Posts by P. Lee 5267 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Dec 2007
I'm not sure "not injecting dettol" reaches the realms of needing to be taught critical thinking. If you ignore the big "POISON" warning on the bottle, I'm not sure there is much which can be done for you.
Take a look at Tim Pool's observations on what Trump said and what the media are saying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRdybiEpIjg and see whether the comments from Dettol were necessary and whether El Reg blaming Trump for the comments being required is reasonable.
>Edit: and of course OSX has already been ported to ARM, in the guise of iOS.
Which still leaves the question, "Why do it?"
The previous chip moves provided obvious benefits. As much as I'd love to see this, it wouldn't be an upgrade.
- There aren't many people that need more battery life than we already have in the Airs.
- It would introduce an incompatibility in the laptop line, whereas everyone knows what iPad's don't do.
They would be better off porting to ARM and releasing an ipad pro-pro with full macos. Position it as a better ipad, not a disappointing Air.
What I would note is that MS' attempt at ARM laptops have not been a spectacular success and the only place I've seen a lot of Google's devices are those dumped on kids in school. I'm rather hoping that would be aversion therapy, but I suspect that's a vain hope for the phone+instagram generation.
>People who think otherwise should sit down and think about consequences of not allowing a separation of personal politics from business.
Yes - you end up with Google, Facebook, YouTube, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon... That isn't good.
They just want the infrastructure and sales benefits of being the in the US without the labour costs of being there.
"Jew" and "Arab" are usually considered races. You can be Arabic and American or Jordanian or Egyptian etc.
The rest are nationalities, not races. I think that's why someone quoted the definition, to try to avoid this confusion.
Does Trump dislike certain behaviour or is his displeasure directed at physical appearance and genetic lineage?
Yeah holmegm! You and your right-wing civil liberties. What kind of Nazi are you? Just because you haven't done anything wrong doesn't mean you shouldn't be under house-arrest. Its right-wing fascists like you who think the State shouldn't control your every move.
Next you'll be suggesting people should be allowed to choose what level of protection they want. Only the State has that right, you peasant, kneel before the almighty State!
Just remember - there has never been a situation where high levels of government control over society has resulted in something bad happening. Why would you want freedom when politicians are offering you security?
>What has that have to do with fighting COVID-19 ??
It isn't about fighting covid it is about mitigating the cost of fighting covid. As Americans get laid off and unemployment rises, it is difficult to justify bringing in non-Americans to take the jobs that do remain.
The role of the American president is to look after Americans, not foreigners. If, as a company, you don't want to hire Americans, don't base yourself in America. "We would like the benefits of being an American company without the costs of hiring Americans" seems a little... wrong.
I'm not an American - I don't expect Trump to look out for my interests. My issue with "think of the immigrants" is that it divorces the responsibilities of the leaders from the interests of their constituents. While I don't support acting purely selfishly, once leaders are mentally and emotionally independent of the interests of their electorate, they become untethered from their role and highly susceptible to corruption. Being "responsible to everyone" is a great excuse for being responsible to no-one.
FTFY
There are no reliable flu vaccines. Every year flu mutates and kills hundreds of thousands of people. Covid will be a part of that.
This is not a "end lockdown to help the economy" this is "end lockdown or your economy will die and then your people will starve."
We don't worry about things that kill far more than covid.
We should support those who are vulnerable, but the government lockdown is also destroying lives, both of the current and future generations who will pay the economic price. Government handouts don't magically make stuff, they just transfer resources from you, back to you.
Interest rates are pretty much at an all-time low. To cover its costs, the government will have to tax more (which doesn't work if people aren't earning) or borrow more which means it will need to offer better (i.e. higher) interest rates. What will that do to people's mortgages? How many people mortgaged to the hilt because rates were low will have their house repossessed? As the banks sell off the repossessions and the house supply increases, with nobody wanting to take on more debt as rates climb, house prices will drop and equity gaps will open up. As the government seems to think printing money is a fine plan, we'll have inflation, higher interest rates and higher taxes. As the economy goes south, politics is going to get nasty too.
This is what happens when the government takes away the right and responsibility of people to protect themselves. They could have just issued a very strong recommendation that people stay home and enabled remote working as right, at least for those who can. Would more people have died? Quite possibly, but it is not the government's responsibility or within its capability to fix all natural disasters. The government's job is to empower citizens to direct their own lives.
That's before we get to the technical issues. If I go to the supermarket and pass fifty people, what is the expansion of vectors - exponential? Maybe not quite but not far off. If its two weeks before I get symptoms even just going for essential shopping blows out the number of possible contacts, before we even think of the few (like my parents) who don't have mobile phones. You can run the system, but it isn't going to stop something so highly contagious as covid.
