Do you seriously want to have apps that seem to hang for 2-5 seconds every time a button is pushed just because it needs to save its state before it enters a new one?
Do you seriously believe that's how it has to work? Choose your RPO and RTO appropriately for what you're doing. If you're playing a game and the battery falls out of your phone, how many seconds of lost gameplay will be acceptable? More than 1, to be sure. Sure you might do things a little better if you had some fore-warning, but since I'm not going to allow any app that wants access to my "phone activity" (since that could mean anything with these stupid permissions) maybe you won't get that.
Sure, plus for stuff like file editing you need to save undo history, so that it's always OK to save. It's not trivial, the right way may not be obvious, but development is a skilled profession and this is within our abilities.
That's the problem, isn't it? Both parties are now worthless. E.g., we need the government to live within its means. Do we tax more or spend less (spoiler: both)? In a functional democracy we'd have 2 parties that both governed in the nation's interest and fought to achieve the goal, arguing only over which of those 2 to do (the adversarial process would yield a reasonable compromise, one hopes). Instead we have 2 parties that want to hand as much cash to their supporters as they possibly can before the whole thing collapses, and only argue about which supporters get the loot!
There are many more issues where the need for action is clear, the best path is some compromise between absolutist positions, any compromise would be better than nothing, but instead we just accelerate the problem. Both parties are broken, but change to a party only comes when it's losing. The GOP has a chance for a little progress before it takes power in the 2014 elections, at which point any change will stop until they lose again. Maybe in 2015 the Dems can start listening a bit more until the next switch.
I have box after box filled with DVDs. It's a damn problem - no space for them, and I'm giving them away as fast as I rip them. Plastic discs just suck. Fuck ads. Fuck menus. Fuck unskippable. Fuck the MPAA. Fuck it all.
I just want a file I can watch in a media player of my choosing, with everything on a media server instead of piles of boxes. For TV series (I only "watch TV" off of DVDs) I want them all in a directory with proper filenames so that they'll just play in order until I'm tired of that series for the night.
Call me a hipster face-to-face and one of us will need medical attention.
Exactly this. Cheap bastards torrent (understandable if you're broke), but if you have money? You rip the physical media. Personally, I rip it into a "visually lossless" format since I'm sure players and disk capacity will catch up to file sizes and formats over time, but that's obsession not convenience. There's just no beating the convenience of a normal filesystem with normal media files.
But then, I tend to watch stuff more than once. DRMed streams are fine, really, if you never plan to watch something again.
That opinion is not mainstream, is the thing. Most people don't care about anything the government does until it directly affects them, of course, but the idea of limiting how much you borrow to something reasonable fits most peoples ideas about budgeting.
Why do you have a problem with the idea that transporting strangers for money should be held to a higher bar than driving yourself? Do you feel the same way about aircraft? (A private pilots license is easy to get, as it should be, but a commercial pilot license is a whole different world.) About restaurants?
Well, we need some evolution, one way or another. The "page file" is a relic of an ancient time, and needs to vanish from the kernel, along with the difficulty of dealing with potential page faults anywhere in your kernel code.
I suspect they're unifying memory and local storage in a more fundamental way. It would sure make life easier if you could (in user space) just mark some memory as "persistent" when you allocate it, and let the OS worry about caching and performance, but doing that right isn't easy or obvious.
As "disk" performance gets closer to RAM, new approaches become practical. Previous attempts to unify memory and disk went nowhere as disk was just too slow to take explicit file control away from devs. Previous attempts to do away with directory-based filesystems and go with a sea of tagged documents and a metadata database have crashed on the rocks of low disk performance. But those ideas are good in principle, they just weren't appropriate for actual hardware.
Fast persistent memory changes what it's practical to do, and fanciful new approaches to the basics of OS design are suddenly no longer academic wankery.
the app state can be saved to storage and the app suspended
What is this, the 90s? Your app should always be in a "saved" state, or at least a safe one. From consumer apps to backend transaction process, it should always be OK if you suddenly lose power. 20 years ago, I/O performance was so wretched that you just couldn't do this, but today there's no excuse.
To have a higher bar, because there's almost no requirements for a basic drivers license, and you have to try really hard to get that basic license taken away.
Individual deterrents do not work as organizational deterrents. There's always a true believer, or a patsy to take the fall. Only by threatening the life of the organization can you keep it under control. Keeping the NSA alive now is exactly like the bank bailouts: a lesson that "fuck the law, we can get away with anything" that will be remembered for 20 years.
