The point isn't simply that [ insert object here ] is a tool, but that any tool can be used and misused. The issue of good/bad ultimately rests with the user, not the tool itself. Yes, the designed purpose of something, like a gun, may be to inflict harm, but that harm may be for good (perhaps relatively speaking), say, in the service of self-defense. The Death Star isn't evil all by itself -- it's just a thing -- but it can be used for evil -- like to destroy Alderaan. It could also be used to stop an asteroid from demolishing a planet... The line you wish to draw is about the user not the object.
"Granted the chance of a fatal injury is higher with a firearm"
See, I'm confused because you managed to type out this phrase, but then the rest of your post is written as if you didn't understand this.
Yes, one person might kill another person with a toothpick or also with a death star -- but that's totally irrelevant, because toothpicks aren't like death stars, and we need to draw a line somewhere between toothpicks and death stars. Personally, I draw the line at "rifles, revolvers", which is inside the range of "guns" but toward the bottom of it.
Doesn't change the basic premise that "guns are tools". Dangerous tools for sure, but tools none the less.
Tesla owners today found that their cars had been upgraded with the company's new autopilot feature
Can it be programmed to find a charging station and plug itself in all by itself when its battery get low, like a Roomba? And, while they're at it, can it be programmed to vacuum my carpets or mow my lawn?
It's hard and makes you think and literally no one gets it right and the internet is a roiling vortex of shit because of that fact. But go on believing that you're the special one who doesn't fuck it up, just "the kids" who don't want to work hard.
Right, because no piece of software can ever be changed once delivered and/or in service.
Gun owners who resist any attempt to reasonably regulate guns are tools.
From some of the articles I've read, the majority of gun owners are okay with some regulations, but the NRA lobbies heavily against any/all and the Congress critters listen to the NRA over their own constituents.
The series is set in a futuristic dystopia ruled by an oligarchy of television networks. Even the government functions primarily as a puppet state of the network executives, serving mainly to pass laws — such as banning "off" switches on televisions — that protect and consolidate the networks' power.
Guns are tools and, like many other tools, can be misused. Would there be the same outrage if a toddler got hold of a cordless power drill and accidentally injured his grandmother with it? Granted the chance of a fatal injury is higher with a firearm, but the responsibility for proper access and use of any tool is with both the user and owner - and I would argue on a sliding scale of which one is most capable of being most responsible.
Let a web page give push notifications to my desktop? No, hell no, oh god no, please fuck off and go away no. Just no.
I just want a damned web browser. That's it.
Anyway we can get Mozilla to create survey pages for the various "features" they're cramming into Firefox with multiple choice options like that? Because, I'd like to have just a damned web browser too...
The original purpose, as described in the Bad Astronomy link, is that Dyson proposed this for generating power, not living space:
Look at our own civilization. We consume ever-increasing amounts of power, and are always looking for bigger sources. Fossil, nuclear, solar, wind Decades ago, physicist Freeman Dyson popularized an interesting idea: What if we built thousands of gigantic solar panels, kilometers across, and put them in orbit around the Sun? They’d capture sunlight, convert it to energy, and that could be beamed to Earth for our use. Need more power? Build more panels! An advanced civilization could eventually build millions, billions of them.
The Bad Astronomy link contains a few fanciful notions. Specifically, Phil Plait says:
[yada, yada, yada,...] That’s the whole basis of SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (see the movie Contact, or better yet read the book, for more on this).
Read a book? With words and stuff? Talk about science fiction.:-)
Congrats on repeating the reference from the second word in the damn title. Or do you think the name is a coincidence?
It's possible that not everyone will recognize the DARPA usage as a tortured/forced acronym (Inbound, Controlled, Air-Releasable, Unrecoverable Systems) for the person of Greek mythology. Which is stupid anyway as the DARPA version won't actually fly anywhere near the Sun. [ Stupid government/military and their stupid desire for stupid acronyms. How much time/money is wasted coming up with these things? ]
I get the impression that a lot of your post, like most of the people who say systemd is great and the haters are just haters, just doesn't make a lot of sense.
Actually, I'm not a fan of systemd, but as a system programmer/administrator with 30 years of experience on just about every type of Unix system from PCs to Crays, I've seen a lot of good and bad things. With every change -- especially forced change -- comes griping - some valid, some not. I'm sure I'm not as much of an expert on this particular issue as others here, based on some of the posts, but I am trying to be optimistic. The idea of systemd (or some/much of it anyway) seems good (the Solaris Service Manager doesn't suck), but I think the implementation suffers, especially from not being well or completely thought out, being a bit over-reaching and developed by people with larger than deserved egos who are unwilling to compromise and/or accept or act on constructive criticism - some of that also from people with ego problems.
