Big players want net neutrality, and different big players do not want net neutrality. It's basically a fight between two different groups of corporations.
The crying came originally from the left and the right and the center. It was not a partisan issue until the anti-regulation nuts got involved and the big telecoms started donating money to get it defeated.
Their announcement makes no sense. Roku is a device, not a streaming service. A new streaming "service" doesn't compete with a device. Also, Roku provides Amazon Streaming access to millions of people, they should be considered a partner to Amazon. Someone at Amazon appears to be confused.
Connotations of illegality aren't out of place with "pwned". It doesn't mean that there was a fair and open transaction taking place such that now I own your ass.
"Hey, you left your front door unlocked and even though it's a safe neighborhood it is my responsibility to teach you a security lesson by pooping on your coffee table. -- Sincerely yours, Home Security Researcher"
Not allowed in SF either. The problem is the homeless population, and they do this in every city large and small where there's a large homeless population. Doesn't matter if it's illegal, if there's no law enforcement nearby you can get away with it.
There's the age old problem arising that old jobs go away and new jobs show up. This has almost always caused problems when it has happened in the past, with protests, strikes, politics, violence, etc. There's no difference now and politics is showing up to demand that obsolete jobs remain (coal mining) and that new jobs aren't wanted (green tech). It gets ugly when this is all framed as a conspiracy of the left to oppress those on the right, which is absurd but also it's nothing new historically.
Compare the Thatcher era in the UKt where those losing mining jobs were blaming the conservative government directly for this while labour on the left were the ones insisting that they could keep these economically infeasible jobs. In the US it's flipped so that the "workers" are not on the left because of religious and cultural reasons (another reason why left vs right is becoming a meaningless measurement in the us as both major parties are a mix of both left and right).
Poor often means both parents have to work just to make ends meet, and therefore home schooling is not an option. There are exceptions of course. Affluent doesn't necessarily mean rich enough to pay the extremely high costs of private school but they probably have a spouse staying home all day. There are exceptions there too.
Lots of exceptions, I know poor people who sent kids to private schools (with scholarships, grants, etc) and very rich people who sent the kids to public schools.
I got a set of Sparcstations from someone whose wife insisted that they had to go. I don't understand the attitude, it's probably better if your spouse's vice is playing with dusty computer rather than hanging out at the bar or getting a giant motorcycle.
Well, most staunchly religious Christians have no problem with vaccination. There are a few people in sects that are opposed to vaccines they're relatively a small minority, and further they were opposed to vaccines from before Andrew Wakefield and are opposed to a lot of modern medicines in general. I remember from elementary school in the 60s that it typically caused some confusion or humor when some kid wasn't allowed to get vaccinated along with everyone else.
Not just anti-vaxx, but there's a strong resurgence in conspiracy theories in general. It's social media spreading this stuff mostly, with a strong theme of "we're smarter than all the experts, so join us and you'll be one of the smartest people on the planet too!" Anti-vaxx, flat-earth, faked moon landing, and just this week there's a conspiracy forming around why the rapper Nipsey Hussel was killed.
Add to that a strong anti-education movement that seems to be forming, and an anti-science movement, and you can see this here on slashdot even.
Affluent parents are also much more likely to be home schooled and vaccination optional, poor parents have to send kids to public schools where vaccination is mandatory.
Not true, stop repeating this. It's not a partisan issue. I have run across strong conservatives who are opposed to vaccination, and will justify it by saying the government has no right to tell them what to do. It's a stupid stance but definitely a common conservative view.
I had a technical PDF that required getting certificates periodicly in order to read it. It was absurd that it had protection in the first place, but the added effort to request continued access was just extra abuse that was unnecessary. So print it out, delete the PDF, and continue.
That said, Adobe is definitely putting this stuff into PDF.
Anyone who is defending DRM needs to learn more about it. The whole purpose of DRM is to do stuff like this, it is not just copy protection. Even the so-called "good guys" like Valve can turn around to screw over their users this way.
