Not very much; it's a total rip off. I tried everything from AAs to Ds in the battery compartment and nothing seemed to make proper contact. I think it was designed for some kind of weird proprietary cell. D cells seemed to work the best, but unless it was just totally defective, the best thing I can say about it, is that it is many fewer lumens. There have been some reports of users somehow getting.. blinded? So maybe its like is actually pretty strong but in IR or UV, beyond vision. If true, I bet those stories are also rooted in confusion about what to put in the battery compartment.
nobody posting here knows what meaningful social interaction means
Bullshit. I flamed a post that I didn't like, and I even sincerely meant every word of my hate! How is that not meaningfully socially interactive enough?!
Javascript can't do that is an interpreted language and checks array bounds, if javascript could do this, with or without these bugs it would be a security flaw in itself. ...
Javascript is not C or machine code.
This is common sense and it's what I used to believe too. I totally don't fault you for thinking that.
Now I direct you to section 4.3 of the Spectre paper. You need to read it. This isn't about "you're wrong," it's about "here's something very interesting."
And if you're anything like me, you will be stunned by Listing 3, where it shows the incredible job Chrome did, to compile Javascript to machine code. I had no idea.
The rest of the computer users... are almost always the ONLY users (+family) on those computers---so they're implementing this 30% performance penalty to protect users from themselves?
A typical desktop or laptop or tablet computer is no longer truly a single-user computer. Most of these computers have web browsers, which by default are configured to download and execute code written by other people to serve their interests. Perhaps your computers don't do this anymore, but your mom's neighbor's former roommate's computer does. So your mom's neighbor's former roommate's downloads and runs Javascript, which can make an array reference that is speculatively accessed prior to checking the array boundaries.
Your mom's neighbor's former roommate isn't the person who decided to read that memory; it was someone else: an adversary, another user on that multi-user computer. They just happen to log in as your mom's neighbor's former roommate, but it's really a different user.
This kind of thing is hilarious when it happens to Windows users. Pass the popcorn.
But now it's getting real. Pretty much every computer I have, except my piece-of-shit phones, is running Ubuntu 16.04. Not funny anymore. OMG, is this what it feels like to be a New Yorker when I'm telling 9/11 jokes?
Are you saying that the same federal judges also just found Maryland to be in violation, and ordered them to redistrict too? Or..
And when the fact is that "Maryland and North Carolina are essentially tied for the honor of most-gerrymandered state." but only North Carolina - a GOP State - is mentioned but Maryland - a Democrat State - is not, it's pretty clear that/. is also pretty gerrymandered...
Oh, I get it. You're saying/. is biased toward reporting what the court ruled on, instead of reporting on what should have been in court. Is that the bias, that./ doesn't engage in enough fantasy or subjunctive news reporting?
That's.. an idea for a website. One of today's headlines could be that cold fusion was finally invented and your new $99 car can run on it. But I think at some point it would get boring and people would switch to doing humor stories all the time, and you'd just end up with The Onion. Perhaps/.'s unintentional bias toward telling us about facts and reality, instead of aspirations and dreams, is what keeps people here.
If you're able to find a quote where someone says that, then we can eviscerate their claim. I bet you can't find one, though.
Unless.. hey, are you taking the position that gerrymandering in those states is a good idea, as some kind of Devil's advocate thing, since no one else has taken it? Like, you're volunteering to be a strawman? Dude, go for it, but I can't guarantee you'll have a fun argument. OTOH that strawman would be so hilariously unrealistic, that maybe you're looking for abuse.
Anyway, one nice thing that's happened, is that these people got caught in NC to such a degree, that they're going to get kicked around a little. That's going to make kicking the same kind of people a little easier in other states, perhaps one of the ones that you mentioned.
Can't you just reinterpret "unreasonable?" It is a pretty vague word, after all. I bet we could get into a big long stupid Slashdot thread where we argue about 3-5 different opinions on what it could mean.
IF the US Constitution applies to the whole world, who is responsible for enforcement of say "the bill of rights" in China or North Korea?
