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> These "hardware features", whether its [U]EFI or ME or whatever acronym, IMO is a land grab by hardware vendors over what we know as the "OS". Less computer owner control, more vendor control.

What control did you have with an old PC BIOS that you now are missing with UEFI? Things like SMM and Intel ME that keep running after your actual OS has started existed and were pretty much ubiquitous before UEFI became common in consumer hardware. They aren't required to implement UEFI, and UEFI doesn't enable them any more than PC BIOS did.

> I only need one OS to boot to a working environment. I should be able to choose that OS.

You weren't able to choose your PC BIOS any more than you can choose your UEFI implementation now. There are PC BIOS and UEFI motherboards that can accept coreboot or something similar, and in all other cases you're stuck with an opaque vendor blob. At least with UEFI you have an opportunity to write your own software that can be part of the boot process, doing so with a BIOS was usually impossible unless you could install an option ROM.

> I do most work on the commandline in text-mode (no graphics layer) and as such I only need one OS, with some basic utilities. When the news came that new computers would have [U]EFI, I considered whether I should just switch from the OS I am using to [U]EFI. It seemed to have all the utilities I would need to do work, along with the ability to extend with new programs.

That's great for you but a lot of people want to be able to install different OSes on their hardware. Having to duplicate the hardware initialization code for each would be a major pain and would probably result in a lot of hardware only supporting one OS (e.g. many consumer motherboards would probably be Windows only in this situation). I really don't see how having the firmware wedded to a particular OS is going to give people more choice.
lol, now everything makes sense.

I didn't really understand why renting films was a big deal back in the days,
I haven’t used TimeMachine in a few years. I kind of figured it was deprecated with iCloud backups.

Obviously there is more functionality with an iCloud backup. But, the overhead of re-configuring my TimeMachine after upgrading from an AirportExtreme seemed pretty onerous.

How are you using it? Through an Airport, plugging in a USB drive, some other method?

As an aside, I tried out Dolly Drive a few years ago (think cloud-based TimeMachine) but I was a bit concerned about having all of my personal info sit in someone else’s hands.
The east side access project started in 2007 and is scheduled to go into service in 2023. At $73 million per year, that’s $1.16 billion, or almost 10% of the total 10 billion budget. Just for that one batch of ghost workers.
What? I've shopped in the U.K., Spain, Greece, Switzerland and Sweden. The U.K. Was pretty much on par with the US for basic staples. The others were the same or more.

Unless your comparing to some boutique grocery in the US.

The US is WAY cheaper than Canada.
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CVSS scores range from 0.0 to 10.0 so this one, at 10.0, is "as bad as it gets".

The advisory says:

> The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) is aware of public knowledge of the vulnerability that is described in this advisory. Cisco PSIRT is not aware of any malicious use of the vulnerability described in this advisory.

... though I'm guessing that will change in the very near future.

Time to go reconfigure and/or update some firewalls...
I wish they actually focused on 3.0 more. This "auto generated from 2.x" thing is pretty bad — paper elements that depended on neon-animation just don't work in 3.0:

https://github.com/PolymerElements/paper-dialog/issues/156
> It was what stopped the British led allied bombing which had escalated out of the Blitz. Dresden was not a military target and its destruction killed so many civilians that they stopped night time bombing raids.

No. Dresden was bombed on 15 February 1945 [0]. The British continued night raids until the end of the war, peaking in March, and with the last raid on Berlin on the night of 21/22 April (76 Mosquitos) and the final raid on the night of 25/26 April [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden#Second_World_War

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Bomber_Command#Strategic_b...
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>Did you notice that the recyclers are saying that the new macbooks are difficult to recycle.

Yes I did, if it’s a problem with specific products then yes I think it should be addressed. Apple prides itself on an industry leading record on recyclability and any backsliding from that is unfortunate. However using glue, by itself, isn’t always a problem. It would set a significant ussue for recyclability if iPhones for example.
Hi Jeremy,

I too want to say thank you, even though I have only started with the material. Your philosophy on how to teach the subject I feel will be much more useful to me than the classes I was signed up for recently (and lost interest in rather quickly). It's a lot easier to get excited about the practical things surrounding the topic which is why I'm looking forward to diving into the new content.

On a related note, one thing I do see a heavy emphasis on with the material is on the Computer Vision / Image Processing side of things which is certainly understandable considering how popular that area is specifically right now.

