I doubt "his" agenda has to do with suicide too. It is fear that drives those types of decisions. Once the "fear" is allayed, critical thinking stops because, hey, the problem that aroused fear is dealt with. No more thought necessary, everything is taken care of... but its not. That is why the "no guns, no violence" people piss me off so much. Not that anyone cares what I think.
It is only a lazy way of protesting if you fear the consequences and try to avoid them; otherwise, it is a great way to protest.
To continue with your negativity, I also think that most people are choosing the "lazy" way to protest. So, you are not wrong... even if you are not right.:)
The US doesn't even have the rockets to launch anything like a nuke.
Publicly, you are correct. You have no idea what the US Air Force is doing with rockets. They are capable of putting nuclear devices in orbit, tomorrow if need be.
It's worse than that. China has already demonstrated they can and will shoot down an orbiting satellite.
You REALLY should have mentioned the response from the US when that happened. TL;DR, USA shot down an orbiting satellite with a missile, launched from a destroyer, in heavy seas.
Not only did America prove it can shoot down a satellite, it proved it could do so at a whim in less than ideal conditions.
America already knows that the space based platforms are not reliable. The rest of the world should know too since this was all public.
A significant percentage of Dominionists interpret Biblical version, in particular Revelations, to mean that it is their duty to intentionally induce an apocalypse in order to precipitate the Second Coming of Christ.
ROFLMAO. The arrogance. They think they can control God? "Precipitate" the second coming? Really? All that an apocalyptic scenario will induce will be a LOT of dead people and a lot of misery amongst the survivors. You can't force God to do anything. If you could, then they are not a God. Oy vey.
Is there a term for this type of insanity other than religious fundamentalist? (I note Muslims have a similar disease to the Christians, do others?)
Not bad for 5 minutes of thinking (plus some time to refine the idea while typing it up). I am sure some really smart heads could cook up something even better, but this is already miles beyond whatever they have going on in Georgia.
The thing you are missing here is that "they" do not want reliable and accountable voting systems. I think they should be thrown in jail for treason, but meh. This is America, where the country can go to hell in a handbasket as long as someone profits off of it. Not many people seem to care about the country as a whole anymore. It is all special interests.
I used to do this. I am not in a position to do it currently.
I had realtors and police as the main users. I would see them park outside of my house. It felt good to share and nobody abused the privilege. This is how society should be.
As a security oriented person, I had limits and filters in place in case anyone decided to get too "uppity", but nobody ever hit any of those.
Surely someone must have known yet they went ahead and did it anyway. While not nearly as egregious the same theme is being repeated with WPA3. Better algorithms with better properties are readily available yet they elect to go forward with the inferior one anyway.
This has been a common theme since wireless encryption has been a thing. I am reminded of a saying: Once is happenstance. Twice is suspicious. Three times is enemy action.
To play devil's advocate here: Many people have tunnel-vision existences. They have no ability to think randomly or have any knowledge of how to discover new things. This may help those types of people.
To play God's advocate to Devil's advocate, this will be used in an attempt at controlling what people will see. It will hide things that are unpopular to The Powers That Be. It will be used to drive people towards economic activity that may not be in their best interests.
Meh. This software should not be distributed as part of the "base" browser. WTF Mozilla? We can see your activities and what they mean.
While I mildly disagree with you on some things, I still think you are a mostly reasonable person. Watching you suffer these fools is painful for me. I am unsure if they have some sort of actual mental disorder or if it is willful ignorance. It is like they are fully invested in not understanding/seeing reality. It is happening everywhere. Did someone add something to the water?
It is good that you are repulsed by the Republican Party.
Please, for the love of all that is holy, do not assume that the Democratic Party will be your saviour from the evil Republicans. Both parties are corrupt to the core.
I attended Blackhat. I was at Mandalay Bay. Those morons have NO idea how to do security.
Housekeeping was obscenely aggressive. I am pretty sure that I did not get a single good night of sleep there. Housekeeping kept waking me up; either by attempting to enter my room despite the "Do Not Disturb" equivalent they offered or by calling me morning and night to ask if I needed my room serviced.
