You forgot to take something into account: People in the Northeast are used to snow. Lots of it. Some are better prepared than others, but nobody lives here thinking that it'll snow once every decade. 6 inches is nothing. Hell, 12 inches is a bad storm, but nothing to write home about.
The forecasters were going off about 3 feet, 36 inches, total. They also kept saying, from Monday afternoon to Wednesday, which is big, but certainly manageable, and far more manageable than say, a storm blowing by dumping 16 inches in an hour before leaving. Either somebody forgot to do the math, or they decided to pick up the 36 inches number and call for mass panic.
Yes, people should've gone home early and stayed off the highways. Yes, people should've prepared with extra dry food and water. But no, mass transit didn't need to be shut down. No, the roads didn't need to be closed. No, things shouldn't have been forcibly grinded down to a halt.
It was a disproportionate response for very little risk. The wind was a bigger cause for concern than the snowfall, but wind can't shut down mass transit and close off all the roads and create a big sensation that, if it panned out, would've paid off big for the media. But the way the news channels treated it, you would've thought everybody borrowed a page from CNN's playbook. Which is to say, they were completely irresponsible. Where's MH370 again?
And by your logic, you shouldn't go outside whenever there's a thunderstorm, because you might get hit by lightning. Or worse, you might get hit by the storm surge and be washed out to sea. Sorry, I don't buy it. You might enjoy cowering in fear every time something unusual (and this wasn't even unusual to boot) happens, but we're supposed to be pretty damn resiliant in the Northeast. And this response just smacks of cowardice to me.
A phone is not a tablet. For most people, phones get replaced once every two years. While tablets are not like computers who have a lifetime of upwards of 7 years, they're in between, around 4 or 5.
And the developer base is different too. The moment Vista came out, people began migrating their applications off XP. But developers were until fairly recently still developing with Gingerbread in mind.
You exceeded the posted speed limit by an average of $Z MPH over $W minutes. You were an average of $V distance from another vehicle over $U minutes. You accelerated at intersections $T times. You short stopped $S times.
It'd be easy to build up a driving profile based on GPS data. In fact, insurance companies already do it.
Land of the free and home of the brave? You have to be fucking kidding us.
You bought into that pile of marketing dog shit?
Reality is closer to land of the diminishingly-freer, home of the cowardly and ignorant but loud.
We're still freer than most countries (for example, we have hate crime laws, but no hate speech laws) and without a strong American traditional culture, more tolerant, which is freedom in a different sense. But we're not that much freer, and we're losing what we have little by little.
Let's start with the fact that "warming" is the wrong term to use (which is why people use the term "climate change" now). It's not really warming. It's energy retention. Warming is just one side effect of the atmosphere retaining more energy.
There are a lot of feedback loops and redundancies built into the world's natural ecosystem. You see it on a small scale, where a bloom of certain resource results in a bloom of the consumers of that resource, followed by over-consumption which results in the decline of the consuming population. On the large scale, there is the same type of feedback loop that's made up of multiple smaller ones.
Right now, what's happening is that these feedback loops are handling a good chunk of the extra energy retained by CO2 so that actual atmosphereic warming is not terribly pronounced. But there's a tipping point. Once the amount of energy exceeds the capacity for these feedback loops to handle, it's going to shut down, and the moderating factor suddenly ceases to exist. The precise points are uncertain, but we know it'll happen based on what we see happening in smaller systems. For example, as prey increases, predators will also increase. This results in prey decline and then predator decline. But if due to external circumstances, the predator population grows out of control, or the prey population is completely decimated, both predator and prey (whichever wasn't affected by the initial event) will die off.
The real open questions today involve when things will happen, and how bad they'll get when these things do happen. For example, if one system fails, it can cause a domino effect on all the other feedback loops and cause them to fail too. That's a possibility. But it's also a possibility that the feedback loop most susceptable to failure won't affect the others much. It's possible that this will happen in a century. Or it's possible there are yet more feedback loops that we currently don't know about that'll push significant atomspheric temperature increase farther into the future.
What we do know is that there's definitely more energy in the atmosphere today. Weather events are getting more extreme. Stronger, more frequent storms. Colder cold snaps and hotter heat waves. And global temperatures are increasing, even if not by as much as predicted in the short term. Just keep in mind when thinking about these things that the entire planet isn't going to feel the same impact at the same time. It's about averages, over the entire system, over long periods of time (geological time scales). Also keep in mind that while certain one-off events can throw the numbers off, the trends will continue barring no behaviorial changes on our part.
