Wandering Adventure Party

@briankrebs This policy is going to fuck over Hawaii, certainly. Maybe Florida, too.

@briankrebs So, the Trump plan is no more international travelers to the US?

It's a bold strategy - let's see how that works out.

This proposal reminds me - way too much - of Intourist, the USSR's foreign travel bureau. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intourist

@gabrielesvelto I went to a lecture in the early 1990's by Tim Leonard, the formal methods guy at DEC. His story was that DEC had as-built simulators for every CPU they designed, and they had correct-per-the-spec simulators for these CPUs.

At night, after the engineers went home, their workstations would fire up tools that generated random sequences of instructions, throw those sequences at both simulators, and compare the results. This took *lots *of machines, but, as Tim joked, Equipment was DEC's middle name.

And they'd find bugs - typically with longer sequences, and with weird corner cases of exceptions and interrupts - but real bugs in real products they'd already shipped.

But here was the banger: sure, they'd fix those bugs. But there were still more bugs to find, and it took longer and longer to find them.

Leonard's empirical conclusion is that there is no "last bug" to be found and fixed in real hardware. There's always one more bug out there, and it'll take you longer and longer (and cost more and more) to find it.

@terminaltilt Feudalism - the serfs work the land, but do not own it. They pay rents for the privilege.

Techno-feudalism - the knowledge workers labor with computers and software tools, but they do not own either. They pay rent (subscriptions) for the privilege.

Fuck Bezos and all of his friends.

Seize the means of computation!

@clock @ahltorp @huntingdon @VisualStuart May your memory be a blessing.

@clock @ahltorp @huntingdon @VisualStuart It's a safe bet that if you raise a gun to ICE, they won't stop shooting until you are dead. But even if you somehow survive, you will still be arrested and you will die in custody. This is America's new reality, and it has nothing at all to do with noble laws in dusty books.

@clock @ahltorp @huntingdon @VisualStuart A citizen's next of kin may argue this in court. The argument has merit.

That citizen will still be dead, however.