Seriously. They walked into my room without knocking while I was asleep with my girlfriend.
Another huge Red Flag was that three entire hotels were woken up at 4:20 in the morning because someone was smoking on the Tram that services all three hotels. Think about it for a sec. You have a system designed to wake up all three hotels during an emergency and it can be triggered by something as trivial as smoking in a tram. Worse, they do not tell you what the "early alert" is, so half of the hotel is wandering in the hallways in a sleepy daze. Is that what is really desired during an emergency?
I believe there used to be a saying a thousand years ago when I was just a wee lad: What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away.
This is all exactly representative of mental health in the modern world. Justify things based on what you want instead of reality and the crud just keeps building until it just doesn't work anymore. It is a good thing that humans have limited lifespans so we can justify the mental illness by saying that they were gonna die anyways so we do not have to reflect on what caused the problems.
Why does nobody have a coherent view of security and development? The insanity is intentional. It comes from wanting logically impossible things because of money. Whatever. It will be interesting to see it keep burning.
I grew up in the "Tell me where you're going, be home by dinner and then be home before dark" world.. it was a wonderful place.. Can we get back there or is it too late?
It is too late. Whoever it is that controls the media/message is overriding anyone who has a lick of common sense. We are locked into this ride and it is getting bumpy and it is only going to get worse until civilization itself is torn apart. We are essentially in the space shuttle Columbia right now and we are in the re-entry arc. Have fun. Nobody is watching the watchers and they are batshit insane.
Look at the CO2 emissions per capita, the USA is way up there, with almost twice the emissions of Belgium and much of the rest of western Europe, and 4 times Sweden's...
CO2 emissions per capita would be a useful measurement if you were measuring the CO2 output of individuals; however, the majority of CO2 is not being emitted by individuals, but rather businesses. The per capita measurement completely ignores manufacturing and other industrial processes, so it looks like the individual American is running around blowing CO2 out of their asses at absurdly high quantities. I kind of wonder why you would even propose this unless you had an agenda of some sort. I guess I could see nothing malicious in it if you were to be an utterly retarded moron who had no capability of seeing past their nose... but meh.
TL;DR, CO2 per capita completely ignores production sources of CO2 emissions. How much production are these low-CO2-per-capita countries providing in relation to their CO2 output?
Even shorter version: You are NOT helping to solve the problem.
The 2038 bug is being constantly addressed now. The move to 64 bit CPUs made switching time_t to a "long long" very simple. By 2038, there should be very little work left to do.
I have never really been interested in RSS. Way back when, Firefox used to ship with a BBC newsfeed by default. They stopped adding that feed as a default but I really liked that feature, so I figured out how to add it back in manually.
Oh! I am using RSS, something I was never interested in... but I was. I still have a live bookmark filled with an RSS feed from the BBC even today. I use it every day.
What is the value in removing this feature? Why is the change necessary? Is it too buggy to maintain? Removing it seems so... arbitrary. Mozilla disgusts me.
But always assuming the worst possible use of new techniques and technologies is not helpful.
Not exploring the worst possible use of new techniques and technologies is not helpful. I would go so far as to call it willful ignorance. But, that is just me. I absolutely do agree that making the worst case the default assumption to be not helpful, but if you do not examine the worst case... just, wow.
I'm sure the final step would be for a real person to verify the matches to see if there's false positives.
I feel fairly certain that your assumption here is correct. What you are missing is how long it takes to verify the match and what has happened in the meantime.
Scenario: the algorithm identifies you as the perpetrator in some heinous crime. the police arrest you, most likely in a VERY violent manner (after all, you deserved it for the heinous crime that you committed). You end finally being released from the hospital for some bruised ribs and a broken jaw and taken straight to jail. The Sheriff neglects to run a DNA match to verify, either too busy, too lazy, or just doesn't care because of the utterly heinous nature of the crime you committed. Nine months later, your awesome lawyer that one of your friends paid for (since all of your assets were frozen!) manages to raise a reasonable enough doubt about the process that the forgotten DNA test was never administered. 16 months later, the test is finally administered and your are set free... however, you have lost your job and your name has been plastered all over the media for the past year and half. Some of the media outlets issue a retraction. You sue the Sheriff and win $200k but your previous mode of life is over forever and a few of your previous acquaintances still look at you a bit odd despite the mistaken identity being proven.
