In any major city you don't need to be hitting speeds higher than that in a downtown area. In fact you probably can't by the time the light turns and the traffic in front of you gets out of the way you only have half a block to drive before the next red. Yes you can accelerate faster and hit higher speeds but mostly you are hurrying up to wait.
You also have peds doing all sorts of crazy things but they tend to at least stop and look around before they jwalk or cross against a light, cyclists not so much.
Bike lanes don't really solve the problem. Bikes can do 20-25 mph on city streets, speed isn't the issue, its acceleration and deceleration. Its not that bad being behind a bike in traffic, what is bad is having to slam my breaks at the last second because a cyclist runs a red!
This happens all the f*ing time, around Cleveland, I assume it must be the case elsewhere. Why do they do this, because they can't stop short from high speed (20+) and they can't get back up to speed in less than an entire city block. Running the lights is as big a problem for cross traffic, even if there are dedicated bike lanes.
Sorry cyclists on city streets and major suburban thruways are by their nature a hazard and a bad mix for automobile traffic. These things just don't belong.
To the poster who brought up the ADA: Suggesting that roads should be designed to accommodate the tiny majority of cyclists is just silly, and comparing it to the ADA is stupid and insulting. Nobody chooses a physical disability that limits their mobility. Society has a moral obligation to enable these people to participate in it. We do not have any such obligation to someone who *chooses* to ride a bike. Unless you want to just come out and admit cycling in a public motor way is evidence of mental handicap (in which case you have my full support).
Good luck getting that machine through a narrow notch or between to large trees. There still are things horses can probably do better than anything besides maybe the most advanced special purpose build robots.
Right, my experience with log pullers and the like is they have such a strong instinct/training that as soon as they feel a load they tend to want to pull, often before you are ready.
Windows 95 OSR2 - got broad USB support! That was OEM only however. Win98 released very shortly after had pretty much full support for USB devices that existed at the time, storage, hid, and audio, video, etc.
Win98SE was more or less the same USB stack, shipping with more device drivers out of box.
This is my guess too. City driving is in so many ways easier for a autonomous vehicle to deal with. Roads are well marked, its small area so if you have to put in additional communications or markings for such vehicles you can do it. Speeds are slower, road surfaces are consistent, ie all paved, etc.
Driving out in the county and back country offers a lot more adaptation like avoiding ruts that are to deep, driving thru the field past where the road is washed out. Pass the tractor after exchanging some waives and negotiating doing with the operator, even on a double line. Deer leaping out from brush...
Even if the event rate, of things like objects and pedestrians rolling/stepping suddenly into the street is higher in the city the range of responses is more limited.
My guess is what we really see if people in suburbia, exurbia, and rural regions continue to own and drive cars (manually). More populated regions will continue down the path of public transportation. Its the Taxi that is going to get replaced with self drivers. Big cities will close off streets to manually operated vehicles. People will hop in a 'taxi' type self driver at a park-n-ride at the edge of town, airport, subway station, etc.
So in Cleveland over I-90 they have circular ramps up the foot bridge. That method should accommodate, wheelchairs and strollers fine. As to the latter, issues those outside the scope, of problems a civil engineer can realistically be expected to address, other than by attempting to minimize infrastructure costs.
The real issue his bicycles! Which just need to be strait up banned from use on public roads IMHO. They simple endanger rider and others to much, and virtually none seem to have any respect for traffic laws at all, to the point of lane splitting and running stale reds.
Ironic is these bozos who live in these regions are the most adamant on making sure they do not have healthcare
You are calling them bozos, which marks you as a prejudiced asshole! Let me explain the reality of the (un)Affordable Care Act for them to you. Before they did not have access to 'quality' healthcare, insurance that covered basics like antibiotics and such was priced out of the market for them. Conditions like diabetes were badly managed or not managed. So they got sick and stayed sicker longer leading to shorter lives, they often watched friends and family die for diseases that if caught sooner from say regular checkups might have been managed or even cured. Life was hard. The lucky ones however could afford at least catastrophic care policies, so that if they got hurt or something they had some hope of not being ruined for life financially.
