When I sold and retired, I actually gave some thought to returning to academia and taking up studies in order to become a Philosopher of Mathematics. I actually am one of those honest-to-goodness, dyed-in-the-wool, mathematicians - a Ph.D even, and things like theoretical maths are beyond what I'd say I know or can do. I'd like to think I'd have had the mental chops to do it but I don't really know.
Still, to be a Philosopher of Mathematics would be, to me, the greatest of achievements. It is my opinion that such is the greatest of all studies and I hold that above all others - including any practical.
The funny, to me, thing is that I was really bad at math and hated math until someone said something and, from there, it all just clicked into place. After that, I found that I could visualize math and not just perform rote calculations but that I could understand it. The thing is, it was such a trivial thing that was said to me. I'd always been able to do calculations in my head, for example, but I'd never actually understood it - it was simply rote memorization and not comprehension.
What they told me, and this is not verbatim, is that if you just square that triangle and divide it in half then you have the area. Yes, yes that's obvious but - I'd never looked at it like that. I'm still in contact with that teacher, by the way. He changed my life and I don't know where I'd be without him having told me that. And yes, yes that is a very simple thing. But, it's how I then looked at things. It was as if that one statement resulted in an epiphany.
It's funny how that one tiny thing, that one bit of shared insight - almost said in passing, was enough to permanently alter the course of my life. And yes, yes I did bold the word "that" because this is Slashdot where people often think they're smarter than they really are.;-) However, it resulted in a whole new way of looking at things and it just sort of clicked after that. It became something that I visualized, sort of even understood, and enjoyed.
So, I think some theoretical math would be nice. Obviously, I've taken a look at quite a bit of it and have discussed it with folks in the field. It just seems so beautiful and ugly at the same time. I'd think that, at high levels, it would be an art. Not an art that most can appreciate but an art regardless. Then again, it might be possible to turn it into some other representation and have that be the art - though they might have no idea where it came from. Something akin to the results of fractals springs to mind but I'm not sure that I'm articulating it well.
I think you summed it up well but, to add to what you wrote...
If the idea of infinity doesn't make you a little crazy then you're not a mathematician and/or you have no imagination.
Obviously infinity doesn't exist in the real world - not in any practical sense. I guess one could presume that something can be broken down into infinite parts but physical limitations prevents that from actually being possible. So, when you get to questions like, "How much is half of infinity?" Things start to get a little strange. How much is infinity plus one? Or, how about if you add two of them together?
We know they don't exist, or shouldn't, but how do you even express that?
It did actually drive people to madness (or help out) as they were the ones to first really give it much thought in a mathematical sense. Or at least have a crack at figuring out how to express it. With enough thought, it's maddening. I prefer to not think about, to be frank.
That's probably good advice and I suppose I follow it already. I use both uMatrix and uBlock Origin.
I've played with it and if you want to get really fancy, there's also another extension that he has out there. I know it's out there for Opera - it's called HTTP Switchboard. It's very similar to the first two but a bit more advanced and, again, offers another layer of refinement. For the longest time, there wasn't a uMatrix for Firefox - he just made a version last year.
It's great that it's out there and that there's a version you can use for most any browser except the Windows native browsers. (I don't think it's an option of IE or Edge.) But, in case you've never noticed, he has a notice up where he explicitly states that he'll not accept any donations. I was not aware of this and I now have every reason to believe that he's telling the truth.
See, I'd not noticed the bit about him not accepting donations and I like to sometimes surprise people who write the software that I rely on with a monetary reward. I looked around for a way to donate to him and I couldn't find anything. I sent him an email expressing that I'd like to donate. When I donate, it's usually a fairly decent sum - I'm not sure how much I was offering to donate to him but I think it was $500 which isn't bad for a one-man project. It's enough for him and a friend to go have a good night on the town - something like that.
He declined. I got a "thanks but no thanks" answer including him pointing out that he appreciated it but he doesn't accept donations. Yeah...
That was a true no-strings-attached donation, a fairly good (I think) donation for a person who's just writing an extension, and I didn't ask for any recognition or anything and it's not like I'm an ad company trying to sneak stuff by. So, yeah, he's seemingly on the up-and-up and holds a moral high ground to the point where he's not even accepting donations of any kind. That's kind of cool.
Not many people even understand it. *sighs* Look at all the comments you see in the threads where someone they loathe is probably going to prison. There are people actively expressing their hope that the person be given "prison justice" in the form of rape, beatings, and even death. There are some horrible people out there and no, I'm not actually talking about the people who are incarcerated.
An interesting aside, seeing as I'm already typing, is that just prior to the cessation of the Korean War's military actions if a Marine Escort/Chaser lost their detainee then they were obligated to serve that person's time up until the escaped prisoner had been returned to custody. I believe this part remains true to this day: If you escape, or try to escape, from a custodial sentence in a military facility there is no time added to your sentence nor is it a crime in and of itself. The natural state of a human is to be free of restraint. To try to escape is natural and thus not considered a criminal offense in the UCMJ.
