Mozilla probably should have focused on writing software and staying out politics rather than screw up their fund raising potential by going full on SJW.
Let this be a lesson to companies and non profits a like, its really better to stay out of politics which are beyond your area of direct interest. You will only get hurt.
Its also true that ridding a horse is only similar in terms of experience to ridding in a car in that you are moving thru space! Its not really the same thing at all. Playing a record after than few seconds spent placing it on the turn table and dropping the needle is almost exactly like playing a CD! You sit and listen, oh except with CD you don't have to avoid jumping around and dancing to the music in fear of permanently harming the record if it skips, there is that.
A better question is when was the last time you saw anyone traveling by horse drawn coach even for fun? That would better comparable. Yes I am aware people take the occasional sleigh or buggy ride but that is pretty small number of people, many of whom do it just to satisfy the curiosity about what life used to be like and may not ever do it again afterward. Is anybody buying these records expecting to play them only once?
I don't disagree with your statement that MP3 lowers the quality. That is objectively true if you compare it with an uncompressed or loss free representation at the same sample rate and bit precision.
You need to be honest though that elements of the process which add 'distortion' to creation and playback of vinyl also just lower the quality compared to say the original analog master tapes (which by the way probably don't exist anymore I betcha almost all recording studios are using digital masters today). That uniqueness it adds is not different than the distortion an mp3 encoder adds other than you happen to like it better, that is a subjective opinion on your part by the way. I know other people that claim to like 'mp3 warble' (I think they are misguided just like you).
Tapes were trying to solve a different problem though. The goal of tapes an 8-tracks was not simple distribution as was vinyl it was portability. They were actually highly successful at that! My entire generation has found memories of our walkmans!
That said you did not plan tapes on your home stereo if you could avoid it.
I am kinda sad DVD-A did make it. A DVD holds enough data that you could deliver basically any normal length album, and even compilations at a higher quality than any of the other stereo equipment a person has could replicate anyway. The 5" disk is a good size its comfortable to handle and easy to carry/store lots of them in book/sleeve style cases. Maybe 3" disk or 3.5" would be better and you could do that with DVD-A too!
Now all that is obsoleted by the fact that you can buy an SD card today that will hold someones entire collection (in a lot of cases) at similarly good quality.
The thing I liked/like about vinyl is the cover art and liner notes. There is no law that says the disk has to be as big as that stuff though. I also have some CDs that came with posters and things neatly folded inside, so its plenty possible to do artistic things in the 5" format. I know some folks claim redbook audio isn't as good as analog off clean vinyl with a top quality cartridge/needle/turntable. I find this claim highly suspect, even if true than certainly 96-bit 48000 closed the gap.
I really wish these people would recognize they are letting this nostalgia stuff go a bit far. Its one thing to keep using some superseded technology because the existing stuff you have is 'good enough' and therefore not really obsolete or because the older stuff is cheaper to buy/operate. Its a different mater to go out of your way to obtain and build an entire ecosystem around a technology that really is obsolete and offers no material advantage of any kind over current methods. If there is something like DRM that is objectionable with current technology go out in the market place and demand DRM free $TECH item. If the market is willing to invest in the capital goods to return to pressing vinyl than its willing do deliver music in just about anyone other way imaginable if people really insisted on it. DRM exists because beyond Slashdot DRM isn't really that important to consumers, DRM free in the case of things like vinyl is a side effect its not the reason people are choosing vinyl.
I wonder though. I assume lots of these locks get a signal and trigger a solenoid to move the lock mechanism internally. You can move the mechanism with the handle ordinarily to return it to the unlocked state but if the hackers are constantly sending the 'lock' command, and keeping the solenoid energized that might not be possible. I wonder if cutting the power might have been a solution for enable people to get out of the rooms.
This alone is why I will not recommend Windows for any home user anymore. I tell them look any mainline Linux distribution is pretty easy now but if you really want your hand held and feel you have to have support for third party products or just want something familiar buy a Mac.
The first job of the Operating system is to manage data, job number two is to manage processes. If you are rebooting without the users authorization on an indeterminate schedule you are doing neither. I do have a windows VM for testing stuff at work and I have gone to lunch only to find its restated when I got back. Holy crap I lost all the stuff I had open, my background job I wanted finished when I returned did not complete and had to be run again while I was their (huge productivity killer!) and some stuff that keeps work files comes back up and has to do recovery or just loses data because the apps did not get shut down property. Fail Fail Fail!
Seriously this concept is fundamentally and completely BROKEN! If I wanted automatic updates and reboots there is a bloody task scheduler for that, and I as the user can configure that with the understanding of when it will happen. I buy the M$ has to patch or they'd get sued argument either, the first time someone uses one of these versions of windows (outside the license scope or not) to control some dangerous process they are going to get sued eight ways from Sunday. Probably won't get any further in court than a nonsense claim by some asshole that its M$ fault (s)he was hacked when updates had not been installed in three years would get.
