smbfs has not been maintained in the last few years. Instead, development has been focused on another implementation of the CIFS protocol in the kernel.
There's a lot of cruft that Windows applications add that slow it down if you don't clean it up. The first is simply stuff that runs on startup; in part due to Windows lacking a system updating service, plenty of applications install services to update themselves. Then there's the shit that gets loaded to the tray, the shell extensions, the IE extensions, etc.
The problem is not so much Windows ('though not having a package manager is a real flaw), but the goal of the applications developers; OSS developers aren't trying to get people's money, therefore they won't try everything to get in your face and show work.
Same here, the radeon driver is fast and extremely stable. OpenGL may be slower, but since my card is shitty anyway, I don't really notice it. Quake Live runs fine;)
The encryption doesn't need to be changed; you just generate the password using an algorithm that focuses on the image features and ignore small variations.
But Android already has a "gesture to unlock" feature and apparently the marks from the fingers are enough to make it easily crackable.
Not to mention that nowadays you can have "distributed patronage" instead of relying on rich people or the state. The most funded page on Kickstarter is impressive, with Double Fine getting $3.3 million and a webcomic getting $1.2 million.
It has nothing to do with the importance. It has to do with being arbitrary. Arbitrary bans are always abusive.
I would have no problem turning my iPad (if I had one) off if I was asked to, or if the airline required it. But I do have a problem being forced to by governmental mandate for no good reason. And I'm far from a libertarian.
I hope the author realizes his argument applies to mostly anything one wants:
"I think people should be banned from talking all Tuesdays for spiritual reasons. There's something to be said about having a day to listen to your own thoughts"
"I think everyone should forced to wear burkas for spiritual reasons. There's something to be said about being free from sexual attraction in daily life"
"I think Peter Bright should be banned from writing articles for spiritual reasons. There's something to be said about preventing people from reading his dumb apologies of abusive government bans."
But that's a failure of the software, if it doesn't let you model those relationships. In theory, you could search for e.g. a new car, and decide which of your acquaintances opinion you trust in that regard, so that the software can only take those in account.
More: in certain areas, like music or films, it's possible to calculate "compatibility matches" based on previously added information. Some software already does this, but it's not integrated with Facebook, AFAIK.
That mostly what VRM - Vendor Relationship Management - is about: giving people the software to manage their relationships with companies and other organizations. ProjectVRM talks a lot about those issues.
If you want to eliminate distractions, make handheld cellphones inoperable while moving.
As a bus and train passenger, I thank you for that suggestion. Not only will I be unable to use a cellphone even if I'm not endangering anyone, as I'll have to waste all my battery to keep the GPS always-on, in order to ensure that restriction.
Reading a small passive RFID tag from 150 feet? [citation needed]
also your forgeting that every store and warehouse, post office/UPS/fedex van and WIFI RFID reader anyone with ipadd rfid reaer could scan you on way home from school, plus walmarts been doing this for over 10 years now.
Yeah, and they can also recognize the child by looking at his/her face. Oh, the horror! We must force them to use burkas!
Passive RFID tags like those only have a range of a meter (3.3 feet) or so. If you're that close to them, you could just use face tracking if you really wanted to track them. Besides, it doesn't actually track children, only their school uniforms, which children don't tend to use outside of school or when traveling to and from it.
All in all, I frankly don't see the problem. If a parent is really concerned, the kid can just take the school uniform after leaving school. Otherwise, he's probably already broadcasting a bluetooth MAC address and name from their mobile phone, which is much easier to track anyway.
"XBMC site:slashdot.org" returns 6000 results, so they probably assume/. readers already know what it is.
In any case,
XBMC Media Center (formerly Xbox Media Center) is a free and open source cross-platform digital media hub and HTPC (Home theater PC) software with a 10-foot user interface designed to be a media player for the living-room TV using only a remote control as the input device. Its graphical user interface (GUI) allows the user to easily browse and view videos, photos, podcasts, and music from a harddrive, optical disc, local network, and the internet using only a few buttons.
Recording the time at which the child has entered and left the school is no more "surveillance" than doing a roll call, so nothing in that regard changes with this.
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smbfs has not been maintained in the last few years. Instead, development has been focused on another implementation of the CIFS protocol in the kernel.
http://www.samba.org/samba/smbfs/
There's a lot of cruft that Windows applications add that slow it down if you don't clean it up. The first is simply stuff that runs on startup; in part due to Windows lacking a system updating service, plenty of applications install services to update themselves. Then there's the shit that gets loaded to the tray, the shell extensions, the IE extensions, etc.
