I'm afraid our AC is not a master logician, drinkypoo. We'll never get him to understand the difference between the fairy-rale "cannot fail" and the real-life "all of them can fail".
Programming is fun, not just for some notional neckbearded priesthood
Playing in the street and playing with guns is "fun". Six year olds driving cars is "fun". Programming undertaken by the clueless results in a mess of bugs and vulnerabilities. Hell, it's bad enough even with the best programmers.
Have they fixed the stupid bullshit dumbass bug where konsole will not transmit control-space or control-shift-@ to console mode emacs? It's been there for FUCKING YEARS now. As far as I know, konsole can't transmit these keystrokes to ANY program. I have tried over a dozen other console apps, and NONE of the others have any trouble at all with these keystrokes, in the same session.
If it makes any difference, I'm using Arch x86_64. I have tried everything. No hint where those keystrokes are getting sucked up, but none of the goddam fixes found in google searches or other places work. I finally gave up, caved in, and added a mapping of control-alt-m for set-mark, but that doesn't make it right.
MicroATX is about 1% smaller than ATX. You're probably thinking of Mini-ITX. That's still a grossly oversized abortion. All the mini stuff like NUC is proprietary.
One common misconception is the idea that Anarchists oppose governments which isn't true
Bull bleep. Anarchy - the absence of government and law. From an - absence of + arch - leader + y - characterized by. If you don't oppose government, you're not an anarchist, end of story. You're a libertarian or something along those lines.
Only the military wants hypersonic vehicles like this
It seems to me that a few people might be interested in flying 12,087 km from Los Angeles to Sydney in 3.8 hours at Mach 3 or 2.3 hours at Mach 5, rather than 13.4 hours at Mach 0.85. Like maybe just about everybody who flies that route or a comparable route.
Corrollary: for communications that matter, simply layer on your own encryption that the bastards can't decrypt. That's the idea behind PGP and Enigmail.
That would be a breach of the order, since it is a notification of change.
Liar. It is a response to a specific question, not a notification[*]. Sheesh. This criminalization specifically avoids attempting to compel you to lie, which would be grossly transparent tyranny. And you completely miss the point of a warrant canary. If the warrant canary dies, it doesn't matter what the accompanying narrative (if any) is. Anyone with a working brain would realize there is a problem even if the domain is seized and some bullshit "never mind; ir doesn't mean anything that we changed established procedure" message is posted.
[*] Think of it this way. Nobody can legally force you to voluntarily tell the police when you break a law, but using due process they can make you either incriminate yourself in answering questions under oath, or resort to claiming protection under the fifth amendment.
The end game is: governments get what they want, a vocal minority huffs and puffs and ultimately resigns to the inevitable, the rest of the population gets on with their lives. There is not going to be any revolution. Anywhere. Ever.
Eat shit, fuck off, and die, o cowardly anonymous statist pig. There have always been revolutions and rebellions, and there will always be revolutions and rebellions. Counting on the masses to remain opiated indefinitely is a LOSER'S policy.
The establishment has certain advantages in terms of having vast, well-supplied agents of oppression, but it also suffers the disadvantage of being highly identifiable (nowhere to hide), and possessing much infrastructure which has to be protected.
Making money of someone else's intellectual assets is a crime.
In many places in the US, spitting on the sidewalk, and disturbing the peace as defined arbitrarily by an asshole cop, are crimes. In Thailand, insulting the King's dog is a crime.
The term "intellectual asset" is an absurdity. It leads to "I thought of X, no one else can use X, even thinking of it completely independently, without clearing it with me".
All right, if these low-life motherfucking thugs swindled Italy out of €880M in taxes, why is Italy settling for a payment of only €318M? They obviously owe €880M, plus interest and penalties, plus criminal fines and imprisonment.
Sorry, giving out foodstamps, rent stamps, and other "use-assigned" benefits really is no different from giving out free money. All that happens is that a black market in stamps arises. There is no neat, tied-in-a-bow solution which allows personal choice.
One thing that WOULD work is giving out meals and housing, etc. in lieu of any kind of money or chits. Somebody with common sense would make the selections. No fine cuisine in palatial restaurants; no glitteringly expensive housing. And usage is AUTOMATICALLY regulated. You can only eat so much food with your own mouth. You can't occupy two separate housing units with your one body. When things get REALLY BAD (Great Depression, other hellish conditions), people do get the point and resort to this (soup kitchens, tent cities), but powerful interests keep them from seeing it as a policy which should always be in place.
But my idea is just inviting brainwashed stupid people from labeling me as a nut.
For example, Microsoft GUIDs are used extensively and are just randomly generated numbers. At least they are usually 64+ bits, but some are still 32 bit.
GUIDs are 128 bits, of which 122 bits may be either pseudo random or made up using such input as MAC address and time.
For all those talking about a release of a compiler (but not yet including all modules and other support stuff), rather than the release of the language spec, this is a pretty half-baked "release". It sounds more like yet another dreary development pre-release such as we've been showered with for many years.
