals - manufacturer responsibility and merited, judicious suits - would be a great trick and worthy of a lot of thanks.
I hadn't forgotten about that, but I judge those are less likely to result in huge, punitive awards by stupid juries. People with missing limbs or urns are very sympathetic.
Ignoring litigation exposure is a really bad idea. I doubt Tesla is adequately capitalized to handle the flood of lawsuits that every little incident involving "Autopilot" is going to result in. Consumer Reports is right in this case...they should disable it, settle the claims and be happy it isn't worse.
Turing was an idiot savant, apparently. Imagine walking into the IRS for an audit and confessing to having hidden tons of income 20 years ago (where they are forbidden to look, and wouldn't find out anyway)? Well, that was along the lines of what he did. He basically volunteered himself for punishment.
Under the circumstances, I don't feel that the target selection was all that bad. He *was* the person most responsible for Bletchley Park's successes during the war. People get into a froth without knowing the whole story on Turing. Sure, the law was shitty back then, but the law was shitty in every other time, too, in some respect.
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The generation after the long IT boom inaugurated in the early 1980s and finishing off in about 2001 is going to earn less than their predecessors. Color me unsurprised. We squandered the fruits of that on peak socialism. Now the long slide since 2008 will continue until some disruptive element creates economic opportunity. I'm not exactly holding my breath.
Opera always had its share of compatibility problems with sites, anyway. So it's not a huge loss. Like it or not, we're stuck with Chrome or Firefox for most things.
But yes, I wouldn't bother with a Chinese browser. I can think of better ways of having my data lifted by the Chinese, such as having a file with the Office of Personnel Management in DC (OPM).
What she did was "spill" classified data onto an unclassified, public system.
The proper fix for a spill is to confiscate every computer that the spilled data is on and wipe it. You can find the processes in Army Regulation 25-2 "Information Assurance". The reg was written as it is to comply with the extant laws covering classified data as well as the Privacy Act.
Spillage is a big deal.
She signed SF 312, in which the penalties for this kind of mishandling of classified information are covered.
Belief that she should have gotten away with it is bogus. Her crime was evident, Comey wimped out, as usual for him.
Not going point by point for everything here but:
ansi.sys: dvansi.com was the cure for that hunk of excrement. Faster, smaller, and no dependency on Desqview, but cooperated with it.
Colored text: The BIOS would do this just fine via int 10h, which is not writing directly to the hardware. You paid a price in speed for that, which is why people would write directly to B000: (mono) or B800: (color) to get faster output.
RAM use: On the previous point you were saying hardware support was an issue, but the reason why it was an issue was that DOS itself basically didn't drive hardware. DOS used the BIOS functions to do almost everything it did. All disk functionality was done in the BIOS, as was keyboard input. Video too, to the extent DOS supported video in its API (it only did mono TTY).
If you wanted to drive hardware in DOS, it would have been a much larger kernel, and with 1MB - (128 to 384KB) to work with...so there's your reason why it never did. Larger kernel means fewer programs would run in the residual address space. Most applications from the later days of DOS assumed ~500k available to even load initially.
Compiler: If you remember the compilers from then, you'd be stuck with a POS compiler with legacy code in abundance. Maybe a better outcome than now, but probably worse. Are you familiar with the Turbo Pascal Runtime Error 200 plague? Faulty timing code resulted in anything running over 200mhz barfing on TP compiled code.
You'd write an event loop. It's pretty much how it is done elsewhere, too. True, it was nice to have something like the Turbo Pascal "keypressed" boolean to save cycles, rather than comparing INKEY$ to figure out if a character came in, but you'd be stuck writing an event loop regardless to handle multiple forms of input (mouse, joystick, etc)
Failing that, you could CALL INTERRUPT 16h to get what you wanted, fairly easily, and wrap it in a SUB or FUNCTION. A copy of the old Peter Norton book would have been enough to do it.
Vis a vis Hillary, what she did was pretty blatant and if I tried it, i'd get silver bracelets and a stay in Club Fed. But yes, the more mundane rules get flouted regularly because it makes things hard to do, like get in touch with critical personnel when you need them.
The trends Pinker talks about have been statistically consistent over at least the last thousand years, and not just in war. Do you think the number of murders has gone down because of MAD? The number of third world genocides? Incidence of terrorism?