I just imagine if people worked together, things could be a lot better.
I've heard heaps of "constructive input" - like, go back to text logs, don't hook everything directly into systemd, keep the separate functionalities like firewalling and su out of systemd.
Agreed and I would add switching systemd to PID 2 and make a very simple init process as PID 1.
a) you're devaluing the experienced people who are having really big problems with systemd and b) suggesting that we choke down those issues and keep moving forward. WITH systemd.
Actually, I'm hoping that the developers will get their heads out of their asses and listen to the people actually using their product, but Kay and Lennart apparently are mediocre programmers that don't play well with others, but have, for some reason, been allowed to play w/o adult supervision.
Wish I had mod points, but I agree with this sentiment. Tests present a statistical average but real-world terrain and human driving is all but average.
i.e.: Your mileage may vary. (and variations thereof)
The anti systemd sentiment is getting a bit old? The sky certainly hasn't been falling with systemd already running on a lot of systems.
Systemd is the Obamacare of Linux. People bitch about it, claiming all sorts of "bad things will happen" that don't actually happen. Sure systemd was pushed through despite numerous complaints (and valid concerns), is causing all sorts of headaches and isn't perfect, but it provides (or could provide) a benefit and works for many (most?). If people would start offering constructive input (people slam) and that input was well received (Lennart slam) and we *all* could learn to live and work together for the benefit of everyone (everyone slam) perhaps we all could move forward to a better world.
Only an immensely tiny minority of their current customers can still have these grandfathered plans. Even if all of those users left, Verizon would still have more than 130 million subscribers.
Assuming that's true - and I have no reason to doubt - then the amount of money Verizon stands to gain off these users is relatively small and the only reason for Verizon to dick them over is simply because they can.
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The point isn't simply that [ insert object here ] is a tool, but that any tool can be used and misused. The issue of good/bad ultimately rests with the user, not the tool itself. Yes, the designed purpose of something, like a gun, may be to inflict harm, but that harm may be for good (perhaps relatively speaking), say, in the service of self-defense. The Death Star isn't evil all by itself -- it's just a thing -- but it can be used for evil -- like to destroy Alderaan. It could also be used to stop an asteroid from demolishing a planet... The line you wish to draw is about the user not the object.
You can switch to a new phone number by answering the security questions.
You'd be surprised how many people can't answer the security questions they set up themselves.
Not me! My security question is: "What is your security question?"
And although Japanese isn't my strong suit - I think you mean seppuku rather than soduki (the puzzle game).
It's a fairly common Internet meme/joke. Like, "So I did a 360 and walked away."
"Granted the chance of a fatal injury is higher with a firearm"
See, I'm confused because you managed to type out this phrase, but then the rest of your post is written as if you didn't understand this.
Yes, one person might kill another person with a toothpick or also with a death star -- but that's totally irrelevant, because toothpicks aren't like death stars, and we need to draw a line somewhere between toothpicks and death stars. Personally, I draw the line at "rifles, revolvers", which is inside the range of "guns" but toward the bottom of it.
Doesn't change the basic premise that "guns are tools". Dangerous tools for sure, but tools none the less.
Strong indications are that Snowden is a government plant, ...
Judging from photos, perhaps some type of Fern...
Tesla owners today found that their cars had been upgraded with the company's new autopilot feature
Can it be programmed to find a charging station and plug itself in all by itself when its battery get low, like a Roomba? And, while they're at it, can it be programmed to vacuum my carpets or mow my lawn?
It's hard and makes you think and literally no one gets it right and the internet is a roiling vortex of shit because of that fact. But go on believing that you're the special one who doesn't fuck it up, just "the kids" who don't want to work hard.
Right, because no piece of software can ever be changed once delivered and/or in service.
Gun owners who resist any attempt to reasonably regulate guns are tools.
From some of the articles I've read, the majority of gun owners are okay with some regulations, but the NRA lobbies heavily against any/all and the Congress critters listen to the NRA over their own constituents.
They don't like C because they haven't been taught it properly and instead go for things that are just trying to re-invent the wheel.
And hub is connected to the ... ankle bone?
I tried that. The throughput was terrible. [ 0/10 do not recommend ]
We'll be living in the world of Max Headroom:
The series is set in a futuristic dystopia ruled by an oligarchy of television networks. Even the government functions primarily as a puppet state of the network executives, serving mainly to pass laws — such as banning "off" switches on televisions — that protect and consolidate the networks' power.
And who controls the TV networks? Advertisers
Guns are tools and, like many other tools, can be misused. Would there be the same outrage if a toddler got hold of a cordless power drill and accidentally injured his grandmother with it? Granted the chance of a fatal injury is higher with a firearm, but the responsibility for proper access and use of any tool is with both the user and owner - and I would argue on a sliding scale of which one is most capable of being most responsible.
