I read that the point of these food emojis was to be able to universally indicate allergies/intolerance/diets on restaurant menus. Which seems like a good reason.
To all, if you really want to know the truth, please go find out what has happened to Ms. Lina Joy, a Malay Muslim who converted into Christianity and ended up being forcefully locked up and is being brain-washed by the Malay regime.
The link does not say that. It says that it is a difficult bureaucratic process. The link also states that 16 people have before renounced Islam and converted to another religion.
It has been fixed in the kernel, but many programs and libraries still use (sometimes accidentally casting into) 32 bit ints, and even parts of the Linux Kernel, such as file systems. Databases also use 32 bit timestamps. So deployment of a Linux kernel with 64bit time_t will not automatically heal everything.
Is there any open-source voice command interface? Something simple, which runs commands?
I would even be happy if I could record some commands and define what to run when I say that. Or if it had some learning interface where I can define "oh I meant that existing command, next time you know this pronounciation variant".
I can't find it now, but somewhere on the NameSys website they had an interesting piece on what made them so successful in writing a fast filesystem.
Essentially, and I am quoting from memory now, classical file system codes start with a grand idea of what *should* be a fast architecture (e.g. B/B+/dancing trees, etc.), then code that in all at once until perfection, and finally benchmark the finished product. In contrast, they would try an implementation of a feature, then quickly benchmark it on several file systems for performance, then try another implementation. Because they had a quite flexible code base, they could do this write-test-rewrite cycle very quickly, and converge on the best solutions through experiments. That was their secret sauce. Perhaps all FS code has to become more playable for key advances.
Then also they developed this plugin architecture with which you can activate and exchange various features of the FS. Well, Linux developers really didn't like that because it looks complex and is unlike any other FS in Linux.
It is not really a security flaw, it is a choice of design, and the extension showed what the consequences are -- namely that you can find out the habits and travels of a person, remotely. This is similar to the mobile phone metadata, from which you can learn everything* about a person
*You put in some assumptions too, and being very confident about the conclusions of that person may have low validity, but that hasn't stopped the NSA.
Compare them using the REAL metric, total life cycle costs...How much does it cost to buy, operate and dismantle your data center when it's usefulness is over... That's the REAL question.
And how do you measure sustainability costs? Buying price is not the true cost.
The relative velocities are quite low, because there is very little gravity. So their plan was not to make a jet system that reduces the landing velocity (you may be thinking of the moon landing), but instead to use a cold-gas jet to press the lander onto the surface. That system, unfortunately did not fire. Secondly (and perhaps related?), the trigger that should launch harpoons to anchor the lander did not execute. That is why it did not land, but bounce off again.
People share links on Facebook, and re-tweeting is one of the core features of Twitter (culture), which always lets you retrace the original poster.
I think this is more about meme-sites, where pictures (and cartoons, infographics, etc.) are *copied* rather than linked to the original website, often stripping away the original author. Therefore you have websites that do not produce their own content, but bundles (and earns money with advertisement). When the original authors claim their copyright, the site complies, but the stream (and people's attention) has moved on, so it does not matter and they get away with it.
Your post can be summarized in 3 sentences: 1) Legitimate militaries will not follow/trust the treaty 2) Uncontrolled individuals/groups will ignore the treaty 3) Something like this has never existed, there is no centrally controlling authority and/or treaties can not work.
You are wrong on all three. I just need to mention the treaty on landmines (Ottawa Treaty). It works. You can control the market and the militaries, at least the bulk of it. Also for chemical weapons there is a treaty, and it works. Even for chemical weapons (Chemical Weapons Convention) the number of incidents from uncontrolled individuals/groups is low.
Some of your points are also rubbish, like: (X) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once (X) I don't want the government limiting my arsenal
This is not fantasy, banning weapon technology world-wide has been done before. Countries joined voluntarily, one by one, and are controlled by each other.
You can achieve the same level of security with Hardened Gentoo Linux (PaX, Grsecurity2, which is Gentoo with different flags) https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/H... . The only small difference is that strcpy is still allowed (applications should move to strlcpy/strpcpy instead).