No matter what changes, the Democratic propaganda organ (the mainstream media) will pitch it as "a hard swerve to the right - it's all racism homophobia and deniers now". Heck even the WSJ is already twisting Brat's comments that Christians need to stand against the likes of Hitler into a pro-Hitler quote - way to Godwin the guy on day 1!
But I don't think that's what's happening. The notion that the government needs to live within its means is mainstream (we can argue over spend less vs tax more, but both parties right now choose "neither"). The notion that "a strict moral code is valuable" is always cyclic in a culture over time, and we swung pretty far in the "everything is OK" direction. The notion that you can't have both expensive social programs and open borders at the same time is pretty mainstream (again, people will argue about which one).
Most states in the US have a "chauffeur license" needed to drive anyone commercially, that applies across taxis, livery cars (limos) and personal drivers. That should really be a requirement here for Lyft and similar services.
Break the monopoly/oligopoly of taxis services in major cities. It's crony capitalism BS, and needs to go. But a "taxi permit" is a totally different thing than a commercial drivers license. We can end the taxi monopoly without any loss of useful regulation through basic licensing.
Well, Romney had the problem of being seen as exactly the wrong sort of crony capitalist. I don't think it was true, but I also don't think he had a chance on that issue. I'd love to see a GOP candidate who was a wealthy small business owner instead of a wealthy corporate head next time around. Someone to deliver a message of "pro-business, pro-capitalism, but the current system is fucked".
I really think the GOP has a strong future if it can become the "pro-capitalism, anti-big-corp" party. The Left thinks that's impossible, so that ground is unoccupied (ha!) today. Get the focus back to trust-busting and local monopoly breaking and consumer rights, and leave the Left wondering what just happened to them. But the current guys are too entrenched with the current sources of funding, not realizing they're stuck in an ever-diminishing local maximum.
Republican voting base has gone full bat shit, the party won't last much longer now.
The current GOP is worthless anyhow. No one on the right likes it: they don't serve a financially conservative agenda at all, the don't serve the socially conservative agenda beyond lip-service, and the anti-illegal-immigration feeling on the right is far stronger than the GOP seems to realize.
A new party is needed, as this one is done. If the so-con portion represents a new generation who not racist and rabidly anti-gay (eject the Boomer so-cons) then it has a future again. We'll see.
The only legitimate need to check anything is being on-call for something important, such that you'd immediately leave the theater and go to work if paged. Anything else? Leave your phone off for 2 hours, the world will be there later.
From what I understand, this chain is fairly mild as far as "intolerant and with a sure sense of their own superiority." The similar place by me - there are many such places that serve beer and have no-kids policies around the US - only shows boring films of the sort people think they're supposed to like, instead of the kind of films people actually like.
No problem if someone has their phone open, briefly. Perhaps they are being texted with information about who is picking them up?
Then leave the damn darkened cinema area to check it, or check it after the show! Have some impulse control if you consider yourself an adult.
I think Ars is conflating two stories there. AMC is ejecting people for piracy-related reasons, which makes little sense and I'd be upset if it affected people, but fortunately it only affects glassholes so there's no downside to AMCs irrationality.
Separately, Alamo Drafthouse is banning them, and I doubt they care at all about the piracy thing - they ban talking and any sort of device use or distracting behavior flat out. People go there to watch the movie, if you want to play with your electronics instead, there are plenty of other places to go.
Some of us certainly do mind when inconsiderate jerks think they're being clever and "discrtely checking there phone for a few seconds with the light dimmed". That's the thing: the franchise caters to people who actually want to watch the movie without kids/cellphoes/etc. From Wikipedia:
"When we adopted our strict no talking policy back in 1997 we knew we were going to alienate some of our patrons," [founder] Tim League posted on the cinema's website. "That was the plan. If you can't change your behavior and be quiet (or unilluminated) during a movie, then we don't want you at our venue."
Moral of the story - regulate your behavior or go somewhere else.
That was actually the first step of the audit - to ensure repeatable builds and ensure the source matched the object (well, the Windows version - the Linux version was built and verified by many people over the years, but the Windows build took some non-default make setting and then it matched, so confirmation of that was ~1 year ago).
If the developers left this "message" that 7.2 might be compromised, what kind of guarantee is there that 7.1 isn't also compromised
The only kind of guarantee there is: an open, publically funded audit of the code. That's the point of this exercise, even before people realized that blindly trusting the TrueCrypt code was a mistake, and that an audit by non-government researchers was needed.
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Do you seriously want to have apps that seem to hang for 2-5 seconds every time a button is pushed just because it needs to save its state before it enters a new one?
Do you seriously believe that's how it has to work? Choose your RPO and RTO appropriately for what you're doing. If you're playing a game and the battery falls out of your phone, how many seconds of lost gameplay will be acceptable? More than 1, to be sure. Sure you might do things a little better if you had some fore-warning, but since I'm not going to allow any app that wants access to my "phone activity" (since that could mean anything with these stupid permissions) maybe you won't get that.
Sure, plus for stuff like file editing you need to save undo history, so that it's always OK to save. It's not trivial, the right way may not be obvious, but development is a skilled profession and this is within our abilities.
That's the problem, isn't it? Both parties are now worthless. E.g., we need the government to live within its means. Do we tax more or spend less (spoiler: both)? In a functional democracy we'd have 2 parties that both governed in the nation's interest and fought to achieve the goal, arguing only over which of those 2 to do (the adversarial process would yield a reasonable compromise, one hopes). Instead we have 2 parties that want to hand as much cash to their supporters as they possibly can before the whole thing collapses, and only argue about which supporters get the loot!
There are many more issues where the need for action is clear, the best path is some compromise between absolutist positions, any compromise would be better than nothing, but instead we just accelerate the problem. Both parties are broken, but change to a party only comes when it's losing. The GOP has a chance for a little progress before it takes power in the 2014 elections, at which point any change will stop until they lose again. Maybe in 2015 the Dems can start listening a bit more until the next switch.
I have box after box filled with DVDs. It's a damn problem - no space for them, and I'm giving them away as fast as I rip them. Plastic discs just suck. Fuck ads. Fuck menus. Fuck unskippable. Fuck the MPAA. Fuck it all.
I just want a file I can watch in a media player of my choosing, with everything on a media server instead of piles of boxes. For TV series (I only "watch TV" off of DVDs) I want them all in a directory with proper filenames so that they'll just play in order until I'm tired of that series for the night.
Call me a hipster face-to-face and one of us will need medical attention.
Exactly this. Cheap bastards torrent (understandable if you're broke), but if you have money? You rip the physical media. Personally, I rip it into a "visually lossless" format since I'm sure players and disk capacity will catch up to file sizes and formats over time, but that's obsession not convenience. There's just no beating the convenience of a normal filesystem with normal media files.
But then, I tend to watch stuff more than once. DRMed streams are fine, really, if you never plan to watch something again.
That opinion is not mainstream, is the thing. Most people don't care about anything the government does until it directly affects them, of course, but the idea of limiting how much you borrow to something reasonable fits most peoples ideas about budgeting.
Why do you have a problem with the idea that transporting strangers for money should be held to a higher bar than driving yourself? Do you feel the same way about aircraft? (A private pilots license is easy to get, as it should be, but a commercial pilot license is a whole different world.) About restaurants?
Well, we need some evolution, one way or another. The "page file" is a relic of an ancient time, and needs to vanish from the kernel, along with the difficulty of dealing with potential page faults anywhere in your kernel code.
I suspect they're unifying memory and local storage in a more fundamental way. It would sure make life easier if you could (in user space) just mark some memory as "persistent" when you allocate it, and let the OS worry about caching and performance, but doing that right isn't easy or obvious.
As "disk" performance gets closer to RAM, new approaches become practical. Previous attempts to unify memory and disk went nowhere as disk was just too slow to take explicit file control away from devs. Previous attempts to do away with directory-based filesystems and go with a sea of tagged documents and a metadata database have crashed on the rocks of low disk performance. But those ideas are good in principle, they just weren't appropriate for actual hardware.
Fast persistent memory changes what it's practical to do, and fanciful new approaches to the basics of OS design are suddenly no longer academic wankery.
the app state can be saved to storage and the app suspended
What is this, the 90s? Your app should always be in a "saved" state, or at least a safe one. From consumer apps to backend transaction process, it should always be OK if you suddenly lose power. 20 years ago, I/O performance was so wretched that you just couldn't do this, but today there's no excuse.
To have a higher bar, because there's almost no requirements for a basic drivers license, and you have to try really hard to get that basic license taken away.
Heck, "public shaming" is a fetish on the internet, if you go to the right sites. But then, so is everything. People are weird.
Pwn1es, clearly. Does this mean we'll need a "Pwn1es.txt" file to stop the crawler (for that matter are you ignoring robots.txt now?)
Individual deterrents do not work as organizational deterrents. There's always a true believer, or a patsy to take the fall. Only by threatening the life of the organization can you keep it under control. Keeping the NSA alive now is exactly like the bank bailouts: a lesson that "fuck the law, we can get away with anything" that will be remembered for 20 years.
