Problem is that any airports that punt the TSA have to maintain the same security-theater standards, so little is gained except removing the civil-service immunity-to-competence seen since federalizing them.
I agree with the others that the biggest REAL improvements to air security are latching cockpit doors and upgrading the passengers' attitude to respond to threats. The dubious body scanners, strip-off of shoes/belts, the War on Moisture, the degrading searches of elderly & disabled, etc etc are simply knee-jerk responses to what the *last* attackers did. I also agree that the disruption of travel plans from excessive delays and the oppressive mindset of the TSA is as damaging long-term as any actual attack.
Problems now are a) TSA downsizing from expecting most people to sign up for the pre-check program, and being surprised when casual travelers refused to pay even more for saving time on the security line b) the airlines' raising bag-check fees, prompting people to carry through as much as possible c) lower fuel costs leading to reduced fares leading to increased traffic.
Pulling back to pre-9/11 standards with some rigor in checking for knives etc will do more to secure the airports than what's happening now.
At their Be Our Guest restaurant in WDW Magic Kingdom, they have multiple self-service kiosks to pick your entree & dessert, it kicks out a ticket and you pay at a register. There are staffed kiosks for those uncomfortable with using screens. My assumption is that this frees up more staff for the kitchen and handling tables.
No one here seriously has a problem with law enforcement monitoring legitimate suspects for potential risk. We *DO* have a serious problem with wholesale monitoring of personal communications, absent probable cause, in the hope of catching someone, somewhere, doing something they don't like. The notion of 'general warrants' by the British authorities was the reason for their explicit ban in the Fourth Amendment. And the whole 'Founders didn't have to deal with terrorists' argument is put to bed by a quote from Madison to Jefferson: "It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."
The majority of the disrupted terror plots since 9/11 have been accomplished by old-school boots-on-ground detective work, not by signals intelligence. There is no indication that plotters like the Boston Marathon bombers, etc, that *were* sadly successful had used any crypto in their communications. The 'lone wolf' nutcase is by nature hard to track. Most of the additional screening put in place since the attacks has been window dressing ("security theater") meant to make us feel safer, not particularly contributing to actual security.
The solution to terrorism is NOT TO BE TERRORIZED, to deal with the nutjobs as just that, and refuse to turn ourselves into the sort of regulated police state they'd prefer to see.
Mark Hamill was there promoting the Kingsman movie and did this for them, he should offer to do the same for the big chains: http://variety.com/2015/film/n...
As many people have noted, the two problems with the reported rate are a) the number of people that have effectively given up looking, or are working low-end jobs off the books. This makes any job growth look better since it's against a smaller pool of active workers b) underemployment; the laid-off tech working at a call center, or the call-center worker flipping burgers, is employed but at a steep hit to their former income. The impact of this to the overall economy does not seem to be getting reported to any extent, but the wage stagnation is a downward spiral as people have less income for anything but basic requirements. My brother-in-law has been laid off from Alcatel for months, has no prospects and is now looking at selling his home.
NO NO NO; it's obvious to anyone who's looked at this that the sub-morons over at SCaldera, after dropping that $5B suit on IBM, expected to get a settlement payout to Quietly Go Away. IBM's reaction was millions-for-defense-not-a-damned-penny-for-tribute, and blackened the Utah sky with lawyers. It's been dodge-the-bullet for McBride & his thugs since.
Novell has the copyrights for the legacy-AT&T UNIX codebase, and seems unlikely to let it go for whatever reasons. Perhaps once the ashes of SCOX are scattered in running water they'll think about it, since at this point it really has little commercial value [ and I was legacy-AT&T for 12 years, thanks, and there for the USL spinout; don't get me started...Dennis Ritchie's (RIP) comment says it best ] . IBM paying anything out at this point would only encourage more trolls to surface.
