Comment Re: SystemD added? (Score 1) 494
It's a moving target, so you can know what systemd wants this month but it's not the same six months later.
PERHAPS someone could define what was broken so badly in init that the whole lot was replaced. I so dearly would like to know.
Apparently not enough of linux userspace had Lennart's name on it.
It's being widely adopted because he's convinced a few gnome people to make their stuff rely on it and the gnome stuff is popular.
I really don't know what RedHat was thinking when they put someone who thought it would be a nice joke to call a frequently running process "rtkit" in a position of responsibility.
So basically you'd be streaming your criminal activity on YouTube all the time? Because that would be stupid.
Sometimes deliberate jokes are deliberately stupid.
To see the problem, imagine 2 wormholes, A and B, each with widely separated endpoints. In my reference frame, the endpoints A1 and A2 are stationary - I'm standing by A1 and can send a message instantly to A2. The endpoints B1 and B2 are stationary relative to one another, but are moving close to c relative to A. In B's reference frame, my message goes back in time.
Sounds like adding vectors while neglecting Lorentz. When you travel thru such a wormhole you gain only incidental mass and potential energy as observed by an external frame stationary to wormhole, you don't see the universe contracting to a point, your observers don't see your mass increasing or your clock slowing. No observer ever gets to see your mass/energy dwarfing the rest of the universes and there isn't any backwards time travel. You can't add or subtract the apparent external velocity of messages thru wormhole with the differential velocity of another wormhole whizzing by.
A simpler example: you can get a straightforward time machine simply by accelerating one end of a wormhole up to relativistic speed for a few years, and then bringing it back, parking it at rest near the other end. Like the twin who visits a distant star and returns, one end will be "younger" than the other. Now the wormhole moves you back (or forward) in time by a few years when you traverse it.
I agree that one end will be younger but later after they are parked traveling through it won't send you backward in time and you'll only go as forward in time as it actually takes the travel through.
To violate ordering of cause and effect you need to actually exceed C not just *appear* to exceed it.
If I were to magically snap my fingers and magically materialize between "earth" and "earth2" 100 light years away without having propagated thru space I am free to make whatever measurements I want between either planets and leak all the information I can find and at no point will any observer in any frame be able to detect an inversion of cause and effect.
At least none that can be seen. You cannot demand keys for something you don't know of. If there's a container with a "please enter pass phrase" lock on top of it, it begs for a key.
Unused space on your hard drive that looks like it contains old data from before you last partitioned, though...
And if you can't rip it at the HDMI connector, somebody will crack open the shell of the monitor and tap in to the ribbon cable attacked to the LCD screen itself.
Folks like you said that about digital music, too. And yet, pretty much all music is sold without DRM these days.
They're more worried about you buying the Big Hero 6 DVD and ripping it so your neighbor's kid can watch it on his tablet, thus causing the neighbor to not buy a DVD he wasn't going to buy anyway. It's still stupid, but not as stupid as what you propose.
It won't even do that. As DVDs shows, when the keys are built in to the hardware, they're impossible to update when they're cracked, and they will be cracked.
I really admire the snake oil salesmen who can convince Hollywood, time and time and time again (remember DIVX - the original DIVX, that is?) that what is done in hardware cannot be trivially duplicated in software.
The study compared Neonicotinoids laced pollen to sugar water.
The published study offered the bees a choice between a sucrose solution with neonicotinoids and another sucrose solution without neonicotinoids. It was a fair comparison.
Don't tell the NeoCons, they'll have all the bees rounded up and put in jail because getting buzzed is immoral if nobody is paying for it.
OK, I tried to read your first sentence 3 times, and I still can't parse it, so I'm not sure what you're saying. Naturally, slower-than-light state transfer doesn't introduce paradox. FTL state transfer does allow inversion of cause and effect - the clear examples of this involve two pairs of wormholes, moving quickly relative to one another, which allows you go send a signal out through one pair and back through the other, and get the signal before you sent it.
The only thing that matters is propagation. Lets say I can only go 10 spaces in 10 ticks.
- - - - - - - - - -
1.................10
Now lets try covering the same external distance through a wormhole:
- - -
1.................3
Well I went 3 spaces in 3 ticks... but the rest of the universe thinks I went 10 spaces...silly fools.
You just think FTL propagation because your losing track of the configuration of space through which the propagation is being done. Your assuming the result matters when what really matters is HOW you got there.
Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed.
