This is America: the place made for "shoving your political opinion in other people's face". People in coastal areas with heavy handed government tend to forget this.
Texas does in fact allow open carry of long guns. What it doesn't allow is open carry of hand guns.
In fact back when the whole Ferguson thing was more of a thing, there was an open carry demonstration by a black shooting club. They marched through one of our large cities (with rifles and shotguns) and deposited themselves next to a number of on duty police officers on their meal break.
No fireworks ensued though. Nobody got over excited. Although it does bear mentioning that the jurisdiction in question does have a black police chief and had a black DA.
> Unfortunately slashdot is filled with armchair sysadmins
Nope. Slashdot is filled with people that have been using multiple Unixen since the 80s as well as genuine sysadmins of various kinds. Many of us find systemd problematic just because of the way it's designed.
It's only "controversial" in software where people think that "what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine" is an acceptable way to think about other people's work.
The GPL is a clever hack of copyright law written by someone that knew what he was doing. I think people see RMS and think they can get away with sh*t because they think he's not smart enough to hire a real lawyer.
A fit body is more ready for a nasty surprise. If you aren't very fit, you may end up as a freak heart attack statistic. No one may even know what really killed you.
It's all a mix of seemingly random events with the inclusion of at least one element that's under your control.
I would add #4 -- detect when someone is trying to trick the end user. Multiple file extensions. The combination of a visible file extension that's harmless with one that's executable. Trap these conditions and treat the file with an extra level of harshness.
If one of us would see it as an obvious attempt to abuse the Windows file handler, then make it something that the common rube would not be able to execute even if they wanted to.
No. A user should be able to trust the name of the file.
If the file isn't really what it says it is, then that should be a BIG RED FLAG for the user shell. At that point the OS should know to treat the file as a threat.
A deceptively named file should immediately go into quarantine.
Instead, the user (assumed to be an idiot) is just left to fend for themselves.
Hell hath no fury like a nerd that has to clean up after boneheaded design decisions made by incompetent engineers with billions of dollars in resources who should really know better.
Pornography is and always has been illegal in many US jurisdictions. This is very much like online gambling. New York or California might tolerate this stuff but some grandstanding DA in Tennesee will decide to bring someone up on charges.
Doesn't matter where the server is hosted.
This has been going on with online services and cable TV since the 80s.
The problem with new Trek isn't JJ Abrams. It's us. The future painted by Star Trek in the 1960's isn't quite so distant any more. It's actually a little quaint. The "ethnic crewmen" are no longer awkward stereotypes. They are real people viewed much more as equals and just plain mundane.
The Scottish engineer is actually a real geeky Scot. The Asian is more than a smiling cheerful guy. The Russian is actually from Leningrad and actually sounds like someone who could be Spock's protoge. The black girl comes off as more than just a switchboard operator.
Most of the tech of the old show seems dated so they find the need to make it all look even snazzier.
We are past most of the little details and the big details are taken for granted.
The future arrived. The bar is higher now. The remarkable has become the mundane.
> If you watch your movies via streaming, this is not an issue. 2015 people, 2015.
Yes. In 2015 there's still plenty of stuff that's not available via streaming or is only available at a price that most people aren't interested in paying.
Some us actually use this stuff and don't merely talk about it.
In other words, you have a BD player too old to matter in this context. Current players do more than just decode spinning plastic. They also have all of those apps that connect to all of those interesting video services that you just conveniently ignored.
> It's a machine before the TCP/IP and Internet times.
I ran a machine like that with TCP/IP on the Internet. The main problem would be getting an ethernet port working on the thing but the software side of the equation is well covered.
Meanwhile, there is this PC platform that wiped out all of it's other bespoke competitors probably before you even touched your first computer. PCs are MUCH more diverse than Android phones. But if you started whining about "fragmentation" to PC developers they would look at you like you grew a second head.
What do "desktop users" even want? Do they even have any real desires or do they just mindlessly take whatever is force fed to them by a Microsoft dominated OEM channel?
These are the same "desktop users" that turned their noses up at MacOS in favor of DOS.
The idea that Linux "lost the desktop" is assinine. It was never there to take. It was owned by DOS from day one. Quality of the product accounts for ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
By Lemming-centric market metrics, even MacOS is a failure.
Thankfully most other markets are not quite as broken and I am not stuck eating dirt. Only in the computing market is the notion of not wanting to eat dirt seen as extreme or subversive.
