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@AyGeePlus What, do you expect the unknown two-bit startup "Reuters" to do research?
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@hungrier God I really have to get into white-collar crime.
It looks so easy.
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@AyGeePlus said in In other news today...:
@topspin 'Paris zoo unveils well-understood organism, dumb reuters reporter doesn't try very hard.'
Not very surprising, after all.
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@AyGeePlus said in In other news today...:
You can even do math with one. As of five years ago.
The slime mold computer even has its own website!
Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in /customers/e/9/d/phychip.eu/httpd.www/wp-includes/class-wp-comment-query.php on line 399
THE SLIME HAS MUTATED AND IS RUNNING PHP! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
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Unscrupulous location-based data mining operation mines location data unscrupulously:
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Unscrupulous location-based data mining operation mines location data unscrupulously:
Sounds like the game needs an Obliviate data option.
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@hungrier That behaviour would not be possible on iOS - not only does iOS have a "allow GPS only when running in foreground", it actually now tells you "App XYZ collected location data 20 times in the background since you last ran it. Do you want to continue to allow that behaviour or do you want to change it?" (This question does not pop up too often - AFAIK only with newly installed apps).
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Yeah, ArsTechnica already debunked that one. The author failed to consider that if you're using electrical fields to accelerate ions you'll experience a counterforce on the capacitors. Since those capacitors need to be a part of the engine by design, his "accelerative force due to relativistically mass-changed ions" will be cancelled out immediately.
That's actually something anyone should have caught after completing Physics 101 - relativity or not. Newton's 3rd still applies.
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Yeah, the science was dubious at best even for someone who got a C in physics. I left snark about it in a garage thread.
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@Dragoon why is this at NASA?!
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@JBert I mean, you cannot make this up. Mr. "I'll never agree to a border down the Irish Sea!" promptly agrees to a ... border down the Irish Sea.
And then the people who moan about politicians who never compromise get upset that a politician actually compromised!
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@hungrier That behaviour would not be possible on iOS - not only does iOS have a "allow GPS only when running in foreground", it actually now tells you "App XYZ collected location data 20 times in the background since you last ran it. Do you want to continue to allow that behaviour or do you want to change it?" (This question does not pop up too often - AFAIK only with newly installed apps).
Android will do that, too. I've had it ask about a couple of apps.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@JBert I mean, you cannot make this up. Mr. "I'll never agree to a border down the Irish Sea!" promptly agrees to a ... border down the Irish Sea.
And then the people who moan about politicians who never compromise get upset that a politician actually compromised!
Well, compromise is one thing. But doing a complete 180° on a big talking point is another, especially if it's a thing your whole campaign rested upon.
If you're using very strong language to categorically deny ever wanting to do something - don't be surprised if you're called out on it when it turns out that you might as well have promised to revoke gravity.
If he had said: "We'll do anything in our power to prevent this from happening!" - that wouldn't have been such a problem. But having to completely revert your position while also trying to sell that as a big win?
Let's see if he'll really lie dead in a ditch next Saturday. Or if he'll try to sell his next 180 as another big win.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@JBert I mean, you cannot make this up. Mr. "I'll never agree to a border down the Irish Sea!" promptly agrees to a ... border down the Irish Sea.
And then the people who moan about politicians who never compromise get upset that a politician actually compromised!
Well, compromise is one thing. But doing a complete 180° on a big talking point is another, especially if it's a thing your whole campaign rested upon.
And you just can't resist doing it more! Well done.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@JBert I mean, you cannot make this up. Mr. "I'll never agree to a border down the Irish Sea!" promptly agrees to a ... border down the Irish Sea.
And then the people who moan about politicians who never compromise get upset that a politician actually compromised!
Well, compromise is one thing. But doing a complete 180° on a big talking point is another, especially if it's a thing your whole campaign rested upon.
And you just can't resist doing it more! Well done.
Say, do you actually know what a "compromise" actually is?
So, if a ProLifer would have to pass a ProChoice law that wouldn't be an issue for you then?
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@JBert I mean, you cannot make this up. Mr. "I'll never agree to a border down the Irish Sea!" promptly agrees to a ... border down the Irish Sea.
