Yes, it is lame. But it's also par for the course here in Australia. We have a history of paying more for everything. For example, for a while we paid far more for Microsoft software and Dell laptops. All sorts of excuses were offered - like it cost so much more because of Australian's consumer protection laws. Oddly, when the internet came and the local distributors had to compete with people importing directly, their prices dropped to match other countries.
But Hyundai hasn't been effected by the internet, apparently. We replaced an older model of i30 with this new one. I lost the key for the older model, which left us with one. I went looking for a replacement, but as it wasn't urgent I hunted around for a lower price. After literally months of trying, the closest I came to a locksmith who said he would contact some rogue dealer in Turkey for the code, but it didn't happen. In the end I paid the asking price for he older model, which was $750.
It seems like Hyundai learnt from that experience. Since they got away with that they doubled the price for the next model. I presume this means Hyundai has very tight control of their supply chain so their Australian distributors don't have to deal with competition on their cousins on internet.
Jury nullification is, by necessity, a complete undermining of the legal and judicial process.
Or, it's 12 randomly picked men and women not agreeing with the case made by the prosecution. Or to put it another way: it's lovely piece of jargon an incompetent prosecutor can use to shift blame away from them.
It could be worse. If could be our politicians dreamt up a law so vile even the best prosecutor couldn't sell it to a jury. They scream "Jury nullification" from their pulpits to attack their own citizens for not being sheep.
In either case, it's not a complete undermining of the legal and judicial process as you put it. It's one of those many checks and balances others have mentioned here. It can't undermine the process because it's a very deliberate part on it. When it happens, it doing the job it's supposed to - keeping the law within the bounds normal men and women find reasonable, regardless of what their betters think.
The most egregious example I've come across is my shiny new Hyundai i30. They have proximity keys. You can buy the blank for around $100 or so, and most locksmiths will program them for a few dollars. But they need to get the secret code to match it to the car's Engine Control Unit. Obtaining that is a 60 second task for a Hyundai dealership, but they won't tell other locksmiths what it is. So you can only obtain the key from Hyundai: Cost: $1,500.
The price is not too far from what they charge for a ECU, which is not too surprising because the other route you can take is to replace the ECU and keys.
Pollutants are measured in areas where they are a concern, such as where mine tailings flow into the sea. But the GBR is 2300 km (1400 miles) long, and it is implausible that chemical waste or effluent could have so much effect across such a vast area.
Actually, there isn't much in the way of mining tailings. Most mining in Queensland talks place west of the Great Dividing Range. It's a damned site longer than 2300km and a very effective barrier. For example, it creates a inland sea covering 100's of sq km when it rains heavily, as there no where for the water to go.
The pollutants of concern are fertilisers. Since farming happens all along the 2300 km it effects the entire reef.
Pollutants tend to accelerate growth things, distorting the natural ecosystem somewhere - things like algae blooms. One perverse effect is creates a food bonanza for crown of thorns start fish larvae which eat coral, and often destroying large patches of it.
However, compared to heat to killing 1/2 the reef, the effects are minor. Nothing comes close to the damage climate has already done, and it's only just starting.
As others have said, we have know for years this moment was coming. The scientists who work on the reef started saying at 2000 it was a dead man walking. Since most of them spend a lot of their time on the reef, they were rather passionate about it and made a lot of noise. Our governments responded they way governments the word over seem to when some scientists says some hard decisions have to be made that will almost certainly cost some politicians their jobs - they cut their funding, savagely when it became obvious they would not shut up.
Turns out killing the messenger had no effect whatsoever on the end result.
Actually, it's just a big WTF, followed by oh they are sprouting shit in order to get a few clicks (including mine, sadly).
They are saying no advertiser will be using cookies in 2 years because people are moving from browsers to mobile apps. Lets turn this around: they are saying that in two year no advertisers will bother tracking people who use browsers. So in two years I can stop blocking Facebook, uninstall Privacy badger because the web will be sweet and innocent again. Ohkay....
For what it's worth, the page carrying this bullshit installed 3 cookies of its own, plus 7 from twitter. It is true google analytics, sail-horizon, and crwdcntrl didn't install cookies. The injected their tracking data directly into the page using javascript.
As a long suffering Skylake user, Microsoft's complaint rang true to me. I still remember the days people were demanding their money back for their newly purchased returning Dell XPS 9550 running Windows because the screen didn't work. Many GPU microcode and Intel driver releases later, and that's been fixed for a single monitor, and to the earlier posters comment it was fixed on Linux before Windows. Nonetheless, it still doesn't work reliably when I connect a 3440 x 1440 monitor.
Intel promised a working xbacklight driver for 4.11 which would be only 2 f'ing years after the chipset was released. 4.11 arrived, and still no xbacklight driver. And lets not forget the Skylake CPU bugs, requiring a microcode update to fix. Then there is AMT security flaws.
Still, I've used a 1 year old Surface, and it was just horrible. Peeling plastic, unreliable keyboard, hopeless touch. It and the Skylake make a great pairing, now I think about it.
He also very conversant with the memory of your average Australian voter, apparently. After 300 comments, no one remembered him saying this. You've gotta admire the hubris.
His position apparently is while he, only he apparently, is governed only by the laws of arithmetic, the rest of us have to obey the laws he makes up - those of Australia. Oh, and don't forget while he is telling us we can't use crypto so he can spy on us, just a year ago he was enthusiastic user of Whatsapp, presumably so the people who elected him could not see what he was preparing to do - like springing this on us.
After a few 1000 words of crap, we finally get a post that sums up the situation. I wish I had mod points.
