A lot of polish people love guns, but equally as many hate them, so this is one of the political taboo topics here. We had some really tiny steps in the right direction - we removed the permits for black powder guns and there were laws passed which reduced the subjectivity in issuing permits. And, who would've thought, the homicide rate did not skyrocket.
Yet if you try to defend using your legally owned gun the prosecution will do anything it can to put you in jail. If all else fails they will try to paint yhou a cold blooded murderer just off of the fact that you did not cry while calling 112 (eu's 911).
And you better pray the aggressor is dead, unless you want to pay his disability pension for the rest of his life.
That is the grim status of gun ownership in Poland. This is what happens after 50 years of communist indoctrinaction.
No. Poland experiences the same shit now. The Sejm (polish parliament) passed blatantly unconstitutional laws under the covid disguise, like the ban on public assembly. The police, like in other countries is anonymous with the masks and all. We also have a lot of still unchanged communist law, so the police can enter your home at any time without a warrant - this they did not have to change. They are prosecuting fervently the publication of police faces on the internet. This is doubly important, because prewencja (polish riot police) is completely anonymous in Poland - they have no visible means of identifications, not a nameplate, not a number, not even a precinct or division name. They are completely anonymous. This shit is going on in poland too and the only party that stands up for freedom, low taxes and national interest first (basically what Trump stands for) is ridiculed as either fascists or populist by, you guessed it, mainstream media. WTF. Is this coordinated world wide?
The bit flips are pretty rare, yeah, but not insanely. It's a real effect. Google had a study where they had 30% machines and at least 8% of their dimm memory modules in a year affected by at least one correctable error.
What a bit flip affects is determined by what it hits. Both the program and it's data reside in volatile memory (let's skip virtual memory for this). The odds of a bit-flip hitting the aforementioned image is higher, because usually program code takes up far less memory than data on which it operates.
Secondly, even if it does hit the loaded program code, that does not necessarily mean it will have a visible effect because it might affect a branch that will be ever executed. For example: some web browsers have a "back" button. If you click one of them the code path associated with the button click will execute and if it was affected by a bit flip it might crash. But if you never click the button, the affected code path will not execute and you will never see the effect of the bit flip. Furthermore even if it does hit an opcode that is executed, there are cases when two opcodes do the same thing.
You can try it at home if you still don't believe me. Download a video and change a single random bit in it and watch it. Download a music file and change a single random bit and check if you can notice the difference. Get chrome and flip a random bit in it's executable and run it for a while, it is far more likely than not that you will never notice anything wrong.
Seriously, it is really unlikely that a bit flip would be noticed, unless it's a highly scrutinized system.
Nope. On most commodity hardware there are no protections, because they are costly. Most x86 cpus do have ecc protected cache for example, but mostly no home computers use ecc ram and the bit flips absolutely DO make it to software, but they go mostly unnoticed. First, the event itself is pretty rare at sea level. Secondly, you can have anywhere from 4 to 16 or even more GB of ram on your computer. That is 4-16 billion bytes, and not all of it is occupied with data, and not all of data in ram is actually useful. This fact alone decreases the chances that the random bit-flip will be noticed.
But let's say for the sake of the argument, that you actually got jackpot and a random bit flipped in a occupied region of memory, with actual useful data. This data will more probably than not be a random image that your browser displays - you would not notice a slight color shift on a singular pixel. There's a slight chance that a bitflip will affect program data. In such case, the CPU would jump to a wrong address, or would execute a wrong opcode which would generate a crash or a blue screen of death if the program in question was the kernel itself or one of the drivers. But even in such case a bit-flip still might never be noticed, because for example the affected code branch would never be executed.
So yeah, those absolutely do happen, and absolutely do get to software, but because of the rarity and the fact that even if they do happen they are more likely to go unnoticed most computers are generally NOT protected from them, unless they absolutely need to be, like in finance or science where it matters a lot.
They actually do. This is a rare event, but it does happen. Bit-flipping is one of the reasons why we have ECC, or Error Correcting Code, memory for systems where this is absolutely unacceptable. ECC protects against mostly single-bit flip events in computer volatile memory modules.
It's the same all over the world. It was the same in UK. Police did jack squat at the BLM protests. But they went out full force against people defending freedom. Same story in Poland. They did nothing during the recent wave of leftist protests. Nothing. But they went out full force with gas and batons and every provocation trick in the book against: enterpreneurs angry at the lockdown, people protesting illegal law, people protesting lockdown in general and mos recently agains people celebrating Polish independence. Leftist protest were violent, churches were desecrated, private and police property was demolished and thw police did nothing at the leftist protests. On the other hand other protests were peaceful, but for some reason the police felt like tear gassing people, even journalists.
Why is this so similar all over the world?
Well, that depends. The recent sentece is largely misconstrued and misrepresented in media. Abortion, sadly, is still legal in Poland. What was ruled unconstitutional was that the law describing circumstances under which abiortion is legal was too vague. And since it criminalizes certain acts it needs to be precise what acts under what circumstances are penalized. This was largely misrepresented as a full on abortion ban.
Secondly, Poland has become a socialist shithole. We are taxed through the roof with social spending even larger in relation to gdp than in most nordic countries. We have state run communist-style propaganda, which became a meme factory. The private property is respected less and less by the government. Innocent until provenn guilty is less and less respected. You are responsible for paying taxes of your contractors if said contractors fail to pay them or go bankrupt or vanish. And all of this is just the tip of the iceberg, all policy of a so-called "right-wing party" here. Apparently only called right-wing because the party cronies go to church every sunday for show.
We are drifting further from freedom every day. I'd say she'll feel right at home here, sadly.
Doesn't change his and his crooked cronies commie policy in everyrhing else, starting from theft-like taxation, he signed off 36 taxes established by his party, during his presidency. There is a government program called 500+, which is basically a handout of cash from the government. They passed a law that makes you responsible for unpaid taxes of your contractors. They passed a law, that the Polish equivalent of the IRs can seize your property WITHOUT coirt order if they SUSPECT criminal activity. They are centralizing everything, like in the former CCCP and China. They are openly saying that they will not hire experts because experts do not follow party lines. They passed a bill donating 2 bił PLN to state television, which is now their private propaganda machine and a national meme machine, because they changed all the people for their own - no one was safe, they kicked even regular journalists. So just because they deported a few Muslims, of which there are almost zero on Polish soil, doesn't excuse their ducking commie policy. They also wanted to have mail in elections - but unlike the Dems, they were incompetent and just defrauded another bln or so. Oh, amd one more thing - during their term, they imported 4mln Ukrainians His party is voting in line with commies.
So please, don't you dare paste me another link about non issues because unlike you, I live in this shithole.
PS: I would LOVE a president( or in our case, rather a "Premier") like the glorious Donald J. Trump. I would like some real republican, responsible policy and real political integrity for a change. You pedes, are blessed.
This needs to be upvoted. Unfortunately, in this case, Benfords law is unapplicable.