It is pretty much agreed that the devs just got tired of doing the work and decided they wanted to get on with their lives and do other things. That has been much more "confirmed" than an NSL...
Bullshit, idiot. If that were the case, they just would have publically turned over development to whoever would like to take it over. They certainly wouldn't have set off bombs to destroy the source code repo and all trace of it in the archive wayback machine.
Mod parent up. Grandparent AC is a moron. It's the signing keys, not some nonexistant master decrypt key.
If the thugs have the signing keys, they could have a couple of months from now themselves brought out a new "improved" (but completely compromised) 7.3 masquerading as an improved, updated, security patched TrueCrypt.
Mod up. This is exactly the explanation. There can be no doubt whatsoever. No proof, but no doubt. You can interpret the whole message of the suicide note to be the following, in the form of a veiled suggestion of course:
"We were NSL'ed and would face the vengeance of the grandaddy of all police states if we said that here, or if we told you in plain language to just keep using 7.1a as acquired cleanly before this thuggery, or henceforward compiled from source which you can convince yourself is a clean copy of 7.1a."
The proof that 7.1a remains effective is that the NSL was launched.
very sorry to hear that TrueCrypt may be going away
Ya think? Really? You are hereby awarded the prize for most spectacular understatement of the obvious. Sorry, I do not intend to be mean; it just hit my funny bone; peace, man. It's somewhat akin to stating that the US "may be entering a period of decline" or saying in 2004 the space shuttle program "may be winding down".
OTOH, seriously, the project may have gone deader than a doornail overnight, but use of 7.1a is still just as viable as it was before the stunning suicide note. It has passed the independent stage 1 security audit with thumbs up, and if you don't already have a copy it's not hard to find out there. Pretty sure in the long run somebody will pick up the pieces and carry on. The HQ for the next project will clearly have to be located some place other than the inheritor of the Nazi Germany/Soviet Russia mantle of most despicable police state.
LUKS is very good, but until someone works out a way to do hidden containers, it's not even close to a replacement for the most critical feature of TrueCrypt.
Hadfield: "The United States cannot fly to the Space Station without Russia, and Russia can't fly to the Space Station without the United States."
Really means: "As a starry-eyed utopist, I don't WANT the United States to be able to fly to the Space Station without Russia, and I don't WANT Russia to be able to fly to the Space Station without the United States."
Why stop there, Hadfield? Why not make it impossible to do without the cooperation of China, India, Africa, South America and the other 90+% of the world, too? Because it doesn't just take a village; it takes a whole world to do anything.
Poppycock. Russia doesn't need the US to enable it to do a damn thing. And if/once the US gets its head out of its ass, it won't be abjectly dependent on Russia either. And the EU is there too, albeit not manned capability yet, and China and India are coming along rapidly too. And that is a good thing. The less you depend on a single gigantic tower of babel to accomplish everything, the better. That doesn't mean a desire for conflict. It means a desire for a rich flowering variety of innovating independent enterprises, because that is how you get redundancy.
The star trek universe of a brotherhood of peoples is a siren song of what we (some of us) believe can be, and want to be, But man, it is not held together by everyone believing they NEED everyone else to accomplish anything. It is held together by everyone WANTING to collaborate with everyone else to mutual benefit. The Earth guys still have their own starship design, as do the Klingons, the Cardassians, and yes, even the Ferengi and the Romulans. The only way you can get into the brotherhood is to first prove you're good enough to Do Stuff yourself.
The next thing to nobody. Idiot businesspeople use them. They use MM (roman numeral thousand thousand) to represent million, where everybody else uses M (mega).
Oh for fucks sake. TELECOM = Phone companies. He received donations from CABLE companies.
Sigh. Are you falling for the lie hook line and sinker, or are you part of the lie?
Telecommunication - communication at a distance by technological means, particularly through electrical signals or electromagnetic waves. Tele- a combining form meaning "distant", from the Greek "têle", far. Communiocation - the act or process of imparting, exchanging, or transmitting thoughts, opinions, or information.
