The taxpayers have to pay for that inappropriate police response.

Chinese are traveling in record numbers to the West.

Don't downplay nationalism over common sense.

They did a LARP version of this a while back with university students. It got a little out of hand...

more liberal propaganda!

You are talking about pharma companies. Please try to learn to read.

How many 911 dispatchers do you know who are also versed in nuclear reactions?

I remember that. The black hole was very noisy. While all black holes have dimensions of mass and radius of event horizon, some are massively decibeled.

But a network of trust isnâ(TM)t the same as a blockchain.
Ebay has a network of trust. The more people that vouch for you the better your reputation.
We could do the same thing with a news article where cnn, fox, the president, members of congress, etc.. all sign and vouch for a particular article. No blockchain needed.
This is not the same as a blockchain. A blockchain is for a chain of trust. A chain of trust of unknown parties isnâ(TM)t really useful to verify news. It would be easy enough to find 100 people who say Trump is great/awful. Just look at any online petition. Having 100 random strangers isnâ(TM)t useful. What would be useful is if cnn/fox could vouch for an article (and 100 million people vouch for cnn/fox).
You donâ(TM)t need a blockchain for this but rather a reputation chain where everyone starts out with a reputation of 1 but gets more reputation as other people vouch for them. This wouldnâ(TM)t prevent biased news but it would prevent fake news as legitimate news organizations are going to be able to collect alot more reputation than popup sites.
This would basically be googleâ(TM)s original pagerank idea of counting links but at the individual level instead of the website level. What you would need to do this would be some way to prevent people from voting mutiple times.

Global GDP is a big number, but I'm not sure why you are trying to compare it with a figure based on tax revenue. Even the most extreme communistic dictatorships that own all the means of production don't receive 100% of their GDP as cash in hand that they can spend on problems. You either don't understand what GDP is, or you are arguing in bad faith.

Another bad faith argument. As you probably well know, ALL of the GEFs expenditures are in the low 7 figures or less. If I can't criticize any of those, then I can't criticize their $4B spend at all. But I suppose you wouldn't like any sort of scrutiny of the Paris Accord you're such a fan of - because it would expose a cesspool.

I listed two "strengthening institution" type expenditures for Haiti and Indonesia, but obviously there is one for every country in the world without good governance, which combined increases it a couple of orders of magnitude into a 9 figure expenditure. Does that make you happier? All a complete waste of course. Injecting a few million $ into a corrupt govt doesn't make it less corrupt. The GEF is pure climate change theatre - making signatories think they are doing something, without doing anything useful at all.

Given the vagueness of the hosting, they could also be hosting on the hacked servers of a legit company. Not the first time this has happened, in some cases they've been quite straightforward about it, "the admins at XYZ have discovered our virtual servers on their systems, you have 30 minutes to get out".

Oh yeah, nearly forgot: Welcome to the cloud!

Agreed. Isn't porn the killer app for any new technology? VCRs are a known thing, and I think the only usage put to the "alternate angles" DVD feature was for porn. And so on. Examples abound.

Very well put. I am going to plagiarize. :)

No shit. Apparently itâ(TM)s a feature that dns resolution now bypasses iptables.

Colocrossing has been involved in this sort of shit for many years now. It's not some sort of isolated incident. This is just the first time it's hit the press. (Also, the cPanel price increase was announced quite some time ago; these providers *continued offering* unsustainable plans *after* that price increase was announced. If that doesn't suggest malicious intentions, what would?)

He's wrong, but in the opposite direction. The poll should be:

1) Should systemd die in a fire? (Y/Y)

The rest can be worked out after the fire.

That's what I said, "We haven't actually observed .."

Visitors to curb erotica sites do.

The number of accounts really skyrocketed on 2016.

They aren't. If you work out the math, it auto increments once every few seconds or something like that. BizX did this as a SEO strategy to make the numbers look larger but not *too much* larger. If the search engines figure this out, our rankings will drop.

Not .. really. Pretty much everything a kernel does, or at any rate should do, is mediate between different processes/threads and between software and hardware, one way or another. If it's not inter-process, scheduling, or hardware interaction, do it in user mode.

Wait, the nazis were commies now?

Slackware 15 will be out very soon.