However, I never had anyone attempt to escape or even appear to be considering it. We were trained, more or less, to treat the prisoners with respect. In fact, the prisoner may outrank you and still retain their rank until such time as they are officially dismissed from service. (No, they can not order you to let them go - such would be an unlawful order.) There are some strange protocols that might sound odd to a civilian but it's essential to keep in mind that our wards were trained to kill. There are no firearms inside the secure zone and more of them than there are of you - and they've already been acclimated to CS gas. Even if it weren't the humane thing to do, it would still be *very* wise to treat the prisoners with respect.
I didn't spend much time inside the secure zone. I was not on guard duty, patrol, rover, or anything like that. I'd been trained (we all were) to fill those roles but my specific duty was transport/escort. I took them to court, medical, escorted to funerals, and sometimes flew with them to a detention center that was closer to their home. I drove everything from a bus to what is pretty much just your standard police cruiser.
One of the more memorable episodes was when a civilian court officer tried to disarm me. No, not violently or with force or anything but vocally asserting that I was not authorized to carry a firearm or bring any weapons into the court. We got a call on the radio telling me that it had been resolved and that I was to bring the accused back to the court. I'd simply turned around and taken my prisoner back out to the cruiser and was driving back to base. My job was not just to stop my prisoner from escaping but it was also to prevent them from coming to harm. I was not going to allow my prisoner to be cuffed and shackled (defenseless, pretty much) in a group of angry civilians and not retain my service weapons.
Contrary to popular opinion, I'm not Chuck Norris, Bruce Lee, or anything like that. I'm not going to leave my prisoner undefended. There's more to detention than just keeping them detained. There's an obligation to keep them from harm. That and there were a lot of really angry people in the courtroom. My prisoner had beaten the shit out of some well-liked civilian. If you're curious, he was acquitted in the civilian court but was still went through the court martial and was convicted there and ousted from the Marines. It turns out that not only had he not swung first but the civilian was drunk (as was the young Marine) and was insulting him with racist slurs before he hit him. Once he hit him, things got a bit out of hand and much damage was done and that resulted in permanent brain injury to the civilian. I'm not sure what the end result was as I wasn't the one to transport him at the end and I've no idea what happened in the civil trial that followed. He was already bucked out of the service by then.
I dunno, this is already long enough but it's about humane treatment and respect. It's not hard to treat humans like untam
We have a/. user who works in the industry and has for some time. I imagine they will see this thread but they're on my friend's list so I will put this here and they may notice and respond about the financial aspect. If I get a minute, I'll send them a notice off-site and they may opt to share what they know. (They're helping me out with a project that I am working on.)
Having worked in a military detention facility and having interviewed and toured at a civilian facility, I've noticed some odd things.
You go to prison *as* punishment and not *for* punishment.
This is entirely backwards in a civilian facility. Prison should be a place where one still has a modicum of respect and self-determination. No, it needn't be insecure to do so. The greatest thing a government should be able to take is your freedom, your dignity (or lack of it) should be your own.
I've mentioned this before but it's this important and has meant that much to me - for all these years.
From the staff side, entering in through the Sally Port, was an old cross-stitched sign on the wall. It was dull and faded, certainly not regulation, but it had been there for as long as anyone could remember. On that sign was a simple, but important, adage. It said, "There, but by the Grace of God, go I."
I suppose that won't mean anything to you and that you'll be unable (unwilling?) to understand it. So, consider it not writ large on your behalf but for the others who might take your post to heart without having the benefit of an alternative view.
I was a chaser/escort - in civilian terms I was a "Transportation Officer." It ties into my oft-quoted determination/conclusion that people are people, pretty much everywhere you go. Lest you read this and think you're still cognizant, I encourage you to recollect the sign. "There, but by the Grace of God, go I."
It should be/as/ punishment and not/for/ punishment.
As a mathematician from MIT, I'm getting a kick out of this thread.
Math, in and of itself, hasn't ever harmed anyone.
Well, that's not quite true. It has driven some to insanity and suicide but I've never heard of any algorithm to make a plane blow up. And, really, if you think too much about infinity, the concept, it can drive you insane - more so if you're one of the first to really contemplate it and quantify it.
Yeah, it was ages ago when you were talking about getting one and mentioned you weren't sure which one you were going to get - I think you'd listed two that you'd decided were in the running and one other one that you really liked but, for some reason (price? availability?) you didn't put that on your final list. Now that you mention it, it really was a long time ago. IIRC it was a couple of years, or so, ago. I've got a hazy recollection.
Sometimes I remember the damnedest things. It's just not usually what I *want* to remember.
As for the CNC, I've still have yet to uncrate it. I had grandiose plans when I bought it. *sighs* So, I'm really not able to give you any aid at all - I've never powered it on, never hooked it up, never assembled it, nothing. It's meant for wood but there's an attachment that lets me turn it into a 3D printer and do additive work. I'm 80% sure that's in one of the boxes. I spent a retarded amount of money on it so I'll feel obligated to at least assemble it and poke at it but I've not gotten there.
That sounds awesome! Treat it like an addiction. Really.
It was so liberating feeling to delete TERABYTES of stuff like setup.exe, setup(1).exe, setup1.1.001.1.exe, install.exe, etc...