This already occurs with eye witnesses but eye witnesses accounts are known to be questionable at times. Computers are seen as infallible because they do not lie.
Since when can a Blu-ray disk store 12 terabits of data per square inch?
I am not them, but I assume that they mean that the technology is capable of that in a lab environment. When the process is moved into a mass manufactured product, that theoretical limit is lowered... substantially.
The social security thing is too twisted an issue to address.
Back in the early 80s, Congress was so very very upset about having a hundred billion dollars just sitting there doing nothing. Those billions were money that was paid into Social Security. Well, Congress decided to "fix" that real fast. Now, instead of Social Security being paid out of the money that was paid in, they spend the money that is paid in and tell everyone that the people who deserve Social Security are a drain on the budget. *sigh*
I have nothing against Elon Musk really, but he is as you say, an egomaniac billionaire.
As a person, Elon is not "my type". I don't think I could ever sit down and have an enjoyable chat with him.
There is ONE aspect to him that has me absolutely floored with... admiration? He got lucky and won his millions/billions whatever and instead of circling the wagons and defending his newfound wealth, he decided to do some fun and cool shit like build electric cars and reusable rockets.
There are people who are FAR more wealthy than he is and what do they do with their money? Build structures to ensure the safety of their wealth. Go ahead and mention Gates at this point and how he is saving the world. Whatever. Best case, he is doing "charity" to save his name from the corrupt practices used to gain his wealth. Most likely case is he is securing his wealth, using the charitable foundation to secure contracts for Microsoft and locking those people in wholesale. Regardless, it is still nothing new, exciting, or even interesting.
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I doubt "his" agenda has to do with suicide too. It is fear that drives those types of decisions. Once the "fear" is allayed, critical thinking stops because, hey, the problem that aroused fear is dealt with. No more thought necessary, everything is taken care of... but its not. That is why the "no guns, no violence" people piss me off so much. Not that anyone cares what I think.
Have a nice day. :)
Wow! You sure received some hate for that comment. I do not think you deserved it.
Hey folks! Use rsync. It really is that simple.
It is only a lazy way of protesting if you fear the consequences and try to avoid them; otherwise, it is a great way to protest.
To continue with your negativity, I also think that most people are choosing the "lazy" way to protest. So, you are not wrong... even if you are not right. :)
The US doesn't even have the rockets to launch anything like a nuke.
Publicly, you are correct. You have no idea what the US Air Force is doing with rockets. They are capable of putting nuclear devices in orbit, tomorrow if need be.
It's worse than that. China has already demonstrated they can and will shoot down an orbiting satellite.
You REALLY should have mentioned the response from the US when that happened. TL;DR, USA shot down an orbiting satellite with a missile, launched from a destroyer, in heavy seas.
Not only did America prove it can shoot down a satellite, it proved it could do so at a whim in less than ideal conditions.
America already knows that the space based platforms are not reliable. The rest of the world should know too since this was all public.
A significant percentage of Dominionists interpret Biblical version, in particular Revelations, to mean that it is their duty to intentionally induce an apocalypse in order to precipitate the Second Coming of Christ.
ROFLMAO. The arrogance. They think they can control God? "Precipitate" the second coming? Really? All that an apocalyptic scenario will induce will be a LOT of dead people and a lot of misery amongst the survivors. You can't force God to do anything. If you could, then they are not a God. Oy vey.
Is there a term for this type of insanity other than religious fundamentalist? (I note Muslims have a similar disease to the Christians, do others?)
Not bad for 5 minutes of thinking (plus some time to refine the idea while typing it up). I am sure some really smart heads could cook up something even better, but this is already miles beyond whatever they have going on in Georgia.
The thing you are missing here is that "they" do not want reliable and accountable voting systems. I think they should be thrown in jail for treason, but meh. This is America, where the country can go to hell in a handbasket as long as someone profits off of it. Not many people seem to care about the country as a whole anymore. It is all special interests.
