Casio and Timex will be ending support for timekeeping for all watches made before 2016. Currently owners will get a discount on the new 2018 models with subscription-based timekeeping.
Perhaps you have had no problems with systemd because you aren't trying to use it to do much.
Lots of people, myself included, have had issues trying to get things which are trivial in pre-systemd or on other OSes to work properly and consistently on systemd. There are many, many, many examples of issues. If someone asked me for examples, I'd have a hard time deciding where to start because so many things have been gratuitously changed. If you really think there aren't examples, just read this thread.
On the other hand, I have yet to see real technical discussion about problems that systemd apparently is fixing. I honestly and openmindedly am curious about what makes systemd good, so I've tried on several occasions to find these discussions where good technical reasoning is used to explain the motivations behind systemd. If they exist, I haven't found any yet. I'm hoping some will appear as a result of this thread.
But you bring up the idea that the "market has spoken"? You do realize that a majority of users use Windows, right? And people in the United States are constantly electing politicians who directly hurt the people who vote for them more than anyone else. It's called marketing. Just because something has effective marketing doesn't mean it doesn't suck.
Take eight 64k x 1 memory chips, stack them, solder all pins together except for the data pin, then run a wire from each data pin, and you've just made a 64k x 8 memory module. Nothing new about this.
I call bullshit. Leave Slack - which has NO notifications enabled, nor any other features allowed, alive overnight and check battery usage the next day and explain how a "frozen" app can take that much electricity.
ALWAYS force-quit Slack and other energy-hungry apps when you're not using them.
You know, you're not contributing to the discussion by trying to assert that Windows and any other OS are equivalent. Microsoft is the outlier. Mac OS X, the BSDs, and most GNU/Linuxes (I say most because many distros are sprinting towards being as Windows-like as possible) do not launch daemons that listen on public interfaces by default, nor do BeOS (Haiku), AmigaOS, QNX or others.
Windows comes insecure out of the box, and that's without turning on any services. Updates are painful and confusing. Do you know which patch fixes this issue just by looking at Microsoft's Windows Update list of updates? Didn't think so.
If you were my boss and insisted without discussion that putting a BSD machine on a public IP without a firewall was insecure, I'd insist that you'd be taken out of your position because you don't understand security at all.
PCs are personal computers. There are plenty of PCs which don't run Windows. The original article doesn't have this glaring mistake, and a Slashdot poster should know better.
Seriously - how incredibly stupid would it be to say that Burger King is "intruding" in to computer systems? We could just as easily use the same arguments to say that people who cause unwanted pop-ups have subverted the intended use of our browsers and are, therefore, "intruding".
But who's to say that some normal sounding dialogue doesn't incite some other piece of technology in the future? Should we have to keep a catalogue of all the things that can't be said, lest some listening device be woken?
Really, Lauren Weinstein, you haven't thought this through.
I'm interested to see the results of this, too. The idea that a watch needs to be charged daily (or nearly daily) is utterly ridiculous. Like my Palm Pilot 500 which can run for weeks or months on a pair of AAA batteries, I'd rather have something simple that requires little effort than something with a thousand features which requires constant attention, software updates and charging.
The only watch I currently own is a Casio G-Shock which syncs time via WWVB and keeps the battery charged via solar. The battery still needs to be replaced every seven years or so, though. Once I can replace the battery with a supercapacitor, I'd never have to open the watch for any reason, and I'd be happy.
There should be more computing which focuses on doing certain things exceedingly well instead of trying to do everything.
We all know that journalism is a thing of the past, and this is a perfect example. The official report says NOTHING about a Power Mac. In 2007, Apple wasn't even selling Power Macs. Furthermore, the report says that the server was experiencing connectivity issues with BlackBerries, not that it couldn't handle the load. I see no mention of load issues in the official report.
It has sucked so much lately, with so many security issues, that anything that requires Java has been replaced with something more modern. Just say no to Java!