Absolutely not in terms of murder, third world genocides and terrorism - probably quite the opposite given the financial and military support of certain global powers for certain movements to cause trouble for their perceived enemies. Behind every incident of terrorism is a government funded movement. "Which government?" is the question.
If Pinker goes back a thousand years, the issue of the change in human minds over that time comes up. Feudal systems were very bloody by their nature. I have heard people theorize that the human brain has altered over time and our perceptions are different than those from a thousand years ago. That said, I read Caesar's Commentaries, and he doesn't sound all that different from Napoleon, Bismarck or Sherman in terms of his perceptions. Or, for that matter, from twentieth century military figures.
I haven't read Pinker's book but I disagree entirely, based on your summary. If you had cited MAD doctrine and the likelihood of nuclear release, I would have agreed as far as that went. Not that it stops war, but it makes it more likely to involve non-state actors and insurgencies that cannot be clearly traced to a nuclear state. The actual frequency of war itself doesn't seem to have abated much, though.
That said, it's on my reading list.
The US military also has strict rules that are bent and broken regularly in regards to wireless devices. One IA officer I knew actually yelled at me for leaving my cell phone at home, "How am I going to get in touch with you? Go get it!" when I was trying to think security and follow the rules.
China is a state with 1.3 billion people and can barely feed itself. Its population is barely held together by jingoistic propaganda against its natural impulses for greater self-rule.
It wouldn't take much of an interdiction campaign to reduce it to a rebellious shambles.
This is a misconception. Military bases permit cell phones. When passing into SCIFs or classified briefing rooms, you are required to get rid of your cellphones into lock boxes. If you like your battery, you turn it off or put it in airplane mode before doing so.
There are some buildings that are all-classified that require you to not have a phone along, but this would be a "building", not a whole base.
In the field, most people have a cell phone on them for basic communications, and they are rarely collected - only when someone has a bug up their ass about it.
I think you should re-evaluate. I think the Chinese are very astute, in this and in other things...
What materially changed since 1939 that prevents war? (correct answer is nothing)
She can play all the Pokemon Go she wants.
But Boeing and the USG have already banned the application for all employees, government or civilian.
I read TFA and it seems like they had some good practices in place. True, there was some contiguous PII released that could be used, along with other data, to identify someone. That said, they didn't lose any passwords.
Good on them. Sure, getting hit sucks, but this could have been a lot worse.
No surprise here. Their ox is going to get gored.
I'm just a realist, and your head is in the clouds. You may or may not come down to earth, but I assure you that I am right and you are completely wrong. The only solution to human problems is death. All the four horsemen of the apocalypse are represented, but they all lead to death, and only the death of one side in a conflict eliminates the conflict.
If you studied history very carefully, you'd come to the same conclusion. But you'll avoid it and moralize instead. Which is why the world is so full of unsolved problems - indecision disguised as scruple.
They're all going to live in misery and die anyway, so might as well fix a problem with the deaths. The problem is insoluble. Everyone thinks they own the same land due to some past possession and none are willing to compromise an inch.
Fixing the legal system is a great goal, but if you make product liability suits a lot harder to do, you run the risk of having manufacturers simply not care about safety. Doing it in a way that arrives at both goals - manufacturer responsibility and merited, judicious suits - would be a great trick and worthy of a lot of thanks.
I don't think it's possible, though.
Threat mitigation is not going to turn a single lawsuit around, because in all of those - surprise - something bad will have happened.
I hadn't forgotten about that, but I judge those are less likely to result in huge, punitive awards by stupid juries. People with missing limbs or urns are very sympathetic.
I worked this BI business for a bit and I know.
Ignoring litigation exposure is a really bad idea. I doubt Tesla is adequately capitalized to handle the flood of lawsuits that every little incident involving "Autopilot" is going to result in. Consumer Reports is right in this case...they should disable it, settle the claims and be happy it isn't worse.
Turing was an idiot savant, apparently. Imagine walking into the IRS for an audit and confessing to having hidden tons of income 20 years ago (where they are forbidden to look, and wouldn't find out anyway)? Well, that was along the lines of what he did. He basically volunteered himself for punishment.
Under the circumstances, I don't feel that the target selection was all that bad. He *was* the person most responsible for Bletchley Park's successes during the war. People get into a froth without knowing the whole story on Turing. Sure, the law was shitty back then, but the law was shitty in every other time, too, in some respect.
It was out of context of WWII though, that Turing got his punishment.
Everyone wants a piece of the action. That's what this is all about.