TL;DR summary - at the end of the day the gamer wants a tight Windows system. The server admin wants a tight server (LAMP, WAMP, XAMP, MEAN, etc.). The hardware developer wants all the latest drivers. The R/T guys want predictable and repeatable, and Donald Trump wants it not to be produced in Mexico. However, that's not what OP asked about, and his interesting article relates to features on clustered filesystems that are cool to have and not available outside of the [really out of date/obsolete] OpenVMS.
Long Version: Whenever someone asks about "best" OS or app or features to have in one... invariably it leads to the proponents of Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS, (and kudos to the poster who brought up BeOS!) etc. all jumping to extoll their virtues.
Ironically the OP asked about OS and everybody jumped into talking about monolithic kernels... filesystems, and only a couple discussing other elements of the OS which is queue system (OpenVMS really had that one sewn so tight it was awesome).
Interestingly tho the original ARTICLE talked about a clustered filesystem environment. It would appear OP is right on this one - only VMS did it. Some of the functionality for single-host stuff is now beat by BTRFS, but the clustered writeback, locking, and other features mentioned in the PDF are without compare in anything else today
In legalese, that would be: Google is not an arm of the government, is a corporation, and is free to do as its company governance determines is in the best interests of its shareholders.
Simply put, nobody forces users to choose to use google. There are plenty of search engines, some good, some bing, etc. Some don't protect your privacy, some duckduckgo. In the end if the choice is to use google there are advantages (they'll try to give you an answer they think you'll find useful) and disadvantages (Tim Wu might jump out from behind a bush and yell "aha!" at you).
Google's search algorithms have made this world a better place.
I'm glad they don't have to appease anyone to keep offering that superior product.
The OP includes a link to an IRAQ user saying he can't set up his Chromecast...
and a 9 day old post from someone saying they're now on the beta track and google saying they'll fix it.
Are we really to believe there's a great google conspiracy to disrupt chromecasts, and in a week and a half NOTHING has been discussed, but now the only two links are an IRAQI WINDOWS USER and someone who accidentally got into beta.
I'd like Diane Feinstein to be geo-fenced to keep her grubby little NSA-sucking encryption-hating lying hands off of issues that are over her altitude or too far for her eyesight to comprehend.
Geo-fencing for worthless corrupt senators. Now there's an answer.
Leave the drones alone. They are innocent of any wrongdoing.
The original article link to the actual new story ("Apple decertifies...") is behind a paywall. With all due respect to the Wall Street Journal, is there a reputable news source for this that we can read?
Oh good job, Captain Hindsight! You are absolutely right! Manning should have never been able to use a USB stick [takes notes]. Also Snowden should have never been given so much access [takes notes].
"...this would have never happened."
Oh excelsior! Your powers of observation and hindsight deduction are without compare. Between that and your three split infinitives all I can say is BRAVO, SIR, BRAVO! You truly have your finger on the pulse of... everything that's that wrong.
...then why not complement your end-of-life Windows 7 with an older version of Chrome or FF. They support Java just fine, and the Java they support is no more of a security risk than your Windows 7.
There's a reason the rest of the world moved away from java and that's security, but if security risks are no object, you go, girl.
It clearly says EVEN IF YOU HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF AN INVESTIGATION the mere fact of deleting information that could be useful to prosecute is committing the criminal offense.
There's no common sense here if you don't have to know about it or have intent to obstruct an investigation to be charge with it with a likelihood of being found guilty.
Your illiteracy isn't something about which you should be bragging. Learn to read and then read about Microsoft and you'll read lots more crap than you ever thought existed -- all earned by Microsoft through its incompetence at software engineering.
> I bet that all of them hadn't tried Windows phone 8
Your wagering skills aren't something about which you should be bragging. Windows Mobile has been a scourge since 2002 when Microsoft owned the market, and lost it through sheer incompetence and bullying. Nobody's left around who would try "Windows Phone 8" or whatever Microsoft releases now because they've had 13 years to fail to corner the market -- and all they've done is demonstrate the wrong way to do things.
