Why not go whole horse and just use Windows? [...N]o remote terminal [...]
For extra laughs, Microsoft is actually working on that. Even Redmond has finally understood why some features are essential to an ecosystem even when only a handful of users need them.
I mostly agree with your interpretation, but think of people living under oppressive regimes where content is censored or its consumption punished. This is not exactly unheard of.
As long as the chips adhere to the X86/x64 standards, how relevant is this announcement? Yes, newly introduced extensions and features may not be backported to Windows 7, but unless this OS will not run at all on next-gen silicone, this is nothing but FUD.
Am I missing something here? Do Skylake et al. really require substantial modificaitons to existing OSs?
In my social sphere I rarely encounter the other side's extremists. Admittedly I do not count other people's Twitter feeds amongst Real Life Interactions That Actually Matter, which shields me from a lot of grief.
Has anyone ever implemented this in reverse,ie.: modified a USB port to kill unauthorised devices? I am currently sketching up a design for doing so on a ThinkPad but would love some input on the electrical side.
One would think that trying to organize a "discussion panel" would imply they are interested in a conversation.
There is a slight chance that this particular set of organisers was indeed looking for an open, honest, critical conversation. From experience I would be surprised if this were the case. Surprised as in "Jesus swings by and turns my glass of water into Pinot Grigio" surprised. I study subjects from the social sciences, I have had to deal with this issue and the people pushing it for several years now. And my patience and goodwill have both been worn thin.
What conversation? There is no reasoning with these people. I tried, believe you me. I simply gave up. If you question their claims, you are shot down and shut out. They are not interested in a conversation, in an exchange of arguments and opinions. They are a cult, and they demand obedience and faith.
If there was evidence of those people doing something wrong, they would not be on the No-Fly list but in a prison cell. The very fact that they are free to take a leisurely stroll out their homes' front door means that their being on the list is a grave violation of their constitutional rights.
[...] 45% goes to Bethesda. You know, the guys that made the Skyrim. [...] they created the engine, a ton of assets, models, textures, sprites, effects, the whole game [...]
...and already got paid for it all by everyone who bought a copy of Skyrim. That includes the mod makers and the mod users. Bethesda was not taking their fair share, they were simply being greedy fucks, cashing in on someone else's work that directly translates into more sales for a still hugely popular game that was released in bloody 2011.
The silver lining, of course, will be a sudden drop in "My computer mysteriously broke down, and of course it wasn't me (or any of the gazillion applications I managed to sneak past the firewall onto my harddisk)." type calls to IT helpdesks all over the world. Yes, there are overreaching admins and locked-down-to-death platforms, but the damage done by insecure, outdated or plain crappy software run without official sanction in offices every day is not exactly peanuts, either. And there are few things as crippling to a company than 'inheriting' such a - usually undocumented and fragile - shadow infrastructure once the people responsible leave.
Sensible companies develop sensible IT policies and provide procedures to get required software included into the platform in a stable and supported way. Yeah, I know. They are few and far between. But they exist, and they do hold a significant advantage over their competitors. And the more such measures as the one announced in TFA are being recognised as state of the art and prescribed as such by certifications and standards, the more financial incentive there will be to be sensible. It took until the mid-Eighties for seat belts to be mandated by law. Give IT time. (Ha ha.)
[...] not understanding that women don't like hearing dick jokes is a sign of social immaturity [...]
It is so good to find you here on Slashdot to explain to us how all the women in the world universally feel about a given topic. So those amongst my friends who sport breasts must all be transsexuals. Else they would not come up to me and tell me dick jokes on a regular basis.
Thank you so much. The world just became a much simpler place.
One word: CardDAV. The bugs asking for this feature go back at least five years. There are other minor issues outstanding, currently solved through extensions that often are not updated regularly, but this is one of the biggies.
Think of it this way: If you were distributing software for home users, how would you recover the cost of making and testing updates to correct security vulnerabilities?
You do realise that those vulnerabilities are neither god-given nor the result of unpredictable fluctuations in the space-time continuum? They are defects in the product. What happens when Toyota ships a faulty model? They have to swallow the cost of a recall. What happens when Microsoft ships faulty software? They have to swallow the cost of issuing a patch.
