Well, if I'm not allowed to repair my machine on my own (if I'm so inclined), then I guess I don't have to worry about paying to have the broken product taken to the dump. I can just drop it on the sidewalk of these "authorised repair" facilities and get something else. They want to control the stupid thing that badly, they can take care of its disposal.
The other alternative is to jerry-rig a fix anyway. If they don't like it, too damned bad.
We already need identification for all sorts of things in society: buying alcohol, tobacco, registering a car, getting a job... Proving who you are to vote is not difficult at all.
In a growing number of states, Real ID standards are mandated. Without a RealID-compliant license, for example, one cannot do something as routine as getting through airport security.
For certain political parties to claim it is "racist" to require ID to vote because certain minorities cannot get an ID is, in itself, racist.
The problems VoterID would solve would far surpass the crap ideas floated by the Democrats in the Senate.
"To people who troll on the Internet for fun, consider your words and actions conveyed in your message and who it might upset or anger," he wrote. "Put yourself in their shoes before you post it. If you have a problem with trolling it is an addiction just like any other addiction someone can have to something and don't be embarrassed to ask for help. Trolling is nothing more than bullying a wide audience. Don't feed your own self-worth based upon inflicting suffering upon others online just because you are behind a keyboard."
So... It's okay for the Mainstream Media bullies people, but it's not okay for people to bully the Mainstream Media.
Got it.
I guess CNN has their panties in a knot because FoxNews is more reliable than they are. (That's saying something.)
I see a lot of anonymous cowards on Slashdot being loud against systemd, but in the real world it's just another tool that people use, no different than the GNU utilities or APT.
I'm not an AC and I'm actually in agreement with most of the people against systemd for reasons that have already been discussed ad nauseum.
Does SysVinit need to be updated or replaced? Probably, depends on what you want or need. Is systemd the answer? Oh, hell no. There are plenty of other alternatives that don't risk breaking the system to the extent that systemd does.
I'm pretty sure that the only reason systemd got off the ground is because GNOME3 required it. It is the epitome of "dependency hell".
This was, arguably, the most cohesive and agreeable commentary in this entire thread that I've read so far. No clue why some young farts chose to down-vote it.
I write things in Python right now because I'm trying to learn it. I wrote a cool routine that makes graphs and all, and tried to share it with Management.
The people in charge of routines that are shared among teams here won't touch it because their team doesn't know Python (they seem to be the only team in the company that doesn't), so they can't maintain it. I find this disgusting, because a child could follow the blocking in Python, and if one is versed in other languages, it's really not hard to figure out what's going on......and yes, I have every major block documented. It's a habit I picked up from Pascal and BASIC+, because I found I would have an epiphany on how to get something to work, look at the code a couple months later and wonder what the hell i was thinking. Documentation for the win.
I've used Perl professionally, but I get irritated when people seek to obfuscate their code. It just makes it difficult for people later on, when their crap err... clever code needs to be tweaked. Python doesn't have that problem quite so often.
The way this reads, the replacements aren't H1B's, but actually off-shore.
Companies do this crap all the time. If I were informed that I'd be training my replacement, I wouldn't do it. Buggers want to replace me, they can figure out what's going on for themselves.
The search for cheaper labor is biting India too: they're losing jobs to nations on the African continent, because they'll do things for less than India's workers will.
Nonsense. Loading a module ("linking it") into the kernel makes a single binary, that is unambiguous.
Bull.
Assuming one is not actively using ZFS and removed all traces of the library and its tools, will the system work the same as before?
If so (and this is readily apparent), then the library is separate. If it is under a separate license and this is understood by the user/admin at the time of install, who cares? I don't.
I'm pretty sure that if you look at the several other file systems that have been supported by Linux over the years, more than one have had different license terms.
Looks like I'll have to get into the habit again of finding the FQDN of the sources of advertising, and setting the IP in my hosts file to 127.0.0.1, like I used to do back in the '90s.
It was a pain in the butt then, and I imagine it will be far worse now.
We aren't a Democracy in the US, we're a Republic. Voting on everything makes it easy for mob rule.
Voting on everything would be problematic, even with today's technology. It is still too easy to tamper with polling stations. What would be used to verify any questionable results?
As others have noted, what if the subject(s) you're very interested in come up for a vote on the day(s) you're unavailable to cast your vote?
...and that's just off the top of my head.
