That's one thing Radio Shack had going for it, it had great manuals. My first computer was a TRS-80 MC-10 (a piece of crap with a 6803 processor and 4K built-in, though I had the 16k expander pack), but the manual was fantastic. And that really is part of the problem. A lot of programming languages have high level documentation, basically designed for those who already know how to program. It would be really nice if someone would come up with the kinds of manuals Radio Shack used to.
Javascript and DOM are a helluva lot more complex an environment than, say, Microsoft BASIC circa 1982, so it's not really the equivalent at all. That's the real problem, and one that's not easily solved. It isn't so much the languages, it's the environments in which they sit that are far more complex than the home computer systems of the late 1970s and early 1980s. It really is true that if you had a Commodore, Trash-80 or Apple II, you could pretty much start programming a few seconds after you hit the On button, largely because the BASIC interpreter was right there in your face.
Of course the downside is that traditional BASIC is a godawful language that taught a lot of bad habits that had to be beat out of you when you went to the next level and started monkeying around with Pascal, but still, I'd say about 60%-70% of what I learned about programming I learned on my shitty little TRS-80 and my uncle's Commodore 64.
Project Veritas is a scam, and has been outed multiple times editing its videos. If you buy into that load of crap, then you really are a gullible moron.
And I suspect that's why Twitter, Facebook, Google and the rest are going to have to start putting some serious efforts into preventing these Russian troll farms from using their platforms in the future. France already has some rules that basically limited the Russians from offering the Front National too much aid and comfort in the final lead up to the French presidential election, and the warnings are going up in many Western countries "Regulate your platforms or governments will regulate you."
The Dossier's origins are more complicated than that, so there'd be a few conservatives on your little charge sheet as well, if the Dossier were in any way equivalent to Russian troll farms, which it isn't.
I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, and I remember the paranoia. It might not have been as bad as the 50s and 60s, since the Soviet Union was pretty obviously in a decline it couldn't even hide by the 1980s, but still, there was no lack of fear of some sort of nuclear war. The TV movie the Day After, which was a big deal at the time, gives you an idea of the kind of fear that many in the West felt at in the early and mid-80s.
So no, the concern of Russian interference now is nothing like the fear thirty or forty years ago.
You know, at the end of the day, it wouldn't surprise if Trump was at least technically innocent. He seems so detached from reality, with only a few touch points to the outside world (mainly Fox News) that I wouldn't be at all surprised if Kushner, Don Jr., Manafort, Flynn and whoever else were cozying up to the Russians without really informing him, or if they did, because it wasn't Sean Hannity saying it, he probably didn't process it.
I really do believe that anyone who talks about Trump himself colluding with the Russians is giving him far too much credit. It's pretty obvious the man is an idiot. His speech is rambling and disjointed, Tweets are just about the extent of his attention span, he doesn't read, he just watches the boob tube. The American people elected a malicious Forest Gump, so I really think you need to start looking at his team during the campaign and in the first six or seven months of the Presidency.
Basically, a large fraction of the American Right has basically swallowed the Russian propaganda without question. I'm still not sure that turned the election towards Trump, but it has certainly created a pro-Trump base in the GOP.
It also suggests Russian trolls are fairly widespread. I'm on several forums, and I've seen similar kinds of posts on pretty much all of them. The Russian troll farms are well coordinated and amazingly on message.
Now how much it may have affected the election is hard to quantify, and maybe it was minimal, but with a body of evidence of tampering in other elections in various ways, it suggests the Russians at least feel there is some effectiveness to these tactics.
Oh fuck off. You're still free to buy Kaspersky if you want, though I personally would think you were an idiot for doing so. I wouldn't let any Russian AV software within a mile of my computers.
You know that interplanetary space is actually pretty big, right? Is there any reason you think that this elliptical orbit will ever be a major space lane?
In free societies, governments are still free to tell citizens of potential security risks and to choose what AV software they'll install. This has nothing to do with freedom, and everything to do with prudence.