Even OSX tries to auto update out of the box but at least you can easily configure it so it won't reboot on its own.
Lets not for get the last issue, lots and lots of people have data caps, some of them are quite low in the 30-60 range for people on Satelite etc. Its entirely reasonably someone might want to push a gig or so of updates into another billing cycle. So even auto download should be at least easily disabled via the UI. Windows SUCKS!
The average person does need A/V but the built in stuff that come with Windows is more than adequate. Signatures are really only good if they are nearly to the moment up to date and with the present rate of churn on the internet that model just does not really work. To the degree it does still work Microsoft does as good a job as anyone. Its the heuristic side where there is still some effectiveness but even the high dollar stuff like Cylance falls down more than it succeeds. They claim 99% and maybe that is true if you just grab random malware off the internet and throw it at their stuff. We did some internal testing with more recent exploit code from metasploit and what have become downright common powershell and rundll payloads; if all we did is make the most trivial modifications to them we saw more like a %2 detection rate, other endpoint packages did about the same as well.
Long story short A/V won't protect you from even a broadly targeted (hey I know these guys are using windows 8 because I Trojaned my "stat button" replacement app for windows 8/8.1, now I'll just wait and here and see how my hosts join my botnet) attack using updated tools. It certainly won't help you against an actual targeted attack.
Should everyone leave Windows Defender on, yes its free and MS has done a pretty good job making sure their own AV package does not foul up their own OS. I would NOT recommend any third party A/V solution at this point for individuals or SMBs. There might be some residual value in endpoint packages for larger businesses but there is an equal strong cases for going without and focusing on a systems management solution instead where you simply make sure everything is patched and you have tight control over what gets run. Unfortunately Applocker bypasses are fairly trival now so you do need a third party solution800,000 to take a true white list approach.
I think the least astonishing thing would be treat everything as a document until *I* say its program. That *I* can be somewhat transitive, that is to say after I download the Calibre installer if I double click it, yes its going to show it to me in whatever the document viewer for the mime-type suggests, for a binary or other unknown content that is probably the systems hex editor.
If that isn't what I want and I trust the thing I can say "no this a program" by doing something like chmod +x or right click -> properties -> permissions -> scroll scroll scroll -> execute check -> ok. Than the installer can run and set the application binaries as executable for me.
What really should not happen is I download Install_Calibre.exe or Install_Calibre.shar etc and it just executes because I accidentally clicked it or worse while trying to copy some of other file into the same directory drop it on the Calibre icon and the system decides to execute it with my file as an argument. It would similarly be ok if I explicitly had to pass Calibre.txz to my package manager, installpkg calibre-arch-ver-build.txz or something; again not going to happen by accident.
The default action for a script should be execute it. It should be determined to be a script based on the execute permission. The default create mode for a file pulled from an untrusted source (e-mail/www/etc) should not include the execute permission.
It should be up to the user to either pass it to the argument of their trusted interpreter,
$cscript evil.js
or change the permissions on evil.js to explicitly tell the system yes treat this a script and use the associated interpreter. The sane model should always be "its data unless I say its a program." which is where the web gets into so much trouble the ability to embed programmatic behavior in a data document is fundamentally risky. It hard to deliver the functionality wanted out of modern applications with purely server side templating, so browser sandbox has to be a somewhat acceptable compromise but that does not mean stuff that is pulled out of that sandbox should suddenly become 'live' without some manual vetting.
You are assuming he has not done that. I am 100% certain the first thing that was done was a title search. Its not nearly as uncommon as you might think for plat maps to be inaccurate and incomplete.
Its not unusual for property to be titled to someone long dead or long missing who has not paid taxes in forever and nobody know who the rightful owners might be. This would be impossible to discover if the person is in fact dead and probate was closed without dealing with said property. Which if the probate court was unaware of it, would be the case. So potentially probate needs to be reopened.
This entire process exists so people who might have a claim to have the opportunity to step forward and make it. What is he supposed to do otherwise, do a complete genealogy work up on everyone who ever had a title and personally ask their prodigy if they would like to make a claim of ownership? What happens than if someone shows up a decade from now claiming to be the illegitimate child of such and such...?
I have been down this road myself. I wanted to purchase a house but it was "land locked". I was doing my due diligence and having title searches and plat maps pulled before buying the property (something Zuck probably should have done more carefully).