The first three seconds of the (longer) trailer of the first season lost me with:
LOADHIGH A:/SYS/BIOS
PRINT/D:LPT1/A:/SYS/BIOS
What the hell is this? TI-RTOS? Nope. CP/M, or its bastardized cousin, PC/DOS? Nope. Sorry - with a name like "Halt and Catch Fire", I'd have expected something better than stupid TV writer gibberish.
It obviously CAN be put back in to service. To put it back in to service in a desirable manner, a lot of work would need to be done. They've decided it's too much work, which is different from saying it cannot be done.
So long as you're just using FiOS for Internet, use your own NAT router (If you're using them for TV, you'll need MoCA for the STBs). Call them up and say this:
I want to switch my ONT from MoCA to ethernet. Please release the hardware lease on my equipment, too. I'm about to connect my new equipment.
People fetishize PC hardware. Do you NEED to play Crysis at 4K at 90 FPS? No. But people get enjoyment out of trying to get more and more performance. The problem here is that the author is lumping the fetishists in with the regular game players.
Let the fetishists spend their money. Let the rest of the world play at 1080 resolution at 30 FPS.
Oh - Macs don't have three year old hardware. Don't be daft.
There are two simple rules which apply to many things in multi-user computing and, therefore, also to CGI:
Don't allow execution where you can write. Don't allow writing where you can execute.
Wordpress fails this miserably, which is why Wordpress is the top phishing hosting platform on the planet. They've said that they don't want to change this because they prefer ease to end users over doing things properly. This is a horrible idea because people don't update when things are working, particularly if they know so little that they require this "ease".
In the opinion of many people who AREN'T Wordpress developers, you don't make something both simple AND insecure - you stick with secure, and if that's too complicated for some people, then that should be their problem. Don't foist that insecurity on everyone because of the inabilities of some people.
The solution is simple: set permissions to comply with those two rules. When it's time to install a plugin or do an update from within Wordpress, change the permissions to insecure, Do the update / install the plugin, then set the permissions back.
Do you think the Wordpress people would do this? Hell, no! This is how they push people to pay to host on wordpress.com! "Oh, you're not smart enough to keep your own site secure, so pay to have us do it."
Microsoft has smart people, and they say that Autoplay is a FEATURE. Anyone who says otherwise is dumb. Where's your multibillion dollar company to prove you know what you're talking about? Macros that move along with Microsoft Office documents? FEATURE, people. FEATURE.
Seriously, though, mainstream OSes should've had this protection ages ago. The BSDs can be compiled to only recognize certain devices on USB, and, if desired, only the first of each kind (so the keyboard that was recognized at boot can't be "replaced" with a device that appears to be the exact same keyboard).
Come on... Of all the news sites out there, people on this site should be better at using the proper capitalization. They're making 8 gigaBIT chips which will be seen in 128 gigaBYTE DIMMs
If the OS and / or applications can't handle a leap second, then it should be fixed. Nothing should ever be changed to make up for the shortcomings of bad code.
Just keep standard UNIX mail spool files locally, if you're worried about it.
Also, a mail server is not physical if it runs under a hypervisor, unless you physically have the box that runs both in your possession. You'll all see - hypervisors will be shown to be manipulated by cloud providers and/or TLA agencies to extract data from virtual machines without the virtual machines' admins knowing anything about it.
GNU, BSD, Linux, et cetera became ubiquitous because they all offer lots of choices. Minimal, text-only OS? Sure. Fancy GUI with special effects? Sure. Headless? Sure. A single, simple ethernet connection to the world? Sure. A multi-interface, multi-homed, routing, NAT and firewall setup? Sure.
Try to take away people's choices, and you're going to piss people off. I don't even run GNU/Linux, but I'm pissed about the mess that is being made to open source software. Now we're going to have to come up with a label for software that depends on systemd, like "systemd encumbered", because it won't be compilable on any other operating system.
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Casio and Timex will be ending support for timekeeping for all watches made before 2016. Currently owners will get a discount on the new 2018 models with subscription-based timekeeping.
Perhaps you have had no problems with systemd because you aren't trying to use it to do much.