The United States and its people, are who is responsible for enforcing the limits of the US government's power in China, North Korea, North America, and on the planet Mars. If the US Congress tries to pass a law that abridges the freedom of the press on the moon, or a law that infringes the right to bear arms on Alpha Centauri colony 3, we are responsible for striking down or otherwise nullifying that law.
The purpose of the Bill of Rights is to protect people's freedom. But the mechanics of the Bill of Rights is to deny power to an entity considered particularly at risk of violating peoples' freedom. To enforce the Bill of Rights is to enforce the limits of US government power. You can do that to the US government, no matter where the victim happens to be. It's just a question of whether or not we want to, is a good idea, is practical, etc.
That last part is what it's really about: you can enforce the law which limits the US government's power to infringe peoples' rights in China, but doing so doesn't have a really practical effect on how freely Chinese citizens can exercise their rights. So of course, we all have reason to be lax about enforcing the law, despite our responsibility as US citizens.
And to do it, they need the 99%'s support in the voting booth. So everyone, please: remember to vote for Republicans and Democrats this coming November! And if you're a member of some other party, for fuck's sake, please don't run for office, or at least remember to stay off those ballots!
Me too. Firefox is the best browser on Android, and the fact that it can run uBlock Origin (which the Android version of Chrome strangely can't, even though its desktop version can) is the main reason for that.
Today's hardware is very fast. AV products are computer programs that make your computer go slower so that the user can keep up with the interface, and also to keep the hardware from going unsafely fast, which can result in a crash if the user reaction time is too delayed.
Linus doesn't have these softwares, because open sores programmers aren't smart enough to figure out how to make it work.
However, in the interim, it's been scraped and archived by database companies using the data for employer background checks.
It sounds like they are finding whatever hearsay they can find, and selling it to employers as though it were relevant background information. That might be an honest mistake, and it might be fraud.
(That's always the big question, whenever you don't really have a good cache invalidation algorithm and just say "oh, cache it for n seconds." Do you have the right value for n?)
Either way, though, the employer got screwed and if they are selfish, they shouldn't be paying for that.
What's worse, in the state of Winnemac, there are six Jane Does with that same birthday, all of which have the same record in their background check database...
This sounds like very low-quality "information."
Does information still want to be free?
I'm not sure that even free is cheap enough. Spam wants to be free, because even $0 is higher than what it's worth.;-)
For example, if I have a website that stipulates you must agree not to disseminate the information made available to you by agreeing to these terms of use, you remain free to ignore that agreement?
You need to get whoever/whatever reads the data to agree.
If you send the data before they agree, or without finding out whether or not they agreed, then it wasn't really terms, was it? Did you actually stipulate, or did you just plan to do so and then not follow through?
Merely wishing for certain terms isn't good enough. Merely offering certain terms (but then sending the data anyway, whether or not agreement happened) isn't enough.
Doing those things but not actually getting agreement, isn't any different than me putting terms at the bottom of this comment. If you didn't agree to the terms but I send you this comment anyway, then they weren't terms. It's just like printing a EULA and putting it inside a box, and pretending that whoever opens the box, reads the EULA and signs it and mails it back to you. But what if they don't?
By reading this comment, you agree to give me a dollar for my valuable time (ha!!) and you also agree that this was the most insightful thing you read this month.
They claim we're we're not literally buying their work, we're only buying a license to view their work... But if all we're buying is a license, then buying the iPad version should also entitle you to the Kindle version; and in fact all other versions.
No, because the whole reason they want to stop selling copies and start licensing instead, is to be able to deny you the kindle version. They want a second monetary transaction for that. If you start putting terms into the license, like "needs to be readable on everything" you undermine the entire purpose of licensing!
If you want to be able to read your book on multiple devices, you should be buying, not licensing. Or if they won't let you buy, then just pirate it.
Remember upgrading your record collection, to cassette tape, to CD? Or how about VHS to DVD to Blu-Ray? Did the copyright holders offer you a free or discounted upgrade (like the software industry does)? No, they trained you to go out and pay full price for another license to stuff you already owned a license for.
Waitaminute. I won't deny that some things are licensed, but those are all definitely examples of copies that you bought, not licensed. (Can you actually link to a seller of those things, making a claim that theirs is licensed?) AFAIK every single cassette tape and CD is bought, not licensed, and the same goes for all VHS tapes, DVDs and Blu-rays. You don't license those; those are available retail without any contracts.
