> If, as the article states, the Russian pilots came down in Syrian territory, then why should we believe they were flying above Turkeye?
Another poster points out that it's right next to the border, but the bigger piece is that NATO says they were over Turkey, and that Russia has been flying like this for awhile, getting spammed with "gtfo" messages.
Scripts that do easy things are easy, and don't have errors- and the equivalent in a GUI is often "nope".
Regardless, the existence of the ABILITY to fuck something up in no way makes it bad. That's a really silly argument.
Every serious general purpose computer has a command line interface. Ios does if you jailbreak it. Windows tries hard to have one. OS X and Linux have amazing ones (though you don't need to use them much, you certainly can).
If your problem is people peddling bad scripts, write your own!
Big difference between essential liberty and all your appliances having backdoors.
Look at medical devices- there's a huge hoopla over the fact that they are so vulnerable. Why would you want everything like that? All these products are commodity, cheapest bidder stuff. Routers can barely be secured- just barely- and we're talking toasters and furnaces and stuff with real ability to hurt you?
The risk with (1) is that now someone at your house blames you for the ad that plays. Now it's your fault, or something, just like your ebay page is your fault, your amazon page is your fault, your google results are your fault... bleh.
> Everything should be two factor password system with one being a token/phone/pc,
NOOOOO this is all shit that can be social engineered or outright owned.
I call and say I lost my token. But I'm talking about your token. And I googled your elementary school, so now I have your number for long enough to own your everything else that uses it to authenticate.
> the second one should be a short, (no more than 6 symobls
My big gripe is differing password standards. I need to be able to reuse passwords at similar places (for instance, forums have one password, places I buy stuff have another), and my number 1 max gripe is max password lengths. I hate max password lengths. They are absolutely idiotic. So your revamp would break every password I have, and leave me with a gutted password for when the second factor gets owned.
> I want to be able to login to my phone. And toaster. And dishwasher.
"Vulnerabilities in certain models of BRANDNAME toaster can allow a remote attacker direct access to the heating coils, and the hardware override was ditched and all the shills on the tech website said it was great and what are you a dinosaur for wanting a switch and now your house is burning down because someone didn't like what you said online."
1- All hard drives, and flash drives, and any drives, need to have a write protect tab with hardware protection, by spec. 2- Any CD that needs to eject for realsies needs to have an override more reasonable than a paperclip. 3- Way the hell more little kitchen doodads should have magnets on them capable of sticking them to the side of a fridge, dishwasher, or each other in a drawer. 4- Clamshell packaging needs to go, period. 5- Any tech that displays prices should have an option to round the price up and keep rounding. 2999? That's 3000. The computer does it because only one small part of your brain can, and the rest sees 2000. 6- It would be fantastic if everyone who labels a controller for a video game system could not be idiots about it. Nintendo established a standard with X on top. Sony moved the X to the bottom. Microsoft stuck it on the left. I guess we are just stuck with three standards now, one for literally each of the three consoles. If even ONE button was in a consistent location, it would be so great. 7- We'll probably all need routers that can block ads and tracking and crap, so that probably needs to be a physical button on routers soon.
> Well... then the easier solution is not to be up late at night on your computer and messing up your sleep schedule...
No, it's not an easier solution to change your whole life, compared to swapping out the constant barrage of blue LEDs on devices that don't need them.
The big deal is this- if you are up an hour before bed, working or playing, and there's not a lot of blue light, you will (probably) have a different set of hormones running around than if there is blue light aplenty during that time. It may not matter much, but it does seem to be a thing.
Well no, they don't NEED to work. If I unplug something and later plug it back in, it works. If I turn it off and it enters a standby mode, consuming trivial power, and then later I turn it on, it works. Since the case where no electricity is used and the case where trivial electricity is used both result in a working product, no, the power supply doesn't "need" to be doing crap.
The bigger issue is that the lights all add up and are ludicrous, especially the blue ones. It's annoying to have to consider this when choosing what goes in your bedroom.
No, he doesn't have to find a way to feed you just because you found a way to erect a toll booth one time. There's plenty of ways to make money without ads, but that's not the topic. You don't have to solve an economic problem to get rid of ads.
Well, there's a lot that consoles won't or can't get. DOOM got ported *terribly* to current gen console, and was censored in most of the ports (the SNES, the largest installed userbase, lost all the blood). So, were they right? Not technically, but they weren't far off.
Claiming a certain company won't make a console port or doesn't make console games is often accurate. We may one day see World of Warcraft on a console, but we didn't see it on the Xbox (original) or PS2, the systems current when it released, nor the Xbox 360, nor the PS3... While consoles had some of the earliest MMOs, what those MMOs did compared to stuff like Everquest was different- then it becomes "well, no TRUE mmo...", but the fact remains that they have had different capabilities. Right now, of the plethera of wowlike MMOs on PC, you see almost none on console- Final Fantasy 14 is the standout exception (even working on the PS4 AND PS3, which is nuts!), with DCUO not too far off. But games like Star Wars: The Old Republic, Wildstar, and WoW have not hit the console market running.