Have to agree here, though my experience was in 95. I had to write up a simple demo of a DLL using both Visual Basic as well as Delphi. Visual Basic was painful to use and non-intuitive, whereas Delphi was straight forward and easy. A major difference was the sheer amount mouse movement that VB required to get simple stuff done. As a UI design, VB felt amateurish.
I assume it has improved since then, but I could be wrong.
Visual Studio was also a terrible tool for a giant project, and there was major improvements made by ditching it (except for a windows based simulator) and using a basic Makefile system with gcc instead.
(this was not for a windows application, so using VS in the first place was a major foul up)
Remember, people who grew up on Windows never learned the KISS principle. This means there are indeed developers who will read that and think it's a good idea.
The advantage of the old init.d was that it was damn simple and everyone was able to understand it, since the goal of understanding everything about your system was vital in the early days of linux, and is still vital in many linux areas (embedded, turnkey, production servers, etc). SystemD came along with the move to make Linux look more like Windows on the desktop, and at the same time making everything simpler for the novice users while making customization and configuring for less common use cases more difficult. It's an attitude where the novice is the primary customer and the expert is the anomaly.
Most embedded systems have their own watchdog methodology, some of it based in hardware even, why do they want some amateur's watchdog implementation? I do wish more embedded Linux systems were better about being embedded instead of just basing off of a third party distro that's just a slightly stripped down version of something larger.
Ie, you need a kernel, busybox or similar, and only those utilities you need (possibly networking stuff), and your own tasks and kernel mods. I think too many want to take a shortcut of having a thirdparty give them a mediocre solution so that they can meet an early deadline, even though they spend the rest of the project's life complaining that it's too big or slow. The team using embedded linux needs to understand *everything* that's in their system.
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Give it time, we tried democracy once and then jettisoned that and are now trying the Great Experiment of rule by corporation.
Big players want net neutrality, and different big players do not want net neutrality. It's basically a fight between two different groups of corporations.
I agree, only comic sans should be used.
The crying came originally from the left and the right and the center. It was not a partisan issue until the anti-regulation nuts got involved and the big telecoms started donating money to get it defeated.
My $100,000 campaign donation says that they're right!
But who was the administrator at the time the regulations were weakened?
Their announcement makes no sense. Roku is a device, not a streaming service. A new streaming "service" doesn't compete with a device. Also, Roku provides Amazon Streaming access to millions of people, they should be considered a partner to Amazon. Someone at Amazon appears to be confused.
Connotations of illegality aren't out of place with "pwned". It doesn't mean that there was a fair and open transaction taking place such that now I own your ass.
"Hey, you left your front door unlocked and even though it's a safe neighborhood it is my responsibility to teach you a security lesson by pooping on your coffee table.
--
Sincerely yours,
Home Security Researcher"
"Researcher" is a loose title it seems, just claim it and it's yours. Food researcher, leisure researcher, porn researcher, etc.
Not allowed in SF either. The problem is the homeless population, and they do this in every city large and small where there's a large homeless population. Doesn't matter if it's illegal, if there's no law enforcement nearby you can get away with it.
There's the age old problem arising that old jobs go away and new jobs show up. This has almost always caused problems when it has happened in the past, with protests, strikes, politics, violence, etc. There's no difference now and politics is showing up to demand that obsolete jobs remain (coal mining) and that new jobs aren't wanted (green tech). It gets ugly when this is all framed as a conspiracy of the left to oppress those on the right, which is absurd but also it's nothing new historically.
Compare the Thatcher era in the UKt where those losing mining jobs were blaming the conservative government directly for this while labour on the left were the ones insisting that they could keep these economically infeasible jobs. In the US it's flipped so that the "workers" are not on the left because of religious and cultural reasons (another reason why left vs right is becoming a meaningless measurement in the us as both major parties are a mix of both left and right).
Poor often means both parents have to work just to make ends meet, and therefore home schooling is not an option. There are exceptions of course. Affluent doesn't necessarily mean rich enough to pay the extremely high costs of private school but they probably have a spouse staying home all day. There are exceptions there too.
