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What does 0.0.1 mean, compared to the absence of software? You can't compare 0.0.1 to anything if there's no other previous release.

Starting at 0.0.1 is at least just as arbitrary as starting at 0.0.0, and your aversion to starting at 0.0.0 suggests you're making implicit assumptions about what the non-existent 0.0.0 means when starting at 0.0.1. But if 0.0.0 doesn't even exist then you can't really make any assumptions about it.

At least 0.0.0 is clearly the very first version of something. Starting at 0.0.1 doesn't make clear that there isn't an earlier 0.0.0.
it would have been absurd to write that toolchain with a "kind of free" license. why would RMS bother? it's not like he didn't have access to existing software.

i'm guessing you think that's just "incidental"... but that's a very strange argument to ever make if you think anything has any explanatory power at all.
Except if that were the case, it's even cheaper to not develop a live update capability at all.

They went through the process of specifying and developing a automated utility that downloads files, parses manifests and then acts accordingly to install BIOS or other updates, tested it and bundled it with their retail system build, and after all that effort didn't take the one tiny step to sign their files or at least put a $10 TLS certificated on their servers?

To me the more likely answer is that (as observed) this dates back to XP days or even earlier, when securing this sort of stuff was not front-of-mind. Back then, finding downloadable software served over https was rare. ftp or http was far more likely. And I think ASUS just never thought about updating their tools. They worked, so never really got a thorough second look at any point up until today.
If your threat model concerns with hardware/firmware exploits, then you can't trust the physical switches unless they cut all the wires - and unless you can validate that this is what they do. Theoretically speaking, a malicious (or threatened/persuaded/forced) manufacturer may implement a non-standard way to power the supposedly disconnected component using still-connected wiring, to be used for a special occasions.

/tinfoil
If we all spent hours per day on unnecessary manual labor instead of our jobs or learning, yes, obesity probably wouldn't be an issue anymore.
Really ? Pointing the local gov department's officer to AWS's IRAP compliance cert was all that was needed to move quite a lot of their stuff unto AWS.
>>Fraud? If it's money that was gained, then it should be money lost. Fine them into the dirt, but I don't think jail time is appropriate.

That'd acceptable if at least the following conditions hold:

a. First and foremost, the fraudster should be ashamed publicly and in a very visible manner on social media, television/radio and newspaper. e.g. The fraudster be made to wear clothes that are deemed filthy and be made to hold a placard stating "I repeat that I am a fraudster and I don't deserve to be a citizen of this nation. I also state that my relatives and my friends and my associates can be fraudsters themselves because they liked to hang out with me. They are free to disassociate themselves from me but if they continue to associate with me you know that they are also fraudsters." This video and news should be sent to all people who are associated with the fraudster.

b. the fine should be such that all assets/money belonging to the fraudster should be confiscated and along with all the assets of the relatives that have been linked to the fraudster's money; (it's very easy to game the system otherwise). The relatives should be given a notice that they should declare all such linked assets/money voluntarily and should return the same within a specified period and failing to do so they should also be declared as party to the original fraud and thus fraudsters themselves and be prosecuted.

c. The fraudster should be banned from doing any financial sector job; only physical labour jobs should be allowed.

d. The fraudster should not be allowed to leave the country

e. All the money the fraudster has spent on the legal battle (fee of the attorney) should also be confiscated from the attorneys (this is also important, as the attorneys will be forced to act more ethically not because they are honest but just because of the risk involved). I know they will find other ways to get rewarded but at least those will not be as straight forward. The attorneys also should be given a notice that they should declare all such linked assets/money voluntarily and should return the same within a specified period and failing to do so they should also be declared as party to the original fraud and thus fraudsters themselves and be prosecuted.

f. Any money not recovered from the fraudster should automatically be treated as loan-default and the fraudster be prosecuted for default in addition to the fraud charges and the applicable legal process be initiated.

In short, even the filthy rich fraudsters [1] should not be able to game the system. The punishment should be such a deterrent that even the filthy rich fraudsters should shiver at the thought of it.

>>Making money illegally doesn't make someone a murderer, it just makes then dishonest.

But they are still causing irreparable harm to the societal fabric and other people will fast lose their faith the legal system if the filthy rich fraudsters don't get punished in a big way.

