Posts by bombastic bob

Re: About the only thing that Putin

I've been calling them 'FaeceBan' for a while. 'FecallBan' would be equally appropriate

Re: 5 Year Review

You make too much sense. Hence, the downvotes.

Have an UP from ME

Re: are unregulated and high-risk

or in the Cayman Islands

Re: Down with foreigners!

as much as I understand the anger towards "poaching" employees, wouldn't it just be "supply and demand" at work? If you are offered higher salary, how loyal are you expected to be to work for your current employer FOREVER? (or at least tell your employer you received the offer and negotiate a raise or at least expect to have to take the new offer in case they can not afford it...)

Then there's the whole "supporting the CCP" thing that might be a DIS-incentive... (it would be for ME)

(oh and I get the snark, yeah)

Re: Automated Testing

ack on the "it becomes normal". Though it's great to have an automatic test suite ready to spot regressions and obvious flaws, how practical would it be to add tests for Spectre-like vulnerabilities?

I'm also a bit curious as to how such things COULD be exploited, so long as you're not running client-side scripting or other code (NOT hosted on your own system) that might leverage it...

Re: I'm skeptical of any pandemic era CO2 emission reduction

I'm skeptical about ANYTHING that is labeled "carbon" and "emission" IN THE SAME SENTENCE becauase ANYBODY with a BRAIN *REALIZES* that the entire "man made global climate change" thing is a FREAKING HOAX since Carbon Dioxide is NOT ONLY EXHALED by EVERYONE, it is at EQUILIBRIUM in the atmosphere between RAINING, PLANTS, and ABSORPTION by BODIES OF WATER (which this planet is FLOODED with).

a) carbon dioxide is a TERRIBLE "greenhouse gas". The absorption spectrum for infrared energy (something that WOULD make it a greenhouse gas) is VIRTUALLY TRANSPARENT for energies that correspond to temperatures ACTUALLY FOUND ON EARTH

b) CO2 is 0.04 percent of the atmosphere, whereas WATER can be as high as 1%, sometimes MORE. Not only that, but WATER has a VERY HIGH absorption spectrum for absorbing infrared energy for temperatures actually found on earth. This is why clouds make a HUGE difference in how warm or cool it is.

c) even though WATER has (by my estimation) 100 times the effect of CO2 on atmospheric absorption of infrared energies that correspond to black body radiation [something that DOES affect earth's temperature], NOBODY! IS! TRYING! TO! CONTROL! WATER!!!

d) The "solutions" proposed by ACTIVISTS over this claimed "man made global climate change" thing ALWAYS! SEEM! TO! AFFECT! OUR! FREEDOM!!!

Aside from these obvious truths, why is a 1 degree claimed potential change in world temperatures SUCH A CRISIS that WE MUST CHANGE (by becoming LESS FREE) over it???

Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. And THIS is why the west appears so WEAK to TYRANTS like Vlad the Putinator, ENCOURAGING him to use OIL to CONTROL US because (due to "climate change") we choose NOT to drill for it OURSELVES, "feeeling" as if this makes us morally superior or some OTHER such IDIOCY, encouraging HIM to CONTROL US over this kind of IDIOTIC CRAP, and capriciously ATTACK HIS NEIGHBORS as if it's 1822, because WE in the WEST are OBSESSED with STUPIDITY AND NON-SCIENCE instead of telling HIM to @#$% THE HELL OFF and producing our OWN OIL and BEING PROSPEROUS *IN* *HIS* *FACE* and RENDERING TYRANTS like PUTIN into the MEANINGLESS NOBODIES that they REALLY ARE. But NooOOOoo... we have to behave like BRAINLESS SHEEPLE and go *Ba-a-a-a-a* when the so-called "SCIENTISTS" whine about an *UNPROVEN* *THEORY* that *RUINS* *OUR* *PROSPERITY* *AND* *FREEDOM* when we allegedly "fix" a NON-PROBLEM like "man made climate change". What *FOOLS* our leaders must be!!! How *WEAK* we must appear to our ENEMIES!!!

</rant>

Re: Ludicrous

well if it had fuel cells in addition to batteries, maybe they could get some extra power. Batteries are ok but speed and distance require something with better energy density. But combine them together (In My Bombastic Opinion) and you'd do much better than a slow moving golf cart.

Another possible fuel might be Otto Fuel which requires no air, sort of a self-combusting liquid material. The combustion products are toxic but in a vacuum that would not matter much. The upside is that you could use a regular piston type engine (the ones in torpedos are a bit like a pneumatic impact wrench) and similar design and fuel means lower development cost. But hey, "practicality" is not always the way things work with NASA contracts...

Re: "The idea, it seems, has never really gone away"

Who wants to waste their life getting familiar with Linux?

5 minutes is hardly an entire life...

(see my earlier post - that is about how long it took a Vista-using "content consumer" of average intelligence to re-familiarize with Linux, particularly Devuan running Mate with TraditionalOk appearance)

Compare THAT to the time *WASTED* to re-figure-out how to be PRODUCTIVE using whatever "change for the sake of change": that was SHAT onto your computer via a FORCED UPDATE from Redmond... or even just to GET YOUR SETTINGS BACK THE WAY YOU HAD THEM. (yeah THAT "never happened" right???)

