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]]> Comment on How to Batch-Edit Multiple Issues in Redmine. by Karl Fogel http://www.rants.org/2011/11/02/redmine-batch-edit-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-152827 Karl Fogel Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:30:34 +0000 http://www.rants.org/?p=896#comment-152827 :-). Yes, I totally agree -- I'm liking it more the more I use it. :-) . Yes, I totally agree — I’m liking it more the more I use it.

]]> Comment on An unexpected feature of my trip to China. by s.k.g http://www.rants.org/2011/07/17/best-chinglish-evah/comment-page-1/#comment-151593 s.k.g Mon, 05 Dec 2011 05:44:59 +0000 http://www.rants.org/?p=807#comment-151593 Chinglish ~ hahaha~ I love your blog so much~ Chinglish ~ hahaha~

I love your blog so much~

]]> Comment on How to Batch-Edit Multiple Issues in Redmine. by Solloh Kihara http://www.rants.org/2011/11/02/redmine-batch-edit-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-151353 Solloh Kihara Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:55:31 +0000 http://www.rants.org/?p=896#comment-151353 One word, 'Sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek'. I weeped for joy tooo. Redmine is just goood. One word, ‘Sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek’. I weeped for joy tooo. Redmine is just goood.

]]> Comment on Happy Dennis Ritchie Day. by Karl Fogel http://www.rants.org/2011/10/30/dennis-ritchie-day/comment-page-1/#comment-148966 Karl Fogel Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:06:31 +0000 http://www.rants.org/?p=867#comment-148966 Hear, hear, Bob. I had a similar same book purge experience a few years ago: I <a href="http://www.rants.org/2007/08/22/book-purge/" rel="nofollow">got rid of</a> a bunch of computer books I just wasn't using, but when I ran across the K&R, I knew there was no way I was letting that go! Hear, hear, Bob. I had a similar same book purge experience a few years ago: I got rid of a bunch of computer books I just wasn’t using, but when I ran across the K&R, I knew there was no way I was letting that go!

]]> Comment on Happy Dennis Ritchie Day. by Bob Weber http://www.rants.org/2011/10/30/dennis-ritchie-day/comment-page-1/#comment-148965 Bob Weber Sun, 30 Oct 2011 20:53:20 +0000 http://www.rants.org/?p=867#comment-148965 My copy of Kernighan and Ritchie’s “The C Programming Language” was also the most used reference I have. The best $15.95 I spent on computer related stuff. I even bought a second copy to keep the first from getting to worn out. I recently purged out some old computer books but not my 2 copies of “The C Programming Language". My college degree was in EE. I learned assembly language programming while building my S100 Z80 system back in 1975 or so. At work we were using a LSI-11. I realized that C was just a easy way to program the LSI-11 instruction set (like the auto increment i++ had a corresponding LSI-11 machine instruction) I was hooked. When I found a C compiler for my home brew Z80 system I was in heaven! Today I only run Linux systems! ...what would you expect. Thanks Dennis for all the work you did which created the backbone of the Internet and most of the systems we use today. My copy of Kernighan and Ritchie’s “The C Programming Language” was also the most used reference I have. The best $15.95 I spent on computer related stuff. I even bought a second copy to keep the first from getting to worn out. I recently purged out some old computer books but not my 2 copies of “The C Programming Language”.

My college degree was in EE. I learned assembly language programming while building my S100 Z80 system back in 1975 or so. At work we were using a LSI-11. I realized that C was just a easy way to program the LSI-11 instruction set (like the auto increment i++ had a corresponding LSI-11 machine instruction) I was hooked. When I found a C compiler for my home brew Z80 system I was in heaven!

Today I only run Linux systems! …what would you expect. Thanks Dennis for all the work you did which created the backbone of the Internet and most of the systems we use today.

