Trump will be out of there in ~2 or ~6 years, as well as congress changing hands at some point, and whatever policy changes were brought about consequent to the current administration are almost certain to be reversed — the pendulum always swings back, particularly when it goes so far away from center.
Some of the damage done in the interim is potentially recoverable: environmental / pollution damage, trade conditions (your focus), international relations, regulatory erosion.
Some of it is unavoidably long-term, such as the installation of supreme court justices who base decisions on superstition, cronyism and ideology not derived from the constitution. That sort of damage tends to hang on a long time due to weaknesses in the design of the judicial system.
But some of the the damage done is not recoverable. Jobs, businesses, ranches and farms lost, families injured by radical changes in circumstance, people suffering and dying due to reduced access to adequate medical care.
This nation is quite resilient in the largest sense and it will almost certainly recover in general from the current blundering and malfeasance; but part of what's happening now is low-level suffering that will be lost in the noise of the overall stats or a recovery. Doesn't mean it isn't there or doesn't matter. It does. Doesn't mean Trump and the Republicans and the wealthy and powerful interests they kowtow to should be forgiven: they should not.
I still say we should move to a "you stop supporting it, you lose your rights to it" intellectual property methodology. If congress won't do it, then the citizens should.
Copyright and patents are utterly out of hand; corporate manipulation of the legal system has tilted the playing field beyond any reasonable conception of...
to promote the progress of science and useful arts
...as laid out in the US constitution (I'm a US citizen, so it's the US I am concerned with.)
At this point, patent and copyright law directly and effciently degrade progress. It's time — past time — to just say no.
Both companies have been doing wrong, and lots of of it, for a long time. There's absolutely no sign that the general run of users of either one care even a little bit.
A few people shouting here on/. mean nothing.
All of which I am very sorry to observe, but there it is.
OS X is still mostly BSD from command line and POSIX/BSD point of view.
You know Apple "deprecated" cron, right? That kind of idiocy is a strike at the heart of "being *nix" as far as I'm concerned. The less *nixy it is, the more work it is to use it for me, because I have to support both types of OS — I have considerably better things to do than figure out what Apple's screwing up, or planning to screw up, in the latest OS.
Back OT, the awful chiclet keyboards on the macbooks weaned me off ever buying another one again. That was well before they choked the macbook's physical connectivity down to almost nothing.
Apple keyboards aren't designed to get work done that requires, you know, typing. The touch bar... that's evidence of drug-addled interior decorators getting control over Apple engineering. What a travesty. A poster-child worthy example of "form over function." The whole surface with no keys? Ridiculous.
On my Mac desktop, I use a Matias Tactile Pro, which is a decent keyboard. This thing is actually worthy of typing on.
Unless the prohibition is part of the sentencing - the punishment assigned as a consequence of the crime - a law specifying such a restriction after the fact is a clear and unequivocal ex post facto violation of the constitution, and is invalid on its face. Here's the relevant portion of the ex post facto definition applying to criminal law:
Every law that changes the punishment, and inflicts a greater punishment, than the law annexed to the crime, when committed.
Which is not to say there aren't invalid laws. There are. Many. There's also a sophist workaround in that states can make civil laws to do pretty much anything they want to anyone, anytime, because the government decided that ex post facto was only applicable to criminal law. But when it comes to punishment for commission of a felony... that's criminal law.
If i found one of my systems to have rebooted itself, and could not account for the outage (eg recorded loss of power on the ups) i would assume the system was hacked.
...creates multiple single points of failure [network, power systems, card, card reader, device, device reader, data errors, hacking, suborning by hackers, creditors, governments... etc.]
FTFY
Sure, there are points of failure for cash too, for instance, physical theft, fire, etc. But they're a lot fewer.
These breathless cluetards who want a pure cashless society can't think their way out of a paper (or digital) bag.
Gopher. Pah. Been keeping my 110-baud acoustic coupler on the shelf waiting for telephones and BBSs to make their inevitable march back to the front lines. My ASR-33 is ready to print, and my Baudot teletype is standing in ready backup with an ASCII-to-Baudot converted attached.
Here's what interests me. If this data is available for $10, then we're given a feel for how many customers are needed to buy it to make any serious cash.