Then again, I don't use hardened Gentoo, because last time I tried (couple of years back), it was hard to maintain on a simple desktop.
Similar statements could be made for desktops, where tray icon pop-ups for updates, email and chat notifications distract and interrupt workflows.
Maybe both for desktops and cars, this problem can be solved by detecting whether the user is currently focussed (on the road or a task) or relaxed/idle, and may be interrupted. Mylyn is a very impressive demo of thinking in this direction, I would like to see more of it.
There are some very nasty pieces of work on that list, rapists and murderers who presumably managed to get a removal order from within prison
Do you have any reasons for your presumption, or are you just babbeling? Maybe they were falsely convicted as rapists and murderers, the ruling overturned and they do not want to be called rapists and murderers every time someone types their name into Google, for the rest of their lives. The fraction of falsely accused rapists is somewhere between 10-40%, and that stigma does not go away.
Alternative version of roll-your-own: Host at some provider, use their client (or if you do not trust them, put a encrypted file system on top). Mount that on a Linux machine. Share that filesystem via SMB, so Android and Windows can access the files.
So I guess ideally Slashdot would have to be run as sort of a public service, rather than as a money-maker. I figured Dice bought Slashdot and SourceForge to drive traffic to their job site, sort of as a loss-leader, goodwill gesture, look-at-us-we-totally-get-you-guys, please-consider-us-for-your-next-job-search sort of thing. But given how they're seemingly burning the goodwill candle at both ends by pushing through unpopular measure after unpopular measure, I have to admit I can't figure out what their real strategy is.
Maybe it's not an evil plan by Dice? I suspect it is some newly-appointed, over-eager IT dude that tries to "improve" the website and make it more 2.0, and perhaps also make some tasks easier for them (site management, statistics). The guy hasn't given up yet;) but he is learning to make smaller steps.
Then again, how much could Slashdot cost to run? It's just a forum, for chissakes, right?
Then again again, if it's just a forum, why hasn't everybody moved on, en masse, to one of the clones of Slashdot that disgruntled Slashdotters have started in recent years?
That would require changing bookmarks, and habits, both of which is hard! *whine*
By the way, that soylentnews site is looking for someone to make their page (slashcode) more web 2.0. How ironic.
It seems strange to me that with all the decentralization in software (ex. git) that Linus remains the sole gatekeeper for what goes or doesn't go in the kernel. Splitting up the responsibility seems like it would be infinitely more logical.
It is already largely decentralized. There is a relatively fixed set of subsystem maintainers, which collect patches and merge from contributors. Then there are top figures like Greg and Linus, and the individual Linux distributions which maintain their own kernels by merging across. All Linus really does (well, he probably does more) is take and drop patches and every other week declare a certain merge set a version. Anyone can do that for their own kernel, but the central naming makes it "Linux" and focussed (e.g. for bug reporting).
I bet this is misreported and what they demand is that all searches originating from France be censored, regardless of whether a Frenchman goes to google.fr or google.com -- this easy Google to implement. This does not affect anyone outside of France. " France Claims Right To Censor Search Results Globally " -- rubbish " France Claims Right To Censor Search Results Locally " -- corrected
Also, even if true, US-Americans are not really allowed to cry about it because "US Claims Right To Wiretap Globally".
Here is why you are wrong: http://grist.org/climate-energ... Essentially, because the current climate change is 10x faster than the 100k year changes known.
TFA says they calibrated the buoys data with the ship-based data. The offset is not chosen by hand as you claim, but fitted to make the two types of measurements, which should be measuring the same thing, consistent with each other. That is justifiable to remove systematic errors. Another study by IPCC found the same offset value.
