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Glyphosate is a non-selective.
It is not, but grass is significantly more resistant to it naturally. As a result you have idiots walking around with THIS:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Weedol-Lawn-Weedkiller-Gun-Extra/dp/B01N9X5GV5/ref=sr_1_1?s=outdoors&ie=UTF8&qid=1508507042&sr=1-1&keywords=Weedol+Gun
That is Glyphosphate diluted to a point where it kills clover and other "weeds", but leaves grass alive.
I was just 5 seconds short of blowing a fuse and shovelling it up the arse of the "professional lawn doctor" hired by the lady next door which was spraying it EVERYWHERE on her lawn.
There are quite a few other combinations which in addition to the less nasty nasties also have glyphosphate. Weedol is not alone here.
My wife has spent the last 7 years
You are an exception. The lawns you see around are a testament to that. Less than one in 5 has clover which is the clearest indication that it has not been herbicide treated.
It is not that - they are disappearing in the countryside too.
IMHO some of it is pesticides, the rest Roundup and other herbicides. In fact, this is a bigger reason to ban Roundup and friends than anything else.
All herbicide resistant crops - maise, cereals, etc are wind-pollinated. They need no insects. Maise and cereals which are not sprayed with GlyPhospate always have a sprinkle of flowers throughout. Similarly, a lawn which has been left to develop "naturally" always has quite a few daisies and 20-30% clover which ranks towards the top of the bee, butterfly, etc "wishlist".
Unfortunately, both are very rare nowdays and the study proves it. The former is because of the endless industry push, the latter because people are idiots. The "norm" for a lawn is it to be uniform, green, rye grass only and nothing will stop your average suburbia dweller splashing a bottle of glyphosphate a week on it to keep it this way. Quite funny - he expects there to be insects after that. How about actually putting some thought on what do insects like bees actually need?
So now Ubuntu is also insecure by default.
The biggest issue with the goatse.cx also known as Gnome is that 10+ of its key components including and proudly lead by the security ones - the keyring and the gpg/ssh agent will not terminate if you log out.
So if you are having any delusions that your encrypted $HOME directory has been unmounted and is now inaccessible they are that - delusions. Gnome has taken care of that so that it is nicely easily accessible.
Some of the bugs filed on that in Debian and Fedora are 5+ years old. The Gnome self-righteous crowd just does not give a f***. Your security is not our concern.
Compared to that the systemd and desktopization malaise they have shovelled down our throat are relatively mild maladies by the way.
The AMD Exx chips were not that bad. I have two laptops with those - one with the 1.3GHz and one with the 1GHz version. They were tolerable for their ship date. With Linux of course.
They are not really tolerable any more because Firefox separation of web content into a separate sandbox pretty much renders anything sub-1.7GHz and/or sub-4 core unusable.
I may be interested, though I just got a 8+h battery for my old AMD E series typewriter. That used to serve me well during travel, but recent changes in Firefox are killing it. The split between web content and the main browser as well as the additional multi-threading make anything that does not have at least 4 cores (regardless of how slow are they individually) a complete and utter dog's breakfast.
So, yeah, 8h+ of battery life on arm is interesting. Provided I can install a different OS and/or dual boot - I actually need to do real work on it sometimes:) Install means install - without 2 days of rebooting and repenting like Linux on Samsung Chromebooks. I do not even try to fight with my Arm Chromebook any more. Last time I had to spend a whole afternoon to upgrade to Jessie on it (it is installed on the internal flash, something which Debian docs claim as not feasible).
Can someone explain this to me? As I think he's talking shite.
He is not. Basic aerodynamics - the airflow above the wing is faster than the airflow under the wing. There are a few other places where you get similar picture - air intake, etc.
The control problem is related - most modern fighter aircraft rotate a whole "fin" in the tail or a whole canard (not a flap on its end) for control purposes. That immediately creates or alters a subsonic on one side, supersonic on the other side airflow situation. The fact that the aircraft is inherently unstable as all stealth fighters adds insult to injury and you are in a position where you start praying to the mother of the programmer who wrote the flight control software. Or swearing at her.
