The crypto is implemented in the driver, as well as the bootloader. The application known as truecrypt just flips their configuration bits around, loads keys into ram, and tells the driver when to mount/dismount containers etc. The bootloader needs to know enough to mount the system partition and hook into BIOS so that the regular OS bootloader can take over using it's normal calls. Once it loads the kernel and related drivers, truecrypt.sys takes over handling container IO.
The separate formatting utility probably contains some too since it's used to create containers..
at least the sores are open, so that one may take a puss sample and analyse it for disease. When the sores are closed, who knows what you'll wake up with in the morning.
Come on man.. GPL software grants anyone access to source, yes? Therefore it is open source software. I am aware that there are differing licenses out there, but really, this topic is a non sequitur to the one being discussed.
If you focus on the technology, which is ostensibly your goal, anyway, then you are being truly agnostic towards irrelevant traits because you are not using them to select for or against particular contributors. This grants them each an equal opportunity to contribute. In contrast, your OPW program is basically granting privilege to women and relabeling it as a more palatable noun ('outreach'). Feminist organizations do this all the time, and then shame organizations that don't comply.
Creating a comfortable environment is fine as long as it remains productive, but when it starts favoring irrelevant political leanings/agendas, and coddles insecurity and histrionic behavior, it's gone too far. If they've managed to divert significant portions of funding towards goals irrelevant to your organization's agenda, it's time to clean house.
The problem is that enough is never enough for these people. You will ALWAYS have an OPW program because yesterday's efforts are just not good enough for today. It will consume as much resource as you let it.
Yes there is. Reaching out to women because they're women is discrimination based on sex, which is inherently hypocritical when it's done under the feminist (stated) claim that sex doesn't matter. What you should discriminate on are programming and other relevant skillsets. Since race, sex, and sexual 'lifestyle' are poor indicators for those traits, you shouldn't spend significant sums pursuing people along those attributes. Those percentages are meaningless, arbitrary quotas.
These PC people are like viruses in that they require the resources of a host organization in order to propagate their ultimately self-interested message, which makes the host's goals of secondary importance to them, if at all. They invade organizations they see as having power in a particular community and sap resources that could be better spent on relevant goals, with particularly virulent ones killing their hosts off, entirely. I realize you mean well, but this is society-wide problem, and the only way to stop it is to resist their influence at the beginning. You might be threatened with 'discrimination' lawsuits and the like, but as long as the organization's policies are (and have a history of being) truly agnostic towards irrelevant attributes (and not just race, sex, and sexual 'lifestyle'), they're morally sound.
Equal outcome is not a good measure of equal opportunity. So, guidelines that discriminate on relevant attributes and pay no heed to balanced populations along irrelevant attributes are NOT oppressive, no matter what shaming language is hurled your way. If that results in a 50/50 split between the sexes, fine.. If not, that's fine too, because your organization is focused on hiring the best developers, not the best male or the best female developers.
With the way feminist law has allowed women to maximize their disloyal, opportunistic behavior, he's probably better off with his hand. It can't sue him into destitution and debtor's prison, it can't nag him into disease, or deny him sex when he doesn't buy it a new SUV.
Actually, as libertarian perspectives usually get modded down around here, I'd say the majority population is made up from late teens/early 20s public school system reared liberals with coarsely defined views.
The only thing they should be spending their funds on is the development of gnome software. That does not include funding political viruses like 'affirmative action'. Targeting money at programmers of specific sexes, races, or 'lifestyles', is discriminatory unless the case can be made why the targeted group writes superior code.
Seriously, your foundation needs to reevaluate its priorities.
The only thing they should be spending their funds on is the development of gnome software. That does not include funding political viruses like 'affirmative action'. Ear marking money for programmers of specific sexes, races, or 'lifestyles', is discriminatory unless the case can be made why the targeted group writes superior code.
You're right, sexuality isn't the issue, but the politically correct parasites running gnome apparently thought it warranted a large percentage of the budget. Gnome was supposed to spend that money on the development of software.
Then I never want to work in a critical position that demands that I solve intractable problems. I think the real answer here is to quit overdoing the plumbing. Needed complexity is understandable. Needless complexity is stupid. Just because we can put the computer in control of everything doesn't mean we should.
