Ditto here, too. "My real name together with the country I live". I think my real NAME is enough for uniqueness -- the only consolation is that it's a little hard to actually spell correctly.
I have a Twitter and FB account I use maybe once a year; the only correct profile info there is my name and phone number. The other info basically says "You should know this already. If you don't and want to, call me and we'll chat." (And it's a direct but virtual number.) I have actual friends that I literally talk to, personalized just for them.
but this is confusing how it's being applied to Twitter.
It's being applied to Twitter by a very nice smiling man in a black hat, holding a large piece of legal-sized paper on Twitter behind which is a large gun, and saying, "Nice piece of internet real-estate you've got there,..."
It's the government. Once you finally manage to attract their attention and actually get them pissed, you've got Trouble with a Capital T.
All the main distros use it because it is good, a huge improvement.
SystemD is 2010s version of Microsoft wizards of the 1990s.
They're great. They really are. They're easy to use, helpful, and just work.
That is until they don't. And then you're screwed
"Domain interpreters", if you will, are superb at what they do. They make all of the hard stuff "go away", kinda like programming libraries. That is, as long as you stay WITHIN their domain and do things as expected.
The moment you take one minor baby step outside what they expect or control, it all goes to Hell. It's confused because: "You're doing... wait, what ARE you doing? What IS that? Never mind, I'll just ignore it." And it gets confused or out of sync. And on any breakage, even better, now YOU'RE confused as well, and even worse YOU literally don't know what's going on.
SystemD hasn't broken on me yet, but I've heard horror stores of non-standard or even not-quite-mainstream configs that work and then they suddenly won't. And if you look at some of the bugs Pottering has declared WONTFIX (referred to by that random ignored bastion of unworthyness;-) you begin to wonder.
The best thing about domain interpreters is that in a must-work complex situation is that you have to call for help. And who better than your distro maintainer? And then no reason at all, guess who SystemD's main author, Pottering, is employed by?
Oh, Debian is the literal base for a bunch of distros, including Ubuntu. RedHat also supports a few you might have heard of. You might be interested in the Debian vote for SystemD.
I'm a RHCE, SuSE something, Microsoft something, Novell CNE, and what-all else, or at least was -- retired, so guess I don't count anymore. Once I get my storage usage under control, I'm beginning a move to FreeBSD.
If you've "broken your web terminal"
you should run "reset". And your homepage seems to be currently down, BTW.
Government's the problem, not the solution". But crap like this is part of a broader trend
But government is the problem.
Not State Government, federal government. It's literally system-wide and needs to keep a light touch since it can affect, influence, damage, and destroy anything it gets near. It needs to be a coordination entity between states. It needs to make sure "everyone's telling the truth" as best they can, and the truth may change over time as we learn new things. (Eggs are good / bad / good / bad / I forgot what I said last.) And then again opinions may differ between states.
Wisconsin may want men to marry cheese. Iowa may have a thing for women and vacuum cleaners, North Carolina may mandate vaccines while South Carolina prohibits them. WHATEVER. The groups of people in each state decide what they think should be law. Vote and set the law, or vote and change the law. Hate it, can't change it, and can't stand it? Move to one of 49 other places. And surprise, there might not be a place anywhere that exactly meats 100% of your vegan responsibilities. (Or even 1%, in which case seems likely you're soon to be an ex-pat.) You have to choose what's important and ignore the rest, other people will choose similarity and you'll have overall agreement, but not homogeneous idea duplication. We all have to live and get along with each other; nobody is a literal daemon that needs to be shot on sight or chased out of restaurants. (Otherwise we go back to "let's tar and feather them" and "run them out of town on a rail". *I* wasn't around for any of that, and you weren't either. Do you REALLY want to revert back to mob rule? I sure don't.
We enforce the laws on the books so everyone knows what's expected of them. If they're bad, wrong, or stupid, change them; but you enforce what's there at the time and don't do retro-active until you invent a time-machine. That's one of the problems with the current Federal Government: they can easily make laws affecting everybody, and they can also make conflicting laws without regard to previous ones, and then "maybe we'll enforce it, or maybe we won't." That's BS. Enforce ALL of them, AS WRITTEN. And update as necessary. And regarding the Feds, try not to have them involved at all, never mind laws overriding everything. (Oh My -- States Ruling Themselves? What is this World Coming To?)
