Perhaps you are confused about which side the NSA is on.
Seems like one of us is confused indeed. They are on America's side and they are sincere. They will not act on a threat — such as a prankster talking about a terrorist act on his phone — if they consider it bogus. Now, it may be possible for such a prankster to fool them — and they may choose to err on the side of caution. But they are quite smart, so fooling them is not easy...
... and let the NSA and paranoia do the rest
I strongly suspect, the NSA are a lot smarter, than your average pig or a school principal. Their reaction will be more appropriate than that of a local police department or school...
Remember when Ronald Reagan fired all of the air traffic controllers because they had the nerve to form a union and strike for better pay?
You mean, when they conspired to cripple the nation's air-transportation — holding the rest of us hostage? Imagine, Verizon turning off all telephones to demand lower taxes — a public employee has an even stronger monopoly power...
Now the air traffic controllers work on obsolete equipment, get paid very little, have a stressful job with long hours
That must all be Reagan's fault, right, 30 years later...
I am almost amazed no one has gone crazy before now.
Maybe, it just is not quite as bad as you are describing?
Nearly 2,000 flights in Chicago have been canceled so far today as federal aviation officials slowly resume operations at O'Hare and Midway airports following a fire that was deliberately set at an FAA radar center, apparently by a disgruntled worker.
If a single person can cause so much havoc without killing anyone — and without the condemnation and sympathy for the victim concomitant with any would-be murder — the terrorists don't need to kill.
Heck, they don't even need to set fire — just phone-in an anonymous warning.
A moderately motivated group could also disable a city's subway system for hours — by boarding the trains on carefully picked stations and pretending to have a seizure of some sort. Our kind society's rules (as evidenced in that paragon of humanity New York City) say, you can not be taken out of the train — except by "qualified personnel". So all other passengers will be removed from the car and the train will wait for the EMS to arrive and figure out, what to do with you. If your friends do the same to every other subway lines at the same time — during rush hour — your organization is bound to get donations, all without you killing or maiming a single person...
But let's not change the subject — nor answer a question with a question...
I really, really hope nobody is using SQLite for a production web database, but sadly I know somebody probably is.
I was considering it, actually — for when the web-server and the DB must be on the same host for budgetary reasons.
What's wrong with it?
With sendfile () you have an open socket and you tell the kernel to send a file over that socket. No more copying of data and no context-switches.
Sendfile() (and mmap()) are, indeed, the proper interfaces for sending an entire file out. Unfortunately, they aren't particularly well-used — the speed of RAM on modern computers usually makes any wins from funky APIs not worth the effort. It does not help, that various OSes have a completely different call named "sendfile"...
Even Varnish — which most people put in front of their CMS-powered sites — abolished it some time ago (years after advising users to disable it first)... Sad, but true.
When Amazon made their announcement, my first thought was, the parcel-carriers should all be doing it. Sellers might too, but for FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL and other mail-companies, this is a must going forward.
I even bought some AVAV shares back then — the only publicly-traded company I could find, for whom drone-making is the primary business...
Further - no viable light bulb replacements will work with dimmer switches (Which my house has many).
We have about 40 LED ceiling-lights throughout the house — all of them dimmable. You just need to use the right switches — those, working with the LED's much lower current requirements.
It is, of course, a pain in the various body parts to replace both the bulbs and the switches (and often times — the fixtures too), and it should never be mandated by government. We did, because we were renovating the house anyway. But to claim, that it is not possible, is to spread FUD.
Darn, sorry, hit "Post" instead of "Continue editing". If you aren't convinced yet, taxes are growing, here is another item: the share of Americans in the labor-force is lower in recent years than in Bush's era, the percentage collecting "disability" is record high, the official unemployment numbers remain stubbornly above Bush's, but the Federal revenue is the highest ever.
This can only mean one thing — those of us, who are still working, are paying the ever higher taxes...
The overall US tax burden (all taxes, all levels of government), as a fraction of the GDP has shown
The link you offered — whatever its credibility — shows government spending as a percentage of GDP.
This is related to, but not at all the same as the tax burden of individuals.
Now, here is, what happened January 1, 2014 in the US:
If that's not grow taxes, what is?
no matter how many times you repeat the "ever growing taxes" lie, it does not become true.
It is true no matter how many times you deny it. And next time, do your own homework, before you accuse someone else of not merely being mistaken, but of lying...
if it's BASH then there could be a *LOT* more exploitable devices out there than people might think.
Only if the shell can be executed from the outside while also providing arbitrary values for any environment variable. The latter part is not true, I'm pretty sure...
No BSD system uses bash — if only for licensing issues (bash is GNU-licensed).. Thus, you are safe (from this bug) on DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and any other BSD-licensed OS, unless you deliberately installed bash (such as from port) and wrote a CGI-script to use it.
What is this, some sort of dystopian future?
Simply keeping a home used to take so much time, a woman could not work on anything else. Nowadays, with electricity, indoor plumbing, vacuum cleaners, dish- and laundry-washing machines and other labor-saving appliances, it is much simpler and many women do have careers.
But pregnancy remains, for the time being at least, something, that must be done personally — and many women do consider it a burden.
Some day, one hopes, they'll have the option of using an incubator the way today's woman has an option of reheating dinner in a microwave rather than cooking it anew in a brick oven heated by fine firewood.
Those, who consider such future "distopian", will still be welcome to carry the child themselves — and accept the concomitant pains, health-risks, and lost wages...
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire
