To put it another way, if you had a delay of 10ms before, and you're now getting a delay of 50ms due to some background copy, all of your applications went from running at 100fps to 20fps, which I think even non-sensitive people can pick up on, even outside of games and smooth scrolling.
The delay talked about is in scheduling a process on a CPU. Once the process is running there is no delay. If all applications were running at 20% of full speed due to some kernel bug it would've been noticed a long time ago.
Clinton is on record as basically saying, I wash my hands of this as this is the next administration's problem... Clinton's administrative policy was to ignore them as much as possible while as many people were murdered.
That is actually quite different from what he is on record saying. Watch the video - Clinton comes across as being quite angry about these Republican claims that he failed to respond to terrorist attacks.
but there were a lot of remediations available, too.
Don't forget one of the best: If you rape a hot woman you pay 50 pieces of silver and marry her!
"If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her."
No, the problem isn't incompleteness it's the fact that one has to traverse a jungle of incompatible audio and video APIs to make sure it even works at all across the various distributions.
Then how come mplayer works on every common Linux distribution, and has been able to do smooth fullscreen video for as long as I can remember?
He has an absolute obligation as a human being not to put other human beings in danger when there are other avenues to address the problem. This is especially pertinent, since his argument for releasing the information was that it shows his adversaries doing exactly that as well.
If publishing documents results in the deaths of a handful of people*, but helps to end a war, thus saving the lives of thousands of people a year, then the moral obligation would be to release the documents. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
* (I'm always amazed at the inconsistencies of the Wikileaks haters - U.S. planes bomb a village, killing innocent people, and the deaths are the fault of "the enemy". Man in Europe releases documents, hypothetical man in Afghanistan is hypothetically killed by "the enemy", but the fault lies with the man in Europe? Drop a bomb on a village, killing innocent people = you are not to blame for killing, publish a name of an informer = you take the blame for killing. What a cognitive dissonance.)
Guess what? People pulled this shit a lot less often back then.
[citationneeded]
The research that I've read suggests that the severity of a deterrent is not an important factor in actually deterring people from committing a crime. The probability of being caught is an important risk factor. This is why death sentence, limb amputation, etc. for thieves doesn't work as an absolute deterrent, and yet nations with a high probability of getting caught (e.g. Japan where apparently p=0.96 for some serious crime) have low crime rates.
There was a time when your name was synonymous with inexpensive but decent computers.
Do you have any evidence that this isn't still the case, personal experiences aside? I've worked in several large enterprises, with thousands of desktops, that standardised on Dell hardware. Dell was cheaper than the competition and the problems were no greater than their competitor brands (HP, Acer, Lenovo, Toshiba). Plus Dell is so ubiquitous that hardware and driver problems are usually already solved by someone, somewhere in the world. I doubt that Dell has any huge QA problem when compared to HP/Acer/Lenovo/Toshiba, or is significantly more expensive, but let's see the evidence?
The Holocaust was enabled by a combination of fascism and centuries of German Christian anti-Semitism. Until you have seen churches and cathedrals decorated with the Judeansau, it is difficult to understand how deeply anti-Semitism was embedded in German Christian tradition.
On the contrary, it is coercion which is the root of all evil, because coercion is the one absolute prerequisite of all forms of injustice.
Coercion is also the one absolute prerequisite of all forms of justice. The police force and judicial system of every nation relies on the implied and real threat of physical force.
I understand your argument, and I understand the arguments made my anarchists against government and the use of force by any measure. But realistically, anarchism does not scale; anarchism does not provide a system of law and order and governance that can sustain a population of millions.
The point is that if we were going to create a huge bill for our grandchildren to pay off, we should at least have spent them money on something of value.
And that's really the problem with central planning.
The issue isn't central planning. The Chinese government's response to the financial crisis was to approve $292 billion for the construction of a high speed national railway network. Central planning, and constructing something of value.
