...the gas likely seeped from North Korea's test site on 15 February, three days after the original test. That indicates that the test was well sealed deep underground."
My quibble is with the word I highligted: "well sealed". The Nature article (TFA #1) puts it like this:
The delay between the test and detection of the radioisotopes is likely to indicate that the nuclear weapon was well-buried deep underground....
The original German announcement (TFA 3) is... well, it's in German. But the equivalent of "well-sealed" or "well-buried" is "gut 'contained'":
...dass der Test sehr gut "contained" wurde, also nur eine sehr geringe Menge an Radionukliden ausgetreten ist.
Yeah. The English word "contained", in quotes. So maybe TFS could have used "well-contained"?
"Well-sealed" is gratuitously non-literal. "Sealed" is an absolute. Either something is sealed or it isn't. "Poorly sealed" is a needlessly verbose synonym for "unsealed". "Well sealed" but "leaked radiation" just hurts my head.
"Well-buried" is a fair description. Very literal, and doesn't carry any paradoxical implications.
And. C'mon, folks. The Austrians actually used the word "contained". It's a good word. It must be, if someone's going to borrow it from English for what is otherwise all German. It's an appropriate word. "Containment" never implies absoluteness, so it is everything "Sealed" isn't.
Executive summary: Submitter makes poor word choices in paraphrasing multiple sources which made perfectly good word choices, and damages the credibility of TFS in the process. ("Well sealed but leaky. Riiiiight.") And Slashdot editing is... Slashdot editing.
Meh. Don't overgeneralize your own personal limitations to everyone else. I visualize databases just fine. Frankly, once I understand any virtual architecture, I automatically visualize it. That's how my brain works. So "cyberspace" as a visualizable construct works just fine for me.
But this all misses the point. This is not whether "networks as a virtual space" is or isn't a valid conceptual model. This is entirely about "cyberspace isn't anything special, and you 'dwellers therein' need to be pulled back into real life and bound up by the same social conventions, mores, and laws the rest of us are."
For my part, I think this is just the tragic logical conclusion of September 1993.
I'd argue that simple continued existence isn't enough to make something physical property. Destroy all deed records and land ownership effectively disappears, but the ground is certainly tangible.
All ownership is virtual, except for what you can personally hold on your person and defend against all takers.
But it doesn't change the fundamental reality: if you can't read the documentation, you've already put a limit on how effective you are.
It's not your fault. I get it. Internationalization needs to be more prevalent. English-centric technical and implementation biases probably need to be fixed.
Nonetheless. These are the facts, here and now. The majority of the Internet, and the majority of the cosmos of software, is implemented in English. Adapt, or be less effective until the world catches up to you.
They can target all the ads they want. I'm not in the beaten zone of their futile barrage of spam.
Webmail users, and anyone else who signs into Google for web-based services, have volunteered for this abuse. I think of it as natural selection in action.
From TFA (to save your delicate eyes from the indignity of RTFA):
Among his principal complaints about the current terminal is that it's a user-interface in kernel-space, the code is poorly maintained, handles keyboards badly, produces bad font rendering, misses out on mode-setting and multi-head support, contains no multi-seat awareness, and only has limited hot-plugging handling, limited to VT102 compliance.
Let's look at this one item at a time.
"user-interface in kernel-space": Is this a philosophical objection? I'd argue that depending completely on userspace for system restoration is basically giving up on many classes of system problems. If you don't have user interaction at the kernel level, your only response to certain problems is reduced to "burn it down and rebuild it, lol". If you're all VM, sure, go nuts. But VM isn't universal, and restructuring Linux to only be usable in VM environments only is just foolish and shortsighted.
"code is poorly maintained": [Citation needed]. Is the complaint that it hasn't had commits in a while? Maybe because it's not broke? Simple capability with simple requirements probably attained stable maturity years ago. Maybe the committers should toss in a few random code restructures to make it look like someone cares.
"handles keyboards badly": Does it drop keystrokes? If it doesn't do that, there's absolutely no rational basis for this complaint. Maybe baby wants his arrow keys, or non-ASCII character set? Screw that. This is a console. Use vi commands like a grownup. And you don't need your umlauts and accents. The commands are all composed of ASCII characters. If you're reduced to using the console, internationalization is the least of your problems.
"produces bad font rendering": "bad font rendering?" "BAD FONT RENDERING?" Seriously? "It's not pretty enough?" I'm not even gonna address this drivel.
"misses out on mode-setting and multi-head support": Guess what. There is exactly ONE CONSOLE. It's for the use of ONE ADMINISTRATOR to restore function to a system which can't otherwise run in multi-head, multi-user modes. Not a problem.
"contains no multi-seat awareness": While you're at it, please complain that cars don't have multiple drivers' seats.
"limited hot-plugging handling": Interestingly, when system consoles were serial terminals like God intended, hot-plugging was a non-problem, since EIA RS-232 specifications meant that you could hot-plug serial cabling to your heart's content. Maybe thats' where the solution to this "problem" properly lies?