My email is always open. What distro are you going with? I like Lubuntu. It's still a work in progress but I'm working on Intelligent Discourse and a part of that is dedicated to Linux. So, if you feel like writing about your experiences or whatnot, have a look. Note, I didn't say it's a help forum. It might be able to do that but that's entirely the goal. The site's still in beta but if you feel like sharing and writing about it then let me know.
Of she had H-rated in GOOD condition tires then yes, what are the odds of that? What are the odds of the suspension having been maintained properly.
So, probably not - no, it probably was not capable of going 107 MPH for very long. I notice you conveniently skipped that I'd added that it'd likely result in a sidewall blowout *after* a period of time.
So yes, yes I stand by what I said. I'm gonna go out on a limb and wager the tires where shit, probably NOT OEM, probably NOT H rated, the suspension probably NOT maintained, the brakes probably not even OEM anymore (which might be a good thing - brakes have improved a bunch since the 90s).
But yeah, I'm gonna suggest that it was not a good choice of car to do that in. It's a 20+ year old car. I'd also add that she was obviously not the person to be driving said vehicle at said speed. Nearly every single accident is caused by someone driving too fast for the conditions.
It offered a better signal - I think it was the remote valleys in CA where it got started - I forget which area specifically but that's sounding about right and Google is so very far away.
It offered stations from out of the area, for example. Eventually, they started pumping in stuff so you ended up with things like Local Access Cable channels as they filled up the UHF range. (I think it's UHF for 13+? I don't watch much TV and haven't really ever been all that into it, not even so much as a kid.)
Then it just kind of bloomed from there. That's how I remember it, at any rate. I remember when we got cable, it was actually when we were VERY remote and we lived on the other side of the base. (My dad was a career Marine.) So I moved a lot but we were on the outside and cable got us a half-dozen extra channels and, by then, we could pay for some upgrades and those had both some with commercials and some without.
You have HBO, SHOW, SkinAMax, and those sorts of things.
I want to say that even satellite had commercials at first - I'm damned sure it did as it showed local channels from all over the place. We used to have a giant dish at one point. LOL Remember those?
No, that's certainly not obvious - nor is it conclusive.
You'll find there are at least a few of us here who are, in one way or another, incorporated and as a for-profit motive. I have a corporation which holds a bunch of my assets. There are two others that I know who do. There are likely more that are legally incorporated and freelancers.
I'm not sure you really want to go calling people fools. Not only was it not obvious, it still isn't right when you add in for profit corporations.
Would you like to swing again? I'll pitch 'em a little slower for you.
(Hint: No, you don't want to. That'd be stupid. You can't win.)
No worries - I've got max karma as it is.;-) Save 'em for someone who needs them. Play with it for a little while. You'll get used to it - it does have a learning curve.
There's one porn site in there. It blocks the ads and whatnot. It's cam4. *nods* I'm too lazy to go in and delete it. You can or you can just leave it and nobody will be the wiser - you'd not know unless I just told you (or you visited).
If you want my settings let me know. If you want my uBlock personal filters let me know. I'll share 'em with you. I'll help anyone out when it comes to keeping their computer safe.
Damn that Slashdot, it must have eaten your citation of a cookie being malware. The image exploit you speak of was not one that impacted the visitor, it was on that impacted the server that the site ran on. Maybe you should reformat your reply and fix the links so we can see your citations.
How can a cookie threaten a computer? A cookie itself cannot harm the computer, as it does not and cannot hold code (therefore the cookie cannot perform an action itself). However, the cookie can support (help) malicious actions to be taken on the respective system. Even more, being a plain text file, they are vulnerable, meaning that they can be “harvested” by other applications.
How about for ImageMagick? Here's the description.
This could be used to compromise Web servers and take over websites.
Now settle down while the adults talk or you're going to have to go sit at the kid's table. Stop spreading fud. Do you browse the web with imagemagick? No? Go figure. Does plain text file operate as an executable binary? No? Go figure.
Settle down and think a minute. You just look silly when you're covered in spittle and wrong.
Let me see... I shouldn't do this in public but I'm going to potentially fail big here...
Your name is Robert. You use Ubuntu. You live in Australia, specifically Adelaide. I believe your middle name is Tony but perhaps that's a nickname. Your last name, well, it begins with the letter B. (We'll let folks who wish to dig a bit deeper do so on their own) I could go off on a personality profile and probably be fairly accurate but you'd take offense as you deem yourself an intellectual and believe yourself to be intelligent - I'll not debate that, it's not my job to say.
Why would you worry about privacy? You put your information out there for everyone to see already. That took me 3 minutes - yes, I timed it and limited myself. I was actually done about 40 second early - you're a goofy looking fella now aren't you? I'm not sure why you tell people you're retired... Well, you might have a strange definition for it. To each their own, I suppose and all that. It took a WHOIS, a trip to Google, an image search, two links, and I think I might have an address.
It's okay. I've not only posted my address, full name, pictures, and all that but I invited the entirety of Slashdot to my house for New Year's Eve so that we could set off explosives. Only three of them came and only two were able to bring their family. So, I'm not very well hidden either.;-)
You always, always wait until the very last possible chance (you're on your last issue) and they will (nearly invariably) send you a special price to renew your subscription for pennies on the dollar. I've been subscribing to dead-tree magazines this way for years. I don't even really care about saving the money - it's just general principle and I like having the magazines - and I put 'em all nice and neat in a section in my "library" (only word I've got for it) when I'm done reading the interesting bits.
