Idea: you can add to your ballot "The State of XXX shall be a party to GDPR". Very nice to multinational corporations, they won't even have to implement a yet another mechanism as they already have everything in place.
That's trivially avoidable by man-in-the-middle -- the attacker will kindly accept unencrypted connections to you, and upgrade to TLS for the second hop.
Solved with DNSSEC+DANE, which for SMTP actually sees some deployment, unlike HTTPS, where anyone who can control one of 400+ CAs, which includes every government and big enough organized crime organization, can produce validly signed certs. With DNSSEC, you'd need to take over either the registrar or TLD -- unlike the CA model, the specific registrar your target uses rather than any of them.
If you try to man-in-the-middle DNSSEC, all you get is a failure to deliver the mail. Which any properly configured server (ie, not Gmail) will report to the sender.
The main problem with most new ways of energy generation is that they are fickle wrt the time they give good output. Solar doesn't work at all at night and can have many-days mostly outage when the sky is overcast, wind turbines have 0 output when the wind isn't blowing, etc. On the other hand, hydro and geothermal have constant output which is also not what we want: energy use per time-of-day differs greatly; with a predictable pattern: almost all factories shut for the night, home use is greatest in the evenings and very low during sleep time, etc.
Thus, a good part of energy production capacity is wasted. Fossil power plants can vary their output (you put less coal into the furnace during the night), but sources we're replacing them with can't. Elimination of coal progresses nicely, but we're seriously behind in storage; the shift in funding is rational.
because politicians decided to offer subsidies like fossil and nuclear get?
You mean the kind of subsidies where the vast majority of cost comes from compliance to red tape, lacking permits and NIMBYism? If you want a fair comparison, please first demand every coal plant to install giant condoms on every chimney and store their output forever (it doesn't decay), build giant underwater glass domes over all dwellings, animals, vegetation and cultural artifacts that are flooded by hydro dams (incl. damage due to halting river flow cycles), install safety nets to protect birds killed by wind turbines and noise stoppers to stop harm to humans?
Just compare death toll per MW of every type of power source. Even with 1950s technology, nuclear is so much better than your holiest-of-holy renewables, and if you go for modern reactors that can't meltdown, there's no reason to avoid nuclear other than propaganda spewed by your party!
Every power plant built other than nuclear should be punished as mass-murder. And I'm not exaggerating here -- an average coal plant causes one death every 1 or 2 days (depending on the low vs high estimate; using world's number of power plants of 30MW+) -- and that's just short-term pollution, ignoring global warming that's going to render the planet unhabitable. Other power sources are better but still a long long way worse than even 1950's nuclear. That's the main cause of deaths, all wars together being merely a blip.
Likewise, every day spent with fusion research receiving almost no funding is a crime of humanity. It would immediately stop the pollution, carbon issues and other annoyances. But no, we squabble about politics with rightards wanting coal and leftards wanting "renewables" (that inefficiently mooch off a fusion reactor 1au away), while watching our planet degrade.
I somehow don't see much uproar against art 15, which is worse than 11 and 13. It pretty much forbids any free software licenses, as it disallows perpetual licenses where payment is deemed to be too cheap.
The word you are looking for is "taxi", as in "Uber is a taxi company"
No -- a taxi is guaranteed to charge more than promised, start the counter at more than 0, take you a scenic route, shortchange you or claim to have no change even though you see it in the driver's wallet. You always get at least one from the above list, if you're going from the airport while looking obviously foreign you're likely to get every single item.
Uber would have to introduce weekly orphanage shootings using bullets made from charred kitten bones if they'd want to be anywhere near a typical taxi company.
It would be a very small database. Antifa is 99% astroturf.
Even among impressionable young students, few indeed want to join a gang of brown shirt thugs that attacks anyone critical of bourgeois cultural imperialism.
You haven't seen Germany, I guess. Every single bus stop and similar place is plastered with propaganda stickers, and there's a lot of people behind them.
An angry mob with red-white-black flags, hands raised. Hmm, where have we seen this before?
The temperature topped out at about 75 degrees today. Let's see how much better it is when its 105+.