The software industry already operates under a degree of leniency with regards to defective products that the majority of industries would not dare dream of. Do not paint them as the victims here. The only way to "recover" the cost of fixing bugs is to make sure you do not make them again in your next product.
I would say the world is going more lefty, with governments consolidating their power bases and censoring/silencing criticism. It's the left that wants to grow the size of government and have it spy on/manipulate as much of peoples' lives as it can. It does this under the guise of benevolence, of 'caring' about the plight of some group, real or imagined, varying by context. The right wants smaller government and more liberty for the individual. [...]
May I ask which country you are from? When I look at the political spectrum here in Germany, then it is the 'right' wing who simultaneously wants to a) eliminate social services, b) massively grow 'the government' wherever law enforcement and the military are involved and c) put everyone and everything under complete surveillance. It is the left end of the spectrum who wants a leaner government in most departments and strong protections and safeguards for privacy.
Right and left does not (exclusively and universally) mean what you think it does.
[...] Scotland has a heck of a lot more in common with Britain than mainland Europe; linguistically, geographically, historically, and culturally [...]
For some definition of "in common", yes.
Language? Well, Germany, Austria and parts of Switzerland, nothern Italy, northeastern France and a couple of smaller regions share one language, in one form or the other. Not much of an argument.
Geography? If by that you mean location, Germany and France are right next to each other as well. If you refer to the type of geography displayed, Scotland has more in common with Bavaria or Tyrol, or some of the eastern European countries, than with most of England.
History? Sure. For the most part a history of antagonism, war and the exertion of power. Like, say, Germany and Austria.
Culture? Sure. Like any other geographically close region there is a certain portion of shared culture.
[...] WHICH BY THE WAY, GPL-FREEDOMITES TEND TO DO... "hey look this file doesn't have a license, let's GPL it" [...]
If a file does not have a license the "freedomites" fall back to default copyright, which in most cases translates to "DO NOT TOUCH!". Could you kindly point out examples where people who advocate usage of the GPL have deliberately taken third-party code with no license attached and released it under the terms of the GPL? Usually it is the other way around: People take GPL'd code and re-release it in closed source software.
The problem with this idea is that if your competitor doesn't have a quota system, and they *do* just hire whoever is best, then statistically speaking they are likely to be hiring slightly better people than you and out innovate and out compete you.
Interesting aspect, that did not even occur to me. Thanks for pointing this out, I do not think I ever read this argument in a discussion on this issue.
The even larger problem, as I see it, is that being hired because of a quota is the ultimate stigma: "Look at her, she only got this job because of her tits." No-one takes the quota employee seriously - even when they actually are the best.
...is that Germany is much closer to being a true and functioning democracy. [...] as soon as a left-leaning government comes into power.
That is, I am afraid, a very naive view. Our social democrats, the SPD, - I assume that is what you meant with left-leaning - have earned themselves the nickname "Verräterpartei" ("traitors' party") amongst those who care about civil rights for the strong discrepancy between their election pledges and their actual voting in parliament. The party's functionaries usually state afterwards that they agreed to rights-infringing laws "mit Bauchschmerzen" ("with bellyache"); that phrase has become a meme over here. A lot of the draconian post-9/11 legislation was rushed through parliament under a social democrat government by then-minister for the interior Otto Schily, which is why the laws are known as the "Otto-Katalog" ("Otto catalogue" obviously, which is a play on German mail-order company Otto).
The actual left-leaning party, the LINKE or Linkspartei, unfortunately is lingering somewhere between 5 and 10% in elections and is politically isolated from all major parties including the SPD. They along with the German Pirate Party are amongst the very few parties over here that actually care about civil rights, but they still do not reach a critical mass of voters. So we Germans have to look to the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe for protecting us from an ever-growing "security" complex.
[...] With all respect, it didn't really have other uses anymore, except [...] Some extensions would display things there [...]