Sometimes I end up missing an issue - very seldom do I miss two. But I wait and they'll send me something like an advert to resubscribe for something like $6 bucks for the next year or $10 for the next two years and I'll pay the $10 and be able to get Smithsonian for another 2 years. Even National Geographic does it and Time is a sucker for doing it. Or maybe I'm the sucker? I don't know but I get a weekly Time magazine and I never pay more than $10 or so for a year's subscription.
Yeah, they slog my name all over and all that but I don't care. Sometimes I get killer deals - like the magazine thing. I love me some magazines. It works for nearly all of them, Road & Track, Automobile, Time, National Geographic, Smithsonian, and a half-dozen others. They sit around about the house getting read for a month and then I put the old ones into the appropriate spot on the shelves and put the new ones out.
Right now it's not quite like that. Once a month I get a box of mail sent down to me - I won't be getting any more. I'm still stuffing 'em in my trunk and I'll bring them home and stick 'em on my shelves. I'll be returning home this coming week, finally. So, no more mail shipments. But, still... I've been doing this for I don't know how long - a long time. Once they get you as a subscriber, they hate to lose you. If they think they're going to lose you then they really want to keep you.
See, having their number of paid subscribers up means they can sell their ad space for more. So, I end up paying almost nothing, certainly less than they're worth, for some decent publications that I skim/read and share with guests. It's become almost like a game... How long can I let it wait and how low will they go before I end up waiting so long that I miss an issue? It turns out, you can get 'em pretty damned low.
LOL That, my good sir, is literary gold. That's prose of the highest order - and I'm not being sarcastic at all.
It had the makings of one of the literary greats. I laughed, I cried, I thought, I was scared, and I felt a sense of conquest.
Someone up above was asserting that cookies were malware. That web beacons were malware. *sighs* We, we here at/. are supposed to be the tech geniuses.
(We got to genius and got confused for genus and so we're stuck at homo.)
The 'net with the way some folks do ads these days is absurd. Absolutely absurd.
However, I recommend uMatrix and uBlock Origin. You can actually do the same things with both of them, more or less. But, each is slightly better at different tasks and neither ads much to your resource usage - it probably lowers it by not loading the ads.
uMatrix is like an old-school software firewall, except it's just for your browser. uBlock is, well, you know what that is. There's the right click and block elements. I'm not sure what "language" it is that you use in there - to block stuff. But, once you learn it (or a little bit of it) you can really block some stuff pretty handily and easily - as well as completely.
uMatrix is whitelist based - pretty much everything is blocked by default. You can even set it to block FIRST party stuff by default - if you really want to. Then, as you browse, you whitelist only what you need. You save your settings. These settings can be exported and used on different computers or, if you want, it now supports the sync function in your browser so that you can sync the content automatically from one device to the next. You just use the same device name - it never deletes, it just merges so collisions don't result in you needing to replicate your work.
There is a learning curve with uMatrix but it's neither long nor difficult. If I am able to do it then I'm sure you can do it. I've actually taken my saved settings and uploaded them in the past to get people started - so that they can see what they look like. If you're interested then I can dump 'em online again sometime. I've been using it for quite a while and I tend to be a 'least-privilege' kind of guy. I basically only let run the absolute minimal required to get the functionality I need. No heavy scripts, no cookies, no XSS, no frames, no anything - unless it's needed or the layout is toast without it.
I do not recall that being promised. I do recall it being presumed and being largely true but never entirely true. Then again, I remember when cable was because reception was poor and people would kick in to buy a tower and run cable from the tower and pay for the upkeep but that was really, at first, just regular television being gathered by the big antenna and nothing special. Maybe you grew up on a different planet or just a different country?
I seriously recollect no such promise. It was like that for some channels and still is (as far as I know) like that for some channels. I don't watch television but I believe it's like that for far fewer channels than it used to be. However, there was never a time when cable meant no ads - in my country. I live in the US.
And every tracker is also a potential malware delivery system if they get themselves hacked.
I like my pseudo-privacy as much as the next person but no, not every tracker is a potential malware delivery vessel. You're not going to get malware from a beacon - it's an image and just an image. You're not going to get malware from a cookie, it's just a cookie. Hyperbole and misinformation does us no good.
If you want to advocate for privacy and/or security please do so from an informed position. Nobody is going to listen to us if we're caught lying and spreading misinformation. A web beacon is not malware nor is a cookie. Both are methods of tracking. Both are very common methods of tracking. No beacon or cookie is going to harm your computer, they're non-executable files. No matter who hacks who, neither of those (and a few other things) is capable of being malware.
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I think you'll find it is on YouTube. Yup.
Here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/result...
Enjoy - the bit about Cantor is good.
You know...
When I sold and retired, I actually gave some thought to returning to academia and taking up studies in order to become a Philosopher of Mathematics. I actually am one of those honest-to-goodness, dyed-in-the-wool, mathematicians - a Ph.D even, and things like theoretical maths are beyond what I'd say I know or can do. I'd like to think I'd have had the mental chops to do it but I don't really know.