And then the people who moan about politicians who never compromise get upset that a politician actually compromised!
That’s true, but it would require to acknowledge the compromise. Without knowing the details, I’d wager the it is rather like this:
- EU and May’s government negotiate a deal. Johnson (and the opposition, but Johnson’s inner-party opposition is what’s relevant here) object to it as completely unacceptable.
- EU says that it’s the best they can offer
- Johnson promises a much better deal without any of that compromise
- In the end, Johnson and the EU come back with a “new” deal that’s exactly the same, but both sides save face by saying they achieved their goals (no hard border vs. no backstop)
As I said, I’m not sure about the exact details, and if this deal is sufficiently new that both sides actually got a benefit out of it, then that’s a good compromise. But my cynicism makes me assume the “whatever lets you save face” option first.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@JBert I mean, you cannot make this up. Mr. "I'll never agree to a border down the Irish Sea!" promptly agrees to a ... border down the Irish Sea.
And then the people who moan about politicians who never compromise get upset that a politician actually compromised!
Well, compromise is one thing. But doing a complete 180° on a big talking point is another, especially if it's a thing your whole campaign rested upon.
And you just can't resist doing it more! Well done.
Say, do you actually know what a "compromise" actually is?
Yes.
So, if a ProLifer would have to pass a ProChoice law that wouldn't be an issue for you then?
That's a retarded analogy but to your credit I don't believe you realize it. If a ProLifer gave up some particular thing among an absolute stance against abortion in return for other limitations on it, that would be a compromise.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
As I said, I’m not sure about the exact details, and if this deal is sufficiently new that both sides actually got a benefit out of it, then that’s a good compromise. But my cynicism makes me assume the “whatever lets you save face” option first.
Yeah, I have no idea about the details and only marginally even care. I just hate the hypocrisy of people whining like that.
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You can be incompetent and still reach the right conclusion!
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Unscrupulous location-based data mining operation mines location data unscrupulously:
Free individuals making free 500-page contracts free from the stifling tyranny of government regulation, leading to wealth for everybody. Hallelujah!
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Unscrupulous location-based data mining operation mines location data unscrupulously:
Free individuals making free 500-page contracts free from the stifling tyranny of government regulation, leading to wealth for everybody. Hallelujah!
And put them on a blockchain to make sure they cannot be modified by any tyrant governments?
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
their overpopulation problem
...is only a problem if they can't feed everyone.
They're renting farmland in Africa. You might make several conclusions from that. I know I did.
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
they still have a population (and population density) larger than most can imagine.
Isn't most of that on the coastline, along the eastern and south-eastern edges of the country? AFAIK, the interior and the western and northern sides are mostly sparsely populated, but for a slightly higher density of farmlands along the rivers.
The people are where the work is. Most of the world's plastic crap is Made in China. Pearl River Delta is a (relatively) small area. Combine the two, and the biggest surprise to me in the big chemical explosion in Tianjin in 2015 was that nobody lived right on top of that tank. Or, they might have; we wouldn't know, since it's all smoke now.
There's been a few articles about people living in coffin-sized apartments in the denser areas. Makes those New York half-height (micro) apartments seem outright spacious.Edit: Added missing PRD
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https://chaser.com.au/entertainment/sad-day-for-music-fans-coldplay-confirm-they-have-not-disbanded/
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
(This question does not pop up too often - AFAIK only with newly installed apps).
Or every 3 days with Google Maps on my iPad. I keep telling iPadOS that I am fine with it, but it still insists on asking me over and over again.
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
I was wondering why Ubuntu was freaking out about that CVE, because of the CVE description I thought it was one of these "you can run things as root only when you could already run things as root" exploits, or as Raymond Chen Ford Prefect put it "It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway"
It does not. The main point of sudo was that it can allow somebody to do one very specific operation beyond the airtight hatch without giving them full access through that hatch. This bug means that it never actually worked. That makes it a really big blunder.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon why is this at NASA?!