The ultimate point is, we, if not as a species then as a civilization, are not facing any imminent danger yet, but we're getting more vulnurable, and by our own doing. It'd be nice to not be digging our own grave, no matter if we're using a large shovel or our bare hands. Of course, it all may not matter in the long run and our civilization and our species will ultimately be doomed anyway. But I'd rather not think that way.
You're defending the question, but not why it's a "problem."
Why are there so few non-asian minorities in IT? Why are there few women in IT?
These both are valid, albeit very different questions. The answers may or may not be what people like to hear though, and the correct solution may exist and be easy, or it may exist and be difficult, or it just might not exist. And that last scenario is very hard for certain people to swallow.
Religions, civilizations, people, they all go through the same stages of life.
You start off young and starry-eyed. Then you go through your teenage years of rebellion and angst. And then you set off discovering what you want. Then you go do the things you want to do. If you screwed up and your results didn't match your expectations, you go through mid-life crisis. And finally, you sit back and shake your head at all the other younger versions doing the same thing.
Religions are about 500 years to 7 human years. Civilizations are around 100 years to 7 human years.
- Firefox started losing marketshare to Chrome, so they panicked. - Redhat wants to take over enterprise Linux, hence SystemD. - Gnome, well, I have no idea what happened there. Maybe it's Redhat again (Redhat has tendrils in a lot of places).
Where there is unrest, you just have to follow the money.
That's no apology, it's that's just expressing regret.
If they really wanted to apologize, they should be apologizing for subverting the standards process in the first place. Both RSA's and NIST's credibility are in the crapper thanks to them, though it's admittedly RSA's own fault for taking the $10 million.
But there's no point in apologizing to the crypto community or even to any subset of it. This behavior by the NSA was almost expected, and it would be stupid to not believe it given all the pre-Snowden evidence. In fact, it validates a lot of people's conclusion that funny-looking and funny-smelling things should generally be avoided.
I'll only count it a proper competitor to Emacs when it ships with its own games. I hear cloning Candy Crush/Bejeweled is popular these days, and I think that's what they should implement first.
It's not advertised, but key pinning is an important security feature that's finally made it into the base program.
Now, if only they wouldn't throw up so many roadblocks with self-signed certs. But cert pinning is a good start that they recognize the old model of secure vs insecure based on a cert alone is no longer sufficient. I say, switch to a new model based on the grade of security. E.g.:
Secure and authentic (green) Secure but maybe not authentic (yellow) Authentic but possibly insecure, also mixed content (orange) Neither secure nor verified as authentic (red)
When they do that (and maybe go back to a sane GUI with sane version numbers), I will upgrade.
You shouldn't put all the blame on Mozilla. HTML5, the one standard to rule them all, is the real issue here. HTML5 essentially is the specification for an operating system over the web. It's a monstrosity that never should have been born.
Mozilla still gets the blame for the constant UI changes. But the real demon is HTML5.
This wasn't as big of an issue back then because not upgrading and keeping a running NT4 or even 3.5 machine somewhere was still an acceptable alternative. Security wasn't an issue for these machines. Forget the Internet, you were lucky to have your machines hooked up to the LAN through ethernet and not token ring.
Then networking got really big halfway through 2K and by XP, security was the most important thing rather than stability. 2K probably had as many or more security holes than XP, but it hit that sweet spot of being stable when that was most important, light (XP was bloatware when it first came out--still is in many ways), and secure enough for the time.
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Well, the constant talk of snow has conveniently sidelined all news on Sheldon Silver's corruption scandal.
You forgot to take something into account: People in the Northeast are used to snow. Lots of it. Some are better prepared than others, but nobody lives here thinking that it'll snow once every decade. 6 inches is nothing. Hell, 12 inches is a bad storm, but nothing to write home about.
The forecasters were going off about 3 feet, 36 inches, total. They also kept saying, from Monday afternoon to Wednesday, which is big, but certainly manageable, and far more manageable than say, a storm blowing by dumping 16 inches in an hour before leaving. Either somebody forgot to do the math, or they decided to pick up the 36 inches number and call for mass panic.