Still, to be a Philosopher of Mathematics would be, to me, the greatest of achievements. It is my opinion that such is the greatest of all studies and I hold that above all others - including any practical.
The funny, to me, thing is that I was really bad at math and hated math until someone said something and, from there, it all just clicked into place. After that, I found that I could visualize math and not just perform rote calculations but that I could understand it. The thing is, it was such a trivial thing that was said to me. I'd always been able to do calculations in my head, for example, but I'd never actually understood it - it was simply rote memorization and not comprehension.
What they told me, and this is not verbatim, is that if you just square that triangle and divide it in half then you have the area. Yes, yes that's obvious but - I'd never looked at it like that. I'm still in contact with that teacher, by the way. He changed my life and I don't know where I'd be without him having told me that. And yes, yes that is a very simple thing. But, it's how I then looked at things. It was as if that one statement resulted in an epiphany.
It's funny how that one tiny thing, that one bit of shared insight - almost said in passing, was enough to permanently alter the course of my life. And yes, yes I did bold the word "that" because this is Slashdot where people often think they're smarter than they really are. ;-) However, it resulted in a whole new way of looking at things and it just sort of clicked after that. It became something that I visualized, sort of even understood, and enjoyed.
So, I think some theoretical math would be nice. Obviously, I've taken a look at quite a bit of it and have discussed it with folks in the field. It just seems so beautiful and ugly at the same time. I'd think that, at high levels, it would be an art. Not an art that most can appreciate but an art regardless. Then again, it might be possible to turn it into some other representation and have that be the art - though they might have no idea where it came from. Something akin to the results of fractals springs to mind but I'm not sure that I'm articulating it well.
I think you summed it up well but, to add to what you wrote...
If the idea of infinity doesn't make you a little crazy then you're not a mathematician and/or you have no imagination.
Obviously infinity doesn't exist in the real world - not in any practical sense. I guess one could presume that something can be broken down into infinite parts but physical limitations prevents that from actually being possible. So, when you get to questions like, "How much is half of infinity?" Things start to get a little strange. How much is infinity plus one? Or, how about if you add two of them together?
We know they don't exist, or shouldn't, but how do you even express that?
It did actually drive people to madness (or help out) as they were the ones to first really give it much thought in a mathematical sense. Or at least have a crack at figuring out how to express it. With enough thought, it's maddening. I prefer to not think about, to be frank.
LOL I've seen that one - it's pretty good. :D
That's probably good advice and I suppose I follow it already. I use both uMatrix and uBlock Origin.
I've played with it and if you want to get really fancy, there's also another extension that he has out there. I know it's out there for Opera - it's called HTTP Switchboard. It's very similar to the first two but a bit more advanced and, again, offers another layer of refinement. For the longest time, there wasn't a uMatrix for Firefox - he just made a version last year.
It's great that it's out there and that there's a version you can use for most any browser except the Windows native browsers. (I don't think it's an option of IE or Edge.) But, in case you've never noticed, he has a notice up where he explicitly states that he'll not accept any donations. I was not aware of this and I now have every reason to believe that he's telling the truth.
See, I'd not noticed the bit about him not accepting donations and I like to sometimes surprise people who write the software that I rely on with a monetary reward. I looked around for a way to donate to him and I couldn't find anything. I sent him an email expressing that I'd like to donate. When I donate, it's usually a fairly decent sum - I'm not sure how much I was offering to donate to him but I think it was $500 which isn't bad for a one-man project. It's enough for him and a friend to go have a good night on the town - something like that.
He declined. I got a "thanks but no thanks" answer including him pointing out that he appreciated it but he doesn't accept donations. Yeah...
That was a true no-strings-attached donation, a fairly good (I think) donation for a person who's just writing an extension, and I didn't ask for any recognition or anything and it's not like I'm an ad company trying to sneak stuff by. So, yeah, he's seemingly on the up-and-up and holds a moral high ground to the point where he's not even accepting donations of any kind. That's kind of cool.
Not many people even understand it. *sighs* Look at all the comments you see in the threads where someone they loathe is probably going to prison. There are people actively expressing their hope that the person be given "prison justice" in the form of rape, beatings, and even death. There are some horrible people out there and no, I'm not actually talking about the people who are incarcerated.
An interesting aside, seeing as I'm already typing, is that just prior to the cessation of the Korean War's military actions if a Marine Escort/Chaser lost their detainee then they were obligated to serve that person's time up until the escaped prisoner had been returned to custody. I believe this part remains true to this day: If you escape, or try to escape, from a custodial sentence in a military facility there is no time added to your sentence nor is it a crime in and of itself. The natural state of a human is to be free of restraint. To try to escape is natural and thus not considered a criminal offense in the UCMJ.
However, I never had anyone attempt to escape or even appear to be considering it. We were trained, more or less, to treat the prisoners with respect. In fact, the prisoner may outrank you and still retain their rank until such time as they are officially dismissed from service. (No, they can not order you to let them go - such would be an unlawful order.) There are some strange protocols that might sound odd to a civilian but it's essential to keep in mind that our wards were trained to kill. There are no firearms inside the secure zone and more of them than there are of you - and they've already been acclimated to CS gas. Even if it weren't the humane thing to do, it would still be *very* wise to treat the prisoners with respect.
