Unfortunately, the business psychos are only held in check by government. They don't go full on destructive because it's just too expensive when they have to fight government to do it. The greatest profit is in lobbying government to be weaker and taking maximum advantage. Should government go away at no cost to them, we would see their full-on destructive tendencies. With no governmenty, how long do you think it would take for Larry Ellison to have nukes?
It doesn't matter if the suit is allowed to take place in the U.S. where the courts have jurisdiction over the U.S. banks where the Ethiopian government keeps it's money. If the Ethiopian government loses, the courts can order the banks to transfer the award to the plaintiff.
Call up MI6. "You don't happen to have any dirt randomly collected on AC, do you?", "Well should you totally at random happen to collect info on AC in the future, could you send it along? Thanks!".
It never missed. Of course it was written for the daemon it was respawning.
However, now that cgroups is a thing, I could write one that never misses for any program. It would still be a lot less disruption to just drop that in than it is to use systemd.
Or, I could just use PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER to make the respawner instance become the parent of any children of the daemon so that I just have to see if I still have child processes. Not available when I wrote the 10 liner, but available now.
Of course, systemd isn't a perfect solution either. For example, if a daemon forks and exits and then the child process gets stuck but doesn't terminate, systemd won't know about it. A custom restarter could check for that condition as needed.
Yes, no competent legal counsel would want them to accidentally admit guilt in public.
They are not obligated to try the case in the court of public opinion, but the court of public opinion is free to infer guilt if they choose to remain silent.
We are hearing oine side of it because when the other side was offered a chance to tell it's side, the silence was deafening. That tells us something in itself.
Sadly, I have to agree that it will be very difficult to get the kind of changes needed in the U.S.
That's why we got an insurance scam rather than universal healthcare last time around and why the replacement is shaping up to be yet another insurance scam.
If there is literally no good reason anyone should not have insurance, why don't we skip all the bullshit paperwork and just poof that insurance into existence. We can call it universal single payer health insurance.
Not to mention if we choose as a society to pay together, it can be a lit cheaper for everyone. Currently we collectively pay 4 times as much per person as any other country and we have a lot less to show for it.
Those of us who do have health insurance might actually pay less under a universal healthcare system than we do now even while covering other people.
Had you read TFA, you would know that the problem is that the charge for use of the transmission lines is the part that's skyrocketing, not the cost of the electricity that is being transmitted. That's why prices continue rising even as actual use falls.
I'm not claiming it's there yet, but it is quite useful in it's current form and improving. Certainly it shows that sombody IS willing to make an actual project.
Or you are prepared to take over should that individual decide to retire from the project (not usually an option with proprietary software) or the software is sufficiently mature that further development is not needed (actually fairly common in business software). Again, advantage to Free software since licensing extra copies isn't an issue.
Of course, in those limited cases, a small simple C program can take care of respawning without disrupting everything else in the system. Just drop it into the init script.
There's a lot of truth to that. Productivity tends to scale with N but communications overhead tends to N^2. So at some point as N increases the communications overhead will swamp actual productivity.
When employers aren't involved, eventually some subset of the developers will just do the right thing by themselves and the project moves forward. Otherwise, management enforces paying the communications overhead and nothing useful happens.
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Unfortunately, the business psychos are only held in check by government. They don't go full on destructive because it's just too expensive when they have to fight government to do it. The greatest profit is in lobbying government to be weaker and taking maximum advantage. Should government go away at no cost to them, we would see their full-on destructive tendencies. With no governmenty, how long do you think it would take for Larry Ellison to have nukes?
It is less than 100% effective. That does not mean it doesn't work.
It doesn't matter if the suit is allowed to take place in the U.S. where the courts have jurisdiction over the U.S. banks where the Ethiopian government keeps it's money. If the Ethiopian government loses, the courts can order the banks to transfer the award to the plaintiff.
Call up MI6. "You don't happen to have any dirt randomly collected on AC, do you?", "Well should you totally at random happen to collect info on AC in the future, could you send it along? Thanks!".
The law is for peons.
It would have standing here in the U.S. where Ethiopia keeps a fair bit of money.
I'm pretty sure there's not much of a market for African mosquitoes anyway.
It never missed. Of course it was written for the daemon it was respawning.
However, now that cgroups is a thing, I could write one that never misses for any program. It would still be a lot less disruption to just drop that in than it is to use systemd.
Or, I could just use PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER to make the respawner instance become the parent of any children of the daemon so that I just have to see if I still have child processes. Not available when I wrote the 10 liner, but available now.
Of course, systemd isn't a perfect solution either. For example, if a daemon forks and exits and then the child process gets stuck but doesn't terminate, systemd won't know about it. A custom restarter could check for that condition as needed.
It means you need to find a good friend and ask if he can pull that stick out of your backside.
I notice this doesn't seem to happen with corporations in multi-billion dollar lawsuits they believe they can win.
Yes, no competent legal counsel would want them to accidentally admit guilt in public.
They are not obligated to try the case in the court of public opinion, but the court of public opinion is free to infer guilt if they choose to remain silent.
We are hearing oine side of it because when the other side was offered a chance to tell it's side, the silence was deafening. That tells us something in itself.
Sadly, I have to agree that it will be very difficult to get the kind of changes needed in the U.S.
That's why we got an insurance scam rather than universal healthcare last time around and why the replacement is shaping up to be yet another insurance scam.
If there is literally no good reason anyone should not have insurance, why don't we skip all the bullshit paperwork and just poof that insurance into existence. We can call it universal single payer health insurance.
Not to mention if we choose as a society to pay together, it can be a lit cheaper for everyone. Currently we collectively pay 4 times as much per person as any other country and we have a lot less to show for it.
Those of us who do have health insurance might actually pay less under a universal healthcare system than we do now even while covering other people.
If the majority of the meters are giving us bad data, their predictive data may well have a negative value.
Your link is from 2012 and it's predictions have already failed miserably. How right could it be?
I once wrote one in 10 lines of C that woule compile on every distro as well as Irix and Solaris. So very hard!
Had you read TFA, you would know that the problem is that the charge for use of the transmission lines is the part that's skyrocketing, not the cost of the electricity that is being transmitted. That's why prices continue rising even as actual use falls.
How about FreeCAD.
I'm not claiming it's there yet, but it is quite useful in it's current form and improving. Certainly it shows that sombody IS willing to make an actual project.
But it's a lot cheaper than starting over from scratch if a proprietary vendor decides to cancel the project.
Or you are prepared to take over should that individual decide to retire from the project (not usually an option with proprietary software) or the software is sufficiently mature that further development is not needed (actually fairly common in business software). Again, advantage to Free software since licensing extra copies isn't an issue.
It's trivially easy to dump pulseaudio and GNOME3, but systemd is somewhat harder to get rid of since it likes to dig it's tentacles into everything.
Of course, in those limited cases, a small simple C program can take care of respawning without disrupting everything else in the system. Just drop it into the init script.
There's a lot of truth to that. Productivity tends to scale with N but communications overhead tends to N^2. So at some point as N increases the communications overhead will swamp actual productivity.
When employers aren't involved, eventually some subset of the developers will just do the right thing by themselves and the project moves forward. Otherwise, management enforces paying the communications overhead and nothing useful happens.
If the government has asked them to do it (for example by offering a reward), then they become agents of the government and the 4th amendment applies.