I can easily envision a world where opinions are cast and the "decision of the people" is whatever the politician in power wants it to be anyway. There would be no recourse and no verification. People would be little more than sheep....almost like now.
There are, of course, the legal ramifications (*cough*FourthAdmendment*cough*) regarding seizure without a court's say in the matter. (IANAL, etc, etc...)
There is also the fact that those that really cared about this site probably know the site's IP, and with that in hand, who cares what they do with the domain? Add the IP to your local/etc/hosts file (or its Windoze equivalent), and you're golden.
I'm pretty sure at this point that the RIAA (and MPAA for that matter) spend far more in legal fees from their delusions than they actually make in profits.
Lessig seems to forget that this country is not, nor has it ever been, a "democracy". This nation has always been a Republic.
The rules in place that he describes as "fixed" are an attempt (however feeble) at preventing the balance of power from being held by any one part of the country. Who would really enjoy it, for example, if California got choose presidents all by itself, simply because they had more people than most other states? (Yes, I'm quite aware that a few other states on the East Coast also have a lot of people, but at this writing, California has more Representatives in Congress, and therefore more Electoral votes, than any one of them.)
Besides that... His choices for VP would be Elizabeth "Hoaxahontas" Warren and Bernie "Socialism or bust" Sanders? Please.
I bought a laptop (Core2-Duo CPU, 2MB RAM) that came with Vista shortly after Vista was released. I actually liked it, and that's saying something when you consider that every single Microsoft OS has let me down at one time or another. It seemed to me that most of the people that didn't like Vista were trying to run it on systems that were optimized for XP.
I now have Windows 7 on all my gaming systems (long story, i'm all about using the right tool for the job), and I'm considering Win10.
Republican presidential candidates: George Bush, George W. Bush, and now likely Jeb Bush.
Nope, no nepotism here, I am sure that they were each the best man for the job out of a population of 200+ million.
Ummm... Not sure you're using 'nepotism' correctly there. <shrug>
I wouldn't vote for Jeb anyway. I'm still trying to figure out what barrel of monkeys got released that made it possible for him to lead in many of the recent polls.
Ubuntu also moved to systemd because everyone was moving to systemd. Before that, Ubuntu has their own init system called Upstart, and there was much debate in Debian on whether to use systemd or Upstart.
It's my understanding that there was an attempt to affect the voting by limiting who had the ability to vote, simply because one of the lead developers was a prominent Upstart supporter. One interesting reference is here, though this is not the source I read about the vote manipulation from.
That said, I'm not overly familiar with how Debian elections are carried out. I only know what I came across in the last couple weeks when I was trying to get a grip on why major distributions were going so solidly with systemd, given issues that so many have found in the package. The trick to remember is that systemd is not the only solution to any {real|perceived} issues that sysvinit may have: There's also openrc and Upstart, to name two other alternatives, and they each have different solutions to bring to the table. Part of what made Linux what it is is the ability to choose what you want in your distro, to determine what you think is really "broken" and what the solution should be.
Honestly, I started getting migraines trying to wade through all the political crap. Proponents of systemd started to sound like American politicians (Democrat or Republican, take your pick; they both tell lies and break promises). It's mind-numbing, which I think is the point. I couldn't find a distro without systemd at all (this was a couple weeks ago, before I head of Devuan) so I wiped my Linux (Fedora) box and put FreeBSD on it.
Yeah, I'll have to learn how to deal with 'ports', but I won't have to deal with the nightmare that appears to be systemd.
Before you start throwing incendiary names at people, perhaps you should consider reading the About page... It makes you out to be the type of person whose only exercise is jumping to conclusions. (I don't know if you really are or not; that's not my business, nor is it any of my concern.)
I would say less than 30 years ago this was true. Now, not so much.
I was thinking the same thing. The country as it is today is, in my opinion, not much of something to be proud of. The government is blatantly corrupt, people that are woefully uninformed are electing the wrong people into government (or electing anyone at all for the wrong reasons), and one cannot travel quickly within the country without having basic rights violated.
It's pretty sad when the American government makes likes of Vladimir Putin look like a "good guy".
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Well, if I'm not allowed to repair my machine on my own (if I'm so inclined), then I guess I don't have to worry about paying to have the broken product taken to the dump. I can just drop it on the sidewalk of these "authorised repair" facilities and get something else. They want to control the stupid thing that badly, they can take care of its disposal.
The other alternative is to jerry-rig a fix anyway. If they don't like it, too damned bad.
Enact VoterID.