1. Compute elements. That we got solved - our compute vastly exceeds in capacity your average neuron. A single neuron is not even 4004 - it is less - just a few logic gates.
2. Network density. That is something we have actually failed to figure out. "Creative Wiring" does not cut it. While the I/O bandwidth of a brain is nothing to shout about, the interconnect (especially in some birds) is orders of magnitude above anything we have come up with.
We will not get anywhere near solving the AI problem (not even to mouse brain levels) until we crack that one. Sure, we can use neural nets and other AI style approaches to solve specific problems. Getting an mouse brain to function, however is outside of our abilities. Even if the mouse is not called Algernon.
It seems like equality reigns in political circles
No. It does not. The equality enjoyed by a wife of a member of the old boys network is not the equality enjoyed by the rest of the 50% population. As you know, all animals are created equal, but some are more equal than the others.
LWN Article:
There is a need to find out what his claims are, but there are plenty of targets for the basic claims (no source and no offer); in any case, over time, McHardy has moved away from the more exotic claims. Some entities that use chips from manufacturers that do not comply with the licenses, though, are stuck. They cannot comply with the license themselves. It is important to stop all of this activity with McHardy, Radcliffe said, if he continues to benefit, it will attract others.
Sorry, no bonus. It is part of basic due diligence that what you put into your product is not stolen, illegal or counterfeit. For open source stuff this includes checking all components and their source.
I had to do that in two companies for products I built.
The fact that the manufacturer "has not shipped it" as far as the court is concerned is not far off from "dog ate my homework". Example of what it actually is: a manufacturer is shipping you half assembled PCs with counterfeit Windows on them. You add a monitor, a keyboard, a badge with your name and sell it. Do you think that Microsoft lawyers will give you any quarter? F*** no. You will be digging yourself out of restitution debt for the rest of your life (and may even end up in jail in some jurisdictions). So why on earth do we have these guys, who are supposedly lawyers trying to present us that this is quite kosher? It never was and it never will be.
for all two of them,
You know another one? Woah, that's amazing.
Frankly, applause, do it again, do it more and again. And again.
Licenses are there to be complied with. If you violate the license you have no right to sell or distribute your stuff. There is bugger all difference is that a commercial or a copyleft license. In fact, copyleft is worse as you do not have a single point of contact.
Is it copyright or license terms violation?
GPL 2.0 modified (as in the kernel) violation. Most companies that violate GPL do that knowingly and on purpose, so I really do not see the benefit of the new grace clause. They will not comply with it anyway so it changes very little.
To stop people using the entire Linux kernel (and user space code that is not conveniently portable to something else) until he says otherwise.
Nope, it does not. He already licensed it under GPL, end of story.
However, the law allows him to nuke pretty much any company which has violated the GPL with a megaton warhead. I am all for what he does. We need more of that.
As far as the companies not complying, most who do not comply do so quite deliberately as they see GPL compliance as an extra expense, not an essential requirement (do not even get me started about Arm SoC and device manufacturers releasing their kernel sources).
should have tried a better OS, with better power management
The OS does not help. It is with ANY OS.
The power management on a Razzie is under control of the binary firmware. It is in the depth the 2MB+ of binary blob by Broadcom (so much for any claims of this SoC being open source - as most BCOM stuff actually). You can set max frequency only on boot - it is in the boot config. The SoC depending on the load oscillates between the max and 1/2 of the max which is the "cool" mode.
This retarded design decision which is 100% inside the very closed and binary part of Raspberry Pi cannot be fixed by ANY OS. At all. It is in the SoC's firmware which is the same for all OS
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If Linux CPU frequency stats are to be believed, it starts spending a significant amount at the higher frequency at 20% CPU load on _ONE_ core and is pretty much constantly at the higher frequency from 50% onwards. From there on there is practically no temperature difference as measured by the internal sensors can load it to 400% (all 4 cores).