From the Rakudo announcement: It passes the full set of language tests on selected architectures when the (quote) "moon is in the right phase". "There is still plenty of work ahead for us to improve speed, portability, and stability." "We do not claim an absence of bugs or instabilities." "We do not claim the documentation is complete." "We do not claim portability to many architectures." "We do not claim that all downstream software will work correctly."
Basically all they DO "claim" is that the language spec is finally, FINALLY stable, and there is a first developmental stab at implementing all of it.
Oh, and the release tag is a bunch of incomprehensible, impossible to remember or pronounce, Cyrillic characters impossible to post here or in any ASCII message. It's just symptomatic of the whole weird alien process associated with Perl 6 from the beginning. I have a lot of respect for a lot of the new stuff in Perl 6, but as a project it is just not very serious.
Why are you worried about port scans for your own machine that you control in every detail? Unless you've got some busted-ass daemon on some port, assuming you are not being DOSed or your bandwidth getting used up (which is very very unlikely), what do you think is going to happen? It's not like you have users on your machine who have kindergarten passwords which you can't control, is it?
Fleabag lightweights are hitting ssh on my VPS all day every day. Let them knock themselves out. They ain't never gonna bust in. Forget that shit. Because my security is competently set up.
Stopping port scans does not address security shortcomings.
Plutonium takes far less material to create a critical mass, which makes for a lighter weapon. A lighter weapon means you don't need a big-dick huge fucking rocket to put the thing where you want it to be, and instead can use smaller rockets and missiles for deployment,
Let's not get carried away into orgasms of hyperbole. The critical mass of fissionable is not the governing determinant of the weight of the weapon. For U-235, the critical mass of a simplistic untamped sphere is 52 kg; for Pu-239 it is 9 kg. Yet the U-235 gun-type little boy weighed 4040 kg, while the Pu-239 implosion-type fat man weighed 4680 kg. Both were about 15 kt yield. The plutonium weapon actually weighed more, as well as being a more unwieldy shape, despite the uranium weapon having to incoporate a heavy gun inside.
It is all the other crap that made up 98+% of the weight.
Nowadays all the nuclear weapons that amount to anything in the major powers' inventory are fission-fusion or fission-fusion-fission, and the weight is determined by intricate, very sophisticated and clever detail design. The highest yield weapons the US ever produced, 25 Mt, retired 40 years ago, weighed about the same as the Hiroshima bomb. Most of the vastly reduced remaining US nuclear weapons inventory is no more than about 500 kt. There is nothing at all left above 1 Mt and change.
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I'm afraid our AC is not a master logician, drinkypoo. We'll never get him to understand the difference between the fairy-rale "cannot fail" and the real-life "all of them can fail".
Playing in the street and playing with guns is "fun". Six year olds driving cars is "fun". Programming undertaken by the clueless results in a mess of bugs and vulnerabilities. Hell, it's bad enough even with the best programmers.
Whereas YOUR mindless insults actually DO matter ...
Have they fixed the stupid bullshit dumbass bug where konsole will not transmit control-space or control-shift-@ to console mode emacs? It's been there for FUCKING YEARS now. As far as I know, konsole can't transmit these keystrokes to ANY program. I have tried over a dozen other console apps, and NONE of the others have any trouble at all with these keystrokes, in the same session.
If it makes any difference, I'm using Arch x86_64. I have tried everything. No hint where those keystrokes are getting sucked up, but none of the goddam fixes found in google searches or other places work. I finally gave up, caved in, and added a mapping of control-alt-m for set-mark, but that doesn't make it right.
MicroATX is about 1% smaller than ATX. You're probably thinking of Mini-ITX. That's still a grossly oversized abortion. All the mini stuff like NUC is proprietary.
Bull bleep. Anarchy - the absence of government and law. From an - absence of + arch - leader + y - characterized by. If you don't oppose government, you're not an anarchist, end of story. You're a libertarian or something along those lines.
It seems to me that a few people might be interested in flying 12,087 km from Los Angeles to Sydney in 3.8 hours at Mach 3 or 2.3 hours at Mach 5, rather than 13.4 hours at Mach 0.85. Like maybe just about everybody who flies that route or a comparable route.
Um, how much of a goddam self-entitled lazy bastard are you trying to be?
According to their own goddam fucking site, that IS precisely what it stands for, sparky.
"KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware..."
Corrollary: for communications that matter, simply layer on your own encryption that the bastards can't decrypt. That's the idea behind PGP and Enigmail.
Liar. It is a response to a specific question, not a notification[*]. Sheesh. This criminalization specifically avoids attempting to compel you to lie, which would be grossly transparent tyranny. And you completely miss the point of a warrant canary. If the warrant canary dies, it doesn't matter what the accompanying narrative (if any) is. Anyone with a working brain would realize there is a problem even if the domain is seized and some bullshit "never mind; ir doesn't mean anything that we changed established procedure" message is posted.
[*] Think of it this way. Nobody can legally force you to voluntarily tell the police when you break a law, but using due process they can make you either incriminate yourself in answering questions under oath, or resort to claiming protection under the fifth amendment.