Than Obamacare came a long! Well cool, they got subsidies to buy insurance but it still could cost them 10% of their income, %10 they desperately needed for other things. If they choose to forgo insurance they got to pay punitive taxes and receive nothing for their money at all! Which as it turned out is the same thing they got if they did buy insurance! The deductibles climbed so high many could not afford to exercise the policy and get any treatment anyway! Those affordable catastrophic polices, GONE! So if someone gets injured or a baby is born that needs to go to the NICU, to bad they are uninsured now, wages will be garnished forever!
Literally the ACA robs for the poorest Americans to give to the middle and upper class. It forces people who can't use insurance to buy it so you get a little cheaper policy. It forces young healthy people who we should be affording the opportunity to gain wealth to subsidize folks that have already enjoyed their peak earning years, and in many cases chose not to save. Its a shit policy, and the "bozos" know it! They had nothing before, and they have nothing now but they get to pay to have nothing now!
The thing to realize is both of these arguments are missing the point: the jobs are not going to come back for the simple reason that the standard of living in the west has risen so high that unskilled manufacturing labor is massively expensive (and hence, inefficient) in the west compared to outsourcing and automation. The people who think that there's some magical fix with which american or european workers will suddenly become cost-efficient compared to someone in China making less than 10 dollars a day, or an automated production line with an even lower cost, are deluded.
Which is exactly why we might have to acknowledge and accept what is good for the world isn't necessarily good for the country and make a choice. Yes in pure economic terms free trade might be more efficient, but the local wealth gap effects it create are undesirable. Maybe we should reject free trade on the grounds these are unacceptable to our democracy and return to a protectionist/mercantilist model.
That leaves the AI/Automation problem where capital plays a larger and larger role in production as compared to labor. The solution and it would like work for a long time is to keep reducing the work week, Go down to 4 days (before overtime kicks in), than shorten the day to 7 hours, than six, than 5. Do this over ten to fifteen years.
Add tax policies that make marriage extremely favorable, with incentives for single income house holds. At the same time remove tax credits for childcare costs, and children beyond the replacement rate 2-3.
Restrict immigration to a trickle in terms of allowed numbers. Control for allowing people with skills that fit the modern economy by adding a one time new citizen tax, for 50 or 60 thousand dollars adjusted for inflation annually. Can't pay, no green card, no citizenship track, no permeate work visa.
Except that is basically not any of that. Zero rating was never really prevented by NN as implemented. The carriers found ways around it anyway. AT&T, VZ, and Comcast all can and were buying up media properties to zero-rate.
A company should be able to offer whatever service it wants, and that includes zero-rating stuff if they think its a selling point. The problem is and always was the lack of free-market in internet service in general. The solution should not be to regulate what carriers have to do but instead to actually legislate the existence of a free market.
As much as I don't like taking things away from local control this is case where local governments simply don't have leverage to say no to carriers that demand exclusivity agreements in exchange for serving the region. We need laws that prevent municipalities for granting such agreements anyway public rights of way are used or eminent domain is or has been used; for telecom delivery.
If the ISPs and cable operators cry they can't make money that way than the solution is the municipalities build the cable plant out just like they do water and sewer, and lease the ISPs spectrum on it. Give customers choice in ISP for real and none of this will be an issue.
Well that is true, and its a problem. Jr. lawyers get to be senior lawyers not just as a function of aging but by helping partners etc at a firm. Even though its not an apprenticeship it is, in many respects. Yes you can go practice law having earned your JD and passed the bar, but you really are no good to anyone or no better than a computer expert system like LegalZoom anyway. I have lots of layers in the family so I have heard the stories.
In the past a JL would spend 80% of their time doing grunt work like that, and 20% doing support work for more senior people usually learning along the way, and they overheard phone calls etc while doing that grunt work too and smart ones learn something. What they learn is how to navigate the system, how to deal with court officers, court clerks, cops, auditors, treasurers, customs officers, etc. They learn to understand these people and how they think and how their work gets done. So they can help clients interface, and make processes run smooth. They learn what questions to ask clients, that get often overlooked and how to avoid pitfalls. That is what you pay a good attorney for! Making whatever it is you are trying to accomplish run smoothly!
LegalZoom will help you spit out reasonably good contract for renting the house you are vacating to someone tenant. It wont help you straiten out the title work if there is a problem on the property you are trying buy.
