Posts by Kabukiwookie 447 posts • joined 8 Dec 2017
So I've pissed off somebody, about something, somewhere, and yet they can't be arsed to tell me why ... but they will expend time and energy to write code to downvote old posts of mine? That's just plain sad, that is. Poor thing.
There seem to be quite a lot of downvoters who downvote because something that was said hurt their feelings and possibly impacted their cosy pre-established world view, not because the post itself doesn't have merit.
Bullshit. If anyone with a slacker discipline than Linus would take over from him the kernel would be thoroughly fscked within a few releases.
As a gate keeper he should be strict and kick out people that don't adhere to the scrict coding rules that he demands from contributors.
If he wasn't so strict and giant security holes would be the result of that you'd be probably one of the first to point the shitty finger of blame at him for not doing a good job.
Don't like how Linus manages the people contributing to his project, branch off and maintain your own code base.
Good luck with that.
That straw man is not what I wrote.
You did not write this?
Mao and the Cultural Revolution were the after effects of WW2. They are not relevant to a discussion of the US attempt to stay on top of the world in 2020.
These events are very much relevant and connected without any doubt in my mind. Denying they are not is ridiculous and delusional.
Unless you meant something different, I think you should probably look up the meaning of strawman argument.
Please keep ignoring any event that was the instigation to that.
No sir, the armory just blew up by itself. It can't have anything to do with the fuse I lighted 15 minutes ago. Those two events are obviously completely separate from one another.
So why does the US have presidents on their money, while they were in charge of the military wiping out the native americans?
Do you know the meaning of 'hypocrisy' and 'double standards' and 'people in glass houses'?
Without politically motivated harassment of tech types, where would (useful) new products come from?
Without large corporations such as MS screwing over and destroying small innovative companies such as Netscape, where would the state of technology be like now?
I'll tell you where it'd be. A lot better than the mono culture we're experiencing now.
A little before those 5 decades China was extremely poor, strangled economically by the UK with sanctions (which is how the UK got Hongkong) and a dumping ground for british drug pushers who didn't care that their actions and short term greed were destroying a whole society.
Then after the 2nd ww, there were two leaders; one communist, one capitalist and a puppet of the powers that kept China drugged and docile for so long. For some reason the majority of the chinese people rejected the puppet, who fled to an island off the coast called Formosa, now Taiwan.
So. Did you know what happened in the decades before the last 50 years?
I actually highly doubt it. I think you've been taught things similar to 'the US won the 2nd world war (with some minor token help from others).'
Same goes for corps lonked to the US gooberment.
The one-party state in China has at least raised a record amount of people out of poverty in the last 5 decades, while the fake 2 party democracy in the US has brought a record number of people into poverty after having a very healthy middle class 50 years ago.
You might also want to find out how much the prisoners are paid for their labour there, and how close you think that is to modern slave labour.
Sadly it's not that far from the minimum wage in the US if you take into account the 'free' room an board the prisoners are receiving
Not a good thing and just another indictment of the US banana republic.
Was in NY earlier this year for business and thought I landed in a warzone when I was driven in a huge 4x4 to Manhattan. Disgusting surroundings, rubbish everywhere. Potholes you can park a Smart car in. No wonder they need a 4x4 to get around.
Will not go back there voluntarily any time soon.
Sure it's not the NSA from Hongkong making sure that Oz does what the US says it should be doing, while in the meantime prepping Oz to be a dumping ground for chlorine washed chickens, force grown beef and mediocre military equipment pandered by its military industrial complex?
Don't worry, eveybody who really knew anything about DB2 has been fired in the last round of lay-offs, because they're too old and/or expensive so that'll probably be spiralling into the ground soon as well.
HP did this some 18 years ago and gutted thei labs; people working there were expensive and Carly did not understand why she couldn't just replace these people with people fresh out of uni who will work for peanuts.
This should be no surprise to anyone who has had a taste of the 'it works, so it's ready for production' style of working within projects that use 'Devops' en 'Agile'.
It's either 'good', 'fast' or 'cheap', any combination, but you can only alwqys have two ; the current Devops//Agile projects have chosen 'fast' and 'cheap'.
Has nothing to do with whether these projects are using closed or open source software aside from the fact that the only reason Open sourse is used is to cut cost.
Objects have methods with typed parameters, so there's a whole lot less room for error.
Until there are changes to the object/methods and your POWER shell script stops working all of a sudden or worse starts displayimg erratic behaviour. Good luck troubleshooting that.
Though you could always try turning it of and on again.
Secureworks said the state-sponsored phacker crew - dubbed Cobalt Ulster - has "destructive and disruptive cyber capabilities" at its disposal
Like what? Thwy downloaded a copy of Kali and kicked off Metasploit?
Somehow, with all the economic warfare waged against Iran, which proobably gives the govt. a somewhat different priority than 'cyber warfare', along with the fact that the funding to the NSA dwarfs the GDP of a lot of small nations and is equiped with tools that specifically leave behind 'tell traces' of foreign interference, that we should not particularly worry about Iran doing the nasty.
You don't even need mathematical.literacy, he should probably have had the humility and sense to accept the advice that some crypto experts have undoubtedly already given him.
I sense the Dunning-Kruger is strong in this one, along with a good dose of arrogance to go with it. Precisely the type of person you would not want to lead your spy agency.
The database [...] is thought to contain 12.5 million faces - a far cry from the claim that only “serious crime” is considered by the system.
With the definition of 'serious' constantly shifting depending on who operates this system, until 'serious' includes protesting fracking, chlorine chickens or privarisation of the NHS or uncovering corruption of the ones running the system.
Didn't you read the bit about the guy not wanted to be filmed and received a £110 fine for 'disorderly conduct'?
They're going to make sure the worms stay in line by makimg their life a living hell if they don't.
And somehow the UK govt has the gall criticisimg China.
"tailors the covered equipment to the types of technology that pose a risk of being disrupted by 'hostile actors' who engage in cyber-attacks and -espionage."
But the US would be the first to cry foul if this same reasoning would be applied by other countries for equipment and services produced in the US, which are now well known to do the same thing of which the US accuses. Huawei of doing without actually providing any tangiie evidence.
Contractors are often hired for either project work or to fill a temporary gap in the workforce.
Unfortunately due to the nature of most IT work, it's not something you can do for 4 hours a day at one client and the remaining hours at another.
Doesn't mean that contractors are secretly 'employees'. Usually get this sort of reaction from envious permies who are too afraid (or too unskilled) to make the leap to contracting.
What are spies supposed to do? Limit themselves to pawing through garbage?
How about acting according to what their governments say they're standing for?
How are you ever going to trust a government that tramples over all the 'values' it says it stands for whenever it's convenient?
Aren't we supposed to be the 'good guys'?
How can you take the moral high ground if you're just as bad (or worse) than the so-called 'bad guys'
This is pure hypocrisy and hypocrites cannot be trusted with anything. Least of all the freedom and wellbeing of the citizens they are supposed to answer to in a (supposed) democracy.
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