Yes, people should've gone home early and stayed off the highways. Yes, people should've prepared with extra dry food and water. But no, mass transit didn't need to be shut down. No, the roads didn't need to be closed. No, things shouldn't have been forcibly grinded down to a halt.
It was a disproportionate response for very little risk. The wind was a bigger cause for concern than the snowfall, but wind can't shut down mass transit and close off all the roads and create a big sensation that, if it panned out, would've paid off big for the media. But the way the news channels treated it, you would've thought everybody borrowed a page from CNN's playbook. Which is to say, they were completely irresponsible. Where's MH370 again?
And by your logic, you shouldn't go outside whenever there's a thunderstorm, because you might get hit by lightning. Or worse, you might get hit by the storm surge and be washed out to sea. Sorry, I don't buy it. You might enjoy cowering in fear every time something unusual (and this wasn't even unusual to boot) happens, but we're supposed to be pretty damn resiliant in the Northeast. And this response just smacks of cowardice to me.
Jelly is the natural end-product of bourbon.
Democrats can slide about half an inch to the right and take over where the Republicans left off as the right-wing party
That's already been the case. It's just not the perception.
There is no left, or even left of center in the U.S. There's only right and far-right.
FBI 1 was under Hoover. FBI 2 was post-Hoover. And FBI 3 is neo-Hoover.
A phone is not a tablet. For most people, phones get replaced once every two years. While tablets are not like computers who have a lifetime of upwards of 7 years, they're in between, around 4 or 5.
And the developer base is different too. The moment Vista came out, people began migrating their applications off XP. But developers were until fairly recently still developing with Gingerbread in mind.
Yeah, Guinness was the asshole who refused to play Obi-Wan as some crazy wizard character that Lucas wanted Obi-Wan to be.
I'm certain the world was worse off for it.
Take that a step further:
You exceeded the posted speed limit by an average of $Z MPH over $W minutes. You were an average of $V distance from another vehicle over $U minutes. You accelerated at intersections $T times. You short stopped $S times.
It'd be easy to build up a driving profile based on GPS data. In fact, insurance companies already do it.
Land of the free and home of the brave? You have to be fucking kidding us.
You bought into that pile of marketing dog shit?
Reality is closer to land of the diminishingly-freer, home of the cowardly and ignorant but loud.
We're still freer than most countries (for example, we have hate crime laws, but no hate speech laws) and without a strong American traditional culture, more tolerant, which is freedom in a different sense. But we're not that much freer, and we're losing what we have little by little.
Let's start with the fact that "warming" is the wrong term to use (which is why people use the term "climate change" now). It's not really warming. It's energy retention. Warming is just one side effect of the atmosphere retaining more energy.
There are a lot of feedback loops and redundancies built into the world's natural ecosystem. You see it on a small scale, where a bloom of certain resource results in a bloom of the consumers of that resource, followed by over-consumption which results in the decline of the consuming population. On the large scale, there is the same type of feedback loop that's made up of multiple smaller ones.
Right now, what's happening is that these feedback loops are handling a good chunk of the extra energy retained by CO2 so that actual atmosphereic warming is not terribly pronounced. But there's a tipping point. Once the amount of energy exceeds the capacity for these feedback loops to handle, it's going to shut down, and the moderating factor suddenly ceases to exist. The precise points are uncertain, but we know it'll happen based on what we see happening in smaller systems. For example, as prey increases, predators will also increase. This results in prey decline and then predator decline. But if due to external circumstances, the predator population grows out of control, or the prey population is completely decimated, both predator and prey (whichever wasn't affected by the initial event) will die off.
The real open questions today involve when things will happen, and how bad they'll get when these things do happen. For example, if one system fails, it can cause a domino effect on all the other feedback loops and cause them to fail too. That's a possibility. But it's also a possibility that the feedback loop most susceptable to failure won't affect the others much. It's possible that this will happen in a century. Or it's possible there are yet more feedback loops that we currently don't know about that'll push significant atomspheric temperature increase farther into the future.
What we do know is that there's definitely more energy in the atmosphere today. Weather events are getting more extreme. Stronger, more frequent storms. Colder cold snaps and hotter heat waves. And global temperatures are increasing, even if not by as much as predicted in the short term. Just keep in mind when thinking about these things that the entire planet isn't going to feel the same impact at the same time. It's about averages, over the entire system, over long periods of time (geological time scales). Also keep in mind that while certain one-off events can throw the numbers off, the trends will continue barring no behaviorial changes on our part.