For some time I got calls at home trying to collect debts on my runaway daughter; said "hasn't lived here in X years, bbye". Collector A sells debt to Collector B, lather/rinse/repeat
I DVR what shows I care to watch off DirecTV as a figleaf to the media cartels, then frankly pull the commercial-free copies by torrent. I have a 2-bay Synology NAS running Twonky DLNA feeding Roku boxes in the two rooms with TV (grownups & kids). Netflix for streaming media, and I use a combo of MakeMKV and Handbrake to cook down optical discs (yes I still get them) to add to the NAS tank. And NO, I don't torrent the disc contents; why bother? I can stuff the MP4/MKV files onto a thumbdrive and carry them when I travel so I don't have to be concerned with pulling them from my home box over questionable bandwidth.
DevOps is a model where developers can spin up a VM via some cloud mechanism, throw in their code and launch without having to get an SA involved. This is great for lower environments, and lets you use CI tools like Jenkins to do a build/test/refine loop, but once you get near production, presumably you don't want the code churning so much. Then you want the SAs in the loop to manage environments for stability and to tune for performance.
What the suits want is an "easy-button" solution that does all the provisioning/tuning/deployments so they can drop all those knowledgeable, expensive SAs and just let the developers handle it all. This is probably suboptimal as you don't necessarily get the benefits of performance tuning and looking at the overall structure.
"Who owns the old AT&T Unix stuff? I have no clue, and I'm not sure even an army of lawyers could track it down at this point."
AT&T had partnered with Novell in the late 80s to promote System V as Unix System Labs (I remember visiting the Summit NJ offices while I was at BTL myself). Early 90s they sold off their share completely to Novell (prompting Dennis Ritchie's quoting Genesis and Esau selling his birthright for pottage). Novell took over the various OEM licenses to IBM, DEC, etc, but eventually outsourced the royalty collection business to Santa Cruz Operation as part of their licensing to produce UNIX on Intel CPUs. They very clearly kept the copyrights (such as they were - see Groklaw getting the AT&T v. BSD settlement unsealed), which was the basis for the Novell lawsuit after Caldera bought out the old SCO and claimed All The Rights while suing IBM for beeelyuns of dollars.
Novell has since been bought by Attachmate, who now nominally owns the source rights. The UNIX trademark was donated to The Open Group by Novell early 90s.
The problem with this is that in some cases, the workers' severance packages have been directly tied to said training. If you had something lined up immediately it might not matter, but if you needed some cash to tide you over while you job-hunted, it might be necessary to swallow your pride and deal with it.
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Given what happened in Sochi, the *primary* purpose of a project like this would be to siphon off unholy amounts of construction funds into the pockets of Putin's inner circle of supporters. The idea of driving "the long way around" from UK to US is ludicrous at face value, and I'm not aware of any particular resource areas that would be opened up with this.
Remember too that Red Hat has a libel case against SCOX that was put on hold behind this. The likelihood of any payoff is slight, but it's on the list of liabilities to the BK trustee.
This was obviously what SCOXQ.BK wanted to begin with, a nice payout to STFU and go away.
Problem is, given IBMs deep pockets, it would encourage all the other trolls to come out of the woodwork looking for a similar deal. IBM is making them the latest Horrible Warning about frivolous lawsuits against them.
The other issue, that I honestly think the SCOundrels didn't take into account, was that charging IBM with stealing code, when their consulting arm works with any number of Fortune 100 companies, was a charge they couldn't let stand. Buying them off gives that charge credibility, where reducing them to a greasestain on the Utah sands proves the baseless nature of the case (the millions-for-defense-not-one-cent-in-tribute argument).
SCO's lawyers took a flat fee for handling the case through all appeals; at this point they're running up time they can't bill for. IBM can post a couple of interns on the case and wait until what little cash SCOX has left is burned out, then graciously propose a settlement involving the public flogging of all current and former SCOX execs and a full-page ad in the SLC Tribune calling SCOX out as a malicious copyright troll.