Phone companies and ISPs are doing exactly the same thing - facilitating telecommunication - and should OBVIOUSLY be regulated exactly the same way.
Almost all countries, socialist or not, are riddled with corruption. It is a human characteristic for humans in a position of power to fall into corruption.
But I'll tell you one country which is not rotting from the head. You're not going to like it, because it is socialist. I am talking about the Republic of Uruguay; specifically of President José Mujica. He is an almost unique example of an uncorrupt leader of a nation. He declined to take up residence in the presidential palace and lives instead on an austere farm and cultivates flowers there. His transportation? Not the armored rolling palace of an Obama, but a 1987 VW beetle! His net worth on taking office was $1800, and he donates 90% of his presidential salary to the public welfare. He lives on the remaining $800 a month.
He has also overseen the legalization of marijuana, which Obama is too corrupt to do.
So I'm not sure I can show you a country, socialist or not, which is not sorrupt, but I sure can show you a socialist leader who is not corrupt.
"Critics of capitalism including socialists and other anti-capitalists often assert that crony capitalism is the inevitable result of any capitalist system. Jane Jacobs described it as a natural consequence of collusion between those managing power and trade, while Noam Chomsky has argued that the word "crony" is superfluous when describing capitalism."
"Critics of capitalism" indeed. People with functioning brain stems!
I want a window manager that lets me define regions of a display as "virtual monitors."
For god's sake why? My question is on the level. Why would you want to emulate some mickey mouse multi-monitor setup when you have a superb single monitor with one homogeneous pixel address space? Nothing out of the ordinary is required of the window manager. You simply size and place your windows completely as desired. As many windows as you want, each of the size you want.
I have seen your wording expressed several times by people as a desire. I don't get it. I just don't get it at all.
I'm coming from the perspective of a real operating system - *nix. If Windows and OSX have crippled their window managers in some way I am not aware of, dumbing down the sizing, that could be an explanation. I have zero interest in Windows, but if I came into a lottery or something and didn't have any monetary concerns whatsoever, I might be interested in OSX.
Also, the rest of the NBA chose to exercise their free speech by disassociating from him under the terms of the franchise that he *voluntarily* agreed to. Why do you hate contracts?
Really? You think he agreed to bullshit terms that limited his right to have thoughts and opinions and to reveal them in PRIVATE CONVERSATION never intended for publication? I suppose it's possible. The plague of PC-think is not to be underestimated.
Very few people want to live in a world where everyone is free to do whatever they want.
Yes, that is undoubtedly true, and it also utterly misses the point. Those who try to fashion a world where no one is free to THINK whatever they want can preferable go STRAIGHT TO HELL.
And private conversations between two individuals are only infinitesimally separated from thoughts.
All that being said, whatever transaction Steve Ballmer makes or doesn't make with Donald Sterling is strictly their business. It is (in isolation) of no concern to anybody, though the NBA may make it their business with the connivance of the government.
Yeah, you can legislate moral acts, but you can't (with successful effect) legislate moral thinking or any kind of thinking. What is truly depressing and frightening is that idiots constantly TRY to legislate/mandate moral THINKING.
Me too. Do you hear us, moron designers out there? The first guy with a 4:3 2000x1500 or 2400x1800 LCD monitor could really clean up. You can get tablets in 4:3. BRING ON THE 4:3 MONITORS!
Why go to two 32:9 monitors stacked vertically? That is exactly the wrong direction to go. This 21:9 monitor is unforgiveably stupid when they could equally well have gone to the far superior 4:3 format. That way with a single monitor of adequate linear size and pixel count you could have either two portrait areas side by side, or two vertically stacked wide screen areas. Or an infinite number of other layouts. No screwing with anything required; simply accomplished by stretching your windows to taste.
at 8-10 feet, a person with 20/20 vision can not make out better than 1080p on a 60" screen
This is easily verifiable. The standard definition of "normal" visual acuity (20/20 vision) is the ability to resolve a spatial pattern separated by a visual angle of one minute of arc. At 12 inches, the normal visual acuity of the human eye is 0.00349 inch. That means that at 10 feet, someone with 20/20 vision can resolve 0.0349 inch. 1920 (1080p width) times 0.0349 inch is equal to 67.008 inches, significantly wider than a 60" diagonal TV screen.