The paper says:
Changes of particular importance include: (i) an increasing amount of ocean data from buoys, which are slightly different than data from ships; (ii) an increasing amount of ship data from engine intake thermometers, which are slightly different than data from bucket sea-water temperatures; and (iii) a large increase in land-station data that enables better analysis of key regions that may be warming faster or slower than the global average. We address all three of these, none of which were included in our previous analysis used in the IPCC report
The details on the calibration are:
First, several studies have examined the differences between buoy- and ship-based data, noting that the ship data are systematically warmer than the buoy data (15–17). This is particularly important, as much of the sea surface is now sampled by both observing systems, and surface-drifting and moored buoys have increased the overall global coverage by up to 15% (see supplemental material for details). These changes have resulted in a time-dependent bias in the global SST record, and various corrections have been developed to account for the bias (18). Recently, a new correction (13) was developed and applied in the Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature dataset version 4, which we use in our analysis. In essence, the bias correction involved calculating the average difference between collocated buoy and ship SSTs. The average difference globally was 0.12C, a correction which is applied to the buoy SSTs at every grid cell in ERSST version 4.
Second, there was a large change in ship observations (i.e., from buckets to engine intake thermometers) that peaked immediately prior to World War II. The previous version of ERSST assumed that no ship corrections were necessary after this time, but recently improved metadata (18) reveal that some ships continued to take bucket observations even up to the present day. Therefore, one of the improvements to ERSST version 4 is extending the ship-bias correction to the present, based on information derived from comparisons with night marine air temperatures. Of the 11 improvements in ERSST version 4 (13), the continuation of the ship correction had the largest impact on trends for the 2000-2014 time period, accounting for 0.030C of the 0.064C trend difference with version 3b. (The buoy offset correction contributed 0.014C dec1 to the difference, and the additional weight given to the buoys because of their greater accuracy contributed 0.012C dec1. See supplementary materials for details.)
Third, there have also been advancements in the calculation of land surface air temperatures (LSTs). The most important is the release of the International Surface Temperature Initiative (ISTI) databank (14, 19), which forms the basis of the LST component of our new analysis. The ISTI databank integrates the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN)–Daily dataset (20) with over 40 other historical data sources, more than doubling the number of stations available. The resulting integration improves spatial coverage over many areas, including the Arctic, where temperatures have increased rapidly in recent decades (1). We applied the same methods used in our old analysis for quality control, time-dependent bias corrections, and other data processing steps (21) to the ISTI databank to address artificial shifts in the data caused by changes in station location, temperature instrumentation, observing practice, urbanization, siting conditions, etc. These corrections are essentially the same as those used in the GHCN–Monthly version 3 dataset (22, 23), which is updated oper
Dark refers to not interacting with the electromagnetic force, i.e. not producing or reflecting light/radiation. We "see" dark matter through its gravitational influence.
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I read that the point of these food emojis was to be able to universally indicate allergies/intolerance/diets on restaurant menus. Which seems like a good reason.
To all, if you really want to know the truth, please go find out what has happened to Ms. Lina Joy, a Malay Muslim who converted into Christianity and ended up being forcefully locked up and is being brain-washed by the Malay regime.
The following link tells all !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The link does not say that. It says that it is a difficult bureaucratic process. The link also states that 16 people have before renounced Islam and converted to another religion.
It has been fixed in the kernel, but many programs and libraries still use (sometimes accidentally casting into) 32 bit ints, and even parts of the Linux Kernel, such as file systems. Databases also use 32 bit timestamps. So deployment of a Linux kernel with 64bit time_t will not automatically heal everything.
Some links: :) http://y2038.com/#q5
http://2038bug.com/index.php/a...
I like this one: "What's the worst that could happen?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Is there any open-source voice command interface? Something simple, which runs commands?
I would even be happy if I could record some commands and define what to run when I say that. Or if it had some learning interface where I can define "oh I meant that existing command, next time you know this pronounciation variant".
I can't find it now, but somewhere on the NameSys website they had an interesting piece on what made them so successful in writing a fast filesystem.
Essentially, and I am quoting from memory now, classical file system codes start with a grand idea of what *should* be a fast architecture (e.g. B/B+/dancing trees, etc.), then code that in all at once until perfection, and finally benchmark the finished product.