We already need identification for all sorts of things in society: buying alcohol, tobacco, registering a car, getting a job... Proving who you are to vote is not difficult at all.
In a growing number of states, Real ID standards are mandated. Without a RealID-compliant license, for example, one cannot do something as routine as getting through airport security.
For certain political parties to claim it is "racist" to require ID to vote because certain minorities cannot get an ID is, in itself, racist.
The problems VoterID would solve would far surpass the crap ideas floated by the Democrats in the Senate.
"To people who troll on the Internet for fun, consider your words and actions conveyed in your message and who it might upset or anger," he wrote. "Put yourself in their shoes before you post it. If you have a problem with trolling it is an addiction just like any other addiction someone can have to something and don't be embarrassed to ask for help. Trolling is nothing more than bullying a wide audience. Don't feed your own self-worth based upon inflicting suffering upon others online just because you are behind a keyboard."
So... It's okay for the Mainstream Media bullies people, but it's not okay for people to bully the Mainstream Media.
Got it.
I guess CNN has their panties in a knot because FoxNews is more reliable than they are. (That's saying something.)
I agree with the XKCD reference. The thing most people seem to forget is that the knife cuts both ways.
I do believe red hats were banned when Trump started marketing them for fundraising.
I see a lot of anonymous cowards on Slashdot being loud against systemd, but in the real world it's just another tool that people use, no different than the GNU utilities or APT.
I'm not an AC and I'm actually in agreement with most of the people against systemd for reasons that have already been discussed ad nauseum.
Does SysVinit need to be updated or replaced? Probably, depends on what you want or need. Is systemd the answer? Oh, hell no. There are plenty of other alternatives that don't risk breaking the system to the extent that systemd does.
I'm pretty sure that the only reason systemd got off the ground is because GNOME3 required it. It is the epitome of "dependency hell".
This was, arguably, the most cohesive and agreeable commentary in this entire thread that I've read so far. No clue why some young farts chose to down-vote it.
I write things in Python right now because I'm trying to learn it. I wrote a cool routine that makes graphs and all, and tried to share it with Management.
The people in charge of routines that are shared among teams here won't touch it because their team doesn't know Python (they seem to be the only team in the company that doesn't), so they can't maintain it. I find this disgusting, because a child could follow the blocking in Python, and if one is versed in other languages, it's really not hard to figure out what's going on... ...and yes, I have every major block documented. It's a habit I picked up from Pascal and BASIC+, because I found I would have an epiphany on how to get something to work, look at the code a couple months later and wonder what the hell i was thinking. Documentation for the win.
I've used Perl professionally, but I get irritated when people seek to obfuscate their code. It just makes it difficult for people later on, when their crap err... clever code needs to be tweaked. Python doesn't have that problem quite so often.
My sons have had SmartPhones with FM Radio capability, but mine have not-- not that anyone would admit, anyway.
I think it would be a good thing, but like the OP pointed out, not for Carriers hoping for us to exhaust our data plan every month.
The way this reads, the replacements aren't H1B's, but actually off-shore.
Companies do this crap all the time. If I were informed that I'd be training my replacement, I wouldn't do it. Buggers want to replace me, they can figure out what's going on for themselves.
The search for cheaper labor is biting India too: they're losing jobs to nations on the African continent, because they'll do things for less than India's workers will.
I've been on since the late 90s and I remember K5. Didn't go there past the first year, but I remember it.
RIP K5. We hardly knew ye.
Nonsense. Loading a module ("linking it") into the kernel makes a single binary, that is unambiguous.
Bull.
Assuming one is not actively using ZFS and removed all traces of the library and its tools, will the system work the same as before?
If so (and this is readily apparent), then the library is separate. If it is under a separate license and this is understood by the user/admin at the time of install, who cares? I don't.
I'm pretty sure that if you look at the several other file systems that have been supported by Linux over the years, more than one have had different license terms.
Looks like I'll have to get into the habit again of finding the FQDN of the sources of advertising, and setting the IP in my hosts file to 127.0.0.1, like I used to do back in the '90s.
It was a pain in the butt then, and I imagine it will be far worse now.
Let's see.
I can easily envision a world where opinions are cast and the "decision of the people" is whatever the politician in power wants it to be anyway. There would be no recourse and no verification. People would be little more than sheep. ...almost like now.
One dollar for the program. Okay. That's bragging rights.
How much is the support contract?
