Come to think of it ...
... WASM is a trademark name of another programming language. I wonder if this potential legal conflict has been taken care of.
I wonder where my T-shirt with WATFOR FOREVER emblazoned on it went ...
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"Also, need it be pointed out why WebAssembly exists as a thing? Look at efforts like PNaCl and asm.js to understand why all browsers have embraced it."
Because it's good at forcing advertising on people who have absolutely no interest in the product being advertised, all the while extracting as much personal information from that person as possible?
"Paramount is the multi-user part, where documents are accessed simultaneously by the users."
Why in all the levels of hell known to the collective psyche of systems administrators world-wide would anyone want a clusterfuck like that for a common office suite? People can't/won't agree to something as simple as when to have a fucking meeting ... do you really think they'll agree on the final format of something as personal as a document or spreadsheet?
Beware of what you ask for ... tinkerers abound.
After several minutes of "Downloading/Compiling...", it failed with "TypeError: Body has already been consumed."
This is on bone-stock Slackware 14.2-stable ... might try it on Slack 15.0 tomorrow, if I can be arsed. Probably not.
Yes, I know what the error message means.
So getting your picture taken while you are in a public place is a privacy violation? If you're THAT paranoid, perhaps you shouldn't leave the house? I mean, my gawd/ess, somebody might recognize you while you are out and about! And THEN what would you do? Get them arrested so they can have their minds appropriately wiped?
There are any number of tourist guidebooks with random street scenes from all over the world. These street scenes are often "holiday pics" taken by the author, and contain pictures of all number of people. I can guarantee that not many of those people, if any, has signed a piece of paper authorizing that use.
It would seem these supposed laws of yours are somewhat ineffectual.
Of all the evil things that alpha-goo does, why people chose to bitch about streetview images (which any untrained chimp could provide at the drop of a camera) is beyond me ...
Take a look at the image right across Downing Street from Number 10 ... it's blurred. WHY? Everybody (even this Yank in the Wilds of California!) knows it's #23, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
The mind absolutely boggles.
"Not the Fourth Amendment, but in the original text that ONLY gave the vote to significant landowners. Hmm..."
We were talking about the Fourth specifically. However, if you insist, the Magna Carta only gave rights to the barons, The US Constitution, as written, did not specify who was and was not allowed to vote. That little detail was left up to the individual states. Various amendments have, over time, limited State powers over who is, and is not, allowed to vote. See the 15th, 19th, 24th and 26th amendments.
"And the whole Three Fifths Compromise, too."
Repealed 'way back in 1868. No doubt you remember this happening vividly.
"What in the Bible were the Founding Fathers avoiding?"
The entire religion thing. But they weren't avoiding it, they were rejecting it outright.
"PS. If the Constitution really matters, why the push to enslave women to their wombs despite a little something called the Thirteenth Amendment?"
It's a control thing. Brainwashing is ugly both in progress and outcome.
Could you please show me exactly where in the Fourth Amendment "the elite" are given any advantage? For your edification, I'll include the 4th in its entirety here:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Note that provisions in both the Bible and the Magna Carta that favo(u)red the elite were two of the things the Founding Fathers were trying to get away from.
Oh, horseshit.
The Fourth Amendment exists for a reason, regardless of what little fifedoms like the FTC have to say on the subject. As SCotUS put it, the fundamental purpose of the amendment as guaranteeing "the privacy, dignity and security of persons against certain arbitrary and invasive acts by officers of the Government, without regard to whether the government actor is investigating crime or performing another function".
"what do I have to hide?!"
Might I point out that you don't have a plate glass exterior wall in your shower, and you do have drapes over the windows in your living room & bedroom ... and hopefully there is a door between your toilet and the rest of your house. What are you hiding? Are you a criminal?
While I'm on the subject, presumably you don't want me to have access to your banking, health and tax information, and you don't want me to be able to access your computer/phone from my computer/phone without your expressed consent, right?
Privacy isn't always covering something illegal.
Actually, those particular locked doors are to keep Bosses from flipping switches ... To keep the rest of the riff-raff out, we put locks on the doors of the server room (data center, whatever). After many decades, here's my list of folks who don't belong in Corporate Data Centers:
Middle management.and higher (applies to management track folks only).
Any corporate bod with a non IT related Doctorate.
Most children of employees (there is nearly always an exception or two).
Tour groups.
Vendors.
Janitorial staff/cleaners.