The only access to the property and a number of other properties was via a private road. Nobody could find a plat map that showed clear ownership of the road. All anybody could figure out is neither the county nor the state acknowledged ownership. The residence of the near by properties all told me they had be using since the original developer subdivided it. I got a lawyer who went thru all the details and the determination they made was that its probably the case that years of use by the other residence has created an implied easement allowing use of the road, however without an express easement form an established title holder this could always be challenged. While such a challenge would almost certainly not succeed you'd have to litigate it, if the owner appeared and pushed the matter.
Now where this became a problem (and by creating knowledge of the issue I kinda screwed the current owners and their neighbors) is that nobody wanting to finance the place would be able to get a mortgage. Which of course drastically reduced the pool of potential buyers if you ever want to sell the property. Now the property had transacted several time in the previous decades but nobody had done a through title work. Reduced pool of buyers means reduced value. I did not want to buy a property I potentially could not sell if I wanted or needed to move in the future. So I stated the title had be represented as clear but was in fact impaired (land locked) and used that to escape the contract without being in breach.
The alternative to breaking the contract would have been to find the current property owner. They way my lawyer said we would have to go about that is basically to sue advertise for six months a basically sue a john doe for ownership or try and convince the county they should pursue the john doe owner for back taxes and than cease the property for nonpayment, this was also going to be filing so kind of legal writ, but I forget the term. It was going to cost tens of thousands so I opted not to go that route.
Anyway I thought I would share the anecdote because I know a bunch of people want to dump on Zuck here but these types of lawsuits are exactly what you do when the owner cannot be identified. The alternative is what nobody can ever do anything with the land ever? Some owner should be able to doge taxation on the property by simply being hard to find?
The flip side of course is you reduce access to less expensive degrees. Which might economically bar some folks from university entirely.
I would say private schools ought to do whatever they want. Lots of business cross subsidize product lines. One point of university is to produce students with a well rounded education. Even physics students ought have an intro to philosophy, but you probably can't have a really good philosophy professor unless you have some students dedicated to the study. People change majors or to double major, its nice to be at an institution where you have somewhere to go if you decided to do that. I know a guy who did double major in physics and art history. So the universities ability to provide two robust departments that could deliver quality education experiences was of value.
Universities are not the only 'businesses' to cross subside product lines. It often makes sense to sell the razor at loss so you can sell the customer blades every month for a decade. 'Selling' your degree in micro chemistry below cost might mean you generate some folks who will become captains of industry and raise the profile of your institution making all sorts of other people want to earn degrees of all kinds from your school.
On the other hand higher base prices for the lest costly degrees might turn some students away, possibly even very well qualified students in terms of academic achievement who you might really want to attend. Lower prices might attract some folks. When it comes to State and Community schools you might allow more marginal students to attend with less financial risk. Lets face it failing to complete an undergrad degree in lots of cases is basically a total loss. It does not thing to increase your employable and if all you took was remedial classes before you washed out you might not have really learned anything you can use.
Well if you dismantle it entirely than there will be no data, and therefore no concern about how accurate it is.
I would strongly argue there is no constitutional basis for a department of education, the states can handle that fine. FDA and EPA might fall under promoting the general welfare but as it stands today both far exceed that mandate IMHO. So I won't be sad to see them scaled back a bit.
By the same token you have to decided about how aggressive a definition of labor participation you want to use. An "I am not looking" answer on the survey excludes you from the labor force numbers. Why are you not looking though? Is it because you want to stay home? Is it because you are discouraged? Is it because you lack marketable skills?
If you are employed are you underemployed? Suppose you have a degree and decades of experience, but are working in retail or fastfood because you can't afford to sell your home with its underwater mortgage and there are no jobs in your field were you currently live because the facility you worked at was closed? Should you be counted as fully employed even if you are working full time?
We do have some BLS numbers around these things but there is all kinds of shades of grey and subjectivity to them and its very much the case that politics govern how they are reported. Its not they are lies, but those grey areas are interpreted one way or the other to best tell the story the current administration wants to put out there.
Exactly what so many people seem to missing about all the hubub around presidency is the deep state is real, our bureaucracy for good and ill are quite resilient.
Just because you change out the man at the top and couple handfuls of his direct reports does not suddenly mean all the procedures, methods, systems, opinions, etc in use by all the 2,804,000+ federal workers and enumerable contractors both direct and corporate suddenly change too. That stuff is cultural and other than a few hot button issues that might get attention from POTUS directly takes decades to change, literally outlasting a single Presidents term of office in many cases.
In a lot a ways we are still feeling the effects of not exactly policy but popular opinion that dates to the Clinton Presidency and that of Gorge W Bush. People choose to get into civil service or not often depending on their admiration or lack their of for the top man in charge at the time they are ready to start a career. The people who started their careers in the late 90s and early 2000s are now the folks who have risen to positions where they are decision makers and mid-level bureaucrats. We have yet to see the real influence of Obama's millennial voters here yet (sadly IMHO, not looking forward to that all).