I'd like to point out that I wasn't trolling. I wasn't deliberately trying to anger anyone. It is true that ideologically driven organizations ripen and fester when left sitting in power too long without challenge. Over time, the ideology becomes more important than the truth. How do you think nazi germany and the soviet union got where they are/were? How about north korea? Now there's a degenerated society if there ever was one. I hope this doesn't happen in the USA, because it will be misery for everyone, protected caste or not.
1. The proof is in the law lobbied for by left wing think tanks and lobby groups. It very clearly discriminates based on race and sex, granting privilege to one while painting the other as oppressors. I'll leave it to you to figure out which sides are which. It is not difficult.
2. I never said the neocons are any better. The left does not respect the rights of those who do not fit into one of its protected castes because they are assumed to be oppressors, and this bias shows in the governments, institutions, and media outlets under their influence. Effectively, it makes the traits they claim as irrelevant, the first cut when applying for jobs, school, or gaining any sort of help from the state. As far as left wing bigotry goes, the mozilla incident comes to mind as a recent example.. Obama's 'dear colleague' letter is another.
Why is it that it's the american taxpayer who has to fund these global bridges to nowhere while they are simultaneously called bigots/ignoramuses/warmongers by the people whose countries are also involved, but whose politicians are too pantywaisted to get their hands dirty? Hell, why does the US federal government think it has the privilege of operating outside the scope of a budget in the first place, driving up inflation and destroying future financial security in the process? This country should renege on any expensive treaty agreements until it has the deficit under control, or one day, there won't be a USA for everyone to fall back on when the going gets tough.
Even if the fusion project ends up producing viable technology, we can't afford the cost right now.
Usually, the people who whine about anonymous communication are the ones who want access to personal information so they can shut down commentary they don't like. If you cared about rational discussion, the arguments stand or fall regardless of the poster's identity.
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The crypto is implemented in the driver, as well as the bootloader. The application known as truecrypt just flips their configuration bits around, loads keys into ram, and tells the driver when to mount/dismount containers etc. The bootloader needs to know enough to mount the system partition and hook into BIOS so that the regular OS bootloader can take over using it's normal calls. Once it loads the kernel and related drivers, truecrypt.sys takes over handling container IO.
The separate formatting utility probably contains some too since it's used to create containers..
Why would you trust the liberals? I wouldn't trust either.
at least the sores are open, so that one may take a puss sample and analyse it for disease. When the sores are closed, who knows what you'll wake up with in the morning.
Come on man.. GPL software grants anyone access to source, yes? Therefore it is open source software. I am aware that there are differing licenses out there, but really, this topic is a non sequitur to the one being discussed.
What happened to making the best OSS software possible?
If you focus on the technology, which is ostensibly your goal, anyway, then you are being truly agnostic towards irrelevant traits because you are not using them to select for or against particular contributors. This grants them each an equal opportunity to contribute. In contrast, your OPW program is basically granting privilege to women and relabeling it as a more palatable noun ('outreach'). Feminist organizations do this all the time, and then shame organizations that don't comply.
Creating a comfortable environment is fine as long as it remains productive, but when it starts favoring irrelevant political leanings/agendas, and coddles insecurity and histrionic behavior, it's gone too far. If they've managed to divert significant portions of funding towards goals irrelevant to your organization's agenda, it's time to clean house.
The problem is that enough is never enough for these people. You will ALWAYS have an OPW program because yesterday's efforts are just not good enough for today. It will consume as much resource as you let it.
Yes there is. Reaching out to women because they're women is discrimination based on sex, which is inherently hypocritical when it's done under the feminist (stated) claim that sex doesn't matter. What you should discriminate on are programming and other relevant skillsets. Since race, sex, and sexual 'lifestyle' are poor indicators for those traits, you shouldn't spend significant sums pursuing people along those attributes. Those percentages are meaningless, arbitrary quotas.
These PC people are like viruses in that they require the resources of a host organization in order to propagate their ultimately self-interested message, which makes the host's goals of secondary importance to them, if at all. They invade organizations they see as having power in a particular community and sap resources that could be better spent on relevant goals, with particularly virulent ones killing their hosts off, entirely. I realize you mean well, but this is society-wide problem, and the only way to stop it is to resist their influence at the beginning. You might be threatened with 'discrimination' lawsuits and the like, but as long as the organization's policies are (and have a history of being) truly agnostic towards irrelevant attributes (and not just race, sex, and sexual 'lifestyle'), they're morally sound.