The Serbian military did it more recently. The success rate differs depending on who reports it (reference):
* DoD estimated 120 Serb tanks, 220 APCs destroyed; Clark stated that reports about NATO warplanes striking decoys and failing to destroy tanks and personnel carriers was a concerted disinformation campaign * Reporters on the ground estimated 13 Serb tanks and < 100 armored personnel carriers destroyed, but noted the ruins of many different types of decoys hit by NATO forces (e.g., rusted tanks with broken parts, wood or canvas mock-ups). Other reports talk about microwave ovens being used inside decoys to generate cheap electronic signatures.
Let me get this straight - you're running pre-release Ubuntu on 60 production machines?
I was running it on a few. It's a good way to discover if anything that I rely on needs fixing before the real release - bugs are more likely to get worked on when they are reported asap after being introduced. Plus the software itself isn't really pre-release; the actual software versions of core packages are usually considered stable upstream. If you are capable of handling problems yourself, and can accept small amounts of downtime (i.e. non-critical services), then it makes sense to run the development release of your distribution of choice on a few systems.
And when the drug cartels, finding the pot business no longer lucrative, move on over to cocaine etc.. what then?
Do you think the drug cartels aren't already dealing cocaine? Removing cannabis from their inventory will only serve to reduce the amount of money flowing into their coffers. That will in turn reduce the amount of power that they can wield over the government, law enforcement, and the general public.
You know, Americans say that about the Brits, but look to your neighbour to the North. Rather than going through a bloody and violent war for independence, we just kinda sat around for a while.
Not just Canadians: Ghandi and his followers gained independence for India through entirely non-violent protest.
The position of Apple (and any sane company) is that by jail-breaking the phone, you are voiding the warranty and they will not support the device if you do it.
It would be simple to track unwarrantied phones. The jailbreak app would sent a request with the hardware ID of the phone to an Apple server, the server records it, and sents back a signed unlock key.
In a world where visiting a website can get your PC owned, I would think you would be more security conscious.
There are no security implications here; Apple is fully capable of jailbreaking their own phones without opening them up to outside security exploits.
(and any sane company)
Then Nokia must be insane, because they sell "jailbroken" Linux phones with full root access.
You want to do whatever you want, whenever you want and not have to face the consequences of it
What is wrong with that? Why is it unreasonable to want to do whatever I want with a product that I 100% own, purchased with my own money?
security be damned.
As I already pointed out, I think Apple is capable of releasing a jailbroken phone without introducing security exploits. If Nokia can do it, why do you think Apple can't?
And what about all the jailbreaks that aren't security issues? The ones that require physical access to the device? Or the ones where you must deliberately downgrade the OS?
If you are willing to classify everything as a security issue, even physical access and deliberate OS downgrades, then sure, Apple just closes security holes. The result is still the same. If Apple really didn't care about blocking jailbreaks, then they would just go ahead and release their own jailbreak app and be done with it...
Of course there is. The presumption of innocence in English and Scots law comes from common law. The concept itself has been part of British society for thousands of years - Alexander Volokh says that it has been present since Greece and Sparta and Rome, all the way back to the first (Judaic?) legal systems.
It after that went on and voted into the statute book several hundred criminal offences which explicitly postulate that you are guilty until proven innocent. The RIPA act, The H&S act, you name them. Half of Blair's legislation (Blair and Co raised the number of criminal offences on the statutes by more than 100% in 10 years) is based around "guilty until proven innocent".
[citationneeded]. Please name these "hundreds of acts that explicitly say British people are guilty until proven innocent.". And are you seriously blaming the Blair government (which came to power in 1997) for the 1974 Health and Safety Act?!? What?!
So the new government has actually promissed to fix this by accepting _ALL_ rights in the convention and repealing most of Blair's handywork as a big block vote including most of the RIPA act.
