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I would say you are wrong.

That RH has not retained qualified Btrfs programmers is their business decision and has little to nothing to do with Btrfs or its usability.
https://www.itwire.com/open-sa...

KDE Neon User Edition has zfs-fuse and a version of OpenZFS in its repository. I've played with the fuse version and was unimpressed.

After I tried zfs-fuse I tried Btrfs. I've been using it without a single fault or problem for 2 1/2 years.

You mean like this?
ITwire still faults Microsoft for not planning ahead, since in February 150 million people were still using Windows XP.
https://www.itwire.com/open-sa...

Adam Clarks Adams Platform:
https://www.itwire.com/opinion...
http://www.smh.com.au/business...

Now you might think ok, this one was a scammer, but people vet those things, cant fool me twice, right?
http://v-net.tv/2015/10/09/unk...

5 years later VERY SAME "The company’s senior development team comprises: Adam Clarke"
Adam Clark, of Adam’s Platform Technology (2004) "transfer a 1.3 gigbyte video file to a 1.4 megabyte floppy disk." strikes again in another scam :)

Another one is Madison Priest's Zekko Corp:
http://www.bizjournals.com/sac...
http://jacksonville.com/tu-onl...
http://jacksonville.com/tu-onl...
Magic video compression turned out to be buried cable :D

Want more video compression scams? Check out V-Nova Perseus - they promise 3x smaller files than h.264, but somewhat independent tests show 20% bigger files at same quality :) and the real kicker is Perseus is really just reencapsulated h.264 video with resize filter on top :D multi million dollar scam, they even scored one Sat TV network contract.

Because the cable cartels have ensured via their pwnd representatives consumers have no choices. Cord cutting requires internet access of some type. It's the same company that offer phone/cable/internet. I tried to switch off the horrible comcast - I live in Seattle and my only other choice is a Frontier DLS with 3mb bandwidth.... really? someone in the US actually sells 3MB bandwidth? GAH!
Meanwhile in Australia, they're rolling out 1GB over LTE! Really! http://www.itwire.com/mobility...
The Country invented both the Internet and the Cell Phone doesn't even rank in the top 10 of global internet speeds:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This is just a colossal testimonial of how free market, greed, and the oligarchy no longer permit innovation.

Yep in about 2014.

I can't see why this wouldn't also count:
http://www.itwire.com/science-...

'Intel developer Sarah Sharp's challenge to Linux creator Linus Torvalds on the kernel mailing list, asking him to stop abusing and cursing at developers, appears to have been carefully planned' itwire.com

Do you know how many eyes have been all over the project just to find flaws - specifically security flaws? I'm not saying there aren't any - I'm saying they're really damned unlikely. Here's an interesting article, it's not too long and not too deep, for you.

http://www.itwire.com/business...?

That was quite a while ago. Since then we've had people crawl all over the code. It's there. Review it if you want to. Hell, you'll be famous if you find a security issue.

Millions of eyes have been on it since its inception. Here's an interesting read:
http://www.itwire.com/business...?

I stand by my point. If you want to check it check it. The code is there.

Female dev's outburst against Torvalds was planned

Not only is your interpretation of Linus's feelings absurd:

"When it comes to systemd, you may expect me to have lots of colourful opinions, and I just don't," Torvalds told iTWire in an interview. "I don't personally mind systemd, and in fact my main desktop and laptop both run it.

-- Linus Torvalds

But your claims of systemd developers "butthurt" are also ridiculous:

For his part, Sievers appeared unmoved by Torvalds' outburst.

-- From the link you posted.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/l...
http://www.itwire.com/business...
covered here http://linux.slashdot.org/stor...

So there's more here: http://mashable.com/2015/05/20...
and here: http://www.itwire.com/your-it-...
For those in the TLR category, iiNET wants to charge DBC (Dallas Buyers Club LLC) $108,000 as expenses to filter and send customer info to them.
There is a distinction that fines >$10 are for those who uploaded (seeded), so the fines maybe a lot more than $10 which is a guess anyway. How iiNET or how the capturing method — using German Maverick Eye technology can determine accurately the uploads for each transgressor is questionable.
The court will review the initial letters to 'pirates' as speculative invoicing (per the USA) will not be tolerated. Also, settlement amounts will be based on personal circumstances of each uploader.
This is truly a test case and will propably open up VPN as a preferred solution for the short term.
Note the distinction between leechers and seeders. This is the first time in Australian law that the seeders are the bad guys. Leeching is ok as long as you don't seed. But how is that possible with Bittorrent? The moment you leech, you begin to seed anyway.

