I admire the man. He's crazy, but he's mostly my kind of crazy. This is one spot where his crazy got in the way of doing what I like. I'm not going to give up on him for this because his kind of crazy works for me more often than the alternatives. In this he is doing his best to operate in a realm he doesn't understand and do the Right Thing even though he doesn't know what the Right Thing is. I prefer that to those who are willing to knowingly do the Wrong Thing for the Right Pay.
He needs a staff geek to school and filter him. Volunteers?
Anybody who wants to have a meaningful discussion on this subject needs to read Ken Thompson's 1984 ACM article "On Trusting Trust". In it he describes inserting rogue code into the compiler that recognizes when it's compiling a compiler and replicates into the executable of the compiled compiler - and so becoming persistent across a platform migration. This is just the transport mechanism. The payload is code that recognizes the Unix Login and subverts its security. Obviously, once the first compiler is compiled with this trojan the source code for it can be removed and all subsequent compilers compiled with this trojaned compiler will have the code no matter what platform it migrates to.
It doesn't just seem like we've been having this discussion for 30 years. We actually have. In order to have a compiler you can actually trust you need to implement its progenitor in machine language using a byte editor, and even then you need to manually compute a checksum for the mini-compiler that can be checked from a system running an OS not derived from it. Fortunately a minimum C compiler is pretty basic and it's not that hard to implement in binary. Starting with a basic assembler is even easier.
For those who don't know: Ken Thompson's CV includes the phrase: "I invented Unix" among many other valuable contributions. If anybody would be informative on this topic, he would.
Just kidding. But still... These high bandwidth innovations are going to have a stunning impact on some companies deeply invested in expensive transnational data transport. It's time to put away the notion of precious gigabits forever.
It's OK. I'll just put an end to the discussion now. There is no such thing as an ephemeral Internet. It is a myth. All your naughty words, deeds and pics are archived by a number of different services including The Internet Archive. Such a thing is not possible: the Internet is actually designed to prevent it. Various means of showing your naughty bits over the Internet to one person only for only a brief time have a number of design flaws including "THE ANALOG HOLE".
HTTPS means that you have a securely encrypted connection with the remote server. Not that the people who own the remote server are going to keep your privacy sacred.
The Earth: It is a large sphere. As equatorial insolation becomes extreme it falls off as a sine of the latitude. It cannot go unsurvivable for humans without the Earth shifts its orbit or the sun goes nova. Climate changes happen gradually enough that you could walk to your new best climate. To suffer the ills projected by the warmists you would have to stand your ground on your beachfront property for three generations and refuse to move.
The guys at the top build their castles. And then we rip out the copper wires from the walls and sell them on eBay. We commercialize laughing at their hairpiece. The Internet turns your whole nihilistic POV upside down. It doesn't have to be Gangham style level of meme to make money.
Let's go with habitable for humans then. How many degrees C increase do you think it would take before the vast expanses of the Russian and Canadian Arctic, more surface area than man lives in now, were rendered uninhabitable to humans because it was too hot for men to live? 20C? 30? 40? If summer temps increased by 40C in some of these places, the locals would take to wearing shorts in summer in the sunny spots but would still need polar down in winter and on the North side of the mountain. In the wildest possible extrapolation of your runaway global warming scenario, could 40C possibly happen? No. You're freaking out about 0.6C of warming as if it wasn't a good thing. If it swung the other way, billions would die.
Let me help you out. Some three million years ago when CO2 levels were the same as now, and average temps were 8C higher than now, this place had a nice habitat for fir trees that has since moved South. Fir trees don't grow there now because it is too cold. If because the level of CO2 has again reached these prior levels the temperature increases in this place again, then fir trees will grow again. Implicit in that is that the region might support human habitation and agriculture without external logistical support. Because the latitude includes about one third of the Earth's terrestrial surface area, it's a pretty big deal.
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I admire the man. He's crazy, but he's mostly my kind of crazy. This is one spot where his crazy got in the way of doing what I like. I'm not going to give up on him for this because his kind of crazy works for me more often than the alternatives. In this he is doing his best to operate in a realm he doesn't understand and do the Right Thing even though he doesn't know what the Right Thing is. I prefer that to those who are willing to knowingly do the Wrong Thing for the Right Pay.
He needs a staff geek to school and filter him. Volunteers?
Regrettably, this. He wants to understand. Really he does. But he doesn't. Wanting it isn't enough.