Considering that the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth was 56.7 degrees, you're sitting somewhere else. If that's the alleged final destination of trolls who make completely out-of-topic posts, that place has not frozen yet. This is plausible considering that Elon Musk still has weird ideas, politicians still lie, everything seems to be going as usual.
But who cares about a single adware-ridden client when you have so many better alternatives? It's not even the original client but something that company bought to replace its buggy and bloated old code, then proceed to mismaintain.
You start out with real points (women frequently choose less demanding schedules, forgo advancement, men are driven to compete based on sexual selection), transition into shakier ground (linux coders), and somehow end up absolutely wrong (women need jobs involving their sense of smell????)
How my data about kernel and Debian coders is "shaky"?
Here's my methodology (applied to Debian stretch, kernel data was less strict): first, I looked at the first name. If it was gender-obvious (I know western and slavic names), I took that. If not, I looked into Debian's ldap (it holds data only about official members, and the "gender" field is often empty). Otherwise, I did ~60 seconds of duckduckgoing for the person; if that didn't reveal the gender I left it unknown. From the data, I also removed one person who identifies as female despite being male (I know of only one such maintainer), counting as neither a man or a woman (and the percentage figure excludes invalids, unknowns and this one trans, from the denominator). This might not be the most exact count but if you have a better idea that's doable with little work, I'm all ears.
I took only the so-called "key" packages (as in: high popcon, d-i, plus closure over depends and build-depends) to reduce my effort; I can extend to the full set of Stretch maintainers if there's a need to. I don't expect the full data to be greatly different.
and somehow end up absolutely wrong (women need jobs involving their sense of smell????)
What I said, is that there's very few high-paying jobs that require a sense of smell. Please explain what's wrong with this statement.
Computer science is basically the last bastion of high-paying jobs where men are at an advantage over women, and I don't think it will hold out for ever.
Could you tell me why? Being social is not an advantage for software engineering at all -- I'd call it an disadvantage.
I'm kind of at a loss to know what you think you even mean by "SJW" any more.
By "SJW", I mean believers in a recent extremely vile religion that preaches racial and gender discrimination, is thoroughly anti-scientific, sanctimonious and self-righteous. It also doesn't self-identify as religion to be able to exploit avenues of disseminating and legislating their rules that would be otherwise banned (kind of like L. Ron Hubbard exploited identifying as a religion).
Ah yes we hunted the mammoth.
It was hunting by humans that offed the species (that survived millions of years worth of ice age cycles, so habitat shifts couldn't be the cause, at least not by itself). And humans and hominids before hunted a lot of other animals, mammoths are merely the most iconic example.
I find that predictable behaviour is more convenient than smart. Case in point: the bash-completion package, it knows which arguments to a command are subcommands rather than filenames, and what filenames you don't care enough. It's right 95% of the time. But it's that 5% that's infuriating: a subcommand that was added only recently, a.tar.zst file not recognized as a tarball (zstd is awesome!), assuming that you want btrfs fi def only directories but not files (VM images anyone?), mysteriously skipping directories with a @ in name, etc.
All of Damore's errors I noticed were because he was a strongly biased leftist. You call him a Nazi? Ok -- he's that member of the Nazi party who dared to say "hey guys, why do we call the Jews an inferior race if they're easily testable as the very best group when it comes to intelligence? And why do we murder gypsies as "non-Aryans" if any anthropologist can tell you northern Indians are aryan but Germans are not? And why do we follow that mme Blavatsky drivel if we claim to be scientific?".
So he was one of extremists who committed the worst sin: dared to debate the party beliefs. For any religion (whether it identifies as a religion or not), the most hated are those of their own side who are not orthodox enough. A good read is here -- late in the page I linked and the next one.
That's the overall wage gap. You need the equal pay gap, so you can compare like-for-like.
Ok, let's go. First, menial tasks: recent Uber data (an extremely SJW company) had women choosing to work shorter hours, choosing less lucrative times of day, choosing less lucrative parts of the city, performing worse when on the same route at the same time of day. That's an unskilled task that requires reflexes. Uber's pay is calculated by a provably fair algorithm.