Lots of exceptions, I know poor people who sent kids to private schools (with scholarships, grants, etc) and very rich people who sent the kids to public schools.
I got a set of Sparcstations from someone whose wife insisted that they had to go. I don't understand the attitude, it's probably better if your spouse's vice is playing with dusty computer rather than hanging out at the bar or getting a giant motorcycle.
Well, most staunchly religious Christians have no problem with vaccination. There are a few people in sects that are opposed to vaccines they're relatively a small minority, and further they were opposed to vaccines from before Andrew Wakefield and are opposed to a lot of modern medicines in general. I remember from elementary school in the 60s that it typically caused some confusion or humor when some kid wasn't allowed to get vaccinated along with everyone else.
Not just anti-vaxx, but there's a strong resurgence in conspiracy theories in general. It's social media spreading this stuff mostly, with a strong theme of "we're smarter than all the experts, so join us and you'll be one of the smartest people on the planet too!" Anti-vaxx, flat-earth, faked moon landing, and just this week there's a conspiracy forming around why the rapper Nipsey Hussel was killed.
Add to that a strong anti-education movement that seems to be forming, and an anti-science movement, and you can see this here on slashdot even.
Affluent parents are also much more likely to be home schooled and vaccination optional, poor parents have to send kids to public schools where vaccination is mandatory.
Not true, stop repeating this. It's not a partisan issue. I have run across strong conservatives who are opposed to vaccination, and will justify it by saying the government has no right to tell them what to do. It's a stupid stance but definitely a common conservative view.
I had a technical PDF that required getting certificates periodicly in order to read it. It was absurd that it had protection in the first place, but the added effort to request continued access was just extra abuse that was unnecessary. So print it out, delete the PDF, and continue.
That said, Adobe is definitely putting this stuff into PDF.
Anyone who is defending DRM needs to learn more about it. The whole purpose of DRM is to do stuff like this, it is not just copy protection. Even the so-called "good guys" like Valve can turn around to screw over their users this way.
Delphi &/or FreePascal via Lazarus IDE = better
Have to agree here, though my experience was in 95. I had to write up a simple demo of a DLL using both Visual Basic as well as Delphi. Visual Basic was painful to use and non-intuitive, whereas Delphi was straight forward and easy. A major difference was the sheer amount mouse movement that VB required to get simple stuff done. As a UI design, VB felt amateurish.
I assume it has improved since then, but I could be wrong.
Visual Studio was also a terrible tool for a giant project, and there was major improvements made by ditching it (except for a windows based simulator) and using a basic Makefile system with gcc instead.
(this was not for a windows application, so using VS in the first place was a major foul up)
Remember, people who grew up on Windows never learned the KISS principle. This means there are indeed developers who will read that and think it's a good idea.
The advantage of the old init.d was that it was damn simple and everyone was able to understand it, since the goal of understanding everything about your system was vital in the early days of linux, and is still vital in many linux areas (embedded, turnkey, production servers, etc). SystemD came along with the move to make Linux look more like Windows on the desktop, and at the same time making everything simpler for the novice users while making customization and configuring for less common use cases more difficult. It's an attitude where the novice is the primary customer and the expert is the anomaly.
Most embedded systems have their own watchdog methodology, some of it based in hardware even, why do they want some amateur's watchdog implementation? I do wish more embedded Linux systems were better about being embedded instead of just basing off of a third party distro that's just a slightly stripped down version of something larger.
Ie, you need a kernel, busybox or similar, and only those utilities you need (possibly networking stuff), and your own tasks and kernel mods. I think too many want to take a shortcut of having a thirdparty give them a mediocre solution so that they can meet an early deadline, even though they spend the rest of the project's life complaining that it's too big or slow. The team using embedded linux needs to understand *everything* that's in their system.
Anyone who uses the term "syphilitic wanker" probably doesn't know how you catch syphilis.