And then there is NetSuite http://www.itwire.com/it-indus...

There is another bill to block websites: http://www.itwire.com/governme...
As the metadata law just got passed, and with UK already blocking websites, the word is that VPNs can ALSO be blocked.
I just hope that this law has no hope in being passed.
The only alternative I can see to bypass the VPN blocks is to lease a server elsewhere and VPN through that. They are cheap enough.

Thank you. Linus seems to want to stay out of this:

    http://www.itwire.com/business...

Personally, I think it is a matter of him not having had any real problems with it so far and hence this may change at any time. He has blasted the systemd developers in the past, but not systemd itself.

Catch of the day users noticed something was fishy back in February 2012. "We take data security seriously" said Catch of the Day rep. Yet CotD continued to choose not to tell anyone: http://www.itwire.com/business...

Here is my story on this event, including (page 2) a "Q&A" I managed to get from them where they avoided most of my questions: http://www.itwire.com/business...

Despite what you and the OP say, compromise of CAs has happened repeatedly.

One standard method (in countries where law applies) is a court order or (otherwise) a simple government takeover.

The thing is, that once you have compromised any one of the hundreds of different CAs which are accepted by web browsers or Windows generally then you are able to issue certificates for anybody; not just their own customers. This is incredibly dangerous.

So I don't really understand why utility quality doesn't seem to affect realty prices. Maybe if Zillow and Craigslist started including broadband rankings from broadbandreports.com for homes and rentals alongside listings, we'd get somewhere. Thus far, it doesn't seem to appear on the radar, somewhere far beyond "school rankings in standardized testing" and even "price of garbage collection".

I agree with your thoughts on FTTH or no FTTH should increase or decrease prices respectively. In fact they do and here is your proof: It typically costs between $1,500 and $3,000 to put in FTTH and adds $5,000 to the value of the home per this article. If that article does not load, this one will...FTTH adds $5,000 to price of a home.

In reality it is worth way more in economic development and jobs for your community.

Since real estate can be negotiated, feel free to take $5,000 off the price of any home that does not have FTTH. The worse they can say is NO.

Better yet move to one of the less than 30 communities in the USA that has symmetrical FTTH. These communities have more jobs, more prosperity and absolutely no incentive to throtlle / limit your internet broadband in any way.

So I don't really understand why utility quality doesn't seem to affect realty prices. Maybe if Zillow and Craigslist started including broadband rankings from broadbandreports.com for homes and rentals alongside listings, we'd get somewhere. Thus far, it doesn't seem to appear on the radar, somewhere far beyond "school rankings in standardized testing" and even "price of garbage collection".

I agree with your thoughts on FTTH or no FTTH should increase or decrease prices respectively. In fact they do and here is your proof: It typically costs between $1,500 and $3,000 to put in FTTH and adds $5,000 to the value of the home per this article. If that article does not load, this one will...FTTH adds $5,000 to price of a home.

In reality it is worth way more in economic development and jobs for your community.

Since real estate can be negotiated, feel free to take $5,000 off the price of any home that does not have FTTH. The worse they can say is NO.

Better yet move to one of the less than 30 communities in the USA that has symmetrical FTTH. These communities have more jobs, more prosperity and absolutely no incentive to throtlle / limit your internet broadband in any way.

So I don't really understand why utility quality doesn't seem to affect realty prices. Maybe if Zillow and Craigslist started including broadband rankings from broadbandreports.com for homes and rentals alongside listings, we'd get somewhere. Thus far, it doesn't seem to appear on the radar, somewhere far beyond "school rankings in standardized testing" and even "price of garbage collection".

I agree with your thoughts on FTTH or no FTTH should increase or decrease prices respectively. In fact they do and here is your proof: It typically costs between $1,500 and $3,000 to put in FTTH and adds $5,000 to the value of the home per this article. If that article does not load, this one will...FTTH adds $5,000 to price of a home.

In reality it is worth way more in economic development and jobs for your community.

Since real estate can be negotiated, feel free to take $5,000 off the price of any home that does not have FTTH. The worse they can say is NO.

Better yet move to one of the less than 30 communities in the USA that has symmetrical FTTH. These communities have more jobs, more prosperity and absolutely no incentive to throtlle / limit your internet broadband in any way.