We could not find a way to do it with dos box reliably. The alternative would be to use something like vmware player, but than we would need DOS licenses. Which did not have any of those (that would could prove anyway having held onto the boxes all those years). We have lots of legal copies of WFW, I suspect because the PCs were bought with DOS but not Windows at one point. The WFW boxes and media were kept.
Auditors get goofy about that stuff no matter how much you tell them Microsoft even if Microsoft comes here and does a audit of their own they are unlikely to notice or care about DOS 6.22 and Windows for Workgroups running in some VM. I suppose WFW would run on freeDos but at that point you now have a third party DOS running in a VM running windows, why not just use ReactOS, was the conclusion we came to. Its like 4 PCs so we all just wanted to stop thinking about it as fast as possible.
I have seen it used on a few machines on my companies plant floor that are used to run some very old designer software, that produces a set of instructions that is then sent to machines running 'real windows' but highly isolated. Files get copied to a 3.5" and walked over! The design software won't run on anything newer than XP. The control software is running on WFW3.11 and Win95 in some cases.
ReactOS seems to be fine for this. The software runs and its basically the only thing the PCs are used for. Prior to this they were running WFW3.11 in DOSBox. ReactOS makes it a little easier for less than tech savy machine operators to get the file onto the floppy disk etc. They were struggling with the virtual/emulated machine concept. Ie I saved the file to the floppy drive, no you saved it to the virtual floppy drive now you need to copy it to the actual floppy. I said I saved it to the floppy. NO! So ReactOS is not without its use case, its just rare.
As far as the OP's question though. The answer is mostly "No", ReactOS is not going to be a reasonable platform for gaming, and really any kind of media. There is simply no hardware support. It shares a lot of code with WINE but lags behind what even WINE implements. WINE on Linux on the other hand can give you a pretty darn good gaming experience if you do your homework and pick well supported hardware, and check the app database on winehq before you frustrate yourself. Its also good to install apps in their own wine bottle, for best compatibility, and flexibility around libraries and such. If you do that I have found most software will run acceptably, unless you insist on the cutting edge latest games. Stick to titles for a few years ago for best results.
Well I can tell you I did Atkins for several years, and I lost a lot of weight eating 5K calories a day and often more!
After I reached a weight I was happy with I gradually transited back to a more typical diet with some input from my physician, but I have had to get the calorie count down to around 1800 a day to keep the weight off.
So anecdotal it may be, but it sure as hell worked here.
If he is crazy so am I. Cows milk tastes and smells NASTY, skim if very cold can be choked down, but otherwise milk is only tolerable with loads of sugar, ice cream is alright but really does not taste very good to me either. I have no dietary issues with milk products. I just don't like the stuff.
I agree with gp, its texture is greasy and generally unpleasant.
There is fine line between victim blaming and pointing out for the benefit of others who could learn from all this how not to be a target.
If you leave the door unlocked to house while you are going for the day, it does not give someone the right to enter and take your stuff. It does however make it easy for someone dressed in something looking like a letter carriers uniform, to go door to door trying knobs, in your typical bedroom community to take your stuff.
You are still a victim, but your choices or lack of care helped make you a target. Its worth recognizing that personally so you can maybe avoid being a victim in the future, and socially its worth recognizing cases like this so we can direct public resources to protecting people from things/attacks they are less able to control for themselves than on things they easily can control to some degree.
Yes but virtual box is an obsolete POS anyway. You should either shell out for VMWare if you need the features and compatibility with other hosts, or just use KVM/libvirt, and your choice of a bunch of very good front ends. Or just use qemu on the command line with some shell scripts.
Moreover if you already have and keep a Netflix subscription, Netflix isn't harmed if you watch them on some pirate site. After all netflix does not show commercials, so their is no loss of ad revenue. If anything it saves Netflix some bandwidth, their costs go down!
4. Last, but not least, fire all of the damn SJWs. Easiest way to accomplish this: put out an anonymous workplace survey that says "do you consider hate speech that is not a direct incitement to violence to be protected, free speech." Anyone who disagrees with that probably holds views that are anathema to the long term health of any speech-centered tech platform or product.
