I suppose Jill Stein or Gary Johnson will probably be on the ballot in November.
Saying of which.
There are some easily recognized problems with the "two party" conspiracy system in US politics that brings us things like TPP, but, like an optical illusion, a should-be-obvious solution escapes a disproportionately large percentage of the (voting) citizenry.
Problem 1: The attitude and idea of "There are two parties, we have to pick the less evil/corrupt person from between the two parties." Thus guaranteeing evil and corruption.
Problem 2 (closely related): The attitude and idea of "Well, of course it's not limited to just two parties, there are several other parties like the Libertarian party, Green party, etc., as well as qualified independent individuals, and I would like to see one of those candidates win, but I don't dare vote for them because everyone will just vote for the less (or more) evil/corrupt republican or democrat anyway and so I would be wasting my vote unless I vote for one of those two." Thus guaranteeing evil and corruption.
See that? Same identical result, just with more highbrow-sounding rhetoric.
The solution, of course, is to vote for the person you WANT to win, not the second most evil/corrupt person, in any given election. To actively avoid voting for, say, the top three most evil and corrupt candidates, ought to do it.
The only way to "waste your vote" is to fail to vote for the person you'd actually like to win a given election.
For what it's worth, I plan to vote for Gary Johnson, because as far as I can tell, he's someone I would actually want to win the election. I think everyone else should do the same, whether they are for Johnson or for whomever. If everyone did this, the problem would probably be gone in a generation or two.
Am I missing something elementary or fundamental here?
No, sure the power supply is part of the cooling system but, purely in the context of the cooling system, if its powered down then it isn't doing anything. If it isn't doing anything then, technically, in the context of the cooling system alone, nothing happened. This doesn't include side effects of the cooling system doing nothing and, therefore, having nothing happen to it.
Okay, I'll bite.
Chernobyl: Poorly conducted cooling system shutdown test. Result: Meltdown.
Fukushima Daiichi: Cooling system power outage and generator failure. Result: Meltdown.
Current problem: Problem leading to power short compromising cooling system: Result? You pick one of (a) problem that leads to meltdown, or (b) fix problem that compromises cooling system.
These reactors were working okay; it's just that you have to cool them or they melt down.
The longer that people pretend that elections are a choice between "two people" despite numerous candidates, the longer those two people's parties will have a stranglehold on our politics.
FYI Windows 10... won't be bad... You're going to use it eventually whether you like it or not.
On the contrary, I did try Windows 10 and it finally convinced me to just use Debian* on everything. Admittedly, I only have five computers, not a datacenter full, but after giving Windows 10 what I consider a very fair shot, I then took Windows off every machine using a Debian install disc/USB stick. My only (admittedly distasteful) concession to windows is that I have Vista in a VM for running Turbotax, and by the time Turbotax starts to require Windows 10 or later, I'll be on some other solution. So, no, I won't be using it eventually.
As GP wisely replied to you,
I don't like Win10 because of the big brother issues with it, not because it's unstable.
* I know Debian's not for everyone, but there are many alternatives.
Randall Rothenburg, the president and CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has made a speech branding the creators of Adblock Plus (who were banned from the conference where he made this keynote) as "rich and self-righteous," and accused adblockers of subverting freedom of the press.
The subject of his keynote perhaps sheds some light on why ABP was uninvited from the event. It's like the IAB is declaring war on its own audience, instead of fixing the problems that caused not just a desire for but a need for ABP and similar products in the first place.
Not being familiar with standards and conditions throughout the region, my first question on hearing about the speaker-propaganda was "Why not a 100000 watt FM transmitter instead?"
I would think that even one radio receiver in a populated area would have better reach than loudspeakers across the DMZ?
Comments pointing out problems with systemd often get this treatment, especially when they're perfectly relevant comments, like the GP's comment is.
This is an article about the linux kernel. Random systemd complaints like the one you champion so are offtopic and very annoying. While systemd affects the greater GNU/Linux ecosystem, it has squat-all to do with the kernel.