Then, skilled coding: biggest tech companies have currently extremely biased hiring, with about 25% workforce female. Yet that very same talent pool goes differently when you're not paid for your gender: top 1000 Linux kernel committers: 0.8% female, "key" package (as defined by testing migration) maintainers in Debian Stretch: 0.9%.
Women do have many upsides: much longer life, better ability to distinguish colours (both regular and mutated -- only women can be tetrachromats!), better sense of smell, better sociability. But none of those make you a better engineer. For that, you need more curiosity, higher intelligence, better work ethic (instead of putting kids first), etc.
For the causes, you need to look at hominids 200k years ago. When men were hunting a mammoth, women collected tubers with a kid in tow. Men were expendable, thus today they are still more willing to take risks, which lets them drive that Uber car a bit faster (and modern cars make safety good enough), visualize a 3d solid better, and so on. Women took safer jobs, and the qualities they then needed (ability to tell an edible root from a bad or poisonous one) are still there, except that there's very few jobs that pay well for that skill with colors or smells.
But why would a game you purchased stop working just because someone no longer considers your OS profitable?
The DRM is sabotaging a perfectly working piece of hardware that can't run newer OS but is fully fit for the game you paid for and which worked well until now. Thus, it's reasonable to demand removal of the DRM or issuing a refund.
Also, running XP and Vista with unfettered Internet access is unhealthy, thus converting these games into offline-only would be ok. It's also reasonable to no longer support the Steam UI, but only if the games can work stand-alone.
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Idea: you can add to your ballot "The State of XXX shall be a party to GDPR". Very nice to multinational corporations, they won't even have to implement a yet another mechanism as they already have everything in place.
Except... airlines are useful. Private expeditions to Mars are not.
Your leisure or business flight does nothing to advance humanity. Space research, on the other hand...
If you can't come up with ways to defend yourself without a firearm handy, then maybe you're just... too stupid to live?
Right, so please tell me what are my chances against a roided-out thug if both of us have knives. With a gun, physical strength hardly matters.
Where the difference between dead victim and barely surviving assailant was that in the US you are allowed means to defend yourself.
That's trivially avoidable by man-in-the-middle -- the attacker will kindly accept unencrypted connections to you, and upgrade to TLS for the second hop.
Solved with DNSSEC+DANE, which for SMTP actually sees some deployment, unlike HTTPS, where anyone who can control one of 400+ CAs, which includes every government and big enough organized crime organization, can produce validly signed certs. With DNSSEC, you'd need to take over either the registrar or TLD -- unlike the CA model, the specific registrar your target uses rather than any of them.
If you try to man-in-the-middle DNSSEC, all you get is a failure to deliver the mail. Which any properly configured server (ie, not Gmail) will report to the sender.
Its main upside appears to be being written in rust.
Yay for a language with API breaks that make its compiler unbuildable with previous minor versions of itself, and such a stellar portability.
Sounds like that very same AI would work wonders for hiding just those signs. No one will know comrade Yezhov was ever there!
Don't worry, Red Hat is already doing this: they put Gnome components into the core of their new filesystem (Stratis).
I don't know whether to laugh or weep.
The main problem with most new ways of energy generation is that they are fickle wrt the time they give good output. Solar doesn't work at all at night and can have many-days mostly outage when the sky is overcast, wind turbines have 0 output when the wind isn't blowing, etc. On the other hand, hydro and geothermal have constant output which is also not what we want: energy use per time-of-day differs greatly; with a predictable pattern: almost all factories shut for the night, home use is greatest in the evenings and very low during sleep time, etc.
Thus, a good part of energy production capacity is wasted. Fossil power plants can vary their output (you put less coal into the furnace during the night), but sources we're replacing them with can't. Elimination of coal progresses nicely, but we're seriously behind in storage; the shift in funding is rational.
because politicians decided to offer subsidies like fossil and nuclear get?
You mean the kind of subsidies where the vast majority of cost comes from compliance to red tape, lacking permits and NIMBYism? If you want a fair comparison, please first demand every coal plant to install giant condoms on every chimney and store their output forever (it doesn't decay), build giant underwater glass domes over all dwellings, animals, vegetation and cultural artifacts that are flooded by hydro dams (incl. damage due to halting river flow cycles), install safety nets to protect birds killed by wind turbines and noise stoppers to stop harm to humans?
