Comment Re:Who to believe? (Score 1) 393
By that logic, Windows 8 should see Bill Gates hanged..
Sounds good to me.
The lesson here is: Never offer an incentive counter to your intent.
By that logic, Windows 8 should see Bill Gates hanged..
Sounds good to me.
The lesson here is: Never offer an incentive counter to your intent.
I already have a program to read all logs, more or less.
Ha! I see what you did there.
You remind me of a guy I was arguing on IRC with about 15 years ago.
He said I was wrong for returning when there was an error with fopen(). He insisted that I should just keep looping and looping around fopen() until it stopped having an error.
This is what was taught in colleges at the time, to loop around fopen().
However, if you have ever used such a program, you would know that if you made a typo, the file was NEVER going to open (to save) and the only way out was to kill the program. Well, if it was a text editor, you just lost all of your work...
SystemD may seem like a good idea. It may implement what was taught in class. I can guarantee you that it will bring more than one person to tears when they get screwed over by it... and let there be no mistake, people WILL get screwed over by it.
Please tell me how you will fix your system when SystemD aborts because one aspect of everything it touches is not what it expects? You will not and you can not fix it. Reinstalling is the only option at that point because you can not even get to a recovery console. Sure, you could boot off of a "repair" disk but how will you view the logfiles? Oh, right, you will need a specialized executable to view anything at all. Ah, but the file did not close properly... what fucking good is a torn up binary log file?! At least with a torn up text file, you can get something out of it.
Mark my words, someone somewhere will be laughing their asses off at the fact that they got people like you to push SystemD... and there will be someone somewhere else cursing people like you who pushed SystemD (out of ignorance or malice?).
It is not just because people love the old way. No, it is cursed at. But cursed at less violently than "the new hotness" is cursed at.
Slashdot needs to get out of the nineties and into the 21st century.
You can get your old account back if you can remember what your email address was. Send a note to help@slashdot.org.
I'd lost my account and they were very helpful about it.
As to your surgery, LISTEN TO THE DOCTOR!!! Helping that one person could prevent you from helping others in the future. Oh, and I empathize; I had a vitrectomy in 2008. Not the least bit fun.
Okay. So. Do it. I'm not stopping anyone.
Yeah, it's not like Americans spent some $15,000,000,000.00 during Bush's second term to help fight AIDs in Africa, dropping the death rate by some ten percent and saving millions of lives or anything with the President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (although, it seems like the funding may have been cut by the following presidency).
Or... any of the countless foundations that spend billions of dollars conducting charitable work in Africa, such as some of those sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Burundi, Lesotho, and Malawi, Togo
The Spanish Sahara is gone,
Niger, Nigeria, Chad, and Liberia
Egypt, Benin, and Gabon.
Tanzania, Somalia, Kenya, and Mali
Sierra Leone, and Algiers,
Dahomey, Namibia, Senegal, Libya
Cameroon, Congo, Zaire.
Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar
Rwanda, Mahore, and Cayman,
Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Yugoslavia...
Crete, Mauritania
Then Transylvania,
Monaco, Liechtenstein
Malta, and Palestine,
Fiji, Australia, Sudan
Also known as the days when you were most likely a teenager or young adult.
Believe that if you will, but music from the late 60s to early 2000s was pretty good. The poison pill was introduced in the 80s. It took a while to kill, but it surely did. On the bright side, that pill caused pressure to build and some of the best thrash metal came out then (late 80s).
However; Ozzy was wrong... apparently you CAN kill Rock 'n Roll. I would say that today, it is dead; not even on life support any more. It may be underground, but it seems like it is 6 feet underground.
Hey, can we maybe put some effort into cracking down on government spending, too? I mean, it has only been like 240 years. Maybe it's about time we finally do some snipping?
I can't figure out if I'm just too old and grumpy or if operating systems are just desperately uninspired. I remember how exciting a new OS used to be. Couldn't wait to learn about it. To get your hands on it. To install it. To customize it. To get things just right. It has been a good decade since an OS -- OSX, Windows, Linux, etc -- made me do much more than groan and think "maybe I can skip this one and the next one will be interesting". The most thought I find myself giving any of them, now, is to wonder just how much stuff they're going to fuck up that I'm going to have to learn to deal with.
I think the last thing I ever got excited about, OS-wise, was when I gave up on everything and said "I'm sticking with XFCE as much as possible" -- and that was less glee than exasperation.
sure, but this is a fucking gimmick "experiment".
the algo could be really simple too.
and for developing said algorithm, no actual robots are necessary at all - except for showing to journos, no actual AI researchers would find that part necessary, the testing can happen entirely in simulation - and no actual ethics need to enter the picture even, the robot doesn't need to understand what a human is on the level a robot that would need to in order to act by asimovs laws.
a spinning blade cutting tool that has an automatic emergency brake isn't sentient- it's not acting on asimovs laws, but you could claim so to some journalists anyways.. the thing to take home is that they built into the algorithm the ability to fret over the situation. if it just projected and saved what can be saved, it wouldn't fret or hesitate - and hesitate is really the wrong word.
better than that the system allows for password reset by using email(among other methods). so with the data they posses, they can generate access to all the data. that means that any encryption or access blocks or whatever there are, are meaningless from the logical point of "can they read it?"
so they can reset the password without having anything from you - that means they can read everything is in there and can be coerced to do so by legal means.
on some other site it might be worth mentioning that they don't really need to change the password so you wouldn't really notice it either.. they can do whatever they want with the data - nothing required from the account owner.
...but they can change the password for you.
so they can read the mail.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT...
so how is it not total bullshit that is is spewing from his filthy mouth?
BASIC is the Computer Science equivalent of `Scientific Creationism'.
