Posts by jake 26682 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Jun 2007
"That speed is very useful for a dynamic environment such as the web."
But is the code actually done in that time? Or is it still untested, and chock full of bugs? And conversely, what if the code is done in a day or two? Are the devs supposed to sit around for the rest of the time, twiddling their thumbs?
RIM is from rime, meaning frost. FAX is from an Old Norse word meaning mane (as in horse). The rover is named after one of the horses in Norse mythology, Hrímfaxi ... Thus William Morris' Silverfax (from The Well at the World's End), which in turn brought us Tolkien's Shadowfax.
Back in March '94, when we were inspecting The Dish at Stanford after an accident sent it nose-first into the ground, one wag commented that ground-penetrating radar would have to be a lot smaller in order to become useful technology ... I guess he was right. Now it's small enough to send to Mars.
... it always needs a human in the loop to make sure it got it right.
For example, about three years ago my large animal Vet came in with a funny bit of advertising. This guy's in his second career, he became a Vet after 25 years as a DBA working for IBM. He knows I'm a computer guy, and thought I'd be amused by a bit of advertising he had received. It was for a large animal veterinary practice management software package "NOW WITH AI!!!"
The Vet was laughing, and wondered how many times the company in question got Vets inquiring about their new Artificial Insemination package. Without a pause, I dialed the 800 number ... the answer was over 80% of calls! The guy on the other end wasn't amused when I suggested they fire their marketing genius and hire an AI expert ...
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." —Albert Einstein (supposedly)
"Apart from hydrogen, the most common thing in the universe is stupidity." —Harlan Ellison
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life." —Frank Zappa
But can you name another init that is a cancer like systemd?
Consider: systemd takes root in its host, eats massive quantities of resources as it grows, spreads unchecked into areas unrelated to the initial infection, and refuses to die unless physically removed from the system, all the while doing absolutely nothing of benefit to the host. That sounds an awful lot like a cancer to me ...
Over my dead bootloader.
(For those not in the know, there is no way for the systemd cancer to preempt the bootloader unless the operator of the computer in question wants it to happen. The bootloader loads the kernel, which transfers control to the init, which does not have to be the systemd cancer.)
Shirley this is a hole in SecureBoot, not in GRUB2?
Yes, GRUB2 has a bug that makes exploiting the hole somewhat easier ... But any bootloader can easily[0] open the same hole in SecureBoot, so blaming GRUB2 for this seems a trifle misguided.
Besides, if I have access to the hardware I own it anyway (as pointed out in the article).
I also note with interest that there isn't any mention of this at https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ ... and the latest download release is dated July 5th of last year.
I'm probably missing something. Wouldn't be the first time. Anybody have any input? I'm buying.
Note: I don't have a dog in this race ... I don't use GRUB.
[0] "Easy" is subjective, and bootloaders aren't exactly rocket surgery. Bear with me.
Exactly. You pays yer money & takes yer chances.
I've bet wrong on individual stocks more than once, and I've lost my shirt over it a couple times. I never whined about it, though ... instead I learned something. Now I invest in index funds (and a few other odds and ends) and am in it for the long-term. The very long term.
This should get tossed as a nuisance. Should. It probably won't, alas.
To be fair, Greenland is very well situated for links between Russia and Canada, and not much else. Not a lot of traffic between those two, last time I checked.
On the other hand, Guam is pretty much in the middle of a bigish chunk of the Eastern Pacific Ocean, and thus is well situated to handle a large percentage of the world's Internet traffic.
On the gripping hand, follow the money ...
Hell no!
But none of those guys and gals would touch that job with a ten foot pole. Not the way politics is played these days, anyway, No sane, intelligent person would.
So we're stuck with idiotic lunatics, and we've got to pick the best of a bad lot. Is it any wonder that people are ignoring their voting duties in droves?
I hear what you are saying, but I'm not sure I agree. The thing is, he's getting more child-like, petulant, paranoid and in denial with each passing tweet week .... and from here, it seems the pace is accelerating. Worse, quite sadly his wife is no Nancy, not by any stretch of the imagination ... Frankly, I'll be surprised if his handlers manage to hold things together until the election.
We'll see.
... but go ogle had already dropped it as a motto in 2015, when Alphabet decided "Do the right thing" was more appropriate.
But right for whom? They don't say ... My guess is the shareholders. So in their warped, fuzzy little brains it's OK that they are evil now, as long as they are making a profit, right?
Some of us have been shunning go ogle since the year dot ... not paranoid, pragmatic.
As an almost retired engineer, he probably owns his own property ... so one correct answer could be "more than I could ever count in my lifetime" ...
If you want to know how many shed you own, 1 hectare = 1.0e+55 shed (or 1 acre = ~4.047e+54 shed, for the enlightened few who still farm in the English speaking world).
I have a double-handful of unassembled KIM-1 kits. Used to find 'em for 50 cents or a buck at garage/yard sales here in SillyConValley, back in the '90s ... at the time I was looking for old amplifier kits[0], but I usually bought early computer kits anyway.
[0] '50s & '60s, Eico, Dynaco, Scott, Heath, McIntosh ...
Me? Offended? About something that happened ~35 years ago? Hardly. The word you were looking for is "amused".
Incoherent? Are you sure that word means what you think it means? You seem to be having troubles with English words. Perhaps English is your second language? If so, stick around. We can use differing perspectives.
If you have better things to do with you time, why did you take the time to create an ElReg account just to make this post, and one other similar post?
That should be "Not sure what your problem is." The word your is a possessive case of you, used as an attributive adjective, while you're is a contraction meaning "you are".
Hope this helps your ongoing English studies, and that you're having a good day.
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