Because the NASA Technical Reports Server is not a peer-reviewed journal. Nobody (competent, from NASA) probably even looked at it when the author pushed it there.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@Vixen said in In other news today...:
I was wondering why Ubuntu was freaking out about that CVE, because of the CVE description I thought it was one of these "you can run things as root only when you could already run things as root" exploits, or as Raymond Chen Ford Prefect put it "It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway"
It does not. The main point of sudo was that it can allow somebody to do one very specific operation beyond the airtight hatch without giving them full access through that hatch. This bug means that it never actually worked. That makes it a really big blunder.
I know that now
but before when i read the CVE and it said it was the use of the
ALL
user specifier, never mentioned in conjunction with user black lists which I'm going to be honest I didn't know was a thing because i've never admined a box where someone had sudo power that wasn't effectively root anywaygiven that I think i can be forgiven for assuming that the defect wasn't that the user could run a command as root incorrectly, but rather that they could run it in a way that would log the usage incorrectly and therefore possibly escape audit trails.
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@Vixen It still escapes me why anyone would want to set up sudo with a blacklist for the target user instead of a whitelist.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@Vixen It still escapes me why anyone would want to set up sudo with a blacklist for the target user instead of a whitelist.
It does seem a confusing state of affairs, but i suppose you might do it for like a lower level admin who is allowed to do some maintneance work on users but not on root?
even then though i'd rather script out the maintenance, and allow them to run the script as root, and the script validates all the logicky stuff before SUing over to the user that needs to have the maintiance done.....
so yeah whitelists probably better.
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@Vixen
@error_bot xkcd admin password
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xkcd said in https://xkcd.com/686/ :
Admin Mourning
(via https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?search=admin+password&title=Special%3ASearch&fulltext=1)
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@error_bot Not at all what I was thinking of. I probably shouldn't use the bot if I don't know what I'm looking for.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@Vixen It still escapes me why anyone would want to set up sudo with a blacklist for the target user instead of a whitelist.
At a previous job they locked down sudo so you couldn't do 'sudo su' but you could do anything else. In that case a blacklist would be better since I really don't want to list every single application that now is installed or may be in the future.
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@mikehurley How about
sudo /bin/bash
?
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It's business as usual in regard to Brexit:
Last minute crunch time, we're really going to do it now, we have a deal, today is the day we have a meaningful vote... and we're going to delay the decision again. Meanwhile the prime minister appears to be in a different reality from the rest of us.
The PM must now ask the EU for an extension to that deadline after MPs backed an amendment aimed at ruling out a no-deal Brexit, by 322 votes to 306.
But he told MPs: "I will not negotiate a delay with the EU and neither does the law compel me to do so."
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Under the terms of the so-called Benn Act, passed last month by MPs determined to prevent a no-deal Brexit, he has until 2300 BST on Saturday to send a letter to the EU requesting an extension.
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Downing Street refused to offer any explanation as to why the prime minister did not consider he was obliged to negotiate a fresh extension.
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@CarrieVS Well, he has another two hours before facing criminal charges.
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@Rhywden Three. (Less ten minutes at the time of posting.) It's currently 20:10 BST.
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@CarrieVS Ah, yes, TimeZones.
I also found this argument from the debates very funny (not quoted verbatim, though):
So our esteemed prime minister states that we cannot have a second referendum because we have to respect the will of the people who have not changed their minds for three years - and yet he himself changed his mind on the issue of the border down the Irish Sea in less than one year.
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Status: The year of the Linux Desktop is upon us!
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@izzion The moron decided to embed YouTube videos and also to disable full screen.
WHY on Earth do people insist on doing that? Especially when you supposedly want to show off the beauty of some software.
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@Rhywden Well he's sending the letter. But he's not signing it, which makes all the difference, clearly.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@izzion The moron decided to embed YouTube videos and also to disable full screen.
Maybe I'd find that annoying if I got far enough to see it. They managed to even break scrolling. This is the entirety of the page:
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So, who's surprised? Show of hands please!
*crickets*
Yeah, thought as much.
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@CarrieVS said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden Well he's sending the letter. But he's not signing it, which makes all the difference, clearly.
Okay, that's genius.
edit: Also, does this goatfucker want to burn every last bit of goodwill he had still remaining? Now we get dragged into this idiotic internal mess of theirs because we now have to decide if such a letter is legally binding.