And the Feds do minor things like overall protection of all of us -- that's the military, and external border control help if a state wants assistance. Same with roads -- Nebraska drives on the right side of the road, Rhode Island drives over the left. Fine, but BZZZZ, not on federal interstate roads that transit both states. Elsewhere, have at it; Northbound drives in the middle of the road, Southbound drives on the edges. You're stupid for not going along with the majority, but whatever.
And for things that exceed a state, they begrudgingly control things like interstate banks. Within Texas, if you want state bank deposits backed by steers? Go for it. But for Bank of America, crossing state lines, suddenly one state is pitted against another, and it takes the feds to break the stalemate.
They turned "Union" into a dirty word
Ohhh, I do believe they had some help there from the unions themselves. It's not always Power Of The People against The Man. I suspect at times it's Power Corrupts, whether at Large, Medium, Small, or Gigantic scale. The only thing "Too Big to Fail" is the Fed Gov itself, everything else (GM anyone?) should let die a natural death. Banks as well AS LONG AS the depositors are protected. Investors? They get the short end of the stick, that's why they're investing for profits. Sometimes there aren't any, and sometimes they're negative.
to build out a wireless first responders network for FirstNet
Well you see, AT&T had to first implement ZeroNet and make sure it's implemented properly and works successfully. Sounds like it's a SUCCESS! Now all they have to do is rename it and their work is done.
but their evilness has greatly diminished.
Of course, this is not by choice, but because they no longer have the market power to impose their will.
I read your first line and was about to respond with the second. So: ACTUAL evil declined since they've lost market power, but let's face it, their POTENTIAL evil is about the same if they could. Does that really count as a loss of evil?
OTOH I don't think _anybody_ wants the Thought Police to start making rounds, so I guess that it does.
Hmmm, does that say something about Absolute Market Share and Power? I know, let's create MORE ISP and news/entertainment monopolies!
It's very hard to be sure that things play together when more than one content provider is involved
But it works fine, see? Besides it's not MY code that broke things. And I'll be gone long before *I* have to support it, so no harm, no foul, no problem.
I'd write some documentation, but I won't and you won't understand it anyway and will just rewrite the entire things from scratch so I won't.
I do miss the visceral feel of turning the page of a book [from a Kindle]
Then just pack a single good, real book with your ebook. When the urge hits while reading the Kindle, take out the physical book and slowly rub and turn the pages, perhaps occasionally glancing at the Kindle. When it subsides, return where you left off.
As a side node, there was a 50 year old cryptography book at the local library. It was neat, it was understandable, it had heavy pages and (of all things) it smelled wonderful. I checked it out for 2 weeks at a time for like 3x per year for years, then suddenly it was gone. I've always assumed someone swiped it and paid the minor fine, although it might have ended up on the yearly book sale. I have way too many books already, but I still wish I had THAT particular one.
I do still have a near virgin onion-skinned CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 57th Edition (1975) with over 2,000 pages (random used link.) Constants and trig functions don't change values THAT often. Foo, I say FOO on your HP calculators and slide-rulers!
If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear. But your cousin or Aunt Minne, on the other hand....
I guess DNA makes a good perp pointer, as long as they're not the ONLY thing used to incriminate people.
By the way, if you've got absolutely nothing to hide -- what are all of your credit card and banking numbers again? I'm verifying data from Exactis. Thanks.
Why is this marked funny? I voted for DT because he WASN'T Hillary. We've already had 8 years of Clinton and *I've* had him as a relative leader for an extra 12.
when they realize that there isn't an app for civil war.
But there is: Twitter's flash-mob. (or whatever platform you move it to.) It's not just for dancing anymore.
I've read of instant-theft, where a bunch of people show up at a store and minutes later Grab and Go. The store is set up for casual shoplifters, not when half of your customers are running away.
Now with instant communication running multi-point, just convert that to guerrilla warfare. "Will be meeting Aunt Marie at the local power substation at 2AM tomorrow. Bring presents, tell your friends!" And if enough of the "right" people show up, you've done a BANG up job.
modern systems are still stuck with single-correction double-detection. I am not sure that is correct.
I am not sure either -- but decades ago it took 5 extra bits to guard 16 bits. As I understood it, the ECC was kept there, and on failure it morphed and used 4 bits to point to the incorrect bit and 1 bit to indicate action needed (ie, failure.)
This was only 1 vendor from decades ago, but that's what I remember the technical manual saying (back when they described things.) So I assume from that that it takes more bits to correct more bits; that they haven't improved the math behind the detection algorithm.