Well, thank you very much for spelling out the very reason this change is a disaster. My browser toolbar is becoming more crowded by the week, and my extensions have lost the ability to display any text in the UI but are limited to one or a handful of icons. NoScript has been significantly impaired by this.
I am all for sleek sexy interfaces and killing old cruft and clutter. But "UX" has become a term non grata around the office of late thanks to all the morons who use it as an excuse for taking away control from the user.
Could you define "not uncommon" please? Daily? Monthly? She saw this herself, or 'heard about it'? And the ambulance crews just waved them onboard, like wide-eyed innocents who could be duped that way? [...]
Some input from a medic from Munich, southern Germany. Depending on which part of town you get assigned to you the number of frequent flyers varies considerably. From experience - no statistics to back that up, sorry - our gold card members are most frequent
in the poorest quarters where half the calls turn out to be drunks, junkies (who usually did not intend to see us) and socially isolated, but not necessarily homeless people looking for someone to talk to, and
in the older, still not so fully urbanized incorporated villages where elderly people of modest wealth abound who cannot properly care for themselves anymore, whose children have moved too far away to provide constant care but who are too proud to move into a dedicated care facility.
What keeps amazing me is that in spite of my - and other medics' - prediction after the banking crisis and the ensuing wave of unemployment the number of FFs type a seems to be more or less constant but type b has been climbing steadily. So this is only partly an issue of poverty. It has more to do with social isolation, with the increasing difficulty of maintaining a robust social network (not Facebook, the family-and-friends variety) that can catch people when they face difficult phases in their life so that they do not hit rock bottom.
Medical care has long transitioned into social care that along the way can also give you a pill or sew up a cut.
And as to whether the medics are duped: Someone wants to see a doctor, you take them to a doctor. That is what the law says. That is what our job description says. We try to avoid it, believe me. We sweet-talk, we bribe, we threaten. But if the patient is adamant, there is no way we are going to assume the legal risk of refusing transportation. The ER staff is not naive, they know their devoted customers. They will make them go through hell, put them through every annoying and time-consuming test they can think of. But guess what: Because of this practice with increasing regularity they actually find a legitimate medical issue that had gone undiagnosed by doctors who just saw the addict or the annoying elderly or the lonesome hypochondriac and treated that instead of the complaints and symptoms.
In medicine there is no easy answer, no magical solution.
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Out of curiosity: Is this a quote from a book?
Why not go whole horse and just use Windows? [...N]o remote terminal [...]
For extra laughs, Microsoft is actually working on that. Even Redmond has finally understood why some features are essential to an ecosystem even when only a handful of users need them.
Why would users need a VPN? [...]
I mostly agree with your interpretation, but think of people living under oppressive regimes where content is censored or its consumption punished. This is not exactly unheard of.
Thank you very much, this does indeed look interesting.
[...] Winmin [...]
Google gave me nothing even remotely relevant for this term, could you kindly provide a link? Sounds exactly like what I am currently looking for.
As long as the chips adhere to the X86/x64 standards, how relevant is this announcement? Yes, newly introduced extensions and features may not be backported to Windows 7, but unless this OS will not run at all on next-gen silicone, this is nothing but FUD.
Am I missing something here? Do Skylake et al. really require substantial modificaitons to existing OSs?
In my social sphere I rarely encounter the other side's extremists. Admittedly I do not count other people's Twitter feeds amongst Real Life Interactions That Actually Matter, which shields me from a lot of grief.
Has anyone ever implemented this in reverse,ie.: modified a USB port to kill unauthorised devices? I am currently sketching up a design for doing so on a ThinkPad but would love some input on the electrical side.
One would think that trying to organize a "discussion panel" would imply they are interested in a conversation.
There is a slight chance that this particular set of organisers was indeed looking for an open, honest, critical conversation. From experience I would be surprised if this were the case. Surprised as in "Jesus swings by and turns my glass of water into Pinot Grigio" surprised. I study subjects from the social sciences, I have had to deal with this issue and the people pushing it for several years now. And my patience and goodwill have both been worn thin.
What conversation? There is no reasoning with these people. I tried, believe you me. I simply gave up. If you question their claims, you are shot down and shut out. They are not interested in a conversation, in an exchange of arguments and opinions. They are a cult, and they demand obedience and faith.