Bruce is a perfectionist, but the real world isn't perfect. The existing voting system is not perfect (it has >0% error), and so any system that replaces it does not need to be perfect either - it merely has to be better. In the UK, voting cards (really a "right to vote" card) are mailed out through the postal service, and you must hand one over before being allowed into the voting booth. This has many theoretical problems. You could buy and sell the card. You could manufacture a fake card (there are no security features) and vote multiple times at different polling stations. The monitors could switch out the boxes of votes. The people counting the votes could miscount. Essentially, the system relies on most people being honest, but it still seems to work reasonably well.
One system for secure online voting (which I think is in Applied Cryptography) ensures anonymity by giving each voter a randomised token (single-use-number), and allowing them to use that number to vote. The numbers and votes are published after the vote, allowing anyone to verify and prove that their number was tied to the correct vote. Of course, the voter could still accidentally or deliberately vote for the wrong person, but as long as the number of people complaining is less than some percentage error threshold, that is fine. This system is simple, and guarantees post-vote verification and anonymity (as long as the numbers are randomly assigned, which can be checked by oversight). It is also more secure than the existing system. I would have no problem using such a system, but on the other hand, I also have no problem with paying millions for a regular, old hand count voting system - it is a pittance compared to the amount spent on campaigning, or the management of the country as a whole.
Slashdot Mirror
To put it another way, if you had a delay of 10ms before, and you're now getting a delay of 50ms due to some background copy, all of your applications went from running at 100fps to 20fps, which I think even non-sensitive people can pick up on, even outside of games and smooth scrolling.
The delay talked about is in scheduling a process on a CPU. Once the process is running there is no delay. If all applications were running at 20% of full speed due to some kernel bug it would've been noticed a long time ago.
Clinton is on record as basically saying, I wash my hands of this as this is the next administration's problem... Clinton's administrative policy was to ignore them as much as possible while as many people were murdered.
That is actually quite different from what he is on record saying. Watch the video - Clinton comes across as being quite angry about these Republican claims that he failed to respond to terrorist attacks.
but there were a lot of remediations available, too.
Don't forget one of the best: If you rape a hot woman you pay 50 pieces of silver and marry her!
"If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her."
I was thinking the same thing, but it looks like the SD adaptor still requires a boot CD?
No, the problem isn't incompleteness it's the fact that one has to traverse a jungle of incompatible audio and video APIs to make sure it even works at all across the various distributions.
Then how come mplayer works on every common Linux distribution, and has been able to do smooth fullscreen video for as long as I can remember?
He has an absolute obligation as a human being not to put other human beings in danger when there are other avenues to address the problem. This is especially pertinent, since his argument for releasing the information was that it shows his adversaries doing exactly that as well.
If publishing documents results in the deaths of a handful of people*, but helps to end a war, thus saving the lives of thousands of people a year, then the moral obligation would be to release the documents. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
* (I'm always amazed at the inconsistencies of the Wikileaks haters - U.S. planes bomb a village, killing innocent people, and the deaths are the fault of "the enemy". Man in Europe releases documents, hypothetical man in Afghanistan is hypothetically killed by "the enemy", but the fault lies with the man in Europe? Drop a bomb on a village, killing innocent people = you are not to blame for killing, publish a name of an informer = you take the blame for killing. What a cognitive dissonance.)
Guess what? People pulled this shit a lot less often back then.
[citationneeded]
The research that I've read suggests that the severity of a deterrent is not an important factor in actually deterring people from committing a crime. The probability of being caught is an important risk factor. This is why death sentence, limb amputation, etc. for thieves doesn't work as an absolute deterrent, and yet nations with a high probability of getting caught (e.g. Japan where apparently p=0.96 for some serious crime) have low crime rates.
There was a time when your name was synonymous with inexpensive but decent computers.