[ Disclaimer: 12 years at ATT; seeing these vermin trying to troll based on the legacy UNIX source code has pissed me off to no end, and wrapping them in bacon and trolling them through a school of great whites would be less than they deserve. ]
The extensions to copyright haven't revoked the public-domain status of any material where the copyright has expired; what is *HAS* done is delay, again and again, the point at which existing copyrighted material falls into public-domain. This is popularly attributed to Hollywood, especially Disney, not wanting to see their properties fall out of copyright. It's believed, for example, that the inclusion of the legacy Oswald Rabbit character in the Epic Mickey videogames was a deliberate attempt to 'refresh' the copyright to avoid it falling into PD status.
Sadly, the arguments to SCOTUS have failed to produce any improvement on this; the Justices have basically said that setting copyright terms falls to Congress, and that "securing for limited times" theoretically means eternity-minus-one-day if they so choose.
Practically speaking, someone with an interest in bringing material out of copyright is going to have to out-spend/lobby Hollywood to overcome the MAFIAA wishes to keep extending terms.
The "explanation" is that Sony had to keep producing Spider-Man movies or lose rights to the character back to Marvel/Disney, as recently happened with Fox & Daredevil, and IMHO should have happened with Fantastic Four.
Sony's answer was a reboot, with just enough tweak to the storyline to avoid a complete duplication of the Tobey Macguire films. Given the comparably lukewarm reception of the new ones, Sony is hooking themselves to the MCU money machine to presumably get some promotion for whatever they do next to maintain their rights to the character.
Just *please* don't do Yet Another Origin in Cap 3; just have Peter (yes, Peter, not Miles Morales) show up in NYC as if he's always been around.
Now if they can only get a similar deal with Fox, at least for Wanda & Pietro.
What's obvious from this is that the campus religious group was played by the creationist organization, getting space at a public university vs. some random Baptist church hall in Alabama, to spout their nonsense. They'll then turn around in their next round of PR blather and claim these views were debated, successfully (since I doubt they'll accept any counter-arguments) at said university, so clearly they're valid.
The problem is a) the lack of actual debate vs. simply getting up and talking b) the appropriation of the University's name for their future publicity. If I were MSU's front office, I'd be very watchful of the latter for the near future.
Just a note: the number of "infallible" doctrinal statements by the Catholic Church can pretty well be counted on your fingers. General statements by the Pope or the Cardinals don't count.
a) don't know how different the copyright rules are in Canada vs. US, but hopefully Warner would have a bit more trouble
b) VERY publically call them out in the press should they try to have it taken down; the PR flack should give them second thoughts
Obama campaigned as something of a techie, promising more government transparency, promised to uphold net neutrality, reel in the troops committed to the Land War in Asia, and has ended up having a shill for the media cartels as his Veep, actively supporting the NSA collect-it-all mentality, has appointed a former cable exec to chair the FCC, has slammed the press for calling him on his flip-flops, and generally shown an attitude of intellectual superiority and/or played the race card in criticizing his opponents. And now is apparently looking to book a Pharma rep as his PTO chief after Hatch (remember, the SCO Group apologist?) whined about it.
I didn't vote for him either time, but he hasn't lived up to his PR by any stretch.
After the Unity GUI issues (didn't the Windows 8 One GUI to Rule Them All FUBAR show them anything?), the Mir/Wayland disputes, etc etc, I shifted over to Fedora 20 late last year and haven't looked back. I haven't had any problems finding any desktop packages I wanted to install as RPMs, and it Just Damn Works, which is why I run a Linux desktop to begin with.
With the upsurge in interest in both Mint and Fedora, I think Shuttleworth/Ubuntu should be feeling a little pressure to return to the fold rather than continue pushing their own solitary agenda.