You could have expanded on the ICO's though. They are driving this current bubble. ICO's are to ETH as Bitcoin is to real currency, which is to say where Bitcoin is a virtual currency whose value is measured in fiat currencies, the value of ICO's is measured in ETH's. Since ETH's is a virtual currency I guess you could say ICO's are virtual-virtual, or virtual squared. They are an idea within an idea - they are about as real as a virtualised CPU in Minecraft.
Perhaps one example will make it obvious what is going on. Golem is an Ethereum ICO, whose ambition is to become a market place for CPU cycles. They an awesome looking web site (if you are into CSS candy), but no working software, no hardware, no users. They put a ETH market cap on themselves of $302M.
Here is a list of the top 10 ICO's. Being merely an idea expressed in a virtual space, ICO's can breed at the rate of rumours in a girl's school. Which is pretty much what is happening, and it's driving an Ethereum bubble.
Because some of us prefer 1,200 lines that work with 17 that don't?
If indeed it was just 17 lines of code that didn't work they might have a point. It's not so hard to fix 17 lines of code. In fact the reason we like 1200 lines of code is because we can fix it.
The reason we don't like those 17 lines of code is they are really 1,139,536 lines of code hiding behind 17 lines of configuration. Worse it's not just 1 million lines of simple C, but multiple processes communicating through a horrid RPC system that makes the entire thing utterly opaque.
I didn't think there could be anything that could make me pine for the days I could fix a problem just debugging 1200 written in one of the worst programming languages on the planet (shell script) - but bless his black little heart, Lennart has managed to prove to me I was wrong.
FF's single threaded model means small responsiveness delays in the UI.
Firefox isn't single threaded. Have a look some time - it's typically running 20.. 30 threads. Bring up a web page and most of those threads will be active - fetching stuff off the web, rendering pictures, parsing javascript, managing the cache all in parallel. I suspect Firefox has no less parallelism than Chrome.
Chrome giving each web page it's own process has other effects. One is security, another is a crash or fault of some kind only takes out one page - not the entire browser. They are very good reasons for wanting to move to a multi process model. One reason for not wanting to more in that direction it uses more resources. RAM mostly, because you can share memory between threads but you don't with processes (which is were the better security and robustness comes from). This is why Chrome is a resource hog compared to Firefox.
The primary reason Chrome runs fast is it and it's plugins are written in C++. Firefox was more of a javascript program running on top of their rendering engine (Gecko, which of course was written in C) and their generalised UI laper (XUL). As you have observed, Firefox has been moving away from that model toward more native code, so javascript API's are disappearing in favour of native ones. Firefox is also re-writing their rendering engine. The new one, servo, is written in Rust, whch they hope will allow more parallelism. But that's just a hope. The reality is it's already much faster than Geko or anything else on a single thread. This has nothing to do with Rust. It's just what happens when a group of experienced people re-write something they've done before from the ground up.
If Firefox continues on it's current path I expect it will be smaller and faster than Chrome in time. But I don't think that will effect it's popularity. That's driven by more mundane things - like Google suggesting you use their browser when you visit their web page. Firefox has never got, and is unlikely to ever get that sort of marketing push. The other thing is Chrome offers is more and better javascript development tools. Firefox used to be the only game in town with Firebug, but now Chrome is so much better that Firefox for developer tools you would be hard pressed to find a developer who doesn't use it. That has consequences. It's what drives web pages working better with Chrome than anything else. People here paint major sites working better with Chrome as some sort of Google conspiracy, but it isn't. It's just pure pragmatism. Firefox can't do anything about the marketing, but they could try to win the developers back. Currently I don't see that happening.
By the by I don't think Google set out destroy Firefox with Chrome. Firefox was just collateral damage. Their target was IE. Microsoft deliberately crippled IE to hold the web back, so people would use native applications like office and outlook instead of Google Docs and GMail. Chrome was Google's answer to that. They pushed it as hard as they could, to the extent of polluting their treasured search page with nag ware for Chrome. It's the only time I've seen them do that. It worked - they won the battle when Microsoft ditched IE in favour of Edge. The development tools in Chrome are an outgrowth of the same plan. If you want to push people away from applications running on desktop OS's to web based "application as a service", you need lots of web applications. One way to push that along is to provide some great web development tools, for free.
Caught in the middle of this well financed battle, Firefox is suffering. But while the economic imperatives that drive Chrome's rapid development will end (if that hasn't happened already), Firefox will continue to get better one small change at a time for decades to come. That's the way open source wins in the end. It doesn't need money to drive it, whereas the commercial competition withers without it. There is no money in browsers, they are commodities no one pays for. That sounds like open source's favourite habitat to me, so my guess is when the years turn to decades, Firefox will rein supreme.
Errr, it's very likely they didn't vote for this. You can read about the irregularities on Wikipedia:
On the referendum day, while the voting was underway, the Supreme Electoral Council of Turkey lifted a rule that required each ballot to have an official stamp. Instead, it ruled that ballots with no stamp would be considered valid, unless there was proof that they were fraudulent. The opposition parties claim that as many as 1.5 million ballots without a stamp were accepted. Opposition parties CHP and HDP have said they will contest the results. CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu said that lifting the rule violated Turkish law. According to Meral Akener, "No" won by 52 percent. The Peoples' Democratic Party contested the election results announced by pro-government Anadolu Agency and insisted that 1.5 million votes without valid stamps should be cancelled.
Now an organisation controlled by the people who Wikipedia says rigged the election are banning Wikipedia.
Sigh. My heart bleeds for you Turkey. But you have to understand compared to kings, tyrants, and military junta's democracy is very weak. A mere majority voting it for is nowhere near enough when the reward for destroying it is being able to skim entire countries economy for personal gain. With a reward like that on offer there is plenty of money around to promise, bribe, cajole, beat, and imprison some of that majority. You need so many people supporting democracy no one can afford to buy enough of them to make a difference. Sadly Turkey, you never adopted democracy, an open society and rule of law as your primary religion. Without that sort of devotion from most citizens democracy will be overturned, because while it is undeniably the human glue that produces the strongest countries, the glue is itself very fragile.
