Posts by DropBear 4735 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Mar 2013
"...or herded off to internment camps like the Japanese-Americans..."
I initially misread that as "internet camps", and for a tiny fraction of a second my mind ran away with that, trying to imagine what marvellously wondrous places of whimsy those might be; then the built-in auto-correct hit, and I was rather disappointed...
No. Not everyone's eyes. Some will consider the pilot may or may not just have taken the piss, "get off my lawn" style, or purely on principle, "a butterfly in China is in theory a hurricane hazard for Americans" style. Sure, flying that thing that high was not a good idea, but people who get others convicted based on their "impressions" get no love from me. When he comes back with a drone-shaped hole in his chopper that he didn't himself cause, I'll reconsider.
probably got a generator just like those ones in the torches you shake up and down
But that makes no sense - that would logically go into the male, while it's presumably the female who has the impla.... waaaait. Ooooooh, clever! It needs to be... plugged in periodically to recharge, huh?!?
...they love me too much to vent their feelings.
Friendly advice - I wouldn't count on that if I were you. Instead, contemplate the humiliating prospect of repeatedly having to go ask for help someone you know is getting exasperated by your inability to grasp even the most basic concepts - the feeling of having no choice but to depend on someone who'd rather be anywhere else (and you both know it). Now go ahead, downvote away...
Glad it worked for you but no, it doesn't work at all for some folks, no matter what and how many times you try to explain to them, from now to the end of times. When IT is involved, words just pass them by, the amount of information entering their brains is ZERO, they simply shut all of it out. It's the exact "this thing?" / mouse problem described in the article, applied to anything you might attempt to explain.
"The LibReSSL project is ongoing but there have been no updates so far, and OpenSSL might still have more resources to throw at a clean-up effort"
That may well be true, but the thing is I care a lot more about attitude than resources - and since I also happen to believe attitude doesn't really change, I'm not interested in what OpenSSL might want to do as damage control thinly disguised as 'having seen the light'.
I have no idea what Google's actual plans for their driverless cars are, but I really don't see what the ability to drive autonomously has to do with the form of ownership of a car. Driverless cabs and a personal car that can take me home all by itself after I had a few beers are two equally legitimate but totally different things - I just happen to care not at all for the former, while I would be quite interested in the latter.
"The words of Spock - the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one, or the few - have some merit but it all depends on how they are applied."
Careful there. That's only a Planck lenght away from things like "the need of the society as a whole to feel safe outweighs the right of an alleged criminal to be judged fairly, so if we're not sure, we should just lock him up to be on the safe side" - after all, the 'weight' would surely be on the side of the mases...
Me, I'll just stick to the "the needs of no matter how many can never outweigh the rights of even the single one" version. Sorry, Spock.
Reading this I did perform a few obligatory 'Calloh Callay' chortles, but since I'm a rather skeptical bastard, they went straight into a well-sealed bottle, to be released only upon actual commercial availability (about the same time one of those oft-announced revolutionary super-batteries and/or unbreakable-and-actually-flexible LCDs finally surfaces too, no doubt).
...even way before the days of Internet I could never understand what is the point of restricting examination to memorised-only "knowledge". In the real world, there is nothing preventing anyone getting their hands on whatever support material they deem helpful in order to achieve what they need to - and you better believe no amount of literature would help anyway in a finite amount of time if one is well and truly unacquainted with the subject at hand. Not to mention there's not a shred to be learned in school of the actually important stuff that one only gets to learn later, the hard way.
Mine is the one with the Pink Floyd CD in the pocket...
Oh, I see - so "Ye shall conform to 'Russian values' not because ye judge them worthy of being kept alive and passed on, but because if ye don't then it's 'we don't take kindly to your types around here' for you"? What a convincing argument, indeed. Shall we return to smuggling in Rolling Stones vinyls, Levi's blue jeans and Chicklets bubble gum too then...?
Paypal is playing fast and loose with other people's money way, way, WAY too much lately for my taste. They apparently decided they are the absolute and infallible moral arbiter of What You Are Allowed To Pay For who needs to answer to no one whatsoever. I can only hope one day they get all the pitch-black Karma they deserve in full, but I'm not going to hold my breath...
Of course Einstein was wrong - this whole "photon" malarkey will soon go the way of the Aether, once people finally realize the whole process is about dark being sucked instead of light being emitted...