However, the kicker is in the definition of "normal". 20/20 is actually "the lower limit of normal or as a screening cutoff" (see here; original source link no longer works). From the same paragraph, "the average visual acuity of healthy eyes is 20/16 to 20/12". That means that it wouldn't be very unusual for young healthy eyes, definitionally better than average but by no means uncommon, to be 20/10 or even better.
At 20/10, you can clearly easily distinguish between 1080p and 2160p ("4k") on a 60 inch TV screen at 10 feet. In fact, you could at least begin to make out a difference even in the range of 20/16 to 20/12.
If grandparent wants to say 20/20 vision "sucks", that is arguably a fair characterization in relation perhaps to his own vision, and likely that of fellow enthusiasts. Even his claim that the difference is obvious to "most people" is at least somewhat supportable if you accept that the average of "healthy" eyes is 20/16 to 20/12. At worst he would need to qualify the statement by excluding those with ocular disease or fairly advanced degeneration due to simple aging.
During World War II, both Germany and Japan eventually admitted defeat and gave up.
That is more than a bit misleading. Germany didn't give up until after the USSR was literally within meters of knocking on the door of Hitler's bunker in the capital city, leading Hitler to kill himself, and only then did his successor surrender, in direct violation of Hitler's last commands. Japan, with Britain and the US military powers arrayed against them and them alone, vastly outnumbered, completely cut off from supplies, an island nation with no navy left, after two cities were wiped out in separate nuclear attacks, still didn't give up until the USSR opened a devastating attack attack against their forces on the mainland. That's a verifiable fact.
Your characterization of Al Qaeda as "lunatics" is quite off the mark. Extremely committed, in a way that seems irrational to you, sure - EXACTLY like Germany and Japan in WW2. The true problem in a military sense is not what you think it is. It is that Al Qaeda owns no territory to conquer and occupy, has no organized army to defeat in open battle, and has no cities to wipe out.
Neither of your options can work. You can't "kill every last one of them" because they are not a static entity. Question: how many do you have to kill if each one you kill is replaced by two new converts? The pool of potential converts approximates a billion. And you can't contain and isolate them because they are not a group you can even identify to begin with. They blend into a vast population. They are not identified by uniforms, but by shared beliefs.
On the company's time? No. Using the company's equipment after hours? Not if the company wants to be small minded. On your own goddam time after working hours and using your own goddam equipment? That belongs to the individual, and not a goddam chance in hell any of it belongs to the company! (subject to details such as making improper use of company confidential information and the like)
vain attempt to make the rest of the planet look stupid and ignorant
No attempt is necessary to make most people "look" stupid and ignorant. Most people ARE stupid and ignorant, and it is apparent to to anyone who is moderately intelligent and informed.
Just check the results of any national election for example.
Completely aside from the most basic human right of all - dominion over your own body - you would think anyone with a functioning brain would have learned from Prohibition, but scum-sucking power freaks and those who countenance and support them will never get it.
Yes. Absolute zip to do with the Darwin award for drawing down on a cop, but prohibition is just as stupid today as it was in 1920-33. Stupid as in none of anybody's fucking business what someone puts in their own body - liquor, funny kind of smoke, or drugs. THe ones who deserve to be kicked and stoned to death are the oh-so-superior thug assholes who champion prohibition.
All I want to know is one thing. Will we FINALLY get a resolution-independent UI? One that you don't have to screw with when the dpi departs far from 96? All the style elements; icon sizes, title height, widgets, etc., should be in % of screen size, not pixels. All you should have to set is ONE variable to scale everything to taste.