Presuming that all the state actors buy the data (and I do so presume... if they don't, they're being really, really stupid), that's a couple hundred right there. Then there are corporations, perhaps... can't imagine there would be many taking the risk, but... and the individual crazies.
Doesn't seem all that economically beneficial to the seller.
Open office layouts make you feel like you're under the eye all the time.
Because you are.
It means that you're not trusted to manage your own time and space, that you're not worth your own space (much less a damned window), that you're subject to all manner of extraneous noise, that your security is definitely more of an issue to the point of what you are willing to leave on your desk changes...
Only fucking idiots running on ivory tower thinking and nothing else at all would want to build an open office environment.
Until you can cook your own certificate up and the browser won't shit itself and fall in it and then pull the user in afterwards screaming about risk when they get the FrightDialog(tm) shoved in their face, HTTPS will remain more of a money-grubbing scam than a usable option for anyone not doing e-commerce or secret data collection.
And no, let's encrypt's time-limited certs are not a good solution.
The company thought they could get away with paying less for server infrastructure. They can. But they get less. This is one of the "less" things they get.
If you value your data, host it yourself, preferably in multiple locations. If you want to go cheap, then you can expect to lose things.
Like your data, or access to it, or availability of it.
It's not such a smart thing to cheap out on the important stuff.
Of course, convincing the bean counters of future risk inherent in what appears to them to be current savings... good luck with that.
Well, best to get rid of your bean counters.:)
Here's a maxim of mine I like to drop on the table during discussions like these:
If you can't afford to do it well, you almost certainly shouldn't be doing it at all.
Yes, very sad. But there are plenty of "still-had-a-production-team" discs on the used market, and I hunt down releases in the genres I am interested in as a sort of hobby.
If I can read it, I can copy it. The only way to keep me from copying an email is to keep me from reading it.
Yep. No matter what they do, there's always screen-capture, and if not at some point in the future with the OS (Windows and OSX and Linux can all do this at present), then with a camera; your phone or a DSLR or an HD video camera, etc.
If it's ever readable, it's readable forever if anyone who can read it wants it to be. End of story.
Slashdot Mirror
Tip: We aren't.
Trump will be out of there in ~2 or ~6 years, as well as congress changing hands at some point, and whatever policy changes were brought about consequent to the current administration are almost certain to be reversed — the pendulum always swings back, particularly when it goes so far away from center.
Some of the damage done in the interim is potentially recoverable: environmental / pollution damage, trade conditions (your focus), international relations, regulatory erosion.
Some of it is unavoidably long-term, such as the installation of supreme court justices who base decisions on superstition, cronyism and ideology not derived from the constitution. That sort of damage tends to hang on a long time due to weaknesses in the design of the judicial system.
But some of the the damage done is not recoverable. Jobs, businesses, ranches and farms lost, families injured by radical changes in circumstance, people suffering and dying due to reduced access to adequate medical care.
This nation is quite resilient in the largest sense and it will almost certainly recover in general from the current blundering and malfeasance; but part of what's happening now is low-level suffering that will be lost in the noise of the overall stats or a recovery. Doesn't mean it isn't there or doesn't matter. It does. Doesn't mean Trump and the Republicans and the wealthy and powerful interests they kowtow to should be forgiven: they should not.
Way ahead of ya
Heretic! Splitter! Dimensional fractionator!
The Mandelbrot law is supreme!
I still say we should move to a "you stop supporting it, you lose your rights to it" intellectual property methodology. If congress won't do it, then the citizens should.
Copyright and patents are utterly out of hand; corporate manipulation of the legal system has tilted the playing field beyond any reasonable conception of...
At this point, patent and copyright law directly and effciently degrade progress. It's time — past time — to just say no.
Didn't work for Facebook; won't work for Google.
Both companies have been doing wrong, and lots of of it, for a long time. There's absolutely no sign that the general run of users of either one care even a little bit.
A few people shouting here on /. mean nothing.
All of which I am very sorry to observe, but there it is.
You can disable Bixby. I have.
I do wish I could find a way to re-purpose the dedicated button, though. It's just wasted real estate now.
You use systemd? Wow, how foolish.
You know Apple "deprecated" cron, right? That kind of idiocy is a strike at the heart of "being *nix" as far as I'm concerned. The less *nixy it is, the more work it is to use it for me, because I have to support both types of OS — I have considerably better things to do than figure out what Apple's screwing up, or planning to screw up, in the latest OS.