There is no discernible reason to invest scarce resources in "smart meters" (which are looking more like "dumb meters"). Ordinary old-style meters do an adequate job, and give employment to a lot of meter-readers. (That's a good thing, by the way). They are sufficiently accurate.
I don't know what reasons you were given for using smart meters, but where I live accuracy and saving the wages of people wasn't the ones we were given. It boiled down to one thing: being able to pass the real cost of power to the customer. The hope is the consumer will then change their usage patterns. Changing it is possible in theory as the thing we use most of our electricity for is moving heat around - things like heating water, cooling houses, refrigerators and freezes, cooking and so on. You have a fair amount of freedom on when you run some things (washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, hot water systems), and it's not hard to store heat (or cold for that matter - we used to do it using ice boxes).
The incentive to move your usage to when power is cheap is pretty big where I live as the cost of power varies by a factor of 500% or so during the day. But of course you need a meter that can measure power consumption at 15 minute intervals or so, and that's not something the old-style analogue meters can do. Some electricity retailers here already provide tariffs that vary during the day - but you must pay for a smart meter installed to take advantage of them. Some people do.
Whether any of this pans out remains to be seen. It may well be the cure is worse than the disease as you say, but not for any of the reasons you give. A 500% price differential provides one hell of an arbitrage opportunity, but it one the consumer can't take advantage of because of the limitations of those old style meters, so traditionally taking advantage of it has remained securely in the hands of the electricity cartel. Having a smart meter means the consumer can break into that cartel, something that hasn't been lost on Mr Elon Musk's battery salesman.
Err, one of biggest car repairs on the planet have been using this business model (and only this business model) for 20 years. They can claim to be the biggest because the mechanics are employees, not contractors or franchises. I gather numerically others are far bigger.
Really, seems like a case of: X, but on the Internet!
Not even that. Lube Mobile is on the internet. In fact using their web site you can book the service / repair, get a firm price (even for some repairs!), confirm a date and time, even select your favourite mechanic if you want to. Someone does have to be there though when they start - they do require a signature before starting work, and someone has to provide payment when it's done, although this is usually via EFTPOS on the spot.
In use, power plants which can't be throttled back for times of low demand are as much a problem as power plants which vary their output during the day.
Yeah, but they handle that by varying demand. To wit: most of coal here have an aluminium plant pair with them, who get their power for near free. They take the excess supply. It's not a total solution because the price of power here goes negative most nights (ie, the coal power generators PAY others to take their power) - so they are offloading some of it onto the rest of the grid as well. But to me that's fair, as ultimately the coal and nuclear power plants are paying the price for their inability to follow the load by giving away the energy. Currently wind and solar are offloading the cost of not being able to supply when needed to the rest of the grid. Clearly they will have to pay the cost one day - probably by giving their excess power away to pump storage operators, who then get to sell it later.
How we pay for the peak demand pumped storage, which still costs $5/watt but is only used a couple of days a year is an interesting question. But we have the exactly the same issue with transmission lines - we have to pay a huge amount extra to cope with demand imposed by just a few days a year. We managed it, so I guess we will manage it with pumped storage too.
In reality they have just crossed another milestone: they are cheaper when they are generating. That will do for now while there is substantial fossil capacity to back them up, but if we are to phase out fossil fuels entirely the figure you have to compare nuclear to is generation plus storage.
The cheapest by far is pumped storage. In countries with plenty of hydro it's effectively free. For the rest of us it's about $1/watt generation capacity. Nuclear comes in at $8/watt or so. Wind comes in at $4/watt and solar is hitting parity with that, so even with storage renewables are cheaper. Nuclear is already history.
An argument I often see here is there are no sites available for pumped storage. Turns out that's wrong. Here in Australia (which is mostly flat desert) we did a survey recently. You need is a hill where you build a dam about 500m in diameter, that has a valley about 400m below within 3km or so. Turns out the country is littered with literally 10's of thousands of sites like this.
None of this is free of course - you still have to spend the $5/watt or so. Australia's energy consumption is 50GW, so that totals AU$250 Billion. That's a metric fuck ton of money to a small country like Australia. But as it happens out coal generation facilities are near retirement, so we would have to spend it anyway.
But frankly, what's wrong with smoking in a bar?... Nobody forces you to go to my bar
As others have pointed out the staff can't go elsewhere. Non smoking bar staff have successfully sued their employers after getting lung cancer.
I wouldn't worry overly about it. I'm an Australian, and it looks like is end of the line for Australia's actions on smoking. The two areas that annoyed voters were their kids starting smoking due to peer pressure and slick ads, and the mess smokers left around with 2nd hand smoke and butts. The kid problem has been cured by making it expensive and making the packs so ugly it wasn't cool to be seen with one (seriously: no one looks cool with a picture of a gangrenous foot near their mouth), and the 2nd hand smoke was cured by banning it from public places.
If it does stop here it will be one of those rare successes in public policy. It leaves people are still free to do whatever they dammed well please in their private life, while stopping them from effecting others with their less healthy habits.
I'm hoping our nanny state government will notice the success and apply the same techniques to the illegal social drugs. Making them legal, putting high taxes on them, and regulating the purity will solve a myriad of problems. Stopping people dying from injecting bad shit is one of them. Using those taxes to get people to pay for them rehab down the track is another. Removing the money from the swaps created by illegal gangs is another. Win. Win. Win. It is a nanny state, so I guess it won't happen. But I can dream...