Do you have any evidence that this isn't still the case, personal experiences aside? I've worked in several large enterprises, with thousands of desktops, that standardised on Dell hardware. Dell was cheaper than the competition and the problems were no greater than their competitor brands (HP, Acer, Lenovo, Toshiba). Plus Dell is so ubiquitous that hardware and driver problems are usually already solved by someone, somewhere in the world. I doubt that Dell has any huge QA problem when compared to HP/Acer/Lenovo/Toshiba, or is significantly more expensive, but let's see the evidence?
The Holocaust was enabled by a combination of fascism and centuries of German Christian anti-Semitism. Until you have seen churches and cathedrals decorated with the Judeansau, it is difficult to understand how deeply anti-Semitism was embedded in German Christian tradition.
On the contrary, it is coercion which is the root of all evil, because coercion is the one absolute prerequisite of all forms of injustice.
Coercion is also the one absolute prerequisite of all forms of justice. The police force and judicial system of every nation relies on the implied and real threat of physical force.
I understand your argument, and I understand the arguments made my anarchists against government and the use of force by any measure. But realistically, anarchism does not scale; anarchism does not provide a system of law and order and governance that can sustain a population of millions.
The point is that if we were going to create a huge bill for our grandchildren to pay off, we should at least have spent them money on something of value.
And that's really the problem with central planning.
The issue isn't central planning. The Chinese government's response to the financial crisis was to approve $292 billion for the construction of a high speed national railway network. Central planning, and constructing something of value.
The Serbian military did it more recently. The success rate differs depending on who reports it (reference):
* DoD estimated 120 Serb tanks, 220 APCs destroyed; Clark stated that reports about NATO warplanes striking decoys and failing to destroy tanks and personnel carriers was a concerted disinformation campaign
* Reporters on the ground estimated 13 Serb tanks and < 100 armored personnel carriers destroyed, but noted the ruins of many different types of decoys hit by NATO forces (e.g., rusted tanks with broken parts, wood or canvas mock-ups). Other reports talk about microwave ovens being used inside decoys to generate cheap electronic signatures.
Let me get this straight - you're running pre-release Ubuntu on 60 production machines?
I was running it on a few. It's a good way to discover if anything that I rely on needs fixing before the real release - bugs are more likely to get worked on when they are reported asap after being introduced. Plus the software itself isn't really pre-release; the actual software versions of core packages are usually considered stable upstream. If you are capable of handling problems yourself, and can accept small amounts of downtime (i.e. non-critical services), then it makes sense to run the development release of your distribution of choice on a few systems.
And when the drug cartels, finding the pot business no longer lucrative, move on over to cocaine etc.. what then?
Do you think the drug cartels aren't already dealing cocaine? Removing cannabis from their inventory will only serve to reduce the amount of money flowing into their coffers. That will in turn reduce the amount of power that they can wield over the government, law enforcement, and the general public.
BBC is reporting this and also that Sean Parker has donated $100,000 to support prop 19.
Skype
Not a great example, given that Apple was party to a secret agreement with AT&T to cripple VOIP apps, and the pair only relented after the FCC opened an investigation. And what about Google Voice?
loads of web browsers
Can any of them run Javascript locally? That's a bit of a major omission for a modern web browser.
You know, Americans say that about the Brits, but look to your neighbour to the North. Rather than going through a bloody and violent war for independence, we just kinda sat around for a while.
Not just Canadians: Ghandi and his followers gained independence for India through entirely non-violent protest.
it is constitutionally impossible for the British government to grant independence to Canada
History begs to differ.
The position of Apple (and any sane company) is that by jail-breaking the phone, you are voiding the warranty and they will not support the device if you do it.
It would be simple to track unwarrantied phones. The jailbreak app would sent a request with the hardware ID of the phone to an Apple server, the server records it, and sents back a signed unlock key.
In a world where visiting a website can get your PC owned, I would think you would be more security conscious.
There are no security implications here; Apple is fully capable of jailbreaking their own phones without opening them up to outside security exploits.
(and any sane company)
Then Nokia must be insane, because they sell "jailbroken" Linux phones with full root access.