Australia's unannounced 'totalitarian' web filter causes alarm http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/17/australia-internet-block Internet chiefs call for checks, balances in censorship battle
http://www.afr.com/p/technology/internet_chiefs_call_for_checks_Ey7wPYhsXUaMqvnZavS1SP

Reckless Oz regulator runs roughshod over rights
http://www.zdnet.com/reckless-oz-regulator-runs-roughshod-over-rights-7000015473/

ASIC request sparks internet censorship
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/asic-request-sparks-internet-censorship/story-e6frgakx-1226644514861

New fears for web censorship in Australia
http://www.itwire.com/it-policy-news/govenrment-tech-policy/59872-new-fears-for-web-censorship-in-australia

Marshall Kirk says: "Check back on the FreeBSD Foundation web site in the last few days of the year or January of next year to see the final result." (End quote.) But to me it's like a spectator sport!

It's not a "failure" by any stretch of imagination. A lot of fundraising projects set an ambitious goal, and the year is far from over. The current tally is $304,844 - perfectly "on target"!

UPDATE: $319,614 - from 1082 donors!

Maybe the December issue of the BSD Magazine, which just came out yesterday, will remind more people to donate...

Maybe some are waiting for 9.1 release...

And maybe, as feedback for the recent security screw-up, some people have decided to donate to other projects (hopefully copyfree ones) instead...

--libman

UPDATE: $325,359 - from 1102 donors!

Please donate today!

--libman

Indeed. There is a direct Perth-Singapore transit, but most East Coast-Singapore data goes via some combination of Guam, Japan, and Hong Kong, and the latency is the same or worse than to US West. I believe Internode set up some special routing via Perth for one particularly latency-sensitive application that is hosted out of Singapore for Australian customers (Starcraft II).

There's a new Perth-Singapore cable due to come online next year, though I can't find any information about progress of the build. When that cable lights up we should see more traffic taking this route, and hopefully better latency to Singapore for all Australian users.

Oh wow Alex being a FOSSie and throwing insults, surprise surprise. Hey here is a video of RMS you'll find enlightening and as a public service allow me to post some facts (with links, which of course you can NEVER provide) to give those that aren't sucking GNUoolaid some information about the product you keep championing blindly like a Moonie following his master.

How about a nice kernel exploit? Or how about the guy that wrote EEEBuntu saying Ubuntu sucks? which considering they are the current savior of Linux kinda tells you something.

How sad was it that even when a bug was spreading through OSX there were writers pointing out that's no reason to torture yourself with Linux , after all even a virus ridden OSX actually runs which is more than most distros LOL! But hey, you can always tell them they can fix it otherwise they don't need that right? LOL! And I noticed you just couldn't fricking resist screaming "Nigger!" which in FOSSie is done by screaming PaidMicrosoftShill, hey you think you could throw in one more FOSSie cliche please? Then I'll have a FOSSie Flush ROFL!

But if you didn't have cliches and your pathetic attempts at insults why then you might have to have an independent thought and realize what everybody knows that even when MSFT put out a universally reviled OS you STILL got curb stomped, does that give you ANY clues? or all they all brainwashed by those black choppers that have been following you? Hell when the Chinese were given the choice of your "free OS" or pirating Windows they chose the latter even if it meant staying on XP and using IE fricking 6, LOL! Does that ring ANY bells? A smart person would say "what are we doing wrong the other guy is doing right?" but a FOSSie who is just like a Moonie in that they blindly follow, instead says "Its all a conspiracy! They are all shills keeping the masses from true salvation!" and then you wonder why we all laugh at you because you DON'T Listen, you DON'T learn, and Torvalds could take a big steaming dump and hand it to you and you'd thank him for his generous gift. So enjoy that fresh bitchslapping loony, enjoy the fact that the world really doesn't care...but I do, I enjoy slapping you, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.

I'll say. I've never even heard of this project until now (blame my ignorant remark on Slashdot not leading with even a little bit of backstory, as usual.)

sorry! my fault. i wrote the original submission. it's been a loooong road. i only just noticed that i'd said "schematics" rather than "board layout", thanks (sincerely) to someone's comments here. i kinda assumed that people had been following. and ironically got criticised for putting in too many links in the submission, already. imagine how many slashdotters heads would have melted if i'd done all their work for them by putting in some extra backstory links? :)

anyway: there's a bit more about the background, here: http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/52054-british-company-looks-to-create-cheap-open-platforms - pleaase for goodness sake ignore the mistaken reporting of a "$15" sale price.... but otherwise it's all good stuff.

no intro telling me what this is.