Lots of people, myself included, have had issues trying to get things which are trivial in pre-systemd or on other OSes to work properly and consistently on systemd. There are many, many, many examples of issues. If someone asked me for examples, I'd have a hard time deciding where to start because so many things have been gratuitously changed. If you really think there aren't examples, just read this thread.
On the other hand, I have yet to see real technical discussion about problems that systemd apparently is fixing. I honestly and openmindedly am curious about what makes systemd good, so I've tried on several occasions to find these discussions where good technical reasoning is used to explain the motivations behind systemd. If they exist, I haven't found any yet. I'm hoping some will appear as a result of this thread.
But you bring up the idea that the "market has spoken"? You do realize that a majority of users use Windows, right? And people in the United States are constantly electing politicians who directly hurt the people who vote for them more than anyone else. It's called marketing. Just because something has effective marketing doesn't mean it doesn't suck.
If anyone's going to hate this, it's going to be Trump himself.
Take eight 64k x 1 memory chips, stack them, solder all pins together except for the data pin, then run a wire from each data pin, and you've just made a 64k x 8 memory module. Nothing new about this.
This copy was written for the Slashdot crowd? What's up?
I call bullshit. Leave Slack - which has NO notifications enabled, nor any other features allowed, alive overnight and check battery usage the next day and explain how a "frozen" app can take that much electricity.
ALWAYS force-quit Slack and other energy-hungry apps when you're not using them.
You know, you're not contributing to the discussion by trying to assert that Windows and any other OS are equivalent. Microsoft is the outlier. Mac OS X, the BSDs, and most GNU/Linuxes (I say most because many distros are sprinting towards being as Windows-like as possible) do not launch daemons that listen on public interfaces by default, nor do BeOS (Haiku), AmigaOS, QNX or others.
Windows comes insecure out of the box, and that's without turning on any services. Updates are painful and confusing. Do you know which patch fixes this issue just by looking at Microsoft's Windows Update list of updates? Didn't think so.
If you were my boss and insisted without discussion that putting a BSD machine on a public IP without a firewall was insecure, I'd insist that you'd be taken out of your position because you don't understand security at all.
PCs are personal computers. There are plenty of PCs which don't run Windows. The original article doesn't have this glaring mistake, and a Slashdot poster should know better.
Seriously - how incredibly stupid would it be to say that Burger King is "intruding" in to computer systems? We could just as easily use the same arguments to say that people who cause unwanted pop-ups have subverted the intended use of our browsers and are, therefore, "intruding".
But who's to say that some normal sounding dialogue doesn't incite some other piece of technology in the future? Should we have to keep a catalogue of all the things that can't be said, lest some listening device be woken?
Really, Lauren Weinstein, you haven't thought this through.
I'm interested to see the results of this, too. The idea that a watch needs to be charged daily (or nearly daily) is utterly ridiculous. Like my Palm Pilot 500 which can run for weeks or months on a pair of AAA batteries, I'd rather have something simple that requires little effort than something with a thousand features which requires constant attention, software updates and charging.
The only watch I currently own is a Casio G-Shock which syncs time via WWVB and keeps the battery charged via solar. The battery still needs to be replaced every seven years or so, though. Once I can replace the battery with a supercapacitor, I'd never have to open the watch for any reason, and I'd be happy.
There should be more computing which focuses on doing certain things exceedingly well instead of trying to do everything.
...and an AMD 5350 destroys this thing, and a Core i7 destroys an AMD 5350, and a POWER8 destroys a Core i7...
At $160, it's in a completely different league than a Raspberry Pi 3.
We all know that journalism is a thing of the past, and this is a perfect example. The official report says NOTHING about a Power Mac. In 2007, Apple wasn't even selling Power Macs. Furthermore, the report says that the server was experiencing connectivity issues with BlackBerries, not that it couldn't handle the load. I see no mention of load issues in the official report.
It has sucked so much lately, with so many security issues, that anything that requires Java has been replaced with something more modern. Just say no to Java!
The first three seconds of the (longer) trailer of the first season lost me with:
LOADHIGH A:/SYS/BIOS
PRINT /D:LPT1 /A:/SYS/BIOS
What the hell is this? TI-RTOS? Nope. CP/M, or its bastardized cousin, PC/DOS? Nope. Sorry - with a name like "Halt and Catch Fire", I'd have expected something better than stupid TV writer gibberish.