You can kinda notice the same thing in RAID5 and ZFS. You can add extra drives for more redundancy, but a single drive can't handle 2 unit failures -- I think the math requires more bits sacrificed to the Data Gods for better coverage, and there's nothing extra the bottom level can do with the bits it can use. (I know! Let's throw away all of those fat 0s and only keep the slim 1s -- that'll easily give us twice the space!)
Needless to say, this is obviously just a game, not indicative of real life -- unless you start seeing 2D characters around you.
Also, we want to think that "we're" always in control, but if we get stressed out enough (think enough repressed aggravation and hate morphed into rage) I think the lower brain comes into play and subverts things. So you "always" control your feelings and actions, but they suddenly and literally control you, so your conscious and planning mind flips to solving the imperative panic response problems. Legal, moral, and ethical ideas all be dammed, adrenaline solves the immediate problem; the next breath can take care of itself.
This is partly what I think is wrong with schools -- teach Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic, basic health, math, and budgeting skills, along with self-control (And Hell, maybe that includes dealing with bullies.) You WANT it now, you don't NEED it now. That cookie, doughnut, movie can wait. That new car can wait if you still have a beat-up working one. We all have to get along with others, although sometimes you just have to agree to disagree and minimize contact. You are NOT always right, listen to opposing views, realize they might have a point as well.
That works BOTH WAYS though, they need to listen to you. Demonizing them (those INHUMAN monsters!) and completely shutting them out doesn't help anyone. I was shocked to see the mandatory XKCD cartoon here in a discussion. If he's right -- if everyone's completely made up their mind and not ever talking or listening to each other -- we're lost. (BF: we'll all hang separately.) Zealots are one thing, discussion is another. And "civility is white privilege" -- oh my God, if you tarnish the golden rule (completely ignoring religion) then you really ARE evil. If "Strength is Justice" then snipers rule.
To clarify this using an "old conflict": angels and demons all fight for what's "right" -- but I imagine in their own mind they think THEY'RE 100% right and it's the OTHER group contains the demons.
So which side are you on again? Are you sure?
Oh, and one final group that actually wants to kill me, that I know of -- extreme Muslims. I'm an atheist and either I'll submit, or die. Or so I understand. I don't like religion and hate extreme anything, but I don't think the extreme Buddhists, Wiccans, and Christians literally want to kill me while the Muslims do. I could be wrong but haven't found any evidence yet. (And I haven't looked THAT much, and one article/comment in either direction isn't enough.)
stabbed to death minutes after giving a seminar on how to resolve personal disputes on the internet.
Not to be snarky here, but my first thought after reading this was "So I guess that's exactly NOT what you should do, huh?" (Sorry to be morbid.)
At least the guy turned himself in soon afterwards. But he bothered the guy online, even kept making new IDs to hassle the guy after the previous one was disabled.
What the hell is wrong with people? "Someone's wrong on the internet / in life and it's my duty / job / addiction to permanently correct them? Get over yourself and come up with a better argument. Make them come over to your side instead.
Hell, maybe you'll even learn something yourself.
Winston Churchill: A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
When Google Maps was fairly new, I trolled a friend of mine while on the phone in the work parking lot. I was running late and complained that Maps showed an empty parking space which was currently filled.
I was right, but so was Maps -- IF you looked at the date of the picture, which you couldn't then. Still, it made for a great excuse for being 10-minutes late!
I know, I know nothing, I wrote z80 assembly as an intro.
I learned on an MITS Altair-8800 computer that my roommate had in college. We played one dimensional, straight-line Pong, and had to flip the front-panel switches to reload the program after shutting it off. (5.1 Audio? Mouse? CRT? Printer? Floppy? Keyboard? Paper-tape? You must be joking.)
After graduation, I ended up at his computer shop running CDOS, a CP/M improvement from Cromemco with hardware. They eventually upgraded from 8080 to a Z-80. Really neat, with those 2nd set of registers. We wrote COBOL and Fortran accounting software using embeeded software overlays and 8" floppies and 5-10M hard drives. (150K? 5 Meg? Is that right?? We only had 64K of RAM though, MAX) for companies.
Hey, did you ever see that Zilog Z-80 paperback book (6"x8"? Weird size.) describing how all of the operations worked in pseudo-code? It was wonderful.
I still have a Z-80 fold-out instruction card. Also an IBM 360 one, much longer. Not much useful now, but extremely useful at the time.