Back OT, the awful chiclet keyboards on the macbooks weaned me off ever buying another one again. That was well before they choked the macbook's physical connectivity down to almost nothing.
Apple keyboards aren't designed to get work done that requires, you know, typing. The touch bar... that's evidence of drug-addled interior decorators getting control over Apple engineering. What a travesty. A poster-child worthy example of "form over function." The whole surface with no keys? Ridiculous.
On my Mac desktop, I use a Matias Tactile Pro, which is a decent keyboard. This thing is actually worthy of typing on.
Name calling / putdown with no cogent argument. Typical ad hominem response. Good job there. :)
Clippy says hello...
Unless the prohibition is part of the sentencing - the punishment assigned as a consequence of the crime - a law specifying such a restriction after the fact is a clear and unequivocal ex post facto violation of the constitution, and is invalid on its face. Here's the relevant portion of the ex post facto definition applying to criminal law:
Which is not to say there aren't invalid laws. There are. Many. There's also a sophist workaround in that states can make civil laws to do pretty much anything they want to anyone, anytime, because the government decided that ex post facto was only applicable to criminal law. But when it comes to punishment for commission of a felony... that's criminal law.
You need to learn about 14th amendment incorporation doctrine.
TL;DR: The 2nd amendment is fully incorporated; that, in few words, means that it applies to the states.
ref: McDonald v. Chicago, 561 U.S. 742 (2010).
1989... 29 years ago.
FTFY
Sure, there are points of failure for cash too, for instance, physical theft, fire, etc. But they're a lot fewer.
These breathless cluetards who want a pure cashless society can't think their way out of a paper (or digital) bag.
Kudos to them, then.
Gopher. Pah. Been keeping my 110-baud acoustic coupler on the shelf waiting for telephones and BBSs to make their inevitable march back to the front lines. My ASR-33 is ready to print, and my Baudot teletype is standing in ready backup with an ASCII-to-Baudot converted attached.
Real soon now!
Here's what interests me. If this data is available for $10, then we're given a feel for how many customers are needed to buy it to make any serious cash.
Presuming that all the state actors buy the data (and I do so presume... if they don't, they're being really, really stupid), that's a couple hundred right there. Then there are corporations, perhaps... can't imagine there would be many taking the risk, but... and the individual crazies.
Doesn't seem all that economically beneficial to the seller.
Someone else have a different take?
Open office layouts make you feel like you're under the eye all the time.
Because you are.
It means that you're not trusted to manage your own time and space, that you're not worth your own space (much less a damned window), that you're subject to all manner of extraneous noise, that your security is definitely more of an issue to the point of what you are willing to leave on your desk changes...
Only fucking idiots running on ivory tower thinking and nothing else at all would want to build an open office environment.
Companies are full of those.
Sorry, my bad.
Specwise, you're right.
Effectively, it is, though.
Until you can cook your own certificate up and the browser won't shit itself and fall in it and then pull the user in afterwards screaming about risk when they get the FrightDialog(tm) shoved in their face, HTTPS will remain more of a money-grubbing scam than a usable option for anyone not doing e-commerce or secret data collection.
And no, let's encrypt's time-limited certs are not a good solution.
The company thought they could get away with paying less for server infrastructure. They can. But they get less. This is one of the "less" things they get.
If you value your data, host it yourself, preferably in multiple locations. If you want to go cheap, then you can expect to lose things.
Like your data, or access to it, or availability of it.
It's not such a smart thing to cheap out on the important stuff.
Of course, convincing the bean counters of future risk inherent in what appears to them to be current savings... good luck with that.
Well, best to get rid of your bean counters. :)
Here's a maxim of mine I like to drop on the table during discussions like these:
lead --> lede
FORD:
Found On Road, Discontinued
Yes, very sad. But there are plenty of "still-had-a-production-team" discs on the used market, and I hunt down releases in the genres I am interested in as a sort of hobby.
Yep. No matter what they do, there's always screen-capture, and if not at some point in the future with the OS (Windows and OSX and Linux can all do this at present), then with a camera; your phone or a DSLR or an HD video camera, etc.
If it's ever readable, it's readable forever if anyone who can read it wants it to be. End of story.