I can't believe this is such a difficult thing to implement. There is a crying need for it; to hell with the eye candy crap.
Thermal runaway is not just a description of something that gets real hot. Thermal runaway means the system has positive feedback - the hotter it gets the faster it gets even hotter.
The (relative) safety of LiFePO4 does not have anything to do with high internal resistance. It has to do with chemistry. You can design LiFePO4 to have an internal resistance just about as low as LiIon. Ask any electric powered radio control flyer.
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Bullshit, idiot. If that were the case, they just would have publically turned over development to whoever would like to take it over. They certainly wouldn't have set off bombs to destroy the source code repo and all trace of it in the archive wayback machine.
Pssst, the keys they have are the SIGNING keys, not some nonexistant master decrypt key.
Mod parent up. Grandparent AC is a moron. It's the signing keys, not some nonexistant master decrypt key.
If the thugs have the signing keys, they could have a couple of months from now themselves brought out a new "improved" (but completely compromised) 7.3 masquerading as an improved, updated, security patched TrueCrypt.
Mod up. This is exactly the explanation. There can be no doubt whatsoever. No proof, but no doubt. You can interpret the whole message of the suicide note to be the following, in the form of a veiled suggestion of course:
"We were NSL'ed and would face the vengeance of the grandaddy of all police states if we said that here, or if we told you in plain language to just keep using 7.1a as acquired cleanly before this thuggery, or henceforward compiled from source which you can convince yourself is a clean copy of 7.1a."
The proof that 7.1a remains effective is that the NSL was launched.
Ya think? Really? You are hereby awarded the prize for most spectacular understatement of the obvious. Sorry, I do not intend to be mean; it just hit my funny bone; peace, man. It's somewhat akin to stating that the US "may be entering a period of decline" or saying in 2004 the space shuttle program "may be winding down".
OTOH, seriously, the project may have gone deader than a doornail overnight, but use of 7.1a is still just as viable as it was before the stunning suicide note. It has passed the independent stage 1 security audit with thumbs up, and if you don't already have a copy it's not hard to find out there. Pretty sure in the long run somebody will pick up the pieces and carry on. The HQ for the next project will clearly have to be located some place other than the inheritor of the Nazi Germany/Soviet Russia mantle of most despicable police state.
LUKS is very good, but until someone works out a way to do hidden containers, it's not even close to a replacement for the most critical feature of TrueCrypt.
Hadfield: "The United States cannot fly to the Space Station without Russia, and Russia can't fly to the Space Station without the United States."
Really means: "As a starry-eyed utopist, I don't WANT the United States to be able to fly to the Space Station without Russia, and I don't WANT Russia to be able to fly to the Space Station without the United States."
Why stop there, Hadfield? Why not make it impossible to do without the cooperation of China, India, Africa, South America and the other 90+% of the world, too? Because it doesn't just take a village; it takes a whole world to do anything.
Poppycock. Russia doesn't need the US to enable it to do a damn thing. And if/once the US gets its head out of its ass, it won't be abjectly dependent on Russia either. And the EU is there too, albeit not manned capability yet, and China and India are coming along rapidly too. And that is a good thing. The less you depend on a single gigantic tower of babel to accomplish everything, the better. That doesn't mean a desire for conflict. It means a desire for a rich flowering variety of innovating independent enterprises, because that is how you get redundancy.
The star trek universe of a brotherhood of peoples is a siren song of what we (some of us) believe can be, and want to be, But man, it is not held together by everyone believing they NEED everyone else to accomplish anything. It is held together by everyone WANTING to collaborate with everyone else to mutual benefit. The Earth guys still have their own starship design, as do the Klingons, the Cardassians, and yes, even the Ferengi and the Romulans. The only way you can get into the brotherhood is to first prove you're good enough to Do Stuff yourself.
The next thing to nobody. Idiot businesspeople use them. They use MM (roman numeral thousand thousand) to represent million, where everybody else uses M (mega).
Sigh. Are you falling for the lie hook line and sinker, or are you part of the lie?