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Problem is that any airports that punt the TSA have to maintain the same security-theater standards, so little is gained except removing the civil-service immunity-to-competence seen since federalizing them. I agree with the others that the biggest REAL improvements to air security are latching cockpit doors and upgrading the passengers' attitude to respond to threats. The dubious body scanners, strip-off of shoes/belts, the War on Moisture, the degrading searches of elderly & disabled, etc etc are simply knee-jerk responses to what the *last* attackers did. I also agree that the disruption of travel plans from excessive delays and the oppressive mindset of the TSA is as damaging long-term as any actual attack. Problems now are a) TSA downsizing from expecting most people to sign up for the pre-check program, and being surprised when casual travelers refused to pay even more for saving time on the security line b) the airlines' raising bag-check fees, prompting people to carry through as much as possible c) lower fuel costs leading to reduced fares leading to increased traffic. Pulling back to pre-9/11 standards with some rigor in checking for knives etc will do more to secure the airports than what's happening now.
At their Be Our Guest restaurant in WDW Magic Kingdom, they have multiple self-service kiosks to pick your entree & dessert, it kicks out a ticket and you pay at a register. There are staffed kiosks for those uncomfortable with using screens. My assumption is that this frees up more staff for the kitchen and handling tables.
The piece on this at The Inquirer made reference to the Twitter account @50NerdsofGrey , which had some damn-funny 140-or-less tech porn.
No one here seriously has a problem with law enforcement monitoring legitimate suspects for potential risk. We *DO* have a serious problem with wholesale monitoring of personal communications, absent probable cause, in the hope of catching someone, somewhere, doing something they don't like. The notion of 'general warrants' by the British authorities was the reason for their explicit ban in the Fourth Amendment. And the whole 'Founders didn't have to deal with terrorists' argument is put to bed by a quote from Madison to Jefferson: "It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad." The majority of the disrupted terror plots since 9/11 have been accomplished by old-school boots-on-ground detective work, not by signals intelligence. There is no indication that plotters like the Boston Marathon bombers, etc, that *were* sadly successful had used any crypto in their communications. The 'lone wolf' nutcase is by nature hard to track. Most of the additional screening put in place since the attacks has been window dressing ("security theater") meant to make us feel safer, not particularly contributing to actual security. The solution to terrorism is NOT TO BE TERRORIZED, to deal with the nutjobs as just that, and refuse to turn ourselves into the sort of regulated police state they'd prefer to see.
Mark Hamill was there promoting the Kingsman movie and did this for them, he should offer to do the same for the big chains: http://variety.com/2015/film/n...
As many people have noted, the two problems with the reported rate are a) the number of people that have effectively given up looking, or are working low-end jobs off the books. This makes any job growth look better since it's against a smaller pool of active workers b) underemployment; the laid-off tech working at a call center, or the call-center worker flipping burgers, is employed but at a steep hit to their former income. The impact of this to the overall economy does not seem to be getting reported to any extent, but the wage stagnation is a downward spiral as people have less income for anything but basic requirements. My brother-in-law has been laid off from Alcatel for months, has no prospects and is now looking at selling his home.
NO NO NO; it's obvious to anyone who's looked at this that the sub-morons over at SCaldera, after dropping that $5B suit on IBM, expected to get a settlement payout to Quietly Go Away. IBM's reaction was millions-for-defense-not-a-damned-penny-for-tribute, and blackened the Utah sky with lawyers. It's been dodge-the-bullet for McBride & his thugs since. Novell has the copyrights for the legacy-AT&T UNIX codebase, and seems unlikely to let it go for whatever reasons. Perhaps once the ashes of SCOX are scattered in running water they'll think about it, since at this point it really has little commercial value [ and I was legacy-AT&T for 12 years, thanks, and there for the USL spinout; don't get me started...Dennis Ritchie's (RIP) comment says it best ] . IBM paying anything out at this point would only encourage more trolls to surface.