This is what is wrong with most places today. That sort of thing should NOT be anonymous. Its should be mission statement from management. It should be made clear to employees that if they can't embrace that they ought to start looking for jobs elsewhere.
1) short cert life times so you can't use pinning to know if maybe something has changed 2) not even domain validated, if you control the web server you can get cert. Generally that means you could alter content anyway but frankly DV certs were not a good idea. 3) give a false impression of authentication, where there really is none, see #2. Sure you can look for EV or whatever in your URL bar, but automated process and such don't really have a concept of class where certs are concerned. Your software updater will see a Let's Encrypt cert as authentic. 4) They don't even make the most minimal effort to try and filter phishing domains like www.paypall.com
There are literally no valid reasons for any site to use Let's Encrypt certs. They provide no guarantee of authenticity beyond what a self signed cert does; which is just as effective for using to setup TLS sockets. What they do is brake older automated trust logic and give other users who don't really understand the whole CA trust chain concept a very false sense of security. Seriously Let's Encrypt sucks!
Because validation rules like this are actually pretty important when it comes to detecting and preventing fraud. The failure here was not that the software could not deal with here being more than 110.
That is sufficiently an edge case that as frequently as it comes up a call form a bank manager to HQ where they can say something like well enter the date a 1/1/1900 than and we will have an engineer update the record to the correct value ASAP should work.
Science as a whole has a serious boy-who-cried-wolf problem. As scientists we need to be far more careful about the claims we're making, so that people continue to take us seriously.
You are partly right, but science is all about making/testable/ claims. Scientists absolutely need to advance their hypothesis backed up by the research and allow others to find counter or confirming evidence.
What needs to stop happening is people trying to make public policy based on less proven theory. Climate science is a good example its been used as a basis for policies since the 1970's and its predictions and impacts have changed a lot since that time, it was and is an immature field. As is a lot of this psychology that has us putting in special bathrooms in schools etc. We need to step back and let scientists do the work before we start legislating based on it.
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In any major city you don't need to be hitting speeds higher than that in a downtown area. In fact you probably can't by the time the light turns and the traffic in front of you gets out of the way you only have half a block to drive before the next red. Yes you can accelerate faster and hit higher speeds but mostly you are hurrying up to wait.
You also have peds doing all sorts of crazy things but they tend to at least stop and look around before they jwalk or cross against a light, cyclists not so much.
Bike lanes don't really solve the problem. Bikes can do 20-25 mph on city streets, speed isn't the issue, its acceleration and deceleration. Its not that bad being behind a bike in traffic, what is bad is having to slam my breaks at the last second because a cyclist runs a red!
This happens all the f*ing time, around Cleveland, I assume it must be the case elsewhere. Why do they do this, because they can't stop short from high speed (20+) and they can't get back up to speed in less than an entire city block. Running the lights is as big a problem for cross traffic, even if there are dedicated bike lanes.
Sorry cyclists on city streets and major suburban thruways are by their nature a hazard and a bad mix for automobile traffic. These things just don't belong.
To the poster who brought up the ADA: Suggesting that roads should be designed to accommodate the tiny majority of cyclists is just silly, and comparing it to the ADA is stupid and insulting. Nobody chooses a physical disability that limits their mobility. Society has a moral obligation to enable these people to participate in it. We do not have any such obligation to someone who *chooses* to ride a bike. Unless you want to just come out and admit cycling in a public motor way is evidence of mental handicap (in which case you have my full support).
Good luck getting that machine through a narrow notch or between to large trees. There still are things horses can probably do better than anything besides maybe the most advanced special purpose build robots.
Right, my experience with log pullers and the like is they have such a strong instinct/training that as soon as they feel a load they tend to want to pull, often before you are ready.
Nope totally wrong!
Windows 95 OSR2 - got broad USB support! That was OEM only however. Win98 released very shortly after had pretty much full support for USB devices that existed at the time, storage, hid, and audio, video, etc.
Win98SE was more or less the same USB stack, shipping with more device drivers out of box.
This is my guess too. City driving is in so many ways easier for a autonomous vehicle to deal with. Roads are well marked, its small area so if you have to put in additional communications or markings for such vehicles you can do it. Speeds are slower, road surfaces are consistent, ie all paved, etc.