In contrast, they would try an implementation of a feature, then quickly benchmark it on several file systems for performance, then try another implementation. Because they had a quite flexible code base, they could do this write-test-rewrite cycle very quickly, and converge on the best solutions through experiments. That was their secret sauce. Perhaps all FS code has to become more playable for key advances.
Then also they developed this plugin architecture with which you can activate and exchange various features of the FS. Well, Linux developers really didn't like that because it looks complex and is unlike any other FS in Linux.
It is not really a security flaw, it is a choice of design, and the extension showed what the consequences are -- namely that you can find out the habits and travels of a person, remotely.
This is similar to the mobile phone metadata, from which you can learn everything* about a person
Netherlands: https://www.bof.nl/2014/07/30/...
Germany: http://www.businessinsider.com...
*You put in some assumptions too, and being very confident about the conclusions of that person may have low validity, but that hasn't stopped the NSA.
Compare them using the REAL metric, total life cycle costs...How much does it cost to buy, operate and dismantle your data center when it's usefulness is over... That's the REAL question.
And how do you measure sustainability costs? Buying price is not the true cost.
The relative velocities are quite low, because there is very little gravity. So their plan was not to make a jet system that reduces the landing velocity (you may be thinking of the moon landing), but instead to use a cold-gas jet to press the lander onto the surface. That system, unfortunately did not fire. Secondly (and perhaps related?), the trigger that should launch harpoons to anchor the lander did not execute. That is why it did not land, but bounce off again.
People share links on Facebook, and re-tweeting is one of the core features of Twitter (culture), which always lets you retrace the original poster.
I think this is more about meme-sites, where pictures (and cartoons, infographics, etc.) are *copied* rather than linked to the original website, often stripping away the original author. Therefore you have websites that do not produce their own content, but bundles (and earns money with advertisement). When the original authors claim their copyright, the site complies, but the stream (and people's attention) has moved on, so it does not matter and they get away with it.
Wow, what a load of rubbish.
Your post can be summarized in 3 sentences:
1) Legitimate militaries will not follow/trust the treaty
2) Uncontrolled individuals/groups will ignore the treaty
3) Something like this has never existed, there is no centrally controlling authority and/or treaties can not work.
You are wrong on all three. I just need to mention the treaty on landmines (Ottawa Treaty). It works. You can control the market and the militaries, at least the bulk of it. Also for chemical weapons there is a treaty, and it works. Even for chemical weapons (Chemical Weapons Convention) the number of incidents from uncontrolled individuals/groups is low.
Some of your points are also rubbish, like:
(X) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
(X) I don't want the government limiting my arsenal
This is not fantasy, banning weapon technology world-wide has been done before. Countries joined voluntarily, one by one, and are controlled by each other.
You can achieve the same level of security with Hardened Gentoo Linux (PaX, Grsecurity2, which is Gentoo with different flags) https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/H... .
The only small difference is that strcpy is still allowed (applications should move to strlcpy/strpcpy instead).
Then again, I don't use hardened Gentoo, because last time I tried (couple of years back), it was hard to maintain on a simple desktop.
Other distributions that use PaX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Similar statements could be made for desktops, where tray icon pop-ups for updates, email and chat notifications distract and interrupt workflows.
Maybe both for desktops and cars, this problem can be solved by detecting whether the user is currently focussed (on the road or a task) or relaxed/idle, and may be interrupted. Mylyn is a very impressive demo of thinking in this direction, I would like to see more of it.
There are some very nasty pieces of work on that list, rapists and murderers who presumably managed to get a removal order from within prison
Do you have any reasons for your presumption, or are you just babbeling? Maybe they were falsely convicted as rapists and murderers, the ruling overturned and they do not want to be called rapists and murderers every time someone types their name into Google, for the rest of their lives. The fraction of falsely accused rapists is somewhere between 10-40%, and that stigma does not go away.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/l...
http://www.itwire.com/business...
covered here http://linux.slashdot.org/stor...
He has spoken out on systemd, and his words were approximately "I don't hate it, I think it's fine."
Once again, Microsoft is so heavily stuck in the "I'm a PC and he's a Mac" mindset they're incapable of looking past Office and Exchange.