They're saying it because it is. There are troubling links between the company and the kremlin, it's written by a company in Russia, and as part of its functionality it gains low-level access to any system on which it is installed, so yes, it's reasonable to assume that it has been compromised. And the NSA and the other three letter agencies don't have to show up in court with public evidence, they can basically show up, tell the judge "this cannot be disclosed in open court because it involves national security", and that's it. Kaspersky is wasting its time, and yes, it means its reputation is shredded, but seriously, who in their right mind would install it on their systems anymore anyways?
It's worse than admin access, it's low-level kernel access that sits underneath file systems and other services. Basically, AV is a rootkit, so if you install Kaspersky, it's very likely you are handing not just admin keys to the Russians, but pretty much core system functionality. Everything is naked before AV software, since that is AV software's fundamental purpose.
National security trumps all of this. The US Government doesn't have to show its hand, it just has to say "we believe Kaspersky can be used by a foreign actor to compromise government systems", and pretty much that is that.
I agree. Even if Kaspersky's software isn't tainted in some way, the fact is that it could be co-opted. I find most AV software fairly troublesome, but using Kaspersky on any of my systems just seems like inviting an unpleasant outcome. And I certainly understand why the US government wants nothing to do with it at all.
America's the greatest when it isn't fearful and inward-looking. America's strength has never come from perching on the ramparts at its borders, but on pushing out. The Space Race, and now this second Space Age, exemplified by this launch and successful landing show that America is at its best when it knows no horizon and takes the big chances.
I'm a Canadian, so I admit my admiration is tinged ever so slightly with jealousy, but goddamnit, on this day, at least, America is indeed the greatest again.
The real pity here is that guys like Bradbury, Asimov, Clarke and Heinlein aren't alive to see it happen. It was weird, like watching some Golden Age science fiction magazine front cover coming to life. I think if you stacked together all the extraordinary visuals throughout the history of humanity's technical development, today's images would stand just as high as any of them.
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That's one thing Radio Shack had going for it, it had great manuals. My first computer was a TRS-80 MC-10 (a piece of crap with a 6803 processor and 4K built-in, though I had the 16k expander pack), but the manual was fantastic. And that really is part of the problem. A lot of programming languages have high level documentation, basically designed for those who already know how to program. It would be really nice if someone would come up with the kinds of manuals Radio Shack used to.
Javascript and DOM are a helluva lot more complex an environment than, say, Microsoft BASIC circa 1982, so it's not really the equivalent at all. That's the real problem, and one that's not easily solved. It isn't so much the languages, it's the environments in which they sit that are far more complex than the home computer systems of the late 1970s and early 1980s. It really is true that if you had a Commodore, Trash-80 or Apple II, you could pretty much start programming a few seconds after you hit the On button, largely because the BASIC interpreter was right there in your face.
Of course the downside is that traditional BASIC is a godawful language that taught a lot of bad habits that had to be beat out of you when you went to the next level and started monkeying around with Pascal, but still, I'd say about 60%-70% of what I learned about programming I learned on my shitty little TRS-80 and my uncle's Commodore 64.
Project Veritas is a scam, and has been outed multiple times editing its videos. If you buy into that load of crap, then you really are a gullible moron.
Or a Russian troll. Either will do.
And what was Obama supposed to do, bomb St. Petersburg?
You know we know you're a Russian troll, right? The cat's out of the bag, Comrade.
And I suspect that's why Twitter, Facebook, Google and the rest are going to have to start putting some serious efforts into preventing these Russian troll farms from using their platforms in the future. France already has some rules that basically limited the Russians from offering the Front National too much aid and comfort in the final lead up to the French presidential election, and the warnings are going up in many Western countries "Regulate your platforms or governments will regulate you."
The Dossier's origins are more complicated than that, so there'd be a few conservatives on your little charge sheet as well, if the Dossier were in any way equivalent to Russian troll farms, which it isn't.
I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, and I remember the paranoia. It might not have been as bad as the 50s and 60s, since the Soviet Union was pretty obviously in a decline it couldn't even hide by the 1980s, but still, there was no lack of fear of some sort of nuclear war. The TV movie the Day After, which was a big deal at the time, gives you an idea of the kind of fear that many in the West felt at in the early and mid-80s.
So no, the concern of Russian interference now is nothing like the fear thirty or forty years ago.