You want to do whatever you want, whenever you want and not have to face the consequences of it
What is wrong with that? Why is it unreasonable to want to do whatever I want with a product that I 100% own, purchased with my own money?
security be damned.
As I already pointed out, I think Apple is capable of releasing a jailbroken phone without introducing security exploits. If Nokia can do it, why do you think Apple can't?
And what about all the jailbreaks that aren't security issues? The ones that require physical access to the device? Or the ones where you must deliberately downgrade the OS?
If you are willing to classify everything as a security issue, even physical access and deliberate OS downgrades, then sure, Apple just closes security holes. The result is still the same. If Apple really didn't care about blocking jailbreaks, then they would just go ahead and release their own jailbreak app and be done with it...
Their "long-running battles" extend only to voiding the warranties of jailbroken devices.
No it hasn't. Apple has repeatedly blocked jailbreaks.
In britain there is no presumption of innocence.
Of course there is. The presumption of innocence in English and Scots law comes from common law. The concept itself has been part of British society for thousands of years - Alexander Volokh says that it has been present since Greece and Sparta and Rome, all the way back to the first (Judaic?) legal systems.
Common law is the basis of the British legal system. Your logic is like claiming that "there is no law against murder in Britain" and then going on to claim that this means murder is legal. English Law - "there is no statute making murder illegal. It is a common law crime - so although there is no written Act of Parliament making murder illegal, it is illegal by virtue of the constitutional authority of the courts and their previous decisions."
It after that went on and voted into the statute book several hundred criminal offences which explicitly postulate that you are guilty until proven innocent. The RIPA act, The H&S act, you name them. Half of Blair's legislation (Blair and Co raised the number of criminal offences on the statutes by more than 100% in 10 years) is based around "guilty until proven innocent".
[citationneeded]. Please name these "hundreds of acts that explicitly say British people are guilty until proven innocent.". And are you seriously blaming the Blair government (which came to power in 1997) for the 1974 Health and Safety Act?!? What?!
So the new government has actually promissed to fix this by accepting _ALL_ rights in the convention and repealing most of Blair's handywork as a big block vote including most of the RIPA act.
Right, that would be the same Conservative party that fully supported the RIP Act then? ('Only a pitiful handful of MPs (pictured below) were present to debate the bill, which was fully supported by the "opposition" Conservative party, and passed by 189 votes to 47 keeping the majority of its original clauses intact.')
Bruce is a perfectionist, but the real world isn't perfect. The existing voting system is not perfect (it has >0% error), and so any system that replaces it does not need to be perfect either - it merely has to be better. In the UK, voting cards (really a "right to vote" card) are mailed out through the postal service, and you must hand one over before being allowed into the voting booth. This has many theoretical problems. You could buy and sell the card. You could manufacture a fake card (there are no security features) and vote multiple times at different polling stations. The monitors could switch out the boxes of votes. The people counting the votes could miscount. Essentially, the system relies on most people being honest, but it still seems to work reasonably well.
One system for secure online voting (which I think is in Applied Cryptography) ensures anonymity by giving each voter a randomised token (single-use-number), and allowing them to use that number to vote. The numbers and votes are published after the vote, allowing anyone to verify and prove that their number was tied to the correct vote. Of course, the voter could still accidentally or deliberately vote for the wrong person, but as long as the number of people complaining is less than some percentage error threshold, that is fine. This system is simple, and guarantees post-vote verification and anonymity (as long as the numbers are randomly assigned, which can be checked by oversight). It is also more secure than the existing system. I would have no problem using such a system, but on the other hand, I also have no problem with paying millions for a regular, old hand count voting system - it is a pittance compared to the amount spent on campaigning, or the management of the country as a whole.
I mean, look at the most popular gaming handheld today... the nintendo DS!
Don't forget one of the most popular smart phone platforms - Android. Games on Linux could never work.
Yeah, because something like that could never happen in the U.S. I mean, it's not like the U.S. government wants even more wiretap powers.