That may be true but it's a bit disgusting how they opportunisticly stirred up so much hype and fear of crackers afterwards despite being involved themselves. If nothing else it's making the tinfoil types think that the only thing powerful enough to mess about with "the establishment" is the government itself.
but the FBI does have a habit of looking the other way when a person with money or power breaks the law
An example that gets very frequently brought up on Slashdot is how Capone was taken down by the IRS. Most people do not understand that it was because the FBI was looking the other way.
Web pages or PDFs are a powerpoint replacement. That shit should just die because if the content is any good it's going to have to be converted into something else later anyway. So while "simpress" does the powerpoint slide construction task you are probably better off doing a "save as PDF" from it instead of using it as a presentation tool. If you want video effects make a video file with something purpose made - powerpoint and simpress suck at both video style presentations and static documents paged through as slides. They are a "view once" format as distinct from being able to present and then give people who want another look the PDF that will work on their phones/tablets/everything.
You again? Well I suppose after the "beige box is a hard drive" type definition of an operating system you'd be here to spread other bits of weirdness normally dispelled by computing 101.
Here is why for those without the background. Typed variables in a database completely eliminate this issue.
If the users had used a database, even one of the MS ones (one of which newbies can deal with within a week), that would have solved it which was the poster above's point that you were unable to grasp.
If the researchers couldn't manage this do you really think they could have used a database
Of course they fucking could - how condescending can you get? These are scientists not the "beige box is a hard drive" crowd.
You can and I have. What would be closer to moronic is pretending that it is not possible without even knowing. So what is up next - calling me a liar because I have used it to do batch processing of images on many occasions?
That's assuming environmental activists have actual political power and those who get money from rail transport do not - which is really getting things backwards. Follow the money.
And you're still defending your misreading of what I said
If you didn't mean what you wrote then I suggest writing what you do mean instead. That will avoid a bit of confusion. It looks very much like you are slamming anyone that pays attention to publicly available information on the NSA as "ignorant". Did you really mean something other than that?
Seriously? You don't remember where you pretended to be an utter idiot as some stupid form of debating tactic to attack flow batteries? Are you pretending to be stupid again just to get me angry?
Oh really? BTW I was thinking of you when filling up the car's tank and driving around - should have been impossible according to one of your "facts". Why do you do this to yourself?
giving users a simple to use GUI that does not take nearly as long to use or operate.
"convert image.tiff image.jpg" does not take very long to use or operate. Throw in a scale, rotate or whatever the user wants, which is usually only a single operation, and it's not much slower. I've got a lot of people here that use it on absurdly large compressed TIFF files (300dpi scans 10 feet by 3 feet) that their desktop machines cannot handle with GUI software, and they don't need either the fine detail or the entire images.
Why jump on a thread just to insult? The above poster didn't seem to be aware of something I have used a lot so I gave an example without insulting the above poster. You should take your own advice about removing doubt - try adding some content instead of pointless anger.
The above poster was saying NEVER. Things like having to turn resize thousands of scanned images at 100Mb+ each when they didn't need to be to 50kb each is enough of an example to show that there are situations where it fits.
What about things that aren't easily automated, like color correction?
If the images are from the same source then you work out the settings on the first and then apply them to all the rest. If not, hard work. Why do exactly the same thing a thousand times when a CLI can do it for you?
Not the problem, the pumps were sited too close to sea level to save money. If they were up at the level of the reactor building as had been suggested in an earlier design the problem would not have happened.
Time for a redesign then if the cleanup cost was so high. We don't get idiocy like this with oil storage anymore due to multiple levels of containment built to handle the maximum amount stored in an area.
Maybe we should treat this like a Three Mile Island event which resulted in monitoring systems going from below regulations for a fertilizer plant to the systems we have today. That accident was a perfect example of a huge shock that hurt nobody - a wakeup call that could have been far worse and led to some very dangerous practices being discontinued or revised.
Your conspiracy theories A, B and C depict them as an unknowable force with perfect capability. That's a common factor with a lot of conspiracy theories where the exponents can feel comfort that there is somebody with infinite capability in control so they don't have to worry. Reality is a series of fuckups some of which have got public attention. The theory that the fuckups are just there to lull us into a false sense of security instead of them being a bunch of toy soldiers that should be replaced with the real thing is especially pathetic. The amount of money being funneled through to private contractor that employed Snowden is staggering and proof enough that the NSA is a very long way from being perfect. The vast number of external bodies with hooks deep into the heart of the NSA would have made it very easy for foreign powers to get hold of everything Snowden had and more. It's looking more and more that the NSA is more a machine to pump taxpayers money to people with good connections than anything to do with national security.