Something not really computer vision related though that I'm curious about (and I'm not sure if it's covered in the new/existing lessons) would be on how to craft a data set using data I might have accessible to me, but which isn't necessarily image-based, and to apply these techniques to that sort of data set to come up with predictions (I bring this up, because one of the goals I have for learning about this topic specifically is to see how I might be able to apply it back to my job at a community college and if I can pull historical data related to our students and use that for forecasting / recommendation purposes and create some useful applications our students can utilize...as a simple idea one example would be using historical data about the current student, and maybe data from other similar students, to predict success in a student's upcoming courses).

Thank you and keep up the awesome work (and for sharing it freely :-)!
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I wish they had advertised that more about Fallout 3. I had no idea.

I always assume when something has a serialized number, it is a continuation of a single story, but when they call it "Fallout: Russian March of Death" or something like that, it is part of a brand but the actual story will be self contained.
Thanks for the response.

My qualm is a bit more involved than just the centralization of force. It has to do with whether or not the causes of violence are decreasing, or whether or not we're observing a temporary reduction in the overt displays of violence while the causes are left to grow in the background. In chemical terms, have we created buffering conditions for violence equilibria? If so, what happens the moment we cross the threshold.

That said, Pinker himself heavily downplays the 'Leviathan' effect in interviews, debates and responses to criticisms, and bothers very little to examine what it means, especially because if the Leviathan is the primary force in quashing violence, then the rest of his project - in demonstrating the progress of mankind - is actively hampered.
This is a good method. My mechanic has giant WE THE PEOPLE and eagle tattoos, the shop's office is a disaster zone, and he does a hell of a great job at a reasonable price. Nice guy though, so he'd fail the grump test.
The phrase he used was "artificially protect". This would be in comparison to allowing culture to change over time naturally.
And many of these subsidies are actually protective of existing energy industry that wants to enforce connectivity to the grid.

California in particular had a relatively quick plummet in power demand that actually caused older parts of the grid to start breaking. PG&E despite having used negligence to set a bombs with gas line negligence and kill dozens of dogs with electrified ground plates argued they couldn't cut into profitability, and started forcing people to reconnect to the grid even if the customer would exceed the maximum buyback cap PG&E offers (as I understand it, not a homeowner so this specific part is only my reading).

Result is protectionist nonsense that greatly reduces the profit margin of solar for individual installs.
From [1]: "In total there were 222,000 apartments in the city. The bombing affected more than 80 percent of them with 75,000 of them being totally destroyed, 11,000 severely damaged, 7,000 damaged, and 81,000 slightly damaged."

From [2]: "By January 1945, between 85% and 90% of the buildings had been completely destroyed; this includes up to 10% as a result of the September 1939 campaign and following combat, up to 15% during the earlier Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 25% during the Uprising, and 40% due to systematic German demolition of city after the uprising"

It's not me underestimating the scale of destruction of Dresden, but rather you underestimating the scale of destruction in other cities.

[1] http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Bombing_of_Dresden...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_destruction_of_Warsaw
It took ideas from the 70s, dropped the interesting parts, and was hailed as a revolutionary approach to marking up documents. Ie, the past 30 years of computing have been about narrowing the interface between programmer and computer to the equivalent of a straw (everything as text!) and then try to build an entire system around that.
This is great. My Equinox lets me control the threshold as well.
In addition to Time Machine, maintaining a bootable backup (Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper) is as, or more important for one reason: A bootable backup can be plugged into any other Mac and booted off in target disk mode to run your backup on any other mac. This remains one of the main reasons I switched away from Windows.

Being able to reinstall MacOS without losing your data can be helpful too.

After the smooth upgrade experience of Sierra (the first in a while), High Sierra has been worth holding off on for folks with existing setups that they depend on.

It's not a bad idea to avoid APFS until it has had time to mature - it's inability to play nice with other non-APFS
Macs is too disruptive at the moment when it comes to backups and accessing them, etc.

Highly recommend anyone wanting to try out High Sierra take a full backup before upgrading in case the APFS doesn't play nice with the HFS realities that still may exist in your environment.
> The reason software is so complex now is that our expectations as users is orders of magnitude higher than it was "in the good old days". I'm old enough to remember the good old days, so I can speak with a little authority here.

Eh, maybe I've just turned into an old curmudgeon, but I very rarely fire up a "new" application and think "wow, this is so much better than the old days".

At least in terms of design, I find that most applications held up as some "gold standard" - iOS, Slack, Discord - are incredibly intrusive and obnoxious (not to mention unstable).

Applications used to be a lot simpler and less opinionated. They did one thing, and they did it very well.

I suspect it's a case of too many cooks in the kitchen, too much money and teams that are too large.
Navigation on the phone is great - as long as you have a workable 3G/LTE signal.

Try to drive across continent like that. Google maps and similar will not allow you to pre-cache that much data and once you are out of cell phone coverage, you are stuffed. And by Murphy's law it will be in the middle of nowhere where you need the GPS the most.