So the data is probably as trustworthy as it was 4 weeks or 4 years ago. Its probably as trustworthy as it was 8 years ago, or 16 or 20. That is to say its really not very trustworthy at all but probably less bias than you might imagine. There is a constant battle being fought between the left and right with the pendulum swinging both ways ever 8 years or so, but not as a far either way as the top men appear to swing. The real issue is that assumptions on either side are never really challenged or well examined because of the tug of war fought over the superficial stuff. So some labor statistic remains calculated they way it has been for the last 40 years when some probably well meaning person made a judgement call based on the information they had at hand. It never gets revisited in a serious scientific way because everyone is to busy doing studies and bickering over a handful of top line numbers that make for good headlines like the employment rate.
I am going to throw in with the parent here. When I watch TV I want to be comfortable and relax. Glasses don't maximize comfort, and in fact kinda suck a lot if you decide to stretch out on the sofa and need to lay on your side to face the TV. Pillows and glasses are basically incompatible.
If I have to wear glasses to watch something, I am going to watch something else
Trade school can be a good thing. There are a lot of people who are plenty capable and interested that can for whatever reason not manage to learn to learn on their own. They simply need to be lead. There is an even larger number of people who are interested in something but simply could not invest in the technology and equipment need to learn on their own. Trade schools are a good match for both groups and there is a lot of overlap between both groups as well.
I am not saying there isn't value in a liberal arts degree and that some people don't need them to do what they do. Most people can't put food on the table using their ability to critique of renaissance art however or with their knowledge of western history.
What everyone really does need is a solid foundation in reading, physical science, and basic maths (like up thru calculus), a solid grasp of chemistry and physics won't hurt but might be more disposable. We *should* be getting these things from our secondary education system. The trouble is many people are not, and rather than addressing the question why can leave high school without being able to apply algebra, they want to teach everyone python! That is a problem. Its been a problem too for decades now colleges have been simply reducing their exceptions for freshmen and adding remedial classes to compensate. The real reason nobody can get a job without a college degree now is: I really don't know that you have the skills to make a proper cup of coffee if you have only a high school diploma.
I had ones that could do that but it was very slow and you certainly could not just say "play track 5". I have a turn table with a laser that shines on the disk and a photo sensor that can detect the level of reflected light. Its able to find tracks about 90% of the time. It moves the tone arm to the edge of the disk, and scans across counting the blanks spaces, its pretty fast. Once it counts the right number of spaces it drops the tone arm.
Its not CD player fast by any means but its way fast than seek on any consumer tape desk has ever worked.
"Tapes were biggest mostly in noise and hardcore, where the fact that they were degraded was almost kind of an asset," says Keyes. "Because it made it sound muddier and screwed with the dynamics and the sound in an interesting way."
Translation the artistic works are so poor and of so little value its better if you don't look or listen to closely.
Compact Cassettes are nothing but entirely obsolete. Unlike vinyl which might in some cases have desirable audio characteristics compared with an compresses digital audio file, or even a CD. Cassettes just SUCK period full stop.
They are less seekable than even vinyl (which is quite seekable if you have good turn table) They are all sorts of problems with streching and temperature variation. They don't really have all that great a bandwidth, frequency response. They are fragile. All in all nobody should want to use one of these for anything anymore. It was nice when it was the only technology that could offer portability with good capacity, and good enough reliability (things 8-track did even worse).
What's next 8-track coming back too.
There is nostalgia and there is nonsense, and cassettes belong in the nonsense category.
And your gender is determined not in some magical early moment but quite late in foetal development
Um no, actually gender/sec (hint they are not really different) are determined the moment of conception and depend on what mix of chromosomes you get. Popular variations include X and Y, X and X, but sometimes things like X and X and Y happen.
Its true that sex differentiated foetal development occurs late, that is to say sex specific structures emerge late.
It shows deep ignorance to equate higher education with some religious cult.
Really why? There is plenty of evidence to show political influence over research. Consider all those social sciences, economics, etc, that fail repeatedly to explain events in society or markets. Things might not be as bad in the physical science space but its essentially a fact that litmus tests exists. All those smelly hippies from the 60's staged their little disruption campaigns and forced curriculum to change they then got their PHDs etc and filled in the academic structure as the old guard aged out. Now outside of a few religious affiliated institutions just try getting anywhere with a conservative view point on any issue.
Its not at all clear where the corruption is or how far its tentacles spread. Much like a number of Washington institutions at this point the only answer is burn it all down and start over. You can't trust them anymore and there is no fixing it.
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Mozilla probably should have focused on writing software and staying out politics rather than screw up their fund raising potential by going full on SJW.