"limited to VT102 compliance": Oh, I'm so sorry it doesn't include your favorite terminal emulation. But it's good enough to run vi (properly statically linked, in/sbin), and that's as close to a GUI you'll ever get in system recovery operations. so, um, NO.
Fox has gotten so deeply into negative credibilty that hiring The Former Iraqi Information Minister as managing editor would be a significant improvement.
Sure. Use the US model. Call the spyware "anti-circumvention technology" protecting "copyright access control mechanisms" and Bob's your draconian millienial copyright uncle, and the world is your rich copyright violation lawsuit plaintiff.
And the Roman Empire persisted for nearly 2000 years. But mostly in name. In practice, it was a procession of succesor states which allowed the name, the identity, and some of the characteristics of the Roman Empire to persist from Rome to Byzantium to medieval and early-modern Germany.
So, yeah. It's IBM. But IBM fell and was reborn. It's not the same IBM.
His solution is a small TSR program that comes with new handlers for two PCI BIOS scanning functions, that make them scan only existing PCI bus numbers. VBOX-FIX.COM is supposed to be loaded in AUTOEXEC.BAT. The program checks if it is running inside a VirtualBox guest and loads only if it can verify that. Eric Auer writes:
It does up to two PCI scans by vendor:device ID (int 1a.b102 calls)
to check for two VirtualBox specific PCI devices. Only if at least
one of them is present, the faster-on-VirtualBox int 1a handler
for int 1a.b102 and b103 (scan by vendor:device or class-
subclass-interface) is installed as a TSR. The VB vendor:device
ID values are 80ee:beef and 80ee:cafe.
VBOX-FIX.COM needs 416 bytes of DOS memory and can be loaded high.
Gosh. "...can be loaded high.". I got a little tickle of nostalgia thinking about that. All those wonderful "load high and remain resident" hacks.
That's brilliant. The "Slashdot Defense:" "All the slashbots told me to do it!, Yerhonor!"
So, yeah, ignore the email, and hope it doesn't figure into any future litigation*, or answer politely like a fellow business professional conducting a professional business correspondence.
To be honest, I can't see how this would get taken further when it's obvious that the terms of service aren't applicable as he's not using their software.
And, this is your professional opinion, Counselor? Oh, you're not a lawyer or even familiar with the actual jurisdiction we're talking about, let alone the law involved. You're talking out of an irrelevant and useless sense of "what should be" rather than actually giving a rat's ass about "what actually is". The kind of guy who gets found dead, run over by a train on an "inactive" rail line.
*Yeah, litigation. You can be sued for anything. And for nothing. Merit in law has no basis in filing, only in deciding.
Nonsense. Why would carriers interfere with the current Android upgrade model: Buy a new phone with the current release of Android. And extend your contract at the same time.
The ACLU is complaining that the carriers are allowing the shackles to get all rusty and dangerous and uncomfortable, but they're not arguing for an Emancipation Proclamation: they just want the handcuffs to be adjusted and replaced regularly.
OTOH, if they just turned it over to their lawyers, it may turn out ok... since it seems that most law firms can't find their internet asses in the dark without the lights on, and the few who try to be tech-savvy just embarrass themselves.
Actually, the real money-maker would be extortion: "CreepyDude1234 just asked to identify you in a picture. What's it worth to you for him not to find you?"
Seriously. Retune the simulation that you have to option to help, or harm, innocent on-line simulated NPCs. Give some of the test subjects superpowers. See how many of them use their powers to ruin one or more simulated persons' day. And then see if those superpowers makes them a happy, smiley, helpful person IRL.
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My quibble is with the word I highligted: "well sealed". The Nature article (TFA #1) puts it like this:
The original German announcement (TFA 3) is... well, it's in German. But the equivalent of "well-sealed" or "well-buried" is "gut 'contained'":
Yeah. The English word "contained", in quotes. So maybe TFS could have used "well-contained"?
"Well-sealed" is gratuitously non-literal. "Sealed" is an absolute. Either something is sealed or it isn't. "Poorly sealed" is a needlessly verbose synonym for "unsealed". "Well sealed" but "leaked radiation" just hurts my head.
"Well-buried" is a fair description. Very literal, and doesn't carry any paradoxical implications.
And. C'mon, folks. The Austrians actually used the word "contained". It's a good word. It must be, if someone's going to borrow it from English for what is otherwise all German. It's an appropriate word. "Containment" never implies absoluteness, so it is everything "Sealed" isn't.
Executive summary: Submitter makes poor word choices in paraphrasing multiple sources which made perfectly good word choices, and damages the credibility of TFS in the process. ("Well sealed but leaky. Riiiiight.") And Slashdot editing is... Slashdot editing.
a Nullaquan dustwhale? Are they harvesting Flare from its innards even as we speak? That would sell well in SoCal.
You give the young man too much credit. The move came pre-ruined for everyone's childhood memory destruction convenience.
Well, if you've seen drivers in Paris, Epilepsy would seem to be something of an improvement.