Far Cry 5 was about fighting a fictional, violent group of armed doomsday cultists. The Hong Kong protestors are neither fictional nor are they heavily armed. That game was also developed by a French company in Canada, and never promote by the US government. It's an apples & oranges comparison. Furthermore, if anyone thinks that a paramilitary group killing non-believers represents the 'anti-establishment Americans' they're identifying with, that says more about them than it does about that game.

Actually, on more than one occasion we have now observed perturbed gravity waves ostensibly resulting from the merger of two black holes.

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/n...
https://astronomynow.com/2016/...
https://www.space.com/38288-gr...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

The expansion of the universe is not homogeneous.

Think snowflakes in a snow storm. Ulimately, all snowflakes will obey gravity and end up on the ground. But in the chaos of a storm, even if most flakes move from up to down, some can briefly move in all directions, including up.

On average, all galaxies are moving away from each other. But in a small localized sample of the universe, galaxies can appear to move in all directions, including towards each other.

For example, in our own local group, the andromeda galaxy is actually moving towards our own milky way at surprising speed.

Wow, every word you said was wrong, but individually and collectively. You may actually have a brain tumor. Seek medical help immediately!

"...and alpha waves. The latter reference led to concerns about potential radiation..."
So what you're saying, is that you don't know the difference between alpha waves and alpha particles?

You're looking up the wrong IPs. Company websites are almost always hosted on a different provider than the services they provide, for redundancy/outage reasons. Their actual services *are* all hosted at Colocrossing, and follow a multi-year pattern of doomed-to-fail hosting providers that all seem to have *just* a little too much involvement from CC itself. There's many years of documentation around CC's business practices and involvement in failed providers hosted there, hardly "too early" by any reasonable definition of the phrase.

Well put! After all, some people actually like Jar Jar (presumably they were very young at the time), but objectively he's bad software that spreads disaster, and may actually be a Sith Lord.

Oh no, it's far worse, instant pile. Nearly every thread populated by closed minded circle jerkers, every one else modded out. Try it, it is quite amusing and why so many, many threads are pretty much devoid of interaction. Each cluster forming it's own. Easy to delete those suspected Russians, they were all probably active in the same threads, them and only them there.

This silly crap is still going on. Anything can be made to seem like anything on the internet, with regard to percentages. A billion users 10 billion web sites and trillions of comments every year across the web, when you start with those kinds of numbers, even the teeny tiniest percentage can generate seemingly large numbers. So how many comments out of a trillion to make a 100,000 Russian troll comments, what percentage, 0.00001% is that significant, no, but the number 100,000. The numbers are huge on the internet.

Make a claim, prove it in court, else it is a lie. How about the correction, Russian IP addresses, used by unknown, from no one knows where, anyone on the planet can have a server hosted in Russia, cheap (and due to a lack of effective treaties a dead end for investigation, as long as crimes are not committed in Russia by that server).

I agree 100%, but it seems impossible to get new programmers to follow that. To often I hear that "XYX" is *better* than "ABC" and the interface is changed - and lots of users find themselves with mysteriously broken code.

It seems like the same mindset that causes Microsoft to change their icons every year or two, or making minor useless changes in the user interface. Its change made by people who's world revolves around their code, and who don't understand that to their users, its just one of many tools that they need to use.

How are we up to 6,000,000 user names already?

Away, where local velocity is negligible as compared to the total redshift by way of:

v = Ho d,

where v is the galaxy's velocity (in km/sec), d is the distance to the galaxy (in megaparsecs; 1 Mpc = 1 million parsecs), and Ho proportionality constant, called "The Hubble constant". ~ Wiki

Systemd is like radioactive diarrhea: once tainted, you can't wash it clean. There was already an init system that was acceptable, but they decided to switch to systemd, which everyone knows gives you leprosy, cancer, and herpes.

I'd go on a rant, but really, the facts speak for themselves: systemd is a fire, a fire made of fail and AIDS.
 

The systemd people claim it's not come all encompassing monolith because it's a collection of small programs. Great, which ones can I selectively enable and disable? Can I keep binary logs with sysV init or vice versa?

Syria being a perfect example. Russia was invited to attend the war, no one else was.

I'd like to think that 911 dispatchers and other first-responders who might have to deal with radioactive contamination would not confuse "alpha waves" with alpha particles.

I'd like to think that.