[...] for whom there is enough evidence [...]
If there was evidence of those people doing something wrong, they would not be on the No-Fly list but in a prison cell. The very fact that they are free to take a leisurely stroll out their homes' front door means that their being on the list is a grave violation of their constitutional rights.
[...] 45% goes to Bethesda. You know, the guys that made the Skyrim. [...] they created the engine, a ton of assets, models, textures, sprites, effects, the whole game [...]
...and already got paid for it all by everyone who bought a copy of Skyrim. That includes the mod makers and the mod users. Bethesda was not taking their fair share, they were simply being greedy fucks, cashing in on someone else's work that directly translates into more sales for a still hugely popular game that was released in bloody 2011.
The silver lining, of course, will be a sudden drop in "My computer mysteriously broke down, and of course it wasn't me (or any of the gazillion applications I managed to sneak past the firewall onto my harddisk)." type calls to IT helpdesks all over the world. Yes, there are overreaching admins and locked-down-to-death platforms, but the damage done by insecure, outdated or plain crappy software run without official sanction in offices every day is not exactly peanuts, either. And there are few things as crippling to a company than 'inheriting' such a - usually undocumented and fragile - shadow infrastructure once the people responsible leave.
Sensible companies develop sensible IT policies and provide procedures to get required software included into the platform in a stable and supported way. Yeah, I know. They are few and far between. But they exist, and they do hold a significant advantage over their competitors. And the more such measures as the one announced in TFA are being recognised as state of the art and prescribed as such by certifications and standards, the more financial incentive there will be to be sensible. It took until the mid-Eighties for seat belts to be mandated by law. Give IT time. (Ha ha.)
The "related" links /. gives me as of now are:
Could someone kindly explain to me how those articles relate to the topic at hand? I sure have not the faintest clue.
[...] not understanding that women don't like hearing dick jokes is a sign of social immaturity [...]
It is so good to find you here on Slashdot to explain to us how all the women in the world universally feel about a given topic. So those amongst my friends who sport breasts must all be transsexuals. Else they would not come up to me and tell me dick jokes on a regular basis.
Thank you so much. The world just became a much simpler place.
One word: CardDAV. The bugs asking for this feature go back at least five years. There are other minor issues outstanding, currently solved through extensions that often are not updated regularly, but this is one of the biggies.
Think of it this way: If you were distributing software for home users, how would you recover the cost of making and testing updates to correct security vulnerabilities?
You do realise that those vulnerabilities are neither god-given nor the result of unpredictable fluctuations in the space-time continuum? They are defects in the product. What happens when Toyota ships a faulty model? They have to swallow the cost of a recall. What happens when Microsoft ships faulty software? They have to swallow the cost of issuing a patch.
The software industry already operates under a degree of leniency with regards to defective products that the majority of industries would not dare dream of. Do not paint them as the victims here. The only way to "recover" the cost of fixing bugs is to make sure you do not make them again in your next product.
I would say the world is going more lefty, with governments consolidating their power bases and censoring/silencing criticism. It's the left that wants to grow the size of government and have it spy on/manipulate as much of peoples' lives as it can. It does this under the guise of benevolence, of 'caring' about the plight of some group, real or imagined, varying by context. The right wants smaller government and more liberty for the individual. [...]
May I ask which country you are from? When I look at the political spectrum here in Germany, then it is the 'right' wing who simultaneously wants to a) eliminate social services, b) massively grow 'the government' wherever law enforcement and the military are involved and c) put everyone and everything under complete surveillance. It is the left end of the spectrum who wants a leaner government in most departments and strong protections and safeguards for privacy.
Right and left does not (exclusively and universally) mean what you think it does.
[...] Scotland has a heck of a lot more in common with Britain than mainland Europe; linguistically, geographically, historically, and culturally [...]
For some definition of "in common", yes.
To quote myself:
So far I have seen only vague accusations.
[...] WHICH BY THE WAY, GPL-FREEDOMITES TEND TO DO... "hey look this file doesn't have a license, let's GPL it" [...]