Also, decades ago now, IBM produced (as an experiment, not a retail product) a mainframe computer-on-a-chip, but supposedly the firmware was changeable to directly run binary code from IBM 360, PDP, Amdahl, and maybe 3 other CPUs. A decade or more later you've got (we had internal Compaq In-Site cards) things which directly control the computer remotely, even when "it's off". I understand the new corporate ones have it all built on the motherboard. Still need power to the PS though, but you could insert floppy images and flash firmware while sitting at your desk. Neat-O!
I used to understand how things worked, down to the bare metal. (Could program PICs and INT handlers and all that. You too, I'm sure. Remember 16550 UART serial chips with 14-byte internal cache? ) I fiddled with AI a bit in college in the late 70s.
It was bloomin' math magic then, I could run the simple operations by hand or look at the intermediate data structures. But it was all just random junk -- except it would actually come out with working answers. I can't imagine and don't understand what they're doing now -- and really, I don't actually think they do either.
That's it -- THAT'S the ticket! I've been invaded by chocolate-loving fat mites. That's why I can't lose weight no matter how much chocolate I eat.
But really? I understand (wanting to) believe something, even without evidence or even anti-evidence. THAT'S called faith. (Re the joke: My mind is made up, don't confuse me with the facts.) That's great and all, but actual evidence is better. And sometimes you can explain away the differences (they're only watching me when I'm asleep) but then there's still usually a way to generate some testable results. Occasionally though you realize you're just too stupid (or not smart enough) to understand the evidence pro- or con-, and just make up your mind. In most cases it's not really important although it might seem that way to you. In a few cases, though: "Nature Finds a Way." You're infested by dragonflies and so you can fly? Cool -- me too!... but you first. I'll take notes for Darwin.
For bugs though? In this case, as long as it's not your torso or eyes, start lightly stabbing random limbs or buy an X-Ray machine. The more you look and don't see anything, the more chance is it's not really there. You can only prove that they're actually THERE though, but eventually you'll get tired of stabbing yourself. I know that once I've scratched mosquito bites so much that they bled, but I wasn't looking for mosquitoes, just relief.
It's your body, do what you think best. The second you start trying to do it to MY body though, we've got a discussion to have, and I bet my bugs are bigger than yours.
Just like there was only a singnle Matrix and Men in Black movie. Anybody who says differently is just a evil heretic trying to deceive you and needs to drink much more than they already have.
Consider the work and support needed for the next systemd
Oh GOD, there's not enough drugs in this world to envision and design another Yet-Another-SystemD.
Please save us from this horror. Oh, the humanity!
No, wait: that's not a bad idea after all. We could call it DSystem, also design and implement it half-assedly, and if we're really, REALLY lucky they'd cancel each other out, just like matter and anti-matter.
I'm moving to *BSD -- no reason. Also, and just for fun, going to install and try Devuan. (Can you tell how much I enjoy systemd?) Really, it's great though, as long as it works and stays functioning. Just once when it fails though, you'll never look back -- because just like movie monsters, it might be gaining on you.
The sensors detected her just fine, the software just decide: 'Ehhh fuck it -- I am not stopping"
That's obviously a extreme software failure -- the crash might have scratched the paint, thus damaging the car.
Those lazy software people should be fired immediately and the responsible managers should hire new ones -- preferably 20 years experience in a field that's only been around for 5.
Oh, look! Another attack surface. I'm sure THIS one will be completely secure. I can go to sleep with relief that someone without a physical or key fob will be able to access my car without my knowledge.
That if, if I manage to drink enough whisky. Maybe the self-driving car can pick up some for me. Hell, just add photo-recognition to it -- if it doesn't look like me or my wife trying to enter the car, just start it up and drive off. For bonus points get a picture of the perp. For EXTRA bonus points, make sure that same picture has the front tire of the car sitting on them. Or rear tire, I'm not picky, and there's already a camera back there anyway.
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How hard is it to rate on a 5 point scale? We do it zillions of times a day at nearly every school in the nation...
5 = A = very best = Absolutely love
1 = F = worst/fail = hated it
Apparently it's hard. Let me direct your attention to this partial article: You Graduated Cum Laude? So Did Everyone Else. At X and Y, more got the designations than didn't.
So just save time and space and make everything a 10 or 11 and be done with it.
Ditto here, too. "My real name together with the country I live". I think my real NAME is enough for uniqueness -- the only consolation is that it's a little hard to actually spell correctly.