Telecommunication - communication at a distance by technological means, particularly through electrical signals or electromagnetic waves.
Tele- a combining form meaning "distant", from the Greek "têle", far.
Communiocation - the act or process of imparting, exchanging, or transmitting thoughts, opinions, or information.
Phone companies and ISPs are doing exactly the same thing - facilitating telecommunication - and should OBVIOUSLY be regulated exactly the same way.
Almost all countries, socialist or not, are riddled with corruption. It is a human characteristic for humans in a position of power to fall into corruption.
But I'll tell you one country which is not rotting from the head. You're not going to like it, because it is socialist. I am talking about the Republic of Uruguay; specifically of President José Mujica. He is an almost unique example of an uncorrupt leader of a nation. He declined to take up residence in the presidential palace and lives instead on an austere farm and cultivates flowers there. His transportation? Not the armored rolling palace of an Obama, but a 1987 VW beetle! His net worth on taking office was $1800, and he donates 90% of his presidential salary to the public welfare. He lives on the remaining $800 a month.
He has also overseen the legalization of marijuana, which Obama is too corrupt to do.
So I'm not sure I can show you a country, socialist or not, which is not sorrupt, but I sure can show you a socialist leader who is not corrupt.
From your own cite:
"Critics of capitalism" indeed. People with functioning brain stems!
What the heck is wrong with a normal Intel HD3000 or higher? Plenty of motherboards with boith DP and HDMI are available.
For god's sake why? My question is on the level. Why would you want to emulate some mickey mouse multi-monitor setup when you have a superb single monitor with one homogeneous pixel address space? Nothing out of the ordinary is required of the window manager. You simply size and place your windows completely as desired. As many windows as you want, each of the size you want.
I have seen your wording expressed several times by people as a desire. I don't get it. I just don't get it at all.
I'm coming from the perspective of a real operating system - *nix. If Windows and OSX have crippled their window managers in some way I am not aware of, dumbing down the sizing, that could be an explanation. I have zero interest in Windows, but if I came into a lottery or something and didn't have any monetary concerns whatsoever, I might be interested in OSX.
Really? You think he agreed to bullshit terms that limited his right to have thoughts and opinions and to reveal them in PRIVATE CONVERSATION never intended for publication? I suppose it's possible. The plague of PC-think is not to be underestimated.
Yes, that is undoubtedly true, and it also utterly misses the point. Those who try to fashion a world where no one is free to THINK whatever they want can preferable go STRAIGHT TO HELL.
And private conversations between two individuals are only infinitesimally separated from thoughts.
All that being said, whatever transaction Steve Ballmer makes or doesn't make with Donald Sterling is strictly their business. It is (in isolation) of no concern to anybody, though the NBA may make it their business with the connivance of the government.
Yeah, you can legislate moral acts, but you can't (with successful effect) legislate moral thinking or any kind of thinking. What is truly depressing and frightening is that idiots constantly TRY to legislate/mandate moral THINKING.
Me too. Do you hear us, moron designers out there? The first guy with a 4:3 2000x1500 or 2400x1800 LCD monitor could really clean up. You can get tablets in 4:3. BRING ON THE 4:3 MONITORS!
Why go to two 32:9 monitors stacked vertically? That is exactly the wrong direction to go. This 21:9 monitor is unforgiveably stupid when they could equally well have gone to the far superior 4:3 format. That way with a single monitor of adequate linear size and pixel count you could have either two portrait areas side by side, or two vertically stacked wide screen areas. Or an infinite number of other layouts. No screwing with anything required; simply accomplished by stretching your windows to taste.
This is easily verifiable. The standard definition of "normal" visual acuity (20/20 vision) is the ability to resolve a spatial pattern separated by a visual angle of one minute of arc. At 12 inches, the normal visual acuity of the human eye is 0.00349 inch. That means that at 10 feet, someone with 20/20 vision can resolve 0.0349 inch. 1920 (1080p width) times 0.0349 inch is equal to 67.008 inches, significantly wider than a 60" diagonal TV screen.