I didn't spend much time inside the secure zone. I was not on guard duty, patrol, rover, or anything like that. I'd been trained (we all were) to fill those roles but my specific duty was transport/escort. I took them to court, medical, escorted to funerals, and sometimes flew with them to a detention center that was closer to their home. I drove everything from a bus to what is pretty much just your standard police cruiser.
One of the more memorable episodes was when a civilian court officer tried to disarm me. No, not violently or with force or anything but vocally asserting that I was not authorized to carry a firearm or bring any weapons into the court. We got a call on the radio telling me that it had been resolved and that I was to bring the accused back to the court. I'd simply turned around and taken my prisoner back out to the cruiser and was driving back to base. My job was not just to stop my prisoner from escaping but it was also to prevent them from coming to harm. I was not going to allow my prisoner to be cuffed and shackled (defenseless, pretty much) in a group of angry civilians and not retain my service weapons.
Contrary to popular opinion, I'm not Chuck Norris, Bruce Lee, or anything like that. I'm not going to leave my prisoner undefended. There's more to detention than just keeping them detained. There's an obligation to keep them from harm. That and there were a lot of really angry people in the courtroom. My prisoner had beaten the shit out of some well-liked civilian. If you're curious, he was acquitted in the civilian court but was still went through the court martial and was convicted there and ousted from the Marines. It turns out that not only had he not swung first but the civilian was drunk (as was the young Marine) and was insulting him with racist slurs before he hit him. Once he hit him, things got a bit out of hand and much damage was done and that resulted in permanent brain injury to the civilian. I'm not sure what the end result was as I wasn't the one to transport him at the end and I've no idea what happened in the civil trial that followed. He was already bucked out of the service by then.
I dunno, this is already long enough but it's about humane treatment and respect. It's not hard to treat humans like untam
We have a /. user who works in the industry and has for some time. I imagine they will see this thread but they're on my friend's list so I will put this here and they may notice and respond about the financial aspect. If I get a minute, I'll send them a notice off-site and they may opt to share what they know. (They're helping me out with a project that I am working on.)
I own a portion of a company that makes specialty ropes, you insensitive clod!
Having worked in a military detention facility and having interviewed and toured at a civilian facility, I've noticed some odd things.
You go to prison *as* punishment and not *for* punishment.
This is entirely backwards in a civilian facility. Prison should be a place where one still has a modicum of respect and self-determination. No, it needn't be insecure to do so. The greatest thing a government should be able to take is your freedom, your dignity (or lack of it) should be your own.
I've mentioned this before but it's this important and has meant that much to me - for all these years.
From the staff side, entering in through the Sally Port, was an old cross-stitched sign on the wall. It was dull and faded, certainly not regulation, but it had been there for as long as anyone could remember. On that sign was a simple, but important, adage. It said, "There, but by the Grace of God, go I."
I suppose that won't mean anything to you and that you'll be unable (unwilling?) to understand it. So, consider it not writ large on your behalf but for the others who might take your post to heart without having the benefit of an alternative view.
I was a chaser/escort - in civilian terms I was a "Transportation Officer." It ties into my oft-quoted determination/conclusion that people are people, pretty much everywhere you go. Lest you read this and think you're still cognizant, I encourage you to recollect the sign. "There, but by the Grace of God, go I."
It should be /as/ punishment and not /for/ punishment.
As a mathematician from MIT, I'm getting a kick out of this thread.
Math, in and of itself, hasn't ever harmed anyone.
Well, that's not quite true. It has driven some to insanity and suicide but I've never heard of any algorithm to make a plane blow up. And, really, if you think too much about infinity, the concept, it can drive you insane - more so if you're one of the first to really contemplate it and quantify it.
Yeah, it was ages ago when you were talking about getting one and mentioned you weren't sure which one you were going to get - I think you'd listed two that you'd decided were in the running and one other one that you really liked but, for some reason (price? availability?) you didn't put that on your final list. Now that you mention it, it really was a long time ago. IIRC it was a couple of years, or so, ago. I've got a hazy recollection.
Sometimes I remember the damnedest things. It's just not usually what I *want* to remember.
As for the CNC, I've still have yet to uncrate it. I had grandiose plans when I bought it. *sighs* So, I'm really not able to give you any aid at all - I've never powered it on, never hooked it up, never assembled it, nothing. It's meant for wood but there's an attachment that lets me turn it into a 3D printer and do additive work. I'm 80% sure that's in one of the boxes. I spent a retarded amount of money on it so I'll feel obligated to at least assemble it and poke at it but I've not gotten there.
That sounds awesome! Treat it like an addiction. Really.
It was so liberating feeling to delete TERABYTES of stuff like setup.exe, setup(1).exe, setup1.1.001.1.exe, install.exe, etc...
My email is always open. What distro are you going with? I like Lubuntu. It's still a work in progress but I'm working on Intelligent Discourse and a part of that is dedicated to Linux. So, if you feel like writing about your experiences or whatnot, have a look. Note, I didn't say it's a help forum. It might be able to do that but that's entirely the goal. The site's still in beta but if you feel like sharing and writing about it then let me know.
