You imply that either: -One is absolutely for government regulation of some kind in every aspect of human existence, OR -One is a malevolent person, wishing harm on others while watching only over one's interests, OR -One is a fool.
Either: -Be more specific with your definition of "government regulation", OR -Know you are wrong, and have a terrible formula for judging peoples' intellect and goodwill.
I've been told by some coworkers about a cyber-warfare reservist program in SE San Antonio, but I figure I'd be under the boot of the US government in terms of monitoring what I do online for the rest of my life, so no thank you.
Some people are willing to give up all privacy for God and country. Not me.
When Microsoft and plenty of other IT companies go out of their way to hire Indians for piss wages while IT talent sits in front of them BEGGING for a job, it doesn't motivate a new generation of geeks to get into the field.
Or network monitoring, or running a call center, or running any kind of website, e-commerce business, or accounting, etc..
The only places where I personally have seen open-source be woefully lacking is in the engineering fields. Most general business and IT-oriented tasks have a capable open-source commercially backed component. Managers and others who don't "get" FOSS think "Free? I'm not getting anything, because I'm not blindly throwing money at a vendor!"
I don't see any reason why people should speak out against their government. it's not like you're going to have more money to spend than the US on court costs and advertising. You're just going to go broke and put on a watchlist.
I'd just as soon Opensolaris die. I don't know of any reason why it sets itself apart from other OSes besides DTrace (maybe?). I haven't watched Opensolaris in a while, but with ZFS in FreeBSD, and its package manager sucking compared to , I can't see a justification for its existence.
Last thought: Crossbow was cool. Don't know if that exists in BSDland.
I know forking isn't a preferred method. However, if the mainline forks, isn't it just 'declaring independence' so to speak?
Imagine if a single company somehow magically controlled the current Linux mainline and the name "Linux". If Linus said "OK everyone, we're branching and MY version will be on linuxfuckingrocks.org" then everyone would follow him.
Besides the oft-quoted Ben Franklin line, I do believe giving a government too much power in watching the populace is dangerous for liberty. Should the legitimate need arise to break a law or subvert the government, corrupt individuals will have power to stop people even more easily.
On the fliip side, the ubiquity of increased surveillance available to the PUBLIC as well as to the government (they are two different things) might prevent the government from getting away with the shit it does now.
I have to throw in a quote: "With great power comes great responsibillity." I don't think the government has enough of the latter to justify the amount of the former it possesses.
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I have yet to hear any of my colleague complain about the government new plans for space. On the contrary.
You obviously don't work in or around Houston or Cape Canaveral.
We should be pushing man into the stars, not sending out ropes into the fog and seeing if they get tugged.
The point of a republic is to keep stupid reactionary things like this from happening; to filter out the short-term whims of the majority while still representing them overall. Unchecked democracy is terrible.
Although, since this is Obama's doing (or so it seems, indirectly), Congress didn't get a chance to not do its job before we gave up on manned space flight for a half decade in the name of politics.
We haven't gotten to get that yet, because what you're talking about is citizen-to-citizen education. Hackers do that already amongst themselves, and as a result they are constantly watched by the government and often viewed as a threat to the state. The government only wants people educated to a certain level -- that level being whatever is necessary so they can become a wage slave. Anything more than that, and you're abnormal, and therefore a threat.
We don't yet have a data-literate citizentry, because we don't yet have a government that wants citizens to be capable of independent thought, critical thinking, and access to the facts and circumstances in realtime (or even a reasonable time) because that's a perceived security risk.
All that data being released without form or processing ability is not to help you, it's to overwhelm you and divide you to the point where no criticism can be effectively leveraged against the government because it's simply too large, too entrenched, to make any form of protest useful. Therefore, we should make tools like the FA suggests that facilitate the understanding of our legal proceedings and the laws being passed in various countries.
--FTFY
We are in a world without precedent. While I share girlintrainings's skepticism and understand the point, I don't write off the capability of citizens to make the world and the government a better place.
A Fortune 500 running a RHEL server farm processing 100,000 bank transaction queries per minute and a JBoss front end is getting millions of page visits a day would want support for RHEL. And JBoss. They can have it in-house, but hiring Software Company itself (or other third party sources, usually with at least some ex-employees of Software Company) is usually the most secure option.
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You imply that either:
-One is absolutely for government regulation of some kind in every aspect of human existence, OR
-One is a malevolent person, wishing harm on others while watching only over one's interests, OR
-One is a fool.
Either:
-Be more specific with your definition of "government regulation", OR
-Know you are wrong, and have a terrible formula for judging peoples' intellect and goodwill.
I've been told by some coworkers about a cyber-warfare reservist program in SE San Antonio, but I figure I'd be under the boot of the US government in terms of monitoring what I do online for the rest of my life, so no thank you.
Some people are willing to give up all privacy for God and country. Not me.
