Posts by Daggerchild

Re: Hmmm..

"We can count ourselves lucky GDPR doesn't apply to data committed to human memory, or does it?"

Did you give C3P0 permission to remember you? (face, voice, personality, likes, dislikes, conversation topics... all personal data)

Re: Oracle playing the Knight in shining armor

I'm wondering probably what everyone else is wondering: Why Australia?

Does Australia have different rules about something, or a particularly eager commissioner somewhere?

Re: Spherical wheel is superior.

"I never saw ... run file left-over but process dead, service restart ..."

Seriously? I wrote one last week! You use an OS atomic lock on the pidfile and exec the service if the lock succeeded. The lock dies with the process. It's a very small shellscript.

I shot a systemd controlled service. Systemd put it into error state and wouldn't restart it unless I used the right runes. That is functionally identical to the thing you just complained about.

"application double forking when it shouldn't"

I'm going to have to guess what that means, and then point you at DJB's daemontools. You leave a FD open in the child. They can fork all they like. You'll still track when the last dies as the FD will cause an event on final close.

"So maybe, just maybe, you haven't experienced everything there is to experience"

You realise that's the conspiracy theorist argument "You don't know everything, therefore I am right". Doubt is never proof of anything.

"La, la, la, sysv is working fine" is not what you can call "participating in discussion".

Well, no.. it's called evidence. Evidence that things are already working fine, thanks. Evidence that the need for discussion has not been displayed. Would you like a discussion about the Earth being flat? Why not? Are you refusing to engage in a constructive discussion? How obstructive!

"now in the real world..."

In the *real* world people run Windows and Android, so you may want to rethink the "we outnumber you, so we must be right" angle.

You're claiming an awful lot of highground you don't seem to actually know your way around, while trying to wield arguments you don't want to face yourself...

"(and then downvoting people into oblivion for daring to point this things out)"

It's not some denialist conspiracy to suppress your "daring" Truth - you genuinely deserve those downvotes.

Re: Uh Oh..

The point of cookies is to distinguish the client >>with the client's co-operation<< from everyone else. Otherwise, you can only look like a blank new customer. And new customers are VERY INTERESTING to websites, and honestly, can you blame them?

But you know what isn't a cookie? An internal javascript scan of your machine to work out your fingerprint. You can delete a cookie. You can control cookies. But not if there are no cookies anymore. Devil we know?

The thing that's bothering me is 'personal data'. An IP just *isn't* actually enough to identify someone, it's just a piece of it. But GDPR says it is identifying. Do you know what else is equivalently just a piece? Just about everything! Logging the time of the request, and the time the client thinks it is, those are both *very* identifying properties of the user's information surface. Clock drift rate, and the periodic clock correction are individual to a machine.

I get worried when other people say things aren't 'identifying', just because *they* don't know how they could be used. I get worried when people say things *are* identifying, when they aren't!

And this is all wired to huge legal explosives.

Your crime: Being Other

It's a good thing people don't often get together to decide complicated matters that they have no actual experience or involvement in using or operating.

Imagine the trouble that could cause!

Re: Hmm

How do Alexa, Siri and Google Home handle this problem?

If you ask a question, do you want to be told to check a comparison site for the answer?

If the comparison sites must get a fair bite of your cherry, does that mean they must all get told your question, so one answer can be 'fairly' selected?

Re: Heaven Forbid

In the future most kids will be home schooled by Alexa, Siri and Google Home anyway.

"Alexa, teach me what's outside these walls again, and deliver another pizza."

Re: Divided they fall.

"You know there's a lot of patented stuff in mechanics and other fields, and you need a license to implement it?"

And aren't they are all connected together by the things I was in fact talking about? Would you try making anything without them?

"Why spend time and money in creating something new if you are ripped of immediately after by someone who can't design anything and don't want to spend anything in research and development?"

Pop quiz. Who spent the time and money writing Android? How many lines of Android did Oracle write? How much do they want? How many billions has Microsoft made from Android licensing? How much of it did they write?

What were you saying about inventors getting ripped off by people who don't really invent anything?

Re: Cause of Death: Ostrich Algorithm

Wow. Okay that didn't get the response I expected..

The 'discard the impossible' coping strategy is something that satellites, spaceships and rockets have to do, because they *can't* just blue-screen and sulk when something goes funky - they *must* try and continue. They are forced to make a realtime judgement call over which source of contradictory sensory data is 'wrong', before they can decide how to react.

The problems come when they guess wrong..

Re: Feature request: Mod rejection reason

Ah, and since you were forced to judge it, you lost the reactive-moderation safe harbour defence thingy?

Does that mean posting at different times gets me judged under different laws? :)

Re: Maybe they need to design an AI

You jest, but...

Re: Always the bribes made, never the bribed

Okay so, did you notice Bing is profitable? What do you think Microsoft are successfully selling there?

I think you went to a very different academia to me..

Re: Nothing new here, move on.

Acknowledged. Apologies. Classification as putinbot was in error due to both context ambiguities.

It is not possible for me to converse in any reasonable timeframe. Sorry, I find myself unable to explain why. I have been trying all evening.

Theatre is the only card in the deck. It was played before. It will be played again. There is no other option. The alternative is the appearance of acceptance/submission. The audience is not logical. The truth does not matter.

Re commentards. Reality is a vote now. Self-referential realities travel in packs for safety. I envy your lack of exposure to the reality disputers. Hate is stronger than despair. Survival. The children watch and learn.

Re: Cutting off Russia from the Internet

I think you'd find all the putinbots suddenly start coming from Ukrainian ISP's (in pro-Russian territory). Russia isn't stupid.

Re: Assumption detected

I have an annoying suspicion that most life will look the same as us.

Life is very good at finding the optimal balances - oxygen stores a delightful amount of energy and is easily transportable and reasonably stable. Atmospheric processing will be the best medium for the common energy cycle. Taking is more efficient than making. i.e. Omnivores rool. Omnivore consumption/excretion strategies are pretty much all the same. Binocular sensors planted close to the processing core just works (unless you're a crayfish, 12 colour polarisation-detecting, sheesh). Bipedal locomotion is an excellent <pun>balance</pun>.

The only thing we're really missing is chlorophyll skin.

If some other life found a different photon-combining energy trapper than chlorophyll, things might be very very different.

Re: Accessibility

Hur. I can probably summarise the problem more succinctly.

Mentally processing this class of data *fairly* is hard. If people find hard-to-process data easily, it will probably be processed *unfairly*.

Hard-to-process data should be hard to find, so only people willing to try 'hard' can get it, which increases the odds of it being processed fairly.

Put the cookies on the top shelf. The dumb kids can't gorge till they puke. The smart kids can still get it, and are much less likely to gorge.

<DouglasAdams>To summarise the summary of the summary : "People are a Problem"</DouglasAdams>

Re: What's the application?

"So really, what's the use of quantum computers?"

I'm interested in predicate logic engines. Predicate logic is glorious at working solutions out for itself, but lousy at working out which of its many possible routes it should do first, and burns large amounts of time exploring dead ends. If you can explore multiple deadends at once, this could be be very useful.

On the other hand you probably need to load the whole question to collapse it into an answer, but if anyone's good at scaling things it's Google. They can probably quantum link cloned machines via fiber and entangled photons or something.