[1] anyone controlling the big banks and big corporations like Goldman Sachs.
To both you and the parent... I can promise you he made money. Affiliate advertising is rampant on Facebook because of how profitable it is. They do anton of shady things because Facebook actively tried to shut them down. This person is 't doing view arbitrage, theyre clearly doing affiliate marketing and I know it accounts for no less than several hundred million per year in revenue for Facebook.
It's not even remotely close to being feature complete as of speaking.
Yes there is. If you see the div tag for the box which has class "fbPhotosPhotoTagboxBase tagBox". Its css style contains the left and top and height and width face box.
I'm pretty sure LA is still a sprawl and density has increased very little. Even in Santa Monica, and the rest of beach areas, there are plenty of single family homes. Not sure if they make up the majority of residential land, but sure feels that way.
The vast majority of software developers in Switzerland will never, ever make 190'000 CHF a year.
The types of immigrants they're looking to bring in with reform aren't trying only to escape war, but looking for a free leg-up. i.e. Syrian war refugees going to Germany instead of any of the countries along the way that aren't experiencing war.

They'll be sure to vote established people's money for themselves.
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The difference in costs are several factors between rent & mortgage+taxes+insurance+maintenance+appliances.

I have better places for moneys(some investment, some wasteful) and I get to move whenever I please... although, I have had to move when it didn't please me, too.
You do incur a lot more costs as a property owner than as a renter, which you should bear in mind.

Over the life of your average 20-25 year mortgage you should expect to have to replace numerous appliances, encounter a couple of catastrophic and unexpected issues (leaking roof, etc.), and after 10 years the decor will be outdated and shabby.

To get optimum resale value you will have to sink a lot of time/money into remodelling (the money you will likely recover, but not the time/effort), then you have the stress of trying to sell the place.

You are also bearing the risk of a downturn in the housing market, and could end up in negative equity.

As a renter you have greater flexibility, much greater certainty over your outgoings, etc.
> No good deed goes unpunished.

Good is good. Evil is evil. The only way for there to be more good is to do more good. If you do good and others do evil, you have still done good. If you do not do good and others do evil, there will be more evil than good. If you do good and others do not do evil, there will be only good done.

As a German in WWII, Stigler was a modern Samaritan- spit on for their acts, Nazis acts were and are despicable- just like the Samaritans were to the Jews 2000 years ago.
Curious if there plans for a web version. My thumbs might get tired chatting for an hour.
Hmm. "Because who cares" meant who cares what socks you have on? I actually do wear whatever comes out of my sock drawer, and I throw away singles, not pairs, so my socks are often mismatched.
My AC66U runs the linux 2.6.22.19 kernel which has a ton [0] of vulnerabilities in it. Hopefully they back-fix vulnerabilities without updating the kernel version but I doubt it. I would never trust this or any other consumer piece of hardware as a border device considering the sad state they are all in. Yet, millions of homes have this or worse sitting as their only gatekeeper into their networks.

[0] https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php?vendor_id=...
Who doesn't, the marketers?

I'm saying they should have to suck it up and buy the domain they want to display.
They have no issue with their work being used for proprietary software. That's the opposite of having strong convictions about free software. Sure, they provide a mostly free operating system but they allow other people to take that code and enslave users. And I say that knowing that Linus doesn't care about software freedom either, it's just a development model to him. But at least it uses the GPL, so any code I contribute will never be used to enslave users.

"More free" is not the point. It's caring about users enough to not allow someone to take advantage of them by taking your work and giving them a proprietary version. That's what the GPL provides which the BSD doesn't.
Just to clarify, dang marked the comment asking you to authenticate yourself as off topic, and subsequently removed it from your comment. Your comment is left untouched.
Whether you believe stress is good or bad for your health, you're right
Yes it does! Although it doesn't seem to work behind a firewall. LOL. In case direct-from-BIOS flash updates aren't silly enough, imagine having to put your server on the naked internet to boot. No thanks. Even TFTP would be better than that.
What are you talking about? Giving every Swiss a basic income definitely has budgetary consequences...
>Consider, for brevity, a mortgage where the monthly or yearly payment, including taxes, is equal to the rent you would be paying for the same place.

That's hardly always true
That's a great idea until you get into cases like:

light colored pants with low shoes (you need light socks)

dark colored pants with low shoes (you need dark socks)

running (you need thin socks with no seams)

hiking (you need hiking socks, or at least thicker ones, and probably two pairs that you can wear at the same time, and multiple sets)

cycling (you can use the same ones you use for running, but your generic black socks probably won't do it)

Only a heathen would wear the same socks in all of these circumstances.
I see lots of comments that suggest that a UBI wouldn't work because the rich have their money offshore, etc. However, I'm not so pessimistic. The parent article is about a plan for the US, and in the US, the rich do pay their taxes. According to the IRS [1], the top 10% make 48% of the total adjusted gross income in the US and pay over 70% of the total income tax.

