TFA has no detail at all explaining the headline. There's not even any stated connection between the headline and the interviewee Brad Keywell and Saudi Arabian law. AFAICT, the purpose of the piece is to promote him and his company with a clickbait headline.
The Department of Justice has sentenced a Russian "superhacker" to 27 years in prison
WTF? Since when is the Executive Branch doing the sentencing?!
In Trump's America, the executive justices you! Or maybe the justice executes you.
"Let me put it this way: if this software is such an obvious 'polished turd', why haven't *you* coded up a replacement?"
systemd *is* the replacement. And all these years later, I still without any hesitation prefer the thing it replaced...which I still use.
You prefer Upstart? That's what systemd replaced on both Red Hat distributions and Ubuntu.
Wayland is on its way to being mainstream. Canonical switched to developing their alternative, Mir, after initially supporting Wayland. Unity was Canonical's alternative to the more mainstream GNOME 3. Canonical just announced they'll be moving from Unity to GNOME 3. BTW, the Ubuntu GNOME is how I've been installing Ubuntu for quite a few years since I never cared for Unity. Upstart was a project that started at Canonical and became mainstream for several years. Even Red Hat used upstart until they replaced it with systemd, which subsequently become mainstream. Canonical has been using systemd for a while now. Canonical sometimes works well with others and sometimes doesn't and they're not the only company that tries to throw their weight around.
You have failed at reading comprehension like several others who replied to my post. Read it again and you will find that I did not say that there is no such thing as an assembly language.
If x86 assembly and ARM assembly are the same language, JavaScript is the same language as C because it uses curly brackets and semicolons. You are a hilarious troll.
You're right, in a pedantic sort of way. It's an easily human readable translation of machine code. But in a practical sort of way, you can program in it, thus it can be considered a "language".
You have completely missed the point. I didn't says that there is no assembly language, but that there is not a single language called "Assembly." Practically, x86 assembly language is completely different from ARM assembly language. It makes no more sense to talk about "Assembly" as a single language than to talk about "Natural Language" as a single language. Someone who speaks Mandarin cannot communicate with someone who speaks Italian just because those are both natural languages.
"Assembly" is not a programming language. Rather, there is at least one "assembly language" for each CPU instruction set. More importantly, compilers rarely produce any kind of assembly language any more, though there are various types of intermediate representations used by interpreters and compilers. Every CPU executes instructions in a machine language. There are several such languages in common use, most importantly those understood by the x86 and ARM families.
Regardless of the politics, they ARE people. We should not dehumanize them. While the actions of North Korea may puzzle us, it would be better understood once one realizes that THEY lost over 500,000 fighting us in the 1950s, which pales in comparison to what is happening in Syria right now.
I would hope there can be peace between US and THEM
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Who dehumanized whom? Many Koreans, Americans and people of other nationalities died in the war that paused over six decades ago. It was a terrible war that resulted in a stalemate in which nobody ended up looking good. The Soviets and Chinese supported one brutal dictatorship and the US/UN supported another. However, the South Koreans, Americans and everyone else has moved on. The South Koreans have thrown off their dictators and even tried to build economic ties with the North. What deserves ridicule is the perpetually provocative stance of the North Korean government, calculated to get attention and more appeasement deals. Ridiculing ludicrous claims about targeting the White House does not dehumanize the North Korean people who can't question anything they're told whether they want to or not.
He is not actually going to build that wall on the Mexican border, and whatnot.
Trump promises crazy things he couldn't possibly deliver just like any other candidate. He just doesn't give a shit about sounding plausible.
Is there anything about Javascript that isn't shitty and broken? Can we please just take this language behind the barn, shoot it and move on with our lives?
As terrible as the language called "Javascript" may be, this isn't an example of that. It's an example of a poor implementation of one standard library function in one implementation of the language. It seems the problem was fairly easily fixed. Javascript code doesn't need to be changed to use the better PRNG so it would be very foolish to abandon Javascript just because of the past poor PRNG.
And apparently have the same level of understanding of our Constitution...
Unfortunately, they probably understand the Constitution very well: well enough to circumvent it.
Is somewhat different from clearing browser cache.
If the videos came from a website, it's not that different. TFA isn't clear on the original source of the videos.
So you are comparing a complete distribution with something like LiteOS that is only supposed to support an IoT?
Linux itself is much larger than 10KiB. Therefore, any OS using it must be bigger than 10KiB.
You also seem to be unaware that floppy disks vary hugely in size. Common sizes on PC hardware varied from 360 KiB up to 1.44MiB. Obviously, one would need three of the former to hold as much as one of the latter. Perhaps you're trying to imply that what I said was incorrect.
Oh, you poor, poor pedant. (3*360KiB)!=1.44MiB.
If you can't get your arithmetic right, how are we to believe anything else you have to say?
Yeah, I guess you'd need four, reinforcing my main point further.
Friction is a drag.
