Yes, but half the people have below-average intelligence.
We won't have a stable society if they're constantly scammed.
And I know some High-IQ people with no street smarts who got scammed by "Raj from Microsoft Support".
Really some dude from a trailer park might have a better BS detector, having lived a less coddled existence.
Can't get anyone to bid on such terms? Well then, you let too many suppliers merge, creating an oligopoly that isn't in the best interest of the nation. Or if its collusion between the manufacturers, set a trap for them and then it's off to prison. Goodness knows you've got enough FBI agents sitting in bars, waiting for some dirt bag to walk in and hire a hit on an enemy.
Yeah. But you're going to fail that Concours d'Elegance trophy class with fake parts.
The company standard for servers is RedHat 10. RedHat 10 does not support 32 bit applications.
The legacy app is running happily on RedHat 9.
...laura
Ah, just commented on your post about ACs earlier, but also notice that you clearly have at least one psychotically obsessed stalker who posts AC. Yeah, I can see how that could certainly color your opinion about ACs. Of course, even without the AC option being available, they would almost certainly just use a revolving cycle of the sock puppet accounts they use to mod stalk you to post anyway. They might need to use more accounts to accomplish it though. Actually, that's one thing I'm not sure of in the Slashdot moderation system: whether you can downmod ACs and have those affect the actual account that posted AC. It really should now that ACs have to be real accounts, but I'm not sure offhand.
> It's impolite to ignore robots.txt, but it's not illegal.
Put something fake in your robots.txt and block the IP that accesses the fake URL.
AI people: "oh, that's where all the good stuff is!"
Slashdot should never have allowed them to begin with, and failing that, should have eliminated anonymous posting many years ago. It was never a good idea
AC posting is a natural consequence of the moderation system and the ability to easily create an account though. If there were not ACs, people would effectively post AC by just creating new sock puppet accounts all the time. If people have lots of sock puppet accounts anyway, it's a gateway towards abuses of the moderation system, etc. Plus new accounts get the benefit of the doubt in terms of posting level, ACs, both back in the past when they did not need an account and now, when they do, are already automatically downgraded. Basically you can't really run any sort of online forum without making some sort of compromises about how people can communicate. My daughter was watching me post the other day and was wondering why there was no edit feature for posts. I explained that it can be like rewriting history, especially if people have already replied, but also if they have read it and are contemplating a reply, etc. While it would be nice if there could be a mechanism to update a post (without removing the original, but to add corrections or updates) without having to create a sub-post, obviously Slashdot made a specific compromise for that. Basically, for the features available for posting, Slashdot picked a certain set of options and, while imperfect, it is hard to say that another choice would have been objectively better.
64, 65. Whatever it takes.
I support a legacy app that was written back in the 1990s. It originally ran under VxWorks with custom hardware, variously 68k and PowerPC.
The first port I did was to Solaris. No byte-order issues and I kept the 32 bit ABI. It worked well.
When the Powers That Be decided to ditch Sun hardware and Solaris in favour of x86 and Linux I ported it to Linux. Parts of the code weren't byte-order clean, but I worked through them. The code is heavily 32 bit dependent and I never did create a viable 64 bit version (I tried, believe me...), so it runs on our last 32 bit server in the data center. The service it supports is slowly dying so there's no business case to spend any more time or money on it. If the business case existed I'd apply what I've learned in the meantime and rewrite it from scratch anyway.
The Linux port was initially unstable. It would run for a random time, hours to weeks, then two threads would deadlock. After a couple of years of letting it run and watching it crash I traced the deadlock to an "optimization" that didn't actually do anything, with an if statement that had about a one in a trillion chance of going the wrong way. I removed the optimization and the application has been running fine ever since.
...laura
in order to let gcc use data structures in MS's headers and have somewhat source compatible builds
This is what I fear. I'm just not certain whose source will be "leaking" into whose kernel. Or why, if Linux devs (Linus) have decided up to this point _not_ to adopt a standard C construct, it is now considered to be a good idea.
Are we developing Linux using the Cut-N-Paste culture of Stack Overflow?
Now explain how the noblemen is doing the herdsmen a kindness by charging them rent.
Also, in NYC, explain the chronically vacant commercial space (hint, no rent control).
As a step toward application portability between Microsoft apps and Linux systems, maybe. But that seems to be more at the library level. But who out there is suggesting that we need to splice Microsoft stuff (drivers, etc.) directly into the Linux kernel?
On the other hand, it could help in porting systemd to Windows.
They impound vehicles here for excessive speeding, IIRC 40km/h over, still see people excessively speeding. The problem, as you said, is the odds of getting caught are low enough that people still speed excessively even with the higher fines, and the cost of impoundment, which adds up.
They impound cars for excessive speeding (IIRC, 40km/h over) here, never heard a politician even talk about less penalties for speeding. Higher speed limits yes.
True, but there are all sorts of things that we could do, but we don't because, well because we just don't. There are a number of things that come to mind. One is that novel solutions to problems often come from someone scratching an itch. The problem is, they have to notice the itch in the first place, but the problem domain of, well, basically saving the Earth, is broad and it is hard to see the forest for the trees. The problems to solve for space exploration can be much more focused, and I think that does actually tend to drive people towards developing solutions that can then be applied to broader problems. In other words, for invention usually specific to general seems to work better than general to specific. There is also the matter of drive. Not that drive does not exist for researchers working to deal with environmental issues, but still there might be a tendency for the space fanatic to also be able to maintain better focus. Overall, even if what is developed is never used in space at all, I think that working towards the space-focused form of these technologies might actually bear fruit that can be highly useful here on Earth.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. -- George Wald