No, I didn't say they're an "unknowable force dealing with the unknown.
That is exactly what you suggested and you then went as far as calling those of us that have been paying attention "ignorant". Pathetic really. Especially your conspiracy theories A, B and C - you really are damaged.
If you had more contact with government and military you would be laughing at those ideas instead of trying to spread them. Some of the five eyes stuff like spying on an Indonesian tobacco company shows how hopelessly mundane and mismanaged this stuff is. There is no Superman and he is not working for the NSA.
We've seen people flip their lid and turn a bulldozer, earth mover, or some other piece of heavy machinery into a mobile gun platform. Not quite a battle tank
As seen in Syria vs Israel some years ago the German tanks that were very effective in WW2 did not stand a chance against a later American tank - there is a looong way down from those old tanks to what you describe. Those home built platforms are one roadside bomb or RPG away from scrap metal.
to demonstrate how this is wrong I can show the writings of the authors of the Constitution and opinions from SCOTUS that the right to keep and bear arms exists outside of the militia
That's not in the amendment is it? That's kind of reinforcing my point that the right comes from elsewhere.
With a few emerging technologies to help this along, like 3D printing
Real (but small) machine tools at the bottom end with controllers that could make them as easy to use as 3D printers are already as cheap. Why make a piece of shit ABS plastic gun when you can make a real one out of cheap steel after cutting and pasting a bit of code? Personally I think the 3D guns thing is from attention seekers that don't care if they ruin stuff for everyone - a lot of types of wood are stronger than ABS plastic.
I'm not attempting to sell it merely pointing out the utter idiocy of blindly tilting at windmills. What is really ironic is you having a go at me for supposedly attacking you and not your blind political shit and here you are in the post above directly insulting me. Well excuse me for being part of the "reality based community" doing things to physical objects to make them work instead of being someone who tires to think up magic words to influence minds and pretends those magic words also work on reality.
Around then if you had lost your install media all it took was a trip to the local newsagent to get another. I have just about everyone in my workplace on CentOS 6 because they can still use their RedHat9 desktop settings as if there was no change.
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That may be true but it's a bit disgusting how they opportunisticly stirred up so much hype and fear of crackers afterwards despite being involved themselves.
If nothing else it's making the tinfoil types think that the only thing powerful enough to mess about with "the establishment" is the government itself.
An example that gets very frequently brought up on Slashdot is how Capone was taken down by the IRS. Most people do not understand that it was because the FBI was looking the other way.
Web pages or PDFs are a powerpoint replacement. That shit should just die because if the content is any good it's going to have to be converted into something else later anyway.
So while "simpress" does the powerpoint slide construction task you are probably better off doing a "save as PDF" from it instead of using it as a presentation tool. If you want video effects make a video file with something purpose made - powerpoint and simpress suck at both video style presentations and static documents paged through as slides. They are a "view once" format as distinct from being able to present and then give people who want another look the PDF that will work on their phones/tablets/everything.
Here is why for those without the background.
Typed variables in a database completely eliminate this issue.
If the users had used a database, even one of the MS ones (one of which newbies can deal with within a week), that would have solved it which was the poster above's point that you were unable to grasp.
Of course they fucking could - how condescending can you get? These are scientists not the "beige box is a hard drive" crowd.
Not the future we expected - we have "hoverboards" and "holographic displays" but they are marketing hype instead of what the words used to mean.
You can and I have. What would be closer to moronic is pretending that it is not possible without even knowing.
So what is up next - calling me a liar because I have used it to do batch processing of images on many occasions?
That's assuming environmental activists have actual political power and those who get money from rail transport do not - which is really getting things backwards.
Follow the money.
If you didn't mean what you wrote then I suggest writing what you do mean instead. That will avoid a bit of confusion.
It looks very much like you are slamming anyone that pays attention to publicly available information on the NSA as "ignorant". Did you really mean something other than that?
Seriously? You don't remember where you pretended to be an utter idiot as some stupid form of debating tactic to attack flow batteries?
Are you pretending to be stupid again just to get me angry?
Oh really?
BTW I was thinking of you when filling up the car's tank and driving around - should have been impossible according to one of your "facts".