Eat shit, fuck off, and die, o cowardly anonymous statist pig. There have always been revolutions and rebellions, and there will always be revolutions and rebellions. Counting on the masses to remain opiated indefinitely is a LOSER'S policy.
The establishment has certain advantages in terms of having vast, well-supplied agents of oppression, but it also suffers the disadvantage of being highly identifiable (nowhere to hide), and possessing much infrastructure which has to be protected.
In many places in the US, spitting on the sidewalk, and disturbing the peace as defined arbitrarily by an asshole cop, are crimes. In Thailand, insulting the King's dog is a crime.
The term "intellectual asset" is an absurdity. It leads to "I thought of X, no one else can use X, even thinking of it completely independently, without clearing it with me".
All right, if these low-life motherfucking thugs swindled Italy out of €880M in taxes, why is Italy settling for a payment of only €318M? They obviously owe €880M, plus interest and penalties, plus criminal fines and imprisonment.
Everybody flood the whole sewer of China with tools of freedom.
He isn't the only one, you nameless tool.
Which is exactly where they should end up. Sounds good to me.
Sorry, giving out foodstamps, rent stamps, and other "use-assigned" benefits really is no different from giving out free money. All that happens is that a black market in stamps arises. There is no neat, tied-in-a-bow solution which allows personal choice.
One thing that WOULD work is giving out meals and housing, etc. in lieu of any kind of money or chits. Somebody with common sense would make the selections. No fine cuisine in palatial restaurants; no glitteringly expensive housing. And usage is AUTOMATICALLY regulated. You can only eat so much food with your own mouth. You can't occupy two separate housing units with your one body. When things get REALLY BAD (Great Depression, other hellish conditions), people do get the point and resort to this (soup kitchens, tent cities), but powerful interests keep them from seeing it as a policy which should always be in place.
But my idea is just inviting brainwashed stupid people from labeling me as a nut.
GUIDs are 128 bits, of which 122 bits may be either pseudo random or made up using such input as MAC address and time.
SSD fanbois have been saying this for 10 years, and there is still not the slightest sign of it happening.
Consumer:
HD $33.33/TB
(you couldn't get a 6TB for twice that much a year or two ago)
SSD $317.80/TB
About 10x. OK, so it was 20X or more 10 years ago. Wake me up when it gets below 2X, and I will REALLY pay attention when it gets below 1X.
Enterprise is similarly dismal. Both HD and SSD cost is through the roof for enterprise.
Areal density doesn't mean shit. Volumetric density is what counts.
For all those talking about a release of a compiler (but not yet including all modules and other support stuff), rather than the release of the language spec, this is a pretty half-baked "release". It sounds more like yet another dreary development pre-release such as we've been showered with for many years.
From the Rakudo announcement:
It passes the full set of language tests on selected architectures when the (quote) "moon is in the right phase".
"There is still plenty of work ahead for us to improve speed, portability, and stability."
"We do not claim an absence of bugs or instabilities."
"We do not claim the documentation is complete."
"We do not claim portability to many architectures."
"We do not claim that all downstream software will work correctly."
Basically all they DO "claim" is that the language spec is finally, FINALLY stable, and there is a first developmental stab at implementing all of it.
Oh, and the release tag is a bunch of incomprehensible, impossible to remember or pronounce, Cyrillic characters impossible to post here or in any ASCII message. It's just symptomatic of the whole weird alien process associated with Perl 6 from the beginning. I have a lot of respect for a lot of the new stuff in Perl 6, but as a project it is just not very serious.
Why are you worried about port scans for your own machine that you control in every detail? Unless you've got some busted-ass daemon on some port, assuming you are not being DOSed or your bandwidth getting used up (which is very very unlikely), what do you think is going to happen? It's not like you have users on your machine who have kindergarten passwords which you can't control, is it?
Fleabag lightweights are hitting ssh on my VPS all day every day. Let them knock themselves out. They ain't never gonna bust in. Forget that shit. Because my security is competently set up.
Stopping port scans does not address security shortcomings.
Let's not get carried away into orgasms of hyperbole. The critical mass of fissionable is not the governing determinant of the weight of the weapon. For U-235, the critical mass of a simplistic untamped sphere is 52 kg; for Pu-239 it is 9 kg. Yet the U-235 gun-type little boy weighed 4040 kg, while the Pu-239 implosion-type fat man weighed 4680 kg. Both were about 15 kt yield. The plutonium weapon actually weighed more, as well as being a more unwieldy shape, despite the uranium weapon having to incoporate a heavy gun inside.
It is all the other crap that made up 98+% of the weight.
Nowadays all the nuclear weapons that amount to anything in the major powers' inventory are fission-fusion or fission-fusion-fission, and the weight is determined by intricate, very sophisticated and clever detail design. The highest yield weapons the US ever produced, 25 Mt, retired 40 years ago, weighed about the same as the Hiroshima bomb. Most of the vastly reduced remaining US nuclear weapons inventory is no more than about 500 kt. There is nothing at all left above 1 Mt and change.
And, much more significantly, the catastrophes. Chernobyl and Fukushima.