Like or loathe him, it's hard to argue that Trump hasn't been one of the most influential people of the year.
In what way? The only thing I can think of is blowing an extraordinary amount of hot air. Extraordinary is in italics because he's US politician in an election year, so a very high bar has been set by his co-competitors in the hot air stakes. Yet he didn't get just beat them. He clobbered them so hrd they still don't know quite what happened. It was an amazing performance. It's what got him elected and deservedly so.
But influential? He's done nothing beyond telling us what he is going to do. Given that changes day by day to the point of being self contradictory I don't see how anybody could overly influenced by the literal meaning of the words. The underlying message that appealed to the voters must have worked at a much deeper level than specific promises. I've seen many articles theorising on what that message might have been, but few agree and none are convincing. I struggle with the idea that an entire nation could be influenced by an idea nobody can describe. So far his main influence is hold us spellbound, waiting and wondering what his first concrete moves will be.
If he really does jail Clinton, build a wall across Mexico and whatever else he has promised, then yes he will deserve the "person of year award". Probably "man of the century" as well, when the time comes. ("man" because this "person" crap is another piece of unnecessary PC that needs fixing and if he delivers on even 1/2 his promises he's just the man to fix it).
Once Trump became the leading Republican candidate, they were writing "analysis" headlines questioning their obligation to neutrality.
No they weren't. They were questioning the reporting style they had used for decades - the one where give the appearance of fairness by treating statements from both sides with the same respect. So when Trump said "If I will get rid of Obama care", they gave that the same weight as Clinton saying "I will keep Obama care". And they treat Trump's claim that "Obama wasn't born in the US", as they give to Clinton's view that "Obama was born in the US".
The practice of giving both sides equal weight has always been questionable. I am left scratching my head when I see a reputable news outlets give the same weight to and anit-vaxer's claims as they do to a professor of virology, and later defend it in the name of fairness. Nonetheless, they seemed to be firm believers in the process - until Trump came along. He made it utterly untenable to treat the pronouncements of both candidates identically.
if you want to increase the signature of the stealthy aircraft there are lots of easy ways
You missed: open the weapons bay doors, which the F-35 has to do every 10 minutes or so if it wants to avoid cooking it's munitions. Quoting that link:
The F-35's weapons bay can overheat if if the plane is maintaining high speeds at an altitude of under 25,000 feet and an atmospheric temperature 90 F or greater. The trouble occurs if the plane's weapon day doors are closed for upwards of 10 minutes, and opening the bay doors negates the F-35s stealth capabilities.
Why do you trust the main CPU, if you don't trust the ME chip?
Because hardware designers making the odd mistake is just normal. I've spent a fair portion of my life papering over their mistakes, always successfully. But to fuck things up beyond redemption; that requires a computer programmer - just ask the patients treated by Therac 25.
A multi-user system shouldn't allow unpriviledged users from consuming resources indefinitely. It's too easy to starve a system or resources. I think that's one of the reasons behind the isolation dockers provides in the first place. Shut down the container and everything gets cleaned up.
What "multi-user systems"? Multi-user systems died somewhere around the turn of the century, when the personal computers became common.
Secondly the people whinging about there do not give a shit about your concerns over large computer systems. And you should listen to them, because they are the people who run those systems. They are the sysadmins in charge of large clusters of machines they control with the likes of ssh, ansible and puppet. If there is a task left running when they log out, it is because they wanted it to be running.
All that aside, this is not 'nix having some issue with leaving processes running indefinitely when a person logs off. I've used 'nix of one version or another since V6 - and even back then it had a solution. When the user logged out, a SIG_HUP signal (so named because back then it was trigged by a modem hangup) was sent to all processes started by that login, and they were killed. So it's been a solved problem for 30 years.
The current problem is the caused by desktop guy's themselves. All the processes that drive their windowing systems needed to communicate, so they created one. Actually they've created several - corba, dcop, and now dbus. Initially they were used for communication configuration changes and such - eg, when you change the desktop font size everyone knew about it immediately, so the entire screen just changed. Then they found new uses for their toy - and soon it is used to communicate to backend daemons to do thing like bringing network interfaces up and down, which often required new processes to be created. That was followed by "address book servers", and "wallet servers" and god knows what else. In doing so they managed to break the old SIG_HUP system for desktop users, because their sometimes new processes weren't spawned by child processes of the login - they were instead spawned by system daemons.
So the desktop guys created a problem for themselves (only). The rancour you see here is the solution they have implemented and forced down everyone's throats breaks existing stuff. This is just laziness. If they insist on designing systems that have background daemons spawning per-session processes they could go to the effort of, you know, tracking them, so they can kill the bloody things when the session ends. Tracking things is after something computers do real well. Yes it would be more work - but they created the problem.
That said - if they were to go to the effort of accommodating legacy stuff (which they did in an exemplary way for the change from SysV init to to systemD init) by say offering up patches to the few programs that do leave stuff running in the background (nohup, term, screen,...) I still wouldn't be satisfied. That is because what they have put together is a godawful mess, and this "solution" typifies it.
The first time I noticed the winding IPC monster was starting to grow is vim complained it could not save its settings... when I was running it on a remote machine. wtf? Turned out they had pushed the tentacles of this mechanism to a remote VIM, and it was trying to save its settings on my laptop. Then ssh stopped shutting down properly - turned out because they weren't closing the IPC tunnels they had built. Then network connections started mysteriously changing their configuration - because the desktop had told network-manager who told a dhclient to do something with a virtual network device I had just created - wtf? It has since become evident that where before I could see state of my machines in static text files in well known places usually put there by me, now it was configured by inscrutable ephemeral messages being tran
And then there are people that just refer to the definition of what "booting an OS" means, instead of doing silly games.