The standard heatsink kit you can get from Adafruit drops the temperature by a couple of degrees, but nowhere near enough to keep the SoC stable under high load. If your ambient temperature is lets say over 25 it dies reproducibly with or without the heatsinks (so the thermal throttle does not work either). Compared to that, I have had Bananas survive under load from -20 to +45 ambient.
I tried using Pi model 3 as a CCTV controller for my summer house. The Model 3 proved completely unusable due to heat issues and Model 2/2+ simply did not have the grunt. Same for a couple of other projects like a DIY time capsule - it overheated when reading/writing from an encrypted HDD every time.
The issue with the Model 3 is two-fold. It runs very hot at the top frequency and has only two frequencies at any given time with a very long transition time. I think (not sure, but it looks like that) it also transitions the whole CPU, not just one core like all well behaved SoCs if it gets loaded. As a result even if the Pi looks moderately loaded (loadavg ~ 40) it spends 95% at the higher frequency.
I tried downclocking it, heatsinks, etc - does not help. It just runs way too hot. End of the day, I replaced all Pis which were doing CPU or USB intensive stuff with Bananas and called it a day. While the Banana has issues as well, heat and USB are not one of them
Life just could not get any better...
The only way the number of mobile devices out there can be supported in a non-CGNAT setting is if they are all v6-ed.
Looking at the calendar: Friday 13th was last week and we survived (if we do not count 250 quid worth of various things breaking on that day in the house). It is not today.
although most Airlines do not fly a mixed fleet,
Bombardier + Airbus mix is what a lot of large Eu carriers want.
Lufthanza is already doing that, Iberia is looking at that too as their smaller aircraft are approaching their use by date. There are a few others. It makes sense - run Bombardier current A series and C series on routes (and days) when there is light load, use Airbus 320 and 321 for the busier short-haul routes (and days).
It also entrenches the principle that the Russian legal system isn't competent.
Correct - it is not the competence you are looking for. Courts of first instance in Russian (and for that matter most Napoleonic law) systems follow the law to the letter. A similar case in any Eu country would have had a similar trajectory.
The law says "fine for this" and they apply it. They do not deal with the fact that the law contradicts the constitution - that is matter for the high court and constitutional court. It is not dissimilar to the UK where magistrate courts do not set precedent while a jury one does.
This is different from the customary USA constitutional legalfest where a village court can discuss the first, second, etc amendments taking "village court decisions".
The more interesting bit is that Russia actually has privacy of all communications as a constitutional right. That is something we can only aspire to (even if it is just on paper and not backed up by reality).
I have their latest XA1 and frankly which retails for around 200 quid and I frankly do not see why I should bother going further up. It is ridiculously fast by droid standards, camera is excellent and it just works (TM).
In fact, they have consistently delivered working reliable and very well built stuff since ~ SP with the exception of some idiocies in the E series - E3, 4 and 5. If you ask anyone with an M Aqua for example if they will change their phone the answer would be: "Err... Why?"
So while the XZ1 is probably excellent, the question is "Why oh, why?". There is very little differentiators between the Sony mid-range and their top of the range.
Putting the fanboi icon - while I am not a fan of their other gear (I will never buy a Sony TV), the android based kit - their car stereos from ~ 2012 onwards and their phones are excellent. Credit where credit due.
And that knowledge helped US Airways flight 1549 exactly how ?
It did not take out the entire plane. Engines died, but the plane remained structurally sound and capable of gliding. The rest was sheer luck - having an experienced glider pilot on the controls (*).
So far most pilots have failed to perform the water landing on the Hudson on a simulator.
It was from the days before it was offloaded to Toyota. In addition to everything, it now uses a different ECU and different transmitters - the Toyota ones. So, the "current" Subaru does not have the relationship with the manufacturers of the parts used in the old ECU and keyfobs to start off with.