Just compare death toll per MW of every type of power source. Even with 1950s technology, nuclear is so much better than your holiest-of-holy renewables, and if you go for modern reactors that can't meltdown, there's no reason to avoid nuclear other than propaganda spewed by your party!
Every power plant built other than nuclear should be punished as mass-murder. And I'm not exaggerating here -- an average coal plant causes one death every 1 or 2 days (depending on the low vs high estimate; using world's number of power plants of 30MW+) -- and that's just short-term pollution, ignoring global warming that's going to render the planet unhabitable. Other power sources are better but still a long long way worse than even 1950's nuclear. That's the main cause of deaths, all wars together being merely a blip.
Likewise, every day spent with fusion research receiving almost no funding is a crime of humanity. It would immediately stop the pollution, carbon issues and other annoyances. But no, we squabble about politics with rightards wanting coal and leftards wanting "renewables" (that inefficiently mooch off a fusion reactor 1au away), while watching our planet degrade.
I somehow don't see much uproar against art 15, which is worse than 11 and 13. It pretty much forbids any free software licenses, as it disallows perpetual licenses where payment is deemed to be too cheap.
The word you are looking for is "taxi", as in "Uber is a taxi company"
No -- a taxi is guaranteed to charge more than promised, start the counter at more than 0, take you a scenic route, shortchange you or claim to have no change even though you see it in the driver's wallet. You always get at least one from the above list, if you're going from the airport while looking obviously foreign you're likely to get every single item.
Uber would have to introduce weekly orphanage shootings using bullets made from charred kitten bones if they'd want to be anywhere near a typical taxi company.
It would be a very small database. Antifa is 99% astroturf.
Even among impressionable young students, few indeed want to join a gang of brown shirt thugs that attacks anyone critical of bourgeois cultural imperialism.
You haven't seen Germany, I guess. Every single bus stop and similar place is plastered with propaganda stickers, and there's a lot of people behind them.
An angry mob with red-white-black flags, hands raised. Hmm, where have we seen this before?
The temperature topped out at about 75 degrees today. Let's see how much better it is when its 105+.
Considering that the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth was 56.7 degrees, you're sitting somewhere else. If that's the alleged final destination of trolls who make completely out-of-topic posts, that place has not frozen yet. This is plausible considering that Elon Musk still has weird ideas, politicians still lie, everything seems to be going as usual.
Sounds like BitTorrent is about done for.
But who cares about a single adware-ridden client when you have so many better alternatives? It's not even the original client but something that company bought to replace its buggy and bloated old code, then proceed to mismaintain.
Which of those were SMS?
There was a number of open SMS gateways, completely free, unauthenticated and anonymous. Give me at least three reasons they are no more...
You start out with real points (women frequently choose less demanding schedules, forgo advancement, men are driven to compete based on sexual selection), transition into shakier ground (linux coders), and somehow end up absolutely wrong (women need jobs involving their sense of smell????)
How my data about kernel and Debian coders is "shaky"?
Here's my methodology (applied to Debian stretch, kernel data was less strict): first, I looked at the first name. If it was gender-obvious (I know western and slavic names), I took that. If not, I looked into Debian's ldap (it holds data only about official members, and the "gender" field is often empty). Otherwise, I did ~60 seconds of duckduckgoing for the person; if that didn't reveal the gender I left it unknown. From the data, I also removed one person who identifies as female despite being male (I know of only one such maintainer), counting as neither a man or a woman (and the percentage figure excludes invalids, unknowns and this one trans, from the denominator). This might not be the most exact count but if you have a better idea that's doable with little work, I'm all ears.
I took only the so-called "key" packages (as in: high popcon, d-i, plus closure over depends and build-depends) to reduce my effort; I can extend to the full set of Stretch maintainers if there's a need to. I don't expect the full data to be greatly different.
and somehow end up absolutely wrong (women need jobs involving their sense of smell????)
What I said, is that there's very few high-paying jobs that require a sense of smell. Please explain what's wrong with this statement.