I suspect we are from the same generation. When the term OS was owned by computer programmers, you had a point. We studied books on how to write operating systems. They sat at a very specific place in the software stack.
That meaning was subsumed when popular culture conscripted the term OS to mean Windows, Android, iOS or whatever. Even Wikipedia uses it in this way. In todays nomenclature after the OS boots, you use it to run "apps" - usually by clicking or tapping things. When you upgrade the OS, you upgrade the entire stack. Nowadays OS could reasonably be defined as the software waiting for you to do something after you power the the device on. If your laptop boots into X and then waits - running X is most definitely part of the boot process. If it doesn't run X, then obviously X isn't part of the boot process - but userspace programs that configure the network, run ssh deamons and display login prompts most definitely are.
Today we use terms like "kernel" where we would have used OS years ago. I thought you were playing word games - but maybe you haven't caught onto how popular culture has re-purposed a term we used to consider our own.
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Yes, it is lame. But it's also par for the course here in Australia. We have a history of paying more for everything. For example, for a while we paid far more for Microsoft software and Dell laptops. All sorts of excuses were offered - like it cost so much more because of Australian's consumer protection laws. Oddly, when the internet came and the local distributors had to compete with people importing directly, their prices dropped to match other countries.
But Hyundai hasn't been effected by the internet, apparently. We replaced an older model of i30 with this new one. I lost the key for the older model, which left us with one. I went looking for a replacement, but as it wasn't urgent I hunted around for a lower price. After literally months of trying, the closest I came to a locksmith who said he would contact some rogue dealer in Turkey for the code, but it didn't happen. In the end I paid the asking price for he older model, which was $750.
It seems like Hyundai learnt from that experience. Since they got away with that they doubled the price for the next model. I presume this means Hyundai has very tight control of their supply chain so their Australian distributors don't have to deal with competition on their cousins on internet.
Or, it's 12 randomly picked men and women not agreeing with the case made by the prosecution. Or to put it another way: it's lovely piece of jargon an incompetent prosecutor can use to shift blame away from them.
It could be worse. If could be our politicians dreamt up a law so vile even the best prosecutor couldn't sell it to a jury. They scream "Jury nullification" from their pulpits to attack their own citizens for not being sheep.
In either case, it's not a complete undermining of the legal and judicial process as you put it. It's one of those many checks and balances others have mentioned here. It can't undermine the process because it's a very deliberate part on it. When it happens, it doing the job it's supposed to - keeping the law within the bounds normal men and women find reasonable, regardless of what their betters think.
The most egregious example I've come across is my shiny new Hyundai i30. They have proximity keys. You can buy the blank for around $100 or so, and most locksmiths will program them for a few dollars. But they need to get the secret code to match it to the car's Engine Control Unit. Obtaining that is a 60 second task for a Hyundai dealership, but they won't tell other locksmiths what it is. So you can only obtain the key from Hyundai: Cost: $1,500.
The price is not too far from what they charge for a ECU, which is not too surprising because the other route you can take is to replace the ECU and keys.
Actually, there isn't much in the way of mining tailings. Most mining in Queensland talks place west of the Great Dividing Range. It's a damned site longer than 2300km and a very effective barrier. For example, it creates a inland sea covering 100's of sq km when it rains heavily, as there no where for the water to go.
The pollutants of concern are fertilisers. Since farming happens all along the 2300 km it effects the entire reef.
Pollutants tend to accelerate growth things, distorting the natural ecosystem somewhere - things like algae blooms. One perverse effect is creates a food bonanza for crown of thorns start fish larvae which eat coral, and often destroying large patches of it.
However, compared to heat to killing 1/2 the reef, the effects are minor. Nothing comes close to the damage climate has already done, and it's only just starting.
As others have said, we have know for years this moment was coming. The scientists who work on the reef started saying at 2000 it was a dead man walking. Since most of them spend a lot of their time on the reef, they were rather passionate about it and made a lot of noise. Our governments responded they way governments the word over seem to when some scientists says some hard decisions have to be made that will almost certainly cost some politicians their jobs - they cut their funding, savagely when it became obvious they would not shut up.
Turns out killing the messenger had no effect whatsoever on the end result.
Actually, it's just a big WTF, followed by oh they are sprouting shit in order to get a few clicks (including mine, sadly).
They are saying no advertiser will be using cookies in 2 years because people are moving from browsers to mobile apps. Lets turn this around: they are saying that in two year no advertisers will bother tracking people who use browsers. So in two years I can stop blocking Facebook, uninstall Privacy badger because the web will be sweet and innocent again. Ohkay....
For what it's worth, the page carrying this bullshit installed 3 cookies of its own, plus 7 from twitter. It is true google analytics, sail-horizon, and crwdcntrl didn't install cookies. The injected their tracking data directly into the page using javascript.
As a long suffering Skylake user, Microsoft's complaint rang true to me. I still remember the days people were demanding their money back for their newly purchased returning Dell XPS 9550 running Windows because the screen didn't work. Many GPU microcode and Intel driver releases later, and that's been fixed for a single monitor, and to the earlier posters comment it was fixed on Linux before Windows. Nonetheless, it still doesn't work reliably when I connect a 3440 x 1440 monitor.
Intel promised a working xbacklight driver for 4.11 which would be only 2 f'ing years after the chipset was released. 4.11 arrived, and still no xbacklight driver. And lets not forget the Skylake CPU bugs, requiring a microcode update to fix. Then there is AMT security flaws.
Still, I've used a 1 year old Surface, and it was just horrible. Peeling plastic, unreliable keyboard, hopeless touch. It and the Skylake make a great pairing, now I think about it.