I have a Twitter and FB account I use maybe once a year; the only correct profile info there is my name and phone number. The other info basically says "You should know this already. If you don't and want to, call me and we'll chat." (And it's a direct but virtual number.) I have actual friends that I literally talk to, personalized just for them.
but this is confusing how it's being applied to Twitter.
It's being applied to Twitter by a very nice smiling man in a black hat, holding a large piece of legal-sized paper on Twitter behind which is a large gun, and saying, "Nice piece of internet real-estate you've got there, ..."
It's the government. Once you finally manage to attract their attention and actually get them pissed, you've got Trouble with a Capital T.
Good info, thanks for sharing it!
All the main distros use it because it is good, a huge improvement.
SystemD is 2010s version of Microsoft wizards of the 1990s.
... wait, what ARE you doing? What IS that? Never mind, I'll just ignore it." And it gets confused or out of sync. And on any breakage, even better, now YOU'RE confused as well, and even worse YOU literally don't know what's going on.
;-) you begin to wonder.
They're great. They really are. They're easy to use, helpful, and just work.
That is until they don't. And then you're screwed
"Domain interpreters", if you will, are superb at what they do. They make all of the hard stuff "go away", kinda like programming libraries. That is, as long as you stay WITHIN their domain and do things as expected.
The moment you take one minor baby step outside what they expect or control, it all goes to Hell. It's confused because: "You're doing
SystemD hasn't broken on me yet, but I've heard horror stores of non-standard or even not-quite-mainstream configs that work and then they suddenly won't. And if you look at some of the bugs Pottering has declared WONTFIX (referred to by that random ignored bastion of unworthyness
The best thing about domain interpreters is that in a must-work complex situation is that you have to call for help. And who better than your distro maintainer? And then no reason at all, guess who SystemD's main author, Pottering, is employed by?
Oh, Debian is the literal base for a bunch of distros, including Ubuntu. RedHat also supports a few you might have heard of. You might be interested in the Debian vote for SystemD.
I'm a RHCE, SuSE something, Microsoft something, Novell CNE, and what-all else, or at least was -- retired, so guess I don't count anymore. Once I get my storage usage under control, I'm beginning a move to FreeBSD.
If you've "broken your web terminal" you should run "reset". And your homepage seems to be currently down, BTW.
Government's the problem, not the solution". But crap like this is part of a broader trend
But government is the problem.
Not State Government, federal government. It's literally system-wide and needs to keep a light touch since it can affect, influence, damage, and destroy anything it gets near. It needs to be a coordination entity between states. It needs to make sure "everyone's telling the truth" as best they can, and the truth may change over time as we learn new things. (Eggs are good / bad / good / bad / I forgot what I said last.) And then again opinions may differ between states.
Wisconsin may want men to marry cheese. Iowa may have a thing for women and vacuum cleaners, North Carolina may mandate vaccines while South Carolina prohibits them. WHATEVER. The groups of people in each state decide what they think should be law. Vote and set the law, or vote and change the law. Hate it, can't change it, and can't stand it? Move to one of 49 other places. And surprise, there might not be a place anywhere that exactly meats 100% of your vegan responsibilities. (Or even 1%, in which case seems likely you're soon to be an ex-pat.) You have to choose what's important and ignore the rest, other people will choose similarity and you'll have overall agreement, but not homogeneous idea duplication. We all have to live and get along with each other; nobody is a literal daemon that needs to be shot on sight or chased out of restaurants. (Otherwise we go back to "let's tar and feather them" and "run them out of town on a rail". *I* wasn't around for any of that, and you weren't either. Do you REALLY want to revert back to mob rule? I sure don't.
We enforce the laws on the books so everyone knows what's expected of them. If they're bad, wrong, or stupid, change them; but you enforce what's there at the time and don't do retro-active until you invent a time-machine. That's one of the problems with the current Federal Government: they can easily make laws affecting everybody, and they can also make conflicting laws without regard to previous ones, and then "maybe we'll enforce it, or maybe we won't." That's BS. Enforce ALL of them, AS WRITTEN. And update as necessary. And regarding the Feds, try not to have them involved at all, never mind laws overriding everything. (Oh My -- States Ruling Themselves? What is this World Coming To?)
And the Feds do minor things like overall protection of all of us -- that's the military, and external border control help if a state wants assistance. Same with roads -- Nebraska drives on the right side of the road, Rhode Island drives over the left. Fine, but BZZZZ, not on federal interstate roads that transit both states. Elsewhere, have at it; Northbound drives in the middle of the road, Southbound drives on the edges. You're stupid for not going along with the majority, but whatever.
