So your 99% figure was bullshit, based on your own links.
Also the dinosaurs they weren't preventing access in the sense we were talking about. If the municipality was being blocked from offering wifi then a local company had wired up the area. No one prevents access where they can't or won't provide service.
Read the fucking article. These were areas whose needs were not being met and the dinosaurs lobbied, threatened to sue, or sued their way to prevent municipalities from offering services that would meet their needs.
It's about big ISPs and government screwing up broadband access. You decided to pull the 99% figure out of your ass. You defended the big ISPs and government. Now when presented with some contradictory information, you want to dodge it.
Smart people are doing a very good job weighing the various interests in networking and putting together compromises that meet most of them. Those dinosaurs are doing a very good job of providing tremendous bandwidth at low cost to 99% of America's 130m households.
Did you pull that 99% figure out of your ass? Here are those "smart people" at work:
"Okay, let's admit that the *portable* version of openssh wasn't programmed in a way that's paranoid enough about the failure modes of pam."
Lots of hemming and hawing about how PAM sucks and is easy to screw up, and maybe it is, but the bug still exists in OpenSSH code and that's where it was patched:
Six months before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks -- March 4, 2001, to be exact -- Gunmen premiered with an episode featuring a terrorist plot to fly a commercial airliner into the World Trade Center. The climactic sequence actually shows the plane heading into one of the Twin Towers, but at the last minute, it's pulled upward and just misses the building.
Similar to theories posited about the events of 9/11, the episode's plot indicates that the hijacking was committed as an act of voracity by a greedy American arms manufacturer to ultimately increase its weapons sales by invoking U.S. retaliation against a scapegoated anti-American extremist dictator.
"competent enough to not screw it up"... yet not so competent as to say "why don't you gimme $1M and I'll pretend I never heard you say this!"
That's the opposite of competent.
1) Instead of getting access to $7 million (or $14 million if you want to try and screw the guy), you're going for $1 million.
2) Made it harder for the guy to get his money in the first place in order to get paid that $1 million.
3) You've offered the guy a motive to kill you to silence you for trying to blackmail him. You made an enemy out of somebody you had a relation of trust with.
Sigh....right click on the computer icon>choose "manage">choose "services"> disable Windows Update Service...tada! You can even control it via Task Scheduler if you want to check on certain days or times.
And how long before Microsoft decides that this behavior is indicative of a broken/misconfigured system and disallows it? They've shown how they feel about Home users having control over their machines.
Amusing how it's "several times" but that one incident is the only one quoted. Not exactly the best way to convince otherwise disinterested parties of her dishonestly.
You'd think once would be enough, but anyways...
Brianna "Stayed Home" Wu got national media attention after being "forced" to "flee home" by GamerGate threats. Yet it turns out that was complete bullshit, because:
1) They were already scheduled to be at a con for the weekend they were forced to flee and go into hiding.
2) They tweeted they would be at the con and at what booth after the "threat". Really afraid for their life there, aren't they?
3) Subsequent interviews after they had supposedly gone into hiding were found out to be done from their home.
Brianna "Stayed Home" Wu injected themselves into GamerGate by poking the hornets nest and used the subsequent "threat" to promote themselves ever since. Brianna "Stayed Home" Wu, when responding to a fellow trans asking for help, admitted in private chat (but leaked by the other party): "Listen, I am good at political stuff. This is what I do. I'm telling you, taking on Paypal publicly is a suicide mission."
So trolling gamers over feminist bullshit is ok while pretending to be afraid for your life, but standing up to PayPal is suicide. Brianna "Stayed Home" Wu is a political operator and a professional victim.
The group Women, Action and Media convinced Twitter to allow them help report and censor harassment and hate speech. Twitter subsequently suspended the accounts of the anti-feminist Youtubers Thunderfoot and Mykeru (they were later reinstated). Both of them are liberals, by the way.
Brendan Eich was forced to resign as CEO of Mozilla for opposing gay marriage. Another guy was fired because someone eaves dropped on his joke about dongles.
A group called Color of Change was able to get Patrick Buchanan fired from MSNBC for expressing his incorrect opinions (that have been pretty consistent for the last 50 years) in his book Suicide of a Superpower.
The mayor of Massachusetts banned the word "illegal" when referring to, umm, immigrants who came into the United States without going through the proper, legal channels. The Associated Press did
Reddit used to have a policy that allowed sub-Reddits to talk about all kind of shit, as long as it was legal. They changed that policy to a more restrictive one. That is a form of censorship -- totally within their rights, and you can try to spread your message elsewhere, but Reddit has become a less free place. It really isn't that hard to understand unless you insist on a very narrow view of what censorship is.