Why do you do this to yourself?
Go read my post about crossover points and you will see where I acknowledged that cost matters.
"convert image.tiff image.jpg" does not take very long to use or operate. Throw in a scale, rotate or whatever the user wants, which is usually only a single operation, and it's not much slower. I've got a lot of people here that use it on absurdly large compressed TIFF files (300dpi scans 10 feet by 3 feet) that their desktop machines cannot handle with GUI software, and they don't need either the fine detail or the entire images.
Why jump on a thread just to insult? The above poster didn't seem to be aware of something I have used a lot so I gave an example without insulting the above poster.
You should take your own advice about removing doubt - try adding some content instead of pointless anger.
If the images are from the same source then you work out the settings on the first and then apply them to all the rest. If not, hard work.
Why do exactly the same thing a thousand times when a CLI can do it for you?
Not the problem, the pumps were sited too close to sea level to save money. If they were up at the level of the reactor building as had been suggested in an earlier design the problem would not have happened.
Apparently Yucca Mountain is too wet for vitrified waste.
A far better location would be a bit west of that in California.
Seriously? The Japanese with what looks to an outsider like ridiculous amounts of infrastructure to deal with tsunamis didn't understand?
It's been mentioned frequently elsewhere that the initial design would have dealt with it but to save costs it was done in a different way.
Time for a redesign then if the cleanup cost was so high.
We don't get idiocy like this with oil storage anymore due to multiple levels of containment built to handle the maximum amount stored in an area.
Maybe we should treat this like a Three Mile Island event which resulted in monitoring systems going from below regulations for a fertilizer plant to the systems we have today. That accident was a perfect example of a huge shock that hurt nobody - a wakeup call that could have been far worse and led to some very dangerous practices being discontinued or revised.
Some PABX stuff is like that - imagine all of the above only with telnet as well.
Point Of Sale stuff sometimes has hardcoded passwords as well.
Your conspiracy theories A, B and C depict them as an unknowable force with perfect capability. That's a common factor with a lot of conspiracy theories where the exponents can feel comfort that there is somebody with infinite capability in control so they don't have to worry.
Reality is a series of fuckups some of which have got public attention. The theory that the fuckups are just there to lull us into a false sense of security instead of them being a bunch of toy soldiers that should be replaced with the real thing is especially pathetic. The amount of money being funneled through to private contractor that employed Snowden is staggering and proof enough that the NSA is a very long way from being perfect. The vast number of external bodies with hooks deep into the heart of the NSA would have made it very easy for foreign powers to get hold of everything Snowden had and more.
It's looking more and more that the NSA is more a machine to pump taxpayers money to people with good connections than anything to do with national security.
That is exactly what you suggested and you then went as far as calling those of us that have been paying attention "ignorant".
Pathetic really. Especially your conspiracy theories A, B and C - you really are damaged.
If you had more contact with government and military you would be laughing at those ideas instead of trying to spread them.
Some of the five eyes stuff like spying on an Indonesian tobacco company shows how hopelessly mundane and mismanaged this stuff is. There is no Superman and he is not working for the NSA.
As seen in Syria vs Israel some years ago the German tanks that were very effective in WW2 did not stand a chance against a later American tank - there is a looong way down from those old tanks to what you describe. Those home built platforms are one roadside bomb or RPG away from scrap metal.
That's not in the amendment is it? That's kind of reinforcing my point that the right comes from elsewhere.
Real (but small) machine tools at the bottom end with controllers that could make them as easy to use as 3D printers are already as cheap. Why make a piece of shit ABS plastic gun when you can make a real one out of cheap steel after cutting and pasting a bit of code? Personally I think the 3D guns thing is from attention seekers that don't care if they ruin stuff for everyone - a lot of types of wood are stronger than ABS plastic.
You are projecting the opposite of your view.
I am not the one pushing political bullshit here.
I'm not attempting to sell it merely pointing out the utter idiocy of blindly tilting at windmills.
What is really ironic is you having a go at me for supposedly attacking you and not your blind political shit and here you are in the post above directly insulting me. Well excuse me for being part of the "reality based community" doing things to physical objects to make them work instead of being someone who tires to think up magic words to influence minds and pretends those magic words also work on reality.
Around then if you had lost your install media all it took was a trip to the local newsagent to get another.
I have just about everyone in my workplace on CentOS 6 because they can still use their RedHat9 desktop settings as if there was no change.