apologies. it's the first in a series of CPU Cards, based around a mass-volume modular computing initiative that allows both china factories and software (libre) developers the opportunity to work together to create desirable, affordable mass-volume computing appliances. at the risk of melting your brain with another link, here's the news article which provides some background as to why the project exists: http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/52054-british-company-looks-to-create-cheap-open-platforms

allow me to go over what you wrote:

it is a PCMCIA (PC-card) sized integrated computer

correct. it can operate stand-alone via USB-OTG power, if needed. without the case on, there's access to the remaining interfaces of the A10 that we could not fit onto the 2 ends of the CPU Card.

designed to compete with the Raspberry Pi...

incorrect. this is more a commercial venture than an educational venture, with volumes approaching several million units a year. our goals almost accidentally encompass those of the raspberry pi (hence the reason why the developers were a bit rude to me on their forums a few months back: they feel threatened, unfortunately. can't be helped... *sigh*).

supposedly cheaper

incorrect. this perception is based on a misinterpretation that unfortunately was propagated through more channels than we have resources to spend time chasing down and correcting.

and faster.

correct. it's a 1ghz Cortex A8, whereas the rbpi CPU is... a 700mhz(?) ARM11. it's therefore guaranteed to be at least twice as slow.

as the scope of the rhombus tech project goes way beyond just this one CPU Card or just one device, we'll be constantly on the lookout over the next decade and beyond for upgraded CPUs, and for new products to create. we'll also review the standards: EOMA-68 is just the first. i'll risk being responsible for causing brain-melt and provide you with another link, if that's ok. http://elinux.org/Embedded_Open_Modular_Architecture/EOMA-68

You really are underinformed.
http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/54538-slackware-is-alive-and-kicking-volkerding

Fiber is what the countries with the (presently) fastest residential user internet infrastructure in the world are using.

Singapore is presently rolling out it's nation wide fiber network and somewhere close to 70% of the households have been fiber connected. 95% of the households islandwide are scheduled/projected to be connected by the end of 2012.

I recently had fiber installed in my home, though 1000Mbps is an option at $319 per month, I opted to go for 100Mbps for $47 per month.

Seems silly to spend money on bandwidth for your home if your provider will not give you even Broadband level bandwidth to begin with. Such would be my decision point when considering Fiber runs to my server rack in my home versus Cat5/Cat6.

You must be one of the lucky few that live in one of less than 30 United States cities/communities that offer Fiber To The Home (FTTH)...I am envious and planning to fix my envy by relocating to/near one of them in the future specifically for Synchronous FTTH, basically you get the same bandwidth upstream as downstream, nothing throttled either upstream or downstream. (FIOS does not qualify, however is better than cable, as long as you resign yourself to living with the scarcity myth and perpetual increases in prices over time for your family. Heck given the throttling/restricting of upstream bandwidth specifically, DSL is better than cable...for the price of one Cable Internet connection you could afford 2 DSL connections, preferably through two different providers.)

If you do not live in one of the communities on that map, how much did it cost you to run your Fiber? How did you get your local Telco to agree, as this is extremely rare and most will not? In fact they spend billions every year to prevent people living in many states (http://www.muninetworks.org/communitymap) 19 US States at last count from even getting FTTH, effectively preventing competition.

I understand costs of a single FTTH run between $1,500.00 and $3,000.00 from your home to the Telco Switching station. The cities that split the cost of the FTTH over the last mile to their townspeople's home see an increase in economic activity, jobs, businesses relocating and springing up for the FTTH infrastructure. Of course this adds $5,000 to the value of the home should you sale it one day, better than most home improvement projects as it actually adds value to the home, assuming you can get it (http://www.muninetworks.org/communitymap) many cannot.

If you do not live in one of the less than 30 communities that have FTTH you should get a DD-WRT, Tomato or OpenWRT firmware supported router and see your actual bandwidth in real time, as over 90% of Cable Internet providers are throttled to less than Broadband speeds (FCC definition is 768Kbps) except when the customer runs the lying speed test. I see well below 300K/100K the majority of time, often bandwidth is throttled to less than 101K/30K, which is just pathetic and sad as of 2012. One thing is for sure, by any measure/definition, its NOT BROADBAND.

Fiber is what the countries with the (presently) fastest residential user internet infrastructure in the world are using.

When Japan got 100Mb/100Mb FTTH back in the year 2000, they determined it cost them approx .50 cents per Gbps to deliver the service. Thus when 1000Mb/1000Mb (1 Gbps) was rolled out a few years later, the price for consumers actually went down, not up.

If Americans started throwing/voting politicians out of offi

See this is why I love to LMAO at the FOSSies, they are so "There is but one true god!" they can't even think, its like a cross between village idiot and conspiracy nut, all rolled into one!