Driving out in the county and back country offers a lot more adaptation like avoiding ruts that are to deep, driving thru the field past where the road is washed out. Pass the tractor after exchanging some waives and negotiating doing with the operator, even on a double line. Deer leaping out from brush...
Even if the event rate, of things like objects and pedestrians rolling/stepping suddenly into the street is higher in the city the range of responses is more limited.
My guess is what we really see if people in suburbia, exurbia, and rural regions continue to own and drive cars (manually). More populated regions will continue down the path of public transportation. Its the Taxi that is going to get replaced with self drivers. Big cities will close off streets to manually operated vehicles. People will hop in a 'taxi' type self driver at a park-n-ride at the edge of town, airport, subway station, etc.
So in Cleveland over I-90 they have circular ramps up the foot bridge. That method should accommodate, wheelchairs and strollers fine. As to the latter, issues those outside the scope, of problems a civil engineer can realistically be expected to address, other than by attempting to minimize infrastructure costs.
The real issue his bicycles! Which just need to be strait up banned from use on public roads IMHO. They simple endanger rider and others to much, and virtually none seem to have any respect for traffic laws at all, to the point of lane splitting and running stale reds.
Ironic is these bozos who live in these regions are the most adamant on making sure they do not have healthcare
You are calling them bozos, which marks you as a prejudiced asshole! Let me explain the reality of the (un)Affordable Care Act for them to you. Before they did not have access to 'quality' healthcare, insurance that covered basics like antibiotics and such was priced out of the market for them. Conditions like diabetes were badly managed or not managed. So they got sick and stayed sicker longer leading to shorter lives, they often watched friends and family die for diseases that if caught sooner from say regular checkups might have been managed or even cured. Life was hard. The lucky ones however could afford at least catastrophic care policies, so that if they got hurt or something they had some hope of not being ruined for life financially.
Than Obamacare came a long! Well cool, they got subsidies to buy insurance but it still could cost them 10% of their income, %10 they desperately needed for other things. If they choose to forgo insurance they got to pay punitive taxes and receive nothing for their money at all! Which as it turned out is the same thing they got if they did buy insurance! The deductibles climbed so high many could not afford to exercise the policy and get any treatment anyway! Those affordable catastrophic polices, GONE! So if someone gets injured or a baby is born that needs to go to the NICU, to bad they are uninsured now, wages will be garnished forever!
Literally the ACA robs for the poorest Americans to give to the middle and upper class. It forces people who can't use insurance to buy it so you get a little cheaper policy. It forces young healthy people who we should be affording the opportunity to gain wealth to subsidize folks that have already enjoyed their peak earning years, and in many cases chose not to save. Its a shit policy, and the "bozos" know it! They had nothing before, and they have nothing now but they get to pay to have nothing now!
The thing to realize is both of these arguments are missing the point: the jobs are not going to come back for the simple reason that the standard of living in the west has risen so high that unskilled manufacturing labor is massively expensive (and hence, inefficient) in the west compared to outsourcing and automation. The people who think that there's some magical fix with which american or european workers will suddenly become cost-efficient compared to someone in China making less than 10 dollars a day, or an automated production line with an even lower cost, are deluded.
Which is exactly why we might have to acknowledge and accept what is good for the world isn't necessarily good for the country and make a choice. Yes in pure economic terms free trade might be more efficient, but the local wealth gap effects it create are undesirable. Maybe we should reject free trade on the grounds these are unacceptable to our democracy and return to a protectionist/mercantilist model.
That leaves the AI/Automation problem where capital plays a larger and larger role in production as compared to labor. The solution and it would like work for a long time is to keep reducing the work week, Go down to 4 days (before overtime kicks in), than shorten the day to 7 hours, than six, than 5. Do this over ten to fifteen years.
Add tax policies that make marriage extremely favorable, with incentives for single income house holds. At the same time remove tax credits for childcare costs, and children beyond the replacement rate 2-3.
Restrict immigration to a trickle in terms of allowed numbers. Control for allowing people with skills that fit the modern economy by adding a one time new citizen tax, for 50 or 60 thousand dollars adjusted for inflation annually. Can't pay, no green card, no citizenship track, no permeate work visa.
