hmm... the collapse of Rome meant about 1500 years of lost knowledge. We didn't really catch up with their tech until until 1800s.
Do you have any concrete examples:)
It was said that Henry Ford (or another contemporary) invented mass production, then someone dug up a few thousand completely identical nails from Roman times.
I find it a bit ridiculous since you don't have to try very hard to find a phone that takes two SIM cards if you want two voice numbers without going VoIP. Of course there's always policies of having a work provided phone paid for by work for work use only, but that's far less common now.
As for 3, a law is only useful if it gets enforced. The White House email debacle lowered the bar enough to make it that law irrelevant until such a deliberate turkey slap in the face of the law is forgotten.
If you are going to open that can of worms then it leads to Reagan setting up his secret payoff deal with Iran before the election and undermining President Carter's efforts to free hostages. If Saint Reagan can do it then why can't others?
You seriously think the Democratic bench is stronger than the Republican one?
You say that when Mr "shut down the tollbooths" is considered good enough to run? Even from the other side of the world with no dog in the fight I can see that the Republicans need to go looking for responsible adults elsewhere if they are going to produce a possible leader in the future.
I'd say both. Manning is in jail for among other things revealing that Clinton gave orders to get the credit card details of diplomats so that they could be framed if convenient. That's not a supposition as to why it was ordered but instead a reason for the action as outlined in the orders. No wonder a soldier felt betrayed.
was the very first to try to figure out how to do email right
Since most of it was "lost" I find your assertion hilarious, but not as hilarious as the person who was responsible for the email failure now being an executive of a data recovery company.
More that it was dismissed as not a big deal back then so why a big deal now? That's the problem with setting low standards. When you try to hold others to account it comes back to bite. Personally I think both are examples of a failure and that there should be consequences for both parties, but it's not going to happen that way.
The ironic thing is that tape drives are starting to see a resurgence
Good. It will make things cheaper for those of us that never stopped using them. LTO5 can write faster than a gigabit network can feed the computer it's hooked up to, and LTO6 is apparently even faster.
A lightbulb "doesn't hold a candle" to subtropical sunlight so I can't see it throwing the other posters cycle out. That's more a problem for people who live in places where water falls from the sky in soliDo what the rest of us dod form for half the year. I'm currently in an office with large windows, in the day, but the lights are on because it's cloudy and raining outside. Should I be in the dark?
Yes, but talk to a photographer about tungsten vs daylight to get an idea of how shitty they think what we take as normal is. An LED or CFL just gives us a different compromise. The paint the light reflects off probably has more of an impact.
drop one in your house and you have a mercury cleanup scene, yay
Use to do that a lot with dropped lab thermometers. Not all that hard to do it properly.
and the whole minute you have to wait for them to warm up if you just want to walk in and out of a room to get something
I thought that was bullshit for years until I got a Phillips piece of shit that was shaped to look like an incandescant light, and it does exactly what you say. So just get the cheap Chinese things with glass looping everywhere instead of something designed to look pretty. Function first instead of form and you'll get immediate light instead of fashionable stuff giving it to you very late. Forget stuff that's supposed to dim, look warm or whatever and just go for bog standard cheap and ugly to avoid the slow "corpse colored" things.
the amount of mercury pumped out from coal burning plants
Look up "scrubbers". Unless you are in China the mercury is all in the ash dam.
It's expensive wire. Tungsten. Very high melting point, very high strength and a bit of effort to go from ore to wire. You don't have to look at Wolfram Alpha to get the first idea about Tungsten.
for example, you can see that pretty quickly after they are installed, individuals diodes start to fail.
Which is a pretty nice failure mode instead of losing the entire bulb like before. Anecdotally that's meant a shift to scheduled maintainance where the lights are inspected and the ones in worst condition replaced instead of having to rush out each time an entire halogen bulb goes. It will be interesting to see a real comparison to find out if that's really the case.
It's just a computer. It only has to work. How hard can it be? Wasn't that ridiculous NTP is also not trivial due to among many other things the large amount of clock drift on a lot of motherboards. If you had an alarm clock that lost an hour in a week you would throw it away, but that's seen as acceptable even for some server boards. So then you fetch the time but it takes time for the signal to get to you, so the time is out of date by the time you get it - which then means trying to work out how long it takes for the time signal to get to you. There's plenty more after that.