You want some fresh bitch slapping? Be careful what you wish for FOSSie, how about a nice kernel exploit? Or how about the guy that wrote EEEBuntu saying Ubuntu sucks which considering they are the current savior of Linux kinda tells you something. But why don't you say "Use Distro X" and then have the balls to name the X so i can show its just as big a POS, huh? BTW frankly everyone has stop giving a fuck about your OS, you aren't even newsworthy anymore really. Now its all Win 7&8, OSX&iOS, and of course Android which just shows what happens when a company bitch slaps the community and takes it away from them, why it actually fucking runs!

How sad that even with a bug spreading through OSX there are writers pointing out that's no reason to torture yourself with Linux , after all even a virus ridden OSX actually runs which is more than most distros LOL! But hey, you can always tell them they can fix it otherwise they don't need that right? LOL! And I noticed you just couldn't fricking resist screaming "Nigger!" which in FOSSie is done by screaming PaidMicrosoftShill, hey you think you could throw in one more FOSSie cliche please? Then I'll have a FOSSie Flush ROFL!

But if you didn't have cliches and your pathetic attempts at insults why then you might have to have an independent thought and realize what everybody knows that even when MSFT put out a universally reviled OS you STILL got curb stomped, does that give you ANY clues? or all they all brainwashed by those black choppers that have been following you? Hell when the Chinese were given the choice of your "free OS" or pirating Windows they chose the latter even if it meant staying on XP and using IE fricking 6, LOL! Does that ring ANY bells? A smart person would say "what are we doing wrong the other guy is doing right?" but a FOSSie who is just like a Moonie in that they blindly follow, instead says "Its all a conspiracy! They are all shills keeping the masses from true salvation!" and then you wonder why we all laugh at you because you DON'T Listen, you DON'T learn, and Torvalds could take a big steaming dump and hand it to you and you'd thank him for his generous gift. So enjoy that fresh bitchslapping loony, enjoy the fact that the world really doesn't care...but I do, I enjoy slapping you, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.

The proportion of GPL is "declining" fast -- from 71% in 2005 to 93% in 2011 (source). That's if you disregard fart apps and look only at software good enough for someone to package it for Debian. This does discriminate against some Mac/iOS-only stuff, but not by much as anything useful enough and freely licensed will probably have someone port it.

Also, this is the same Apple shill posting the very same data on Slashdot for the third time.

See this is why I love LMAO at the FOSSies, they are so "There is but one true god!" they can't even think, like how you at the very first sentence threw an insult and then dared to get butthurt when i slapped your dumb ass down.

You want some fresh bitch slapping? Be careful what you wish for FOSSie, how about a nice kernel exploit? Or how about the guy that wrote EEEBuntu saying Ubuntu sucks which considering they are the current savior of Linux kinda tells you something. But why don't you say "Use Distro X" and then have the balls to name the X so i can show its just as big a POS, huh? As for why the older ones? frankly everyone has stop giving a fuck about your OS, you aren't even newsworthy anymore really. Now its all Win 7&8, OSX&iOS, and of course Android which just shows what happens when a company bitch slaps the community and takes it away from them, why it actually fucking runs!

How sad that even with a bug spreading through OSX there are writers pointing out that's no reason to torture yourself with Linux , after all even a virus ridden OSX actually runs which is more than most distros LOL! But hey, you can always tell them they can fix it otherwise they don't need that right? LOL! And I noticed you just couldn't fricking resist screaming "Nigger!" which in FOSSie is done by screaming PaidMicrosoftShill, hey you think you could throw in one more FOSSie cliche please? Then I'll have a FOSSie Flush ROFL!

But if you didn't have cliches and your pathetic attempts at insults why then you might have to have an independent thought and realize what everybody knows that even when MSFT put out a universally reviled OS you STILL got curb stomped, does that give you ANY clues? or all they all brainwashed by those black choppers that have been following you? Hell when the Chinese were given the choice of your "free OS" or pirating Windows they chose the latter even if it meant staying on XP and using IE fricking 6, LOL! Does that ring ANY bells? A smart person would say "what are we doing wrong the other guy is doing right?" but a FOSSie who is just like a Moonie in that they blindly follow, instead says "Its all a conspiracy! They are all shills keeping the masses from true salvation!" and then you wonder why we all laugh at you because you DON'T Listen, you DON'T learn, and Torvalds could take a big steaming dump and hand it to you and you'd thank him for his generous gift. So enjoy that fresh bitchslapping loony, enjoy the fact that the world really doesn't care...but I do, I enjoy slapping you, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.

