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This reminds me that in the USSR they had typewriters that added an identifier somehow that could be traced back to that particular typewriter (and who it was sold to)

Ok, but Hurro-Urartian is an agglutinative language family that is an isolate and has nothing to do with Semitic.

From what I know, the main issue is that the Linear A script corpus is rather small. Another commenter here said it's only 7500 symbols in total, spread around 1500 inscriptions (so on average 5 symbols per inscription).

The other thing I find odd, however, is that it's found to be a Semitic language. If it's a Semitic language, I would have expected it to already have been deciphered. And certainly linguists would have already looked at Semitic languages, and looked hard.

Also if it were a Semitic language, why wasn't it consonantal but had vowels? Usually Semitic languages (and Egyptian maybe) write only the consonants because their stems are made three consonants and vowels are interweaved to make words.

Example semitic root K-T-B and how vowels are added in-between to form words:

kataba – He wrote yaktubu – He writes / is writing kitāb – A book kutub – Books kātib – A writer / scribe / clerk maktūb – Written / fate maktab – An office / desk maktabah – A library / bookstore

And another such root - D-R-S which means "studying" or "learning."

darasa – He studied yadrusu – He studies / is studying dirāsah – A study / school course dāris – A student / learner madrūs – Studied / carefully planned madrasah – A school

This system of triliteral roots is the reason why usually Semitic languages don't use vowels. Why would Linear A have consonant+vowel syllabary if it were semitic?

The reason is that auto-updates and CI tools have reached a critical saturation and everybody uses them. Years ago, `npm install` would have been more likely to be run manually, and only if something in the build breaks - which means once in a blue moon. Supply chain attacks depend on people (or more likely, pipelines) mindlessly auto-updating packages as soon as they are released.

OK, how about this then:

    sudo rm "$(modinfo -n algif_aead)"

Nice and simple. Or if we want to be more thorough:

    modinfo -n algif_aead && sudo mv "$(modinfo -n algif_aead)" "$(modinfo -n algif_aead)_"

This reminds me of War of the Worlds, where the martians had no diseases and thus no immune system. When they came to earth they died from diseases.

A society like that, with no defenses, would be very vulnerable. That's why it's better to actually have some bad actors to keep "selective pressure" on societies so we evolve our defenses.

And the drive to HTTPS was initiated by "evil" Google (like free email with >2GB which was unheard of at the time).

I've often wondered about using an older OS such as OpenVMS for which hacking tools simply don't exist.

Am I the only one left in the world who actually likes Google and has a positive opinion of them?

I remember switching from AltaVista to Google and thinking they're much better. I remember a friend forwarding me an invitation to join GMail on its first beta day and how impressed I was with the 2.2 GB storage. I remember switching to Google Chrome when I read about its beta release on Slashdot. It was much faster than Firefox.

Personally, the company I loved to hate was Microsoft, and for me Google was the good guy.

Question to those who hate Google - are you old or young? Have you used the Internet in the 90s, before Google came? Have you used email where you lose your emails once you exceed the 20MB capacity, and you need to pay money to increase it? Have you used Internet Explorer because it was everywhere?

Have you seen what Google replaced?

How much jewelry is that in Tutankhamuns? Is it like half a Tutankhamun, or less?

OK, I had to search for the edits themselves, they're at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Angels_%26_Airwav...

Here's a sample:

23:37, 21 February 2006‎ Alex 101 talk contribs‎ 12,196 bytes +1‎ Reverted edits by Tykell to last version by Alex 101 - FOR THE LAST TIME, STOP AND DON'T COME BACK! undo

23:35, 21 February 2006‎ Alex 101 talk contribs‎ 12,196 bytes +1‎ Reverted edits by Tykell to last version by Alex 101 - TYKELL, CAN YOU DO ME A FAVOR? DIE! undo

23:34, 21 February 2006‎ Alex 101 talk contribs‎ 12,196 bytes +1‎ Reverted edits by Tykell to last version by Alex 101 - crying PLEASE STOP, PLEASE, I'M BEGGING YOU crying undo

23:33, 21 February 2006‎ Alex 101 talk contribs‎ 12,196 bytes +1‎ Reverted edits by Tykell to last version by Alex 101 - I HAVE A GUN, I'M GOING TO SHOOT YOU NOW! shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot undo

23:31, 21 February 2006‎ Alex 101 talk contribs‎ 12,196 bytes +1‎ Reverted edits by Tykell to last version by Alex 101 - YOU REALLY HAVE TO STOP, FOR THE VERY LAST TIME, STOP OR I'LL KILL YOU! undo

23:30, 21 February 2006‎ Alex 101 talk contribs‎ 12,196 bytes +1‎ Reverted edits by Tykell to last version by Alex 101 - I KNOW YOU DON'T WANT TO STOP, BUT YOU HAVE TO STOP undo

Didn't America attack british colonies in Canada in 1812? I thought America was the aggressor in that war and Britain just retaliated.

Wouldn't those limiting factors apply for this upgraded protein as well? If they don't, then selective pressure should have already upgraded it.

I can't read the article, it seems to be behind a paywall or something.

I wonder if neclei were "invented" by viruses as those safe rooms. There are already theories that DNA was first invented by viruses to protect against cleaving by RNAases, and the presence of UDNA viruses suggests it. It would also explain how DNA had immediate selective advantage over RNA.

During the crusades it was the crusaders who massacred muslims when they took Jerusalem. When Saladeen retook it, he did not massacre anyone and turned out to be more civilised by the christians.

Were those side projects done during work hours or using Google's equipment?

I access my GMail with Chrome and have no problems.

I wonder if their reaction was counterproductive in that the more they try to apologize or do promotions the more people are reminded of the incident because of which they are doing the promotions.

Maybe if they had implemented a strict "no comment" policy and just hunkered down and be completely ignored it, people would have forgotten about it.

Is Chrome a bad browser? I feel that unlike IE6 vs Firefox, Chrome is not inferior to the competition and in fact moves faster, not slower towards innovation.

Ah, yes, sorry. I didn't realize this article talks about dark matter, not dark energy.

I recently read another article suggesting the universe expansion might be anisotropic. The most interesting part was mentioning that data from supernova standard candles had been normalized to fit with the assumption that expansion is isotropic.

Once they removed those adjustments to the data it turned out that expansion is a local phenomenon only for our galaxy and nearby galaxies.

I was told a horror story about a dev who was given a project to complete only to turn out he had done nothing 3 months later. He was too ashamed to ask for help. They weren't doing standups at that time, or anything Agile.

If nothing else, standups prevent this.

But Stuxnet did use obfuscation. The last payload was decrypted by concatenating two environment variables on the host and Symantec never managed to decrypt that one. Did author not read the Stuxnet report?

Seems like most of the internet is ad-supported except stuff like New York Times and Netflix

Yeah, Google has done much for privacy and it's kind of ironic how people believe those who say it's malicious. The only crime Google ever did was to be successful.

In Terry Pratchett's Assassins Guild they would hire them.

It would go right through Earth. There might be pretty big explosions though as it feeds on earth's mass.

Money is a system of control in a more generic way - it allows you to make people do things for you and give you resources.

It can make a plane come for you to take you to a different city where a room will be waiting for you, people will give you food etc.

It's downright magic if you ask me. Without the magic of money, nobody would lift their finger to help you unless they're a friend or a relative

We have a great architect right now, but he's really just an engineer designated as the "architect". He also codes sometimes.