This Linux gaming renaissance is most likely a side effect of how every other gaming platform besides Windows uses "something else". That something else is Linux compatible. That reduces the distance between Linux and what has already been ported to.
Android, MacOS, even the PS4 and Wii's are intermediate steps towards Linux.
It's no great surprise that the most interesting ports for Linux are being done by a MacOS porting house.
Beyond the big titles, Linux is a significant part of the market. The indies were already porting to Linux because of this.
While the NUCs are overkill for HTPC duty, the PIs are also not sufficiently there either. A PI just has problems keeping up with the user interface (XBMC).
Something like a Chromebox is the sweet spot. Decent enough GPU for video decoding and a CPU that's not ridiculously anemic.
Better yet, if people are re-inventing your work why do you even think you should be granted ownership of it? Chances are that you contributed nothing to the state of the art. You didn't publish anything that's actually useful. Patents are rubbish as documentation. So if that's all you've contributed to the world, then you didn't contribute anything really.
The fact that ANYONE could "re-invent" your stuff means the patent should be tossed.
Patents are evil that way. They allow patent holders to claim ownership of the work of others. It's legalized theft.
I don't have to "imagine" anything. I have seen it firsthand. I have seen the no-talent schmucks from India used as scab labor and I have seen the overqualified and highly talented types from 1st world countries. Both were underpaid and in a vulnerable position.
Talent worth importing is talent worth importing with full status and no strings attached.
No. The H1B debate is about creating an easy to exploit underclass. Even the "talented types" get abused by corporations. Corporations get a free pass to rape pillage and plunder because that's just (Ayn Rand) trendy these days.
Corporations want people that are easy to exploit. People with full legal status are harder to abuse. They also have higher expecations and higher overhead.
I wouldn't even go that far. In all of the locations I looked at where I have some knowledge of the going rates, that data actually showed that the H1-Bs are on the low end of the scale.
This data doesn't appear to be anything to brag about really.
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This is America: the place made for "shoving your political opinion in other people's face". People in coastal areas with heavy handed government tend to forget this.
Texas does in fact allow open carry of long guns. What it doesn't allow is open carry of hand guns.
In fact back when the whole Ferguson thing was more of a thing, there was an open carry demonstration by a black shooting club. They marched through one of our large cities (with rifles and shotguns) and deposited themselves next to a number of on duty police officers on their meal break.
No fireworks ensued though. Nobody got over excited. Although it does bear mentioning that the jurisdiction in question does have a black police chief and had a black DA.
If systemd were actually what you are describing there, then there would be much fewer objections to it.
You are ridiculously misrepresenting the situation.
> Unfortunately slashdot is filled with armchair sysadmins
Nope. Slashdot is filled with people that have been using multiple Unixen since the 80s as well as genuine sysadmins of various kinds. Many of us find systemd problematic just because of the way it's designed.
The term "defective by design" comes to mind.
It's only "controversial" in software where people think that "what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine" is an acceptable way to think about other people's work.
The GPL is a clever hack of copyright law written by someone that knew what he was doing. I think people see RMS and think they can get away with sh*t because they think he's not smart enough to hire a real lawyer.
A fit body is more ready for a nasty surprise. If you aren't very fit, you may end up as a freak heart attack statistic. No one may even know what really killed you.
It's all a mix of seemingly random events with the inclusion of at least one element that's under your control.
I would add #4 -- detect when someone is trying to trick the end user. Multiple file extensions. The combination of a visible file extension that's harmless with one that's executable. Trap these conditions and treat the file with an extra level of harshness.
If one of us would see it as an obvious attempt to abuse the Windows file handler, then make it something that the common rube would not be able to execute even if they wanted to.
No. A user should be able to trust the name of the file.
If the file isn't really what it says it is, then that should be a BIG RED FLAG for the user shell. At that point the OS should know to treat the file as a threat.
A deceptively named file should immediately go into quarantine.
Instead, the user (assumed to be an idiot) is just left to fend for themselves.
Hell hath no fury like a nerd that has to clean up after boneheaded design decisions made by incompetent engineers with billions of dollars in resources who should really know better.
Pornography is and always has been illegal in many US jurisdictions. This is very much like online gambling. New York or California might tolerate this stuff but some grandstanding DA in Tennesee will decide to bring someone up on charges.
Doesn't matter where the server is hosted.
This has been going on with online services and cable TV since the 80s.
The problem with new Trek isn't JJ Abrams. It's us. The future painted by Star Trek in the 1960's isn't quite so distant any more. It's actually a little quaint. The "ethnic crewmen" are no longer awkward stereotypes. They are real people viewed much more as equals and just plain mundane.