No matter what changes, the Democratic propaganda organ (the mainstream media) will pitch it as "a hard swerve to the right - it's all racism homophobia and deniers now". Heck even the WSJ is already twisting Brat's comments that Christians need to stand against the likes of Hitler into a pro-Hitler quote - way to Godwin the guy on day 1!
But I don't think that's what's happening. The notion that the government needs to live within its means is mainstream (we can argue over spend less vs tax more, but both parties right now choose "neither"). The notion that "a strict moral code is valuable" is always cyclic in a culture over time, and we swung pretty far in the "everything is OK" direction. The notion that you can't have both expensive social programs and open borders at the same time is pretty mainstream (again, people will argue about which one).
Most states in the US have a "chauffeur license" needed to drive anyone commercially, that applies across taxis, livery cars (limos) and personal drivers. That should really be a requirement here for Lyft and similar services.
Break the monopoly/oligopoly of taxis services in major cities. It's crony capitalism BS, and needs to go. But a "taxi permit" is a totally different thing than a commercial drivers license. We can end the taxi monopoly without any loss of useful regulation through basic licensing.
Well, Romney had the problem of being seen as exactly the wrong sort of crony capitalist. I don't think it was true, but I also don't think he had a chance on that issue. I'd love to see a GOP candidate who was a wealthy small business owner instead of a wealthy corporate head next time around. Someone to deliver a message of "pro-business, pro-capitalism, but the current system is fucked".
I really think the GOP has a strong future if it can become the "pro-capitalism, anti-big-corp" party. The Left thinks that's impossible, so that ground is unoccupied (ha!) today. Get the focus back to trust-busting and local monopoly breaking and consumer rights, and leave the Left wondering what just happened to them. But the current guys are too entrenched with the current sources of funding, not realizing they're stuck in an ever-diminishing local maximum.
Republican voting base has gone full bat shit, the party won't last much longer now.
The current GOP is worthless anyhow. No one on the right likes it: they don't serve a financially conservative agenda at all, the don't serve the socially conservative agenda beyond lip-service, and the anti-illegal-immigration feeling on the right is far stronger than the GOP seems to realize.
A new party is needed, as this one is done. If the so-con portion represents a new generation who not racist and rabidly anti-gay (eject the Boomer so-cons) then it has a future again. We'll see.
The only legitimate need to check anything is being on-call for something important, such that you'd immediately leave the theater and go to work if paged. Anything else? Leave your phone off for 2 hours, the world will be there later.
From what I understand, this chain is fairly mild as far as "intolerant and with a sure sense of their own superiority." The similar place by me - there are many such places that serve beer and have no-kids policies around the US - only shows boring films of the sort people think they're supposed to like, instead of the kind of films people actually like.
No problem if someone has their phone open, briefly. Perhaps they are being texted with information about who is picking them up?
Then leave the damn darkened cinema area to check it, or check it after the show! Have some impulse control if you consider yourself an adult.
I think Ars is conflating two stories there. AMC is ejecting people for piracy-related reasons, which makes little sense and I'd be upset if it affected people, but fortunately it only affects glassholes so there's no downside to AMCs irrationality.
Separately, Alamo Drafthouse is banning them, and I doubt they care at all about the piracy thing - they ban talking and any sort of device use or distracting behavior flat out. People go there to watch the movie, if you want to play with your electronics instead, there are plenty of other places to go.
Some of us certainly do mind when inconsiderate jerks think they're being clever and "discrtely checking there phone for a few seconds with the light dimmed". That's the thing: the franchise caters to people who actually want to watch the movie without kids/cellphoes/etc. From Wikipedia:
"When we adopted our strict no talking policy back in 1997 we knew we were going to alienate some of our patrons," [founder] Tim League posted on the cinema's website. "That was the plan. If you can't change your behavior and be quiet (or unilluminated) during a movie, then we don't want you at our venue."
Moral of the story - regulate your behavior or go somewhere else.
Sure, but if you have no other options, what are the odds that you will cancel?
That was actually the first step of the audit - to ensure repeatable builds and ensure the source matched the object (well, the Windows version - the Linux version was built and verified by many people over the years, but the Windows build took some non-default make setting and then it matched, so confirmation of that was ~1 year ago).
If the developers left this "message" that 7.2 might be compromised, what kind of guarantee is there that 7.1 isn't also compromised
The only kind of guarantee there is: an open, publically funded audit of the code. That's the point of this exercise, even before people realized that blindly trusting the TrueCrypt code was a mistake, and that an audit by non-government researchers was needed.