> The phones are great. The OS is excellent and works well on low end phones too
Your analytical skills aren't something about which you should be bragging. The phones -- hardware wise -- compare poorly with one and two year old Android or IOS phones. The OS is hardly stable, and the app store a joke. Yes, it works well on low-end phones because it is a low-end OS that doesn't push hardware to any limits -- fortunately -- because the hardware it runs on IS low-end phones.
> Cortana is brilliant
Your girlfriend in mind only. You really should look up what "brilliant" means and realize that an artificial voice recognition software can't be brilliant. Then if you decide to learn English and use an apt word like "useful" you'll find that anything with Bing as the search engine is an exercise in frustrated futility.
> Just look up the specs of the newest Lumia 640XL
Perhaps you should "just look up" that this is a discussion about Microsoft potentially acquiring BlackBerry, not a discussion of how much they suck, or how awful they are, or how they took Nokia down the proverbial tube. The Lumia phone is history. It just hasn't got there yet.
The Amiga Workbench was multitasking - the first of its kind for "microcomputers" and it was the bread and butter of airport displays, sports announcers annotating where basketball or football players were moving on the field, and real-time "video toaster" displays for TWO DECADES after.
It was only in the late 2008-9/2010+ timeframe that Windows replaced Amiga displays for those things for realtime video annotations.
So yes, the Amiga did it first better. (Grandparent was right) The Amiga did it for longer than anyone (sorry, Parent)
So sorry the mods are like 15-20 years old and are bored by history and facts.
The analysis paper starts out by saying "With hundreds of millions of devices expected to be traded by 2018, flaws...could be a serious problem." Unfortunately that same analysis focused on Android operating systems PRIOR to v4.4 (KitKat), which was released in October 2013 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history).
Since then, Android has released major versions (4.4 Kitkat, 5.0 Lollipop) and various major updates within those families (4.4.2, 4.4.4, 5.1). To put this in perspective, they're talking about risks in 2018 from software no newer than 2013 while writing and publishing in 2015. That's a classic case of picking your data to fit your conclusion, or cherry picking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking_%28fallacy%29).
There were many fixes in Android security systems in 4.4 and also in 5.0. 5.0 now supports hardware encryption on e.g. HTC and OnePlusOne platforms among others. To apply "anyone can get the key and brute-force a password"[paraphrased] is to deny that no, you can't.
It's often more convenient for "researchers" to provide something with glitz and hype to catch the media's attention, but in this case the hype cherry-picks data that ignores two years of active open-source development and many security updates.
Poor science and hyperbolic headlines make for brain-free reading.
The taxi lobby and the insurance lobby are organizations that stand to benefit from this law each in their own way.
The taxi lobby doesn't have to contend with competition from Uber drivers [regardless of your quip about taxi service]. The insurance lobby doesn't have to contend with Uber drivers' increased risk from above-average mileage without additional insurance premiums.
It's a win/win for the existing industries and a lose/lose for Uber drivers and Uber passengers.
1. He has no obligation to "come free and clear". That's just something you made up, and something LEOs wish, but not a requirement under US law. 2. If he was "personally threatening" then he would have made a threat.
I'm sure it will come out that this guy WAS pranking... seeing as he offered no specifics to make either a *usable* warning or a *credible* threat.
That doesn't change everyone bending over to pretend this is a crime; that we can't say "bomb" in an airport; and that we must be otherwise conditioned not to say "4/16" in Virginia. (or "9/11" anywhere even though that's what you dial in an emergency and we have to tell the children that's what to dial. Think of the children.)
I can't imagine how horrible it must be for people who's birthday is April 16th and who live in Virginia to ever discuss their upcoming party. "4/16 is going to be a blast!"
I've read the previous posters' comments, and I understand all about the freedom of speech, the misunderstood Oliver Wendell Holmes quote about "fire in a crowded theater", and that "speech by computer" shouldn't equal a crime (right, it shouldn't).
HOWEVER, in all these great discussions it seems everyone is accepting and begging the question that the original comment about there being a repetition of XX/YY is a THREAT.