"...has the ability to put nuclear warheads wherever it wants on this Earth, and China is not going to push India around"
I'm wondering about the practicality of such a claim given that unless India would want to be known as the one deploying nukes first, it might have a hard time resisting a state that could well afford to overwhelm it with sheer numbers in a classical-weapons-only type campaign...
Put the tiger into the bottle(*) and don't let him out before he's done.
Well, there's always an easy way and a hard way. In particular, a topologists would have no problem pointing out that given a closed bottle, the "inside" and "outside" distinctions are arbitrary therefore you only need to climb into a suitable one to have not one, but all the tigers in the world pee "in" a bottle. Involve a Klein bottle and things get even easier...
It's going to be a very definitive way of proving it has been disarmed. Either that, or the host nation has a nice new shiny suspiciously circular lake in it.
I'm no expert, but I've been having the distinct impression that given the necessarily sub-critical state of the fissile material of a non-exploding warhead, the only way to generate enough neutrons to trigger it would be the real deal, ie. detonating another warhead right next to it. If that's true, the "zero-knowledge" moniker becomes particularly fitting, since you'd get a circular lake either way, and not even find out if the initial warhead was really 'live' or not...
Perhaps 'commonly encountered unknowns' would be a more precise term, but semantics aside, are you telling me you've never heard of supply chain delay-, equipment breakdown- or weather-induced setbacks that can hardly be exhaustively foretold but can reasonably be expected to occur...?
It is grammatically incorrect, but not illiterate
Oh but yes, yes it is. As in uneducated. "Illiterate", from the Oxford Dictionary:
1 Unable to read or write;
1.1 Ignorant in a particular subject or activity;
1.2 (Of a piece of writing) showing a lack of education; badly written;
Needs a release switch. Then it would drop the package silently from above.
yup, and if the operators have any sense of humour, they should clearly label the craft Raisin Bomber...
Driving, a privilege?!? Suuuuure, mate. Maybe someone should go tell mr. Bradbury too...
'Look at the history, the merchants and the people were too contained by the walls and simply bypassed them, making them obsolete, so now they are simply tourist attractions.'
Exactly. What security experts constantly seem to fail to realize is that perfect security at the cost of usability is of less than ZERO value. FIRST is has to work, and only THEN it should be secure as possible - the very reason people tend to mindlessly click "yes"/"next"/"continue"/whatever is that the priority number one is the goal they're after, and that MUST HAPPEN at any cost, malware and viruses be damned. Unless and until experts understand this (and find a way around it!), there can be no effective security for the masses.
I'm not sure that's always feasible advice. On my windows box, yup, I'm always admin - it might not be wise, but I do WAY too much tomfoolery with the system in general - every single day - to be logged in as anything else. On the Linux box, fine, I'm J. Random User - with the result that literally my every third command is "sudo !!". So no, sorry - I honestly don't think this is a workable approach for someone still legitimately using a desktop instead of a bloody tablet...
That's a no go, I'm afraid. The thing many people fail to realize that battery-less field-powered NFC tags need to be either stupidly close to the source of the field (which is why cards generally need to be swiped within 4-5 cm of a reader) or a stupidly large antenna (we're talking square feet of antenna just to read the tag in your shirt-pocket from straight over-head). That makes any sort of locating unfeasible, full stop. Now, obviously, once you power your tag so it doesn't have to rely on the incoming field, it's all fair game - but then you can kiss goodbye to your 'battery-less' status.
You are demonstrating a disappointing lack of ambition - do consider that at some point both the Death Star itself (open sourced, no less!) and the X-wing fighters to match were being pitched for funding (what's a measly 20 meeeeeelion pounds between loyal imperialist...?). Seriously - look it up. It's still there.
Come on, you can do better than some magic beans, shirley?
The way they can absolve all responsibility from this obvious fraud that they are helping to generate half a million dollars (minus the healthy Kickstarter commission of course) is just plain wrong.
Well, um, yes. Written policies aside, Kickstarter's actual stance in the real world seems to be "we're quite happy to cash in commissions from any scam no matter how obvious (even to the village idiot) it might be, unless someone notices and raises a serious amount of stink so excrement starts hitting the fan, in which case we'll eventually pull the project while trying to look as righteously concerned as we can".
I'm not sure they could do much more than they offer (nobody could arbitrate without error every single project), but their reluctance to act even in the most suspicious cases is certainly not... enhancing their public image.
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