Let this be a lesson to companies and non profits a like, its really better to stay out of politics which are beyond your area of direct interest. You will only get hurt.
Its also true that ridding a horse is only similar in terms of experience to ridding in a car in that you are moving thru space! Its not really the same thing at all. Playing a record after than few seconds spent placing it on the turn table and dropping the needle is almost exactly like playing a CD! You sit and listen, oh except with CD you don't have to avoid jumping around and dancing to the music in fear of permanently harming the record if it skips, there is that.
A better question is when was the last time you saw anyone traveling by horse drawn coach even for fun? That would better comparable. Yes I am aware people take the occasional sleigh or buggy ride but that is pretty small number of people, many of whom do it just to satisfy the curiosity about what life used to be like and may not ever do it again afterward. Is anybody buying these records expecting to play them only once?
MP3 just lowers the quality which is different.
I don't disagree with your statement that MP3 lowers the quality. That is objectively true if you compare it with an uncompressed or loss free representation at the same sample rate and bit precision.
You need to be honest though that elements of the process which add 'distortion' to creation and playback of vinyl also just lower the quality compared to say the original analog master tapes (which by the way probably don't exist anymore I betcha almost all recording studios are using digital masters today). That uniqueness it adds is not different than the distortion an mp3 encoder adds other than you happen to like it better, that is a subjective opinion on your part by the way. I know other people that claim to like 'mp3 warble' (I think they are misguided just like you).
Tapes were trying to solve a different problem though. The goal of tapes an 8-tracks was not simple distribution as was vinyl it was portability. They were actually highly successful at that! My entire generation has found memories of our walkmans!
That said you did not plan tapes on your home stereo if you could avoid it.
I am kinda sad DVD-A did make it. A DVD holds enough data that you could deliver basically any normal length album, and even compilations at a higher quality than any of the other stereo equipment a person has could replicate anyway. The 5" disk is a good size its comfortable to handle and easy to carry/store lots of them in book/sleeve style cases. Maybe 3" disk or 3.5" would be better and you could do that with DVD-A too!
Now all that is obsoleted by the fact that you can buy an SD card today that will hold someones entire collection (in a lot of cases) at similarly good quality.
The thing I liked/like about vinyl is the cover art and liner notes. There is no law that says the disk has to be as big as that stuff though. I also have some CDs that came with posters and things neatly folded inside, so its plenty possible to do artistic things in the 5" format. I know some folks claim redbook audio isn't as good as analog off clean vinyl with a top quality cartridge/needle/turntable. I find this claim highly suspect, even if true than certainly 96-bit 48000 closed the gap.
I really wish these people would recognize they are letting this nostalgia stuff go a bit far. Its one thing to keep using some superseded technology because the existing stuff you have is 'good enough' and therefore not really obsolete or because the older stuff is cheaper to buy/operate. Its a different mater to go out of your way to obtain and build an entire ecosystem around a technology that really is obsolete and offers no material advantage of any kind over current methods. If there is something like DRM that is objectionable with current technology go out in the market place and demand DRM free $TECH item. If the market is willing to invest in the capital goods to return to pressing vinyl than its willing do deliver music in just about anyone other way imaginable if people really insisted on it. DRM exists because beyond Slashdot DRM isn't really that important to consumers, DRM free in the case of things like vinyl is a side effect its not the reason people are choosing vinyl.
I wonder though. I assume lots of these locks get a signal and trigger a solenoid to move the lock mechanism internally. You can move the mechanism with the handle ordinarily to return it to the unlocked state but if the hackers are constantly sending the 'lock' command, and keeping the solenoid energized that might not be possible. I wonder if cutting the power might have been a solution for enable people to get out of the rooms.
This alone is why I will not recommend Windows for any home user anymore. I tell them look any mainline Linux distribution is pretty easy now but if you really want your hand held and feel you have to have support for third party products or just want something familiar buy a Mac.
The first job of the Operating system is to manage data, job number two is to manage processes. If you are rebooting without the users authorization on an indeterminate schedule you are doing neither. I do have a windows VM for testing stuff at work and I have gone to lunch only to find its restated when I got back. Holy crap I lost all the stuff I had open, my background job I wanted finished when I returned did not complete and had to be run again while I was their (huge productivity killer!) and some stuff that keeps work files comes back up and has to do recovery or just loses data because the apps did not get shut down property. Fail Fail Fail!
Seriously this concept is fundamentally and completely BROKEN! If I wanted automatic updates and reboots there is a bloody task scheduler for that, and I as the user can configure that with the understanding of when it will happen. I buy the M$ has to patch or they'd get sued argument either, the first time someone uses one of these versions of windows (outside the license scope or not) to control some dangerous process they are going to get sued eight ways from Sunday. Probably won't get any further in court than a nonsense claim by some asshole that its M$ fault (s)he was hacked when updates had not been installed in three years would get.