I don't have mod points right now, and so didn't have to spend my mod points on -1-offtopic'ing the shrill anti-systemd crowd that try to hijack any vaguely linux-related thread. I was glad to see that someone else did most of the work already; but lots of this offtopic thread still needs to be modded down, present comment included.
And seriously, about 90% of the systemd rants, whines, complaints are completely offtopic--it's an annoying monomania, like watching a certain other monomaniac who seems to believe that the windows hosts file is relevant to any discussion. Seems like only about 1 in 10 of you people knows how to actually bend your agenda into an actual on-topic post. "When will the systemd problem be fixed" is not in any way on-topic in a discussion of a new kernel release and its support term, because--warning, technical information ahead--systemd isn't part of the kernel, doesn't come from the kernel team. The kernel is completely init-agnostic.
I know I won't convince you people with logic and perspective, but I hope that this information helps you to understand that it's not a grand shashdot conspiracy against you--you're just annoying and offtopic, and people like me are modding you appropriately.
I think this exchange between ACs deserves to be highlighted:
What [Chaum is] proposing seems complicated. Here's something simple. [describes convoluted proposal inspired by Rube Goldberg involving magic boxes, unprecedented cooperation among governmental bodies and somehow consistent 100% voluntary continuous public disclosure of same]
Simpler than that: Make all encryption is 100% secure. Only Alice and Bob can read the data.
If law enforcement wants access to the data for crime purposes, THEY GET A WARRANT for either Alice or Bob that demands they decrypt, and Alice and Bob have their normal rights to fight the demand in court, and failure to comply is risking contempt of court.
If Alice or Bob are not in your jurisdiction, then its none of your fucking business. Go ask the country they are in to do it.
See how simple that it?
Yes, I think it really is that simple. We (~99% of governments) already have laws and systems in place to get information needed for valid law enforcement purposes. No need for complex or technical systems of malicious spying under the deceptive guise of "tough on crime".
The arrival of high-speed, non-volatile storage devices, typically referred to as Storage Class Memories (SCM), is likely the most significant architectural change that datacenter and software designers will face in the foreseeable future. SCMs are increasingly part of server systems, and they constitute a massive change: the cost of an SCM, at $3-5k, easily exceeds that of a many-core CPU ($1-2k), and the performance of an SCM (hundreds of thousands of I/O operations per second) is such that one or more entire many-core CPUs are required to saturate it.
American citizens complain a lot of about tyranny and oppression, as if they've lived through it.
I agree that the TSA mostly (not always) falls under the category of "annoying" and not "tyranny". But the trend in the USA is towards less of the guaranteed freedoms and more (and more direct) government control.
Yes, I agree that it would still be possible to reverse that trend if enough voters wanted to, but the farther it goes the more likely it is to be past that point.
I think that would be a bad thing, and I think that each thing that directly contributes to it is a bad thing.
The firmware blobs are released under a nonfree license. I am not saying this is bad or good, just observing that it is. Though I guess it does sound horrible now that you mention it--and I wish there were a reasonable solution.
>> Might be worth digging a bit deeper into the "non-free" claims...
This sounds right, but I don't think it is. Here's why:
The README.radeon firmware/microcode license, for example, says...
- no reverse engineering allowed as a specific condition of installation, reproduction, copying, or redistribution.
- no decompilation allowed as a specific condition of installation, reproduction, copying, or redistribution.
- no disassembly allowed as a specific condition of installation, reproduction, copying, or redistribution.
- extraneous specific export law clause binding even for those not under the jurisdiction of the US law as a specific condition of redistribution.
I see what you are saying, it's the same microcode whether it comes on the chip (fine, no problem) or is loaded by the driver, but the thing is, if it comes as software loaded by the driver, *with a nonfree license*, it's nonfree. That's not magic, it is specific words written by AMD. What's free about it is, quoting the license itself, "free of any license fees". That's also true, for example, of the binary-only drivers which are also nonfree.
The "open source" drivers depend on nonfree binary blobs https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHow... and hence are not "free software" despite their code being free.