However, the kicker is in the definition of "normal". 20/20 is actually "the lower limit of normal or as a screening cutoff" (see here; original source link no longer works). From the same paragraph, "the average visual acuity of healthy eyes is 20/16 to 20/12". That means that it wouldn't be very unusual for young healthy eyes, definitionally better than average but by no means uncommon, to be 20/10 or even better.
At 20/10, you can clearly easily distinguish between 1080p and 2160p ("4k") on a 60 inch TV screen at 10 feet. In fact, you could at least begin to make out a difference even in the range of 20/16 to 20/12.
If grandparent wants to say 20/20 vision "sucks", that is arguably a fair characterization in relation perhaps to his own vision, and likely that of fellow enthusiasts. Even his claim that the difference is obvious to "most people" is at least somewhat supportable if you accept that the average of "healthy" eyes is 20/16 to 20/12. At worst he would need to qualify the statement by excluding those with ocular disease or fairly advanced degeneration due to simple aging.
That is more than a bit misleading. Germany didn't give up until after the USSR was literally within meters of knocking on the door of Hitler's bunker in the capital city, leading Hitler to kill himself, and only then did his successor surrender, in direct violation of Hitler's last commands. Japan, with Britain and the US military powers arrayed against them and them alone, vastly outnumbered, completely cut off from supplies, an island nation with no navy left, after two cities were wiped out in separate nuclear attacks, still didn't give up until the USSR opened a devastating attack attack against their forces on the mainland. That's a verifiable fact.
Your characterization of Al Qaeda as "lunatics" is quite off the mark. Extremely committed, in a way that seems irrational to you, sure - EXACTLY like Germany and Japan in WW2. The true problem in a military sense is not what you think it is. It is that Al Qaeda owns no territory to conquer and occupy, has no organized army to defeat in open battle, and has no cities to wipe out.
Neither of your options can work. You can't "kill every last one of them" because they are not a static entity. Question: how many do you have to kill if each one you kill is replaced by two new converts? The pool of potential converts approximates a billion. And you can't contain and isolate them because they are not a group you can even identify to begin with. They blend into a vast population. They are not identified by uniforms, but by shared beliefs.
On the company's time? No.
Using the company's equipment after hours? Not if the company wants to be small minded.
On your own goddam time after working hours and using your own goddam equipment? That belongs to the individual, and not a goddam chance in hell any of it belongs to the company! (subject to details such as making improper use of company confidential information and the like)
No attempt is necessary to make most people "look" stupid and ignorant. Most people ARE stupid and ignorant, and it is apparent to to anyone who is moderately intelligent and informed.
Just check the results of any national election for example.
Completely aside from the most basic human right of all - dominion over your own body - you would think anyone with a functioning brain would have learned from Prohibition, but scum-sucking power freaks and those who countenance and support them will never get it.
Yes. Absolute zip to do with the Darwin award for drawing down on a cop, but prohibition is just as stupid today as it was in 1920-33. Stupid as in none of anybody's fucking business what someone puts in their own body - liquor, funny kind of smoke, or drugs. THe ones who deserve to be kicked and stoned to death are the oh-so-superior thug assholes who champion prohibition.
All I want to know is one thing. Will we FINALLY get a resolution-independent UI? One that you don't have to screw with when the dpi departs far from 96? All the style elements; icon sizes, title height, widgets, etc., should be in % of screen size, not pixels. All you should have to set is ONE variable to scale everything to taste.
I can't believe this is such a difficult thing to implement. There is a crying need for it; to hell with the eye candy crap.
Thermal runaway is not just a description of something that gets real hot. Thermal runaway means the system has positive feedback - the hotter it gets the faster it gets even hotter.
The (relative) safety of LiFePO4 does not have anything to do with high internal resistance. It has to do with chemistry. You can design LiFePO4 to have an internal resistance just about as low as LiIon. Ask any electric powered radio control flyer.