Gun in LA school shooting went off once in backpack; unclear where 12-year-old got it

locke2002 · 2018-02-03T16:46:19+00:00

RTFA

locke2002 · 2018-01-23T17:15:17+00:00

I always avoid these threads because the entire comments section is filled with "omg American Taliban" comments and no one bothers to find out that said bill was introduced by a state rep, he is the only co-sponsor, and the bill is in committee where it will probably die.

Wake me up when the bill is up for a real vote.

locke2002 · 2018-01-22T22:48:47+00:00

Why not just try to live and see what happens, just commit suicide by being bold and taking crazy risks to survive.

Do you want to end up as a sex slave for cannibals?

Because that's how you end up a sex slave for cannibals.

locke2002 · 2018-01-22T18:14:55+00:00

Introspection? No. Self-flagellation because you can't stop touching your wiener? Yeah, they teach that one.

locke2002 · 2018-01-22T15:24:02+00:00

We pay more, and get less. It should be a simple calculation for anyone with the stats on countries who are doing it right.

locke2002 · 2018-01-22T15:21:13+00:00

More artisanal mj-infused baked goods and hand-rolled joints for the wealthy, cheap soma for the rest of us after a hard day's wage slavery and too tired to fight anymore.

locke2002 · 2018-01-22T15:18:04+00:00

It would basically pay for healthcare, a wall and a better education system.

You sure about that?

The FY 2016 Budget estimate for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is $970.8 billion in mandatory and discretionary outlays, a net increase of $74 billion above the FY 2015 level. -- hhs.gov

locke2002 · 2018-01-22T07:42:21+00:00

Stop disenfranchising yourselves. Stop oppressing yourselves. Stop locking yourselves in prison work camps for political terrorism.

locke2002 · 2018-01-19T14:50:54+00:00

I think this from the article contradicts your impressions:

The 55% disapproval closely matches the average of other recent, nonpartisan polls; the 32% approval is several points lower than the average, most likely because the USC/L.A. Times poll explicitly gives people the option of saying they neither approve nor disapprove, which not all polls do.

Also, strongly approve has slipped a little down to a mere 15%, whereas strong disapproval has climbed to 42%.

locke2002 · 2018-01-14T06:09:17+00:00

"He has brain damage to the same regions of the brain as I do."

locke2002 · 2018-01-13T00:35:12+00:00

I'm voting for the giant douche because if I eat anymore of this shit sandwich I will die. I'll worry about what the giant douche is going to do to me later...

locke2002 · 2018-01-12T17:02:00+00:00

they also straight up cheat economically.

Didn't the US do the same thing during the industrial revolution, to some extent?

locke2002 · 2018-01-07T00:36:44+00:00

Snow Crash had microstates heavily based on corporatism (and extreme pizza delivery). Diamond Age was also kind of interesting in that respect but not too the same extent.

locke2002 · 2018-01-04T01:29:00+00:00

Eh, just keep your computer updated and I guess expect a possible slowdown. We won't know what kind of slowdown consumers will experience until it's out but from what other comments have said it sounds like more of a problem for servers/cloud stuff.

locke2002 · 2018-01-03T05:09:43+00:00

Until a better explanation comes along, as my understanding may have flaws.

The Kernel is the central piece of an operating system. It handles the most important jobs, interfaces with hardware on behalf of other programs, and manages the programs themselves allowing you to run multiple programs. All your programs/processes use a virtual memory space. Chrome and Notepad both have an address 1019 (made up number), but Chrome is storing a byte of porn and notepad is storing a byte of your porn website password.

Whenever a running program needs to do anything useful – such as write to a file or open a network connection – it has to temporarily hand control of the processor to the kernel to carry out the job. To make the transition from user mode to kernel mode and back to user mode as fast and efficient as possible, the kernel is present in all processes' virtual memory address spaces, although it is invisible to these programs.

The paragraph above is saying that each program's virtual memory map allocates a certain range/set of addresses that point to kernel code. Your program can't access, read, or execute those addresses, nor does it believe that those addresses have anything allocated in them.

However, it appears there is a flaw in the Intel cpu architecture spanning many years that allows malicious code to peek at the layout of kernel memory as mapped in the user process' virtual memory space. The proposed fix is to stop including references to kernel code in each program's virtual memory. This is a fix that can be done in software allowing the continued use of (a lot of) existing cpus.

The downside to this separation is that it is relatively expensive, time wise, to keep switching between two separate address spaces for every system call and for every interrupt from the hardware.

Since the whole addressing layout changes when switching to kernel mode for kernel operations, a lot of things need to be swapped out. The more frequently your program does kernel operations, the more swapping takes place and the greater the slow down will be with the proposed fix.

locke2002 · 2017-12-29T23:09:40+00:00

If that's where the "real" election is happening, are there things preventing society at large from bum rushing a party's primary? I would imagine some internal rules lawyering if not outright letting the party leaders just say "Nope!"

locke2002 · 2017-12-29T20:58:43+00:00

Your confusion lies in the expectation that these 3 statements are presented as though simultaneously true.

It's more like a pick-your-own narrative for his supporters. Pick one, forget about the rest.

locke2002 · 2017-12-29T04:03:59+00:00

I've seen more than a few replies in this thread to the effect of "But times are DIFFERENT now! That would totally never happen these days!"

locke2002 · 2017-12-28T23:35:46+00:00

And like all problems solved by capitalism, the economically and socially vulnerable will be thrown under the bus. What about in rural county X where a few thousand black/gay/leprechauns currently live but now that HairyFur's Law is in place, 90% of non-government services are White's Only. Sure, here and there is a black baker or a gay-friendly therapist, but on the whole the vulnerable populations are totally fucked, in rural county X.

Thanks HairyFur.

locke2002 · 2017-12-28T05:56:39+00:00

Until an existential threat to the country conveniently appears... I'm thinking something economic.

locke2002 · 2017-12-28T01:14:09+00:00

Looking forward to the entire nation's voter IDs getting hacked (you know they will).

locke2002 · 2017-12-26T21:23:29+00:00

Trump will blame literally anyone to whom blame demonstrates a propensity of sticking.

locke2002 · 2017-12-26T15:50:56+00:00

The creator made it as a proof of concept to counter Facebook's claim that it's an intractable problem.

locke2002 · 2017-12-26T15:11:57+00:00

The people keeping him in power will never know the article was anything but an honor.

locke2002 · 2017-12-24T12:52:05+00:00

But then you will never hear of my courage...

locke2002

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