>> Then please inform me, wise coward, what this "radeon" driver is
A free driver wrapper around a nonfree firmware blob. To use it, you first have to install firmware-linux-nonfree. See https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHow...
A little known fact: the "free/libre/open source" ATI/AMD drivers ("radeon" for example) are, in Debian parlance, more "contrib" (depends on non-free) than "free." The only completely FLOSS driver for the ATI/AMD cards is "vesa" (see "poor performance").
I think it would be *great* if this or something like it led to an actually free software driver. Most of my machines here have Radeons, and I am one of those nuts that values software freedom.
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Saying of which.
There are some easily recognized problems with the "two party" conspiracy system in US politics that brings us things like TPP, but, like an optical illusion, a should-be-obvious solution escapes a disproportionately large percentage of the (voting) citizenry.
Problem 1: The attitude and idea of "There are two parties, we have to pick the less evil/corrupt person from between the two parties." Thus guaranteeing evil and corruption.
Problem 2 (closely related): The attitude and idea of "Well, of course it's not limited to just two parties, there are several other parties like the Libertarian party, Green party, etc., as well as qualified independent individuals, and I would like to see one of those candidates win, but I don't dare vote for them because everyone will just vote for the less (or more) evil/corrupt republican or democrat anyway and so I would be wasting my vote unless I vote for one of those two." Thus guaranteeing evil and corruption.
See that? Same identical result, just with more highbrow-sounding rhetoric.
The solution, of course, is to vote for the person you WANT to win, not the second most evil/corrupt person, in any given election. To actively avoid voting for, say, the top three most evil and corrupt candidates, ought to do it.
The only way to "waste your vote" is to fail to vote for the person you'd actually like to win a given election.
For what it's worth, I plan to vote for Gary Johnson, because as far as I can tell, he's someone I would actually want to win the election. I think everyone else should do the same, whether they are for Johnson or for whomever. If everyone did this, the problem would probably be gone in a generation or two.
Am I missing something elementary or fundamental here?
I am not a banker. Never have been.
Okay, I'll bite.
Chernobyl: Poorly conducted cooling system shutdown test. Result: Meltdown.
Fukushima Daiichi: Cooling system power outage and generator failure. Result: Meltdown.
Current problem: Problem leading to power short compromising cooling system: Result? You pick one of (a) problem that leads to meltdown, or (b) fix problem that compromises cooling system.
These reactors were working okay; it's just that you have to cool them or they melt down.
You know we have a libertarian candidate to vote for, right?
The longer that people pretend that elections are a choice between "two people" despite numerous candidates, the longer those two people's parties will have a stranglehold on our politics.
On the contrary, I did try Windows 10 and it finally convinced me to just use Debian* on everything. Admittedly, I only have five computers, not a datacenter full, but after giving Windows 10 what I consider a very fair shot, I then took Windows off every machine using a Debian install disc/USB stick. My only (admittedly distasteful) concession to windows is that I have Vista in a VM for running Turbotax, and by the time Turbotax starts to require Windows 10 or later, I'll be on some other solution. So, no, I won't be using it eventually. As GP wisely replied to you,
* I know Debian's not for everyone, but there are many alternatives.
Well played, sir.
A dotslash user?
Sourceforce is (quite properly) blacklisted by default in the Ghostery browser plugin.
This may be the best post in this entire thread. Just wow.
The subject of his keynote perhaps sheds some light on why ABP was uninvited from the event. It's like the IAB is declaring war on its own audience, instead of fixing the problems that caused not just a desire for but a need for ABP and similar products in the first place.
Not being familiar with standards and conditions throughout the region, my first question on hearing about the speaker-propaganda was "Why not a 100000 watt FM transmitter instead?"
I would think that even one radio receiver in a populated area would have better reach than loudspeakers across the DMZ?
This is an article about the linux kernel. Random systemd complaints like the one you champion so are offtopic and very annoying. While systemd affects the greater GNU/Linux ecosystem, it has squat-all to do with the kernel.