Re: "Z" for zombies

why don't they use "Let's Encrypt" like all of the budget ISPs and individuals do...

(If "Let's Encrypt" is getting political then they defeat the purpose of their existence)

[And this issue is yet another example of harming the wrong people with the sanctions, which I would support 100% if they are actually effective in putting an end to Vlad the Putinator's worldwide conquest]

Re: Open Source Software

Point: donating to open source can include bug fixes and other submissions.

Re: It's over

you seem to be perfectly describing the sort of people who are anti-woke.

You seem to be onto something. It's the ACTIVISM and the Alinsky tactics, In My Bombastic Opinion...

(leading to: see icon)

Re: FUD - Fear, uncertainty and doubt

still might be a good time to do a backup (if you do not do them often enough). air-gapped USB external drive is a good start.

Re: Or

Putin is engaging in a war of TERROR. Apparently, he thinks like Stalin.

So he bombs civilians and maternity hospitals.

It reminds me a bit of this video clip from 'Stargate SG-1'

(yeah there ARE some additional implications here)

Re: All hands on deck!

(I have to wonder if MY details were ever disclosed...)

A term for insecurely using/disclosing unsanitized real data for testing things...

a) Deja Fu

b) Dumpster-Data

c) Pre-owned info (or maybe Pre-pwned)

d) Data Slutting (not to be confused with Data Whoring)

e) Barf-bagging

eh, maybe Data Slutting works the best.

Re: "shut down"

some of that depends on the design. Usually in an emergency they would drop all control rods to the bottom and then inject a boron-rich "poison" into the coolant (typically this is part of how power levels are controlled anyway), sufficient to keep the thing from re-starting under any circumstance. Then, since civilian reactors (with lower enrichment) typicall have positive temp coefficients, as long as decay heat is removed criticality will never be reached (or if a lack of heat removal melts the core, for that matter). This can typically be done by bleeding steam if nothing else is available. For "reasons" if worse things happen (like overpressure, uncovered core, etc.) the physics would (or maybe 'should') not support criticality.

So once the reactor is poisoned and any emergency cooling systems have been enabled, it would remain shut down. It could melt, but it wouldn't restart (unless the design really really sucked).

Fukushima (in part) was similar to the worst case scenario. The reactors shut down but decay heat apparently caused meltdowns and Zr-water reactions (which produces hydrogen gas bubbles inside the core and whatnot), but as far as I know they did not regain criticality. The emergency shutdowns apparently prevented an uncontrolled restart but the lack of electricity did nothing to remove decay heat. And so, "it happened".

Still, horrible disaster averted in Ukraine.

Re: Smart guys in Russia

In some ways I actually pity the Russian soldiers. They're typically conscripts, are being ordered to their death and to kill civilians by a megalomaniac that apparently wants to BRING BACK THE SOVIET UNION, and when they realize they have been lied to (the Ukranians HATE them and are not thankful at ALL for their presence) their morale is extremely LOW.

Ideally I'd like to see them all lay down their arms and voluntarily walk into the custody of Ukrainian authorities as P.O.W.s but most likely they have family in Russia that Putin might actually cause to "get disappeared", unless they do what they're told.

Just thought I'd point that out.

Re: So....

they should only ban the RETURN flights back INTO Russia... (allowing people to escape)

(Just a thought)

not like anyone has enough room for the entire nation to escape as refugees, but still...

Re: Depends a lot on how you work

things like IRC and Slack help mitigate this

Re: Tomboy

ACK. It was a SEETHING MOMENT of HIDEOUS from my perspective... (fortunately got corrected once the flames subsided, though it took WAY longer than I would have preferred)

The E.T.s are gonna be FURIOUS, chucking space junk at them!

Re: So what happens now?

driver certs: a Charlie Foxtrot "Circular Fire Drill" by any other name

the whole "driver signing" system needs to be DUMPED. no more automaticaly trusting kernel drivers just because they're "signed". I bet this whole "driver signing" nonsensical CRAP has CREATED more problems than it EVAR solved (especially for small time independent developers and OPEN SOURCE in general, having to "pay the toll" to ship or even COMPILE a driver binary from source - noting that for video drivers, you do not have many options available to you OTHER than driver signing)

(And, THiS is just one example of why - think 'stolen keys to a back door' and you're opn the right track)

(thankfully this driver signing fiasco is NOT on my FreeBSD or Linux desktops)

Re: Not just governmental targets

Fail2ban (and things like it) help with that (but you probably knew already and may be using it). THAT and the obvious config things which no doubt you have already done. (or you could just turn it off which apparently you did but sometimes you need ssh access for various reasons)

Still worth a mention.

(I am seeing a bit more ativity as well, but nothing out of the ordinary, really)

I've just seen some of this kind of activity coming from Tor exit points, though... some of the Fail2ban mails on 3/1, also showed activity that was a bit higher [as well as at least one Tor exit point being used], which suggests it may not be just compromised boxen hitting the world (the usual activity) but possibly someone with actual intent. This one in particular tried twice (2 different days) to log in as 'root' but of course root logins are just plain disabled (and as it is FreeBSD, you have to first su to a 'wheel' group user from a valid login before you can su to 'root' but I have no authorized logins for wheel group users either, so that means 2 hoops to jump through and I do not make it easy).

I am considering making a chart of Fail2ban bans to indicate activity...