HOTAS support on a console is not common nor reasonable in most cases. Nor is a flight or space sim (or arcade sim) commonly done in a reasonable fashion outside of PC. Which HOTAS works with IL2? Does the same HOTAS work with Elite Dangerous? While I think it would be kinda ludicrous to buy an X-52 with mildly different internals twice, I wouldn't be *entirely* opposed- that thing offers excellent controls.
I really can't even find the HOTAS for Xbone or PS4 you speak of. Which is it? Is it really the whole HOTAS, and not just a stick? Is it made especially for the console?
This is the first time I have ever heard of this, nice pull! I'm too junior to remember 1979, but I do know that Lucas spared little time in adding "Episode IV" to the title crawl once it was an obvious hit. Them cutting away from that scene in any theatrical cut is pretty unheard of!
In any event, check out the despecialized edition. It fixes everything!
I wish you were modded up because you are interesting, but you are oh so wrong.
Prions are scary because they don't seem to have a solution- like Ice-9 in Cat's Cradle, they convert everything that is like them, into them, until nothing is left. But, they require full biological access- you pretty much have to eat them in order for them to be permitted access to the things that are "mostly" like themselves. In many other places, the immune system would be able to stop them (for instance, cell membranes), because they would recognizably change the surface You couldn't ruin yourself by just inhaling a prion, like you could a virus.
A virus is probably more likely as a threat, and we (maybe) understand how unlikely it would be that a virus capable of infecting humans would be on Mars.
Your post also has an interesting implication- it implies that the "Great Filter" is that a terrible anti-life thing evolves faster than defenses for it can, in most situations. It hypothesizes (whether you did or not) that life on Mars both existed, and met its end at the end of some molecular grim reaper, that we risk contaminating Earth with. I would argue that such a Grim Reaper (molecule or construct) would have reached Earth at some point already- and if not, that we would likely find such a Grim Reaper on pretty much ANY planet we looked, and were just spared for no reason. This seems unlikely (but interesting).
Finally on the "Mars contaminates us" point, it is MUCH more likely that we find something inimical to human life here on Earth- for instance, very deep in an ocean, or near the top of a mountain, or buried in ice. Do you raise your FUD Flag against such a threat? Or is it only confined to space travel? Reminder: Our species will ultimately go extinct without space travel- this is a fact!
On your other point- "we contaminate Mars"- fucking fine. There's nothing amazing on Mars right now, life-wise, and if there is, we can keep it in a tiny Mars zoo. It's totally worthless to dedicate a whole planet to whatever random bacteria Mars happens to host right now, if indeed it hosts anything. A few score petri dishes will do nicely.
For those who are just bitching about the special editions, yes we get it. But the internet has you covered. Harmy has a "Despecialized Edition", that you'll obviously have to torrent. If you're concerned about legality, just be sure you own the most recent Blu-Rays- much is based on those, and if you have an edit of a product you own (the Blu-Ray), that's totally legal.
The exclusives you prefer matter. The controller doesn't unless you HATE the other guy's controller AND can't find a third party that does it the way you like. Sony has always had excellent controllers, and the days of Microsoft having shitty controllers only suitable for large handed men ended halfway through the Xbox 1's lifetime.
If you don't have a preference on exclusives, then you look at two things:
1)- Performance. More power is better. 2)- Installed user base. More is better.
You don't look at performance because you are necessarily looking for better performing games, you look at performance because it means you'll get more and better games on that system, and because the developers are more likely to design a game for the more powerful system, and just port it to the other console. This is the same reason you look for installed user base: the bigger one will draw more developers, meaning that your really good game that you actually like is more likely to show up than if it was a niche system.
The PS4 wins on both. Xbone sold so few systems that Microsoft has stopped reporting them, so that's a seriously hardcore loss- if you can't even play by industry standards and report your userbase, you're fucking done.
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> If, as the article states, the Russian pilots came down in Syrian territory, then why should we believe they were flying above Turkeye?
Another poster points out that it's right next to the border, but the bigger piece is that NATO says they were over Turkey, and that Russia has been flying like this for awhile, getting spammed with "gtfo" messages.
It's still very very bad news, though.
Scripts that do easy things are easy, and don't have errors- and the equivalent in a GUI is often "nope".
Regardless, the existence of the ABILITY to fuck something up in no way makes it bad. That's a really silly argument.
Every serious general purpose computer has a command line interface. Ios does if you jailbreak it. Windows tries hard to have one. OS X and Linux have amazing ones (though you don't need to use them much, you certainly can).
