Posts by Charles 9

That is something the people in the article would've worked on as well. As you say, the colors are tweaked so as to help people with color blindness. That's also why positioning is so important (to best accommodate people with total color blindness and cannot distinguish blue from green in any event). That's also why road signs have specific shapes: a general idea in North America being the more points in the sign, the more urgent the message.

Car-topper lights are color-coded to indicate what they are. For example, where I live:

Police are combination red-blue.

Fire, Rescue, and EMS (basically, anything based in a fire house) use all-red lights.

Ambulances and other hospital-based vehicles use all-blue lights.

Service vehicles (construction vehicles, tow vehicles, etc.) use yellow lights.

All but the last one possess rights of way by law.

Hmm, I'd been under the impression that (especially in places like Boston), Red = Last one.

Re: Pedant alert

The way I understand it, in most jurisdictions, flashing lights are normally "fallback" lights in case the normal system isn't working right (such as the lights coming back from a power failure).

* Flashing red is to be treated like a STOP sign; you MUST come to a full and complete stop before making any further action.

* Flashing amber is to be treated like a YIELD/GIVE WAY sign; you MAY proceed only when it is clearly safe to do so.

* Often if an intersection is flashing because of a "safe mode," the higher-priority road gets the flashing amber while the other gets the flashing red. If the intersection is high-risk, it becomes a four-way stop with ALL the lights being flashing red.

Re: Sure.... why not?

I dunno. "Send them, I don't care. I'm already talking to a divorce attorney." Blackmail has no value if the victim doesn't value it. Might be better to threaten to have a compromising deepfake ready to go (and there are still some moral event horizons even they don't want to cross).

Re: Sure...why not...

"..but let's mandate the following:"

Except you can't mandate anything on lawmakers. They can always change the laws, after all. And if all else fails, someone with enough power or influence can just change the government outright and make all the laws irrelevant.

IOW, you're better off producing a better human first.

Re: Watch your back

And yes, F-Droid usually demands the source code and tries to compile it itself before publishing (if for any reason it can't, such as requiring a non-free library, the repo flags this as an anti-feature).

Likely the former. They found a way to crack the iPhone of someone who was already dead, after all.

Re: Preempt

"The preemption clause is standard boiler plate language to comply with the 10th Amendment of the Constitution."

What about the Fourteenth Amendment and its Supremacy Clause. As it's a later Amendment, it takes precedent, doesn't it?

Re: FB needs a currency

And if they just come back and reply, "Meh, I've been to worse."?

Re: The cost in kW

It would help if you included the starting points or FROMs in your examples. To Leeds FROM WHERE?

Re: The cost in kW

It's not so much as as people have more important things to worry about and are too busy to care. Plus there's the lack of viable alternatives. Anything else out there is geared by default to discourage holding (aka hoarding) money.

So what do you propose instead. You seem to be basically saying it's an intractable problem owing to human nature. Basically, something like this intrinsically places power over people: power which WILL inevitably be abused.

Re: This sounds a lot like...

Ever heard of SWATting? The social networks don't need to do it when they can just trick the LEOs to do it FOR them.

Re: Makes sense

"But the Prosecutors are on the side of the FBI."

Not necessarily. All it takes is one honest United States Attorney and the whole works can start getting uncomfortable looks. Any attempt to cover it up would then (especially in today's hyperpartisanism) be seen as such and just elicit more dirty looks. Basically, if someone blows the whistle, it can bring things to a head where it's either back down or just throw the book away, in which case you're likely looking at a new Civil War.

Re: As ever...

So if the rioters come knocking, it's basically YOYO like the Korean storekeepers in the LA Riots?

Re: Makes sense

One word: perjury. Don't forget the oath any witness must agree upon taking the stand: to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you {INSERT DEITY HERE}. If a witness perjures on the stand, not only is that a felony, but the entire case can be declared a mistrial as a result.

The aforementioned link points to the kind of notation I'm more familiar with (from the days when the Chessmaster was en vogue). This password appears to use a different kind of notation, as files are normally a simple a-h instead of using piece notation (which can get confusing due to there being more than one bishop, knight, and rook file), slashes aren't used (except in some variants to indicate a promotion), the pawn is normally indicated by a lack of a piece tag, and the ! is normally reserved for noteworthy moves.

Re: Not all special characters worked 40 years ago

Don't you mean 12456 as the # should only erase the 3?

Then comes the problem when you have a terrible memory and, so to speak, dice the dice. Thus my common riposte "donkeyenginepaperclipwrong," four similar words in a different order. I'm still looking for a solution compatible with no extra software AND very bad (say geriatric) memory.

Re: I have to thank ken for my passwords

It's kinda hard to focus when the background noise exceeds 90 dB. That and the occasional point-blank shouts straight to your ear. The only kind of person who can ignore such a level of noise would be DEAF. And even they will have trouble when the murmur reaches the low frequencies that are more felt than heard, approaching Brown Note territory.

Or terrible memories. As I always put it, "Was it correcthorsebatterystaple or donkeyenginepaperclipwrong?"

Re: Accept

IOW, Don't Trust Anyone...not even yourself!

In which case...how does society even operate?

Re: I wonder

A reshoot may not be possible if one or more of the scenes were one-offs where the set was trashed during the shooting. AND there's a deadline to meet because competing movies are already scheduled. Then it may be deepfake or bust.

Re: Xerox 6027

Well, for me, while HP inkjet printers only see extremely limited use in my demesnes, I have little to complain about the Color LaserJet I use much more often. Better, it doesn't complain nearly so much when you use aftermarket toner kits (in case you're wondering, I bought it secondhand).

Re: Region coding

I will admit I use HP inkjet printers once in a long while. I keep a PhotoSmart printer for on the go photos (hey, it was secondhand and cheap, and the carts aren't very hard or expensive to come by for the occasional work I put into it), but that's my limit as far as HP inkjet printers go.

Re: Deskjet - sold for $1,000, and not subsidised.

Furthermore, like with typewriters using fabric ribbons, it's a bit tricky to gauge when the impact ribbon was running dry, especially given the limited amount of communication a printer could do then.

Re: Please explain?

Because the port is known, fixed, and dedicated. That means the bad guys know exactly where to look. They can just hijack ALL traffic from that port, wholesale, and be able to become a MiTM. The only way to block wholesale port hijacking is to obfuscate using an already-widely-used port. You can't get much more widely-used than 443.

More like "Drones Are Useful." This is a two-edged utility. This was done in a politically-motivated manhunt, but a most-wanted fugitive manhunt...or a search-and-rescue operation?

Re: Why tamper with the voting machines

"If you are American then I'd suggest scrapping your electoral college to elect your head of state, and switch to one person / one vote."

That only means the election can then be determined by the big cities, New York, Texas, and California, meaning small but important states like the midwest (agriculturally-oriented--don't need a lot of people but they feed a lot of people) get left behind.

Frankly, I think you need a multi-tier system to minimize any kind of vote focusing. Count votes three times: by person, by district, and by state--two out of three wins. By state blunts the cities, by district gives you the middle ground between person and state.

If this won't work, nothing will because that'll mean ANY system can be corrupted because it's made by man, full stop.

Re: Data collection en masse

Not mass: drag. Local gravity affects everyone equally, thus g has no mass unit in it. If you drop a feather and a rock from the top of a vacuum chamber, they'll hit the bottom at the same time because there's no air for the feather to float against.