Even OSX tries to auto update out of the box but at least you can easily configure it so it won't reboot on its own.
Lets not for get the last issue, lots and lots of people have data caps, some of them are quite low in the 30-60 range for people on Satelite etc. Its entirely reasonably someone might want to push a gig or so of updates into another billing cycle. So even auto download should be at least easily disabled via the UI. Windows SUCKS!
The average person does need A/V but the built in stuff that come with Windows is more than adequate. Signatures are really only good if they are nearly to the moment up to date and with the present rate of churn on the internet that model just does not really work. To the degree it does still work Microsoft does as good a job as anyone. Its the heuristic side where there is still some effectiveness but even the high dollar stuff like Cylance falls down more than it succeeds. They claim 99% and maybe that is true if you just grab random malware off the internet and throw it at their stuff. We did some internal testing with more recent exploit code from metasploit and what have become downright common powershell and rundll payloads; if all we did is make the most trivial modifications to them we saw more like a %2 detection rate, other endpoint packages did about the same as well.
Long story short A/V won't protect you from even a broadly targeted (hey I know these guys are using windows 8 because I Trojaned my "stat button" replacement app for windows 8/8.1, now I'll just wait and here and see how my hosts join my botnet) attack using updated tools. It certainly won't help you against an actual targeted attack.
Should everyone leave Windows Defender on, yes its free and MS has done a pretty good job making sure their own AV package does not foul up their own OS. I would NOT recommend any third party A/V solution at this point for individuals or SMBs. There might be some residual value in endpoint packages for larger businesses but there is an equal strong cases for going without and focusing on a systems management solution instead where you simply make sure everything is patched and you have tight control over what gets run. Unfortunately Applocker bypasses are fairly trival now so you do need a third party solution800,000 to take a true white list approach.
I think the least astonishing thing would be treat everything as a document until *I* say its program. That *I* can be somewhat transitive, that is to say after I download the Calibre installer if I double click it, yes its going to show it to me in whatever the document viewer for the mime-type suggests, for a binary or other unknown content that is probably the systems hex editor.
If that isn't what I want and I trust the thing I can say "no this a program" by doing something like chmod +x or right click -> properties -> permissions -> scroll scroll scroll -> execute check -> ok. Than the installer can run and set the application binaries as executable for me.
What really should not happen is I download Install_Calibre.exe or Install_Calibre.shar etc and it just executes because I accidentally clicked it or worse while trying to copy some of other file into the same directory drop it on the Calibre icon and the system decides to execute it with my file as an argument. It would similarly be ok if I explicitly had to pass Calibre.txz to my package manager, installpkg calibre-arch-ver-build.txz or something; again not going to happen by accident.
The default action for a script should be execute it. It should be determined to be a script based on the execute permission. The default create mode for a file pulled from an untrusted source (e-mail/www/etc) should not include the execute permission.
It should be up to the user to either pass it to the argument of their trusted interpreter,
$cscript evil.js
or change the permissions on evil.js to explicitly tell the system yes treat this a script and use the associated interpreter. The sane model should always be "its data unless I say its a program." which is where the web gets into so much trouble the ability to embed programmatic behavior in a data document is fundamentally risky. It hard to deliver the functionality wanted out of modern applications with purely server side templating, so browser sandbox has to be a somewhat acceptable compromise but that does not mean stuff that is pulled out of that sandbox should suddenly become 'live' without some manual vetting.
You are assuming he has not done that. I am 100% certain the first thing that was done was a title search. Its not nearly as uncommon as you might think for plat maps to be inaccurate and incomplete.
Its not unusual for property to be titled to someone long dead or long missing who has not paid taxes in forever and nobody know who the rightful owners might be. This would be impossible to discover if the person is in fact dead and probate was closed without dealing with said property. Which if the probate court was unaware of it, would be the case. So potentially probate needs to be reopened.
This entire process exists so people who might have a claim to have the opportunity to step forward and make it. What is he supposed to do otherwise, do a complete genealogy work up on everyone who ever had a title and personally ask their prodigy if they would like to make a claim of ownership? What happens than if someone shows up a decade from now claiming to be the illegitimate child of such and such...?
It has to work this way.
I have been down this road myself. I wanted to purchase a house but it was "land locked". I was doing my due diligence and having title searches and plat maps pulled before buying the property (something Zuck probably should have done more carefully).
