Comment Re:Fire Timothy (Score 1) 166
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Technocrat is pretty much dead now. I like squte.com, which mirrors everything to Usenet, so it can't 'do a Beta' in future.
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Technocrat is pretty much dead now. I like squte.com, which mirrors everything to Usenet, so it can't 'do a Beta' in future.
So prima fascia it is a fucking scam
How many fascias does your Stihl have?
Changes so far to OpenSSL 1.0.1g since the 11th include:
- Splitting up libcrypto and libssl build directories
- Fixing a use-after-free bug
- Removal of ancient MacOS, Netware, OS/2, VMS and Windows build junk
- Removal of “bugs” directory, benchmarks, INSTALL files, and shared library goo for lame platforms
- Removal of most (all?) backend engines, some of which didn’t even have appropriate licensing
- Ripping out some windows-specific cruft
- Removal of various wrappers for things like sockets, snprintf, opendir, etc. to actually expose real return values
- KNF of most C files
- Removal of weak entropy additions
- Removal of all heartbeat functionality which resulted in Heartbleed
Do not feed RSA private key information to the random subsystem as entropy. It might be fed to a pluggable random subsystem.... What were they thinking?!
So far as all the "won't this introduce more bugs than it fixes" comments go, this is a recurring argument I have at work.
I am of the "clean as you go", "refactor now" school.
Everyone else says "If it works don't fix it"(IIWDFI), "don't rock the boat" etc.
Heartbleed is what happens when the IIWDFI attitude wins. Bugs lurk under layers of cruft, simple changes become nightmares of wading through a lava flow of wrappers around hacks around bodges.
Whenever anyone says IIWDFI, remind them that testing can only find a small proportion of possible bugs, so if you can't see whether it has bugs or not by reading the code, then no matter how many test cases it passes, it DOESN'T WORK.
The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they knew everything, and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them.
- Peter the Hermit, 13th Century AD
I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words... the present youth are exceedingly impatient of restraint
-Hesiod, 8th century BC
The art of letter-writing is fast dying out. When a letter cost nine pence, it seemed but fair to try to make it worth nine pence
- The Sunday Magazine 1871
It is, unfortunately, one of the chief characteristics of modern business to be always in a hurry. In olden times it was different.
- The Medical Record 1884
With the advent of cheap newspapers and superior means of locomotion... The dreamy quiet old days are over... For men now live think and work at express speed. They have their Mercury or Post laid on their breakfast table in the early morning, and if they are too hurried to snatch from it the news during that meal, they carry it off, to be sulkily read as they travel
- William Smith, Morley: Ancient and Modern, 1886
Conversation is said to be a lost art
- Frank Leslie's popular Monthly, Volume 29 1890
Intellectual laziness and the hurry of the age have produced a craving for literary nips. The torpid brain
- Israel Zangwill, The Bachelors' Club 1891
The art of pure line engraving is dying out. We live at too fast a rate to allow for the preparation of such plates as our fathers appreciated. If a picture catches the public fancy, the public must have an etched or a photogravured copy of it within a month or two of its appearance, the days when engravers were wont to spend two or three years over a single plate are for ever gone.
- Journal of the Institute of Jamaica, Volume 1 1892
So much is exhibited to the eye that nothing is left to the imagination. It sometimes seems almost possible that the modern world might be choked by its own riches, and human faculty dwindle away amid the million inventions that have been introduced to render its exercise unnecessary.
The articles in the Quarterlies extend to thirty or more pages, but thirty pages is now too much so we witness a further condensing process and, we have the Fortnightly and the Contemporary which reduce thirty pages to fifteen pages so that you may read a larger number of articles in a shorter time and in a shorter form. As if this last condensing process were not enough the condensed articles of these periodicals are further condensed by the daily papers, which will give you a summary of the summary of all that has been written about everything.
Those who are dipping into so many subjects and gathering information in a summary and superficial form lose the habit of settling down to great works.
Ephemeral literature is driving out the great classics of the present and the past
- G. J. Goschen, First Annual Address to the Students, Toynbee Hall. London 1894
The existence of mental and nervous degeneration among a growing class of people, especially in large cities, is an obvious phenomenon
- The Churchman, Volume 71 1895
The cause of the
- G. Shrady (from P.C. Knapp) "Are nervous diseases increasing?" Medical Record 1896
To take sufficient time for our meals seems frequently impossible on account of the demands on our time made by our business... We act on the apparent belief that all of our business is so pressing that we must jump on the quickest car home, eat our dinner in the most hurried way, make the closest connection for a car returning
- Louis John Rettger. Studies in Advanced Physiology 1898
In these days of increasing rapid artificial locomotion, may I be permitted to say a word in favour of a very worthy and valuable old friend of mine, Mr. Long Walk?
I am afraid that this good gentleman is in danger of getting neglected, if not forgotten. We live in days of water trips and land trips, excursions by sea, road and rail-bicycles and tricycles, tram cars and motor cars
T. Thatcher, "A plea for a long walk", The Publishers Circular 1902
The art of conversation is almost a lost one. People talk as they ride bicycles–at a rush–without pausing to consider their surroundings
- Marie Corelli, Free opinions, freely expressed 1905
We write millions more letters than did our grandfathers, but the increase in volume has brought with it an automatic artificial machine-like ring
- Forrest Crissey, Handbook of Modern Business Correspondence 1908
A hundred years ago it took so long and cost so much to send a letter that it seemed worth while to put some time and thought into writing it. Now the quickness and the cheapness of the post seem to justify the feeling that a brief letter to-day may be followed by another next week–a "line" now by another to-morrow.
- Percy Holmes Boynton, Principles of Composition 1915 or perhaps its just that people like to complain about how the young of today can't think like they could in 'our days'. As Ovid said:
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
Most of the above quotes are from https://xkcd.com/1227/
Stellar rays prove fibbing never pays. Embezzlement is another matter.