Even in a worst-case scenario, were covid wipes out all the over-70's and the medically vulnerable, I'm not convinced the destruction will be complete as what we are currently headed for.
>whatever the current "close contact" time is, around 15 mins.
And how does that relate in any way to someone sneezing, coughing or having done that, touching a can of beans on a shelf, or maybe the conveyor belt at the checkout.
Then look at the spread-vectors. In a supermarket... maybe you pass fifty people, shopping twice per week - that's two hundred people before you show symptoms - if you ever show any.
The concept is rubbish once you move from "an example with two people" to the real world.
Its really dumb stuff like this together with really dubious looking things like "hey, we're just going to change the way we record death stats, which will inflate the apparent severity of the problem and stop you from making an accurate assessment of whether the lockdown was required or not" which makes me doubt everything I'm being asked/told to do. Its this kind of rubbish which undermines the whole narrative. It is not ok to lie to people because you think it might save them.
Yep - these cloud providers are publishers, not platforms and they do take an interest in your politics. Using them for SSO is foolish.
Relying on anyone's goodwill on a day-to-day basis for the running of your business is foolish, unless at any time you can swap them out for a different provider with acceptable impact to your business.
I just wouldn't do it. Keep you cloud, I'll just use my laptop.
It may well backfire. "Office" is a convenient tool we can use, 365 is "all the time" - Microsoft is a huge corporate.
The shift looks to me like a sign that MS is more obsessed with itself than with providing products which serve customers.
Once the child is not a child, they are supposed to pay for their own consequences.
And what are the long term consequences of not being able to get LGBT sex-ed for the under-18's?
How big is this problem, that you want "society" (government?) to intervene in families in order to provide ideological instruction?
Because random websites on the internet have a greater investment in your welfare than your parents?
If the parents are not chill with what you're doing on the internet, that is tough. DNS providers should not be subverting parental control and that internet connection is not a human right.
If you want non-parental help, at least go to someone you know. There's a lot of organisations driven by ideology rather than personal concern. How is a child supposed to know the difference? Why would a DNS provider be trusted to vet the quality of sex-ed suppliers?
My guess is that KP is not out in public much - it will get shut down pronto.
In this case, however, parents are the customers and the content being served is being actively pushed to children, even in schools, from the earliest years. It is out in the open and might be something some parents want to block. You know, the parents... the customers... who pay them money. I'd guess the carder sites are also blocked under the plan, but those guys are much harder to keep up with than Mermaids.
Anyway, DNS security is a tool which will fade from usefulness as DNS/HTTPS/TLS gains a hold. It basically requires broken security. The more it is subverted for "good" or "evil", the faster the old protocols will be dropped.
And I agree with the security guy from Cloudflare. Buy a security layer to go over basic DNS if you want, but we should not be breaking the basic protocols. If you find KP on the internet, report it to the FBI, not some DNS provider.
I think you'll find words are a social construct and we can define anything we want. ;)
But to the point: "Cultural Marxism" could probably be described as the application of group-struggle theory to non-classical Marxist classes (i.e. not capitalist/proletariat), generally, gender, race and sexual orientation. It is usually considered virtuous that we should help the "oppressed" (minority) groups in an attempt to level the playing field between them and the majority groups. All differences in success are attributed to oppression based on these (often legally) protected classes. Intersections of these classes create even smaller minority groups which are considered to increase the oppression applied. There is generally a perceived oppression pyramid: gender (males oppress females); race (low melatonin people oppress high melatonin people); sexual behaviour (oppressors->oppressed heterosexuals-> male homosexuals->female homosexuals->trans (bisexuals are named but rarely discussed).
The Marxist aspect comes from the idea that everyone is the same and we must make the outcomes for everyone equal, rather than having neutral processes. This ends us back at having gender and race-based discrimination policies. Which builds tribalism rather than meritocracy and leads to large amounts of effort being expended on getting people to do things they don't want to do. The cultural aspect is the policing of outcomes for these classes, generally in the news media, twitter, but also from possible financial pressure, such as loss of credit card processing facilities or perhaps the burying of youtube content so no-one can find your presentations.
It is an attempt to build an ideologically-driven utopia and like all such attempts, tends to be destructive.
To wit, Cloudflare is in trouble because the failed to to provide LGBT sexual behaviour instruction access to children on the internet, despite it being a very, very unlikely that any of their actual customers want this. They will spend time and effort building something no-one wants to buy because of some third-party on the internet who wants to demonstrate to their friends that they have rooted out some imaginary evil.
I'd be inclined to stay off twitter and let them scream into the void.
Human rights? Since when is internet-based sex-ed for children a vital human right? I certainly never had such a thing growing up. I was oppressed! Oh wait, no I wasn't.
Unless there is some magic new operation which can actually turn a man into a woman and back again, trans is all about amputations and cosmetic surgery. This is not something we should be punting to hormonally unbalanced minors or kids playing dress-up.
I would also suggest that there are very few parents who want their children to be LGBT. I haven't heard many stories about parents telling their kids they don't want any grandchildren. Maybe I move in bigoted circles. Obviously there are some - the world is a big place, but those that do want one are unlikely to be requesting a DNS filter, imo.
Activists are outraged. News at 11.
Indeed. Is the body functional? Where does sexual attraction take place, if not in the mind?
The strict materialists will say the mind is just a representation of a physical state of the body, but in that case, the universe is just a big physics machine and (as Dawkins will tell you) love and free will are illusions, in which case, nothing matters as the mind is not conceptually more important than the arrangement of atoms in a rock.
So... just enough of the nice tools to stop people going to a vm but not enough (or possibly stable enough) to migrate away from windows?
Colour me shocked.
I have issues with windows’ lack of free tools, but I have more concerns over ms business practices.
Cloud lock-in is real and it is worse than os lock-in. For some reason management can’t see it.
All these things require servers which have to be paid for and configuration to make them work.
That's a problem. My wireless internet provider doesn't even give me a public ip address - not even ipv6.
To do this properly you need your own stuff: a properly configured DNS, an internet-accessible IP, a user-based server running the authentication software, configuration coordination with the service provider... and you probably don't have internet link redundancy so an outage stops you doing anything.
I don't see this working well.
We need something which can scale, uses existing infrastructure and requires less end-user knowledge.
A question which also must be answered is if supporting another OS would be cheaper.
Are we looking at two thousand hardware upgrades? Do they replace replace the hardware and the OS when they fail?
Also, when MS' cloud wobbles, does the court system fall over?
What causes more issues, a non-internet connected host which hasn't been upgraded, or upgrading all systems?
I know it isn't great and the cost is probably lunacy, but there may be mitigating factors.
Mobile phone app snoops on users and cloud app makers accumulate vast amounts of data which is promptly "externally appropriated."
This is news?
Did you know you postfix has an option which causes email to fail to transfer if it can't connect with SSL?
Big Tech - making stupid easy.
China doesn't need to get far. I suspect they just want strategic independence.
Beating "the rest of the world" is basically ARM, Intel and AMD - maybe add in nvidia if you're looking at GPUs. Add some already-tested switching tech and off you go. The whole scale-out/cloud push behind linux is going to mean that the infrastructure architectures will apply to x86 or arm or mips. I'd see MIPS doing best as a network-device cpu. IPv6 hardware switching anyone? "Slow" is relative these days. 400mb/s is slow but more than enough for mid-range enterprises' internet link routers. Want to do SDN? Make sure AES is done in hardware and you just need a management interface.
Extending the instruction set doesn't have to be that complex, just enough to mean you can sell fast routers with only a little bit of IP added on. It may not be as power-efficient as ARM, but if it means circumventing Trump's IP ban and being able to sell as much as you want, that's probably not an issue. Worse for the US, homegrown tech deprives the US of the growing market.
For context, Crossbeam were running blade-based backplanes with 120gig throughput based on MIPS years ago.
What happens when all those cheap little 5 port switches from tplink suddenly do 10G with transceivers and have a routing backplane? Or a 48-port switch with a 100Mb/s router - that should be more than enough for many businesses with internet connections.
Cheap normally wins. ARM has done well in unit terms by being cheap. If ARM is excluded from cheap Chinese manufacturing, MIPS has more than a chance to gain some ground because the cost of ARM has basically risen to infinity.
It doesn't matter that China is a bitbehind on tech. If China starts producing RISC phones with no-Google-playstore, it doesn't matter too much if the battery life is less than an iphone 11 pro max. Once the ecosystem is built, it will be tough for the West to make inroads.
The whole consolidation of data-centres is a western commercial thing based on the cost of DC space, electricity, licensing and the employee cost of IT management. I'm not sure those things are a concern in China.
>What's a CIO? Someone who is paid a fortune to do one job: Repeat all day long "You must install Windows and you must do so using a processor from Intel".
Not really. He's the one paid a lot of money to make sure no-one messes up.
In this case, "is that weird but critical app we use from 2015 optimised for intel cpus and does it run badly on AMD?"
It isn't a question of "you must use intel" its a question of, "is it worth the cost savings to do all the required QA now and in the future to save a small proportion of the cost of a pc?" "How well does vmware run on AMD?" "Do I want to lose my job over that decision?"
The answer is usually, "I don't want to lose my job and I can do that by buying intel systems which no-one important will fault me for."
The laptop screen is probably a more expensive component. Do you use dual intel 10G nics in servers? Do you want to QA those in an AMD server? In all your AMD servers?
I'd love AMD to do even better, but I get why CIO's tell their staff not to bother spending time on switching.
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