You under estimate the man. He is _very_ conversant with arithmetic:
He also very conversant with the memory of your average Australian voter, apparently. After 300 comments, no one remembered him saying this. You've gotta admire the hubris.
His position apparently is while he, only he apparently, is governed only by the laws of arithmetic, the rest of us have to obey the laws he makes up - those of Australia. Oh, and don't forget while he is telling us we can't use crypto so he can spy on us, just a year ago he was enthusiastic user of Whatsapp, presumably so the people who elected him could not see what he was preparing to do - like springing this on us.
After a few 1000 words of crap, we finally get a post that sums up the situation. I wish I had mod points.
You could have expanded on the ICO's though. They are driving this current bubble. ICO's are to ETH as Bitcoin is to real currency, which is to say where Bitcoin is a virtual currency whose value is measured in fiat currencies, the value of ICO's is measured in ETH's. Since ETH's is a virtual currency I guess you could say ICO's are virtual-virtual, or virtual squared. They are an idea within an idea - they are about as real as a virtualised CPU in Minecraft.
Perhaps one example will make it obvious what is going on. Golem is an Ethereum ICO, whose ambition is to become a market place for CPU cycles. They an awesome looking web site (if you are into CSS candy), but no working software, no hardware, no users. They put a ETH market cap on themselves of $302M.
Here is a list of the top 10 ICO's. Being merely an idea expressed in a virtual space, ICO's can breed at the rate of rumours in a girl's school. Which is pretty much what is happening, and it's driving an Ethereum bubble.
If indeed it was just 17 lines of code that didn't work they might have a point. It's not so hard to fix 17 lines of code. In fact the reason we like 1200 lines of code is because we can fix it.
The reason we don't like those 17 lines of code is they are really 1,139,536 lines of code hiding behind 17 lines of configuration. Worse it's not just 1 million lines of simple C, but multiple processes communicating through a horrid RPC system that makes the entire thing utterly opaque.
I didn't think there could be anything that could make me pine for the days I could fix a problem just debugging 1200 written in one of the worst programming languages on the planet (shell script) - but bless his black little heart, Lennart has managed to prove to me I was wrong.
Firefox isn't single threaded. Have a look some time - it's typically running 20 .. 30 threads. Bring up a web page and most of those threads will be active - fetching stuff off the web, rendering pictures, parsing javascript, managing the cache all in parallel. I suspect Firefox has no less parallelism than Chrome.
Chrome giving each web page it's own process has other effects. One is security, another is a crash or fault of some kind only takes out one page - not the entire browser. They are very good reasons for wanting to move to a multi process model. One reason for not wanting to more in that direction it uses more resources. RAM mostly, because you can share memory between threads but you don't with processes (which is were the better security and robustness comes from). This is why Chrome is a resource hog compared to Firefox.
The primary reason Chrome runs fast is it and it's plugins are written in C++. Firefox was more of a javascript program running on top of their rendering engine (Gecko, which of course was written in C) and their generalised UI laper (XUL). As you have observed, Firefox has been moving away from that model toward more native code, so javascript API's are disappearing in favour of native ones. Firefox is also re-writing their rendering engine. The new one, servo, is written in Rust, whch they hope will allow more parallelism. But that's just a hope. The reality is it's already much faster than Geko or anything else on a single thread. This has nothing to do with Rust. It's just what happens when a group of experienced people re-write something they've done before from the ground up.
If Firefox continues on it's current path I expect it will be smaller and faster than Chrome in time. But I don't think that will effect it's popularity. That's driven by more mundane things - like Google suggesting you use their browser when you visit their web page. Firefox has never got, and is unlikely to ever get that sort of marketing push. The other thing is Chrome offers is more and better javascript development tools. Firefox used to be the only game in town with Firebug, but now Chrome is so much better that Firefox for developer tools you would be hard pressed to find a developer who doesn't use it. That has consequences. It's what drives web pages working better with Chrome than anything else. People here paint major sites working better with Chrome as some sort of Google conspiracy, but it isn't. It's just pure pragmatism. Firefox can't do anything about the marketing, but they could try to win the developers back. Currently I don't see that happening.
By the by I don't think Google set out destroy Firefox with Chrome. Firefox was just collateral damage. Their target was IE. Microsoft deliberately crippled IE to hold the web back, so people would use native applications like office and outlook instead of Google Docs and GMail. Chrome was Google's answer to that. They pushed it as hard as they could, to the extent of polluting their treasured search page with nag ware for Chrome. It's the only time I've seen them do that. It worked - they won the battle when Microsoft ditched IE in favour of Edge. The development tools in Chrome are an outgrowth of the same plan. If you want to push people away from applications running on desktop OS's to web based "application as a service", you need lots of web applications. One way to push that along is to provide some great web development tools, for free.
Caught in the middle of this well financed battle, Firefox is suffering. But while the economic imperatives that drive Chrome's rapid development will end (if that hasn't happened already), Firefox will continue to get better one small change at a time for decades to come. That's the way open source wins in the end. It doesn't need money to drive it, whereas the commercial competition withers without it. There is no money in browsers, they are commodities no one pays for. That sounds like open source's favourite habitat to me, so my guess is when the years turn to decades, Firefox will rein supreme.
Errr, it's very likely they didn't vote for this. You can read about the irregularities on Wikipedia:
Now an organisation controlled by the people who Wikipedia says rigged the election are banning Wikipedia.
Sigh. My heart bleeds for you Turkey. But you have to understand compared to kings, tyrants, and military junta's democracy is very weak. A mere majority voting it for is nowhere near enough when the reward for destroying it is being able to skim entire countries economy for personal gain. With a reward like that on offer there is plenty of money around to promise, bribe, cajole, beat, and imprison some of that majority. You need so many people supporting democracy no one can afford to buy enough of them to make a difference. Sadly Turkey, you never adopted democracy, an open society and rule of law as your primary religion. Without that sort of devotion from most citizens democracy will be overturned, because while it is undeniably the human glue that produces the strongest countries, the glue is itself very fragile.