Sorry guys and gals, that's an anonymous TIP, a WARNING, a PREDICTION, the kind of thing that kindly old lady on the 900 number tells you, something your mother says if you touch a hot stove, etc. Call it what you will, but it's not a threat.
A threat requires an INTENTION to INFLICT or CAUSE HARM. It may even suggest that the person making the threat will be the one doing it. Google threat or here's an easy definition: http://www.thefreedictionary.c...
Fundamentally this guy said something on the Internet. He has now been excoriated as "an idiot" "said stupid things" "ha ha he'll get ***ed in the holding cell" "serves him right for making a threat."
It's only a matter of time before the LEOs say "You can't say those things and live."
Yes. In the United States we can.
I'm disappointed/. readers decided to punish the victim and accept the TSA-airport-attitude that "if you say bomb then we'll arrest you right then and there" and then when a passenger does say "bomb" we call him a stupid idiot. Stupid is the idiot that accepts this as his way of life and defends this insane idea that somehow making speech unlawful is either Constitutionally ok, or even helps our security [theater] at all.
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I was - a LAMPF DAC system manager.
Not to be confused with my dad (same last name) who is a physicist :)
Ehud :)
P.S. And you are?
TL;DR summary - at the end of the day the gamer wants a tight Windows system. The server admin wants a tight server (LAMP, WAMP, XAMP, MEAN, etc.). The hardware developer wants all the latest drivers. The R/T guys want predictable and repeatable, and Donald Trump wants it not to be produced in Mexico. However, that's not what OP asked about, and his interesting article relates to features on clustered filesystems that are cool to have and not available outside of the [really out of date/obsolete] OpenVMS.
Long Version:
Whenever someone asks about "best" OS or app or features to have in one... invariably it leads to the proponents of Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS, (and kudos to the poster who brought up BeOS!) etc. all jumping to extoll their virtues.
Ironically the OP asked about OS and everybody jumped into talking about monolithic kernels... filesystems, and only a couple discussing other elements of the OS which is queue system (OpenVMS really had that one sewn so tight it was awesome).
Interestingly tho the original ARTICLE talked about a clustered filesystem environment. It would appear OP is right on this one - only VMS did it. Some of the functionality for single-host stuff is now beat by BTRFS, but the clustered writeback, locking, and other features mentioned in the PDF are without compare in anything else today
Ehud
Tucson AZ US
Godwin's Law (again)
Godwin's law.
Google can do what it wants.
In legalese, that would be: Google is not an arm of the government, is a corporation, and is free to do as its company governance determines is in the best interests of its shareholders.
Simply put, nobody forces users to choose to use google. There are plenty of search engines, some good, some bing, etc. Some don't protect your privacy, some duckduckgo. In the end if the choice is to use google there are advantages (they'll try to give you an answer they think you'll find useful) and disadvantages (Tim Wu might jump out from behind a bush and yell "aha!" at you).
Google's search algorithms have made this world a better place.
I'm glad they don't have to appease anyone to keep offering that superior product.
E
The OP includes a link to an IRAQ user saying he can't set up his Chromecast...
and a 9 day old post from someone saying they're now on the beta track and google saying they'll fix it.
Are we really to believe there's a great google conspiracy to disrupt chromecasts, and
in a week and a half NOTHING has been discussed, but now the only two links are
an IRAQI WINDOWS USER and someone who accidentally got into beta.
My money is on hoax.
Ehud
My two ChromeCasts are working great.
I love a good hysterical conspiracy and am disappointed not to be part of it.
Go on, keep on making up stuff. Perhaps some of it will turn out to be true!
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I'd like Diane Feinstein to be geo-fenced to keep her grubby little NSA-sucking
encryption-hating lying hands off of issues that are over her altitude or too far
for her eyesight to comprehend.
Geo-fencing for worthless corrupt senators. Now there's an answer.
Leave the drones alone. They are innocent of any wrongdoing.
E
The original article link to the actual new story ("Apple decertifies...") is behind a paywall.