Oh and Microsoft doesn't need shills, they have YOU. Its batshit loony tunes like YOU that make the entire community look like retarded basement trolls, its YOU that gives everyone the fodder for all the "Linux is for lusers" jokes, because you sound like a religious whacko. Frankly all any Microsoft or Apple rep has to do is show posts like yours and say 'you would want you company de

So even you admit its the death of the whole "free as in beer" part of FOSS. And frankly it doesn't bother me, i use Windows where MSFT pays my license fee. what DOES bother me is frankly i don't believe the web should be locked down as we already saw what that got us with IE and all those damned proprietary formats like RMV and WMV. I had hope that the developers would stand their ground and refuse to support HTML V5 until a baseline codec was chosen that ALL could use without getting "pay your $699 license fee" but it looks like that is over.

I DO however find it funny as hell the "FOSSies", those that are the rampant fanbois of the FOSS world, can't even see the freight train barreling down the tracks. they had such a fucking hatred for Flash because it was buggy they are too fucking clueless to see what it is obviously gonna be replaced with has more ways to buttfuck them than SCO ever even dreamed of and you know what? Unlike SCO these patents WILL stick and royally assrape any chance of "free as in beer" remaining a viable option.

Personally I'm glad, maybe once free as in beer is thrown in the trash heap of history they will wake the fuck up and realize TINSTAAFL and maybe with all the major distros being forced to charge to pay their $699 license fees and to remove the right to redistribute (because MPEG-LA sure as fuck isn't gonna sell you a blanket license for shit) then MAYBE, just maybe, will the distros have enough funds to make a truly world class OS instead of constantly breaking shit. One can hope after all.

BTW isn't it funny that I get modded as a troll for daring to point out reality? Does ANYONE believe MPEG-LA is gonna be all warm and fuzzy to the Linux community, when it has over 2000+ patents that pretty much cover EVERY possible way to encode and decode video and has been willing to bitchslap anyone and everyone with a lawsuit if they don't pay their $699 license fees? pretty damned funny if you ask me that so many are blinded by their perception bubbles to see they just threw away the mangy old mutt that was friendly known as flash for a rabid pitbull that looks at their ass like a starving man looks at a T-Bone steak. Fucking stupid FOSSies are gonna get run over like a Mac truck and are too damned clueless to even see it coming, too fucking funny.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2366200/?tool=pubmed

note the PPM 1250 and 5000

from http://www.itwire.com/science-news/health/53314-coke-and-pepsi-new-formulas-have-less-cancer-causing-stuff?start=1

, “the FDA’s limit for 4-MEI in caramel coloring is 250 parts per million (ppm). That caramel would then be diluted when it is put in soda. The highest levels of 4-MEI found by CSPI were about 0.4 ppm,
So to even begin to enter the risk are, you would need to drink 1000 cans.

And they don't 'add it' tit comes naturally form the cooking of the caramel.

Just so people know, you get it in pretty much anything the browns.

As always, it's the dose that makes the poison;.

And doesn't Debian actually actively work for make sure the packages it distributes are GPL?

So, not only is he cherrypicking but he picked a project that strives to use Copyleft.

http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120219

The actual study mentioned in the talk came out last month and was written up here.

http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/52838-gpl-use-in-debian-on-the-rise-study

John Sullivan even called picking only one distribution as "scientific". I'm not sure he knows what the word means.

At least there are no software patents there. So free software and creative commons thrive without the impetus that is the idea of people owning applied math on a computational device.

Just because MS got a hold of it means its down the tubes just yet.

"Despite its promises that Skype would continue to be offered for other platform, including free ones like Linux and Android, it looks like Microsoft is starting to erect some walls after its purchase of the company.
The communications company Digium, which develops Skype for Asterisk, a software implementation of a PBX, has announced that it will be ceasing this development"

In a product notification message, Digium said it had developed Skype for Asterisk in co-operation with Skype.

"It includes proprietary software from Skype that allows Asterisk to join the Skype network as a native client. Skype has decided not to renew the agreement that permits us to package this proprietary software. Therefore Skype for Asterisk sales and activations will cease on July 26, 2011," the message said.

http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/47366-development-of-skype-for-asterisk-to-cease

Again, this whole thread is about "trading". You keep bringing up reporting and email.

Show us reading here where I said that Microsoft Windows Server & SQLServer 2005 were being used as anything other than the official trade data dissemination system, ok?

How about below where you are confusing two different functions.