For some time I got calls at home trying to collect debts on my runaway daughter; said "hasn't lived here in X years, bbye". Collector A sells debt to Collector B, lather/rinse/repeat
I DVR what shows I care to watch off DirecTV as a figleaf to the media cartels, then frankly pull the commercial-free copies by torrent. I have a 2-bay Synology NAS running Twonky DLNA feeding Roku boxes in the two rooms with TV (grownups & kids). Netflix for streaming media, and I use a combo of MakeMKV and Handbrake to cook down optical discs (yes I still get them) to add to the NAS tank. And NO, I don't torrent the disc contents; why bother? I can stuff the MP4/MKV files onto a thumbdrive and carry them when I travel so I don't have to be concerned with pulling them from my home box over questionable bandwidth.
DevOps is a model where developers can spin up a VM via some cloud mechanism, throw in their code and launch without having to get an SA involved. This is great for lower environments, and lets you use CI tools like Jenkins to do a build/test/refine loop, but once you get near production, presumably you don't want the code churning so much. Then you want the SAs in the loop to manage environments for stability and to tune for performance. What the suits want is an "easy-button" solution that does all the provisioning/tuning/deployments so they can drop all those knowledgeable, expensive SAs and just let the developers handle it all. This is probably suboptimal as you don't necessarily get the benefits of performance tuning and looking at the overall structure.
Already seeing medical outsourcing: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/1... .
AT&T had partnered with Novell in the late 80s to promote System V as Unix System Labs (I remember visiting the Summit NJ offices while I was at BTL myself). Early 90s they sold off their share completely to Novell (prompting Dennis Ritchie's quoting Genesis and Esau selling his birthright for pottage). Novell took over the various OEM licenses to IBM, DEC, etc, but eventually outsourced the royalty collection business to Santa Cruz Operation as part of their licensing to produce UNIX on Intel CPUs. They very clearly kept the copyrights (such as they were - see Groklaw getting the AT&T v. BSD settlement unsealed), which was the basis for the Novell lawsuit after Caldera bought out the old SCO and claimed All The Rights while suing IBM for beeelyuns of dollars.
Novell has since been bought by Attachmate, who now nominally owns the source rights. The UNIX trademark was donated to The Open Group by Novell early 90s.
The problem with this is that in some cases, the workers' severance packages have been directly tied to said training. If you had something lined up immediately it might not matter, but if you needed some cash to tide you over while you job-hunted, it might be necessary to swallow your pride and deal with it.
Old system: AMD FX-6100, Asus M5A99X EVO R 2.0, Tuniq Tower 120 heatsink New system: Intel i7-4790K, Asrock Z97-Extreme 6 mobo , Noctua NH-U14 heatsink Carryover from previous system: 32 Gb DDR3-1600, Samsung EVO 840 256 Gb SSD primary drive, three 1.5 - 2 Tb secondary drives, Coolermaster HAF 922 case with front/side/top 200mm, rear 120mm fans Currently on Fedora 22, lots of cycles & space for tinkering w/VMs
monkey-boys!! Once they stoke up on antibiotics, we're all DOOOOMED!!
Given what happened in Sochi, the *primary* purpose of a project like this would be to siphon off unholy amounts of construction funds into the pockets of Putin's inner circle of supporters. The idea of driving "the long way around" from UK to US is ludicrous at face value, and I'm not aware of any particular resource areas that would be opened up with this.
Remember too that Red Hat has a libel case against SCOX that was put on hold behind this. The likelihood of any payoff is slight, but it's on the list of liabilities to the BK trustee.