My current car is a '15 6-series.
Of she had H-rated in GOOD condition tires then yes, what are the odds of that? What are the odds of the suspension having been maintained properly.
So, probably not - no, it probably was not capable of going 107 MPH for very long. I notice you conveniently skipped that I'd added that it'd likely result in a sidewall blowout *after* a period of time.
So yes, yes I stand by what I said. I'm gonna go out on a limb and wager the tires where shit, probably NOT OEM, probably NOT H rated, the suspension probably NOT maintained, the brakes probably not even OEM anymore (which might be a good thing - brakes have improved a bunch since the 90s).
But yeah, I'm gonna suggest that it was not a good choice of car to do that in. It's a 20+ year old car. I'd also add that she was obviously not the person to be driving said vehicle at said speed. Nearly every single accident is caused by someone driving too fast for the conditions.
It offered a better signal - I think it was the remote valleys in CA where it got started - I forget which area specifically but that's sounding about right and Google is so very far away.
It offered stations from out of the area, for example. Eventually, they started pumping in stuff so you ended up with things like Local Access Cable channels as they filled up the UHF range. (I think it's UHF for 13+? I don't watch much TV and haven't really ever been all that into it, not even so much as a kid.)
Then it just kind of bloomed from there. That's how I remember it, at any rate. I remember when we got cable, it was actually when we were VERY remote and we lived on the other side of the base. (My dad was a career Marine.) So I moved a lot but we were on the outside and cable got us a half-dozen extra channels and, by then, we could pay for some upgrades and those had both some with commercials and some without.
You have HBO, SHOW, SkinAMax, and those sorts of things.
I want to say that even satellite had commercials at first - I'm damned sure it did as it showed local channels from all over the place. We used to have a giant dish at one point. LOL Remember those?
No, that's certainly not obvious - nor is it conclusive.
You'll find there are at least a few of us here who are, in one way or another, incorporated and as a for-profit motive. I have a corporation which holds a bunch of my assets. There are two others that I know who do. There are likely more that are legally incorporated and freelancers.
I'm not sure you really want to go calling people fools. Not only was it not obvious, it still isn't right when you add in for profit corporations.
Would you like to swing again? I'll pitch 'em a little slower for you.
(Hint: No, you don't want to. That'd be stupid. You can't win.)
No worries - I've got max karma as it is. ;-) Save 'em for someone who needs them. Play with it for a little while. You'll get used to it - it does have a learning curve.
Would you like me to share my filters with you?
Actually, here:
http://kgiii.gq/tmp/rules.txt
There's one porn site in there. It blocks the ads and whatnot. It's cam4. *nods* I'm too lazy to go in and delete it. You can or you can just leave it and nobody will be the wiser - you'd not know unless I just told you (or you visited).
If you want my settings let me know. If you want my uBlock personal filters let me know. I'll share 'em with you. I'll help anyone out when it comes to keeping their computer safe.
Damn that Slashdot, it must have eaten your citation of a cookie being malware. The image exploit you speak of was not one that impacted the visitor, it was on that impacted the server that the site ran on. Maybe you should reformat your reply and fix the links so we can see your citations.
I suppose you know more than these guys/
How can a cookie threaten a computer?
A cookie itself cannot harm the computer, as it does not and cannot hold code (therefore the cookie cannot perform an action itself). However, the cookie can support (help) malicious actions to be taken on the respective system. Even more, being a plain text file, they are vulnerable, meaning that they can be “harvested” by other applications.
How about for ImageMagick? Here's the description.
This could be used to compromise Web servers and take over websites.
Now settle down while the adults talk or you're going to have to go sit at the kid's table. Stop spreading fud. Do you browse the web with imagemagick? No? Go figure. Does plain text file operate as an executable binary? No? Go figure.
Settle down and think a minute. You just look silly when you're covered in spittle and wrong.
Let me see... I shouldn't do this in public but I'm going to potentially fail big here...
Your name is Robert. You use Ubuntu. You live in Australia, specifically Adelaide. I believe your middle name is Tony but perhaps that's a nickname. Your last name, well, it begins with the letter B. (We'll let folks who wish to dig a bit deeper do so on their own) I could go off on a personality profile and probably be fairly accurate but you'd take offense as you deem yourself an intellectual and believe yourself to be intelligent - I'll not debate that, it's not my job to say.
Why would you worry about privacy? You put your information out there for everyone to see already. That took me 3 minutes - yes, I timed it and limited myself. I was actually done about 40 second early - you're a goofy looking fella now aren't you? I'm not sure why you tell people you're retired... Well, you might have a strange definition for it. To each their own, I suppose and all that. It took a WHOIS, a trip to Google, an image search, two links, and I think I might have an address.
It's okay. I've not only posted my address, full name, pictures, and all that but I invited the entirety of Slashdot to my house for New Year's Eve so that we could set off explosives. Only three of them came and only two were able to bring their family. So, I'm not very well hidden either. ;-)
How'd I do?
https://www.charitywatch.org/h...
It says America but it's still valid for you. There's likely a UK (?) equivalent.