Anybody who wants to have a meaningful discussion on this subject needs to read Ken Thompson's 1984 ACM article "On Trusting Trust". In it he describes inserting rogue code into the compiler that recognizes when it's compiling a compiler and replicates into the executable of the compiled compiler - and so becoming persistent across a platform migration. This is just the transport mechanism. The payload is code that recognizes the Unix Login and subverts its security. Obviously, once the first compiler is compiled with this trojan the source code for it can be removed and all subsequent compilers compiled with this trojaned compiler will have the code no matter what platform it migrates to.
It doesn't just seem like we've been having this discussion for 30 years. We actually have. In order to have a compiler you can actually trust you need to implement its progenitor in machine language using a byte editor, and even then you need to manually compute a checksum for the mini-compiler that can be checked from a system running an OS not derived from it. Fortunately a minimum C compiler is pretty basic and it's not that hard to implement in binary. Starting with a basic assembler is even easier.
For those who don't know: Ken Thompson's CV includes the phrase: "I invented Unix" among many other valuable contributions. If anybody would be informative on this topic, he would.
You can't bring that rational talk in here. There are rules.
Some nailguns are designed to drive largish nails quite deep. Not everybody using a nailgun is tacking up Christmas lights.
This is a use of the word "correct" that I am unfamiliar with. Could you maybe build on the statement a little?
Thanks Satanboy. I'm pretty sure that just by clicking that link I've subscribed to some sort of list I don't want to be on.
800 Gbps fiber to the home, here we come!
Just kidding. But still... These high bandwidth innovations are going to have a stunning impact on some companies deeply invested in expensive transnational data transport. It's time to put away the notion of precious gigabits forever.
In my experience the /. editors do edit.
Maybe I should have put "edit" in "funny quotes".
It's OK. I'll just put an end to the discussion now. There is no such thing as an ephemeral Internet. It is a myth. All your naughty words, deeds and pics are archived by a number of different services including The Internet Archive. Such a thing is not possible: the Internet is actually designed to prevent it. Various means of showing your naughty bits over the Internet to one person only for only a brief time have a number of design flaws including "THE ANALOG HOLE".
HTTPS means that you have a securely encrypted connection with the remote server. Not that the people who own the remote server are going to keep your privacy sacred.
Or explained even easier. It's profitable.
I can't imaging a countryside where a lot of the people have these being invaded very easily.
The Earth: It is a large sphere. As equatorial insolation becomes extreme it falls off as a sine of the latitude. It cannot go unsurvivable for humans without the Earth shifts its orbit or the sun goes nova. Climate changes happen gradually enough that you could walk to your new best climate. To suffer the ills projected by the warmists you would have to stand your ground on your beachfront property for three generations and refuse to move.
Apple's coders are really, really bad. Until you compare them to Microsoft's team.
I haven't had one score this low in quite a while. Somebody is really scared. That bears investigation.
The guys at the top build their castles. And then we rip out the copper wires from the walls and sell them on eBay. We commercialize laughing at their hairpiece. The Internet turns your whole nihilistic POV upside down. It doesn't have to be Gangham style level of meme to make money.
Let's go with habitable for humans then. How many degrees C increase do you think it would take before the vast expanses of the Russian and Canadian Arctic, more surface area than man lives in now, were rendered uninhabitable to humans because it was too hot for men to live? 20C? 30? 40? If summer temps increased by 40C in some of these places, the locals would take to wearing shorts in summer in the sunny spots but would still need polar down in winter and on the North side of the mountain. In the wildest possible extrapolation of your runaway global warming scenario, could 40C possibly happen? No. You're freaking out about 0.6C of warming as if it wasn't a good thing. If it swung the other way, billions would die.
A scientist does not find lack of evidence convincing proof of anything.
People who think this way only really show a remarkable lack of knowledge about biology and biological systems.
It's my experience that people who say things like this are completely fucking clueless idiots poorly parroting what they think they heard.
Let me help you out. Some three million years ago when CO2 levels were the same as now, and average temps were 8C higher than now, this place had a nice habitat for fir trees that has since moved South. Fir trees don't grow there now because it is too cold. If because the level of CO2 has again reached these prior levels the temperature increases in this place again, then fir trees will grow again. Implicit in that is that the region might support human habitation and agriculture without external logistical support. Because the latitude includes about one third of the Earth's terrestrial surface area, it's a pretty big deal.
Sorry. On a sterilized scalpel as it enters the patient there is a quantifiable average number of bacteria on that instrument. The number is not zero.
The Canadian electorate has a sense of humor. Americans do too, but for Canadians it isn't dark humor.
Canada has the Napoleonic advantage. We saw what happens when people march on the frozen North in Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. It weren't pretty.
You're really going to hate the RC world in the next few years.