I don't have mod points right now, and so didn't have to spend my mod points on -1-offtopic'ing the shrill anti-systemd crowd that try to hijack any vaguely linux-related thread. I was glad to see that someone else did most of the work already; but lots of this offtopic thread still needs to be modded down, present comment included.
And seriously, about 90% of the systemd rants, whines, complaints are completely offtopic--it's an annoying monomania, like watching a certain other monomaniac who seems to believe that the windows hosts file is relevant to any discussion. Seems like only about 1 in 10 of you people knows how to actually bend your agenda into an actual on-topic post. "When will the systemd problem be fixed" is not in any way on-topic in a discussion of a new kernel release and its support term, because--warning, technical information ahead--systemd isn't part of the kernel, doesn't come from the kernel team. The kernel is completely init-agnostic.
I know I won't convince you people with logic and perspective, but I hope that this information helps you to understand that it's not a grand shashdot conspiracy against you--you're just annoying and offtopic, and people like me are modding you appropriately.
Yes, I think it really is that simple. We (~99% of governments) already have laws and systems in place to get information needed for valid law enforcement purposes. No need for complex or technical systems of malicious spying under the deceptive guise of "tough on crime".
I suppose the "then what" is that they would have provided that their children would live under better conditions. That's a laudable goal.
Stood for, as a WaveLAN vendor once told me, "People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms."
I agree that the TSA mostly (not always) falls under the category of "annoying" and not "tyranny". But the trend in the USA is towards less of the guaranteed freedoms and more (and more direct) government control.
Yes, I agree that it would still be possible to reverse that trend if enough voters wanted to, but the farther it goes the more likely it is to be past that point.
I think that would be a bad thing, and I think that each thing that directly contributes to it is a bad thing.
Yes, that's correct... Drone ban, and asking for our papers.
> Disneyland/Disneyworld, whatever.
Yes. Not like they're thousands of miles away from each other, right?
They're obviously the same thing, kind of like Slashdot and SoylentNews.
The firmware blobs are released under a nonfree license. I am not saying this is bad or good, just observing that it is. Though I guess it does sound horrible now that you mention it--and I wish there were a reasonable solution.
>> Might be worth digging a bit deeper into the "non-free" claims...
This sounds right, but I don't think it is. Here's why:
The README.radeon firmware/microcode license, for example, says...
- no reverse engineering allowed as a specific condition of installation, reproduction, copying, or redistribution.
- no decompilation allowed as a specific condition of installation, reproduction, copying, or redistribution.
- no disassembly allowed as a specific condition of installation, reproduction, copying, or redistribution.
- extraneous specific export law clause binding even for those not under the jurisdiction of the US law as a specific condition of redistribution.
I see what you are saying, it's the same microcode whether it comes on the chip (fine, no problem) or is loaded by the driver, but the thing is, if it comes as software loaded by the driver, *with a nonfree license*, it's nonfree. That's not magic, it is specific words written by AMD. What's free about it is, quoting the license itself, "free of any license fees". That's also true, for example, of the binary-only drivers which are also nonfree.
There's a copy of the license here: https://github.com/cernekee/li...
I wish I knew enough about microcode and/or licensing to suggest a reasonable, practical way to release the microcode under a free license.
But a nonfree license makes something nonfree. Make sense?
The "open source" drivers depend on nonfree binary blobs https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHow... and hence are not "free software" despite their code being free.
>> Then please inform me, wise coward, what this "radeon" driver is
A free driver wrapper around a nonfree firmware blob. To use it, you first have to install firmware-linux-nonfree. See https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHow...
A little known fact: the "free/libre/open source" ATI/AMD drivers ("radeon" for example) are, in Debian parlance, more "contrib" (depends on non-free) than "free." The only completely FLOSS driver for the ATI/AMD cards is "vesa" (see "poor performance").
Have a look, for example, at what the Trisquel folks say about ATI/AMD here: https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/...
I think it would be *great* if this or something like it led to an actually free software driver. Most of my machines here have Radeons, and I am one of those nuts that values software freedom.