There's a lot to be said for not having to completely replace the API and backwards compatibility. That's a pragmatic choice, not a "computer scientists screw up a pragmatic language" choice. Your initial assertion is unfair.
Type erasure, on the other hand, is pure evil - to me, it's the representation of what happens when a pragmatic language ends up into the hands of computer scientists.
Type erasure was the pragmatic way to add generics to Java by ensuring backwards compatibility in the byte code. You'll find that computer language academics almost universally despise type erasure.
Yes, I read what you wrote, and your comparison is still stupid. The fact is that there is no religion as militant and abhorrently violent as Islam in the modern era.
There are countless more recent examples I could have written about.
So go ahead then, because I think it's really silly whenever a new Muslim atrocity occurs, especially when it comes to women, that some apologist comes along and talks about things Christians did centuries ago.
More specifically for Slashdot, a Republican right-winger who cost the taxpayers of Rhode Island millions when he got a sweetheart loan to move his company, 38 Studios, there, at the urging of the then Republican governor: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04...
Most people don't care about encryption but the ones that do, do.
I'm willing to bet if you polled all the people that use email, a significant majority would prefer that their email couldn't be spied on by governments or other snoops. If it was an easy default hardly anybody would turn it off. The problem is that while people care, they don't care enough to make an effort, especially when it requires effort on the people you are communicating with.
The trap isn't suing over patents. The trap is getting you to depend on a stack that Microsoft controls. It's something they've always done, in one form or another. Embrace, extend, extinguish. In this case, they're asking others to embrace.NET.
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http://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/f...
So your 99% figure was bullshit, based on your own links.
Also the dinosaurs they weren't preventing access in the sense we were talking about. If the municipality was being blocked from offering wifi then a local company had wired up the area. No one prevents access where they can't or won't provide service.
Read the fucking article. These were areas whose needs were not being met and the dinosaurs lobbied, threatened to sue, or sued their way to prevent municipalities from offering services that would meet their needs.
You aren't contradicting anything I'm saying.
You claimed, "Those dinosaurs are doing a very good job of providing tremendous bandwidth at low cost to 99% of America's 130m households."
I challenged your 99% figure. I also linked an article that shows "those dinosaurs" preventing access from being expanded to people who don't have it.
It's about big ISPs and government screwing up broadband access. You decided to pull the 99% figure out of your ass. You defended the big ISPs and government. Now when presented with some contradictory information, you want to dodge it.
Smart people are doing a very good job weighing the various interests in networking and putting together compromises that meet most of them. Those dinosaurs are doing a very good job of providing tremendous bandwidth at low cost to 99% of America's 130m households.
Did you pull that 99% figure out of your ass? Here are those "smart people" at work:
http://www.publicintegrity.org...
Marc Espie said the error exists in FreeBSD's PAM implementation.
Marc Espie's post, linked from the article: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-mi...
"Okay, let's admit that the *portable* version of openssh wasn't programmed in a way that's paranoid enough about the failure modes of pam."
Lots of hemming and hawing about how PAM sucks and is easy to screw up, and maybe it is, but the bug still exists in OpenSSH code and that's where it was patched:
https://anongit.mindrot.org/op...
It was six months before 9/11 and actually the World Trade Center:
The Sept. 11 Parallel "Nobody Noticed" ("Lone Gunmen" Pilot Episode Video) :
http://www.freerepublic.com/fo...
Six months before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks -- March 4, 2001, to be exact -- Gunmen premiered with an episode featuring a terrorist plot to fly a commercial airliner into the World Trade Center. The climactic sequence actually shows the plane heading into one of the Twin Towers, but at the last minute, it's pulled upward and just misses the building.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... :
Similar to theories posited about the events of 9/11, the episode's plot indicates that the hijacking was committed as an act of voracity by a greedy American arms manufacturer to ultimately increase its weapons sales by invoking U.S. retaliation against a scapegoated anti-American extremist dictator.
Then again, there are examples [youtube.com] (NSFW) that prove your point.
I agree, titties in the trailer are a pretty big spoiler.
COCKFIGHTER
"competent enough to not screw it up" ... yet not so competent as to say "why don't you gimme $1M and I'll pretend I never heard you say this!"
That's the opposite of competent.