There are, of course, the legal ramifications (*cough*FourthAdmendment*cough*) regarding seizure without a court's say in the matter. (IANAL, etc, etc...)
There is also the fact that those that really cared about this site probably know the site's IP, and with that in hand, who cares what they do with the domain? Add the IP to your local /etc/hosts file (or its Windoze equivalent), and you're golden.
I'm pretty sure at this point that the RIAA (and MPAA for that matter) spend far more in legal fees from their delusions than they actually make in profits.
Lessig seems to forget that this country is not, nor has it ever been, a "democracy". This nation has always been a Republic.
The rules in place that he describes as "fixed" are an attempt (however feeble) at preventing the balance of power from being held by any one part of the country. Who would really enjoy it, for example, if California got choose presidents all by itself, simply because they had more people than most other states? (Yes, I'm quite aware that a few other states on the East Coast also have a lot of people, but at this writing, California has more Representatives in Congress, and therefore more Electoral votes, than any one of them.)
Besides that... His choices for VP would be Elizabeth "Hoaxahontas" Warren and Bernie "Socialism or bust" Sanders? Please.
I bought a laptop (Core2-Duo CPU, 2MB RAM) that came with Vista shortly after Vista was released. I actually liked it, and that's saying something when you consider that every single Microsoft OS has let me down at one time or another. It seemed to me that most of the people that didn't like Vista were trying to run it on systems that were optimized for XP.
I now have Windows 7 on all my gaming systems (long story, i'm all about using the right tool for the job), and I'm considering Win10.
Republican presidential candidates: George Bush, George W. Bush, and now likely Jeb Bush.
Nope, no nepotism here, I am sure that they were each the best man for the job out of a population of 200+ million.
Ummm... Not sure you're using 'nepotism' correctly there. <shrug>
I wouldn't vote for Jeb anyway. I'm still trying to figure out what barrel of monkeys got released that made it possible for him to lead in many of the recent polls.
TIL a troll can have no idea what he's talking about but can somehow manage to find "solipsism" in the dictionary.
You're quite right: ports really isn't difficult. It's just "different" from what I'm used to, so any difficulties are personal and self-inflicted. :)
Ubuntu also moved to systemd because everyone was moving to systemd. Before that, Ubuntu has their own init system called Upstart, and there was much debate in Debian on whether to use systemd or Upstart.
It's my understanding that there was an attempt to affect the voting by limiting who had the ability to vote, simply because one of the lead developers was a prominent Upstart supporter. One interesting reference is here, though this is not the source I read about the vote manipulation from.
That said, I'm not overly familiar with how Debian elections are carried out. I only know what I came across in the last couple weeks when I was trying to get a grip on why major distributions were going so solidly with systemd, given issues that so many have found in the package. The trick to remember is that systemd is not the only solution to any {real|perceived} issues that sysvinit may have: There's also openrc and Upstart, to name two other alternatives, and they each have different solutions to bring to the table. Part of what made Linux what it is is the ability to choose what you want in your distro, to determine what you think is really "broken" and what the solution should be.
Honestly, I started getting migraines trying to wade through all the political crap. Proponents of systemd started to sound like American politicians (Democrat or Republican, take your pick; they both tell lies and break promises). It's mind-numbing, which I think is the point. I couldn't find a distro without systemd at all (this was a couple weeks ago, before I head of Devuan) so I wiped my Linux (Fedora) box and put FreeBSD on it.
Yeah, I'll have to learn how to deal with 'ports', but I won't have to deal with the nightmare that appears to be systemd.
I see it like this: You have to use the right tool for the job.
Start showing that there's an alternative to Windows for running games, then you'll be able to scare the Giant of Redmond.
Man, these guys are total fucktards: ...
Before you start throwing incendiary names at people, perhaps you should consider reading the About page ... It makes you out to be the type of person whose only exercise is jumping to conclusions. (I don't know if you really are or not; that's not my business, nor is it any of my concern.)
Can anyone here please ELI5 (explain like I'm five) what it is and why someone would want to use it?
"ELI5"? What do you think this is- Reddit?
I would say less than 30 years ago this was true. Now, not so much.
I was thinking the same thing. The country as it is today is, in my opinion, not much of something to be proud of. The government is blatantly corrupt, people that are woefully uninformed are electing the wrong people into government (or electing anyone at all for the wrong reasons), and one cannot travel quickly within the country without having basic rights violated.
It's pretty sad when the American government makes likes of Vladimir Putin look like a "good guy".