How about that? With the antitheft device/chip in the key. Those seemed to work quite well. Oh but then you wouldn't be able to push button. So sad.

Can't read your shit unicode. How long have you been on /.? FFS.

Examination of North Korean missile parts after exploding in Ukraine, show that the control systems are mostly made from western components, including many that are supposedly American IP. So good luck to America stopping any hardware designed in America. At least until all chip plants and electronic subassembly gets moved out of China to some place like, North America.

Science makes no such claim. Indeed, science has yet to fully encapsulate what it means to be “alive” in the first place.

So stop claiming that science says what you want it to say, just because that’s the result you desire. That in and of itself is not science.

Yaz

Nope - didn’t forget; as you pointed out MS gave up on Xenix in the late 80’s, and I specifically stated (as you quoted) “UNIX wasn’t even on Microsoft’s radar in the 90’s”.

MS did some stuff with UNIX in the 70s and 80s, but by the 90s they were all in on DOS/Windows and Windows NT, with a bit of Mac OS (before it was UNIX based).

Yaz

Strong disagree. While creative types have long favoured Mac, most hard-core developers and power users eschewed it for other platforms — until around 2003/2004, when OS X became mature enough and developers with UNIX-style toolchains moved over in droves.

Go back to relevant /. stories around that timeframe, and you’ll see how common it suddenly become to go to conferences and see 80%+ of developer laptops being PowerBooks (and later MacBook Pro’s). That was virtually unheard of just a year prior — and a lot of devs still prefer it to Windows, because most UNIX-style commands and toolchains “just work”.

Yaz

it was about beating OS/2.

Most of the other UNIX’s weren’t designed to run on 80x86 platforms, so they were never in any real contention with Microsoft. AIX, HPUX, Solaris, Dynix (which was Intel based but had a special architecture separate from PCs) — none of these were in the same market as Windows.

No, Microsoft’s target was OS/2 — which had a bigger resource footprint, but was also a vastly superior OS, with real pre-emptive multitasking, a (by 90’s standards) modern high performance file system, the ability to pre-emptively multitask Windows 3.x and DOS apps well before Windows 95, and a superiors desktop environment (a modern Workplace Shell would still absolutely slay). It was here that Microsoft introduced Win32s and kept changing it every few weeks to break OS/2 compatibility for newer Windows apps. It was here that the per-processor agreements were put into place with systems manufacturers to make selling OS/2 on systems more expensive (for those too young to know, in these agreements the manufacturer paid and charged for a Windows license with every system sold — even if it didn’t come with Windows. So if you wanted an OS/2 system you were paying for both OS/2 and a Windows license you didn’t actually get).

UNIX wasn’t even on Microsoft’s radar in the 90’s — it just wasn’t a PC operating system, and was mostly targeted to systems that didn’t compete with Microsoft. If you wanted a UNIX system, you had to buy your hardware from your OS vendor (much like with macOS today) — virtually nobody (except some of the early cool kids running Linux and *BSD) was buying white-box Intel systems and running UNIX — the numbers were too small for Microsoft to care. OS/2 was their real target — and in the end, it worked.

Yaz

Corporate XYZ country wanted software professionals of all types to be lumped into the 'unlimited overtime' bucket with emergency workers like police, firefighters, ambulance medtecks/paramedics, etc. for Y2K reasons. And no one has removed IT from that shit classification in many places even though it isn't required anymore. It isn't in all jurisdictions but in quite a few. For example, the exemption is valid in Canada in the provinces of Ontario, Alberta, BC, and Nova Scotia. Together these provinces make up around 63% of the population. Most everyone else has a legal limit on work hours.of around 48 hours tops.

Did you ever hear of The Gimli Glider? It was an Air Canada 767 that ran out of gas mid flight because someone screwed up imperial to metric conversions. Canada had recently converted to the metric system and not all industries were caught up. The pilot actually managed to glide it to an old WW2 training air strip in Gimli, Manitoba, north of Winnipeg, that had been converted into a drag strip for cars. No one died.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider#Miscalculation_during_fueling

But we can tell that you wish you were. That's why you're going to vote for Putin's stooge, Trump. Since you don't like looking up actual facts, when Ukraine separated they held a referendum in all the country's oblasts (their states), asking if they want to stay with Ukraine or Russia. A properly monitored referendum unlike Russian ones where people are forced to side with Russia at the point of a gun. 90% of people wanted their states to be in Ukraine with the exception of 2 places, which still had a majority vote to be Ukrainian. So stop watching RT and Tucker Carlson, and get your head out of your ass. And truthfully, I do think you are a Russian troll, even if you are in America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Ukrainian_independence_referendum#Results

That just points to how far behind the US is in decarbonizing its electrical infrastructure. That’s not really a knock on EVs.

Here in Canada, ~80% of our electricity is from hydroelectric sources, and ~90% is from non-carbon emitting sources (hydro, solar, wind, nuclear).

The good thing about running an EV in a jurisdiction which still uses CO2 emitting fuels for electrical generation is that you can knock down the CO2 emissions by just replacing the power plant, and not both the power plant and the vehicles. The EV effectively gets the upgrade “for free”.

Yaz

This goes back a very long way, but back when I was publishing The Sound Blaster Digest (early 90’s) I eventually started publishing using Windows Write on Windows 3.1 specifically because of OLE — I could package an “e-zine” with audio, graphics, fonts, and better formatting than the hand-formatted ASCII I was previously using. I continued with the ASCII format as well every month (which was a good deal of work) and released in both formats, but the Write version (being published at a time when HTML wasn’t accessible to the regular user) was always very popular for that reason. Embedding the media straight in a document every Windows user could use felt groundbreaking at the time.

Yaz

So are you saying they don't hash the passwords?

Should it even matter if the site uses properly salted and hashed passwords? I mean, the actual human readable password shouldn't be stored anywhere on the site. And each site will be doing the hash at a different time, on a different machine, so presumably the seeds are all different so the hash even for the same password should be different. How are they getting the actual passwords? What am I missing? Or is this something about password managers and single point of failure?

We have a hard enough time shedding the energy that is already hitting us from the sun, and they want to double down and increase the amount of energy the earth has to absorb from the sun. Just stupid.

We need to cool the earth, so what do they propose? Gathering up huge amounts of energy in space, finding a way to concentrate it, and then send it to earth to be turned into mechanical energy and more heat (that pesky nothing is 100% efficient thing). On top of the energy that is already striking the earth. SMH