By myself simply showing how/when/where/why Microsoft Windows Server + SQLServer 2005 do well in a high tpm high volume environs in a stock exchange called NASDAQ (out of Chicago Illinois USA iirc), as the official trade data dissemination system @ NASDAQ & it does well, 24x7 in failover clusters... & it used to be used in that capacity @ LSE as well before but didn't do well.

You keep implying that NASDAQ has done it but the LSE hasn't therefore it was a failure on the LSE. But you keep comparing a reporting system that NASDAQ runs on Windows with the trading system that LSE ran on Windows but ditched for Linux. You keep equating reporting and trading here. They are not the same thing. I keep pointing out that NASDAQ runs trading on Linux so that makes your comparison rather irrelevant. Also to undermine your points, I think the LSE still uses Windows for reporting.

The biggest clue that the two systems are completely different is what you describe as "high tpm" Because in your MS systems it is about 2 or 3 orders of magnitude from being acceptable in trading. 100,000 queries a day? That's 2 seconds of trades on NASDAQ (the same freaking company). That's fine for an external reporting system; it's not so good for trading.

See the comparison? It shows that 1 team @ NASDAQ does do it well, and the LSE team did not, period, for the SAME TASK @ hand! One team @ NASDAQ does it well, & LSE's team does not, using the same products (MS ware).

Again reporting and trading are not the same task. That is the flaw in your logic. The comparison is not suitable.

(This tends to agree with my conclusions in my post that the TEAMS around these wares matter as well, plus, the hardware too which has advanced since LSE used MS stuff, yielding more speed in THAT alone, which is NOT comparing "apples to apples" as the poster I replied to stated & I agreed with also)...apk

All I said is it's not an apples to apples comparison but you are trying to make it out to be one. See all your bolded texts above.

But if we were to discuss the problem in detail, the problem is that a reporting system is not a real-time system that a trading system is. And Windows and .NET are not well suited to this task. Even after upgrades to the system, even after MS themselves were involved with the deployment, the LSE decided Windows wasn't up to the task and went with Linux. The LSE publicly blamed Windows for the crash and even touted that they would save money by moving to Linux.

Now if I were MS and I had a ton of PR as well as case studies on the LSE trading system, I would do everything I could to (1) not to be publicly blamed even if it were my fault, (2) try to convince the LSE to stay on Windows, and (3) at least get the LSE to downplay the migration. MS could not do any of these.

We all know Opera 10.62 pretty much rules is ALL benchmarks (including Mozillas own). This joke post decides to use an old version of Opera and new versions of other browsers...

Anyone that thinks this benchmark has ANY credibility because they have cherrypicked new development versions vs older slower versions of other browsers is frankly, a fool.

Opera 10.62 is 50% faster than Opera 10.5

http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/technology/40189-opera-1060-claims-faster-javascript-execution

And yet now, just as back then, the people who trade said copies are the people most passionate about it and who are more likely to buy music. The argument of the big labels is that there's no reason to buy music when an exact digital copy can be had for free - maybe they underestimate the talent of their artists that they could make people want to reward them regardless, or maybe they underestimate the passion of the fans who are more than happy to buy stuff but also like to share music with their friends and hear new stuff for free, but the end result still seems to be that the ones they are most demonising for downloading are their core customers.

Did it really need 3 pages? Nope.

apparently the E.U. thinks so. The courts ruled in his favor. http://www.itwire.com/it-industry-news/strategy/41108-skype-vs-sky-whats-in-a-name/

It may be a newer thing in the down under, but from the google results (see below) there are a few services.. vod.net.au, tvoz.com, itunes, fetchTV, Telstra, Tivo, Foxtel

Some of these are thru cable companies, some are online.. and I think vod.net.au is focused more on hotels.. anyways it appears that there are some choices.. perhaps they just don't offer what you want.

http://www.vod.net.au/
http://www.itwire.com/it-industry-news/strategy/39774-australia-gets-flash-web-video-on-demand-service
http://www.thinkingaustralia.com/news/brief_view.asp?id=1194
http://www.tvoz.com/

No, you're not.

I am if I want to keep my warranty officially...

Well, that's because it has the same operating system that runs most of the world's supercomputers on it. For heaven's sake, what more do you want?

So then why is the handset warranty voided when I flash a custom ROM? Why is Android so locked down in the sense that I have no idea when I'll be getting Froyo on my Milestone, even though the source code was released... yesterday?

Android isn't Linux - it's an iPhone-OS-wannabe based on Linux. :(

Android is, for consumers, anything but open. We're still stuck waiting on ROM releases from manufacturers who don't care about supporting their old devices, even though the new devices are internally more or less the same...

No, you're not.