With all due respect to the Wall Street Journal, is there a reputable news source for this
that we can read?
It's grammar, not grammer, and you're welcome, illiterate swinehunt.
Oh good job, Captain Hindsight! You are absolutely right! Manning should have never been able to use a USB stick [takes notes]. Also Snowden should have never been given so much access [takes notes].
"...this would have never happened."
Oh excelsior! Your powers of observation and hindsight deduction are without compare. Between that and your three split infinitives all I can say is BRAVO, SIR, BRAVO! You truly have your finger on the pulse of ... everything that's that wrong.
That's the "if you're in an organization that pays for extended support you can pretend it's still alive" period :)
For everybody else, g'luck, you're EOLd and no more update soup for you.
You're confusing "extended support" (2020) with end of life - Jan 2015
http://windows.microsoft.com/e...
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...then why not complement your end-of-life Windows 7 with an older version of Chrome or FF. They support Java just fine, and the Java they support is no more of a security risk than your Windows 7.
There's a reason the rest of the world moved away from java and that's security, but if security risks are no object, you go, girl.
Seeing as I lack comprehension to read your incorrect ramblings, reading it again will simply result in double the lack of comprehension.
Thanks for the much needed advice on what I should do! I have an idea on what you should do.
RTFA
It clearly says EVEN IF YOU HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF AN INVESTIGATION the mere fact of deleting information that could be useful to prosecute is committing the criminal offense.
There's no common sense here if you don't have to know about it or have intent to obstruct an investigation to be charge with it with a likelihood of being found guilty.
E
> I've never read so much crap...
Your illiteracy isn't something about which you should be bragging. Learn to read and then read about Microsoft and you'll read lots more crap than you ever thought existed -- all earned by Microsoft through its incompetence at software engineering.
> I bet that all of them hadn't tried Windows phone 8
Your wagering skills aren't something about which you should be bragging. Windows Mobile has been a scourge since 2002 when Microsoft owned the market, and lost it through sheer incompetence and bullying. Nobody's left around who would try "Windows Phone 8" or whatever Microsoft releases now because they've had 13 years to fail to corner the market -- and all they've done is demonstrate the wrong way to do things.
> The phones are great. The OS is excellent and works well on low end phones too
Your analytical skills aren't something about which you should be bragging. The phones -- hardware wise -- compare poorly with one and two year old Android or IOS phones. The OS is hardly stable, and the app store a joke. Yes, it works well on low-end phones because it is a low-end OS that doesn't push hardware to any limits -- fortunately -- because the hardware it runs on IS low-end phones.
> Cortana is brilliant
Your girlfriend in mind only. You really should look up what "brilliant" means and realize that an artificial voice recognition software can't be brilliant. Then if you decide to learn English and use an apt word like "useful" you'll find that anything with Bing as the search engine is an exercise in frustrated futility.
> Just look up the specs of the newest Lumia 640XL
Perhaps you should "just look up" that this is a discussion about Microsoft potentially acquiring BlackBerry, not a discussion of how much they suck, or how awful they are, or how they took Nokia down the proverbial tube. The Lumia phone is history. It just hasn't got there yet.
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RIGHT!
The Amiga Workbench was multitasking - the first of its kind for "microcomputers" and it was the bread and butter of airport displays, sports announcers annotating where basketball or football players were moving on the field, and real-time "video toaster" displays for TWO DECADES after.
It was only in the late 2008-9/2010+ timeframe that Windows replaced Amiga displays for those things for realtime video annotations.
So yes, the Amiga did it first better. (Grandparent was right)
The Amiga did it for longer than anyone (sorry, Parent)
So sorry the mods are like 15-20 years old and are bored by history and facts.
E
The analysis paper starts out by saying "With hundreds of millions of devices expected to be traded by 2018, flaws...could be a serious problem." Unfortunately that same analysis focused on Android operating systems PRIOR to v4.4 (KitKat), which was released in October 2013 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history).