The only access to the property and a number of other properties was via a private road. Nobody could find a plat map that showed clear ownership of the road. All anybody could figure out is neither the county nor the state acknowledged ownership. The residence of the near by properties all told me they had be using since the original developer subdivided it. I got a lawyer who went thru all the details and the determination they made was that its probably the case that years of use by the other residence has created an implied easement allowing use of the road, however without an express easement form an established title holder this could always be challenged. While such a challenge would almost certainly not succeed you'd have to litigate it, if the owner appeared and pushed the matter.
Now where this became a problem (and by creating knowledge of the issue I kinda screwed the current owners and their neighbors) is that nobody wanting to finance the place would be able to get a mortgage. Which of course drastically reduced the pool of potential buyers if you ever want to sell the property. Now the property had transacted several time in the previous decades but nobody had done a through title work. Reduced pool of buyers means reduced value. I did not want to buy a property I potentially could not sell if I wanted or needed to move in the future. So I stated the title had be represented as clear but was in fact impaired (land locked) and used that to escape the contract without being in breach.
The alternative to breaking the contract would have been to find the current property owner. They way my lawyer said we would have to go about that is basically to sue advertise for six months a basically sue a john doe for ownership or try and convince the county they should pursue the john doe owner for back taxes and than cease the property for nonpayment, this was also going to be filing so kind of legal writ, but I forget the term. It was going to cost tens of thousands so I opted not to go that route.
Anyway I thought I would share the anecdote because I know a bunch of people want to dump on Zuck here but these types of lawsuits are exactly what you do when the owner cannot be identified. The alternative is what nobody can ever do anything with the land ever? Some owner should be able to doge taxation on the property by simply being hard to find?
The flip side of course is you reduce access to less expensive degrees. Which might economically bar some folks from university entirely.
I would say private schools ought to do whatever they want. Lots of business cross subsidize product lines. One point of university is to produce students with a well rounded education. Even physics students ought have an intro to philosophy, but you probably can't have a really good philosophy professor unless you have some students dedicated to the study. People change majors or to double major, its nice to be at an institution where you have somewhere to go if you decided to do that. I know a guy who did double major in physics and art history. So the universities ability to provide two robust departments that could deliver quality education experiences was of value.
Universities are not the only 'businesses' to cross subside product lines. It often makes sense to sell the razor at loss so you can sell the customer blades every month for a decade. 'Selling' your degree in micro chemistry below cost might mean you generate some folks who will become captains of industry and raise the profile of your institution making all sorts of other people want to earn degrees of all kinds from your school.
On the other hand higher base prices for the lest costly degrees might turn some students away, possibly even very well qualified students in terms of academic achievement who you might really want to attend. Lower prices might attract some folks. When it comes to State and Community schools you might allow more marginal students to attend with less financial risk. Lets face it failing to complete an undergrad degree in lots of cases is basically a total loss. It does not thing to increase your employable and if all you took was remedial classes before you washed out you might not have really learned anything you can use.
Well if you dismantle it entirely than there will be no data, and therefore no concern about how accurate it is.
I would strongly argue there is no constitutional basis for a department of education, the states can handle that fine. FDA and EPA might fall under promoting the general welfare but as it stands today both far exceed that mandate IMHO. So I won't be sad to see them scaled back a bit.
By the same token you have to decided about how aggressive a definition of labor participation you want to use. An "I am not looking" answer on the survey excludes you from the labor force numbers. Why are you not looking though? Is it because you want to stay home? Is it because you are discouraged? Is it because you lack marketable skills?
If you are employed are you underemployed? Suppose you have a degree and decades of experience, but are working in retail or fastfood because you can't afford to sell your home with its underwater mortgage and there are no jobs in your field were you currently live because the facility you worked at was closed? Should you be counted as fully employed even if you are working full time?
We do have some BLS numbers around these things but there is all kinds of shades of grey and subjectivity to them and its very much the case that politics govern how they are reported. Its not they are lies, but those grey areas are interpreted one way or the other to best tell the story the current administration wants to put out there.
Exactly what so many people seem to missing about all the hubub around presidency is the deep state is real, our bureaucracy for good and ill are quite resilient.
Just because you change out the man at the top and couple handfuls of his direct reports does not suddenly mean all the procedures, methods, systems, opinions, etc in use by all the 2,804,000+ federal workers and enumerable contractors both direct and corporate suddenly change too. That stuff is cultural and other than a few hot button issues that might get attention from POTUS directly takes decades to change, literally outlasting a single Presidents term of office in many cases.
In a lot a ways we are still feeling the effects of not exactly policy but popular opinion that dates to the Clinton Presidency and that of Gorge W Bush. People choose to get into civil service or not often depending on their admiration or lack their of for the top man in charge at the time they are ready to start a career. The people who started their careers in the late 90s and early 2000s are now the folks who have risen to positions where they are decision makers and mid-level bureaucrats. We have yet to see the real influence of Obama's millennial voters here yet (sadly IMHO, not looking forward to that all).