When Microsoft and plenty of other IT companies go out of their way to hire Indians for piss wages while IT talent sits in front of them BEGGING for a job, it doesn't motivate a new generation of geeks to get into the field.
can't afford an HD color camera.
Or network monitoring, or running a call center, or running any kind of website, e-commerce business, or accounting, etc..
The only places where I personally have seen open-source be woefully lacking is in the engineering fields. Most general business and IT-oriented tasks have a capable open-source commercially backed component. Managers and others who don't "get" FOSS think "Free? I'm not getting anything, because I'm not blindly throwing money at a vendor!"
I don't see any reason why people should speak out against their government. it's not like you're going to have more money to spend than the US on court costs and advertising. You're just going to go broke and put on a watchlist.
Why isn't Openvista good?
Government contract money in the space industry IS long term profit.
I'd just as soon Opensolaris die. I don't know of any reason why it sets itself apart from other OSes besides DTrace (maybe?). I haven't watched Opensolaris in a while, but with ZFS in FreeBSD, and its package manager sucking compared to , I can't see a justification for its existence.
Last thought: Crossbow was cool. Don't know if that exists in BSDland.
At our workplace, we're mandated to leave our desktops ON 24/7 because "you never know when the Desktop team is going to push out software updates".
I know forking isn't a preferred method. However, if the mainline forks, isn't it just 'declaring independence' so to speak?
Imagine if a single company somehow magically controlled the current Linux mainline and the name "Linux". If Linus said "OK everyone, we're branching and MY version will be on linuxfuckingrocks.org" then everyone would follow him.
non-rBGH milk tastes more like milk.
Are you ALWAYS awake?
BTRFS already does multi-disk filesystems including RAID 0 and 1 by itself, bypassing LVM/mdadm AFAIK. RAID 5/6 is a planned feature.
I don't know about the rest of the stuff you mentioned; I'm not a filesystem guy. Recommend any good books?
I have $30,000 in debt straight out of college and I know this to be true.
If you build your own house, you should be able to build it however you like. Caveat emptor!
No other way.
You're right, freedom from surveillance sometimes benefits criminals. Does that mean a photo ID should be required to buy a pay-as-you-go phone?
Not at all. There is no reason to have this except for government tracking purposes.
Besides the oft-quoted Ben Franklin line, I do believe giving a government too much power in watching the populace is dangerous for liberty. Should the legitimate need arise to break a law or subvert the government, corrupt individuals will have power to stop people even more easily.
On the fliip side, the ubiquity of increased surveillance available to the PUBLIC as well as to the government (they are two different things) might prevent the government from getting away with the shit it does now.
I have to throw in a quote: "With great power comes great responsibillity." I don't think the government has enough of the latter to justify the amount of the former it possesses.
I have yet to hear any of my colleague complain about the government new plans for space. On the contrary.
You obviously don't work in or around Houston or Cape Canaveral.
We should be pushing man into the stars, not sending out ropes into the fog and seeing if they get tugged.
The point of a republic is to keep stupid reactionary things like this from happening; to filter out the short-term whims of the majority while still representing them overall. Unchecked democracy is terrible.
Although, since this is Obama's doing (or so it seems, indirectly), Congress didn't get a chance to not do its job before we gave up on manned space flight for a half decade in the name of politics.
Why do you post in monotype?
We haven't gotten to get that yet, because what you're talking about is citizen-to-citizen education. Hackers do that already amongst themselves, and as a result they are constantly watched by the government and often viewed as a threat to the state. The government only wants people educated to a certain level -- that level being whatever is necessary so they can become a wage slave. Anything more than that, and you're abnormal, and therefore a threat.
We don't yet have a data-literate citizentry, because we don't yet have a government that wants citizens to be capable of independent thought, critical thinking, and access to the facts and circumstances in realtime (or even a reasonable time) because that's a perceived security risk.
All that data being released without form or processing ability is not to help you, it's to overwhelm you and divide you to the point where no criticism can be effectively leveraged against the government because it's simply too large, too entrenched, to make any form of protest useful. Therefore, we should make tools like the FA suggests that facilitate the understanding of our legal proceedings and the laws being passed in various countries.
--FTFY
We are in a world without precedent. While I share girlintrainings's skepticism and understand the point, I don't write off the capability of citizens to make the world and the government a better place.
THE WEB IS 17 YEARS OLD. Give it time.
A Fortune 500 running a RHEL server farm processing 100,000 bank transaction queries per minute and a JBoss front end is getting millions of page visits a day would want support for RHEL. And JBoss. They can have it in-house, but hiring Software Company itself (or other third party sources, usually with at least some ex-employees of Software Company) is usually the most secure option.
Amendment 14 - Citizenship Rights. Ratified 7/9/1868.
Amendment 19 - Women's Suffrage. Ratified 8/18/1920.
No, it's really not out of date.