Well, do you know how much money they are making from Office and Exchange?
Alternative version of roll-your-own: Host at some provider, use their client (or if you do not trust them, put a encrypted file system on top).
Mount that on a Linux machine.
Share that filesystem via SMB, so Android and Windows can access the files.
So I guess ideally Slashdot would have to be run as sort of a public service, rather than as a money-maker. I figured Dice bought Slashdot and SourceForge to drive traffic to their job site, sort of as a loss-leader, goodwill gesture, look-at-us-we-totally-get-you-guys, please-consider-us-for-your-next-job-search sort of thing. But given how they're seemingly burning the goodwill candle at both ends by pushing through unpopular measure after unpopular measure, I have to admit I can't figure out what their real strategy is.
Maybe it's not an evil plan by Dice? I suspect it is some newly-appointed, over-eager IT dude that tries to "improve" the website and make it more 2.0, and perhaps also make some tasks easier for them (site management, statistics). The guy hasn't given up yet ;) but he is learning to make smaller steps.
Then again, how much could Slashdot cost to run? It's just a forum, for chissakes, right?
Then again again, if it's just a forum, why hasn't everybody moved on, en masse, to one of the clones of Slashdot that disgruntled Slashdotters have started in recent years?
That would require changing bookmarks, and habits, both of which is hard! *whine*
By the way, that soylentnews site is looking for someone to make their page (slashcode) more web 2.0. How ironic.
It seems strange to me that with all the decentralization in software (ex. git) that Linus remains the sole gatekeeper for what goes or doesn't go in the kernel. Splitting up the responsibility seems like it would be infinitely more logical.
It is already largely decentralized. There is a relatively fixed set of subsystem maintainers, which collect patches and merge from contributors. Then there are top figures like Greg and Linus, and the individual Linux distributions which maintain their own kernels by merging across. All Linus really does (well, he probably does more) is take and drop patches and every other week declare a certain merge set a version. Anyone can do that for their own kernel, but the central naming makes it "Linux" and focussed (e.g. for bug reporting).
That's at least my understanding.
I bet this is misreported and what they demand is that all searches originating from France be censored, regardless of whether a Frenchman goes to google.fr or google.com -- this easy Google to implement. This does not affect anyone outside of France.
" France Claims Right To Censor Search Results Globally " -- rubbish
" France Claims Right To Censor Search Results Locally " -- corrected
Also, even if true, US-Americans are not really allowed to cry about it because "US Claims Right To Wiretap Globally".
The Firefox market share continues to drop as Mozilla continues to add bloat to what once was an excellent browser.
Is it though? I would bet that the number of Firefox installations is growing, just the rate of other installations is growing faster.
How many of those 'plenty of people' use their Linux machines for more than desktops?
There are some serious open 'show stopping' bugs in systemd for power users.
Who uses NFS anyways :P (over wifi!) If this is for a desktop machine, mount nfs through nautilus/gvfs
lack of non-ascii support
That is not a systemd bug (as discussed in the bug), but a problem in redhats packaging of components or initialisation scripts.
systemd is sending wrong audit event
Apparently a bug in libselinux, not in systemd. Anyways, hardly a show-stopper to have the wrong audit log entry.
System with Intel firmware RAID-1 does not mount /home on boot (udev/systemd race with mdadm issue)
This is the only one that is probably a systemd bug, or at least requires the workaround implemented in systemd.
Here is why you are wrong: http://grist.org/climate-energ...
Essentially, because the current climate change is 10x faster than the 100k year changes known.
PS: we were not designed.
TFA says they calibrated the buoys data with the ship-based data. The offset is not chosen by hand as you claim, but fitted to make the two types of measurements, which should be measuring the same thing, consistent with each other. That is justifiable to remove systematic errors. Another study by IPCC found the same offset value.
The paper says:
The details on the calibration are:
Dark refers to not interacting with the electromagnetic force, i.e. not producing or reflecting light/radiation. We "see" dark matter through its gravitational influence.