1) Instead of getting access to $7 million (or $14 million if you want to try and screw the guy), you're going for $1 million.
2) Made it harder for the guy to get his money in the first place in order to get paid that $1 million.
3) You've offered the guy a motive to kill you to silence you for trying to blackmail him. You made an enemy out of somebody you had a relation of trust with.
You can agree to stay captive in their underground lair until they get their winnings.
I think you've watched too much Breaking Bad.
Sigh....right click on the computer icon>choose "manage">choose "services"> disable Windows Update Service...tada! You can even control it via Task Scheduler if you want to check on certain days or times.
And how long before Microsoft decides that this behavior is indicative of a broken/misconfigured system and disallows it? They've shown how they feel about Home users having control over their machines.
Amusing how it's "several times" but that one incident is the only one quoted. Not exactly the best way to convince otherwise disinterested parties of her dishonestly.
You'd think once would be enough, but anyways...
Brianna "Stayed Home" Wu got national media attention after being "forced" to "flee home" by GamerGate threats. Yet it turns out that was complete bullshit, because:
1) They were already scheduled to be at a con for the weekend they were forced to flee and go into hiding.
2) They tweeted they would be at the con and at what booth after the "threat". Really afraid for their life there, aren't they?
3) Subsequent interviews after they had supposedly gone into hiding were found out to be done from their home.
Brianna "Stayed Home" Wu injected themselves into GamerGate by poking the hornets nest and used the subsequent "threat" to promote themselves ever since. Brianna "Stayed Home" Wu, when responding to a fellow trans asking for help, admitted in private chat (but leaked by the other party): "Listen, I am good at political stuff. This is what I do. I'm telling you, taking on Paypal publicly is a suicide mission."
So trolling gamers over feminist bullshit is ok while pretending to be afraid for your life, but standing up to PayPal is suicide. Brianna "Stayed Home" Wu is a political operator and a professional victim.
It's almost like free speech is more of a social justice value than a meathead one.
*snort*
http://thoughtcatalog.com/andr... :
God help us if we have to rely on conservatives to defend free speech.
A list of such censorship is basically endless, so I will have to suffice with a not-so-brief list of some of the more egregious examples:
Reddit used to have a policy that allowed sub-Reddits to talk about all kind of shit, as long as it was legal. They changed that policy to a more restrictive one. That is a form of censorship -- totally within their rights, and you can try to spread your message elsewhere, but Reddit has become a less free place. It really isn't that hard to understand unless you insist on a very narrow view of what censorship is.
To whoever modded the parent -1 Troll: the moderation system is not your personal disagree button.
You must be new here.
No, Ruby was a fad for hipsters. Python is the true heir.
Perl6 is almost ready
Fifteen years in the oven, that better be one tasty cake!
There's a lot to be said for not having to completely replace the API and backwards compatibility. That's a pragmatic choice, not a "computer scientists screw up a pragmatic language" choice. Your initial assertion is unfair.
Type erasure, on the other hand, is pure evil - to me, it's the representation of what happens when a pragmatic language ends up into the hands of computer scientists.
Type erasure was the pragmatic way to add generics to Java by ensuring backwards compatibility in the byte code. You'll find that computer language academics almost universally despise type erasure.
Yes, I read what you wrote, and your comparison is still stupid. The fact is that there is no religion as militant and abhorrently violent as Islam in the modern era.
There are countless more recent examples I could have written about.
So go ahead then, because I think it's really silly whenever a new Muslim atrocity occurs, especially when it comes to women, that some apologist comes along and talks about things Christians did centuries ago.
More specifically for Slashdot, a Republican right-winger who cost the taxpayers of Rhode Island millions when he got a sweetheart loan to move his company, 38 Studios, there, at the urging of the then Republican governor: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04...
Fucking hypocrites.
Most people don't care about encryption but the ones that do, do.
I'm willing to bet if you polled all the people that use email, a significant majority would prefer that their email couldn't be spied on by governments or other snoops. If it was an easy default hardly anybody would turn it off. The problem is that while people care, they don't care enough to make an effort, especially when it requires effort on the people you are communicating with.
Ellen Pao looks very average to me, and I'm partial to Asians too. But whatever floats your boat.
The trap isn't suing over patents. The trap is getting you to depend on a stack that Microsoft controls. It's something they've always done, in one form or another. Embrace, extend, extinguish. In this case, they're asking others to embrace .NET.
I sold my car on Craigslist. Guy came to my home with his brother, test drove the car, and paid cash. The end.