This was obviously what SCOXQ.BK wanted to begin with, a nice payout to STFU and go away. Problem is, given IBMs deep pockets, it would encourage all the other trolls to come out of the woodwork looking for a similar deal. IBM is making them the latest Horrible Warning about frivolous lawsuits against them. The other issue, that I honestly think the SCOundrels didn't take into account, was that charging IBM with stealing code, when their consulting arm works with any number of Fortune 100 companies, was a charge they couldn't let stand. Buying them off gives that charge credibility, where reducing them to a greasestain on the Utah sands proves the baseless nature of the case (the millions-for-defense-not-one-cent-in-tribute argument). SCO's lawyers took a flat fee for handling the case through all appeals; at this point they're running up time they can't bill for. IBM can post a couple of interns on the case and wait until what little cash SCOX has left is burned out, then graciously propose a settlement involving the public flogging of all current and former SCOX execs and a full-page ad in the SLC Tribune calling SCOX out as a malicious copyright troll. [ Disclaimer: 12 years at ATT; seeing these vermin trying to troll based on the legacy UNIX source code has pissed me off to no end, and wrapping them in bacon and trolling them through a school of great whites would be less than they deserve. ]
The extensions to copyright haven't revoked the public-domain status of any material where the copyright has expired; what is *HAS* done is delay, again and again, the point at which existing copyrighted material falls into public-domain. This is popularly attributed to Hollywood, especially Disney, not wanting to see their properties fall out of copyright. It's believed, for example, that the inclusion of the legacy Oswald Rabbit character in the Epic Mickey videogames was a deliberate attempt to 'refresh' the copyright to avoid it falling into PD status. Sadly, the arguments to SCOTUS have failed to produce any improvement on this; the Justices have basically said that setting copyright terms falls to Congress, and that "securing for limited times" theoretically means eternity-minus-one-day if they so choose. Practically speaking, someone with an interest in bringing material out of copyright is going to have to out-spend/lobby Hollywood to overcome the MAFIAA wishes to keep extending terms.
The "explanation" is that Sony had to keep producing Spider-Man movies or lose rights to the character back to Marvel/Disney, as recently happened with Fox & Daredevil, and IMHO should have happened with Fantastic Four. Sony's answer was a reboot, with just enough tweak to the storyline to avoid a complete duplication of the Tobey Macguire films. Given the comparably lukewarm reception of the new ones, Sony is hooking themselves to the MCU money machine to presumably get some promotion for whatever they do next to maintain their rights to the character. Just *please* don't do Yet Another Origin in Cap 3; just have Peter (yes, Peter, not Miles Morales) show up in NYC as if he's always been around. Now if they can only get a similar deal with Fox, at least for Wanda & Pietro.
What's obvious from this is that the campus religious group was played by the creationist organization, getting space at a public university vs. some random Baptist church hall in Alabama, to spout their nonsense. They'll then turn around in their next round of PR blather and claim these views were debated, successfully (since I doubt they'll accept any counter-arguments) at said university, so clearly they're valid. The problem is a) the lack of actual debate vs. simply getting up and talking b) the appropriation of the University's name for their future publicity. If I were MSU's front office, I'd be very watchful of the latter for the near future.
Just a note: the number of "infallible" doctrinal statements by the Catholic Church can pretty well be counted on your fingers. General statements by the Pope or the Cardinals don't count.
a) don't know how different the copyright rules are in Canada vs. US, but hopefully Warner would have a bit more trouble b) VERY publically call them out in the press should they try to have it taken down; the PR flack should give them second thoughts
Obama campaigned as something of a techie, promising more government transparency, promised to uphold net neutrality, reel in the troops committed to the Land War in Asia, and has ended up having a shill for the media cartels as his Veep, actively supporting the NSA collect-it-all mentality, has appointed a former cable exec to chair the FCC, has slammed the press for calling him on his flip-flops, and generally shown an attitude of intellectual superiority and/or played the race card in criticizing his opponents. And now is apparently looking to book a Pharma rep as his PTO chief after Hatch (remember, the SCO Group apologist?) whined about it. I didn't vote for him either time, but he hasn't lived up to his PR by any stretch.
After the Unity GUI issues (didn't the Windows 8 One GUI to Rule Them All FUBAR show them anything?), the Mir/Wayland disputes, etc etc, I shifted over to Fedora 20 late last year and haven't looked back. I haven't had any problems finding any desktop packages I wanted to install as RPMs, and it Just Damn Works, which is why I run a Linux desktop to begin with. With the upsurge in interest in both Mint and Fedora, I think Shuttleworth/Ubuntu should be feeling a little pressure to return to the fold rather than continue pushing their own solitary agenda.