It's a pocket-sized computer, so why don't we have pocket-sized operating systems instead of glorified firmware on them?

Well, that's because it has the same operating system that runs most of the world's supercomputers on it. For heaven's sake, what more do you want?

MAYBE you should read the frigging NEWS before accusing somebody of not knowing their stuff, eh?

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/big-brother-wants-all-your-bits-and-bytes-20100611-y3p3.html

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/blogs/the-geek/internet-freedom-in-2010-looks-like-1984/20100618-ykr9.html

http://www.zdnet.com.au/govt-wants-isps-to-record-browsing-history-339303785.htm?omnRef=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.webspy.com.au%2Fblogs%2Findex.php%2Fgovernment-sanctioned-isp-filtering-and-monitoring%2F

http://www.webspy.com.au/blogs/index.php/government-sanctioned-isp-filtering-and-monitoring/

http://www.itwire.com/it-policy-news/government-tech-policy/39742-australian-government-to-monitor-all-internet-usage

http://www.smh.com.au/national/government-plans-to-monitor-without-court-authorisation-20100611-y3lq.html

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1276537/Government-web-monitoring-slammed

WHO said it had anything to do specifically with the NBN? You still end up with a trade... unless you can bash some sense into your representatives. Who, from the recent evidence, seem to have an even lower IQ than the idiots in the U.S. Congress.

This is a great sign that the NBN won't be scrapped by any upcoming parties.

Coalition to halt NBN-Telstra deal (if elected later this year).

FFS.

I went into JB-HI on Friday with the aim to purchase one of these babies. I tell you the top line iPad costs just over $1,000 and is simply not worth it.

The crappy res (nearly a decade out of date), poor website rendering (javascript struggles), the constant blank spaces navigating websites (cause of no flash), and the lack of camera just made the whole experience redundant. Its just a big iPod touch with less features.

IMHO if it was half the price, I would of purchased it for what it was but for its current price and feature list, its just not a smart buy.

http://www.itwire.com/it-industry-news/strategy/38566-five-reasons-the-ipad-will-fail-in-australia

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1599659/wall-street-journal-admits-ipad-sales-disappointing

http://www.itnewsafrica.com/?p=6709

http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201014/5463/First-day-iPad-sales-fall-short-of-revised-expectations

http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=454448

Wow. Four stories about how Apple didn't sell as many iPads as some analysts (not Apple) predicted!

2 million, 2 months. Fastest ever to $1 billion. But some analysts were off by a week or so (in light of a supply shortage, no less), oh no!

keep reading ...

http://www.smartcompany.com.au/information-technology/20100604-the-ipad-can-t-match-the-laptop-yet-but-when-it-can-the-world-will-change-kohler.html

http://www.zdnet.com.au/why-the-apple-ipad-will-fail-in-australia-339302686.htm

http://www.itwire.com/it-industry-news/strategy/38566-five-reasons-the-ipad-will-fail-in-australia

http://delimiter.com.au/2010/04/27/five-reasons-the-ipad-will-fail-in-australia/

http://www.marketingmag.com.au/news/view/ipad-over-hyped-2165

Three identical articles! And two opinions that match yours! Oh my, Apple is doomed!

2 million, 2 months, fastest to $1 billion, top selling tablet, etc., etc. You can quote all the bullshit articles you want, but you can't negate the simple fact that the iPad is off to a stellar start. You can't take the position that with a start like this, the iPad is going to fall flat and expect to be taken seriously. If it is going fail, there are no signs of it. In fact, all signs point to the opposite conclusion.

I'll repeat that: there are no signs at all that the iPad will fail. Just because you don't like it, that doesn't mean...

Fuck, I just realized, nobody can be that stupid. I've been trolled. I need to learn to pay better attention next time.

/end thread

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1599659/wall-street-journal-admits-ipad-sales-disappointing

http://www.itnewsafrica.com/?p=6709

http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201014/5463/First-day-iPad-sales-fall-short-of-revised-expectations

http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=454448

keep reading ...

http://www.smartcompany.com.au/information-technology/20100604-the-ipad-can-t-match-the-laptop-yet-but-when-it-can-the-world-will-change-kohler.html

http://www.zdnet.com.au/why-the-apple-ipad-will-fail-in-australia-339302686.htm

http://www.itwire.com/it-industry-news/strategy/38566-five-reasons-the-ipad-will-fail-in-australia

http://delimiter.com.au/2010/04/27/five-reasons-the-ipad-will-fail-in-australia/

http://www.marketingmag.com.au/news/view/ipad-over-hyped-2165