And for things that exceed a state, they begrudgingly control things like interstate banks. Within Texas, if you want state bank deposits backed by steers? Go for it. But for Bank of America, crossing state lines, suddenly one state is pitted against another, and it takes the feds to break the stalemate.
They turned "Union" into a dirty word
Ohhh, I do believe they had some help there from the unions themselves. It's not always Power Of The People against The Man. I suspect at times it's Power Corrupts, whether at Large, Medium, Small, or Gigantic scale. The only thing "Too Big to Fail" is the Fed Gov itself, everything else (GM anyone?) should let die a natural death. Banks as well AS LONG AS the depositors are protected. Investors? They get the short end of the stick, that's why they're investing for profits. Sometimes there aren't any, and sometimes they're negative.
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to build out a wireless first responders network for FirstNet
Well you see, AT&T had to first implement ZeroNet and make sure it's implemented properly and works successfully. Sounds like it's a SUCCESS! Now all they have to do is rename it and their work is done.
but their evilness has greatly diminished.
Of course, this is not by choice, but because they no longer have the market power to impose their will.
I read your first line and was about to respond with the second. So: ACTUAL evil declined since they've lost market power, but let's face it, their POTENTIAL evil is about the same if they could. Does that really count as a loss of evil?
OTOH I don't think _anybody_ wants the Thought Police to start making rounds, so I guess that it does.
Hmmm, does that say something about Absolute Market Share and Power? I know, let's create MORE ISP and news/entertainment monopolies!
pretending sex doesn't exist
But sex doesn't exist. At least not around me, anyway. ;-(
It's very hard to be sure that things play together when more than one content provider is involved
But it works fine, see? Besides it's not MY code that broke things. And I'll be gone long before *I* have to support it, so no harm, no foul, no problem.
I'd write some documentation, but I won't and you won't understand it anyway and will just rewrite the entire things from scratch so I won't.
I do miss the visceral feel of turning the page of a book [from a Kindle]
Then just pack a single good, real book with your ebook. When the urge hits while reading the Kindle, take out the physical book and slowly rub and turn the pages, perhaps occasionally glancing at the Kindle. When it subsides, return where you left off.
As a side node, there was a 50 year old cryptography book at the local library. It was neat, it was understandable, it had heavy pages and (of all things) it smelled wonderful. I checked it out for 2 weeks at a time for like 3x per year for years, then suddenly it was gone. I've always assumed someone swiped it and paid the minor fine, although it might have ended up on the yearly book sale. I have way too many books already, but I still wish I had THAT particular one.
I do still have a near virgin onion-skinned CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 57th Edition (1975) with over 2,000 pages (random used link.) Constants and trig functions don't change values THAT often. Foo, I say FOO on your HP calculators and slide-rulers!
If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear. But your cousin or Aunt Minne, on the other hand.... I guess DNA makes a good perp pointer, as long as they're not the ONLY thing used to incriminate people.
By the way, if you've got absolutely nothing to hide -- what are all of your credit card and banking numbers again? I'm verifying data from Exactis. Thanks.
they almost gave us Hillary!
Why is this marked funny? I voted for DT because he WASN'T Hillary. We've already had 8 years of Clinton and *I've* had him as a relative leader for an extra 12.
e-NOUGH already.
when they realize that there isn't an app for civil war.
But there is: Twitter's flash-mob. (or whatever platform you move it to.) It's not just for dancing anymore.
I've read of instant-theft, where a bunch of people show up at a store and minutes later Grab and Go. The store is set up for casual shoplifters, not when half of your customers are running away.
Now with instant communication running multi-point, just convert that to guerrilla warfare. "Will be meeting Aunt Marie at the local power substation at 2AM tomorrow. Bring presents, tell your friends!" And if enough of the "right" people show up, you've done a BANG up job.
modern systems are still stuck with single-correction double-detection. I am not sure that is correct.
I am not sure either -- but decades ago it took 5 extra bits to guard 16 bits. As I understood it, the ECC was kept there, and on failure it morphed and used 4 bits to point to the incorrect bit and 1 bit to indicate action needed (ie, failure.)
This was only 1 vendor from decades ago, but that's what I remember the technical manual saying (back when they described things.) So I assume from that that it takes more bits to correct more bits; that they haven't improved the math behind the detection algorithm.