]]> Comment on Does Cold Fusion Imply a Surveillance Society? by Karl Fogel http://www.rants.org/2011/10/28/energy-vs-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-148925 Karl Fogel Sat, 29 Oct 2011 19:23:24 +0000 http://www.rants.org/?p=860#comment-148925 @Michael: Those are excellent points. I had thought that energy consumption is part of the preparations for a certain kind of destructiveness, e.g., you need some kilowatts to keep all those <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_uranium#Centrifuge_techniques" rel="nofollow">centrifuges spinning</a rel="nofollow">. But biowarfare needn't take much energy. I'm not as worried about cyberwarfare, because it's so much easier to defend against, and because heterogeneity (a natural byproduct of innovation) reduces systemic vulnerability anyway. @Jack: Whoa! Can you point me to some references? I wasn't aware that quantum computing or quantum tunneling necessarily had surveillance implications, except that (in a worst-case scenario) they might make today's public-key cryptography methods obsolete. I can only presume that they would make other encryption methods possible at the same time. But maybe you're referring to some other danger entirely? @anyone: Gotta love how the old "@jrandom" syntax for indicating who you're replying to (in a blog post comment that replies to multiple previous comments at once) can now be confused with Twitter's @jrandom syntax for identifying unique users (which is fast become the Internet's global user namespace, not that anyone planned it that way, except perhaps for Twitter). Yay for standards! @Michael: Those are excellent points. I had thought that energy consumption is part of the preparations for a certain kind of destructiveness, e.g., you need some kilowatts to keep all those centrifuges spinning. But biowarfare needn’t take much energy. I’m not as worried about cyberwarfare, because it’s so much easier to defend against, and because heterogeneity (a natural byproduct of innovation) reduces systemic vulnerability anyway.

@Jack: Whoa! Can you point me to some references? I wasn’t aware that quantum computing or quantum tunneling necessarily had surveillance implications, except that (in a worst-case scenario) they might make today’s public-key cryptography methods obsolete. I can only presume that they would make other encryption methods possible at the same time. But maybe you’re referring to some other danger entirely?

@anyone: Gotta love how the old “@jrandom” syntax for indicating who you’re replying to (in a blog post comment that replies to multiple previous comments at once) can now be confused with Twitter’s @jrandom syntax for identifying unique users (which is fast become the Internet’s global user namespace, not that anyone planned it that way, except perhaps for Twitter). Yay for standards!

]]> Comment on Does Cold Fusion Imply a Surveillance Society? by Michael Bernstein http://www.rants.org/2011/10/28/energy-vs-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-148921 Michael Bernstein Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:54:18 +0000 http://www.rants.org/?p=860#comment-148921 Karl, I would agree if the cost of energy actually was the gating factor for destructiveness, but it really isn't any more. Instead, destructive information in the form of code, molecules, or genes (and how to put them together) are the keys to large-scale destruction now. And we already live in an era of cheap information. The resources to create StuxNet to take out the Natanz facility apparently took a nation-state to muster, but now that genie is out of the bottle and chunks of it are proliferating in toolkits usable by script-kiddies. Soon, garage biohackers will be able to create new pandemics as easily as McVeigh built a kerosene-and-fertilizer bomb in a van. I don't know when nanotech will mature to the same level, but eventually it will be just as easy to unleash an out-of-control self-reproducing disassembler. Under these circumstances, how exactly does cheaper energy pose a significant risk, when destruction and death can be unleashed through far subtler means? Karl, I would agree if the cost of energy actually was the gating factor for destructiveness, but it really isn’t any more. Instead, destructive information in the form of code, molecules, or genes (and how to put them together) are the keys to large-scale destruction now.

And we already live in an era of cheap information.

The resources to create StuxNet to take out the Natanz facility apparently took a nation-state to muster, but now that genie is out of the bottle and chunks of it are proliferating in toolkits usable by script-kiddies.

Soon, garage biohackers will be able to create new pandemics as easily as McVeigh built a kerosene-and-fertilizer bomb in a van.

I don’t know when nanotech will mature to the same level, but eventually it will be just as easy to unleash an out-of-control self-reproducing disassembler.

Under these circumstances, how exactly does cheaper energy pose a significant risk, when destruction and death can be unleashed through far subtler means?

]]> Comment on Does Cold Fusion Imply a Surveillance Society? by Jack Repenning http://www.rants.org/2011/10/28/energy-vs-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-148875 Jack Repenning Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:58:57 +0000 http://www.rants.org/?p=860#comment-148875 So, you're not worried about quantum computing and quantum tunneling, which in different ways might make surveillance trivially easy? Motivation to dominate seems always available to the domineering classes; they're willing to cancel any conceivable liberty for the sake of safety. It's the cost of execution that restrains them, not the cost of crime. So, you’re not worried about quantum computing and quantum tunneling, which in different ways might make surveillance trivially easy? Motivation to dominate seems always available to the domineering classes; they’re willing to cancel any conceivable liberty for the sake of safety. It’s the cost of execution that restrains them, not the cost of crime.

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