Equal outcome is not a good measure of equal opportunity. So, guidelines that discriminate on relevant attributes and pay no heed to balanced populations along irrelevant attributes are NOT oppressive, no matter what shaming language is hurled your way. If that results in a 50/50 split between the sexes, fine.. If not, that's fine too, because your organization is focused on hiring the best developers, not the best male or the best female developers.
programs that target funds at people with specific traits that aren't supposed to matter in the first place does not improve anything.
This is not a troll. This is someone with an opinion that disagrees with the majority. There is a difference.
No true scotsman fallacy. Have you done any research into 'family' court precedent and law? If not, you should.
With the way feminist law has allowed women to maximize their disloyal, opportunistic behavior, he's probably better off with his hand. It can't sue him into destitution and debtor's prison, it can't nag him into disease, or deny him sex when he doesn't buy it a new SUV.
Actually, as libertarian perspectives usually get modded down around here, I'd say the majority population is made up from late teens/early 20s public school system reared liberals with coarsely defined views.
The only thing they should be spending their funds on is the development of gnome software. That does not include funding political viruses like 'affirmative action'. Targeting money at programmers of specific sexes, races, or 'lifestyles', is discriminatory unless the case can be made why the targeted group writes superior code.
Seriously, your foundation needs to reevaluate its priorities.
The only thing they should be spending their funds on is the development of gnome software. That does not include funding political viruses like 'affirmative action'. Ear marking money for programmers of specific sexes, races, or 'lifestyles', is discriminatory unless the case can be made why the targeted group writes superior code.
Questioning feminism and/or actions taken by feminists (ie spending an organization's money inappropriately) is not hatred of women.
You're right, sexuality isn't the issue, but the politically correct parasites running gnome apparently thought it warranted a large percentage of the budget. Gnome was supposed to spend that money on the development of software.
A large percentage of the whole budget spent to target a specific sex (an attribute that isn't supposed to matter to programming) IS sexist alright.
You're assuming a lot there. How would you know if osx or windows NT kernels are 'fully parallelized'? Have you seen the source?
Uh.. x86 has been able to do this for over a decade now.. It's linux that's catching up. It's power management hasn't been that great.
I'll get right on that.. After all, stalin was just trying to help the working class!
Then I never want to work in a critical position that demands that I solve intractable problems. I think the real answer here is to quit overdoing the plumbing. Needed complexity is understandable. Needless complexity is stupid. Just because we can put the computer in control of everything doesn't mean we should.
I'd like to point out that I wasn't trolling. I wasn't deliberately trying to anger anyone. It is true that ideologically driven organizations ripen and fester when left sitting in power too long without challenge. Over time, the ideology becomes more important than the truth. How do you think nazi germany and the soviet union got where they are/were? How about north korea? Now there's a degenerated society if there ever was one. I hope this doesn't happen in the USA, because it will be misery for everyone, protected caste or not.
1. The proof is in the law lobbied for by left wing think tanks and lobby groups. It very clearly discriminates based on race and sex, granting privilege to one while painting the other as oppressors. I'll leave it to you to figure out which sides are which. It is not difficult.
2. I never said the neocons are any better. The left does not respect the rights of those who do not fit into one of its protected castes because they are assumed to be oppressors, and this bias shows in the governments, institutions, and media outlets under their influence. Effectively, it makes the traits they claim as irrelevant, the first cut when applying for jobs, school, or gaining any sort of help from the state. As far as left wing bigotry goes, the mozilla incident comes to mind as a recent example.. Obama's 'dear colleague' letter is another.
Why is it that it's the american taxpayer who has to fund these global bridges to nowhere while they are simultaneously called bigots/ignoramuses/warmongers by the people whose countries are also involved, but whose politicians are too pantywaisted to get their hands dirty? Hell, why does the US federal government think it has the privilege of operating outside the scope of a budget in the first place, driving up inflation and destroying future financial security in the process? This country should renege on any expensive treaty agreements until it has the deficit under control, or one day, there won't be a USA for everyone to fall back on when the going gets tough.
Even if the fusion project ends up producing viable technology, we can't afford the cost right now.
Usually, the people who whine about anonymous communication are the ones who want access to personal information so they can shut down commentary they don't like. If you cared about rational discussion, the arguments stand or fall regardless of the poster's identity.