The problem with that is who decides where that line is?
A lot of people think that should be whoever we vote in to run law enforcement - with the axe hanging over their heads being that if they do a shit job they lose it - obvious really. Asking that question at all sort of implies you feel disenfrancised and you think the obvious is not working for you. Is that the case? Government is supposed to be FROM the citizens and not outsiders imposing their will on citizens with little power.
Others portray themselves as thinking it's up to the individual so that ex-con with a string of armed robbery convictions gets to decide whether or not they should be able to get as much firepower as they can afford. Do they really believe this or are they just pretending to be idiots so they can pretend it's a simple situation? Is it an idiot detector situation where if they find people that can be swayed into going along with them on such a silly suggestion then they have found people who are easily manipulated?
Yes, which is why the all or nothing strawman the other poster was presenting me as was so offensive. Preventing six year olds from driving cars is not prohibition and neither is stopping ex-cons from owning rocket propelled grenades.
That would require getting very political with the "gnome" developers who are the ones that are making things that will only work is systemd is present. They are an odd bunch so doing so would be like diving head first into student politics at a white only, male only third rate deep south Bible college. While I am both male and white things do turn to shit when an org gets too inbred, especially when the "elder statesman" they hold in awe started coding in 2003. What is happening is that servers and workstations are on distros without systemd, apart from a tiny minority on RHEL7/CentOS7, so the "train" hasn't even turned up on the timetables of many. Commercial software on *nix is developed very slowly - I'm currently waiting for an important addon for a geophysical package to be updated so that it can run on RHEL6/CentOS6 - 7 isn't even on the radar of most. So Lennart's solution to the "problem" of linux not having a single unifying structure under his own control is likely to mean old distros hang around a bit longer than they otherwise would. If Wayland (Mac and MS style dumb framebuffer for local only use instead of X) actually gets to be useful that may make gnome irrelevant and the problem may get leapfrogged over.
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Do you have any concrete examples :)
It was said that Henry Ford (or another contemporary) invented mass production, then someone dug up a few thousand completely identical nails from Roman times.
I think the Star Trek set they had built for an operations room was more Voyager than Enterprise.
I find it a bit ridiculous since you don't have to try very hard to find a phone that takes two SIM cards if you want two voice numbers without going VoIP.
Of course there's always policies of having a work provided phone paid for by work for work use only, but that's far less common now.
Yes, it's clearly more in Snowden/Manning space to give classified documents to a journalist than related to Clinton's emails.
As for 3, a law is only useful if it gets enforced.
The White House email debacle lowered the bar enough to make it that law irrelevant until such a deliberate turkey slap in the face of the law is forgotten.
If you are going to open that can of worms then it leads to Reagan setting up his secret payoff deal with Iran before the election and undermining President Carter's efforts to free hostages.
If Saint Reagan can do it then why can't others?
Were you in Antarctica that year? It was as inescapable at the time as hearing about the film "Frozen" or it's music is now.
TLS (ssl encrypted SMTP)
IMAPS (SSL IMAP)
POPS (SSL POP)
LENOVO (SSL MITM)
Unofficial stuff is unlikely to have the benefit of a professional making sure it's secure enough.
You say that when Mr "shut down the tollbooths" is considered good enough to run?
Even from the other side of the world with no dog in the fight I can see that the Republicans need to go looking for responsible adults elsewhere if they are going to produce a possible leader in the future.
Manning already found some remember and it's Manning in jail instead of Clinton.
I'd say both.
Manning is in jail for among other things revealing that Clinton gave orders to get the credit card details of diplomats so that they could be framed if convenient. That's not a supposition as to why it was ordered but instead a reason for the action as outlined in the orders. No wonder a soldier felt betrayed.
Since most of it was "lost" I find your assertion hilarious, but not as hilarious as the person who was responsible for the email failure now being an executive of a data recovery company.
More that it was dismissed as not a big deal back then so why a big deal now?
That's the problem with setting low standards. When you try to hold others to account it comes back to bite.
Personally I think both are examples of a failure and that there should be consequences for both parties, but it's not going to happen that way.