Computer science is basically the last bastion of high-paying jobs where men are at an advantage over women, and I don't think it will hold out for ever.
Could you tell me why? Being social is not an advantage for software engineering at all -- I'd call it an disadvantage.
I'm kind of at a loss to know what you think you even mean by "SJW" any more.
By "SJW", I mean believers in a recent extremely vile religion that preaches racial and gender discrimination, is thoroughly anti-scientific, sanctimonious and self-righteous. It also doesn't self-identify as religion to be able to exploit avenues of disseminating and legislating their rules that would be otherwise banned (kind of like L. Ron Hubbard exploited identifying as a religion).
Ah yes we hunted the mammoth.
It was hunting by humans that offed the species (that survived millions of years worth of ice age cycles, so habitat shifts couldn't be the cause, at least not by itself). And humans and hominids before hunted a lot of other animals, mammoths are merely the most iconic example.
I find that predictable behaviour is more convenient than smart. Case in point: the bash-completion package, it knows which arguments to a command are subcommands rather than filenames, and what filenames you don't care enough. It's right 95% of the time. But it's that 5% that's infuriating: a subcommand that was added only recently, a .tar.zst file not recognized as a tarball (zstd is awesome!), assuming that you want btrfs fi def only directories but not files (VM images anyone?), mysteriously skipping directories with a @ in name, etc.
All of Damore's errors I noticed were because he was a strongly biased leftist. You call him a Nazi? Ok -- he's that member of the Nazi party who dared to say "hey guys, why do we call the Jews an inferior race if they're easily testable as the very best group when it comes to intelligence? And why do we murder gypsies as "non-Aryans" if any anthropologist can tell you northern Indians are aryan but Germans are not? And why do we follow that mme Blavatsky drivel if we claim to be scientific?".
So he was one of extremists who committed the worst sin: dared to debate the party beliefs. For any religion (whether it identifies as a religion or not), the most hated are those of their own side who are not orthodox enough. A good read is here -- late in the page I linked and the next one.
That's the overall wage gap. You need the equal pay gap, so you can compare like-for-like.
Ok, let's go. First, menial tasks: recent Uber data (an extremely SJW company) had women choosing to work shorter hours, choosing less lucrative times of day, choosing less lucrative parts of the city, performing worse when on the same route at the same time of day. That's an unskilled task that requires reflexes. Uber's pay is calculated by a provably fair algorithm.
Then, skilled coding: biggest tech companies have currently extremely biased hiring, with about 25% workforce female. Yet that very same talent pool goes differently when you're not paid for your gender: top 1000 Linux kernel committers: 0.8% female, "key" package (as defined by testing migration) maintainers in Debian Stretch: 0.9%.
Women do have many upsides: much longer life, better ability to distinguish colours (both regular and mutated -- only women can be tetrachromats!), better sense of smell, better sociability. But none of those make you a better engineer. For that, you need more curiosity, higher intelligence, better work ethic (instead of putting kids first), etc.
For the causes, you need to look at hominids 200k years ago. When men were hunting a mammoth, women collected tubers with a kid in tow. Men were expendable, thus today they are still more willing to take risks, which lets them drive that Uber car a bit faster (and modern cars make safety good enough), visualize a 3d solid better, and so on. Women took safer jobs, and the qualities they then needed (ability to tell an edible root from a bad or poisonous one) are still there, except that there's very few jobs that pay well for that skill with colors or smells.
That's why the Brits use Polish plumbers -- might be drunkards but can tell a pipe from their ass. Any who couldn't stayed in Poland.
Kaspersky dared to reveal NSA malware, when all other "anti"virus company cooperated.
But why would a game you purchased stop working just because someone no longer considers your OS profitable?
The DRM is sabotaging a perfectly working piece of hardware that can't run newer OS but is fully fit for the game you paid for and which worked well until now. Thus, it's reasonable to demand removal of the DRM or issuing a refund.
Also, running XP and Vista with unfettered Internet access is unhealthy, thus converting these games into offline-only would be ok. It's also reasonable to no longer support the Steam UI, but only if the games can work stand-alone.