I already explained why I am not in shock - I dealt with Rampart for years, and my parents and grandparents all dealt with their own variations on the theme.
Abusive police departments are not only not new, they are as old as history.. which is why there are judges and all the other checks/balances in modern society.
The truth is, though, that the type of abuse that is currently causing you to PANIC and type in all caps has been the default experience for impoverished people in this country for generations.
Somehow we keep going... I'm gonna go listen to some Dust Bowl Ballads, excuse me.
As someone who was under L.A. Rampart jurisdiction for a while let me hip you to a little something, pecosdave.
There was one person who left prints in your car that would require almost no trouble for the police to track down and prosecute for a crime.. YOU.
A crime scene is a crime scene, you run all the prints - and no, they are not going to be paying lab fees to get an additional minor charge tacked onto a junkie stereo thief's sentence when they finally track him/her down for some unrelated crime.
This is a tactic pretty much specific to places that have gang/drug trafficking issues - and even 12 years ago the Phoenix street was heavy in that regard.
You guys are tweaking. There is a dark protrusion that appears to be coming from just beyond the debit pin pad, but the only deformity on the gun itself appears to be a tactical sighting system attached to the underside of the barrel.
My point is that by implementing around the MS-PL you are granting MS the right to define what IP you are able to protect through legal channels.
Other OSI licenses deal with this issue in a variety of ways, but none that I know of hands the right to define patent enforceability to whether or not one vendor - MS in this case - chooses to include the a code invention in their own source tree.
The patent claim section. If you ever bring a patent claim against a contributor to the MS-PL licensed project you lose all rights under the license...
So if you develop around one of these code bases you are giving MS a one-way patent non-aggression pact, they are giving you nothing of the sort in return.
99Bottles... nails it. The sheer number of one off legacy apps that exist in the Windows ecosystem is staggering.
I have created a number of them myself over the years, shoehorning into whatever technology the customer was already using.
The biggest problem to migration usually occurs not with getting the one-off solution I programmed to run under Wine, but with getting all the third party MS ecosystem stuff that my one-off interacts with (different for each customer) to also run under emulation.
The police actively don't hire people that are too smart. Which scares the shit out of me.
Intellectual outliers destabilize control structures.
Being predictable to your teammates/backup under all circumstances is an essential part of performing a life and death job - whether performing undersea construction or policing the 'projects.'
Having a tendency to come up with bright ideas under pressure is simply a liability in the world of street level law enforcement.
If you really have a thing for ogling old people using FOSS, then check out continuing education programs in your area.
That is a reliable place to find seniors using Linux - as many use the local community center/community college as a place to find new hobbies/friends.
Twenty years ago it was Bingo/Bridge clubs, now all the oldsters are taking ceramics, piano, and 'internet' classes.
If there is a critical flaw in one of my public facing systems and the maintainers send out a blast informing me of a zero-day security flaw I can evaluate the situation, consider triage through modifying my local security measures, or simply pull the plug.
It may be a PITA, but finding out that one of my servers was running around naked on the internet while the maintainers of a core product remained silent would be worse.
You can actually take this advice pretty far, but you may need to fight to get services of certain sorts.
In a tough economy the candidates that return employment contracts with paragraphs lined through are setting themselves up for a fall.
I witnessed the pain of a contract non conformist first hand while working with a fellow - we can call him 'Mr. New Hampshire.'
Mr. New Hampshire refused to use his Social Security number for anything. Combine this with the fact that SS nums are the most overused weak authentication scheme ever devised, and many contracts 'require' an SS num... you can imagine the problems that ensued. Every single service this guy wanted including insurances of all sorts, I-9 employment eligibility verifications etc had to get routed through drawn out legal processes. In the end he would always get his way, but only three or four months after everyone else.
The concept of requiring a giant mainframe in each basement is funny in an Asimov/Multivac kinda way.
How about the ultra redundant personal mainframe is designed like Voltron, with all of your gadgets having the ability to join the local cloud as need permits.
Nothing against you 689415, currently modded to +4, but this is getting stupid.
There was inter-MUD chat, and inter-BBS chat systems developed 10 or 15 years ago. This isn't anything new other than "Hay guyz! If ur MMO lets you run EXEs you can do something kewl!"
Can we get a system for shooting stupid fucking mods in the head?
This site feels more rigged than a U.S. election. Why do I have to browse at -1 to make sure that I am seeing all the relevant comments?
Why is this site promoting someone who posted the exact same shit that an AC posted before them?
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I already explained why I am not in shock - I dealt with Rampart for years, and my parents and grandparents all dealt with their own variations on the theme.
Abusive police departments are not only not new, they are as old as history.. which is why there are judges and all the other checks/balances in modern society.
The truth is, though, that the type of abuse that is currently causing you to PANIC and type in all caps has been the default experience for impoverished people in this country for generations.
Somehow we keep going... I'm gonna go listen to some Dust Bowl Ballads, excuse me.
The subject is being revived by the current economic situation, so not as stale as one might think.
As someone who was under L.A. Rampart jurisdiction for a while let me hip you to a little something, pecosdave.
There was one person who left prints in your car that would require almost no trouble for the police to track down and prosecute for a crime.. YOU.
A crime scene is a crime scene, you run all the prints - and no, they are not going to be paying lab fees to get an additional minor charge tacked onto a junkie stereo thief's sentence when they finally track him/her down for some unrelated crime.