Except that is basically not any of that. Zero rating was never really prevented by NN as implemented. The carriers found ways around it anyway. AT&T, VZ, and Comcast all can and were buying up media properties to zero-rate.
A company should be able to offer whatever service it wants, and that includes zero-rating stuff if they think its a selling point. The problem is and always was the lack of free-market in internet service in general. The solution should not be to regulate what carriers have to do but instead to actually legislate the existence of a free market.
As much as I don't like taking things away from local control this is case where local governments simply don't have leverage to say no to carriers that demand exclusivity agreements in exchange for serving the region. We need laws that prevent municipalities for granting such agreements anyway public rights of way are used or eminent domain is or has been used; for telecom delivery.
If the ISPs and cable operators cry they can't make money that way than the solution is the municipalities build the cable plant out just like they do water and sewer, and lease the ISPs spectrum on it. Give customers choice in ISP for real and none of this will be an issue.
Well that is true, and its a problem. Jr. lawyers get to be senior lawyers not just as a function of aging but by helping partners etc at a firm. Even though its not an apprenticeship it is, in many respects. Yes you can go practice law having earned your JD and passed the bar, but you really are no good to anyone or no better than a computer expert system like LegalZoom anyway. I have lots of layers in the family so I have heard the stories.
In the past a JL would spend 80% of their time doing grunt work like that, and 20% doing support work for more senior people usually learning along the way, and they overheard phone calls etc while doing that grunt work too and smart ones learn something. What they learn is how to navigate the system, how to deal with court officers, court clerks, cops, auditors, treasurers, customs officers, etc. They learn to understand these people and how they think and how their work gets done. So they can help clients interface, and make processes run smooth. They learn what questions to ask clients, that get often overlooked and how to avoid pitfalls. That is what you pay a good attorney for! Making whatever it is you are trying to accomplish run smoothly!
LegalZoom will help you spit out reasonably good contract for renting the house you are vacating to someone tenant. It wont help you straiten out the title work if there is a problem on the property you are trying buy.
We could not find a way to do it with dos box reliably. The alternative would be to use something like vmware player, but than we would need DOS licenses. Which did not have any of those (that would could prove anyway having held onto the boxes all those years). We have lots of legal copies of WFW, I suspect because the PCs were bought with DOS but not Windows at one point. The WFW boxes and media were kept.
Auditors get goofy about that stuff no matter how much you tell them Microsoft even if Microsoft comes here and does a audit of their own they are unlikely to notice or care about DOS 6.22 and Windows for Workgroups running in some VM. I suppose WFW would run on freeDos but at that point you now have a third party DOS running in a VM running windows, why not just use ReactOS, was the conclusion we came to. Its like 4 PCs so we all just wanted to stop thinking about it as fast as possible.
I have seen it used on a few machines on my companies plant floor that are used to run some very old designer software, that produces a set of instructions that is then sent to machines running 'real windows' but highly isolated. Files get copied to a 3.5" and walked over! The design software won't run on anything newer than XP. The control software is running on WFW3.11 and Win95 in some cases.
ReactOS seems to be fine for this. The software runs and its basically the only thing the PCs are used for. Prior to this they were running WFW3.11 in DOSBox. ReactOS makes it a little easier for less than tech savy machine operators to get the file onto the floppy disk etc. They were struggling with the virtual/emulated machine concept. Ie I saved the file to the floppy drive, no you saved it to the virtual floppy drive now you need to copy it to the actual floppy. I said I saved it to the floppy. NO! So ReactOS is not without its use case, its just rare.
As far as the OP's question though. The answer is mostly "No", ReactOS is not going to be a reasonable platform for gaming, and really any kind of media. There is simply no hardware support. It shares a lot of code with WINE but lags behind what even WINE implements. WINE on Linux on the other hand can give you a pretty darn good gaming experience if you do your homework and pick well supported hardware, and check the app database on winehq before you frustrate yourself. Its also good to install apps in their own wine bottle, for best compatibility, and flexibility around libraries and such. If you do that I have found most software will run acceptably, unless you insist on the cutting edge latest games. Stick to titles for a few years ago for best results.
Well I can tell you I did Atkins for several years, and I lost a lot of weight eating 5K calories a day and often more!
