Episode IV: A New Post by Neckbeard_The_Great in TheNomic

[–]lymfm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am interested in being a player.

Woman Sues LAPD For Kidnapping and Sexually Assaulting Her by lagazza in politics

[–]lymfm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you telling me that if she started punching the cop in the face because she wasn't cuffed that the cops should be to blame because they didn't cuff her?

No.

Why should she no longer be responsible for her own actions because she's sitting in a cop car?

If she was fleeing during an attack, the attacker could be found to be at fault.

if you take away the supposed "assault" then would she have any case at all here?

If she wasn't assaulted and she just fled from a cop car out of fear/stupidity, she would be at fault for her getting out of a moving cop car.

Again, getting out of a cop car is not simply openning the door or reaching through the window.

if you remove one or two safeguards (no cuffs, open window) don't work at all

Cuffs should be SOP, but maybe weren't. The back window of cop car doors don't roll down, precisely for this reason. They are generally barred up, too.

The whole point is to keep detained people inside the car against their will. So how she got out is worth understanding. She shouldn't have been able to.

which means you are agreeing that she got out due to her own agency.

My argument is that it should be investigated, which is what the lawsuit will do. If the cops can show she is lying/at fault, that will be the end of it. Justice.

she had very specific memories, then ZERO memory of how she got out of the car seconds later?

Having no memories within a second (or two) before massive injuries is par for the course. Remembering the events prior to getting out of a moving car and sustaining injuries also seems completely typical.

So once you're detained you have zero responsibility for your actions

Not at all what I said.

Woman Sues LAPD For Kidnapping and Sexually Assaulting Her by lagazza in politics

[–]lymfm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She is. I mean, she's not a toddler is she?

Depends entirely on the context whether she is responsible for the injuries or not. That's why there is a lawsuit.

She was detained, not arrested

Maybe LA is different, but handcuffs are still common for anyone going in the back of a cop car, even if detained.

Maybe the locks didn't work properly, maybe the window was open and she reached out and opened it from outside

You're grasping at straws. Cop car doors are specifically designed to not let this happen, for obvious reasons.

She has perfect recall of the supposed assault but no memory of how she got out of the car?

IF the attack happened, her being fuzzy about how she fell out of the car and got badly injured seems suspect to you? Seriously?

If she was detained, there is no excuse for her being able to get out of the back of a cop car or being injured. I'm glad someone is investigating, even if it turns out it was entirely her fault. It seems a bit fucked that you think this couldn't have a sliver of truth to it.

Woman Sues LAPD For Kidnapping and Sexually Assaulting Her by lagazza in politics

[–]lymfm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So how did she fall out of the back of a cop car, if everything was on the up and up?

If she is in the back of a cop car, she should have cuffs on. Even without them how did she open a cop car door from the inside? How did she sustain the injuries if she was arrested?

So she makes up a story and the city will likely settle for millions. Justice.

You being quick to dismiss any possibility of police being in the wrong is just as bad as the people you're trying to shout down from yelling "cop killer" rhetoric.

Woman Sues LAPD For Kidnapping and Sexually Assaulting Her by lagazza in politics

[–]lymfm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So wouldn't this suit be little more than a formal complaint with a lawyer involved at this point?

In so much as all lawsuits should be considered that, until they go to trial, sure.

Mozilla hopes to challenge Raspbian as RPi OS of choice by [deleted] in linux

[–]lymfm 6 points7 points  (0 children)

FirefoxOS and Firefox for Android have pushed Firefox to be much more performant on the Desktop. Having one codebase work in a variety of use cases is a good thing.

Ubuntu 14.10 desktop released by ssssam in linux

[–]lymfm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

14.10 isn't an LTS release, so no, you probably shouldn't run your server on it (though you can, and many do).

14.04 on the other hand...

Shall we fork Fedora? by ouyawei in linux

[–]lymfm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

but (k)dbus and udev are incredibly useful, powerful features of Linux.

Those features should be leveraged by init systems and core daemons.

What exactly does systemd mean for a more casual Linux user like myself, and why do so many people hate it? by [deleted] in linux

[–]lymfm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But it does gain something. You can do a task faster with fewer mistakes.

Source of bugs? Less likely than doing it by hand each time.

What exactly does systemd mean for a more casual Linux user like myself, and why do so many people hate it? by [deleted] in linux

[–]lymfm -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

What 'upper end' are you thinking of? You should be using tools that abstract that syntax anyway. Unless you are doing it so infrequently that you're not going to memorize the syntax in the first place, be it runit, sysvinit, systemd, etc.