I am driving about 3000km back and forth across Europe every summer - from France to Slovakia and back, i.e. crossing France, Germany and Austria before I arrive in Slovakia. One would say - civilized countries, no problem. Except in many places you don't have even 2G signal on the motorway, even less 3G/LTE.

Oh and I am not even mentioning the roaming charges for data. Until recently it was exorbitant - the above mentioned trip would have costed me about 300 euro only in roaming charges if I have used a phone. It is less now after the EU forced the networks to lower the charges but it is still isn't free.

My TomTom doesn't have any of these problems. I certainly wouldn't buy a car with a built-in satnav, that's a pure waste of money and a colossal ripoff on map update costs, but a standalone satnav is still pretty useful if you ever drive outside of a large metro area.

And often even in cities - I have tried to use Google Maps and had Waze on my phone while driving in Paris, but it was so cluttered with advertising crap on the map (especially Waze!) that I couldn't see the route. Not cool when you are relying on it to know which street to take!
"...we are living in the most peaceful time in human history..."

Tell that to the people in Iraq. Under phony pretext their country was invaded, over a million people died. Destabilizing the whole middle east is still in full swing arming non-state entities, even groups which are in the terror organizations list (YPG, PKK, etc.)

A bomb blasts and kills 100 people in Afghanistan and it is not even news anymore.

It hurts when these claims come from an American.
Excellent idea. Too bad it's so much harder to get a standard transmission car in the US these days.
They can ship a downscaled version of the data for older devices. Standard algorithms like Douglas-Peucker are simple to implement and the quality is bound to be good enough (certainly better than the alternative, which here is nothing at all).

Yes, that's some work. But a build pipeline to produce varying qualities of assets is not something TomTom should be a stranger to.
This is why I'm not entirely opposed to the Trump infrastructure philosophy of encouraging states and local governments to pay their own way. It also encourages more private investment in infrastructure which is something that has contributed to the success of the subways in Seoul, Hong Kong and Tokyo as well as the original builders of the NYC subway.
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You can have multiple EFI system partitions on the same disk. The Windows installer does not like this, but it won't affect the actual boot process after it's installed. The Linux distros I've seen don't mind at all, since /boot/efi is usually mounted by UUID in your fstab.
Not convinced I actually look like

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> New tools have a lower expected lifespan

That doesn't have anything to do with whether or not that tool is the best one for the job. Further, this logic is clearly fallacious because I could just as easily say PHP is too new and you should use C and CGI. Clearly, there are qualities that make one tool better than another for a certain type of problem, so making an evaluation of the available tools per problem is the best way to go.

> I love new tech, but a LAMP website will last forever.

But LAMP is not always the best solution to the problem. For example, if one of your application requirements demanded streaming live data to the browser via websockets, PHP would be a bad choice compared to something like Go or node. Another example might be a webservice that takes some input and has to do computation-heavy work like image processing or rendering, it'd be a big mistake to implement something like that in PHP rather than than, say, a JVM based language.
I don’t mean this to be rude, but you are ok letting Apple finely track everywhere you go, but not listen to you?
What better introduction can there be to the physics of simple harmonic motion and resonance than shaking signs and lamp poles?
Yeah I had the same experience; the sales guy basically said it wasn't worth paying extra for the built-in GPS so we didn't. This was a few years back.
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted. It seems entirely reasonable to assume that people just can't bring themselves to think about some things logically.
What is really irritating is when for example an update that only changes mshtml.dll requires a reboot because a program unnecessarily depends on it. These are not as common as it used to be though.
Most of the time the customer router is controlled by the ISP. And I don't see why you are so pedantic on this, the point is about how NAT is generally deployed, and for consumers, this is with a single IP, stateful firewall and UPnP for port forwarding. And this might change with IPv6.
Numerous internet connected cars are remotely hackable and you can take over engine controls, steering, breaking. This was performed on live highways multiple times. DOT investigated at least one of the incidents involving some SUV's.
I don't avoid those things because of social pressure.

I don't try random doorknobs because I wouldn't want people intruding on my space if I happened to leave a door unlocked by accident -- the fact that kids (and some adults apparently) don't think through such things is not some sort of admirable trait.

I don't shake sign posts for fun because I've had to fix enough things in my life that I know how actions like that can weaken or destroy an object that most people consider very durable (or indestructible) and therefore would amount to vandalism for the sake of "fun".
I think you're on the right track when you're saying that this isn't a technical problem. That's the most important thing to understand about the development of overwrought, top-heavy system architectures.