"There never was a MS-DOS version of 1.4"
I have a copy that is labeled 1.4. It was an OEM version that was built to run machine control software. Near as I can tell, it is essentially identical to DOS 1.25, but with a couple hardware specific hooks in the kernel.
There were many such odd-ball versions. The oldest I have claims to be the 0.96 Pilot build version of IBM PC-DOS on the hand-typed floppy label (internally it reports as version 1.0). I know it's real because it came from the actual pilot build IBM PCs that the company I was working for at the time was asked to help evaluate for IBM.
Likewise, my Bridgeport CNC came with what claims internally to be PC-DOS 3.26b, but to all intents and purposes is actually DOS 3.3 ...
Probably a corrupt font. Windows, for reasons only known to the architects, doesn't display fonts. It executes them. That's right, kiddies, truetype fonts are executables, in the .DLL format. A corrupted font file could (can?) cause a GPF. There were kernel-space exploits based on this.
C'mon, people! MS-DOS wasn't an actual operating system, it was just a glorified program loader. Why on Earth would you expect it to do OS-ish things?
Besides, we all knew what that error message meant in the early '80s ... it's not like DOS was difficult to take apart to see what made it tick.
Remember the late '80s/early '90s so-called "Undocumented DOS" books that were, basically, just re-writes of FAQs from Usenet?
I think you'll find that the California Roll as we know it is Canadian, invented in Vancouver. The California variation was a moving target, morphing around all over the place, until pretty much everybody agreed that Tojo's variation from BC, hand rolled with the rice on the outside, was "the one".
If you look, you'll also find that the "fake crab meat" is also not American, see "Surimi" for more info (besides, real California Rolls use king crab, not surimi).
I think you'll also find that it's not "hideous" at all. Plenty of people who enjoy sushi and sashimi also enjoy a California Roll occasionally.
But thank you for sharing your misconceptions and prejudices.
Driving under the speed limit is legal, UNLESS your are blocking other traffic. Here in California, it's a moving violation. "Impeding the flow of traffic", to be precise. Ticket, court, points on driving record, insurance rates go up, etc.
Even if you are going 5-over and other traffic is stacking up behind you, you can get pulled over for the same thing. Note that in this case the cop could give you a ticket for both impeding and speeding ... but you'll probably only get the former.
Basically, the actual speed of the flow of traffic is not your decision to make, so if you are being a dick and forcing YOUR opinion on speed on everybody behind you, you can get cited.
My brother's father-in-law decided to enforce the local speed limits by driving at the speed he, personally, thought should be the limit (usually 5 to 10 MPH under the actual flow). He finally received so many tickets (and lost in court) that he no longer holds a valid driver's license.
Note that driving over the limit can also get you a ticket ... if you draw attention to yourself, especially. So don't be a dick, and don't drive like an idiot, and chances are you'll never talk to a cop. Simples.
Some wealthy neighborhoods are like that, mostly due to paranoia of strangers. The vast majority of the US wouldn't even notice that he was there ... although I know some curtain-twitchers who would call the cops because he was smoking. Fortunately this kind of twat is rare.
In some neighborhoods, a stranger skulking around in the woods behind the houses would definitely get the cops called out ... although again, that is mostly paranoia raising its ugly head.
It should be noted that the USA as a country does not have any jaywalking laws.
Pedestrian regulations on the wheres, whens and hows of so-called "jaywalking" may, or may not be contained within an individual state or city's traffic laws. Many states have no such law, and said law, if it exists in any given town or city, is usually ignored by all and sundry, including law enforcement.
That would be very unusual ... but then I have known a dude who would fire up his car, hit the garage door opener, drive to the end of his driveway (perhaps 40 feet), roll down his car window to get the mail out of his mailbox, then reverse the procedure.
I pointed out that in his neighborhood the mailman would cheerfully deliver directly to his house, if he liked. He told me to not be so silly, he was perfectly capable of collecting his mail from the box out at the street.
Two weeks later, I noticed his street box was gone ... and there was a mail slot next to his front door.
Note that this is completely abnormal.
No cop in Berkeley (San Francisco, Oakland ...) would dare to pull over a bicycle, much less ticket the operator for a traffic infraction. The nature-nazis would have his/her head on a platter before the top of the hour.
It's called the California Stop. The "California Roll" is sushi invented for people afraid of raw fish. I've never hear the phrase "Hollywood Roll", but I'd imagine it describes a bum stealing from a passed out drunk at the corner of Sunset and N. Highland.