After I reached a weight I was happy with I gradually transited back to a more typical diet with some input from my physician, but I have had to get the calorie count down to around 1800 a day to keep the weight off.
So anecdotal it may be, but it sure as hell worked here.
If he is crazy so am I. Cows milk tastes and smells NASTY, skim if very cold can be choked down, but otherwise milk is only tolerable with loads of sugar, ice cream is alright but really does not taste very good to me either. I have no dietary issues with milk products. I just don't like the stuff.
I agree with gp, its texture is greasy and generally unpleasant.
There is fine line between victim blaming and pointing out for the benefit of others who could learn from all this how not to be a target.
If you leave the door unlocked to house while you are going for the day, it does not give someone the right to enter and take your stuff. It does however make it easy for someone dressed in something looking like a letter carriers uniform, to go door to door trying knobs, in your typical bedroom community to take your stuff.
You are still a victim, but your choices or lack of care helped make you a target. Its worth recognizing that personally so you can maybe avoid being a victim in the future, and socially its worth recognizing cases like this so we can direct public resources to protecting people from things/attacks they are less able to control for themselves than on things they easily can control to some degree.
Yes but virtual box is an obsolete POS anyway. You should either shell out for VMWare if you need the features and compatibility with other hosts, or just use KVM/libvirt, and your choice of a bunch of very good front ends. Or just use qemu on the command line with some shell scripts.
Moreover if you already have and keep a Netflix subscription, Netflix isn't harmed if you watch them on some pirate site. After all netflix does not show commercials, so their is no loss of ad revenue. If anything it saves Netflix some bandwidth, their costs go down!
4. Last, but not least, fire all of the damn SJWs. Easiest way to accomplish this: put out an anonymous workplace survey that says "do you consider hate speech that is not a direct incitement to violence to be protected, free speech." Anyone who disagrees with that probably holds views that are anathema to the long term health of any speech-centered tech platform or product.
This is what is wrong with most places today. That sort of thing should NOT be anonymous. Its should be mission statement from management. It should be made clear to employees that if they can't embrace that they ought to start looking for jobs elsewhere.
Let's Encrypt is literally terrible!
1) short cert life times so you can't use pinning to know if maybe something has changed
2) not even domain validated, if you control the web server you can get cert. Generally that means you could alter content anyway but frankly DV certs were not a good idea.
3) give a false impression of authentication, where there really is none, see #2. Sure you can look for EV or whatever in your URL bar, but automated process and such don't really have a concept of class where certs are concerned. Your software updater will see a Let's Encrypt cert as authentic.
4) They don't even make the most minimal effort to try and filter phishing domains like www.paypall.com
There are literally no valid reasons for any site to use Let's Encrypt certs. They provide no guarantee of authenticity beyond what a self signed cert does; which is just as effective for using to setup TLS sockets. What they do is brake older automated trust logic and give other users who don't really understand the whole CA trust chain concept a very false sense of security. Seriously Let's Encrypt sucks!
That is amazing, because that was a great game!
Because validation rules like this are actually pretty important when it comes to detecting and preventing fraud. The failure here was not that the software could not deal with here being more than 110.
That is sufficiently an edge case that as frequently as it comes up a call form a bank manager to HQ where they can say something like well enter the date a 1/1/1900 than and we will have an engineer update the record to the correct value ASAP should work.
Science as a whole has a serious boy-who-cried-wolf problem. As scientists we need to be far more careful about the claims we're making, so that people continue to take us seriously.
You are partly right, but science is all about making /testable/ claims. Scientists absolutely need to advance their hypothesis backed up by the research and allow others to find counter or confirming evidence.
What needs to stop happening is people trying to make public policy based on less proven theory. Climate science is a good example its been used as a basis for policies since the 1970's and its predictions and impacts have changed a lot since that time, it was and is an immature field. As is a lot of this psychology that has us putting in special bathrooms in schools etc. We need to step back and let scientists do the work before we start legislating based on it.
average vs median, math is hard but these things matter
50% more! What is substantial double? $40 is a weeks worth of groceries for a lot of Americans!
If you think $40 additional cost is "insubstantial" to most folks you are completely out of touch!