If your problem is people peddling bad scripts, write your own!
Big difference between essential liberty and all your appliances having backdoors.
Look at medical devices- there's a huge hoopla over the fact that they are so vulnerable. Why would you want everything like that? All these products are commodity, cheapest bidder stuff. Routers can barely be secured- just barely- and we're talking toasters and furnaces and stuff with real ability to hurt you?
> Everyone will eventually be a law breaker, at this rate.
Name someone of legal majority who has never committed a crime.
The risk with (1) is that now someone at your house blames you for the ad that plays. Now it's your fault, or something, just like your ebay page is your fault, your amazon page is your fault, your google results are your fault... bleh.
Can your post do 16 things?
> Passwords need a major revision.
Ok, so far I'm with you....
> Everything should be two factor password system with one being a token/phone/pc,
NOOOOO this is all shit that can be social engineered or outright owned.
I call and say I lost my token. But I'm talking about your token. And I googled your elementary school, so now I have your number for long enough to own your everything else that uses it to authenticate.
> the second one should be a short, (no more than 6 symobls
My big gripe is differing password standards. I need to be able to reuse passwords at similar places (for instance, forums have one password, places I buy stuff have another), and my number 1 max gripe is max password lengths. I hate max password lengths. They are absolutely idiotic. So your revamp would break every password I have, and leave me with a gutted password for when the second factor gets owned.
Terrible. Terrible terrible terrible terrible terrible terrible.
Just awful.
> I want to be able to login to my phone. And toaster. And dishwasher.
"Vulnerabilities in certain models of BRANDNAME toaster can allow a remote attacker direct access to the heating coils, and the hardware override was ditched and all the shills on the tech website said it was great and what are you a dinosaur for wanting a switch and now your house is burning down because someone didn't like what you said online."
This really seems like a bad idea in all ways, shapes, and forms.
1- All hard drives, and flash drives, and any drives, need to have a write protect tab with hardware protection, by spec.
2- Any CD that needs to eject for realsies needs to have an override more reasonable than a paperclip.
3- Way the hell more little kitchen doodads should have magnets on them capable of sticking them to the side of a fridge, dishwasher, or each other in a drawer.
4- Clamshell packaging needs to go, period.
5- Any tech that displays prices should have an option to round the price up and keep rounding. 2999? That's 3000. The computer does it because only one small part of your brain can, and the rest sees 2000.
6- It would be fantastic if everyone who labels a controller for a video game system could not be idiots about it. Nintendo established a standard with X on top. Sony moved the X to the bottom. Microsoft stuck it on the left. I guess we are just stuck with three standards now, one for literally each of the three consoles. If even ONE button was in a consistent location, it would be so great.
7- We'll probably all need routers that can block ads and tracking and crap, so that probably needs to be a physical button on routers soon.
> Well ... then the easier solution is not to be up late at night on your computer and messing up your sleep schedule ...
No, it's not an easier solution to change your whole life, compared to swapping out the constant barrage of blue LEDs on devices that don't need them.
The big deal is this- if you are up an hour before bed, working or playing, and there's not a lot of blue light, you will (probably) have a different set of hormones running around than if there is blue light aplenty during that time. It may not matter much, but it does seem to be a thing.
Well no, they don't NEED to work. If I unplug something and later plug it back in, it works. If I turn it off and it enters a standby mode, consuming trivial power, and then later I turn it on, it works. Since the case where no electricity is used and the case where trivial electricity is used both result in a working product, no, the power supply doesn't "need" to be doing crap.
The bigger issue is that the lights all add up and are ludicrous, especially the blue ones. It's annoying to have to consider this when choosing what goes in your bedroom.
No, he doesn't have to find a way to feed you just because you found a way to erect a toll booth one time. There's plenty of ways to make money without ads, but that's not the topic. You don't have to solve an economic problem to get rid of ads.
> Nobody wants to be stalked with creep ware.
I wish the mods would come in and special case you up to +6, Real Talk
The extents to which they will go to track people in order to spam them is truly ludicrous.
Well, there's a lot that consoles won't or can't get. DOOM got ported *terribly* to current gen console, and was censored in most of the ports (the SNES, the largest installed userbase, lost all the blood). So, were they right? Not technically, but they weren't far off.
Claiming a certain company won't make a console port or doesn't make console games is often accurate. We may one day see World of Warcraft on a console, but we didn't see it on the Xbox (original) or PS2, the systems current when it released, nor the Xbox 360, nor the PS3... While consoles had some of the earliest MMOs, what those MMOs did compared to stuff like Everquest was different- then it becomes "well, no TRUE mmo...", but the fact remains that they have had different capabilities. Right now, of the plethera of wowlike MMOs on PC, you see almost none on console- Final Fantasy 14 is the standout exception (even working on the PS4 AND PS3, which is nuts!), with DCUO not too far off. But games like Star Wars: The Old Republic, Wildstar, and WoW have not hit the console market running.