Many aspects of the tax system don't make sense to me, but overall it just isn't true that in the US the rich don't pay their taxes.

Some rich Americans choose to renounce their citizenship each year and leave for other countries. The numbers are relatively small, and it involves extremely high tax penalties. (Something like 10 years of taxes and the payment of all capital gains realized or not.) This wouldn't make any difference to a UBI plan.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/soi-a-ints-id1506.pdf
They do that so people with hundreds of servers do not have to spend days in the server room with thumb drives, individually booting servers to flash the BIOS. There is HUGE demand for the ability to do remote BIOS updates over a management network. Now how is the BMC supposed to know whether the network is appropriately secure before accepting those updates?
I do wish my high school combinatorics had included Stirling's approximation. It allows great approximations for problems that are really asking for it.

If there are 200 white and 200 black balls in an urn, there's no sense asking for some expected value as an exact rational number.
At least one model of ASUS iKVM (server remote management daughter-board) I've seen has an embedded linux OS that doesn't allow changing of the admin password from the default. Doesn't use shadow passwd files either.
I'm not implying your racist. I suspect you aren't.

I'm just pointing out that you don't seem to have a rational reason not to be - your reasoning supports racism just as well as nationalism. This simply means your position is unreasoned - merely a collection of arbitrary views held together by emotion, tribalism, mood affiliation and similar things. That's all.

If you dispute this diagnosis, can you state a principled reason to oppose violence against blacks economically competing with whites, but support violence against Indians economically competing with Americans?
> but driving is nearly solved, while folding is still difficult due to the complexity of recognizing non-standard shapes and figuring out how to manipulate them.

but doesn't driving have even more ambiguity and a million times more complex( not to mention dangerous) than folding laundry ?.Are you saying it has been solved due to economic incentives ?
I need a good home firewall device with community based filters now.
It would be very interesting to see a through analysis of that :)

Some candidates:

- Open Source, and other forms of commons based production

We are allready comfortable with separating economic value created, from economic incentives to create. Commons based peer production, as Bekler calls it, is less apparent in other areas of the economy.

- Open Minded Systems thinking

I guess, as mostly engineers, we have a natural tendency to approach things as a systems engineering problem. Assuming basic income makes sense from that angle, perhaps were more likely to identify it as such.

- Front row seats to the future

We have a privileged position in seeing where the world I heading wrt technology and its consequences. Thus were probably a few steps ahead in predicting the social issues to be solved in the future.
How do you see innovations in software able to reconcile bureaucratic processes while not remaining susceptible to scalability and trust issues?

I could easily see how the government's business process could be at conflict with the commercial sector's business process. Colluding the two in even a single Open Source project would seem to be illogical.
I like that Instagram has an API but they make me feel like I'm begging them for access. I've finished my app so long ago but I've put off applying for production access because I'm afraid of how my screencast will be received.
Local to the network. No administrator permissions required, you just have to use your computer in a public place or have a hostile actor on the network (e.g. hotel, cafe)
I know a couple people in NYC who do something like this. It works fine for two smallish niche groups: well-off childless couples who prefer not to spend much time in their city, or very well-off couples with children.

Single people don't want to spend their weekends alone in a farmhouse, and 3+ person families don't want to live the bulk of their time in a studio apartment. Meanwhile, that 300-500k dollar farmhouse could put your kids through private school or good colleges.
It'd be interesting to go back and run some of the software from the Windows 95 era (and the OS) on a higher-quality machine. I and most of my friends were using low-quality 486s and Pentium clones and it's certainly possible a lot of the problems had to do with hardware quality.

I honestly remember the later Windows 98 experience as being almost crash-free, and since the architecture was basically the same a lot of that probably has to do with higher quality hardware (and better drivers, of course). That was the golden time of the Intel 440lx and 440bx and ECC RAM support on desktop motherboards, when just about every blue screen could be attributed to those newfangled AGP graphics accelerators...
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There was no actual complete proposal for how to do it. The vote was on whether to look into implementing it.
> Thanks for posting this comment. Is there any way you could write a detailed how to blog post going over this project?

I will see about writing something up after I am happy with my reconfigured network. Right now, I have more to do before I am happy with it.
Of course they should resist the use of violence by others.