Good. It will make things cheaper for those of us that never stopped using them. LTO5 can write faster than a gigabit network can feed the computer it's hooked up to, and LTO6 is apparently even faster.
A lightbulb "doesn't hold a candle" to subtropical sunlight so I can't see it throwing the other posters cycle out. That's more a problem for people who live in places where water falls from the sky in soliDo what the rest of us dod form for half the year.
I'm currently in an office with large windows, in the day, but the lights are on because it's cloudy and raining outside. Should I be in the dark?
Yes, but talk to a photographer about tungsten vs daylight to get an idea of how shitty they think what we take as normal is. An LED or CFL just gives us a different compromise. The paint the light reflects off probably has more of an impact.
Do what the rest of us do and heat the house with your computer.
Use to do that a lot with dropped lab thermometers. Not all that hard to do it properly.
I thought that was bullshit for years until I got a Phillips piece of shit that was shaped to look like an incandescant light, and it does exactly what you say. So just get the cheap Chinese things with glass looping everywhere instead of something designed to look pretty. Function first instead of form and you'll get immediate light instead of fashionable stuff giving it to you very late. Forget stuff that's supposed to dim, look warm or whatever and just go for bog standard cheap and ugly to avoid the slow "corpse colored" things.
Look up "scrubbers". Unless you are in China the mercury is all in the ash dam.
It's expensive wire.
Tungsten.
Very high melting point, very high strength and a bit of effort to go from ore to wire.
You don't have to look at Wolfram Alpha to get the first idea about Tungsten.
Which is a pretty nice failure mode instead of losing the entire bulb like before. Anecdotally that's meant a shift to scheduled maintainance where the lights are inspected and the ones in worst condition replaced instead of having to rush out each time an entire halogen bulb goes. It will be interesting to see a real comparison to find out if that's really the case.
I was thinking that too but it's still in the lab doing impressive stuff like Gb/s even around corners reflecting off ordinary house paint.
It's just a computer. It only has to work. How hard can it be?
Wasn't that ridiculous
NTP is also not trivial due to among many other things the large amount of clock drift on a lot of motherboards. If you had an alarm clock that lost an hour in a week you would throw it away, but that's seen as acceptable even for some server boards. So then you fetch the time but it takes time for the signal to get to you, so the time is out of date by the time you get it - which then means trying to work out how long it takes for the time signal to get to you. There's plenty more after that.
A lot of people think that should be whoever we vote in to run law enforcement - with the axe hanging over their heads being that if they do a shit job they lose it - obvious really. Asking that question at all sort of implies you feel disenfrancised and you think the obvious is not working for you. Is that the case? Government is supposed to be FROM the citizens and not outsiders imposing their will on citizens with little power.
Others portray themselves as thinking it's up to the individual so that ex-con with a string of armed robbery convictions gets to decide whether or not they should be able to get as much firepower as they can afford. Do they really believe this or are they just pretending to be idiots so they can pretend it's a simple situation? Is it an idiot detector situation where if they find people that can be swayed into going along with them on such a silly suggestion then they have found people who are easily manipulated?
Yes, which is why the all or nothing strawman the other poster was presenting me as was so offensive.
Preventing six year olds from driving cars is not prohibition and neither is stopping ex-cons from owning rocket propelled grenades.
That would require getting very political with the "gnome" developers who are the ones that are making things that will only work is systemd is present. They are an odd bunch so doing so would be like diving head first into student politics at a white only, male only third rate deep south Bible college. While I am both male and white things do turn to shit when an org gets too inbred, especially when the "elder statesman" they hold in awe started coding in 2003.
What is happening is that servers and workstations are on distros without systemd, apart from a tiny minority on RHEL7/CentOS7, so the "train" hasn't even turned up on the timetables of many. Commercial software on *nix is developed very slowly - I'm currently waiting for an important addon for a geophysical package to be updated so that it can run on RHEL6/CentOS6 - 7 isn't even on the radar of most.
So Lennart's solution to the "problem" of linux not having a single unifying structure under his own control is likely to mean old distros hang around a bit longer than they otherwise would. If Wayland (Mac and MS style dumb framebuffer for local only use instead of X) actually gets to be useful that may make gnome irrelevant and the problem may get leapfrogged over.