The problem is not so much Windows ('though not having a package manager is a real flaw), but the goal of the applications developers; OSS developers aren't trying to get people's money, therefore they won't try everything to get in your face and show work.
Same here, the radeon driver is fast and extremely stable. OpenGL may be slower, but since my card is shitty anyway, I don't really notice it. Quake Live runs fine ;)
But it doesn't require computer skills.
So, what's the interest rate they're paying over the period during which they kept the money?
The encryption doesn't need to be changed; you just generate the password using an algorithm that focuses on the image features and ignore small variations.
But Android already has a "gesture to unlock" feature and apparently the marks from the fingers are enough to make it easily crackable.
Meanwhile, Red Hat has now a yearly revenue of one billion dollars (source). Clearly OSS doesn't work.
That data is only about couples with children, not all couples.
Also, income != discretionary income.
Not to mention that nowadays you can have "distributed patronage" instead of relying on rich people or the state. The most funded page on Kickstarter is impressive, with Double Fine getting $3.3 million and a webcomic getting $1.2 million.
I don't about the whole world, but my fullname is unique on Google. I suppose it may come in handy.
Using sshuttle, the applications don't even need to support SOCKS; it proxies all traffic over SSH.
It has nothing to do with the importance. It has to do with being arbitrary. Arbitrary bans are always abusive.
I would have no problem turning my iPad (if I had one) off if I was asked to, or if the airline required it. But I do have a problem being forced to by governmental mandate for no good reason. And I'm far from a libertarian.
We can comprehend just fine. His argument simply isn't.
I hope the author realizes his argument applies to mostly anything one wants:
"I think people should be banned from talking all Tuesdays for spiritual reasons. There's something to be said about having a day to listen to your own thoughts"
"I think everyone should forced to wear burkas for spiritual reasons. There's something to be said about being free from sexual attraction in daily life"
"I think Peter Bright should be banned from writing articles for spiritual reasons. There's something to be said about preventing people from reading his dumb apologies of abusive government bans."
But that's a failure of the software, if it doesn't let you model those relationships. In theory, you could search for e.g. a new car, and decide which of your acquaintances opinion you trust in that regard, so that the software can only take those in account.
More: in certain areas, like music or films, it's possible to calculate "compatibility matches" based on previously added information. Some software already does this, but it's not integrated with Facebook, AFAIK.
That mostly what VRM - Vendor Relationship Management - is about: giving people the software to manage their relationships with companies and other organizations. ProjectVRM talks a lot about those issues.
You're making the following groundless assumptions:
Do people really need a GPS? No. But that doesn't mean GPSs aren't a net benefit.
So because it's not 100% effective, it's useless? What a ridiculous position.
If you want to eliminate distractions, make handheld cellphones inoperable while moving.
As a bus and train passenger, I thank you for that suggestion. Not only will I be unable to use a cellphone even if I'm not endangering anyone, as I'll have to waste all my battery to keep the GPS always-on, in order to ensure that restriction.
Hmm, just because the foundations don't get a lot, doesn't mean the programmers don't - some (many?) of them are employed by other companies.
For example, the creator of Python, Guido van Rossum, is employed by Google not by the PSF, so you can be well sure he gets more than $30k/year.
Reading a small passive RFID tag from 150 feet? [citation needed]
also your forgeting that every store and warehouse, post office/UPS/fedex van and WIFI RFID reader anyone with ipadd rfid reaer could scan you on way home from school, plus walmarts been doing this for over 10 years now.
Yeah, and they can also recognize the child by looking at his/her face. Oh, the horror! We must force them to use burkas!
Passive RFID tags like those only have a range of a meter (3.3 feet) or so. If you're that close to them, you could just use face tracking if you really wanted to track them. Besides, it doesn't actually track children, only their school uniforms, which children don't tend to use outside of school or when traveling to and from it.
All in all, I frankly don't see the problem. If a parent is really concerned, the kid can just take the school uniform after leaving school. Otherwise, he's probably already broadcasting a bluetooth MAC address and name from their mobile phone, which is much easier to track anyway.
s/compromise/comprise/
"XBMC site:slashdot.org" returns 6000 results, so they probably assume /. readers already know what it is.
In any case,
XBMC Media Center (formerly Xbox Media Center) is a free and open source cross-platform digital media hub and HTPC (Home theater PC) software with a 10-foot user interface designed to be a media player for the living-room TV using only a remote control as the input device. Its graphical user interface (GUI) allows the user to easily browse and view videos, photos, podcasts, and music from a harddrive, optical disc, local network, and the internet using only a few buttons.
(From Wikipedia)
Recording the time at which the child has entered and left the school is no more "surveillance" than doing a roll call, so nothing in that regard changes with this.