Let a web page give push notifications to my desktop? No, hell no, oh god no, please fuck off and go away no. Just no.
I just want a damned web browser. That's it.
Anyway we can get Mozilla to create survey pages for the various "features" they're cramming into Firefox with multiple choice options like that? Because, I'd like to have just a damned web browser too...
Look at our own civilization. We consume ever-increasing amounts of power, and are always looking for bigger sources. Fossil, nuclear, solar, wind Decades ago, physicist Freeman Dyson popularized an interesting idea: What if we built thousands of gigantic solar panels, kilometers across, and put them in orbit around the Sun? They’d capture sunlight, convert it to energy, and that could be beamed to Earth for our use. Need more power? Build more panels! An advanced civilization could eventually build millions, billions of them.
[yada, yada, yada, ...] That’s the whole basis of SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (see the movie Contact, or better yet read the book, for more on this).
Read a book? With words and stuff? Talk about science fiction. :-)
Congrats on repeating the reference from the second word in the damn title. Or do you think the name is a coincidence?
It's possible that not everyone will recognize the DARPA usage as a tortured/forced acronym (Inbound, Controlled, Air-Releasable, Unrecoverable Systems) for the person of Greek mythology. Which is stupid anyway as the DARPA version won't actually fly anywhere near the Sun. [ Stupid government/military and their stupid desire for stupid acronyms. How much time/money is wasted coming up with these things? ]
... then evaporate into thin air once their job is done.
Just have the "delivery vehicle" fly really close to the Sun.
What is NPAPI ?
Jesus you're lazy: NPAPI
I get the impression that a lot of your post, like most of the people who say systemd is great and the haters are just haters, just doesn't make a lot of sense.
Actually, I'm not a fan of systemd, but as a system programmer/administrator with 30 years of experience on just about every type of Unix system from PCs to Crays, I've seen a lot of good and bad things. With every change -- especially forced change -- comes griping - some valid, some not. I'm sure I'm not as much of an expert on this particular issue as others here, based on some of the posts, but I am trying to be optimistic. The idea of systemd (or some/much of it anyway) seems good (the Solaris Service Manager doesn't suck), but I think the implementation suffers, especially from not being well or completely thought out, being a bit over-reaching and developed by people with larger than deserved egos who are unwilling to compromise and/or accept or act on constructive criticism - some of that also from people with ego problems.
I just imagine if people worked together, things could be a lot better.
I've heard heaps of "constructive input" - like, go back to text logs, don't hook everything directly into systemd, keep the separate functionalities like firewalling and su out of systemd.
Agreed and I would add switching systemd to PID 2 and make a very simple init process as PID 1.
a) you're devaluing the experienced people who are having really big problems with systemd and b) suggesting that we choke down those issues and keep moving forward. WITH systemd.
Actually, I'm hoping that the developers will get their heads out of their asses and listen to the people actually using their product, but Kay and Lennart apparently are mediocre programmers that don't play well with others, but have, for some reason, been allowed to play w/o adult supervision.
So will heart surgeons use sharks in the operating room or will sharks become heart surgeons?
Wish I had mod points, but I agree with this sentiment. Tests present a statistical average but real-world terrain and human driving is all but average.
i.e.: Your mileage may vary. (and variations thereof)
Success
The best part of that comic is the Alt Text: "40% of OpenBSD installs lead to shark attacks. It's their only standing security issue."
The anti systemd sentiment is getting a bit old? The sky certainly hasn't been falling with systemd already running on a lot of systems.
Systemd is the Obamacare of Linux. People bitch about it, claiming all sorts of "bad things will happen" that don't actually happen. Sure systemd was pushed through despite numerous complaints (and valid concerns), is causing all sorts of headaches and isn't perfect, but it provides (or could provide) a benefit and works for many (most?). If people would start offering constructive input (people slam) and that input was well received (Lennart slam) and we *all* could learn to live and work together for the benefit of everyone (everyone slam) perhaps we all could move forward to a better world.
Only an immensely tiny minority of their current customers can still have these grandfathered plans. Even if all of those users left, Verizon would still have more than 130 million subscribers.
Assuming that's true - and I have no reason to doubt - then the amount of money Verizon stands to gain off these users is relatively small and the only reason for Verizon to dick them over is simply because they can.
You'd think Tide prediction would be quite easy, it comes in, it goes out.
Unless you're Bill O'Reilly:
“Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that. You can’t explain why the tide goes in.”
Not trolling; just sayin' apparently not as easy as one might think - even way back in 2011.