You always, always wait until the very last possible chance (you're on your last issue) and they will (nearly invariably) send you a special price to renew your subscription for pennies on the dollar. I've been subscribing to dead-tree magazines this way for years. I don't even really care about saving the money - it's just general principle and I like having the magazines - and I put 'em all nice and neat in a section in my "library" (only word I've got for it) when I'm done reading the interesting bits.
Sometimes I end up missing an issue - very seldom do I miss two. But I wait and they'll send me something like an advert to resubscribe for something like $6 bucks for the next year or $10 for the next two years and I'll pay the $10 and be able to get Smithsonian for another 2 years. Even National Geographic does it and Time is a sucker for doing it. Or maybe I'm the sucker? I don't know but I get a weekly Time magazine and I never pay more than $10 or so for a year's subscription.
Yeah, they slog my name all over and all that but I don't care. Sometimes I get killer deals - like the magazine thing. I love me some magazines. It works for nearly all of them, Road & Track, Automobile, Time, National Geographic, Smithsonian, and a half-dozen others. They sit around about the house getting read for a month and then I put the old ones into the appropriate spot on the shelves and put the new ones out.
Right now it's not quite like that. Once a month I get a box of mail sent down to me - I won't be getting any more. I'm still stuffing 'em in my trunk and I'll bring them home and stick 'em on my shelves. I'll be returning home this coming week, finally. So, no more mail shipments. But, still... I've been doing this for I don't know how long - a long time. Once they get you as a subscriber, they hate to lose you. If they think they're going to lose you then they really want to keep you.
See, having their number of paid subscribers up means they can sell their ad space for more. So, I end up paying almost nothing, certainly less than they're worth, for some decent publications that I skim/read and share with guests. It's become almost like a game... How long can I let it wait and how low will they go before I end up waiting so long that I miss an issue? It turns out, you can get 'em pretty damned low.
LOL That, my good sir, is literary gold. That's prose of the highest order - and I'm not being sarcastic at all.
It had the makings of one of the literary greats. I laughed, I cried, I thought, I was scared, and I felt a sense of conquest.
Someone up above was asserting that cookies were malware. That web beacons were malware. *sighs* We, we here at /. are supposed to be the tech geniuses.
(We got to genius and got confused for genus and so we're stuck at homo.)
I kid, I kid... I'll go lay down next to my dish.
The 'net with the way some folks do ads these days is absurd. Absolutely absurd.
However, I recommend uMatrix and uBlock Origin. You can actually do the same things with both of them, more or less. But, each is slightly better at different tasks and neither ads much to your resource usage - it probably lowers it by not loading the ads.
uMatrix is like an old-school software firewall, except it's just for your browser. uBlock is, well, you know what that is. There's the right click and block elements. I'm not sure what "language" it is that you use in there - to block stuff. But, once you learn it (or a little bit of it) you can really block some stuff pretty handily and easily - as well as completely.
uMatrix is whitelist based - pretty much everything is blocked by default. You can even set it to block FIRST party stuff by default - if you really want to. Then, as you browse, you whitelist only what you need. You save your settings. These settings can be exported and used on different computers or, if you want, it now supports the sync function in your browser so that you can sync the content automatically from one device to the next. You just use the same device name - it never deletes, it just merges so collisions don't result in you needing to replicate your work.
There is a learning curve with uMatrix but it's neither long nor difficult. If I am able to do it then I'm sure you can do it. I've actually taken my saved settings and uploaded them in the past to get people started - so that they can see what they look like. If you're interested then I can dump 'em online again sometime. I've been using it for quite a while and I tend to be a 'least-privilege' kind of guy. I basically only let run the absolute minimal required to get the functionality I need. No heavy scripts, no cookies, no XSS, no frames, no anything - unless it's needed or the layout is toast without it.
I do not recall that being promised. I do recall it being presumed and being largely true but never entirely true. Then again, I remember when cable was because reception was poor and people would kick in to buy a tower and run cable from the tower and pay for the upkeep but that was really, at first, just regular television being gathered by the big antenna and nothing special. Maybe you grew up on a different planet or just a different country?
I seriously recollect no such promise. It was like that for some channels and still is (as far as I know) like that for some channels. I don't watch television but I believe it's like that for far fewer channels than it used to be. However, there was never a time when cable meant no ads - in my country. I live in the US.
So, the ACLU, Habitat for Humanity, The Linux Foundation, FreeBSD Group (I think that was their name), EFF, and FSF are all just profit motivated?
And you say that other people are delusional?
And every tracker is also a potential malware delivery system if they get themselves hacked.
I like my pseudo-privacy as much as the next person but no, not every tracker is a potential malware delivery vessel. You're not going to get malware from a beacon - it's an image and just an image. You're not going to get malware from a cookie, it's just a cookie. Hyperbole and misinformation does us no good.
If you want to advocate for privacy and/or security please do so from an informed position. Nobody is going to listen to us if we're caught lying and spreading misinformation. A web beacon is not malware nor is a cookie. Both are methods of tracking. Both are very common methods of tracking. No beacon or cookie is going to harm your computer, they're non-executable files. No matter who hacks who, neither of those (and a few other things) is capable of being malware.