I don't know what reasons you were given for using smart meters, but where I live accuracy and saving the wages of people wasn't the ones we were given. It boiled down to one thing: being able to pass the real cost of power to the customer. The hope is the consumer will then change their usage patterns. Changing it is possible in theory as the thing we use most of our electricity for is moving heat around - things like heating water, cooling houses, refrigerators and freezes, cooking and so on. You have a fair amount of freedom on when you run some things (washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, hot water systems), and it's not hard to store heat (or cold for that matter - we used to do it using ice boxes).
The incentive to move your usage to when power is cheap is pretty big where I live as the cost of power varies by a factor of 500% or so during the day. But of course you need a meter that can measure power consumption at 15 minute intervals or so, and that's not something the old-style analogue meters can do. Some electricity retailers here already provide tariffs that vary during the day - but you must pay for a smart meter installed to take advantage of them. Some people do.
Whether any of this pans out remains to be seen. It may well be the cure is worse than the disease as you say, but not for any of the reasons you give. A 500% price differential provides one hell of an arbitrage opportunity, but it one the consumer can't take advantage of because of the limitations of those old style meters, so traditionally taking advantage of it has remained securely in the hands of the electricity cartel. Having a smart meter means the consumer can break into that cartel, something that hasn't been lost on Mr Elon Musk's battery salesman.
Err, one of biggest car repairs on the planet have been using this business model (and only this business model) for 20 years. They can claim to be the biggest because the mechanics are employees, not contractors or franchises. I gather numerically others are far bigger.
Not even that. Lube Mobile is on the internet. In fact using their web site you can book the service / repair, get a firm price (even for some repairs!), confirm a date and time, even select your favourite mechanic if you want to. Someone does have to be there though when they start - they do require a signature before starting work, and someone has to provide payment when it's done, although this is usually via EFTPOS on the spot.
Translation: they wanted JSON, but it hadn't been invented yet. Since they needed to "get the work done" so they went with what they had.
Yeah, but they handle that by varying demand. To wit: most of coal here have an aluminium plant pair with them, who get their power for near free. They take the excess supply. It's not a total solution because the price of power here goes negative most nights (ie, the coal power generators PAY others to take their power) - so they are offloading some of it onto the rest of the grid as well. But to me that's fair, as ultimately the coal and nuclear power plants are paying the price for their inability to follow the load by giving away the energy. Currently wind and solar are offloading the cost of not being able to supply when needed to the rest of the grid. Clearly they will have to pay the cost one day - probably by giving their excess power away to pump storage operators, who then get to sell it later.
How we pay for the peak demand pumped storage, which still costs $5/watt but is only used a couple of days a year is an interesting question. But we have the exactly the same issue with transmission lines - we have to pay a huge amount extra to cope with demand imposed by just a few days a year. We managed it, so I guess we will manage it with pumped storage too.
In reality they have just crossed another milestone: they are cheaper when they are generating. That will do for now while there is substantial fossil capacity to back them up, but if we are to phase out fossil fuels entirely the figure you have to compare nuclear to is generation plus storage.
The cheapest by far is pumped storage. In countries with plenty of hydro it's effectively free. For the rest of us it's about $1/watt generation capacity. Nuclear comes in at $8/watt or so. Wind comes in at $4/watt and solar is hitting parity with that, so even with storage renewables are cheaper. Nuclear is already history.
An argument I often see here is there are no sites available for pumped storage. Turns out that's wrong. Here in Australia (which is mostly flat desert) we did a survey recently. You need is a hill where you build a dam about 500m in diameter, that has a valley about 400m below within 3km or so. Turns out the country is littered with literally 10's of thousands of sites like this.
None of this is free of course - you still have to spend the $5/watt or so. Australia's energy consumption is 50GW, so that totals AU$250 Billion. That's a metric fuck ton of money to a small country like Australia. But as it happens out coal generation facilities are near retirement, so we would have to spend it anyway.
As others have pointed out the staff can't go elsewhere. Non smoking bar staff have successfully sued their employers after getting lung cancer.
I wouldn't worry overly about it. I'm an Australian, and it looks like is end of the line for Australia's actions on smoking. The two areas that annoyed voters were their kids starting smoking due to peer pressure and slick ads, and the mess smokers left around with 2nd hand smoke and butts. The kid problem has been cured by making it expensive and making the packs so ugly it wasn't cool to be seen with one (seriously: no one looks cool with a picture of a gangrenous foot near their mouth), and the 2nd hand smoke was cured by banning it from public places.
If it does stop here it will be one of those rare successes in public policy. It leaves people are still free to do whatever they dammed well please in their private life, while stopping them from effecting others with their less healthy habits.
I'm hoping our nanny state government will notice the success and apply the same techniques to the illegal social drugs. Making them legal, putting high taxes on them, and regulating the purity will solve a myriad of problems. Stopping people dying from injecting bad shit is one of them. Using those taxes to get people to pay for them rehab down the track is another. Removing the money from the swaps created by illegal gangs is another. Win. Win. Win. It is a nanny state, so I guess it won't happen. But I can dream ...
In what way? The only thing I can think of is blowing an extraordinary amount of hot air. Extraordinary is in italics because he's US politician in an election year, so a very high bar has been set by his co-competitors in the hot air stakes. Yet he didn't get just beat them. He clobbered them so hrd they still don't know quite what happened. It was an amazing performance. It's what got him elected and deservedly so.