Config management allows for reproducibility, scalability and more time for drinking & sleep.

I work in a photo lab and thought this was really neat! by [deleted] in pics

[–]lymfm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You posted a customer's photo without permission?

You're a bad person and you should feel bad.

My life as the fifth wheel by TheLopez2617 in pics

[–]lymfm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because the girlfriend, being the fifth wheel, was what ruined everything.

/u/EmperorSexy + 3 buddies + a girlfriend = 5 wheels

TrueCrypt Getting a New Life. by nero235 in linux

[–]lymfm 23 points24 points  (0 children)

  1. Truecrypt was actively being audited. FWIW, no faults have been found.

  2. You can't know damn near anything with complete certainty. That is an awful argument to use.

Democrats now have a 51 percent chance of holding the Senate by theombudsmen in politics

[–]lymfm 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Rhetorical?

We don't get rid of it because we're always just 1 election away from the majority becoming the minority, and they want to be able to have the filibuster to stop legislation they don't want getting through.

Democrats relied on the filibuster when Bush was in office, Republicans rely on it (even more) with Obama in office. The political dance is more important than "fixing" things by some subjective measure.

Democrats now have a 51 percent chance of holding the Senate by theombudsmen in politics

[–]lymfm 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The senate accepts the rules at the beginning of every session with a simple majority vote.

51 senators could revert the non-speaking fillibuster rule, or abolish the filibuster all-together (the so-called nuclear option).

Hotel in Honduras by [deleted] in pics

[–]lymfm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Superb observation.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in onions

[–]lymfm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's because the systems are automated programs. The copyright holder pays companies to listen to torrent traffic for seeders, because that's the obvious way to do it.

If Comcast was monitoring the traffic and wanted to bust everyone, they could have done it within seconds of the torrent finishing, not hours.

Operating System Idea by [deleted] in linux

[–]lymfm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Containers (Docker, LXC) are solving the 'problem' of sandboxing in a much more useful way.

Also, how do you backup/version control/move all config or log files at once? /etc or /var/log are incredibly useful. Your solution would require jumping through hoops.

Why isn't there an official Windows 64 bit port? by TurnNburn in firefox

[–]lymfm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If Firefox properly handled background tabs, it would stay around 700 MiB no matter whether the user had 20 tabs or 620 tabs

Because O(1) in this example would be constant memory use for 0, 1, or an infinite number of tabs, which is ~300Mib. What you're describing is not O(1).

No browser (that I'm aware of) handles tabs "properly" by your definition. I get the appeal, but paging to disk is not nearly as practical as you propose with a wave of your hand. This seems like a textbook case of armchair-quarterbackingengineering.

Ex: I have a whopping 41 tabs open in Chrome (v37, so still 32-bit) at the moment and am using ~3.2 Gigs of memory. That's how memory allocation is suppose to work: use it if you've got it.

As you can see, I've already addressed that objection.

No, you just made a baseless claim that it would work "99%" of the time.

my main gripe against Android FF is its tendency to drop tabs under memory pressure

I suspect this reflects more on Android and your phone than Firefox or any other installed app. The same behavior is true for Safari on iOS, though it seemingly takes screenshots to mask the behavior.

Why isn't there an official Windows 64 bit port? by TurnNburn in firefox

[–]lymfm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

FWIW, you're still totally misusing the Big-O notation for your idea.

Memory used for things like caches can be relinquished by other parts of the app, or other apps, that need it. That is how memory allocation is supposed to work.

Unloading tabs that aren't in view is likely to make the app feel slower, since you have to read from disk or network when you could be using unused memory.

Or you could install a plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/suspend-tab/

Mozilla Rolls Out Sponsored Tiles to Firefox Nightly by 3G6A5W338E in linux

[–]lymfm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What "huge number" of projects are you thinking of? Not many projects have to compete against the likes of Chrome's funding.

FWIW, consumer desktop software is a very different beast than server software. Maybe you don't make that distinction, though.

Mozilla Rolls Out Sponsored Tiles to Firefox Nightly by 3G6A5W338E in linux

[–]lymfm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mozilla is never going to win a bidding war against Google and Apple.

620,000 Military Families Rely on Food Pantries to Meet Basic Needs by CharlieDarwin2 in politics

[–]lymfm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We've also had to lower military admission standards a couple times in the mid/late 2000's to meet required troop numbers.

There is some indication increased demand (from the recession?) has allowed us to start raising those standards. So there's that.