Things can definitely go awry with any SCM, but for truly bewildering situations you need git.
Concur. Though one of the reasons for this is not git as such, but the way a lot of projects work with it. If you really want a bewildering situation, you need git, gerrit and git-review.
The only reason Apple is planning a data centre in Ireland
I suggest you brush up on:
1. Cable route georgaphy
2. Real estate costs.
3. Energy costs
4. Labor costs and availability of qualified labor
5. Additional logistics costs from lack of language barrier
6. Education level of the population and quality of technical education.
It is the best place to put a cloud datacenter to serve Europe at present - significantly cheaper real estate than most of Western Europe, plenty of relatively cheap energy from reneweables, relatively low cooling costs due to ambient temperature and lots of water around to run through the chillers. Add to that more than enough fat pipework to the rest of Europe and the picture is complete.
While putting HQ in Ireland is a tax issue, putting engineering facilities in it is simply an acknowledgement of the fact that it makes economic sense. That is why it is in Galloway in the middle of f*** nowhere and not in let's say Wicklow by the way.
After all even the 2nd Amendment was written when weapon technology
Nothing wrong with the second amendment EXACTLY as it is phrased.
It says "Right To Bare Arms". I am all for that (including in countries which have presently prohibited anything upto and including the kitchen knife).
It says nothing about the right to own fecking arsenals. That is the problem. Owning an arsenal sufficient to arm a small private militia is not a right enshrined anywhere in the US constitution. Show me how the f*** can you bare 35 automatic weapons at the same time. Show me how you can even lift them so you can bare them.
You are right. He is wrong. There have always been many situations where some kind of evidence is totally impervious to detection.
That one too. To put it bluntly, the police (and the DA) win ONLY if the criminal has made a mistake. Impervious methods for the concealment and destruction of evidence have been known for 20k+ years.
Sometimes, what is not a mistake today becomes a mistake as new technology is discovered, but that is an exception which proves the rule which is that "To err is human".
The good DA should concentrate on cracking cases traditionally by looking where did the suspect make a mistake (humans always do), instead of wasting all of his energy on the impossible.
I was bullied before Facebook and Google were a thing.
Same here. Even have a couple of scars on my face from those days.
This is exactly why my kids can do half an adult Iron Man by the age of 10, are proficient in at least two martial arts, do at least one endurance/power sport and can remove the head of anyone who tries to bully and make it look like self-defence. I remember 3 years ago, wife was shocked when she had to pick up junior who had a damaged knee and could not cycle from school. "They are ... picking on him... But they are doing it from 10m+ away, nobody dares come closer". My sole reaction was: "Good, need to tell him to keep it up".
In any case, as a result all the school meatheads stay away from them. As an additional side effect, they miss only a day or so of school once in a few years.
I found this significantly easier than complaining and promoting suggestions about fining parents.
You do not get it.
Think of the Taleban leader, proudly spouting a huge ungainly beard leading his new bride for their first night and finding out that she is the village bicycle.
Facebook, Google and for that matter the Internet itself have long been promoted (and actively used) to push "democracy" (actually the political powers USA finds more suitable) in Russia and other countries USA considers its enemies. The opposition there has been given resources, consulting and assistance so it can use them.
Suddenly, what was supposed to be one of of our exclusive tools in promotion of havoc in other countries is being used to promote havoc in the West itself. Of course there will be a "Democracy in danger" moment. This was not supposed to happen.
There is a queue at each and every AV vendor.
Even if they are not operating in a cosy relationship with their country 3 letters, they have the level of access and the capacity for ex-filtration which is usually not allowed even to the OS itself.
If Evgeny has indeed been pwned, that means that every other vendor has been pwned too (most likely several times).
when the two major countries with it codified into their laws that all software sold within their borders
This applies only to foreign software. Indigenous suppliers do not need to do that if memory serves me right. Neither in Russia, nor in China.
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