The Scottish engineer is actually a real geeky Scot.
The Asian is more than a smiling cheerful guy.
The Russian is actually from Leningrad and actually sounds like someone who could be Spock's protoge.
The black girl comes off as more than just a switchboard operator.
Most of the tech of the old show seems dated so they find the need to make it all look even snazzier.
We are past most of the little details and the big details are taken for granted.
The future arrived. The bar is higher now. The remarkable has become the mundane.
> If you watch your movies via streaming, this is not an issue. 2015 people, 2015.
Yes. In 2015 there's still plenty of stuff that's not available via streaming or is only available at a price that most people aren't interested in paying.
Some us actually use this stuff and don't merely talk about it.
In other words, you have a BD player too old to matter in this context. Current players do more than just decode spinning plastic. They also have all of those apps that connect to all of those interesting video services that you just conveniently ignored.
> It's a machine before the TCP/IP and Internet times.
I ran a machine like that with TCP/IP on the Internet. The main problem would be getting an ethernet port working on the thing but the software side of the equation is well covered.
Been there. Did that.
Meanwhile, there is this PC platform that wiped out all of it's other bespoke competitors probably before you even touched your first computer. PCs are MUCH more diverse than Android phones. But if you started whining about "fragmentation" to PC developers they would look at you like you grew a second head.
What do "desktop users" even want? Do they even have any real desires or do they just mindlessly take whatever is force fed to them by a Microsoft dominated OEM channel?
These are the same "desktop users" that turned their noses up at MacOS in favor of DOS.
The idea that Linux "lost the desktop" is assinine. It was never there to take. It was owned by DOS from day one. Quality of the product accounts for ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
By Lemming-centric market metrics, even MacOS is a failure.
Thankfully most other markets are not quite as broken and I am not stuck eating dirt. Only in the computing market is the notion of not wanting to eat dirt seen as extreme or subversive.
...in a VM perhaps.
Go beyond that and Windows is a royal pain to get up and running. It's actually far more problematic to get up and running than Linux is.
It's hard to see this if you've never actually installed a proper copy of Windows on bare metal.
This Linux gaming renaissance is most likely a side effect of how every other gaming platform besides Windows uses "something else". That something else is Linux compatible. That reduces the distance between Linux and what has already been ported to.
Android, MacOS, even the PS4 and Wii's are intermediate steps towards Linux.
It's no great surprise that the most interesting ports for Linux are being done by a MacOS porting house.
Beyond the big titles, Linux is a significant part of the market. The indies were already porting to Linux because of this.
While the NUCs are overkill for HTPC duty, the PIs are also not sufficiently there either. A PI just has problems keeping up with the user interface (XBMC).
Something like a Chromebox is the sweet spot. Decent enough GPU for video decoding and a CPU that's not ridiculously anemic.
You mean that Canadians have a nasty spending cap and get turned down for treatments that Americans take for granted? That kind of cheap?
Don't swim in the kool-aid.
Better yet, if people are re-inventing your work why do you even think you should be granted ownership of it? Chances are that you contributed nothing to the state of the art. You didn't publish anything that's actually useful. Patents are rubbish as documentation. So if that's all you've contributed to the world, then you didn't contribute anything really.
The fact that ANYONE could "re-invent" your stuff means the patent should be tossed.
Patents are evil that way. They allow patent holders to claim ownership of the work of others. It's legalized theft.
I don't have to "imagine" anything. I have seen it firsthand. I have seen the no-talent schmucks from India used as scab labor and I have seen the overqualified and highly talented types from 1st world countries. Both were underpaid and in a vulnerable position.
Talent worth importing is talent worth importing with full status and no strings attached.
No. The H1B debate is about creating an easy to exploit underclass. Even the "talented types" get abused by corporations. Corporations get a free pass to rape pillage and plunder because that's just (Ayn Rand) trendy these days.
Corporations want people that are easy to exploit. People with full legal status are harder to abuse. They also have higher expecations and higher overhead.
I wouldn't even go that far. In all of the locations I looked at where I have some knowledge of the going rates, that data actually showed that the H1-Bs are on the low end of the scale.
This data doesn't appear to be anything to brag about really.
Well, the idea of taking at least one day off every 7 is a pretty old one. I am sure it's not limited to one particular nation state or culture.
It's a pleasant fantasy that you can drive labor indefinitely but the physical universe (and human bodies) has finite limits.