FTFY.
Meh. Don't overgeneralize your own personal limitations to everyone else. I visualize databases just fine. Frankly, once I understand any virtual architecture, I automatically visualize it. That's how my brain works. So "cyberspace" as a visualizable construct works just fine for me.
But this all misses the point. This is not whether "networks as a virtual space" is or isn't a valid conceptual model. This is entirely about "cyberspace isn't anything special, and you 'dwellers therein' need to be pulled back into real life and bound up by the same social conventions, mores, and laws the rest of us are."
For my part, I think this is just the tragic logical conclusion of September 1993.
but apparently they have a whiz-bang hypochondria pandemic detector.
I'd argue that simple continued existence isn't enough to make something physical property. Destroy all deed records and land ownership effectively disappears, but the ground is certainly tangible.
All ownership is virtual, except for what you can personally hold on your person and defend against all takers.
3. It was recommended by Dell "Urgent"
I'm sure Dell considered it "Urgent" that you put that machine permanently out of commission and buy a replacement from Dell.
Your system somehow dodged automatic self-decommissioning; they had to fix that. NO ONE gets off the upgrade treadmill. NO ONE.
But it doesn't change the fundamental reality: if you can't read the documentation, you've already put a limit on how effective you are.
It's not your fault. I get it. Internationalization needs to be more prevalent. English-centric technical and implementation biases probably need to be fixed.
Nonetheless. These are the facts, here and now. The majority of the Internet, and the majority of the cosmos of software, is implemented in English. Adapt, or be less effective until the world catches up to you.
TBH, you can always lie.
Wait. Was that ironic?
What ads? Use GMail through a protocol actually designed for email with the MUA of your choice and there are no ads.
They can target all the ads they want. I'm not in the beaten zone of their futile barrage of spam.
Webmail users, and anyone else who signs into Google for web-based services, have volunteered for this abuse. I think of it as natural selection in action.
From TFA (to save your delicate eyes from the indignity of RTFA):
Let's look at this one item at a time.
If it still works, you haven't fixed it enough.
Fox has gotten so deeply into negative credibilty that hiring The Former Iraqi Information Minister as managing editor would be a significant improvement.
Sure. Use the US model. Call the spyware "anti-circumvention technology" protecting "copyright access control mechanisms" and Bob's your draconian millienial copyright uncle, and the world is your rich copyright violation lawsuit plaintiff.
And the Roman Empire persisted for nearly 2000 years. But mostly in name. In practice, it was a procession of succesor states which allowed the name, the identity, and some of the characteristics of the Roman Empire to persist from Rome to Byzantium to medieval and early-modern Germany.
So, yeah. It's IBM. But IBM fell and was reborn. It's not the same IBM.
At least the bug has a work-around fix:
Gosh. "...can be loaded high.". I got a little tickle of nostalgia thinking about that. All those wonderful "load high and remain resident" hacks.
Wait. Why is this good?
That's brilliant. The "Slashdot Defense:" "All the slashbots told me to do it!, Yerhonor!"
So, yeah, ignore the email, and hope it doesn't figure into any future litigation*, or answer politely like a fellow business professional conducting a professional business correspondence.
To be honest, I can't see how this would get taken further when it's obvious that the terms of service aren't applicable as he's not using their software.
And, this is your professional opinion, Counselor? Oh, you're not a lawyer or even familiar with the actual jurisdiction we're talking about, let alone the law involved. You're talking out of an irrelevant and useless sense of "what should be" rather than actually giving a rat's ass about "what actually is". The kind of guy who gets found dead, run over by a train on an "inactive" rail line.
*Yeah, litigation. You can be sued for anything. And for nothing. Merit in law has no basis in filing, only in deciding.
Natural selection in action.
Nonsense. Why would carriers interfere with the current Android upgrade model: Buy a new phone with the current release of Android. And extend your contract at the same time.
The ACLU is complaining that the carriers are allowing the shackles to get all rusty and dangerous and uncomfortable, but they're not arguing for an Emancipation Proclamation: they just want the handcuffs to be adjusted and replaced regularly.
I wouldn't mind "Ending is better than mending," except I have no soma. Where's my soma, dammit?
Good thing Panasonic hasn't ever heard of Google.
OTOH, if they just turned it over to their lawyers, it may turn out ok... since it seems that most law firms can't find their internet asses in the dark without the lights on, and the few who try to be tech-savvy just embarrass themselves.
Came here to say this. No mod points, alas.
Even at his bleakest and most inventive, Gibson is surprisingly prophetic.
Actually, the real money-maker would be extortion: "CreepyDude1234 just asked to identify you in a picture. What's it worth to you for him not to find you?"
The existence of gankers.
Seriously. Retune the simulation that you have to option to help, or harm, innocent on-line simulated NPCs. Give some of the test subjects superpowers. See how many of them use their powers to ruin one or more simulated persons' day. And then see if those superpowers makes them a happy, smiley, helpful person IRL.