This is a tactic pretty much specific to places that have gang/drug trafficking issues - and even 12 years ago the Phoenix street was heavy in that regard.
Reading would require a spin-up.
The article only says that the non spin up method was an extremely clever chain of commands so..
We are sitting here talking about MS tech for no apparent reason with no apparent hope of arriving at any sort of conclusion...
Why am I here again?
You guys are tweaking. There is a dark protrusion that appears to be coming from just beyond the debit pin pad, but the only deformity on the gun itself appears to be a tactical sighting system attached to the underside of the barrel.
We are talking about two different things here.
My point is that by implementing around the MS-PL you are granting MS the right to define what IP you are able to protect through legal channels.
Other OSI licenses deal with this issue in a variety of ways, but none that I know of hands the right to define patent enforceability to whether or not one vendor - MS in this case - chooses to include the a code invention in their own source tree.
That is exactly what this is doing.
The patent claim section. If you ever bring a patent claim against a contributor to the MS-PL licensed project you lose all rights under the license...
So if you develop around one of these code bases you are giving MS a one-way patent non-aggression pact, they are giving you nothing of the sort in return.
99Bottles... nails it. The sheer number of one off legacy apps that exist in the Windows ecosystem is staggering.
I have created a number of them myself over the years, shoehorning into whatever technology the customer was already using.
The biggest problem to migration usually occurs not with getting the one-off solution I programmed to run under Wine, but with getting all the third party MS ecosystem stuff that my one-off interacts with (different for each customer) to also run under emulation.
This is the worst type of lock-in IMHO.
+5 parent.
I can deal with beta slowness or whatever, but the absence of meta moderation is frustrating from a psychological perspective.
Wells Fargo, for one, has introduced all sorts of new fees even for their high balance metered accounts.
My only conclusion after reading all of their new fees on my business accounts is that they want to obliterate all check transactions.
They literally charge twice for checks deposited at a teller window - once for the teller touching the check, and once for clearing the check.
I for one welcome our new chatbot overlords.
I'm totally not one of them, you can trust me.
A bot would be a nice change from the usual... http://www.yardwear.net/blog/content/binary/t-shirt_10.jpg
The police actively don't hire people that are too smart. Which scares the shit out of me.
Intellectual outliers destabilize control structures.
Being predictable to your teammates/backup under all circumstances is an essential part of performing a life and death job - whether performing undersea construction or policing the 'projects.'
Having a tendency to come up with bright ideas under pressure is simply a liability in the world of street level law enforcement.
What are you talking about?
PC and PC-Clone originally meant IBM, not MS.
Go to wikipedia and type in IBM PC.
Before that it was all micro/mini naming conventions.
If you really have a thing for ogling old people using FOSS, then check out continuing education programs in your area.
That is a reliable place to find seniors using Linux - as many use the local community center/community college as a place to find new hobbies/friends.
Twenty years ago it was Bingo/Bridge clubs, now all the oldsters are taking ceramics, piano, and 'internet' classes.
Sex is like pizza... Even when it is bad, it's still pizza.
Non-dairy cheese substitute.
Easy: If you don't vote, you have no right to bitch about the people you didn't vote for screwing things up :)
You almost have it. If you don't vote you have no obligation to bitch.
No bug should ever be kept from the public.
If there is a critical flaw in one of my public facing systems and the maintainers send out a blast informing me of a zero-day security flaw I can evaluate the situation, consider triage through modifying my local security measures, or simply pull the plug.
It may be a PITA, but finding out that one of my servers was running around naked on the internet while the maintainers of a core product remained silent would be worse.
You can actually take this advice pretty far, but you may need to fight to get services of certain sorts.
In a tough economy the candidates that return employment contracts with paragraphs lined through are setting themselves up for a fall.
I witnessed the pain of a contract non conformist first hand while working with a fellow - we can call him 'Mr. New Hampshire.'
Mr. New Hampshire refused to use his Social Security number for anything. Combine this with the fact that SS nums are the most overused weak authentication scheme ever devised, and many contracts 'require' an SS num... you can imagine the problems that ensued. Every single service this guy wanted including insurances of all sorts, I-9 employment eligibility verifications etc had to get routed through drawn out legal processes. In the end he would always get his way, but only three or four months after everyone else.
The concept of requiring a giant mainframe in each basement is funny in an Asimov/Multivac kinda way.
How about the ultra redundant personal mainframe is designed like Voltron, with all of your gadgets having the ability to join the local cloud as need permits.
Nothing against you 689415, currently modded to +4, but this is getting stupid.
There was inter-MUD chat, and inter-BBS chat systems developed 10 or 15 years ago. This isn't anything new other than "Hay guyz! If ur MMO lets you run EXEs you can do something kewl!"
Can we get a system for shooting stupid fucking mods in the head?
This site feels more rigged than a U.S. election. Why do I have to browse at -1 to make sure that I am seeing all the relevant comments?
Why is this site promoting someone who posted the exact same shit that an AC posted before them?
Depends. Are you a professional baseball player accused of using steroids?
If so, yes, lying to congress is illegal.
Do you really think I would post AC then sign my post?
People using canned frameworks that target MySQL?
Of the players listed in the summary, one has a history of impeding development in the marketplace to increase dependence on their own products.
This process will be open you say? So was MS XML standard ratification process.
905 of my income comes from working with MS products, but I don't want them anywhere near processes like this. Just my .02.
I don't like the sound of that.