It obviously CAN be put back in to service. To put it back in to service in a desirable manner, a lot of work would need to be done. They've decided it's too much work, which is different from saying it cannot be done.
So long as you're just using FiOS for Internet, use your own NAT router (If you're using them for TV, you'll need MoCA for the STBs). Call them up and say this:
I want to switch my ONT from MoCA to ethernet. Please release the hardware lease on my equipment, too. I'm about to connect my new equipment.
That's all you need to do :)
People fetishize PC hardware. Do you NEED to play Crysis at 4K at 90 FPS? No. But people get enjoyment out of trying to get more and more performance. The problem here is that the author is lumping the fetishists in with the regular game players.
Let the fetishists spend their money. Let the rest of the world play at 1080 resolution at 30 FPS.
Oh - Macs don't have three year old hardware. Don't be daft.
Wordpress is designed to be insecure.
There are two simple rules which apply to many things in multi-user computing and, therefore, also to CGI:
Don't allow execution where you can write.
Don't allow writing where you can execute.
Wordpress fails this miserably, which is why Wordpress is the top phishing hosting platform on the planet. They've said that they don't want to change this because they prefer ease to end users over doing things properly. This is a horrible idea because people don't update when things are working, particularly if they know so little that they require this "ease".
In the opinion of many people who AREN'T Wordpress developers, you don't make something both simple AND insecure - you stick with secure, and if that's too complicated for some people, then that should be their problem. Don't foist that insecurity on everyone because of the inabilities of some people.
The solution is simple: set permissions to comply with those two rules. When it's time to install a plugin or do an update from within Wordpress, change the permissions to insecure, Do the update / install the plugin, then set the permissions back.
Do you think the Wordpress people would do this? Hell, no! This is how they push people to pay to host on wordpress.com! "Oh, you're not smart enough to keep your own site secure, so pay to have us do it."
"The researchers note the text (PDF)."
That link was NOT a PDF. Please don't assume that everyone wants to use their browser to read things. That's deceptive. The proper link is:
http://fc16.ifca.ai/preproceed...
Microsoft has smart people, and they say that Autoplay is a FEATURE. Anyone who says otherwise is dumb. Where's your multibillion dollar company to prove you know what you're talking about? Macros that move along with Microsoft Office documents? FEATURE, people. FEATURE.
Seriously, though, mainstream OSes should've had this protection ages ago. The BSDs can be compiled to only recognize certain devices on USB, and, if desired, only the first of each kind (so the keyboard that was recognized at boot can't be "replaced" with a device that appears to be the exact same keyboard).
Come on... Of all the news sites out there, people on this site should be better at using the proper capitalization. They're making 8 gigaBIT chips which will be seen in 128 gigaBYTE DIMMs
I guess you folks didn't get the memo - the Internet doesn't like Flash. But even at a laptop which has Flash, the video still doesn't load.
Would you like help hosting the video?
If the OS and / or applications can't handle a leap second, then it should be fixed. Nothing should ever be changed to make up for the shortcomings of bad code.
Just keep standard UNIX mail spool files locally, if you're worried about it.
Also, a mail server is not physical if it runs under a hypervisor, unless you physically have the box that runs both in your possession. You'll all see - hypervisors will be shown to be manipulated by cloud providers and/or TLA agencies to extract data from virtual machines without the virtual machines' admins knowing anything about it.
GNU, BSD, Linux, et cetera became ubiquitous because they all offer lots of choices. Minimal, text-only OS? Sure. Fancy GUI with special effects? Sure. Headless? Sure. A single, simple ethernet connection to the world? Sure. A multi-interface, multi-homed, routing, NAT and firewall setup? Sure.
Try to take away people's choices, and you're going to piss people off. I don't even run GNU/Linux, but I'm pissed about the mess that is being made to open source software. Now we're going to have to come up with a label for software that depends on systemd, like "systemd encumbered", because it won't be compilable on any other operating system.