You can kinda notice the same thing in RAID5 and ZFS. You can add extra drives for more redundancy, but a single drive can't handle 2 unit failures -- I think the math requires more bits sacrificed to the Data Gods for better coverage, and there's nothing extra the bottom level can do with the bits it can use. (I know! Let's throw away all of those fat 0s and only keep the slim 1s -- that'll easily give us twice the space!)
OK, so corporations want to be people? Fine.
Take 'em to court. Presumably they'll lose with a fine and jail-time. The company pays the fine, and as the jail time? That's for the CEO.
He's the "brains" and "leader" of the operation? Let's treat him exactly that way.
I think I'm probably a psychopath; but I haven't killed enough people to tell.
if you've actually considered the possibility that you're a psychopath then you probably aren't one.
If you want some (virtual!) practice though, play Yandere Simulator or at least watch some YouTube videos. You can learn all types of useful things!
Needless to say, this is obviously just a game, not indicative of real life -- unless you start seeing 2D characters around you.
Also, we want to think that "we're" always in control, but if we get stressed out enough (think enough repressed aggravation and hate morphed into rage) I think the lower brain comes into play and subverts things. So you "always" control your feelings and actions, but they suddenly and literally control you, so your conscious and planning mind flips to solving the imperative panic response problems. Legal, moral, and ethical ideas all be dammed, adrenaline solves the immediate problem; the next breath can take care of itself.
This is partly what I think is wrong with schools -- teach Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic, basic health, math, and budgeting skills, along with self-control (And Hell, maybe that includes dealing with bullies.) You WANT it now, you don't NEED it now. That cookie, doughnut, movie can wait. That new car can wait if you still have a beat-up working one. We all have to get along with others, although sometimes you just have to agree to disagree and minimize contact. You are NOT always right, listen to opposing views, realize they might have a point as well.
That works BOTH WAYS though, they need to listen to you. Demonizing them (those INHUMAN monsters!) and completely shutting them out doesn't help anyone. I was shocked to see the mandatory XKCD cartoon here in a discussion. If he's right -- if everyone's completely made up their mind and not ever talking or listening to each other -- we're lost. (BF: we'll all hang separately.) Zealots are one thing, discussion is another. And "civility is white privilege" -- oh my God, if you tarnish the golden rule (completely ignoring religion) then you really ARE evil. If "Strength is Justice" then snipers rule.
To clarify this using an "old conflict": angels and demons all fight for what's "right" -- but I imagine in their own mind they think THEY'RE 100% right and it's the OTHER group contains the demons.
So which side are you on again? Are you sure?
Oh, and one final group that actually wants to kill me, that I know of -- extreme Muslims. I'm an atheist and either I'll submit, or die. Or so I understand. I don't like religion and hate extreme anything, but I don't think the extreme Buddhists, Wiccans, and Christians literally want to kill me while the Muslims do. I could be wrong but haven't found any evidence yet. (And I haven't looked THAT much, and one article/comment in either direction isn't enough.)
stabbed to death minutes after giving a seminar on how to resolve personal disputes on the internet.
Not to be snarky here, but my first thought after reading this was "So I guess that's exactly NOT what you should do, huh?" (Sorry to be morbid.)
At least the guy turned himself in soon afterwards. But he bothered the guy online, even kept making new IDs to hassle the guy after the previous one was disabled.
What the hell is wrong with people? "Someone's wrong on the internet / in life and it's my duty / job / addiction to permanently correct them? Get over yourself and come up with a better argument. Make them come over to your side instead. Hell, maybe you'll even learn something yourself.
Winston Churchill: A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
When Google Maps was fairly new, I trolled a friend of mine while on the phone in the work parking lot. I was running late and complained that Maps showed an empty parking space which was currently filled.
I was right, but so was Maps -- IF you looked at the date of the picture, which you couldn't then. Still, it made for a great excuse for being 10-minutes late!
I know, I know nothing, I wrote z80 assembly as an intro.
I learned on an MITS Altair-8800 computer that my roommate had in college. We played one dimensional, straight-line Pong, and had to flip the front-panel switches to reload the program after shutting it off. (5.1 Audio? Mouse? CRT? Printer? Floppy? Keyboard? Paper-tape? You must be joking.)
After graduation, I ended up at his computer shop running CDOS, a CP/M improvement from Cromemco with hardware. They eventually upgraded from 8080 to a Z-80. Really neat, with those 2nd set of registers. We wrote COBOL and Fortran accounting software using embeeded software overlays and 8" floppies and 5-10M hard drives. (150K? 5 Meg? Is that right?? We only had 64K of RAM though, MAX) for companies.