HOTAS support on a console is not common nor reasonable in most cases. Nor is a flight or space sim (or arcade sim) commonly done in a reasonable fashion outside of PC. Which HOTAS works with IL2? Does the same HOTAS work with Elite Dangerous? While I think it would be kinda ludicrous to buy an X-52 with mildly different internals twice, I wouldn't be *entirely* opposed- that thing offers excellent controls.
I really can't even find the HOTAS for Xbone or PS4 you speak of. Which is it? Is it really the whole HOTAS, and not just a stick? Is it made especially for the console?
This is the first time I have ever heard of this, nice pull! I'm too junior to remember 1979, but I do know that Lucas spared little time in adding "Episode IV" to the title crawl once it was an obvious hit. Them cutting away from that scene in any theatrical cut is pretty unheard of!
In any event, check out the despecialized edition. It fixes everything!
I wish you were modded up because you are interesting, but you are oh so wrong.
Prions are scary because they don't seem to have a solution- like Ice-9 in Cat's Cradle, they convert everything that is like them, into them, until nothing is left. But, they require full biological access- you pretty much have to eat them in order for them to be permitted access to the things that are "mostly" like themselves. In many other places, the immune system would be able to stop them (for instance, cell membranes), because they would recognizably change the surface You couldn't ruin yourself by just inhaling a prion, like you could a virus.
A virus is probably more likely as a threat, and we (maybe) understand how unlikely it would be that a virus capable of infecting humans would be on Mars.
Your post also has an interesting implication- it implies that the "Great Filter" is that a terrible anti-life thing evolves faster than defenses for it can, in most situations. It hypothesizes (whether you did or not) that life on Mars both existed, and met its end at the end of some molecular grim reaper, that we risk contaminating Earth with. I would argue that such a Grim Reaper (molecule or construct) would have reached Earth at some point already- and if not, that we would likely find such a Grim Reaper on pretty much ANY planet we looked, and were just spared for no reason. This seems unlikely (but interesting).
Finally on the "Mars contaminates us" point, it is MUCH more likely that we find something inimical to human life here on Earth- for instance, very deep in an ocean, or near the top of a mountain, or buried in ice. Do you raise your FUD Flag against such a threat? Or is it only confined to space travel? Reminder: Our species will ultimately go extinct without space travel- this is a fact!
On your other point- "we contaminate Mars"- fucking fine. There's nothing amazing on Mars right now, life-wise, and if there is, we can keep it in a tiny Mars zoo. It's totally worthless to dedicate a whole planet to whatever random bacteria Mars happens to host right now, if indeed it hosts anything. A few score petri dishes will do nicely.
For those who are just bitching about the special editions, yes we get it. But the internet has you covered. Harmy has a "Despecialized Edition", that you'll obviously have to torrent. If you're concerned about legality, just be sure you own the most recent Blu-Rays- much is based on those, and if you have an edit of a product you own (the Blu-Ray), that's totally legal.
Anyway, here's a youtube where the despecialized edition is gone over at length:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
If you give any fucks about the original cut of the movie, this is what you want, full stop. And yes, Empire and Jedi have been done too.
Star Wars endures because it's awesome. Star Wars merchandising endures because it's profitable.
Han didn't shoot Greedo first. Han shot Greedo, and Greedo didn't shoot at all.
The exclusives you prefer matter. The controller doesn't unless you HATE the other guy's controller AND can't find a third party that does it the way you like. Sony has always had excellent controllers, and the days of Microsoft having shitty controllers only suitable for large handed men ended halfway through the Xbox 1's lifetime.
If you don't have a preference on exclusives, then you look at two things:
1)- Performance. More power is better.
2)- Installed user base. More is better.
You don't look at performance because you are necessarily looking for better performing games, you look at performance because it means you'll get more and better games on that system, and because the developers are more likely to design a game for the more powerful system, and just port it to the other console. This is the same reason you look for installed user base: the bigger one will draw more developers, meaning that your really good game that you actually like is more likely to show up than if it was a niche system.
The PS4 wins on both. Xbone sold so few systems that Microsoft has stopped reporting them, so that's a seriously hardcore loss- if you can't even play by industry standards and report your userbase, you're fucking done.
Piracy on consoles is real, but it is definitely less than on platforms that you have control over.
The number 1 thing that consoles offer that PCs cannot, is an almost complete lack of hackers in purely online games.
Had doesn't shoot first.
Han shoots.
Greed doesn't shoot at all.
Because he's dead.
Because that's what happens when Han Fucking Solo shoots you.
Look for "despecialized edition". It is the droids you are looking for.
Hahaha! Well played. I had no idea they would port that to consoles. Nice.