The book in his example, though, obtained though an online store where you really might have communicated acceptance of a contract, is what this whole licensing thing is about. And like I said, you should be declining those types of offers.
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Not very much; it's a total rip off. I tried everything from AAs to Ds in the battery compartment and nothing seemed to make proper contact. I think it was designed for some kind of weird proprietary cell. D cells seemed to work the best, but unless it was just totally defective, the best thing I can say about it, is that it is many fewer lumens. There have been some reports of users somehow getting .. blinded? So maybe its like is actually pretty strong but in IR or UV, beyond vision. If true, I bet those stories are also rooted in confusion about what to put in the battery compartment.
Because they're supposed to be saying "Well done, slave. This time I shall spare you."
Bullshit. I flamed a post that I didn't like, and I even sincerely meant every word of my hate! How is that not meaningfully socially interactive enough?!
Same here. Uber is starting to look like scum, but I think the basic idea is still pretty damn cool.
This is common sense and it's what I used to believe too. I totally don't fault you for thinking that.
Now I direct you to section 4.3 of the Spectre paper. You need to read it. This isn't about "you're wrong," it's about "here's something very interesting."
And if you're anything like me, you will be stunned by Listing 3, where it shows the incredible job Chrome did, to compile Javascript to machine code. I had no idea.
It's still in the Slashdot article title. Those responsible for bricking should be bricked.
A typical desktop or laptop or tablet computer is no longer truly a single-user computer. Most of these computers have web browsers, which by default are configured to download and execute code written by other people to serve their interests. Perhaps your computers don't do this anymore, but your mom's neighbor's former roommate's computer does. So your mom's neighbor's former roommate's downloads and runs Javascript, which can make an array reference that is speculatively accessed prior to checking the array boundaries.
Your mom's neighbor's former roommate isn't the person who decided to read that memory; it was someone else: an adversary, another user on that multi-user computer. They just happen to log in as your mom's neighbor's former roommate, but it's really a different user.
This kind of thing is hilarious when it happens to Windows users. Pass the popcorn.
But now it's getting real. Pretty much every computer I have, except my piece-of-shit phones, is running Ubuntu 16.04. Not funny anymore. OMG, is this what it feels like to be a New Yorker when I'm telling 9/11 jokes?
Are you saying that the same federal judges also just found Maryland to be in violation, and ordered them to redistrict too? Or..
Oh, I get it. You're saying /. is biased toward reporting what the court ruled on, instead of reporting on what should have been in court. Is that the bias, that ./ doesn't engage in enough fantasy or subjunctive news reporting?
That's .. an idea for a website. One of today's headlines could be that cold fusion was finally invented and your new $99 car can run on it. But I think at some point it would get boring and people would switch to doing humor stories all the time, and you'd just end up with The Onion. Perhaps /.'s unintentional bias toward telling us about facts and reality, instead of aspirations and dreams, is what keeps people here.
If you're able to find a quote where someone says that, then we can eviscerate their claim. I bet you can't find one, though.
Unless.. hey, are you taking the position that gerrymandering in those states is a good idea, as some kind of Devil's advocate thing, since no one else has taken it? Like, you're volunteering to be a strawman? Dude, go for it, but I can't guarantee you'll have a fun argument. OTOH that strawman would be so hilariously unrealistic, that maybe you're looking for abuse.
Anyway, one nice thing that's happened, is that these people got caught in NC to such a degree, that they're going to get kicked around a little. That's going to make kicking the same kind of people a little easier in other states, perhaps one of the ones that you mentioned.
Can't you just reinterpret "unreasonable?" It is a pretty vague word, after all. I bet we could get into a big long stupid Slashdot thread where we argue about 3-5 different opinions on what it could mean.
The United States and its people, are who is responsible for enforcing the limits of the US government's power in China, North Korea, North America, and on the planet Mars. If the US Congress tries to pass a law that abridges the freedom of the press on the moon, or a law that infringes the right to bear arms on Alpha Centauri colony 3, we are responsible for striking down or otherwise nullifying that law.