I used to do this. I am not in a position to do it currently.
I had realtors and police as the main users. I would see them park outside of my house. It felt good to share and nobody abused the privilege. This is how society should be.
As a security oriented person, I had limits and filters in place in case anyone decided to get too "uppity", but nobody ever hit any of those.
Surely someone must have known yet they went ahead and did it anyway. While not nearly as egregious the same theme is being repeated with WPA3. Better algorithms with better properties are readily available yet they elect to go forward with the inferior one anyway.
This has been a common theme since wireless encryption has been a thing. I am reminded of a saying: Once is happenstance. Twice is suspicious. Three times is enemy action.
We have achieved the enemy action stage.
I fully agree with you.
To play devil's advocate here: Many people have tunnel-vision existences. They have no ability to think randomly or have any knowledge of how to discover new things. This may help those types of people.
To play God's advocate to Devil's advocate, this will be used in an attempt at controlling what people will see. It will hide things that are unpopular to The Powers That Be. It will be used to drive people towards economic activity that may not be in their best interests.
Meh. This software should not be distributed as part of the "base" browser. WTF Mozilla? We can see your activities and what they mean.
While I mildly disagree with you on some things, I still think you are a mostly reasonable person. Watching you suffer these fools is painful for me. I am unsure if they have some sort of actual mental disorder or if it is willful ignorance. It is like they are fully invested in not understanding/seeing reality. It is happening everywhere. Did someone add something to the water?
Anyways, have a nice day. :)
It is good that you are repulsed by the Republican Party.
Please, for the love of all that is holy, do not assume that the Democratic Party will be your saviour from the evil Republicans. Both parties are corrupt to the core.
I attended Blackhat. I was at Mandalay Bay. Those morons have NO idea how to do security.
Housekeeping was obscenely aggressive. I am pretty sure that I did not get a single good night of sleep there. Housekeeping kept waking me up; either by attempting to enter my room despite the "Do Not Disturb" equivalent they offered or by calling me morning and night to ask if I needed my room serviced.
Seriously. They walked into my room without knocking while I was asleep with my girlfriend.
Another huge Red Flag was that three entire hotels were woken up at 4:20 in the morning because someone was smoking on the Tram that services all three hotels. Think about it for a sec. You have a system designed to wake up all three hotels during an emergency and it can be triggered by something as trivial as smoking in a tram. Worse, they do not tell you what the "early alert" is, so half of the hotel is wandering in the hallways in a sleepy daze. Is that what is really desired during an emergency?
Shit was insane. Fuck Mandalay Bay.
This is no different than MS Windows or GNOME.
I believe there used to be a saying a thousand years ago when I was just a wee lad: What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away.
This is all exactly representative of mental health in the modern world. Justify things based on what you want instead of reality and the crud just keeps building until it just doesn't work anymore. It is a good thing that humans have limited lifespans so we can justify the mental illness by saying that they were gonna die anyways so we do not have to reflect on what caused the problems.
Why does nobody have a coherent view of security and development? The insanity is intentional. It comes from wanting logically impossible things because of money. Whatever. It will be interesting to see it keep burning.
I grew up in the "Tell me where you're going, be home by dinner and then be home before dark" world.. it was a wonderful place.. Can we get back there or is it too late?
It is too late. Whoever it is that controls the media/message is overriding anyone who has a lick of common sense. We are locked into this ride and it is getting bumpy and it is only going to get worse until civilization itself is torn apart. We are essentially in the space shuttle Columbia right now and we are in the re-entry arc. Have fun. Nobody is watching the watchers and they are batshit insane.
It's only a matter of time, we're well past the point of no return.
Very nice. That means it is pointless to do anything about it. Let's party!
Look at the CO2 emissions per capita, the USA is way up there, with almost twice the emissions of Belgium and much of the rest of western Europe, and 4 times Sweden's...