The ultimate point is, we, if not as a species then as a civilization, are not facing any imminent danger yet, but we're getting more vulnurable, and by our own doing. It'd be nice to not be digging our own grave, no matter if we're using a large shovel or our bare hands. Of course, it all may not matter in the long run and our civilization and our species will ultimately be doomed anyway. But I'd rather not think that way.
Maybe not tech, but it certainly can happen in other industries where women dominate the workforce.
The modded-up sibling comment should be sufficient to point out how juvenile the original (and parent's follow-up) remark is.
You're defending the question, but not why it's a "problem."
Why are there so few non-asian minorities in IT? Why are there few women in IT?
These both are valid, albeit very different questions. The answers may or may not be what people like to hear though, and the correct solution may exist and be easy, or it may exist and be difficult, or it just might not exist. And that last scenario is very hard for certain people to swallow.
Do those components work alone? Can they be built separately (with some shared utility libraries)?
If the answer to the above are both yes, then it's not monolithic. But if either answer is no, then it is.
Not that it would've helped in this case.
rm -rf $var/* has two flaws. The first is if $var is blank or undefined. The second is the extra unnecessary /* that circumvents --preserve-root.
Religions, civilizations, people, they all go through the same stages of life.
You start off young and starry-eyed. Then you go through your teenage years of rebellion and angst. And then you set off discovering what you want. Then you go do the things you want to do. If you screwed up and your results didn't match your expectations, you go through mid-life crisis. And finally, you sit back and shake your head at all the other younger versions doing the same thing.
Religions are about 500 years to 7 human years. Civilizations are around 100 years to 7 human years.
In a nutshell: Money started talking.
- Firefox started losing marketshare to Chrome, so they panicked.
- Redhat wants to take over enterprise Linux, hence SystemD.
- Gnome, well, I have no idea what happened there. Maybe it's Redhat again (Redhat has tendrils in a lot of places).
Where there is unrest, you just have to follow the money.
That's no apology, it's that's just expressing regret.
If they really wanted to apologize, they should be apologizing for subverting the standards process in the first place. Both RSA's and NIST's credibility are in the crapper thanks to them, though it's admittedly RSA's own fault for taking the $10 million.
But there's no point in apologizing to the crypto community or even to any subset of it. This behavior by the NSA was almost expected, and it would be stupid to not believe it given all the pre-Snowden evidence. In fact, it validates a lot of people's conclusion that funny-looking and funny-smelling things should generally be avoided.
I'll only count it a proper competitor to Emacs when it ships with its own games. I hear cloning Candy Crush/Bejeweled is popular these days, and I think that's what they should implement first.
There's a version for Macs?
Now, if Firefox could finally render TeX, we could get off of HTML altogether.
It's not advertised, but key pinning is an important security feature that's finally made it into the base program.
Now, if only they wouldn't throw up so many roadblocks with self-signed certs. But cert pinning is a good start that they recognize the old model of secure vs insecure based on a cert alone is no longer sufficient. I say, switch to a new model based on the grade of security. E.g.:
Secure and authentic (green)
Secure but maybe not authentic (yellow)
Authentic but possibly insecure, also mixed content (orange)
Neither secure nor verified as authentic (red)
When they do that (and maybe go back to a sane GUI with sane version numbers), I will upgrade.
You shouldn't put all the blame on Mozilla. HTML5, the one standard to rule them all, is the real issue here. HTML5 essentially is the specification for an operating system over the web. It's a monstrosity that never should have been born.
Mozilla still gets the blame for the constant UI changes. But the real demon is HTML5.
What's scary is that it sounds like something you could actually sell, for a premium over the kind that uses a battery, to a government agency.
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This wasn't as big of an issue back then because not upgrading and keeping a running NT4 or even 3.5 machine somewhere was still an acceptable alternative. Security wasn't an issue for these machines. Forget the Internet, you were lucky to have your machines hooked up to the LAN through ethernet and not token ring.
Then networking got really big halfway through 2K and by XP, security was the most important thing rather than stability. 2K probably had as many or more security holes than XP, but it hit that sweet spot of being stable when that was most important, light (XP was bloatware when it first came out--still is in many ways), and secure enough for the time.