So the data is probably as trustworthy as it was 4 weeks or 4 years ago. Its probably as trustworthy as it was 8 years ago, or 16 or 20. That is to say its really not very trustworthy at all but probably less bias than you might imagine. There is a constant battle being fought between the left and right with the pendulum swinging both ways ever 8 years or so, but not as a far either way as the top men appear to swing. The real issue is that assumptions on either side are never really challenged or well examined because of the tug of war fought over the superficial stuff. So some labor statistic remains calculated they way it has been for the last 40 years when some probably well meaning person made a judgement call based on the information they had at hand. It never gets revisited in a serious scientific way because everyone is to busy doing studies and bickering over a handful of top line numbers that make for good headlines like the employment rate.
So what you are saying is by dressing that way she was asking for it?
I am going to throw in with the parent here. When I watch TV I want to be comfortable and relax. Glasses don't maximize comfort, and in fact kinda suck a lot if you decide to stretch out on the sofa and need to lay on your side to face the TV. Pillows and glasses are basically incompatible.
If I have to wear glasses to watch something, I am going to watch something else
Trade school can be a good thing. There are a lot of people who are plenty capable and interested that can for whatever reason not manage to learn to learn on their own. They simply need to be lead. There is an even larger number of people who are interested in something but simply could not invest in the technology and equipment need to learn on their own. Trade schools are a good match for both groups and there is a lot of overlap between both groups as well.
I am not saying there isn't value in a liberal arts degree and that some people don't need them to do what they do. Most people can't put food on the table using their ability to critique of renaissance art however or with their knowledge of western history.
What everyone really does need is a solid foundation in reading, physical science, and basic maths (like up thru calculus), a solid grasp of chemistry and physics won't hurt but might be more disposable. We *should* be getting these things from our secondary education system. The trouble is many people are not, and rather than addressing the question why can leave high school without being able to apply algebra, they want to teach everyone python! That is a problem. Its been a problem too for decades now colleges have been simply reducing their exceptions for freshmen and adding remedial classes to compensate. The real reason nobody can get a job without a college degree now is: I really don't know that you have the skills to make a proper cup of coffee if you have only a high school diploma.
I had ones that could do that but it was very slow and you certainly could not just say "play track 5". I have a turn table with a laser that shines on the disk and a photo sensor that can detect the level of reflected light. Its able to find tracks about 90% of the time. It moves the tone arm to the edge of the disk, and scans across counting the blanks spaces, its pretty fast. Once it counts the right number of spaces it drops the tone arm.
Its not CD player fast by any means but its way fast than seek on any consumer tape desk has ever worked.
"Tapes were biggest mostly in noise and hardcore, where the fact that they were degraded was almost kind of an asset," says Keyes. "Because it made it sound muddier and screwed with the dynamics and the sound in an interesting way."
Translation the artistic works are so poor and of so little value its better if you don't look or listen to closely.
I am glad I do not hear that VHS tapes provide a more reliable image and have a soul
Don't worry I am sure you will soon.
Compact Cassettes are nothing but entirely obsolete. Unlike vinyl which might in some cases have desirable audio characteristics compared with an compresses digital audio file, or even a CD. Cassettes just SUCK period full stop.
They are less seekable than even vinyl (which is quite seekable if you have good turn table) They are all sorts of problems with streching and temperature variation. They don't really have all that great a bandwidth, frequency response. They are fragile. All in all nobody should want to use one of these for anything anymore. It was nice when it was the only technology that could offer portability with good capacity, and good enough reliability (things 8-track did even worse).
What's next 8-track coming back too.
There is nostalgia and there is nonsense, and cassettes belong in the nonsense category.
And your gender is determined not in some magical early moment but quite late in foetal development
Um no, actually gender/sec (hint they are not really different) are determined the moment of conception and depend on what mix of chromosomes you get. Popular variations include X and Y, X and X, but sometimes things like X and X and Y happen.
Its true that sex differentiated foetal development occurs late, that is to say sex specific structures emerge late.
It shows deep ignorance to equate higher education with some religious cult.
Really why? There is plenty of evidence to show political influence over research. Consider all those social sciences, economics, etc, that fail repeatedly to explain events in society or markets. Things might not be as bad in the physical science space but its essentially a fact that litmus tests exists. All those smelly hippies from the 60's staged their little disruption campaigns and forced curriculum to change they then got their PHDs etc and filled in the academic structure as the old guard aged out. Now outside of a few religious affiliated institutions just try getting anywhere with a conservative view point on any issue.
Its not at all clear where the corruption is or how far its tentacles spread. Much like a number of Washington institutions at this point the only answer is burn it all down and start over. You can't trust them anymore and there is no fixing it.