The purpose of the Bill of Rights is to protect people's freedom. But the mechanics of the Bill of Rights is to deny power to an entity considered particularly at risk of violating peoples' freedom. To enforce the Bill of Rights is to enforce the limits of US government power. You can do that to the US government, no matter where the victim happens to be. It's just a question of whether or not we want to, is a good idea, is practical, etc.
That last part is what it's really about: you can enforce the law which limits the US government's power to infringe peoples' rights in China, but doing so doesn't have a really practical effect on how freely Chinese citizens can exercise their rights. So of course, we all have reason to be lax about enforcing the law, despite our responsibility as US citizens.
And to do it, they need the 99%'s support in the voting booth. So everyone, please: remember to vote for Republicans and Democrats this coming November! And if you're a member of some other party, for fuck's sake, please don't run for office, or at least remember to stay off those ballots!
Me too. Firefox is the best browser on Android, and the fact that it can run uBlock Origin (which the Android version of Chrome strangely can't, even though its desktop version can) is the main reason for that.
Today's hardware is very fast. AV products are computer programs that make your computer go slower so that the user can keep up with the interface, and also to keep the hardware from going unsafely fast, which can result in a crash if the user reaction time is too delayed.
Linus doesn't have these softwares, because open sores programmers aren't smart enough to figure out how to make it work.
"Believe me, I'm a very stable currency!" - Donald Nakamoto
You had me at incoherent. You win, sir, this time...
This site isn't anti-ad-blocking. (Or if it's trying to do that, it doesn't even slightly work, so people with ad-blockers haven't noticed.)
Have there ever gotten any feedback on that? i.e. Anyone happen to know if Trump watched those commercials and responded?
It sounds like they are finding whatever hearsay they can find, and selling it to employers as though it were relevant background information. That might be an honest mistake, and it might be fraud.
(That's always the big question, whenever you don't really have a good cache invalidation algorithm and just say "oh, cache it for n seconds." Do you have the right value for n?)
Either way, though, the employer got screwed and if they are selfish, they shouldn't be paying for that.
This sounds like very low-quality "information."
I'm not sure that even free is cheap enough. Spam wants to be free, because even $0 is higher than what it's worth. ;-)
You need to get whoever/whatever reads the data to agree.
If you send the data before they agree, or without finding out whether or not they agreed, then it wasn't really terms, was it? Did you actually stipulate, or did you just plan to do so and then not follow through?
Merely wishing for certain terms isn't good enough. Merely offering certain terms (but then sending the data anyway, whether or not agreement happened) isn't enough.
Doing those things but not actually getting agreement, isn't any different than me putting terms at the bottom of this comment. If you didn't agree to the terms but I send you this comment anyway, then they weren't terms. It's just like printing a EULA and putting it inside a box, and pretending that whoever opens the box, reads the EULA and signs it and mails it back to you. But what if they don't?
By reading this comment, you agree to give me a dollar for my valuable time (ha!!) and you also agree that this was the most insightful thing you read this month.
That is still a very different thing than actively using Facebook, performing gamified "surrogate activites" etc.
Doubleclick.net tracks people too, but nobody is complaining that doubleclick.net is fucking up how people spend their lives.
Presumably you meant to email us your announcement, instead of posting it here on social media.
Looks like somebody is about to miss the latest mermaid news.
No, because the whole reason they want to stop selling copies and start licensing instead, is to be able to deny you the kindle version. They want a second monetary transaction for that. If you start putting terms into the license, like "needs to be readable on everything" you undermine the entire purpose of licensing!
If you want to be able to read your book on multiple devices, you should be buying, not licensing. Or if they won't let you buy, then just pirate it.
Waitaminute. I won't deny that some things are licensed, but those are all definitely examples of copies that you bought, not licensed. (Can you actually link to a seller of those things, making a claim that theirs is licensed?) AFAIK every single cassette tape and CD is bought, not licensed, and the same goes for all VHS tapes, DVDs and Blu-rays. You don't license those; those are available retail without any contracts.
The book in his example, though, obtained though an online store where you really might have communicated acceptance of a contract, is what this whole licensing thing is about. And like I said, you should be declining those types of offers.