Hey, did you ever see that Zilog Z-80 paperback book (6"x8"? Weird size.) describing how all of the operations worked in pseudo-code? It was wonderful.
I still have a Z-80 fold-out instruction card. Also an IBM 360 one, much longer. Not much useful now, but extremely useful at the time.
Also, decades ago now, IBM produced (as an experiment, not a retail product) a mainframe computer-on-a-chip, but supposedly the firmware was changeable to directly run binary code from IBM 360, PDP, Amdahl, and maybe 3 other CPUs. A decade or more later you've got (we had internal Compaq In-Site cards) things which directly control the computer remotely, even when "it's off". I understand the new corporate ones have it all built on the motherboard. Still need power to the PS though, but you could insert floppy images and flash firmware while sitting at your desk. Neat-O!
I used to understand how things worked, down to the bare metal. (Could program PICs and INT handlers and all that. You too, I'm sure. Remember 16550 UART serial chips with 14-byte internal cache? ) I fiddled with AI a bit in college in the late 70s. It was bloomin' math magic then, I could run the simple operations by hand or look at the intermediate data structures. But it was all just random junk -- except it would actually come out with working answers. I can't imagine and don't understand what they're doing now -- and really, I don't actually think they do either.
That's it -- THAT'S the ticket! I've been invaded by chocolate-loving fat mites. That's why I can't lose weight no matter how much chocolate I eat.
... but you first. I'll take notes for Darwin.
But really? I understand (wanting to) believe something, even without evidence or even anti-evidence. THAT'S called faith. (Re the joke: My mind is made up, don't confuse me with the facts.) That's great and all, but actual evidence is better. And sometimes you can explain away the differences (they're only watching me when I'm asleep) but then there's still usually a way to generate some testable results. Occasionally though you realize you're just too stupid (or not smart enough) to understand the evidence pro- or con-, and just make up your mind. In most cases it's not really important although it might seem that way to you. In a few cases, though: "Nature Finds a Way." You're infested by dragonflies and so you can fly? Cool -- me too!
For bugs though? In this case, as long as it's not your torso or eyes, start lightly stabbing random limbs or buy an X-Ray machine. The more you look and don't see anything, the more chance is it's not really there. You can only prove that they're actually THERE though, but eventually you'll get tired of stabbing yourself. I know that once I've scratched mosquito bites so much that they bled, but I wasn't looking for mosquitoes, just relief.
It's your body, do what you think best. The second you start trying to do it to MY body though, we've got a discussion to have, and I bet my bugs are bigger than yours.
What are you talking about? It did.
Just like there was only a singnle Matrix and Men in Black movie. Anybody who says differently is just a evil heretic trying to deceive you and needs to drink much more than they already have.
Consider the work and support needed for the next systemd
Oh GOD, there's not enough drugs in this world to envision and design another Yet-Another-SystemD. Please save us from this horror. Oh, the humanity!
No, wait : that's not a bad idea after all. We could call it DSystem, also design and implement it half-assedly, and if we're really, REALLY lucky they'd cancel each other out, just like matter and anti-matter.
I'm moving to *BSD -- no reason. Also, and just for fun, going to install and try Devuan. (Can you tell how much I enjoy systemd?) Really, it's great though, as long as it works and stays functioning. Just once when it fails though, you'll never look back -- because just like movie monsters, it might be gaining on you.
Bezos would probably do it for free . . . because if the Earth was destroyed . . . nobody would subscribe to Amazon Prime any more.
Don't worry -- Beos will surely save us. Besides, it'll be a business expense. Hell -- it'll probably end up as a made-for-Amazon movie as well.
The sensors detected her just fine, the software just decide: 'Ehhh fuck it -- I am not stopping"
That's obviously a extreme software failure -- the crash might have scratched the paint, thus damaging the car.
Those lazy software people should be fired immediately and the responsible managers should hire new ones -- preferably 20 years experience in a field that's only been around for 5.
Oh, look! Another attack surface. I'm sure THIS one will be completely secure. I can go to sleep with relief that someone without a physical or key fob will be able to access my car without my knowledge.
That if, if I manage to drink enough whisky. Maybe the self-driving car can pick up some for me. Hell, just add photo-recognition to it -- if it doesn't look like me or my wife trying to enter the car, just start it up and drive off. For bonus points get a picture of the perp. For EXTRA bonus points, make sure that same picture has the front tire of the car sitting on them. Or rear tire, I'm not picky, and there's already a camera back there anyway.