CO2 emissions per capita would be a useful measurement if you were measuring the CO2 output of individuals; however, the majority of CO2 is not being emitted by individuals, but rather businesses. The per capita measurement completely ignores manufacturing and other industrial processes, so it looks like the individual American is running around blowing CO2 out of their asses at absurdly high quantities. I kind of wonder why you would even propose this unless you had an agenda of some sort. I guess I could see nothing malicious in it if you were to be an utterly retarded moron who had no capability of seeing past their nose... but meh.
TL;DR, CO2 per capita completely ignores production sources of CO2 emissions. How much production are these low-CO2-per-capita countries providing in relation to their CO2 output?
Even shorter version: You are NOT helping to solve the problem.
The 2038 bug is being constantly addressed now. The move to 64 bit CPUs made switching time_t to a "long long" very simple. By 2038, there should be very little work left to do.
I have never really been interested in RSS. Way back when, Firefox used to ship with a BBC newsfeed by default. They stopped adding that feed as a default but I really liked that feature, so I figured out how to add it back in manually.
Oh! I am using RSS, something I was never interested in... but I was. I still have a live bookmark filled with an RSS feed from the BBC even today. I use it every day.
What is the value in removing this feature? Why is the change necessary? Is it too buggy to maintain? Removing it seems so ... arbitrary. Mozilla disgusts me.
But always assuming the worst possible use of new techniques and technologies is not helpful.
Not exploring the worst possible use of new techniques and technologies is not helpful. I would go so far as to call it willful ignorance. But, that is just me. I absolutely do agree that making the worst case the default assumption to be not helpful, but if you do not examine the worst case... just, wow.
I'm sure the final step would be for a real person to verify the matches to see if there's false positives.
I feel fairly certain that your assumption here is correct. What you are missing is how long it takes to verify the match and what has happened in the meantime.
Scenario: the algorithm identifies you as the perpetrator in some heinous crime. the police arrest you, most likely in a VERY violent manner (after all, you deserved it for the heinous crime that you committed). You end finally being released from the hospital for some bruised ribs and a broken jaw and taken straight to jail. The Sheriff neglects to run a DNA match to verify, either too busy, too lazy, or just doesn't care because of the utterly heinous nature of the crime you committed. Nine months later, your awesome lawyer that one of your friends paid for (since all of your assets were frozen!) manages to raise a reasonable enough doubt about the process that the forgotten DNA test was never administered. 16 months later, the test is finally administered and your are set free... however, you have lost your job and your name has been plastered all over the media for the past year and half. Some of the media outlets issue a retraction. You sue the Sheriff and win $200k but your previous mode of life is over forever and a few of your previous acquaintances still look at you a bit odd despite the mistaken identity being proven.
This already occurs with eye witnesses but eye witnesses accounts are known to be questionable at times. Computers are seen as infallible because they do not lie.
Since when can a Blu-ray disk store 12 terabits of data per square inch?
I am not them, but I assume that they mean that the technology is capable of that in a lab environment. When the process is moved into a mass manufactured product, that theoretical limit is lowered ... substantially.
Or, maybe they messed up their units. *shrug*
The social security thing is too twisted an issue to address.
Back in the early 80s, Congress was so very very upset about having a hundred billion dollars just sitting there doing nothing. Those billions were money that was paid into Social Security. Well, Congress decided to "fix" that real fast. Now, instead of Social Security being paid out of the money that was paid in, they spend the money that is paid in and tell everyone that the people who deserve Social Security are a drain on the budget. *sigh*
I have nothing against Elon Musk really, but he is as you say, an egomaniac billionaire.
As a person, Elon is not "my type". I don't think I could ever sit down and have an enjoyable chat with him.
There is ONE aspect to him that has me absolutely floored with ... admiration? He got lucky and won his millions/billions whatever and instead of circling the wagons and defending his newfound wealth, he decided to do some fun and cool shit like build electric cars and reusable rockets.
There are people who are FAR more wealthy than he is and what do they do with their money? Build structures to ensure the safety of their wealth. Go ahead and mention Gates at this point and how he is saving the world. Whatever. Best case, he is doing "charity" to save his name from the corrupt practices used to gain his wealth. Most likely case is he is securing his wealth, using the charitable foundation to secure contracts for Microsoft and locking those people in wholesale. Regardless, it is still nothing new, exciting, or even interesting.