I'm merely suggesting the French shouldn't violently resist people coming to France and peacefully selling weinershnitzel and saurkraut to people who enjoy these things.
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Everyone can have a good set of calipers for around $20 from harbor freight. If you work in any kind of manufacturing hobby, it is worth buying a set.
Common workarounds include disconnectable devices like USB microphones, or creating your own hardware shields like electrical tape over a laptop webcam.
Provide sources, for both your statistics and the chain of causation between them, and learn what "fascist" means.
I mean, we have to recognise that democracy can, and (in some cases) does, produce bad results (to a given definition of bad). For democracy to truly work, people need to vote based on more than just something being good for them. If you are not a slave, slavery probably benefits you (again, this can be argued against, but at least in a short term simple view of things), etc...

Generally the term seems to be used by people worried about knee-jerk reactionary voting, "it's what I want, therefore force everyone to do it", or "it's good for me, so yes, even if it is bad for others".

> In the Brexit vote, the vote-stay side is trying to use fear

Both sides are using fear almost exclusively. The in side claim the economy will collapse without the EU, the out side claim it's doomed if we stay in, and these are hardly the only examples - the out side shamelessly perpetuates the 'all immigrants are criminal freeloaders who want to take over' that is basically pure racism, the in side will gladly paint anyone who wants to leave as a racist.

It's really terrible, and is hardly surprising - the exact same thing happened in the AV referendum, where the two major parties (who use AV internally) came out with what was essentially 'you are too stupid for AV, stick with nice simple FPtP'.
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Die, basic income.

Of course, leftist supporters of democracy will say this does not count and wasn't "democratic".
That's quite an ignorant view. The solution is simple: keep a reserve, put everything into the budget and don't spend the money if it gets rejected. For example, my local community has liquid assets of about 50 millions and no debt. So if there is a vote on a new school for 20 millions that gets rejected, the 50 millions stay there for future ideas. It's quite simple, really. I find the idea that a budget must always be fully used somewhat strange.
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Or try my Hive soft processor core:

http://opencores.org/project,hive

I need to update the paper and code, the core is at v9.03 and the simulator can now parse assembly code as input.

IMO canonical stack processors aren't a good substitute for register-based processors. Hive is a stack / register hybrid that makes the 2 operand architecture more efficient. And I don't know why barrel processors aren't taking over the world - they make too much sense I suppose.
> The flip-side is that this isn't the sort of security most of us want, and the fact that router firmware is "insecure" from this perspective is what enables things like DD-WRT to exist in the first place. See also: iOS jailbreaking, Android rooting, console homebrew, etc.

There is a difference between making updates available in a way that enables custom firmware and doing them in a way that permits MITM attacks. Locking down automatic downloads is a good thing. Locking down manual updates is not.
the ottawa valley has been completely logged as well. 100ft tall white pines used to cover the area
Which is a good reason to always do a fresh OS reinstall before you even boot the system for the first time. That's what I've done the past couple of times I've bought a new PC. the very first boot is off a USB drive to do a clean OS install. Completely wipe the existing disk partitions too.
oh wow. thanks I'll apply today. I've been putting it off thinking it's going to be a huge thing.
Load balancers call this IP Persistence. It's one way of keeping users connected to the application server that has their session in memory. Except in this case, the session is ad info about the user.
I'm not saying its the case in Switzerland, but I get a ton of work done on my occasional three hour train commute. Driving definitely sucks though.
Would a UBI potentially hurts switzerland main businesses?
You're right, and I think that if machines like this worked as claimed, we would see commercial laundries using them first.
In European cities like London, Paris or Zurich, the supply of housing is so constrained that, barring something catastrophic like a war or a global financial crisis, prices will never drop that much for that long. In fact, it's quite a big economic problem — there's little reason for the majority of people to put their savings into anything other than property, because it tends to be so reliable.

And somewhere like London, renting a whole property is often just as expensive or more expensive that paying the equivalent mortgage would be. So you wouldn't even save any money by renting.
From the standpoint of business logic, existing working systems tend not to reduce to values equivalent to problematic. Conversely, spending money to replace one system with a more expensive system that provides equivalent value often does reduce to such values.
I like this one better: (min&max) + ((min^max) >> 1)

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int avg(int a, int b) {
return (a&b) + ((a^b)>>1);
}

int main() {
cout << avg(int(2e9), int(2e9 + 10)) << endl;
cout << avg(int(2e9), int(-2e9)) << endl;
cout << avg(int(-2e9), int(-2e9 - 10)) << endl;

return 0;
}

Gives:

2000000005
0
-2000000005
Toronto was/is like this too. It's a pretty big city similar to Chicago. All of the houses are >$1 million now in Toronto proper. Now the only thing being built are hundreds of cookie cutter condos right in the downtown core. So many were built in recent years that the price of condos actually went down for the first time in forever while house prices continued to rise.