Trying to fix this with more code is a fool's errand. As soon as you get something reasonable and good, someone will come along to distort and abuse it to serve their non-technical interests.

IMO a few of the main reasons we see this plague of listless over-engineering are:

a) many people don't actually know what they're doing, and they're trying to hide behind ever-shifting technical targets to obscure this fact. Sometimes this is pretty blatant, but this happens in a more subtle form with surprising frequency. Many people maintain only a very superficial interest and understanding in what's happening under the covers, so they hear promises of magic hand-waving and instantly jump to them.

and b) people are forced by the principal to coop themselves up in an office for 8 hours per day, and they need to invent things to occupy their time. You could say that this is the agent not respecting the principal's investment, but it really goes both ways. Our employment model does not allow for "done", because as soon as this happens, the contributor is declared redundant and the revenue stream disappears. It's fun to brainstorm models that may not have that issue.

A relatively flat/reasonable technical apparatus is needed to reason coherently about a system at all. A lot of these microservice shops are complete nightmares, and they use "microservices" as cover for "nothing is maintainable, just delete it and start over when we need to make an important change".

People primarily want to use the latest stacks and make complex system architectures to gratify their vanity, in various ways: to keep their resume relevant, to be treated like a guru, and to keep up with the joneses. These are problems that stretch way outside of tech and affect everything humans do.

Have other technical fields found ways of handling this sanely? What is stopping civil engineers from changing to a different concrete formulation every two weeks? Is that there is an objective physical component that can be tested, whereas software lives primarily as a manifestation of a mental problem-solving structure? Those are the answers that our field needs to look for IMO.
> Sorry but, my dude, google, amazon, microsoft, apple, etc al, don't and won't get my business however much you think I'm wasting my time.

Amazon and Google fund Linux a lot, and many of the products we use and support give money to Amazon and Google for hosting.

So no, I don't believe what you're saying. If you do, either you're incredibly careful or you're willfully misinformed.

But on topic, data leaks from using digital services is a result of physics, not avarice. While we might try to offer guidance and punish wrongdoers, demands for digital privacy are a fool's errand. You might as well demand blood from a stone. And if anyone thought it was worth anything, they'd just start mining data and reselling it out of the channels you DO use.

For example, nothing really stops this website forum from selling your IP and browsing habits and even a recognizer for your unique style of writing, other than ethics and economics.

Your solution is to turn off the computer and flee, or find ways to work within the new framework and make it so that governments and citizens, good or bad, private or public, everyone has access to the same information and information processing capability.
Why is inequality a problem? It seems like what people should care about is how well off they are absolutely, not how well off they are relative to other people.

Let me put it this way: if everyone in the human race was so rich that they owned an entire planet full of machines that cater to their every whim, then there might still be people who are "rich" and own thousands of planets. Does that wealth inequality matter? No, it doesn't, because you're still so rich you own a goddamn planet! People who own planets have no reason to be indignant.

The same is true in our world. The only thing that should really matter to people is how well off they are absolutely. Anything more than that is simply coveting other people's wealth. In America, it turns out that even people who are considered "poor" by the government are well off by material possessions:

https://www.heritage.org/poverty-and-inequality/report/air-c...

> As scholar James Q. Wilson has stated, “The poorest Americans today live a better life than all but the richest persons a hundred years ago.” In 2005, the typical household defined as poor by the government had a car and air conditioning. For entertainment, the household had two color televisions, cable or satellite TV, a DVD player, and a VCR. If there were children, especially boys, in the home, the family had a game system, such as an Xbox or a PlayStation.[4] In the kitchen, the household had a refrigerator, an oven and stove, and a microwave. Other household conveniences included a clothes washer, clothes dryer, ceiling fans, a cordless phone, and a coffee maker.

> The home of the typical poor family was not overcrowded and was in good repair. In fact, the typical poor American had more living space than the average European. The typical poor American family was also able to obtain medical care when needed. By its own report, the typical family was not hungry and had sufficient funds during the past year to meet all essential needs.
Is there a reason your account was locked? Something personally incriminating? For instance sending funds directly to a darknet market, or online casino.

If not, perhaps hire a lawyer.
Well, but then, you arguable don't have a single, IP, but rather none at all.

Also, as you usually still have only one (non-)IP, the CPE still does NAT as well.

And in any case, NAT does not prevent inbound connections, not even CGN. CGN might prevent inbound connections from the public internet, but your ISP can still connect to your internal network if you don't have a stateful filter on your side.
Gets me thinking of an Adam Curtis' documentary series:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_o...

Not exactly sure how relevant it is though.
Or if the malware lives in the disk controller firmware in which case even formatting the disk won't help.