Since then, Android has released major versions (4.4 Kitkat, 5.0 Lollipop) and various major updates within those families (4.4.2, 4.4.4, 5.1). To put this in perspective, they're talking about risks in 2018 from software no newer than 2013 while writing and publishing in 2015. That's a classic case of picking your data to fit your conclusion, or cherry picking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking_%28fallacy%29).
There were many fixes in Android security systems in 4.4 and also in 5.0. 5.0 now supports hardware encryption on e.g. HTC and OnePlusOne platforms among others. To apply "anyone can get the key and brute-force a password"[paraphrased] is to deny that no, you can't.
It's often more convenient for "researchers" to provide something with glitz and hype to catch the media's attention, but in this case the hype cherry-picks data that ignores two years of active open-source development and many security updates.
Poor science and hyperbolic headlines make for brain-free reading.
Ehud Gavron
Tucson AZ
CPL-H
The taxi lobby and the insurance lobby are organizations that stand to benefit from this law each in their own way.
The taxi lobby doesn't have to contend with competition from Uber drivers [regardless of your quip about taxi service].
The insurance lobby doesn't have to contend with Uber drivers' increased risk from above-average mileage without additional insurance premiums.
It's a win/win for the existing industries and a lose/lose for Uber drivers and Uber passengers.
E
1. He has no obligation to "come free and clear". That's just something you made up, and something LEOs wish, but not a requirement under US law.
2. If he was "personally threatening" then he would have made a threat.
I'm sure it will come out that this guy WAS pranking... seeing as he offered no specifics to make either a *usable* warning or a *credible* threat.
That doesn't change everyone bending over to pretend this is a crime; that we can't say "bomb" in an airport; and that we must be otherwise conditioned not to say "4/16" in Virginia. (or "9/11" anywhere even though that's what you dial in an emergency and we have to tell the children that's what to dial. Think of the children.)
I can't imagine how horrible it must be for people who's birthday is April 16th and who live in Virginia to ever discuss their upcoming party. "4/16 is going to be a blast!"
E
"this was a clearly-made threat" That's what law-enforcement says.
A plain-English reading makes it out to be a warning or a tip - not a threat.
E
I've read the previous posters' comments, and I understand all about the freedom of speech, the misunderstood Oliver Wendell Holmes quote about "fire in a crowded theater", and that "speech by computer" shouldn't equal a crime (right, it shouldn't).
HOWEVER, in all these great discussions it seems everyone is accepting and begging the question that the original comment about there being a repetition of XX/YY is a THREAT.
Sorry guys and gals, that's an anonymous TIP, a WARNING, a PREDICTION, the kind of thing that kindly old lady on the 900 number tells you, something your mother says if you touch a hot stove, etc. Call it what you will, but it's not a threat.
A threat requires an INTENTION to INFLICT or CAUSE HARM. It may even suggest that the person making the threat will be the one doing it. Google threat or here's an easy definition: http://www.thefreedictionary.c...
Fundamentally this guy said something on the Internet. He has now been excoriated as "an idiot" "said stupid things" "ha ha he'll get ***ed in the holding cell" "serves him right for making a threat."
It's only a matter of time before the LEOs say "You can't say those things and live."
Yes. In the United States we can.
I'm disappointed /. readers decided to punish the victim and accept the TSA-airport-attitude that "if you say bomb then we'll arrest you right then and there" and then when a passenger does say "bomb" we call him a stupid idiot. Stupid is the idiot that accepts this as his way of life and defends this insane idea that somehow making speech unlawful is either Constitutionally ok, or even helps our security [theater] at all.
Cheers guys and gals,
E
Yea, right mate, because laws are all genuinely for the good of the people, right?
No need to challenge, ask, rebuke, or seek to have it overturned.
It's the law.
Try not to speed on the way home, will you?
The UK ISPs are paid by their customers connect to the Internet.
The UK ISPs are blocking connections.
There are no "pirates".
There is no "piracy".
There is only UK ISPs not allowing their Internet customers who have paid for to reach all Internet sites to not reach all Internet sites.
Shame on UK ISPs.
There is nobody else to blame.
UK ISP customers. Sue your provider.
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