If a file does not have a license the "freedomites" fall back to default copyright, which in most cases translates to "DO NOT TOUCH!". Could you kindly point out examples where people who advocate usage of the GPL have deliberately taken third-party code with no license attached and released it under the terms of the GPL? Usually it is the other way around: People take GPL'd code and re-release it in closed source software.
The problem with this idea is that if your competitor doesn't have a quota system, and they *do* just hire whoever is best, then statistically speaking they are likely to be hiring slightly better people than you and out innovate and out compete you.
Interesting aspect, that did not even occur to me. Thanks for pointing this out, I do not think I ever read this argument in a discussion on this issue.
The even larger problem, as I see it, is that being hired because of a quota is the ultimate stigma: "Look at her, she only got this job because of her tits." No-one takes the quota employee seriously - even when they actually are the best.
...is that Germany is much closer to being a true and functioning democracy. [...] as soon as a left-leaning government comes into power.
That is, I am afraid, a very naive view. Our social democrats, the SPD, - I assume that is what you meant with left-leaning - have earned themselves the nickname "Verräterpartei" ("traitors' party") amongst those who care about civil rights for the strong discrepancy between their election pledges and their actual voting in parliament. The party's functionaries usually state afterwards that they agreed to rights-infringing laws "mit Bauchschmerzen" ("with bellyache"); that phrase has become a meme over here. A lot of the draconian post-9/11 legislation was rushed through parliament under a social democrat government by then-minister for the interior Otto Schily, which is why the laws are known as the "Otto-Katalog" ("Otto catalogue" obviously, which is a play on German mail-order company Otto).
The actual left-leaning party, the LINKE or Linkspartei, unfortunately is lingering somewhere between 5 and 10% in elections and is politically isolated from all major parties including the SPD. They along with the German Pirate Party are amongst the very few parties over here that actually care about civil rights, but they still do not reach a critical mass of voters. So we Germans have to look to the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe for protecting us from an ever-growing "security" complex.
[...] With all respect, it didn't really have other uses anymore, except [...] Some extensions would display things there [...]
Well, thank you very much for spelling out the very reason this change is a disaster. My browser toolbar is becoming more crowded by the week, and my extensions have lost the ability to display any text in the UI but are limited to one or a handful of icons. NoScript has been significantly impaired by this.
I am all for sleek sexy interfaces and killing old cruft and clutter. But "UX" has become a term non grata around the office of late thanks to all the morons who use it as an excuse for taking away control from the user.
Could you define "not uncommon" please? Daily? Monthly? She saw this herself, or 'heard about it'? And the ambulance crews just waved them onboard, like wide-eyed innocents who could be duped that way? [...]
Some input from a medic from Munich, southern Germany. Depending on which part of town you get assigned to you the number of frequent flyers varies considerably. From experience - no statistics to back that up, sorry - our gold card members are most frequent
What keeps amazing me is that in spite of my - and other medics' - prediction after the banking crisis and the ensuing wave of unemployment the number of FFs type a seems to be more or less constant but type b has been climbing steadily. So this is only partly an issue of poverty. It has more to do with social isolation, with the increasing difficulty of maintaining a robust social network (not Facebook, the family-and-friends variety) that can catch people when they face difficult phases in their life so that they do not hit rock bottom.
Medical care has long transitioned into social care that along the way can also give you a pill or sew up a cut.
And as to whether the medics are duped: Someone wants to see a doctor, you take them to a doctor. That is what the law says. That is what our job description says. We try to avoid it, believe me. We sweet-talk, we bribe, we threaten. But if the patient is adamant, there is no way we are going to assume the legal risk of refusing transportation. The ER staff is not naive, they know their devoted customers. They will make them go through hell, put them through every annoying and time-consuming test they can think of. But guess what: Because of this practice with increasing regularity they actually find a legitimate medical issue that had gone undiagnosed by doctors who just saw the addict or the annoying elderly or the lonesome hypochondriac and treated that instead of the complaints and symptoms.
In medicine there is no easy answer, no magical solution.