You know, at the end of the day, it wouldn't surprise if Trump was at least technically innocent. He seems so detached from reality, with only a few touch points to the outside world (mainly Fox News) that I wouldn't be at all surprised if Kushner, Don Jr., Manafort, Flynn and whoever else were cozying up to the Russians without really informing him, or if they did, because it wasn't Sean Hannity saying it, he probably didn't process it.
I really do believe that anyone who talks about Trump himself colluding with the Russians is giving him far too much credit. It's pretty obvious the man is an idiot. His speech is rambling and disjointed, Tweets are just about the extent of his attention span, he doesn't read, he just watches the boob tube. The American people elected a malicious Forest Gump, so I really think you need to start looking at his team during the campaign and in the first six or seven months of the Presidency.
It's about Twitter, it's tech news. If you don't like it, don't read the fucking article or posts. Jesus, you're a delicate little snowflake.
Basically, a large fraction of the American Right has basically swallowed the Russian propaganda without question. I'm still not sure that turned the election towards Trump, but it has certainly created a pro-Trump base in the GOP.
It also suggests Russian trolls are fairly widespread. I'm on several forums, and I've seen similar kinds of posts on pretty much all of them. The Russian troll farms are well coordinated and amazingly on message.
Now how much it may have affected the election is hard to quantify, and maybe it was minimal, but with a body of evidence of tampering in other elections in various ways, it suggests the Russians at least feel there is some effectiveness to these tactics.
If you feel like a workplace is hostile because you can't say nasty things about your female coworkers, then it is you making the workplace hostile.
Indeed. Eclipse is every bit as polished as Visual Studio, and is there a programming environment that isn't supported?
Oh fuck off. You're still free to buy Kaspersky if you want, though I personally would think you were an idiot for doing so. I wouldn't let any Russian AV software within a mile of my computers.
You know that interplanetary space is actually pretty big, right? Is there any reason you think that this elliptical orbit will ever be a major space lane?
In free societies, governments are still free to tell citizens of potential security risks and to choose what AV software they'll install. This has nothing to do with freedom, and everything to do with prudence.
They're saying it because it is. There are troubling links between the company and the kremlin, it's written by a company in Russia, and as part of its functionality it gains low-level access to any system on which it is installed, so yes, it's reasonable to assume that it has been compromised. And the NSA and the other three letter agencies don't have to show up in court with public evidence, they can basically show up, tell the judge "this cannot be disclosed in open court because it involves national security", and that's it. Kaspersky is wasting its time, and yes, it means its reputation is shredded, but seriously, who in their right mind would install it on their systems anymore anyways?
It's worse than admin access, it's low-level kernel access that sits underneath file systems and other services. Basically, AV is a rootkit, so if you install Kaspersky, it's very likely you are handing not just admin keys to the Russians, but pretty much core system functionality. Everything is naked before AV software, since that is AV software's fundamental purpose.
How is a national government banning AV software from its computers due to fears that it may be compromised authoritarian?
National security trumps all of this. The US Government doesn't have to show its hand, it just has to say "we believe Kaspersky can be used by a foreign actor to compromise government systems", and pretty much that is that.
I agree. Even if Kaspersky's software isn't tainted in some way, the fact is that it could be co-opted. I find most AV software fairly troublesome, but using Kaspersky on any of my systems just seems like inviting an unpleasant outcome. And I certainly understand why the US government wants nothing to do with it at all.
Do you have even one bit of evidence that the entire movement is about that? Go on, provide it, otherwise admit that your opinion is baseless.
America's the greatest when it isn't fearful and inward-looking. America's strength has never come from perching on the ramparts at its borders, but on pushing out. The Space Race, and now this second Space Age, exemplified by this launch and successful landing show that America is at its best when it knows no horizon and takes the big chances.
I'm a Canadian, so I admit my admiration is tinged ever so slightly with jealousy, but goddamnit, on this day, at least, America is indeed the greatest again.
The real pity here is that guys like Bradbury, Asimov, Clarke and Heinlein aren't alive to see it happen. It was weird, like watching some Golden Age science fiction magazine front cover coming to life. I think if you stacked together all the extraordinary visuals throughout the history of humanity's technical development, today's images would stand just as high as any of them.