But influential? He's done nothing beyond telling us what he is going to do. Given that changes day by day to the point of being self contradictory I don't see how anybody could overly influenced by the literal meaning of the words. The underlying message that appealed to the voters must have worked at a much deeper level than specific promises. I've seen many articles theorising on what that message might have been, but few agree and none are convincing. I struggle with the idea that an entire nation could be influenced by an idea nobody can describe. So far his main influence is hold us spellbound, waiting and wondering what his first concrete moves will be.
If he really does jail Clinton, build a wall across Mexico and whatever else he has promised, then yes he will deserve the "person of year award". Probably "man of the century" as well, when the time comes. ("man" because this "person" crap is another piece of unnecessary PC that needs fixing and if he delivers on even 1/2 his promises he's just the man to fix it).
No they weren't. They were questioning the reporting style they had used for decades - the one where give the appearance of fairness by treating statements from both sides with the same respect. So when Trump said "If I will get rid of Obama care", they gave that the same weight as Clinton saying "I will keep Obama care". And they treat Trump's claim that "Obama wasn't born in the US", as they give to Clinton's view that "Obama was born in the US".
The practice of giving both sides equal weight has always been questionable. I am left scratching my head when I see a reputable news outlets give the same weight to and anit-vaxer's claims as they do to a professor of virology, and later defend it in the name of fairness. Nonetheless, they seemed to be firm believers in the process - until Trump came along. He made it utterly untenable to treat the pronouncements of both candidates identically.
if you want to increase the signature of the stealthy aircraft there are lots of easy ways
You missed: open the weapons bay doors, which the F-35 has to do every 10 minutes or so if it wants to avoid cooking it's munitions. Quoting that link:
Because hardware designers making the odd mistake is just normal. I've spent a fair portion of my life papering over their mistakes, always successfully. But to fuck things up beyond redemption; that requires a computer programmer - just ask the patients treated by Therac 25.
From the linked article:
A multi-user system shouldn't allow unpriviledged users from consuming resources indefinitely. It's too easy to starve a system or resources. I think that's one of the reasons behind the isolation dockers provides in the first place. Shut down the container and everything gets cleaned up.
What "multi-user systems"? Multi-user systems died somewhere around the turn of the century, when the personal computers became common.
Secondly the people whinging about there do not give a shit about your concerns over large computer systems. And you should listen to them, because they are the people who run those systems. They are the sysadmins in charge of large clusters of machines they control with the likes of ssh, ansible and puppet. If there is a task left running when they log out, it is because they wanted it to be running.
All that aside, this is not 'nix having some issue with leaving processes running indefinitely when a person logs off. I've used 'nix of one version or another since V6 - and even back then it had a solution. When the user logged out, a SIG_HUP signal (so named because back then it was trigged by a modem hangup) was sent to all processes started by that login, and they were killed. So it's been a solved problem for 30 years.
The current problem is the caused by desktop guy's themselves. All the processes that drive their windowing systems needed to communicate, so they created one. Actually they've created several - corba, dcop, and now dbus. Initially they were used for communication configuration changes and such - eg, when you change the desktop font size everyone knew about it immediately, so the entire screen just changed. Then they found new uses for their toy - and soon it is used to communicate to backend daemons to do thing like bringing network interfaces up and down, which often required new processes to be created. That was followed by "address book servers", and "wallet servers" and god knows what else. In doing so they managed to break the old SIG_HUP system for desktop users, because their sometimes new processes weren't spawned by child processes of the login - they were instead spawned by system daemons.
So the desktop guys created a problem for themselves (only). The rancour you see here is the solution they have implemented and forced down everyone's throats breaks existing stuff. This is just laziness. If they insist on designing systems that have background daemons spawning per-session processes they could go to the effort of, you know, tracking them, so they can kill the bloody things when the session ends. Tracking things is after something computers do real well. Yes it would be more work - but they created the problem.
That said - if they were to go to the effort of accommodating legacy stuff (which they did in an exemplary way for the change from SysV init to to systemD init) by say offering up patches to the few programs that do leave stuff running in the background (nohup, term, screen, ...) I still wouldn't be satisfied. That is because what they have put together is a godawful mess, and this "solution" typifies it.
The first time I noticed the winding IPC monster was starting to grow is vim complained it could not save its settings ... when I was running it on a remote machine. wtf? Turned out they had pushed the tentacles of this mechanism to a remote VIM, and it was trying to save its settings on my laptop. Then ssh stopped shutting down properly - turned out because they weren't closing the IPC tunnels they had built. Then network connections started mysteriously changing their configuration - because the desktop had told network-manager who told a dhclient to do something with a virtual network device I had just created - wtf? It has since become evident that where before I could see state of my machines in static text files in well known places usually put there by me, now it was configured by inscrutable ephemeral messages being tran
And then there are people that just refer to the definition of what "booting an OS" means, instead of doing silly games.
I suspect we are from the same generation. When the term OS was owned by computer programmers, you had a point. We studied books on how to write operating systems. They sat at a very specific place in the software stack.
That meaning was subsumed when popular culture conscripted the term OS to mean Windows, Android, iOS or whatever. Even Wikipedia uses it in this way. In todays nomenclature after the OS boots, you use it to run "apps" - usually by clicking or tapping things. When you upgrade the OS, you upgrade the entire stack. Nowadays OS could reasonably be defined as the software waiting for you to do something after you power the the device on. If your laptop boots into X and then waits - running X is most definitely part of the boot process. If it doesn't run X, then obviously X isn't part of the boot process - but userspace programs that configure the network, run ssh deamons and display login prompts most definitely are.
Today we use terms like "kernel" where we would have used OS years ago. I thought you were playing word games - but maybe you haven't caught onto how popular culture has re-purposed a term we used to consider our own.